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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05
WIT OF THE YOUNGSTERS.

William, were you ever whipped at
school?" queried the visitor. "Only by
the teacher" was the rather signih-
cant reply.
" Harry" said the visitor, do you
know your letters YETI" mo, maam,"
replied the little fellow. "rm not the
mail carrier"
Now, boys" said the teacher, show
many months have twenty days?"
"All of EN-" promptly replied the
youngster at the foot of the class.
Mamma-Why, Tommy, I'm surpris-
ed at your actions Small Tommy
You're always beln' s'prlsed at me,
mamma. | guess I'm a regular s'prlse
package, amt 1?
Little Dot-My dollle's mamma must
have been an awful wicked lady.
Mamma-Why do you think so, dear?
Little Dot-She never taught her to
say her prayers, cause her knees won't
bend.
A little 5-year-old miss was standing
on the hotel steps gazing anxlously up
the street. Are you looking for u
husband, little girl?" asked one of the
guests. Yes, sir" was the prompt re-
ply; for mammals husband
Little Elsies big sister was explain
Ing to her the wonderful powers Of the
sun, saying: 1T shines everywhere on
the EARTH" Elsie, after thinking for
moment, asked: Then why doesn't
1t shine in grandpa's bedroomg"
Anxious Mother-Why, Johnny, what
has become of your baby sister? John
NY dunno Anxious Mother-But
she was here in the repm with you a
few minutes ago. Johnny--Well don't
worry about her. | guess you'll find
her when you sweep.
Little 4-year-old Helen was dining
with her mother at nelghbors, and
the hostess, In an attempt to be en-
tertaining, asked her II she liked kit
tens. Helen looked susplclously at the
chicken potpie on her plate, then re-
piled: II dess not; dess I'd ruvyer
have some cake"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05
WHERE aYP WENT.
Journeyed 124 Miles In a Week TO
See Her Puppies.

Journeyed 124 Miles In n Week 10
See Her Puppies.
Gyp, an 18-months-old fox terrier, be-
longing to Harry G. Fisher of No. 930
East Seventh street, south. has distin-
guished herself again, writes a Salt
Lake City correspondent to the Boston
Evening Globe.
While on visit at Weston. Idaho,
with her master during the last sum
mer Gyp first attracted attention. Mr..
Fisher stayed at ranch owned by
August Jensen. One day by barking
and yelping and jumping In front OF
her master she aroused his curiosity.
This done, she led him to litter OF
little blinking puppies. Gyp's family
dwindled down to two before many
weeks had passed. When Mr. Fisher
was ready to come home Gyp had been
with her little charges six weeks.
The time had now come to say good
by. Gyp was brought to Salt Lake and
her puppies were kept at the Jensen
ranch.
About four weeks ago Mr.. Fisher
missed Gyp. Believing She had gone
but short distance, he did not become
worried until she had been away from
home for whole day. The Fisher
family grleved over their loss. thinking
Gyp had been stolen or killed.
A happy thought struck Mr.. Fisher
two weeks ago. He dropped post
card to August Jensen. Weston, Idaho,
and few days later an answer was
received.
The message brought the startling
informationn that Gyp had reached
the Jensen ten days before.
Her arrival was the occasion Of
much rejoicing in the kennel" read the
note. THE two pups and Gyp barked
and rolled each other around in great
shape"
Gyp covered 124 miles in six or seven
days to see her two babies,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05
A HEROINE
of Necessity

