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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02

House painting is very easily done
by painters having their own scaffolds,
but a person desiring to do his own
work will have only ladder to take
place Of scaffold. To paint and stand
on the rungs of ladder all day will
tire ones feet. AS the writer had to
do some painting and ladder was
the only thing obtainable to climb up
on, fiat detachable step was made to
put upon the rungs of the ladder to
stand on the same as scaffold. The
step can be adjusted to any part Of
the ladder for the painter to stand
upon and paint surface within easy
reach. Two irons are bent V-shaped.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02
rhe Average Farmer.

Farms In the United States pro
duced $S,76O,OOO,OOO in 1909. But did
the farmer get his share of 1t? We
read a whole lot about the American
farmer being king and we are told
of the farmers sporting automobiles
and sending their children to college
or to Europe If they have been given
the college course, but 1t is the one
best bet that the average farmer Is
no plutocrat.. The farmer is consid-
cred lucky II he can keep the interest
paid up on the mortgage, and If final
ly, after years Of hard labor. he owns
his place clear of all Indebtedness he
Is considered well off. The American
farmer is long way from being the
real ruler Of the country.-Field and
Farm
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02
The Horses Prayer.

Pathetic and ironical as 1t may
seem. the horse looks up to man as
his god. In the Swedish they have
a Prayer Of the Horse" addressed to
his human lord and master, which In
sum Is as follows:
20 lord, my master, / thank and
adore you for the kind word you spoke
to me long ago, and l strive in the
hope that you will pet me once in
while. If / cannot understand what
you wish me to do. please be patient
and show me, Don't beat me or jerk
on the reins, but look and see II some
thing Is not wrong with the harness.
II beg of you not to whip me go
ing up hill, nor give me loads heavier
than l can pull. Keep me shod SO
that l can get foothold, and don't
let the farrier cripple my feet. If 7
am sick or have an liberated tooth.
go easy with me for a day, as an
beside myself with pain.
"Oh. grant me cool. clean water in
the hot weather, and let me not eat
my fodder dry.
Finally, when my strength is gone,
and cannot any more work for you
enough to be worth my keep, I be-
seech Of you don't let me be sold to
drag vender's cart. but take my life
In the quickest and easiest way, and
God will reward you In this life and
In heaven. Amen"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Was education
N more practical generation ago,
or did Johns father study his books
more thoroughly than John does?
John is a seventh grade student in
the public schools He asked his
father one day to help him solve the
following problem:
A, asked how much money he has
in the bank, replied: IF had $40
more would have $1,000 more than
half what | now have" How much
money had A?
"Such fool problem" said the
father. "Tell that teacher to ask the
cashier. You have been pestering me
with problems like that for week.
Suppose your teacher asked you how
old you are. Would you tell her:
eff | were ten times as ole as
am, diminished by AZ, would be 30
years older than dad, and II dad were
one-fourth as old as he now Is she
would be my age?'"
What would your teacher do IL you
answered In such manner? In my
days we had practical problems In
our arithmetic"
In order to investigate his fathers
statement John went to the public H.
brary and asked for an old arithmetic.
The librarian gave him Richards g
Natural Arithmetic" He turned to
the page marked Practical Exercises"
and read:
A puts his whole flock Of sheep into
three pastures; half go into one pas
ture, one-third into another and 80
into third. How many in the flock?
That's queer" said John. "Prac-
tical exercises, too. Here is man
who wants to find how many sheep he
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02

p OSTON.--An outdoor school for
- making musical rag men, hawkers
and street venders is the latest educa-
tional novelty established In this city.
Miss Caroline Il. Wenzel, fair set
tlement worker and graduate of
Vassar, Is the originator Of the idea
and sole instructor Miss Wengel be-
lieves that II the voice Of the rag man
and peddler must be tolerated 1t
should issue forth from the throats In
fiute.lke tones She confidently be-
lieves that once her method becomes
q fixture person. instead of feeling
obliged to slam down the window on
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02
What Becomes of the Corn.

