St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 25, 1908

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- Only Evening — in St. Lox tis with. both. both ‘Associa ST. LC Louis IS, FRIDAY EVENING, ~ DECEMBER 25, 1908. - VOL. 61. NO. 127. Old and Yo Scene When the Hungry Were Fed tn the Coliseum and a Whose Work Made the Poss-Dispatch Christmas Festival a — 4 pt . ; 1} ANK ASSAULTS SENCH PRESIDENT Agitator Sets Upon Fallieres Christmas Party and Both aot > Bruised in Fight. x ~ PARIS, Dee. 95.—President Fallieres grappled with an assail- an’ in. 9 restaurant in the, Place de Etoile this morning and sus- | —* bruises. Mappis, an insignificant politician, who pre- , the quarrel, was arrested and confessed to the police that e as arfit was actuated by political spite. ak saa reported that an attempt had been made upon the at ent of Franee and the gay city was plunged into widient | confi = — a ig — oy ied — we Be +5 ig? : oe Wy a v= ' aay ALLS TRAFFIC HALTS AS WORKMEN Tht _| FOSAVE BUILDING In a heroic effort to steiee 00 wane the Oakes Building, which is now in such a dan- gerous condition that traffic at the busy corners of Broadway and Olive street is completely blocked, the south elevation, which overlooks Dlive street, is being braced with strong timbers and iron beams. The beams and timbers are bolted to the Walls. Werkmen have drilled hun- dreds of holes through. the walls in which to insert the bolts which pass through the beams and timbers and Bind them so tightly as to hold the brick and mortar in place. Building Commissioner Smith has lit- tle hope that the building can be saved. He says unless it is made safe by Mon- day, or the’‘owner begins wrecking it, he will set a force of wreckers to work to tear it down. The south wall is sald by the Bulld- ing Commissioner to be in ® very dan- perous condition. The pullding was gut- fire several years 45°. Wallis through fires are al- — AY ays RISTMAS FEAST MAK ag Throng Coliseum for Post-| ⸗ * — — GIRL PLAYING. SANTA CLAUS 1S BAULY BURKE Playing Santa ‘Chie tes to please her baby sister, Miss Verna Bowdall of 1806A Qhio avenue was badly burned. Most of her hair was consumed by the flames and it is feared that she may be scarred. Miss Dowdall had just finished dis- tributing presents to her 3-year-old si- ter, Vivian, when the accident occurred. The baby was put to bed early Thursday night and was told that Santa’ Claus would soon visit her. Vertla donned a complete Santa Claus outfit, including high-beots, fur-trtmmed coat and cotton beard. When she was ready she went into Vivian's room and awakened her. For half an hour she romped. and. played with the delighted child. “Now,” said Santa, “I must go and see all the other little boys and giris.”’ To make the Wlusion mere perfect Miss Powdall went down the front stairs and entered the fiat of Mrs. James O'Connor on the first floor to take off her Santa Claus outfit. Her sister, Edith, 18 years old, went ew of Those SANTA CLAUS $ IS GROUCHY, BUT OFFICE BOY I$ JAUNTY; WEATHER WILL WILL BE PLEASING THE ._ oe ia. m@m a7 9 “well,” said Santa Claus, “this business of going down the chimney isn't what it used to be. I got all mixed up in a steam radiator Yast night-when I tried to get into one of these new- fangied flaté. I'm going to hire a janitor to help me next year.”’ “Aw, don't tell me your trou- bles,’ said the of- fice boy. ‘“‘Igotta- longpantsuit and evefting looks ali to the rosy te me.”” Here is the forecast: — tonight and Saturday; colder — northwest winds; minim will be 28 degrees.” The river stage is uhchanged at 3.1. Missourt and Illinois—Fair tonight Saturday. —— —— KES. 10, 000 Dis spatch Festival. HOME IS BURNED | WHILE COUPLE |" LING 10. ROOF Herbert G. Gilmore and his wife, clad in their night clothes, stood for a half hour before daylight Friday on the narrow, sloping and unrailed roof over the porch of their home at 5410 Vernon avenue, penfied in by fire-and waiting for thé firemen they had summoned by telephone. They shouted for neighbors, and the neighbors came, but were un- able to help them down or to get into the house, which was filled with smoke from a fire in the basement. The first floor was nearly destroyed when, at 3:30 a. m., @ firé engine com- pany arrived, extinguished the flames, and running up a ladder, took Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore to earth. Mrs. Glimore was first awakened by the smoke at 3:8. m., and aroused her ted Press a and United Press Service _ 2ICE OD GLITTERING | TRANSPORTS LI Santa Claus Parades to. 2000 ‘HOMELESS MEN EAT TURKEY AND 1 While Two Dinners Are Served Other \ Hands Carry Baskets to the Sick Poor, A suring Them a Happy in Their Homes.. As Santa Claus; all in red, marched into the — diter 10:30 o’clock Friday morning, a bugler behind —9— loud rallying note, a button was pressed and thousanc on the skyscraper Christmas tree in the middle of # on the four smaller trees at the ends, blazed out. ‘Tew ing of the ninth annual festival of the Post-D Dispa: st Festival Association. | 7 The lighting of the trees brought a che a. | “guests ‘of the festival, some of whem, ‘the | late P Beg 5, Wi ere F * at the entrance of the building when the * Bs 21 — IG PA there was a shidut from the balconies that drowned the 2 the two bands, playing their loudest. Soon after the first installment of 2000 guests sit d the bountiful. turkey dinner in the arena The guests-began coming before 9 o’elock, They, traveled free, — tree car tickets which were the Christmas gift of Capt. McCulloch, g tnt ager of the United Railways Co. This gift of tickets made it those from the’ most remote parts of the’city to share in the ( Oh: easily as those living only a block or two from the Coliseum, a and Jefferson avenues. As fast as the guests came in, they were wshdtedite-the thiken gaan lery of the Coliseum. The earliest comers get the highest orate, we arri with them the privileges of the table. : eS . One hundred and fifty ushers, unr the direction: of M4. Dube. 4 the women and children to their seats. There were gasps of admiration as the happy guests aret —* tree. It had been hoisted into place as soon as the Royal C ished its Christmas eve performance and removed its rings and | All night carpenters and decorators had worked to meke it secure #1 ful. And now, covered with lights and glittering its nna — Sey See | children’ glad. a —E TREE PICK OF 380,000. ——— 22 — ——— it in the woods of the northern peninsula of Michigen. ‘It was the‘ the 30,000 trees which Mr. en 5 ae shipped from the far North this Christmas: season. In decorating the tree, the Tree Committee, headed by —— ee cakes cc ta Ge When these had worked from ladders on the lower part of the tree. : Il’ night ‘work’ had also been done to.put the tables in were long, strong, smooth surfaces, spread with 350 yards of tab gift of the Carleton Dry Goods Co. On the tables were 60,000 5 crockery and as many articles of silverware. ag . | There was hot @ dull moment, no as teso eileen % Ge * a 5 F?

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pr, the tables were reset four more 7 for equal numbers of diners. Each company of 2000 finishing dinner was upstairs to their former seats, they “awaited the performance of the Rhoda Roya! Circus following the removal of all the tables and the tree, "Passing the gift tables on their way Wpetairs, each child received gifts from Chairman James A. Reardon and - his 8 young lady assistants. For the }

there were beautifully dressed woolen gloves and belts. For the} a ' *boys there were caps and sacks of Horn for Every Child. — The ®sircus performance, contributed by the Rhoda Royal company, will last an hour and a half. After it is all over, every child will receive a horn en pass- ‘ing out of the hall. Residents of the neighborhood have been ‘warned to wear ‘earmuffs at that hour. At 11:30 a. m. the dinner to 200 home- Jess men was given at the Midday Lunchroom, 313 Pine street. At the noon hour, in many poor homes throughout

the city, the baskets sent out by the Post-Dispatch Christrnas Festiva! Asso- clation gave hundreds of the sick poor otherwise have, jot enjoyment which they could not 7 - Tellman. tiferson, and Edward Percault, chef at 1). Hay, proprietor of The cooking for the Coliseum dinner ws done in the Planters and Jefferson Hotels, under the oversight of J. D. Jules Bole, chef of the Jef- the Planters, directed the big task at itheir respective kitchens. The -dinner arrangements were in charge of Lyman th hotels. Tobacco for the Men. Bach of the men, on leaving the lunch- room, received a pipe and a plug of to-

Oo. ‘The cooked food, taken to the Coli- _in wagons of the St. Louis Trans- fer Co., was heated there on gas heat- t Twenty-five policemen, - * —B⏑— — ee . * + — — | . . * so that it was served warm. under Lieut. an, were given the good-natured of keeping order at the Coliseum. ‘The foree in charge of the Coliseum includes the 150 ushers, 500 walit- 100 helpers. Claus Warmly Welcomed. Cc. Lausketter, « lef engineer of @ Jefferson and .isuicrs Hotels, was charge of the tableware, knives, and spoons. er Fredericks of the Rhoda yal Circus did efficient work in seat- ion the guests in balconies and galleries they arrived, and in superintending he movement of the thousands to and m the tables. | Banta Claus, known in private life as itto FF. Karbe, was the center of a demonstration. He and hie escort, reuit Judges Rule and Reynolds, Sher- Nolte, Dr. O. F. Fischer and H. J. rretzen, occupied a Sox on the west Ge of the Coliseum. The box was ‘ettily decorated. Hundreds of chil- gathered around to shake Santa's ' Toe / | Before going to the Coliseum, Santa ‘Claus and his escort toured the city in Se 2 2 “Mtylish and becoming 4 dinner and inviting worthy persons attend.' Everywhere they got a glad ion.

. —F IN CITY HOSPITAL _ RECEIVE CIGARS FROM NURSE — patients in wards C-20 nd C-30 of the City Hospital smoked nt cigars as they Jay on their Christmas morning. The cigars remembrances from the ward iss Rydore, the head nurse. Qn her first round Christmas morning he handed a cigar to each patient, and fn a few minutes the two wards were i with the aroma of the pure Ha- @ weed. Except on Christmas smok- t is forbidden in the City Hospital. As Dr. Hewitt and Miss Bond won the offered by Supt. Kirchner for ‘decorated ward. The judges de- that ward B-20 had the most rations, and iss Bond, the nurse in charge, received five-pound box of candy and Dr. fewitt, the physician in charge, re- a box of cigars. entertainment was given by physi- nurses and convalescent patients Eve. About seventy-five pa- ‘were able to attend. The enter- at consisted of music and vaude- } acte. Lottie Holden, an English fhorus girl who collapsed while dan- | g at the American Theater —28 ‘given a Christmas tree bearing 128 [ bills that had been sent to her by| a —2 the ‘Messrs. ewe p, TAFT PLAYS GOLF IN

ball hegemony TO THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL FUND Ross 8 SS 83s 8 SS88SNSZ Ssessussese ze sees Slant —8 Louis Cooperage Ce Innd and Gertrude Gaupe!. — and Charles Conners — ws Employes St, Beef and Provision Ce James and Oney Raines Jr. Steiu-Brooks Importing Co. Frita Grossius Secend Street Stenographer.. Mra. W, E. 8. Jarrett, treas- urer Cabanne Branch Inter- national Sunshine Society .. Lucille Stocke A Friend — a te kD Ammarhd com — ae EE Stock Yards Fred A. Smith, chairman Twen- ty-Fourth Ward Republican Precinct Organization Charies R. ee 2732 Dick- Oak “HU Hive No, 18, Ladies bees ef the Macca ~ — a mt BR ies ag pal ik et ———— —2 282388 a = SE 701 —8 District Telegraph Co., List 1249 Lippe’s Restaurant, List 2484. Lippe’s Bar, List 2485 List @661 Pevely apt or ea anion e., Helmbacher Forge and Rolling Mill Co., Lists 6814, 6815 and Lf — = I SofFhow @ a] — Sa SSzRe & ice sets iF Jane nud Wallace Healy Great Western Printing Co.. Mr. and Mrs, Charles G. Reiner Friend of the Poer EK, Anderson.... Century Court, No. 26, Tribe of Ben Hur Victoria Lunch—List 3442.. F. Hennis F, Werminghaus Bessie — 3791. eerseee — Con —2—⏑———— R. G Employes Scruggs-Vandervoort-— ea fl Dry Goods Co.—lAst Bell Telephone Co., Paymaster’s Office sieden: beeuese eevee ee eee eee nm S B Mary and Walter. No Name ° Arthur Johnuson......... St. Louis Fire Department, on District—List 849... 607 ar Feundry, List 2719 OBR kiko cece -casees eevreegesece * A Roxas no orbs ox RSusanSS SSSFZ BSSSSS SSRSSSsEsususesessss y Ca ah eeeteeeeereeee Jarvis and Estep Seb 668600026 Fred G. Rausehkalb.. Aimee E. Goodwin... List 7 ve Mercantile Club es oe A Friend Contributor May Josephine Daw or Frank an — HeBiley Yones Ch Alv Charles Jr. and Edward A, Sree eeetepeeeereee Cee = we oO — H. Fraack . Arthur Milster: Edmund, Helene and Margaret Rosemann ... wT) — 250 Melany and Charles ci Marshal's u & Co., List — a Balawi n Thomas E, Roberts Prederick Gerecke .......+++:-s po J. ws hpi Chicago ......++. sh . Cash . eeercece Cash Horse Hos ment, Li Sentaaahern. _ RE Mile- age Bureau, List Mrs, Benj. F. Knauft, 3052 Ev- ane ay, — ot Cash ... Glue e*eeneee Cash ... Can see ePeeeee Vv. Ryan Jo oy Charles, $517 Shenan- MGs? sts ser a — — end of ‘the Needy 4 Cateri Oo, The Shoe . 8 Moyen, L Brewery — Lists 1001, 1002, 1003 S333 NESSES FAS BS ane 8 Hetmana Mfg, 'Co., a %

Hyde Park Buffet—List 26382. ....8 2 00 H. P. ton — — W. ‘Baater- — ae osocea aoc ow = 8 ser ee ee . — — HRISTMAS FESTIVAL FUND ke kets, the dinner at the Coliseum and the

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Post-Dispatch Christmas Festival Association Executive Committee A. H. Frederick, General Chairman. Jon E. Gorse, for the en Grant Richardson, Secret CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES. B. A. Sturgeon, Basket Committee. Mrs. A. H. Sippy, chairman Ladies’ Committee. Taylor Stith, Christmas Tree Committee. A. M. Roth, ‘Supply Commissioner. Lyman T. Hay, chairman; John D. Tellman, vice-chairman, Dinner Committee. W. H. McClain, Serving Committee. A. J. Bube, Door and Ushers’ Committee. James A. Reardon, Gift Committee. Pat Short, Music Committee. R. O. Bolt, Entertainment Committee. — Mauntel, Ticket Committee. dward Devoy, Hall and Police Committee. L, F. Hammer, Transportation Conimittee. Brigadier-General Wood, Dinner to the Homeless Men Committee. A. Robi, United Jewish Charities. Otto F. Karbe, Santa Claus.

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Southwestern Passenger Bureau, List| Helmbacher Ferge and ‘and OF 00, Co.-—Lists 6814, 6815 . H es H. Hoffstat ... Ww. j McD. Oscar Enderlin, 25 J. Kilawonn ... : oF : B. Shanklin .. *9 John Sr pte John G. Bnahiovich. Tami Vois

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] 4 ] ] I Ed Winsler ... Miss F. Frank. J. H. neler. aba Judlin.. 1 — a . — G. Beleys .... Fransc.. John John Budde’ 5 ad ‘Schmidt 1 : ee J. we John xto Walters Sr. 1 Danber. E. Be a Geo. , 4 Bena. J. Henderson Total MR Merz .. A. Heimann.$1 RSKTRITSRRSSSSESNSSS 2 The Brown Shoe Co., Store Employ- es, Lists 2067 and 2068. . Brown... .85 J. B, Wilkins... . Roblee... I bs Foulnisch... T. Shaw wey : "HH. Sawyer.’ Wendies John Wiestkins. E. Jordan. . Antonowitz. E. Gasarow . Martin Bohn ., BOS e MS ho hs SERR toe SSSSSERSSSSERS aah B. Schnei- der G. Ww. Frethaut. Hudson... mes as RooNS rar 8s 8 ————— = . Dooly .. Al Degre}! Gus Scrum tototoe! * ~ le Chas. Moder otha Cash Geo. Kettmann. Aa Kao: Rononots oo — Eastach * Hoffa and . Magnan ... W. E. Kincaid. W. Mee HM. od. QO. F. R. J. Garreny. ger as o. A. W. Wm. Ingler . as. Nachtwin H. § prow Williams Emerson oe nD K. Guens ; 7 #8 ~ 4 American — tg LAsts 1001, 1002 ; a nd 1003. " riintott R Hamfel Raed’ Heldener Wm. F. Jouls Pie. ony Gastreich., Cc. A. Koehler. i 8* W. R. — 1 00 Albert Lee F. Loehr si R. Corte- ‘wight ... .. H. Luanwerth

Rohey .... nton Tmnott: . ri Hum Chaley sindéi*: , Ee = aS Re OE SHE i) a St. Louis Fire Department, District—List 849 2 MsDonald.s 25 F. 26 ) to ~ SSUES 7** — — eq — — * 25 es | usch ’ ess * rt imge ne Steinbrenner: . Mueller *

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—E—— = ‘GE agi athe Bell Easy ash B. — Typ Gash Fire Department Horse Hospital, List . 15584. ugh Collier ..§ wm Missouri District J Co.—List 1 ° Cas * Lippe’s Restaurant—List 2484. The Lippe . Christ Caroline, ee Biepi.. Telephone Co, List 6038. H. Helsher.§ 25 J. Caesar .... Espey .. 25 Arthur Hills ... and wife .... Money Schemmel er. Douglass Total City Mamhal’s Office, List 1460. & BF: _ . Camp . Linnem’ y’r. Pony Behuler *s R. A. James .. Mat Conkling . Ch chad. bbe Total ... Sweeney. 25 olman . 25 Cosgrove Brown Watkins B. and M. Price Shade Co.—List 761. Milton Price H. Frank ..$1 00 Cash 5 8. F. Ed Lamberton. 5 yamer 2 Lynch . ‘ 25 G. A. 5. A. J. G. MeGre *9 8 G. achi.. Staehlin .. Total... Victoria Lunch—List 3443. past L J. nie Ke ison. Cash Minn Yopale Shelby . Fr I. M. R. teda Kreuter. Total eer Solomoritz. . . arrereyits. . igseles ... Joe Golliber. . Bessie Akes—tlist 8701. . WwW. D. Temm..$1 00 Cagh .......... Northwestern

, Sehelte. $ 2 00 bert 100 Cash of Missouri— e Feundry—List 2719. | RRSRARK SRE cee $3 75

3000 SWEATERS GIVEN T0 POST-DISPATCH NEWSBOYS ss _ »,

- Young Merchants Who Sell “First in Every- el thing” Paper Gladdened by Gifts---Lively Times in Alley Dressing Room.

Three thousand sweaters; beneath which turkey, sweetmeats and other ap- propriate delicacies will be stowed be- fore the day ends, were given by the Post-Dispatch to its newsboys Christ: mas morning. The distribution of these useful gifts presented a scene in which there was a strong blending of happiness and anx- iety—happiness among the little fellows who bore away under their arms or on their backs the comfortable garments and anxiety among those who, while they waited in line, feared that the stock would fail before their turn came. But by 11 o’clock tne anxiety had dis- appeared, for every boy who presented his ticket received a sweater and de- parted rejoicing. . Twenty Men Aid Distribution. The vacant building at 1008 Olive street, the use ef which was tendered by the Holbrook-Blackwelder Real Hs- tate and Investment Co., was the center ef excitement long before 8 o’clock, the hour at which the distribution of sweat- ers began. Huge piles of boxes contain- ing the sweaters stood along the walls. Behind the counters employes of the Post-Dispatch circulation department and branch managers, who volunteered their services, were kept busy handing out the sweaters, once the door was opened. Among those who helped ac- commofiate the youngsters were Messrs. Welsh, Nick, Wagner, McEntire, Ogden and Vick. In all, 2 men workgd them- selves into perspiration fitting the boys with sweaters. All sections of the city were represent- ed in the relays of newsboys that filed through the building. Boys who sel] on che corners — — and little fellows who supply demands for the Post-Dis- patch after school and on Sunday were there, too. Alley Was Dressing Room. To prevent the agonizing delay which the eager youngsters would have expert- enced otherwise, the sweaters were kept in piles according to their sizes, which ranged from 30 to 4 inches—a variety sufficient to meet all requirements of height and girth. The alley in the rear of the building became a, dressing room for the hun- dreds of. boys who were too eager io wait until they cauld go home to don the sweaters. It was a sort of place of ex- change, too, for the little fellows, who went about seeking trades “of a blue for a red, or a green for a black.” Trades Due to Colors. In this exchange boys who failed in the first instance to get the hue of sweater they desired were able to find others with whom they made satisfac- tory trades. The sweaters varied from solid blacks, blues and whites to com- binations of brilliant colors. Some were as variegated as Joseph's coat. Among the early arrivals was ‘“‘Mo- lagses,”” who selis the Post-Dispatch downtown. Unlike the commodity which is supposed typify slowness, this newsboy mov quickly and was the first to get a eater. “Beef” was there, too, but was not objecting—he was thoroughly pleased. “Fat,” whose nickname was an ironi- cal tribute to his thinness, and “Skin- ny,”” who was stout and rosy of cheek, were in line, too. After getting their sweaters the boys left in quest of other entertainment pro- vided tor them t by the Post-Dispatch.

‘MRS, AUGUST A. BUSCH GIVES NEWSBOYS CHRISTMAS DINNER Daughter and Nieces Represent Her Hostesses at Father Dunné’s Home. One hundred and seven newsboys in Father Dunne’s Newsboys’ Home at 3010 Washington avenue, sat down to a Christmas dinner at the home provided by Mrs. August A. Busch. Mrs. Busch was not present, but her daughter, Ma- rie, and nieces, Misses Ida and Emma Stussel and Ida Yost, acted as hostesses and assisted in serving at the tables. Before the repast began Father Dunne gave a toast to Mrs. Busch and the four hostesses. The boys joined in three cheers. Then they began devouring tie fine spread, including turkey, whie Mrs. Busch had provided. Before a after the dinner the Newsboyg’ Band furnished music, Each boy was given a bag of marbles.

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SANTA CLAUS WILL RECEIVE CHILDREN AT THE M, A, b. Boys and Girls From All Parts of St. Louis Invited; 1200 to Attend. Santa Claus will receive his little friends at the Missouri Athletic Club Friday afternoon.

