St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 19, 1899

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_ ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. — rr bet ood MR fed OUR PAGES. ~ VOL. 50, NO. 216 SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS—MARCH 19, 1899 CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S. PAPER. PART I. Paces. 1. Strange Fact in the McVean Case. Mysterious Shooting of Chilton O’Ban- non, Storms in Six States. E. BE. Fuller Says a Woman's Honor Is In His Keeping. The Great Fire at the Windsor Hotel, New York. 2. Windsor Hotel Fire Continued. 8 How He Broke the Bank at Carlo, Electric Cars for mew York and St. Louis. Annual Ball of South St. Louls Children. 4, Sensational Proceedings in the Stand- ard Oil Inquiry at New York. 6& An American With More Power Than An Emperor. The Situation in the Philippines. Major’s Report to the Senate. One of the Twins Is Dead. 6. Editorial. Foreign News From €pecial Correspond- ems of the Post-Dispatch. 7%. Two Vanderbilt Weddings for Week. A London Wife's Status ts a Puzzle. The Hot Springs Tragedy Not Justified. & Final Steps Toward Peace Taken at Washington. Moving for a General Dewey Celebra- tion on May 1. A Short Route to the Klondike. Dewey Not Coming Home. ®% The Beer Bill No Longer a Joke. Personal Points About Notable Men at Jefferson City. 10. Another Case of Smallpox. A Traveler's Perils in Alaska, A Burglar Who Is a Dude. He Has An Anvil As a Monument. lil. Two St Louis Theaters May Combine. Musical Events in St. Louis. Coroner's Jury Acquits Jack Williams ot a Double Killing. 12. The St. Patrick Parade. A Fve Minute Panic in St. Louis. The Major Committee Takes a Recess. Last Fling Day in St. Louis Courts, Drummer FPvangelist’s Wedding. 13. A Ha'r of Mahomet’s Beard in America. The Canned Beef Investigation. The Making of a New Scalp. Missouri Fingnces Attracting Attention. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, T3, Wants. 20. Caught After a Long Run. 20. Banquet of the Missouri State Bar. A Doctor Hypnotizes Four Women Into Matrimony. President McKinley Goes to Jeky] Is- land. 21. Sporting The Coming of Cleveiand to St. Louis. The Coming New Orleans Derby. New Trust of Bicycle Makers. With the Boxecrs—Football Nght. Miscellancous Sport. 2. Reel Estate News of St. Louis, Review of the Week in ‘Wall Street. St. Louis Grain Market, 23. Ryan and Douglass Meet in the Ring. Hi. Easy to Raise $5,000,000 for the World's Fair. Close of Methodist Conference. The Democratic Convention. Monte Easter PART I1.—SUNDAY HUMOR. Pages. 1. Cory caricatures ‘‘the 400." “= & 8. Illustrated humor by Boyd, Meyer, Howard. 4. Bush’s cartoon and Kelly’s Kids, Uutcalt, Ladendorf, by PART III. Pages. 1. The Florence McVean Mystery. 2. Gertrude Atherton’s story, “The Ship- wreck.” Scientific Test of a Child’s Endurance. ; Lady Curzon—An Illinois Girl in India. Microbes that cause Combustion. M. Edmond Rostand on the Witness Stand. Buccomancy and Its Originator Col, Jack Chinn—Charge—‘A Common Nulsance.”’ Sad Romance Durham. . A Belleville Conviction Wife for Murder on Kevicence Alone Rosi Schmidt Offers to Sell Her Blood for $0 to Take Her Back to Germany, Most Valuable and Populous Block in St. Louis. Admiral Sampson at Santiago Had His Chronometers Corrected by Cable from Washington. Vicksburg, Miss., Editor’s Theories of the World's Formation. lHiow Train Time Tables Are Made. Newest Fashions for Smal! Girls. Remarkable Women Visiting St. Perquisites of Congressmen. . “Cossacks” Ride the Lianos of South America. Cactus, the Vegetable Camel of Ameri- can Deserts. W. M,. Chase on How to Choose Colors. . Rabbi Wise'’s Eightieth Birthday. Mahalia Mullens, Queen of Moonshiners. Hargrave's Airship. Georgia Owns a Rallroad. . Mall Caine’s Hero in Real Life. Lieut. Price and San Francisco binders. (heek of $12 Raised to $22,000. . Last of the Luffaloes. Millons ef Crows in souri, Sirange Stories of Insect Life. Kaneas Sea Serpent. Kentucky Gander Follows His Master Like a Dog. A Friceless Penny. Newest Discoveries in Medical Science. The Week at the Theaters. ._ A Countess’ Jewels Feed Chicago's Poor. Who Are the Brown Eros.’ Damage Wrought by the Storm. Bob Burdette’s Peoria Heme. Loss of $200 Caused a Mirer’s Death. Hat Fashions for Spring. . Bociety. New Stamps for Our Colonies. Marie Caatello’s Seven Fatal Weddings. A Poem Ascribed to Poe. __Biggest Mouth in Missouri, of the Countess of of a Man and Circumstantial Louls. High- Fouthwest Mis- February —_— - THE WEATHER INDICATIONS. vhend Missouri— Fair; winds mostly warmer, ; north winds. ae selene, satieeet | 7 uy cummed a a ees « | | age is reported and at Rob Roy. Ark., SIX SOUTHERN STATES ARE STORM SCOURGED. Winds Having the Furyof aCyclone Sweep Over Portions of ArkanSas, Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. © = =” TWO TOWNS SWEPT AWAY AND MANY LIVES LOST. 2@-o a> 7 i» = In Cleburne County, Ala., the Sites Was Most Severe, The Hamlet of Sellers Was Demolished and in Arkansas Rob Roy Was Entirely Destroyed. In six Southern States—Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Geor- gia—wind storms which in some localities reached the fury of a tornado, raged yes- terday. Many lives were lost and thousands of dollars’ worth of property destroyed. Two hamlets—Sellers, Ala., and Rob Roy, Ark.—are reported completely destroyed. In Mississippi the path of the storm was half a mile wide and it swept a district 25 miles in length. The storms, while due to the came at- mospheric condictions all over the Soutl® and general in extent, seem to have been independent in each State, and the sections from which the worst reports come are hence widely scattered. Wires are down for hundreds of mites and the full story of the storm may not be obtainable for days. Deaths to the number of 2 are positive- owing be ly reported. and the total loss ofJife, to the frightful conditions, can only conjectured. The winds were at their worst bama, Mississippi and Arkansas, loss of life, as reported, is divided as fol- in Ala- and the lows: Killed. Injured, Alabama 4 Missisa@ippl .....+-« «++. Arkansas MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 18.—A eeries of terrifiC windstorms swept through por- tions of Alabama, Mississipp! and Arkan- sas to-day, doing an immense amount of property damage and killing a number of persons.. The storms covered a radius of several hundred miles, destroying telegraph wires and cutting off communication with a large part of the affected country. Cleburne County, Ala., seems to have suffered the most severely, the storm there assuméng the proportions of a_ tornado. The reports of fatalities in the county vary from six to 2 and many more are said to have been injured At Sellers and Luverne, Ala... much dam- one man was killed and several were badly in- jured. Dumas, Ark., was practically wiped out of existence and several other towns in the vicinity suffered severely. One peréon is reported killed at Hickory Flat, Miss., and as the farm houses in the vicinity suffered heavily it is not unlikely that many fatalities occurréd which have not yet been reported. BIRMINGHAM, Ala... March 18.—A torna- da passed over Cleburne County to-night, killing seven and possibly more persons, The storm caused great havoc in the country between Heflin and Edwardsvillé. It is known that seven persons, members of the family of Mr. Coffee. a farmer, are déad and it is thought that many others are injured. The house of Mr. Coffee contained 11 people when it was struck by the storm. The building was entirely demolished and seven inmates were killed outright. The path of the storm was about miles wide and It tore eve rything that lay before it. Telegraph wires and poles are down in every direction and trains are delayed greatly on account of debris piled on the tracks. It jis thought that great damage has been done in the farming district, but it is not believed that the cyclone struck any town. The storm seems to have geen general over er the State, but on account of tele- ee 25 to pleces Quartz Assaying $240 I Per Ton Found on the McClellan Farm Near Elsberry. Special to the Post-Dispatch. ELSBERRY, Mo., March 18.—While blast- ing rock on the Alexander McClellan farm near here recently what was thought to be ye articles of gold were discov- ered. A specimen of the quartz submitted to a BSt. ouls assayer discloses the fact that the ore contains a rich deposit and assays $24 per ton. Shafts will be sunk at once. DIDN'T LIKE. HIS FINANCIERING? Wife Shot Her Husband Because Ske Thought He Spent Too Much Money for Liquor. Special to the Post-Dispatch. TPRRE HAUTE, ‘Ind., March 18.—Be- cause, as she charged, Dr. Joseph D. Kelley mney. for. Mi this county, Sfs money for liquor, his w fe, re. Elsie breast last the late A, Ww : oo gov ‘f . ww w " ult ii. L get So an oe 7 Pr os by Pie uandered*| ———— | raph wires being down no particulars can be learned. At Selma the spire of the First Methodist Church was blown down. crashing through the roof and doing much damage. At Sellers, a small station on the Plant System, south of Montgomery, the entire town except three houses was destroyed. Luverne suffered greatly, but no @etails can be gotten. : A passenger on the Southern train from Atlanta to-night confirms the news of the eycione. It was told him by citizens of Edwardsville, It is said a house near there in which 12 persons lived was wrecked and nine of them killed. Another passenger eaid he had heard that seven more were killed near Heflin. A special from Tallapoosa. Ga. Says. “A cyclone passed over the country tweet Heflin and Edwardsville late this seh at ge n. - is reported that five were e 1 one fa rires wer mee a mily.: Telegraph wires were be- Special! to the Post-Dispatch. HUNTSVILLE, Ala., March 12—A tor- nado from the Northwest passed through the northern part of Madison County to- night. At Hazel v“ireen many houses were destroyed. The loss is thought to have been great. Communié by wire is cut otf with Maysville, : CHATTANOCGA IS. IS FLOODED. Trains Blockaded and Property Dam- age Is Known to Be Large. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 18.—The most terrific hailstorm of the season pre- vailed here to-night. The storm was ac- companied by high wind, which for a few moments attained the violence of a hurri- cane. The rain fall was general through- out the Tennessee River watershed. All the low quarters of the city are already sumerged and several railroad tracks are overfiowed. A heavy washout occurred on the South- ern Railroad between Ooltewah and Cleve- land and all trains will be delayed for some time. Reports from outlying districts are to the effect that the damage was greater than followed the storm of a few days ago. So far no serious waehouts have been re- ported on any roads except the Southern. Much apprehension is felt in all quarters and a fiood is feared. ROB ROY IS LEVELED. One Negro Killed: by by the Storm That Wrecked the Hamlet. E BLUFF, Ark., March 18 —A cyclone visited this region to-day, doing untold damage, passing six miles beyond the city. At Bell's Ferry, north of here, where the storm was first seriously felt, the damage was mostly to timber and crops. Rob Roy, a little town six miles north- east of here, was nearly all leveled to the ground. Five houses were blown down and one negro was killed. Several cars on the Pine Bluff & Arkan- Sas River railroad were blown down and an engine was turned over by the force of the wind The storm crossed the Cotton Belt Road and went south to the Iron Mountain, leaving, to the be# obtainable information, a path about 100 feet bekind. Ladd’s mill was struck and several build- ings destroyed,though the large plant with- stood the shock. Havoc was also raised at Walnut Lake and Dumas, further down the Iron Mountain Road, On account of damage to telegraph and telephone wires, the full extent of the ation PINE storm's ravages cannot be learned fully for several days. It is thought here that the greatest floss will be in the destruction of timber and cotton in the fleld. LIVES LOST IN TEXAS. Wires Are Down and Reports So Far Are Quite Meager. Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch. DALLAS, Tex., March 18.—A_ cyclone swept over Southwestern Arkansas, North- western Louisiana and portions of Eastern and Northern Texas this evening. Im- mense destruction to property was wrought and.several lives are reported lost. graphic communication is so badly inter- rupted that spe or have not been learned here. GOLD IN LINCOLN COUNTY. | WEST VIRGINIA TOWN BURNED A Number of Persons Reported to Have Met Death in the Hotels at Piney Ford. Special to the Post-Dispatch. PARKERSBURG,. W. Va., March 18.— Piney Ford, an oll town in Wetzel County, was burned to-day. Seventeen dwellings, two hotels and ali the business were de- stroyed. It is reported here that a number of per- sons were burned to death ‘in ang hotels. The loss is estimated to be $L.0 DAMP WEATHER HELPS PLAGUE. Fifty Deaths Due to Spinal Meningi-is | the ‘5 Reported From One County in Missouri. Special to the Post-Dispatch. DEXTER, Mo., March weather seems to have given impetus to nal meningitis tn this county. meen 22 oe ee from Como that there have oo. from this Jisease 4. nye been vicinit Sut ass Sr . peas. Rah Soot . “= n.% 18.—The damp a ; o a Be _ 5 4 ee ia Oy " init ee . TO HE WAS SHOT NA HOTEL, - — Chilton O’Bannon Wounded in the Left Side. HE SAYS IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. — WOUND INFLICTED WHILE AT THE HYGEIA. A Young Woman Accompanied Him Home in a Carriage—He Re- fused to Disclose Her Identity. Chilton O'Bannon is lying at his home, 3133 Franklin av., with a bullet wound in his left side. It was inflicted at the Hy«eia Hotel. Twentieth and Morgan sts. He says he did it himself, accidentally. Retween 11 and 12 o’clock yesterday fore- noon somebody telephoned excitedly from the Hygeia Hotel for an ambulance. Dis- pénsary Clerk John Pearsoll made the ster- eotyped inquiry: ‘““‘What’s the matter?” ‘‘A man’s been shot,” was the answer. When the ambulance reached the place the proprietor denied that the ambulance had been sent for and that anybody had been hurt. He refused admission to the driver, who returned to the Dispensary. A few minutes before the ambulance ar- rived a youth had been assisted across the sidewalk to a carriage which had been summoned He was accompanied by a young woman who entered the carriage with him. The driver was directed to drive to 2133 Franklin av. The young woman assisted the youth to the door. turned him over to his mother, re- entered the carriage and went to the Cen- tury building for the family doctor. He was not in his office She took back with her another Century building doctor. He found | that the bullet had entered the young man’s left breast, plowed through the fleshy part and passed out below his shoulder blade without dajng much harm. Chilton O'Bannon is 19 years old, He I’ves Tele- | body et the number mentioned with his mother, the widow of J. T. O'Bannon. Mrs. O’Bannon, who is a woman of re- finement and gentleness, was ministering to her son’s Wants when a Post-Dispatch re- porter called at the house at 11 o’clock last night. She made an unreserved statement of all she knew. “My son says it was an said. “and I am sure te is telling the truth. I don’t know how he came to be at that place. He is easily influenced. He says he was out with a couple of his friends. I have not asked him who they are. I do not care to Know. | do not want their mothers to share the trouble which is mine. It seems he was handling a revolver which he supposed wags not loaded and accidentaity shot himself. ‘‘He was in doubt whether he should come home. fearing that I would be greatly aiarmed. He sent for the young woman with whom. it seems, he has been keeping company. I don’t think there is anything serious between them, he is so young, but he wanted to advise with her. One of his friends went and brought her to the hotel, One of his friends went and brought her to the hotel. She insis.ed upon him coming home and accompanied him here. haa never seen her before and he had nevet spoken about her. She is apparently sev- eral vears older than he. She was most thoughtful and sympathetic. I have nu. asked My svn who she is. I fear, in m. excitement, I did not adequately manifes my appreciation of her kindness, lowe ha a dept of courtesy. “IT am positive my son was not attacked and did not inflict the wound himself in- tentionally. 1 have been grieving con- stantly sinee I was assured that he was in no danger over the unav oidable notoriety accident,”” she ‘and the injury to his prospects.’ Mrs. O’Bannon broke down and wept softly. Permission was asked to speak to the young map and she led the way to his room. He repeated the statement his mother had made.* He said he could not recollect in what part of the hotel he was when he was shot, or what hour it was. He denied that he had been drinking. He said he had been at the hotel once SDefore. | Hé refused to tell the name of his com- anions or that of the young lady. He said e sent for her because he did not know how badly he was hurt and he wanted her with him. He was asked if she lived near the hotel. He said no. He insisted that he did not remain at the hotel more than 20 minutes after he was injured. He left in the c -arriage as soon asit came. He did not Describing how he was shot he said: “I had received the revolver in a trade night before last. I took out all the cartridges, as I thought, and was holding them in my hand. I pointed the gun toward my- self, I did not known I had my finger on the trigger. I heard a report and did not know at first that I was shot. Two porters rushed in and I suppose one of them sent for the ambulance.’ In the police report of the case credence is given to the young man’s statement that he was accidentally shot. CORONERS DIVIDE A CORPSE isend a carriagefor the girl. One Takes the Head and the Other the. started down to the hard. Body, So as to Hold Two es. Minn., March 18.—George of Pembina, N. T>., went across the river which divides Minnesota from North Dakcta and got into a fight with John Smith, a sai:iounkeepeer. Bates was struck on the head and his ekull frac- tured. He was taken to his bna and left upon the floer, dead body was found next aey Smith was arrested and Coroner went to the Dakot the body across to the but he was stopped in. his North Dakota Coroner, who was under his gee ae After several a e ot question as (9 hich of to possession of yi bod y. finally comprom sed Dy) divide the bedy. The Minnescta off the man's head, in a newspaper and CROOKSTON, Bates. a resident home in Pem- where his the the attempt by claimed arguing was entitled “the matter was a proposition to Coroner accordingly cut and, alter Wrapping i: gravely sealing up the er with seeling wax, across ‘to St. Vincent, where wat rendered in accordance w.th above facts. , Lockwood tured «kuli *o ex saved the frac- trial of Smith. Coroner, hibit on tie SS ees EARTH SHOOK IN INDIANA. Twice the Seismic Felt Near Vincennes. Spertal to the Post-Diapateb VINCENNES, Ind., March 18.—Two dis- of A WOMAN'S HONOR N HIS. KEEPING, E. E. Fuller Makes a Chival- rous Statement. WAS A GUEST OF THE PLANTERS’ ARRESTED ON A CHARGE OF AT- TEMPTED BURGLARY. — Police Do Not Believe His Story, but Are Now Inclined to Think «a He Is Not a Professional ; Criminal. E. E. Fuller, a Planters’ Hdtel guest, against whom a warrant for burglary was issued yesterday, asserts that despite the circumstances of h's arrest, he is no crim- inal. He says he could estabi!fsh his innocence clearly, but*that he is in honor bound not to reveal where he was Friday night. He Says he was out _to see a woman, and E. E. FULLER. rather than have her name dragged into undue prominence he will serve a term in the State prison, if necesgary. The police incline to the theory that he is a criminal and they do not credit the explanation he makes, and say it only half explains. Fuller admits this, but says he wll not make himself any clearer. From luxurious quarters, with downy couches, Turkish rugs and private bath, on the fourth floor at the Planters’ Hotel, to a cell in the holdover in the basement of the Fourt Courts, with its granitoid floors and entire absence of. furniture, is a great transition, but Fuller accommodates him- self to the change quite philosophically, and as he rolls and smokes a cigarette he is as composed and dignified as though he were receiving his friends in his former palatial quarters. ~- As told in yesterday’ s Post-Dispatch, Ful- ler was arrested on the front porch of a house at 2728 Locust st. George Burrows, Emory Barhygt and Will Marper, who room at 2702 Locust st., were late about reaching home Friday night. When they entered the house they saw a man in the front hall. The man sprang out and ran west on Locust st. The three young men followed. They say the fugitive ran into a yard at 2728 Locust st. They followed, but ‘tically saw | without into this unfortunate affair and that I will | he Minnesota ' a side to bring cece ne or the Cc rime, the | | is not lost sight of the man. As they came out they saw the figure of a man on the front porch. They went for him. He resisted, and one of the two fired a shot in the air to attract a policeman, The man struggled to escape, but was overpowered. He wa locked up and gave the name of Fred Jones. Later he admitted his name was Fuller when a Planter’s meal check was found upon him. A warrant charging burglary was issued and he was photo- graphed and measured by the Bertillon inspector. Fuller was seen by a Post-Dispatch re- porter last night. “lI am no thief,” he said, “and I was never before arrested. I know my predica- ment is awkward and appearances are against me. But I am in no position to talk now. It will all come out some day, perhaps, but not from me. They may send me to the penitentiary, but I will not tell where I passed the evening. “! will admit I was in that neighborhood to see a woman. It was not in the block in which 1 was arrested. 1 was might not in the house at 2702 where t d they saw me ag hy | will teli you this much and thie is true. I had been to see & Woman 1 hotel. It Ragan me l remember front porch young men they returned, me and came At me drawing a re- volver on me. I did not krow but that they were robbers and I[ tried to get away. “or eourse | see that this only half x- plains But I cannot tell where 1 was bringing a certain woman's name was raining I has d mo the yard, I, don’ and stood yn +t rain 1 saw three by. Then the out of not do.” Fuller is a man who would be recognized | thousand. He is B years oid. ia 5 feet 11 inches tall, straight and | slender. He tis plainiy but in a black woolen suit with t lapels faced with satin The striking feature of his face is the absence of his right ve This was lost, he said, while he was rid ng horseback through the woods hunting. dead limb struck him in the eye. He registered at the Planters’ Orleans. He says he had been there, but never aves there. His home ts tn De- troit, Mich He has worked as a railroad clerk in De ‘trolt and after making a pleas- ure tour of the South, was on his way back to Detroit He was out money. he says. and w: is.@ xpecting a remittance from home every cay The dete tives that of a from New oft language does not that his He admit criminal. wee slang and he ts dignified tn all of h)s | ctions He submits to all of the pris Disturba w rules but does not understand what is ré@- | sturdance as quired of him. The police think he ts man of good character who became deé- perate for money and turned robber be- needed money desperately. he do net t his story about can | What is the matter with your eyes? Dr. stepped into | number, | the | rush fran- | They | | probability 'wher the letter was written. | was mailed several hours prior to the first neatly dressed | 1e STRANGE FACTIN 16 NOW DEAD, Tt M'VEAN CASE: Anonymous Letter Compared With One That Is Sigtied. STRIKING SIMILARITY FOUND. INDISCRIMINATE USE OF PERIODS MAY SOLVE THE MYSTERY. Stationery Similar to That Used by the Anonymous Writer Is Found at a Drug Store and a Pur- chaser Is Known, ‘* a Tie Police Department have no theory on the McVean mystery for publication. They appear to be groping in the dark. Investigations made by Post-Dispatch re- vorters have revealed some remarkable facts in this mystery. The investigation was made, not in an endeavor to substan- tiate a theory, but for the purpose of pre- senting actual facts gleaned in a sys- tematic inquiry into the case from be- ginning to end, from which logical conclu- sions as to a solution might be drawn if the solution itseM did not result. A comparison between the handwriting of a known individual and that in the anonymous letters reveals a striking re- semblance, to students of such matters, in one of the elements of personality which enters into the composition of any kind of written. communication. A sample com- parison is that to be made between the address on the last of the series of anony- mous letters received by Mrs. MeVean and the envelone addressed by a person who is known. The connection between these two bits’ of penmanship is the superfluoug and indis- criminate punctuation. When one desires to disguise his hand he seeks to materially change the formation of his letters; he re- sorts to intentional errors in spelling and the formation of sentences. A careful and not self-confident person will invariably discard script and seek perfect disguise in printed characters. One of the most dif- ficult things to change in any letter writcr, and one that the average observer does not notice at all, is punctuation. Punctuation is dictated by an element of personality— an element seldom reckoned by the pos- sessor because of its minuteness, and yet it is almost inseparable from self. The gimilarity in the punctuation of the letters lies in the use of the periods and commas where they do not belong In the anonymous letter one of these marks fol- lows the number “No, 4015" and “Cook,.’’ In the other, one of them follows the num- ber “50,” the words “at,” “Olive” and the character for ‘“‘and.’’ It is, indeed, an uncommon eccentricity that impels one ‘to place a period after the numberina street address The address written by the known person is not different in punctuation or other fea- tures from other writing by that indl- Vidual’s hand. All the anonymous letters are alike in this respect. The paper on which the anonymous let- ter is written :6 of a cheap grade. It bears the brand “Monarch’’ in embossed letters. Paper of the same kind, grade, brand and every particular is for sale at the drug: store of C. C. Lyda, Vandeventer and Cook avs. When paper of that kind is bought there the purchaser is given a/} choice among three styles of envelopes or ing the anonymous letter matches one of these three. This stationery sells six sheets cents. Some of this statiorfliry has been sold re- cently. The anonymous letter was collected from a box in a division of the postoffice Grand av. circuit which embraces the territory for a radius of five blocks or thereabouts from the McVean and Megraw home at 4015 Cook ay. car at 11:30 a.'m. Wednesday, March 1— the day following the throwing of the acid —and was so postmarked. Within the past year a person has purchased three or four boxes of a very common grade of stationery at 15 cents per box—from the drug store at Finney av. | | would start the men to overhaul the ruins, and Sarah st. This is the statement of the proprietor, who also says that this per- son purchased little or nothing else there. The contents of the anonymous letter ifoi- low: You won't look at your kind doctor, will you? You didn't You see I do as I way. Glasgow says | was right, for he loves we. liave you seen bim? ©, po! | guess pot. He and | ine have dope you tp. The police took you and not me, and you will suffer fur your kind doctor. A long time ago 1 have wanted you. 1f got Fou at lust. 1 will see you led inte jail blind. This letter shows that the writer was in possession of the facts about the injury , to Mra. McVean, and the then seeming that she would lose her sight This letter | publication— Wednesday afternoon—of the tragic event at the McVean home 'day night. It would have been a physical imposs!- bility for Mrs. McVean to write a letter for several days after the acid was thrown n her This last anonymous letter was written by the same person who wrote al! of its predec essors. it is the popular opinion that the person Who wrote the lettera sent the poisoned candy to Mrs. McVean and that the same person Was the one whu drenc hed Mrs. MecVean WIth carbolie acid, ‘Yhe police verdict in the candy and letier case, when it came up before, was that Mrs. McVean sent them to herself Thy | was based on the statement of Leonora Henley that Mrs. McVean purchased the candy creas her, & statement which Chief Campbell still believes to be true it is shown by the Poat-Diepatch tnvea- tigation that Mre. MceVean did not write the anonymous ieiters, since she could net | have written the last one because of her | injuries; because of the nature of these injuries ‘It would have been a 4 ~al im- . Ae and t log k ea t ane person has be " - 7 - ™ t. coe Sigg b> * ‘: * ~s errr | | 5 of paper and as many envelopes for 6 . i 8 Se 3 RE MIS Appalling Record of Winé Hotel Fire. MISSING MAY BE IN ee eee ee EXACT NUMBER OF LIVES MAY NEVER BE KNOWN. Unparalleled Courage Displayed Few of the Guests, One Man Sav-— ing His Family and Himself by Use of a Life Line. Spectal to the Post- Dispatch NEW YORK, March 18.—The number a4 the Windsor Hotel fire is 14. This, nels eh takes into account only the bee ‘y persons known to have lost their lives ever, actually seen. The list of missing persons is known Cap x eye “4 Sf ; Cae ows - ay R | ” ’ * % : ae & ¢ x = > be 50, and is constantly increasing. It- . the opinion of Fire Chief Bonner others that when the wreckage is cleared away meny more bodies will be Conservative estimates place the nt of dead in the ruins at %. But with growth of the list of missing, this nw is increasing. The injured numbered 51. died to-day. of The exact number of dead will never b known, as the servants are believed © have taken many friends to the roof witness the St. Patrick’s Day pa Three of a > None is known to have been rescued from oe the roof. . The money loss on the property is p at $1,000,000, with insurance about $% In adition, it is believed, the guests about $1,000,000 worth of jewels and sonal effects. One sneak thief w rested during the fire with jewels ing to Abner McKinley's family, were worth $8000. Other thefts are pected. ressing slowly. The mass of wreckage very hot and several*engines are still p ing water on it. When the center of it upturned several bodies will probably found, us not one of the many servant known to have been on the roof has found, Every train to-day from the North, South and West brought friends to wait for their dead. They about the spot, but are kept at a safe tance by the many policemen on guard. 7 — Dawn to-day brought snow and noon steady rain that fell softly on the heaps of brick and stone, only to rise in steam, but the crowd held on. Citizens were kept a block away fromt ruins as pieces of wall were falling e now and then and there was danger that” the portion of wall at the back of the. building and that on the Forty-sixth side might fall et any time The bit of > laine wall on the Forty-sixth st. side tapered. to” > a point and still held place. It will be pulled down during the | day. The wall on the rear side, seven stories high, was still standing, but it i looked as though {ft might fall with the - first stiff breeze. seventh gt. side was about two stories high and that in front on Fifth avenue about the same height. The wall showed ‘breaks in them and had jagged tops, add=_ ing to the hideous appearance of the ruing- and emitted a bad stench. Fifth av. and Forty-sixth and Forty-seve enth sts. were impassable. They were om ered with debris from the walls of the hotel and in many instances flag-stonem were broken by the great crasno of “a and brick. Gangs of men were kept all night at the ruins, ready to begin the work of removi the debris so as to find the bodies burt underneath. It may be evening before the | work can be begun, delay being caused by” The letter reached the postal | the continual outbursts of flame and ae ' ’ | | | ; Tues- ern end, seventh st. and that he was employed on the © Times. 4 great heat still clinging to the debris, Chief Bonner said to-day that no men were missing. At 8 o'clock this morning a few men were set to work on the Fortyt-seventh | st. side to tear down the walls. The com> tractors said that as soon as possible he” He would have 1000 men at work if thas number were needed. At about 9 o'clock the rear wall of the” hotel threatened to fall and the occupa of Nos. 6 and & E. Forty-seventh st. Ww ordered to leave their houses. The re 'wall was bending towards those bulldi The building department wreckers tried shore up the wall so they could be la a pushed in, and email parts of it did tomy in the desired direction, Rumors of incendiarism were heard tos, day. Scores who were in the hotel award, they saw two fires—one Was In the southe | the other up stairs toward FPorty=_ seventh st. Could The arrest of several thieves and ‘fiieht of others gave ground to the ‘picions. A man was caught with worth of jewels running down W, He said he wae Frank He showed a Times oadge. is no such paper in Chicago—it is the Times- Herald now—so when Kain wae ar in the Center Street Court he was until Monday. He had a handkerchief of diamonds, stick pina, brooches and watches. which belonged to the McK! ‘A A. Nimie, whe saw the fire start as went to go up the elevator to visit Mr. and Reef Mra. Menry Wicheiman, who are missing. ‘saw a man dart away into a room and grad — up the valuables in sight. after rhe Mr. Nimis a look o lence Av corbing him at his re as Mr. Nimis climbed down the fire a body felt on him, but he held on and a , Pa tee -- a t tome 2 y* ww 5 wd " me Q 7 2 - ‘* e: ) F = ay ro po * two chimneys = The wall on the Forty. : a collection of them.’ The envelope incics- | behind them which smoked ene a \ 4 ce « “J > io, “aa it be that thieves oA planned it all so that the panic might : when the St. Patrick's parade was on a . il a ws Pia Sea ei ae s&s ¥ - a ° ¢ . . i. x be La r ¢ a <

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~ 5 ge Se het ae tp # % oP er ad ‘ oe ft ae oe ” r a ‘ay J . J Be wed pigs toe Ange ay thee “ wr, 9 a 2 “el toe Pry ' " A 4 awk i iby ‘ ‘ing proper | self. | fire, Wh na ps i. ‘ -_--o— — - nual rental, for which he indemnified him- self with policies aggregating $75,009. Mr. Gerry carried policies aggregating $595,000 on the building and had insurance of $120,000 on the furnishings. In additicn to this, Mr. Leland had poli- cles aggregating $100,000 on his own furn” ture in the ‘hotel. Most of the policies that covered the hotel were written with cor- porations that have their main offices in other States than New York. One family lost jewelry valued at $200,000, and the total will run up somewhere near $1,000,000. How much has been picked up and carried away can never be known, nor can all ever be recovered. Mrs. Nancy Kirk, who lost her life, and her daughter, Mrs. Mary Kirk Haskins, had the family jewels, valued at more than $200,000, with them. ‘There were scores of other weatlhy families who lived in the hotel and who lost jewels worth thousands of dollars. Warren Leland, Jr., said to-night that he had given up Frederick Leland, the room clerk of the hotel, and his cousin to-morrow land will be taken to Chicago 'for interment. The body of Nancy Ann Kirk was taken to Chicago to-night on a special car on tne Pennsylvania Railroad. ‘Mrs. Mary Kirk Haskins, accompanied the body. Mrs. Catherine Bailey take to Roosevelt Hospital, ported to be improving, and much fear of grave results. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Fuller of Philadel- her daughter, of Chicago was and was re- there is not ‘phia and Pittsburg, who were taken to the Manhattan Hotel. were so improved to- night that the physicians said they were out of danger J. H. Sullivan, the electrician of the hotel, eaid there was nothing wrong with the fire apparatus. When ihe fire started he, two engineers, two firemen and an oller, a painter, two carpenters, a coal passer and a steam fitter, were in the sub-cellar. He sald that as Soon as they knew there was a fire they started the fire pumps, which worked perfectly. Then then’ drew three of the fires and turned the Croton water into the boilers to prevent an explosion Six engines going at the time were shut off. but one was kept moving so that the steam could exhaust. The work of removing the debris was berun late to-night, when a gang of about 20 )«6€©experienced contractors were put to work. The timbers and bricks were so hot and the smoke 80. thick that the work pressed slowly. Gasoline tanks and electric light plants were placed in various places. The men devoted most of their time to the Firth av. and Forty-sixth st. sides. As they cleared away the outer portion of the debris and got to the build- they found portions of the ground floor still intact. Up to a late hour the only articles found to reward the laborers were three battered trunks partly filled with clothing. In front of the hotel where the balcony siood and where the structure had been eight stories high, there was a pile of bricks and twisted iron supports 4 feet high. The wall of this part fell neither in nor out. It collopsed and fell upon it- With its fall, which was early in the all hope for any one left in the build- ing was gone. How many managed to reach the doorway when it fell wifl not be known until the mass is cleared away. That will be several days. HOTEL REGISTER FOUND. Other Fire Trap Hotel Owners Are Given a Warning. NBPW YORK, March 18.—The books of the hotel, ineluding the reg'‘eter, were found later in the day and were taken to Mr. Leland. A copy of the register was made and from it the police hope to straighten out some of the difficulties that now attend the preparation of a list of the missing. Commissioner Scannell said to-day that the burning of the Windsor Hotel was he ha He declared | thing The | | bodies of Mrs. Leland and Miss Helen Le- and unless the proprietors put their places in the proper condition for saving hives I will pubiish a list that I have in my puws- sess.on.”’ Warren Leland, Jr., said his father wished all the survivors to send in by telegraph aS soon as possible, the fact of their survival. Many inquiries, he sa‘d, are being made from all over the country by anxious friends and relatives. What was thought to be the only living in the fuins was pulled out this morning. It waé a fox terrier, badly burned, but still alive. Of the police en- gaged at the fire, two are reported missing. Iwo firemen are also sald to be missing. The body of Mrs. Warren Leland will be taken to Chicago to-morrow for burial. DEAD, MISSING, INJURED. List of the Names as Far as Could Be Ascertained Last Night. NEW YORK, March 18.—Following is a full list of those killed, missing and in- jured at the hotel fire ag nearly as can be ascertained to-night: The list of the dead corrected to 9 o'clock to-night number 16: Connolly, John, employe of hotel: burns and internal injuriés; died at Flower Hos- pital. Flanagan, hotel; di Kate, 40, chambermaid of at Flower Hospital from the effects of “burns and injuries. Gibson, Mrs. Addie, 35 years old, Cincin- nati; shock; died at Murray Hill Hotel. Goodman, Eleanor Louise, 17 years old. daughter of Samuel Goodman of this city: fractured skull; died at Bellevue. Grandy, Miss Laselles of Elizabeth City, N. C., here on shopping tour; burned to death Henry, Mrs. Mehitable, widow of Dr. Morris P. Henry; internally injured; died at Roosevelt Hospital. Kirk, Nancy Ann, 72, widow of James S. Kirk, soap manufacturer, of 365 Ridge av., Chicago; died at Bellevue Leiand, Mrs. Warren, wife of proprietor of hotel; burns of body; died at Flower Hospital. Leland, Miss Helen, daughter of proprie- tor of hotel, found dead at fire. Paddock, Amelia, 35 years of age, of Irv- ongtee. N. Y.; died at scene of fire. Sullivan, Mary; died at Bellevue. jumped at Helen from a Gould's woman, who window, died Unknown ifth av. home. U nknown man, jumped from roof at rear of hotel; body not recovered Unknown child, thrown from window by mother; body not recovered. Unknown woman, mother of child; jumped from hotel window; body not yet recovered. Unknown woman, jumped from window; died at 19 E. Forty-sixth st. Missing. NEW YORK, March 18.—The following is a cor- rected list of those guests missing since the fire in ps _—_— Hotel yesterday. The number in this st ia SO: | Bald wards i} ote BRUSH, RS. M. G. BOYD, MRS. AND DAUGHTER. (LAIR, MARY, chambermaid. DEMORASCH, MRS., 50. DRESSLER. EVA, chambermaid. EAGAN, MISS. M. as Oarnegie of Pittsburg. GUYON, WARREN, elevator boy HOFFMAN, MISS DORA, Baltimore. SE, ‘ene Serves. JOHNSON, MR&. D. J. : i cate a JOHNSON, ALEXANDER B. AND WIFE, New- buryport, Mass. KELLY, ALICE, 17, servant. LBLAND, FRED, room clerk, Lelaod. LOW DRY P1898 MAGGIE LOWPRY., - .. , LAWRIE, cages W.. 22. New York. NNY, MARY. 4 DONALD, MRS. ISABELLA, 45, widow, fam- at Toronte. ny ORGAN. MISS ANNIE TAYLOR, 40. MORGAN, MISS OA THERINE. M’CONNELL, KATE. MISS M cousin of Warren MORAT, JENNI Sii, t. Sie ANNIE (known at hotel ag Annie Mal- A TTPRSON, MRS., wife of Judge Patterson } do. ; of SURDY., MRS. I. H., 70 years of age. of Purdy's Station, N. Y. f SALAMON, MRS. D. 8., Widow. SALAMON, MISS ROSANNA, 27 years of age, 40 years of age. servant. , of this city. 20 years of age, of Orange. MAN. MARY. 22 years of age, of this city. M > ¥. V.. New York. ‘es Station, N. Y., > =» - ae oa ~~ z ae x ' . Ws sas es REN 5 he i! » & et "e bk aeD em e i a ae See oS “ei rae” MISCH. MRS. F,; burned about hands and face; Presbyterian Hospital; will recover. McPHATTER, DR. NEIL, Edinburg; broken leg; Flower Hospital. M'PHERSON, THOMAS; body; Bellevue. MALLEN, NICHOLAS; injured by jumping from window; Harlem Hospital. M’CLUSKY, THOMAS; Flower Hospital. M'GUIRE, JAMES, truckman; fractured left leg, Flower Hospital. MORRIS, T. HENRY: Roosevelt Hospital. NOONAN, POLLY. domestic in hotel; hands burned and badly torn from sliding down rope; Harlem Hospital. PRICE, MRS. ALICE, sister of former Gov. Price of Georgia; shock: broken leg and sprained ankle: Bellevue Hospital. PURRINGTON. MRS. R. H.; at same address. ROACH, KATE; broken leg and bruised about Bellevue Hospital, thence to No. 169 Lex- av. ROSENTHAL, ROSINA;: slight burns; Bellevue Hospital. SCTIIUCHARD, MRS.; taken to 707 Fifth av. SCHRIBNER, MRS. G. H.; No. 2 West Forty- eevee nt t. SKELTON, EDWARD: badly burned about face and body; at Presbsterian Hospital; will recover. SIMMONS, MRS. C. E.: Bellevue’ Hospital. THOMAS. MRS. NELLIE, assistant bookkeeper; shock; Bellevue Hospital. Unknown woman. 25, dark complexion; frac- tured skull and broken leg: Bellevue Hospital. VON SPIEGEL, MRS. JOHN, Milwaukee; frac- ture of left leg and rib; Presbyterian Hotel; re- covering. ' WALDO, MRS. JOHN VAN VALKENBERG, burns on body; Roosevelt Hospital; condition good. WATERMAN, MRS. E.; N 2 West Forty- seventh st. WESTERFIELD, HELEN: at Dakota Flats. WHEELER, MRS. G. P., Milwaukee; shock; contusion of back; Presbyterlan Hospital; will Te- cover. WHEELER, DOROTHY, Milwaukee: shocks and burns; Presbyterian Hospital; will recover. WINTERS, MLSS; No. 784 Fifth ay. LIVED IN DREAD OF FIRE. A Former Superintendent Says the Windsor Was a Fire-Trap. KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 188.—‘The Windsor hotel was a veritable fire trap,”’ said George T. Stockham, manager of the Midland Hotel this morning. Mr. Stock- ham lived at the hotel for five years as its superintendent before coming to Kansas City. ‘‘Many persons who went there never could be persuaded to go above the first floor. We lived there in eternal dread of fire and the chief of the fire department and myself made many trips over the place to take every precaution possible. “The trouble was that the hotel was built on the installment plan back in the 70s. The man who started it went broke on Wall st. and new ideas and new capital completed it. The walls were very light— I don’t think there was any wall thicker than 18 inches. Then, too, there were seven courts or stairways that were gpen to the roof. These shafts we always knew would act as flues in case of fire and make it im- possible to battle against the flames. Every- thing was wood but the walls.” NAMES OF GUESTS SAVED. List of Persons Who Were in the Hotel and Escaped. NEW YORK, March 18.—Following is a list of Windsor Hotel guests who are now registered'at other hotels: Hotel Manhbattan~—Mr. and ley and daughters, Mabel and Helen; Millard, Miss Margaret Lowerie, Mrs. J. of Cleveland, Mr. A. A. Pope and Mrs. Pope ,Miss M. Burns, Miss F. Claney. Mrs. K. N. Bradley, Pittsburg; Mr. end Mrs. A. S. Fuller, Philadelphia; Mrs. FE. ‘G. Williams and. Miss Williams of Lon- don; Judge and Mrs. W. G. Hawkins, Pittsburg: F. K. Misch. New York correspondent of the San Francisco Bulletin, whose wife is seriously injured at the Presbrterian Hospital. Hotel Bristol—Dr. and Mrs. Wharton, Balti- more. Buckingham Hotel—S. Hoodman, J_ RB. Rose. S'las Down!ng, Mr. and Mrs. D. G, Duncan, New York. Murray Hill Hotel—C. W. Mise R. E. Ronson, Commodore H. P. Miss Far- rington, New York City; Cincin- va tti. Hotel Netherland—Edwin W. Winter, Miss Win- ter. St. Panl. Minn. Plaza Hotel—A. C. Guntber_ and wife, W.. Clok- worthy, New York Citr: B. W Jones, Beaming- ton, England; A, A. Wilson and wife, J. D. Lind- say and wife, Mrs. McFloy and A. Keogh, New York City. Grand Union Hotel—J. NH. Hvll and wife, Miss ‘. . MeGregor, New York Oity. Park Av. Hotel—M. E. Cooper, Connecticut. Waldorf-Astoria—R. L. Cook. J. K. Hill, W. Wf. Chapman, New York City: H. H. Clarke, Liver- pool, England: Col. Tom Ochiltree. . Cambridge Hotel—Miss Katherine Craig, Wash- ineton. Holland Ohicago: Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Providence. R England: F. . Ls: A. Bernard P. Poter, London. England. “fr. and Mrs. Ackerman, Miss Ackerman, Plainfield, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rushmore. Platnfield, N. J. Hoffman House—C. O'B. Céiwardin. wife and son. Richmond. Va.; 8S. W. Elliott, Chicago; Obarles Fady, Virginia. Mrs. Ira Holmes and Mrs. Stiles Burton, moth- er and. grandmother, respectively, of Burton Holmes, the lecturer, are at the Lancham Hotel. Mrs. Court and Miss Emma Brown, who were registered among the missing, are both safe Others previously reported missing but later found at the Waldorf were: Mrs. H. H. Clarke, John F. Faust, Sarah Tormy, Mrs. Auzo, Mrs. Spaulding, Daniel Lace, Mrs. Brown, Mrs Mackey, Mrs. Buchm, Margaret Hayes. Mrs, Logan C. Murray of Eouisville, Ky., who was reported missing, Is also safe. She said to-day that she had escaped with- out injury. Just before the fire broke out she went to the room occupied by Mrs. Donald Mackey. Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Mack- ey, Miss Jennie Mackey and a Miss Wise went to the Forty-seventh st fire escape and reached the street in safety. . Miss Alice W. Price, sister-in-law of Gov. Chandler of Georgia, who is at Bellevue Hospital with a broken leg, was réported this morning as doing well. Mrs. Sol Smith Russell, wife of the actor, who was registered at the Windsor Hotel, was not in the house at the time of the fire and is safe and well. Kate Foreéyth, an American actress who arrived from England and registered at the hotel, was in Philadelphia at the time of the fire. Dr. Pitkin, house physician of the Wind- sor, has accounted for all of the six bed- burnecd hands and NO, m= Mre. Abner McKin- Miss H. P. F. Boyce Squires, Farrington, John Gibson, House—John W. Doane. Rarton. Misa Barton, Coutan, London, ception of Mrs. James H. Stokes. the widow of Gen. James H. Stokes who. he fears Is among the dead. Twelve little girls were takin ing lesson from Mrs. Dora Gray Denean of San Francisco in a parlor on the fourth floor when the fire started. Mrs. Duncan hurried the children down the stairs, and with her two daughters, was among the first to leave the building. Thomas P. Ochiltree, who escaped, Waluable pictures and bric-a-brac. Later in the day the following who had at recorded as missing were reported as safe: Margaret Quinn, Anna Thomas (a domes- tic), Mrs. James Brandt, Ellen Casey domestic), Kitty Quinn (a domestic). Jen- nie Wrigley (housekeeper of the hotel). bs = PASTY CEREALS a danc- lost - — +. Responsible for many Cases of In- digestion. Many cooks send cooked cereals to the breakfast table in a starchy, pasty and wholly indigestible manner. are Grape-Nuts are served, for absolutely no preparation of any kind .1s_ required, therefore, the flavor and ease of digestion are just as intended by the food experts who make Grape-Nuts. Try them. Made by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, . Leading grocers sell G sealing ladder. (a | You | sure of a properly cooked dish when | eririg Gunter, the well-known novelist, was a patron of the Windsor Hotel, and it is feared by friendS who have not seen him the fire that he lost his life with his . Thomas Ochiltree said to-n'ght: . Gunter was in my apartments an hour before the fire, and I have no doubt that his body will be discovered in the ruins of the hotel. He was a very large, stout man and was a constant sufferer from asthma, and would find it difficult to make his escape through the smoke.”’ DEEDS OF HEROES. Wonderful Courage Displayed by Ed- ward P. Wells. NEW YORK, March 18.—Edward P. Wels of Jamestown, N. D., probably displayed the most surprising coolhess of any of the 50,000 persons in or at the fire. A reporter, who was in the the fire began, tells the story: “IT saw one man whose name should go down on the Book of Life as one who did his duty by those he loved. ‘Let it be known here—he was Edward P. Wells, of Jamestown, N..D.u . “Though penned in by the fire on the fifth floor, he saved his family and him- self without a burn ard a hurt. All he had was a rope, the same that the other frenzied ones had. “First to come was his daughter. Down the front of the building she slowly sank. “It was more than human strength could do to cling to that frail rope for six stories without gaining headway. But Miss Wells sank slowly. hen I saw why. The cool father had tied the rope under her arms and Wes paying it out himself.® “Sh® reache@ the ground and fainted— unhurt. Qui hands untied the rope. Swiftly the father ‘drew it up again. In the window he stood with his agonized wife, calmly tying it under her arms, just as he thad done before. “Again he paid out that rope, slowly. “Other poor souls were coming down their lines with lightning speed, but Mrs. Wells sank as.elowly as her daughter. She was safe. Flames were playing all around now. But Edward P. Wells knew what to do. ‘“*Don’t jump!’ shrieked the crowd. Not he. He disappeared, only to reappear with a towel in ‘this hands. This he wrapped across the palms, wound the rope around his leg and slid to the ground without a scratch. hotel when just as “A woman of © stood on the first floor balcony. She fainted. Two policemen got a ladder up and got her down safe, but in collapse. Two women dropped two stories on their ropes to the baicony and .were carried down limp. “Suddenly to the north appeared two more faces—a stout elderly woman and her colored maid. They were on the fifth story and had no rope to fling out. There was one from the window above dangling down where some poor soul had come down before. They could not reach it. “Some kind Nand twisted it toward them so they could. Fhe elderiy woman pre- pared to fling herself out, too. “Don’t! Don’t!’ yelled the firemen, and the crowd ‘ook it up. The elderly woman tried to clamber out. The little maid, half her weight, seized her by the waist and hung on. “There was a fight tr that wfndow— maid trying to save her mistress. “Up clambered Fireman Wiittam Clark of Truck No. 20, with Edward Ford at his heels. Between them they had one tiny They poked it through the window above and up went Clark, with Ford behind him. “Then Clark had a fight—the poor wo- man wanted to jump. But he held there and waited. “Below the firemen were getting up the extension ladder. Slowly it mounted. Too bad! They had raised it a story too high and had to lower it. “And then a shriek went up from the crowd. A poor, old woman in black ap- peared in the next Window where there was no rope and no ladder. Smoke was wregth- ing around her head. She was praying ‘There were Ford and Clark in trotuble enough, only to find another woman on their hands in far worse plight. “But Clark knew what to do. I saw him push his charge in and clamber across those smoking sills into the window of the next room. Then the poor old woman in. black fainted. But Clark seized her and put his left arm around her waist. “Ford was waiting on the next s'll. His étrong right arm was out and he flung it around his mate’s helpless burden. *“*T’ll give those men $5300 apiece,’ I heard a mgn in the crowd cry out, ‘if they get her down safe!’ “The extension tladder was up. First the stout lady and then her Rung by rung the patient firemen helped them down. Then came the poor old woman who had fainted, and as the brave firemen lifted her out of the window where they had carried er, flames burst from the room where she had been—but she was safe. : STRANGE FACT IN THE M'VEAN CASE. CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. engaged 4n the extraordinary attacks against Mrs. McVean,. bein true who threw the acid on her? ’ Concerning the place where Mrs. Me- Vean was when the acid was thrown, the following facs have been brought out by the investigation: Mrs. Mary Pearce lives at 4017 Cook av Her home is the west half of the double frame building of which the Megraw-Me- Vean home is the other home. The divid- ing wall of wood and plaster is thin Sounds of volume penetrate it distinctly. Mrs. Pearce was in her dining room which a oR ne my Tuesday evening, the nigh e€ carbolic acid mm ¢ Mrs. McVean next door. oy dase 7: ties: Some time between 7 and 7:% o'clock Pearce heard a woman scream in the Me- Vean ‘house. Mrs. Pearce Says she is con- fident the screams came from the rear of the house and not from the front of the house, where the attack Is alleged to have Mrs. ridden patients in the hotel with the ex- | been made. Mrs, Pearce’s son Alfred was in the kifch- en when the screams were heard. He says the screams came from the middle room - kitchen next door, and that the person who | screamed also cried, “O, mamma! mam. ma! . Mrs. Jackson of 3969 Cook av., who was summoned by Miss MegrawW while the latter was on her way to call Dr. Lyda, says that when she reached the McVean home Mrs McVean was lying in the back part of the hall and not near the front door. ASSEMBLY MAY DISSOLVE. Public Sentiment Proving Too Strong for Cuban Generals. HAVANA, March 18.—The Cuban Military Asseinbly meets again on Monday and it is reported that if there is no quorum, which is 1. it will dissolve of ite own accord, public opinion having peen tev strong. Gen. Betancourt has resignéd from Assembly. Messrs. Catlin, Hecker and Dady return to the United States to-mor- row. MEMORIAL TO BE A HOME. Honor of Winnie Davis Takes on Form of Benevelence. Special to the Post-Dispatch. BALTIMORE, Md... 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I ly took one bottle of Pe-ru-na, which stopped that grippe, four | cougn the troubled me before. Pe-ru-na as a cure for bronchitis.” a town and got a bottle of Pe-ru-na, and it did me so much good that he got six more and I “= > aA J . ~~ — —— ~~ Whigs tee ast he eet faaas et ‘ eee act? ASSL F i > - ** +6, *e Stet e ~~ De Se . *eee6 . ~ ‘ . . % %. "s se . if GOVERNOR G. W. ATKINSON OF WEST VIRGINIA, Pe-ru-na Drug Mfg. Co., Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen—I can recommend your preparation, Pe-ru-na, as a tonic. tation as a cure for catarrh is excellent, it having been used by a number of people known to me with the very best results. Fully 50 per cent of the people of the Mr. F. “Sprig says: Department Hartman, editor Missourt “Being a man of. limited means, doctor bills. Some two years has used it My little girl has been sick and when we used your medicine “My wife “Speaking from personal time save money, should Mr. O. P. Perry, of Atchison, Kan., says: some time ago telling you cured with had been for some A short time ceased tak- Pe-ru-na_ I slight attack bronchial Iimmediate- bronchitis the a Fee I took la which I had successive winters. Although I had with it, I had not a symptom of bronchial cough which had’ always I heartily recommend Mr. O. P. Perry. Rorwick, Mo., says: of consumption, and there Ie no doubt whatever that it was a genuine case of consumption of the lungs. I had hemor- rhages from the lungs months, doctors $400,and then they told me they could not cure me- that I was incura- ble. I had become so weak that I was eonfined to the bed, My husband went to Mary Fritz, a victim Mrs was Mrs. Mary Fritz. took them according to directions Very truly, Pe-ru-rfa is an internal systemic remedy, reaching disease at its fountain-head. It gures catarrh of the head, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, or catarrh of any other organ of the body. A. Dixon, 310 East Tenth street, CHARLESTON, W. Va., March 9, 1898. Its repuue G. W. Atkinson. United States are suffering from catarrh There is scarcely a home in the land entirely free from One or more members of every household either has catarrh or some Catarrh is rapidly becoming a na- the Kansas City, of Myrtle,” “Permit me e had to be ago I began a number of it proved a I have used it myself several times and con- sider it a very valuable medicine. observation, I investment to keep it In my home, and believe Who desires to relieve suffering, and at the investigate your Pe-ru-na and other medicines.” consider: it the real Editor Sprig of Myrtle. and got entirely well. This was seven years ago and my health has been good ever since. I can go out In the woods and chop wood, and I never could do that be- fore I took your medicine. 1 recommended Pe-ru-na and Man-a-lin to a man of my acquaintance who: had asthma He took it and was cured. He says that he feels better now than he has for five years, and he only took two bottles of Pe-ru-na. My daughter, 11 years old, was cured of bed-wetting with one bottle of Pe-ru-na. I am very grateful foréthe benefit I have received, and recommend it to all my friends."’ Mrs. Eliza Heingle, 106 E. Main st., Co- lumbus, Ohio, says: “About a year ago I -contracted a vio- lent cold, which set- tled on my lungs, and for four months I ran down rapidly, coughing up quanti- tiles of bloody mucus, and frequently hem- orrhages from the lungs I was on the verge of the grave. My husband and friends had given me up. Someone, however, who had tried Pe-ru-na, advised me to use it. As a last hope I bought a bottle, and, find- ing Immediate relief from ita use, con- tinued taking it. My cough left me, and Il had no more hemorrhages and | am as well now as I ever was in my hfe. I thankfully attribute my present good health, and, in fact, my living at all, te the good effects of Pe-ru-na.” Address The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufac- turing Company, Columbus, Ohio, for free catarrh book. ’ Mrs. Eliza Heinzle and grandchildren of ex-Confederates. Al- reacy $10.0 | Dwight | yeare rN mney the | spre in dressed the Quidnune Club on “Certain Un- American clared that while the rest of the world was« reparing to throw off has been secured. Rev. H. M. Wharton. who was. L. Moody's assistant for many is at the head of the enterprise and sent to him at No. 34 Howard st. iis city Will be accepted. MRS. LEASE IN NEW YORK. | The ‘She Addresses the Quidnuncs on “Un- American Tendencies.”’ e Post. Dispateh NEW YORK. March 18.—Mra. Lease ad- Tendencies” to-night. She de- gs of royalty we are he msn c , : Se * “ tee y . este eM 2 LAREDO PEST HOUSES FILLED, Forty Cases of Smallpox Developed in Forty-Eigat Hours. Special to the Post-Dispatch. DALLAS, Tex, March 18.—The smalipos epidemic at Laredo, Tex., has become so virulent that the State has to take cha Dr. Blunt, State Health eg & t ¥ reported to Gov. Sayers that he Was help- leas unless State Hangers were furnished for police duty. Gov ers ordered Nee Rowers and his ranger force from Cot te Laredo. He reports the city aheolutely prostrated. More than 100 deaths have oc- curred and 30) cases are In the hospitals and pesthouses that have been pomneenee established. Forty new cases have oped since yesterday mornin "An a | has been omuedl the fn the shape of ot cines, money, clothing, Phe Stat a a ) cig he]

