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Milford chronicle., 1913-03-07
Job Eor Nearo Vic Went 70 PoIe

Matthew A. Henson, the negro VI
was with Peary on his final dash
the North Pole, will get a position
the classified service without haTl
to pass a civil service eXaminatic
President TAFT issued an order perm,
ting the appointment.
Milford chronicle., 1913-03-07
KiIIs wife and Shoots sen.

Leslo Vargo. a Hungarian, Of TFa
on, n. J., shot and killed his WI
While in a drunken rage. He then Sd
himself and is in a critical condition
Milford chronicle., 1913-03-07
State Song Fer Indiana.

The state song of Indiana will be
"on the Banks Of the Wabash" if
bill to this effect introduced in the
legislature by Senator Curtis is en-
acted into law.
Milford chronicle., 1913-03-07
Parcel Post Has Special Deliver

q Vt 7 W TF0a NFNSINI NNTINlTI
Extension of the special deliW
system to apply to all parcel ps
mail was ordered by Postmaster Ct
eral Hitchcock, effective March l. Il
regular fee of 10 cents in special G
livery or regular postage stamps VI
be charged.
Milford chronicle., 1913-03-07
AarieuIturaI an Passes.

The senate passed the agricutu'
bill. The measure carries an ezpa
diture Of approximately s1S.0OOOOo
Milford chronicle., 1913-03-07
White SLAYER Gets Two Years

Salvatore Londo, of Hartford, Com
was sentenced in New York to "
years in the federal penitentiary
Atlanta, Ga, under the Mann Whi
slave law.
Milford chronicle., 1913-03-07
Taft Gusts Two Customs Appraisers

President Taft summarily dismissed
from office Thaddeus S. Sharretts and
Roy H. Chamberlain, members Of the
board Of United States general ap-
praisers at New York, because of
malfeasance in Office"
Milford chronicle., 1913-03-07
TumuIty Reaehes capitaI.

Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to
Iresident-elect Wilson, reached Wash
ington from Trenton, n. J., to prepare
for taxing up his work at the White
House.
Milford chronicle., 1913-03-07
erlevina Rrother 4 sulcIde.

Grieving over the death Of his
brother, William Reeder, a wealthy
farmer Of near Williamsport, Pa
hanged himself.
Milford chronicle., 1913-03-07

we're found, almost unconscious h.,
dled in an air heading. They had to r
carried and dragged TO safety.
Milford chronicle., 1913-03-07
ASK YOU|
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Milford chronicle., 1913-03-07
AND

An Oyster s.
drewville, nea
8th, for benefit
and cake will
Invited.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
COMMUNICATED.

Since there still survives among
some Christian people tendency to
minimize the Importance of baptism,
/ wish to call attention to the Ian.
guage of DR.. Charles Edward Locke,
pastor of the First Methodist Episco-
pal cburuh, Los Angeles. on the sub
jeot. On Sunday evening. January
9th, 1918, at bis regular monthly
Question drawer SERVICE" in answer
to the question: Is it necessary to
te baptised 10 order to enter the
Kingdom Of Heaven" Or. Locke
said, as reported ty the Los Angeles
Daily Express of Jan. 8, 1918:
Baptism is enjoined in the Bible
and the true follower of Christ will
otey His command. II the rite of
baptism were impossible or imprac-
tioable TO dying man who had ac-
oepted Christ. do not believe that
the omission of the beautiful service
would close the gates of heaven to the
repentant man. Baptism is holy
sacrament. however, and cannot be
omitted without disregard to the
plain and explicit teaching OF our
Lord. Joseph N. SCOTT.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
A LEGAL LEGEND.
The Tale OF a Telling Comparison In
an Oriental Court.

