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The St. Louis Republic., 1901-01-06
Growing Old.

Softly. oh. softly. the years have swept by
thee.
Touching thee lightly with tenderest care;
Sorrow and death they have often brought
nigh thee.
Yet they have left thee hut beauty TO wear.
Growing old gracefully.
Gracefully fair.
Far from the storms that are lashing the
ocean,
Nearer each day to the pleasant home
light.
Far from the waves that are big with COM
motion.
Under full sail and the harbor In sight.
Growing old gracefully.
Cheerful ard bright.
Past all the wlnds that were adverse and
chilling,
Past all the islands that lured thee TO rest.
Past all the currents that lured thee un-
willing
Far from any course to the land of the
blest.
Growing old gracefully.
Peaceful and blest
Never a feeling of envy or sorrow
when the bright faces OF children are seen.
Never a year from the young wouldst thou
borrow
Thou dost remember what lIeth between.
Growing old willingly.
Thankful. serene.
Rich in experience that angels might covet
Rich in a faith that hath grown with the
f-o years,
Rich in a love that grew from and about II.
Soothing thy sOrrows and hushing thy
--n fears.
no Growing old wealthily.
Loving and dear.
Hearts at the sound Of thy coming are light
-"' ened.
Ready and willing thy hand TO relieve.
Many a face at thy kind word has bright
ened.
'It is more blessed to give than receive"
Growing old happily.
Ceasing to grieye.
Eyes that grow dim to earth and its glory.
Have a sweet recompense youth cannot
know.
Ears that grow dull 10 earth and fits story.
Drink in the songs that from Paradise
flow.
Growing old graciously.
Purer than snow.
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-01-06
Footsteps of Angels.

When the hours % Day are numbered.
And the voices Of the Night
Wake the better soul that slumbered.
To holy. calm delight:
Ere the evening lamps are lighted.
And, like phartoms. grim and tall.
Shadows from the ntful freight
Dance upon the parlor wall:
Then the forms of the departed
Enter at the open door:
The beloved. the true-hearted.
Come 10 visit me once moro.
He. the young and strong who cherished
Noble iongings for the strife.
BY the roadside fell and perished.
Weary with the march OF life.
they. the holy ones and weakly.
who the cross OF suffering bore.
Folded their pale hands so meekly.
spake with us on earth no more!
And with them the Being Beauteous.
Who unto my youth was given.
More than all things else TO love me,
And Is now a saint in heaven.
With "A slow and noiseless footstep
Comes that messenger divine.
Takes the vacant chair beside me.
Lays her gentle hand in mine.
And she sits and gazes at me
With those deep and tender eyes.
Like the stars. so still and saintlike.
Looking downward from the skies.
Uttered not. yet comprehended.
Is the spirits voiceless prayer.
Soft rebukes in blessings ended
Breathing from her lips of air.
o. though oft depressed and lonely.
All my fears are laid aside.
II but remember only.
Such as these have lived and died!
Henry WadsWorth Longfellow.
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-01-06
FATHER AND son.

Mr.. Yapper: "Heavensl Mariah. do you
hear that awful racket? Just listen to that
child's screams: surely. II Is being muir
dered."
Mrs. Yapper: "Oh, that's the Weather
Bureau man upstairs furnishing his little
boy for telling a falsehood."
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-01-06
SUPPOSE.

Suppose. when you've been bad some day
And up to bed are sent away
From mother and the rest
Suppose you ask who has been badr'
And then you'n hear what's true.
For the wind will moan, in its ruefllIest
tone:
"YooooooooP'
"Yoooooooov'
"Yoooooooo!"
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-01-06
Because | Love You.

Because / Love You.
At night 1 sit alone and dream
OF days when you were always near.
And memory then recalls the time.
When both our lives were happy. dear.
! would / knew where you could be
trust your heart is still the same;
When nature sleeps and all Is still.
/ whisper fonlly ono sweet name
CHORUS.
Because / love yoU,
Because l love you.
Yes. my heart is thine.
Because love you.
Your face appears to me. my own.
AS when We wandered by the stream;
] often think that you are near,
But wake to fird 1t but a dream.
II when We meet some distant day.
find your love has not grown cold;
The sun for me will shine again,
My life be happy as of old.
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-01-06
HIS APPLICATION.

