St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 23, 1908

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es “ORELLY THANKS COT UGHT PLANT WOULD SAVE CAS —— Shows How Cost of City Hail Lighting Has Been Cut.

-NEARLY $30,000 LESs

Private Concerns Cannot Af- ford to Furnish Current as Cheaply.

BURDENED WITH DEBT

Fixed Charges Are So High That Rates Cannot Be Reduced.

President O'Reilly of the Board of Public Improvements told a Post-Dis- patch reporter Monday tMiat the city of St..Louts could save a large amount of money every year by lighting its own streets with electricity. He said the city, by the construction of a municipal lighting plant, could manufacture and distribute electricity much cheaper than the Union Electric Light and Power ©o. or the Laclede Gas Light Co. can afford to_do it. He says the Union Electric and the Laclede Gas companies are so burdened = with bonded indebtedness that they cannot earn their fixed charges without getting high prices for electricity and gas. The cost of operating the four mu- nicipal lighting plants now owned and ‘operated by the city is kept in the ac- counts for heating .the buildings, and Mr. O'Reilly says he is unable to tell exactly what the cost of manufacturing the currént is, the same fuel being used for heating the buildings and operating the dynamos. City Hall Plant Pays for Itxelf. The City Hall plant, it has been stated by officials, saved the city enough mon- ey in 23 months to pay for itself. This plant, aecording to figures furnished by Chief Erigineer Joseph W. Wood, fur- nishes the city electricity at a cost of 807 cents per kilowatt hour, which in- cludes the expense of heating the City Hall building and current for running the elevators. Prior to 1901 the city paid 18 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity, and the lowest price for which it buys it now from any private corporation is cents an hour. The actual cost of ne electricity, manufactured by the ‘dity, is a little more than 2 cents a Kilowatt hour. >For the 12 months ending Oct. 31, 1907, the output of the City Hall plant was $6,132 kilowatts. The entire cost of @enerating this current was $6762.98, be- ing a net saving to th city, on the tHe contraci price of 4% cents of $29,652.92. Engineer 4 s $5000 from this amount for interest and depreciation of the Plant, leaving the net saving to the city $24,662.92. i Many Favor Municipal Piant. *The city has been able to save so much money by manufacturing its own electricity for lighting public buildings that many officials believe it would be a good investment for the city to build a municipal lighting plant to light the streets. Counciiman Crunden advocateé this idea in a speech before the Self- Culture Club Sunday night. The City Hall plant supplies light for the City Hall, Central District Police Station, Four Courts, Courthouse, City Jail and several fire engine houses. ‘There is another municipal plant at the Insatie Asylum, which lights that. in- stitution, the Poorhouse, Female Hospi- tal and severa! engine houses, and an- other in the City Hospital. There is also a plant at the Water- works, which operates the seven-mile . municipal railway system. There is a “sniall plant at the Industrial School and ‘another is being put in at the Quaran- tine. All of these plants, according to elty officials, are money savers. 175-POUND WOMAN CARRIED DOWN LADDER BY: FIREMAN She Faints From Frig Fright and Reel- driver Shows His Courage and Strength. Harry Hortter, reel driver for Engine Company No. 8, he carried Mrs. Mary Ernst down a iadder from a second- story window to save her from fire in her home at 1112 Salisbury street. es Ernst weighs 175 pounds. The fire broke out at midnight Sun- . apparently from spontaneous com- in the cellar of the two-story frame structure, and spread rapidly. John Ernst and his wife, who slept on the: second floor, were alternately | for help and praying.

_, When Hortter got the ladder against the window and ascended it, Mra. Ernst ited from exhaustion and fright. rt by the husband, Hortter lifted unconacious figure to his shoulders 1 climbed slowly down the ladder. t followed, 1 nat was taken to the home of eget eee ne ne ee

MAN WHO STOLE HORSE. TO BUY WIFE FOR $25 ESCAPES FROM JAIL Served Prison Term for Offense, but Gains Liberty After Second Arrest. Special! to the Post-Dispatch. UNIONVILLE, Mo., Mareh 23.—Oscar Morrow, in the County Jail here oh a charge of house-breaking and

confined larceny, ging through an 18-inch brick wall with iron stove poker. Morrow in the Penitentiary having been sen- for a term of three escaped this morning by dig- an ordinary had served a term for horse stealing. tenced in June, 1995, years. The leading to the crime for which he was committed in 1995 were pecrfliar. He had become enamored of another man's wife and the husband, becoming tired of Morrow's attentions, offered to sell his wife to him for $25. Being short of the necessary money, Morrow stole a horse, sold it for $25 and bought the wife. He lived with her but a short time, until the crime was traced to him, with the result that he was tried, convicted and / sentenced. circumstances | BROTHERS REUNITED | AFTER 45 YEARS BY BROTHER THEY NEVER EVEN HEARD ABOUT Ma:y Born After Pair Ran Away Brings About Unexpected “Get- Acquainted” Banquet. A banquet at the home of H. D. 546 North Thirty-fifth East St. Louis, followed the chance meeting Sun-

(‘ase, street, day afternoon of three brothers, two of whom had not seen each other for 4 years, while the third had not been born when the others left home. These two boys left their home ‘at Elkhart, Ind., in 1863 and drifted apart. H. D. Case, the youngest, is 42 years old and is employed as a candy maker in East St. Louis. L. D. Case, 54 of Eng- lish, Ark., is a stockman and has been visiting the Fast St. Louis stock market for years without knowing that his brother lived in that city. Last Friday he went to a store to buy some candy. His brotther, H. D. Case, was behind the counter, and during the conversation it developed that the men were brothers. Neither had heard of the other brother, Lorine Case, who is 62 years old. It was remembered that his name had been seen among the hote! arrivals in Si. Louis recently. The brotbers visited St. Louis Satur- day and found theinong-lost brother in. Lorine Case of Stephenson, N. D., who was in St. Louis to buy merchandise for the firm he represents. He left home and entered the Union army in 1863. Arrangements were made for the ‘“‘get- acquainted’ banquet at the home of the Sast St. Louis brother Sunday, and presents were exchanged between the relatives for each other's children. —

new ViCt-FIGHTING PAPER'S PLANT I) BLOWN UP - —_ Chicago Gamblers Suspected of Wrecking Rock Island News Office.

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Proprietor Also Won Enmity Liquor Interest by Edi- torial Policy.

Special to the Post-Dispatch. ROCK ISLAND, 11., cago March 23.—Chi- former proprietor of the Rock Island Daily News, are suspected of having wrecked the News plant, which was dynamited last night. The explosive was placed press and the machinery was through the roof. The sides and roof of the building were demolished, and the waichman, J. M. Hueck, who was Sleeping on an upper floor, was cov- cred by portions of debris. Looney'’s attacks on Chicago men al- leged to have been implicated in a fake prize fight here recenity are believed to have caused the act. Looney has been especiaily severe in his treatment of the local gambiing sit- uation, and his personal attacks sii*red bitter feeling. Assailed Liquvur Interest. He hes assailed the brewery and sSa- loon interests also, and has _ several times received anonymous threats that he would suffer if he did not cease his agitation. When’ the enemies of John Looney, under a blown “lemon game” was atitempied and the arrest of some of those interested followed, he blamed Chicago gamblers and demanded severe prosecution of all concerned. The authorities are trving to deter- mine how the dynamite was placed in the press, and whether it was set off from the outside, as the length of the fuse ..seemed to indjcate. There is strong public feeling..over, the: pugilistic 1h tr The plant is gpa ePwmnigaion, buf, though Looney®ts stipposed to have re-. fired from the company, he declares that publication will not cease, and that his fight will continue. . Looney was re- ported to have turned the plant over Sunday to William Wilmerton. Myron Jordan and others, who have formed a company. . m &

iT WOMEN ACCUSE GIRL HORSE Tht Four Informations Are Issued Against Mamie McLaugh- lin, Servant.

ROBBED HER EMPLOYERS ce ee Police Recover Horse and Buggy She Took From Livery Stable. Four informations against Mamie Mc- of 1522 Eliot robbing Laughlin, 18 years old, avenue, cnarging her with whom she was emploved as Monday. Mrs Cook women by a servan:. were issued Joseph Kelley of 3657 avenue caused her arrest near St. Bridget’s avenue and Carr Kelley ( huyeh. Jefferson charged stolen street, Saturday. Mrs. that the McLaughlin girl had $6 worth of jewelry from her. Nine other women have identified the prisoner as having stolen money, jewel- ry and clothing fru: their homes. The girl is held in the City Hospitai, where the physicians say she is feign- ing sickness. . The girl has been identified in ‘ion to Mrs. Kellev by Mrs. Ellen O'Shea of 917% T.a Saile sitrect, Mra. Lena Haffley of 281l7i¢ La Salle street, Mrs. A. J. Wreath of 4552A Maffitt ave- nue, Mrs. Al Hi. Warner of 3539 South Grand avenue, and Mrs. J. T. Larimore of 4058 Garfield avenue. Four other women visited the City Hospital Mon- day and identified t:.e voung woman as having stolen from them. The police learned Monday that the girl also had stolen a horse and buggy from Hughes & Schmidt, liverymen of 1817 Sidnev street, and that she was keeping the outfit at the livery stable of White & Day at Leonard and Easton avenues. Gets the Fastest Hersaec. addi- went to ee & Schmidt's rch. 12 S8O0.. ASA. WAAO Wigton and. ked far ea fastest “hearse they hed. They furnished her with one of their finest outfits and she failed to return it. The police found the hoge and bugsy Monday and restored them to the owner. Miss McLaughtin called at the livery stable, where she was keep- ing the horse, and took it out three or four times a week. She

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SUPREME COURT SUSTAINS U.S. STATE RATE WAR Upholds Federal Tribune Which Fined Attorney-Gen- eral for Contempt.

23.—The handed WASHINGTON, Supreme March Court Unit- ed States down today a decision of vital-importance in the Missouri rates. The court upheld action of the United States Court of Minnesota in finding Attorney-General Young of that State for contempt in trying to test Minnesota 2-cent fare law. This is the suit in which Att/’rney- General Hadley of Missourl appeared as attorney for Attorney-General *pung. Justice Harlan in dissenting opinion declared the Supreme Court's wiped against Attorney - General Young. ‘“‘marked a new era in the rela- tions between the state and Federal courts.” The Court's opinion was read by Jus- tice Peckham, all the other justices ex- cept Justice Harlan’ assenting to it. NORTH CAROLINA RATE LAW IS VGID, SAYS HIGHEST U. $, COURT Supreme Tribunal Decides Against State in Controversy With Railroad Official. WASHINGTON, March 23.—The case of Thomas F. Hunter, Sheriff of Bun- combe County. N.

Slips Into New York Via H. Thompson.” 7 Friends of American and De Sagan Are Reticent.

HE AVOIDS REPOR “IT Have Had Enough of riej Life” Is Her State- a ment. NEW YORK, March . .—Prince de Sagan has slipped quietly into dinner with Mme. Anna Gould and hi ; friends, Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Morse, @ ~o departed for Washington. He came from Paris by way of pool, Halifax and Quebec. At @ according to dispatches, ““W. H. son,” positively identified Saturday 4s Helie. The remarkable resemblance of @ gue at the Prince George, who_is registers as “W,. H. Thompsbn,”’ with no addres given, to the picture of Prince — New York World, was so marked that | led to published statements Prince was here incognito, having f lowed Mme. Anna Gould from Paris. Prince kept away from reporters. When- — cab and to Apswer ‘questions. : @ay for Washingtew. . He dined last evening with Mr. af Mrs. Tyler Morse. Mme. Gould, ft said, Was a guest. Morse was asked if ‘Mr. Thompson" and the Prince were identical, and would only say: “I am afraid there has heen a mistake."’ Mra. Morse Is Silent. Mrs. Morse will not say anything. “Thompson” is stated to have arrived driven away, not He departed 6 lan liner, Virginia. He came to New York on the Montreal express. Of reports in Paris that Prince de Sagan and Mme. Gould were secretly married before she sailed for America, two days before Prince Helle 4isap- capital, or that they are soon to be mar- ried in America, no details have been learned, a World reporter that she had “ the rumor. ‘I expect to remain in Amertea months,”’ said Mme. ‘Gould. sister Helen, whom I promised to but I may take the children & Niagara Faltis. Castelinae Detests Amortns “IT am delighted to be bark. F, to come every year, but Count de a telane Getests America and would consent,’ She was asked if she was ongased | Prince Helle, and said with spirit: have no intention of becoming enj to any ome. I have had enough off ried life.” She denied she left Paris owing i had not disposed of her property. — “I came here of my own volitien 61 nificance.” Mr. Morse sald it would be im for Prince Helie and Mme. Gould @ marry as he is a Catholic, and W church does not recognize divorces, Paris Papers ) Seok De Sagan. PARIS. Merch 2%.—The French pr is Investigating the story of | Helie de Sagan's appearance in York by ransacking Franee- or is a fact that the been unable to find bim in any | usual haunts fn this country. The published account of his saiits from Liverpool, landing in Canada @ uv going to New York by rall is eral accepted here as true. ‘ oe ONES PARISH 1S 10-9 Many Reported ed Injured and ¥ Vi Into District Are De ‘ = BATON ROUGE, La, at ports have been received here ¢

grees.” The river feu. 4 so « foot et at ais ada, Calling Himself “We e a nn ea te eee nee eee a York under an assumed neme. taken who came over on a@ steamer, wa vas Sagan, printed in the Post-Dispateh ane that the i: The man who looked so much like we | ever hé | le t the hotel he rushed for a 4 at Halifax from Liverpool on the Al- “| peared from his haunts in the French except that Mme. Gould told of matrimony,” and denied the truth of c “taal in New York most of the time, wo ll * servants, or any one else. and said ’ i a purely social visit, and it has no Bu eee a Res

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Orders Given to Close Parts of cat TRE ALI. OLEATE A EOL — ; BLOCKS TO FIND | PATROLMAN Annoyed by Masher, Victim Searches Downtown Streets Almost in Vain.

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> ca PARIS, March 23.—Banker Rochette. one of the best-known financiers in france, was arrested today, charged with swindles involving’ more than $12,- | me. 0o0. Rochette was founder of the Swindles Involving $12,000,- Franco-Spanish Bank, and is adminis — trator of the Mining and Industrial Credit Bank and a prominent figure in — the management of numerovs mining —

Take LAXATIV BROMO Iintne Tablets s re money if it fai's to The deposition is by Alex- t. ROVE'S signature is on each bos. 26s. who styles: himself a . len’s court. ander Hellrung, ‘‘medico-gymnast.”’ ers Busiest Section of City. Buildings Not Com- Talk of Bringing Relatives plied With.

