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.. IL. ! i I This Edition con tains four Pages Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks Buy St our Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXV. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 3. 1913. NUMBER 1 53' v , '- - '- : . . OFFICERS S. F. WILSON, President, , : H. KOEPKE Vice-President. F. 8. Le GEO W, Cashier, B. A. ZERBA. Ass't Cashier. DIRECTOE8 , S.F. WILSON. H. KOEPKE, W. S. FERGUSON M. L. WAITS, F. S. Le GROW. . FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENA CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. $100,000.00 Just a Bit of Life as It Cropped Out on a Railway Train. ; A TOUCH OF REAL HUMANITY, We extend to our. Depositors every. cAccommdation consistent with sound Banking. Z 4 THE iTOIM-LUBI LUMBER CO. ... Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of ! BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal A. M. Johnson, Manager ' ; Athena, Oregon THE ATHEI1A PilEAT MARKET - Il. " We carry the best : . That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. D. n. MANSFIELD Alain Street, Athena, Oregon tM.' ..Ml. We Wish You a py and Prosperou New Year ' Start it right. Place yourjfirst or- S der for Groceries for 1913 with the home of Quality Groceries, and stick to your good resolutions. 3 dp. c TRY THESETHEY'LL PLEASE ! Iflonopole Corn Tomatoes Peas " Beans Schilling's Teas " B Powder " Spices " Coffee . DELL BROTHERS, Athena, Oregon CATERERS TO TEE PUBLIC IN GOOD TH1XG3 TO EAT ' v 1 u0$mi Home of feoO Groceries The Rough Looking Man Who Proved That Hit Heart Was Big and In the Right Place and the Shabby but Grateful Foreigner He Befriended. ;: : "Whenever I benr anything nowa days about 'man's lubumnnity tc uinn,'" sold a Providence clUzen thfl other day, "I am reminded of a little incident.. I was coming back from Hoston wttb a friend on the midnight train, and, getting on . board at the Hack Bay station, we found a seat near the rear end of the car. - "Soon after the train pulle'd out . happened to look around and saw the conductor apparently expostulating with a rather shabby looking epedmen of humanity who was sitting in the last seat M first 1 thought the map was drunk, but as I watched I saw that he was a foreigner who couldn't understand English. He was holding out a crumpled one dollar bill to tht conductor and saying 'New York' ovei and over again, v 1 X ''Finally the co'nductor shook hi& head, said something I couldn't catch and went on. . The foreigner, a rathe decent looking young fellow, gazed a6 him despairingly, then buried his fact in ills hands and began to cry. With the usual callous Indifference of the traveling public to the troubles of any one else, I paid no more attention to the man and prepared to take a nap. "I was just beginning to doze when 1 became aware that a man was stand ing beside me in the aisle, speaking tc me. . I sat up and. looked at him. H was a- rough appearing man, far from prepossessing, clean shaven, with a sort of bulldog face. . " 'Say, gents,' be began, 'I want to know if you wouldn't like to help a fel ler out '- -' "1 stiffened Instinctively, determined to refuse to let blm make a touch.' " 'There's a poor young forelgnei back there,! he went on with a Jerk ol his ttmrab toward the alien, still sit ting with bowed head, .'and . he's up against it for fair. He can't speak a word of English, and he wants to go to New York, where be has friends. " 'He got the Idea somehow he could do It for a dollar, all he's got; but, of course, he can't, and they're going to put bltn off the train when we get to Providence. It's mighty bard on a fel ler Hike blnvand there ain't any tell ing whahl happen tqhlm getting put off In a strange city at 1 o'clock In the morning.. I thought maybe you'd be willing to give a little to help biro along.' ; ' , . " "He stopped, looked us straight in the eye and smiled sheepishly as if he Were ashamed of what be was doing. We gave hltn a dollar, and he went on through the car, and there were few of the passengers who didn't respond to the appeal. : He came back counting the money, and as be got to our seat 1 heard blm say: .