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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
A Cutting Board.

In the figure. Do not go quite to the
line with the chisel. and finish with
the plane.
Next drill the hole. Drill until the
point OF the drill begins to come
through the wood and then take 1t out
and put the point In on the other side
OF the board. When the Eole is fin
fshed. plane the sides of the board and
finish It with sandpaper.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11


portions of the grain win not go
through the animal. undigested. This
Is true for old as well as young ami.
mails.
Another point upon which most peo-
pie will agree is that for the young
growing stock, especially animals
which do not have full set of teeth.
grinding is necessary, 1t not only en-
ables young animals to get more Of
their feed. but they eat greater guam.
titles and grow much more rapidly.
On unground feed Of the type noted.
young animal would do very little
good: but II wheat. barley. rye. etc.
be ground and mixed with little corn,
they will thrive.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
SOMETHING
.<I,l54 Q
j
EASY TO MAKE BARREL BOAT
Tlmbers Attached Prevent capsIzlni
and May Be Constructed by
Any Handy Boy.

A boat that any handy boy car
easily make is constructed OF bar
rel which is kept with the opening
cut In one side up by two 4 by Gin
timbers and two tie pieces, 2 by
says the Popular Mechanics. The
lengths OF these pieces will depend
on the size Of the barrel.
A good watertight barrel should bs
selected and an opening cut In tht
center between the hoops, OF such /
size as to allow the body of the 90
cupant room for handling an oar. TIL,
timbers are attached to the barre
with iron straps-pieces OF old hoops
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Kent Vow sIxtx.Elnht Ysars.

st. Louis, Mo.--John M. Frey, eigh
y-nine years, old kept a vow 6S years
n which time he never crossed the
Mississippi river. though he had lived
continuously In st. Louis. Born in
switzerland and christened there
siovenne Frei he came to st, Louis
1t the age of twenty.
The three months trip in crossing
he ocean SO disgusted and terrified
he young Swiss-Italian that he vow
I'd on reaching st. Louis he never
lgain would trust his body over wa
or. Ferries at st. Louis were sue
seeded by bridges, but the vow was
,ept, and he did not cross the river.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
WIadom In Action

The times are waiting for men who
shall serve and not merely inquire;
strive and not merely investigate;
give to their age and their kind not so
much learning in bulk as wisdom In
action; great doing as the only true
fruitage of great thinking; the conse-
Grafton to the uplifting OF ones fellow
men of ones best rather than the con-
serving by mere culture Of ones self.
Henry Potter.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Their Proper Place.

The folks who are perpetually pro
testing that their consciences are
clear and that they have nothing fol
which to reproach themselves are gen
orally In a bad way, for the probabil
ity is that their much-vaunted con
sciences have stopped working and
are of no further use. Such people
never allow that they are In the
wrong; their favorite sentence is, q
told you sol" and their proper place
Is on a desert island with thick
skinned turtles for boon companions
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Lonnevlty In Erenoh viIlanaa.

'bNV'V II 'VFTN'F F''WBV"s
A remarkable record of longevity IL
20 be found In some of the rural par
ishes of France. In the village Of st.
Thomas de la Fliche there have been
only fourteen parish priests in three
hundred years, the fourteenth being
still In possession. The parish of st.
German du VAL In Paris, has had only
three pastors in one hundred years.
while that of Givry en- Argonne has
had but FIVE In 1870 years.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
plapIeased the Widow.

A Philadelphia travelling man. hav
ing gone upon that journey for which
there is no return ticket, his many
friends Of the road consulted together
as to the remembrance to be sent by
them, and finally decided upon de-
sign which was not only original, but
which they considered peculiarly ap-
propriate. They never could under
stand why the widow would not re-
ceiye the beautiful suit case, made OF
white flowers, with the words, "His
last trip" in purple violets, on one
side.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Blessed Sympathy,

Sympathy with animals blesses ana
humanizes men and women. To get
into real relations with an animal 10 q
liberal education. 1t Is something to
be really interested even in a plant
and to observe the working Of life in
any sphere not our own. How much
more when that life is directing q
personality which consciously looka
up to us and will love us II we will let
it!-Christian Register.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11

The influence Of clothes must con-
tinue to be, as 1t has been from the
beginning Of histroy, either sacred or
or profane," foremost factor In those
forces by which mans destiny is
guided. His health and comfort, aims
and purposes, social standing and
business prosperity; everything indeed
that makes his life worth living may
be affected by it in directions never
dreamed Of by the tailor who, If he
does not actually make the man, is
largely instrumental in making him
what he Is.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Woman Miner spurns the Ballot.