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—& Mrs. Anna Keough, who has adver- ‘ee utised her beautiful home at 68501 Cates _ @mvenue for sale to negroes, said Mon-

“a - . which he built. + hee Ses Lae day that she thinks she will have no fficulty in disposing of the property, dging from the number of § dark- nned persons who answered her ad- Wertisement. $e The home is one of the handsomest aor idences in Cabanne. Neighbors of Keough are much wrought up, but hey have not yet decided what they ll do to prevent her from selling her ®home to negroes. @. Percy Werner of 5505 Cabanne avenue, ‘Mrs. Keough’s next door neighbor, with she has quarreled, refused to the advertisement. Would Bring Relatives. “There were six colored gentlemen here before noon yesterday,’’ said Mrs. bugh, jubilantly. ‘“‘Two more were last night, and one came this morning. e "The two gentlemen who were here Jast night are just in love with the place. They seem to be the nicest kind of colored gentlemen, and they say that they have many relations and friends whom 4 * who would come here and live if they ' should buy the place and turn it into _ +n apartment house for colored people. . ey are employed by the city and afe well-to-do. They are coming to see me again. : They are very anxious to buy the property. y “IT asked all of the colored gentlemen Who answered the advertisement to tel! ' their friends about it, so I suppose - there will be a great many out here in the next few days.” Fence Started Quarrel. _ Mrs. Keough’s husband, J. B. Keough, | : re 7. 8 bier hoy oe i : +. ’ ig treasurer of the Union Carriage Co. .For more than three years she has been in controversy with her neighbors. The trouble started when she quarreled with Percy Werner.» about a party fence She said it was on her lot. Shortly after this she built a frame - — store building in the rear of her resi- _ {Keough fr \ Neighbors alleged that the store was dence and leased it as a confectionery. a up in violation of building restric- 8 imposed on Mrs. Keough when the bought her property. There was much litigation, and an injunction gras issued restraining Mrs. permitting the store to e operated. For a time it was closed, he but Mrs. Keough again rented it to a ae « a ware - #% om % S¥ ig ay @ nfectioner, and was cited for contempt f court. A month ago, the morning before she as to appear in court, the building as destroyed by fire. Nevertheless, rs. Keough was fined for contempt, t the fine was stayed on her pro- that she would not store. AN CAR IS GETTING CLOSE TO PACIFIC OCEAN re-establish

A r “ar Ahead of Competitors Who _ Are Struggling Through the _ Great American Desert: _{ BAKERSFIELD, Cal., March 23.—The merican car in the New York-to-Paris face arrived here this morning at 12:40 eS clock from Ballara. The day’s run was 180 miles, After leaving Ogden, /tah, and following the Lalt Lake route, ‘the car made a short stop in the even- ing at Daggett, Cal., in the heart of he Mojave Desert. The American will leave today for and should reach there tonight. <9 rday afternoon the Italian car Was on the way to Ogden and is sup- posed to have reached there. The German car was to have left Lar- amie this morning. ‘The French car paused long enough &@t the town of Red Desert last evening tne occupants to announce their tion of crossing the desert at night. : eee the pmerionn po od is ex- tec roceed straight ‘Beattle, re ship will be boarded for Alaska. camainder of the journey through Asia and Europe will be made wheels. ,

~ MOTHER FORGIVES BOY WHO STOLE $177 FOR 3 DAYS” FUN and Chum Who Spend Money Having “High Times.” = During three days of “high life,’ Hen- *% _ ry. Farrar Jr. and a boy chum spent $177 “ : ; ‘ s | i k 2 ae | ere ~ tal 4 ee : a ae a : a ae 2 by Henry from a coatsleeve in a of the Farrar home, where it haa & we aie t ’ eee re ' ae ¥ and revolvers and took girls to theaters. tg rinks and nickelodeons to their content. Life for three days was round of gaiety. ay young Farrar, confronting his mother at the Soulard Police broke down at the sight of her and wept with her. He promised good. She told th® police she mot prosecute, ‘he Rev. W. F. MeMillen Accepts. e Rev. W. F. “Hill Pregpo erin ef

r of the Oak Hill Presbyterian has acepted a call td the La- Park esbyterian Church re he has been filling the pulpit the resignation of the Rev. Dr. et ue Palmer. Py » Fygee & Mr. ee ime. St puis from. Jefferson ty ’ The Oak Hill pastorate was his POR Spies a

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KOREANS SHOOT DIPLOMAT WHO “PRAISED JAPAN — ‘D. W. Stevens, Back Home in America, Is Beaten and Wounded.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 23.—Follow- ing an attack during which he was bad- ly beaten, D. W. Stevens, American diplomatic advisor to the Korean Coun- cil of State, was shot three times by two Koreans at the Union Ferry sta- tion this morning. Though wounded, he returned fire and a bullet hit one of his asailants. A mob of 400 men chased the man who attacked Stevens. N. W. Chun was ar- rested and his companion who was shot by Stevens was sent to the same hos- pital as was the American, the Emer- gency. The attack was made with the revol- ver held in a handkerchief, and though twice hit and badly hurt, Stevens’ strong constitution, the doctors say, wil! save his life. An interview in which Mr. Stevens said that Japanese rule has done much for Korea, angered the men and they took exceptions to his statements. Mr. Stevens was about to depart for, Washington when attacked. He arrived in this country Friday from his post in Korea and after his statements became public trouble for him with Koreans here began. He was attacked last night in the Fairmount Hotel and badly bruised be- fore hotel guests interfered. PLUMBERS TO GET $5.30 A DAY AND STRIKE I$ OFF Both Men and Employers Are: Sat- isfied, Each Side Claiming the Victory. The strike of the journeymen plumb. ers, Which has been on for six weeks, was settled Monday at a cor.ference between committees representing the men and the employers. A compromise was reached by which \he plumbers will receive $5.30 a day. Heretofore they have received %, ard they walked out because their demand for $5.70 a day was refused. Both sides regard the settlement as a victory. This strike has been most oreerly. The number of men out was 413. CHARITY CARNIVAL TO GIVE PRIZES ) FOR ORIGINALITY Ingenious Persons Asked to Join in Contest for Articles Showing Superior Skill. The women who will have charge of the contest booth at the Charity Carni- val, to be held at Forest Park Highlands May 16, have decided to offer $75 in cash prizes for the most artistic, orig- inal and useful articles presented to the booth for sale at the carnival. Each article must be made. by the donor and the cost of the materials must not be more than B&O cents. Three prizes of $10, three of $5 and 15 of $2 will be given. Both men and women may compete. All articles sub- mitted must be sent to the home of Mrs. Ernest W. Stix of 4642 Lindell boulevard not later than May 2. DRINKS OIL FIRST, THEN ACID Suicide Takes Precautions to Make Poison Go Down Painlessly. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 23.— News reecived here says John F. Gul ck. formerly a widely known Terre Haute business man and a member of the In- diana colony for the vast 15 vears at Pasadena, l. whose death was an- nounced here Saturday, took his life in an unusual manner. He first swallowed » Spontity of oll, ru

oll on both and then swallowed acid, which went down easily and painiessiy. Farmer Found Dead in Bed. CHILLICOTHE, Mo., sfarch 2,-- Charles Curtis, a farmer who lives alone near this city. TPs. Sound uead in his

WHIRLING WHEL N POWER PLANT WRECKED WALL ok Dynamo Quits Work With a Crash and Darkens Part of City. -

The 10-foot commutator on one of the three dynamos in the Union Electric Light and Power plant at Twentieth and Locust streets ‘‘burst’’ and partly wrecked the west wall of the brick building, doing damage estimated at $10,000. Fragments of steel were shot in ev- ery direction. One went through the corrugated iron roof. A score smashed through windows and door panels. One, weighing 50 pounds, was catapulted 100 feet through an inch-thick board fence on the opposite side of Twentieth street. Light Out Five Minutes. As a result of the accident, the lights over the city served from this branch were out five minuteg The commutator was revolving 500 times a minute Saturday midnight, and under the tremendous outthrust of the centrifugal force thus generated, the great wheel, divided int6é hundreds of denly was rent asunder. C. and Jerry Thomas, the electri- re not standing near, and they Four windows on the west side of the building were practically demolished. Half a dozen corrugated iron oil tanks just outside the windows were torn open by flying pieces of metal. An alarm of fire was turned in, and in answering it Gus Bayers of Engine Cofmpany No. 14 was caught between the engine and the wall of the engine house, and his right leg was fractured near the ankle. There are three dynamos in the plant. The other two were not damaged. Electric lights in the district west of Grand avenue between Washington ave nue and Market street, went out for five or six minutes. At the end of that time connection had been made with other dynamos, and the current was renewed UNIONS CONSIDER FORMING A NEW POLITICAL LABOR PARTY Central and Building Trades Bodies Refer Matter to Joint Com- mittee for Advice. A joint committee from ‘the Central Trades and Labor Union and the Build- ing Trades Council is to consider the advisability of organizing a new politi- cal party, to which all members of la- bor unions will owe allegiance. The legislative committees of these two councils, at the meeting Sunday of the Central Trades and Labor Union, brought in a minority report on the proposition. The majority repurt favored a new labor party to be known as the United Labor party... The minority report was against the formation of a new political party, but favored a plan to have the labor unions unite in a “political sec- tion,’ which would have control of the political movements of organized labor, and would organize the union voters of each ward so they would vote only for men friendly to union labor.

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State Factory Inspector Sikes said Monday that he proposed to continue the inspections of the St. Louis public schools and did not intend to cease work until the fire escape law has been com- plied with. Mr. Sikes received a letter Monday from Dr. Frank L. Magoon, president of the Board of Education, but declined to divulge its contents. The Board of Education, it is said, questions the authority of the Factory Inspector to compel compliance with the fire escape law. Mr. Sikes has laid the matter before the grand jury. The grand jury may touch on the subject in its final report to be made early next week, Mr. Sikes has ordered the board to close the third-story classrooms of the Bryan Hill, Washington, Columbia and Attucks schools. The board has not complied with this order. Mr. Sikes said that he would not tol- erate any unnecessary delays, and pro- poses to exhaust his authority to com- pel the board to put up fire escapes and take such other precautions as may be necessary to prevent fires. “Tt will not be said two years from now that this department has been try- ing to induce the School Board to com- ply with-the law,” said Mr. Sikes. “I have taken the matter up with the proper prosecuting authorities and I WIFE WHO WAS “BOSS OF FAMILY” GETS A DIVORCE Preacher Requested by Husband to Act as Meditaor Says He Neg- lected Telling Her. Mrs. Rosa Lee Hammond was given a divorce from Thomas L. Hammond Monday by Judge Reynolds, and the custody of their two minor children, Walter, 10 vears old, and Myrtes, 8 veurs old. Hainmond lives in Jeffer- son City. This was the second ven- ture of the Hammonds in the divorce court. Mrs. Hammond endeavored to obtain .af divoree a year ago, but failed. After waiting a year she filed a divorce, charging abandonment. Testimony at the former trial was that Mrs. Hammond was the “boss” of the family and that her husband stayed at home, kept house and at- tended to the babies. The chief question in the proceed- ings turned on the testimony of the Rev. Dr. Johnston, who had tried to act as a board of mediation and ar- Litration. He said that Hammond had asked him to try to have his wife “make up” with him, but that he had neglected to tell her so. Hammond is to be allowed to see his children at such times as he and his wife shall agree upon, and if they cannot agree the court will arrange the meetings. BILL FAVORED BY PRESIDENT, AIDING UNIONS, INTRODUCED Measure Aims to Restore to Labor Bodies Their Rights to Strike Peacefully. WASHINGTON, March 23.—Repre- sentative Hepburn of Iowa, chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, today _ intro- duced the civie federation bill, which, if passed, will relieve organized labor from the suppressive effects of the recent Supreme Court decision declaring labor to be conspiracies in restraint

unions of trade. The bill, which was prepared after several conferences with President Roosevelt, has the sincere support of the President, and he is expected to send to Congress a message recom- mending its passage. The bill, broadly speaking, aims to restore to the unions their right of neaceable methods, including the right to strike, but leaving them still amen- able to the Sherman act in the matter of boycotts, picketing and similar co- ercisive practices. WEATHER INDICATIONS. Missouri—Partly cloudy Monday night and Tuesday; not much change in temperature. Iliinois—Generally fair Monday night and Tuesday. except possibly showers in south- east portion. : Minnesota and lowa—Generally fair Mon- day night and Tuesday; continued mild tem- perature. South Dakota. Nebraska and Kansas— Generally fair Monday night and ruesday; warmer in west portions Monday night.

me Grape-Nuts food is made of Wheat and Barley, in large 10-lb. loaves, which are first baked, then sliced and again baked until rock hard. The slices are then ® pround into the granules called Grape-Nuts. The long baking changes the starch of the cereals to a form of sugar which is easily digested and quickly absorbed by even a child. It affords ideal nourish- ment for all ages—from in- fancy to maturity; for all conditions—from the Invalid to the Athlete.

‘‘There's a Reason.’’

Miss Grace Babcock, 18 years old, of 3645 Dodier street, accosted and followed ‘by a masher, walked 23 blocks through the busiest section of the downtown dis- trict Monday before sne found a police- man to arrest the nian who was annoy- ing her. The search consumed almost an hour and covered several corners where members of the Broadway squad are supposed to be always on duty. When she finally succeeded in having the man arrested she rode in the patrol wagon with him to police headquarters. Has “Cunning” Mustache, He said that he was Fritz Fleer, an insurance agent, living at 4644 Evans avenue. He acknowledged following the girl, but said he had been drinking and thought he knew her. He is 4 years old. He wore a long tan coat and a gray hat and his blonde mustache was Waxed-and combed like Emperor Wil- llam’s. ‘I was passing Broadway and Locust street when this man tipped his hat,’’ said Miss Babcock. ‘“‘He said: ‘Good- morning, how do you feel?’ “I paid no attention to him and walked west. At Seventh street he overtook me and asked me to wait a minute. He kept walking right behind me until I reached Sighth and Locust and I made up my mind to Keep on walking until I found a policeman. It was a long walk, though. I am tired out. “On Eighth street I went north to Washington avenue, then east to Broad- way. Every block or so the man would catch up with me and try to talk to me. “Once he said, ‘Don’t you know me?’ I turned south on Broadway and walked to Pine street. When I didn’t see a: policeman I decided to take an Eight- eenth street car at Broadway and Pine street and go home. When I reached the corner there was no car in sight and the man atepped up to me and tipped his hat. Girl Afraid to Make Scene. ‘“T was afraid to create a scene on the corner, so I started to look for a po- liceman again. I walked up to Seventh street and over to Washington avenue again and then came south on Eighth street to Olive street and east to Sev- enth street. ‘There at last I found a policeman. Just before I had man .overtook me and asked me_if I didn’t know h'm.” The prisoner wept at police headquar- ters. ‘Please don’t let my wife hear about this,’’ he said. ‘“‘I never was in trouble before. I didn’t know what I was doing.”’ 15 PER CENT INCREASE IN FARM PRODUCTS OF WEST Union Pacific Shows Crops 17 States in 1907 Worth $ 1,09 1,000,000. OMAHA, Neb., March 23.—The statisti- cal bureau of the Union Pacific pas- senger department has iscued a state- ment compiled from government reports, showing the value of farm products in seventeen states west of the Mississippi in 1907 to have been a billion and ninety- one million uollars. Corn leads in production, being valued at nearly half a billion dollars. Winter vwieat is next, valued at $200,000,000, and domestic hay was valued at only two million dollars less. Rye, oats, barley and potatoes follow in order. The report is co: pared with the pre- vious year and indicates -~ increase of 15 per cent in value of crops, and this in- crease ts credited to irrigation. Nearly eighty-five million acres were in culti- vation and the average value of crops per acre is given at $12.86. lowa ranks first in corn, oats and po- tatoes; Kansas first in wheat and Ne- braska first in rye. The report also shows aneincrease in livestock of 250 per cent since 1870. BULL GORES MAN LEADING IT TO THE SLAUGHTER A vicious red Durham bull gored Jo- seph Berger Monday afternoon. He turned as Berger was driving him into a slaughter pen, and drove his horns into Berger's right thigh. Berger is employed by a_ provision company at Broadway and Miami street. The bull was received in a ship- ment Monday morning from Kansas. He was in an ugly temper, and when Ber- ger was told to drive him into the pen, warning was given that he should be watchful. The Durham, bellowing lustily, trotted along the plank-inclosed ‘alley’ toward the pen, and was almost within reach of the slaughterer’s hammer when he turned. Berger saw the movement and leaped backward. The bull, bellowing, fol- lowed, and Berger, fearing to turn, ran backward as fast as he could, shouting for help. Half way down the alley, as Berger tried to turn so as to flee faster, the bellowing bull overtook him. A moment later the heavy thud of the hammer between the animal's eyes sounded its death knell. Berger was taken to the South Side Dispensary. He wouldn't go to the City Hospital, and was sent to his home, 3101 Menard street. . Pours Kerosene on Fire; Dytag. DAYTON, O., March 23.—Mra. Flor- ence Bilser, 40 years old, and her son, 15, were fatally injured today in a kerosene explosion at her home. The boy tried to hasten the fire in the stove by pouring kerosene over the ‘smouldering biase, :

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Regte seg Sey oe 4 : : tes 7 wget sh ES ¢ e 3 Hellrung says that while Pierce was convalescent at Littie Boarshead, N. H., Mrs. Pierce appeared on the scene. and that Pierce became worse. On the ver- anda one evening the “‘medico-gymnast”’ him arrested thef passed the couple and Mrs. Pierce was talking vigorously to her husband, pounding on the arm of his chair mean- while. A moment later Hellrung was sum- moned to Pierce, he avers, and found him in a state of collapse. He sur- gested to Mrs. Pierce that she leave the resort, and she did so. The Pierces formerly lived at 4507 Mc- FPherson avenue. She is now in You- kers, N. Y., with her family. In Pierce’s petition, filed Jan. 3, he charged that Mrs. Pierce showed no respect at all for his family relics, and that she sub- jected him to many other indirnities and humiliatione. Wouldn’t Give Him Kiss, Robina Swetman, a trained nurse, tes- tified that at the breakfast table one day Pierce wanted to kiss his wife, but she would not let him.. ‘‘Now, don’t be mean, Violet,”” he said. “I am not to be cheated out of my kiss.’ Where- upon he picked up his wife’s hand and kissed it. The deposition of Mrs. Susan Pierce Anderson, half-sister of Pierce, told of a quarrel the Pierces had at table when Mrs. Pierce gave the children mince pie. Pierce objected, but Mrs. Pierce told the children not to pay any at- tention to their father, They ate the pie. Mrs. Anderson's husband, William R. Anderson, testified that one Sunday he went to get Pierce to go walking with him, but Mrs. Pierce wouldn't let hira gO. Margaret V. Shaw, stenographer for Pierce, told of going to the Pierce home to write invitations to the daughter, Violetta’s coming-out party. When the names of certain relatives were reached. Mrs. Pierce said they were ‘country gawks,”’ and that if they eame she would remain away.

