The Athena press., January 15, 1907, Image 2

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Uneasy Has the bead that runs a
trust
Somebody with a memory has witti
ly dubbed the new bobtalled spelling
"Joshbllllngsgate.'
What a man would call "enthusi
asm" as applied to himself he dubs
"gush" in others.
It's an easy matter to size up a
man If his dog crawls under the house
every time he sees him approaching.
In the case of that Philadelphia
bank, too, the bank examiner found a
rotten state of affairs after It was all
over. , "
The Importance of the saying that
"murder will out" is largely compro
mised by the probability that the mur
derer will get out
A boy of 17 was married the other
say-to a gin 01 10, wiui me wukui
foi her guardian. The guardian ought
to hare a guardian.
In the latest French duel one of the
antagonists missed and the other
wouldn't shoot. They can do that well
on almost any vaudeville stage.
A New York millionaire recently
asked his typewriter to marry him and
was refused. Perhaps, she thought It
would be easier to run his office than
to try to keep a cook.
tlon which Is trying to make It appear
, that a woman Is a gin until sne is vj.
Julia Ward Howe Is probably ready to
i admit that a woman of . 40 is a mere
. emia
', . . Canada is a good neighbor and a
''a food customer. Sixty -one per cent of
.. nil fh'ft' nnrohn hps which Canada made
. last year from other countries were
from this nation, and they amounted
4 -1 V . . ,1 ,....1 n.Ull..n l . , 1 1 ,1 fU
1 A Philadelphia, manicurist is to be
come the wife of a millionaire brewer,
She says their romance began when
they first held' hands. It ifm't always
necessary, however, for a lady to be
a manicurist In order to start a ro
znance by holding hands.
A Georgia Judge has decided that It
Is every man's duty to kiss his wjfe at
least once a day, the best time being
when he gets home at night. There
are some mean men, though, who will
prefer to do It the first thing in the
morning, so as to have it over with.
John D. Rockefeller gave orders to
bore for water under his big office
building In Cleveland in the expecta
tion of saving a few dollars on water
rents. Instead of water he struck gas
and oil. Is John D. a sort of modern
Midas, that he cannot bore a hole In
the ground anywhere without striking
oil?
A youth who thought it was fun to
alarm his companions swam round the
boat in which they were fishing and
sank under water several times, pre
tending that he was drowning. At last
he went down with a shout for help,
and no attention was paid to him.
This time he did not reappear on the
surface, and searchers were unable to
find his body. This is the old story of
the boy who cried "Wolf! Wolf!" so
often that when a wolf finally did at
tack him, he was left to his fate.
. While it Is true that our public lands
have been recklessly wasted and that
the area and productiveness of our
wheat lands have been greatly re
duced, we do not think the situation
at all alarming. The public lands
granted to railroads and sold to graz
ers and ranchmen have not been spirit
ed away. They are all here, as fertile
as nature made thein, and before many
years they will all be owned, occupied
and cultivated by private owners. As
for lands whose productivity has di
minished through unscientific farming,
they can easily be brought up again by
proper ' fertilizing. The so-called
"worn-out" lands for wheat purposes
are not dead ; they are only overwork
ed and tired.
When does a girl become an old
maid? , This Question, blunt and shorn
of delicate Innuendo, is now figuring
In the discussion of Philadelphia so
ciety. One might say that a girl be
comes an old maid when she falls to
marry betimes, but thitt Is not the
point What Is the exact year that
ushers in splnsterhood and closes for
ever the gates of youth? Of course
this Is not a matter in which man has
any word to Bay. No rational wearer
of trousers would tempt fate and the
scorn of femininity by attempting a
suggestion, for any arbitrary dead Hue
would necessarily brln down upon the
luckless masculine head a storm of
reprobation. It has been left to the
women themselves to brave the peril.
. . And they have placed the age at 40
. years. Uuder this ruling a woman Is a
t.,mlnr I. ml until two Kiviro VMm hnva
counted their gloomy litany of days
and th hair near the scalp begins to
" whiten. . "
It Is not often that one man cares so
1 much for another as to desire to end
his own life when his friend Is taken
away. The account of such a case,
which was printed a few days ago, only
emphasizes the rarity of such atiacu-
ments. For the love of women there
has been no limit to which men have
not gone. Murder and suicide, home
breaking and life-wrecking, and every
single act in the long catalogue of
crime have attended the relationships
which man's love for woman has pro
duced. But la actual experience men
seldom love one another devotedly.
