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BACK TO WOODEN PAVEMENT.
Great Lasting Quality Provided It Is Laid In Honest Fashion.

Great Lasting Quality Provided It Is Laid In Honest Fashion.
 The disposition of New York to re- turn to wooden pavements three dec ades after they have gone into ruin and been abandoned in this country, but retained in the European cities, naturally evokes discussion of the diff ference between the lasting qualities of pavements in this country and the older ones. Why did wooden pave ments relapse into chaos within very few years in American cities while lasting fairly well in England and France?
 This is generally attributed to SUI perior work and materials abroad. Doubtless that is a partial cause. But there is another radical difference in methods. In American cities the pave ment laid this year may be torn up next year to lay some subterranean line. We have in mind one street in Pittsburg paved little over a decade ago. In the six years following the one when the pavement was laid there was just one year when the city itself or the franchise-holding corporations did not tear up the pavement for laying trolley tracks, water and gas mains or electric conduits. In the case of block stone pavements each tearing up and replacement leaves the pavement rough and uneven, but is not absolute ly destructive. But asphalt or wooden pavements depend for their life on the stability of the roadbed and the chronic tearing up is means of speedy destruction.
 In England the rule is that a pave ment once laid is not to be torn up ex- cept for the most urgent exigencies. A quotation has recently been publish ed from report of the city engineer of Nottingham, in which it is stated that the pavement on the main street of that city, laid twenty-five years ago, has never been torn up and conse- quently has never cost anything for repairs. This is made possible because before the pavement was laid an un- derground pipe gallery was construct ed, in which all underground lines can be placed without disturbing the pave ment.
 There are still few things we can, learn from the old country, if we study their doings with determina- ton to learn.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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THE UNDERFED CHILD.
Predominant Importance of This Phase
 of the Social Problem.

Of the Social Problem.
 The problem of the underfed child Is but one of many social problems, yet it is almost as important as all the others combined. It means in it's es- sence the breeding of class of citi- zens who must be partially or wholly dependent, for the reason that their physical underdevelopment precludes efficiency in the work which they are to do. When one goes through the slums of London and Liverpool one is invariably impressed with the fact that the people one sees there are to remain dependents, drunkards beggars and defectives. It is not possible to hope that the individuals one sees about one are ever to master and over come the obstacles which confront them.
 They are bound, it would seem, to remain in the hell of misery in which they live, and no possible way seems open for pulling or pushing them into the independent and self-reliant class of workers. And yet, in contrast to the despair which must be with us as we attempt to meet the problem of adult degeneracy, is the stirring fact that the problem of the child is an ever hopeful one. As his life may be fash toned for evil by his early years of training, so, indeed, without question, his life may be fashioned for good, for, as Carlyle says somewhere, q ac- knowledge the all but omnipotence of early culture and nurture; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf bush or high-tOwering, wide-shadowing tree either a sick yellow cabbage or an edi- ble, luxuriant green one"
 Schools may battle with the prob lem, settlements may struggle with it, jails and almshouses and charities may punish or foster the results of it, but if we are sincere in our wish to attack it the time to begin is when the child is born, and the hours of our wisest and most earnest labor should be and must be during the first few years of the childs existence. This is the prob lem and these are the reasons for the necessity of an awakening to the prob lem of the underfed child.-The Reader.
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Charged His Time.

"The treasury deficit for the fiscal year is nearly $24,00O,000." "Eh? That doesn't seem much for a big and prosperous nation, does it?"
 And your share of the defcit-if there are S0,OO0,OOO in our nation-will be close to 30 cents."
 "What's that! My share? Say, only the grossest carelessness and bad man. agement could run up an enormous deficit like that."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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MAKES OUT ITEMIZED BILL.
Young Fellow Repairs q Refractory
 Pump and Charges Accordingly.


