St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 7, 1907

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BES). gy TEACHER WHO Another Record- | Tae) suri Breaking Year! | WORKED HARI for the first Her Associates Blame Present Eleven Months oi 1907 System for Ment Breakdown. just passed, the Post-Dispatch Has smashed its great circulation records of all pre- vious years for the same relative period, making legilimale substantial Gains for each month of the eleven over the High-Water marks of 1906, an achievement most remarkable. EDITION ST, LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING; DECEMBER 7. 1907. - PRICE ONE CENT a WOMAN WHOSE BODY SEX10N ‘KING OSCAR 5 be BURIED IN WRONG CEMETERY LO! IE Be | a SLNER OF 6, HELD AS CR KILS THEM Man ‘ea Wife . Pinned Across Rails by Mob After Mur- dering Whole Family. Final Sacrament / After Hope of Rectal if : Is Abandoned. TOO MUCH REQUIRED HEART ACTION ————— Miss Myrtle Lee, Saved by Pu- pil, Was Brightest of Class. HUSBAND IS’ COWARD Has Been in Feeble — Nearly All of 78 Years — of His Life. _He Is Made to Die First—Ge- noa Tragedy Follows ? rifling Dispute. PATIENT UNCONSCIOk The hard study required from teach- ers by the Board of Education su ove! burdened Miss Myrtle Lee, 10 ve: azo head pupil of her class in the tral High School, that she tried to | herself to escape the increasing « . actions of her work. Miss Lee, a third-grade teacher the Divol]) School, locked herself in ik home at 5160 ivcnsington avenue lr; day evening ard iuvned on all the gas jets in the flat’ She was rescued by isl-wett Wagorer of 6137 Kensinzten avenue, a high schoo! boy, who broke GENOA, Italy, Dec: 7.—Giuseppe Quat- trocchi his wife cut their land- lord, Anthony Bianchi, to pieces with their knives today, slashed his wife and her nursing baby to death, strangled three older children and were them- selves held by a mob in front of a speeding electric car and ground to bits. The tragedy followed a trifling dispute over the rent. Bianchi, a street car conductor, had sublet a room in his cottage in the suburbs of San Fierdarena to the Quat- Only Word He Has Spok for Hours Is to Thank ~ It is remarkable — Physicians Because the Post-Dispatch is. the only St. Louis newspaper showing Gains for either Daily or Sun- STOCKHULM, Dee. 7.—King Oscar Sweden is dying. Hig physicians } trécchis. The misunderstanding between the *wo families does not seem to have been serious and Bianchi knocked at lis guests’ door before going to work today, could be settled in a few moments. Wife First to Attack. The instant he spoke Mrs. Quattrocchi uttacked him with her knife. Her hus- bend rushed to her assistance and then they drove their victim into his kitch- en, where they literally cut his body to ribbons. _ Attracted by his cries, his wife, with her baby in her arms, dashed tnio the room, striving to protect her husband by throwing herself upon his form. Mrs. Quattrocchi, accord'ng to her husband’s story, herself dragged the woman aside and while he finished Bianchi, stabbed the mother and baby to death. The other three children—the oldest 9 years old—had -crawled under a bed in the meantime, hoping to escape. To have oF _ spared them, the murderers believed, 3 would ‘only be to insurs their own _ ‘deaths; so all three were hauled out are and strangled. From the Bianchi home the Quattroc- chts fled in such haste that their stained ' - hands and garments quickly attracted attention. Run down by a mob, Quat- trocchi confessed the crime, for which he had endeavored to shift the respon- sibility upon his wife. The woman was stubbornly silent, but the knife in her pocket seemed to con- firm her husband's story and the meth- od of helding them in front of a trolley car was resorted to as the only con- *. venient means by which they could be disposed of quickly enough to save them from rescue by the police. Greater Coward Dies Yirst. The husband, as the greater coward, Was given the privilege of dying first while his wife looked on coolly as he perished, screaming, and went with ‘perfect composure to her own death. The motorman, whose aid was en- listed, put on full speed whie the _ Btanchis’ avengers held the victims by the head and feet across the rails, and @attered the two bodies along many eae of track, — YOU-WILL HAVE NO CHANCE TO WEAR WINTER FURS FOR BAY OR TWO IN ST, LOUIS . THE TEMPERATURES. a 40 a te. ' Not much chance “for the new winter Suit and bonnet Sunday . according Weather . Prediction wear themsel¥es out be- fore Sun@ay morn. ing. . The official fore. Cast; “Partly Cloudy; light showers tonight or Sunday; high- er temperature and southerly winds; the ‘lowest temperature to- night will proba- began to fall at 9 morning. warmer in practically all country within the last 2% pressure over the South- evidently thinking the trouble day in this period. Because during Seven and Onc-Half of these eleven months a new paper has been published in its daily field without alfecting in the slightest the sleady growth of both Daily and Sunday Posl-Dispatch. Averages for 1906 and 1997 First Eleven Months Daily this year. . 162.083 Daily last year. ...... 154,63! Average Daily Gain this year, 7,452 Sunday Averages This year .. 252,233 Ew gw ee 241,165 _ Average Sunday Gain this year 11,068 That this great value-giving product is appreci- ated by advertisers who buy newspaper space for results only is shown day after day in the great volume of advertising the Post-Dispatch carries— illustrated, for example, in our issue of last Thurs- day, when all previous daily Post-Dispatch records for columns of Paid Publicity were annihilated. 157 Columns of Legitimate Paid advertising were carried on that day under normal conditions without special effort of any kind, eclipsing ils previous High-Waler Mark of of 151 Columns made Thursday, October 25th, 1906. The growth of the great army of Post-Dispatch readers year after year keeps steady pace with the percentage of increase in population of its home city. Because everyone knows that The Post-Dispatch Serves no interests but the people’s interests; that it is independent and fearless and considers nothing but the people's rights and welfare. This is one of the many reasons why the sales of the Post-Dispatch in St. Lovis and St. Lovis Suburbs, every day in the year, are greater than the sales of ali other St. Lovis morning and even- ing papers, COMBINED, in the same territory. Circulation Books Open to All! “First in Everything” in a window, enteied and carried tiie unconecicus teacher to a back poren. Artificial respiration was used and shi is recovering from the effects of tlie ois. The attempted suicide of Miss Lee was the chief topic of conversation among principals and grade teachers who at- tended the weekly meeting of the Socie- ty of Pedagogy at the Central High School Buliding. Most of the teachers held that the burdens placed on teach- ers by the present system are too great, and that frequent individual break- downs are inevitable if the plan is con- tinued. Teachers Blame System, “Teachers are overworked and har- rassed by different supervisors, in ad- dition to the assistant superintendents,” said one principal. ‘‘They have to study and teach drawing, painting, music and physical: culture, and if they fall be- hind in any of: these’ branches, the su- pervisors will report them unfavorably to the superintendent. seachers have to ‘take a lesson in drawing every two weeks, and to teach five periods of drawing a week. They have to work nights on their own draw- ing exercises, and in many cases the F work is so heavy that they have to teach 10 periods instead of five. in adution to those branches of overtime study, the teachers are: now being required to learn a new system of handwriting, a cross between the vertical and the Spencerian. “The teachers all Know that their promotion, if not their retention, de- pends on the work they do in these branches. The board expects them to understand this, as is shown by the giving of diplomas in these branches.” Was Recently Reprimanded, It was stated by a friend of Miss Lee Saturday that, although she was an exceptionaily apt pupil in High School and Normal School, as shown: by her position at the head of her class, she was unable to handle all the extra work placed on her. She was recently reprimanded by a supervisor, her friend stated, for being behind in one of the branches of extra work, and took the reproof much to heart.” Miss Lee’s salary was $76 a month for a 10-months’ teaching term. She was obliged, her friends say, to do most of the sewing for the family, consisting of her father, a brother and three younger sisters. One of these, Miss Pearl Lee, is a teacher, Her mother died last winter. Her health broke down recently. and she was away from her work for a time, returning only two weeks ago. FATHER’S SHOUT SPOILED KISS; SUITOR BROKE HIS SHOULDER, NOW HE SUES Young Man So Startled That He Fell Off the Front Steps. NEWMAN, IIIl., Dec. 7.—James Broket has brought suit against Samuel Leo- nard for $2000, alleging personal in- juries. Broket, while taking leave of Miss Hattie Leonard, upon whom he had called, fell off the steps and broke his collar bone. He alleges that the fall was due to a shout from Miss Leo- nard’s father while Broket was in the act of kissing the girl good night. In the suit for damages the plaintiff is encouraged by the yonug Woman, as she thinks the interference by her fath- er was unwarranted. NIGHT RIDERS DESTROY $200,000 OF PROPERTY Five Hundred Men in Kentucky Exchange Shots in Night Tour. HOPKINSVILLE, Ky., Dec. 7.—Five hundred night riders destroyed $200,000 worth of property at an early hour this morning. Hundreds of shots were fired and several persons were badly in- jured. The police. fire department, tele- phone and telegraph offices and even the railroad stations were in posses- tion of a wild mob shooting right and left. The flames from burning build- rey meanwhile lighting up the city. elle surroundl country until it’ ee that. the whole .town mated ee ee -oy cea, ae Be pu rday- morning, Mrs. NANNIE LeicgH Lone. BODY OF “WOMAN MYSTERY” IS ORDERED MOV The ghost of Mrs. Nannie Leigh Long the ‘“‘woman of mystery,”’ will not stay laid, notice having been served on Pub lic Administrator Troll by Attorney Henry Droste, representing Louis Ties to remove the body from the Peter's Cemetery, meyer, Tiesmeyer lot in St. where the sexton dug the grave by mis- cake. | Mrs. Long died July 5, at the Monti. cello Hotel, without divulging a singte trace of family connections, except hint to friends prominent in St. Louis society of a romantic marriage and a son, 1s years of age. whom no one has ever seen. A personal estate of jewels, furs paintings and books, valued at severa: thousand dollars is being held by the Public Administrator for proof of heir- ship among 600 claimants from every part of the country. Will Purchase Lot. “T have been informed by Mrs. Emi} Stuckman and her son, Carl Stuckman, in whose lot the body was supposed t have been buried,” sald Mr. Troll, Sat- “that other members of the Stuckman family now object te having the body buried in the family lot. Il am preparing an anpplication tc the Probate Court to permit me to pur- chase a lot out of Mrs. Long’s estate.’ The directiong for the funeral were given by B. Kahnweller of New York. who came to St. Louls on a telegram from Carl Stuckman telling him of Mrs. Long's death. Mrs. Kahnweller, who the Coddingtons, friends of Mrs. Long at Loch Sheldrake, N. Y., say, they knew for many summers as “Mr. Long,’ assented to Carl Stuckman’s proposal that the body of Mrs. Long should be buried in the Stuckman lots, Nos. 14 and 15,.in St. Peters. Directions Net Followed. Attorney Droste made the statemen. to the. Posi-Dispatch that the written order of St. Peter's Cemetery Associa- tion read to inter the body in lots 1 and 15, but that he had been infarme: that the sexton followed Carl Stuck. man's directions to place the body ir lot 18, on the assumption that the lo’ had been purchased by his father before the latter's’ death. “The deed for the lot was never giv- en,’ said .Mr. Droste.. “My client, Mr Tiesmeyer, accidentally discoveted after a visit to the cemetery, . following re- ports that the body of Mrs. Long was on his jot, that it did lay In his ground just over the dividing line between hi+ property and that of the Stuckman/ farhily. He instructed me to have the 201 THEATRICAL MEN INDICTED IN KANSAS CITY —— KANSAS CITY. Mo., Dec. -7.—The county grand jury here this afternoon returned indictments against 01 the- atrical managers and players now at the local theaters for violation of the aw against working on Sunday. The Sheriff announced that his dapu- tiles will begin serving warrants at 4:30 clock this afternoon, just as the mati- nees are ending. Those arrested will then be taken before Judge William Wallace in the Criminal Court, and ompelled to give bond for appearance ater. The specific charge in each case is for violating the law on Sunday last, when he various shows opened their engage- ments in this city. All the theatrs with che exception of the Willis-Wood, which was closed last Sunday, are affected. Act Was Indicted, Among those indicted at the Grand Yperd House is Fiske O'Hara, the tenor; it the Orpheum ts Adolph Zink, the omedian, and a list of vaudeville ar- tists; at the Shubert Theater, Billy Van, the minstrel; the Sa Heras, a troupe of ‘(0 acrobats from the London Hippo- irome, and a number of other spectal- sts: at the Auditorium, William M. Gib- con and a number of playfolk at: the }illis, the Century, the Majestic and ther smaller playhouses. The fight for Sunday closing has been waged by Judge Wallace for sever weeks. He recently ordered the the- trical managers to close on Sundav. [hey refuesd to do so, and got a tetn- roraty injunction preventing his tnter- fere.ce with their performances. The Federal Court dissoived the injunction and Judge Wailauce sought the indict- meprtsa to force compliance. It is his In- tention to have the managers and play- ers indicted each week and to arrest them and place them under bonds. — Sunday Law Upheld. As it is_not likely that any amnager will care to continually furnish bonds for the players so as to release them to fill engagements elsewhere, the Court welleves that the theater men finally will respect his wish. The Sun- day law has previously been upheld. SECRETARY TAFT SAILS FOR forth no hope to the members of. | family gathered at the bedside, end i final sacrament see ke At 6:20 p. m. a bulletin that the King wag sinking rapidly, and that the end was momentarily expected, He is in a stupor, but has occasional moments of consciousness. The on word he has spoken for hours was v he murmered “Thanks” this n to his physicians after they had him medicine to ease his pain. The Bishop of Stockhoim administ the final sacrament this afternoon. | mier Lindman is at the palace, as Crown Prince Gustav, who poem regency several months ago, when ‘th King’s failing bealth made it impoassib for him to attend to the cuties of > ernment, . Deep eorrow ts expressed in eas itel, as King Oscar js greatly be ‘by. his subjects, The King was a weakly chi. only maintained health during his maz- hood by scrupulous care of himself es regular exercise and diet. Since fast January his health hag been fail rapidly, and during the past few da his heart action has been so feeble’ ai irregular that it was feared mc ily it would give way. He was 78: S: yoars-old Jan. 21, 1907. LODGE MEMBERS RETURNING é HOME PREVENT BANK TI Three Stores and | and Postoftice at Springerton, Ill, Are Robbed. Special to the Post-Dispatch, CARMI, Ill, Dec. 7.—What fs lieved to have been an attempt to the bank at Springerton, a village in t western part of this county, was rae trated this morning by pedestrians’ > ea had been to a lodge. Three stores wefte entered, the Postoffice broken inte, and — the bank building door forced, oe as Most of the stolen plunder was mer- chandise, but a small amount of money was taken from the Postoffice. The — robberies took place after midnight and officers have been unable te find any clews. | DECISIVE FRENCH-ARAB BATTLE EXPECTED Algerian-Morocco Rebels . \ Reinforcements and Renew ~ Fighting. PARIS, Dec. 7.—Fighting bety French troops and Arab rebels along he Algerian-Moroccan border has m general today, according to repens se ‘ Gen. Lyauty, the French c The French yesterday oaeten the f under Marabout Boutich, who. st pes the holy war with small loss to t selves, but at the cost of the I 700 or 800 Arabs. Other tribes have} come to his support, however, oe 2 at) day's engagement seems likely to eckie ir ae . the struggle. 3 - a ACCIDENTALLY KILLS WIFE AS HE BIDS | HER Gt Illinois Farmer's e's Gun iy stand So Ha we a Be a hunting trip Friday afternoon. - He was passing out at the door when he turned to say « at soctty to! is Sey poked alediiie! Pasa call on the floor. | £6 bs oneal peor em Ses bs

