PERILS COME WHEN FORTUNE SMILES When about to make a choice, X hear In tone of Ire A stern God's tremendous voice "Be counseled and retire." Many a men Is Just a good, honest, worthy felhrtr If he hasn't a dollar In his pocket and tan i. 1 J I.: " must toll hard to earn hli dally bread. Be thlnki himself most for tunate of men if a nice young wom an, .employed as he U, looks with favor upon his suit, giving him reason to hope she will not say nay when be Is ready to propose marriage. Hard toll makes a man thrifty, careful of his money and saving If anything can. He stops smoking yheft he counts the cost, walks to and from his work and Is exceedingly careful of his clothes. ' He Is termed a model young man. Let a change of fortune come to any man and who can tell what he will de velop Into through the Influence of money? If he suddenly become pos sessed of a fortune left by an old uncle or aunt of whom he barely knew the existence the good or bad qualities with which he Is possessed assert themselves with astonishing rapidity. Though he may not have been noticed In office or shop to any extent before, he suddenly finds him self the center of attraction. A host of flattering friends spring up about him. The larger the fortune to which he has fallen heir the higher up the class of men who seek him out, make his acquaintance and show their de sire to chunk with him. Education and manners might bar him from some homes, but, Independent of this, he Is welcomed In the majority of others. If he has become a millionaire over night, he finds himself all at once lit tie less than a god. Great business opportunities are offered him by well' known men. Brokers full over each other to show him the menagerie at the stock market. Keal estate men are anxious to sell him mansions. Automobile plutocrats Invito him out for a spin reminding him that a man In his position cannot possibly do without a motor. The most beautiful of women Insist upon their fathers, ancles or brothers Introducing him not only to their exclusive clubs, but to them. It would make poor old uncle or aunt who had hoarded that wealth so carefully turn over in their graves to see the gct-rlcli-qulck relative make ducks and drakes of that fortune. In story books, the young mnn weds the girl who loved him and whom he loved In poverty. In renl life, the new and wonderful Influences brought to bear upon him crowd her out of his thoughts and his heart. Newer fan cies take nossesslon of him. Ilia wealth files like chaff before the wind. He Is dosed with power and pleasure. His attorneys cry "Halt I" In vain. He does not heed. lie Is sure he could never spend a million of money dur ing the rest of his lifetime. Such cases always end In the same old way -the fool and his wealth are soon parted. Friends and acquaintances By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. drop off like leaves In autumn and the fair women close their doors against him. Only the girl who loved him In the other days proves steadfast and true. We may board, deny ourselves the plain comforts of life, but who knows how the money is to go at the end? (Copyright, 1914.) Younger Brother Held Down By Attitude of His Elders If a younger brother ever amounts to, anything It is in spite of his older brothers. The treatment he receives at their bands while he is young makes It almost impossible for him to meet and talk to people when be is grown. They find fault with every thing he does, and bring their com bined Influence to bear in an effort to get him to run away from home. The result Is that he keeps out of their presence, and since they are so down on him he presumes that other people are also down on him, says a writer. He gets to looking and acting like a homeless hound that is hated by everybody in the neighborhood. The poor hound has had so many rocks thrown at him by men, women and children that he has quit looking for a friend. When he sees anyone com ing he goes off at full speed, and gives a yelp, as If be had already been bit When the younger brother sees one or more of his older brothers he turns off and goes in another direction. The oldest boy in the family de serves little credit even If he wins wealth and fame, but If the younger brother ever reaches the point where be can earn a dollar a day, he should be crowned with bays. Plans to Make Waves Supply the Power to Propel Boats A system of driving