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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
Slang Tnb0Oed.

Slang is tabooed in the home of a
West Philadelphia family principally
because there is a bright little girl
who displays a persistent aptitude in
retaining expressive but uncultured
phrases.
The other evening at dinner the
mother, father and daughter drifted
into the vernacular and a fresh start
was necessary. The little girl started
1t, I'm not stuck on this bread, i"
she remarked.
Maggie" said her mother. you
want to cut that slang out"
That's peach of way of correct.
ing the child" commented the father.
II know" replied the mother. but
! just wanted to put her wise."-Phila
delphia Telegraph.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

Cut alfalfa when 1t is dry.

Cut alfalfa when 1t is dry.
A good milk cow never becom.
rolling fat.
Milk sellers find the Holsteln hard
to beat.
Milk the cows quietly. quickly and
on time.
Never buy pigeons unless the mat.
ing Is guaranteed.
One bad butter COW will eat up the
profit Of several good ones.
Too much corn causes the bones Of
heavy hogs to break easily.
But the manure spreader first and
the piano will come easier.
Clean the dairy stable In summer
Just as regularly as in winter.
Treat the cows kindly and they will
repay you in dollars and cents.
In the big cities the market for
squad is good for every month in the
year.
Red clover In bloom Is not good for
hogs. but when young 1t makes fine
pasture
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

In the matter of making and using
paper we are not in line with the Chi.
nese and other Asiatics, who not only
make the finest paper in the world,
but apply it to all sorts of uses, max.
ing window panes, fans, umbrellas,
sandals, and even cloaks and other
garments of it. The art of making pa
per from mulberry bast is said to have
been invented in China in the second
century, B. G. Afterward bamboo
shoots, straw, grass and other materi-
ais were also used. The manufacture
spread to the adjacent countries. The
Arabs learned it in Samerkand, and
their learned men carefully kept Sc
cret the process by which they made
paper for their own use The crusades
made Europe acquainted with the art,
and the first paper mill in Germany
dates from the twelfth century.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
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Planting Potatoes.
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The prevailing, and we might say
foolish, custom of most farmers is to
plant potatoes just as they come, lit
Gle and big. Indeed, some use the
smaller ones for seed and retain the
larger ones for cooking purposes,
sometimes placing them on the mar
ket.
While such a course will not no
ticeably affect the potato crop for a
single season, its continuation surely
but slowly lowers the yield not so
much by an insufficient number Of
tubers, but by inferiority in size and
quality. We believe this to be the
chief blunder made by most potato
raisers and that 1t accounts for more
failures with this crop than any other
one cause.
Assuming that you failed to select
seed potatoes at the proper time last
season (as nine out Of ten fail to- I,
great care should be exercised In Sc
lecting seed this spring With the
thought In mind that 1t was quite like
ly the healthy, vigorous plant which
produced the larger tubers, these
should be chosen for seed, since the
smaller potatoes, which no doubt
came from weak or inferior plant,
and, II planted, would produce a like
growth. Is this not true of any other
plant or animal life? Then why
should 1t not be true Of potatoes?-
Twentieth Century Farmer.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

The fact that eggs are not included
in any lists OF imports which we have
seen published and from the results
of the American hens activities, as re.
ported by the census office, leads to
the supposition that importing eggs
would be like carrying coal to Newcas'
tie, In 1900 over 1,29S,662.433 dozen
eggs were produced in the United
States This number is large enough
to provide each person in the country
with seventeen dozen eggs year.
There are almost four times as many
chickens In the United States as there
are people.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
RARE PAINTING DISCOVERED.
Picture Declared to Be Work OF
Fetf Sixteenth Century Artist.


Picture Declared to BE Work Of
Feti, Sixteenth Century Artist.
A rare and very valuable painting
of David" said by experts to be the
work of the famous sixteenth century
Italian artist, Domenico Feti, has been
discovered in Philadelphia, the Public
Ledger of that city says. 1t has been
in the possession of well known man
who, however, is not an authority on
art, for some years, and while he and
his friends always admired 1t for its
beauty and the mellowness OF its col
loring, it has been only in the past
week that it came to the notice of ex-
perts, who enthusiastically pronounced
it genuine Feti, and worth probably
$25, 900.
The picture is vigorous in treatment
and remarkably strong in color, tech
nique and the general handling of the
subject. The figure of the Biblical
hero is youthful and beautiful. In the
dark shadows of the lower foreground
ID pCCu tuC oCNCICu hCchu Va SAS
giant Goliath. The picture is said to
be one of the few large ones done by
Feti. It is about four feet by six feet.
The painting is on exhibition in a
window at 1884 Chestnut street and
has attracted much attention.
Domenico Feti was born in Rome In
1889 and died at Venice in 1924. He
became a follower of Ludovico Cigoli
and afterward went to Mantua, where
he obtained the patronage of Cardinal
Gonzaga, who, on coming to the. duke
dom, appointed him his court painter.
Unfortunately, however, Feti gave way
to intemperance, and this shortened
his days. He adopted the style of
Guilio Romano without, however, be-
ing a mere imitator. His coloring is
forcible and the expression of his fig
ures animated. His works, though
chiefly of small size, are very scarce.
There are four of them in the Corsini
palace of Florence and one in the Man
tua Academy, while others are In
Dresden, Munich and Vienna. Feti
was a great favorite of the celebrated
picture collector, M. Crozat.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