The Tale OF Telling Comparison In
an Oriental Court.
When Add el-Hakk was poor, as be
was one day travelling across a weary
plain. be came to the house Of the
Widow Zaidah. who was also poor, but
when he made known bis hunger she
set before him two hard boiled eggs.
all the food there was In her house.
Later, when Abd-el-H Hakk lived in
Marakesh and was very rich, Meludi,
the lawyer. disliking him, persuaded
the Widow Xaidah to sue him for the
eggs, but not for the eggs alone, for
they would have become two chickens.
which in time would have so multiplied
that the whole fortune of Abd-el Hakk
would not now pay for them. When
the case came to trial the rich man was
not In court
"Why is the defendant not here7' de-
manded the Judge.
my lord" said counsel for the de-
fense, "he Is gone to SOW boiled beans"
"Boiled beans2"
"Boiled beans, my lord"
"1s be mad?"
"He is very wise, my lord. Surely Ii
hard boiled eggs can be hatched boiled
beans will grow"
The suit was promptly dismissed.
with costs to the aintiff.-Pearson's
Weekly.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
JOY or CREATING.
Put Your Heart In Your Work, No
Matter What IL May Be.

Put Your Heart In Your Work, No
Matter What u May Be.
While every man who makes living
Is not a genius, yet the real JOY Of
creating can belong to each Of Us In
just as real and true way. Ii we put
into farming or banking or our school
work the sense of making something
we get the great treasure out of 1t.
When we Oil any task with ourselves
we make something.
a girl says. II made the room tidy"
which simply means she put something
Of herself into the disorderly room and
80 beautified 1t. After she had made
1t tidy 1t reflected something of her.
self; 1t looked some idea of order such
as she had in her own mind. A boy
says, II made a good recitation In
school yesterday" and he is right, for.
although the lesson was already there,
1t had to wait for him to come along
and make 1t recitation.
So 1t is everywhere. Making any
thing means, no matter how simple
the task, that we bring out something
that did not exist before and that
that something is to some degree like
the maker of It We get out what
we put In. IL any one wants to be
miserable the surest way Is just to do
things without putting his whole heart
and self into them. Think OF the mere
outside of the tasks and they are not
worth doing But once put yourself
into them and all that is changed
st. Nicholas.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
ELIZA WAS GENEROUS.
Her Munificent Offer For an Original
Five Act Tragedy.

Her Munifcent Offer For an Original
Five Act Tragedy.
People are likely to look back com.
miseratingly upon the past In these
days of modern progress. When we
hear what the most prolific of present
day novelists receives word and
what the weekly royalties of any well
known playwrights are we say that
the literary profession has come into
its own, Some bark back to the con.
trastlng tale-that Milton received
only f5 for the flrst copyright Of
Paradise Lost" an epic In twelve
books containing total Of l0.565
lines, but that was over two centuries
ago. Poe received $40 for "The
Raven" That may be dismissed with
the statement that poetry never paid.
The modern way of making money
by literature Is even more recent than
Is generally thought Alexander Hill
Of Cincinnati, one OF the best known
bookmen and collectors of the middle
west. has a letter In his collection of
autographs that proves this point.
Two generations ago Eliza Logan
was a leading actress In America.
Read her letter. o budding genius on
the typewriter, and be glad that when
you are paid It Is space rates for the
local paper;
fremont House. Boston. May II. lisa
T. Dusseault. Jr., Charlsstown. Mass.
sir-l wish an original Ave act tragedy
the feature to be- heroine. myself the
personator of Il: the scene not to be laid
In this country; the plot to be optional
with the author-foE which, II like It. l
viii pay S Respectfully.
ELIZA LOGAN.
--Bosfon Post
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
A Wonderful Escape.

Fieschi tried to assassinate King
Louis Philippe Of France In July. 1885.
The king was riding along the lines OF
the national guard In the Boulevard du
Temple. There came crash and a
rush of bullets. Louis Philippe's arm
was grazed. his horse was shot In the
neck, Marshal Mortier fell dead and
about thirteen other people were killed
and thirty wounded. Fieschi had taken
the upper floors Of house several
weeks before and there rigged up an
oaken frame four feet by three feet six
inches. supported on four posts of oak
and itself supporting twenty-five gun
barrels fixed In grooves at various
angles so as to command an area Of
twenty-five feet In length and ten feet
In height. When he fred the train OF
powder that let Off his battery the king
would have been killed IL four barrels
had not burst and two missed fire.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
the. beginning of 1912, although farms

the. beginning Of 1912, although farms
we're enoroaehing upon range area.
But the population was growing in
those Eve years. One Western expert
says that since 1900 the beef cattle
supply has neen reduced by 28 per
cent, while the increase of population
has been about rs per cent. Prices
have risen in obedience to the law Of
supply and demand. Decrease of sup
ply has out down our exports. Only
$4,000 cattle were exported last year,
their value being about $3,000,0 900.
The number exported 10 1911 was
1870 valued at $4,000, 900. and
a steady decline is shown since 1904.
when $4,000, or $41, 100000 worth,
we're shipped. There has teen an in
crease of imports.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
American Leaf colors.
Boston Post