When he decided to hold a reception pected that they will all be at,the club- house, Fourth street and Washington avenue, between 1 and 6 p. m. Within.the last two weeks each of the members of the club received @ pack of ca cards—which’ they were asked to send ,to little girts and boys all over St. Louis, requesting them to meet Santa Claus on Christmas Day. In this invitation were included all of members were given a viting the children of

took a conspicuous | tribution of presents a sick and poor and | the girls and boys * School ‘ At the Female H | given by various

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8 * a ’ “Silk Stocking” Churchman Grows Profane in Discuss- ing City Scandal. “BONDSMEN ARE SCARED} Wasson, the Man Caught by Flashlight Photograph, Had Been Warned. PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. 2%.—Though Pittsburg keenly feels the disgrace due to the exposure of graft, there was a grin all over the city this Christmas morning over the interview given by Mayor E. Guthrie, silk-stocking - executive and immaculate church pillar. For the first time in his official life he was startled into real profanity. His Honor had been accused by Coun- ciiman John Klein of voting the city depository measure because a certain bank in which Guthrie was interested had not been given a bit of the rich deposit business. This was brought to the attention of the Mayor, this morn- ing, who was so angry that he sprang from his chair saying: “Oh, hell!” So far as is known this is the first time that Mr. Guthrie ever broke into the profane column, but he has been under such heavy strain recently that his friends are inclined to forgive him. So well is the temperament of Mayor Guthrie known that his outburst of to- day was portrayed on the front page of the papers. Mayor Guthrie declares thr: his two-word interview covers the whole Kiein accusation. Bank Graft of $176,000, It is known today that the amount of graft involved in the selection of the banks to receive city deposits amounted to $176,000. Officers of one bank have alreddy been afrested and proof has been obtained that they paid $17,500. Other arrests will be made after Christ- mas, financiers and councilmen being on the list. These men are now under surveillance and cannot leave th. city. Two of them who went to the station last night to J ea train for Thilai Iphia, were told age See they “ele about to buy tickets, that -» they had better stay in the city a fev dys, and they returned > their homes. a Mayor Guthrie, who refused to make contracts with the banks as authoriz.d by the councils, said today that the — on of the depositories is void be- ~ , cause of bribery and fraud, and that - ‘tie Councils can get them aside without “the formality of court prc-eedings. The period for which the depositories were selected expires early in February. . Wasson in Fiashlight Picture. Additional detail regarding the flash- a gh picture of a Councilman in the act ‘of a the same picture for w ich wa ! It appears that Councilman John _ ‘Klein, who had been at the hotel sev- _; eral times closeted with the ‘‘contractor” on financial propositions, had becom: of room 265 because the and chairs always appeared to so carefuily and always in el been overheard saying to Wasson, ‘who was on his way to that room: » “Make that duck come down and see “you in the cafe. I Gon't like the cut of anyway, and I don’t think That room busi- Tried te Draw Weapon. only laughed at the lit- ane went on his way hen he was caught in f taking * money, Wasson J —— — = —* — * F = soe ‘ i g MOTRER TRIMS CHBIST MAS. TREE, TAKES POISON . 7 Has Quarrel With Husband After Giving Him Watch as Present. Swallowing morphine Friday morning in the dining room of her home, Mrs. Olga Timke fell fainting against the Christmas tree which, the evening be- fore, she had hung with gifts for her husband, Louis Timke, and her three sons, Her gift to her husband had been a gold watch. Yet it was a quarrel with him, following the festivities in the dining room, that had driven her, after a sleepless night, to seek death. At the City Hospital, where Mrs. Timke was taken in spite of her resist- ance to an ambulance driver and police- wman, it was said that she was in a crit- ical condition. The Timke home street. Mrs. ‘Timke, riage two years ago, delbach. Her oldest son, years old. Timke, who is foreman of a vinegar factory, has wanted John to go to work under him. The-youth has not shown anxiety to get to work, and his mother has not urged him as much as Timke thought she should This matter caused a quarrel on Christmas eve. The wife lay awake all night, and getting up soon after 8, while Timke remained in bed, she swallowed ‘) tiny flakes of morphine, each one- eighth of a grain, or 2% gfains in all. As she fell against the table, upset- ting the Christmas tree, her youngest son, Otto, 7 years old, ran in. He saw her lying on the floor and called his older brothers, John and George. They called Dr. Tontz of 3009 North Twenty- third street, by telephone. is at 2510 Dodier before her mar- was Mrs. Sen- John, is 20 >. The Union Heuse Furnishing Co. Gives Each Employe an Xmas Gift. That progressive furniture store, the Union, located at Eighth street and Franklin avenue, has again manifested its generosity. As a token of appre- elation for their splendid co-operation during the past year, the Union manage- ment yesterday presented each employe with a beautiful Christmas basket, rich- ly laden with the choicest viands the market affords, a complete Christmas dinner for the whole family. | FEARING TO HARM WIFE HE LET DIVORCE SUIT DROP, Frederick C. Pullen of 5865A Cote Bril- liante avenue explained in Judge Muench’s court Thursday that he dij not “prosecute his suit for legal separa- Ition from Susan G. Pullen of Chicago use of a feeling that exists against '~* la woman from whom her husband has obtained a divorce. The case was tried on the wife's cross- and taken under advisement after LAND S TMERCIN FIANCE WHOM HE HAS COME 10 VISIT FARL ar YANKEE HEIRESS VISITS AMIERIC! Titled Fiance of Miss Beatrice Mills Arrives in New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The Earl of Granard, whose engagement to Miss Beatrice Ogden Mills, daughter of Og- den Mills, was announced a few days ago, was a passenger on the steamer Adriatic, which arrived last night from Southampton. Miss Mills ig the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills, of Staatsberg-on-the- Hudson. The Earl of Granard is Sir Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hast- ings Forbes by name. No date for the wedding has been announced. Miss Mills Is Athletic, Miss Beatrice Mills is one of the famous Mills twins. She is tall and stately, an ardent admirer of golf and tennis and an expert horsewoman. In 1900 she carried off the silver loving cup offered by Mrs. Herman B. Duryea in the Newport competition. She made her debut in society with her twin sister, Gladys, now Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps of Pittsburg, at two balls given in their honor, which were the events of the social season. The first was given by Mr. and Mrs.’ White- law Reid, their uncle and aunt, and the second by their parents. At one time it was reported that Miss Beatrice was to marry Lord Howard de Walden. Earl’s Second Visit. The Earl of Granard in his capacity as Master of the Horse attends to the cream colored six of the King, as he drives to the House of Lords. He is a colonel in the English army. The Earl is a tall, dark, handsome man of &. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1889. When Mr. and Mrs. Mills returned from Europe last August, they were ac- 4 companied by the Earl, who was their | guest at Newport for a few weeks, be- fore he started on a tour of the United States. Disease Germs —— — — — — —— Cannot harm healthy human bod- ies. We cannot have healthy bodies unless we have pure blood,—the kind of blood that Hood’s Sarsa- parilla makes. This great medicine has an un- equalled, unapproached record for purifying and enriching the blood. It cures scrofula, eczema, erup- tions, catarrh, rheumatism, anemia, nervousness, that tired feeling, dys- pepsia, loss of appetite, general de- bility, builds up the whole system. Get ft in the usual Jiguid form or. in chocolated tablet form called Sarsatabs. SICK HEADACHE Positively ecu.r eg hese Little also re- Dest ees pe Indigestion an ‘4 "Hearty Hat- ® TORPID In eae te the Bowels. — ⸗— —⸗ — — — NAN — —ñû r SUED BY Witt HIDES RIMSELF} ——— Refuses to Discuss Charges Made by Woman Who . Wants Divorce. The suit filed in the St. Louis Circuit Court a few days ago by Mrs. Mary E. Nichols asking for a divorce from William Wallace Nichols of New York, is enveloped in mystery. Nichols is third vice-president and sec- retary of the Allis-Chalmers Company, popularly known as the “Stationary En- gine Trust,”’ capitalized at $76,000,000, In hit elegantly furnished offices at 71 Broadway, New York, he has denied himself to ail newspaper reporters. Since the suit was filed retainers have been stationed at the outer doors. ' Mr. Nichols lives in a fine brown-stone house at 224 West One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street. A reporter who called there Thursday night was in- formed that Mr. Nichols ‘‘was out.” In the petition Mrs. Nichols sets forth she and the \defendant were married April 6, 1896, and separated Nov. 17, 1907. On the latter date, she asserts, he left the home and took up quarters else- where. She importuned him, it is de- clared, to return, but he refused to do so. She then came to St. Louis, where, it is said, she is living with relatives, though her attorney will not give her address. Nichols, according to Mrs. Nichols’ pe- tition, has failed to answer her letters since she came to St. Louis and has not contributed to her support. Besides a divorce she asks for custody of a daugh- ter, Marian, 12 years old, now at Wyck- ham Rise, a preparatory school at Washington, Conn., and alimony. Her attorney, Joseph S. McIntyre, left for Philadelphia on the day the suit was flied and will not return until Satur- day. DRINKS GOLD BRONZE AND FEELS LIKE A GOLD MINE Belleville Man Uses Wrong Cup in Dark and Evening Drink Sickens Him. Frank Poirot, a Belleville bookkeeper, is firmly convinced that gold bronze was never intended for a beverage. He tried it once and says he’ll never tackle it again. Poirot keeps books for the Stoltz Plumbing Supply House on East Main street. His favorite beverage is water taken from a well on the premises where he works. He always takes a drink of it before going home in the evening. Yesterday .another employe bronzed some radiators. He mixed the bronze in a tin cup and left the cup on the well curb. It was dark when Poirot went after his evening drink. He grab- bed the first cup in sight, filled it and drank. He began to feel like a gold mine. He hurried to a drug store and had all the gold taken out of his system as quickly as possible. \‘‘No more gold cure for mine,” he said, after being relieved of the last ounce of gold. Organ Recital by Wismar, An organ recital willb e given at the Second resbyterian urch, Satur- day afternoon, Dec. 26, at 4 o'clock, by Paul Wismar, organist of the Church. Lutheran Holy Ghost urch ee oe The Stomach Doss Not Gause Dyspepsia Neither Will It Cure It Because The Lack of Gastric Juices Prohibit Relief. The stomach ig a strong, werful or- gan, which is composed of muscles of great strength. It is filled during di- — with gastric juices which, when he stomach, extending and compress- ing the food, dissolve it and separate the nourishment from the waste matter. If, however, these gastric juices are lacking, the stomach is not capable of digestin its food because it not the tools with which to work success full The gastric juices when in a perfect state do away with all foul odors, fer- mentation and decay, reduce the food to a disintegrated mass and the stom- ach then es it into the intestines where another form of indigestion takes lace. Then the intestines take from his mass of food all that is nourishing and give it to the blood. The waste ‘matter is thrown from the system. If instead of nourisnment the intes- tines receive impure deposits combined with a poisonous and imperfect gastric juice, it can be readily seen that they must turn such imperfect nourishment into. the blood. The blood then being unable to give each part of the body that which it requires, becomes impov- erished and disease is spread broadcast. Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets correct such a condition at once. If the tric juices are lacking and imper! ect these tablets do their work just the same. They build up the elements in the juice which are lacking and re- move those elements which cause dis- tur Meat, ‘grains, fluids, vegetables and delicacies, in fact each — of a large meal have been placed in a glass vial and Stuart’s Ta AS Aa — | rgeomast- — ular —*2— al — admirably headh Hermsen and Ruth Ww White heading the company. RAND— “Graustark, a dram- ———— of George Barr MeCutch- eson’s successful novel, strongly presented by good company. IMPERIAL—George Ade’s na- tive comedy, “The County Chair- man,” well produced at. popular prices. VLIN’S—Johnnie Hoey in “Willie Live, the por Detective.” Satisfying presentation of inter- esting melodrama, with musical features, COLUMBIA—Clever vaudeville bill, headed by “The Military Oc- tette and the Girl With the Bat- on AMERICAN—Bright vaudeville bill, headed by Anna Laughlin and Joseph E. Howard. COLISEUM—Rhoda Royal's In- door Circus. Good show, with thrilling bicycle act and excellent arena features. STANDARD—The Merry Maid- ens company. Burlesque and vaudevilloa., GAYETY—The Bon Ton Extrav- aganza company. Burlesque and vaudeville. | tor, EXTRA! CASTRO IS CAPTURED IN EAST ST. LOUIS TRYING 10 BUTT THE CITY OFF THE MAP Namesake of the Venezuelan Keeps Up His Hot Pace as a Troublemaker. For trying to butt the eastern part of East St. Louis into Pittsburg Lake, Castro, a goat, was arrested by a squad of policemen Friday morning, and was thrust into the barricade behind the police station, with only a rusty T-rail to gnaw on for a Christmas dinner. Sergeant Brennan plans to send Cas- tro to a man in Stockwell, Ind., who made written application to him for the goat which fought the whole Hast St. Louis Police Department a week ago. That goat has been killed, but Brennan says the Indiana man can have this one if he will send money for ex- press charges, and will sign a quitclaim as to personal damages. Otherwise, the sergeant says, he will turn Castro over to his own two husky sons. “They'll reform him or put him off the map,’’ Brennan predicts. James Southard, living at Twenty- third street and Missouri avenue, tele- phoned to the police station Friday that a goat had butted his fence down and was going after his shade trees. Southard, protecting himself with a heavy fence rail, drove the goat out before Policeman Higgins came. The policeman found Castro amusing him- self by butting beer kegs off the side- walk. Pretty soon Policeman Payne and the make-haste wagon arrived, carrying enough rope to hold the Oakes Bujld- ing, over this side of the river, in place. Castro was lassoed and his legs tied, and the policemen, jumping from side to side every time he lunged, managed to keep Castro's horns from hitting them. He was carried downtown, bound neck and hoof. TRAIN BEARING INJURED MAK BREAKS RECORD ON BRIDGE Brother of Judge Henderson Hur- ried to Hospital, but Dies of His Hurts. A Wabash train crossed the long bridge at St. Charleg at a speed of a mile a minute Thursday night carrying to St. Joseph’s Hospital George Hender- son of Columbia, Mo., who had been run down by another train at Bridgeton, St. Louis County, while on his way to vistt his brother, Judge W. W. Henderson. Mr. Henderson had alighted from the accommodation train in sight of his brother’s home, and was crossing the tracks when a fast passenger train struck him. He was placed on the train from which he had just alighted, and the rec- ord-breaking run was begun. The six miles between Bridgeton and St. Charles were covered in nine minufes, and the bridge was crossed in one minute. The regular schedule is three minutes, Henderson died five hours after he reached the hospital. 14 IN PERIL WHEN FLAMES BURN STAIRS IN TENEMENT The lives of 14 persons were imperiled at 2a. m. Friday when fire burned away the stairs that led to the third-story tenements at 1014 North Eleventh street. The tenements were occupied by Sam Koplitz, his wife and five children, and Mrs. Pearl Milner, her children and a roomer. With the exception of one child, who was carried down the burning stairs by Harry Sentura, who lives on the second floor, all the others remained in the rooms while the Fire Department battled with the flames. Sentura smelled smoke, end getting up, saw the stairway leading to the third floor'in flames. He ran through the flames and warned the two families on the third floor. He grabbed Koplitz’s ?-year-old son in his arms, and protect- ing his face as much as possible, he made his way down the stairs. The child’s hair was singed, but .e was not hurt. ine Ate IN DENSE SMOKE ws W. E. Simmons, fireman“tn the Iron Mountain passenger train which col- lided with Chicago & Altcn accommo- dation train No. 30, in the Terminal yards near the Twelfth street bridge died at the Missouri Pacific Hospital at 1 a. m. Friday, seven hours after the accident. Robert Sharp, engineer of the Iron Mountain train, was thrown from the cab, but was not seriously injured. Edward Hall, a Terminal car inspec- and *’. E. Burton and Chester Estes, mail clerks, were cut and bruised and two women passengers on the Iron stopped, they bumped into it. Simmons was buried under his engine and half an hour’s work was required to extricate him. He was unconscious when he was taken to the hospital. Walther Estate Worth $220,000. Charles F. Walther, who died Dec. 17, at his home, 3416 Caroline street, left no will and his widow, Caroline — —3— as administratrix in the Probate Court. His estate is valued at $220,000. He leaves four] children. GRAND -LEADER| Stix; Baer —— deta HALF PRI For- All Toys, Dolls and — — — Automobiles, Go-Carts, Etc. That are on Display 3 Slightly Damaged Toys, Etc., at Greater Reductions : (Fifth Floor.) Soiled and Mussed Handkerchis o At Greatly Reduced Prices We offer a vast quantity of Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Handkerchiefs, ng ad — come slightly soiled from handling, at immense reductions. After a trip, to ‘the faunury they will be worth full price.to you. We advise early choosing, as the best will 1 go first, for one can easily detect the superb qualities and designs in spite of the soiled mussed condition. These are Handkerchiefs of Swiss, linen and silk; initial, embroidered, — lace trimmed--in fact, every imaginable style. A lot of handmade Madeira Handkerch are included: | Values up to 15c, priced 5c Values up to 25c, priced 10c Values up to 35c, priced 15c Values up to 50c, priced 25c i & 3 Values up to 75c, on A at 25c COLLECTION of beautiful Neckwear, including Stocks, Jabots and Gibson silk, lace and washable effects; some show slight traces of soil from — handling; others in boxes that are a little crushed but absolutely clean and perfect ; regular 49c and 75c values; will be on sale on Bargain Square No. 9. Necktvear formerly priced $1.00 to $1 50; great variety of styles, including a lot of Silk Scarfs, on sale at main counter, 49¢ By this time the steps were so nearly + ceeeeieeeenE dete — Sf AOR I oe eee Lv. St. Louls... 9.00 p. m. Ar. Jacksonville... 7.40 8m THE EARLIEST ARRIVING TIME THE SUREST FOR SOUTHERN COPOROTIONS THE OLOEST LINE THE FASTEST TIME THE ONLY DINING can rd

