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HH ft-* V $* J'. •i* I f* *N S- Jl'i rft «r t?' Sunday Delivered an Excellent Address on' the Home Last Night Continued From Page On* i them came from homes where the lather and mother had been divorced. Broken homes and broken lives seem to be connected. We are facing the conditions as they- exist and not as lh#y find birth in your imagination. Look at the sons and daughters who Rre brought up in idleness! They rap Idly acquire bad habits and frequent ly get themselves in disreputable es capades -which make you sometimes feel ashamed that you are a man. They indulge in fast horses, fast women, wine and gambling and all the eports of the idle rich. Many have squandered the fortune left them by their father, and they go to untimely graves and are .to be remembered only by the gambling hells, the grog shops, the rotten dissolute lives they have lived and the number of young girls they have ruined, from the time they crawled from their mother's arms un til the undertaker screws the coffin lid on their stinking carcass. Do you think I can make that any plainer? You don't understand it, do you? And of the women in our smart «et nowadays! Too much v..nnot be said in condemnation of them. Too much time is spent by them outside of their hemes. They have thrown to the wind all womanly modesty and prudence. 3 hey are flattered and cajoled, md they lend their presence to vaudeville, »nd have vaudeville performances in their homes, and their children are al lowed to witness performances which border on the obscene. And they in dulge in gambling to such an extent, poker chips, roulette wheels, cham pagne, and the whole, long list, my friends, and they are more familiar with poker chips and gambling devices and frivolity than they are witty their Bible, the English language or classic literature. Train the children In tn® way they should go. The only way to get rid of thieves is to stop raising thieves the only way to get rid of prostitutes is to stop raising prostitutes. Whatever that child is when it steps out from the threshold of the home, nine times out of ten that is what it will be when it "butts up" against the world. And when he bids his ma good-bye and heads out into the unknown to earn his bread, what he is beneath that roof he will be, nine times out of ten, opt in the world. Gladstone and Talmadge were one time talking about the questions df the day. Gladstone asked Talmadge what he thought was the question of the day and Talmadge replied that there was but one question settle that question right and you will- settle ail questions, and that question is tbe question of Christianity. And I say settle the question of Christianity in your homes and I will settle the question of drunkenness, tha question of brutality, the question of vice. You settle the question of Chris tianity in your home and I will knock every saloon into hell and will clean our state establishment* cf the damn able old rubbish and the grafting bull neck politicians that stink up and down their halls. The national life will never rise higher or fall lower than the home life. When Napoleon was asked the greatest need of France he said mothers. If you should ask roe to night what is the greatest need of America I could answer in a sentence that would ring down through the ages. I would tell you that the great est need of America is the principles of Jesus Christ taught beneath the joof of your home. Don't let your children run like wild asses. I have no faith in the woman who will talk about salvation and make a hell out of lier home. have no patience with her at all. There is no use talking about clean hearts when your children look like ragmufflns. Don't talk about a perfect sanctified life when the kids have no patches on their breeches and no buttons on their clothes. 1 can read of the mother's love—or the lack of it •—in the hieroglyphics of tbe kid. Henry W. Grady, that magnificent southerner, whose life was altogether too short for the good of his native land, said that he was in Washington for the first time in his life. He stood on Pennsylvania avenue and looked off to that magnificent pile on the hill known as the capitol of our country. The tears rolled down his cheeks and he said, "Well, well, well, that is the capitol of my nation, the home of my nation, that magnificent pile yonder en the hill." He stayed for days and wandered through its halls, then turn ed his foot-steps to his south land, and on the way stopped to spend several days with a southern planter, and he said that three times every day they opened the Bible, gathered the children around them and read and prayed and committed the little