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Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXV. ATnOA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER Z. 1913. i Eoss-Winsliip; Hardware n i -I v i '9 Company Heaters The World's Leader : In Satisfaction Barrett Building, AthenaOr Municipal Christmas Tree Idea Is Adopted by Many Big Cities. r HE TUM-LUfJi LUuCER CO. KJ Mi . ' Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of - ' BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES ' Posts and Blacksmith coal .. .... "s '. -! .. ,-..-- .:..--- . " '. v. . " A. II. Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon ATHENA: MEAT MARKET ar- ' ''''' ' II I I V s-W : ; We carry the best That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool . Insuring Wholesome Meats. BRYAN & MEYER Main Street, Athena, Oregon 1 . Cil- - . ilvJfx" I Honie of 1 I fflBm I Groceries j Good Groceries go to the Right ' Spot Every Time . This is the Ridlit Spot To go, to Every Time for Groceries 3 c TQY TEIESE THEY'LL PLEASE ! . OFJE BES TS1E monopo Ilonopole Vegetable Ilonopole Fruits Ilonopole Salmon lonopolo, Oyster TT, rrv.r r I-.;,- M,M- 71 & e '.i i! ! ) SI- IC1 I; J. s'X.., Photo by American Frees Association. erect a huge Cbrlstmaa tree each year, an4 appropriate exercises are held on Christmas eve. - This picture shows how the, giant pine Id one of New York city's parks looks aglow, with Christmas lights. The municipal tree of last year in that city was such an innovation and a success that arrangements were made for another this year. Singing of Christmas carols forms the most prominent pat of the celebration. The idea is a splen did one, and each year sees a greater number of cities following it Some of the principal cities which planned to have such public trees this year were Boston, Baltimore. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Kansas City and Philadelphia. A Song of Christmas TWINE the bittersweet and holly Arched above the hearthstone's glow. Joy, not melancholy. Come, indriftlng with the sqow, In each face the frost'i a-tlngle, And afar on flyln wing Comes the slelghbell's rhythmic Jingle" Through December Journeying. . Bet the board and ask the blessing , ' For the bounty amply spread, In the simplest words expressing What a loving Father said , "Peace on earth" for this Is nearest When the snows with us abide And the winter air is clearest -. In the hush' of Chrlstniastlde. The First Christmas ST often bns been stated that the .UiictlL'okCiirifct.Ai'fcit livKur. red four years before the date fisod on for the current chronolo gy and that it is probable the event be fell ot some other time in theyear than a few days after the winter sol stice. The reason for the confident as-' jertiou is the ascertaining of the fact that -Herod died about four years B. C. The basis of this supposition is the' report that at the time of the birth,of Christ "there were shepherds abiding In the field, watching their flocks by nigiiC. a circumstance not natural In the latitude of Bethlehem near the shortest day. That is the height of the rainy season In Judca, and the date does not appear to have been ob served generally before the fifth cen-s tury. ' . , " ' ' - f .; Many students of Biblical htetory have argued that the story atwut the star of Bethlehem points to a date for the Nativity not later than HJay 8, B. C. C. On that, date the . planets Venus and Jupiter were so clwely in conjunction as' seen from the earth that the apparent distance between them was equal only (j the breadth of the full moon. These planets were .... wvetm- fmrvnr lit Mhr fireman dlig in cooi i;..::G3 