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* Bh SEO ——— — ays and they returned © - “Silk Stocking” Churchman Grows Profane in Discuss- _ing City Scandal. “BONDSMEN ARE SCARED} Wasson, the Man Caught by _ Flashlight Photograph, Had Been Warned. _ PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. 2%.—Though Pittsburg keenly feels the disgrace due to the exposure of graft, there was a grin all over the city this Christmas morning over the interview given by Mayor George E. Guthrie, silk-stocking executive and immaculate church pillar. For the first time in his official life he was startled into real profanity. His Honor had been accused by Coun- cilman John Klein of voting the city depository measure because a certain bank in which Guthrie was interested had not been giver a bit of the rich Geposit business. This was brought to the attention of the Mayor, this morn- ing, who was so angry that he sprang from his chair saying: “Oh, hell!” So far as is known this is the first time that Mr. Guthrie ever broke into the profane column, but he has been under such heavy strain recently that his friends are inclined to forgive him. So well is the temperament of Mayor Guthrie known that his outburst of to- day was portrayed on the front page of the papers. Mayor Guthrie declares thr: his two-word interview covers the whole Kiein accusation. Bank Graft of $176,000, It is known today that the amount of _ * graft involved in. the selection of the banks to receive city deposits amounted to $176,000. Officers of one bank have alreddy been afrested and proof has been. obtained that they paid $17,500. Other arrests will be made after Christ- ‘mas, financiers and councilmen being on the list. These men are now under surveillance and cannot leave th. city. Two of them who went to the station last night to ', take a train for Thilai Iphia, were told as they ~“eie about to buy tickets, that they had better stay in the city a fev » their homes. Mayor Guthrie, who refused to make a eontracts with the banks as authoriz.d _ by the councils, said today that the _- felect:»n of the depositories is void be- _ eause of bribery and fraud, and that — tee Councils can get them aside without the formality of court prv~eedings. The eed for which the depositories were - pelected expires early in February. ‘Wasson in Flashlight Picture. 5 "Additional detail regarding the flash- “Night picture of a Councilman in the act ' ‘of graftir: the same picture for wich - President Roosevelt has asked, came | Z Sout today. Councilman Joseph Wasson _ ‘fs the man alleged to have been caught | “by the flashlight. oR It appears that Councilman John 4 ~ Klein, who had been at the hotel sev- ‘eral times closeted with the “contractor” ‘on financial propositions, had becom, : of room 266 because the | and chairs always appeared to arranged so carefully and always in Dighton position, and he is said to save been overheard saying to Wasson, was on his way to that room: that duck come down and see the cafe. I Gon’t like the cut mug anyway, and I don’t think on the he's square. That room busi- { oer bad, too.”’ - | ' : ‘Tried te w Weapon. asson only laughed at the lit- and went on his way “4 When he was caught in hi . the money, Wasson pached for his back pocket and the delat rast ARI | AND MEAN FIANCE WHOM HE HAS COME 10 visi UTRER TRIMS HRISTMAS TR TAKES POISON , Has Quarrel With Husband After Giving Him Watch as Present. Swallowing morphine Friday morning in the dining room of her home, Mrs. Olga Timke fell fainting against the Christmas tree which, the evening be- fore, she had hung with gifts for her husband, Louis Timke, and her three sons. Her gift to her husband had been a gold watch. Yet it was a quarrel with him, following the festivities in the dining room, that had driven her, after a sleepless night, to seek death. At the City Hospital, where Mrs. Timke was taken in spite of her resist- ance to an ambulance driver and police- man, it was said that she was in a crit- ical condition. The Timke home street. Mrs. ‘Timke, before her mar- riage two years ago, was Mrs. Sen- delbach. Her oldest son, John, is 20 years old. Timke, who is foreman of a vinegar factory, has wanted John to go to work under him. The-youth has not shown anxiety to get to work, and his mother has not urged him as much as Timke thought she should This matter caused a quarrel on Christmas eve. The wife lay awake all night, and getting up soon after 8, while Timke remained in bed, she swallowed ‘) tiny flakes of morphine, each one- eighth of a grain, or 2% gfains in all. As she fell against the table, upset- ting the Christmas tree, her youngest son, Otto, 7 years old, ran in. He saw her lying on the floor and called his older brothers, John and George. They called Dr. Tontz of 3009 North Twenty- third street, by telephone. The Union Heuse Furnishing Co. Gives Hach Employe an Xmas Gift. That progressive furniture store, the Union, located at Eighth street and Franklin avenue, has again manifested its generosity. As a token of appre- ciation for their splendid co-operation during the past year, the Union manage- ment yesterday presented each employe with a beautiful Christmas basket, rich- ly laden with the choicest viands the market affords, a complete Christmas dinner for the whole family. FEARING TO HARM WIFE HE LET DIVORCE SUIT DROP Frederick C. Pullen of 5865A Cote Bril- liante avenue explained in Judge Muench’s court Thursday that he dij “prosecute his suit for legal separa- tion from Susan G. Pullen of Chicago is at 2510 Dodier 1 because of a feeling that exists against ae anne di atic PR ie Pla — —t —— ARL WHO WON VANKEE HEIRESS VISITS AMERICA Titled Fiance of Miss Beatrice Mills Arrives in. New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The Earl of Granard, whose engagement to Miss Beatrice Ogden Mills, daughter of Og- den Mills, was announced a few days ago, was a passenger on the steamer Adriatic, which arrived last night from Southampton. Miss Mills is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills, of Staatsberg-on-the- Hudson. The Earl of Granard is Sir Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hast- ings Forbes by name. No date for the wedding has been announced. Miss Mills Is Athletic. Miss Beatrice Mills is one of the famous Mills twins. She is tall and stately, an ardent admirer of golf and tennis and an expert horsewoman. In 1900 she carried off the silver loving cup offered by Mrs. Herman B. Duryea in the Newport competition. She made her debut in society with her twin sister, Gladys, now Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps of Pittsburg, at two balls given in their honor, which were the events of the social season. The first was given by Mr. and Mrs. White- law Reid, their uncle and aunt, and the second by their parents. At one time it was reported that Miss Beatrice was to marry Lord Howard de Walden. Earl’s Second Visit. The Bari of of Granard in his capacity as Master of the Horse attends to the cream colored six of the King, as he drives to the House of Lords. He is a colonel in the English army. The Earl ils a tall, dark, handsome man of &. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1889. When Mr. and Mrs. Mills returned from Europe last August, they were ac- |. companied by the Earl, who was their guest at Newport for a few weeks, be- fore he started on a tour of the United States. re —— — Disease Germs Cannot harm healthy human bod- ies. We cannot have healthy bodies unless we have pure blood,—the kind of blood that Hood’s Sarsa- parilla makes. This great medicine has an un- equalled, unapproached record for purifying and enriching the blood. It cures scrofula, eczema, erup- tions, catarrh, rheumatism, anemia, nervousness, that tired feeling, dys- pepsia, loss of appetite, general de- bility, builds up the whole system. Get it tod in the usual form or in chocolated tablet form called Sarsatabe. SICK HEADACHE Positively ecu.red by Coe ae They also re- lieve * istrese trom Dyspepsia. Indigestion and Tod Hearty Bat- ing. A 4* erfec ‘ remedy Re SR So. soe ie ie € as ates, uo TRUST MAGNATE SUED BY WIFE HIDES HIMSELF Refuses to Discuss Charges Made by Woman Who . Wants Divorce. The suit filed in the St. Louis Circuit Court a few days ago by Mrs. Mary E. Nichols asking for a divorce from William Wallace Nichols of New York, is enveloped in mystery. Nichols is third vice-president and sec- retary of the Allis-Chalmers Company, popularly known as the “Stationary En- gine Trust,” capitalized at $75,000,000. In hie elegantly furnished offices at 71 Broadway, New York, he has denied himself to all newspaper reporters. Since the suit was filed retainers have been stationed at the outer doors. ' Mr. Nichols lives in a fine brown-stone house at 224 West One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street. A reporter who called there Thursday .night was in- formed that Mr. Nichols ‘‘was out.” In the petition Mrs. Nichols sets forth she and the defendant were married April 6, 1896, and separated Nov. 17, 1907. On the latter date, she asserts, he left the home and took up quarters else- where. She importuned him, it is de- clared, to return, but he refused to do so. She then came to St. Louis, where, it is said, she is living with relatives, though her attorney will not give her address. Nichols, according to Mrs. Nichols’ pe- tition, has failed to answer her letters since she came to St. Louis and has not contributed to her support. Besides a divorce she asks for custody of a daugh- ter, Marian, 12 years old, now at Wyck- ham Rise, a preparatory school at Washington, Conn., and alimony. Her attorney, Joseph 8. McIntyre, left for Philadelphia on the day the suit was fiied and will not return until Satur- day. DRINKS GOLD BRONZE AND FEELS LIKE A GOLD MINE Belleville Man Uses Wrong Cup in Dark and Evening Drink Sickens Him. Frank Poirot, a Belleville bookkeeper, is firmly convinced that gold bronze was never intended for a beverage. He tried it once and says he’ll never tackle it again. Poirot keeps books for the Stoltz Plumbing Supply House on East Main street. His favorite beverage is water taken from a well on the premises where he works. He always takes a drink of it before going home in the evening. Yesterday ,another employe bronzed some radiators. He mixed the bronze in. a tin cup and left the cup on the well curb. It was dark when Poirot went after his evening drink. He grab- bed the first cup in sight, filled it and drank. He began to feel like a gold mine. He hurried to a drug store and had all the gold taken out of his system as quickly as possible. \‘‘No more gold cure for mine,” he said, after being relieved of the last ounce of gold. Organ Recital by Wismar, An organ recital willb e given at the Second resbyterian urch, Satur- day afternoon, Dec. 26, at 4 o'clock, by Paul Wismar, organist of the Church. Lutheran Holy Ghost urch — — — The Stomach Does Not Gause Dyspepsia Neither Will It Cure It Because The Lack of Gastric Juices Prohibit Relief. The stomach ig a strong, powerful or- gan, which is composed of muscles of great strength. It is filled during di- — with gastric juices which, when he stomach, extending and compress- ing the food, dissolve it and separate the nourishment from the waste matter. If, however, these gastric — are lacking, the stomach is not ca ble of digestin its food because it not — * tools with which to work success: The gastric juices when in a perfect state do away with all foul odors, fer- mentation and decay, reduce the food to a disintegrated mass and the stom- ach then presses it into the intestines ‘where another form of indigestion takes lace. Then the intestines take from his mass of food all that is nourishing and give it to the blood. The waste matter is thrown from the system. If instead of nourisnment the intes- tines receive impure deposits combined with a poisonous and imperfect gastric juice, it can be readily seen that they must turn such imperfect nourishment into. the blood. The blood then being unable to give each part of the body that which it requires, becomes impov- erished and disease is spread broadcast. Stuart’s Dyspepsia ablets correct such a condition at once. If the gas- tric juices are lacking and imperfect these tablets do their work just the same. They build up the elements in the juice which are lacking and re- — those elements which cause iis- ur Meat, grains, fluids, , Vesetabl and — faet eaeh — * a large meal have been placed in a vial and Stuart’s PLAYGOERS GUIDE CENTURY—Grace Stud- Siterd in © “The > Gaiden Butterfly Raven —* star and big co com , 0 “Three Twins.” Clever musical comed>, satisfy- ingly —— by Victor Morley wr ca * Famillar and 2 comedy, admirably | * Hermsen and Ru White oe ng the company onatD “Graustark,” a dram- atization of George Barr McCuteh- eson'’s successful novel, strongly presented by good company. IMPERIAL—George Ade’s na- tive comedy, “The County Chair- man,” well produced at popular prices. HAVLIN’S—Johnnie Hoey in “Willie Live, the et f Detective. Satisfying presentation of inter- esting melodrama, with musical features. COLUMBIA—Clever vaudeville bill, headed by “The Military Oc- tette and the Girl With the Bat- "AMERICAN—Bright vaudeville bill, headed by Anna Laughlin and Joseph E. oward. COLISEUM—-Rhoda Royal’s In- door Circus. Good show, with thrilling bicycle act and excellent arena features. STANDARD—The Merry Maid- ens company. Burlesque and vaudeville, GAYETY—The Bon Ton Extrav- aganza company. Burlesque and vaudeville. + P53 —* Ae tse i¢ : * ‘Maes oy ; 5 = Be as igs eS ie — Hy * a —5 * 4g Jong ? a 2 —— ue? F J = ; nS a! * + : * J — » — a fi * Poe Se 2 ea pc. e o~ £ — il dg 8 ssf * — . sia F * ep. re 3 oS * — 4 — es we. . : “OT : — = . . ™ ee een ae J ye. Ne St pS — “es J ce * is * F et = > 5 — 7 > “ —— ~ wr ¥ > as aS x 8 * — ae ; * 4 i g re y a 4 x — * 7 * | TRUS aL EXTRA! CASTRO IS CAPTURED IN EAST ST, LOUIS TRYING T0 BUTT THE CITY OFF THE MAP Namesake of the Venezuelan Keeps Up His Hot Pace as a Troublemaker. For trying to butt the eastern part of East St. Louis into Pittsburg Lake, Castro, a goat, was arrested by a squad of policemen Friday morning, and was thrust into the barricade behind the police station, with only a rusty T-rail to gnaw on for a Christmas dinner. Sergeant Brennan plans to send Cas- tro to a man in Stockwell, Ind., who made written application to him for the goat which fought the whole East St. Louis Police Department a week ago. That goat has been killed, but Brennan says the Indiana man can have this one if he will send money for ex- press charges, and will sign a quitclaim as to personal damages. Otherwise, the sergeant says, he will turn Castro over to his own two husky sons. ‘“‘They’ll reform him or put him off the map,’’ Brennan predicts. James Southard, living at Twenty- third street and Missouri avenue, tele- phoned to the police station Friday that a goat had butted his fence down and was going after his shade trees. Southard, protecting himself with a heavy fence rail, drove the goat out before Policeman Higgins came. The policeman found Castro amusing him- self by butting beer kegs off the side- walk. Pretty soon Policeman Payne and the make-haste wagon arrived, carrying enough rope to hold the Oakes Bujld- ing, over this side of the river, in place. Castro was lassoed and his legs tied, and the policemen, jumping from side to side every time he lunged, managed to keep Castro’s horns from hitting them. He was carried downtown, bound neck and hoof. TRAIN BEARING INJURED MAN BREAKS RECORD ON BRIDGE Brother of Judge Henderson Hur- ried to Hospital, but Dies of His Hurts. A Wabash train crossed the long bridge at St. Charleg at a speed of a mile a minute Thursday night carrying to St. Joseph’s Hospital George Hender- son of Columbia, Mo., who had been run down by another train at Bridgeton, St. Louis County, while on his way to visit his brother, Judge W. W. Henderson. Mr. Henderson had alighted from the accommodation train in sight of his brother’s home, and was crossing the tracks when a fast passenger train struck him. He was placed on the train from which he had just alighted, and the rec- ord-breaking run was begun. The six miles between Bridgeton and St. Charles were covered in nine minutes, and the bridge was crossed in one minute. The regular schedule is three minutes, Henderson died five hours after he reached the hospital. ae 14 IN PERIL WHEN FLAMES BURN STAIRS IN TENEMENT The lives of 14 persons were imperiled at 2a. m. Friday when fire burned away the stairs that led to the third-story tenements at 1014 North Eleventh street. The tenements were occupied by Sam Koplitz, his wife and five children, and Mrs. Pearl Milner, her children and a roomer. With the exception of one child, who was carried down the burning stairs by Harry Sentura, who lives on the second floor, all the others remained in the rooms while the Fire Department battled with the flames. Sentura smelled smoke, and getting up, saw the stairway leading to the third floor'in flames. He ran through the flames and warned the two families on the third floor. He grabbed Koplitz’s ?-year-old son in his arms, and protect- ing his face as much as possible, he made his way 4own the stairs. The child’s hair was singed, but ..e was not hurt. By this time the steps were so nearly burned away that the others could not escape. Harry Levin, a boarder, pre- vented Mrs. Milner and her children from jum from the windows. Koplits his hands while trying to save valuables stored tn the attic. IN DENSE SMOKE i. — W. E. Simmons, fireman”6n the Iron Mountain passenger train which col- lided with Chicago & Altcn accommo- dation train No. 30, in the Terminal yards near the Twelfth street bridge died at the Missouri Pacific Hospital at 1 a. m. Friday, seven hours after the accident. Robert Sharp, engineer of the Iron Mountain train, was thrown from the cab, but was not seriously injured. Edward Hall, a Terminal car inspec- tor, and *’. E. Burton and Chester Estes, mail clerks, were cut and bruised and two women passengers on the Iron Simmons was buried under his engine and half an hour’s work was required to extricate him. He was unconscious when he was taken to the hospital. Walther Estate Worth $230,000. Charles F. Walther, who died Dec. 17, at his home, 3416 Caroline street, left no will and his widow, Caroline Walther, qualified as administratrix in the te Court. His estate is 0 valued at $220,900. He leaves four] children. GRAND -LEADE Stix Baer Y Faller or Dey Goods Ca— HALF PRI For-All Toys, Dolls and ¢ Automobiles, Go- Carts, E Et That are on Display _ Slightly Damaged Toys, Etc., at Greater Reductions : (Fifth Floor.) Gee (geet J — Soiled and Mussed Handkerchi ” At Greatly Reduced Prices We offer a vast quantity of Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Handkerchiefs, ne £ 2d % a come slightly soiled from handling, at immense reductions. After a trip to the aun they will be worth full price to you. We advise early choosing, as the best will n go first, for one can easily detect the superb qualities and designs in spite + the soiled a mussed condition. * These are Handkerchiefs of Swiss, linen and silk; initial, embroidered, hematitehed lace trimmed--in fact, every imaginable style. A lot of handmade Madeira Handke are included: Values up to 15c, priced 5c Values up to 25c, priced 10c Values up to 35c, priced 15c Values up to 50c, priced 25c —— Soiled Neck wear Greatly Reduce ced. Values up to 75c, on Sale at 256 - COLLECTION of beautiful Neckwear, including Stocks, Jabota and seis Stocks; silk, lace and washable effects; some show slight traces of soil | handling; others in boxes that are a little crushed but absolutely elena andi J perfect ; regular 49c and 75c values; will be on sale on Bargain Square No. 9. Psa gt Necktvear formerly priced $1.00 to $1 50; great variety of styles, including a lot of Silk Scarfs, on sale at main counter, 49¢ La 4 a OMe Le é — —2 6 Re eRe OP LH 1m ee * x

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arabe rE A! ‘T. J * F BY: ~ . > J Ss? ’ rear ee > ON — — —— —— T LOUIS POST-DISPATCH| — ag , ——— year, — 346 Se = — bahaniel 2 NOVEMBER CIRCULATION AVERAGE PER DAY — a dq 908, 159,104 266,969 reu tion for Move ber, 1908, greatest in e history — lis — for that month! GAINS ove newspaper showing cir- B44 the 2 precedi rs! BESS p⸗ Mississippi. on Sal — Hag, 4 THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. — The Christmas season of 1908 is notable for a table activity more extensive than ever be- . Not only are the organized charities roughout the country “breaking their records” n relief work, but independent enterprises of will, like the Post-Dispatch Christmas din- er to the poor are heard of everywhere. And families and friends the obligations of season were never «0 generally and grace- acknowledged. | This marks progress. The flood of good will mever rises so high as at Christmas time and when a new high water mark is made we may ude that the general or normal. level of e sentiment is rising. An act of charity kindness is. only the reflection of a kind dis- tion in the heart. This.is the important, vital fact, which includes all the facts of real We. may be sure then that a Christ- mas heart: which outlives Christmas is the one element in the uplifting of the race. giving is, therefore, a discipline, whether gift be an automobile or a simple Merry tmas card; People who observe these cere- of *he season get the habit of it in their and soon do from spontaneous. good feel- what at first may be only conformity to 9m or a burdensome discharge of duty. Thus giver often gets more benefit than the re- of the gift. This is the happy Christmas which should be aim of every man, woman and child—a spirit’ which’ is always present, here d now, reaty to serve at any and all times. @hything which falls short of this is a mere function of fashion or lavorious compliance with Aventional rule. When it becomes the general » to wish one’s self a happy Christmas and-out # sort, the world will be well on in the —— aivation rou Nriz eT / ' eee Pi i SCHUMANN- -HEINE’S EXAMPLE. “ime. Schumann-Heink says that she became ; Americur citizen, renouncing her German al- Gegiance, because, as a grand opera prima donna, could earn but $1750 per annum in Germany against nearly $150,000 per annum in this ‘jeountry. ts |While this is nut the highest motive possible as ifluencing a change of citizenship, Schumann- ink’s attitude toward the country so richly fing her genius is assuredly more satisfy- than that of many other foreign songbirds. he return which Americ’ fs have most frequent- | received for enrichi;g European singers has en that of a scornfwl ingratitude. They come . and reap their ,édlden harvest of dollars, and ‘ ee wealth, for life, return to. Europe and oclaim that Ar.ericans have no rea) understand- is or apprecia con of art. Mme. Schumann-Heink p at least refrained from this‘ all too common nce. For ‘which, — we are grateful. The that lays the golden egg does not really — killed with sneers after delivering the = = -™~ = nn _ANGEL-FACED MURDERER. While there has been much stupid sentimen- y tn the case of the young wretch in Toledo 0 murdered his mother, the jury took a se- y practical view of his crime. The only | ration shown him was on account of his He was convicted, but, instead of hang- the penalty was fixed at imprisonment for] This juvenile monster has been celebrated as } angel-faced murderer.” Like many another ‘youth, he bears a strong resemblance to ) mother. ‘He killed her in cold blood with ammer for purposes of robbery and spent proceeds in dissipation. If extermination is pr justifiable in the case of criminals, it might ve bedn, resorted to with propriety in this in- eer ——— from the’ direc- —* ‘corporations and retains his official with only three of his companies. He | husiness,”’ ’ 1 ith $50,000,000 to look after from business? Mr. Ryan is said to be in : 7 _-—— PY dan oa ay 1J 0 ‘ Se : i mn — gp AUG et i OO AL EE CTA NN A nm VINDICATING THE LAW. “It has again been peniieniatinabes,” says At torney-General Hadley, referring to the Stand- ard Oil decision in Missouri, ‘‘that the law and its processes are equal to any problem that our complicated commercial system can produce, and that no combination of money and of power is above the law or will be permitted to violate it with impunity.” - : A great truth is emphasized in these words, We have many demagogues, visionaries and croakers who despair or pretend to despair of law and its orderly administration. They favor violence. They hint at absolutism. They are impatient and they are reckless. In some parts of the country they find many followers and nearly everywhere they exercise an influence which distorts or benumbs public opinion. In the Missouri case there appeared in the en- actment of the anti-trust law a careful and reso- lute recognition 2f popular rights and in the en- forcement of that law there was energy, faith- fulness and a confident belief not only in justice, but in its muniments and ministers. There were those who doubted and there were those who sneered, but the representatives of the State did not falter. They were thrice armed and they knew it. The changed attitude of powerful wrongdoers has been often remarked of late. No corpora- tion and no combination of corporations is now inclined to flout law. There is increasing respect for the courts. There is a general recognition of the responsibilities of wealth. The people of Missouri and their officers have played no small part in this awakening. They have vindicated popular government. They have vindicated law. They have crushed the arrogance of monopoly and they have confounded pessimism and revo- lution. IN MONOPOLY’S STOCKING. Andrew Carnegie may enjoy his Christmas; he may have cakes and ale, and he may ravish his sou! with pipes, but, men and brethren, let us reflect upon the fearful state of mind into which he has plunged the standpatters and the few thick and thin newspaper organs of pluto- cratic protection. The Steel Trust has been their mainstay. It has been the bright’ particular example of the ripe fruit of special privilege. It has furnished campaign funds galore. No President and no Attorney-General has ventured to complain of it. Profiting fabulously by the law, it has been above the law. Receiving subsidies with one hand,’ it/ has used the other to warn off prosecutors and investigators. Now comes Andrew Carnegie, rotten rich with the spoils of Steel Trust protection, and says that the steel manufacturers of America can undersell the world; that they need no protection, and that the best way to weaken and eventually to de- stroy this industry and others like it is to confer power and privileges upon them which they do not need. If this sort of talk shall not result in a com- plete overhauling of the Republican party’s book of faith, to what shall we look for that reforma- tion? = = ~~ ae - MR, AND MRS, NEWLYWED-McMANUS. George McManus eloquently testified to the lovavieness of his Mrs. Newlywed, as known to millions through his “Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed and the Baby” cartoons in the Post-Dispatch and New York World, when he married the ori- ginal of that character on Wednesday night. “This real-life romance so sentimentally con- nected. with the Newlyweds cannot fail addi- tionally to commend those attractive young peo- ple to their great public, and Artist McManus’ own appearance iu the role of Mr. Newlywed will almost certainly be hailed with tremendous pop- ular acclaim. Of course, there may be some in- sistent persons who will now begin clamoring for a real-life little Napoleon Newlywed to complete the flesh and blood incarnation of the cartoon- ist’s creatures, but, as Kipling himself might say —“That’s another story.” In the meantime, congratulations to the Newly- weds are surely in order. Starting out with a Merry Christmas and a dappy New Year, they may well face the future with the serenest con- fidence. RIGHTS OF A BIG. BROTHER. The Big Brother has long been an honored i1- stitution, but the Big Brother who is not quite big enough has lost caste. A St. Louis Big Brother objected to the suitor his sister favored. He ordered the suitor to leave the house. The sis- ter suggested that the suitor remain. There was a clash. The sister aided the suitor and the Big Brothér was sent to the Dispensary first and later to the Police Court, where he was fined. Had he been big enough the story might have been different. Certainly the name of the unwilling visitor to the Dispensary would have been different. But if the suitor is wise he will become a member of that family by the matri- monial route. He will acquire by one ceremony 4 wife who will stand by him and a brother-in-law who has been tamed. i i i — At the beginning of the late unpleasantness between the State of Missouri and Standard Oil, the ootdpus was indignant and then defiant and abusive, Presently it calmed down and wanted to compromise. Now it is an injured innocent and will appeal. It will be noticed, however, that Missouri has rept it going some. | — — ee — The — editor in Mesodurt who asks his Mirae Ec —— it| dislikes to publish accounts ‘of weddings after the’return from. the honeymoon jqurney, is alto- AAR Sets ena NAN il I —— —— LE OEE DALAL ALE ELLIE — — — — — of helhg ——— appear to be the product — aot oudbelibate, Parra ange — tee The cablegram sent to President Castro trom Venezuela warned him that if he sets foot in the country again he will be indicted for “em- bezzlement of the people’s money.” If they really want to make the punishment fit the man they ‘should charge | him with disorderly conduct. Mr. Barnsdall is probably right when he says that there will be no trouble in getting the gas out of Oklahoma. Mr. Hearst found it compara- tively easy last fall. Mr, Roosevelt's reply to Congress will avoid per- sonalities.—Telegram from Washington. For once in his life he is face to face with a bigger man. Ques = = —3 oe a It is all right to get rid of Castro, but we are going into trouble up to the ears if we make ourselves responsible for Gomez. = = The new prosecution of the Beef Trust comes at a time when most people are mad at the Tur- key Trust; a ~*~ ~~ i i ~~ Fr Even Mr. Gompers’ best friends will admit that he has had a lot of fun with that court. > a ee LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.’ “Liberty Park” Seconded, To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. As an aliswer to proposal of “Alpha Zee,” in this. column of last night’s paper, I beg to second the mo- tion in calling the newly purchased park by the name of “Liberty.” All join in and hail to Mr. “Alphia Zee” for this suggestion. G. H. Should Not Have Paid. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatcn. I went into a restaurant the other evening and Ordered a steak for supper. AS s00n as the meat was placed on the table I could tell -that it was tainted. It smelled bad. I cut off a small Piece and put it in my mouth, but had to spit it out, it tasted so bad. I complained to the restauran: people, but found them supremely indifferent and got no satis- faction. I paid my bill and left the place, having had absolutely no equivalent for the money I handed to the cashier. It would seem as if the ‘““‘pure-food law’’ should cover such cases as ‘his. Perhaps it does. J don’t know. If it does not, it should. I don’t know of any greater enemy to health than the restaurant keeper wne furnishes impure food to his patrons, J. J. HAOKETT. “Boost Home Talent.” To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. I wish to second the motion of the person that signed himself Vaudevillian. I think it is a shame the way the performer is treated in this large and beautiful city. I have found it a hard struggle to get along and keep your head above water. In the first Place, they don’t pay you enough salary, and next, they have no work for you. In a large city like this, why, there should be lots of work. At least in my line (singer) there is nothing doing and when I say singer I don’t mean a disappointea& one. I mean Ne. 1, I have drifted away from the profession on that account—not enough work or salary. They say 8t. Louis has the motto, To the Front.” Let us hope they will boost the home talent just a little. Were is one lone performer going to spend a lonesome Christmas in a back parlor, where none of her pro- fessional friends will look for her. LADY VAUDBEVILLIAN. Advice Wanted. To the Editor of thd Post-Dispatch. Why do women turn to other men besides their husbands for love, and why do men love other wom- en when they have a good, true wife—one that is de- voted to husband? My experience is that as soon as a woman begins to look a little past 30,.has a few wrinkles, if she is a splendid housekeeper, mother of his children and kind and loving every way, other women will try to draw that man away from wife; or if he is easily led, goes to see her of his own &c- cord. First, you know, husband and wife separate, or as soon as wife knows of his infatuation for other women, she goes wrong fast—very fast—simply be- cause she has found her only love and husband weaned away from her. One who has little ones and a heart full of trouble would like to know from some reader what they would do in my place, give hus- band up or trust in God for all help? A BELIEVER IN GOOD. ‘More Work for Mulvihill. To the Editor of the Poat-Dispatch. I don't know whose duty it is, but there are many pictures or molded forms of nude women exhibited in various parts of the city (in liquor houses especial- ly) that should be removed from public view. I am not a frequenter of saloons, but from what others say, if a real view of nakedness is desired, just step into a saloon. There are also some nude forms on Lucas that can be seen from the outside in daytime. These conditions are shameful and a disgrace to Christian civilization. I say these things could be stopped. Whose duty is it? The form which stimu- lated me to write these few lines is 6n exhibition in the window at the corner of Easton and Glasgow avenues. Won't some woman of influence or some man of authority see to it that not only this one, but all other similar exhibitions of nudeness be rele- gated to Hades or some other remote place. These lines were penned by a man and not by a woman, as you might suppose. O. C. C. From California. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Have noticed letters printed in the Post-Dispatch from “Iwastung” and “J. S. J.“ regarding the ques- tions of “Why, Do Men Lie?’ and ‘Why Do Women Lie?’ It is a well-known fact that everybody i: more or less of a liar, and anycne who would boast of nev- er having told a lie would be laughed at. I believe that women are just as handy at telling falsehoods as men are and perhaps a little more so. Take, for example, Mrs. Jennie M. Goodrich (Cassie) of whom we have read several accounts recently. Men must lie to keep pace with such women. ‘‘Iwastung”’ might profit by the old saying, “Believe nothing of what you are told and only half of what you see.” She probably believes anything anyone tells her, and she may be a little jealous because she is not a man. J. 8. J. probably had his conscience hurt when he read “Iwastung’s” letter and sought to console him- self by wfiting the letter he did. ILSTINGYOU. Vallejo, Cal. Parlor Cars and Yellow Cars. To the Editer of the Post-Dispatch I have noted an article on front cover of Sunday Magazine that the earning power of the United Rallways’ sumptuous perlor cars, wh are char- tered by society folks for pleasure nts, to their bridge and dancing parties at the various country clubs, is oniy % per hour. Perhaps with this data be one it THE BETTER POLICY. We had a big Christmas— With things for the ohildren, A tree and the trimmings, . And either a book Or something to wear For the elders among us— But we centered our fire on the Cook. We got what we wanted, And all of the stockings Were filled up with presents By some hook or crook, And every one dwelt In the spirit of Christmas— But we centered our fire on the Cook. For after the holly Is down, and the trinkets That hang on the tree Have been stowed into nooks, We still can live on Without silver and jewels— But we cannot live on Without cooks. JUST CURIOUS. “Hello! What are you doing down town today?’’ “O, I just wanted to see if that Oakes building had fallen yet.” Different Points of View. “Of course,” said the economft, “there are good corporations and bad ones.”’ “Of course,” Stax. “Now, what is your idea of a bad cor- poration?’ “One that pays less then a 20 per cent dividend.”—Washington Star. hnswered Mr. Dustin Couldn’t Hurry Her. Mayme: Done ~our Christmas shop- ping yet? Maybelle: No; I’m going to take my time and do that next week. I have my presents all bought.—Chicago Trib- une, Waiter’s Mistake. From the Chicago News. Waiter: Haven't you forgotten some- thing, sir? Restaurant patron: I'm glad you spoke of it: my wife told me not-to spend any money foolishly, and I was just going to give you a tip. JUST A MINUTE FOR VERSE AND HUMOR Written for the Post-Dispatch by Clark McAdams. SANTA CLAUS TRIES AN AUTOMOBILE. The door of the garage slid open—the car spuftered—-shuddered—started —Mrs. Santa Claus shouted something about not forgetting someone—aud Kris Kringle was off. ’ Gads, how he flew! Familiar | ndmatke rose—saluted—and fell to the rear. Great areas of smooth ice rushed! to meet him, and startled Eskimos — —screamed—and skedaddled. He laughed to mark the place which the —— had always made in an hour. Ten minutes out! walrus shot into an air-hole. His long whiskers cracked behind, and a startled The winds raced with him—and fell back blow- ing. A polar bear spoke him and waved its paw. Ice hummocks passed him, flying north. A flurry of snow swirled in his wake, and his merry eyes twinkled through his motor goggles as stars in the northern sky. He would be done—and home by 8 o’clock, He would—— Gur-r-r-r-r;rr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-T! He grabbed at the brake. Gur-fr-?-P-r-rr-r-r-r-r-r-T-T-r-T! He. shut off the motor. Ratch-e-ty—atch-e-ty—bim!—bam!—bim! The car slid—skewed—skidded—and had a hemesshage of bolts, BANG! * Santa Claus picked himself up and shook the snow out of his whiskers, He recovered his hat and felt of his ribs. BOOM! A lamp fell at his feet, and fire lighted the snow, He dashed over to the machine and smothered it with his great fur coat. Then he sat down by the wreck and groaned. : “Curse the thing!” he shouted, and tore his hair. Hark! What did he hear? The beat of hoofs! He leaped to his feet and looked back on the trail, Four reindeer swung over a rise. They swept down the incline and came up with their forelegs stiffened. Santa Claus walked up to Prancer and threw his arms around the lead deer’s neck. Then he loaded the Christmas gifts into the sleigh and took his place on the seat, As he did so his eyes fell upon a note pinned om the dash- board. He opened it and read: “Dear Husband: I have sent the old outfit after you. I knew it would YOUR WIFE.” pee ear enema | happen. — Has No Use for “Kid Fratsa.” Berkeley, Cal., has a superintendent of schools who has no use for “kid frats.’ He has informed the students that unless the charter of every fra- ternity and society in the schools is re- turned at once to the national head- quarters those who retain membership will be summarily expelled. He declares that the fraternities destroy unity and harmony, promote cliques and interfere with studies. Art and the Auto. “T once saw a man gasé@ for an hour, lost in rapture, at a Corot.” ‘Um, that’s a new make to me. Steam or gasoline?’’—Louisville Herald. PANHANDLE PETE a Drawn for the —— * BY GEORGE Mz

