St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 11, 1911

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DARROW'S NAME BROUGHT INTO BRIBERY INQUIRY Venireman Sup- . posed to Have Been Bribed, Testifies Franklin Told Him He Wouli See Chief Counsel and Arrange How Money Was to Be Paid. FRANKLIN HAS HIS PRELIMINARY TRIAL White, Who Was to Have Held $3500 and Lockwood Both Admit That Money Was Being Paid for the Purpose of Bribery in Mc- Namara Case. Dec. Darrow, LOS ‘ANGEUES, Cal., 11.—The name of Clarence 5. chief counsel for the McNamara brothers, was brovght into-the preliminary of Bert H. Franklin, a defense investiga- tor, charged with bribery before Just- ice William P. Young today. George N. Lockwood, the venireman whom Franklin is accused of bribing testified. that Franklip told him he “would see Clarence S. Darrow and ar- range how the money was to be paid.’ The utterance created a sensation. Robert F. Bain, a juror in the McNa- mara case whose wife has sworn that she took a bribe from Franklin and gave it to her husband, sat in one of the seats assigned to newspaper men. “Lockwood's testimony does not bring Clarence S. Darrow legally into the case,”’ said District Attorney Frédericks at his office. “It is hearsay and noth- he more. We will proceed with prose- tutions only upon evidence which will stand in a court of law.”’ “Will you say if you have such evi- dence?’’ he was asked. ‘We have not,’ he said and then cor- rected himself. ‘‘We have other evi- dence, but it is not sufficient,” he said. Lockwood in his story declared he re- jected Franklin's proposal, told Dis- trict Attorgey John D. Fredericks of it and the following Saturday after his name had been drawn from the jury wheel. allowed Franklin to reopen ne- gotiations on advice of the District At- torney. The first offer, Lockwood said, ‘was of $2000; the final one of $400). When the matter finally was brought up, Lockwood said, Franklin brough, in Darrow’s name. In a subsequent telephone conversa- tion, Lockwood said, Franklin asked if he “should bring the big one out,”’ and was told to do so. “When he arrived,” said Lockwood, “T asked him why he did not bring tic ‘big one’ out. ; “He said: ‘Did you think that was Darrow,’/ and I said ‘Yes.’ “ ‘No, "he said, ‘that’s Cap White’.” Franklin was arrested on a charge of bribing George N. Lockwood, a venire- man. Cc. E. White, who, with Lockwotéd, was present when Franklin was: arrested, told a story in which he said Franklin came to him and asked him to be a stakeholder of $3000 to be paid to Lock- wood at the end of the trial. When they met Lockwood, he declared $500 Was passed, the $3500 was held back, and at that moment all three men were arrested. Lockwood himself was the second witness. His story corroborated White’s testimony. White testified that Franklin came to him one day and related that the prose- cution in the McNamara case was using thousands of dollars to secure a con= viction, and that he, as an employe of the defense, was going to use the same tactics, McNamara Typist Is His Defender. CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—Miss Nora Haley, former stenographer of McNamara at Irdianapolis, who was said by the Mc- Namara prosecution to have valuable information concerning the movements of the dynamiters, has made a state- ment, in which she denied that she had any such knowledge. “I always thought John J. McNamara Was a fine man,” said Miss Haley, “and I did not believe for a moment that he was guilty of the crime charged against him until he confessed it. “During the three years that I acted as his private secretary and stenogra- pher, nothing concerning a dynamiting conspiracy or anything of the kind passed through my hands. There was no correspondence to Los Angeles in regard to anything except the regular routine of McNamara’s position as sec- retary and treasurer of the Structural Iron Workers.” McNamarna’s Are Put to Work Jute Mill. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11.—The Mo- Namara brothers, confessed dynamiters, today began the lavors that are to mark | the expiation of their crimes. Their _ first work is in the jute mills, but it is _ expected that James B, McNamara will a erred to the open air if it is } that he has tuberculosis.

5 ll nonths, 1911, ove Post-Dispatch € 11 months of 1910, _ Bey : THIRTY DEGREES IS

EXPECTED TONIGHT THE TEMPERATURE.

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the family um- brella and CONVENTIONS, FORWARD: SINE te rain- and htin: the coat out heavy gloves and e‘tr- muffs. The wea- ther will clear up, it is predicted, but it is going to tura : colder. The the last warmth of day or two is extremely unseasonable, and the prophets say it portends a sharp cold spell in the next day or two. Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; colder tonight, lowest tem- perature tonight about 30 degrees, [llinois—Mostly 4 i Suasderv? cole cloudy tonight and Missouri—Generally Tuesday; colder tonicht MONEY IN EVERY POCKET, $715 IN ALL Aeroplane Inventor Taken to Hospital for Inquiry Concern- ing His Sanity. John M. Meden, 52 years old, of 1306 North Eleventh street, sent to the city hospital for observation at the re- quest of his family, had money in every pocket. Hospital attaches found $715.26. Most of it was in bills, bu+ “mall chang- nickels, dimes, quarters and half-dollars. and there was nothing largerthan a $10 bill in the lot. Meden had the money in his trousers, vest and coat pockets, in tobacco sacks and purses. Meden refused to talk. His daughter, Mrs. Johanna J. Simpson of 1940 North Eleventh street, told the hospital phy- siclans Monday that her father was a wagon maker for the city, and had saved his money for years to perfect an aeroplane which he invented. He never succeeded in getting his machine to the flying stage, she said. HOLDUPS PRY OUT HIS GOLD-FILLED TEETH

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However, They Overlooked a $750 Roll in Washington Rancher’s Pocket. SPOXNANE, Wash., Dec. 11.—Frank Stowell, a rancher of Spangler, Wash., was held up here by two men early to- day and robbed of $120. The robbers noticed his gold-filled teeth and pried out two of them. Thev overlooked a roll of bills in Stowell’s overcoat pocket, amounting to $750. |

WOMAN'S CLUB IS, NOT WELCOME AT NO. 4000 LINDELL Organization Votes to.Buy Don- aldson Place, Despite Neighbors’ Protests.

ANSWERS OBJECTIONS Members ‘Say Organization Doesn*t Draw Delivery Wagons —No Bar in Place.

The St. “Louis Woman’s Club, most exclusive of society organizations, has been surprised to learn in the last few that owners of homes near its proposed new location, at 4600 Lindell boulevard, do not: want the club as a neighbor. Phe club voted Monday liam R. Donaldson’s residence, at the number named, for $40,000. This action was taken after the reading and dis- cussion of protests which neighbors of the Donaldsons have sent to them and to the club against the transaction. Mrs. A. D> Brown, wife of a million- aire shoe manufaeturer, who lives the next door west of the Donaldson house, is said to be one of the objectors. Some of the residents of adjoining houses are: M. E. Duncan, 4630: 4634; William Stix, 4642: 4646; W. S. Thompson, 4605: A. D. Gold- man, 4615; E. H. Wolff, 4625: Mrs. C. Hellman, 4633; Edwin V. Glaser, 4643: Aaron Waldheim, 4522, and F. G. Nied- ringhaus, 4532. The block is, unbroken by any street betw / Taylor, 4500 west, KHuclid, 4%. “The Donaldson home about in the middle of the long block. Mrs. J. L. D. Morrison. who lives at 4540, and who is a member of the club, according to Donaldson, offered to sell the organization her home when it was decided to remove from the present rent- ed house at 3621 Washington boulevard. The situation was canvassed, and a com- mittee finally decided on the Donaldson residence. Objecting neighbors are said to have expressed a fear that the neighborhood quiet would be -disturbed by~ delivery wagons leaving articles of various sorts at the clubhouse. Mrs. John O’Fallon Delany, president of the club, scoffs at this apprehension, and says the club has no more tradesmen’s wagons in front of it than any large residence has. The sale of liquor in the club has also been mentioned, but its officers say there is no bar, but a cafe, in which liquors are sometimes served with meals. The club’s large functions, it is stated. num- ber about three in a season, not more than might take place at the residence of anv family active in entertaining. days some wealthv to buy Wil- A. V. Reyburn, W. B. Ver-Steeg, cross and is

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The The Sunday POST-DISPATCH yesterday, Dee. 10th, was, as it has been every Sunday for 245 consecutive Sundays, more

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The count yesterday, Sunday, Dec. 10th, was as follows: Post-Dispatch, 377 Cols, Globe-Democrat Republic ... . -2ol 155

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Post-Dispatch . . Globe-Democrat Republic .... 222 Cols. 126 Cols.

83 Colux ns . . 40 Colunins . . . 19 Columds POST-DISPATCH excess of Want Ads over the Globe- Democrat and Republic COMBINED Over Republic ... THE: REASON: oe oe Se Oe Se O46 ee. oe 8 . Oe eeeneee#ee#ee#e#es8 * Over Globe-Democrat..-:..... 24 Columns Columns 43 Columns Sunday Circulation: Sept. 17 Sept. 24 275,966 276,996 279,920 - 281,354 282,765 283,938 Oct. 15 Oct. 22 . Oct. 29’. 285, 620 Nov. 5 2° 288,117 Nov.12.. 287,810 Nov.19 . . 289,309 Nov. 26 292:444 Dec. 3 . . 293,632 Yesterday, Sunday, Dec. 10, 293,421 Last Sunday’s circulation was 34,622 in excess of corresponding Sunday a year ago. Circulation Books open to all. First in Everything. [Marks of Six Hobnails in Tracks Around Cabin Only Clew to Slayer of Farmer Killed at Telephone

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Killed Martin Hunning Shows He Was Familiar With Place—Bloodhounds Indicate That Agsassin Rode to Scene of Crime.

“Hidden had brought the Investigation of the Cabin Murder Mystery”’ thorities of Jefferson County Monday to of Bloodhounds, au- the trail a man with hob-nailed which followed a boots. scent taken from under the window through which the deadly shot was circled around the house, into a fired, field and back on a hillside some distance away, again, then to a copse back again to the house, across the road and circling around the edge of a cliff to a point where the tracks were sud- denly lost. Stamped upon a piece of soft ground in the copse was the mark of a right shoe. At the back were the imprints of four hob-nails and there were marks of two others on the’ side. These ap- peared to incline outward in a way that gave distinctiveness to the marks. As the dogs continued their trail around the circuit of hills, across the valley from the copse, the men with them saw more footprints. Here again the distinctive marks of the hob-nails were observed. When they find the man these shoes Sheriff John L. Bechler and his deputies of Jefferson County be- lieve they will have gone far towards discovering who crept up to a window of Martin Hunning’s cabin, which nestles in a basin-like valley two miles south of Murpliy, Mo., Saturday night and shot Henning to death as he stood at his telephone. After the bloodhounds had finished work yesterday Bendure took them ona “seout’ among the hills. They struck a trail that led to the home of Henry Schoen, a neighbor of: the Hunnings. Early in the afternoon of the murder Schoen had been at the Conrad Reuter home and it was his returning | ath that the hounds followed. No effort was made to detain him, although a super- ficial search of his house was made. It revealed nothing and the man’s explana- tion, corroborated by Reuter, satisfied Sheriff Bechler. Investigation of the crime appears to have demonstrated: First, that although Mrs. Hunning anys she heard one man speaking as if to another immediately after the shooting, traces of but one have been who wore found. Second, that the murder was com- mitted by some person intimately acquainted with the neizhborhood: Third, that the murderer probably rode horseback or in a buggy to some point not far from the cabin, tied his horse and reconnoitered on foot, returning to the horse after the killing. Lying upon a bed in one corner of the room of @eath while her husband's body lay in another corner where he fell when the shot from the dark struck him down, Mrs. Annie Hunning kept a fever- ish interest in all the investigations. All “SMARTIN HUNNING {7 | Trail of Man Whose Shot

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MES. MARTIN HUNNING to specuiate upon the crime. The wife listened and frequently from her bed would address word of comment that was fully. None wished to move the body until the coroner came and the coroner did not arrive until late noon. of court. To prevent his ragmmate and fellow juror, G. W. Palmer, from upsetting his plans to escape, Waldron construct- ed a dummy man of quilts and slipped it into his place in the bed. The room was in the rear of the hotel next to a bathroom. Waldron removed over the bath and climbed over. When Paimer arose this morning he nudged ma. staple from the transom in the door. MA KILLS 00M WH ‘RE PORTER DIED

Name Krug, Written on Torn Trans- fer, Only Clew to Identity of - Gas ‘Victim.

ae THIRD TRAGEDY AT THIRD STREET HOUSE

Reads Account of Ward’s Death Eefore Turning on Gas—Chloroférm Bottle and Flask ---“@£ Carbolic Acid Found by ‘Police. — | w

I A man, believed to be named Krug, was found dead of gas asphyxiation Monday afternoon in the same room at 718 North Third street in which William E. Ward, rich drygoods store porter, was kllled by escaping gas last Friday. While Ward’s death was found to have been accidental, there are several indigations that Krug killed himself. / On a mantel in his room was found a bottle which. haa recent ly contained chloroform. Beside this bottle was a roll of gauze still moist and strongly smelling of chloroform. In the man's pdcket was arbottle ~1 carbolic acid which ‘had not been enet | On the floor, near his bed, lay half of an orange-cdlored street car transfer on which was written: “My name is Krug.” The transfer on which the name Krug -was-written was issued by the Wells- ton line. That portion showing the date and the nanfe of the connecting lne was missing. In &- inant with the car- 4 hl ptaining hapa. nal hf ~~ ~~ frm Beside him: on the sbefi was A.copy of a newspaper. folded’ that an ‘account. of Wdrd’s death in ‘the same, room of the boarding house and .on the same bed was uppermost. ) ' In a‘suitcase under the bed were two celluloid collars! and a Peady- made four- in-hand tie. There .were no Marks on the. mysterious guest’s. clothing to indi- Cate his identity.”.. .. © + Mrs. Tillie: Meyers, kéeper of; the room- ing house, Wént:to ‘the room to clean it at 12:30 p. m. When she approached the door she smelled gas.. Her nerves already were overwrought by the death of Ward and after knock- ing and reeciving no answer she aimost fainted. Yottering. downstairs, she went next door to Anton Broz’s saloon. Broz went back to the third floor with her and tried to force the door, but could not. Enters Room Through Window. ‘He called Policeman Irons, who went through the adjoining room, No. 7, and stepped onto the fire escape, where he opened a window and got into the room where the dead man lay. The man apparently was 50 years old and weighed 160 pounds. He had gray hair and mustache and was 6 feet tall. Mrs. Meyers said he applied for a room at 5:30 p. m. Sunday. No register is kept at the house. He paid 530 cents ir advance for the room without telling his name. Rented Room Sunday. Mrs. Meyers went to the room with him to make the bed and otherwise pre- pare it for ocqupancy. She says that while she worked he sat with his head in his hands and seemed downfast. He left the house half an hour latér, saying he would be out for an hour or two. She did not see him return. B. F. Remnitz, wuo works at night and occupies room 7, says that when he came in at 7 a. m., Monday, he did not notice the odor of gas and did not hear any sounds in the adjoining room. Patrolman Hanrahan who helped car- ry Krug from the room, performed the same service Friday when Ward was found dead. Testimony at the Ward inquest was that a defect in an automatic gas reg- ulator caused the supply of gas to be in- terrupted and then restored, accidentally filling his room with gas. Mrs. Meyers said Monday that this could not have en the cause of Krug’s death as the sppliance ha been repaired and tested ‘Saturday. A maid at the roomfrig houge . said that a year and a half ago a guest giv- ing the name of Frank Jackson jum from the third-story window of roo No. 7 and was killed, and that it later was found that “Frank Jackson” was a woman. The police say they have no record of this. CONEY ISLAND AFIRE Blaze Starts at Lena Park, One ‘t of Resort’ s Greatest Show Places. NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Fire broke out today in Luna Park, one of the great ri , ‘

MINE DEAD - MOONS - ORPH Black ‘Damp Suffocated Those | Who Were Not: Killed by Explosion, | By Associated Press. i BRICEVILLE, Tenn., Dec. ‘1—with 17 bodies recovered and identified, rescue parties today renewed their efforts to force the big Cross-Mountaip Mine here to give up its dead. Having made cheir way three miles into the mountain and bratticed most of the cross entries, mem- bers of the rescue crew expect to reach the body-strewn chambers at any hour, Discovery of the first body this morn- ing came at 10 o’clock when a dead miner was found in a sitting posture in one of the interior chambers. He was Andrew Johrison. Charles Kesterson, among the first discovered was found at the telephone back in the mine by the rescuing crew. Evidently Kesterson had been trying to telephone news of the blast to the office of the mines when he was struck by falling debris. His skull was badly mashed and. his body cut. Indications were that he had been a victim of black damp. It is believed now that any men who might have es- caped the fury of the explosion speedily were suffocated by gases. A local Red Cross camp began work for the relief of the suffering this after- noon. It is estimated the explosion rendered 56 women widows and made 184 children orphans. That there are 100 or more dead mea remaining. in the mine, there is no doubt. All hope of réscuing any of the scores who went to their toll Saturday morning has been abandoned. The discovery late last nigat of eight inore bodies prompted crowds to gather at the death cavern early this morning. Weeping wives, made widows by Seatur- day's dust blast in the Knoxyille Iron - Co.'s mine, came to the shaft entrance in scores this morning. In a -varehouse a - only a short step from the mine entrance” are great numbers of coffins waiiing for théir occupants. Of the eight nyodies Jiecovered iast right, three were sitting upright in 4 mine car while five others wer ey ih,

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si ¥:. 7 i A sT. LOUIS POST-DISPAT UH. : rs "ARERS oun Acie Br COLL PSe| SION BULDING 12 SOUTHERNERS ALLS: TWO HORSES LIVE IN WRECK JOIN CONVENTION OR ST. LOUIS: ERY Timbers Form Arch Over Them After 5,000,000 Pounds of Paper Causes Collapse.

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Noe Ret is Py Ss 9 Se _ = eee ee ee ee a a a a a Christmas Shoppers Naturally Turn to Vandervoort’s Because of the satisfaction there is in coming to a store where the stocks are large, new and absolutely dependable, and where roomy aisles, a trained force of salespeople and many other facilities make shopping comfortable and selection easy, even on the busiest days of this holi- day season. ee Bring your list of gifts to Vandervoort’s tomorrow and see to what advantage we can supply your needs with the best goods for the price. no matter what the price. , “Why Not Give a Table Lamp for Christmas? In addition to the assortment of Domes, Showers, Ceiling Lights, Lanterns and all other fix-\ CEYYYY YY | 4 “PressuféBrought on Presi: dent Taft and the Adminis- tration.to Let It Be Known That They Do Net Favor Chicago . for Convention} Produces Desired Result.

> a * > . = —= — Ei ll The three-story brick warehouse of the Perkins Forwarding and Transfer Co., at 1437 North Second street, col- lapsed under the weight and pressure of about 5,000,000 pounds of print paper at 3:30°a. m. Monday. Suddenly giving way, large sections of the second and third floors fell through and a section of the north wall was knocked outward. The timbers and roll paper on the up- per floors were precipitated to the first floor, which was used as a stable. Two horses, Buster and Bob, which had been given up as lost, were found alive in the stable at 8 a. m.’ They were standing in their stalls surrounded by wreckage, but protected by broken tim- bers which had formed an arch above them. y™

Bi Toilet Goods for Christmas Our Toilet Goods Section, which has always been recog- nized as offering the highest quality and the newest mer- chandise, is this season surpas- sing all previous records. In this stock you will find all of the new imported Perfames of Coty, Houbigant, Roger & Gallet, Pinaud, etec., as well as Richard Hudnut’s entire lines of Perfumeries. Genuine Parisian Ivory Toilet Articles — each piece being stamped ag such, is ghown in @ most complete variety. Also a- large assortment of Imported French Ivory and Domestic Ivory Toilet Articles, ‘The Ivoire D’or Toilet Goods are exclusive with us in St. Louis, and this line surpasses anything we have ever shown in white toilet goods. The pieces are of white ivory inlaid with solid gold in the most artistic designs. Sets are obtainable for men and women. It is impos- sible to find anything hand. somer and prices are very rea- sonable when you consider the high quality of the goods.

-B. M. L. DELEGATION - |S WELL ORGANIZED tures suitable for the general lighting of the room, a special effort has been made to provide the decorative and practical in Table Lamps for holiday purposes. Our showing includeg Adjustable Reading Lamps for table, also the floor type, at less than usual prices. Electroliers with glass shades in all of the suitable colors for living rooms, libraries, parlors as well as the smaller‘lamps for desks. Also the Carved Wood kind with silk and damask shades. A delayed importation has just arrived, which makes the assortment of this character of lamps greater this week than at any other time this season. Lamps made of bronze or pottery vases with wicker or fabric shades are also particularly good looking and practical. Leaded Cathedral Glass ‘‘The Public Library’’ Electroliers like the one il- Reading Lamp—like the one lustrated. Price $25.00 | illustrated—has metal shade Others from enameled inside. Brush $5.95 to $150.00 | brass finish. Price $12.00 Floor Lamps, $5.00 value, Adjustable Reading special at $3.95 | Lamps $2.75 to $12.00 12 Votes Are Pledged and Several Others ‘Are Re- garded as Quite Certain! | for St. Louis Although Im- pression Has Gone About| That Administration Fav- ors Chicago. | al Grew ss Fae = — - =

Fireman Save Horses. City firemen and employes of the com- pany worked for hours to get the horses out. Thére was danger that the tong of paper and timbers above them would collapse if the paper rolls surrounding them were removed. For this reason a force of men was put to work to clear away the wreckage above them. Four other horses were killed and 13 were taken from the building live soon after the collapse. 4 The building belonged to the com- pany and was specially construcied as a paper warehouse 10 years ago. It hada frontage of 300 feet and depth of 1 feet.