a vessel by means of wave motors is covered In a recent patent granted to Benjamin P. Roach of Berkeley, Cal., who pro. poses to make use of the motion of the waves as well as the rocking of the boat to store up the necessary power to drive the craft through the water. This accumulation of power Is accom plished mainly by the means of a false bow pivoted to the main part of the ship's structure, and a somewhat simi lar arrangement In the stern of the vessel. The bow and stern form loose por tions which are actuated by every plunge of the vessel and with each movement of these parts air compress ing pistons are operated, and a quan tity of compressed air is forced Into tanks, and subsequently drawn upon for the propulsion of the vessel. Why Rubber Is Scarce. It Is only 27 years since the first pneumatic tlrasr were made those, of course, being for bicycles, but today "the pneumatic tire business of the world Is estimated at the enormous sum of $650,000,000." TO WASH BLANKETS OPERATION TAKES TIME IF GOOD WORK 18 WANTED. "BLUE MONDAY" AND ITS REAL CAUSE By DR. SAMUEL O. DIXON. Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania. nlng of the next week's labor and take up their business on Monday morning exhausted and overtired in stead of refreshed by the "day of rest." The other class goes to extremes by overeating and" underexercislng and the result Is equally unhappy. Try to strike a happy medium. He member that the cheerfulness which al most Invariably begets its like Is well nigh impossible to one who is fagged out or dulled by overeating. Is it a habit of yours to get out of bed on the wrong foot on Monday morning? Do you start for the olflce with a frown on your face and a look In your eye that Bets the of flee boy bunting for an errand out side and starts the whole force with a grouch that lasts for the better part of the day? Salesman who make use of psychology in their bust' ness are very apt to postpone their Monday calls until after lunch. By that time the atmosphere has cleared a little. When you come to think of It the week's work too often slips off the ways with considerable friction. In olflce, school and household. If this Is not the rule It is of sufficiently fr quent occurrence to make the picture familiar to all. With many people It Is not because their dally tasks are distasteful or that their real attitude toward their asso ciates Is aggressive; It is more a mat ter of rather ill-concclved Ideas of what constitutes rest or diversion. It Isn't possible In a few words to describe the Snturday-until-Monday habits of everyone. The majority of people, however, are apt to fall into two general divisions. One class tries to crowd too much into the time be tween one week's end and the begin- Floating Gardens of China, Immune Alike to Drought or Flood, Often Avert Famine The first point of Interest to the traveler In China Is the boat town of Canton. The Chookenng, or Pearl riv er, for a distance of miles, Is covered with boats, which form the residences of a numerous population. Land Is valuable In China, and It Is presumed that tho rent of the river Is merely nominal. The Chinese not only live on the riv er:), but they also use them for gar dening purposes. In the month of April a bamboo raft, ten to twelve feet long and about half as wide, is pre pared. Tho poles are lashed together, with Interstices of an Inch between each. Over this a layer of straw an Inch thick Is spread, and then a coating two Inches thick of adhesive mud, tuken from the bottom of a canal or pond, which receives the seed. The raft is moored to the bank In still water, and requires no further attention, The straw soon gives away and the soil also, the roots-; dru wing support from the water ulon. In about 20 duys the ray becomes covered with the creeper . ' omoa rep tans), and Its stems f ' roots are gathered for cooking small white ' autumn its uud yellow t the round . retty nppvar- jver, is to raise . ncr'a family, and, with half a dozen of these rafts, a Chinaman will have enough and to spare, says an exchange. In the lower Yang-tse-Klang and the Hoang-Ho rivers, extensive rice fields are cultivated In this manner. Upon rafts constructed as above, weeds und udhereut mud are placed as a flooring, and when the rice shoots are ready for transplanting, they are placed In the floating soil, which, being adhesive and held in place by weed