WOMAN TORN BY ANGRY LION Caged Beast Seizes Visitor to Win- ter-Quarters of Circus. PERU. Ind., March 2.—Mra. Osa Allen, while escorting a party of friends through the winter quarters of a cir- cus here this morning was grabbed by a lion. The flesh of her face and back was seriously lacérated. Her broth- er pulled her away as the lion had her against the bars.

Paris and the suburbs. Few details of the swindles of which complete will be the losses of investors in the Franco-Spanish Bank. The authorities have closed the Fran. co-Spanish and Mining Credit inatity-

tions, dismissing 406 employes. The news has caused a sharp fall on the Bourse. ——— oe

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—— Sale of Men’s Fine Negligee Shirts portunity. light and plain white. style. plaited styles. 7 tached cuffs, the plaited N sale Tuesday and we would poimt men to this as an exceptional Spring Shirt Op- They are all of good quality madras, dark. woven and printed effeets as well 4s Most of them are made in the coat The colored madras is made up in both plain and The plain with separate and at- — The plain white negligees also have attached cuffs. $1.50 90c

with attached cuffs only.

Sale at our Men’s Department—First Floor-—Locust Street Side.

/ Tenth, Olive and Locust Streets.

to view this mornin Taffeta Assuredly now is the time to Tuesday. UITE new in effect a good. $25.00 Values $17.50 Walking Suits—new Prince Chap model. Half-fitted back; hip- length; silk-lined coat. Kilt skirt, finished with bias folds. Materials —new checked and striped Serge Suiting. White with black lines and checks with white with blue and black line, $25.00 valuea for $1 7.50 Other Exclusiy Walking Suits of Voiles and fancy suitings in Eton, Cutaway and Dip-front models, with Mandarin and Kimono sleeves, also plain tatlored. Skirt made fancy with circular sweep.. Black, navy, Cop- enhagen, wood-brown, gray and tan. Priced, $62.50 to $135.00

The regular $1.25 a yard Taffetas and Foulards The regular $1.50 and $1.79 High Novelty Taffetas buy Silks for Summer Gowns and Suits for such a comahans, Novelty White Serge Suits Just In and Bound to Be Popular attractive, we are proud of these Spring Suits and class theni with the best values we have offered this season. Make selection early this week while the assortment 1s Tenth, Olive and Locust Streets

Spring’s Greatest Sale of Colored Silks Will Be Continued Tomorrow OT an undesirable Silk. This important point was never more clearly evidenced than when the special sale.Silks were spread 2. The only lot of Silks that we can not, with any degree of certainty, promise for sale on Tuesday is the 75¢ group of Lining Taffetas at 50c. In all the other groups the quantities are very generous. The regular 75e and 85e Taffetas and Foulards The regular $1.00 a vard ‘at hat Lat at s and Louisines tion of desirability and cheapness can not soon be duplicated. Sale at Silk Department—Second Floor,

nd exceedingly dressy and $30.00 Values $22.50 Walking Suits—Four-button Cut- away model with semi-fitted back, made of hairline and check Man- nish Suitings. Coat lined “with twilled silk. Kilt skirt, finished with tailored folds. White Serge with black and blue stripes and cheeks. $30.00 values for $22.50 Walking Suits | Walking Suits—Three-button Cut- in two different lengths, with semi-back. Coat taffeta lined. Skirt plaited in clusters and finished with tailored straps. Checks and shadow stripe suiting in gray and tan. re away $1.00

Priced $47.50 58c 68c 78C We advise an early visit 7 Rich Table and Decorative Linens — At Half-price HE opportunity to secure T a tan lace or hand-em- broidered pieces continues — this week. Every day the assortment | dwindles perceptably. Many women who do not wish to buy, enjoy the exposition for they are certainly the most beautiful Linens ever offered at the price. Resides the Table Sets, the odd Cloths and odd dozens of Napkins there are: Cluny Lace Centerpieces, Renaissance Searfs, Doilies, Centerpieces and Table ; Cloths ee saree ne 9 ‘ eae : Centerpieces, £ Tray Cloths and Scarfs.

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SR BAN RR PRE et it Na “ Bo RRA NS Bee - g oe cae compenies and finanscial institutions tn — he is accused have yet been made pub-. — lic by the police, nor is it known how — | ¥ y rr Pe ie

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‘ retary SIMMITEE TO MEET BREWER to Union Body. pe LOCAL BEER BOYCOTT

Old Contracts Have Been Ab- rogated, Employes Say, by Lockout. By a i ecinstton passed by the Central Trades and Labor Union at their meet- ing Sunday a new element has entered into the fontroversy between the master brewers and\their men. A commit Was appointed to meet with th ewers Monday afternoon at 3:30 o’ in the office of the St. Louis Brewing Association in the Wainwright Buliding and try to come to an amicable settlement of the differences between the brewery workers’ unions and their former employers. It is doubtful if such an agreement will be reached unless the brewers re- cede from their recent determination to give the men who were dischargd or left their employ until Monday noon to return to work, as their advertisements announced. The men who are on strike or were locked out have not taken ad- vantage of the invitation. Appeal to the Ceutral Body.

*Te Boycott Local Brewertes. beer made in union breweries and supplying it to saloons which are loyal to the unions. The unions will boycott St. Louis beer til this trouble is setcled.” “Have the men gone back to the breweries in obedience to the adver- the brewers, egg | them until noon today to re- port for work,” he was asked. “It is» not yet noon, but as the brew- ers have consented to a conference at 8:30 oclock this afternoon to try to Settle the difference it does not seem likely that this will occur.” EASTERNERS CLINCH BARGAIN FOR BIG BUCKINGHAM HOTEL Peebles Pays. $50,000 Earnest Money to Holbrook—Full Price $750,000. James W. Peebles, representing a ayn- dicate of New York capitalists, clinched the purchase of the Buckingham Hote! Monday morning by paying $50,000 as earnest money to W. J. Holbrook, presi- dent of the hotel company. The hotel was to have been sold at public auc- tion at noon today on a foreclosure of a $000,000» “Fh securing a bond issue for e purchase price is said to be $750,000, thus giving the bondholders ample security. , Negotiations for the purchase of the hotel began Saturday, when the New York man. spent several hours with Holbrook. At the end of the conference Peebles id $10,000 down, with a prom- ise of .000 within two days. The pa- pers were signed Monday, and imme- Be a possession transferred to the syn- eats,

Dyer, manager of the Bucking- ham pe the World's Fair, has re- signed, and says he will go into busi- ness in Texas, His successor has not yet been chosen.

PARENTS REPENT OF DIVORCE!:

Children Reunite Rooneys, Decree Is Set Aside. Less than a month after they were divorced in Judge Rule’s court, Edward Roeney and Katherine Rooney of 3521 Laclede avenue were reconciled by their three children. At their request Judge Rule today set aside the divorce de- cree: Rooney and his wife entered Judge ; Rules court Monday, Rooney carrying in his arts pr the smaliest child, 3 years BNE told Judge Rule that love for had brought them to-

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* RINE PRT Multimillionaire Will Furnish Any Neces- sary “Dot.”

OWN LIFE IS SPOILED

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SAID GASSAWAY DAVIS TO STEPHEN B. ELKINS: ‘ ; Pa a at ates isk od Pe Ae : Bp : : * Tt a rea + RN ae ® “ ‘

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ssioner Bingham Grills Them All Night Following World’s Expose.

pores TO GOVERNOR | Newspane Blames Tammany, _ Asks Hughes to Furnish Constabulary.

ged Leased Wire From the New York Burenn of the Post-Dispatch, NEW YORK, March 2%,—As a result at the New. York World's exposure of - the gale of police protection to gam- EF ters Police Commissioner Bingham has reduced Inspector John O’Conner to the rank of Captain and transferred him to 8 Brooklyn precinct, and has caused Captain Barney Kelleher and @ other officers figuring in the case to be | kept incommunicado at Police Head- = quarters. Several policemen are likely ‘te lose their stars. In commenting editorially today on "the facts published yesterday and to- day, the World demands that a State nstabulary be established, under com- E Sand of the Governor, as the only ef- _ fective method of dealing with lawless- = "There can be no real reform,’’ gays the editorial, “while Tammany | Hall is the real police department of the city of New York.”’ a As told in its news columns yester- day, the World, with the approval of - Police Commissioner Bingham and Dis- ' trict Attorney Jerome, established a _ gambling house in the Tenderloin dis- - trict. After one raid and the dismissal of the resulting cases because of ‘“‘de- ‘| fective evidence,” an understanding was - peached with the ‘right’ policemen, - full protection was furnished and daily _ tribute was pald. ie, Protection Offered. William Rose, acting for the World, 4 _, introduced into sporting circles along Upper Broadway Maj. M. R. Marks, an _ old Confederate army officer, former _ Mayor of Orlando, Fia., with the state- ment that he had $12,000 with which to back a gambling house. Rose and the Major met Edward Mc- ; t, allas Clark, who proved to be a4 brother of Lieut. ‘Bob’ McNaught, former head of Deputy Commissioner Hansen’s vice squad. He offered: to ; na police protection, and under his di- rection they paid $100 to a man whom aaah ght introduced as a partner of _ Wardmar Jack Lyons, confidential man ¢g Inspector O’Conner, Whose district the Tenderloin. A gambling house was fitted up in s - Thirty-fourt! street near Seventh ave- nue. Alexander Ward, a stalwart - young Southerner and a friend of Rose, was taken into the scheme. The gam- - bling implements were moved in and _ everything was ready to open up. Just — len Rose met, by accident, Acting Y Oat “Burney” Kelleher, who was in - ¢émmand of the precinct and whom he _ had known for three or four years. Sater talked a while in the street. ey et, Eater Piain Clothes Men. 4 ~The following day McNaught. Ward ena Rose met in their newly furnished 2 ling room, The trio were alone ia : back room, testing the roulette _ wheel, when there came a knock at the door. In walked Kelleher and two _ of his plain-clothes men—Bonser and . After looking about the front room they went Into the back room by E Seay of the butler’s pantry and discov- ered the roulette wheel. “What have you got here?” asked © eneher. “Why didn’t you tell me about this last night?’ Rose replied that he thought every- thing had been, fixed all right, and Kel- “Meher said: _ “Why, nobody has been to see me.’ & _ Gee, He Hated to Do It. _ Then he took Rose aside, saying to | others: “Excuse me a minute; I to speak ‘he young man.” Sieg

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Mer Me "To Rose, apart@he said: , “Gee, Bill, | hate to do this,™ut I am in here and is the stuff in front of me, and we two men with me have seen it. ' you had only told me last night I ‘Wouldn't have come near here.” _ “There is an old man back of this and I am looking out for his in- and have got the bank roll,” said “and if I can square this thing [ am perfectiy willing to do whatever ry oh do nothing a hf v7 Kel- : _ too — had Benny in th ong -" h Brat kn voy oe whee have been all right. . we ung ave to take your stuff, but you can it all wack n, We haven’t got UN two hours elapsed from the te the police arrived till they left and that time they all had several from the sideboard. As the six over to the Police Station in st Thirtieth street Kelleher said to e; fF you open up again, don't have that ¥ McNaught around. 1 don't want him out of a living, but he is kind of @ man you want around fon money a 8 it wou reach bh

We Guarantee Our Dinmonds, } you buy a Diamond from us you be sure the quality ie right. Easy ‘ex terms. Loftis Bros. & Co., 2d sor, Carleton mldg., 6th and Olive,

ure Seckers Drowned. K, Germany, March 23.—Ten of a pleasure party were ad by the upsetting of a motor at on the Lake of Ratzeburger,

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MISS PAULINE KOHLSAA1T SOON ‘10 BECOME MRS. PO11TER PALMER

Herman H. Kohlsaat,

Miss “WAULING. _KNOHLSAAT The marriage of Miss Pauline Kohlsaat and Potter Palmer will be the most important function on Chicago’s social calendar this season. The wedding will be attended by the leading members of both the Palmer amd Kohlsaat fam- fies. Mrs. Potter Palmer, mother of the Paris, will return to Chicago in time for the wedding. father of the prospective bride, will be a quiet one, but it will be soleinnized in the presence of both fami- lies. No date for the wedding has yet been decided on.’’ Potter Palmer, who has been in the Northwest since of his engagement, has returned to Chicago, and this has given rise to a ru- mor that the wedding is to be celebrated in the near’ future. bridegroom-elect, who is visiting in said: ‘‘The wedding the announcement

SIDEWALK TOD NARROW; NEGHU ILLS JOSTLER r White Man Slain and Com- panion Stabbed on Eight- eenth Street Bridge.

Twelve negroes are under arrest, charged with complicity in the killing of Robert Gartlanu, 21 years old, of 1740 South Eighteenth street, and the serious wounding of Gerald Nirk, 17, of 1811 Kennett place, on the Bighteenth street bridge. The negroes, acording to Nirk’s story to the poliee, refused to give Gartland and Nirk room on the walk at the side of the bridge early Sunday, and when the latter jostled the negroes, knives were drawn and the white men were severely slashed. : Gartliand was stabbed in the back and fell unconscious at the north approach of the bridge. He was taken to the City Hospital, and died a few hours later. With Gartland and Nirk were Thomas Gartiand, Lester Teigraver of 1727 Nich- olson place and Henry Morrison of 1554 Nebraska avenue. All are held as wit- nesses against the negroes. a ee ee It’s Certainly Remarkable! How business keeps up. “Swell clothes.”’ The shop of Walter, De Menil Build- ing, Seventh and Pine.

Pennsylvania Lays Off 2140. ALTOONA, Pa., March’ 23.—The Penn- sylvania Railroad today laid off 2140 of its shopmen. The depression in busi- ness is given as the reason. The dis- charged men comprise the “floaters,” single men and outsiders, who have been working in thé shops. The working hours for the remaining working force have = increased from 32 to 55 hours a _Wweek What Do You Use? “What do you use to overcome habitual constipation?’’ asked a friend the other evening. “Just an ordinary cathartic or “exattee will not do,’’ I replied, ‘‘because weak- ness of the bowel-nerves and muscles that cause constipation, and I have found a sweet, little pill called Blackburn's Castor- Ol-Pills which never fail to give the effect without the taste.’’ “Where can you obtain these sweet lit- tle pills?"’ “Oh! Any first-class drug store can sup- ply you. but insist on getting “Black- burn’s.”’ as I have had bulk pills shoved at me with the “just as good’’ argument. which the substitutor always uses."' “What is the price? Are the pills pure?’ “The price is ten cents, twenty-five cents and fifty cents, and on the back of this

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ULD MAN LOS LIFE IN $00,000 BE IN GRAFTON Bones Found in Hotel Ruins Supposed to Be Those of Choreman of 80.

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Hamilton Kent, 80 years old, is be- lieved to have perished in a fire which destroyed the Valley Hotel in Grafton and ruined three residences near it. Kent is missing, and the bones ef an old man were found Monday im the ashes of the building. The damage from the fire was $50,000. Kent had been employed for years to do chores at the hotel, and is known to scores of St. Louis and Kast Side fish- ermen and hunters with whom Grafton is a favorite resort. Slept in a Rear Room. He slept in a room at the rear of the second floor. In the excitement when the flames broke out no one thought to look for him, and until the bones were found it was not realized that he was missing. He is supposed to have suffo- cated while he slept. He went to bed before the fire broke out. An inquest will be held ternoon. ‘ All Grafton turned out to help fight the fire, and many men and women have scorched faces and blistered hands to show for their efforts. An over. heated furnace is thought to have set fire to the woodwork in the basement of the hotel. The flames were discovered at 9 p. m. Sunday. The hotel is a two-story frame struc- ture, and it burned like tinder. Grafton has no fire department, and the only means of fighting the flames was by a bucket brigade. The fire was go hot that the volunteers had difficulty ap- proaching the buildrng. Residences Are Ruined. From the hotel the fire leaped to the frame residences owned by Charles Staf- ford and Martin Fox, adjoining, and the the amateur firefighters were unable to check it. Wet blankets were spread on the wooden roof of a stone house owned by W. S. Dempsey, proprietor of the hotel, but did not avail to save it. Only the stone shell was standing Monday. It was near dawn when fhe fire was finally under control. It was stopped before it serlously damaged the general atore of Eastman & Co.. the roof of which caught fire several times. Monday af-

Petition Against Clothiers. A petition was filed Monday in the United States Listrict Court to force the Stahl Brothers ee Goods Co., baberdashers, into bankruptcy. The Creditors signing it charge that the firm, while solvent, favored other creditors by payments. a wy claims Frank $109. a3: Coy em Prince Zachariah hl Zary & South, ewelry

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: ood 3 bets Se * ag Pye ae & 0 . S TO DIE, BUT MAN WORKS ON “Only Way to Die Happy Is to Die Working,” Says Alton Judge.

