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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27
GIVE INSIGHT TO CHARACTER
Shape Of Eyebrows Reveal vigor, In.
sincerity, Lack Of Vitality, and
Many Other Things.

It Is now conceded that the Greek
eyebrow is quite in accord with the
conception of mere physical beauty in
women. Like the rosebud mouth, 1t
does not indicate the highest order of
intelligence and the arch is expressive
always Of greater sensibility and great
err sense of character, says London
Tit-Bits.
Scant growth Of the eyebrows invari-
ably denotes lack of vitality; on the
contrary, heavy, thick eyebrows indi-
cate a strong constitution and great
physical endurance. They are not
beautiful on woman's face, however
much they may signify either mental
or bodily vigor, and when they are not
only heavy, but droop and meet a
the nose, they are disagreeable and are
said to accompany an insincere and
prying nature.
Romantic women usually have a very
well-defined arch in the center of the
eyebrow, while a sense of humor is in
dicated in the arch nearer the nose
Long, dropping eyebrows, lying wide
apart, indicate an amiable disposition
Where the eyebrows are lighter in COL
or than the hair, the indications are lack
of vitality and great sensitiveness.
Family defined eyebrows placed high
above the nose are signs of Incidence
and weakness.
Very black eyebrows give the face an
intense and searching expressing;
when natural, they accompany pas
sionate temperament. Very light eye
brOws rarely are seen on strongly intel
lectual faces, although the color of the
eyebrows is not accepted simply as de-
noting lack of intelligence; the form
gives the key to the faculties and their
direction. Red eyebrows denote great
fervor and ambition; brown, a medium
between red and blHck.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27
HOUSE BUILDING IN KOREA
Operations Always Begun by the Con-
struction Of Most Ingenious
System of Flues.

When Korean begins to build q
house he first lays down a system of
fiues where the floor is to be. These
flues begin at fireplace, usually
built in an outer shed or in a closed
alleyway connected with the house.
From the fireplace the fiues branch
out like the ribs of a fan and end in
a trench at the back of the floor space.
This trench, in turn, opens into a
chimney, usually built at some dis
tance from the house. When the nues
are completed the builder carefully
covers them over with flagstoncs; he
then cements the whole floor and COW
ers 1t with sort of thick oiled paper
for which Korea is famous. The rest
Of the house is then built round the
completed floor.
The heating system works in this
way: When it is time to cook the rice
for the morning meal the housewife
lights little straw or brushwood In
the fireplace in the outer shed. While
the rice is cooking the heat from the
fireplace passes through the fues,
heating the stone flags of the floor
and diffusing a pleasant warmth that
lasts until it is time to prepare the
next meal. Two heatings a day gen.
orally suffice to keep the floor warm.
On the floor the people sit by day and
sleep by night. The heavy oiled paper
that covers the floor prevents any
smoke from entering the room.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27
Animals Are Bred There for Their
Fur, and the Industry Is a Re.
munerative One.

There are ten or twelve fox farms
In Alaska. One Of them, situated in
the Tanana valley, a mile and half
from Fairbanks, consists of ten acres
of cleared land, the greater part of
which Is covered with pens In which
the animals live. From a distance the
fox farm looks like a huge chicken
yard, with walls Of woven wire and
hencoops Of various sizes inside. Each
pen Is 30 feet long, s feet wide and
about 10 feet high. The wire is tough
steel and Is sunk about four feet in
the ground and is then bent so that It
runs inward underground for about
two feet to prevent the foxes from dig
ging out. At the top the wire has an
overhang Of two feet to prevent the
captives from climbing over. Each
pen has n kennel made Of boards like
a dog kennel, the entrance to which Is
a chute or wooden pipe foot
square. Only one pair of foxes live In
each pen. They are very timid and
have to be handled carefully. Most of
the fox farmers will not allow strang-
ers to enter their property for fear
they will frighten the animals. The
foxes are fed with salmon, moose
meat, horse meat, rabbits carrots and
turnips. A common feed Is rice and
rabbits cooked together In stew.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27
BarrIsters' Wigs.

