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Teacher Williams. after selling
merchandise, where do you put It. on
the debit side or the credit side?"
Williams latter half seconds
thousht) You put 1t on the truck"
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One Of the Photographs of Queen
Wilhelmina's Husband in Hi
German Uniform, Which Have
Been Widely Circulated by ].
His Enemies in Holland.

lack of a Dutch heir to the throne, Law
was passed giving the Government power,
to name a successor or to declare a rec
public. ~
In the early years Of the Queens mar
ried life many reports were circulated
about the Princes bad behavior. He was
so unpopular that the Dutch believed the
worst that was said about him. 1t was
even said that he beat the Queen Accord
ing to the report, Major van Tets, young
Dutch officer, who defended the Queen,
was killed In duel with the Prince.
1t was certain that the pair got along
very badly together. The Prince was alb
sent for very long periods in Germany.
After that the Prince gained some popu-
larity by his bravery in helping to rescue
the passengers and crew of a ship wrecked
on the coast of Holland, while the Queen
has gradually lost her hold on the popular
affections.
Now the Queen and the Prince are ap-
parently reconciled and are sharing their
many troubles together
The Prince takes a great interest in
wines and liQueurs and personally attends
to the care and management of the vast
wine cellars of the palace. He is said to
have the finest collection Of champagnes
and burgundies in Europe.
This pleasant hobby has been OF great
value in helping the Prince to forget the
difficulties, sorrows and humiliations OF his
present position.
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lures and needs have become better un-
derstood, and it is expected that, as the
requisite facilities are afforded, and as
the number of birds Matched in houses
increases, it will be practicable to invite
the companionship of these feathered
friends with increasing success.
At all seasons birds may be gathered
about human dwellings by offering them
what they need. In Winter they are
often pushed for food, and If this re-
quirement be supplied, they will report
daily at the lunch counter. On the other
hand, In Summer they prefer to forage
for themselves, and other means must
be sought to attract them. They appre-
ciate fresh water for bathing and drink
Ing A shallow pool, IL only foot across,
becomes on hot days centre of attrac-
ton for all the birds in the neighbor-
hood 1t may be provided with pan
set in the ground and containing few
pebbles.
Birds are desirable not only on account
of their beauty and song, but because OF
their usefulness as destroyers of harm
full insects, especially during the breed
ing season, when they are obliged to
work early and late to obtain sufficient
food for their nestlings. If feathers bits
of wool or Irvine be scattered about
dozen different kinds of birds will make
off with them. If houses be provided IN
which they can rear their young COM
fortably most of them will be occupied.
Bird houses in the Southern States
have long been made in very simple
fashion out Of gourds, hole on one side
serving for door. piece OF wire
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cans; but chiclSadees and nuthatches dis
dain such contrivances. Wood is bet
ter building material than metal En-
trance holes should be counter-sunk from
the outside to exclude rain. Heads of
nails and screws should be set rather
deeply and covered with putty. All
houses should be easy to open for clean
ing. A perch at the entrance is unnec-
essary and may even be Objectionable,
as 1t is liable to be used by English SPAR
rows while they twitter in way that
is exasperating to the more desirable &C.
cupants.
A kind Of bird house suitable for use
in trees may be made from section
of log that has been followed by decay.
1t should be fitted with a top and bottom.
Another way to make log house is to
split a straight-grained log two feet in
length through the middle, and then to
cut out cavity with gouge. The exca-
vations in the two halves, of course,
should be made to match exactly. It
is desirable that the halves be fastened
together with screws, in order that the
house may be taken apart and cleaned,
and the top of it ought to be covered
with tin or zinc to keep out moisture.
Martin houses are built on the apart
mert plan to satisfy the social instinct
which is so marked in birds of this spe-
cies, though conspicuously lacking in
most other feathered creatures. They
usually contain not less than ten or
twelve rooms, and for this reason are rel
atively complicated, especially if, as is
often the case, they are miniatures Of
elaborate buildings.
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through the neck affords the requisite
means for attaching the gourd to a tree
branch or elsewhere. A number of
gourds thus prepared and strung on a
pole seem to make satisfactory apart
ment house for colony of martins. Used
\singly, they are equally well adapted to
wrens and bluebirds. While not durable
when exposed to weather, they are easily
replaced.
Ordinary wooden boxes, If clean, can
be made into bird houses by merely nail
ing on a cover and cutting out an en-
trance hole; but such makeshifts are
rarely weatherproof and never pleasing
to the eye. Branches containing real
woodpecker holes, when obtainable, are
perhaps the best attraction that can be
offered most house birds in the breeding
season. By carefully fitting such a
branch to a fruit tree or shade tree its
foreign origin may be so far disguised
as scarcely to be noticed.
Builders of artificial houses generally
go to the woodpecker for designs, and by
varying styles to suit the tastes of diff
ferent kinds Of birds are rewarded by
such tenants as chickadees, tufetd tit
mice, whitebreasted nuthatches, Caro-
lima wrens, violet-green swallows, crest
ed fy-catchers,- screech owls, sparrow
hawks and even some of the woodpeck-
ers, the master builders themselves.
Red-headed and golden-fronted wood
peckers are willing occupants Of artif-
cial houses if properly designed.
Some birds are satisfied with almost
any sort of lodgings. Thus bluebirds
and wrens are content to build in tomato
Copyright 1914, by the Star Comps
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Queen Whemna She To-day, Showing Which
Seem Have Caused Her Lack of Popularity in Holland.

