The Athena press., February 08, 1907, Image 2

ATHENA PRESS
' Tuesday and Friday
B.BOYD Pubfehcr
Cuba wants new blood. It ought to
be a few degrees cooler than the home
brand.
The President's action concerning the
Twenty-fifth Infantry has become a
study in black and white,
Summerfleld, Ohio, has a boy 15 years
of age who weighs 4S8 pounds. He may
be Secretary of War some day.
If, as Prof. Lowell says, the people
of Mars are our superiors, we suppose
It will be In order for us to look up to
them.
Pretty hard on Count Bonl being cut
off from all those millions, with the
cost of living higher than it has been
for twenty years.
A wealthy Chicago girl is going to
marry a baseball player. Bet he won't
pinch her and stick her with pins, like
a count or a duke.
Mrs. Russell Sage finds it difficult to
give away $80,000,000 so as to make It
do the most good. Her husband would
hare found It impossible.
A Nebraska woman Is seeking her
third divorce from the same man. She
Is simply practicing what that "trial
marriage" advocate Is preaching.
"We have enough railroads now," de
clares B. II. Marrlman. Mr. Harrlman
may have enough, but there are millions
of us popr people In the country who
don't own a single railroad.
The Buffalo, Times tells of a boy who
took Beveral ounces of rough-on-ratj
without suffering any evil effects; but
It appears that he worked in a drug
store and took it to a customer.
New York's board of education has
put Itself on record In opposition to, the
new kind of spelling. This fact will
cause Brander Matthews to recall the
old proverb concerning the prophet In
his own country.
If they can be discovered the men
who made a drunken man in New York
Sleep with a pig are to be punished. But
will the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals take no action In
behalf of the other pig?'
According to President Roosevelt, a
80-cent lunch In a Panama restaurant
Is good enough far anybody. It Is Just
possible, though, that the lunch set be
foie President didn't look as much like
80 cents as the one served to the aver
age patron.
"Story hour" is a new feature qf li
brary work among children which has
had marked success at the Carnegie Li
brary of Pittsburg. Children come to
the building at stated times and listen
to stories told by a skilled narrator. In
Boston the centennial of the birth of
Hans Christian Andersen was cele
brated last year by a gathering of a
large and Interested audience of chil
dren at the Public Library, to whom a
lady to.ld Andersen stories. It is an
expedient for providing wholesome eii:
tertalnment for children which might
well be adopted by all cities and large
towns.
Iceland Is now connected with Europo
by cable, and the King of Denmark Is
In direct communication with his sub
jects on the northern Isle. Cables are
built so fast that it Is difficult to kepp
track of them. There are about two
hundred and fifty thousand miles of me
tallic connection under the seas of the
world, the average cost of which ha
been about a thousand dollars a mll.
A quarter of a billion Is a great sum of
tnoney, yet It Is a smaU price to pay for
communication between continent
which send to each other a estimated
total of six million messages a year.
Young men who are wondering what
opportunity the world holds out U
them when they leave college may be
Interested In some figures given In the
latest published report of the United
States Commissioner of Education. The
commissioner says that since 1890 there
have been created an average of about
thousand new college professorships
very year, and more than thirteen
hundred new positions in the high
schools and academies. Thus about
twenty-three hundred new teachers
have to be found annually, without
making any allowance for the retire
ment of many hundreds of others on .-recount
of age or other disability. It Is
apparent that the man who wishes to
live the scholarly life has ample onpor
tunlty in these days of popular educa
tion.
By those who have watched the rapid
growth of the colleges and universities
fears are often expressed that personal
contact between president and students,
between professors and pupils, will be
lost, if It has not been lost already ; and
that so the best part of a college edu
cation will be forfeited. The definite
charge, by a writer In a recent number
of the Outlook, that In one college at
least this condition has already come to
pass, brought out some Interesting cor
respondence. One woman mentions a
professor who not only knew all "his
boys" while they were under his In
struction and helped them by personal
advice and friendly social intercourse,
but has kept In touch with every one
X them since they were graduated.