People often wonder, particularly
those who have travelled for hundreds
of miles through the corn belt, what
becomes of corn which Is grown every
year. In the year 1908, when the to-
tai crop was 2,666,OOO,0OO bushels.
241 100000 bushels were consumed in
flour and grist mill products, 100000
bushels in the manufacture Of starch,
100000 bushels for malt liquors, IT.
100000 bushels In the production of
distilled liquors, 40,0O0,0OO bushels for
glucose, 19O,OOO,000 bushels for export
and 100000 bushels for seed, max
ing total of 51S,000,0OO bushels. or
1913 per cent of the entire crop. The
remaining S0.7 per cent. or 2,118,-
100000 bushels. seems to have been
used almost entirely for feeding.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02
ATcH1soa GLOBE s1aHra

You can account for very few mar
riages.
Every time any big bill is presented
to you, 1t looks like robbery.
II woman can get her first man.
she needn't worry about her second.
or third.
my duty" said an unhappy mar
ried woman to-day, ''is anything HE
objects to-"
There Is plenty of cooking as good
as mothers" but very few appetite:
like boys.
We have observed that there In It.
tie complaint about the high prices
Of beer and cigars.
The women pick at men and at
goods offered at special sale. in the
same Industrious way.
You are always at disadvantage in
arguing with man who doesn't know
what he Is talking about.
Have you ever noticed how sudden.
ly a useful man can die, and how long
a worthless man holds out? .
A book agent speaks as highly OF
the book he sells as a reformer speaks
Of the reform he represents.
Scrapping In families Is objection
able, but 1t Is not SO bad as when kin
praise each other too much.
When you hear smart saying by
a child, 1t is a sign the child has q
smart mother, and that she made 1t
up
A man and woman going on wed.
ding trip try hard not to look happy,
and on their return try just as hard
to look happy.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02

NHICAGo.-"Come Aome--twinsl"
" A mandatory order to police
man OF the Hyde Park station flashed
from his home to the station at mid
night. The policeman obeyed, just as
he has done each year at the sum-
mons to "come home" upon the ar.
rival of new members Of the family
ten OF them---during the last ten years,
Sergt, Bartholomew Cronin, the
father, left his desk duties at the po-
lice station and rushed to his house
at TOls Indiana avenue, Within we're
signs OF activity: lights flashed and
above the din OF excitement could be
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02

6ANSh Or llMEs AVN NP~~o~~'
Above the hopper pair Of roller bear
ings studded with blunt, pyramidial
teeth are in close relation. A handle
turns these rollers, while the mouth
Of the hopper opens over the table,
where dish can be placed beneath 1t.
The pods are inserted between the
rollers end foremost. AS the rollers
are turned the teeth engage the differ
ent shells of the pods and rip them
open, allowing the peas to roll down
into the bowl The shells are then
tossed out the other side OF the
"wringer." OF course, the two rollers
are not close enough together to crush
the peas, but just close enough to en-
gage the pods.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02
Stable ventiIator.
REGULATES ITSELF.

This ventilator is always in work
ing order as the hinged doors are kept
closed on the windward side and at
the, same time the connecting board
presses open the door on the opposite
side. The cord and pulley enable the
connecting board to be lifted to the
dotted line when both doors will re.
main closed.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02
Green Food for Chicks.

Growing chicks demand green food.
and by all means give them plenty OF
grass range If you have 1t; II not.
supply them with an equivalent, such
as lettuce, cabbage. weeds. clover. al
falfa; they relish 1t and will thrive
on it. Provide chicks with shade and
where a cool breeze can fan them in
warm weather. This should be sup
piled. even II temporary board roof
is the only thing that can be fur
nished.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02
Numher of Pigs Per sow.

