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GOOD FRIEND TO ALL, IS PATIENCE Writer Asks Why Impetuous Youth "Muse Be Served It would be useful If more persons understood earlier in life what a very good virtue and very good friend pa tience is. Without it men could have added hardly anything of Importance to their stock of knowledge. Darwin had his chief ideas on evolu tion when he was thirty, but waited 20 years spent In the most laborious investigation before he wrote . any thing about it Other men had much the same ideas, but it was Darwin's 20 years of tireless digging for facts that put his ideas over. Copernicus at forty was certain the earth went round the sun, instead of the sun go ing round the earth, as astronomy had it up to his time, but he was sixty seven when he published the treatise that proved it To read even a nontechnical sketch of Pasteur's experiments makes one's head ache. One might fill pages with Buch ; examples. ' Innumerable flints must have been broken, and knuckles skinned, before men found out how to shape a symmetrical arrowhead. Pa tience is a great virtue and a good friend. Most of the world's popular litera ture, Is romantic, and the romancers have usually beenjn an unholy con snlracv to Dralse youth's vice olim.- patfence ana tor aisiranrgs- ngerr virtue of patience. We must put a stop to that The romancers suggest that pa tience may be very well in a cow, but ia stultifying in a young person es pecially when in love: , Medieval Ancasgln fixed the type of the popu lar lover. He won't work, he wont light, he won't talk, he won't eat; he won't do anything but bellow for Nlco lette; he must have her right now; the mere suggestion of patience gives him fits. Probably he will always be the most fetching figure in a novel or poem, or on the stage. When he is safely Iso lated In print, or across the footlights, verybody sighs for him. But who wants to live with him? In the real world what is he but a bad-tempered brat to a candy shop,- bellowing to have his fill right now? "Youth must be served" is quoted a though It were very laudable of youth to insist on being served regardless Of the feelings of everybody else In the shop. Why Is selfishness more admirable at twenty than at eighty? Especially at present It seems, a lot of young persons take the poetry seri ously and live up to the theory that they must have whatever they want If they can possibly get it Age is at such a discount that the aged must try to pass themselves off as counterfeit bills of youth. Grandpa cries "on with the dancer In brave falsetto. Grandma has her skirts and her face lifted, and drowns the twinges of rheumatism in another cocktail. They call that hervous commotion be Ine alive. But a dud Is far more, alive m mat respect; iiw acme amr perfec tion of that tort of being alive is found In a dock walloper's free-for-all fight However, the moldy youths of the bight clubs and the cartoons are a minority. Will Payne in the Saturday Evening Post History Repeats Itself A eurious document has 'come to light In Germany. It's a manuscript dating from the Fifteenth century, written by a citizen of Augsburg. This Individual wrote a dally observation on the fashion of the day. He start ed when he was eighteen, and one day heard some ancients deplore the ten dency of "modern" dress, especially among women. The first ten years the changing fashions amused him consid erably. After his thlrtieeth year he be comes more conservative Forty sees him ranged with the Lutheran clergy of Augsburg In a condemnation of low necks for frauletns. At sixty he Is a fulminating, roaring denouncer threat ening dire destruction of the Nine veh type for his native Augsburg, If the women do not come back from the "frivolity and sinfulness" of the fash Ion of the year 1560. Pierre Van Pas sen, In the Atlanta Constitution, Low Summer Fares are Good on the Bforf It Coast ILlsn YOU will enjoy your trip East through the historic and scenic Northern Pacific country on this luxuri ously appointed train, now on a new, fast schedule to Chicago. Low round trip summer excursion tickets permit liberal stopovers. Return limit October 31st. ; May we help you with your plans? F. B. Wood, Agent, Athens, Oregon. ' Mort Iters! Pacific Ey. 'First of the Northern Transcontinental" SM It Pays to Look Well! To look well you should keep your hair properly cut your face shaved and massaged In fact everything in the Barber line. Come in and see Herb Parker and I. Penn Harris barber Shop Agency for Troy Laundry and Twin City Sanitary Cleaners. Phone 583. P " fl i m ?