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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-27
GENERAL DOMESTIC.

James w. Erwin. on trial at San Fran
cisco, says that Beavers and Machen were
stockholders in the postal device COM
pany which obtained contracts from the
Post-Ofice Department.
Professor Chittenden Of Yale will con-
duct an experiment with food pills on a
score of soldiers. who have been detailed
for the purpose. Mr.. Chittenden says the
pellets will contain as much nourishment
as beefsteaks and other meats.
Judge James Allen breaks down in the
midst of a marriage ceremony at Irish
town, ILL.,. and now he declares he will
perform no more ceremonies.
Thieves decoy the guards away from a
contractors office at Thebes. ILL.,. and
steal an iron safe. which is supposed to
have contained considerable money. The
young men were led away by a note pur-
porting to have been written by two girls.
The Pana, Ill.,, carnival is brought to
an abrupt close by a windstorm. which
blows down all the tents.
W. c. Bremond of ST. Louis returns to
Washington from Yucatan> where he ex-
plored ruins of ancient cities built by tine
Aztecs and Toltecs.
Women armed themselves with revolvers
and guarded the house OF an editor who
attacked saloons in his paper and who
was threatened with death.
Charles F. Murphy. .Tammany chieftair.
and Hugh Mclaughlin. Democratic leaaer
in Brooklyn, are involved in bitter con
test over the Democratic nomination for
Mayor Of Greater New York
The police Of Boise, Idaho. expose gen
uine suicide club OF women.
Senator Bailey of Texas says German
Is the best-equipped man in the Demo-
cratic nomination for President
Bishop Galloway is preparing his ap-
pointments for the st. Louis Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South.
Ntiich he will announce at Farmington.
No., Monday.
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SPORTING.

Philadelphia defeated Cardinals by
score of to 2.
! Winners at Delmar yesterday were
sTo oRosecourt. King Rose. Rengaw. A. D.
ents sibsoa. Quaker Gt-i. Evea 6. and Last
fasbionirht
vii Vii sufarvard defeats Williams at football.
o 0. Yale oeats Trinity IS te Q. using
lty-c.ght uen.
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Usage County Teacher.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Chamofs. Mo-. Sept. 2s.-The three days
Usage County Teachers Association meet
ing closed at Linn to-day, with about
seventy-five teachers in attendance. The
principal addresses of the association were
made by State Superintendent Darlington
and Doctor Craighead, president of the
Warrensburg Normal.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-27
T0-DAY'S NEWS IN BRIEF.
RUSINESS

Yesterdays bank celarinGs were So
Sc, $40, balances Ss44 ,36S. Local discount
rates were between and per cent. Do
mestic exchange was quoted as follows:
New York. 2oc discount bid. par asked;
Chicago. 15c discount bid, par asked; Gin
cianati. Louisville and New Orleans, loc
discount bid. par asked.
Wheat closed higher at s2ssds21sc Dec; /;
S5ds6c No. red. Corn closed higher at
43isc a. Dee: 46d4el4c No. mixed. Oats
closed at 36l.c b. Dec; Ss1aa3ec No. .
mixed.
The local market for spot cotton was 1sc
lower
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-27
Dyspepsia

Don't think you can cure your dyspepsia
IN ANY other way than by strengthening
and toning your stomach.
That is weak and incapable Of performing
Its functions, probably because you have
imposed upon 1t In one way or another over
and over again.
You should taxa
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-27
GELWEck ONE Col CUT
BIG REWARD TO FIND BOY.

Father Says Mother Has Been
PROSTATE Since Disappearance.
Il will give any person 500 to find my
son, as his mothers life depends upon
his return writes G. L. Gelwick of Can
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-27

It strengthens and tones the stomach,
and permanently cures dyspepsia and al
stomach troubles. Accept no substitute. J.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-27
OLDEST TOBACCO MERCHANT
DIED AFTER SHORT ILLNESS.

