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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
Sell Less wheat Abroad.

The calendar year 1909 will show a
smaller expectation of wheat than any
year in the last decade, and an In
creased home consumption. both in
amount and per capita average, says
a report of the Bureau of Statistics on
wheat production, expectation and con-
sumption of the United States.
The continued decline in exports OF
breadstuffs lends interest to the state
ment The expectation of wheat for
the nine months ending with Septem.
ber amounted to only 27,76S,9O1 bush
els. against 6S,17S,s35 bushels in the
same month of 1908; -four exports were
6,2SS,2S3 barrels, against 9,42S,347
This reduction in exports of wheat
seems to be due to increased consump
tion at home rather than at any de
cline in production. The average an
nual production for the last five years
has exceeded any earlier five-year
period.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11

band You say you love me, but all
lack Is proof Of my courage. The first
chance have, I'll risk 1t even II It's
sure death"
Il couldn't possibly marry dead
hero, Jim." she said with little
smile. Come, let's go where the rest
OF the crowd are and see II you can't
lose that solemn look"
''All right" he answered as he rose
from his chair. and taking her arm
started toward the others, but / don't
want you talking to Jack Brown too
much. He thinks he's greater sol
d,er than Napoleon since his company
shot those miners"
why. jim! believe you're jealous
because he treats me like gentle
man."
Huh! Like gentleman" he snort
ed. "A gentleman doesn't look at girls
like he could eat them up"
didn't you say was good enough
to eat, and you couldn't keep your
eyes away?"
''Yes, but that's different because
we've promised to marry"
'.Since when?" she asked as she
stopped and looked at him with a spar
kle In her eyes
.'Since you said you love me. You
know that"
But said ] wouldn't marry until
you proved your courage. And the
way you're acting now. don't think
would then"
Miss Jackson" he answered with
an accent ON the miss, "if you'd rather
talk to Jack Brown than me, you can
do so, guess there are other girls
besides you"
Looking him calmly up and down,
she started forward while he silently
followed
After few words and ordinations
with the others. she went TO the op.
sposite side OF the deck Looking almost
as gloomy as he had few moments
before.
Seeing her alone he went over and
said; MARY please forgive me. l
love you so much hardly know what
say until it's said"
'I'll forgive you. Jim. but we had
better just be friends until you learn
TO control your temper better"
-All right. just as you say; but
can't stay close to you. for It'd be Inn
possible for us TO Just be triends'
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
Stable ventilation.