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t i: The Latest Fads of Fashions Cot | lected for the —— The vogue for buttons as trimming is #o great that they are beginning to be @enspicuous for their absence from ex- clusive models. * In many of the season's 5 atyles the ef- - fect of the back of the gown is more - Buttonholes are, indeed, a feature in themselves this year; in their anxiety to prove themselves genuine they posi- } yawn in one’s face. . Incidentally, some of the new mink _/ @nd sable muffs look like a whole fur - family, for the foundation is simply _ eovered with heads and tails. ‘Quantities of fringe are employed on | gowns, and it also now appears dinner and street gowns, always ét ‘game dye as the material used. , Tregain- to more moderate dimensions, the feathers still have the lead. * very wonderful this year, . is not pronounced. One of the newest yokes is made of women are selecting ivory or imitation ones on account of the éase with which the latter can be kept clean. ' All kinds of net, coarse and fine, are employed to make corsages and to trim them, but it is the tulle filet that is the most fashionable at the moment. _ The very long corsets, to wear under the season’s gowns, are not so barbaric as they look at first. The bones and steels are clipped off not far below the waist line. Soft net of plae orange, adorned with larde silk spots of the same shade, is the rage of the moment in Paris, and is used not only to drape hats, but for evening dresses. Embroideries, carried out in a wonder- ful variety of. metallic threads, including not only gold a ver, but also cop- per, platinum and aluminum, Appear on evening gowns. - The most fashionable coiffure has the hair parted in the nifddle, carried back - fm full, loose Waves, and arranged in a Perales coll at the back that may ry all the — formerly used at the —* their place being taken by ‘the mantle that belongs to the general poheme of renaissance. Ribbon and velvet bags are replete with bead work, designs being worke1 to match the material or as sug- by the floral pattern. Covered hatpins have come in as an Es fad. The prettiest coverings 3 * of velvet, @mbroidered in some tiny ; design with gold thread.

Rite Johnny, who had for sone FS é — ended his evening prayer with: | “Please send me a baby brother,” an- 9 praying for what he did not get, and at he did not believe that God had any fe little boys to send. Not long after- irda he was carried into his mother’s nh very early in the morning to boys who had arrived during the : johnny ying at the two babies crit- 7 then remarked: “It's a good $15,000,000. RR hg Over * paces —äö· = © THE NEWL YWEDS— THEIR BAB Y — — — — — —“ — — — —— — * * Drums foe tke Post-Dispatch BY GEORGE McMANUS

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American soldiers Fortune. A Series of Important Biographies Written for the Post-Dispatch B ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. ‘NO, 17—ROBERT DE LA SALLE. ) HIS is-the hard-luck story of a man whom Misfortune drove first to T fame ard then to early death. He was Rene Robert de la Salle. Prac- tically every move in his whole exciting life was unlucky. La Salle could not make a good living in his native France, so in 1666, when he was only 22, he came ‘to Canada to work out a scheme of his for reaching China by crossing the American continent. He brought to bear in- fluence enough to secure a tract of land near Montreal. The feudal owners who gave it to him selected the most worthless, dangerous tract in the whole region and mockirigly named it La Chine (China). La Salle could not make his land pay. He lost all his little money ang fell deep in debt. As a last resort he decided to explore the West. With a handful of equally desper- ate men he made his way to the Illinois River. He wintered on the Niagara and, with his followers, built the first, ship ever launched on that river. He cruised the great lakes, loaded this vessel with furs and sent it back to Montreal to pay his debts. The ship was wrecked and its cargo lost. His Canadian creditors at once seized all the rest of La Salle’ s property they could lay hands on. Meantime he had succeeded in interesting the French Government in the possibilities of the West and had secured leave to form a colony there—at his — — — +OWN expense. Accordingly, he built a fort where the city { of Peoria now stands. And.in memory of his bad luck bs a me ty ‘ he named it Crevecoeur (“Heartbreak”). He went ‘back to Canada: for supplies and on his return found the gar- eee" vison had mutinied, abandoning the fort, and hostile In- dians had overrun all the surrounding country. He was obliged to start his career over again. But; through Frontenac’s friendship, he managed to raise a new expedition and set his face again westward. After many perils, hardships and Indian fights, he and his little band of 30 reached the Mississippi River and sailed southward, seeking the mouth of the vast stream. Warlike Indians barred their advance, but La Salle continued to fight his way southward. On ri] 9, 1682, he came to the mouth of the Mississippi. He took possession of

tening the tract “Louisiana” in the French King’s honor. There he planted a column and a cross, laying claim to all the entire huge valley that lay be- tween the Alleghenies and the Rocky Mountains. Thus did France win one of the richest territories on earth—territory she was to hold for-a century and a quarter and then foolishly to sell to the United States for a paltry The next step was to plant a fort on the Gulf of Mexico’s shores: and for- mally to claim for France all the country*between the Gulf and Canada. But Frontenac was gone, and the new Canadian Governor, La Barre, would have nothing to do with the scheme. So La Salle sailed for France and there laid his wondrous plan before the \jhon:e Government. He received permission to form a Louisiana colony. Many settlers went back to Ameriea with him. His luck seemed to. have turned at last. A »quadron of ships under an officer named | Beaujeu was placed at his disposal. Wild with delight, La Salle led his expe- dition to the Guif of Mexico, sought the mouth of the Mississippi—and utterly failed to find it. Vainly he sought the spot where he had raised the column and cross. Me could not locate the mouth of the river. One of. his provision ships was wrecked, The colonists threatened, to mutiny, Quarrels sprang up on all sides. La Salle waa sneefed at as an imposter. Beaujen and his squadron finaily sailed back in disgust to France, leaving La Satie and his angry, unhappy colonists to their fate, ‘For*nearly two years the deserted soldier of fortune and his few fol- oe geen hunted in vain for the Mississipyi. Sickness and lurking savages thinned — 5 eit ranks. At last La Salle planned to make a dash for nada in quest of supplies. —— But before he could reach civilization the end came. His nephew was murdered in a quarrel. La Salle vowed —— ——— to bring the assassins The murderers hid ji — the ambush He had failed in ev — he attempted: - And out of his fatiures rose — hime. allNthe surrounding country in the name of King Louis XIV of France? chris- |

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BY LILIAN BELL. OU can always tell when women Y in a crowded place are talking to be overheard and envied, because they always discuss creditable matters. You never’ for example, heard a wom- an say in a loud tone of voice that her husband beat her, or that her father had once served a term in Jail. No, she airily tosses off careless re- marks about the trouble she has ‘with her “help” because she wants you to know that she is able to keep ua slavey, and she hopes, because the word “help” as a certain class of American women use it is both singular and plural and because her clothes are showy, that you .will .helieve she keeps more than one. Such people are funny. Far’ funnicr than they. know. Because to the en- lightened the five-minute monologue of an overdressed woman in a crowded car will tell all about her. Her mental equipment, her habit of thought, her mode of life, her amusements, her lack of purpose, her frivolous pursuits, her waste of time and her perfect satisfac- tion with,berself, not only as she really is but with the impression ghe feels she ‘is making. on her imprisoned listeners. are all spread out clearly for any one with common sense to read. Women whose sole aim in life is to get through with household duiles as quickly as possible in order to give all the rest of the day to bridge; women who never read; women who. spend every afterpoon in Broadway shops and bring back for five hours’ waste of time a package of hairpins; women who, for breakfast, drink a glass of milk stand- ing at the kitchen sink, eat a drug-store lunch and a delicatessen dinner in or- der to oftener go to the matinee; wom- en who neglect their children and are rapidly losing their husbands" confi- dence—all these oe nel are re-

vealed when they talk: to be overheard. But how? You think these are the very things such women would wish to conceai ? Of course. But don’t forget that you have two ears and only one tongue. Therefore, if you have taken this hint from Nature sufficiently early in ‘life, you can hear with your two ears much more than the woman with one tomgue can say; that is, you can hear all uround what she is saying, and you can understand, above and below, the im- pression she is trying to create by the bad taste of her loud taik in public. Women who talk to be overheard tell so much more than they intend, and the understanding ones who are compelled to listen are thus put into possession of such pathetic domestic secrets that the whole spectacle is pitiable in the ex- treme. Even when a woman is talking on the apparently harmless subject of the les- sons she is taking in bridge, her ardor, the tragic declaration her chatter is making of all that she must have left undone in order to be so obsessed, are so vociferous that I often’ feel like whispering in her ear as I pass out of the car, Don't, dear!” as I would to a younger sister who had not traveled as far on the road of life’s experience ag I have. . ‘However, would be reason. Isn’t it curious how a woman never is willing to take another woman’s ex- perience as her own? * she wouldn’t thank me. She indignant, and not without

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When You Think Of the pain which many women experience, it makes the gentleness- and kindness always associated with woman- hood seem to be almost a mitacle. While in general no woman rebels against what she regards as a natural neces- sity there is no woman who would not gladly be free from this awful pain. Dr. Pierce's. Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well, and gives. .them.freedom from pain. It establishes regularity, subdues inflamma- tion,g heals ulceration and cures female weakness. Sick women are invited to consult Dr. Pierce by letter, free. All correspondence strictly fidential. Write without fear an ivate and without fee to gg he Dispensary Medical Association, R. V. Pierce, M. D., President, Buffalo, N. If you want a book that tells all about woman’s — and how to cure and the superfluous flesh will disappear. As for the fattening qualities of tea. coffee and cocoa, the latter is certainly a fat producer, but the two former are not. However, if you like none of them, why force yourseif to drink them? The two former especially are stimulants, and the longer you can avoid drinking them the better. Take the hot water with the orange juice or lemon, if you like it. In regard to the exercises and deep breathing, below are some directions which you would do well to follow. They will certainly help you if you SE — — oe * — —nN — — ure will begin to settle in a year or two

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of the Christmas Spirit NEW YORK, Dec. 2%.—Many "5 young women in the United States : * will look upon Miss Beatrice Mills, ‘ daughter of Ogden Mills, as the most fortunate girl this Christmas. Her Christmas present is a belted earl. ~He arrived on the steamship Adriatic last night from Southampton. The engagement of the Earl of Granard, Master of tle King’s Horse, to Miss Mills, was officially announced last week. The date of the wedding has not been set. $1,000,000 Gift Begging. WILKESBARRE, Pa.,; Dec. 2.—A nice Christmas present of an estat. — vworth about $1,000,000, awaits Darius 5 « Jumper, formerly of this city, if he say can be tound, according to a letter received today by Leon Heinemar, a 4s merchant of this city, from a lawyer “if in New York. The lawyer asks if ‘Jumper can be located here, and says + that the big estate awaits him. Jumper, he says, served through + the Civil War as a member of the .s» One Hundred and Forty-third Penn- e« Bylvania Volunteers, which was or- ) « ganized here, and lived nere for some oy time afterward, and is still believed ot to be in this vicinity. Heineman has .p—9 not been able to locate Jumper nor so» fny of his relatives. 26 $1,000,000 for Baby. ad, COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. fe, %.—The fattest stocking in England © 4, today will be that of the month-old ... 80n of Leopold Meyers, whose wife - .«, was Miss Elsie Palmer, daughter of - «Gen. W. J. Palmer, the Colorado -.-* multimillionaire railroad builder. .; Gen. Palmer has given the little -. boy $1,000,000 for Christmas, the in- yy come from which he will get until he is of age, when he will receive . the principal. a Gen. Palmer was on the. ocean _.» homeward’ bound when his grandson , was born, and his friends say that el

* his joy over —* birth of the boy has had much to do with the General's speedy restoration to his accustomed health. Of iate he has been enjoying daily jaunts about the city in his auto, thereby disproving reports about his being seriously ill. Gifts Exchanged at White House. WASHINGTON, Dec. %.—Christ- mas was celebrated in the White House today just about as it was in the average American household. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. came from » the New England Carpet Works, where he is employed; Kermit from Harvard; Archie from Greton and Quentin from the Episcopal High School over in Virginia. In the morning the members of the family exchanged Christmas pres- ents. A large family luncheon was served with a number of close friends as additional guests. At dinner this evening the Presi- dent's family will be the guests of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Cowles. Ban on Christmas Trees Urged, CHICAGO, Dec. 2%.—The forestry class of the Arche Club has adopted a resolution providing that the use of young native trees in celebrating Christmas holidays is a wanton and indefensible waste, and that it should be prohibited by law in the interest of the present and future genera- tions. Escapes Debt by Death. DES MOINES, Io., Dec. 2%.—Over- . burdened with Christmas debts John Martin, railway company; drank two ounces of carbolic acid and fell dead in the presence of his little niece, to whem he had just presented an expensive Christmas dolly. Santa Claus Catches Fire. LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 25.—During a Christmas entertainment at the De- tention Home tonight, James Wise, a

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HeereOoaowaray Decorated Powder Jewel Cases German Silver Soap Match Boxes Belt Buckles Celluloid Tie Boxes $1.00 Goods go at 50¢ $1.50 Goods go at 75¢ $2.00 Goods go-at $1.00 Albums Shaving Sets, Autograph Albums Post-Card Books Mechanical Toys Dolls Doll Furniture Doll Dresses and Hats Xmas Ornament? Atl kinds of bide

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A Merry Christmas TO 7 \ . . ’ Our — and Friends Mississippi Valley. Tous Co. Fourth and Pine Sts. connected with the street | — youthful “Santa Claus.“ upset some candles attached to the tree, and his flimsy clothing became ignited. Promipt action by Sherif’ Hoax land and District Judge Frost who were present, prevented a serious fire pan- ic. No one was injured aside from Wire, who was reriously, but not fatally, burned. Convicts Give Governor Diamonds. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. %.—Gov. Hoke Smith received today a Christ- mas gift from the convicts of Geor- gia, a costly diamond-studded watch charm. The charm was purchased by them by putting in extra time after their regularly assigned tasks for the day had been completed. “This little present,’’ read the ac- companying communication, ‘‘is token of the appreciation felt by the undersigned for the abolition of the convict lease system and the reforms made in the convict system of the State.’’ ‘T shall put that on now and wear it so long as I carry a watch,” was the comment of the Gevernor as he fastened the charm upon his watch chain. Santa Hit by a Car. NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—William Maloney, a Staten Island teamsater, while hurrying to the home of a friend in Brooklyn last night, where he was to act as Santa Claus, fell and slipped under a trolley car at the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn bridge. The toys which he was carrying scattered to the winds and specta- tors who rushed to the man’s aid noted to their horror that one of his legs was swinging limply from the ‘knee, apparently having been all but severed. A hurry .call was sent for an ambu- jance, but. before it arrived Mahoney arose and announced that the mem- ber was made of wood. It had béen severed in fact, but the teamster, not to be thwarted in his Christmas plans, hastily procured some crutches and, dragging the stump of his wood- en leg, assisted by his good one, pro- ceeded blithely on his journey, arriv- ing at his friend's house in time to appear as a crippled Santa Claus. ) ' Peanut Kills Child. CHICAGO, Dec. 2%.—Martha Fones, a 2-year-old child, lies dead at her home, while .her Christmas tree, adorned with gifts and with candles unlit, stands in the next room. The baby swallowed a peanut shell, which lodged in her throat, and she died at a hospital, despite the efforts of the surgeons. Austrian Emperor Has Tree. VIENNA, Dec. 25.—At 5 o’clock last evening Emperor Francis Joseph, leading the two. youngest of his grandchildren and followed by all the members of the royal family, entered the great salon of the palace, where a huge Christmas tree had been set up. The Emperor presented the im- perial children with gifts and exam- ined the presents which the family had prepared for him. Dies Forgiving Slayer. CHICAGO, Dec. %—Miss Ellen Dewney, who was recently run down by the driver ofsa brick wagon, is dead, leaving a Christmas message of forgiveness for the man who caused her fatal injury and assuring him against prosecution by the police. Discouraged, Husband Shoots Self. DENVER, Colo., Dec. 2%.—Down- hearted and discouraged because he Was out of money and could not make hig wife happy with Christmas presents, Thomas Hamlin, a plumber,. killed himself last night by sending a bullet into his brain. Hamlin shot himself in the presence of his wife, who had just given him a small Christmas remembrance. Touched by her thoughtfulness of him and his inability to return her kindness, he broke down and cried. “This will be a sad Christmas for you,”’ he said, and walked into an- other room, drew a revolver from a suitcase, placed the weapon to his head and fired. He fell to the floor and died 10 minutes later without regaining consciousness. Tree for English King. LONDON, Dec. %.—The King and Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales are celebrating Christmas at Sandringham with the customary festivities. The King is taking an active share. Sandringham House is élaborately decorated and a gigantic fir tree laden with gifts stands in the bell room. The king will pre- side at the family Christmas dinner. Christmas in New York. NEW YORK, Dec. %.—Christmas dawned in New York crisp and clear after a night of gaiety in the hotel and theater district. Charitable or- ag. ne pine insane ee a. aii PS ry S INSANE

Gifts Distributed to Little Guests From Homes of the Poor. Christmas came early at the Penden- nis Club, an apartment house at 3737 Washington boulevard. , The tenants there obtained — the Police the names of % children who would appreciate gifts. Automobiles were sent to the homes of the little boys ‘and girls and they had a ride through the fairyland of the West End to the club. There Eugene Angert was the Santa Claus. There were ice cream and cake for the children, and sweaters, mittens and dolls were distributed. 6 For several hours the children were entertained in the parlor, where there was a big Christmas tree, CAT DIES, BUT SAVES KITTEN Burned So Severely She Has to Be Shot by Fireman. TAUNTON, Mass., Dec. 25.—A cat at- tempted to rescue her kittens from the burning ‘barn of William McCall today. She entered five times, in spite of the firemen, and finally brought one kitten out dead. All the mother cat’s hair-was burned from her body and the Fire Chief shot ner.

IDEAL CHRIST Patients | of the 8st. " to Insane Asylum who did their own Christmas shopping, have a cle&r conviction that Christmas shoppers as a class are crazy. They say they never saw people act so “daffy” as the shoppers, presumed to be sane, with whom they came in comtact on their buying expeditions. : The asylum attendants who accom- panied them on their trips to the big stores back them up to the extent of saying that the insane people went about their shopping more sanely than the sane people. Following a custom established sey- eral years ago, Dr. Henry 8. Atkins, superintendent of the asylum, sent par- ties of the patients shopping every day for 10 days before Christmas. Spent Year’s Savings. The money they had to spend repre- sented their savings through the year, There were usually eight or ten in each party, and each party was accompa- nied by two or three attendants. The attendants who went on the different days were Prudence Reisirg, Belle and Flora McDonald, Anna McHale, Kate Brennan, Kate Healey, Mamie Murphy, Sophie Seekamp, Maude and Agnes

PS) — ‘oes. * — — Caluokt. He B.S ee Fe ie ae ees : — —— pa x: Sa a> ae OL ee 2 ae Lay OS ey, ; * 3 : = — ae Shae Si as oo — ; . . : eee = & t — : MG ey J f 2 5 > F J MAS SHOPPERS 6b6in contin. Casey, Louise Kenney and Mamie Hart- man. It is the testimony of these attendants that the insane persons were expert shoppers. They were not fussy, they did not hesitate and change their minds, they did not tantalize the salespeople, and they didn’t hunt for bargains. They knew what they wanted and what they wanted to pay for it. All that the attendants had to do was to take them to the counter where the articles that they wanted -were displayed and they did the rest. Easy for Sealewomen, One of them would pick out an article that she wanted and usk the price of it and pay the money and take the article and ask to be shown to another counter. There was nothing to cause the sales- woman to think that the purchaser was insane. unless it was the fact that the purchaser acted so sane. For the most part they bought hand- kerchiefs and gloves and article of wear that would make sensible presents for their relatives. A few of them, whose infirmities incline them to childishness, bought toys and teddy bears for their own amusement, but made their selec- tions in a very sober and business-like way.

