Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer
VOLUME XXIV.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, JULT 26. 1912.
NUMBER 30
.. OFFICERS
F. WILSON, President, ,
. KOEPKE Vice-President,
. S. Le GROW, Cashier,
. A. ZERBA, Ass't Cashier.
, DIRECTORS ..
S. F. WILSON. H. KOEPKE,
W. S, FERGUSON M. L. WAITS,
F. S. Le GROW.
FIRST NATIONAL BAN
OF ATIIENA
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $100,000.00
We extend to our Depositors every cAccommdation
consistent with sound Banking.
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Paint Protection
' The paints we proffer the
public hereabouts have a
bull dog grip on the situa
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.
BUND Y PAINT STOEE
BagnHaraiiiiHiiiiiii ii -, r-aBnamtH a
THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO.
. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES
' Posts and Blacksmith coal
A. Mi Johnson, Manager
" r ' Athena, Oregon : '
THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET
I'Athena BakervJ
We carry the best
That Money Buys
Our Market is "
Clean and Cool
Insuring - Wholesome Meats.
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Main Street, Athena, Oregon I
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A. f. Crusey, Proprietor
All Bakery Products are Fresh Daily. We carry a fine
line of Confections, and serve light Lunches. Soft drinks
and . Ice Cream. Cream iced in quantities for customers.
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3 THE HEW PARTY
EMBODIES -A PROTEST AGAINST
Genuine Rule of the People
Themselves to Be Achieved
and cTVlaintained. .
In bis first speech sinoe fas returned
from Chicago Colonel Roosevelt has
set forth bis reasons for leading in the
formation of a new party.
"No man knows better than I," said
Colonel Roosevelt, "that enthusiasm
and high prinoiples oannot be eSeotive
without organization and work. A
great responsibility rests en you men
here Who are undertaking the organ
za tion of a new party which is to e
literally the party of the people.
r"It will fig ht on live iesnes and not
dead ones. It will embody a protest
againstrthe corruption in toth of the
old party machines. It will be a par
ty into which ex-demoorats and ex
republioans, witbont regard to their
past." are to come in on an exaot
equality and to have each the same
share in the party management.
"When we get started it will be a
party not only representing the people
at eleotion time, but will .represent
them in party management. We are
going to see to it that it is organized
so that it will be impossible for any
fifty-three men, ohoseu four years be
fore by politicians, to stand superior
to all the voters of a great state like
California and that if that state has
not shaped its laws aooording "to a
given call of 53 private men the state
shall not be disfranchised. ,
"No good will come if we meiely
substitute one set of bosses for an
other," ooDtinued the colonel. "We
intend to build a government, with
out and within the party, on the lines
of general popular rule and. of sooial
and industrial justioe for farmer,
wage earner,' business man and pro
fessional man alike, to be achieved
not through the boss, not tbfougb the
indireot'control of party organization
by special privilege, but to be achiev
ed through genuine and not merely
nominal rule of the people them-
TRAIL OF
Cloudburst 'and Hail Storm Strikes
Butter Creek and Reservation.
The Batter Creek country was visit
ed by a severe storm Saturday evening
wbioh resulted in oonsideratle dam
age to property and orops. A wall of
water swept down Butter Creek valley
and swept all before it. The storm
oame over the Biroh Creek district,
destroying .props. Wind, rain and
bait in the southwest part of the Um
atilla reservation wrought damage to
the large wheat fields of that seotiou.
Among the heaviest individual losers
by the storm are John Crow, bis son,
Claud Crow, John Rothlin, George
Ferringer, William Wright, John
Todd. Tom Thompson, Sam R. Thomp
son, J. W. Maloney and A. B. Cooley
George Ferringer places bis loss at
19000 and J. W. Maloney will lose
between two and three thousand dol
lars as the result of the storm.
Sam R. Thompson, who is farming
the Blakely plaoe at Eastland as well
as land on the reservation, figures that
the storm cut down bis yield on the
former place at least ten bushel to the
acre, while L. C. RotbroPff, wbpse
land adjoins the Blakely farm on the
west, suffered as severely. The bar
ley on the Roulstone place to the north
was also badly damaged.
W. W. Harrah, Wild Horse ranoh
er, lost two horses in a cloudburst
which swept down at bis plaoe, tie
bad ten or twelve bead tied to a cou
ple of feed raofca when the water pour
ed down the gulch and both wagons
and animals were swept away.
