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The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-10-02
CORRESPONDENTS
SCRUGGS.

Mr.. Martin Coyner has returned home
from al extended visit In the east.
Mr.. Tom Wade and family of Nevada,
are visiting friends and relatives In this
vicinity.
Miss Julia Endicott returned to her
home near Centretown last Saturday.
Misses Sarah and Mary Kelbly were
shopping in Jeff City last Tuesday.
Miss Gertrude Distlcr is home on q
visit at present.
Miss Francis Roer, after.several weeks
visit In this community, returned to st.
Louis last week.
Miss Ida Coffelt returned home Sum
day, after a pleasant visit with friends at
Centretown.
Mr.. and Mrs. y. Kelbly rctrrned home
Sunday from a trip west.
The Catholic picnic at Franz's
garden Saturday was grandly cele-
brated and proved quite successful.
The case of Ike Williams in giving
up his wife to husband No. / at
Centretown last week, was q peculiar
incident. After an absence of about
five years husband No. l called and
demanded his wife, and also the wife
of Williams for the last two years, or
another woman instead. Husband
No. 2 and wife made several attempts
to supply the demand, out failing,
and very much against the will Of
Mr.. Williams and wife, she took her
departure for parts unknown with
No. l.
The board of directors of Missouri
Central Building and Loan associa-
ton met Monday evening in the Elk.
change Bank building and elected the
following officers for the first year:
John NJ. Oldham, president.
Joseph Weiser, vice-prcsident.
Mary c. Faust, secretary.
S. W. Cox, treasurer.
The president appointed Capt. II.
L. Holmes, ii. +. Sarman and Henry
Wagner committee on bylaws TO re-
port next meeting, Thursday night at
probate court room, county court
house.
w. +. Scott of South Dakota, was
in this city Friday last in search of
lis wife and little boy. The couple
were married some 20 years ago.
Mrs. Scott is q neice of Mr.. S. =.
Dresser of Pleasant Mount, Miller
county. She left her husband on the
18th Of August, taking with her the
youngest child, leaving five or SIX
others with her husband. If Mr..
SCOTS version is correct lie and his
children are in a sadly afflicted con-
dition.
The Central Missouri Building and
Loan Association has met with re-
markab!c success, and on last Friday
an organization was effected and the
following gentlemen elected as d.
rectors: Henry Schmidt. Henry
Wagner, Howard Davis, Joe Weiser,
Adolph Artz, Wm.- Carter, II. 7.
Holmes, Chas. Bell, j. NJ. Oldham,
Henry Sarman aud 5. w. Cox. The
board will hold 4 meeting at al early
date to elect q president, secretary
and treasurer. The shareholders in
the new associations are largely bor-
rowcrs, and thus its success will ba
assured from the very outset.
The Boy Spy"
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-10-02
Bucklen's Arnica Saive.

The hest salvc in the world for cuts.
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns aud all skin cruptions, and posit-
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is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price % cents per
box. For sale by a. Brandcnberger.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-10-02

We understand that Gen. James
L. Minor. who has been a resident of
this city for so many years, will soon
make Kansas City his future home.
The Schumate Chapel republican
club are preparing a grand barbecue
TO take place on the 18th inst. about
one mile west of this city, on the
California road.
St, Louis Fair, October 6 to n,
Tickets for above occasion will be
on sale October 4 TO II, good to re.
turn on before October Is. Fare
for the round trip, with one admis-
sion ticket added, $4.25.
JOHN j. Church, Agent.
On last Friday James Lawson was
found shot dead in Padgctt's hollow
Maries county. Upon an eXamina.
ton it was found q rifle ball had
passed through Lawson's body. lie
was of this city and at the time of his
death was hauling ties. Whether
the fatal shot was intentional or ac-
cidental is not known. The remains
were brought to this city for inter.
mCnt.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-10-02
Reduced Rates to New York.

