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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27

then, in order TO compete with Them persons who
desire to ride from the eastern terminus of the line
and who would under ordinary circumstances board
the car there, must walk several blocks west and
ride around the circuit as we'll In other words, the
man who desires to board westbound car at the
beginning of its trip finds that the company has
filled the beforehand with eastbound pas
sengers riding free, to whom, although occupying
the same relations to the company, 1t has allowed
an unequal advantage. If the passengers who come
around the loop have paid fares, then the, say,
Fourth street passenger cannot complain. If they
have not paid fares. then they not mere hold
overs and can it be said that the company fulfills
its duty to provide cars for the strictly and tech
nically 'westbound' passengers? Should not all
persons be placed upon the same basis and be given
an equal chance for seats at the beginning of the
trip?
Can the question of locality affect the rights of
passengers? Can one person by boarding the car
at given point be said to acquire rights superior
to those Of another person who gets on elsewhere?
Is not the man who boards at any point on
the line entitled to equal treatment with every
other person? Can he be said to receive that treat
ment when the company permits the seats to be
cupied in advance by persons who have not paid
fares and who therefore in the contractual sense,
have not been passengers?
From the standpoint Of those who ride around
the loop-if they have paid fares they have been
entitled to be carried to the end of the down trip,
at the completion of which the company has full
filled its contract with them. By retaining and re-
naming in their seats they rghtfully and properly
become passengers for the outward trip, for which
the company is entitled to collect another fare.
Their relationship is as 1t were, renewed at the
completion of the down trip and the commencement
Of the outward trip, and they may hold over their
seats to the rightful exclusion of other persons
But If they have not paid fares, what are their
relations to the company and towards passengers
who enter at the commencement of the out trip?
They cannot be said to be passengers on the down
trip, for they pay no fare and they enter the car
only for the purpose Of becoming passengers ON
the outward trip. 1t is for the outward trip alone
that they pay later on, and they do not strictly be-
come passengers until after the completion Of the
downward trip; until the outward trip is COM
menced. Unless their entrance at prior point is
to be taken constructive entrance passengers
at the point of commencement of the outward trip
proposition manifestly absurd-how can they be
said properly to acquire advantage over later
passengers?
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
TO-DAY IN ST. LOUIS.

. From The Republic, December Is. 1878
q The Harmonic Society sang the
o oratorio. Messiah" at the Mer-
. camille Library Hall, under the d.
. rection Of R. Goldbeck. with 2. N.
. Bowman. organist. The soloists
. were Miss Helen Ames. Miss Min
. ME Curtis. Charles C. Allen and
q A D. Cunningham.
. The fifth annual bail for the
= benefit of the Police Poor Fund
. took place at Masonic Hall. Mayor
. c. c. Rainwater was chairman Of
y the Committee Of Arrangements
= and Captain Tom ONeil had
= charge of the ticket Office. Among
= the committeeman were: Erastus
. Wells. Jerry Fruin. Craig Alex
q ander. Larry Harrfgan. j. B. C.
q Lucas. Chester II. Krum, Mayor
. Henry Overstolz. r. P. Tansey,
. Silas Bent. NJ. A. Rosenblatt. Will
. liam H. Stone. Isaac Cook, Joseph
D Brown. General J. W. Turner, John
. D. Fanney. A. z. Faust, Laclede
. Howard. John Kennard. Socrates
. Newman. J.. G. Butler. ]. G.. Pra- 5
= Their. c. I. Fflley, A. L. Priest, II.
. Clay Sexton. Leslie A Moffat, ]. J.
= II. Mclean. John McGovern, J. C.
. Franklin and Monroe A. Ennis.
D General William Shields. Collector
, OF Water Rates. was seriously Iii.
D CELSIUS Price became interested In I
, granite company at No. 1911 Wash
, ington avenue
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BROAD PHILANTHROPY OF THE AMERICAN
MILLIONAIRE WHO WAS ONCE PENNILESS.


WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC
1t Is the proud boast of the millionaires
Of the United States that they have made
their own fortunes by their own exertions,
thrift and economy.
Very few of them are indebted to their
primogenitors for even the foundations of
their wealth.
BY far the greater number have begun
on nothing, and have been obliged to earn
their daily bread by the sweat of their
brows in the beginning Of their life work.
Pride in their achievement is pardon
able. and too much credit cannot be ac-
corded to honorable men who have been
successful In any career.
If they have acquired fame in any par
ticular line It is generally at the expense
Of their opportunities to heap up riches, as
all mankind Is allotted but brief tire in
this world. and 1t is exceptional If it can
be employed in many directions.
If devoted to such vocations as enable
them to make money they cannot at the
same time cultivate the mind and accom-
I.iish much in the matter Of acquiring
fame in literature, politics or the profess
sions.
Successful men are alike entitled to great
credt.. and when they are pleased to use
their resources for the benefit Of mankind
it is all the more trustworthy Of them.
We hear continue lily severe criticism Of
rich men. They are accused of all sorts
Of trickery in the trade, Of being selfish
and rniserly, Of parsimoEious dealings and
many ether Gins.
1t may be that some Rave been all these
things and many more. and yet from their
standpoint OF right may have done many
noble deeds that were not advertised to
the four winds.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Meeting a friend who was shivering in
an icy wind the other day, said to him:
1--WE are about three million miles near
er the sun that we were last July"
1.-THE deuce we arei'' he replied. Then
why in thunder is 1t so cold? Is the sun
going out?"
Not at all, and IL you will moderate
your expressions and come in by the fire,
I'll explain the paradox. But you ought
to know the reason without being told"
II used to know, believe" he returned,
"but I've forgotten all about it, and I
never quite understood it, anyhow"
made little drawing. after we were
seated before the fireplace. to illustrate
the fact that the earth can be nearer by
100000 miles to the sun and yet so much
colder over half its surface; that winter
takes the place of summer in spite Of the
approach of the great orb that furnishes
all the heat.
You must know, in the first place."
said, that it is not the nearness of the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
DOES IT PAY TO INDULGE IN THE
HABITS THAT WEAKEN CHARACTER?
BY ELLA wHBE3LER WILCOX.

