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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
DRUGGIST is GooD-NATUREE
Example of How Dispenser OF Pills
ls imposed Upon by Many
Thoughtless Persons.

He came to town and wandered into
the big drug emporium without re-
moving the mud from. his boots.
"Do you give four stamped enve'
lopes for nine cents, mister?"
1--WE generally charge ten, but
guess you can have them"
"Got any sample cough drops?
Here are a few"
"Any old cigar boxes you don't
want?"
Here's a couple"
"All the 1910 almanacs gone?"
Long ago."
"But other drug stores keep few
on hand"
"We don't"
"That's funny. Let me see some OF
your fancy sweet SOAP"
Want to buy box?"
Nope, want to study the French
names. Some of those city college
gals are coming down on the farm tc
board and ! want to spring few
French words on them. that's all"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Habit.

Habit Is the deepest law Of human
nature. It Is our supreme strength,
II also IE certain circumstancaa.s nur
miserablest weakness. Let me go once.
scanning my way with any earnest
ness Of outlook, and successfully ar
riving, my footsteps are an invitation
to me second time to go by the
same way: 1t Is easier than any other
way. Habit is our primal fundamental
law, habit and imitation: there is
nothing more perennial In us than
these two. They are the source of all
working and all apprenticeship, Of all
practice and all learning In the world.
NarlvIn sf
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21

THE army Is on the anxious seat
] With a new boss on the job 1t 10
expected Major Gen. Leonard Wood.
chief of staff. will make things hum
until his own ideas are put into oper.
alton. Although he was appointed to
succeed Major Gen. Franklin ]. Bell
last October. since that time he has
been on a trip to Argentine to rep
resent the United States at the cen
tennial celebration. and has only late
ly returned to Washington.
In the meantime many important
questions have been piling up await
ing his decision. Just what effect the
personality Of the new chief Of star
viii have on the army Is matter of
much moment 10 the officers who
know something Of his strenuous Ca
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Flahta Rull With halrnIn.

Fulton. Mo.--Mrs. Thomas Douglas.
living south of here, was badly In.
tured by bull when the animal at.
tackled her In field. She had armed
herself with pitchfork, which the
animal knocked from her grip, She
was thrown down, butted and tram
pied upon. When the beast finally left
her for dead she crawled to the house
and telephoned to the family doctor,
In the battle with the bull Mrs. Doug
las took a hairpin from her hair and
used II In an effort to gouge the AMI.
mails eyes,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Before and After.

The young Prince Tsai-Tao, during
his visit to America, welcomed criti-
cism of Chinese customs, and retorted
politely with counter criticism of the
customs of the United States.
The prince. at fashionable lunch
con in New York. sat beside lady
prominent in rich and rather fast
set.
Prince" said this lady, II think it's
dreadful that In China bride never
sees her husband before the wedding
day"
WELL" said the prince, with grin.
"here in America you never see him
after Il !"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Protectino the Men,

"All women of whatever age, rank.
profession or degree, whether virgins,
maids or widows, that shall from
after the passing Of this act impose
upon or betray into matrimony any
of His Majesty's male subjects BY
scents, paints, cosmetics, washes. arti-
ficial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool,
iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes or
bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty
OF the laws now In force against
witchcraft, sorcery and such like mis-
demeanors, and that the marriage.
upon conviction. shall stand null and
void."--An act of Parliament In the
reign of Charles II.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Mosquitoes Feast on Babe.

New York.--Under a bush In Central
Park. and surrounded by cloud Of
mosquitoes. q patrolman found l.
months-old baby boy, The child was
crying Justify and waving It's chubby
hands to keep away the insects that
were devouring 1t, At Bellevue hospi.
tai seventy severe insect bites we're
counted. and the attendants declared
that the child's condition was serious
as result of the Wholesale poisoning
by the mosquitoes, The baby was
dressed in new clothing and there
were no identifying marks.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Cnanoe IN man.

