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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. Boyd, Publisher Published Every Friday. Office, Corner Third and Jefferson Streets. Entered In the rontons c at Athena, Oregon, a ecoDtHJIaes Mail Matter. Subscription Rates. One copy, one year $1.50 JVhen paid in Advance, (otherwise, $2.00) One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months 50 Advertising Rates. , Display, transient, running less than one month, first insertion, per inch 25c Subsequent insertions.... 12 Display regular, per inch 12 Local readers, first insertion, per line, 10c Subsequent insertions, per linev 5c Lodge resolutions, per line 5c Church notices, admission, per line. . 5c the.beginning of 1912, although farms were enoroaobing upon range area. But the population was growing in those five yeaia. One Western ezpett says that since 1900 the beef 'cattle supply has oeen reduoed by 28 per cent, while tbe increase of population has been about 25 per cent. . Pikes have risen in otedienoe to tbe law of supply and demand. , Deorease of sup ply has out down onr exports. Only 83,000 cattle were ezpoited last year, their value being about $3,000,000. Tbe number exported in 1911 was 164,000, valned at 114,000,000. and a steady deolioe is shown sinoe 1904, when 699,000, or $41,000,000 worth, were shipped. There has been an in crease of imports. may be passing" through a telephone oi telegraph wire. On one occasion an investigator was able to Interfere from a distance with the working of tbe or dlnary telephones in Liverpool. cATHENA. ORE.. FEB. 14... .... .1913 IMPOSSIBLE TO CHEER UP. ' The Gloomy Gas feeling that has come over newspapers aad the people at large wben a legislature was on, was abont to be overoome this year, says tbe La Grande Observer. Bat, alas, it is almost impossible to oheer up when one considers the flood of bills already introduced. In national affairs when Wilson was elected the newspapers of tbe country gritted their teeth and said "we will not let a period of bard times come", and sincerity marked eveiy word. The same feeling was felt in Oregon regrading the state legislature. But what's the use? When men of supposed intelligence get it iot6 their beads they can change not only the judioial code bat tbe moral code, twist the constitution into a ooiksorew, add personal popularity to themselves by introduction of bills that are im practical and unjust, what's the use to grit yonr teeth any longer and say that you like it? A reoess in law making for tbe next 20 years would be tbe best thing that Oregon oould have. Our statute books are now crowded with law after law that cot only lacks enforcement but lacks practicability. Oregon is in tbe midst of an epoch when ambitious lawmakers threatou by their wonderful pioduotivennhs of impractical laws to set the state , baok In advancement for a number of years. Take a rest, ye loud toned legislators. Go baok to your home and forget the spotlight and brass bands. Get in and . earn something ; produce some thing to add to tbe woild's wealth and to feed the multitude. Do this and you will have contributed more to usefulness than sesHion after session of legislative assemblies. Iu deBoriblug the ways and means of combatting the mail order house and to tase adpvuntage of the parcels post, tbe Eogeue guard thus advises its home merchants: "Local merobants in all hues must realize that tbe oue way to combat the mail order bouses, now that Ibe paroel post is established, is to adver tise their goods through tbe loonl papers. Tbe newspaper iu eaob com munity stands for borne iustitatioos and is a home industry itself. Ptop erly euoouraged it will be able to do a great deal toward educating tho people to see tbe value of building up their own lustitutious. Mail order busineHS builds op ouly the large oitiee, and forces tbe smaller retail dealer to ask higher prices for bis goods, beoausa of bis restrioted busi ness, and to pay lower prioes for tbe country produce be bandies. A large, thriving town benefit tbe entire ooui luunlty that sunoands it by affording better local markets, and means that business competition will be keener With better stooks to select from than lu a plaoe that is pioptily classed aa more dead than lic And a live town cannot be tuilt up unless the looal people spend their mouey at borne, a duty Incumbent upon tbe tusiuesa man as upon bis customers, a potent laotor in the woik also being the borne newspaper." Tbe oses to which paroela post is being put indioate clearly