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1t is generally slim and 1.-THE in shape,
with rosy checks. large, soulful eyes and
glossy hair. and 1t has a cunning little way
when it observes a person watching it Of
assuming an expression of superhuman
innocence.
1t has little or no intelligence, but a Ger
tain instinct of shrewdness that enables il
to always get the best of everything.
Most people who own Debutantes spend
vast sums OF money in having them taught
parlor tricks.
Some of these. like dancing. they learn to
do quite cleverly and entertainingly, and
occasionally one is taught to do stunts on
the piano. but they seem unable to acquire
the art of Ineligible conversation. their
efforts In this direction consisting merely
of a series OF hysterical exclamations and
glggles that soon get on the nerves OF
women, though men seem to endure 1t with
much equaninlity.
The habits Of the Debutante arc we'll
worthy of study, because this apparently
artless and simple little creature has been
gifted by nature with the most extraOr-
binary power of getting there. and a foxi-
ness that has baftied the power of man
to penetrate.
The only reliable rma that we
have on this subject Is furnished by a fe-
male investigator, who declares that the
way the Debutante does the trick ia by
cuddling up to a man and purring when he
stTohtS Htl poilpduOui, at tut SdLie tlHIe
turning on him a look of boundless admira-
ton. infantile wonder and deathiess devo-
ton.
This causes the man to feel that he would
be a brute to refuse his pet anything, and
he forthwith becomes its slave.
1t is also most instructive to watch how
the Debutante builds its home.
1t does not. az do 80 many industrious
animals, go out and gather sticks and
stones and art furniture and ~bric-a-brac
for itself. No.
On the contrary. 1t realizes that it is
much easier To have a good. kind master
than it is to hustle for a living. so it
snuggles up to a nice. benevolent, rich old
gentleman OF 70, who thinks how much
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RECENT COM


The Independent.
As responsible government must exist the world over.
the United States cannot object when European Powers
hold South American states strictly responsible for dam
ages. There are two reasons why the United States. in
consequence Of having adopted the Monroe policy. must
attempt to prevent an appeal to arms by European ma
tons against Il Latin American state. War presuppoSes
a risk of all, and by the terms of the Monroe Doctrine a
Latin American state cannot risk its territorial integrity.
Moreover, often in an appeal TO arms the victor himself
fixes the amount of his claims; and, were this permitted.
claims of a crushing magnitude would undoubtedly be adj
vanced in many cases.
However. arbitration to be effective may require the
use of coercive measures or even extensive administrative
activity within the debtor state. Moreover. 1t will often be
necessary TO review the proceedings of local courts in or
der that full justice may be done. Should a state become
totally bankrupt and inefficient, the United States would
have either to take over its affairs or turn them over to
another Power, the creditor nation. This is most likely to
happen in the region within which our own interests are
already most prominent.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-11
-
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
TO-DAY IN ST. LOUIS.