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Kansas City and Denver With- draw When Windy City | Gets 32 Votes. 16..THE DATE ¢ JUNE

Akins and Warner Speak Be- fore Committee for Kan- sas City, a

DENVER HAD _ $100,000

‘Lowden Points Out Great In- terest Necessitates Full Facilities. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The next /Mational convention of the Republican {party will be held in the Chicago Coli- Beum June 16, 1908. This was decided upon today at the second session of the ‘™eeting of the Republican National Committee at the Shoreham Hotel. Vigorous speeches were made by the boosters for Chicago, Kansas City and _ Denver shortly after the committeemen Were called to order in public session. At 11:45 the doors were locked and 20 minutes later the announcement was made to the throng of newspapermen ' Waiting outside that Chicago had won. The vote was: Chicago 32, Kansas City 1%, Denver 4; all the members of the committee voting either in person or by ' proxy. After a motion to make the selection ef Chicago unanimous had passed with -@ cheer the committee fixed upon the date. Until Thursday Kansas City was in the lead. «he Chicagoans then became _ @ctive. Representative Lowden used the - long distance telephone, succeeded in _ Setting a favorable offer and then began _ buttonholing the committeemen: Before _ the committee met today he had enough votes pledged to win the prize. Offered Money and Hall. In presenting Chicago’s claims to the committee Representative Lowden said: ~“I am not here so much in the inter- ests of Chicago as I.am in the interests of the Republican party (applause). “Now, as to finances,” he said, smiling and pulling out a huge wallet. A roar went up, with a cry ‘“‘He’s going to pay oft.’’ He said his city would give the Coli- seum, with 14,000 chairs, if required, and pay all expenses pertaining to the con- vention. “IT stand by the proposition made,” he declared. Lowden is several times a millionaire. Over enthusiasm really lost the plum for the Missourians. The chances of Kansas City were drowned in a flood of oratory. The boomers made the com- mittee room echo and re-echo with their applause. A dozen men were on their at once eager to speak. Thy were lhe however, by thir leaders and Senator Warner advanced to the front, Senator Warner set the pace for the subsequent speech feast. In a leng but eloquent address he dwelt on the accommodations of the city, its hotels, telegraph lines, railroad facilities and the glories of its climate. The Senator spoke in a voice that at _ times was lewered so that his words were inaudible. Long before he ended | his audience was restless. He rose to tmpasioned heights, however, when he ’ ~ gaid the political salvation of Missour! ‘Was dependent on the selection of Kan- - @as City for the Republican convention. Calls Missouri Doubtful. early two score years, in sea- out of season,”’ he said, “‘hop- t hope, I lived in anticipation lg day when Missouri should be re- ‘dlaimed to republicanism, Thank God, - my good old State in 1904 gave Theodore Roosevelt a plurality of upwards of 20,- 000, but let me tell you, Missouri now is {m the doubtful class. Don’t wait four er eight to help us, come now. We you the macedonian cry of « and help us.” - @enator Warner's prophecy of Repub- ‘Wean disaster and the need of the con- wention to offset the trend toward de- _mocracy were indorsed by Representa- tive Bartholdt. - J. H. Neff of Kansas City announced MAhat he held a certificed check for $50,- &. as first payment, and that all ex- penses would be paid and a good hall ' furnished. Present Mayor Beardsley of Kansas City seconded the plea. ’ Rulogy for Cortelyou. -. When the committee convened today {t unanimously adopted a resolution of appreciation of the services of former -* Chairman George B. Cortelyou. Reso- - .Adutions presented by J. Ws Babcock _ Gnd unanimously adopted expressed the Me tained by the death of Wisconsin.” * ‘had been adopted ac- ®ording to Porto Rico and the Philip- Pines representation in the next conven-> of one delegate and one alternate for every 500 Republican votes or fraction ~_ --)>---- Hero of 42 Arrests Shows Where He Stands on Various Questions of Public and Personal Inter- est. ~~

BY LUCY HOSMER STOUGHTON, Delegate Frank Hussey of the Twenty- second Ward had the floor. Not the House of Delegates floor, where he commonly holds forth, but the parlor Brussels carpet of his own home on Lawton avenue. Delegate Hussey was beirig inter- viewed. The woman artist and the so- ciety editor encompassed him about. Es- cape was impossible. He sat under the bright light of a big chandelier, chewing that masculine safety valve, an unlight- ed cigar, palpably nervous, but conceal- ing it admirably. It was the evening of the day on which he had been arrested for the forty-second time in St. Louis. The writer plied him with questions which she endeavored to make both personal and polite, and the artist noted his salient feature points—and they are many—on a drawing pad. Delegate Hussey breathed hard, but, fortified with his evening meal, we had timed our arrival acocrdingly—this hero of numerous escapades, all teeming with more or less ‘local color,’’ bore his first experience at being femininely inter- viewed with fortitude and with some of the grit that keeps him in politics, if we accept his own statement. “In Politics Since a Boy.” “Why, I've been in politics § since a boy, almost as far back as I can re- member.” This sounded near the sere and yellow leaf, or at least comfortable middle age. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Hussey, mother of the Delegate, says the family Bible testifies to 27 years. I venture to add, however, that if you “cak’late by-the fun Mr. Hussey’s had, he’s most a hundred,” | “Why do I stay in? Well, not for the money. I never got anything out of it and never expect to. But there are a lot of people who'd like to see me step down and out. I’m going to fool ’em and stay in. Nobody ever called me a quitter—not yet,”’ screwing his big, good- humored face into a quizzical smile. It was the genuine article, too, for a mer- ry Irish twinkle in his gray eye went along. ‘*Yes, I get into a good deal of trouble. Don’t care a cent for myself, but every time the police take a whirl at me, my mother thinks I'm going to be brdéught home on a shutter. It’s the worry for her that hurts me most. Police Have the Habit. *“Do you know,”’ shifting his position a little in the chair, for which he was almost too tight a fit, -.ne police have got the habit of arresting me, they’ve got it bad. You know most of ’em have to make some kind of a record for themselves nowadays to insure pro- motion, to stand in with the people that put ‘em where tl.ey are, so when they see me on a corner, waiting for a street car, just doing nothing, so far as —.s- turbing the peace goes, why up comes a patrolman and marks me. He sayz ‘Move on,’ and if I don’t feel like mov- ing that minute, why he wants to take it out in arresting me, or mebbe one of my friends who's with me. “The oftener he does this, the more settled he gets in the habit. It ain't right, and it ain’t fair,’’ this with a very sober face, but another unmis- takable twinkle. Trouble Comes Easy There. “You know the people of my ward here, east of Grand avenue to Jeffer- son, ain’t the Westmoreland place push. They often get into trouble down here. Trouble come mighty easy. So they want somebody who won't kick when he’s called out of bed at 2 o'clock in the morning to go down to the Four Courts and get a poor devil out of Jail or to take charge of some unfortunate girl that’s found on the streets without a home, and hustle her to a place of safety. Now, I reckon some Delegates who live out west wouldn't like jobs of this kind, do you think they would?” Delegate Hussey wasn't bragging. He has a not unjustifiable pride in his power, and in his ability to be useful along the lines he mentioned. “Funny thing they never manage to convict me in the times they’ve had me under arrest. It doesn’t stand to reagon that I can be such a law-breaker after all, does it? Never Abused Police Board. “What's the reason, when they had a good case against me, they didn’t push it?" he demanded. “I mean that time I said I wouldn't vote for the po- lice appropriation, because I objected to painters and plumbers and printers being put in the Ist and drawing pa- trolmen’s salaries. Let ‘em hire these men to do police work on the outside and pay ‘em union wages, but don’t put ‘em down for police salaries, that’s what I said in the House. “Now, this ts illegal an~ unconstitu- tion of this kind, I ought to have been jailed and fined. Why didn’t they do it? Then along comes some policeman who says I was abusing members of the Police Board and some other prom- inent men. Why, it’s nonsense. I nev- er did anything of the kind. I guess I've got sense enough not to abuse Stewart or any of the others who've been put in office by Folk, for I like Folk first rate. Called Good-Looking Man, “But Harry Hawes is the smooth poll- ticlan all right, the smoothest ever. He's the best we've got.” | Hussey looks his aldermanic

. part to the life, He is big, collectively tional, so they say. And as a Delegate] hwho refused to vote for an appropria-- SATURDAY—S8T. LOUIS © LA ORI et AI A I AES COB et LLL AGL ORICA

POST-DISPATCH—DECEMBER 7, 1907

elegate Hussey Tells Society Editor That He’s “No Quitter”

mendable absence of large diamond headlight reposing thereon. By all feminine measurement Mr. Hus- sey would be counted a good-looking man. Possibly envious constituents and members of the House and jealous po- licemen would consider him merely ‘*husky.”’ He has an expansive, pleasant face, with a complexion like a baby’s, a clean, fine-textured skin that betokens intimate and frequent acquaintance with the Turkish bath. He has that irrepressible little curl to the edges of his close- cropped, dark hair—just a suspicion of a curl—that is common to the sons of old Ireland. His chan is forceful and his eye steady. Take away that aldermanic dignity, which is not assumed, by the way, and consider the noticeable shoulder and arm muscles, and the unusually long reach to his arms, you may find first-class material for a champion heavyweight. Plus Mr. Hussey’s wits, which are not to be slighted. When he talks about people who don’t like him or who have treated him, as he thinks, unfairly, his ample mouth takes on a few curves and quirps that may perhaps, or, just perhaps, indicate that Mr. Hussey has a temper. History states that he has been known to exhibit it occasionally in the House, when all oratorical rules were for the time being suspended. Public speaking is one line in which he desires to shine, and for which he has a definite and very large respect. Mr. Hussey accompanied his visitors to their street cars. He always is polite and chivalrous to women. Past events have proved this. “Say, let me ask a favor,’’ he said in parting. ‘‘Whenever I get written up in the newspapers they always make me say ‘dis’ and ‘dat.’ “T don't know where they think I went to school, but I wish you'd cut that out, will you?”’ It is superfluous to say that I promised unconditionally, and for the very good reason that this was the first time Mr. Hussey said either ‘“‘dis’’ or ‘‘dat.” CONTHACTOR KEPT HIS AGED WIFE A PRISONER IN BARN Daughter Says Mother Did Not Get Enough Food to Sustain Life. WATERBURY, Conn., Dec. 7.—Tir- ing of the society of his wife, who is much his senior, James Trowbridge, a well-to-do contractor, has been keeping her a prisoner, his daughter says, in his barn on an allowance of food too small to sustain life. These facts came out when Trowbridge was arraigned on complaint of his daughter, who had discovered her mother’s plight and had caused his arrest. Between sobs, Mrs. Trowbridge, who is 70 years old, testified that for three weeks she had been kept locked in the barn without fire The temperature some nights fell towards zero, it was said. For the last week Mrs. Trowbridge’s only food was ginger cookies, which Trowbridge took to her in paper bags. Her husband had told her she was too old to have around the house. “But Jim's heart isn't bad,” sobbed the white-haired woman; “he gave me plenty of blankets on cold nights, and sometimes he came out te the barn and spoke to me real pleasant.”’ Trowbridge was ordered to pay his wife $17 a week, under penalty of going to Jail.

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BANK DEPOSITS CREASE ONL ~ NINE PER CENT -

St. Louis Financiers Say Fall- ing Off Is Only Partly - Due to Stringency.

Statements just compiled by the banks in ithe St. Louis Clearing House show that the decrease in deposits in 10 of the city’s 25 bunks ‘and four of its nine trust companies between Aug. and Dec. 3 has been from $252 946,548.°2 to $230,598,685.91, or about 9 per cent. The:e same princigal Yanks and trust compa- nies show a decrease of only 6 per cent in the sane period on cash resources, Loans and discounts have been but Slightly. reduced during the financial stringency, Cash resources of the 14 concerns, in- cluding their currency, checks and ex- change, amounted to $86,709,163.45 when August statements were made. . The De- cember statement shows that the cash resources are _ $81,912,319.46, including Clearing House certificates and cash- fiers’ checks on other banks. The de- crease in the loans and discounts has been from $206,189,976.94 to $205,875,091.70. Demand for Crop Moving. All of the decrease in deposits, the bankers say, is not to be charged to the financial! flurry. At this season of the year, it is said, there always ig a falling off in deposits and likewise of cash on hand. This is due to the de. mand for money to move crops and to make purchases of goods for winter trade. The policy of the banks differs in the matter of carrying Clearing House certificates and cashiers’ checks on the books. The National Bank of Com. merce has issued $3,000,000 of certifi- cates and charges them as liabilitieg, including .among its cash ‘resources $804,000 in certificates of other banks that it holds. The Third National Bank charges itself with its $1,250,000 certig- cate issue, but does not credit the cer- tificates it holds that were issued by other banks. The Mechanics-American National Bank subtracts the amount of certificates it has issued from tho amount of certificates of other banks that it holds and credits the balance as cash resources. The balance amounts to $1,149,000, o> ee

Banks in Good Shape. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Dec. 7.—Secre. tary of State Swanger, who returned today from Kansas City, where he hag been investigating the effects of the closing of the National Bank of Com. merce on State banks there, told a Post-Dispatch reporter that the situ- ation was much better than he had expected to find it. “I am satisfied,” said Secretary Swanger, “that there will be no fur- ther failures as a result of the Bank of Commerce closing. The people of Kansas City have refused to become panic stricken. I think the Stock. yards Bank of Commerce, which closed Thursday, will be able to re. sume business in a few days, “In the country the banks are al} in good condition, Only one or two have closed.” ed Ladies sho , try an Oyster Lunch, 201-09 NN. Sixth,

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MPERANCE Pit UN COAT: FIRED OR DRINKING .. Police “Bad Boy,’ Dropped for Fourth Time, Makes Hard Fight.

