The Athena press., April 02, 1907, Image 2

ATHENA PRESS
Tuesday and rridays
t, B. BOYD Publisher
Says a woman : "I care not who dctes
the thinking so long as I am permit
ted to do the talking."
Lincoln Steffens la looking for
model city. It Is a pleasure to refer
him to the New Jerusalem.
Is married love an Illusion? Not
so lqng as the grocer and the butcher
understand that everybody Is pros
perous. King Leopold thinks he Is a much
abused man. He ought to be thankful
that there Is no International whip
pingpost .
Sir Thomas Llpton speaks In high
praise of the American hotels. This
may be accepted as a sure sign that
he Is coming back.
A New York man who lived on 35
cents a day left a fortune of $200,000.
Ills heirs will doubtless agree that be
Is better off dead.
The man who cut off his right hand
because it offended him, It is needless
to say, was a Bible reader who accept
ed all statements literally.
A Cincinnati church congregation has
decided to pay the pastor's wife a
monthly salary. Hereafter there ought
to be no buttons missing from his
clothes.
One of the dramatists threatens to
write a play around the fuel famine In
the Northwest. It Is a safe guess that
the villain will have a beard and be
bald-headed.
Even the heroine who by waving her
red petticoat saved the fast express
from destruction has had to give up
her pass. Thus do the sins of the un
just fall upon the Just
The Chinese, it Is said, make It a
point of honey to pay all their debts
on the first day of January. That's
the day we begin- Inventing new ex
cuses for not paying ours.
A French processor says he Is fol
lowing up clews that will reveal to him
the mystery of the creation of plant
life. lie followed up a strong scent
when he chased down the onion.
"Don't cheer, boys," plaintively ex
claims the New York World, "poor
thru' Is dylJ"-JJtin, let us not
mourn. It wnrlo'o" feeble and deform
ed to have withstood the buffetlngs
of this rude world.
Borne statistician has found that bur
glars stole from the various banks In
this country during the past year a to
tal of $4,127. He, of course, refers
only to the thieves whq broke In from
the outside to do their stealing.
Although said to be "richer than
Rockefeller," Mr. Weyerhauser seems
tq bo permitted to pursue the even
tenor of his way, principally because
he refrlans from lecturing his fellow-
men on how to be happy though strug
gling for a living.
"Veterans of Industry." A pretty
phrase and prettily employed. It Is
what the Danes call the old people of
good record who are forced to apply to
the authorities for help. No shame at
taches to such application; no Ignoble
dependence, corrosive of self-respect,
attends the life which follows. Such
a person enters the home as a sort of
government pensioner.
Dreadful stories are told about the
Czar Nicholas suffering nervous pros
tration, but there is not a syllable of
well-authenticated evidence that the
BumeroAis assassinations of the Russian
terrorists have ameliorated In any way
the condition of the Russian people.
The only effect seems to be the adop
tion of sterner and still sterner re
pressive measures. Assassination Is
something that people seem to get hab
ituated to so that they do not mind it
In the library of the Navy Depart
ment Is a vast quantity of valuable
documents waiting for the man who
shall write the history of the Amerlcau
uavy. Here are many unpublished let
ters of officers and secretaries and all
manner Qf technical Information about
the growth of the battleship and the
development of naval ordnance. Cap
tain Mahan, the greatest authority in
the world on naval history, has said
that he Is too old to begin the work.
Terhnps It will not be begun, perhaps
all that material will lie untouched,
until some one of our yo.ung readers
Is grown up and competent to do Jus
tice to the subject
Never In the history of education
was there such a freuiy among educa
tors to add courses of study In the pub
lic schools as to-day. That has bad
the natural effect of physical and men
tal injury to childhood which It Is now
the desire to overcome. Educators
have found that little bodies and little
brains succumb to the strain the theo
rists have put upon them and the pub
lic school gymnasium Is the 'result
Children Instinctively resort to the
kind of physical exercise best suited to
them If they are allowed to play Qut
In the open air. This Is the very best
bodily training they can have. If the
modern educators would not require so
much home study of the children the
latter would not need physical culture
during school hours. But this appears
to be entirely overlooked In present-
day systems.