. From The Republic. January II 1875.
Q The st. Louis Dental Society. at
. its annual meeting, elected as officers
. Doctors a. II. Fuller, J. Ward Hall, 4
Q H.. Judd, y. e. Stark and G. y. Bow
. man.
o The North En- Club gave its first
Q hop at Avenue Hall. Ninth street and
q Washington avenue. The committee
Q in charge was composed of c. H.
Q Nandeventer. j. H. Harrington, j. 4
Q Van Sternherg. J.. Sweeney. c. B. Nc
. Cormick, Ed Porath. Ed La Beaume.
. j. l.. smith. {. l.. Hull and NJ. Park,
. Jr.
q Miss Maude BERGMAN was appointed 4
. a teacher in the Normal School.
q Pride Of the West Lodge of odd 4
Q Fellows. at Belleville. installed as
. officers Robert Berthmann, Il. c. Da- 4
Q Wis, Andrew Johnson and Z. w. Ow- 4
Q ems.
. The Olympic Social Club gave a
. dance at the st. James Hotel.
. Stanislaus de la Fec. Il ragpicker. 4
q who occupied a dingy cellar at No.
. 6i South Seventh street. was discov-
cred by the police 10 possess more
. than S1.0D cash and nine trunks full
= of fine clothing. 4
= The Combination Social Club gave
q a hop at Mahler's Hall, under the d. 4
. rection OF James McCash, Robert J.. 4
. Henry, Hugh Quinn, C.. L. Scott and
. H. A. Nolte. 4
. Five of the leaders in the riot of
. the previous summer were released
. from Jail.
. John Mcmahon. a w%ell-known 4
. wrestler. was snot by a woman and
= seriously wounded.
. The MIuiianphy Board authorized 4
. the expenditure Of $-O.Uy0 in improv-
. ing vacant property. 4
. crstant owen F%inncgan of the
Fourth Police District and Sergeant 4
SULLIVAN of th- Central District 4
. changed places. 4
. The police caught three negroes 4
who had six bags fuil of ducks.
. The Diamond 10 Line placed two
. light-draft boats in the Chippewa 4
= River trade.
. No trace was found OF Peter 4
. Schmidt, a weli-known bachelor, liv- 4
. ing at Fifth and Morgan streets, who I
. had been missing for six days. 4
Captain r. F. O'Neil OF Detroit ar 4
. rived to i~naugurate a crusade for 4
. temperance under the auspices of the 4
st. Louis Reform Club. 4
. a benefit performance was given at q
. the Olympic Theater for Charles .
. Piunkett. comedian. &
. Friends Of Mark Twain we're ad- Z
. vised that he had accepted the edi- .
tor!al management of the Hartford .
. Comm Courant.
Inc Benoist building at the south 4
y west corner of Seventh and Olive 4
. streets was completed.
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Missouri's Poultry Industry.

Iesles Monthly for January.
The growth OF the poultry industry in this country is
one of the wonders of the time. As a producer of wealth
the American hen is A marvel. To illustrate the increased
earning powers Of this industrious autocrat of the barn
yard, it may be stated that in Missouri. during the last
fiscal year. the sum derived from the sale of poultry and
eggs ran $1,000 ahead Of all the other products of the
State combined. The totals show that the old hen, ne
elected and left by the farmer to forage for herself while
he devoted his attention to the field crops, outstripped them
all. including corn. wheat, oats, fax, timothy seed. clover
seed, millet seed, cane seed, castor beans. cotton seed, to-
bacco, broom corn, hay and straw. This is an astonishing
statement. but q true one. Missouri furnished New Eng
land with its Thanksgiving dinner last year, despite the
fact that the latter Is the cradle of the thoroughbred
poultry industry in the United States.
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The Place of Prayer in Public Worsh