that it is fast reaohing Into tb business of the rxpresi companies and that shipments tvvelop. Ho: many days ago a baby was tent from It mother's plaoe to iti grandmother. All of tbe requirements of tho postoffioa depaitmeut were com plied with aud the rural omriot had the distinction of having oankd the Bret paroel of the Hod in the United States. Fancy a seveo or eight pound baby wrapped according to reg ulation with the bright red stamps of the department attached to a snow white blanket, delivered to it grand mother, several miles distaut, ty tbe rural oarrier. Wben this youugster mature, be will have history attaoh ed to himself In tbe making of wbiob be did nothing but consent or piotest. When that earlier consigns tbe job to a successor bis piood reooid will te head-id tv tb ttoiy of tbe taby that lode iu the wail wagou aa a patctU poet package. . Official stalibties throw tome light upon tba conditions wbicb have in ctaaaed tbe price of beef. Reports of tbe Dtpartaieot. of Agrioolture show J that tbe oaoiber of oattla oq farms In j this country declined from 73.000.000 j oq January 1, 1U07, to 58,000.000 at ' A "tobaooo census" taken by the Eugene high school olob, composed of yonng men of that institution banded for intellectual and moral betterment, shows that of tbe 215 young men en rolled in tbe sobool 131, or 61 per oent do not use tobaoco in any form; 13, or 6 per oent, are oooasional users and 71, or 83 per oent, are habitual nsers of tobaooo. Ibe Agricultural oolkge of Oregon baa demand for more agricultural, horticultural and domestic soienoe graduates than oan be turned ont, and these yonng men and women are given salaries oommensorate with their pos itions. And today is but tbe begin ning of the "baok to tbe land" era. COMMUNICATED. Sinoe there still survives among some Cbiistian people a tendency to minimize the importance of baptism, I wish to call attention to the lan guage of Dr. Charles Edward Looke, pastor of tbe First Methodist Episco pal obnrub, Los Angeles, on tbe sob jeot. On Sunday evening, January 5tb, 1913, at bis regular monthly "question-drawer servioe," in answer to the question : "Is it necessary to be baptised in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven?" Dr. Locke said, as reported tv tbe Los Angeles Daily Express of Jan. 6, 1913: "Baptism is enjoined in tbe Bible and tbe true follower of Christ will obey His command. If tbe rite of baptism were impossible or imprac ticable to a dyiDg man who bad ac cepted Christ, I do not believe that the omission of the beautiful service would close tbe gates of heaven to the repentant man. Baptism is a holy sacrameut, bowevei, and cannot be omitted without a disregard to the plain and explicit teaobing of our Lord." Joseph N. Soott. THRIFTY NAPOLEON. H Made Sure of Being Served With Honesty and Economy. Emperor Nnpoleon I., dressed in plain clothes, often visited tho markets irf I'nrls iu order to learu the current prices of food and tintl out whether bis household ollleero served him with honesty niul economy. In "Foreign IteuilulHceneeH" Jtivlmrd Lord Hoi bind says that this wins only one illus tration of the emperor's thrift and shrewdness. When tlio Tuillerles was being repair ad Nnpoleon suspected that the up holsterer's charges were higher than they should be. So ho linked ono of IjIh ministers, who wn.s with him, bow much the ivory egg nt the end of the bell ropo ought to cost. "1 do not know," was the answer. "It shall bo ascertained," said Na lioleon. Thereupon he cut off tho ivory handle, called for a valet, bade him dress himself hi plhln clothes, inquire (lie prleo of such articles nt several shops iu Paris and order n dozen as if for himself. Tho valet bought them for two-thirds )f the price thut the emperor had hod to pity. Napoleon, inferring that tho an in e overcharge had been uuule In the other articles, deducted n third from the entire account aud informed the tradesman that it was doue at his own express command because on in vestigation he bnd found the charges to bo exorbitant. Why Rain Clouds Are Black. The color of a cloud depends on th manner in which the sunlight falls upon It and the position of the observ er. It will be noticed that high cloud are always white or light in color, and this is because the light by which the; are seen is reflected, from the under surface by tbe numberless drops ol moisture which go to form the cloud. Heavy rain clouds, on the other band, are found much nearer the earth, and so the light falls on them more direct ly from above, giving a