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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18

There is not nearly so much sweep
ing done as there used to be, as 1t Is
so vel. known that in dust there Is
likely to be many germs of diseases,
especially If there Is any one in the
family who has cough, however slight
1t may be. But there are many house
wives who have regular sweeping days
taking certain precautions. A good
plan is to wet newspaper and then
tear it up in pieces, scattering them
over the floor. Push them along In
front of the broom and they will ab-
sorb most of the dust.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
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A smart short klmono coat was EN-
broidered across the front aud back
and on the sleeves with wistarla.
Blonde lace, the favorite lace OF the
second empire, Is much In evidence just
now. Can 1t be the precursor of the
crlnollnes, without which no woman of
the same period considered herself
we'll dressedH
In parasols hand-palnted and hand
embroidered effects are popular. Stripes
are also much used, sometimes the sn-
tire parasol being striped and some
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
EXPERIMENTS WITH HYBRIps,
Pullman Station Develops New varl-
etles of Wheat.

The Washington State college exper-
iment station at Pullman has brought
a line OF experiments with Little Club
and White Track wheat to q point
where definite statements concerning
results can be given. These hybridiza-
tion experiments were begun in 1899
by Professor E. E. Elliott. One long
headed variety which is now growing
in the eighth generation produces more
straw than any ether hybrid heretofore
grown on the station farm. Because of
this and that it will Withstand cold
nearly as we'll as Jones' Fife, the sta-
tion staff believes it will be we'll adapt
ed to the dry section included in the
greater portion of the Big Bend country.
A length of six inches and 100 grains
to the head is not unusual In this
variety.
Another hybrid is remarkable for the
stiffness of the straw. On the farm a
plot of Red Russian and Arcadian were
cut to the ground by squirrels, while
the hybrid variety was left uninjured.
The stem grows too short to be suitable
for dry land, but it is the most stable
variety yet Produced and in several in
stances produced go bushels per acre.
A long stem hybrid has the peculi-
arity OF growing with surprising uni
formity Of height, and the staff say this
wheat should be well adapted to thresh-
ing with combined harvester. The
evenness in length, and the fact that
it skaters but little, makes it one of
the most desirable hybrids brought out
on the college farm.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
Good Grooming.

"Just what may be meant by good
grooming you will imagine when | tell
you that it includes the Frightening of
the hair and the dressing thereof, the
massage of the face the taking out of
wrinkles here and there and the re-
duction of the body" says beauty
specialist. "Afterward there comes
such fancy points as the whitening of
the skin, the natural Frightening Of
the eyes, the reddening OF the lips the
shaping of the nose"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18

The coat shown in the sketch is just
the style to complement skirt of the
same material This style of habit Is
generally made Of fine black kersey,
though 1t also looks we'll of tan or
gray covert. 1t Is double-breasted,
fitting very snug, and comes about IA
inches below the hips Two rows of
stitching down each seam give 1t fine
tailored finish. The collar is Of velvet.
Two rows of buttons are placed down
the front
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18

Lavender linen was used for the
gown pictured, the trimming of which
consisted of stitched bands, buttons and
very heavy white lace The open XII
mono sleeves were made of the heavy
lace, banded with linen, a little of the
lace also being used on the yoke and
sleeves, which were of white batiste,
tucked In squares. The skirt was
trimmed with three bias folds, cut In
little tabs up the front.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
Keep Abrea.t of the Times.