Daniel W. O'Connor is no longer “baa boy” of the Police Department. For the fourth and last time he has been dismissed from the force. After a hearing before the joard of Police Commissioners, in which he -: fought gamely to hold his job, O’Connor was found guilty of inebriation. O’Connor wore a Knights of Father Mathew but- ton, an emblem of temperance, and de- clared he had not touched a drop of liquor in two and a half years. Lieut. James McNamara of the New- stead Avenue District, Sergt. Jerre Cur- tin, Patrolman John Gilmore and Turn- key Dan Shea all testified that on the night of Dec. 3 O’Connor was .too drunk to perform police duty. “Two and a half years ago, after this hoard had found me guiity of taking a drink of whisky, fined me $50 and cau- tioned me for the last time.” said O’Connor, “I joined the Knights of Fa- ther Mathew, and you, Mr. Stewart, know what that means.” “Yes, if you properly discharge your obligation to the society,’ said the president of the board. O'Connor introduced nesses in his own behalf. said he paid no attention liceman on the night in question. The other tesiified that he had not seen O’Connor for three hours previous to the time alleged in the charges. Lieut. _McNumara said ()’Connor tried to write a report when accused of being intoxicated, but after Wasting 20 pieces of paper and 35 minutes, gave up the job. During his 15 years on the force O’Con- nor appeared before the board te an- swer charges 21 times. He_ Was ac- cused of violating every rule in the man- ual. In the case of Probationary Patrolman William K. Bergfeld of the Carondelet District, it was again demonstrated that honesty is the cardinal qualification of a patrolman, according to the standard set by the soard. Bergfeld, charged with absenting himself from duty, wear- ing citizens’ dress and drinking intoxi- cating liquor, would have been dis- missed from the force had he not told the truth. That is the statement of President Stewart. Bergfeld made application for fur- lough. When the application reached the office -of Chief Creecy, Bergfeld thought it was granted and discarded only twe wit- One of them to the »vo- his uniform. “Tl was under the impression that I was a private citizen for three days and took a drink thinking there was no harm in it,” said Bergfeld. Piles Cared in 6 te 14 Days. Pa ranteed » eure any ry Pintment iri, Bleeding or Protrud- case of Itching. ing Piles in 6 to i4 days er money refunded, Pili Si tk NEE PE Canal Zone Treasurer Weds. LACROSSE, Wis., Dec. 7.—Edward J. Williams, treasurer of the canal zone for the past three years, Was married today to Miss Helen M. Burlon, daugh- ter of Mrs. Abbie Burlon of this city. They will sail for the Isthmus from New York Dec. WM. Dalley Is the Boy To go to for your Christmas gifts. Dia- monds, watches and jewelery, cash or

CRCULAR SOCIETY ELECTION AROUSES DOCTOR Robert Barclay and Joseph Grendon Repudiate Friends’ Electioneering,

Electioneering for office has been put under the ban by a*t least two members of the St. Louis Medical Society, who were suggested for nomination in anony- mous circulars sent to members, The physicians who do not want office by such methods are Drs. Robert Barclay and Joseph Grindon. When they dis- covered that they were being boosted for nomination, without their knowl- edge or consent, they published a card addressed to the members, in which they said: “Our attention has just been directed to an anonymous circular, addressed to you, recommending us for nomination to office in your approaching election. For the information of those who do not know us personally, we desire to state that such use of our names was with- vyt our knowledge and consent; that we heartily disapprove of such use of them, and that we hope others will unite in discrediting anw such attempts to influ- ence the result of elections under the new method of conducting them.” The physicians would not make any comments when they were asked by the Post-Dispatch why they objected to be- ing pushed for office by their friends. Rival tickets are in the fleld for the annual election of the Medical Society, which is to be held before Christmas. On two tickets Dr. A. H. Tuholske has been nominated for president and Dr. C. E. Burford for secretary. But there is opposition for the other offices. One list of nominees is as follows: For councillors, three years: Drs, O. A. Wall, Sr., C. H. Hughes, Francis Bishop and G. M. Phillips;-for two years: Drs. A. S. Barnes, Jr., T. A. Martin, Philip Scholz and A. H. Meisenbach; for one year: Drs. J, C. Murphy, W. W. Graves, Floyd Stewart and T. A. Hopkins; for delegates to Missouri State Medical As- sociation, two years: Drs. J. M. Ball, G. W. Cale, W. H. Stauffer, J. L. Boehm, Roland Hill, James Stewart and Hugo Bartscher; for one year: Drs. L. S. Luton, Pinckney French, J. C. Morfit, Cc. M. Nicholson, R. M. Funkhouser, A, F. Koetter and W. S. Deutsch. Here is the rival ticket: Councillors, three years, Drs. J. Grin- don, J. C. Morfit, Francis L. Bishop and Hugo Bartscher, for two years: Drs. W. W. Graves, G. O. Hopkins, C. W. Shattinger and ds mh Bree for one year: Drs. John Green, Jr., A. F. Koetter, E. O. Greer and Robert Schleuter. For delegates to the State Medical So- ciety these were nominated for two years: Drs. Robert Funkhouser, C. M. Nicholson, Frank J. Lutz, G. W. Cale, W. B. Outten, Joseplf Grindon and Rob- ert Amyx; for one year: Drs, aE ps Dalton, Davis Forster, James Stewart, J. Ball, Louis Rassieur, Pinckney French and Bransford Lewis. As two- year alternates: Drs. E. O. Greer, W. W. Graves, H. J. C. Seiving, Roland Hill, E. H. Johnson, Hudson Talbott and H. L. Nietert. As one-year alternates: Drs. W. D. Moore, H. M. Semple, .A. Fleming, Frank Hinchey, A. F. Koetter, A. W. Ravold and J. C. Falk. CHASED CAR IN DRUG DREAM Man Says He Was Poisoned by Companion and Robbed. In swearing out a warrant Saturduy charging James Sullivan with robbery Samuel Bushell said that he believed he was drugged by Sullivan. He be- came unconscious at Eleventh and Mar- ket streets and when he woke up he was running as in a dream for a street ear at Jefferson avenue aud Pine street. When he reached his home at 6715 Odell avenue he found that he was without his overcoat and that his jewelry had sen stolen. ecient was arrested in East - St. Louis and was identified there by Bushell.

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No Liquor Oasis Will Be Found in: Five Counties Until Sen- timent Is Reversed. CAIRO, Ill., Dec. 7.—You can travel far through Egypt today without find- ing an oasis where you may quench your thirst unless you are content to drink that strange beverage, _. water, whose availability for other than bath- ing purposes has just been discovered by the natives. In vain you will seek the mellifiuous Manhattan, the hilarious highball, the beady Bourbon or the lambent lager, Nearly all that was left of the strong liquors of Egypt was consumed in the last mad rush before the saloons of five counties closed their doors at mid- night never to reopen until the local option sentiment is reversed. The little that was left is on railroad station plat- forms packed for shipment back to the distillers this morning. And when that is all gone there won't be any more. The express companies have notified the liquor dealers that, un- der no circumstances, will they ship in- toxicants into the desert places of Egypt.

Crushed Under Falling Door. Fred Brewer, a watchman, living at 1907 Carr street, was crushed under a4 sliding door at the Iivery stable of Stock & Price, 21% Carr street, Satur- day morning. His skull was fractured and his face badly bruised. His condi- tion is said to be critical. The door weighed about 600 pounds, It slipped from its track while Brewer was trying to close it and fell on him,

Loses Suit After 16 Years. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—After 16 years in the courts, the case of Mac Ardell against Alcott has finally been decided by the Court of Appeals in favor of Alcott. Mac Ardell sued to recover valuable lands in Texas which had been the property of the Houston & Texas Central Railroad and on the reorgan- | ization had been transferred to Fred- erick P. Alcott, in trust for the stock- holders. —_——_—_—@-—- Necessary to Save State Jobs, Wanted Shooting Done in Hotel Melee. a

GEORGETOWN, Ky., Wharton Golden, a Lieutenant in the military company of John T. Powers, was placed on the stand in the Powers trial today. Golden is probably oo nesses. He is among those indicted complicity in the Goebel murder, but > ~~ has never been placed in Jail or am raigned for the crime. the most important of the prosecution's wits, : ‘ he | H x. ‘ + 7 Testifies He Said Killing Was PLANNED BY POWERS | Witness . Says Defendant os ) 2 Dec, 7. *| i any, He said he took walksevery day with — Powers and discussed the best way to kill Goebel. He said he wanted it done — by having a man shoot Goebel down fn the street, but that Powers a good way would be to have half dozen men engage in a = Pere the hotel dining room and ) . the melee, claiming it was accidental, we? “Powers told me to go to Belt Harlan counties and get fighting men who he said had kilied from one to three men each,” Golden testified, = ‘We went to Barbourville and I Charles Finley. Finley said: “We go down there and if Goebel don’t st the contest we will kill him and — whole —— gang,’ Powers said: what we will do.’” “Did you have a conversation with W. 8S. Taylor?” the witness was asked) “Taylor said to me,” the witness re- plied, “ ‘Golden, it is horrible to con- template killing men, but Goebel and ~ those fellows must be killed or we will lose our offices and you young felloy ‘. re. 3 may * pS : ba « » eee