When he went out his movements were
carefully Swallowed by secret service men.
BY all these precautions the Dutch have
reduced the Prince to a state of perfect
neutrality.
Queen Wilhelmina has also been i'm
pressed with the necessity Of respecting
national feeling in these matters. Holland
is very nearly republic, and it would
take no violent change of sentiment to
make it entirely one. In former days it
was a republic with the Prince of Orange
as kind Of hereditary president
The royal family enjoys some prestige
with the Dutch because it is descended
from the great national hero, William of
Orange, but it must be remembered that
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A TOMATO CAN makes a first
~ class bird house if fastened to a
tree or the side of barn. All
that is necessary is to cut square piece
big enough for door out of one side,
near the end that is to be the top-leav-
ing one side of the square uncut, how
ever, so that the piece of tin can be
turned outward at right angles, to make,
shelter above the doorway and keep off
rain. II the can is fitted over the top OF
tall pole it will not need any other bot
tom. Wrens and bluebirds readily occupy
such houses, which ought to be placed in
shady spots, because the bright metal be-
comes very hot in the sun.
This is one of a number of ideas sug-
gested by the Government Biological
Survey in book it is soon to issue about
Bird Houses and How to Build Them"
The publication is designed to afford in
struction in architecture for certain
feathered creatures which it is deemed
desirable to attract to the immediate
neighborhood of human dwellings,.
The practise of erecting bird houses
with this end in view is becoming rap.
idly more popular all over the United
States, and, as one result, it has been
found that many species of birds hitherto
deemed irreclaimably wild can easily be
persuaded to become companions of man.
A few years ago only four species were
commonly regarded as house birds-the
house wren, the bluebird, the tree swal-
low and the martin. Since the move
ment to protect birds and make neigh
bors of them began, however, their ma
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The Palace Which
Prsonerb the and War

They realized that they had missed the
anne fate by only a few feet and that
some other necessity of state" would, in
the future, very likely compel the Germans
to do the same thing to them.
Queen Wihelmina informed the Cabinet
that the safest course would be to preserve
friendliness with their powerful neighbor,
Germany, but the ministers solemnly in
formed her that they had been intrusted
with the duty of caring for the national
interests and would do it in their own
way.
Fighting Germans and Belgians wan
dered over the border into Holland The
Dutch modified their entire army of
100000 men, seized the intrudng belliger-
ents. and took every step to preserve their
neutrality. 1t cost them 100000 gulden
or $4S0,O00 a day, and the Dutch hate to
part with money, but they will do anything
to preserve their independence.
In the midst of these anxieties and
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utch Statesmen, Fearing the Fate of Belgium,
cen to Mind Her DUN Business and Make Her
Queen TO Mind Her Oh
observation-disclosures ons0rt
Virtually a Prisoner in
the Royal Palace