Men are not the same through all
divisions Of their ages; time, expert
ence, self-refections, and Gods mer-
cies. make In some well tempered
minds a kind of translation before
death, and men to differ from them
selves as well as from other persons.
Hereof the old world afforded many
examples to the infamy of latter ages.
wherein men too often live by the
rule of their inclinations; so that,
without any astral prediction, the first
day gives the last: men are common
ly as they were; or rather, as bad dis
positions run into worse habits, the
evening doth not crown, but sourly con-
alndes the dav.-Sir Thomas Browna-
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Farm Full OF Freaks.

Tulsa, 0kla.--A chicken with its
heart on the outside of lis body is one
of the monstrosities owned by Billy
Lumpkins. local character. whose
hobby is the raising and breeding OF
freak animals. His unique menagerie
includes q five-legged hog. one-legged
chicken, horned rooster. talking
sparrow and the fowl with its heart on
the outside of it's breast. his latest
acquisition TO the strange collection
Of natures freaks
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Early Habit.

Mrs. Judson-Have you ever noticed
the polite consideration Mr.. Blysterre
shows other people? At the dinner
table, for instance, he never puts a
morsel into his own mouth till every
one else has been helped and is eat
ing.
Mr.. Judson-Oh, what you term his
consideration is only an illustration OF
force OF habit. His wife. used to do
his cooking for him and he learned at
that time it was always wise to let
some one else test the food before
tackling 1t himself"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Rlueberry Biscuit.

Add cup of blueberries to the ordi-
nary baking powder tea biscuit. made
from a quart of -four. three heapins
teaapoonfuls of baking powder, 0
large teaspoonful of butter. a little
salt and two scant cups of sweet
milk. Make the biscuit as soft as pos
sible and with as little handling, and
bake in quick oven. These are de
licious for luncheon or tea The ber
ries should be washed. dried and
rolled In -four before adding them te
the dough.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Secretary Wilson Now the Bug Man

preventing" any insect The law OF.
ficers, after due consultation, admit.
ted that while they understood how an
insect might be repelled or destroyed,
they did not see how they could pre-
vent an insect or mitigate him.
The law is specific in declaring
against misbranding insecticides. II a
well-meaning citizen of the United
States puts up compound that he
says will rid a house of, say, bugs,
within specified length of time,
there seems no way to determine
whether the compound is misbrand-
ed, unless the secretary of agriculture
goes to the premises and holds a
stop-watch on the reaches, to see
whether they mitigate or vacate with
In the time limit.
The biological survey has issued an
informal statement already, saying that
the law is remiss in that 1t does not
include rats among the insects to
be prevented. An effort is being made
to see whether the law officers are
willing to consider rats as insects.
DR.. Henshaw of the biological sur
vey and Prof. Crittenden of the bu+
reau of entomology are going to can
to their aid the legal advice of Judge
Pugh of the police court. Judge Pugh.
while assistant district attorney some
years ago, established reputation In
the police court by arguing that, e-
gally, lop-eared rabbit was a chicken
within the meaning Of the act, II any
body can prove sewer rat to be a
centipede Judge Pugh is the man. 1t
Is helieYed
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
To Make a Home.

What do you include when you think
Of housekeeping? II you take 1t to
mean merely the work of the house
which could be accomplished by
hired servant, then perhaps it does not
matter that you should miss such
things as opportunity for thought.
daily reading ETC., says Home Notes.
But II you make housekeeping mean
home-making and housekeeping, the
formation of home into a center for
the life Of the soul and spirit as well
as of the body. then you must cult.
vate your mind, not keep 1t always to
the level of the mundane things Of
life.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Carrot Conserve.

Wash and scrape half dozen firm car.
rots. put through meat chopper and cut
a. small as peas, Boil half hour in
slightly salted water, then drain. and
to each pint add two cups of light
brown sugar and the Juice and half the
grated rind of one lemon. Cook slowly
til clear. about III hours, This Is an
agreeable novelty with . decided for.
eign favor.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Whv He Was Thankful.

Weigler-You seem to have a won
derful friendship for Turner.
Gausley-I ought to have; he saved
my life once.
Weigler-How did 1t happen7
Gausley-He jumped into the river
after me.
Weigler-How came you to be in
the river7
Gausler-Turner had rocked the
hoat.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Mot Awkward.