Boarding house Keeper: what do you
mean by taking your cup OF coffee and set
ting 1t in that platter OF butter?'
Boarder: Madam, / am only carrying
out an Injunction of humanity. You know
It is t3se duty Of the strong to support the
weak"
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-01-06
WATER ENOuGH.

You must keep your mouth shut when
you are in the water" said the nurse. as
she gave Bessie bath. IF you don't. you'n
swallow some Of It. What Il / dor asked
Bessie. innocently. There's plenty mores1n
the pipes, isn't there?"
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-01-06
LITTLE CLASSICS.

When all thy mercies. o my God
My rising soul surveys
Transported with the view I'm lost.
In wonder. love and praise.
Addison
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide.
And folly into sin.
I've wandered East. I've wandered West,
I've borne a weary lot:
But IN my wanderings far or near
Ye never were forgot.
The fount that first burst fras this heart
stiil travels on its way
And channels deeper it rims
The iuve O. Hfes young day.
William MotherweiI-Jeanis Morrison.
Thy thoughts 10 nobler meditation, give,
And study how to die. not how TO live
George Granville.
Some day. some day Of days. threading the
street.
With idle. needless pacs.
Unlocking for such gracs.
shall behold your face
Some day. some day OF days. thus may We
meet
-Nora Perry.
No sadder proof can be given by man Of
MS OWL htiieHeSs indh uAsDtneI IN great
men.-Carlyle.
Unless above himself he can
Erect himself. how poor a thing is mani
Samuel Daniel.
But love IS blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty foIles that themselves commit
Merchant OF Venice.
That puts not unto the touch
To win or lose u all.
Napier.
Light Gods eldest daughteD!-Fuller.
Our life contains a thousand springs.
And dies ~ enc be gone.
strangei that a harp OF thousand strings
Should keep In tune long.
History casts its shadow far into the land
Of song.-Longfellow.
Being holiday. the beggsrs shop IS shut
Romeo and Juliet.
For a mans house 4, his castle.-sir Ed
ward Coke
want to help you TO grow as beautiful
as God meant you to be when he thought
OF you frst.-George Macdonald.
Worse than a bloody hand Is a hard
heart.-Shelley.
Heaven means to be enc with GpI-~On-
fucius.
The heart asks pleasure first
And then excuse from pain.
And then. those little anodynes
That ceaden suffering.
And then. to 20 TO sleep:
And then. II should be
The will OF its InqusitOr
The liberty to die.
Emily Dickinson
Now hatred Is by far the longest pleasure:
Men love in haste. but they detest at leisure
Byron
We ring the bells and we raise the strain.
We hang up garlands everywhere.
And bid the tapers twinkle fair.
And feast and frolic-and then We 60
Back to the same old lives again.
Susan Coolidge.
I see the right. and I approve II. too.
Condemn the wrong. and yet the wrong pursue
Ovid.
Charms strike the sight. but merit wins
the soul-Pope.
Great thoughts. great feelings. came TO them.
Like instincts. unavsres.
Richard Monekton Mines.
When a man dies they who survive him
ask what property he has left behind The
angel who bends over the dying man asks
what good deeds he has sent before him.
The Koran.
All men that are ruined. are ruined on the
side OF their natural propensities.-Burke.
A change came o'er the spirit OF my
dream.-Byron.
FATHER AND SON.
Mr.. Yapper: "Heavensi Mariah. do you
hear that awful racket? Just listen to that
child's screams: surely. II is being mur-
dered."
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-01-06

To the Editor OF The Republic.
VIII you please insert an inquiry in your
paper asking for Information about a
pamphlet entitled Robinson Crusoe in
Rhyme? The publication was issued In
the seventies and early eighties. II any one
will send me a copy 1 will transcribe and
return the same. E. r. FULBRIGHT.
Sleeper Mo.
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-01-06

To the Editor Of The Republic.
would be pleased II some Republic reader
would send me the poems: THE Changed
Cross and The Church and the World"
1 would be glad TO know the name OF the
writers Of both poems.
MRS 8. E. SELBY.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-23
THE NORMAL SCHOOL.