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: dey : b , , - : 7 —_ 7 4 ~ -. - L i bet i! , Pe ae ae Se ae * x ‘yy =. . & ; 4 ad - a a eh i ee a a ee wire > ; a, % z Ped ony * ae Beh ws. - “gf + «. a ’ =." ee . ate i: “ ‘ a ws -_ 7 ? > th q iF e % ’ “1 + 7 fee he enlaae f s ~ itl + + a J . Mr, : oie ry] a «Fi! Pid » & tee’ en > ha yas Nay \ 7 . 7 .e oS i tee Oe Mee Oe ee oP Morne e-eemgee,. SUNDAY MORNING—S f, LOUIS POST-DISPATCH—MARCH 19, 1899 Special Advance Spring Shoe Sale. A $10,000 Shoe Pur- chase enables us to offer Up-to-date Advance Spring Footwear at Prices Beyond Competition. A guaranteed saving of 25 per cent. 3.00 Ladies’ Hand - Turn lack and Tan Lace Shoes, all Vici Kid and silk yesting AA to 0 2.00 Tan and $1.47 $1.37 $3.50 $1.23 A Prominent New York Retailer of Shoes Told Us If the People of St. Louis Knew the Superiority of the wford Imperial Shoes, Our Entire he Be Too Small to Ac- $2.50 Ladies’ Black Vici Kid Lace Shoes, $2.25 Ladies’ Tan and Black Empire Kid, Oxford Ties, gS. 00 Ladies’ Tan Welt ulldog Lace Boots, $2.00 Boys’ Tan Vici, Coin Toe, Lace Shoes, Mighty Magnets of Trade A a Washington Avenue. I th iL ‘*Meet Me ’Round the Dome.’’ —Now Go Into Effect—Crawford Counter-Crowders—Every One—Including the French China Sale —Shoe Sale—Silk—Dress Goods—Millinery—Waists—Suits—Furniture—Ribbons—Etc.—Etc. NE anad ong ne —_—— —S—_ 7 | i Ml | | | Hi i INI I a HM a § RAC ORS t - a re" eT | SRR 5 | j Hn oh HA “'Tet Me Off at Crawford’s.”’ F LL ‘ a | Sixth Street. New Corsets,- Thompson’s | Glove Fitting Venti- - lating Corsets, few Paris shape, butterfly back, absolutely corréct tn every. $1.00 W. B. Carsets — medium ltefgth, , white, drab and black; the $1.00 corset on Monday LA VIDA CORSETS. The latest and most correct styles high-grade ate aees to American requiremen We La Vida Corseta with the confid they will be found the most correct i detail—the embodiment of and ection. New m —shown only¥ at Crawford's. fon ~=§2.50 to $15.€ from Corset Fitting Free of Charge. ,au 2 . t fF % 7 ~ ~ ‘ L: » ” ° p PN SD pay Vi Our $1 Quality Corded Taffetas, in all 98c the new shades, the latest fad for waists, ought to be $1.25, Monday for yard, Monday 5. Z* he = s 7 - ¥* ey oe fetas, all new shades, Monday for Fancy Stripe Taffetas, in all the new and swell combina- tions, regular $1.25 Silks, for Of Black Satin Duchesse excels any Silk of its kind in the country! . The Exclusive Silks in our gamut of Silk Selections number into the hundreds of patterns, colors and effects—the choicest of the choice—perfection of loom productions— _ Silks. ~ T he choic- est loom pro- ductions, bought for cash, to be sold for cash,, thereby yok- ing economy as you will - with elegance, note. Fancy Checks and Broken Plaid 85c Taf-_ 69C 98c Black Satin Duchesse, all-pure silk, the pest vaiue in America; per yard, Monday, 35C 31.49 lined, Fine a'l-wool Venetian Cloth Jacket, stra seams, velvet collar, changeable silk tinea. Monday seams, velvet collar and satin lined: Monday Fine Cloth handsomely maided in red and white braid and fancy buttons; Monday some trimming and applique collar, 8, 10, 12, 14; Monday . ay 6 large pearl bu‘tons. All- wool Covert Cloth Jackets, dip front, tailored Child’s Jackets. Reefer Jackets for Child 4. 6. 8 — with white soutache braid and brass buttons; Monday All-woel Child’s Reefer Jackets. in ages 4, 6, S—large collar, Elegant Reefer Jackets, In brown, blue and Waists. all- wool all lined pointed yoke; Monday $3.98 made; Monday smoked | for in clusters, 1] $5.98 front. very swell, 9.98 $12.00 $1.98 $2. 98 cut; Monday pear! gray, hand- $5.00 a perfect beauty, The Season’s Best in Waists, Suits, Jackets, Etc., Are here, as thousands acknowledge daily. To- morrow’s attractions are magnets that'll crowd this 2d floor to an overflow if you know what’s what. Ladies’ Jackets. A nobby Spring Jacket, throughout, chan geab| 6 silk, 4 buttons of pearl— Monday y Venetian Cloth Jacket trimmed with 8 pearl buttons dip front, habit back and silk Elegant Chambre Waists in solid colors, 4 rows inserting down front, rounded collars and cuffs, Those fine burret Waists in plaid, white collar of pique, White India linen, cross tucked yoke, back and front, gathered back, 2 rows inserting down Fancy white Pique Waist, elegant embroidery front and box- pleat back, nobbiest waist of the season. Superb twilled Cloth Suit, handsomely braided jacket and skirt. fiy front, jacket lined. with silk rhadame and circular skirt, colors green, brown, garnét and blue, . All-wool hair-line stripe Cloth Suit, In gray box front Jacket, silk lined and circulgr skirt; Monday Fine all-wool covert cloth tight-fitting Jacket, fancy silk lined, tailored seams, sxirt is circular Handsome Venetian Cloth Suit, appliqued, tailored seams, taffeta silk lined; "$1.98 well . $2.50 $3.25 $4.48 Suits. $12.98 Eton Jacket, wide lapels Fashionable (Second Floor. ) interests of our customers cost. Examine our Men's and Boys’ Clothi you will be convi are offering S the many great values: for $14.00 and $16.00; they are $25.00 productions; come and pic terns, in suft in this lot is extra well lined, doub!l double seat and knees of the same to sell at $5.00. Our Great Special Price all artistically trimmed by tailors w are artists in their line. e show largest assortment ever shown in & Louis and our prices are the lowest— ho he it. kind. Our Special this week, only— We are Headquarters for the DEMOREST $25.00 nced. ) all lines this week. The following are only a few o? Extra Special in Men’s Fine All- Wool Suits, in blue and black cheviots, clay worsteds and serges, made to retail ual to the custom tallor’s best them out to-morrow for gnly Boys’ Fine All-Wool Knee Suits, sizes 7 to 16, this season’s newest ray and brown Scotch mixtures and bi Ss; made Thousands of New Stvles for the Little Fellows, sizes 3 to 8; these : are made up.of all the very newest materials, with large or small collars, end are | : é $ I rele) to $8.rQ, Re Young Men’s Suits in Single and Double Breasted Stvles, sizes 13 ta” A 19; strictly all wool, gray and brown Scotch mixtures and ey and black cheviots, serges and worsteds, extra well tailored; regular clothing stores will ask you $12.00 for the same Sole Agents \in St. Louis—No. 3 1-2—in. Light or Dark Oak or Walnut.......+.... Clothing Dept. We study the wants, desires and SO closely that we can render the maxi- mum amount of satisfaction at the minimum - sin ue sewed with only— blue lined and x “ yi “2 i “ eri +3 | ; ald “ ya = res ‘ " 4 ‘. So + é ade ‘ ; Bas or? ae : al ; *. shit'and nes $3 7 x | ta | Saree : - Each | ! | : eee a eo Pee ehh oy ? 6 ge AYR NG tell PEPER RN ERE GARE LE EO CHILDREN IN MASKS ANNUAL BALL AT SOUTH ST. LOUIS TURNER HALL. A GLORIFICATION OF DEWEY. The Little Ones Honored the National Hero Till, Bed Time, Then Their Elders Took a Turn at It. The annual children’s masquerade ball at South St. Louis Turner Hall, Tenth and Carroll sts. last night attracted the elite of South St. Louis society Like its pre- decessors it was a distinct success, It served a patriotic purpose, too, Yor the theme of it all was the glory of American arms and the glorification of their mest vallant exponent, Admiral Dewey. Two hundred children danced and 4is- ported in fanciful costumes and enjoyed a beautifully designed and well executed performance. When midnight came fhe tots gave way for their elders and joy was unconfined until early morning. The hall was gorgeously decorated. From a cluster of incandescent lights in the cen- ter etreamers of red, white and blue ex- tended to the four corners of the room. From the same cluster of lights garlands of smilax led to Roman pillars surmounted by g0iden globes bearing clusters of silk , nhags. Every conceivable fantastic costume was to be seen on the floor as the happy boxg and girls followed the measures of the dance Columbines, tramps, sailors, Fill- pinos, Uncle Sams galore, Spaniards, Ital- ian organ grinders, Fausts, Marguerites and Mesh'stos jostied each other in the jJuveniie turong. The stage performance was looked for- ward to with great expectancy. It was more than satisfying. It carried the chil- dren and the many older persons by storm, This portion of the entertainment was under the direction of George Wittich, Wm. Mauthe and A. Fueger of the ar- rangements committee, assisted by Sta — E. Eyerman and Stage Mechasio opp. The central idea of the tableau was the the homage of all nations to Admiral Dewey. In the children’s ballet, preceding the grand climax, the following appeared: Un- cle Sams, Masters A. Barte!, P. Schwarz, E. Meyer and R. Erler; Columbias, Misses L. Ergel, M. Brissie, M. Van Haagstraat and lL, Ketterer; soldiers, Masters G. Goettger C. Jacques, L. Jacobs and N. Shailly an Misses A. Gibherd, T. Ziegier, C. Frida and A. Hubel; dolis, Misses C. Minges, Kegel, L. Guerke and A. Tillmann; brow- nies, Masters J. Lang, A. Fischer, L. in- trecher, L. Reiss, R. Binder, J. Staehlin, E Rohrbach, A. Stengel, A. Mauer. C. Clo- eris, M O’Haver and W. Helin; butterflies, Misses D. Schnell, L. De Muth, A. Meyer, L. Becker, E. Langmeyer, B. Blatter, L. Van Slick, L. Runst, E. Dusold, A. Mueller, M. Galle and L. Pohimann. Admiral Dewey was impersonated by Os- car Winterm The committee ar- cOhsisted of Edward FASTER CARDS. Our stock is not of the or- dinary kind — it embraces many new and novel ideas with us —see 5C E. JACCARD JEWELRY CO. Remember (IVE ald OTF a ee eee exclusive them before purchasing elsewhere. same: — _-—— -- a, A. Melsheimer, A. Fueger, William M and George Wittich. The following gen floor committee: A. Wm. H. Lange, Writ. M. Langsdor MATAAFA MAY REMAIN RULER. Ambassador White Says That Tanus May Not Be Upheld. BERLIN, Merch 18.—Referring to the visit here of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, a number of papers have discussed whether it would not be best to insist upon Samoa in ex- change for Germany's 4nsent to the bulld- ing of the Cape to Cairo Rallroad through German East Africa. The Duetsche Zeitung approves of the scheme. In the meanwhile the United States Am- bassador, Mr. drew D. White, tells the corespondent of the Associated Press that though he has not received any recent in- structions on the subject, he does not dovbt the correctness of the dispatches from Washingtofi' saying the status quo will be maintained at oa and that Herr Solf, the new Municipal President of a, will be confirmed by the United States and Great Britain. Mr. White says that Herr Solf seems to be the proper m for the position and that if Mataafa behaves de- cently and if the ineligibility of Malietoa Tanus be shown there will in all proba- bility .be no objection to ‘8 con- tinuance on the throne. or further authe tlemen served on the Winter, Oliver Popp, Weitzel, Wm. Haase, DEATHS. BENSON—Died, Friday, March 17, at 11 p. My Julia Be age 77 years. Funeral from Sesaily vestienes, et., , March 20, at 0:30 a. m., to t's urcb, thence to Calvary Friends are invited to attend. CLARK—On Saturday, March 18, at 6:80 p. my Kdward Clarence Clark, infant son of E. and Mary Clark (nee McGowan), aged @ , beloved wife of George Benson, ? it . 1907 O° a ‘: ‘2 e ‘ wee oe a fn Ki TST. % years and 6 montbs. uu Funeral Monday at 2 dence, 1419 Glasgow ar., Friends respect invi >. m. from ae to Calvary | Se CONNOR—Died, Saturday, March 18, at 4800. 9 m., Ella T. Connor, sister of P. P.. T. LM j J., J. B. and Annie B. Connor and Mrs. A. Lawiar of Springfield, 111. ? Wuneral from family residence, 2618 ; cS Bt. Bridast's- et., March 20, at 8:30 a. m., Oburch, ce to Cobverz ° ee and Pana (11).) papers please eopy. GALLIGAN—Entered into rest on Friday, March 17, at © a. m., Patrick H. Galligan, beloved busband of the late Mary Ellen Galligan, and Ph: >” * aft: ae , a $ - ete / 4* + pee a a +» 4 father of Katie, Lottie, Mamie, Nellie and ‘ ei Agnes Galligan. Funeral will take place from the late Sete dence, 2089 Division #t., on Sunday, M _ at 1:80 p. m., to St. Bridget’s Ohurch, ‘ss to Calvary Cemetery. Friends are he invited. s a a HAAR—On Gaturday, March 19, at Sa. m, afte Emma ©. Hear, beloved a lingering lllness, Gaughter of Jobn H., Jr., and Louies Haare ~ ~ Baby (nee Schiichtig), aged ‘I year, 9 months and 18 days. Funera) on Sundey, March 19, from (Mive Cemetery. Relatives end vited to attend. residence, 8129 O’ Reilly av. (Carondelet), at Dp. m., to St. Boniface Charch, thence to Mouse ie eer | - ae £ LAF FEY~—On March 18, Jatte Laffey, beloved eistes of Sarah and Michael Laffey. Fur.eral Monday, March 20, from fa dence, 2012 N. Twelfth st., at 2 p. m™. invited. beloved husband ef Elien Mooney (news Bale 4208 Monday, March 2. attend. st... of family invited -_— —~-—s-- loved wife of Jobo Nelson, on Friday, 17, at 11 p. m@., Funeral from residence of ber Mathberine Graves, 2906 Tenw March DB, at 2p. m ROSHNBAUM—Arthur Kupferte Rosenbaum, - e7. “ee Due notice of funeral will be given. SMITH—Gaterday, at 3 «. m., after « Magering illness, Mrs. Klisabeth Gmith, relict of te late Patrick A. G@mith, and beloved mother of Beile. except with af en Pm BS Ye ok Nae 5 ee ar be y A AS .: a ee rae ” ate ¢ paren hg 7 ioe gene a a aes - ; a a, ‘ ‘ : > ‘3 + ; cm yet Seat eet te. : | The eee +4; SD > % To | - : # * “ 5 + - t MOONEY—Oo Friday evening, March 17, at 10:38 ‘i p. m., after lingering illness, Micheel Moomey, — We ¢7 ae as” “5 » Sell ‘ . rs ‘arr NPLSON—Mre, Lisnie Nelson (nee Graves), Bee aged 37 yeare. a oe wh «J gf o> a the > - ‘ ¥ ¥ rn ng ” A, i gr 2S °! See ‘, “a a « . ri . a, a a ee aE ‘ _. 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The most interesting part is their to-day’s price to you: 23-inch Black Crepe de Chine, worth T5c ......++..49¢ 23-inch Black Crepe de Chine, worth 85c ..........55¢ 23-inch Black Crepe de Chine, worth $1.00 ........69¢ 23-inch Black Crepe de Chine, worth $1.10 ........75¢ 75 patterns (no two alike) Black Novelty Grenadines, exclusive designs, 4n a large variety of patterns — prices range from (pattern) .....0+++++-$8.75 to $65.00 BOYS’ CLOTHING, Spring ‘99. Beys’ Suits, Ages 7 to 16. Made of smooth. leathery Cassimeres, in a gre Scetch Tweeds and Romeee. in laids, in choice aassortmen ese as well made, as perfect in fit, as well trimm More New Arrivals in Dress Goods. More of the swell Novelty SuitPatterns that come-only in lengths - sufficient, for single costumes and are not to be found in ready-to- wear suits. No duplicates, and Barr’s exclusive designs. On sale Monday. STORE. - FS QVI2 Spring Sunshine Reminds us that it is time to select light attire. Barr’s quotations in this issue remind you that the. one place to make selections is in their big store, now full of the choicest goods gathered from two. conti- nents. BARGAIN TABLE MONDAY. A new arrival of French Challies. Choice styles and high class printings “AT POPULAR PRICES.’’ ALSO, BIG BARGHINS: Lot 1—30 pleces 38-inch Black and White Checks— the regular price is 35c yard—at, yard MAGNATE LOSES HIS TEMPER./8 . PRESSED HARD BY THE OHIO ATTORNEY-GENERAL. John D. Archbold, Rockefeller’s Lieu- tenant, Made an Indecent Exhibi- tion of Himself and Almost - ‘Came to Blows With a Lawyer. Gpecial to the Post-Direpatch. NEW YORK, March 18.—John D. “‘Aroh-. told who stands next to John D. Rocke- feller in the management of the Standaré Oil Co. lost hie head on the witness stand to-day and became indecent in denouncing Attorney-General Monnett of Ohio and others. He was being questioned regarding the company’s affairs and could not have honestly answered without the revealing of gecrets which an army of lawyers are re- Lot a pieces 86-inch Stylish Plaids— | iit bhi eee? splendid for Skirts and children's waists—at, yard TS be A Sie Lot 3—15 pieces 38-inch Pure Mohairs— the new gr@s and browns—at, yard—... povesenseondonesosonbendseees 35¢ Lot 4-20 pieces 28-inch Braided Plaids— very stylish new colors—at, yard soe eeoged Se avi sdihedidincninadthnciboiaicaciacion Gia Lot 6—25 pieces 44-inch All-Wool Serge— all the new blues and grays—at, Yard... ..ccccccccccccccccccceccce ae nn Lot 6—40 pieces 50-inch Covert Suitings— ° great value, pew shadings—at, ~ OSES AIRTEE CE STI Lot 7-15 pieces 48-inch Crepon Novelties— this is one of the best things—at, yard so cbiekcia dilate Let 8—20 pieces: 64-inch All-Wool Cheviots— . all the- new checks and mixtures—a‘t, yard ssantenctetttiat £2 nn Lot 9—15 pleces 48-inch All-Wool Plaids— the smart thing for skirts—at, yard....... te eeeeeeesessens eccee Meld Corsets. White We are able to offer many d remarkable values at very Goo S. low prices. Completed stocks show many choice novelties in assorted patterns that it will be impossible to duplicate this season. Men’s Light and medium F ° hi weight Underwear UrniSHiINGS. and a special sale of Men’s Trimmed Nightrobes. Men's Neckwear, in all the latest shapes for epring; all the new shades— Tecks, Pufts, Imperial, Strings and Linens. The choice bargains that housekeepers watch for, because it means ‘‘pin money’’ saved. 120 Hemstitched Gatin ‘Damask Tray Cloths, 25c each, worth 4c. While it isa well-known fact that Barr's Corset Department is the largest and most com- plete in the West, also our prices are lower variety are as tained to guard. ey-General Monnett kept his tem- owing his indignation and disgust his extreme pallor, but W. Ia gg, a lawyer of this city, who wae as- sisting him gave the oil magnate as good @s he sent—or rativer, were hurled back and fort as bad as he sent. “Low lived cur’’ amd “dirty, stinking liar’ KR for @ quarter of an jour. versing with Archbold jumped chair, lewned over In the afternoon while Flagg was con- Attorney-General Monnett, out of his Flagg and half way toward Mr. shouted: “You keep still or I'll expose you right e."" “You expose.” replied Mr. Flagg; “you me, why I «should eonsider it a to be exposed by a cur like you!” ou dog: you miserable whelp,” 2 cases 60-inch wide Turkey Red Dam- ask, yard, 2c. 1000 Fringed Tray Cloths, hand-drawn, all linen, 15c and 19c each; Wc goods. 500 Breakfast Cloths, pure linen, $1.8 each. 2 cases bleached 2-yard wide Table Lin- en, SSc r yard. Napkins to match, $2.00 to f 50 per dozen. SPEXCTAL—100 dozen 26x26-inch Napkins, $2.98 per dozen; would be cheap at $4.00. 600 slightly solled Cloths at @c on the dollar; ask to see them; they’re all fine goods. than any house in the West. W. B. bias cut Cor- set in white, drab black; worth 08c J. B. fine French fateen Corset, well bonerl,long waist, double side steéls, in white, drab and black; worth $1.75. $I 00 W. B. Empire, : made of fine French coutil, lace trimmed top and bottom, in white, drab and black; worth $2.00. Wright Bust Form. Barr's St. Louis agents for this perfect-fitttng Form. and $1.25. Bows—Barr’s special price, 2c each. Men’s Medium Weight Natural Wool Shirts and Drawers, extra value, 750 per garment, worth $1.00 cial Gale in Men’s fancy trimmed ‘ight Shirts, made of Seow York Mills cotton, generous in length and pm 750 quality, this week for Wo ach. Black Dress No woman considers the season's ward- Goods. robe complete «with- out the addition of anew Black Gown. and its purchase is really most important of all. There is no anxiety about a black. bought at Barr’s. BLACK OCREPONS—The greatest de- 200 pieces of fine sheer Imported Indla Dimities, in plaids and fancy stripes, worth l7iec, for 10c. 400 pleces Thite Cord bargain, 10c. 4 cases of fine Im ‘ inches wide, a %-cent 6c. those handsome Indian Madras a Waisting Fabrics, very cheap at Cc 450 pleces of lovely French Organdie, in re white, 48 inches wide, cay 18c. e have 360 bolts of fine sheer English Nainsook, 39 inches wide; for this sale we shal) sell a 12-yard bolt at a price never before offered; a bargain surely, $1.25 a bolt. 200 pieces of 68-inch White French Or- gandie at 2c. 4 cases of Satin Plaid Bnglish Nain- sooks for children’s wear, worth 1214, Tk draid on col- stylishly cut as any suit in the city at double the price; epecia)] Bargain PICO. .cccccccecccscccccase Boys’ Sailor Suits, Ages 3 to 10. Pure Worsted, fine Navy Se - § rows jar and ehield. finely e. renular $5.00 em, You cannot restst them if you see th a COCO e SOFT SHES SSESSESSE SCTE SHO SSCFeeeeseseeeeeses “ee — . oe < =e Tey es ARTISTIC WALL PAPERS «eo We can give you some valuable points in color schemes for your interior decorating. That season of the year is now ap- proaching when the spring sunlight begins to show the dingy appearance of your walls. You possibly have not thought of just the paper you would want. Ring us up and let us suggest some pretty treatment for such rooms as you intend to decorate. Let us show you our hand- some tapestry effects, Gothic and Venctian Burlaps and Bag; dads, 15c per roll and upward. . Call and inspect our pretty bed room effects in dainty stripes and chintzes. See our magnificent line of Floral effects and some of the newest darker colorings for Dining Rooms, Halls, Libraries, etc. We carry a general line of Domestic and Im- ported wall-hangings in all grades; and you will find it to your advantage to look through our collection before making your men in each towa t6 handle ageats. our samp . Liberal to THE UNITED STATES WALL PAPER CO., ™ “sagest cusp sober Bell Prone Main 21332. Kinloch 814324. ST. LOUIS OFFICB, 910, 912, 914 PINE ST. CINCINNATI OP PICE, 424, live s paid peer sania 9 arrives DEATH CAUSES INVESTIGATION. ; Baz been" to) Doctor Presents an Ante-Mortem Sta:e ~ ment to Exonerate Himself. Special to the Post-Dispatch. QUINCY, IL, March 18.—The people of Tennessee, McDonough County, are exer cised over a mysterious death there. Mrs. ine, tit » to Tenmenees o = ng, + Came ond was met at the train oy Or 4 practiced in tt n to Su Ce clans of McDonough ment signed 07: } on ration, but who Is one of the rs. signed * eh ; ad FH TOY pe eo, - ? Bde aa - .

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a : Wg, + on ’ >= a. D ny Se ee a io gas ; ¢ ~ s * ia? . “ é ei ae OER, Pe ee a, #ii% EROS Ry. SG ES QS » _ " a id . - Py 2 rs ~~ - - ~ tet g _—— = - * e a se Re Fe oe Y= ~—s te es ee ee 2 = : o Qa oa . - . a natal 4 . gos i $ ; 8 Be 5 ? ap - ke * - ely free—select vour ever 50c per yard Black and Colored Crepons, Camel's Hair Plaids, ———— Pop- allor- Made Covert Cleths, Venetian Cioths, Im- hose. Ladies’ Full . lar Made Hose, fa«t black, double heels aud toes, plain or stitch—worth estion kirts: silk stripe zephyr gingham, worth 1234 P ¥ oa a3 wt hy ae ee ae :] + By oa . 7 oF ~ - " i % >, ~ 4 $ 2 - me | ate hee et ae 3 —. 3 er s a tes 15 pleces Black 50-in. All-Pure Wool French broidered back, all ee | od ba , ae _ ae Ng bi 1 TT Ot eee.” e jet and blue-black, sells everywhere for 69c, Easter Sale Price pon, in 90909 O00 99009000000 4 4 ® Goods $1.75, -_- as he has ever made an honest effort to keep his gifts secret Mr. Morgan has only once been defeated in business. syndicate, organized to buy _ enae from the Cleveland Administration ut $18,000,000 less than the market at arias arene”. the power of public se e and publicity. ey now coal trust Mr. Morgan has undertaken a vastly greater scheme, and one that means hundreds of millions of dollars in the future to the coal consumer, whereas the bond syndicate meant only a temporary sacrifice of profit to the Govern- ment. MADRID IS AGAIN UNEASY. Plots Against the Throne Alleged to Have Been Discovered. MADRID, March 18.—The Imparcial as- serts that a Republican plot has been dis- in the Province of Seville, that leaders have been arrested, and that Carlist movements have taken place at Porpignan, capital of the French Department of the Eastern Pyrenees, where arms are said to be accumulating. covered three of the WILL BRIGHTEN | WOMAN’S IF me E SES iN FEMALE OF WEAKNESS. ny sa Nos ne R ? . r el * bi ia: oa MS oe Foe Ne ae ey Se ee oe F "Ne: ae > set ON te ae ppm Serges, in very fine twill, in 10 pieces Black 44-in. Wool and Mohair Cre- handsome raised designs, goods that will wear as well as the best made. and actually worth Easter Sale ef $1.50, Easter Sale Price....+.eseseess new, rich designs, goods we have been selling freely for Black 7 pleces -44-In. Black Mohair Puffed and Blister Crepons, '$ | 38 ° : Sf Fee f +e ; A the latest shades, ()c newest sprin warranted and fitted to the hand—choice of spose black, white, = bl , green, navy, and Wool, and brown—$1.35 and $1.50 Gloves— His second bond $200,000,000 in government 10 THE SENATE. It Will Be Sweeping in Sug- gestion of Reforms. GOOD WORK OF THE COMMITTEE STRANGE CONDITIONS THAT PRE- VAIL IN ST. LOUIS. Taxes Evaded, the Public Money Em- bezzled, Corruption in Office and Certain Officers Overpaid. The Major Committee will submit, In ‘ts partial report to be made when the com- mittee goes to Jefferson City for a recess, a summary bill of the findings of the inves- tigation and some recommendations for legislation that would prevent repetitions of the crooked work that has been discov- ered in municipal and State offices. The Committee will report that the office of Boiler Inspector ‘“‘Damn-the-State-of- Missouri’ Price has been conducted with- out regard for the revenue the city should receive; that members of the Examining Board of Engineers fleeced applicants for licenses through a “grafter;” that certain fees turned into the office never reached tne city treasury; that Price, the Ingpector, altered figures on his books and that money could have been stolen through the means of such alteration; that certain records of the office were destroyed or lost, making an accurate check on the receipts of the office impossible. The committee found that money has been diverted from the city and State through the connivance of a brewery saies- man and a deputy in the office of Excise Commiesioner Higgins, to the extent of several hundreds of dollars; that there was no accurate check on the receipts which should belong to that office, because of the scheme of keeping books followed by the deputy with whom he divided portions of liquor taxes that belonged to the State and city. In the office of License Commissioner Kalbfell it was found that street railway companies evaded paying the street car li- cense tax to the extent of thousands of dollars annually because they were per- mitted to do so, and that certain deputy inspectors in the office permitted persons in their districts who should pay a licenee to evade it for reasons presumably profit- able to the inspector. In this office it was also found that thousands escaped the city coffers through merchants and manufact- urers making false affidavits as to the amount of taxation they were liable for. t was shown that thousan of dollars from State and city through ae ee: Aes" - 4,2 re ee ee! ee eS a + ouy ES baie Bey is 4 -» a oe y ¢ ~ oF ! Lied Comal} cal, FS, “ 4 - a» a : » os iaw . % 7 mes wt a Dulce iin ol aie. ee eeween eee e er eee eee ee eee ee eeenreve 1500 pairs rea] French Kid Gloves,in 4-hook,4-but- ton and 2-clasp, all styles of embroideries and the shades, fit any hand, every pair $1.00 $00050000000000000O00900000S OOOO 0009 9099000000000 0000000 0000000000000 ONE TWINS DEAD value 29c, uarded Plaid—No. 30 Moire Taffeta— ] 5c regular value up to 25c, yard..... orececccces Checks, Plaids—regular 238 All-Pure Silk Stripes, yard eceecees mee Oe ially for stou pair fitted to the form and satisfaction teed—made in four models—-white, b and black—superior to any $5.00 corset made—all next week........... os aateneces * popular makes, worth up to $1.75 each, 69 Lard 3 sell for ** © #@e@e# ee eee eeeereeereeeeeeeeeee eeeee eee eeeeeeeeee C . the office of Al Wagenman, Clerk of the Court of Criminal Correction. Money due witnesses for attendance at trial in many cases was withheld from the witnesses and marked “‘paid’’ on the books of the office. A discrepancy of over $8000 was found be- tween Wagenman’s naturalization records and the figures with which they should cor- peapons in the Election Commissioner’s of- Ce, It was found that between $900 and $1000 was fraudulently obtained from the city through the Sprinkling Department when Hy. Besch, now City Reg.ster, was Su- perintendent, for one F. Mueller. It was also found that Besch demanded and re- ceived money frem certain sprinkling con- tractors for permitting them to violate their contracts-with the city. It was found that on a fair esimate only about one-seventh of the personal prop- erty is taxed. Th's information comes through the investigation of the Assesss- or’s office. It was also found that street railway companies put in their personal property at a surprisingly low figure in comparison with the actual cash value of the property, as shown by the market quo- tations on the stocks. In th’s connection the committee will recommend, it ts said, that laws be enacted providing that the taxable value of the real and personai property of a street railway company shall be equal to the market value of the road’s stocks. The investigation of Coal Oj) Ins o Speed's office showed that the mapector"a job pays him upward of $10,000 per year and that all he has to do is to be an agree. able gentleman to his two deputies, who do the work. No coal oll has been re. jected by the present inspector since he t ok office. Our French Mixed Chocolate GN sb 600 cdébeds+scedbcanannn sodeoenese 10c Our 20c price. —— ONLY ONE OF THE M’GRIFFS LIVES ON IN INDIANA. HE NOW IS 94 YEARS OLD. It Is Not Thought That the Survivor Will Long Live to Enjoy His Distinction. ANDERSON, Ind., March 18.—Richard McGriff, whose death last week broke Indl- ana’s oldest pair of twins, was buried from his home near Deerfield. He had just passed his 9th birthday and he and his brother John laid claim to being the oldest twins in the United States. Death was the result of a general breaking down caused by old age and directly superinduced by a paralytic stroke three years ago, from which he never recovered. He was unabie to attend the annual celebration of their birth held Aug. 30, and has been in bed most of the time. | TEA ~Atsclutely Pure Ceylon Tea, selected and imported direct from the finest plantations, per pound, 50¢, 65¢, 90c and $1.25 Try our famous Cheetah Brands, put up in air-tight packages. Cofiee is equal to anything sold at much higher Try it—whole, ground or pulverized. The twins were born in Darke County. r O., in 1804, and married when young. wives have been dead 3 years. Whe were born that section of Ohlo which now a garden spot of the State was a « derness owned by the Miami Indfansa. Dure © ing the first few years after their birth the — Shawnee Prophet-Tecumseh affair, which culminated in the battle of Tippecanoe, in which William Henry Harrison defeated the Indians, was on, and the redskins were murdering all of the men and children they could find. One night when the mother was alone with the two boys the Indiang came and she only saved the lives of her twin boys z hiding them under the punch- eon floor. he mother ~~ to say, did not suffer any indignity and the Indians left after making a search for the bo and men. The old schoolhouse they attended—and the same one, by the way, from which Murat Halstead was later graduated—was a queer structure. It was a log. cabl with one opens besides the door, Grea paper was used for window glass and, there being no blackboards, paper, ink or pens handy, all of the lessons were written out In a box of sand which was nope nea the stove, so that it would be pliable a easily written upon, as children make pictte ures In the sands along the lakes or sée@e shore. It is feared that John wll also die soon, The shock of his brother's death overcame him. Both have, until within the last few years, been remarkably healthy. Neither used a cane until within the last twe years. They have aware been very tem-— rate and never used whisky or tobace ‘or many years Richard carried the ma between new and old Deerfield, always a Four ‘PURE WHISKEY ° ae ee ee eee eS making the trip of 3 miles on foot. ; irect from Distiller Reterences;-Third National Bank, any besiness house in Dayton, or Commercial Ageuctes. THE HAYNER DISTILLING CO., 674-680 West Fifth St., DAYTON, OHIO. N. B.—Ordera for Ariz., Cole, Cal, idabo, Mont. Nev., N. Mex., Oreg., Utan, Wash., Wye., mest call for 99 quarts by freight prepaid. they. <" Sear +. eae a) das 2. iis ee eee hae .

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One Cent Week Day issue, Eisewhere . ./. . . « « «© + TWO Cents "Week Day issue, on Ai Trains . . . . we e 6+ TWO Cents Sunday issuc, at All Places In or Out of St. Louls Five Cents Delivered by Carrier in St. Louls and Subdarbds., “ Week Day and Sunday. per week Eleven Cents TERMS OUTSIDE OF THE CITY AND SUBURBS. BY MAIL IN ADVANCE. DAILY AND SUNDAY. Daily and Sunday, lyear $6 00 | Delivered by Carrier in Toans Daily and Sunday, 6months 3.0) Outside of St. Louis: Dallyand Sunday, l month .6) Per Wes 15 Cents Sunday, one year 2.00 Per Month. 60 Cents Sunday, sixmonths . . 1.00 Week Day Only, day, three months. .50 Per Month . POSTAGE RATES ON THE POST- DISPATCH “ke T: 24 to 32 Pages 2c 49 to SO Pages Outside the United States. Canads and Mexico, Double the Above Rates. TELEPHONE NUMBERS. pb ae —e. ¢ ’ *> a.’ oh . " + * ’ 40 Cents “AG Paces 3c Main 654 ana 665 Main 666 Entered atthe Post-Ollic: at St. Louls as Second-Class Matter. Remit by Money Order, Draft or ta Recistered Letter. Address all communications and complaints of imperfect service to POST-DISPATCH, St. Louis. Agent Foreten Advertising. S&S C. Deckwith Special Acenry. @Tridune Lailding. New Yorx, 40 The Rookery. Chicaca —_— -_-eoo THE AUTOMOBILE AS A BLESSING The coming of the horseless vehicle will revolutionize pave ments. he stone pa.ement, absolutely necessary now in streets where there heavy driving, will the first to go, since its chief use is to resistethe steady pounding of equine hoofs. This element of wear and tear removed there will be little need of anythines so hard as granite. The heaviest automobile will make comparatively slight im- prefsion upon the pavement. Alloth rs with pneumatic wheels will make none at all. The saving in money, noise and nerves of this revolution is simply inealculaZe. The “roar” of a great city will be reduced toa gentile murmur. Conversation “down town" will not be a painful thing, end it will be possible to hold court with all the windows open in large cities. The automobile as a great Dlessing has not received its due meed of praise. 2ee Business Office . Editorial Rooms . Main 1930 3 City Editor is be Tom Reed would find much about himself at this time if he Were to scan the cuckoo papers. It is now grievous sin and fou! treason the most prominent of Republicans to offer any sort of objection to unpremeditated expansion and benevo- “ent assimilation. for “ee PHILIPPINE PERFLEXITIES The Philippine war. if not speedily terminated, will involve this country in difficulties similar to those which gave Spain so much trouble in the Cuban insurrection. The Filipinos have not been recognized as an independent power by any government of the world—nor have belligerent Tighis been conceded them by any power. In these respects they are preciecly where the Cubans were when the United States took up arms last April. The Filipinos are mere law- breakers, rioters and marauders. They have no legal stand- ing and the United States Government is responsible to foreign powers for every outrage upon citizens of such powers or in- t to their property. Besides this, the question of filibuster- SHE will come up and we shall complain of Japan or China or their Great Britain if any such exneditions get away from Ports in violation of the law. It is not a very profitable insurrection to the United States, We sha!! have reason to feel grateful if the $20,000,000 paid for the islands is tle largest item in the total cost. ———— Sa While labor in the Philippines can be had for four cents a Gay. the outlook for American seekers of employment in our mew territory is not bright: but capital may realize a good deal from this Philippine condition. -—— -———_ —-- e006 WOMEN AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. Petitions of American women for permission to establish a “=8pecial woman's department in the American exhibit at the Paris Exposition have been refused by the United States Com- m ssion of the gr und that the Exposition directors would not Allow such discrimination in the sexes, It is probably a great disuppointment to American women having in charge the cause of their sex to be refused recogni- tion. One of the features of the Chicago Exposition. was the womanue branch, with especial commissioners, exhibits and congresses, Woman was iecognized by the Chicago directors asa thing apart from the other sex with special objects, lines of work and interests to promote by discussion and exposi- tion. The recognition of women as a sex with interests differ- Ing from those of men is a part of the propaganda of the fe- Male progressives in America. But have wo:nen reason tu complain of the Frenchmen who refuse to discriminate in the sexes? Isn't the demand for the recognition of women as women an admission that the in- terests of the sexes are not bound up together and that woman ig an inferior who must make a special fight for her interests, or that she is a superior being entitled to special favors in the congrces of the world? Perhaps it would be wise to leave the choice of the horn of this dilimma to the women and to let them decide whether the refusal of the Frenchmen to discriminate is a compliment or a snub. We shail probably not be compelled to wait long for a decisicn “+e With Kansas producing cetton and building cotton mills we are surely passing into interesting conditions, It would hard- “Ty be supposed that cotton prices, as they have ranged of late, could have in them any inspiration for planters in Kansas or anywhere else. - ee ___ —__ -—— WISE FILIPINOS. fools after all. the Senate The following with the peace The is among treaty: “Cortes family. representing wealthy, educated families Ma- nila. implore you in name of humanity and Christianity not to desert them,itand aid to obtain annexation Philippines§ to America.” This brief but carnest cable was addressed, not to the Presi- dent, hut to UU. S. Senator Marcus A. Hanna. The Filipinos understand the practical workings of our gov- ermment better than they have credit for. Anyhow, they know where to look for the government. —“——_ wa a Filipanos are not such the papers printed by | mel When upon the payment of the interest a promissory note that has matured is allowed to run it is a case of ‘‘forbear- ance’ and not of renewal, and the Government generously re- frains from taxation. This is a case of forbearance on the part of both the creditor and the Government and ought to go far to augment our patriotism. i i ell WHITE MEN IN THE TROPICS. It is reported that not less than 10 per cent.of the volunteers in the Philippines wish to be mustered out there, so that they may at once gv into business in those islands. If they stay there we may expect some light on the question, “Can white men colonize the tropics?" The notion that white men can not live in the tropics seems to be exploded by the testimony of Alfred Ruesel Wallace and others who, on scientific expeditions, have remained un- der the equatorial sun for decades. But whether or not white men can live and work in the tropics without an impairment of vigor is quite another question, and all the evidence seems to be in the negative. Men of the north go into warm climates full of energy and purpore, intent op showing the natives how _ t® Gevelop the resources of the country, and the wonderful "Werth of “hustle.” But they are not eminently successful. a oF ‘ | trust vam! of his cycione alarms a SS ee the cold zones and another for the torrid, and they adapt themselves to the manifest will of nature. The tropics will probably be developed by machinery directed by very few white men, and those will come home as soon as their desire for wealth is satisfied. ~~ = rr We can turn from Dewey a little while to admire the coo} | courage and ski'l of as determined a hero at the Windsor Hotel fire. The Post-Dispatch’s description yesterday of the feat of Edward Wells in saving his family from a fifth floor where they seemed hopelessly penned, told a most remarkable story of heroic work. The man who knows how to use a rope in the perils of a conflagration can accomplish wonders if he possesses self-control. ? TRUST EDUCATION. In view of the great donations of trust magnates to the building and endowment funds of universities fear is some- times expressed that the trusts may monopolize educational institutions for the purpose of disseminating trust ideas in the minds of the youth of the country. It is yossible that throuch rich donations college faculties may in a measure and for a time lean in their teaching toward a kindlier view of monopoly than the truth justifies. But thought works toward freedom and truth, and there can be no guarantee that the trust building or endowment will not be turned against the system which enriched the giver. But even if irust money exercises a more potent influence upon college educaion ghan there appears reason to fear at present, the trust itself is doing a work of education among the people of far greater scope and power. Every trust that is formed instructs a part of the people in the evils of monopoly. Every combination which absorbs an industry and monopolizegs a commodity or a means of trans- portation, closes factories or stores, throws persons out of employment, affects prices and wages and shuts avenues of opportunity to carn bread and secure independence. The hurt inflicted by the trust is not only felt by those actually pinched but is indirectly felt by thousands whose interests are bound up with them. Communities which have lost profitable factories through inations, Wage-earners deprived of places and op- portunities, business men reduced from independence to de- pendence, small capitalists eaten up by capitalistic combines— all are being thoroughly instructed on the subject of trusts. The lesson will not be forgotten. If the trusts owned and GCirected every college in the land and doubled their number, their educational influence would not a featherweight compared with the practical educa- tion of the people by the trusts themselves in the school of life. The modern monster is sowing the seed of its own de- etruc tion. lye 27+ As all points of eontact between the United Stages and Spain have been removed by the expulsion of the latter power from the Western Hemisphere, the two nations will, no doubt, be frienaly for the future. Nations, like men, often like each other best at a distance. ° cee The bicycle trust could not have been successful but for the control of patents on chainless mechanism. The patent laws were intended to encourage and reward inventors, but they have one of the most important factors in the march of monvepoly. been —#ee With a United States Treasury deficiency of $800,000,000, the celebrated remark of Statesman and General Frederick Dent Grant that it is easier to handle a surplus than a deficiency Will again occur to all American taxpayers. wwe The amg Assessor puts St. Louis’ tax rate at 2.05 with- out explaIning that this includes State and City taxes. This is avery important omission, as Louisville taxpayers will ad- mit. : aa ro Jasper Counts farming land that would not bring $30 an acre two years ago is now held at more than $50. There is an aspect of agricultural prosperity in this change. ee ————__ If St. Louis enough of Democratic rule at Jefferson City, she also sees a sufficiency of Republican rule in St. Louis. Why not have honest rulers in both cities? the Chicago dental student who was hazed, die injuries, the six students who have been suspended should be suspended by the Sheriff. Fces Should When Mr. McKinley returns from Georgia he may let us know whether the new Ccngress will take up the much neglected problem of the currency. ++. No franchise should be granted by the city save upon the condition that tne plant shall be completed within a specified time. —_— +o . We want no such disgraceful history for the United States as that which marks the course of British control in India. +o smoke prevention in St. Louis. —_#o¢ POST-DISPATCH SNAP SHOTS. A little real would prevent some false Damon Alger and Pythias McKinley ought never to he separ- ated by a cruel Georgia vacation. The athletic young woman was painfully absent from the Wind- sor Hotel when the fire broke out. In addition to our other expansion expenses we are to have a lot of bills from the Mosquito fleet. If the Filipinos thought Dewey a think of him now he has the Oregon” One Missourian made $800 on a single may well cackle over our oval product. god before, what will they carload of eggs. We Kaster bills have suggested to many heads of families the query, Why didn’t St. Patrick abol'eéh the Easter hat? The name of no Governor of M'ssouri has appeared in print so often as that of the one now at the head of the State. is clear that the in the United With girl tripi Schenck scheme States. ts appearing over in IlEnois, it has not been fully recognized But a month will elapse ere the Peanut Trust. in all its hideous proportions, will be upon us. And there is no good substitute for the peanut. France has had little success in battling with Great Britain on the wuter. With her wonderful eub-marine boat she may now accomplish something under the water. If hundreds of tons of silver ore are in sight on the farm of Farmer Pigg in Illinois, it is a much better thing than would have been the finding of ore for Pigg iron. “The evil that men do lives after them.” Long after Congress adjourns the Congressional Record continues to come laden with the pro.racted verbosity of scores of statesmen. Wives and husbands who will take the advice Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wileox gave in Saturday’s Post-Dispatch will have happy homes, Rear and forbear are the two pets needed in every household menagerie. _ i ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS A. BE. G.—Inquire of some commission merchant. B®. N.—Fractional silver curency is legal tender in sums of $. SK EETER.—A_ half-dollar of 1836 with milled-edge is worth $1.58. MES. L.—A half-dollar of 17%, with flowing hair, is worth @ cents. WILLIAM H. DOYLE.—There is no premium on a O-cent ptece of 1829. RABE —For rates of passage to Cuba inquire at railroad ticket offices. OLD SUBSCRIBER.—For the song of the “Dial,”’ inquire at mu- sic store. CONSTANT READER.—Such a telegram does not need acknow!l- edge iment. MISS IGNORANCE.—It Is not customary to acknowlege flowers sent to funerals. J. B. SMITH, Macon, Mo.—The railroad ticket agent at Macon will give you the rates. ALLAN P.—You can have a song published and copyrighted, Consult some music dealer. SI'BSCRIBER.—There is no premium on a half dfme of 186, nor on Canadian § cents of 183). A. C.—If you are 19 and spend ane year in preparation you will enter ccHege at about the right age. YOURS TRULY.— Confederate money is worthless. You may get Sor 10 cents for the $100 bill as a curiosity. J. MORTON.—Trollope is pronounced in two syllables with the aecent on Gret. ond ay nions differ as to the merit of his . Consult thre ry. 8. H,. K.—There is no : From Foreign | | ~S : Correspondents of the Sunday Post-Dispatch. SAVED ThE CREW UF THE ELBE First Practical Test of Wire- less Telegraphy. MARCONI'S SYSTEM. APPLIED. INVENTOR AXEL ORLING HAS A COMPETITOR. Priority as to the Idea of the Steering Torpedo Is in Dispute, the Con- testant Being Walter Jamie- san of Greenock. Special Cable to the Post-Diapaich. Copyright, 1890, by Press Publishing Company LONDON, March 18.—Marconi'’s wireless telegraphy w'!ll shortly be applied to all the light ships around the British coasts. Its value was strikingly demonstrated in this connection by the sailing ship Elbe, which went ashore on Goodwin sands in @ fog. On the East Goodwin Lightship is a wireless telegraph system. The crew tele- graphed to the South Foreland light house by this means, and as the light Nouse is in telegraphic communication with coast towns tugs and lifeboats were soon pro- ceeding to the ship’s assistance. This is the first occasion since the in- stallation of the system that its practical use has been put to the test, and it proved highly successful. President of the Board of Trade Ritchie has been scared by the outcry of the rail- way interest from proceeding with the bill recently introduced in Parliament making it compulsory on all British railway com- panies to adopt within five years the eps oF atic upling system. It wou ote nor ite Bm mags tom $35,000,000 to The bill is based on a report on the American system drawn up, by Ir. Ritchie’s secretary, who spent fhe fall in restigating its working. a Ritchie has now consented to refer the whole matter to a special commission, as several railway directors in Parliament threatened to withdraw their support from the government if this bill was pressed, The railway interest is quite as powerful a factor in politics here as in the United States, and pursues its ends by the same means. Axel Orl steering torpedo, priority of idea the Swedish inventor of the has a competitor for in Walter Jamiesan of Yreenock, who claims his invention, was fully described Feb. 16. One point of dif- ference between Jamiesan’s invention and Orling’s is that the former has two shafts projecting out of the water instead of one, and it runs nearer the surface. Jamiesan is consulting electrical engineer and.teach- er of electrical engineering at Greenock. The largest battleship afloat was launched for Japan this week at the Clyde Bank Yard, Glasgow. The Asapi exceeds hy 100 tons any existing battleship. Her dis slacement is 15,200 tons, length, 4% eat ind depth, 43% — Her armament wi be very powerful. The arrangements for the reception of the remains of the late Baron Herschel at Portsmouth and for the ceremony at West- minster Abbey, are now completed. The British cruiser Talbot, which is bringing the remains from New York, will lie at Spithead during Sunday night and will enter Portsmouth harbor on Monday morn- ing. The body will be landed at the dock- vard at noon with full naval and military honors and will be received by the widow's brother, Capt. Kindersly. The coffin will then be carried to a mortuary car and will arrive in London the same evening. It will then be taken to the Herschel rest- dence in Grosvenor Gardens. @n Tuesday morning a procession of carriages will be formed at the residence. The body will then be placed in an elaborate glass panelled hearse and the procession will proceed to Westminster Abbey. Bishop Grant of Philadelphia has arrived at Liverpool from Liberia. He says that Germany and France are vigilantly watch- ing the little republic. He added: “The United States, of course, will do everything reasonable to protect Liberia. But. Liberia’s concessions to foreigners might put protection out of the power of the United States. But, if a disaster oc- curs, Liberia certainly ought not to have France or Germany as a protector. The Liberians naturally favor the United States or England if they are ever forced to give up their independence.” By the advice of his physician the Prince of Wales has commenced playing golf, under the tuition of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia. A portion of the links at Cannes have been set aside for their exclusive use. The Westminster Gazette thas Issued. an appeal to Great Britain and America for further funds for the relief of the Arme- nians whose condition this winter is de- scribed as plitiable. About 80, 000 persons are said to be entirely dependent upon the charity of Europe and America. “ALL RIGHT SOON,” Author Zangwill Has Hepes of the Americans. ing, Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. Copyright, 1899, by Press Publishing Company LONDON, March 18.—Zangwill, the au- thor, has been patronizing America and the Americans since his return from the United States. “I discovered most of the bad points of the Americans,” he said, “‘before I left Pngiand, and during my stay in America became convinced that the race Is steadily improving. They will be all right soon. “American audiences are intelligent and appreciative, sometimes effusive. I remem- ber at the close of one of my lectures a lady rushed excitedly to me and said: ‘On, Mr. Zanewill, I really can not go unatil I have shaken hands.’ ‘ ‘I grasped her hand cordially, saying: "Do not let me prevent you from going.’ SPENCER EDDY AND HIS DOG. He Landed It, but Inspectors Are Mak- ing Life Miserable. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. Copyright, 1890, by Press Publishing Company. LONDON, March 18.—S8pencer Eddy, the Third Secretary of the American Embassy, has had great trouble with the Board of Agriculture over + ahaa his favorite fox terrier into England. Any but a diplomatic terrier would have been kept in quarantine three months, but Eddy succeeded after lengthy parleying in inducing the authorities to permit him to land his dog on the condition ® be kept in safe custody within the walls of the tm- bassy for three months. This concession was only made under s jal license, and the unannounced visits of in tion at all hours that are yr made the officers of the of a culture ther the for at } for Or, oe ape wanes TWO PEERESSE AIDE LIKE Mi Most Daring Huatswoman all England. ORKNEY AND CLAN CARTHY. ——_ ——— —— FISHWIVES WELCOME QUEEN VICTORIA TO FRANCE. - = - Presented the Great Woman With a Bouqypet of Choice Flowers and Were Delighted to Receive the Ruler’s Thanks. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. Copyright, 1898, by Press Publishing Company. LONDON, March 18.—Two peeresses, Countess Orkney and Countess Clancarthy, recruited from the vaudeville stage, are now the two most daring expert riders to hounds in this country. Countess Clancarthy (Belle Bilton) hunts ive days a week and is oftener in the first dight than any other woman riding with the three packs in Bedfordshire and Bucks, which she patronigzes, but recently she has had two accidents, and is incapaci- tated from-further hunting this season by a broken ankle. Countess Clancarthy (Belle Bilton )hunts with the famous Galway blazers over the most difficult country, but never has had a mishap. Harls Orkney and Clancarthy are as en- =e devotees of nimrod as their wives. Up to now the reception given to Queen Victoria in the South of France has been all that could be desired. There was a pretty sight at Cimiez, when a deputation of fishwives and marketwomen from Nice attended in their picturesque costumes this week, to present the Queen with a bouquet of choice flowers and an address of wel- come, Queen Victoria, on approaching them, ordered her carriage to be sto and spoke a few kindly words of thanks to the delighted fishwives. lily, Duchess of Marlborough, will only remain in New York a coupie of weeks. Mrs, Henry White is now euffering fr a severe attack of neuritus, or rheumati§8m of the nerves, following influenza. The honeymoon of Mr. and Mrs. Neville Lytton, grandson of Bulwer Lytton, and granddaughter of Byron, was altogether novel. After the wedding in Cairo the pair drove 10 miles through the desert to Sheykh Obeyd, the seat of the bride's parents, Mr, and Lady Anne Blunt. The were met by a picturesque body of Arab horsemen and Bedouins on camels, under the leadership of the oldest and most dis- tinguished Sheiks. All the villages around were decorated. The Felaheen made every demonstration of rejoicing and good will, while the dusky women and children were adorned in honor of the white bride, the daughter of their benefactor. In the evening a whole flock of sheep was roasted to provide a feast for the people. Willle Wilde, the former husband of Mrs. Frank Leslie of New York, and brother of Oscar Wilde, who died on Wednesday, was in very poor circumstances. Oscar Wilde, who still lives tn Parts, is also in bad health, owing to his use cf abainthe. Douglas is still his constant companion, -_—_ oO NOT STRONG ON GRAMMAR. Queer Notes Written by a Duchess to Her Housekeeper. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. Copyright, 1899, by Presse Publishing Company. LONDON, March 18.—The Duchess of Manchester won this week the suit for ma- licious prosecution brought against her by Miss Savage, a former housekeeper at Kim- bolton Castle. The plaintiff had run up bills amounti to $200 for luncheons for the oung Duke ahd friends who visited Kim- bolton with him when he was in Cam- bridge. The Duchess, dissatisfied with the housekeeper, dismissed her and searched her trunks, finding several articles belong- ing to the Duchess which Miss Savage said she had taken because the Duchess had re- fused to reimburse her for luncheon ex- then prosecuted Miss Savage, who was acquitted and sued the Duchess for malicious prosecution. The Duchess’s letters to the housekeeper disclosed eurious relations between them, for although the Duchess alleges that Miss Savage had used deception in obtaining the situation she retained her in her service. These letters, singularly undignified and oceasionally ungrammatical, were much eommented on by the newspapers. One reads, in part, as follows: “I understand that you refused to give out linen when required. You must think me a fool if row think I am going to put up with such behavior The next complaint I hear you will take a month’s notice and leave. If you make yourself disagreeable you will leave at once. I expect the jam and linen provided as before, “It is well that you should know that the false character you wrote for Lady Violet Beauchamp has been in the hands of the lice, and perhaps they know more about t than you think. “I want no more ¢éiuster on your. part or I shall take measures to stop your tongue,”’ is As a specimen of the Duchess’ grammar, the following is conspicuously quoted: “I hope there will be no scene in the castle like former days, accusing people of stealing. I has not forgotten my beautiful catalogue stolen during my absence and has never been found since."’ DO NOT FEAR AMERICA? Englishmen Believe Their Eastern Coal Trade Is Secure. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. Copyright, 1800, tg Press Publishing Company. LONDON, March 18.—The leading mem- bers of the London Coal Exchange pooh- pooh any idea of their being scared by the possibility of the United States absorbing the coal trade with the Mediterranean orts. Pe There may be a certain amount of American coal coming to BPurope, but the bulk is so triffing awe to be hardly worth consideration. e Mediterranean ports show expansion instead of shrinkage, and English exports to continental ports are enormous,” said the head of the firm of William ee & Sons, the biggest coal shippers in gland, to the correspondent of the Post«Dispatich. “We do not fear competition from the States.” he continued, ““because the cost of production there is quite as high as it is here, while the freightage charge is at least treble." AUSTRIA NOT APPEASED. Government Will Press the Claims of Hazelton Miners. , VIENNA, March 18.—The Politj/sche Cor- respondenez discussing the effect of the Hasleton shooting om the relations between t mes States says that Aner al and lish thee RLD B AHODES' VIC MOST HOT He and Kaiser Bill Not the Best of Friends. FORGOT TO BE A_ PATRIOT. — IF GERMANY WANTS TO HELP aIS SCHEME, ALL RIGHT. American Money Also Tied Up in the Cap: to Cairo Railroad and Three Nations Should Be Satisfied. —_— Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, March 18.—The London cor- respondent of the New York Evening Post says Cecil Rhodes won a tremendous vic- tory in Germany. “Though he has been the most despised of Englishmen because of the Jameson raid and other things,” says the correspondent “to-day he leaves Berlin with an agree- ment in his pocket, signed, sealed, and de- livered, for the passage of his Cape-to- Cairo Telegraph across Gérman territory, with the promise of the German Govern- ment's guarantee for that part of his Cape- to-Cairo Railway which, also goes through German territory, and with a signed photo- graph of the Kaiser as a token of personal friendship. “Well may the cartoonist depict Oom Paul’s dismay as he sees all this and ex- claims to Mr. Rhodes, ‘Your friend the Kaiser? I thought he was mine.’ “Nothing, I am told, could have been more cordial than the meeting between these two men. Mr. Rhodes went to Berlin on a diplomatic hint that the Kaiser would like to see him, and there wes an absolute absence of reserve on either side, ‘New men, new methods,’ this is the new diplomacy with a vengeance, sweep- me away in one hour's chat three years cobwebs of diplomacy. Of course this Kal- ser-Rhodes compact is another potert link in the Anglo-German chain of alliance, It makes Germany a partner in British schemes in Africa. ' “It also partly destroys, for the time at all events, the all-British character of the Cape-to-Cairo Railway. This is eminently characteristic of Mr. Rhodes. ‘The British Cabinet some time a gave ment’s hesitation threw over his all-Brit- ish ideas and made his scheme an Anglo- German affair. ‘The Disconto-Gesellschaft of Berlin is understood to secure, with the approval of the German Government, the right to pro- vide a part of the capital required to build a section of the line, and rmany will secure the orders for the materials to build the railway, and will presumably control it in proportion to her contribution of capi- ta ‘ “Americans and American capital are now s0 deeply involved in Mr, Rhodes’ schemes that in the minds of Englishmen these developments fit in well enough with the revision of the world’s forces which the diplomatists have in whereby the Teuton and the Anglo-Sexon face the Slav and Frank.” AIMS FALL SHORT, Reichstag Refuses te Do the Will ef the Ruler. BERLIN, March 18.—The unexpected Reichstag crisis, which has overshadowed everything this week, was brought about by the fact that the legislative body, judg- ing from the wotds and manner of the Minister of War, Gen. von Gessler, was led to believe that the Emperor and the Bund- esrath were satisfied with the military bill as fixed. by the budget commission’s re- port, granting everything demanded in the shape of reorganization of the artil- tillery and cavalry, and an increase of the army peace footing, except that only 7000 men were granted out of the 28,000 asked for. This, however, is really not the case, so far as the Emperor is concerned, and it was only after tne Minister of War sud- dengy announced that the report Was COn- sidered insufticlent that it was discove that His Majesty insisted upon the passage of the bill in its original shape, or that else the Reichstag be dissolved and new elec- tions ordered on this issue. Herr Richter, the German Radical lead- er, said. “re the Reicastag was now dissolved it would not be because of this trifling re- duction in the military Pill, but because another Reichstag is wanted, one which will (a reactionary anti-strike bill and modif the election law. and its motto will ‘autocratic absolute government and struction of the Reichstag's inde- pendenge.’ ”’ ~~ CONSTANTINE AS HAMLET. — Grand Duke of Russia Won the Cza-'s Congratulations. Special Cable to the Post-Dispaich. Copyright. 1800. by Prese Publishing Company. ST. PETERSBURG, Mareh W.—A_ re- markable performance of Hamlet took place during the carnival week recently in the palace of Grand Duke Constantine, the Grand Duke himself impersonating Ham- let. The play was acted in Russian. The text had been translated by the Duke. His conception of«the par was quite orig!- nal. His portrayal of the character dif- fered from that usually seen on the stage The Dukes acting earned not only &p- the audience, but the cordial Czar and the Czarina W ke is one of the most or achieved fame as a ly his talent as an actor has hitherto been un- known. LA PATRIE’S LATEST BEAT. I+ Says Hay Spent $15,000,000 Brib- ing British Sentiment. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. PARIS, March 18.—La Patrie, an oxcita- ble paper, declares that wnen Ambassador Hay was in London he apent 915,000,000 to bribe public sentiment in favor vf the United States ar . plause fro thanks of- - 7 Te : whe | & ALL ENGIAND ADMRES HIM, Ambassador Chate Has Lon- don at Hy Feet. BUT CAN FIND NO HOME, HIS TIME EMPLOY) IN DINING AND HOUSE EWTING. Invitations to Banquets In Upoa the Eminent Ameri \md the British Are Determine: to Make a Lion of Him s ; Special Cable to the Pos\-Disn rch, Copyright, 1299, by Press Publisting : LONDON, March 18.—The a date of Americans at the Duke of rk'@ sree Tuesday established a record, the full taff of the Embassy being nt. The Dee of York, who had previously received A- bassador and Mrs. Choate at York Hote, was particularly agreeable to Mr, Chott at the levee and expressed gratification -¢ the large attendance of Americans. Mrs. Choate’s kindliness strikes everyon here, while the Ambassador's success ai the Chamber of Commerce banquet greatly enhanced the tendency to Monize him. In- vitations keep pouring In and he has con- sented to attend the annual dinner of the Hardwicke Society, a legal itution, where he will have as a fellow guest Lord Chief Justice Russell. He wiil also be present with the Duke of Fife at the an- nual meeting of the British and Forelagn Sailors’ Society, May 8&. , Am sador Choate is still wandering around in search of a London habitation. The inconvenience to which he ia thereby subjected is being much commented on ia diplomatic official circles, where the great- est surprise is expre that the United States should continue to be the only first- class power with no permanent Embassy in London. He has been again looking at Lord Curgon’s new house, Chariton Gar- dens, and if the furniture question can be arran . May take it after all. While Mr. Choate’s speech has been much admired as straight utterances from a self- respecting nation, there is a tinge of dis- appointment in many quarters. hus, Mr. David Christie Murra the novelist and editor of the London Morning, writes: *““We have had the intellectual and spirit- ual best of erica with us for many years, but we have not had the mass# of Americans with us, and had no right (o e ct them. The feeling still exiats in millions of minds In the United States that we are guided solely by our selfish in- terests and ft is in de ce to this feeling that the newly a int Ambassador, in his maiden speech, treads warily along with brilliantly expressed generalities about friendship and safeguards himself by one or two declarations which are unmistakably intended to prove that America’s friendship for England is in no wise of the self-sacri- 7 order. Mr. coul still look forward to the time when Ameri- cans will universally recognize the basis of our desire for an act binding union with themselves."’ At the same time Mr. Choate is being feted by the Chamber of Commerce. The Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Lord , Speaking before the Institution of Engineers during the week, made a very cordial reference to the United —— He . ia “Our great kindredé, English-speaking na- tion across the Atlantic is now embarked in re-establishing itself to what it was once fore—a great naval power. I feel sure that every Englishman understands that it @ question of defense and will wish ica all sorts of forts. I believe it will be o eatest possible advantage to Great Britain that the American Navy should re-occupy its former position, not as second to ourselves but as our equal. The best antee of the peace of the world would these two great fiesta, fee" under its own flag, keep- ing the o ighways open to the worl no matter what happened.” a. CRUISES THROUGH AIR A FLYING MACHINE THAT REAL- LY DOES FLY. Wolsele the Civ Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. Copyright, 1800, by Press Publishing Company. LONDON, March 18.—A practicable fiying machine has been invented by a Dr. Barton of Beckenham, near London. The Post- Dispatch correspondent was present Thurs- day at the first exhibition of Barton's air- ship. The experiment was also witnessed by Col. Yorke, representing the Military Ballooning Department. The.Woolwich ex- feet long, dependent on a compl arrangement, rigged with aerophones in front 4 pnd oe pet oe the re elongat alloon. e wheels, and when afloat is driven work. Yorke, representing the 1 ing Department. "rhe ov mental machine ts only @ huge toy, long, depedent on @ complicated bam rangement, rigged up fore and aft wit aerophones in front, and @ sail In the rea to act as the poster. Aaa - ated ballon. ” s and when afloat is driven by clock wor. After some trouble the ship rose in the air and made two trips of about a quarter of a mile each. Its motions were some- what erratic, but the Inventor explained to the Post-Dispatch: “This is not a fair example of Its copes bilities. The strops, gusty wind prevailing ects it to & . sub contemplate _,. from 1% feet te 00 feet in length, the boat to be driven by «a roleum motor. a war time my aerial ship could sail calmiy over the enemy, dropping death In the form of shelis, while the lookout men could make valuable observations. The same could be done at sea, the machine once launched from a cliff being capable of cruising for # hours without @ stop. Col. Yorke seemed much imptpered With the floating power of Harton’s ~- considered the chief obstacle to its wi. timate fection is the eteering, Which wv as yet decidedly uncertain. THE POPE WANTS REPORTS. References to His Illnesss Maae ty Foreign Press Solicited. ROME. March I8.—A ccmmi(tee, consist. on by clocs’ experi- Zi feet ar- re + *. > 1 ing of the Pope's chamberiaings and other ' a Papal functionaries, has issued an appeal — iapise os rr a ve pub :