Christian PEPPER President of the PEPPER Companies Succumbed
Pneumona-Had Been a Resident Louis for
Sixty Years and Was One Organizers of the
Fourth National Bank.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-27

Miss Temple Won OrntoricaI Medal.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Cairo. Ill. Sept 2S-At the Fri county
oratorical contest at Villa Ridge last night
the gold menal was awarded to Miss Elva
Temple of this city.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-27

Sato. and 1t is likely that l. r. jenkins
will either succeed him or come to Farm
ington. The report that Mr.. Gray VIII
come to Pennington is discredited. The
church at Jackson is making strong ef-
fort to get A. T. Osborne of Maiden sent
to them c. N Clark will leave Sikeston
to work with the Southern Lyceum Bu-
reau. petition, signed my the many
Pennington citizens. asking for the Rev
erend W. j. Hey's retention. has been
presented.
Since coming to Pennington. Bishop
Galloway has made the following appoint
ments for the Southwest Missouri Confer
ence: T. p Wood. of Appleton City. to
Sprague; L. L. Pinnell of Sprague to
Rich Hill: E. T. Adams of Rich Hill to
Butler.
The following report of the Reverend
Harry Whitehead. statistical secretary,
showed the amount and for what purposes
money had been raised during the past
year:
For presiding elders and pastors. 7o,24s
For Bishops Lib
Foreign missions ..-...........-..... 126 900
Domesttc Ass
Srend .Si94 $50
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12

Bible is one of the worlds greatest books.
at least; what right have we to Danish 1t
from our curricula? Shakespeare is found
in every high school course; cannot the
American schools give as much attention
to the English Bible? 1t is the theory that
no scholar can afford to be without a
knowledge of Shakespeare. not only for the
sake of the truths to be found in the plays
but because modern literature is so sat
urated with Shakespeare that a knowledge
of him is necessary for its understanding.
How much more is this true of the Eng
lish Bible! Throwing all religious consid-
erations aside. how can we afford TO let
children be ignorant of this monument of
the worlds literature?
There is great inconsistency in the at
titude of the American people toward this
question. Why not throw out Homer and
Virgil because they teach paganism? Why
not eliminate mythology because it regards
Jupiter and Mercury and Eros as gods ?
And if Greek mythology is innocent, why
is Hebrew mythology harmful?
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THE MAKING OF A SOLDIER


Marion (Ind.) Chronicle.
The press dispatches say that when
Mayor Harrison. of Chicago. called upon
the Chicago outlaws. Neidermeier, Van
Dine and Roeski. as he very appropriately
did the other day. he remarked: These
fellows would make fine soldiers"
This shows that Mayor Harrison knows
very little about the qualities that go to
make a good soldier. These young desper-
ADDE'S. guilty OF a series OF cowardly and
brutal murders committed while engaged In
burglary. showed fight when surrounded
by a detachment Of detectives from the
Chicago police force and managed to MAIN
and Kill a number of people before they
were finally rounded up. Mayor Harrison
confuses courage with the purely animal
instinct of self-defense in the face of i'm
minent and unavoidable physical danger.
1t takes something. yes. infinitely more
than this TO make the good soldier. That
which makes the true soldier Is quality
shared by the murderer, the thug ard the
thief and the blood tingles when IL is re-
membered that the chief executive OF the
second city of the United States is so far
from understanding the American soldier as
to believe otherwise.
The chances are that II one of those
scoundrels bears a discharge from the
United States army, as is alleged. IL Is a
dishonornble one, and the chances are
moreover that he has all the qualities that
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many occasions when there are large
crowds In the city, city passengers might
fill the interurban cars to the discomfort
or even the exclusion of interurban visit
ors. II is more important for the city at
large that interurban traffic should be de-
veloped to the highest point than it is that
an occasional impatient city resident should
get a car a minute or two sooner than he
would by waiting for city car. Admitting
that the contract with the city requires
the interurban cars to handle city traffic,
IL is a question IL enforcement of the con-
tract would not be unwise.
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LEST WE FORGET.

