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Camp Stoves, Camp Kits, Camp Stools,
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SCIENTIST ASSERTS
Treasure Changes in Energy
From Orb to Earth.
Washington. Tlie sun Is a variable
star. This central lire of the plane
tary system (loos not glow with a
outly heat but flickers from day to
day and from year to year, and the
vagaries of our earthly weather must
depend at least partly on the sun's
variations. This opinion, which has
been supported for many years by Dr.
C. G. Abbot of the Smithsonian insti
tution, finds new support in evidence
produced by a new system he has de
vised for measuring and recording the
changes In the energy reaching the
earth from the sun.
Doctor Abbot calls attention to the
work of H. II. Clayton, who has an
nounced that he finds variations' of
weather caused by solar changes.
i;ut many meteorologists have not
been convinced that the sun really
varies. They fear that the compli
cated measurements of Doctor Abbot,
hindered us they are by the haziness
and humidity of the earth's atmos
phere, are not conclusive. The vari
ability which he reports, they suggest,
may all be due to unavoidable atmos
pheric sources of error.
Announces a Direct Tc?t.
Doctor Abbot now announces a
very direct test that should settle the
question. Although it . is Impossible
to do the measuring from a point out
tide the atmosphere, yet it is possible
to select times when the transparency
and other affecting qualities of the
air are closely alike, and the sun
stands at ' equal height above the
horizon. At such times the solar
heating should vary only If the sun'
does.
Selecting the month of July "In the
years 1010 to 1920 for his test, he
collected results observed on Mount
Wilson for all days of practically con
stant atmospheric conditions. The
average monthly values thus selected
he compared with those obtained by
the usual process and heretofore pub
lished. He also compared them with
the average monthly numbers of sun
f pots. , The three curves that express
his results run along very closely to
gether. They show that the sun's
heating In July, 1017, averaged over
2 per cent above that of July in 1910
and 1911.- Correspondingly, the sun
spot numbers were 117 in July, 1917,
and only 14 and 3, respectively,. In
July 1910 and 1911.
xs'of content with this proof of the
reality of long-range solar changes,
Doctor. Abbot' rearranged the meas
ures in a way to test short-Interval
solar variation. For this purpose he
picked out from the new data all the
days that gave high values of solar
heating, and all those which give low
ones. The average excess value for
51 high days was plus 1.43 per cent,
and the average defect for 51 low
days was minus 1.47.
Range Not So Great ,
The same days, as already pub
lished four years ago, indicated on
the average plus 0.51 and minus 0.42
per cent, respectively. Thus the days
shown above normal by the new
method of selecting times of equal
.atmospheric clearness had already
been shown as above normal by the
usual process, and vice versa." Of
course the range as formerly pub
lished could not be so great, because
the errors of observation could not be
expected to fall the same in the two
sets of .data. Some days would be
high and some low, hot because of
the sun's condition, but because the
small observational errors helped to
make them' so.
Doctor Abbot's new method, he
hopes, may be convincing of the sun's
real variability. This will make all
the more Important and interesting
his establishment under the joint aus
pices of the National Geographic so
ciety and the Smithsonian institution
of a new solar observatory on Bruk
karos mountain in southwest Africa.
This site he selected last March after
studying on the ground conditions in
Algeria and Baluchistan. The moun
tain is 5,200 feet higli In a desert
where the yearly rainfall averages
only yz Inches. Roads and construc
tion are rapidly going ahead under
the supervision of A. Dryden, Inspec
tor of public works for the govern
ment of southwest Africa. The com
plex apparatus required has been pre
pared and the expedition Is expected
to go forward soon in care of W. II.
Hoover, director, and F. A. Greeley,
assistant.
Large telephone companies through
out the country have found that pine
poles impregnated with coal-tar creo
sote give the longest service. Cali
fornia electric power lines are using
a large number of yellow pine and
Douglas fir poles which have been 1m
pregnated with coal-tar creosote, In
stead of untreated red cedar poles
which were badly damaged by ter
mites. These pine poles have been
treated for their entire length by Hie
upen-cell pressure method, which will
prevent bleeding or sweating of the
creosote.