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teh Cae Let Min M4 BS Sah a AE OE al P , * 2 i A ‘vO rt __ Kansas City and Denver With- draw When Windy City Gets 32 Votes. fume 16 THE DATE Akins and Warner Speak Be- fore Committee for Kan- sas City. DENVER HAD _ $100,000 eee Lowden Points Out Great In- terest Necessitates Full Facilities. Queen WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The next Mational convention of the Republican iparty will be held in the Chicago Coli- seum June 16, 1908. This was decided upon today at the second session of the Meeting of the Republican National ‘Committee at the Shoreham Hotel. Vigorous speeches were made by the boosters for Chicago, Kansas City and _ Denver shortly after the committeemen Were called to order in public session. At 11:4 the doors were locked and 20 minutes later the announcement was made to the throng of newspapermen waiting outside that Chicago had won. The vote was: Chicago 32, Kansas City 17, Denver 4; all the members of the committee voting either in person or by _ proxy. After a motion to make the selection ef Chicago unanimous had passed with @ cheer the committee fixed upon the . date. Until Thursday Kansas City was in the lead. «he Chicagoans then became _ @ctive. Representative Lowden used the oi long distance telephone, succeeded in - @etting a favorable offer and then began Dbuttonholing the committeemen. Before the committee met today he had enough . votes pledged to win the prize. Offered Money and Hall. In presenting Chicago’s claims to the committee Representative Lowden said: se “I am not here so much in the inter- ests of Chicago as I,am in the interests of the Republican party (applause). “Now, as to finances,”’ he said, smiling and pulling out a huge wallet. A roar went up, with a cry “He’s going to pay off.”’ He said his city would give the Coli- geum, with 14,000 chairs, if required, and pay all expenses pertaining to the con- vention. “T stand by the proposition made,” he declared. Lowden is several times a millionaire. Over enthusiasm really lost the plum for the Missourians. The chances of Kansas City were drowned in a flood of oratory. The boomers made the com- mittee room echo and re-echo with their applause. A dozen men were on their : se at once eager to speak. Thy were ppressed, howéver, by thir leaders and Senator Warner advanced to the front, Senator Warner set the pace for the subsequent speech feast. In a leng but eloquent address he dG@welt on the accommodations of the city, its hotels, telegraph lines, railroad . facilities and the glories of its climate. _ he Senator spoke in a voice that at times was lowered so that his words _ Were inaudible. Long before he ended his audience was restless. He rose to tmpasioned heights, however, when he * gaid the political salvation of Missour! Was dependent on the selection of Kan- -@as City for the Republican convention. Calls: Missouri Doubtful. * “for nearly two score years, in sea- _— on and out of season,” he said, “hop- §ng against hope, I lived in anticipation _ @f the day when Missouri should be re- Claimed to republicanism. Thank God, _ my good old State in 1904 gave Theodore Roosevelt a plurality of upwards of 20,- 000, but let me tell you, Missouri now is fm the doubtful class. Don't wait four ‘@r eight yeara to help us, come now. We _ gend up to you the macedonian cry of _ @mme over and help us.” “ Warner's prophecy of Repub- Vican disaster and the need of the con- _ wention to offset the trend toward de- _ mocracy were indorsed by Representa- tive Bartholdt. J. H. Neff of Kansas City announced ___ that he held a certificed check for $50,- tw. as first payment, and that all ex- penses would be paid and a good hall Present Mayor Beardsley of ‘Kansas City seconded the plea. | Bulegy for Cortelyou. - -‘ When the committee convened today ' #t unanimously adopted a resolution of appreciation of the services of former ‘Chairman George B. Cortelyou. Reso- Jutions presented by J. Ws Babcock and unanimously adopted expressed the “trreparable loss ned by the death - of Henry C. Payne’ of Wisconsin.” After a report had been adopted ac- ording to Porto Rico and the Philip- — representation in the next conven-> n of + Sng delegate and one alternate for every 500 ee ee votes or Ot aicmmraeank tt sate iia ~ a pe ee ee eee ae 4 4 . MAdition to ample @onvention quarters Delegate Hero of 42 Arrests Shows Where He Stands on Various Questions of Public and Personal Inter- est. BY LUCY HOSMER STOUGHTON, Delegate Frank Hussey of the Twenty-| second Ward had the floor. Not the House of Delegates floor, where he commonly holds forth, but the parlor Brussels carpet of his own home on Lawton avenue, Delegate Hussey was being inter- viewed. The woman artist and the so- clety editor encompassed him about. Es- cape was impossible. He gat under the bright light of a big chandelier, chewing that masculine safety valve, an. unlight- ed cigar, palpably nervous, but conceal- ing it admirably. It was the evening of the day on which he had been arrested for the forty-second time in St. Louis. The writer plied him with questions which she endeavored to make both personal and polite, and the artist noted his salient feature points—and they are many—on a drawing pad. Delegate Hussey breathed hard, but, fortified with his evening meal, we had timed our arrival acocrdingly—this hero of numerous escapades, all teeming with more or less ‘‘local color,’’ bore hig first experience at being femininely inter- viewed with fortitude and with some of the grit that keeps him in politics, if we accent his own statement. “In Politics Since a Boy.” “Why, I've been in politics since a boy, almost as far back as I can re- member.” Thiga sounded near the sere and yellow leaf, or at least comfortable middle age. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Hussey, mother of the Delegate, says the family Bible testifies to 27 years. I venture to add, however, that if you “cak'late by. the fun Mr. Hussey’s had, he’s most a hundred,” | “Why do I stay in? Well, not for the money. I never got anything out of it and never expect to. But there are a lot of people who'd like to see me step down and out. I’m going to fool ’em and stay in. Nobody ever called me a quitter—not yet,’’ screwing his big, good- humored face into a quizzical smile. It was the genuine article, too, for a mer- ry Irish twinkle in his gray eye went along. **Yes, I get into a good deal of trouble. Don’t care a cent for myself, but every time the police take a whirl at me, my mother thinks I'm going to be brdught home on a shutter. It’s the worry for her that hurts me most. Police Have the Habit. “Do you know,” shifting his position a little in the chair, for which he was almost too tight a fit, .ne police have got the habit of arresting me, they’ve got it bad. You know most of ’em have to make some kind of a record for themselves nowadays to insure pro- motion, to stand in with the people that put ’em where tl. ey are, so when they see me on a corner, waiting for a street car, just doing nothing, so far as J.s- turbing the peace goes, why up comes a patrolman and marks me. He says3 ‘Move on,’ and if I don’t feel like mov- ing that minute, why he wants to take it out in arresting me, or mebbe one of my friends who's with me. “The oftener he does this, the more settled he gets in the habit. It ain’t right, and it ain’t fair,’’ this with a very sober face, but another unmis- takable twinkle. Trouble Comes Easy There. “You know the people of my ward here, east of Grand avenue to Jeffer- son, ain't the Westmoreland place push. They often get into trouble down here. Trouble come mighty easy. So they want somebody who won’t kick when he’s called out of bed at 2 o’clock in the morning to go down to the Four Courts and get a poor devil out of Jail or to take charge of some unfortunate girl that’s found on the streets without a home, and hustle her to a place of safety. Now, I reckon some Delegates who live out west wouldn't like jobs of this kind, do you think they would?” Delegate Hussey wasn't bragging. He has a not unjustifiable pride in his power, and in his ability to be useful along the lines he mentioned. “Funny thing they never manage to convict me in the times they’ve had me under arrest. It doesn’t stand to reason that I can be such a law-breaker after all, does it? Never Abused Police Board. “What's the reason, when they had a good case against me, they didn’t push it?” he demanded. “I mean that time I said I wouldn't vote for the po- lice appropriation, because I objected to painters and plumbers and printers being put in the list and drawing pa- trolmen’s salaries, Let ‘em hire these men to do police work on the outside and pay ‘em union wages, but don’t put 'em down for police salaries, that's what I said in the House. “Now, this is illegal an~ unconstitu- tional, so they say. And as a Delegate 'who refused to vote for an appropria- tion of this kind, I ought to have been jailed and fined. Why didn't they do it? Then along comes some policeman who says I was abusing members of the Police Board and some other prom- inent men. Why, it’s nonsense. I nev- er did anything of the kind. I guess I've got sense enough not to abuse Stewart or any of the others who've been put in office by Folk, for I like Folk first rate. Called Good-Looking Man, “But Harry Hawes is the smooth poll- ticlan all right, the smoothest ever. ie the best we've got."’ Hussey looks his aldermanic part to the life, He is big, collectively ele ee He wears the best of clothes he wears ae easily, not as if ‘SATURDAY—8T. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH—DECEMBER 7, 1907 ells Society Editor That He’s “No Quitter” Hussey re. Gs iff iD . z\ \\ Nea Hi) A 9 ae mendable absence of large diamond headlight reposing thereon. By all feminine measurement Mr. Hus- sey would be counted a good-looking man. Possibly envious constituents and members of the House and jealous po- licemen would consider him merely “*husky.”’ He has an expansive, pleasant face, with a complexion like a baby’s, a clean, fine-textured skin that betokens intimate and frequent acquaintance with the Turkish bath. He has that irrepressible little curl to the edges of his close- cropped, dark hair—just a suspicion of a curl—that is common to the sons of old Ireland. His chan is foreeful and his eye steady. Take away that aldermanic dignity, which is not assumed, by the way, and consider the noticeable shoulder and arm muscles, and the unusually long reach to his arms, you may find first-class material for a champion heavyweight. Plus Mr. Hussey’s wits, which are not to be slighted. When he talks about people who don’t like him or who have treated him, as he thinks, unfairly, his ample mouth takes on a few curves and quirps that may perhaps, or, just perhaps, indicate that Mr. Hussey has a temper. History states that he has been known to exhibit it occasionally in the House, when all oratorical rules were for the time being suspended. Public speaking is one line in which he desires to shine, and for which he has a definite and very large respect. Mr. Hussey accompanied his visitors to their street cars. He always is polite and chivalrous to women. Past events have proved this. “Say, let me ask a favor,’’ he said in parting. ‘‘Whenever I get written up in the newspapers they always make me say ‘dis’ and ‘dat.’ “T don't know where they think I went to school, but I wish you'd cut that out, will -you?’’ It is superfluous to say that I promised unconditionally, and for the very good reason that this was the first time Mr. Hussey said either ‘“‘dis’’ or ‘‘dat.” CONTRACTOR KEPT HIS AGED WIFE A PRISONER IN BARN Daughter Says Mother Did Not Get Enough Food to Sustain Life. WATERBURY, Conn., Dec. 7.—Tir- ing of the society of his wife, who is much his senior, James Trowbridge, a well-to-do contractor, has been keeping her a prisoner, his daughter says, in his barn on an allowance of food too small to sustain life. These facts came out when Trowbridge was arraigned on complaint of his daughter, who had discovered her mother’s plight and had caused his arrest. Between sobs, Mrs. Trowbridge, who is 70 years old, testified that for three weeks she had been kept locked in the barn without fire. The temperature some nights fell towards zero, it was said. For the last week Mrs. Trowbridge’s only food was ginger cookies, which Trowbridge took to her in paper bags. Her husband had told her she was too old to have around the house. “But Jim's heart isn’t bad,” sobbed the white-haired woman; “he gave me plenty of blankets on cold nights, and sometimes he came out te the barn and spoke to me real pleasant.’’ Trowbridge was ordered to pay his wife $17 a week, under penalty of going to Jail. WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE. — From October to May, Colds are the most fre- Regen Fonction meee erence BANK 0 PUSH DECREASE ONLY NINE PrA CENT a 4 St. Louis Financiers Say Fall- ing Off Is Only Partly Due to Stringency. Statements just compiled by the banks in the St. Louls Clearing House show that the decrease in deposits in 10 of the city’s 25 banks and four of its nine trust companies between Aug. 22 and Dec. 3 has been from $252 946,548.12 to $230,598,685.91, or about 9 per cent. Thesa same princigal Saunhks and trust compa- nies show a decrease of only 6 per cent in the sane period on cash resources, Loans and discounts have been but Slightly reduced during the financial stringency, Cash resources of the 14 concerns, in- Cluding their currency, checks and ex- change, amounted to $86,709,163.45 when August statements were made. The De- cember statement shows that the cash resources are $81,912,319.45, including Clearing House certificates and cash- fers’ checks on other banks. The de. crease in the loans and discounts has been from $206,189,976.94 to $205,875,091.70., Demand for Crop Moving. All of the decrease in deposits, the bankers say, is not to be charged to the financial] flurry. At this season of the year, it is said, there always is a falling off in deposits and likewise of cash on hand. This is due to the de- mand for money to move crops and to make purchases of goods for winter trade. The policy of the banks differs in the matter of carrying Clearing House certificates and cashiers’ checks on the books. The National Bank of Com. merce has issued $3,000,000 of certifi- cates and charges them as liabilities. including .among its cash ‘resources $804,000 in certificates of other banks that it holds. The Third National Bank charges itself with its $1,250,000 certif- cate issue, but does not credit the cer- tificates it holds that were issued by other banks. The Mechanics-American National Bank subtracts the amount of certificates it has issued from tho amount of certificates of other banks that it holds and credits the balance as cash resources. The balance amounts to $1,149,000, Banks In Good Shape, Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Dec. 7.—Secre. tary of State Swanger, who returned today from Kansas City, where he has been investigating the effects of the closing of the National Bank of Com. merce on State banks there, told a Post-Dispatch reporter that the situ- ation was much better than he had expected to find it. “T am satisfied,” said Secretary Swanger, “that there will be no fur- ther failures as a result of the Bank of Commerce closing. The people of Kansas cy nave pinay to become panic stricken hink the Stock. yards Bank of " Ceaanidan which closed Thursday, will be able to re- sume business in a few days. “In the country the banks are all in good condition. Only one or two have closed.” Ladies sho try an Oyster Leaneh: Ne Sixth, | Yi, Wy on ae ot a TTMPrRIce a UN COAT: FIRED OR DRINKING a. bs Police “Bad Boy,” Dropped for Fourth Time, Makes Hard Fight. Daniel W. O’Connor is no longer “‘bad boy’ of the Police Department. For the fourth and last time he has been dismissed from the force. After a hearing before the Board of Police Commissioners, .in which he -: fought gamely to hold his job, O’Connor was found guilty of inebriation. O’Connor wore a Knights of Father-Mathew but- ton, an emblem of temperance, and de- clared he had not touched a drop of liquor in two and a half years. Lieut. James McNamara of the New- stead Avenue District, Sergt. Jerre Cur- tin, Patrolman John Gilmore and Turn- key Dan Shea all testified that on the night of Dec. 3 O’Connor was too drunk to perform police duty. *“Two and a half years ago, after this board had found me guiity of taking a drink of whisky, fined me $59 and cau- tioned me for the last time,” said O’Connor, “I joined the Knights of Fa- ther Mathew, and you, Mr. Stewart, know what that means.” “Yes, if you properly discharge your obligation to the society,” said the president of the board. O'Connor introduced only two wit- nesses in his own behalf. One of them said he paid no attention to the »o- liceman on the night in question. The other testified that he. had not seen O’Connoz for three hours previous to the time alleged in the charges, Lieut. McNamara said «)’Connor tried to write a report when accused of being intoxicated, but after wasting 20 pieces of paper and 35 minutes, gave up the job. During his 15 years on the force O’Con- nor appeared before the board to an- swer charges 21 times. He Was ac- cused of violating every rule in the man- ual, In the case of Probationary Patrolman William K. Bergfeld of the Carondelet District, it was again demonstrated that honesty is the cardinal qualification of a patrolman, according to the standard set by the soard. Bergfeld, charged with absenting himself from duty, wear- ing citizens’ dress and drinking intoxi- cating liquor, would have been dis- missed from the force had he not told the truth. That the statement of President Stewart. Sergfeld made application for fur- lough. When the application reached the office of Chief Creecy, Bergfeld thought it was granted and discarded is his uniform “Il was under the impression that I was a private citizen for three days and took a drink thinking there was no harm in it,” said Bergfeld. ‘Cared im sal be 14 — ie pnw ‘pes nz or roe - : er money refunded. Piles © Pare Ointment is «ua case of Itching, Biird. ing Pilea in 6 to 14 days Canal Zone Treasurer Weds. LACROSSE, Wis., Dec. 7.—Edward J. Williams, treasurer of the canal gone for the past three years, Was married today to Miss Helen M. Burlon, daugh- ter of Mrs. Abbie Burlon of this city. They will sail for the Isthmus from New York Dec. 14 ‘Dalley Is the Boy To go to for your Christmas gifts. Dia- monds, watches and jewelery, Cash or CIRCULAR IN SOCIETY ELECTION ARQUSES DOCTORS Robert Barclay and Joseph Grendon Repudiate Friends’ Electioneering. Electioneering for office has been put under the ban by a* least two members of the St. Louis Medical Society, who were suggested for nomination in anony- mous circulars sent to members. The physicians who do not want office by such methods are Drs. Robert Barclay and Joseph Grindon. When they dis- covered that they were being boosted for nomination, without their knowl- edge or consent, they published a card addressed to the members, in which they said: “Our attention has just been directed to an anonymous circular, addressed to you, recommending us for nomination to office in your approaching election. For the information of those who do not know us personally, we desire to state that such use of our names was with- vyt our knowledge and consent; that we heartily disapprove of such use of them, and that we hope others will unite in discrediting anw such attempts to influ- ence the result of elections under the new method of conducting them.” The physicians would not make any comments when:they were asked by the Post-Dispatch why they objected to be- ing pushed for office by their friends. Rival tickets are in the fleld for the annual election of the Medical Society, which is to be held before Christmas. On two tickets Dr. A. H. Tuholske has been nominated for president and Dr. C. E. Burford for secretary. But there is opposition for the other offices. One list of nominees is as follows: For councillors, three years: Drs. O. A. Wall, Sr. C. H. Hughes, Francis Bishop and G. M. Phillips; for two years: Drs. A. S. Barnes, Jr., T. A. Martin, Philip Scholz and A. H. Meisenbach; for one year: Drs. J, C. Murphy, W. W. Graves, Floyd Stewart and T. A. Hopkins; for delegates to Missouri State Medical As- sociation, two years: Drs. J. M. Ball, G. W. Cale, W. H. Stauffer, J. L. Boehm, Roland Hill, James Stewart and Hugo Bartscher; for one year: Drs. L. 8S. Luton, Pinckney French, J. C. Mortfit, Cc. M. Nicholson, R. M. Funkhouser, A. F. Koetter and W. S. Deutsch. Here is the rival ticket: Councillors, three years, Drs. J. Grin- don, J. C. Morfit, Francis L. Bishop and Hugo Bartscher, for two years: Drs. W. W. Graves, G. O. Hopkins, C. W. Shattinger and F. J. D. Krebs; for one year: Drs. John Green, Jr., A. F. Koetter, E. O. Greer and Robert Schleuter. For delegates to the State Medical So- ciety these were nominated for two years: Drs. Robert Funkhouser, C. M. Nicholson, Frank J. Lutz, G. W. Cale, W. B. Outten, Joseplf Grindon and Rob- ert Amyx; for one year: Drs. H. C. Dalton, Davis Forster, James Stewart, J. Ball, Louis Rasgssieur, Pinckney French and Bransford Lewis. As two- year alternates: Drs. E. O. Greer, W. W. Graves, H. J. C. Seiving, Roland Hill, E. H. Johnson, Hudson Talbott and H. L. Nietert. As one-year alternates: Drs. W. D. Moore, H. M. “> A. W, Fleming, Frank Hinchey, A. F. Koetter, A. W. Ravold and J. C. Falk, CHASED CAR IN DRUG DREAM Man Says He Was Poisoned by Companion and Robbed. In swearing out a warrant Saturduy charging James Sullivan with robbery Samuel Bushell said that he believed he was drugged by Sullivan. He be- came unconscious at Eleventh and Mar- ket streets and when he woke up he was running as in a dream for a street car at Jefferson avenue aud Pine street. When he reached his home at 6718 Odell avenue he found that he was without his overcoat and that his jewelry had on stolen. Sullivan was arrested in East St. there by TLouls and was identified THE PLAGUE OF EGYPT, No Liquor Oasis Will Be Found in: Five Counties Until Sen- timent Is Reversed. CAIRO, Ill., Dec. 7.—You can travel far through Egypt today without find- ing an oasis where you may quench your thirst unless you are content to drink that strange beverage, water, whose availability for other than bath- ing purposes has just been discovered by the natives. In vain you will seek the mellifluous Manhattan, the hilarious highball, the beady Bourbon or the lambent lager, Nearly all that was left of the strong liquors of Egypt was consumed in the last mad rush before the saloons of five counties closed their doors at mid- night never to reopen until the local option sentiment is reversed. The little that was left is on railroad station plat- forms packed for shipment back to the distillers this morning. And when that is all gone there won't be any more. The express companies have notified the liquor dealers that, un- der no circumstances, will they ship In- toxicants into the desert places of Egypt. Crushed Under Falling Door. Fred Brewer, a watchman, living at 1907 Carr street, was crushed under a sliding door at the lLIlvery stable of Stock & Price, 212% Carr street, Satur- day morning. His skull was fractured and his face badly bruised. His condi- tion is said to be critical. The door weighed about 600 pounds, It slipped from its track while Brewer was trying to close it and fell on him, Loses Suit After 16 Years, NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—After 16 years in the courts, the case of Mac Ardell against Alcott has finally been decided by the Court of Appeals in favor of Alcott. Mac Ardell sued to recover valuable lands in Texas which had been the property of the Houston & Texas Central Railroad and on the reorgan- ization had been transferred to Fred- erick P. Alcott, in trust for the stock- holders. Testifies He Said ® Sid Kiling Was Necessary to Save State Jobs. PLANNED BY POWERS ~ Witness Says Defendant — Wanted Shooting Done in Hotel Melee. — ae ia Pac: Zz ; } GEORGETOWN, Ky., Dec. Fe Wharton Golden, a Lieutenant In the military company of John T. Powers, was placed on the stand in the Powers trial today. Golden is probably the — most important of the prosecution's wit- nesses. complicity in the Goebel murder, but raigned for the crime, e He said he took walks every day with ee, kill Goebel. He said he wanted it done by having a man shoot Goebel down ta x the street, but that Powers 7 a good way would be to have half 4 dozen men engage in a je ts the hotel dining room and oun | the melee, claiming it was accidental. “Powers told me to go to Bell ot Harlan counties and get who he said had killed from one three men each,” Golden testified. “We went to Barbourville Charles Finley. Finley said: go down there and if Goebel the contest we will Kill him) whole —— gang,’ Powers sald: what we will do.’ ” “Did you have a conversation W. 8. Taylor?’ the witness was “Taylor said to me,” the wi plied, “* ‘Golden, it is horrible template killing men, but Goe those fellows must be killed or lose our offices and you young who want office will lose,’ ”’ gfate, tt spe a eee oe i ¢ * ae whiny sic St. Louis Is Not tn List. The largest nine Presbyterian Sunday schools are located in Philadelphia, Min- neapolis, New York, Chicago, hes ter, Plainfield, Buffalo, Harrisburg Seattle, all having over 1600 the first named having nearly 6800 | great liniment this critical period without pain, use of this wonderful remedy. Sold by all drug ‘eta at $1.00 per bottle. Our little book, telling all about this liniment, will be sent free. The Bradfield Regulater Co. Atlanta, Ga. Married : Women however, by the use of Mother’s Friend before baby comes, as always prepares the body for the strain upon it, reserves the symmetry of herform. 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Started Grover Cleveland tics Read about it in the next Sunday Post-Dispatch Gets Paid for Wearing Pretty Clothes — Read about it in the next Sunday Post-Dispatch — Man Had Never Learned to Walk Upright — Read about it in the next Sunday Post-Dispatch Over the troubles of “‘Step-Brothers,” The — ~ Newly-Weds, The Kid, Clarence the Cop | ) and other characters in the funniest of all comic paperé: : Breaks Wild Colts in St. Louis Read about her in the next Sunday Post-Dispatch Is the Greatest Royal Glutton in Europe Read about him in the next Sunday Post-Dispatch Predicted Exact Minute of Her Death Read about her in the next Sunday Post-Dispatch Has a $150,000 Necklace of Pearls Read about her in the next Sunday Post-Dispatch t Will Make Our Rivers Pay Our Expenses, | Read about it in the next Sunday Post-Dispatch ~ Will Spend Some of Carnegie’s Money: Read about her in the next Sunday Post-Dispatch in Politics He is among those indicted for + has never been placed in Jail or o~ b eae Powers and discussed the best way to tna As 4 a

