St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 12, 1908

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VICTIMS OF FLAMES AND WOMAN WHO GAVE ALARM

SATURDAY-—8T. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH—SEPTEMBER 12, 1908. FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF BANKER’S BRIDE TEMPTED | YOUNG WIFE WHO COULDN'T ; La 7

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WARE. AND SHOT Dying From’ Six Wounds, Moragosch Accuses Visitor ‘to Home. ;

WOMAN HAS VANISHED

Attacked by Friend, Victim Says, When He Exhib- - ited $165.

; Thomas Moragosch of 2710 Papin street, who is dying at the City Hos- pital from several bulket wounds, de- clares he was lured te St. Louis Coun- ty last Wednesday by an admirer of his wife and shot., In connection with the case the pelice are looking for Vin- go Kinschter, whe is said to have visit- ed the dying man’s home during his absence on the day of the shooting. Mrs. Meragesch has disappeared from home, and the police have net been able te find her. Two Eriends Under Arrest. Under arrest at the Manchester Ave- nue Statien are Frank Keping and Jo- seph Bukal of 3831 Manchester avenue, friends ef Kinschter. They say they Were with him at the wounded man’s ' home Wednesday, and departed in his , company. Koping loaned Kinschter $8 as they departed, he says. As neither of the prisoners speak English the po- lice have been unable to learn further details ef their movements prior ™ the shooting. Exhibits Money and Is Shot. . The wounded man says he and a sup- posed friend met by appointment to look fer work. They walked to the ex- treme southwest part of the city and |. the county. Entéring a wood to rest, Moragosch suggested that they get some beer, and produced $165. His com- | panion, the dying man savs, drew a revolver, demanded the money, and _ upon being refused, shot him several times. Moragosch crawled nearly two miles to the home of August Wulf, 4900 Wat- son road, and fainted at his door. Wulf took him in his buggy to the _ County Poor House and thence te the City Hospital. It was found that one bullet had penetrated the brain, two ' his chest and three his back. Kinschter and Woman Meet. About 6&6 p. m. Friday, Kinschter visited the grocery store of Sylvester . Buban, 901 West Jefferson,. and asked if Moragosch was dead. On learning thar the man was still alive, accord- ing to those in the grocery, Kinschter showed signs of disappointment. ' A son of Buban says that while _ Kinschtert was in the store Mrs. Mor- , agosch, whom he knows well by , sight, was waiting for him at the cor- ' mer half a block away. After Kinsch- ' ter left the store, says young Buban, he rejoined the woman. GAS-FILLED SAFE EXPLODES THREE DYING Employe Was Holding Lighted. Match When Door Was Opened.

CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—Three persons are dying and fivevotters: are seriously and perhaps fatally burned as the re- sult of an explosidgof £as and a fire early today in a bififinig occupied by the Wall Adding Machime company. Two of the dying, Miss Efta Oaks, 20, and George Frost, 16, were «terribly burned: Miss Oaks’ foot was torn off and the Frost boy’s eyes were blown out. The others seriously burned about the head and body and it is feared sev- eral will die. The explosion was caused by the ac- cumulation of illuminating gas in the office safety vault. A jet in the vault eprung a leak during the night and when the vault was opened today the gas whs ignited by, a Ughted match which @n employe wags helding and ex- ploded with terrific force. The office Was on the fourth floor of the building and every window on that and the third floor was blojt ont. The’*building was partially wrecked. , TAFT OPENS HOTEL TO NEGROES Free Entree at the Sinton to Repub- lican Headquarters. CINCINNATI, Of, Sept. 12.—The once fron-clad rules of the Sinton hotel against negroes has been shattered. As the result of loeating the Taft head- quarters in the big hotel; promoted by Charlies P. Taft and, named after his father-in-law, there was quite a furor when it was discovered that one of the notification committee was a negro and that he had taken quarters at Sinton; but now negroes have free entree, ex- cent to the dining rooma. Taft has become so pressed for time In the disposal of his mail that he will fee callers only between 10\a. m. and 1:30 p. m. :

— . Ambassador to Engiand. IO, Sept. 12.--Akar! Koto, ali. fied today as Ambassador to Rudiane succeed Count Komura, who was to the Japanese Cabinet several

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bl Neighbors Connect Unusual Sounds With the Murder _of the. Physician. -_

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j} the Chatham Hote! in a room adjoin- ping that occupied by Davis. and he 2. m. on the morning when Dr. Rust- here, appears to be In robust health and neuvers in Hungary. An intimate friend the trees back of the house and pass the heuse going north. “There is a gas lamp on the corner there and I could see the men plainly,” said Florence. “They all had their coats off, but as they went past the house thcy put them on. Two ef the men were in the shadew cast by the third and I could not see them very well. “I thought at the time that the thick- set man I saw was the same man I saw about noon the day before. This man lay down on the grass in the rear of two houses fronting on Forty-first, next to Farnam street:: ~ Connected. Noises With Murder. “I was uncommonly timterested in the noises that early morning because we had reason ta believe that someone was trying to steal eur chickens,”’ said Mrs. Becker. ‘For that reason I listened a long time, but decided that the noises were made by a couple of men who were drunk and were vomiting and so- bering off. “However, when we got our evening paper the day Dr. Rustin was killed I said to myself, “Those noises last night had something to do with it,’ and I noti- filed the police about 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Detective Mitchell was sent out and he talkeu with my daughter and myself and took down everything we said.” The Becker home is two blocks due north of the Rustin home. An alibi for Davis has been offereg by Frank Graham, auditor of the Omaha National Bank. He lives at says that Davis was in his room at 3 in was shot. The Chatham Hotel is three miles from the Rustin home, COUNTESS SZECHENY! ROBUST Report of Premature Visit of Stork Is Denied. VIENNA, Sept. 12.—Countess Szechen- yl (formerly Gladys Vanderbilt), who, with her mother, is staying at a hotel

goes driving or motoring every day. The Count fs attending the army ma- of the Countess declares that the re- ports of her premature confinement were unfounded.

- ethe eleventh hour of the 24-hour endur- . At the end of the fourteenth hdur 2:9) and finished at 9:30 tonight.

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NEW YORK, Sept. 12—After a night of keenest contesting, in which the lead changed many times, the completion of ance automobile race at the Brighton Beach racetrack saw the Mulford-Cobe team, driving a 50-horse power Ameri- can car, nine miles ahead of its nearest competitor and 11 miles ahead of the former world’s record. Had it not been for the overzeaious- ness of the Robertson-Lescault combi- nation their car would still be in the lead, but when miles ahead of the near- est competitor and eight miles ahead of the record, they were compelled to with- draw from the track for three hours while their machine was equipped with three new cylinders. They previously had been warned that their water sup- ply was running out, but they contin- ued until thelr cylinders were burned te a white heat. Crane and Rippigillo then assumed the lead, only to be compelled to re- linquish it shortly after when their register was cracked by a stone which was thrown up by the front wheel. Kight cars were still contending at the completion of the twelfth hour, 8:50 aom., the halfway mark in the race. The scores at that hour were as fol- lows: Mulford and Cobe, 566 miles; Capra and Parker, 556; Michener and Lynch, 332: Crane and Rippigillo, 523; Laurent und Marquis, 622; Roberts and Martin, 478; Strand and Rogers, 465; Robertson and Lescault, 460, 14 Miles Ahead of Record, the Lozier car was still leading, with 664 miles, 14 miles ahead of the world’s record. The other cars follow: Fiat 650 miles, Lozier, 646, Stearns 620, Allen Kingston 620, Thomas 561, Acme _ 557, Simplex 553, S. P. O. 36, The scores of the leaders at the end of the fifteenth hour were as follows: Mulford and Cobe 706 miles, Copra and Parker 698 miles, Micener and Lynch 691 miles, Laurent and Marquis 659 miles, The management of the meet an- nounced that the contestants In the big race would be withdrawn from the track at 1:30 this afternoon to prepare the track to permit of a spectal series of short distance events. The %-heur contest probably will be resumed at from the Long Island ae , that Pau! Sartori. ‘nd aie meclLaniclan who were injured in a coliis'on last evening, are both It is . a ‘earned = ’ yer tal SHEDIONT NED “1 Don’t Know What Made Me Do It,” She Sobs in Cell.

NICER THINGS —— HAD

Seized by Irresistible Tempta- tion, She Looted Neigh- bor’s Flat. we Admitting the theft of finery from her downstairs neighbor, Mrs. Barbara Schuttuer, 2% years old, a bride of a few menti.s, is in a ¢ell in the Central District héidover, pending application for a warrant against her. The prose- cuting witness is Mrs. J. J. Overhoit of 2633 Park ave.Je. | “TY don’t know what made me do it,” sobbes Mrs. Schvttner. “I didn’t need the things. I saw them and ° was seized by an irresistible temptation, I never stole befcre in my life. In fact, I adi4 rct realize that I was commnit- ting theft when I took them,.. I have mvc» nicer things ef my own.” . A @amond brooch ond a got ring, found at the home of Mrs. Schuttner’s sister, Mrs. Idilian Siefert, 1841 Seuth Twelft) street, were idenf®fied by DMirs. Overholt as her property. Mrs. Sitefert said that her sister told her that she found the jewelry. A black skirt, two shirt wsists and a piece of lace, be- longing to Mrs. Overhelt, were recov- ered in Mrs. Schuttner’s home. Caretaker of Home, “Mra. Overholt and I are the best of friends,’’ said Mrs. Schuttner. ‘‘When she went to the country a menth ago she asked me to look after her house. I live in the flat upstaire and had ac- cess to her rooms. One day I thought’lI heerd a noise in the Overholt flat ana investigated. No one was there and I was left in the flat alone. I could not resist my curiosity to leok around a bit. found an old skirt and then gave way to a sudden impulse. I have plenty of g00d clothes, and I doubt whether Mrs. Overholt’s skirt would fit me, but some- how I could not contro! myself. I took the skirt upstairs and hid it. Felt Like a Burglar. “The next day I made anotler:trip to the Overholt flat and rummaged about the rooms. I experienced a terrible feeling while prowling about. I felt like a burglar. The more I thought of what I was doing the more wicked I felt. I trembled with shame and started upstairs witheut taking anything. “But temptation got the best of me again. I thought of the diamond brooch I had seen in Mrs. Overholt’s dresser. Something kept telling me that she would not miss it if I were to take it. “TI stood on the stairs a moment study- ing the matter over and before I knew what I was doing I was back in Mrs. Overholt’s room and had the brooch in my hand. - “T ran all the way upstairs, fearing someone would catch me. *‘My conscience hurt me and more than once I was prompted to take the brooch back. . Leot Gave Her the Blues. “I didn’t go back to the Overholt flat for several days. I wanted to see if Mr. Overholt, who was at home every evening, would miss anything. He didn’t and I went to the flat again. I took a ring, a p:ece of lace and two shirtwaists. I hid them all in my house and several days later I took the brooch and, ring to my sister's, telling her I had found them. I could not bear to have them in my own house any longer. The sight of them gave me the blues.” When arrested Mrs. Schuttner was at- tired in a natty blue guit, and did not look as though she needed anything to add to her appearance. DROPS ACID. NOT ROSEWATER IN MOTHER'S EY wr

Alton Woman Is_ Blinded Through Error Made by Her Daughter.

Mrs. Annie Rickey of East Eng place, Alton, lost the sight of her right eye through the mistake of her daughter, Bertha Rickey, in dropping carbolic acid into the eye, thinking it was rosewater. Mrs. Rickey’s eyes have been under treatment. Rosewater had been pre- scribed by an occulist as the home part of the medication. At the time for administering the rose- water Friday evening, she called her danghter, who had aided her in the same way earlier in the day. “Don't light the lamp unless you have to, Bertha,”’ said the mother. ‘It hurts my eyes.” The young Woman went in the dusk to a shelf where several bottles stood, took down the one she believed to contain the rosewater, and filled the small dropper. Mrs. Rickey leaned her head back, and the daughter dropped in the liquid. Instantly the mother began screaming in a paroxysm of pain, and Miss Rick- ey, holding the bottle nearer the win- dow, saw what it contained. She ran for a physician, but it was possible only to administer soothing treatment for the terribly burned eye. The pain, was somewhat relieved, and it is ho to save the other eye

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MRS. BARBARA SCHUTTNER. AURORA PUTS ASEAN WIR UUT OF SERVIC -_——— Be eet Scientist Who Predicted Phe- nomena Connects Sun Spots With Northern Lights. Owing to a remarkable magnetic dis- turbance in the far North Friday night telegraphic communication between St. Louis and New York and other points was greatly disturbed. The disturbance is known as the aurora borealis, or Northern lights. . Dispatches from Chicago to the Post- Dispatch say that the telegraph wires east dnd north of that city worked badly ail day Friday and late into the night. The Post-Dispatch’s direct wire into New York was practically useless until 1:30 o’clock Saturday morning, impeding the receipt of the cable news from Eu- rope. It did not improve until 3 o'clock

Saturday morning and then the matter dribbled along until the magnetic influ- ence of the aurora borealis ceased to be felt. A dispatch from Pittsburg says that the aurora borealis flashed from west to north Friday night, the display last- | ing nearly six hours. It was not re- ported in St. Louis or the vicinity. This is the magnetic display predicted by John A. Brasher of Pittsburg, the well-known scientist and astronomer. - During the disturbance Prof. Brasher made & measurement of an enormous sun spot which he photographed. The spot covers an area of 2,250,000,000 square miles of the surface of the sun and has a temperature estimated at 60,000 de- grees above zero. Dr. Brasher believes there is a close connection bétween the aurora borealis and the sun spot, to which the magnetic disturbances which put the telegraph lines temporarily out of commission is also due. SEVENTY-FIVE PASSENGERS SAVED AFTER STEAMERS CRASH Sailors From One Puget Sound Vessel Restrain Men and Women From Leaping Overboard. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 12.—Seventy- five passengers were rescued from the steamer Sentinel after {it had collided with the steamer Chippewa in a dense fog in Puget Sound today. A panic fol- lower the colHsion and the rescuers with difficulty restrained the terror- stricken passengers from leaping over- board. The Sentinel was badly damaged, a great hole being torn in her side. Dis- tress signals were immediately sounded and the crew of the Chippewa manned their lifeboats and went to the rescue of the Sentinel’s passengers. Men and women were running about the decks of the Sentinel in confusion and many were about to leap into the water when foiibly detained by the Chinpewa’'s officers. As soon as the Sentinel’s passengers had been taken off, the crew of the damaged vessel beached her west of Se- attle. The water, which had rushed into the hold through the hole in her side, had just extinguished the boat's fires when she was beached. LA SALLE BUILDING FUND INCREASED TO $339,500 Construction at Broadway and Olive Is to Begin Within a Week. A deed of trust for $220,000 was filed Saturday against the 9-year-leasehold held by the La Sallie Bullding Co. on the northwest cerner of Broadway and Olive street. It was to secure the issue of 20-year gold bonds for the construc- tion of the proposed 13-story La Sallie Building, which with $112,500. in the treasury will give the concern a build- ing capital of $932,500. Work on the structure will begin within the next week, President Miltenberger stated.

