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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
COARSE FISH FOR THE TABLE.
Neglected Food Supplies of British
Inland Streams.

Neglected Food Supplies of British
Inland Streams.
Puzzllng enough to the student of nat
ural economy must be the fixed preJu-
dice of the English people to the edible
Roman snail. the titblt frog, more espe'
clally, the common coarse" fish of
fresh water streams, says the Pail Mall
Gazette Fresh water salmon trout,
grayling and ellis are everywhere re-
garded as edible fish, though until very
recent times the grayllng or "ouncer'--
one of the salmonide-was but little
esteemed either by sportsmen or cooks.
To-day grayllng ranks 50 closely with
such game fish as salmon, trout, char
and possibly the rarer vendace, etc,
that the angler must not under penalty
feed" its swim" and it must not be
fished for with maggot or worm except
in the depth Of winter,
The point Is that since our notions
about grayling have so utterly changed,
why should not our notions about the
HlOEe slEdulS plhe CudltSt, wv LNl
"Esox lucius," the luce Of English her
aldry, better known as plckerel in
America, Is truly game" fish, iudg-
ing from the manner he fights and the
great number of deuticles in his mouth,
which are strong enough to bite off an
anglers finger, Yes, our familiar
fresh water wolf" is game enough, and
can say from experience that his
many pounds of sound flesh taste eN-
ceediugly choice about Christmas time
when stuffed with veal forcemeat and
basted with savory gravy. Yet very
many hundreds Of, enormous pike are
captured on our streams yearly by
"trlmmers" and other questionable dc
Vices of the river watchers; moreover,
they are throughout treated as so much
vermln, If exposed for sale on the fish
mOngers marble slab they could hardly
fail to command good price, little as
the world In general cares TO make the
experiment OF cooking a pike.
Take the case Of the equally abund-
ant chuo | am told that 1t takes
Jewish tailor or furniture brokers' fam
lily to appreciate 1t,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
Mistaken Identity.

During Robert Loraine's performance
Of Robert Shaw's MAN and Super
man." in Minneapolis, one night re-
Gently, lean-visaged man with a
sparse red beard, occupying a private
box all alone, applauded the scene
showing the automobile so noisily that
when some one started the report that
the box occupant was the redoubtable
G. Bernard himself, many people In the
audience believed it. When the cur
tain fell on the act a fervid Shawite
ran forward to greet the boxholder as
he started for the lobby.
'Mr. Shaw, hope" said the devotee
enthusiastically.
"Mr. Shaw, l hope not" snapped
back the man In the ginger beard de-
cidedly; "I'm the fellow who sold the
Show the automobile!''
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14

Professor John B. Smith, the Ento-
mologist of the New Jersey Experiment
Station, in bulletin on the cabbage
and onion maggots, just issued, refers
to the necessity Of quick acting fer
tilizer In conjunction with planting at
the right time, and replenishes the fol-
lowing formula, recommended In ear
lier reports: Nitrate of soda, 700
pounds; acid phosphate, 1000 pounds I;
muriate Of potash, 300 pounds. This,
he said, in the case Of radishes, can be
applied as a top dressing along the
rows, before they are planted, or Just
after they are up, at the rate Of 500
pounds per acre. Similar applications
can be made on turnips or onions. l
believe that fertilizer compounded
after this formula, or the application
of the three ingredients separately, at
proportlonate rate, would in most
cases be followed by good results. The
combination has about per cent nitro
gen In its most available form, per
cent phosphoric acid, and 71a per cent
potash. A ton of 1t would cost in the
neighborhood of $50 to $35.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
Getting Rid Of white Gruh.,

These suggestions regarding white
grubs were made by the Missouri Tx
pertinent Station:
1t is very difficult to do much in de-
stroying white grubs where they have
once gotten good foothold. About
the only plan is to put out new patch
and plow and cultivate thoroughly the
ground where the infested patch stands.
These white grrbs are the larvae of a
group Of beetles known as May beetles
or June bugs They feed for three
years as white grubs before changing
to adults so that you will find various
sizes of these grubs at the same time
in your patch. Some of these viii ma
ture one year, some the following year,
and so ON. Cultivation is about the
only remedy for these grubs.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
DOUBT FACTS OF HISTORY.
Persons So Fond of Miraculous Tha