Chrlstlan ENangcHst.
Do We, as ministers. give sufficient attention TO our pull
pit prayers? The prayer. not the sermon, is the best test
of a true minister. If were on a committee for pulpit
supply I might not ask to hear the candidate preach, but
l would certainly want to hear him pray. Prayer is a bet
ter index of the heart than the sermon. In the prayer you
get nearer to the real man. The long prayer, especially at
the morning service, is one OF the most important factors
of the worship. Some people go to church just for that
prayer. 1t contains all they need, or II not. leads them up
TO the gates of glory where every want is supplied. Some
ministers will never delegate this morning prayer to an
other. The sermon-oh, yes. anybody can preach that:
but the sacred privilege of taking his people upon his heart,
with all their sins and heartaches, and bearing them aloft
to the fountain of all comfort-that Is his birthright as a
minister. To delegate that to a stranger would be 10 rob
his people Of what ought to be their most cherished
privilege and blessing.
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IS suitable for women should be open to
them.
And when I see Lancashire make girls
work In the coal mines. | may ask, What
work is there that woman cannot do?
God forbid that l should be in favor of
women working in the mines: but this IS
not necessary.
There are so many men who do a kind Of
work that women should do. and could do
just as well If not better. that there should
be no question of any kind of work done
by women which men could do better.
The earth was meant to keep her children.
and she would IL everybody, man or wom-
an. were in his or her right place.
The supply is all there. and all right. but
1t is its distribution which is all wrong.
The same may be said of work.
There should be in this world work for
all and bread for all. men or women; only
the poor Inhabitants of this globe have not
yet been able TO obtain a proper division
of the goods which they have inherited
from nature.
Thanks to the discoveries of science. and
the openings of new markets, opportunities
for work increase every day, but men and
women are like children in n room full of
~toys-they all make a rush for those which
tempt them most. and fight and Gle in Or
Ger to obtain them.
In the presence Of all the careers open to
them. they rush toward the most easy to
follow or the most brilliant
Agriculture is forsaken by men, who pre-
fer swaggering in towns with top hats and
frock coats instead of initiating in Their
own country the virile, valiant men of the
new worlds who fell forests. reclaim the
land and are the advanced pioneers of civil
%ization.
They prefer being clerks or shop assist
ants.
Instead of taking a pickax. working a
piece of land and making It their own. they
prefer taking a pen and adding from . a
m. till 3 or 6 p. m. dollars and cents which
do not belong TO them.
The result Is that they overcrowd the
cities, and women can often obtain no work
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WRITTEN o II SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
An intelligent locking man said TO me:
This earth is a big thing and / don't like
to hear YOU make comparisons to its dis
advantage.
Astronomy doesn't interest me when it
makes me feel small
IF astronomy makes you feel small" l
replied, the fault must he in yourself.
The natural effect Of astronomical study
is to magnify ones conception Of the reach
of the human intellect
Mar only shrinks into actual insigniti-
canoe when he foolishly Identifies himself
with his little speck of a planet, and fails
to perceive that the earth limits merely his
physical powers and not at all that which
is his real self-his mind
IF YOU are sensitive about the relative
li,tleness of the earth, and dislike to have
attention drawn to it. that only proves that
YOU have staked your entire interests upon
terrestrial affairs and do not care to look
beyond"
d YOU mean to suggest" asked the
man. that it can do me any good to know
that the planet Jupiter is a thousand times
bigger than the earth?
What benefit 90 I get from that?
Il can't go to Jupiter. and yet when you
tell me this globe is only a football besides
it 1 become dissatisfied with the earth"
THE reason probably is" l replied. that
you feel an itching to get hold Of the real
estate of so large a world as Jupiter.
You are like the financial dictator OF some
country village who. when he thinks of the
millions controlled by a great city banker.
finds his hundred thousand dollar pile look
ing very small.
1T doesn't please him to listen to uncom-
Portable comparisons to the disadvantage
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Studies in Natural History: DOROTHY DIX.

con.Dary II would be 10 have such a nice
little pet beside him on long winter even
ings at home. and takes 1t IN OUT ol Il
cold.
In this the kind old gentleman is fro
ouentlv mistaken, for domestic pets are
generally social creatures. and IKE 10 90
about. but, at any rate. the Debntante mas
landed.
The chief characteristic Of the Deoutante
is it's Stiffness.
II spends its time reading sentimental
novels and devouring candy and pickles
which form the staple of Its food.
1t also is afflicted with a case OF worship
of some matinee actor and writes hlh
compromising love letters. and has a mama
for f~ancying itself in love witt any man
who has dark eyes. a black mustache ana
a bloodthirsty expression.
In reality the Debutante Is quite harm
less, but no one should ever be allowed out
without being led on a string, a precautlon
which Is unfortunately frequently neglected.
a regularity of the Debutante is Its e1-
IRENE selfishness-
II thinks of nothing but its own pleasure
and cares nothing for the sufferings OF oth-
erS.
The sad sight may often be observed OF a
bored father dragging around Europe at a
Debutante's heels. or a poor mother sitting
IN until she is ready TO faint in an opera
box merely TO make a background Tot one
pehutantc= are also one Of the few known
| animals that always scratch at each other
on sight.
pebutantes are extremely expensive pets,
the possession of one frequently reducing q
family to bankruptcy.
The fac FOR them. strange to say. IS H.
most entirely among men, and a curious
thing has been noted in this connection
i G.. that the older man grows the more
he fancies these kittenish little creatures.
men in their dotage being proverhial for
their devotion to them.
The display of Debutantes at the opera Il
unusually good this year.
Copyright. 1902, by W. r. Hearst. Great Brit
ain Rights Reserved
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CHANCES OF LIFE.