Human Leg in A human leg, wrap n w en, was found in the iver 4 north of the Clayton Road bridge sat. reay by John Eckels of 160% street, and was sent to the The limb had been severed above the knee, apparently Morgue. six inches by

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Pine TAS FLOCK Priest Writes That He Is Lo- cated in Illinois . Diocese. IS BUILDING COTTAGE Former Rector of Cathedral Parish Has a Substitute at ) — Holy Angels. The Rey. Father P. F. OReilly has written a fetter to the Rev. Fathef David S. Phelan from Springfield, Mo., which indicates that tne writer has practically, if not actually, retired from the pastorate of the Church of the Holy Angels of St. Louis. Father O'Reilly, who has gerved about thirty-five years in the priesthood, was transferred by Arenbishop Glennon a few years ago from the pastorate of the New Cathedral Chapel to the Church of }. the Holy Angels, St. Ange avénue and La Salle street: At the time it became public that Father (Reilly was not pleased with his dethronement from the parish about to begin building its mag- nificent $1,000,000 cathedral to a some- what obscure charge in an old and prac- tically downtown section of St. Louis, Accepted the Transfer. There were rumors that Father O’Rell- ley would not accept the transfer, but he announced that he would obey the Archbishop's will. Recently there have been rumors that Father O'Reilly, still dissatisfied, had decided to resign as pastor of the Holy Angels Church. His letter to Father Phelan seems to confirm the rumor. It is as follows: “ELFIN DALE, SPRINGFIELD, Mo., : Sept. 8, 1908. “The Rev. D..8. Phelan, LL. D. ‘Dear Friend—Welcome home! I offer your sister and yourself sincere condo- lence on the death of your loved broth- er-in-law, Mr. MeDonald. ‘Kindly send Watchman to Elfin Dale. So far as I can see, I am here to stay. By ‘leave of absence’ I hold Holy An- gels for a half year—a Locum Tenens representing me. “‘My status here I hold, of course, from Bishop Hogan. I remain in full rights and shall to the end, a subject of St. Louis diocese. Yours sincerely, “L. T. O'REILLY. “I have cottage nearly .built. When you need a few days or weeks’ recrea- tion come to Elfin Dale.’’ Father O’Rellly is a brother of the late M. B, O'Reilly, e wealthy real es- tate dealer, and an uncle of Gerald B., O'Reilly, secretary of the St. Louls Real Hstate Exchange. He is a gifted orator and a main of wide personal pop- ularity. Hie was succeeded as rector of the New Cathedral Parish by the Rev. Fa- ther Francis Gilfillan, a young priest, who had been an assistant to him. Fa- ther Gilfillan is still in charge of the Cathedral Parish. CARY BLAIR I ALWE, ASSERTS BANK OFFICER Settling of Mother’s Estate May Solve Long Unex- plained Mystery.

According to a letter from F. X. Ryan, assistant secretary of the St. Louls Union Trust Co., to Judge Holtcamp of the Probate Court, Cary M. Blair, broth- er of the late James L. Biair, Whose whereabouts formed a subject of dis- cussion during the famous “Blair case,” is alive and living in Colorado. Mr. Ryan's letter notified Judge Holt- camp of the heirs-at-law of the lite James L. Biair’s mother, Mrs. Appoline A. Blair, who died in St. Louis Sept. 5. The list included, in addition to Cary M. Blair, Frank P. Blair of New Mex- ico, and Mrs. Christine B. Graham of St. Louis, children of Mrs. Blair, fwo grandsons, the children of the late James L. Biair. They are Percy and Francis Blair. Their address ig given as Washington, D. C. Mrs. James L. Blair is not listed as an heir-at-law of her mother-in-law. Mrs, Appoline A. Blair was the widow of Gen, Frank P. Blair, a famous Mis- souri soldier, a monument to whom stands at the main entrance to Forest Park and a statue of whom stands in the Missouri niche in+the Capito; at Washington, alongside of the statue of Thomas H. Benton. Mrs. Blair iert no will. As the only heir-at-law in thi State, Mrs. Graham asked Judge Hoit- camp to name the trust conmipany ad- ministrator and this caused the list of the heirs-at-law to be transmitted. The amount of the estate was not given by Mrs, Graham. a ene Burglears Climbed tn. Transom, «. Ry climbing through a transom vver the rear door, burglars got inte the saloon of Fred T. Gerritzen, 215 North Jefferson avenue, between 1 and 5 a m., Saturday, and stole %58 from the cash register. Held-up Man Killed tn Saloon. OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 12—An uniden-

| tified man was shot and killed last night _ A&. Atkins’ saloon while atte ‘ Soli T. W. Burns, the tan to hold up 7%. tender: The man Spaby Girl Falls Through 18-months-old % ‘T paces avenue, at 8:90 a. m. Monday she

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WOMAN SAVES TURNITURE AS ‘CLOTHES BURN

. Explosion of Kerosene Lamp Sets Mrs. Engelke’s Night- gown on Fire.

Burned from head to feet after a lamp exploded in her bedroom at midnight, Mrs. Louisa Engelke, 32 years old, of S3116A California avenue, husband, George, move furniture out 97 the flames’ path until the Fire Depart- ment arrived, helped her When she was taken to a neighbor's house it was found that her hair had been burned off and the flesh from her chin to her ankles was scorched. Mrs. Engelke keeps a lamp burning low all night in her bedroom, which ls in the rear of the house, on ot ” 7 ; : 2s 2 4 - iain m - $ Orville Wright Says. Trif | Possible -With Stops fon) Gasoline. — ot : VALUABLE IN WARF: ; Within Ten Years } Will Be as Common | Automobiles, — —_—_—_—

ORVILLE WRIGHT AGAIN | BREAKS TIME RECORD) RVILLE WRIGHT'S Ia: flight broke his ‘evio records. He remained In t 1 hour 10 minutes and 24 % rn both to the and to th ight miles an hour at a he feet.

By Wire from the Washington rean of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Sept. 122.-—-O08 Wright, who has doubled all & for sky motoring and stands pat. the world, said to the Post-L correspondent today that those who imagine that In a short time will be able to go to a sky-car room, get a demonstration, |buy and after some instruction, the machine home over the to land gracefully in the back pect more than the next ten bring forth. i He laughed heartily when the ! such a thing was suggested to him “Just what do you think we will | in the way of aeroplanes ten years # now?” asked the correspondent. “I am not a prophet,” replied Wray “I can’t say. It is possible now from New York to Chicago; some will do it before jong. There’ll be of men to undertake @hat sor of : It is not just my line. Of would have to be run the motor, and it might to pick out landing et but it could be done right now.” . Usetal a" Wright decia kind did not interest him and th has larger plans, which may we imagined when it is known that ? his brother have taken ouf pat nine or more different countrigs, up-keep expense that is som’ * Naturally he is interastedt ments now rather than in ‘The aeroplane will be ¢ as an instrument of war,” . “and’at about thé same time I) taken up for sport. We do not I&, much practical interest from indiv now, for if for no other reason that the machines are expenst haven't found that there are y ple who want to spend $2,000 on There isn’t any doubt about the » of a machine for war purposes,” & “If you should get an order & machine now, how long before you deliver it?’’ "Vell, I don’t know.” 2 ‘“‘How long does it take you to one?’ ais “That depends. In ‘lara. ¢ ; we can turn them out pretty fast.@ 10 years from now we ought to be & te deliver them promptly. If we somebody else will.” La “Ien’t there a great field in the decade for aeroplanes carrying maila?”’ ; Impractical for Carrying The eyes of the inventor twi “The carriers will soon tire of f ss 7 > if way that I can see difficulty. You can't ! wind is the wind. I can't see any fu for the aeroplane as a less it be a new kind of ery. Even then the postal have to be raised. You can't 4 railroad for mali carrying.” When asked how soon it would be. fore aeroplanes will be ulat he said: “Well, we can sell them ® That’s our business. There are atx” . in Dayton partly complete. Guess could deliver one of them in a fai; short time.” ee eet “Why do they cost eo much? Them — tor?” tie ogee “No, the motor is the least cost. You have no idea cf the RummR of parts there are and the care that) — required to put them together." § The aviator suggested that the my — chine of the future would cost less —F — to the number bug less than $2,000 each In the next fe Ge 4 —

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te = bs Ss i. at ae 3 98: 44 5.4 Be : aS oh ee fea ‘if he o ieee + " _ os | pr ranch. Mr. Conrad is the com- |itige, livestock or land, or iet. lease, HLS WHEN POOR 2 Fe ay f; aie % ey ei = a hs Hat Sie tes ie. BS, CLE} eo ‘ 4 ee | oe % @ cigar may Hold Paper. ~ + Credit Is Good if You Rent ', end for an amount less than 100 per ay se Ze r ip% , eK a \. 5 ° st ie = iEAT VEGETABLES ided Sales, Fraud and Panic Alleged Cause of Downfall.

BANKS LP —_—_—_—_——— ee MISLED wr: i ceeds of Stock Issue Are Used to Prevent Com- petition. 1ACAGO, Sept. 12.—Revelations of a itional nature were made public.to- ‘sFegarding the failure of A. Booth _.4., placed in the hand of a receiver 7] > : lated reports of sales-by managers ranch houses resulting in a false al statement, together with the > of last fall, which drove the poor- lasses of people to become vege- ns, are given as the cause of the re. Representatives of four banks 1 hold nearly $3,000,000 of the firm's will meet today, looking to a re- zation of it. the concern’s books have beer d for a period extending back at ‘three years is charged in a circu- at out by the interested bankers, iso set forth that in the company’s ents $1,200,000 had been deducted the liabilities and the ks made cance by a similar juggling in the column. Books Manipulated. T.-eason of this manipulation, it Is i, the corporation has been en- to float paper that otherwise den not have been accepted by the sers. 18 srious are the various charges that poe freely predicted the failure would pa echo in the criminal courfs. ibers of the Booth family, how- e said to be in no way involved vy qucstionable transactions. They id to have been the heaviest losers the®°” of the mismanagement of oth- ear whom they had imposed confi- ei atatemnent of the bankers bears of llowing signatures: First Na- ity Bank of Chicago, F. O. Wetmore, Thesident; Corn Exchange National ingOf Chicago; Ernest A. Hamill, ethet; Continental National Bank of claus» Alexander Robertson, vice- ’ gurect; Commercial National Bank of under ‘aseph T. Talbert, vicé-presi- A burnec Rustin mured by one of the mem- ‘May makemmittee that through the tightene‘itatements every bank that under ,t Booth & Co.’s notes in the « has been misled. There are in Ore than 100 banks throughout the was that hold the ¢ompany’s paper. MUnooth & Co.,” the bankers state- stumys, ‘“‘ipformed us that the in- aret liabilities shown as compared areb company’s previous statements, of aused by the manipulation of the T in the annual reports for the in # four years ending April 30, 1907, theat in the statement of the latter of here had been deducted $1,200,000 athe liabilities and a similar amount: cinne asse « to make the statement cige.’’ tw'what has become of the $1,000,000 theis of a preferred stock issue last Wer is worrying Receiver Chalmers. imis of the company say it was cigo take up short-time notes and ‘@vr warehouses and plants to pre- Ge\ompetitjon, but thé stock issue Ru investigated at once. It is de- Ru the total Mabilities of the com- merrill not exceed $5,896,500. suc. ae BS ' Cemrad Receiver Here, Be United States Circuit Court - DatY Judge Dyer appointed H. J. receiver for the company's St. general manager here. He gave fori of $16,000 as security for his an Conduct of the receivership, oe Call Up the Post-Dispatch time you want doméstic, in- 1, professional, male or female cor desire te buy, sell or trade mer- |

tht sell houses, flats or real estate. ae a Phone. . in'of the Post-Dispatch’s specia) operators will receive your ad- ‘thanent an“ charge it to your ac- | the No advertisement wil! be jhe '}P° NOT CONGENIAL, HE SAYS }wand Asks Divorce, Charges F Drove Off Relatives.. that she is “not congenial,” to® A. Jones has filed suit for di-. ‘po @eeinst Maud EB. Jones of 45% fm road. ler to Jones’ petition, his wife th his relatives one day when : sealed. It is also set forth that _gpposition is unruly and her temper

that upon three or four occa- attempted to kill herself and ige her husband’s lifé ana o’cat of their son, Clifford; 4 years

‘tn, DY 6 per cent of £t. Louis’ fash. wi #°. Had only of J. C. Waiter, Menil Bidg., 7th and Pine. Suen for Divorce, 4 pe M has. _— suit = 2¢ her cyte hg Monte Price, of the Valley Hardwood separate main

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M “I am going to ie over this particular mas under your umbrella?’ face with the to “T followed your face!’ He didn’t come then.” WOMAN WHO TRIUMPHED OVER MASHERS ADVISES HER SEX TO FIGHT THEM OFF. DOOMED UNLESS BIN NTERVENES rr

Many Minnesota Towns in Peril From Rapidly Spread- ing Flames.