brood to the keep ing of Almighty God, and he said, "I was mistaken that pile on the hill is not the home of my nation, but the home of my nation is found in the planter's home, in the dugouts and in the log cabins, where beneath the roof they teach the little ones the teachings of Jesus Christ." What makes nations great? Not fcigh raised battlements, not. cities proud with spires and turrets crown ed. No! Men, high minded men, these make a nation great. So train a child in the way it should go, I believe in blood. I believe in good blood and in bad blood I believe in proud blood and in humble blood I believe in religious blood and in infidel blood, in honest blood and in fighting blood in virtuous blood and in licen tious blood tn heroic biood and in in tellectual blood. I believe blood will tell beneath the roof of the home the same as it will among jackrabbits, canary birds and tom-cats. The House of Stewart was famous for cruelty and vice from the days of Mary Queen of Scots to King Charles I, fcng Charles II and King James I, who showed the world what a fool a Scotchman can be when a Scotchman is a fool. The Scotch are famous for their persistency and bulldog tenacity. I have never seen a Scotchman in my life who wasn't orthodox. I have seen many Scotchmen who weren't relig ious. They fed them on oat-meal por ridge and they are all orthodox, but there is as much difference between orthodox and religion as there is be •ween heaven and hell. The devtl is orthodox, though, come to think of it. The English are famous for their i espeet for and reverence to the an cient, The Welsh are famous fop their re- iUffious fervor, —-v OTB FARGO FOSTO The Danes are famous for their love of the sea. Swedish blood believes tn intellectu ality. i '. The Jews are famous for their facul ty of making money, from the days of Abraham, who was rich in silver and gold, down until today. I have traveled up and down this land and have met every form of man and beast that you can think of, and the longer I live the more thoroughly I become convinced that no law or gospel will make a nation great with out home in authority. Judicious con trol and moral training are absolutely indispensible to such surroundings. The boy brought up in such a way will not find his way into a reformatory, but that doting parent who can't bear to see their child punished will some day possibly have to bear seeing him punished in a reformatory, by the laws of a state. Anarchy is not premature ly born in the Haymarket riots of Chi cago, and obedience to the laws of God or man is settled beneath the roof of the home. The question of obedience rules there. If children will not obey their father or their mother, they won't ob,ey the laws of God or man nine times out of ten, and it is a dan gerous sign, in our day, when we see our homes neglected as they are being neglected. You neglect your home by living at your club. You neglect your home by spending your time at your lodges. You neglect your home by go ing to jackrabbit literary societies, and while you are living at those places hell goes in your home, the devil fore closes a mortgage and gets your child ren, and by the time they are 16 years of age they have gone to the devil. Make companions out of your child* ren that is your business. There are fewer things more Import ant in the home than conversation. Think of the good you fcan do in your homes with your voice. You use it to give pain, but the conversation in your home ought to be loving. In many homes they have no conversation. There is no affectionate greeting in ~he morning when the children start for school, no little kiss to linger en their Mps, and when they come home at noon, hungry, there is no kind greet ing. The old man never says a word unless he growls for you to pass some thing, and so far as any one would know- you would think you were in a deaf and dumb asylum. No fireside chats with the children. No! You are down at some fool club, some lodge you are off to some literary so ciety or card party or some social beer and wine drinking hell and you let your children go to the devil. You turn them over to some nurse whose only interest In the children is so many dollars a week. And there are many Homes in which there is perpetual nagging and scold ing. Don't. Don't Of all the devil inspired sentences that ever crawled out of the pit of hell, that which says a child should be seen and not heard takes the cake, I think. Supposing ou would go- out this spring when the plants are beginning to bud, and you pinch one bud off, then another bud cff. How long do you think it would take for it to blossom into a flower? I'll tell you a few donts: Don't tell your children