There are stories which have come
down from remote ages telling of the
devotion of Jonathan to David or of
the sweet and lasting friendship of
Damon for Pythias, but, even when
used as examples worthy of emulation,
these tales have had little Influence in
bringing men of to-day Into relation
ships of special or unusual' personal
closeness. The days of chivalry were
often marked by the devotion of one
to the Interest of another, a devotion
In which intense admiration and will
ingness to serve came pretty close to
worship, but as the romance of such
an era faded away in the advent of
the stern and practical life of a com
mercial age, and the notions of per
sonal Independence came Into violent
conflict with the Idea of service under
a feudal lord, the finer sense of real
admiration disappeared, lest such a
feeling should be counted a sign of de
pendence and inferiority. In the same
way, in American political life, It has
been no uncommon thing to see men so
devoted to the interests of a party
leader as to be willing to make sacri
fice of all sorts In order to have that
leader win time, money, strength, and
enthusiasm being given without stint
Clay, or Blaine, or Jackson could count
many such admirers, but such Interest
In a leader rarely approximates real
love. Men trust their fellows in busi
ness. They have every confidence In
them when matters of moment are to
be considered In secret or when finan
cial Interests are Involved. They enjoy
their companionship in clubroom or
lodge, or on outings for health or pleas
ure. They will use all honorable ef
forts for promoting the welfare of one
another. They will risk life to 8ave
another from danger or death, but
when It comes to the deeper feeling It
Is surprising how few the cases have
been where one man has ' cared much
for the affectionate regard of another.
The exception Is the more noteworthy
because of the ordinary rule of life.
Every fresh collapse of a plantation
company, every new scheme for fleecing
111-advlsed poor folks out of their little
savings by roseate promises of wealth
that they cannot possibly gain, every
shakedown In Wall street, and, Indeed,
every collapse of a savings bank in
which small depositors have placed
their money gives new Impetus to the
demand that safe opportunities for safe
investments be In some way provided
those citizens who do not know how
rightly to safeguard themselves. The
movement for the postal savings bank
Is one result of this demand. The
movement for publicity In corporation
affairs is another. The movements for
municipal and government ownership
of public utilities also gather a certain
amount of strength from this quarter.
In general the need for safe Investment
of small savings seems bound to play
a prominent place among the factors
which will determine our future in
dustrial tendencies. In England the
government has undertaken to make in
vestment In certain safe securities easy
to all citizens, and, strangely enough, the
extent of the facilities it offers are very
little known outside the ranks of those
who utilize them. It is through the
postofflce that these Investments are
taade; the formalities are no greater
than in the purchase of an ordinary
money order, and the government
charges for its service as a broker an
exceedingly moderate fee. Four stocks
may be bought In this way namely,
consols, 2 per cent annuities, per
cent annunltles and local loans. Not
more than $1,000 may be Invested In
this way in a single year, nor more
than $2,500 altogether by any one per
son. But from these limits at the top
to a 25-cent limit at the bottom the
lnvesor has free scope. If only a ahlll
lng or two Is to be Invested the depos
itor receives a document called ah "in
vestment certificate." When he has In
vested 1100 he can get a certificate to
bearer with coupons attached. So long
as he has less Invested than the lowest
denomination of the securities Issued
he is dependent on a' transfer of his
account on the books of the postofflce
for purchase and sale. - As he gets
more money Invested he can take his
securities himself In the ordinary way.
By this device, however small a sum
the investor may have, he can place It
In the safe Investments mentioned at
current priees and sell out whenever
he wishes at prices current at the time
of sale. The government no doubt es
tablished this system mainly to widen
the market for Its own securities, but
the advantages are manifest, and the
system may well be capable of future
elaboration.
Old Graveyard Inscriptions.
At Worcester, England, the slab
erected over a departed auctioneer is
Inscribed with a single wrod, "Gone."
In Sussex the Initials and . date of the
death of the deceased are followed by
two words, "He was." The most re
markable inscription Is at Cane Hill
Cemetery, Belfast, where the Inscrip
tion says, "Left till called for." ;
Balls of All Seasons.