The East Oregonian says: Butter
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WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT pofc
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DELL BROTHERS, cTiSSSc,N Athena, Oregon g
Creek valley is theaoene of devasta
tion as the result of the Saturday
storm wbioh sent an immense wall of
water down the valley, sweeping it
for miles almost clear of signs of hu
man presence. Before its force bous
es, barns, outbuildings and fences
want down and were swept away in
the flood and bad it not taen daylight
when it ooonrred and bad not settlers
ridden in advance of the oncoming
water, many. Uvea would undoubtedly
have been lost.
At the Charles McCracken plaoe,
not a board of the many buildings
is to be found, house, barn, and all
outbuildings and . fenoea having been
swept away and broken up. Heavy
farm vebioles were carried long dis
tances down the valley, and the con
tents of the houses were scattered in
every direction.
The same thing happened on the
Campbell plaoe on wbioh Frank Jones
and family were living. , Nothing was
left standing. , A similar fate was ex
perienced by S.. G. Ligbtfoofc while
James Nelson lost everything except
hjs house wbioh held its foundation
in the flood, ' All of his farm vehicles
Including two hacks, a boggy, three
wagons und several raoka were wash
ed away and completely demolished.
Called Anarchist, Suicides.
"One of the men at the plant oalled
bim on anarohist last Saturday, be
oacse he bad on a red sbitt, and that
is what caused him to do it," so I: bed
Mrs. Peter Jakey 6f Walla Walla
Monday afternoon after she had. been
told that her Lusband had banged
himself in the malt kiin of the Walla
Walla Brewing company's plant where
be was employed as head cellar man.
Jakey, a German , by birth, . was 0
years old. fellow workmen bad not
iced ho was aoting peculiarly for the
past few days, but little thought the
brooding spirit provoked by a passing
jest would result in suioide. . Shortly
after 1 o'olook Monday a signal was
sounded to the basement by one of the
first floor employes. 1 he signal which
always brought an answer from Jakey
remained unanswered and u searoh
was started.
Reception to Prof. Smith and Bride.
Says the Weston Leader: A very
pleasant reoeptlon was tendered Fri
day evening by the Ladies Band to
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar L. Smith', at the
home of Mrs. Minnie Walker on sooth
Water street. The spaoious lawn in
front ot her residence - had been
strewn with rugs and lighted by Jap
anese lanterns, and presented an invit
ing appearance. Here the band mem
bora sad a few other friends assem
bled and weloomed the guests of hon
or'.. Games were played and ice cream
and cake were served. The band In
dies presented a handsome mirror to
their director and bride.
A STORM ON GALILEE.
v
Fierce While It Lasted, It Went at
v , Quickly as It Came.
The sea. of Galilee is not always
calm. The mountains immediately nd
Joinging it are 2,000 feet high, ami
through their deep gorges the storm
winds are sucked into the hollow of
the lake, so that sudden squalls come
literally out of a bltro sky. Ono charm
ing spring morning wo started out to
sail from Tiberias to Capernaum.
There was not a ripple on the water
or a cloud In the heavens. But when
we were a quarter of a mile from
shore out boatmen noticed a band of
rough-water rushing toward us from
the other side of the lake. In spite
of our remonstrances they immediate
ly gave up the plan for making Caper
naum, took down the sail with such
frantic haste that they nearly upset
the boat and then rowed for the lnnd
with all their might and with such ex
cited urgings to one nnother that we
thought them a cowardly crew. But
hardly had the boat been beached in a
sheltered cove when the wind was
howling down on us from the moun
tains and the heavy breakers were
foaming along, the shore as far out
into the lake na we could see. A quar
ter of an hour later the sea of Galilee
was again as level as a mirror, and
only irsoft, warm breeze was blowing
over the smiling waters. Travel Mag'
azlne. '
SEWERS OF PARIS.
How This Great System Swallows Up
tho Litter of the Streets.
? The Paris sewer system is said to be
the finest in the world. The observant
visitor in the French ca.Ulal soon
notices that its people havo somewhat
different ideas from ours ns to the use
of sewers, for he will see porters throw
big bundles of paper down large open
ings left in the curb, and even rags
und garbage.
; On Shrove Tuesday there is a car
nival along the Paris boulevards.
From noon to midnight the crowd
throws paper confetti in such quan
tities that the broad streets are cov
ered with many tinted paper snow
when the last revelers leave for home.
The visitor wonders how this mess is
to be cleared up. In the morning, how
ever, every scrap is gone. If bo bad
stayed out late enough he would have
seen the litter swept and washed right
Into the sewers.
Terhaps that takes him underground
to visit them, one of the sights of
Paris, There ore nearly 2,000 separate
channels, some great aqueducts navt
gated in a boat, with walks on either
side. -They carry the telephone ana
telegraph cables, electric light wires,
gast mains and pneumatic letter tubes,
Telephone Review.