Tragically appropriate as the climax
to a year of appalling railroad mortal
ity was the catastrophe of Dec. 30,
1900, wherein more than fifty passen
gers were killed. The explanation was
the usual one, with which the traveling
public is expected to be meekly con
tent The night was foggy and there
was a mistake In the signals. Hence
the collision. The much praised block
system lends itself too readily to mis
taken signals, with their grim sequel
of lives sacrificed. Safeguards that do
not safeguard are coming to be a pret
ty costly and gruesome farce. "Oper
ating efficiency" Is a braggart word
with the American railroad magnate,
and It Is true that as factories for con
centrated profits, our railroad systems
have reached a wonderful perfection,
equalled only by their achievements
as a universal Juggernaut says Rldg
way's. With grain rotting on the
ground In the Northwest for lack of
shipping facilities, with half a dozen
States freezing for coal while cars for
the carrying of that commodity are
tangled In extrlcable confusion, with
high railroad officials bawling out ex
planations that explain nothing, and
excuses that a schoolboy could excel
for inventiveness, with the slaughter of
helpless passengers going on day after
day, the present methods of operation
as devised and controlled by the "mas
ter minds" of railroading are matter,
not for glorification, but for mourning
and repentance.
Didn't It sound as though the father
were speaking through the son? To
an eager Sunday school class In Cleve
land John D. Rockefeller, Jr., said:
You should thank God that you have
to struggle along for your dally bread
and thus avoid the temptations und re
sponsibilities that the possession of
wealth creates or produces." If the
young and wise Mr. Rockefeller thinks
poverty is such a blessing why, In the
name of all the saints at once, doesn't
he try to get rid of the more than Just
proportion of the world's money which
he possesses? If wealth Is such a curse
why Is he training himself to add to
the inordinately large holdings of his
family? The trouble with young Mr.
Rockefeller Is that he Is trying to ape
his father and with long drawn face
and sanctimonious deprecation deride
the possession of wealth while bencP
lng all his energies to add to his gold
en store. How does the vounir Mr.
Rockefeller know it Is more blessed
to be poor than rich? If he Imagines
the squalor of the garret is preferable
to the luxury of a mansion why doesn't
he try it for a while? If he can find
more Joy In gnawing tough flank steak
than porterhouse smothered with mush
rooms, why doesn't he order flank uteak
from his butcher? Of all the mushy
talk about the sorrows of riches und
mu joys or poverty me Kockereilors vi0U8 perusal.
deal out the mushiest Poverty Is not a -Look here,' young feller," said he, de
crime and It's a long ways from being liverlng it, "this won't do! Here's your
a blessing. We are all that Is, if we j mother havln' conniption fits for fear
are worth the powder to blow us up that cold o' yourn has turned into pneu
with striving to escape from Its jaunt mony or bro.wnklters or consumption or
clutches and lay up a competence for somethin' and no wonder, not hearln'
old age and for our children. We are a word of ye in two weeks. Precious
striving to earn a little more and tare young pup ye must be, scarln' sech a
a little more to-day than we did yes- woman as Lucllly Vine Jest out o'
terday. We want our children to be sheer laziness I Land, I'd take the Job
better dressed than we were In our o' Hckin' ye into sense, and thanks for
boyhood days. And up and down this the chance; If only Uncle Sam wa'n't so
sad old earth there Isn't a normal man hanged peaceable he wouldn't stand for
or woman who would not gladly for- It A Job's a Job, and I'm a married
sake the Rockefeller theory of Joy ln man. I dassn't give ye what-for this
poverty for the temptations and re- time, but If there ain't a good, fat let-
sponslbllltles that the
great wealth produces.
possession of
The Touch of Nature.
There is a cleanliness which is too
clean, and Is then bareness. This Is
recognized by the artlst-phllosophers In 1
Japun whose aim Is to make the home
life sweet and beautiful. Artistic man
ners ln Japan began with the eti
quette of tea-drlnklng, round which has
developed a domestic ritual. Its ex
pert devotees are called tea-masters.
Some of the tea-masters have been very
grent artists and the founders of
schools of painting. One of these was
Rlklu. A story, told of him ln the llt
tlo "Book of Tea," written by a Jap
anese author, Okakura-Kakuzo, Illus
trates the tea-masters' Idea of cleanli
ness. Itlklu was watching his son Shoan
. . . . . , . ei.Vf.il, mm uvtvu tuts jviia iiiaj lllcriulir
as ho swept and watered the garden ' - 1 . ... . ,
fall at a rate which is terrifying until,
..XT . . by sacrificing two or three bagfuls of
"Not clean enough," said Rlklu, when ' ....?
01 . . a i v. . , I I , sand at once, your pilot checks your
Shoan had finished his task, and bade'.,.,.,., , n,(ll. ,,, , ,
. . . , , ' . i downward flight. But these holes are
him try again. After a weary hour the 1 i . .
