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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19
ATHENA. ORE. MARCH 1e. 49,. >. 100!

As au echo from a far-of shore
comes the announcement of the death
of Admiral Cervera. A valiant foe-
man and gallant fighter, the Spanish
admiral made heroic attempt to put
to sea with the feet comprising the
flower of the navy of Spain. Being
overwhelmed by the American feet
and driven to desperate straits for his
personal safety, he plunged into the
sea. clad only in his undergarmeDts.
but was rescued and taken aboard the
flagship OF the American squadron,
treated with the consideration due his
rank, and finally in the course Of nego-
tations was released. Severely CEN
sured by his government for the loss
of the feet, he has since lived in re-
tirement at Puerto Real, where be
faced his last enemy. The incidents
thus briefly recalled, though but little
more than ten years old, seem as an
cient history. so rapidly do events
crowd each other in the presentment
of the great drama of life.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19
WHY is 1T?

Can you tell me reader why it is that
the people of Athena bad rather go to
something with cheap laugh in it,
than to something thought producing?
have heard it said people wont pat
ro nize a lecture course" The same
people will 60 to all the cheap shows
that come along. They will laugh
their lungs out at a minstrel joke. But
when they have chance to get some
thing that "sticks to the ribs" they
prefer loafing or sleeping. Why is it?
Because it is too hard to think. Costs
an effort. Laugh is cheap. Anybody
can laugh. Not everyone can think.
I know of people who can laugh at
nothing. Why not learn the art of
thinking? Laughing is all right If
you learn to laugh at the right thing.
1t is just as wrong to become mentally
intoxicated as physically, SO far as your
mind is concerned. The literature of the
average home is mind intoxicating
stuff. A good lecture course, and a
good library with patronizing public
is the surest source of culture. People
must learn to think before they car
claim culture and think independent.
ly. Concentration Of mind is very es-
sential. Try this experiment. Take
out your watch and try to think for
one minute--sixty seoonds-on one
subject. See if your mind wanders.
II it does you are diseased. Something
is wrong with your mind. Let me
diagnose your case. We will call the
disease "inconcentritis. The cause
may be traced directly to what you
read, and what you allow yourself to
hear and see. Cure: read something
that makes you think. Listen to some
thing that makes you think. Avoid
trashy literature and anything else
that makes your mind wander.
u. Gesagen.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

In view of what is happening in
the great west the attitude of some of
the oarlier statesmen toward that part
of the United States is not without in
terest. On January %, 1874, Daniel
Webster, in letter to Edward Ever
ett, who became Filmore's secretary
of state in 1852, said in reference to
the Oregon country; II believe Ore
gon is poor county, no way impor-
tant to England except that she hap
pens to have few settlements in that
region. and Of little consequence to the
United States.' Mr.. Webster-and
who will question his Amerioanism-
would have been willing to have made
the Columbia river the northwest
boundary, surrendering practically the
whole of what is now the great state
of Washington, to England, and be-
lieved he was handing Great Britain
"lemon.' 1t was this lack of know
ledge of the character and posi- bilities
of the great west which largely failed
to bring forth free land settlement
policy in the early days, such as was
subsequently developed.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

The Northern Pacific seems never
to have appreciated the volume of
freight business it receives at this
point, to the extent of giving daily
service and bidding for passenger
traffic. The every other. day may be-
will come in-and may be- we won't ser.
vice is pestiferous sore that long ago
should have been healed by demands
of Athena shippers. A railroad COM
pany that does not appear to care a
flip for a town further than to bleed
it for its tonnage, merits little consid-
Grafton from the public. Are we to
presume that special trains made
up of box cars will tranport passen-
gers between Athena and Pasco during
the Seattle exposition?
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

The special session is over and no
aid given the Normal schools. The
knife was again unsheathed by Bower
man and his cohorts, and the bill for
the miserable. pitiful pittanoe of
$4,000 that was so miserly squeezed out
to each school was promptly left dead
in the house when that body ad-
journed. The loyal friends of the
Normals would have none of the pal
try crumbs, and did the right and
proper thing in rejecting the overture.
which is undoubtedly tho most fla
grant insult yet heaped upon a merit
orious branch of state educr-ion.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19
THE JEWS TAKE UP FARMING.

