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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-21

"Your Honor must be hard pushed if you have
to tote such an Extensive Kit with which to de-
fend il, observed the Boston Man.
well. I've got a Reputation that reaches up
and down the Road, - said Mr.. Janders. 1--WE
never been Curried below the Knees. Pm Long
and Woolly. I've got seven or eight Fiery Nostrils
and holes bored for more. I'm Pizen Ivy and
can't be handled. l hate to talk about myself,
but l must say I'm a Brave Little Man"
At that Moment the Train pulled in and the
Boston Biologist hurried aboard, resuming the
Conversation as he leaned out from the open Win
dow of the Car.
You say you are a Brave Man, he asked.
You heerd the, replied the Native, picking
his Teeth with the Bowie.
What is your Definition OF a Brave Man,
asked the Biologist.
"A Brave Man is one who is not afeerd to DIE"
answered Mr.. flanders.
Therefore. / take it that you are not afraid
to leave Miasma and take your Chances, " said the
Biologist. How long have you lived here"
Twenty seyen Years. was the Reply.
The Boston Man looked across the Street at the
dun colored Hotel propped up by a comatose
Livery Stable. Near at hand was 4 Pool of Green
Water within which the Bacilli were Croaking
loudly. The Skyline was a row of red clay Hills
PIN ~featllered with Saplings. \ brackish Odor of
Moonshine Whisky tingled in the warm Air, and
over the whole detected Landscape lay a soft Pail
of the real, red, Simon Pure Malaria-the kind
that can be put Up in Tins and sent from Place to
Place.
You have lived here twenty-seven Years and
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The true conception OF Duty is coexten-
siye with the entire range OF human life.
1t was never intended that man should be
absorbed in isolated aims. nor that
thoughts should be exclusively devoted to
the concern of his personal interest. lie
who is content with such selfshness spends
his life like a beast with lower pleasures.
like a beast with lower pains" He hardly
rises 10 the true dignity OF Il man at all.
Nearly two miilenniums ago st. Paul
taught US that 10 man liveth TO himself.
ard no man dieth to himself: whether we
live therefore or die We are the Lords.
There could he no more plain and emphatic
teaching OF the truth that man has been
placed on this earth by his Creator with
far loftier ends than that OF self-sratifica-
ton. whether it take the common and de-
grading form Of heaping M to ourselves
riches. not knowing who shall gather them:
ui the equally common. and eve, moro de-
graded, form Of sensual ratification. in
which a man may live-as too many
myriads do live-like natural brute bcasts
which have no understanding. Il Is not
only the great inspired prophets of Judaism
and Christianity who have seen that Love
Is the fulfilling OF the law, AMI tina; all the
commandments are summed III in Il sinG!e
rule that We are To DO unto others 49, We
wish that they should do unto us. ldent-
icaliy the same rule lies at the base of all
that is best i'm the systems of pagan teach
crs. and the founders Of The most wide
spread religions Of TIE world. Thus. when
Canfucius Was asked to sum all the laws
of duly in one word. he rs not
Reciprocity such Il wordg' and by Reel
prccity he family adunibrated the sovereign
virtue. which We describe as holy. heavenly
love. And when In The last generation Au-
srste Comte vainly dreamed of inaugur-
ating a new religion which should take the
place of Christianity he. too, summed up
the essence of his system I'm the one word.
Altruism, and in the single rule. Eivre pour
aGtrui.
1t IS clear therefore that the main effort
OF our human life should be to follow the
highest Of all examples. and not primarily
to seek our own pleasure and advantage.
but to gain our true life by the willing. and
even glad. sclf-sscriiice of all transient per-
soEal aims, and the predominant effort at
all costs to improve the conditions of things
around US. and to leave the world $50 far
as lies in our power a little better and a
little happier than We found it. This &,
what We mean Dy inc Eorporsie Ire IN gem
eral. our duties. and therefore our highest
interests. widen outwards like the ripple on
the surface of a lake-thcy only cease when
the tiny wave OF our earthly life breaks
upon the shore of Eternity Our highest
duty to ourselves is our most sacred duty
10 others. 1t begins with the duties which
We owe TO those who are nearest and dear
est to us in the circle of our domestic lille.