roots, the plants are maintained in position throughout the season, the rice ripen ing In from 00 to 70 days. The rafts are fastened to the shore by cables, and these floating fields have served to avert famine, whether by draught r flood. When other fields wero submerged and their crops sodden or rotten, these floated and flourished, and when a drought pre vailed, they subsided with the falling waters, and, while the soil around was arid, advanced to maturity. Where She'd Suit The bride who tried to kill herself when her husband stuyed away from home a few hours would make a dandy wife for a rich Invalid. Brand Kuplds News. ' Perverse Ways. As n general thing, It Is the women who wear tho veils and the men who can't fuee the music Galveston News. MOTHER'S COOKBOOK Nothing Is easier than fault-finding, no ielf-dental, no brains, no character are re quired to set up In the grumbling busi ness. Robert West . Pork Cake. Take one cupful each of fat chopped salt pork, boiling water, molasses, dried apple and sugar.- Add the boil ing water to the pork; cook the mo lasses and a cupful of dried apple which has been soaked over night, a teaspoonful of cinnamon and a half a teaspoonful each of cloves and nut meg with a half cupful of raisins, three hours ; add the other Ingredients, two eggs, one teaspoonful of soda and two of cream of tartar, flour to make a soft dough. Bake slowly one hour. Crumb Cake. Mix well together one-half a cupful of butter, one and a half cupfuls of sugar, two cupfuls of flour. Add two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, two eggs, a cupful of milk and a teaspoon ful of flavoring. Mix the sugar, but ter and flour together; when well blended take out a cupful of the mix- turo and add the eggs, well beaten. the milk and flavoring to the remain der. Put Into the cake pan and sprinkle with the reserved cupful of the mix ture. Bake In a moderate oven. Cinnamon Bun. Cream a half cupful of butter, add a cupful of sugar gradually, then the yolks of two eggs beaten lightly, two cupfuls of flour sifted with two tea- spoonfuls of baking powder and a -tea spoonful of cinnamon, add a half cup ful of milk alternately with the flour, then add a half cupful of raisins and fold In the whites of the eggs. Bake In a sheet and, while hot, spread gen erously with butter, and sprinkle with powdered sugar and cinnamon mixed together. Lunch Cake. Soften, but do not melt, a third of a cupful of butter, add a cupful and a third of brown sugar, two eggs, a half cupful of milk, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a half teaspoonful each of cinnamon and nutmeg grated, one and three-fourths cupfuls of flour. Beat all together threo minutes, add a half cupful of raisins, and bake 40 minutes In a moderate oven. Warm Water, Ammonia, and White 8oap Is Recommended Articles . Mutt on No Account Be Sub I . jected to Rubbing. Housecleanlng means many weary ing tasks, but the worst of them all is washing blankets. It takes a good ly amount of money from the house keeper's allowance to send these to the cleaner's, especially where there is a large family. So the woman who decides to "do" ber own blankets should learn the very easiest way to manage them. - Here Is one system guaranteed by an experienced housekeeper : Put half pint of ammonia into a tub and stretch the blankets over it, not al lowing them to slip down Into the fluid, This should then be covered with luke warm water. This process allows the fumes of the ammonia to rise through the blanket and loosens the dirt. Good, vigorous squeezing will do the rest Blnse In a tub of clear warm water and run lightly through the wringer, Here Is another and more compli cated method, designed for use on very soiled blankets: Air, beat and brush the blankets out on the line be fore washing, so that every possible piece of fluff and down is removed, Then shave a couple of bars of good wool soap Into a basin, add It to a pan of boiling water and allow it to "Jell" for a few minutes. -fow have a tub dr stationary washtub half full of warm water with a half cupful of ammonia In It. Mix the soap In with this, then put In your blankets. Stir them around with a stick, but do not rub them squeeze and souse them up and down. When the top of the water begins to become scummed with dirt the water should be changed. The second water, should be like the first, The sousing process must be