From a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch, WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—President Taft gave positive assurance to Con- gressman Bartholdt today that he -would not interfere in the fight to locate the Republican National Con- vention. The President said that some time ago he had felt that Chi- cago wis the proper place to hold the convention on account of its hotel facilities, but that he had now made up his mind to be absolutely neutral as between St. Louis and Chicago. The President also pledged himself to send for Secretary Hitchcock and tell him to cease his efforts in bthalf of ‘Chicago. ; Twelve Southern members of the com- mittee met at the Raleigh Hotel this morning and decided to vote for St. a Price $12.00 Price $25.00

-eBO@ehtes eee + see bt Ss OSs CECE ESS Gift Suggestions in China for Christmas © The Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Company have just delivered to us a large importation of their celebrated Blue Fluted China—hand-painted, underglaze—for which we are sole agents in St. Louis. ee ge in china is more durable than this ware. There are many individual pieces suited to Christmas gifts and the large assortment affords splendid opportunities for combinations of Tray Sets, Breakfast Sets and Luncheon Sete. Not expensive and very attractive. All sold from open stock. Tea Pots $1.60 to 82.75 | Lag $6.50 Chop Dishes, $1.75 to $3.25 1.73 to 82.00 ea Tiles 70e Bakers $2.00 to $2.25 Sugars % an w ; an Individual Salts, dozen $2.00 Plates, all sizes, the dozen Creams ates re Individual Peppers, doz., $3.00 $2.50 to $17.00 Jugs $2.00 to $3.25 - Bowls 60c Fruit Saucers, 82.75 to $3.50 Compotes 83.50 Pickle Dishes 7T5e Ramequins and Stands, dozen Meat Dishes $1.15 to $15 Salad Bowls $2.50 $11.50 Sardine Boxes $4.25 Casseroles and Covered Dishes Bouillons and Saucers, dozen Shirred Egg Dishes 75e weighs 1000 TWOTHIRDSOF TERMINAL ENGINES geben pounds. MOVEMENTS ON FOOT TO NOMINATE Wall Falls Out. Twenty-five feet of the third floor first gave way, carrying avith it an avalanche of roll paper which tore a hole about 100 feet long and 30 feet wide in the second floor. The pressure or the withdrawal of supporting timbers caused a sectiun of the north wall to fail outward into Col- lins street. The breach in the wall is 40 feet in diameter. Julius Nieman of 2910 Benton street, “made a round of the interior of the

Agents for Huyler’s Candies and Queen PUESTERSTASsEseeeees cr: $12.00 $3.50 to $8.00 Tea and Coffee Cups and Sau- Sauce Boats and Tureens 4 7 ; . ‘ a » 7 P4 P : 4 : : a +, -t > 0 ee eee -_- ,. ~~ -. = > 9 bn a ey Louis. Congressman Bartholdt and Smith also addressed the meting strongly urging the selection of St. Louis. Powell Clayton of Arkansas sent a “message to President Taft that the in- surgents weré working ‘for Chicago with a view of stampeding the convention ‘either to La Follette or Roosevelt, prob- ably the latter. The suggestion that this is true, Clayton said in the message, 1s ‘found in the fact that the New York delegation is going to the’ convention uninstructed and that National Commit- *‘teeman Ward of New. York..is..se,an- censed at President Taft that he has de- clined to attend the White House dinner “to the committee tonight. At the noon conference Congressman Bartholdt reported that he could get “the California vote for St. Louis. J. A. Lewis reported that the Montana eom- mitteemen would, also vote for St. “Louis. Shapleigh had not been able to get a pledge from Hill of Maine, but hopes to win him over. “ The situation for 8t. stronger all the time. The St. Louis workers are satisfied that they have forced the. administration into positive neutrality. and that without White _ House interference St. Louis can win. ' The Southern committeemen, with few exceptions, have declined to com- mit themselves until they have seen , Postmaster-General Hitchcock. The power of the administration is - very strong with them, and it its be- _ lieved they, will vote as a unit. General opinion in the capital today was that the convention would go to Chicago, but “that there wag a chance of St. Louis winning by ‘teroic work and good luck. . Committeemanh Capers of South Caro- “tina, Powell Clayton of Arkansas and _ one or two other Southern committee- .men are working hard for St. Louis. As Clayton is-deari of the Republican Na- tional Committee, having served for a vlonger period of years than any other member, it is thought his influence will be a big factor in determining their at- - tude. The St. Louis delegation in a body valled on. Secretary of Commerce and -~“ Labor Nagel and Solicitor-General Fred Lehmann this morning. The delegation wsked Secretary Nagel, who represents Missouri on the National Committee, to _ nake a fight for his home city. Chicago ‘_ has two members of the President's sabinet but neither of them on the Na- ional Committee. Secretary .Nagel’s ronnection with the administration and “the committée puts him in a position to render powerful aid to St. Louis. A canvass of the situation this morn- ng shows that Committeemen Todd of Porto Rico, Luna of New Mexico, Bie- ver of Washington, Nagel of Missouri, -Dlayton of Arkansas, Capers of South + -ardlina, Gus Karger, Washington cor- »espondent of the Cincinnati Times- ‘*Star, Charles’ P. Taft’s paper, holding ‘he proxy for the Philippine Islands i : | | } | j : : ' .

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Al] attempts to disguise the fact that a concerted movement is on foot looking to the nom- inations of Col. Theodore Rosevelt as in 1912 were apparently dropped {today when it became known that members of the National ComTnittee were being sounded as to their view of the feasi- bility of ‘‘forcing’’ the nomination of the former president. ' On the eve of the assembling of the Republican National Committee in quadrennial session here tomorrow, little attitude of Roosevelt. It became known that several leading Republicans on their way to Washington to:attend the con- ferences had stopped over in New York and had long taiks with Roosevelt and still others had made engagements to sea hi meither at New York or Oyster Bay following ,the meeting of the Na- tional Committee. The supporters of Roosevelt now: here are basing all of their arguments in his behalf on the claim that while the form- er president has announced that he is no: a@ candidate, he has not said he would not accept the nomination if it were tendered to him. They claim that “as a good American citizen, Roosevelt could not do other- wise than accept, once the convention had acted.”’ No attempt, it was said, would be made to bring the Roosevelt sentiment to a focus at this time. The hope of his supporters is to achieve this in the con- vention itself. For this reason they have practically dropped the fight to have the National Committee to declare that delegates should go to the conven- tion uninstructed. | Friends of President Taft are meeting the Roosevelt sentiment e¢erywhere and assert that the movemnt is a well-direct- ed one. They are urging . resident Tatt’s nom- nination on the ground that to refuse to igdorse his administration would be to discredit the party. The program of the committee was practically on in full last night and this gave the committeemen and other visit- ors a chance to talk politics. It was reported that a sharp fight will come up in the committee over the proposed naming of the all-powerful subcommittee of five to-make plans for the convention, to choose the chair- man, etc., and that the fight would find the secretary to the President, Mr. Hilles, and Postmaster-General Hitch- eock arrayed against each other. Mr. Hitchcock, accompanied by . Fs ~

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eth LOUIS POST- DISPATCH. Ps x * SG i omeiacotl Z . P a. : ey - , ' hs -, r ; MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1911. ceaahiteriane PUBLICITY URGED 10 STOP RAILROAD CK WATERING Securities Commission Head- ed by President Hadley of Yale, Says It Would Be Impossible Now to Place Railroad Issues Under Federal Control. TAFT CONCURS IN CONCLUSIONS GIVEN Transmits Report of Body Including F. N. Judson and Frederick Strauss to Con- gress — Interstate Com- merce Powers. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The Rail- road Securities, Commission, headed by President Arthur T. Hadley Yale, has reported that it would be practically impossible at this time to place issues of railroad securities un- The commission of der Federal control. recommends that enforced publicity for all railroad financing is the most effective weapon against stock wa- tering which the Government has at its command. A distinguished. group of investigators was named by President Taft to co- operate witn Prof. Hadley. They were Frederick N. Judson of St. Louis, Fred- erick Strauss of New ‘York, Walter L. Fisher, now Secretary of the Interior, and Balthazar H. Meyer, a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Hadley Studied Abroad, The commission was created in 1910, when the Senate refused to accept a house amendment to the pending rail- road bill, providing that all future is-- sues of stocks and railroad securities be placed under the control of the In- terstatéB Commerce Commission. Many of the Senate Democrats opposed it as an invasion of states’ rights. President Taft at the time told Republican lead- ers the party was committed to such a measure, but when it appeared impos- sible to pass it, the President agreed to have the clause eliminated, with the understanding that a commission to study the subject would be allowed. This was done\and the commission be- gan work in the autumn of 1910. Pub- lic hearings »..ere held and Chairman Hadley studied the problem abroad. The commission’s report is distinctly adverse to the legislation proposed in the railroad bill. President .Taft in transmitting the report to Congress today, declared that he heartily concurred in the recom- mendations. The commission’s priacipal conclusions are: That any attempt by Congress to adopt the policy of Federal regula- tion to the exclusion of state regu- lation, would be premature. That for the present, state author- ities should make a concerted ef- fort to harmonize existing require- ments. That Congress should prepare for the future by giving consideratiog to a Federal incorporation act which would permit interstate railroads to exchange, their state charters for national Snes. The commission takes the ground that constitutional questions involving the scope and extent of Federal authority are unsettled and will remain so for sometime and that while such a con- dition exists, to superimpose Federal regulation upon state regulation woulr add to the conflicts and complexities, which in the public interest, alia rather be diminished thau increased. Power of Congress. “Unless .the constitutional power of Congress to regulate securities of intér- state railroads is definitely established as being exclusive of State control, either the Federal Government and the states will come to a general under- standing as to the principles to be adopted in the control of security issues, or the railroad systems will be given ‘the opportunity to exchange their State charters for Federal ones,"’ says the re- port. “Until such exclusive jurisdiction can be established, the creation of a sep- arate administrative body subjecting the railroads to a new system of con- eurrent supervision, in addition to the many old Oncs Which now exist, does rot seem just, expedient or econom- ical.’’ ~~ For, the present, the Commi«sion recommends that complete publicity he required te surround all issues of securities ‘and that any interstate raliroad issuing stocks and bonds be required to furnish to the Interstate _ fommerce Commossion a full state- weent of the details of the issue, the purpeses for which the proceeds are — er nee entree en enentine ea ae oe ae FOR CHRISTMAS. Beautiful Illustrated Catalogue on Application, ‘ple if generally applied might prevent ———— |OTHER WAYS OF KEEPING PICKPOCKETS FROM THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING FUND KEEP THIS JOAN, im AFRAID THE PICK POCKETS Wit® GET iv “WHY Nor LET HUBBY —s TAKE CARE |, OF F OTHE a THiS 1 WHERE | PICK MY OWN PocKeET DEPOSIT | ve Y Va y INVESTED OUR Bank Rove tN PONY ceats AND FURS _ SO THE PICKPECKETS CANT —— WIFTE WILL FIND A way ! THE , CHIEF MIG HT FURNISH AN ESCORT FOR XMAS SHOPPERS — NOV “To TAKE ~ MILELINERY STM ys LN mas shopping expeditions. Chief-Young has advised women to grip their purses carefully to avoid pickpockets on Christ- —— “wap oar to be used, and an accounting for the expenditures of such proceeds. ‘“‘Accurate knowledge of the facts sur- rounding the issue of securities, and the expenditure of the proceeds is the matter of most importance,’’ the com- mission says. “It is the one thing upon which the Federal Government can ef- fectively insist today; it is the funda- mental thing which must serve as a basis for Whatever regulation may be desirable in the future. “If full ‘publiejty be given we shall Hobnailed Shoe Tracks Only Clew to Cabin House Slayer % Continued from Page One. and I heard a man say in a gruff voice also lessen the fraudulent creation of debt. It is the degree of publicity rather than the stringeney of the law which gives to the people any real pro- tection. A stringent law inadequately enforced and secretly evaded the worst thing that can .be possibly of- fered to the public, because it gives color to claims which have no “cunda- tion and fact,’’’, Questions of Importance. In determining the .physical value of railroads in relation to their se- curities now outstanding, the commis- sion puts aside as entirely out of the question any attempt to scale down outstanding securities on the ground that constitutional difficulties, pub- lic expediency and confidence in American railroad investments would forvid it. The commission feels that railroad de- velopment has gone so far and such a volume of securities has already been is- sued that the only questions of real im- portance are whether it is desirable for the Federal Government to regulate the issue of future securities, and, if so, to what exetent and in what manner. The complex relations between securities al- ready outstanding has made it impos- sible to treat the question of future reg- ulation as it might have been treated if those securities were not already in existence. In cases where it is found that the issued securities exceed the physical valuation, the commission is not in favor of forbidding further issue until the de- ficiency 1s made up, because the princi- is railroads from securing capital neces- sary for the service of a community. By empowering the Interstate. Com- merce Commission to enforce publicity and to make physical valuations, the commission believes there will be no necessity for a law to require approval in advance for issues of securities. Ad- vance information, the commission holds, would tend to create on the part of the investing public an impression of a guaranty or official recognition of values which no administrative authori- there was_a telephone and they would have to s‘run’’— Mrs. Huyning was asked to give the exact ish of the man, as she remem- bered them. She hesitated several min- utes before she answered. FT inaily she replied: “He said, to “get out of ’” ‘We, have reach; they got a phone.’ The wife told then of Konert and Martin Leicht, bors, reached the house o'clock, how she exclaimed Martin’s shot,’ and then fainted. part of her story was also told - by Konert and Leicht. They said they reached the house five minutes after the wife had given the alarm and that Hun- ning was dead. Man Circled House. The mute testimony or the blooddhounds which were worked under the direction of Deputy Sheriff Roy Bendurr of De catur, lll,is strangely at variance with the wife’s story of the man ialking to a confederate unless the murderer de- liberately said the werds io confuse the woman, The dogs found traces of a man which showed how he circled around the house, familiar with his surroundings. The house sits 'n a deep basin of the Sugar Creek botto ns v if the road curving away from it in a bow shape. The tracks followed by the hounds led into a field north of the heuse if the man sought a hiding pn'ace where he could observe both heuse and road Yhen.as if he had chsinged his mind they led back towards the house across the creek slightly to the south and to 4a copse on the hillside, screened froin view ty some fallen timbers. Had Been Watching House. how Barney two neigh- about 8:20 ‘Barney, This AS From this cépse the dogs traced the ‘nan to the house again and up to the window through which the shot was» fired. It all showed that the man ha/¢ been spying on the house for a long time. Then the tracks cross the road ascend prec vain ediff, skirt ft an: Sees Or ees a i coat i> apiais Se ty could safely give. - The commissioners do not believe that, the cost of reproducing railroad prop- erties, however carefully computed. the sole element to be considered in de- termining the present value of a rail- road, or that the outstanding securities should be made to conform to any ar- bitrary standard. The commission believes that the amount and face value of outstanding securities has only an indirect effect upon the actual making of rates an4 that it should have little if any wel:st in their regulation. Ald For Minority Holders:- The commission déea not approve of any unqualified proposition to pro- “tbit ownership of stock of one rona by another. Te do so, the report says, would involve too much dis-, tu of existing relations w it~ ever may, be the evils attendant such holdings. however, that wherever a group of menor companies has hought = ma- 1S | It is tiers ' CHILDREN INVALIDS - and the AGED Need Sunshine AND Scott’s Emulsion Next to sunshine, nothin g restores siesta oe wee, ve, chad Shaw, mie, Bed , ; FR . ie sr sguaaet a ie 3 » Be, ae “4 a od bs + : bets ta ‘ wee ’ tg So in ‘ eB, ; required | wee ty a So 5 Regt eigg , oh Tena" See Aina ae ' amc , rice, ” ea i em the road again, north of the house and in the direction of the Gravois road and St. Louis. Deputy Bendure gave it as his—opin- ion that the slayer had ridden to a place along the cliff on horseback, left his mount, circuited the house, killed his man and returned to his horse again. This would account for the sudden be- ginning and end of the trail. descend to Every chapter of Hunnfng’s career of recent years was recalled by the inves- tigation seeking a clew to any occur- rences that might throw light on a tno- tive. The slain man’s father-in-law declared he could furnish but little in this direc- tion. Hunning, he said, had some. fam- ily quarrels, but the old man mentioned this incidentally and considered it of little moment. \ The slain man and his brother-in-law, Gottfried Reuter, had. had two fights and they were not on speaking terms. Hunning had been whipped on boti oc- casions. The last fight occurred at the ‘of the dead man’s father-in-law, Con- rad Reuter. After Gottfried had knoeked Hunning down, Conrad Reuter told a Post-Dispatch reporter, Hunning pulled a knife. In trying to get this knife away from him, Mrs. Reuter, Con- was accidentally cut in the was only a slight home rad’s wife, arm, but the injury one. Gottfried Reuter is a teamster living ut 3012 Salina street, St. Louis. 3ut in- vestigation proved he was home al] Sat- urday night. Eighteen. years ago Hunning was a member of a posse which broke up a gang of robbers operating in the Sugar Creek neighborhood. Hunning shot one man through the leg, disabling him so his capture was possible. The man went to the penitentiary and was released six years ago, having served out his time. a —r w. J. Bryan in Colon. COLON, Dec. i1.—William Jennings Bryan arrived here today. He will de- part for the United States on Thursday, by way of Jamaica. é KNOX GELATINE PARKLIN Here is a toothsome dessert that can be p very easily : NUT FRAPPE %y box Knox Sparkling Gelatine cold water five Boat artes er oie le N00. | ‘| demned the City Council for favoring the the Bang ‘Thddéd ‘in the Society for HOPES FOR EARLY FINDING OF JURY FOR PACKERS DIE} Sunday Investigations by Gov- ernment Promise Peremptory Challenges. 4 ~VENIREMEN EXCUSED Costs of Preliminary Contests Al- ready Reach $716,000, It is Computed. CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—Prospects of an early completion of a jury and the be-) ginning of testimony in the trial of the Chicago packers charged with violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, did not appear bright when the case was called today. Eleven men im the jury box, six of whom, it had been said, were satjs- factory to both packers and the Gov- ernment, were to be questioned and cross-examined until it was likely that few would remain. The connections of the 11 were the subjects of thorough investigation by both sides since the Saturday adjourn- ment, and it was reported today that the Government will exercise its pe- remptory challenges on all but two or three. John A. Morgan, secretary to the head of a commission firm, was the first ve- nireman examined by the packers. He Was excused after he declared that he had an opinion. Wilbur F. Moffat, a union painter, and John A. Herath of Joliet, both of whom had opinions, fol- lowed, and were excused after brief ex- amination. William P. Hamilton, a negro, was excused by agreement, and John Schar- lan of Lombard was older than the statutes provided and was excused. The estimated cost of the prelimin® ary maneuvers in bringing the 10 Chi- cago packers to trial is, roughly, $716,- This is the aggregate expenditure of both* the Government and the packers. Special investigations and special pros- ecutors have cost the Government about $200,000, while an additiona! $120,000 has Leen paid stenographers, grand jurors, vyeniremen and witnesses. The packers are believed to have paid $235,000 for the services of eight attor- neys for three years, while additional expenses have-dadded $162,000 to the cost. FUNERAL OF MRS. BOQUETT Stricken With Apopiexy While Purchasing Christmas Presents. The body of Mrs. Fannie H. Boquéttf, 55 years old, wife of Eugene T. Boquett of Webster Groves, who died Sunday at her home following a stroke of apoplexy, will be taken to Grand Island, Neb., for burial. Interment will be beside the grave of her father. Funeral services were held Monday at the residence. The funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Wilson, former pastor of the North Cabanne Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Boquett was stricken Dec. 2 at Broadway and Locust street while on a shopping tour to purchase Christmas presents. She is survived by her hus- band, two sons and a daughter—Arthur, an electrician in the United States Navy, James of Omaha and Miss Irene D. Boquett. J. A. MAGINNIS’ FUNERAL St. Louis Retired Wholesale Mer- chant Who Died at San Antonio. The funeral of James A. Maginnis, a retired wholesale merchant of St. Louis, who died Saturday at San Antonio, Tex., will be Tuesday at’8:30 a. m., from the residence, 4338 Washington boulevard, to Calvary Cemetery. The funeral sermon will be preached by Father Francis Gil- fillan. Maginnis had been a resident of St. Louis more than 50 years, and was at one time chief clerk in the City As- sessor’s office. A month ago he went to San Antonio, accompanied by his wife and daughter. ‘“ AUTOPSY IS ORDERED Inquiry Directed to Learn if An- ton Petrovitz Took Poison. Anton Petrovitz entered his home, 1511 South Tenth street, in a stupor Saturday night and informed his wife he had tak- en poison. She sent him to the city hospital, where he died Sunday. The physicians stated they found no trace of poison and attributed his condition to alcoholism. The body was sent to the morgue and the coroner ordered an au- topsy tq ascertain the exact cause of death. Mrs. Louis Petrovitz, the wife, and her |two children, John, % years old, and Robert, 1 year old, are in destitute cir- cumstances, the police say. Underwood typewriters rented cheap. All others. American Writing Machine “o., 209 N. 10th st. Phones. UNIONS CONDEMN COUNCIL Central Trades Men Favor Eilers Bridge Approach. The Central Trades and Labor Union Sunday afternoon again put itself on record as favoring the Gerhart- Elles approach to.the free bridgé and con- Reber or short approach. A fund of about $3000 was voted to aid waitresses Who went on strike recently at a downtown department store cafe. Miss Fannie Sellins, P. Grimes and W. Michaéls were appointed to represent ot Pubercu- ; a ~PATALLY BURNED CHILD DIES WITH NER AMAS TOYS Mildred onetatns s Dress Ignited by the Upsetting of aii Oil Lamp. With the toys that Santa Claus would have brought her in fust two - weeks, surrounding her cot, Mildred. Gray, 2 years old, who was fatally burned Sat- urday night, died at 3:30 a. m. Monday at the city hospital. Mrs. Miles Gray of nue, 2635 Davison ave- who was downtown doing her Christmas shopping when Mildred was} — iturday burned, was found Si night before she reached home, and hurried to the hospital with her baby’s Christmas presents still in her arms. The toys were unwrapped and placed near the little girl, who smiled feebly, but was unable to handle the playthings. Saturday Mrs. Gray went downtown to buy. Christmas presents and left the children, Mildred, Mary, aged four and Gordon aged seven in the care of their father, Miles Gray, a painter. Late in the evening Gray rent out to buy things for supper and left the children alone. Mildred was in a high chair beside the dining table, on which was a lighted kerosene lamp. Mary climbed on the table and upset the lamp. The burning oil ignited the tablecloth and Mildred’s dress. Gordon ran , screaming toward the nearby grocery store, and met his fa- ther coming home. Gray rushed into the house and put out the. flames, but Mildred was burned over the body, face and head. All day Sunday the father and mother and the little brother and sister stayed at the city hospital beside Mildred’s cot. which was heaped with toys, hoping that the baby would live, but she was unconscious most of the time. The parents had gone home when she died. —— Distinguished Automobiles. seven-passenger Excelsior Auto Co. Packard gr fierce Limousines and Touring cars, $ per hour. 219 N. Cardi- nal. Central 508, Bomont 2088. BOY OF 6 KILLED BY CORN CRUSHER Driving Machine on His Father’s Farm, He Falls Under It. Frank J. Rempe, 6-year-old son of Herman J. Rempe, fell from a bar ona circular corn-crushér he was driving on his father’s farm on Wild Horse Creek road, St. Louis County, and was killed. His death was reported to Coroner Bracy and an inquest was held Mon- day. A verdict of accidental death was returned. The boy sat on a long bar and drove two horses in a circle to operate the corn-crusher: Saturday afternoon. His father fed the machine. Suddenly the horses stopped and the boy lost his bal- ance, falling in front of the bar. Be- fore his father could reach the boy his l was fractured by levers extend- from the machine. The funeral will be held Tuesday at} 1:30 p. m. from §t. Henry's Church to SS. Peter and Paul’s Cemetery. WOMEN’S CLUB NEW HOME The purchase of the William ° R. Donaldson home at 4600 Lindell boul- evard by the Woman’s Club was made public Monday. Negotiations haye been under way for some time and the deal was closed last week. The club will probably not take possession until spring. Extensive al- terations will be made to fit it fora clubhouse. Donaldson did not care to tell the purchase price. = RIKER’S EXPECTORANT Stops Coughs It will stop yours as it has been stopping others for 60 years. 25e and 60¢ per bottle. One trial] will convince, ST. __8T. LOUIS: POST- DISPATCH. saerei.®: tovoiieniitain We Mail Orders Can BO Filled, — “Blue Birds” - a Sale Tomorrow 81 Splendid Christmas Suggestions Bay “Blue Birds” Every’ Tue uesday 5 $1.50 Crepe de Chine Scarfings, $1.00 Blue Bird The prettiest designs made; exceptional quali- Tacs No. 5868 * ties and colorings; 24 inches wide. “Te First Floor. $6.75 French Curl Plumes, $5.00 t i Blue Bird Extra wide flues and full-headed French-curl "Sars 3 - Plumes; df genuine male stock. ae Second Floor. | ) 25-Cent Pleated. Side Frille, 16¢. t | Blue Bird“ New, finely-pleated Side Frills of sheer white ts Ne. 5911 lawns; trimmed with dainty lace. First Floor. Men’s 50-Cent Suspender Sets, 35c Blue Bird Silk or Lisle Suspenders; in plain or fancy ef- No. 5832 fects; Brighton Arm Bands and Garters. First Floor. 79-Cent White Madras Waist Patterns, Blue Bird Fancy White Waist Patterns; highly mercer- \ Ne, SETS ized; ix. beautiful designs; 3 yards to pattern. mt First Floor. Blue Bird Pleated-bosom Coat Shirts; cuffs attached; No. 5931 white grounds; black hairline stripes. First Floor. $4.50 All-Wool Sweater Coats, $3. 23) | 1 Women’s and Misses’ pure-wool Sweater Coats, in white, gray and red; plain and fancy weaves. Second Floor. Children’s $1.00 White Dress, Zac Blue Bird Choice of any $1.00 White Dress, French or Tuesday No. 5925 = yoke style; embroidery or lace trimmed; 6 mo. Onise to 6 years., Muslin Underwear Department. $1.25 Dress Corduroys, 90c Excellent quality Dress Corduroys in the new coronation shades; 30 inehes wide. fi First Floor. Blue Bird No, 5902 Blue Bird No. ~ $2.50 Reversible Coating, $1.45 Blue Bird The newest color combination; tan on one side, Tue No. coronation purple on other; 54 inches wide. Only First Floor. 50-Cent Pocket Cigar Lighters, 35c — Blue Bird Mickel-plated Pocket Cigar Lighters; every Tuesday No, 5880 one works perfectly; directions with each. Only, First Floor. ; $1.00 Brush and Comb Tray, 70c 4% . F Blue Bird _ Parisian Ivory Brush and Comb Tray; size 61 fae | No. S851 x10 inches; very popular now. "a Se 4 First Floor. | es . e % Men’s $1.00 Silk Suspenders, 75c Biue Bird ‘Pure Silk-weh Suspenders; gold-plated buckles; Tuesday No. 5930 large range of colors; in holiday boxes. a First Floor. | Men’s $2.25 English Cape Gloves, $1 AS Blue Bird One-clasp, English-made, wool-lined Cape ee No. 5800. = Gloves; prix-seam sewn;: tans and gray; sizes Rice: 8 and 81/., First Floor. Men’s $1.70 Box Handkerchiefs, $1 25 Blue Bird Pure Linen Initial Handkerchiefs; 2 styles of soe No. 5919 initials; box of 6. ; “Ts First Floor. $2.50 Gold Desk cial $1.50 Blue Bird ~- Handsome Gold Desk Clock; 24-hour time; can No. 5887 also be used as a paper weight. . First Floor. 98-Cent Scarfs and Centers, oa Blue Bird Japanese hand-embroidered and hand-scalloped No. 5874 30-inch Centerpieces and 18x36-inch Scarfe, First Floor. é Women’s $1.75 Silk Umbrellaa, $1. 25 Blue Bird Rainproof Union silk taffeta-covered Umbrel- No. 5906 las; fitted with long carved mission handles. First Floor. 19-Cent Messaline Ribbons, 13¢ hig All-Silk Messaline Ribbons for fancy work, etc.; 6 inches wide. > Floor. Biue 1 No. 50! Ud Bleached Pillow Cases; size 415x331; superfine quality; no dressing. sasement. ~ Women’s 59c “‘Coverall’”’ meg 38c H mes BS — Fitted Princess Coverall Apron; made of Amos- ‘ keag gingham, with ruffle and pocket. . = : mA Blue Di. 4 No. S872 Babywear Department. Women’s $1.00 Corsets, 700 Girdle Top Corset, with long hips and back; front and side supporters; sizes 18 ts 23. Second Floor. Wonren’s 35-Cent Silk. Lisle Hosiery, Blue Bird Women’s fist black, heavy-weight, silk lisle No. S86 —— have colored tipping at welt. First Floor. Youths’ $10. 00 Long Overcoats, $6. : materials; i All sizes, 15 to 20 years, in all-wool Ne. SOSS aE one ee Bine Bird No. 5024 . Third Floor. ‘B. NUGENT & BRO. DRY