The number of pigs a sow raises Is
something worth taking into account
If she is to be kept over for another
breeding season; 1t Is equally impor-
tant to know something about her
motherly instincts when young sows
are to be selected from her litter for
the breeding herd. For this reason
every man should keep some record
of the size of the litters his sows
raise.--Farmers' Tribune.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02
New Harve.tinK Arachine.

A new harvesting machine has been
introduced in Nebraska The harvester
is propelled by Its own power and Is
followed by truck-carrying gasoline
engine. which operates the harvesting
mechanism OF the machine This Is
used mainly in wet fields. where the
power OF the harvester Is not SUFFICIENT
to make headwsY
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02

No tree Is more sensitive to tillage
than is the peach. Probably more
failures In peach growing are due to
neglect in tillage than to any other
one cause. The most diverse views
are held by different growers. One
good grower will declare that the or
ehard should be titled early In the
season. and his neighbor viii maintain
that early tillags win Andanger the
srop.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02

handy little de-
vice will shell a
peck of peas In
the time 1t would
take the cook to
shell a dozen by
hand. 1t con-
sists Of a hop
per-like arrange
ment clamped to
the table by an
iron upright.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02
Ample Proof.

I4ottie-Is your young minister. ss
very, very fascinating?.
misunderstanding! Why, lots of
girls in our church have married men
they hated, Just to get one kiss from
The rector after the ceremony.-Puck.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02
Pestroned.

Dolly-why aren't You at the Geek.
ing school?
Polly-Teacher' laid up with dye
pepsia.-Cleyeland Leader.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02

The best results in keeping milk
sweet and maintaining the highest
quality of cream are obtained by set
ting the cans in cold water. The box
as shown should be near to the pump
and ice house.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02

as illustrated, each end having half
circle to fit over the rungs of the lad
der. Two holes, are drilled in the
top angle in which to put bolts for
fastening the step. The step can be
quickly changed from one position to
another. A person will feel as safe
on the step as If he were on stag
Unpopular Mechanics.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02

A little machine that will be highly
appreciated in the kitchen Is the pea
shelter invented by Utah man. This
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02

Your second thoughts may be besk-
u thay arrive ON lima
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21
"yustifabEe in tho Eyes of
God"
BY Rev. Madison c. Peters, Pastor of
the Peoples Church, Chicago.

sTa HE taking of human life, except in
self-defense, is never justifiable
in the eyes of the law; but con-
hngencies sometimes arise where such
an act is justifable in the eyes Of
God. To my mind, the Mcdowell
case was one of them
The fine feelings which every man
has for his fellow man, the still finer
feelings which husband bears for a
wife, he sacrificed on the altar of love.
James Mcdowell did what every
right-thinking man believes ought to
be done in such a case, but which
very few would find the courage to
do.
But though l have nothing but
realize the great danger which lies
in countenancing the deliberate Ia
king of human life under any consid-
erations.
This same obstacle is met with in
the consideration of another phase of
the same questionable disposition of
the newborn babe who is physically
these little ones be put away or
should they be permitted to develop
into lifelong crippIes Or idiots? If it
were possible to regulate and safe
guard the disposal of the adult who
is suffering from an absolutely in
durable and agonizing disease and the
baby who is born to a life of torture
in such way that it could not be
subjected to abuse, I should be in
clined to say that, II the cause of hui
mainly, an end should be put to such
suffering.
l believe the time will come when
the problem will be solved in this
way
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21
LEFT TO A WORSE FATE
DynamIter, Himself a Married Man,
Knew What Awaited Forgetfui
Husband.

