ATHENA PRESS
Tuesdays and rridays
t. b. BOYD Publisher
Have yon quit trying to keep track
of the land frauds?
though ordinary wires do not Issue
bulletin, they do nurse both husband
and children through many Illnesses.
A woman CO years old !s said to be
euttlng her fourth set of natural teeth.
Shouldn't it be unnatural?
It is claimed that a bat has lived
tn a sealed vault for 106 years. It
must have been of the brick variety.
Mr. Fielding has put lemons on the
free list. The trade was suffering, and
he came to the rescue a case of lemon
aid.
A man has been arrested for trying
to throw his mother-in-law Into the riv
er. Evidently his Idea was to drown his
sorrow.
Senator Hansbrough of North Dako
ta thinks we are threatened with na
tional nervous prostration. Pick your
sanatorium early.
The way to worry a man Is to say
there is probably no truth In the
charges against him and Keep right on
digging into them.
Gen. Shatter's death has recaUed to
the public memory little but criticism.
The man's real achievements have been
all but forgotten In the resentment over
what seemed a needless loss of life iu
the Spanish war. It Is true that Shat
ter exhibited an unfortunate lack of
experience and skill In the protective
side of warfare; but It may be ques
tloned whether any other American
commanding officer of that day would
have done better In coping, unprepared,
with the real enemies, climate, bad
food and fever, says Ridgway's weekly,
And, in spite of all, In his surly, tact
less, patient fashion he did what he
was sent to do In Cuba. This habit of
performing the alloted task was the
keynote of Shaffer's character !n his
many years of Invariably successful
and valuable Indian campaigning, dur
ing which the public never neard of
him. It was his misfortune tint his
brilliant successes should, have been ac
complished In the obscure places of the
earth; his errors committed In the
blaze of the limelight. .Whatever the
public, fickle and often ungrateful, may
think of him, his fellows in the service
will remember him with honor as a
brave, honest, sincere and generally effi
cient public servant
DIGGING A GRAVt. FOR HIM.
Prof. J. G. Adaml's assertion that
man is largely composed of pure soap
Is likely to strengthen the average
hobo's aversion to water.
Those who believe in Spartan meth
ods of "hardening" children might re
flect that there Is no hardness like unto
that which marks the absence of life.
The name of a woman was drawn
from the Jury wheel in Washington,
but she was promptly excused. Besides
being of the wrong sex, she was quite
Intelligent
Owing to the fact that Xing Leopold
has bushy white whiskers It will be
hard to ever convince the people of the
Congo country that Santa Claus is a
good man.
The opponents of free congressional
seeds are making another strong fight
Can't make them believe that the pros
perity of the country is grown from
tnee seeds.
Now a Chicago man has offered
Count Boni a Job as chauffeur at 25,000
francs a year. That ouht to suit him
down to the ground, since be is used to
living a fast life.
Explorer Peary attributes his fail
ure to reach the pole to the weather.
Just as soon as they have a tropical
season up there we look for Peary to
put a cabbage leaf In his hat and push
forward to victory.
To oblige a woman, 2,270 western
business men signed a petition without
reading It and have made themselves
liable for a total sum of jpUOOXH). Cas-
sle Chadwick will And plenty of them
left when she gets out of the peniten
tiary.
There are still some persons who are
not anxious to have an automobile.
Two well-known residents of Madrid
started from that city on a Journey to
Paris last month mounted on asses, in
protest against the reckless speed of
me automobile-drivers. Each ass was
Darned after a noted auto-maker, and
the riders carried banners Inscribed,
"Donkeys are better than automobiles.