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Ee ee 4 ae 3 - Ss a a - poder? $k es nals ¥ Ee ye « oe wear of F , - st Ae yey Qa r : EY 0. ig | a ig (aN ae eS ST. LOUIS 8 POST DISPATOR, “DANCING ACADEMY [Jndiana polis’ Food-Trust-Smashing SAE BLOWN OPEN: Mayor to Sell Christmas Trees at Cost , BURGLARS GET ¢) Executive Who Brought Down Price of Potatoes and 'E 2 & x 2 eee) MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1911.

ROUSE ITALIAN Protest Against Scenes of ties in Tripoli Bring Police Court Fines. Two Italians, Vito de Maio, %8 North. at Eleventh street, and Frank Carouso, 1000 Morgan street, were fined $10 and ‘costs each in the Clark Avenue PORe j Court Monday. They had created a bf disturbance in a motion picture show “.. run by Eugene L. Hammerstein at 54 St. Charles street. A series of pictures was shown there Sunday night purporting to portray cruelty of Italian soldiers to Arab men and women in Tripoli. The two Italians and several of their countrymen Insist- ed that these pictures be withdrawn. The men testified in court that they made the demonstration because they believed the pictures were unjust to the soldiers of their native land. Marriages: Births and Deaths 3936 Schiller pL: girl » & Askins; gi

MARRIAGE LICENSES. : 3 Joseph Miller......,0s.00.- Dee joines. Io Mrs. Josie Kane.. 344 Duncan } ht age he ce ? N. Leffingwell uth Bart mremne+3*Bea 469 \Agttinewall .415 Blase aducah, Ky . ED t, 1940 : girl, se Dubwers girl. McDaniel, et > girl, . > girl. } rl. scene cue “i Cain seacdiiian. tepengettio ey” \Mrs. Ida N. Smith...cccess+P William C. Cook... ¥...cees+-++1806 Olive Mary A. Gallagher ....eee+++--1606 Olive Michael POMMES® ..ceeeeeeee+ +916 N. 10th Mrs. Eva “Weber .cccceoses 2413 Wren Richard E. Berger.......Marquette Hotel Mina Linderman.........---Cincinnati, O Fred Kuebler .. .Florissant. Mo Mrs. Anna Hebreck. teenie 3 Mo Henry Burk .Bismarck, Mo Mrs, Alice v. Nes crott * Vincennes, Ind Leverett B. MacFarlane. mat St. Louis, Ill Pearle M. Garrett Ea St. m8 7 Ro ae Y oiaiae el mank Gea. Springfield. I!l Albert F.. W. Schulenbur 3535 Victor Evangeline M. J, McAuliffe.4738 Kennerly George Hendricks a Indianapolis Ind Carrie Maé Whitele 6111 Idaho

MME HO git On Turkeys Will See That Every Child Has Evergreen Emblem of Santa Claus at. Low Price—Will Pur- chase Supply for City in Northern Michigan and Add Only Freight to Price. | Burial Permits. Edward A. Quigley, 33, 2018 Rutger; tuber- losis Dixie Miles. 30, 3111 Agome: phthisis. W. E. 7 8d; Tsar's, dunk Barbara he rg 54, unknown. Mary E. Greenwalt, 7 2314 Laclede: acci- dent. . John Mahoney, 63, 4222 North Market; Noble, ey bene Magis) Saksown. , August Strobel, 7 neumonia, Robert Swarmstedt, 26, 3402A V sta; pneu- wiaraneee M. Smith, 37, 2622 Washington; gastritis. 3 Junior Matson, 36, 1419 * mantte | Nathan, , 100 8. Frank Peters, 66, 1928 Penn st.; tumor, Edward, 49, 119 8S. 7th; pneumonia. eben M. Carr, 14, 2231 Chestnut: dysen- ery. . Gerhard F. Sander, 71, 1000 N. Bright’s disease. Cometias Daniels, 86, 1127 Hamilton; Olive; “HH. Donovan, 39, 429A 65, 3958SA Kennerly: ne- ; Used Sledge Hammer and Nitro- glycerin, but Missed $1000. can- cer Mary E.

— Tells of Plans by Which He Has Succeeder in Lowering Expense of Living for the Poor People of His City

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Solid Gold Wedding Rings, $3 to $25. JACCARD’S, Broadway, cor. Locust.

Broadway; French Vieo-Cenaul Drowna. COLON, Dec. 11.—Jacques de » Peretti de Larocca, French Vice-Consu) here, was drowned when bathing in the sea. The body was recovered. Births. . and A. Hoppel, 2237 Madison, oo ad 1409% Poplar; ‘ana yet 4000 Fierissant: bor Sense, and C, Tucker 2316 Sheridan;

ne- a il i Sn Rs wih D+ ip pivot ne- A University; bey. R216 8 Iowa; boy on Crittenden: boy. . tth; boy. ory N. 9th; boy. and M. Lischer. 1527 Benton; boy. and A. Schmid, 2113 Salisbury; 5 STORY OF RAID ON GALLAHER FLAT “| Petective Shaws Cards, at Woman’ s Home, One hundred ‘poker chips, 15 decks of “tabs’’ or memoranda indi- eating that several persons had bought chips in a poker game, were laid before ~ the grand jury Monday to be used as " évidence that Mra, Sarah Gallaher per- mitted gambling in her rooms in the Dundas Apartments, 4503 ‘Washington _ boulevard. Five men were arrested there in a Police raid last Wednesday night. Detective Peter Wallis told: Assistant Circuit Attorney Rosskopf that he ‘watched the ‘house because he had heard that Mrs. Gallaher had been forced to move from :the..Yrooman Apartments Well of gambling. ee nH ‘ +, 9 , PY . 2 _ - ells knew, he said, that Jack Martin, _® real estate dealer, was a frequent vis- Sabee at Mrs. Gallaher’s. When the raid - Was planned Wells rang the bell and asked for Martin. A woman brought - Martin to the door, but when he found } Was a.detective he slammed the > After waiting about the house an nour the detectives went in through a win- _ dow. They found five men eating lunch. No one was playing poker. ~The chips, cards and memoranda were Before breaking into «ene house, Wetls says, he heard the rat- tie of chips and heard Martin telephon- _ ing to somebody whom he addressed as “Judge” and telling him that the house Was surrounded by policemen. Apparently, Wells says, Martin was _ asking ‘Judge’ for Jegal advice. Mar- tin was one of the five arrested in the raid. Another was Charles Scholl, a Democratic pobtician.

Underwood - typewriters 1 rented cheap. l others. American Writing Machine 0., 209 N. 10th wt Phones.

_ Former Polfveman Dies ta Ireland, - Dec. 1L.—Miehael Whelan, an _ American, at one time connected pane Onieha police, dropped dead aa din his t slips for $11,000 were

Chips; a and “Tabs” Found in Closet | weeks. will not be the fault of the Mayor. Maybe, also, I’ll put some trimmings on the trees.’’ For the present this is the only Santa Claus project in the Mayor’s mind. If the retailers put the price of Christmas turkeys higher than the laws of supply and demand justify, Mayor Shank may supply them at cost, just as he supplied Thanksgiving poultry, underselling the

market men by from 2 to 4 cents a pound. Lew Shank is a new force in American municipal politics, though he declares he is no politician. “I never was even a precinct committeeman,” he said to the Post-Dispatch reporter. Sundry and various Indianapolis voters, however, aver that Lew Shank knows the political | game from A to Izzard, and can recite | its alphabet backward, Clubwomen of Tulsa, Ok., and of Dal- las, Tex., have urged their mayors to follow the Shank !ead. Among the other owns that have taken up the Shan:.. idea and are selling food commodities at cost price are Muskogee, Ok,, and Lynn, Cambridge, Newton, Chelsea, Lowell and New Bedford, Mass. In Germany the important cities of Berlin and Duesseldorf have estabiished municipal potato markets modeled after the Shank plan, and other German cities are adopting the idea. Everybody Calls Him “Lew.” VERYBODY calls the Mayor FE “Lew,” even his official secre- tary, Annis Burk, a veteran news- paper man of Indianapolis. As Lew Shank he is known throughout Indiana. That Lew Shank is democratic cannot be doubted by one who has spent a day in his mayoralty office rooms in the splendid new city hall, watching him receive the multitudes of men seeking jobs under the administration or the Mayor’s recommendation to a private firm, or presenting suggestions good, bad or indifferent as to plans for promoting the Mayor's crusade against the high cost of living. Mayor Shank turns nobody down. “T’ll never get a chance to talk to you at all,”’ said the Mayor to the reporter, “ynless I lock you in with me.” This e did after the morning rush of ap- plicants was ov@r. Shank is a large ‘man, tall, broad- shouldered, well-proportioned and hand- some as to countenance. Though he will not attain his fortieth bimhday until Jan. 23, his head is bald about one-third of the way back from his forehead. His remaining hair, which is abundant so far as it goes, is dark. His face is smooth- shaven. In talking he uses the language of the common people, with an occasional slang word aptly fitting into the conversation where it will do the most good. On the ecasion of the intervie v he wore a bluish business suit, a low-cut collar, a gray four-in-hand tie without a stickpin, and shoes that looked more comfortable than stylish. His only visible jewelry was a heavy finger ring. There were no frills to Lew Shank, either in clothes, car- riage or conversation. He looked every inch what he is called, a plain man pf the people. How He Took Up Crusade. HIS is a brief pencil picture of the T man whose potato buying and sell- ing as an object lesson in protest against the increased cost of living has made him known not only throughout the United States but in Europe also, in the brief space of eight or nine It was late in September when Hanford B. Adkins, a young man well known to the Mayor since his boyhood, entered the Mayor’s office and re- marked: 3 “What do you thing, Lew—I had to pay 15 cents for a quarter of a pack of potatoes this morning.”’ The Mayor did a little figuring by mental arithmetic. ‘Sixty cents a peck, EEE

four pecks to the bushel, $2.40 a bushel,” he said. “Gee whiz! What can we do about it? It’s only the poor people, of course, who have to buy in such small quantities, and they are the ones who must bear the burden of such exorbi- tant rates. What do potatoes sell for if you buy a bushel at a time, Adkins?’ “A dollar sixty,’’ replied Adkins. “And that’s a heap too much,” the Mayor said.. ‘I wish I could do some- thing to overcome this unjustly high price of potatoes to the poor. Potatoes are the universal staple of table food. Everybody eats potatoes, rich and poor alike. The poor, who usually have more children than the rich, need more pota- toes. Yet they have to pay a great deal more than the rich pay, because they must buy in small dMuantities. Fifteen cents a quarter of a peck! Hey, Burk!’’ to his secretary, ‘ this over with us.’’ Secretary Burk entered from the outer room and the three men put their heads together on the potato proposition. The idea of buying and selling at cost car- load lots of potatoes—on rather one car- load lot—came to the Mayor in a flash. He asked Adkins, who has a hobby of keeping well informed as to market prices, about what percentage of profit above the price paid to the farmers was madp by Indianapolis middlemen and market men. Adkins said it was at least 100 per cent, if not more. “I think.” he said, “that I can buy potatoes from farmers up in Northern Michigan and Wisconsin at something like six bits a bushel, maybe less.” “If you can,” said Mayor Shank, reaching into his pocket for a green- back roll, ‘“‘go right up there and buy a carload; ship them here in time to put on the market Saturday morning. Here's $50 for your expenses. Charge the pota- toes to my personal account.’’ Crowds Scramble for “‘Spuds.”’ HAT was the genesis of the pota- 7 toes-at-cost movement, which has spread to a number of other Amer- ican cities and has been put in opera- tion, under the Shank plan, in several cities of Germany, where the price to the consumer has been decreased 40 per cent. Adkins took a train for Grand Rapids, Mich. Friday night a carload of luscious Michigan ‘‘spuds,’’ 600 bush- els, bought by the Mayor’s purchasing agent direct. from the farmers at 69 cents a bushel, arrived, F. O. B. In- dianapolis, which means that, the 69 cents included the freight. In connection with his auctioneering, Mayor Shank for years has conducted a secondhand furniture business. He has several big furniture vans. The biggest, which holds early a carload of potatoes, is called ‘““‘The Battleship.”’ The potatoes were loaded into ‘‘The Battleship” and hauled to the Market street front of the big-city market, owned by the city, the stalls and stands, more than five hundred in number, being rented to the market men. Mayor Shank, Buyer Adkins and their helpers got up shortly after midnight that. first Saturday and were on the job potatoes, two and a half bushels in a package, were unloaded and stacked along the outer wall of the market. The loose spuds were left in “The Battle- ship.’” Long) before the legal market hour arrived there was a big crowd of people on hand, carrying baskets, sacks and buckets. Some

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" MAYOR SHANK weg hy MAYOR | SHANK, “i Others had only their aprons as recep- tacles. The Mayor’s potato plot had been revealed by the local newspapers and the populace was eager for the bar- gain. Rich as Well as Poor Buy. é¢ WAS astounded,” said Mayor Shank, “‘to see sO many people there. Why, folks even rode up in autos and carriages to buy. These people usually wanted several bushels and wanted them delivered. It had not been my intention to sell more than one carload, but when I saw that the spuds were going like hot cakes, I determined then and there that I’d just give the people what they wanted. ‘Here, Ad- kins,’ I said, ‘go into the market office there and take these rich people’s or- ders for five-bushel lots, and we’ll get another carload or several more if net- essary.” Adkins was busy writing out orders for potatoes. Many of the buy- ers paid cash or checks in advance, and before the morning was over we discov- ered that it would take three carloads the next Saturday to supply the de- mand.”’ Mayor Shank himself worked severa) hours scooping up potatoes from “The Battleship,” filling baskets, dishpahs and aprons. In the gray of the morning hundreds ‘of the Indianapolis poor trudged home—men, women and chil- dren—bearing a precious burden of po- tatoes bought at reasonable rates, with the middleman’s big profit altogether eliminated.

“I lost about $25 on the first carload,” the Mayor said, “but that was because in the rush I gave extra weight. a lot of people were clamoring for a dime’s worth I didn’t take time to weigh the potatoes, but just scooped ’em up and estimated in my mind, and I’m sure none of the poor folks got short weight. On the next three carloads there was a surplus about $114 above cost and handling expenses, which went into the potato-buying fund. I reckon, Adkins, we bought and sold in all about a dozen carloads, didn’t we?” “Twenty-one carloads,’ corrected Ad- kins. ‘Well, Phas jinks!”’ exclaimed the May- When =

TURKEYS or, with a hearty laugh. “I didn’t know we'd done that much potato business. No,” replying to a question, “I’m not going to sell any more potatoes now. I’m too busy. Why, while we were sell- ing potatoes at cost I hardly had time to sign the ordinances passed by the City Council. And, anyhow, we've ac- complished our purpose so far as po- tatoes are concerned, The grocers and market men, of course, have had to come down considerably in their charges, We showed ’em how.” Advisory Commission. he PON his own initiative J Shank has appointed what calls his Advisory Commission of 30 prominent business and professional men of Indianapolis. This commission acts non-officially, receives no pay, the members foot their own expense bills when subcommittees visit other cities in the interest of Indianapolis, and thus their able services cost the taxpayers nothing. On the commission are a Jewish rabbi, a wholesale liquor dealer and a physician, who are among the most active members. The commission meets twice a week to discuss with the Mayor, and frequently without him, when he is too busy to attend matters of intimate public importance. The Mayor submits to his Advisory Commis- sion all the administrative matters which seem to require extraordinary delibera- tion. SLAYER JOHNSON TOPLEAD INSANITY AS HIS DEFENSE} FULTON, Mo., Dec. 11.—Temporary insanity will be the plea ofthe attor- neys for Richard M. Johnson, charged with the murder of John Griggs, tne alleged despoiler of his home, who was put on trial in the ee County Court, today. The attorneys point to the fact that Griggs entered the Johnson premises shortly after Mrs. Johnson made her confession of wrongdoing with Griggs and just after Johnson had made a trip from Iowa and had spent a long vigil at her bedside. Johnson and two of his young daugh- ters, one of whom witnessed the trag- edy, arrived in Fulton early this morn- ing from their home near Boydsville. Mrs. Johnson is still confined to her home. and her condition is said to be more serious now than on the day of the killing. She will be unabie to tes- tify at the trial. The jury to try Johnson will be se- lected from the regular panel and a special venire of 40 men summoned at the instance of Judge David H. Harris. Forty-three witnesses have been sum- Mayor

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RECKLESS SHOOTERS _ IN CITY HURT WOMAN _ While Mrs. Edward B. Long stood in her front yard at 3649 Humphrey street Saturday afternoon, a cat rifle bullet struck her on the forehead, over the right eye. A swelling which almost closed her eye resulted. Had the shot struck a finger'’s breadth lower the cye- ball would have been shattered. When she recovered’ from the shock sufficiently to look about, she could see "0 Ohne with a weapon. She had heard s9 report. The bullet might have come ‘vm an air gun or a small powder “ifle. 3 Long, in —. his wife's Seety to

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without difficulty. the police Monday, said that reckless shooting had become a menace to life MOTHER CHASES NEGRO ~ WHO HELD UP CHILD While Fosetti Lucas, 11 years ol, of 4217 Delmar avenue, Was on her way to a grocery she was waylaid by a negro who pointed a revolvar at her and snatched a §1 bill from her hand Sunday night. ‘The girl ran to her home a short distance away. Her mether, Mrs. Flora M. Lucas, caught up a revolver and ran to the alley where th: rob- bery had occurred. She saw the negro running away. She chased him a block, but he disappeared in the darkness.

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HE “Book Storeof St.Louis” | _ is as pre-eminent during the Christmas season as af every other time of the year. It’s the plate where you are surd to find the very book you want, be your intended gift a little muslin af-

fair for a two-year-old, or one of the classics for the

grown-ups. The Price Range Is a Wide One And you will find many special groups with cep low prices which will help to make your gift-money go muic farther than you had hoped. Old Mother Hubbard; color on every page; a beautiful book; 75c. Grew; | Painting Plays; a splendid book Beautiful Jo; the story of a dog; for boys and girls; 25c. 25c. ~ Books for. Boys The Motor Boys; about 12 titles; Grimm’s Fairy Tales; large quarto; 60c. Anderson’s Fairy Tales, 60c. Mother Goose, complete; quarto cloth; illustrated; 50c. Milford’s. here. Talk shop while. eating.

