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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
COLLEGE MEN AND FADS.


Students Instead of Following Lead
Procession of Fashion.
1t Is said that the term fad" Is de
rived from the initials of the phrase
for day" If so, It's meaning could
not be better illustrated than In stu
dents clothes out at the University Of
Pennsylvania and in the neighboring
college communities, the Philadelphia
Record says. Fashions change in the
student world with a rapidity that
even bewilders the professional haber
dashers and clothiers, who theoretical
ly ought to know several laps in ad
vance which way the coin will flop on
new fad. The prevailing impression
that students docilely follow the mems
fashion journals Is not borne out by
the facts, Students In large measure
lead the procession, instead of bringing
up the rear. 1t was college men who
popularized the soft straw, the stock
pumps and the broad cuffs on trousers
The custom of wearing necktie, shirt
and socks Of harmonious shade was
in full swing out on Old Penn's cam
pus before Chestnut street fully woke
up to the fact that there was some
thing new In style. OF course, univer
sity men quite generally affect style
that Is too extreme to be serviceable
But young men in the business world
seem quite content to follow in theil
footsteps at a modified pace witnal
The use of green peak caps this spring
started In this way, and the present
resurrection of bow ties and piccadilly
collars, Fraternity hatbands on broad
brimmed straws, as might be expected
are reflected In the meaningless fancy
'hatbands downtown. The typical for
that serves to point the moral of use
fulness Of four-year collegiate course
may never be heard of after gradua.
tion, but he can have and actually does
have one title to distinetion-he leads
the fashion parade.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15

When the circus came to Bushby
the large attendance was a surprise
to Squire Bemls, and he said so to
William Hamlin. the postmaster.
1T is natural that men and chill.
dren should wish to CO." remarked the
squire In his formal tone, but l must
confess to feeling of amazement
on hearing that the ladies OF the town
had flocked to see wild beasts, and
that young woman who leaps from
one wire to another, with no regard
for her personal safety"
"Tell you just how It's, squire" said
Mr., Hamlin, confldentially. T don't
think many Of the women folks
planned to 60 till Jed Potter came In
here one mail time and told Miss
Emma Bolles he understood the show
was enough to scare anybody out of
ten years growth.
Miss Emma's getting on, and you
couldn't expect her to let a chance
like that go-nor any Of the other
women, now could ye?"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
THE SUMMONS.

One whose time was spent
AS the shadow fliokered DER him
From the clefts where 1t Is pent
Summoned the Sphinx before him;
Intimate pulse Of my heart
Nearer than child or wife
Now that our ways must part
What can you do for me, Life?
what are the things you have dons1
You cast me out on the sands.
Meshed in blind web spun
BY dead, unthinking hands.
"Fettered here in the dark
Yet drawn to the spheres afar,
You give us the glow worms spark
And mock us with the star.
you take the rose Of love
And crush 1t In your hand;
In hard, cold ways you move
We can not understand.
ITO our last dim lurking place
You bring the spoiler Death"
Over the Sphinx's face
Fluttered a smiles wan breath.
New York Sun.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15


Then there's our gasoline engine. !
kept track of 1t once for three weeks.
1t pumped water to the house and to
the barn, separated the cream of TWEEN.
ty cows and churned and worked all
the butter on gallons of gasoline at
15 cents a gallon. 1t saws the wood
and works the corn-shredder and
makes itself generally more useful in
its way than the average hired man
and at small fraction of his cost.
Then, the barn Is a great comfort.
There's a cement basement under the
stable-the only one Of Its kind in
this part of the State. The manure
falls through traps In the stable floor
and is preserved intact and put out
on the land at least four times year.
That's another thing that gives us no
end of advantage over our neighbors.
They pile their fertilizer in their
barnyard and let the best part of It
bleach and drain and wash away with.
out returning it to the soil which alb
solutely demands 1t.
We have $50 acres of level, black
soil that plows like soft putty. Be-
sides corn, oats and wheat, we raise
hay, fax and enough vegetables for
our own use. But we have found that
we can make far more money from
our pure bred cows than directly from
the soil.-Success.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
RECORDS OF OLD KAsKAsKIA.