Some years ago Prof. F. H. King,
| Of Wisconsin, made an experimental
study of the effect of ample and de-
dcient ventilation upon twenty mich
cows. The experiment was made In
q half-basement stable, represented In
accompanying figure, having three out
side doors, thirteen large windows and
a door leading by stairway to the
floor above. The ceiling was nine feet
above the floor and the stable con-
tained $50 cubic feet of space per cow
Leading upward from the ceiling were
two hay chutes two by three feet In
cross sections, twenty feet high, which
could be opened or closed at will, and
a ventilating shaft terminating near
the ridge of the roof inside.
During the trial the cows were kept
continuously In the stable with the
hay chutes closed during two days and
then with them open two days, the
trials being repeated four times. Fol
lowing these four trials the hay chutes
were left closed during three .consecu'
tive days for poor ventilation and left
open the following three, making four
teen days in all.
1t was found that measurably the
same amount Of feed was eaten under
both conditions of ventilation. But
during the days Of insufficient ven.
tilation the COWS drank, on the aver.
age, 11.4 pounds more water each
day and yet lost in weight an aver
age of 107 pounds at the end Of each
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
THE MIGRATORY SENSE.
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The migration of birds, unlike the
migration of human beings, is very
mysterious thing Flying, as most OF
the song-birds do, by night, coming
and going In great flocks, and chang.
Ing their locality for no one reason,
but for many, the problem of these
tidal waves" In bird life is wholly
fascinating. D.. Lange, in the Allan
tic Monthly in discussing some phases
of 1t, speaks as follows concerning
the birds sense of direction:
How do birds find their way? There
is no doubt that they are often guild
ed by sight along coasts. lakes, riv-
ers and valleys, which are plainly Wis
ible for a great distance from the
height at which birds travel.
In other cases, old birds which have
been over the route lead the way, and
the young birds follow their calls and
their leadership.
What wonderful stories these wing
ed travellers could tell IL they could
talk to us! What fascinating teachers
of geography they would make for our
children! It has, however, been
shown lately beyond all reasonable
doubt that in addition to keen sight,
acute hearing, individual experience
and race instinct, birds possess what
must seem to us a kind of sixth sense.
the sense of orientation.
The Hartman Alaska Expedition
found fiocks of murres, which are
sea-birds, flying straight for their
home on a lonely rock island thirty
miles away, through fog SO thick
that everything a hundred yards off
was absolutely hidden from view.
What human brain could guide ship
thirty miles through dense fog with
out compass?
Still more conclusive demonstration
of this sense of direction In birds has
recently been furnished by Prof. John
B. Watson. He caught and marked
fifteen sooty terms and noddies on the
Dry Tortugas, In the Gulf of Mexico.
and took them out to sea- Some of
the birds were carried as far as Cape
Hatteras, eight hundred and fifty miles
north of the Tortugas. before they
were set free.
The sooty terms and the noddies are
southern birds, which seldom range
farther north than the southern coast
Of Florida, and 1t is not likely that
any of those experimental on had
ever been farther north; but none the
less, thirteen out of fifteen found their
way back to the Tortugas Islands.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11

The. Postoffice Department at Wash
ington has again sent out orders that
rural mail delivery is to be discontin-
ued on routes not properly maintained
by mail patrons. who are supposed to
keep the roads ii good condition. In
many parts of the country the roads
are maintained and kept in fairly good
condition, but thousands of miles OF
roadways traversed every day by the
carriers are wretched, and later In the
year will become next to impossible.
Were 1t matter of great expense or
effort to keep country roads In good
condition 1t might be something OF
hardship to farmers, but the intelli-
gent use of the split-log drag has prac-
tically solved the problem Of country
road making and road maintenance.
and people need to get busy in en-
ploying them on the highways. In
many parts of the country, especially
in Iowa and Missouri, hundreds OF
miles of roads are kept In passable
condition the year around by means OF
this cheap and inexpensive implement.
When once highway is placed In
good condition any farmer can keep up
one mile of road the year around by
dragging 1t few times month after
rain has fallen, work that will take
the time Of man and team less than
half day all told.-Denver Field
and Farm
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
lEN WE PRAY.

Az tired children go at candle light
The glow in their young eyes
quenched with the sun.
Almost too languid, now that play
Is done,
To seek their fathers knee. and say
Good night
80, to our greater Father out of sight,
When the brief gamut Of the day Is
run,
Defeats endured and petty triumphs
won,
We kneel and listlessly His care invite
Then with no sense of gain-no tender
thrill,
AZ when we leave the presence of a
friend,
No lingering content our souls to
steep
But reckoning our gains and losses
still.
We turn the leaf upon the dull days
end,
And, oarless drift out to the sea Of
sleep
May Riley Smith.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
A Question
of Grit.

mo, Jim, I can't marry man that
has done nothing but go TO school.
My future husband" she said, with
pride, must be man who has proven
his bravery; for there Is nothing I
hate worse than coward"
Mary Jackson, what do you mean
by bravery? believe I am counted
pretty nervy by the boys"
Yes, that's 1t. You and the boys
think because man plays football
and does few ahhletic stunts he's
brave. l don't count that to your
credit, for all you had to do was to
80 to school and train while your
father paid the bills"
Looking gloomily across the sunlit,
sparkling river, he seemed "out of
tune" with the gayety of the excursion
party; while her eyes watched him
with the sternness that seventeen
gives to decisions OF the heart.
"Of course love you, Jim, but a
woman must be sure she'll never re-
gret her choice in after life; and un-
til you do some brave act to prove
your courage I'll have to say no."
You're too hard on a fellow. There's
nothing can do to prove It unless
the old boat would blow up, or Id go
to the Philippines; and then the
chances are I'd be detailed to some
clerical job
"The chance will come when you're
least expecting 1t" she replied.
We'll, there's one thing | want you
to remember, I'm going to be your hus-
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11