Persons So Fond of Miraculous That
Questions Are Easily Raised.
The love of the miraculous Is enough
to keep alive the belief that the ac-
cepted facts Of history concerning
person who has greatly interested the
world either by his life or his death
are all wrong, says the Boston Trans
cript. Within twenty years big book
has been published in this country to
demonstrate that Marshal Ney was not
shot in the garden of the Luxembourg,
Dec. Z, 1915, but escaped to America
and dwelt In North Carolina
For some years there fourished In
Germany man who declared himself
to be the son of the duke of Reichstadt
by secret marriage and therefore the
grandson and direct heir Of Napoleon.
This imposter was clumsy fellow who
did not know his book, for the date he
assigned as that of his birth was fully
a year subsequent to the death Of the
duke.
But we need not travel so far as Eu-
rope to find the eredulous Of the incred-
ible. Only few years ago there died
In Kansas q man who was believed by
many Of the vicinity to be Wilkes
Booth. A marked physical resemblance
to the assassin caused so much annoy
ance to a well-known clergyman that
he took pains to demonstrate by proofs
of his birth and education that he was
not Wilkes Booth.
The fact that Mrs. Fitzherbert made
a solemn declaration that she never
was a mother does not deter the "Fitz-
herbert heirs in this country from
bothering King Edward with letters
applying for permission to examine GER
tain papers which they believe contain
a secret Of vast money value to them.
The people who believe these incredi-
BILE legends in the face of proof posi-
tive to the contrary, are not all Of one
kind nor Of the class of the English
man who said of the Tichborne claim
ant: "Just because he was the son Of
Mapping butcher they wouldn't give
him the estate"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
Heavy Hay Tonnage.


"By methods that are perfectly prac-
ticable to you we at the college are get
ting fifty-four tons of hay from twelve
acres. First we have our land well
titled" said Professor Gilbert, Of the
Maine station, in addressing a recent
farmers meeting. "Why is there so
much rundown land, is 1t low in fer.
tllity? No, it has been lying In grass
too long. There are lots of fertility,
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash ;
what it needs is plowlng up and rota-
tion.
"Plow poor land in the fall, and by
spring there will be air In 1t, harrow 1t
well in the spring, pulverize 1t by har-
rowing it over and over again. Then
seed with oats and grass, and the next
year you will have good crop Of
grass, and clover the next year. A
good rotation of potatoes on sod land,
using commercial fertilizer; the next
year cover with stable dressing, then
oats and grass with no fertilizer; the
next year, grass and clover, with top
dressing of fertilizer Our mixture Of
grass seed to the acre is eleven pounds
timothy, six redtop, four red clover and
four alsike.
"For the top-dressing $50 pounds to
the acre of a fertilizer carrying 3 per
cent nitrogen, per cent phosphoric
acid, 8 per cent potash. The grass
should be cut while in bloom" After
explaining why 1t should be done, he
continued, "After the first crop is cut,
$50 pounds of the same fertilizer to the
acre should be applied"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
PInnts Remenher

Plant memory is a problem for the
inquIsltlye botanist. In 1901 a plant
allied to the squash and pumpkin was
taken to New York from the desert Of
Sonora, In Mexico, and since then II
has been kept-without water-ln a
strange climate 1900 miles from home.
During the six weeks of rain In the
desert the plant grows its leaves and
flowers aud perfects Its seed. Then II
dries up and leaves only water filed
gourd. which thick, hard shell seals
against animals aud evaporation. The
transplanted specimen stlll remembers
the rainy season Of six weeks. 1t wakes
sends out rootlets, stems and leaves
and then dries up again until the fol.
lowing year-Eansas City Journal.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
Agriculture. Amazing Growth.


How can any country be hard VI
whose farms In the last nine ] years
have produced fifty-three Thousand mil
lions of dollars worth of crops?
No wonder that the report of the
Secretary of Agriculture is full Of
thanksgiving flavor and that he Is lln'
affected by causes for gloom that work
on other men. The value of the farm
products for 1907 is nearly seven and
one-half billions of dollars; 10 per
cent above that of 1905, when all rec
ords of crops were broken; 25 per cent
over 1908, and 81 per cent over 1899.
More than 100000 acres of land
that used to be considered valueless,
"the home of the cactus and the prai-
rle dog" are now producing $30,O00,-
600 worth Of crops every year; and
these crops are directly due to Sec
retary Wilson, who imported the Mel
iterranean duru1n wheats at a first
cost of $4,000 and saw that they were
planted there Irrigation farming, due
wholly to the department, will this year
sell crops for not less than $250000,.
600, which Is not contemplate, in view
of the fact that the Department Of Ag.
riculture costs only about $15,000,000
a year.
Yet the work of the department is by
no means on such a scale as the nat
ural resources of the country warrant
and will one. day~make possible. Sur
veyors declare that not one-half the
farms Of the country-420, 600, 900
acres, to be exact-can be classed as
improved land, and only one-thlrd, or
29OOO0,000 acres, Is fruitful. Many
years will pass before all this ground
is put under cultivation, but the time
will come when 1t will be producing
abundant crops and supporting hum
dreds of millions Of human beings
Chicago Journal.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14

