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The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
on SUNDAY AFTERNOONS.

In my experience | have found in
valuable help in books, writes Eleanor
b. Amerman in n discussion on
''Children and the Sabbath" in the
LddieS Home .JOUrndl. Almost every
child likes to be read to. | have
tried to choose books which would
widen the children's field of Scrip
tural knowledge, and they have lis
tened to so much about the land of
Palestine, its hills and valleys and
grand old mountains, its plains and
rivers and seas, and its principal
cities and villages, that they think of
it now as a real place, where people
live, and where the flowers grow, and
the birds sing, and where little chill
dren play, just as they do in other
countries And we have found so
many beautiful Bible stories con-
nected with these different places,
both in the Old and New Testaments.
| have read to the children from
the lives of great missionaries, of
their labors among the heather, for
Christ, and as they hear these stories
these thrilling stories which are all
true-of noble self sacrifice, daunt-
less courage and patient perseverance
in the Masters service, do you not
think, with me, that they will be
filed with a desire to be like these
men, "faithful over a few things?"
They hear of foreign lands, of queer
people who ''sit in Darkness" of
heather customs and religious rites
and ceremonies. They hear, too, of
the change wrought in these people
by the working of the Holy Spirit in
their hearts.
1t is best that you should not do all
the reading yourself. Let there be
some magazine, paper or book suita-
BILE for the day, which the children
may have to read themselves and lei
these be reserved for Sunday.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10

thinking, now, of the western town
that / know best, and of certain fam
lilies in tit, socially considered with
the best, although they have neither
riches nor position, nor any except
tional culture, but are simply "nice
people," Moreover, I hope it may
be imputed to the western provincial
for righteousness, that in the small
towns character counts for a great
deal. unsupported good is done by
church working societies and won
ems clubs. They have an uncon-
scious but sweeping democracy, and
"good workers." are never sighted.
The provinces, indeed, do not sup
press individuality like the cities 1t
10 not only that the individual counts
in the country; he always has
counted, and always will count, just
as the strong will has always ruled,
and always will rule, whether one
live under a mitigated despotism like
Turkeys or an unmitigated despot-
ism, such as our socialistic friends
would bind on our backs; but in the
country the individual has room to
grow; he is cramped in the city. To
be sure, n may go his own gait
more entirely in a city than any
where, except on a desert island I;
but he must pay toll by an outward
compliance with the conventionali-
ties; he must look and dress and
talk like every one else. 1t is the
aim of the citizens of n great town
to each resemble the other as much
as possible, and be as different as
possible from the rest of the world,
like a Moody and Sankey hymn tune.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
.oULDNA GLE A COPPER PLAOK."

ny MANY a. BARR.
] wuuldna gle n copper plark
For uny man that turns his back
On duty clear;
! wouldna tax his word ur note,
wouldna trust him for a gr"at.
Nor lift an oar IN uny boat
which he might steer.
when thing. are just as things should he
And Fortune sios 4 man IN" plea
Wherc'cr h" lee,
isnn hard to understand
How he may walk through h"us" and lanl
Nj Cheerful face and orrn hand
Continually.
but when f. spite q wark and care,
"A man must loss and luilur" bear.
He merits praise.
lWha will not {" misfortune bow,
Wha cocks his banner GA his brow,
And fights and fights, he kcu~ua how
Through long. hart days.
] wnulina gle an audi baut,rr
For uny maj that / could ST."
VIVA diduu huli
The sweetness e. his mothers name.
The Kindness 80 his brother claim.
The honor a. a wumAu's fame
Far mair than gold.
\ Nor Is it hard for him {" de-
VIVA kcns his friends are dear and true,
Lowe sweet and song.
Whose heart kcus not from year t." year
tu
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
FROM THE MAGAZINES.

Slowly modern education is recog-
nizing that it's subject is not learning,
but the learner.-Mary e. Laing.
Every healthy youthful soul has a
strong and eager curiosity which bad
pedagogy alone a kill,-President
G. Stanley Hall.
1t is net the one but the one hun
bred appointments which determine
the character of an administration
Er- Gou. VIM. E. Russell (dem.)
The situation to day is, that prac-
tically all of the surviving soldiers of
the late war, together with the great
majority of the people of both polit-
ical parties, condemn the pension
policy of this administration in not
executing the behests of the law in
good faith, and in failing to do sub
stantial justice to the beneficiaries.
Senator Cullom (rep.)
Precocious children are apt to be
conceited and full of pious affecta-
tions all the forenoon of life, but
commonplace all its afternoon and
evening.-President g. Stanley Hall.
insist that the proposed reduction
of the tariff is not the cause of pres
emit distress and has never been 30
considered outside the lines of mar
row craftsmanship .--Er- Coz. Wm. E.
Russell (dem.)
An Englishman's holiday is looked
forward to, planned for and provided
for with some care, while all too
often in America a holiday to a busy
man over thirty Ave is a white ele-
phant.-Price Collier.
The average cost Of the pensions
paid by the United States is $40 to
S12 a year to every family in the
country. In many cases the pension
charge alone is equal to half a
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
AFTER PROVERBS.

