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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1908-12-25
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Spot where the hand Of the dissecting
science has done but little damage.
Visitors from civilized and enlightened
lands can 80 deep into the real life of
the archaic society in Japan, and in the
twinklinG of an eye they can come back
TO the luxury of the twentieth century,
and this archaic society is living one
and not an artificial miniature Sympa.
thy is aroused, as the faith is the only
surviving remnant Of the timchonored
old religion, Political sentiment is
touched, as Shintoism peoples woods,
mountains, trees. rocks rivers and sea.
shores with gods and goddesses. Com.
passion is kindlcd as 1t is by beautiful
dawn slowly dissolying before the on.
slaught OF the fierce daylight No wonder,
th,n, that Shntoism finds many lovers
among wcstcrncrs.
would like to introduce the reader not
indeed to the stately mausoleum and cerc.
mony of Shtntoism, but to the humble
household Of the common folk of Japan.
January in Japan is a month of rest
and festival; rest after hard work and
harvest; festival as an suspicious begin.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1908-12-25
"a ZYE cS59LVTO 7EMPLE 90

kobu," so scawecd &
Ckobu) means rejo!C- c
ing. The last has 9.
under II n lobster. a
person doubled up with ng'
reminds one Of a lobste
with its doubled up waist
So the lobster quite often
turesquely representative of eth
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17
WIT OF THE YOUNGSTERS.
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MI ~ fM q
Teacher = Donald, why Ore you
scratching your head? Small Donald
Cause I'm the only one that knows
where 1t itches.
~ Little Elmer-Mamma, please give
me another lump of sugar for my cof-
fee, l dropped mine. Mamma-Where
did you drop 1t, dear? Little Elmer
dropped 1t in-er-in my coffee.
Teacher-Wheres the north pole,
Harry? Harry-Don't know. Teacher
What! You don't know where the
north pole is? Harry-No, ma'am; If
l did them explorer fellows would be
out of job.
Little Allen-Papa, has everybody
got soul? Papa-I suppose so, my
son. Little Allen-Well, papa, do you
think you could open your mouth wide
enough so | could look down your
throat and see if you have one?
One morning Uncle Bob was engaged
in shaving himself, and his small
nephew was an interested spectator
| Clarence" said his uncle, don't you
want me to shave you, too?' "No, un
cle,' replied the little fellow. my
whiskers amt ripe YETI
Mamma" said little John, "whert
do good little boys go?" ITO heaven
DEAR" replied his mother. but
mean when they are alive" said the
little fellow. Al don't know" answer
ed the mother. II suppose they stay
at home" II thought maybe their
mammas took 'em to the theater some.
times"
MORAL courage" said the teacher
addressing the juvenile class, "makes
one do what he thinks is right regard.
less of the jeers of his companions
Now, Johnny, can you give me an IL
lustration?" Eyes. ma'am," answered
Johnny. IF a feller has candy an
eats 1t all hisself an amt afraid OF
tn other kids calm him stingy thatI
moral courage"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17