HAVOC FROM FOREST FIRES IN “MINNESOTA States and provinces visited by fire—Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michi- gan and Ontario. Towns and mining settlements destroyed, about 10. Towns in imminent danger, 2. Total fire loss (estimated), from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000. People homeless, about 30,000. Property of seven railroads danger or damaged. ‘Largest town destroyed, holm, Minn, (4600). Largest towns endangered, Hib- bing, Grand Marais, Beaver Bay and Nashawauk, Minn., and Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario.

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DULUTH, Minn., Sept. 12.—With Grand Marais, a town of 1500 on the north shore, partially destroyed, Beaver Bay, 8 miles away, also attacked by the flames and a dozen smaller towns in great peril, it is apparent today that unless rain comes within 48 hours, the forest fire district is doomed to 4de- struction. Among the larger places in peril are Colerain, Bovey, Nashawauk, Marble, Hibbing, Buhl, Big Bay, Chicago Bay, Crofton, Aurora, Mountain Iron, Ren- shall, Fort William, Ont.; Hymers, Ont.; | Port Arthur, Ont.; Cascade and Nut- son. Fire Has Ragged a Week, The Great Northern, Northern Pacific .|and Albert railroads have trains out RS. CLARA CARNES of 4247 Hunt avenue, who had Earl Darrah arrest- ed and fined $10 for asking permission to get under her umbrella, blames women for permitting male flirts to go unpunished. “There would be a whole lot less of this mashing business,” Mrs, Carnes told a Post-Dispatch reporter, “if the women would put up a bolder front and try to fight back every time they are accosted. at every masher and have all of them arrested and prosecuted. a shame that the Judge fined the man I had arrested so little. ° my broken umbrella as a souvenir ‘of my triumph er, and I have other umbrellas that I am willing to wreck even worse on the next masher that attempts to talk to me. “I was starting west on Manchester avenue from Grand avenue to meet my husband when this fellow came along and said: ‘Hello, kid, can’t I come It was sunny and I had the umbrella open. slammed it down on his head, and when that didn’t hurt. him, I poked at his of the open umbrella until he ran away, im until I saw a policeman, and then I had him arrested. I had another experience with a masher about a week earlier. Tower Grove Station about 7:30 in the evening. This man came up to me and said: ‘Can I go along with you?’ ‘If you come near me,’ I said, ‘I’ll slap They ought to strike back I think it’s I just I was out near Mrs. Carnes is 24 years old, has light brown hair, blue eyes and a pretty complexion. She is plump and of medium height.

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ve v Qurious Curve in Cork Ball Game Results in “Rotten” Decisions Followed by a Ducking in River.

When Umpire Peck Ohley of Alton made a “rotten’’ decision in the elev- tener one, shouted: “You must be soused. You can’t even see your finish.” ”°* “No, I'm not soused,” said Peck, in- dignantly. “Then we'll souse you,’’ replied the players, and they threw him into the Mississippi River. The North Street Social Club of Al- ton was celebrating the recent wedding of Paul Maub with a picnic and outing on Bayless Island, opposite Alton. Hot Cerkball Game. A feature of the afternoon was a fame of corkball between the ‘‘Kiddo" and the “Navajo” teams. The game is played under regular baseball rules, but the ball is of cork and there is no limit to the number of innings. Tho batting is done with a club like a broomstick. A peculiarity of the game is the tendency of the ball to curve after the batter strikes it, so that what looks like a hit toward third base may degenerate into a foul tip caught behind the bat. That peculiarity was Peck'’s downfall. the players of both teams enth inning and changed it to a rot-f

This was the score in the inning: eleventh 38 °F 0001 Navajos ; 000 0 Otto Roller was at the bat. Despite his name, he is a slugger. Roller caught the corkball ‘‘on the nose” with his bat. It lined toward third base and struck the ground in “safe” territory. “Fair bali!” shouted the umpire. “Hooray!” screamed the Kiddos, and Roller started to circle the bases. “You're rotten!” yelled the Navajos. “Look at the ball!’ The cork ball had curved clear around third base after striking the ground and landed in “‘foul’’ territory. : “Foul ball!” said the umpire, changing his decision. } Roller declined to stop running bases. The Navajos and Kiddos both gathered about the umpire, saying things that usually “bench” a player in the big leagues, Umpire Peck couldn't quite make up his mind whether the ball was fair or foul, so the two teams placed him on their shoulders, carried him 500 feet to the river and threw him in with his clothes on. Peck says the next time he umpires a game of corkball he'll wear a bathing suit and cork life preservers. 1 9 p

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UNIDENTIFIED MAN, PICKED UP UNCONSCIOUS, DIES FROM FALL

Death Follows Operation for Frac- tured Skull at -City Hospital. An unidentified man, picked up un- conscious in front of 908 Wash strect, Friday evening, died from a fractured skull at the City Hospital, Saturday, following an operation. The police say that the man was intoxicated and his injury was caused by a fall. He was about 42 years old, 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighed about 180 pounds and wore a black coat, blu: overalls and a white undershirt. He wore no

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was round ‘and full, There An bis pockets, | ¥, & ‘ . NORE ¢ + Mexicans Here to Celebrate. The Mexican colony of St. Louis will celebrate the ninety-eighth anniversary of the independence of Mexico next Tuesday evening at Westminster Hall. 3806 Olive street. Roberto Rames is pres- ident of the organization and P. Var- gas, secretary. just like it.. At all sode fountains. > 7 EIEN, 8? ee es to protect bridges and stations. It is a battle in which all able-bodied men throughout the threatened territory are taking a hand and hundreds are near exhaustion as a result™sf the week's struggle. The Gopher, the Minnesota training ship, succeeded in removing many ref- ugees from Grand Marais, last night. The steamer America has gone to Bea- ver Bay to bring away the people there. There is little hope of saving those towns. Shore Alive With Animals. The entire north shore is alive with wild animals of all kinds driven out of the woods by the flames. The resi- dents of small settlements have desert- ed their homes and fled to the lake. For more than a hundred miles the flames appear to be almost continu- ous. The roar of the flre can be heard for miles. In response to Gov. Johnson’s appeal $45,000 has been raised by the Duluth Committee for refugees. The supply of provisions and clothing now seems to be ample, Smoke Thick in Detroit. DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 12.—Clouds of acrid wood-smoke blurring the sun, drifted down upon Detroit from the fire area in the northwest part of the State this morning. A _ pall- settled over the river, more dense than fog. Up in Lake St. Clair giant whistles roared frequent warnings as vessels groped their way along the chiannel. Chicago Air Hazy. CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—A haze, like that of Indian summer, but due to the forest fires of Northern Minnesota and the burning of peat beds at Norway, Wis., spread over Chicago today. The grayness ot the air was at first pop- ularly attributed to fog, but inquiry at the Weather Bureau showed that this was an error. FINED FOR WHIPPING WIFE AND BANISHING HER MOTHER Alton Man Pleads in Justification That His Supper Wasn’t ! Ready. Pleading in his own defense, Charles Buck, an -Alton glassworker, arose in court and said: ‘Your Honor, the charge against me is technically incorrect. It says that I whipped my wife and my mother-in- law, Mrs. William Shrove. ‘“‘Now, I only whipped my wife. Sup- per wasn't ready when I got home from work. I thought two women ought to be able to cook one supper. I picked up a stick and paddled my wife with it a little bit. “Then I ay ate up my mother-in-law and carried her out in the yard and lifted her over the fence and told her to stay outside. She came back, though, and we've all made up.” - Buck was fined $10. One of the Essentials of tfie happy homes of today is a vast fund of information as to the ‘best methods of promoting health and hap- piness and right living and knowledge of the world’s best products. Products of actual excellence and reasonable claims truthfully presented and whicn have attained to world-wide acceptance through the approval of the Well-Informed of the World not of in- dividuals only, but of the many who have the happy faculty of selecting and obtaining the best the world affords. One of the products of that class, of

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Lbs ee ading > aTUgR —— | : > ha ae iy ; ‘ $ “ Re bg x Ais yh Sa aes ON A Ris Oe a oes oh FEISS igs OK 2 EGA reas FOREST DISTRICT. ) : Ci EMPLOL TBE ASSESSED 1 PER CENT Must Contribute Twice to Democratic Organization . for Fall Election.

Democratic politicians have begun the collection of 7% per cent of the September salaries of City Hall em- ployes. The money is to be used to procure a full registration. It had been previously decided to as- sess the City Hall job holders 10 per eent of their salaries, but owing to the strict supervision that the Election and Police Boards will make over the regis- tration it was decided to make two assessments instead of one. The first assessment of 7% per cent will “be used entirely for registration purposes, and an extra assessment of the same amount will be made for the November election, according to reports that have reached City Hall clerks, Democratic politicians fear that with the fraudulent names striken from the registration lists they will have great difficulty in carrying some wards that have been heretofore overwhelmingly Democratic. Policemen Expected to Contribute. *City Hall collections are veing made by William J. Flynn, Assessor and Col- lector of Water Rates, who has long been identified with the Democratic ma- chine; Buildiisg Commissioner Smith, who is the political sponsor for Patrick J. Gill, who received the benefit of the Miles-Brennan support in the Third and Sixteenth wards in his race for Con- gress, and Harry R. Fardwell, who rep- resents Harry B. Hawes in the city ad- ministration. : - report is current at the City hall that the Democratic politicians are ex- pecting many policemen to contribute to the campaign fund, and the sugges- tion has also been of the Fire Department, heretofore kept strictly out of politics under the super- vision of Chief Swingley, who is a Re- publican, ought to drop their campaign mites into the treasury of the Demo- cratic organization. The custom of assessing City Hall em- ployes for campaign purposes has pre- vailed for many years. Usually they are required to contribute 10 per cent of one month’s salary to each cam- paign, but this year, on account of the financial condition of the organization, they will be expected to contribute a total of 15 per cent. «a cierk drawing a salary of $100 a month w.. be required to pay $7.50 out of his September salary and another $7.50 out of his October salary. Downtown Vote Will Suffer. The Democratic politicians expect to get between $6000 and $7000 out of the City Hall employes for registration pur- poses and as much more for the general election. It is generally conceded by politicians that with the fictitious and fraudulent registration eliminated in some of the downtown wards the Democratic vote will be reduced by one-half in those wards. Jt is upon these wards that the Democratic machine has relied for its majorities for the tickets in the past. When new judges and clerks of elec- tion appointed in these wards, and with close supervision under the direct au- thority of the election and police boards, the politicians fear that it will be a dif- ficult ‘matter to pad the registration lists, as they have been padded in the ast. As there is to be an entirely new reg- istration the names of dead men and voters who have removed from. the wards cannot be carried on the books. The organization needs a big sum of money to get the voters registered, es- pecially as the Republicans have been active in the registration field for sev- eral years. DELEGATE TROLL COLLECTS PAY FOR ELECTION CLERKS Twenty ju:lges and clerks of elec- tion have such confidence in “Cap” Troll, deiegate from the Eighth Ward, that they let him collect their pay for their services at the primary. Troll presented the commissions of the 20 men at the Election/ Board's office Saturday, and got orders on the City Treasurer wiich he at once proceeded to cash. The proceeds were $100. Troll declined to say whether he had purchased the commissions at a discount, or Was merely saving his friends a journey to the City Hall. Only one of the men whoge pay Troll collected was from ward, the Eighth. The others were from various precincts of the Third and Sixteenth wards, where the large pluralities of the Democratic and Re- publican State tickets are under in- vestigation.

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the Use When There’s an Easy Way Out, Along with the coffee habit haa grown the prevalent “American Dis- ease”—nervous prostration, The following letter shows the way out of the trouble: “Five years ago I was a great coffee drinker, and from its use I became so nervous I could -searcely sleep at all nights. My condition grew worse and worse until finally the physician I con- sulted declared my troubles were all due to coffee. , : “But being so wedded to the beverage I did not see how I could do without it, especially at breakfast, as that meal seemed wholly incomplete without cof- fee. “On a visit some friends deprived me of coffee to prove that it was harmful. At the end of about eight days I was less nervous but the craving. for coffee was intense, so I went back to the chil habit as soon as I got home and the old sleepless nights came near making a wreck of me, “Il heard of Postum and decided to try it. 1 dtd not like it at first, be- cause, as 1] afterwards discovered, it was not made properly. I found, how- ever, that when made after directions on the package, it was delicious. “Tt had a soothing effect'on my nerves and none of the bad effects that coffee bad, so | bade farewell to coffee and have used only Postum since. The most wonderful account of the benefit to be derived from Postum could not exceed my own experience.” “There's a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battl> Creek, Mich. Read, “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. What's

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7 State and municipal offices. Why won’t he register? League offers a reward of $10. "CITIZENS" (2) WHO DO | No. 1 | HE above represents a “citizen” who is not going to register on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. By not registering he will forfeit his. privilege to vote for President, Governor, Senator and all other For the best reply of not more than 150 words the Municipal Voters’ ee must be postmarked not later. than Sunday and addressed to the Munitipal Voters’ League, 502 Commonwealth Trust Building. Another reward of $10 will be offered Sunday. NOT REGISTER

CARBUILDERS = PREPARING FOR BG BUSINESS. St. Louis Company’s Manager Has Gone to Close $2,000,000 Contract.

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Several large industries in and around 3* Louis give unmistakable signs that prosperity will soon be doing business at the old stand. E. F. Carry, general manager of the American Car and Foundry Co., has gone to New York with the expectation of closing a contract with the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads to build 2000 new freight cars at a fig- . ure in the neighborhood of $2,000,000. | It is believed Mr. Carry’s negotiations will result in great activity in the com- pany’s factories in St. Louis, St. Charles and Madison. If the contract is made at” least ’10,000 men will be employed in these factories, in which only about 3000 are now at work. ‘ : Harriman Lines Need 5000 Cars, New York press dispatches say the Harriman -lines are arranging to ex- ° pend $5,000,000 for about 5000 new box cars and ‘will distribute the contracts among four companies. The American Steel Foundries Co. of Granite City has just purchased $1,000,- 000 worth of pigiron and will increase its working force from 0 to 1600 next week. ‘ Work has been resumed in the Nied- rirghaus mills at Granite City and the Corn Products company’s factory there is running full time. 4

7 —_e Burglar Scared by Telephone, - A burgiar, who entered the home of Mrs. G. E. Folk of 6660 Cabanne av- enue Friday night, stole $200 worth of jewelry according to’Mrs. Folk’s report to the police. he telephone bell rang and when she went to an- swer it she heard a scurrying of feet in the rear bedroom. A rear window was open.