to i:at E3 BF.IKDEXR BlTiEDS ARB FBANOSKL Bring the old musician's fiddle, Relic at the bygone days. Bend the fairest down the middle While the ll'tlng music sways. ' Light of foot and quick of laughter, Swing the dancers, toe and heel, As they pass or follow after In the quaint Virginia reel Make a welcome for the stranger Bhould his footstep cross the door. -By the memory of the manger And the Christ that was of yere Gather children's faces round you, As bs gathered them long syne, :. If It be the years have crowned you WltB their radiance divine. . - v Deck the tree and light the candles, Let the stockings all be hung, For a saint with furry sandaSs "O'er the housetops high hss swung, And his re(n(Ser steds are prancing : Through the star beeuangled rime, Aad the moonbeams pale are glancing -In the merry Christmas time. Ernest JMcGaffey. t l Obtainable, fie was yetmg. though of a serious turn of rnir.L ConveRittlon was log tfus, and he was earnestly ltoplng.be wouiJ take his. leave. Her musings were Interrupted, however, by him a -Ling: "Iky yon think perfection bj ever ac tidily nttiilned in U.fs life. BiK Alice?" "Yes," he nrwcn1' picfcly, "some l-ilte become perfct ' ,i.V Denver the same vVan tnere wpi h triple con junction of planets- Saturn. ,Juplter and Mars and that the Hrst two named were in conjunction as scan from the .earth no less than three times In the year precediug-t hat Is, B.C. 7.' Another theory about the star of Bethlehem which lias. been advanced is that the star sevii by (lie magi Is Spkv.. the leading brilliant In the eort stellatiou of Vli". Ihe Virgin. l''or many " years before' ami after the Christian .era the nUir wns changing Its (bice .unlll It win then literally, a "star in the Vt(."i iiiil lis- tiui voiuuut In that (iii-ediou iimy hiive bt'pn the rery fact hot'ned by' the wl.se men of f m:-.v fentu!i(s nit'tH-cdiug whu exiMH't-'1" fctl that flie pit'ilio , 'hImhiI the Vlrgla would be fulfilled wlicn I1 urtuflpai star reached the piwitluii nottHl. ' If thla'were m the visit of tlu niagl from Bactrla, !n t'.ie tar east , bv easily ex pliiincdvan(l tlie chief ,(li!11i ulfy attend ing thej.eJpliuisitiun Uch lu the- fact that such' au lmtivtiint Search as the.v; nndeiiook Is not Iced by only one out of the four evnugelisU. : ' . . The iinceriaiut.v of, the cnturles -in regard to the date of the Nativity In year ami month may never -lie cleared lip. Its existence lias Ut-n-unfairly cited as reason for disbelieving the f whole narration. The people of 2.000 years ago attached little Importance to dates, except current ones, and It may be remembered that the destruction of Jerusalem occurred , between the time of the Nativity and the writing of. the 'gospels, at' least In the ehapi In which It has come down tP us. , J r. i - i THE 8T0RY THAT NEVER ? GROWS OLD. I IU? the songs that are sung In the - twilight, m ; Like-e'l tales that are tenderly ' - "-.told, . . -, Like the memories of loved ones -that hallow our hearts, ' There's a story that never grows ; - Old., , :. . ' .. , ' - '.,.;. , ' ; Iol . The . angels first sing It In ; chorus, , And the watchers with wonder . , behold. , . '-.'- iThey feel the flrst thrill of the beautiful truth . In the tory that never grows old. Round the Christ ChHd of Bethle- ; hem's cradle , ; Are clusters of apples of gold. And pictures of silver adorn every -.--, 'page ' -'.-.'