(:., " There's a dollar more "needed I'll make it up myselfr and be pulled out a couple of fifty cent pieces and added them to the amount -j 1 " "The , conductor , and the brakeraan were standing at the-door of the car iienr tbe foreigner's seat. ; "'Here,' said the man who had col lected the money to the alien; 'give me your dollar.' - : "Pumbly, but trustingly, the young fellow banded it over, and, giving it to the conductor with the rest, the bull dog man said gruffly: j "There's his fare.' " "It slowly dawned on the alien what bad been done for blm, and as the con ductor punched the rebate check and hauded It to him the gratitude In bis face was Indescribable. He couldn't speak, but be took his 'cap off and bowed again and again to tbe'offlcial. but the latter pointed to the passenger who was sitting In bis s ot across the aisle and told the youth that be was the one lo tbank. ; "The foreigner crossed the aisle till he stood squarely In froat of his bene-, factor, took off his.cap and, with tears j of gratitude in his eyes, bowed again and again. It was evident enough that the benefactor was embarrassed by this unexpected outburst At first he wnved his band around the car to Indi cate that everybody bad had a hand in it. Hut he couldn't make the foreigner understand The latter kept on bow tug, whereupon the uncomfortable In- j dividual In the seat grunted and turn-1 ed to look out of the window. ; "I have never seen," concluded the mau who was telling the story, "a kindlier If I were a girl I should say a svvwter-act of charity to my lite. Sit ting ncros the aisle, tbh Jinrd faced raan had heard t- " iw for-, eigner, helpless arid out of ' without an bad taken task of man he'd irob.ibly Tit Journal. The hw 6ta. - TIow did you become- uo actor? I Bupse you studied Sljakespeare and other masters for man weary hours." "Not exactly,"- resp-OJided the promi nent star. "I became an actor by mak ing a (hree base . hit la a pinch' linimrgh Post AN IRON WILLED MONARCH. One Man Rule as Exemplified In Fred erick the Great. Frederick was an Intensively active, highly capable, strong willed and self reliant commander. .lie concentrated all power in his own hands, reducing his ministers to clerical work and his generals to the duties of personal lieu tenants. Below blm the Prussian ad ministration was a thing of stiff and mechanical obedience, lacking in ini tiative and individuality. : ' - i : Several of Frederick's military losses were due to the fact that he gave his generals such minute orders and was so severe in case of disregard of in structions that they did not dare to use their own Judgment when unfor seen conditions presented themselves. He personally foresaw and provided for everything, and he inspected fre quently and thoroughly. His discipline was severe, his organization good, his calculation accurate and limited to twhat was. possible. His movements, which were skillfully disguised, were rapid.,:-:, ;: ';':"!f "."f So superior was Frederick to his op ponents iiv strategy that they were obliged for safety to keep their troops In so concentrated a form that there was not sufficient space for effective maneuvers. lie was more cfipabie In marching and maneuver than in bat-, tie, . more capable in battle than In siege.'!., ; ? ''"i His great defect as an administrator lay In the fact that he dwarfed the growth of those belov him and so edu cated no talented corps to bear the political and military burdens of the state when he should be obliged to lay them down. lie apparently could do things only through himself. Hav ing a supreme contempt for the capaci ties of most mortals, he had no mind to make experiments which might have changed his opinions. Although he knew for many years that his succes sor was to be a man without ability," he handed down to him a system which required a Frederick. We may say that he brilliantly administered a system which was badly1 organized. Edward D. Jones in Engineering Magazine. FLUNG FRQMr A WINDOW. Horrors of a Death Sentence In the . . Middle Ages In Bohemia. How many people know what refen estration means? : Yet it was once a popular method of executing criminals aud was the mode of .capital punish ment used id Bohemia; in the middle ages aud latqr. Defenestration means "throwing from a window," but that did not always include