- vw ibiorAa anil a a a mild ni omstenhnMA la
"Father, there Is nothing more to be
done. The steps have been washed for
the third time, the stone lanterns and
the trees are well sprinkled with wa
ter, moss and lichens are shining with
a fresh verdure ; not a twig, not a leaf
have I loft on the ground."
"Boy," chlded the tea-master, "that
Is not the way a garden path should
be swept"
oi.. n-i- ti,.i.. .u.
garden, shook a tree and scattered over
the garden gold and crimson leaves,
Bcraps of the brocade of autumn. What
Rlklu demanded was not cleanliness
alone, but the beautiful and the nat
ural also.
Cash Better than Time.
"Have you a few moments to spare?"
"Young man," said the capitalist se
verely, "my time Is worth $100 an hour,
but I'll give you ten mInutes.,,
If it's all the same to you," thought-
fully replied the visitor, "I believe I ;
would rather take It ln cash." Phlla-
delphla Ledger. I
The good die young-especially good
resolutions.
HES BAEQADJ. '
Hakel Talks Stranarelr When Geora-s
Plans Their Ht Life.
The wooing had progressed splendid
ly. It bad even progressed to a point
where she had been won thut Is os
tensibly won. If she proved to be a
truthful girl, she would in time be his
wife. If she was not truthful well,
no man wants a wife who Is not truth
ful. That's the way some men console
themselves when they fall to marry.
But she seemed to be truthful, and
as he drew her closer to him he whis
pered :
"And when we are married, dearest.
we will have the happiest home In all
the wide, wide world!"
"Yes, George," she replied.
"There can never be a harsh word
In our home." I
"No, George."
"And when I come home tired and
worn out with work at the oflice and
the worries 'of business, you'll be kind
to me?" I
Y-e-s, George."
I knew you would. You'll sootho
me and put me In better humor?"
"Y-e-s; but I say, George 1"
"Yes, dearest."
"Why shouldn't you do a little of
this yourself?"
"Why, darling "
"Yes, that's all rleht But to coma
right down to business, as papa says, I
why should not you also be kind to'
me when things go wrong? I don't1
nam. iu uu ii mi, you Know, iou re
not looking for a private nurse, are
you?"
"Why, Mabel!"
"When the cook leaves unexpected
ly to go to the bedside of her second
cousin, you might be Just a trifle con
siderate, you know."
"How strangely you talk, pet!"
"Well, they say I'm papa's girl, you
know, and I notice when any one tries
to make a bargain with hlin he gener
ally gets some stipulations to his own
Interest put In, Just as a precaution !"
George and Mabel have now been
married exactly five years and three
months and at the moment of going to
press have never had a single quarrel.
Tit Bits.
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T HEE OLD BOY."
A young student who passed his vaca
tion last summer in the little village
where his mother, in her charming
girlhood, had once taught school was
reminded In an unexpected fashion that
her pupils there had not forgotten her.
He was a careless correspondent, and
jthe one letter which he had written
home during the first fortnight of his
stay yet lay forgotten In his pocket,
when one morning, on coming to the
mall-box, he found the letter-carrier
llncerinir heslde It hnldlner n nnst-onrrl
ln nia hand. He looked up from an ob-
ter addressed to your ma ln that box
to-morrow mornln' I dunno ! I dun
nol" Uncle Sam's peaceful prejudices were
not however, dlstnrheil : and tho letter
In the box the next morning contained a
gleeful confession of how the boy of
Lucilla the matrol had been recalled
to his duty by the "old boy" of Lucilla
the girl.
Hole in the Air.
One of the strange experiences of a
balloonist Is that of falling Into "a hole
ln the air," which Mr. Rolker reports
as follows :
"So you continue sailing, enjoying
the present with little thought of the
startling surprises that may be before
you. Ahead of you, unseen, may be
what the balloonist calls a 'hole ln the
air,' resembling the vortex of a mael-
n r ti anil rlAwn ) i ! ninn 1 t..r U
of uniform carrying power." Ameri
can Magazine.
A Bond of Sympathy.
While the new maid tidied the room
the busy woman kept on writing.
"Do you make that all out of your
, Y busy woman.
! y I ? ,
My 8ald Jane EdJB,r,nSly.
'mist have brains."
"Brains," sighed the woman despond
ently. "Oh, Jane, I haven't an ounce
of brains."
For a moment Jane regarded her
with sincere commiseration.
"Oh, well," she said presently, "don't
mind what I say. I ain't very smart
myself."
PolHIcal Problem.
"ne's got an Idea," said the first
citizen, 'that he'd make a good poli
tician. "it's very unlikely." renlled the
other. I
"Why, It's easier to make a rood
M,a ,tol.,Inale Politlctaa'
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