AFTER HONEYMOON PROVERBS.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Better wait than sever.
It's never too late to wed.
Rule by appearing to submit.
Let not time run away with love.
A hungry husband is hard to coax.
Let a husband loose in a fenced
field.
A husbands wrath spoils the best
broth.
The shorter the bill the sweeter
the fare.
Rebuke when alone; caress when
at home.
One kind thought spoken is worth
two unsaid.
Govern yourself and you will
govern each other.
1t takes a nan to talk economy-a
woman to practice it.
It's a grained wife that will
scold in n new bonnet.
The proof of the temper is in
the unexpected guest.
A sullen silence works worse mis-
chief than a royal row.
Always remember that you have
eyelids as well as eyes.
Better marry a praying sinner
than a preaching saint.
1t isn't every wife that can laugh
at her husbands jokes.
If you've picked up a crooked
stick, don't tell everyone SO.
An ounce of tobacco Gains more
troubled waters than a ton of oil.
Man is the head of the house,
but woman the neck that turns 1t.
A sensible husband in hand is
worth a dozen heroes in dreamland
II you feel like a pair of scissors
don't choose a penknife to live with,
When the rag doll and the stuffed
elephant got married they found
each other out.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
AMERICAN CHURCH EDIFTCEs.

From the New York SUMS review OF n book
OF Rev. DR.. II. X. Carroll, superintendent
OF the religious census Of the United States.
Besides the rented places, there
are more than $4,000 Christian
church edifces opened periodically
to the general public. The accom-
modations afforded to Christian
worshipers by these 142, 200 build
ings aggregate 5000, 900 and up
ward. That is, more than 43, 000, 1000
people could find sittings at n
time in the chnrchs, to say nothing
of other places where divine worship
is held. These figures answer the
questions whether, If every body
wanted to 60 to church once a week
the churches could contain them.
The churches alone, as DR.. Carroll
has shown furnish accommodations
for over two thirds of the population
while the halls, school houses, and
other places where m are
preached, have room for nearly two
and a quarter millions more. In
view Of these facts, it is impossible
to maintain that the spiritual inter-
ests of the masses are neglected in
the United States.
The total valuation of church
edifces. in this country is nearly
1910, 900 900, a sum representing
only what Christians have contributed
to buy the ground, and erect and
furnish the buildings ready for wor-
ship. The average value of church
edifices in the United States is 81, 707.
OF course in some denominations the
average is much greater, while in
others it is much smaller. Thus,
among the Original Free Will Bap-
lists of the Carolinas, the average
value of a church building is only
S455, while in the Reformed Jewish
community it is $3S,339, which is
the highest average exhibited in any
denomination. Denominations which
like the Disciples of Christ, the
Methodist Episcopal church, and the
United Brethren, have constituencies
made up mostly of.rural inhabitants,
report a low average of value. 1t is
observable that the average is much
smaller in the southern than in the
northern and New England states.
AS a matter of fact, at least twenty
per cent. of the entire value OF
church property is returned by New
York State alone; and the five states,
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu-
%settes, Ohio, and Illinois, together,
have more than fifty per cent. of it,
No comprehensive attempt is made
in the book before us to collect infor-
nation regarding church debts. In
the Methodist Episcopal church
which annually investigates the
question, it appears that the debts
on the churches constitute abou1
eleven per cent. of their value
Whether this proportion holds goot
in other denominations, it is impos,
sible to say. In the Protestan
Episcopal church, no edifice can b.
economically consecrated until it i
fully paid for.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
months or even to a months wages
u McG. Means,