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The California Heiress Especially Ric in a Wardrobe, Whose Most Beau- tiful Creations Were De- signed by Their Owner. Grecia! to the Post-Tispatch | NEW YORK, March 18.—Two Vanderbilt weddings will be celebrated Easter week, Millions will mate with millions and many more millions will be represented at the weddings, but the rival factions of this millionaire family will not become friendly as a result. Many guests at one will be berred at the other, and all in all the week in society will be made a memorable one. Mise Emily Vanderbilt Sloan will become the wife of John H. Hammond. She is a }rancéoughter of the late Willlam H,. Van- derbilt, and Hammond belongs to an old but rot extremely rich family. Their mar- riaze will be celebrated in St. Bartholo- mew’s Church before a crowd, but will be classed as a quiet one, because greater at- tention, for well-known reasons, is upon the affairs of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and Miss Virginia Fair, who will be mar- ried by Father Murphy at noon on Tues- day, April 4, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Oeclrichs, Miss Fair's sister. Mr. Vanderbilt's best man will be Mr. Car- roll, a classmate at Harvard. Miss Farr has selected as maid of honor her friend, Miss Tolfree of Cafornia. PP eee ee Se Se na os ee YR) GaC) Gye Gar) Ga (Gar Gar Hae GaGa Sara Ga Sa ae Gar ae a Fae Fae at Ga Ga at) ae) ee Gar Gar (ae) (Se Garr) ar) Sar?) Sar Sar ae Gar “Sa Sar Sau (Fp) Sart) (Sa (a) (Se) Sart) Si) (Sar (Gare) Sa) (Sa) (Sa (SDC CSR) RCS RD CS CR CS) Sa a _ SEVEN FLOORS FILLED WITH THE LATEST FABRICS, GARMENTS AND NOVELTIES. 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The swellest skirt yet offered at 10 $10.00 oe price— Fine Covert Cloth Skirts, strik- ingly braided in bow knot pat- terns, lined with percaline, vel- vet bound, and closed at back with buttons and Jace—a very sty- 4 lish skirt for..... e Taunty Fly-Front Jackets, of Venetian Twill Cloth, in tan, castor, blue or black —lined with changea- 3 7 $ * 5 ble taffeta—Here Monday at Six-Button Box Coat Jackets, of fine co- vert cloth. in several shades of tan, with tailor-finish, stitched edges and seams, and lined with changeable lilac taffeta—exception- 7 5 ally goo® value at e Stylish 20-inch Short Jackets, of import- ed Venetian Worsted, in blue, black and tan, with the new dip front, tallor- made and lined throughout with heavy taffeta, Monday oloak opt. CCERS ‘Lurte Fly-Front Coat Sult, of all- wool cheviot serge, in navy, black or oxford—lined through- out with heavy taffeta silk— welt seams—3-piece circular skirt—worth step Six-Button Reefer Coat of good quality covert cloth, coat and skirt lined with changeable’ taffeta — lapped seams—full circular ae... SiOde Six-Button Cutaway Box Coat Suit of herring bone covert iined throughout with extra heavy changeable taffeta —8-piece cireular skirt, mae" $18.48 Suit, * front— Monday ......... e° Percale Waists, in Bayadere and bias stripe effects with extra full front and 2-piece matched yoke —all colors—Moaday Wh’‘te India Linen Waists, trimmed with bands of insertion and clusters of tucks—pleated back—pointed voke—worth at least | 25 31.75 — Monday eeeteee +. Waists of Scotch Madras Gingham, in corded stripes—new spring colorings— front formed of wide cluster of narrow tucks with bias stripes—2-piece matched yoke—we rae showing a great variety of pat- terns at Dress Goods. Ch . ¢—62-inch All-Wool Cheviot evio Serge, in the new shades of blue, castor, red, brown, green, tan and black, sold everywhere at 9c, Grand-Leader price, per ya —62-inch Twilled Back Broadcloth Broadcloth. in cadet, castor, red, tan, delft blue, etc. We steam, shrink and sponge this cloth free of charge; &c Monday, at per yard A noes Fo eeeeeeeeen eer eeeeereeer eer eee e*eeere —If you are needing Black Crepons~ new biack skirt or dress do not fail to see this splendid oods; an immense assortment, proba- ly more than all other houses in St, Louis combined and at a price fully &% per cent lower; for instance, we offer finest imported Mohair Crepon at the $2.00 and will sell a beauti ful Silk Crepon at, | 5 per yard Scccccegoce ° « EN MMM MMM WM NM WW MMMM NE ME MN NE MEM MeN NEU WE MEE eee) Wash Goods. —$2-inch Imported Swiss Ginghams Ginghams, In the latest stripes, plaids and checks; these goods are very sheer quality and can be worn all through the hot season—every pat- tern is guaranteed to launder perfectly and to give good wear—our 23¢ ; —32-inch Imported Satin Tissues Striped Tissues, in new and beautiful colers; beyond doubt this is the best material for waists produced this season, and the colors are absolutely fast; here C Menday , y Rol yard *, pen —500 Dress tterns Organdy obes of French Organ- ay. in over § different styles, tinted and plain white grounds, covered with beau- tiful plaid, floral, geometrical and strip- ed effects; we have no doubt that they would sell readily at $3.00 per pattern, but our Monde rice, per pattern, Aga) AA a a ah a's /~_—-_ is Ls es Y Mens Mew bhirth Ot. MOR FRilsLEANING HELPS. LITTL® THINGS AT weve Sie LITILE PRICES Chamois Skia—very best “quality— the rad le call ‘* Firsts’’— ae b Gon chin at 250 EASTER E66 DYE COED. coc ccecesenn a Others—maybe a little smaller or shaped different—we marked i be boxes (6 boxes fer requires & jon.) per Ib to go at 4 ‘that doesn't pull to pieces ev thme it i Sponge Racks Sponges— House cleaning strikes a pa ; We sell a big he . de # . tough, but very hew lag Gum-—-Pop ott, at. just about half price C An excellent Bath Sponge. fine and soft enough for even baby's skin, 230 Ammonia—not the diluted watery i Oe kind, but a full quart of Ammonia, NOT UNUSUAL! with ue—justa proving that Judge & Dolph PRICES are CUT PRICES. AMPHOR! 7 Having advanced in Em ~y Se —_ taier must needs ask 4! e ‘ pa i 75c to $1.00 per pound. We it's an obstinate | sell the J.& Da™M™ Genuine Formosa Camphor, at 54c tb, | Tablets wid This is less than the wholesale price | 77 175 ¢ of Camphor to-day. LaF teen hem vg ant Our Cigir Department—ia the mecca of all he of good cigars— This week a (lear Hayana (igar— THE FESTIVA 5c or 6 290 (Best, Russel & Co., Distributors) Georve—Ciear Havana filler—-Con- Decticut broad: leaf Te. $/ 50 Fellows’ Serup of QQa b Went cigars on thelr merits and gladly i oi eclic “ a maaan or refund your money. m 2 Bisv ORUG STORES. 7th and Locust JUDCE & DOLPH 4th and Market We never attempt to quote the entire list, But we do cut the price ON BEVERY Patent Medicine. cious and good for digestion, be ann (0c ie” Aluminam Combs..@@ when that means someth Paine Celery Compound Hood's Sareaparilla cure-~ (ough Byrup ..-206 Cough Syrup... | Pa orders or catail. oy gues a Po sold in Havana and other cities. trooke @id not assert that the sales were made by Red Cross le or intimate they were In any manner concerned in ae peddiing of their ty toy ark eo the whole matter be f by pe 0 ing to admit the goods duty free. SOME ONE HAS PROFITED. a Red Cross Supplies Have Been Sold in Havana Markets. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, March 1&8.—The War De- partment has peremptorily refused permis- sion to the Red Cross Society to #hip goods into Cuba without paying the duties unless consigned to the surgeons in charge of Cevecsepess | hospitals. This the socieiy has Township Primary at Assumptio.. Specis! te the Post. Dispated AGSUMPTION, TL. township Democrati noon the f March r ores o — a eo _ eee oe 4 By Be ¥ %{ Ween 4 ce. + i hi ae: . ? f fn theese AA eg np ae é

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APT IT Dee Ss PRE * ow eo |) i “ck aS) * ? ean " ere " er a , 7 L. * Cee. ; =f » a " “3 mete: te , 2 : . et eee, SY > Pee = » ee, é a SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH—MARCH 19, 189 ' NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL i - ” _ ‘ . designation was gratifying to our own Gov- we FINAL STEPS 10 FULL PEACE, -— The French Ambassador Will Act for Spain. EXACT DATE NOT FIXED. f MADRID ANXIOUS ABOUT PRISON- ERS IN PHILIPPINES. An Appeal Made to the Red Cross to Use Its Influence for Their Release in the Interest of Humanity. WASHINGTON, March 18.—M. Cambon, the French Ambassador, called at the De- partment of State to-day and served formal notice of the signature of the peace treaty at Madrid. Secretary Hay has indicated his preference that M. Cambon shall act as agent for Spanish Government in the final exchange of ratifications. This should hasten the last formalities. It was agreed that the Ambassador should act as the of the Spanish Government in making the final exchanges, while Secretary Hay will represent the Government of the United States. Although not customary on such occasions, it is prob- able that President McKinley will be pres- ent at the final ceremony of exchanging ratifications which, in that case, will tuke place at the White House, where the peace protocol was signed. It was said at the State Department that the Spanish Gov- ermment requested that M. Camben’s ser- vices as its agent be accepted; the French Government gave its authorization and his the representative ermmment. At the conference no time was get for the exchange that will depend on the receipt of the papers from Madrid. M. Cambon is to receive the Spanish draft of the treaty bearing the ratification of the Queen Regent and is also to receive the authorization to act for Spain in this ex- change. This will take 10 days or so and then the time will be fixed for the ceremony of exchange. y M. Cambon left this aff§#rnoon for York on a social visit of 4me days. BRAVE HASKELL REWARDED The Only West Point Cadet at the Front Has Been Given a Commission. ais New WAGHINGTON, March 18.—Cadet Ernest | E. Haskell the United States Military | - erage has becn appointed Second lLieu- t Rant in the regular army in advance the graduation. His fellow tioned the Secretary of War in his behalf. In 18% Haskell won admission to the Willitary Academy. A year or more later he met with a severe accident in the gym- of ol cadets peti- SHALL MAY 1 BE DEWEY DAY: Pennsylvania Has Started the Movement. j DECLARED A LEGAL HOLIDAY. OTHER STATES ARE TAKING IT UP | AND WILL DO LIKEWISE. | General Sentiment Over the Country That the Day Should Be Set Apart to Honor the Hero of Ma- nila Bay. Spectal to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18. |matter of making May 1, | Legislature. The good example of Pennsylvania in the the anniversary of the Battle of Manila, a legal holiday, to be designated ““Dewey Day,” is likely to be followed by other States, as special dis- patches to the Post-Dispatch indicate. PENNSYLVANIA. omt-Dispatcd Pa., designating be known as “Dewey both branches of the no doubt that Gov. Special to the HARRISBURG, current resolution an legal holiday, to Day,” has passed There is Stone will approve it. NEBRASKA. Special to the Post-Dispatch. LINCOLN, Neb... March 18.—The action the Pennsylvania Legislature in desig- nating May 1 as Dewey Day holiday may be followed by the Nebraska Legislature. The date for the imtroduction of bils or joint resolutions having expired two weeks azo, no new legislation is now possible unless specially recommended by the Gov- ernor. A resolution to recognize the day of Washington's death, in which also was re- cited the valor of Dewey and others, was introduced early in the session, but has never paseed the committee stage. MICHIGAN. Specia) to the Post-Vispatch. LANSING, Mich., March 18.—Many influ- ential legislators are enthusiast:cally in favor of celebrating Dewey Day, and when the Legislature reconvenes next week they will take to have a suitable pro- gramme arranged. WISCONSIN. Special to the Post-Dispatch. MADISON, Wis., March 18.—The idea of establishing Dewey Day has not struck the Wisconsin Legislature yet, but it is likely to prove popular when it does. Most of the members have gone home to spend Sunday, but the suggestion of Dewey Day made to those still in the city was met with favor, and it is highly probable a measure to that end will be introduced next week. TEXAS. Special te the Poat-Dispatch. AUSTIN, Tex., March 18.—The Statesman, the leading Democratic paper, in an edi- March 18.—A con- May 1 as of steps nasium. He was grante’d a seven months’ sick leave, which he turned to rood account under Dr. Leonardi Wool. afterward Col- onei of the Rough Riders and now Mili- tary Governor of Santiaerosv. Haskell recovered his health, and by spe- cial permission from the Secretary of War Was allowed te accompany the Rough Rid- | era to Cuba. He went to the front as Lieu- tenant. This gallantry recognized by Gens. Shafer. Wood. In the fight at La was slightly wounde Tell wita to be a paseed directly through astonishment of the su ered. Peturning home in a desperately condition, young Haskell was granted leave to Jan. 1. surned at West Point. T ve he was with malaral after we suifering was sent to When the quesiion of ; sion was presented to ask for the appointment: mates unanimously appicved they id. Lieut. Haskell cadet in active the war. EXTRA PAY FOR VOLUNTEERS. Treasury Comptroller Rules on the Hospital Corps Controversy. WASHINGTON, March 18.—The Comp- troller of the Treasury, in a dec! ren- | @Gered to-day, holds that the men listed in the volunteer who were afterwards t without their consent, by proper to the hospital corps, and who estivy and faiihfuliy, bec: eéa, Members of the lated for the war only, muster out and discharge from the Gre entitied to extra pay, granted bys of March 3, 1899. In a former decision the held that the act, of Jan. 12, 1809, only ap- | plied to volunteers who were mustered é¢ut with their organizations or afterwards dis- charged if longer held to service. The Comptrolier also hoids that of March IMs), applies entering the army who enlisted su ly to ne wlaration of war fa only,’ dividuals and such men ‘stivy and faithfulls 40 them the extra pay provided in On muster out and discharge from Vice, Whether before after the of the act. without regard out and irge of which they belonred, pProvies grants to enliste f volunteer organizations, who have s h ' and faithfully, the extra pay provided in the Act on muster out mid «discharges trom the eervice, whether before oft passage of the act of Jan, W act of March &% Is muster out and «a tion to which the! The Comptr ller “ fo say that soldiers tions diacharzged with and who huve receive months’ furlough mention Jan, 12, 1889. in lieu of Wae #xranted, are now entitled to any {ional pay. as | do not think hes either under the act of Jan. 12, 1899, act of Mareh 3, 180 The questi auch eniisted men, who are disc their own request, and for their own cx venience, are entitied to eaid extra pay not decided.” MORMONS AT OKAWVILLE. They Hold Large Meetings, but Make No Conversions. Brecta’t to the Poet }Mepatech NASHVILLE, Iil.. March IS past week two Mormon hy Nepheutah as their home, hav ing revival meetings in Freedman's Hall at Okawvilie Springs, and attempting ¢t make eonverts to the rr lion of the Latiet Day Bainte The Mormons ask ecollectians at their in the field was publicly | Wheeler and (;UAsS.Mmas ne at San Juan was thougle fuser buite his body. To sCOnS he stric eks > coOmmMis- refused to unicoss his ela of it. This West front was the vice at only Lrhe Point during | sion who en- | ranizations, ransferred, or; and | with authority | served hon- or serv: ‘ the act | Comptroller the act men osequent- tiv war enliste Krants the act the ser- passage ia) en] sted al dliacn mest iy ariel ine Sey.) OUor the regard to the ine organizga- not me orsganisz it} kor claiming hol the lers bv Ty) no support take no meetings and gay for use of the hall. They are not polygam- oo and are against the seating of Con- ris. Larges erowods are at- but no converts have © : mA ne ¥ rigs eee. ari agg A Sea 2 Ny Py sig ¥ > | national concern, earned the compliment of , Say ja bill | Fpecial Ls | is | Ge }of the | Bpectal to toe Post-Dispatch ‘ torial, suggests to the Texas Legislature that it make the anniversary of the Bat- tle ’ Manila a holiday, to be known as r Day. It Says: people of Texas stand ready to honor the incomparable hero of Manila. If ever an American, through distinguished and patriotic service in an hour of supreme having his superb accomplishments empha- and commemorated by enacted holi- Admiral! Dewey is that man.’’ is possible the Legisiature will * suggestion. SOUTH CAROLINA. Specta} to the Post-Dispatch. COLUMBIA, 8S. C., March 18.—The South (‘arolina Legislature adjourned some time ago. Members spoken to about the matter they would favor the “Dewey Day”’ hoiday idea. If pressed next winter gsuch i would doubtless pass without Oppo- eized adopt Sition. GEORGIA. to the Post-Dispatch. ATLANTA, Ga., March 18.—The Georgia wislature is not now in sefs.on, but there no doubt that it would take up favorably | uch a suggestion to make May 1 kewey Day and a national holiday. Leonidas : Livingston, of the First e« refa District, introduced in Congress the resolution to thank Dewey and this makes Georgia feel that the tSate is one of his spomsers in public life. Dewey’s Flag Lieutenant; Tom Brumby, belongs to one most widely connected families in State. DEWEY NOT COMING HOME. His fon Says His Father Writes That He Is in Good Health. as the NEW YORK, March 18.—George G. Dewey, son of Admiral Dewey, says he has not received @ message from his fatner since Jan. and he does not believe the Admiral ts arranging to return home. | Young Dewey says his father’s last letter stated that the writer was in good health, but fatigued. ee, «, Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, March 18.—When Secre- | tary Long's attention was called to-day to the statement to the effect that relatives of Admiral Dewey? living in Vermont, are ex- pecting his return in June, he sald: “The departny nt has no intimation he is to return to the United that time.” Asked “with refer Secretary vices were that that States at if the department nee ti said the department's ad- his health continues good. had heard fur- | the Admiral’s health, | ASPIROZ IN WASHINGTON. The Ambassador From Mexico Wel- comed at the Capital. Special to the Poet-Dispatch WASHINGTON, March 18.—Senor Manuel (like cut). Thisis a splendid baker and cooker, fully guaranteed, beautifully nickeled, extra heavy steel, requires but little fuel; == $17.50 PARLOR SUIT (like cut), a rich, aristocratic suit. ‘proportioned ‘and are hand-carved and piano polished. imported damask, tapestry, velour or brocatelle; full spring seats; silk- trimmed. This parlor suit has all the grace and daintiness of the fine imported ones, without the attending high price; The frames are beautifully Upholstered in a variety of Our Trade-Winning Price eeeeeeeeeteeeeeeeeeeee ears eeeeee $25.00 d lished ; French mirror. worth $25,Our Trade- Winaing Price, | 5 0 CASH OR CREDIT. sini CARPETS. Tapestry Brussels, worth 60c.......Qur Price, per yard, 45C Tapestry Brussels, worth 70c,..,...Qur Price, per yard, 55C Velvets, worth $1.05..............0ur Price, per yard, 83C Moquettes, worth $1,15 ..........Qur Price, per yard, 95c Axminsters, worth $1.25........Our Price, per yard, $1.05 Axmins‘ers, worth $1.45 ........QOur Price, per yard, $1.15 Room Rugs, worth $14.00 ...............Qur Price, $9.85 Room Rugs, worth $20.09 ..............QOur Price. $12.50 Ingrains, worth 40c..............O0ur Price, per yard, 25 Mattings, worth 25c ...........-..O0ur Price, per yard, 15c Oil Cloths, worth 25c............ Our Price, per yard, 19c IRON BED (like cut), white enameled, heavy posts, fancy rosettes, brass trimmed, regular price $4.00. WOVEN STEEL SPRING, splendid weave, made to last; worth $2.50. COTTON TOP MATTRESS, good ticking. white cotton, deep tufting; reguljar price $2.50. wit Belling 4s at BED su (like cut), hardwood, highly glossed, pretty carving, large beveied mirror, fancy brass drawer pulls, a very neat and well made Bedroom Suit, usually sold for $15.00—Our 4 Trade- Wiaaing Price .....++- Bedroom Chairs ........s.++eee++--+- G96 Ojd Dressers .... «+++ .sseeeree++- 0.90 WarGrodes ccce. coves cece cees .. 83.68 GOODS PURCHASED NOW MAY BE HELD FOR DELIVERY UNTIL WANTED ‘ ‘ . . ~ 7% MMERu ous 120-1122 OLIVE STREET. EE 2 ee ee ae ders d th tl b { OTIS PREVENTS THE RESCUE. | uossr*izut net the number ta, placed Spanish Authorities and Red Cross by the fact that. many of the heightened prisoners are women and children The eo is e essed in the statement that Cannot Save Prisoners. hope is express¢ , f humanity sqme effecti WASHINGTON. March 18.—Miss Clara ° y & tive Barton has received a cablegram from in the interest steps may be taken to secure*the release of Marquise Villalbos, President of the Span- ish Red Cross, which says that negotiations the prisoners. Advices from Madrid state that a cable message received from Gen. Rios, the for- mer commander of the Spanish troops in the Philippine Islands, says that the sit- uation of the Spaniards at Manila is so eritical that ali desire to return. home. “The Americans,”’ the General declares, render their sojourn in the Philippines impossible.” The Spanish yesterday for Mano, the Italian charge d' the Italian Consul at Lake saying a satisfactory adjustment disturbance has been reached. sums his feared the Otis because he against offered would be employed troops. The message says. “We pray you earnestly to intercede with your Government to insure the triumph of humanity.” The cablegram has been to the Secretary of War. The Spanish Government, through the | French Ambassador, M Cambon, has pre- | sented to the State Department a repre- | sentation as to the condition of the Span- | ish prisoners held by the insurgents, seiting , forth what they consider the serious re- sults arising from Gen. Otis’ prohibition of | the efforts to the release of the prisoners The statement is said to testation. —' more in the nature of servaiions un the “unfortunate” conditions, with a request that some sort of relief may be afforded. Reference is made to the action of Gen. Otis in forbidding communi- cation across the lines; also of the neces- sary suspension of efforts by the American forces in behalf of the Spanish prisoners because of the armed conflict wit uin- aldo. How far the condition of the is detailabi itis Gen, to utilize whose Governor of Colorado offices of Dr. Cuneo, Denver. His re steamer: Luzon left Manila! Ralianw assemb Cartagena taking a num- ber of Spanish soldiers and 120 officiais. The same advices state that the Minister of War, Gen. Polavieja, has received a dis- patch from the committee of the Red Cross Society of Geneva giving him notice of the convocation of its general assembly for the purpose of appointing delegates to nego tiate for the release of the Spanish prison- ers In the hands of the Philippine rebels ed last night ee oe ee in su thorities and faction with th ‘no mention of _ patches, | lion the opportunity for a clash. ~_—- communicated ys they terrupted consider the in... emt closed. A ee LAKE CITY STRIKE ENDED. The Italians Who Caused the Tronble Are Under Arrest. LAKE CITY. Colo., March @B. rough the efforts of the Italian Consul, Dr. Cuneo, all the Italian strikers for whom warrants were issued have ven selves up. The strikers have with an injunction from the secure ——— | CROWE A be not a pro- ' frie on a Secret inet - Diepea tet, *r the Ppee'a! e is not n, -< one ri 3. as be © oy oP ee 4 <i Sais = Pe ai c , rete i ae ee ” “4 o ad ged Sar * & < ty * <4 4, ring with the venting WASHINGTON, March 18.—Marquis Ro- affaires, ceived a dispatch to-day from Dr. Cuneo, City, Colo., The State Department had previously requested the good is at rt to-day states that the and on advice submitted to arrest, thus terminat- The Con- speaks in high terms of the local au- expreseed Ggeree pursued. He makes poet ea tia- offictal dia- As showing the agreeable condl- | Dr. Cuneo refers to his dining w.th the (Rneral of the State forces last nigat. From his repert. the Italian officiais here SPANISH PRISONER. | Detected in Madrid, Where He Went | Mission. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Marek 18—Dr. masqueraded as an Englishman, Hie rest and detention are sald to have It lowed detection been made Recentiy a Army officer who cousin, saying he letter came from a Spa hed married had been arrested re- i war. ‘United States Dr. Crowe ts to lead a Popul'st army Oates five years ago. his aeneteanat SALUTE TO SPANISH COLON swered by Camara’s Squadron. GIBRALTAR, March .—As the Un crulser Raleigh, from here commanded by geciras. and returned the salute. To Finish Floors and Borders G@. | Use “Floor-shine” Colors, oak, cherry, ad ee ae we ar- fol- An appeal to the Amer- ican Ambassador in London is said to have nish Crowe's for treason because of his interest In the late He expected to be shot, and begged that his wife be rescued and taken to the the man who volunteered to Montgomery to seat Reuben F. Kolb as Governor when /the latter claimed hts election over Gov. 5 * ‘American Cruiser’s Recognition An- tted this homeward bound from Manila, The Spanieh Gagehip Carlos Quin- ta thereupon hoisted the American ensiga 5 ete, ~ 4

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: ' . *€ Ca ee ; - et . + Pa . i ; as, wip dt i Wala A ae Nie + f ‘4 yf at » ne Pat : eee A , 4 At a ¥) at) aie r é 4 . ~ 2 “3 4 ~ a ’ i. “4 oe + : Ryder is a queer figure. He has never missed na session of the Legislature since 1%5. Nobody has ever been able to learn where he eats or sleeps. He is the last of the loungers to go to bed and he is up with the sun. Physically he is short and square-built, and there are still traces in his olf age of a powerful physique in youth. His hair is long, grav and tangled and his clothing is shabby. A wide- brimmed soft hat crowns a head, upon which there is no bald aepot. He is about 60 years of age. He was a boy when he firat came g@o the Legisiature, and he de- clined an ‘appointment as page, having just come into a $20,000 inheritance. This money he spent extravagantly. He owns a big tract of land in Arkansas, which he calls Blood Springs, from the fact that there ia a spring of medicinal water upon it. His hope is some day to make it pop- ular as a health. resort. Many are wonder'ng, if the beer bill is passed, what excure Ryder will have for coming to the Legislature during future sesaions. It is safe to predict he will come as long as he is physically able. ; -_—— Postage to Be Reduced to One Cent. The enormous increase in the number of letters carried in the U. 8S. mails makes ft certain that the rate of postage must eventually be reduced * to one cent an ounce. The President who succeeds in getting euch & measure through Congress will hold a high place in the esteem of tie people, but no higher than the esteem in Which everybody holds Hlostetter’s Stomach Bitters. This medi- cine has an unequaled record in reducing the sick- neps of mankind. It gete at the starting point of disease by acting upon the stomach direct, help- ing that important .organ in ite duty of digesting «Fiz § ie * Le 5 : 7 Grand Display of Beautiful Furniture, Carpets, Stoves and Household Goods with which our seven floors are completely packed. We shall make this occasion memorable by commencing the season with UNHEARD-OF LOW PRICES and EASY TERMS. to see. Y MORNING—ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH—MARCH 49, 1899 IGRAND §S Seventh Anniversary of Our Fir We will present to every caller «eA BEAUTIFUL SOUVENIR..... Something that is Beautiful and Ornamental, free to all. MONDAY, MARCH 20th. We want to make this event the greatest in the history of our firm, therefore we invite all our friends and the public of St. Louis and vicinity to witness our We make a specialty furnished from Kitchen of newly married couples. ments at Lowest Cash Prices. of furnishing the homes Homes completely to Parlor on Easy Pay- PRING OPENIN AND CELEBRATION OF mM; It is indeed a beautiful sight We sell the QUICK MEAL GASOLINE STOVES AND QUICK MEAL RANGES. We sell only First-Class’ Goods at Lowest Cash Prices. ~4 we ~~ a ‘ En ~e = > Bay DIE eb | “M7 Uae This handsome Bedroom Suit, solid golden oak, hand- somely polished, carved and beauti- fully finished, high-grade goods, worth $65—Anniversary Price..... \ i a \ ar F KERa h v/ he P UNG) Beautiful Baby Carriages, worth $6. 50, Anniversary Price Go Carts at. LWPig sr %, a “es os 4 a : =e | ri State. Sag at the pil painting | The Senate is the richer of the two in| tle room opening trom this ts occupied by } these ornaments. There are son and Gen. Nathaniel Lyon. The por- traits of Washington and Clay hang over the old-fashioned fire places to the left and right of the President’s chair. ‘They are excellent portraits. Washington stands out from a dark background, a nified figure. roundings. The face is ugly, but is nounced a good likeness and his pose is graceful and natural. The other pictures are a little ridiculous in some respects. Jackson is astride of a horse on the bat- tlefield. Heavy black smoke, shot by tne flame of belching guns hangs in him. His horse is poised on his hind legs which are entirely too short, while its neck is curved beautifully, but without regard for anatomical construction. Jackson, look- ing very fierce, is waving a Lyon rides a horse which -mache animals that omy His red out behind him. looks like the are used as harness store signs. whiskers and- hair stream from his face in all directions like a flaming aureole. He, too, is waving his hat, while his uniform fits him without a crease or wrinkie not- withstanding his strained position. Over the President’s chair is a_ small portrait of Jefferson which is not bad. The only large icture in the House is @ portrait of ‘homas Hart Benton, one of the first S5en- ators from Missouri, and the only one that served as tong as twenty-nine years and six months. He wrote a book called “Thirty Years in the Senate,”’ but it was misnamed for his term of service lacked six months of that time. If Senator Cockrell serves out his present term he will surpass Ben- ton by six months. But to return to the picture. it is big, and the old fellow looks every inch the statesman with his flowing cape, a roll of parchment in his hand and his haughty, pompous face and figure. Gov. Bte ns is probably the most me- thodical Governor Missouri has had in many years. His business training crops out in all his methods of work as the ( hief Executive of the State. He is ghways at his office by 9 o'clock in the morning. The Governor is allowed a suite of four rooms at the left of the south entrance to the capitol. The first room is used as a re- ception room and here his private secre- tary, Paul B. Moore, has his desk. A iit- four enor- Washington, Clay, Jack- | od mous paintings of a igto y é ‘handsomely decorated and furnished, This enign and diz- | Clay stands amid bright sur- | pro- | ltypewriter stand and an old lounge, badly front of, ia loss to lay cocked hat while an enormous red lined cape streams | ' can | when | between 2 ther an ing yes ge | BeRWE See"eataicat situte North of these two. the lady stenographer ‘1s the office, which is rooms is the large main is where the Governor meets all but his intimate friends, and here are held the ses- sions of the State Board of Equalization. The view from its windows. comprehends | the hills of Cole County, the bluffs of Calla- way and Boone Counties, & long stretch! of river and Jefferson Citys chief pride, the highway bridge. North of this big room is the Governor's sanctum. It is aA little place, bare of decoration and plainly furnished. A desk, two or three chairs, a; in need of fresh upholstery, are the furni- ture. The Governor's @esk is big and is always covered with papers. He seems to have all these in order, for he never is at) his hands on one he wants, look inextricably The Governor’s constant com- this room is his confidential Al Morrow, who served Gov. The Governor but to an outsider they confused. panion in stenographer, Stone in the same capacity. thump a typewriter and often does Col. Morrow ts absent. He works from 9 until 12 and returns in the afternoon and 8 and works until 6 or 6:30. Hie spends his evenings at home, is rarely seen about the hotels or on the streets and goes to bed early. In the early hours of the evening he is usually occupied with callers—mempbers of the Legislature and others who wish private conferences. There has never been a Gay since the Legislature began its session when the gal- lery of the House and the lobby of the Senate have been entirely empty. The pro- ceedings are never too dull to hold the at- tention of some one. Many of those who visit the House gallery and the Senate are women and some of these have come to be regarded as “‘regulars,”’ They go to the CLOUDED COMPLEXIONS CLEARED. The complexion if clouded with liver spots, Diotches, moth. tee, trockjes, or if L aM g F red, r or o ingy, dead or 0 com- Sofaly and ermeaeaus cleared a pees and « at WOOD- . 7 *, , a+ e > «Tes J 2. ot we bite we eS Shee. ee Ce J hoe, : Sal a en 7 =r Aa At Se =) aa : ee Sole ahead 7 ~ J ‘ Oy « rd ¥ aA “ : a ee ae BP EY Pe Fak hoe oat ee | joys | that day to _ o* . - is ee a . ‘ Sate 2 ‘a Se j ey tog , oe + eee oR ga % tee NG capitol early In the morning and gtay all day. Why they come is a mystery, unless it is merely to see and be seen. If they are pretty the dullness is driven away by the attentions of young members and clerks. If wf are not pretty they hang over the rall of the gallery and gaze at the array of ‘heads in the House below them. An interesting debate draws a crowd in- stantly. News of the debate seems travel all over the capitol like it was borne In the air, and there is a grand rush to the scene, be it House or Senate. Senator W. Shields McClintic of Marion County, who is being mentioned as a can- didate for Lieutenant Governor, fought in the army of ‘“‘Stunewall”’ Jackson, and en- the odd distinction of being still a paroled prisoner of the United States Gov- ernment. When the war was over, Sen- ator McClintic was paresed with the bal- ance of the beaten but unconquered Con- federates. He went to his home and from this Phas never taken the oath of allegiance required of those who were parties to the Rebellion before they could vote. He declined to be reconstructed into an American citizen and preferred not to vote rather than to take the iron-bound oath required in those days, He was, of course, restored to citizenship by a genefal act of Congress yore | years ago, and is fully qualified to discharge all the dutles of citizenship, but he still treasures the parole sign by Gen. Grant. That and the marks of the half-dozen terrible wounds he received in the war are the evi- dences of his bravery. CROPS DAMAGED BY COLD. Fruit in All Sections of the State Suf- fered. Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch. COLUMBIA, Mo., March 18.—The monthly crop report issued here to-day by the Mis- sour! section of the Government Weather Bureau eays: As a result of the extreme temperatures of the first half of last month, peach bugs were nearly all killed, and a large per ceht of the trees badly frozen, many being killed to the snow line. Pears, piums and apricots also suffered severely, a large portion of the buds and in some iustances, AAS Aral ee, CMe no. a iF ae ¥ PEs + 4 Rog ME © ep eee . 7s -, S Sas ete ie iar ‘se. . - . % y ae ee Sey eins shins Rig» Buy Adee 4 i el ¥ wr rm paps igi ASS Ries Hag ty Phd gH! Bee R + PR RRS cc: gg RI RF OO Coes, SPO DR to, | was well protected by snow duri “ severe cold weather and was not ser aa injured except in localities where some et the late sown was killed, but generally ~~ throughout the northern and western sec- tions the ground was nearly or quite bare ane, waee of the crop was greatly dame- aged. Clover was badly killed in some sections, The hardier’ varieties of cherries general- ly escaped, but sweet cherries were killed to a considerable extent. Apples were reported badly damaged in some localities, but it is belleved that a8 a rule they were not seriously injured, Red raspberries were badly frozen, and also some of the tender varieties of black- berries. The hardy varieties of grapes are —~ a eee generaly safe. especially where closely pastured, but in | In most of the east, central, southeastern! many counties it was reported in good cone and south central counties winter wheat dition at the close of the month, HAS THE ONLY KNOWN CURE FOR Primary, Seconda or Tertiary Poison treated at home for the CAE price under same guarantys If you prefer to come here we will contract to pay raliroad fare and a in mouth, Sore Throat, Pimples, a ree Spots, Uicers on "¢ part of the body, Hair or Eyebrows falling out, it ts this BLOOD PO Saag that we yearn wg to cure. We sélicit the most obstinate Cases and ) ae baffled the skill of the most eminent physicians. ‘a | Several of our most prominent public men, Kings and Emperors of foreign lands, have Ba? ys succumbed to this disease—even when under the treatment of the beat talent uniimites —— 2 ferent concerns have started up to imitate our treatment, promoted by our Gaprecedented success. To-day not one of them remains ia business. oa world-wide reputation for speedy cures, honesty and integrity. . oe NO DECEPTION, NO FREE SAMPLE CATCH eo NOR C. O. D. METHODS. i. pormaneney cured in bilis and no charge {f we fail to cure. If you have taken Mercury, | len he world for a case we cannot cure. This disease has aiways wealth of nations could emolov—but we have a SECRET REMEDY known only te We Stand Alone, Without a Single Successful Competitor. == Advice ané absolute proofs of cures and | unbroken pledges vat COOK REMEDY CO. to 35 days. You can be lodide Potash, and still have aches and pains. Mucous Patches ae oe ourselves. During FOURTEEN YEARS of our existence no less thaa twenty éit= THE COOK REMEDY CO. has permanentiy cured thousacds ani has @ 1 sealed In plain packages on application. NO * oa ; os ONE MILLION DOLLARS BEHIND = GUARANTY, «=

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er ¥ - : Pre PS ‘ eS ; GN EN eee ee ee ne ee "eS ae Me - i. = Cots 3S 2 Pape aye ee ee Re S : : 7% : ‘ omy eee e ‘ +8 . ‘ ey eS ; ; x : : « a ae a ‘aa POTN eter ap EP ‘ * »y a mw T a « ; fa ay See « . x . r ° © i ° - ers, SUNDAY MORNING-—ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH—MARCH 19, 1 ¥ os "aes - . >. ." 899 dia Pius os A TRAVELER'S TRIALS SEVERE WEATHER =ENOCOUN- TERED ON ALASKAN TRAILS. NEWS FROM A ST. LOUISAN. William Northrup’s Description of the Savage Conditions Which the Gold Hunter Is Compelled to Face. William Northrup of St. Louts, a brother of Reid Northrup, President of the Amer- ican Refrigerator Transit Co., is in the depths of the Klondike region at the head of one of the largest expeditions sent to that land of gold and privations. Mr. Northrup has written several inter- esting letters to his brothers in St. Louis relating his thrilling experiences in the land and water journey and giving an in- sight into some of the peculiar customs in vogue in Alaska. The party arrived at Skagway in Jan- Wary of this year, and arrived at Dyea Jan. 31. Extracts from letters and diary follow: HOOTALINQUA POST, Feb. 20. 1899. When we started down the *$0-mile"’ river the temperature was 30 degrees below. This river Tums so ewiftiy that it falls to freeze over in aces and several portages are necessary. One n ticular, three miles long, over a hill 200 feet , gave us a great deal of trouble and worked the dogs to a standstill. We were four bours get- ting over the three miles, and after sustaining el = yer proceeded some two miles, when ale slid of the trail into two feet of wa- os y gan ee and bhustied as fast as we ora bu ouse to dr = 18 miles in the day's run. ae Following day, Saturday, Feb. 18, we set out for an i6-mile drive to our present camp. The trail was about the worst we had experienced, as it was Mothing but sideling. After the river froze over last fall the water fell; the ice following, so that from both sides of _ the river to the center the incline ts decided and 2 | ' ' | | : to | when I was pre extreme bad in some places. We had fairly luck until two miles from this camp, when got rather badly injured. In attempting to keep sled from sliding off the trail towards the center of the river, I got on the lower side to hold it up and prevent it from upsetting. The incline Was so steep that I could not hold it, and both sled and myself began to slide. There was fully @ foot of enow on the ice and gave me no chance see where I gae going. I slid some 10 feet cipitated into a crack in the ice underneath). I turned quickly to get out and managed to release my right leg, but failed to get the right one free. The s) caught it in the crack and gave it a bad sprain across the front of the foot over the instep. The injury made walking painful for @ and we camped on the spot for the day. Dur- ng the day the thermometer bad risen until the enow was melting, and I felt that a camp under Such conditions would be very disagreeabie, and eo decided to proceed to Hootalinqua camp, a dis- tance of two miles, although we thought it was Dut one mile when we started. I found after (no water resting half an hour that I could walk op the leg, 6o started off. We had several more sideling spots and French managed to take both sleds over them, but towards the last he got caught in an ice jam and tore his right big toe nail off. This stapped our progress again for some time, but after crawl- ing along as best we could, we reached the camp in two hours after I got hurt. > > > About an hour after we arrived here a terrific storm set in and the thermometer dropped from 20 above to 42 below in 12 hours. Within two hours efter the storm started, the trail was completely obliterated and it was probably providential that 1 was injured, for we had intended going 12 miles , further. : : ! told them The storm was 60 severe that it blew into the cabins through the moss ured to chink the logs. Have been bere now two days, and has arrived from either direction, which is evidence that the storm was general. If 1 were in shape to proceed, I could not do so now, as we could not break the trail Will wait until some of the po- lice boys open it with horses. . > > temperature here this Saturday, 18th, it has latered 20. 10, 42, 46, 28 and to-day 28. ow. Several have had their feet frozen. The po- lice arrived jast night from below, bringing with on a siel a man who has both feet frozen badly. He is being hurried to Tagish Post, where gpedical assistance can be had. When some 100 miies from here on his way from Dawson to Skagway. he lost the trail in a light snow storm, broke through the ice and got wet above his waist. He was alone and unable to bulld a fire, as his matches were ruined by wa- ter. After some delay he found the trail and soon caught np with two boys pulling band sleds. He his diffeulty, which was self evident, and asked them to build a fire for him. This they refused to do, saying they were as cold as he and had to hurry on. They left him and proceeded on to the next bunk . He tried to keep up, but was finally left alone. After going some five miles he reached the Dunk house, where everything waa done for him. but too late, as both feet were frozen and he sits this morning in the barracks at this place with big feces of flesh dropping off. The proprietor of he bunk house above mentioned notified tbe police end every effort is being made to catch the two boys who refused to build the fire. e¢ Inspector here says if they are caught each will get six months. Further effort will be made to have every bunk house refuse them sbelter or food if their identity can be ascertained. This will compel the police posts to feed them, for low We have had very last eck. Commencing ‘which they will have to cut wood and do other ! | ’ ‘of _ ee . Wiheen lag very much hope they will be de- 4d job will forever ‘““queer’’ them in this tected. country. s. for it Meeting of Veteran Firemen. eteran Firemen of St. Louls will meet afternoon at their rooms in the Mis- uri Historical Society's Building, 1600 pl, at 2 o'clock. Resolutions will be troduced and arrangements made to cele- ae te, Golden anniversary of the great oO > Mrs. Sanborn’s Lectures. Mrs. F. Violet Sanborn, who has been attracting large audiences to 1011 Olive st., will continue her lectures daily from 2 to 4p. m. during this week at 413 Washing- ton av. These lectures are in the interest P. Biair W. R. C., No. BLEEDING PILES. And all other forms of this common and often dangerous disease readily cured without pain or inconvenience. Thousands of men and women are af- flicted with some sort of piles, without either knowing the exact nature of the trouble, or knowing it, are careless enough to allow it to run without taking the simple means offered for a radical cure. The failure of salves and ointments to ermanently cure piles has led many to believe the only cure to be a surgical operation. Surgical operations are dangerous to life and moreover not often entirely suc- cessful and at this time are no longer used by the best physicians or recom- mended by them. The safest and surest way to cure any case of piles, whether blind, bleeding or protruding, is to use the Pyramid Pile cure, composed of healing vegetable oils, and absolutely free from mineral poisons and opiates. The following letter from a Pittsburg gentleman, a severe sufferer from bleeding piles, gives some idea of the prompt effectual character of this pile cure. He writes: I take pleasure writing these few lines to let you know that I did not sleep for three months except for a short time each night because of a bad case of bleed- ing piles. was down in bed and the doctors did me no good. A good brother told me of the Pyramid Pile Cure and I bought from my druggist three 50-cent bottles. They cured me -_ I will soon ble to wo to my work again. val WILLIAM HANDSCHU, 46 St., Cotton Alley, below Butter st. Pittsburg, Pa. The Pyramid Pile Cure is not only the safest and surest remedy for piles, but is the best known and most popular. Every hysician and druggist in the country Caows it and what it will do. Send to Pyramid Co., Marshall, Mich., for little book on cause and cure of piles. describing all forms of piles and the r treatm oT ent. can be found at all ‘per package ee oe og an row Pyra gd m — VY” CHR? 309 yr * ” not a soul | A CASE OF SMALLPOX ——,,, —_— PATIENT WAS AN INMATE OF THE CITY HOSPITAL. THE INSTITUTION FUMIGATED. All the Patients to Be Revaccinatedl— Efforts Made to Prevent the Rep- etition of Dangerous Incident. * A case of emallpox was detected yester- day afternoon in one of the most crowded wards at the City Hospital. The patient is Richard Slaughter, colored, aged 16 years. he may rat? was made by Aseistant Su- perintendent Dr. John Dean, who immedi- ately notified Superintendent Nietert, ana together they conducted a second examina® tion. Dr. Dean’s diagnosis that Slaughter was suffering from variola was confirmed. Eruptiong were plainly visible on the ne- gro’s legs and body. Chief Dispensary Physician Morton L Jordan was summoned. After a brief con- sultation with Dr, Nietert he ordered an quarantine without delay. Superinendent Nietert and his assistant acted promptly. Every ward in the hospi- tal was fumigated, as were halls and stair- ways. The bedding inithe ward and the clothing of the patients were thoroughly renovated. The hospital physicians will begin the work of revaccinating the in- mates of the institution this morning. This will require about two days. Meanwhile, precautionary measures will be taken to prevent a repetition of the aatident. Slaughter was in division 4, undergoing treatment for frost-bitten feet. _In_ the same apartment are about 40 men. Slaugh- ter was received at the hospital Friday morning from the City Dispensary, where it was certified he was suffering from frost bite. He appeared at the Dispensary for the first time Wednesday, when he com- plained simply of feeling ill He went away, but returned the following morning. Subsequently it was decided to 6end him to the City Hospital. In discussing the case last night Dr. Nie- tert said: “The diagnosis made at the City Dispen- sary was probably correct. The eruption broke out on the legs, and was certainly not there when the man was brought to the hospital. In fact it must have devel- oped since he came here It is often diffi- cult to distinguish mild symptoms of small- pox from other diseases. But that Slaught- er was so afflicted at the start I am far from willing to admit. “The hospital has been fumigated from cellar to roof. There is absolutely not the slightest danger here now.” Slaughter arrived here in the early part of the week from Little Rock, Ark. SONNENFELD’S FINE CROAKS. Spring Jackets, Suits and Ladies’ Cos- tumes That Lead the Fashion. If one may judge from the crowds of admiring women that have been surging into tthe Sonnenfeld millinery establish- ment during its spring opening last week, this shop carries the palm for fashion and exclusiveness. The new display of Paster hats has attracted throngs of women from all parts of the city, while the gigantic de- partment for cloaks, suits and ladies’ cos- tumes, on the second floor, is generally ac- knowledged to be the most elaborate in the city. Mr. Kline, who has charge of this part of the establishment, says he does not re- member of ever before having handled a more elegant or exclusive line of guits, skirts and jackets. ne of the most beautiful of the many reception gowns displayed is of chenille— dotted black net over orange-colored taf- feta, the skirt made with a sweep and the waist handsomely trimmed with cut jet. A street suit of Hungarian blue broad- cloth is beautifully appliqued with black satin, edged with silk cord, and forming a pointed design on the enitire front of the skirt. The jacket is made severely simple and close-fitting, with applique trimming almost covering it. A suit of tan-colored Venetian cloth, lined with turquoise blue taffeta, is made with a triple tunic skirt and a short Eton jacket with silk faced collar and revers. Another fetching little walking suit is of heavy Scotch tweed in a stome gray shade, the skirt made with a long overskirt, open- ing up the front, and finished with button- holed scallops around the edges. The coat is a short, jaunty little affair with a spade front and c!ose-fitting sleeves. The stock of silk fancy waists and wash- able shirtwaists at Sonnenfeld's this year is simply enormous. There are tucked, shirred waists of every color in the stripes, plaids or solid shades. waists are also remarkably reasonable as to price. In spring jackets all the very latest colors, materials and patterns are shown, the spade front. Eton, fiy-front and double- breasted reefers, in gray and tan being most popular. There are also some stylish and elegant separate skirts and silk petticoats in the Sonnenfeld exhibit which should be seen by every woman who intends buying a spring suit. EAST ST. LOUIS WILL JOIN IN. Catholics and corded rainbow, in The wash- pretty and Over the River Will Do Honor to St. Patrick. The various Catholic Societies in East St. Louts will parade to-day in honor of St. Patrick. The column will form on IHinols av. at noon and will march te the principal streets with four bands of music headed by Grand Marshal T J. McDonough and his aids, (Messrs. R. T. Lee, J. D. Fitz- erald, Patrick Joyce, James Goff, J. T. itgpatrick, George F. Smith, Henry Huber and John oey. The parade wf! be reviewed on the Main st. side of the new City Hall by Mayor Stephens and other city officials and will then join the St. Louis demonstration. ‘ MR. M. J. GILL DECLINES. He Has Recently Emerged From «he Campaign for Congress. Mr. M. J. Gill, ome of the Democratic nominees for the City Council and recently the nominee for Congress in the Tenth Dis- trict, addressed a letter last night to Gov. Stone, Chairman of the City Democratic Convention, declining to accept the nomi- nation for the City Council. Mr. Gill's let- ter is as follows: CITY. Dear Sir—I have been informed through the press that tho Democratic party in its City Convention bas honored me with a nomination for the City Council. Thie came as a surprise and I am deeply ateful for this additional mark of confidence. javing but recently emerged from a bard and arduous campaign against great odds, for suffi- cient private reasons, I am compelled to say that 1 am not prepared to make another race for office et this time. Being a Democrat, and one loving ite principles, I am still actuated to decline this nomination, feeling that such action upon my part will be the best Interest of the party. Wishing the party success in the coming elec- tion, | am elways ready to lend my voice and ef- forta to further the cause of Democracy, M. J. GIld. Township Collectors’ Reports. The following township collectors have made settlement with County Treasurer John Tetherington since the last issue: Leef—Michael Farre), collector; charged, $4968.19; collected, $4685.63; delinquent. $280.58; commission, $9371. Olive—WilMam A. Seivers, collector: charged, $3917.%; collected, $3807.11: delMn- quent, $110.54; commission. $76.14. Moro—A. H,. Smith, collector; charge, $968.48; collected, $5808.90; dielinquent, $169.58: commiss'on, $116.18. Alhambra—F. H. Dandermann, collector: charged, %6168.82: collected, $8746.98: delin- quent, $422.96; commission, $114.92. Omphghent — Jcseph Siegel, collector: charged, $5345.37; collected, S4@ M9; delin- commission, $142.82. — John Schlacppe, collector; charged, $6583.43: collected 46.%¢: delin- quem, $36.49; commission, $130.94. Godfrey — collector; charge ; $5775.23; delin- quent, SS; munission, $115 drug, : 61. Choutea rte J. Schelhenger, collect- ; 12; collected is; delin ; commission, Cobbler Seat Rockers, like cut, oak or mahogany. and moe? a worth $3.7 r $1.70 o This Week ...... Baby Carriages, al shel- lacked, satin parxso's aod upholstered in best cre- ronne, like «ut, 43 3 ‘ ' This elegant antique finish Bedroom Suit, 3 pieces, hand-carved and glosg- finish, 20x24 bevel mirror, like cut, worth $15.00, for.this week This elegant upright Fold- ing Bed, like cut. 18x40 mirror. worth 3 95 ’ $28—this week.. worth §7.05— for thia week.... Eidehoards, like cat, solid oak. bevel mirror, worth $15— {or this week. ABAALL AL A: 7 Mantel Folding Bed, like cut, antique or finish. worth $i5—for this wee $6.75 Spivhiat a amy Is the foundation of the nation. In a sense we are the foundation of the home, for we make it possible to beautify it by supplying the NNT . Ml uP, Ze ) 4992 ye ambulance and had the patient removed to == aS: Best Furniture, Carpets, etc., at the Lowest Price. This week we redouble our efforts to make shopping a real pleasure and an inexpensive one. Everything necessary pis clogant eee Rocker, all } ande t - ished, like cut. me oy ee worth $7.00; for this week Iron Beds—full size—with brass trimmings and good ename!—nev- er sold for less than $3.0U0—our ridiculous price this week A beautiful Rug giv- en with every Carpst for This Week Only. worth 50c, for This Week, per yard 24¢ B5c ingrain Carpets. best grade, worth 85c. fo- C C Ihis Week, per yard. Brussels Carpets, worth 85c, for This F for This Week, 0c per yard Week, per yard Lace Curtains, worth $2.00, Velvet Carpets, worth 41.35, for This Week, per yard Axninster Carpets, worth $1.50, for This Week, per yard Matting. worth 22¢, - for This Week, per yard ... . Matting. worth 35c¢, incrain Carpets, Chiffoniera, antique finiah— like cut— $3 98 | worth $7.00— for this week..... per yard P Oil Cloth, worth 30¢, to the comfort and demands of home life we offer at what other dealers pay at wholesale, ss .** . 6 . . eee??? Ts ee. be ~Seensee® Udit) A i ii This elegant large size Couch, deep tufted, spring edge, covered in the best grade of corduroy, all colors, sold by all dealers at $12.00; our price for this week only .... 100 Solid Oak Umbrella Stands —like cut—with Ja- 4g ity). worth $1.15; for This Week, per pair tor This Week, Brussels Carpets (best qual- This Week, ; per yard C 250 Easels—like cut —solid oak—largest me OBe Extension Tables— like cut—6- foot long— solid oak, worth $7.50, for this $1.00— This * week....«- week only eee anned iron ns in ottom, wert A DUDE OF A BURGLAR, : an run far Mayor. Me. Johnson has been an ton, D. C.. and other cities In the East. ar. and Mrs. H. S_ Hess rave a box dependent candidate for the office before. The petit jury of the City Court has been dile- rty at the Olympic Theater Friday night pad afterwards entertained their friends charged MARRIAGE LICENSES. "le , Wendell Schneider -.4057 Olive et » dinner at the Planters’. q af Sy “A. O'Rourke of Kansas City ts | Marte Gochring 1 Manchester the guest of friends at Hotel Beers. Benj. F. Elli * Revere, Mass Mrs. Samuel Ayers and niece, Miss Clark | Mrs. Emily seegeccccces 2212 Walnut st of San Francisco. sare guests of Hotel | Willlam Fleischmann «..+++++++,. 2712 S. Oth gt Reers, en route home form the East. ‘ Aena Sctuerman 8118 N. 25th at Miss Anna Salinger of 300 N_ Newstead | John S. Slebert ....e+ee+: ++++-1005 Shenandoah av. entertained her friends with a pro-/|Adelia Landgraf Columbia, Il! ressive euchre Thursday night. Fm!l Hagerman lith at o vies Nelile Brockman of 68233 Pennsyl- | Pmma Robr vania av. entertained the Fieur de Lis Club afin Saturday, assisted by her cousin, Miss meta ed Laura Rebert. The prizes were won by /.. Miss I. Thiele, Mrs. A. J. Reilly and Miss | Grant Bidge .......++ss+eessees ++ ++ G08 S. Tth ot Thiele. Maggie Parker .... 12 N. iith et y A green domino party was given the | 19k: Gold Wedding Rings $3 to $20. | stow tt isees Sarah and Julia Russell sey "i MERMOD & JACCARD’S. - f their sister, Mrs. F. Doane, Sous earatt av, St. Patrick's ifgut, ADWAT and Locust, little danghter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlies was buried Saturday at Bunker Hil. STREET CAR KIL Fender, Then He Slipped Un- der the Wheels. this was car on Patrick Donohue, a_ laborer, down and killed by a mall Cherokee division of the Street Railway at Ninth and Carroll ip. | 2t_6 o'clock last evening. and attem He stepped didrectly in front of It. of the car which ran over him. He ¢ é Pe mn & ee eee : ay fiw wie. Z Pe -