what you don't mean. That's one don't I don't, and Don't wait on the children too much. Dont make them wait on yon too much even it up. Don't break a promise to your child ren keep it. Don't talk about your neighbors. Don't perpetually scold children You drive them away. Don't hurt their self-respect by punishing them in the presence of company. Wait until the company has gone, then lambast 'em. Don't overdress our children. Many a fool mother overdresses her little hrat so that from the time she is 6 years old she is puffed up. Don't lie to your children. Don't have them like the little boy who was asked, "How old are you?" and he said "I'm 5 at home, 6 at school and 4 on the street car." Of all the rotten, dirty, stinking money you have In your clothes, it's that nickel about which you lied to. the conductor. Of all the uirty, stinking money you have, it's that piece you beat the railroad com pany out of when you went to St. Paul or some other place. No wonder the children grow up to lie. I read of a woman down south who was going to make a call. The wo man she was going to see sat in her home looking out of the window, and when she saw the carriage drive up she said: "My, is she going to inflict her presence upon me with all those brats?" She tells her ohildren to re move all the bric-a-brac out of the parlor. "Hurry up, I know I shall di6 of nervous prostration." Presently the door bell rings, she goes to the door, affectionately greets them all and sa3rs. "I'm so glad to see you. Now children, run and Play and have a good time," and the children skip the rope, play hide-and-seek, school, drop the handkerchief and London Bridge Is Falling Down. By and by they have lunch and the visitor says she must go. Her hostess says, "Oh, don't so you have been here only a little while." "Oh, I must go I promised my husband I would be home early." So she couples her train and prepares to steam out. The host ess says "Don't wait so long until you come back. Good-bye." As soon as she has gotten out of sight the hostess sinks into a chair and says "Bring me the smelling salts quick." The children bring it to her, then they bring back all the furniture and bric a-brac, and it Is discovered that a china dog has been broken. "Who broke that dog? Tommy, did you?" No ma'am. "Charlie, did you?" No ma'am. "Harry, did your' No, ma'am. "Carrie, did you?" No, ma'am. "One of you children is lying to me and I propose to find out who did it." Finally one of the kids turn ed state's evidence and fastened the crime upon the guilty one. The mother took him by the ear and said "Now, I'm going to punish you." She took him Into the other room, took off her slipper and gave him a licking. She said to him "Do you know why I'm punishing you?" "Yes, Ma, for breaking the dog." "No, although it was an heir-loom, given to me by my great grandfather. I am punishing you for lying to your mother. I won der where that child learned to lie?" From his old lying mother, of coarse. He heard her say "Q» why is she com 'AWB ing here." He saw the reception she gave that woman, heard what she said to her when she left and what she said after the woman had gone. Where did he learn to lie? A great many parents leave the moral training of their children to the Sunday school teachers, and a whole lot of them are card players. I don't think you pay enough atten tion to your school teachers. There is only one office I ever aspired to hold and that is member of the school board, and the first thing I would do would be to raise the salary of the school teacher. Don't you know that the poorest paid people in this coun try today are the ministers and the public school teachers, and there are no two classes of people more indis pensible to American morals and re ligion than the ministers and the pub lic school teachers, and it is a shame, the salaries we pay them. It is an insult to American wealth. Why, did you ever hear of a school board say ing to the teachers when they quit in June, "Come back In September and we will pay you just the same as if you were here." No. They ought t5 be paid right through tbe sum mer just the same as any other time. It is an insult when a barkeeper can make more money than the principal of your high school. It's a disgrace. You're a lot of mean, old stingy lob sters. If they happened to run up the rate of taxation 2 or 3 mills on the dollar you would have nervous pros tration, appendicitis, peritonitis and every other old thing in two hours. I'll tell you that there isn't a town in this country that doesn't need to have twenty-five first class funerals and get some old fellows under the sod, then the- town could do some thing. I said to ft bbotblack, a colored