One of the essentials about the poul-
try house and grounds is good drain
age. For this reason a good hill slope
is the best place for the grounds. The
land should slope enough so that rains
will wash it clean Of all impurities.
On fiat land the grounds should be fre.
quently changed and planted to some
crops that will take up the noxious ele
ments. The draining and surface drain.
ing the grounds will assist in keeping
them dry and pure. Scraping off the
top soil each year and filling with
fresh soil from the field will aid In
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
aIue OF ghe gfIo.

The Missouri Experiment Station
summarizes the value of the silo as
follows: Silage keeps young stock
thrifty and growing all winter. 1t
produces fat beef more cheaply than
does dry feed. 1t enables cows to pro-
duce milk and butter more econom-
ically. 1t is more conveniently haIr
died than dry fodder The silo pre-
vents waste of cornstalks in the ma.
nure when silage is fed. The silo will
make palatable food Of stuff that
would not otherwise be eaten. 1t en-
ables the farmer to preserve food.
which natures at rainy time of the
year, when dry would be next to i'm.
possible. 1t is the most economical
method of supplying food for the stock
during the hot. dry periods in sum
mer. when the pasture is short.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

A breeder of Buff Rocks wants some
one to explain why it is claimed that
Barred Plymouth Rocks are so much
better market fowls than all other va.
rieties, especially the Bluffs and White
Plymouth Rocks. All three have the
same general conformity, all three
have yellow legs and yellow skins, and
the buffs and whites have no black
pin feathers, as have the barred va
riety.-Exchange
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

This is a disease which has long
been known among the peasants of
northern Italy, northern Spain and
parts of southern France, but has only
recently been discovered in this coun-
try.
1t is variously regarded as a skin
disease and as form of insanity, for
1t is in reality both; that is to say,
there are skin eruptions and a dis
turbance of the mental faculties, both
due to the same cause.
The disease is at first remittent in
character, that is to say, 1t has periods
of remission-in the winter-when the
patient is apparently in his ordinary
health; but each spring it returns
worse than before, and so 1t goes on,
with three steps forward and one
backward, to fatal termination at
the end of from three to five or six
years.
The eruption begins as diffused
redness or discolored patches, itching
most distressingly, and is followed by
a peeling of the epidermis in the form
of branny scales, 1t is most marked
on the backs of the hands and feet,
but may come on the body or legs as
well. 1t begins in the spring and gets
worse during the summer, but may
nearly or quite disappear with the ad.
vent Of cold weather.
The next spring 1t returns, and
now there are digestive troubles added
pain and distress in the stomach
after eating, diarrhoea, and often ver-
tigo headache, and persistent ringing
in the ears.
In the winter these troubles again
become less, but return in aggravated
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

set on the exact place occupied by the
ctake. The following plan will over
come this difficulty. Take board
about s It. long and s inches diameter,
ss shown In illustration. Bore hole
in each end and cut notch in the
middle. Place the board with the
notch against the stake and drive
wooden or iron pins into the holes
Il. b. The board can then be remov.
ed from the pegs. place the tree in the
notch and pack the soil around the
roots The tree will thus be In the
exact spot occupied by the stake. and
In line with the others.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
Terrific Heat in New York.

New York City never forgot the
torrid weather which prevailed on the
last Tuesday in March this year. On
that day it was so degrees above zero
in the shade and the humidity was
high as well. At p. m. the heat fell
to n degrees, and at midnight it was
70. Women wore white gowns in the
impossible task of trying to become
cool, and men donned straw hats. 1t
was one of the most dreadful days
New Workers ever had to struggle
through.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
How Milk Is Formed.

Milk is elaborated from the blood.
Food is converted into blood. which
Is forced from the heart and lungs to
the udder; from the udder 1t returns
to the heart through the large veins
from the under side Of the belly, run
ming from the udder nearly to the
front legs, where they enter the body
and connect with the heart. These
veins are commonly called milk veins.
but they are not. however. as no milk
ever passes through them. The oritces
In the body where such veins enter
are called milk wells.-Rursl World.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
Facts About Farms.

