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ATHENA PRESS Tuesdays and fridays r.B.BUYD Publisher Sten Hedln reports the discovery of fold In Thibet That settle it The country mast be civilized. Frank Rockefeller, John D.'s "bust ed" brother, might adopt the plaintive motto, "Charity begins at home." Remark by the conventional old set tier of the future : "I remember, when I was chief engineer of the Panama canal," etc. The first soda water fountain has Just been set up in Australia. And we have been Importing our ballot sys tems from that benighted country 1 The Agricultural Department has found a milking machine that win work. But how unrouiantic it will be to simply touch a button, sir, she said The late William A. Procter, soap manufacturer, did much to make his countrymen a clean people. Incident ally he cleaned up $20,000,000 for him self. Ontario has a man who looks Just like John D; Rockefeller. But no doubt he can prove a case of mistaken iden tity by simply producing his bank book If he has one. The Prince of Wales is reported to have been badly squeezed In the stock market. Even a prince is likely to get his fingers hurt when he fools with the teeth of the buzz saw. . A Russian admiral's life was saved when the bomb aimed at him dropped In the snow and refused to explode. Guess he thinks the poet who wrote, "Beautiful Snow" was all right Spiritualistic medium says Mars Is anerv because her signals are being Ignored by the earth. Business must be dull on Mars when she goes so far out of her way to pick a quarrel with her neighbors. A Western doctor says that after reaching the age of 100 years one be gins to grow a new crop of hair. But the man who becomes bald at 40 would get so accustomed to It In sixty years that he wouldn't care for a new crop, A young man who beat his mother to death with a stick of stove wood Is "believed to be Insane." Of course he Is. There was not only a violent brain torm but a furious muscle paroxism. That Is, If he has money enough to fee the high-priced alienists. Soon after the coronation of King Edward there was published a photo graph which showed him at a modern office desk with a telephone stand at his elbow. Still more striking is a pic ture recently printed of Cardinal Mer ry del Val, Papal Secretary of State, seated at a desk before an American typewriter. Leading business men of Chicago have petitioned that the time of the elghteen-hour trains between Chicago and New York be raised to twenty hours. They are the kind of men in whose Interest the "fliers" have been run, and they prefer safety and rea sonable Bpeed to maximum speed and maximum danger. This Is one of the requests from patrons which the rall rouds can afford to heed. Throughout a century and a quarter the tetidency of the nations of the world has been toward diffusion of the governmental powers. For the first time evidence of a reactionary dispo sition to trust all to the one strong man appears in nearly all the larger nations at the same time. We see no aiore than curious coincidence In the unhapplness of these present days In all the parliaments of man. Democra cy Is not dying anywhere. The only moral to be drawn is the happy one that Individualism is not moribund either. The nations know and trust their strongest sons. Tbero Is no "man on horseback." He only seems mounted to little men because his head Is high above tho crowd. Doctor Tamakawa, who was formerly the president of the Imperial Univers ity of Tokyo, Japan, receutly offered to present to a prtuiary school In Ja pan the portrait of some distinguished person. The three hundred and forty- three children were asked to ballot for the person whose picture they would like to have placed on the walls of the schoolroom. Although It was when the uatlon was much excited over the treatment of Japanese pupils In San Francisco, these boys and girls still honored the great men of America. George Washington stood first In the list with 00 votes, and Abraham Lin- eoln second with 53. Next came Ad mlral Togo with 2S votes, followed by I Japanese philanthropist of olden time. The fifth place was taken by mother American, Benjamin Franklin, with 21 votes. Others for whom pref erence was expressed were Florence Nightingale, 13; Marquis Oyama and Nelson, 11 each; General Kodama. 