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be a great battle. s might say, since the night that Robert Fitzsimmons risked and lost his title : to the giants Jeffries. After Jeffries became champion all the fights he ‘@igaged in had very little of the element of doubt. holding a certified check to have a bet down on the big man from Southern California. But in tonight’s fight (or tomorrow noon’s, to use Australian time), there is _@ lot of doifhbt concerning the outcome. Bach of the principals has shown him- self a great fighting man in many a hard scrap—a man of real ability. Burns has always fought.to win, and win with a@ knockout. But on Johnson we have a _ poorer line, for almost all of his fights here in America were framed up. He is, a really clever fighter—a wonder, in fact; huge in size, fast, clever, and able to punch. Johnson claims that he doesn’t ’ “frame” from choice, but because he has to.in order to get enough engagements to keep him in bread and butter. How- ever, since the fake with Sailor Burke, Johnson has gone in for the knock-out thing himeelf, and is now in a position as an actual competitor for the world’s championship where it is not necessary in the least to do any more framing. If he wins this fight he will.need nothing more while he lives. Like Joe Gans ‘before Nelson upset him, Johnson can condescend to give matches on his 6wn terms. : There is a fortune in it for Johnson if he wins— ten times as much as he ‘could make by “faking” for the betting ‘commissioners. Moreover, if he tried such a course in Australia they'd prob- Tommy Burns Mixed in One _ °° Bad Affair, but Was in Right ope ee BAG 7 . . ; . FR OMMY name has been 3 coupled with one unsatisfactory es affair, and his enemies have _ ‘taken advantage of that to charge him _ (with being a ‘faker.’ But Burns was in the right. He made a match with Jack O’Brien. In a former fight with *, i ’Brien, Burns gave the Philedelphian a fierce beating, and lost the decision only ‘through generally criticized judgment on ‘the part of Jeffries. '__.. Months before the second fight I met _. Burns in New York. He told me that he'd agree to anything with O’Brien to get him into the ring, for he was sat- | “$efied that was the only way he could atch the wily Philadelphian again—but ay that once In the ring he’d go in to knock _ Brien out. That's just what he did.

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Reta tiit i BY ROBERT EDGREN. championship fight in Australia between world’s champion Tommy Burns and the negro challenger, Jack Johnson. It is an extremely interesting one—the most interesting, I

NEW YORK, Dec. %. get the news of the great world’s , There is no doubt that it will It was almost as good as

| WILL UPHOLD WHITE SUPREMACY, CABLES BURNS The following cablegram was received from Tommy Burns ear- _ ly this morning, It was sent from Sidney at a time that corresponds with 7 p. m.-tonight, St. Louis time, and shows how confident the white man feels on the eve of the battle. The cablegram fol- lows?! Edgren: Am feeling great. Johnson insisted on MeiIntosh as referee. Advance sale is over ten thousand pounds, Tell the Ameri- can public I will “uphold the white supremacy. Am 2 tol fa- vorite, (Signed) TOMMY BURNS. MelIntosh, who will referee the fight, is the promoter and one of the best kuown sportsmen in Australia. Burns has repeatedly stated that he was willing to ac- . cept any fair man for referee while Johnson has been holding off and haggling over a lot of different men,

ably send him too “gaol” for the rest of his natural days. financial success has all of the other big fellows green around the gills. They can’t help slipping in a knock. The people interested in Johnson have a clever scheme. It is to spread the idea that Johnson can win easily if he wants to. Then if Johnson is beaten they can say that Burns “made him agree to lie dgwn” and save some shred of Johnson's “reputation” for use when he comes back. If Johnson wins they can say: “What did we tell you?” They have heads on both sides of the coin. The! third class is commonest of all. It is made up of the people who always fall in line with the first suggestion that anything is “fixed.” They are natural pessimists, and don’t mind pub- lishing charges that they can’t back in any way with facts. Take it from me the logic of this sit- uation in Australia points to a square fight. The common argument of the critics—that Burns has gone to an ob- scure corner “where we can’t see him” for the purpose of “pulling it off,’ is a joke. Burns went to Australia for $30,- 000 for his end, beside the money he got for smaller fights there. Coffroth is said to have offered a purse of $20,000 for Johnson-Burns to be split between the fighters. Well, Coffroth offered Papke-Ketchell $20,000, or something like that. What did they get? Burns knew his business when he went where they posted the whole purse in advance. It will Be a great fight, and as for picking winners, although I favor Burns’ chances because of his fighting ability and superior gameness, I'll hardly go so far as to recommend it as a betting proposition. For Johnson is a big and dangerous .2an.

Tnila this morning. The American play- iwas played today with the Twenty- Iplay the St. Marks at Kulage Park this

ALL AMERICANS — NOW IN MANILA MANILA, Dec. 2%.—The Reach-All- American baseball team which is mak- ing a tour of the Orient arrived in Ma-

ers received a great ovation from the Manila fans. The first of the series of games which the visiting team piays while it is here eighth Infantry team and resulted in a victory for the invaders by a score of 2 to 1, after 11 innings. ST. MARKS WILL PLAY GILLESPIE TEAM TODAY The Gillespie (Ill.) soccer eleven wil!

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— PASSES FOR TIPS WILL NOT 60 I 1’ GROUNDS CINCINNATI, Dec. 2.—No more will the hotel waiter receive baseball passes in lieu of tips. Likewise will the ton- sorial artist be compelled to pay cash for his admissions to the national pastime, even though he massage the “map’’ of the game’s big stars. For the baseball magnates have decreed that passes are not legal tender and for that reason shall not be used in the future either to secure favors or in other ways take the place of Uncle Sam’s currency. ‘It was beginning to be a joke the way passes were scattered around by the baliplayers,’’ declared President Herr- mann of the Reds today, ‘‘and for that reason there is a movement on foot to put an end to this promiscuous distribu- tion of ‘skulls.’ “Every morning during the local play- ing season there was a steady stream of callers at our office from the visiting teams and every man agked for from two to six or eight tickets for that day’s game, the limit being pushed as the men got better acquainted with Business Manager Bancroft. “And in the afternoon, when these tickets were presented for admissions, they almost always were in the hands of barbers, barkeepers, waiters, haber- dashers and people of that class—men who had not. the slightest right to any courtesies from the Cincinnati club. “Our experience in these matters is identical to the manner in which the pass evil is worked in other cities and it is about time that a halt was called. And so, next season there will be a clean sweep of the pass hold-up, which probably will mean a slightly decreased attendance and a largely increased reve- nue for all the clubs.” LUMLEY MAY GET JOB OF MANAGING BROOKLYN CLUB NEW YORK, Dec. %.—Harry Lumley may manage the Brooklyn Dodgers next season. That’s the way it looks now, for President Ebbets wants a manager who will be in the game every day, and Lumley seems to be his choice. It is certain that Donovan's successor a8 Manager of the Brooklyns will not be @ bench ornament. At the same time President Ebbets says no steps will be taken by him to acquire a leader for the Washington Parkers until after Jan. 1, and that tales that he had engaged a manager were fabrications.

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— BY JOHN POLLOCK. NEW YORK, Dec. 2%.—Stanley Ketch- el, the middleweight champion last night signed an agreement with Jim Ceffroth,. the fight promoter of Calli- fornia, to fight Hugo Kelly, the Italian pugilist of Chicago, for 2% rounds on Washington's birthday afterngon at Col- ma, Cal., for the middleweight cham- pionship title. Ketchel had at first de- cided to wait until after tne Burns- Johnson fight, and in the event of Burns winning, issue a challenge to fight him, but as Burns has already announced that he will not fight again for a year, Ketchel immediately informed Coffroth to match him to meet Kelly.

The first permit issued by the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco for next year was granted to Jack Gleason, matchmaker of the Occidental A. C.. of that city. Six club managers made ap- plication for permits to hold shows, but Gleason was™the only one of the trio who was successful in getting a license, the other five being passed up for the present. Gleason will pull off his show in February. Willie Fitzgerald, the fighting Harp, who has not fought for some time, will don the mitts again and meet Paddy Lavin, the Buffalo lightweight, in a 10- round bout at a show to be held by the Reading (Pa.) A. C., elther on Jan. 1 or 17. Lavin is one of the most prom- ising fighters praguced this year and ac- cording to good judges of fighters who have seen him perform in bouts, he Will give Fitz a hard battle.

Although Charles Griffin, the Austra- lian featherweight champion, has had the misfortune to lose the decision in both fights that he has fought before the Armory A. A. of Boston, the fans of that city still want to see him battle; As a result Mike Murray, matc ker of the club, has made Charley Harvey, manager of Owen Moran, an offer for

2? Moran to meet. Griffin’ at one of the club’s shows thig month. The next important fight to be decided in California will be the 45-round battle between Al Kaufmann, the heavyweight of California, and Jim Barry of Chicago, which takes place before the Jeffries A. Cc. of Los Angeles on next Wednesday. This will be the first time that a bout of this long duration has been held at that club and a record crowd is expect- ed to see the men in action. A difference of three hours in the weighing in time is the only thing that stands in the way of a match being arranged between Jem Driscoll and Tommy O’Toole, the sturdy Quaker City featherweight. Charley Harvey, mana- |ger of Driscoll, wants the boys to weigh at 124 pounds at 3 p. m., while O’Toole’s manager wants it at 6 p. m. If they can come to terms the lads will box six rounds before the National A. C. of Philadelphia the early part of next month, Freddie Welsh, the English light- weight, is going to England after his 10-round bout with George Memasaic at’ the Pacific A. C. of Los Angeles, Cal., on- Jan, 5, to issue a challenge to figh the winner of the Britt-Summers battle, which takes place at the National Sport- ing Club of London on Feb. 22. Match- maker Bettinson of the N. 8. C. has cabled Welsh that he can have the match with the witner, and Freddie has decided to make the trip abroad. , — — Tommy Murphy and Frankie Madden, who will furnish the next main bout of 10 rounds” at the stag of the National A. C, on New Year’s night, are work- ing hard for the contest, and -will be in excellent shape when they enter the ring. Madden has been*showing great improvement in his bouts during the last few months, and as he has won three fights in succéagion, he ought to give Murphy a terrific battle. °

SAVANNAH MINISTERS TRY TO PREVENT RACE MEETING SAVANNAH, -Ga., Dec. 2%.—The 30- day meet of the Savannah Jockey Club will open today on the half-mile track at Thunderbolt, and five races will be run each day. P During the past week a strong effort has been made by ministers and others to prevent the,meet, but the officials have failed to interfere. The feature of the opening card will be a gentlema’s race for a mile for the amateur cup. The Christmas handicap will provide the largest purse on the card. It is for 3-year-olds and upwards, over the mile distance. A mile race for 2-year-olds will be the opening event.’ The other races will be a six furlong event for 3-year-olds and upward, and a race for maidens at all ages f@r six and one-half furlongs. . . i. — Davis’ Dog Gets Prize. . CHARLOTTE, N. C., Dec. 24.—Dooley, the crack Irish setter of Dr. G. G. Davis.of Philadelphia, won the all-age stake of the Irish Setter Club in the trials at Barber Junction today. The champion was handled by A. 0. Yount, of Newton, O, C., who won the derby of the cjub with the same dog. Rob Rollo, the Ingiad&@ dog, was second, St. Clouds Barfiley, owned by Bell and Chappell, of Oakland City, Ind., won third money. The stake was worth $400. _

7T ALLSTAR foorall— ELEVEN WORKING HARD. The St. Louis all-star football squai had a good practice yesterday afternoon in preparation for the game with the 'Chicago eleven, to be played at the Colt- seum Oh New Year’s day. The squad ran through signals at the Battery A grounds. ⸗ Francis Cayou, coach of the Wash- ington University team; Brad Robinson and Clarence Kenney played in the back field. With Robinson to throw the for- ward pass the *team should have a strong set of backs. Hawkins, Sullivan, Schumacher and Lindsey, ‘stars of the St. Louis U. eleven, may take part in the game in spite of the Western A. A. U. Lindsey and Schumacher practiced with the squad yesterday. JEFFRIES DENIES HE WILL RE-ENTER THE FIGHT RING LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 3.—‘No chance; I will not fight again,”’ was a}! the comment James J. Jeffries, the re- tired heavyweight champion, would make when shown a dispatch ‘quoting him as saying that in the event of John- son defeating Burps he would re-enter the ring to meet Johnson. He expresség the opinion that Al Kaurt- man, the San Francisco heavyweight, if he wins from Jim’ Barry of Chicago, whom he will meet before Jeffries’ club here on the night of Dec. 31, would have a very good chance with Johnson.

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The Coal City soccer eleven from Coal City, Ill., rated one of the strong- est eleVens in the vicinity of Chicago, will play the St. Teresas team at Ath- letic Park this afternoon. The St. Te- resas are the leading team of the Ath- letic Park League, and are expected to give the Miners a hard game. Sixteen men have arrived from Coal City for the game. Last year the team played in St. Louis, losing one game to the St. Leos, 1-0, and later defeating a picked St. Louis eleven. 60. The Coal City team has excellent team work and the men also play good individual ball, Paul McSweeney, one of the best known soccer referees,in the country, will be in charge of’ this afternoon's game. The contest will be started at 3 o'clock. Three brothers play on the Coal City line-up, H., A. and G. Tall- man. The management at Athletic (Park has provided closed stands to pro- tect the spectators. : CHICAGO BOYS READY FOR ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAMPIONS / DENVER, Colo., Dec. 2%.—With the prospect of a fairly fast field upon which to play and both tea in splen- did condition and determinéd to win, the football game this afternoon at Broadway Park between the crack High Schoo] teams of Englewood (Chicago) and Longmont, the latter champions of the Rocky Mountain district, should be a whirlwind affair and the result an uncertainty urtil the whistle blows for the end of the last half. Thirty-minute halves; have be~: decided upon. Claude Rothgeb, coach for the Agri- cultural College team, will officiate as referee. The umpire will be Dave Main of Dartmouth, and the head lineman, J. M. Kates of Yale. The game is scheduled to begin promptly at 2:30 o'clock. ,

> 7 Toster Wins Tourney. Tozier played a strong game and de- feated Matthey in the deciding mateh of the red-ball billiard tournament at the Hauser last night. The score wag 75 to 59. Matthey finished second in the tour- nament and Biest third. Sivil won from Fuller in the straight-rail tournament game, 125 to 73.

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* | — Lae Mil LR SRE 2 rosa st tn hae itd seat a a — n bay 3 a ngs aaa nips meee pe be iss ditt ‘te hd Behe Sica ears iad : Gee. ge ——— We a4 | VE SCHOOLS AND AG ee ee ae i AA sc casi —— a ee re ee 7 | an | Wtd.—To learn barber tr: ‘ ' * GTON, 2051 . first-floor fron’ LLEN, 2 very , - ghairs* ¢ tant! —— 1 —* \ il a } $3 > ’ 7 — — mee — 2 eR a 1908, | — MALE. 3 “inebractors: tools Rives, diploma sean ak “G — nd —— a Post: - —— ‘| RAILROAD CLERKS W! Dervieka at at rosidene aig Mt Mag- r excellent openings for ‘rate —* avenue, on Satu rday, t 2 —8 — = relate —— co: 2 welt a 2, : ' 4 accoun c Dp. m. — — va 7 SI — detailing ditterent” railroad SCHWAMLE—Entered into rest on surety bon good | on — — “tr | Thursday, Dec. 24, 1908, at 11:35 p.| credits: now —— * bai me Bs Schwamle, es. * argereth Schwamle lector; prefer the latter; bath. Suburbat dear father, father-in-law and] °“%, br. 2 a: sh No ‘hot water. “furnace heat: grandfather, ‘: aged 57 years 10 av. ag, oo ae * * a MAIL ORDERS — cars. ban — * adie ann ee ee — ‘Box N-200,1 ‘for. tra et onths an ays. BOOK KEEPER—Sit. wanted by 2 WEST B PL., 4190—Large housekeep- — — — =I Post. — ee ae th st. Funeral from family residence, bookkeeper and — — geen — md jing. for Tr newspapers: ex. Ing | roome, mas, $9 week’ — eo Hfene: * can. 5 Sal ager. od lerton’ Bids | “ti RNESSs * ytd. _ gee F A— F : = : * = * sonnei A =

. 3657 Wisconsin avenue, on Sunday, either as bookkeeper or to help takin —— —— p.m, to New Dec, 27, at 1:30 p. m. Interment] stock; best references. H. S., 2608 Day: perience unnevessary: ne Eta rte ST PINE BL, 4132—Desirable 2d-story | HICKORY. — rooms emetery. Relatives and friends in- private. Deceased was a member of ton. - (5) — Lockport, \ ¥ (8c) front room; also single room, southern ex- der; « near Cars: vited to attend, St. Louis Camp, No. 5. W. of W. BOY—Sit. by intelligent, colored boy as 2 MAIL ORDERS Revolving pocket pencil —osure; reasonable. (1) HORTON PL.. 5970—Ne eased was a member of St. Detroit (Mich.), Denver (C olo.) boy or houseman; room and board. sharpener; grinds lead to a fine point; best FOR COLORED = ENNERLY, fae ~ ic Sc — RL X “ath , ulg Camp, No. 5, W. of W., Ger-| and Albany (N. Y.) papers please| 3407 Lindell. on: the Met. 25c postpaid. Duplex | ~~~ : dwa | mania Unterstuetzungs Bund of St. 2 8 418, Proxidenee. R. I. } EWING, 812-14 N. la l xt ean chan. . Cornet WARE , 3 90d mares or horses; | 4 copy. (c) | CARPENTER—Hill contracts for all kinds harpener Co., Box st "ee: BA fleer Ry rye — tel room, ist Zeibl —— anes a ot. — Ne ane wen Box rit, “s - Louis and Medart Aid Society. (5c) ‘ or repairs; get me and save money, 1211 ‘ . a N. Taylor av.; tel. Forest 710. FRANKLIN, 3316—Two unfurnished = BOKUK, SAAT ice, er et ea On SAL FOR T ‘ > , roo wanes e peclcag $e oe — ’ Saaadar tan tt 10e% * rae ore COOK Sit, wanted by first-class cook. Box HELP WANTED—-FEMALE bath; hot and cold water; no children, ez ——— —— & m., John Conroy, de- : ear- pat Oh 11 — * * F yeni 2846—Two large rooms, 4 ac . ble ‘loved brother of ‘Thomas, Frank and ag LAR Mae pra, Bila A pings ia DROGGIST—Sit. by experienced registered DISHWASHER Wtd.—s00 8. 7th st. lone, $2.50: also 3d-floor front, $1782 a oe An BUGGIES—For sale, reliable storm hag edie ec my 2 el ig a ta ehner and Herman H. Niemeyer,| Gray’ 'si61 Easton, is} | GIRL Wid —Nurse; “good home; as one of | LAWTON, 3024 —Nice furnished rooms. iat 4 A rton . and our dear grandmother 4nd |GNGinnER— Position as assistant enkin family. Capt. Riggs, Cornelia and First. (5) and 2d floor, $2 week, with heat. (5) 2207 _ N. Broadw = . eoneer | GIRL Witd.—For stemming tobacco. 2604 | LAWTON, 3028—3 large unfurnished rooms, | McPHERSON, 3045-6 rooms, steam t, . t Joh rs 1340 F | —— 83 years 7 9 : 4 S See ae 1338 oe oo for colored; cheap. polished floors, janitor: reduced rent. (8c) - Funeral from the residence, 1725] .™other-in-law, aged yo : Aoypation etrent, on — — Dec. — and 20 days. liable. Box R-68. Post-Dispatch. (6) SC — — J —— — * — a: * an ma — 2 unera : oO QriGna : 2 JSEG rt ri fcr i¢ ousewor . 933—-Neatly furnished rooms, §: NE J5A—New — 5 r- : } TANTS — eth) BF" 26.. 1908, at 1: 30 8 m.. to St. Law Gt? dogs roy : ng a en ets. _ oenens, at once. 1122 N. Pa rk bl. (7) and $2.50; use of kitchen, laundry, tele- gas fixtures, es : and harness: t : 2 wseninin bien alae oe CHANCE Cee eee Ag Sek eS sa t Ber "H. ' daughter, Mrs. Henr D. Wehner, h versed n mechanical-electricail : rence O'Toote's | , urch, thence i 1446 Sullivan —— on Saturday, desires position with establishment] HOUSEKEEPER Wtd.—Lgdy to keep house — — conveniences. __ (6) | __heaters; rent $ a. Kare st $878 _(iee) urehased automobile. Dr. A y 7 Dec. 26, at 1:30 p. m. Relatives and h f an energetic and for bachelor; no objection to one child; good |MORGAN, 2626—Two large rooms, rear,| MORGAN, 41i4—Five-room t. furnace ashineton: Delmar 2045L. vited to attend. : trustworthy man are essential. Box hee home. ©, E. Fry, 2011 N. Broadway. (5) $3.50; Ist floor; also_ pingie room, $1.50; gas store: shades _and combination HAKNES “hea pest piace In city; new and Nee Tne — MORGAN. 3130 — large rooms, | NEWSTEAD, 4129A ws rooms, with batt] Oe Ae eee 77 frienas invited to attend. _(e) Post-Dispatch. ; (8) om and kitchen, $1.75 turer’ VER—Entered into rest on Thurs- FIREMAN—Sit. wanted by experienced sta- perienced: with references. 3900A Easton; sift phone Lindell 27891. (22) ei floor rear, $2.50; single room, $1.75 and ~~ * cold Bo pod eet iis lights. HORSES—For sale, bargain, colts, mares,