The percentage of people In a large
city who have any knowledge at Urst
hand of government reports and bulle
tins is exceedingly small, Dnt tiie gov
ernment printing office turns the docu
ments out in great number, and they
contain much useful information. When
the President spoke in his message of
the help the Agricultural Department
Is to the farmers he might have refer
red to some of this literature, which
covers a great range of subjects. Not
only Is agriculture proper discussed,
but here Is "Modern Conveniences for
the Farm Home," which is significant
both of a paternal Interest in the farm
er and of the changes for the better
that are going on in farm life. First
there is a disquisition on the water
supply, with many sanitary sugges
tlons, and hints as to mechanical de
vices for distributing the waer through
the house. Then there Is a discussion
of the location of the house and of eel
lar building, and an elaborate treatise
on the question of plumbing, taking in
laundry and sink arrangements, heat
Ing apparatus and hot water clrcula
tlon, the bathroom, lavatory and closet,
and giving careful Instructions for the
disposal of sewage. This Is followed
by directions for the disposal of ashes,
garbage and miscellaneous re'use. and
by a dissertation on heating systems
after which examples are given of
homes where modern conveniences bave
been Installed, and also hints on the
possibility of introducing them Into
houses already built. Such a bulletin
must have some Influence In spreading
the desire for home comforts, and
though many farmers may still ?ag be
hind, the Installation of the conven
iences has really gone on rapidly. There
are farm houses, genuine farm houses,
bulll and equipped out of 'arm money,
as well supplied with them as the best
city residences. They would astonish
those who after years of desertion re
member only the discomforts of farm
life, and what with such :mprovements
and the trolley and the telephone the
movement "back to the soil" may gather
considerable Impetus.
There is a good deal of talk at times
about British conservatism in business
matters, but they are not half as back-
Miss Cumnock was a district visitor,
who went about her work with the
ward in some matters as Americans, same lndiscrlminatlng enthusiasm
who plume themselves on their goahend- which carried her through her other
itiveness. l rom present appearances social and philanthropic enterprises.
we agitation in England over the adop- She found at the outset one of the
tlon of the metric system Is likely to keenest old women it had ever been her
bear fruit much sooner in that country lot to meet, who unfortunately had
man in tne united States. The old never learned to read or write.
argument about the difficulty of ad- "I shall go to that poor soul three
Justing accepted standards to the me-1 times a week," she announced to her
trie system Is found to be less formld- family, "and I shall read her all the
able than represented and many hie news of the day and some of the best
flrmg have, as a matter of individual hooks. She will appreciate everything."
enterprise, prepared tables which will At the close of one of Miss Cum
permlt the prompt translation Into me- nock's long afternoons of reading the
trio terms of their products. miulster hnpened iu to see Mrs. Hlg-
glns.
A large amount of pioneer work still supose you've been enjoying a de-
Invltes the explorer, for many of the "shtful hour together," said the mln-
unknown areas have much territorial l8er' and -Ulss Cumnock, clasping a
extent In the Amazon basin, for ex- Plle of newspapers and a book , with
ample, three of these regions are each fervor. answered him.
much larger than all of our New Eng- "We've had a lovely afternoon !" she
una states, one unknown area In 8alu geny. "ixveiy! And now
Northwest Alaska Is nearly as large f0 001116 to Put the finishing touch
New England and the Sahara has to lt- . Good-by, Mrs. Illgglns!"
two areas in black that are each twice "Good-by !" said the old woman ; and
as large and another three times as tnea as tne r closei sne turned her
large as New England. Asia still has bright e'es to tna minister.
several of these vast mysterious spaces "Can't ye help a body out of a
and the solid chunk of the unknown In hole?" she asked hlra. " 'TIs every
New Guinea, the largest Island in the day ,n tne week DUt Sundays she
world excepting Greenland, would swal- comes now- She means well, and I'm
enduring it as best I can, but while
I'm being Informed what all the
world's doing, and following every
movement o' them Rosyfelt children,
the McCarthy twins and the rest o'
Pearson's Place are getting away from
me, an I never heard o' the Ilallorau
baby s teeth till there was three o
them In his mouth.'
low up New England and leave a black
border all around It
Not every wife can Issue a bulletin
to the press concerning the state of
her husband's health and sign It "house
physician and qualified nurse," as the
Queen of Rouuianla has done. King
Carol has been 111 for a year, and in
recent months has beenatn extreme pain.
The queen, in her bulletin, signed "Dr.
Carmen Sylva," says, "I Jealously In
sist on sharing no part of his nursing
with any one else, and I never had a
better patient It Is a pity no one can
glance at the peace of this sick-chamber."
She has had previous experience
as a nurse, for in the Russo-Turklsh
war of 1S7T-8 she devoted herself to
tb car of the wounded soldiers. Al-
tateaded Victim Escapes and One el
Plotters Killed by Mistake.