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ITH an orchestra and chorus of W grand opera proportions and re- quirements and a prima donna of remarkble range and sweetness, ‘Naughty Marietta,” a Victor Herbert comic opera of very light texture, was heard in St. Louis for the first time at the Olympic Theater Sunday evening. There are moments, too, when the music reaches the proportion of grand opera, the dream song of Marietta, first introduced early in the opening act, serving as the music theme of the play. It is doubtful if Victor Herbert. has ever composed a sweeter piece of music than. this dream song theme, played as an intermezzo, between the scenes of the second act. It opens with a soft, sweet strain with the harp and stringed instruments; the refrain is taken up by the pipes and later by the drums and bfasses until the full force of the large orchestra seems singing the love-song of the little girl who is looking for some one to finish the song she found in a dream. This same music theme is again excellently sung by Henry Taylor, when, as the hero of the story, he supplies the missing love chords, as the finale to the play. This music, so exquisitely played and sung by principals, chorus and orches- tra is sometimes almost lost in a maze of bewigged and painted comedians, whose comedy is not today any more than is the romance of the powdered wig and bright costumes of the early days in Louisiana. Happily for the present generation they can still see the beauty of the age of chivalry, but un- happily they can’t. quite stand for the aged humor, and therefore, last night’s audience seemed to relish the music and applauded until their hands tingled try- ing to get more of it. But with the ex- ception of one comedienne, Suzanne Leonard Westfall, who is a human cari- cature of all that is grotesque in wom- ankind, the comedy element is strained. Mile. Emma Trentini is the smallest prima donng with the biggest voice that comic opera can now claim. The Mari- etta role, with its different guises, its early French surroundings and its ro- manticism, offers a good vehicle for her imperfect enunciation of the English language, the peculiar little mannerisms and broken sentences being rather pleas- ing and giving an added charm to the quaint little }character. Nothing quite so lavishly endowed has been seen on the comic opera stage in St. Louis of late as ‘‘Naughty Marietta.’’ Oscar Hammerstein has brought his en- tire New York cast and production, the orchestra and chorus being worthy of the best that opera affords, while the scenic equipment and costuming are a delight in themselves. Among the principal singers and comedians not already men- tioned are William W. Black, as Lieu- tenant-Governor; Harry Turpin, the son; William Welp, the buffoon, as Silas Slick; Marion Lee as the quardoon slave; Vera de Rosa, as Fanchon, and James S. Murray, as the keeper of the marionette theater. William Axt had the orchestra under such perfect control that it got the first, the last and the greatest applause of the evening. GORDON 8. SERVANT. - Offering Ideal Economies for the Xmas Shopper GONNENFELD’S FURS (Tmt. Blue Wolf Imt. d Inmt. make perfect gifts. They’re and Im Sets Brown Marten carefully made, of select quality | Sets; with large skins, in the latest models and are indeed luxurious! Suppose you call tomorrow— collars and muffs; lined with Skin- ask to see the values listed here. We’ve | ner satin; §) priced them especially low for tomorrow only— simply to make your Xmas money go many dollars 4 3 tomorrow farther. only, at... The Finest Quality Eastern Mink Sets Made of No. 1 and No. 2 Eastern mink skin, in sets, at $75 to $300 These Fine Quality Jap Mink Sets

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PENNY SAVES MAN’S LIFE Coin in Vest Pocket Stops Bullet From Piercing Heart. NEW YORK, Dec. 11—A_ Lincoln penny in the left pocket of Joseph Her- man’s vest saved him from a bullet through the heart during a row in a Broax borough resort last night. The coin diverted the bullet and al- though Herman’s condition is serious from a second bullet wound, his re- covery is expected. rar ee

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SUNG AT SHUBERT BY ABORN FORCES “The Tales of Hoffmann’”’ Pre- sented in English With Genu- ine Distinction. BY RIPLEY D. SAUNDERS, ORTHY opera worthily sung in W English at popular prices is a thing of value so great to the American public that its presentation assumes the aspect of an educational beneficence that calls for instant ap- preciation. The Aborn English Grand Opera Com- pany, which began a week’s engagement at the Shubert last night, acquitted itself in Offenbach’s tuneful, though almost childishly fantastic, “Tales of Hoffmann” as to qualify for the heartiest approval. It is quite true that a higher dis- tinction attached to the first St. Louis hearing of this opera when performed by the Philadelphia-Chicago company, affiliated with the splendid Metropolitan organization of New York, at the Coll- seum last season. But it is equally true that the Aborn forces have no reason to feel ashamed of their achievement, even though it be measured against that of Andreas Dip- pel’s singers, and that, while the com- parison is inevitably in favor of the Dippel forces, the Aborn people are név- ertheless to be thanked for a very ex- cellent and satisfying production—for the hearing of which $1.50 was the-highest price charged for the best orchestra seats. Last night’s cast presented Leonard Samoloff, a young, impetuous and hand- some singer, new to St. Louis, in the title role of Hoffmann, the poet. He is not by any means as: great a lyri¢ tenor as John McCormack, who sang the same role at the Coliseim, but his voice has a certain robust quality finely suited to the romantic and adventurous hero of the Offenbach story, and, in the score’s big moments, it made the Shubert ring with its well-sustained and _ truthful quality, failing but once, on a very try- ing high note, to meet the demands placed upon it. The Samoloff acting of the part was admirable, giving to the Hoffmarin role at most times a certain impulsive boy- ishness of spirit which made all the more effective those wistful later mo- ments when the young poet is made to realize that “the course of true love never did run smooth,” and adding much to the poetic charm of the final moment that brings him back to the worship of his muse as offering Life’s truest hap- piness. Louise LeBaron’s playing and singing of the part of Nicklausse, boon com- panion of Hoffmann, so delighted .ast night’s audience that it went on record as one of the big hits of the evening. Miss LeBaron has a rich and velvety- smooth contralto, which she employs as though she loved its employment, ani the Offenbach score gives to this voice a@ quite .generous allotment of oppor- tunity. Then, too, the gayety of the character seemed to make an irresisti- ble appeal to its player, as a result of which it became a very vital and joyous thing, of mood so magnetic as to keep Miss LeBaron constantly in the house’s favor. Inasmuch as she sang the three very arduous roles of Antonia, Giulietta and Olympia, which is more of a task than may fairly be placed upon any one prima donna soprano, Edith Helena was a trifle overworked by the night’s re-. quirements. In spite of this, however, she contrived to retain a surprising freshness of voice and spirit, and shared evenly in the triple division of honors. She was at her best, it seemed to me, in the Giulietta score, which she sang with sincere distinction. William Schuster{s most notable achie- vement was as Crespel,\ father of An- tonia, the score of this part bringing out to the full the deep and satisfying tunefulness of his excellent basso voice. He was also well placed as Spalanzani, the Supposed father of Olympia. The Dr. Miracle of Louis Kreidler was a good piece of tragic grotesquerie, and his voice was handled with uncommonly acute dramatic intelligence in this part, so likely to be overplayed and over- sung by the inartistic. Other less im- portant roles were in competent hands. The orchestra and chorus deserve sig- nal mention for very satisfying work. The conductorship of Carlo Nicosia was marked by its accustomed quiet efficiency. ‘“‘The Tales of Hoffman” will be repeated on Thursday evening, with Domenico Russo in its title role. “Madam Butterfly,’’ with Jane Aber- crombie as Cho-Cho-San, Samoloff as Lieut; Pinkerton, Loulse le Baron as Suzuki and Morton Adkins as Consul Sharpless, is tonight's bill. | SOCIETY | Mr. and Mrs. Champ Carter Connor have taken an apartment at 621 Clara avenue, where they will be domiciled next week.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Davis of 18 Portiand place have returned from New York, where they spent several weeks. Miss Julia Hobart of New York is visiting her sister, Mrs. George W. Cale Jr. of Lenox place. She came on for the ball Dr. and Mrs. Cale gave last Wednesday to pre- sent their daughter, Miss Emilie Cale, and will remain a fortnight. Mrs. Eugene Weber Hart, accom- panied by her daughter, Mrs. M. S. Keator and little Miss Keator, left Dec. 3 for San Antonio, where they will spend the winter. ° , A dinner party was given in honor of Miss Helen Schilig Thursday evening at her home on: Russell avefiue. The so capably}

Mitchell, Sydney Schillig, Edward Rev: ter, Ralph Brice, Richard Farrell, George McCalpin, Fred Schillig. A “snow party” was given Friday evening at the Fenwick Country Club by the I. O. U’s. The ballroom was transformed: into @ palace of ice and the guests appeared as various characters of winter. Those present were: Misses W. Cardworth, EB. Karl, D. Martain, R. Foster, J. Wenster, L. Harriet, R. Fennier, K. Kirth, A. Dayton, M. Harper, 8. Tracy, C. Hall; Messrs. K. Norse, J. Dean, J. Hartmann, H, Norvell, G. Stratmen, C. Koopmer, William Gregg. F. Jordan, B. Oltener, M. Alben, H. Manner, C. O'Conner, The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Southeast Missouri Drummers’ Association, will hold their annual reception and dance, in the Louisiana Hall, 911 North Vande- venter avenue, Saturday evening. Mrs, Robert McKittrick Jones of 6 Westmoreland place, gave a tea Satur- day from 6 to 7 o’clock in honor of her niece, Miss Margaret McKittrick Jones$ Both men and girls were invited and ‘on the Frisco.

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Sh i wee The Rev. Edmund Duckworth, (/EAMOUS WILL \ George S. Johns and Rabbi ; —_— —— nf dl Harrison the Speakers. Te on q > ae a : | we ae) ee ae ‘ -1-n-x when nes ‘ gy, ’ tT. glad (as illustrated), Abrogation of the treaty of 1832 REMAIN OPEN ANY “# 5 , & Wie oe ug between Russia and the United EVENING BEFORE : ns Mla —choice oO b | States was demanded by speakers at XMAS | the meeting held Sunday mornihg : WASHINGTON AVE. & G= ST. / 25¢c in Temple Israel, to protest against Shop now—shop early. f the exclusion from Russia of Amer- . J isan citizens of Jewish race, bearing American passports. A large audi- ence, in which were.many persons | //, Pg : — 3 eo aha coe ape $16.50, $19.7 5 & $22. 50 SUITS FOR $10.00 PMI IOC terances. “Of course we are not going to make war on Russia,” declared thw ZS ” ' >» SIZES FOR WOMEN & MISSES 7 Rev. Dr. Leo Harrison in his address. , “O bvi duty i i ly to let | ie : eg | Phetag Cam Saige se Geamaainal WT i - ALSO WOMEN’S ODD & EXTRA SIZES laction to refuse its renewal; to sever y i pceak Gon Wale te ae. ey, For Tuesday’s enthusiastic selling- we offer an accumulation of sian Government, and thus to ad- a | EF Se ice ova oe cand dieiaens: | WS; 260 crisp, new, fresh Suits which we secured from a prom- beyond the reach of other influences, a tacit rebuke, alike dignified, ef- £4} . Ir IN | inent maker ata great discount. fective and public.” Cc f Straus Cited. = » | . . ° = : : toon’ ak the tea ae 7 This fall & winter’s smartest models are includeq—plain tai- Dr. Harrison met the question “why do J desire to visit Rus- 7 | ‘ P . y do Jews desire to visit Rus ; | i IN lored Suits, also cleverly trimmed effects set off with velvets sia, the torture chamber of their ?”’ by declaring that the present | | ° yee ‘ e e . puen?” by. declasing Cat Wl . 4 & satins artistically applied—the materials‘include superior question was not one of occasion or di . but of principle. Cases ° ‘ E expediency,. bu on We: {Hh . ) serges, worsteds, cheviots & novelty fabrics —in the newest where necessity has compelled Amer- i J t k admission to the i ° . . ° ie dacinin qabb deiitiedad ts UE A |e blues, browns, grays & tans. Coats lined with Skinner’s satin & Czar’s domain were mentioned by the - diff t eakers, particularly the HK | Hi . ° ° ‘ vial Cuckr ‘i Wh 1 ; soft silk peau de cygne, skirts in the case of Oscar Straus. When on his TE | it way as Ambassador fro the United EE : ie If : ] : States to Turkey, he was at first a): | | i Alf newest Sty es. excluded from Russia, then his pass- ports. were accepted, with the riota- | eA These Suits are superbly tailored & fit , : n> tion, “To the Jew, Oscar Straus.” BR): min Pe ih) ia ae * aa e os * a . American citizenship is a mockery. Rus With embroidered initials in wreath sja’s refusal to grant treaty rights to ¥ designs; 6 f 65¢ Large size—rocking horses—upholstered Jewi$h citizens of the United States is fh 3 \ Women’s All-Linen Handkerchiefs seat. sas UL ADEROARDS WOM. The. . ” : c * ‘ i Af $5.00 DOLL BEDS, $3.98 1900 Locust Street ‘ insult to this country, but it is an at- designs; P $5.00 DOLL BEDS ae 7 -

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t $ A > i GG In solid gold - | In solid gola S|): mounting.... mond Stud or WOMAN’S CURIOSITY mounting fq | Searf Pin in 14-k.. Gold NEARLY COSTS LIFE Can be bought now to extraordinary advantage while our manufacturers’ Filled Set- surplus stock sale is in progress—the supreme clothes buying event of year. No, » 1768, Des 9 £ » Se asl, omar bie Our patrons are now reaping the benefits of five of the boldest & most prof- oe Beare Uae ee “a f 226. Sev $ 00 sess itable purchases we ever made. Involved were over 12,000 of this season’s Scart Pin fo gat iebiaa sete “eS SOX) 2.00 , __ _ Automatic Lights. most desirable Suits & Overcoats—the surplus stocks of 5 of America’s most SA ae TRY) - Ue Ps en DENVER, Colo., Dec. 1—Feminine prominent manufacturers, including every new & correct fabric, pattern, curiosity almost proved fatal to Miss ‘ : : J Rose Williams, a school teacher of Col- color & style—sizes to fit men & young men of every build—our discounts ing ae eal A OS) a In Solid Gold f/orado Springs, who was released from were tremendous & permit this daring value-giving—7 giant bargain groups: a closet in her room in a local hotel at ling on lds filled bathe ‘ , . . 4 off Setting, : , . I. Valliere, set No. 1552. $3 o’clock this morning by a guest after : § 50) mone “Pi ip den ma with rors Sm pias ford 14-K. oe See the young’ woman had remained a pris- $13.50 & $15 00 Suits & Overcoats for $9.50 .} A ‘ S s 0c € 9 a “SS ah ee es ae a eee Yo, me entered the room and released the young i.» Wa DEA. Se AMBRE C eae Sue sg } , woman. When they opene@ the closet , 2 Ee a). oe A ee : Engraved Fiat Belcher \ tooth-set . ie. ede ALY ae OF 5. ag eye as ~ door she fainted and early today was | Gentlemen's : , . E Po en he ie 2” aheat Oe os . 4 " R i n , in 14-k. ld- Rinne, in heavy § 14-k. Ce SES ways: Sb EES Poke oe oben mounting: were! said to be in a serious condition from | gold- : . - ¢ er experience. ° ~~ «:. fount: $2.50 we, 1807, ‘1S. tee _ || |Make Sensible Gifts for Boys OE RS eee we : diamond In golid Extra wide, fine 14-k. Gold-filled Bracelet, Jy New Rates to Shoppers : : mounting, --- +»..91+00 beautifully engraved; guaranteed 20 years... $9.00 za pele gold ais teach Cin, ‘he natin ‘vie We are offering the surplus stocks of three of New York’s

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Two St.Louis Women Held on Murder'\\ Charges See Hopes in Acquittal of Nine Other Slayers of Husbands PM VTL ~ FLO) A 7 | Wives Recently on Trial Have ‘4 Escaped Penalty Without Single Exception.

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Palmer James and Mrs. Clara Murray, two St. Louis women who are awaiting trial for the murder of their husbands. As each is drawing closer to her day in court, she finds encourage- ment*in the fact that other wonren, chargéd with the same crime, are being freed with remarkable regularity in all parts of the United States. Within the last few weeks 13 women ’ have been accused of this crime. Nine of them have been arraigned before the authorities and nine have been acquit= | ted. Five were freed, after long and ex- ‘ .pensive trials by jury, one was exoner- ated by a coroner and the other two were discharged by judges when the prosecuting attorneys announced that ‘convictions were hopeless. x Always Hard to Convict. *’- It has always been hard to convict a woman of murder before an American jury. States’ attorneys are convinced this difficulty is increasing instead of diminishing. Corvicttons that will bring the death penalty are regarded as al- , most impossible. rs) is the recent proof that this senti- \Zent is growing which is enheartening *Mrs. James and Mrs. Murray. The friends of both believe that it will be no easier to convict a woman of murder in St. Louis than elsewhere. They say they will be surprised if either woman has to undergo even the shortest term ‘of penal servitude for her act. A curious coincidence is pointed out in the nine acquittals. In but one case was the fact that the wife had killed her husband denied. In that one the Woman was accused of administering poison in the belief it was a potion that would cure him of inebriety. The Patterson Trial. The most noted of these trials was that of Mrs. Gertrude Gibson Patterson of Denver, formerly of Sandoval, IIl., and St. Louls. A witness testified he saw her standing over her husband and shooting him as he was on his hands and knees, wounded from another bul- let. She did not deny the killing and ‘pleaded self-defense. Shot to Save Husband's Soul. In New York Mrs. Francis O’Shaugh- nessy “as acquitted of husband murder

MRS. ALMA P JAMES bands: Acquitted FELTON, Mrs. Moses—Shot her husband as he slept, Exonerated by coroner’s jury on grounds of self-defense. Mexico, Mo. LANGLEY, Mra, Anna Gaffney —Shot her husband for squan- dering her wages for drink. Dis- charged by judge at request of State’s attorney. San Francisco. MATHESON, Mrs. Lucy—Fo!l- lowed husband to home: of ne- gress and shot him. Jury freed her in 10 minutes. Fort Worth, Tex. MOLLICONE, Mrs, Assunta— Shot her husband after he had abused and mistreated her. Dis- charged by judge at request of District Attorney on self-defense ‘showing. Denver. O’SHAUGHNESSY, Mrs, Fran- cis—Shot her husband, “to have his soul.” Jury acquitted her on insanity plea. New York. PATTERSON, Mrs. Gertrude G. —Shot her husband in the back. Jury believed her story of" abuses and freed her on grounds of self-defense. Denver. STANNARD, Mrs. Laura—Hus- band died from poison said to have been given in liquor cure. Wife acquitted by jury. Ontono- gan, Mich. " SUDALL, Mrs. Mary--Shot her husband in back in July. Jury believed her witnesses and re-

y Here is the story_in brief of what has happened to 12 in the United States recently accused of murdering their hus- i a a te a a a a ee a imi ee ee

~ MRS.CLARA MURRAY. wives To Be Tried JAMES, Mrs. Shot her husband as he asleep. Theory of defense killed him while in a somnambu- St. Louis. Alma Palmer— lay she listic trance. ~~ MURRAY, Mrs. Clara—Shot her husband with rifle. Daughter's story is she killed him he went to. meet another woman. St. Louis. QUINN, Mrs. John M.—Husband ‘found shot in home. Wife said burglar did it. Told similar story when her former husband was killed. Chicago. as Sa WOMAN IN SWCON TIGHTLY GRIPS ON FENDER OF AUTO Rescuers Have Difficulty in Un- locking Her Fingers After Truck Is Stopped.

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Mrs. Charles S. Jackson Asserts She Knew Nothing Aiter Machine Hit Her. Mrs. Charles S. Jackson, who saved her life by clinging to the brass fen- der bar of an automobile gruck which had knocked her down and was drag- ging her, is under surgical treatment at her home, 5589 Page boulevard. After the machine to which she had clung so desperately was stopped, Mrs. Jackson was unconscious, but her grip on the bar was so tight that several men worked for seVeral minutes to loos- en her fingers from it. She was carried into a drug store and remained uncon- scious an hour. Mrs. Jackson was crossing Page boule- vard, at Grand avenue, at 7 p. m. Sat- urday. Just as she was about to step from the street to the sidewalk at the northwest corner, an automobile truck owned by the Larimore-Bowman-Car- penter Ice Cream Co. turned west into Page boulevard from Grand avenue. It struck Mrs. Jackson, -knocking her down. The brass fender bar is 18 inches from the ground and extends across the machine a few inches in advance of the front wheels. Mrs. Jackson sgys she was conscious when she grasped the bar, but can re- member nothing after that. She is sure the truck was running fast and that she heard no horn or gong. She was dragged 50 feet before Harry Andreck, the chauffeur, stopped the ma- chine. He aided bystanders and po- licemen in cAring for Mrs. Jackson, aft- er which he was taken in custody, but later was released on his statement that the accident was unavoidable. Jackson Monday said he believed the accident was the result of carelessness. A small bone in Mrs. Jackson’s left leg was fractured. Both legs were cut and bruised and her scalp was torn.

TAXI STRIKE OFF. At Aaron Taxicab Co. Lindell 438. CARDINALS’ SUITES DEPART Attendants :of New American Hierarchs Leaving Rome. ROME, Dec. 1.—The suites of the new A ceiewtnaa cardinals have begun to dis-

INPOKER RAID PLAYER TRIES 10 HIDE IN BATHTUB 52 Suspects From Four Places |s# Arrested by Police Early Monday Morning.

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14 Players Found Near- Saloon at Grand Avenue and Natural Bridge Road.

Acting on information that there was gambling at the Stoddard Club, located over a nickelodeon next door to Fisher’s saloon, Grand avenue and Natural} Bridge road, Detectives Wells, White, Stevenson and Breen of the gambling squad went there at 2 o’clock Sunday morning. They found no game, but as they were leaving they heard the rattling of chips in an adjoining room over Fisher’s ei, loon. Concealing themselves in a hall- way, they waited until a porter came out for drinks. As the door was re- KISSES STOLEN FROM WIDOW, 50c APIECE Buchanan County Jury Denies Claim for $20,000 and As- sesses Cash Value. ST.. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 11.—That 50 cents apiece is enough to pay for kisses ts! the decision, by inference, of the jury which declined to award Mrs. Mar- garet Bender, a pretty young widow, 000 in her suit against William T. Magot, a wealthy farmer. Mrs. Bender, who is 20 years old, ai- leged that Magot, aged 60, seized her and forcibly kissed her several timuvs. Magot made no denial, but said that upon Mrs. Bender’s demand he paid spot cash fer them. There were seven kisses and he paid her, he said, $3.50. _ Magot, on the stand, declared he liad paid too much for the kisses, and after- ward demanded his money back.

