Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1891 — Be Good to Mother. [ARTICLE]

Be Good to Mother.

A correspondent asks. Where I* Joe Coburn, the bld prlze-figh'er now r Could not eayforSut-e. He is dead. Tua fact that the recent colliery explosion in Russia, by which forty-five persons lost their lives, is charged to the lighting of a cigarette in the mine should not be charged to the cigarotte. although this seems the first time on record that the cigarette was ever accused of anything of which it was not guilty. If the same fool had at tempted to light a pipe or cigar undei the same circumstances, the result would have been as disastrous. Gen. Carr is right in saying that the education of the Sioux has been conducted accord! .g to false and profitless methods; and this is true of the whole prevailing system of Indian edu cation. What they need is instructio> of a practical kind that will fit them for farming and other forms of usefu labor, whereas they are now taugh things that are calculated to discourage them from performing manual ser vice of any kind. Nearly half of the Presidents of th* United States were in the Senate before they went to the White House. Unfortunately, however, for the men who are in that body or who are aboul to enter it, nobody has ever yet stepped directly out of it to the White Hou-e. Those Presidents were only Senator elect, like Garfield, or. as was the can* with Jackson, i he two Harrisons, Buch anan and others, they had retirei from the Senate before the Presidential nomination came to them. The only expressions called forth by the death of Prince Baudouin seem V be in tho nature of sympathy for hi uncle and monarch, King Leopold 01 Belgium. The Prince's history is*, conspicuous commonplace; he wa born, lived and died not a princel mortal but a mortal prince. His unclt Leopold is best Remembered through his noble work in the cause of Africa) civilization, and for him there is genuine sympathy. He has been relentlessly pursued by trouble ever since his ac cession to the throne. First his sister. ex-Empress Charlotte of Mexico, became insane; then he lost his only sou afterward his son-in-law met with; horrible death, and later his daughter’? life was endangered by the flre-whicl destroyed his palace at Laeken an* all his art treasure s. Now his nophev and heir dies. Of a truth, uneasy lies the head that wears this crown. —Ml—————S— The resolution adopted bv. tho F.nilish Parliament to restore to the rostei of its members the name of Charle Bradlaugh, says the Indianapolis News b a tardy act of justice. Ten year ago this eminent statesman was refus ed hie seat in Parliament because o his alleged unbelief in religion. Wh« is to define the necessary religious belief for a body composed of Catholic and Protestants, and at one time presided over by a Jew ? Mr. BradlaugL Is on his death bed; for ten years h« has been deprived of his Parliamentary rights; his restoration comes too. late to afford any reparation except that he will be vindicated upon the pages of history. It is gratifying to note, however, this tendency of moden times to rise out of religious intolerance, that distinctive feature of pas' ages, and a far too prominent one even of the present day. A special commiss on to inquire into the want of further burial space it Westminster Abbey reports that then is room inside this, the world’s mo-t precious sanctuary, for some s ventv or eighty more interments. That is to say, there is room for the greatest in England for about another century. The Abbey was dedicated to St. Peter in 1065. Between that time and now there have been more than 8.000 burials within its walls and cloisters.’ T<* account for this brigade of people finding a sort of immortality within such ha'lowed walls, it is noted that in the latter part of the seventh ceutiry. and dur ng all the eighteenth, people crowded in simply because they live.: nbar the Abbey, and becau-e, figuratively speaking, they knew the doorkeeper and were ‘‘deadheaded” in. But there's room in the “Poets’ Corner”—three or four more quiet spots with Dickens, Browning and Macauley for neighbors.

If you hate a mother be good to her. Bbe is the best friend you have. You may think you have found true friends in others, but you have not. You probably sometimes slight her. Don’t do it. When others have forgotten you, she will continue to mourn for you. There is so much said to young people about the way they should treat their mothers, but wnen they have grown older and have known trouble, they know that all that was said khgood advloa Don’t wait until too late before you take ft.