troubles the German Prince Consort
naturally became an object of popular sus-
picion. Dutchmen holding extreme anti
German views accused him of aiding Ger
man plans to subjugate their country
With considerable ingenuity these people
circulated in Holland large numbers of
photographs showing Prince Henry in his
German uniform as an officer Of the Prus-
sian Guards, the one which he usually
wore up to the time he became the hus-
band of Queen Wilhelmina.
This, Of course, was pointed reminder
to the Dutch that the Prince had sworn
allegiance to the Kaiser. The photographs
excited considerable popular anger and
were frequently subjected to indignities.
Other episodes occurred which brought
the Prince into more direct conflict with
the Dutch authorities. A large number of
German officers were among the German
troops who accidentally strayed over the
Dutch frontier into Holland and we're in
termed there.
The Prince paid frequent visits to the
imprisoned officers, had long and friendly
talks with them, and supplied them with
Injuries. Some of them were old personal
friends of his, and he naturally felt a
friendly interest in all his former army
companions.
His conduct was made conspicuous by
the fact that the Dutch Government had
ordered Dutch officers not to hold any
personal relations with interned foreign
officers OF any nationality on account of
the suspicious of Dutch neutrality it might
arouse. The Prince is an admiral in the
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Dutch navy, and general in the Dutch
army.
A meeting of the Dutch Cabinet was
held to consider the Princes conduct and
prompt action was decided on. The Prince
was requested to meet the Cabinet at the
War Office. The Prime Minister, Jonkheer
Loudon, informed the Prince that he must
cease his visits to the German officers be-
cause they were contrary to the orders is
sued by the Government.
81 shall not permit you to dictate my
personal affairs or to prevent me from
visiting my personal friends said the
Prince haughtiy.
"Then we shall be obliged to deprive
your highness of your rank in the Dutch
army and navy" replied the Prime Minister,
codly.
''You are insulting me-" roared the stout
Prince.
In the course of the discussion the
Prince was made to understand that he
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Queen Wilhelmina, through marriages OIL
her ancestors, is mainly German.
The Queen is not to-day extremely popu-
lar in Holland, contrary to the impression
that generally prevails in America Her
early popularity was due to the charming
appearance she made as child in national
Dutch costume, but this charm has passed
away and she has not developed sufficient
moral or mental qualities to take it's place.
One cause of the Queens unpopularity is
undoubtedly her unprepossessing personal
appearance. She has grown ungracefully
stout, and her heavy, expressiOnless face
says down with fat. A queen of this type
makes no appeal to popular sentiment.
The unromantic truth is that Queen Will
helmina has become an abnormally heavy
eater. AS she hardly takes any exercise,
she could not help growing fat. French
writer, who was privileged to visit the
royal palace, has given some remarkable
details about her habits of feeding. He de-
scribes how she consumed on an average
six meals day.
He pointed out the interesting fact that
the Queen weighed more than the Kings of
Spain and Italy put together.
He said she was particularly fond of
sweetmeats and chocolates, which did much
to increase her stoutness. Here is the
schedule of Her Majesty's daily meals:
A. M.-Coffee with whipped cream;
a dozen pieces Of cut bread
and butter
10 A. M.-Two hot meat or fish pat
ties; cheese.
P. M.-Lunch, usually hors doeuv-
res, fish, roast beef, fowl,
dessert, wine.
p. M-Tea; ham sandwiches.
P. M.-Dinner, consisting of eight
courses.
10 P. N.-Biscuits, liqueurs and bed.
In her girlhood the little Queens mar
riage was matter of the gravest concern
to the Dutch. She was the last represent
alive of the House of Orange living in the
country and the next heir would be Ger
man prince. Much opposition was felt to
Prince Henry of Mecklenburg- Schwerin as
a husband for the Queen because he was
German, but there seemed ne way Of get
ting rid of him.
The national anxiety about the success
sion was continued when the Queen for
a long time failed to produce an heir to
the throne. Three times she disappointed
the national hopes. At last, in 1909, eight
years after the marriage, she gave birth
to the Princess Juliana, now her only child.
In order to avert the danger of foreign
interference that might result from tho
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-06