7: Bismarck, V and Napoleon, 4. There were also scattering ballots for Presl Sent Roosevelt, Galileo, Socrates, Te ter the Great and others. Probably the vote was influenced by stories that the pupils found In their reading-books, and If the question bad been asked tbem whether they considered the Xor- elgn heroes greater men than those of their own country, it is not likely that they would have answered In the af firmative; but the desire to have the portraits of such men as Washington, Lincoln and Franklin placed on the wall ' Is one Indication of the feeling with which the United States has long been regarded In Japan. A good deal has been said lately about the power acquired through re pose, the value of absolute relaxation and the desirability of letting go of one's self. Undoubtedly there Is truth in the contention that an overwrought mind and body ought to release the tension before something breaks, but let It not be forgotten that if power be acquired through repose, growth comes through wiggle. Observe the baby, be fore it can walk, stand or sit What does It do? It wiggles. Body, arms, Angers, legs, toes. The baby bird does the same. If you will look closely at the nestling, stretching its neck for food Its parent brings, you will ob serve that not only the head and neck, but the Incipient wings and the little legs and claws are all working vigor ously. In both baby and bird, wiggle means growth and soon the one can walk and the other can fly. But as soon as the child learns to walk, be doesn't walk; he runs. The run Is the natural gait of the child. lie finds It difficult to go more slowly. Even when he stands or sits, he Isn't stand ing or sitting. He is wiggling. His arms sway, his legs swing and his body writhes Into many positions. Par ents ask, "Why can't that child be still a single minute?" But the child Is growing and wiggle means growth. Roughly speaking, a child more than doubles Its weight the first year, and more than doubles It again In the next two. It would make us grown-ups wig gle some to do that, wouldn't It? As the child grows older, It gains repose slowly, but grows less, and when full growth is attained, wiggling largely ceases. The same phenomenon holds true of the mind. The first few months the mind Is Inactive and grows slow ly. But as soon as It gains control of Jts tools, when It has learned to dis tinguish sounds, to focus its eyes, to use Its hands to grasp objects and Its feet to carry It to them, and Its tongue to Inquire about them, how the mind wiggles! It flashes from one Bubject to another, Its Inquiry is constant and endless and Its hold upon Information tenacious. You and I can sit down and look at whatever Is In view and feel no particular curiosity. Not bo the child. It must know about this, that and the other thing which It sees, and though Its questions seem simple, they are astonishingly searching. "What's that, mamma?" asked a 3-year-old. "A vault" "What's In It?" "Dead folks." Quick as a flash the little mind leaped at the deduction. "Oh, Is It Heaven?" In the space of a couple of years, the baby mind acquires practical con trol of a difficult language, learns the uses and relations of thousands of strange objects, and, most remarkable of all, learns how to handle the people of his world and to match his tiny strength and Intelligence against their years of study and experience. Com paratively speaking, he rarely makes a mistake and still more rarely re peats one. Suppose your self trans ported to a strange planet, could you do as well in so short a time? You might, if your mind had enough wig gle. But has It, On the other hand, observe how perfectly a child sleeps. Its position Is one of ease and aban don, It breathes all the way down, and you can pick it up and lay It down and scarcely disturb It The lesson seems to be that when you repose, you should repose, but when you are awake, you should wiggle I Whatever your aim In life, wiggle, for wiggle Is growth. Blasting: a Great Bowlder. One of the most gigantic undertak ings by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company In the blasting line was the removal of a hugo rock that projected over the track on a curve In the narrows at Ableman, nine miles west of this city, says the Baraboo correspondent of the Milwaukee Senti nel. The blast was to have been touched off Monday, but owing to the critical Illness of a woman residing In the Immediate vicinity the work was postponed until Saturday. The bowl der, which weighed several thousand tons, was about seventy feet above the track and owing to the continual wash of the earth beneath had become dan gerous and Its removal was necessary to prevent it sliding upon the track and endangering the lives of the traveling public. Preparatory to the blast a temporary track was built some distance around over which the trains have been pass ing for a week or more. It required 1,000 pounds of dynamite to fill the drilled holes. The event was witnessed by a number of the railroad officials and many citizens from Baraboo, Reedsburg and other place The ex plosion made the earth tremble for miles around. The work of drilling and placing the dynamite was done by experts. It Is estimated that the cost exceeded $20,000 to complete the work, Including the building of the tempo rary track. Tke Objective Plan. "Why do" you suppose all these rail road magnates are rushing to see the president?" "I guess they want the quickest way of getting on to his curves." Balti more American. . Women Doctors im America. It Is estimated that there are 25,000 women In America who possess medi cal diplomas. nmrnm 1450 French defeated the English at Formlgni. 