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ATHENA PRESS Tottdays and Fridays 4 ' f. B.BOYD Publisher In Mr. Harrlman's opinion, appar ently, there is only one capable rail road man in this country. If you want rabbits to taste good, yon should live on dog meat a while, says Peary. Please pass the chicken. The sugar trust won't mind a little fine of a few hundred thousands so long as there Is a cranberry crop to sweet en. ' There ta some talk of devoting a newspaper especially to flying ma chines. A new kind of fly paper, as it were. If, as one paper says, "shipping Is a symptom of prosperity," a remarkably large number of people seem to .have been exposed. "God save the country !" says Mr. Shaw. But won't this make Congress it up and wonder what Shaw thinks It is there for? One of the scientists says there will be no blondes 600 years from now. But why worry over a future that Is 600 years distant? While Curtis Jett is serving two life sentences, Is it possible that he will re flect on what be would do If be had his two lives to live over? There is In Kansas a man who is a minister, a doctor, an undertaker and dealer in tombstones. We have not beard why he doesn't practice dent istry. The news columns tell of a woman 105 years of age who has made appli cation for divorce. Some of 'em live happy ever after and some never get too old to regret The battleship Kansas has stood its trial test, and all Kansas will expect it to become the Gen. Fred Funston of the navy the first time any world power makes faces at us. It must be a great trial to a young nan to spend a long time considering which of two girls he has been paying Attention to Is best for him to marry, and then to find that neither one will jhave him. With the race question unsettled we can see where the country grocers are going to lose a lot of money during the winter. The cracker barrel orators w 111 help themselves to a lot of cheese (luring the debates. It is Just as we thought: Paris was not "shocked" at that play In the Mou lin Rouge after all. The protest was political In its inspiration. We are glad to see an old friend thus set right In the eyes of the world. This Is, of course, the day of the young man, but, Judging from the way railroad wrecks are charged against the mistakes of youthful telegraphers, it would seem possible that enterprising And economical captains of Industry may be catching them too young. Mrs. Florence Maybrick declares the American prison system Is far Inferior to that of England. We should natu rally suppose there was nothing so ab horrent to Mrs. Maybrick as the Eng lish prison where she was so long and, as she claims, so unjustly confined. Quite a number of valuable friend ships have been hurried by the picture postcard to a premature grave. Ab sence does not make the heart grow fonder when the Interval Is bridged solely by the receipts of a picture with a cross on the sky line and the words, We are staying Just under thia mark ; you can't see the house." For some time past vests have been made of paper, also cuffs, collars, hlrt bosoms, etc., but It has remained for a firm in Saxony to spin narrow trips of paper and cotton Into finished fabrics of common use. Taper and cotton and paper and woo! are so com bined that serviceable outing suits, Jackets, skirts and many other articles of dress wear are now being produced. The new textile, If so It may be called. Is cream colored aud may be washed repeatedly without Injuring the sur face aud Is marketed for a ridiculously small price. Sufficient xylolln, as It la called, to produce a complete plain uit costs $2 or $3. The way the boy goes through his present clothes would Indicate that paper clothes would not last him around the corner, Most of us, if asked how many points a star should have, would say five, and cite the flag as proof; but the di rector of the mint has lately corrected this misapprehension In answering an Inquiry on the subject. He calls atten tion to the fact that the stars on the great seal of the United States and on the seal of the President are five-pointed, but that the stars are six-pointed on the seal of the House of Represen tatives; and further to the slx-polnted tara o the obverse of the half and quarter-dollar coins aud the five-pointed stars on the reverse. The reverse of these coins Is a copy of the great ,sea) with the clouds and stars omitted. Bo far ts known, the slx-polnted star conies from copying the colonial cojns made after the manner of English her aldry, which sanctions that Btar. The Jstars on the flag are copied from the Washington coat of arms. An editorial article In a religious monthly calls renewed attention to the shortage f Protestant preachers of ability, it is said that the ministry as a profession has lost Its attractiveness for able men, despite the rapid growth of the churches In