II has been observed that the leaves
of American trees. such as naples.
scarlet oaks and so forth. which at
home exhibit splendid colors In the
autumn. fall below their reputation 10
this regard when transplanted In Eng
land or ON the continent of Europe.
An English observer. who has been
studying the causes OF the autumn
tlnts OF trees, thinks the superiority
OF our Woodlands arises from the soft
aud mild vet glowing climatic condl-
tions prevailing here In the fall, Eng,
land, It IL added. Is rarely blessed with
an indian summer, When the climatic
conditions permit the leaves to retain
considerable vitality In the autumn
the volored plgmeu, Is normally de-
velored. hence the glorious forests OF
the United states Chicago Record
Gar~1
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
THRIFTY NAPOLEON.
Rs Made Sure Of Being Served With
Honesty and Economy.

Honesty and Economy.
Emperor Napoleon l., dressed In
plain clothes, often visited the markets
VI Paris In order to learn the current
prices of food and find out whether
his household officers served him with
honesty and economy In Foreign
"Reminiscences" Richard Lord Hol
land says that this was only one illus
tratlon of the emperor's thrift and
shrewdness.
When the TuilIeries was being repair
I'd Napoleon suspected that the up
hoisterers charges were higher than
they should be. SO he asked one OF
his ministers, who was with him, how
much the ivory egg at the end of the
bell rope ought to cost.
II do not know" was the answer.
III shall be ascertained," said Ma
poleon, Thereupon he cut Off the ivory
handle, called for valet. bade him
dress himself In plain clothes, inquire
the price Of such articles at several
shops in Paris aud order dozen as II
for himself.
The valet bought them for two-thirds
)f the price that the emperor had had
70 pay. Napoleon, inferring that the
same overcharge had been made In
the other articles, deducted a third
from the entire account and Informed
the tradcsman that 1t was done Mt his
own express command because on In
vestigation he had found the charges
to be exorbitant
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
WHY Rain Clouds Are Black

The color of cloud depends on the
manner in which the sunlight falls
upon 1t and the position of the observ-
err 1t will be noticed that high clouds
are always white or light In color, and
this is because the light by which they
are seen is reflected. from the under
surface by the numberless drops OF
moisture which go to form the cloud.
Heavy rain clouds, on the other hand
are found much nearer the earth, and
so the light falls on them more direct
ly from above, giving silver lining tc
the cloud, though the undersurface ap
pears black owing to the complete re.
Election and absorption of the light by
the upper layers Seen from above by
an observer in balloon, the blacklist
rain clouds appear Of the most daz'
zlingly brilliant white.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
A DREAM AND A CRIME.
The story Of Slumber Vision That
Comes From Cicero.

Comes From Cicero
Cicero furnishes us with a tale OF
two Arcadans, who, travelling togeth
er arrived at Niagara, q city of Greece,
between Athens and Corinth, where
one of them lodged In friends house
aud the other at an inu.
After supper the person who lodged
ut the private house went to bed and,
falling asleep, dreamed that his friend
at the inn appeared to him and beg
ged his assistance, because the inn.
keeper was going to kill him.
The man Immediately got out of bed,
much frightened at the dream; but, re-
covering himself and falling asleep
again, his friend appeared to him u
second time and desired that, as he
would not assist him In time. he would
ut least care not TO let his death 70 un.
punlshcd-that the innkeeper having
murdered him, had thrown his body In
a cart aud covered Ii with rubbish.
He therefore begged that he would be
nj the city gate In the morning before
the cart was out
Struck with this new dream, he went
early 10 the gate, saw the cart and
asked the driver what was In II, The
driver Immediately 1ed. The dead
body was taken out OF the cart and
the mnkeeper apprehendcd and exc.
,.,ttat
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
Sorrows Of Authorship.

