WHAT YOU NEED The other fellow may have; what you have the other fellow may want. Come together by advertising ip the Preaa. BARGAIN DAY - ) .":-(,' -. y 'h every day with the Merchant who advertises In the Press be has some thing to sell aad says o. " - Buy Your Groceries From . Your. Home : Grocer YDLTJME XXVLL ATHENA, TJ3IATILLA COIrtsSTY, OEIuGON', FRIDAY, . NOVEMBER 19, 1915. NUMBER - 48. 171KI5ER A WOMAN'8 THANKFULNESS, j -'; .' V-S ' . .... . . I AM thankful beeausa there was one Who thought me the dearest aad fair est, " Who comes when his duties are done . To tell me my charms are etill rarest; Z am thankful because U was he -Whom the fates when they mads their selection -: Sent eagerly, cladly to me To offer his lasting affection. 1 am thankful because he Is true, Because he Is worthy and cheerful; r:1 Because the dark moments are few When he leayes me regretting and tsar- iui; - v I am thankful that he has the will . To be thoughtful and gracloua and ten der; I am thankful because I am still On the right side of forty and slender, I am thankful because I am free From ills that keep others complaining; X am constantly thankful that we Can live very well without straining! -X am glad. that I never have had A child to disturb or distress ms; I am thankful beoause he is glad To labor to feed and to dress me. A BOY'S THANKFULNESS. I'll thankful that I've got a daddy To work for me with all his might; He always calls me "Little Laddy," And says 'at I'm his heart's dellghti . He often sets me on his shoulder - And helps to nil the house with noise; Re's bigger than I am and older. But mother calls us her two boys. I'm thankful that he never worries Because my hands ain't nice and white; I'm thankful that he always nurrtea Back home to us when It gets night; I'm always thankful when it's Sunday, 'Cause when It's Sunday, why, you sea, He doesn't haft to work till Monday . Or do a thing but play with me. - V. 1- .... - ' ' rm thankful that he never scolds m .; Except when I've been actln' bad; '. And every night almost he holds me : . - Tight In his arms and soys he's glad; Our blessln's, mother says, are many, ' And, gee, but wouldn't it be fins If every body that hain't any s . Could have a daddy just like mlneT ' A MAN'S THANKFULNESS. I AM thankful because I am strong. Because of the chances about me, Because In the thick of the throng I have brothers who never will doubt me; - v . - -I am thankful to have at my right The freedom true manhood Inherits; - f I am thankful for courage to light For an honest reward of my merits, ; I am thankful that no one may weep Because I am cunning or greedy,, Because If I sow I may reap Without bringing grief to the needy; I am thankful because I have claimed No vice-tainted tribute from others, That still unafraid, unashamed. I may gaze In the eyes of my brothers. I am thankful for those who depend -On me for their freedom from Borrow; I am thankful at every day's end ' For the hone of a splendid tomorrow I sm e-lad that, though many must grieve, There are hearts which are stirred by compassion; I sm glad that I still may believe . That kindness Is not out of faahlon. AFTER THANKSGIVING DINNER IN TWO PARTS. Season Teaches a Lesson, i This festive season brings Joyous re nnlnna and nleasant greetings: the table la loaded with flash autumn cheer, it li a time to banish anxiety and sadness, to revel In all good things of Ule. But this thoughtless. Indiffer ent atac-e dues not always continue. Later on there comes a consciousness that gratitude is due someone for the countless blessings bestowed. This dawnlnr consciousness often awakes feeling of thankfulness, not considered before. Christian Work and Evangel ist . Travels of the Turkey. The first turkey eaten In France was served at the wedding banquet of Charles IX. The Mexican birds were taken to Europe and then brought again to America as domestic birds. The Journals of many of the explorers, among them CapL John Smith, record the attractive qualities of the wild tur key. They were plentiful from Can ada south to the seseoast One Eng lish traveler wrote of the "great store of the wild kind of turkeys, which main about the house aa tame as ours In England , S AMERICA'S DAY When Prayers of Thanksgiving Arise From Hearts of Grate - ful Nation. EMORY J. HAYNE8. DID you ever see the sun rise out of the ocean? For nearly four . hours the dawn of Thankglvlng day has been feeling Its way westward across the sea before It breaks on America. Half a league onward. the gray light creeps over the un inhabitable waste of waters. The new faint light cohorts ot outriders are scouting ahead of the monarch sun. They are seeking the coast of Maine, feeling for the Cape