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Ihls is question I would like every
man who reads these lines to ask himself.
IL, IN his inmost conscience, he finds that
the words l am about to write apply to
him.
A great tragedy in court circles recently
occurred; Princess of royal blood killed
the paramour Of her husband
The wife was only a score of years old,
and she had been married to the man of
her choice only two years.
She was young, beautiful and loving;
she mad signed away her right to the
throne in order to marry the man she
loved.
She was an expectant mother.
Yet all these proofs of her devotion and
sincerity did not awaken in her hus-
bands heart sufficiently high sense of
manly honor and pride to keep him from
allowing a physical passion for another
woman to dominate him
And, to make the insult to his young
VIE still moro pronounced. he brought
the actress who had inflamed his desires
to his home-under the same roof with
his wife.
The wife learned of the intrigue. and
In moment of terrible anger-that an
ger which is insanity-killed her rival.
Did the giving way to physical infatu-
alton at the sacrifice of all noble ideals
pay the husband?
Hundreds of men who read these words
are tempted from within and from with
out to yield to fascination similar to that
which placed Prince Otto of Hapsburg
before the world to-day in the role of the
most contemplate man living.
Men by nature. habit and the custom of
society are subjected to such temptations,
and have always held to the belief that
they were less reprehensible when they
yielded than a woman under similar con-
ditions.
Putting that question aside, the one
question for married man to ask him
self is, Does it pay? Does 1t pay to fol-
low every impulse of the desires and ap-
petites and passions, and to weaken the
will power and vitiate the moral fiber by
self -indulgence7
Does it pay to deceive a woman who
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pendicularly. they have their greatest
effect, and vice versa
The next thing to consider Is the fact
that owing to remarkable principle in
mechanics-which you can see In opera
ton in a spinning top or in a gyroscope-
the axis around which the earth revolves
points In the same absolute direction, no
matter where the earth may be IN its
yearly revolution about the sun. Now. this
axis is inclined about 2315 degrees to the
plane Of the earth's orbit. or, what IL the
same thing for our purposes, to the d.
rection OF the sun.
Since, as have just said. the axis re-
mains fixed in position, 1t follows that
while the earth Is going round the sun
one end Of the axis (say. the north end OF
the North Pole. as we call it). will DO In
clined toward the sun at one time Of the
year and away from the sun at Just the
opposite time of the YEAR
Copyright. 1909 by ". r. Hearst. Great
Britain rights reserved.
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loves and trusts you, or to defy her and
argue that your nature Is one requiring
more license and indulgence than hers?
Would it not eventually bring you more
happiness were you to control those law
less impulses by the exercise of your high
er nature, and to live up to the ideal of
the woman who loves you?
1t will become easier each time you re-
sist, just as 1t will become more and more
difficult each time you yield.
Think 1t over. and ask yourself which
pays best. as you recall the tragedies oc-
curing daily in the world through this
self-indulgence of human beings
Then there is the qualification and pleas
ure you find in the drink habit.
Does that pay?
You gain half hour, or perhaps two or
three hours, of mirth and freedom from
care. and then you go home to pain, grieve
or disgust some loving woman-mother,
wife or daughter, perhaps all three.
You do this only once in awhile. per-
haps. and say that woman should be lib
eral-minded enough not to make scene
over such an occurrence. I agree with
you that the wise woman treats a man
who is. as a rule, sober and kind, with
great care when he first yields to the
weakness of drink. She should think of
him as something to pity and help until
he is sober and able to reason about hts
conduct. Then she should not hesitate to
make him realize. as quietly and kindly
as possible. how he has fallen In her esti-
nation, and how he has hurt her pride
and respect.
Men are in the habit of making a Jest
of such lapses, and they think a woman
hard-hearted and narrow-minded who re-
CARDS them as tragedies.
But while a tender and loving woman
will treat a drunken man with pity and
consideration, she cannot feel the same
admiration and respect and pride, which
are elements in every great love.
Aside from hurting her feelings and
wounding her heart, the husband or IA
Their who frequently comes home intod-
Gated digs ditch at the foundation on
which his happiness Is laid-the solid re-
spect and admiring love Of the women Of
his household
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REST. AND BE THANKFUL.