The establishment of a Normal School
in the Territory has borne excellent
fruit. Like all things that are of value
it has had it's crude beginnings. The
present Normal School started as
normal class under NJ. NJ. Scott, now
principal of the High School, and was
then held in the Fort Street School
House, after school hours a certain
number of days a week, at first, and
later, every day in the week. These
normal classes did a good work at the
time, and paved the way to the pres
ent Normal School. Before the present
establishment reached it's present home,
it went through the usual vicissitudes
of growing institutions. 1t had efficient
and it had inefficient instructors, and
it has been in very poor quarters, has
reached better ones, and now certainly
needs a far better home.
The Normal School of the Territory
is fitting our young men and young
women, who elect to take up teaching
work, to grapple with the peculiar
educational problems which are pre-
SeHleu, lar LGlleT IMAM young men ana
young women trained away from here
The Normal School trains for meeting
the race problem, and the making the
school in to homogeneous whole, which
it is impossible for those unframed in
such matters to meet successfully
without much experience and many
mistakes.
In the Normal School will be found
representatives from the Hawaiian,
part Hawaiian, Portuguese and Ameri-
can families. Those who are trained
readily find employment. Indeed The
Star is informed that many more
young men could get employment after
passing the course, than are now avail
able. In a growing territory the lack
of young men to take up the profession
of teaching is always marked. There
are so many opportunities in business
or trade which offer returns so much
more speedily than school teaching, and
which, to be successful do not require
anything like the laborious and lengthy
training.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-23

The officer himself has means of
cooking for his own personal comfort,
and undoubtedly is not waited upon or
cooked for by lepers. If he is, why Re
is transgressing the ordinary laws Of
hygiene and should be at once removed
from his office. But there is no reason
to think he is so transgressing. Why
should he not have taken these men to
a place where they could have obtained
uncontaminated food. He has put the
Board of Health in a very awkward
position. The Board has refused per-
mission for the member for Molokai
to visit the settlement, because. pre-
sumably, the member for Molokai might
be contaminated II he made a visit and
lived in the guest house, or the doctors
bungalow. Its own officer takes sail
ors into a leper coffee shop and sup
plies them with leper food. The
chances arc that this inconsistency will
be aired considerably when the time
comes.
Then again the Board of Health had
a letter relative to poi, which was read
at the last meeting. One can quite un-
derstand that living the life the people
at the settlement do, there is always
more or less of unjust or unnecessary
grumbling. 1t may be true that sup
plies of poi, which were expected from
the outside have not been able to reach
the settlement en- account of the stormy
weather. But the general public had an
idea that considerable taro was raised
in the settlement, and this should have
supplied the hiatus, though of course
there may even be good reasons for
this failure.
But granted all the excuses which
may be brought forward there has,
upon the poi matter, been an amount
of discomfort among the members of
the settlement which certainly calls for
investigation. The only way in which
a thorough investigation can be made
is by suspending the officials who now
have almost absolute power over the
people of the settlement, and appoint
| ing a committee who would make a
Were this done a satisfactory basis
might be reached and much which is
now unsatisfactory and hazy might be
cleared away. Investigation, free and
untrammelled is one of the greatest
supporters of executive power well car
ried out. 1t is death to executive pow
err misused.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-23

The negroes at Wailuku have not
started well. There has been an at
tempt at shooting a policeman and an
interfering with the marital relations of
other negroes OF course this will give
a text for those who object to the in
PRODUCTION of negro labor But 1t was
not so long ago that Jewish gentle
man shot his wife and then him
self. Japanese have been indulging in
occasional murders (the Waialua MUIR
der of woman remains an unsolved
mystery to this day. though several
Japanese were cOgnizant of it, An tia
liam gentleman working at Moanalua
shot his comrade after a little wine
party and so on. We have no business
to brand any people with innate crime
until we know more about them The
Star believes in fair show.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-23
A LOST OPPORTUNITY.