ot Hatteras.' For this is to be a great day in America. If the sun were a.. god, marching over the Atlantic spaces, one would put the words in his mouth i Sou ships on which I flash, I am not con tent with you, alone, nor : with you lighthouses, which I now touch with my spears of sunbars, I seek a con tinent ot grateful human' dwelling, 1 gild church spires, burnish the white walls of great cities,, gleam in farm house windows, the homes of men. It Is not a day ot toll but ot thankful Joyous rest . I will march over the vast areas of mighty states, cross riv ers and lakes, climb the Saharas and beyond, before I slip again into the Pacific ocean. For this is a day set apart to me. Men are waiting, out of harness, for the sunbeams. I ac knowledge their tokens.- I make the American flag beautiful everywhere in my blue sky, thousands of flags dip ping to give thanks. I do hear the ring ing of bells, the shouts of play, the laughter of kinsmen greeting kinsmen, and the voice ot a nation's prayer." But the sun Is no god. A day is merely a stretch of hours. There is a Maker of the sun who trains It to be but the servant of his children. There Is an All-Seeing Eye which views us at our grateful offices. Let us try to think ot it that way. Then-.the day has a meaning. - Thinking ot It all In that way, what sublime day it is. A whole youth ful nation with uplift hands and merry hearts. This nation has been, at times, In tears, . Today It bursts into laughter and the sounds of thankful ness the fragrance ot a feast fills the air. It la a very festival of char ity, when none is proud or selfish, when the poor are not forgotten. Have you ever watched the clouds awaking by "mists rising' by the advancing sunt What a spectacle it would be It, from a star, one could witness this uprising of sun-touched vapor from valley: to plain across continent So does the nation's praise arise with incense of thanksgiving. Remember that, by this figure, we are seeking to make our answering ado ration visible to our minds; And there Is no beauty' In a sunset except If there be clouds to take on the gliding. So may the evening be, of this glad day, for "The Lord God Is our sun and shield." When the day is done may heaven's blessings, yet to Be sent us, be more tnan tne eve ning stars for multitude. Stars . on stars, the light from many a star is so distant that it has never yet reached us. But it is on the way. " ' Things, to Be Thankful For. The sentiment of gratitude is one that there Is small-risk of finding too much in evidence." It is not possible to grow from childhood to manhood or womanhood . without implicit de pendence upon others. Without in curring obligations and running deep ly Into debt first of all to the God who made us, then to our parents who safeguarded our helpless infancy tbesj to the friends who assisted n m pur way. It Is Impossible for us to make adequate repayment or return for all these benefits. What has been" done for us in our creation and pur si)s- tenance, in all the generous provision of love and of sympathy - Vfmt -sur rounds us, Is beyond:1 reckoiilfljPOT valuation it is without m&ey and without price. But we may aijjeast from time to time express our grati tude to the Giver ot all good gifts. We may occasionally voice our thankful ness that we are alive and that our olain duty lies before ns, and that there Is useful work to ocupy pur hearts and souls and senses. Above all, there Is the great gift of love the love that transfigures life and makes It worth while to keep on trying to pussle out the riddle of existence the inva that fills the universe and. ac cording to Dante, "moverthe stts and the other stars. Philadelphia Ledg er. ... - VORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK ricf Resume of General News from All Around the art!). " NIVERSAI HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL ive News Items of AH Nations and Pacific NorthWest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. ' The Golden Corn. Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard I Heap high tne goioeo corni No richer gift has autumn poured - From out her lavish born I -- Let other lands, exulting, glean Ths SDDle from the pine, . The orange from the glossy green, . The duster from the vine; But 'let the good old eora adorn ' The hills our fathers trod: Still let us for his golden eora Send up our thanks to God. --Whlttler. Because of ill health, ex-Chief of Police Kearney, of Pendleton, commits suicide. , ' j ' - , i , . Great Britain has introduced several new giant submarines, which will prey on the Germans. As a result of the fierce storm alone the Oregon coast, Seaside was -consul erably damaged.. 