Oldest and Most Authentic DOcu-
ments Now at st. Louis University.
The members of the Mississippi Val
ley Historical Society visited the st.
Louis University en- masse recently
and inspected the old historic trove,
of which the university has lately be-
come the custodian-a set of docu-
ments concerning the history of this
vicinity which are among the oldest
and most authentic records of the past
in America, the St. Louis Republic
says. They are the Kaskaskia records
In which the first entry is dated 1896.
They continue, with but few gaps.
down to the present time. Few rec
ords in the east antedate these and
none in the west. They were begun
in Illinois, near Peoria, before some
of the thirteen original colonies were
planned.
The records have been gold mine
to historians for years, but their rich
es will never be exhausted. John Gill
mary Shea came west to see them
thirty years ago; Edward G. Mason
wrote a minute description of them,
which is one of the publications of the
Chicago Historical Society.
Prof. G. w. Alvord, president of the
Mississippi Valley Historical Associa-
tion, wrote of them in a work which
has just been published by the United
States government. At the time he
wrote he could not locate them. They
were then at Fort Gage; but the bish-
op of Belleville, in order to better pre-
serve them, has placed them in the
archives of the st. Louis University.
They are kept in great iron, fire.
proof, combination safe.
The records are those of the bap-
tisms, marriages and burials of the
people of old Kaskaskia, near Peoria;
and of the later Kaskaskia, sixty miles
down the river from st. Louis.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
Peaches that stand Rot.

Peaches are more liable to rec in
damp and muggy weather than when
cool and dry. Some varieties are
more subject to rot than others. That
all varieties with fuzz on them are
less liable to rot than the smoother
varieties does not agree with my ex-
perience.
Neither can correct conclusion be
drawn from one or two seasons ex-
perience, for soil, location, fertilization
and culture also are factors in the rot
problem. Fruit on rankly-grown
tree is much more subject to rot than
on one more moderately grown. Yet
I think the weather has more to do
with 1t than any one factor. One
year all our early peaches were quite
subject to rot, while the next year
there was very little rot. Yet with un.
favorable weather Champions were
practically a total loss, Crosby, stump
and late varieties practically free. l
do not think the matter of fuzz VS..
rot worth considering as a FACTOR In
setting an orchard, except people do
not wish to buy fuzz.
In regard to hardness of bud, a
good frost peach well grown will stand
more cold than any other peach tree
we ever had on our grounds. And
varieties of the frost type (if I may
call them so), Crosby, Pratt's, Hills
Chill, etc., are more hardy in bud
than many other varieties, especially
Of the Crawford class, but with the
varieties Of the Chinese type, which
bear young and have hardy bud,
what little hardness If any, the fuzzy
varieties possess above them is much
more than Offset by their failings.-
H. Mead, Massachusetts,.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
A Little "worthy."

Eve herself could not have been
sweeter than the little Princess Anne,
Of whom Thomas Fuller tells in his
"Worthies of England"
Born In 1887. this daughter of
Charles l died In her infancy. when
not full four years old
Being minded by those about her."
writes the old chronicler, ito call upon
God even when the pangs were upon
her, I am not able, saith she, to say
my long prayer-meaning the Lords
prayer-but l will say my short one
Tighten mine eyes, o Lord, lest |
sleep the sleep Of DEATH
This done, the little lamb gave up
the ghost"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
Then she hastily added, THE league
can't spare such a valuable official
ln..n.IaI

