The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-26
LOOKING BAckwARD-oNE DAY.

LOOKING BACkwAROE0NE DAY.
There was a brightness. a breeziness.
about yesterdays Sunday Republic that ot
necessity attracted attention. The four
! color pages. for instance. Honestly. has
there been a4ything to equal them. 50 Tar
as Western newspapers are concerned? IL
Is a dihicult matter to get the colors just
right when they have to be printed with
the rapidity that Is a necessity in publish
ing a newspaper with a circulation so ex-
tensive as that Of Tho Sunday Republic:
and when such a. degree of excellence as
that Of yesterday is attained there 10
cause for consratulation on the part Of
both the newspaper and the reader.
But color ia merely an D
would be Of little value IL there were moi
good reading matter to supplement- IL.
Take page one Of the Sunday Magazine.
Lessons of the Louisiana Purchase
Worth while. was 1t not? The Louisiana
Purchase Territory is an interesting sub
Ject at all times. and especially just nowt
and the lessons" which The Sunday Re.
public presented yesterday were well worth
learning.
And the coming pilgrimage Of Missour1
Democrats to the tomb Of T-efferson-fomd-
er of Democracy. and the man whose
genius secured to the United States this
wonderful Western country. That was In
teresting. too. and timely. And the accom-
"a liz wSE SOoA ~ ACO@ -
and study.
And Professor Prentis's proposed gigantic
coliseum. which Is designed. as a feature Tor
the Worlds Fair. Ancient Rome never had
anything 50 grand as 1t Is planned to make
this great structure-and the Roman Coli
scum has been famous for several hundred
years.
1t Is really to be regretted that the series
OF papers on the interesting subject OF
Love. Courtship and Marriage" which the
Reverend E. ]. Handy has been furnishing
could not be continued. They have been
pleasing and popular features Of The Sum
day Republic for several weeks. and theis
popularity increased steadily. That one IN
The Sunday Republic Of yesterday was Of
peculiar excellence. Mr.. Hardy. who start
ed the world to puzzling over the propo.
sition. rs Marriage q FailureT" knows
his subject t~horoushly and has the gift OF
discussing 1t pleasingly.
Everybody cannot take q trip into foreign
countries: but Sunday Republic readers
have been doing the next best ~thing-read.
ing the letters from Frank q. Carpenter:
who writes charmingly and instructively
from the Antipodes. Mr.. Carpenter man'
ages to get a world Of Information into his
letters. And they are not the dry-as-duss
kind. either. There IL wit in them. and he
has the knack OF taking his readers with
him" right among the people and tho eeeneo
he writes Of. And the pictures. too. are
instructive: They bring the Antipodes ana
their inhabitants plainly before the eye a
the reader.
There was much more Of special inter0De
in the Sunday Magaxine-for Instance. the
Paris fashions. shown in colorO and d.
scribed Interestingly In q letter nom IN
Sunday Republics own stan artist and CO..
respondent in Paris. But to pass On to 9TH
er departments Of the big paper:
A remarkable ghost story'-one thae -
vouched for by the man who saw the ghooe.
This ghost. you remembeR. appeared In the
accustomed haunts Of . lifetime friend o.
the night before that friend died. And IN
man who saw the ghost told the story D.
fore he even knew that the ghosts frssne
was Ill!
mi~rth-ptovoking. The adventures of John
ny Jones and hts sister sue. are worth fol-
lowing. Johnny has come no6ly to b re-
cue on several occasions Enthusiastically -
shown in yesterdays spndW RspubhcCan0
there Il much more Of HIS thrilling history
to record. 1t will be ven TO watch To-
Johnny.
That was an interesting story IN the com.
&c s~ection-pase E"Loet on Dunkesy
Beacon"LJust as interesting a. n II haA
been read in q book instead Of In . nsws.
paper which sells for only s cents Al gfves
more for the money than any other publ
cation that ID likely to eome'into the hands
Of 81. Louis readers In . long. long TIM.
There was q .weaRh OF news IN the oo0oR
three sections q the big Sunday Repubho
yesterday. There w1s the story Of that
rich New York millionaire who looked %
Bismarck. gave freely TO- charity. e9sfc1De6
his right of being what people can "eccDa-
tric." and left the bulk Of his fortune 70 .
Kansas niece.
There we're many other items. too-a -
newspaper full Of them. They are an Wort1
especial m~ention-or would b II the1f con-
panion stories were not Of such uniform q.
cellence. But why ca1 them By nApof
They arc clearly remembered b. tho aEmy
Of sunday Republic neadenL
But It ID worth whilb TO refer to Tho om-
day Republics cable neWDI II wa0NA0
usualHthe best IN toWn-the fullest and tie
most interesting. The Republics 1actlltiss
for getting this news. ~ well a. al othoe
cannot be excelled anywhere: thsy
are certainly NOT eQualed by any a III
nearby contemporaries.
And The Sunday Republics own at
home" feld-St. LouiA Missouri. nlfnoias
Kentucky. and all The Western and oou9hr
western >~6tates-was covered fully. 1hsre
was not an ite4 Of news Of any impoftancs
that escaped II.
But then there seldom h. for mat 0ets