Canfield-Bunyan can't take step
without treading on some ones corn.
Naylor-He must be exceedingly
awkward.
Canfield-Oh. no, no. he isn't; he's
merely unfortunate. The corns he
treads on is on the bottom of his own
foot.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Invisible.

First Suburbanite- your gar
den. old man?
Second Suburbanite--It's simply out
OF sight.
First burbanite-That's good.
Second Suburbanite-It's anything
but good. The grass and weeds are q
foot high all over 1t.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
According to Measure.

eyes," said the man with the au-
burn tie, as he lit the stump of cigar.
"T have a bushel and half OF chill
dren. My name is Peck. and have
SIX"
THAT'S pretty good" reJoined the
man behind the corncob pipe. "but
rye got mile of them. My name is
Furlong, and I'm the father of eight"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
a Wonderful Breed.

Seymour hear you have evolved
a wonderful breed of laying hens?
Ashley-You bet have! They beat
anything I've ever seen. They don't
ueed roosts.
Seymour-Don't need roostsf
Ashley-No, sir: they're laying
night and day.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
,InfashIonahIs Event.

unfashlonabie Event.
Among other events, we shall have
sack race for ladies'. Professionals
barred"
What do you mean by profession
aIs?''
"Those who have been wearing tube
gowns.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21
Counter Attraction.

Counter Attraction.
IT was at Atlantic City when Glen.
Curtiss made his flights there"
"What did you think of himf"
Didn't see him."
Didn't see himf''
-Nope. couldn't see him for The
sathing suits"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-10-21

The Truth of IL.
aThey say that women always reao
the last CHAPTER of novel first"
-It Isn't so. | always read the firss
chapter first
@And then1'
'@Then ! read the last chapts- :
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-08
Modifying Injunction Power.

An administration measure which
may pass during this session of con-
gress is the bill which Representative
Moon has introduced, which seeks to
modify the issuance of Ainjunctions 10y
the federal courts. Following the
pledge made by the platform of the
last-held republican national conven-
'tion, President Taft urged action upon
congress and it is believed his views
are embodied in the Moon bill.
The main provision is that before a
Judge shall grant a permanent or pro-
longed Injunction against any person,
firm, corporation or organization, both
parties to the dispute shall have an
opportunity to present their argu-
ments before him, in order that the
facts on each side shall be fully set
forth for the guidance of the court.
When, however, it shall appear to
the satisfaction of the judge that i'm
mediate and frreparable injury may
follow failure on his part to act at
once, he may issue a temporary in
junction or restraining order on the
application of one of the parties; but
this mandate shall continue in effect
only for seven days, at the end of
which it becomes void. unless both
sides shall have had an adequate hear
ing. Moreover. when a judge has
granted a tentative injunction of this
sort. he shall publicly record his rea-
sons for believing that grave damage
would have resulted if he had omitted
to do so.-St. Paul Despatch
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-08
COLEMAN'S CHAUFFEUR FREE
ON GRANDMOTHER'S BOND.
His Connection With Bank Case Not
So Important as Supposed.

Boston, March 7.-wiIson w. Lock-
hart of Cambridge who was arrested
on Friday for aiding George w. Cole
man in the alleged Iooting of the Ma
tional City bank of Cambridge, con-
WINGED the federal authorities today
that his connection with the case was
not quite so important as was first
supposed, with the result that his bail
was cut IN halves and he was released.
The bond was furnished by his grand
mother.
Lockhart's attorneys were emphatic
in their declaration that the young
man knew nothing of Coleman's meth
DDS, though they admitted that he fire.
quently substituted for Coleman in his
position as bookkeeper at the bank.
Both the federal and Boston authori-
ties continued their Investigations to-
day into the charge of wholesale
gambling around Boston, especially in
connection with the stories that Cole
man lost much of the banks money
through faro banks. What evidence
has been accumulated will be laid be
fore the grand jury both at the federal
building and at the courthouse during
the present week.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-08
Harbor improvements Abroad.