period, regaining this again when good
ventilation was restored, and this, too,
when they were drinking less water.
During the good ventilation days, too,
for each and every period. the cows
gave more milk, the average being
.55 pounds per head per day.
At the end Of the fourteen days the
COWS were turned into the yard and
exhibited an intense desire to lick
their sides and limbs, doing so In
many cases till the hair was stained
with blood.
Examination showed that during the
interval rash had developed which
could be felt by the hand, in the form
Of hard raised points, and the rasping
nf these off caused the bleeding.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
pidn,t Know.

well. MIR. Henpeck. what do you
think of this Peary-C Cook controver-
sy?"
II really don't know what to think
about 1t"
Difficult to know what to think.
isn't it?'
Yes, especially when ones wife is
out of town."-Houston Post.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11

n0 PuiPoSC VI
all education Is to enable US to see
that the world is moving, and show
us what 1t is moving for.
The trials that just about break us
are the ones that make us.
In most cases we look in the wrong
direction for our happiness.
The man who fears the light is al.
ways running from a shadow.
Whatever Gods providence gives us
to do is something He wants done.
The money that does us the most
good Is the money with which we do
good.
Some folks will do anything for the
Lord except behave themselves al
home.
When we know that God Is the giver
Of all good. we shall find good in all
He gives.
Anybody can talk religion, but II
takes true follower of Christ to show
what 1t Is.
God provided for the worst that
could happen to man before He
breathed into him the breath of life
God believes in good cheer or He
would not have made hearty laughter
about the wholesomest and healthiest
thing in the world.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11

Saying this he walked to the rear deck
without another word
AS the boat slowly drifted toward
the lock, rocking In her own waves,
there was a rush to the side nearest
the dam. This caused 1t to list to
that side, and In the excitement wo-
man fell overheard dragging man
after her.
Jim Halliday, In his abstraction,
didn't at first notice the uproar, but
finally cries of ''Man overheard! Wo-
man overboard!' caused him to look
up with start. Rushing to the side
as he threw off his coat, he saw two
dark objects appear and then go under
as the water bubbled and foamed
around them.
Jumping over the rail, he dived
head-first, cutting the water as clean
as kingfisher A second or two later
he came up near where the two had
gone down, and treading water, waited
for them to reappear,
At last hand was thrust out, and
Just beneath the surface were the two,
struggling In each others arms.
Hesitating no longer, with two or
three overland strokes to put him In
reach, he grasped the back of the wo-
mans collar and tried to pull her from
the others hold, The collar came loose
and they slowly sank lower until he
caught her by the arm and brought
the two, now quiet, to the surface.
Hearing shout of warning, he
looked around and saw they had drift
ed within short distance of the dam,
toward which they were going faster
and faster.
The crew of the steamer were fran
tically getting slSiff In the water,
but he knew they couldn't reach him,
loaded as he was, before he went over.
And to go over the dam meant almost
sure death: for II he didn't get any
bones broken he was liable to be
knocked unconscious on the rocks and
drown without struggle,
He could drop his burden and swim
back against the current but the
"nerve" that Mary had derided would
not allow that
"I guess Mary'll have to marry a
dead hero If she marries me-" he
grimly thought.
Then a bright idea flashed through
his mind, With few kicks, and his
free arm, he swung the two In front,
Then holding his feet we'll under him,
and his legs at an angle of forty-five
degrees with the surface of the water.
he struck the dam with Jolt that
shook him all over
AS the water was about two feet
deep on the crest, the pressure kept
him standing on reclining position
on its upper face, and all he had TO
do was to keep their mouths clear Of
water and hold on until rescued,
When the crowd saw what had been
done they raised a greater cheer than
any he had ever heard at football
game.
Tying . rope to the end OF the skiff,
80 the suction Of the dam wouldn't
draw 1t over, the captain and two men
drifted down and took all three
aboard. when many willing hands.
grasping the rope, soon pulled them
out Of danger
After putting on some Of the cap
tains dry clothing Jim left the reyiv.
Ing couple and started for the upper
deck amid the admiring glances and
remarks OF his fellow passengers
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11

