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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28

There goes another man suffering
from degeneration Of public manners"
said the clerk In an aggrieved tone. II
gave him five pieces of silver in max
ing change, and he tested every one
of them to see If 1t was counterfeit
right before my eyes 1t is only late
ly that people who buy have got rude
enough to do that. Clerks always did
1t with coin that customers gave them,
but that was a prerogative of the
trade For the customer to assume the
same privilege is usurpation Of an
cient rights. The worst of 1t is most
people nowadays are pretty good
Judges Of bad money, and every little
while coin is refused because 1t Is
counterfeit. The only way tradesmen
can teach customers the respect due
them is to turn their own backs when
testing money. That has always been
the custom In England. No tradesman
over there would dare fillip coin un.
der customers nose, and as a con.
sequence no customed has ever taken
that liberty with him.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
cHINAMAN WAS TOO CUTE
Suspicious Of Wedding Cake Sent Him
by Engllshman Who Owed
Him Money.

An Englishman who was appointed
to an important post in China got mar
ried soon after. Among the recipients
Of the usual little card boxes contain
ing piece Of wedding cake was a
Chinese merchant with whom the
bridegroom had an outstanding ac-
count for goods supplied
After the honeymoon, one of the
first persons the newly welded hus-
band met was his Celestial creditor.
"And how did you like the cake?"
said the Englishman, laughing, after
the usual congratulations.
"Ah, ah," returned the Chinaman,
with cunning leer, me no such big
fool to eat him, sab. Me put cakee In
fire. Burn him up. He, he!"
"Oh. that's too bad," said the Eng.
lishman, very much hurt. you might
have tasted 1t, at least, out Of com.
pliment to my wife and myself. Why
didn't you?"
me too clute, sah," said the Celes-
tial, with the same winning smile.
"You owe me monee, sab; sendee poi.
son cakee; eat him; die; you no
payee up. Houp-la! He, he, hel ]
know you Ingleesh!"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Continent of Trees.

The idea of an extensive forest gen
orally calls to mind the forests Of
South America or the heart of Africa,
but 1t is surprising fact that In pro-
portion to its size Europe is much
more extensively wooded than the rest
Of the globe. It is calculated that
nearly third of the surface of Eu.
rope is covered with trees, whereas
the proportion over the whole land
area of the world is only about one
quarter. Finland and Sweden have
the greatest extent Of forest land, hall
Of their surface being covered with
trees. Britain and Portugal are the
least wooded of European countries,
only a twentieth part of their area
being covered with forests. Though
southern Britain is richly wooded, the
trees are for large part in hedge
rows and are not collected into for,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28

Hand, Foot and Noseof Common Mole.
The strength of these little animals Is
marvellous. They will heave up the
surface Of d path trodden so hard
that repeated blows of pick will be
needed to break the crust.
Ordinarily the mole makes his way
through the soil as root does, or a
stake when driven by the blows of a
sledge. The earth is not excayated,
but simply crowded aside. When the
ground becomes very hard, of course,
the mole is obliged to excavate the
passageways and push the loose dirt
out through the openings of the roof
of his tunnel.
The mole keeps at work all through
the winter in places where the ground
is not frozen too hard. He works
more frequently in the morning and
evening.
Moles do very little harm to the
roots of grain, grasses or vegetables,
except in pushing the soil aside, and
they live principally on the white
grub, earth-worms and beetles.
He thus proves himself to be a
friend to mankind, because grubs are
the greatest scourges of grass and
other valuable plant roots.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Mot a Lover Of the Country.