Nearly 100000 new farms have
been created in the United States dur,
Ing the last ten years. In the last ten
years the total number of farms has
Increased 18 per cent. In the older
States, from Ohio eastward. there has
been going on for 20 years tendency
toward the amalgamation Of farms dis.
tant from market into larger holdings
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
HOW TO PLANT sARu BIS, ROSES AND TREES

On the other hand, this section has
witnessed the cutting up into smaller
sizes of many farms nearer to mar
ket. There are now almost three
times as many farms as in 1870, and
m unprecedented increase in the
value of farm lands and live stock
American Agrlculturist.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
Exchange of Courtesies.

One of the keenest of journalists and
wits, Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, had the
better of the irate stranger against
whom he ran by accident at the corner
of a street in Munich. BEAST" cried
the offended person without waiting
for an apology. Thank you" said the
journalist, "and mine is Saphir."
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

To those who will be planting shade
and fruit trees, the following method
may be of assistance. In preparing
for planting stake out the plot hav-
ing the stakes In line In several di-
rections. After the plot is carefully
staked the trouble is to get the tree
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
A Matter Of Time.

"You ought not to gulp your lunch
like that"
"But save five minutes each day"
Five minutes, Ell? Wait until ycn
get to waiting two hours each day In
some dyspepsia specialists anteroom."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
Bankruptcy Defined.

Father, what is meant by bank
ruptcy?"
Bankruptcy is when you put your
money in your hip pocket, and let
your creditors take your coat
F1iegende Blatter.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

Teacher, may l be absent to-mor'
row."
what for?"
"Gotter go to a funeral" ...
"You ought to be saving these fun
erals, Johnny, the baseball season will
open pretty soon and you will need
all the funerals you can get."-Hous
ton Post.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
End of the Courtshin

"She referred me to her father"
And what did he say?"
'He said that was her way of let
ting undesirable suitors down easy
and gave me a scent cigar. Louis
vile Courier-Journal
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

A woinan said to-day: TITS harde,
for woman to work that it is for q
man." Please consider this as an OBJ.
lection to that statement.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15
PeskinIiStic.

What pessimist Brown isl"
whats the matter now?'
He even bewails the fact that he
can't live to collect his life insurance"
Detroit Free Press
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

ten feet long, made of four-inch boards
solidly nailed together. After this
fence is once put up sheep or hogs
are not likely to overturn it. A fence
three and one-half feet high will turn
most flocks.-Denver Post.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

One can't judge a mans religion BY
the rent he pays for his pew
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

A woman loves her husband as long
as she has any feeling of hope toward
him. Where there isn't shred Of hope
left she ceases caring for him.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

purifying the grounds. The soil from
the yards may be used as a fertilizer
for the field from which fresh soil Is
obtained.-Journal of Agriculture.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

Temporary Sheep Fence.
A movable fence of this kind for
soiling sheep is made in panels AS
seen in the picture. The panels are
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

the country that have reached the
hafcentuy mile stone the highway from the cradle to
the grave but have memories lingering the old gt
mill of their boyhood days, writes L. o. Emmerson in the
Princeton Ind CarionNews In their minds they
it's steep roof and hear its "chewchew"and think that is
what the old mill doing with the and wheat that
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-15

A widow and her fortune are soon
married
The Washington herald., 1910-11-20
VETERANS SOUND TAPS
Last Muster of General SCOTS Men Who Fought in the
Mexican War

from April. 1916, until April, 1S4S. consisted
of 54,24S infantry, 15i7S1 cavalry, 1.7S2 ar
tiIlery, and 251S9 recruits or 81, s95 men all
told. The number that actually served in
Mexico exceeded $4,000 men. not all called
out at the same time, but in successive
periods. At the close of the war, ac-
eording to the adjutant generals report,
there were more than 10000 men in the
field
An impressive thing at the last meeting
In Indianapolis was the roll call There
was no list Of members on hand. so rap
idly had the ranks been depleted, so the
national secretary went from one member
TO another. asking his name and calling It
out to an assistant secretary. As she
approached one aged man he stood erect,
and with an Enthusiastically military air
announced In a clear voice: Conrad
Cassie. Eleventh United States Volunteer
Infantry-and The last survivor" There
was slight murmur in the hall, and the
old man repeated, THE last survivor"
The dissolution of the national conven-
ton was expected. In 1883 reunion was
The Washington herald., 1910-11-20