A way to the right, as far as eye
could see, stretched the shimmering
ocean, the sunlight dancing on the
waves and turning them into carpet
of gold To the left lay glorious
patches of purple heather, broken here
and there by big gorse bushes, covered
with golden blooms and soft green
spikes Overhead the seaguls whirled
lazily across turquoise bay, uttering
their plaintive notes as they greeted
one another In passing.
And one, at least. of the millions Of
created beings was thanking God at
that very moment, as she leaned her
arms on the slight railing which formed
the only protection from the cruel shin
gle below the edge of the steep cliff.
Fate had been more than ordinarily
kind to Christabel Tredennis up to now.
She had never known single sorrow
all her life through; twenty years of
unspotted peace lay behind her. She
was young, fair to look upon, wealthy
beyond the dreams of most women, and
dear to manly heart. now far away
In Western Africa. fighting his coun-
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try's battles in sklrmishes with tribes,
with a pluck that was tenfold more
thorough because of her.
Mrs Tredennis had come to the quiet
little village Of Croone, on the Dorset
shire coast, because she had happened
to see highly colored sprlnt of it in
some ones photo album. 1t had not
turned out to be all that it was paint
ed--what does?-upon closer acquaint-
lnce, but Christabel and she liked the
| scenery and the solitude and stayed on.
This was about their last day.
She was thinking Of her soldier-lover
'ar across the waters, as she gazed,
when her mind was suddenly recalled
70 her present surroundings by NUT
tered exclamation borne to her ears
on the soft summer wind. She turned
round hastily and saw, little farther
OH, a tall, spare figure standing on
the very edge of the cliff, an edge that,
as Christabel knew, was unprotected.
To call out would be to startle the
rash adventurer, whoever 1t was; but
the girl crept softly across the heath
er that lay between the figure and her
self till she was just behind her.
The woman turned round and almost
screamed. Christabel. with fear knock
ing at her heart, brought there by the
look In the eyes riveted on hers, laid
hand on the others arm.
"Come farther from the edge; 1t is
dangerous" she said.
The woman. who looked anything
from 80 to 80. laughed.
"It's the edge / like" she answered.
shaking her arm free of the detaining
hand and taking step forward. "Have
you ever walked over a cliff? should
you like to come with me and try the
sensation now?"
Christabel looked round wildly. There
was no one In sight; the only sound
to be heard was the mournful cry of
the gulls-
A story she had once heard came
into her mind at that moment.
"It's nothing to walk over g cliff"
she returned. trying to steady het voice.
|-It would be much more wonderful IL
you started at the bottom to walk to
the top!"
The other shrugged her shoulders
"Its matter Of opinion. of course"
she said "Let us try my way first
want to 60 to-him. Don't you see he
IS beckoning to me- thereY
She glared ferociousiy out to sea.
and grtpped the girls arm in vice
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05

Classes and Ages.
The revolutionists, who constitute the
only single-minded. selfess organization
in Russia, are working early and late
to embody their ideal. And they are
manifestly making headway and gain
ing partisans Peasants, workmen, pet
ty landed proprietors, schoolmasters,
midwives, badly paid officials, embit-
tered students, are all imbued with the
new idea, which they in turn are
spreading. Whole categories of the
population, whole provinces Of the en-
pire, are possessed by the leveling
spirit. The southern and southeastern
Russian provinces, several districts on
the Volga, In the Caucasus and Poland
are inoculated with the revolutionary
bacillus. Students in universities, boys
In schools, children In the nursery, are
affected by this peculiar form Of mad
ness.
Instances are numerous On March
2 number of boys convoked a politi-
cal meeting in the halls of the State
Grammar School of Tifiis and proceed
ed to make speeches against the gov
ernment. The director, entering, sum-
moned them to disperse, but they re-
fused and, employing force, drove the
director from the room. In the Com
mercial School of the Finance Minis
try in the capital the boys of the two
classes ordered their teachers to give
them full marks for four months in
chemistry and Russian. The masters
refused to deal with the matter other
wise than on it's merits, disorders en-
sued and the two classes hindered other
classes from going to their lessons.
They also insulted the director, but the
School Board did not venture to punish
them.
Russian children are becoming "ex-
propriators' robbers is the
term usually employed by Europeans.
The other day on the outskirts of the
city Of krassnoyarsk three boys of IA
set up as expropriators and assailed a
well-to-do peasant who came their way.
Three Davids against one Goliath.
They asked him for IS money and
threatened his life. But the farmer,
being muscular man, resisted, where
upon the boys opened fire upon him out
OF monte cristo" and bullet en-
tering his mouth knocked out a few of
his teeth, but he disabled them and
had them arrested. In Dunaburg a
number Of children summoned an I'm
portant meeting in the synagogue and
when the caretaker appeared and or.
dered them to quit they wounded him
with knife-Contemporary Review.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05
GOT WATCH BACK CLEARLY.
luck of Victim of PickpocLet in a
Thaw Crowd.