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_ pepsia ma “g > dieting is at once advised. - — ° “ r + > 1 be “; Ke &: Me pee ha 3 a. he POPS L ae RAE Pe ae nie Cee or Ped ae ts es toed - a: These Antique Fin- ished Wardrobes, large drawer at bot- tom, complete with hooks, etc.—it's the best we ever o-fered Steel Ranges, city made, 4 hole with top shelf, put up complete, guaranteed first-class article— 014 oot, 516.2 Odd Fancy Dresser, 49 styles to 1009 OLIVE STREET. Smaller prices and larger values here than anywhere else. All manufacturers are advancing prices. We expected it and have made preparations to. supply Our trade by buying early and in large quantities. Our patrons reap the benefit. LOOK AT THESE VALUES ¥ Center Tabl Upright Folding Bed, with mirror, nicely fin- ished with best weven wire spring, worth every dollar of §30.00— will sell them for | Here's one for the bab — 4 st- class. Hig Chair, with adjustable table, made in solid oak -yjust think, only —Like cut—eolid oak—nteely finished —24-in. top—extra well miade—never offered’ for less than $2.00—All this C C week at The Household at hogany, oak or maple—one like cut select from—in ma- $/ 97 | = i fg —All Carpets, Mattiags | Wy and Oil Cloths Made, H r Laid and Lined........0 Ti tal Here's the prettiest Steetwars for the price ever shown, soli oak, pattern plate mirror, lined patterns Brussels ts, per yard patterns Brussels ta, per ya 25 patterns Incrain Carpets, per yard drawer—for Shortly Distributed. The last will of Garrie L. Bradford was filed in the Probate Court yesterday after- noon. In it she bequethed all her property, both real and personal, to her husband, George L. Bradford, who is made executor without bond. Cornelius Voorhis, by his last testament, filed for probate yesterday, divides $8000 among relatives. His nephew, Thomas Hardy, is administrator. The will of Mra. Alice Tyler Bacon of ' Loulsvilie, Ky., who died in this city March 8, was filed yesterday afternoon. Her per- | 60na)] property she bequeathed to Mrs. Caroline Castieman Barnes, also of Louils- ' ville. The remainder goes to her husband, f OTHE OLD way ~—~Or Treating Dyspepsia and Indiges- tion by Dieting a Dangerous and Useless One. — We say the old way, but really it is a very common one at present time and many dyspeptics and physicians as well consider the first step to take in attempt- ing to cure indigestion is to diet, either by selecting certain foods and rejecting others or to greatly dimmish the quan- tity usually taken, in other words, the starvation plan is by many supposed to be the first essential. The almost certain failure of the star- vation cure for dyspepsia has been proven time and again, but still the moment dys- kes its appearance a course of All this is radically wrong. It is fool- ish and unscientific to recommend dieting or starvation to a man suffering from dyspepsia, because indigestion itself starves every Organ and every nerve and every fiber in the body. What the dyspeptic wants is abundant nutrition, which means plenty of good, wholesome, well-cooked food and some- thing to assist the weak stomach to digest it. is is exactly the purpose for which Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are adapted and this is the method by which they cure the worst cases of dyspepsia, in other words, the patient cats plenty of whole- some food and Stuart s Dys vepsia Tab- lets digest it for him. In this way the system is nourished and the overworked » stomach rested, because the tablets will 4 digest the food whether the stomach ‘works or not. One of eae tablets will 3 rains of meat or eggs. * Se i eeuyie will tell you that Stuart's “Dyspepsia Tablets is the purest and safest remedy for stomach troubles and every trial makes one more friend for this excellent preparation. Sold at 50 cts. or full sized package at all drug stores. A little book on diseases | ng F. A. Stuart Oe r See . i 4 #4 » Lei * - oy rol ay ws" $7.99 : . IRON BED, white enam- eled, brass knobs—all Chiffonier—like cut—with mir- ror, nicely @nished—ornamen- tal as well as useful—they go “$6.19. —--—_ IMPERIAL AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE TO ABANDON RIVALRY. THEY MAY POOL THEIR ISSUES. One of the Houses to Play a Stock Com- pany and the Other Devoted to the Combinations. The Grand Opera House people and the Imperial Theater people, are in a fair way to get together. A contract has been drawn up and dlis- cussed favorably by both sides, which will do away with the rivalry that now exisis between the two houses. The plan is for one house to maintain a stock company and the other to play com- binations. The Imperial is selected as the stock company house and the Grand for traveling companies. The agreement was drawn up a week or so ago and discussed by Mr. Jannopoulo and Mr. Haviin for ihe Imperial, and Messrs. Raeder and Rule for the Tri-State Amusement Company, which controls the Grand. * Both s.des were agreed that St. Louis would not give two stock houses adequate support. The only question was whether ey should pool or each house run independently, neither imerfering with the other. é Under the pooling proposition, it is under- stood, the Grand was to play vaudeville and combinations and be allowed $200 a week for expenses; the Imperial was to have a stock company on a basic of $100 a week. If either house fell behind on a week the other was to bear haif the loss. At the end of the year the two houses were to share profite, the Grand getting 2 per cent the best of it. Failing to agree on this proposition the representatives of the two corporations discussed the agreement that was finally drawn up. Under it each house stands to win or lose on its own merits. Itis understood that Erianger has a finger in the Tri-State affair and wanis to make the Grand a combination house, while John Haviin, who is a large stocknolder in the Imperial, favors a eiock Company there be- cause it would be difneult tor him to 4 all the time for both Havlin's and «he Im- perial. Jannopoulec and Gumpertz like the stock company plan and they side with Havlin. Gol. John D. Hopkins has an interest in the situation. He and the Tri-State peo-. ple are not agreed as to whether he shali manage Fores: Park Highiands. He is a stockholder in the Forest Park Highlands Amusement Co. So is Anthony Steuver and so ig the Tri-State Oo. Mr. Steuver thinks Col. Hopkins. is the man to run the High- lands, but the Tri-State people are not 80 sure, The Colonel is Sam Gumpertzs brovher-in-law, and Mr. Gumpertz is inter- ested with Mr. Jannopoulo in the Suburban Hopkins controls the High- retains his t in EEE ES ; r Hurt by an Elevator’s Fall. An elevator rope in the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Co.’s plant at Eighth and St. Charles sts., broke yesterday morning, dropping the elevator, which was heavily loaded with freight, from the fourth floor to the basement. Leon Hiatt, thé conductor, suffered a fractured arm and severe bruises on the body. After treatment at the City Dispensary he was removed to his home, 11W Angelica st. —_—- Lightning Struck a House. During the thunder storm early yesterday morning a bolt of lightning came down a chimney at the home of John Miller, 2816 Meramec st., and set fire to the draperies on the mantle. Mr. Miller was awakened and he extinguished the flames before any damage was done. very lVionth there are thousands of wo- men who nearly suffer death from irregular menses. Some- times the ** period " comes too often — sometimes not often enough-—sometimes the flow is too scant, and again it is too profuse. Each symptom shows that Nature needs help, and that there is trouble in the or- gans concerned. Be careful when in any of the above con- ditions. Don’t take any and every nostrum advertised to cure female troubles. BRADFIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR is the one safe and sure medicine for irregular or pain- ful menstruation. It cures all the ailments that are caused by irregularity, such as leucor- rheea, falling of the womb, nervousness; pains in the head, back, breasts, shoulders, sides, hips and limbs. By regulating the menses so that they occur every twenty-eighth day, all those aches disappear together. Just before your time comes, get a bottle and see how much good it willdo you. Druggists sell it at $:. Send for our free book, “ Perfect Health for Women.” THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA, GA. DON’T DELAY, YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD AT SNS JACK WILLIAMS FREE ll — CORONER’S JURY JUSTIFIED HIM IN’ KILLING TWO MEN. REARRESTED ANDO - RELEASED. Courtroom Crowded With Williams’ Sympathizers—Warrant Issued Charging Murder. Fred Nischnitz, 808 Geyer av., tinner. Aug B. oO. J A. ¢ F. BR These six men composed the Coroner's jury that yesterday rendered a verdict to the effect that Ddward Kassebaum and Frank Pearce were accidentally shot by former Detective “Jack’’ Williams. The exact wording of the verdict was as foilows: We, the jury, find that Edward Kassebaum and Frank Pearce were shot to death on the 16th day of March, 1809, by a pistol in the hands of John M. Williams, firing in self-defense at Fred C. Gasa- torf. Verdict: Accidental bomicide. The two men were killed at Ahe polling Brace of the Eleventh Precinct of the Nineteenth Ward, Grand av. and Nature Bridge rd. Thursday afternoon at 4: o'clock. This was the day of the Republi- can primaries and an election riot was the cause of the tragic affair. About ten minutes previous to the shoot- ing Williams, accompanied by Harrg Hor- racks, “‘“Coxey’’ Holden, “Ike’’ Cohn and “Bullet” Dwyer appeared at the voting place, not, they say, for the purpose of creating a disturbance, but simply to visit their friends and see how things were g0o- ing. Their intentions, however, were mis- construed and they were viewed with 6us- picion by the adherents of Julius Lehmann, who was secking renomination to the House of Delegates, In the opinion of these, Williams and Jis gang had gone there for the purpose of doing. what they could for the candidacy:‘of Joshua Rothschild, Leh- mann’s rival. But, apart from the object of their going, their arrival caused feeling to ruh high and soon precipitated the fight which ended so fatally for two inyocent men who weré not at all involved in the affair. ; ' The versions._of the shooting were many and different, but the majority told stories which tended to show that Williams was set upon by a. crowd and forced to fire in self-defense. Williams surrendered him- self immediately after the shooting to Chief Desmond and was placed in the holdover until the Coroner could hold an inquest. When secen in jail Williams told a straightforward tale and steadfastly main- ta‘ned that he had fired only when it be- came a matter of life or death. The Coroner's office was crowded to suf- focation Peeeeny morning and the sym- pathies of the spectators were plainly with Williams. Many shook hands w:th the prisoner as he passed through, looking pale but firm, after having been sworn over the dead bodies of the two unfortunates lying on slabs in the grim old morgue. Fifty-three witnesses were the total num- ber subpenaed, and all had a chance to tell what they knew. The most important testimony and apparently that which had the greatest effect upon the jury was that of Herman Bader, a deputy marshal. He was in the chair for almost half an hour. In substance, he said that there were threats of trouble made Wednesday even- ing by the Lehman adherents which caused Joshua Rothschild, the opposing cand.date, and himself to apply to Chief Campbell for police protection, which was accorded. Bader swore that Thursday afternoon he Was acting as chalNenger when he. was called out and found Williams, Harry Hor- eks, “Ike” Cohn, “Bullet’’ Dwyer and oxey’’ Holden. He exchanged greetings With them and then requested, as a favor, that they go away, as he feared the oppo- site faction might think they had come for a purpose. Led by Williams they started off. As they walked away Joseph Hartwig, a Leh- man adherent, called them vile names, which Horracks resenged by knocking him down. The crowd, which favored Lehman's candidacy, surged around Williams and the others and at the same time Edward Dam- man, standing near the curb, fired a shot point blank at the Williams faction. Others drew weapons and cried kill}he ‘—— — —.’ When the crowd opened again permitting Bader again to see, he noticed Fred Gas- torf behind a telegraph pole on the north- east corner of Grand av. and Natural Bridge rd. aiming a pistol] at Williams, who was in the middle of the street. Williams dropped upon his knee and fired several shots. Whether or not these shots caused the death of the two men, Bader was unable to say, he not noticing them until the trou- ble was over. After that Williams and his friends ran, pursued by the mob. Bader was interrupted twice by William Lehman, who betrayed great excitement. Bader was followed by 10 or 12 witnesses, most of whom corroborated his version of the affair. Pdward Damman testified, but noihing of interest was adduced. Fred C. Gastorf, who was next examined, is the man who, Williams says, was firing at him when he returned the shots. Gast- orf denied the stories of his having béen implicated in the fights that preceded the shooting and stated thalt he had just ar- rived upon the scene when he saw Williams in the street with the pistol in his hand? He accounted for his being behind the pole by saying he sought refuge there, and, see- ing Williams’ shots were directed at him, fired back in self-defense. Gastorf was followed by several witnesses of ttrivial importance, and, finally at 1:35 o'clock, the jury retired to their room to consider their decision. From the testi- mony given it was the general opinion they could nothing else than return a ver- dict of acocidental homicide, as none of tho statements made charged Williams with shooting the bullets that caused the death of Kassebaum and Pearce. And, too, the testimony was strongly in favor of the accused. For one hour and eleven minutes the six jurors deliberated, during which time Will- jams betrayed ‘the first signs of excitement he had shown since the occurrence, At 2:40 o’clock the jury returned. Dr. Lloyd read their verdict and immediately there was a wild outburst of cheering, and the crowd surged forward to shake the risoner’s hand. He was at once taken ook to the Four Courts, where, 20 minutes later, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Johnson issued a warrant charging murder in the second degree. At 3:30 o'clock a bond for $10,000 was furnished and “Jack"’ Will- jams was released from custody. EXECUTOR’S SPRING OPENING. Freund’s Big Store Entirely Changed in Appearance. Mr. Joseph Wachtel, the executor of the estate of the late S. E. Freund, the former South Broadway merchant prince, will in- augurate a tremendous sale of ali the spring goods in the big department store, commencing to-morrow, March 20, and con- tinuing for several] days. Mr. Freund prior to his death had bought heavily of all kinds of seasonable merchandise for spring and summer wear, now arrived, executor to dispose of them as rapidly as possible. Therefore. prices will be cut deeply. Mr. Freund, who always appre- clated his customers, also bought some beautiful souvenirs, which will be given away free to each customer. The big store has been entirely renovated and rear- ranged. It looks like a big bazaar. Messrs. Harry, Alfred and Eugene Freund, in con- neation with Mr. F.. W.- Aufderheide, the well-known dry goods man, will be glad t see their many friends. The ladies will find the millinery and dress goods depart- ment very attractive. Any Scullin line car will take you to Freund's big department store, 1554 to 1556 8S. Broadway. See their announcement of big tempting bargains on page 10 of to-day’s issue of the Sunday Post-Disvatch. Identified as Pickpockets. George Henderson and Thomas Keitner, who are said to be police characters from Chicago, were arrested on Broadway, near Franklin av. by Detectives Killian and Lawler. Peter Walker. a floor walker in a Broadway dry goods store, identified them men had seen pick & woman's ~~ - - a al = -his and as the goods have | it is very necessary for the | iresidence LAST OF THE SEASON, CHORAL SYMPHONY -SOCIETY CONCERT THIS, WEEK. MISS JESSIE RINGEN TO SING. —— Kunkel Concert, Weil’s Band and Oth- er Matters of Interest to Per- sons Who Like Good Music. , The last concert of the St. Louis Sym- phony Society for the season will be given Thursday evening, March 23, at the High Schoo] Auditorium The first half of the programme presents a novelty—Brahm’s love waltzes for chorus, with piano duet accompaniment. The soloist of the evening is Miss Jessi¢ Ringen of St. Louis, who will sing a group of songs in the last half of the programme. Her beautiful voice has not been heard in public this winter, but all who recall her superb rendering of the alto part in Verdi’g Requiem last year, or had the good for- tune to hear her solo Facut Portem, from Pergoiesi’s Stabat Mater, recently given in Alton, are justified in their anticipation of her reappearance at this concert. DvVork’s Rhapsodie and the Casse Noisette, by eschaiskoweky, @re the archestral num- ers, The work of the season has been marked by a most gratifying improvement in the work of the orchestra. ‘I‘ne services of Mr. Ernst have been seoured for the ensuing three years, and it is believed that, under direction the orchestra will have reached a degree of excellence by the time the World's tair opens, that will give St. Louis a high standing as a musical center. Ground has been broken -for the new Music Hall, and work will be rapidly pushed to completion and the Choral Symphony Society, for the first time in its existence of # years will, in common with the other musical organizations of St. Louis, be in possession of a home adequate to its needs wen the pomning season opens, e annual meeting of the society will be held Monday, April 8, for the transnetien of the necessary business and election of of- ficers. Twenty directors are to be chosen to serve for two years. The directors, whose term of office expires with the current sea- son, are: Mesdames Alofs, Green Schroers Glogau, Herf, Allen, Bonsack, ‘McMillan, Meter, Swarts, Taussig, Kna . Misses eer crea aa Messrs, Evhii Hal- ee I, Potter, Scuyler an The two hundred and forty-sec - kel Popular Concert will he eivele _ Thursday night at Association Hall, Y. M. Suir two een jStema and Franklin avs. conc ean examen erts remain to be given The following rogramm , oe nureday ae oo 2 uet for piano, Charles J. Charles Kunkel; song, Pe ga Bo W alden; violin solo, Guido Parisi; song Miss Vivian Palmer; piano duet, Emile Kroemeke and Charles Kunkel: song, Miss Marion Walden; piano solo, Charles Kun- kel; Violin solo, Guido Parisi; song Miss Vivian Palmer; duet for piano and violin Guido Parisi and Charles Kunkel. Bandmaster Weil and his band ] sS- ent their nineteenth programme Bt Rpt son at the Fourteenth Street Theater this The selections include popular ~ 1 Miss Ella Scheffler, vocal st, and } r. £ aul Tietjens, pianist, will be the soloists, To-day’s concert is the last but one of the regular series of twenty con- certs. On Easter Sunday a testimonial onasest be be eee Bandmaster Weil. ‘ Wing !s the progr: - : Overture—Oberon rt rb ea pan Pada eae Kreutzer afternoon. numbers, o Granada *e e@eeeeee e All .. Ton- Emil Karst posers.) Vernon A novel entertainment will be tendered to the members, their parents and grandpar- ents at the home of the association, 2737 Locust st.,. at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The entertainment will eonsist of musical, vocal and elucutionary numbers. followed by an old-style “Kaffee Klatch.” ‘eral of the leading rabbis and well-known men w.ll also make short addresses. Being the first entertainment of its kind a large at- tendance is anticipated. The second in the series of concerts at the N. Broadway Settlement, 1223 N. Broad- way, will be given this afternoon at 3 o’clock. Miss Sophia Barth of New York will sing; Messrs. Sheldon and Blood wll give a vocal and whistling duet: Mr. Sacks will play a concerto from Mozam; Ronald Hislead will sing ‘‘Asthore.”’ by Trotere; Mr Swartzburg will play a chanson polon- aise from Wernowski; the Sedalia Mandolin —_ Uultar Club will render some selec- ‘ons. One of the most novel entertainments of the season was given last Friday night at the pariors of Webster Groves Congrega- tional Church, under the auspices of the young ladies of the congregation. There were no men connected with it. At 8:30 o'clock began the grand march in which all the characters represented participated, headed by Misses Rhodes ‘Moody and Joy. In the procession were representations of all woman's fads, fancies and professions, from the staid and stately schoolma’am to Hobson's choicest sacri- fices. There were booths scattered through the pariors, and after the parade, each group of young women went into their quarters to serve refreshments to the visitors. Deserving of particular notice was a paper got up by those who represented the journalists. It was called ‘The Webster Some-Times,”’ and the local hits kept the crowd in a roar of laughter. Miss. Carolyn Allen had charge of this ¢epartment and to her is largely due the success of the enter- tainment. Thcre was also a song or two composed for the occasion. The duet by the Misses Howe was generally commended. Miss Constance Moody was the head of the committee in charge. The young ladies were chaperoned by Mrs. C. L. Kloss, Mrs, Ha Hood. Mrs. Walter Scholz and Mrs. Josephine Schureman. Another of these entertainments will be given imabout a month, and will be called the “‘Storiette Social.”"” Half a dozen orig- inal short stories will be read. Rosenthal, the famous pianist, will be in St. Louis April The rerular monthly meeting of the Cook- ing Teachers’ League will be held next Saturday evening at the Woman's Train- ine School. 172 Locust st. The programme will include ¢«alks by Dr. Ella Marx on “Hygiene;’’ Mr. George H,. Townsend, au- thor of the “Reletion of Food to Heakh,” and Mrs. Mary Hogan Ludlum on “Physi- cal Development Through the Medium of Household Work.” Miss 8. Souther will give her talk on “Drexel Institute,” which was not given at the last monthly meet- ing. An entertainment will be e'ven on the everting of March 24 for the benefit of the Baptist Orphans’ Home in the Y. M. C,. A. Auditorium. It will be under the auspices of the Spinsters’ Club. The Morning Etude met Friday at the of Mrs. Morris, 5634 Bartmer av., with a large number of members and guests prose. Thé# next regular meeting of the Morn- ine Etude will be at the residence of Mrs. McFerren, 54616 Bartmer av., ‘March 31. The Morning Etude will be entertained by the president, Mrs. C. H. Stone, at her residence, £42 Clemens av., Friday morn- ing. March 2, when a plano recital wil] be given by Miss Eleanor Stark.,,who has re-| cently made St. Louis her home after sev-: eral years residence abroad, spent in study with the foremost masters of the plano- forte. ighth concert of the Union Musi witch = . ~aw se == —_ z — Girton ma yrcatta, AT Amy RE - GRO SERA Im _2= «* YOU ARE TAKING A TERRIBLE RISK. To Prove for Yourself the Wonderful Merits of the Great Kid ney and Bladder Remedy, SWAMP-ROOT, Every “Post Dispatch” Reader May Have a Sample Bottle Sent Abso lutely Free by Mail. Have you ever considered what neg- lecting your kidneys, means? Have you ever realized the terrible risk you are taking? ‘Do you not pass on the streets, every day, men and women whose countenances show that the final stake is up and the die being cast? How may you know them? By their pale, sallow, sunken, or bloated countenances, dull, , lack-luster eyes, puffy or dark circles under the eyes, slow, languid movements, blotched, pimpled, Junhealthy complexions and a ppearance of weakness and de- ility. In addition to their outward appear- ance how, do they feel themselves? Weak, worn out, tired, languid, restless, nervous, irritable and worried easily over trifles, feverish, chilly, short of breath, dizzy, irregular heart, rheumatic, with pain or dull ache in the back, neuralgic. sleepless, generally debilitated and used up. Weak and unhealthy kidneys cause all these symptoms. Your kidneys are the most important organs of the body. They work to keep you in health by filtering out of your blood the poisons and germs of disease. Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy, cures unhealthy kidneys, helps them to do their work, aids them to filter and purify the blood, and restores cases of kidney and bladder disordera, lame back, dull pain or ache in the back, gravel, catarrh of the bladder, rheuma- tism, sciatica, neuralgia, uric acid troub- les and Bright’s disease, which is the worst form of neglected kidney trouble. Swamp-Root corrects inability to ho!d water and promptly overcomes that un- pleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day and to get up many times during the night. Swamp-Root is the great medical tri- umph of the 19th century; discovered after years of untiring effort and research by the eminent kidney and bladder spe- cialist, Dr. Kilmer, and can be purchased at any drug store in 50-cent or one-dollar bottles. Make a note of tne narne, SWAMP-ROOT, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp- Root, and remember it is prepared oniy “| Dr. Kilmer & Co. Binghamton, You can test for yourself its wonderful merits free b¢¥ sending your address to Dr Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., upon receipt of which a sample bottle, together . with a valuable book on the subject, will be mailed you, absolutely free. This book contains some of the thousands upon thousands of testimonial letters received from sufferers cured. Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Koot is so re- markably successful that our readers are advised to write for a free sample bottle, and to state that they read this generous offer in the St. Louis “Sunday Post-Dis- health to both men and “women in all a ea ep Carolyn Allen, a pupil of Prof. Warren of | New York opened the programme with an organ recital—(a.) Torcata and Fugue, D minor Bach; (b.) Benediction Nupiale; (c.) Clock Movement from Fourth Sym- phony. Hayden. Misses Kalkman, Ringen, uckner and Mrs. Bonsack sang a quar-' tette—Laudi Alla Vergine—Verdi; Miss Jes- sie Ringen and chorus, a solo and chorus, Marie, Massnet; Mrs. Rita Lorton Schmidt | and Miss Jessie Ringen, a duo—Angelus, Chaminade, which was beautifully ren- dered and heartily encored. The conductor, Mrs. Charles B. Rohland, has charge of choral department of the Union Musical Club of. St. Louis, and Dominant Ninth Chorus of Alton. The Meeting of the Current Topics Club at Mrs. Van Blarcom’s last Tuesday was well attended. Maria Tolstol, the daugh- patch.” ; , $$ ter of the Russian novelist, was discussed and the noble work of charity which she is doing among the peasantry commented upon ‘arious other topics were taken up after which Mrs. Hofman read “The Two Tims.”’ by Mrs. Stewart. At the meeting of the Hofman Club Fri- day morning “The Sixth President’ was discussed. — Newsboys’ Home Closed. The Ladies’ Board of the Newsboys’ ‘Home have decided to close the home for the summer and to reopen again In the fall in new quarters sultable for the com- mendable work in which they are engaged. The board will continue to hold its usual regular meetings with the view of more effectually perfecting plans for their future work. Free Medical Treatment For Weak Men ‘Who are Willing to Pay When Convinced of Cure. A has been so startling that the p now announce that the SCIENTIFIC combined medical and mechanical cure has been discovered for ‘‘Weakness of Men.” Its success rietors will send it on trial—remedies and appliance—without ad. vance payment—to any honest man. If not all that is claimed—all you wish—send if back—that ends it—pay nothing. This combined treatment creates a strength, vitality, sustaining ap restores weak and undevelo wers, portions te natural functions There is no C. O. D. extortion, no de ception of any nature in this offer. be f you are interested and in earnest write ur name and address in the blank form low, cut out the coupon and mail it te Erie Medical Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 66 NIAGARA ST., BUFFALO, N. Y. Sirs :—As per statement in St. Louis Post-Dispatch you may mail to me, under plain letter seal, postage paid, full explanation of your new . system of furnishing your Appliance and Remedies to reliable men on trial and approval without expense—no payment to be made in advance—no cost of any kind unless treatment proves successful and entirely satisfactory. Also mail sealed, free, your new medical book for men. Respectfully, Give name and address in twill. Please write very plainly. Acid Trouble? — ms woe ay ’ . ded i ta 4 * “we - 7 "y ° re > oe

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nee Ce oe ee ; ° 7 ce agg, 7 e 2 iu ee ; Ao es a fee hi ogy: 7 : ° Le a w var, “ty ee ee names 2 Ba te Aha i 4g a > aS neh 5 otek Se aes SNe mnie * 4 q -> ae ~ 2 pre Mine x a La .ghite eaten: ae Ps me ss . - — x. " “ SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH—MARCH 19, 1899 | Th DAY'S BIG PARADE, ZVERYTHING READY FOR A % DARENESS LI DEMONSTRATION. REVIVING AN OLD CUSTOM. Ter. Thousand Persons Wil] March ‘n This Celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. The parade will fo Mterhet et. 2 and Washington av. tw Start prom ptiy at 2 o'clock 2 ‘ and more forth on Twelfth et. to W eshington av., east to Broadway, north to Biddle st.. west to Sixth a! forth to Cues ay » West to Grand av... south to eansell bl] tins a to Vandeventer at , and counter u 1 om Lindell bl, Gran here ij a to rand av., where it will rm on Twelfth st., between ¢ Oo. St. St. The memory Patrick wil] ally honored in Louls to-day. WAS Selecied so as to give al! an opportu- nity to participato in the big demonstra- tion. It is conservatively estimated that 10,000 persone will be the line ‘of march, Rev. Father Dempsey, pastor oO. St. Patrick's Church, is the etand mar- a —_ eal be roy- Sunday iti Timot ny Rev. Qe es we - e shal. He has labored faithfully and with enthusiasm to make to-day’s celebration an wnprecedented success. Aiding itm was Mr. Thomas J. Ward, Who will act as assistant grand marshal, and scores of clergymen and representative Irishmen throughout the city. Dr. Hyatt received an advance notice of the parade from the Committee on Ar- Tangemenis and he has accordingly in- sured ideal Weather for to-day. Several parishes will have fioats itn the parade. In addition there will be 2 bands. ' The special aides to Father Dempsey wilil be Mesers. Tnomas Knox and John J. 0’ Bricn. The following will serve as regular aides and direct the procession: Messrs. Will.am J. Hanley, John B. O'Meara, J. J. O’Con- nor, P. Fitzgibbons, J. J. Barry, Dr. J. T. Boraghan, H. P. Sullivan, P. J. Kelly, J. M. Burnes. M. J. Cullen, D. J. Brennan, Ter- | Fence Martin, Mdward Sullivan, D. J. Sul- livan, P. Donuneily, D. Monahan, M. Croak, Luke Reilly, od Corrigan, J. Garrigan, W. 2. Sullivan, M. Cullinane, T.. Maloney, mas ©’ Brien, D. Coli.:ns, T. H, Quinn, 1. Mulvihill, Captgs. Matthew Kieley and fichael O' MauUey, Messrs. J. Antrum, Frank Jutz, Hugh McNalley, Charles Kelly, George Hoeffner, James Downes, T. Cole lins Fr. &, Wagner. T. J. Forester, J. Kelly, aish, J. P. Sweeney, Thomas Lang, J. Lysaght, (. Dacey, John Kelleher, James Meck inzie, P. Fitzgibbons, s. A. Mackeown, Maloney, T. Roes, T. Nolan, Patrick ane J. T. Messing, J. T. Kelly, Zz. O. Jiines, J. ---——_— MAJOR COMMITTEE ADJOURNED | UNTIL APRIL 10. DRUMMER EVANGELIST WEDS. Rev. Benj. F. Elliott Married to Mrs. Emily Peckham Talbert by Rev. A. Lichtenstein. Rev. Benjamin Franklin Elliott, “the drummer evangelist,”” and Mrs. Emily STILL MISSING. Peckham Talbert of 2212 Walnut st. were married last evening by Rev. A. Lichten- , stein, superintendent of the St. Louis Mis- During the Vacation the Committee Will Make a Partial Report to the State Senate. —_— —— a The Major Committee has taken a recess until April 10. It adjourned yesterday after- the Chairman MajJor’s report will be completed and presented to the Senate. The committee yesterday morning. Senators Hobenschild and Childers consti- tuted the quorum. Owing to the jliness of his father Senator Major is detained at his Bowling Green, absence was unexplained. witness City Treasurer John W. him to treet Sergeant-at- Arms vesteri | lV ling Superintendent Re.ch unabie y di more than a absent from w. as reappointed sprinkiing : Puesday, last His cenduct in fice without official leave of ab- ham at thought Mayor Ziegenhbein inists that Reich- attending self-evident facts to the contrary. the urned Street Commiss.oner Milner took Mi) “F. newspapers took It Up. ted them,’ The Stre et Commi isgioner deciared he had Su a? himeel! Don’t Accept a Substitute! When you ask for Cascarets, genuine Cascarets Candy Oatbartic! Don't accept fraudulent substitutes, was m ude three weeks’ vacation late in assembling Burkhead, Mo. Senator called was Assistant Dunn. The, ques- by Attorney Me nald the alleged mismange- Sprinkling Department, for street sprink- Wooten, who put in looking for Sprink- man, reportei’ thar to find the man who sired by the committee. MRS. BENJI. F. BLLIOTT. sion for the Jews. The ceremony was: per- formed at Mr. week since Reich- ‘his office and tU- but he has not remaining away Lichtenstein’s residence 228 Lucas av. and Mrs. Mr. Elliott Talbert. who says she is a cousin of former Secretary of State Olney, met only a little more than a month ago, at a revival meeting. They were not formally presented, but were mu- tually attracted to one another, he by her widow's garb, and she by the stories he told her of his own losses by death. Rev. r. Eliiott's wife died in October, 1896, in her 60th year. Mrs. Talbert has been a widow Seven years. Her husband, Dr. J. D.. Talbert, died in Memphis, Tenn. Since then she has resided in St. Louis. She owne a considerable amount of property in E«- wardsvilie, Il. Rev. Mr. Elliott resides at Revere, Mass., a suburb of Boston. He has been away from home two years, pursuing his work in the West. For 18 years he was a com- mercial traveler. Eight years ago, after ® vears’ study of the subject. he left the commercial field and applied himself to the writing of a book dealing with the unity of the Jewish. Catholic and Protestant faitha The prospectus of the book has al- ready been issued. Since the o@iawenceD>ent of this work, althougn ne is a Baptist, Rev. Ellott has been working largely in cenjunction *** \ but are not of the liable to dismissal, the City Hall to that phase to busiress, despite the Major Committee ad- ner sald he knew noth- Mueller’ case, until the “When the grand matter I did all I he said. “There my the Re.chman had con- be sure you get the imitations or counterfeits! Librarian F. School pee ky Lecture by Librarian Crunden. M. pupile of the Jewish Alliance night ashes next cugete evening in the new Jefferso * . ee * at oe a - - » : 6 > > ae =, £ “ Pet) M ‘ - Jewish religionists, and @cause or this fact he decided to have «ws ae mar- riage ceremony performed by Rev. A. Lich- tenst ein. Winslow's Soothing Syrup tating produces natural, quiet cleap, Crunden will address the inth and Wash. Readings.”’ - - Ps ” e Ne Caps ee Pak ee ee tor | E + ae > Pe dee pat i THE LAST FILING DAY, IMPORTANT SUITS BROUGHT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT. USUAL RUSH OF LITIGANTS. General Assortment of Troubles, in Which a Number of Well-Known ° People Appear. —— Yesterday was the last filing day for this term and, as a result, there were a large mumber of sults entered. Dr. David C. Bfyan is sued for $1372.%, with interest at 6 per cent, by the Indilan- apolis Savings and Investment Co. This sum is alleged to be still due them on a transaction while he was,.still a resident SENT FREE TO MEN A Most Remarkable Remedy That Quickly Restores Lost Vigor To Men, A Free Trial Package Sent by Mail To All Who Write. Free trial packages of @ most remarkable remedy are being mailed to all whe will write the State Medical Institute. They cured so Manay men whe bad battled for years against the mental and phy- sical suffering of lost wanhood that the Institute bas decided to distribute free trial packages to all who write. It is a home treatwent and all mes whe suffer with any form of sexual weakness re- sulting from youthful folly, “ premature loss sof etrength and memory, weak back, varicocele, of emaciation ef parte cas sow cufe themselves as bome. The remedy bas a peculiarly grateful effect of warmth and seems to act directly to the desired le cation g¢*ving strength aod development just where it is meeded. It cures all the ills and troubies that come from years of misuse of the natura! functions and bas bees an abeclute success in ail cases. A request to the State Medical iustitute, TU2 First Natioual Bank Bullding, Ft. Wayne, lad., etating that you desire one of their free tria! packages will be complied with promptiy. The Is- stitute ie desirous of reaching that great | ctase of men whe are unable to leave bome te be treated and the free sample wlll enable them te see bow easy it is to be cured of sexual weakness when the per remedies are employed. The Institute makes bo restrictions. Any man who writes will be sens ¢ | ee * , 4 it eo ~ ae * A es ear D & FRANKLIN. of Indianapolis. William Hamilton has entered sult against the Missour!-Edison Blectric Co., asking %990 for an alleged illegal arrest and imprisonment made at the instigation of defendant. March §. Jessie ht. Edwards sues for divorce from her husband, Harry L. Edwards, on the alleged grounds of non-support and general indignities, which, the petition recites, were continually offered her. This is the case in which, a short time ago, the husband was refused a divorce by Judge Spencer. , Mrs. Spencer asks for custody of their in- fant child ‘and $75 a month alimony, Ac- cording to her statement Mr. Edwards as business manager of a publishing = ny at Monterey, Mexico, receives a - a of $150 a month, of which she thinks she is entitled to one-half. Henry M. Walsh sues James J. Glass and the Fredericks Printing and Stationery Co., asking for the appointment of a receiver for the Imperial b/vening News, in which Walsh is a stockholder. This is the title of the programme of the Imperial Theater. Mary Diskin, the widow of the man who lost his life recently while engaged in working on the new building in course of construction at Sixth and Olive sts., sues the Hitl-O’Meara Construction Co and the Koken lron works for $000 damages. Tite accident was, she alleges, the result of the negligence of these two ‘firms. (harles H. Bailey and Laurence B. Pierce have entered OP axainst James H. McCabe and Michael], Young on a note for $5010.24, with interest at 8 per cent. The defendants were formerly in business as the McCabe-Young Carriage Co. Charles H. Turpin coneiders himself dam- aged $000 by the statements which, he al- leges, Benjamine F. Gray, Je., uttered con- line — over - distinct styles now on display—the cerning himself and his house, 21 Chest- nut st. of W. S. Long sues Dr. Eustathivue Chan- cellor for $9,000. Mr. Long, who is a Deputy in the United States Internal Reve- nue Collector's office, alleges HNbelous let- ters and: statements were uttered against him by Dr. Chancellor. The difficulty grew out of a Mexican coffee plantation deal in which both gentlemen were interest: d. Mr Long also sues Dr. Chancellor for $475 which, he charges, ie still due him on a contract. Charles J. Linberg sues David P. Ma- laney, alleging illegal imprisonment, for this he asks $000 damages. MR. SPRAGUE SAYS The Delicatessen Lunch Rooms serve pure food. IN A QUAGMIRE. Horse and Wagon Sank Almost Out of Sight in a Business Street. ; Joseph Weisenberger, driver for a bakery at Sixteenth st. and Cass av., nearly lost his horse yesterday morning while driving north on Sixteenth st.. between Cass av. and Mullanphy st. It was not yet day- ight and as he coukin’t see distinctly Joseph guided the animal into a mam- moth mudhole. The horse sank up to_ his wagon descending shoulders and the te wheels i er. 7 < ep ee bie . Pie * JUST RECEIVED— Another lot of 800 of these Medicine Cabinets, exactly like picture—either oak or mahooany a size 22x16 inches—the mirror in dour is 9x12 inches- made t—a most useful article in every Soanecntt $1. eo-—The People’ ~ deer or. C 100 # Readily Convinced That we are putting more stvle and character in our garments for less money than any other establishment in the city. This seasen our display surpasses all past high records. The new ef- fects have something more than novelty torecommend them—they are decidedly handsome and they make up wonderfully attractive, Easter Garments Made to order in Suits, $15 to $50 Made te order in Overcoats, $15 fo $40. Made to order in Trousers, $4 #0 $12. Satisfaction or your money back. Artistic Tailoring at Moderate Prices. TA 715-717 OLIVE. eh OLS AG A GIO. ce trict nueorendaia along about this time. was not in his power to heip things, he telephoned for the Fire Departmen). engine ——— were sent to the The firemen passed ropes around the horse and with rs block and oe ifted seal agon the bh a Nedides’ bauer tit S covered with mué me animal appeared to otherwise un- hu coe Se Lad Aa

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PART THREE. POS F DISPATCH}. SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS MARCH 19, 1899 WW EXO SOUGHT TO WRECK THE REPUTATION OF ee = eel ———— _ FLORENCE McVEAN 7 7 ’ ‘Oo: Pe . BQ: « oFs Sons °) >» ? a? Re | 9% e sare @o?° From Her Latest Photograph. v . o 3 QO ° o 10%: ” 9 if oo? 299 og 9 oy AND FOREVER DESTROY HER BEAUTY? oe a — ? 9 s ~ 4 a Cot 0 qe. a . © : © af Pu 09°F): ~ 1° © 29.922 “mel € « “. X Ss. Poisoned Candy Was Sent to Her; She Was Disfigured by Carbolic Acid; Scurrilous Letters Were Mailed to Her; the Police Laughed at Her, and Every Official Power in St. Louis Has Been Baffled in the Attempt to Find Her Assailant. HAT enemy twice sought the life W of beautiful Mrs. Florence Mc- Vean? What implacable foe for- ever destroyed her comeliness and sub- jected her to the acme of physical pain? What evil-minded person wrote her scores of scurrilous letters and sent to her by mail a box of polsoned candy, giving her the impression that it was from the man with whom she was supposed to be in love? What enemy haunted the house in which she lives and on the third night—having succeeded in calling her to the door, after repeated subterfuges—dashed into her face and over her body a.large quantity of unadulterated carbolic acid? Was this enemy a woman, or was it a man? These are questions nobody has yet an- swered, They are questions which must be answered if justice is to be done to a woman at whose story of persecution the police laughed when she had been driven to the verge of desperation. They are questions which must be an- ewered if justice is to be done a woman. Mrs. Florence M. McVean, widow, at the age of 30, is possessed of more beauty than falls to the lot of the average woman. Five years ago her husband, Dr. Frederick C. MoVean, died. Since that time she has made her home with her mother, Mrs. Margaret Megraw, and her sister, Miss Mary Megraw. Their present address is @15 Cook av., in a highly respectable neigh- borhood, on a beautiful thoroughfare. About three years ago Mrs. MeVean called tin Dr. Frank A. Gasgow to treat her for certain maladies, not named. After repeated examinations, according to his ac- count, be failed to find any trace of dis- ease and wondered why she should have summoned a physician. However, for a long period, she insiated upon engaging his services and be attended her, he Bays, in a purely professional capacity, with no more personal feeling than would be natural be- doctor and a patient when often , © Me eds om irs. .McVean - a ee ame - . te , ’ - 4 7 “4 © ee en : Rl Be 2, ick sony og Mil Sah ai a ya - gar and profane, from an unknown source, presumably from a woman, The manner of expression was that of an uneducated per- son—at least of a person not used to com- mitting his or her thoughts to paper. The letters continued. AS a rule the spelling was correct. They were written with a lead pencil on @ poor quality of paper, and the address on the was always printed with a lead pencil. The writer not only denounced Mrs. McVean as a low woman, but applied to her vile names and accused ber of murdering her husband, as well as of committing various mis- demeanors. Some of the letters were ad- dressed to her Miss Megraw, but the contents were intended for Mrs. Me- Vean. Mrs. McVean could imagine no reason for such. persecution, The letters, almost invariably, referred to Dr. Glasgow, in lan. guage Which might have been that of a rival in love, gloating over an apparent advantage gained over the person ad- dressed. The letters worried her extreme- ly and many times she was on the verge of hysteria, yet for several months she bore with the secret indignities being heaped upon her before she sought the pro- tection of the law. Finally, one night early In January, Mrs. McVean went to the residence of Chief of Detectives William Desmond. He was not at home. She announced that she would wait until he returned. This she did. She was In a highly nervous state and would not talk to him until she was assured that nobody Was Within hearing. Then she told him in detail the story of the obscene let- ters, producing a number of them as proof of her statements. The matter was communicated to Chief of Police John Campbell, The authorities endeavored to locate the author of the let- ters, but failed. While they were atill en- gaged at the task there came a startling de- velopment— envelope sister, and that he had box, “so they candy to send to her, kissed every piece in the would be sweet.’’ The box was not delivered at once, and a week or so later a second note was re- ceived, saying that the writer had been sick, but that the box would be sent right away. And so ‘it was. Miss Megraw did not tell her sister of the two notes until after the arrival of the box. The ladies hastened at once to the office of Chief Campbell, The box had not been opened, The address was printed with a lead pen- cil. The characters were similar to those in the addresses of the anonymous letters, Chief Campbell opened the box in the presence of the two women, It contained crystallized fruit. One-half he placed in his desk. The rest he sent to Health Com- missioner Starkloff, with a request that it be analyzed by the City Chemist. This was done, and the following report sub- mitted. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 4. Capt. John W. Campbell, Chiet of Police, City—Dear Sir: Complying with your fre- quest, I autborized the City Chemist to analyze the contents of a box of confec- tions. and beg to give you herewith a copy of the result of said analysis: I berewith re- port that I found said confections to be covered with and rolled in a powder con- talning arsenic in a quantity far exceeding a toxic dose. HKespectfully A . y. ©. STARKIAFF, Health Commissioner. If Mrs. McVean had any idea as to the identity of the letter writer she did not reveal it to the police, but when the polis- candy came she openly accused a former friend, who was acquitted on in- vestigation by the police, who suspected Mrs. McVean of writing the letters. Both women had been patfents of Dr. Glasgow Both women had been his patients, but Dr. Glasgow claimed not to have seen Miss Graham for a year. He disavowed affection for either her or Mre. McoVean, oned As soon as, these.matters were brought. Ree ans ui . ah ee © & : candy was purchased. After a systematic search of the city they found Miss Eleanore Henley at a confectionery at 615 N. Broad- way. She said she had sold a box of candy such as the one described to a Mrs. Me- Vean of Cook av. She also identified the markings on the box. “T cannot be mistaken,”’ said Miss Hen- ley. ‘‘While I was wrapping the package Mrs. McVean inquired about a Miss Behn who was formerly employed here. She handed me her card and asked me to send her Miss Behn’s address when I found it. Here is the card.” And sure enough it was. The name of Mrs. F. M. McVean was engraved Her address, 4015 Cook av., was written in ink. In addition to Miss Henley was shown a photograph of Miss Zoe Graham and later one of Mrs. McVean. She tively identified the lattter the picture of the woman to whom had sold the box. To the minds of the police these two facts were ample evidence that they had been hoaxed, and the department chiefs stated for publication their firm be that Mra. McVean had mailed both the many letters and the box of poisoned candy to herself, The was considered a monumental joke and there was much merry-making over it at the Four Courts. Mrs. McVean, Miss Graham, Miss Henley and Dr. Glasgow were all brought together in Chief Desmond's office. There Miss Henley pointed Mrs. McVean out as the woman to whom ghe had sold the candy. Mrs. McVean indignantly denied having made the purchase, saying she had never seen Miss Henley before. She vehemently declared to Chief Desmond that she had been tricked. Gut her appeal availed nothing. The po- lice only laughed at her. The letters con- tinued to come. The gateway to further mischief was left open and— Mrs. McVean was disfigured for life by carbolic acid thrown by some fiendish enemy. ‘ The poisoned candy incident was closed when W. H. Graham, kc Fre Pag 3 *¥ a i te . 7 ~ +m x om ‘ i this posi- as she lief case 4 The shaded portions on the lay figure show Mrs. McVean’s injuries. Graham, applied for a warrant against Mrs. McVean, charging her with having slandered his daughter. The warrant was refused. Mr. Graham died only a few days ago. The disfigurement of Mrs. McVean oc- curred last Tuesday evening. The acid may have been thrown by a woman. There is a strong suspicion that the would-be murderer was a man. Without doubt the terrible occurrence would have taken place last Sunday even- ing if the circumstances had been favor- able. About 8 o'clock that evening the doorbell of Mrs, McVean’s house rang, Miss Megraw started to answer the call. Glancing through a side window she saw a figure dressed as a woman standing in the shadow outside. Miss Megraw rapped on the pane and asked what was wanted. The figure made no reply, but walked down the steps and disappeared. Ten minutes later bell on the other side of the big double house rang and the occupant, Mrs. Pearson, opened the door slightly and saw the figure of a woman. This woman requested Mrs, Pearson to tell Mrs. MeVean that Mrs. Smith had called, but had been unable to arouse anybody. Mre. Pearson said that Mrs. MeVean had not retired, but the woman said nothing aod hurried away. There Is a Mre,. &mith who is a friend of Mra. MeVean, but had not been away from for several days at that time, on account of the illness of her child. Again, last Monday night, a strange wom.- an, evid®ntly the same, was seen watching the house. In the course of the evening she rang the doorbell, but when Miss Me- graw answered she said she had made a mistake in the number and went away. On each of these occasions this mys- terious figure was heavily veiled. From these occurrences it is belleved by the family that the mysterious man or woman had been watching the house, seeck- ing a favorable opportunity to assault Mrs. McVean. Had she cpened the door, either Sunday Monday evening. would doubtless have been assaulted then, instead of Tuesday. Her assailant was undoubtedly familiar with the habits and condition of the fam- lly. Mrs. Megraw is an invalid, and can leave her chair only with great difficulty. Miss Mary. Megraw left, the house a little the she home or she * FRANK ADAms GLASGOW — oy erty ’ re. mye Detectives. a ee. Postmen. Policemen. All the Agencies at the - of the Police, the Federal n= ment and Mrs. McVean’s Lawyer are Bent on Solving the M yo —_ - e ‘es . ea ee A ee : 3 rs tao 2 id de er +. - ids £ + nhad The Residence of Mrs. McVean, No. 4015 Cook Avenue. ney avs. Very shortly after she departed the mysterious woman (or disguised man) rang the bell. Mrs. MeVean answered the call. She opened the door slightly. The long porch cast a dark shadow. By the fitful glare of an arc light 100 feet away she could recognize the form of a woman standing in the shadow. It was that of an exceedingly tall woman —if a woman. It made no movement. “What do you want?” asked Mrs. Vean. This was what the mysterious stranger was waiting for. There must be no mis- take of identity. The voice could not be other than that of Mrs. McVean, As she spoke Mrs. McVean stepped be- yond the threshold and upon the porch, peering in front of her, to see what her mysterious visitor was like. Instantly the strange figure bolted for- ward, exclaiming: “D— you, I've got you now!’ and making a motion as if to strike Mrs. McVean. §he instinctively threw up her arms to protect her head and face. Almost immediately she felt the terrible sting of the acid on her face. The upper part of her body was attired in a dressing sack, cut with a low, round collar, loose at the throat. Almost immediately the flery liquid ran down inside of her clothing, burning and stinging and cutting the tender flesh more cruelly than a knife could have done. It left flery streaks on her face, neck and breast and, finally, stopped by her clothing near the waist, produced burns which any human being would shudder to contemplate, These burns have been viewed by re- sponsible persons other than Mrs. Me- Vean's physician. That they exist in all their terribleness is certain. There is no attempt at mystery or concealment on the part of the family. Immediately after the acid was thrown the horrified woman set up a series of screams which aroused the neighborhood. Her invalid mother, at the expense of great pain to herself, ran to her assistance, just In time to see the form of what ap- peared to be a very tall and nruscular woman disappearing down the steps. Miss Megraw did not return until a few min- utes later, She at once ran to summon Dr. G. L. Lyda, one long block away, at Cook and Vandeventer avs. On the way she stopped to inform Mrs. Mary Jackson, a friend, who resides only a few doors away. When Dr. Lyda reached the house he found Mrs. McVean sitting on a chair in the parlor, where her mother had placed her, after tearing a considerable portion of the clothing saturated with the fiery liquid from the upper part of her body. Mrs. McVean was suffering almost mor- tal agony. To this the physician testifies. Her screams could be heard across the street. Half a grain of morphine, injected, did not serve to allay her pain, and the dose was twice repeated before she sank to sleep. Even then the violent twitch- ings of her body did not cense. “At frst Mrs. MeVean was Dr. Lyda, or a SA aks Se ~ Mc- blind,” said “A " ‘ ze eats ae pat: ,. a, x : figurement will be permanent.” ence McVean, at whose claims of perseciie tion the police of St. Louls have been laughing for weeks. ee The facts concerning the acid throwing ~ were not reported to the police by Miss > Megraw. She was too busy caring for ie a wounded sister. Besides, what good wo an it do? They had only laughed at her bee = fore, when she claimed to be persecu ah. Why seek reitef from that quarter? ee The heads of departments have not yet Pec, expressed their opinions of the case out- © right, for publication, but a policeman who walks a beat in the vicinity of the house @ did not hesitate to express the bellef that $* Mrs. McVean had thrown the acid on hem © > self, in an attempt to commit suicide, ie It was even suggested that her mother * + and sister, in attempting to prevent her age" tion, had caused her to spill the flery draught on herself, burning her soft fles pe and irretrievably disfiguring her fair face, % pele F 2 In so saying the police intimate @ three women have lied—Mrs. McVean, stating that ashe was assaulted by an @ known person, presumably a woman; (is Bie Megraw, in saying that she was away from ~ the house when the assault occurred, and 9) Mrs. Megraw, in corroborating the st@ ee ments of her two daughters. a One of the most startling revelations in ~ the case is the fact that, about 11 o’closl > Wednesday morning, Mrs. McVean # ib | ceived another anonymous letter, writtei | by the same person who had addressed ae so many times before. It was collected oa the Grand avenue circuit about 10 o’clogiR.> and was delivered by a untformed letter _ Barting two epithets applied (> “* * f : . ee 7 te a, oF carrier. Mrs. McVean, the letter is as follows: You won't look at your kind deeter, be ey you’ What is the matter with jour eres te You didn't think I weaid biind you. ¥ te see | do an | aay. i. Glasgow enya wae right, for he loves Mme. Have you seem him’ ©, no! I guess not. He and me bape done you up. The police took you and net me, and you will suffer for your kind Gee — tor. A long time ago I have wanted he ti ; ee I fot you at last. will see you led jall bilnd. There are some notable facts itn thie nection. The police did not know of the sault on Mra. MeVean until 0 ove Wednesday morning. This letter was t& out of a letter box at 0 o'clock Wi day morning. There was no §f statement of the case until 3” Wdenesday afternoon. Only @ve ne directly knew of the assault, 7 ' o- McVean, the victim; Mra, Megraw, Bar mother; Miss Megraw, her sister; all Jackson, a neighbor, and Dr, Lyda, the ai tending physician. sa The police have the choice of two ditions: They must = pores if of the four persons last pa tee. Mrs. McVean, or that she was axsatled he ae a fifth and unknown person, whe . and mailed the anonyni}us letter quoted, 7 That Mra, McVean could have done #6 ~ was a physical impossibility. At that ta Bo A, she was not only in bed suffering extrema | pain, with both hands burned, but. - " Y 3: 5 1? ua ase ; Lt 5 Re + Re . ae Pa ie _ * : ‘ a - i La ; : ~ ae gear OE TT BPE LAE ‘ » _ r