Paradise Lost" brought Milton only
a paltry f5-about $25 of our money.
Hawthorne for twenty years con
tinued to be. to use his own words,
''the obscurest man of letters in
America" There Is not much market
for my wares" he said Mt another
time.
Thoreau Is an interesting example
A thousand copies Of bis "a Week on
the Concord and Merrimac Rivers"
we're printed. but very few Of these
were sold, and a considerable number
were given away by the author. The
remainder were returned to him and
were stored In his attic. He grimly
observed. II have now library of
900 volumes, the greater portion OF
which | myself have written."-New
York Press.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
No seoret reIsoraph system

Many persons are OF the opinion that
the wireless system Of communication
Is particularly subject 10 tapping; but,
according to the Scientific American,
no telegraph system Is absolutely Sc.
cret Any one familiar With the Morse
code can read ordinary messages enter
hg any telegraph office. At poldhu,
on Telephone connected TO long
horizontal wire, the message passing
on Il government telegraph tine Il quar-
ter III nli,e away can he distinctly
rpat. II has hevn shown that Il Is
peS~llsr ln Jisk NJ II u distance. on
.nDl-.a lu.auL IpltlekaaIlall. Which
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
ATHENA. ORE. FEB. A.. 1911;
IMPOSSIBLE TO CHEER UP.

The Gloomy Gus feeling that has
come over newspapers and the people
at large when a legislature was on,
was about to be overcome this year,
says the La Grande Obser YER. But,
alas, it is almost impossible to cheer
up when one considers the food of
bills already introduced. In national
affairs when Wilson was elected the
newspapers of the country gritted
their teeth and said 1--WE will not let
period of hard times come", and
sincerity marked every word.
The same feeling was felt in Oregon
regarding the state legislature.
But what's the use? When men
of supposed intelligence get 1t ioto
their heads they can change not only
the judicial code but the moral code,
twist the constitution into coIkscrew,
add personal popularity to themselves
by introduction of bills that are i'm
practical and unjust. what's the use
to grit your teeth any longer and say
that you like it2
A recess Ia law making for the next
20 years would be the best thing that
Oregon could have. Our statute books
are now crowded with law after law
that not only lacks enforcement but
lacks praotioability.
Oregon is in the midst OF an epoch
when am mbitious lawmakers threaten
by their wonderful produotivenaas Of
impractical laws to set the state back
In advancement for number Of years.
Take rest, 20 loud toned legislators.
Go back to your home and forget the
spotlight and brass bands. Get 10
and earn something; produce some
thing to add to the worlds wealth
and to feed the multitude. Do this
and you will have contributed more
to usefulness than session after session
of legislative assemblies.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
GLASS is PECULIAR.
II Has Number of Curious and Con.
Trajectory Qualities.

II Has a Number Of Curious and Con.
Trajectory Qualities.
Glass is one of the most interesting
as well as one of the most peculiar
things In the world 1t has curious and
contradictory qualities. and many as
tonishing r&enomena are connected
with It, Brittle and breakable as 1t is
yet It exceeds almost all other bodies
in elasticity.
IL two glass balls are made to strike
each other at a given force the recoil
by virtue of their elasticity, will be
nearly equal to their original impetus
Connected with Its brittleDess are somt
very singular facts.
Take hollow sphere with q hole and
stop the hole with the finger. so as to
prevent the external and internal all
from communicating and the sphere
vii ay to pieces by the mere heat OF
the hand Vessels made of glass that
have been suddenly cooled possess the
curious property of being able to re
sist hard blows given to them from
without, but will be instantly shivered
by small particle Of flint dropped into
their cavities, This property seems tt
depend upon the comparative thickness
of the bottom; the thicker the bottom
is the more certainty of breakage by
this experiment Some of these vessels,
1t Is stated, have resisted the stroke OF
a mallet given with sufficient force to
drive a nail into wood, and heavy bod,
les. such as iron, bits Of wood. Jasper
stone. ETC.. have been cast into them
from height OF two or three feet with.
out any effect, yet fragment of flint
not larger than pea dropped from
height OF three inches has made them
flV
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14