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MEN WHO MOVE THINGS GATHER NST. LOUIS Association of Traffic Offi- cials Hold Convention at the Jefferson.

The American Association of Traffic Officials, comprised ot many of the lead- ing railroad n:en of the country, is hoid- ing its annual convention at the Jef- f-rson Hotel. The morning session was called to order at 10 a. m. by President Robert C. Wright of Philadelphia. The convention will elect new officers and transact other routine business, During the afternoon session speeches are to be made by Interstate Commerce Commissioner Clarke of Washington, and Judge A. T. Humphrey of Louis- ville, general counsel for the Sauthern Railway. | Banquet for 110, Saturday night in the green marble room of the Jefferson Hotel the railroad men will be guests at one of the mogt elaborate banquets ever given in St. Louis. Covers will be laid for 110. President Devoy of the Merchants’ Ex- change, President Smith of the Business Men’s League and President Simmons of the St. Louis Traffic Club and Mayor Wells will be guests and will make speeches. Many prominent railroad men are here to_attend the mectings of the organiza- tion. Several freight traffic committees have met during the week, and others are to hold meetings next week. Among the organizations which meet Monday are the Southeastern Mississippi Valley Association and the Southeastern Freizht Association. Officers of Association. The officers of the american Associa- tion of Traffic Officials are: Robert C. Wright of Philadelphia, general freight agent of the Pennsylvania Lines, pres!- dent; T. W. Gallagher, general freight agent of the Baltimore & Ohio South- western, of Baltimore, first vice-presi- dent; W. B. Groseclose of the Katy, second vice-president; E, O. McCormick of Chicago, traffic official for the Harri- man lines, third vice-president; C. C. Capps of Norfolk of the Seaboard Air Line, fourth vice-president, and J. F. Auch of the Reading Line, Philadelphia, secretary and treasurer. MAIL CLERKS SUE RAILROADS $80,000 Asked for Alleged Injuries in Two Collisions. J, Franklin Phelps, Walter C. Cole- man and F. P. Owen. railway mail clerks. filed suit in the Circuit Court Saturday against the Missouri Pacific Ralilroad Co. for $10,000 damages each on account of injuries claimed to have been received in a collision July 2 near Knob Knoster, Mo. Phelps says he ha@s been afflicted with insomnia since the accident, Coleman gays his.nervous system was shattered, and Owens says he has not been able to concentrate his mind since ‘the collision. Haroid J. Chamberlain. also a rall- way matll clerk, filled sult against the Frisco for $50.000. He claims he was

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UNCLE JOE’S LITTLE JOKE. Mr. Cannon’s statement of his possessions in reply to Mr. Bryan’s counter challenge is char- acteristically humorous, but not convincing in a In effect Mr. Cannon says: “If you want to know how much I am worth, look at the tax lists.” And he tells where his taxed property is situated. Does Mr. Cannon offer this seriously, or is it only one of Uncle Joe’s little jokes? Of course he may fall back upon personal privilege and say that it is nobody’s business how much he is worth. But since he, as a pub-; lic man, publicly twitted Mr. Bryan on the size the man he tried to “put in a hole.” The notfon that a man’s wealth can be es- timated from a simple inspection of his tax re- turn is so funny that we must believe Mr. Cannon was only cracking Uncle Joe’s joke. Some ‘years ago investigation revealed the fact that there wasn’t a single gold watch in an area in the State of Ohio comprising several rich counties. The tax lists proved it. Suppose for & moment that a man’s tax return shows that he does not own a gold watch. Then ask him what time it is. It is to laugh. Mr. Cannen says he has a modest competence well; everybody is glad to know that neither of these good gentlemen is in want. But in re- aponse to Mr. Cannon’s taunt, Mr. Bryan gave a OFFICIALS ARE RESPONSIBLE. In his appeal to the people in behalf of the grand jury, urging registration and co-operation in purging the elections of frauds, Foreman Paul | Robyn places great stress upon the part the’ peo- ple may play in assuring a fair election. Referring to discouraging and disgraceful conditions in the conduct of elections, discovered by the grand jury, Mr. Robyn says: “We must have the support of tle press and people.” By See tae There is. no question of the grand jury’s hav- ing the support of all the decent citizenship of St. Louis in its efforts to uncover election crimes and to bring’election rascals to justice. Every good citizen is in hearty accord with all official efforts to purify elections. As for the press, every independent newspaper in St. Louis is not only supporting the Governor, Circuit Attorney and grand jury in the work of investigating election frauds, but is urging offi- cials to make the investigation exhaustive and to let no guilty man escape. Even the partisan morn- ing papers, although. wasting space and words on each other’s derelictions, are at least enthusias- tically urging the punishment of the other party’s rascals, . But the press can do no more than point out the duty of public officers, print the facts and arouse the public mind to a realization of the duty of voting for honest men and of holding pub- lic officers to strict accountability for the per- formance of their duties. The press can do no more than publish the facts and, in the light of Tthe facts, direct public opinion in the right chan- nels. The people cannot assure honest elections ex- cept by voting into office honest’ men, who will fearlessly de their duties and enforce the laws. The people can support officers who are trying to do their duties with sound sentiment; they can be of some assistance in giving information con- cerning judges and clerks of election and concern- ing illegal registration, but the actual work of protecting the ballot box from frauds. devolves upon the public officers appointed and paid for that purpose. The responsibility for honest elections cannot decisions of the courts which are wrong then we give a license to the dishonest man on the bench to decide cases through corrupt motives and re- honest judge who renders just decisions from proper motives.” mo In cther words, the judgment. or decree of the court is law and must be obeyed whether it is right or wrong, but if the judgment or decree is wrovg the reasoning upon which it is based may he criticised; “to criticise,” meaning to analyze and discuss with intent to understand. It ought to go without saying that every per- son must obey the decree of the court because it is part of the law of the land, and this without questioning its character as “good” law or “bad” law. The superior courts or the Legislatur2 wil! attend -to that. But every person may criticise, that is, analyze, discuss or refute the reasoning upon which a decree is based. He may not rebel against the decree, dispute its legal authority o1 impute motives to the judge; but he may dis- pute tke judge’s logic and legal reasoning and prove to his own satisfaction and to others, if hc can, that the logic is faulty. If such criticism is forbidden how are we ever to know that a decision is right or wrong. Mr. Hadley says that anybody, the apple man on the corner or the professor of law in the university, may criticise the decision if it is wrong. There he stops, saying nothing of what they may do if the decision is right. And yet more melancholy, he does not tell either apple man or professor how he can possibly know whether the decision is right or wrong until he has criticised the rational ground of it; that is, the reasoning of the judge. Mr, Hadley was not fair to his audience or to the readers of his speech. He leaves them in worse confusion than they were in before. A few words added, however, would have made all clear. a. — Bourke Cockran, Benton McMillan and W. D. Bynum deny that Mr. Bryan called workingmen “public beggars’ during his service with them in the House of Representatives. Why deny it? Why deny that Mr. Taft said a dollar a day was enough for a workingman, or that the moon is made of green cheese, op that reclining cows rise first on their fore legs when they get up on their feet?

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Ged aot — Mexican 902.7 grains fine, the Mexican might be a ~ . » +4; ee . ~ a —. “ - A -- . >. Ce _ , ae ‘ e*. “g8% +, frank and explicit answer. Mr. Cannon offers I note an article in a St. Louis newspaper entitled os. Ct ahah SiS: wn

_ wat Sa alee Ss 1 So ee » oe - . ; see 208 4 eee a a RR eT ag ny . ut gee wert. iy ie vn tena 3 teh BARTS I 7 7 - eae Gece 22" pak) Ose i Eee SIN ROI, . ws Ie pa eR ed ae pe S OES TTS EEE AO nh, Sop LE ONS Oa Fema a Serie ae SEE nent ¥ ve Ie hig 5 9 5 ain ose ; 4 ? sat aah & ‘ i the Eee +s ‘ ¥ : yrs ModE gi ee i a He Sate * baits 3 a SaaS | oy : a * Na Rees, 2 : Spe ts Mi ath, “$F pa! ae apy 3 ey Riots ess CX; oe eed Jy : 4 p t i } i | a i * 5 a ae ‘ breath of an unfeed politician, it appears, has no ‘Tican speakers’ bureau? 7 _ Well have put the lady in the observation ward his tax returns as an answer to Mr. Bryan’s retort. It is his own fault. He is taken in the snare he laid for his enemy. He says he began it as a joke. “I thought it was humor.” It is. It is a capital joke; and it is “on” Uncle Joe. i wwe The season’s first football game, in which nearly every player was maimed for life, should prove the growing strentousnes of America’s youth to the complete satisfaction of this country’s fore- most patron of the game. i -~vVT MR. DU PONT’S FEE. ~ In a condition of ecstatic confidence, Mr. Hitchcock let it go out that there would be no paid speakers this year. The eloquence was to flow uncommercialized from the mouths of Re- publican orators. | But in a state of nervous trepidation Mr. Hitchcock now says that was all a mistake and that paid eloquence will be employed. The

more force than that of an unfeed lawyer. On the hustings as in the court room, if the client would obtain the full measure of his advocate’s power he must pay him. The notior that a Republican orator might be so saturated ‘with Republicen convictions that he would work for the cause gratis is given up as a dream of generous idealism not in keeping with practical fact. Very good, but if the speakers are to be paid, what about the members’of the speakers’ bureau. who are to employ the speakers? Are not they to be paid far their services? And especially Mr. T. Coleman Du Pont, chairman? What is his fee to be—money or a discontinuance of that prosecu- tion against the Powder Trust of which Mr. T. Coleman “Ju Pont is the efficient and honored head? In Utopia and Altruria men work for love of a good cause. But not in New Jersey, where the Powder Trust flourishes and Mr. Du Pcnt’s}:. : haus, engineer, of New York has been appointed sérvices have a large cash value. What is his. fee to be for his services as head of the Repub- There is a big explosion in store for those del- egates who are sitting down on the natural gas measure.

i ik . mb. of ad THE “SALOME” IMPROPRIETY. Chicago's Chief of Police doing his duty as an officer the other day felt obliged to attend the matinee to see whether the “Salome” dance, with its mear-tude suggeSstiveness, was permissable or not. He decided that it was, and the press agents seem tOshave made a great point of it— not so much of his favorable decision, but of the fact that his presence was necessary. We believe that he missed a great opportunity to set up a high example of Chicago good taste, in not “pulling the show.” The mere fact that it did not quite come within the blue-coat purview of “indecent behavior” does not spare it the con- demnation of good taste or even of common morality. When a performance so impudently verges the line of district court definitions as to become even a question for the police, that of itself is an affront to public taste and public morals. . No squeamishness about art and no objection to the nude in its classic sphere and proper set- ting are involved in the censure of what must be construed as a frank appeal to coarse sensuality and the boldest challenge to propriety. Were it not for that sensational character “Sa- lome”’ might be lightly ignored as a rather stupid exhibition. Surely there is nothing specially di- verting, except possibly for a purely comic ab- surdity, in the cavortings of a creature with a gauze-covered pretense to nakedness made of fleshlings, or even of cosmetics, who caresses fron time to time a dummy wax head that looks badl; An-need of the barber. The Chicago police might

be shifted from the public servants charged with the duty of guarding the ballot box to the shoul- ders of the people. The people can only hold their public servants responsible for derelictions. The responsibility for fair elections rests pri- marily with the Election Commissioners, whose offices were created for the’sole purpose of super- vising registrations and elections, to the end that an honest vote and an honest count may be guar- anteed to the people. The judges and clerks of election are the appointees of the Election Com- missioners. They are directly responsible for the correctness of registration and for keeping the poll\books free from fraudulent names. This re- sponsibility cannot be evaded. The duty of maintaining order at the polls and protecting election officers‘and voters from in- timidation and violence devolves upon the Police Commissioners. They cannot dodge their re- sponsibility. The duty of investigating election crimes und of exposing and punishing election criminals rests with the Circuit Attorney, the grand jury and the courts. They cannot escape their responsi- bility. The prime duty of the people is to vote honest men into office and to keep out of office dishon- est and inefficient men. The people’s duty is to vote right on election day, and their chosen offi- cers must see to it that they are protected from violence in voting and from fraud in the counting. oA i a 2 Aeronauts are certainly hitting the high places these days.

is A. Dales wwe MR, MORRIE PRESTON’S DELICACY. It is officially announced that Mr. August Gill-

vpresidential candidate by proxy of the Socialist Labor party to represent the regular nominee, Mr. Morrie Preston, “now in the Nevada State Penitentiary for the legitimate exercise of the right of self-defense on picket duty, and whom delicacy prevents from personally appearing ou the ballot.” Mr. Donald Munro, machinist, of Vir- ginia is candidate for the vice-presidency on this ticket. This is an unprecedented case of substitution, and grave questions may arise. Suppose the Social- ist Labor party wins at the coming elections, will the electors elect Mr. Gillhaus President or will they cast their votes for Mr. Morrie Preston? I? they do the latter, will Mr. Morrie Preston's dell- cacy permit him to accept the election? The elvc- tors are placed in an embarrassing situation. They can vote for whom they please legally, but morally are they not constrained to vote for M.. Morrie Preston, despite his delicacy? Ie may be that Prof. De Leon has thought it ait out, and it is hoped all will be well, but we wan: no more complications like that of 1876. A proxy candidacy is a dangerous innovation. It sounds foxy. ‘ == = — Se The kindred industries clause in the Hep- burn rate regulation law is declared unconsti- tutional by the Supreme Court. Next! = — = — SS MR. HADLEY ON THE COURTS. In a Labor Day speech Mr. Hadley, observing the misunderstanding in the popular mind as to the right to criticise the decisions of the courts, says it is due to “the failure to distinguish be- tween reasoning of the courts in their decisions and the decrees that they render.” He explained that a decree of the court is a part of the law of the land and should be“obeyed by all. “But,” he added, “whenever a court ren- ders a decision. which is wrong, it is not only the right but the duty of the people to criticise that