In an address to Harvard students few
days ago DR.. Henry Van Dyke called at
tention to the distressing ignorance dis
to the Bible He told several amusing
stories and recited the answers given by
a number of freshmen to entrance exami-
nation questions. He did not attempt to
assign a cause for this ignorance.
In very truth it is little short of amaz-
ing. Young men from good families and
possessing thorough high school educations
could not recognize the commonest scrip.
turaI quotations. Old Testament charac-
tiers such as Daniel. Esau and Saul had
evidently never been heard of by a large
proportion of these students A freshman
class in English in one of our Indiana
colleges was recently assigned 1.-The Book
of Job as the subject for an essay. Dur
ing the following week the librarian had
several calls for the Book of job" the
applicant stating that he could not find
it at any of the bookstores. This was in
a sectarian college, where most of the
students come from church-going families.
Another test in a large Eastern university
showed that the members OF class did not
understand any of the scriptural illusions
in a poem OF Tennyson. Many lines in the
poem were, therefore. absolutely unintelli-
gible to them-for the poet had not con-
sidered it necessary to append footnote
explaining the source of his figure.
The college professor who observes these
things naturally ascribes them to a defect
in the system of elementary education. A
publication of the facts has LED to a re-
vival of the discussion as to religious train
/ ing in the public schools. An Eastern
clergyman declares that I'VE are bringing
| up all over this country a set OF young
pagans who sooner later will make
havoc Of our institutions" and he bames
the public school system. Then comes an
answer from patriotic defender OF the
| spirit of democracy who cries out upon
such an idea. He declares. and with rea-
son. that religious instruction can have
no place in schools attended by the chill
dren of Jewish. Catholic. Spiritualist. In.
fdel and free-thinking parents 1t is very
unlikely that this government will evei
consent to such innovation.
Must the children then grow up without
knowledge of the book which has beer
the inspiration of the greatest thinkers
and writer's OF the world? OF course HON,
instruction will amply supply such a de
ficiency, but conditions in many famiiie.
are such that the school must furnish al
the instruction pupil gets. Could no
the Bible be treated merely as a great lit
erary monument, without the knowledge o
which no pupils education is complete
This would not come under the head o
religious instruction: 1t would be purel!
matter OF literature and history. Tn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12

The protest against monarchical forms of
government is silently but surely gaining
strength In every part of Europe. 1t is
probable that the next European country to
throw away it's crown and establish a re-
public will be Spain. The Republican party
In that kingdom is growing stronger every
year; in the recent elections the party car
ried important cities and districts which
had never belonged to it before.
1t is not likely that there will be violent
uprising, or a revolution in the sense in
which that word is generally understood
1t will be a battle of the ballots, bloodless,
but none the less decisive The supporters
of the Republican party are not forcing the
issue, but they working steadily toward
nearer TO it year by year.
The change OF government might have
come before this had not the war with
America stirred up a patriotic resolve to
stand by the throne. Then, too, the move
ment was held back during the minority of
Alfonso because the Queen was a popular
idol. But these things only put off the in
evitable day. When it comes the decision
will be with Alfonso XIII whether Ii Is to
be bloody or peaceable. If he submits. as
did Dom Pedro of Brazil fourteen years
ago. the result will no doubt be as benef-
American nation. If he does not there will
be disastrous war, leaving him with an in
| secure throne or none at all; and the re-
public will come. finally.
The natural trend of popular feeling in
| Spain is aided not little by the unsatis-
| attitude adopted by this Cabinet toward
the strikers in the recent and widespread
labor disturbances has not helped the gov
| eminent party with the masses. Were
Alfonso an experienced ruler and strong
statesman, he might be able to keep off this
| dissatisfaction to the end of his reign
| though even that is matter of doubt.
Spain as a republic is a subject which
furnishes much food for speculation. Many
have supposed that under democratic rule
the Spaniards at home would be as prone to
stir up constant instruction and revolution
| as they are in South America. Yet that
| does not follow. If they get along as well
as do their cousins OF Mexico and Brazil
they will in time establish a firm and pros.
porous government. There will for a Ions
time be Royalist- party, but, once out. II
is difficult TO imagine it back in power
again. Even now there is a Carlist party
but ii has ceased to be OF any weight. The
Alfonsists may be expected to follow it
| TO oblivion.
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Geronimo's Religion.
Washington Letter.