An event of importance was the
formation Of the federation of Jewish
Farmers of America at convention
in New York short time ago. Most
people did not suppose that there were
enough Jewish farmers in this country
to hold convention.
But there are at least $4,000 Jews
in the United States who are engaged
in agriculture pursuits. The late
Baron Maurice de Hirsch, recognizing
the Importance of adapting the Jewish
immigrant in every way to his new
environment, placed funds In trust to
encourage farming settlements and to
found an agricultural school.
Several colonies are in existence and
new societies to promote the move
ment have been formed. Loans have
Eeen made to Jewish farmers in "a
states, an itinerant lecturer is support
cd, and there is a Yiddish paper
known as the Jewish Farmer.
The most recent efforts have been
in line with the advice of the country
life commission, and many local as
sociations have been organized, with
thoroughness that should be a good
example to all farmers.
At the recent convention resolutions
were adopted in favor of cooperation
in buying supplies and selling pro-
ducts. the blishment of canning
and picking factories by the farmers,
protection against fraud support of the
state colleges aud experiment stations
higher standards in the rural schools,
and the creation of parcel post.
-Spoke Review.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

is the party. The prohibitionists have
several dry counties that are encourag-
ing them immensely, while the liquor
interests have a numerous litter of
blind pigs, through and by which they
prosper, SO they assert, more than if
the localities where blind pigs root
were wet. In view of the above de-
lightful conditions in Oregon we can
afford to drop politics for few months
and get some -four, calico and hard.
ware for home consumption, letting
the politicians absorb the lacteal fluid
called public pap undisturbed except
for their own nudging and scheming. !"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19
Near Death In Big Pond.

1t was thrilling experience to Mrs.
Ida Soper to face death. "For years a
severe lung trouble gave me intense
suffering, 'she writes. "and several
times nearly caused my death. All
remedies failed and doctors said I was
inourable. Then DR.. Kings New
Discovery brought quick relief and1 a
cure so permanent that have not
been troubled in twelve years. Mrs.
Soper lives in Big Pond, Pa. 1t works
wonders in Coughs and Colds, Sore
lungs. Hemorrhages, LaGrippe. Asth-
ma, Group. Whooping Cough. and all
Bronchial affection. SOC and $1.0O.
Trial hottie free. Guaranteed ty
Palace Drug Co.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19
It Saved His Leg.

All thought I'd lose my leg," writes
J. A. Swenson, Watertown. Wis, "Ten
years Of eczema. that ] 8 doctors could
not cure, had at last laid me up Then
Bucklin's Arnioa Salve cured it sound
and WE'LL" Infallible for Skin Erup-
tions, Eczema, Salt Rheum, Boils,
Fever Sores, Burns, Scalds, Cuts and
Piles. 25c at Palace Drug Co.'S.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

DR.. Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the
University of California said recently
to Boston audience, "The old New
England characteristic Of gumption is
dying out. If you don't know what
gumption is you are no New Eng
lander" But New Englanders, East
and west, still know what it is, for
they still have it.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19
Kills Would-Be SLAYER,

A merciless murderer is Appendicitis
with many victims. But Dr.. Kings
New Life Pills kill it by prevention
They gently stimulate stomach, liver
aud bowels, preventing that clogging
that invites appendicitis, curing Con-
stipaion, Biliousness, kills Malaria,
Headache and Indigestion. 900 at
Palace Drug Co.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

1t is understood that Francis j. Heney
who has pocket $65,0O0 of Uncle
Sans coin, will be dropped from the
payroll after March 4. Mr.. Heney
has made an enviable record in prose-
outing, gratis and land frauds, al
though in earning world wide rep
utation for himself he brought meager
returns to the government.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

That all is serene in Oregon is the
belief of the Echo Register. Hear it
prattle: with a U. S. Senator the
democrats are happy, with governor.
the repu blicans are tiokled. With O
State railroad the socialists should be
pleased: as while it is little one so
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

The statement is made that Mrs.
William Howard Taft is a splendid
cook. Her distinguished husband Ger.
tainly makes a convincing after-taking
picture.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19
Soldier Balks Death Plot.