fel low at the Nelson house at Rockford, 111., "How much do you get a month?" "Forty dollars and a rake-eft." "What does the rake-off amount to?" "Why, boss, last month I made 192.00." He got more money shining shoes than the principal of the high school got for shining brains. Look at our public schoolteachers! In the fall they go into the schools with their cheeks looking like roses, and they come out in the spring look ing like lilies, from trying to pack something into the heads of nonenti ties that bear your name. Children are Imitators. A fellow gave a friend of mine a dog, a water spaniel. Another friend gave him a rat terrier. After awhile some one said: "Well, how are the dogs getting along?" "Great but the funny thing is that the water Spaniel has become a better ratter than the rat terrier. I turned both of them loose, they've been run ning around together, and the water spaniel is a better ratter than the rat terrier." That's the power Of? association. We are all Imitators. Themistocles said: *'My children rule Greece." He was asked how that was. "Why," said he, "My children rule their mother, their mother rules me, I rule Athens, Athens jrules Greece." I was up in a town In Minnesota at the home of a fellow who was cash ier in a bank. He had two children, a little red-headed girl and a boy named Donald, a big Clydesdale sort of a fellow about i y^arg old. One day the father sat In the room read ing and the door blew Open.. It was In the dead of winter and the wind was blowing. The father sat by the fireplace reading and said to his son, "Donald, shut the door." He said, VI won't do it." "Shut the door, honey." "I don't want to shut the door." "Shut the door quick now, honey, or papa will have to do it." *?I won't do it, I'm playing." "Please, now, honey, shut the door." "I ain't going to do it." And then the big fool of a father got up and shut that door, walked back, picked up his book and started to read. I wanted to borrow that kid for just fifteen minutes. I tell you, if he'd have let me have that kid he would have been like Buster Brown, "I prefer to stand." A noble woman was the mother of seven sons, and she was asked bow she had brought up such noble boys. She answered: "I did it with prayer and a good hickory." I don't think there are two better instruments on the face of the DAILY BTOPTOLTCAW, FRIDAY EVENING, Northwestern Mutual Fire Insurance J. H. DAHL, 8mjr. W. W. KINO, Pro*. Retail Merchants J. T.NELSON. Pres. W. W. KINO, Sec'y The Fargo National Bank Farce, forth DakeU President* Msrtta Hector Vica-Prea't, O. J. deLendrecte Cashier, Q. E. Nichols Ten Year Profit-Sharing Investment Contracts Issued in Any Denomination Security in Improved Income Real Estate, offered by E Dakota improvement Company North Intern earth than prayer and a good hickory. Many a boy and girl who have been sent to prison would have been ten times better off if they had been spanked anh sent home and taught something. I read the other day of where Judge Alton B. Parker, the former demo cratic candidate for president, took his little grandson and went out for a swim in the Hudson. He put the little fellow on his back and swam out, then threw him on his breast and let him stay there until he got a rest, and in changing the little one to his back again, he became strangled, and grasping his grandfather about the neck he almost strangled him. They went down, then up, then down again, then up. A man on shore saw them and got a boat and rowed as fast as he could, and as they were going down for the third time he got them. The trouble was he swam out too far. and that's the trouble with a lot of people. You are swimming In pleas ure, society, unbelief and worldliness. A friend of mine told me that one day he sat in his home when sud denly he heard the greatest shouts of laughter, and some one said: "Come here, come here" and he ran, and there coming down the stairs was his little B-year-old boy and he had on his father's coat and the sleeves of it were hanging down and the tail of it dragged on the floor. He had on his father's hat and it dropped down on his shoulders. He had on his father's collar and it looked like a horse collar around a mosquito. The father said: "That's the most serious and solemn picture I ever looked upon. That tells me that I want to be careful, for my son wants to look like his father." He said to the nurse: 'Take him to the photo grapher's and have his picture taken," and they did, and my friend has that picture hanging in front of him, on his desk, and every time he is in clined to loosen up in his morals or in his loyalty to Jesus Christ he looks at that picture and it seems to say: "I'm coming up I want to