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twinges. Pape’s Cold Compound is the te sult of three years’ research at’ a cost of more than fifty thousand dollars. and contains no quinine, whieh we have conclusively demon- strated fs not effe@ive in the treat- ment of colds or grippe. Take this harmless compound aa directed, with the knowledge that there is no other medicine made anywhere else in the world, which will cure your cold or end grippe misery as promptly and without other assistance or bad afte as a 25-cent package of Pape’s ae Compound, which any druggist in the world can os —ADYV. «

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opened for him to enter, the detectives jj also entered. They found 14 men seat- ed around’ two tables, over which. were spread the white cloths which gamblers use to deaden sounds, and ‘dn _ these were scores in blue chalk. tried to jump into a bathtub. — The men said-.they had merely béen having a friendly game of poker. In the room were found 2000 chips and 2 decks of cards and six table covers that were not in use. The detectives say that one ‘‘kitty’’ was being used for both tables. Taken to Dayton Street Station. All of the men. were arrested and tak- en to the Dayton Street Police ‘Station. They gave their names and addressés as follows: Those arrested’ gave their narhes arid addresses at the Dayton Streét Police: Station as follows: Cooney Heib, 5080 { Page boulevard; Mike ‘Heib, 4023 South Grand: avenue; George Edwards, 6331 Faston avenue; Alvin Ahrens, 3729 Palm street; Benton Taylor, 3658 Pine street; Patrick Monahan, 3718 Garrisgn avenue; Bart Monahan, 3713 Garrison avenue; Theopolis Patton, 3206 Locust street; Theodore F. Berryhill, 5954: Jullan ave- nue; Joseph Slippery, 3007 Spring ave- nue; James Redfield, 4211 Fair avenue; Herman Zerschel, 286 Spring avenue;. E.ert Compton, 3129 Bell avenue, and Mil- ler Leslie, 4122 Clay avenue. Cooney Heib had $948 and Mike Heib had $213. All the others had less than $100 each. The detectives say the game is run by the Heibs. The men were all released on bond, Thirteen Negroeg Arrested. Sergt. trict and several patrolmen arrested .13 negroes in the poolroom conducted by }: King of the Carr Street Dis-.}. One man like new. oc ber US ? Ht ; HTH), { \ One Weber Pianola-Piano . at a reduced price because used This magnificent instrument, a Weber Upright Pianola- Piano of the latest type, with all of the new improve- ments, has been exchanged for a Grand Pianola-Piano. It has:seen very little use—so little in fact, that it is Very rare indeed is the opportunity to secure a genuine Pianola-Piano at anything below the regular price—and only when a used instrument comes into our possession is it possible for us to make an offer like this. Naturally “*“"“stich an ingtrument as this will not long lack a purchaser

perse, seven of those attached to Cardi- nal Farley having departed today for, Cherbourg. William Swanson, 1401 Morghn street, —but we throw the opportunity open to all. turned verdict acquitting her. Sunday afternoon and charged them San Francisco. ——_ -_ ~~~ se eh e,hCUhcrwrDCOCUhlom. i i -—_ ltl the other day on her plea of insanity ter the jury had been out 130 minutes. VERMILYA, Mrs. Louise—Held for murder of Policeman Arthur Swanson was xd x hoy - cause,

he verdict was reached on the third She shot her husband, who was infatuated with another woman, be- she said, she didn’t want him to commit a great sin and imperil his Boul. In a small town near Fort Worth, . Tex., Mrs. Lucy Matheson discovered Lae her husband, before he married her, ad wed a negress in New Mexico. One Ajay she followed him to the home of ’ this negress and shot him to death. The grand jury impaneled to investigate the case reported it had no indictment to return, Judge Blanton of the District Court at Fort Worth sternly reminded the jurors they had a duty to perform and hinted at proceedings for contempt if they failed to perform it. Then they re- turned an indictment. The case. was called for trial imme- Gately. The first 20 men called to the box qualified as jurors. None was asked if he opposed capital punishment. The woman told her story. It took the jury But 10 minutes to reach a verdict of acquittal. . Mrs. Moses Felton of Mexico, Mo.., hot her husband as he lay asleep. She told a harrowing story at the Coroner's inquest of how Felton had laid a pisto! beside his bed and told her he would kill her when he awoke next morning. He awoke in the night and repeated the threat, she testified. Then when he fell asleep again she killed him. The Coro- eens TEN OGRAPHERS who “pound” away on the typewriter from carly me,,. till 6 P. M. and often under a poor light, are giving their eyes lots to do, Be careful, young lady, the ve moment they begin to tt or burn at the close of day, it’s time for you to pro- them—with Glasses. This high-class institution fan be of valuable aid to you |the selection of just the . he At lenses and mountings. \ at . ; Our oa * are exceedingly WyESTERN OPTICAL CO. VALENTINE, Mra. Eleanor— Shot her husband who had often mistreated her. Jury freed her: on grounds of self-defense. Den- ver. the husband died at the wife’s

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ner’s jury: wept as a verdict exonerating her was read. Freed Without Trial. In San Francisco Mrs. Anna Gaffney Langley shot her husband. The young woman is a stenographer. Her version of the affair was that her husband had squandered for liquor, her earnings as a stenographer and had otherwise mis- treated her. When her case was called the District Attorney informed the judge of the Su- perior Court it was useless to try the woman, as the State could see no possi- bility of obtaining a conviction. The judge told Mrs. Langley she was free. Mrs. Laura Stannard, a Spiritualist, was placed on trial in Ontonogan, Mich., for the murder of hee husband by poison. After his death an examination of Stannard’s viscera revealed strych- nine in lethal quantities. A servant tes- tified Mrs. Stannard had told her she gave Stannard a tablet in his coffee to stop his drinking. Wife's Story Belleved. The defense advanced the theory that Stannard had taken the poison as a stimulant while suffering the after ef- fects of a spree and got an overdose. The jury found in favor of this theory. Denver furnished two more ac- quittals. Mrs. Assunta Mollicone was freed on motion of the District Attorney after witnesses for the prosecution had testified that ghe shot her husband in self-defense while he Was beating her and threatening to kill her and her step- son. The prosecutor said the State had no hope of winning a verdict. The Denver jury Which acquitted Mrs. Eleanor Valentine required but two hours to reach a verdict. Her story of the affair was that her husband had a revolver and was about to shoot her when she wrested the weapon aw ay. and turned it upon him. The ninth case to be tried was fin- ished in San Francisco Friday. Last July Mrs. Mary Sudall shot and killed her husband. The fatal bullet wound was in the back. A jury in the Superior rCourt accepted the evidence in her be- half and voted her an acquittal. Of the husband murder cases. remain- ing to be tried. those of Mrs. James and Mrs. Murray, have marked resemblances to sOme of those in which the wives have already won freedom. Mrs. James shot her husband as he slept in their flat, 4457A Lexington avenue. given no lucid explanation of the affair. It has been sugges that her defense ‘will be she’ was *‘ “’ somnambulistic trance when she si wd James,

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ee old, is the chief witness against her. father had made an engagement with another woman, that her mother told him if he went out she would shoot him and that he did go out and she did shoot him. The shooting was done with é small rifle. The defense probably will be that it was accidental.

Wife Slayer Gets 47 Years, DANVILLE, Ill., Dec. 11.—John Hin- ton was found guilty of murdering his wife on Sept. 27. The jury fixed pun- ishment at 47 years in the penitentiary. The jury went out Saturday evening. LT A rR "| EXPECTED TO DROP DEAD ANY DAY,” |

says Mr. R. H. Wise of Clark, Wise Music Co., San Francisco, “from in- tense pain around my heart, due to gas, but one bottle of Baalmann’s Gas Tablets cured me completely, never having even a remembrance of my past experience.” This is only one of many acknowl- edgments of the pronounced success of Baalmann’s Gas Tablets in cur- ing (permanently) gas around: the heart. When your stomach is full of gas and distended, it presses against many other organs, the lungs, liver, kidneys, but more se- riously against the heart. That causes palpitation, interferes with your blood circulation. When you have bad circulation your fingers and feet get numb, go to sleep and feel - cold, nervousness follows and general appréhensive anxious feel- ing with dizziness. All this comes from gas and if you suffer like Mr. Wise did, you can be permanently cured with one 60-cent bottle of Baalmann’s Gas Tablets. You may have taken bottle after bottle of stomach medicines, but you have never taken anything like Baalmann’s Gas Tablets, because they are new and represent the lat- est conception in the treatment of gas around the heart. Try them. These peculiar tablets are sold for 60 cents a bottle by nearly every If not in stock tell him to get them for sie from his whole- saler, or — or money order 332 -Sutter. 8t., ‘ee. ann Co., They will sail from that port on board the Prinzessin Cecilie on Jan. 15. Mer. Dennis O’Connell, auxiliary bish- op of San Francisco, will leave Europe on the same steamer, embarking at Bremen,

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with shooting craps. among those taken. One of the negroes declared the police had placed his money in his pocket In an effort to manufacture evidence against him. The police denied this. ' t Seventeen men were arrested in the home of Michael Kanter, 1015 Franklin avenue, by Sergt. King and a squad of police Sunday morning. Money fotmd in’ a cream pitcher which, the police say. represented the take-off of the house, was taken as evidence along with two pairs of dice. The police say the back porch of Kamper’s home was equippéd with a push button device to warn the players of the approach of police. The alleged “‘look-out” was absent when the raiding party arrived. Sergt. James Moran arrested Thomas Kennedy, a saloon Keeper at 2906 North Nineteenth street, and six others who were caughtin.the basement of the sa- loon at 10:30 pn. m. Saturday. A green tablecloth, dice box, a dime anda sack which, according to. a memorandum in it, had contained $135.55, were confiscated. ag evidence of an alleged craps game. ACCUSED AS ASYLUM. INTRUDER; FREED’ Peter Duffy Promises to’ Leave St. Louis, but Denies Know-* ledge.of Entering Institution. Peter Duffy, accused of breaking into the St. Joseph’s Deaf and Dumb Asy- lum, Grand and Franklifi aVeiues, and’ threatening to choke Sister Agnes Burns, was released by Judge Sanders in the Dayton Street Poliée Court Mon- day on his promise to leave 8t. Louis. A message from the Mother Superior of the order to the Judge said that Sis- ter Agnes would not be permitted to. appear in court as prosecuting witness. Duffy, on the witness stand, denied his guilt. He was arrested several blocks from the asylum after an in- truder had‘ been frightened away by Sister Agnes’ screams Sunday night. HORSE KILLS MAN; STARVES

Body of Recluse Found Dead Under Dead Beast in Stall. OREGON CITY, Ore., Dec. 1L—Lying beneath his horse, which had starved to death in its stall, after kicking its owner to death, Robert Norris, an aged’ recluse, was found yesterday in the barn on his ranch near Maple Lane, thid county. The discovery was made by neighbors, who had not seen Norris for a week.

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never tolerate injustice or corruption, at ways fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose priv- tleged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always re- main devoted to the public welfare, never Be satisfied with mertly printing news, al- ways be drastically independent, never be ‘afraid to attack wrong, whether by pred@ ‘tory plutocracy or predatory poverty. ‘F sore 10, 1907. JOSEPH PULITZER. yr SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL IN eter er Daily and Sunday, one year Dally without Sunday, one year. Sunday only, one year ‘Remit either by postal order, express money order or St. Louis excharge. Post-Dispatch-++++, Su nday Circulation:

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- “A SLAUGHTER OF ST. LOUISANS. Highty-six cases of homicide had attention from the po the courts in St. Louis from Jan,,.1 to Dec. 9,.1911. In addition, there was the case of a fugitive)from justice, successfully prosecuted for a murder 12 years ago, and the case of a chaffeur who killed a man while op- erating a motor car. 7 | What is the aggregate in penalties inflicted for this appalling aggregate in homicide? Precisely 52% years, in addition to two com- mitments for life and gne commitment of a juvenile to the reform school. On pleas of guilty or jury verdicts, convictions have so far been obtained in 20 cases. In 13 of these cases, the punishment was fixed at two years’ imprisonment or less. In three cases, the punishment was only six months in the work- house, In three it was only one year. In sev- en cases two years was imposed. Twenty-two cases have resulted in acquittals or are still pending. No less than 46 of the 86 homicide cases were followed by no indictments. The explanation in some of these cases is that the murderer com- mitted suicide. In others it is that a presump- tion of self-defense or other facts convinced the experienced officers of the law of ~ impossibil- ity of obtaining convictions. The revolt against the Mosaic code of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is creditable to humanity, but it has gone too far. To rob a hen roost may be attended in St. Louis with more personal inconvenience to the offender than to take human life. Circuit Attorney Jones thinks the slaughter of St. Louisans is due to’ the failure to provide proper deterrents, result- ing from jurymen’s unwillingness to accept re- sponsibility for the death penalty. Criminal. history, however, shows that the most effective deterrent is found in the certainty of a. swift and inescapable penalty, if reasonably severe, rather than in the nature of the penalty itself. The slaughter can be stopped and must be stopped.

a * & oe St. Louis women are refused appointments as ratrolmen, while in the suburbs of Chicago wom- er are being cOMmissioned as constables and armed. Thfs is not due to any superiority in the Chicago suburban woman, but to conditions. Thugs render it unsafe for anything less than a constable to appear on the streets. : Rat tw oe i i ie a AND THE COST OF CONOCRETE. a prophetic genius, Thomas A. Edison is ed of all. He is so well loved that all, etting the newspapers, are glad to give his prophetic visions the widest possible publicity. He is now engaged in getting another million dollars worth of free publicity for his prophetic vision of a concrete house, costing only $1000 and giving Newlyweds their start in life with a greater advantage than they could hope for otherwise before becoming grandparents. To al) this, as a prophet of progress, Edison is welcome as far ag the Post-Dispatch is con- ‘te @ cerned: * No bill will-be rendered him. All the}

goods according to the specifications of his pro- phatic inspiration. | At) that point, the hitch supervenes. When he 18 not acting in his capacity of an inspired prophet, Thomas A. Edison is surrounded by a hotde of unprophetic persons, all seeking to combine with him as his wicked partners in Monopoly “cinches,” controlling everything eenius inspires. In .St. Louis, as he has been inspiring millen- fal hopes of deliverance from the lumber trust through concrete, every fresh prophecy he emits in the interest of his concrete millenium ts Iike- ly. ¥ result in tightening the “cinch” on all that and possible in concrete. = = a a News dispatches say that more than 500 secret Service men are at work on the dynamite con- ‘piracy. How many secret agents does the Fed-

| are being gained every day. THE AMERICAN QUESTION. In his address at the Temple Israel protest meeting Rabbi Harrison said the enforcement of our rights in the Russian treaty had a pro- found interest for Jews beyond its immediate effect, because it might lead ‘to the bringing of American public opinion and governmental] in- fluence effectually to bear against Russian per- secution of the Jews. That is true. The influ- ence of the American people should always be exerted strongly for humanity. But our present submission to Russia’s inso- lent treaty-breaking discrimination against Jewish citizens has a far-reaching effect in the opposite direction. When we accept this discrim- ination on ‘account of race and religion we per- mit Russia to instil into our treaty, Our con- stitution, our laws, her own religious intolerances and race hatreds. We tacitly approve the savage medievalism, the bitter persecution and the brutal outrages which disgrace Russia and shock the civilized world. We accept the en- grafting of the barbaric policies of inhuman des- potism on our Democracy. More than this -Russia’s course igs an attack on a fundamental American principle. Equality of rights is guaranteed by the Constitution to every American.citizen. It recognizes no dis- tinctions of race or religions. Shal] we permit Russia to read into our treaty citizenship distinetions noWhere recognized ~ in our Constitution, laws or treaties? Shall we per- mit Russia to enforce a discrimination in Amer- ican citizenship obnoxious to her principles and institutions? This is the American question. If one treaty may be violated with impunity all treaties are subject to violation. If one American citizen may safely be discriminated against all are liable to discrimination. We have wasted half a century in polite and ineffectual protest. We should now enforce our rights. We should make Russia understand that the price of American friendship and treaty re- lations is fidelity to treaty obligations and justice to American citizens. If Russia will not pay this just price we should abrogate the Rus- sian treaties. Through our action in the Russian matter we should make it clear to all nations that what- ever their religious bigotries, race prejudices and class injustices they cannot inflict them upon us; they cannot on account of race or religion dis- criminate and put the badge of inferiority or the brand of dishonor on any American citizen. La A Le rT er Reports from Washington indicate that effect- ive work is being done to get the Republican convention.

— We have the money, the convention hall; the hotels—everything nec- essary to success. ——_—____—— #0-4— WHITE HOUSE ECONOMY. There is no intention of appealing to the Amer- ican sense of humor when it is announced at the opening of Congress that “Taft plans to save $21,- 000,000." When the figures are head-lined, the amount seems so respectabte_ that it might prom- isé’ @ tam paign-for the restoration of expenditures at Washington to the “needs of government economically administered.” | The sense of humor operates only when this is considered in connection with totals. We can read of an annual total of three-quarters of a billion dollars in Arabic numerals or in Roman letters, but after reading it, the only idea: we can have of its meaning is developed by comparison. Saving $21,000,000 a year gut of it is compara- tively the same economy which may be illustrated in family life, if any family now struggling to “make ends meet” sticceeds in economizing an- nually to the extent of 30 cents. Under existing conditions, depending largely on Washington methods, even that much may be a triumph. Clas- sically, they said of Hannibal that it was a tri- ymph of the highest class to get away from him, with nothing at all left. We may need clas- sical precedents to understand when we are well off under White House theories of economy,

‘The “last of the Moros” has once more been ‘captured. = = — = = A MISTAKEN SOCIOLOGIST. Count Vay, a Hungarian sociologist who has been studying England at first hand, says that the English race is declining morally and intel- lectually, because of the deleterious influence of a corrupting American “invasion,” which, he con- tends, has had a deplorable effect on Britain’s smart set, and foreshadows the decay of the na- tion. The count is illogical and ill-informed. British aristocracy is of little real account. Its influence for good or’ bad is negligible. It its pennyweight. As long as the great middle class which constitutes the real nation remains true to its ideals of honesty, morality and industry, the fate of Britain is in no danger. In only one respect is Count Vay correct. The British smart-set is lazy, immoral and -generally useless. Fortunately, its reprehensible condition is no menace to the nation, because that condition is a matter of common knowledge throughout Britain. Instead of leading to national downfall, it merely points the way to the relegation of titled degenerates to private life, a change which might .be .effected tomorrow without the least

Pose Dispatch asks is that He wil) deliver” they" ein nnore. le Geatinics of the nation. CECE RES PN “Se Se If Secretary Wilson really wants to get rid of 1Dr. Wiley why not transfer him to the Depart- ment of the Interior? HELPING THE UNEMPLOYED. Like every other large city, St. Louis has many unemployed. Little has been done toward caring for them; nothing toward dealing with the gen- eral problem of unemployment, which is the re- sponsible factor in a surprisingly large proportion of such crimes as burglary, highway robbery and petty thievery generally. A plank bed serves only to keep its occupant from freezing to death. Chief Young’s proposed morning cup of coffee and chunk of bread are a makeshift. These are better than nothing. But they are not enough. St. Louis should have a municipal lodging house, scientifically operated,

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artisan and manual laborer, out anyone ‘rom | any walk of life, who through fault or misfor- tune, is out of work.. Of these thefe are five classes: The temporarily unemployed able and willing to work; temporarily unemployed unable or unwilling to work; those whose employment is threatened by some disturbing factor, and who are almost permanently unemployed, but able and willing to work; the inefficient unemployed who cannot support themselves; and the permanently unemployed who refu-e work, Each of these different classes requires differ- ent treatment. The efficiency with which the mu- nicipal lodging house handles tnese different cases has been set forth so clearly by Raymond Robins in recent addresses in St. Louis describing the Chicago municipal institution that the need of a similar provision in St. Louis is apparent. A lodging house would classify our unemployed, separate loafers from iaborers, find work for those able to work, provide proper care for the sick, and keep professional idlers at the work- house until they are ready to reform if they want to reform. It would reduce crime and vice. = = — — a The dangers of coal mining are again ilus- trated in the Briceville disaster, where an explo- sion entombed 100 men. But these dangers can be greatly reduced by scientific precautions which should be enforced by law. Twelve men guarded the two.McNamaras while they were being taken to the penitentiary, the Sheriff holding that the 80-per-cent dynamiters required pretty nearly 100 per cent in precau- tions.

Adi —__— |= Scientists have discovered how to tell one’s age from one’s pulsebeats. But they needn’t imagine that their discovery will stop holding hands—not even in Boston. = = * LETTERS FROM THE PEOPTE Harney Heights Improvements. — To thé Editor of the Post-Dispatch. The people residing in the 2200 and 2300 blocks on Geraldine avenue, Harney Heights subdivision, would like to know why the city is going to com- pel them to install a new sewer system through Geraldine avenue when there is at present a sewer in good working order sufficiently large to carry sewage and drainage from the above. section. The grade of the present sewer is sufficiently high tc properly connect with the new sewer now being constructed through cross alley. Why, then, this unnecessary expense to the property owners, also the obstruction of the street which is the only made street in that section? When the present sewer was installed it was the understanding that it was to be connected to the main sewer eventue ally. PROPERTY OWNER,

Free Farm Schools. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Many country boys and girls seek their fortunes in cities and find them, but for the city youth the game seems to be unequal. Comparatively seldom do we observe our young people going to work on farm and in villages and making a suc- cess of it, Possibly ignorance is the cause of failure. The day is probably not far distant when the State will establish larger and more numerous agricultural colleges, and also many free com- mon farm schools, giving instruction to boys and girls in this, the most healthful and useful em- ployment on the face of the earth, OBSERVER,

Maine’s Medical Law. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Your splendid editorial, “Medical Rights’. in Missouri,” deserves comment, as it clearly states the issues that this league is contending for. In the State of Maine these facts have been iegally recognized by statutory enactment. The Maine medical law is destined to become a_-pattern for future legislation on medical matters, as it is sensible, safe and liberal. It specifically exempts all those who do not use dangerous drugs or sur- gical instruments, making this the line of cleay- age between what is and is not considered the Icgal or illegal? practice of medicine. You are entirely right when: you say that “a rule that will not interfere with medical liberty * * * and yet give no latitude to incompetent quacks and unethical practitioners who prey on the fears of: patients is difficult.” One of the reasons why it is hard to make such a rule is be- cause many of the medical charlatans and incapa- bles are protected by a state license to practice medicine and surgery, without let or hindrance, even to writing an unrestricted death. certificate for their own cases, Let the public withhold its judgment of that growing class of drugless healers who are con- scientiously and without harm or injury to their patients, striving faithfully to reduce the sum of human sickness and misery. * OSCAR EVERTZ, Secretary Missour!l Medical Liberty League, Protection for Horses. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch, In answer to “A Mother’s Protest,” in Tuesday's Post-Dispatch, about poor horses standing unpro- tected in the cold, will she communicate with Mrs, Bohn, 3336 Arlington avenue, or 2218 Plover ave- nue. She will find some one in sympathy with her, about the cruel neglect of the poor animals. It seems as if some owners of horses are utterly devoid of humane feeling or pity. A poor horse is treated just like a machine. If the owners would hire’ humane men for drivers there would not be such cruel sights. PITY FOR ANIMALS. The Right to Work. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Your editorial, “Chief Young’s Wise Plan,” in which you advocate putting the philanthropic (sic) work of providing shelter for homeless and des- titute men in St. Louis, under police control, con- tains some good points, but this work is not “phil- anthropy,” but justice. Society, in a great ma- jority of cases, has put these men where they are, and it is but right that society should make a sincere effort to put them back where they were before they became a burdén to the commu- nity. i Every man, woman and child has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To get these, they must have the “Right to Work,” which they do not now have, but which they will: have if the Right to Work Amendment petitions which are now being circulated throughout the State by the Right to Work League of Missouri, obtain the necessary number of signatures. I speak emphat- ically because, in all the congressional districts where these petitions have been circulated by the League members, or its agents, the citizens of the small towns and cities, and the farmers are most enthusiastic over the proposition, and promise to circulate petitions from now until June 1, 1912. “Why not put this work in the hands of a repre- sentative Citizens’ Committee, say of five; one from the church, one from the legal profession, one from the physicians, one from the trades unions and one from the Civic Federations? This committee to have full control over the work, with authority to call on the police if necessary, This is ‘the only sane, sensible se right way to handle re rte eee ast ted Wa — Ne pata ae 4 ee S * ar ‘ies masts a j nc sate : % #. he A eh ch NN te tC ON RB RAN Rt EEN ANS Rs OA A eS POOR a Sc

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TURN ’EM LOOSE. From the Denver Republican. An alarm is swiftly sounded In the shadowed dens of crime, For a murd’rer has met justice In the chair of death. ‘Tis time Steps were taken to abolish Laws that lead to chair or noose; What’s a life that it should matter? Free the shackles!—Turn ’em loose. Devils in the form of women Frequently their husbands slay, For the merely primal reason That they’re simply in the way. But a verdict of acquittal It is easy to induce; Sure she’s guilty—that don’t matter; She’s.a woman—turn ’er loose. What if bombs are placed in buildings Closely packed with toiling men And a score or more of victims Blown to atoms. Well, what then? Would you hunt the fiendish murd’rers Bring to trial? What's the use? Judge and jury both will argue They're not guilty—turn ’em loose. What if murders are increasing At a woeful, rapid pace, What if knives and bombs and pistols Decimate the human race; Would you punish the assassins? Shut them in the calaboose? That would be inhuman, brutal, Cut their bonds and turn ’em loose.