 Pump and Charges Accordingly.
 The question of remuneration for la Dor, always a mooted one, is suscept- ible of being viewed from various standpoints.
 In small community in Texas where water is hard to find MT. Hen- derson, the owner of well, fitted out with a patent pump, was person of consequence. It was also matter of public concern when the pump got out of gear and refused to perform it's proper functions
 All the men in the locality spent the day in Henderson's back yard, consult ing and "tinkering," jointly and sever- ally, at the pump, but all to no avail. Finally along came a young fellow, Jo Brady by name, from a neighboring ranch. He looked the pump over, thought couple of minutes and inside of two minutes more had it in work ing order again. Approbation was gen. eral.
 "Just name your price, 10, my boy" said the owner of the pump heartily. Jo considered a bit and then said that he guessed $5 would be about right.
 There was change at this, and re- marks of different nature from ap- probation were freely indulged in.
 "Now, see here, Jo," said the ag- grieved Henderson, thought you was a square kind of chap. That ain't any white mans charge. Why, you didn't do nothin' at all-any one of us could a-done what you done-and you want more'n five minutes doin' it neither. Fifty cents 'ud be big price for that work you done."
 Jo considered again. ,"All right" he said, "I'll make an- other charge. I'll send you my bill," he added, turning on his heel.
 When the bill came it read thus: For working on one pump five
 minutes .5O For horse sense that no other moth-
 CTS son of you could scratch up. 45O Total ................... $500 New York Times.
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INLAND CANALS OF EUROPE.
Development of Water, Ways Seen in
 Thirty-fivc Years.

lnirty-nvo Iearos
 The development of internal water ways in France dates mainly from the period immediately following the -Prussian war Since then the sum spent for this class of improve ments has amounted to approximate ly $5O0,000,000. The length of canals in France is said to be 3,045 miles and of rivers improved for purposes of navigation 4,665 miles. This net work of water ways is practically all owned by the state and is maintained by the state without tolls. In Germany the construction of in- ternal water ways began about the same time as in France and was part of the broad movement toward com mercial growth to which the war gave q marked impetus Railway building had caused the canal systems for a time to fall into disuse.
 Railway freight rates finally drove the manufacturer and shipper to avail himself of the then existing water ways and to urge their improvement.
 
 This improvement followed with phe- nomenal rapidity. During the ten years from 1890 to 1899 nearly $75,- 100000 was spent on internal water ways especially on river improvement. These water ways are of vast impOr- tance to the empire and are only part of what will eventually form great inland water system extending into practically all parts of the country. Among the new improvements now talked of is a canal joining the Rhine and Weser, the canalization of the Lippe the improvement of the Oder, the widening and deepening of the water way from Stettin to Berlin, the Rhine utilizing the Neckar, the fur ther improvement of the Rhine to Ba- sel, etc.
 In Austria-Hungary an expenditure of upward of $50,000,00O was author ized in 1901 for the construction of canals between the Danube and the Oder, and thence to the Elbe and the Vistula. Further schemes of water way improvement are contemplated in the empire.
 Belgium has one mile of water ways to every S.3 square miles of territory. The traffic by water in 1880 was 25O,- 100000 mile-tons, while in 1900 it had grown to 560,000,0O0 mile-tons. The Netherlands has long been threaded with artificial water ways. Russia has recently again taken up the mat ter of canal connecting the Baltic and Black Seas.
 In Great Britain alone has canal improvement been backward, the Manchester ship canal being the only important work of the kind in the past thirty years.
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Mean Thing.

My wedding presents were splen- did," the bride was saying, "particu- larly the silver service from the Astor- bilts. Wasn't it good of them?"
 "Yes," replied Miss SpeItz; "but then, you know, they were always charitable. ."-Philadelphia Ledger
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Scraped It Together,

 Family Friend - Well, how are things
 Young Preacher-Fine. The congre- gation actually raised my salary this month
 Family Friend-How much was the increase?
 Young Preacher-There was no in- crease. They merely raised It. that's all.-Houston Chronicle.
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Many Like Him.