look like you, papa." Walk to the grog shop and they will follow you in. I tell you, don't shut the doors and windows of your house *or fear the sun will fade a little 65-cent ingrain carpet. I hate to go Into a house where in the parlor you will find the pictures of the fam ily and some wax flowers, where they never open up the old Joint unless to air it out. I tell you, my friends, don't shut up the doors and windows ot your homes lest the merry laugh of tbe children shakes the cobwebs We buy and sell grain and seed in large or smalt quantities 9. S. Lewis Hay, Flour and Feed, Seed Grain and Garden Seed Pkone 589 312 N. P. Ave. 18 years' Experience in rtanufacturinc RUGS From old ingrain and brussels carpets have tnade our firm leaders in the line for the Northwest Wr te for descriptive booklet giving prices fargo Carpet & Rug Co. 109 Eighth St. f. Phone 319 Burgess & Lukyn Direct Importers of personally se lected Percheron, Shire and Belgian Stallions—the best ln the world. In. spect them. For sale at email profit Barns Bear of Milwaukee Depot, Fargo. N. D. from the corners. If you want to ruin your home, let the children un derstand that all mirth must be left on the threshold let them regard their home as simply a place to eat and sleep in, and the work has be gun that wiU end in ruin. Young peo ple must have fun and if they can't have it at home they will have it somewhere else. If you have a carpet too good for them to play on, furni ture too good for them to stand on. anything too good, the. Quicker you get rid of it the better you will be and the better your home will be. Let the fire and the light burn. There are three things that I never skimp my children. One is plenty of grub, the other is plenty of light, and the other is plenty of heat. I hate to go into a home where they have a big room about twenty feet square light ed by one dinky gas jet and you can't see anybody across the room. Light up! Put in a dazzler. That's the reason the grog shop attracts the boys, because they're lighted up. It is like the light that draws bugs. Make your home bright, make it cheerful. The time Is going to come, too soon it will come to me and to you, too soon, when your family cir cle will be broken. The time will come too soon when you will long for the touch of vanished hands and sigh for the faces that have turned at dusk. The saddest time in the life of a young man or a young woman is when home begins to lose its in fluence over them. Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Man has a thousand roosts, but only one nest and that is home." You are drifting away from your homes. Fathers are too busy moth era are too busy. You are wrapped up in politics, in the lodge.. You will spend your time playing cards and drinking beer and smoking when you ought to be at homo with your chil dren, and you mothers turn your chil dren over td some nurse while you go around in the good-for-nothing, rotten, empty world of society and let your children go to hell, and when you get home you find the children have gone. We rAPRIL' Company A North Dakota Co. Inamres at Aetna! Coat Two Million Doilarw ®f Insaur .. aaee && Force Insure with us and ret an annual dividend Asiocittioo Mutual Fire Insurance Company A North Dakota Co. Insure* «t Actual Cost for Oo*» Three er Five Yean Under the supervision of the directors of The Retail Merchants Ass'n are drifting away Tom Moore-say**- and our ehildreh are going to the devil. If we had our homes afc We should have them our children would not be on the way to helL tt 12, Wit. Notes ercial Over fifty letters of Inquiry and a large number of requests for booklets about Fargo have been received, as a direct result of the ad in The Chi cago Record -Herafld, and every day letters are coming in to the secre tary from the territory ooyered by their special edition. Secretary Stine has received a copy of The Far-East Review published In Manilla, P. I., alBo The Merchants As sociation Review of Manilla, a month ly publication devoted to the adver tisement of the Philippines. They are very interesting papers and are very creditable typographically. The secretary received a letter from the M. B. Austin Company of Chicago, in regard to Ornamental Lighting Systems asking to b« allowed to fur nish estimates. The eastern people are cvldentaly not aware that the or namental lighting system has been in use in Fargo for some time before was adopted In the east. tt The Northwest Development Cong ress wMl hold their convention in Se attle, June 5 to 8. This will be their annual meeting and all commercial organizations of the northwest will have delegates. Some of the speakers are Walter L». Fisher, J. J. Hill and Senator