St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 25, 1907

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HOM EDITION ENDS LIFE AND STILLS REVEL O CHRISTMAS Man, Deserted ana His ve Drinks Acid on a Down-'* town Corner. mas ody. & — Only Reaing Paper in St. Louis with both Associated Dice and United Press Service i. “VOL. 60 60. NO. 126. WHAT ST. LOUISANS GALS MLS USE FAS | WANTED, AND GOT GMS DOLLS PSE FORGNES PORE Rane rete GIVE WAY TO | HOLIDAY FEAST '| TEDDY BEARS} TO HUNT SLAVE PRICE “ONE‘CENT I ‘To peers oe ~ POST. DISPATCH ~~ SANTA SPREADS HOLIDAY CHEER Jolly Saint Holds Feast and Gift Festival in Seven Big Halls. oa Santa Claus Has Difficulty}Lynching May Follow Cap- Supplying Demand for ture of Armed Fugitive New Toys. in Arkansas. MOTHER AND SON DEAD ———e ee Double Tragedy on Christmas Eve Arouses Faulkner » | County. ———e mee ear: HIS ONE CRY “MOTHER @ OLD ONES NEGLECTED BASKET DINNERS SENT Joy in Hospitals and Orphan Asylums, None Being Forgotten. T. Louisans who told what they wanted for Christmas in Mon- S day’s Post-Dispatch found reason to thank Santa Claus Christ- mas morning when their wishes had been fulfilled in a way that showed the old Saint had read their pleas. Their original wishes and the extent of their realization are as follows: ‘Mayer Wells. WHAT THEY WANTED. WHAT THEY GOT. Wanted so many,things he could not Many Christmas remembrances that decide on anything in particular, but he} made him hope to see the free bridge in wouldn’t want a gift of any more free{use by next Christmas. bridges. / Business Man Predicts Craze Will Die Before Roose- velt Retires. “Nobody Wants me any more,” is the sad cry of thousands of pretty dolls left on the shhelves of the big dry goods and toy stores. From time immemorial the doll has been the favorite toy and child- hood companion of little girls. But the doll, with its rosy cheeks, its faxen hair, its eyes that close, its pretty clothes, its buggy and its beds. have beep forgotten and the fuzzy little teddy bear has supplanted itself in the affections of the baby women. Poor little neglected dollie! It has withstood all fhe fads of the century until the teddy bear craze swept over the land. ~ Little girls whose hearts ached every time dollie got sick, or had an arm or leg cruelly broken off, or a skull fractured, have discard- ed the dolls unceremoniously and are now clinging steadfastly to the teddy bear. Special to the Post-Dispatch. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 2%.—Farm- ers and planters in the neighborhood of Moss, six miles from Conway, in Fauk- ner County, are spending Christmas in a hunt for Jim Hall, who is alleged to have shot and killed Mrs. Emma Hearness and her son, 8 years old, Christmas eve. Dispersing in small parties, the searchers are scouring the woods and hills for Hall. As he is said “to be heavily armed and a dangerous man, a hard fight is expected to take place bce- fore he is captured. Lynching may -be his fate if taken alive. Hall is charged with having gone to the Hearness house, on the Moss plant- ation, late yesterday, and accused Mrs. Hearness of throwing scalding water on his hownd. He was, neighbors say, bit- ter in his denunciation of the woman, and her protestations of innocence only angered him the more. According to re- port, as the frightencd woman attempt- ed to flee into the house, the man fired three shots into her body, killing her instantly. Her little boy, struck by one of the bullets, fell dead across her body. Word was immediately way and Sheriff Brady organized a posse of deputies and reached the scene of the tragedy last night. He found that men in the netghborhood were armed and had already begun a systematic search for Hall, who fled IS HEAVY DEMAND aes Are Startled Tragic Scene as They = . Await Car. e . a Herry B. Hawes. More Money Needed to Meet wo © “A hunting dog, a trained setter. I, Two fine setters, a Gordon and an En don’t care what color it is, but if I get) glish setter. ‘“‘They are too good duets Drain Caused. by Un- a st it I am going to name it “Joefglk.' to be named ‘Joefolk,’’’ Mr. Hawes employment. ~ syy Sata. Charles N. Huttig. “Best of anything for Christmas; I ‘‘I.am extremely grateful to the Post- would like to gee a plan of elastic cur-, Dispatch for making known my wishes rency in operation, but I do really need{I can testify that the method is cffec- some of those beautiful house slippers } tive, I got my house slippers alright end which are now, being sold at such bar- (they fit perfectly. The scheme certainly gains.” worked well.’’ | — | While downtown Yuletide ore greeted with song and laughter the i Se coming of Christmas day, Jaines ish, deserted by his wife and miserable at the sight of the joy him, silenced the merrymakers by ing his life witn carbolic acid at and Olive streets. ‘ Mother” His Only Word. A group of college students and lated home-goers, laden with : gathered about the man in an effort | save his life or ease his last 4 Today is the Children’s Day+the hap piest of the year for the children of the rich, and, through the Post-Dispatch Christmas Festival Fund it has come to be the one-happy day for the children of the poor as well. Seven entertainment halls are crowded with laughing, happy children, who, were it not for the fund subscribed through the Post-Dispatch by St. Louls- ans, might spend the day in want and ‘editieite. and be deprived of all that makes a child heart glad at this sea- son—a visit from Santa C.aus. In each of the entertainment halls there is merriment galore. The Christ- mas trees glitter with lights, the bands are playing, Santa Claus is parading ‘around, greeting his little friends with cheerful salutations. Ww. -hearted Women and men are bustling about among the children making them wel- come to the halls—their halls for the day, and m g them feel that they ‘ate the guests of honot for the occa- Thomas E. M Mulvihill, “I have been receiving lemons aplenty.) The’ objectional citrous fruit by the I would like to switch to oranges or(half dozen and also a barrel of water. some other variety of citrous fruit for Christmas.” Sold All Obtainable. “Teddy bears have almost driven the dolis out of existence,” said the man- ager of a big depariment store. ‘‘We have sold thousands and thousands of them, and were hardly able to get enough to go around. At the very last moment a manufacturer sent us 278 dozen teddy bears on memorandum and we sold them all. Out of an enormously big stock of Teddy bears, we did not have a dozen left at the close of busi- ness Tuesday night. ‘“‘We had to mark our dolls: down to half price, and then they didn’t go very well, The teddy bear has encroached David R. Francis. “My Christmas wish would be grati-({ “! received many useful and orna- fied most by a restoration of good times mental remembrances, greetings, tele- in St. Louis and throughout the coun-)8T™@ms and souvenirs. I think my wish try.”’ is gratified, the financial outlook is promising.’’ lips, seared and swollen from the cick 9 His only word, hoarseiy but distine uttered, and several times repeated, ‘*Mother.”’ , Hornish was 2% years old, and lived at 1102 Chouteau avenue. / For @ year hie wife, Rena, lived there with him, ‘ neighbors say they were happy. oF nish gave her money last Saturday © buy Christmas. presents, and she f the house. The husband had been Rev. W. C. Bitting. sent to Con- “E fave a new church assured. “My wishes were more than realized, den't want an automobile and I don't() received more presents than I deserve need any handkerchiefs or neckties, so and I bope every home in St. Louis is all I want is to see everybody else made )as happy as mine this morning.”’ happy.” aw eee ee ee ST, LOUIS wil HAVE > ————— ‘were to go to. the vaudeville house and buy a ticket to a /*happiness of our home. I have no am- wer a .y 3Christmas Festival sion. Sunta Clays No Myth. " Never was there such a Christmas cel- ebration in St. Louis as this. . Last night 2500 basket dinners were distributed over the ‘city Last year enly 2000 were necessary to give every applicant a bountiful Christmas dinner. ‘But because of the large number of the unemployed the demand upon the rag Fund was larger this year than er. Every basket that went out had in it: ‘supplies to make a dinner for from five to ten persons. Phe extra baskets sent out by the Fund’ this year would give a good Christmas dinner te every person in a city of 2600 persons. Extra Demand This Year. This extra demand upon the resources ef the fund will call for additional sub- _ @@Fiptions. For