Washington Letter.
Washington spiritual circles have received
with a deep sense OF gratitude and with .
truly pardonable pride the knowledge that
Geronimo the Bad has become a member Of
the same church TO which belongs our
President. Theodore Roosevelt-the good cid
Dutch Reformed. IL was feared for long
time that the Methodists had captured the
Apache chief. The Methodists. through one
of their warlike brethren. General Lawton.
captured Geronimo's body In the years that
are gone. and IL was feared that the same
denomination had laid hold on his soul TO
the exclusion Of the claims OF the goodly
organization which for over two years has
been, so TO speak. the church OF state.
There is one fly In the oil OF spiritual re-
joicing, however. Those who have known
Geronimo intimately and at close range
since his capture learn with sorrow that
Rev Walter c. Roe. who had In hand the
imposing OF the outward visible sign on
Geronimo. simply sprinkled him. What
Geronirso needed, and needed badly. was =
Baptist chaplain and an immersion IN the
good old sousing style CT some distance
beyond the rivers BRINK.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12
EFFICIENCY IN BANK EXAMINATION.

Some recent incidents in bank failures in
this and other States suggest that there is
too much of the perfunctory and too little
Of the exact in the examination of banks
by some government officials. 1t would
seem that the government should exercise
the closest scrutiny over all its national
banks and that the State should give to it's
State banks an equally careful supervision.
National banks are supposed by the peo-
pie to be almost absolutely secure, and
when the failure of national bank occurs
1t shakes confidence, not only in the finan-
ciering and the financial policy of the gov
eminent, but in the very integrity of the
the national bank examiner should be a
man whose knowledge Of banking is suffi-
GENTLY large to give him quick insight into
the general workings of the institution
which he is examining, and whose knowl-
edge of men is sufficiently keen to enable
him to know Immediately the general char
acteristics of the officials with whom he
comes in contact two or three times "a year.
1t would seem that the basis of selection
should be financial ability, quick sagacity,
acquaintance with the details of banking, a
large knowledge of men, and not merely po-
litical influence or claim upon party re-
ward.
Another element which should enter into
the work of the bank examiner is the abil-
ity for quick measurement and careful
study of local conditions. Banking in one
town or city is entirely different from bank
ing in another town sometimes not far re-
moved. In city the credits of the bor-
rowers may be almost Interchangeable from
year to year. based on solid investments,
commercial or industrial business which de-
ponds less on enterprise than close atten-
ton, and where the conditions seldom
change; in another city capital enterprise
and integrity form the basis of business in
almost equal amounts The one Is meas
ured by financial standards and it's two
companion elements all estimated by moral
measurements. An expert bank examiner
should be a man shrewd TO estimate these
different conditions and equally quick to
estimate them as the basis of solid bank
ing 1t behooves the government in all it's
dealings with banks to remember that il
stands before the people as their represent
alive in finding out the secrets of their
administration and In assuring the stabil-
ity of the institutions.
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Now I'd very much like to know how to tell
IL chemise is smart CLEVER demanded a
rash youth who has composed stories and even
poems, but has lately bethought him to coax
coin his way by going into the advertis-
ing business. 81 thought business was business,
and il a put UP good bluff and was
ordinarily clever he'd get there. So he might
If he only wrote about things he understood.
Well. may tell you 1 got in beyond my depth
all right when 1 undertook to write glowing
things about feminine attire One expert spread
before my dazzled eyes a snowy pile of lingerie.
descanting meantime upon umbrella cuts. nine
gore models. straight fronts and enough other
mysterious tommyrot to stagger mere man.
The worst OF it 1 didn't know shorthand
and couldn't take down the senseless gibberish
as she ratified it Off. 1 would like to know,
though IL there's any sense In the lingo. espe-
cally the adjectives. Why is a petticoat smart.
why Is a chemise clever why is a corset cover
chic. and why. oh! why is nightgown adora-
BILE! It's all beyond me, however. / feel sure
I shall never be able to understand 1t ALL and
in the future 1 shall say nay to any woman
reckless enough to intrust with writing up
her indescribable underwear other feminine
paraphernalia ''-Philadelphia Record.
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Concerning Sons.