Pittsburg. Pa,--Far back In the coke
egions OF southwestern Pennsylvania
las been found a woman who for 80
'ears has worked side by side with
er husband In the coal mines. AID.
reached by saffragettes and asked II
he would like to vote. Just as her
lushand. she declared she would rath-
4 let her husband do that.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11

Countless ages of time passed. as We
compute time--before the earth was
prepared for the advent OF man. The
oldest civilization known Is that Of
Egypt. and the pyramids are things
Of yesterday compared with the for
nation Of the alluvial plains Of the.
Euphrates. or the delta OF the Missis-
sippi. not to mention the Laurentian
rocks.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Stabbed hx JmhreIla.

Perhaps the strangest weapon ever
used for killing was an umbrella. In
October. 1908, man named Ernest
Smith was found dead In Chiswick
High street. England. He had pune
tured wound in the eve which had
reached his brain and which the doc
tors agreed had undoubtedly been
caused by the steel ferrule OF an um
brella
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
DAISY FLY KILLER
SELF-SETTING PLANES A.d' !. vineIand, N. ].
Sent on trial where not kept Sold in the large
Coast Cities 9Portland dealers sell them. Try
one now.
Element Of Decay.

Indirect influence had its nearly per.
feet work In the Persian empire,
where the Queen Mother was permit
ted to exercise an injurious influence
over the king, the court, and the EN-.
pire. 1t was one Of the tendencies
which leads Sayce, the historian, to
say, after touching upon It: I'm
short. the empire contained within 1t
from the first all the elements Of de-.
cav"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Lacking Important Point.

Can woman be successful "m8
gician?" A contemporary wizard says
that she can, and that in London there
are many society women who have
taken course in wizardy as means
of becoming proficient in some kind
of "parlor trick" by which. to enter.
tain company. 1t does seem, though.
that a magician without coat sleeves
to pull back, as a preliminary to do
ing his marvels, would be fatally de-
ficient in paraphernalia.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Pastors Merited Rebuke.

When Samuel 8. Colber was preach
ing In an old log schoolhouse In John
son county. Missouri, in 1852, his
congregation was quite small. One
Sunday all were sitting at the desks
forward near the puncheon floor.
The sermon was mopotonous and the
old log seats had no backs. Observ-
ing the sleepy, downcast look OF the
congregation. the minister woke them
up by shouting: Arouse. heaven is
not under the floor!"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
His Grounds.

By a queer trick Of politics an H.
norant and pompous old darky was
elected Judge of a minor court in q Ger.
tain western state, In the first case
over which he presided he made 0
ruling SO absurd that the lawyer whose
case was affected by 1t said: "This lie
q very strange ruling. your honor.
Upon what grounds do you make it7s
What grounds--does you say7 Why.
desc YER cothouse grounds, Of co'sei-
replied the iudge.--Judge.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Ancient italian City.

Asolo, which inspired two of Brown.
ings verses in "Asolando," and which
is observing the centenary, Is a forti'
fed town in Treviso, in northern Italy.
1t was the ancient Acelum, and pos.
sesses cathedral and ruined aque-
Duct. The former palace of Catha-
rine Cornaro, queen OF Cyprus. is in
the neighborhood. There are beauti.
full seats In the vicinity, and the town
has population Of under 6.000.-Lon-
don Globe.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Have You Noticed TheaeS

An inventor In America has earned
the thanks Of all who have been seek
ing after really sanitary form of
kissing. In certain parts of that great
country. when young ladies' go to par
ties and places where they kiss. they
are provided with sterilized ivory
ring. mounted on silver handle. This
is interposed between the kisser and
the kissee. and the resulting sensation
is known as "pasteurized pleasure" or
"germless joy."-London Answers.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
CUTTING BOARD QUITE HANDY
Convenient Article for Use In Any
Play Room May Be Made Of Or
dlnary Piece Of Pine.

Use pine three-quarters OF an incl
thick. You should have piece IN
inches by IL inches for a cutting
board.
Round the corners by making then
one-Quarter Of circle whose radius
is three-Quarters of an inch. Round
with the grain of the wood, as showI
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11

The last thing to recover from the
effects of q big celebration Is the five.
cent bag Of peanuts. Il dwindles pain.
fully during the influx Of great crowds.
Other foods remain comparatively
stable In quantity for a fixed price
but the mob diminishes the allowance
a peanuts for a nickel by half.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Wanted His Cream spanked.

Mamma" said fouryear-old Bobby
what is that white stun on my ber
riesi"
THAT Ia what we call whipped
cream" answered his mother.
A few days later Bobby dined at
neighbors and. being offered some or
binary cream. he asked: Haven,
you folks got any spanked creamT'
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
It's Only Purposa.