By scrutinizing the figures for 1902 at the Cor
Oners office, relating 10 accidents from railway and
street traffic, the st. Louisan may reduce to a GER
tainty approaching mathematical his chances for sur
viving the strenuous life another year. And his
chances, compared with the New Workers. or Chi
cagoan's, are good.
One hundred and eighty-three deaths resulted from
accidents last year in street traffic. Though the total
when the extent of traffic and the size Of population
are considered.
The Terminal Company, whose quota was forty
three deaths, operates seventy-five miles of track
within the city limits. The Suburban's deaths num-
bered eleven, with nineteen miles of track. Eighty
three deaths were caused by Transit Company acct
dents, upon a trackage Of more than three hundred
miles. Wagons and other vehicles killed forty-three
persons. One death only may be laid to automobiles.
Steam and electric railway cars numbering several
thousands, with a total mileage Of not less than two
hundred thousand miles per day, are run in a city of
over six hundred thousand people, a large proportion
Of whom are constantly upon the streets. Added to
the thousands Of cars are many thousands Of vehicles.
There are twenty-one thousand licensed vehicles in
the city, and presumably several thousand without
licenses.
Out Of six hundred Thousand persons subjected to
killed every two days. A glance at the specific caus-
es of tho accidents shows that carelessness on the
part Of the injured was in a large number of cases
directly to blame. Vehicles without lights colliding
with street cars at night caused many deaths.
The careful mans chances for life in st. Louis
are as good to-day as those Of people anywhere, and
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-11

WRITTEN % THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
There are too many men in the world"
once exclaimed II. Taine.
This was only Il joke, but there is a great
deal of truth in it.
There are. in France especially, far too
many men engaged in official Government
offices. in professional occupations and in
stores: too many doctors without patients;
too many lawyers without cases: too many
functionaries. each doing little or nothing
and the others seeing that he does it: too
many men in stores showing women
dresses. silks and gloves.
And the woman hater exclaimed: No
wonder men cannot find Il living to make:
all the occupations that once were filled by
men are now monopolized by women.
The hearth is deserted. the street crowd
sd-,hatts the triumph of modern feminin-
ism"
On the other hand. some feminists. more
royalist than the King. exclaim:
Woman should be kept in clover. the
protege of humanity. and never be allowed
10 work"
And taken between two fire., poor wom-
en- are ready to shout at the top of their
voices: Save us from our friends as we'll
as from our enemies
1t is a fact that at a recent congress Of
Socialists an orator declared himself in IA
yor of the suppression of work for women.
But women do want to work, and many
of them married. too.
If what husbands earn is not enough to
maintain the family or keep it in comfort.
they are partners. and they wish to con
tribute to the revenue.
II they are not married, they want to
support themselves or help to keep aged
parents; many of them prefer their indie
pendence to m~atrimonv, which not uncom-
monty turns out to be about the hardest
way for a woman to get a living.
Women have 4 right to work "a they
have a right to live. and every work which
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WRITTEN . THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
The Debutante-our study OF the fauna
of different lands now brings us to what
is without doubt the most interesting an
imal in the world. viz. The Debutante.
This graceful and beautiful creature is
found only in Europe and America, the
superior civilization of Asia and Africa
having enabled them TO provide against
the Importation of an animal whose raw
ages on the family finances are worse than
a visit of the Seventeen Locusts.
In Europe the Debutante is much admired
and greatly esteemed as a household pet.
but 1t is the custom among families who
possess one to keep it in the background
and tie it up when company calls. This is
not only To prevent visitors from stealing
it, hut to give Elder Sister and Mamma
a chance.
Among the simple people who inhahit
America. however. the Debutante is wor-
SHIPPED as a fetch. or goddess, and not
only is it given the best of everything to
eat and drink and wear, but living sacri-
fees are offered up to it. and it is no un-
common thing 10 see a whole family groan-
ing and suffering on its altar.
Unfortunately. the Debutante has never
been properly classified. nor is much au-
thcnticaliy known concerning the species,
owing to tho fact that az soon as a sclen-
tlSt began TO STUDY one at tiust ltilSc' 50
as to note its personal appearance and
ways. he went off of his head. and his fur
Their Observations were comparatively val
ueless as data.
In the state of non compos mentis thus
produced til" most learned. and hitherto ac-
curate. students of nature have been known
TO classify the Debutante as a 'Duckie" or
an "Arge,," whereas the most curSory
knowledge of the subject will show. even
TO the lay mind. that all of this species
affiliations are with the goose (eirlibus slli-
bus,. which il greatly resembles. especially
in the formation of the brain.
In appearance the Debutante. as has been
said. is so irrepressibly charming as to
make every one desire to possess such j
beautiful pet.
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Thirty prominent Young lawyers have solennly
banded themselves together for the purpose of study
ing Blackstone. Their announced purpose is by no
means Il confession of ignorance. but signifies a com
m"ndahle desire to form the acquaintance of the i'm
mortal .juriSt. TO whom il must he considered they
thus pay highest tribute. In every sense the under
taking is laudahle. Possibly the Young members
and the od-of the medical profession may he in
Spired by the example of their legal brethren Ia study
Gray's Anatomy and other fundamental works. The
immunity will applaud all movements toward pro-
fcssional education.
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On the Coroner's books the death of Il certain
street laborer is included in the list of street-car IA
talitics. The man had been celebrating the Fourth
of July rather gloriously, and on the day following
was working on the Frisco bridge ut Nandeventcr
avenue. An approaching car. Il block away. caused
him to jump thirty feet to the ground. which jump
resulted in death. On the principle of giving the
Transit Company its due. the Coroner should erase
this particular item. Without this. the company will
still have to answer many charges.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-11