OM0 SA0 y ~

Bridge builders in San Francisco are
paid $5 day.
The printing trade In Canada em-
ploys almost 10000 people at an annual
wage list of $5,540,SS5.
Birds, when perched on trees or
bushes, are natural weathercocks, as
they Invariably turn their heads to the
wind.
The purest breed of Arab horses are
the Kochlani, whose genealogy has
been preserved for 1000 years. They
are said to be derived from King Solo
mons stables.
The richest woman In Great Britain
is Miss Emily Charlotte Talbot, who
owns two magnificent estates which she
Inherited from her father, worth about
$7000,000. Another rich woman isMiss
Alice de Rothschlld, who is very char
liable and has great hobby for gar
dening.
The youngest mountaineer who ever
set foot on the Jungfrau summit is Ida
Liechti She is only ten years old, and
Is the daughter of the Jungfrau rail-
way manager. She was born and
reared among the Alps, and learned to
climb like a goat when hardly more
than an infant.
Mrs. Hetty Green's portrait Is being
exhibited In one of the New York pic
ture galleries showing her wearing the
small black bonnet with bit Of white,
in which she is seen so often. Strange
to say, she has a small curly-haired
dog in her arms, which indicates that
she Is at least lover Of animals.
/ At the last general election in New
Zealand there were 263,597 men ana
212,S75 women on the roll. There actu-
ally voted 221,611 men and 175,046
women. In fourteen contests the
women voters outnumbered the men.
OF the candidates elected In these four
teen constituencies only one was un-
married.
It Is not generally known that there
Is room in the British Museum set
apart exclusively for forgerles In the
time the museum has been in existence
many spurious articles have come into
Its possession. In some cases the OBJ
ject has been on view for some time
before the forgery was discovered. The
public is not admitted to the room In
which the articles are kept.
The King can do no wrong, but there
is one innocent thing that no sovereign
ever does--namely, to stand with his
back against wall. At the royal stand
at Newmarket or elsewhere his majesty
Invariably leaves ample room for per-
sons to pass behind him, so that he
may escape having perpetually to reply
to their salutations, which he would
be bound to notice did those people pass
In front Of him.--London Chronicle.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17
XII THE wEAKLIHass
Boston Bean BoIter Roasts Belief fn
benevolent Brutality.

: At that center OF beans and brains,
Boston. lives DIR. Andrew Christian, a
successful Back Bay physician. big,
athletic and 80 years old. who is the
latest to be heralded as a champion Of
the theory of the survival Of the fittest.
IF mothers would be willing to have
their children quietly put to sleep for
ever when they are very young and
show signs of deformity or degeneracy
the world would be better" he says.
"Of course that could not be unless the
women could be educated up to the fact
that Ii would be the kindest way to end
life which will be of no use to itself
or anyone else.
If |, myself, had little child born
and 1t was deformed or showed that II
would be mentally weak, then | would
be willing that 1t should be put to death
with no suffering, and 1t would be the
prudent thing to do because 1t would
save 1t from untold suffering later.
This may seem harsh. but it really
Isn't.
"A board of overseers of MARI, IS
Is what we want. The race is degsner-
ating and some radical change must be
made soon or we VIII in. time have only
Idiots and imbeciles. Just take for
example what Luther Burbank has ac-
compllshed with the flowers. Even more
can be done with human beings and
greater results obtained.
only the fit should marry, only those
who are mentally and physically nor
NAL and sane, those whose ancestors
were clean of life and well balanced
mentally.
'"ro be born under right conditions
with as nearly perfect mother and faith
er, mentally and physically, as possible,
Is the heritage of every child, and the
man or woman who cheats child of
that heritage is committing double
crime, one against the child and one
against society,""
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17
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An old Georgia negro having told the
Judge that he had "been In three wars"
was asked to name them, when he re-
piled: Il wuz a cook in de Confedrit
war, an after freedom broke out wuz
married two times"
A certain nobleman well known to
society, while one day strolling round
his stables, came across his coachman's
little boy on a seat, playing with his
toys. After talking to the youngster
short time he said: "Well, my little
man, do you know who / amY' "Oh,
yes," replied the boy; you're the man
who rides in my fathers carriage"
She had buried three husbands, and
the fourth lay cold while the under
taker measured him. And she was
known in the Kentish village to have
put aside something more than hus-
bands. 1T isn't, praps, the right time
to mention such matter" said the I'M
idertaker to the widow, "but If you was
thinking of taking fifth" Now,
that comes of being precipitous," re-
piled the widow. 1--WE just took the
barber what come to shave the corpse"
A gentleman from enc of the North
ern States hurried to Texas to the bed
side of his son, who lay sick with a
very high fever. The doctor who had
accompanied him was very anxious to
frocure some ice for his patient, and
the father approached a group on the
hotel piazza, inquiring where he might.
get some Ice None Of the group made
anv response for some time, but when
the inquiry was repeated, one man
finally renounced tobacco juice for ar
tseulation. Striding to the end Of the
balcony, he elected the juice and made
reply: "Well, who ever heered o Ice In
the summer time"
sit will be impossible for us to trans
act any public business tonight" said
the president of the city council, "be-
cause of the lack of quorum" "Mr.
Chairman" said the new member, aris-
ing quickly, II have been elected on
pledge to my constituency that shall
work untiringly and increasingly for the
upbuildlng and uplifting of our city,
and now and here move that COM
mittee be appointed to consider the i'm
mediate purchase Of as good quorum
as the market affords, and that the
committee be instructed to secure the
quorum and have it properly installed
by the next meeting night And fur
thermore," he said, with a fine patriotic
touch, let US obtain good American
quorum, and not one of those ancient
Roman things"
Mr.. Travers, the famous New York
Wit, once met atsdinner a pompous En-
glishman who was doing" the States.
He had letters aplenty attesting his I'M
portance = letters from Gladstone,
Dnke, Salisbury, and Churchill. he had
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17
The Boys Opinion.