tionary fireman and assistant enginest, t of references. Address Taylor 1005 Chestnut st. de all purpose horses; ee oS . 'td.—Girl for eneral * Coming E J ents Lucas. EIOt SEGIRL wa 7 ‘2 PINE, 2121—Neat! f ished Realty Ce k: small family. Apply 3525 Ar- eatiy turnisne rooms; all . on and harness. tea MAN—Sit. by able; bodied elderly man; any - WOF . conveni . , bath; f OREGON, 40354 rooms and bath; u r y senal st. yo es 75, ront rooms, $2. wt and lower flats; street made. per | HORSES—For e, one good w * wDauer ‘and dear — thing. Box N-178, Post-Dispatch. 7) Tip : * —— middle ‘rooms, ee reet mad ev ge eal * am, ine Rus- ta ABnounce your ball, party or enter- MAN—Able, willin ao —— 5 — child, —* . g, ee pir 1709 N.—8 large rooms, ist or 2d vals. Rh a ae 3-room flats; keys Pet (nee Dauer) and eae ieee grand- pre geen ta this column, Ali St, work at once. 2 N. 12th. Dispatch. (5) oor, $10 per month; open wns ' pore st ats., emother and great-grandm ther aged MAN--Sit.. by young man who wishes em CADY - Wh “nderstands busi WASHINGTON, 1601—Large unfurnished | PARNELL, 260s—Mocern o-room fiat;, rent t St. — TWO LINES—ONE TIME—TWO DIMES ployment in private place. Call or write. | methods, to represent @ rellablo Califor. | Dasement room. $1.50; also gonnecting un- | TO am ae te — HORSE—For —— — * * — Stephens, * urnis asement rooms, . s*.. ber-ti cutunder bout; — 28, from YOUR DRUGGIST OUR AGENT. nia company; prefer one acquainted with | ———————_ — — —— MAN—Sit. by young man who wants morn- representati pusiness men of this PLYMOUTH, ——— ooms, furna Haase & Boble rubber- wa: ing and evening work for small wages. —— — good comm nissign to riaak ROOMS WITH BOARD-CITY rent reduced to $32.50. McNair & Harris sacrifice; don't “need; using wutomobile., 2p. m. Please omit TTEND confetti dance, Newsum's Hall, | _M. Stephens, 11/ N. Fourteenth street. (5) address at once, 187, Post: —* ~~~ | . Realty Co., 8th and Locust sts, Main 5509. — 3706_Delmar: os ispatch. (5)| ARLINGTON, 2507—Wanted, one or two (Se) ge A Trimp’ 8s, 1412 N. Grand, Saturday | MAN—Elderly: any kind of light work, night Hast St. Loulg (ill) papers please} evening. Dec. 26. 6) watchman; care of place; anything. Box R- OPERATOR Wed Wd. — — Coston love pore ey by to board; mother’s care; terms rea-| ROSA, 4672 (near Schoenlat’s Grovel—Four- horse * y. (7c) 146. Post-Dispatch. (6) + pe drape new wt? 9 of city. ae DELMAR DL wigs — J room flat. bath. gas; only $15. (ROC) Soni For sian in " AN—Sit. anted with large factory or _ Molt rop.. Gran — — ——⏑—⏑—— an * er | SECOND, 1819. S.—Near Geyer av., nice: % NIES—For @, team of W ponies: Entered into rest on Fri- Movin Pict e — — company, as mifiwri ht or as-}| WOMAN Wtd.—White tled “Wethod wom- rooms; all conveniences; board if or rooms, $9; open; will whiten. L. B. was in good condition: ean — (6) 5, 1908. at 8:30 a. m.. Al- ur S ~ sistant; 5 years experience an mrictly an for children’s caretaker. Methodist Or- - — — inger. 409 Fullerton Bldg. c) PONIES—For gale. team of —— Cc. , dearly beloved son sober. Ad. C. J. B,, 1105 Central av. (5) phans’ Home, 4385 Maryland. soya? eae 4853—Southern exposed room; | UNION BL.. $60-40A—6 and 7 rooms: — good Op Fergusor-McKinney Laundry, 1520 j page aS am Rak TF ge ott N, — Connected: fi . rcelain bath, hot wate, gas, 1:30 p. m, (6c) .STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETINGS. PORTER—Sit. by allround, experienced col- | N. 13th st. - (5c) —** — ble; good service: rooms finely ng modern; rent reasonable; open. [ Hearse, — — 8880. — ored man as porter, waiter or butler; ref. | = — orest 2727. (56) 1} Claude E. Vrooman, &% N, 8th st, (8c) | Special terms if desired. ELLEDGE—Bessic E Fdna Elledge, be- STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING— Notice fs furnished. __Phone_Bet)_Pomont oe s geet 164. Post-Dispatch. SOGRL. (0) DISSOLUTION NOTICE—Notic is gi — De : Poneral * from fainily residence, ' e is given that | => —9— | {DELMAR BL., 5102—Furnished room; steam | PAGE BL., 4474—Beautifully furnished sec-| MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE y M. F. Reuhman and Robert * nde vb deen agg a A neh i As oh heat, hot water, bath, etc.; for gentlemen. ond story front room; excellent board; |~ ‘0218 Caroline street, on Saturday, — have dissolved rtnerghi ‘as nurse for children; call phone Bomont ; ; , . “Dec, 26, at 1:30 p. m., to New Picker | Wartmann buyin the “good Tir ors = tg esl. 2962. — Su fe ‘ = BOOKS—For a ee ES at oe De range, phone: very desirable ROOM AND BO . r 11:30 a. m.. Bertha Frankenstein. OS an oun | | elp Wanted DELMAR BL.. 8805—Southern and, eastern ‘ent room net my ce toned, iggy A gg sowelry Co. 616-17 if “Olive wt. ae) dearly beloved daughter of Charles z exposed rooms, running water and all con- Lindell 2988: Olive line. (8) oN ee 2 Re ae nay blocks, — and Emma Frankenstein (nee Muel- : - — Poem Ane BOARD —O&n accommodate five | goods, homens pained” ‘Winery, Lo aac our ear s er. after a — gentiemen with excellent rooms and board; Ov organ st (59¢} short Illness, at the age of 8 years. IF YOU LOSE ANYTHIN . mya sn SHAY EASTON, 4439-——Two furnished front rooms, reasonable; Olive cars. Lindell 2983, (3) — — will take place on Satur- tise it here. It will be returned to BAKER om td.—First-class bread and roll bath, gas; also housekeeping ropms. (5)|ROOM AND BOARD—Large 2d-floor al-| sis" and upwaris; Soh anh nobel hand: y, Dec. 26, 1908 . m., from you if an honest person finds it. Re- —— : * ~ | HIGHTBENTH, 1117 N.—Newly furnished, cove room, also adjoiffing room; good lo- full uaranteed ; - Meal iss ATP —— residence, ulwer av- markable recoveries are brought about BAKER Wtd.—Third hand baker. ,4044 N. 2a- ae front. alate smali room; good cation; exceiient table; convenient to park ; ——— cash oo Hs bought at liberal en. ae 8 and .. @hue, Relatives and friends invited every day through this column. All Grand. neighborhood. (7) | _car lines; terms moderate. Sidney 16561.(8} prices. Office, 1111 Pine; Central Home baseburners. ‘gio: * to attend. druggists receive Want Ads for the BOOKKEEPER Wid.—Young man, experi-|iGniH, 1282 S.—3 large rooms, ist floor, | ROOMS AND BOARD—Absolutely new and|_ Olive 2770. J $12; Oak baseburners. * —2 at office rates. enced as bookkeeper and in noel -oudier sys- $10 per month. Prior & Hartig, 616 Chest- ee ines waste thoes’ —— cng ane COA L—Suanli ht, lie Mount Olive. F 50: ters * vertisements recei : tems; state age, experience and references, t st or des -case ‘HENDERSON On Thursday, Dec. 24, a. m, will ne Taispertaal fn” tame ae which must be Al. Box N-168. P.-D. (7c: Tig — SSW ERS trout rooms, Tila. ee ee Cos Central 6812, aain —— * * maria ae mar 9 we 1908, at ny aged 46 Mo., orge R. tions on ‘‘Market’’ page DRIVERS Wtd.—Sprinkling drivers, at 3761] each $6 and $8 only; quiet family. @) . TCT Bc — | COAL—Standard, 0c; Mount Olive, lic; de- eed ap, 108: matting 1884. Henderson; ¢ ed 46 years, IF YOU LOSE ANYTHING bring it Manchester and Sullivan and Prairie avs. SRANKLIN 891--Furnished room for house- THEODOSIA, 50911—Well furnished 2d-floor livered. Marsh Fuel Co.. Lindell 3932. niture Co., 9- ner Chapel, Y dent held at the Wag- to the Apply early Saturday morning. (c) met eg ‘cain $3 per week. front —— ——— = per —— Gentrai 6075. “@e} floor. oner ape 1 Orive r * HAND Wtd.—Good job for steady sin- - . > hace, gas, hot bath: convenient. to Hamilton, street, Sat FARM c 100d j GARRISON, 1339 N.—Three rooms, gas. frat East&. Suburban cars: private family. CORDWOOD! CORDWOOD! -Edw. A. Langan Furniture Co. Cash or me. ’ 2: ° le man, who understands stock and is a — my “a6 "ond — Post-Dispatch eood miiker. Apply at Carpenter's farm, | _ flcor: rent reasonable. i WASHING (ON BL. 3710—First-class rooms : Lost and Found Bureau miles west of city, corner Clayton and |GARRISON, 304 N.—Cornér Olive; connect- and board: steam heat: all conveniences.(&) | Oak «nd hickory, any — —— coarse : n Thursday, Dec. 219-212 North Broadway. McKnight roads, or ad. Drawer 72, St. ing housekeeping rooms, nicely — — wood; no limbs. MEYERS. Special Sale t 7:25 p. m., Dina Horst- OE, Louis. gas range. heat. sink. a cae, eens See eon | ——— 2666 Lucas av. (80c) > ee Meo Weanudery beloved moth- t ol HARNESS CUTTERS WtdAlso saddle | HICKORY, $13Three large rooms, 24 floor,| Rished rooms; ' \¢) | DeSKS—For sale. cheap. roli-t weiter | shenter ates “cae deans store | ” er om Horstmeter, flliam E. Get claim check. Have it advertised makers on medium ade stock work. $12 per month. Prior & Hartig. 616 Chest- Ee ‘ duakes: aiso — —* kind ret riter | cheaper than any other n t, Fred W. Horstmeier and poceere tee oweet Gove not. Hess & Hopkins “Leather Co., Rockford, 4 (8c) | WASHINGTON, 3303—Two aleo geveral other Kinds; shtly | also, ca Ida — Horstmeier) at the — A Tee Mee Sel tent: ar. iil (ic) Tote ST. LOUIS. 4th and Igcyst; roome,| toms. with board, furnace heat, for la- sueed:_ big. bacgains. * — + age oe pony ste Ra oe oan JoR PRINTER Wid.—An allround job and | $2 week and up; all conyeniences. (6) — —— 5 4— — r. Dalley. esis a Pong one from fam- Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1899) is ||P S87 Ma" Site town by writing to "the LACLEDE. 375QA—Second tory et it donble and en suite /rooms and * Bldg. 8c) = he] R ora wad or a ce ee te: —* strict in —* them to seek the Evan Bo Dispatch. Columbus. Miss. furnace heat, bath. gas; also r bourd: reasonable. s DRUGS-For sale. stock of drugs and fix- make ty movi eager one oe v' LACLEDE, 8414—Room for we DOD | ee — tures; sell separate: 60c on the dotter, ping and household packing, — | | } ‘mm, : 8 75. (5) — — a

owners through ertisement and oth- — N ‘nes } ; JOINTERS AND TRIMMERS Wtd. —* WASHINGTON BL.. 4219—Two ‘cheice dou- * 1 ing: cook stove. gas and \bath li > Met a —— * Box G-155, Post-Dispatch. ends invited to S tian erwise, .and that a failure to d , if , | a (e) 0 80 jointers and barrel trimmers. Apply The FURS—For sale. semple furs from New Romont “7 cape Mi ct i seme can be proven, involves a severe Re) | LACLEDE, 3514—One or two m1! icely furnished ail conveni Interstate Cooperage Cv.. Madison, Ill. (8e) furnace heat: fir MA Ln Lan York; all the latest styles; 50c on the dol- housekeeping rooms, Kas, ¥ | WASHINGION BI... 4604—Handsomely fur- lar. 2d floor: 511 N. eth’ st.; take eleva- | FURNISHED HOUSES AND mo S HATR ' Ity. n Thurede Dec. 24, 1908, —— wey ya ughes LABORERS Wtd.—Colored laborers, Satur and second. A . > sh n sui Ba vg Mee cee Seog 4 ay er ————— ——— 8 LEONARD. =o a .—Newly furnished room; | ate —— Ai —— — —9 a ina hite bi — al rane lQUSE— For * pee gas, bath, hea 2 . 4 —For sale. white ne n SEs eae — *

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Hughes, son of|-~ ed apse ales ee — — market: town 3000 inhabitants; must =e r housekeeping; «as. ena tad gold cross and chain; ‘liberal worker; sober, and either loan employer $200 elgg ee xentlemen . 4 (5 ee good eT OFFICE and store fixtures pougnt and sold. m fat — .. Phoenix Furniture Co. Sr tae one-third interest: "good wages to — 608-810 N. th st; Cen-| _Giey 510A Olle wt | , avenue, on Saturday, DOG— Lost * Scotch colli (5) proper party. Box J-15, Post-Dispatch, LOCUST. 1426—Nieely furnished rooms. ; telephone; ve car one * _hral 4796L. 8c) 26, at 2 p. m., to St. Cecelia’s badie aye” Seoten collie; reward. 3967 | Tian Wtd—oo men and 50 teams, Theresa | [OCUST, 3202—Nicely furnished single room; | a7 PHONUGRAPH-—For sale, Edison Standard Y h, thence to SS. Peter and oe =, ae Pine, Schweitzer & Criss. also well-furnished light housekeeping ing dein BEI-LE PL., 3068—Beautiful 24-story — — good order } ae stereopti- | ~..~~. BIC CLES | — — froat room, with board, cheap; otker rooms, a outfit. 1417 N. st. BICYCLES —For “gale, 2 mene bicycles; $10 5870 Theodos s Ah \ — ~Loat, beagle bitch; address on ee room, =. St See to atte nd. — —5* -please_return. 8718 Thologan; reward $25. | MEN Wid —Able bodied. between must be | LOCUST, 8048—Blegantly furnished second. | —$4:_convs. NE eat TE TR SAPES—For sale, —— safes, cheag;| and FORB-—Lost, between Blaine av. and McKinley 2 Bend or have first papers; excellent floor front room. reasonable; hot-water | WESTMINSTER PL.. 3961—Large front zoom rite for prices, John Baumans Safe Co., * High School, Thursday, leather fob, with opportunity to see the world; good pay; heat, bath: Kinloch phone. (8) with excellent board; reasonable; alse 412 Washington av. (60c) i" on Thureday,|] wooc. K. medal. R Hoffmann on back. clothing, ‘ations, quarters, medical at- LOCUST. 2982A—Nicely furnished front par- | _70ommate. ©) | SHOTGUN—For - sale, * re- 0 a. m., Albert _ Reward at 3635 Blaine. tendance free. Apply at OU. 8S. Marine lor, cheap to people employed; all conven- | WESTMINSTER PL., 3908—Nicely furnished peating shotgun, gauge i: $15. 6220 Lenox Recruiting Office. Dome Federal iences; private family; no children. (6) } rooms; eer board; couples or — (5) men; reasonable son of Amalia Arnold Huss- gy A handling; ewcers cand .__ St. Louis. S°) | Tocust, 3032—Parl those appreciating ! ; rs card oS. Seo: * J MISCELLANEOUS WANTS _ 7 “THE BIBLE 18 NOT sie and inside. Return ? h- warmth. cleanliness, convenience, call; bar-, of 22 ‘ bes, rn and receive reward. ant} SHOVELERS Wtd.—On Marcus ‘and Bire ve * as — phone: ae ee a ‘ROOMS AND BOARD WANTED anh ANTS KET—Lost. diamond locket, ee set : er_rd.__t._ Kennan. LOCUST, 3048—Elegant second-story front BU ITCASE Wtd.—-About 14x15x5. Box G09, a. tk are whem 19 @ place on Sun- — in Loftis case, red. lined w th black, SHO ELSA? Wtd.—10, on 15th and Carr. . and kitchen: stationary pwaahstand, ROOM AND BOARD Wed. —Lady to board 2 Ticker Wi." — — — * rtd.,-Tic e — p. m., from resi 22, in fete —— Re- | L enneh and ,cold water; we eate N-190. ®ost-Disnatch. eprings. Ark.; for man; at once Set BUILDING. MATERIAL etc. eM wsreet. (Ca)'| urn te 2888 Laclede a (5) | STENOGRAPHER Wtd.—Young man stenog- | _ conveniences. — . = , -| ROOM AND BOA Wtd.—Traveling man Post- -Dispatch. a ipo: bina * mistake cea | er eee. Se cone = S- en F “ee ate, —* ve Kot bath. all conveniences. 5) wants board pty for wife and boy SLA BAR AIN price* for lad eatle nen’s BRICK--For *8 geo * mutersa into rest medic — ore to — . counter, wholesalé grocery; refs. Box i, eated rooms. he years old; steam heat, Box R-74. Post- clothing. ntti A teathe in hs weed. . etc. ; fn y pt nd. &, Mein aie ouse, , aay, Dec, 34, 1908. a By G Cc p I — d, housekeep- 1908 t : ros. Dry Go oO. (c) Dispatch. UCAS, 3041—Front. furnishe use Keep- Dispatch (6 Ceptrel eat the * illness, “- entry $300 5. —— * po between [ocTONE DRESSERS * Witd.—Two experienced eho weekive = stove, free phone, oe ROOM AND BOARD* Wtd.—In eae pri- Githert. fo20" N, ẽ OTHING * poeta, rokee, 3800 10th and Ciar 7 * — family, by yOung lady employed; state L a * — of 70 — uth on Grand to Crittenden, buhrstone — (5c) |LUCAS, 3015—Front, furnished, housekeep- pric * Went End “| Serred. —* —— * for x: ‘lemons on0n Market" oe ; Ce “L. . .Buckley’s Parcel Deliv. | tional. Lead Co h laundry; a Ct 2 family residence, | _ery, 515 St. Charies. WRECKERS Wtd.—With hatchets, on 10th ing rooms: was — ae ee iy} | —2780_Chouteau, : a aa entral 674 ket street, Dec. 26, | yurr—tost, black lynx muff. Finder wilt} —824 Carr. _L._Kennah. LUCAS, 3130—Newly furnished “housckeep- CASH paid paid for —— old gold. ally ry ease omit flowers. receive reward on delive to cashier — ~ ing rdoms; free phone; gas stove, — —H wa } ; —— —— —————— the Boatmen’s Bank." — SHOE WORKERS WANTED bath; $2.25 up. 0 ouses, Flats, etc. Rouse. — E F —— American Stora ea } =— , * Pe * ome ns S ANG pint — i” nent private. Angeles (Cal.) and Cincinnati - MISSISSIPPI, 1718—Two. furnished rooms — rs le ease ¢ co NOTE—Lost, a note —8 —— of letters EDGE TRI MER wrtd. —Steady wor E. Ww. pte tin eg M ' ht sekeeping: $12. —— 7 = ‘ ; ; wee . _ ae pn ta atraeed iota: wig, Vove ios Prank | PRAT, TAM EN tacts, Winona Minn.) Leni pemasseounete—| "DWELLINGS FOR RENT | HOUSEHOLD GooDs —— "eit n wnw REOMEED co * —Foreman of sole Jeatner +e PME E Pager —— * —24 Entered into rest, De OVERCOAT—Five dollars reward, for return of Sten een of — room, Good- | _ished_ or _u — ee 2 LAINE, 0. 3630—Hight rooms. bath, furnace: | A Bo none a * gg. Central 10, | JOINTER wid. 4 ; ’ - at 1:30 m. Wilhelmina a scourer, finisher. | MORGAN, .3126—Front © alcove, furnish: $45 J—— a rket st. (6c) be pon’, state cond! —* overcoat taken from 922 N. 2d'st.; no ques- yous purnisher, vice trimmer and cutters room; two registérs, gas, bath, phone. (7) | Tinie — ain 4812. Gilbert ( Bast E Buciid ay. Baw. tions ast asked. iC) m= men’s work; good wages hort stony MORGAN, 3135—Furnished rocms, siugic wv! ~ darge y —* “425 of i 6 rooms, —— — — —5* —2 at Hodiamont or o wetk. Northern Shoe Co., Dulu (7c\ | —ln_ suite; all modern coriveniences. (o) * furnace, nn, Frenkiin. Contra) 65K5., > 208d the age of & pocket tbook containing i i tor | MORGAN, 3965—Furnished rooms for one. 01 11_ Market st. —— — — Answer, -Room OPERATOR Wtd.—Niggerhead ONehed. Call two gentlemen; hot bath; private famiiy: COOK, —R— 8 dwelling. bath. agate vig he “es *— & * —— residence \ __ {Foo * ch led, raneperenen Ie reasonable. pot ot pat Sxtures he 7 A3 *8 lo- — i —2 Bros. 1700 Frankie ae , 1J A Pall + rent reason - ew tf —* Saturday, vo nese Lost. lady’s black — — — — | NEWSTEAD, 3214 N.—Two tyrnished rooms | ean ee WN. “Sth val ~ an * entral 6692. (140 cel ft orage: : : 2:80. p.m ¥ m., to Bt, Joseph's — — passes ane go men’ s welts; steady p. "Welle cg AEDS NORE EE 6) FINNEY, 3053-55—Two nine-room . dwelli BEST prices paid for aes _ furniture. car- | to Cal Cemetery. change inside. Finder please return 71s ment; oe | be Al. Apply M. “hay modern: rent reasonable. Claude Ee Vee. s: Central 5532; Bomont 807. Prosser. inv ted to atten —Bayard: receive reward. Co.. De Kalb, Il. — | OLTTR, S0a0-—aaeee et rooms. hot} man; Main 696, Central 880. “(Rey __Se2i ot Olive. (8c) iy Kalb, tl bath, gas: .§ and PURSE—Lost, on Taylor av., betwee — on + bu y nm’ Olive 7 Operator on men’s|OLIVE, 209i—Newly furnished rooms, $6 GAMBLETON PL., 6137—6-room .housé, in “le and McPherson, small silver mesh purse RS 5 * 4 » Dec. 24, at 1:35] containing $11 and glove check from Barr's. ee cette —— machine ; references re-| month up, gentiemen or ladies employed: Pas of Hamilton av. carts —4 — ede av.; P Lindel! 2135, Reason for sell ine al: 4 Wi J * thes a asleep in|. Return to Vrooman apartments: reward. wens te am 2 work. Buckingham & wane housekeeping allowed. LocueT 337 m awe * * R. U. + acesnet Auction and Storage Co, ike ® oted ng, pA Ts and 4 Gas— t, two diamond rings; o n Francigco. Cal. OLIVE! 4043—Warm. comfortable, — * * — — CONTENTS of . good residences ada be te ee nontt. fess lg ee ~ 7 Pp Bb . - room; telephone; all — ——* BR, vy 1. 006 bous ——— — Franklin. Central . se ve < é

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rs. Minnie} solitaire, 3%-k., and one a Fyera ring, — — J — Eight rooms and alcove; hee. FURNITURE Wtd.—Household goods: ; Dec , anne Rapes yee — can make OLIVE, 38105-—W ell-{urnished front some pth Th fixtures, furmace, new rly deco- | FURNITURE * dwellings: A con- —* oes: , wr take place Sunday,| 8) cyening. Dec. M4 AGENTS. wrd. “Me ‘our photo tickets. Olive - — a cohen —— — ——— (90) | Rees of Delma Forest_3053. “a1 S22 © $oeeeees — mF from residence 8 MORGAN. 3400-218 hot- — — rote 4 owner, at 4576 Morgan st. Tel. tudio, Olive st. ©) large reoms for house- rent. McNair @ "Harris, Healty Co. "Ge. HOUSEHOLD ; PATENTS AND P a Forest. — = ~* SALESMEN WANTED keeping: other ng rooms for housekeep: | oh and Locust sts. Main ! — — SCARF—-Lost, mink scarf, — Dec. 8 J in , S838—An — rick stable for one Lindell at Famous. Reward for return to 4308 4 — ay Oa ii OLIVE Lo tt ng and connecti rooms . ; H road; iti * d : mhed: gas, water, ete. non Ay. ESMAN wrd. — "pond —* * dd eeping gas for cooking: well is is _ Broadway, BCARFS—Lost, two o scarfs, on Park av.. be- Neil Dap 9100 Bie (84c} | heated. PAGE BL. 4445—N : tween lith —— .. Thured a uired. Sis Laclede B ETON, “T700A—- Lovely front rooms, rent. McNair & 8 arr ieelty es rod ark and J SA LESMEN — — hed for housekeeping; hot water, gas; and Locust sts. & Ha —* (Se) for city. McArthur, 4 wer 2 k. SECOND, 1446 5.—(-room brick house; stabie 4 — * neat, Sena. furnished for four horses and shéds, etc. Thomas & * MEN Wid. —Three 53 ee . 2 (6) Wolff, 1538 S&S Broadwa (96) —— 8 silk teh ; : . a 15 TYLER. —— — rick dwelling; 6 shuren aan uthwestern will R-¥5. P. wer cor a nv.; quiet and private; always, warm. . —— decorated: ” man; nent. Box tral * "Rey Bi Se Ohio R. , with Elk ‘6 reward Cail Kinloch S) ~y "exclusive - = oe, 1 d.-—Land —— Large second-floor Steers — Guif Coast Texas lands; room. southern e nt te gas, beat and hot Estate Co. 22 N. — two gentlemen; $1.50/"FURNISHED APARTMENTS 4ND Real . R each . * {Be 1#21—Connecting second-fioo * — WANTED | : ng; water in kitchen ; _