all the arrange ments made -for the doomed - man's exit from the world. In Prague in 1419 the council cham ber of the bradscbin, or',town hall, was used asjthe place of execution. There, In the presence of the assembled no bles, their Invited guests and the dig nitaries of the , . city, the unhappy wretches were cast from a window eighty feet , to the .courtyard beloSv. , If his crime was an ordinary of fense the prisoner was merely dropped on the stones and allowed li there bruised and broken until death put an end to his sufferings, succor being for bidden. " " But if he was guilty of treason or any net of violeuce against a noble he fell on the sharp spears of a squad of soldiers or dropped to the tender mer cies of a pack of fierce dogs specially trained for the purpose, or he might be flung to wild boars previously en raged by being pricked with spears. The last time defenestration was practiced was just before , the Thirty .Years' war, when the imperial com missioners brought an unwelcome mes sage to Prague and were promptly thrown from the window. This pre cipitated the w ar and abolished l the custom. New York Press. Executioner Sets a Fashion. In England fashions have been kill ed at executions, but in France over a century ago fashion in men's attire was set by Sanson, the public execu tioner. Sanson, who had high ideas of the dignity of his office, was famous for the richness of his attire when offi ciating on the scaffold. Just before the revolution he was forbidden to wear blue, the nobleman's color, and by way of protest, he made himself even more gorgeous. He took to green, and that color, as well as the peculiar cut of his clothes, was adopted by many of the young dandles of t the court , : Breaking Scotch Idols, -'I , No less an authority than Sir Aleck MacKenzIe declares the fiddle is Scot land's , national Instrument and lays no claim to the bagpipe. . Another high class expert asserts the bagpipe was born among the Seljuks, the ancestors of the modern Turks, Wee!, weel! Next thing it's likely some expert will tell us that the Klelanders were not the inventors of bare knees-Cl.eve-land Plain Dealer. The bet part vt beanry is thai bjcb) no picture can, exprcss.-t Bacon. GORGEOUS CHORISTERS. : Boy Singers of the Private Chapel In i.,.v ; St. Jamee4 Palace, ; ;.' There are ten boys in London who every Sunday and on state occasions wear suits of clothes that In cacti in stance cost something like $200. The lads thus expensively ; and brilliantly attired are the choristers belonging to the king's private chapel In St James' palace. . When arrayed la their state suits they are truly a gorgeous Bight . .Scarlet cloth is the foundation ot U:'s costume; Bands ef royal purple between , rows of heavy gold lace are the adoiumenti. Old Inee ruffles are worn at vtbo nock, and wrists. These ruffles are so valuable and so difficult to replace that they are worn only on the ;mob.t; special occasions. At other times white lawn bands take their placelllie boys must take great care of their suits, which must endure three years.. The "undress" suits are re placed every eight months. ':' ' : , Tbl3 chpir is one of the historical in stitution! of Great Britain, and , many of its old time customs, including the dress of the boys, are retained to this day. X'e choir has numbered among Its singers such distinguished musiciani as Sir Arthur. Sullivan, Edward Lloyd, Sir John Goss and Dr. E. J. Hopklus. It Is the right of the head boy to de mand a guinea as "spur money" from any officer entering the chapel wearing spurs. It is said that when Arthur Sul livan was bead boy the Duke of Wel lington would always come' spurred to the chapel, In order that he might have the pleasure of paying the forfeit to his favorite chorister. Harper's Weekly. UNITY OF LIFE. Cells of Animals and Plante Alike and Governed by 8ame Laws. Protoplasm, tho liternKtranslatlon of ' which meaus "the first man , made," was the name given by a German sci- "entlst in184G to the shiny, granular, semifluid contents of vegetable cells. It looks like the white of an egg. and it can be analyzed into four chem ical elements carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. It is now recognized as the fundamental basis for all