. ':: V'r: ,.;..' , . . Of the story that never grows old. . A It jtlnddens the hearts of all chil dren, T And millions of manlier mold Are happier, holler, better by-far, For the story that never grows ,j Ancestry of Santa TV W Franklin Trusdell; Julias Willlama. the Indian, noder bouda in Justide Biohatds' conil on the charge of killing elk, is dead. His body was found by en O. W. B.. & N. freight crew near Gibbon, Wednesday afternoon. Lying bead downward, ia a bairel of water, (be Indian bad appar enly fell headlong into the open bar rel while iotosicBed. He bad-beon driuking to eioeai in Pendleton, and the supposition is tba,t be fell into the fcarrel of water, wbloh is need for pro taollon aaaiofit bridge fires, HAT? is Santa Ciaus age? ! T The jofly. roistering, pdt . bellied, ever young old fel low that we know has made his appearance on earth in so many guises that the secret of his .ttrst com- ing threatens to rettiaiu jfirever veiled in the niidst of antiquity. No one can say with any certainty just when he first made his appearance among pre Wstorle men. for merry old Santa in one j farnC; of uother delighted chil-dreu'-a heart Ln many a pagan house hold ceuturles before, the. eotnuieuce meiit of A) "ChrWUan era and prior to any recorded history.;' i , . The name of Santn Claus, by which he is known In America, ia the Putch pet name for St. NMcholua. , The name Krlss Krlngle. by .which be is known In' .England, Is a ..corruption, of 'Christ KinUlclu or the Christ Child,; But the festivities -that ''.distinguish Christmas existed long before Christianity., and a Jollj gNl of good cheer appears as the ' pesfionlflcation qT the 'period-from- the earlier pagan times, ; Now the Santa .Clans of today Is simply that old Jolty god sobered up, washed and purified. ; The Dlonysla of the tr'svth But-.; urnalia of the' Itoumnrt, 'the Twelve Klwlits of the old Norsemen and of the Teutons all celebrated the coining of the Winter solstice,.', '-People ..then" gave themselves up to '-lf Ports' of revelry ond excess" in the Dlonysla the repre BenUitlVft figure was not (he young Dionysus or Bacchus. -but the ,nged. cheery and disreiiuiuble Sllenus. the chief ;of tho Satyrs and the god of drunkards. In the Saturnalia it was Saturn: In the Germanic feasts It was Thor, both long bearded and white haired gods like Sllenus. vv . Now, although the central figure sf the Christian festival is the child God, the Christ Klndlein. the influence of long pagan custom was too stronjf -within the breasts of the early Chris tians to be easily superseded. The tra dition of hoary age as the true rHiro sentatlve of the dying year and Its at tendant. Jollifications still remained smoldering - 'under" the ashes Of the past' It burst Into new flame when the past was too far back to be looked upon with the fear and antagonism! of the church and there seemed no longer any danger of a relapse Into paganism. At flrst, however, the more dlgnlQed Sreprefcerttatlve was chosen as more in keeping with occasion? (Saturn" . was uneorisciftuslj r?bnptlzci, js St , Nicholas, the nnuiaof' the saint whose festival occurs In December and who as the patron of yopng people la espe cially fitted for the patronage of the festlvnl which has come to be looked upon as especially that of the young At flrst St. Nicholas did not .supersede the Christ Child, bnt accompanied him in his Christmas travels, as, indeed, In still does in certain rural neighbor hoods of Europe where the ' modern spirit has been least felt. v St. Nlcholif), according to 'the hagl ologlst. wns n bishop of Myra, wh flourished early in the fourth-century lie Is th( patron . of children em1 school Imm - 1 "'If Is strr. -, : Nicholas U tif . ! day most-obserrta ;' . instructed among t x know little of the I He is treated with i: 1 riousnesst and frivi -.'. a dying myth, In southern Gerpany c. . youth garbed as fct JC'.ohc cempanied by two ang'Sa n troop of devils In hideous ' with blackened faces an I churn on-jDci;. 