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| decision. . , , \For if we do agt @riticise the Me, , ty Hein a, Be te Ga Oe |" “Financial Force Bill,”’ written by Festus J. Wade. I suppose he thought he was coining a phrase that would come with sonorous sound from the G. O. P. spellbinder during the campaign, but let us see what there is in it. The law that requires insurance com- panies to deposit large sums with’ the Insurance De- partment Mr. Wade would call an insurance force bill, although it is held to protect the policy holders. For some reason, the taxes we pay to protect society and maintain the Government is also a financial force bi'l. In fact, every law of church or man that im- poses a duty is, from this point of view a force Dill. Mr. Wade knows that the relation between the bank and depositor is one simply of debtor and creditor and a common business transaction. If I went into Mr. Wade’s real estate office to borrow money, the first thing he would ask me, before he would become my creditor, is what is your security? A depositor would get a chilly smile from any bank if he asked for security of his deposit, for all the banks have joined in refusing such a request, except to the big fellows who have very large amounts to deposit; but that large class of depositors, especially savings bank depositors that Mr. Wade appeals to are cut out. The banks are unanimous in this as they are in re- fusing to go into a voluntary guarantee fund. Mr. Wade says that the double liability clause or law is enough of a burden-on the national banks and one would think that if the guarantee fund law was add- ed they would all go into State banks. But no, he says that if the guarantee law goes into effect that all the State banks, savings and trust companies will go into national banks. I want tb illustrate what I consider one of the strong points in tavor of the guarantee law: In June, 190, the Salmon & Salmon Bank of Cliton, Mo., closed its doors and the Bates National Bank of Butler, Mo., closed its doors in Sep- tember, 1906. The receivers of these banks found all the available securities of both banks hypothecated in Kansas City and St. Louis banks to raise money to continue business with. Now I would like to ask Mr. Wade and his allies if these Kansas City and St. Louis banks had been paying a tax to secure depo- itors, would they not have quickly guessed the sit- uation and tipped off the proper officer to get busy in Clinton and Butler? The Salmon bank wil] pay lit- tle or nothing; the Bates National, with its double liability burden and an assessment of the ful] value of the shares by the Comptroller, may pay 75 per cent to depositors. If the guarantee law had been in effect it would be different. Will anyone dispute for a moment that under such a law, self-preserva- tion would not impel banks to keep tab on the oper- ations of other banks and I think that Is just what the opponents of the law fear most, for it is a well- known fact that banks become aware of the shaky condition of other banks long before the people su3- pect any danger. Ss. W. D. Butler, Mo. Aviator or Aeronaut? To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. The newspaper writers are using the word aviator to denote a person who uses an aeroplane or me- chanical flying machine, as distinguished from a bal- loon, dirigible or otherwise. It is well to have & name for an aeroplane sailor, but the word aviator has al- ready been applied, by Maxim and others, to the fly- ing machine itself. Are we to have the same lin- gual confusion in this case as with the word type- writer, which has come to mean both machine and & person who uses it? Why not stick to the word aero- naut, meaning air sailor? Aviator simply means bird imitator, but our flying machine operators are only imitating birds in appearance. In reaiity, there is a vast difference between a machine run by a mau who works levers, and the bird, which uses its mus- cles and is at once the machine and the operator. If aeronauts become aviators, will the residence of an aviator by an aviary? ~ PUZZLED. “Dead Ones” Impede Progress. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. As a stranger in your midst, I have read with considerable interest, during my stay of some three weeks, the many columns of space you devote to in- quiring ‘‘Why the bridge is not built?” as it appears to the uninitiated that an appropriation has been made for that purpose at a sufficiently distant date for the bridge to have been completed. Some twenty- five years ago When Visiting a city in your State I was very much impressed by a remark made by a na- tive in one of the now progressive cities, who on my asking him why they did not pave one of the princi- pal streets, said: “After.théy have about a dozen first-class funerais heré that street will be paved, and the town will move right out.” On visiting this city in July’ this year I found that the street had been paved, and that the city had trebled its popu- lation since my last visit, consequently I inferred that tho funerals had taken place, I offer the above suggestion for what it is worth. Under similar cir-

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CRAPS AND DEEP WATER. If many way-landing constables are to follow the lead of Harry Fielder of Hannibal, the deep-water glee clubs would just as well disband. Fielder boarded the steamer Dubuque at Louisiana the other night, and when the roustabouts got a good game of craps going on the lower deck, he raid- ed it. Twenty jblacks were marched off tne boat at the point of a gun when it reached Hannibal, and they got all the way from $10 and costs to 30 days. If many constables are to do this, riv- er traffic is doomed, and deep water would just as well be dropped. Craps, and not water, is the first requisite of steamboating. Any boat can manage with a little water, but all of them must have lots of craps. No craps, no crew. Where does Hannibal stand on the deep-water question? Those members of the St. Louis Aero Club who havé not yet made an ascen- sion should resign from that perilous organization and join some good, safe branch of the Y. M. C. A. The neople who look askance at Mr. Bryan’s modest fortune forget that he finished in the money in several presi- dential races. - An optimist is a man who believes that the Browns still have a chance for the pennant. ¢ —-—- How the Country Editor Gets Rich. After a good deal of study and work we have at last figured out why so many coun- try editors get rich. Here is the success: A child is born in the neighborhood, the at- tending physician gets $25, the editor gives the loud-lunged youngsters and the happy parents a ‘‘send-off’’ and gets $00. It is christened; the minister gets $10 and the editor gets $00. It grows up and marries; the editor publishes another long-winded, flowery article and tells a dozen lies about the beautiful and accomplished bride, the minister gets $10 and a piece of cake, the editor gets $000. In the course of time it dies and the doctor gets from $25 to $100, the minister perhaps gets another $15, the undertaker gets from $50 to $100: the editor publishes a notice of the death and an obituary two columns long, lodge and society resolutions, a lot of poetry and free card of thanks, and gets $0000. No wonder so many country editors get rich.—Morehead Coaster.

JUST A MINUTE FOR VERSE AND HUMOR. Written for the Post-Dispatch by Clark McAdams.

SEEING AMERICA—1950. (Dialogue between guide and tourists.) OOKING to the right below us, With its rolling fields and brooks, And the windmills—Indiana, where the farmers write the books, And the poets build the castles. Where is the Wabash of-the ballad? Which is Riley’s? *By the lake. Disappearing in our wake. Now we ate looking into Danville. Illinois ? Yes ma’am, the same. This was the home of Joseph Cannon—statue in the Hall of Fame. Which is his house? It’s somewhere, madam, in that row of limestone fronts. Who was he, anyway? Search me, but I think he ran the country once. Now we are passing over Springfield—Illinois—straight down below.. Quick! Is the home of Lincoln standing? House torn down some years ago. House torn down! O, what a pity! Curses on the vandal’s axe! Yes, they had to have the timber once when they were burning blacks, Right ahead—the Mississippi. What is that—a naval fleet? Yes, the second generation got those famous fourteen feet. On the right—Missouri River. What, that biliows-looking creek? Yes. The first stop is for luncheon—twenty minutes.on Pike’s Peak.

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Building Commissioner Smith is un- duly agitated over the prospective dan- ger to life at Sportsman’s Park next Sunday. That score at Cleveland yes- terday removed any peril that might have threatened. “Why did you come home so soon?” “For the climate.” The growing belief that there is no place of torment hereafter is no com- fort to people with enemies.

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cumstances you might succeed in having a gage yuo. lighter. MYRTLE.—Where a go to school appears to than the age it is said to be, a cert partment. west corner Northiaud@ avenue, highway. . . MRS. DUNLAP.—Some reader — tell you what to do for chickens crops of which fill with air, panied by discharge at the lil-smelling water. kind as to tell you how a 911 cust street. so often witiiout getting ans stolen your invent to do but to consult a lawyer. We not promise you justice, even then. J. W. W. B.—Highest price for foot of land in New York City, This was paid fof ~round at Broac and Wall by the ee of Festus Wade of St. Louls is presi FROM SWITZERLAND.—Though not vote in November on issued Sept. 9. No one can vote papers in this State until the papers a year old. ’ ¢ ge é * learn chemistry, studied first. with chemistry. ; RANDOLPH. — For diarrhea steaay intestinal pain, z food and mi are a general remedy. benefited find a capable SNOW.—Patent leather : m thus, 1 ounce; ces; lampblack, ounce. the resths in the spirit and aé lampblack. ’ | READER.—Minnehaha (the | water), daughter of the of Daco and wife She was cal of Minneapolis, See Hiawatha. days, opossunt - + etn months; whale, 10 mon breed twice, domesticated, 6 times a year. “ ‘ n in 1 oug! half and water. 8 the pre boil eight or t overflowing | with and water beans need onl

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FOST-DISPATCH HOME READERS’ MAGAZINB* -— cere MR. MILLIONAIRE. Pere PPR Ceee Pree POPP Fifty = Great Love Stories of History Retold for the Post-Dispatch, By Albert Payson Terhune, | NO. 30.—GEORGE WASHINGTON AND MARTHA CUSTIS TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Virginia militia Colonel—tall, bony and heavy of build—was carrying dispatches one day in 1768 to his Britis! commander. The ride was long and the dinner hour was near. There Was no particular haste about the delivery of his dispatches, so he turne: aside to dine at the house of a friend. For Virginia planters in those days kept ‘‘open house’ to all their passing friends, and it was no uncommo thing to see a dozen guests gathered around such a man’s table. The youn: Colonel found, that day, among other diners at his friends home, a pretty, plump young widow, Martha Custis. Mrs. Custis’ husband had died a year earlier, leaving her one of th kee ; age * € - * e “ we r i - ; J r Points of Privilege and Propricty Prepared for the Post-Dispatch. BY LILLIAN BELL. $ ’ HEN you first enter the house where your patient is, do not take en- W tire possession of it. Remember that the master of it still has to pay the rent. You don't. : Do not feel it incumbent upon you to set the chambermaid by the ears and make the cook threaten to leave the first day you are there. You can stir up more trouble by doing it slowly. Don’t try to do !t all at once. If you-don’t like your room, tell the family so. They are se afraid of you that they will change it, even if it makes grandma sleep on a foiding bed. Complain that your surroundings are not sanitary. It sounds forinidable and fic increases the family’s nwe of you. In ah emergency be as unprepared as possible, so that you can shoW your resourcefulness. If you nced bandages and none is ready, tear up the linen The family will then see how t you are in rising 10 the occasion, If the patient is nervous, sit in the foom with the Most sick persons enjoy the sound of rustling pages. If your patient is in great pain hit the side of the bed with your knee Sunday newspapers. every time you come near, and the footboard with your elbow. When you talk, emphasize your remarks by shaking the bed railing. She wi!l probably your back Is Jt will help fll to remonstrate with you. She will only cry when If she does, talk to her firmly about foolish weakness. . your exercige whenever you fee) like it, whether there is anyone to sit with your patient or not. You have ycur rights. Assert them. whatever you want to eat, the more expensive the better. Try to take hot each night about midnight. The cook will love to get it for too * \-yeu for looking like a tratned nurse whether you look like one or not. t need any instruction from me to assume to know rnore about general and your patient in particular than the attending physi-

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Reviewed for the Post-Dispatch. Morrow will cap.ure his crown. “Lentola of the South Seas,” Morrow has just published, is just as good as “She.’ It story, of a lost colony in the Pacific Ocezn and the author through a series of adventures so thrilling that they are thousands of readers. The author has given himself ample exercise of his descriptive powers, in which he excels. The «the book a work of art. (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) O much that is somber runs through the literature of evolution S tion in Russia that it is réfreshing to read “The Leveller,” a charming romance, with love, instead of dynamite and assassinations, as its motive. It is a story of Jewish persecution and the levelling comes through love that prompts a Mussian minister and friend of the Caar to marry a Jewess. Alex- ander McArthur is the author, and his story, besides being an entertaining ro- the Czar. (C. HL mance, illuminates conditions in the troubled domain of Doscher & Co.) re ARY BOARDMAN SHELDON has written in “Coffee and a Love Affair” Mi a quaint story of life in Columbia, the most revolutionary of our neigh- boring republics. It is told as the experience of an American governess who keeps a diary in which she jots down daily all the queer things she sees in that queer country and leavens the whole and makes it completely satisfactory by falling in love and marrying. (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) HARLES BRADFORD has compiled an “Anglers’ Guide,” which covers C very thoroughly the salt and fresh water fishing in and around the United States and Canada, with the names of fishing resorts, the kind of fish taken at each, and the tackle used. This is a little volume in which the angler may find enough information to very soon make it indispensable. It is modestly fliustrated, and alphabetically indexed. (The Nassau Press, Rich- mond Hill, LL, I.) , M ARY A. MORGAN, an experienced needlewoman, is the author of an | attractive little book, “How to Dress a Doll.” It is more than a mere guide to doll dressmaking. It is, in addition a complete Manual of plain sewing. The opening chapters, after giving a multitude of useful hints in regard to sewing in general, tell the child how to thread her how to hold her scissors, how to sit, how to cut out patterns, how to use thimble, and a thousand little details which, though commonplace toe the needlewoman, are Greek to the little beginner, After the reader has been told about her materials and how to use She is initiated into the mysteries of sewing itself. She is taught how hems and tucks, which stitches to use for various purposes, and how them; how to scallop, featherstitch, gather, make buttonholes and sew on but- tons, ue

frocks, dresses, such as the Little Red Ridinghood costume, the Japanese outfit and the Pierrot costume, all of which are easy to Make and are extremely effect- About the New Books. } T is dangerous for Rider Haggard to sleep longer on his throne else W. C_ These preliminary instructions form a carefully graded course which leads : up to the actual making of garments; at first simple ones, and later elaborates | Not the least pleasing feature of the book is the part devoted te fancy “4 ‘,