1 English women suffragettes, headed by Mrs. Pankhurst, will protest against the conduct of the war. Carranza troops have been ordered into the Yaqui valley to protect Amer ican interests there against raids of the Yaqui Indians. Bulgarians continue victorious march against the French, whose troops are driven back on the right bank of Var- dar river, in the Balkans. " The American Federation of Labor, in session in San Francisco, went on record as favoring government owner ship of telegraph lines and also the creation by congress of -a non-partisan tariff commission. About 200 young Britons, ' mostly Irishmen, were among the passengers on the steamer California, which ar rived in New York; The passengers said that most of the young men had left their homes to evade conscription, According to the Gactea Del Norte, of Balbao, Spain, a Spanish steamer with a cargo of wire was stopped by a British cruiser and compelled to un load at Gibraltar before being allowed to continue on her voyage , to .Malaga. Washington has directed Ambassa dor Penfield at Vienna to ascertain from the Austrian government for a detailed statement of the- circum- tances of the' torpedoing of the Italian liner Ancona, on which several Ameri can lives were lost .-",V. ; The Supreme court of Wisconsin has ruled that when once a married woman made beneficiary by a life Insurance policy, it cannot be changed without her consent, regardless of a clause in the policy permitting pne to change the beneficiary at any time. ' . Fire destroyed the plant of the Hal- lett Manufacturing company at Mobile, Ala., with a loss of 130,000, partly covered by insurance. . The firm was engaged in filling a contract "for the British government for what officials called "pit props" to be used in the trenches.'"-." A wedding of International interest took place in Baltimore recently, when Miss Christine Marburg, daughter of the former American minister to Bel gium and Mrs. Theodore Marburg, be came the bride of Jonkheer Alidius Warmoldua" Lambert us Tjarda van Starkenborgh-Stachouwer; of Holland, an attache of the Netherlands legation at Washington. . j, . ? H;At Chicago-, Miotwas taken by doctors ' and V.we,-j!h determine whether to attempt to save he life of a 'iiksformed sub-normal; inf ant or wh- fir by inertia to let the child die, resulted In at death: sentence for the little one. , "It is a question of eth ics. said Dr. Haiselden. ''While we all know physicians do not allow, mon strosities to live, the line must be drawn somewhere. I have drawn the line in this ease." ' . , . Bids were opened at the Navy de partment for the two 82,000-ton super- . I dreadnoughts authorized by the last congress, ana Known as ros. in ana te.'t . The act limited the cost of these ships to approximately (15,000,000 each. The two- new fighting craft will closely resemble in design the California, but they will be built on plans prepared after secret experi ments to develop means of lessening danger from submarine attack. - It Is 'reported that Villa's men are deserting at tne rate oi iuu a aay, The use of whipped cream for any purpose has been barred in Germany. OA naval aeroplane has been success fully launched from the deck of a bat tleship at sea. Draft of an initiative petition for the repeal of Oregon's Sunday closing law has been filed with the secretary of state. j- ...... ,i MINE EXPLOSION AT RAVENSDALE, WASH., QAIMSjnilRTY-ONE LIVES Seattle. Wash. Thirty-one men were killed Tuesday by an explosion of coal ,duBt in the Northwestern Im provement company's coal -mine at Ravensdale, 35 miles southeast of Se attle. - , , The bodies of six men have been- re covered, and three injured- have been brought safely to the surface, wnere they were resuscitated "by the' um of pulmoiors. , ' The body of P. 3i Kane, foreman of the third level, 1500 feet below the surface; 'where the explosion occurre0, was found seated in the chair before his desk just" within the entrance to the third revel. s The bodies of .C. B. Davis and M, Penneikl. John LErrinaton. Domimck Nnvhria and Jacob Ramshacfc were re- ntravrl nlRft-.: V Trained rescue men r rushed , to the mine from Seattle, Roslyn and Cle Elum were able, by wearing oxygen PRINCE JOACHIM ,' , The engagement of Prince Joachim, youngest son of Emperor William, snd Princess Marie. Augustine, daughter, pf Prince Edward of Anhalt, has been arinounoed In Berlin. The princess wet seventeen years old last-June. Prince Joachim Is twenty-five years eld, - , ' helmets, to penetrate far enough into the mine to see the bodies,"ot the en tombed men lying in the . mine,' but could not get to tbem because of the wreckage; ' It is certain, mine officials said, that all are dead, v, The third level, in