5 (i"t 1 i dayi makes a round of cert. : ' where the. little ones of .. haveTbeen collwted. T. t.i .s ' dren he brings gifts of nuts a : -pies, while the nauuhty ones ?f . I-. -to the devices of ths sr.tanlc W. In his train. 'In many places the -bugbear c shadows In tmportance botU tii'S C . ; Child and St Nlchohs. H. a: - aadeY different names and in 5'..fcr-t.t guises. In Lowey Aivrln be I ' frightful Krampus. with Lis c! u-'..'': . chains and horrible devil's mask. wi!'! notwithstanding his glided nofi i:i apples, gingerbread and toy, wbi. ! he carries In -his bnsk'et. Is tire terr r Of the "nursery. In Ilntiovc-, ITf-lsf or? and Mecklenburg he Is known m ( i. In Silesia his nape Is Joseph.' Sometimes the bugbear . i -. n ff-n..''-In Lower Austria jihevitu c'lcd ft.. Rudclfrau. . In -Sualiia It wi tho Berchtel '"'who chatlm'd cJiH.tn n ( t'.inf did not spill t'lM.-Vll! IV. Ltli mi'x, l;il rewarded th4 liidn-lil'v.jf pears, apples and nuts. . The feinn.lu bogy MirvUc !,:',: In Russia and In Italy. In the former place she Is known as the Bsitm.siskn. In the latter as the Bef.m.i. V--' (' a corruption of Rpiphnnfn or Lptpno ny, for lt Is on Kplphany, Jan, !. tli.it the Italians make ine-ni.u to ' r children In rommemoritlon f tip" : given by the three wise men to C.'- c oo that -late. . , Press Par. A. -Jlackenzia Mel U-u.k v m a j." 1 -I at the Dtuthertou fcoi i : :r 1 , Monday and Tuesday,. ,A mas:(aetBdie bull wi ;i hi the Atfiua opera " s i eve fcy toidou's 'iJ. A, Bsrrell. ft ' tewatd for i,- jir--' i-..",t:'-leoovery of a L.y is'.-! ,i, v - i c 5'i forehead and brand '.1 .) m r ' till't'. esided for the l.-,t n -n. i due to old Off. Iiji--rn.n.l. in the Athena .cui.i-iy i'u . ' Meldrnm coiul.icl Uv! J ' the howTot'i',.i-."iil '!-" non.on Chrluiss mm i when Nettie AdaU Cnuton and datvuifl E. MoCaw ware ofi'J in t,,aii . After the wed-liug b.- '.-f-f'i.-l, the I. py oouple lefton II a ircrnt'.; t ;ii n jjr tholr home in (johIicu, n"f.r i;"i;i' bam, Wash. A. Hn'cin Mel.'lipm was the of tloitiLiiiK o!rth-Tu:au. th ;,vl.f :t C. ). mm , prv r. ;' Believes ini a. Square Heal, that's w '' ' , Hi- i - j', i.'.: '"'' --"-"r..', .'' -'- '- j - '. '- :" ' f ' ' '-i,?:. j ' '.' '" j J-' ,' : - '"'-'--', - ' the old fellow decided to make his ' hoadquarte This is :the storj where you receive full value for cv I'aticv e ii !! C)'r',i 'I ' ' t ftinn's revenge TDI STAB Or BETHLEIIEM. then visible in the east a couple t hours before sunrise and must haj produced a strikingly bearrtifnl irplJeai ance ond have been spoken of as on object That was about fifty davs 1? than two years before the death t Herod, a fact which Jmruwnfr.e wt with other tondltiona of the mrratlv for it is probable that tbe mandf for the atsiughter of all the hihj two years old and under wa 1 some months before bLs decea"'T the limit of two years wouldj auiple margin for any tince to the time of the appear1 star, as related by the ro wers bo puM-hul full i, d.iy between the yea A. D. 23 and no o!ii-, till A. D. (VJ, . ''." from thi It wr- 'r that Christ ws f-" ery dollar you .spend; We carry a : large assortment of Xmas prccnts lT.for young.:and old. ; -Toysand doll' of .every', description for VIicHiIdjeg: Suspenders, gloves, hats capssocBs, y sweaters handkerchiefs, sill: ho:-c. mumers, .suppers, snoes, vooi onin kets, Indian Robes, Comforts, Icd spreads, silk petticoats', table linens, " ,,nch cloths. doilies, trunks, suit cas 'ther things too numerous nor tlir PViilr rri 1 0 3? t,tl time of tt x. would vtndicat; Jewish d"iW.. w;d not i-l !s rx.'!rl:e't. y x. 1