Attention is called to the fact that rates
to New York City via st. Louis and the
Ohio ( Mississippi railway are 81 less
than via other routes running through
cars, while at the same time the high
character and efficiency of our train SER
vice is fully maintained.
We are therefore able to offer lower
rates, combined with a first-class through
car service from st. Louis to New York
via Washington, Baltimore and Phila-
delphia; n combination Of advantages
possessed by no other line. These re-
auctions apply on both first and second
class tickets sold ut all western points
via this line and its principal connections
to New York and holders are entitled to
all the privileges usually accorded on
tickets of the class purchased; there
being no extra charge whatever for pas
sage on limited express trains except for
Pullman car accommodations.
Daily lines of Pullman Vestibule
sleepers are run by this company from
st. Louis to Cincinnati, Louisville,
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York without change. >
Solid v~estibuled day express with Pull
man Buffet Parlor cars to Cincinnati and
Louisville. .D%:
No change of cars OF any train for
either passengers or baggage.
When purchasing ask for tickets via
the Ohio and Mississippi railway for sale
by agents of connecting lines throughout
the entire west, northwest and south
west. For further information inquire
of agents as above, or address
A. j. I4ytle, General Western Passen-
ger Agent, los N. Broadway, st. Louis,
Mo.
j. F. BARNARD, W. B. SHATTUC,
Pres't q Gen, Mgr. Genl Pass & Agt,
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-10-02
THE Boy Spy

Something entirely new in "War
Books and "War Literature"
No "Big and Little You," but q
clean, unbiased and succint account
of the many thrilling incidents of the
civil war by the Boy Spy.
Grandly embelllshed with full page
illustrations, correct in every sense,
and one of the most attractive books
of the age.
All "Sons of Veterans and the
sold Boys will follow with interest
the fortunes of Geno.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-10-02

F. g. FULKERsoN, Business Manager.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-28
The KeNieM OF ReNieMs.

The idea of Review of Reviews
was a happy one. Mr.. Gladstone call
ed it "highly useful as we'll as inge-
nious;n and Lord Salisbury wrote to
Mr.. Stead, when he learned that such a
venture was contemplated: The num-
Der of reviews increases every year,
and they are absorbing large part OF
the literary activity Of our time. But
few people have industry or the leisure
TO search for themselves every month,
through the multitude Of periodicals.,
tor all the articles that are worth read
ing Cardinal Manning took the same
view. I'VE need to have at hand, he
wrote, certain articles and certain
parts of articles. for ready reference. "
There is undoubtedly large amount
of valuable matter, which appears
every month in these publca-
lions. - wrote a reader who will read
no more-the late Lord Carnarvon-
but which, being buried under a mass
OF unimportant writings, Is overlooked.
and cannot be recovered at will.
Other distinguished Englishmen who
expressed their hearty approval of the
plan Wnl-n Ids Dttu Nuiilth Out bhio
year in the Review Of Reviews were
Lord Harrington, Lord Chief Justice
Coleridge, Sir Henry James. General
Wolseley. "a very busy man. | shall of
course enjoy and avail myself Of your
short Quito a knowledge of what our
magazines containO, Lord Dufferin,
Mr.. Balfour. ArchdeacOn Farrar, Lord
Randolph Churchill, Sir Julian Paunce,
fote. Prof. Huxley, George Meredith
Canon Liddon and the Archbishops of
York and Dublin. The Empress Fred
erck promptly enrolled herself as a
subscriber.
la America the Review was greeted
no less cordially. Mr.. Whittier wrote
to Mr.. Stead that the unread bic null
tipIisity of magazines and reviews had
made such a periodical a necessity,
and that he heartily approved Of the
editors address Ito all Engilsh-speak-
INK folk "A great convenience 10
scholars and to the reading public in
general. AN indispensable guide and
companion were the salient phrases
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-28