"IIe never forgets favor."
 No; he always remembers 1t and comes round and asks for another on the strength of itv'-New Orleans Times Democrat.
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The rate at which the Zulus can run In an emergency Is astonishing. Some will cover as much as fifty miles in six hours. Eight miles an hour is common.
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Difference.

Dlner0nC0. Singleton-I suppose your wife thinks you are a treasure? Wedderly-No; guess she thinks am the United States treasury.
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Not Necsssarily,

To-day, dear Edgar, our union is sealed for life."
 70, my dear, you needn't take matri- mony so tragically."-Fliegende Blaet. tar
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IOtal .$0.W New York Times.
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Setting Him Right.

Said He-Are you quite sure you are not fishing for a compliment?
 Said She-Uf course I am. One would be foolish to fish in such a shal- low pond!
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One on Pa.

"Pap'
 Well, what is 1t noww
 My teacher says I'm a natural. born fool"
 Your teacher Is sensible woman, and that's what I've always said. I suppose she had to explain to you what natural l-born fool wasp
 Yes, pa. She said 1t was hered- ary."-Cleveland Leader.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28

The farmers of Umatilla county
were never in such good shape financ-
tally as today. They have had sue
cession of good crops and profitable
prices, while land has been steadily
increasing in value. They enter the
busy spring season of 1905 with high
hopes, and If the elements are favor
able their industry and good manage
ment will greatly increase the balance
on the right side of the ledger when
the accounts of 1905 are cast up All
can't get rich, but it is a great deal
to hold ones own, live well in the
meantime and lay up some thing for
a rainy day. That is what the aver
age farmer is doing, and little more.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28


months Of the season 1904-5, yet the
depletion Of the Gallaher springs is
not to be noted to any material extent.
Particularly is this observed in the
underground flow, which is now being
developed by crew Of workmen. 1t
is now practically assured that the
quantity Of water now flowing from
the spring will be increased to at least
one half when the underground flow
is fully developed, and it is safe to
say that if enough water is found
there in dry season there will be a
greater quantity in seasons of more
precipitation.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28
ATHENA, APRIL ...... 2S, 1905

A medical journal says one of the
results of the recent announcement Of
growing shortage in the supply Of
domestic medicinal plants is an agita-
tion among drug manufacturers and
dealers in favor Of a campaign Of edu-
cation among the farmers to teach
them that there is profit in raising for
sale many of the plants which they
now persistently destroy as noxious
weeds. It is said that the supply of
domestic vegetable drugs has become
so small that we are now importing
every year fully $4,000, 900 worth of
drugs which were formerly produced
from plants gathered in this country.
Among these are drugs which are pro-
duced from plants which are still
found growing wild in large quanti-
ties in this country, but the value of
which the farmers fail to realize.
Some of them are the common dan
delion, burdock, couch grass and curly
dock, common golden seal, one Of the
most valuable of medical plants,
which today is bringing 70 cents a
pound but is being exterminated as a
Yoaat hv farmera ALI over the country !.
senega or snake root; common sage,
belladonna, henbane and stramonium.
Well, don't know whether bal
ance of the collection of plants enum-
Grated by the journal are rooted in
Athena lawns or not but in Boyd's
lawn and several others there is enough
dandelion roots to keep four or five
large Peruna shops going with dou-
BILE shift of workmen, and then some.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28

The burylng place of Commodore
Paul Jones having been discovered the
remains are to be brought to this
country for reinterment. He will be
pleased to get back to his beloved
country after SO long stay in Europe.
American warships will accompany
the remains of this hero over the
ocean and the French may also send a
naval escort. He was English but
settled in Virginia. He won the first
naval victory for this country in a
hot contest. His last fighting was
done for Russia in 1883 against Turk
ey, being rear admiral. Jnoh Paul
Jones died in Paris in July, 1902.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28