months or ever to a months wages.
d. MEG. Means.
The "Almighty Dollar'' receives no
such obsequious homage in It's native
lair, as does the "Open Sesame Sow
ereign" in its own house of worship.
Everybody takes "tips" in England,
from the queen, who accepts the
Empress ship of India from Disraeli,
down to the railway porter content
with threepence.-Price Collier.
There are within the United States
1854, Gal separate farms, averaging
about 1877 acres each, of which, in
the Eastern, Middle, Western and
Pacific States, so per cent. are occu-
pied and managed by their owners
Far more than one-half these farms
are free of any mortgage whatever;
the rest are mortgaged for far less
than half their value. - EdtDdrd
Atkinson.
If there is any one thing upon
which this country may congratulate
itself, it is the fact that whenever
and wherever public opinion finds
expression, it sets the seal of en-
phatic disapprobation upon the entire
work of the democratic party during
its first year of control. No historian
will volunteer as the apologist of
that party for lbs years work of des-
truction and retrogression.-Sendtor
Cullom trep.)
II must be confessed, and with
sadness, that the American college
has not always been in very close
touch with life. It's methods, its
motives, its men, have often been toe
remote from life. If it has not had
too much of other-worldliness, il
has not had enough of this worldli-
ness. 1t has been too monastic,
too c%onventual, too conventional.
Against such a spirit Harvard has in
its elective system set its face foI
twenty-five years.-President Charles
r. Turing.
If free bread and clothes were to
be distributed Unfortunately, in
spite of municipal works on an ade-
quate scale, honest workingmer
would be tempted over from the
ranks of labor into the mob of loaf
ers. As it is for the preservation Of
the character of the workmen al
much as for the relief of their phys.
ical distress, that the works are ex.
pedited, the state in it's municipa
sovereignty must stop that random
almsgiving which kills character
more quickly than rum.-Dr. Stanto,
Colt.
1t is evident that there is only on,
wise method of bringing relief to tn,
able bodied unemployed, giving
wages in return for work. 1t hap
pens that there is in each city in tn,
United States n employer who i
rich enough to pay the wages, ant
who has enterprises enough tina
should have been started long ago
to provide work for all the unem
ployed until trade revives. Thi
employer is in each ease the munici
pality itself. Here, then, is the solu
ton of N problem!-Dr. Stdntoi
In;f
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
CHARACTER COUNTS.

From "The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of Ameri-
lean Types by Octave Thanet, In the
%Scribner.
The west is presumed to be help
lessly given over to philistinism in its
rankest form, and to worship money;
but in reality, as any westerner
knows, little is demanded of educated
people in the way of wealth. / am
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
FAITH IN 4 FUTURE LIFE.

Since the publication of coates
Ajar' by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
she has been in the receipt of a con-
slant stream of letters from people
of all occupations, of all grades of
life, old people and young people,
and from people from every part of
the world, who consult her about
faith in a future life. From this vast
volume of testimony she has written
for the Forum a brief essay in which
she undertakes to show that in spite
of the drift away from the old theo-
logical dogmas, a genuine faith in the
life to come has not in any sense lost
its hold upon the mass of the people,
and is as strong a power in everyday
life to -day as it ever was.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
WORD HISTORY.

Complied for the Globe-Democrat.
Tea is a Chinese word.
Ukase is of Russian origin.
Gin vas first made at Geneva.
Villain was formerly a farmer.
Acre formerly meant any field.
Pillow lace is made on a pillow.
Candy was first made in CANDIDA,
Guinea fowls came from Guinea.
Frieze first came from Friesland.
Peck was once only a poke or bag.
Lemons originally came from Lima.
Apocrypha mean hidden or spuri
ous
Florins we're first made in Flor
nee
Huzzy is a corruption of house
wife.
Magnets were discovered at Mag
nesia.
Gillyaower is a corruption of July
flower.
Tulle was invented at Tulle, in
France.
Canaries came from the Canary
Islands.
Sarsanet was first made by the
Saracens.
Taboo and tattoo are of Polyne-
sian origin.
Farewell means, may you fare or
travel well.
Ascalon gave the world the odifer-
GUS shallot.
Marigold took its name from Queen
May Stuart.
Broadcloth took its name from its
unusual width.
Fetish and zebra are from a dialect
of South Africa.
Bingham comes to us from the
Savanese language.
Kreutzer was so called from the
cross on the reverse.
Preyaricator was properly a cripple
with distorted legs.
Agates we're first found in the bed
of the river Archates.
Copper first appeared in history on
the island of Cyprus.
Jungle, punch and toddy are words
from the Hindostanee.
Cognac was first made at the French
town of the same name.
Mammoth comes to us from one
of the Siberian dialects.
Shawls were first made at a Per-
sian town of that name.
Topaz took its name from Topazas
an island in the Red Sea.
Hussar is one of the few words we
have from the Hungarian.
Pragmatical formerly had the sig
nihcance of business like.
Furlong was a furrow- long, or the
length of a plowed furrow.
Kersey is a corruption of Jersey,
where the fabric was first made.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
ATE REPUBLICAN.
CITY, = MISSOURI.
THE RUNAWAY BOY.