At the head Of the stairs, where the
mate had kept the majority of the
crowd, he met Mary, who, with shin
Ing eyes, slipped her hand under his
arm and whispered: "Ive reconsid.
cred, Jim, for your nerve is all
right" and before all she pulled his
face down and kissed him. m.--Pennsyl
wanda Grit.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
sl.im nIilk for HONS.

In some tests by the Virginia expert
ment station skim milk has been
proved valuable food for laying hens.
In test of 122 days % hens were fed
skim milk. laying 1.244 eggs, as
against 900 laid by % hens fed wet
mash with water. In test covering
81 days 60 hens laid s62 eggs on a
skim milk diet. while like number
fed no skim milk laid 632 eggs, Other
experiments conducted recorded SINH
lar results. The station. from these
tests. estimates that when eggs are
worth 20 to 25 cents per dozen skim
milk has feeding value of 11s to 9
cents q quart.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
Experience with Alfalfa.

In the first place, l made two mis-
takes in sowing with grain and Of
course made two failures in getting a
stand that suited me. For my third
endeavor l selected piece Of ground
which had been In hoed crops for a
number of years and heavily manured
each year, plowing 1t in April and
keeping 1t cultivated till July, when
seeded 1t at the rate of 20 pounds
per acre.
On the night following my sowing
we got very heavy shower, and I
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
Arriculturai stati.tic..

At the approaching census special
attention will be given to the gather.
Ing Of agricultural statistics. Farmers
win be asked for information which
might be regarded as Of a very per
sonal nature concerning their opera.
tions. but they win be assured that the
facts win be held sacred
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
Excusable Re.entment.

tits really provoking" said the
fond mother, baby always cries when
we have company" WE'LL" answered
Mr.. Groueher, you can't blame chill
dren for disliking company. II It
weren't for visitors they wouldn't
have to recite or play pieces on the
plano"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11

"As rule" said the cynic. "one
may reckon the number OF his true
friends on the fingers of one hand
well" answered the good-natured
person, anybody who counts up his
friendships the same as he does bis
money doesn't deserve any more"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
MAUD ALEXANDRA.


expedition Of the minister of King
Portugal King without
will Princess Alexandra
of Fife Is political arrangement but what about the feelings
Alexandra the country estates Of
her She presented only few months She Is
quick brilliant mentally while sluggish
body the lives this pair win be
after
world will but forbidden him.
Her mother the Princess Louise Victoria his eldest daughter
I've bride Manuel the right
Alexandra generally called by name
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11

when q woman buys Q newspaper
she thinks she isn't getting her
moneys worth unless she finds the
name OF somebody she knows among
the desth noticea
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
A clever Writer.

Patrlce-You say she is a cleve.
writer?
Patience-yery. Why. I've known
her to use > tountadn pen without get.
ting Ink all over her fingers!
Statesman.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11

There are a good
many very poor
people who have
plenty of money.
If a hair shirt
C ul d make a
saint, the devil
W o uld W e a I
mourning all the
time.
The purpose OIL
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
Not Alsegether.

so that Tilted young fellows life h
all dark. is it?"
Not altogether. He's Just got q JOB
on a lightship. Baltimore American.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
RAMS HORN BLASTS.

Warning Notes Calling the Wicked
to Repentance.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11
A skilled Estimase.