1t widens at once to the whole circle of our
~neighbors. From them 1t spreads TO the
societies around US in the villages or cities
I'm which our lot may be cast. From them
IT extends to the whole nation to which No
belong. Finally 1t involves our relations 10
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ment Game and be sent to the Store 10 match
Dress Goods and Quarrel with my Neighbors
about Christian Science and sign Petitions and
hide Property from the Assessor and serve on
Juries and wear heavy Black Clothes on Sunday
and have to learn the Names and Records of all
the Pugilists aud Clean House e.ery Spring"
But you see only the Dark Side OF the Pc
ture," said the Hiker. You seem to forget that
you will have Dollar Excursions, Street Fairs,
Shooting the Chutes. Lyceum Entertainments by
Male Quartets and Readers, to say nothing of the
Jack-Straw Parties. Have you no Social Aspira-
tions.:'
None to speak OF" replied the Native. II
am half Savage and half Child. I have never even
sat for a Tin-Type in a Tent"
II suppose you never saw a Watch Chain
made out of real hair??'' asked the Volunteer.
Il never did, - replied the Google.
Il can see that you are Unfit for Self-Govern-
ment," said the Volunteer. 1--WE will have to
stay over here a few Years longer and take care of
you"
Moral-It is expecting too much of a Simple
Minded People.
Copyright. 1909. by Robert Howard Russel)
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was stopping no longer than it had to. and ex-
claim. Just think ofleaving Little Rock and COM
ing out here to Live!'
But the Town that is Small and Ratty is lust
the Town that supposes itself to be the sure
enough Essence Of Gazams. Everybody iu Mas
ma believed that the Sun rose just in the edge of
Widow Clevison's Hog Lot and set over on yon
side of Nubbin Ridge. While the Residents were
Standing around on the warm side of the General
Store so as to get shut of the Daily Chill they
would feel sorry for folks that had to put up with
Brooklyn and Old Point Comfort.
Now it happened that a Boston Biologist had
been in those Parts collecting Anphibious Fauna.
The Natives called them Varmints and Sarpentile
Insects.
One Day the Biologist sat on long wasted
Truck at the Station Platform aud waited for the
Train that was to carry him to some Place where
he could get Beans properly cooked. He had his
Satchel between his Legs and was reading the
Numbers on the Freight Cars in order to entertain
himself.
Presently a Native appeared and walked back
and forth in front of the Boston Man. The Native
had a Saffron Complexion and wore high -heeled
Boots. Every time he stepped there was a muf1ed
Castanet Effect, caused by the Quinine Pellets.
Every one in Miasma took Quinine, except the
Boston Biologist, and he took Quin-een.
The Native wore ON and about his Person aud
somewhat exposed to view, a IS. Caliber Cannon, a
Bowie Knife large enough for Spading the Garden
and several rows of Cartridges.
Il reckon we've got the purest Climate and
the noblest People in Gods Green Footstool," re-
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rot be disturbed. Ha is directed TO :orv ard this "a
per To the commissary Sergeant In charge ~
Warehouse No. 1000. for remarks regarding stor-
age and tsnkage in case the man Is detailed.
T.. +. O'BRIEN c. +.
NINTH ENDORSEMENT.
Once Citief Eoozer. L. :. v. Manila. Aug. -
Respectfully referred TO Commissary Sergeant
Otto Won Bismarck oonner. in charge Ware
house No. 1000. Manila. z. l.. with Instructions
to report to this office whether or not, in the
present crowded condition Of his warehouse. pill
age and ,ankase space can he found for this APP
plIcant. In estimating for this he is directed 10
measure the storage and tankaGe required i"-
other soldiers OF the Thirty-second Infantry. L.
:. V. ,Ex-Seret. and Corp.-Mex. Mckihben
and E~x-Coyp.-Mex Burgess).
JAMES F. RUt.E.
g. y. T. :. V
TENTH ENDORSEMENT.