Napa-Tan
Shoes
For Working Men
Also Canvass Gloves and
Master Hose
We order Tailor-Made Suits
G. W. Finch, Prop. Main Street, Athena, Oregon
Mind is a Liar den
Your mind Is not at all like a ma
chine all ready-made and automatic.
Ask any doctor and he will make this
plain to you.
No, your mind is more like a gar
den. It is the use you make of It that
counts.
You can grow thene fine plants In
your mind-garden courage, Initiative,
Imagination, will-power, kindness,
knowledge.
You can have a garden of Ideas and
skills and efficiencies. What a gar
den Newton must have had! Or Dar
win, or Huxley, or Leverhulnie, or
Pasteur, or Carnegie!
If you let your garden alone It will
go to weeds and grass. That is Uie
usual crop. Efficiency Magnssina.
Baptist Church
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. The
summer slump will soon be over; the
opening of the. public school year is
not far away; Christian service al
ways in demand; who dares draw a
dividing line. Devotional at 11:00
A. M. Topic, Rejoicing in Trials. The
secret of power lies in the fact of
Eternal Things. You cannot saw
wood and say nothing, if you are not
saying anything it is evident you are
not doing anything. Young peoples
meeting, both Junior and Senior at
6:00 and 7:00 o'clock respectively. If
future generations are not better
than former ones then former cnes
have failed to do their duty. Even
ing Song and Praise Service at 8:00
o'clock. Topic, Old Faithful a Good
Fighter. Charity begins at home and
so do the battles of life1. Young
Peoples Prayer Meeting Tuesday
evening at 8:00 p. m. Devotional
Prayer and Bible Study Thursday
evening at 8:00 p. m. You are cor
dially invited to our services.
CLASSIFIED
For Sale A registered Guernsy
bull, eight months old.' Louie Ringel,
Athena phone 32F21.
For Sale Fresh young milch cow.
F. B. Wood, Athena.
Fruit See J. E. Froom at Athena
Hotel for prunes and crab apples.
Strayed About a week ago from
the Lilla Kirk farm near Athena, a
dark 2 year old jersey, wearing a
yoke. Mrs. Lilla ' Kirk. Reward.
Phone 30 F2. '
For Sale 1924 Ford touring. A
splendid car. Equipt with balloon
tires, bumpers, automatic shield
swipe, Cowell lights, motor meter,
many other extras. This car is ready
for any kind of trip. D. L. Hackett,
Christian church parsonage.
For Sale or Trade Four horses,
harness and wagon for sale, or will
trade for good milk cows. Sterling
Parris, Athena, phone 24F22.
Marcelling Expert Marcelling and
all lines of beauty work. Miss Chap
pelle, Weston, Oregon. Call 292 for
appointment.
Marcelling Miss May ... Lanning.
Phone 582. Athena.
J. L. Harrnan
BlacksmithiDg
Oxy-Acetylene Welding, Delivery and
Truck Eodies Manufactured
Main Street Athena, Oregon
August 12, 1904,
Work on the big mill to be oper
ated in Athena by the Preston-Par-ton
Milling Company is being push
ed as fast as workmen can do it.. J:
L. Harper, secretary of the company
and a practical mill-right, is superin
tending the construction of the mill.
An inventory has recently been
taken of the stock of material at the
Gillis lumber yard, a proposition
having been submitted to Mr.. Gillis
for-the purchase of his holdings in
the lumber business here. .
Mrs. Lester Swaggart,. who accom
panied her husband to Alaska, with
good fortune escaped from an ac
cident shortly after her arrival in
the land of the midnight sun.. A
heavily loaded wagon ran over her
shoulder, but the soft moss on the
ground served to prevent injury.
Charley Taylor, formerly partner
with D. B. Jarman and manager of
the Weston Fair store, but now a
husky mountain farmer, was n town
with his wife yesterday, trading.
. N. A. Miller is putting in a con
crete floor in the basement of his
store building. This is found neces
sary on account of water rising in
the basement during the winter and
spring months.
