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ATHENA PRESS Tuesday and Fridays r. B.BOYD.. ..Publisher There will always be plenty to do In the uplift line. ' A combination of dyeing concerns la talked of. Can't they, when Independ ent, make a living dyeing? , der tome measure of equity where the ordinary processes that Is to say, the system of society at that time In vogue have failed. The Socialists and dreamers Imagine vainly that the only factor In the failure to distribute the benefits of society la the thing called a frame of government or the collective thing called the fabric of society, wher- as the greatest factor contributing to the failure is human nature and the In herent defects of Individuals. After long study Mrs.' Russell Sage has hit upon a sage way in which to ex pend a 110,000,000 charity fund. A scientist declares that In a few more centuries the red-headed girl will disappear. What will become of the white horses? There's one good thing about egg shell cars. Passengers who are not pinned down can generally find plenty of holes to crawl through. Professor Jenks of Cornell says It Is possible for an honest man to get rich. Still, It Is to be feared that the short cut will continue popular. Brander Matthews has been honored by France, besides having a Carnegie hero medal coming to him for starting the new peekaboo style of spelling. A man gave hunger as an excuse for stealing forty loaves of bread. Natur ally the court did not understand how a man could be as hungry as that The man who waa Jilted by a woman who soent $20,000 a year on her dresses should swallow his grief and make his fortune by marrying her dressmaker. In a recent raid on a gambling den a ' man named Plzymuvszallaskivltch man aged to escape. It Is supposed be bung his name out of the window and slid down. A French colonel declares that "sui cide Is desertion." The two acts are certainly equally effective when a man can't bear to live with his wife any longer. A statistician asserts that the aver age woman carries from forty to sixty miles of hair on her head. But that Isn't a circumstance to the notions she carries In her head. The Czar Is advocating an Income tax for Russia, although, as far as can be learned, the only people with in comes in Russia are the bomb manufac The Rev. Herbert It Bigelow says that men who deny women the right to vote are barbarians. We have beard that they are even worse than that, be ing nothing short of nasty, mean things, In New Mexico an alleged gold mine has turned out to be nothing more than a natural cave, with no gold In It Still, that's some better than the gold mine that exists only on stock certlfl cates. The King of Italy and John D. Rock feller are said to be the world's great est coin collectors. But the former Is collecting only the rarest kind, while the latter collects all he con get his hands on. It Is said "the most talkative worn an In the world lives In Chicago." But perhaps you have In mind some woman who could give her a close race for the championship and two-thirds of the gate receipts. Mr. Rockefeller considers himself "a trustee to Ood for all his great wealth." Let's see, It Is Baer who represents Providence In the coal fields, and Har ry Thaw claims to have had a divine mission to kill Stanford White. Most of us should be thankful If our mission Is simply to be good. A woman In a typewriting contest In Paris recently won a victory by writing sixteen thousand five hundred words In four hours. A man wrote seventeen thousand words, but he made so many mistakes that he was ruled out An American woman has surpassed the Frenchwoman's record, for In the ordl nary course of business she once wrote ten thousand five hundred words In two and a half hours, and made three copies as she went along. Whenever you are tempted to growl against fate or complain of your lot Just look around and find out what others are bearing. You will find many men with more brains and better edu cation worse off than you are. Then compare your lot with that of such men and If you don't quit complaining and go In for rejoicing there's something radically wrong with your mental bal ance. When an obstacle gets .In your way don't waste time and energy In complaining about It If you can't push It out of your path get over It, under It or around It any way you can and leave the obstacle behind you. The second obstacle will not appear half as big If you get past the first The problem of poverty has been pretty thoroughly studied In this gen ration. Without pretending to lntl mate that all Is known that can be known or that wisdom will die with us, yet it appears pretty clear that one of the worst possible means of attacking the poverty problem is to give great sums of money to the poor. The right aim of society Is Justice and not char ity. Charity Is always to be regarded On the so-called "race suicide" ques tion there is a good deal of loose talk and generalizing without knowledge. Professor E. A Ross' article on civili zation and the birth rate In a recent Issue of a sociological periodical Is one of the many illustrations of how not to treat the question. It Is apparently based on a few facts and cavalier dis regard of all facts that are adverse to the theory held by the author. It is easy, on the one hand, to say that the restriction of the size of the family Is due to selfishness,, love of pleasure, shirking of the duties and responsibili ties of life, lack of moral courage. It Is equally easy, on the other hand, to ar gue that restriction Is both a symptom of progress, material and physical, and cause of It. Professor Ross cheerful ly assumes that all those who hate fam ine, vice, Ignorance, pauperism and dis ease hall the decline of the birth rate, while those who deplore It he'conslgns to such categories as "mystics, clerics, sentimentalists, militarists, capitalists." Now any man of average experience and intelligence Is aware that the re striction of the size of the family Is neither necessarily a blessing nor nec essarily a curse to society. He knows of Instances where the restriction Is un doubtedly the result of unworthy mo tives, and he also knows of cases where there Is too little rather than too much thought of restriction. In England two attempts have been made to get at the facts all the facts of the birth rate in a really scientific manner. A