years St. Leouisans have @upported this benefaction. Every year there have been funds enough to pay al! the expenses incident to it. ‘This year must not be an exception. The entertainments at the various _halis this year are exceptionally good. Some of them are so good that if one box office of a performance he would not see a better show, The brightest amateur talent in St. Louls is giving: the best it has to the children of the poor this afternoon for the love of it. The children are witness- ‘Yng and hearing no hired performances or songs. The heart of the performer is in his work, and the hearts of the lit- ‘tle children who are being made happy are in it, too. Every subscriber to the Post-Dispatch of a child light and happy. brushed away the bitterest tears ° Cupt. Rebert McCulloch. “T want lots of things. I’ve got quite “I didn’t ‘get anything for Christmas. along: let and ‘it fe héaded : first, of ay I'm tOo old for Santa Claus to take an with ‘peace and prosperity.’ " S interest in me. But T had a: good break- jit y fast and I believe my wish for peace 3 bos 5 .,,.. and prosperity is being fulfilled.” . R i , é a : ostmadater . a ” tag Would like a little Postoffice appoint. so wot a long list of things. Did I ment for a Christmas present, please. get the Postoffice? Well, just say that ‘ I’m not worrying.” *” j, ns. got a lot of esis and things. and best of all, I-think® better times are coming. By May we won't know there has been a panic.” “I don’t want any automobiles, sick ships, balloons or steam yachts. My tastes are simple. I got my reappoint- ment; that is all the Christmas present I want.” Edward S$, Lewis. “I wouldn't refuse $1,000,000, but Sania, “I didn’t get my $1,000,000, but I stoed Claus nor anyone else need try to give)the disappeintment fairly well because I me the presidency of the Police Board) got some slippers and lots of books.” Certainly I won't take it.’’ | Marshall S. Snew. “Just at Christmas time I am in a) “I am grateful to the Post-Dispatch. very receptive frame of mind. I need{I got so many things—no needle-books, little, but I want a great deal and my/railroad systems or town lots—but I wants include anything anyone is wil!-} have lots ef good wishes, a pleasant day ing to give me. I will accept all presen's? and a contented mind, and that is plent, indiscriminately. I am sure I can tind|for anyone.” use for all of them. Pin-cushions, ' needle-books, sofa-pillows, yes, small dogs, pouter-pigeons, checks, currency or cash, town lets, railroad syste"us-- really, I am not at all hard to please.”’ * : Jeptha D. Howe. “My wish for Christmas is for the “This is my happy day. I got u shav- happiness of my wife and for the fut.:re(ing set, a fortification against the Sun- day lid. slippers, of course, a 12-volurae set of Macauley in morocco and & pear! and diamond stick pin. It pays to wish for happiness for Christmas.” bition which equajs my desire (to realize satisfaction and contentment there. Hap py ‘homelife is the only thing which counts very much. All the other things which make up life are unimportant in comparison. If my wife is happy and satisfied, then my ‘happiness is comylete as well. Home-happiness ‘is my only wish for Christmas." Mrs, T. E. Fergusen, Cluabweoman. -“Christmas would be complete for me, “I received many wishes that I might if I could be assured of 5-cent~trans-( realize. my hope for-a@ car. line to the portation for the public to the Art Mu-) Art Museum anda 5-cent fare for the seum. My personal wishes have been} people, and was made happy by the forgotten in my efforts to provide this(kindly expressions from my many convenience for the people of St, Louis, } friends and acquaintances in club work. who prevented from: enjoying the) The Art Section of the Monday Club Art Museum because it is not conven-{ presented me with a handsome book. lently accessible.” ‘Womanhood in Art’.” Father Dunne, Newsboys’ Home. “My only Christmas wish is that wep) “My wish has’ brought me good for- had ovr Home paid fer. All the boye)tune. I have,recetved many checks and are happy and well clothed.” / ‘(erates and barrels of oranges, turkeys, chickens, sugar and potatoes. This is a happy day at the Newsboys’ Home.’ Alphonse C. EEO No time to want anything, because he; Ne bulletin could be obtained lead was so busy trying to give away his}President Stewart, but it. is thought official incumbrance—presidency of the )that he ts still on the job and waiting Police Board. He couldn't find anyone {for relief. who will even hint at wanting it. Dewey Hickey, “Newlywea” Clubman. “T an't think of a single thing I want | but a hat. With my hat pulled down ‘ A Whether Mr. Hickey received his wish fer Christmas is a matter of conjecture, aaltg Hickey could net be found to the number of new hats he may et received. rleaves the office. jchildren seem to be attached to upon the doll trade to a remarkable ex- tent. I don’t look for the fad to last, and in a few yearé, at inost, Rh the doll will regain its old place. in affections of the little girls. "The teddy bear was than a fad. It was popularized by the fact that the President, who’fs famous as a bear hunter, has a very warm place in the hearts of the people. The craze may die out before the President ind e “It is pathetic, however, to see how the doll has been neglected. The love of a little girl for her doll seems to be inborn. From the time she is _ big enough to notice anything the doll be- comes her favorite companion—at least it did until the teddy bear appeared. Dollie was afflicted with all of the ills to which the human flesh is heir, and, of course, had to be treated by its little mother and had to take all manner of bitten stuff in the form of sweetened water. Little bright-eyes of many a household has put in many a day on her doll,. dressing it a dozen times a day, and arranging and rearranging its apartments. The teddy bear doesn't come in for so much attention, because it is easfly cared for, and, while the it, there is lacking the bond of affection that existed between the little girl and ter doll. Cannot Last, He Says. . “This is all very sad, of course, it: cannot last. The teddy bear merely temporarily alienated the af- fection of the little mother from her children, but the old love is bound to return, and then there will be good times again for the dollmakers.” Press dispatches from New York state that the teddy bear craze already is dying out. The shelves of the toy dea!- ers and department stores were loaded with teddy bears and other kinds of stuffed animals. at the close of the Christmas business. Dogs, elephants, menkeys and rabbits made of fur to share in the popularity of the teddy bear were left in large numbers en the hands of dealers. Last year the New York merchants could not get enough teddy bears to supply the trade, but this year they are @ drug on the East- ern market. THIEF GETS 24 SHOES, ALL MADE FOR LEFT FOOT, IN ALTON DEPOT HAUL Sample Case Proves Surprise Box for Pilferer, Who Is Right Badly Left. There is a bitterly disappointed man in Alton this Christmas morning. His disappointment probably arises chiefly from the fact that. he has not several left feet. If he had he would be in clover, because 24 shoes he stole from the Chicago & Alton station are a'l made for the left foot, and each is o! a@ different size. E. H. Henney, a traveling shoe ssies- man whose home is in Alton, returned from a trip Tuesday and left one of his sample cases in a waiting room of the station while he went to a s*ore. When he returneti, sample case was missing. In reptrting’ the theft to the Henney Ueclared he would give : of the entire outfit for the pert gi seeing the thief's {ace when he tries some of those shoes on his right but has je nothing moré } % gambling Only other child, a girl, immediately after the shooting. | BABIES MIXED AND PAPAS OFFER TO TOSS COIN 10 DETERMINE OWNERSHIP Gambling: Avoided When Doctor Discovers Little Mole on Body of One Infant. t-pectal to the Post-Dispatch. PORT JARVIS, N.- Y., Dec. 2%.