They Is kinds of maggisenes one
kind that has powder In them and
whitch xploads and blows up people
and gunbotes and forts and snap craker
stores and a mother kind that doesn't
have any powder in them or ennything
else xcept advertising my father says.
the last don't xpload very often but they
busts up sumtimes
they is CRATE many pages in mag
gisenes the second kind. don't know
how many but they is auful lot of
pages. 1t don't take long to read a
the second kind, not the
ferst. becaus most of the pages Is about
silver pitchers for 81 dollers and $40
cents peace and sets of Shakspear for
81. dollar and how to study law by
male for $50 cents anl how to rase hens
and squobbs for 81. doller and $.25
cents and about sope that fiotes and
pictures of stockings with legs in them,
and niggers with dippers in his hand
and q white apern on and little mig.
gers without emmy close kept little
skirts, and babies without close on set.
ting In tubs and outermobiles and moter
boats and gas stoves and toilet powder
and bull dogs and most everything else
in this wirld xcept storles.-Success
Magazine
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17
DID NOT WANT FINE HOUSE
Woman Said Ia Made Her Tired 10
Look at Mansion.


Isn't that a perfectly beautiful
house?" said one woman to another, as
the trolley passed by magnificent res
idence.
"Oh, l don't know" replied the 9TH
er. carelessly. 1T makes me feel tired
just to look at it. Ever since our
friends, the Smiths. went to Europe
and asked us to live in their house
and take care of it for them I've been
a changed woman. / was simply tickled
to death over the prospect; but after
had lived there a month / thought
differently. No servant would stay
where there was so much work. The
polished floors got dusty If you turned
your back on them. The magnificent
bathroom was nightmare to keep
clean; the buffers pantry was so In
convenient it got on my nerves, and
with the fine system of heating we
nearly froze to death. | was never so
happy as when they returned and we
could move back into our own little,
warm, convenient, not-styllsh, two-by-
four of house."
The other woman looked thoughtful
over this description. For 1t Is true
that many and many woman looks
with envy at the fine home of neigh
Dor simply because she does not know
anything about it.
For 1t is not the lofty building, the
beautiful architecture, the handsome
furnishings, the open fireplaces or the
ornate reception hall that makes a
home homelike; in this day of scarce
and high-priced as well as inadequate
servants these things mean more trou'
BILE than anything else.
1t is not the size of the rooms mol
their hardwood floors, the outside pi
azzas nor the lawns around the house
that make that place most llvable. Put
1t down as a fact that money has moth.
Ing at all to do with the making Of a
real home.
There Is more than one family llv-
Ing happy, hearty and comfortable In
a six-room house who are getting more
out of life and their house than many
a rich man does in his lofty, uncom-
Portable and most expensive mansion.
Fine feathers, so the proverb runs,
make fine birds; but fine birds do not
make fine homes, as many who know
can testify,
Do not envy your neighbor her fine
house, gentle reader; rather than being
joy to her 1t is more than likely II
is a veritable burden upon her back
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17
FOOD FIT FOR THE GODS.