The Board of Health, it seems to The
Star, missed chance when it refused
to let Representative Fred Beckley
permission to go up to the settlement
on Molokai and take with his consti-
tuents AS soon as the Legislature is
in session a committee of the House, or
a committee of the Senate, or a COM
go up no matter what may be the views
of the Board of Health. From the point
of view of this journal it would have
been wise policy to allow Representa-
tive Beckley to go up. He could have
talked over grievances, ard would
have had time to sift the wheat from
the chaff. and thus arrive at a proper
frame of mind, for legislating. But
this the action of the Board of Health
prevented, and though Mr.. Beckley is a
man of broad mind, he cannot help feel
ing that he has been thrown down and
the Board will feel the result most in
dubitably.
Presumably the reasons that the
Board of Health refused Representa-
tive Beckley permission to visit the
settlement was upon high hygienic
grounds. Such are good grounds. The
Board of Health also refused two cor
respondents permission to visit the
place because they simply wanted I'M
der the color of philanthropy to make
copy" out of the woes of others. Such
were much better grounds.
But see what one of the Board of
Health's own officials does. A boat gets
upset at the landing and the sailors
get ashore. The officer of the Board
of Health, according to the statement
of Ambrose Hutchinson, a man of
weight in the settlement and one who
has occupied positions of trust, took
these men to the coffee house kept by
a leper and supplied them with food
cooked by leper, If this is true it was
a serious deriliction of duty on the
part Of the officer. OF course the truth
of the statement. rests upon Ambrose
Hutchinson. -.......A
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-23
A DILEMMA.

The Chinese registration section of
the Territorial organic act is apt to
give a good deal of trouble within the
ensuing few months. The point of
view of our former legal civilization
and our present are entirely different
upon this subject This is where the
greatest difficulty in dealing with mix
ed races arises.
Stated broadly the Hawaiian view
was that the child of an Hawaiian wo-
man by a man of any nationality what
ever, was a part-Hawaiian, as a part
Hawaiian the child was heir to all the
political and social advantages of the
Hawaiian. Indeed in the later days of
the monarchy the part Hawaiian ele-
ment was very powerful, and A. Mar
ques, now a shining light among the
theosphsts, wrote a very excellent pa
per showing that though the Hawaiian
might pass away, the part Hawaiian
would take his place, form a new race
and possibly dominate the Pacific to
great extent. Upon this view most of
the old administrators and thinkers of
these islands have acted. The part
Hawaiian, no matter what the nation
ality of his paternal ancestor may have
been, has been classed after his mother
Indeed for a long time in statistics no
difference was made between Hawaiian
and part-Hawaiian and to the present
day the Board of Health makes no dis
tinction. Part-Hawaiian has no rec
ord in it's statistics. Any one that has
Hawaiian blood in his veins is classed
as Hawaiian. OF course as far as
Board of Health statistics are concern
ed it saves trouble, and that is what
Board of Health employees want to
avoid. . IT. EAR
But now comes this pestilent govern
ment of the United States, of which we
are now an integral part and it says,
II don't believe in any such classical
ton" You must class after the father,
not after the mother" So to commence
with the first person registered under
Section 1Ol of the organic act is a lad
born in the Islands from an Hawaiian
mother by a Chinese father The fact
that the youth has Hawaiian blood in
his veins is not considered to make him
OH nav dlldll' ne Is according to the
Interpretation of the law by the Inter-
nal Revenue officials a Chinese. A very
strong precedent has been established
and one which is likely to have far
reaching results. If the boy in the In
ternal Revenue office is to be classed as
Chinese and must supply himself
with certificate before June 49, 1901,
there are a very large number of pro-
mlnent and semi-prominent people who
VIII have to supply themselves with
like certificates or suffer deportation af-
ter that date,
This is a matter fog careful legal
consideration. 1t will meet with much
difficulty in calculation, especially if
the statutes OF the Southern States be
considered, for there the nationality of
the mother vitiated the citizenship OF
the offspring. 1t is no easy question to
decide, but it is one that should be met
in the outset and decision be obtained
from the most authoritative court. Left
to drift it may not only have political
bearings, but may influence the descent
of property.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-23

There seems every chance Of the rest
of the transport fleet taking the south
ern route, after the experience of the
Sherman. She had a large number of
sick soldiers on board, and their suffer-
ings in a storm of that character must
have been very severe. The southern
route will give more tranquil seas and
a pleasant break in the voyage at an
American port. 1t is better for the
transports to spend money in their own
country than in Oriental Japan.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-23

The organization of the local mer-
chants association is a step in the
right direction. Organization enables
people to do much more than can be
done individually.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-11-29