membership, the marked Increase in the population of the country, and the constant demand for thoroughly equipped persona to fill places of importance, a demand unpre cedented In the history of the Christian church. The theory is advanced that Independent and energetic students are not attracted by the modern plan of ministerial education which provides free tuition, free room rent, and often cash payments as well to such as feel that they are called to preach. An en dowment of a million dollars for educa tion of preachers sometimes lies prac tically Idle for lack of students to use the Income. The same conditions are to be found in the schools of all Prot estant denominations. The future phy sician or lawyer is placed In sharp con traposition. He usually has much higher fees to pay, has much smaller funds In the way of scholarship aid to draw up, and knows that a discourag ing wait is certain after he is admitted to practice before the first patient or client appears. The theological student steps at once from the commencement platform, with his diploma certifying to the completion of a given course of training, during which he has been car ried alpng financially Into a waiting pulpit Ills salary and bis life work begin when his preliminary preparation ends.. And yet few able youths seek the preacher's career. The editorial writer suggests that this easy way of getting an education and a livelihood does not appeal to tie active and ener getic and that, as a consequence, the ministry gets only those who like the eusy life. But there are other reasons which might be adduced for the famine In ministers. There was a time when the preacher was the' most Important personage in the community. His influ ence was commanding. The church af forded the only avenue to fame for the bright young man. The industrial work er, the manufacturer, the merchant, the farmer, were not supposed to need edu cation. The administrator as such had not developed. But recent years have witnessed a complete change In condi tions. Educated men are welcomed aad win success In many lines of life, Inde pendence and wealth both awaiting the Industrious who may have great Influ ence and power. No longer having a monopoly of education and Information the minister Is compelled to compete with great newspapers, with many mag azines In reach of the masses, with a flood of useful and helpful books, and with constantly Improving methods of influencing thought. Ills hearers often are as well educated as himself. He Is restrained by church creeds. He Is poorly paid. If he Is an orator the lec ture platform is open to him. There are many reasons why the pulpit should not be so attractive for able men as It was once. ERIN SENDS OUT 5,000,000.. " " i . Irlah Emigration to Thia Country Ilaa Been Enoriuoua. No page In history reveala such a migration as that of the Irish to America. The figures are astonishing. From 1840 to I860 not fewer than 2, 000,000 crossed the ocean to settle In the United States; from 18G0 to 1880 an additional 1,000,000 made a fresh start in life In the great republic over the seas, and from 1880 to the present time another 1,000,000 was added to our population. Since 1800 the average ha? been 500,000 a decade. The twelve agricultural States, rep resented by Ohio, Indiana, Mlchlgau, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, contain one-fourth of the 5,000,000. Of the portion settled In the North Atlantic States but one fifth are on farms; but this tendency to crowd Into the towns disappears when the surroundings are agricultur al, as Is shown by fhe large percentage more than 50 of those who have taken to farming In the twelve agricul tural States above mentioned. It Is only because the bulk of the Irlah in America are not In the midst of farming districts that they are less an agricultural people than the other Immigrant elements added to the popu lation. They have fount! an outlet for their energies in the congested districts and their wonderfully adaptive natures have allowed them easily to enter upon the Industries of the people among whom they were thrown. i It Is in the Eastern States that the Irish promise to ultimately constitute a majority of the population. This Is already the case In, three New England States and in many New England cities, In New York City they are barely behind the Germans and alight-1 ly in Chicago. The Tact Market. Chancellor James It. Day was once advising a young undergraduate of Syracuse University to cultivate tact. "But, alas," he said, "I fear that ad vice on such a subject must always be wasted. On tact the last word was spoken by Barbey d'Aurevllle when he said: " 'If tact could be bought, only those already possessed of it would waht to buy If" A mother is in Jail while her chll- dren are little, but Isn't it a fact that a father s sentence Is longer! If