The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-01-26
VIC. 7. U.COLUMN
Mrs Merrill Pipkin, Press Supt.

1.-THE inner side Of every clOud il
bright and shining. therefore turn
my clouds about and always wea
them inside ont to show the lining.
The liquor traffic can never b,
overthrown so long AS we have thu
spirit Of compromise that charac
terizcs the better element Of the PEG
pie at the present time.
The well-to.do element Of Kansas
City people are working over tim,
trying 10 take care Of the product OF
the saloons, which they vote to per
petuatc whenever they get chance
For forty years we have wandered
in the wilderness of high license, 10.
cal option and restriction; and the
people are yet so duh that they do
not know the promised land of Pro
hibition when they see it.
The following from the st Louis
| Christian Advocate shows the trend
OF the time, especially when we re-
fleet that the same show IN a nodi-
fled form was given in our city Of
schools and churches:
The Corseums of Rome and St. Louis.
Charles Dickens stood at one
O'Clock ut night on one nf the seven
hills Of Rome, gazing down upon
that most pagan and marvellous Of
the monuments of the dark and
bloody days Of two thousand years
ago, occupying the site of Nero 5
. Pond, and lifting its head like the
/ open crater of an eXtiuquish"d vol
cano from the valley between the
. Esquilinc and Palatinc hills! He
had never before realized Pagan
Rome! He was dumb with awe!
For long time he was silent as the
! sphyuN. This silence was broken
/ when b" lifted his finger and point
/ ing dramatically to the Coliseum
and in IA tragical tone he exclaimed:
1.-THE most impressive, stately,
solemn, grand, majestic, mournful
sight conceivable, and God be
praised, Il ruin!"
/ The richest and most cNtravagant-
~ dressed society women of Rome
once sat in the same seats on which
/ Dickens gazcd, turning down their
thumbs to express their thirst for
blood and their cruel decisions that
gladiators should be murdered,
Here it was that beautiful Chris
tian girls who were true To- the Naz-
arene, and refused to deny their
Lord, were stationed around the
Arena like lamp posts, covered with
pitch and burned alive to illuminate
an evenings entertainment
Nineteen centuries after the Prince
of Peace was born in Bethelchem!
Nineteen hundred years after Hero
dian lust bcheaded his forerunncr,
seven thousand people paid large
prices to enter an other Coliseum in
the city Of St louis to witness
reproduction or representation of
the climax of lust in one of the most
awful orgies Of all the ages?
In Rome the Christians wore suits
of pitch and tar, to be burned alive
to illuminate the entertainment,
while the richly clad society women
enjoyed the spectacle! In the Rom
an Coliseum as the lions, hyenas,
and tigers were let out OF their cages,
the Christians were on their knees
In the center of the same arena
praying to the dishOnOred Nazarene,
while the richly clad society women
were watching with delight the rush
OF the wild beasts as they leaped up.
on and tore the Christians to pieces!
In the st. Louis Coliseum the rich
society Christians (2) In cleaning |
garments sat with the unlocking |
multitude
Kansas City, Chicago, New York, /
and London have all been eclipsedl |
And II St. Louis has not yet reached |
the limit of her ambitions, the above |
mentioned cities may not be sur
prised If our enterprising (?) city
turns its attention to Lot and his
neighbors in reproducing the condi-
tiOns which brought about the de-
struction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
1t might be n drawing card to have
our criminals executed in our coli
scum! Our people voted almost en-
masse to perpetuate the biggest
brewery in the world and thousands
of legalizcd murder mills, where the
bloody tragedies are rapidly
a constituency that would
pay enormous prices to hear the
crack OF criminals neck as he
dropped through II trapdoor into
eternity!
st. Louis is sowing to the winds,
and as sure AS the night follows the
day, she will some day reap the
A Strange Story.