Warehouse No. 1909. Manila. Aug. 3".-ls"saect-
fully returned TO the =. H.. L. 5. V. After a
careful, measurement, Of the floor space Of this
WAREHOUSE I find that all available space -
taken up by YOU and consorts. II Is an utter
,mpossibiiity TO find storage room Tor another
tank Of your caIiber. OTTO Y. Il. DENNER.
Commissary Ssrgt. in Charge.
ELEVENTH ENDORSEMENT.
O C. L, Manila. Aug. 3o.-Referred 70 Nc
Eibb.n for remark and to be forwarded through
rroter channels TO Mr.. Pee. oBIJEN. G. L.
TWELFTH ENDORSEMENT.
Headquarters Soldiers Rest Society. Manila.
Aur al-EespectfuIlv referred to Sergeant Ma
Tor King for remarks. calling attention To tre-
c.dinr Inducements. McKIBBEN.
sCiirf Cooler.
THIRTEENTH ENDORSEMENT.
Manila, Aug. N.-The application of Private
Richard Rec OF Company Il. Tbirty-second Infan-
Try. L.. :. V. for assignment to special duty IL
hereby refused. KING.
Sergeant Major.
And SO ended the remarkable record as
drawn up. to their own great amusement,
by the enlisted men OF the brave Thirty
second. Captain Frank NJ. Rumbold. for
merry commanding Light Battery A of ~.
Louis, In forwarding this record to Ripley
D.. Saunders. writes: During the rainy
season the men use all kinds OF expedients
to have a little fun. A soldier Of Company
b sent a letter to a friend. trying to get
q 'soft-snap'- job. His friend ~ started to
have fun with It and passed 81 around.
The Adjutant found IL in the clerks desk
Yesterday and We had a good laugh over II.
i send a literal copy. as it has some Wit
and Is a pretty good take-on Of army red
tape"
IL is needless to add that Private Richard
Roe of Company h. Thirty-second Infantry.
is still at the front.
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pens to wander beyond the Outpost to pick Wild
Flowers or Chickens. you and about forty others
will be waiting in the Jungle to Slice him. AS a
stand up Fighter you are about as Game as a Clay
Pigeon, but as a Lightning Change Artist and all
round Pest you are the Money. Why don't you
Let Up? Go and turn in your Shooting Iron for
Thirty Dollars Mex and then go out next Satur-
day Night and Blow the Money like a Civilized
White Man? If you'd do that. then Us Fellows
could go back to the Snowdrifts and the Buck
wheat Cakes"
II am AFRAID to tackle your Programme" re-
piled the Insurrecto. Il hear that as soon as you
get me Right you are going to Americanize me.
You have Something ribbed up for us that you
call Benevolent Assimilation. Perhaps I will have
to read all of the Ten Cent Magazines and be
jerked by the Trolley cars. and have to march i'll
a Campaign Club and put Crayon Portraits in the
Front Room and save Soap Wrappers so as to get
Useful Prizes and buy Tickets for Amateur Shows
and trim the Shade Trees and put in a Telephone
and run a Lawn Mower and save up for a Horse
and Buggy ard Maintain a Cup at the Barber
Shop and get tied up with some Special Assess
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the whole family OF man. IL will be seen
then at once that the highest and most
concentrated rule of the religious life Is the
basis of all true morality. namely-,hou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Obvious and undeniab!e as are these re-
liSious truths. II needs but a glance at the
world around US to see that however much
they are theoretically acknowledged, the
sense of their truth has a very small share
In regulating the conduct of the vast ma
jo:ity of mankind. Indsyidualism. not char
!ty. Is the predominant law in guiding the
plans and aspirations Of myriads of men.
and the qualification of the most transient
sensual desire constitutes a sufficient in
ducement tc uncounted multitudes to sac
rifics wholesale the most essential and
eternal interests OF those whom God made,
and for whom Christ died. So long as they
can obtain their immediate object. they are
profoundly Indifferent to the ruin and
degradation into which they plunge their
miserable victims. Again. if 4, be their
chief desire 10 accumulate wealth. whether
from the absorbing influence of greed. or in
order that they may enjoy the means OF
disqualification much wealth puts within
their reach. they illustrate the warming tina,
the love of riches is the root OF all kinds of
evils. by showing the profoundest indifrer-
cncc to the certainty that they are heaping
Up wealth TO their own destruction. and
often Ia the wholesale destruction of mui-
titudes-sonIe:imes even OF whole tribes and
nations of their fellow mon.