WILL LIVE SIX MONTHS

Frank Grosh, Doomed by Cancer, Happy When Issu- ing Marriage Licenses. —_—_—_—_—_

Frank W. Grosh, told by his physi- cian that he must die, will spend the six months left for him on earth in work. He bas cancer, and physicians in Alton and Chicago have told him there is no hope of recovery. He will not live more than six months, they assure him. Grosh is marriage license clerk and Police Magistrate. He was in his of- fice Monday, and he told a Post-Dis- patch reporter he would die “with the harness on.” “It’s the only way to die happy,”’ he concluded. Operation on Friday, 13th. Friday, the 13th, ignoring the warn- ings of superstitious friends, Grosh went to Chicago to have his third operation for cancer. In one of the previous opera- tions, part of his spinal column was re- moved, and was replaced with a silver tube.. . The cancer ts intestinal. After reach- ing it, the surgeons decided Grosh could not survive the shock of having it re- moved. and the wound was closed. When Grosh recovered from the anes- thetic the death sentence was pro- nounced. Grosh returned to Alton Sunday, and told his wife and two sons.. He drew up his will, and gave verbal directions as to his funeral. Monday he was ready for work, as cheerful as a man in the flush of health. “If I’ve only got a short time to live, there’s all the more reason for work- ing,’ Grosh said. “I'll do what I can while I’m here. Beside. I can be hap- pier working. I’m not going to sift around and mope and think about that cancer. Likes to Issue Licenses, “T like to issue marriage licenses. That is the most pleasant part of my work. The sight of the happiness of the couples makes me happier. I hope Pll have to issue a lot of them before I die. “And I want to dispose of every case that comes before me as a Magis- trate fairly. It will keep me pretty busy trying to do that. “Keeping busy is the only way to keep happy. I don’t believe any man who's idle can’ find life worth while. And be- sides, it’s our duty to make ourselves as useful as we can here.’’ Grosh was formely a glassblower. A fall on ice near his home a year ago caused the cancer, and unfitted him for that work. He is 88 years old.

Floor Dressing Machines. Electric, for sale at St. Louis Machine Floor-Surfacing Co., 2634 Olive st. LATE TRAIN CAUSES ARREST OF SLAYER OF MORE THAN 15 Desperado, Whose Last of Many Murders Was Committed Be- side Victim’s Wife, Caught. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 23.— D. D. Edwards, a Kentucky desperado, who shot and killed J. W. Davis in sight of the latter’s wife and baby, has been captured at Trenton, Ga., 2 miles from here. He has been brought to Chattanooga. Bloodhounds were put on tle trail, a few hours after the murder was com- mitted. Edwards was surrounded at Durham Mines, Ga., but escaped tv Trenton, Ga., timing his arrival only 10 minutes before the fast train was due. The train was 30 minutes late, and in that time his disguise was discovered. Edwards recently confessed to having killed 15 while testifying in a murder trial. These did not include several ne- groes he killed in. a Chicago riot.

— Slayer of Sweetheart Hanged.

WASHINGTON, March 23.—Joseph Paolucci. an Italian, was hanged here today for the murder of his sweet- heart. Elizabeth V. Dodge, in Septem- ber, 1906. The Italian Ambassador in- tervened in Paolucci'’s behalf, but the President refused to commute the sentence.

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we eigen $i le fs yesh 5 foe. 1yU8. | FATHER OF 34 CHILDREN FREED FROM TAXES LONG BEFORE ROOSEVELT’S DAY Statute of 1827, 27, Unearthed in Vir- ginia Archives, Exempts a Parent. RICHMOND, Va., March 2%-—The clerks of the Investigating Committee sent to Virginia by the Legislature of West Virginia to look into records and other data concerning the debt question involving the two states, unearthed some queer old statutes. One passed in 1827 reads: “Whereas, It is represented to the Genera] Assembly that William Lynch Sr. of the County of Brunswick is the father of 8t legitimate children, of whom 287 are now living, that he has been the husband of four wives, the last of whom is now young and healthy and gives him every assurance of an increase of his numerous progeny, that he was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and has been through life an upright and useful citizen, and that age and the support of his numerous family have at length rendered him in- firm and poor; “Be it enacted by the General As- sembly that William Lynch of the County of Brunswick shall be hereafter exempt from the payment of any pub- lic or county tax, tax levy, charge or contribution whatever, and it shal! not be lawful for any court, Sheriff, Dep- uty Sheriff, Coroner or other public of- ficer within this Commonwealth to de- mand or receive of said Lynch any such tax, levy, charge or contribution.”’ YOUNGEST U. S. SENATOR FOLLOWS OLDEST T0 GRAVE William James Bryan, 31, Dies Within Five Days of William Pinkney Whyte, 84. By Wire From the Washington Bu- reau of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, March 23.—Death visited the United States Senate yester- day for the seventh time since the ad- journment of the Fifty-ninth Congress on March 4, a year ago, taking William James Bryan of Florida, who died in Providence Hospital. than

For more seven weeks Mr. Bryan had been suffering from typhoid fever. When the end came his wife and brother were with him. Mr. Bryan was the youngest mem- ber of the Senate, taking his seat when only three months past 31 years of age. His seat was next to that occupied. by Willlam Pinkney Whyte of Maryland, aged 84 the oldest member. Mr. Whyte divided his time between coach- ing Mr. Bryan, who sat on his right, and «Mr. Gore, the blind orator from Oklahoma, who sat on his left. Mr. Whyte was buried last Friday. Within less than two days Mr. Bryan had passed away. Thus death took the old- est and the youngest members of the Senate, sitting beside each other, with- in five days. Mr. Bryan actually served in the Sen- ate only a trifle more than three weeks. tie took his seat Jan. 9, succeeding to a vacancy occasioned by the death of Senator Mallory of Florida, Dec. 28, 1907.

The Post-Dispatch is the only evening newspaper in St. Louis that receives or publishes news gathered by the Associ- ated Press. BRYAN-SULLIVAN FEUD BURIED ; ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS HAPPY National Committeeman to Run Again With Understanding He Will Aid Nebraskan. CHICAGO, March 23.—The Bryan-Sul- livan feud is buried. At a meeting of the Cook County Democratic Marching Club yesterday, Roger C. Sullivan was put in the field as an open candidate for re-election as National Committee-, man from Illinois. Coincidentally a resolution indorsing. William J. Bryan for the presidential nomination was passed. The two resolutions were so linked that they practically bound Sul- livan to do all he could to advance the Bryan cause. Only one dissenting Voice was heard against the Sullivan resolution, that of T. P. Quinn, president of the Municipal Ownership League during Mayor Dunne’s) administration. The Bryan resolution went through unanimously. To add to the harmony Carter H. Harrison made a speech declaring Bryan the only hope for the Democracy in the oe election. COFFEE brings sleepless nights and drowsy days to many per- sons. There’s a drug—caf- feine—in coffee which causes a lot of trouble. The ill effects of coffee soon disappear when it is left off, and the use of

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Those With Surplus Clothing Divide With Others Who Lost Everything.

Grotesquely attired in misfit, starch- less makeshift clothing, about two-thirds of the young women students of Forest Park U®iversity gathered their scorched books under their arms Monday morn- ing and endeavored to resume their studies where they were interrupted by which had been a young women’s sem- inary for 19 years. Girls Divide With Classmates. The girls who were fortunate enough to find their trunks among the pile of charred articles stored in the gymna- sium divided the clothing not hopeless- ly. ruined with their classmates who lost overything except the garments they were wearing. Ore diminutive giftl who bravely faced her class duties Monday morning was wearing the jacket of a girl much taller. The girl who could find enough clothing to make a bundle for the laundryman was the envy of the rest. Miss Gertrude Tedford of Lawton, Ok., and Miss Edith Cramer of In- dependence, Kan., were two of thea un- fortunate girls who lost ail of their wardrobes. Their room was on. the north side and was soaked with water. Miss Mildred Wagoner, a resident stu- dent, found a brand new black tailoraid coat in the gymnasium debris with the skirt damp but otherwise undamaged. The only other things Miss Wagoner re- covered were four of her cherished pen- nants. Sne had nine and mourned her lost “Princeton” treasure most, Teachers Also Look Funny. The teachers fared as badly as the students and their costumes for the early Monday morning classes were strikingly different from their usual trim appearance. The second and third floors of the main building are sodden masses of charred, water-soaked debris, in which can be recognized only a few of the decorations which made the rooms typi- cal college girls’ dens. Pitiful mutilated photographs, posters, pennants, drap- eries and toilet articles on the charred dressing tables tell the tale of the fierce hot blast which wrecked the big build- ing. Cairns Hall, which is to the east of the main building, and the gymnasium, which is on the weat, were not dan- aged by fire or water, and it is here that the young women are temporarily housed, where they make their dining room, sleep and attempt to continue their lessons. On the fire escape on the west side of the main building there is still a potted plant which braved the fire and Was not even upset by the work of the firemen nor withered by the flames. The: grounds of the university are patrolled by officers and firemen are removing the tarpaulins from _ the Pianos, books and _ furniture of the rooms of the first floor. Mrs. Cairns, the aged president, re- sents criticisms that her buildings were not adequately protected from fire. The criticisms were made by Fire Chief - td and State Factory Inspector es. Thieves Robbed Fleeing Students. Thieves did not overlook the oppor- tunity offered by the fire which de- stroyed the biggest part of Forest Park University Saturday afternoon. Two reports of theft committed there while firemen were fighting the flames reached police headquarters Monday. Miss Gertrude Cramer of Indepen- dence, Kan., and Miss Edith Tedford, Lawton, Ok., were the victims. They occupied room 43 in the dormitory and when they heard the cry of fire, ran out of the buildjng, stopping just long enough to grab up a few articles of clothing. A brooch, studded with seven dia- monds, and a bag containing $12 be- longing to Miss Tedford, were lying on the dresser in the room when the young women made their hasty exit. Miss Cramer is positive a watch and two bracelets studded with diamonds, belonging to her, were in a jewel case in the top drawer of the dresser. When they returned to their room af- ter the fire the jewel case was still there but the jewels and money were missing. A third report from the Mounted District sets forth that Cornelius Bo- land Jr., son of Police Sergeant Bo- land, who aided in the work of sav- ing property, found a gold watch ly-- ing on the floor in the dormitory. It was later claimed by Miss Edith Tay- lor, a teacher. THINK THIS OVER Monarch Laundry does your family wash in separate departments. Rough dry. Both phones. 2719-23 Franklin av. COME BACK, YOU LEFT YOUR KEY This Is Schultz Family’s Message to Burglar. Burglars who left a skeleton key sticking in the front door stole jew- elry and silverware worth $1000 from the bome of Ernst A. Schultz, 1907 Long- fellow boulevard. The robbery was discovered at 9 p. m. Sunday, when the family returned bome | from a visit. Among the articles taken [| were 18 souvenir spoons, a diamond stud, two watches, diamend cuff buttons and several rings.

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Sons of Eleana Sanz Claim Annuity Which They Say She Received.

MADRID, March 23.—Maria Christina, the Queen mother, gave her deposition gt the palace today in the suit of the - ie a ee « | i a oe Ae re a -°oeo" ¢- .6 oem . two sons of Eleana Sanz, an actress, who represent thmselves as half-broth- ers of King Alfonso. The Sanz heirs are suing the King and , the other heirs of the late King Alfonso for an annuity which they claim as ‘an inheritance from their mother. The Queen mother’s deposition was after paying $16,000 for letters by her late husband to the act- learned that the letters had Gestreyed, as she supposed uld be. The present suit is e letters which she paid to y : it : i Offered at Palace. that, a few days after King Alfonso XII, Senor came to Senor Abella, who ._Master of the Household, and that Elena Sanz had in her mn certain letters from the late the publication of which would embarrass the royal family. She would give them up for $15,000, and a4dition Salmeron claimed $1000 for gervices in the matter. Trusting te the integrity ef Salmeron, the Queen ever these two sums and was as- by him that all the letters in had been destroyed. She heard more of them until the filing of the nt suit. Sanz matter is to come before the SEES if il 2B i BEE i TT

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‘Through Lord Cromer, Who Or- ganized Syndicate, Moberly Bell Is Secure, in Control. Specini Cable to the Post-Dispatch and New York World. (Copyright, 1908, Press Pub. Co. ‘(Ne w You's World.) : ,. LONDON, March 2%.--The syndicate _ been a lifelong friend of Meberty Bell, ‘ who now is secure in the complete con- , trol ‘of the board under the nominal " presidency of Arthtr Walter. Lord Cromer is comparatively a poor man. The money has been subscribed chiefy by Waldorf Astor, Lord Roth- echfid, Lord Iveagh, chairman of the Guiness Stout Co.; Lord Brassey, Lord a City Magistrate, and Sir Edward a Foene. : etors t bo i pout are oe oe | the stock. filea “. a. Lap oe ss ut the Judge reje: ae gg it.

“athe Financial iewey Is Over _ Phene See ee: eo Wagens call. , N. H., March 23.—A war- ng the arrest of Paul E. urn from France to Faw gee mei for the , has made a demand on wen Sovernment for the sur- Pachibe ih ahs new Hampshire

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HOME OF LABOR UNIONS 10 BE'g IOUSE OF FAME Central Trades Plans Enduring Record in Marble of Sub- scribers to Temple.

$500,000 BUILDING

$16,000 Already Has Been Offered for Proposed Head- quarters in St. Louis.

A new plan to raise money for the building of a Labor Temple in St. Louis was indorsed Sunday by the Central Trades and Labor Union. It is to have im the temple a room to be known as *“‘Memorial Hall.’’ Its walls will be of marble and upon these enduring tablets of stone will be carved the name of each one who con- tributes money toward the building. The Central Trades and Labor Union appointed Sunday a committee of three to solicit funds. They are Owen Miller, G. Schwartz and John FB. Spangler. To these, three more will be added by Mr. Miller. @1€6000 Already Subscribed. There has already been subscribed $16,000 of the required $500,000. It is the plan of the labor unions to build a magnificent temple in which all the labor organizations will have head- quarters, and which will contain a hall so large that conventions may be held in St. Louis. It will be the headquarters and meeting place of union labor in this city. The unions will not put off building the temple until they have the $500,- 000 subscribed. As soon as there is enough money collected to buy the lot this will be done and then capital will be invited to put up the building, which will be paid for in annual installments. Successful Elsewhere. This plan has been followed in ether cities and has been successful. The Labor Temple movement is in the hands of five delegates from the Cen- tral Trades and Labor Union, five from the Building Trades Council and five from the Labor Temple Council. These 15 compose the Labor Temple Co., with Owen PMiller as president, G. Schwartz, treasurer, and John E. Span- gler, secretary. Every dollar that has been subscribed to the temple fund is in bank intact. It Is hoped by the labor unions that the memorial hall plan will result in the ee of enough money to buy e lot. SHOE HEELS LEAD T0 THE RECOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY Cuban and French Combination in Footwear Causes Arrest of Young Women in Joplin.

Spectal to the Post-Dispatch. JOPLIN, Mo., March 23.—Cuban heels on shoes made for French heels led to the arrest today of a young woman giving the name of Gew Hawes and then to the raid of ‘a building in the suburbs in which was found more than $1000 worth of preperty stolen from rallreads. Roy Bridges, Kate McGrew and Agnes Palmation were arrested. All are young. A merchant discovered the young wom- an whe was first arrested «5 ggg, Pha shoes of a make made exclusively by —_—— FOR THE HOME TABLE The housewife is daily puzzled to know what te have for dinner. Why not try one of the various recipes for cooking Faust Spaghetti that are given in our free book- let, “Spaghetti and Some of Its Uses’’—we will gladly send it to anyone on request. Faust Spaghetti is a valuable food at all times—-it takes the place of expensive meat dishese—with Spaghetti! you can dispense with starchy pastry. It is not only nourish- ing, appetizing and healthful, but it is economical ag well. As a food for every the year ft has ne superior. There Gelightful ways tm which ‘ean be used that one never package, which effectually preserves its good ness. ’ Try the 6 cent package today—you will Duy a 10 cent package tomorrow. ‘MAULL BROTHERS, ST. LOUIS, MO. Will You Spend a Penny to Increase Your | Business—Y our Salary? Sign and mail the coupon below. no money! Take no risk! One hun and twelve of the world’s master business men have i s2Bs i a

THANTHEPENCIL2 DUELS TO SHOU Six Striking Reporters in Ger- many Decide to Challenge Reichstag Leader.

epotidiecay sees, by the Press Pub. Co. w York World.) BERLIN, oun 23.—Six members of the Reichstag press gallery, which Centrist Leader Groeber insulted by hissing ‘Swine’ when he heard laugh- ter at @ speech of his colleague, have wearied of waiting for him to apoilo- gize and will challenge him to fight. The reporters’ strike has developed into a crisis. A mere piece of parlia- mentary vulgarity hs been magnified by lack of tact, and much blame for the situation is attached to Count Von Stol- berg-Weringerode, who persistently de- clined to call Greeber to order for his offensive word oy to denounce the act from the chair. There is intense curiosity as to to- day’s developments. Prince Von Bue- low is scheduled to make his speech on the Empire’s foreign policy, but the entire press is solid on the proposition that not one word of it shall be report- ed, and the Chancellor has no desire to waste his eloquence and his arguments on the members of the Reichstag. He wants to speak to the whole empire and the world as well, and the reporters, send are his only mouthpieces, are on strike. the Reichstag proceedings, even great organs like the Nord Duetsche Alle: gemeine Zeitung and the Imperial Ga- zette. The official telegraphic bureaus are in the strike. MORE WOLYES IN NEW YORK, \ BUT NOT ON WALL STREET Keepers in Zoological Garden Want to Take Cub Census, but Dare Not. NEW YORK, March 23.—Speculation Is rife among the keepers at the Bronx Zoological Garden& concerning the exact number of present inhabitants of the wolf den, and as a resulf two men have had narrow escapes while attempting to investigate. : “Snowball’’ and “Icicle,” Arctic wolves, who never were on Wall street, recently established an undergreund nursery in a burrow. The cubs, which were born about a week ago, have been carefully hidden from sight and the mothers have resist- ed every attempt to dislodge them. While naturally interested, the keep- ers have acquired a wholesome respect for sharp, white teeth and have decided te wait untill the cubs emerge. There may be anywhere from two to 16 of them, and wagers are being laid as to the exact number.