silver lining tc the cloud, though tbe undersurface ap pears black owing to the complete re flection and absorption of tbe light by the upper layers. Seen from above by an observer in a balloon, the blackest rain clouds appear of the most da zllngly brilliant white, v. Death by Boiling. In old England, before tbe law wai passed which prohibited "cruel and un usual .forms of punishment," murder era were often condemned to death by boiling. In such cases , the victlny were chained In large kettles of cold water, which were gradually heated until it caused the flesh to drop from the bones. Tbe last English victim oi the "boiling death" was one Bouse, a cook, who, it was alleged, bad killed seventeen persons. ' A Bad Egg. "Owens is trying to strike every on be meets for a loan. He's a bad egg, that fellow." , "Why do you call him that?" "When he's broke be makes the fact fleucedly conspicuous." Boston Tran script. No Deception. ToffYou told me thnt horse was free from faults. Why, it's blind. Dealer-Blind? Well, that's not a fault. That's a cruel misfortune. San Francisco Chronicle. ' Those edges soonest turn that are most keen. A sober moderation standi sure. No violent extremes endure. -Aleyn. GLASS IS PECULIAR. A DREAM AND A CRIME. The Story of a 8tumber Vision That Comes From Cicero. Cicero furnishes us with a tale ot two Arcadians, who, traveling togeth er, arrived at Magarn, a city of Greece, between Athens and Corinth, where one of them lodged in a friend's house and the other at uu Inn. . After supper the person who lodged ut the private house Went to bed nnd, falling asleep, diva moil that bis friend at the Inn appeared to him aud beg ged his assistance, because the inn keeper was going to kill htm. The until Immediately got out of bed, much frightened at the dream; but, re covering himself and falling asleep egaln, his friend appeared to him a m-coihI time and desired that, as he would not assist lilm in time, he would at least care not to let his death go un-puiilstied-tliat the innkeeper, having murdered him, had throwu his body lu a cart and covered it with rubbish, lie therefore begged that ho would be nt the city gate In the morning before the cart was out. , ' Struck with this uew dream, he went early to tho gate, saw the cart aud 'asked the driver what was In it The Oliver Immediately fled. Tho dead IhwIv whs taken out of tho cart and the innkeeper apprehended and exe-ruled No Secret Telegraph Syetem. Many persona ate of tho opiulon thnt the wlirles system of communication Is particularly subject to tapping; but. according to tho Soleutlfk American, no telegraph system is absolutely se cret. Any one familiar with tho Morse code can read ordinary messages enter lug any lelegrnph otBeo. At PoUlhu. on telephone connected to a loug horizontal wire, the message passinp on a pivemniHit telegraph line a ipuir ler f s liii'e wa.v can K- distinctly re.ut It I'-. Ic'u shown that It Is Iui-miI) j i' k up at it dist une, ou uiiuJa u;wuL ' sM'lfHi-iV-'H. X UU) It Hat a Number of Curious and Con tradictory Qualities. Glass Is one of tbe most Interesting as well as one of the most peculiar things in tbe world. It has curious and contradictory qualities, and many as tonishing rAienomeun ore connected with It. Brittle and breakable as It Is, yet It exceeds almost all other bodies In elasticity. If two glass balls are made to strike each other nt a given force the recoil, by virtue of their elasticity, will be nearly equal to their original impetus Connected with Its brlttlencss are somt very singular facts. Take a hollow sphere with a bole and stop the bole with the finger, so as to prevent the external and Internal alt from communicating, and tbe sphere will fy to pieces by tbe mere beat of the baud. Vessels made of glass that have been suddenly cooled possess the curious property of being able to r sist hard blows given to them from without, but will bo instantly shivered by n small particle of flint dropped into their cavities. .This property seems tc depend upon, the comparative thickness of tbe bottom; the thicker tbe bottom Is the more certainty of breakage bj this experiment Some of these vessels, It Is stated, have resisted the stroke of a mallet given with sufficient force to drive a nail Into wood, and heavy bod ies, such ns Iron, bits of wood, jasper, stone, etc., have- been cast Into them from n height of two or three feet with out any effect, yet a frngment of flint not larger than a pea dropped from a height of three Inches has made them fly. ELIZA WAS GENEROUS. Her