Then she hastily added, THE league
can't spare such valuable official
He laughed again,
''The great McCool Is a good deal
Of a buffer" he said. Besides, fancy
have trimmed his fangs."
How"
There Is certain man who feels
indebted to me. have helped him at
times-helped him when his need was
urgent. In some way he has come into
possession of certain facts regarding
the great McCool, facts which are not
to that eminent politicians credit. |
used a little Of this material In my
talk with him, and he straightway col
lapsed. In fact, don't expect he will
trouble me again"
why, that's Splendid" Laura cried
He was such stumbling block"
Allan glowed at this praise.
And have more good news fo
you" he said Il am to have an In.
terview on Thursday morning with
the dreadful Crimmins 1t Is the first
time he has consented to see me-"
BE careful said Laura. HE is
called revengeful man. May come
on Thursday afternoon and hear the
result of the meeting7"
May you conner" echoed Allan. "I
shall feel much hurt II you fail to
come"
When Laura entered the ONCE of
the league that Thursday afternoon,
Allan was sitting at his desk with a
bandage about his head"
She gave little gasp.
"Wh.what has happened?" she cried
Nothing serious" he answered
Merely bump with Mr.. Crimmins
compliments"
Tell me about It."
There is little to tell" Allan an.
swered, After Mr.. Crimmins pre-.
sumed upon our brief acquaintance by
handing me this souvenir the discus.
sion became absorbing. 1t ended In
my favor, Mr., Crimmins seemed to
accept his defeat with a poor grace.
This obliged me to use an argument
nat ! had hoped to hold In reserve"
What was the argument?"
"It was based upon my ability and
Willingness to hunt up Mr. Crimmins
at any time and beat him to frazzle
II he persisted In annoying us"
Laura was a little horrihed and vat
could not help smiling.
"And what was the result OF this
heroic form of persuasionf"
THE wreekers will begin to demol.
ish the Crimmins tenements next Mon.
day mornins."
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15

out, the points being spread out so
that the bed piece can easily drop into
the space when the ditch Is two feet
or more in depth. The front digger
Is the same size, but set in the middle.
All are held firmly by brace rods and
sharpened like the fiat end of pickax
A wheel is set under the front end to
steady the movement and is braced
backward. An adjustable draw iron
Is placed above, through which the
rod may pass at any height suited to
the depth of the ditch.
The handles are also adjustable,
raising them as the digger drops low
er.
In hard subsoils one will save the
cost of this simple device in digging
seventy-five rods of ditch. In our
hardpan sections of the east, which al
ways need drainage, one does not feel
encouraged to dig bitches with pick
and shovel when more than half the
energy is required to loosen the dirt.
With this machine the toughest sub
soil when dry handles as rapidly as
loose sand.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
Weed Seeds In Manure.

1t is we'll known that there Is con.
siderable risk OF introducing new
weeds by the purchase of manure and
hay and other feeding stuffs. E. /.
Oswald, of the Maryland experiment
station, undertook to obtain more def.
mite information on this point, espe.
cially as regards dissemination
through manure. by studying the eff.
feet of the fermentation of manure
handled in different ways and of pass.
ing through the digestive systems of
animals on the vitality of various
seeds, including seeds of about flfty
of the worst weeds found in Maryland.
In experiments in which the manure
remained for six months in a barn.
yard heap and for a short while in
piles, as when shipped in carload lots
from cities, it was found that In the
first case there was no danger. and
In the second case little danger of dis.
tributing live weed seeds.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
A Thorough Victory

Allan had to face a fierce opposi
tion. The landlords opposed him as
a wrecker and robber. The politicians
looked upon him as an intruder and
meddler. He rather liked this opposi-
tion. 1t developed his fighting re-
sources.
One day Laura Edwards passed an
angry man on the stairway. She knew
he was angry by his mutterings and
his heavy tread and his fiery face.
did you just have caller2" she
asked Allan.
He laughed.
Eyes. That was the great McCool." :"
''The boss"
Eyes. He came here to have 1t out
with me. He warned me to keep off
the grass. He even used threats"
The girls face suddenly grew pale.
'You mustn't be rash," she said.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15

The first step in keeping cream
sweet is to keep 1t as clean as pos
stble. Clean cream cannot be produced
by filthy methods of milking nor by
handling the cream or milk in unclean
utensils. Milk cans, stirrers and pals
should be thoroughly scalded in hot
water and dried and exposed to the
sunlight and pure air.
The next step is to remove the ami
NAL heat from the cream as soon as
possible after separating. Run the
cream from the separator into a con-
venient utensil for cooling. A or g.
gallon shotgun can is most convent.
ent Cool the cream in well water
by stirring. In a few minutes it can
be reduced to the temperature of the
water. After the cream Is cooled it
can be added to the cream contained
in the supply can used in delivering
cream to the station. The cream sup
ply can, while being filled and held for
delivery, should be kept in water at
as near the temperature of freshly
pumped water as possible. The aver.
age temperature of we'll water in
Kansas Is about Sc degrees. With 1t
cream can easily be held at 58 or 60
degrees, and at this temperature will
remain sweet for delivery in good
shape at the station.-Kansas Farmer.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15