cures heartburn and remedies cramps
by removing the acidity from the stom-
ach as well as relieving the liver.
1.-THE food Of dyspeptic remains too
long in his stomach, fermenting anu
causing Inflammation. Try helping the
stomach to get rid Of Its contents. Place
one hand at the extreme edge OF the
left side Immediately under the ribs
and slightly overlapping them. Then
work 1t round to the right by pressing
the fingers In as hard as you can, draw
ing the hand across to the right with
the other hand at the same time swing
ing the body to the right, then to the
left Practice this daily before meals
and reasonable food will never set
like lead on your stomach. Here Is
a good suggestion for plethorlc, or
full-blooded, man! When waiting for
the fellow that doesn't keep his appoint
ment, place your hand at the back OF
your neck where the hair joins 1t and
rub downward. You will thus empty
the glands and prevent their turning
into bols. Or put your fingers on the
neck at the angle Of the jaw and draw
them firmly downward over the course
of the juguar vein This will remove
the used-up blood from the brain and
make that organ feel light and clear,
helping you to keep from getting hot
under your six collars like Klpling's
engine
"If you have tendency to varicose
veins, when you sit down elevate your
feet The blood will flow out of the
turgld veins and give you great relief
BY deep friction from the heel upward
you can encourage the return of the
blood to the heart as well as give tone
30 the feeble veins If you have red
nose 1t is because the blood enters the
superficial vessels of the skin and does
not return from 1t, If you would rem
edy this condition, perform regularly
this little feat: Grasp the tip of the
nose between the thumb and fingers and
massage upward to the root This
method empties the vessels of used-up
blood and allows fresh blood to tlow
Besides, you are not half as likely to be
afflicted with cold In the head. One
exercise especially designed to prevent
bay window below the ribs is this
Lit fiat on your back, raise one foot
and leg to its full height without bend
tnu fhn EnAn than Ia o1A
ingg the motions, or vary the exercise
by putting the toes under the bed.
clothes, raising the body to the sitting
posture several times This exercises
the muscles of the abdomen and pre-
vents the accumulation OF fat,
Gold feet, SO often found among
brain workers, can be overcome by pro-
noting vigorous circulation. Imme-
diate relief can be had by standing In
about one inch of cold water In Il bath
tub. Stand on one foot and rub 1t with
the other, alternately, number of
times for not more than three or four
minutes, Follow this up by vigorous
rubbing with a crash towel, and the
good effects are almost equal to walk
ing In dew, recommended by Father
Kneipp. A Mt of blues is a habit that
grows upon one 50 rapidly that In
short time II becomes a disease, When
ever l feel an attack coming on l put
on stout walking boots and tramp till
/ can go no farther, This effectually
dlspels melancholla. An Oriental phil
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14

uprights and place the bolt through
this board so it will work easily. Cut
this board in half circle to fit the
sack. Drive nails through this board
around this half circle to fasten sack
to. This board can be raised or low
cred to the height of sack and is held
in place by means of an iron rod which
Is fastened on the uprights about two
feet from the bottom.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
CURING ILLS WITHOUT MEDICINE
Physician Tells How Every Man Can
BE His own Doctor.

"Have you noticed" said the physi-
clan in his post-prandlal rest, what a
tidal wave of Every man his own doc
tor is sweeping over the landY"
II suppose you mean,' said the other
man, who had come to him for lit--e
friendly advice about spring feVII,
"ChrNtian Science and other cultsT'
Not alone that, but the growing
tendency to keep well Instead OF being
cured is fast relegatlng medicine to the
dead arts. We must keep up with the
procession, even If it robs us of occu-
patton, and I'll assure you, If every
man understood giving himself massage
be might practically be his own doctor.
For instance, half the world either has,
or claims to have. liver troubles y
spare five minutes can be turned to eX-
cellent account by giving your liver a
lift. Place one hand heavily on the
right side at the lower border Of the
ribs and rub it down slowly four or
FIVE inches. DO this dozen times
and you will empty this overful liver
Of Its superabundent contents. This
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14