Munificent Offer For an Original Five Act Tragedy. Tcople are likely to look back com mlscratlngly upon tbe past in these days of modern progress. Wben we bear what tbe most prolific ot present day novelists receives a . word and what tho weekly royalties of any well known playwrights are we say that the literary profession boa come into Its own, Some bark back to the con trasting tnle that Milton received only 5 for the first copyright of Tnradlse Lost," an epic In twelve books containing a total of 10X05 lines, but that was over two centuries ago. Too received $10 for "The Raven." That may be dismissed with the statement that poetry never paid. The modern way of making money by literature Is even more recent than Is generally thought Alexander Dill of Cincinnati, one of tbe best known bookmen and collectors of the middle west, has a letter In his collection of autographs that proves this point Two generations ago Eliza Logan was a leading actress In America. Read her letter, O budding genius on the typewriter, and be glad that wben you are paid It Is space rates for the local paper; Tremont House, Boston, May It, l&t, EL Dueseault, Jr., Charlaetown. Mass. Sir I wlftb an original five act tragedy the feature to be a heroine, myself the pcrsonator of It; the scene not to be laid In this country; the plot to be optional with the author-to which, If 1 like It, I will pay t& Respectlfully, ELIZA LOOAN. Boston Tost American Leaf Colore. It has been observed that the leaves of American trees, such as maples, scarlet oaks and so forth, which at home exhibit splendid colora In tbe autumn, full below their reputation In this regard when transplanted lu Kng land or on ihe continent of Kurope. An English observer, who baa been studying the causes of the autumn tints of trees, think the superiority of our woodlands arises from the soft nnd mild yet glowing climatic condi tions prevailing here In the fall. Eng land. It I added. Is rarely bfawed with an I ml in ti summer. When the climatic conditions permit the Waves to retain considerable vitality In tbe autumn the colored pigment la normally de rlop"d: liem-e the elorloim forests ot tbe United Slates. - Ctileiigu Record r JQY CF CREATING." . " Put Your Heart In Your Work, No Matter What t May Be. While every man who makes a living Is not a genius, yet the real Joy of creating can belong to each of os in Just ns real and true a way. If we put Into farming or banking or our school work the sense of making something we get the great treasure out of it When we fill any task with ourselves we make something. A girl says, "X made tbe room tidy,' which simply means she put something of herself into tbe disorderly room and so beautified It After she bad made It tidy It reflected something of her self; it looked some Idea of order such as she bad -in ber own mind. A boy says, "I made a good recitation in school yesterday," and be Is right, for, although the lesson was already there, It bad to wait for him to come along and make it a recitation. So It Is everywhere. Making any thing means, -no matter how simple the task, that we bring out something that did not exist before and that that something is to some degree like tbe maker of It We get out what we put In. If any one-wants to be. miserable the surest way Is Just to do things without putting bis whole heart and self Into them. Think of the mere outside of tbe tasks and they are not worth doing. But once put yourself Into them and all that Is changed. St Nicholas. A LEGAL LEGEND. The Tate of a Telling Comparison In an Oriental Court. Wben Abdel-Hakk was poor, as be was one day traveling across a. weary plain, be came to tbe bouse of the Widow Zaidab, who was also poor, but wben be made known bis hunger she set before bim two bard boiled eggs, all tbe food tbere was In ber bouse. Later, when Abdel-Hakk lived In Marakesh and was very rich, MeludL the lawyer, disliking bim, persuaded tbe Widow Zaidab to sue him for the eggs, but not for,, tbe eggs alone, for they would have become two chickens, which in time would have so multiplied that the whole fortune of Abd el-Hakk would not now pay for them. Wben tbe case came to trial tbe rich man was not In court "Why is tbe defendant not here?" de manded tbe Judge. "My lord," said counsel for tbe de fense, "be Is gone to sow boiled beans." "Boiled beans?" "Boiled beans, my lord." "Is be madr "He is very wise, my lord. Surely h bard boiled eggs can be batched boiled beans will grow." Tbe suit was promptly dismissed, with costs . to the plaintiff. Pearson's Weekly. ' A