The "harbor board" of Soupthamp-
ton, Eng, recently decided to deepen
the channel OF that port from 80 to IS
feet, to give sufficient water for the
two great White Star liners, now
building, the Titanic and Olympic. This
decision was conditional, however, on
the beneficiaries defraying a part of
the cost of the Improvement. The
White Star lines share was fixed at
10000 pounds. payable in ten annual
instalments of 1000 pounds each, such
payments to be exclusive of ordinary
port dues, charges, etc The South
western railway, as owner of the docks,
is also to bear part of the burden,
thus proportionately assisting in re-
ducing the public expenditures for the
completion of the project, which will
cost in all about 100000 100000
pounds). Such contributions by inter
ests and corporations benefited will
strike Americans accustomed to see
river and harbor improvements defray-
ed entirely from taxation, as some
thing novel. The idea is old in Great
Britain, where it appears to have
worked very well. Uncle Sam would
appreciate its Introduction in the Uni
ted States even in a modified form
If for instance, the ambitious towns
which now secure $500. 900 public build
ings Were charged one-lEaR the cost
of construction, and the rivers that
drain nothing but "the surrounding
treasury were improved only on con-
dition of local contribution in cash.
the federal finances would be all the
better and the nation none the worse
off.-Boston Transcript.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-08
Labor Not a Horse,

The United States consul at Noting
ham thus explains the new labor ex-
change act of Great Britain:
1.-THE theory of the law is to treat Ia
Dor as a commodity which can be found
at some known place when wanted. and
and to improve labor conditions gen.
orally by bringing together men who
want work and employers VINO want
help. The exchanges to be operated
under the new law will not touch ques-
lions of strikes, lockoutS, or other dis
puteS. Employers will register the kind
of labor they want; men (and women,
but not domestic servants) who want
work will register, indicating the kind
of labor they can perform. So far as
possible the exchanges will exclude the
unempioyable, leaving them to be pro
vided for by existing charities. The
movement is of purely business char
acter.''
In this country we are just passing
out of that stage where labor is looked
upon as a commodity. It doesn't work.
1t lacks the essentials to peaceful re-
iationship between employer and em-
pIoye. Labor is not a building ma
teriaI, or a breakfast food, or a. horse.
Where it Is obtained at the cheapest
price it is usually found to be the most
costly in point of production. The
American railroads are acquiring the
right spirit which should exist between
worker and capital. They are getting
the men to say: I'VE work with the
company. not for it"
The test of time will show. in every
change act is valuable only as a tenn
porary eApedient, provided that com
modify theory remains the basic ele-
rnent.-Toledo Blade
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-08
ROBBED OF $4,000
WHILE HYPNoTIZED.
Philadelphia Dairy Manager Tells a
Strange Story-FaIIs Under Glance
of Man and Awakes to Find Money
Gone.

Washington, March with a story
Of having been hypnotized and robbed
of $4,000, a man who gave his name
to the police as d. j. Telfair and said
he was manager of a dairy company
of Philadelphia, came to his senses in
the emergency hospital today. Telfair
told the police he arrived here to close
a deal for 700 acre dairy farm near
Seminary, Va The price was $4,000
and Teifair declares he had $4,000 IN
his pockets to make the first payment
on Friday afternoon.
According to his story he started for
a bank, but found it closed and took a
walk on the Mall around the Washing
ton monument. There, he says, he met
a man who had hypnotized him often,
and at a glance he fell. under the in
f1uence. He says he remembers turn
ing the $4,000 over to the hypnotist,
but to what transpired after that
his mind is a blank.
The police supply the story of his
movement from the time a sheriff of
Alexandria county, Va, found the man
asleep on the right of way OF SUI
burban trolley line.
At the hospital the corps of surgeons
finally awakened the sleeper and today
he told his story. The mans mind is
not clear and while he was telling of
being robbed of his $685. a surgeon
was shaking him to keep him awake.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-08
Sophie kritchman Case, State Rest
Defense Opens Today-Prosecuting Attorney of Water
bury the Last Witness for the State