Mr.. Carnegie is very sorry for rich mems sons
and it is true enough that many of them do not
prove erninently useful citizens: but the young
Goulds and the young vanderbts and good
themselves closely to business. And then, while
Mr.. Carnegie began poor and will have to work
overtime giving away money in order to
avoid the disgrace OF dying rich,' yet millions
Of poor mems sons. aud many of them Scotch
at that do not develop into captains OF industry
or kings of finance. The greater part OF them
never get any farther than their parents did
-PhiladelpLia Record.
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go to make a natural criminal. the pest OF
an army camp. and a blubbering coward or
the battlefield. The qualities OF the good
soldier are the qualities OF the good citizen
that true courage which. under the inspira-
ton of a cause. makes the heart slrong
when the flesh is weak
The murderer, the desperado. the criminal
degenerate good soldier? Bah. The sug-
gestion made by Mayor Harrison reveals
the workings OF the mans mind.
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them. A new system of classifying such
matter has been adopted and Is working
to court. There is more or less legal OPP
position in the courts to the rulings of the
department. but this is expected soon to be
overcome. The fake periodicals usually in
sert something which gives them fictitious
literary or news value, and this makes the
abuse difficult to control. When the matter
is settled it will be another stop toward
wiping out the postoffice deficit.
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Exchange Of Compliments.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox and James Whitcomb
Riley met recently at the Westminster Hotel, In
this city
Mr. Riley" said The poetess of passion, when
1 first attempted to write poetry.
Nothing unpleasant, hope" exclaimed the
Hoosier poet.
You said" continued the poetess, that was
too homely to write poetry"
Ibid ever say that?'
"Yes. you did; or at least it was published as
coming from you. 1t made deep impression on
me. About that time I making a rag doll
for little niece of mine. and 1 not only made
1t, but painted its face. And I made that face
Just as ugly 1 know how and called the doll
James Whitcomb Riley.-New York Times.
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when was out West few weeks ago !
ran across couple OF fellows that used to live
here. Do you remember Billover. who had a
lunch counter around the corner here some time
In 's7?'
Eyes. remember Billover. 1 lent him IS once
and he never paid it,"
That's the same man. He never paid any
body. Well. he's in partnership now with Skim
bridge. who used to keep a hardware store in
the next block. Remember Skimbridge?''
mo. I've forgotten him. I guess he never
borrowed any money of me."-Chicago Tribune
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Objected to Technicalities

Captain Hobson's proposition to have the coun-
try spend S. $50 900 battleships in the next
twenty years reminded Col. Pete Hepburn,
of Iowa, of the Populist who held a joint de-
bate with the late Judge Cuberson Of Texas.
The Populist talking Of the need of money.
He said
And yet. in the face of this crying need OF
money. the trust-ridden government at Wash
ington every year macerates billions Of dollars
in bills-billions my friends billions
'See here" said Judge Culberson. don't you
mean millions?"
Now, Judge Culberson." the Populist
shouted you can't win this campaign by re-
sorting to technicaiities. New York World.
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Third Assistant Postmaster General Mad
den speaks encouragingly of his efforts to
check the abuses OF the second-class mail
privilege. In his report he gives an ex-
tended list of books which have gone
through the mails as periodicals. thus d.
verting from the department a large sum
which should have come from third-class
matter. The greatest abuse of the second
class privilege, however. has been by So
called magazines and newspapers which
contain nothing but advertising. Mr.. Mad
den states that In many cases it costs the
government more to carry these publica-
tons than It does the publishers to produce
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The unarmed man Is as safe as possible IL he
gun is reckless and generally comes to grief
whether he shoots somebody or gets shot. To
carry a pistol Is evidence OF either weakness
or cowardice. both: the gun play proclaims
the poltroon. the bully. the puppy. shun the
man with the pistol habit; most frequently he 10
a staggering smart-aleckl Always he is a men,
ace to his fellow-men-an sver-ready instrument
OF trouble and q promoter Of wos.-st. Joseph
News.