Richard johnson, of Mimic, N. D.,
owns a buggy which was used by
Theodore Roosevelt on his Maltese
Cross ranch in North Dakota nearly
twenty five years ago. The buggy
had been in use for fifteen years prior
to the time young Mr.. Roosevelt used
it. Mr. johnson will send the old We
hicle to the Lewis and Clark exposition
as an exhibit. Many of the trappings
used by Roosevelt during his two years
sojourn in Dakota have been preserved
by his admirers. One Of these relics
is a dinky little old straw hat which
looks very funny now, but it was the
New York City style when the young
man wore it out to Dakota in 1881.
Efforts are being made to send.this hat
and other Roosevelt relics from North
Dakota to the exhibition.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28
Notice Of Final Account.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that
the undersigned has filed his final ac-
count as administrator of the estate Of
John McRae, deceased, in the County
Court of Umatilla County, State of Ore
gon, and the Judge of said Court has
fixed Saturday, the 29th day Of April,
1905, at ten o'clock in the forenoon at
the County Court Room in the County
Court House in Pendleton, Oregon, as
the time and place for hearing said ac-
count, and persons interested in said
estate are hereby notified to appear at
said time and place and file their object
ions, if any, to said account on or before
said time. Dated this Oath day March,
1905. Angus M. Gillis,
Administrator of the Estate of John
McRae, Deceased.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28

A lot of fools in the Wisconsin
legislature are trying to pass a law
levying tax of $40 on bachelors over
80 years old. They say there are over
10000 men in that state subject to this
tax. 1t is no business Of the legisla-
ture whether men marry or stay in
"single blessedness, or "cussedness, -
as the case may be. All men should
marry, If they can and want to go in
double harness. st. Paul's suggest
ion on marriage should not be forgot
ten.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28
Notice to Creditors.

In the Matter of the Estate Of Elijah
Ingle, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons
concerned that the undersigned has
been duly appointed executor Of the last
will and testament of said Elijah Ingle,
deceased, by the County Court of Una
tilla County, State Of Oregon. All per
sons having claims against said estate
of Elijah Ingle. deceased, are hereby re-
quired to present the same with the
proper vouchers as by law required
within SIX months from the date hereof,
to the Undersigned at the law Office Of
HALEY & Lowell, in Pendleton, Oregon,
or at the residence Of the undersigned
in Corvallis, Oregon.
Dated this 18th day of April, 1905.
John w. Ingle,
Executor OF the last will and testament
of Elijah Ingle, Deceased.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28

Every indication goes to prove that
Athena is to have an ample supply
Of pure spring water for her new gray
ity system of water works. No better
time than the present could have been
selected in which to test tho flow of
water. The past winter has been
more than noted for its lack of mois-
ture, both in snow and rain fall. In
fact not in years has PRECIPITATION
been less than in the fall and winter
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28

Editorailly the Freewater Times gives
us this: Howl, you howlersl Curse
the trust, and the minute you get a
dollar send it to Sears, Roebuck- Mont
gomery Ward & Co., and thereby pat
ronize one of the largest trusts in the
United States. Get credit from your
home merchant, and send your cash
to the trusts Curse the trusts and
patronize theml And how'll Don't
forget to how'll If the clothes don't
fit that you buy from your local deal
er, take them back and get others; but
when the trust sends them, keep them
until one of the children grows up.
But patronize themi Send your money
out of town then howl about hard
timesl Revile the trusts, but send to
Chicago for your provisions. OF course
you lose money by paying large
freight rates, but that is all right; it
goes to another trust--the railroad
company. But don't forget to how'll
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28

The Iroquois club of Chicago will
have President Roosevelt as guest on
his return from his bear-killing ex-
pedition. The Iroquois is the leading
democratic club of America and it is
hailed as a good omen of a glorious
epoch in politics that republican
president is to be guest thereof. 1t
has the appearance of political mil
lennium. The president may be called
a wonder worker.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28