repented until all the dirt Is removed. Knse In clear water. Then put them through the wringer the jaws of which should be very wide apart or they will make your blankets look stringy and hang out on the line. Blankets should be hung lengthwise on the line, using plenty of pins, so that they have, no chance to i Shade is better than sun for drying them. When they are quite dry go over them well with a clean whisk broom, brushing with the nap. This makes them delightfully fluffy. Fold away with camphor balls or In moth proof bags. and Otherwise. j.ery man can be wrong, but not every man can be president No man ever does as much today as he Is going to. do tomorrow. No man i'u expect to be happily married uutess he's a good listener. A UMia may pocket his pride, but a woman always has to conceal It else where. After hearing some men speak we are surprised at the small bats they wear. Whining children and women are bad enough, but please deliver us from whining men. After getting an education It Is up to a young niau to do things with the knowledge he acquires. boinehow a woman never teems to tire of her efforts to get an article worth all of a dime for 12 cents. Our Idea of a credulous man li one who actually believes that one woman can treat another with silent contempt There are more ways than one of looking for trouble. A Texas man ad vertised for mother-in-law. who wm missing - Some Things That Are New One of the now electric toastorg Is inclosed to retain the heat and save current. A patent for cutlery made of bam boo bus been grunted n Japanese resi dent of Seattle. An Instrument that measures the glare of light reflected from paper baa been Invented. Within the heel of a recently patent ed shoe for women It contained a com plete vanity case. Around the handle of a new um brella is a soft rubber ring that holds tne ends of the ribs firmly and neatly when the umbrella Is closed. For overpowering refractory prison ers an inventor has patented a police man's club that emits a noxious gat when a button is pressed. A Collforntan Is the owner ot what Is said to be the only watch of the kind in the world. In which a lever oscillates and winds the spring with every step that he takes. New airbrakes that have been adopt ed hv a lanra eaatem mlTi-mul Milnna J by 000 feet or more the) distance) In which a heavy train runulug at 60 miles an hour can be stopped. Keeping the air In rooms moist Is the purpose of a new humidifier, con sisting of a small electric fan to be hung on a wall and blow Its breezes across a shallow dish filled with water. An aviator's hands may be kept warm by a glove of English invention into which are woven wires heated by electricity obtained by contact with the steering wheel of an airplane. Electric massaging apparatus which emanatea violet rays has been Invent ed for Imparting a general tonic ef fect to the scalp and face. The United States Is estimated to use more than 100,000 elaborate elec tric protective systems against crime, about 300,000 smaller systems, and more than 2,000,000 minor devices. George O. D. Soule, aged seventy two, ot Portland, It the oldest mall carrier In active service In New Eng land. He has been In the mail service since Immediately after the Civil war, and he figures be bat walked 108,000 Billet In that time. Fruit Loaf. Put one pint milk In double boiler, add pinch of salt and bring to scalding point. Dissolve 1 tablespoonfuls cornstarch In a little cold milk, beat the yolks of two eggs and four tablespoon fuls granulnted sugar together and pour all Into boiling milk, stirring till smooth and thick. Cover and cook 20 minutes. Beat the egg whites very stiff and mix lightly with the pudding. Itemove from stove and stir In one-half cupful macaroons crumbled, two table- spoonfuls maraschino cherries, two ta blespoonfuls walnut meats, broken, and a teaspoonful of sherry. Turn into a mold and set In lee. When very cold turn out and serve with crenin, whip ped or plain. English Chicken Pie. Pare six medium-sized potatoes, cut In small pieces ; cook until tender, but not broken, and then add two cupfuls chicken meat and half a cupful fresh pork cooked and cut In small pieces; cover with a crust made as follows: Sift three teaspoonfuls baking powder with two cupfuls flour, add two table- spoonfuls shortening and half tea spoonful salt. Rub thoroughly togeth er and mix with one small cupful