SHAPE OF THE HAND.
The Rtuon Our Fingers Art Net All
of the Sam Length.
There Is no known reason why our
Angers should he of different lengths
today. Ill fact It Is thought hy some
people that the hand would he stronger
if the fingers were nil of the same
Wngth, says the Book of Wonders.
Certainly, however, the hands would
not then he so beautiful und might not
be so useful.
The human.hand today Is perhaps the
most versatile thing In the world. You
can do more tilings with the hand that)
with any other thing ill the world. The
probability is that the shaiic of the
hand toiiny and the length of the
fingers are the result of the different
things tlie human being has called upon
the hand to do during man s develop
ment up to the present time.
We must go back to the time, how
ever, when man walked on fours, for
that Is probably the real explanation.
Originally roan's lingers were of dif
ferent lengths because nil four footed
milmnli hnd the same peculiarities. The
shape and length of the toes und their
arrangement, were the Ideal arrange
ment for giving the proper balance and
support to the holy and in moving
about und In climbing produced the
best toe hold.
23 Years Ago,
Itfrom the Press 01 July 27 18SM
WHERE THE MULE FAILS.
Ho Doesn't Relish a Battle When the
Artillery Gets Active.
Store nearly Impervious to heat than
any of the other domestic animals, In
cluding ills own ancestry, the mule has
played a prominent part In the de
velopment of our southern states. On
the sugar plantations and In the cot
ton fields he Is without a peer.
His traditional endurance renderB
him almost Invaluable to the quarter
master's department of armies In the
field, but the experienced artillery offi
cer uses horses Instead for handling
artillery In nctlon.
A mule doesn't, enjoy a battle. He
doesn't relish its excitement and Its
terror, thatnietamorphosls that changes
men alternately Into poltroons anil
demigods.
Under a sustained artillery fire a
horse becomes unusually docile. He
turns instinctively to his miiNtcr ns to a
creature of higher power, and his very
terror renders him gentle.
lint, the mule displays no such faith
in humankind. In the turmoil of but
tle he suddenly becomes arbiter of his
own acts, ami he either bolts or balks.
A mule disapproves nil that lie does not
understand, anil It is traditional that
he Is not amenable to reason I.os An
geles Times.
No Wonder He Wouldn't Sell.
Captain Amundsen told an amusing
story of one of his arctic expeditions.
Several of ills dogs having died, Cap
tain Amtiudscu asked one of tlie na
tives in his best Eskimo if he would
sell hlni a fow dugs. To his surprise
the requoM was promptly refused. The
explorer and tlie Eskimo hnd a long
argument, the explorer pointing out
Unit be must Krt dogs somehow and
the ICmUIiho replying that they never
sold them.
"Nonsense!" Captain Amundsen ex
claimed. "1 have often bought dogs."
The Eskimos Hcemed immensely us
tonlslied, mid at the end of another ar
gument Captain Amundsen discovered
thai luster.d of using the Eskimo word
for "dogs" he hud been asUing the man
to sell hlni some "children."
Russia's Parquetry Floors.
.Most tloorlng put down In Itussla Is
pnniiielry, and It Is generally oak.
Even in llio unpretentious houses and
lint buildings this parquetry is to be
found. In some cases, of course, the
ilnish Is mil so tine as In others, and
in ordinary buildings tlie ocsigns are
not so elaborate. One of the most
noiii'enhle feiiliircs of a Itussiau house
is that rugs mid carpets are used for
wall decorations Instead of floor cover
lugs. Floor polishing by professionals,
who come regularly once every week
or ten days, Is considered a part of the
WMnilap routine of mimlm. !....,.. -
Ira Crofutt. a former merchant of
Weston was in the city Saturday last
with a load of melons from his Milton
fruit ranch.
A field of wheat near Walla Walla
which was threshed last week yielded
an average of fifty two bushels to the
acre.
Miss Minnie Lieuallen returned to
her home in Pendleton Saturday after
a long visit with friends in Athena
and vicinity.
Hugh Thompson has been appointed
assistant marshal. He assumed his
duties as such, on Saturday evening
last.
I A little difficulty between Louis
! Estes and a fellow named Yarber oc
cured at Lew Shaw's saloon Saturday
I evening. The matter was settled to
: the satisfaction of all concerned in
three rounds. Mr. Yarber came out
second best, and Louis carries the belt.