Luck of Victim of PickpocIket in a
Thaw Crowd.
Having his watch stolen from him
and offered for sale back to him In an
hour was what happened to friend
Of mine when crowds gathered at the
newspaper bulletin boards waiting for
news of the Thaw jury" said clti-
zen. 1T happened this way
"An old friend OF mine was standing
among others waiting for news Of the
Thaw jury when suddenly he felt a
twitch at his watch pocket and his
watcn was gone. Not being sure of his
ground, be kept his loss to himself and
walked away from the crowd.
after transacting a little business
In the neighborhood he turned toward
home. Remembering that he wanted a
drink he stepped into saloon.
lie was In the midst of his story.
telling the sympathetic bartender Of bis
experience, with his back TO the door,
when voice back of him broke into
the conversation, ordered Il drink and
asked the drink mixer If he had any
use for watch, mentioning the fact
that there was one to be had cheap.
THE barkeeper, having my friend in
mind, asked to see the watch and turn
ed It over to my friend, who iinmedl-
ately recognized 1t as his. Turning
around, he Inquired how much he ask
ed for the timepiece. The thief recog.
nIzed his late victim aud made bolt
for the door. taking good care to leave
the watcn behind.
"Now, being OF peaceful dlsbosl-
tion, my friend let the matter 20 at
that. Can you beat ltY'-New York
Sun.
~
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05
THE PRIMROSE PATH.

The green fans of the chestnut trees
Are all unfolding one by one,
The breath of April's in the breeze.
The long streets glisten in the sun.
The tasseled lilacs in the square
Are full of mods and whisperings,
While black-bolled poplars stir the air
With hints of happy secret things.
he town is all so fair and fine,
The streets they make so brave show
ID yet-and yet-Corinna mine.
Tis now the pale primroses blow.
he woods are calling us to-day
Where grassy hills fall fold on fold;
Come, let us take the primrose way
And gather wealth Of faery gold.
Put off your dainty silks and lace
For leathern shoon and homespun
gown;
Come. leave this bustling market place
To play the truant out of town.
For though in town the sun shines gay,
You cannot hear the sweet birds sing
Come my Corinna, come away,
And let us go a-primrosing.
-Rosamund Marriott Watson.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05

1t Is nearly teatime, and Mason will
be wondering where you are. You
should not take such long walks alone !;
they are not good for you" The mat
ter-or-fact tones reached the poor dazed
brain; she still clutched the photo
graph The doctor, raising his eyes,
saw Christabel looking at it with a
queer expression on her pretty face.
Her lover" he supplied briefly in
low tones that reached only her ears.
Poor thing, he died of cholera in India
ten years ago, and that was what turn
ed her brainw
His name?" breathed Chrlstabel
Henry Blakiston. Did you know
him-a lieutenant in the navy? She is
under a deluslon that he is calling for
her, and that we are keeping them
apart. 1t Is getting damp on the
heather; we must be making tracks
now. am more sorry than | can say
that this should have happened"
But the face Chrlstabel lifted to his
astonished him beyond measure. 1t
was radiant, glowing.
Il am engaged to his brother" she
volunteered shyly, "and he is SO like
that picture"
"Ah, | see you imagined they we're
the same" The doctor was culy hu-
man and chuckled at the coincidence,
which had meant so much to his com
panion. Il congratulate you and must
wish you good afternoon"
He shook hands, and then proceeded
to lead his patient away, without
backward look. Christabel turned her
face towards the setting sun and her
lips moved, Thank God!p she cried
fervently.
When Jim Blakiston came home not
many months afterwards on long
leave, he was told the whole story.
Il should have let her 90. I'm
afraid. I should never have saved
her." he said, looking at Christabel's
happy face in wonder
You would have saved her." she an.
swered proudly. 'You are SO brave:
besides. | can't explain properly, but
did it-of necessity"
And then and there It dawned on the
young soldier that the reason account
ed for many so-called mysterious things
Of everyday life. There are many he-
roes who are heroes "of necessity" of
whom the world never hears, but they
are none the less heroes because of
that.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05
''He? who?' asked christabel, hop