Barristers' wigs first came into
vogue about 200 years ago. Up to the
end Of the seventeenth century judges
and sergeants at law alone had any
distictive dress.
Under Queen Anne the queens coun-
selor adopted the court dress and silk
gown which made up the mourning OF
the period. together with the full-bot-
toned wig then usually worn by all
persons Of position.
Thereupon the outer bar started
wearing a modest short wig, with
strings of horsehair tied up at the end,
in imitation of the fashion of tying the
back hair up into pigtail.
Some judges, we are told by a legal
historian, found these wigs "cox-
combical," and would not allow barris-
tiers wearing them to plead In court.
London Chronicle.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27
Dangers for Game Fish.

The great cause Of the decline In hsh
life In a stream Is the pollution Of the
stream, and for this there is neither
palliation nor excuse. A writer In All
Outdoors says 1t Is true that Il brook
or river Is convenient place into which
to throw refuse. The people Of medi-
eyal cities thought the same Of their
streets until plague and pestilence
taught them better and instilled the
elements of hygiene into their minds.
Such ignorant negligence was sign
of their unenlightenment, yet, with oil
Of our boasted civilization. we are but
q step in advance when we convert our
sparkling streams into nolsome sewers.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27

The Indians up in the far North
country call the beaver ah-mick, says
Dan Beard in Boys Life, the boy
scouts magazine. By the way, when
boy scouts lay out their council
grounds at camp and divide 1t up as 1t
should be, according to the north,
south, east and west winds around
the circle, they should remember that
the Indian name for north is Quiewed-
nong, for south is Show-nein-nong, for
east is Waba-nong, and for west is
Gabie-a-nong.
Now, you know the Indian ceremony
always begins with blowing the smoke
of the pipe to the four winds, and
then to the sky, which is o'quie, and
then to the earth, which is Akee, and
the warrior lights his pipe with Skoo-
day, that is, with fire, but If he is tow
neeke with the Skoo-day he starts
forest fire (tow-neeke means care
less).
To be a good scout, one must never
be tow-neeke; to be patriotic one must
never be tow-neeke.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27
HAVE ORGY or cANNIBMfsM
Chastity Doings Of the Burying Beetles
Regularly Take Place at Certain
Seasons of the Year.

Here is monstrous case of the
most CHASTITY depravity mingled with
sublime sacrifice.
The Burying Beetle buries small
birds, mammals and reptiles, not as
stored food for itself, but for the
sustenance of its offspring. In the
confines Of cage these undertakers
Will bury carcass after carcass, eating
scarcely anything. depositing their
eggs with the game. They display
most edifying industry and order un-
til the proper season Is over Then
they strike work and take themselves
underground.
And now most frightful orgy be-
gins. Despite the abundance of food
both above ground and stored with
the eggs, which they will not touch,
the undertakers begin mutually eat
ing each other. One energies to the
surface with a leg missing, and other
wise In most battered condition. An
other appears little better off. He
has two legs left. This one throws
himself on the first, tears him to
pieces and eats him. Famine plays
no part in the slaughter. 1t is time
for them to die, perhaps, and not be-
ing able to die naturally, instinct
drives the undertaken to tear and eat
his fellow, needless that he, himself,
is being torn to pieces and eaten by
another. And SO the horror goes on,
one eating the limbs of another, and
that other eating still another, until
the tragedy is over, until next year.
Exchange. ... !
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27
Center Of Agricultural Production.

The center of agricultural produc-
tion of the United States, according to
the value of crop and animal products
for 1917, Is in west-central Illinois, as
shown by a diagram just issued by
the department of agriculture. The
states of greatest production are:
Iowa, $3.50, 100000; Illinois, $685.
100000; Texas, $1O45, 100000; Missou-
ri, $947,000,000; Ohio, 1851, 100000;
Nebraska, $774,OOO.0OO; Indiana, $780,
OOO,0vO; Kansas, $735,0O0,0O0; New
York, $70O,e00,OOO; Minnesota, $685..
100000; Pennsylvania, $6360OO,0OO;
Georgia, $605,000.000; Wisconsin,
$59s,0OO,000; California, $575,0OOO 900;
Michigan, $534,OOOOOO, and Ken.
lucky, $52O,000.OOO.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27
Really Serious.