1t seemed to A. J. Jackson civil war
veteran of Kemp Tex, that plot exis-
ted between desperate lung trouble
and the grave to cause his death.
I contracted stubborn cold, he writes
that developed cough that stuck to
me, in spite Of all remedies. for years.
My weight ran down to 1870 pounds.
then began to use DR.. Kings New Dis
covery. which restored my health COM
pletely. Inow weigh 178 pounds. For
severe Cold, obstinate Coughs Hemor-
rhages. Asthma, and to prevent Pneu-
monia it's unIivaled. SOC. and 5 90.
Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Pal
ace Drug Go.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

While some cables have nothing
more serious than au old maid aunt to
get along with, the new Emperor of
China will have thirty nurses to look
after him. ....
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

an Italian historian claims to have
unearthed evidence which shows that
Mark Antony married Cleopatra for
her money. We feel sure, however.
that she didn't marry him for his title.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

Chancellor Buelow says Gei many
favors reform in Turkey. England
will therefore. begin to regard Turkish
reform as distinctive blow to civil
ization.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19
Washington Once Gave Up

to three doctors; was kept in bed for
five weeks. Blood poison from spiders
bite caused large, deep sores tocover
his leg. The DR.. failed then Bucklens
Arnioa Salve completely cured me.
writes j. Washington, of Bosqueville,
Tex. For eczema, boils, burns, piles
its supreme. 25c. at Palace Drug Co.'S.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

An Ohio politician remarks that
Corporations have no souls, nor do
they wear CLOTHES. " Well, anyhow,
they don't try to advertise their busi-
ness by doing the Salome dance in
public,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

'Chauncy Depew paid $500 for a room
from which he could view the inaug-
ural parade and it must have hurt him
like sin to think of the days when he
had chance to become the leading
figure in a similar pageant.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

Now Emperor William is in posi-
tion to agree with those pessimists who
say that conversation is becoming
lost art.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19


The Chicago professors defense of
the dog as an article of diet looks sus-
pioiously as if he had been retained
by the sausage trust.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

The house denied Speaker Cannon
an increase of salary but it has not
yet denied that he is boss around the
house.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19
REPAIRING

We repair all kinds of fine and CON-
plicated watches. Repeaters. Chrome
graphs, Uhiming and Cuckoo Clocks.
Try US. II. H. HILL. Jeweler Palace
Drug Store.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

The trial of the Coopers in Nashville
is going to raise havoc with their bar
rel all right.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-19

For health and happiness-DeWitts
Little Eraly Risers-small. gentle.
easy, pleasant little liver pills. the
best made. Sold by Palace Drug Co.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-05-06
STOCK NOTES.

Quality and type are not SO essen.
tial in feeding aged steers as in feed
ing calves, provided the purchase
price is proportionate.
Pigs will root more in spring when
the ground is soft than at any other
time. Feeding regularly with coal,
charcoal, ashes, other mineral mat
ter and tankage will reduce the root
ing inclination. Rings should be used
in extreme cases.
Sows narrowing in the spring should
be provided with extra dry shelter and
bedding. Pigs and other baby ami
mails can endure considerable cold pro-
viding they are kept dry.
Keep the colts and calves thrifty
and growing at this period. They
need a variety and abundance of feed
at this season to put them in shape
for best growth on summer pasture.
Keep up the grain ration. An occa-
sional feed Of oats and wheat bran
will help Linseed meal is good for
young stock, loosening the bowels and
furnishing protein for development Of
muscle,
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-05-06
Thumps In Hogs.

