Show EDITORIAL OUT OF DEBT better to wear a calico dress without tr imminK if it be paid for than to owe the shopkeeper or the most elegant bilk cut and trimmed in the moa elegant manner better live in 1 cabin all your own than a brown stone mansion belonging belon ping to bolter walk forever than run antu debt for a horse and carriage better to sit at a pine table that you paid 3 fur ten years ago than bend home a new extension black walnut top and bromke to pay for it next buek better to use the old cane beaded chairs and faded two ply carpet than tremble at tho bills bent home the upholsterers for the most elegant parlor beet ever made better to meet your with a free yona cent emile than to lodge around th corner to escape a dun letter to pay the street organ gnader 2 cente for music than to owe for a brand piano better to gazi upon bare walls than pictured pic turea or ter to eat abin soup from earthenware if you owe your butcher nothing than to dine off lamb and roast beef and know that it does bot belong to you better to let your wife have abit of hysterics than to run in debt for nice new furniture or clothes or jewelry christian advocate ONE OP LB OEMS robert G ingersoll is denounced by the christian world but every once in a while pagan bob gives utterance to bome piece of sentiment that makes professed christians rub their eyes and wonder if eternal punishment reilly is to be fate when he passes to the valley of shadows the following deserves a place in any scrap book the place to take the true measure of a man is not in the market place or on the corner nor the forum or the field but at his own fireside there ho lays aside his mask and you may learn whether he is imp or angel king or hurn buz I 1 care not what the world him whether it crowns him with glory or pelts him with bad edya I 1 care not a copper what his reputation or religion may be if his babies dread hie aad bis better halt swallows her heart every time she has to ask him for a 5 bill hes a fraud of the alist water even though he prays eight and morn till be is black in the face and shouts hallelujah till he shakes the eternal hills but if his children run to the front gate to greet him and lovea own sunshine illumines the face of his wife when she hars his footfall you can take it for granted that he is true gold bis home is heaven and the humbug never geta blat near the great white thione of god he may be a rank atheist and a red alac anarchist and a he may buy votes in blocks of five and bet on thee action he nay deal m from the bottom and drink beer until he cant tella silver dollar from a circular baw and still he is an infinitely better man than the cowardly hambee who is all suavity but who makes home a belt who vents on the helpless bead of wife and children the ill nature he would like to inflict on fellow men but barea not I 1 can forgive much in that fellow mortal who would make men ewend than women leei who would rather have tte liate of alie whole world than the contempt of bis wife who would call aner 0 o the eyes of a king than fear to the face bf a child salina press |