St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 17, 1902
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* W 8 <= * ͤ— ̃ͤ—bñ ˙² -màÄ1X1&. ] — U ⅛¾ ͥunh1..ͤ ]è] ͤ r — —— — — — U EAN ˙ A —˙-ܳ WW The drive over the mountains from St. James, the nearest railroad station, consumes an hour and a half. gushes, cool and crystal clear, like Minerva, full born, from the foot of a precipitous bluff, whose tree covered sides tower full 200 feeet. The pool made by the sparkling waters is 200 feet wide. of rock, bubbles and eddies and roars this torrrent from the underground river, of which, in the opinion of scientific men, the spring is the outlet. The natural impetus of the water, sp@nging from its hidden source, is sufficient to force the water six inches above the surface of the pool. the spring flows, is only 200 yards wide. os petals} “ae 5 — e ey pets 1 aS vot ay 2 dt 4 — poses to Pump Water to the World's Fair City. Ne — FF wet Photo by J. P. Schmidt. Headwaters of the Mzramec River in Gi County, 90 Miles From St. Louis, Whence the Pure Water Commission Pro- — —— — —ů— —— 9 The spring is a peculiarly beautiful spot. It The valley, wherein At the upper end, in the perpetual shadow of a beetling ledge From the spring the water flows in rapid current over a ledge of rock 100 yards below. The rapids formed by the ledge are fierce in the foamy impetuosity of the current. Reaching a smooth bottom after passing the rocky ledge the water flows on to where it joins another tributary a half mile below and there forms the Mera- mec river proper. Just below the junction a mill race cuts off a part of the stream. For 15 miles, extending from the spring to a point below Steelville, the river valley is narrow. a lake a mile wide, 15 milcs long and very deep. show that during the dry summer months the flow from the spring is more tha n 85,000,000 daily. The water is sweet to taste but is not always clear. heavy raigs the spring becomes cloudy, but soon clears. A dam placed at the lower end of the valley would form It is estimated that at its maximum the flow from the spring amounts to 150,000,000 gallons a day. Estimates After WHAT “BOB” BURDETTE, HUMORIST, SAID TO ONE WOMAN He Pricks French Wit and Tells of the Joy He Finds in German Comic Papers. BY ROSE MARION. “American humor ts the best in the world today, and the newspapers have made it what it is. Its advance in the last 2 years has been great.“ So said Robert J. Burdette to me Wednes- day evening in Belleville, where he amused @ crowd later. I went to see him earlier in the day at his hotel in St. Louis, only to find that he had departed for Belleville. To Belleville I went as fast as the trolley car could carry me. I got there a half hour before Mr. Burdette did, and because of my perseverance he talked to me before he ate hia dinner. He told funny stories and laughed much as he talked. I wondered what sort of a man he must be after din- ner. “Twenty-five years ago our humor was of the brutal type,“ he said. “We wrote jokes about the persons who died from the effects of lighting fire with kerosene and those who looked down the barrels of load- ed guns. Today things do not have to have a fiavor of the cemetery to be amusing. “JT contend that humor is a matter of cul- tivation, however. A child cries naturally, but it learns to laugh. Yow could tell the funniest of funny stories to a dlanket In- dian and his features would not relax into even the faintest grin. But allow him to torture anybody and he will laugh much. A boy's appreciation of humor is on the same order. He enjoys sticking other per- sons with pins and is much amused when banana skins bring his elders to the earth. ‘ON FALLING DOWN STAIRS. “ven we of larger growth laugh at per- sons when they fall downstairs. We are not glad because they fail down. But we are glad that, since they must fall, we were present when the event occurred. A takes education to see the finer points humor. The funniest persons in the however, are those without humor. 1 fancy there is a latent sense of in every man that only requires de- velopment to bring it out. “Then you think a person may become a humorist by education?” I queried. “Yea, I do,” he replied. “How about yourself, Mr. Burdette? Didn't you always say funny things?’ “Yes; even as a boy. My compusitions were always humorous. When it came time for me to graduate they told me 1 must write something serious. I hunved around for a subject for a month or so, and finally settled upon ‘The Press and the Ballot Boa —the two things that I knew least about of all others. 1 had never seen a printing press and hed never poked my fingers into a bailot box. I wish I could see that essay now. Mr. Burdette said the last sentence in a reminiscent way that made me wish I had seen when he read that essay. I won- Gered where the smile that has a way of running all over his face went to when he read those sober thoughts. A DUTIFUL WIFE. But when you're interviewing a man that hasn't had his dinner you musn’t take time to wish, especially if his wife is pres- 19, ry ; ” . ant. 8 1 Pe 5 . 5 ? 2 44 ; 1 ye * ie * e el ö . 9 i” a 89 . cer / * so * 7 * F 2 5 2 fv ae — — ——ͤ—— — — — P 0 ˙ * — ——— — c —ů— — — — considered the qreatest American humorist he rep.ied instantly, “Mark Twain.” But “the business manager objected. The greatest American humorist is Mr. Bur- dette, she said. “When a man can be before ne audiences the a 8 then A — Sons is great.“ “How do you compare French with American humor, Mr. Burdette?’ I asked. Goodness! He thinks the French humor is only wit, and stinging wit at that. “For my own choice I like the humor of the | The Bnglishman has none, talk about him,” he con- 3 Personally, I hate the things in that pa- per, but I looked pleased when Mr. Bur- dette informed me that they gave him much amusement. He sald that he liked Heine and quoted lines from one of his poems. “The French are quick and they say +i things well, but there ts always a sting that hurts the geniality of their humor. We Americans are their superiors in that respect and mych of our improvement is due to the newspapers. “Today the humorous eayings are not packed into one column from which there Instead [And a humorist’s manner of telling of a grievance is 80 different from that of or- dinary persons that you must know the story. He did not scowl nor frown, neither did he talk in an aggrieved tone, but de- tween laughs and chuckles told about the article upon humor lately published in the “Century.” “I am not mentioned in that article, not even as a ‘has been,’ or an ‘also ran.’ I wouldn't mind that so much iff they hadn't slighted my paper so completely. It is not named either.“ Then the business manager sald some things concerning George Ade’s Fables and the writings of Peter Finley Dunne, both of which are mentioned in the Cen- tury article. And shortly thereafter she said Mr. Burdette must stop talking in or- der to prepare for his public discourse, and IT went out of the presence of the humor- ist, whose sympathy for mankind even in jokes seems to prove that those who talk lightest feel deepest.“ TLL MEET YOU IN THODLER'S: GREEN” L. M. JOHNSON WROTE THIS, THEN ENDED HIS LIFE. STRONG DRINK THE CAUSE “When You Think You’ve Got a Front You Haven’t, So Good-By, Tom.”’ Tom Trout received a powerful temper- ance lecture in a note left by his chum, Louls M. Johnson, aged 32, who committed suicide. In a notebook found in Jonnson’s pocket after his death from morphine Thursday afternoon at 1513 South Ninth street was a penciled message to Tom Trout, part of which reads: Friend Tom Treat: ‘ I am all in. Quit drinking or you will be with me. The best you get of it is the worst of it, any- way. I have been 20 years in the business. Wen you think you dave a front“ you have not, 60 good-by, Tom. * Tell Olie that I love her better than life. © * * I will meet you down m Bb ddser’s Green. Johnson was a shoe cutter recently from Keokuk, Io. He lived at 1237 South. Sixth sireet, and was unmarried. Wednesday night he cailed at the home — A Hartman, at lols South Ninth where Tom Trout lhved, to see his —— e had been drinkin heavily, and Hartman put him to bed. Thu morn- ing Jonugon said that he did not care to get up. He lay abed until afternoon, when he took the morphine. Hartman found him dy- uin ke is is said that Olle,“ to whom Johnson referred in his message, lives in St. Louis. Tom Trout refuses to reveal her identity. In the note Johnson wrote: “Teil Olle to come to see me. Don't get her name mixed up with this. You get it first and tear it up, except first page. Johnson's body was sent to the morgue. ONE MOLINEUX EXPENSE. Jury Has Awarded $6639 to the Chemist for NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—A jury in the gu- preme Court has rendered a verdict for 36639 in favor of Prot. Rudolph Wtthaus, 4 Fr See oer eet . 