Y
! "He? who?' asked Christabel, hop
Ing thereby to gain time.
The rdse was for few moments sue
cessful. The woman drew a photo
graph out Of her pocket, and thrust 1t
under the girls nose.
Christabel started; the blood had left
her face, and her heart seemed to stop
beating. 1t was portrait of her lover
Jim Blakiston-she would know it
in thousand 1t had been cut out Of
an illustrated paper and gummed on
to correspondence card.
This man-what Is he to your she
asked hoarsely.
The woman laughed again gleefully.
"He-he is handsome, enough, isn't
he?" she queried. "You seem to adj
mire his picture they all do. Come,
we will go together and see him. He
will be surprised; he loves me-he
loved me once, and they said he died.
she lowered her voice, then raised it
again suddenly-"but it wasn't true.
He is beckoning to me to come, and we
will go together, you and for do
not want to go alone. No? Then l will
go alone"
Whereupon fight, swift and sharp.
ragged in Christabel's heart. Why should
she not let this mad woman perish?
Why save her-for him ?-the being she
loved best on earth. A maniac! Well,
she would not be missed, she only mar
red Gods sunlit world Let her go
60
Then a great revulsion of feeling
came over the girls soul. She saw the
hideous temptation; she knew that,
come what might, think what she
would, she must save a fellow creature.
1t became no longer matter OF voli-
tion--it was matter of necessity, for
action and self-sacriflce, which comes
to every human being born into the
world, with his or her share of respon-
sibilities with regard to another. Why
save a lunatic? Why should sane wo-
man die for an insane one? Why? Be-
cause the instinct Is there, whether she
will or moan Instinct which dies
hard. OF necessity she must save her
sister, be the exchange ever 50 un-
equal, the result of SO little apparent
satisfaction!
All these. thoughts surged momentar-
iIy through Christabel Tredennis' mind
as she stood on the sunlIt cliff; and
then she wrestled and struggled as she
had never though to wrestle, with all
the luck of long line of dead and
gone ancestors. wrestled till she felt
herself growing dizzy and faint; and
the edge Of the cliff drew ever nearer
and nearer. and ever that mad. mad
face. with those ferocious eyes, cleaned
into hers.
A strong hand thrust them apart;
stern voice thundered a wrathful in
ouiry. The woman sank trembling on
the heather, her whole figure shaken
with sobs Christabel, breathless. white
faced. white-eyed, stood shaking in ev-
ery limb from her recent straia-bu
sa afe-safe!
.poor thlngF' The doctor looked
pityingly at the woman. "She has es-
capped again. but they never thought of
looking here. suppose. You have had
a hard fight -yes--l understand
-For life," put in Christabel. with
lips that trembled, as shudder passed
through her frame.
The doctor whipped out q flask and
held 1t to her mouth. Drink he
commanded. And when she had done
his bidding. he turned and spoke kindly
to the covering lunafie. "Gome home
now" be said. Miss Lacy. do Jon know
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That old sweetheart.

saw an old sweetheart to-day,
The one loved of old,
And there were wrinkles in her cheeks.
And graz threads in the gold
OF her thick locks, gray for the years
The long years-she had told.
And we two talked of various things
She said, Il thought / told
You ere yon left the house this. morn
To leave some money" Cold
Was her tone and hard her look,
This sweetheart loved of old.
Houston Post.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05

PROFITS of Britain's Cotton Trade.
The capital represented by Great
Britain's cotton trade Is $1,000, ,OOO. 900
year. and the profits $3.50, ,OOO, 900 .
year.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05

Many man becomes a tallbird
through his strenuous ehosts to feather
his nest. ~
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05

french seamen are notably active agile this
Systematically
great Among
tey that of
become proficient at this monkeys climb
speed But the exercise restricted younger is
quite sailors
share of each week at least this
their
prestige for nmble no wise be lost the
officers throughout naval service
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05
Raphael Portrait Brin9s 100000

Raphael's portrait Of the brother
of Pope Leo x, dated 1914, has been
sold for 100000. a. record price IN
the Berlin art world.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05

Few photographers would care to
take people for what they are worth.
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"A woman's queer" he murmured then
"She estimates my hat and boot
And tie"-and SO he stopped again
And changed his suit.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05