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Tillman Says He Is Improving. WASHINGTON, March 23.—Senator Tillman probably will be unable to re- turn to Washington during the remain- der of the present session of Con- gress. A telegram from his home in Seuth Carolina, received today, says: “I am _ slowly improving, but it is impossible even to guess when I will be able to return to Washington.” The Senator is suffering from nervous breakdown and partial aa! _paraly sis.

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Every newspaper declines to report! ~ [SWORD MIGHITER TOS 0 COU FUN MAKER FUR Was Genius of Post-Dis- patch Festivals and the Veiled Prophet. HE LOVED CHILDREN £

Provided Largest Christmas Tree in World for Coll- seum Events.

Thomas Couch, who will be buried Tuesday, furnished amusement for more persons than any man who ever lived in St. Louis. His two “great annual productions were the Veiled Prophet’s pageant and the Post-Dispatch Christ- mas Festival's Christmas tree. Through the medium of these he lit- erally entertained thousands. Almost from the inception of the Veiled Prophet’s organization his was the master mind that chose the theme for each succeeding parade, and designed the castumes and the grouping of the characters on the floats, preducing re- sults which made the Prophet fameus all over the South and West and at- tracted thousands to St. Louls for the fall festivities each year. Cheering His Reward. Every detail of the glittering pageant from the trappings on the horses’to the tricity was the result of his planning. A. modest salary and the cheering of the multitude were his rewards. His greatest pride in the parade was that it amused the children. It was his innate love of little folks that made him one of the most effective workers for the success of the great Post-Dispatch Christmas Festivals, at which thousands received food and gifts... __.. When the first of the festivals was planned, 10 years ago, the problem of finding a Christmas tree large enough to be conspicuous in the vast Coliseum was regarded as an insurmountable one until Mr. Couch came to the rescue ‘Just leave it to me,’ he sald. When the guests of the Post-Dispatch filed inte the big banquet room they gasped with astonishment. There was the largest Christmas tree in the world, beautifully decorated for them by the mysterious minions of the Veiled Prophet. Helped Festival Yearly. Each succeeding year Mr. Couch vol- unteered his services in obtaining and decorating a tree for the _ festival. When the Post-Dispatch Christmas cele- bration idea grew so that it was neces- sary to have several festivals simul- taneously he cheerfully provided a tree for each. Mr. Couch died at the Jewish Hospital early Sunday as the result of a throat affection, which caused strangulation. His funeral, at his home, 3509 Lafay- ette avenue, will be under the direction of the Masonic Lodge, of which he was a member, and, in accordance with his dying request, his pallbearers will be fellow members of the Cascade Hunting and Fishing Club. He is survived by his wife and a daughter. 69 OUT OF 75 BANKERS SAID TO OPPOSE ALDRICH BILL The Other Six Are -Reported to Regard It as “Better Than Nothing.” CHICAGO, March 23.—The Tribune to- day prints the result of a canvass of bankers in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michi- gan, Iowa and Indiana to ascertain their positions regarding the Aldrich bill. According to the returns 68 of 76 answers oppose the measure. The re maining six declare their belief that it would be better than nothing. In the letters the Aldrich bill is vari- ously termed a ‘patch in patches,” ‘“‘vadically and fundamentally impos- sible,’ ‘“‘a misfortune,’’ and “the best way to amend it is to kill ft.’ John H. Holliday, president of the Un- ion Trust Co. of Indianapolis, writes: “It prolongs the evil of,bond-secured currency and makes it much harder to establish that scientific system based upon the experience of the world which will have to be created at some time if prosperity is to exist and panics are to be prevented. What we need is a carefully wrought-out and comprehen- sive measure that will cover the whole field of currency.’ WOMAN FEARS FOR HUSBAND Thinks Missing Man May Be Wan- dering Demented Among Strangers. Mrs. James C. Wheeler, whose hns- band has been missing since Jan. 27, fears he may be wandering demented among sirangers. He left home while ‘ll, and the following day his wife re- ceived a note from him say'ng he was beund for the river, but as no body answering his description has been found, she hopes he uu not end his life. Wheeler is 52 years old, weighs 190 pounds and is tall and of medium build. He has brown hair, eyes and mus- tache, with a baki spot. When las‘ geen he wore a brown overcoat, gray suit, black derby hat and red flannei chest protector. He has a scar from an appendicitis operation. Chicage “LL.” Trains Crash; 25 Hurt. CHICAGO, March 23.—More than % persons were injured, some of them se. riously, in a rear-end collision between

Park “L” train, at State and Van Bu- ren streets, early today. The colliding

oe ie a ne ee THOUSANDS, DEAD} == ingenious lighting of the floats by elec~-“ a Northwestern and a Chicago & Oak |* POST DISPATCH —MARCH 23, 1908.

| ARCHITECT OF CATHEDRAL DIES hapa Fidlitz. Designed Christ Church,--St. ‘ Louis. NEW YORK, March 2.—For years one of the leaders in the architectural profession, Leopold Eidlitz died yester- day at his home on West Eighty-ninth street, at the agé@ of 84.

a henta. and studied architecture in Vienna. He was special supervising commissioner on the remodeling ef the State Capitol at Albany in 1875, and de- signed Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis; St. George’s Church, New York, and the Brooklyn Academy ef Music. Wages of 20,000 Men PLAINFIELD, Conn., About 20,000 Eastern Connecticut cotton operatives went to work today ata re-

Mr. Eidlits was born in Prague, Bo-

35 INJURED ON ELEVATED ROAD| =. Panic Follows Collision of Two Chi Trains CHICAGO, nd 23.—More ae ie ‘ty-five persons Ww end col 23.— i train three

—S==— coaches duction of 10 per cent in their wages. - oA’ panies followed’ the crash and many |

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The ‘New. Merry Widow Silk Dress I: Is Her (Registered Trade-Mark) TUN NIN G new caprice of Fashion shown tomorrow in St. Louis for the first time, and, of course, it is only fitting that it should be at Grand-Leg der, r, for this store is recognized as pre-eminent in the line of Women’s Apparel, lL. HIS fashion has come 5000 miles to St. Louis, and is an adoption from the costume worn in the celebrated waltz song, deriving its name from the sleeves and embroidery. HE Merry Widow ( ik piesistered ) Dress is the fad of the hour—even Pe having fallen under its spell, and ‘not only is the fit and style partie larly striking, but the new Hungarian embroidery imparts a particule distinctive effect. E will show in our corner window arep-. ' hiea of the original Merry Widow cos- tume as worn by the famed actress, Miss Ethel Jackson, who plays the part. T= adopted Merry Widow ( Fak tp Pes Dress is considerably softene od and toned down and made very practical, and should be one of the} most popular ‘styles for Spring. Every St. Louis woman | should come and see this new creation. of dress for present wearymade up of lustrous taffeta, in navy blue, black, golden brown, cadet blue, champagne and rose; outlined with appliqued linen in beautiful de- | It is just

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signs; full ruffled sleeves with overslip of silk; in kimono effect; the sl is full-kilted, with deep fold outlined. Notwithstanding that the Merr < Widow ( Registered, ) Dress is sold exclusively in St. Louis at Grand-Les we offer it at a very low price—$19.75. § Kan Cape is also here, fresh from the designer; planned to go with the. Merry Widow Dress, or for separate wear, showing the same Hungarian touches. Priced $17. 30. © JRASHION writers and designers will, of course, be here tomorrow to see ef the exhibition, but the invitation is general to the ony. of Ke: Louis | — and surrounding territory. (Third Floor.) <4 So as < oi —

Unparalleled Offerings in Lace Curtains, Portieres, Bed Sets

en Rep and Armure Portieres; trimmed with side border of Scotch tapes- try; in green, red or olive; worth $3.50 to $4.50 a pair; just 150 pairs; priced while they last at, per pair: .$2.50 BR” Sets of good quality net; trimmed with lace insertion and edge; deep flounce; large medallion in eenter of each: $5.00 value: on sale while they they last A SABIAN and French Novelty Curtains; in white or Arabian color; some dainty novelty patterns; oth- ers in heavy braid effects; worth $5.00 a pair; three to eight pairs to a patte er OO. sie <s F250 EAL Scotch Casement Cloth; for sill curtains in the library, dining-room, sitting-room or hall; dainty eolored figures on cream ground: 50 inehes’ wide;

at (Fourth worth 75¢ a yard, at....25c Floor.)

Underprice News of Rare Interest in The Carpet and Rug Section — : s

ee Fiber Carpets and Rugs—The most beautiful line C of patterns we. have ev 9x12-ft. Hodges Fiber Rugs..... er shown. Priced as follows: 9x'12-ft. Novelty Fiber Rugs............815.00 A complete line of Crex Matting and Rugs. Tapestry Brussels Rugs; size 9x1° feet; worth $15.00; at.. $11.75 Axminster Rugs; 8.3x10.6; worth $25.00; at ED Linoleum; newest printings; slightly damaged; otherwise these goods would sell for 85c a yard; while the quantity lasts we have priced them, per yard. 35e size Extra Heavy Axminster Rugs; ex- tra size (10.6x13.6) worth $43.50; — 7 Axminster Rugs; size 12x15 fe ie worth $47.50; at.....«.. #837. : Le A TuInSTER Rugs; size oxi? | feet Oriental patterns; this is our s 25.00 value at a saving of your choice for..

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Wall Paper ERY special values in low- priced Wall Papers are of- fered for Tuesday’s selling. We also carry a complete line of highest grade papers, priced up to $3.00 per roll.

le per roll for good Wall Papers, suitable for kitchen, bedrooms and back halls. 2\%,c per roll for light Bedroom Papers, worth 6c. 7c per roll for Store, Office and Hall Papers; new designs; all colors; good ‘value at 10c. 10c a roll for handsome striped Papers for libraries, smoking rooms and bedrooms; worth 18c. Varnished Tile Washable Papers; best grade; per roll, 15c. (Fourth Floor.)

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WE richly embroidered in baby, cannot buy for a good, round price. of the entire collection: secured from a large importer a vast quantity of con- vent-embroidered Shirt-Waist Patterns at an extraor- dinarily low price and offer them at figures that will create great enthusiasm. in the Lace Section. HESE are very beautiful Waist Patterns; floral and conventional designs: combined with Point de Venise and baby Irish lace insertion and medallions; others plain with drawn-worck effects; Values Up to $3.00 at $1.49 made of hatiste, some will make up into waists that you Three assortments have been made

Values Up to $4.00 at $1.98

Values Up to $5.00 at $2.49

(Main Floor.) | Hosiery Specials Fancy Vertical Striped Lisle f - Hose; plain black gauze : lisle lace, the wanted shades, also black; nicely embroidered. Eg instep; worth $1.50, $1.75 9 and #2.00; per pair, $1.19, Women’s Solid Color Lisle | Hose; opera shades ee black: nicely embroidered instep, also fancy plaids and | silk-embroidered Hose; in | ' high colors; per pair, 49e. Women's Fancy Checked Cot ton Hosiery; black si a broidered ; solid colors, also. . opera shades: 50¢ qual eee

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a ~ Blossom-Herbert saa Com- . edy Rich in Humor of oa Lines and Story. _ymucs TUNEFUL MUSIC 4

_ |.Montgomery and Stone Vast! y p. ’ Tickle Opening-Night Olympic Audience.

N “The Red Mill” at the Otddanic ee 3 last night four men took the lead in the American musical comedy Naga and came in first under _ the wire with the rest nowhere. | These four men were Henry Blossom _ nd Victor Herbert, librettist and com- poser of the work, and David Mont- | gomery and Fred A. Stone, its two star _/eomedians. The local verdict proclaim- ing them winners was rendered with . ‘grateful happiness—it’s so seldom now- adays that a musical comedy keeps one laughing unrestrainedly throughout an Bs entire evening and at the same time for- | tifies the laughter with a soundly melo- dious score and a clever dramatic plot. | This, however, is precisely what ‘The _ Red Mill” does, thanks to Blossom, Her- - bert, Montgomery and Stone. In addi- a ‘tion, too, one Charles Dillingham pro- ' @uces the play along _ beauty that make it a delight to the lines of scenic _ eye, and costumes it so that there isn’t first to last. "ne showing an old red windmill facing ' tan inn against a typical Dutch back- - |ground, the other a Holland interior of }blue Delft basic design, are genuine works of art, and scarcely less pleasing is the shrewdness with whigh every liv- ' ~ ting figure in these pictures is garbed to harmonize with them, finely empha- _ izing their visional appeal. It wouldn't ' £Obe fair to ignore this phase of the of- _ fering, uncommon though it seem to speak of art and musical comedy in one The two stage settings, of Montgomery and _ buttressed by genuinely tuneful compo- ee Stone. _ But, despite the fact that they are ee ‘surrounded by an excellent company, a sition, bright dialogue, a sanely amus- vi ‘ ing plot and this pictorial attractiveness just mentioned, Montgomery and Stone -—s-« we so astonishingly adequate in comedy oa: as almost to convince you that they _ could make “The Red Mill” go without ——

Montgomery and Stone in “The Red Mill’ Looked Thus to a Post-Dispatch Cartoonist

any of these accessorfes. The hilarity | begins with their first-act escape from the second-story window of the Red Mill Inn, the agile Mr. Stone achieving an incredible somersautting fall down a ladder, and it doesn’t cease until the last curtain. By this time you've seen them entan- gled in all sorts of funny plights as “Con’’ Kidder and ‘‘Kid’’ Conner, two young Americans ‘‘doing’’ Europe with- out money and without price, later pp @ jarring color note in the scheme from } working out their inn-score by serving, one as a waiter and the other as an in- terpreter, later still disguised as an Italian organ-grinding team, singing “Good-a-bye, John,” till tears of laugh- ter stream from your eyes, and, finally, as a burlesque Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, straightening out the kinks of their hapless affairs with a relishful resourcefulness that makes your sides sore at every kink-straightening pull. It’s Straight Comedy, Too—Not Gro- tesquerie, And along straight comedy lines most of the time, too—you'’d almost be will- ing to swear that they were not merely the grotesque Scarecrow and Tin Wood- man of their first big hit in ‘“‘The Wiz- ard of Oz,”’ so capable are they without grotesquerie. Fred Stone is the dom- inating figure of the team, but there are moments when Dave Montgomery runs him a close race in fun, notably in the “Good-a-bye, John’ sketch and the Sherlock Holmes tPavesty, Montgom-

ery’s ‘‘Marvelous!—Marvelous!”’ ag voic-

ae the more intelligent to the use _ Openly to the whole world a full eines. EY his full confidence. Dr. R. V. Pierce of Buffalo, N. Y., e a bold departure from the usual course pursued by the makers of . OPEN SECRETS _ To overcome the well-grounded and reasonable objections of of secret, medicinal compounds, some time ago decided to make oa put-up medicines for domestic use, and so published broadcast and and complete list of the ingredi- ' ents entering into the composition of his widely celebrated medi- Thus he has taken the many users of his medicines into Thus, too, he has absolutely and completely oe. removed his medicines from among secret nostrums of doubtful 3 merits, and made them remedies of known composition. sae ee Dr. Pierce's medicines are now in a class all by themselves,

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_- By this bold step Dr. Pierce

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Military Howors fer Secretary. WASHINGTON, March 23—The fu- neral of Arthur W. Ferguson, the late executive secretary of the Philippines. will_bé held tomorrow, with a full milf- tary honors. The burial of a civilian with military honors is unusual. The ee erecta natn

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Our tomatoes are all vine-ripened. — ae Our sauce has a sparkling zest i (tests We could buy tomato juice for 75c per barrel. Yet we pay $3.45 for just the tomatoes used in a barrel of ours Cheap sauce is made from tomatoes ‘picked green, end ripened in shipment. Or from scraps from a canning factory, — Our sauce is made solely from vine-ripened tomatoes, You will note its piquant tang. | We bake our tomato sauce into beans, to get our delicious blend | The beans, the tomato sauce and the pork are all baked Cae together. They are baked in live steam—not in dry heat. Thus the beans are baked until they are mealy, yet without bursting. The result is our beans are nutty,.not mushy. And we start with the whitest and plumpest of Michigan beans. oa ‘5 *. = ‘ ey ae ay ; a -]

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<vghite Beans, to be digestible, must be factory cooked. It requires a fierce heat to break down the fibre, and you cannot apply it. Out evens are heated to 245 degrees. Home-cooked beans ate heavy and hard to digest. But the heat makes Van Camp’s digestible. 10, 15 and 20* per can. Van Camp Packing Company, Barone a a ee te ee

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gate: ah Pe e's. & i by JOSEPH nee The Pulitzer lishing Co. N. Broadway. SU BSCRIPTION RATES, BY MAIL IN ADVANCZ: y and Sunday, one ne Yeats sisesoscee gs .00 . uly without Sunday, one year...ccccscess + $3.00 ay only, one VOOT. cece ceesecveesseseeces 00 Remit either by postal order, express money order St. Louis exchange. CIRCULATION GAINS For the Entire Year 1907 OVER 1906— 6540 Daily 9961 Sunday Grand Total Average 161,477

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Year 1906——-Daily—154, 937. Y St. Louis newspaper showing «FIRST IN EVERYTHING.”