which the men were entombed, is 1600 feet below the surface. Rescuers who succeeded in reaching the third level through an auxiliary shaft found that the level was burning. The intense heat and thick black smoke made it impossible for the rescuers to penetrate farther than the foreman's office at the en trance to the workings. : Debris was found piled to the ceiling of the level. Walls had crumbled and roofs fallen in as a result of the expolsion. " Superintendent R. D. Scott. Who m directing the rescue work, said that he believed there was no hope that any of the men would be found alive. King of All Turkeys. The Thanksgiving turkey is turkey with cranberry sauce and mince or pumpkin pie. He Is allied with crisp celery, and is redolent of Araby by reason of the spices In his stuffing. He la the king of all turkeys, all tur keys la one, the hope ot ardent youth and the prop of declining age, the luscious burden ot the groaning board, the bird of that paradise for which all good livers long. On account of the restrictions on the use of meat which 1 have gone into effect in Germany, England believes her enemy is in dire straits for food. : Mrs. Margaret K. Armour, aged 8 widow of S. B. Armour, the packer, died In Kansas City Friday. Since her husband's death Mrs. Armour has been active in charitable campaigns. - What is believed to be a piece of time fuse was found among the cargo of . the steamer Rio Lages, which start ed from New York for Queenstown, and was forced to put in at Halifax with her sugar cargo on Ore..; " OREGON STATE NEWS Oregon Corn Growers Invited ' .- ?: To Exhibit at National Show Oregon - Agricultural College, - Cor- vallis Oregon fanners are Invited to make ten-ear exhibits of corn at the 'First National" corn show to be held in-St.'Faul during the month of De cember. '" The state has been districted into two parts , for competitive ex hibits Eastern and Western Oregon. Neither of these'distrTcts will have to compete against the other1 nor against any other district of the United states. The- winner of each district will be given a beauitful cup as a trophy one of 138 valued at S5000. . .,'. Each entrant must wrap each ear of his exhibit in paper and pack the en tire exhibit in a small wooden or heavy cardboard box, with entry blank and bis banker s endorsement enclosed, Shipments are to be made by prepaid express, addressed to ' First National Corn Show, care First National Bank, St Paul, Minn. '.Average size, pro ductiveness, breed type, and general appearance will be considered In judg ing the exhibits. The corn must have been grown by the exhibitor In a field of not less than one acre. - Entry blanks will be provided on request, and no entry charees will be made. Farmers are advised to send samples even if they are not quite up to-the average of other years, since unfavor able weather conditions have handi capped all alike. All exhibits will he returned if request is made when sent in. Corn exhibits at state and county fairs disprove the claim that corn cannot be successfully grown in Ore gon, and an exhibit at the national corn show will go far to convey the real situation to prospective immi grants, v. y- a j'"' : " ; ' 1 '' "v ' . .RailroadsVfile Report-i M Salem -4 The net income of the Q W. R. & N. company for the year ended June 30, last, was J248.381.09, according to the report filed by the company with the Oregon Public Serv ice commission. , . This is an . increase over the preceding 12 months of $158, 087.23. Gross income-amounted to $6,647,795, a gain in, one' year ',uf $701,177. 'C.V;? - Railway operating expenses totaled $10,067,449.32, . which, were $2,060, 732.14 less -than the previous- year, The.nef tevenhe "from railway; opera tions Was, $6,886,607.01, ., The com pany's revenue from local freight, in Oregon was $883,623, while freight revenue on interstate-' business in the state totaled $2,137,890, . ' ' The Southern Pacific company's rev enue from froipht . in Oregon for the year ending , .June 30, 1915, was $1, 183,000, ' . Interstate freight revenue was $779,834. i Passenger service re ceipts for Oregon totaled $2,676,676. The report shows that the company's net income for the entire system amounted to $22,094,253, an Increase of $14,432,635 over the year preced ing. Gross income amounted to $63,- 148,011, a gain of $,527,400 pver, the year before.: . .; Dividends declared during the year amounted to $6,360,464. ,';,j;'; "t. Buy your Heater EOT W hree Million Belgians Are In 't .Dire Need of Winter Clothing New York More than 8,000,000 persons in Belgium ana .jNorinern France, mostly women and - young children, must be clothed and shod by Christmas. If the garments and shoes for these destitute people are not forthcoming at once, their sufferings during the winter will become des perate, -y'-r ...:-. .