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SYNONPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. | Phillip Selwyn resigns from the Philippine army after his divorce from Alixe, who marries Jack Ruthven. He returns to New York, where she and her husband are liv- ing. Although they are in society, Ruthven has no money and lives by gambling in his own home with the rich. is interested. Austin the story. Eileen Brrol lives with them. Austin is trustee for her estate and part of her brother Gerald’s money. Rosamund Fane, her husband, and his partner, Harmon, are members of the flash set which in- cludes the Ruthvens. ‘‘Boots’’ Brennan was in the Philippine army and a articular fried of Selwyn’s. He resigns and returns to New York to manage a street railway **Boots’’ and Selwyn's 13-year-old Gerard. are very fond of each are expected. Alixe ~ hype of him and (Copyright, 1907, by R. W. Chambers.) The Unexpected. IFFERENCES of opinion between D himself and Neergard concerning the ethics of good taste involved in forcing the Siowitha v.-ub matter, Gerald’s decreasing attention to _busi- ness and increasing intimacy with the Fane-Ruthven coterie, began to make Selwyn very uncomfortable. The boy's close relations with Neergard worried him most of all; and though Neergard finally agreed to drop the Siowitha mat- ter as a fixed policy in which Selwyn had been expected to participate at some indefinte date, the arrangement seemed only to cement the man’s confidential companionship with Gerald. This added to Selwyn’s restlessness; and one day in early spring he had a som conference with Gerald—a most un- satisfactory one. Gerald, for the first time, remained reticent; and when Sel- wyn, presuming on the cor.ial unaer- or gg 2 between them, —— him a little, the boy turned sullen; and Sel- wyn let the matter drop verv quickly. ut neither tact nor caution seemed to serve now; Gerald, more and more el- rossed in occult social affairs of which e made no mention to Selwyn, Was still amiable and friendly, even at times lovable; but he was no longer frank or even communicative, and Selwyn, fearing to arouse him again to sullenness or perhaps even to suspicious defiance, forbore to press him beyond the most tentative advances to- ward the regaining of his confidence. This, very naturally, grieved and mortified the elder man; but what _trou- bled him still more was that Gerald and Neergard were’ becoming so amaz-~- ingly companionable; for it was easy to see that they had in common a num- ber of personal interests which he did not share, and that their silence con- ., cerning these interests amounted to & secrecy almost offensive. upon them, he noticed that their confab ceased with his appearance. Often, too, glances of warning intelligence og between them in his presence, which, no Mig they supposed were unnoticed by h They -left the office together fre- pone y, now; they often lunched down- own. Whether they were in each other’s company evenings, Selwyn did or erald no Jonger volun- teere@: information as to his where- abouts or doings. And all this hurt Sel- wyn, and alarmed him, too, for he was slowly coming to the conclusion that he did not like Neergard, that he would never si articles of partnership with him, and thatreven his formal asso- Clateship with the som y was too Close a relation for his own | of mind. But on Gerald’s account he on; he did not Ife to leave the boy alone for his sister’s sake as well as for his own *pring. He actually grew to dislike voth Neergard and the business of Neer- gard & Co.—for.no one

Again and again, coming unexpectedly } Matters drifted that way through early | sche BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS. And one morning, before he left his rooms at Mrs. Greeve’s lodgings to go downtown, Percy Draymore called him up on the telephone; and as that over- fed young man’s usual rising hour was notoriously nearer noon than 8 o'clock, it surprised Selwyn to be asked to re- main in his rooms for a little while until Draymore and one or two friends could call on him personally concerning a matter of importance. They were men he knew only formal- ly, or, at best, merely as fellow club members; men whom he met when a dance or dinner took him out of the less pretentious sets he personally af- fected; men whom the newspapers and the public knew too well to speak of as ‘‘well known.” “Well!l’’ said Selwyn, perplexed but cordial as he exchanged amenities with each gentleman who entered, ‘‘this is a killing combination of pleasure and mortification—because I haven’t any more breakfast to offer you unless you'll wait until I ring for the Sul- tana’—— ‘Breakfast! Oh, damn! I’ve break- fasted on a pill and a glass of vichy for 10 years,’’ protested Draymore, “‘and ithe others either have swallowed their cocktails, or won’t do it until luncheon. I say, Selwyn, you must think this a devilishly unusual proceeding.’’ “Pleasantly unusual, Draymore. Is this a delegation to tend me the nomination for the down-and-out club, perhaps?’ Fane spoke up languidly: “It rather looks as though we were the down-and- out delegation at present; doesn’t it, Orchil?’’ “TI don’t know,” said Orchil; “it seems a trifle more promising to me since I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Capt. Selwyn face to face. Go on, Percy; let the horrid facts be known.’’ “Well—er—oh, hang it all!’’ blurted out Draymore, -<‘we heard last night how that fellow—how Neergard has been tampering with our farmers—what underhand tricks he has been playing us; and I frankly admit to you that we're a worried lot of near _ sports. That’s what this dismal matinee sig- nifies; and we’ve come to ask you what it all really means.’’ “We lost no time, you see,” added Orchil, caressing the long pomaded ends of his kinky mustache and trying to catch a glimpse of them out of his languid Oriental eyes. He had been trying to catch this glimpse for 30 years; he was a persistent man with plenty of leisure. “We lost no time,” repeated Dray- more, “because it’s a devilish unsavory situation for us. The Siowitha Club fully realizes it, Capt. Selwyn, and its members—some of ‘em—thought that perhaps—er—you—ah—being the sort of man who can—ah—understand the sort of language we understand, it might not be amiss to—to’’— “Why did you not call on Mr. Neer- gard?’ asked Selwyn coolly. Yet he was taken completely by surprise, for ONL LELEL LEA LLL AED ATO IE OEE A SE TEN ATONE: Are in the nerves—all feeling 4. Headache, toothache, neuralgia, sciatica, rheumatic pains, back- ache, etc.—they’re all there, but in different parts, It’s nerve ir- ritation. . Dr. Pills relieve nerve irritation, and pain subsides. They do not de- range the stomach, or leave dis- agreeable after-effects. Your druggist can tell you that many use them, and would not be without them. "I teke Dr. Miles’ Antt-Pain Pills for heed stomach ache

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| he did not know that Neergard had gone ahead and secured options on his own responsibility—which practically amounted to a violation of the true be- tween them. Draymore hesitated, then with the brutality characteristic of the overfed: “I don’t give a damn, Capt. Selwyn, what Neergard thinks; but I do want to know what a gentleman like yourself, ; | accidentally associated with tnat man, thinks of this questionable proceeding.”’ “Do you mean by ‘questionable pro- ceding’ your coming here?—or do you refer to the firm’s position in this mat- ter?’ asked Selwyn sharplv. ‘Because, Draymore, I am not very wiaely experi- enced in the customs and usages of commercial life, and I do not know whether it is usual for an associate member of a firm to express, unauthor- ized, his views on matters concerning the firm to any Tom, Dick and Harry who questions him.,’’ “But you know what is the policy of your own firm,” suggested marmon, wincing and displaying his teeth under his bright red lips; ‘‘and all we wish to know is, what Neergard expects us to pay for this rascally lesson in the a-b-c of Long Island reaity.”’ ‘T don’t know,’ replied Selwyn bit- terly annoyed, ‘what Mr. Neergard pro- poses to do. And if I did I should refer you to him.”’ ‘‘May I-ask,”’ beran Orchil, ““‘whether the land will be ultimately for sale?’’ “Oh, everything’s always for sale,’’ broke in Motfly impatiently; ‘‘what's the use of asking that? What you meant to inquire was the price we're expected to pay for this masterly squeeze in realty.”’ “And to that,” replied Selwyn more sharply still, ‘“‘I must answer again that I don’t know. I know nothing about it; I did not know that Mr. Neergard had acquired control of the property; I don’t know what he means to do- with it. And, gentlemen, may I ask why you feel at liberty to come to me in- stead of to Mr. Neergard?’’ “A desire to deal with one of our own kind, I suppose,’’ returned Draymore bluntly. ‘“‘And, Aor that matter,” he said, turning to the others, “we might have known that Capt. Selwyn could have had no hand in and no knowledge of such an underbred and dirty’’— Harmon plucked him by the sleeve, but Darymore shook him off, his little piggish eyes sparkling. ‘What do I care!” he sneered, losing his temper; “‘we’re in the elutches of a vulgar, skinflint Dutchman, and he'll wring us dry whether or not we curee him out. Didn’t I tell you that Philip Selwyn hed nothing to do with it? If he had, and I was wrong, our journey here might as well have been made to Neer- gard’s office. For any man who will do such a filthy thing’’—— “Wait!’ said Selwvn brusauel: ‘'! do not admit for one moment that there is anything dishonorable in this deal!— — ee ee ome -_—. ~ * =e - a; * * What is it? In point of fact, it is the freedom from poisonous and spurious in- gredients, the excellerrce in flavor, that gives to vate

Orange Rose, eta ularity and in- e rétail grocers are learning that quality rather than price is necessary to retain the confidence of customers and make a successful business. their wide creasing sale. An Inside View of Life Among : the Children of the 400 :

nor do I accept your rig..t to question it from that standpoint. As far as I can see, it is one of those operations which is considered clever among business folk, and which is admired and laughed over in reputable business circles, And I have no doubt that hundreds of we.l- meaning business men do that sort of thing dailly—yes, thousands!”’ e shrugged his broad shoulders. “Be- cause I personally have not chosen to engage in matters of this—ah—descrip- tion, is no reason for condemning the deal or its method’’—— “Every reason!”’ sai. Orchil, laughing cordially—“everv reason, capt. Selwyn. Thank you; we know now exactly where Wwe stand. It was very good of you to let us come, and I’m sorry some of us” had the bad taste to show any tem- per’... “He means me,” added Draymore, of- fering his .and; “good-bye, Capt. Sel- Mi a I dare say we are up against it lara,”’ “Because we've got to buy in that property or close up the lowitha,’’ added Mottly, coming over to make his adieu. “By way, Selwyn, you Ought to be one of us in the Sio- witha’—— “Thank you, but isn’t this rather an awkward time to suggest it?’ said Sel- wyn good humoredly. lane burst into a sonorous laugh and wagged his neck, saying: “Not at all! Not at all! Your reward for having the decency to stay out of the deal is an invitation from us to come in and be squeezed into a jelly by Mr. Neer- gard. Haw! Haw!” And so, one by one, with formal or informal but evidently friendly leave- taking, they went away. And Selwyn followed them presently, walking until he took the subway at Forty-second Street for his office. As he entered the elaborate suite of rooms he noticed some bright new pla- cards dangling from the walls of the general office and halted to read them: WH NT! What would you say if we built a house for you in Beautiful Siowitha rk and gave you ten years to pay for it! Selwyn reddened with anger and beck- oned to a clerk: ‘Is Mr. Neergard in his office?” “Yes, sir, with Mr. Erroll.” “Please say that I wish to see him.” He went into his own office, eted his mail, and still wearing hat and gloves came out again just as Gerald was leaving Neergard’s office. ‘8 “Hello, Gerald!” he said pleasantly; have you anything on for tonight?” ‘"Y-es,” said the boy, em “but if there is anything I can do for you”—— “Not unless you are free for this evening,” returned the other; “are you?” “I’m awfully sorry”— “O, all right. Let me know when you expect to be free—telephone me at my rooms”’—— “T’ll let you know when I see you here tomorrow,” said the boy: But Selwyn shook his head: “T’'m not coming here tomorrow, Gerald,” and he walked leis- urely into Neergard’s office and seated himeelf. “Sq you have committed the firm to the Stowitha deal?’ he inquired coolly. Neergard looked up—and then past him: “No, not the firm. You did not seem to be Interested in the scheme, 80 I went on without vou. I’m swinging it for mv personal account.” “ta Mr. Erroll tn it?’ i “T said that it was a private matter, renlied Neergard, but his manner was affable. “I thought so: it appears to me like a matter quite persons! to vou & acteristic of: von. Mr. Neergard. that beine established. I a to dissolve whatever very have ever bound me in any associa w'th thie company and vourself.” . Neergard’s clone-act black eves sbift- ed 3 noint nearer ta ) Retry wat the sweat op ble nose giisten- “Why an von dn thie?" he asked slowly, “Has onvhaty offended vou? “An yon pecl'e wigh to now?" “Yea, I certainly do, Captain Sel- “"Verv well: it’s ive. (Henry Altemus & Co., Philadelphia.)

Sei, see his idea of it pass in review. THE CORNERS OF CIVILIZATION. IVILIZATION has three corners. from which the worldly American may They may be named: the alcove of the Cafe Paris, the cement terrace of the Grand Hotel, Yokohama and New- | port in tennis week. Life gallops past these coigns, not exactly like the dreams on the -walls of the Snow Queen’s Castle, in the Anderson tale, but with enough unreality to make living pleasant as you watch, and persuade you that Magazine.

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of views; and that is enough explana- tion, Mr. 'Neergard.”’ “I think our views may very easily coincide’’—— “You are wrong: they could not. I ought to havé known that when I came back here. And now I have only thank you for receiving me, at.my own request, for a six menths’ trial, and to admit that I am not qualified: to co- operate with this kind of a firm.” “That.” said Neergard angrily, ‘amounts to an indictment of the firm. I? you express yourself in that man- ner outside, the firm will certainly re- rsonal taste will continue’ to with sunlight. to}.