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It was her first winter in New York, and al- though ehe had found that Northern men did not take fire as spontaneously as those of the still chivalrous and romantic South, she had been the belle of the winter. She had met Maynard Bridges toward the end of the winter: he was a very busy man, and went little into society. In spite of strong family connections he was, in- deed, more or lees of an outsider; for he was the editor of a daily newspaper. He was a club man and one of the hardest working journalists in New York. He used to say frankly that he was ashamed of the sensational newspaper which payed him the largest salary received by any editor in the metropolis, but he had made a stu- pendous success of that newspaper on its own lines. He had met Cora Benham at the house of a woman who was faithful to her old friends whether they poured riches at the feet of New York society or not. Since the night he had taken the Southern belle in to dinner he had called on her daily, and although she had too much tact to show in the presence of her other adorers her decided preference for his society, she man- aged to be alone when he called. To-night she had given up a bal‘ for his sake, But when Bridges entered he made no apology. His handsome face was brilliant with eagerness and even his big frame, made for repose, was manifestly under the control of his nerves. He was often rest- less, but to-night something seemed on the point of bursting through him. Miss Ben- ham was interested and self-forgetful at once. ) “] was afraid something had happened to you,”” she murmured in her sympathetic voice. “Take that chair—it is so comfort- able. I see that something extraordinary has happened. Do tell me about it—that is, if you care to, and if I could understand it’— “What couldn't a man talk to you about? And what couldn’t you understand? By the way, there is a telephone in this house, jsn’t there?’ “Aunt has one in the upper hall.’’ “} was sure of it, or I shouldn't have ventured to come, even to see you.” He had thrown himself into the deep chair, but risen almost immediately and was walking rapidly up and down the room. “What is it? I wish L could even guess. Have you had right good news about some- Are you going to be sent abroad as Asgbassador? You ought to be’— “ dear, dear, it is nothing so personal as that; but It is magnificent all the same. That is, if it is true; and our men are pretty reliable. A report has come over the wire that the Blue Star liner Superbus has gone to pieces just off the Irish coast in a thick snowstorm, and that the few people saved—mostly women—are climbing hand over hand up a perpendicular cliff in their night clothes’’ (Miss Benham had sprung to her feet. “How awful!’ she gasped. “How awful! ~Je there any one on board you know? No Wonder you are excited. Oh, I wish I could do something. Delicate women are climbing a perpendicular cliff in a storm at this very moment! Do you suppose some one hase gone to their assistance—is helping them now ?"’ He strode over to the door, lifted aside thé portiere, and listened intently. “I thought I heard the telephone,” said. Her brow, which had been puckered with distress, cleared suddenly. “You said there was just a hope that it might not be true!’ she exclaimed. “Don't suggest such a thing!’ cried Bridges. “‘We haven't had a story like that for months. It’s magnificent. What a Scene! Cannot you picture it? The wild Irish coast, boats fighting their way through the roaring breakers, those women in their night clothes in a driving snow- storm clinging to that steep, bristling cliff why, there were half a dozen fashionable New York women on board, and the woman of the English peerage that I know of. My God—forgive me, but it is one of the most striking things we have had for months and months'’—— He caught her eye and paused. Her face Was white. She was staring at him, and the customary generous measure of sym- he pathy and approval] had fied from her ex- tended eyes. “Do you mean to say,” she said—her breath was labored—‘‘that you are glad, that you exult in that terrible accident, in the agony of those poor, delicate women?” “Of course not, of course not! I would not step on a worm; but so long as it has to be—is actually happening—can’t you see? It is all magnificently dramatic. It leaps Straight to my news sense and grips it. I am an old warhorse, you know. The scent of big news makes my very nostrils quiver.”’ “I am shocked,” she said. She turned her back upon him and walked over to the fire. “I have neither the ability nor the decire to put myself at your point of view Do you realize that those women are in terrible agony of mind and tbody that they are freezing in a enow storm, and expect- ing every moment to be their last? You are a heartless brute!’’ She brought out her last words with such vehemence that he was at her side in an instant. “I am not a brute,” he said. “Il swear that I am not. If I eouid hasten those women into safety I would, and make them forget what they’d gone through in the bargain; but newspaper men have a sixth sense, which for the time being——” “You would hurry them to the end of the scene, but you would simply hate to hear that the whole story was a hoax, and that the ship was safely out at sea. Is not that true. “Well, yes,”"’ He laughed. “I believe it is. I am afraid I am quite demoralized: excit- ing episodes, which mean big news, are the very breath of life to me. Remember, we are all the result of our conditions. Fate drove me into journalism, If I were not on fire over this episode I should be second rate. This is the only defense I can make. You are so sympathetic—you understand a man by intuition. But of course this is a new world to you, this world of journalism in its extreme modern phase. and you will have to study it out a little. When you have I am sure you will exonerate me; especial- ly when I tell you that I hate it. because it is antagonistic to every inherited instinct; and love it because it has become second mature. And remember that there is only one thing better than being supremely good, and that is to be supremely natural. may not approach the ideal you have cherished in your old-fash‘oned, high-toned South, but at least I am myself. I make no pretensions. Let that plead for me. Re- member, also, that the true philosophy of life is to take people as you find them, and not to insist upon their being like somebody else.” He had touched her in a vulnerable spot, and she looked at him with less resentment. But she shook her head. “My sympathies may ‘be quick,”’ she said. “I think they aré; and I have had only ad- miration for you heretofore; but, as you éay, I must study this out. And I cannot begin my course until I know that the poor creatures hanging to that cliff are safe.’’ “I'll return to the office at once and tele- phone you as the news comes in. There is no use for me to say any more now, and— I shall not come here again until you send for me. I simply cannot face that change in your eyes. They look like flint, and usually * * * Well, you have succeeded in blunt- ing my news sense for once; I have prac- tically forgotten the office for the last 10 minutes, I must go now. Good-night.” “Good-night.’’ But she did not turn her head again nor hold out her hand. CHAPTER Il. HE messages which travelled between 12 the editorial rooms of the New York Eye and Murray Hill that night were very unsatisfactory, and the startling head- lines of the great daily merely asserted next morning that the ladies were etill climbing the cliff. However, at 10 o'clock Mr. Bridges’ deputy was able to assure Miss Benham that all who had escaped from the ship had reached level ground and were being properly cared for. When Cora recovered from the shock and the suspense, she unlocked her top drawer and took out a minature bookcase containing eome DBD tiny volumes. Each volume was inscribed with the name of an ornament to the sex which did her homage, and the leaves were covered witb written characters. She removed the one Inscribed Maynard Bridges and wrote in it as follows: “Journalism has developed a sixth sense (yclept news sense), which is undermining civilization while apparently developing it; Me Ha BY ee badd fF Wy) JOE AUUEL Why, “ The Ergograph With a Chart Showing the Diminution in 10 Minutes of a Man’s Strength as the Machine Recorded I'. n wap,” ah a HE ergoaraph, an ‘nstrument ‘i tells when and why children ' which are t'red, when they have studied as long ) es their health permits and what studies ‘et they should have at certain hours of the day, hes been Introduced into public ac hools educttors the country over are eagerly gwenine the deductions which shall be ee » a © exrograph is one of the things of a forefathers never dreamed, It or Mosse, an Itallan ‘ we Ee eth ie: Fr evso pal. Wee Pi we * =" me ee citer " he é © " ir ted “ 7 J 4 , - genius, and its especial function is to de- cide when the teacher is overworking the pupil and when the pupil is getting the best of the teacher. Its introduction in Chicago is going to be much easier than its introduction into some parts of Mis- sour! Signor Moseo made the first tests with the ergograph at Turin in 1892. Prof. Lom- bard, of the Untversity of Michigan, was in Kurope last summer and heard of the instrument. He liked the idea, and de- os ot ee Vik OR care ie bn erie S202 Fs ; ' ae ee » ir, x i Ary have come to the conclusion that I should; for, despite the repellant force, I was fascinated by his brains, his magnetism and bis delightful manners—which he owes to his Southern blood; his mother was a Maynard. Am I safe now? That is the question. If not, I must go staright home, instead of going to Bar Harbor—for we are to visit at the same houses there! The more I think of it the more I feel sure that I could not marry a man who is dom- inated by an artificial and revolting in- stinct; I should feel as if I were living with a sort of modern Frankenstein.” A few days later she wrote again: “T have decided ta let matters take their course. As we are leaving town at once I should.not see him here again in any case. ‘We shall meet at Bar Harbor, but *@¢ «a? A 7 ‘ ae b > s/s: 45> ow “ “1 UV“ 4 tl ma \* 4 “eee © 2 = - os . 4% +?” . >. . “She had too much tact to show, in the presence of other admirers, her preference for his society.” for its votaries when off guard are nearly more nor less than savages. Query: Should a journalist be considered as a Serious subject for matrimony, or merely as a specimen, a novelty, interesting pour passer le temps? I must dispose of this point before I can make up my mind whetherI shall see Maynard Bridges again. He both atrracted and repelled me from the first, but until last night all my efforts to analyze his peculiar personality were futile. Now, however, I understand; he is simply an abnormal! development, a helpless vic- tim of this modern monster. “If Tl had not had this truly hideous revel- ation, should I have loved and married him? I am now quite positive that hereafter he will merely interest me as a curiosity.” CHAPTER Ill. | there HEY met in Bar Harbor in July; and, as ‘both were people of the world; was nothing in their manner; even when alone, to suggest that a few weeks before they had been on the brink of matrimony. Nevertheless, for Miss Ben- ham to resist flirting with an interesting man would have been as easy as to pinch to death the jolie de vivre, and Maynard Bridges was interesting as ever. In fact, he was distinctly the most interesting man at Bar Harbor, particularly—she made as faculties the more effectually. If he would tear it up by the roots I would marry him to-morrow—at least I think I would.” One morning they ran their canoe into the cove of a small island and wandered about in. the shade. They were quite alone. Sullivan, on their right, with its solitary street, might have been an ab- andoned village awaiting its poet. “Just think!" exclaimed Cora, “Sullivan is two hundred years old, and has never had a church—a New England village at that!’’ “I am going to marry you,” said Bridges, by way of reply. He was smoking, his tones were unimpassioned, and he was After referring to previous entries I this discovery suddenly, a week after his looking at her with eyes in which there > But she answered vehemently: “Indeed you are not! Do not fancy I a chit of a girl to be captured o a by a ‘masterful’ man. Iam twenty-f I long since learned to use my and to balance it against my—wishes. I would not marry you—not if I never married.” “Then you will never marry,” he replied cooly. “For you love me. You belong to the old-fashioned Southern type that would go through life cherishing an unfortunate attachment rather than seek and compensation in a brilliant match, of course you could go on being «@ belle, but I doubt if you’d care about it. De you like the prospect of the alternative?’ “Anything would be better than marry- ing a man that I could nto possibly be happy with.” | . She was so accustomed to dealing men in their proposing moods hat ahe was quite herself again. “You jump very nimbly to cornclusi that you could not be negieg: alle oo “I have given weeks to thinking it all out; of course I knew you would propose sooner or later; they always do, There is a terrible lack in you, and the origina) hu- man instinct which should be is re- placed by @ horrible faculty which you call the ‘news sense,’ and which certainly dwarfs all your others. I could never un- derstand you. Sympathy between us would be impossible. I should stifle,” “But you love me.” “I do not know,” she replied meditative- ly. “You attract me more—satisfy, in an elusive way, something in me—but it is only temporary. As Soom as I am at home this experience will seem quite like a dream.”’ “It will loom up and haunt you as the one real experience of your life. I prom- tse you that.” He flung away his cigar, and before she could guess his intention caught her in a close embrace and kissed her repeatedly. Ghe struggled out of his arms and sprang to her feet. “Take me home this instant!” she gasped. “How dared you! Have you no respect for women up here? I hate you. If you had been brought up in the South”’—— “Hang the South!” cried Bridges, with blazing eyes. “I am going to marry you— do you understand? I haven't a half dozen failures to my account in all the forty years of my life—and_ those are too insignificant to remember. What is more. F never wanted anything that journalism could give me as much as I want you—and that is saying more than you can appreciate now. Journalism in New York is like a concert in Burope—a combination of superficial Dlance in thought and motives and watchful ha- tred. Come, Let us go back, CHAPTER IV. HE kept her room for two days, Her first instinct had been for prec‘pitate flight, for she was terrified. Her only reason for dismissing the idea was the as- surance that Bridges would follow her. There was no getting the best of a man like that except by standing up to him. Her un- cle had told her that he was the greatest tyrant in American journalism, that the Eye reporters held him in terror, although they appreciated the advantage of working for a master mind that saved them much thinking. He loved her, of course; but she was no queen to him; he was too hard and practical; too self-centered and ambitious to spend his life on the steps of a throne. She resented this attitude with all the ac- cumulated arrogance of long years of easy conquests. Then she reflected that, by all the laws of romance, she should be madly in love with this masterful being, whom she could not dominate, who had not even taken the trouble to propose to her, and who loomed before her six feet one and as sure as fate. But she was a woman of high and rather romantic ideas. He did not ap- peal to her imagination in the least. She kept her room because she wished to consider the question in all its aspects, and afrive at a definite conclusion before she met him again. At the close of the second day she wrote as follows in the lit- tle volume which bore his name: “TI am sure now that it is a pure ques- tion of personal magnetism. Hia influence on my mind invariably recedes with the accumulation of hours between us, That means that I have no sentiment for him, for if I had I should love him more when we were parted. I have now decided once for all. I will not marry him. I have a premonition that the wretch will be harder than I anticipate at present—my brain feels worn out just now—and that I shall be on the point of sending for him again and again. If I don’t love him I am closer to love than I’ve been before because he has awakened fully two-thirds of me. But I shall be worse than a fool if I deliberately put out the light that has steadily grown in my ‘brain, and which I have so carefully tended. If I wait long enough I shall find everything; or if I do not, better a thous- and times to live alone with one’s ideals.” There was a ball that night, and she was engaged for every dance. It would be cowardly to excuse herself further, al- though she would have been glad to go to bed. The house where the ball was to be ; ae ¢ SS ie ee v *> = : bY 4 ara Bridges Was still in Bar Harbor. She was surrounded as soon as she en- tered the room, vuut Bridges was not pres- ent, nor did he appear later. The room Overlooked the water, and she could hear the roar of the ocean high a! >ve the music. Toward midnight the room Secame in- sufferably hot and her head was dizzy with fatigue. She commanded her partner of the Moment to take her to the dressing-rocomj; then slipped out to the balcony. The rain had ceased, the moon was out; the Atlantic se@med hurling itself over the bar. She turned her back on the whirling figures be- hind the widnows and determined to remain there until it was time to go home, or until Maynard Bridges found her. As she stood under a lantern she faced @ man who lay in a long chair just be- hind the next pillar. He rose in a moment and came forward. “You are very pale,” he sald. “I have been thinking for two days, and I have decided once for all. 1 shal. not marry you." Her voice, her manner, were convincing. “Very well,” he said, politely. She stole a swift glance through her eyé@- lashes. He had his hands tin his pockets and was gazing out upon the tossing bay. Hle looked as if he, too, had been thinke- ing and was tired of it. “I wish you'd take me éut in a. boat.” she said, abruptly. “Are you quite mad?” “If Iam not afraid 1 do not know why you should be. You are as strong as @ lion, and you can manage anything on the water.’ ‘Very well; come along.” She followed him down the steps of the cliff to the boat house. “Will you punt?” he asked, dryly. “Or do you think a sail would be safer?” “I want the row boat, of course,” sh@ said, thrilling with the wilklest sense of freedom she had ever known, fer the great wind was in her hair and lungs. He launched the boat without difficulty in the sheltered little cove, and rowed with swift, long strokes cut to sea. “Of course, I did not mean to leave the bay,” she cried. “I am going out,” he replied, shortly. She shrugged her shoulders. Ten minutes later she went through the various stages of terror, resignation and exaltation. The huge waves seemed ciimbing over each other in thefr efforts to engulf the boat. At times it struggled between the crush- ing wall of the great canons of the sea, only to climb up to the dizzy eminence of a wave, whose height in that roaring mon- lit darkness recalled the terrible tidal waves that have done such good service in letters; then shot down cnce more inte the void. More than once the boat was twisted about as if it had been a stich in a whirlpool; but Gridges righted it and guided it on with no apparent effort. Suddenly he leaned forward and shoutéd to her: ; “Do you know why I brought you here? Yesterday I should have egaid that I was too modern for this sort of thing; but I am a savage in the wilderness at the pres- ent moment. Will you marry me?” “What ehall you do if I say no?’ “Tip you over. And leave you. I can swim back.” He did not mean a word of it. A man had said of him once that he owed at least half of his success to his supreme skill in the great national game of bluff. But in the cold moonlight, againet those black, hisging walls, bie yoica 1 wind, his eyes hard as tron in white face, he defied analysis, and she his words as final and swayed from side to side with a hard sob, and he, thinking she had yielded, glanced about for a chance to turn the boat. But in another momen? she was sitting erect with her arms held rigid before her. “Do your worst,” she said. “That is as good a solution as any.” ‘Then you do not deny any longer that she said. “I love n, but in a ps. “Very well, then,” yOrek re!” the cried ; @ care! e shrill, high voice. d overturned the boat with a wild lurch. He stru led toward her. She thrust out her h s as if to warn a ower, vedere ye but caught im about the nec nstead, ~—"S go!" he gasped, as they were flun upon the back of another wave, and anothe came roaring at thems, ut of ee bats talion behind. “Let £9, aa, | though he struggled to free himself he knew that no owt cours Sys in ae geea. and before the wave & - gulted them he put his arms closely about er When the thousand and one conjectures had run their course ple gradually set- tled down to the belief that Bridges, for reasons best known to himeelf, had pur- suaded Cora Benham to elope with and had taken her straight to some ou + the-way place in Europe. But as the weeks grew into months, anc the months ro _ out the year, and no word came from the fugitives, not even to Bridges bankers, eople reverted to the first startling theory, nduced by the drifting, overturned boat; and to-day the people of Mount Desert point to various spots on the bay and assure you that beneath He the Southern belle In her white frock and her diamonds, and the man whose dominant will had mast fate wn that other men had brought them- —— to believe tn his death. a tant] selves reluctegERTRUDE ATHERTON. mm amma OL CHILDREN TESTED BY THE ERGOGRAPH. termined to bring an ergograph to the United States. The instrument was turned over to Dr. Christopher, a member of the Chicago Board of Education, and the first tests with it were made last week at the Alcott school, which was chosen because eocial conditions in that district are thought to better represent the normal. The school children of the district are well-fed and well-dressed, and they are of neither the rich nor the poor element, belong es- psychology which bases its theories practical experi- ment and investigation. It is simple in its mechanism and the methods of its opera- tion. The test of strength ‘s made upon the theory that the stenmgth of one muscle is representative of the etrength of all muscles of the body, and the middle finger of the dexterous hand of the pupil is tested The hand is laid in a rest securely that only Signor Moasso'’s instruments sent‘ally to the new upon by the machine. and strapped there the middle finger can be moved. The un- secured finger is then hooked into a loop or little ring upon the end of a cord. The cord is attached to a lever upon a little mechanical carriage, and when the finger is closed the cord ywlls upon the lever and shifts the carriage slightly, the record of the shaft being a curved lead pencil mark upon the paper of a little cylinder. A metronome, a contrivance which marks the intervals in which the finger is closed, pre- sO the mo- finger is the desired regularity in When the muscle of the exerted it can easily move the car- and leave from the stylus a nice but as the finger tires the shift of the carriage grows shorter and finally ceases altogether. A certain number of strong pulls and good curves indicates nor- mal energy in the pupil and anything above or below indicates either abnormal energy or exhaustion. Signor Moseo con- tends that when a test with the ergograph ehows the pupil, after studying so many hours of the day, to be in a state of par- tial or complete exhaustion, he has studied as long as h's health will permit. He also contends that these tests will show at what hours of the day the pupils are strongest and most capable of working with their hardest lessons. If arithmetic, for in- stance tires the pupils more than any of the other studies, it should be given at that time of the day when the ergograph tests show the pupils to be in the highest state of physical strength. A record, called the ergogram, made of the amount of effort expended in suc- cessive movements. In the beginning the lines are usually long, Dut aa the operator tires, they become shorter and shorter, until they cease to be at all. This process is not systematic and regular, however, for there are spasmodic efforts every now and then to exert the initia! force. An improve- serves tions. first riage curve, is ment has been made upon Prof. Mossos machine by adding a tape, which measures in Kilometers the total exertion of force in five, ten, twenty or any given number of pulls upon the record. To make schoolroom tests with the ecrgo- graph practical and valuable they must be made often and under varying conditions for a prolonged period of time. Physical and mental conditions vary at different times of the day, and from one day to an* other. To get at the temperament and the normal as well as the accidental condition of the pupil he should have a test early in the morning before he has begun his day's work. After that he should have one every hour. if possible, to determine the effect of his various occupations, These teste should be made several times a week, and the rec- ords kept for comparison. The difficulty tn applying this principle in public school classes lies in the number and mixed character of the pupliis composing them. Willie's ergogram at the close of the geography recitation may show him to be in a deplorably fatigued condition, while Harry, who likes geography, will have been so stimulated that his curves will be etrong and numerous. Between these two there will be all dorts and degrees of fatigue as proved by the ergograph. In privaie school, where. the classes are small enough to consider the individual, it will be an easier matter to classify the pupils according to their ergograms, and this will prove another argument in favor of emall classes, in regard to which so much is being said but so little done, owing to the overcrowded condition of most pub- lic schools. » Jt is not probable that the ergograph will attain to any degree of the children, for with its indisputable rec- ords it will be impossible for the boy or girl who has an aversion for labor to plead fatigue as a reason for not doing his or her whole duty. “You are too tired, Katy, to study your lesson for to-morrow?” the teacher will say. “Well, let me see. Come and try the ergograph. Oh, you are all right. You may think you are tired, but you are not.”’ Or Johnny may want to play an hour longer, and vows that he isn't the least bit tired. “All right, Johnny. ‘Take hold of the ergograph.” Johnny pulls hard and pro- duces one or two fair curves, then they fluctuate, and, work as he will, he can't keep it up. “There, you eee, you are really tired out You cannot play any longer,” is the decree based upon the Wwerdict of the ergogram, and Johnny sorrowfully yields, wishing 1a his heart that the machine had never been invented, Dr. Christopher, the chief eupporter of the scheme to introduce the ergograph into the public schools, says that many children of from 8 to 11 years who are brought to him have dilated hearts, and are weak on that account. He thinks they are aften given more physical exercise in the schools than the strength of their circulation at that time will warrant, and that they do not get enough blood for their brains in proportion, owing to the great requirements of the body. At the same time he thinke that, betoming easily fatigued at that period, they often, through overexercise, acquire physical defects which persist through life. The experiments which the ing under his if so, whether a way can de found to obd- viate it. : Cc. Victor Campbell and Frederick W. Smedley of the Chicago University will make ecientific observations on the work he Chicago schools, and If the expe ri- = prove euccesstl will assiat in are ranging the physical exercises and to @ certain extent the studies allotted to the is of the recorded ergo- children on the basis o cott @chool will ams. The tests at the Al c continued until June, when the records be averaged and deductions made. ‘. addition to the ergographic tests others are to be made with It. An audiometer tests the hearing of the pupils, and their eye- sight is to be tested. A gripping machine ves a record of their muscular atrength. he reports upon three of the pupils ex- amined at the Chicago echoo! are attached, The explain the purport of the tests and results: — pe This was found far below the average in hearing. He had been seated in the rear of the room, Was considered “dull,” and all because he could not hear what was said. Will be given & front seat, and is expected to improve in scholarship. Case 2—~The ergoaraph record shows areat nervousness and jack of control over the muscles. Fatigue set in early, and the pre- acribed school work may be found danger- ous. He will be examined further and the cause of his trouble determ ned. Case 3.—Ergograph record indicated nerve ousness. Hearing extremely acute This may cause hie lack of attention, datracted as he ia by hearing sounds not perceptible to ordinary ears. 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” ae te ’ z a8 ~ * 2 : r “ oe.) : e 7 ; ; Py =e M le . * = a4 n ~ A “ * 4 . au % Tad aS mp eee Che OR itle 2 er 4 at RTO ee as ers oer, ae EAR Sect Beata: oie c " Le Hats s 5 tt. ee “ _ af! *? . fia, ar ; ,- af 7 > r x i cm — : ¢ as -¥ mt ae ~ SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS POST.DISPATCH—MARCH cas 189¢ eit — -- —— Te ee ‘WITH LADY CURZON. Ce ee ee a fia seeeeerteaseees ON LADY CURZON. # S GI R fey! oh Spleen ae = ak | i ne HE Imperial Order of the Crown BREE IN INDI i ay A, of India was recently cofie The Installation of the Viceriene in the Government House at Calcutta Described by a Special Commissioner of the Sunday Post-Dispatch, (From the Post-Diepatch Special Correspondent @—9@—@—~~6 i who accompanied Lord and Lady Ourzon from a Marseilles to India.) Lady Curzon’s Message to Amer CALCUTTA, Jan, 16. ican Readers Through the OR one week the new Vicereine of In- Post-Dispatch Corre- dia, the American girl who was Miss spondent. : 4 Re sg , a. k., Sats a a * a ~ } ; 7th D2 ea gens * “~~ ferred upon Lady Curzon by Queen Victoria. This order was in- stituted by Her Majesty Jan. 1. 187% to commemorate her assumption of “ KS imperial’ title, “Empress of Ine * « hse VINE Rage Pree at : ‘ Pty eA ’ he Queen Is Grand Mistress ¥ eK Oo and Lady Curzon f# the Gith mem- ber. The order includes princesses of he royal house. es of Indien Princes and othe lental digenitae- ries and the Viceroy of India. .o 4 OO Oe - ~ It is flattering, and a bit amusing, s * J to read what a native Indian paper has to say of Her Ladyship. “ In the article Lady Curzon t« Nk- ened to “a diamond set in gold. or : VO, q the full moon tn a clear autumnal yf ‘Ky. Her teeth are Like pearls; her * ~ a . » J waist is beautifully slender: her well- “Thank : ee ae ow eee Se FR | we shaped head, with its black hatr, is you, and thank al]! my : ae ie ‘ , te : ‘i Ja eee m. xs beautifully placed upon her swan- riends, I appreciate their good ": Bh ete gk id :. £ Qo > Aes Ai. o~ like neck; her eyes are not dark, nel- wishes. I have been much touched : ' e » ove ) ae? Fr SE * 4 “3 & ios = { ther are they tinged with red, their by the many kind mdesenmes whicl ‘ | | > ae = color ils rather handsomely purple, have reached me, which are al~ ing with intelligence: her neck i ing with intelligence; her neck is way Ss w elcome. I wish én: o safe , : : ‘ ee = ; # : “? a a voice resembles the voice of the ing Viceroy. try. SP Ed PS ORE i oS Qo BR RES RG SS SORE 3, # — es cuckoo.” The ceremony of tho “‘assumption of of- ‘ Fee ee «ed Ack SS : : ASS Sis ote tlleabinen we ) Gce”’ hy Lord Curzon was picturesque and *®—®—®—*®—?®-—0—0—e—o—»—_»—__»—__»_@ ss Leiter of Chicago, has been installed in her new empire. Although Lord and Lady Curzon have been in India since the Bth of December, they did not take formal possession of the Viceregal throne until the 5th of January, «ee 3 AP) : nS ; ere Si estaiin ~ Pa reskees a IW Ri ea eon Ah ah Le as & = .% ne a cities” a5 soe ' cae s ee | SRT ety cy at. ae 2 ‘ a ss ‘ reo ; ae , ? ae, : es S FRERRETE RHdRS : Wey ae — - | — & = = Re ose oes SSRI [ TRE THRONE, Room in, a ee >| : | ss ; : ” 2) RECEPTION oF LoD D Z i == GOVERNMENT HOUSE £ CY a THe EPTION oF LORD ano Lapy CURz an aires wt . > a flame instantly.” Mr. Gross, it will be remembered, is the +7 ° . : he int, Were > presentation f the Gascony lave rounded cheeks are noted for their foOt. 4! a cause of spontaneous combustion. Several ; ; ni , : ew Thus. if I were to look only to the point, ere pl oe , ' , — sand ge rt ep life will end many curs | ure the Ditit- (German insurance companies Ww ; av “*hicag “ey . leart before . . - . ; it . rs : m : : sy? nv ~ : tod to the matter of foreseeine and a: | mitted it to Mr. Palmer for consiceration, tate, sites r had 1 enmeteate with. ies bb a. an the line al inal ‘noel ’ ° he middle o the mass which was — —_— . : ec. Lie >; i i ; woul ot I ACL, ri‘ : . aac on : i | 7 of unve whil ' . . t 1) : furt) rT ) liming that \ir Palme r euonrit- . os . . = _ *’ "ee. 4 ee * . ‘ ao tea » a. . “7 . \ “ ae m = . composed of ons anal ve ene a beg an to te mpting to pre ven Mm in Some way ' it CLAMlIIMViie . , bys ause t . the A tt}. rical Cc; ‘ 1} IMMSISLe ‘ } a! sh ' The ‘ hin is aiso an important fa i) j inte T rence h , on are snatee grow hot In a week n eur] of light emoke (ine firm has host S000 in i ‘'rOp ires « Lused ~ the manuscr) ) Ml. ‘ tan : qT) t Ne , ,irea iy ta ke rn; ficl mt rium let ot j a t I rye i ore ‘ piaa . “mail eh n. we are assured. is A toke ti of re snd Seti: , . if t \ese aha “ ’ ; ia : ’ . A . . ; j ‘ij | T) . : > arose from the pile. Mr. Benesch, in order by the ever prevent and active bacteria. | the play as produ by ’ Sr , things i sufficientls covere completed, so mars cnet aren timidity and a flat chin of coldness we ind distinct ! numereus é : ‘ ; ie rid i: ei . t* . ' te ‘ . aPak dba || teas . . ’ 4 \¢ j - ; rié ; 7 to cool off the pile and sperse the vapors In America no attention has been given themselves with lory. to afford to leave wrote Cyrano aS not i ; a ithe other band. an angular chin is a s#.an cross each other tn -ectionsa we may me ee : ; . the result! | 7° : . > > a a! ‘ 7 . ' ’ i¥\ : » : ' , . , . had hie workmen dig down into the wenter to the matter ae this alone wapesccin e called here | as | of prudence and business = we fee] pretty onfide nt et the owner of the mass and let in the air. When they Only the commonest precautions against The inquisition i ‘ ; p00] ‘ a¢ In explait ‘ 1 he had not copyrighte } cates of ev ery word and ‘ I es Ads | heavy, missive niin ss i ig? ri ‘ suuan veh heels wel span bite A te make t . ‘ " " ‘ sis 3 ™ . : ie — *i ; ,7 ' . reached the center flames burat out on all fire are taken in this eoul try. Anything . Fre nch author ai not alc a indly } ie play in fran . . he lI nited States, otherwise ] should have hae . . : ness and of a determ nation : mt way ” of ‘t almeet any bustpeee : : , in i” + , ; ! Lote Ne ge , rh "dle ‘ _ mr } *T) , sides. and in 20 seconds the immense mass Which burns Within a haif mile i ati- | questioning of the I: e1 7 ught M. Rostand sa! MATRA! BESS St tHe tm at nothing tn order to gain | prof ich they may &¥e thele | of heated vegejation was & glowing fur- roa supposed to have been consume out his life history at hi ethol “Copyr.gbt coes not exist In France, bt ost: nsw dd. rney : Thin lips are a s'g arice and Ips " Very versat'le ate stich pete ni aa ’ ire started by al » i | i ‘ . P ‘ , , . . . on : ; , —_ hliisher ’ " . pce aber the . Lp - — a : " a , tvs] Ys " r and mime t mr oo a >t to be ome * ace. Consequentiv «w er , making plas: peor ' al al , aot , — oe og Py eee “ a ERM 4 ' - " ~— : ' 1m ! A iat near Aulnay Ous is, in rs ' than “ rt ; afa and * domes! ty wives and ty) the Ys are 7 ’ v leary e emi-drunken ck} is knock«d 1 ) sah’ ve Me 4 «ag orca of ' on ' : — _ mainity known by thie line. On the ota ane all of thie®eiul Was «itt »pwooen Noue ij . @ ; ie nine . eo of the hake Wer 7 nas : , . and ; thors . , ‘ ait expens: f uM : 2% re«i i>. noses are found in} : 1) | ‘ + ; ' : hha red. armativene 24 t« ade noted hy (the ame or stacked. A writer in La Nature sags ra ftenmer Makee port with the veretab mn ' . toh ae. ut in infrinzer.”’ . world.” ith ‘s twice ; ong as hie «3 ; f light Mine in the center of the eae. and “The microbes that exist in ail of these conten is ‘¢ her hold oe or wry la : | tonishing — f tter in telling about the transfer of the Amer- ‘ontinued questioning failed to bring ot{| not born an kKiLot, surely become an .m- ee Bt the sarenger 98s A tow jerome . ss : ae PTE as a , . siete ; : 5 > . is . ’ . : ’ -_ ? a . ~ Vegetable mattors. sets d by the conta ' cole aie to 1 ~ Boo Af omen + ing , a aowne- | position , 7 wat which. were ican righis of the peer tu Mansfeld, the : ‘ . Rostiund knew be: Eng’ sh tlan- beelle souner or iater in life. Moreover, P love only ane. and w Pree of water vapot. grow end increase rapids deoppl.g spark is published as the w. Ucy- enowh In Mrance. would et everytody French writer says: “As I bad no copy- guage or that he was iniimate with anyjarched eyebrows are not desirable, fot fore - canpot well be o Their bats: allots yt hea for the attack on Une ins; ag. Mt. a ike , ; States, 1 could not make Englishmen or Amer.cané. though they may add some beauty te the of the a laughing indignation. Aad be right iu the United States, i oe : Rt dae pape fiver, ween What about the aly pantie’. vr excite “+ ‘s 4 =e ee ee ; ; . : ' a , { ye ane y gap SES Ms tea’ ~~ ; ‘ , “ 5 re Pe! Ss es > ee Se oe Ft eho : SERN # yg 5” Pe 8 : ” he wrote “Cyrano de ‘ + ; : fa - : ig ; aoa, ee ae he , ‘Ne Xe , 2s a, ae Se ie. teal “8 : te ;: iin pine ak ats: » ee s Z a . 2 iC, r , » - © ; ey .¥ 2 Aon: Se ee ae? Eh Ay ] 2 eed ‘ = ee Ens oe oe . _ , . : eh ity ve ~~

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co Jow in the world; “hats wife, NS PD Re: vaY et id ‘ nia: a eet a RN Ie ip Pty r ar ¥ ae ie +) the +4¢ ter x ‘ast Roig Be: og Ve ot " sere in Se Fs ye wv ee = ; " Pi — ve oat 2s ee one , Ba 5 i ims, Br ctiacs 5 Ba es - ae . eins Sit 3 ’ . a - : es? PELOS. Chee PE ery yirter ; : 7 eee fas > ¥s ee: peta Sa Diy F = a Slat SA. deg mee SUNDAY MORNING—ST. line havea (CH—MAKCH “y is s. 2 Oe Sree ae is 1 > ey ae D ‘ eo . Sa 7 IESE f° 3 . ~o yr. 7. a he se mats ee x es ~ ab nape tae 2 Fo Pee = He Is Vigorously Defended be by Hallie Erminie Rives. OL. JACK CHINN, typical Kentuck- lan, bowle knife expert, hero of a score of desperate fights and etarter of a thousand horse races and one of the most unique characters of the South, has been declared a nuisance by the grand jury of Fayette County, Kentucky, arrested under an indictment, which says: “That the said J. P. Chinn, on the i3th f March, 1899, in the county aforesaid, did Uniawfully and willfully, in the Phenix Hotel, a public hotel and place in the city of Lexington, Ky., hearing of divers and numerous good citl- gens of the Commonwealth, use loud, fane, indecent and obscene language, with the intent to provoke an assault, and did greatly disturb and by using riotous, tumultuous and offensive lan- and and in the presence and pro- break the peace Buage and conduct and carriage, and did, in an abusive, indecent, profane, Joud and boisterous manner quarrel with and threat- en and challenge one C. J. Bronson to arm himself and engage in mortal combat in said public place, and did thereby and for a long peried of time cause large crowds of persons to congregate in said hotel and on the streets in front of and adjacent thereto, to the common nuisance, annoy- ance and disturbance of all persons present and all persons residing in and about said hotel, and all persons passing and repass- ing in front of or through or near said hotel and in the streets in the vicinity thereof, and of all good citizens of the Commonwealth.” The people who know Jack Chinn—and they are a considerable portion of the peo- ple of the country—know just about what he said when he saw the letter of this in- dictment. For Col. Chinn, as even his best friends will relate, can cuss to beat—— Well, he can cuss to beat anything anybody ever heard. When he gete mad he only stops cussing to take a fresh order of a long home-grown tobacco he carrics, and to spit particles of tobacco juice that would float @ duck. These things, of course, and especially the plain talk In the indictment, leave the inference that Col. Chinn is a very bad and wicked man and that he really is a Nuisance. But the Colonel has a world of friends who say he ia nothing of the sort; that he is the best and biggest-hearted fel- that he is full of good- fellowship and good intent, and that of all the times he has wielded his terrible knife he has ‘done it in defense of the honor of some one incapable of self defense. The trouble at Lexington bears them out in this. The Colonel and Senator Bronson, though good friends in former days, had fallen out. Bronson had been employed as attorney by some one who had a claim @gainst Chinn, and Bronson alleged that Chinn had transferred all his property ito and that Mrs. Chinn, by accept- ing the property under such conditions, was guilty of dishonesty. Bronson’s declaration reached the ears of Col. Chinn, and the Colonel.tore his hair, cussed as he had never cuseed before, whetted this long knife and went hunting Bronson. He found him at a hotel, and what happened there within the next few minutes is intimated by the grand jury's indictment to have been something very terrentiai and fearful. The Colonel, who is mo coward and would scorn to lay his knife to a defenseless man, demanded of the Sen- ator, as the chivalric of the old were wont to do, that he defend himself and hustle | INDICTED ed ey q ' \\e i COL. JACK CHINN. around and get his gun, his lance or what- ever he intended te,fight with. Bronson's flight was precipitate—straight up the ele- vator, and when he had been gone longer than the Colonel thought necessary to .pick up his shield and sledge, and finally did not come at all, the old knife-fighter paced the hotel cerridor, latticed the air with nig thirsty blade and fuened and belched forth such a torrent of wrath that those who heurd will always think of him as a vol- cano of cuss words. Col. Chinn ts fully 60, two inches under six feet and very fat, very plain, very pompous and good natured. His face is handsome. His legs are too slight to gracefully support his huge frame. He is as big at the girth as Old King Cole, and as broad across the shoulders as the Philis- tine Goliath. Hoe wears boots, carries his knife with him always, drinks plenty or Bourbon whisky, and thinks every other kind of beverage and liquor poisonous; , MISS RIVES. plays poker like a man learned to play poker in Kentuck when Jack Chinn was a youngster; bets on a horse race and cusses and hollers a whole lot while the ponies are getting around; tells funny stories, and Jaughs with an explosive guffaw, fignts at the drop of a hat, and never worries him+ self a bit about the examination he must pass on the judgment day—and such a crowd of men he has punched and cut go- ing to be there to knock him just as hard as they can. He is a Kentuckian, a knight laughing, rollicking, fighting, rough and gentile and good and bad char- acter, is Col. Chinn, and he says he has had his share of the fun and. fighting on earth, and don’t want anybody to feel sorry for him when he dies. He is a relic of the old days when a fellow.could cuss a fel- errant, @ fea! less, _ MRS. “FLORENCE ‘McVEAN’S, BEAUTY DESTROYED BY AN ENEMY. Continued From First Page of Magazine. Who addressed these scurrilous letters to Mre. McVean’” Who sent her the box of polsoned candy? Who threw the acid on her? Every force in St. Louls which could be expected to answer these questions has been brought to bear on the case, but with. out result. Here they are: Chief of Police Campbell; Chief of Detectives Desmond; Police Capt, Phillips; Detectives; Policemen; Bpecial policemen; Handwriting experts; Lawyers; Private detectives; United States postoffice inspectors; Mrs. McVean; Mra. Megraw, her mother; Miss Mary Megraw, her sister; Their friends; Newspaper reporters. All these have unearthed facts, studied conditions and formed theories, but every calculation has come to naught. The Mce- Vean letter-poisoning-acid mystery is still @s much of a mystery as it ever was. - These theories have been advanced: That Mre. McVean, widow, was in love with Dr. Frank A. Glasgow, bachelor: that ghe wrote the anonymous letters received by herself and him; that she denounced herself, hoping thereby to arouse friendly sympathy and perhaps affection in his breast, since “pity is akin to love,” and that, as a climax to months of letter writ- ing, she mailed to herself the box of pois- *oned candy. That Mre. McVean attempted to commit guildide: That her assailant was a man disguised ae a woman; That her assailant, if a woman, was ac- tuated by a jealous motive. What were the facts, or seeming facts, d by the police when they arrived )) St the conclusion that Mrs. Florence Mc- wv slandered herself and sent herseif i a eandy? Mrs, MeVean was in love or in- Log ~ catty ham, and that Mrs. McVean was acquainted with this fact. 3. That, being acquainted with this fact, Mrs. McVean was jealous of Miss Graham. 4. Thalt, being jealous, Mre. McVean ac- cused ‘Miss Graham of having sent her the letters and the poisoned candy. 5. That no evidence was found connecting Miss Graham with the case. 6. That Miss Henley positively identified Mrs, ‘(McVean, both by photograph and in person, as the woman to whom she sold the particular candy which the City Chem- ist found to be covered with arsenic. 7. That Miss Henley produced a visiting card on *~which was emgraved the hame “Mrs. F’ M. MoVean,” and on which. was written, in‘Mrs. McVean’'s hand, her present address. ; 8 That Mrs. McVean, while strenuously that she tad ever Henley, did not disclaim the 9. That the writting on the card tallied exactly with that on an envelope addressed by her to Dr. Glasgow. Ww. That Mrs. McVean, Chief Desmond to write her name dress, attempted to disguise her raphy 1l. That Mrs. McVean could offer no sat- isfactory explanation of why any person should make an atiempt on her life. 12. That all the letters were addressed to Mrs. McVean’'s former residence on Finney AV.; that the person who wrote them, knowing Mrs. McVean so well, must have known she wae residing on Cook ay. There- fore, Mrs. McVean addressed them to her former residence, to avert suspicion from herself, In like manner, concerning the acid throwing, members of the Polic& Depari- ment, who profess to belleve that Mrs. Mc- Vean threw the acid on herself, advance these reason: 1. That nobody witnessed the act. 2. That the police were never formally no- tified of the affair. 3. That members of the family communicative when visited by detectives. 4. That Mies Megraw could not state posi- tively, or even with a degree of accuracy, the me at which she started to the drug- miore last Tuesday evening. 6 That Dr. Lyda at first would not per- denying Miss seen card, when requested by and ad- chirog- were not police and + Dr. A COMMON NUISANCE. _ — —_ She Declares He Is a Gen- tlemen and the Soul of Honor, low all up and down Kentucky and never hear anything of grand juries. From the indictment found against him, it seems that the people who live around him—or somé of them, at least—regard him as a nuisance and a public menace, but there are people all over the United States and outside of Kentucky who believe him to be nothing of the kind. The women of the South, if what Hallie Drmine Rives says be true, regard him as the soul of honor and chiv- mah and Miss Rives has this to say of m: “I see that Col, Jack Chinn has drawn that bowle knife of his again, and I am not surprised to find that it is in his own de- fense or that of a woman. All loyal South- erners will be in sympathy with Col. Chinn in his defense of his wife and home. For what chivairy is there to thrill a man if this sacred duty is not performed? A Southern girl's idea of what constitutes a genuine Southern gentleman is, first of all, honor to woman, The man who wants to brand himself in every home as unworthy of his mother has only to be heard to speak deprecatingly of any woman. “It would be unjust to claim that he had no enemies, but his reputation is not that of a bravo or bully. He acts upon honest convictions and unflinching courage. Al- though he carries a bowie knife within grasp of his hand, {ft is not alone to be drawn in defense of himself, but of woman, He was never known to betray a friend. “As a type of the genuine Southern gen- tleman, whose heart is tender, whose chiv- alry is constant and whose courage is true, Col. Chinn stands all the measures of the test. “Upon one occasion this man was pres- ent at a stag banquet of a number of prom- inent political and financial officials. The host was leading his listeners through a bewlldering account of a monstrous scan- dal. The honor of one of the most distin- guished belles of that section was at stake. “At first he mentioned no names, but at length, when he had dwelt in a particularly offensive way upon the episode, he camc out with the girl's name as a striking cll- max to his story, congratulating himself upon how cleverly he had told it. What a catch must have come in his breath when the next second Col. Chinn flashed out hig knife as he said: “"That is a Ne: sne was not within a hundred miles of the place where you claim this happened! Take it back or it will be the last lie you ever tell on a woman!’ “Before the resolute, sinister face the other faltered and, coward that he was, shamefacedly confessed that he had a grudge against her for once rejecting his suit, and that it was true that he had no proof as to the authenticity of what he had just related. It had been told to him by some one—he bad forgotten who. He like- ly remembers the incident, however, for it defeated him for one of the best offices in the State. It turned out that Col, Chinn did not even know the woman, except by sight, but he had defended her upon gen- eral principles. The chance of having seen her at the Derby day in Louisville gave him the key to the falsehood that had her in another city at that particular time. “T could tell a dozen actions of his quite as splendid. Long ago the class of men who assail the good name of woman have learned to hold their tongues in the pres- ence of Jack Chinn. It is in the highest degree unlikely that people who Know the man as he is would believe a statement that he was ever cowardly or unjust to be anything but a preposterous libel upon an honest and deserving man.”’ Col. Chinn has a stock farm in Mercer County, Ky., and spends much of his time there. He has been worth a great deal of money at different times, but it is not known how much of it he has now. When he officiated as starter at the St. Louis Fair Grounds he got $100 a day for his HE beautiful Countess of Durham has come to life again—come to life again in the sense that she has been re- stored to her family and friends after almost 16 years of confinement in an asy- lum for the insane. Her life furnishes one of the saddest stories ever known in high lfe in Eng- land. Before her marriage she was one of the Misses Milner, and credited with being one of the most beautiful women in England. The Ear! of Durham was rich, but profil- gate. In 1883 Miss Milner was the belle of Yorkshire. At that time, although she did not love hic, pressure from parents and friends was brought to bear and she was induced to marry the rich earl. Within six months he became convinced that his wife was insane. She did not lve him. The Harl established the truth of this by an original experiment. To test her affec- tion he kissed another lady In her presence while in a brilliant party traveling to York- shire. By a singular coincidence the lady se- lected for this experiment was also very beautiful—the Countess de Gray, in fact— of Durham. but the Countess of Durham remained list- less. The others of the party agreed with Durham that his wife must be crazy, al- though one might as easily suppose that a proud woman would disdain to notice such an insult. Other “proofs” followed. Lady Durham ueed to evade her attend- ants and wander all day long in country lanes or London streets, returning late at night covered with mud, a pathetic, wild- eyed vision of beauty. So calmly beauti- ful was her Ophelia face that no one ever dared molest her upon these strange ex- cursions, and some would mutter a prayer for the unhappy lady as she passed in her shining, bedraggled robes. Next came the story of a strange scene in the Duke of Abercorn’s Hampden House. A brilliant ball was in progress; the great rooms were ablaze with lI'ght, thronged with merry dancers. None was more beau- tiful than Lady Durham, and none, sure- ly, so distraught. For a while she wan- dered about, staring with vacant eyes at the assembly. Then some thought, per- haps the coming of her customary retiring hour, prompted her to begin undressing az calmly as if she were in her own cham- ber. At least, that is the story. A group of ladies huddled about her and persuaded her to leave the room. She never appeared in public again. She was removed to an asylum, Public sympathy might have remained with the Earl, only for the fact that he filed sult for divorce. His petition was cast aside. And now comes forth from ther long re- tirement the beautiful Countess, as lovely THE COUNTESS OF DURHAM “AND. HER SAD as ever, her youth and beauty marvelously preserved by retirement and a placid life, perfectly sane and championed by her sis- ter, Lady Girard, and her brother, Henry ‘Milner, who married the late Duchess of Montrose. 2m aS 5 Me ‘ an MAN Her friends are saying ‘that she Nas never - been, properly speaking, | but only driven into profound melancholy by her unhappy marriage, by her husband's treat- ment and by the uncongenilal! character and conduct of his male and female friends. work, and he commanded a like salary at many of the principal tracks of the coun- try. The Colonel has his ideas of when a man ought and ought not to fight. He says: “A man should fight if he is attacked by a scrub; he should fight if the honor of his home is at stake; he should fight if a wo- man or a weaker man are being ‘put upon.’ l have followed that rule always and [ have done a lot more fighting for otner peo- ple than for myself. “I would never use it on a Gentlemen should never fight. settle their differences by a decent, gen- tlemanly kind of arbitration. But I would never let a scrub or fighter back me down. I would be ashamed to go home to my wife and say that a man was looking for me, when I had this knife about me,” and gentleman. They can mit anybody to see or talk with Mrs. Me- Vean 6. That there had been no report of any suspicious looking character haunting Mrs. McVean’'s house, 7. That, since the heads of departments had given it out six weeks before hat Mrs. McVean had sent obscene letters and poisoned candy to herself, it stood to reason that she would throw carbolic acid on her- self, either to arouse sympathy or to com- mit suicide. What favor? 1A general proposition, advocated by many wise men, students of human nature, is this: “‘No sane woman, whatever the clreumstances, will d6,-or permit-anything to be done, which would impair her beauty or make her in any Way less altractive in the eyes of one man in p: irticular or man- kind in general."’ Therefore, Mrs. McVean did not dash carbolic acid on herself. ® No reason is known why she should de- sire to end her life ® She would not commit such a deed in a moment of nervous frenzy, because she had been out of the city for several weeks visiting friends and recovering from the desperation to which she had been driven. 4. Unmistakable traces of carbolic acid were found on the ‘front porch of her residence. None were found inside the threshhold Had she desired to commit suicide she would hardly have gone out- side of the house. 5. Her mother plainly saw a fleeing figure, dressed as a woman when she ran to her daughter's assistance when she screamed. & When her mother reached her side, Mrs. McVean was on the porch. The backs of Mrs. McVean'’e hands (not the palms) and the backs of both forearms, as far as the elbow, were burnt by the acid. Had she poured ft on herseif, Lyda argues, she would have been compelled to hold the receptacle first in one hand and then in the other. The pain of this would have been so severe that no mortal could have endured it. & There Was no sane reason for desiring to disfigure her hands and arms, even had she desired to commit suicide. 8 When the police became skeptical of Mrs. McVean's condition, Dr. Lyda and «he family immediately ordered the bandages removed—painful as the operation was— 3 are the facts in Mrs. MecVean’'s 4: glk ee pet Ay MS a, ee pe ‘ “ ee SALE Ve eee . ae Tw: ae + e ae bes fore that, The whole card incident te to show that it was the act of another than Mrs, while Mra. cVean was a distant; two or more while she at home: and one this week By: least ten hours after she +. bu 6. She aid not ond. price A Woe man's beauty ie = po McVean. 5. One of the letters was mal was : helpless at the gay sroere whi she was known to be confined the terrible acid. She could not have writ- ten or malied mg ne without an ac ite destruction is her riv that try to theory. Let Gem: the great wrong t have noe nocent woman and fa segge oo 3 reasonable theory inspired — a nome eG 3 a eS eee Ps ie a ¥ 4 ? oid pa Ss x UA ae ae We ll ' : a - lll RII lag st eee oo

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They were convicted of the murder of Mrs. Sarah Wynn, at Brooklyn, on last Thanksgiving day. The evidence against them was wholly circumstantial. It was so strong and so convincing that on the first ballot the jury Biood six for hanging and six for life im- prisonment. But it was also so weak by reason solely of its circumstantial nature, that the six who were for hanging were easily won over by the six who wanted to spare the lives of the accused pair because of the possioility of their innocence, which no circumstantial evidence can ever wholly remove. The evidence against the accused was ekiifully brought out and arrayed in over- whelming force by Martin ID. Baker, the Btate’s Attorney of St. Clair County. Fred Hi. Kruger, aA promising young lawyer, comparatively new to the Belleville bar, made a valiant fight for his clients. The two lawyers have prepared for the Sunday Post-Dispatch the interesting arguments which follow: By State Attorney Martin D. Baker. To the Editor of Sunday Post-Dispatch. HE evidence upon which William and Lulu Lay were convicted of the mur- der of Mrs. Wynn was wholly cir- cumstantial, but it was complete and con- vincing as such. The chain was without a flaw. Suspicion was first drawn to the Lays im- Mediately after the finding of the body by the fact that they lived nearest to her in the same yard, in fact, and in a house owned by her. It was assumed from this fact that the Lays were probably better gituated to gain knowledge of Mrs. Wynn's hoard and have their cupid’ty aroused to the murderous point. It was considered im- probable that the murder could have been committed by another without the Lays hearing the struggle. It was also strange that the Lays, living In the same yard, had not gone to her house to see what was the matter when she did not appear during the two days preceding the finding of the body. The second fact was that Mrs. Wynn had been last seen in the company of the Lays, Ghe was seen in their house on the Thurs- day preceding the Thursday night when it is supposed she was murdered. These were merely circumstances from which inferences of guilt were drawn. @tanding alone they were not damaging cir- cumstances. But they grew in importance when it was learned that Lay had spent money with unwonted freedom ‘the day after the murder and they led to @ con- yiction.of.the Lays’ guilt when the knife with which the bloody deed was done was traced to the Lay household. When the body of Mrs. Wynn was found lying in her bare room a knife was found lying on the floor. It was covered with bloo There could be no doubt that it was the k with which the woman's throat had been cut. It was a case-knife, the blade of which had been worn thin by much grinding. The four inches of the blade remaining had an edge as keen as a razor. The handle was of black wood. It did not belong to Mrs, Wynn. This knife, it was then learned, and was shown by positive evidence at the trial of ' the case, had been sold to the Lays some time before by Nora Belle Viner. A visitor to the house a few days before had seen Lay use the knife in eating. After Lay tad been arrested on suspicion, Mrs, Lay, knowing that the knife with which the ‘crime had been committed was in the hands of the authorities, sent for Nora | Belle Viner and asked her if she had sold them such a knife. Mrs. Viner said she had and when Mar- shal Thomas brought the knife she iden- ‘@tified it as the one she had sold to the Lays, and Mrs. Lay did not deny it. She wave Nora Belle Viner 3% cents and Fequested her to say nothing about it. At the Lay house was found a black- died fork which was plainly the mate f the black-handled knife. The Lays ad- itted ownership of the fork. “When a more thorough search of the Lays’ house was made an undershirt was Yound from which parts of the sleeves had n cut. Lulu Lay admitted that she had een sleeping in the garment. it was tained with what appeared to be blood. mong a pile of rags on the floor the sev- d parts of the sleeves were found. They ere also stained with what appeared to »© blood. Lulu Lay admitted cutting the leeves from the garment. Dr. A. M. Kohl of Belleville made an ex- Pert chemical analysis of the stains on the shirt and on the sleeves He testified posi- vely that the stains were blood and the ood of a mammal. He could not swear that the mammal was human, but the de- fense failed to overcome this testimony by .epoons were contained. showing how the garment might have been fained by the blood of another mammal. the face of evidence that Lulu Lay had knowledged ownership of the shirt both nied all knowledge of it. Before the murder the Lays had no oney. The day after they went to Si. after the murder had been paid to, Mrs. Wynn a few days before. | Finally, as tending to discredit the denials which were the only things to -off- fet the most damuging portions of the evidence, there are the contradictory state- ments of the man and woman before the trial and on the stand. Iam satisfied with the verdict. Although the evidence, circumstantial as it was, could not have been stronger, | am mindful that no matter how atrocious the crime, it is next to impossible to get a jury to recommend capital punishment on circum- Stantial evidence. This is as it should be, for even in a\case where the proof of guilt is so Overwhelming as in this, there is al- Ways a possibNity of a terrible mistake having been made and with the convicted one still among the living there remains the chance of rectifying it. BY FRED H. KRUGER, ATTORNEY FOR THE DEFENSE. To the Editor of Sunday D’ost-Dispatch. T is a fundamental rule of law. by | which the relevancy and effect of cir- cumstantial evidence !‘s measured that in order to justify the inference of legal] guilt from cireumstantial evidence, the facts proved ought to be not only consistent in every respect, with the prisoner's guilt, but absolutely inconsistent with any other ra- tional conclusion. Therefore, if the facts sO proved can be explained or accounted for upon any other reasonable theory than that of the guilt of the accused. the law enjoins that they be so accounted for and the accused acquitted. In the case against William and Lulu Lay for the alleged murder of Mrs. Wynn, the vrosecution sought a conviction wholly upon circumstantial evidence. If the rule above stated be true, of which there is no question, then it must follow that if all of such facts and circumstances proved be- yond a reasonable doubt, in th's case. can be explained or accounted for upon any other basis than that the defendants are guilty, the verdict is «rroneous, and is only one of the many cases, where innocent men have been convicted upon circumstantial evidence, however strong. The first circumstance in this case. which originally caused suspicion to be. centered upon the prisoners, was a short, black- handied caseknife with the po'nt of the blade broken off and the remaining portion ground down to a point. Th's was found by the side of the dead body of Mrs. Wynn, shortly after she had been originally found on the morning of the 2th of November, This knife, when found, was covered blood, moss and feathers, As far as the ownership of this knife is traced is to the hands of a former ithhab- itant of what is known as Coney Island. near Brooklyn. From this source it was procured by a certain notorious negrees in Brooklyn, who claims to have taken it and placed it in a small jar among many other knives, forks and spoons. This jar she placed at thé bottom of an old trunk, un- derneath various and miscellaneous arti- cles and placed the trunk, unlocked, in a etable some distance from the house, which stable was also never locked. In this place the trunk remaincd, without being touched or examined by her for a period of two or three months. A few weeks prior to the alleged cr'me defendants purchased from this notorious negress a number of household articles, among which was the trunk with its con- tents. At the time of the purchase the selier, the negress before referrea to, dia not make a thorough examinat’on of the contents of the trunk, and especially not of the jar in which the knives, forks and Upon the trial of this case she wouid not testify positively that the knife in question was among the knives sold defendants, but only that she had placed it there several months before. The trunk, together with the remainder o! the purchase, was taken to the home of the defendants, and they, together with a certain young lady, unpacked the trunk, and all three of them concur in saying that the fatal knife in question was pos'i- tively not among the contents. A young negro, who resides in Brooklyn, and who, it was clearly apparent, was STANTIAL EVIDENCE ALONE _ “ — “ es Fay, | 2 A L/) an NM jy, / The Convicted Man and Woman, the Things Which Convicted Them and the Attorneys sent for her with the expectation of her- self as weil as her husband being fully exonerated by the story she ng@eht tell the officers in regard to the identity of the knife in question. In response to her mes- sage she came to the home of Mrs. Lay by her as to this knife, and was asked she said whereupon, as Mrs. Lay testified, “I know nothing about any knives.” This sume visiting negress, however, denies this, and says that she said to Mrs. Lay that she would know whether or not she had sold her the knife if she were given an opportunity to see it, and that while 6v there Mrs. Lay asked her to say nothing about it, and handed her 2% cents. But this request is emphatically den‘ed by Mrs. Lay and the remainder is fully explained by her in this way; that she was owing her some money on the purchase price of the trunk, etc., and that she had requested her to pay the same, and that the 25 tents handed her was in part payment of the balance due her. Presently the officer who had in posses- s'on the knife in question arrived. Address- ing himself to this notorious negress re- ferred to before, he gave her the knife and asked her whether she could identify the same, to which she responded that she had sold it to William and Lulu Lay several weeks before. The officer then immediate- ly placed Mrs. Lay under arrest. After placing her in jail he returned, and making a thorough search of the house he found among other knives and forks a small black-handled fork, which is claimed by the prosecution to be a full mate to the fatal knife, and that therefore the knife belonged to the defendants in this case. Upon a comparison, however, it is found that this fork is much smaller in size than the knife, and the rivets in the handle are much closer together, matching the knife only in the fact that the handles of both are black. The defendants admit the ownership of the fork, but emphatically deny any knowledge whatever of the knife, and that it was not in the trunk at the time it was purchased by them and in this they are thoroughly corroborated by the testimony of the young lady, who assisted in the unpacking of the same. This, in substance, is the testimony in re- lation to the knife, an all-important and underlying circumnstance of the prosecution in this case. In the first place, it was never proved beyond all reasonable doubt that this knife ever passed to the hands of the defendants herein. Considering the testimony of the prosecution alone, it is possible, in fact it is highly probable, that this fatal knife remained in the hands of the negress who sold the defendants the trunk referred to. Again, it is reasonabl to believe that some one might have taken some of these things out of this trunk, among them being this knife, during the two or three months prior to the sale of these thines. The evidence of their own witnesses is that the trunk as well as the stable in which it sfood was open to the ingress and egress of the world. Another circumstance upon which the prosecution relied was the undershirt and bloody sleeves purported to have been found by them in the house occupied by the defendants in this case. The first time that th!s circumstance enters this case is the evening of the 26th of November last, when the village marshal of Brooklyn came to arrest Mrs. Lay. He testified that he, at the time, being in search of bloody gar- ments, ete., picked up an undershirt lying upon a trunk in defendant's room, the sleeves of which apparently had been cut off, but not fihding any blood upon the shirt, laid it down, considering it of no im- portance; that when he Was examining the shirt Mrs. Lay remarked that the shirt be- longed to her and that she had slept in the same the night before. He further tes- tiled that he, together with the deputy sheriff, made a thorough search of the house, including bed, etc., with the ex- ception of about a half bushel of rage which were lying on the floor at the foot, of the bed, which they for some reason did | wer. : | many another woman in this very city pays not examine. After concluding his search, Mrs. Lay, at his suggestion, back door and also fastened down some of the windows, and he, as they went out, locked the front door, which was equipped with but an ordinary lock. Mrs. Lay tes- tified that she did not fasten all of the windows and to corroborate her, the offi- eer testified that he, some few days after, ee rete , Thorns.

——_— OSI SC -———e—_—— She Once Lived in St. Louis, in Poverty in San Francisco and Has a Duing Father in Germany. SAN FRANCISCO, March 8. Special Correspondence Sunday Post Dispatch, SI SCHMIDT, a little woman who R would do anything honorable te se- cure money with which to go to her dying father in Germany, offers to sell her blood. She wants to sell it because It is the only thing of value in the wide world which at the present time she can call absolutely her own: and because it seems to her that her happiness and peace of mind for the rest of her life—and she is young yet—depends upon obtaining a certain amount of money in the quickest possible time. She is willing to have her velns and ar- teries drained of every drop of her Hfe flu:d, except barely enough to keep her eoul and body together. She is willing to endure the pain ot the operation and the weakness consequent upon it; all for the paltry sum of a little over $200; just enough to take her to u certain little village in Germany in ' the plainest and poorest way known to modern travel. It is a strange idea for a woman to en- tertain, to barter beauty and strength and health for the few miserable dollars that for a single gown. Twenty-five years ago in a little farming village of Germany a daughter wae born to Heinrich Schmidt. A daughter was not much of a novelty In this particular Schmidt family, for of the nine children with which Providence had previously blessed Heinrich and his good wife, Elsa, ROSI SCHMIDT. her fair face grew pale and wan. and her bright eyes pathetic Im their languor. “needed change,"" the doctors gald: travel wonders for her. a sea From a Photograph. bidding her to content herself with the nine [). she soon became quite a belle among the gay Germans of their acquaintance. She wrote home regularly and often, but after the very first she spoke more of the new life than of the oid. It was all so different from the quiet, stupid littl German y lage. Then at last she fell in love. And then misfortune came. Karl was a good workman, industrious and economical, but he was a poor finane cier. Too honest himself to suspect others, he relied on false representations and t bad advice, with the result that almost in a moment his small patrimony, together with the savings of years, was swept away, and he and his young wife were lett at the very foot of the ladder of prose perity. Times. were hard in St. Loule when the Crash came, and, therefore, with the little that was left from the wreck the young couple came to San Francisco, hoping here to find good fortune and begin anew. That they have not been successful has been no fault of theirs, but disappointment and trouble have worn upon Ros!'s husband, and he is no longer the stout, hearty and ha fellow that he was when foriune amiled, Despondency hag bred ill-health, and even { work were plenty he could not labor stead- lily. He does his best, but that beat is v little. Rosi kept bright and cheerful a hopeful through it all, until two weeks ago. It was a letter which was her undoing—a@ letter from the unmarried stay-at-home sis- ter, who, face to face with the tragedy of years, and no longer held in check by the loving heart that had «shielded Roasl even from a hint of unkindness in his own thoughts, wrote as she would. “Father ts dying,” she sald, ‘‘and he cries for you con- stantly. He hae eaten his heart out for want of you, and he cannot die content un- less you come. If you ever loved him: if you ever were grateful for what he has done for you, grant his dying wish.” When that letter came Rosi had leas than % in the house, and knew of no way to raise more. She went to the Free Libra and read all the “Female Help Wanted” advertisements in the newspapers, but there was nothing she could do but house- work, and even for the heaviest of that the pay was but $25 a month. It would ta nine long months, at least, before she could earn enough for the fare, and long before that time that yearning cry beyond the sea would be hushed forever, and her sou would be burdened with a never-ending re- morse, One day, however, she saw a story of » man whose life was saved through t & of @ eration of biood transfusion, and a sudde® glow of hope and courage came to her and dried her tears. If blood had really a mar-~- ket value, here was in truth a God-sent way out of her misery. So it was that she presented herself a pulse and spent about $10. They also spent oney freely in Brooklyn. At a store on trimmed hat, a pair of gloves and some her articles for which she paid with a i ‘four had been girls. But this daughter was h- deceased, went to see her a paaye: bat | ape “wen: the a papnants & short time windows unfastened; that on Dec. 10, 18958, | eer: since she was the child of her parents’ old hood Rosi was her father’s constant com- nah tent hi ~~ pee ee stretched out kindly whose researches aa to the com ition « an a . , " siste ands - hat ocasion Mrs. Wynn showed her such but one knife amd one fork upon the table consed ‘ont t the h ee age. The youngest child was a strapping i wae tans? toted bet ened ay ere and the father, who integrity of the blood she ha e old plece. Mrs. Wynn was miserly It ‘ , a son of the deceased, went to the house gl , a's Nese ind him in the furrow; she tripped after 4 to sacrifice himseif to he” and «he related her story and told him o & p . and that he ate w-th the fork: that de- i again made a thorough search, when lad of bb when little Rosi made her late him in the field: she explored every nook beset good, crushed down his heart and bade finn f 1 } ee ee but welcome appearance, and from the mo- and corner of the big farm ney . It is exceedingly unlikely that 5 ares. ee -¥ kn | rd alien passed out of her possession was somew hate similar Gppesrance to the floor at the foot of the bed. discovered | “ ahe sald. before . cen & any to © £0 p : the knife in question, but he would not among them a pair of sleeves, apparently sounded in his ears, Helnrich Schmidt, The other children left the home place one thodah we dle of tenetinean.” inl adit tien Pm BALE RMS ot uy wot wena > same knife, On the eveni sti .4) simply bowed down and worshiped her. emigrated to America; others made homeS wet face and pressed his last kiss on her “I cannot put an advertisement in the - The defense failed utterly to show where it was the ileitieal can. evening of undershirt, which seemed to be stained ~ Se ama ge si eggs aggre. eevee for themselves in Germany. One sister re- feverish lips. Heinrich Schmidt was @ pers.” she said, “for lam too poor, butt oes en After the t- with a Muid in the nature of blood, It at © Was her devotes ment ming § © mained to help her aging mother with the changed man. She would come back «oon.,’ thought perhaps you would be so kind as he d f through her pretty, cuddling, cooing baby- farmhouse work and in caring for Rosi she said when they parted at the little Ger- to tell some’ of your aie I ld de fe their purchases on the day after the _ ‘lude and after the « e d * om hood. When she began to “take notice.” : frie wou ° ae Bt pocorn agg ara endersh:rt come weeng Setore, the sleeves when she learned to “put out her hands.” Rosi grew up a shy, pretty maedchen, charge of the nestiing who had never decent woman to see my father again ‘irc ; with black eyes and hair, a winning man- learned to use her wings, and she meant tt fore he dies. I eannot eat or sleep for A minor, put mamncant circumstance is was taken in custody by the authorities of . m he found the shirt, which, to- : the roo = . = . . tooth, when she began to balance herse-f when she first began to trot beside honest fe aia things to those who go out Into the wondering why do not come. If I . ; Ss i : rid and those who are left behind. borrow ft money I would stary : ee concen g ture fe ber home in that a: eae duced upon the trial of this case. He testi-| these were made by h.m epochs in the ghe was to stay in the home nest, but fate nb 7 myse family history, and as such, were duly cele- wijied differently. A slight iness led to a world in which #ehe found herself after she to it to me. I can do noth ) Gilead her?” band was ‘being he)i upon the theory that - me : . shirt he examined on the 26th of Novem-| When she was large enough to run about recovering her bloom and strength after « gay and pleasant one. The proc. | * you help ré was testimony that a peculiar-look~ tne Knife so found, near the body of the ber, but upon cross-examination would not | he Was never happy without her prattling brief attack of fever, Rosi began to pine visited, om th io -_ 2, men. ands i ie Sa aid 4 ey va vr" 9 f b: A me ; ’ ‘ eg of PH ow Te P ri sere . at: Pia y eae EL, j wig! ip A er i . “er A ‘3 . : Ay apt agi > eal a eee Fae GORA, ae * » - . ‘ ranklin av. In St Louis, Mrs. Lay bought ece. Mrs. Carnes, a daughter- ' gold pilec ad mentally unbalanced, testified that he ate went to the house and found one of the | | | ew days before she was murdered On 2 : accounted a special and particular blessing All through her childhood and young girl- especially; and then the brothers and sis- the office of Dr. Frederick W. d' Evelyn, ; > } . Wynn's death; that there was or » do , ri before Mrs ‘ ‘ ere Wus he, in companys with the deputy sheriff and sanion and closest friend. She walked be- > oO mieer! es r t v. " +] . - ? ’ a con ** 7 characteristic f y persons o fendant, W liam Lay, ate with a knife that deceased's son, in searching these rags on vt in Jis com her mother and sister prepare for the jour I must know if 1 have good blood first,”* ae ment that her first weak walling cry we oar a da : atl a or years the two lived heart to heart We must save her life. he sald, “even it. Will vou tell me? Btil it passed into the blood-stained hands even testify, upon d-rect examination, that belonging to and having been cut off an sturdy @-year-old) farmer that he was, by one, going where inclination led. Some day that he looked his last on Rosi's tear- that all was well with her she came to he Lays got the money with which they uest upon the body of Mre Wenn had @ . ’ _ C mens | ; » mi > nn nh: Sens Quseee SS ee ee ee eee and the father man station Where Kindly strangers took anything in the world that is allowed ¢ urder. found the knife ‘n question, Willlam Lay ; f which had been cut off, and In Searching; ow PES TLE ae ue ache thet bre, Wrne oO when she cut her first and every subsequent por and a heart as innocent and childish as refer. she spoke. But “soon” means dif- thought of him yume there on his bed rs c oit " j te ay : > - j rae : Brookiyn. Mra. Lay was permitted to re gether with the siceves so found, Was pro-junsteadily on her dimpled littie legs—all jpyeinrich tn his daily rounds. Determinec w t Hoaith came back to Rosi, and the new back every cent, but there mentioned, asked: “Who ™ : : to ¥y c ry : no one eas Roe Seas upon, knowing as she did, that her bus- «11 nat he believed this to be the same] preted long and tedious convalescence. Instead of passed through Caetle Garden was a very oe )~ me to eon ; ; t a . " - ' dark jotar which Wiliam Lay had 4 ear positively that it might not be a dif-/ nee near him, and to the mother's fade. er €- “expres pegress above ferent shirt, They compared the sleeves f-eerlous piaint that Rosi seemed more transparent in their ae te and ls for sale. 4 t you. ° ; TR Ow 2 a Vie es SE ET ke’ tee ae AP Re Ty - “hy bs ae es eh Phe Ms ' : By aa