IS THE LIGHT TRUST LAWLESS? It would be well if some consumer of elec-

tricity served by the North American Trust would - go into court with the question whether that - combination has a legal right in the first place to demand a contract and in the second place wheth- er it is justified in making charges that are not fa ‘all resyects equal when the conditions are the b ta In such ¢. case it probably would be found that the Trust is not conducting its business in har- _miony with its charter or with the generally ac- _ccpted rules of law governing corporations of that description in their relations to the public. Americans submit to more impositions need- lessly thar any other people on earth, and one reason why this is so is to be found in the fact that they are reluctant to appeal to the law in ‘fupport of their dearest rights. Thev never leck time or money to litigate small questions of _ Personal interest, but an issue affecting the whole American Trust is probably lawless. es it . ee ie #5 af : EA responsibility for the recent fire horror, a public public appears to stagger them. The course now entered upon by the North If so, the fact could soon be made to appear in the proper court. RESPONSIBILITY ‘FOR FIRE TRAPS. The Coroner’s jury at Collinwood having ex- onerated the local school authorities from all

_ ®ieeting has been held at which resolutions con- on 2 By &y ‘ adopted. ' demning all concerned and appealing to Congress and the President for national legislation were We have in this action an excellent illustration , cf the reasoning and the methods by which the activities of the Federal Government have been widely extended in many fields. The impotency ‘of local laws and local officials in the presence of a great wrong is always exasperating, but there is no certainty that Federal processes, im- possible, of course, in this case, would be much ! _ muore satisfactory. Ke They: need not look to Washington. People who would have the lives of their chil- dren safeguarded in the public schools have no surer remedy than that which Is directly at hand. They must address themselves to their own local authori- _ ties, men whom they meet every day, men whom _ they elect to office, men whom they pay, and _ men who want to stand well with their neighbors. “ae opinion should persist in that demand. Public Public Fire-trap schools should be closed. _ opinion should fix the responsibility in every # case where that demand is ignored. Then, when _ the day of inevitable disaster arrives, public opin- fon will have little difficulty in sending somebody to the penitentiary. 2 ene

DISPOSING OF AN ATHLETIC JUDGE. On account of a decision which he rendered in fe the Circuit Court, the Black Handers carelessly ? d to visit corporal punishment on Judge Daniel E. Taylor. We trust that their instinct cf self-preservation has caused them to recon- _ sider their rashness by this time. Should they fatuously proceed, they will find that they have a large contract on their black ee cate a 1 hands full, so to say. tot only a Daniel come to judgment and an intel- For here is _lectual giant, but a veritable unshorn Samson ‘as well, who is, moreover, a trained athlete; and the best they could expect from him would be : the playful indulgence that Gulliver displayed towards the Black Hand who beset him in Lilli- _ We commend oy local Blaci: Hand to try some- _ thing easier, say 4 Frank Hussey, a Jimmy Miles or a Billy Schoenlaub.

SEAT SPECULATORS IN ST. LOUIS. St. Louis is getting entirely too cosmopolitan to be comfortable if the story related of the Olympic Theater by a contributor to “Letters _From the People” be conclusive. Says he: Thursday I went to the Olympic Theater to se- “ure seats for Monday night to see “The Red Mill.” The sale of seats opened at 9 a. m., and after being in line for 4 minutes and being the 24th to apply for tickets, was told that the whole lower section had been sold out and that the best seats to be had were the 12th row. $2.00, and being unable to secure satisfactory seats, The price charged for this show is An explanation by the maragement is fairly due @) the public, in view of this strong indication that In plain English, box office receipts will fall off. Cosmopolitan enough in some other respects, this town is still too provincial to tolerate the

e resident is now suing his neighbors for unitive damages for maliciously throwing mud = What Cabanne place needs to vent its bad | pockets. THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD. No one thing is of more importance to the peo- ple of St. Louis at this moment than the creation of the Public Utilities Commission provided for by the act of last spring. There was real public sentiment behind the movement which resulted in the passage of that law. The Governor recognized it and the Legis- lature came at last to a full appreciation of it. Every reason which urged action at that time is even more powerful now, and yet public in- terest has died out and local officialdom, indif- ferent if not corrupt, sleeps. It would be a great thing for this town if suf- ficient influence could be brought upon the House cf Delegates within the next week or two to persuade it to pass the Council bill providing for the appointment of a commission. Almost any action that may now be taken will be ex- perimental, but no progress can be looked for without a move of some kind. In many ways public regulation of the service and the charges of corporations enjoying price- less franchises and grants is the most important question now before the people of great cities. Ii affects their lives, their convenience and their In some places the power is lacking. In St. Louis we have gained the power, but we co not use it. It is not enough now and it never was enough under a republican form of government to vote once in favor of a desired policy or principle To put it into force there must be a continuing interest and an unfaltering demand. Popular government moves with celerity in behalf of fa- vored interests, for they are always at hand to urge their claims. If the people are not equally vigilant and insistent they may be sure that government will be a laggard and it may be worse. Public service corporations in St. about as they please. They adopt policies and make charges to suit themselves and when they are challenged we must be content with the ex- jlanations and excuses that they see fit to make. A commission charged with the duty of investi- guting conditions and recommending changes on these subjects, which would not only en- lighten public opinion but awaken it as well. The Municipal Assembly has been empowered to regulate those corporations. Its authority is ample. While it may be that the power has been misplaced and should reside elsewhere, we shall never know definitely as to that until an honest attempt shall have been made to use it. We shall not witness this attempt unless the House of Delegates can be persuaded to act. Small jealousies, personal greed, hope of preferment and of spoils and perhaps the evil arts! of the interested corporations, have combined to defer action of .any kind for months. Shall the mandate of the people he diaregarAced and the interests of the peo- ple be sacrificed in this manner without a protest ? ase vv

THE INFINITESIMAL CAUSE OF FIRES. The Grand Pacific Hotel fire in Chicago cost $100,000 and endangered many lives. It was caused by so small a thing as a crossing of elec- tric light wires. Of all the causes of fires in cities, defective wiring is at once the commonest and the most casily preventable. There may be no preventing az cow from kicking over a lamp, but nothing is simpler than to wire a house properly. In view of the known frequency of this cause and in view of the simple and inexpensive nature of the necessary prevention, municipalities could well afford to order double and triple precau- tions in the wiring of all houses. That cities are not burned down every night is proof that per- fect wiring is practicable and cheap, but that too much property and too many lives are constantly being destroyed by the want of it is equally man- ifest. ‘= * — SS LADIES AND LAW. Judge Tracy’s natural gallantry properly enough caused him to reduce a fine to the mini- nium in the case of a lady arrested for speeding in a motor car. ‘Because,’ he said, ‘‘she is a woman and naturally chafes against the laws mere man imposes.” It is well to be lenient with ladies, but it is a fundamental mistake bordering upon the errors of the suffragettes to assume that mere man has im- posed laws in which woman has had no hand. The n.oral law, at the basis of most law, is her ex- clusive creation. She, herself, is the “home,” which is the cornerstone of society and civiliza- tion. She is the church mainly, and what is more, she is the sewing circle. In a very potent way she is the legislature and the executive. How large a hand she is taking in the statutory gcvernment of these United States is manifest by a glance at the prohibition map. Pretty soon meére man may be clamoring for his own émanci- pation from skirts, and there will then be a re- action in favor of punishing ladies to the limit. A half dozen laborers are indefatigably engaged in preparing the site for the new Carnegie Li- brary at Thirteenth and Olive streets. This com- rendable activity if pursued without interruption will make it possible to begin work on the library foundation by A. D. 1923. Tanner, the celebrated faster, invites Adolphus Busch to a fasting contest to test the relative nutritious qualities of water and beer, but Tan- ner does not specify which of them shall drink the beer. Does Tanner want that side of it him- self?

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M. —Rogers played in Sc Leuis this E. B.—There is no niece may marry trod at the Grand KENMORE.—The mate off ex iad schools has not yet been determined — J. M. N.—The polar inmeter te os to be siasarenia: Bhgyte nes -asu ment. Ou.7 Oa Pes yg .—June Il, ov a Tuesday; Wednesday. HEIR.—Write H London, and have to a solicitor. J. A. R.~—Your — = ligible. There can be no reading out sight or touch. | ae Court of Cha im refer the : A. 8.—Try ng vaseline on face heme lethertoy bid ened some Whee ee * Cc. Ln. G.—As cumulation of aire GERMANY.—No one can hold from a young woman of ticles she money. abil de eau * becmiisa could ge ages celving notice in regard to to do plumbing. F.—Deed hy, a husband would and husband would retain the ; tate as her trusteee. ee K.—Uncle Somuel is 80 ‘ barbarian that ba pn. ~ 2 myeh officials to sa Lok poeiaet are to women in por B.—We cannot see how landlord os be held reasonable for some tenant’s furnishings left bel vacating four months ago. A. D.—Providing real estate is f copy of will should be | office of the Recerder of six months after probate. A.—The chance that there are germs in the clothes that Aang . laundries is remote. is the best destroyers of germs. STEVENSON.—An that resembles an wee man nose is slightly The cian nose you may see on orery silver dollar. §.—Write to the ge of T District Court. re form you fully ment. Be sure OLD.—If your your chickens a i yard, and he but to protect 9 see what you gin with a lawyer. Ss. E.—S al Comm a of Real Estate is an ppointe< by Court capectaiiy 2 for og purpose o conducting and selling certain. pro ties. Such officers appointed to asst Court in any particular st READER,.—If the married man | and you have reasons ‘tosbelieve ways will be, it would be foolish on the note, to obtain a 7 debt being a omar one. — would have to by same be included * apemycter 8s RE¥NOLDS.—For head head and hair with coal or four hours; wash th water with good soap. again in good, strong vin with soap and water. to be picked out. R.—White — Ll garth part honey and two pa alum. Dry thoroughly. rie ae shallow dish over ire Cool, wash and rub gum ‘water to use. paper: Use oxalic acid aud, bleaches the paper, leaving —Scientific American tesy (life interes in all. of his wife, a go sion passes to the intesta dren or descendan To erty and convey & good title title necessary for her wife's children, also the per bel z y such childra@:, to ance. A. F. W.—The tax was proper é | port you made to assessor; og wa taxed on the sum you June 1, 1907, and had not with what you were worth a date. hasing the roperty you Phe (customary) pro-rating | with seller, in which event payment would have been duced. NAVY.-—Maxim declares he upon a new means of 4 will drive his su nes at a an hour and his corpedeas ata minute. At the present time s, 0 ing and diving again consume © nly seconds for a submarine. tions measure the time of gun-fire, . should the shown when a su once detected by the om F. F.—To color lace for a x cure a tube of Lg anne Py the j into a larger of the lace into ft more gasoline_un is obtained. put all the minutes take , dry in the open the op Pe 2 ‘ame. stam iaiadt, the middie, am sorry. a MAUDE.—Gowland's lotion ip & POF lar remedy for alb-the-® car-round © klesws and for the ment OF patches: Jorean. a ounce; bitter aime | Gall the water: make, the, aime e wa : e ar an og an rected fo or # a A anh £1

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PART II. OSHUA BUNCE, bachelor, physi- J clan, guide and friend to hundreds of St. Louls women, is a re- markable man. He is 50, bald, smooth- shaven, knows horses and can order a dit.ner. His practice is large and profit- able. He has investments of considera- ble magnitude. But it is not on these heads that I call him remarkable. Be- enuse of a certain indefinable some- thing about him women love him. He has stirred hearts since he began prac- tice and has rejected more proposals of marriage than the Lonely Club has of- fered since leap year began. Now for his remarkable side—he is not conceited. Bunce was very fond of Bellg. He made her an offer of marriage with the special provision that she could say yes any time she wished, but he would not lear her say no. Not being prepared to n.ccept him she remained his good friend. Bunce called often at the flat and the gris entertained him en masse. They made him useful hanging pictures and eich like man services. Anna shook the ladder under him when he had seated himself on the top to admire his handiwork. “Come down to dinner.” “Go ‘way, little gir!,”” he said, “don't talk to the motorman.” ‘Little girl!’ €niffed Rose. “Oh, the cute ‘ittle sing. Five-foot-seven littl: girl!” “Course, she’s a little girl,”” said Bunce, coming down from his perch. “J meant years, not inches.” “TIow old do you think I am?’ Anna asked soberly. ‘‘Honest, now!” “Twenty.” “and a few more. Say, Rose, what was that problem of Clara’s age? See if he can solve it.’’

HOW OLD IS CLARA? HERE are five girls in the flat. Rose savs: “Our com- bined ages are 132 years. I am °8. Clara is one-half as old as I am plus one-fourth Bella’s age. How old is Clare?’ “She's two years younger than me,” says Vera. “and I'm two years younger than Anna.” Problem: How old is Clara? The Post-Dispatch offers 8% prize of FIVE DOLLARS for the correct solution. A typographical error in Sat- urday’s installment made a #0- lution of the problem itmpossi- ble. t

not fail to reveal that fact. And when he was released he became a secret in- mate of the flat. - When Mary’s secret was disclqsed [el- la discharged her instanter as Bunce had advised if ever Fleming should find them. Kate, the laundress, succeeded her and the grocery bills mounted ranid- lv for there were several persons? in Kate's family and they. needed food. Alice, Emma, Lena, Jane, Lily and Pear! followed in quick succession. The three vertical wrinkles over Bella's nose became deep creases. She was ever in the depth of some housekeeping difficulty. If it wasn't the maid it was the laundress, or the bills. After the first month's experience they had reduced the share of each girl to $5 a week, for there had been a $50 surplus and it was agreed that the first month must necessarily be the most expensive. But the girls were very foi d of inviting friénds, and now that they