Wonderful Escape. ' Fleschl tried to assassinate King Louis Thllippe of France in July, 1833. Tbe king was riding along the lines of tbe national guard In tbe Boulevard du Temple. There came a crash and a rush of bullets. Louis Philippe's arm was grazed, his horse was shot in tbe neck, Marshal Mortler fell dead and about thirteen other people were killed and thirty wounded. Fleschl bad taken the upper Moors of a bouse several weeks before and tbere rigged up an oaken frame four feet by three feet six inches, supported on four posts of oak and Itself supporting twenty-five gun barrels fixed In grooves at various angles so us to command an area of twenty-fire feet In length and ten feet In height. When he fired the train of powder thnt let off bis battery tbe king would have been killed if four barrels had not burst and two missed fire. Sorrows of Authorship. "Paradise Lost" brought Milton only a paltry 5 about $25 of our money. Hawthorne for twenty years con ttnued to be, to use bis own words, "the obscurest man of letters In America." "Tbere Is not much market for my warea," be said at another time. Thoreon is an Interesting example. A thousand copies of bis "A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers" were printed, but very few of these were sold, nnd a considerable number were given away by the author. The' remainder were returned to bim and were stored In bis attic. He grimly observed. "I have now a library of 000 volumes, the greater portion of which I myself have written." New York Press. Railway Station Library, in tbe refreshment room of a Sussex (England) railway station the traveler may see a Rtunll rack of books. If be Is sufficiently curious to look be will discover from n written label that the books nre the property of the vicar of the town, who places them at the dlsH)sal of any passenger who likes to take n volume away, the only con dition being that he shall return the volume to its place on his return or post It to the vicar. Hi Part Magistrate (to wltnessl-I understand that you overheard the quarrel be tween the defendant and his wife! Witness-Yes. air. Magistrate Tell tbe court. If you can, what be seemed to be dotn. Witness-He seemed to be doln" the tlstenln'. Cap lis I Punishment. "Mamma, did you love to flirt when you were young V "I am ii f raid I did. dear." "And were you ever punished for It, ma in inn V , "Cruelly, dear I married your fa- f ih.r" I'iiiK Rlre. 4 NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT. In tbe County Coort of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of Robert J. Boddy, Deceased. Notice is hernhv riven to all Ter- ! eons whom it may concern that Jack- ! f 1 . , . . . . I sou xveison, aaminisiraior oi iub es tate of Kobeit J. Boddy, deceased, bas filed bis final aoconnt and report and that tbe judge of tbe above en titled conrt baa appointed Monday, tbe 17th day of February, A. D. 1913, at tbe boor of ten o'olock in tbe fore noon of said day, aa tbe time, and tbe County Courthouse at Pendleton, Oregon, as tbe plaoe, where, tbe said final Bcoount and report will be heard and tbe settlement thereof made. Dated this tbe 17th day of Jaunary, A. D. 1913. Jackson Nelson, Administrator, Peterson & Wilson, Attorneys for tbe Adminitrator. Professional S. F. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to all calib both night and day. - Calls promptly answered. Offloe on Third etree.1, Ainena uregor G.S.NEWSOM.M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Athena, Oregon. Calls answered promptly night or day. PETERSON, WILSON AND . BISHOP Attorneys-at-Law Athena, Oregon. - Pendleton, Oregon Homer I. Watts Attomey-at-Law Athena, Oregon. C. W. LASSEN, M. D. V. Official Stock Inspector. Graduate McKUHp Vetinary College, Chicago Phone Main 27, PENDLETON, OREGON Veterinary Surgeon & Dentist C. H. SMITH 1e Live Stock AUCTIONEER Phone Main 376 MILTON, OREGON Avoirs Succeed when everything else falls. In nervous prostration and female weaknesses they are the supreme remedy, as thousands have testified. FOR KIDNEY, LIVER AND STOMACH TROUBLE it is the best medicine ever sold over a druggist's counter. 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We have the new Empire drills, har ness and horse Clothing, Wood, Coal, Lumber, Building Material, Wire Fencing, Plumber's outfits, etc. All Sold at Reduced Prices for Cash I ,,vvl It fS c r REACHED TO PORTLAND THENCE TO THE LAND OF PALMS A PLEASURE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ASK ANY AGENT OF THE O-Wft&N TO HELP OUTLINE YOUR TRIP