The wise mother should recognize
that unless she keeps abreast with the
times by reading and having her out.
side interests there Will come a time
when her children win Inevitably neg.
1ect her. They are learning all the time
In school, In the library, in dozens of
ways Of which she is hardly conscious.
She must remember that If she wishes
TO be real mother to them, and hold
their respect and confidence, she must
keep up her knowledge along these
dines says the Philadelphia Press.
Unless she does this, though her
children may and doubtless will love
her, they will feel In their hearts, that
they are her superior, and will pity her
q little as "back number" This is
no doubt true of some children, but not
of all. 1t may be true during the arro-
giant period of youth, but not after
sense dominates)
Most mothers work too hard with
their hands, and make that kind of
labor the most important.
Mothers who have grown premature
ly old through overwork are those who
submit to constant, unrelleved strain
on one set of muscles, and because of
such concentration upon commonplaces
become uninteresting to their children
and to everyone else
The well-balanced woman refuses to
be a drudge, though at the same time
she recognizes the necessity of order
and system. She never lets work be-
come a fetish, and she always has time
Or takes time-to give ear to her chill
dren's condolences.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
such Thinr. % H.rr..

Mr.. Watt-Manners-See that old man
ahead Of us9 That's Casburn. He's
worth million; and just look at his
umbrella!
Mrs. Watt-Manners-Oh. but you
mustn't judge him by that, dear; it
may not be his own, you know.-Town
and Country.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
Keep the House Closed.

The only method of keeping the house
cool Is by vigorously excluding all the
hot air from the street. Doors, win
dows and shutters should all be kept
closed during the daytime. Just after
sunset, however, the whole house should
be opened, and the cooling breeze of
night allowed to sweep through during
the entire night.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
Reads MOuiah,

II there Is any thought of beads go
ing out of style, present conditions do
not indicate It, There are new styles,
large beads In irregular shapes. small
beads OF pretty patterns, good ones,
precious gems, and some decidedly
cheap, though, strange to say, very
pretty. Women are wearing all kinds
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
silence Is Golden.

Boston club women have taken up
the fad of the silence room," and in 1t
they find miracles worked through auto
suggestion. Silence Is SC scarce at some
times that 1t is really golden and much
to be desired above everything else, as
those who live next to the humming,
whlstllng type of man know very we'll.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18

Drink hot apple tea as often as you
want a drink. Eat pared and cored
apples all day long. They are good for
the stomach, while their beautifying
Qualities are great.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
Additional Particulars.

The raccoon had just remarked to
Davy Crockett, in econ dialect, that he
needn't shoot-he'd come down.
"All right" said Mr.. Crockett; 'but
let US keep this incident to ourselves.
II ever the story gets out l know ex-
actly what the President Of the United
States will say about 1t. and don't want
to go down to history a. the first Of the
nature fakers."
But the story somehow leaked out
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
PrenerYinr q Rroon.

To preserve brooms dip them for a
minute or two in a pail of boiling suds
once a week, which makes them tough
and pliable. A carpet wears much
longer II swept with such broom
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
A Winner.

"SlIcker, the architect, is making a.
big hit with his new scheme for subur.
ban residences"
"What scheme Is that?"
with every contract for a suburban
residence he guarantees a constant sup
ply of servant girls for ten years time"
Philadelphia Press,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18

Nearly everyone talks In the pres.
ence of corpse as IL they were afraid
of waking it
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
What Makes Lambalin Comfy.

The favoring of kid gloves by fash.
lon has resulted in advancing the prices
Of kid and lamb skins 30 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-15