The path of duty leads to happi-
ness. ~ fa sl8.sda
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"And," he observed, "one's footwear must
Be very stylish when he wooes,"
The pair he wore was fecked with dust
He changed his shoes.
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He started out and tried to plan
The way to pop the question best;
Came back, and, after thoughtful scan.
He changed bis vest.
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Alas the loVelorn maiden waits
And tries to call herself resigned;
The man no longer hesitates-
He changed his mind
Chicago Post.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-07-05
The ChangeabIe Man.

he said: "I'll go and seek my fate,
I'll pop the question, as to that ~
And thinking that attire had weight
He changed his hat.
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Remembering that women seem
TO trust completely to the eye
Before they lapse in loves young dream,
He changed his tie.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-09-28
THAT TOUCH OF FeMlNlNITY,
Mere Man Never Would Have Thought
Of Scrub Woman's Scheme.

You can always detect the aesthet-
ic note in the eternal feminine said
the observant bachelor. There is
just as much difference between the
sexes as there was in that old era
when the foxy Ulysses devised his
trick to pick Achilles out from a bevy
of Greek maidens. The other morn
ing l was walking down Broadway to
my office when | noticed a scrub wom-
an coming from her early task in one
of the big buildings in the financial
district. In her hand she carried a
newspaper that she probably had
picked out of one of the waste paper
baskets. When she got in front OF
the excavation for the big building on
Broadway, near Cortlandt street, she
stopped and picked up a piece of two-
inch plank about a foot and a half
long. She stopped and wrapped the
newspaper around that board and
made a bundle as neat as a box OF
candy, and trudged along. A laboring
man might or might not have carried
that piece of board home, but he
wouldn't have thought of making a
package so neat that it gave no sug-
gestion of its prosaic but useful on
tents."-N. Y. Press.
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orlaln of "suncombe."

Buncombe county, North Carolina.
has lent its name to the country's vo-
~cabulary and is a synonym of hypo-
critical enthusiasm, not because that.
is a characteristic of the people of
that region, but because many years
ago a member of congress from Bun
combe county persisted in making a
speech when the general exodus OF
members showed they didn't want to
hear it. When it was intimated that he
might as we'll stop, he replied:
Never mind, I'm talking to Bun
combe." The word in its new sense was
first applied to the speeches that were
made in congress for the express pur-
pose of being sent home to the admir-
ing constituents and later received its
present application.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-09-28
BAD LANGUAGE IN ENGLAND.
Upper Glasses Adopting Vulgar Words
and Forgetting Grammar.

Apropos Of my recent remarks on
the adoption of cockney expressions
and the cockney accent by stallhold-
ers at a fashionable bazaar, says a writ
er in the Lady's Pictorial, l am not
surprised to find that those who are in
terested in the English language are
taking fright at the terrible havoc that
is being made with it by those who
ought to know better. AS spoken now
by the masses, English Is practically
another language from that spoken,
say, 25 years ago by working people.
The school board education has given
yet another accent and one to the
young person. and it therefore de-
ponds upon the upper classes to speak
pure English. But it is more than re-
grettable-it is, indeed, disastrous-to
find them adopting the hideous twang
and meaningless vulgarisms of express
sion of their interiors, clipping "g's'
and disregarding the good old rule
that verbs must agree with their nom
natives in number and person. 1t is
sad to think of what Il language may
have become in a quarter Of a cen
tury.
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Foe to Race Suicide.

The problem of race suicide will be
simpliied by the better housing of
working people, AS the result of an
experiment-costing 81, 500, OOO-by an
English manufacturer, a garden col
ony for employees is reported to have
a birth rate Of Sc and a death rate of
only nine per 1000; while the child
rem of seven are three inches taller
and sever pounds heavier and those
of II years are five and one-half
inches taller and 20 pounds heavier.
than the average of children Of the
same ages among the laboring classes
OF Liverpool.
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cYanets.

AS many as 10000 cygnets are killed
every year to be converted into dainty
powder puffs, to say nothing Of the
innumerable young birds Of the elder
duck and wild goose kind slaughtered
for the same purpose. The bulk Of
these are imported-the geese and
swans from the islands Of the Baltic
and from Norway and Sweden. and
the elders from the northern and Ice
bound seas.