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: ! ; ; — —J — an . Ep? ae sa ee hot — —X — — - em ie Tie ii el ae 8 oa ae on oe p t * * J ⸗ ppt oof oe a 2 A - * Sere & -— & 4 J ex se — De ee ORS ot * > a ——— pie he - pr 4 . J — » * we — * =? rR, NS Ss ae ⸗ - a —— sei? age a ri — I das eR 2 — bi 1 — eth ii Bee — ——— a, we ae — — * — —* ath. UY. eum: bes ; . ‘ * er me t tae % — A hae tar ph wet * 3 = 7 f * % J— ae 7 * Cotte ede by * 4 a. * 4 — ik courant cee Thursday ‘while “working at the Corno Mills. ae ot —* ae yf cone * a — os )g bridge over Chouteau avenue, A ne = “detei bation 4 500 e Spree be baskets The from ‘the has been | ‘DS the holidays, and for his taking ‘ceC8motherév0m that, etaoinununun ers rus, the pate also. dlstributed ‘ Alton public schools were closed —— pena Re yong ar OY. BRIED JUST THE SAME| “tt Paige. “harem,” as it was Th Bf ts Thursday for the Christmas and New Year Oa ‘yellows’ lodge sent a turkey and the shal Cathey of Paul's Valley about a South Oma: ho'lda for a — dinner to the . year ago. Kendall was a captain in the ’ Theft of ‘guth Doesn’t Let ecessaries Moeves Newton has returned to his home families of deceas mbers 1s in Buffalo, Ok., after visiting relatives in e funeral Mrs. Francis ie Confederate army. Mar#se Prevent Somebody who is Upper Alton. 81 ears old, who died FD hy ae Mrs. Mary ‘Beely,. Miss Mae Judd and berculosis at her home, 116 orth & Second land, mn va has the wedding suit» Mitlea to | t ar | Cubbage of South Oma N. 8th st. Gertrude McCord have gone t Phones: Main. 596, Central “sho. (960) | street, was held Friday ——2 from the | to visit relatives. 4 — residence to the Douglas Cemete She is Ne | Cubbage has the bride siders himself the gainer Miss Bertha H f Kal REAL ESTATE FOR EXCHANGE | survived py her husband, Joseph Thompson, | 1s visiting her parents, Rev. and Sits. Bim: his loss. Cubbage was on East St. Louis to wed Miss sey. RES NCES—F ; > Charles Compton, an employe at. the J. RB. Blackwell of St. P % —— aid . ie beuee eae ale mour packing lant, alipged | ang fell * ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ww. oe e Soae ot vis. Clem of 713 Summit avenue, wh suit case containing the suit and Seve crossing the evening. + 7 hit ‘ane of the he iad a — frac- tured. He was taken Hos- pital. wedding ring was stolen. He bo another wedding ring and was m in the suit that he wore. The wedding f ‘took place on time Christmas eve at the bride’s home. It looked for a while as if there would have to be a postponement on account of the youth of Cubbage. He cer- tificates of title, — papers. HN B. M for delivery. REIT 8S Hie 4111 Manchester” (80) MONEY Wtd.—Capital for large tract of Western fruit and ranch. land; 3 water con? Diapers Ra easy terms. Box (7) | Where, it is said, he will recover. — — — hy 2 employes of the Interurban Bxpress rece turkeys from the m ement of LOANS ON REAL ESTATE es company. The employes of the local Postoffice were each given a basket of fruit by Postmaster Thompson. Information has been recefyed in Belletille of the serious illness of W. C. Buchanag, a former resifient of Belleville, at his home in Los Angeles, Cal. The annual Christmas enterta nt of the Germun Methodigt Church will Ziven at the church Fridgy evening. Clyde Miller, who is —— “alga te e- » is J. evill busi- — Jenkins, 20 years old, was uncon- Sclous for several hours as the result of a fall received in a friendly wrestling bout with Bdward Lever, a wr — whom he was working a the corner of A and Lincolf&t streets. He was taken to St. Blizabeth's Hospital, ulty est- (Se)

Leader of New Faith in Florid Declared He Was Chr ist F

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*“ }PIANO—For sale, elegant mahogany autiful tone, almost new: h di ~ hi aun. poke; tard h ll quick : wee i raré chance; ca — and Kings Wosnes: Sunde ————— even- 21

an —Piano lessons; gentleman —22 wishes more pupile. atte VU * — — TALL SOUS ” Dlive fay, and. Wriday. ey SOLISnhi!M partment of the University * uest of his parents, Mr. iller of — avenue Christmas being observed in b 1 the churches and all places ness. The Police Department is givi soca te nenent at the L gl ane f benefit the r of t and the BE Ledge Pistributon ——— “wagon loads of among the unfortunat omy of the Bellevitle e High et ball of Theater Saturday ht. — ewr Dig. Belleville High School] Literary So- fay nth gave an enter thiument Thursdiy, a night — Audit torium of the Central ool, — —— Alt period "te liberty when. — was released from by N. where a 20 days’ —8 EWS Laut t gi hi by we —“ — — — 0 utzZ on warrants char m W ng liq without a license * and with sellin The Alton Water Ct mortgaged property. He was fined andijmit an expert hired by 4s agreed to per- costs on the irst charge an se “4 — its books and property, ax°ity to examine city in the settlement of tuested by the the under junction suit. ‘water-rate in- Much Reduced Rents. ranapiln for —— pee Mrs. Andrew Buck, keeper lv — ce *24 hts wea anniver N. Taylor av.. suit in t Court at Bell borin for : house, and Mrs. Micky Brown @ barding rth vege Svs. 4 rooms —8 divorce —— aie MeDuft ee. oc, NB cade v.. - 4 * in his bill gg deserted _hi im tercharges of disturbing the pealé coun- each other. Mrs. Buck says she drgainst 000 were Evans &v., 1 They married Dec. pon ot AB in_ St. Py * ane a in ‘he we oth cee * Brown out of the boarding house becaiMrs. nies. Fr whipped her husband regularly for gahe drunk.

fT hatarday overs Facey classes st floor ye sahern & hes jith and turday, : clas 5 fessone and 6)

. © was not a difference of over 200 The* between any of the candidates. March peount will be taken up at the wm of the County Court. Le ara * — a7) i) EAS OR vee Ss provisions

Friday evenings: privat | ¢ Tnoor ; rent. Prot. TEN | piano leagons, 2. professor, with wide et atte yal experience. 2? b. Po t{Diapatch. (6c) ; $110 BUYS a ** new cabinet and ma- moder upright piano, poe ning 8 im rovement, stool 4 oe aesiv very. Kise LHORST PIAN stabi 1007 Olive st.” (140) UR Stultz & Sauer, Straune. Gilmore, Ham- med, win and Winter & Co. master _ the low planos are well known; our prices est. A. BOEFHM & BRO.. 1609 Franklin. (80c) LAUTER-HUMANA ing * 3 self-players; see and hear them g: lowest prices in the city, for oe” —* eans s; having no rent to oop = a big ** ine new a. you; terms to suit; players as as $825. Open evenings KLE J . Grand av. (6c) EKAMP sities a PIANO Overstocked; finest and largest —2*6 of con fine violins in Bes hadnt call and vanced ieee low OSEP HUNT ETH MUSIC CO,, Reh ey near Market. Rent Pianos $2, $3, $3. and $5 per month; best as- sortment in J ret; re MitH Ps *28 if plano is purchased. NO CO., 1115 Olive to G8 . Wh ny Mer. (5c) Financial LOANS ON PERSONAL PROPERTY , the Garden Sa ~th and Olive ear’s, afternoon rs. 8c and ew at Coliseum ne. =

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5007 1410 V3.5 15 00 NICHOL S- RITTER” 718 Chestnut st. (6c) MOVE YOU: FREE. 3 Bartmer : av..

; private ny hour; receptions néay night: | Xmas and evening. r

(93) M from Pemiscot, West Alton, Mrs. Lelia Witt of Madison was married to Charles Jackson of Franklin, Tex., by the Rev. H. M. Chittenden. Part * the Chicago mail which was dam- aged in the collision at Chi o Wednesday arrived A. Alton Bt ig Be badly 4 The annual i of the oer A. fer the we: By of officers will be held Jan. The school children of Alton donated sev eral w - loads of Christmas gifts for "the peer. goods were distributed b ophia Demuth at the Spalding Building. Yoroner C, * meee held i Clarence Bates

furnace NICHOLLS- RITTER, 718 Chestnut St. (6c) See These Today. Louis av., 6 rooms ..5 rooms . . 5 rooms These flats will be decorated and put in condition: convenient to ome? and minutes fro 6th and NICHOLLS- RITTER. 718 Chestnut st. (6c) DWELLINGS FOR RENT __ $45—2804 OLIVE ST.—$45 For nt, 12-room dwe'ling, bath, fine lo- cation ‘for rooming house; keys at’ FISHER & CoO.. 714 Chestnut st. (To) TO LET—BUS!' ESS PURPOSES NEW STORES. McPherson and Euclid Avs. beautiful, modern buildin contains stree er,

Morgan of East St. Louis has ays suit for erveses from Awes — — nds of cruelty and in - an OF rhey wef married Dec. 14, 1899, and lived together unt{] September, 1907. ——— ñ — | East St.Louis News of Archie McGill — De Soto, Mo., at 1 a. . Friday i 4917 St colored a

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“po YOU NEED MONEY een can and get it at 408 Oriel Bide. * mts N.

PRIZE “Tint foot — W —* Dee, SOR a and = : rday evening, Dec. . ss min ! shear 1ith and Pine. —— Ss ba gine ext, sts. "DETECTIVES E—Private i does shadowing | and Bo2da “Olive: "pr phone ires confidentia ute secrecy. Ad. — want he +37 orth street sewer was accepted Thurs- * y the Board of Local 4 e funeral of Joseph Driscoll son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Driscoll was held Thursday —— at 2 o’clock at 8st. Patrick's urch Wheelhouse No. 5 at the uitable Pow- der Piant at East Al!ton pom her early Thursday morning, several hundred pounds r being —— No one was in at the tim f —— Tll., is visiting prize walts

on yo {ctly sso Wes —* college in New York promulgate a new cal, geographical and ence, He soon had a crowd eave up insane Seana ot The bod easy to get = ar . ut ez: 8 United Trust Bidg.(l4c) str ce Co., bs Mi salarie without 82 it oe ¢ lay; no blidit —* o Ge ; u y. m “a oP aay ones (14c} 119 MONEY advanced — people without oe se- 410 — nd Bide Bit No wth we (Se) Bn ale | apace without ried —53 “Bldg. Louis and " (8c) MONEY to loan on life ae m 1420 Byndica at Roo Trust Bidg., 10th and Olive sts. Re MONEY to loan on ——8 without re: n

street and Brady avenues. Mo

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restricted to high-class In all detictleen” For etores only; now open for inspection, further particulars call on or address. CLAUDE E. VROOMAN, low rates: payments; ce: private party. Stafford co 8840 Finney. ictu store. (80) MONEY furnished us by a private party to loan salaried men at 2* sonable rates and sy payments. * & 0., Ful- B hou re 06

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MARRIAGE LICENSES, John Penzien Myrtle Z Samuel Garth Harbison Margaret Raleigh William N. Moss Katie Guensche Harry J. Andergon ... ma M. —E Abraham L. Brow Rose Lenore Cohn Francis Goueslain de Rone Frances Edna Bradley BE. Ray Mathews Bva L. Trigg Fred B. Wilson ..... Frances Stoneman .. 1 VV. Johnston E isabe th B. Gillies Alessandro Zola Carolina Garsone ...... eeécbe ei 1 Crist T. Corona 515 Wilmington rd Ciara Mary Lynch 515 Wilmington rd isuni Giuseppe . Edwards —— — — Re ere Edwards .. Edwardsville, Ill Edwardsville, li * Manchester 18 Warren

wh names without securit _ courteous — — and “confidential: ge our preposition; yours for business, E 406 Mechanics-American Bl roadway and Locust. (Rc) ED —— furnished money without security; loans on furniture on a re- oval. ‘mien entral Finance Co.. te mene — others furnished names without se- ts; offices in 66 princi- clitea; save Ya money by getting me f olman, 501 Houser ~ S TAD ES’ TAILOR. ; hn gr a RL AB cb AMAL 8229 O . 6123 Garletas osececeeee- 4187 Lindell St. Louls .- Kirksville, Mo 2315 ee A. al

merchandise or farm lands, Dispatch. FARMS FOR SALE FARM—For sale, ‘small farm, — pay- without interest; see me a | day, . before 5 p. m., resi- > Ae iohertecn. §80) FARM—fFor sale; 40 acres, 35 in cultivation; all under fence: 5-room house, cost $1000 to bulld; v.ell and cistern: all outbuildings; 500 bearing fruit trees; ~ $1750; easies kind of terms; 20 acres, all under wire fence; nice 8-room frame house and detached summer kitchen; all outbuildings; 180 fruit trees; 200 blackberries, 120 grapes, raspberries, 20 gooseberries: price $1500; terms. FERRELL & MUNDEL, 1448 N. Broadway. (7c) An e Grove age Best. Insurance! You t in $250 cash and $125 r month until have $750 BM, ou accept deed Teac irrigated Orange Grove tract T : that’s all you do any ‘ontract, renewable

St. Clair County Realty Transfers, These real estate transfers were filed at Belleville yesterday: Barbara Fritzinger et al. to Margaret Lang, lot 108, Reutermann’s addition to Millstadt, warranty deed, $425; Henry Hollerbach and wife to Charles Hof- meister, lot 4, Hollerbach’s subdivision, war- ranty deed, $500; Beatrice Brown and hus- band to M. Brewerton, part lots 214 and 215, Central place, No, 8, Hast St. Louis, war- ranty deed, $200; J. H. Thomas and wife to J. 8. Mulberry, lot 5 and part lot 4, block 6, East Bourne Terrace, East St. Louis. warranty deed, $3800; Mary L. Eckert and husband to Bast St. Louis & Eastern Rail- way Co., part survey 881, warranty deed, $600. Jerseyville Hears of Wedding. Jerseyville society first learned Christ-

St. Sexton, 18, East St. Louis. A. O. Kring * * 5 Lo has been r’ this district — the Tilinol Health. will have charge of tribution rj antitoxine and other medical treatments Sar the supervision of the St. Charles News | Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Bode of ere

nting mon can t ar 2 avorabl le ‘texmaa: fre n dealing "else- clate | atu god SS, "as Bia “QUICK ss pega iM wand. most private ¥) cal ~8-4 Chem MONEY TO SALARIED PEOPLE Without securi t penta: lowest 916 Century Central 1524. (8c) and his

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MONEY f MONEY! MONEY! — urity, and . 850 pe ‘gore; 1911 914 to 1918. soa? er yea rofits annually: best. saf nsurance. Highest, financial ling Improvement © Duluth. Minn. national morning. Mr. and = are, the guests 0 The Rev. Samuel I. Lindsey of St. City are Pos ——— of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. “charles Hilger of St. Louis f St. Charles associate secretary nent: temperance committee of the Presbyte- rian Church, will deliver a lecture at Jefferson Street Presbyterian Church Sunday relatives Louis, rma- of the the mas morning of the marriage of Miss Elizabeth O’'Haver to Columbus Van Horne, manager of the Jerseyvilie mar- ble quarry, which took place in War- renton, Mo., Dec. 10. Friends arranged to greet them Christmas afternoon in Edward H. Steimke Clara Gi Wile Emm D. Kline —— —— McNam East St. Louis, Ill Mee slceaneet tr Cartwright. oe tes Louis, Tl) ? Warren M City Maude 8. Mullen sity, frankly admitted to the marriage li- cense clerk that he was not yet 21, but Harry Clem, father of Miss Clem vouched for him, and the license was issued. The ceremony was performed by Rev. G. E. McCammon. Jack Lee of Detroit was groomeman and Miss abs ‘ E i ies); i To salaried people. without, — —55 the home of Miss O’Haver’s aunt, Mrs. John Wiggins. SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR SALE WHEN looking for: sypurban home or a do not overionk ** — LOANS ON FURNITURE. 3 weekty re a ya & fo loan joan. * weekly, Be enya mite Peake | FINANC ult AM 501 — — we 8th and Olive, “WW4e) LOANS AT 5 PER CENT. make joans it without removal NO PUBLICETY: liber ments. UNION, ate eT pot ti | ust; entrance 3 —* Aantal 1167. (haan ARE YOU READY FOR CHRISTMAS? Se A ag tg Te ua; me oy himse 3 know it. Stay si out . Giant Money Loaned on Furniture wagons. any, I for you at fouswing ra rates: ra — — Trust Bidg.. ots. WE LOB MONEY ND William Humbrecht and Miss Viola Cra- mer, both of St. Louis, procured a marriage license here Thursday. Robert Fulkerson, “agent for ™ M. K. & of men wey Co., at mbu this county, and ee enn Keithley of burg were marrie ursda Dr. Pinkey wrench of St. Louis haé filed suit in the Circuit Court against Mr. and Mrs. John Burligame of — Mo.. for a fee of $100 for a surgical operation’ per- formed on their child —* geri n Misses Celeste Rauc Dorothy Schreiber and Olive Rauch, students at the Florisant Convent, have arrived home for the holi- 8. Ww. G. Rallonbass and where left Thurs- an., Ruby Owens of East St. Louis was the bridemaild.

: g eeeeee C. TMVOS ..-ceeess * 5* Semgott .....4 PR Yo oy 2318 Blair is Danville, Ti — — —VV — — .. Danville, Il! G. Trieseler odes St. Louls, Mo fon. F. Putting .....+-.+...8t. Louis, we Walter A. Kellum 2125 W. put Mattie Brown -Memphis, obert J. Blauner 4 pew nette Schulte Vetter Springfield nM Nettie WIlCOK «-cecreerteress Spri ngfie Maj, Rasco ..-s++rereee .-East St. =: Mary Bronaugh.....-- — Homer L. Browning Kathryn Yaeger Willie Willyams Mrs. Emil Summers. patie aan John A. ———— saveekbes Ida L. MeMullim...-+«+++++-++++ Robert B. Pender....+++- : Pearl M. Potts Joseph 8S. Strapt.. Mrs. Julia Clarkson ase ohn F. Gagie 5 . — —

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2) Belleville Marriage Licenses,

IMPROVED PROPERTY FOR SALE — — — — ————⸗ Oh pan pies BUY and a flats, ill buy 2-

Daniel L. panic Mould O'Fallon I ——5 — Til nship, Ii Clair Clair lair

, Albert * Lillie Cl Ir ob F n "are py *-. *-* *>_e ee fe © Pig mas B. Davis i | woe Balance Murphy GNER CONS. 506 Victoria Bidg. “(80c) PRICE $35, 100. RENTS $4260. For $35,000 and with small cash payment you can buy the 20 three-room flats, 3 four- room flats and & stores, on fh. w. cor. Tal- mag? and Ola Manchester road; stores leased and flats continuously occupied. » | HERRMANN R. B. CO., 1011 Market st. (96c) MARKET STREET PROPERTY PAYS sass | BECAUSE THERE ARE LESS STORE- Room vocancies on that street, and always will be (due; to the fact that it is the shortest and most direct route between Union Station and the heart of the city) than any other downtown street in this city; we have a num- ber of improved properties on this street which we recommend to all who seek invest- ments with an vg increased valuation; can make easy term HERRMANN R. £.. E. CO.. 1011 Market st. (96c) STOVE REPAIRS.

ty, shot and fatally wounded his father, Henry Jackson, yesterday. Young Jackson escaped, and is being pursued by a posse. me. Il — 16 PERSONS HURT WHEN SIX PASSENGER CARS TURN OVER Accident on the Lake Shore in Indi- ana May Result in Several | Deaths. HILLSDALE, Mich., Dec, 25.—Sixteen persons were injured, five seriously, when the southbound Lake Shore ,pas- senget train which left this city at 8:55 last night, crowded with passengers pound for points in Indiana to spend the holidays, was wrecked near Pleasant ackney as Lake, Ind., about twenty-five miles | Mra. Fi a rats; — — - mY ie Rae sons ine na | AS Pata: RS STORAGE BA’ jously injured are: Burton pachum..+++++-s0+ ++ IMGs Wianer ST. LOUIS STORAG * Mrs. John Carpenter, Reading, Mich.; une —V— 1 210 — — * ©! pack broken, will probably die. X ——— t Mrs. Chatles Vaughn, Pleasant Lake, | Mitref"bdn ate Page Ind.; shoulders crushed and injured fo-| Grass Mercier. ---00027777- Qiw0e Sonar Ms ternally. os Creve ; Mrs, Campbell, Pleasant Lake, Ind.;| George Tucker.....cccccsssse+++s [Fannie ater? ae 2220007 baloes Ok

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of Sappington, St. Lou ried in St. Charles by Justice Bruns Thurs- day. rances Ruel Holcomb and Mary J. Klee, both of St. Charles, were married Thursday by Justice Bruns.

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No—$i30 buys fine upright piano, with stool and SCHUBERT & MOXTER. 2607 Pranks IANO—Will sell my fine upright plano, used but a few a . for $300 cash; cost tcelair ay, : | Paste buys fine Behning upright, per- fect amet 06 — TANO—$250 buys $00 “Baldwin upright. taken in onchan e for one Lauter —*—* piano. ee this big snap. Open S. PIANO CO., “KEbeKaMP — 8. van av. (6c) (6c)

Perisiesan saie, elegant mahogany — beautiful tone, almost new; have bi 10-year guarantee; take one-third original rice for immediate sale: also fine furni- Sure, cheapymust sacrifice — tog J rar chance; call quick. Grand (5) Soe a. MONEY FOR YOU ~ Cheap, Quick, Strictly Private. We loan m on furniture * —2* —* lower rates an bony easier term other office. We. are the oldest ” satablitnad loan office in St. Louis; 18 years of hbdnest dealing at our present location. It costs nothing to call and get our rates. See others, but be sure you see us before you borrow, or * or pacts us and confidential agent will Central 3590, Main 52038. Ww YORK FINANCE E CO.. 208 ODD FEL- LOWS’ BLDG., 816 OLIVE ST. (8) MONEY WANTED FI RUST—For sale RST DEED OF TF BOD 87 amount an iA 1000 0 fi ' $1800 and 00: x*— cates oor itle, insurance; papers ry. IOHN 'B. MUTH, for delive * 4111 Manchester. (8c) MONEY Wid. —Capital for large tract of Western fruit and ranch: land; water, coal, timber; $7; easy terms. Box N-197, Post- Dispatch, (7) LOANS ON REAL ESTATE 3 MONEY IN ANY SUM VERY LOWEST RATES AIPLE’' & HEMMELMANN R. B. C&., Safe Investors of Money, 622 —

d.—Piano lessons; experienced gentieman teacher wishes more pupa, aS cial attention paid to beginners. x N Post-Dispatch. ee T & MOX rat-class piano tun T ETRY AY & SONS’ piano for $60; perfect or KLEEKAMP PROS. PIANO CO., __ 812 1-28 8. Grand av. (6c) TEN plano lessons, $2 2: — with wide ce. -), Post-Dispatch. (6e) ie Sots a * new —— rand ma- gay ei upright piano, | el eo every moe ern improvement scart ‘aed free elive IESELH OneT PIANO CO., Established 1 007 Olive st. (14¢) OUR Stultz & Bauer. — Gilmore, Ham- mond, Edwin and Winter & Co. master arr pianos are well known; our prices est. BE. A. BOEHM & BRO.. 1609 Franklin. (800) LAUTER-HUMANA King of of — self-players; see and hear them buying; lowest prices in the * for reliable goods; having no rent to ey eans a big saving to RAT terme to suit; fine new players as low 25. Open ening. KLEEKAMP sites 121-28 8. 5** av. (6c) VIOLINS Overstocked; finest and largest *2* of fine violins in the bad call and on- vinced;. prices the low JOSEPH HUNLETH MUSIC CO.,, Broadway. near Market. (93) Rent Pianos |: $2, $3, $3. $4 and $% per month; best as- sortment a! 8 Ay; ren prone, abc avers if plano is purcha F. 1115 Olive st.: yes aM Wh caer Mer. (5c) Financial LOANS ON PERSONAL PROPERTY

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624 Chestnut st. Real Estate FLATS FOR RENT 5 ROOMS, STEAM HEAT, $30, mar; jan for: oO KEANE & FH NE & FRAN 1 ‘Chestnut st. (5c) Much Reduced Rents. N. Taylor: ay. th Evans av., 4 room 16104 Academy av.. x

5007 1410 Academy 3 15 NICHOLLS- RITTER. 718 Chestnut st. (6c) MOVE YOU: FREE. 59044A Bartmer -av.. 5596GA Etzel av., 6008 mer av..

