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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05
NICE FOR LADY AGENTS..

The Watt Mfg, Co., of 5412 east Third
street Cincinnati, O.. manufacture won
derful convenient towel rack. known as
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ton securely fastens the towel so that 1t
cannot be pulled out 1t is a little wonder
and Just what every family needs Il number
Of: it saves washing the towels do not
lie around the floor Nickel plated and
highly ornamental. On receipt Of nine two
cent stamps the above firm will send sam
Pile of the Morris Towel Rack by mail
lady agents will see in the Morris Towel
Rack" a wonderful hing to sell and make
a little money out Of, as the above firm
makes special rates to agents. Any person
that wants to get something nice - at
to families should get sample of the
Morris and take orders.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05
Congressman Howard's New Book

Congressman Howard New Book.
Have you read What Christ Saw"
by Hon. M. w. Howard, congressman
from Alabama, Author of eff Christ
Came to Congress- Sensational!
Startling. The author threatened with
expulsion from congress. Send so cents
to the author and procure copy Ad-
dress,
HON. NJ W. HOWARD
House of Representatives.,
Washington, ID. C.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05

The third week Of tie summer vaud-
vile at the Bijou will open Sunday
matinee, May 9th. and will INTRODUCED
unquestionably the strongest bill yet
offered in connection with the summer
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05
She Was shocked.

a few mornings ago Ms. Chaffle. who be-
lieves in keeping Lens vert Strictly shocked
by her son, Johnnie.s who, mas looking over the
paper at the breakfast Z lle.
rebate.
What is it. JOhnnie?
Johnnie then reatla short article about how
the tame bear Of M travelling Italian Snowman
killed his master ard. bitter Gevourng the
legs. hid away the truniS. and intellectual de-
velopment Cor neytfday.
What? gasped MIS- Chafie. mot in Lent?''
Yes, ard Friday too.''-Aex Sweet in
Sunday World. -
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05

Do you want Bryan's Book, The
First Great Battle?" Give lis five yearly
subscribers and we will send you the
book free
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subscribers, and we will send you the
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05
THANKS.
THANhS.
MR. DONNELLY'S LEGISLATIVE REC

MR. DONNELLY'S LEGISLATIVE REC
ORD
Self restraint. wisdom, philosophy. all
come to the really great man with advanc-
ing age Mr. Ignatius Donnelly's record
in the legislature just adjourned was that
of the peacemaker, counselor and friend.
We don't except even the Hicks episode,
in which the sage of Nninger Simply
showed how he could WELD shillelah with
out innictng mortal wound, nor his criti-
cism of Cleveland. which was merely a
bit of rhetorical byplay gently reminding
the eX-president of his ingratitude to dis
tinguished and influential friends. Winona
Republican Rep).
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How can l cheapen my butter-making
and improve the> quality of my butter?'
the dairyman often asks himself. Cor
nish. Curtis & Greene Co., St. Paul, have
the answer. Write them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05

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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05

departure. Heading the hill are found
the names CT Eugene D'Rourxc and Ada
Dare. Eugene O'Rourke is we'll known
to local theater gOers from his success
full appearance here as the star of The
Wicklow Postman" Co. Miss Dare will
be remembered as one of the features
of Hoyt's "A Black Sheep" Co. These
two stars are said to present a clever
little oneact burlesque by Mckee RAN
kin entitled After the Masque Ball. =
Other artists on the bill include Willis
P. Sweatman. the popular minstrel
mOnOloguist; Felix and Cain in theiu
original comedy act; Reno & Richards,
humorous acrObats; a return visit OF the
clever little Chanteuse Irene franklin;
first appearance here in vaudeville of
Miss Mary Marble, late of the Eddie
Foy Co.; and suburb production of the
American living pictures.
Laughs flow fast and furious in the
brightest of all farce comedies, a Rail
road Ticket" which will be presented
at the Bijou the week Of May 10th AMI
which will afford the only remaining
visit of a combination attraction to that
playhouse the present season.
The farce is we'll known to local thea
ter goers and has always received a
splendid reception here. The company
includes Louis Wesley in the role of
Chips Marie Stewart as Nora; Gus
Pixley, Charles Burke, Harry Porter,
Arthur Moulton, Matte Locket and
others.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05

| In writing to advertisers in thla
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05

The BATTLE OF THE STANDARDS.
BY Henry NJ and Jas. H. Teller;
l2mo, 145 pages. ................. 25c
German translation at same price J
1.-THE text book for this campaign Of
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05
FREE LITERATURE.