20 Willie. Willie." cried teacher
to a hopelessly dull pupil, whatever
do your think your head is forf1
Willie. who evidently thought this m.
other Of the troublesome questions
that teachers were always asking.
pondered 1t deeply. please, miss,a =
he replied at length, ito keep my
collar on!"-Youth's Companion.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
LevelIna Board.

4 leveling board attached to the cul
tivator helps to reduce the loss OF sol
moisture BY evaporation. When the
ground is kept fine and level less sur
face is exposed to the air and the
capillarity at the surface Is less 30
tive.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Hair Fabrics.

In the manufacture Of hair fabrics
the hair is reduced to paste by SOL
vent and all kinds of hair and fibers
are used. The paste is run through
an artificial silk spinner and drawn
from the spinner In threads. Some Of
these are a yard or more in length.
Yhey can be braided or woven like ar
tifcial horse-hair. Hair composition
Of superior quality Is kept for the man
nfacture of wigs and braids.- -Harper's
Weekly.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
rwlce pIslocatea Neck.

Camden. N. Turning his head to
lodge falling timber at the New
FORK shipyards In Camden the other
lay. Hugh Washburn. forty.nine years
I'D, dislocated his neck for the second
ime within two years.
He was taken to Cooper hospital
mffering terrible agony. whore It was
tated that he would recover.
Washburn was injured in a like
manner while working In a Baltimore
.hipyard two years ago.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
A Barrel Boat.

will do The two tie pieces are put
across the timbers at the ends OF the
barrel and spiked in place.
The boat is to be propelled with
single, double-end paddle. There Il
no danger of the boat capsizing or tho
water splashing into the barrel.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
just Turn Around

1 can stretch my arms apart. HAVING
coin In each hand. and yet without
bringing my hands together, I can
cause both coins to come into the
same hand. How is this to be done :
Answer: Place the coin on astable.
then, turning round. take 1t ups with
he other hand.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
The Most orInInal Authnra

The most original modern authors
are not so because they advance what
10 new, but simply because they know
how to put what they have to say az
L 1t had never been said before
Goethe.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
No Wonder.

Nerve Specialist--My dear sir,
can't understand your case at all. Here
you were practically cured few days
ago and now your nerves are in
frightful shape again. Have you had
q sudden shock of some kind? Patient
~ received your bill yesterday.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11

Useful instrument In Farm House.
Every farm house should have a
harness needle In 1t. One of the many
uses to which the needle can be put is
to sew rips In shoes that may save an
extra trip to the cobbler's.-Home De.
partment. National Magazine.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Didn't Like New York Raan

New York.Jhilip Walsh. fourteen.
u Boston, who came here to make his
ortune. became homesick In two days.
Ie told City Hall Park Policeman
Campbell that New York beans were
lot fit TO eat.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
An OK prohler.

II II oxen will eat acres land one
third Of grass In 4 weeks ard I'll oxen
will seat 10 acres In weeks--hov
many oxen will eat "a acres In a
weeks. the grass being 4 allowed q
grow uniformly. =
Answsr-seven hundredl and @twen
| ~
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
wllllna 20 pleaa. A..,.

Little James while at neighnar,,
vas given . piece Of bread ana but,
ter. and politely said. "Thank Won *
That's right. James" said Sths l.av
7 like to hear little boys say Than
Eou.'"
Well reioined James. III Won
want to hear me say It again 20,
night put some jam on III
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Small Reward.

Kalamazoo. Mich.--A Burdlck hotel
'hAmhermaid. who found $4,000 worth
( ieweiry belonging to New York
alesman which had been lost for IL
ours. received 81 reward.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
MOTHER OF
LARGE FAMILY
Tells How She Keeps Her
Health Happiness For
Those Who Take
Her Advice.
Scottville, Mich. ~" | want to tell you
how much good Lydia E. Pinkham Veg.

etableCompound and
Sanative Wash have
done me. / live ON O
farm andhaveworked
very h ard. / am
forty-fve years old,
and am the mother
of thirteen children.
Many people think
it strange that ! am
not broken do wn
with hard work and
Al - g.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Don't Excite Cows.

Do not allow the cows to become
excited by hard driving, abuse. loud
talking, or any unnecessary disturb
ance.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11

No thoughtful person uses liquid blue It's a
pinch Of blue in large bottle of water. Ask for
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11

Mothers viii find Mrs. winslow's soothina
Syrup the beat remedy to use for their children
Turing tie teething period.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11
Worth Of Clothes.

LIQUID blue is a weak solution. Avoid 1t. Buy
Red Cross Ball Blue, the blue that's all blue. Ask
yOur grocer.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-10-11

Market for Skinned MIX.
Skinned milk finds its best mArkss
In the pig pea
New-York tribune., 1912-02-16
WILL VISIT COLOMBIA ALSO
Secretary Of State May Make Separate
Trim to Mexico, However.