Frank Mansfield, one of our leading
farmers, informs our reporter that he
hud 80 acres of wheat that threshed
61 bushels to the acre. The wheat
is very plump and hard.
The road between this city and Wes
ton is very badly cut up. This could
be remedied by very little work in a
short space of time, by turning out
and .'.I rawing it.
The La Grande Daily Chronicle now
takes the associated press report.
Judge DePeatt's family are enjoy
ing an outing at Bingbam Springs.
Chas. Willert, who has been work
ing in Sloan's shop at Pendleton for
some time, spent Sunday and Monday
with his family in Athena.
At a meeting of the board of school
directors, held hint. Monday the follow
ing teachers were elected: R. O.
Hawks, principal; h. H. Liston, Mrs.
McKinley, Mrs. Irene Freeman, and
Miss Mary Taylor, assistants.
There are several boys in this city
who are liable to get into trouble if
they continue to shoot at persons pass
1 ing along the streets in carriages,
I with slingshots. One evening recently
a gentleman was out driving when one
I of these kids took a shot at him, where
' upon he swung his whip around, giving
i the boy a sharp whack, which served
him right.
Ed. Cox left on last evening's train
for Berkley, Cal., where he will attend
college for another year.
Born To the wife of Paul Bushman
August 4, a boy.
Born In Athena, Monday, August
flth, 1HII4, to the wife of Max Lewin,
a boy.
Born Near Athena Sunday, August
5th, to the wife of Adam Raymond, a
girl.
Dr. Sharp reports Mrs. Hank Vaughn
to be quite sick at her home on the re
servation. The road on the Wild Horse has been
completed and shortens the distance
between Adams and Pendleton five
miles.
L. A. Githens is again at work in
his old position is bookkeeper at the
MoBgrove store, corner Urd and Main
street. "Gith" is an expert book
keeper, and has a host of friends
among the boys.
Mrs. C. A. Barrett came down from
Saling's camp Tuesday after some
supplies. She says the population
of that resort is about one hundred
now, and that every one Beems to be
having an excellent time. Her party
have developed such appetites since
going there that it was found necessary
to replenish their larder.
H. McArthur has moved back from
Pendleton and will occupy his resi
dence south of Athena.
B. I). Banister's separator was burn
ed near Weston Saturday. The
threshing machine power and the
wheat in the vicinity were saved.
Rev. Fancher, pastor of the M. E.
church. South, of WeBton, preached a
highly interesting sermon at the Bap
tist church in this city on Sunday last.
THE BEST BUILDING
TIME IN YEARS
ftiY'iittfflMi'.
ii"f Hi liilip
No. 490. Four rooms, 30x30 feet.
In 1014 it took (iSO bushels wh.-ut to buy this house,
in 117 it takes :i20 bpshels to buy it.
Now is the time to buy lumber, as you will readily see
by the following comparisons;
In !1)I4 In 11)1?
50 bushels of wheat would buy 2000 feet shiplap .1700 feet
50 bushels of barley would buy 1000 feet 2x4 S00 ft
BS ouabain of corn would buy 1(1,000 .shingles 25,000
5 hogs would buy n:i windows and doots 58
If my of your plans for'tho future include building in any way, al
terations, remodeling, new buildings or improvements of any kind we
can't make it too emphatic that you will save money by ordering your
material now.
Many of our customers are having our Architects furnish plans for
their new buildings and buying their material now for fall delivery.
Our large Free Plan Book offers many suggestions which can be
workod out into your own individual plans iwth a guaranteed lumber bill
which insures no Extra, Return Material loft and receive credit. Don't
build any new buildings without pla"s and guaranteed material price.
"See Johnson abaut it."
Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co.
The warehouses and elevators in
Athena are just at present the scene
of much bustle and bard work. The
boys are standing it all right, though.
Hull, the colored barber at the St.
Nichols shaving parlors, is quite an ex
pert checker player, and affords much
amusement for lovers of that game.
He always has a large audience on the
sidewalk, in front of the shop.
Lehman Springs correspondent to the
East Oregonian: A young lady from
Athena was wagered 75 cents that she
dare not jump into the deepest place
hi the bathing pool in ordinary attire.