We cannot doubt that Shakespeare,
like his contemporaries, believed IN
ghosts.l while we do not How
then. can we say that he is true to
nature. when he makes Hamlet or
Brutus or Macbeth see ghosts, talk
with them, and thereby in all
respects believe in themg Skeptlcal ar
guments against the reality of ghosts
were not unknown tC Shakespeare S con
temporaries. He must have read them
himself in Plutarch 5 'Brutus. but we
cannot suppose that those arguments
had more effect on him than on Brutus
himself. And we cannot escape from
the difficulty by saying that the super
stition being natural to the poet and TO
the men of his time, it was natural that
he should make the personages OF his
plays subject to it. For the ground
work Of all our study Of Shakespeare
assumes that he was not merely OF an
age, but for all time.
What we do say is that the men Of
Shakespeare 5 age believed in ghosts be-
cause they had seen them, and we for
the same reason disbelieve IN them.
We have. like COleridge, seen too
many. Plenty of ghosts have been and
still are seen. but the sight has been
verified by Investigators with habits OF
mind derived from the practice OF the
Baconlan method of examining facts.
Ghosts have been verified, and like many
other phenomena once so mysterious as
TO be supposed to be of supernatural OF
preternatural origin, they have been
found to have their place under known
laws of nature. Tney have been ascer-
tanned to be, in metaphysical phrase,
subiectiyely but not effectively real.
They come not under the laws Of bodl-
ly eyes and Of optics, but under those
Of the Imagination; and it is imagina-
ton which can and does give the brain
most of the impressions of bodily sight
and sound when a ghost is seen. We say
most of these because among the dlstlnc-
tions between a real and sham-that
is, a pretended, dressed-up-ghost Is
this. that the real ghost does not strike
such terror as does the sham, nor does
II tell his hearers what he did not
know before. 1t is true that in many
Northumberland ghost stories OF our
own time even, there is an element OF
unexplained coincidence which still
gives TO them supernatural appear
ance: but these. too. the friends Oh
"Psychical Research believe that they
shall some day bring under ordinary
natural law.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-28
Mr. HowelIs an Jdealist.

Parson Adams is in his way man of
as impossible nObleness OF mind and
exalted purity of soul as Don QuiXeto
himself. He is tried b. all manner of
temptations poverty, indeed utter
penury: vulgar. fierce and scolding
wife. who brings shame on him by her
loud voiced obiurgatlons at all sorts OF
wrong times: who interferes with the
work ne loves and feels a duty; who
rates at him morning. noon. ard night,
and from whom he has no escaps-and
MS serene. sweet temper is never dis
turbed. No word Of reply or resent
ment Is wrung from him, and he does
not even seem to know that he Is
wronged by fate, and that the wife
of his bosom is a shrew and
savage. Did anybody ever in real
life meet precisely such a man.
Is there any temper which Will not
sometimes give way any sweetness OF
nature which may not for a moment
succumb to acidulation? | think not.
Fielding never knew ParsOn Adams,
but Parson Adams came within the ex-
perience Of Fielding's genius all the
same. To look at the matter IN an
othet way, let us take the descriptions
in Mr.. Howells own works. Can any
thing be more beautiful than some of
his pictures. say of the scenes IN Venice.
of the marvellous rock and river Of
Quebec. OF the eyerchanging beauty OF
Niagara? | have never gone back OF
any OF these scenes without finding
something added to my perception
of their loveliness by the recol-
lection of some sentences, some sugges-
tions. in Mr.. Howells descriptions. |
should never have seen all that Mr..
Howells saw. am not poet. l only
saw what my eyes showed me. But
there comes Mr.. HOwells, and he
throws a new and poetic light upon
the scene and informs me with the
spirit of beauty which first had posses
sion of himself. His is the light that
never was on sea or land, the consecra-
ton and the poets dream. Why, Mr..
Howells could not get away from the
ideal for the life of him. His ideallsm
quickens his realism and makes 1t CLEAN
and glance with beauty. His realism
strengthens his ideaIism and gives II
form and substance. so that the com
monest eyes can see it and recognize 1t
and understand it.-Justin Mccarthy.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-28

we sbould return TO the Lord our God
see il in the declaration that we have
fallen through our iniquity. II is true.
There is no security In ng.doing. IL
undermines the fabric OF happiness
IL drags us down to the lowest level,
and we find ourselves fallen from our
high estate Of purity and excellence
ineo the lowest depths Of spiritual
degradation. 1t so hurries man
from his moral anchorage that he
has to risk every idea of happii-
ness committed to frail bark. when
10 tempest tossed on the perturbed sea
of passion. 1t needs the hand OF God
to seize the helm and pilot 1t to haven
of safety. That haven is 10 be gained
through the Divine mercy, won by our
repentance; repentance of that prac-
teal and reasonable character well de-
fined by Maimonides. That the sinner
abandon his sin and firmly determine
in his heart not to do the like any more.
THE INVITATION FOR ALL.
THE overture of grace Is held out to
all of us. Let no one say he Is too deep
ly dyed in evil to grasp the hand OF Tor
giveness held out to him. The promise
is valid to all times. i will heal your
bscksIiding: Return unto Me. for have
redeemed thee This is the Divine as
surance: who shall dare reject IT! Let
as not deny ourselves the holy privilege
of pardon or turn our backs on the Di-
vine invitation which the text repeats
held out TO US a blessed boon from our
Father in Heaven, Return to Israel
unto the Lord thy God, though thou
hast fallen through thy iniquity' p
New York Herald.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-28
Big Churches.