- . ' - Such is the note oi an urgent appeal Issued to the people of the United States by the commission for relief in Belgium. The New York committee has received from Herbert Hoover, chairman of the commission, the fol lowing statement! ' "It appears "to me that it is neces sary for us to go frankly to the 'Amer ican people and ask them to clothe the destitute In the occupied areas of Bel gium and Northern France during the coming winter. - ' ' There are 9.000,000 people in these areas and of these more than one-third are destitute. We have no reserves with which to provide clothing for the destitute. We now plead for help on their behalf. Even if they had money they could not Import clothes, or the raw mater- als with which to manufacture them, through the blockade into an area un der military occupation. While the better classes have some clothing with which they can ret along, the desti tute are composed of working classes. Bv Christmas time all the clothing which we have in our various establish ments will be exhausted," Wilson's Plan Is First. Washington, D, C. National de fense plans prepared by the war col lese division of the army general staff will not be made public until after the President has- delivered his message, and Secretary Garrison's report has been submitted. President Wilson so decided Wednesday. Secretary Gar rison favored immediate publication of the war college plans. The President's position is said to be that, as head of the government, be is responsible for the general policies, and that his rec ommendations should be presented nro. Fiat-head Indian Skull Found. University of Oregon, Eugene--The skull of an adult flat-head Indian that was found on a sand par of the Santl- am near Lebanon, 'Or., has .been re ceived by the Condon Museum of the State, University. , , The sender was Willard A; Elkins, recorder of the city of Lebanon. This sort of skull de formation was once commonly prac ticed from the Columbia river all the wav down the coast to Peru. The ancient Peruvians practiced it, and so did the Toltecs of the Plateau of Mex ico. Flathead skulls were considered tylish in those days and the flattening was brouah about through binding a board on the forehead of the child when its skull was still In a stage of easy yielding, , ' ; Drained Lands for Lease. Klamath Falls According to J. G, Cam, martager of the Reclamation Service in this city, the government is now advertising to lease for a period of three years the 8004 acres of land formerly covered by the waters of Tule lake, but which were uncovered this past summer by the drainage or the lake. ; It Is hoped that eventually 25,000 acres ot valuable land win become available. Thus far 3004 acres have been reclaimed and the government now desires to lease this in tracts of not to exceed 80 acres each, to be cul tivated to crop each year or put into tame grass meadow.' , , Convention Date Changed. -, Baker Rectifying a mistake made months ago, Fred W. Falconer, of En terprise, and John Hoke, of Baker, president and secretary, respectively-, of the Oregon Woolgrowera' associa tion, decided after a conference held in Baker Saturday afternoon, to change the date of the 18th annual convention in Pendleton to December 8 and 4, in stead of December 9 and 10. This action was taken to avoid con flicting with the International Live stock Show which will be held In Port land next month. Work on Last Unsurveyed Land, Bandon The last of the unsurveyed government land tributary to Bandon is now under survey by government engineers. Lying In township 80 south, range 18 west, about 15 miles southeast of this city, the tract covers the headwaters of tour Mile and Floras creeks. Practically all of the land Is occupied by squatters. r i Cold weather will be here before you realize it. We are prepared for it with the best line of! Heating Stoves on the market There ia nothing to . equal them. Fine Heaters, easy on coal, and very clean -r and -?very handsome in design, ' Come and see them NOW FOSS-WINSIflP HARDWARE CO. Barrett Building.' Athena, Oregon ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Go. FLOUR .. - 4'V-''Vi: , i'-' , A '. 7 ' ' f ''.' v- ' ' v, .."V ' ' ' '.; -Is made fa'Athena, by AthenaXabor,' in one of the : ; very best equipped Mills in the Northwest, of the , -, best selected 1 Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. . Patronize horrle industry. Your grocer sells the famous American Beauty Flour. The flour Your Mother Uses Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. 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