used with high explosive shells and there Is
much certainty of its development So
great have been the developments in the
last few years in the manufacture of steel
that among the new alloys it was confident
ly hoped that there would appear some ma
terial for gun tubes which would give less
erosion than exists with the plain carbon or
nickel steels AS regards the strength Of
material the new alloys have indeed given
promise of phenomenal results. With this
new metal for tubes or Innings of tubes two
experimental guns are now under construc-
In resisting erosion which may make even
the English cordite a gentle powder on the
gun.
With the great majority of people who
first see great gun and its projectiles and
its bags of powder the question is, How far
will 1t shoot?
AS has been said. the great imperial 1G-
inch gun can throw ton of steel twelve
miles with perfect accuracy. But for ma
val purposes the Pinch gun is now the
standard. With 3S5 pounds of smokeless
powder a forty-calber Pinch gun Will send
an $50 pound armor-percing shell gouging
through nineteen and fve-tenths inches OF
Harveyized nickel steel armor at distance
of three hundred yards.
The huls of the two recently ordered
battleships the Delaware and Its unnamed
sister, will be protected by belt at the
water line of a maximum thickness of
eleven inches The belt will be eight feet
wide. Reinforcing the sides of the ships
will be armor seven and three-tenths feet
in width and running from ten to seven
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while 1t is 40 per cent lighter than Indian
Head smokeless. the serious erosion it
causes, in the opinion of Americans, makes
it undesirable.
Up to the time of Admiral Dahlgren there
had been no improvements in powder
since the days of the early Chinese in
ventors Finally the Germans invented a
brown or cocoa powder, the charcoal of
which was made from carburized straw
The secret was jealousy guarded, but final
ly an American firm turned out an article
equal In all respects to the German. That
was made in heXagonal grains about an
inch and half In diameter and one inch
thick pierced with a longitudinal hole
The invention of long guns demanded a
powder of increased power and the go
Goa brand served for time. 1t, however
made dense smoke cloud, and although it
increased velocities from 800 feet per sec
ond, the black powder rate, to 1000 and
200, the demand for higher velocity still
made its time of usefulness short Smoke
less powder is simply guncotton dissolved in
mixture of alcohol and ether. 1t is made
and prepared for service in the shape of
short perforated cylinders. In the six-inch
gun 1t has produced velocities as high as
3, 400 feet per second and there Is no telling
what while one reads, may be done by
way of improvement.
The whole corps of workmen in the shap-
ing Of guns and preparing powder and shell
for the gunner that is to make the telling
shot, is on the qui vive; experiments are
still under way pertaining to improvements
in ignition In cartridge cases. A special
board Ii at work on decorating fuse to be
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process of rolling and annealng at once be-
gins, the long slabs tapering out and be-
coming thinner.
When annealed the slabs are planed, the
work being not unlike that of the turning
of the gun tubes on the lathes. with the
exception. of course. that with the slabs a
fat bed is used and the steel tooth of the
planning tool rolls off great brass shingles
that curl up from a level surface After
the shining brass is once revealed a further
rolling and annealing is given until the de-
sired thickness for the particular cases Is
obtained.
The second stage is reached when the
long slabs cut into blanks, that Is, cir
cular disks. which are TO be pressed into
the cases. These. great brass coins of the
ammunition shop are thoroughly inspected
and treated to bath of foaming suds and
put through the presses, the larger of
which are hydraulic, the smaller ones
driven by electric motors until they have
been drawn up by successive operations to
the general form of the case. The stages
by which the fiat blanks are pressed into
shallow cups and then into longer and still
longer cylinders attended with constant
examination and tests.
When finally the desired size Is obtained
the cases are cut off to length and sub
jected to the successive stages of being
headed, turned, gagged and stamped, There
Is a very gradual increase In the dimension
OF all the cases that are intended to sup
ply one-pounderS or Six-inch guns with
fixed ammunition
Three hundred and twenty cartridge cases
of the naval gun factory manufacture were
proved at the naval proving grounds at
Indian Head, Nd twenty-three miles be-
low Washington, on the Potomac, during
the past year. and the failures were so rare
as to warrant the discontinuance of these
tests.
But the interests of perfection do not
permit satisfaction with things as they
are. In the physical and chemical labora-
tory connected with the gun factory, be-
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closed the shipments have increased at
least 30 per cent.
In all the activity after the gunshops
themselves there is probably no more in
spring activity in the yard than that of
the cartridge case shop.
1t occupies but small group of build
ings east OF the gunshop and north OF the
experimental model basin, which IN its
own way is more prophetic of the action of
great scientifically constructed battleship
than anything else in the yard. The main
building of the cartridge case shop occupies
about 306 by 65 feet.
There are in connection with it a brass
foundry. a boiler house and house for
the acknowledgements pumps. While the
cartridge cases made in this shop are not
used for a main battery of a great battle
ship. all guns from one-pounders to six
inch guns are supplied from this factory.
with the cases of the shells that make the
secondary batteries terrible.
Some idea of the amount of material
which goes into these cases be OBJ
tanned from the fact that last year a dou-
ble-chamber melting furnace was installed
for melting up the small scrap brass and
floor sweepings. During seven weeks after
II first placed in commission ISL 900
pounds of brass We're recovered. prob
ably 500 tons a year. All of this material
is reused in making castings in the foun-
dry.
Scrap material from other shops is usual
ly sold TO the highest bidder, and at the
present moment Acting Secretary of the
Navy NewboTry is investigating alleged at
tcmpts To rob the government by a syste-
matte unGerweighing Of scrap brass and
copper. From this source alone the govern
ment receives at least 100000 annually.
Long and arduous is the process by which
the repee tedly tested cartridge case is
made
From the brass foundry come the great
hulking slabs of brass, which are cast there
and come out heavy, cumbrous and so dis
cOlored that no novice would suspect the
shining metal underneath the scale. The
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sRAlr1rlnG GuRg9E o. T0k;hE AE1EnA47