life. The smallest particle of it goes through what Is known as the cycle of life free motion, feeling, feeding and re production. ' When in some uncon scious way it grows n membrane f or a covering or n llttlo nucleus, a kernel somewhere within It science calls it a cell. ; :: '. These '.cells are the same in plants and animals. Professor Jacques Loeb showed the Importance of this fact Although plants, he explained have no nervous systems, they have "lnstinc tive movements." In analysis of In stincts he bound together In the cell common to them the plant and the worm at the root of tho plant as some day, perhaps, the tree of life and the serpent may bo bound and he called their r?flex actions "troplsms." Then ho pointed out that troplsms aro mechanical acts that moth and fly and Ivy leaf move in spite of them selves in chemical subjection to light, heat and odors, which the scientist calls "emanations." From "Man as a Mechanism" iu Metropolitan, n nii'dir-.v of Vegefabloa and fruit's, gen entHy French beans, 'enrnvanseras and whole peas Help each person (o a portion of the meats and then to the medley. 'Mis them up In your plate foj.retlu'r , and--drown them In tomato snite I hav eaten this every day. If. Is truly di'llgDtful.-lndon Stand ard. i - ' ' 'v- .-,'. -''.? P ' Natural Spectaclee. , Many 'i, birds -i are provided : with untural spectacles, a transparent mem brane called - the third eyelid. V This third eyelid when not In use lies folded In the Inner corner of the eye. I Two muscles'" work It spreading it over tho cornea or folding t up again much more cleverly than a mau can put on or take off, his spectacles. But for Its third eyelid the eagle could not look at the sun. i The, spectacled bear be longs of -Chile. - Its Latin name is Ursns ornatns.. It Is black and around Its eyes pale rings, are, .drawn which have exactly the appearance of a pair of goggles. . . .."' . . Di'ailllueloned. ' "She had played in amateur theat ricals and threatened to go on the stage If her parents wouldn't let her marry the duke.'" ' - - , '"' , .''And what did her parents do after that threat?" ' --' '': ' "They let her go on the stage, gave the duke a check for a front seat and were not nt all surprised when he sailed back to France the next morn lng."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Before and After, "Bobby.' yon have been lighting with that Staplefoid boy again. Did yon count ten before you struck him, as 1 have always told you to do?" "Xo, but I was told that somebody counted leu after be landed on me. Chicago Tribune.. , . - Dieraeli'a Fine Digestion. Disraeli ;eara to have been en dowed with a most accommodating di gestion. When be . visited Spain In 1830 ho wrote his mother glowing ac counts of "the most agreeable dish In the world an olio. I will explain it to you. for my father would delight in it. There are two Inrge dishes, one at each end of tho table: Tho top one contains boullll beef," boiled pork sau-saee-:and black pudding. The other Is His Title. "No. I shall never marry," Blghefl the old bachelor - : ; . . -, , The xplnstrr gazed at him. scornful ly. -You cowardT. she hlssed.-Phll adelnhln. i'veord. ' , ' - Ancient Tipping. . , , Tipping Is an exaction ot no recent growth. Describing life at the court of King Henry JL of England, Peter of Blots complains of the Importunity of 4 medieval marshals, whose annoy awes continue "until they get some thing from you and are most ungrateful when they, have nay,, open enemleB onlcss your band Is continuously in your pocket," while the "outer porters will tell yon tho most unblushing falso boods. nnd if you ore an honest and religious man, tut have given them nothing the da.v.bcforc, -tiny will keep you an uureasbnable time standing In the rain and mire." , MANLIKE MANATEES; Her Last Card. M want n new bonnet, but my hus band says be can't afford it" - "Is that final, do you suppose?' "He says It Is, but I won't know 'until tonight" "Going to get a definite answer then?" ' . . "Yes. I'm going to settle it one way or the other. I'm going to start to cry when he gets home, and If that d&esn't work there'll be no new bonnet."