No man becomes a hero by adyertis.
ing his heresies.
Success is not always honor, but hon.
or is always a success.
The prayer to God to draw near to
us draws us near to Him.
Many who think they are hiding from
God are only forgetting Him.
The best views of heaven come when
the back Is bent with earth's burdens.
The practice of the love of man is the
best preparation for the love Of God.
That morality becomes only immoral
that is followed only for profit or pride.
God is not matter of demonstration
nor of conviction, but of companion.
ship.
If you cannot tell the good your re-
ligion is doing, 1t is probably doing
harm.
To have His power in the time of
need we must have His presence all
the time.
The home that sends out love and in
spiration is the best Of all home mis-.
sionaries.
Many a man is leading in religious
exercises to save himself the exercise
Of religion.
Dogmatism is heard, not because 1t is
right, but because it says what it has
to say SO loudly.
The language of heaven Is acquired,
not by memorizing it's vocabulary, but
by living Its life.
There is no reconciliation of this
world to God until we are ourselves
reconciled to the way of the cross.
What we have given, rather than
what we have gained, will give us
greatest joy when we come to make up
life's balances. w.
Some people think that prayer is a
scheme by which you can stick your
head into a hornets nest and come
out none the wiser.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14

feet long which
the upright pieces
are fastened to.
About four or five
inches from the
top bore two holes
e K actly opposite
each other and
p | a c e through
these holes a long
bolt. Take a piece
of plank or board
and cut it to fit
between the two
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
Proper Fruit Packing.

A great many farmers and fruit
growers seem to Ignore the conditions
attending the journey which their
wares must take before they reach the
hands and eyes of the consumers. The
methods of transportation, customs Of
the trade, the markets fashions as re-
CARDS style. size and form of package.
all must be well understood. for they
are as Important as the growing Of the
crop.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
Prerenting Sore shouIder.

Don't let your horses shoulders get
sore. You can prevent 1t by bathing
every night with strong salt water. 1t
toughens them and also prevents gals.
Among the most distressing sights is
that of horse at work with sore shoul-
ders. Frequent bathing and care in
the selection Of collars win prevent it.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14

cd of storing grain
becomes q matter
of vital interest to
all corn growers.
A test was made
last year to deter
mine what the ef-
feet Of storing
corn In a dry
room, on racks In
the barn, in the
warming oven Of a
stove and in a
corncrlb W o u ! d
have on the ger
minating powers
of the seed the
following spring.
The per cent Of
termination was
lowest with the
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14

rear end Of rack we have tried to IL
lustrate how the task of climbing into
the rack might be made easier. But
little extra work and material will be
required and at the same time the con-
tents of the rack are held very nearly
as good as If the end pieces extended
clear across.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
Convenient Hayrack.

Many basket hay racks are built in
such fashion in the rear that to climb
into them presents an especially irk-
some task to man, more SO after
having lifted hay or pitched bundles
all day. In the sketch presented of the
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
The Limit

"You reckon Br'er Thomas, got into
paradise7"
II can't tell fer sartin. All | kin
say is-de mule kicked him ter de
w-Atlanta Constitution
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
The HeireSs.

He (tenderlyl When woke up this
morning you were my first thought.
She--Indeed? Were the creditors al
ready standing at your bed?--Mergen-
dorfer Blatter.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14

losopher says fast, breathe and exercise
and you will never be i'll, 50 we might
as well accept the situation that doc
tors are no longer needed"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
Easily Made Bag Holder.

describe handy sack holder, use
full on a farm. 1t has two upright
pieces of 2x2 and a two-inch plank two
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
TRUMPET CALLS.
Rams Horn Sounds Warming Note
to the UnreGsemed.

1t Is never SAFE
to get in front Of
sins blank car
tridges.
The test Of any
amusement Is the
resultant tone Of
your life.
This world can
do without the man
who can do with
out another world.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14
Storage of Corn.

storage OF COfn.
The relation of perfect stand to In
creased crop yields has been 50 efrec-
tually demonstrated that the best meth
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14

Somehow the average boy lacks ma
ia for acquiring good conduct marks
at school.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14

If you want certain thing to hap
pen, 1t is easy to feel in your bones"
that 1t will happen.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-02-14

Sand Is one OF the important ibgre-
dIsnts In the elixir Of success
Evening journal., 1908-01-03
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