FAMB! From the Pittsburg Dispatch. Senator Wetmore also announces that he will retire from public life at the end of this Congress. He has been in the United States Senate for 15 years, and is known from one end of Rhode Island, which State he represents, clear to the other end. ——se

AXIOMATTO, From the Pittsburg Gazette-Times, Arnold Bennett says he will ‘‘tell the the city.” What Chicago wants is mercy, not justice. A PROBLEM FOR BURNS, From the Kansas City Star. Some time when Detective Burns has nothing else to do he should stop over in Niles, Mich., and decide whether Kimmel is or isn’t. aaieeeeee }

Unethical Mr, Smoot. From the Washington Post. Senator Smoot has committed a breach of professional etiquette by trying to de- fine “what is an insurgent”’ without sell- ing his piece to a 10-cernt magazine,

Same Thing. From the Catholic Standard and Times. Miss Gaddie: Enemies, are you? Why, I thought she loved you not long ago, Miss Bright: So she did; and she loves me not now.

Comprehensive. From the New York Times. “What's Volapuk, Dr. Schmitz?’ “It is ze unifersal langvage!’’ “and who speaks it?” “Nopotty!”

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Written for the Post-Dispatch by Clark McAdams. | TE DECEMBER i1. Only fourteen days till Santy, Seeing what we're going through, Drops a message down the chimney And apologizes, too. PLEA FOR PUBLIC SHINNY. The efficiency argument for games other than golf in Forest Park is very | effective. We are told that 2176 persons | could play a game of baseball every day | on the 100 acres required for a game of |, golf by only 192 golf players. Similarly, | 3168 persons could play a game of soccer football, as against the 192 who could get in 18 holes of golf. Six thousand could play a game of tennis, and 8000 could participate in a race on a running track. Moreover, there is shinny, which very much resembles golf. Approximately 20,000 people at a time could play shinny on a 100-acre tract. A game would re-. quire about 15 minutes, or, that is, every- body would have been whacked over the | shins enough to want to quit in that time, or thereabouts. Therefore, 80,000 could play a game in an hour, and in eight hours 640,000 people could get in their 15 minutes at shinny. The real beauty of this, too, is that, in addition to affording athletic diver- sion for virtually everyone in the city, it would not offend the golf players. As be- | tween shinny and golf the difference is almost inappreciable. About the only, difference is that shinny requires but) one green as against golf's 18. The ob-' jective in both is the same—that is, to get the taw in the hole. As a popular) sport, shinny has the advantage of re- quiring a single and inexpensive club_ and a tin can instead cf a rubber ball | costing 75 cents. The fun is about alike. So, too, is the irritation.

| Has the Postoffice Bug. John Bell, a Macon County man, has been sent to prison three times already for rob- bing postoffices and will soon go up for his fourth term, having confessed to robbing the Jacksonville postoffice. Bell is 4s crazy about a postoffice ss are some politicians.—Cass County (Mwu.) Leader. Aviator Rodgers finished his flight across the continent yesterday. He beat only one time record for the distance— the burro,

Out of the Tin Box. J. S. Shackelford of Bates City, rummag- ing through old family papers last week, found a promissory note of the Bank of the United States for $20, which was issued in 1801. Mr. Shackelford took the nete to Kan- Why couldn't Congress appropriate something for us to spend Christmas?

ABOUT BLOODHOUNDS, ° Bloodhounds are a little too promis- cuous with their reflections to serve the purposes of a sensitive society very long Two of them put on the trail of a mur- derer in one “f the hamlets west of St. Iouls yeusterduy promptly repaired to the home of the village biucksmith, who ‘had no difficulty proving an alib!, bu: was none the less embarrassed. This recalls the occasion upon which a pa‘k of them following the trail of train rob | bers who had taken a large sum of moncy from an express car just outside the city limits made a bee line for the downtown financial section and alrost threw respectable banking cir ‘es fnto a panic of embarrassment. They have too lively a sense of hu- mor, or something. Before Cigarettes. Mrs. Crenshay of Hannibal says she is 8&2 years old and that she has been smoking a Pipe since she was 18. She attributes in great part her long life and good health to the use vf tobacco. She still has good health and is active. She is the mother of 11 children and has survived all but two. She has been married twice and both her husbands served in the Union army during the Civil War. — Cass County (Mo.) Leader. ame Last call for early shopping,

Perhaps the politest intimation ever addressed was that of the Governor of Bombay Jail to the man about to be hanged. The execution was fixed for 1 m., and the Governor was to sail for England on leave two hours later. But the time for the boat's sailing was | changed from 3 p. m. to midday. The Governor was equal to the occasion. He addressed an official communication to the convict as follows: “The Gov- ernor presents his compliments to Mr. X., and desires to know whether it would suit his convenience equally well to be hanged at 10 a. m. instead of 1 >. m.?°

During the -secent visit of President Taft and several governors to the Hutchinson Fair, the officers of the Kansas National Guard appeared in full uniform. Senator Charles Huffman of Columbus, regimental surgeon, among others, was togged out in gold braid and brass buttons. On the morning that Taft arrived Huffman went into a bar- ber shop to get shaved. After he had discussed the weather and the Presi- dent and the fair and other things, the barber’s conversation began to lag. Aft- er admiring Huffman’s uniform and gold braid and brass buttons, he asked: “How many pieces tn your band?” Said a little Georgia boy, whose fa- ther had just been elected to lature of that State: “Ma,

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- “A SLAUGHTER OF ST. LOUISANS. HKighty-six cases of homicide had attention from the police or the courts in St. Louis from Jan,,.1 to Dec. 9,.1911. .In addition, there was the case of a fugitive from justice, successfully prosecuted for a murder 12 years ago, and the case of a chaffeur who killed a man while op- erating a motor car. ? What is the aggregate in penalties inflicted} for this appalling aggregate in homicide? Precisely 52% years, in addition to two com- mitments for life and gne commitment of a juvenile to the reform school. On. pleas of guilty or jury verdicts, convictions have so far been obtained in 20 cases. In 13 of these cases, the punishment was fixed at two years’ imprisonment or less. In three cases, the punishment was only six months in the work- house. In three it was only one year. In sev- en cases two years was imposed. Twenty-two cases have resulted in acquittals or are still pending. No less than 46 of the 86 homicide cases were followed by no indictments. The explanation in some of these cases is that the murderer com- mitted suicide. In others it is that a presump- tion of self-defense or other facts convinced the experienced officers of the law of the impossibil- ity of obtaining convictions. The revolt against the Mosaic code of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is creditable to humanity, but it has gone too far. To rob a hen roost may be attended in St. Louis with more personal inconvenience to the offender than to take human life. Circuit Attorney Jones thinks the slaughter of St. Louisans is due to’ the failure to provide proper deterrents, result- ing from jurymen’s unwillingness to accept re- Criminal, history, however, shows that the most effective deterrent is found in the certainty of a swift and lnescapable penalty, if reasonably severe, rather than in the nature of the penalty itself. The slaughter can be stopped and must be stopped. > » » 5 A

, —: St. Louis women are refused appointments as ratrolmen, while in the suburbs of Chicago wom- er are being cOmmissioned as constables and Chicago suburban woman, but to _ conditions. Thugs render it unsafe for anything less than a wpyedie to appear on the streets. : i, Lin i ~~ = =

AND THE COST OF CONCRETE. a prophetic genius, Thomas A. Edison is rt a a of all. He is so well loved that all, uding the newspapers, are glad to give his prophetic visions the widest possible publicity. He is now engaged in getting another million dollams worth of free publicity for his prophetic vision of a concrete house, costing only $1000 and giving Newlyweds their start in life with a greater advantage than they could hope for otherwise before becoming grandparents. To al] this, as a prophet of progress, Edison is welcome as far ag the Post-Dispatch is con- cerned: No bill will-be rendered him. All the Post-Dispatch asks is that He will deliver’ fhe" goods according to the specifications of his pro- phatic inspiration. , that point, the hitch supervenes. When hé 18 not acting in his capacity of an inspired prophet, Thomas A. Edison is surrounded by a hotde of unprophetic persons, all seeking to combine with him as his wicked partners in Monopoly “cinches,” controlling everything eenius inspires. In St. Louis, as he hag been inspiring millen- fal hopes of deliverance from the lumber trust through concrete, every fresh prophecy he emits in the interest of his concrete millenium is Iike- pe result in tightening the “cinch” on all that % and possible in concrete. = = rer News dispatches say that more than 500 secret service men are at work on the dynamite con- comer. How many secret agents does the Fed-|

. nett of af wctade ice The Daited} . 4 a a ie ch ie a ’ 3 4 tN a ay : k ay ” Ses ot THE AMERICAN QUESTION. In his address at the Temple Israel protest meeting Rabbi Harrison said the enforcement of our rights in the Russian treaty had a pro- found interest for Jews beyond its immediate effect, because it might lead ‘to the bringing of American public opinion and governmental] in- fluence effectually to bear against Russian per- secution of the Jews. That is true. The influ- ence of the American people should always be exerted strongly for humanity: But our present submission to Russia’s inso- lent treaty-breaking discrimination against Jewish citizens has a far-reaching effect in the opposite direction. Wheniwe accept this discrim- ination on ‘account of race and religion we per- mit Russia to instil into our treaty, Our con- stitution, our laws, her own religious intolerances and race hatreds. We tacitly approve the savage medievalism, the bitter persecution and the brutal outrages which disgrace Russia and shock the civilized world. We accept the en- grafting of the barbaric,policies of inhuman des- potism on our Democracy. More than this -Russia’s course igs an attack cn a fundamental American principle. Equality of rights is guaranteed by the Constitution to every American citizen. It recognizes no dis- tinctions of race or religions. Shall] we permit Russia to read into our treaty citizenship distinctions noWhere recognized . in our Constitution, laws or treaties? Shall we per- mit Russia to enforce a discrimination in Amer- ican citizenship obnoxious to her principles and institutions? This is the American question. If one treaty may be violated with impunity all treaties are subject to violation. If one American citizen may safely be discriminated against all are liable to discrimination. We have wasted half a century in polite and ineffectual protest. We should now enforce our rights. We-should make Russia understand that the price of American friendship and treaty re- lations is - fidelity to treaty obligations and justice to American citizens. If Russia will not pay this just. price we should abrogate the Rus- sian treaties. Through our action in the Russian matter we should make it clear to all nations that what- ever their religious bigotries, race prejudices and class injustices they cannot inflict them upon us; they cannot on account of race or religion dis- criminate and put the badge of inferiority or the brand of dishonor on any American citizen. = =] eS ite Reports from Washington indicate that effect- ive work is being done to get the Republican convention. Converts to the cause of St. are being gained every day. We have the money, the convention hall; the hotels—everything nec- essary to success. jiienadih Tiina dain ' WHITE HOUSE ECONOMY. There is no intention of appealing to the Amer- ican sense of humor when it is announced at the opening of Congress that “Taft plans to save $21,- 000,000.” When the figures are head-lined, the amount seems 80 respectabie that it might prom- isé' @ tam paign-ter the restoration of expenditures at Washington to the “needs of government economically administered.” , The sense of humor operates only when this is considered in connection with totals. We can read of an annual total of three-quarters of a billion dollars in Arabic numerals or in Roman letters, but after reading it, the only idea: we can have of its meaning is developed by comparison. Saving $21,000,000 a year @ut of it is compara- | tively the same economy which may be illustrated in family life, if any family now struggling to “make ends meet” sticceeds in economizing an- nually to the extent of 30 cents. Under existing conditions, depending largely on Washington methods, even that much may be a triumph. Clas- sically, they said of Hannibal that it was a tri- ymph of the highest class to get away from him, with nothing at all left. We may need clas- sical precedents to understand when we are well off under White House theories of economy.

‘The “last of the Moros” has once more been -captured. T= a= * — a A MISTAKEN SOCIOLOGIST. Count Vay, a Hungarian sociologist who has been studying England at first hand, says that the English race is declining morally and intel- lectually, because of the deleterious influence of a corrupting American “invasion,” which, he con- tends, has had a deplorable effect on Britain’s smart set, and foreshadows the decay of the na- tion. The count is illogical and ill-informed. British aristocracy is of little real account. Its influence for good or: bad is negligible. It is pennyweight. As long as the great middle class

which constitutes the real nation remains true to its ideals of honesty, morality and industry, the fate of Britain is in no danger. In only one respect is Count Vay correct. The British smart set is lazy, immoral and generally useless. Fortunately, its reprehensible condition is no menace to the nation, because that condition is a matter of common knowledge throughout Britain. Instead of leading to national downfall, it merely points the way to the relegation of titled degenerates to private life, a change which might be .effected tomorrow without the least ‘All effégt ‘upon the destinies of the nation. a -O-Q———n- If Secretary Wilson really wants to get rid of Dr. Wiley why not transfer him to the Depart- ment of the Interior? HELPING THE UNEMPLOYED. Like every other large city, St. Louis has many unemployed. Little has been done toward caring for them; nothing toward dealing with the gen- eral problem of unemployment, which is the re- sponsible factor in a surprisingly large proportion of such crimes as burglary, highway robbery and petty thievery generally. A plank bed serves only to keep its occupant from freezing to death. Chief Young’s proposed morning cup of’ coffee and chunk of bread are a makeshift. These are better than nothing. But they are not enough. St. Louis should have a municipal lodging house, scientifically operated, as such places are opnducted in New York, Bos. ton, Chicago and other yea tee cities to deal

de nor enty eal on Louis. any walk of life, who through fault or misfor- tune, is out of work.. Of these thefe are five classes: The temporarily unemployed able and willing to work; temporarily unemployed unable or unwilling to work; those whose employment is threatened by some disturbing factor, and who are almost permanently unemployed, but able and willing to work; the inefficient unemployed who cannot support themselves; and the permanently unemployed who refu-.e work. Each of these different classes requires differ- ent treatment. The efficiency with which the mu- nicipal lodging house handles these different cases has been set forth so clearly by Raymond Robins in recent addresses in St. Louis describing the Chicago municipal institution that the need of a similar provision in St. Louis is apparent. A lodging house would classify our unemployed, separate loafers from iaborers, find work for those able to work, provide proper care for the sick, and keep professional idlers at the work- house until they are ready to reform if they want to reform. It would reduce crime and vice. = = a ae The dangers of coal mining are again ilus- trated in the Briceville disaster, where an explo- sion entombed 100 men. But these dangers can be greatly reduced by scientific precautions which should be enforced by law. Twelve men guarded the two.McNamaras while they were being taken to the penitentiary, the Sheriff holding that the 80-per-cent dynamiters required pretty nearly 100 per cent in precau- tions.

a Ai ~~ =e Scientists have discovered how to tell one’s age from one’s pulsebeats. But they needn’t imagine that their discovery will stop holding hands—not even in Boston. = = * eS LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Harney Heights Improvements. — To thé Editor of the Post-Dispatch. The people residing in the 2200 and 2300 blocks on Geraldine avenue, Harney Heights subdivision, would like to know why the city is going to com- pel them to install a new sewer system through Geraldine avenue when there is at present a sewer in good working order sufficiently large to carry sewage and drainage from. the above section. The grade of the present sewer is sufficiently high tc properly connect with the new sewer now being constructed through cross alley. Why, then, this unnecessary expense to the property owners, also the obstruction of the street which is the only made street in that section? When the present sewer was installed it was the understanding that it was to be connected to the main sewer eventue ally. PROPERTY OWNER.

Free Farm Schools. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Many country boys and girls seek their fortunes in cities and find them, but for the city youth the game seems to be unequal. Comparatively seldom do we observe our young people going to work on farm and in villages and making a suc- cess of it, Possibly ignorance is the cause of failure. The day is probably not far distant when the State will establish larger and more numerous agricultural colleges, and also many free com- mon farm schools, giving instruction to boys and girls in this, the most healthful and useful em- ployment on the face of the earth, OBSERVER.

_ Maine’s Medical Law. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Your splendid editorial, “Medical Rights. in Missouri,” deserves comment, as it clearly states the issues that this league is contending for. In the State of Maine these facts have been legally recognized by statutory enactment. The Maine medical law is destined to become a pattern for future legislation on medical matters, as it is sensible, safe and liberal. It specifically exempts all those who do not use dangerous drugs or sur- gical instruments, making this the line of cleay- age between what is and is not considered the legal or illega? practice of medicine. You are entirely right when:.you say that “a rule that will not interfere with medical liberty * * * - and yet give no latitude to incompetent quacks and unethical practitioners who prey on the fears of: patients is difficult.” One of the reasons why it is hard to make such a rule is be- cause many of. the medical charlatans and incapa- bles are protected by a state license to practice medicine and surgery, without let or hindrance, even to writing an unrestricted death certificate for their own cases, Let the public withhold its judgment of that growing class of drugless healers who are con- ‘scientiously and without harm or injury to their yo patients, striving faithfully to reduce the sum of human sickness and misery. * OSCAR EVERTZ, Secretary Missouri Medical Liberty League, Protection for Horses. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch, In answer to “A Mother’s Protest,” in Tuesday’s Post-Dispatch, about poor horses standing unpro- tected in the cold, will she communicate with Mrs, Bohn, 333@,Arlington avenue, or 2218 Plover ave- nue. She will find some one in sympathy with her, about the cruel neglect of the poor animals, It seems as if some owners of horses are utterly devoid of humane feeling or pity. A poor horse is treated just like a machine, If the owners would hire’ humane men for drivers there would not be such cruel sights. PITY FOR ANIMALS, , The Right to Work. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Your editorial, “Chief Young's Wise Plan,” in which you advocate putting the philanthropic (sic) work of providing shelter for homeless and des- titute men in St. Louis, under police control, con- tains some good points, but this work is not “phil- anthropy,” but justice. Society, in a great ma- jority of cases, has put these men where they are, and it is but right that society should make a sincere effort to put them back where they were before they became a burdén to the commu- nity. Every man, woman and child has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To get these, they must have the “Right to Work,” which they do not now have, but which they will: have if the Right to Work Amendment petitions which are now being circulated throughout the State by the Right to Work League of Missouri, obtain the necessary number of signatures. I speak emphat- ically because, in all the congressional districts where these petitions have been circulated by the League members, or its agents, the citizens of the small towns and cities, and the farmers are most enthusiastic over the proposition, and promise to circulate petitions from now until June 1, 19132. ‘Why not put this work in the hands of a repre- sentative Citizens’ Committee, say of five; one from the church, one from the legal profession, one from the physicians, one from the trades unions and one from the Civic Federations? This committee to have full control over the work, with authority to call on the police if necessary, This thecguention wot oh lp

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en a “SO THIS IS MY HOME?” == Toes oo, x este sees GF rn ao ee EEE a, we re ee wee. . = i al aan > acy re ——— a e.--e0) ae = by telephone, Please L. E. D.—We have no A eee riv S. B. T.—Wila W winters os Wine “On. raat book Pubiie Litrasy? 7 @ managing edi- G. & W.. IR.—See re = a city editor. — To vate in & ledge, the voter hiniseit must be prese SAM.—Ne premium ce eal spelling a word with’ simate letters, JAKE.—To color naphtha red or pink, try printer’s red ink, UNTRADE. ow 2 not too to learn to operate a lino otyper —The letters on B. F. ly are | the initials of designers or mi Sins aa ) tar from x ie : GERARD.—To remove slate roof try benzien or AMATEUR.—We have no back numbers of the fortune telling date. COUNT Y.—No is exempt from law. I WANT TO = ha yr is J. P. P.—*Clothes-chute” te correct, thou 44 Webster gives shoot. as one definition ‘of chute, OW—Not ur “between : T. By a two-thirds vote - =F pal Ason™y may gepee Ae) Mentet. | of, aes % | veto by t J.—Careful sanap ri on suede shoes. tion for afer 8 them black. og Rela she is to be your give her @ Rice, oe for Ch Chri tmas if you THLEGRAPHER.—Most. employ ladies as tel h 1 See telegraph superin offices. Ss. C.—You are not ne, to refund money to ou recover operty ave been stoién, BE. J. H.—If already c the author you need copyright it, but you must pay alty for using it. , tee PREPLATE.— of pl an Wright machine, 4 feet; aeroplane, feet. No are made H. T. A.—If you Da tes names are on the vb ige 5 duty to report the law You will uae Se >unis? ah ; w unless you are a party to raud. ad mnunieimeiien vi e's are 19 ey ira JONES.—In a mother usually you men to a girl may do so on her Such invitation shou Mgmt a ether ort aad bog ee ntimate friend. ‘ab F. E. L—Tom and Jerry: gether 4 eggs and 6 ot” onenam r: Boat cee sugar until Pour over it = ft. Croix rum, beating co astly 1 pint: bofling Sater. | with egg beater and serve —e with grated nutmeg on ee glasses in yen of hot water out as need OTTO—We do cory is Sarees a times ebnltsreiee: ull of water —, , ri fee over the sur! ~ ) aroun will “float ot ane

xed with ch et the water, ana ier, will sink to the ‘bottom - glass. ANXIOUS.—Eastern Washington. which Spokane Ig situat mate like that of the Idaho, with extremes o between 30 below and 112 : est recorded Denver temperature, # degrees below zero. Average January temperature, 29 above. Cold weather, December, Jan February. There aré no riods of dry and wet yee ie mean annual precip ‘ation ti. inches, . i—We do not advise use of electricity for the. superfluous hair. A med says: “The only sual and sat : method of yg ite superfluous known to the snedie cal needle,” even th : te as to day is the pth instrument average me “cannot, be quires a man who | siderable experience, so : electric needle as to seat a the pi a petairant dM Dp nute scar in ple say they: , A eakin. Som § by..1 tweezers, srayness if and “store” tea er. bade ng f in whic toes have been remedy. . The b arqee at to rau Wusther chreaintanl of the stomach mbtfal Go nto i is very B rey oms: early ew) ture in the m marolee: | the afternoon, loss of cough, persisting: towne & to person with con to tuberculin. Parly ture in ne mornns. poe 4 mt ie uber re ale Tachi in ar a pbs: Korea cal examination, reac eason parece as bul a. taxation, under the | HUMANE. ane 7 + souri, tam ee Olive; secretary, aes se e ee 1 we ; : omach 4 ae at stomach develope. re a tee ——— 4

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By S. ELGER BENET Copyright, 1909, Short Stories Co., Ltd.