- Detroit Free PreBS. j '. All's Fish For the Dootor'B Net. "Why. the size of your bill," cried the angry patient to the doctor, "makes inn boll nil over!" .;'. ."Ah!" ""'Id H'e eminent practitioner calmly' "That will be JiiRt $20 more for sterilizing your system."-Ladles' Home Journal , it in m'lilniii that punishment, though lanrt of foot, has failed to overtake a villain,'- Uora-e. : . . . ,-, T; These Queer . Creature Are Linked . With the Mermaid Myth. ; . In semitropical waters of America . there disports a member of that family -Of aquatic mammals to which has been . ascribed the mermaid myth. Related to the dugong, arid the now. extinct rbytina, we still,, have . the manatee. ,v. This name is preferred, by some to manati, under the impression that the latter is the plural of the Latin "mana tus'; (furnished with hands), though the name is probably of Mandlngo origin.- ,; , -v .t; 'V. :. ''...v The manatee is a herbivorous mam mal inhabiting the shallows about the . coasts of Florida,' Mexico, central " America and the West Indies. It Is not known to attempt the open sea and floes not possess the ability to come ashore. This animal is somewhat whalelike in shape, with a horizontal tall fin. It is from eight to twelve feet in length, the body being scantily cov ered with hair. The ouly limbs are the fore flippers, low on the side of the body. This flipper has no fingers. It ; does possess, though, three flat nails' ' and has a free motion in all directions from the shoulder. The elbow and wrist approximate the human anato my In movement. With this crude re semblance to an arm the manatee has been said to carry Irs young. While the statement is not authentic, it is quite believable, its possibility" being, vouched .for by all , observers of the arm in motion. The head of the manatee is divided , from the body by a slight indication of neck. The upper. Hp Is extraordi narily flexible so much so that each Bide can protrude independently of the other, and, thus, separated into two lobes, the upper Hp can perform the complete operation of grasping food and conveying it into the mouth. In each Jaw are twenty pairs of two ' ridged . teeth. ; With .this formidable equipment the manatee is toot, how ever, ferocious, but browses tranquilly on the water, plants of its habitat. In somajviews the head is; surprisingly manlike, though far from beautiful, and no specimen has ever sat on the rocks and combed its golden hair. v Harper's.',,,,.' ' , : . ii ',,fS ' Flam and Wire Qauae.: ,To Sir numphry Davy belongs the , credit of discovering that the flame of burning gas will not pass through wire gauze having 784 meshes to the square Inch. This contention may be tested i by bringing a flam in contact with similar gauze, when it will be found ' that the Came will not go through the ; tiifshes. Thin Is owing to the cooling action of the wire, which tends to re" duco the temperature of the flamo bo low the Ignition point. t unburncd- ' gas passing harmlessly through. , Of course If the gauze becomes overheated the flame is able to get through.' Almott a Threat Police Inspector Haven't 1 often In structed you that you are not to allow the public to pick the flowers in this park? Pork Keeper Yes; that Is my wife, who used to be your cook. Per haps you will try to make her stop. Meggendorfer Blatter. A Curious Word. There is a word in the Eugllsh lan guage the first two letters of which sig nify the male, the first three a female, the first four a, great man and the whole a great woman. ;- The word l "heroine." Ladles' Home Journal. ' Very Ntceesary. Hewett 1 expect to leave footprints on the sands of time, Jewett-It take and to do It-Woman's Home Com panlon. ,;' V I WrwY iii s croup- m m : II l l Mill 1 JaI 1 " i -U IM&tteUWSMUliMUmH Vvl v. t WW ' V ., IIe siwke very hltily of ; month ago." , f '.. " I : "Ym; I hnd Jut loaned jilm ' I "But today he cannot thh j, , i enoiifrh barh t!ilng to eay aU-f t:. - . "irw. . i ntotiml him vn tj n. yesterday and nuked Ijlsti im is: it back."- Detroit Free Pre . i. V . i . ... . .An and OIkK for CUfiil TP I ' tM !llllCIII3 lliMm1m1,rrr,mi,,MhMni!lilfl!l 4PJ!.iWriT!-r Bn - w,vi i it 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 ( i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 i n 1 1 m 1 1 1 r i m i r t tm i ., liiiiiiiiiiMn iiii EVERY BOTTLE GUARANTEED ' " . ' i 'V