She won the wager.
FILLING OUT A CHECK.
It I a Good Rule Always te Write the
Stub First.
In a big store a woman was paying
with a check for some goods she had
Just bought, and she was carefully fill
ing In the stub of her check book first.
'Oh, don't stop for that!" urged Uer
chopping companion, who was in a
hurry. "You can do that when you
let home."
Unmoved, the careful woman fin
ished the stub with special care, then
wrote the check, gave It to the sales
man and said to her impatient friend:
"Before 1 was married I took care of
some of my father's accounts. The
first time he ever ask'ed me to fill out
a set of blank checks for him so he
could sign them he told me: 'One rule
you must always observe write the
stub first. Make a row to yourself,
like unto the row of Jephthnb, that
you will never write a check until the
stub Is filled. If for any reason you
should fall later to write the check II
would be a simple matter to cancel
the stub, but If you write a check and
leave the stub blank you open the
door to a hundred chances of mistake.
No one's memory can be trusted on
that Subject Never try to trust yours.
Let the law of "the stub first" be to
you as the law of tlie Medes and the
Persians.' I have always found It per
faetly easy to follow that rule, and
that Is one reason I have a bank ac
count today. My husband Is never
afraid 1 will make him any trouble
with It."
HEED BAD ODORS.
They May Warn You of Places Where
Disease Germe Lurk.
Even a bad odor has Its uses. Sci
entists say that the offensive smell
which comes from decaying and dis
ease breeding matter Is tu reality one
of nature's measures of preparedness
and of prevention.
Offensive odors Indirectly prevent the
spread of epidemics by calling atten
tion to the breeding place of the dis
ease. They give winning that some
thing is wrong, and they persist In this
warning by becoming more and more
offensive until the wrong Is righted.
The odor docs not convey the germ
or communicate the dlsense, because
In most cases direct contact is neces
sary to do this, or the Infection Is
communicated by some substance tak
en Into or brought In contact with the
body. But It does tell where the dis
ease exists or Is likely to exist. It also
gives warning of tainted or unfit food,
us the nose Is Intended by nature to
be one of man's chief allies In the fight
for health.
Some have even gone so far as to
state that mothers should uot dis
courage or forbid children smelling
Ihelr food before they eat It. The
tendency to do this Is said to be a
natural one. The nose is not placed
above the mouth by accident. It was
designed In primitive man as a guide-
post for his stomach, and It is still
a good guide. Louisville Courier-Jour-
aal,
The Looking Glees In Fiction.
All nutlons have shown by their sto
ries how the looking glass Is regarded
its ministering to vanity. The ancient
Urceks depleted Venus with a mirror
md even described her chamber as
lined all over with mirrors, so that
whichever way her eyes turned she
on Kl behold her beautiful self. But
Minerva never used a mirror. Pass to
West Africa and we find a native story
which begins with a magic mirror that
possessed the power of speech and al
ways said. "Mistress, there Is none."
when Its owner, a woman culled Ma
ria, asked It, "My mirror Is there any
other beautiful woman like myself?"
But one day Maria's daughter entered
the forbidden room where it was kept,
usked a similar question and got a
similar answer. A tale of maternal
jealousy and vengeance follows. Lon
Jou Spectator.
Sunlight and Germe.
Here Is an Instructive experiment
made by scientists to show the effects
of sunlight. Some germs of the terri
ble disease anthrax were sown on two
plates of gelatin, and while one plate
was kept In the dark the other was
placed In the sunlight. The germs
grow, and at the end of ten minutes
there were 300 colonies or groups In
the sunshine plute and 400 colonies in
the dark plate.
One hour later the result was: lu the
unshlue plate, none; in the dark plate,
2."20. No disease germ thrives in sun
light Early Opportunity.
"We come to tills eounlry and took
the Innocent red man's laud away
from hlni."
"Yes," replied the man who has been
having trouble wllh real estate, "and
in some cases the liin.iceiit red man
was lucky to unload Just when be did."
-Washington Star.
A Classy Yeuth.
"What classes Is your boy In ot eol-
tege?"
"He's In the .300 class at baseball."
"Yes?"