report on the subject was Issued some time ago by the mathematical department of the London University. That report showed that the restructlon was prac ticed "at the wrong end." The rate Is low for the superior, the thrifty, the educated and prosperous ; It Is not low for the morally and socially Inferior classes. The evidence showed, accord ing to the report that "the birth rate of the more capable stocks was decreas ing relatively to the mentally and phy sically feebler stocks." The families were largest where the conditions -f life were least favorable, and smallest where the opportunities for healthy growth were ample. The London Fa bian Society made a careful Inquiry Into the same subject and reported that, while the rich boroughs of Lon don showed for a given year 2,004 births per 10,000 of population, the In termediate boroughs showed rates be tween 2,302 and 2,400, while the poorest boroughs had a rate of 3,078, or 50 per cent more than In the rich quarters. Professor Ross puts the cart before the horse when he assumes that restric tion will give us healthier and better offspring, and that economic pressure Is responsible for It He forgets to ask where the restriction Is practiced as a rule. Drerfa' Herole Wife. Oh, that poor dream of the wife who should meet him with outstretched arms. She was there, Indeed, In that somber old city. Rennes; but as be suffered, she, too, was to suffer. If, among all the personages of this tragic drama, one was worthy of all respect, that one was Lucie Dreyfus. During five years she had borne her suffering with noble dignity ; her faith had never wavered ; she had bidden from her chil dren all knowledge of the awful trage dy ; you bad thought there could go out to her only pity and admiration. Ah, you do not know how fierce a hatred burned in France, In those days. Mad ame Dreyfus was turned away from every hotel In Rennes. Not one would take this poor wife In her name was Dreyfus. The old woman who finally gave her house-room was stoned and hooted in the streets. And all this night of the "traitor's return a mob hung round her doors or drank In a tavern over the way, snouting tne wnile a son of "Death to the Jews!" Suc cess Magazine. Noon Really Ninth Hoar. "Not many people know that what Is celebrated as noon was originally at 3 n. m. The reason for the chauge Is Interesting," said a Columbia unlversl ty philologist the other day. "Noon, or 'nones, as It was then known, was the hour at which the monks said their 'nones,' which were prayers at the ninth hour, or 3 o'clock. The monks reckoned time from the time of eating breakfast at 6 o'clock a. in. That was the beginning of their day. The monks were not permitted to eat their dinner until after they had said their 'nones.' This was a long time for men who had so much time to think of eating. They were all very hungry at 3 o'clock. By and by some of them cut the time little short prayed a little earlier. As time went on they clipped off enough time to bring the eating hour lu Its proper place, at midday, and nones' be came 12 o'clock , lnstad of 8, even though It meant the ninth hour." THE EXPIAT0BT DEAD. laexpUeable Fat that Overtook -. Enemies of Dreyfus ReTlaien. "Always the dead!" Relnach cried bitterly ; "whenever we find a forgery, a crime, always It Is set to the account of a dead man !" And be drew up a list horrible In Its eloquence, of the dead who strewed the dark path of this monstrous case of crime and cruelty and infamy. Yet there had fallen so many of the ene mies of truth and Justice, that he might have called them the Expiatory Dead. Three I have told you ofthat poor wretch, Lemercler-Plcard, "found dead" In his room in the Rue de Sevres ; Hen ry, "found dead," with a closed razor near by; Felix Faurse, "found dead," and smuggled Into his palace. There are many others. Captain d'Attel, who claimed to have heard Dreyfus avow bis guilt to Lebrun-Ren- suit the day of his degradation, was found dead" in a railway train, his corpse blue and already on the way to decomposition, though bis Journey had lasted but an hour. This pretended confession, which Dreyfus never made, D'Attel confided to his friend, Chaulln- Servlniere, a member of the Chamber of Deputies ; now the Deputy took train one day to visit his home ; an hour later I he was "found dead" on tne railway tracks between two stations. And. Rocher, of the prison guards, who also claimed to have heard Dreyfus say : "I , am guilty, but I am not the only one 1" died, and to this day no one knows where or how. It was as though Eter- j nal Truth had reached down and slain this He wherever It lifted Its evil head. I The prefect Barreme was summoned to Paris by his government chief; he was found "dead" In his compartment when the train arrived at the Gare St Lazare. Laurenceau, prefect of th North, was called to Paris to give evi dence regarding the spy system on the German frontier; there was no acci dent on the Journey; the next day he was "found dead" In his room at the Hotel Terminus. Lorlmler, one of Henry's most tire less agents of forgery and crime, was "found dead' hanged In a lonely barn j another, Guenee, was "found dead" on the floor of his room In Parla Then there was Munler ; bis part In the con spiracy had been to falsify the mean ing of a cryptic telegram sent by Pan- lzzardl to the Italian government so that It affirmed the guilt of Dreyfus; and Munler was "found dead" In a rail way train. Was It any wonder the martyr's friends began to see In these mysterious and opportune deaths, the work of an avenging destiny? With "Decidement la Fatallte est Dreyfus arde!" the very stars In their courses fought aaglnst the He. Vance Thomp son, In Success Magazine. S. IT. 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To be received with equal skepticism Is perhaps the boy's answer to the ques tion why David preferred- to be a door keeper In the house of the Lord : "Be cause If he was a doorkeeper he could walk outside while the sermon was be lng preached." More natural, however, Is what a child said of Elijah: "At Elijah went up to heaven he dropped his mantle and Queen Elizabeth walk ed over It" It need hardly be explained that 11 was an Irish boy who gave the text: "He that humbleth himself shall be ex alted and he that exalteth himself shall be a baste." 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