TIL sad illustrations of this utterly dis
astrous state of things are visible around
rs on every side. The Christians rule is
Never TO mix our pleasure or our pride
With anguish Of the meanest thing that feels:
but. alas, not only In England, but in all
the Christian nations of Europe, money is
recklessly amassed at the cost Of unspeaka-
BILE wTetchedness. and earthly as well az
eternal ruin, to the souls OF others. 1t re-
mains an awful fact that In spite of Chris
tiapity.
Man is to man the sore,r. sures, III.
It Is one of the worst aspects of this terri
bic triumph Of evil over good tina Govern
ments and countries become fatally famil-
iarized with evil, and most fatally callous
to it. Statesmen tolerate the existence of
hideous wrongs because powerful interests
are concerned in the continuance of those
wrongs; and because. when men have suf-
fered familiarity to stultify and warp their
consciences. they regard every one as a
mere fanatic whose heart bieeds at the
needless Injuries inflicted on his fellov-men.
This impenetrable hardness. and self-in-
duced blindness Of the human conscience
have been evinced again and again in hu-
man history. and there are awfully giarinS
Illustrations of them In the present day.
Can this total Indifference to remedial
causes Of human ruin be cured? And, il so,
how can the remedy for them be found?
These deadly evils assuredly can be cured.
for. in the course of human history. similar
wrongs have again and again been con-
quered and expelled. Let one instance suf-
fee. Almost within living memory. England
was ~entangled In the shameless infamies Of
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you are not afraid to Die" said the Boston Man
reAectively. II don't blame you. If I had lived
here for twenty-seven Years l would not be afraid
to Die, either. In fact, 1 think I'd be downright
A nXious to Die"
But the crafty Biologist did not release this
Body Blow until he was good and sure that the
Train had started to move.
The Infatuated Native had to take his chances
witt a moving Target, so instead of p~lunking the
NJ an from Boston. he made a Wing Shot on a
State Senator who V as riding on a Pass.
Still, it was taking an Awful Chance.
Moral-Home is where the Heart is.
Copyright. 1850. by Robert Howard RusseII)
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THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC

wE1TIEN o THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC
It 60 happened in a moment Of weakness
that an enlisted soldier of the Thirty-second
Philippines. sat him down and wrote the
following letter:
Orion, Philippine Islands. Aug. q. 1eco.-
Nj. John Burgess. Manila. Philippine Islands:
Dear Sir-I have been referred to you by q
friend OF mine. Ayers OF Eegimentai Headquar-
tiers at Bsiangn. as likely to be informed as to a
special duty detail and able to help me to one.
Have frequently worked upon army papers ana
could operate a typewriter IL necessary, as L
have had experience in the work l would very
much like special duty for a while. and if you
could assist me to an assignment Will be exceed
ingly obliged. Hoping I am not i%ntrudinG either
upon your time or good nature. ! remain. sin
.erelv vours. De.
Now. be it known to the civilian reader.
he American volunteer or regular serving
Mt the front Is not patient with a comrade
WIN seeks an assignment to special duty in
the rear. Two things Of evil they believe OF
such q man-arst. that he is afflicted with
.cold feet" which is the American SOL
dier's slang for disinclination to face the
enemy; and, second, that his principal serv-
ice on this detail to special duty is most
likely to consist Of "booze-fighting." other
wise known az looking too frequently upon
the wine when it is red. And such a man
does not rank up as a good soldier among
the men on the firing line.
Therefore. IT was that when Private Rich
ard Roe-of course, that isn't his real name
sent this letter in all earnestness to Mr..
John Burgess at Manila. Mr.. Burgess
~ssraishtway managed to allow the letter to
fall into the hands Of Private Roe's COM
radss Of the Thirty-second Infantry. And
these men OF grim humor fell upon that
letter and made merry with 1t and sent 1t