1 ; A story of treachery followed bj
poetic retribution is told In a dispatch
from Lucknow to a London newspa
per. Late In the evening a traveler, the
story goes, realizing that he could nol
reach Lucknow before dark and fear
lng the dangers of the road, stopped
at the house of the police inspector, a
native official, and applied for shelter
for the night
"I am carrying a considerable sum
of money," said he, "and in view of ,
the dangers of the country I desire to
have your protection until I can re
sume my Journey by daylight"
The Inspector made him welcome,
gave him water and food, finally tak
ing him to a sleeping room, where lie
left him alone.
As the night wore on the traveler
was stricken with sleeplessness. Pres
ently he beard voices near his window
and strange sounds of labor. He got
up and looked out. His eyes, used to
the greater darkness of the room, dls
corned two men digging In a field at
the back of the house. He strained his
ears to catch what they were saying
and realized In a -few moments that
they were digging a grave for him.
They were In a plot with the inspector
of police to murder him for his money
and hide his body away before day
light
In panic he stole through the house
and crept out by a back door. He dash
ed through the village as noiselessly
as he could and a mile or so down the
road climbed a tree, where he sat in
safety In the shadow of the foliage
until daybreak came. Then as a pa
trol came along he slipped down to
ground and told his story to the com
manding officer.
All hands returned to the village and
there the first news that greeted them
was the mysterious disappearance of
the police inspector. The traveler lo
cated for them the grave that had been
Intended to receive him. The soldiers
opend the trench and there was found
the body of the police Inspector, horri
bly hacked.
The arrest of two ,men who had been
seen with him late the previous even
ing followed' and then the whole case
bcame simple. After arranging with
his accomplices the plot to rob and
murder the traveler the police Inspect
or started to get drunk while they
were busy digging the grave. In this
condition the idea struck him that he
would go in and do the killing himself
and so skim the cream off the booty in
stead of dividing evenly. Stooping
over the bed to grip his victim by the
throat he must have fallen forward
and passed quickly into a drunken
slumber.
S. V. Sharp
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When the two nrpomnliPMi nntc'Ma I tourist sleeplne cars. DersnnRllv
got the grave finished they began to cr:r1Lrsee, tT& S d3g5
wonuer at tne inspectors failure to
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turn up. Entering the house, th?y arm
ed themselves with the Inspector's sa
ber and creeping Into the room attack
ed the man In the bed, literally hack
ing him to death.
Then they struck a light to look for
the plunder and discovering their mis
take had nothing left to do but bury
the murdered man in the graee they
nad dug.
A Freshman.
A freshman who had entered one of
the large universities, and was not
much accustomed to the ways either
of institutions of learning or of cities,
was returning late one evening from a
lecture. When near hia lodgings he
was halted by two masked men, who
held him up" in true metropolitan
style.
One of the men leveled the conven
tional revolver at tne young man,
while the other relieved him of Ills
watch, pocketbook and other valuables.
He made no mention of the matter
to anybody at the time, but a few days
later he reported it to the president of
the university. .
"It wasn't a great deal," he said,
"but it was more than I like to lose,
and I think it's an outrage to treat a
boy that way."
"Why didn't you tell me of this soon
er?" asked the president
'I supposed they would bring the
things back to me next morning," he
answered. "It was a couple of sopho
mores hazing me, wasn t It?"
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Anatomical Correctness.
Mamma Why, what'a the matter
Willie?"
Willie I r-klcked Georgle, an he
r-klcked me back.
Georgle No. mamma, I ttldn't kick
his back I kicked his legs. Cleve
land Tlaln Dealer.
Reformed Old Favorltei.
Tra, idl trz, I no not wut tha mene.
Tn from the depth uv sum divin despar
Hit in tae nart and gather to the i'a,
In taking on the hapl ortm feeldz
And thinking uv th' das that r no mor.
Tu b or not tu b : that Is the kwestyun ;
wnetner tis nooir in the mind to sufr
The slings and aros ot outrajus forchun.
ur to taie rms agenst a c uv trubla.
And bi oposng nd them.
Sum vllage Hamdn, that with dorntlet
brest
The litl tirant uv his feelds withstnd.
Bum mut, inglorlua Miltn heer ma rest.
oum t-romwi giiues ut his eountrl'i
Mud.
Tl me not In mornfl numbrs.
Life is but n mti dreme l"
For the sole is ded that slumbrs,
And things b not wut tha sema.
Brsndr Mathus.
Girls are fond of attention, married
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Tfce Mornln and EtcbIbb; Girl.
Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early
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What so proudly you praised at th I
twilight's last gleaming?
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sight
In the morning that knocks your pipe-
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