Big churches, says the Chicago In
terror, are like big fortunes in one re-
spect-they are bigger than they used
TO be. The number of members needed
to make a church rank as bis" in the
minutes has gradually risen up through
the hundreds to a thousand. Reck-
onng by the thousand standard we now
have In our denomination sixteen big
churches. The biggest of them all is the
Talmage church in Brooklyn with a
membership of 4,372. 1t is quite
a drop in figures from that to
DR.. Cuyler's church in Brook
lyn, and DR.. john Halls in New
York. which report 1850 and 2,sl2 re-
spectively. The others in the big list
enroll less than / .600-the range being
from .5G4 to 1920. OF the entire six
teen Brooklyn has three. New York
five, PHILADELPHIA two. Chicago two,
Rochester two. Cleveland one, Mime
apolis one. The one big church in Min
neapolis is that ministered unto by the
Rev. DIR. David j. Burrell. The two
big churches in Chicago are the First
DIR. Barrows) and the Third lDr.
Withrow). Next year, in ali probability.
there will be several accessions to the
big list, since there are now more than
"A few churches whose membership
pretty closely approaches the thousand
mark.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-28
CLING THOU TO US.

Lord keep It back: the bitter cry
That rises som our bruised hearts,
Full of re,eilieus questionings as to Thy VIII
in thiS.
Keep b,ck the Why Oh, Lord. which gain
WOWi1 burst.
From l3ls all gu voring in their dumb de-
SPAR.
And make us nnic in agony of grief
Until in Thy own time Thy peace shall come,
And we can rather say, instead Of why, OH,
Lord?
Dear Lord, Thy viii be done.
Bear with us tender Saviour, patient be,
Whiio Ger us roll dark wares OF blacklist
gloom and wild regret.
Not one faint ray of pickering gnt'
As vet doth shine upon our dreariness.
For PROSTATE by the blow, We cannot lit
Our grief spent souls from clearing to the
ashes VI despair,
And all around is but sorrows sea,
Since eyes Of faith are blind ana nope Ia
dead.
Too weak To cling 10 Thee,
Oh, LORD cling Thou 10 us
our arms so lonely in their aching empti-
ness, go
Refuse to stretch their weary length to Thee
Reach Thou TO them and take them IN lhlhe
own strong. tender hands
Until Thy strength becometh ours.
And AT Thy feet we lay our burden down,
And humbly yield Thy Will, not ours. be done
Dear saviour, fOulu IL NC lHOh h4boa iNis'A"
And ia a moment of some other thought
Thy messenger Of death didst claim for Thee
The life. so precious and so dear To us?
Thou had'st so many Jewels, Lord!
We prayed with longing, ierVent, ana IN
That his one might be spared
Could thus II be? Nay. Lord, forgive the
We know Tf not so Thou could'st have called
That which we loved and wanted here SO
much.
But that purpose Thou did'st have
We DO believe, e'en tho as yet
All fathomless and dark II l..
Our blinded eyes, with tears are still too dim
To see the tight we know Thou hast
BeNond the clouds Of dark distrust aud doubt;
Be patient, tender Jesus, with us now.
And do not let us go 10 drift upon a sea OF
dull despair,
Without the glimmer Of Thy pitvine love;
In weakness Lord, We cannot cling 10 Thee
Oh. Lord Cling Thou To US!
Our storm swept souls are spent and tired at
last:
With long drawn sobs and quivering with the
pain of sorrow keen.
We lie submissive, still before our cross.
Fain would we lift, and with It come to Thee,
And place our weary heads upon Thy breast;
Too weak We cannot rise,
Dear Lord. sioop Thou 10 as;
Hold lightly TO iby understanding heart, our
thrObbing ones.
Nay, closer. tighter. Lord,
I'LL Thy sweet peace and rest and love d.
vine,
soothes. Gains, and makes us still TO bide
Thy time
Here patient we can walt I'LL Thou unfold
This act of Thine, this Thy unerring Will In
what To us seems dark.
But II perchance We slip and cannot cling,
nay cannot trust.
u. ar Saviour clasp us close
Cling q hou 10 US!
Richmond, Va. h. L.. Ii.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-28
LITERARY LEAVES.
TIE FUTURE OF THE ENGLISH
LAUREATESHIP.