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HE smail plantation was like an exaggerated green cart wheel with the house for the hub, the radiating lines of sweet potatoes, onions, cab- bage and tomatoes for spokes and the various roads for the rim. The space around the weather-beaten walis was coo] and dim-shaded by trees whose branches met over the road. A little yellow soil glistened in the gun; the hot air quivered over the hol- lows, but a strong breeze swept the long passage from door to door. Three women stood about and a girl with a basket in her hand looked with serious eyes through the half open .door of the adjoining room. “Mother thought Mr. Harvy might be able to take a little broth. Sometimes sick folks enjoy things that are brought from other folks’ houses even if you're not as nice as what they have at home.” “Lor!” cried one of the sisters, ‘“what a time we do have. Nobody knows but ourselves.”’ She stood with her body thrown by one ide, holding her right wrist in her left ves d. She poured out her words in a gruff, injured tone, and regarded the girl jealously. The other answered in a high voice: “"Deed they don’t. What we gone through with all these years. tongue can’t tell. Him allays a-sayin’ he’s growin’ weaker an’ weaker. Said las’ night he wouldn't be here this mornin’. He’s al’ays a sayin’ that.”’ “Now you hush, you girls,’’ said the mother, “he ain’t a hurtin’ nobody a-layin’ there. Poor soul!” The girl asked in a whisper: Donte you think we'd better not talk ef ewee! He don’t hear. You could holler in both ears and he wouldn't. You knowed he was deaf.” “It always seems that people must know things when they have their eyes wide ,open, even if their hearing isn’t A distant sound prevented Little’s re- ply. She ran with her sister to the door and they peered from under their hands at a cloud of dust on the public road. “That's Tom Dukes. Wonder where he’s goin’ to? “Taint none at all. That’s Wash Glea- repeated Li = » By “Wash Gleason!”’ in scorn, “I reckon it ain A boy crossed the shaded grass oh his Way to the field. Both called: “Jack—Jack! Who's the stones?’’ - “Ain’t it Tom Dukes?” “Ain't it Wash Gleason?’’\ ..6 stopped whistling long enough to that goin’ over SO man Cook.” Each turned upon the other. There!” they cried exultantly. “You wasn't right. “Neither was you.’ Ta | one as near 4 it as you did.’ “So--did I.’’ The girl asked to distract them: “How did he rest last night?’ “To hear him talk he never do rest well. Seem tike nobody’s good enough to do any thing for him here. Nothin’ do suit. Wanted outsiders a-comin’ in an’ doin’ for me all the time. Said esterday he wasn't comf-table. No- ody couldn't prop him up in bed, like you’. mother n’ r fix his pillers. Jack an’ me went in an’ we hauled him all Over the bed from one end to the other for well night an hour. Didn't do a bit o’ good, him a-complainin’ al] the time an’ a-Sayin’ he wouldn't be here this time tomorrow. We got to stay home, too. Can't all go away at.a time. Mother she was layin’ out to go to Gran’ En- campment, lookin’ forward to it all pera Didn’t get off the place one ep.”

oD Mix gathered her apron in her hands ‘an@ mopped her face in circles as she talked. | “Now you hush. He ain’t a-hyrtin’ nobody layin’ there. It don’t matter about me. [ got to take my holidays when I can get 'em. Yes, poor James, he’s been a great*care; him bed-rid so long, all these years as a body might Say. A sight o’ trouble. Yo’ ma don’t remember, it was before her tile, but James never Was like the rest of us. He had a hankerin’ after books. Must have come by it through his mother, she was papa’s first wife, makin’ James my half-brother, you see. Not my own brother. An’ often I think it’s mighty g00d 0’ Mr. Mix to give him a home an’ everything. James, he used to waste his time writin’ things. He spoiled a sight 0’ good paper in his time. He talked about writin’ a book hisself. He used to go dreamin’ around with his head in the air an’ every off minute he’d be learnin’ lessons like he was a boy at school an’ a-writin’—writin’ that never come to nothin’. I was married an’ he was aS a ol’ man as you may say, when he came back crippled an’ broken down. He brought some ol’ books an’ a bundle 0’ yellow papers along with him. The papers is under his bed now. Nothin’ ever come of ‘em. James wasn’t intend- ed to be successful, I reckon. But he’s been a trouble. No money. He showed me once a envelope with enough to put him away decent an’ to pay for a stone. He’s writ out what he wants on it, all down on a bit o’ paper, yellow, too, in a furrin’ tongue. I gall that proud, when everybody else up at Asbury’s got the Same or pretty nigh the same—excep- tin’ they name an’ ages—on theirs. He says’’——~ “One day las’ week,”’ interrupted Lit- tle’s bass, “he say the soup yo’ mother sent him tasted an’ her chicken was tender. Says our chicken’s’§ tough. Mother she went out an’ killed a chick- en an’ she biled it from mornin’ till night. Now you know yo'seif you can’t do nothin’ more to no chicken ‘'n that. Wouldn’t tech it.’’ Mrs. Mix made the circuit of her face with her apron. “Oh, well, honey now, sick people's quare; and when they’re old and sick. Yes, he was complainin’ all the evenin’. Said he wouldn’t be here this mornin’,”’ ‘An’ he was a talkin’ to hisself all the time,”" shrilled Harriet, ‘sayin’ some- thing ‘bout John on St. Helena an’ Na- poleon on Patmos. Makin’ believe like they was somebody ‘at had been treated bad an a-comparin’ hisself to them.’ “Now, you girls, you hush now," said her mother, “he ain’t a-hurtin’ nobody a-layin’ up there, poor soul!’’ Mr. Mix came on from the far end of the passage. He rubbed his hands one over the other, and bowed and smiled. “Good even,’ Miss Susie, good even’, good even’. Fine day; very fine day; good for garden truck with a little more rain. Yes, a little more rain’s needed and needed bad. I’m feelin’ under the weather, under the weather, yes. It's not easy goin’ to market befo’ sun-up—befo’ light—after havin’ a night of it with the ol’ gentleman. The ol’ gentleman thought he was pretty bad last night. Yes. He kep’ sayin’ he wouldn’t be here by mornin’. He's been considerable of a care. Yes. What with his medi- cine an’ not eatin’ what the rests eats. Cabbage was bringin’. a good price tn market today. Yes, yes. Six cents wholesale, an’ high as eight retail. How do you think the old gentleman’s a-looKin’ today. Miss Susie? Any change —for the better, say?” The girl turned her head toward the open door. ‘“Don't—don’t—he look—strange?” whispered. The red left trembled. The women crowded to the threshold. They covered their faces with their aprons and broke into loud weeping. Susan went out unobserved. From all the youthful awe, she car- ried with her an impression of calmness and peace. She could not regret the parting guest. she her cheeks, her. lips

AS IT MIGHT BE. RE you going out tonight, Jack?” “Yes, dear, for a little while.”’ “Must you go?” “Why, no, there's no we must about it. Any particular reason , “why you don't want me to go?” “Yes. But Jack, I have been alone four evenings this week, and it’s so lonely sitting here ajone.” “Of course, it is. I’ve been a brute. Why didn’t you speak before?” “I don’t like to seem to find fault with you, dear.’’ “You find fault! Why. you don’t | sae iknow how.” _ “I don’t mean, Jack, for you to give Up your club, or men friends, but don't = so often, that’s all, dear.’’ “Now, Puss, what would you like to “ E this evening? I'm in a very re- aeeeat mood.” “I don't care, Jack, so long as you ks oo with me.” I have made the house a dressing room the last week: “That won't do. a now T guess I can dress and take you ree aes ‘ — igre: “Puss, will you forgive me for being somewhere. Think of your sitting here all this week aad never finding fault. Hur et into your good togs, and we 1 go to the thenter.’’ “Oh, won't that be lovely! be 20 minutes getting ready." “I'll give you half an hour.” “Oh, this Is so nice.” - “Reward of merit, darling. But don't say any more; you make me feel like ‘@ selfizah cad to see you so pleased be- I won't | _ Cause I am with you.” “That's the best part of it—having ' you. It’s lovely, of course, to go to the » theater, but that's not the best. The best—the very best— is being with tless? I never dreamt you t this way about my being out.” n't another word, Jack, dear: ae . o epee i ce Siena aa

AS IT OFTEN IS. T’S a long lane that has no turning. Jack Henderson. It's about time you’ underatood Ba “Now what are you driving at?’’ “That’s right: ask me in that tone. I’m used to It. ©f course.” “Well, what is it?’’ “You know well enough. Don’t pre- tend you don’t.” “For heaven’s sake, Mabel, be sensible for once? What driving at?’’ '>f you must know, it’s your leaving me so much alone and spending your time at clubs or worse places.”’ “Oh! It’s that old story, is it?’ “Yes, it's that old story. And let me tell you, it’s not going to be an old story any longer! You are going to treat me right, or it’s all over.” “*Treat you right! It’s all over.’ It seems to me I have heard something like that before! Perhaps I dreamed it, but I don’t think go,” “That's right—sneer. You're an adept at that.” 7 “Have any want to, I dor? Will you are you ne with you that you care,"’ you never would come “I can't see, abel, why you always start a scrap. Every time I come into the house you } «h into me.” “Why Shouldn't I? You only use the house as a dressing room, and neith- er ~ ay get any comfort out of it.” on cut it out! “i'm tir Pala ay ol ed and want “That's just it, when you don't go out, you're tired and want to gO to bed.” “Mabel, will you keep still? I can’t stand this much longer.” “What do I do? of blame me. You always semen, gk “I don’t unless you deserve it.” “Oh, of course, I'm always in the wrong.” “Well, let’s go to bed and fi eee tomorrow or the gun mig

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Done for the Post-Dispatch By ELEANOR SCHORER. THE UNHAPPY DOLLIE. HERE was a little girl named Mary who walked. very proudly up and down the sidewalk wheel- ing her little baby sister tn the T carriage, while Susan, who was Mary's dearest friend and who had no little sisier or brother, either, walked beside Mary wheeling her dolly in a go-cart. All the ladies stopped and said what a pretty baby Mary’s sister was. And the little sister would say ‘‘go0o-goo”’ and smile at the ladies. But no one ever stopped and spoke to Dollie. And this made Susan.feel very badly. “T want a real live baby like Mary’s "ttle sister.”’ sobbed. Susan. “Dolls aren't any use, anyway. Why can't vou talk?" she said, snatching up Dol- He and shaking’ ber so vigorously that Lollie's pretty brown curls flew all about like a pinwheel. Then she threw Dollie into a corner and went to play with some other toys. She tried to amuse herself, first with one then with another toy, but after all, NONE of them’ was so pretty or cun- ning as Dollie. And Susan began to feel very sorry and very much ashamed of what she. had. done. So she went back to where she had ‘eft Dollie.’ ‘Arid there Dollie lay, very quiet, upon the floor, with her heels over her bead and her face hidden by a pink dress. And she was crying, all to herself, . and saying: “I’m so sorry that Susan does not love me 'vecause’' I cannot talk and laugh Mke Mary's baby sister. I would ke to talk, too, but dolls never can! But I can always understand whatever Susan says, because I love her so!” Now Susan was more ashamed than ever, and she stooped and picked up Dotite from off the floor and said to ier. “Oh, Dollie! I am so sorry, too! I'm sorry for what I did to you. And if vou will forgive me and love me again I'll be very happy.” O¥ course Dollie forgave Susan. Then they hugged and kissed each other and were ‘good friends once more. Just then the Sandman came in through the window and Susan and Voliie fell asleep still hugging each oiner. : “You see it is just as I thought,” saia Maroma to Daddy as they came into the! room to put Susan to bed, “the Sand- man has* been here already. And see, Daddy, how Susan loves the doll that} you gave her. Doliie {s Susan's favorite conipanion. -Now,.my little dears, YOUR dollie loves you, too, and she can understand CASTORI. IA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought

all that you say to her. So you must be very kind to her or you might burt her feelings and make her cry, as Susan did.. And THAT would be VERY naughty! THE JARR FAMILY The Moving Pictures Capture Mrs. Jarr’s Mother.

Written for the BY ROY L. M’CARDELL. G4 ELL, did you have a good W time, dears?’ asked Mrs. Jarr’ as she _ kissed the children. The Jarr children had been visiting their grandmother for a few days. “Little Emma was good, I know,” re- marked Mrs. as she divested little Miss Jarr of her wraps. “Oh, you think she was, do you?" plied dear. kind grandma. “Well, she WOULD take her parasol with her. Shea WOULD take it ont at night to a tem- Jarr re- perance lecture, and she stepped on it and broke it. and somebody put cob- bler’s wax on the seat at the temper- ance lecture and she’s ruined her blue dress. And she took a doll ‘baby from a little girl on our street, and when I made her return it _ threw it in the muddy gutter’’ “Oh, I’m so sorry they mishehaved. but I’m sure they won’t do it again.” “You can be sure they won’t do it again, so far as I am concerned.” said their grandmother, “Never shall I take them to my once peaceful home again.’ This dreadful ultimatum cast no dam-

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io . ; *e e i % 3 aie. taieen ) ~ ne ; 7 : ¢ oP ae aah og he ee Y be se 4 m rap ¢ ee 4 ox st : ‘ : Post-Dispatch per upon the spirits of the children. Master Willie was gayly chasing nai, down the hall and out on the fire-escape and Miss Jarr was overhauling all her dolls to find if any of them had grown to any noticeable extent during her ab- sence.’ “At least I hope their visit will do them some good,*’ Mrs. Jarr’s mother went on. It's made ME a nervous wreck, and if Willie tramped upon my poor feet once he did it a dozen times. and they fought with every child in the neighborhood. Rut I did take them to a temperance lecture and it cost me if cents for myself and 19 cents apiece for them, which I don’t hegrudge if it Is going to do them any good.” “Did you like the temperance lecture. Willie?” asked his mother as Willie made a return trip in pursuit of the cat. (This time Master Willle was im- personating a mounted huntsman on the carpet sweeper). aw, I didn’t like it. the movies,”’ “The what?” asKxed the grandmother. “The movies—the moving pic<ures,’’ answered Master Jarr. “Grandma is a stingy. She wouldn't let us go to the movies. Maw, can’t I go to the movies today? Can't I, maw?’’ “If you give in to him when he de- mands a thing lke that you'll never have any control of those children. ciara,”’ advised grandma, “Did YOU have any control of them?” asked Mrs. Jarr. “Well, if I could have had my own way, I would,” replied the old lady. “As for amusement, I took them to a temperance lecture, and that’s enough and should have satisfied them. I re gard moving pictures as being wicked. They put all sorts of ideas into chil- dren’s heads. “Children were naughty before there were moving pictures,"’ ventured Mrs. Jarr. “Yes, I know,’’. was the reply. “But not like they are now. Dime novels used to be bad, but moving picures are‘ worse. A little boy down the street threw mud on my front windows the other day. Where did he learn that? At the moving pictures. A little girl upsets the baby carriage because she’s told to mind her little brother. Where did she learn that? At the moving pictures! ° “Can't I go, maw? Can’t I go to see the movies?” “And me?” cried the little girl. “Give me the money, Clara,” said the grandmother. “This is what I have to do every single time I come here. wi course you know there'll be no change,” added the old lady as she took the cent piece. “Drat the things! When I see one I have to go to all the others in the neighborhood till my . money’s I'd sooner saw Use Coarse Cornmeal. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. HERE is always much more to any recipe than can be expressed in mere ingredients and quantities. ' This is particularly true of corn bread, which, when properly made, is rich and delightful to the palate and-most nourfshing. , In the , first place, to have perfect corn bread, I use only white meal and as coarse as can be obtained. Before the days of the roller process we al- ways asked for ‘“‘unbolted” meal. Now it fs difficult to get it very coarse. It should be bought in smal! quantities to get it fresh: 1 append recipes showing two of the many kinds of corn bread used in my family: PAN CORN BREAD, 1% cups meal. Fy 1% cups water. 1% cups sweet milk. 1 level teaspoon salt. 1 tablespoon lard. 1 egg. 2 teaspoons baking powder. Melt lard in pan, sift meal, baking powder and salt; add milk, water and then well- beaten egg; lastly add melted lard, stirr “4 together thoroughly and pour into pan iar was melted tn and cook in het oven for: 20 minutes. CORN DODGERS (OR PONES.) 1 cup meal. 1 cup buttermilk. % cup wa 1 teaspoon § 1 teaspoon bakifig powder. Pinch salt. % tablespoon lard, melted. Sift meal, salt and baking powder; add soda to buttermilk and mix all together; work in the melted lard, add water and then form small oblong pones, patting into shape with the hands. Place these fh pan lard wag melted in and — in moderate oven for 30 minutes. MRS. E. M. BERNOUDY, 4948 McPherson avenue. \ Missouri Cornbread. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Missouri cornbread is made as follows: 1 exg. well beaten. 1 scant pint of sour milk. 1 teaspoonfu] salt. white cornmeal until you have a stiff batter. Dissolve % teaspoonful of soda in a little of the sour milk. add to batter. Heat an iron skillet into which you have placed two tablespoonfuls shortening. pour while hot intobatter, Sprinkle corn meal in skillet, then pour the mixture in and bake in moderate oven. MRS. W. C. SHAFFER, 7456 Manchester road. added According to St. James. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. The following Kentucky cornbread recipe makes a delightful bread in half an hour: St. Louis Women Know.

From the Globe-Democrat. ECIPES for the making of corn bread from many of the best homes of St. Louis, coming out in a ' prize contest, are a somewhat reas- suring answer to the frequent com- plaint that the fashionable women of today take no interest in cook- ery. The struggle in this case is not for the prize,. which jis small, but for an exhibtion of a famillar- ity with the making of good things, among which good corn bread takes high rank with the initiated. " POST-DISPA TCH READERS | Make Cornbread AFTER MANY RECIPES. = |

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$ TEN DOLLARS $ EADERS of the Post-Dispatch . R are invited to answer the following letter of inquiry. Address recipes to ‘the Post-Dis- patch and mark the envelope: Corn Bread Recipe. To the editor of the Post-Dispatch. * * * My husband, who me to 8t. Louis nearly a year, ‘make " combasan ot ‘ make pate cn af eS Johnny-cake, f alice ¥ tae a splendid recipe, was what called corn bread out here; it seems I have’ been under a misapprehension. you give me a gO cornbread? I am | accustomed to during our en- ‘ forced separation. APOE Si 4 ae “ woe

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; Into 2 pints of boiling water stir 2 pint. cornmeal’ (white), and 1 teaspoonful of salt. Beat briskly for a minute and re- move from fire. Add 4 tablespootfuls of but- ter—or half lard and half butter will do just as well—beat. well again and add 4 well- beaten RRS. Beat thoroughly, &nd then add 2 cups of cool milk. Beat briskly once more and turn into a deep, buttered pan. , : MRS. P. SWEENEY. Fassen st. of fine ee Husband OK’s This *

To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch, ) | This is my recipe for cornbread, a my husband thinks O-K: Two cupfuls white cornmeal, ||} One egg. One-half teaspoonful salt. One scant teaspoonful soda, ‘talistoet tn one cupful sour milk. One and one-quarter cupfuls ‘antes 3 enough to make a thin hatter, ~ ; ; One tablespoonful melted dripping#or lard. Stir all together well and bake. @ golden brown in, a medium oven (will take about thirty nginutes). MRS. J. A, KELLEY, 4125 Easton avenue, \ West Virginia Bread. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatéh, I enclose one which I have wsed many years with great success. It is West Virginia corn bread: 2 eggs (well beaten). . 7 2 tablespoons sugar, % teaspoon salt, To above add: ? 1 pint of corn meal. Sit 1 pint of sweet milk. si 1 pint of bonny clabbore. 1%, teaspoom (scant) baking soda, “atmaoted in bonny clabbore. 8 tablespoons melted butter, added last. Bake in a moderate, even oven 40 minutes in a pan well greased; size 8 by 10’ inches. follow ee ae exactly. ‘ 8S.) JANE A. CAMPBELL, phirteenth street. East St. Louis, rl. Good Lack Bread. | To the Editor of the Post- -Dispatch, My recipe for cornbread, which h always a mot 552 N a pan well greased. in a :; MRS. ea H. CRAMER, 6240 Magnolia. PET ~<a

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Indianapolis Magnate Looking for Major League Berth, to Have Conference With Hedges

a | meet | BY W. J. O'CONNOR. A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. FTER ten months of neglect NEW YORK, Dec. 11. the opulent baseball magnate moves up stage again and basks in the spotlight of publicity—a thorough disinfectant. Pooh-Bahs of the national game foregathered along the Pallid Way today for the most important meeting in the histary of baseball. There are innumerable questions of import to be settled, starting with an investigation of the ticket-scalping scandal, may not prove interesting. ' But the very air is heavy with wild, wierd rumors and wiseacres predict that the foundation of the national pastime will rock before current squabbles are amicably settled. However, St. Louisans will be_interest- ed chiefly in a redhot tip that started nowhere and ended nowhere but which nevertheless smacks of real stuff. It has to do with the sale of the Browns. ‘Tis said that Col. Hedges will dispose of his holdings. Some say a St. Louis syndicate will take over the stock. Others say Ban Johnson is be- hind the movement to put a new man at the head of the Browns. All agree that @ radical change will be made in the St. Louis club. One man looms up today as a militant bidder for the Browns, if the Sportman’s Park contingent is to change hands. He is W. H. Watkins, owner of the In- dianapolis (American Association) club. Mr. Watkins is out to buy a big league ball club. He is behind the syndicate. headed by Sol Meyer, which is seeking to purchase the Boston Nation@ls. Wat- kins and his crowd stand ready to pay cash for the Brownies and if Col. Hedges is willing to sell, Watkins will be on the job Tuesday for an early hearing. At present. Mr. Watkins owns the In- (anapolis team in the American Asso- ciation; the Springfield club of the Cen- tral League and the Stubenville team of the Ohio-Pennsylvania League. Should he acquire a big league team he will have the distinction Of owning a club in the majors, in class double A, B and C organizations. That’s a feat never before achieved by a baseball magnate. Mr. Watkins’ idea is to get a farm, then two major teams—an idea that is not to be despised. But, to get back to our story. Wat- kins is after. the Browns because he realizes that St. Louis is a better base- ball town than Boston. Rather that Col. Hedges’ baseball plant is far su- perior to the Rustlers’ stuffy quarters at the Hub. The Boston National team will never be a great money-getter be- cause its park is not large enoukh and because there on the property which ever will pre- clude the possibility of modernizing the plant. On the other hand, the Browns have an ideal home~one of the best in either league and St. Louis is a great baseball town. All these things have been weighed thoroughly by the Indianapolis owner and he will confront Tuesday Hedges with a flattering proposition, should the Colonel indicate his intentions of selling

the American League tail-enders. Line for Job as Manager of the St. Louis Team HOULD Watkins obtain possession B ul ein urke Would B S of the Browns it is not unlikely that he would install Jimmy Burke, product of Goose Hill, and for- mer manager of the Cardinals, as the 1912 tacitician at Sportsman’s Park. Burke is the type of player who would register a hit in St. Louis. He’s a fight- er, not unlike Bresnahan, who forced his way into the affections of the Mound. City populace by dint of persevering aggressiveness. Burke has not set the world on fire as a manager in the Association, but a glance at the Indianapolis club roster will explain Jimmy's failure to win the pennant. Burke’s material has always been me- diocre, and although they finished in the seventh hole last season, he was only a few games removed from third place. Jimmy. had.his club fighting all the time, and when the official attendance figures for the Association were tabu- ated for the season, Indianapolis showed an aggregate total greater than Minne- apolis and Kansas City, two teams that fought for the flag. Burke has his following in Indianapo- lis, algo,’ in St. Louis, and should Wat- kins buy the Browns he could go far- ther and fare worse than appointing Jimmy manager. Iflowever, nothing: may much-telked-of sale. Mr. Watkins, who Is stopping at the Presott Hotel, told the writer last night that he would not bid for the Browns unless Col. Hedges announced his intention of selling. How- ever,.idit is generally understood by the early birds at the meeting that Hedges Mr. Hedges arrives Tuesday. come of the Matager Jimmy Burke and Owner Watkins were the first arrivals Sunday. ' They came in early in the afternoon. The Boston National League Club has submitted an invoice of its holdings to Sol Meyer, treasurer of the [Indianapolis club, who also is a prosperous banter in the a metropolis. _One iuter- | ara, Se ee

3038 PINS IN MATCH CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—Rolling for con- folation prizes, the Beginners made a higher score last night that that of tho Goodfriends, who won the first money among the five men teams in the Chicago tournament last week. carried away the championship with 2990 pins. The mark of the Beginners was 32088 pins. Al- though this mark does not stand as a record, it is higher than any ever made in a “ag petri gnstoh.