England's new drink act. which went into opera
ton January |. is worthy of attention by large
communities. Drunkards are arrested upon com
plant. First otfenses are lightly punished, or par
doncd upon promise of good behavior. Serious of
Tenders are placed under bond not 10 purchase or
drink intoXicants. IIahitual drunkards are given
long sentences. imprisoned for n time and then
parolcd under surveillance. At the first indication of
drunkenness they are returned to serve out their
terms. Although severe. the law is humane in all re
spects. 1t allows the individual every opportunity 10
reform himself. and ut the same time drunkenness is
made a grave crime.
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Love and Logic.
Puck.

PUCK.
A man Of great native ~shrewdness. albeit quite unre-
fined. had occasion in the course Of business to propose
marriage to a beautiful girl.
But faltered the beautiful girl. who was not born yes
terday, herself. you are a bourge OILS boor, while l am ex-
tremely sensitive. You would make me very unhappy"
Now the man being. as already intimated. very shrewd.
did not lose his head and promise to reform.
On the contrary.
Certainly" auoth he. IF you marry me. you won't
have any trouble finding a publisher for your diary"
Of course the beautiful girl could not stand up against
any such logic as this. and so they were married.
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ly do for shipping what the telegraph has done for
railroading.
These probabilities. however. are doubtless far
short Of the wizard dreams in the inventors brain.
W hat he contelLl'iates as the actual and complete con
sequences OF perfect developments would perhaps
daze and confuse the average mind lust as fen years
ago the announcement of wireless teIegraphy would
have done. We live in an age of unceaSing and in
creasing wonders to which NIarconi has very largely
contributed, and will further contribute.
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American Diplomacy.
Gunton's Magazine.

OU11IUN s NIdSdZTIe-
diplomatic system with that of the Old World American
democracy is uniting its diplomatic forces with that of the
effect of the dwinding residue of that same oppressive sys-
tenn which provoked Monroe's declaration. Along this line
We are assuming a share in the diplomatic management Of
the affairs of the word. We are beginning to blend and
harmonic our unit of force with the greater unit of the
world. We are actively becoming a world power.
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wanted Flame. Extinguished.

Mahanoy City. Pa, Jan. lN-John tos-
took. a Colliery fireman at Silver BROOK.
suicide at his home by sending
a bullet into his heart.
The muzzle was held so close to his
bosom that the shot icnited his shirts. His
last words were an appeal to his wife to ey-
tinguish the burning garments.
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Mr.. Wilberforce, on leaving for Europe. turned
over his Who's Who people to the tender keeping of
John kendrick Bangs. Already Bangs has trans
ported Chauncey Depcw over the Styx and introduced
him to DemostheneS. No doubt when MI. WiIber-
force returns from Europe he will discover that all
his characters have gone to join Depew.
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even the careless man runs small risk. a few ac-
cidcnts are inevitable Notwithstanding the greatest
care. To these only is the careful man subjected.
AS for reckless persons, they are always liable to in
jury. whether far from the madding crowd or in the
heart of travel,