Ohio Editor Sings a Poem to the
Glory of Buckwheat Cakes.
There is nothing In this world that
so completely surrounds the human ap-
petite and makes it a willing captive
on one of the cold December mornings
when boreal blast comes rushing
down and infuses itself in the very
brick ard mortar Of ones home as a
dish of hot buckwheat cakes, gener-
ously moistened with a sage-spiked
gravy, off of reeking-hot pork steak.
This is not altogether a delicate COM
biEation, but it is, if one takes into
account the day and the freezing air
outside and the shivering snowfiakes
that are trying to slip in under the
windows to get warm. 1t is then that
one does not want to toy with torrid
food or spend the time crunching cream
puffs. He wants something that fights
the polar chill. The Almighty made
the buckwheat cake to do that very
thiisg and the pork steak to assist it.
Now, some people are squeamisb
about pork and suspect it is too strong
for their delicate digestion. Go to.
What is that kindly odor floating like
a sweet incense spirit out of the kit
chen-that flavor of the frying pork
steak, and the delicate incense Of the
sage along with it, and the mouth
watering. sight of that Drowned pier
of buck heat cakes-what is it all
but loving natures urgent Invitation
to abandon your cowardly suspicion
and partakeI
OF course this does not apply to
May day when the johnny jumpers are
peeping from under the dead leaves and
the soft zephyrs are playing tag with
the morning, sunshine but now z look
without; listen to that arctic roar;
see the snowfiakes freezing to death,
hear those icIcles falling from the
neighboring roofs it time for straw
berries and parfait? No, indeed; pass
the buckwheat cakes and more Of the
steak and gravy, please; let the polar
winds howl.-Columbus Journal.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17
Recoxering Waste Tin.

There are acres Of dump heaps in
every city of the world literally GOV.
cred with tin cans and similar articles
of tin plate, in which there is at least
FIVE per cent of pure tin, but the recov-
cry of this metal has never been eco
nomlcalIy done. The solder entering
into the manufacture OF these articles
is secured by the simple process Of heat
ing the mass until the solder runs and
goes to the bottom, but for one reason
or another It has never been possible to
regain the tin. This has now been
achieved and is being extensively done
in Copenhagen by an electric process.
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talked everybody tired before the din.
ner began. and Travers saw visions OF
bad meal when he discovered the En-.
glishman to be his neighbor at table.
There was never stop to the fellows
tongue. When the oysters were brought
on. he began: Now, It Is q question
as to whether or not the oyster has
brains; scientists dispute the idea. "
'T-t-t-they certainly have some," re-
torted Travers. Your proof, sir" chal-
enged the Briton, eager for argument.
"W-wh-whwhy, sir, the o-o-oyster know
h-hah-how to shut up"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17
SeH8'''.sitxr 4

"Men are peculiar things" said the
matron to the caller. "As long as I've
been married I've never been quite able
to understand Mr.. Cloober. don't be-
lieve there ever was man who thought
more of his family or took more pride
In them, and yet"
Il think that anybody might be proud
OF two such lovely girls as you have"
said the caller.
Mr.. Cloober Is" said the matron.
lie really is. He thinks everything of
them and they can do almost anything
with him. l often say that he will do
more for them than he will for me. Yet
he's peculiar about that. l think they
are girls to be proud OF. | don't say
f Just because l am their mother. l
think any woman would say the same
| declare | don't believe l ever saw a
prettier sight than those two girls were
when they were dressed for the ball the
other night. Did you see them? No.
OF course; you weren't there, were
your"
Il did have an invitation said the
caller, but you know how It is with
me. It's so hard to get Mr.. Welslie to
go anywhere of an evening"
We'll, Geraldine was in pink and
Ethel was in blue, and the costumes
were made almost identically the same
do think Mrs. Modez has exquisite
taste. She's expensive, but It's really
worth while to pay the prices she
charges to get the results. At first she
said she positively couldn't make the
dresses. She would design them, but
that was because she simply couldn't
resist doing that. She has an awfully
artistic nature, you know, and Geral-
dine and Ethel appeal to 1t. Finally
she burst out: 'Oh, you dears! I'm just
going to make those frocks FOR you If
let everything else CO. Wasn't that
perfectly sweet Of her?
$50 she made them. Eygpore silk,
and when she showed me what 1t was
did you ever see any Of 1t? 1t was
imported for the first time only about
three months ago and it's just the love
liest, most delicate material ever saw.
Too delicate, I'm afraid. don't believe
1t will ever clean. But 1t made up so
beautifully that I'm not sorry now that
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17
barometer stone.