Flavel Rankin is one of these city
chaps that can't see the country at
all. He says he tried living In the
rural districts once and never again
for him. Tommy Scott, the cigar man,
spent his vacation in the country this
summer and came back enthusiastic
about It. He met Rankin on the street
shortly after he returned.
Hello, Flavyie!" he shouted. Had
your vacation YETI"
'Yes-a month ago"
Go to the country?"
mo, didn't so to the country. But
/ got the same results right home. l
told the iceman to stop coming, bought
a lot OF stale vegetables, took the
springs out of my bed. had the daily
papers delivered two days late, took
the screens out and set kerosene
lamp in the window and spent each
morning in the back yard without my
hat until my nose peeled. That's why
/ look as if I'd been in the country
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28

tors from whom received only tempo
rary relief. l decided to give Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound fair
trial and also the Sanative Wash. Ihave
now used the remedies for four months
and cannot express my thanks for what
they have done for me.
"If these lines viii be of any benefit
you have my permission to publish
them. - Mrs. SADIE WILLIAMS, 45S
James Street, Elkhart, Indiana.
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and herbs.
contains no narcotic or harmful drugs,
and to-day holds the record of being the
most successful remedy for female ills
we know of, and thousands of voluntary
testimonials on file in the Pinkham
laboratory al Lynn, Mass, seem to
prove this fact
III you have the slightest doubt
thas Lydia II. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE G CompOundwil help y0u,write
t0Lydia Z. E.Pinkham MedicineCo.
(confidenCial) Lynn. Mass, for ad-
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman.
and held in strict confidence.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
AcnEs exH ESGYRg9 } gIIYa


Typographical errors are often 80
fearfully and wonderfully made as to
arouse suspicion, Thus there was
CONSERVATION in the office of the Chi
cago American recently, and all OK.
cuses and loud assertions on the part
or the proofreaders avalled not.
There 1t was, IN big black type on
the first page "Mchael Farley Dead
From IIee
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Spare the birds.

1t is an economic folly to constantly
increase expenditure and labor for ar,
titlcial destruction of insects without
turning hand TO prevent the deci.
nation Of our bird llfe natures in.
tended check against insect pests. GOV.
ernment dissection OF bird.craws show.
ing the birds with the goods in them
and Auduhcn.horn sentiment and sta.
tlstlcs are both valuable aids. but the
fGrmer himself must be induced to
study the problem OF bird values.
a'hen he viii act FOR bird rreserva.
ton and bird multiplication without
much loss CT time,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
NEAT PACKAGE HELPS PRICE
Butter Wrapped In Tidy Parcel of One
Pound Each VIII Attract Ego
OF Fastldlous.

You may not believe It, but farm
butter put up in square packages of
pound neatly wrapped in oiled paper
will bring better price In any mar
ket than the same butter loosely
packed in tin bucket or Jar.
A butter mold costs a trife and
oiled paper with your name printed
on 1t costs but a little more, and If
butter Is put up in square package
form 1t will bring from two to three
cents per pound more than If packed
In jars or tins.
Fastidious customers In the city,
who are In the habit of getting nearly
everything they consume in fancy
packages absolutely will not buy but
ter that is scooped out of the pail and
sent to their homes in wooden dishes.
In spite Of this fact which nearly
every farmer ought to know, 95 per
cent. OF the farm butter is sold with
out being put up in this form and
it all goes together In one mass at the
creamery, where it is worked over,
nodded into pound packages, wrapped
and stamped with the name of the
creamery and sold at profit, all of
which might have been had by the
farmer If he would do the same thing
and sell direct to city consumers.
OF course 1t Is not always possible
to sell direct to consumers, but even
If butter is sold to the stores 1t will
bring a much better price If put up
in oiled paper In pound packages. In
fact the making of butter is not all
there Is in the business.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
INFERTILE EGGS KEEP BEST
Large Part of Loss Can Be 0hvlated,
According to Investigation Just
Completed.