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By 6 o’cloc Fighth and Olive and Locust sts. 168 the other half is gone, and through the how many trains each way the traffic wil] ©" the line representing Nineveh, and at 4 the mort valuable and populous in night there are not more than fifty persons point indicating the time of starting. Then require, and planning the general arrange- nother pin is driven at the extreme left on St. Louls. It has a population through in the block. In the Union Trust Building, the #ix days of the week of 370. It has yee the population through the day is ment. After that will come the brain- the line representing Babylon and at the rack'ng job of making up the time tables. — indicating 5:50, the time-of her arrival. Convenient to the office of the chief train Qenied’ ns ame taread— phat“ dispatcher at every railroad division head- stre an assessed valuation of $1,763,480 in lands icpy tne night population is but five—an and $1,161,000 in improvements, an @gere- engineer, a fireman, a watchman and two Sate of $2,794,480, and, upon the under- j nitors, There bs but one place in the standing that the arsessed valuation of St. bullding where there is no differencé be- quarters in the United States there is a t” Louls real estate does not exceed a third tween a day and a night, and that is down ite actual worth, the block is worth $8- 5, ¢n, engine and furnace rooms. The “train board,” driven full of large brass- headed pins or pegs and divided into par- allelogratms by lines running horizontally 84.600. Arsistant Aesessor Louis Jones, steam for power and heat is kept up all who has been the assistant assessor of St. night, and a nfght elevator runs at any Louis twenty years, eays the aggregate 55, at regular intervals and vertically at ir- regular distances. Criss-crossing one an- value of this block, in land and buildings, This richest and most populous block of ; b : J exceeds that of any other in the city. > - ~? 4 5 4® jh me % - en ei . at #: % - it. . ’ aN. a oe : ; ‘ » » ted a ie-s ~ - ‘a | : a Poe My ‘ he oe 4 5 es Ta te as ; = : 7 ae Be mo a” oye : A w * . * — o* + a — 4 ,. .. . h. i - , =4 " 2 ae fee 3 ge . eS © > *. ty - £22 + + eee. tm om, 3 . B ¥ wWarei" oe ae + i ¢ ~ > ae Se ee . pny Me » Ste rae 4 = a : 2 Sn ® 2% ha ays . PX ie °c a tas bs & 3 * » ae te d h. ageee py Pe a 5 Poses a ek Glee : oe iG fe ae. aN He : a ae PR EP I Ea ee a - . ok pag : saa : ~ rity a stow Pe Si ty . : ba CO te ig MEE ora Sy P op ere +? S. ‘ see : oe ; ‘e ~ : ¢ in eee / a. G of 4 7 = on" a Ag a . c bY x vant Danie ma 3 5 2 f “i ‘ hase ‘ ee wa ~ Se - er ~~ * Fe : a . Par . * ew x eS 7 7 on (ane “; ‘on =F p : a ee we . a 2. - an So ete ry 4 ¥ : ae ¢ ¥ : ; x * - ‘ Se > eas eee s i ; 4 iv - - a a . s . y ’ oo 2 " e : ; : ; es Rea, " : f 74 te a . i ee « 1a eee * : set A. Me _ - > , B me a ny 3 Zz - * ¥ *, 5 tl es Bea - , —— _ a LJ a : - 2 > — rc * — - . a> : - . » - . - ‘. . . : Union Trust 2 a = a BSS)! ee) te a a a Ld J ._ =. * —-——— «=O as SS eee ee eee —————— > : s% =) =) —— } — = ee a | woe ee a ae ee be ¥ TRA BS EA SA TAS “Th, “A tte ho 2 — { eee other at divers angles over the “board,” and supported here and there by the pins are stout silk threads of various vivid col- Babylon at 5:50. ors. This has been simple enough, and so is This contrivance is a highly important pring Bo wy, Bye R a i —— factor in the running of the road, for the here represented by a doited line, is used— main horizontal lines are labeled to repre- /e@ving ges at 1:40, and t al : sent the hours of the day, while the heav- ier vertical ones represent the stations of and h the road. There are also labels for the —s for threads, each bearing the name of a cer- No, 3,’No. 6 and No. ? are all hound tain trafn on the road, while cerfain figures overtake it, and must pass er run it down at the bottom of the board stand for miles >efore the afternoon is over, The die- of roadbed, these figures being at the ends 4 ee of lighter lines than those representing the the run- stations. as to inter- This curious outfit represents the time- card of the division. As a rule, time-cards are changed twice a year, ome in the spring and again in the fall—though there are roads that shift the running of their as \ trains oftener, and a new time card for 210)" Mite ey ee Cwnete i, Faeeee : each of the year’s four seasons is not UN- fastest westbound train, lides by a known. tone, time 4:44, the way retebs having ar- Roads running to summer resorts and do- RA 4:42 to allow two minutes for side- ing big tourist business make many MOre Te 1, when the dispatch changes both in the spring and fall than threads for the east-bo most lines. trelghe ayers ter tan n by — A + - ; = oan TRU vo - _ — - =. i, an ~ 4 —-Zie- Bl iB by Ti: WTC ome (PL ert ot eee a _ } | ‘ = = . ? P = — See oe, Se) es ” SW N is " ast ears the city is one of the newest of the com- Aside from the advantageous location Of J .pciay centers of St. Louis. The Union this bloc, its especial richness is in M8 que Buitding was built in 1892, and the great commercial buildings, of which it Gnromical Building in 189. The assessors bas more than any other square in the elty. ny ine yvaine of the former at $400,000 and The Chemical and Union Trust Buildings i). other at $20,000. They fix the face Olive s#t.; the Columbia Building 1s yaiue of the land at the Union Trust at the corner of Eighth and Locust; the Building corner at $3500 a front foot, and Turner Building faces Fighth st., and the that at the Chemica] Building corner at Mercantile Club Building is at Seventh %200 a front foot. At the Columbian corner the valuation is fixed at $1000 a front foot, and at the Mercantile Club corner it is There is many a busy little city In Il- $1900. The valuation of the ground under the Chemical Building has not been in- creased by the assessors since the building : was built. In 1897 the valuation of the firet great commercial beehives. The Union thirty-five feet under the Union Trust Trust Building, the most populous in St. Building wae increased from $3200 to $3500 Louls, has a population through the day 4 foot. This block, aside from contribut- be a Sed: ita elevators carry every day from ing more taxes than any other block in St. Louis, has also increased its contribu- twelve to fourteen thousand persons. The tion more rapidly than any other. The Chemical! Bullding has a pupulation of 1000; Chemical Building, valued at $250,000 by the the Columbia has 300, the Turner 300 and 4#sessors, replaces a building aszeseed at » i the Mercantile Club 20. The other five $20,000, and the Union Trust Building rep- oeo- — A) SAN — Iii AN avd > WAN\ ~ “FTN = *, = f= = i SS ee I sl = aw & rT N “OY ‘ » ip tid — hi. / Lili” and Locust sts. \ \ see , WELLL) |) Ett linola and Missouri which has neither the population nor activeness of one of these freight ‘ for It seemfs preposterous, at rege engage har cross-hatched Read which left Babylon the arrangement of the en ya a ele are 3 oo that ite departure there from track road, with compara ’ board, hag some bother perme tern ’ er gre v is often far more difficult than the laying 4, pacsed at Riceburg Op Hae Peryase out of the card for a double or four-track bound express n, ph hal road, with many trains. This is because on course of running it _meecte two tr the single-track road special provision must - . aa er’ be made for the meeting at stations or that the builders of other points where there are sidings of a0 ee LM wy) there, resents an equal improvement. For the trains moving in opposite directions 60 that fine. At Fisher's the ~ Me wa buildings in the block have an aggregate ground and the structures upon it. this they may be able to pass. No such care oe ed oy _ rese-seare ows, pro- population of 200. block is the center of the real estate rich- ; is eT on roads with more than one at most stations. Auoet chit or ee oe track. and But with all the life which swarms within ess of St. Louis, and the Temples of Herod Turner. Ch:mical. ee beyond Fisher's. between stations, this d Solomon, with thelr «cites, were pos- Suppose the chief dispatcher of the east- train is due to meet the west-bound limited the day, the block is almost a *” P ' ppo (No, 7) at 4:20, my : it during the day, the block is aimost ® ‘sibly not worth a dollar more than are Block Bounded by Olive and Locust, S:venth and Eighth Streets, Seen From the Top of the |ern (termina) division of the E. & W. To? ick. Gn the samme track, tee eee cane tomb at night. At 5 o'clock in the after- ¢nis tittle block, with an area of 270x228 feet B F t B ildi Whi h Is 7 S : . , Trunk Line Railroad (single track) has - must reach the short siding; already re- noon fully half of the 3730 persons within and the great buildings which crown it. ur Ing on u Ing, ic on the outh Side of Olive, west of Eighth Street. time card to arrange ear nce tan i rer to pull tate te alr vision is 100 miles long an e and by. Some moumetieemitiat inus), distances are Nineveh (eastern term _ rs : hey ¥ W A S H N ( ; : | O N 12 miles to Jonestown, 6 miles to aes 7 miles to Orcutt, 9 miles to Slabholiow, 8 — the ® | miles to Fisher’s, 14 miles to Tombstone, 11 qoed, at 62) oF miles to Riceburg, 6 miles to Pisa, 10 miles as best it can. Then ADMIRAL SAMPSON GOT CORRECT TIME FROM : aa HEN Rear-Admiral Sampson was Washington. W lying off Santiago one day last The remarkable manner in which this miles of cable terminating at’ Cape Hay- the question, ‘“‘What time is it?’ was asked to Sandhills, 17 miles to Babylon (western - summer with his fleet, he found it simple message was handled makes it a tien, where another cable operator sent of the official operator at the Greenwich terminus of the division). At each station fast ote rf Pant ~ poet necessary to correct his chronometers. In matter for wonder. it on the last stage of its journey into observatory. there are sidings, of course; there is a miscalculation, it has to wait. en there ; order to do this it was necessary that he The mavel chearvations are taken ai Santiago. within three seconds of its first The hour selected for the purpose was 12 special siding between Fieher’s and Slab- of. the ' iopatonee linn ben and the hair ¥ should have direct and uninterrupted com- washington at 12 o'clock noon. but as transmission, nearly 2500 miles away. o'clock noon, and, there being no meridian- hollow, and in the middie of the division other story which has othinn te ae eine munication with Washington for a minute there ig very little difference laa tanta ees Some of Admiral Sampson’s friends claim al difference in the geographical positions between Fisher’s and Tombstone there is @ suis ys traln- d. 5 or two, so that the exact time of day, 88 tween Washington ané Santiago. both be- that this was the first instance ever re- of the two places, the answer came in- stretch of about 10 miles of double track, goin or dhe diaeatehor striae’ the on recorded at the Naval Observatory, could ing nearly in the same meridian. the mes- : be transmitted to him. sage in question had scant time for its corded of chronometer regulation by so stantly and no need to calculate any differ- known as the Long Halfway Siding. for No. 4, the east-bound express, leav ‘ at 'S It was after the telegraph cable at that transmission and for the required answer long a distance. In this they are mistaken. ence in time. Not three minutes. but Before he begins to Babylon at 12:20 and reaching Nineveh , All this he knows. about 4:20. Fortunately for the dispatch point had been found and secured by United to be returned. The cable and all lines on Siates officers and before the surrender of jand connecting the two points had to be In 1891 Rear-Admiral Schley, who was scarceiy three Seconds after th , is in- then captain of the Baiti r sta- , > . : ver Dosage wrestle with his cores nse = er’g peace of mind, th train runs early® al e Baitimore, was sta- was clear, were consumed. The distance formed as to the number and sorts of trains and has to vary its rate in one place only— Santiago. The Admiral was preparing his cleared of all other messages and held so fleet for sailing, and as it was at the sea- cleared for one minute. This was done as tioned with the African squadron at Porto as the cables and the lines on land run be . ith de- th d h : - estward every day, with de- near the end of the run. If it ran an hour he must send w later it would meet nearly everything be- gon when tornadoes Were expected to visit quick as thought, and for one minute the thte Caribbean Sea it was more than ever line between Santiago and Washington was Grande, off Cape Verd*. Capt. Schley was tween Cape Verde and ’ a wera Rage! ois nether 0 “gis | Dp er d Greenwich is 2680/ tails as to speed, etc., and time for start- i 0) cations No. 6. the local passenger i ge his position, and it was miles, or 18 miles greater than from San- ing each; aleo the number and sorts of train, meets everything and passes the @ matter of importance that his chronom- stjjj, The signal was agreed upon—it was eters should be true. one click of the key—and eagerly awaited SRM \ \S ‘ . ‘ » ~S . ‘ NN »* oor Qn een . A ww -0°*"35s6 ere TY necessary to regulate the ship's chronom- tiago to Washington. élivered to’ him from local! freight, yet. thanks to the. long trains that will be d way siding, on which it meets two trains] eter, that the ship itself might be kept When Prof. Pritchett was at Washington detaile as to »thy . : : the division next west, with a strictly on its intended course. There Was University a few years ago he cleared the what is expected as to their running. For and Tt han te mealies a iy anak a cable office at Cape Verde, and at that wire from the Un'versity to the Cit f f bound li -Versit) ity o this article the trains 0 un mited, No. 8, also gets through the purposes of easily, though fts rate has to be decreased office he preferred the request that the Mexico in order to give the ex P I s act time for the six hours from 12 o’clock noon ts 6 a little before reaching Tombstone and ac- Sampson dispatched an officer from his py the officer who had been sent by Ad- flagship to Santiago with a message for the cable, asking ‘“‘What time is it?’ and addressed to the Naval Observatory at miral Sampson on this errand. Precisely at noon the click at Washington was trans- mitted to New York, thence over the 1430 — EDITOR LENGSFIELD OF VI burg. Miss., Democrat, has a new and ® remarkable theory of the reconstruc- tion of the earth. He believes that the @arth, prior to the final creative period was divided into two great north and south hemispheres and continents by @ J 1. LEHNGSFIBLD, editor of the Vicks- __ ROUTES FOLLOW ne CKSBURG HOLD cable and the connécting lines on land, be- the correction of -the basis of the first p. m., one-quarter of a day only, will be colerated afterward. he addition of one twen that point and Greenwich. England, be eleared and kent clear for three min- ED BY THE MESSAGE. utes. This request was complied with, and ee S NOVEL, complete survey of the republic. The dis- tance is 2702 miles, and therefore the long- est line on which time has been given. eee THEORIES ON THE FORMATION OF THE WORLD. narrow sea which girded the earth and separated the continents in distance? rang- ing from 1000 to 2000 miles. Mr. Lengsfield is not a professinal scien- tist. He is merely a student for love of the acience of geology, and he has worked out his theory in his own way and time and at- tracted much attention with it. This is his explanation of his theory: By J. I. Lengsfield. To the Editor of Sunday Post-Dispatch. YPOTHESES: The age at which the mass of the earth became a planet was prior to tertiary or third period. The primary figure was a circular disc, whose long diameter was about 20,000 miles. The obverse face was slightly convex; the general aspect of the reverse was concave, The diurnal motion. was an equatorial ro- tation cn tre minor axis, presenting the per- imeter or outer side to the sun; the plane of the equinoctial was perpendicular and co- incided with the plane of the ecliptic. The earlier aspect was that of a dead rock, hav- ing an orbit in space. The development of earthly phenomena was atmosphere, dew- point, and heat, and then the flora and fauna. The breaking down of the perime- ter from time to t!ma shifting the inclina- tion of the polar axis, introduced the suc- cessive ages of the tertiary period. ‘The map shows the geography of the earth at North America to the Pacific, a length of some 20,000 miles, with a general breadth of 1000 to 2500 miles. The Black, Caspian, Red and Dead Seas, Persian Gulf, etc., are vestiges of this ocean, which was an im- passable barrier to pleistocene men and furnishes a key to the entanglement of Blumebach, Latham, etc., and solutions to the many obscure questions of anthropol- ogy; it is also a gratifying verification of the prescience of Cuvier and Huxley. In the examination of geography, to veri- fy the inferred primary figure, it was a pleasing aus pring to note that weathering and erosion have comparatively but slight- ly worn the coast lines or altered the sur- face markings, and have not at all de- stroyed apparent coincidences; the phys- ical, palaeontological and geographical evi- dences are relied upon for verification of considered. The westbound trains are: Way freight, to leave Nineveh at 12, to stop at all sta- tions, to move at the rate o 12 miles an hour, including stops, 80 @s to reach Baby- lon before 8:30; local passenger train, to leave Nineveh at 12:30 and st at all sta- tions, and reach Babylon at 5:30, average rate, including stops, miles an hour; ex- ress passenger train, to leave Nineveh at f:40. stopping at Jonestown, Orcutt, Rice- burg and Sandhills, to arrive at Babylon at 5:40, average rate, including stops, miles an hour; limited express train, to leave Nineveh at 3:20 and call at Orcutt and Rice- burg only, yttey at Basown at 6:30, aver- rate 40 miles an nour. r “he eastbound trains are: Way freight, leaving Babylon some time before 12, reach- ing Sandhills at 12:15; express passenger train, leaving Babylon at 72, moving at a %-mile rate, making five calls, reaching Nineveh at about 4:30; local passenger train, leaving Babylon at 1, 2 miles an hour, calling everywhere, Fencnens Nineveh before 6; and limited express, leaving Baby- ion at 3:30, making two calls and reaching Nineveh at 6. It is a rule on all railroads that the slow trains must accommodate themselves to the fast ones, and that the fastest train has the right of way over all others. this line it is a rule also that west trains take precedence. Westbound trains receive odd numbers, east-bound trains even more train each way tn the six hours would complicate things a good . however, as you will find for yourself oF fae try it, and the quarter of a ll boa showing the road's operations for the six hours from 12 o'clock noon to 6 p. m., would have more threads strung across it than the section as here shown. After the threads are all strung the frets dispatcher makes his time table. . Follow- ing is the part of a full day’s table repre- sented by the quarter-day board: Local Time Table. FE. & W. R. R., Nineveh and Baby'on Division. WESTBOUND. . No. 1. No. 3. No & M. Pim ? Niveveh wrvrrirrvr?: t.. 1: Jonestown ...+++. 1:00 2:05 Mmithville .esee- 1:46 Oreutt ..... cocces 2:90 Slabhollow ...+... 3:00 Fisher's **eet@eeee 3:40 eeeeeee 4:42 j oeeeeeee 5:33 > ‘00 Sesentciese= or cae tans hg 2% & = - : : : te: BROS 4 CS 3: REKs; EGSK— ] : ahs ey hysical henom y the close of the pleistocene age, the age just rigid aiuineion yer Ri ge het 1 Sige yee : 4—-W following the tertiary and just preceding ti his trains as follows: Westbound—Way i g 4 on. freight 1, local passenger 3, express passen- man, when the disruption of the continents , ——____ ger 5, limited exprees 7. Eastbound—Way took place, and the earth asumed Ks pres- ent aspect of sphericity, and phenomena began new relations of the quarternary period. Pleistocene Geography: The obverse face of the pleistocene earth, as shown by the map, Was presented to the north pole of the heavens, and comprised all the strati- I2 OcLocK ‘ fied areas of North and South America, Af- a rica, Asia, Australia, Greenland, etc. The equatorial region, following the peri- Te, meter, described the west coasts of North " N 6 and South America, South Africa, the | OcLocK 9g east coast of the south half of Africa, Aus- Be tralia, the drift of the izlands of Austra- lasia, and the eastern coast of Asia as far as Northeast Cape in the Arctic Circle. In the disruption of the continents that 2 OCLOCK closed the pleistocene age and caused the present aspect of sphericity of the earth, the earth was fissured, dividing the face into the grand geographical divisions, and 3 OCLOCK Separating Africa from South America, and and the East Indies, Australia, etc., TRain from the é@astern coast of Africa, and Eu- rope from North America. The eastern or greater half, comprising Asia, Australia, etc., had an easterly gy- ratory movement toward the reverse side: the western haif, comprising North and South América, had a southerly gyratory ' movement, doubling westerly to the re- 5 ocLocK verse of the obverse face. The axis of gy- ration was located in Europe, about the site of Mount Blanc, and the movement was in a geological measure of time simul- taneous. The geography of the pleistocene world shows ab ocean extending across ita face from the northeast coast of As'a westward 7 over Céntral Asia, with an arm extending -~ — Vee - o ae “4 s | into Central Australia, across Northern ely ies an . M +4 i“ meen (Ou , ; ' ee a et weg Oe + »«* ~ “« bh ¥ | ‘. ” - - - 2 ~ + ad ie | a ‘i e 4 : ‘ z : - : ‘ * m -& oe t% ad ie . *. — oe . & a es ae, ae : 7 . ne > mi & . . 6, P aS Ps = ye Rae ce ks we x Pik ti : ae. SET ene Se ee + ‘oe eae” Re: F , ak cin we ~ aoe MD.) a Mi es > ~~ oe SS a ae 4) SP se we. ag i > : i : 7 / ey LN - ; 5S ..« 4 uae SSF Pee ta ee ee eg ~~ Sf numbers. The dispatcher then designates ee se ee eo: gece we: gs: : su SANDHILLS @ Pleistocene Pole _— ee eee Burmah 4 OCLOCK ‘a . - os ‘ other ” mst. ete ha a OLE cg MEETING HES BP" : : ~ >. nm s oe ' . 7 thee Ay “E N + aa “ eee q - ee : ce oe ae ee ee ee. , A aS eS, 5 PP a Ge * Ae ee “ * * 3 " 4 eo on. 5 as! Fa aS + oe on) 2 eG Ao S- i? nee: a ae a yo . iPS et Ve na ae = Fe hip Ss iad ; ea : . ? ‘ ea Loe ee yr ® RF oe nee Pa Te See Pegs ate Ve i “ = ty “ Pe Nth, a eee ee, en! ee ere es ee 2; ve ee Ae “% or ae a aa oy , ce ae ky £ oe 0 GAR Tage ego

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* + $ohKE eX) : ‘SUNDAY MORNING--ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH—MARCH a I? 189% a “4 ee = NEWEST soalales FOR SMALL. GIRLS. HILDRDN'S fashions for the Daster- tide show an array of novelties. Summer fabrics lend themselves to these Gainty garmente, and it is a delight to ' Geck the little ones in frills and fluffs of lacy | and embroidery. For the chilly days of early epring there are shown a number of stylish little frocks of lightweight cloth and cashmere. The cashmere frocks are made weually with gamp of silk. This yoke is replaced by one of embroidery or tucked muelin when the weather permits. One or more of these dresses is indispensable in a child's ward- robe. Gailor suits serve the same purpose, and will be more worn than ever this season. There is always an air of good dressing about a child clad in a sailor suit. Cheviot or serge, in blue, brown or red, is the fa- vored material, Braid trimming applied conventionally is the preferred mode of garniture. Duck lends itself to the sailor suit. Many of the Easter outfits for the little ones count those suits in blue or white duck, chambray or pique. Short-waisted frocks and Mother Hubbards once more lead. Little peasant waists, with white yoke and sleeves, are always pretty, especially for the colored ginghams. Nainsook and sheer white materials are being trimmed with a great amount of hand work. Fine embroidery or lace is whipped in between finger tucks. The old- fashioned “rolled and whipped’ ruffles of our grandmethers are again in vogue. Many of the daintiest frocks are simply hem- atitched, or show bands of drawn work done in delicate patterns. These frocks have an air of elegance never given by lace or embroidery. Chil- dren's underclothes were never so dainty. These are nearly all done by hand, even to a delicate tracery of embroidery. The finest linen or nainsook is chosen, so the elaborate work is not thrown away, owing to the durability of the material. The white petticoats are made with bands, the ol4 style of attached waist seldom being ured. The little patent waists are in great favor, and are stout enough to hold several skirts up. The very sensible practice of making silk skirts for children is meeting with great favor. The silk skirts look very pretty, and hold out the dress skirt more satisfactorily than white ones. They are in- expensive when made at home, so a child can have a variety. One clever woman keeps her little daughter supplied with the simple ~ “ + Je 3s ey La te + e i “ . J > \ Jasco, beautiful sfMk skirts made from her own silk skirts and dress linings. There al- ways a portion which is not soiled or worn perfectly adapted to make over into a is smaller garment. longer worn. a Posed and Described ‘Especially ae st wt THE SUNDAY POST-DISPAT ‘ a rm i i inh "hh Mm Che i os J pee a i Hi il Wath io | — "= 6 o_O Zl (SS Hi Hit i! i i | if Hi . t: orn Sepeneyaplattn, ae vu i i! ’ HHT HNN ity! AA i] uh HA ni ————— HAND MADE. NAINSoe SKIRT TRIMMED WITH LENCIENNES LACE AND Qo INSERTS ‘N ae Se ne OA { Bae ace x OEE Oe, A ANORNING DRESS OF PINK AND — WHITE STRIPED GINGHAR. — ee — ~? RETTY MERNING DRESS OF CHINA 0, WALKING “OS BLUE LINEN DUC > = | . y~ . . — > > for early wear, but tnese will be « replaced by jackets. Box coats and oe 1) coats with broad collars are the cheat styles, decidedly simple, but effective. The quaint shirred bonnets of muile in white and col- ors are to be much worn. Long coats of light weight are shown —™= frills of large and show many laitings in preference to stiff rib- c.uster of delicate flowers is all garniture used. The Rennes acencetabet is too, are chiffon p bon. ™ we - Tina to holds Mis for a has of ad se- turer and ON has traveled s (Carter number the larg lec ‘ity est of or ée 8 reetianted,. wit i MRS. AGNES L. BRADY, MISS CARRIE LEE CARTER of ¢ Diies, Mo. Secretary ot the Woman’ s Humane Society. Ruling Elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. MILEAGE, s a Bi CLERK HIRE, _ PERQUISITES OF OUR (i CONGRESSMEN, !Extras Which Are Added by an Indufgent Gove ment to the Pay of Representa- tives: and Senators. each Representative during the same is allowed two small and three large t ma rT ‘ HEN John Smith, citizen, becomes John Smith, M. C., whether he be : \ a Senator or a Representative, he becomes entitled to pay at the fixed rate of $5000 a year; but $5000 is not all he gets. The perquisites of the office are so great that a member of modest habits might easily save the greater part of his yearly pay. Here are some of the things to which a member of Congress !s entitled: Mileage (2c a mile), varying in amounts paid yearly from $50 to Stationery allowance (may be cashed) Packing boxes . Clerk, for Senator, if chairman of a com- mittee (paid to Senator) Clerk, for Senator, if, not chairman (paid to Senator) 1,440 Clerk for Representative (paid to latter)... 1,200 Postage, official business free Congressional Proceedings, in sheep Ditto, 150 vols., bound in any style costiier than half mérocco .. - Rebe!ll.on Re ord, 130 vols Garden, flower and field seeds, for constit- vents, 10,000 packages ... Farmers’ bulletins, 4000... Individual envelopes for unlimited quantity Sale of public documents... fot prohibited As clerk hire is paid to ‘the Senator or Representative direct it is within his power to hire a man at half the price or else employ a member of his own family. Many members of Congress do this, getting a clerk for as little as $600 a year, pocketing the difference. It will be seen from this table, taking the maximum mileage as $1000, that a Senator may collect in cash, besides his salary, the sum of $2235. At the same rate a Con- gressman (by saving $600 on clerk hire) could collect as high as $1735. This would give a Representative the comfortable sum of $13,740 for two years’ service as a national lawmaker. Besides this he would have 4% valuable books, elegantly bound, and would have sent out enough'‘seeds and public docu- ments to soildify himself with his constitu- ents for 100 years, bach member of Congress is allowed mileage,” or traveling expenses, at the rate Of 3) cents a miie, goink and coming to and from, between this home and the seat of government. This he collects twice auring each Congress, once for each 1exz- ular semion. If there is an extra session he cannot collect mileage for that. This allowance for mileage was fixed on the sup- position that members of Congress wouid pay their way in traveling like other peo- ple, and it wes fixed many years agu, when the cost of traveling was many times what it now is. Hut no Congress has been found with sufficient virtue to cut ‘t down, although ax members nowadays almost invariab.y travel on free tickets, the mileage has come to be a pure graiuity. For those mem bers who come from the greatest dis- inces, as from the Pacific coast, the mile- age allowance amounte to an addition to their pay something like $10 a year, while for those who have an average dis- tance to travel, aa from BRaltimore or Rich- mond, it will net amount to more than | $20 a yesr or. $40 for a congress. the al- lowance for each trip being about $100. For newrpapers and stationery each i member is allowed $12). but ‘the is not com.- | pellel to take this In elther newspapers or statonery. Ile may take it In any other = rn Moe | kind of foods, or may commute it In money btrue tober on. | Mf he chooses. efforts for pusth soles dl ae 1 If he_takes it all In money he will not Mrs. ‘1 Brooks, secrets - a) aie a nate teakcot nee heme re 7 : nresident ' | suffer for stationery, for ample supply isa Its charter .was PS Ey eS oles a, ae _ ArgingPgasenet FED eee. 7 > y 1" Presa gl i ; provenes: not only for Congress generally, with the office — uit aleo for each of Its numerous com- Mrs ‘ harics j . mittces, and as every member belongs to terfiel! pes —— * me rece some Committee, and most of them to sev- compore : SS ee ) etal, they bave the run of more free sup- oy . 7 7) ~ ean wi ‘ | ? : “) rs . , Mrs. TR. og re a Me ; oan , ae + ex ty piles oe eet eee eee ae — The bourd elected the followtne officers; Mrs. T. G. Ceomatock, eS nha pape ° yr ¥ ioncry allowance (that all (hose queer items mnt: Mra, Rrooks, secretary, and Miss Bell Andcreon, t peep ne : Mr, N. F. Willams Was the first agent employed by of peskn Rives an% pou) 7 ~ By the society. He prosecuted peg Mg at geal and ee Ines. r the ¥ rt and making for he under 3 mance, te an, er: These boxes are handsome! locks and counter-sunk handles a trunk than like a packing what the statesmen do with t and just why they shoula be supplied how at public expense, nebody seems now It is gratifying, however, to see that € rules do not permit the commenatataeel boxes for money. It is the boxes or ing, and this being so, it is reasonably to assume that they all take boxes, .I not the custom to let anything get a When a Senator is made chairman committee, his private secretary is upon the rolls as clerk of that cor nt ayear. If a Senator is not a man he is allowed a secretary at year. Then the sergeant-at-arme long list of ‘‘messengers,"’ who are @ to the various committees, each com? having at least one. Their real duty is to act as assistant or secretary for the Senator who is at head of the committee, and thus anet properly private «xpense is saddled the public. The usual pay of a fr in the department is $60 a month. or § a year, which is quite sufficient for act messenger work, but the Senate w gers get just double this, or $140 a which, while it seems high for a ger. is really not too much for a assistant secretary. Each Representative te allowed a clerk, but the money is pa‘d to resentative and not to the clerk. an one of the standing scandals of the which futile attempts have been made deal with bv legielation. that some sentatives employ poor fellows at half. allowance or less. and themselves the difference. Others anpoint members their families, and thue save all pm . ae : Some others, it is even said eae 13) vols., free Mua = ~ an clerk at all. but draw the cleriéa arce just. the same. Fach Senator and Representative is mitted during each Coneresa to draw. fi the Government's botanic! garden one of niants or cuttings. How large thia shall be [se not stated. but presu about the size of an official packing From the’ Department of Aazgrieu each meanber gets about 10.000 pac garden, flower and fleld seeds, me farmers’ bulletins. The latter are pamphieta of from % to 3 pages on jects of Interest to farmers. Postage i«# free to members of Co on all jJettere relating to official bu and it ta to be feared that some of interpret the phrase “official Dusiness broadiv that they have littl corres ence that comes outaide of Wt, If a member wiehes to mall Pla or any others that have been first print in the Congressioral Record, he not geta postage free, but he gets hia own velopes free from the Government prin office. and there ts no limit on the nu that he may get “bas This provision was first In operation df. o> ing the presidential campaign of 1888, “oe both congressional campalgn committees aperation here avalied themeaelves of with lavigh liberel'ty, Thev erde envelopes literally by the million, and ft had s0 enany left over that ware had to be hired by both committee which to «tore them. Some months the end of the campatagn the cuetedla the old Congressional Globe Buttdl which the Republican suppiy Was were caught carting off.the (which. of couree, had feanka \¢ them). and selling them by the WaiwE Not much was pecmitted to get pune newspapers about it, and the exact of the theft. or of te supply mains intact, ia net known to the pobitec but the previ«ion of law which the Govern moon [LP mae wemny vide and to print 4i@ ° * of campaign envelopes used by both remains undieturbed on the statute . Pubile deeumentsa are showered 1p members of Congres until to most bers they hecome A burden. Each ft is entitled, for his personal use. ¢ seta of all publi! ec documents iaeved his term of service. amounting to a volumes A year. fone of there nels to him bound tn costiy. though hot @ ive or durable. full sheep, The other set he may have we own taate In the Government provided he orders nething tha om yal) MRS. RILLIE E. COMSTOCK, President. -f the Woman's Hema ane Sccieiy. mmcless The att BaF or MRS. NELLIE G. BURGER of Ciark, Mo., secmetary of the Y. W. C. T. | | Iiumane Sec.e of Missourt nad with Mr iE Wo 1) = ‘ ; , a : . ’ ter? . .* a ’ ‘* te : ’ if sey ; i‘ fa’ " ‘ ; > . . ‘ : . Poona : . am rauntieroy, AS reneaer Live y mu moe assistance ol t! » {3 , liren and im mati preve ni iT 5 rire mbers ; cruelty to ra has I mm exerted it 0 : ‘ Yr ;O0 m mit : , evel a“ the prope t i ell j protect, l {3 a ta ning oral he CL in ite ¢ ty \Iy : a? ; ’ ae 0 aim ‘ling and purpoee ‘Ta tail - rs. $e TNS the Thurm iH. Bel) ty society he has done ladies: Mrs. KK. L | ' tutherfor \ . bes a t fo the present mar ts JPane lnetruct and directics: fthe liudes of the most excellent humane work. That rving of apecial mention ix the suppress'en of the street flower girl. After the soc lety took the matrer up, the Police Department came to ther aid. and thie evil, with its immora accompaniments, has been ‘minimised. Fedwa ¥. Brady is eervink bes or han’ mat Brad Sat on ~~ ‘an ‘eat coatiy than half morocea, | Seem lemtslation intended to eu ¢ sets ani the rete, but I do te 0 much | cent in | ge k of t cee | » IF ee B+ Ay society, and her conse S vi’ v. PPAR SEED " : ™ : : eS “4 hg of. “> tons — ee oe A 4 ; pa e

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¥ 7 2 . eh * ‘ « Af. ie » Peculiar Natives of Venezuela and Their Customs Described by a Sunday hs » ‘ = | : \ wh" ys. Y oe? th tad = a | A ? ” . ~~? a g - * 4} _ . . tie © ©) ‘ ' uv ual a A La ° i, ;'* 4 ( rhea, ® € ~~ » ey ¥ at » * 7) ee: 7 : a. . i ° oy ’ ' , 4 7 a e —_ ‘ , - a % P tte Ps Pa * : be om it, ms; fa a Nag KOM I NGL gr ee., Sood Peedi oO I Me aot an ie apt Ve aie , 'd wy ° - i wh 7s Py eh iy $ * re oe FF ae? ial pt * as, eS ‘y way ‘ ~e - f “ » / a - an yee Te a ES TS ee SE MT ey Min. St oe ; yy “ 5 le eo de Sd EE a Pe teed " ite iat ane on US os, Pe . a : : Sg ‘ ar P A 4 t= 4 to, bey t¢ Pa ar eS ry “ 4 a 7 4a ’ a Do a te Ur SOUT We Tht LLANOS AMERICA __ - i as Post-Dispatch The following article was written for the Sunday -Dispatch by Mr. A. J. Miller of Montgomery, + Who went to Venezuela as the representative this paper and in furtherance of some electrical ises. Mr. Miller has won fame as an ex- of atrainge places in Central and Northern ith America. By Andrew James Miller. CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 2. jal Correspondence of Sunday Tost-Dispatch. O REACH the Llanos of Venezuela, the home of those solitary horsemen who have been termed the Amer- fean Cossacks, you must make an extended journey through a wild, but extremely in- teresting, section of that land of contrarie- On leaving the curious Lake of Valencia, ‘with its phenomena of constantly dimin- CACTUS IS THE VEGETAB ps, oe J ; gates: i} nat: err . st . ’ > J . ; -. we fs : ; oe 4 +b, » ln oe | . + spe - rs9 33 . ; z t a ‘z Prk. ite ’ ee Hey : : , : stare’ + ty Fy ot tides , ; 4 > i. t+. a Ht bets ; . aes . - ; : ie J + > AY al . } —, ' tort a iain itt 3. ; 7 st 4 stittes 5 ih. » ; 4 £ re : ' | r ; priges TF ; a { 4 j } - aie fesse “Hist INDIANS OF and exuberant pasture, the domain support of myriads of roaming cattle. The llanero is the undisputed master of this region of solitude and silence, the only guardian of the innumerable herds which roam over the trackless expanse, In his mode of life and general habits of thought and demeanor, he is not unlike the Al- gerian or Bedouin, but more than ail he assimilates nearer to the Cossack, who, like him, lives in the saddle and indulges an uncompromising strife with many of the ironies of nature. The lNanero, like the plains he inhabits, has a most distinctive character. Like the cowboy, which he ts, his home is on horse- back and from long experience he is as familiar with these prairies as is ithe mariner in steering his ship through fa- and THE LL ae ; Thoth ors 5 ; f ON ae A ae Pf, o> ep Reece PEL EA, : io Pe Az 47 4.4 ys f - : : ‘ f ap ae - mg? , a ng SPE S Ls Pd ‘ , a4 i258 : eel - ae a pits fn } 7.7 9 tees ,» by-paths and with no well defined road to guide him, his instinct leads him to gallop, without fail to any objective point, though it might be a hundred miles away. In the pursuit of his vocation as a herdsman, he leads a life of extremes—solitariness and activity—separated from the nearest hatero by a distance of twenty miles and only vis- ited, at long intervals, by some casual trav- eler, three-fourths of his days are spent alone On the plains with none but the Deasts as companions. In his ignorance of all else but the care of the berds intrusted to his vigilance, this silent horseman liveg a cu- rious, it not unique, life, wrapped in the gloom of silence, with not even a hillock or tree to relieve the dreary monotony of the perspective to the eye. He has lived so long in a struggle with forces he could not overcome; so constantly battling with ANOS. Herdsman and Wife From the Mesa de Paja. discomforts, pests and perils; so accus- tomed to parching sun and drenching rain; so completely erased from the records of existence, so far as humanity is concerned, that the trend of his thoughts, if he medi- tetes ai all, must be gloomy and Hopeless in the extreme. While attentive and consider- ate to many of her organic forms, in this uncharitable region, Nature seems to have almost entirely eliminated man frem her calculations. She rarely turns her bright and gracious side to these cheerless herds- men, where her brief and casual moods of benignity render the contrast more promi- nent and hardships less . endurable, When the poor NHanero contemplates (if be ever does at all) the long reign of the verano, to be succeeded by the more intolerable invierne, as well as the bad and impure water, the flies, fleas and mosqul- toes, and the thousand other enemies of his existence, he must hate, with all the vigor and malignity of ignorance, the ever. present antagonist in Nature, against whose mysterious and malevolent forces he goes forth to daily battle. Yet, it is ex- tremely doubtful if his bereditary environ- ment afflicts him often with any such gloomy thoughts. He has become inurad to this life and has known nothing elise from the cradle. In fact, it is possible that the llanero may feel a certain amount of content that he was not doomed to a worse fate and may actually congratulate him- self that he has fallen heir to an ootupa- tion pursued by a long line of ancestors He certainly exhibits a marked amount of human feeling, if not vanity, in the pride he takes in being descended from the Span- jard. This may and possibly does arise from the fact that his pedigree is badly mixed with a half dozen Indian, if not ne- gro progenitors. While his ideas of life are almost comi- pletely restricted to his occupation, he oveys a universal instinct of mankind in a reverence for a Supreme Being. His relig- ious notions, not very pronounced, are lim- ited to the traditional instruction . which is a legacy from the days when his ancestors were more in touch with civiligation. The early Catholic missionaries penetrated these lonely plains and administered occasional- ly to the spiritual welfare of the Nanero, but they are now left to live on the tra- ditions of the last century, The perpetuation of such a@ race of cow- boys brings into view another creature, who, in another way, experiences all this desolation and loneliness. The woman who presides over the hatero is subjected to the same solitude and spends the whole day in solemn and silent domestic duties, while her liege-lord is away attending to his herds. She derives some comfort from the diversion afforded in cultivating small patches of ground around their grass hut, growing maize, yucca and cassava. Possi- biy the only time in their lives when they visit a settlement of human beings is upon the occasion -of their marriage, and this, too, is perhaps the one and only occasion they ever have of seeing a printed book. Just how two human ings can enter such a state of bondage and actually exhibit a degree of contentment with such a cheerless and solitary life, is incompre- hensible, even to those, who court the most lazy and indolent walks of life. To reach such a callous and indifferent state as to voluntarily settle down to an existence of squalor and degradation, certainly must be the lowest stage to which human nature is capable of sinking. The llanero and his wife, both alike sim- ple, ignorant, listless and almost imbecile in some of their traits—borrow their prin- cipal mannerisms from the Indian, while their dress and dialect are rude imitations . of the Spanish. The limited use found for language has left them a small vocabu- lary, but sufficient for all their necessities. The progeny vouchsafed this strange mate ing are generally the most dirty and re- pulsive looking beings, with nude bodies, smeared over with a kind of red earth or ochre, to combat the attacks of insects and parasites. They are so neafmy allied to the wild animals about them that they share their trepidation at the sight of a stranger and will bound away into the tall grass and conceal themselves upon his approach, Un- like children everywhere and under all con- ditions, they are mirthless and rarely in- dulge in any genuine sport or pastime. The men are usually of medium height, rather stout build and with a small head, covered with stiff, black hair. Their tawny faces are set off with a pair of squinting black eyes, which, without any reason, occasion- ally open with a startled, wild look of mingled fear and cunning, which as readily disappears and the countenance assumes its generally stupid and expressionless mien. One invariable physiological fact is ob- served with all llaneros—they are bow- legged. This, of course, arises from his constant life in the saddle, which bandies his legs, from clinging to his ‘horse, in his rapid whirls over the prairies. Like the sailor, he is without “land legs,” and to witness his rare attempts at walking is really humorous. His simple costume con- sists of cotton breeches and his mochila, or smock frock of same material His poncho, generally rolled up and fastened behind his saddle, serves the varied pur- iit | while on the other is a tanaha of relteve his thirst when streams. With his machete, ment is complete, and with only cessories, he is sometimes eighteen absent from his hato In rounding up streperous herd. The Indian is often a herder alse, keeps near the borders of the Lianos and seldom goes out into the center of this trackless waste. They are equally as soll- tary, however, as their mestizo brothers, and the illustration displays an Indian herdsman and his squaw, who were living on a small oasis, where several generations of his family had been reared. It is not Infrequent that 100,000 head of cattle will be in charge of five or six lla- nerds, who occupy isolated posts from eighteen to twenty-five miles apart. These herds, savage from their birth, only obey the herdsmen in keeping within a certain wide area, while they frequently dispute all restraint and, plunging away fifteen or twenty abreast, they suffer no impediment to check their wild career. At such times, when they are sweeping across the Lianos like an incarnate whirkwind, the quondam master prudently withdraws to a safe dis- tance until their mad flight ends in ex- haustion. Instances are recorded during the early patriot wars when troops marching across these plains were entirely routed and dispersed by a sudden stampéde these wild-eyed animals. ; There is one period of the year, only one, when the llanero for a period two days is in more or less hilarious com- munion with his nearest neighbors. ‘This is the time of la hierra, or the branding season, when different herds are al ly drawn into a great corral and with some particular character to the owner. This Is made a festive dcca- sion for a great deal of brutal sport, as well as a time for initiating the embryo Nanefo into the mysteries of the craft he must eventually embrace as a life Occupation. Me. fractory young colts must be brokes and the wildest young cattle must be caught and branded. The youngsters are ys ready to enter the lists and the @xpefence proves valuable to their subsequent ca- reer, as they generally come away With many scars of the conflict—the badges of initiation. For the time, 4 great tuniult reigns, in the béllowing of bulls, whinnying of wild mares, the fumes and sizzing of the branding iron, lassoing of colts, tre fighting of cattle—all constitute keen en- joyment for the erstwhile silent horseman. He goes back to his isolated hut, surfeited with pleasure, ready to resume his lonely rounds for another weary year. The bev- erage which lends some enthusiasm to his spirits on these turbulent occasions is called miche, which, like rum, is made from the fermented juice of the sugar cane. It has a very strong odor, burning to the taste and is very intoxicating. Such is the typical American Cossack, whose lonely life of hermitage, amid the Itl- limitable domain of the Lianos, furnishes a striking example of what evolution will do for man, when shut out from all soctlety with his fellows. Place civilized man in such a position and environment of gloom and silence, closing all avenues to the out- side world, and it would require but a brief time to dethrone his reason and leave him a raving maniac. The Llanos comprise possibly 50,000 to 6@0.. 000 square miles with a uniform height of 300 feet above the level of the sea. Their general aspect favors the belief that this great basin constituted an ancient intru- sion of the sea. The absence of forests is undoubtedly attributable to climatic con- ditions and especially the want of season- able rains. The same causes have produced the American desert and analogous effects are observed in various parts of the Old World. . During the wet season the Lianos are covered with richest verdure, but In sea- sons of great drought the grasses are most- ly dried up and the cattle are forced, for a subsistence, to go out near the borders until the returning rains once more quicken the growth of their prairie feeding grounds, ; il miliar seas. He knows all of its trails and a 7 Sometimes an impassable Barricade, Often Food and Drink for Trav- elers and Some= times a Hu- morist. HE cactus has been called the veg- etable camel of the desert. With one or two exceptions the cactus belongs miirely to the Americas, and the regious they thrive best are those where no Tain falle for three-fourths of the year. a Bach Plant has its own reservoir in which fe nial my Were aul 4, Pt y , a ah ee ‘ % “Wo - 7) : ‘ - ay ‘ ‘? $ t A, ’ bs 7 ¥ i 4 (cq - ; . | i} Gan etore up molsture against the long months of parching drouth. These reser- > Welrs @re co constructed that the water in- eide lasts from one rainy season to the next Ir Mexico, Texas and California the cactus is. more plentiful and every- Where the traveler is startled by the ap- pearance of these monstrous plants, some them rising “ike petrified giants, ing out their arms tn speechless pain, Othurs stand like their dreary watch on the edge of bes.” people have forgotten the cactus of sixty or seventy years ago, but It es to be remembered with the tulip of the seventeenth century and the mania of to-day. Perhaps there has fbeen anything quite like the passion In the seventeenth century, when at a price of $2200 became sub- » manner of lonely sentinels :¥ » t Af ee tare rnp Cee, ole: the South Sea iy @ "3 J * - 8 mt pity Sf rete yg Ps OEP CPE ICHINCCACTUS CONCINNUS. ~_ a ECHIN@CACTUS HEXAEDROPAORUS : ™ PP Yr Fe aw ex | — > Pe RO 8 a eee - —— + > . » s bs ECHIN@CACTUS CORTNODES. ‘ TWNOCAC ( ) HORIZONTHAVYNIS. % — Ye - => — ae Lf Hares ECHIN@CACTUS PXYRIOSTIGMA : ECHINOCACTUS OBVALLATUS LE CAMEL OF AMERICAN DESERTS, ECHIN@CACTUS COPTONOGONY . —_— (~~ ._—_— ) € i — Ye eh Bg inn oy q S i ta + fe Yee ae = fe Na We : # : a very tough shell, i fs | “Ce S a fe — agit ™ wre : ppt Pr ates filled with vegetables and water. plant is common there is no need for the tribe to burden itself with this improvised caldron when the march is resumed, as the next halting place may be relied upon to provide its own boiler. It is also recorded in the history of th‘s plant that Its juices have saved the lives of men who must oth- erwise have died of thrist. There is an interesting fact to be recorded of the “old man cactus." The hoary locks, more thickly about it in youth than in old age: when it looks old it “@ young, and when it looks young it is old, i —— “Ss i As the mold : ‘a, \: Beier ~_.* ms Pr a: , ia themselves into parodies of other plants and man and his works, but, really, a skiliful advocate might make out a good case for such a theory. The cactus is something of a humorist in his way. He offers man a boiler in which to cook his dinner, and then hands him a toothp ck in the mest approved ex- tra-attentive walter style, but these servi- ces do not exhaust his utliltarlan merits. if you want a hedge for your estate; or back garden—a good serviceable h e, which is warranted to keep neighbor Smith and his dogs and h‘s cats In their proper station—then you may be commended to the -_ a ¥ rene oe" ie ie ai ype oe = *.. 5 rte : eh 3 ~ ~ oe 5. sel ’ a yo 2 SRR HOW TO CHOOSE COLORS. -. — - — LLIAM OHASE, an artist who was W for years St. Louis’ most famous artist, and who lives In the East, says: “The art of dressing well does not de- pend on the selection of colors alone. “Of course, blondes should always choose what are known among artists as cool colors, for example, blues, pinks, greens, the many shades of violets, also white or black. Brunettes have all the warm tones —yellow, orange, red, with a few purples and blue to select from. “It is more difficult for a blonde than @& brunette to dress becomingly. All women with light hair or eyes fancy they should wear blue, especially delicate tints of azure, whereas very few of them can attempt it successfully. “Only blondes with perfect complexions ought ever attempt pale blues. Yet it is very generally becoming to brunettes. Such women do not need perfect complex- ions, as it throws out what little color they may have in the cheeks and lips and has the effect of clearing the skin. “The same may be said of delicate shades of yellow, while the reverse is true of pink. Almost any type excepting 4 very red blonde—I mean one with a florid skin—may wear pink safely, whereas the brunette or brown-haired woman has to be careful to secure the right shade. “She needs a pink with a suggestion of yellow. Another thing to remember about pink. It is a shocking telltale, revealing the ravages of time in the cruelest war. Whenever the concealment of age is a con- sideration, it should be avoided. “Moreover, let every woman bear in mind that pink and red should be worn above in preference to below the face. I never saw a woman who was improved by one of these pink or red collars they are wearing now—what do you call > = % William M. Chase, the Famous Artist, Who Formerly Lived in St. Louis, on an In- teresting Phase of His Art. being called on to paint a girl, quite @ préte ty Jewess, she was, and dark, of cours who wore a horrible blue waist. I mean horrible for her. “Why, I couldn't see the girl's face, for that detestable bod'ce seemed to shriek and scream at me. I remonstrated, but she declined to make a change, owlng to the extreme fashionableness of the color. What can we artists do when ladie think more of fashion than taste! “If you clever shoppers wovwild only take the goods before buying, throw it againat the face and use your eyes, you could easily decide whether or no a color was becoming. When you do chance to have an unbecoming tone the effect can be mod!- fied by using white or cream near the face. “White for blondes and cream for bru- nettes. That is a point which all womes would do well to remember, only the faire est and best cared for blondes should risk ivory white. Al others had best cling to cream tints. “Dark greens, blues and purples must never be attempted by women who have dark circles under their eyes, or whowe faces have a tendency to hollows. Such women need flame red, for instance. “A red-haired woman had best shun all is the brilliant brunette. “Pale or delicate looking women eeldom look well in any of the grays, tans or fawns, unless they are very skilifully com- bined with warm colors.

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ot ayo Marea oy Aprende yrs : 7 . Ps 4 Y ee. ae oe Se So . ‘ ‘ we [ou Poo ony q 7 2 age mE ae aD Ss a _M - ; r ¥ ‘a eg en a SS oy b re a) ey Age oo : 2 ¥ be EL Bre nye SY =a le os SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH—MARCH 19, 1899 ‘ : re ee iA P. ove hey Oe ae v ly ae ™ WAS THIS MOQONSHINERS’ QUEEN MURDERED? —— - @-- -— Mahalia Mullens Was Too Fat to Arrest and De- fied the Revenue Officers for Years. AHALIA MULLINS, the noted moon- shiner of Hancock County, Tenn., and a leader of the wmyster'ous tribe of Melungeons which been a puzzle to ethnological students for years, is no more. The great woman—physically @reat because hher weight slightly over 660 pounds—died under circumstances a8 mysterious as some of the incidents in her checkered life. Her whole life was a melodrama, with a few elements of farce comely injected, and her end was tragic. Surrounded by her children. she met death in agony in her mountain cabin: and there be not a few about Sneedville, the nearest considerable settlement to her home, who assert that her death was not due to natural causes, but that she was poisoned by rivals in the Illegitimate business of making moonshine whisky which she car- tied on. Her life began In the Cumberland Moun- tains, in Hancock County, and ended there. But for her awful avoirdupois it would have probably ended in jail. The number of times that Uncle Sam's revenue officers have placed her under arrest have almost been legion. That the jail was due simply to her size. Revenue offi- cer after revenue officer attempted by sub- terfuge to coax her down from the moun- tains without avail. To arrest her in the woods where she lived, a’most at the very peak of Old Baldy Mountain, was easy enough, but to convey 50 pounds of strug- gling, resisting flesh down the mountain side into town was impossible. The earliest known of Mahalia comes from Wal Stebbing, who conducted a gen- eral store at Sneedv ie in 184. He remem- bers distinctly how Bill Mullins came into town, «gloriously under the influence of “mountain-dew,” and confided to a few friends as they sat about the whitewashed stove in Stebbing'’s store that he was about to get married. He told them that the lucky woman was “old man Carley’s girl." The wedding was not a very formal one, and when Bill Mullins next came down into town accompanied by a young woman whom he called Mrs. Mullins the marriage Was an accepted fact. A prospector who came over from Knox- ville some time in the ‘Ws was much in- terested in the tribe, and he learned tn a general way that the Melungeons had lived in the mountains as far back es the mem- ory of the earliest resident of Sneedville went, and that they had always kepi among themselves and that they had al- wa made an especially good brand of “moonshine,” but as to their history he learned little and their descent, ethno- logically, still lees, for word was passed among the tribe that the prospector was a “revenue,” and one night his cabin in the mountains was set alfire by someone, and someone eclee fired a shot that went through the prospector’s arm. The next day he left town. In the days when Bill Mullins flourished everybody in Hancock County knew him as one of the most desperate “moonshin- ers.” He had numerous adventures with the revenue officers, with littie gain either to them or to him. Hs end came in 1879, in the winter, Wien Deputy 8mal)lwood and his posse followed Bill's trail until it ended in Red Cross Guich. Mullins knew that he was being tracked before the depu- ties were half way up the mountain. He sent Mrs. Mullins and the children out of the cabin and they found shelter some- where in the wood. Bill converted his cabin into a fort and had it all completed when Smallwood arrived. He made a vig- ss grows defense, but the guns brought to bear on him were too many. Besides, food gave | and after two days Bill surrendered. ’ Swear oy ra oxat, sent 10 3 =: ey aS - ois es ei have was she escaped * ee MAHALIA MULLENS. County has a very poor memory—she reap- peared and set up business for herself. For many months she was not disturbed, The whisky she sent to town was very mellow and fine and that was sufficient. It appears that the first attempt made to arrest her was in 188. Deputy Maskill led the posse up the sides of Cumberland, They found little trouble in locating Ma- halia’s cabin, but when they arrived all the little folk had disappeared. Mahalia was there, however, and she made no ob- jection when the deputies searched her cabin. They moved about very vigorously, how- ever, and they found a section of copper worm in the hollow of a pine not far from the cabin. Maskill told her she was under arrest and would have to accompany him. Mahalia just looked at him and puckered up her nose. Then e6he told him that she wouldn’t budge a step unless he compelled her. All the deputies tried to do so. They took her by the arms and feet and tried to carry her out of the cabin. But 560 pounds of flesh is hard to move, even if the person it represents is quiet and willing be moved. They tugged and they strained and, after a quarter hour's exertion, did move her as far as the cabin door. Then Mahalia objected to geing further. A giantess in size, she was also possessed of -much Strength, and she threw the officers of the law away from herself with ease. Then the posse drew off for consultation. Maskill Suggested that an effort be made to tie her hands and fect. He asserted that he was convinced that if Mahalia could be pre- vented from using her limbs, her removal might be effected. While the plan was being put into execu- tion one of the deputies asked Maskil] how he was going to take the woman down the mountainside, even if her hands and feet were tied. He hinted that if Mahalia’s 560 pounds ever dropped out of the hands of the officers she would be sure to roll, pos- sibly to her death. But Maskill was not to be frustrated by argument, and he in- sisted in carrying out his purpose. What might have happened if the plan of tying her had been attempted is matter for speculation. What did happen was the sudden appeurance of one of the children, a wild, unkempt creature, whose love for her mother was that of a wild beast for its dam. The officers paid little attention to the girl until one of them overheard her whispering to her mother: “I'll go tell the crowd.” Then she ran, swift as deer, from the cabin They attempted to catch her, escaped. Here, then, was trouble ahead. If the Melungeons came down in force upon the sheriff and his posse the officers would certainly be overpowered. Maskil) had planned to slip up into the mountains and arrest the Mahalia and then slip down again into the town before the colony of moonshiners on the mountain would know what had taken place. His force was too small to hope for a successful resistance to the fighting members of the Melungeons. Maskill therefore decided to withdraw. For months Mahalia was undisturbed. Various revenue officers visited the section, and some of them went so far as to de- clare her under arrest, but none ever made the attempt to remove her. They contented themselves with telling her, in a grave and impressive Manner as they could, that she was under arrest, that she must consider herself as a prisoner and prepare to be tried. For a while these threats really impressed the woman, and she de- sisted for weeks at a time from making mountain dew. But after a number of these experiences shé became convinced that the officers would not attempt to take her away, and she continued in her business with impunity. For the last few years she had been lit- tle troubled by the officers. She was be- coming aged—at the time of her death she was just a week more than 75 years of agze—and her activity grew leas. Once or twice within the last year the officers visited her and destroyed her still, but none ever attempted to remove her. She finally died in great agony, in a con- vulsion, with every symptom of poison. It is known that for some time past other moonshiners in the Cumberland have been envious of the woman and of her ability to carry on her’ work in defiance of the law, and that she was poisoned. No in- vestigation has been made and none to al but she as aes g * gp es 9 Sak, 7 nd oe, Fe Saale) a tol ale f Me ee oa ~ a [LAT rete tees enone ; et ee ‘ : ad fap Fabs = # Pip = a tt : = i $ 2 tei al iH hay iti ; es Hh ti Peel preee : i} RLPCLUEDAA CORE: = ° : ho iH in} i] ith ‘2:5 eehe pric 2 | 7 perl it if " HIN iW i : } hae ’ : ‘7 ; i] Hibeerr) biti 1} Pit Milieel eels pineal al af i : | ; 7 ia j ; Lith an it HE Rabbinieal Conference of America Xi met considerably earlier this year than is usual in Cincinnati that its proceedings might be absorbed in the cel- ebration of the 80th birthday last Tuesday of Rev. Dr. Isaag Mayer Wise of the Plum St. Temple, the B'nai Jeshurum Congrega- tion. Rabbi Wise is renowned and beloved far and wide as the apostle of modern Judaistic thought, the founder of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the leading promoter of the Hebrew Union College. From ‘the four points of the compass gath- ered the leaders who represent the great work of bringing Judaism in touch with mocern thought and usages, and who recog- nige in Dr. Wise the great exponent of those views which, while distinctly modern, sac- rifice none of the great principles which more thoughtless reformers have compro- mised. There could be no bettter evidence of thé high esteem in which Dr, Wise is held than the marked respect and reverence with which he is regarded by those who differ from him in thelr religious connec- tions. So deep and universal is the feel- ing that the entire city, the educational bodies, and the intelligence and culture of the whole community united in honoring him and his singularly useful career of BD years in Cincinnati, It was chiefly as the founder of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, as the promoter of the Hebrew Union College, and the successful pioneer in the fleid which at first presented apparently insur- mountable obstacles that Dr. Wise was honored. Nor is this the first occasion on which his merit has been conceded, The pupils who thhave been fitted for their life work under this guiding hand are scattered throughout the land, and no large city in “he country is without evidence of religious education as it sprang from the mother HE State of Georgia owns a railroad, It is the Western & Atlantic, which | extends in almost a straight line from Atlanta to Chattanooga, Tenn. In 1890 the road was leased to the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louls Railway Com- pany for $420,012 a year, or $35,001 a month, a period of B® years. Ott So oria’s owaerehip of the railroad dates from Dec. 24, 1836, when the General As- sembly provided for the survey and con- struction of a railroad from the point where Atlanta now atands to some point on the Tennessee River. A few years be- fore that the South Carolina & Georgia Rallroad had been completed from Charies- ton, 8. C., to Augueta, and this fact cre- ated in the minda of the leading public men of the State the hope for the advance- ment of the commonwealth along lines of transportation facilities. By 1847 the road was operation from Terminus (now At- ay Ralton, a .gnee of mi " 1. : . ten os « hat . - “ es nm ‘ | ’ ‘i... *. a ad , . - _ From his latest photograph. and paternal eye of the founder of both institutione, Dr. Wise, however, is also honored as one of the most prolific and influential He- brew writers of the present day. His best known works are his ‘History of the Israel- itish Nation,”’ in which his pecullar Views find a prominent place; his “Essence of Judaism,”’ which is a masterful portrayal of the details which enter into the construc- tion of the religion of old, and his “ Juda- ism—Its Doctrines and Duties,” which is largely a warning to those who might be wandering on the brink of the abstract. Perhaps none of his works, however, created such a widespread interest as his “Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth,” in whose crucifixion he maintains the Jewish nation had no hand. In this work the psychological points are so keenly outlined and there is such an evident desire to as- certain the truth that not many who have perused his pages have closed the book un- persuaded. It is exactly this conspicuous honesty that has made Dr. Wise from that day to this such a conspicuous figure in the Hebrew and in the literary world, Still the Ist of his writings is not com- plete. For there must be added his “Cos- mic God,” his “Three Lectures on Jesus, the Apostles and Paul,” his “Wandering Jew,” and, coming down to a more recent day, his “History of the Hebrew’s Second Commonwealth,” devoted to those questions which within recent years have largely oc- cupled the students of sociology. On one subject Dr. Wise has always spoken guardedly, and that is Zionism. It is possible that he desires to see established in Palestine a government separate from the influence of other religions. The ideal of Zionism lies more within than without, and the future of the movement, whatever it may be, will probably not be without the cordial support of Dr. Wise. — —_ ~~ taxation and the sale of bonds, the money being appropriated from time to time as the work progressed. In the first years of its existence the road was operated directiy by the State, through officials named by a State superintendent, who was in turn appointed by the Gov- ernor. Politics necessarily played some part in the «election of the superintendent and minor officials, but as little as might have been expected under the circum- stances. Up to 1855 the property was a burden to the State, the road fafiing to produce sufficient revenue for its support, and in that year the late ex-Senator Joseph KE. Brown and ex-Senator Benjamin H., Hill made a apirited canvass for the gov- ernorship, the question at issue being the sale or the lease of the State road. former championed the operation of road by the State and won. The first of his administration witnessed a _ thor- ough reorganization of the ma ment and the application of business methods in ee ee A RAILROAD. unbroken progres?. Regularly a net baij- ance of 0.000 was realized and the re- ceipts during Brown's administration went as high as #4530,000—considerably over 10 per cent on the money invested. It paid over haif the revenues required for the support of the State government under normal con- ditions, and even during the war was a soures of great financial strength to the tate. During the reconstruction period the property was used for political purpores and was allowed to run down. A ular clamor again arose for the sale of the road, Ex-Gov. Brown again opposed this proposition and stated that with the proper maangement the road was worth to the Siate $26,000 per month. Finally. as a - sult of this agitation, in 1870 the Lewis ture authorized the lease of the property for a term of @) years at not less than the amount named—$3,.00 monthly. Mr. Brown, then juetice of the Bupreme Cour resigned his office, leaxe HAS HARGRAVE DISCOVEREI THE BIRD'S SECRET ? ‘ Aan. Sadie ee ; i ‘ ; ne he o~ > ae Ie Aa! , ‘wy (Ai cee AWRENCDE (HARGRAVE, an Austra- lian, who, for almost 10 years, has been known as the king of all the kite flyers, has made to the world the startling announcement that he hae dis- covered the secret of the flight of the bird, and has applied it to a machine, ‘which, without any other motive power than the wind, will fly and soar. a The real discovery, which Hargrave has made, and the paft of the announcement which aerial scientists generally credit, is that the reason a bird can rise and fly against the wind, and the reason an eagle, without a flap of the wing, can soar against a strong wind, is because there is under the wing of the bird a cup-shaped hollow into which the wind enters and@'théen whirls in a vortex, exerting a force which lifts and pushes forward. To simplify, the thick part of the wing acts on the air like an obstruction in a stream, creating below a whirlpool which reversely rolls against the barrier. It Is this principle which Hargrave ‘applies to kites and fivying machines. He made his firet experiments with obstructions — in water, and, as soon as he became satisfied that he was correct in his understanding of the reverse motive power exerted by a vortex, he made a wood model, ballasted it with lead, and set it down on the ground, headed into the wind. It rose inetantly, flying upward and into the wind. A gull, Hargrave says, literally rides the wheels of air, he says, cannot burst be- air upon wheels of air whirling in the vor- tex of the cup under his wing. These cause of the vacuum in the center, The thick part of the bird’s wing causes the alr to cascade into the cup of feathers, and there, in an invisible cylinder, to whirl continuously at great rapidity, with a vacuum for its hub. With the wind only blowing thirteen miles an hour these air wheels whirl at the rate of 2900 revolutions a minute, This velocity increases with the force of the wind, Har- grave asserts. According to these statemgts we at last have an explanation of why the sea gulls shoot into the hurricane or rides high against the approaching storm. It explains what Humboldt vainly sought—how the econdors soars for hours above the loftiest peaks of the Andes without moving a wing. Even the flying fish always sails against the wind. Hargrave not only presents an obstruc- tion to the breeze inthe forward part of the kite, but he weights it with lead. This bal- last does for the kite what the bony feet do for the eagle in its fight—they bal- ance it on the air wheels revolving under its wings. Aerial experts have long been puzzled by the sudden shooting of certain kites into the air, sometimes against the wind. They could not understand it. As they were not aware of the science involved they failed to make their kites with the necessary thickness and curve in front to enable them alone to soar against the wind. It is a singular fact in regard to these flying machines that the greater the wind the greater the speed directly in the teeth of the wind. According to Hargraves ex- periments, one of his machines, well bal- lasted, woutd soar aloft simply by the force of the wind reversed against it. Hargrave says: “I have noticed that soar- ing is easier in a wind velocity that is in- creasing than when it is decreasing. I attributes this to the volumes of alr of high density and velocity driving in under yolumes of lower density and velocity. The contiguous surface will then cause eddies in the combined mass rotating in the same direction that the soaring vortex does. That is, the upper part of the eddy mov- ing to windward and the lower part lee- ward, one of these would be more readily caught and held by the propeller than whew the contrary conditions prevailed. , Another singular fact is that these newly invented automatic storm ridin fiying ma- chines have the eccentricities of -t eir half- brother, the Australian boomerang. That inanimate monkey sort of weapon appar ently Violates all the laws of natural phii- osophy in ite wild curves and m ning flight. You throw it In the way you don't want it to go, if you are an amateur, and it will sall against the wind di ly oppo- site to the way it was started, and when it seems disappearing in the distance it is Hable to suddenly dart back for your head with increasing velocity. The boomerang does not woqis to make speed untill it seeme ready to fall lifeless to the ground, Then look out for its deadly w. The Australian machine just invented by Harg ve is a similar kind of bird. 4 kon | mays a bey oy ’ on a New Principle. — tei Hargrave's Device in Operation, _ Eddy, the foremost of. the ai plane and kite-flying scientists of ’ a ton, whose machine made a flight a mile. “He had invented up to 189 21 motor flying machines, two or three in diameter, all of which have flown distances, impelled by tiated rubber, pressed air or steam. @ greatest t made by any of his machines was 368 feet. ‘Hargrave began his study of of air motion by comparative with objects of variols shapes f liquid, as set forth by a pogo read the Royal Society of New South 1884." In his earlier experiments with ¢ lar kites, which he devised in 1893, or to that year, he used concave kite su thereby gaining greater stability and wu lifting power of kite flight. | “These concavities were also used Maxie in England, and resulted tn a eo increase of lifting force in proportion to surface of the aeroplane. were unable to account for th force, and the problem has puzz flying machine and kite inventors up to prgegnt time he greatness of this discovery is obvis _ ous, because he makes an aeroplane soaring machine rise in the air aute cally, or, in other words, a kite is mac fly without a string. without reosaias fore the wind, and in fact is made to and fleat upWard and the wt the steep angle of 70 to egrees. “‘Hargrave’s discovery was almost pated by LAlienthal, in Berlin, and b& caster, in Florid n fact, Chanu nounc as early as Lancaster’s claim that his# upward and against the wir soaring birds are daily pe feat, and apparently in h “The nearness ‘of Lilienthal’s af to the discov now made by E was due to the fact that the win which Lillenthal was suspends characterized by hollows near the edge. arhe discovery was also veiled from enthal by the fact that he was in r through the air at the time that tl lifts occurred, and he would anyhow upward and against the wind : his momentum. He did not know t t increase of wind which caused him to and rise higher was causing a crease of pressure nd him, due to vortex of whirling air, calling for an crease of adjustable weights. “Lillenthal made a number of lo ing flights of 1500 feet or more wit motor, suspended below what was cally a huge detached kite, and mo ways against the wind with a down i. tha’ sall- ut t. iring many of his flights, beginn ltop, he was greatly annoyed, ¢ and afterward killed by havi p in the air slackened, behaea a same time he waa lifted upwa two hundred feet as mo ward against the wind. This was gerous situation for him, because Was a pressure back of the leading of the machine, which developed a dency to pitch him forward and 4d the balance of the machine. ‘Later this did occur, causing the chine to fall edgewise and kill one rs most modern of machine because to } keeps machine at such an angle that the lifts it. His machine differs from all in that a deep hollow with a so flattened rear surface is formed alon forward edge of the lifting plane, t rushing against the front edge and up a whirling or vortex motion w creates a strong ‘lift’ in the rear of plane. The air whirle like a bicycle and rolls and against the daring men of genius times. t whirl, like the ‘eye’ of a storm in cane. It ls a partial vacuum ca by rush of air toward the circumference of whirl. “ “But since the edge of the machine wide, the air moves in an extended like twenty bicycle wheels side by Really it is a revolving cylinder in which the force is exerted back front edg:+ of the aeroplane. ‘This of course causes the to tip forward, while the rear surface Hargrave found that bis machine ted to an extent determined periment, rose upward eeventy or eighty de and to a height of on October of about seventeen miles an hour. I got into wind of greater velocity and ¢ to leeward, * ‘He then reached the conclusion that starting from a height the steadier would enable the weight used to machine at the right a weight must automatically adjuat as the wind increased, causing the dd Pa by ecocms so small a surface to me 2 periments with the ” and show that there is take. “The Right of a scrap of height before an in f bo the high served above ~ an a de iy, ‘ ap i ial ow ¥ « . ae y a" ae . ; , % be | ) i ~ ee $ oy agit “nic Vee A in- . i + ame or * oe ie . ie - i . Pos x * ~ 4 o ae 3