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DELAY WOULD GIVE DELEGATES ANGER JUDG i, a ee Muench May Be Transferred Hetore Bribery Cases Are Called.

Unless the cases of Irederick W. Priestneyer of the First Ward and Verd Warner of the Second Ward, jointiv tn- dicted for accepting a bribe of $29 to Influence their votes as members of the House of Delegates, are docketed for triai curing December, they mey not be heard by Judge Muencli. ‘The thine of Judge Muench on the ecrinina! will expire Jan. 1, but he may, within the discretion of the cfreuit judges, be kept on the job for another six months. In that event, the Priesmeyer and War- ner cases wilj be ftriea in his court. It is dn open secret the Four that Cirenuit Atrorney Sager preter to try the cases before an- Other Judge, principally for the reeson that Judge Muench refused, when the cases Were previously for trial, t> grant jury. To Seek Special Jury. Sager wiil again apply for a special jury, and will cite the former jury as the most substantial reason why his de- mand should be granted. He dismissed the cases, after the venire had been se- lected, because he was not. satisfied with the jurors. There is a possibility that the indict- ments may be dismissed again, and in- formations filed, so that the preliminary hearings may be had in the Court of General F&essions. In such al would called special aon *& rit an ey Daniel Naughton, Assistant House Clerk. will be called as & Witness nnd Judge Rodgers will de- termine whether or not he will have to answer the questions regarding his knowledge of the bribe movey. The December grand jury journed until 2? p. Monday. erai days the grand fury has vestigatine alleged irregularities in the Boller Inspecior’s office in regard to the ijicensing of stationary engineers. i With the excepiion of Naughton, all Witnesses of the pest two days were en- gineers, Naughton Kept Waiting. Aithough judges of the Circuit have three times decided that Naugh- ton conld pot be forced to tell how got the $500 alleged to have been given to Priesmerer, at the request of War- ner, by Henry Ascher, to procure the pussage of a garage bili in the House of Delegates, he is being kept in con- stant attendance by the .grand jury. Naughton sat In the grand jury wait- ing room all l’riday afternoon, but was not cailed as a witness. He was told to return Monday. :| PRISONER ENDS LIFE WITH ACID CARRIED IN WOODEN LEG Ilinois Ex-~Justice of Peace Was Ac- * cused of Passing Bogus Checks, SPRINGFIELD, Vl., Dee. | 7.—-Wil- Ham Guina, charged with ‘forgery, committed suicide tn the Jalil here with earbolic acid which he had concealed in & hollow place in his wooden leg. The suicide was not discovered until Guina’s mother called at the Jail and has ede Dress heen j Nii. Sey- n- our ne ra “- + a t® to have commenced a few minutes later. Guina was formeriy Justice of the Peace at Auburn. He was under in- dictment for passing § bogus ct checks here.

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Roosevelt and His Tennis Cab- bear of SATURDAY— ST. LOUIS ————— MBER OE ti 1907 eee BRIDE ARRESTED IN SEARCH FOn STOLEN GOODS Mrs. Herman Léntzner Held With Husband Pending !In- quiry Into Burglaries. SUSPECTED

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Raids on Club Rooms and Sec- ond Hand Shop Reveal (Quantities of Furs.

Downtown. merchants were calling at police headquarters all of Saturday morning to identifY a quantity of stulen property seized by detectives Friday night in the raid on a second-hand shop operated by Herman Lentzner and wife at 3913 South Broadway. The Lentzners and Mike (alias ‘“Split’’) Connors and George (alias ‘‘Raggers'’) Meyers were arrested at the time, while the detectives were searching for evi- dence of an organized band of burglars, suspected of the recent of rob- beries of downtown stores. Warrants charging Lentzner wife With receiving stoten were issued Saturday after Ganz Cloak Co: representatives identified 27 shirt waists and a quantity of furs found in the ner store had been identified Century Millinery Coa. They were released on ut noon, the Foogher and James €. Mrs. Lentzner is a months. The Lentgner lowed Saturday morning raid i. ‘‘pleasure’’ club ond floor at the northeast Zighth and Morgan streets. Zark, 19, and. Thomas Kane, 15S of age, and Peter Hession and Marchewski, were arrested in tlic rooms. serics and his property Pufeles- had large Lentz- by the $104) bond each bonds being signed by J. H.. Shane, attorneys. bride of two raid was fol- by a Ffeeond on the sec- corner of Gilbert years Julius club on Many Kurs Are Claimed. Among the $1000 worth of booty at police headquarters a representative of the Pufeles-Ganz Cloak Co. identified furs valued at $200 as having been to.en recentiy from that establish- t.. The garments had been seized the second-hand shop. have Quar- hniauiieai Gren shire the I nited states for alleged discrimination against Mast Side horse and mule dealers. Charges have neds made against the Quartermaster- -Ge: eral, and H. B, Nalle, of sae bea. ing horse traders connected with the 7. ] M1 , > e« , 4 National Stockyards, in Washing- ton, representing the interests of all the other dealers, It is charged that ihe Quartermas- ter-General’s department has discrini- inated agains! the National Stock- yards horse and mule mariet in fa- vor Of a firm of dealers at Lathrop, Mo.., and has by unfair methods caused several iiorse and mule buy- * ; » ; ers in Hast St. Louis to default on their contracts with the Government, } Once Stationed Here. The’ troubles began three When Quartermaster-Gener)] was an inspector in St: Louis. It was charged then that discriminated : . “se 9 against the Bast Side dealers, and the strife finally reached the point where Nalle struck Dr. Farrell, a Government inspector, with a cane. One of Nalle’s coutracts with tle Gov- ernment is now held up because, it is alleged, the inspectors are so severe that he cannot find horses in the market that they will accept. Charges against the Quartermaster- General and the inspectors were heard a month ago by Inspector-General Gar- land. Nearly all the horse and mule dealers from the East Side testified at this hearing. Many afiidavits were sub- mitted alleging discrimination against the East Side dealers in favor of the Lathrop firm. Following the trouble three. years Ayleshire was transferred from St. Leuis and other indpectors were sent here. Subsequenily Avleshire was made guartermaster-general. Since the ap- pointment, the dealers charge, the dis- crimination in favor of the Lathrop firm has becn more pronounced than ever, One of the tue stockyviirds porter Satu rday that he took ty furnish the urmy 380 horses for pa- rade purpeses at the World’s Yair. Ayleshire Was in charge in -St. louis at the time. The deajer said ne searched the country for fine horses, and bought more than 100 head trvinsg to #1] the contract. The best he cou!d ‘io was to get 12 accepted. Dealer Fears Losa, He suid the inspectors then went into the open market and bought the very same horses they had rejected at from $45 to $50 each more than the dealer had asked for them. It is charged that the Lathrop firm has no trouble whatever in getting its horses accepted by the Government. Nalle has a contract with ernment, which, it said, he finds that he cannot fill because the speci- fications are such that horses cannot be found anywhere that will fill them. As the inepectors are strict in the en- forcement of the specifications, it is stated that the dealer will lose $20,000 on account of his inability to fill the contract. Cealars repre who eral AYies of ’ 4 >» + x ‘ P 42INyY ousted One is Years Avleshire ago, lie ALO horse dealers in Post-Dispateh re- 1 contract bigeaecst told i the (;0V- is

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TAFT AND VANDIVER NOW ARE ENABLED TO MEET ON COMMON GROUND OF PANTS Fattest Statesman’s Trousers Burst in Russia—Other So Thin Ap- parel Woudn’t Stay. Taft, the fattest statesman, D. Vandiver, the _ thinnest, is a Republican and the other a Democrat, can now meet on the common ground of pants. It is even suggested that all factions could be harmonized by nominating, them for the presidency and the vice-presidency and booming them with the slogan. “Taft and Vanciver. We lost our pants, but you can’t lose us.” It happened to Mr. Taft in St. Peters- burg, Russia, Wednesday, when his cor- pulence, struggling for freedom, burst its prison bars and pushed its way to liberty through the Knee of the Taft pants. The capacious and capable Secretary of War, according to special cable- grams, was in a carriage hurrying to the home of Foreign Minister Iswolsky, where a dinner was given in his honor. He was within a few blocks of the Iswolsky Palace when there was a rip- ping, tearing sound. The droshky driver thought the harness had broken and- jumped down to leok it over. But that wasn't it at all. Mr. Taft's pants, like ithe pitcher that goes too often to the wee were broken. They had split right cross the knee. “To proceed in the question, so to his hote’. There . wie A and W. though one such case was out of Mr. Taft went back he found that all of his trousers had been packed and shipped ahead and there was nothing to call a tailor and have him deftly the Mr. his other do but sew up When found hin. “i'm sorry I er, but the delay darned pants,” were smiles on the faces Stolypin, Finance Minister NKokovsoff and War Minister Rudiger. At the dir- ner table Mr. Taft's darned, pants were well concealed there Was fur- ther mishap. The Vandiver rent. Taft arrived at the host impatiently dinner waiting he for couldn't get here soon- Was caused by these whereat there of Premier said, ha and no pants are famous in Missouri historv. When the tall, thin In- surance Commissioner, who used to be a Congressman, arrived in St. Loufs to attend a Bryan banquet he found at the last minute that he would be unable to attend becnuse he had lost his pants. His trouble was not exactly itke Mr. Veft’s. It wasn't corpulence that caused it. He was so thin that his pants just wouldn't with him. It would be a great battle cry: “Taft and Vandiver, Nineteen-Bight! We lost our pants, but We are great.” CHICAGO PREACHER WANTS TO DIE SUDDENLY IN AUTO Too Much Fire Esc scape in Religion, Direction Soul Takes Not Depen- ent on Bodily Attitude. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—*‘U it wasn't for my wife I would like to die in my auto in a street car, and die quickly,”’ said Rev. Dr. Charles Bayard Mitchell of Cleveland in an address at the pas- Austin Methodist stay

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ch. RE tg cmt = LISTS SENT OUT FOR CHRISTMAS CONTRIBUTIONS i. > Festival Fund May Be Sub- scribed to in Buildings Downtown.