A large part of the heavy loss from
bad eggs can be obviated by the pro-
duction Of infertile eggs. This has
been demonstrated beyond doubt by
the investigations concerning the Inn
provement Of the farm egg which dur
ing the past two years have been con-
Quoted in the middle west by the bu-
reau of animal industry Of the depart
ment Of agriculture.
Secretary Wilson Of the department
of agriculture estimates that, between
the producer and the consumer, there
is an annual loss Of $45,000,000 in the
egg crop of the United States, the
greater portion of which falls on the
farmer, who is by far the largest
producer. OF this enormous loss,
about one-third, or 100000, is
caused by heat which develops the
embryo of the fertile egg, causing
what Is known to the trade as a
blood ring" AS 1t is impossible to
produce blood ring" In an infer
tile egg, such an egg will stand a
higher degree of temperature without
serious deterioration than will fer
tile egg.
The secretary says that If farmers
and others engaged in the production
OF eggs would market their male birds
as soon as the Matching season Is
over, large saving would be made,
as practically every infertile egg
would grade first or second II clean
and promptly marketed.
No more simple or efficient method
Tor the Improvement of the egg sup
ply OF the country could be adopted
than the production Of infertile eggs.
Liuuid blueis wealt solution. Avoid It. Buy
Red Cross Ball Blue. the blue that's ali blue Ask
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28

A German professor named Meinar-
due has amused himself with calculat-
ing how long drop OF water stays
In the ocean before 1t is eyaporated,
and how soon it returns to the sea.
Calculating he does not say how
the total evaporation from the sur
face of the ocean and estimating the
total volume of water in the oceans,
drop of water entering the ocean
viii stay there 1880 years. provided
Ii awaits its turn to be evaporated.
However, the professor admits that
the surface water stands good
chance of getting ahead Of its turn.
The average stay out of the ocean
is only twelve days before 1t has
ALLEN back again to the sea.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Eating SunfIower Seeds.

Sunfiower seed eating is the favorite
holiday pastime of the Spanish He
brews of the Levant The kernel OF
the seed, which is about as large as a
grain Of rice. has nutty. oily flavor,
somewhat similar to raw peanuts. On
Saturday, after synagogue, Hebrews
all over the Orient are to be seen
munching the suntiower seeds with
gusto. The Weather classes substi-
tute the salted pistachlo for the sun
flower seed.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Poetry and Music.

II had to live my life again, I
would have made a rule TO read some
poetry and listen to some music at
least once every week; for perhaps
the parts of my brain now atrophied
would thus have been kept active
through use. The loss Of these tastes
is loss of happiness, and may pos
sibly be injurious to the intellect, and
more probably to the moral charac-
ter. by enfeebling the emotional part
of our nature.-Charles Darwin.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28

I'm SO glad to see that you have
recovered from your Illness" Eyes;
but had narrow escape. The doc
tor said If had waited day longer
it would have been hopeless, and they
all said it was the only case Of its
kind on record. The doctor is going
to write 1t up for medical paper. The
only thing that carried me through
was my wonderful vitality. "-Ex-
change.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28

When desertion summons came
before Mr. Symmons at Woolwlch
police court 1t was stated the hus.
band was at present undergoing four
teen days Imprisonment for an Of
Tense. Mr. Summons. turning to the
wife, observed; 4 am afraid we
must adjourn this, as your husband
has other engagements which prevent
his being here tndaun
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
In the Same Roat.

Belle and Ben had just announced
their engagement, when we are
married." said Belle, Il shall expect
you to shave every morning. It's
one of the rules of the club | belong
to that none of its members shall
marry y man who won't shave every
morningH" "oh. that's all right" re-
piled Ben; 'but what about the morn
ings | don't get home In timer l be-
long to g club, too, o,"--Lippincott's
Magazine
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
salt Roasted Pumpkln sasda.

In some of the rural districts OF
Macedonia the peasantry consume
large quantities of pumpkin seeds,
salted and roasted brown The taste
Of this nut" like the taste OF caviar,
is an acquired vice and some persons
never succeed in acquiring it.--New
York Press.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
MOLE WORKS DURING WINTER
Little Animal Keeps Busy Where
Ground Is Not Frozen Too Hard
His Strength Is Marvellous.
CBy T. II. scHEFFER.