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Bella, as treasurer, faced two or three} ——... F | Ras eee pee who ts eight years younger than Bella. small deficits, and made them up from| 2 © ~ . pyc second position, the paper contains 65 CASTO -» FROM MAIL TO LEATHER. HOW ABOUT DODGE CITY? square inches, viz: 13x5 inches; 65 L® For Infants and Child * Tam 28. Clara is half my age, plus one-|"€" OWn purse. When with the approach WOMEN WHO DRESS IN PUBLIC. Fram the Buffalo Express. From the Chicago Tribune. square inches. fourth Bella’s age. All our ages total of winter the coal problem presented it Jerusalem has seen many surprising / “tias this country no free preés?” de-| The question is, how and where is fhe Kind You Have self she called on the girls for contri- mea ity

rs 132.’’ 0 Eee : Bunce wiped his perspiring bald head. butions. Bunce—oh, there had to be ea Parte ais . werent cu GREE yy ge tousac ti SA ae figures in its time. One was the cru- mands an c rator. This i : ‘. —s “Love us!” he cried. “Do I have to/™an in the family—told them they would Men Censure a Habit for Which Betty Bradden Finds Some |{*89er 1m Bis coat of mail. the other a ae Sous i ene ~ [eee extre: one neh: Geen. work that sum on an empty stomach? need nine tons, which, at $8.25, would . ” was the automobilist who reached there | GUeCSst« ee ROBERT C. GOULD. Bears the Give me something to eat and then amount to $14.85 each. | Ev rcuses. on Friday in a coat of leather. will not be able to dodge. : Signature of we'll see.” Vera demurred. Why should they buy . me aera a SL LS It was the first time he had dined|8® Much at one time? Why wouldn't — in the flat. Mary Fleming outdid ali two or three tons do for a starter? T HE expected has happened—women are being censured by the other sex <a her previous efforts. Bunce carved and , Becauge the price goes up each for the nonchalant manner in which they put the finishing touches to is nee Bella served at the urn. month, ’ Bella answered decisively. : their toilet in public. Men are —- if we cannot be brought to a i Bee otis “Isn’t he expert,’’ said Vera, fascinat- Vera did not seem to be convinced. ome egeg nenee of the unpleasant apedtects of paindreasing and the readjust- se ed by Bunce's facile carving of the Clara was a quiet second to the oppos!- gat ee belt and other nts, age in mane 8 and other public places. 2 Ses < . turkey. tion. am afraid the habit is too firmly fixed eg be easily Gap mced. It began + : | Y he wemtit to be: he has cut up enough| Bella offered to loan them their share, ce — re Se ae, — “ sagas ain gown cao rt Se ee . = dag os mes but tis did not alter their positi , tered by a hat and removing one that has been carefully placed and securely a in hia life,” Anna remarked. — fastened disarranges a coiffure. A few pats will generally r oe “What a horrible witticism.” Clara discussion went over several days «i . _— ; s S etal oe the damage iv oe OF ‘t think you'd | repetitions. and there should be no objection to them admit that combing one’s hair in . was shocked 5 sheulén’t Then A di ered ae public is bad form, quite as bad as conbing a moustache or cleaning nails, ee, refer to surgical operations at the ta- sadn ol as oa underlying faults sometimes noted in men. ce og | ble.” , : , There is no excuse for reafranging aly portion of a costume. unless {it has ; a Bre ae In round-eyed astonishment, Anna Fred. Hammer was on the verge of come to grief through accident. Every garment and each accessory should be ae "——s: turned to the youngest member. “‘I did proposal. 30 securely fastened in place that one can forget them. Careful women never . not refer to the doctor's surgical opera-| At first the other girls—Clara knew "| think about their personal appearance after they are satisfied that each detail a ; tions. I will diagram my little bit of | #1 the time—did not see that Anna’s],.,, been properly attended to. You never see them fussing with stock. belt or : persifiage: To cut up means to skylark, détettion would affect their expense ac- sxirt or even their hair, because they wear no hat or remove it in the dressing | “ to be foolish on occasions, to have a|count. They saw only the romance. room, where they can have the advantage of a mirror. ‘i * good time, to shine around, to’ — Hammer suddenly rose from the post- I have had occasion to note the tendiney towards better manners, in both a e on ence : “Hang pictures and dine at “The tion of a mere follower to importance. |<¢xes. Toothpicks are oceasionally seen in public. but rarely in the mouth of a 2 Roost,’ interjected the doctor. ‘“‘Who|Al!! the girls were nice as they could be] woman. Once in a while a man cleans his finger nails in a car or some eS shall I serve first? Lets see, my eti- to him. They petted him inordinately, | waiting place, but the practice is not ge:eral. There is plenty of room for ad “Se quette book says the oldest.” deferred to him, asked him to dine as|improvement even yet, as we all realize when some woman hastily sits down in a “You'll have to work Rose’s problem |°ften as they dared and exhibited to/ he car seat we are occupying without aliowing time for us to brush aside our omen ] O 3 first if you're going to apply that rule,” him Vera's most charming attributes. skirts and pick up packages. She has a right to the seat, but she might assert iS . Bella retninded him. You would have fthought Hammer fit a little less offensively. ’ a i “Then you'll have to settle it your-| 40 Italian duke 9 all the girls Vera's | ————__—______"_— oe Soro 88 ROO en be ey elven,” match-crazy mothers. i 7 " ag : It was a gay dinner, with abundance} No one ever went with him and Vera No matter what the death cer Three ti mes re cently hi S th e price * of foolish talk and afterward Fred Ham- | into the parlor after dinner. They noted|tificate says, the fundamental O Need ee mer called. As Mary Fleming expressed | his progress as a chemist watches his half the death a ur : ce of Water. ae a » Seat cause of one-half the deaths re Bate a q it, he was one of Vera's followers. Bel- | test tubes. : . | | - ‘ita wanted to give them the parlor, but| One night when he was gone—it was/eorded is constipation. Cure HYSIOLOGISTS tell us that the a ae ’ ; Is were all in bed— : . : er __—s«&SWera wouldn't hear of it, though Fredjlate and the gir ' f the habit by eating P animal body consists of _- was plainiy embarrassed in so large aj| Vera waked Clara to see a diamond ring. yourself of the y per cent a ea Srclnaran ged . tompany. However, Anna played the/Clara shrieked and the other girls ran daily to be true, it would seem sinuiihia ence ‘os rented piano, they sang and the even-/in to learn the cause, They saw the aa Miia Setomk teat sete nde a4 . ing passed very pleasantly. ring and shrieked also, and fell upon \ \/ is necessary in order to carry on the ee When the men were gone, SBertNa| Vera's neck with wild congratulations. _ .@tpetehed her arms above; her head.| Bella, the morning after cast up ac- normal physiological processes of the animal economy in proper conditi “Whoop-ee!"’ she said softly. ‘‘This is|counts and saw whither The Roost was . _ some like—to have your own home,/tending. She called on Clara, Anna and WHEAT FLAKE CELERY pear plausible that should this quantity For similar reasons it would also ap- _ where you can receive your own friends/ Rose for $18.55 on account of coal and int any way be greatly reduced or dimin

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as “Tt is lovely,” said Anna «and Vera DISPATCH TOMORROW | ae S S ° cesses, this lost quantity must immedi- 5 Oe *a4° . 3 fe aes a dees ~ sae Pee eg ce ately be resupplied. Should such a with- edition has exceeded a million e this - SUE, ; F . crawa!l of water be permitted to be un- ? :. , eS BS cha ro we lute or fly in the which is made from the whole duly prolonged the disorders wil! as- * ; eae COHONE . OF on the horizon was = : : sume such grave dimensions a A =—s Mary Fieming’s husband. She had en- ®@ grain of the wheat berry A Naae may wrcunately Se snd esdPlani P | : 4 Se _. ured 13 years of married torment and Ilasifelty and pliability of muscles April Number 18 3 : a eae Fleming had become more of a habi: Conquer That For Sale by all Grocers nerves, cartilage. tendons and even fe » with her than she realised. The Roost Cough bones depend mainly on the amount of Pe ak was luxurious to her notion and she D * end with a water they contain. Water also serves * ' .. a, wad the place to herself all dey long. esate prepa as a distributer of bodily heat and reg- ] 10 O 1e8s8 eS --—s The work was light for her strong arms or ae abe: iow tot fe viates the body temperature by the 9 9 A AS and her neat little room was a continu. antag A ha Heber ‘Re . * physical process of absorption and elin,, % ae ee ees macenmingty ri becomes The cough OW 1isn t ination. ‘ otf ; Under normal conditions ana . . ey --. —- what Fleming was doing. She had to —- . go back to the neighborhood at Ninth tee and O'Fallon to learn. He was sober. a oo was boarding with a widow and had + been at work steadily during the month becomes more violent and exhausting: the del- feate bronchia! passages get inflamed under the continual hacking: the lungs become lacerated under the constantly re- Curring paroxysms.

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there? ca oe a te During these four years and a half it 4 : Suns ak ween has printed and actually sold over 56 e There’s a satisfaction in | "+ °f water—provided it is not car- TTE . ‘ ‘ knowing that your baking [oct ce seo ever millions of magazines. This without “soe get Sao sample copies, premiums, gifts or - eee one | ALPHABET GAME. | clubbing. Every copy bought at its - There couldn’t be better Ly PE ys St same or 9 full price. The reason is simple: THE - (ide oe |e Lapras’ Hons Jounsan tne she aaa phabet in regular order. For example: dence of American women. . know it. It’s casy for you | A beautiful creature discoursed every Friday, giving her impressions joyously. Kind, lovable man now objected. pro- pounding quite rudely several timely un- The Curtis Publishing Company | e beliefs, varied with xylophone yearn- ings. Zounds! Philadelphia -. The game may be varied by using the ‘- letters backward, from Z to A. For the “a best story a prize should be given. S THE LATEST THROBBING ISSUE. From the New York World. i “Did Lincoln ever take a drink?” Fit 3 successor to that question of old: “Did George “Washington swear?’ History hints at language of a certain sort th- spired in the Father of His Couniry bd: circumstances at Monmouth. Was there ever a cocktall in the Campaigns of Unele Abe? Let an age of practical men | Se ato settlement. . | i | i} 2 Lf . 7 sae & sa gl aie % ihe T peer? Cacao

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16 PART II. A? ben BUNCE, bachelor, physi- HOW OLD IS CLAR HERE are five girls in the flat. Rose savs: “Our com- bined ages are 132 years. I am °8. Clara is one-half as old as I am plus one-fourth Bella's age. cian, guide and friend to hundreds of St. Louls women, is a re- markable man. He is 50, bald, smooth- | shaven, knows horses and can order a dit.ner. His practice is Jarge and profit- cst Cha te caer” able. He has investments of considera- Mets 406. OE younger than ble magnitude. But it is not on these Bee suchen? Paws ak ie hte heads that I call him remarkable. Be- i RR es enuse of a certain indefinable some- gets SS .. ai thing about him women love him. He roblem: How o “ . ta has stirred hearts since he began prac- The Permnpane offer . tice and has rejected more proposals of prize of FIVE DOLLARS for the correct solution.

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marriage than the Lonely Club has of- fered since leaj year began. Now for his remarkable side—he is not conceited. Bunce was very fond of Bellqa. He made her an offer of marriage with the special provision that she could say yes any time she wished, but he would not hear her say no. Not being prepared to nccept him she remained his good friend. Bunce called often at the flat and the girls entertained him en masse. They made him useful hanging pictures and eich like man services. Anna shook the ladder under him when he had seated himself on the top to admire his handiwork. “‘Come down to dinner.” : “Go ‘way, little girl,” he said, “‘don’t talk to the motorman.” ‘Little girl!’ sniffed Rose. “Oh, the cute ‘ittle sing. Five-foot-seven little girl!” “Course, she’s a little girl.”’ said Bunce, coming down from his perch. ‘'] meant years, not inches.”’ “Tiow old do you think I am?’ Anna asked soberly. ‘‘Honest, now!’’ “Twenty.” “And a few more. Say, Rose, what was that problem of Clara’s age? See if he can solve it.” “Anna is four years oider than Clara, who is two years younger than Vera, who is eight years younger than Bella. lam 2. Clara is half my age, plus one- fourth Bella's age. All our ages total! Tag Bunce wiped his perspiring bald head. “Love us!’ he cried. “Do I have to work that sum on an empty stomach? Give me something to eat and then we'll see.’’ It was the first time he had dined in the flat. Mary Fleming outdid ali her previous efforts. Bunce carved and Bella served at the urn. “Isn't he expert,’’ said Vera, fascinat- ed by Bunce's facile carving of the young turkey. “He ought to be; he has cut up enough in hig lfe,”” Anna remarked. “What a horrible witticism.’’ Clara was shocked. “I shouldn‘t think you'd refer to surgical operations at the ta- ble.”’ In round-eyed astonishment, Anna turned to the youngest member. “I did not refer to the doctor's surgical opera- tions. I will diagram my little bit of persiflage: To cut up means to skylark, to be foolish on occasions, to have .a good time, to shine around, to’ — “Hang pictures and dine at “The Roost,’ ”’ interjected the doctor. ‘‘Who ‘shall I serve first? Lets see, my eti- quette book says the oldest.”’ ‘You'll have to work Rose's problem first if you're going to apply that rule,” . Bella reminded him. “Then you'll have to settle it your- selven,”’ It was a gay dinner, with abundance of foolish talk and afterward Fred Ham- mer called. As Mary Fleming expressed it, he was one of Vera's followers. Bel- Ja wanted to give them the parlor, but Vera wouldn't hear of it, though Fred ‘was plainly embarrassed in so large a _ Company. However, Anna played the rented piano, they sang and the even- ing passed very pleasantly. When the men were gone, Bertha | gtpetched her arms above her head. - “Whoop-ee!"’ she sald softly. ‘‘This ts / = ome like—to have your own home, where you can receive your own friends and not be ashamed of the entertain- ment you offer.”’ “Tt Is lovely,” said Anna and Vera goftly played with one finger ‘‘Home, Sweet Home.’ ’ The first rift in the lute or fly in the ointment or cloud on the horizon was ’ Mary Fleming's husband. She had en- @ured 13 years of married torment anf Fleming had become more of a habi! fo _ with her than she realized. The Roost was luxurious to her notion and she had the place to herself all day long. The work was light for her strong arms A typographical error itn Sat- urday’s inatallment made a s0- lution of the problem impossi- ble.

not fail to reveal that fact. And when he was released he became a secret in- mate of the flat. When Mary's secret was disclqsed [el- la discharged her instanter as Bunce had advised if ever Fleming should find them. Kate, the laundress, succeeded her and the grocery bills mounted rapid- ly for there were several persons’ in Kate's family and they needed food. Alice, Emma, Lena, Jane, Lily and Pearl followed in quick succession. The three vertical wrinkles over Bella’s nose became deep creases. She was ever in the depth of some housekeeping difficulty. If it wasn't the maid it was the laundress, or the bills. After the first month's experience they had reduced the share of each gir] to $5 a week, for there had been a $50 surplus and it was agreed that the first month must necessarily be the most expensive. But the girls were very foi d of inviting friends, and now that they had a home. of their own. Bella, as treasurer, faced two or three small deficits, and made them up from her own purse. When with the approach of winter the coal problem presented it self she called on the girls for contri- butions. Bunce—oh, there had to be a man in the family—told them they would need nine tons, which, at $8.25, would amount to $14.85 each. Vera demurred. Why should they buy so much at one time? Why wouldn’t two or three tons do for a starter? “secause the price goes up each month,” Bella answered decisively. Vera did not seem to be convinced. Clara was a quiet second to the oppos!- tion. Bella offered to loan them their share, but t.is did not alter their position. The discussion went over several days 1 repetitions. Then Anna discovered the underlying cause of Vera’s opposition. Fred. Hammer was on the verge of proposal. At first the other girls—Clara knew 1 all the time—did not see that Anna’s defection would affect their expense ac- count. They saw only the romance. Hammer suddenly rose from the posi- tion of a mere follower to importance. All the girls were nice as they could be to him. They petted him inordinately, deferred to him, asked him to dine as often as they dared and exhibited to him Vera’s most charming attributes. You would have fhought Hammer an Italian duke and all the girls Vera's match-crazy mothers. No one ever went with him and Vera into the parlor after dinner. They noted his progress as a chemist watches his test tubes. One night when he was gone—it was late and the girls were all in bed— Vera waked Clara to see a diamond ring. Clara shrieked and the other giris ran in to learn the cause. They saw the ring and shrieked also, and fell upon Vera’s neck with wild congratulations. Bella, the morning after cast up ac- counts and saw whither The Roost was tending. She called on Clara, Anna and Rose for $18.55 on account of coal and they paid up, but their faces were long. TO BE CONTINUED IN THE POST- DISPATCH TOMORROW. a ee eee : PISO’S Conquer That Cough Don't go around with a mortgage on your chest. Every day that you let it

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WOMEN WHO DRESS IN PUBLIC. Men Censure a Habit for Which Betty Bradden Finds Some Eurcu SCS,

for the nonchalant manner in which they put the finishing touches to their toilet in public. Men are asking if we cannot be brought to a realizing sense of the unpleasant spectacle of hairdressing and the readjust- ment of collar, belt and other accesormes in theaters and other public places. l am.afraid the habit is too firmly fixed to be easily displaced. It began when the edict concerning hats at theaters was issued. The hair is always flat- tered by a hat and removing one that has been carefully placed and securely fastened disarranges a coiffure. A few pats will generally repair the damage and there should be no objection to them I admit that combing one’s hair in public is bad form, quite as bad as con¥ing a moustache or cleaning nails, faults sometimes noted in men. There is no excuse for reafranging any portion of a costume, wnless it has come to grief through accident. Every garment and each accessory should be 30 securely fastened in place that one can forget them. Careful women never think about their personal appearance after they are satisfied that each detail has been properly attended to. You never see them fussing with stock. belt or scxirt or even their hair, because they wear no hat or remove it in the dressing room, where they can have the advantage of a mirror. I have had occasion to note the tend« ney towards better manners, in both sexes. Toothpicks are occasionally seen in public. but rarely in the mouth of a woman, Once in a while a man cleans his finger nails in a car or some waiting place, but the practice is not ge::eral. There is plenty of room for improvement even yet, as we all realize when some woman hastily sits down in the car seat we are occupying without al‘owing time for us to brush aside our skirts and pick up packages. She has a right to the seat, but she might assert T HE expected has happened—women are being censured by the other sex