Activities are converted into fun and the world
is allowed to run on of its own impetus during the
holiday season; switch off the power and let the
momentum of the fywheel carry us through 1t
is delightful period of Responsibility delightful
even though some things go wrong for want of
normal attention. delightful should the expert
ence seem to prove that it's good thing Christmas
comes but once year. It's a good thing, though
that 1t does come at least once. There is q world
full of weary people at the flag end of the year. and
the people constitute the worlds moving machin-
cry However strong and active it seems to be going
and however high the tension power is really eb-
bling fast, and Arrest intervenes most happily.
Even OVERRIDING the relaxation business is better
than not relaxing at all, If we must have extremes
and it's pretty generally conceded among us
Americans that we must The comparison between
the young American overstuffed with Christmas
plum pudding and rueful thereat and the poor fell
low without single taste Of Christmas is over
whelmingly in favor of the former
One fairly good way Of relaxing by the way. is
to give heed to the people whom Prosperity and
Santa Claus and the. whole troupe Of Christmas
joys have snubbed and passed by-people whose
holiday guests are grim specters and whose reyels
consist Of Poverty's pranks in an empty cupboard
and Wants jests before a cold fireplace In the
barenness of such there is rare opportunity
forthe man with just little generosity who would,
IN an unconventional way, taste the real joys of
the holidays. There's where "a little money would
do the most good" to borrow the phrase from our
philantropical friends, the politicians. If you seek
relaxation, If you would temper the sordidness of
things with little Of hearts best feeling, take
thought for such darkly unfortunate people-but do
not stop with taking thought; take something else
II you can't take it yourself and personally taste
the blessedness Of giving, you will find any one of
our organized charities than willing to take it
for you contribution to the Provident Associ-
ation o. to some other equally worthy society is
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Does 1t pay?
Then there Is the delight men find in the
| gaming table.
I believe cards have helped many a
brain-fagged man to keep his mind from
| business, and his nervous system from
collapse.
I believe clubs are good institutions.
But does it pay to make the homo Sec
ondary to the club, and to become so de-
bauched with the gaming mania that you
sit at the table night after night until
dawn, and rush through your business In
order to get back to the club?
Does it pay to let the habit grow upon
you until you find any other amusement
bore, and an evening at home so per-
ceptible tax upon you that it destroys
its pleasure for your family?
Aside from the fact that you are de-
stroying your better nature. your real i'm
mortal qualities. by self-indulgence in all
or any of the habits herein enumerated,
does the pleasure you get out Of them pay
you for all they cost yourself and others
dear to you?
If not. why not right-about-face, and
start over in new line Of conduct?
You need not be "goody-goody man.
you need not shut yourself from all world
ly pleasures, or give up everything but
duty.
Suppose you try how 1t seems to be faith
full to your marriage vows. to avoid cross
ing the line of sober self-control, and to
leave the club and the card table by mid
night, and to pass three or four evenings
with your family each week. Suppose you
try this for one year. and see whether 1t
lila T. A.
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One Thing Saved.

Blue Ridge OOD Post
An old negro in neighborhood town arose in PRAYER
meeting and said: Breddern and sisterin. been a
mighty mean niger In my time. I had a heap err ms
and Enthusiastically downs-since lined de church 7
stoled chickens and watermillins cussed got drunk
shot craps slashed udder with my razor an,
done er sight or udder things, but thank the good
Lawd bredderin and sisterin never yet lost INV re-
lgion."
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RECENT COMMENT.
What West Point Turns Gu,

New Orleans Pcayune.
broad general classification the graduates of the
Military Academy up to date shows West Point has
given us President and candidates for President s
Presidential Electors and members the Cabinet @
diplomatic representatives members Congress- 122
other Federal officers IS Governors and Lieutenant Gov
errors IS members Of State Legislatures 1 and
17S military officers Of States, "a city officials go educa
tors. S railroad officials 2s civil engineers 24 Judges
and lawyers q cergymen members of other pro-
fessions S business go farmers and planters and
172 authors.
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Governor Yate.'. oner to H.neoy.

Chicago Record Herald
In reckless disregard for public opinion and in gross
violation of elemental decency there is nothing the
whole volume of executive act which reveals Governor
Yatess breach of faith with the people of Illinois that
will compare to his announced offer of position on the
Superior bench 10 former Judge Ebridge Hanecy
On this act alone the people may safely base their
Indictment of the present Governor Illinois Other
grevous betrayals of the public confidence are charged
to his weakness and Stupidity this latest aront
to public decency has neither weakness
to palliate It.
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The Beast,