Mr.. Bryan said in his letter to the free silver
forces aft election, We shalt yet triumph, let
let all CIRCULATE Literature" Organi-
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the leading silver and reform papers in all parts
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05
THE CONDITION OF THE AMERI-

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Although we arc handling great
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one for the farmer and country mer-
chant. is the best vote-maker we have
seen.-George E. Bowen, secretary BIZ
metallic Union.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05

The SCIENCE OF LEGAL ROBBERY,
Miscalled the Science Of Finance,
by Percy Kinnaird; 12mo, loop. 25c
To the people OF the United States,
whether borrowers or lenders of
money, it is Instructive; to the high
school lad studying political economy
it Is a liberal education.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05
BOOKS
That Everybody Sh0 uld Read !

The LITTLE STATESMAN-A Man
ual for American voters, by AL.
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A complete political encyclopedia
from the reform standpoint.
Il know Of no other publication en-
bodying in the same compass SO much
valuable Information for the student
Of the political history Of the coun-
try."-Hon. Lyman Trumbull.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-05

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books for $l.00.
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642 BOSTON BLOCK.
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Get Bryan's book, "The First Battle.
Price, $3.50. Send orders to this office.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-05
FAvORS EDUCATION.
Paper Read at the Methodist Confer
erence at Beevilie.

Paper Read at the Methodist Confer
erence at Beeyille.
Beeville, Tex, Dec. Especial
Rev. ID. S. Moten. of Bethel a. NJ. Il.
church, San Antonio, read very in
teresting paper on education to the
conference meeting yesterday. In
substance it was q review or history
Of the schools and education of the
colored race. He concluded with the
following recommendations:
list. We recommend that the minis
tiers of the West Texas Conference con-
tinue heartily to encourage and help
to sustain educationa nd the cause OF
education in the individual. i'm the
home, in the community. in the state.
in the nation, in the church, both i'm ,h,,
pulpit and in the pew.
I'd. We recommend that the West
Texas Conference, together with the
other Texas Conferences, cooperate
actively with the bishop or The district
and the president of Paul Quinn to
make and in making its Theological de-
partment an operative and operating
reality.
81. we recommend that the West
Texas Conference sustain and support
in reality a conference scholarship in
Payne Theological seminary.
4th. We recommend that the pastors
of the churches in our Conference
preach at least one special sermon on
Christian education to their church
and congregation during the confer
ence year. Supplicating the God of
Omnlsclence to preserve, TO protect
ana to bless our christian educational
workers and its work, and all christian
educational workers and work every
where: We shall continue willie liv-
mig to be for Christ and the church and
christian education.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-05
CHILDREN AT CHRIsTMAsTIDE
Their Joys and Mirth Should be I'm
restrained ON This Day of DAYS.