Weary It's a poor rule tunc aoesn t
work both ways. Willie G'wan! It's
a poor rule t work at all. Toltfo
Blade. ...
WORDSWORTH'S RECITATION.
The Way the English Poet Received
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
When Emerson, the great American
writer, came to England he paid a vis
it to Wordsworth, says an English
magazine. Wordsworth had Jist re
turned from a Journey and was in his
garden writing a poem on what be had
seen. The visitor found the great poet
a white haired, tall, sparely built man,
of a rugged, rustic type, with nothing,
unless it were the fine eyes, to hint of
the poet.
Wordsworth made no ceremony over
the visit of the man from a far land,
but said Instantly when he was called
to greet him, "If you are interested in
my poetry perhaps you will like to
hear these lines." Emerson politely
agreed, and this is what happened.
Emerson has himself written the story
down for us. The old poet thought
for a few moments, then stood forth
and repeated with great animation an
entire poem he had written.
"The recitation," the American phi
losopher wrote afterward, "was so un
locked for and surprising Words
worth standing apart and reciting to
me in a garden walk, like a schoolboy
declaiming that at first I was near to
laughing; but, recollecting myself that
I had come thus far to see a poet and
he was chanting poems to me, I saw
that he was right and that I was
wrong, and I gladly gave myself up
to hear."
STOVES OF IRON.
They Superseded the Roman Stuba In
the Eighteenth Century.
A heating apparatus called a "stuba"
(stove) was widely used among the
higher class of Romans before the be
ginning of tho Christian era. This
class of heaters was fixed and immova
ble, besides being in several other re
spects wholly different from the mod
ern stove. In Germany and Scandina
via they were used in bathrooms and
hothouses during the middle ages.
They were usually constructed of brick,
stone or tile and were of immense size.
They sometimes covered the whole
side of a twenty or th'rty foot room
and often extended out into the room
as much as ten feet, tn which case the
smooth, flat top was used for a bed
stead, tho heated surface imparting an
agreeable feeling of warmth during
those cold nights of long ago when
such things as covers were quite rare.
Cardinal Polignnc of France was per
haps the first to attempt the construc
tion of a stove wholly of iron, this at
about the beginning of the eighteenth
century. The first real improvement
over the old Roman "stuba" was
brought about by Franklin in the year
1745. One of his efforts produced a
typical base burner, almost perfect and
a model of workmanship. Stoves were
not used in private houses to any great
extent prior to the year 1830. London
Standard. . ' ,. .
Traveling Stones.
"Traveling stones," from the size of
a pea to six inches in diameter, are
found in Nevada. : When distributed
upon a ' floor or other level surface
within two or three feet of one another
they immediately begin to travel to
ward a common center and there He
huddled like a clutch of eggs in a nest
A single stone removed to a distance
of three and a half feet upon being
released at once started with wonder
ful and somewhat comical celerity to
Join its follows. These queer stones
are found in a region that is compara
tively level and little more than bare
rock. Scnttered over this barren re
gion are little basins from a few fe?t
to a rod or two in diameter, and it is
in the bottoms of these that the roll
ing stones are found. Tho cause for
the strange conduct of these stones is
doubtless to be found In the material
of which they are composed, which ap
pears to be lodestone or magnetic Iron
Ore. Harper's Weekly.
A Legend of Agincourt.
For many centuries we English have
plumed ourselves upon the victory of
Agincourt. Indeed it is from , King
Henry V.'s address to his soldiers on
that occasion, as given by Shake
speare, that the motto of this journal
is taken, "Familiar in their mouths as
household words." But the French
have an account of the affair not so
much to our credit It was arranged,
according to this fable, by the two
leaders that only the nobles on each
side were to fight. King Henry V.
then artfully ennobled his wholo urmy
and hence got the best of the enemy.
Shakespeare unwittingly gives a little
countenance to the legend when he
makes the king declnro in the abovo
mentioned address, "Bo ye ne'er so
vile, this day shall gentlo your condi
tion." London Standard.
Realism With a Vengeance.
"A great deal of fun has been poked
at the realistic school of art," says a
New York artist, "and it must be con
fessed that some ground has been giv
en to the enemy: Why, there recently
tame to my notice a picture of an
Assyrian bath, done by a Chicago
unn, and so careful was he of all the
details that the towels hanging up
were all marked 'Nebuchadnezzar in
the corner in cuneiform characters."
Lippincott's.
Thoroughly Qualified.
"And why do you think," asked the
president, "that you would be an orna
ment to the diplomatic corps?"