NE the many people who have suffered
by this war, the one who has been
- most deeply Inundated Is Prince
Henry, husband of Queen Wilhelmina of
Holland.
Prince Henry's sufferings have not been
heroic He has been kept practically a
prisoner In his wifes palace, spied on for
hidden to communicate with his German
friends and generally treated as a sus-
aicious character by the country Of his
adoption.
The war has made the preservation of
Dutch independence an anxious and burn
ing question in Holland, and the sturdy
Dutch burghers will not allow the Queens
German husband to stand in the way of
protecting their interests.
The Queens consort was born a Prince
Of Mecklenburg- Schwerin, and his nephew
is the reigning Grand Duke of Meclzlen-
burg Schwerin, a sovereign of the German
Empire. Prince Henry was trained as an
officer in the German army and still holds
honorary rank in it.
The Dutch have long felt that their
powerful and growing neighbor, Germany,
was a danger to them. Holland has the
doubtful advantage of holding the mouth
Of the River Rhine, which flows through
Germany.
A large element of Dutchmen once
looked to England as their friend, but the
Boer war occurred and dampened their
British enthusiasm.
Then the invasion Of Belgium by Ger.
many came and gave them a worse shock,
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the laws of the country
and the orders of the Gov
eminent. The Prime Min
lister was strongly sup
ported by the minister Of the interior, DR..
Cort van der Linden, and the"Minister
Of War Colonel Bosboom.
1--WE must have Your Highnesss prom
Use now that you will not again visit the
quarters of German officers, in order that
l may give the necessary instructions to
our officers explained Colonel Bosboom.
The Prince reluctantly gave the promise
required, but before long he found that
the Dutch had taken ample precautions to
see that he kept it. He was kept practi-
cally prisoner in the royal palace. AS
a general in the army he was required to
report regularly to the War Office and to
remain in a certain place of residence so
that he could always be found in case his
services were needed.
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Amsterdam, Nov. 20.

Amsterdam, Nov. 70.
\ F the many people who have suffered
\ by this war, the one who has been
most deeply Inundated Is Prince
1,,,chopd of nuaap Wi1helmina of
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-11
Women and War.

War is mans game, but. there have
been Amazons. In all wars the wives
and mothers Of the warriors have ac-
0lred masculine austerity. The Spar
tan mothers told their sons to bring
back their shields from the war or be
brought back upon them, and CORE
spondents in Germany have reported
that the German women witnessed
the departure Of those dearest to them
for the front with fearless eyes and
grim determination, not desiring even
to see them back unless they returned
victors. There is the story of the aris-
tocratic French mother whose three
sons were killed in battle not long
ago. A messenger came to bring her
the news, and faltered badly in telling
the sad story. But the mother did not
break down. A look Of rapture is said
to have lit her face as she said: "My
sons all died for France. am salts
fled. Rochester IN. " Herald.
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This is good time to recall the
story Of the German who emigrated
to this country many years ago,
bought 20 acres of land and settled on
it. He had large family and one Of
his new neighbors asked If he thought
he could make living on 20 acres.
II don't know" was his reply, "but
IL I can't l can sell 10 acres and live
on the other 10. made good living
and money besides on 10 acres of land
in the old country, and can do it
here"
Tradition says he made a living on
his 20 acres, but that he got along
much better after his children grew
up and took part Of his land off his
hands.
Most farmers cultivate too much
land. Rather, they pretend to culti-
vate it. They have SO much that they
can't half cultivate it. They know
nothing about intensive farming, its
economy and its immense profit and
the great pleasure there is in it. Most
farmers could prosper on one-fourth
the land they now try to cultivate.
They are land poor, and that is about
the most distressing form Of poverty
that we know of.-Anderson IS. c.
Mail.
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Epltaphs.