Thomas Ogle has been seriously ill
for several days at the home pf his
brother, B. F. Ogle, in this city.. The
latter, with his daughter, Miss Eva,
who has been on their Ridge farm
for some time, were called home the
first pf the week to attend the sick
man.
A Masterson has purchased the
residence property on the corner of
Fourth and High streets, of Ed.
Morrisette, and is repainting, paper
ing and remodeling the house. When
finished, Mr. Masterson, with his
wife, who has been visiting her son,
George Thompson, will have one of
the most desirable little hemes in
the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Saling, Mr., and
Mrs. Leuis LaBrache and Miss
Frankie James enjoyed a fishing trip
on the. Umatilla Sunday.
, Among the applicants ,for .teach;
ers' certificates taking , the . examina
tion in Pendleton this week are, G,
B. Marquis, O. A., .Cannon, Misses
Kitty Sharp, Maud Sherman, Carrie
Sharp, Bertha. Baker and Mrs. Anna
M. White of Athena.
. Mrs. Ira M. Kemp was taken ill
Wednesday, but is reported better at
present. . (;
President R. C. French, and wife,
of the Eastern Oregon State' Ncrmai
school, were visitinc in Athena Tues
day. ": .
Chehalis, the pride of the West, is
dead. This famous pacer with a re
cord of 2:04V4, died a few days ago
in Vermont at the age of 14, after a
distinguished career in which Frank
Frazier, of Pendleton was responsible
in starting.
August 16, 1904
Peter Gebhart, a Pine creek farm
er who has long been a terror to the
neighborhood in which he resides, is
again in the public eye. For some
reason or other, but more than likely
pure cussedness. he refuses to pay
a threshing bill, and suit has been
brought in Justice Wood's court. The
Gebhart outfit, including their pad;
of dogs, is said to have stood off
Constable Dave Lavender when he
went to the farm to serve papers in
the case. It is said Lavender failed
to execute his commission and that
Sheriff Taylor has been appealed to
that service of the papers may , be
made. . ..- ..
Milo Ransom, who came ; west in
1865 and to Weston in 1867, says the
Leader, is going back to "the States "
for the first time since he laid down
his musket and followed the star of
empire.
The "chicken season" . opened at
12:01 yesterday morning and it is
reported that several shooters re
mained up. all night to make sure of
being:, on hand in the neighborhood
where they had -located bands. , ,
Last Friday being the 65th anniv
ersary of the natal day of Hon. T. J.
Kirk, a number ef his friends, at
the invitation of his wife, gathered
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George
Banister at 8 o'clock in the evening
and proceeded in a body to his ele
gant home on Fifth street, where
they gave him a very pleasant sur
prise. The evening was passed most
pleasantly and a sumptuous repast
was served in the dining room by
the hostess.
W. R. Reeder will rent his beauti
ful home place to his son, Claude,
and with his wife and daughter, Miss
Ava, will go to Tacoma where they
will spend the winter, and may re
side permanently. .
R. C. Michael of Weston, has ac
cepted a position as clerk in the
Athena Mercantile Company's store
at Helix.
Grandma Stone, who has been in
failing health for several days took
much worse Sunday evening. Drs.
Sharp and Stone spent most of the
night at her bedside. The condition
of this venerable old lady is consider
ed precarious on account of her age.
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UNCLE SAM'S POINTER
is often worth heeding. Take his
pictured hint if suffering from a
nervous trouble of any kind. Chiro
practic methods are the only ones to
give positive and permanent relief
and give it speedily. Take heart and
you will find our advice is right, and
of great benefit in bringing you back
to health.
Dr. W. Boyd Whyte
Stangier Building, Phone 706
Pendleton, Oregon. 057 J
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you an estimate on the Lumber need
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Get their Barber work at the Penn Harris Shop.
Why not you? We cater to no one in particular,
every one in general.- Agency Troy Laundry. Make
5 old Rugs like new. Phone 583.
PENN HARRIS
BARBER
Whitehead's Barber Shop
Lee Whitehead, Proprietor
Having purchased Russell's Barber Shop, it will be
my aim to give the public the best service at all times.
Fair and Courteous Treatment
Agency for Trey Laundry and Twin City Cleaners
Phone 492