milk. Put on floured board nnd press out with the hands to size required to cover chicken pie. Bake twenty min utes, and serve hot. Econ-Tilcal Fruit Jelly. Save all the rinds and pulp of lemons nnd oranges left from lemon ade or fruit punch. Put them Into a saucepan und cover with boiling wa ter. Boll ten minutes, strain half the liquid and add sugar to taste a small cupful of sugar to one dozen lemon skins gives a tnrt, refreshing Jelly Lustly stir In a half package of gela tin that has been dissolved In a little cold water. Pour Into a mold nnd cool. One dozen lemon or orange rinds should make a quart of Jelly, and It Is better flavor anil more fruity, than when made with the Juice alone. Bacon and Egg Hash. Sometimes a few slices of bacon and a cold fried egg are left over from breakfast and It Is a problem to make use of them. Try chopping them fine with an equal quantity of boiled or mashed potatoes, then fry like an ordi nary hash In a little butter, letting It brown nicely before taking from the pan. Serve with a parsley garnish and chili sauce or catsup und you will think you have some brand-new epicurean dish. It you prefer, you may make the mixture Into little cakes and fry them brown In butter or bacon fat - Cream of Onion Pure. Put two or three large onions through the food chopper and cook the Juice and pulp In two tablespoon fuls of butter until a golden brown. Add a pinch of soda dissolved in a tnblespoonful of water. Hnve ready a quart of milk scalded In a double boiler; add the onions nnd cook until creamy. Season with salt pepper and paprika and thicken with cracker crumbs. Sprinkle grated cheese over the top when served. Send buttered toast bars to the table with this soup. Rice Balls. Sweeten plain boiled rice to taste and add, while hot, butter the site of walnut and the beaten yolk of an egg to make sweet rice balls. Form In to little balls end put Into the center of each a tnblespoonful ot rich pre served strawberries, peaches or pine apple, first draining off the sirup. Roll In white of egg and bread crumb and serve with lemon sauce. PUDDINGS ALL WILL ENJOY English Recipe, of Course, la Well Known Plain or Steamed Fruit Confection Excellent English Pudding. Half cupful but ter, one cupful molasses, half cupful seeded raisins, three-quarters cupful milk, three and one-half cupfuls flour, one teaspoonful soda, one-half tea spoonful cloves, one-half teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful mace. Beat the butter to a cream, add the molasses, raisins and milk. Sift to gether the flour, soda and spices, 'add these to first mixture, turn Into a greased mold, cover closely and steam three hours. Serve with wine sauce or foamy sauce. , - Plain Fruit Pudding. Two cupful flour, one-half cupful chopped beef suet, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one teaspoenf ul mixed spices, one third of a cupful of candled peel, one half teaspoonful salt, one-half cupful currants, one egg, one-half cupful seeded raisins, three-quarters cupful milk. Sift the flour, salt, baking pow der and spices. Add the suet and fruit, and mix to a soft dough with the egg and milk. Turn into a well greased pudding mold, cover closely and steam three hours. Turn out and serve with hard or lemon sauce. Steamed Fresh Fruit Pudding. Two cupfuls flour, three teaspoonfuls bak ing powder,, half teaspoonful salt, two eggs, two tablespoonfuls sugar, one cupful milk, three tablespoonfuls melt ed butter, one cupful fresh fruit, any thing one likes. Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar and mix to a batter with the eggs and milk. Pour In the melted butter and fill small greased cups one-third full of the batter. Drop In a little fresh fruit and cover with more batter. Steam about half an hour. Date Pudding. Half-pound stoned dates, quarter pound beef suet, one cupful flour, half cupful sugar, one teaspoonful ground ginger, one tea spoonful ground cinnamon, one tea spoonful salt, one teaspoonful baking powder, one cupful bread crumbs, two eggs, two-thirds cupful milk. Chop the dates and suet fine or run them through a meat chopper. Add all the dry Ingredients and moisten with the eggs and milk. Turn into greased molds and steam ; if in one large mold four hours, If in small molds, two hours. TO-PREPARE THE PUMPKIN Three Splendid Ways of Making the Yellow Globes a Welcome Ad junct of the Feast Pumpkin-Date