Once a year he sends them all a letter,
and nearly all of them reply. The at
mosphere is almost like that of one
great family. The misfortune of one
Is the concern of all, and all help to
repair It Other correspondents cite
other colleges and other men to show
that intercourse between faculty ana
students Is growing more Intimate In
stead of more remote; and no one has
considered it necessary to cite for
every one knows the definite system
which most of the colleges have for
bringing all the students under the di
rect personal Influence of some of the
professors or other instructors. Candid
graduates of forty or fifty years ago,
if they are familiar with present col
lege conditions, nearly always admit
that the relations to-day are simpler
and more familiar. The old-time pro
fessor, however beneficent his influ-
ce, was too often a man of austere
dignity, which made blm unffpproacn-
able. His modern representative may
be regarded with less awe, but not
with less affection. One thing must be
remembered: it takes two to form a
friendship as well as to make a quar
rel. The student must meet advances
half-way. If he does, there is little
danger In any college, large or small,
that he will go through the course
friendless or without the helpful influ
ence of close contact and acquaintance
with "praeses et professores."
At intervals of a few years we hear
that England Is scraping the bottom of
her coal mines and that in a relatively
short time her fuel supply will be ex
hausted and she will have to go out of
the manufacturing business. Still, En
gland continues to mine coal in sufll
clent quantity for her needs. Lately
however, the prophets have been In
sistent In their auguries of woe, and
they have asserted that this time there
can be no mistake. The exhaustion of
the English coal supply Is In sight.
Providence appears still to temper the
wind to the shorn Iamb, however," for
coincident with these gloomy outgivings
comes the statement that new coal
beds have been discovered near Dovir
whose value Is money Is estimated at
$5,000,000,000. Leading geologlsw say
that the discovery is the most import
ant since the Norman conquest Thin
England Is granted respite. Her man
nfantiirea will not become extinct for
lack of fuel not for a while, at least
Still, the prophets of evil continue to
prophesy. They calculate that not ouiy
the coal supply of England but of the
whole world must within a certain time
be exhausted and they demand to know
what will become of humanity then.
The question is interesting, but hardly
of contemporary Importance. The anx
Ions ones concede that there will be
years to come ana we may jusuy na
sume that we shall not be personally
Interested In occurrences that far In the
future. But even If we expected tn
live until all the coal and wood had
been burned we should still decline to
be alarmed at the prospect We have
great faith In the resources of the hu
man intellect Poe said that the in
genuity of man could not devise a
cipher or cryptograph which the In
genuity of man could not solve, We
hold the same opinion with respect to
any emergency that may confront the
human race. Man rises to the neces
sities of his existence. When the fuel
that we now have Is exhausted substi
tutes will be found for It The resources
of nature are Infinite and they are at
the disposal of men acute enough to
utilize them. The harnessing of the
tides alone would produce enough paw
er transformable into heat to supply all
humanity ten times over. That is only
one resource; there are a dozen others.
Millionaire Bey.
Mouammer Bey, son of the richest
man In all Turkey, who will be heir
to more millions than any other person
In the Ottoman Empire, save the heir
of the sultan, is In Boston on business,
and before he leaves the business men
will have somethlnsc like a cool half
million of his money, while he will
have tons of Boston's most improved
shoe and cotton machinery.
There Is nothing about this sleek
appearing man of 35 years, with his
rotund figure, to indicate, that he is to
be at some time In the future the rich
est man In his native land. He Is just
as democratic as any of this country's
wealthy men, and one wouldn't have to
make a very big stretch of imagination
to pick him out as an American.
Mouammer Bey, unlike most of his
fellow countrymen, Is highly educated,
and Instead of wasting his father's vast
wealth by riotous living he has mas
tered the many great Industries that
his father coutrols, and is adding to
the fortune. Those who have come In
contact with him say that he is as
keen as the proverbial Yankee busi
ness man. Boston Post
Identity Marks.
They were riding through Indiana.
"That man across there Is from St
Louis," said the observer.
"How do you know?" asked the
drummer.
"He constantly looks In the mirror
to see if his face Is dirty."
The drummer looked around a bit
and tapped the observer upon the shoul
der. "There's a man from Pittsburg," he
said, indicating a passenger two seats
behind.
"How can yoo telir
"nis face actually Is dirty." St
St Louis Post-Dispatch.
started In for Himself.
Acquaintance Were you ever
ban-
koed?
Skinflint Was It Why, I wag bun
koed so many times that It taught nx
the fame. Detroit Free Press,
A PROSPEROUS STATE.
flew South Wales, Aaatrall, Shows
Remarkable Derelopment.
! The agricultural and industrial activ
ity of New South Wales, Australia, Is
Improving constantly. Last year the
State produced In dairying and allied
Interests goods valued at $17,000,000,
Mn sum Including, in addition to butter
and cheese, the profits on swine, poul
try farming and the rabbit industry,
rhe butter exported from the State
weighed nearly 20,000,000 pounds, and
brought to the owners $4,090,000, which
was an addition to the public wealth of
the State. The output of bacon and
bams has Increased nearly" 150 per cent
since 1805.