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What the Confidence of Women Will Do a «foe EL ec Se oo ee Three times recently has the price of THE LapiEs’ HoME JOURNAL been increased; the magazine has passed through a financial depression without harm, yet in not a single month for four years and a half has its circulation even touched the million mark. Each edition has exceeded a million; this April Number is 1100,000 Copies : seth re PS ~— = & ba : ; i ies + 2 Le Si + a « : rl K - eee . ? ‘ ea ; : ri ; 4 be i ‘ 3 - aah ¥ _. and her neat little room was a continu- gl joy. But she wondered unceasingly what Fleming was doing. She had to ' . go back to the neighborhood at Ninth and O'Fallon to learn. He was sober. was boarding with a widow and had _* been at work steadily during the month be a Of Mary's absence. remain. the tighter its grip becomes. The cough becomes more violent and exhausting: the del- icate bronchial passages get inflamed under the continual hacking: the lungs become lacerated e 3 7g aes Bee oy & and partir by the drink we are dally there? Seedity tabidied vary to nna During these four years and a half it There’s - tisf : : ag eo An ~ebirkingretrsace in the has printed and actually sold over 56 sa action. im |Us¢ of Wwater—provided it is not car- er:

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ators Hope to Meet Today After ‘ ae he ei ' Three Days of Loafing. i omens rene eee BY JAMES CRUSINBERRY. IUSTON, Tex., March 23.—After » begai ’ three days of lounging in the hotel, the : r and Washington will clash to- + the Houston grounds, providing 1 will shine forth for a few and dry up the water and mud. ger Joe Cantillon held his sen- lal tribe ever another day with the that a game would be possible, and B big crowd is likely to attend anyway, nad the people here have become in- ensely aroused over the batties between j big league tail end clubs. © lon has Bert, Keeley, the former “hicago semi-professional player, as "one of his pitchers, and Falkenberg to isip him out. McCloskey will use Kar- ‘ger, and if any help is needed Fromme or nbotham will be at hand. : ' Caniilion's club really looks lively this Year and he has picked up a pitching ®@taff that should be admired all over = the circult. He has found a wonder in young Burns. and if Walter Johnson "Pecovers from his operation soon the “Senators are going to cut some figure “in _ the race. » Cantillon has a strong trio of out- Ss, but his infield is not yet per- Cardinals will pack their grips the game today with the Sen- -@tors and track over to Austin during the night to caper for a couple of days ‘there. Eixpenses are guaranteed and a pPrcentage of the gate receipis besides. "hile the regulars are over there the site will take on the Houston club for mone of games un the local diamond. > Washington will return here again Next Saturday and Sunday ‘for two ames as a wind-up, and then the Car- @inals will break camp and start the hi torming trip home. It will be a 25, Us) week for McCloskey and his boys "and these games are expected to give “the player their final touch of perfec- tion for the opening of the series in . Louls with the Browns. President Robison left for St. Louis st night and will stop at Dalias one ' day. fore leaving he made an agree- "Ment to train the Cardinals at Hous- ton again next year. Murray and Barry Certain. Murray in center field and Barry in ht .are absolute cinches. The posi- tion of left fielder is being fought out Siween Delehanty and Shaw, although both will be retained, as the team will parr: an extra outfielder. Del is re- 'Barded a heavy hitter, but Shaw, too, "has been pasting the ball out in good “Tashion lately, and seems able to hit Deth right and left handed pitchers. ' The Shaw stock has gone up consid- @rably in the last few days. He has Deen plaving a great game in the out- feild, and his work at the bat has been excellent. Delehanty is not fully in Shape yet, but is rapidly coming arourid. he general health of the Cardinals they started their training here Has been good. Only two men have been sick. ert’s illness was due to “@ cold, brought about by his working too hard immediately upon his arrival here from Hot Springs. Hurley was the ey > ae + hat « ty * * a 0, 4 3 “a hinges ~- Gs eying “ee es os ¥ ) te te te WILLIAM C. WHITNEY MAN OF AMERICAN TURF

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BY J. TOD COMPREHENSIVE study A Mr. Whitney was a man of such ready geniality, generosity and keen judgment it was no wonder men liked ,to serve him well. His temper was one of the most even I have ever Known. At the same time he was no “hand shaker’ or ‘“‘four-flusher;’’ everyone who had deal- ings with him knew that he was not to be buncoed. Whitney’s Turf Knowledge Slight. As far as racing is concerned, | want to say in the beginning that William C. Whitney really knew very little about horses and that he might have lost a great deal of money in his racing ven- tures. He became interested in the turf late in life and his participation in the sport did not extend over many years; and I have always contended that to know horses genuinely and intimately vou have to be practically raised with them. Mr. Whitney's son, Harry Payne Whitney, knows more about horses that his father ever did, for her has been around them, hunting, driving, rid- ing and racing, ever since he was a boy. William C. Whitney was in racing more genuinely for love of the sport than any man I have ever Known, with the possible exception of the King of England. Mr. Whitney was a heavy bettor and he liked to win; he was not hypocritical about it. But he never talked of his winnings or losses, and after a race no one could tell how he stood. Ilelps in Hamburg Purchase. James E. Madden was greatly respon- sible for Mr. Whitney’s entrance on the turf, and Madden, who has bred and raced more good horses than any other man in America, with the exception of James R. Keene, steered him in the right path. If I remember aright Ham- burg was the first big purchdse Mr. Whitney made; and that was due to Madden, although I like to take a little of the credit, as I told Mr. Whitney when he asked me what Hamburg was worth, any price he would pay for him. And here, extravagant as it may sound to some people, I want to say that Hamburg was the only first-class race horse I ever rode. One dav a year or two afterward I returned to London from Lfiverpoo! and when I went to my hotel found a mes- sage telling me to call on Mr. Whit- ney at the Bristol. I had just ridden a mare called Maluma for Mrs. Langtry in the Liverpool Cup, and had got the only really bad fall of my career. My right ear was almost torn off, and my face was scratched and cut so that it looked as if someone had used a curry comb on it. Sir Tatwell Thomas, the Copyright, 1908, by the Press Publishing Co. : (New York World.) SLOAN. of the late William C. Whitney’s career aS an Owner of race horses and as a big man in American racing would require a pen of greater accomplish- ment and experience than mine; so in this article I will simply re- late some of the things which came to my knowledge in the years of my intimate association with him as the rider of his stable. There is no question about Mr. Whitney having been the most popular man in American racing, and knowing him on the turf, it was easy for me to realize something of the secret of his popularity in polities and in finance. great surgeon of Liverpool, had sewed mv ear back on again and I appeared before Mr. Whitney ewith my head wrapped in bandages and one eye closed. He looked at me for an minute and then laughed and said: “Well, how does the other fellow look ?”" I told him about the accident, and he told me he had sent for me to know if I would like to go to America to ride his entry in the Futurity, but seeing me in such bad shape he said he sup- posed there would be no chance. ‘“‘Never mind about the chance,” I! said. “I'll ,, all right, and I'll be able to ride.’’ though he said he didn't think I would be able to make it, as the Futurity was only about two weeks off, he gave me $5000 for expenses and I went. Wins the Futurity. Well, I rode his colt, Ballyhoo Bey, and won the Futurity. It was always a great regret to me that Mr. Whitney was on the ocean and did not see the race. Then I rode the same colt in the Flatbush a week later and won again. After the Flatbush race Mr. Whitney was the most delighted man I ever saw. He walked around on the lawn behind the clubhouse and sat down on a bench. “IT haven't given you anything for win- n'ng the futurity,”’ he said, “but I'll give to vou all at once, and now. Here's all the money I have in my pocket. And he pulled out a roll of $14,000 and handed it to me. Mr. Whitney was quick to help any- one he liked who was in trouble, al- though he made no show of it. One day I went to his house on Fifth avenue and told bim I was in a hole, ‘I’ve been gambling in stocks,"’ I said, ‘and I'm in bad.” And then I told him of a man telling Ned Gilmore and Charley Hoyt and me in the Fifth Avenue Hotel that sugar would go up to a certain point, and how I had taken the tip and wag pretty near- ly $650,000 in the hole. “T did not know you gambled in stocks, Sloan,’’ he said, “and I’m sorry to hear of it now. That is a game you should keep away from. I don’t see how I can help you, but if you buy 4000 shares of American Tobacco and go to sleep on it, I think you'll pull out all right.”’ Helps Sloan Out of Hole. I bought the Tobacco stock and went to sleep on it. In fact, I went to @ali- fornia, and one day while I was stand- ing a duck marsh I was handed a tele- gram telling me I was winner by $110,- 000. That was the time I was credited with beating the market for $600,000. Mr. Whitney was largelv influenced, I think. in his endeavors to build up the American turf by his experiences in) England. He was over there two years and I know he admired the English way of doing things, the dignity and conservatism, very much. He bought Pierre-Lorillard’s interest in the stable of Lord William Beresford, and I rode for them. His death was the greatest loss. the American turf ever sustained. I don’t believe I will live to see another

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HACK, IN CHICAGO, BEGINS TRAINING FOR GOTCH MATCH American Champion Already on Ground Working With Far- mer Burns. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, March 23.—George Hack- enschmidt, the Russian lion, who wres- tles Frank Gotch for the world’s cham- pionship at Dexter Park Pavilion April 3, arrived in the city this merning and immediately began work at the Chicago Athletié Association gymnasium for the contest. Gotch is training every day at the Illinois Athletic Club with Farmer Burns helping to put the edge en his condition. Gotch declares that for this match he will be in the finest condition of his career.

OLD WELTERWEIGHTS IN TOWN Matty Matthews and Rube Ferns Now in Polite Vaudeville. Matty Mathews and Rube Ferns, both former holders of the welterweight championship title, furnished a fast three-round boxing bout at the end of both performances at the Standard The- ater Sunday that pleased the patrens. The men have an act in which they go through all the training stunts used by fighters getting in condition for a fight, such as skipping the rope, dumb- bell work, shadow boxing and the like. Mathews lost the welterweight cham- pionship to Ferns, and both men are new on the retired list. They will be at the Standard all this week.

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WRECK NEAR SHORE Steamer Mutsu Maru Goes Down After Collision With Smaller Ship.

TOKIO, Mareh 2%.—The Mutsu Maru, an @0-ton coasting steamer belonging te ‘he Yusen Kaisha line, was sank in co!- sion with the Hideyoshi Maru, 696 tons, 2:30 e’clock this morning, two miles of Tedohokke, near Hakodate. The captain of the Mutsu Maru, a majority ef her 244 ese and 43 of the crew perished. The Hideyoshi Maru and another gteamer rescued the survivors. The number of dead is estimated at 275. BUSINESS NOTICES. . aki agpte Str by ati sae eitele tall Batla'a y oe "ieee powder. 25c. Kansas City Broker Dies. CITY, Mo., March 23.—Nor- er

a member of the Thayer- ro e Co. and a leading man of this city, died last of diphtheria. He was 56 years PhysicalCulture): Exhibition Combining Scientific and Artistic Principles. “MADAME YALE’S BEAUTY CULTURE LECTURE A Matinee for Women and Girls papseme ge any invites the ladies tng By ttend her Beauty Culture Century Theater Next Monday Afternoon, March 30th, AT 8:30 Woman's Beauty re y her example and The Yale System the removal of is and t # system cal acmacestel nme ° su means transforming human ugliness into las beauty. me, Yale's Lecture good for ts may may SKS oe Lo charge by let Goods od Ee a tickets, amount- order to yt ve secured ear ¥ ef Lecture. Tickets are now Pha tiehete 1 ‘bul be ts, we a yy - 8 ‘ en i iy a a : EE

Coe oerecsoreoes ja, $000 00eeeeeeeee HE marriage of Miss Letty Robin- T son, daughterof Mr.and Mrs. O. 3 E. Robinson of 1 Parkland place, and Mr. H. J. Patton of Philadelphia will be celebrated Thursday evening at the residence of the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson recently came to St. Louis from Baltimore to reside. The wedding ceremony will be performed by the Rev. Dr. Cannon of the Grand Ave- nue Presbyterian Church, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Williamson. Miss Robinson will have her sister, Mrs. W. H. Rheinfrank of Toledo, O., as matron of honor, and her sister, Miss Margaret Robinson, as maid of honor. Miss Edna Patton of Philadelphia, the bridegroom's sister, and Miss Marcia Robinson will attend as bridemaids. Mr. Patton will be attended as best man by his brother, Mr. Alex Patton, and Messrs. Edmund Robinson, Hugh Robinson and W. H. Rhelnfrank will be groomsmen and ushers. Misses Anna and Helen Robinson will serve as flower girls. Mrs. Morton ou n will entertain at bridge Wednesday, reh 25, and Satur- day, March 28, /for her guest, Miss Eliz- abeth Estle of\ Carrollton, Mo. The guests for Wednesday are girl friends of the hostess, and guest of honor, and on Saturday Mrs. Jourdan’s guests will in- clude matrons and seme of the younger set. » e ® © e Mrs. Harry Purcell has as her guest her sister, Mrs. Paten of Chicago. Mrs. H. A. Loevy entertained at 600 Monday afternoon at her home, 4361 West Morgan street. Mrs. Loevy has been hostess at a series of card parties given Mondays during March. The rcoms were attractively decorated with spring flowers and palms. At the con- clusion of the games refreshments were served. The guests included: Mmes.— Mmes.— R. F. Spencer, Lester Kretchmar, August Kurtaborn, John Durdy, mg ag Ss H. H. Wagoner, Wiitiem et Homer, Charles Robicam, — R. Argoof Laura Condon, Alto Merrett Marshall, Chas. Burtes of Ed- Frank Sawyer, saan Ill., Harry Wright, Ulma Frank Bleloca., Chas. "Ruckstuhl, Hiram Phillips, W. B. Murphy, Edward Jackson, A. L. Bancro.., W. Durant. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Catlin and Miss Catlin have returned home, after sev- eral weeks spént in Atlantic City. Miss Catlin has entirely recovered from her recent illness. Mrs. William R. Woodruff of Avon- dale, Cincinnati, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Will Fielding Cochran of 5045 Westminster place. Mrs. Woodruff has been the guest of honor at several entertainments during her visit. Mrs. Harry Purcell and Mrs. E. F. Williams entertained Saturday evening at cards at the home of Mrs. Williams for Mrs. Woodruff. The thirty-third anniversary of the day of graduation of the class of 1875 of the St. Leuis College of Pharmacy was celebrated: Sunday evening, *March 22, at the residence of Mr. _¥#rancis Hemm, at Grand avenue and Arsenal] street. The members of the class pres- ent were: Francis He , president for 1907-8; E. W. Gallenkamp,' secretary for 1907-8; William C. Bolm, H. T. Bech- Steinhauser, J. A. Watkins, W. A. Brichner, Charles Gietner, J. G. Goeh- ring, Charles A. Lips, F. F. Witting. Mrs. John T. Rogers entertained at her home informally with a luncheon and bridge party Monday afternoen in honor of Mrs. William R. Woodruff of Cincinnati and Mrs. Paton “of Chicago. Mrs. Rogers’ guests were limited to friends of the guests of honor. Mrs. P. H. Tobin of Webster will shortly have as her guest Mrs. M. ew of London, Ontario. Among the passengers sailing on the Kronprinz Wilhelm of the North Ger- man Lioyd line from New York to Bre- men, via Plymouth and Cherbourg, on March 24, were: Mr. and Mrs. Josevh Mayer, Mr. Joseph Mayer and Miss Dora Kramer, all of St. Louis. Mr. Michael O’Brien, who has been visiting his sister, Mrs. Nicholas Davis, 4917 St. Ferdinand avenue, has returned to his home in Pierce City. Mrs. Mary cameron M«:Dearman has returned from New York, where s has lived for the past two years, and will make her home at 5202 McPherson avent®: Mrs. Dixon Andrews of Philadelphia is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Campbell of Webster. Miss AndrewWs will be remembered as Miss Edna Campbell. Mrs. L. L. King will give a thimble party at her home Thursday afternoon. An informal was given in the Dutch reom of the riamilton Hotel under the auspices of the Fluffy Ruffles Girls. The Reception Committee was composed of the Misses Helen Hartman, Sadie King, Stella Jacques and Fannie Koplo. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hartman and their son, George Hartman, have re- turned from Pass Christian, Miss.; and have again taken apartments at the Hamilton Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Kingsland have apartments at the Hamilton Miss Laura A. Condon of 2958 West- minster place returned home after spending the winter in the ‘wente with her mnece, — Galen L. Tait POISON TEST TO FOLLOW YOUNG WIDOW’S ARREST J. L. Pearson’s Body Disinterred and Stomach Will Be Examined, BLOOMINGTON, TIL, Mareh 2%3.--The body of J. L. Pearson, for whose death his wife and Eleasure O'Nell! are alleged to be responsible, Was exhumed yes- terday at the cemetery near Belle. flower. Disinterment was made in the pres-

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