The Beast.
New Orleans Tmes-Democrat.
1 the Beauty and the Beast
Together once again to-day,
She called him dear" and sweet" For me
She had word to give away.
He wadded at her tiny heels
Old. stupid, surly, fat ard Snug
OF all the Beasts earth hate
The Beauty's favored Beast-her pug
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comfortable kind of compromise with conscience
that should tend to improve many mans holiday
spirit. Relaxation of the purse strings-"ettng 60
of something in favor of the starving, sick and dis
tressed-is good enough relaxation for anybody.
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Governor Yates adds to his popularity by appoint
ing to Supreme bench vacancy Judge Elbridge
Hanecy, whom Chicago turned down by 10000 ma
jority This is the habit by which the Illinois Gov
ernor usually increases his popularity and the way
he takes to convince himself that the people want
him.
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The Humane Society of Topeka is after two en-
ployes of circus for feeding dogs to the menagerle
lions. Maybe the Beef Trust has forced the kings
Of animaldom to furnish diet which was formerly
confined to the noble red man.
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WET stream that winds through yon-
der glade,
Apt emblem OF virtuous maid
Silent and chaste she steals along,
Far from the worlds gay, busy throng,
With gentle yet prevailing force,
Intent upon her destined course;
Graceful and useful oil she does.
Blessing and blest where'er she goes;
Pure bosomed as that watery glass,
And heaven reflected in her face! !.
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There is comfort in the thought that New Years
Day is whole week distant from Christmas. Ear
drums may be rested and repaired in the interim.
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Reyes has advised his people against war. If
Reyes continues to be good he may even be invited
to dinner with the President
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WI Tng-fang exclaims, ooh, WI is me-" HI
appreciates the disadvantages Of being governed by
a kind of imperial Hetty Green.
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City officials who received gold emblems as
presents must be faithful and Industrious to live up
to their rewards But those who received punch
bowls hunt for other incentives
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And said w. B. Carr further says that the number
OF copies returned and reported unsod during the month
OF November $50 per cent. w. B. CARR.
Sworn and subscribed before this first day of
December J. F. PARISH.
Notary Public, City of St Louis. Mo.
My term expires April Is. 1905.
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The Reason.
Cleveland Leader.


The eyeball is white because its blood vexs,ls srs
SO small that they do not admit the red corpuscles
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Christmas tree loaded with 81 bills could be
improved only by Christmas tree loaded with So
bills
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They Are After the whole rruth

Philadelphia North American.
Democrats in Congress want to see more of the en-
hbits in the postal This {. carrying INQUIRY
to the verge Of morbdness
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POEMS WORTH KNOWING.
A COMPARISON.
BY WILLIAM cowPER,

n to
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
DAILY AND SUNDAY-SEvEN ISSUES A WEEK.
BY Mail-In Acknowledging Prepaid.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-03-12
SEVERE ATTACK OF GRIP.
Cured by One Bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Cure.

"When | had an attack of the grip last
winter (the second one) | actually cured
myself with one bottle of Chamberlaln's
Cough remedy" says Frank W. Perry,
Editor of the Enterprise, Shortsyille,
N. Y. "This is the honest truth. | at
times kept from coughing myself to
pieces by taking teaspoonful Of this
remedy, and when the coughing spell
would come on at night | would take a
dose and 1t seemed that in the briefest
interval the cough would pass off and
would 60 to sleep perfectly free from
cough and Its accompanying pains. To
say that the remedy acted as a most
agreeable surprise Is putting 1t very
mildly. had no idea that it would or
could knock out the grip, simply because
| had never tried 1t for such a purpose,
but 1t did, and 1t seemed with the second
attack Of coughing the remedy caused ID
to not only Be Of less duration, but the
pains were far less severe, and had not
used the contents Of one bottle before Mr..
Grip had bid me adieu." For sale by
all druggists Et
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According to reports Tom Holmberg

According to reports Tom Holmberg
who left here several months ago has
Travelled a long distance since leaving
Dodge City. The man who left here
with lIolmberg. was seen in Kansas City
lust week by a Dodge City man and gave
an account of the trip. Holmberg with
this companion, and his younger brother
went from here to Hutchinson, then to
Pratt and from there south. He was in
New Mexico and Texas and later was in
Vancouver, Washington. AT this place
he bought saloon, but sold out again in
a few weeks, Another stopping place
was Salt Lake City, and finally the trio
landed in ST, Paul, Mimi, and about this
time concluded that they were tired Of
travel. 1t is claimed that Holmbcrg has
recently been in Newton, Kas, and in
Florence, where his folks live. Holm
berg's affairs here were in muddle
when he left but the most of bis creditors
have been paid from accounts which
were due him. 1t Is said that he intends
to return to Dodge City and attend to
Strengthening up his affairs. 4