Overlooking with insufficient exer-
else is claimed to give hogs the
thumps. Sleeping around a straw stack
under damp straw or in too warm 2
room with poor ventilation will bring
it on, or aggravate it when once con-
tracted. Young, fat pigs seem to be
more susceptible to it than older ami
mails. It is very likely also that care
less inbreeding weakens the vitality
of pigs and causes them to contract
the malady. Thumps nearly always
prove fatal In connection with pneu-
monia and other lung troubles. The
thumping in the animal Is caused by
ytelsnt beating q the heart i
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-05-06
lt6GtR SURVIVES
AWFUL. A { 4 /
MAN WHO HAD PIECE OF WOOD
oRlvEN>ThRoUoA LUNGS HAS
MIRACULOUS RECOVERY.
CASE IS WITHOUT A PARALLEL
with 0sAra in HE Body Victim Was
Carried Fisty Miles to Hespitai-
Attending sussssu Justly
Proud Of His Cure ..

Utica. N. Y.-It you ask George
Lam to-day, "Hew are your" he An
swsrs ,<eheerily;; :, Mover felt bstt 4 II
ny life" And he speaks the truth
Rudy, muscular AMI perfectly healthy
LAM, So years old, is doing trenen
dously hard work as = logger in ths
Adirendlcks. He has survived ~
extraordinary accident.
A shaft OF wood, d inches long,
transhxed his chest, piercing II
through and through.
The stake on which LAM was I'M
palsd was the edEing from a rough
board, one by three-fourths of an inch
1t the small end-the end which en-
tered his back-and one by one and
one-fOurth inch at the larger end,
which was broken off at the point OF
entrance.
The stake entered Lanz's back. II
penetrated his left lung, then his right
lung, and broke rib before coming
out through the chest.
Dlt =. W.. lily loAO, d uIStIu6uioAON
surgeon of this city, reported this ex-
traordinary case at the annual meet
ing of the New York State Medical 70
ciety, held in Albany In the paper
which DR.. Hyland read, describing the
accident and recovery, he said:
Il present to you the report Of a
case OF translation, which l believe
has not a parallel-one which, be.
lieve, to be unique in surgical REC
ords."
Dr. Hyland introduced LAM to the
assembled physicians. LAM, "a strong
man rejoicing in his strength" dis
played the scars on his chest, but did
not seem to understand why he was
the object of such curiosity.
In his paper DR.. Hyland wrote:
''The case is that of George LAM
of Forestport, N. Y. On June IA, 1906,
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-05-06
Falls in Deep Mine Shaft.

Linton, Ind.-The most miraculous
escape from death in local mining his.
tory occurred the other day when Cal
Miller, foreman Of the White Rabbit
mine, fell head foremost down the
main shaft. The shaft is 900 feet
deep, and friends who saw Miller slip
from the tipple had no hope Of finding
anything more than his mangled re-
mains. However, 1t happened that the
cage was starting upward Is he fell,
catching him about 60 feet below the
surface. He was considerably bruised
ebst -aet seriously iajaFe6
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-05-06
DOG SAVES MASTER FROM BULL,
Faithful Animal, Rushing to the Res
cue, Lets the Man Escape.

"a Escondido, Cal. - Tossed high in
the air by a maddened bull, but.
ted with the beasts head, tram
pied by its hoofs, R. B. Dor.
den, rancher, would have been
crushed to death but for the bravery
and devotion Of his dog. The attack
was so sudden and vicious that Dor.
den had no chance to save himself and
almost before he knew it was
caught on the bulls horns and flung
high in the air. Borden struck the
ground with a thud and was partly
stunned. Instantly the bull was on
him again, stamping him with it's
hoofs and butting the man with it's
head. a..
Wholly At the mercy of the beast,
Borden yelled for help. The dog heard
its master and came running to his as
sistance. There was a moment of
struggle, in which the bull tried in
vain to reach his new enemy, who
snapped and tore madly. Then the bull
gave up and retired, leaving Borden
hardly able to crawl to his house.
The bull was later shot as being too
dangerous to live, but the dog will
get the best of everything from now
on, says Borden.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-05-06