Agents for the Post-Dispatch Christ- mas Festival Fund are distributing con- tribution lists among the stores, offfices and factories in the central part of the city. The Executive Committee in charge of the festival requests that all those into whose hands the lists have been placed will see that they are made available to any who desire to contrib- ute, and that the lists be filled as soon as possible and sent to the Post-Dis- patch Christmas Festival Fund at the Post-Dispatch office. If more lists are needed they will be sent promptly on request. Should any- one desiring.a list have been overlooked @ request will bring one, or as many as are required, at once. More Money Is Needed. The increased demand for money this year necessitates not only a greater generosity on the part of the people of St. Louis, but also prompiness in geét- ting the subscriptions in. The various committees in charge of the work of proyviidng the big rist- mas dinner and the teys end entertain- ment for the children already are at work, as the labor connected with the festival is greater than ¢ver. The increasing mu!titude of -home who will require essistance this year to make Christmas a day of cheer, in- stead of. hunget and misery, demar ds that a larger fund than ever be col- lected. This is to be the eighth annual event of its kind, and, saving estab- lished itself as mucn of a city institu- tion a8 the Hospital Saturday and Sun- day, ‘it is not only the pleasure of the people of St. Louis to support it, but also their duty. As the city grows 80 does the benefaction. i All to Be Provided For. It is the intention of the Executive Coimmittee to serve tife subscribers to ihe fund’ with the utmost diligence, 80 tnat there may not be within the length and breadth of the city a single man, woman or child who will g0 through Christmas day lacking in joy and cheer. Now is the ously. HOT TIME MINSTREL SHOW St. Louis Boys Distinguish Them- selves at Odeon. The annual entertainment of the Hot Time Minstrels at the Odeon last night drew a big and fashionable audience and scored a success. The first part showed “Circtas Day in Squastrville,”’ in- troducing.a chorus, led by Joseph A. Buse. Dewey Hickey made a hit with his song, “‘Dat’s Music to Me,” and so did William TT: Lawrence, singing “Martuch,” and Andrew Arbuckle with ‘Harrigan.’ Mr. Lawrence also dis- tinguished himself in “A Wandering Ham.” taking the part of the old-time actor. The second part showed the Hot Time Yacht Clubhouse and consisted of con- versational and musical stunts, along minstrel lines. It introduced Messrs. Buse. Martin, Niedringhaus, Godlove, Roe, Cash, Shackelford, Howland, Proy, Mengel, Arbuckle, Jones, Hodgins, Wlanagan, Hubbard, Stender, Nulsen, smith, Taylor, Lee, Calvert, Waggoner, Smith. Tillay, Hickey, Davidson, Law- rence, Link, Sandusky and Yon Phul. ‘The entertainment will be repeated this evening. time to subscribe gener-

—— + ee Quail on toast, hot biscuit and baked potato, 35c, at the Saddle, 24 N. 6th. G. B. Grismore Left Large Eatate. , The body of George B. Grismore, i vears old, formerly a_ Well-known St. Louls attorney, who died of heart dis- ease Friday at Chaporal, Ariz.. will be sent to Southern Indiana for burial, He leaves an estate of $100,000 and is survived by two nieces and two neph- ews, one of the latter, Thomas Ut- tinger, being in business at 1208 Olive street. Le A I SEE

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im says SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. A dispatch from Sparks, Nev., that before down from received by the Southern Pacifie oper- ator saying that several butidings had been dynamited by striking miners an¢é their sympathizers. Troops were due to arrive at noon The Southern Pacific has lost ‘track of its trains owing to the’ wire trouble, Goldfield Seldiers Arrive at Goldfield. GOLDFIELD, Nev., Dec. %.—Cok Evans and the Federal troops aasigned to keep order in the miners’ rived here today and immediately took possession of the mine properties. — The second section of the train bearing about three hundred troops to Goldfield arrived in Reno at 7:3¢ this morning. After a wait of about an nour, the run to the mining camp Was resumed. It should arrive | ernoon. their train and marched streets in gloomy silence. The wu were in session at their headquarters a. the time and a discussion of the situa tion is still in progress there. There have been numerous robberies, burglaries and asvatiits tn tiv past few days, but no oytbreak responsibility for them,

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TO ART HILL. THAT'LL FIX “The first was a gas house, think the second was a bank.” ee JUST A MINUTE FOR VERSE AND HUMOR. Written for the Post-Dispatch by Clark McAdams. KING YBORSHIE, ia, a remote monarchy in Africa, is advertising his king- dom for sale in the European press. He 0O!- fers for $200,000 cash his throne, scepter, , and his good If you a King have longed to be, Pray look you on King Yborshie Where all the cameleopards are, And where the Ethiopean King Wears in his nose a golden ring, And tinkling bells upon his feet, That when he walks make music sweet, And has the royal arms beside Tattooed upon his kingly hide. The life is more than luxury With this proud menarch Yborshie Where all the ring-tailed monkeys are. The harem where his nibs abides rides, s his, here is, The sceptre,. and the cheering mobs That daily hail his royal nobs. e¢— He wants to sell, this Yborshie Where all the weollydoodles are. «Which goes to show it is the lot Of man to want what he has not— Or King, or what his fortune be, He wants a change, like Ybershie— One’s Heaven is another’s hell, Or per contra—you cannot tell. “Did you hear those two shots?” and I ‘olfville. speakers and d interesting. —Rich Hill (Mo.) Western Enterprise. “YT don’t think the Christmas trade is going to be what it usually . ife is going to give me a dozen handkerchiefs for a is esti- lth n his @p-

JUDGE VAUGHAN’'S NEW PARTY. Former Judge W. R. Vaughan has carefully surveyed the political field and discovered that none of the ex- istent political parties altogether serves. The Republican and Democratic organ- izations have outlived their usefulness. The Prohibition party only a ecol- lection of impracticables, and the So- cialist party is a half-baked orga .iza- tion which loses one convert every time it lets go to seize another. The Anti-Saloon League looks like the biggest thing in the country to Ex- Judge Vaughan. What we need, then, is a party which will contes. the local and national elections with the Anti- Saloon League. The Judge sugyests that this be known “the Lid-Oft Party.’’ which he organizing right here in St. Louis. The Anti-Saloon League will doubtless welcome the new party on the field. It will be something to fight. rhe League ‘has not thus far found any party with the courage to meet it on the saloon issue. The Republicans run like whiteheads at mention of it, and at that they do not run any faster than the Democrats. It has been a running fight ever since the League got into the game. If the Lid-Off Parity will stand and fight. resisting the appeal of the tall uncut, it will revive the drooping times. is as is Xmas Savings Bank—1907 Model, > Ee SN SOF OI == DROP COIN

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ee REILLEY IN THE TURNVEREIN., Mr. James J. Reilley has mitted to membership in. the Alton Turnverein. Mr. Schmoeller, Mr. Goss- rau, Mr. Luer, Mr. Joesting, and others, have all extended the hand of fellow- ship to Mr. Reilley. We are told that he is the first of his race to be thus honored. This not the first indication we have had of the exceptional breadth of the Alten Turnverein. Men who cannoi speak, dance er sing in German have been its honored guests. The clannish- ness of other years has been departed from until the Turnverein has beceme the most cosmopolitan institution in Al- ton. Racial lines have become dimmer and dimmer, and now we have the grand climax of Americanism in the in- itiation of Mr. Reilley on an equal social fpoting with Mr. Schindewolf, Mr. Bensinger, Mr. Kleinpeter, and all the other merry gentlemen of the Alton Turnverein. Hoch der been ad- is Herr Reilley! You may continue giving your dog a A scientist has discovered that not essential to their exist- bone. meat ence. is THE HOLIDAY CLERK, This is the season when you find The lady at the store Whe plainly shows she never did This sort of thing before. You buv a Life—the current Just as you always do, And the new clerk bites the dime says, “Shall I wrap it up fer you?” Life— and A young man in the hardware store Comes running to your side- “I want to get some ramekins,” You hurriedly confide. “Some what?’ he asks kins— The. kind the ladies use?” “O, yes!’ he says, and digs you up A pair of wooden shoes. “Some rame- You enter a depariment store The clerk is young and fair; And you ask to see some ladies’ hose— A quite expensive pair She blushes very red, and her Poor are put to rout So far, and ‘takes A wits she gets a box COTSC I pair of

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Into the midst of Boston’s supposedly lively municipal campaign a discussion of novel interest has been introduced. It all hinges on the merits of dogfish as an article of food. The Boston Herald is the special champion of this despised and neglected half brother of the shark. Not only have its columns been open to the pro and con views of its readers, but it has even gone so far as to give a dogfish dinner at one of the leading ho- tels. The guests at this very special banquet were members of the Herald staff, although there is nothing to indi- cate that their presence as human affi- davits was in the least compulsory. Any- way, they are reported to have been highly pleased with the chief dish of the feed, dividing their praises, with commendable fairness between dogfish planked and dogfish boiled and gar- nished, not forgetting a good word for the dogfish salad. No doubt the more timid of the eaters were encouraged by the manager of the hotel and his chef, both of whom “tried the new food” and were loud in its praise. Naturally, the Herald promptly succeeded in interest- ing Dr. Wiley, chief of the United States Bureau of Chemistry, in its com- mendable project. The doctor respond- ed without delay when the details were laid before him, bis reply being emli- nently characteristic. ‘“‘The only thing I would suggest,” be wrote, “is that if dogfish is a fine food it should not be sold as halibut.’ INFLATED. From the Pittsburgh Dispatch. “Airship bank” is a phrase which the New York Superintendent of Banking applies to one or two institutions under his jurisdiction. Which suggests the duty of that official to make such air- ships get down to terra firma.

THE BIG NOISE. From the Detroit Free Press, There is a scientific theory that the universe can be reduced to atoms and energy; according to some views, to en- ergy alone. How much o. the universe is concentrated in the occupant of tne White House? ee GETTING EVEN. From Punch, “Oh, yes, we saw quite a lot of her in Homburg; but now she never takes the slightest notice of me, se I make a point of always cutting her dead!”

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AND NOW Fik HAVE TC \. Tané TMS BEAUTIFUL *“EOREST PARK nisror mt” To : x ¢| 7 + oe \mswers to Questions From Readers of Write but cone : . questions = F cnn 3 U. 8.--The boy who enlists in the navy, 4ge@ and name f » May he court ned. 1 time of imprisonment would vend upon the circumstances of the case. ' B.—The civil law, in its strictly technical 7 lenotes the body of Roman jurisprudence yy order of the oe pe ustinian. It became creat extent the basis of the municipal laws = sontinenta! states of Europe. The civil law a ‘aw of the Roman Church stood side by were the two great sources from which + gg ed of modern Europe h iften the aud ot s en quoted. Portraite of great jurista are sually the pictures adorning a lawyer's office. = lo hot recall historic pictures suitable for such an of- lee. The picture of a Chief Justice ef England, whe ‘8 @ Student he rode to Hounsiow Heath with ind took purses might be interesting if it could Be to every- wa. The Pontius Pilate picture is famillar ’ * ROSALIND.—Of applications for the halr, ea is said to be one of the least harmful. It | he hair a dark red, “auburn,” properly, not nde 6 Irown. If an ounce of the leaves are st in 4 dint of boiling water, allowed to cool, strained he hair and weferred can be deep accordin ‘Mrength of the tea. It is better to try a loc tself, as the stain has te wear off. ttrong and use more leaves to leeper shade is required, The hair should be wighly washed, rinsed and dried before the tea is @ olied, and the color will last a few 0 “enewing when it has to be done over again. It | uways perceptible, and never entirely conceals the vatural color of the turning hair, as there is new hair onstantly showing near the scalp. ee READER.—How many languages there are is a sertein, for authorities differ widely. The usual esti- mate is more than three thousand. including al ae lifferent dialects. But should dialects be included ‘he count? And if not, then at just what point ¢ language degenerate into dialect or dialect deve ‘into language? Philologists are no means agree on these questions. A German philologist, Adelur has ei out that there are and lects in use, divided as follows: language, including, of course, those Indians and other aborigines of N America. 1624; European, 587; i rican, 276. But Pott estimates about a thousand languages, Bab 860, Farraf claims that there are ~ er than 750,."" while Hovelacque give languages, 41 of which are extinct,” in use. Se. | A SUB.-—-In 19% the following tel Was pt lished: Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. ithe. little . story brick structure at No. 238 Arch street, known the “Old Plaghouse,” where Betsy Ross obtained, to the Dilute if too . 22, 1888, a meeti ' “Old Flaghouse,”’ under the di Flaghouse and Betsy Rosas Association was formed and later incorporated. The object was to purchase the historic dwelling and save it to the nation. This was accomplished t the is : of membership certificates at the uniform price 10 cents and the co-operation of the people of the tire contr: There are 1.000000 stockholders of th prepare ving in every State In the Unton. he ohn Quincy Adams here mentioned now has an of fice in the Old Flaghouse, 29 Arch street.) ¢_ A. P.—Pickled mushrooms: Select small butt mushrooms freshly gathered. Cut the stems off q close and wipe off the outer covering with clean I ae nel dipped in salt. Throw into cold water, lightly salt~ ed, but drain quickly and wipe dry with a soft cloth, or the moisture will weaken the pickle. quart prepared mushrooms allow a scant quart a va vinegar, a —_ ng pate geen = a be preger: white pepper, a tablespoontu r. ice 4 quarter of a salt spoonful cayenne tied In a lot! two blades mace and a few gratings nutmeg. Brt to a scald, throw in the mushrooms and six to ten minutes, according to size. If larger than others, put the larger ones into the vin gar a moment or two before the smaller ones @ added. As soon as tender. put in small Aividing the spices equally between them. As soon cold seal and keep in a cool, dark place. Usa sm jars, as the contents of the can spoil quickly heing opened. MISTRESS.—Mincemeat: Boll until very three pounds of beef’s heart, then chop it as possible and add a half pound of beef suet, skin and filaments and finely minced: mix together and add one pound of brown su vounds of currants, two pounds of seedless | the grated rind of one orange, the grated the juice of three lemons, one tablespoonful dered cinnamon, one of ginger, one of Olives, one mace, two of salt and one quart of the best Orleans molasses. Stir all well together; the should be very moist, but not thin. If too ' add a half teacupful of good cider or vinegar ang a tle more molasses. If this mincemeat is to immediately add three pounds of finely minced _7 bad - | ery pound and a half of meat., If the mincemeat if to be kept for future use, do fot add the apples or Tf vou want it especially good put citron and hickory nut meats into the pie just before putting on the upper crust. But it is good without this addition. This mixture will keep for months packed tn stone - jars in a dry, cool place, When packed tn jars pour a little molasses over the top to exclude the air, then fasten a cloth wrun the jar, so that it then put on the cover. | Moles are flat or raised and vary in color from $7: only slightly darker than the surrounding those of almost black hue. An impre it is dangerous te remove moles. This is no cept when they are very near the eye. In such either the electric needle or some specific & would be too powerful and might affect sight. especially if the latter got into the eye. that they are the result ef abnormal cell They are removed by dessication. That employed disintegrates the particles of compose them and they dry up and fall off. and harmlessly. The only danger i dmg ny A whether a birth-mark or otherwise, is in the te to pick it and thus constantly thwart nature effort te heal. When the electric needle mole it swells up and subsides after a leaving a brown crust, which falis in a days and the mole with it. if all the mole | disappear another treatment should be taken. times after a mole drops, the flesh will be slig pink for awhile, but the color fades daily and Hnaiy no trace of the mole can be seen. Another says: advise small camel’s-hair brush, being careful not t it to touch the skin surrounding; skin red, ane. a little ee a of ul¢ kept on it; about a week will pass the me perceptibly affected, and at least a week more the spot heals. 4000. appearances which lo a 1870, she $45,800, or oe cee ed ‘ound her in Americ 36000 was her nightly fee. Earnings "aan Parks were

. ae ga ie - ae as been largely derived, yPtians and Babylonians had taws which have ead wet all over, any tinge of auburn — the pint of water Ifa | erat ty te Oe sind, 4 iy 7 Adams and Charles S. Weisgarber, and the American — Memorial oe ie apples and a half pound of citron cut in slices fer ev. THANKFUL.—As to moles, one authority ee te. eof moles is uncertain, but it is generally coneseed growth th which a a 3 a x ; * . Sd *s < ¥ +34 e yt .