"Sir." replied the applicant, with
pardonable pride, "for four years I
had the honor of directing a church
rholr."-Philadelphia Record.
Labor to keep nllve In your breast
that little parkof celestial firo, con
science. Washington.
ANCIENT ARITHMETIC.
Problems Schoolboys Had to Solve
Thirty-eix Centuries Ago.
There Is a ray of vindictive comfort
for the modern schoolboy in the fact
that for over 3,600 years his schoolboy
progenitors have been worried by just
such problems In arithmetic as annoy
him most
Among the archaeological discoveries
made In Egypt is a papyrus roll, in
excellent condition, dating from about
1700 B, a This roll, which had a
long heading beginning, "Directions
how to attain the knowledge of all
dark things," proves beyond doubt that
the Egyptians of that time had a
thorough knowledge of the elements
of arithmetic. . ,
Numerous examples show that their
principal operations with units and
fractions were made by means of ad
dition and multiplication. Subtrac
tion and division were not known in
their present form, but correct results
were obtained nevertheless.
Equations are also found in the papy
rus. . Here is one that brings the Egyp
tian schoolboy home to us:
Ten measures of barley are to be di
vided among ten persons in such man
ner that each subsequent person shall
receive one-eighth less than the one
before bim.
Another example given is: There are
seven men; each one has seven cats;
each cat has eaten seven mice; each
mouse has eaten seven grains of bar
ley; each grain of barley would have
yielded seven measures of barley.
How much barley has been lost?
The papyrus also contains the calcu
lation of the area of a circle, attempts
to square the circle and finally calcula
tions of the cubic measurements of
pyramids. New York Tribune.
PUT Oil BALLOT
SUPREME COURT DECISION ON
UNIVERSITY REFERENDUM.
People This Fall To Pass on
$500,000 for State Schools-
Justice Eakin Dissents.
ENLIVENED THE SCENE.
But Hero's improvisation Did Not Help
Leander Much.
Innumerable are the tales of actors
in difficulties. Here is one related of
Christian Brandos, the dramatist, who
in his youth belonged to a strolling
company which played pieces of an
extremely primitive kind.
On one occasion the play was enti
tled "Hero and Leander," tho dialogue
being left pretty much to the discre
tion of the players. It had been
agreed, however, that Hero was to be
coy and not confess her love for Lean
der till he had again and again ex
pressed his readiness to be hanged,
burned nnd drowned in her behalf.
But the lady was soft hearted, besides
being exceedingly fond of Brandes,
nor could she listen unmoved to the
first passionate pleadings of the youth,
who explained that he had swum
across the Hellespont to see her, , "My
dear Leander," she exclaimed, "I can
not resist you. Accept my hand and
my heart." -" '
Leander knew not what to say. ' AH
his prepared phrases were useless. '
The manager came to his aid with a
loud whisper addressed to Hero, "In
the 'fiend's name, improvise a few
words and retire!"
The poor girl, turning to the audi
ence, repeated her lesson. "la the
fiend's name, I improvise a few words
and retire," and then tripped , oft the
stage, greatly relieved. London Graph
ic. . . .
A Rossini Joke.
Rossini promised a place la the
opera orchestra to a trombonist and
then forgot about it, says the Musical
Courier. At one of his dinner parties
tho butler announced the visit of this
same protege. Rossini hastened to wel
come him and, relieving him of his in
strument, disappeared a few moments,
to return with his friend. Handing the
instrument to the trombonist with a re
quest to let the company hear him,
Rossini prepared to listen. Trombone
to Hps, tho musician rose dismay, no
sound, cheeks bulging, eyes distended.
In vain the unhappy man makes super
human efforts to produce harmonious
sounds. At InstI Oh, effort supremel
With a sound like a hoarse gooso
cackle there shoots from the trombone
a mass of sticky macaroni. "No harm,
my friend," said Rossini;' "you have
proved yourself a strong ' musician."
And the next day the coveted position
was offered to the trombonist Boston
Transcript
Sunlight and Germe.
Here is an instructive experiment
made recently on the effects of sun
light Some germs of the terrible dis
ease, anthrax, were sown on two
plates of gelatin, and while one plate
was kept in the dark the other was
placed in tho sunlight The germs
grew, and at the end of ten minutes
there were SCO colonics or groups In
the sunshine plate and 400 colonies in
the dark plate.
One hour later the result was: In
the sunshine plate, none; in the dark
plate, 2,020. No disease germ thrives
in sunlight
Modesty.