INST I sassed my pa an he
bn,t stand at, an he punished me.
en when he was gone that day
Hlipped out an ruined away
BOX all my copper cents
climed over our back fence
the Unison weeds AT growed
ter'where all down the road.
bn got out there, and t
unned somc-and ruined again,
hen [ met n man at led
big COW, Mt shocked her head.
vent down a long, long lane,
here wuz little pigs a-play'n,
Id a great big pig vent "B"ohl''
Id Jumped up and sk"crcd me too.
en scampcred past an they
BIZ somebody hullcrcd "Hcy!'
lust looked everywhere.
they wuz nobody there.
Want to-, hut I'm 'fraid To- try
go back An 10y an by
tmcpin hurts my throat inside
want any a an cried.
IN II grea' big girl come through
there's a gate, AN trlled mo VIII"
b. /, an ct | tell whore
II homes at she'll show m" there.
nt ! couldn't 'ist hut tell
fhat's my name, An she sd, = well
b list looked me NJ nn says.
YShe knows where | live she guess %
len SHE tell me hug wife close
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
TOPICS TALKED ABOUT.
QUEEN VICTORTA'S LIFE,

The womanly side of Queen Vic
toria is pictured exceedingly we'll
and appropriately, too, in this the
month of her seventy fifth birthday
i'm an article on 'The Womanly
Side of Victoria" which Arthur
Warren contributes to the May issue
of the Ladies' Home Journal. Among
the pictures in the article, those
showing the queen at breakfast and
in her pony carriage, are interesting
and new.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10

From Town Topics.
Mrs. Youngwife Qndignantly)--And
you took the cake I put in the win
dow to cool and ate itf How dared
your
Dusty Rhodes Caught in the act
and consequently humble)-A starv-
ing man will eat almost anything,
mum.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
CROWNS VERSUS ROCKS.

Archbishop Fenelon.
II the crowns of all the kingdoms
OF the empire were laid at my feet in
exchange for my books and love of
reading ! would spurn them all.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10
LANDLORD AND TENANT.

Edward Atkinson, in the May
Forum has made a special inquiry to
ascertain (1) whether the increase in
the number of hired farms indicates
a tendency to the establishment of
permanent relations of landlord and
tenant such as are customary in
Great Britain; (2) whether it indi-
Gates the concentration of land in
fewer hands; (3) whether it indicates
better methods of agriculture or the
He says that the evidence
is conclusive that the increase of
hired farms does not imply the per-
manent establishment of the relations
of landlord and tenant after the
English fashion. 1t does not imply
concentration of land in fewer hands,
but rather the reverse. 1t does imply
better and more intelligent methods
of agriculture, and larger and more
varied crops produced from lessen
ing areas of land throughout the
whole great grain growing section.
There are many suggestions in the
following group of figures from Mr..
Atkinson's article, which show the
ratio of increase in the United States
between 1880 and 1890:
Population. .. rs per cent.
Production of grain ....,. ,..... 43 per cent.
Number Of teachers in the pub
lie schools........".... ...... "A per cent.
Railway Mileage. sc per cent.
Postal receipts. ,.............. 81 per cent.
Contracts for insurance against
loss by fire (the best indica-
ton of the increase Of prop
crty subject to lossl ......,.... 1O4 per cent.
Production of iron and of steel
tav"rageD ..... ............... 40 per cent.
Amount of mortgage incurred l56 per cent.
In 1879 the per capita national
debt $40. S6l exceeded that of
1889 ISIS .sB) b. ........,....... 1877 per cent.
Mr.. Atkinson's argument is to
show that this great increase of
mortgage debt does not argue disas-
ter, but rather prosperity.
Mr.. Atkinson undertakes to estab-
fish three very important con-
illusions: first, that the statistics of
land mortgages show prosperity and
not disaster; second, that there is no
tendency toward the development of
a landlord and tenant class in the
United States; but, on the contrary,
that and-ownership tends strongly
toward small individual holders; and,
third, that the farmers are coming to
hold the political power in the
United States, and that there is no
need to fear the consequences, be-
cause of their conservative character
and general prosperity. He brings
out the startling fact that more than
twenty per cent. of the mort
gage indebtedness in the United
States is on real estate in and ada
cent to New York City.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10