Borah. Special trains from Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana will be run for this occasion. The Good Government Club of Phil adelphia are still sending out their literature, In regard to fche High Cost of Living and How Best to Regu late it Some of the documents are quite lengthy, but are interesting. They advocate competition as the national safeguard and federal to control the restrictions of corporation. The seven states of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon re alized an increase of $2,812,4 50,132 in the value of their farms in ten yars. as a direct results of their efforts to secure settlers for their territory. They secured 2,000,000 people, in creasing the farms to 114,363, show ing a Increased acreage of 23,686, 802 acres during the ten years. If an actual comparison could be made Uhere is but little doubt that this growth exceeds the record of any other In the world. On a basis this figures a family which works the land is actually w-rth about $f»M9 to, the American northwest. The Town Crier's seetton of the elub have arranged for a lecture by Albert Hubbard, Fra Albertus, on Tuesday evening, April 23. This lec ture will be held in the Grand theatre commencing at 8 o'clock. Mr Hub bard is one of the most famous char acters in the world today, and as a lecturer,, is of great demand In all parts of the country. This is his first visit to Fargo, and no person at all Interested in things as they are shot'ld neglect the opportunity of hearing him. He has a wonderful flow of language, is witty and sar castic, and uses no gloves In his dis cussion of topics of interest to the people. The tickets will be placed on •ale and exchange tickets can be pur chased of members of Town Crier's club for the lecture. Mr. Hubbard has the following in nearly every town or city in the country, and there will be people here from long distances to hear him lecture. Secretary Stine has been busy this week at the Sunday meetings. He 1ms demonstrated his ability as a chief usher In the handling of the crowds. The auditorium project la not dead. Just waiting for the various commit tees to recover from the spring fever. "I remember th« house where I was born. And the little window where tho no came peeping in at morn. It never came a wink too soon or stayed too long the day But now I often wish the night had borne the breath away. I remember the fir trees, and how I used to think their slender top was close against the aky. It was a childish ignorance, but BW 'tis little Joy. To know I'm farther off from heaven than when I was a boy." Lqok out! No leader is more close ly followed than the mother. Mothers are the prototypes. George Washing ton would have become a midshipman in the British navy had it not been for his mother, and that site on the banks of the Potomac would bear a different name today. Mothers are prototypes down to the Spartan mother whose son complained that his sword was too short. She said, "Add a step to it, my boy." Mothers are prototypes with God in the creation of souls and the development of character, and no greater responsibil ity can develop upon a human being than to be the mother of a child to train for glory. Father may fail, but if the mother fails God pity the boy and the girl. The web of this nation is made from the thread that is spun in the home. Use This and the Opposite Page As a Reference Directory. The Firms Are All Home Companies or Manufacturers Maintaining Branches at Fargo. Boost For Fargo and North Dakota The home ought to be synonomous with all that is grand arid good. The grandest work in the world is to be done by a true mother. The train ing of a Martin Luther, or of a John Bunyan, or of a Lincoln is greater than the training of a Caesar or a Napoleon. When I touch a boy I see that I touch the future fifty years. I touch a boy and touch the future seventy-flve years from tonight. It is a great thing it is a great respon sibility that God puts upon you. The man who builds a railroad does a great thing the man who builds a battleship does a great thing but the man or woman that builds character does a greater thing—the greatest thing in this world. It is a great thing to launch a battleship or a cruiser but It is a greater thing to launch a boy or girl for Jesus Christ. The burden you put on a child when it is email will atick to it all it* d»y». Merchants National Mutual Tire Insurance Company Ot Fargo. North Dakota Seven Years' Record. 