The business man was sitting In his
once, thinking of starting for home,
"nen a suspicious looking person
came in with a leather bag in his
hand.
If you don't give me s25," said the
visitor, coming at once to the point,
Will drop this on the floor"
The business man was cool. What
is IN it?" he asked.
dynamite" was the brief reply.
What will it do if you drop it?"
Blow you up"
Drop it," was the instant CON-
mand. MY wife told me when 1 left
nome this morning to be sure and
SEND up bag of -four, and l forgot
IL. | guess it will take just about as
much dynamite as you have there to
prepare me for the blowing up I'll get
when she sees mel"
He threw himself back in his chair
and waited for the explosion, but it
did not come
I'm E married man myself" said
the dynamiter and quietly slipped out
ILLUSTRATED Bits.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21
HIS HANDS CRACKED OPEN

II am man seventy years old. My
hands were very sore and cracked
open on the insides for over year
with large Sores They would crack
open and bleed, itch, burn and ache
so that I could not sleep and could do
but little work. They were SO bad
that I could not dress myself in the
morning. They would bleed and the
blood dropped on the floor. I called
on two doctors, but they did me no
good I could get nothing to do any
good till I got the Cuticura Soap and
Cuticura Ointment. About a year
ago my daughter got cake of Cuti-
cura Soap and one box Of Cuticura
Ointment and in one week from the
time l began to use them my hands
were all hsaled up and they have not
been a mite sore since. [ would not
be without the Cuticura Remedies.
"They also cured bad sore on the
hand of one of my neighbor's children
and they think very highly of the Cuti-
cura Remedies. John w. Hasty, So. Eff
fngham, N H, Mar. 5, and Apr. II, '09.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21
Fright IN Theory, Doubtful
in Procfice''
BY BARONESS BAZUs (Mrs. Frank
Lesiie).

HAD a beautiful young friend q
\ sweet woman of strong character
Il who listened to her mothers plead
ings to give her an overdose of
morphine and end her life. The cir
cumstances seemed to justify her. Her
mother was in the last stages of acute
kidney disease. She suffered terrible
agony, and prayed for speedy death
She begged her daughter to end her
sufferings.
1T will be easy, daughter. Just
give me an overdose of that medicine
A few more drops of morphine and nv
agony will be over,'' she said over and
over again.
Well, the daughter yielded. She
ended her mothers sufferings, and she
believed she had shortened her life
by only three or four days.
theoretically, 1 am in favor of end.
ing life whose prolonging means
only misery. But as to it's practical
working out have doubts. For in.
stance, DR.. Crippen might set I'D as a
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21

RECEIVERS, hours later, he covers his
Wife's body with stones, rocks and
grass, and starts for Calgary, where
he gives himself up to the sheriff. He
is tried by coroner's jury and exon
Grated. The terrible experience he
has gone through almost drives him
insane. He becomes a physical and
mental wreck. Now he is haunted by
his deed, and has come to New York
to recuperate.
Did James Mcdowell commit MUIR
der, or not?
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21
Like the Other Kind.

1t was in down east" village that
the young man met his sweetheart, a
charming country beauty. When he
returned to the city he sent her a jar
Of cold cream to keep her cheeks as
fresh as the budding rose.
On his next visit he asked her how
she liked his little gift.
THE taste was very NICE" she
said, with rather sickly smile, ''hut
I think that I like the other kind of
cream best. dear"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21

defense that h killed his wife because
she was suffering from an incurabie
disease and begged him to shorten her
life.
Like hypnotism, it is capable OF
good uses and bad, and we have more
reason to fear the bad than to nope
Tor general benefits from the good.
have lived long enough and mingled
enough with humanity to have reacned
the conclusion that there are more BAD
people than good in the world. Inere
are many persons who, while not bao'
are not actively good, SO their lnnu
ence is the same.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21