Utilizing a pest, the rabbit Indus
try is rapidly assuming the Importance
3f a staple. During last year, 3,150,800
pairs of rabbits and hares were export
ed, In addition to 4,593,961 pounds of
rabbit and hare skins, the value of the
whole amounting to $1,572,200, or dou
ble that of the previous year. There
was also an increased export of poul
try, almost the whole of which went to
South Africa and Asiatic ports.
The number of sheep in New South
Wales in 1905 was estimated at 40.000,
000, an Increase of 20 per cent ever the
record of 1904.
There were also 2,000,000 cattle and
120,000 horses In the State. The horses
exported to. countries outside the com
monwealth numbered 5,406, and were
valued at $594,820. The wool exports
aggregated $07,231,300, an Increase of
more than 15 per cent; and the live
sheep exports were valued at $7,304,950.
The meat exports were $3,079,835, or
almost 250 per cent more than those of
1904.
In mineral production, too, New
South Wales Is constantly adding to
her past records. In 1904 this produc
tion was valued at $31,100,000; last
year It reached $35,089,700. Its possi
bilities are described as enormous. Coal
constituted about one-fifth of the out
put, and copper and lead each one-seventh.
Silver Increased to $1,441,000,
more than 40 per cent beyond the rec
ord for 1904; tin to $2,330,000, while
spelter, which showed a production of
$395,430 In 1904, figured at $0,754,715
In the market values of last year. There
are many known deposits of kerosene
shale of a payable quality in New South
Wales, but kerosene Is imported from
the United States and elsewhere.
The tonnage of shipping entering
Sydney harbor amounted to 4,697,511,
or nearly half that of Liverpool, and
more than that of Hull, Cape Town,
Bremen, Havre, Copenhagen, Boston or
Shanghai. Prosperous conditions are
evident on all sides. The savings banks
show a handsome increase in deposits.
The value of deposits last- year was
$07,491,200. Sixteen thousand more de
positors held accounts than during the
previous year, and their deposits aver
age $18.65 for the year.
Less than one-seventieth of the 310,-
000 square miles of the State has been
turned over by the plough, but the pro
duction last year averaged $55, a
square mile of the entire area. The
population on December 31 was 1,478,
GOO, and the total wealth produced dur
ing the year was $150 a head for every
man, woman and child. Very few, If
any, States in the world can rival this
prosperous record.
TOAD HA3 MANY VIRTUES.
Frees Kitchens and Gardens of Cock,
roaches and Other Basra.
Few well-meaning creatures have
been more thoroughly misunderstood
than the homely, meditative, and retir
ing toad.
Formerly the toad was considered a
venomous reptile, but in our day Its
habits have been more carefully ob
served, and Its great value to the no
mologist and gardener has been fully
established on account of its propen
sity for destroying insects.
We should, therefore, cultivate the
friendship and assistance of the In
sectivorous reptiles, including the strip
ed snake, as well as that of birds.
Every tidy housewife detests the
cockroach, mice, and other vermin.
Two or three domesticated toads would
keep the coast clear of these, and
would be found more desirable than a
cat as they are wholly free from tres
passing on the rights of man as does
the cat The toad Is possessed of a
timid and retiring nature, loving dark
corners and shady places, but under
kind treatment becoming quite tame.
Many Instances might be cited of
pet toads reinalulng several years In
a family, and doing most valuable serv
Ice with no other compensation than
that of Immunity from persecution.
All that Is necessary to 6ecure their
co-operation, In door or out is to pro
vide them with cool and safe retreats
by day, convenient access to water, and
they will go forth to the performance
of their nocturnal duties "without
money and without price."
In Europe, toads are carried to the
cities to market and are purchased by
the horticulturists, who by their aid
are enabled to keep In- check the mul
tlpllcatlon of the Insect tribes which
prey upon their fruit flowers, etc.
No one can study the anatomy of
this reptile without being convinced of
its perfect adaptation to Its sphere.
Its tongue, which Is capable of great
elongation, Is attached to the anterior
portion of the lower Jaw ; Its free end,
when the toad is In repoe. reaching
down to the borders of the stomach.
Why She Took Him.
Mother Why did you awpt Charlie
from among all the young men who
have paid you attention? Daughter
Because he was the only one that had
the gxd taste to propose.
Two heads are, better than a dozen
li a love affair.
S. V. Sharp
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