"And also In the ten second cluss In
the 100 yard dask."-Louisvi!le Courier-Journal.
Bering Wells.
The art of lairing wells was prsc
leed lu the east more than Lkk years
lgo Abrahams servant encoiiutered
lleliekab at a well in I8u0 H. O.
Improve the Setting.
Howell-llow mo a man get hi wit
in a pleasant frame of mind? I'owell
Inst see that the frame is glided. -fowu
Topics.
High Prices.
In San Francisco In 184!) clerks In
stores and offices bad munificent sala
ries. Five dollars a day was the small
est stipend even In the custom house,
and one preacher was paid $10,000 n
year. Laborers received fl an hour.
A pick or a shovel was worth $10 and
a butcher's knife $30. At one time the
carpenters, who were getting $12 a
day, struck for $16. But it should be
noted that prices were exceedingly high
also.
When Youth's Life Is Shaped.
"The hand that rocks the cradle rales
the worid?" Nonsense. It only han
dles the material. The time of the
shaping of life is from twelve to eight
een years old. That Is the formative
period. All great educators know that.
Professor Earl Burnes.
Great men are they who see that
spiritual Is stronger than any. material
force; that thoughts rule the world.
Emerson.
Vnt IP r.OAkiriFATHFIl uuc A I
YOUNGSTER, WHEN PEYTON J
GRAVELY MADE THE FIRST
HIK OF TrvBATm THAT
even T1K rviuc
THERE MUST BE SOMETHi...
BACK Or A KEPuInl IUN irvi
LIVES AND LASTS LIKE THAT.
-I C.ELF.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, u they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly In
fluenced by constitutional conditions, and
in order to cure It you must take an
Internal remedy Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine is taken internally and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one of the best physicians
in this counter for years. It Is com
posed of some "of the best tonics known,
combined with some of the best btood
purifiers. The perfect combination of
the ingredients In Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine is what produces such wonderful
results in catarrhal conditions. Send for
testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENET CO., Props.. Toledo. O.
All Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Land for Sate.
CELEBRATED
Chewing Plufc
nrcnDCTWF INVENTION
OF OUR PATENT AIR-PROOF POUCH
GRAVELY PLUG TOBACCO
MADE STRICTLY FOR ITS CHEWING QUALITY
WOULD NOT KEEP FRESH IN THIS SECTION.
NOW THE PATENT POUCH KEEPS IT
FRESH AND CLEAN AND GOOD.
A LITTLE CHEW OF GRAVELY IS ENOUQH
AND LASTS LONGER THAN A BIG CHEW
OF OHUiriAHT rtww.
J?J3.9ratrelySbfiacccCaauYnu.VA. "WfaT"
i look at the good work
billposters billboards
I HAVE 5lflKl tUi
1 I ms
, - - e
S20 acres, one and one half miles
from Condon, 180 in crop, receive one
half delivered at the Elevator, all
fenced and crossed fenced, well im
proved as to buildings, new barn 60 by
54 ready to construct and good water
supply. Price lal.OOO, 112,000 cash,
balance reasonable terms. If interest
ed in wheat, stock or mixed ranches in
Oregon, Washington, California or I
Montana, let us hear from you.
Condon Realty Co., Condon, Ore.,
Box 24.
S. F. Sharp
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Special attention given to all
calia both night and day.
Ualle promptly answered. Offloe on Third
Street, Athena Oregor
Dr. J. C. Baddeley
VETERINARY SURGEON
LaBrasche Ranch
Athena
DR. G. S. NEWSOM.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office Corner 4th & Adams Sts.
D. Scott Fisher
CONTRACTOR & BUILDER
Residence and Shop, Adams and 4th Sts
Athena
CROUP & LASH
Dentists
In Athena Monday' Tuesday, Wednes
day, other days of week in Walla Walla,
2nd and Main, over Third National Bank
Dr. E. W. Croup Dr. C. H. Lash
ma aw m '.rSxzw r--r.rs3KiX3s
"When you pay more than Fis prices,
you pay for something that does not exist. "
No Wonder
This Man Smiles!
LIE has found a real Non-Skid
tire one of the few tires
with tread so constructed that
it actually protects against dan
gers of wet pavements and
muddy roads. And the price
is fair and right.
Standard of Tiro Value,
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