inches in thickness. Were the ten Pinch
guns of one of these sisters trained upon
the other the test of the latest experiment
in protective armor against the latest
weapon of attack might be given. As ii is,
it is believed confidently that with the
massing of even most of the present
citc fleet there is no reason to believe any
nation will be Jealous to attack the assem-
blage The two-ocean standard which
appears to be the present policy OF the
navy leaves to the Atlantic six powerful
batteships, more than were needed TO close
the war with Spain. Since that time both
ordnance and guns have been completely
revolutionized. Even without the new type
of the Delaware. in early February there
will be assembled somewhere in the Pacific.
at Olongapo. in the Philippines. or Homo
lulu, or San Francisco, at least twenty
four first-class battesnips, with 1872 guns
from the naval gun factory AZ Washing
ton. There will also be With the fleet ten
armorad cruisers. with not ess than thirty
two heavy guns. These pa guns are capa-
BILE of piercing krupp armor of practically
any available thickness.
notwithstanding the conjecture made by
the chief of the bureau Of ordnance that IN
the design of many vessels of the fleet the
space assigned to ammunition has been SO
restricted that under certain conditions OF
battle all the ammunition on board would
be expended in less than an hour. the crit
icism is not considered of moment By the
end of the hour, with the present marks
mansh!p Of the men. it is not believed that
any ammunition would be needed.
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fq17H1ne The FH4yHED GRGkpGE GArDER1,