Baked in White Tile Ovens Compare any ordinary biscuit—madein dark, damp, dungeon bakeries—with these EV-R KRISP BISCUIT, which are baked in white tile 1 | ovens, on the Zof floor of a bakery that is flooded, | Remember that from the flour to the ovens, no human hand ever touches them. EV-R KRISP BISCUIT-5ce Think of the purity, the cl the daintiness, such a bakery is bound to inspire! govern m and I any business relations between us. we never had any other kind tions, I have merely to arra tails through an attorney.”’ Neergard looked after him in silence; the tiny beads of sweat on his nose united end rolled down in a big shin- ing drop, and the sneer etched on his broad and brigh mottled features deepened ‘to a -when Selwyn had disappeared. To be Continued in the we de- -- alll, |

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: * — co ee aa SATURDAY—8?, rovuig _POST-DISPATCH— SEPTEMBER 12, 1908 one 's Comp lete arkets an Post-Dispatch "steadied SOS ASE SLY WL SIRE Securities Close Strong After Weak Opening; U. P. Ad- vancés 2% Points, NEW YORK BOND SALES, NEW YORK. Sept. a NEW YORK, Spt. 12, 10 a. m. larity marked the opening of the stock this morning. The lo ré more numerous than the merican Smelting had a serious of 1% points on Consolidatd Gas was ly ad and both the steel is- sues Were the smallest fraction Atchison, B. @ Missouri Pacific Union Pacific open Northern Pacific, ern Pacific were Great Northern tral were unchan At the end of tne market still continue was at parity, O., B. R. T., Bt. Paul, Pennsylvania @hd ed fractionally lower. steading and South- slightly higher, and and New York Cen- NEW YORK CURB CLOSE’ (Francis, Bro, & Co., 214 N. 4th ot. NEW YORK. Sept. 12. A ttn. ann I a erat meee Sheen a a first half hour the Southern Pacific receded % each, Northern Pacific Reading gainea %. active in the early nearly a _ point. ced % and Consoli- Pennsylvania and advanced \y each, and Smelting was very dated Gas % point. Distillers Certificates were again quite registered few The Stee! stocks were fractionally stro Reading ana Union P market leaders, Prominent stocks in fact, most of dina Signal Victory for The entire list of Stocks was Marked Gains of 1 point and both divisions of t © Were equally bullish, Ad h were made by Con- Reading ana Union Pa- ny t above sarily nominal _—_—— >... Boston Market. members of Sas ayreet, Boston,” ne ty K Bids... ew York City, Solidated Gas, Copper and Illinois ed up 2 each, and ad- St of the list ranged Central were mov vances in the re between 1 and 1 The market w — FF aes a8 @n active one. changes both ways in the dealings in Stocks Saturday declines predominating. Deai- Quite active. American Smelt- L 1%, St. Paul 1 ana Kansas preferred and Pressed Steel The market was ir but the -weakness s trial section was of of the Western s Trading represented extent an evenin ee i @ totens FE ts os te & sad ow a=} moow© regular for a while hown in the indus- fset by the strength tocks and Reading. to @ considerable & up of the week's * # s- —_— = a After the first hour the strong. Reading, after to 131%. Union Pa- P 1%, and the stocks that front rank in the re- cent upward mov low priced rail- U. S. Government Bonds, ¥y by D. Arthur Ro 8, 600 Third Na- bonds unchanged; other bo Money on eal! nominal. quiet and steady; €0 days and 90 days 2% to 3 per cent tional Bank Buildin The market closed Strong. The ad- ST. LOUIS, Sept. 12 1908, vance in the two Harr ading made a stro the market and p harden. Union Pacific, iman Pacifics and ng leadership for Central, Northern Pacifle and Amalgamated Copper 1% to 1%, and over a doz Point or more. Colorado &@ second preferred declined 1%, ican Smelting preferred, A comotive preferred and Vi St. Louis Bond Market. There is a somewhat in business reported in the The scarcity of many municipal issues js especially a creased volume of ks and trust com- Greater New Y e — hou oans amounting to . * Pee eeseee &, ore, Ok., tax-ex- Peeeerseesebevees *ft#ee 4 ervilie, Mo,, sewer ve eee eee ee eeeeese mith, Ark., sew- ur and prices were est points of the day ences Louls Stock Exchence, slight improvement in y's session of the St. ee Daily Record of M FINANCIAL ITEMS |. | New York Stock Quotations Reporte’ for the Post-Dispatch by D. R. Francis, LATEST LIVESTOCK. “2 ab S, Il.. Sept. 12.— D * ith Bro. & Co., 214 N. 4th st WHEAT FRACTION 2 ry Cl Rig. Ct. 48 at STOCKS. Se CeCe eee eeer teeters ee es . x40 preferreg : xAmerican Woo] Commén ~ do preferreg __ Anaconda Copper Atchison comma do préferreq . BR. Kens Baltimore & Ohio iMatesdeea Canadian Pacific . xC. C. Cc. & St. L Central Leather common Chicago Northwest do 24 preferred Consolidated Gas xdo Preferred ,,... xChicago & Alton commo xdo preferred : Delaware and Hudson Dis. Sec. CE acto. do preferred ..... rie common bee xGeneral Electric Great Nerthern pref. xdo prelterred SOC oeesteves do preferred ......._. ; xNational Biscuit common xNational Enameling comm xdo preferred ...... btncue xdo 2d preferred ..... St. L. & S. F. ist preferred.... Wisconsin Central common High. Low. Close. Close. HIGHER AT CLOSE With the Lack of Rain as Chief Support, Good Demand Senet Allis-Chalmers common ..... Ot Cee Am. A. Chem. COU, che edsbvacccedducic Am. C. @ Fdy. Co. common .... rred t 80; on uck 5s ; Consolidation Coal ;. Consolidated Gas gee 3 ER Te en " were ales inclodes Can Cotton Ol POCCC CC CEEHRE CC OHOOEEE American Locomotive COMMON ....2.0.008 9660 Obed bis edbsedeevectesocda DPD &% a iway funding scrip was uncha | CHICAGO GRAIN MARKETS IN BRIEF CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—Wheat senti- sain. despite the Record Gold Output. - 12.—The production “nonth is officially "POO 45608 e6k 0s eb ecerece COOP RSh see MUR EPbs er descees TP OVSCOC 4 e COG 60 Gene CSCO CC Ce i high xAmerican H. &. L, common....... The previous hi mar *eeenee SPP Oe eee eeneesesesees xAmerican Tobaceo preferred Ose is steady with a w PP CCR ecorcedeesesesoecoorse d Financ Rimenecntnatieeeee ee ¥ é : S ¥ ‘ “ A le = Sue * ‘j ; od w Oe ¥ Ba Mee : ¢ F ae aed , - a . 2 ri x a" a Py x * Y Fe, ea if “4 be bs ; ; Atlantic Coast OO si. a eee eeeeeeceeeee CFO eC Cec eeeneos © eeee * edad an ea . ese@ee Tere Cee ews eseres xChi., Mil. @ St. Pau! common . _ RE Eee 4,572,225 6,551,662 5.786.617 HEEP—A few shee a eee eeees Peeve one Chicago & Great Western ond habiidsdees I **ee¢ "8 999 9000s seeeeeeeess ceesocee Colorado Southern WO sctdnccedesces ado first Preferrea oepbeeacs hanged to ic } - $736,000 additional xCorn Produce Ref., common . c'usive, for $1000 eac POC Rveseeeoeecese . The New York bank sia Current week: Surplus, Chesapeake & Ohio loans, increase, $21,998,100: 2,5 OTOP CO CCL ee OEE CEC CCCRS COC e oem seeesbeese xDuluth Ss. 8. & i. "eee eeeees e*#e8 . . LOCAL CLEARING-HOUSE STATEMEN Denver & Rilo Granda common... New York Produce OCC ee ORs eneoederdcocs wn NORCOS CED CD Cos ebeeenereeéce do Ist PONE. cscesscnrtnveesdecees, do 2d Preferred CO SO 6 Ose esevescedecceece RAILROAD NEWS AND GOSSIP erred CCFO ORE CSE Hee sous: Great Northern POWs te Nsecscccoess oi ‘ Iilinois Centra} ®eseees ®¢eOeeedes Interboro Met common Cb co teccccccctoese be n It -: p hel bees wont si D xInternationai Paper, common.......... xIowa Centra! sHER0 ONO 00e ov eseeseoceresconse xK. c.. F, &, & M. pl. COC PROC eee eee orece. Kansas City Southern common BIRTHS RECORDED. - Schmidt, 3718 Texas; boy. Masterson, 191 8. Broadway: boy. Sauer ming; boy. Total income ..... to ; to © 98%C. May wheat in Set "ehh Louisville & Nashville 06000 ce eescececcace xManhattan CUEPPESCOES BE DedeERdenkedecccsi«. xMexican Centra! Coe ree seerccsencesccevecce iM... K, & T. common Oe eer esreveseeseseee do preferred...... bbedeccisasca Missouri Pacific O00 e see ee ee esesececnoecece xM. 8.7. P. @ 8. WO cedeviteclincdd. me xNorth American COS ee eerecceneseveeseeces show h it and loss, defici Toledo, 1 jouis & Western Rallroad uly: Operating revenue ....§ Operating expenses _.. Net op. revenue axes AS AOP SOROS ae wo Operating income.... Charges (cr. to Mmc.)... xdo preferred FOC C Cre eeereoseestoczeecs National Lead COMMMON 2... .ceeecscseccs. OP ORORMION © se iccicccsic.. Northern Pacifi- tose eee eondresesevsececcs xNew York Air Brake One rob eceoencccecces New York Central OOo Cees te reeevceseens xN. Y., Chicago & St. Louis. New York, Ontario & Wester xNorfolk & Western Heeb endaebecers Pacific Mail +O PCO ee ee eee seseenecescecctence, Pennsylvania COOEREOORS DEEdeoresecbddcncese: Peoplo’s Gas NCODAG dws Os odddécake xPitts.. C., GC. @ ee xPullman Co. bUNOGS On0bs bawondbes se. « P. 8. Car common PRUs ON deasciend ox > Be S> x and B. Begley, 2604 d E. was @ good demand rings were somewhat larger. Prices and A. Von Dreh ke. 3817 Missouri; boy. 3141 Clifton: boy. . 4238 Osceola; boy. A. Stewart, 7118 St. James ay.; , 3220 8. 9th: girl. hike, 509 Hurck: girl, al, $121 N, 13th: girl. S. Vonleffern, 1426 Hebert: girl. , 2014 Mullanphy:; girl. S. Leffingwell; girl. + 3810 Washington: girl. cal receipts were 58 MR of wheat and flour General expenses she 000 £ & Pe Cassa “4 ) oad Co. has soid notes bearing 314 per cent in eds be a d notes maturing d xReading ist eteseice kaa TOTO Oee largest single Jo Oct. 1, ox ha Republic Iron & Stee] common....,.. ss do preferred POR eee rer eeeeeseseseseceence and A. Welhamsmeyer, 25 5081A Cote oa girl. - and M. Smith, 4228 Ken d E. Nies, 2928 Vest: and B. Laflene, 1710 and M. Ahans, 8738 Hebert: and S. Mann, 2107 ‘Alice: A. and M. Miller. - and A. Lathan, 32 o*> tH. 4e > . Cash Corn clearances f 150 Foreign Public Securities. Current quotations on Cuban and Mexican secur the office of D. Arthur Bonds, Third National B NAME OF SECU, Bavarian Gov. Gold City of rrr t ewes Empire of Germany Conso] 3s) leading European, ith shipments of ities, furnished by Bowmah, Investment ank Blidg., St. Louis. 444QOR8m pe es Ry. S. 8S. common ..... ieauieeiesinnee , xdo preferred Oe r rears er ecececscscccece Sloss-Shef ae ae nt ee nee ORO GRS MhOOR ANS ae cee wr Southern Pacific eee eeeee eee ct *eeebeeeseesess Southern Railway common FOES edcebetsee do preferred ........... 9 ae do second preferred :.,.... PMHRO> mag —— SES , 3815 Michigan: girl. W. and A. Jutz. 1987 Mon W. and FH. D. Farris, 3 Pr. P. and i J. Smith, G. and A. Bommarito, 1403 N. 7th: d to the ruling interr 20A Proapect: girl. 6107 Old Monchester; MARRIAGE LICENSEs. FUTURE PRICES. Highest Lowest | Today. Today. St. L. & Ss. W. common ....... do preferred PbeRieetebenessdbeebnnisics Texas Pacific ...... bee baebas Kasesin Toledo common be xehPebcie cc $iisbissavice do preferred ©0990 006 0bbbbs Ceebecdicocecc Be TP ree ee ic Union Pacific common ...., sbeedins Go preferred .............. voeseas u. 3. Bebber .......... Seatthssbocee : U.S. CL1P.e@ wae. CO. ci saddens xU. 8. R. & R. Co. lee Base $0 eceveceseceesos Theodore Gamache United States Stee! CUMRIIOR,. ccicncccccecce do preferred E9466 0 0d biad a oad ede oxeeece xVirginia C. and Cc. eeeegacés Virginia-C. C. Co, Ueehbdiibbads cba kebicecss Wabash common KieesaChobbace ma do preferred hbvdetabdsstacdes xWabash Pittsburg Terminals Wheeling & Lake Erie common.... xdo seconds ........ dpaevieascis vena sae Westingh-use bheebinbes adi lubbedibcescesn William J. Morton 53533 Columbia ay 5533 Columbia avy vu 1U4&% 104 y, in denominations ie “Interchangeable. #Coupon. tRegistereg Bertha M. Mueller Chicago Cash Prices, Sept. 12.—Cash wheat: é t . . 3 hard, viqovsc: No, ;: ; No. &S spring, $1.01@ a al 40% Tao %/a (49: Bb) es 419 is Ral “GRP a2 . , No, 3, 30% asic white, 47 4% @4uc: FAIRLY STEADY UNDERTONE Total sales, 348,100 shares. Go preferred .......... caches jceneesbacie Western Union .......;........ (issdieotih ice Mackay common paacesie tes psebtevhehecdwes xdo preferred iit het eee eee xUnopened. *Advanced. -Declined. (era thetuakaivn 4311 N, 5 IN COTTON FUTURE MARKET a eee mee mee ee ee ee endi Loans and SOUNNES 25 kis. » 1,822. 500 Inc. ] its — ‘ 7 : sere eevee @eee 1820-281 I e i ntes Tecrivns ch 26. 1 Dec. a Se ee . : I gs ee Surplus nae Werke het. 1 ve tye ie thee et 1503 Sub ~~ Gilmore at Market Quiet at Rather Mild Re- sponse to Generally LEARING HOUSE BANKS Reported by Simon, Brookmire & Clittora. 315 N. 4th st. Average for wk. 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SAAEL 10 BE DEDICATED WITH A PARADE All Jewish Ministers of City Will March, Bearing Scrolis of Law.