Modesty is ono of the sweetest and
most desirable qualities one can pos
sess, and yet too much modest)' hin
ders advancement When this qitality
is overdeveloped it antagonizes aggres
siveness, without which oo grout sue
cess can bo attained, . I
Parried.
Wife A tree, you know, gets , new
ilothes every year hat; parasol, every
thing. Ilusbaud Yes, darling and
makes them all itself.
In an opinion written by Justice
MoBride, the supreme court has re
vetsed Judge Galloway of the Marion
connty onnrt in the University of Ore
gon referendum case and dismissed
the scits. This means that the refer
endotna against the university appro
priations of over 500,000 will go on
the ballot. Chief Justioe Eakin gave
a dissenting opinion, upholding the
decision of the lower court.- This is
the first time in his servioe on the su
preme benob that he has written a
dissenting opinion bIodk.
The most sensational featnre of the
majority opinion is toe aeoiarauon
that the law does not mean it is nec
essary to have a copy of the warning
and petition on each sheet of the ref
erendum petition. ' la bis opinion,
Justice McBiide says that if sheets
ate fastened together and a hunoh of
them is attached to a copy of the pe
tition, that is all neoessary to make
them legal.
The opinion takes coRmzanoe of the
forgeries of the names, as proved iu
the trial, and reads a leofnre to II. J.
Parkinson for partioipatlng in a move
ment whioh originated out of com
munity jealousies, as this did, but the
opinion says after deducting the forg
ed names enough remain to cause the
petitions to go on the ballot.
Chief Justice Eakin says be basqs
his dissenting opinion ou just one
question, the form of the petition.
He holds that every statet should oou
taln a onpy of the petition and points
out that the law specifically provides
that 20 liues shall be loft in whioh the
signature of each Bheet must be writ
ton in by the circulator and sworn to,
and says that this is plain intent to
have the warning and petition on
eaob sheet.
"This whole act is bristling with
precautions against fraud in its use,"
says Justice Eakin, "and this is the
most important of them the assur
ance that the man who writes bis
name as ono of the 20 on the sheet
signs the petition."
WOULD ELECT POSTMASTERS
Latest Wrinkle In Progressive Platform
Comes From Iowa.
What 8he Might Catch.
She They say there are Reims In
kisses. What do you suppose a girl
could catch that way? He A. hus
band. Exchange.
The lowa state convention of the
progressive partv adopted a platform
containing a plan declaring for the
direot election of postmasters by their
constituencies.
The convention chose also a fall set
of delegates to the national convention
in Cboago, headed by Judge J. L.
Stevens of Boone, organized a working
state committee and provided for con
gressional district and county-organ-,
izatiou. The platform is mainly de
voted to national issues. It condemns
the republican national convention
and republican national committee at
Cbioago, severely censures President
Tatt and douounoea what is alleged
to te bis subservienoy to the special
interests; eulogizes Colonel Roosevelt
as the "foremost man of the '.world,"'
and deolares for his nomination and1
eleotion; urges presidential primaries,;
direot eleotion of Uuited States sen-,
ators indorses the initiative and ref
erendum, asks for physical valnatiin
of railroads and a proteotive tartf
"suited to the fostering of labor' iu
domestio manufactures, agrioulture
and other industries.", . -
Resist: thy inclinations In tbo begin
iiiug. Thouius a KeuipU. i
Declines Nomination,
Jerry Stone of this city reoeived the
Domination for representative at the
Prohibition convention. He declines
in the following letter to the county
ebairmna: ,' . '
Athena. Ore., Jaly 23, 1012.
Justice T. L. Cbilders, Chairmau
Prohibition County Conmittee Free
water, Ore. Dear Sir! Baviog been
informed that I was nominated for
state representative, by the Probibi-i
tion convention recently held in Mil
ton. I feel it my duty to Inform yon
that while I folly appreolate the fav
orable consideration of my . name for
the bouorable position, fot Various
reasons I oannot in Justioe either to
the Probltition patty, my frleodn, or
myself, consistently accept the Dom
ination. I must decline.
It aspeot folly, Jerry Stone.
, '. Mondav Children's Day
Secretary W. A. Kits oi toe waua
Walla Connty Fair Association has
announced that Monday, September
16, the opening, day, will be Child
ren's Day, following a custom estab
lished some years ago, and it is piob
atle eaob day of the big week will be
set aside for soma special occasion.
Saturday, the oloaiog day, will as in
past years be set aside, tor the farmers
of the Inland Empire and a large at
tendanoe ii expected. The program on
that day will be arranged with a view
to entertaining residents of, the farm
ing districts, a street P4t(W tticg a
feature cl tho afternoon. ,