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WV 4U FIRST AVENUE NORTH You put & burden on that child by the atmosphere you He In. The na tion has no better friend than the mother who teaches her child to pray. Mothers, hear me a minute, will you? You are the home-makers and the home-keepers. Bob Ingersoll said: "It takes a thousand men to make a regiment but only one mother to make a home." What an honor upon you! At a Y. M. C. A. International con vention, where there were 1,500 prom inent men of the United States, the question was asked: "How many of you had christian mothers? How many of you attribute your Christian ity to the influence of your christian home?" And every man of the 1,500 stood, and in that mute way paid the most magnificent tribute to the christian character of motherhood. John Randolph of Roanoke, with his excitable temperament, said: "I would be an infidel if it were not for the memory of my godly mother, who taught me to kneel by her side, shut my eye* and say: "Our Father who art in heaven." The world owm a debt of gratitude to our mothers, and the greatest men of the world were mother-made men. Augustine, Martin Luther, Constan tine, Oliver Cromwell, all mother made men. Susanna Wesley was not only-the mother ot John and Charles, but the mother of Methodistism as well. You love to revel 'midst the paint ings of Benjamin West in Windsor castle, do you not? Yes. And as you gaze upon them you ar« reminded of the fact that he said it was hife mother's kiss that made him an ar tist. That glittering palace on the banks of the Potomac ie not only George Washington's monument, but Martha Washington's monument, too, for what would he have been without, his mother and her character to mould and shape him? &x-President Louhet of France used to make many trips to the home of his peasant mother and sit in the sun, rocked to sleep on her lap. I say it to you tonight, my l'riends of Fargo, that we as a nation owe it —hear me, men—we, as a nation, we as men. we as taxpayers, we as vot ers, we owe Jt to our mothers to try and discover whwdt lt Jfe that la Jeo iis The Waldorf Far*|0 Ilorsi fsf?rs3»tn Largest and Most Complete Modern Hotel in the Northwest. One Complete Floor of Sample Rooms with Bed Room and Priv ate Bath Connected, 1$0 Rooms, «0 with Private Ba«h. American Plan, Rates $1.26 and Up. Keller & Boyd, Proprietors SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK Capital Slock t60.»00.n .v Fargo, N. D. OFFICERS: H. J. HAG EN, President. LARB christianson. viee Pres. N. 6. EGG EN, Cashier. f. J. brevig. Asst. Oasfcler DIRECTORS: n. H. Aalcor ». G. EggefJ M. A. Hagen »mll J. Headland U. G. Tenneson Leru Christlansoa Edward Kogertid II. J. Hageu Geo. Hancock Northwestern Mntual Investment Co. OFFICERS AND DIBROTOBB: W. E. HUNT, President. JAME8 KENNEDY, l»t. V. Pres. WM. E ItOYD. 2nd. V. Pres. II. M. STANFORD, Treas. WAINS G. EDDY. 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Whenever a community be comes so damnable, to stinking, so low down as to refuse to respond to the requests of the mothers of the nation, then sir, when manhood is so damnable, so whiskey-soaked and under the power of the good-for nothing whiskey clique and their heil hounds that curse our land today— when we are so under their power that we will not rise to defend our homes and our children against the tidal wave of Iniquity, and brutality, and drunkenness and hell, that beata like a battering army, then the work has begun that will end In the ob livion of that nation, no matter how grand or great ahe may be or what she is forth. In 1851, April 10, in Africa, died an American. They put him to sleep beneath the eod and there he slept until 1882, when they sent a U. S. man-o-war, and there in the little lonely cemetery at Tunis, In Africa, they dug up his body, put his a shea on board the battleship and headed for his native land. And as the ship entered the harbor at New York the guns In the forts thundered out their welcome, the flags flew at half-mast. On a special train they bore his re mains to Washington, ana on Penn sylvania avenue there stood the pres ident, the vice president members of the houae of congress, secretaries and representatives of the supreme court of the United States, army and navy officers, the rich and the poor. Ail departments in Washington closed business was suspended, flags flew half mast, everybody from the pres ident down to the humblest citiaeft stood with uncovered head as the funeral procession went by. What battle had he won? NOaft. What picture had that man In ttn coffin painted? None. What book had he written? None. What building or bridge had ha constructed? Wa« he famed., la ar chitecture? No. He had written a song,, sung by the millionaire, sung by the poor. The man in the coflin was John Howard Payne, and he had written: Home, home, sweet, sweet hofla% There no place like homej^ There'* no j&ac« like boos* .£