The mole, like the pocket gopher,
Is more or less active at all seasons
Of the year. but 1t is during thesrainy
period, when the soil Is moist, that
his work is pushed most vigorously
Shallow runways are then rapidly ex-
tended In all directions and old rum
ways repaired.
When mole makes up Its mind
to go In a certain direction, nothing
but concrete or stone will stop him.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Possibly Knew What He Meant.

In an address Of welcome to a resi-
dent magistrate at Gala, Transkei,
South Africa, the Kaffir spokesman,
the other day thus expressed him
self: I'VE cordially welcome your
pluck and goodness in coming among
such pusillaminary and unwhole-
somely ignorant people. We are over
joyful to get such a weak, non-excit-
able, superabundantly harmonious
one as a magistrate"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Disappointed.

Won't you come in little while?a
she urged.
Have you any mistletoe fastened to
the ehandelier?" he asked.
You ought not to ask me such an
embarrassing question"
We'll, II you won't tell me think
III be going along don't see why
YOU consider the question embarras-
sing"
Il thought" she said, slamming the
door In his face. 'you might at least
have had curiosity enough to want to
come in and see for yourself"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
VALUE OF THE DRILL SYSTEM
Question Most Frequent In Discus.
sions on Wheat Raising Is An
swered by Many Farmers.
CBy l.. G. BURNETT.)

The value OF the drill is the ques-
tion most frequent in discussions on
wheat raising The results of four
years tests in Iowa are found to be
40 bushels of winter wheat gain per
acre when the grain was drilled, over
that which was broadcasted This,
figured at 70 cents per bushel, the
average price of wheat for the time
covered by the experiment, shows a
balance of S2,95 per acre in favor of
drilling.
The opinion of farmers In all parts
of the country seems to be about the
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28

Nonrustlnu Tlnware.

Z II new tinware be rubbed over with
fresh lard and thoroughly heated in
The oven before 1t is used. It will
never rust afterward, no matter how
much 1t is put In water. For stained
tinware borax produces the best re-
suits. If teapot or coffee pot IL
discolored on the inside boil 1t in a
strong solution of borax for short
time and all it's BRIGHTNESS will ratnss
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28

The late Colonel Inman always
insisted that Kansas got its name
through mistake of a proofreader.
The early Kansas Indians were
Kaws, a diminutive of Kansas. In
revising the works of missionary
the proofreader mistook the "u" for
an inverted IN" and changed it tc
n" Since then it has been Kansas
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Advice TO 4 Friend.

The young man was about to be
married.
Praise your wife's grace and
beauty constantly" advised one friend
-But don't overdo it" eounseled an
other. "She may conclude that she
has thrown herself away on you. ant
want to 90 on the stage"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Almost Too Much to Believe.

A gunner of the royal marines tells
a story, says an English paper, OF
how a seagull rescued an exhausted
llnnet from the sea and deposited 1t
N the deck Of warship. We can
tand a good deal. but this story
hould, we think, have been told by
= narrator exclusively to- his fellow
arines.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Giant Plneapnle.

The Shaker colony near Aston, Fla.
has grown pineapple weighing 12
pounds five ounces With this pine
apple and others nearly approaching
Its size the Shakers have taken most
of the prizes at county and state fairs
for the finest pineapples.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Wash ReneIlent for Rahhltn.