Washington. Feb. i5-Thc representatives
OF Mexico and Colombia were included m
the list Of Central American dlplo mats 90
whom the State Department to-day ad-
dressed note officially advising them Of
the probable itinerary Of Secretary Knox
on his visits 10 countries bordering on the
Caribbean Sea.
The Mexican Ambassador and the Colon
bian Minister had waited until today for
official word In that connection. Diplomats
~ almost all the other countries had noti-
ned their governments Informally when the
white House announcement was made las
Saturday 1t was not known until today
that Mexico or Colombia would he !nclud-
ed i'm the list. Il has not yet been positive
Iy determined, however. that Mr.. Knox
will visit Mexico. In to-day's note he in
dicated that he was not sure whether he
would have sufficient time to visit
Mexico city or would reserve a visit until
he could make separate and extensive
tour of the country.
The State Department Informed the Co
lombian Minister to-day that MIR. Knox
would not have time to make the long
overland journey TO Bogota. ;he capital.
but would touch at Carthagena, "a coast
town, where II is expected that an official
delegation will be sent 10 meet him, as
was arranged when Secretary Root stopped
there.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-16
REOPENS LABOR CASE HERE
Webb and Farrell to Fight Re-
moval to Indiananolis.

Frank c. Webb and Patrick F. Farrell,
the two labor men who were arrested on
Wednesday on indictments returned in In
dianapolis charging them with conspiracy
in the dynamite cases." retained yesterday
Hugh Gordon Miller as their counsel. Both
men are in the Tombs, unable TO secure
hail. which has been fixed at $4,000 in each
case. and Mr.. Miller visited them i'm prison.
Later Mr.. Miller called on Thomas Alex
ander, United States Commissioner, before
whom the two men were -arraigned after
their arrest. and asked the Commissioner
to reopen the case. Mr.. Miller said that
both men had waived examination under a
misapprehension, believing that 1t meant
an immediate examination on that day.
They did not intend TO waive their right
for an examination as TO whether they
should be extradited TO indianapolis. and
now wanted 10 fight against their removal
from this district
Commissioner Alexander promised TO con-
slider the case. and the two men will be
again arraigned before him within a few
days. They believe. II was said. that they
will be able to resist extradition success
fuzzy on the ground that their identity as
sthe' men mentioned In the indictments has
not been established.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-16
GERMANY Is STILL BITTER
References to Haldane Coldly
Greeted in ReiChstag.

Berlin. Feb. 15.-The bitterness against
Great Britain evoked by last summers
events has not yet passed away. The ref
erences in the Reichstag to-day 10 the
British Secretary for Wars mission were
unmistakably cool. except on the part OF
the Socialists, who warmly favor better re-
lations between Germany and Great Brit
ain.
Chancellor Won Bethmann- Hollweg. In a
statement respecting the conversations
which took place between the German
Ministers and Viscount Haldane, said:
Viscount Haldane, although without bind
ing the British government, still at the In
stance OF the British cabinet, discussed
with us the points at which the interests OF
both countries come into contact Inc oo-
ject of the British Secretary for war ana
OF the German government was 10 una a
basis on which the mutual relauiops 9I s,le
two countries could be Improved 1nese
confidential conversations. which were
heartily welcomed by us, have been eS-
haustive and frank and Will be continued
The Imperial Chancellor hoped that the
House would not ask for further announce
ments at present. His speech was heartily
and generally applauded.
The spokesman for the Conservative
Centre and the National Liberals whiie de-
claring that they would welcome rap
prochement, recommended very reserved
action. The National Liberal speaker said; ;
I'VE all will support the peLce EFFORTS as
heretofore. but the chief assistance must
como from the English"
New-York tribune., 1912-02-16
TELLS OF CHINESE FLOODS
The Rev. E. F. KnickerboCker, i'll Let
ter, Says Thousands Are Destitute.

A letter Just received from the Rev. Y. r.
Knlckerbocker, OF the American Presbyte-
rian Mission, Ningpo. China. gives some
idea Of the conditions in part Of the terri
tory laid waste by foods in Che Kiang
Province alone.
During the summer the terrific typhoons
and devastating floods played havoc with
the northern part Of Yu'-Yao. bordering
Hangchow Bay, which ordinarily is an inn
mense tract Of fhrmtngnand that has been
reclaimed from tho, sea By series Of seven
dikes. The typhoons and floods made the
crops total loss and left the farmers
pennless.
Between the cmbankments and the sea
stretches a wide tract of land. In this re-
gion there Is famine encampmont Of 10000
souls. making their homes in straw huts
erected on small mounds of mud. Men,
women and children are starving. Three
townships close by affected by the famine
show 5000 destitute farmers. Mr.. Knicker-
booker asks for funds TO help care for
these people until May.