-s ? ft Walla Walla General Hospital A modern non sectarian fifty bed hospital, with all up to date modern hospital facilities for the care of patients. X-Ray and bacteriological labortories, washed air ventilation. Only graduate nurses are employed and their ser vices are included at the regular rates which are $3.50 to $6.00 Special nurses extra. Your interest and patronage is solicited. Phone 480. Excavators Rewarded New light on the life of ancient Carthage Is thrown by the discovery of the foundations of a sanctuary dedi cated to Astarte, or Tanlt, Phoenician goddess of fecundity and love, In whose honor the Carthaginians used to Immolate children. This find Is the more significant to archeologists and historians In view of the unearthing in its vicinity several years ago of a magnificent .winged statue represent ing the goddess Tanlt It is now In the Peres Blanc museum In Carthage. Excavators among the Carthaginian ruins usually have to content them selves with eplgraphical discoveries, such as epitaphs, dedications to gods and other inscriptions. Chicago News. Kongo to Have Aviation, Commercial aviation has just In vaded the Belgian Kongo and is giv ing transportation speedier than ever dreamed of by residents there. A company which has secured the ex clusive franchise for - operation of civil aviation lines has established I regular aerial service between- Boma and EHsabethville, covering the 1,289 miles in two days instead of In 50 by any other method. Flights are made every eight days to connect with mall Steamers from Belgium. Hydroplane boats will provide transportation I between the snmll towns and settle ments ii'n"" -' M-S Proof that Octopus Must Have "Purchase9 Experiments have been made in a specially devised tank in order to test ine trutn or manv stories told of ne. topi attacking human beings and drag ging tnera to the sea bottom. - In the tank with the octnnnn tmnerY mented with there was placed a "dummy" of the same specific gravity as a human beinz. and this was halt. ed With a crab. Attracted hv thin tempting morsel, the octopus made lor ,tne dummy, seized It In Its pow erful tentacles, and tried to drair It under the water, but without success. it then went to one side of the tank, and, holding onto the edge of the glass vmii some of Its arms, It dragged its prey beneath the surface and crushed the crab shell with its powerful Jaws. It is believed that these experiments afford proof that the octopus can drag its victims far below the- nrfnw of the water only near rocks to which it can- attacn its "suckers." There is one snot in th Rnv of JNapies where these creatures attain a large Size, and now and then a ftah. erman is reported missing. "Treasure Island" Inn . Named for Real Person Every reader of "Treasure Island" knows of Admiral Benbow Inn, but few provubly are aware of the ad miral whose character Inspired Ste yenson to give it the name. John Benbow, a fiery young daredevil, en tered the British merchant service very early in life, and finding that the teas were Infested with pirates pro ceeded to make it unpleasant for the swaggering cutthroats with a violence equal to their own methods. He Is said to have pickled the heads of a crew of Salee pirates he had captured and then to have taken them to Cadiz. Walking up to the tables where sat magistrates who had offered re wards for the capture of any who flew the skull and crcssbones, Benbow hoisted up a sack and dumped on the table his grewsome trophies which he blithely referred to as "salt provi sions." On his return to England You get Quality and Com I;o;-;':V:.;v... In ;-. Bathing Suits Pure Wool-All sizes and Colors STEVE'S GROCERY Quality Quantity, Service. Phone 171. Atheha, Oregon DR. W. G. COWAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Athena, Oregon I James II was convinced this name was of a stamp they needed in the navy, and gave biro command of a ship. William III also employed him. this time In checking Dutch privateers and In bombarding the French ports. auues which be carried out with whole-hearted enthusiasm and sue- Tchekov's Comfort Tchekov. the famous Russian writer, has been called "the most een- erous of admirers and the most heln- ful pf critics.' In the fact that not ail men of talent can nor to be geniuses he saw nothing to discourage the man of lesser power. His close friend Bunin quotes Tchekov as saying: "There are big does and IlttlA Antra. but the little dogs should not be dis heartened br the existence of the big dogs. All must bark and bark mtith tit mm '-"-I Km H Dr. W. Boyd Whyte CHIROPRACTOR Stangier Building, Phone 706 Pendleton, Oregon. 957 J WATTS & PRESTBTB Attorneys-At-Law Main Street Athena, Oregon State and Federal Court Practice The Athena Hotel MRS. LAURA FROOME, Prop. Courteous Treatment, Clean Beds Good Meals Tourists Made Welcome Special Attention Given to Home Patrons 3 Conoco Gasoline Quick Starting Packed With Extra Miles Motor Oils & Greases Bryce Baker, Agent Phones 761 and 31F11, Athena Corner Main and Third Athena, Oregon DR. 8. F. SHARP PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Athena, Oregon DR. J. L. GEYER Dentist Post Building, Athena, Phone 582 Athena Leather Shop Shoe Repairing Sewed Soles a Specialty. Harness and Auto Work. PERRY HALL Bell & Venable 123- Phones 125 and 24 Two Auto . Truck Drays Always At Your Service City and Country HAULING and Horse Team Work THE KILGORE CAFE Our Fountain Serves Cool Drinks. Ice Cream in any quantity. We cater to Picnic Parties. Gerald Kilgore, Proprietor - - Athena, Oregon THE ATHENA MARKET We carry the best Meat That Money Buys Kippered Salmon, all Kinds of Salt Fish. Fresh Fish, Oysters, Crabs, Clams, Kraut in Season. A. W. LOGSDON Main Street Athena, Oregon. The Lumber You Need If you are planning alterations or ad ditions to your building, let us give , you an estimate on the Lumber need- w ed. You will be pleasantly surprised at the reasonble total we will quote. Wood and Coal Fence Posts Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. Main Street, Athena