Some of the old-time dairymen are
coming around to the belief that red
clover such as was grown around Den
yer twenty-five or thirty years ago, is
better forage for the production of
milk than is alfalfa as grown nova
days. Certain 1t is that we are not
now getting the quality Of milk that
was produced quarter Of century
ago, when nearly everybody had a
little patch Of clover. 1t was quite
natural, however, that we should have
exchanged the old friend for the new,
for the reason that red clover is bien-
nial in its habit of growth and under
the most ideal conditions will not fur
nish more than two cuttings Of hay
in a season. On the other hand, al
falfa is a perennial plant. and when
once established will continue to pro-
duce four and frequently five crops
In a season for several years In sue
cession. and this is why our dairymen
have clung to it through all these
years like a pup to a root. We are
10th to concede that red clover is the
better forage in the production of
milk, but it does look that way, and
we know farmers in different parts
of the State who are taking up It's
culture quite xtensively-Denver
Field and Farm.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
A Fruit Tree Doctor Fake.

The latest fake practiced on farm
ers is done by man who visits the
place and claims that he has been
sent out by the State to examine fruit
tree diseases, says an exchange. The
fellow will so over the orchard and
mark all trees which he claims are af.
fected. Shortly after his visit con.
federate will appear and say that he
has preparation which will cure the
disease for which the tree is con-
demned and will contract to inject A
fluid into the roots for a certain price
Both men are swindlers and should be
run of the place with shotgun. The
only men empowered to inspect orch.
ards are the county inspectors. who
are known to most fruit growers.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
Homemade Ditch Digger.


A complete homemade ditch digger
may be made by following the de-
scription here given.
The bed piece, five and a half inches
long, Is cut out Of a hard plank two
and half inches thick, bolted at each
end and In the middle to prevent split
ting. The rear half is nine inches
wide and the front half six inches
wide.
The diggers are made of steel bars
two and half inches wide, three
quarters of an inch thick and twenty
four inches long. They are fastened
to the plank by right angle turn and
bolted. The two rear diggers are held
firmly by rod with nuts inside and
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
Would DO His Part.

Caller-Sir, | am collecting for the
Poets hospital, VIII you contribute
anythingf
Edltor-With pleasure. Call tonight
with the ambulance and l will have
some poets ready.-Stray StorieS
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
Breaking 1t Gens-

Jack-Perhaps you don't like my
style of dancing.
Orme Tin distress) We'll, there il
rather too much sameness about 1t.
Jack-Er-how may 1 vary it?
orme-Suppose you tread on my left
foot once in a while.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15

This diagram shows method of con-
structing fresh air intake where the
soil comes to or near the top of wall
as found in many bank barns. An ex-
cavation is necessary and retaining
wall is built around the open space
marked G.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
To Guard Against Cut worm..

Tar paper placed around cabbage
and tomato plants will keep on cut
worms, Insert the psSsr in the
ground. making circle about 4 inches
In diameter and 3 inches deep.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
Handling MIL

1t must not be forgotten that clean.
liness and coldness are the two great
principles In handling milk.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15

There is apt to be something wrong
with the man who is continually max
ing explanations
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15

Help Others TO Help Themselves,
The Talmud: 1t is better to lend
than to give, To give employment is
better than either.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-15
Old Fauorites
~oo1~~o~~o-
The Fatal Wedding.