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EBADERS MAGAZINE BETTY’S WISH. By Hortense.

Drawn for the Post-Dispatch BY R,. W. TAYLOR.

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T wag Christmas eve, a crisp, char, glorious night, with myriads of stars glistening in the frosty blue, and sending their tiny rays into the very hearts of the ice crystals that hung sparkling from the barren trees, and fringed the overhanging roofs and gables of towering buildings. The chimney clock in the old church steeple rang out the quarters and mingled with the musical echoes of merry voices that floated out upon the air in trills of happy laughter. The shops displayed their bewildering wares to the crowds of expectant children who pressed eager faces against the window panes, shout- ing to one another in the abandonment of their delight. A small girl, shabbily and thinly clad, stood alone, gazing thoughtfully at the rows of illuminated picture cards in a bookseller’s window. She was pale and attenuated, and with that dreary, hopeless expression in her eye so pitiful to see in young children. She drew her faded wrap more closely around her slender shoulders and sighed heavily. “Well, my littl Woman, are i aa 7 * a . - + 5 > What the Stars Say About In- Ta © quiring Readers of the | : Post-Dispatch. . BY ADAM VROOMAN. The Philosophy of a Stenographer Res é ported for the Post-Dispatch ea: 2

bé DON’T see how I'm to get through this week.” sald the we | . | public stenographer Monday morning. “Um tired to begin wit “weg simply have te ask Cousin Mary to stay 9 few days, and & At mele take her to the matinee Wednesday. The broom @rill comes off "Thursd@ and my costume’s got to be made for that. Saturday night i» the dante, | and the waist of that blue dress will have to be altered—everything’s & | the short-waisted effect these days; besides’-——— eer “Time!" cried the business-like member of the firm, who was rapig] turning off copies from a mimeograph machine. “What's the answer?” > | “Ok, I don't expect sympathy from you,” said the first girl, deepentig line between her eyes. ee “That's wise,’ said the second. “What I leave it. If you take it enjoy it; if you tleave out roct and branch, and forget it. There. are just at hours in a week, and what you have to find out is what you want to | with each of them. It’s a sum like two.plus two equals four. " Cousin Mary or don’t invite her. Help in the broom drill, or don't Bet Wear your blue dress as it is, or work up your short-waisted effects: = right down with your sum—ts what IT say——end feot it up right. Put the answer plain, too, or,else you may forget it, and’ have the sum

RS: DANIBL, Jar. 1*.—Constant - fm Jove; prudent, circumspect; slow to anger and to forgive; active: vigorous body. Dangers are mélancholy and rheumatic disorders. ELEANOR F. RALSTON, Feb. 14.—~ Special aptitude for fine arts. Devote your talents to house decoration: dili- went and patient; fine executive ability. Beware of diseases of the respiratory . orrans. LEON GROSSMAN, March 22.—Rest- less: proud; easily influenced, but cou- rageous. Too fond of the good things of life, especially choice food. This will ‘ndanger health. Take much exercise out of doors. Be careful in dealing with the say is, either take a

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over again.” es I laughed, but this seemed the best. kind of advice for the average Worm like that.” sald the business-like girl later. “She Keg right on chewing candy and saying how it hurts her teeth. You can't inna in e. what a good time ‘Cousin Marr’ will have on her visit. Of course it costs igi 37” ey to take time off from your work; but if you're going to do it why not 5 re am your money's worth? Some would rather keep thely money for themselves. Let. “a, them. Some would rather pass up a little something for a friend now ana: : then. Let them. But some fall down between the two and, don't know . : they want. When they @o a favor cr take a spree they havesa ‘tomorrow YE1LO GiIRES' SAW YOU THROUGH THE winDow' HAVE A WAT ON me’ GET BIG ONES— THE BEST You'vE Gor’ “She's always you *"?? > face. e That’s all wrong.” «= simple tastes. Ever on the side of too '_ great economy; gave at the wrong mo- ment and tn the wrong direction. Good health. Industrious and somewhat artis- tic. Should marry early. CELIA M. GAUDING, May 21.—Study photography and chemistry. You are fit- ted to do excellent work in*these lines. Do not marry too soon, Live in high altitudes and guard health carefully, breathing pure alr. Hr. R., May 5.—Vigorous mind; log- ical rather than intuitive; lacking in ten- derness, but appreciative of affection.

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high tumble Living in the worl’ comes enough. You have too far to when you climb to the stars. ' ment to a too indulgent, capricious, over- he | amiable man. Never afraid of the truth. i gs i LIZZIE GREEN, June 2.—Quickly ir- 7 A. cepa ee ee weeks OC0- Riches may not bring happiness, but 5) they may help you to meet happiness halfway. women. . § L. K., March 16.—Executive ability QH' 80 You HE WANTS US 70] of « high order. You can manage oth- THINK THESE SAVE OUR «rs without friction and without mak- MONEY ! } ingg Management apparent. Very capable Yj in methodical work, but should not waste time in drudgery. Speedy and yct Y, choosing your Christmas present thorough. In short, ideally fitted for sounded a pleasant voice in her ear, as business. When you marry do not sive the owner—a cheery-looking old gen- up your wosk for in it you will be f tleman. muffled in fur—bent down and happier than in housekeeping. Intellec- | ienked in het naar _ Soe ong for content fn nar- / : “Oh, no, sir, I was just wishin’ | was die’ air that casts a gloom over the whole funeral. . t os . ‘ “ A & ‘ . Ks . all asec cgay are sociable and make f a dg. . Ree ea I looked upon that sensivle stenographer with envy. How much simpler IDA BROWN. April 7.—Fine mind, Wishing you were a dog* Laan mariste eums would be if we could only state them clearly to ourselves! ree . ‘ the old gentleman in amazement. ‘Why, More than half of us keep.right on “chewing candy and saying how fie I never heard of such a thing? And why | hurts our teeth.” We do rot sum up which we'd rather go without—the s Koeis” a } do you wish to to be a dog, my dear?” | .. ine aches that go with them. So we take our pleasures sadly. Our chal “Cos’ I heard a lady talking about | «rastivities” are nuisances. The favors we show others are perfunctory. Pri- readin’ in the paper that ‘twas the} jinthropy becomes heartless. Whatsoevcr we do is done reluctantly. We “tales fashion now to send pet dogs them | petween” the joys of taking and the joys of giving. We neither “take” nor. picture cards all tied up with the beau- | -y,54yv¢" them. i ? tiful ribbon, an’ I thought maybe if I Problems loom vague and terrifying in our imaginations, robbing our lays 7. was a dog I'd get one, for I do want] or happiness and our nights of sleep. When pleasures or troubles come: wee one awful badi™ . neither go bravely forth to meet them, nor, on the other hand, do we discré ly run from them. They overtake us and we grope through them unassisted by our brains. ts Do let us fgure up just how many hours there are in our weeks, and Jim what we want to do with them. Do let us train our brains to put down Gi ly the sums of our lives. And then, do Iet us try to remember t answer to “two plus two” is not “five’ nor “three,” but just exactly “Tor 7 MOVING PICTURES GALORE. ILAN, the center of Italy for the moving picture machine trade, I M ready about forty such theaters. Every available hall is being sjene into a maeving picture show, while nearly every second and th fra pai theater and “cafe chantant” finishes the evening's entertainment wit 4, ... cinematograph pictures. During the dul) summer months even the ! arger 1 ~ aters are used. K clent housekeeper. Socijable. Warm heart. Easy speech. Strive for more even temper and greater_thorouchness in all you do. | LEO G. PARKER, July 2.—‘aciturn; 94: NE Pee, Lae Po eh we incessantly active; eager for novelty. ESS WG CEI Ir 1 ee eee ee. ins nis A. See a ~ Apt to be capricious and fickle in love. : | | — a Eyre

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Bananas at 2'5¢..... $7 20 SS a em wn Ge 4 from Benjamin Franklin, Joesph C. Neal, Maj: Jack Downing, Mrs. Parting- ton, Augustus B. Longstreet, John Phoenix, Orpheus C, Kerr, Artemus Ward, Bill Arp, Washington Irving, William Tappan Thompson, William Austin, Fran- ae cis M.. Whicher (The Widow Bedott), George William Curtis, Johnson J. $0 821;, Joe ‘spent at both stands. Hooper, Henry W. Shaw (Josh Billings), Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Alsop, $16 20 Joo had before buying fruit. Frederick Swartout Cozzens, David R. Locke (Petroleum V. Nasby), James M. 9 $214 Joe spent for fruit. Bailey (the Danbury News man), and others. $6 S71, JOe had left after buying fruit, If you get the hook for Christmas, you can laugh it off with L. J. Bridge- Joe $6.8T% for apples 2%,c apiece. man’s brightly illustrated little volume. It pictures the various ways of getting =e $6.57 46, Joe the hook, and each-of the pictures is accompanied by a rhyme. For instance: bought, : “Please procure the metallic, curved instrument made for prehensory purposes!” — ses PSo spake the maid. She resided in Boston, [I judged by her look—was_ she meaning to tell me, just plain ‘Get the hook’’?’’ “The Hook,” a picture boek for adults. (Small. Maynard & Co.)

Joe spent at f 2 12%, Joe spent at second stand. -— Te weer , THE TRUTH ABOUT NEW BOOKS. Holiday Publications and Others Reviewed by IVriters for the Post-Dispatch. | ,

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ee eee JF JEANETTE LEE has really discovered the symbols of the Ibsen plays, the late playwright had helped us materially by naming each play for its sym- bol. For instance, Miss Lee says the tarantelle, which Nora dances in ‘“‘A Dell's House,” is the play—the symbol of Nora. She says: ‘Coming in the “natural course of the play, it seems a simple stage device. * * * But the tarantelle is not an ordinary dance. It is named for the tarantula, and its swift movement and dizzying rounds are measured to -..e victims vr that poi- sonous sting. * * * Its wild unresisting movement is the tragedy of her na- iure—light and frivolous on the surface, but concealing underneath a dread se- cret—a wound that carries death in its train.”” Which we could have discovered jong ago, granting al! this to be a fact, if Ibsen had named the play ‘‘The Ta- rantelle.” Miss Lee says the symbol! of “Hedda Gabler’ is a pistol. She “writes: “It is easy to understand her now—a pistel, dead'y, simple, passion- lems, and straight. * * * One may or may not resent Ibsen's method. He may be interested, or amused, at the idea of presenting the heroine of a play us a pistol, or he may characterize it as inartistic or absurd. But, once suggest- “d, he cannot escape the conviction that this is what Ibsen has done and what he deliberately intended to do."’ And it was just like him, Mahatma that he Was, to call the play “Hedda Gabler,” instead of ‘“‘The Pistol.’ ‘“‘The Ibsen seeret. a Key to the Prose Dramas of Henrik Ibsen,”’ by Jeanette Lee: (Put- nam.) 24) x or apples OO Orr" TF" ee es ee : ai " ae SO oranges. 210 bananas, ov pears 250 apples A new and handsomely illustrated Recipe Book jree WALTER BAKER & CoO., Ltd. ESTABLISHED DORCHESTER, MASS. 1780 :

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The man who has suffered and wondered at the common tragedy of life will find sympathetic reading in a book by Arthur Christopher Benson, author of “The Upton Letters.’’ This new sclection of Mr. Benson's writings is entitled “The Altar Fire’’ Mr. Benson has fer his motive ‘to show that it (suffering) is at once curative and curable, a very tender part of a wholly loving and father. | 4 ly design. » sold 29 50 Joe received after selling his fruit. In running to bank With his money Joe (EH ~~ WN ran the half mile 50 per cent longer than his QE a eS eS CZ € ee — ; record for his uncle’s money, Or 24 minutes; pod ‘ pea “7 > Lp, CBS" . 77 14 “*ee- 1 . lo get plenty ef ‘local color’’ for a novel with scenes and characters 100, 299 he also 1c for every second he ree, He wat any LLL al hte Mo —— or even 300 years ago, two books in the Grafton Historical Series—‘‘In Olde New making a loss of $13.60. : York,” by Charles Burr Todd, and “Old Stcamboat Days on the Hudson River,” | #29 9° he had before going to bank. ee would be found useful. And the intending histogical novelist would thank Ed- i ~ i gar Mayhew Bacon for his book on “Henry Hudson; His Times and Voyages, ’ $16.00 just issued by the Puinams. The three books fit in nicely, and all contain many Answer curious woodcuts and engravings of old-time adventurers, scenes and_ ships : The old worthies and their deeds are fittingly commemorated by the incustri- ous compilers and writers of these books. — lost

lost while running to bank, deposited in the bank* ROTTMANN, blaine avenue. amount Joe wi. Cc. 4203 A eee oe Is Too Much Money | Harmful to American Women? } «When our foreign critics speak of the American woman . have in mind the wives and daughters of unwisely chivalrous” men, who have blindly allowed their women folk to pursue oe ieee ee ann ee

A pleasant moving, though pathetic story, is Laura FE. Richards’ ‘“‘Grand- mother.”’ The heroine is a young woman who marries an old man and de- votes her life to self-sacrifice. In the end you are doubtful as to the moral of it all, while appreciating the author's position, which is that she chose the ' Better part. (Dana Estes Co.) “Mother,” by Owen Wister, once published aunonymously, is published _ with the author’s name after revision by him. The tale is told by a man who invested in fancy stocks and bonds because his broker had invested in the ‘Same for ‘Yother.”” In the end he discovered that the broker’s mother was M years in her grave. George W. Cable's “The Grandissemes’’ has been sumpiuously dressed by the Scribner's for the holiday trade. Mr. Cable has done nothing so fine, . #0 strong as this story of the greater creoles. It is a psychological study, it is a moving story, it is a poetic romance. Problem Editor, Post-Dispatch. Here jg my answer to your pr blem of Mon- Dec. 2, 1907: Joe runs half-mile in » minutes, ner cent faster in second* run, 144 minutes, eutting his record 144 minutes, for which he received Sle per second, or §24; investing $24 at 50 per cent. $36; investing 50 per cent of capital at 0) per cent, $27; result of all in- vestments. $45; Investing all and losing 50 per cent. $22.50: investing $11.25 im gold ring, then pawned it for 40 per cent less, $6.75; selling ticket for 40 per cent more than he re- ceived on the ring. $9.46: capital, $16.20, Busing GO oranges at 4¢ each, $2.40: 180 ba- nanas at 2e each, $5.60: 20 pears at 6e each, $1.20: 20 oranges at So $1; 3O bananas John at 2c each. 10 pears at each, PRG -11 apples at 2% each, $6.70. Total of S58 4-11 costing $16.20. Sold 556 4-11 pieces each, $27.81 9-11; losing 10c per #@c-