The Newlyweds had unwittingly
chosen their abode in the nelghbor-
hood where scandal was rife.
One morning one of the neighbors
sent hoarse whisper over to her chief
confidant: ...
whats the trouble between the
Newlyweds?"
"Her husband tried to keep some
thing from her"
"Oh. that's not serious! Men will
have their little secrets"
"Ah, you don't understand! This is
serious. He tried to keep dollar and
q quarter Of his last weeks pay"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27
Share OUR SUGAR
With THE ALLIES
British Get Two Pounds a Month.
French Pound and Halt,
italians One Pound.
GERMAN SUPPLY PLENTIFUL.
All Nations Permit Use Of SWeetenlng
for Home Preserving Purposes.

Americas new sugar ration Of two
pounds month per person is equita'
BILE when compared with the sugar ra.
tion enforced by rigid governmental
order In England, France and Italy, ma
tions with which we are sharing sugar.
Each Allied nation-in the matter Of
sugar consumption-is sharing on near
est possible equal terms the hardships
imposed by greatly altered conditions
in the world sugar situation.
Formerly classed as luxury, sugar
Is now war time essential. The fair
and Just division of this essential is
in the hands of the various Allied
food controllers.
The United States Food Administra-
tion has asked this nation to observe
q voluntary sugar ration OF two
pounds per person month.
In the other countries at war with
Germany sugar Is one of the scarce
articles on every menu--whether In
the households of both rich and poor,
or In the hotels.
England today has a sugar ration
of two pounds per month per person.
In France the ration Is pound and
half and in Italy 1t is one pound
month. And the prices in allied coun-
tries are from two to three times as
high as In America.
II you 60 to hotel In England or
France these days and order tea or
coffee they serve absolutely no sugar
with 1t. II you want sugar you must
bring 1t with you.
In England 1t is allowable to use
one-seventh of an ounce of sugar In
the preparation of each luncheon. In
France many persons carry little sac
charlne tablets about with them for
use In hotels and In England rich and
poor must take their sugar with them
II they wish to have sweetened tea
while visiting friends.
Before the war started France had
G25,000 acres devoted to sugar produc-
tion. BY 1917 the French sugar acre
age had decreased to 10000 acres.
Today the French man or woman with
sugar card has no assurance whatever
that he or she will be able to actually
buy sugar. To buy 1t, one must first
find 1t.
Italy Has Estate Sugar"
Especially drastic regulations govern
the use of sugar In Italy. Its manu-
facture, distribution and sale are close.
ly controlled, and in part actually
taken over by the state.
Saccharine Is permitted to be sold
and used as substitute for sugar and
the government manufactures q mix
ture of saccharine and sugar called
Estate Sugar." which Is largely used,
German Sugar Ration Adequate.
Germany, before the war, produced
a great surplus of sugar and exported
large quantities. Today the Germans
have virtually gone out Of the export
business, but have plenty of cheap
sugar for home use.
Wholesale prices prevalent In the
Allied nations, according to informa-
tion received by the United States
Food Administration are MS follows:
England, 10 cents pound; France,
II cents; Italy. 20 cents.
While these high prices are being
paid abroad the American wholesale
price Is being held ut IN cents.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27

My brother has just reached France.
On being moved from one village to
another he wished to thank the kind
old Frenchwoman with whom he had
been billeted and thought he was say
ing, ave thank you for your kindness
to us while we were here" The girls
standing near laughed so heartily that
he repeated his sentence later to an
Interpreter and found that he had said,
"before we were here" ."-Exchange.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27
Ash Trees for Alrplanes.