The wedding bells were ringing on a
moonlight winters night,
The church was decorated, all within
was gay and bright;
A mother with her baby came and saw
the lights aglow,
She thought of how those same bells
chimed for her three years ago.
'T'd like to be admitted, sir" she told
the sexton old,
"Just for the sake of baby, to protect
him from the cold"
He told her that the wedding there was
for the righ and grand,
And with the-eager, watching crowd,
outside she must stand.
Chorus
While the wedding bells were ringing,
while the bride and groom were
there,
Marching down the aisle together, as
the organ pealed an air
Telling tales of fond affection, vowing
never more to part,
Just another fatal wedding, just anoth-
er broken heart.
She begged the sexton once again to
let her pass inside,
For baby's sake you may step in," the
gray-haired man replied.
IF any one knows reason why this
couple should not wed,
Speak now or hold your peace forever
more" the preacher said.
II must object" the woman said, with
voice so meek and mild.
'The bridegroom is my husband, and
this is our little child"
What proof have you?" the preacher
asked my infant" she replied.
She raised her babe, then knelt to pray,
the little one had died.
Chorus
The parents of the bride then took the
outcast by the arm,
We'll care for you through life," they
said, you've saved our child
from harm"
The outcast wife, the bride and par
ents quickly drove away,
The husband died by his own hand be-
fore the break of day.
No wedding feast was spread that
night, two graves were made
next day
One for the little baby, and in one the
father lay.
The story has been often told, by fire.
sides warm and bright,
or bride and groom, of outcast, and
the fatal wedding night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
Boston Curb Market.
New York Produce Market.

New York, Feb. is.
FLOUR-Receipts y .o63; exports 10.444;
sales 1000; firm with Il light trade; win
ter straights 500M515; Kansas straights 800
Gi520.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 5000: sales 1.6ooooo
futures, 5000 spot: spot firm; No. ? red
1879 elevator and 120l b ailoat; No. |
northern Duluth 123s o b afoat; No. ,
hard winter 1205 o b ofioat.
CORN-Receipts IS. go; spot firm; No
"A elevator and III o atioat: No. >
white nominal and No. yellow III o b
afloat.
OATS-Receipts $4,000; spot firmer; mix
ed 2GM32 lbs. 56Ma; natural white 26M32
lbs. 55lm59: clipped white 34M42 lbs. 51aM63.
BEEF-Steady.
LARD-Firm: western 915M9S5.
PORk-Steady.
SUGAR-Raw steady: fair refining 81
ash: centrifugal 90 test 361M364; molasses
sugar 2S6lt2S9: refined steady.
BUTTER-Firmer; receipts 446l: cream
cry specials 3tM4; official 81; extras seal;
third to first 22m29
EGGS-Weak; receipts S5573: state. Pa.
and nearby fancy selected white "a; do:
fair to choice 32dt33: brown and mixed
fancy -: do. fair to choice 306t3l.
POTATOES-Stea unchanged.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
HOUSE,.
Thursday, F

Thursday, Feb. IS, 1909.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Russell of Pitts
field.
Journal of yesterday read and ap-
proved.
Papers from the Senate disposed of
in concurrence.
An Act creating a State board Of
charities and corrections, came from
the Senate indefinitely postponed.
On motion of Mr.. Davies ef Var
mouth the bill was tabled pending ac-
ton on the report.
Senate Bills on First Reading.
An Act to amend Chapter IS of the
Revised Statutes relating to the State
board of health.
Resolve for the purpose of operating
fish hatcheries and feeding stations for
fish and for the protection of fish.
(Senate Amendment A, making the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
Boston Produce Market.

Boston, F7ob. Is.
APPLES-Unchanged Baidwins 5d6.
Unchanged: northern 3o132;
western 30@S1
CHEESE-Unchanged New York loo :.
CORN-Cnchanged No. 3 yellow a.
EGGS-hower: choice 3iq35; western 81
F'IOrR-Firn; spring patents 59OI635.
FRESH BEEF--Firm: whole cattle 9@i,
HAY-Lowcr; No. l 1850.
Steady: l1da.
IARD-Steady: pure liz.
MILL FEED-Steady
BRAN-21 .5G62S00
MINED FEEDS. o003000
OATS-Steadier: No. clipped white 81.
PORk-Firm: medium backs W.5o4 ~ %.
POTATOES-Firm white lGMt1IO.
SUGAR-Firm: graduated 40.
VEALS-Firm: 11613.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

John Brown was executed at Harpers
Ferry on December ,, 1883. 1t was shortly
after II O'Clock in the morning. TWO
thousand Virginia soldiers were ranged
around the scaffold when he was brought
from his prison house and placed in a
wagon which was to convey him to the
scene of the execution.