sides the general tests of all material which
goes into the cartridge cases metal, expert
mental work was conducted with view
to obtaining the best composition, as wen
as the best method of casting IN order 10
produce ingots for cartridge case metal
free from blowholes and physical defects
When the cases are given last lnspec-
ton and polished they are placed IN BOXES BOXES
coored according to the sizes of the cases
and shipped to the various naval maya
zines.
The craftsmanship of the American
gunner would not be explained, however
much the training and nerve of the men,
the facility with which the captain in MS
coming tower is able electrically TO man
age his vessel and it's gun force, the ex-
ouisite and delicate adjustment OF the
guns themselves provided by the gun rae
tory or the scientific shaping and making
of the projectiles If the nature or the
powder is used is not also estimated.
Last year at Indian Head alone, prov
ing ground which was originally planned
for the testing of guns armor plate and
powder, but which has been extended to in
million pounds of powder was the output
At the present time the manufacturing
facilities are much improved.
While AGA guns of all calibers were proved
here. the fact that according to Admiral
Mason the publication of the powder prod
uct is constantly tending to remove all
possibility of deterioration with time, is
almost more to the point. Methods of
production have so improved as to make
practically uniform the finished product.
When these two points have been accom-
plished absolutely there will be a differ
ent emotion in handling the great charges
as they come up to the turrets of the big
battleships
The English still use cordite, which is a
smokeless nltroglycerin powder, but the
heat engendered by that is SO great that
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Tlar Is keen sympathy between the
sa.,or-r3u and thr men az ,he gun factory,
wl-'h-r employed In the drafting room the
g~,.-.rp. Tie pattern Shop. rh" foundry.
N. forge. the torpedo test house. tie cx-
p.r.u1rr III model basin Thr gun carriage
shop ur .u the rHrtr!dg" case shop. The at
mosi '.rr. OF tie navy ward, practically two
hundred miles from sea, j. one Of seaman
s.I.p ana it is no unusual thing for the gun
Inak,r. export Iua,hiUi-t or apprentice me-
,lH-l. tu throw mp his job and follow the
lJry uf the ultimate intention Of all his Ia
Lur Tho unseen reality OF war is made so
potent hy the daily ard nightly building up
81 cannon ana the shaping of cartridge
cases That tie mechanic feels that he must
go out and Sc what has become OF all his
work
QUIT apa~, from guns and gun carriages
his work during IN" year OF the Spanish
war irrladrd the ~ .33u cartridge bags. 30
as ammunition boxes. orr four-iuch
shell caps. 2l5G tu!rt .en-iuch shell caps.
9Ol" ammunition chests. 42,N2J base fuses
81 80 waGs OF al ca!ihers There was
shiUIs. during the year over iOOnu pack
ages weighing over 4pr,UoU pounds. Ad-
mira. Mason shows that in the year 1896
there were l.7"S shipments Of boxed and
Grated ordnance material. and OF uncrated
mate'.rI GJ97N packages OF total weight
of over FIVE times the amount shipped dur
ing :rat year Of war. 1t Is conser' atiycly
estimated that during the fiscal ~ tr just
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- - CRAFTSMANSHIP, all authorities
IL ~ agree, is the beginning. middle
and end of all naval endeavOr.
lVl II the delivery from the great
guns of the American fleet is
no. clean into the heart of the target the
expenditure enormous and increasing for
fleets. naval stations. training ships, acade-
mics and schools. great guns, proving
grounds, apparatus and institutions for the
testing of lines Of keels. is all as futile as
Il Is costly. Therein lies the reason why
at the Gun Factory a the Washington
navy yard, at Indian Head. at Annapolis.
ar every station and shipbuilding yard in
the country and at target practice the
problem is ever one Of mechanical and mi
croscopic accuracy in sending home pro-
JectI,e
The man behind the gun Is always the
spectacular hero in the report of sue
ressi.l engagement and there can be no
question that the ability 20 manage the
great laundering peace-nakers, to use
telrscopic sight and send ton Of metal
hurting through twelve miles OF space to
plunge with UneTrinG certainty into the
Vulnerable spot of the enemy is deserving
Of all possible praise. But there is fire.
uutrrTg "A tendency TO forget In the direct
and Immediate work of the gunner the
skin which has made gUnuer-Prowess pos
s.l.e The man who built the gun, the man
o. t.. Eynshpp rather than the gun-tur-
Tot Indirectly and remotely is certainly an
"qgt --arer In The pride of American work
Tl ,. have been few opportunities since
o.. y..- iu. twenty years ago, Of the new
Navy. 'l test In engagements the Skill of
o.. ..a.G syur-ts. Nut under the cOudi-
t...H .f target practice there have been
Iun#. lords which rebound 10 the honor
e.. H... -.JrUrr and x.J maker
bs. .p.- Is need OF SKIN. for there is
1#nNH -...e+ OF coast line with more than
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ROLLING The
@FRhRegAgJ

- - CRAFTSMANSHIP, all authorities
M agree. is the beginning. middle
N and end of all naval endeavor.
II the delivery from the great
l,lns of the American fleet is