The department of agriculture says
in its annual report that lime and sui
phur wash has been tried with suc.
cess on fruit trees to prevent their
being gnawed by rabbits. One treat
ment In the fall, as a rule, will do for
the entire winter, Its more extensive
use is recommended by the depart
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28

same, when It comes to the value OF
the drill.
Edward Lefot Of Minnesota says;
Five pecks per acre is the usual
quantity sown when the wheat is
drilled, and six pecks broadcast. Ex-
periments seem to indicate that a
larger quantity of seed does not In
crease the yield. | prefer drilling to
broadcasting. mainly because it places
the seed where each kernel will ger.
inmate at once and there is absolute,
ly no waste of seed"
A Pennsylvania farmer says. Drill.
ing proves best here"
In Virginia. so bushels per acre has
been aud is being harvested each
year from broadcasted seed.
In Kentucky drilling is said to have
given far better results than broad.
casting,
A Missouri faraer writes; 81 pre-.
fer the drll. as 1t distributes the seed
moro uniformly.s
From North Carolina farmer
writes: III the seed is evenly dis.
tributed we think broadcasting best
In the south, as it keeps down all
other vegetation"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
why We Can See Smoke.

Smoke Is not composed Of gases
only, but OF solid, or perhaps partly
liquid PARTICLES. which are mixed with
the gases and carried along by them.
II is these particles OF matter that are
visible to the eye, and not the gases
themselves St Nicholas.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Would Take an Helreas Now.

Once more someone takes the
trouble to tell us that there was
real Mary with real lamb that went
to school. And when you remember
how much lower meat was in 1914,
it isn't so hard to Milwau-
kee Journal.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
world Looks for the Best.

There are two sides to every story.
The victory you win means defeat to
the other fellow. But that should not
deter us from doing our best. It's the
best that the world needs, but If you
can do better than the other fellow, it
is your work that the world wants
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
WOMAN SICK
FOURTEEN YEARS
Restored to Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Elkhart, Ind. :-"I suffered for four
teen years from organic inflammation,

I e m q lie weakness,
pain and irregulari-
ties. The pains in
my sides were in
creased by walking
or standing on my
feet and / had such
awful bearing down
feelings, was de-
pressed in spirits
and became thin and
pale with dull, heavy
ewes. I had six doc
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28

Wonderful soil here" said the
traveller: i've never seen such big
corn" yes" said the farmer. "and
we had to plant dwarf variety to
keep II down to this size"--St. Paul
Dispatch.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
His Almost Endless jos.

A small boy watched his mamma
aking ashes out Of stove. and said
In a thoughtful manner: Mamma. I
would think the devil would get 50
tired taking up his ashes"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
American Theatrical History.

The first regularly organized theat
rical company came from England in
1852. and played first at Williams
burg, Va. afterward at Annapolis.
New York and Philadelphia. The first
theater was built at Annapolis.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Then he rhouaht AGAIN.

The young man was fighting out
ways and means. "They say two can
1--we as cheaply as one" DO not de.
lude yourself, Ferdinand" said the
Girl, For one thing, | shall positive
ly have to have separate car"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
PILEs CURED IN 8 TO "a DAYS


Your druggist viii refund money if PAZO ONT
MENT fails to cure any case of Itching. Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding Piles in to IA days. 50c
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
ONLY ONE "RROMO oIUNINEn
How Kansas Got Its Name.

That is LAXATIVE BRoMO QUININE. Lool
in One Day, Cures Grip in Two Days. Csc.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Az Usual.

No thoughtful person uses liquid blue It's a
pinch of blue in a large bottle of water. Ask for
Red Cross Ball Blue, the blue that's all blue.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Ama1Inn.

The scientists tell us, as the result
o. study OF paleolithio skull, that
primitive man was able to think be-
fore he was able to speak. How times
have changed, d,-New York Tribune.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28

Mothers viii find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup II best remedy to use for theit children
5uring ne teething period.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
RESTING COINS.

Liquid blueis welt solution. Avoid It. Buy
Red Cross Ball Blue the blue that's all blue. Ask
your grocer.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-28
Couple Too Much onnnnl.a

An example of an absent-mindeu
bridal pair is reported from Switzer-
land. A couple had arranged for their
marriage by the civil and religious au.
thorities failed to appear at the ap,
pointed hour having, as they de
clared. forgotten all about IT,"