There exists stone which Is said
unfailingly foretells changes in the
weather. This stone was found In
Finland many years ago by an ex-
plorer, and has since been watched
by scientists with great interest. 1t
presents white, notified appearance
in sunshine gradually turning from
gray to black as a ralnstorm ap-
proaches. The stone is composed of
clay, inter and rock salt. In dry wealth
er the salt in the stone is prominent,
but when the air is filled with moisture
the salt absorbs the moisture and turns
black, thus forming the barometer.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17

Petrarch lived seventy years The ia
nous sonnets to Laura, the only pro-
ductions by which the poet is now re-
membered, were all written within a
period of twenty years. during which
time the intimacy continued. Petrarch
had been writing sonnets to Laura for
about sixteen years when the lady fan
cied she discovered symptoms Of not
unnatural weariness ana plaintively
asked, "Are you tired 30 soonT
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17

l chose 1t. think with little careful
pressing 1t will stand one or two more
wearings the style hasn't gone OCT.
And she had some perfectly beautiful
lace to go with it-some she brought
back with her from Paris the last trip
she made. But | was going, to tell you
about Mr.. Cloober.
Il had Mime. Clancy come over to
dress the girls hair on the evening of
the ball and it was exquisite the way
they looked when they were all dressed.
As | say, l don't know when ever
saw prettier picture. Now, darlings,'
| said, papa is in the library and you
must go down and surprise him. So
they went down and tiptoed up behind
him and then, when he looked around,
they dropped him curtsey. 1t was too
sweet!''
I'm sure it must have been,' said
the caller.
But will you believe me, my dear,
that man just looked at them without
SO much as a smile and then gave a
grunt and went on reading his paper.
l declare l was out Of patience Well.
papa l said what do you think OF
your daughters? Why don't you look
at themY
al looked at them he said, just as
short and snappy as could be,
"'well, don't you th,... that they
look charming? aslse5
"Oh, | suppose the Sall pis&ts
he growled. 1T seer that they
are fused out a aoot more than'a
necessary Then be " sAs On with that
paper of his
"I declare you don't deserve tc playe
such daughters Issaid All right, M
deed! That's all you have TO say, Is
1t? Come on away, my dears; your
papa is too much engaged to pay any
attention to you
"He felt in his breast pocket and
pulled out an envelope and threw. It on
the table. 4 hardly think that you will
expect me to be very enthusiastic when
you look at that he said.
81 opened it, and what do you sup
pose it was? Mrs. Modez's bill for the
dresses. And really not So very much,
for her And those darling girls stand
ing there! Don't you really think men
are peculiar?- Chicago Daily News.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-01-17
Machine Calculates wages.

A new wages calculating machine OF
English make has recently been brought
out. The design is free from small and
intricate pieces of mechanism which
are generally prolific source of trou-
BILE. This instrument is time and Ia
bor-saving device employed in the case
of piece work, for quickly finding, with
out calculation, the proportion of the
total balance money that is due individ-
ally to any number of men sharing prof
its oa the same contract the divisions
being proportional to each mans fixed
daily or weekly money rate. When
work is paid for on the premium sys-
tenn the instrument can, also, be used
for finding the time allowance that Is
to beeadded to the actual time occupied
ON the contract.
The instrument consists of two large
wheels, with broad fiat faces, mounted
on the same spindle. The spindle Is
carried at each end in bearings fixed
to the wooden supporting stand. One
Of the two wheels is securely keyed to
the spindle, and the other is free to re-
volve. A spring of sufficient strength to
cause the two wheels to revolve tOgeth-
er, presses the loose wheel against the
other.-Technical World Magazine.