Their Joys and Mirth Should be I'm
restrained ON This Day of Days.
If there is one day in the year which
rightly belongs to the young it is
Christmas Day." writes Edward w.
Box in the Christmas Ladies' Home
Journal. 1T should be given over to
them, therefore, without stint or res
ervation. And l think sometimes
that parents do not always understand
this. 1t is right and all-essential that
restrictions upon the amusements of
of the young should prevail in every
home. But Christmas Day is the one
day when these barriers ought to be
lifted, and the young be given free
play No wholesome liberty nor in
diligence should be withheld from a
boy or girl on that day. What of it
my dear friend, if such liberties do
mean a tear here, or broken chair
there? Suppose the boy is particular
ly noisy on Christmas. What of it?
Tel me If you can, a better sign of
strong, young health than the noise
from boys lungs! Suppose he does
throw himself, or even jump or stand,
Oh your pest lounge, or soil or rumple
your pet tidy! Pass over it, don't notice
1t, but let the boy have his Christmas
day. And if the little girl does insist
upon putting her sticky candy fingers
on your dress, what of it? Let her
romp and tear all over the house. Give
her the joy of feeling that for one day
the house is hers in every nook and
corner of it. Let her put her smutchy
little hands on the white paint of the
door or wall. know a home, my
dear woman, where the marks of four
smutchy little fingers may be seen any
day on the white pain of a door, and
they are treasured above the costliest
ornaments in that house. Nothing
could induce the mother of that home
to wipe OF those finger marks, and
gayly would her heart sing IL the little
fingers that put them there could make
others all over the doors and windows
Of that house. Let each one of
us who can, give freedom and zest to
the dearest treasures Of the Christ
mastide: the young barbarians of our
home. God bless them, l say. May
each child in this land of ours have a
Christmas Day this year fashioned af-
ter their own heart"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-05

of your own family experiences.
Compare the households where
cruelty, punishment, the infection
of pain is the law of government,
where children are whipped; com
pare these with those other house
holds where whipping is I'M
known; where government by fear
of the rod is never resorted to;
where the gobble' uns are never
set to catch the children if they
do not look out, then making your
comparisons fairly and honestly
read the lessons for yourself.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-05
POWER OF A MOTHERS VOICE.

A mother sang to her child one day
A song of beautiful home above;
Sang it as only woman sings,
Whose heart is full Of a mothers
love.
And many time in the years that
came
He heard the sound of that low.
sweet songs;
It took him back to his childhood's
days;
1t kept his feet from the paths of
wrong.
A mother spoke to her child one day
In any angry voice that made him
start
AS if an arrow had sped that way
And pierced his loving and tender
heart.
And when he had growL to mans es-
tate
And was tempted and tried. as all
men are,
He fell; for that mothers angry words
Had left on his heart an angry scar
Charles s. Carter in Christmas Ladies'
Home Journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-05

Texas has tried the cotton area CON
yention in the vain hope of curtailing
the acreage and thus adding to the GER
talnties of better price or the de-
creased crop. This scheme has invar-
iably failed and now the formers IN Il e
central and northern counties of the
state are putting their lands into
wheat and asking no questions. This
is wise, and should be Initiated wher-
ever the growing of wheat can be prof
itably carried on. There are some of
the lower counties of the state in which
wheat culture would be too uncertain.
and in these the dependency must be
on corn and cotton. If the lands are
eligible for wheat culture where re-
leased from cotton then there would be
sutficiency of decreased acreage and
the lands good only for cotton and corn
could be profitably devoted to these
crops. This with the growth of cattle
and hogs in small way and attention
to dairy products and poultry and
home grown vegetables would mark
a revolution in the conditions of the
Texas farmer in. three years. In che
multitude of crops there is safety.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-05