The Pyes and the BIackmores--so"'"
wordsworth, and Tennyson~Ihe sue
c..sor of Tennyson--A Felicitious APP
,oiutment Demanded When Tennvsoh
Gives way to a Successor.
lord Tennyson is still with US. IL
vouId be as impairment as ill-omened
to say any word of ones own notion'
save TO wish that he may stay with us
IA long as possible. But he has himself
snokeu in words which, if words have
any meaning, are in the natuie OF a sol
ann farewell. This, like other fare-
walls of other illustrious persons OF
the same generation, Eay turn out 10
be premature. Let us hope 1t may DE
so. for IN the work of Lord Tennyson ;
very latest period we find no abatement
of his sing ular felicity and gain rather
than loss of strength. Meanwhile the
ouestion is almost forced upon us
whether there is to be found among our
Younger poets any worthy successor to
his crown. We assume that the laureate
ship, if preserved at all. must continue
to be the tItular symbol of real and
| lust poetical primacy-real IN the sense
of being IN fact accepted by the repup-
lie of English letters, just in the sense
of being confirmed by the weight OF
opinion among specially competent
Judges. The problem is q delicate one,
and 1t might seem the readiest way TO
cut the knot by treating the laureate
ship as an idle thing, and its bestowal
or abolition as matter touching, per-
hsps, the dignity of the Crown, but
not materially concerning English liter
AZURE. Certainly, if there were no such
office in being. we should not at TINS
time of day be likely to make 1t. But
the off 70 is there, and it has been dig
nifed by worthy holders for three gen
erations. The Pyes and the Blackmores
are too completely forgotten to cast any
discredit upon it. Three such names
as Southey, Wordsworth and Tennyson
would have outEeighed even worse
past: and if the choice of the Crown
continues TO be so exercised as to repre-
sent the best judgment of the nation
no one can say that the post Is not
truly honorable one.
General assertions that it is ineXpedl
ent for the State to NEEDLE with affair
Of poetry and art will meet with tn
same amount of consideration in TIN
case as all general objections urged by
way Of deduction from univeral axiom
of policy have commonly met with II
this country, that is. next to none. Lik
other and greater British institutions
this one will be judged by results. Al
infelictious appointment might gravell
weaken it: an excellent one would Sc
, cure it for further term II
, general esteem, and, what l
more, would maintain one OF tb
many golden cords, not less real be
cause not reducible to any measure o
economic value. by which the Englisl
speaking world is bound together. |
may seem fanciful to connect the stand
ing of our name and flag at the anti
podes fifty or sixty years hence Wit
the choice OF Lord Tennyson' s successor
Yet such things are often of wider sig
nifcance than they appear to be. Noth
ing is to be deemed a trifle which ma
any bearing on the imperial and repre-
} sentative character of the English mon
archy.-The Fortnightly Review.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-28

Among the most notable of recent
contributions to the North American
Review il the article in the October
number in which the Right Hon. John
Morley replies to Mr.. Balfour' 5 late Re-
view article on the Irish Land bill.
This article, representing the opinion
of the bill held by English Liberals, will
complete discussion Of this important
subject such as mas taken place in no
other periodical in the world. the Irish
view having been expounded by MIR. C..
S. Parnell in the June number. and the
Conservative view by Mr.. Balfour in
the July lumber.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-28
The October number of the North

The October number of the North
American Review will contain an ar.
ucle by Mr. George d. EIdridge,
secretary of the National Life
and Maturity Association, on AS
sessment Life Insurance. Mr.. Ed
ridge explains the principle on which
life insurance is effected through
such organizations as the Royal Area
mum, the Legion of Honor. and other
associations of like character, and il
illustrates the popularity of assessment
life insurance by showing the surprs-
ing growth of these associations and the
magnitude of their operations-t,h he
amount of death claims paid by them'in
the year 1889 reaching the imposing
figure of SAC 200, 900.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-28

THE P,culiarities of the South" are
set forth in an interesting and instruc-
tive manner by Professor s. Sbaler,
OF Harvard. IN contribution to the
North American Review.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-28

The Baptist missionaries of Japan
have joined in an appeal to their
churches in the United States for an
immediate reinforcement Of twenty
three men,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-28

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hyt The