Pie. One pint pump kin pulp, one-half cupful sugar, one- half cupful chopped dates, one-halt teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half tea spoonful allspice, one cupful cream or rich milk, one-half teaspoonful salt, two eggs, one-half teaspoonful glnggr, one-fourth teaspoonful nutmeg. Blend all the. Ingredients to a cream. Beat up the yolks and whites of eggs separately and fold In the whites the last thing. Pour Into crusts and bake. Serve cold with a layer of whipped cream on top flavored with a little vanilla and dotted, If liked, with a few crystallized cherries. These pies can be made In the form of patties. Pumpkin Fritters. Pumpkin or squash, salt, fritter batter, hot fat Cut the squash or pumpkin in long, square pieces. Make the pieces as thin as possible. Sprinkle with salt and let stand awhile ; then dip Into the fritter batter end fry In deep fat until the pumpkin Is tender. When nicely brown, dust them with sugar and serve hot. Escalloped Pumpkin. Pumpkin, breadcrumbs, three tablespoonfuls but ter, cheese, salt and pepper. After the pumpkin has been peeled, cut It up Into small squares. Place the butter In a saucepan; when It is melted add the pumpkin nnd cook until tender! season to taste with salt and pepper and a little sugar. Place a layer In a buttered baking dish ; cover with grat ed cheese and buttered breadcrumbs; add another layer and top off with the cneese and crumbs. Chicken. Souffle. Two cupfuls scalded milk, two table spoonfuls butter, two tablespoonfuls Hour, one teaspoonful salt, one-eighth teaspoonful pepper, one-half cupful stale bread crumbs; two cupfuls cooked chicken, finely chopped; yolks of three eggs, well beaten ; one table spoon finely chopped parsley, whites of three eggs beaten until stiff nnd dry. Make sauce of first Ingredients. Add bread crumbs and cook two minutes. Remove from fire, add chicken, yolk of beaten eggs and parsley. Then fold In whites of eggs. Turn Into a buttered dish and bake 85 minutes in a slow oven or steam In cup 35 minutes. New Hampshire Carrots. One Quart of carrots, one nunrt nf water, one tensnnonfnl anlt nna.haie cupful cider vinegar, three-quarters cuprui sugur, one tablespoonful butter. Scrane the Carrots and cut In aortlnna one and one-half Inches long, then slice them lengthwise, one-quarter of an Inch thick and then in string nf same thickness. -Add water and salt and boil, until tender. Drain off water, add the vinegar, suenr and hntror unit cook until the carrots have a clear, transparent appearance. Then serve. This will serve five persons. Mathed-Potato Rusks. One-half cake of com Dressed venst. one-half cupful mashed potatoes, one- natr cuprui sugar. Mix at noon and let stand in a warm nlaee until heHtimo Then add one-half cupful melted but ter, two eggs (beaten light), pinch of salt and flour enough to stiffen (but not as stiff as bread dough). Let rise until morning, roll and cut with a hia. cult cutter nnd let rise again. Bake, not naving tne oven very hot when ihey first go In. Stuffed Potatoes. Select fine large notatoes ami hairs until tender. Cut off the enria ann out the contents with the handle of t spoon, and work toft with butter, hot milk. Dinner and suit, and laiu . - - . . ,,ur ed cheese. Return the mixture to the skins, mounting It ud on the nnon and and with these uppermost set the po tatoes in tne oven five nilnutea. l&at from Ota skins. Delicious. FOSS-WINSHIP HARDWARE COMPANY 0. V. B. Cutlery HARDWARE Universal Ranges Big 3 Washers. All O. V. B. Goods Guaranteed Barrett Building, Athena, Oregon ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. AMERICAN BBVUTY FLOUR Is made in Athena, by Athena Labor, in one of the very best equipped Mills in the Northwest, of -the best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer sells the famous American Beauty Flour. The Flour Your Mother Uses Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Washington. vJPk Home of 3sP Groceries Good Groceries go to the Right Spot Every Time This is the Right Spot To go to Every Time for Groceries. Try These They'll Please! ONE BEST THE MONOPOLE Monopole Vegetables Monopole Fruits Monopole Salmon Monopole Oysters DELL BROS., Athena, Or. Caterer! to the Publk in Good Thing to EaL Athena Meat Market We carry the belt MEATS That money buys. Onr Market b CLEAN AND COOL Injuring Wholesome Meats READ & MEYER Main Street, Athena, Ore.