he was operating an edging machine
In the lumber mills Of Pullman Bros,
at Fulton Chain, N Y. The machin-
cry became stuck or blocked in some
way, and upon being released, In some
manner unknown to LAM, aH edging
was broken off and driven through his
back. He was thrown to the floor
unconscious, but regained conscious
ness quickly. When fellow workmen
reached him the board was protruding
from both sides of the body.
"Tne accident occurred at $50 in
the morning. Drs. Nelson and Lind
sey of Old Forge were called and rem
dered all possible assistance, placing
him on train and accompanying him
to Utica, a distance of so miles. In
the meantime l had been summoned
to meet the train, which I did, and by
request of Mr.. Pullman, who accom-
panied him, LAM was conveyed to St.
Elizabeth's hospital, where I proceed
ed at once, with the assistance of
Drs. Wetmore and Groman, to remove
the piece of edging. might add that
up to the time Of administering the
anesthetic LAM was perfectly con-
scious
ION two sides of the edging the
grain of the wood ran in opposite d.
rections, and we believed that the
loose slivers we're already detached
from the edsing and probably imbed.
ded in the lungs. deemed it advisable
to remove the edging by carrying it
through in the direction in which it
had started. enlarged the openings
and with a great deal of force, drew it
slowly through the body. .sS
1.-THE hemorrhage resulting was In
significant The right lung collapsed
below the seat Of the injury. Upon in.
halation and exhalation the air passed
freely through both openings
Dr. Hyland further described the
treatment to the physicians. Enough
for laymen to know that, although
LAM recovery was retarded by at
tacks Of pleurstls and empyema, he
returned to his home on August q.
about ten weeks after the accident.
10 vs1aAs having nsArly healed. (
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-05-06
m@ e1lEf FRIES
.~ 70 SCALP 4 WOMAN
NQoO AMuck IN CINCINNATI AE-
TURNING. FROM ,~AsHlNoToN
AND eTADe THREE.

-Qaeinnati. Outbound passenEsrs
~ \ 6. E Q. train we're attacked BY
a. faaiAa chief, who stabbed and IT.
teRpted 70 ecalp : woman and two
men. A Wyoming chief, vAs, with
three Sioux chiefs, had been to WASH
lagtsa to zee the Great Father"
jsmDea fron the traia, grabbed Mrs.
ANA iDevorA aaA stabbed her ia the
back WITH hunting knife: Then 10
Attempted "a. scalp the woman. Ii H.
aght Tor her life Mrs. DeyorA vas cut
abSut to he'd, arms anl body. IL
dropped to the platform. Her little
bzby re1leA - the tracks, where it was
rescued " 4 young woman. ~
+ Tho Indian thea turned his attsn.
taa': to Max Meyers. whe IL fatally
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-05-06
The Crazed Indian Stabbed Mrs.
.. Devord in the Back.

wounded. and Joseph W. Gordon. Cor
don will recover.
John II. Cogan dealt the Indian 4
blow over the head with cane and as
he staggered freight handler felled
him with his fist.
Passenger and station attaches then
hurled Themselves upon the Indian,
who struggled to free himself.
The knife was knocked from his
hand and he was dragged whooping
and screaming, to the street, where he
was taken in charge by the police. At
tho station house the Indian was sui
len and refused to talk. An Indian
named Charlie Burning Hawk, who
was with him, is held at the station to
interpret what the chief may say.
Three Sioux war chiefs from Kansas
say that the man was not of their
party and that they do not know him
or what made him run amuck. On the
train the Indian, who had seen tho
secretary Of the interior at Washing
ton, was noticed by passengers to be
brooding and sullen, but he evinced no
signs of insanity until the passengers
were leaving the train.
After attacking Mrs. Devord the In
dian paused moment to let out "a
war-whoop and then sprang at Meyers,
who seemed powerless after the In
dian let out his blood-curdling yell.
Al no reached him the Indian
paused = moment, then plunged his
dagger into his victim with twisting
action. The sight Of the unconscious
forms of the man and woman, the
blood on the platform and the
mad Indian threw the crowd into a
panic and many rushed across the
tracks over which trains were backing.
narrowly escaping death under the
wheels. Several women tainted.