7. W — 171 ** % 1 * 7 . « nae - ve oy ee, t's Sega 2 Las a cnt: 8 INCREASE OF OVER THE ENORMOUS GAIN IN EWE OR TATIONG MOET & CHANDON CHAMPAGNE QUARTER OR, MORE ACCURATELY, AN 100 PER CENT OF THE COMBINED INCREASE OF ALL THE OTHER — Extract from Bonfort’s Wine and Spirit Circalar, January 10, 1902. MOET & CHANDON WHITE SEAL. Attested by the DURING 1901 OF OVER A OF A MILLION 252,432 . YEAR. 1900, ee TO MORE THAN CHAMPAGNE HOUSES. Is of the celebrated vintage of 1893 Pronounced by the Bon- Vivant and Connossieur the Acme of Perfection. DRY, DELICATE, DELICIOUS. Saturday light Jan. 48th In Unequaled Reduction Jae Closes Saturday will be a day of genuine saving—a day full of good opportunities—for men who want the best farnishings—and the finest in St. Louts are bere. Shirts Underwear Hosiery Neckwear Gloves Ig to J off the regular prices Clethiers, Haberdashers aad Hatters, Repablic Building, Seventh aad Olive Sts. CLEW: TO. INMENSE ESTATE HIS. QUEST TENNEESSEE WOMAN MAY OWN LARGE PART OF EAST ST. LOUIS. SENDS SON TO INVESTIGATE Is Trying to Prove Herself Niece of James McClintock, Whose Prop- erty Is Worth $13,500,000. John D. Kimmons of Pleasant Grove, Bedford County, Tenn., arrived in Belleville Thureday to make an investigation of the records in the office of County Clerk Thomas in the hope of establishing that his mother, Mrs. Isabella Kimmons, nee Mc- Clintock, who lives in Bedford County, the niece of James McClintock. James McClintock is the man who Is claimed to have left an estate in Bast St. Louis worth $13,500,000. It is claimed that McClintock formerly owned the entire sice of East St. Louis, and that he was en- trapped into deeding away a large portion of his estate. For 14 years persons claiming to be heirs of McClintock have been trying to estab- lish their right to share in his estate. It Is claimed that a year ago a court de- cision gave the title of the property to 18 —— — — — OUR SUCCESS Special Free Clinic in Dentist IN FREE CLINICS DUE TO THE HIGH-GRADE WORK [I 4 2 PROFESSORS OF THIS COLLEGE. 99 UNTIL JANUARY 20—-FULL SET OF TEETH FROM $1. 5 We will continue our Free Clinics and do all werk for cost of material. N your pla falta 2 have our ee Double Suction Inserted FRBE. Special Free Clinics until January 20. Removable Gold Bridge, tented, tooth. . de ridge Work, per t = * $1.00 Free eee — 800 * „ „„ No more hollow cheeks nor sunken faces by using his patent plumpers devices and double suctions. No more old-time methods. Everything new. We make you look 10 years younger. All work guar- anteed 18 years Second Fleer, S. B. Cor. 7th UNICN DENTAL COLLEGE, °22.0uI¥" S%.,so%t Sos.% Sulticetes BRUSHES mat be sold ja 60 days. FIRST CLEARING SALE Fs‘ resco S. E. GROTE un CO., 519-521 St. Charles * — — — — — Platinum Fillings 2 $20,000 worth of PAINTS, — * “Kansas City Vestibuled Limited,” Commencing Sunday, Jan. 19, will Leave St. Louls.........10:00 P. M. Arrive Kansas City.......8:30 K M. IS ATTACHED TO THE TRAIN AT SLA- TER, FURNISHING BREAKFAST BE- APARTMENT, LIBRARY AND READING ROOM. Reclining Chair Cars Free. pullman Standard and Compartment W THIS 18 A HANDSOME DAY CLUDING CAFE DINING CARS. : THE ONLY WAY.’ * ———— — — SE A A Mm We 0K A —— — ũ — — — —— —ͤ — 1 mee — —— 1 CHIC EO. oe — — * — — — . “THE MISSOURI STATE EXPRESS” IH WILL LEAVE Sr. LOUIS AT 8:20 A. X. 0 5 CARRYING SUPERB EQUIPMENT, IN it A Cafe Dining Car | A be — p —ů — — : 1 A wre ~ HYPNOTISM, MAGNETIC HEALING | and SUGGESTIVE THERAPEUTICS TAUGHT in PRIVATE, also in CL every Menday, Wednesday and Friday, 6:00 . M. We patient of any Habit. Merpbise. Cocaine, treat all PP 3 Nerveus 2 and Olive Sts., St. Louis; Mo. ice cannot call, write for fall i — er
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