A Franklin county, Wash, ex-
change, in speaking of the Lewis and
Clark exposition, says that it came to
the influence of the Snake and Colum-
bia rivers. "Well, confluence might
have answered just as well but what
is the matter with influential" or
Influenza"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28

The beef trust say, and they are up-
held by Secretary Garfeld's recent re-
port, that they have to fight sharp
competition, do business ON close
margin and make only an average of
about 80 cents on every head of cattle
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28

slaughtered. But there are lot of
by-products which yield good returns
and it is noted that all the great pack
ing firms have accumulated millions
Where did they get it if not out Of the
business? Evidently they have been
making money hand over fist and this
NOR ey came off of somebody.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28

1t will bring rich. red blood, firm
flesh and muscle. That's what Hol-
listers Rocky Mountain Tea viii do.
Taken this month keeps you well all
summer, Soc tea OF tablets. Pioneer
drug store.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-28

Iftaken this month keeps you well all
summer. 1t makes the little ones eat,
sleep and grow. A spring tonic for the
whole family. HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea. S5c, Tea or Tablets. Palace
drug store.
The news & observer., 1905-11-21
BRONCHITIS
The W. III. King Drug Co. Tell the
People Quickest Means to
Cure 1t.

Asked one day in hi sstore the
question, What is good for bron-
chitis?" Mr.. King, of the above firm,
well known druggists, answered, For
years old fashioned cod liver oil has
been known to possess the most re-
markabIe curative and healing proper
ties for throat, bronchial and lung
troubles of anything known to medi-
cine, but on account of the grease
which enveloped its curative princi-
pies it has been impossible for many
people to take enough of it into their
systems to combat thoroughly set
tied disease without clogging the sys-
tenn and upsetting the stomach.
Nov however," continued Mr..
King. .'we have Vinol, which contains
in highly concentrated form all of
the medicinal curative elements of
cod liver oil actually taken from fresh
Gods livers. without a drop of oil
or grease to upset the stomach and
retard its work. and physicians agree
that il is the greatest cure for all
throat. bronchial and lung troubles
known to medicine
Miss Anna Ray writes us that after
suffering for five years with bronchi-
It's and trying all kinds of medicines
without relief. Vinol cured her. and
We have hundreds of just such letters.
We wish every person suffering from
chronic colds coughs. bronchitis. and
rverv aged. weak. or convaleScent
person who needs a healing, strength
creating and blood making tonic would
try Vinol on our guarantee to return
the purchase money il it fails" w.
II. Drug Co.
The news & observer., 1905-11-21
MOMENTS CLUB NOTES.
Interesting Events i'm This Splendid
Raleigh Organization.

The meeting of the Literary Depart
ment of the Womans Club held Tues
day, the 14th, was full of interest to
all members attending.
The committee appointed to select
new chairman for the department
reported no choice had been made and
Miss Susie Dinwiddie Withdrew her
resignation and will remain at the
head of the department.
Two admirable. papers were read,
one "A View of Europe in the 18th
Century, by Mrs. Berwanger; the
other, Richard Steele" by Mrs.
Earnshaw. The discussion was ami
mated and entered into with much
zest by all members present.
The Art Department met Friday af-
ternoon and were delightfully."- enter
tanned by DR.. Della Dixon Carroll. who
spoke of "Art in Japan" in its various
branches.
On Tuesday, the 21st, the Social
Service Department will hold its reg
ular monthly meeting at four O'Clock
in the trustees room of the Olivia
Rainey library and on Friday, the
2Sth, at the same hour and place the
Domestic Science Department meets.
Through the interesting efforts of
the Musical Department of the Club.
Raleigh's music lovers are to have a
rare treat on Wednesday night. when
Mr.. Frederick Martin, a celebrated
basso will sing in the hall Of the
Olivia Rainey library.