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ATHENA, MARCH 18, 1898.
The Milton Eagle now eays we
may be trusted to grapple' with
great questions, such as the erec
tion of town hitching racks, and
others of greater or less magnitude.
Speaking of qualifications, reminds
us that our friend Hull has been
grooming himself for some time,
through the columns of his paper,
for the exalted and dignified posi
tion of herder of the Milton town
cow. The position, it seems, is
eought after by our friend with
great eagerness and, there being no
other aspirant to the position of
keeping the gentle-eyed "bos9y"off
the sidewalks and out of the door
yards, he will doubtless secure it
with great eclat and sang froid.
Should the "plum" fall within Mr.
Hull's grasp, it is said he will at
once change the cow pasture to
uome region outside Milton's city
limits. This fact, so far as we can
see, is the only objectionable point
the average cow owner of Milton
can find againBt Hull having the
place. Our best wishes are with
him, and in the turmoil of our
office work during the coining Bum
mer months, when the city is dry
and dusty and our head aches with
the ceaseless grind of getting copy
for the boys, what a solace, what a
balm for that tired feeling known
only to newspaper men, to imagine
Hull out herding cows! Out on the
hillside, mayhap where verdant
grasses grow, little birdies sing and
beautiful flowers are wafted to and
fro by the gentle zephyr. What
think you, reader, of the picture?
And this one: A man, bare-head
ed and footsore, tearing like mad
down an alley; a street corner is
reached; he pauses. And again.
A woman appears with a look of
expectancy on her face, and says;
"Hyar! tie up our ca'f." He starts.
A rustle of feminine skins is heard
and turning, the man is confronted
by an angry woman who has been
pursuing him down the alley. She
wants to know why he has not
"fetched old Brin yet." "You fer
got ter take Boss ter paster this
inornin', Hull, an' ma's goin' ter
break yer head," yells an urchin
across the street. And so the pic
ture goes on, and so does Hull.
We envy the lucky star under
which he was born.
The earth apparently holds no
attractions for Andreo and, after
waiting all these months, an ex
pedition is being fitted out in Swe
den to search for the missing ex
plorer. It is feared that Andrce
will be harder to find than the
north pole, but the expedition will
start in that direction, and make
the discovery of the pole an inci
dental feature. The whole subject
ia so bewildering that the average
person is becoming totally indiffer
ent to the existence of anything
north of the flagstaff at Dawson
City.
A New York judge has granted
a wife a divorce from her husband
for six months. Notwithstanding
all the cry against "plutocracy,"
this is an age when the necessaries
and comforts of life were never
more within the reach of the mass
es. Divorces on the installment
plan are one of many of pur mod
ern developments which were un
heard of in the so-called "good old
days."
Mr. Luetgert, of Chicago, is to
be made chief sausage maker in
the Joliet penitentiary. At the
prison, precautions can be em
ployed to prevent Mr. Luetgert
from mixing any of his relatives
with his sausage meat.
Some pretended statesmen are
advocating an alliance between the
United States, aud Great Britain
in opposition to Russia in dealing
with the Asiatic question. Such
an alliance would be an unholy
one, for Russia is one of the best
friends America ever had, while
Great Britain has never been our
friend commercially or politically.
The German minister of, foreign
affairs says the Chinese empire will
probably exist for another 3,000
years, reopie laminar with Eu
ropean history will beg to be ex
cused from settling territorial
questions that far ahead.
The biscuit trust has a capita
of $55,000,000, and yet there are
people who seem to fear there will
be a shortage in biscuits.
Ladies' Home Journal Answered.
By Rev. L. Green.
We continue this week our criti
cism of the article in the Ladies'
Home Journal, on "The Decay of
the Sunday School."
In the article referred to. the
8iiperintentents are held up as be
ing among the most ignorant class,
lacking in personality and magnet
ism.
The object of this article u to
defend the superintendents against
this uncalled-tor attack, and to en
courage them to go on in the work
God has committed to them, and
help to better the condition of the
Sunday school. In the estimation
of the Journal, the superintendents
as a class, are almost entirely de
void of understanding and abso
lutely without personality or mag
netism. Now, thinking seriously
for a moment, one finds himself
wondering how this thing can be;
when the church has managed her
affairs bo entirely to the satisfac
tion of the Journal in every other
department of the work. One
thing ia sure: If this is the case,
as the Journal assert?, it is some
thing very remarkable and I am
unable to see how such a thing
could happen without an universal
understanding among the churches
and a desire to bring it about.
While to say such a thing is to
manifest at once to all christian
people our ignorance of the hearty
appreciation of the Sunday school
and the good it is accomplishing,
manifested by the christian world.
That there are Sunday schools
and superintendents of Sunday
schools that are failures, all admit;
but that all, or even a majority
are failures, we deny.
' All must admit that the Sunday
6chool is best when properly man
aged, and that it, as all institutions,
could be made better; but that it
is decaying and mouldering away,
and that the managers are the
most ignorant people we have, we
deny. The allegation is an insult
not only to the superintendent
who has labored to build up the
school, but to the intelligence of
christians, and an outrage on com
mon sense.
It is much easier to write, con
demning the superintendents and
their mothods than to successfully
fill their place; much eatier to
say they are ignorant and lacking
in personality and magnetism than
to furnish the knowledge and mag
netism necessary to make the
schools what they are today.
There is better literature used
today, and more of it, than ever
before. There is a greater effort
being put forth to make the Sun
day school what it should be, in
most of the state3.. All things con
sidered, the signs are full of hope
for the future of the Sunday school.
Great harm often come3 from
looking on the dark side of life,
and of saying things are going to
decay, and everything is wrong
sido up. Such is discouraging, to
say the least. Tell a young man
who has just started in the Christ
ian life, that he will fail in that
life, and you discourage him; then,
when he makes a mistake, tell him
you knew he would, and you have
ruined his life. We can tell the
people that the Sunday school is
docayiug, and get this idea incul
cated into tho public mind, and
soon it will decay and vanish
away. It is a good idea to always
give people credit for all the good
they do, and to look on the bright
side and speak hopefully of those
enterprises we would have succeed.
Our words can help along these
good works or they can be a detri
ment to their progress.
"The influence of a higher order
of intelligence" is alJ well enough,
but until we can furnish it, let us
encourage tho intelligence that is
at work and trying to make our
Sunday school a power for good.
If the Journal editor had to fill
the superintendent's place awhile
in 6ome Sunday schools, he might
find that a successful school does
not depend so much after all, upon
the personal maenetism of the
superintendent. Many things are
necessary to a successful Sunday
school, some of which we may
mention hereafter.
(to be continued.)
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Notice for Publication.
Land Officu at La Oiande, Oregon,
Feb 23, 1898.
Notice is heraby given that the follow
ing named eetuVr has filed notice 'of his
intention to make Goal proof in support
of his claim, aud that said proof will tie
marie before the County Clerk of Uma
tilla County, Oregon, at Pendleton, Ore
gon, on
April 15, IH9H,
viz: Alex McDonald, H. E. No. 6103, for
the E4 S'l4 and Lots 3 and 4, Sec 31,
Twp. 4 N., R. 34, E. W. XI.
He names the following witnerses to
prove his continuous residence upin and
cultivation of. mid land, viz.:
Lyman M. Walrus, Lee Price, JpihO.
fla'es. all of Adams. Orenon ; Daniol K.
Bll, of Pendleton, Oieiwn.
K W. Baktlktt, Register.
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The ladies of Athena and vicinity are cordially invited to attend the
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