The appeal of the Aerial league Of
che British empire for ash trees for
aeronautical purpores has resulted in
between three and our thousand trees
being offered within the last few
weeks, according to "Flght." The
government requirements In the next
twelve months are expected to exceed
100000 trees.--scieptiac American.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27
Use Common Sense,

In desire to help food conservation
many women go to ridiculous extremes.
Children and growing youngsters
should be well nourished. war or no
war. MFR. Hoover wants US to use COM
mon sense In our conservation. Put
ting youngsters on half rations is very
far from common sense. II you cut
down their butter or sugar. increase
their consumption Of milk.-People's
Home Journal.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-27

The Fourth Liberty Loan is the first item the program
Of national finance since the of nten
ton to put five million in France and finish the war
next year On response to its call for our dollars our
friends and enemies will judge of sincerity and earnsness
in making that pledge
The nations ample The success OF the
Fourth Liberty Loan depends converting share OF
those into Fourth Liberty Bonds Nothing
The loan should be subscribed the first day and overub
scribed the second day
Buy Liberty Bonds Don't be Turtle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
MRS. H|RSCH GIVEN SENTENCE OF YEAR
 IN STATE PRISON
Fine of $1O0O Also Assessed Following Conviction of Attempting to Black
 mail Mayor Candler

Atlanta. March 16.-Convicted of att tempting to extort $5oo,oOo from Mayor Asa G. Candler and sentenced to serve one year in jail and pay a fine of s10oo, Mrs. Margaret A. Hirsch wife of an insurance man, late today returned to her cell in the county jail, which she has occupied since her in dictment a month ago.
 Counsel for the defense announced a motion of appeal would be made later and bond was fixed at s30o0.
 The case was given to the jury late this afternoon and verdict was re- turned in 26 minutes. Mrs. Hirsch re- ceived the verdict of guilty calmly, betraying no sign of emotion. She re- mained seated while Judge Hill pro- nounced sentence, and at the conclu- sion looked up and said;
 T haven't word to say"
 DRAMATIC SPEECHES
 Dramatic speeches by attorneys on both sides marked the closing hours of the trial. said by many to be the most important misdemeanor case in the history of the county Mrs. Hirsch often sat with head bowed on her arm. weeping bitterly. as she was denounced by counsel for the state and again sle cried when her owh counsel plead ed with the judge for justice. not mercy.
 In charging the Jury Judge Hill in- structed them that attempted black
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17

Kenyon, and their presence will be uti- lized for the exchange of notes and ideas on the W. S S. campaign in Ala bama
 Mobile county, which has been mak- ing fine showing in the sale of War Savings Stamps, is now in better shape than ever, state headquarters says. l.. J. Davis, president of the Mobile Gas company, has accepted the appointment of county director, and has named an ex- cellent committee to cooperate with him.
 We Shall hear some splendid reports from Mobile county said Mir. Johnson, who returned Saturday from a two days stay in the gulf city. ''Mr. Davis is a fine business man and an Al patriot"
 Joe Babb, we'll known in Alabama for his eloquence and organizing ability, will arrive Monday from Canton, O., and be- gin preparations for his tour of the state in the interest of the war savings cam paign.
 c. D. Colxer of this city, a volunteer speaker, will go to Carbon Hill Monday in response to a request from the citi- zens of that town, who have arranged for patriotic meeting Monday night.
 The colored people of west Alabama are going to flock into Demopolis Wednes- day and hold rousing rally for w. $. $. and the war. Crawford Johnson is on the programme to talk to them on The Democratic Thrift Stamp and the Pa triotic Baby Bond' Dr. Moton, pres ident of Tuskegee institute. will also talk Baby Bonds 10 his people. The sing ing of old-time plantation melodies Will add much to the pleasure of the occa- sion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
The BoIsheUiki of Dixie
HENRY WATTERsON In the Louisville Courier-Journal