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~ $45—2804 OLIVE ST.—$45 For rent, 12-room dwe!ling, bath, fine lo- cation for rooming house; keys at’ 2 FISHER & CO., 714 Chestnut st. (7c) TO LET—BUS!' ESS PURPOSES NEW STORES. McPherson and Euclid Avs. This beautiful, modern building contains high-class stores, fronting on streets; solid glass. fronts; steam heat, hot water, etc.; in the heart of the best and most thick- ly settled section in Bone OS West End. TRAN POIN

In all PIR on restricted to high-class stores only; now open for inspection, For further particulars call on or address. CLAUDE E. VROOMAN, | N. 8th st. Phones: ::;_Main_ 596, Central 0. (96c) REAL ESTATE FOR EXCHANGE

Dispatch. FARMS FOR SALE FARM—For pale, ‘small farm, monthly pay- Saline thout interest; see * ~—_ Gay. —8 ding Sunday. before 5 Pp. dence Etzel av. N. D. —33 So) FARM—fPFor sale; 40 acres, 35 in cultivation; all under fence: 5-room house, cost $1000 to build; y.ell and cistern: all itbuildings: 500 bearing fruit trees; price $1750; easies kind of terms; 20 acres, all under wire fence; nice 8-room frame house and detached summer kitchen; all outbuildings; 180 fruit trees; 200 blackberries, 120 grapes, raspberries, 20 gooseberries; Priee $1500; terms. FERRBPLL & MUNDEL, 1448 N. Broadway. (7c) 7 a Your. Best Insurance! ash and $125 * month

per acre rofits annually: saf nsurance. Hixhest financial references. St ling Tmprovement © Duluth. Minn. (8) SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR SALE

LOANS ON — ban 8 Sse LB BSE 7a —— AR. fe to, Jour your itereet to | 501 — MIGAL gth and ¢ Olive live. i14c) LOANS AT 5 PER CENT. SS eR eae INA i one {nioch tk 1167. arr ARE YOU READY FOR CHRISTMAS? — — PNB te

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eo avenue. — Lolo Graham, th Justice Ward tenth wed- Py ah in and Siss Hiora of h Seulocit eae 2 Frida or 6 via. ‘4 noon for their Rew e Art — Socte tained by Mrs, . ty nue next’ Toned family eft home: in Bat a- will be enter- . Hallam’, of Lebanon ave- Clarence Jenkins, 20 years old, was sclous for several bouts as the’ ant of 6 fall received in a friendly , wrestling bout with Edward Lever, a man with whom he was working a the corner of A and Lincoln streets. He was taken to St. Blizabeth’s Hospital, where, it is said, he will recover. All the employes of the Interurban Bxpress Co. received turkeys from the management of t company. The employes of the local Postoffice were each given a basket of fruit by Postmaster Thompson. Information has been received in Belleville of the serious illness of W. C. Buchanas, a former resifent of Belleville, at his home in Los Angeles, Cal. The annual Christmas entertainment of the Germun Methodist Church will be given at the church Fridgy evening. Clyde Miller, who is —— the law de- partment of the University. of a 7 the guest of his parents, Mr, and 9. Miller of Douglass avenue. Christmas is being observed in oy a e churches and all som leville’ —— of the Belleville High ae the basket ball team of at the Garden Theater Saturday he Belleville High Schoo entertainment a a for ‘disturbing the peace. left the Jail he was arrested by Con Lautz on —— charging him with selling liqttos, without aa ayy and with sellin mortgaged pro an costs on * * = Hoe — selling 7 ee gee ro va eD See % * E celebrated his — 2 > a et bill “hat she pnts Se nts spec. Sb Th were married Dec. 24, in St. Louis. Damage sults $35,000 were filed in the f t Co I i

ege n one of the compan Ng —— Bros. Coal oke ants 14 a suit instituted Alfred Sanders Morgan of East St. Louis has — A for aivores from Awald E. or- an on the grounds of cruelty and into ca- ion. They were married Dec. . lived together unt{] September, 1 | East St.Louis News| |:f The bod

of Archie McGill of De Soto, Mo., at 1 a. m, Friday i and the officials of the union have been notified. . Watson, on emplove ot the C. Construction Co., injured inteenaity yhpreday while working at the Corno Millis, A heavy wooden beam fell on him. istribution of — —— baskets tu- Second Friday —— from the She is ompson, street, was held residence to the Douglas Gometery. survived by her husband, Joseph Th and six children. Charles Compton, an emplo ore at. ee mour packing plant, sli nd fell *8 was crossing the L. & arr. t at Seventh street Thursda evening. His head hit one of the rails and his skul was frac- tured. He was taken to St. ry’s Hos- pital. t St. Louis marriage licenses: Harry 27, Myrtle ritten 20, — r Flora Stevens, 8, Madison; ) Ry 88, to Rosie esz, 19, East . Louls; Harvey Cubbage. 21, South Omaha, to LiiHan Clem, 18, East St. Louis; Charles Johnson, 22, to Mary — 18, Bast St. Louis. GO. Kring, an Bast St. Louis druggist, ao been appoin sted distributin fo and Giatrigs * Ith, He will dis- tribution of antitoxine ona other medical treatments. under the supervision of the State Board.

a. > A | St. Charles News | — — 0 Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Bode of Kansas s | city are * a of his parents, Mr. and B Mr. and Mrs. “Charles Hilger of —* Louis ar the, guests of 8 arles relative The Rev. Samuel! 7 Lindsey of St. —2 national associate secretary of the ferma- nent temperance commitise of the Presbyte- rian Church, will deliver & lecture at the ——S— Street Presbyterian Ciiurch Sunday ning. William Humbrecht and Miss Viola Cra- mer, both of St. Louis, procured a marriage license here Thursday. Robert Fulkerson, agent for * M. K. & T. Railway Co., a ambu this county, and Miss Leora’ —— of mburg were married . Thursda Dr. Pinkey @#rench of St. Louis has filed suit in the Circuit Court against Mr. and * oan ieee of —S—— Mo., for a fee 0 or a surgical operation per- 5S om Seer a las ast sori n * isses Celeste uch, rothy Schreiber and Olive Rauch, students at the Filorisant Convent, have arrived home for the holi- 8. W. G. Ratlenbach and family left — day for Pars an., where they will spend the holida: ve with relatives, Pollack, years old, and Lena Hal- * — wen gave their place of a as * by Justice

Graves and Miss Kathrene B. of Sappington, St. Louls Count ee in St. Charles by Justice mm vances ** ees and Mary J. th o aries, were marri rsday by Justice Bruns. od Thu 2 * * Jerseyville. Johanna Eaton of Kan —— of her cousins, pene City, Mies

Miss is the J eagle ion Scott rtajl “ue "ond and dire. ¥. Dunbar of ai — ana Mrs. nner on Friday. - John Bruso of eter ie.

‘John Wiggins. ELECTION COUNT WAS WRONG Contests Filed and Votes Will Be Gone Over by Court. Petitions asking for a recount of the votes cast at the drainage election on the East Side on Dec. 16 have been filled in the County Clerk’s office at Belleville by J. M. Chamberlin, F. A. Garesche and Robert E. Conway, de- feated Home Rule ticket candidates, In their petitions it is alleged that the judges and clerks of the polling places did not count the votes correctly. Each contestant alleges that in poll No. 1 of Venice Township there were 10 votes counted for the Taxpayers party that should have been counted for the Home Rule ticket. In poll No. 2 of the same township they allege that there were five votes miscounted. In poll No. 3 of the same township they say there were eight votes counted wrong. Poll No. 4 is charged with 15 miscounted votes; poll No. 5 with 20 such votes; Granite City with 15, Brooklyn with 16, Centerville Station with 15, and each of the eigh wards in East St. Louis with 100 such votes. The contestants: claim there were 204 votes counted for the Tay Payers’ party that should have been cast for the ome Rule party. In the official count re was not a difference of over 200 votys between any of the candidates. The ‘yecount will be taken up at the Me~ch term of the County Court. a. » 4 4 a ) '

Alten News | The Alton Water Co, has’ agreed to per- mit an expert hired by the City to examine its books and property, as requested by the city in the settlement of the Water-rate in- junction suit. Mrs. Andrew Buck, keeper of a barding house, and Mrs. Micky Brown made coun- tercharges of disturbing the peace against each other. Mrs. Buck says she drove Mrs. Brown out of the boarding house becatize she whipped her husband regularly for ge drunk. ~

0., was held Thursday at Witt of Madison was married kson of Fran klin, Tex., M. Chittenden — Het ot the sie 0 mail which wot dam- sio esda arrived in Alton n Thursday, badty 4 —* — The annua] th M. A. fer the sation of ~g~ BS will be held Jan. The school children of Alton donated sev eral w aa loads of Christmas gifts for "is —2 goods were distributed by Mrs. hia Demuth =" 2 go Butlding . reper he Clarence Bates 5 1S-denevan ld — 8 t oy gg suicide because he did no = want ii at 2 k at Patrick's Ch Wheelhouse No. 5 at the ultab! - der Piant at East Alton Bauttabie a several hundred pounds ing —5 © one was in ime. f Galesbure, Tll., is visiting e n H Sehoo]l has ot e grat. a — stom uls x hoo e accent ie * allenge has been A ton public schools we —— for the Christmas and New Wee Harver Newton has returned to his in Buffalo, Ok., after visiting Seldtiven ie moi Alton. Bee! Mi rs ary Beely,. ss Mae Jud Gertrude McCord have gone to Detanne rn *8 aap: oad = p ss Bertha ussey of Kalama is visiting her parents, Rev. ana Ihe. a” eon peer. Blackwell of —* Paul is visit- received a the East St. inte. ing J parents, Mr. and Mrs. WwW. W. Da- a wr St. Clair County Realty Transfers, These real estate transfers were filed at Belleville yesterday: Barbara Fritzinger et al. to Margaret Lang, lot 108, Reutermann’s addition to Millstadt, warranty deed, $425; Henry Hollerbach and wife to Charles Hof- meister, lot 4, Hollerbach’s subdivision, war- ranty deed, $500; Beatrice Brown and hus- band to M. Brewerton, part lots 214 and 215, Central place, No. 8, East St. Louis, war- ranty deed, §200; J. H. Thomas and wife to J. 8. Mulberry, lot 5 and part lot 4. block 6, East Bourne Terrace, East St. Louis. warranty deed, $3800; Mary L. Eckert and husband to Hast St. Louis & Fastern Rail- way Co., part survey 3881, warranty deed, $600.

, Jerseyville Hears of Wedding. Jerseyville society first learned Christ- mas morning of the marriage of Miss Elizabeth O’Haver to Columbus Van Horne, manager of the Jerseyvilie mar- ble quarry, which took place in War- renton, Mo., Dec. 10. Friends arranged to greet them Christmas afternoon in the home of Miss O’Haver’s aunt, Mrs.

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16 PERSONS HURT WHEN SIX PASSENGER CARS TURN OVER Accident on the Lake Shore in Indi- |7 ana May Result in Several Deaths. HILLSDALE, Mich., Dec, 25.—Sixteen persons were injured, five seriously, when the southbound Lake Shore ,pas- senger train which left this city at 8:56 last night, crowded with passengers bound for points in Indiana to spend the holidays, was wrecked near Pleasant Lake, Ind., about twenty-five miles south of the State boundary. The ser- jously injured are: Mrs. John Carpenter, Reading, Mich.; pack broken, will probably die. Mrs. Charles Vaughn, Pleasant Lake, | A: Ind.; shoulders crushed and injured in-

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HIM IN CROWD Drug Store Filled With Christ- mas Shoppers Scene of Duel.

DEXTER, Mo., Dec. %.—A pistol duel was fought yesterday afternoon in J. W. McCullom’s drug store in this city by McCullom’s sons. Harry, 21 ye.rs old, shot and instantly killed Fred, his junior. | The store was crowded with Christ- mas shoppers. Though several shots were fired, only one bullet took effect. The father of the warring boys, hav- ing grown old and being possessed of considerable wealth, practically retired from the active management of his af- fairs three years ago, turning the busi- ness over to Harry, who had, always been dutiful and trusty. Fred served terms in the State Reform School and the County Jail. ‘ Wednesday night Fred began drinking and continued until his conduct be- came so bad that his father called the City Marshai to take charge of him. When the officer arrived the boy drew a pistol and ordered the officers not to enter the drug store. They withdrew. Paying but little attention to Fred's troubles with the officers, Harry began lighting the lamps, when Fred stepped up within a few feet of him, and draw- ing a pistol began firing. Harry drew his revolver and killed his brother./ The bullet penetrated his breast. When taken into custody, Harry said: “IT have been running from Fred ever since we were children. He threatened to shoot me this afternoon and chased me into the house, when I met him in the back yard, but I did not think he) would shoot me until he began firing.’’ The Coroner’s verdict was that young McCullom came to his death at the ands of Harry McCollum. “eriff Elmore is here to take charge

Brother of Deal Man a Year Ago Killed City Marshal of Oklahuna “own: OKLAHOMA CIV, Ck, Dec. 2%.— Police Judge T. L. “Xendall of Paul’s Valley yesterday afte-noon. shot and fatally whunded John Stevenson tn front of Kendall’s place of businem. Four shots were fired and Stevenson cie¢@ at 9 o’clock last night. Stevenson abused Kendall for appoint- ing extra police to maintain order dur- ing the holidays, and for his takin part with a law-enforcement league. Stevenson’s brother killed City Mar- shal Cathey of Paul's. Valley about a year ago. Kendall was a captain in the Confederate army.

MARRIAGE LICENSES, John Pension ......cececs bas Myrtle Z. Depew Samuel Garth Harbison ..........4187 Lindell Margaret Raleigh St. Louls William N. Moss : rksvi'le. Katie Guensche .......... are * —38* Harry J. Anderson Abraham L. Brow Rose Lenore Conn Francis Goueslain de Rone Frances Edna Bradley BE. Ray Mathews ...... iis ab hee De Land, Ill Be Us Oe 6 0 She obec bbSees bck De Land, Fred B. Wilson ..... Buffal ini 17 Frances Stoneman ............ 4570 Vv. Johnston SE ieabeth B. Gillies Alessandro Zola . Carolina pene ad 1045 N Crist T. Coro 515 Wiimington 36 Ciara Mary Eyneh 515 Wilmington rd isuni Giuseppe . Edwards —— Luiza. pebeeenee 1818 Bdwards William Jedliska ...........Bdwardsville, Ill Wil'ma Iwanik ....... .... Edwards ville, Il Edward H. Steimke 41 Manchester Clara 18 Warren Wile Emm Isaac D. Kline Blanche Berahelnner feir H. McNam East St. Louis, Il bo hong Margaret Cartwright. East * Louis, I) Warren Milby . City + fre gg Mullen 28 "beiieniade Peter Ray Mrs. Har d C. TMve® ..sseces> Marie Sengott ....-+++- etanekennen o315° Biss wis Danville, Ii ican" simpson es seeee sieges -- Danville, 1! Triescler a decacese St Louis, °o eur § P. Putting .....-..+...3t. Louis, Mo Kellum ...++++++..-2125 Walnut bb dng tue. 60 dendées .Memphis, enn Robert J. Blauner —4 Antoinette Schulte Frank Vetter Nettie Wilcox Maj. Rasco ..-: Mary Bronaugh.....-- — Homer L. Brow Kathryn Yaeger Willie” Willyams Mrs. Emil Bummere John A. McGee@...«+++«+> oe eekese Ida L. MeMull!B.- +070 Robert B. Pender.. Pearl M, Potts Joseph 8. Straptf.. rs. is. ge —— eseeeeeeteerere . East oe. eam Il Annie #. Sinem. iy prerrerer Leopold Mitas ...++++- Mary Valenta Marvin Adam Mrs. ee? —— Florida M. —— — John Barbaro Fetioar Bp lenis. +s ee 9 ni —— — —S—— Maiden, Lane ra. Florence G. ‘ Paddock, wxps ++ | a —— vasonsnoe tS? Pompe — oe fens uw + i ae 8

J — os TO CHANGE PLAN Gerhart Fancies Iron Mountain Can Cause Long Delay in the Courts. Having “put one over” on President O’Reilly of the Board of Public Im- provements in the matter of the double- deck bridge, the United Free Bridge Committee will try to force a change in his plans for the bridge location. Councilman Cramer will introduce, at the next meeting of the Council, an ordi- nance specifying that the west ap- proach of the bridge shall be “in, upon and above “Chouteau avenue, OReilly, in his plans submitted to the War De- partmient, placed the west approach 142 feet south of Chouteau avenue. Frank H. Gerhart, in speaking of the matter at Thursday afternoon's meet- ing of the Free Bridge Committee, said the O’Reilly plans would put the bridge approach on land owned by the Iron Mountain Rallroad, and that the city’s efforts to condemn such land might take years of litigation, while the condemna- tion, if the courts should finally sanc- tion it, would be very costly. Master Mind Behind “The master mind that is behind the opposition to the bridge,”’ declared Ger- hart, “‘could not choose a better means for delaying’ its construction than this plan of O’Reilly’s: The Iron Mountain, one of the proprietary railroads of the Terminal Association, could resist the city’s right to use its land, on the ground that it has the right of eminent domain itself. It could keep the matter in the courts for years, and if the city won at last, it could make the price of its land almost prohibitive. The courts have held that the use of land fixes the value, and there is no real estate dealer in St. Louls who could tell how much the land is worth.” Charles F. Ziebold asked, in a calm- yourself-Mr.-Gerhart tone, how the speaker knew the damage on private property would be greater than f¢] damages in Chouteau avenue, if he had not estimated either. Then Gerhart re- peated the whole argument. To make sure of keeping off the Iron Mountain’s preserves, Gerhart put in his-ordinance a clause providing that any private property north of Chouteau avenue. The ordi- nance is supplemental to existing ordi- nances, and does not repeal or directly amend any of them. The only vote against Gerhart’s pro- posed ordinance was cast by Duncan Patterson, who represents the Sixth Ward Improvement Association on the bridge mittee, He said the people of hig rd were not sure they wanted the bridge over Chouteau avenue. poreCS8motherév0m that, etaocinununun

LOST.RING AND WEDDING SUIT, ED JUST THE SAME South Omaha Youth Doesn’t Let Theft uf Suit Case Prevent Somebody who 4s ‘not entitied to it has the wedding @€ Harvey H. ar|Cubbage of South Omaha, Neb., but Ne | Cubbage has the bride an@ he con- bs siders himself the gainer ih spite of his loss. Cubbage was om his way te East St. Louis to wed Miss an L. Clem of 713 Summit avenue, whe t his suit case containing the suit and © rai wedding ring was stolen. He bo cht , another wedding ring and was m ! in the suit that he wore. The wedding took place on time Christmas eve the bride’s home. m lodked: for 0 Wille as ie would have to be a postponement on account of the youth of Cubbage. He frankly admitted to the marriage li- cense clerk that he was not yet 21, but Harry Clem, father of Miss Clem, vouched for him, and the license was issued. The ceremony was performed by Rev. G. E. McCammon. Jack Lee of Detroit was groomeman and Miss Ruby Owens of East St. Louis was the th | bridemaid. —_— YOUNG FARMER SHOOTS FATHER —— ñ — —⸗ * n Pursued by Posse After

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— Boy, Aged 4, Writes Symipathetic| Money With Figure of Sphinx and \reTo nny : -© etter and Sends Contri- Cats of Bubastes Came. 1 RYAN “kA — — bution of $1. * i ; : Q P * — J voet· Dispatch readers pave shown{ An old Egyptian coin, . bearing the , : | — — — BCE RE SERS BE SO i Se NE eS | “thelr sympathy cor Mrs. Minnie Bietbel, | heads’ of thé Sphinx and of the cats of |] EE. _iCELL —e ve Bubastes, “has “ been’ “sént ~to’ P. M. : yee ae ; Saab EAE Sa ee Caries has found destitute | co iamb of 5123. Maple. av ) Tomorrow, the last Saturday of 1908, and profit by ‘the best Clothes bargains that havé been offered in — — —

ee, Schlamb of $123. Maple avenue by Dr. ; , an ; ro — her two small children. | J. M. Winchester of Joplin, Mo., to be St: Louis:in vears—this sale is the culmination of’ five tremendous purchases of five surplus atocks from re Bee Three gifts of money, two of $1 each | submitted to coin experis ihere. 8 f ee : e . . os | “and one of 6 cents, received in the ma} Dr. Winchester* says that the coln | Dracident to Go Over Record five of America’s foremost ee ae values are so really remarkable that in justice to your ER Bo Sg : 2 was given to him’ by a patient, who in — ou cannot affo Oo pass them — th; ‘ . ., § * * ede gy office, were taken turn received it from an old Egyptian, With Attorne GC | own interests y p by the sale ends Saturday at 9 P. M. — —— — 323 Spr t — — patente who said it was an heirloom and hai * enera J | | BBE hae Se SP —— a pruce street, Thursday afternoon. been in the family hundreds of years. B art wepmee were in addition to gifts of $8 and! he coin is of mixed -metal and is onaparte. — — — —8* of coal and kindling, mentioned deckle-edged. It béars hieroglyphics on — — ‘ om nuteday's Post-Dispatch. one side underneath an .image’ of ‘the ; * = sm verse are several figures of the cats of ei - eve — auttielent to bury | Bubastes and an image of an Egyptian . him. god. The coin is in a remarkable state | O’Clock — ' eo Brunner of 8216 Lucille avenue, 4 i ' years old, who could hardly be expected * — Se a Owen Miller Comp ares Deci- ‘to write, printed out with a pencil in|: . . P . F Wetter, which con,| ,DeMdof Mrs. Sophia Capitaine. | | sion to That in the Dred tained ed a $1 bill. He ended the letter with * * ee ee: a daughter of Pierre Chouteau, one of ye ana ea. >in en " | the founders of St. Louis, is dead in Scott Case. ' cue, A , ane @ Nalt-dollar | tos Angeles, Cal. She was one of the . — —— who inscribes the €n-| Watson heirs who have long been in ! 7 / 5 —X ⸗ — —— WASHINGTON, Dec. 2%. — President Men’s and. Young Men’s: $12.50 and $15.00 : — | Men’s and Young Men’s $16.50 and $18.00 : Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan | = ' : * “ s jave taken a hand in che Gomen- || | Wuits and : oy Suits and . " x rs Mitchell-Morrisson conviction and sent- — Sagas nla semacagine tat wagze Owercoaats — Owercoats Daniel T. Wright of the District of — SOR Sree a — 5 Columbia Supreme Court.. , Clothes of such real sprit ; and rye Be. ag 4” Baa Ba All sorts of rich patterns and color ef- : fasical Play, | “a . Presifient Roosevelt has been bom-| § ————— a apt * pepe - d * . a8 fo ee % Ls A — — latest models—Saturday at > a barded by telegrams of protest from | mm — eka Sear ae ote labor leaders and labor organizations. These telegrams were of such nature and from such men and bodies as com- pel attention. Accordingly the Presi- AX dent notified Attorney-General Bona- — f 46.2 " ~ LA — e SN Wa So parte today that he wished to go over et OTL — * 4 —— ‘4 ab. ; * — — the record of the contempt case with At — SST x i . — him. Just what the Prestdent can do in the matter now is not clear to lawyers, a but what President Roosevelt might do J ae — is in the realm of speculation. The : case is now pending on appeal in the District Court of Appeals. It will not be heard for at least six months, an@

i The husband and father died in the : 4 : City Hospital Sunday, leaving insurance pobenn: afd. She — OB the FP 4 ‘HOT” MESSAGES SENT Saturday Evening Till

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4 the men are out on bond. If the Court ae: BR Riges te : a: ' ’ : — —— Men's and Young Men's $20.00 and $22.5 ee Rg | | tev's and Young Me's $25.00 and 52750 paises 40 tn aewih: chi’ i prerehal Suits and oo Bee a Suits and A | upon to issue ‘a writ of certiorari. Se ey J . coer cere a —— 4 : Moa Spinto: ogrign 1st y well Owvercoats Ee Owvercoats | ae watching the sua. ‘The Every new and wanted novelty feature is labor leaders would not accept a par- * Famous— represented—Saturday at Famous— don from the President before the case is finally decided. To accept a pardon . * — fee : Our Great Semi — Annual would be an admission of guilt before "1 —* “ : THe’ ae os

Seiteags their last legal hope had been tried in the Supreme Court. A pardon for Sam- S234 eee uel Gompers from President Roosevelt : would be a strange procedure in view - ’ of the open enmity that exists between — the labor leader and the President. i : Some lawyers doubt the power of the ' iy , President to grant a pardon in a con- tempt proceeding. : Today Secretary Frank Morrison re- , —— MMuuu — ceived the following telegram from Wil- | : liam Jennings Bryan, dated’ at Pitts- fae —, : ‘Sorry to read decision. You did your , scnors (ts ESE, OUTING EE duty in testing law. Glad you are tak- MATINEE -D. Y ee tite : ing appeal. W. J. BRYAN.” : jox Seats $1.00. 6 * PBs é

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Owen Miller of the Musicians’ Union, ¢ F * 1 cede revolutions. Dred Scott preceded * emancipation.’’ Th ee e assortments are unlimited—ever ; . . ces r Om 3 to Y vt, RE Enee, NOE SORNEER —⏑ et fancy can be thoroughly pleased—Satur- nr celeete-wallice spe Cb ae : egg the only recipients of telegrams of con- day at Famous— including Rogers, Peet & Co.’s—also hun- gratulation. Justice Wright, who gave dreds of handsome overcoats—

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