MissOuri's interest is the common
b~terest pertaining to the whole
)eople of ~ country. Missouri,
)owever, being an agricultural state
las probably a special interest in the
restoration of the standard silver
dollar. II is a fact demonstrated by the
history Of statistics since 1873, upon
he question of the price of farm pro-
ucts and especially that of wheat and
cotton, that these agricultural pro-
nucts have fallen in price pari plssu
With the fall in the value of silver.
oliver is now at the lowest ebb. So
, wheat and so is cotton.
In a speech that | made last sum-
ner to the Chautauqua assembly at
bedalia, Mo-, / then predicted that it
3he Sherman law should be repealed
Ind no silver coinage substituted for
y, that we would have a prolonged
financial depression compared to
which nothing since the demonetiza
hon of silver in 1873 and the panic OF
that year would equal. II was con
tended that the repeal of the Sher-
man law and going Immediately to
khe gold standard would cause con
hdence at once; that times would
Revive Immediately and money would
BE plentiful and business everywhere
would be active. Precisely the con
|trary has occurred, and as | then
predicted matters have been made
worse instead of better.
The agricultural people, especially
|those who produce the articles TO,
export, are sellers of our great
purplus. On them rests, more par
icularly than on others, the burden o
maintaining the gold standard. TIL,
gold standard has the effect to Great,
. monetary stringency in the market
pf the world and to drive down tn
price Of all articles of commerce an
Especially the price of products G
tho soil in those countries where tn
eold standard prevails. This has tn
Eject of bearing down the price c
u ~exportable commodities, whic
10 know r the products of tn
-. -
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-10

What the people of Missouri want,
and the south wants, is the r~estora-
ton of the standard silver dollar,
the repeal of the unfriendly Sherman
act of 1873 and put silver back to
where 1t was before it was demone-
tized. On that issue the democratic
party of Missouri a win. Without
1t its convention will be a useless
ceremony. II. p. BLAND,
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1894-03-07

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reba6ilitirf, Sic unbefdng:ne Meifs Der
Nerfd,iftrin lieB feirsn 3tpeifel 5ll. 49,
sSrau GIIa badte an einen 8risfs Der.
Ianm Mb{snben ber,it,in ihrem Shreibs
|stif1 lag, nnb ieuf5te.
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taae an elmer auffallenben Irbeitss
fheu. Ta9bem Ct ben Mumenlaben
psrlaifen bate, begab er ii4 feines<
tpegs, ipie man bon einem fo fleibigen
Mdnne b1tte berr1uthen folen, alf's
9ureau, fonbern sr ipdrf fid in eine
Drnfdfe. tpslde ibn einen entgegenges
febten Weg fiibrte.
9alD barauf ftdnb ct reben elmer
iuasnbli1=iippisen Dame in fofettem
Nealiase ,bsren a,lfselDfter 6aarf9mud
nit fsder 8raaie iiber Die @Aultern
fiel. @Ga's @dtte blidte auf cine
@iiitenfarts, apel9e feinen glamen
trug unb auf Der 6inten Die Worte:
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itanben, tpGbrenb Trdulein 9fofa q.
ibr feines NGshen 3eitipeilig in einem
nro5en Beilhenbpuqliett bsrgrub.
.MsiBt Ou, Darling" rief 9err
Solm pl0bli9, - ri9 muB meiner
esrau mod einen beHsren 8eipeis. metz
ner llnf9ulb bringen. Die Musiues
Der 8lumenfee gsniigt mir itidt rs9t!"
r6aben @ie einen plan9" fragte bic
lsihtfiiBige Sreunbin unb betra6tete
betpunbernb eins 9iamant=fabel, Die
Der Dirsttor felt gsitern i'm Clips
trla.
nsSa tpobl.@ 9err 9olm ftrid felbitz
aefdnia fsinen Bart, nunb icb CLAUDE,
er tpirb Deinen 8sifall finben!"
ssrdulein Rofa Dffnete ibre nieblis
6en Obren nnb Der Oireftor eradblte.
Sang biibfae Sbee!" faste bic
Dame am @dluB, rtpirb benn Der
lieutenant M. eintpilisen9"
yOas LAB meine Gorge fein, f9Onfte
Sofa, fir @elb $rreiat man 8ieles.
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ments nod 8ef9sib!"
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pfabl fib.