Taps have sounded for the National AS
ISOLATION OF Mexican War Veterans. When
il adjourned after its session at Indian
apolis, il was for all time, because the
twenty eight survivors Of the war OF six
ty-two years ago. who We're in attend
ance realized that they We're too old and
feeble TO plan TO muster again for the
ron call of a convention. says the New
York Post.
There are many other veterans who
fought with Winfield Scott in the war
In Mexico living in the retirement OF
their old age in different parts of the
country. but only the twenty-eight were
able to reach Indianapolis. They were
all from Indiana and the nearby States.
Ohio, Nebraska kentucky, and Ten
nessee.
After the last paper had been read and
the long list Of resolutions in memory
of those who had been mustered out
had been passed the national secretary,
Mrs. Moore Murdoch. said
1T now becomes my sacred duty to adj
journ the National Association Of Mexi-
can War Veterans. to meet again on the
beautiful shore I ask you to arise and
declare the national association adjourn
ed forever"
II was a dramatic scene. fun Of pa
thetic interest There had never been
anything quite like It In this country.
Years hence it may be repeated when the
last G, A R. post adiourns sine die.
The tweny-eight veterans stood with
bowed heads as If in prayer. and all were
strangely silent And then. one by one.
the soldiers who had laughed at Palo
Alto. al Buena Vista, at Chapultepec,
wept as they babe each other farewell.
and parted.
According to the last pension report
there were 2.459 survivors OF the war with
Mexico. In addition, there were $3.50
widows The war lasted from April a.
1916, until July 4, 1878, The actual loss in
the field. by battle and sickness, was
15,000 men. and in battles alone BIOL This
was not all, however Many men on their
way from the various States 10 join their
regiments in Mexico became sick and
died. without having appeared on the
rolls Of the actual force, II is estimated
that the total loss of life was not less
than 2.O00 men. According TO Mexican
accounts. the number of men of that
country killed in the several battles was
almost 5000.
ployed by the United States in Mexico
The Washington herald., 1910-11-20

died at Monterey. Mexico. On December
q, 1916. from disease resulting from
wounds received in battle His body was
taken back 10 his old home in George
town. Ohio. and his grave has never
been marked by more than a simple stone
slab. from which the inscription was long
ago nearly effaced by corrosion. Gen.
Hamer volunteered as a private. receiv-
ing next day. July 1. 1876. the commission
OF brigadier general. He distinguished
himself at Monterey. and commanded his
division after Gen. William o. Butler was
wounded. While in Congress. Gen. Ham
er nominated Ulysses S. Grant to the
Military Academy at West Point
According TO army tradition Capt n. II.
stevens was the last American soldier
out of the City of Mexico in June, 1S4S,
when Gen. Seotts army began its north
ern march. The story. as he relates it.,
is as follaws:
II was in Duncans battery. the oldest
battery in the service. and we were about
two miles out of the city, when Gen.
Scott rode back to my company and
asked me to return to the City of Mex
leo. Gen. Scott had at the last NOM
ent LEFT book in a store near the plaza,
and needed il badly / rode back through
a bunch of the meanest-looking men
I have ever seen. and my heart was in
my throat They had just raised the
Mexican flag and were bowling curses
on everything American. I finally pro-
cured the book and started back, al
though for the first time in the war l
felt that l would never see New York
again. / soon reached the outskirts Of
the crowd Here human nature over
came calmer Judgment, and. bending
over In my saddle. I dug my spurs and
ran my horse all the way to the Ameri-
can army"
There are still carried on the retired
list of the United States army the names
of six officers who participated in the
war with Mexico. as follows: Brig. Gen.
Robert Murray. lightweight years old,
of Elk Ridge. Nd; Col. George B. Dandy,
eighty years old, OF Lawrence Park,
Bronxville, N. Y; Col Horatio G. Gibson.
eighty-three years old. of Washington:
Col James Cakes. eighty-four years old,
of Washington; Lieut.. Col. Albert b.
Kaufman, eighty-two years old, OF Web
ster Grove, Mo-, and MAJ. William
Fletcher, seventy-nine years old, Of
Washington
The Washington herald., 1910-11-20
SOME THINGS WE OUGHT TO KNOW

The question has often been put:
Where did the people who constructed
the famous mounds of the Ohio Val
ley obtain the iron from which they
fashioned the axes. chisels. avis. and
ornaments found in their graves?
The answer has been made that this
iron is OF meteoric origin, although. Of
course. the date of it's fall from the sky
is not known. Upon comparing frsg-
ment of iron found in one OF the mounds
Of Florida with the implements from
the Ohio Valley, certain investigators
were led TO suggest that ii. too, is prob
ably OF meteoric origin. 1t would be
interesting to learn whether the mound
builders knew that the iron they used
came from the celestial spaces. and, If
SO, what myths they invented 70 &C
count for its arrival on the earth.
In France the poetic name white COAL
Ga houiIle blanche) is applied TO
water-power employed for the produc-
ton of electricity. France is poor In
coal but rich In waterfalls, and the util-
ization OF them for industrial purposes
is proceeding rapidly. In that part of
France bordering on the Alps a recent
computation shows the existence of suf-
fieient wateF-power TO furnish. during
eight or nine months of the year.
100000 horsepower. and during the
rest of the year 100000 horsepower
In the Pyrenees and elsewhere there are
other great stores of water-power, The
aggregate consumption of steam in