been, is no reason that it shall
continue to be. Much less is it
any just ground of conclusion
that it is right. There are
wrongs as old as time. There
are delusions as ancient as crea-
ton and government under it.
This idea of the strong having the
right to infiict cruelty, punished
upon the weak is one of them.
In fact, the better gospel of kind
ness, into acceptance of which the
world is growing, teaches that
the stronger the perpetrator the
more unwarranted the cruelty
that is practiced upon the weak:
The great coward world is coming
slowly into this truth. 1t is be-
ing accepted in the family, in the
school, on the play ground, in the
world of all action. The world
is evoluting out of its old time
cruelty.
What then? Is there to be no
punishment of crime? NOf if
that punishment is i'm itself IA
crime.
Take these two as the question
and answer that defines the whole
ground of law administration.
Law to be effectively administer
ed must commend itself to the
equitable mind that is in man.
When the law demonstrates it's
own injustice and thus exposes its
own criminality it is useless in
strument for the suppression of
crime. Hence it is that laws are
not effective preventives from
criminal actions. The whole his
tory of crime and it's increase will
establish the correctness of this
proposition. Manifestly it is
time for the law and order idea to
consider some other plans.
Reform here, as elsewhere must
begin in the formative strata of
society, in the family and in the
school. 1t will develop in the
treatment that the domestic ami
mails in and about your homes
receive. Here it is that the child
must be taught that cruelty is a
crime; that punishment is cruel
and that for it there is no juris-
diction. Teach that you dare not
infiict willing pain upon your
child. That means in broad lam
guage that you dare not strike
him or her. Whippings of ev-
cry class, everywhere, are thus
outlawed by the higher law of de-
velOping kindness.
Do YOU ask what shall take its
place? Anything. Nothing.
Everything. There can be moth
ing less than the present system
of punishment and pain, and
there would be no loss possible in
or under any other condition.
This is broad, but it is founded on
the lack of success that has ever
attended the attempt to reform,
or govern, or change, or direct, or
develop, by cruelty, by pain, by
punishment, by brute force. AZ
ter ages of failure it is time that
something else was tried.
The congregation of the Light
is merely directed to look into
these things and ponder on them.
To consider the progress of hu-
mainly, and the direction that the
development of the race must
take in order to its greater hui
manitarianism. Look at the
truths set forth above in the light
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-05

that tenderness was accepted as
but softness, semi-cow-
ardness. The boy who was re-
marked for kindness to his cat or
dog, or pony was put down as a
molly cOddle, ridiculed for being
tied to his mothers apron strings,
pointed out by the little barbar-
ians around him, who only found
out their mistake when they pull
ed his dogs tail, or hurt some of
hise animal friends, and got sud
denly thrashed by the young mas
ter for their cruelty. That day,
if not altogether passed, is pass
ing faster and faster, with each
year celebrating its motion. In
some blessed localities where
strong men and brave women are
fighting the battle for kindness,
it is actually becoming fashion
able to be tender and care for
the dumb animlas.
But this is only half of the in
dictment. Cruelty will be ac-
knowledged to be crime by thou
sands who will maintain that
punishment is not only not cruel,
but necessary, and at times a
kindness. This is not in accord
ance with the gospel that the
Light teaches. Punishment is
an injustice. Punishment is
cruel. Injustice is a sin and pun
ishment is crime, because cruel
ty is.
All acts to be justified must be
founded in right. What right
has one person, and assemblage of
persons, to infict pain on an
other, or on others? Doubling
the number of those who perpe-
trate a crime, does not diminish
the criminality of the act. Cruel,
ty is no less crime if perpetrat-
ed by a father or a mother, than
if perpetrated by a stranger. 1t
is not more a crime, because that
relation of parent clothes with a
greater responsibility, and there
fore with a wiser demand upon in.
ltelligent government and direc-
ton? The Light preacher so be-
lieves. Then a cruel parent is
more criminal, under the law of
kindness than the stranger. The
teacher is more criminal. if
cruel, than stranger. The gov.
eminent is also more cruel for it's
cruelty to it's citizens than to
aliens.
What are children punished
for? In 999 cases out of 100 to
make them feel pain. There is
no use of denying this. The
facts are all against the denial.
Who ever saw a father or mother,
or guardian, or teacher, or officer
in the navy or army, or in Jail,
whip child, or a pupil or re-
cruit, or a criminal with feath.
err? Why? Because there was
pain to be inflicted as the definite
object of the logging and the
feather would not do it. Argue
against the proposition as you
will but there is no avoiding the
conclusion. The act is its own
condemnation. There is no au.
thOrity conferred in parentage. in
teaching, in government or any
order, to inhict pain. 1t is there
fore out of order to infiict punish
ment. For punishment is based
upon pain inflicted.
Because this law of punitive ad-
ministratiOn of government has