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ene oe RSs. alo \ 90 en East End, London. eed As the Christian worker of very real ts ‘+ \Vewtriage height, pets a! ‘SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH—M ARCH 19, 1899 eee eee ele ——_ ATHERS STANTON AND PROTOTYPES OF JOHN STORM. Hall Caine’s Hero in “The Christian” ADDEKLEY Was Studied ‘From Life in London. the creation of Hall Caine. He is the “The Christian.” As a man was sent from heaven to hunery and needy in J OHN STORM as a romantic fanatic is hero of of inepiration he console the sorrowing. feed the generally cheer up the scedy and rt self- spbnegation he is Father Stanton and Father 7aAdderley rolled into one. “The young clergyman, of but who looked certain distinction of figure head like an arched wall, and a large, clos cropped head, a well- formed nose, a pow- a good aver- taller from a * ¢« *® Aa fore- e- tedtierful chin and full lips, all very strong and brs 7 oe mo’ a yaa: me? par pele oe ae & ta m | oaeg Sthe jewith theéir long black lashes. ten set for one so young’’—this is Hall Caine’s portrait of the Hon. James Granville Ad- Gerley, fifth son of Lord Norton, known to Yame as “Father Adderley” of Berkeley ‘Chapel, Mayfair, a vowed “Brother of Mercy,” living in the Priory. But the “complexion was dark, almost “ewarthy, and there was a certain look of gypey in hie big, golden-brown eyes He was clean- shaven, and the lower part of his face es above it.’ When Hall Caine painted John Storm's eyes, with their magic fiash he posed an- , Sther model. Any one who has been within miles of St. ‘lAlban’ 8, Holborn, knowe the eyes. They theses a heavy under the splendid fire of his mare, happily, still the bodily possession of A. H. Stanton, or, as he is known to ev- y from honest John Bull's postman pena to the Fagans of Seven Dials, Father Stan- lec fon, Dir: a “wl 4s Father Stanton; “His voice was bold and full”—this again “apeech grave”’—this is ‘ather Adderley. No one ever accused Father Stanton of in ‘gravity. He is the jolly spiritual doctor aro." any police officer in the United States. who chaffs you into good humor with this world and the next and Sives _ jam after all medicine with a nasty taste. His Chris- tianity is robust and homely. Whether you meet him in a shabby, certcal-cut coat and curate’s hat, or see him in al] the ma- jesty of beretta and gown within the chancel rails of St. Alban’s, it is all the SAMA, His bearing is pregnant with instructive respect for his chosen work, but he is guiltless of “side."’ The Rev. A. H. S8tanton, known the length and breadth of the land as Father Stanton, and called “‘Daddy”’ by the very poor people who love him beet, has been for more than ® years a curate of St. Al- ban’s, Holborn, doing the usual parish work and mush else besides. Like many other Anglican clergymen of late years, he has asumed the prefix “Father,’’ in imita- tion of the Catholic priests, as indicating more definitely the paternal relation he de- sires to maintain toward his flock. His great fame in England comes from his 2 years’ work for English postmen. He founded the postmen’'s rest-house (known as St. Martin's League, after the Central office. St. Martin’s-le-Grand). Any postman can belong to St. Martin's League. All po- litical and religious discussions are barred. It was originated and is kept going by Father Stanton, who is worshiped. by all the members of the league. It is this per- sonal hand-to-hand relation which Hall Caine had in mind in those last. great chapters of “‘The Christian.” To see Father Stanton with the thieves round and about Seven Dials is one of the favors but rarely possible to enjoy. This phase of his character is one-.of the great mysteries to the people who have not heard him talk of the “fatherhood of God” and. “fraternity of humanity.’ He performs his usual church work and sees any one who may need him and his advice before noon, then snatches a bite _ of _Plain luncheon, for you must know that while he phd litt’e abo: it it a life of pov- erty is rast of it a‘t]—goes Into the church at 2:30 p m. to hear ssions, ard is not free again til! after 6 at night) When he dinés no one can tell, as his door ts al- Ways besieged by poor, sinful folks or poor unfortunates, In the evening he is with hie postmen And then he fills in the odd moments with a game of cards with Fagan and Bill Sikes and the poor ’prentice hand, Oliver Twist. In other words, he goes in and out in dark courts and up and down the creaking stains of Seven Dials, the friend of thieves A favorite amusement of the little Fagans is to steal Father Stanton’s handkerchief and gloves, notebooks and so, as he passes up the steep, dark passaxes. Then when the Father is busy playing cards he misses his handkerchief, and with high jinks of glee the missing article is produced by the little imp who has “lifted the swaz.”’ All this flotsam and jetsam on the shore of life finds, as he will tell you, a pal in Father. And certainly all confes classes agree that Father Stanton has a larger vocabulary of slang than any other man in London. And as for chaff—well, a clergyman who can chaff his Bishop with impunity can do anything! ¥et upon His Lordship’s last visit if in- spection to St. Alban’s the duty of es- corting My Lord to his carriage devolved upon ‘‘Daddy,’’ who talked so fast that the Bishop got no chance whatever to put in a word edgewise till he was seated in his carriage, when with his hand on the door, he said: “I like your sérvice, Stanton; right, all right; cense.”’ Very sorry, very sorry, Bishop, but it’s the best to be had—3s. 6d. a pound.” It is the wonderful thing about this truly great man that he can do these things. it is all but I don’t like your in- es vy ay Hf} Ds Sa _ Every one knows his love for his boys, as he calls the postmen, but the little in- cident which happened Nov. 5—Guy Fawkes Day—would seem calculated to upset even his equanimity. “Daddy’’ was escorting the conventional bald-headed nobleman subscriber over the resthouse in Brooke st. and going down a darkish passage, expatiating upon the quiet behavior of his lads, when three of them sprang upon him, and, coming off victorious in the scuffle, tied ‘‘Daddy”’ to a chair and made a Guy which was of unrivaled popu- larity. One of the institutions of the resthouse is a rousing range fire whereon the men may cook beefsteak or do a kidney to a turn. UL s nee? A eg “ @e et te WT FATAER STANTON ——— ~ LIEUT. PRICE FIGHTS SAN cleco knows more about Chinese highbinders, or “‘hatchetmen,” than He fought them relentlessly for 10 years. Then he gave it up. Mongolian ingenuity and if IEUT. WILAAAM PRICE of San Fran- @raftiness cannot be combated on equal Terr 4 Pe of © ands. ) ‘@anized so-called ‘“merchants’ clubs,”’ terms by the white man. Taking the advice of unscrupulous law- ers. the various Tongs, or highbinder in the Pacific Coast city have or- se- red papers of incorporation, and laugh at efforts of the police to dislodge them, " Wecause, being incorporated, they are safe from police raids. * thehighbinder societies are gangs of pro- “pont _ybewomveapon. jonal murderers, known in the vernacu- as “hatchetmen,” from the fact that ret 1 eee usea to be their favorite When a Chinaman wante an ene- aad disposed of, whether he be a rival in o*% Pe Im the confession at his lost business or love, or a person of whom he is in dread, he generally lets the job to a highbinder at a stipulated sum. That is, he makes a deal with the head man of the Tor; and the choice of an assassin is then decided by lot. “The only way to fight a pack of demons is to be a demon yourself, I guess,” says Iieut. Price. “Ten years ago the high- binders called me their ‘White Devil.’ If there is anything in a name, all right. I would rather have them believe I am a devil than an angel. I have discovered in my 10 years’ experience with the hatchet- men that there are no angels among them. They are a pack of deep-dyed devils—every one of them bloodthirsty, and I have fought them like a devil from that day till this. “A man can never fight highbinders twice in the same way. If there were 1500 high- binders in the quarter and one of them should get caught, every Chinaman of the FRANCISCO HIGHBINDERS. lot would know all about it in less than five minutes. When I walk down Kearny st. and up toward Chinatown the highbinders have signal men who carry the news on ahead of me, just as if some one had my picture on a banner going on in advance. And these signals travel like a flash. A certain wave of the hand goes from block to block; and these hands are well paid, too. But if they should fail in their duty, and some highbinder should be caught red- handed, all the punk sticks in Chinatown could not save the erring signalman. A price would be placed on his head before an hour. ‘Besides this system, there are secret wires and alarms leading to attics and un- derground dens where the highbinders hold their meetings. I remember a big raid we made one midnight in Ross alley. We had located 20 hatchetmen in a deep cellar, but the next thing was to get them hand- cuffed. I knew we had the right men, and that signals were being used. ‘Little Pete’ had just been murdered and over his grave vengeance had been sworn. Our only hope was to reach the signals or wires. A block distant from the den was a Chinese butcher’s stall on the street corner and so located that he could look in three direc- tions. He had a suspicious look whenever I came about, and always began to cut up meat. We watched him. He always went to the same block and began cutting. Two minutes before the raid I jumped around the street corner and into his stall. He moved toward the block, but I clicked a gun in his face. It was not a block at all; simply a board rounded to look like one, and the slightest weight upon it would press a button below and ring the highbinders’ bell a block away. That was the secret of his chopping act. I clipped the wire carefully, handcuffed my man to an fron railing outside, and soon had a' wagon-load of men from Ross alley on the way to the Central Police Station. They were murderous-looking fellows, but we covered them all with guns as soon as the: door was opened. “The only safe way of getting a high- binder is to make a rush. He always has six or eight doors at his disposal, besides secret hiding places, blind doors and win- dows. I have known some of them to leap into a ‘dumb waiter’ or secret elevator and shoot up to the attic and jump through a hole in the roof. All this in a few sec- onds. Right here is the danger in hunting the highbinder. A policeman is liable to step upon a concealed trap door in the hallway or the rooms of the building, and fall into some dark, foul basement 20 feet below. We have to look out for this when we do the ‘rush act.’ Not many weeks ago Tom Taylor was pursuing a desperate fel- low through an old lodging-house on Stock- ton st,, and was just about grabbing him by the ‘pig-tail’ when the highbinder ran up a ‘trick ladder’ to a hole in the roof. * ” 4 ——_ Se ee eo ee we _s= Tom followed him and when near the top the criminal pulled out a nall, jerked a wire, and Naylor fell 2 feet to the floor, while his man ran out over the roof, Naylor then scrambled up through the opening by climbing one of the asides of the false ladder. He found the hatchetman with a broken leg on another roof and car- ried him down to the street, surrounded by a lot of excited kinsmen. When I climb Chinaman’s ladder I want a white man at each end of it and a receiving hospital ambulance handy. Though §® Chinamen should see one of their men shot down by a highbinder, not one of them could be made to testify against him. They know better. That is how powerful the highbinders are. The Six companies used to settle disputes; now the hatchetmen are the bosses. I have had Chinamen come to me and say: ‘Help me to get away from my society. I am afraid of them; they want my blood.’ They have asked me to break up thefr own society, and have given me clews, under promise that I would never tell who told. If I did it would be ‘all day’ with them. “I’ve racked my brain ten years trying to outwit these men. Chief Crowley simply said to me once: ‘Price, clean out these devils down there at all costs,” and the toward this end. The worst-trouble is convicting the scoundrels when you do them. Witnesses are timid, and for reasons. The Tongs put up money for able defense—and death to the man testifies against hie."’ SS ee - = a —_———— : ; z rad ’ F 7 “2a ; Pie ee proky in an attempt as al I? ink vw “el ed, anal, of En- later and flood Europe with spurious giand notes. He in the wear, was rrested, convicted given a l0-yea! ntence r counterfeit in connection } note on the Bani In 1895 Becker went | secured a $12 draft une: worth National Han! raised it to $22.000. In t) he recentiy made Be markabie a: in never been explained, ic Was not the originator of scheme, Seaver and Joseph MeClusky, wilt Becker had worked before, had inl the theft. and they caled Becker in be cauee skill was indispensable. Hecke went from New York to Cailforn a, | a: d worked at Oakland °* says his partners whi. the State Seaver, who worked under the allas of A, Hi. Dean, made the first puble step in the San Francisco robbery. He rented an office in the Chronicle Building, and announced that he was a mercantile broker. oie te veh oscglin ack agence ROR: nN ‘fhievem his , he did mot ace e he in al < eee ok 5-5 ty oe . r: - FS 4 depositing his bDal- vada Bank of San Francisco, $2500 In cush. thle told ance would vary from $2000 to S20,00%, and that he would aek no accommodations. He alternately withdrew and deposited money, and it seemed he was doing a iegitimate business, the cashier Meanwhile Tk was waiting at plainm-j}« the genius of letters, J ec. 9 cker, a hotel in Oakland. okKing business man purchased @ the Croker-Walworth National for $12. He gave his name as A. H. *. It was then that Becker went to hie room at the Oakland hotel. He piled with blank drafts like the manipulate, that the paper ot show the shghtest variance. The pres ‘nted the most serious cut out with a sharp nreful to leave a beveled edge. i perfect nicety he eut from the blank ersact duplicates in tise and shape, ith theee he petehed the draft he was Hashes says. ech een 3 a neti ft oO : Ur Was to se he ai ad | | “ and « to raise. ey bt ti ie lar machine, as the authorities supposed, but with a punch made by breaking in twain an ordinary steel darning needle. “Changing the body of the draft, that fae, the writing, was, of course, an entirely dif- ferent operation requiring a 4ifferent kind of skill,” Becker eays. “But 1 was pre pared for it. I had studied the art ef the papermaker, the engraver and the designer, and the process was not tiresome. Having plenty of specimens of the so-called safety paper, and {t really is excellent, as far as it goes, the effect of acids upon this par- ticular make of paper waa easily ascer- tained. I first attacked the figure ‘I’ and changed it to ‘2 by the simple addition of the necessary lines. If you will inspect the draft after your attention iscalled to the first figure ‘2 you will detect the straight line of the original figure ‘1’ and will see that if is not exactly the banker's own figure 7 which follows. Using the acide, which 1! had learned, by experimenting, would not discolor the paper, I took out the two small ‘0’ that etand for the cents and put In three more ciphers, letting them slope down, as I assumed a man writing hastily might do, and closing the figures, ag the drawer of the draft showed his custom to be, by writ- ing two small ciphers like these, W,' over two short lines. These might be considered unimportant details, but they all count in a work of this importance. The writing of the word ‘twelve’ was very prominent, and con- siderable ink was used. This caused some work to remove the stain, but it finally yielded. My task was now finished except for painting the letters necessary to com- plete the words ‘twenty-two thousand.’ It would have been impossible to have written those letters with the finest pen I ever saw, so I ueed a camel's hair brush, The date shows very faint in the photograph because it was «tamped in colored ink that Was not acceptable to the camera. I made no change in that. The work of altering the draft from $12 to $22,000 .ook me about three hours and a half, including the t.mé it took fur the patones to dry.” The draft In question was deposited by Dean Dec. li. It was for $2200. and was drawn by the Bank of Woudland, Wood- sand, Cal, on the Croker-Woolworth Na- ional Mank of San Francisco. The paper was sent through the clearirg house and paid by the drawee. The following day Dean presented his check, payable to the order of “seif,”” and indorsed by him, and received $21,000 In gold. which he carried away in four bags. The paying bank, bave- ing fallied to advise the bank upon which the money was drawn, was clearly at fault and responsible for the lose: The Protective Committee of the Amert- can Bankers’ Association decided that the forgers should be captured with no sparing of expense Dean was arrested at St. Paul and Becker at Philadelphia. Nothing could be proven against Becker, and he was re leased. McClusky sought Becker and urged him to contribute money with which to de- fend Dean, who’ was under indictment at San Francisco. McClosky then made @ coa- fession, and the ungrateful Becker was ar- rested at Newark, N. J., and taken West, He had funds and made & received a seven-year sentence. that in the long run his profession paid him, and declares has last theft. : Fyre te a hoot Ah Sp ee EA . ey 7“ <, =) - — a ee RS ees a eee eee BT ge & ae Waar ee a # fe ke hee a GES ome ee rie .7 oe a < 7% Te ai a “Ty f } b+ p y fr: “~ ©

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; , ; . : = oO a im i : es : ier? ae , YAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS F P 4 x is as sa Cs 9 ee a = - ee ae = ee & ii . ‘ 23 F * *" od * : * tia = oo ee Fire ne 7 oe nae >", ee Agha ~ ~ a re ee W oy 7 [+8 i me hy * eh Sy ses ae rr. , 4 y oe Od Pes 4 Sy ie. gander, with the lone white neck and the two big, flabby web-feet which fold up like. damp cotton umbrellas, is probably the queerest. Dick followe his owner every- where. Mary’s little lamb ‘is outdone by the fowl from the country. Although reared among rural! surroundings, city life has no terrors for Dick. Across crowded streets, where wagon wheels forever whirl and trolley cars flash be every minute, Dick goes, in the wake of young Mr. Paw!l, skillfully, and without any undue haste, dodging the feet of man and beast, with equal ease. If viciows dogs threaten, Dock becomes a hissing bundle of rage. Hie long neck twists Lke a letter 8 and his stout wings and sharp bill deal hard biows. Should a larger enemy appear Dick takes refuge with his master. He answers to his fame, eata aoe, Koma Dene eet Oe joys ayes hs ae mr Bg "Seley Fea ~ Es Bad : a : ere 5! eg. 2) : Say tikes wget a ee a” ne bas why > ed Wicket eet = , ~. NS Ss ee . « “ys “9 Seehs m a Me Ae wi pe Bet “a Bare * ‘ =? Fe es A PRICELESS B ; dl HB REV. WILAAAM = 4 who has ieft Boston, to become First Congregational — has in his 4p te S fame. It : oo che a. * nister went through “Thanke to that — 1 money while | wae doctor. “For a thi years it was - . pe mh gis gs ae ”, ‘wood, oa “a ¥ na erate . mes | was tempted to _ to “. and | cherish p.: now as the thing which joys and at ss my viru lie in roa iin ~ ~~ 5 ‘ : = “AS \ er 7 et pe igs ie. Me Pp eked b a Py : : a ag

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Ng" weal MRIS oe % ‘ a (3 > . y a eee ee Pe a re par oi Eee ee i ge. Ags au eee + Fe 7. s" puree 7 LOUIS phn plioniecpinings =) 1899 Rate: ou 2 eS oe * ge SS eins ken tne SEER UE 6 Pea Sean © * i 3 ax influence on health erect bearing has. It is almost essential to perfect health. An erect bearing means square shoulders and a full and expanded chest, conditions which give all the organs of the body an opportunity to develop to their fullest ca- pacity... Stooped shoulders and a drawn chest deform everything within their bounds, and, as everything which Is de- former is diseased, the probability is that the life of a person so affilcted will be brought to an untimely end. Only the person with perfectly developed organs is in perfect health; and the organs can only be perfectly developed under a full, round chest, which permits all possi- ble expansion and growth. By Dr. Gustav Lippmann. HE person who wears goggles to pro- tect weak eyes injures rather than the human eye ehould be protected from light every time it develops a sign of weak- ness or shows traces of mild suppuration Eyes, weak or strong, need light, the same as flowers. Light, and particularly sunlight, is nutritious and health-giving to WEARING GOGGLES, Z saves his eyesight. The theory that in the morning is all wrong. them. Rather than put on goggies when TREATMENT OF MUMPS. Seasonable Hints on a Painful Ail- ment of Children. By Dr. W. H. Vail. HE season of the year is now ap- proaching when mumps or parotiditis usually appear among the children, and a word concerning the symptoms and the treatment of this disease would be both appropriate and beneficial. x Mumps !s most frequent between the ages of 5 and 15 years, and as a rule the same individual has it but once.. It runs its course in from two to three weeks. The inflamation begins in one or both parotid and other salivary glands, and rapidly extends to the surrounding tissue, causing swelling and great pain. The left parotid gland is most frequently attacked first, the right parotid becoming implicated two or four days afterwards and often later. Sometimes, only one side is affected. The attack is rather sudden, the first symptoms being a feeling of languor, great depression, chill-fever with a temperature of 101 to 108 degrees Fahrenheit. Dry skin, cuick pulse, headache and convulsions oc- cur in children who are subject to them. These are followed itn a day or two by st'ffness and great pain in the angles of the jaw, the mouth being opened with diffi- culty. A swelling will be noticed below and in front of the ear, pear-shaped in appear- ance, and ‘having a soft, flabby feeling. In from two to five days this swelling matures, remains in th's condition about three days, and then rap‘dly recedes. The environing. parts are so affected, sometimes, that the features are greatly distorted, and, at times, the skin is shiny and red. Sometimes the saliva is increased ont sometimes diminished, while earache or a constant r’nging in the ears is present, and deafness occasiona}jiy occurs, due to the swell'ng of the eustachian tube. The first thing to do is to put the patient to bed. Reduce and control the fever by mild febrile medicines. A bafh or a spong- ing wita tepid water is of great benefit. Watch the urine, and keep the bowels open. The food should be entirely liquid, on ac- count of the difficulty In swallowing. If there is much pain and restiessness, an anodyne should be given. Dover's Powder is a good, safe one and will be found in nearly every household. Place either warm or cold packs, whichever is the most pleas- ant to the patient, to the affected parts. Keep the patient warm and comfortable and at an even: temperature, allowing no drafts. If the swelling continues to linger longer than the sixth or seventh day, or if pus or matter is detected, medical aid should be obtained. While this is a mild disease it is at the same time exceedirgly painful. So long 48 the disease confines itself to the parotid and other salivary glands, there is no un- usuel trouble, but sometimes other organs become affected, and it is then that great care must be observed. It is better to call a physician at the commencement of this disease, as other complications often arise, POISONOUS CLOTHING. LOTHING imbued with poisonous matter, although less common than some sensational alarmists would represent, does come to market; and it is not so long since that a medical man re- ported a severe case of poisoning of a man’s neck and face from a crimson neck handkerchief dyed with aniline. Gloves, stockings, drawers, etc., colored with anl- line, red, blue or other tints, should be carefully avolded by children and ladies with sensitive skins, The chief rules In regard to clothes, to sum up the subject of this article are: 1. That they should be made of soft or pliable materials, so as not to obstruct the free and easy motion of the limsbs, or the cir- culation of the fluids in any part of the body. 2 They should be made of such @ shape as to be comfortable from their ease. 3. They ought not to be warmer than is necessary to preserve the body in a proper degree of temperature. 4 Our garments, hee i gh 6 LG OCR LALO ELLEN AEN RB — f TORE Wien? hee Bh a ea attaining to that length In 12 years afte? he determined to let it grow and see how An amazon with a beard 4% feet long was taken in the battle of Pultowa. A lady the hair of ner head training 3 inches upon the floor, ts mentioned by Wilson. The heads of hair have been seen in every American city. Ruggierl saw, in 1815, a short black hair like a dog. In 1829 the English Embassy to Burmah saw at Ava a his feet. Upon his face, ears and nose ft was upward of 8 inches in length, while inches. Some races are notable for the. abundance of their hair. This is true of Yesso. Their entire bodies are profusely covered with hair. growth of the hair upon an animal of which I have heard was that of a horse Its Antiquity and Severity and the By Dr. Washington West, Belleville, Tllinois. [) having been known and described as early as 90 B. C. But at that tween true diphtheria and the various sim- ple inflammations of different membranea know it to-day, was recognized, but not until 17%, when Francis Home, a Scotch on Suffocatio Strdula, had we any clas- sical account of diphtheria, specter of ‘persons, “but “Tias™ many eminent persons, euch as the great nephew of Napoleon, and many others. Shortly after the death of his nephew best essay on diphtheria. Eighty-three physicians competed, but the honors were and Albers of Bremen. In 1884 Prof. Klebs discovered a bacillus the specific cause of diphtheria. In 188 Prof. Behring discovered an anti-toxin for This latter discovery is one of the great- est of the age. Through it the mortality per cent to 4 per cent. Certainly these figures show the great importance of anti- One reason why the anti-toxin does not always give entire satisfaction is that the neutralize the toxin, and another is that the serum is not given early enough in merit the anti-toxin possesses is its pro- phylactic or preventive property when ad- prevents the development of smallpox. Diphtheria occurs epidemically or spas- ing greatly with the different epidemics. The primary cause of diphtheria is the predisposing or secondary causes, such aa measles, elimple inflammations of the silitis and scariatina. All cases of so-called membranous croup ed in precisely the same way. Mild or slight cases of diphtheria are, in my opin- often the nature of the disease is not rec- ognized by the parents. The child goes to is thus lable to communicate the disease to many others, nasal or pharyngal paralysis. These have been greatly reduced in frequency and se- HEADACHE. HE most common form of headache is be due to any one of the following causes; Constipation, eye disorders, decayed teeth is particularly so in the case of the work- ing woman. She arises late, has but a few minutes to dress, bolita a hurried breakfast and catch- gins to suffer from an attack of headache and wonders at the cause. She calls aa After taking the Jose ghe waits patienuiy and wonders why relief does not follow. that ft is not a nervous headache. Muc%, in fact all, of this trouble could be avoided long it would get. years of age and 5 feet 3 inches high, with Sutherland sisters and their remarkable woman whose entire body was covered with man covered with hair from his head te upon his shoulders it measured 4 and 6 the Mosinos, the hairy men of the Island of The most notable instance of abnormal with a mane J3 feet long. Value of Anti-Toxin. IPHTHERIA is an ancient disease; early date no distinction was made be- As early as 100 B. C. diphtheria, as we physician, wrote his very minute treatise In its virulent form diphtheria is no re- George Washington, Empress Josephine, @ Napoleon offered a handsome prize for the equally divided between Jemin of Geneva which was proved beyond doubt to be diphtheria. has been reduced from something like @ toxin In the treatment of diphtheria. amount of serum given is not sufficient to the course of the disease. Another great ministered to a child, just as vaccination modically, the severity of the disease vary- Klebs-Loeffier bacillus, but there are many throat, damp, cold weather, chronic ton- and diphtheria should be isolated and treat- jon, the most to be dreaded, becaute very school and plays with its little friends, and The frequent outcome of diphtheria is heart failure, pneumonia, nephritis and verity since the introduction of anti-toxin, gi the frontal, so called from its loca- tion. This form of the malady may and dyspepsia. The first and last named are the most common causes of headache, This Take, for instance, a young woman whe is employed in @ business house downtown, es a car in order to be at her place of busl- ness on time. Along toward noon she be- office boy and sends him to the neighboring druggist for a dose of headache powder. @he does not realize that the trouble comes from her digestive apparatus, and if she would get up a little earlier, take a govletiul of het water 9 helf Bowr before. breakfast, Pmt cies mers, F Sind ine | thie ay Mee Pos - » = a a a, " ee o° 0 te y § ‘ mS a ee o . 7 Salis Sp Tg Et sa

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eed ‘, Gitte ee ae oi -_——— / Done. HE Eastern papers are discussing the sg propriety of doing away with the Sunday show. The discussion will not close the theaters on the Sabbath, but it may decrease the number of Sunday openings, by making it appear that such things are vulgar. Players are almost a unit in their opposition to the seven-day work week, but the sordid manager insists on it, and the actor man and actor woman submit because they have to. A few influ- ential stars refuse to play on Sunday, but occasionally one of these is placed in a po- sition where he has to do a seven-day stunt. It was so with W. H. Crane during al - - ry 7 . . id v : : mes ¢. - i pee. ‘ > > és by? vs — U * > 7 Se, A : , -~ ence a i sisi 4, E “ “we ni + Sate it BT wae Ce te a baie gs ae, le 0 ae at ha * , wets... ' ae beg ‘ , j ; - i 7 : 7 - " . ae 3 Loe ae "p-ta, SPER s ip aeerrenpateey: a a a é ox : Bid bet, notthliee = ae ty = ei we i sa nee 4 BS aes ae eae, Se Oe em Bouvier may not be given an opportunity te step into Miss Bergen’s character, since that singer is now in fine voice, her friends Will be given an opportunity of hearing her to advantage, If photographs eount for any- thing Miss Bouvier must be a vision of female loveliness seldom excelled behind the footlights, Ghe is @ stately blonde. Not @ star or stook actor who played with Stuart Robson at De Bar’s old theater on Pine st., between Third and Fourth, nearly 40 years ago, i» alive to-day. Robson is the only Sonnecting link, as far as St. Louls is concerned, between the old and the new school of acting. Matilda Heron, J. w. en Jr., John Wilkes Booth, Charlotte yen sey John BE, Owens, John Collins, & Isaacs Menken, John W. Norton, Tom Davey,—Minnie Maddern-Fiske’s father— Laura Keene! and Lawrence Barrett are all gone, and of all this famous group Stuart Robson alone remains, still playing boys— Bertie the Lamb, Tony Lumpkin; tn fact anything under 3, and even at his ripe old age many people say Robson looks the character without very much assistance from the make-up box. Not long ago he announced Parenthetically that he had a grown granddaughter, That is why the Post-Dispatch ‘prints a picture of him to- day as he looks in his everyday clothes It is from the first Photograph of him not in costume any advance agent has t for publication in many years, sag: —_—_. Rev. Charles L. Kloss, a Congregational from everybody in the theater, from the house manager down to the youngest stage hand, and she gets it. The orchestra doesn’t play until she gives the word, and every scene is set exactly as she wishes it to be. As soon as she smelis grease paint she is buried in her art, and it would take an earthquake to get her out of it. Miss Nethersole hag been on the stage Il years and is probably 3 years old. It is predicted for her that within five years she will be accepted as the greatest actress penditure of wealth an ingenulty? Gold, my boy, gold, money, securities. Mammon is the only God. The moralist may call dross, but gold is the one thing to be de- fended with blood if necessary. Innocence and honor must look out for themselves.”’ This vein of moral sentiment, picked up en passant, pervades all of Mr. Clement's plays, A fine example is in the lamb, the wolf and the sheepfold puzzie of the Judge’s boy in “A Gouthern Gentleman.” Often it is introduced at the expense of J “The Rajah,” Miss Marie Burroughs. Mr. Robson’s role of Reggie Carruthers has, it ie said, developed into a strong and. dominating character during the elght weeks of rehearsal that ““Two Rogues and a Romance” has been subjected to, and it is expected that as “Reggie the Wis¢,” Mr. Robson will defite a stage study equal in strength to his famous impersonation of “Bertie the Lamb” in “The Henrietta.” Miss Marie Burroughs, too, has an intere esting character to portray in that of “The Rajah,” a woman with a past, and her admirers will doubtless be gratified to learn that it calls for great emotional effort, a power she has given proof of possessing on many former occasions, “Two Rogues and a Romance” will be the bill throughout the weak. There will be matinees Wednesday and Saturday. DeWolf Hopper comes to the Century to- night for a week's engagement in “The Chariatan,”’ an opera by Sousa and Charles Klein that has never been seen here. Mr. Hopper enacts the role of a wandering ma- gician, appearing at country fairs and rural Mark Price, Adine Bouvier, a St. Louis girl, and a new stage beauty; Arthur Cunningham, Katharine Carlyle and Harry P. Stone. ' “Romeo and Juliet” will be produced at the Imperial Theater this week. Lawrence Hanley and Minnie Radcliffe will be scen in the title parts. Mr. Hanley has played Romeo to the Juliet of some of the best in marvelous balancing acts and strength and Cook and Mall in 4 songs. The biograph shows views of | fight at San Juan Hill and other # of interest. The concluding burlesque is 4 titled “McNulty and the Model." = = Notes of the Stage. 1d A bill has been introduced in the Ne minister of Webster Groves, had something to say about the stage in his sermon last Sunday. He discussed plays and players from the standpoint of one who recognizes and approves of the good there is ‘in the e . : theater and also knows and deplores the eae . mS existence of the evil in ft. He referred to : S Sa i A oe coreg peerage Dil : fi inks ome of the Robson Theater Comeau aE on that = NA Se sae married on the stage of the Albany, Win,’ this paper has held—that there are plays no , x | Mercutio .... oseceetoessbenees sam Doki Theater after the evening perfec ni “EP - é anive oh antag tet being harmed, and a 3 i i _ ons banquet, given to the couple by agers. ema coe -— geen can see without alt: # ae Ri RaRUENED wv abc coevecs vad iveah «++++-Jdobp D. Ra Robson and Langdon, followed, ae e theater is a strong Tyba | ee éactor for good or evil and it is gratifying weer y nt, Ph, ree Dt . to know that there are ministers who are geet ci Bee willing to aid an honest newspaper in the ost et gene Oe eae work of encouraging the goed and Renting i e evil, oon Miss Strickland played the ingenue r E. 8. Willard, by latest advices, has net yet recovered his health and has ¢ le his time in America next season. Ar letter of his from the Riviera expr his recent engagement here. His manager York sb he “the Saal ork Legislature requiring made a contract that included a Sunday performance, and said nothing about it untll it was too late to change it. Mr. Crane developed a lead of profane elo- quence that astonished his staff when he found it out, but that didn’t mend mat- ters. He had to play on Sunday. High-class attractions of a serious nature do not draw well on Sunday; as a conse- quent rule, there is really very little rea- son, even from the box office standpoint, in giving more than eight performances a week. praise for hia artistic interpretation. ‘Silas Of ® Practicing physician or surgeon Of; Radcliffe is new to the role she assumes. /°@5t five years’ practice at every plage ee But she has played almost overything else amusement” while & performeaaa Pi in the classic line, and she should be de- progrems. RA ok ty oo ' lightful in the part. The rest of the cast Frand Ward Marion and Josephine Jem DIB OR ie. follows: rriar Laurence There appears to have been a change made in “The French Maid.” A corre- spondent states that he has received a let- ter from Manager Ziegfeld, announcing that Miss Beatrice Wishon had ef en- y Page to Paris.....sssee. Miss F Lady Montague .«.eceecess e : ad Recess sh EH es du . | lady Capulet ...... coeeees Miss Grace Henderson , - . " pit - py : > paar i ti Nurse eeeee cocccteces CUme Mattie Earle MISS NETHERSOLE OFF THE STAGE More than the usual number of rehears- gaged to play a “nice part’ in the piece. als have been had of “Romeo and Juliet,” People who have seen “The French Maid” are wondering what part it is. However, Miss Wishon is well known in St. Louis, and her friends are probably glad that her engagement has resulted in a rearrange- LGA NETHERSOLE hasreached that position in the public eye where people are interested in knowing what manner of woman she ig off the and a smooth and finished first performance is expected. Mr. Gumpertz has himself looked after the scenic effects and cos- tumes. It is announced that on account of the length of the performance they will hope of keeping his autumn here, but later cables are less Pies. A dramatization of Joseph novel, The Dagger and the Cross,” is mi being made for Robert B, Mantell, whe # probably produce it next season. ~ stage. It is gratifying to state that she seems to be as nice and lovable in private life as she is interesting as an actress. She is exceedingly unprofessional. She dis- cusses herself and her work calmly and rationally, provided. there seems to be a desire that she talk of it, but she appears to prefer other subjects. She has big gray- blue eyes and red hair—which should be brown—a thick dark skin, a big, delightful mouth and a fine chin. She loves habies and believes in them, and gives the im- ment of the play. begin promptly at 2 and 8 o'clock. There will be the customary matinee to-day. eee scenes of the play are laid in En te The Grand’s recent production of & ——s elaborate and picturesque settings é Sothern play was so well received that tumes will be required Saal : Manager Giffin decided to give his patrons > enother star play in “Captain Letterbiair,” H. F. Seymour, who went to & by Marguerite Merrington, in which Mr. /48t summer as manager of a fareg. Sothern was seen here some years ago. Company, is now located at la, The story told in “Captain Letterblair” is he 1s business manager of the Ams full of human interest, It hasan individu- the only daily paper published by Am pression that if. she were not a great ac- ality different from any yet depicted by the cans in the Orient. He is also sant tress she would be a mother in Israel—a $2 = a ~ Grand Stock Company. The title st Noy oe playing vaudeville sll r woman who “looketh well to the ways of ee oy —~ \ . : ) “ Capt. Letterblair will be enacted by Mr. tty her household and eateth not the bread of a aes, ‘ y= SSS See Hobart Bosworth, who was happy before egies ag or vi, 0 a idleness." She likes dogs and carries a bi a in interpreting the character made famous last week from Havana, w d > Ft.” - 4 we, by Sothern, the star. Dean Ambrose will visited with the American V MA L/ F-Zg \, It ig announced that Marie Burroughs, Stuart Robson’s leading woman, will star next season under the direction of Daniel V. Arthur. Contracts have been signed, and Miss Burroughs’ managers say they expect her to do well. Florence Mockweil of #t. Lowis attracted the attention recently of a Philadelphia newspaper to the extent of an interview and a two-column picture. In the picture she is made to wear a neglige gown and look sorry about something. In the inter- view she divulges that she is the youngest actress who ever played Juliet and that during the four years she has been on the stage she has been a leading woman. She is now with Sol Smith Russell. She has played leads for Tom Keene, James O'Neill and Mr. Russell. The beauty of the Hopper Company this coliie around the country with her and = =F p= i. ee eee Oe See fi Y “ H 4 BRN) /// —Z be enacted by Mr. Theodore Hamilton, cursion, intending to make a tour OF —— ono / Uyhj}jJls))s aS OIEAAN SSN if gz Miss Minnie Seligman has the grateful part island. Miss Hall did not appear Y M44, } : if) -—, _ Tacon Theater, under the di Emil Stoessel. NEW RAGGER WALTZ ance of hotel regulations. Sere //7) aS brother Louis are just like other brothers JLM4 PISS) | Lag cd of Fanny Hadden, Miss Grayce Scott is company, which opened its season Ai-sm hy Ras ssees stat? UF cast for Polly Messiter and Miss Helen Bet iiNet , Reimer for that of Hyacinth Messiter, Mr, 4 hed John B. Maher will be Joachim, Francis and sisters. He gives her advice on all subjects, which she ignores with rigid im- , IM gp i 2 4 The ‘h . . be ui " , F wg * ee Aa . ys . = "se ‘ b % ; “FT e ne 43 - ‘“" ; { 2 ©; year is said to be Adine Bouvier, a St. Louis girl, who is rapidly rising to distinc- tion. Miss Bouvier comes from an old St. Louls family, her mother, Lizzie Fawcett Bouvier, being well known to the music- loving people of this city. For many years ehe was the soprano of the Pilgrim Church choir. In “The Charlatan” Miss Bouvier has something else to do besides being beautiful. She is one of the principals, acting the role of the Grand Duchess, the youthful Princess Ruchkowski. That the fair St. Loulsan possesses histronic attain- ment, and a voice of great range and power is indicated by the fact that she under- etudies Nella Bergen. Even though Miss ‘ : v) oh 7 i 9 ye ¢ - ’, 4 ie a oe a* - ee eee oz i P " hs. _-e Sa «ole ve a ee ed : a wah nr LAge 3) é . Ot a a fhe Pg pe RE Sets, *y Sid _ ys Se, _ 3 6% “i partiality, and questions and laugh at each other's little foibles after the manner of ordinary folks, Both of them like America and Amer- icans, and she is always on the alert for the little characteristics that indicate what section of this great country a man or wo- man is from. Now, that is about all there is to say of Miss Nethersole away from the theater, unless one should go into a dis- cussion of her charming manner, her prac- tice of eating with great moderation, and her penchant for collecting novel pictures of herself. When ashe goes into the theater she !s an- other woman. She knows what she wants i oe tl “ie pf ’ ray a8 i) Hy I 4 pl | ‘- bad ’ i : XK Se * ? Bie 6 ge: ee a a % pontine Re f: , mF nh a a dy bf hho they argue metaphysical —S* eS ie (df. . ‘ f- . “A . ee. © URSA “e 4’ Oo) A ' hs iy © Mil x \ De Wolf Hopper, as he appears in “The Charlatas,’’ and two beauties in his company. The girl with the smile is Adine Bouvier, who is accumulating a reputation for personal pulchritude. Hopper’s place ia Mr. Hopper’s cempany and is described as a “Pocket Veaus.’’ in the world, just as she is now the great- est in her line in the United States, CLAY CLEMENT ON MAMMON. LAY CLDMENT, playwright and act- or, is an omnivorous reader and an observant thinker, always, among hooks or men, garnering ideas. I found him in bed at the St. Nicholas at noon one day reading one of these interminable Ger- man speculative theological treatise. Ile said he often met the clergy and wanted to be able to talk their shop, not his. But this is foreign to the matter. Mr. Cement lunched one day with the direct- ors of the Boatmen’s Bank, and, incident- ally, was shown the carefully guarded hoard of wealth in the vaults. Thus he delivered himself of his impressions later in the day: “T was given a thrill,” he said. times, you know, your friends thrill you in a manner quite different to their expecta- tions. They showed me millions in notes, coin and securities at that bank. That did not thrill me, though, They opened the outer doors of a vault, kept secure by most delicate and intricate mechanism. Then they opened the inner doors, secured by other mechanism, and unfolded vast stores of wealth. Other intricate mechanism un- folded other doors and more treasure was displayed. The highest human ingenuity had been invoked to preserve this wealth secure and sacred from theft, robbery, burglary, rain, rust or fire. ‘““And then came the thrill. I said to my- self are such safeguards thrown around virtue, or innocence, or honesty, or honor? No, they are left defenseless against vil- laing, temptation, lying, deceit and corrup- tion. What is it, then, the preservation of is so carefully guarded, at such ex- 3% ” ac a e tc wy Kp ete ~e aed Pv a As ) “Some- 7 * action, but certainly it does credit to the heart of the playwright even if it does not please the average playgoer, OFFERINGS FOR THE WEEK. S ‘ention ROBSON, careful and consci- entious player, will be with us again to-night at the Olympic Theater, where he will begin his engagement of one week in a comedy drama from the pen of Theodore Burt Sayre, entitled “Two tozues and a Romance,’ never before pre- sented on any stage. ‘Two Rogues and a Romance” is de- ecribed as a serious play, wheremM love, jealousy and hate enter, but there is also a comedy element in the character of Reg- inald Carruthers—the role essayed by Mr. Robson. The opening scene of the play is laid in Washington, where, in fact, all the suc- ceeding events take place. The characters and their impersonators are as follows: Sir Richard Carrington, British Ambassa- dor to' the United States, Mr. Harold Rus- sell: Phillino, Duke of Vestagala, an un- scrupulous nobleman, Mr. Frank CC. Bangs; Andre de Masaix, a young Italian, Mr, Sheridan Block; Reginald Carruthers, bet- ter known as ‘“‘Reggie the Wise,’ attache of the British Legation at Washington, Mr. Stuart Robson; Livingston Bentley, a Washington youth, Mr. Willard Curtis; John, valet to Sir Richard, Mr. Joseph Met- tler; Brutus, a colored servant, Mr. J. Goodman Bray, Jr.; Dr. Violet Vinton, an energetic female physician, Mrs. Stuart Robson: Sybil Carrington, Sir Richard's daughter, Miss Gertrude Perry; Mra. Bent- ley, a leader in Washington society, Miss Ida Van Cortland; Flossie Carrington, Sir Richard's orphan niece, Miss Mabel Strick- land, and Lucille Namen, a famous writer 7 - . et ; . ~~ % : nie "3 4” > er 5 a, a + ¥ ee Moe ES pe wie : . F ‘ ing - ‘ ome. 8 7 5 tae he, ihn Satie ¥ ~ ” w Vexk 2 ‘« . ” ~ ° . ~ ad a 8 eS " : J “ i erie 4 / ~ — y= - : we : oe sew Se Oe vd " - 7 we > tag Als Bhat sie . ~—_ ie a : i +. ESE Ae, Se a OE FAT eae ee . Ba deal eS a. eS ie, = ; le ae: ee f >-¢ * . : * The other is Alice Judson, who took Edna Wallace villages. He falls in with a designing Russian nobleman, who plots to have Hop- per palm off his daughter, Anna, as @ Princess, and marry her to a young Prince, Boris by name. This scheme succeeding, Gogol acquires the Boris titles and estates, since the Czar has decreed ‘that Boris shall not marry a peasant girl. Hopper has his cabinet with him, and, by its aid, succeeds in fooling the susceptible noble. Then the trouble for Hopper begins. The marriage no sooner occurs than the real Princess turns up. Alfred Klein, one of Hopper's assistants in magic, impersonates a lady in waiting to his daughter when she appears asthe Princess, and Alice Jud- son, who is the Charlatan’s advance agent, are arrested. To overwhelm Hopper his daughter runs away, and he is accused of spiriting her away by magic art. His as- sistant and advance agent deny all responsi- bility In the matter, concur in the accusa- tion against him, and are able, by assuming disguises, to escape. Finally his daughter, Anna, turns up, the wicked old Charilatan’s assistants return and the Grand Duke for- gives him. -It requires no very extensive stretch of the imagination to discover the fun Hopper can get out of such situa- tions. In the way of scenery and costumes “The Chariatan” is said to be the most magnifi- cent yet seen in comic opera. Mr. Hopper's productions have also been as gorgeous as he could make them. On the new work the comedian writes that he expended as much money as he did on “Wang” and “El Capitan" together. ’ Mr. Hopper's company this yeat is one of unusual magnitude, Of the old organiza- tion. Nella Bergen, Alfred Kiein and Ed- mund Stanley will appear. Alice Judson is the new comedienne of the company. The other new people are George W. Barnum, r mse 2c Oe ee ee eek yeh Lith Sie Reeds sD wert: ee) i eet 7 oh al Bike . ey ar es “a> & ee ee YS tare P “i Ba ee 7 _ ae s; Pye x nc? tt See i ee oY ah oh. oy Sars" re eo: Be: kj : f . . Bf m, ry a Merivale, the “bad man” in the play, falls to the lot of Harold Hartsell, who is fast establishing a following at the Grand des- pite his thankless task of depicting villains. Harry Stubbs will appear as Pinckney, Herbert Chesley as Mr. Seton and Edward Pmery as Smithers. Scenic Artist Hein- man will have another opportunity for elaborate settings, especialy in the garden ecene of the last act. —— Howard’s Comedy Ponies, a troupe of equine comedians, who perform all the dif- ficult feats known to horse training, be- sides introducing a number of comedy ef- fects peculiar to themselves, are under- lined as the féaturs of the Columbia's bill for the week. The Columbia has been the means of introducing numerous decidedly novel animal acts to the pubfic, but none of greater originality and merit than this troupe of equine actors is said to be. For the benetit of the children, who are esPeclal- ly interested in this character of acts, special matinees have been arranged for Thursday afternoon for the children of the parochial schools, whose holiday is on that day, and Saturday afternoon for the chil- dren of the public schools. Other leading features of the week’s programme will be the Dartos, a duo of Buropean dancers especially imported for Koster & Bial, and later a feature with “The French Maid;” Georgie Lingard, a singing comedienne; La Van, Amy and Weitzel, a trio of acrobats; Shattuck and Bernard, In a comedy sketch in which the musical feature is prominent; Mayer, Carroll and Mayer, in “Echoes from the South,” a plantation sketch. The Co- lumbia Comedy Company will be seen in the merry little comedy, “Sallie's Sacrifice,” for which the scenic artist, Gibson, has prepared an entirely new stage setting, and in which the entire strength of the com- pany will be engaged. “The Span of Life” is the bill for this week at Haviin’s and a big patronage is expected because the play drew great crowds last season. The action of the play opens and closes in Devonshire, but the thrilling scenes are laid in the diamond mines of South Africa. It is there that the human bridge on which the heroine walks to safety is formed. This scene made the play famous and gave it its name. The company has been strengthened by the addition of the Donageltar acrobats of con- siderable renown, whose skill alds mater- lally in working out the plot of the play. The return of “The Gay Masqueraders” is announced for this week at the Stand- ard Theater, opening with a matinee to- day. Gince seen here, it is said, the show has been remodeled, many new acta being added, and same European novelties never before seén in this country. The first part consists ef a twelve-minute act, entitied “Our Gallant Volunteers.” Next follows an olio of eight acta, Bud Snyder, Brown and Camille, Mabel Carew, the Clark sisters, the Everett sisters, Marie de Roasett, MoCale and Daniels, the California four, the Mur- tok” ‘ x oN A yt nes. 2 Ae Cc : Rox” Myr oew pettie, she's all th’ whit ; Hor righ name ie Mamie, wh with we Aa-w, say, she’s not what you'd call of FRANK C. KELLY AND OLLIE ACRE AS RAGGERS, F RANK C. KELLY and Olile i a St. Louls juvenile sketch ti who are working their way up te@ stage by appearing at entertain - “raggers,”” have enlisted the sym . Petic Quinn and he has written L waltz song which they will sing to thes of “The Girl I Met at the Hop.” by Wa liam Schuyler. picture of Mr. Kelly and Miss - The song is given PETIE QUINN'S PRTTIE. It solt’nly seemed I was alone, watehiag TH] ‘os petles whofl, Tul I aaw from the bunch I'd win and ome head--d. bue-evyed godl; 3 wink ot ber ‘0 che af Ge G8 Oe Z dewn th’ ball; — She wee surely & thoaey pariper—and a satin th’ Ragge a r ball. ve é a “horus ae But ch gare ‘are all ewe ter ber only ses Sa I qui-et-ly took ber to th’ ber, caring wus She was surely a thotsty part-oer and th’ Reagger bet). « a = : , ‘ S r « . ‘en : {Shy Be iv - a a ae, PA we 33. eS 7 ' ~~ . +, ee a? MO LL ae. RAL ote ; ; ies nied te