that the activities of the Anti-Saloon league may not be curtailed; that Is well-paid agents must perform their peripatetic stunts; and that wet, or cay alls fish that comes into the nets of the hook-nosed saints and snag- gle-toothed angels who dwell in the dieamland of bolshevikism.
 All this, however, is local and would be unimportant except that it discloses a certain spread Of the bolshevik spirit in the south Nothing has happened in Russia more blindly suicidal than the scheme of national prohibition over the gulf states, which already have domes- tic prohibition. Idiocy and ignorance could go no further toward self-destruc- ton.
 The most serious problem the south has ever had to meet. or will ever have to meet, is the negro question. Just now it happens to be in abeyance But the time is coming when the north. and especially New England, set on by sec tional prejudice and party interest, en- tertaining peculiar opinions about the re- lations that should subsst between the whites and the blacks of the states late- ly in rebellioni--state lines sent to grass by the bolshevi5i of Dfxieland-will swoop down like the Cossacks and the Huns upon the poor deluded fools and say to them: The south has no rights the north Is bound to respect. You have defied the fifteenth amendment long enough The black mans time has come. So has the black woman's. Get out of the way or go to jail!"
 Nothing easier than a force bill, the militant republican party come again to power, the states of the north ex- claiming to the states of the south, since you have put prohibition on Us, we will fastens the negro domination on you" Thus they win kill two birds with one stone; revenge themselves and con tinue their tenure of power. Just as the Russian bolshevilxi invited the Huns to come and swallow them, do the south ern bolshevki prepare way for the federalists of Yankeeland, using prohibi- tion as the entering wedge and bringing up the rear with an army of colored tat terdemalions singing that good old song
 Harness up de mule.
 Never mind the whip.
 Oh for sho,' Sam Jonsing am dc
 Nigger Central,
 We're the black brigade,
 An you better let us rip!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
Women Sufferers May
 Need Swamp-Root

Thousands upon thousands of women have kidney and bladder trouble and never suspect it.
 Women's complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble. or the result of kidney or bladder disease.
 If the kidneys are not in healthy condition, they may cause the other or gans to become diseased.
 Pain in the back, headache, loss of ambition, nervousness. are often times symptoms of kidney trouble.
 Don't delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, physician's prescription, obtained at any drug store, may be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions.
 Get a medium or large size bottle immediately from any drug store.
 However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send TO cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,. Binghamton. N. Y, for q sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention The Birmingham Sunday Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
SENATOR KENYON
 ID SPEAK IN AID 0F ' THRIFT .CAMPA|G
Iowa Statesman to Pay Re spects to "Kaiserism" in Plain Words at Meth
 odist Church

The feature of the war songs campaign this week and one of ..the features of the conference of the state council of national defense will be the speech of Senator Kenyon of Iowa at the First Methodist church Tuesday evening at o'clock. It will be the only public ad- dress delivered that evening in connec- ftion with the war work, which will be sa vigorously pushed in Birmingham dur ing the week. Senator Kenyon's reputa- ton as speaker who does not hesitate to deliver a smashing blow at kaiserism in plain Anglo-Saxon words, has stimu- lated the curiosity to hear him. An nouncements of the place and hour of his address will be read from the pulpits of the churches of this city today and also at the Community Sing this aft ernoon. The senator will leave for New Orleans immediately after his speech.
 State headquarters are advised that many county directors will be in the city this week in attendance upon the meeting of the state council of defense ana for the purpose of hearing Senator
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
America Means Business
 Says English Newspaper

London, Thursday, March 16-Under the heaGjng America Means Business. the Daily Mail in referring to the bill au- thorizing the sale of German property in the United States, declares editosfally:
 ''The vigor and directness with which President Wilson and his advisers are setting about this essential business are smashing blows to Germany They show, toe, how rapidly the American govern mert and people are taking the measure of their enemy. They know that every economic weapon which the allies pos sess, singly and collectively, must be brought into play.
 --Alluding to the German property af- fected by the bill, the newspaper con- tirues:
 We may be very sure that this prop erty or the proceeds of it, will be held by the United States until all the Ameri- can claims against Germany are satis- fed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
Frank Willis Barnettl
 Breaches at. ,Wkst End

'The West End Baptist church, of which I am a member,@ said W. A. Tharpe, secretary to John H. Taylor, commissioner of public safety lis very enthusiastic over the coming of their new pastor, Rev Jesse A. Cook of De- catur As he cannot take up his work until Sunday, the 24th, the church has asked Dr. Frank Willis Barnett to preach at the morning service today.
 "The superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league of North Carolina, Rev. R. l.. Davis, will speak tonight. The public Is cordially invited to be present at both services"