agony" she begged her husband.
They were two days march from
the nearest help Mcdowell faced
clear-cut problem of three sides.
Should he sit beside his wife and
let her suffer her torture until death
came? should he hopelessly start
away for assistance, leaving her to
face death at the fangs of the wolves
which were circling about them?
Or should he kill her?
Mcdowell, after hours of anguish.
shot his wife through the head.
Is James Mcdowell to be con-
demned as a murderer or to be &C
claimed as a hero? On this page is
his clean-cut narrative of his ex-
perience to guide his Judgment And
here is the scenario of his tragedy:
Among McDowell's intimate chums
is John Crawford, also a miner and
prospector. Crawford has a pretty
daughter, bright, vivacious, coura-
geous girl of the real northwestern
type, Mcdowell has watched the girl
from the cradle up, and when she is
twenty-five he marries her.
lie has rich claim near Castle
mountain, in the British Columbia ex-
tension Of the Cascade range, and
soon after he is married he decides
TO visit it.
The trail leads through a very rough
country, but MacDowell's bride in
sists upon accompanying him. They
have three mules-one for the wife.
one Tor the husband and one for pro-
visions and implements. The noun
tain trails are very narrow and steep,
and one day, as the wife's mule, which
is somewhat in the lead, suddenly
brays, as If in pain, and the miner,
looking UP, sees him rearing on the
very edge of the precipice Before he
can reach his wife's side. the mule
has plunged over the edge of the
cliff, carrying the wife with him!
Mcdowell follows the edge of the.
canyon until he comes to the mouth
and makes his way to the point of the
catastrophe
He finds the body of the mule and.
30 feet away, the crushed and mutt
lated body Of his wife Every bone
IS broken, although her head and face
have somehow escaped serious in
jury. He mikes some brandy and
water and forces it down her throat.
and she revives. She RECOGNIZES her
husband and begs him to put her ont
of her misery
Mcdowell realizes that her case is
hopeless and that her death can only
be a matter of hours. The nearest
help Of any kind is 100 miles away.
in the distance, he hears the howl
ing Of the wolves and knows that the
cougar or mountain lion will make
short work of his suffering wife if he
leaves her
For Sc hours he has had neither
sleep nor food, and he is unable to
maintain the strict watch which will
be necessary to save his wife and him.
self from the wild beasts of the re-
gion.
And all the time his bride of nine
months is begging him to put her
away, to release her from her agony
For ten hours he debates whether or
not to yield to her request, and then
decides to do so. He presses his re-
volver against his wife's head and
fires.
Then Mcdowell faints. When he
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21
CONVINCING PROOF
OF VIRTUE OF
Lydia e. PinkFam's Vegetable COMPOUND
Mrs. S. j. Barber says:

II thinkLy E.
Pnkham's Vege-
table Compound
is the best medi-
cine In the world
for women-and
I feel it my duty
to let others
know the good it
has done for me.
Three years ago
L had a tumor
which the doctor
said wou1d have
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21

to be removed by an operation or I
could not live more than a year,
or two, at most. Iwrote Mrs. Pink
ham, atLynn, Mass, for advice, and
took IA bottles Of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and to-
day the tumor is gone and I am a
perfectly well woman. / hope my
testimonial will be of benefit to 9TH
ers:n-Mrs. S. J. BARBER, Scott,
n. Y.
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table Compound, and the pain soon
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Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
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Mrs. GEORGE MAY, Sc 4th Ave-.
Paterson, N. j.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21

When girl marries for money the
devil is usually the best man at the
wedding.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21
Mrs. George May says:

"NO one knows
what I have suf-
tered from fe-
male troubles,
neuralgia pains,
and backache.
MY doctor said
he could not give
me anything to
cure it. Through
the advice of q
friend I began
Ito use Lydia E.
[Pinkham'S Vepe-
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Mrs. w. X. Housh says:

i n q Y g D e g II
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of a severe fe-
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Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound, and
want to recon-
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fering women. "
Mrs. W. K.
z East
view Ave, Gin
ciDn9fi Ohio
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important to Mothers
Still a Woman.

Hewitt-She is man in her enjoy
ment of baseball.
JeWett-But she showed that she is
still a woman by refusing to sit
through the thirteenth inning
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21

To accept defeat gracefully, start
your retreat In time.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21

AMES MACDOWELL,
an American mining
prospector, killed his
wife.
She had fallen
down a 2,000-foot wall
of rock and lay
crushed, but con-
scious. at its foot.
For Gods S a K e
kill me AND end nv
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-21

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out giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound trial. 1t surely
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