Epltaphs.
What's left of Oswald Perkins Bland
Is resting In this space;
He puffed Flor de Onion and
Blew smoke into my face.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The shreds Of Percy Clarence Dill
In this cigar box rest;
He smoked while In powder mill,
He's now a heavenly guest
Allentown Democrat.
Here lieth Ebenezer Fife,
Bereft of soul and breath;
He lied throughout his measly life,
And now he lies In death.
The ashes Of John Wolcott Fife
Lie perfumed in this urn;
He had no time for any life,
BUT now he's time to burn.
Springfield Union.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-11
EASY WAY TO CLEAR
BAD COMPLEXIONS

Pimples and blackheads disappear,
red, rough, blotchy compilations be-
come clean, clear and velvety, and hair
health and beauty are aided by the
regular use of Resinol Soap and lit
tie Resinol Ointment. They do their
work easily, quickly, and at little cost
even when other methods fail
Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap
stop itching instantly and speedily
leal skin humors, sores, wounds and
chafings. Sold by all druggists.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-11
Doing More Than It's Share.

The British aristocracy, whose re-
lations to other Glasses have been
on the whole or often great and hon
orable and useful for several hundred
years, Is doing more than its part in
leading and in dying in this war If
the struggle is prolonged, the aristoc-
racy may even suffer the fate of the
older nobility in the wars of the roses.
New York Sun.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-11
Modern Efficiency.

"You think president should have
only one term?"
"I'm kind O. leanin' to that idea" re-
piled Farmer Corntossel.
"But it used to be customary to give
president two terms"
"Yes, but in those days it took two
terms for man to do as much work
as he now lays out for himself in one"
Washington Star.
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William Allen White 80 Years Ago.

"'F''"' 'NFFVF "T'HO " 'SuTS 'SSs
In an article In Thursdays Gazette
describing this affiant, he was made
to describe himself at 16 as covered
with dlmples That was the printers
idea. We wrote it pimples. We have
never been $4,000 beauty, but If
anything we had less pulchritude in
our adolescence than now. A freckle-
faced, long-necked, milk-eyed, splay-
footed boy, with a face that looked
like hamburger steak garnished with
red quills from the fretful porcupine-
that was the way the editor of the Ga
zette looked 80 years ago, when he
boarded with Mr.. Jones on Constitu-
tion street and Fourth avenue-Em-
poria Gazette.
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He PAYS the Bill.

The most exasperating thing about
the present war is that the ultimate
consumer, who, possibly, had very lit
tie enthusiasm concerning it, will be
expected to meet the expense at final
settlement Washington Star.
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Yeraclous Announcement.

"What do you mean by putting up
sign, Free list suspended for that
punk show?" asked the doorkeeper.
THAT signs all right" replied the
manager. people won't even come to
see the show for nothing. Washing
ton Star.
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Ruptured

Persons suffer more from inexperienced truss
fitting than from hernia. Why not buy your
trusses from experts? Try Laue-Davis Drug Co..
at Sd and Yamhill. Portland. Ore. who are ex-
perts and know how.
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Something SalabIe.

II am trying to invent safety ap-
pliance to prevent railroad collisions"
"And the chances are that II you
got 1t you couldn't sell it. Why don't
you invent something that people
must have-say, for instance, new
dance step?'--Kansas City Journal.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-11

One can never be too cautious,
You may some day get the worst
So even In your shaving
Make your motto; safety first"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-11
Tobacco Habit Cured

Not only to users of pipe and cigars. but tho
vicious cigarette habit is overcome by using the
'NTTRlTE" treatment. Price complete postage
paid. $l0o. Laue-Davis Drug Co.'s and Yam
hill. Portland, Or when writing mention this
paper.)
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-11

A German investigator has found
that the artificial lakes which have
been built in his country decrease the
temperature and increase the number
of foggy days.