OPENS NEXT FRIDAY

Epworth League to Confine Work to Home Missions This Year.

The dedication of the beautiful new Temple Israel, King’s highway and Washington boulevard, will take place Friday evening, Sept. 18.: The dedica- tory service will begin with a grand procession, composed of the Jewish min- isters of the city, and the officers of the congregation, carrying the Scrolls of the Law, which will be deposited in the Holy Ark on the altar. Then follows the Kindling of the Perpetual Light, the first reading from the Law (the five books of Moses), the dedicatory prayer, the liturgy and the dedicatory sermon, the latter by the Rev. Dr. Harrison. The liturgy and prayer will be participated in by all the Jewish ministers of the city. The regular Saturday morning ‘gervices in the new temple will begin the following morning. The Sunday Bervices will begin the middle of Octo- just proceding the Jewish New Year, Oct. 26. Former and future students of Cen- tral College for Women at Lexington, Mo., will meet at Dr. Hawkins’ church, Cabanne, on Sunday morning, Sept. 13. A local organization of the former stu- dents will scon be perfected. Transfers announced at the Southwest Missouri Methodist Conference are: J. W. Ogden and E. C.-McVoy to the ot. Louis Conference: J. F. Pike to the Texas Conference; J. E. Owen, H. G. Summers, W. G. Pike and J. R. Hedges to the Oklahoma Conference: U. G. Foote and J. W. Ezell to the Missouri Conference. Work suggested for the St. Louis Ep- worth League Union includes the estab- lishment of a Southern Methodist Church out of the St. Louis City Mis- sion; the founding of Sunday schools in North and South St. Louis, and the building up of the several leagues by visits of the union officers. The work of the union will be along home missionary lines instead of foreign. The new of- ficers are: President, Charles Boll; first vice-president, Charles Kell; second vice- president, Miss Helen Greene; third vice- president, Miss Gertrude Allen; fourth vice-president, Clarence Comfort; treas- urer, Bounds EF. Hamilton; correspond- ing secretary, Miss Grace Holbert; re- cording ‘secretary, L. Hannish; junior league, Mrs. Charles Bull. Study Class Formed, The St. Louis Conference, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, has formed @ study class for young people of De Soto, Mo., and an auxiliary at Rich- woods. . The ladies of the Cabanne Foreign Mission Society have arranged “A Trip to Our Foreign Fields.’’ This society will have an open meeting in the church Sunday evening, Sept. 20. Mount Carmel Church, near Centaur, St. Louis Gounty, of which the Rev. R. C. Carpentér is pastor, will be dedicaged Sept. 13 with the Rev. Dr. C. C. Woods officiating. The Second Presbyterian Church, Taylor and Westminster place, will cel- ebrate its seventieth anniversary Oct, li and 12. Dr. 8S. J. Niccolls has been its pastor for 44 years. The St. Louis Presbytery, U. S. A., will hold its fall meeting at Ferguson, Me., beginning next Tuesday evening. The St. Louis Presbytery has ap- proved the call extended ‘by the First United Presbyterian Church to the Rev. H. B. Henderson of Unionville, O. He will preach his first sermon Sept. 20. Dr. A. M. Campbell, his predecessor, became president of Franklin College, New Athens, O., last June. The Baptist Ministers’ Conference will hold its first fall meeting in the Metropolitan Building Sept. 14. Miss Alice Morton and Miss Daisy Dean of St. Louis and Miss Mattie Murphy of Desloge will enter the Bap- tist Missionary -raining School at Chi- cago Sept. 16. The new parochial school of the Blessed Sacrament Church, King’s highway and Maffitt avenue, will open in November. De Soto Council, Knights of Colum- bus, will hold its second open meeting at Forester’s Hall, Sept. 30. The missionaries, St. Vincent’s Church, St. Louis, will ve these September missions: Sept. 6- 313, Central City, Colo.; Sept. 6-13, Sa- lida, Colo.; Sept. 6-13, St. Genevieve’s, Chicago; Sept. 20-27, La’ Junta, Colo.; Sept, 20-27, Colorado City, Colo.; Sept. 2-Ocf 4, St. Cicelia's, Chicago; Sept. ‘-Oct. 4, Rocky Ford, Colo.; Sept. 29- : ‘Oct. 4, Las Animas, Colo. Archbishep’s Appointments, ~ Fall appointments of Archbishop 4 ‘ienton are; Sept. 27, confirmation at 8S. Peter und Paul's Church; Sept. 29, Confirmation at Maxville, Mo.: ; Sept. 20, confirmation at Mattice Creek, a A choir, directéd by Mrs. Regina M. a Carlin, organist, the old Cathedral. has been formed at A new society, a division of the A. : o. Hi, has been added to the Federation of Catholic Bocieties of St. Louis. The biennial convention of the Knights of Father Mathew will. be held Oct. 12, 13 and M. A banquet will be given at Hotel Jefferson, on Monday ev Oct. 12. Harry G. Whelan,. at. arevin’é Council, will be toastmaster. § wcers will be the Rev. J. J. Con- y, 8 J. and Patrick F. award's branch, Catholic Knights , Ladies of America, will give a in its hall, at Easton and Tay- 1u + grad evening, Sept. 22. _ organization St. oh su Mosel Sactaes for Cook of with headquarters. YA 5 KY VATS, ISISLSZS NS; }, Prominent St. Louis families wi!) we united through the wedding of Henry C. Garneau and Miss Nancy Johnson whose engagement was announced Suat- urday. Mr. Garneau is a mémber of a million- aire St. Louis family, of French ex- traction prominent for a half century in St. Louis. He is a Yale alumnus, belongs to the Racquet Club and is a Democratic member of the Board of Ed- ucation.

HER MARRIAGE WILL UNITETWO OLD AND VERY RICH FAMILIES MISS NANCY JOHNSON He resides at 325 North Boyle avenue. Miss Johnson is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Johnson. The fam- ily formerly resided in Portland place, but at present are at the _ Bellevue Apartments, having leased their house last winter to Mr. and Mrs. John T. Davis Jr.. Miss Johnson is an attractive brunette and has been very popular in society. She has returned only recently from Cconomowoc, where she spent the Summer.

the cornerstone laying, of which J. R. Kerwin is president, J. E. Martin, secre- tary; Patrick Duffy, treasurer, and Dr. W. H. White, marshal. } The Rev. John Forest, 0. F. M., has returned to the local Franciscan Con- vent after a visit to Cleveland. The new Church of St. Francis De Sales, Lynch street and Ohio avenue, will be dedicated Thanksgiving day. The twenty-seventh anniversary ball of St. Patrick’s Council, Knights ef Fa- ther Mathew, will be given Oct. 14 at Westminster Hall, 3806 Olive street. The Rev. J. M. Philputt pastor ef the Unien Avenue Christian Church, who has been spending the summer in Maine, will return to his pulpit Sept. 18.- The summer work has been carried on by the Rev. Ewing S. Chenoweth, who. will part Sept. 18 for New York to take his studies at the Union rake eed Seminary. The home-coming day of this congregation will be Sept. 27. The Rev. Charles Mills of Pilgrim Congregational Church will arrive in New York from Europe next Monday and reach St. Louis Tuesday night. The Rev. Clayton Earl Wheat of Christ Church Cathedral is visiting in Dallas, Tex. The Sunday school of the Episcopal Cathedral opens Sept. 20. The course has been revised and amplified by the introduction of church history. The Froebel Kindergarten, conducted by Miss Theodosia Holland, opens Sept. 24, in connection with Lenox Hall, Me- Pherson and Taylor avenues. The Laymen’s Missionary Movement of the Methodist church, will meet Sept. 19, at Charleston, Mo. The St. Louis con- ference leader is Dr. John W. Vaughan. The Rev. C. C. Stahmann, superin- tendent of the Children’s Home Society, and the Rev. D. S. Wahl are attending the German St. Louls annual conference at Quincy, Il. The Rev. Mr. Wahi, be- cause of his wife’a health, wishes a ENR ~

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transfer from the Salem German Meth- eodist Church. The Official Board of the Niedringhaus Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Granite City, has petitioned the annual conference for the reappointment ef the Rey. C. C. Hall, first assistant secretary of the conference. The Rev. Dr. McKittrick of the First Presbyterian Church has returned from Canada, much improveé in health. An entertainment for the benefit of the Good Samaritan:Hospital [lome for the Aged, Jefferson avenue and Dayton street, wil! be given Saturday evening. Those in charge are Mrs. Henry Droste, August Schaper and H. F. Kleykamp, president respectively of the Ladies’ Aid Society, the Men's Aid Society and the Perse of Trustees.

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Mrs..Pinkham, L | ne see seueoer dampen SHAG IN RIVER ENDS CAREER THE TENNESSE Steamer Sinks Near Kansas City With Great Hole in Hulk. —_— —- — CARRIED $75,000 CARGO

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Special to the Post-Dispatch. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 12.—The Steamer Tennessee nas made its last trip. A snag in the bend of the riv- er, just above the mouth of the Little Blue River, tore a hole six feet long in its hull and ended the Tennessee’s career. Alongside a small island the boat Hes, a broken hulk. What was Saved of the cargo of 214 tons, valued at $75,000 is hard to estimate. The loss may be anywhere between $25,000 and $50.000. The Tennessee cost $7500. The owners say they will run boats next season as usual. At the mouth of the Little Blue, the Missouri River is divided into channels and a small slough. On pre- vious trips the boats have run the nerth channel, but recently’ this shoaled up, sending the water through the south channel, through which the pilots had never run. Pilot L. G. Thompson, a man of 11 years’ experience on the river, was at the wheel. _Pilot Tells of Accident. “We came into the channel at slow speed; I judge hardly a mile an hour,” he said after the accident. ‘‘We had gone about half a mile when I felt a slight jar. I thought perhaps it was a reef. The way the Water was boil- ing we couldn’t see anything, and there was not a ripple to show the presence of a snag. “Suddenly I heard someone shout ‘Beach her.’ I knew then that we had struck 4 snag, and all do was to rnake for a shallow bank and gave the cargo and the lives of the pas- sengers. “I found as good a place as I could 800 yards or so beyond the snag. The old boat sank the minute the bow touched the shore. I hadn’t any time to spare. It ‘was my first accident.”’ Passengers Don Life Preservers, When the Thomas struck most of the passengers were on the forward deck. For several minutes they did not real- ize what had occurred. Then, as they realized the meaning of the confusion below, the yelling of the captain and the scurrying of the crew, the women screamed and the men rushed for the life preservers. Each passenger was supplied. Capt. Earp, however, assured them there was no danger and all were sent to the cabin roof, Engineers Stick at Posts. Down in the engine room Walter Bottom and H. C. Johnson, the engi- neers, remained at their posts with water up to their waists till the bow of the boat was pushed against the bank. Then thew swam ashore. “Everybody was just as coll as could be,’’ Capt. Earp said, ‘‘except for the passengers. Ne one was scared and every man of the crew did his full duty.’’ As soon as the passengers were ashore Capt. Earp gave orders to re- move as much of the cargo and furnish- ings as was possible. Among the passengers aboard the Tennessee were Albert F. Voar and wife, H. G. Brandenburg and wife, and H. T. P. Tare of St. Louis.

Would You Appear Prosperous? — If so, buy a Diamond «1 our easy credit terms, and wear the stone while paying for it. Loftis Bros. & Co., 2d floor, Carleton Bldg., 6th and Olive. CARPENTER IN TROUBLE, HE SAYS, HELPING PASS CHECK In Deer-Street Station, Ferguson Claims He Is Victim of Friends. J. F. Ferguson of 4606 Lucky street, a carpenter, under arrest at the Deer Street Station on a charge of passing a worthless check, says he is the vic- tim of circumstances. Ferguson admits passing the check on Otto Niemann, grocer at 4808 Nat- urai Bsige road, but says he did it merely to accommodate Lou Rich, bar- tender at Feisler’s saloon, Cora avenue and Natural Bridge read, and a man named ‘“Nig’’ Clemens. It is Ferguson’s story tna: Rich told him that Clemens had plenty of weney, but was not known in the neighbor-

hood. “Rich told me to help Clemens get a check cashed, and I said I would,” Ferguson declared. “Clemens drew the check on the Franklin Bank, pay- able to-me. I indorsed it, took it to Niemann and got the money. Then I took the money back to the saloon and we spent it. I had no idea the check was bad until I was arrested.’

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Shot to CHICAGO, Sept. ~wigg Bee Bavng, Flynn, W, was shot and killed by Maurice, 32, his brother, at the latter’s home on the West wide, early today. The police be- lieve the victim was murdered in a drunken quarrel, and have arrested the slayer and another brother, David, %. The prisoners declare the killing was the result of an accident, there was to}]} DREYFUS AFFAIR PROBABLY AT END - PARIS, Sept. 12.—With the acquittal last night by a jury in the Assize Court of Louis A. Gregori, who fired upon Maj. Dreyfus during the ceremonies last June incident to the placing ef the body of Emile Zola ia the Pantheon, the Dreyfus affair, which has divided France into two camps for the last 12 years, May be said to have been buried beyond all possibility of resurrection. The Government, it was evident, Aid not want a severe sentence, . which would ‘tnake ‘@ martyr of M. Gregori, but merely a correctional sentence which would allow the matter to die out. It was generally anticipated that the caurt would condemn Gregori to six months’ imprisonment, and his complete acquit- tal partook of the nature of an anti- climax. The courtroom resounded with. min- gtéd hoots and jeers, and the room was orcered cleared. An attempt was made to. start a manifestation outside the building, but this was frustrated by the police.

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