1512 Gaston de Foix killed at the bat tle of Ravenna. 1006 King James I. Issued two land patents for "The First and Second Colonies" in North America. 1644 The parliamentary forces victori ous at the battle of Selby. 1670 Staten Island bought for the Duke of York. 1700 First number of The Tattler ap peared. 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, terminating the wars of Queen Anne.' 1741 Prussians defeated the Austrians at the battle of Molwitz. " 1747 Simon Fraser (Lord Lovat) exe cuted for his part in the rebellion of 1745. 1768 One-quarter of the city of Mon treal destroyed by fire. 1782 Admiral Rodney defeated Ds Grasse and the French fleet In the West Indies. . .Naval battle between Hyder Ali and Gen. Monk. 1803 Alliance of St. Petersburg. .. .Bey of Algiers declared war against Spain Aaron Burr arrived at Blennerbassett's Island, in the Ohio river. 1813 Mobile captured from the Spanish. 1814 French defeated by Wellington at battle of Toulouse.... British army . entered Toulouse, France. 1818 King Christian IX. of Denmark born. Died Jan. 29, 1906. 1830 Omnibus first used as a public conveyance in New York. .. .Presi dent Bustamente of Mexico forbade further immigration from the United States. 1831 Russians defeated In battle near Siedloe, in Poland. 1841 Halifax, N. S., . Incorporated as a city. 1847 Present Houses of Parliament in London first used by the Peers. 1864 France and England signed a treaty for the defense of the Ottoman empire.... The town of San Salva dor destroyed by an earthquake. 18G5 Mobile, Ala., captured by the fed erals. .. .Gen. Lee surrendered t Gen. Grant at Appomattox Court house, Virginia.... Raleigh, N. C, surrendered to the federal army.... Montgomery, Ala., surrendered to the federals. 1868 Magdala stormed by the British under Sir Robert Napier. 1874 Murat Halstead arrested In Cin cinnati for publishing a lottery ad vertisement in his newspaper. 1875 Paul Boynton made unsuccessful attempt to swim the English chan nel. .. .Martial law declared in the Pennsylvania mining region. 1884 Gen. Gordon close pressed by the Arabs near Khartoum. 1891 First locomotive passed through the St. Clair tunnel. .. .Beginning of the second century of patents In the United States celebrated in Wash ington. 1892 Six thousand houses destroyed by fire In Tokio, Japan. . .United State government paid $25,000 indemnity to the families of the Italians lynch ed at New Orleans. 1S93 Complete Syrian text of the four gospels of the New Testament dis covered in the Mount Sinai convent . . . ."American protectorate in Tawaii ended Japan seized the Pellew islands in the North Pacific. 1894 President Cleveland issued tht Bering sea proclamation. 1895 American line steamship St Paul launched at Philadelphia. 1S97 Greater New York charter passed by New York State Senate.... Five lives lost and $2,000,000 in property destroyed by fire in Knoiville, Tenn. 1000 Charles II. Allen appointed Gov ernor of Torto Rico. 1901 Civil Jurisdiction In the Trans vaal inaugurated. 1902 Convention signed at Pekln be tween China and Russia, the latter agreeing to evacuate Manchuria. 1908 More fort, at Bacalod, Philippines, captured by American soldiers. 1904 German troops In Southwest Af rica defeated 3,000 nereros. .. .An drew Carnegie established his $3, 000,000 "hero fund". . . . Russian bat tleship Petropavlovski sunk by mine near Port Arthur. .. .Anglo-French Colonial treaty signed in London. 15)05 American Ambassador Joseph H. Choate elected a Bencher of the Mid dle Temple, London. 1900 Greene and Gaynor found guilty at Savannah, Ga. Chill? Freak a. "The human skeleton Is frozen stiff. What will we do?" "Why, give the ossified man a Taca tlon to-day," and let the skeleton fill both places." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Chicken Cam After Adam. Knlcker Do you think that man has corns from the animals 7 t Booker Nonsense ; If there had been chickens before. 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