There are real cowbovs.and a real Montana, with local color “in the Raw” in “The Lure of Dim Trails’’ by B. M. ower. ee tie est PAYS 4. gL ae Rtg >. Pak Vs WP cer by DE ah, Rade ta pictures by Clara Elsene Peck. Prince Anguish achieves the Grail, wins ae = Diendonne when he has ceased to love her, and after much trial his love re- * oe gselle Warren, attractively presented. : 3 of many poems and the environment of the Brownings during the beautiful s eS Taylor.) nee ate meal, or very handy to have on the table for brushing -up old acquaint- ss &nees at idle moments. Who is not glad to have Micawber, Sairey Gamp. be. But to read the first chapter is to stick to the last, fer Fred M. White has built a fascinating story with a wealth of incident, on the felly of family pride as the toxt. An English estate and a long-missing heir are the threads pon which the complications ‘are strung. (Little, Brown & Co.) ie 2 tarry Donovan, the bold and witty Irishman, who plaved a minor part in : “Sho House of a Thousand Candles,” turns heio in Meredith Nicholson's new novel, “Rosalind at the Red Gate.”” The author properly insists that ‘‘Rosa- lind” fa net a sequel to “The House,” bot just a near neighbor, wherefore, it fs no effert to drag Larry into the mystery and excitement that are woven about “Red Gate.” There are two heroines and, of course. tvg love stories, ‘and there ts a whele book full of interesting charecters. (Gobhs-Merri!! Co.) “A Lady of Arthur's Court” is a telling story by Sara Haks Sterling, with @wakens. It is a beautiful romance. 3 “Under the Holly Bough” contains Christmas verse compiled by Ina Rus- _ Rupert Hughes’ whimsical story of “Col. Crockett’s Co-Operative Christ- mas” is now printed ina book. (George W. Jacobs & Co.) In “Browning's Italy” Helen A. Clarke takes the reader to the scenes

Yoars of their association. It is an entertaining and informing book. (Baker

“Character Portraits From Dickens” fs a neat littie volume good to devour 2 - ‘Durve Pecksniff, Pickwick, Peggoty, Uriah Heep, Mrs. Gummidge. Bar- | kis, Tom Pinch, Gradgrind and all the rest of the dear old homely celebrities Bi together in one volume, holding a reception, as it were, at one's elbow? Addressing the recent convention of American press hiumorists at Los An- les, the Rey. Bob Burdette said: ‘“‘Humor Book Co.)

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LOOKING FOR A JOB. The following more or less metrical complaint came to the Post-Dispatch bearing no signature or address: I am looking for a job both day and night, but Ill be sight. I have walked this town untill my feet are sore ; looking for work in a Grocery store. You always say youre the first in news. so you are the one I am going to chuse. to get me a Job you think vour wise. but it will be a ecreat supprise. Iam all in down and out. . and expect to be untill the vear is out. There is no use for me to lbok for work. for they want a nigger Pole or a turk. if 1 was the man that has the big teeth. I would clear out niggers turks arid (ireeks. byt if I dont get a job by the first of r blanked if there's eny in I mn take ¢ Ww take the first Trai: j Bp Pan rain that taves

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Problem Editor, Post-Dispatch. Following is my #lution to hair- raising problem, published In Monday even- ing’s, Dec. 2, paper: The first time Joe ran the half mile he made it in three minutes, when running for his uncle he ran it 50 per cent faster, or one minute and a half; hie uncle gave him Svc for every three seconds he Clipped off his previous record, therefore his uncle gave him $24. : $25 OO Jor invested, ™) gain per cent. your $le OO Joe's gain. “4 OO Joe invested in begimnins $6 00 Joe's capital now. Next he invested 50 per cent of his capital or $18; he made 50 per cent on his invest- ment, or $0; $0x$56—$45 Ne has now. Joe invested his $45 and fost of per cent, he therefore has $22.50, and Ne investeq this $22.50, lost 50 per cent and has $11.25 lett. Joe bought a ring for $11.25; he pawned this ring for 40 per cent Jess than {ts vaiue. or $6.75; Joe sells the pawnticket for 49 per eent more than he received for the ring, or $0.45: $6.75 he received from pawnbroxer and $0.45 he received from P@rty he sold ticker to, equals $16.20 to. buy his fruit. & Joe spent at first stand

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135 seconds to rup to bank, ond. $12.50: deposit at bank, $14.51 9-11, feing a little late with this answer, I will! anyway. believing it to be a chance at ask you to publish i in Wednesday's paper and incorrect, I thought I would take 'SLIOd ‘T A Lost Opportunity. “Tr makes me sad to think of the opportunities that have been wasted,” cried the trouble seeker. ‘“‘Take, for ex- ample, Samson and the chance he lost.” “What that?’ called an inquisitive ! “You surprise me,” cam: the an- swer. “Think what success would have smiled upon the ancient strong man, with all the advertising that attended his wonderful stunts, had he only thought of opening a school ef physi- cal culture ahd bracing up broken-down statesmen'!’’—Cleveland Plain- Dealer. eI me mm = chance Was 'stener.

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WIL INCREASE. ST. LOUIS CASH me Re ana and Third National Are to Be Allowed More Circulation. The National Bank of Commerce and the Third National Bank, which have been awarded $1,980,000 and $500,000, re- spectively, of the new Panama Cana! bonds, will increase their circulation to the full amount of the bonds. It is understood that the Secretary of the Treasury will redeposit with the pur- chasing banks 90 per cent of the money paid for the bonds. This will increase the circulation of the two St. Louis banks approximately ' $2,500,000 ana will afford material relie! to the financial situation in St. Louis. ‘The bids for the bonds average 103%, being a premium of $3.25 for each $100 ‘bond. The bonds bear 2 per cent inter- est, and are accepted by the Treasury Department as security for circulation «to their full face value. The banks have not yet been notified when and where to make payment for the bonds. The bids of the St. Louis in- stiutions were submitted to the Treas- ury through George L. Edwards and J. Herndon Smith of the A. G. Edwards & fons Brokerage Co. The Secretary of the Treasury has decided to issue only $25,000,000 of the Panama Canal bonds, and possibly not more than $15,000,000 of the 3-per-cent Treasury certificates. ~The two St. Louis banks get approxi- mately one-tenth of the Panama Canal ‘bonds. “Other banks in the immediate Vicinity of St. Louis whose bids for bonds were accepted are: Citizens’ Na- tional Bank of Alton, $50,000; First Na- ‘thonal Bank of Czrlyle, Il, $50,000, and ‘Pirst National Bank of Edwardsville, 2

“ARE OVING, CAN NEVER RETURK Former Heads of Mutual Life Said to Be Heartbroken — jn France.

By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—‘‘Richard A. McCurdy and his son, Robert, are both very sick men. Probably neither will recover.” This statement made by Louis A. Thebaud, son-in-law of Richard A. McCurdy, definitely confirms rumors that have been abroad in the finan- cial district for several months. Mr. Thebaud is known to . be in close touch with these relatives, who were for so long the ruling powers in the Mutual Life Insurance Co, “I never expect to see either of them in America again,” he added. “You mean they cannot return or will not return?” was asked. “Both,’’ answered Mr. Thebaud. “Where are they now?” “Somewhere in France.” “In a sanitarium?’” was suggested. "T don’t know just where they are,” said Mr. Thebaud. “I have not heard from them directly for some time. They are over there some- where, heartbroken and sick. Why won’t people let them alone? Haven't they suffered enough already? Haven't enough false charges been made against them? Aren't they en- titled to rest and peace now? Let them be forgotten.” The McCurdys left New § York in March, 1906, after having given Dis- trict Attorney Jerome, it is alleged, a written promise to return if their presence was desired to answer any criminal charges. BANK WILL OPEN IN A FEW DAYS President Says National Com- merce Can Meet All Requirements.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 7.—Dr. W. S. Woods, president of the Nationa] Bank of Commerce that closed its doors Wednesday owing depositors nearly 17 millions of dollars, asserts that the bank may resume business within a short time. Dr. Woods, early today, after a meeting of directors of the bank that lasted late into the night, said: “It is the sentiment of the Board of Directors that the bank resume busi- ness. And indeed I ‘do not see much that’s in the way of resumption. We can meet all the Federal requirements without any trouble. We will be able to show that our capital is unimpaired and that we can easily meet all obliga- tions. “‘We closed with practically 30 on the dollar cash and-exchange on hands, 5 cents more on the dollar than the na- tional banking laws reguire. We are paying out nothing now and the re- ceiver will collect very fast. It is rea- sonable to conclude that it won't be a great while before he has collected 2 per cent more, giving us 50 cents on the dollar. Saddle of rabbit, witn hot biscuit and baked potato, 25c at the Saddle, 204 North Sixth street.

Mrs. Bryan Sails for Europe. NEW YORK, Dec..7.—Mrs. William J. Bryan and her daughter will sail today cn the steamer Friederich der Grosse for Europe and will spend the winter in che Holy Land. Mr. Bryan met his wife and daughter in Pittsourg Wednesday, and after spending a- short time with

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20 BODIES IN MINE WRECKAGE _ Death Roll in Monongah, W. Va., Disaster Is More Than 400. IS @amesseeee

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WORKERS HAMPERED Debris Chokes Entrances of Mines—Stock of Coffins Exhausted.

MONONGAH, W. Va., Dec. 7.—Five rescuing parties worked all night ai different points in the two mines of the Fairmount Coal Co., wrecked by ex- vlosions yesterday, and 125. bodies were brought to the surface by 10 a. m. to- day. Scores of other bodies have been reached, and it is not ltkely that any of the 450 men known to be at work when the disaster occurred are alive. Chief Mine Inspector Paul arrived from Charleston this morning under orders from Gov. wawson to institute a rigid investigation. Coroner Amos of Fairmount will begiz an inquest Mon- day. The stock of coffins in near-by towns has been exhausted, 380 caskets having been ordered from Pitsburg, Zanesville, Wheeling and other places. Women Scan Bodies. As fast as the bodies were brought from the wrecked mines they were tak- en to one of the mine company build- ings which has been turned into a tem- porary morgue. There the bodies, blackened and charred, were made as presentable as possible and this morn- ing the efforts to identify them began. Sobbing wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts, orphaned children and weeping men, anxiously scanned the bodies in search of relatives and friends. One woman pulled out her hair, hand- fuls at a time, another tore all the skin from both of her cheeks with her finger nails. Some lay down on the frozen ground and cried themselves to sleep. In this condition many were carried to their homes near by without awakening. Mine Was Mile Square. The rescuing parties penetrated mine No. 6 about ‘3600 feet before they came upon the first of the dead. A majority of the bodies will, it is believed, be found about.a mile further back. It is hardly possible that all the bodies will be recovered for several days. The 400 men were working in a territory one mile square. It will he days be- fore a thorough search of all of this area can be made. As. the searching parties advance they must clear away the debris. The explosion wrecked over six hundred mine cars, and this choked the entrance on all ‘sides. A peculiar and remarkable feature is that notwithstanding the force of the explosion very little of the mine roof was wrecked. By those who witnessed it the explosion was likened to the dis- charge of a cannon. Every movable object shot with terrific force through the mine. At the entrance of mine No. 8 a concrete power house was completely demolished. A piece of concrete weigh- ing fully 1w0 pounds was blown clear across the West Fork River, landing on the side of a hill. In a radius of a half mile not another plece of concrete can be found. Great holes were torn in the hill on either side of the entrance of the No. & Mine cars were crushed as though made of paper. and the huge steel tipple was blown apart. Operated by Big Concern. The mines“are owned and operated by the Consolidation Coal Co. of Baltimore. The general offices are in Baltimore and the operative offices in Fairmont. The company is said to be one of the larg- est operating in the bituminous coal in- dustry of America. It is capitalized at $20,008,000 and has in operation about one hundred producing plants. Clarence W, Watson of Baltimore, is president. Mines Nos. 6 and 8 are located on op- posite sides of the west fork of the river. No. 6 on the east side and No, § on the west side, the homes of the min- ers occupying both sides of the river, Pine coffins are stacked high near the entrance. Guards keep the crowd of thousands back. Peter Orbon was taken from mine No. 9 last night. Rescuers found him seated on the body of his brother, Stan- ley. The man is crazed. He was taken from an opening in the hillside and can- 10t live. Mine Foremen Donlin and McGraw are believed to be among the dead. All saloons have been closed by the Mayor. There was a slight fire inside of the slope of No. & mine this morning, due to the starting of the fan. It was extinguished after an hour and the fan, working successfully, greatly fa- cilitated the efforts of the rescuers to get into the mines. BUSINESS — NOTICES.

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DIVIDEND RUMOR FORCES KANSAS CITY |RESCUERS FIND STANDARD OIL STOCK UP Wall Street Hears That $200,000,- 000 Surplus Is to Be Distributed. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Another sensa- t* nal rise in the-steck of the Stand- ard Oil Co. f§ on. The bid price on Thursday was 4%. It closed yesterday at 475, with no stock offered. The rice is due to a report that a plan is being worked out at 26 Broadway for the financial readjustment of the corpora- tion and the distribution of the $200, 000, - 000 surplus which has been acecumu- lated during the last six years. It is known that the big surplus has become so unwieldly that its distribu- ‘ion has become a necessity. It ts be- lleved in Wall street that the distribu- ilon will take the shape of an ad¢ei- tional issue of stock and that the mar- ket price above par of the stock will

also be capitalized. HAVING MET MR. BROWS | Young Woman of Chorus Accused in Chicago of Stealing Goods. Special toa thé Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—Vesta Field and Jessie Bryan, show girls of a “Merry Widow” company, were charged with shoplifting today. They said they took luncheon with Marshall Brown, a com- mission merchant, yesterday, drank champagne and did not know what they dd “Both of us drank too much wine, and after Mr. Brown left us we went to the store and took the articles. O, that I had never met Mr. Brown at alit’’ said Jessie. Brown, in court, hung his heaa when Judge Sadler accused him of signing bonds for the girls with a fictitious name. “Your Honor, I would prefer this mat- ter go over till tomorrow " said Brown's attorney. “ “Mr. Brown was not h'mseif yesterday.’ The manager of the play discharged the girls.

Wants Banks Authorized to Issue Currency Up to 20 Per Cent of Capital. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Henry Clews, head of the banking house, in a scheme published today, outlines a plan for a more elastic currency for periods of great money demands He suggests that national banks be authorized to is- sue “emergency circulation” at such times, to 20 per cent of their pad-up capital upon approved savings bank se- curities deposited with the Comptroller of the Currency. He would tax such notes heavily as to compel their cancellation when business resumes such conditions as to no longer need additional currency. If Congress refuses to sanction such a plah, he suggests that the Government issue emergency notes not to exceed $100,000,000 ‘n panic times. The notes would be issued only to banks, to be held as reserve. They should draw 2 per cent interest ana| Ve! @"d contains a solid gold bed, building in Forty-third street, 4 Howard Gould has princely apa A man was ejected from it last % after he had made threats Gould. The man said he wast ened to obtain a pistol and

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