Richard Pybus. of the Old Lodgs.
Derby. Pa, at the local agricultural
show in 1906, guessed the exact weight
of live bullock-S54 pounds. In 1907
his estimate was only l pound out, and
this year he was within IL pounds og
the correct weight.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11

All men are foolish. but some man
ags to conceal the tact
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-11

got magnificent stand. On part OF
the field had sown wheat and red
clover the fall before. So that In the
fall after sowing my alfalfa the red
clover was knee high and In full
bloom, and as | did not wish 1t to go
to seed | turned my cattle and sheep
into it, thinking they would not trou-
BILE the alfalfa, but ! found that had
made a great mistake, as they fell
upon the alfalfa and eat 1t nearly into
the ground. gave 1t up, thinking
it was entirely ruined, but the next
spring it came up as green as a bed
of lettuce, and since then, now five
years ago, have mown from two to
three crops each year, of the very
finest Of hay. and the stand of alfalfa
Is now as good as ever, and all with
out being manured or fertilized in
any way.-A,. @. Gowdy, In Michigan
Farmer.
Glass Walls for Fruit Trees.
An interesting experiment, In fruit
growing has been recently carried out
by the Count de Choiseul and de-
scribed in Cosmos. When a south wall
is used for fruit trees the north side
of the wall Is practically wasted as far
as fruit Is concerned. Count de
Choiseul has used a glass wall, and
grown fruit trees on both sides. The
produce on the north side Is little in
ferior to that on theN south. A photo
graph shows heavily fruited pear trees
on both sides of the wall The wall.
60 feet long and 61a feet high, had If
teen pear trees planted on each side.
In 1907 1874 pears, weighing 81 pounds,
were gathered on the south side of the
wall, and 1O9, weighing n pounds, on
the north side. The variety grown
was the Doyenne L'Hiver.
Fruit Stones for Spring Planting,
Peach, cherry and plum stones
should be spread thin on high, dry
ground in narrow rows, and then COW
cred with about inches OF fine earth.
with little trench on each side Of
the row to draw on the surface water.
After the ground freezes little fine
horse manure may be spread over the
frozen ground, Just enough to cover the
ground. II too much is used it win
make harbor for mice and rats.
Apple seed may be sown in the same
way, but viii need heavier covering.
These seed viii sprout and take root
as soon as the weather turns mild,
when they should be taken up and
planted out in rows.
| ex.srxs
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-06-07
Program, Of Exercises.

The following is the general plan of
the commencement and quarter cen
tennial exercises of the Oregon Agri-
cultural college:
Friday. June TO-, s p. M, senior play.
Saturday June II. 10 a. m. class day
exercises.
2:30 p. m, reunion Of student societies.
$3.50 p. m. junior promenade.
Sunday, June u. 10 a. m, baccalaureate
sermon.
p. m, student exercises.
p. m. union meeting all churches.
Monday, June 18. 10:S0 a, m, quarter
centennial exercises (historicaD.
p. m, alumni business meeting.
p. m, presidents reception.
p. m. alumni reunion and banquet
p. m, student exercises.
Tuesday. June IA. 10 a. m, quarter cen
tennial exercises.
p. m, commencement exercises.
4:30 p. m, military parade and pageant
p. M, official college dinner.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-06-07
Saved From Awful peath.

How an appalling calamity in his
family was prevented is told by A.
d. Mcdonald, OF Fayetteville, n. C.
R. f. d. No. 8. "My sister had con-
sumption" he writes, "she was very
thin and pale, had no appetite and
seemed to grow weaker every day, as
all remedies failed, till DR.. King 8
New Discovery was tried, and so COM
pletely cured her, that she has not
been troubled with a cough since. It's
the best medicine / ever saw or heard
Of" For coughs, colds. lagrippe,
asthma. Group. hemorrhage-all
bronchial troubles, II has no equal
soc, S1OO. Trial bottle free. Guar
anteed by j. 4. Perry.