day night: that she came again the
same night and pulled a knife out of
her stocking and cut him in the neck.
The next day, he said, she came and
threw a stone at him, and that Joe
Mitchell put a revolver at the back of
his head and shot him. Anton also
told of how his brother said that as
he lay on the ground he wanted a
drink and sucked the dew from the
grass; of how Sophie asked him to
go to the spot with him and how after
they reached there she told him to lie
down and had him put a handkerchief
over his face to keep the flies and sun
off and then. after asking him: why
separate me from my fellow my
MANI" she shot him three or four
times with revolver.
Chief Of Police Schmidt of Manga
tuck told of how he remarked to An
ton as they stood beside BronisIow:
suicide and on Anton's asking him.
the dying man saying: NO; no; So
phie Kritchman and Joe Mitchell kill
ed me, and Sophie cut my neck
Attorney MacGrath, who took the
dying statement of Kulvinskas at the
hospital, said that while he was there
Mitchell was brought in and Kulvin-
skas identified him and said he was
the man who shot him. and in reply
Mitchell said: II didn't do this;
didn't know anything about it,
Mr.. Lynch asked Anton if his broth
err had at any time told him that So
phie had said that she would kill her
self and witness replied that Bronis-
low told him that when Sophie left
him for the first time she said "she
would shoot herself or make death
for herself" and that she also said,
There viii be three funerals, a bar
tender, a saloon keeper and a piano
player"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-08
RooseveIt.s Perfect Health.

No American will be surprised by
the statement that Theodore Roose-
welt has been found proof against the
various type of jungle fever; for. ac-
cording to his friends, the ex-president
is stalwart enough to throw off any
contagion and, according to his foes,
he is in himself a fever of q special
type. On the latter hypothesis, Mr..
Roosevelt's escape from the pestilence
which has stricken down veteran ex-
plorers and missionaries is logical
enough. for is it not a maxim of medi-
cine-or. at least, of a certain school
that like cures Hke?' And would
1t not be monstrous to suppose that
one species of fever could prey upon
another? --s-
The real explanation of the great
faunal naturaiist's perfect health prob
ably lies in his complete knowledge of
the latest discoveries in this branch
of sanitation. 1t was not for nothing
that he sent a body of experts to Pan
anna to round out the record which a
similar body of experts had made in
Cuba If men of European stock could
live and work on the isthmus. why
should they not likewise hunt with
impunity in the wilds or the Dark
Continent New Orleans Times-Dem-
ocrat.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-08
Abandoned Farms Again.

American agriculture shows strange
contrast With the price of farm
land has deprecated in value, and the
number of abandoned farms steadily
increases Figures gathered by the
conservation commission are surpris-
ing. 1t Is shown that there are $4,000
square miles of abandoned farms,
chiefly in New England, New York, the
southeast and the middle central states.
That is, there are in the United States
at present 100000 acres of aban-
doned farm landau area as large as
the cultivated part Of the Canadian
northwest, fifteen times the size of
Rhode Island, four times the size of
Connecticut, twice the size of Massa-
chusetts or half as large as Ohio.
OF the many reasons advanced to
explain this desertion OF farms, two or
three are especially worth noticing.
Most important of all, perhaps. is the
wastefuI system of cultivation that has
so long prevailed in the United States.
A fertile soil has in countless cases
been exhausted by taking everything
from it and returning nothing to 1t.
Add to this the fact that there is a
marked trend of population from coun-
try to city and that farm labor has be-
come so expensive as to leave little
profit from the work of a laborer. and
it is little wonder that SO many owners
of farms do not care to cultivate them.
Thousands of these deserted farms,
however, are not beyond reclamation,
and proper methods would doubtless
draw from them a profitable yield.
American farmers have much to learn
in the way of intensive cultivation. In
New York state 100000 people are
supported directly from the soil in an
area that would support 100000 to
100000 if worked to its full capacity.
Our yields of staple crops per acre are
VIGOROUSLY low. The farmer must
learn to get the most out of his land,
and when he does there will be fewer
farms abandoned.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.