: Thou hast all seasons for tuine own,
O ball. In the autumn we have foot
ball, in the winter the social ball. In
the spring baseball, and In the sum
mer the moth ball. Four-Track News.
Every mother pats herself on the A woman's idea of something par
back when her daughter marries the tlcuarly good to eat Is any old thing
man aba selected. served on a tray. ;
SEVENTH YEAR OF
FAT FOB KANSAS.
Topeka. "This is one of the great
est. If act the greatest years In Kan
sas' history," said Secretary Coburn,
the famous score keeper for the State's
prosperity, to a Topeka correspondent
the other day. "The farmers are get
ting the best of It No mortals on
earth anywhere are so well prepared
for happiness."
He had Just completed his estimate
of practically 100,000,000 bushels of
high grade wheat as the crop of the
State this year. And this great crop
the greatest raised by any State In the
nation comes not after famine, but
as the climax of seven prosperous
years in which debts have been paid,
mortgages canceled, Improvements of
every sort added.'
They are saving their wheat money.
Much of it Is going into banks. The
State has a bank to every 1,834 people,
more than any other State. Hundreds
of them have farmers for shareholders
chiefly. Their only difficulty is to find
places to loan the deposits.
One country bank with $10,000 capi
tal recently had $160,000 deposits, and
three-fourths of this in cash, because
no one in the neighborhood wanted to
borrow it. It was in the heart of the
wheat belt where 20 new banks have
been chartered in the past 90 days.
But they are getting good things out
of life, too. Why not with $00,000,000
Jn cash for a single crop?
. Ten years ago a house furnace was
rare in Kansas. Now, the hardware
and plumbing wagons are scattered
through the country setting up fur
naces in farmers' houses. Same way
with bath tubs, same way with tele
phones, rubber-tired buggies, pianos
(not organs as of old), and all the
multitude of things that go to make up
prosperity.
In one little town 300 phonographs
have been sold in the past year, at $20
to $50 each. In that county are 2,000
farmers' telephones two of the 25 ru
ral mall , carriers make their trips dal
ly in automobiles. Every farm has
dally mail; covered wagons take chil
dren to union schools. . ' 1 ,;
Wheat money Is ("velvet" more than
any other the Kansas farmer receives.
Only 1,650,000 people live in Kansas
though more are coming" rapidly be
cause of the promise of competency.'
This is about the same as Philadelphia
has. They have put $129,000,000 In
the banks and are adding to the amount
regularly. Think what it means to
damp 160,000,000 in cash into the State
from one crop alone. -
A Little Lesson
In Patriotism
"Prepared either to conquer or to die
for the sake of his country," Is the
translation of the Inscription upon the
medal which Con
ress ordered struck
as a commemora
tion of the bravery
of Commodore Lew
is Warrington.
r Upon the 29th of
AprlC 1814, during
the course of the
second naval war
with England, the
British brig Eper-
lewis warringtoit Tter engaged In bat
tle with the American ship Peacock, of
which Commodore Warrington was
then In command. At the very begin
ning of the conflict the foreyard of
the Feacock was totally disabled. Nev
ertheless, within a space of forty-two
minutes after the engagement had be
gun, the Peacock was the victor and
th Epervler. almost totally . disabU'd.
The forces had been, nearly equal; If
anything, the British had enjoyed a
slight advantage. Therefore, the.mas-
terly conduct of the battle had been
entirely due to the, magnificent courage
and laudable skill of Commodore War
rington. " . . '
No higher trlhute could ,have . been
paid to the patriotism of .Warrington
than the Inscription upon the medal,
for it was a recognition not only, of
ability, but even more of a nobility of
character than Is the basis of real
greatness, " "'
Surely no higher compliment can be
given to a man than that his country
should say of , him that he was "pre
pared lther to conquer or to die" for
her sake. ' ...
Quite keanlar..' . '' y t
"The last time I saw Gayley he
wasn't very r regular In his habits."
"Oh, he's very regular now."
"Well, well,' I didn't think he'd ever
reform." ,
"He hasn't Ills habits are all bad
now." Philadelphia Ledger.
S. F. Sharp
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