That women are better than men
because "they have not the same chance
10 be bad" is the declaration of Miss
Jane Addams, the philanthropic founder
Of Hull House in Chicago. Miss Ad-
dams advises that the women take ad-
vantage OF their unfranchised condi-
ttou and exert their influence for the
benefit OF those who belong particular.
Iy TO the downtrodden: In that there
Is sphere la which women have done
mere than men, and led men to do
more than they would have done but
for the women, and in which there is Il
field for wide and wise work. BY
following Miss Adams advice women
will not need the right of suffrage in
order TO control the destiny of the coun-
try'-they will be "the power behind
the throne.n
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-11-29

The Ohio Supreme court, last week,
handed down number OF decisions of
wide interest among railroads. One
suit was to require the Big Four rail-
way to light with electricity all its in
oersections OF streets in the city OF
Clyde. The court ruled that the rail-
road must do this. AS test case. this
Is important, as it allirms the righ. Of
all municipalities to compel railroads TO
supply dequate light at the intersec-
tion OF streets.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-11-29

Some OF the old time subscribers of
Che JOURNAL, who read the paper in
the days when Brother Timmons oper-
ated the pruning shears for the poetry
department, will undoubtedly remem-
Der one of his most valuable contribu-
tors TO that department-"Lillie Lark
spur. who mas never favored the
present editor with her productions,
nntil this week, For several years the
JOURNAL has not favored its readers
With very liberal supply of original
poetry. and for that reason, and that
'Auld acquaintance" should not be for
gotten, we publish her poem this week
IN another column.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-11-29

Mrs. Chas. Lampman is home for
the holidays.
Mrs. FL. c. Lawrence has returned
home after an extended visit with rel.
atives in the West.
The Christmas Ladies' Home Jour-
nal Is the largest number OF that popu-
lar magazine eyer Issued, and the QUAIL
ity seems In keeping with the quantity.
IL opens with an account OF Tine Peo-
pie Who HelD Santa Claus" after
which comes n sweet story by Elizabeth
McCracken, entitled The Baby Be-
hind the Curtain" The various de-
partmep,s are usually strong, and the
whole magazine Is full Of the Christ
mas spirit. A notnwnrthy feature. pic.
torially. IL the double pnge OF college
girls. on which arr. shown groups of
college girls from nearly every GIRLS
school OF note IN the country. BY The
Curtis Publishing Company, Philadel-
phia. One dollar y GAR: ten cents
copy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-11-29
MEATH AUTUMN SKIES

lFor the JOURNAL
Once more meath leaden. golden skies
The bare trees stretch their plead
ing hands,
And sOdden with the chill rain lies
The pale grass In the meadow lands
Aud southwark, from the coming cold,
All ranged In line, the wild geese fly
And leaves OF crimson, brown and gold
Out In the lonesome woodlands lie.
On such day, long wears agone,
We watched the quivering, dead
leaves fall.
And not ray OF light, nor song.
Flashed through the clouds that
hung DER all;
Yet recollections of that day,
Shall never from my life depart;
No summer noon, nor morn of May,
Can drive Its memory from my heart.
What did it matter that birds no more
Their joyous notes on the soft air
flung,
That where the sweetbriar bloomed
before,
The scarlet coated berry hungy
What did 1t matter that skies were
gray
And Autumn winds blew fierce and
chillp
What did it matter that on that day,
No rose nor lily decked the hill?
What cared we that the hills were bare.
And the yellow sunshine had long
since fled?
What cared we that the summer fair,
With its mirth and music lay still
and deadp
And, oh, the words you whispered then,
ever shall remember, dear,
When white fuisis drape each hill and
glen,
In sad November, dark and drear.
LILY LARKSPUR.
Toledo, o. Nov. 1901.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-11-29

Zoe great sea serpent which has
made periodical visits to marine men
during the past century has at last
been seen by regular observer OF ma
rlne events, an official OF the govern
ment, and is reported to the Toledo
Blade from that papers regular Bureau
correspondent in Washington Mr..
Carmichael. Heretofore there has
been doubt that this monster was any,
tblng more thaa IL bad dream or deiir-
ium Of the bibulous sailors who re-
ported him, but now il is up TO the
Bnde's bureau. The only obstacle IN
the way OF believing the Blades report,
II the uncertain condition OF the Blades
bureau. Was there bottle or jug in
siie bureau? Or had the bureaus mana.
ger been Invited out to pink tea?
These are questions which should be
settled helore believing the story as
reported.