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— a ae - > - & cae . > —_ ~ J Oe 2 7 -_ a et Cen ml ae eh. t pea, 47 SS ive. routes—the Olive st. vy x - 4 Were nk tt ie toe Nl sin ath Pg sp : it oe ee ee a , im @ a =... r m “ vr ~ Az. , ¥ : y eae Or, St + ear - = : te , = we ey ae ee pS Ra * 6 RR we ; By eh te, ie aats a4 ” - al 7 ee ie a macy meaner e m speegempenae: OUNTESS’ JEWELS FEED CHICAGO'S PO $36, 000 Devoted by a Swedish Noblewoman to the HE most intereeting foreigner at pres- ‘at ent visiting this country is the Coun- %, tess Adeline Schimmelmann. No fic- | thon could be more thrilling or dr: amatic ee than the simple life-etory of this extraordli- i we nary woman, once the intimate friend of "an. Empress, now a worker among Chi- Pg ©ago0's poorest and most vile. But a few ) years ago she was af leader in the court roles of Berlin. To-day she has parted faith the riches and honors that were hers by right of birth and position, and her one ambition, as se herself would express it, is #0 save eouls. ~The years that Ile between life in Germany and the active one in to-day in * Western slums are years full of experiences ‘, which fortunately come to few women and ) through which very few could live. The Countess shows their effects. She ts full ) Of Sweetness, eympathy and charm, but it . is the sympathy and sweetness of one who has gone down into the abyss of human ‘suffering and has come up from it with the leve of suffering humanity strong within the old ‘Sy , ie During the past three months the Coun- ' tees has fed 36.00 of Chicago's poor. To do ) this she has sacrificed her heirlooms and )) jewels—the last of a large fortune spent in } relieving unfortunates in hiram 4 lands. At ‘Ragen, on the Baltic Sea, she has estab- bab > Hphea in the name of rane Christian religion - Home for sailors and fishermen. In Ber- nshe has fed thousands of the city’s poor. In all parts of Denmark and England she has given freely of her rapidly diminishing fortune. Last May’ she sold the last of her valuables, equipped her yacht Duen and came to Chicago in fulflullment of a prom- ise Bhe made Frances Willard while the lat- ter Was in England in 1897. Her yacht is es- tablished as a kitchen. The Countess hopes from this beginning to work up a large and successfully conducted home for the poor and friendless to which all may turn in time of need. To this work ehe will devote a year, moving to another fleld when it has been placed on a firm foundation, Bhe ie very anxious to have Chicago adopt the Berlin system of caring for the friendiess. In that city men seeking the Shelter of the home are sent to a large room, where they leave their clothes. The door is closed and the clothes are thorough- Work of Relief. The men pass into a second scrubbed ly steamed. room, where they are thoroughly with warm water. After this they are given woclen wrappers and a bed. In the morning their clean clothes are ready for them and they are supplied with hot, nourishing food. They need not register and no questions are arked them. They may return to the home as frequently as they wish. This svstem the Schimmelmann will endeavor to t on our shores. Among the jewels the distinguished cigner has sacrificed renetit Countess ranspiant for- of ‘or the A ruby necklace which was among her most cherished possessions has aleo been con- verted into money.for the benefit of Chi- cago’s homeless men and women. o'clock Countess Schimmelmann receives her friends on board her yacht. These weekly receptions are among. the most unique features of life in the Windy City. Rich and poor, high and low. old and young good and bad, rub elbows here and join in common greeting to the woman whom they apparently have all learned to love. And the Countess treats them all alike, To each he is the helpful interested, friend and the Part of the Casket of Jewels Sold by the Countess to Feed the Poor. well-poised thoroughbred woman of the America’s poor were a wonderful pearl necklace, a diamond tiara, silver tea and coffee presented her by the KEm- press Augusta, and a massive jeweled nament given her by the Turkish Govern- ment. The pearls were the gift of her mother on the occasion of her presenta- tion at the German court—where she sub- sequently hecame maid of honor and an intimate friend of the Empress Augusta. a solid Set ore- WHO ARE THE HO are the Brown Brothers? They have options on 293 miles of the . ia best street in St. Louis. If they purchase—as many believe they will—it will require an outlay of $15,- 40. Of this grand array of street car 178 miles are in operation. These in- ow peal several divisions of the Lindell, _Miasour! and Union Depot lines—some of the finest lines in St. Louis, penetrating ie Y athe Heart of the city to Forest Park by > cable and the 'Yindell av. lne—ana reac hing to the farth- orfines of Carondelet, passing Tower rave Park, Shaw's Garden, the crematory, the Asylum for the Insane, the Poorhouse, the Female Hospital, and extending beyond the city limits at the extreme west to Ben- tom, They also reach several summer gar- d nd pass through the beautiful resi- Gente, section of Compton Heights, The Manchester line also approaches Tower Grove Park at the northern entrance, and the Taylor av. line extends far into North St Louis. The Mound City line runs » thfough the heart of North St. Louls and 7S the Fair Grounds, while the kee and Grand av. and California av, are identified with the best parts of ne th St. Louis and Carondelet. > The 120 miles projected by the Central ttion Co. will nearly @ouble the scope this magnificent group of street-car sys- railway track These are the lines on which the Brown )Brothers have an option. Here are the Hines, itemized as to length: ! ts “Lie of Line. Miles. ) gente ayetern, socleding Compton Heights and including Olive street cable " and Manchester and Laclede lines . Union Depot aystem, including California \ GQherokee and Grand, Mound Oity and ton Perk branches Praachise and rights of Central Traction Com- peny; total length of its projected lines (us Total mileage.. Much has been said of this proposed gi- av., Ben- gantic summated., will cost the Brown Bros., Name of Line. Sale price of Missouri stock on basis of Sale New York. Brokers world. It is not difficult, Kvery Friday morning from 10 to 12 realize that member of the noble house of Schimmelmann, in Denmark, and by right of aristocratic lineage of the select ribbon ladies of the Danish King- dom. But it is not so easy to realize that she has been a victim of continued and hor forcible asyliuc. She was and put into an which included inenne brother rible persecution, incarceration in an kidnapped by her asylum at Copenhagen, where she remained Many weeks, until the clamor of her friends and the press secured her release. Interesting features of the Countess’s work her lectures and informal talks, given in private homes and on public plat- in looking at her, to she is a one are Who Have Invested Millions in St. Louis Street Railways. CHARLES D. DICKEY. which has not yet been con- Here is what the various lines if they buy: Selling Price deal, $192.15 a share for 23,000 | shares, par value $100 price of Lindell system, of $170 a share for 25,000 shares, par Value $100 seen | 4,410,450 on basis eno ") Sale price of Union Depot lines, Central Svstem, share 5. WALDRON P. BROWN, 40,000 par value, $100, in bulk 4.500.000 Traction capitalized for $5,000,000; will bring at least JOHN’CROSBY BROWN. if they Brown Bro Bros. must pay secure his property. Who are the All St. Louis is O00 000 because much of shares, (‘o.. ted in the public answer, comfort interes future may rest with them. $18,160,450 Depot Total selling price John Scullin, owner : "nion would not He will sell nly in Ws 6$4,500,000. This price the the firm bunkers Lon- nore, & Co.—for such is name ire ultra-conservative of New YorK Thes have Paris and Berlin. and in Balt Bros the Brown consider bulk. and his bninches in frown don. COUNTESS SCHIMELMANN. forms. She Its intensely religious, hut does not preach much. “I prefer,’ she says, ‘‘to show my Christianity by deeds rather than by words.”’ She has shown it so well that already she has won a unique position in American hearts, and active co-operation in her work among the American people who know her and know of her. BROWN BROTHERS? Md. In Europe the firm name is Brown, Shipman & Co. There are three of the brothers—John Crosby Brown, head of the American firm; Waldron P. Brown and Alexander Har- greaves Brown, the latter of England. Associated with them in business are Charles D. Dickey, Howard Potter, Charles LD. Dickey, Jr., and Eugene Delano of New York, and Francis Alexander Hamilton, Frederick Chalmers and Sir Mark Wilks Collett, Baronet, of England. For 25 the firm of Brown Bros. & Co, ‘ognized as the foreign ex- merica. The firm's quo- by the New York and ail news agencies dealers in preference to The personal wealth great and the firm’s be limitless within the years has been re siock Exchange by and international those the, brothers | is strength is to range of reasonable possibilities. Though foreign exchange has the firm’s specialty, it has fig in many of the Government financial transactions in, recent years. Formerly they were the fiscal agents of several large European houses, but other firms have been permitted to absorb much of this class of business. The Baltimore of other houses. of said long been rured quietly big end of the firm has done in that city what the New York branch p''rposes to do in St. Louis. They have 1 anced, reorganized and consolidated the reet car lines of Baltimore. It is believed -Oth in St. Louis and New York that the }-arties to that transaction are the men who will furnish the money to be used in the purchase of the St. Louis street car lines named. Who these men are members of firm of Brown Bros. & Co. have de- 1 to state. three Browns are men of quiet hab- its, who aitend carefully to business, and have not the least desire to be talked about They have a great aversion to be- ing interviewed, and will rarely talk for publication. Their pictures have been in print very few limes, and that only in connection with some financial transac- tion. The nictures are from ‘King’s Views of the New York Stock Exchange,’ and are reproduced by permission of the publisher. the cline The BOB BURDETTES OBERT J. BURDETTE, the humorist, R is a native of Illinois—a fact not generally known. His boyhood wag world the charming Emma Abbott, Dr, Newell D. Hillis, successor of Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbott, and Col Rob- ert G. Ingersoll. It was in Peoria that Burdette met his first wife, who was Mise Carrie 8. Garrett, old-fashioned ‘mansion, still stands, one of the sights of Peoria It is located on @ bold point of land known as the East Bluff, overlooking the city, Lake Peoria, the winding Illinois River, and the rolling wood. ed hills beyond. The bluffs make a sharp turn here to the east, and furnish a com- plete view of the city and country. —_— dn ae om ae . ie - 7A a 'eteP L$ " “ AP adres a ali | mane | eh On the highest point of land, flanked by oak trees, stands the gray mansion. It is long, low and rambling, built of gray brick and stone in the old colonial style. When Gen. Scott was conquering Mexico Mr. Garrett was constructing this homestead. Its massive walls—sixteen inches thick —wide chimneys and heavy doors have stood ever since, defying alike the storms of winter, the sun of summer, the hand of time and the march of the encroaching city. It was originally built with wide porches, and its columns were sawed lengths of the masts of some sailing vessel. Some say those columns were once & part of Commodore Perry’s fleet on Lake Erie. Be that as it may, time crumbled them away, and the first pillars have been re- placed by less pretentions ones, but the massive old house remains as first built. spent at Peoria—a town which gave to the The ald Garrett homestead, with its quaint, - are Quite a number of moss-grown grave- Stones, with memorial dates and names of the household carved upon them. The Garretts came from Pennsylvania, and were amorg the first settlers of Peo-~ ria. When this house was bulit part of the 014 French village lay below it and ex- ’ tended to the river. The Burdettes were of French origin. and a few years after Mr Garrett built his mansion the father of Robert P. Burdette built a one-story brick cottage at the foot of the bluff a few hun- dred yards below it. This house also stands and fronts what ts known as Perry av. The houses were few in those days—in- deed these two were considered as being Way out in the country—and the young folk of the two households were thrown much together. Thus Carrie 8. Garrets H Hf Y Na a ‘Eity NA BS: ih pooese 2 | The Garnett Cottage, Where Burdette’s First Wife Lived, and Robert J. Burdette became playmates and schoolmates. | Schom friendship developed into the stronger sentiment, and at the age of %~ Burdette married his schoolmate sweete heart. Their married life was particularly happy. Burdette has introduced his wife to the world and almost immortalized hep as “‘Her Little Serene Highness.” The elder Garrett is still alive, hale an@ hearty at 8, and a resident of Peoria. The owner of the Garrett homestead now, howe ever, is his other daughter, Miss Medora Garrett of Bryn Mawr, Pa. Her nephew, Robert J. Burdette, Jr., son of Robert an@ Carrie, now in his twenty-first year and a junior in Haverford College, Pennsylvania, will probably be her heir and inherit this property. It may have been for this rea- son that the picturesque old homestead, built and owned by the Garretts, has been named ‘‘the Burdette place.” On the top of several of the division walls — —_——, ——————e HE loss of $200 killed Elijah Hartline of Cobden, Ill. He grieved himseif to death, although he still had about $20,000 in gold left. Hartline was a farmer in Union County, the celebrated fruit region of Southern il- linois, and lived three miles south of Cob- den. He was 70 years of age. From boy- hood to the instant of his death he was economical, to the point of miserliness. Even when he knew he was going to di¢ he would not revea!, though members of his family pleaded, the hiding place of precious store of wealth which had beet more to him than all the world beside. Farmer Hartline had little faith in banks, He chose to bury his wealth in the bosom of the earth. Once, for a reason known only to himself, he deposited $200 in the Bank of Cobden. signment March 1. Hartline first learned of the fact from a neighbor. He too,* his certificate of deposit and hurried to town to find how affairs stood. The bank, he ascertained, would probably not pay more than 25 cents on the dollar. This news was extremely depressing to the aged farmer, to whom a dollar looked as big as the fly wheel vf an electric power house. He returned home at onee, an? went to bed. His family wanted to send for a doctor, but he forbade it, saying he would be all right in a day or two. Be. sides, having lost $200, he could not affore the expense. Several days passed and Mr. Hartline became weaker. At times he was delirious. In spite of his protests the family sent to Cobden for a physician. The doctor was puzzled. There was no organic trouble and no disease. There seemed to be nothing the matter with the old man except a sense of grief at his loss. This was so intense that it had prostrated him. Not satisfied, the Cobden physician seugnt counsel, and a doctor from Anna, tn the same county, was called. Everything pos- sible was done to divert the mind of the old man from his comparatively trifling loss. He was reminded that he was still wealthy and had nothing to fear from poverty. He admitted that and said that every other bank in the Bsns sn! — break for all This bank made an as-° ee eee THE LOSS OF $200 CAUSED A QUAINT CHARACTER’S DEATH. he cared, for most of his cash was buried ig the earth. | Reglizing that death was near, both phy- siclans and members of the family begged him to reveal the hiding place of his Moncey, but without avai). Hartline gradually weakened further, ang on Saturday, March ll, he died. The secret of his wealth went to the grave with him, After his death a considerable amount of money was found hidden in various nooks and corners around the house, but no trace of the buried money has yet been discov- ered, although it Is known to a certainty that Hartline possessed it. He hid it in different places around his farm, in varying amounts, Two days after his death the aged Mr, Hartline was buried in a little country cemetery in a casket which cost $1735—the most expensive the village of Cobden had ever seen. He will soon have a vault that will cost $00. Members of the family never had any patience with the old man’s exag- gerated ideas of economy, cand probably took this means of letting the world know it. There are those in Cobden unkind enough to say that, if the old man knew how lavishly his money is being spent, he wouitd get up and put a stop to it, Many stories are told of Mr. Hartline’s penurious ways. These two are vouched for by some of Cobden's leading citizens: Once he drove to town to buy three strawberry cases and the necessary quart boxes. When told the price he declined to purchase, and drove to Carlisle’s mill nine miles from Carlisle, where he procured material to make the boxes himaelf. This trip saved him 8 cents, After picking his berries Mr. Hartline had three quart boxes left. These he took to Cobden and tried to sell to H. A. Du Bois. a box manufacturer. As the value of them was not quite 1 cent his offer wag declined. Another story ts concerning Mr. Hart- line’s locally celebrated trip to Jonesboro the county seat. He entered a saloon ang told the barkeeper he wanted a galion oO whisky. Nothing but bebe best would do, He teated several brands, but none of them suited him exactly. He went to anotnel saloon and repeated this performance. the time he had completed the “testin process at the third saloon he was entirely out of the notion of buying a gallon or an other quantity of wh! sky, and returne home comfortably full of “samples.” ee ae FASHIONS ~ FOR SPRING. Le Ri aly A a ee Be a ee a viz Gtar =, © hg + A onan a tu Od ES, i owt pert a y SP SR RN Oia im, ma } DAMAGE AT SEA AND ON SHORE ie "ey BRUARY STORM h Northwest KOUGHI HE GREAT FE Territory and swept there is a sfumming up of the United States and North Ameri- HPN * ships funk and the shore damage with a low-reaching, into the circling Southern off the OW New for the reason ° Lakes | Lawrence Atlantie,. tt swing | y States storm woich carried it .% ; }- ‘ >. will be 4 Wrought by the great » crorred the Atlantic ruary , the English shore, ‘t fount ~ that no More powerful storm has ever Loe: "known in the Upon the sea this storm staggere4 aa pupeled the most de from have beew 6? “ye ' mahips 4 » due and @& ven up as i ve la were tr American porte oan ship ani a re a @Hineurable, or | - the Lioydse. They 7 ted property wor 8 lost Dora Fotster, early in mid , 1 ® ; . » LS be Pa SS an ne Oo the At.antic coasts England. ''} a _ Northeast Atlantic. Creat 4 down the St. to , ams -¥ eer = spend itself in the North [= oy =e 4 — ' . * « en northbound They united. unimpeded hills, houses, forests or any of the things that check a the great plain of the rea upon which to play and gain power, the storm raged and raced umti it etruck the Engiish shore.” ‘ountered a West by gnd are Hy ‘ he. Tower Nw, bait many ine storm from the Indies. 1) rani n hardest blows the wall representing the and, mountains, . mighty says rin : storm ashore, and having this storm swept over the the English shore, a eame down from of this ' : 2? ' 4 »* , : > - | : , orm parted, showing great all ha ( strength enough for this jat- aw wail ts assault, and, that the rea has quieted, the found full. of holes, amd the road is washed away. tiorm had done. in the vicinty of Sandgate. between Euandgate and Seabrook, a miagslve Stone est great and ” 4: ax al oll +7 aie b . - oe a : 6 : ‘ : es ; _- . ‘ oho: is . a B oe. ¥ - e? ? “4 Fi "hy - / ” » ‘ 2 el ee ’ * € : 4 7 = = coe = Pan: - nq ™ - an .. 2 7 ee : ) - - ; ae ’ 2 a ‘ A Sa Yee : iS

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eee oe Pare 2 Pee 2 wee. SE OE! A ee ee Eee ee eee oe i SPS: GRe = mm we are, - — > Wr * &, DOO MAY ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN UPPER TENDOM. to have afforded more than one OP- S T. PATRICK'S DAY—Friday—seems . r . : ays Pe a. ok ee ‘ A igi egg a ar ee tes 4 ORE te Te 4 ¥ - - , - ts @ 6 Sahn hy eas « Rak ei pes Be Rar iteee a as tie eo A ae ag wat ie . a ~ , _ yay : 4 . 7 ¢¥e “ae f ’ ~ ok: a \ * & ; ’ : > = 64 -_ 2 ee ss rw te ~ “= — er little framed w , ater c of Mins Bessie Vani fell to the lot ent ~~th rae pretty girls who were pres- Misses— M isses— poses oot. ‘ Elizabeth Garth, Florence, Newhe - Loulse Eapenschied, Mdina Pilcher. an, Josephine Piicber, ’ Mrs. George Goddard, lara Bain, : Edith Franciscus, ose ree Sixteenth Anniversary. R. AND MRS. HENRY DRYER of 3215 Eads av. gave an “at home” Wednesday evening in honor of the iléth anniversary of their marriage. The affair was entirely informal and the even- ing was devoted to music and dancing. Thé house was Tather elaborately j y deco- rated for so small an entertainment with jonquils, roses and ferns At ll o'clock a vores ~~ Was served. Mrs. ryer received in pl a‘ trim. med with shirred chiffon on he ga A ag Among the guests in attendance were Misses Buehler, Sullivan and Van Dam. Mr and Mrs. J. Van Dam, Mrs, QO, Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. A. Weinsettle, Mr. and 2frs’ A. Hoffman, ‘Mr. and Mrs. 5. Lauter, Mr. and Mrs. L. Blaze, Mr. and Mrs. W.’ Auf. derheide and Mr, and Mrs. F. Jacquemin. Miss Sherry’s Piano Recital. ISS MAE AYRES SHERRY gave an enjoyable little piano recital to a few friends, Wednesday evening, in her cozy studio. Among those who took part in the programme were Miss Minnie Fairback, Miss Reader, Miss Annie Frey, Miss Edna Frey, Miss Lucas, Miss Olive Matthews, Miss Gouldin, Miss Kuntz, Miss Middleton, r. Condon and little Fauntle- roy Matthews. Miss Reader's piano solo was brilliantly executed, showing as it did, not only great talent, but careful training. “The Paderewski Minuette,” played with wonderful delicacy and artistic feeling by Master Fauntleroy Matthews, was a sur- prise to the audience, who received ‘his solo with a storm of applause. There were about 30 or 40 guests present, and after the conclusion of the programme a dainty supper was served. Indiana Society’s Dance. HE Indiana Society which has been doing some handsome things soctally, of late, gave an informal dance Monday evening at Mahler's, which from all accounts must have been what the Butterfiy calls “nawf'lynice affair." The Philharmonic trio provided the music for the dances and as the floor was in perfect condition the 80 guests continued to “trip the light fantastic’ until long past the mid- night hour. The hall was simply but very prettily trimmed as was alsuv the supper room. Among the guests were: Mr. and Mrs.— Mr. and Mrs.— J. B. Glazebrook, Morris Levison. G. A. Sallee, Misses— S. B. Braodage, H. B. Gardiner, haries Judge. Fiorence White, BPlise Brown, Susie Mellon, Messrs.— Dr. William Duna, Joon Laughlin, Misses— Madge Mellon, Susie Alexander, Giazebrook, Laughlin, Bogy, Olarke. Mesers.— Fred Hall, Joseph A. Wright, Ben Bogy, J. Gardner of Sedalia, Be. M. Keeves, J. Flory of Jefferson bb. F. Westerman, City. Daughters of the Confederacy. NE of the social happenings for this () weck will be the musicale and re- ception which the Daughters of the Confederacy will give Thursday evening at the home of Dr. and Mre. H. N. Spencer, 272% Washington av. The house is to be decorated beautifully for the occasion and each guest is to be presented with a dainty souvenir. I am giad to hear that the ‘Daughters’ are waking up again. We have not heard of any active demonstra- tions from them for so long a time that had begun to think they had disbanded. The pesela from Thursday night’s affair will e devoted to the monument fund and all who are interested in seeing this venture come out successfully are invited to at- tend. Admission is 50 cents. Twenty of the prettiest girls in society will assist in | the honors and as many young men wil assist the young ladies. Of course we all ought to go. Gone East Sight-Seeing. PARTY of South Side society people A who have left us for an indefinite time includes Bertha Thalman, Mrs. Alvin Gundlach, Miss Edna Gundlach and Miss Ida Sauftleben, who has been vis- iting here from Quincy, Ill. The ladies left St. Louis for the East last ‘Monday, and proceeded immediately to Buffalo. Durin the week they visited Niagara Falls an Erie and at present are sightseeing in New York City. Next Saturday they sail on the “‘Palatia’’ for Hamburg to remain abroad several months. While in Europe they will take in Paris, Berlin, Dresden, Gasse!, Rome, Vienna, the Hague and poss some English and Scotch cities, While in Germany they will probably be entertained socially to a great extent as they have distinguished relatives in that country. St. Louis Quintette Concert. USIC-LOVBRS enjoyed a rare treat Tuesdav nieht at Memorial Hall, where the St. Louis Quintette Club gave their third concert of the séason. The pretty little hall was well ti'led by 8 o'clock, when the Pp yetamme Was cpencd by the magnificent Beethoven Quariecte (opus 18, No. 6, performed in superb style by the club), who are playing better now, than ever before. The second number was a >) An Hour E’er Dawn of Day..ccccecce PF re. Cacy Carper. : Notturne, O De @ecsees +s 6866086 o\ 7. iets” Mr. Chas. . Mr, Ottmar Moll, HIN fF (a) Thou A "Li PlowWe? ...scesceeee = pus - (b) Thou Art Like Unto a Plowe®.«.ees«ee+ . ic) For So Scherzo— Bb. minor eeeeeeeee’ Teresa ino fa) Hart flow the Te upest Ia tlowling.... ‘ b) The Fyes of Ss ne *+eeeeee : 4 oo 7 — barles we Concert— MOIMOF «cee seeees ere « seeee ss Chopia % re ; Miss Mabel koa. a he Mr, Robyn pares the orqpestres part on gs After t J 4 Mt 5 . Mr. P Beauty oe > es,"’ and Mrs. Cooper san 's “Loree .’ after which the usual ref Bots were served. ' Union Musical Club. “The Union Musical Club_ will postponed concert of last Sat ih: o'clock next Saturday at the Church O87) the Messiah. This will be the Lenten come | — nila cert. . Literary Symposium. ¢ te The Literary Symposium held an in PROS ing meeting at rs’ Hotel Wedr morning, and took for the study a proqramme—character sketches of smith, Co r and Burns. maste selections from Goldsmith's “ ve 7 In the tattle talk each lady te ac tion. from or about these poets. meeting will be held at Hotel Sete art Berning and other En poets will discussed. Re Sas Kirkwood Monday Evening Club. ‘ : x 4 The last meeting of the Kirkwood ot eee criticised most following poets: Wak Wh Carleton and Pugene Fie named especially suffered at his The discussion, which follows his ‘ ySeag was animated. atte mele a i? The next meet w at resie; — dence of Arthur R. Belt, March a. \) we Kirkwood Magazine Club. ~ , The Kirkwood Magazine Club held its _ lar meeting at the residence of > Ke Cc. Ww. Murtfeldt Monday afternoon. | interesting articles were read and d NEW STANPS FOR OUR COLONIES: 48 HE use of the native Hawaiian tama ex: . od will be discontinued July 4, 189. The? United States Government, now pro- #7 Prietor of the Hawlian country, will step’! in with a brand new issue of his own desi” signing for the use of the late subjects Queen Liliuokalani. The Hawa , re a bill, now pending in Congress, contains s@¥=_. ~ eral itema of interest to stamp cc ore, After July 4 all the unused native a will be cancelled by order of the BPP 3 master-Genera] of the United States. be gil in circulation can ex ed for ld value of the United States time during the six months fol is understood that the stock of twe stamps is now exhausted. A oupply ordered in good time, but for so did not arrive. At last accounts were no stamps of this denomination cate. and it is not known what action 7 . a ee ‘ TELEGRAFOS. | . xt e) 2CENTSUR (FILIPINAS « A new and improved posta: system ut in operation in Porto Rico last he details were arranged by Wil Elliott, Director of Posts for the The same regulations in force in the States will be in vogue on the Iislan¢ it similar relations with other “Porto Rico’ in the same manner as authorized for Cuba, os The quantities ordered are as Owes 1,000,000 one cent, 2,000,000 2 cent, a cent and 600,000 ten cent. No made of any new designs. Pre | was generally supposed that einem | United States stamps in their ¢ | > fotm or a special issue would be auth for use in Porto Rico, as it is an tside territory, the-same as Alaska, where:ti weguies issues have always been used. ~*~ onl ut there , A ag many = ngs may ppen w reference i tal matters, now that the United Stat has acquired so many new territo nay collectors who want to keep up wit . a procession will have to be wide awake ~ and continually on the lookout for Uf. = prises. Not to be left behind, Aguinaldo has pe dered a new issue of letter stamps in a and telegraph stamps in biue. a R. These odd looking stamps are typical what might be expected from such a eo a ernment. The sun and three stars ae Bs triangle, the emblem adopted by the nat Best government, form the central gn. . value in American money appears di beneath the trtongte. with the name ipinos”’ in a straight line at the bott ok aa e two issues differ ongnty the postage = sy stamps bearing at the top the word “Cote recs’ and the telegraph stamps F grafos.”” The latter also have the letter at the corners ang! + ig ee It a sad postage or telegraph stamps, but, Nke other + eemi-civilized countries, in which a tap ly system is simply a matter of form, they” pare probably issued for eoue tive pu « It ts sald 5-cent postage and 2-cent enae other denominations are The Chafing Dish With hes. ne y¢ is ia Arh ae ¥ Px ase of ’ ; ‘ 2 ey ~~ ' ia ef - . : hy é 4 , - .) ee atest hs = Pee is vs " : Ses ia a ‘ wel sg ‘ AY. SF ’ — == — a eae ee ee ee

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Pweg ae so Pe: ss “ . 3 ag WR - sad od sat oy 2 ‘ , - « ie ees é 4 Ps ~ pbs os A ‘ad + s > ay on ay - * ose " ~ pie Peis x : r 7 - i ‘on ; ie . , : 2 $y ‘te ee oe ¢ > ee 7 - " : ‘ : © if ~ ‘ 5 J a of 1. é . 5 af ess ere S ~ z. ae «fs Ms te Sone > — ‘ ws he * y ee 7 : x w e 7: ei a Mee 2 ae a ote Be ; “y . a5 : : ri “. *F a ay : ee ee ¥* - SEVEN TIMES MARIE REY CASTILLO is ae ey: ——— ti PARTICIPATED IN A FATAL WEDDING. caBineTS $1 Fea Doz, ——~—— ___Or half rate, if you bring this notices, SOAP + fcvemesesty alias Confidence 2 Qessx fal og aN ; : ; 213 N NORTH For the Com plexion Would Ask Her | | | so ! : Women confide their troubles to Mrs Pink- woe Sop a ine ia = To purify and beautify the and prevent , Fimpies blotches, ack to Marry Him. * . \ ham and rely upon her advice. ' _SerieeeSonceanal._ 8 akin: Chapple tan rm he 7” Mrs. Pinkham’s counsel is safe. counsel. Mouth, Lips, th 4 for form of aki bertahen, : ” , Woman’s life is a constant crisis. From i skin or com . ou . airs, =. 8. 2.8.8 ele. aL : ; iY : removed ith : girlhood to womanhood, then to motherhood and Paciat inout pata quictly’ onied plexion soap is for a ’ with CUrICE a hosed + Jose Cassela married Marie Prieto © ; TY . s¢ TICURA Soap, , 3 \ 3 and so on to the perils of the “change of life.’ JOHN WEHRLY, M.D becauee no other reaches in 1880. Dermatologist, 307 Union Trust Buildin use, vis : Jose Cassela was accidentally jf : a) — = clogged, trriated, or'in, |% | Jose Casscla was accidentally. § Pi | Be ! The history of every step is on Mrs. Pinkham’s ” wolanavan nae ™ | ip Pie ‘ 7 records thousands of times and her vast ex- there is the place for : or, years later, . Manville arris d : ne ‘ For Hair and can by Seseegpene pl ugg caeyes i: y perience and confidential advice is at the free Allcock’s *s8eu rR. Sean with CUTICURA Soap. ri sie ~ Prieto Cassela in 1883, , ) : ~~ wes DAF, rinee with warm | | Manville Harris was accidentally : ; Dy: és water, dr and a ly a ligh ‘ Me ’ : fy 4 } ' elena ‘ me cna, parect of emol. ; killed by blood poisoning from a ao _ 3 > disposal of iF ah Baad cae bine aa eerie Al TENTION lents, gently rubbed broken leg eight months later. : Te eee S| 2 Ss | RS. into the ecalp. This “i [. ae LS ae — : aid. Her address is nn, Mass. 7 simple, r freshing, and Felipe Helmuth married Marie BN ID ,.. Be a e a, y | OFFICE ASSESSMEN inexpensive treatment ‘ Prieto Cassela Harris in 18386. , te”. + ~ off’ tah 3) PT} fe rt Dy cheap bere tee Felipe Helmuth was accidentally fy a ec Sh) hat he ee ee % Your Medicine is a Gods urfaces, stimu pee: > ae ) + late the hair follicles, killed in a mine tunnel slide five y Re ee i: % . Writes Mrs Phillips. clear the scalp and hair | @ weeks later. “4 Pet: apt ye fee y . BR, 0 Assesam nt Bont fr te tae the year of crusts, scales, and } William Storey married Marie Prie- ETS ae | er 4A ‘‘DeEaR Mrs. PINKHAM—I want to thank spapegese are requested to call wy agg aed and examine their assessnrents. dandruff, supply the ; c % TO a Pr 2 Oe roote with energ and - to Cassela Harris Helmuth in 1891. ee Pe te ' you for what you have done for me. When a . . Pa > 4 Equalization ay eee ; 0 on Monday. t 20th day nourishment, ant make William Storey was accidentally . ~ , 2> 4 ee : 3 : oe I wrote to you last June, I was almost a total A et al by tinh and will remain in session four Py PSI” : business before it requires a. BS _ ites taxertent FB ions he m4 @ killed by his own hand while tem- ; . : Bome ocalp, whenallelse fails. «|g POrarily insane six months later. °° ee ny is wreck from female weakness. I was troubled Ay gis Pin at | All appeals against acoeesments moat ‘be made . . Oe mp / : ‘ : tne. hy! Apa and sworn to. Lgomig! neuest rg fc ay tire SS bi“ with irregular and painful menstrua- ve . et Nel Blank forms can be procured at this office Red R h by d Priesto Cassela Harris Helmuth CAA : . : ; lo » oug ands. Btorey int 1992 | : tion, leucorrhcea, bearing-downpains, 4 en RP LTT ae A. H. FREDERICK, BaTse and soak the hands, on retiring, in George Prouter was accidentally “ SG pz of soreness, and swelling of abdomen; #awieS , PRESIDENT BOARD OF ASSESSORS. pe BW 9 Fey killed while out hunting six months C7 ' “ot? . ! : | pain at right and left of womb; head LEGAL NOTICES CUTICURA BOAP. Dr ’ and anoint freely with later. | we PL ache, backache, nervousness, CUTICURA olntmen Beam Campbell married Marie emg . — the great skin cure an Prieto Cassela Harris Helmuth $ . could neither eat nor sleep well. TREASTTROLLEI tea SCR cprauee po ae yoy et p rs ‘3 . fear during the night orey Prouter in 1894. ous ' “Sj : : : an. 21, 1899. % i taking Lydia E. Pink- : E, &) : nce g Ly dence present old, loose, kid gloves. Beam Campbell was accidentally ; : Forred,rough,chapped 1% i i1.4 by the fall of an elevator two Ce coe9 ‘ ham’s Vegetable Compound, Liver Pills, and using your San- hands, dry, fissured, cha peless ta palms, vey onagelibas Weeks there was a cave-in at the mine their future as one round of social pleas- Rey Costillo married Marie Prieto h iy : . : pful finger ends, this chdies 1: Miia WieRlettn Btocey where Helmuth was working, and his body ure and success in England, but he accl- ative Wash, I do not feel like reatment is simp] meg was recovered a few days later. William dentally shot himself while hunting a few the same person I am so glad Me” AY, ge iv Chatles @ De basin pe ; that “the State oom ane & blessing to all afiicted wit . go ytges pane in cow tally killed Storey, a young actor, who thad known weeks after their marriage, and was dead Ne es ey -OsUNO Was accidentally Marie when they were children, was the before his friends could carry him home. that I wrote to you, for you have Sl , ) oot Mi ‘thortaed’ to com: : ay the & in a quicksand just 28 days after next. In less than a year after Prouter’s death helped me very much. My Q) % banking as provided in tion Big of the Revised Statutes * ae the United ild wedding. m d more | . Caring : Mr. and Mrs, Storey were l'ving on a an old suitor made his second proposal for erves are str er r GG. = _ For the ¢ ‘h ren nerv a ong an In timony whereof witness my hand and seal For the skin, scalp, and hair of infants and ORR RORORCE temple ; , s ' he clinche Jv refuse onside fying properties, ions 7 from COUTCURA the wagon. His skull was fractured and he on ears ind a pistol in the clinched cowneh enim to consider all offers of and I know that I feel great skin cure, warrant the uce of CuricuRa | W45 picked up dead. and, marriages. hs rh ‘ The widow wedded the son of a storekeep- The next husband was an Englishman “If I were as. beautiful as Cleopatra.”’ better than ave tor SOaP, in the form of baths for annoying irritations, inflam. |... named Harr’s. Within less than a year named George Prouter, an heir to English» she says, ‘and were the only/marriageable a good many years. I 6,1 ; ' oe pergg htt pera = eR ng the husband fell and broke his lew. Blood estates and an earnest lover. He laugbed woman in California, I would denounce : o wf : . a Bee fa , think your medicine isa the fears of his adored one, declared the man as a fool who would ask me to godsend to poor, weak and also inthe jorm of interna poisoning set in and death soon followed. at the end of five her against her protest. He had planned man to an untimely grave.” women.’ —firs. Carrie er ‘classification, “it means busfMmess,” ahd the owner has put it there not for love of the Post-Dispatch, but because the Post- patch is a good advertising medium, . any expen ‘ture in its columng becomes profitable investment. > a & =. 2 washes and solutions for nicer. Felipe Helmuth, a miner, was the next that she was morbid, and finally married marry him. No, I shail never send another many senative antiseptic pur. man to _tempt fate. At ative weaknesses, and for osea which readily suggest - $ | ah , \ ious Sal ) AQ Coneeedotiumenes | WRITTENGY POC!) THE BIGGEST IN MISSOURI.| $ re: Pintham Fis Me eepecially to mothers. The use of CUTICURA Olntment with CUTIOCURA SOAP will gleo suggest WA TH iteclf in the severer cascs. ae Lowest prices in the city for optical goods. anointing with CUTICURA olnt- —_——~--— ment, the great skin cure and ‘* DEAR FRIEND—I feel . — Ww .. S 3 Erker Bros. Optical Co. stof emol! fford in- : : Haat rater in the weet die |A Californian Produces a Manu- “ gratitade and thanks to [ETC On eee 70 Ns $00 ee Sia ingyscalyanderumednanors, | script Which He Caims Was — 2 ongrimcsiectan LT Nee ae Ne |} —— Saeby ond ceiithoed, pornnte Written by The Raven's oe ee | icine has done for me. I (hay ARE Zz y “OUR OBJECT ALL SUBLIME” and child, and point to a ‘ : = Autor, a f was very miserable and 1 ¥€ Into make y ! | epeedy cure ~* the pve cases, even when the best — E | ; a . losing flesh very fast, had ait - Bog osenene, hospitals, and : e ther remedies fal oe, g ; AS the following poem wr'tten by oe % bladder trouble, flutter- . ings and Prices will do it. : cee y ing pains about the heart f WwW gP ‘fj EUGENE L. ISAACS DECORATIVE CO. For the Feet Edgar Allan Poe? A Californian, . name not given, who claims to be b . % iy 7 3 | g/ and would get so dizz ! 4 y 1210 OLIVE ST, . Por tired, aching, irritated, itching feet,a HOT a relative of the poet, sent it recentty to , y : y / set —- i ) ’ and suffered with pain- ~ Ss a A AR me ea NM Ea els, My nl Nati Ri ce: alii ata esata ae bath with Curicura | the San Francisco Examiner, alleging that SOAP and a gentie an- | jt had never been published, and that the ¢Z : / ray hy ee manuscript was sent to him res oe wt gl 2 ae . ' ful menstruation. I was ° ’ Ontment W oun author, and that it was signed ‘“‘Kdgar - be att | : : A 8 t if | Com xi, Fortine This tepatarent Poe.” In this connection hundreds will re- ! he « reading in a paper about ball ul LOM call the exceedingly clever manner in i , : : , ina allaye itehing and irri- | which James Whitcomb Riley duped the | * . fi Lydia E. Pinkham’s | SERA Soi ee : whole literary world a few years ago by a aa ® . MCF Pas ee 4 y producing & remarkable c ante mation and painful | causing to be published some beautiful i gy NY One ys tS Vegetable Compound, so complexion in o shore time. ewellings of the joints, | verses commencing: “Leonan‘e, angels . 5 RAN BS 1 noe re I wrote to you, and after ey a. “7 ag ig 4 named her,"’ which he claimed to have dis- of SS Fee + ty : eeeeneses and purifies the perspiration. etc., an covered in Poe's own handwritin F Here Sse Me a ad ae taking two bottles I felt j d by the Californian: ; bo SA , are the verses publish y the c SS sic fe like a new person. Your , F SERENITY. ip we A ee | Wi tee . For Colf Rash. THE SEA a S — Ke ‘ foes ee ‘ly er in yo veers naa ae In the Ozark mpg jm cow ee ee ee entirely cured me and I be | / Beautiful scenery. Uneq | Cheap excursion rates. Se CEPA ral ge & HEAT rash, oe “by anh bea From the 78) eRe of the Moon, . . ” O’er her silent, silver valleys, cannot praise it enough. ; Frisco Line. Address J. piesa gad aoe fn Lit by earth-light soft in June me i “i = whe en ne |) ae and stings of insects ‘6 ! , of’ 459 ae _— Sie | ee ' Roo no other application is 80 And Aurora Boreal:s, mati we. Ve “hs Hie we UP ae ors —Mrs. J. O. Barnard, mange pe aad Panny ‘les cooling, sooth! partty. I and Isabel the saintly — pb RS ei, Nepal _ oo Sh. Sa aa baa , : : . ing, and ref reshing as 8 Mute upon the mountain's top a ie Bit - SE RR Be Milltown, Washington : bath with Curicura Soap, Listened to the sweet dews faintly b = UY ait, ee ae wy, followed by gentle anoint. Into nether caverns drop. \% a 3 AAS kes A a ee Co., rte. . ings with Cu fice IRA, purest II PO ht RRS ea ae dy ; 9 Sa “ , 1 Set hs leis a * Opes ESTABLISHED 1871, of emollient skin cures. R\ » ek a set fein: st eae ef See : This treatment will slso And we spoke not and we moved not SMe me Be ae i149, ; The women of be found most beneficial in In our musing melancholy; 4 ae Sah): SRR is ae ae mS UNS “Wie fh eke . . , ah! we loved not SD” ai REN. tgs WI BARR ARR 2 Po Ph Se America have in cases of tired, lamed, Deep we loved, but, sprained, + ge or a oer love in worlds unholy, vs rE MAR Ah iat? We pow oo ee aie A PARSE oo code fort ho Ss M ; rulsed muscles, and ag ere the eart ung full and golden \ YA ORL Sa te Sa ee .' Avia tek ae - : " such is endorsed by the O’er our planet's pallid plain, 7 > MOWADIL foe oe See ea gee awe Pink ham _ ; 615 &. Breetaey Bake Elevator. ——: leading athictes and gym. And all memories of the olden _ mitt SA) ORR eee OS auiiheom 2 co fid ti ] f ° d .. . h Floor. ° pasiums. Days of the Earth swam back again. » 7 ih ' bo af MA > Ww | a o> i! af . ie Pade : 53)2; ? RSE: % ahs. 5 a nN en la rien . TEETH B i 5 $ 1 i eA | ee eer whose advice is al- Be 54 For Tender Faces With @ soft, & sad insistence, Mee emir, AR ER = i: oe Flowed a stream of melody WARIS Some re aera) |? a * ie aa EGOPPE i bast: ? Snare with Comicena Suavixo Soar. Atver | ‘Through the ether, through the distance, ed See Petes ways at their disposal, free of charge. The Mn ie ving, a e ting the face “lowed for Isabel and me. Ub PORES: 7 a 4 AA Bh ee 9 Wart! i) Re : ” . Shaving, and befor rab Sinte_ the gently From the entth, blazing — ea BRR fc mG a knowledge that women only assist Mrs. Pink- Tooth . . arte a © CUTICURA jreen and purple, opalescent, ay OA WSS Bo eS i Se : . Mntment, allowingitto | Blue and crimson suns with light ‘BE hee Pe eee eo a i ae ham in her correspondence with women about remain for @ few min. Bathed the nadir, iridescent. mm \ et \ Sos as oe ee TS v4 y - . health k , | ] f ] { ll ] il LD F I, : oft then wartn ing >. Oe h + es . , ma ree = Bp, — we ee ae NEU 7 orn D 4 iil 1 HOOMNS ing the ekin, scalp, hair, Y- Deep we sighed, yet knew not why. handa, ee well as for all Spoke the Sibyl of the Utter urposes of the tollet, bath, and nursery. Silence, with her waving wings ? With her shadow wings that flutter ACK GENTRY of Kansas City has the ing stick is a feat which caused him no largest mouth on record. Gentry 100KS trouble, as depicted on the middle-left. be without them. They cured me of a great affliction, and | tess BX * Cool the Blood. | Over all Unfathomed Things Ld , , — like a cakewalker, but his specialty Is Note the insouciance, in the lower left- why should they not cure others? I would advise every suffer- Tm the severer forme of itching, burn! “Yonder star whose luster lonely . : ; ecaly skin, scalp, and bleod Tinted like the Triton’s horn, ys mouth contortion. In this line he has no hand corner, with which his gutta-percha ing woman to give them atrial."—firs. J.S. Cobb, Brid rs Pe on DeaTAT 211 J TT J. rat Gala Cros vor. BOL ane nLD@. thona, | Be > , CUTICURA EBSOLVEN Flames py tng Fay A equal. There used to be a darky with one lips encircle a saucer. ton Center, Ile. . mort 2 oe Love and Life and Thoughts that ever ack’s burlesque companies who ‘ , . Burn within the mortal breast. of Sam T. J seque comps His mouth, when stretched crosswise or va Mphail thee Wie and’ = co «tia approached him in mobility of features, but gyened for a bit of cachinnation, is nothing eewrearhs a ey die and never rest . , , Chlchester’s Curae a Till yon globe shall burn to SOE there is probably nobody on earth with the gnort of cavernous. Ask Mrs. Pinkham’ \ Advice—A Woma ternally, thus ineuring a L‘ke this icy orb decrease 8-octave lip possessed by Gentry. If his To envelope a hatful of billiard balls cay AL Fl my ‘permanent, apd Cold and dark—with love she flashes— speedy, pet cure. CUTI.- Love till ell that is shall cease mouth were made of rubber it could not tickles that darky till he can't rest, Best Unde a Wo "s | SEES Thus “me ts aan . ena children of all ages alpened into a vast ccllpen. be made to stretch more easily. Gentry’s jaw ts not as long as that oz as sabe it treet And the Night lay on aie lips. Note the ease, in the picture on the mid- j.napod Crane, but it is infinitely more cp nr lowly, die-right, with which he caresses, endwise, oy nansive. When not on parade his mouth : thc Patag p Bosecteb eegagtr looks like that of any other member of his =. motes 8 cee ya papain otabetetoet ater | F wonders for me, and cannot be praised enough. I would not it Ab! NG if NEESTS tt ER tm 2 eae * i ed | 4 oe P . wy 7 - a ef Z ot}. * i" & . ? = - *. “? as Ps ft 4 i

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SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1999. OOIN “ITISUE. VOISIEIR. ; ke mr > Z “ Sat t Peper TS t= oF ee a>», — yrds _ vets ee es ~"s | LADENDORE: - Pee cee Me ae 4 - oe «ele ¥ eS tae 4 - : ; , : 4 4 t ee : wa a, é os 4 a be. og . ~ tone . « — ” | i re Mn si eke i z* ~ Ps y Ke e-n-% eee ‘2 re ‘ we oe iy D a > \ oo ree - : ? 5, He OP ND “ > o 3% , hal oat : i F 7 : a te Coe a ee om Pe ME Se ; ee ps PF ae ee ee an uate es eae aes hid cf ~a ’ ’ . : «es ere % 4 ty cee a See on ; ee “ea 3 3 — + ¢ ° . . ~ ~ " sy 7 7 p 7 > ip Fs “hy, 4 y ve 5% MMe F, ° os ' > 2», A», _- “4 a” * SANS f j ¢ ¥E", 4 Mf o 7 SA, , gna f :7 4 > oe f - . 2 _ my 4 » : : / , 7 to ee Ss Seer ~~, . “4 - s ’ : - . . 4 f a vod . of rm > \ 4 . SPs ~ oS. 7 s 5 4 “AES fii 4 7 7 f, 4 7 ,, - > > o —-__--— ——- —~o> eo ——___—-—_ ) THE WAY TO TRAIN A CHILD. Mrs. Cruiser spouse looked up from paper, “I have all along } en, thatethe methods Tohn are obsolete, end but calculated to ruin ting nazzig wiil never cahenes we both want him to emphat- ee ae Cruiser, Mary,"’ protested Mr. look of mild surprise on his “T am sure’’— interrupt me, please. I have reading one of those excellent w Froebel, the great educator. would only follow his advice, Il am sure we would in time ase to be very proud of our cebel tells us that the child ver be coerced—Johnny, stop tat noise directly. He adds @ness will. do more—Johnny, won't you pay any attention to me?— will do more to develop the latent in- stincts of—Stephen, are you listening to me?’ “TIT am,.”’ groaned the wretched Cruiser. “As I was saying, will do more to de- velop—Johnny, I'll give you a good spanking if you lick any more paint off that toy! He adds, Stephen, that med- dlesome adulthood should never inter- fere with the pleasures of the child: that—Johany, I told you that I would spank you, and I will! What? You're not making any noise? Don't contra- dict your mother!—that the innocent light of youth will all too soon fade out of the eye of the child—If you cry any more, Johnny, I'll send you to bed sure! I tell you, Stephen, it is very beautiful.”’ “Well, then, Mary," ventured Cruiser. “why in Heaven's name don’t you try a little of it yourself?’ And he dashed out of the room, while Mrs. Cruiser, a baleful gleam in her eye, continued to treat Johnny with kindness. H. A. BRUCE. DO O99 OOD 00-1 OD A CHRONIC CASE al hier: , say old Mr. Hardfist nas the grip. Well, he ain't never been known to let go anything he got OOD) e 2 SES ST—* SO OO OO OD Or Or O89 OOO OOO WHY THE O’CALLAHANS MOVED FROM SHANTYTOWN. AN UNE 2s IP IB OV IE DODD SOD DODD OOOO OHO OOOO POO DOD moras we ee oe ~ The Bereaved Fa last wish was to be embalmed, but I hate to do it after so much scandal. A BROKEN oabueidelnae: 3 i “What has caused Miss Daisy Cusack to break her @Mgagement with you, Ike?” inquired Col. -Handy Polk, the enterprising réal-estate agent of Rocket City, Okla., ssing thiat well-known beau and man, Alkali Ike. “Aw, I'll tell you how it was, Handy,” replied Isaae, a trifle ruefully. “You see, ever sincé we first got engaged she had been pickin’ and pesterin’ at me to do somethin’ heroic to prove my love for her. So at the picnic given by the Rannakaboo Club last Friday I told her to go ahead and fling herself into thé creek, which was considerably swol- len at the time, and I'd »nlunge in and rescue her at the risk of my life, like one of thém fellere in the ‘ove stories she was so fond of readin’. Accordin’, in she plunked. Shows how little sense ‘blamed late, and plumb women folks have got, don’t it?” . “H'm! I suppose so. But did you keep your promise?’ “I meant to, Handy; honest, I did! But just as I was shuckin’ off my coat for the plunge, here came Appetite Bil, a good friend of mine, on the dead run, a-hollerin’ at every jump that thar was free and unlimited whiskey for every- body at the new Blue Ruin saloon, and of course I put right out by the short- est trail to git my falr share of the licker before it was everilastin'ly too all about was gittin and last Miss Daisy. They say ready to sink for the time, when the Rev. Jack Jonks jumped in and pulled her out of the water. At any rate, she-hain't "peared to have any great amount of use for me since—no great amount. Beats all how touchy and onreasonable women folks ts about ‘little things, don't it?" x OOOO] SID SISIOWCAVIEIR: IB A\TVIEI. ae } fu U UU nnn ai os i on Mm ‘ . ea" ' — * ry rr yu VU J = UU PDO D0 OOO HO OF OHO i \\\\ an A ett TAIN G RK NY W\\\ \\\\ . \ pu ill ‘heme \Y FURS COME IN ALE RIGHT HERE” ICP gg oe: pt ON NS AEE Bh aR RRR: eal AM he Ceaalad “GUESS {f Boy. \| FAELZE MAAES 47 ‘LL HAVE. fose_ HOB NAILED SHOES ANow/! T/S SUPDEN PRETTY Su /PPERY.” | FATHER CHANGES IN NEW TORK EVERY MAN NEEDS F A CLOTHES "CADDY. ‘ | 238° ST— “/ RATHER EXPESTEO "THs | , | | THAW. RUBBER Go00TS [) ARE THE Titling.” ms a je 3stke 4248 ane ere Boy. No ///, BR. USE ma (A Tats 4£494 bowWW To WNEARLY. FOR + THANK 77'S CONV9 To GE. A HOT, , . OAL — ee Ps — ——— es ee an \ ig MEER “2 igi a Reet. ened a a ae — a ee e aie in a . Ae Sooke oT en ee ee) ce oF ee scr 7 < vad ~ pentitietinelitettinnin shinee Re ae RT AOS hes ip inti ties: h A ’ f } Y) ™~

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POD 8 OSS OOOO OOOO _ A TRAGEDY IN TWO SCENES. } WELL MEANING, BUT TACTLESS. j * SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1899 “a Wrens Hise 4, lee er —Sa AGENT. — 7 ee — +5 t. i ° ° POD DO OOOOH OH Oe OD “OO” Oe QeoroD> IF THE ASSEMBLY BILL GOES THROUGH BARBERS SHOULD HAVE THESE QUALITIES BEFORE G ALSo To BE. ABLE To APPLY BAY RUM To A wWASH TUR NOT To THE SURROUNDING FURNITURE. > } a ii ial ENT MODERN BOOK ; “= pe, .. - : Be oe Sc ae a wt aa ; : “aes “xe i , 4 ~ - aoe a) a ° . . co) oa xe at Gt aT at a a. ¢ THE FORCE OF HABIT, ER ¢ “It beats all," said Uncle Silas. sol-¢ Aemnly, “how well meanin’ folks will git eaway frum their mMmeanin’. We fellers ¢ proved that at Andy Simpkins's funeralY last week. ? “Ye see, Andy, he had been head of the Clintonville Amateur Fire Company fer years. We didn't have no sienna fire department in town fire broke out us fellers in the brigade 3 Fiit in and. put it out. We had consid- Pacnthe fun over it, and Andy. he was} ~always in the thick of things. He doned 0... “1 work in that department. 'n whene died us boys and the citizens in thed wn contributed to eit Up some hand-é me floral tribute, as they call it. » didn’t scrimp money an’ we got? somethin’ that seemed to us to fill the® pretty well A committee of the? bill boys went to the house the mornin’ of the funeral and fixed the offerin’ the 7 . n whenever a ] : } Zi 7 * ” , , ; » ' _—_ way we wanted it, and In the afternoon we went to the funeral with swellin’ hearts, knowin’ we had done the thing up neat an’ - The Hunter and the Bear. ow’'s eye I knew right off what ‘twas. In.order to git somethin’ Vx) lers had twined it round the coffin. It “If we could rouse her from this ¢ apathy,’ sald the doctor, turning from the patient with a worried lodk, ‘there might be some hope. If she could made to speak we might make her real- ize her condition and get her to make an effort to save herself.” He turned to the husband, who knelt by the bed, his haggard face buried in the white spread. “You understand her so well,” said the physician almost irritably. _“Can't you say something or do something Isn't there anything you could do that err : certainly did look pretty, and it surely é elegant. y “But the minute the mourners came in we seen somethin’ was wrong, and when I seen the giare in Andy's wid- : "propriate ae) had selected a floral hose. and the rel-6, ‘ - ’ emmg o associations of our work to- gether at fires. But somehow, when Lj fidoked into the widow's reproachful eyes and recollected what an indifferent chap Andy had been about religion, our offerin® seemed hortfible significant, an on boys knew we'd made a mistake.”’ 9 y ‘ . CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. Smith—Jones was always a cautious© man, but I think his leaving for Europe at the beginning of the Cornish rat case was almost unnecessary. Brown—Why, he didn’t know any of the persons concerned and he was ind San Francisco when the crime wasy fr), committed, wasn't he? dit Smith—Yes, but you know he has age = red bé€ard. bes The Bear and the Hunter. WELL-KNOWN TERMS. — —_-—- ty mir fy nti : SOD OOO OO OOOO OOOO OOO 0 OOOO A Dog Pound. / ‘ : DODD OOD OO OOOO ? APPLICANTS SHoULD GE: AGLE_ They SHOULD AT LEAST KNovw To PUT A LAYER OF- LATHER ON HOv/ To EDGE. AN AX. A PINE, GOARD witTHour SLOPPING ee ee There was lots o’ fun at Grady’s Lasht Thursday noight a wake; Fin’ th’ gintlemin an’ ladies As they pass now, niver shpake. ‘Twas th’ baby théy was namin’, He's a darlint av a bhoy. Howly murther! 'Twas his scramin Only added to th’ joy. There was Justice Dan McCarty ; There was Aldherman O’'Dowd— Shure a most distinguished party— R-colloquin’ wid th’ crowd. Fin’ the’ whiskey flowed like wather Ain’ a sumpchous feast was spread. Bad ‘cess be to Grady’s father! All the row was on his head. Mrs. Grady: thought that “ Barney” Was the iligantest name. Says ould Grady: “Call ‘im ‘ Larry’; Here's a fisht thot says thot same.’ “ Hark,” his wolfe says, “ till a lady Where's a betther name nor ‘Moike? “ Patsy!” yells th’ younger Grady, Rollin’ his sleeves up, wrathful loike Ould man Grady bruk the quiet, Tuk a red-hot cushtard pie, Shtarted ahl th’ subs’quint riot Pastin’ Grogan in the eye. Grady didn’t need no urain’ Ain’ his right hook caught O’Dowd, > . * * Rin’ a brass-bound ampb’'lance surain Had a job to patch the crowd AND To USE. Tile. SHEARS ON A GRASS PLOT wiTHouT LEAVING GALD SporTs. (FO iT 3 ys > i) z . > 7 : é y WA hey . would awaken her?’ A look of hope lighted the husband’ pale face. He rose without a word and left the house, It was midnight. The watchers by the bedside heard the rain peltin against the window panes and the wind whistling around the corners of the old home. A step sounded on the gravel walk outside. In another second there was the click of a latchkey fumbling uncertainly itn the keyhole of the front door. The restless turning of the sick woman's head upon the pillow stopped suddenly. She seemed to listen. The door opened and unsteady steps came along the hall. The husband en- tered the dimly lighted room and felt his way among the chairs. His wife's eyes were open now. Her lips twitched once or twice, then parted. “John,” she said faintly, yOu been until this hour?’ And they knew that she was saved, ‘twhere have IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Bennett—Horace did not learn the hideous secret in her life until the week before they were to have been married. Them, of course, he broke the engage- ment at once. Wilkins—What was the. secret? Dip- gomania or hereditary insanity? Bennett—No; she plays the piano. PART OF IT. “What do they mean by this phrase. ‘The white man's burden?’”’ asked the citizen who had not read Kipling’s poem, “Taxes,” replied the other man, who was just then cancelling a revenue stamp. DO OOO OOOO that will arduse her from this stupor?}. Tne beautiful seen on Fifth a horseless dogcart. Miss O’Hoolehan is 30 cents. | Blanche Vere De tween, fighters) — O'Toole! Billy de and he geta my fr 2 ITS ULTIMATE USE. The Geritieman with the Top Hat—It's seldom yoy see a Il suppose you're going te shave * to grind doting it himself. 0 The Gentieman with the Ase-You have enother 4 old woman is going to manicure her nails. D> D> D> DD ODO DO ODO OD HOODOO DODD DOPOD DEDEDE OOD ODODE DODO DOD OO OD ETTING A LI guess, i ey o. a Pera Be. . , ety % #. a. * the aS ane #) Md at “7 id — & ‘ , ? 4 * i, ; : os a 4 oe ME > iy Saas f "= ' i: eho % $ e+ , rds 4 ay ie - ee i ee age. - Pade tua ie y % ——— << ee = THe tAST AND’ GREATEST 7 Be. To KEEP THR | MOUTHS SHUT ine Some Mi

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Plunk Bascom, the genta! pro- ‘of the Blue Ruin Refreshment when matter was reported “@m prohe to say that this yar Zia mighty white heathen as @ go, and never embezzies nor ““g no shirts which is intrusted ime and as sech I'estimate that 'f to be left thar to perish a'one f anything bein’ done for him.’ ] agreed to that, for, as the said, Hop Sing was shore a an and always behaved him- wasn't a doctor in the camp and for a spell we was ct a what to do. It didn't seem int whiskey or quinine was what idolator needed, and them was about all the reme- mtr then aware of. vt knowin’,’ says the Hon. iin’, ‘presizely what I’ve | nor what that thar ailin’ Te needin’ of, but I'm willin’ to ‘bh alleviatin’ him, You all doctor that you whirled i about two months ago— What for jest now, but anyhow iy aware that he was owin’ me when he was jerked hence, I got out of it was his medi- by way of restitution. If thar tharin that is good for the I yarby donates the same benefit. said medicine-case was produced to be filled with a dozen little & of dope, none of ‘em bearin’ any but jest numbered from 1 to 12, me Arkansaw men's children. A f us tracked out to the wash- and found Hop Sing steadily worse. We held a powwow and heap of smoke, but nobody at the invalid needed nor rec- my of the medicines by the t it was plain and apparent » needed suthin’ like a feller gen- er'ly needs his revolver when he needs it at all, and so for luck we gave him dose out of vial No.1. It djdn’t seem t effect him at all, so we gave him some out of No. 2, also without result. Then we tried No. 12 on him, but it didn't steadily sinkin’. “ ‘He's goin’ too fast,’ says the Hon.© Plunk, ‘for us to take time to try allz the rest of them nine othér remedies ~ him, and mebby the last we'd try is the® one he stands so sorely in need of any-% how. So I move that we jest mix the exe \ A> >. JAN i > > > a ~ sides up at the end of the «treet owe any of you-all gents anything?’ says te 2 ‘If so, I jest thought I'd mention that a@ catamount ‘peared to be devourin’ of him judgin’ by the noise in his cabing, as I came by.’ 4 “We was enough interested in Hops Sing as a patient that we hot-footed ité out to his shack, and before we reached it we was convinced that the stranger was right, from the howlin’ and yellin’® that purseeded tharfrom. But before we got thar the noise suddenly ceased, 4 and all was still when we broke thee door down and bulged in. Thar lay@ poor Hop Sing stretched out on the? floor stone dead, with his hands clasped« affectionately over his tum-tum and a¢ long and jagged Chinese sword stiekin’® out of his mouth. “*Wal, now, pshaw'’ our prey. ‘We shorely meant well, but.@ while I hain't absolutely certain, 1 esti-~ mate that we killed the poor pagan withé kindness. I don’t know what he was® originally cursed with, but I am san-% guine that he came to ‘his death from a@ combination.of philanthropy and twelve® other drugs, none of which we knowed® the names of. Such bein’ the case, let’s licker.’ “We done so.”’ TOM P. MORG PARES OTHER PEOPLE. } Léttie—I never like to make 4. 4; DewWitte—Very considerate of sure! ONLY HUMAN AFTER ALL. She loved her neighbor as herself. ys And meanness was to her unknown, © Until that neighbor bought a hat > And dress exactly like her own. x Hit - rreeesieeere = = PDDODDDOOGDDOOD DOOD OD HOODHOOHDDOTGOOOGOGOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOHOOOOOOOOYS O©OOGOOOO6GOOOOOO va om, Wy > Ue —— el —_—_ ee e_ KELLY Vip Ph 5 SS ONE FIND ~ ~~ ® ~ Wig Be. — J ai HEC S Mie wreies —. — « Ta se =Secnee = See OSteraiaies —— +6 EVIDENCE SUPPRESSOR. . ESR e A ae 7 SS ae RSS ERS NOTICE NOT FAIL TO SEE THE “DEFICIT MAKER” (ms KINLEY IMPERIAL PATENT ) WN ha piaas Bie 2 1 Lin [THIS MACHINE MAKES $5 10,000,000, NEW NATIONAL DEBT A MONTH IN TIME OF PEACE. ON EXHIBITION DAILY TILL FURTHER NOTICE : OLE ™ sTiCc "Oe * . 4 a : ‘ vi 5 ~~ Se oe as. . « ® ¥y 2: cs ; » dy 4 Ate ox. a Kate : : ye ‘ Ee “ ee 4% ue rar “« . * 2 r ‘ or al “> i> - J we ee Soe ee agit eo Wee. tee ie sing iat Sys LA * he Me owe os ee S. sare ne aes - —- | ah oe — al . + NES 4 by ; Cork ae) »§ & : eo , when I arrived there, for & was reported that the novelist ‘was at home > “No, I carn’t put you aboard ‘er, guv’- nor,’ sald the watermaf I accosted. “It Sua be as much as my Iife’s worth. Got ®an erpintment, have yer? Weill, I'll try.” 4 The muzzle of a rapid-ire gun was Strained over the rail as I was rowed near, and a military voice challenged: “Hak! Who goes there?” “Friend,”’ I said, nervously. ‘Approach, friend, and give the coun- tersign.”’ ‘** 007," I replied, and a ladder was lowered for me. The deck was crowded with big men, who spoke in a strange language that seemed familiar. I learned Pafterward that these were all the origin- als of Mulvaney, >» Mr. Kipling’s etudy is fitted up im the former emgine-room of the steamer, where much of the machinery still re- pmains, and he confessed that he owed two of his last stories to this source of inspiration. He was writing busily on a >cylinder-head when I entered, and was chad only im a life-belt. ‘I seldom wear »clothes,, except when I put ona dress psuit,”” he explained. “It savors of de- ygeneracy. Primitive Man is the ideal | »aim att.” > “So I have always supposed,”’ I said. But am I not internupting your work?” >» “Oh, no. I can talk and write at the »same time. I always do. Ask any ques- tions you like.” » “Then, if I may ask, what are you »working on now?” . ? “This? Oh, this is my new story, the plongest I have yet done. It is to be called ‘At the End of the Tread,’ and ythe characters consist entirely of sewing »machines. Oh, yes, I have already dis- sposed of it, and I am to receive 12% cents ‘ay aaa A> Ja he Lae hoy Joy ho hey do de po dy he fi di Ni pi i Ww ~“ ww a ada @>/adayéa/ a ww a» att spell ‘honor’ with a “*u.’” does America think of mry recent scnooi- boy stories?” Peper . “Well, they”"— “Think they're ell right. That's right. I find a great field In the working up o! juvenile character. I had an offer th other day to write a series of stories |i one syllable for ‘Our Little Darlings,’ which I was compelled to deciine.”” He wanted to pay by the syllable tnstead of by the letter, which was too manifestly what you Americans call a ‘bunco steer- age.’ Of course it is highly irregular that a syllable lke ‘tongue’ should be counted of no more value than ‘in.’ ”’ “Of course,” I sald, sympathetically. “And now, ds to your favorite booksT’— “I never read books. I haven't time. When I want new ideas I go on deck and chaff the watermen. When I want qmusement I let In an interviewer.” “I won't ask you as to your favorme hours of work, but before I go I wish you would give me the true story of how you came to write the ‘Recessional.’ “Willingly. Neither the wastebasket story nor the story about locking myself into a room is correct. The fact is, ! wrote it at the closing of the World's Fair for a New York newepaper. They offered $1,000 a line for it, but when they saw it they at once called it back, and said M was not sufficiently enterprising in tone for the American public. Must you go? Glad you called. Goody. Domt fal into that boiler; the man-hole’s open. 3 A > How to become famous in a day—re- -tuse to accept a theatre or railroad pass. > > How to become a hero in the eyes of How to get a seat in a Brooklyn »Bridge train at 6 P. M.—take a chair >with you. > How to attract a great deal of public pattention—leave the front door of a ®street car open on a chilly day. 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