yoi make a success of your busi ness, you must "get along" In spit of opposition. anrsTES of boy's pocket. PapU la Pnblle School Forced to Un load After a Marble Drops. Anyone of a curious turn'of mind who will take the trouble to get at the statistics will find that figures don't lie with regard to the number of things a small boy can get into his pockets. They simply give out In one of the public schools the teach er recently turned her sternest gaze toward a lively 12-year-old who had dropped a heavy marble on the floor with a thud that stopped the recitation. At the moment of her lntensest scrutiny, when the urchin was doing his level best to feign Innocence, a diabolical smaller marble dropped from his pock et and rolled across the floor after Its mate. That .settled It Abashed and shrink ing, the culprit came forward. At the command to remove every article In his 'pocket be hesitated. He held out I against this unexpected outrage upon a sacred institution as long as be dared, but before the birch rod began Its fell work the urchin submitted. His first handful contained three pieces of copper wire (Insulated), one piece (not Insulated), two old purses, a suspender fastening, eleven street car transfers and a tin whistle. As be reached again a look of fiendish Joy came over his freckled face. One arti cle came out It was a live mouse. The teacher clutched her skirts nervously while It was being removed. Then the Investigation proceeded. When It was over 116 articles had come from the boy's pockets. They are cat alogued as follows, besides those men tioned ; . Two picture cards, one shoelace, one tobacco sack, one piece of ribbon, one broken watch, four election cards, one car ticket, seven tobacco cards, two tobacco tags, one tin monkey, one fish hook, one mirror (broken), one good mirror, one wooden ax, one Hooligan pin, two screws, one rubber washer, one Isinglass card, two buttons, thirty-seven agate stones, seven marbles, two books, one tobacco coupon, three pieces of orange peel, two blank cartridges, one loaded cartridge, three corks, one pen cil, two matches, one key, half a ciga rette, one punched penny, one locket two raisins, one broken comb, one cuff pin and a piece of candy. New York Times. Rare Skeleton la Found. There arrived In this city last week for the Museum of Natural History the skeleton of a loxolophodon. It was unearthed In southern Wyoming, where the great beast roamed In large num bers many centuries ago, by an ex pedition sent out from the museum by Professor Walter Granger. Speaking of the success attending the search, Professor Granuger said : "We found the skeleton of the lar gest mammal living at the time and for which we made careful search. This huge mammal was known as the loxo lophodon, a mixture of elephant and rhinoceros. It had six horns two en ormous ones in the back of the skull, two smaller ones over the eyes and two rudimentary horns on the tip of the nose. "We obtained an Interesting lot of the skeletons of the titanotheres, a smaller animal than the last; numer ous specimens of the carvora, includ ing the largest of the time, the meso nyx; many rodents, or squirrel-like mammals; some of the earlier camel like, even toed, hoofed mammals; an achenedon, one of the very large, even toed animals, with piglike teeth and feet and an early primate like the le murs, notharctus. In all we obtained 100 species In the Washakie basin, 100 in the Bridges basin and forty In the Wahsatch basin." New York Tribune. The Wonderful Chlneae. Big Osh, emperor of China and founder of the Blng dynasty, was fa mous for the number of things In which he anticipated our present civilization. One day, after sitting awhile In deep thought, he called his equerry to him. "Harness Niagara," he commanded, briefly, . And It was done. Of course, It Is with no. Invidious wish to detract from the splendor of this achievement, incredible as It un doubtedly seems, that we add the fur ther fact that Niagara was the emper or's old bay mare. Puck. All Hla Own. ? "Tea," said Woodby, "this is my coat-of-arms." , "By the way," remarked Gaddle, "do you know that Sneerwell has been tell ing everybody that It's not really your coat-of-arms at all?" "The Idea ! Why, I designed it my self." Philadelphia Press. Slight Mistake. "Walter, what does this mean? Twenty-five francs for two hard boiled eggs?" "Very sorry, sir. Slight mistake, sir. I've given you the bill intended for the American at the - next table." Pole Mele. ; - -l - Btrda of m Fecther. Mouquin How do you like the weather these days? Beaurejard Exceedingly disagree able, . Mouquin And how Is your wife? Beaurejard The same, thank you. Le Rlre. Hard to Shake Off. Ilewltt He sticks closer than a brother. Jewett Yes ; he sticks like n church debt Woman's Home Compan ion. 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