The uses to which parcels post IL
being put indicate clearly that 1t Is
fast reaching into tha business Of the
express companies and that shipments
Isselop. No: many days ago baby
was sent from Its mothers place to Its
grandmother. All Of the requirements
Of the postoifice departme were COM
piled with aud the rural carrier had
the iistinotion OF having carried the
lirst parcel of the kind 10 the United
States. Fancy seven or eight
pound baby wrapped according to reg
ulation with the bright red stamps OF
the department attached to snow
white blanket, delivered to its grand
mother, several miles distant, ty the
rural carrier. When this youpgster
matures, he will have history attach
ed TO himself in the making OF which
he did nothing but consent or protest,
When that carrier consigns the job to
a successor his proud record will to
headed ty tha stoly of the taby that
rode in the mail wagon 80 parcels
post package
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14

A "tobaoco census" taken by the
Eugene high school club, composed Of
young men Of that institution banded
for intellectual and moral betterment,
shows that of the 215 young men en-.
rolled in the school 1871. or 81 per
cent do not use tobacco in any form
13, or per cent, are occasional users
and II. or 33 per cent, are habitual
users of tobacco.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
Death by BoiIina.

In old England, before the law was
passed which prohibited "cruel and un.
usual forms of punishment" murder.
ers were often condemned to death by
boiling. In such cases the victims
were chained in large kettles Of cold
water, which were gradually heated
until it caused the flesh to drop from
the bones. The last English victim Of
the boiling DEATH was one Rouse, a
cook, who, it was alleged, had killed
seventeen persons.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14

The Agricultural college of Oregon
has demand for more agricultural,
horticultural and domestic science
graduates than can BIZ turned out, and
these young men and women are given
salaries commensurate with their pos
itions. And today Is but the begin
ming OF the "baok to the land" era.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
Railway station Library,

In the refreshment room Of Sussex
(Englandl railway station the traveller
may see small rack Of books. II he
Is sufficiently curious to look he will
discover from written label that the
books are the property of the Vicar
Of the town. who places them at the
disposal of any passenger who likes
10 take n voIume away, the only con-
ditiou being that he shall return the
volume to It's place on his return or
post II To the vicar.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT.

NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT.
10 the County Court of the State Of
Oregon for Umatilla County.
In the Matter of the Estate OF
Robert j. Boldly, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons whom it may concern that Jack.
son Nelson, administrator of the es-
tate of Robert j. Boldly. deceased.
has filed bis final account and report
and that the judge Of the above en-
titled court has appointed Monday,
the 18th day of February, A. d. 1913,
at the hour of ten O'Clock in the fore
noon Of said day, as the time, and
the County Courthouse at Pendleton,
Oregon, gs the place, where. the said
final account and report will be heard
and the settlement thereof made.
Dated this the 18th day of January,
A. D. 1918. jackson Nelson,
Administrator,
Peterson 81 Wilson,
Attorneys for the Adminitrator.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-02-14

Iu describing the ways and meanI
Of com batting the mail order house
and to taEe advantage Of the parcels
post, the Eugene guard thus advises
its home merchants:
Local merchants in all lines must
realize that the one way to combat
the mail order houses, now that the
parcel post is established, is to adver-
tise their goods through the local
papers. The newspaper iu each com
munity stands for home institutions
and Is a home industry itself. Prop
erly encouraged it will be able to do
great deal toward educating tho
people to see the value of building up
their own institutions. Mail order
business builds up only the large
cities, and forces the smaller retail
dealer to ask higher prices for his
goods. because of his restricted busi-
ness, and to pay lower prices for the
country produce he handles. A large,
thriving town benefits the entire oom-
munity that surrounds it by attordiuR
better local markets. and means that
business competition will be keener
with better stocks to select from than
in a place that is properly ciassed as
more dead than alive. Aud live
town oa nnot be tuilt up unless the
local people spend their money at
home, q duty incumbent upon the
business man as upon his customers, q
potent factor In the work also being
the home newspaper, "