—The example set in the White House is being followed. William H. Lent, an Erie Railway conductory and John F. Cross, a music teacher, offered to toss a coin or pull straws to deter- mine which of two babies is Lent aid which is Cross. The babies came almost simultane- ously to Mrs. Lent and Mrs. Cross in the Deer Park Sanitarium last evening. The nurses mixed the babies up. The mammas were almost hysterical, but the babies, their first-born, loeked alike to the rejoicing papas. The attending phy- sician straightened out the mix-up. He had noticed that the Cross baby had a cute little mole on its round ilittle tummy. LETTER “‘H” IS DISTINCTLY VISIBLE ON FOREHEAD OF PRETTY ALTON BABY GIRL. Physicians Say Birthmark, Which Attracts Many Persons, Will Disappear Gradually. A letter “H,”' as distinct as though branded with iron, shows .on the fore- head of the 2-months-old daughter of Henry Hartman of 721 Liberty street, Alton. Neighbors gather daily at the Hart- man home to view the unusual birth- mark, which seems to become clearer as the days pass. Physicians say, however, that it will fade gradually, and that in two or three years there will be no trace of it. Mrs. Hartman thinks the mark mars the appearance of her pretty: child, and | is disappointed at its presence. The letter is exactly in the middie of the girl’s forehead, and is ite the Capital letter in print. Mrs. Hartman's has no birth- mark. FIFTY MEN WALK FROM PRISON WITH THE PARDONS SANTA LEFT Gov. Campbell of Texas Sends Cheer to Long-Term Inmates. AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. %—Santa Claus, in the form of an official messenger from the State Capitol, has visited the State. prison. Fifty prisovers . found hanging to their celle unconditional pardons, after this Santa had departed. Many of the prisoners thus freed for Christmas were long-term men and had spent many Christmases behind the cold, gray walls. When they found the Pardons many wept and others sang. All praised Gov. Campbell. Several departed early this morsing for their homes in hopes that they might spend at least pert of Christmas |with their families. ND SLEIGHING TOMORROW, BUT JT WILL BE COLD Lower. Temperature Will Be No- ticed, Toward Night—Mini- mum to Be 26 Degrees. TH ETEMPERATURES. Midnight KINGTON, IN ACH OF LOCAL LOR, ARRESTED ee Novelist and Detective Fight in Shadow of the Capitol. ——— inele Sam's weather men tried their best\to steer a Christmas snow to St. Louis, so that Santa Claus would have smooth runping with his :selindeer sleds, but their ef- forts were una vail- ing. Insteha of a white Christmas there will be blue Skies, With balmy weather, turning colder toward night. The /fore- cast: “Fair and cold- er; Thursday, fair. Minimum temper- ature Christmas night, about 26 degrees.” A8 this is Christmas day, Uncle Sam's weather representative here doesn't care & rap what the elements are doing elsewhere. He ventured to the top of the Chemical Building and skimmed the sky with his instruments long enough to guess that there will be nothing do- ig here for a few days, and then, Santa Claus like, disappeared. The river stage at 7 a. m. w: fall of .L PIANO-BOX INHABITANT, MISSING, COMES BACK 10 PROVE HE’S NOT DEAD Citizens Want ¢ County to Take Charge of Mendell, 15 Years a Recluse. Mendell, an aged St. Louts County recluse, who disappeared from his usual haunte three months ago and was thought to be dead, reappeared Christmas morning at the North and South roads, near Manchester. Citizens living In the neighborhood went to Clay- ton and requested the County Court to take charge of the old man. Mendell has been living the tite . of a recluse for 15 years, and is widely known throughout St. Louis County. He is Sl years old, and lived for three months last sumrmmer in a’ plano box on the Manchester road, north of Brent- wood. The hut in which he lived pre viously was destroyed by fire. Whea he departed from his piano-box home all trace of him was lost. He was allowed % a month by the St. Louwls County Court, but he had pot called for the money eince he went away. Mendeli had trouble with his wife many years ago, and since then has beer living alone wherever he could find an unoceupied but. He haw sisters and SANTA Claus MAN BE A GOOD FELLOW .BUT J DON T THINK MUCH OF HiS NECKTIES AND NESTS, ALSO CIGA Special to the Post-Dispatch. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. —Booth Tarkington, one of the leaders of the guild of ‘authors which has made In- diana famous, got some genuine local color early today when he was arrested after an altercation with two detectives in. which “The Gentleman’ From In- diana”’ is said to have violated some primal rules of etiquette and to have received rough treatment at the harids of the sleuths. It being: Christmas eve, Mr, Tarking- ton had an excellent opportunity to see “the other side’’ of life as it is. Mr. Tarkington, however, wasn’t par- ticular which other side; it appears, as he was arrested at Capito! avenue and Washington street, in the shadow of the Statehouse, and the gateway to the “South Capitol and Senate avenue dis- trict.”". This’ section of the city is a stranger to poverty, Dut is on “‘the other side”’ of life. He Gets “Local Color.” “The Gentleman From Indiana” had passed midst of the evening imbibing loca! color from the scenes in the vicin- ity. He met Detectives Manning and Samuels as he was strolling alone the asphalt, smoking a cigarette. There was an altercation the like of which is not even recorded in “The Conquest of Canaan,”’ one of his most thrilling vest- sellers. Mr. Tarkington defended “himself with his feet, it is charged, and Detective Samuels, who was kicked, escorted him to the Police Station. He was slated ona charge of resisting an officer and was released on his own recognizance. Af’recent critic of Mr. Tarkington’s lit- erary style says: “There are times when his humor al.- most runs away with his customary. so- briety and sanity of purpose and dis- ports itself with a joyous hilarity.” And the Detectiven Agree. The two detectives think they couldn't gauge him any better if they were crit- ics themselves, instead of police officers. “One might almost come to think that Mr. Tarkington saw life as a merry jest, continues this same critic. The detectives say so, too. The stene of the altercation between “The Gentleman from Indiana” and the Sleuths is one of the most crowded in the city, and dozens of Chrigtmas revel. ers; who had been through the South Capital avenue district without finding ahy local color, withessed the passage at arms. 25. 3 47, a Francis able to get any trace of her reste t and he told Joseph Rooney, , r of the house, that he- stand her Gennetiow- When Hornish left his house evening he told Rooney he | buy Christmas presents for his and father, and brothers and and that he would return soon. parently Hornish dia not make the contemplated purchases, @s. no presents were found in his possession when be swallowed: the poison. Just after midnight a score of persons, — stood at the northwest corner of Sixth and Olive streets, awaiting an “ow}” car when Hornish, unnoticed, joined them. Half a dozen Washingtén Univer- sity students were singing college songs, and general jollity was evdent among the crowd. ; a ; Antidote Is Too Late. ia The man’s cry when he swallowed the acid startled the merrymakers, but they did not understand at first what peal happened. When the odor of the acid became apparent a number of students and William Geltz, 019 South Jeffer- son avenue, ran to a restaurant and got the milk, which others helped him to force into the man’s mouth. The acid already had done ite work, and Hornish died in an ambulance going to the City Hospital. Joseph Hornish, the father, lives at Pacific street in Omaha, Neb., ing to Hornish’s information to The body is at the Morgue, awaiting word from relatives or the appearance | of the wife. MAN OF 80 WANTS A WIFEs * SHE'LL HAVE NO WOOD TO ‘TOTE’ Advertisement Telling of His De sire Put in Newspaper by ~ , Aged Alabaman. : Special to the Post-Dispatch, MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 5—Samuel Jackson Minge, eighty years of age, of Union Springs, well to do and.one ef ek the best-known men in the vertises in his home paper h for a wife, expressing his willingness to take girl, maiden or widow, rich of poor. He does not care especially for beauty. He promises to treat the wom- an well, care for her wants and make her a loving husband, Among other inducements offered ie who will consent to be his helpmeet she will have “no wood to cut and tote, nor water to tote, nor the cows to milk, all long as he is able to do it.” WIGMAKERS WOULD APPEAL BALD HEADS FOR STRIKE Hirsute Fakers Organize \ Threaten to Allow Scalps | Go Uncovered.. NEW YORK, Dee, %.—The of New York save organised the Halr Workers’ Union and : strike. It is said that as soon th organization fas been mand wilt be made for chorter he and more pay; oe 2 ta daughter in St. Louts, but Is not on terme ef friandahie eit’ thee. says that if he can find a good woman a ae wipdebagh BO