WILLIAMS ELECTED C. B. C. FIVE LEADER _ Capt. Durkin of the Christian Broth- ers College basket ball team, will be out of the game for the remainder of the season as a result of a broken leg, re- Anis the game with the Louisiana ub team Saturday night. De. Durkin’s injury his team won by the Easton — oe eee eee BENZINGERS UPSET esting feature of the invoice is that Johnny Kling is held at $6000—no bidders in sight. Manager Bresnahan arrived today. Roger was weary and hit the hay with- out talking for publication. Roger sel- dom talks for publication. Pretty good thing, Col. Hedges wasn’t in town Sunday. Many uncomp?l*mentary things were said about his ball club. One prominent writer at the tail end of his yarn today advances the plausible excuse that the reason the Browns are not bolstered up by Ban Johnson is that St. Louis is the only town in the -Na- tional League circuit that would stand for a loser, with a elub itself losing money. He intimates that Washington would rebel against the Browns, That Tom Lynch will be the next pres- ident of the National League seems to be the consensus of opinion. Thomaso has done nothing really detrimental to the parent body. Consequently he will be retained. Garry Herrmann was on the job early Sunday. So was Barney Dreyfuss, boss of the bold Buccaneers of Piratetown. Joe Flanner, well known in St. Louis, and now a part of the National Commis- sion, is hére to advise the wise men on the technical end of the same. Joe is the most technical guy in baseball. A baseball meeting of magnates is lost in the hustle and bustle of Broadway. Locating a celebrity of the baseball world in Gay Gotham is as easy as find- ing the proverbial needle in the proverb- ial straw thatch. “Hello, Bill,’”’ is the new one‘in Gay Gotham. It matters not whether your name is Adolph, Abie, Algernon or Ru- dolph, everybody in the big town will call you ‘“‘Bill.”” The newsies say “All right, Bill,”” after collecting a Lincoln, penny "for the Daily Scream. ponees cegpniniivainale B. &. Irs. 4, Holy Names 1, Daltons 1. Visitations 1. NORTH END LEAGUE, Standing of the Teams, J Lost. Tied, pee 4 3

” - Holy Ghosts .. 2 4 Sunday’s Results. Holy Ghosts 1. St. Augustines 0, Shamrocks 3, St. Liborius 1, KULAGE’S PARK LEAGUB. Standing of Teams. Cathedrals ee St. Teresas .... 1 5 Sunday’, Results. Cathedrals 1, St. Teresas 0. O’Learys 3, Yawits 1,

By 3a F . LLOYD, After the Innisfail forwards had missed two score of chances to tally goals, Peter Ratican, a halfback, banged through two shots and gave his team 2—1*victory over the Irish-Americans in the weekly soccer errr

Athletic Park Sunday. The game the Innisfails in second place. Some of the efforts of the forwards to shoot goals were pitiful. Ratican and Schmidt fed their forwards in fine style. The ball was constantly in the Tads’ territory, but the advance men couldn’t get past Ponto Pelmer, who right. able to put the ball behind Palmer, Rat- ican took a chance. He formerly plaj forward and knows what a man in position is supposed to do. He good. ; In the second half he put his in the lead by banging the ball thr from about the 25-yard mark on as pf ty a shot as could be desired. It W towards the close of the second and the goal just enabled the Innisfa to escape a 1—1 draw. The Tads had evened it up on a pretty shot by poo Mason. St. Leos Beat the Knights. With another patched up lineup’ in the field, the St. Leos scored a victory over the Columbus Club. the first contest, it was fast; rough ¢ exciting. The Knights pushed the c pions every inch of the way, although — their two goals were scored on kicks, both toed by Tate Ts the greatly improved fullback, Early in the game, during & rnage, Abstein knocked out the ball from his own goal with his hand. The of- fense gave the Knights a free kick at goal and Brady whanged it past 2: hands on the pigskin. It was only a few moments though, that the five Leo forwar crowded the ball towards the Colir bus goal. Goaltender Leahy bat? it out a couple of times, but ft i turned and during a scrimmage fn Ww! everybody was well kicked on the sii! Jimmy Donahue shoved it through. T second St. Leos’ tally was toed by Bill: Monahan, who pounced on the ball Leahy had failed to- clear i fol Ing a pass by Donahue. After B second penalty kick had tied it I’rankie McCormack put his tear the lead by scoring the third and goal. “Bull” Brannigan again was cnaaie| from the fleld by Referee Meswesney > for roughing it. This necessitated the — champions playing part of the second — half with but 10 men. It made no @if- ference, however. The Duke Ie Absent, The Leos played minus the services Duke Sheahan. tall goalkeeper. He is the sick list. and Joe Flynn. ers terman's versatile we performer, cuard- ed the goal. Harry McCarthy and thhehstudaails missing from the forward line end Fiynn and “Bull” Brannigan got hack the pastime. Piven, for « sick man, pled a nice game. A puzzling proposition is Sunday the Inniefalle and Irishmen The team in the

ALL other St. Lets Dailies COM-| BINED. and wrote a book recounting them.

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MONDAY ah haces G, DECEMBER 11, 1911. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCE.

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TRADERS BOOST OGKS AS THE ARKET CLOSES Prices on Leading Issues Show Gains of One to Two Points.

DAY’S NEWS GOOD Reopening of Tobacco Case De- nied and Securities Report Is Favorable.

By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau eof the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The Evening Post, in its copyrighted financial *eview today, says: “For the somewhat violent advance on the tSock Exchange shortly after noon ~—following two hours when prices sim- ply stood motionless—there were two obvious causes. One was the Supreme Court’s answer to the petition of the Tobacco independents; the other, the formal publication of the Railway Se- curities Commission’s report. The Su- preme Couprt’s refusal to re-open the geustion of the Tobacoc Trust’s form of dissolution under the Circuit Court de- cree was expected by everyone familiar with the law and precedent. The Tobacco Refusal. “There were two reasons for such ex- pectation. The Tobacco independents, in the first place, were not parties to the suit against the Tobacoc Trust, and it would not have been opening a Pan- dora’s box of chaotic possibilities for the court of last appeal to admit an oo side party into any suit of whateve Sort, at so late a stage in litigation. “Even Harriman, who represented actual shareholders in Northern Secur- ities, was in 1905, refused the privilege of such intervention, when his petition was based on substantially the sams grounds. “But beyond even this, it is well known that the Circuit Court’s Tobaco Trust decre followed all the preceden: available in similar cases under the anti-trust law. “If there exists a popular feeling that the trust ought to be broken in to such small parts as to curtail or cripple the power of any one of them for future effective competition, the answer must be made, that such action is no Where prescribed in the language or purposes of the act. The Securities Report. “How much influence the Securi- ties Commission exerts on sentiment of the day, is perhaps an open ques- tion. “There is some reason for believing that information as to the nature ot its findings, based on the confiden- tial cpies of the report sent out be- forehand had ‘leaked,’ and even if this had not happened, Wall street had a column of editorial comment on the report, blurted out prematurely by the morning papers Saturday. “Be this as it may; the report might easonably have inspired good fealingy. because f its conservatism and com- mon sense. “The commission—whose member- ‘Ship is of unusuaily high character— conscludes that the Federal Govern- ment ought not to try the experiment of supervising” new railway capital is- Sues under the Interstate Commerce law. “Recognizing the dangerous evils Which have arisen from reckless over capitalization, and admitting that there will have to be some fresh leg islation on the subject, the commis- gion nevertheless concludes tiat the time is not ripe for transfer of su- pervision from the states to the cen- tral Government. “Such action, the commission thinks. would provoke collision between State and Federal authorities, would possi- bly delay and complicate legitimate railway expansion, and woul! over- burden the Federal Governnient’s ex- isting facilities. “But publicity, in the shape of full and adequate information. to the Interstate Commerce Commission, re- roan | the details, purposes, and proceeds of such securiiy issues, ought to be made compulsory. The Cotton Report. “The Government's cotton crop es- timate was issued at 2 p. m.: the figure given confirms with emphasis all previous intimations of a yield of unheard of magnitude. “Prior to 1911, the largest cotton crop ever picked in the United States Was 13,800,000 bales; the Government today names 14,885, 000, “An even more interes sting ‘com- parison is with previous December estimates by the Government, of which the highest on record was the 12,929,000 bale forecast of this month three years ago, which turned to be nearly a million bales below the actual yield. “This question of how to read th»? Government estimate is the most in- teresting problem in the matter. if the Washington Bureau were on this occasion to have under rater the big crop of 1911, as much as it did the two other ‘record srops’ of 1908 and 1906, then the present indicatei yield would be, not 15,000,000 bales, as the trade believes,. but 15,750,000. “There is this much to say, how- ever, against that somewhat start- ling presumption — thai probably never in the Agricultural Depart- ment's history has such great care been taken as this year to get com. plete information and accurate re- e market doubtless had ‘this ir -mind when this afternoon's cotton price rose on the aWshington es- timate, instead of falling. But there is alto such a thing as ‘over dis- —_—_—__ DETAILED REPORTS OF DAY'S WALL STREET TRANSACTIONS NEW YORK. Dee. 11.—Stocks made only an indifferent response this morning to sev- eral favorable market influences Bull trad- ers yee mony to bid up prices on the favor- able showing of the banks for last week and the November report of United States Btee!. ‘The rise was held tn check, however. by the readiness of traders to realize, The higher range of prices in London and the fa!) in top to new low levels strengthened the list, as did the action of the Commerc Court in making permanent the injunctios Seaingst reduction of rates, Bonds were irregula Heavy buying of Rihnited States Steel creet- od the announcement that a subsidiary had raised the price of steel and wire products 51 a_ ton. whole market me. ant- Fm egergge flow advances in intermountain freight 1 ol Smelting . RK, geal BD ite a budget of bullish mher ps me to hand in the after- er ices for copper, refural of urt to interfere with the an. To reorganization pian, tenor of the report of the Hadley neing factors in the ually every stock of import- points. m to 2% per cent 7“

out J Reported ay G. G. H. Walker & Co.. 807 North ree NEW YORK STOCK QUOTATIONS® Reperted Daily for the Pest-Dispatch by G. H. wetee & Co,, 30T N,. Weveth st TE WwW YORK, Dec.

_ STOCKS. Open. High. Low. ‘Close’

American Can preferred...o.scsecseeeeress Amalgamated Copper. Am. C. & F. Co. com. (ex-div. American Cotton Oil ee ee eee eee eereee eeneqg 1% pet.) American Smelter COMMON ..+-+seccccsvce American Beet Sugar ... American Sugar eevee eeeeeeee ee eee eevee eeeoeeweeeeereseeeees American Telephone .......---+seessnseneee American Tobacco preferred .....-ssessemt**tsrrteee ee eeces . Anaconda COPPEP....cccccevsesepeecsccesoeres Atchison common Atlantic Coast Line ...... trading e:toarket at midday 77 O86 Bt 403, | Houston 26,764, £igcod business done. , ioRa { jow orétinary. 4.48. 4.93 ; COTO ‘TRADERS EVEN uP GEFORE GOVERNMENT REPORT NEW YORK, 11.—The cotton market opened steady at points to an advance of 1 »noint, lower than Trading very active and the market seemed nervous. with smaller operators evening up for over the Government's crop estimate, which is to be published in!s afternoon. Some of the more radical bears were heavy sellers, probably in anticipation of very large crop figures. but houses with connec- tlons had big buying orders. but the market showed comparatively little change during the nrgye | hour with active months ruling about 1 > tf ponte under the closing figures of Sat-

Dec. a decline of 2 which was cables. was C artes apet closed quiet; middling uplands, ?.20c° middling gulf. 9.45c. Sales, 4100 bales. Leading bears were very heavy sellers during the early afternoon and before the Government’s estimates were issued prices sold at a net loss of 7@10 points, with nearly all the active ahonthe making new low records for the season. The estimate growth of the season 14,885.000 gross, excluding lint- ers. Was followed by very heavy trading, orders goa well divided ° that, after a of 2 or 3 points, the market The close was bales of 590 pounds showed little movement, irregujar, Prices gradually of about 4@6 points during the morning, with December, January and contracts making new low records but the decline was checked evel by covering, and the was less active, with the a point or two up from middling uplands eased off to a net loss the middle of the se a SON, this later the lowest. Spot quiet: ‘nominal. receipts at ell ports today _ Estimated laat week » 000 bales, against £1,313 iast year, For the week, 450,000, against 402,667 week and 427,848 year Today a at New Orleans against 14, 188 last, vear; at Galyes- ainst 16,550 last Year, and at agains: 25,841 last year, ton 26, 104, a Dec. 11.-—Closving cottcn: Spot prices unchanged. Amer- micdl: ng fair, 5.60d; middling, 4.98d: reidetiine, 4844; gow ordinary. 4.684: The snrie#x of the day We of which 24) wers for specu’: sC included 11,400 Ac ars “un. 24 ecaipts. 4800 pales, ine ic ing “ +00 Arne ricen. Futures opered steady and c!). 4.45 Od; Dec. ; Feb.-March., Aprii. May, : 914° LIVERPOOL, 12,600 Palos. bony rad export and Marct-aoril. 4. pd) June, €¢.4@0; Jane-July, 491d: . 4, gad; Sept.- -Oct.. Au. erie 4.92: Orvcz, NJov., ° 4.02 %d.

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¥ nite American do pfd Nationa aoa ora Tijat ronone Match Quaker Oats com. Carbon com *eseeeoeeess com pfd Chicago C ity ‘Rallway Sears-Roebuck cern do pfd wiense Subway ift & (Co, Chicago Railway 1s 4s Title and Trust Telephone Co he ol com Edison ..

CITY SF NEW YORK BONDS. Peported by D. Arthur Pewman & Co ird National Rank EW §00- Ride, 7, ‘Toute ORK,

nierchangeable. nlerchangeabie Interchangeable interchangeable nterchangeable Registered “-. A hangeable ‘Bike. 3% ogister pedkiekl Registered ou i Registe e 8. see e eee em pede | 3tos 1

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110 bic ‘ottbn Crop 7 Age at Over 14,800,- 0o Bales. WASHINGTON, Dec, 11.—The Departmen: Agriculture estinates the oc hey crep of o11- 12 to be 7,12 21.718, 000 pounds, or 14,- nO0O0 bales of ‘$00 pounds gross weight. “hs production estimates follow Virginia, 23. WOO: N rth Care ina, . Cie -orgia, ¢ On), Tia G00; USS O00 - 2.560.000 : M! Ssis- I “e XAS5S, Tennessee. B15, Ovu0: to, O00: 1, 195, 000: sa) (WO Araneae, *: 4), (em): Milsso’ irl. $3, OOO: California, 11, U nite ad Ratlwavs prefer ‘ed at 40, 10 United Railwavs preferred at 40. 10 United Railways pre ferred at : mh United Railways preferred at 40. 10 United Railways commen at 94%. *”) T’nited Railwavs common at #4, UNLISTED SECURITES, eet we | by the Altheimer & Rawlings d North Broadway LOU 1S.

ST. Dec. 11.

American C segs a Iboe Run Lead C Hart Schaffner & Marx com. Ind. Brew. Co. 6 pet. bonds. do pfd. *May Dept. Stores Co. Lead St. Joseph st. L.. R. M. @ Pac. pfd... do com. do bonds Studebaker Corporation com, 3Zaden Bank Cass Avenue Bank Central National Bank Illinois faa Trust. St. ou North St. L ouis Savings Trust Savings Trust Co. Union Station Bank *Listed on the New York Stock Exchange. mht Sp be rt nt et CO com. “5 be Stses wo

PREFERRED STOCKS Rate. Bid. Asked 10%q Jor, S24 83 U4 b 107 &,

American Bakery Co. American Cities Co. Eisenstadt Mfg. Co ad > lectric eomd * and Share +0. Hart Sch affner & Marx . *l.oveman, Joseph & a.

_ Btores Co E . Mermod.. Jaccard & King Jewelry . | Merre!! Drug Co | Studebaker Corporation * ae *Purchasers are iequired to pay interest from last Gtvisens date, _ SHORT TIME NOTES. Reported by D. Arthur Bowman & Co. eon 802 vnird National Bank Building. St. To, Ss ST. LOUIS. Dec. 11. Due. Bid. Asked. 100%

Westingncuse Show Freference For Time Daunds, Some of the banks are showing a funds as against lie money on cail. Commerctai paneer is ni very pleptiful for this time of year, and the heuses transacting business here are a unit in their statements that the situ- does not seem to demand much ac- y. Since the cal! for statements of condition of the banks several of the in- stitutions have loaned consideraWMe blocks of funds, but as a general rule the banks in this vicinity are carrving heavy cash reserves, as is the case almost everyw ane else. Rates are 4% to 5 pér cent, with the bulk of the lending at the first- mentioned quotation. — —-o---= New York Money. 11.—Close: Prime per cent. Ster- pref nNainye | Some Ranks erence for time exchange bankers’ eS ills at bills and at $4.86 for demand; commercial . Bar etiver. 55c; Mexican dol- 46%c. Government bonds steady: firm. railroad bonds fir 140.4% ee a ruling, 4%: closing bid, off 3.

Money on call steady, oe 60 days and 90 days, Time loans oamer: mic y * snes 4% per cent;

| LIVESTOCK. NATIONAL STOCK : li., Dec, 11.— Comparative receipts — 7 CORT TOT OEE HOE SSeS Eseeeseseseeeseeeeeeeeeee ** ee ©© és » **® e086 * * ote seeeeaeeseeeereereaeeveree* NATIVE CATTLE—The run in this division gregated 4300 head, a right good supply. Steer market opened strong. but closed eas- ier. Top was $9, given for a string of good eeves. Heifer market siow but steady, Calves slow and about steady. with a top of 8.25. Stocker trade steady to strong BEEF AND UTCHER ah as RS. Pric No. AV Price, ' Cre =~) Pork - Bot, | ned “_ = Cr oe te be oe Co C0 ee ahi oe de ibe CASI Coe rm 170. Ot d SCUTHERN CATTLE—Receipts in this aoe partment aggregated 1200 head, a somew at smaller run than + in a week ago. T market was active om the start and prices ruled fully steady or a little better in zome instances. Oklahoma steers sold at $5.50 to 5.85, the latter being the top. There was the usual assortment of canners on sale. SOU ERN CATTLE QUOTATIONS. 50 Good to choice fed steers $5 TOG Medium to good steers Common to medium steers Good to choice cows... Cutters Canners Ww as very little or no change of the market» was $6.35 t the hogs went at $5.65@6.10. The rathen, slow most weak’ basis with good, medium and mixed. hogs sold there The to bulk o market was inclined to be of the day and closed on a but a fair clearance. The heavy hogs brought $646. 35: tf _$5.40@6; best lights under 165. pounds, 25@5.85; fair grades, $4.4 1@ 5.20; pigs, $4@04.75, and the rough sows and stags, $5.75@6. Packers purchased a fair number of hogs, but they did all of their business during the afternoon X XED PAC KERS ae apa” : Oo. AV. 3 "> ve 16 e - Ag CLAN CI DBOQOAD ! = 208. SO LIGHTWEIGHT §& .) Se... eS oe + GO ee ee ee OT OT OF OL supply of sheep and lambs the market remained on a and the best lambs brought fame as the best sold for towards the close vr week. Other good ones went at $5.55@6.15, mutton sheep sold at 25 3. 50. and bucks a % — aA SHE EP The was good but steady basis $6.25, the 42 15 MU mon SH EEP. 10! te wo POTIONS : 3 2 OB... TGC KERS AND. SreeD ERS eU Cc KS. 160. 2 10 Rs 140. - 2 HORSES AND MU LES—The horse market was slow today. Plenty of buvers were pres- ent. Freeh receipts were good, amounting to about 1000 head of horses and mules com- bined. The first-hand mule market was drag- gy today. HORSE QUOTATIONS, Heavy draft. zxood to choice Eastern chunks Southern horses, Seuthern horses, Southern horses, Drivers, choice MULE 14 hands aint @210 ood to extra.... air to ie common. QUOTATIONS.

INDEPENDENT STOCKYARDS. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 11 CATTLE—Market steady to strong. ‘Choice to _prime steers, $7@S8.25: good to choice, $6.25 @7:; medium to good, 5. 90(@6.25; common to medium, $4.75@5.50; choice to prime year- lingsy $7@s; good to choice, $6.25@7; com- mon to good. $5a 6. 25; choice to prime corn- fed heifers, $6.25@7 ood to choice, $5.0@ 6.25: medium to x00 $4.75@5.50; common to medium, $4@4.75: prime cows, $4. 80@ 5.25; ood to coerce. $4. 25@4.7 rie medium to good, $3.500@4.25; choice to prime bulls, $4.90@ 5.50; zood to choice. $4.25@4.90; sausage : J cutters, $343.75; canners, $2a Ssh: ations and feeders, %$3@4.75; veals. $7.50; milchers, $30@65. HOGS—Market Se lower. Butchers, 190 to 29) aero Ps some. 25: mixed heavy, $5.95@6.25: lights and yor ‘ 6.10: rs, $4@)5: bulk, $5 '95@8. 20 men dhesdt to ‘SH >EP—Market steady. Good hoice lambs, 35.50@6; fair to medium, $4. 753.85: $3.75@ 4.50; good fat mutton shee ‘ stockers, $2@3: goats, $2@3 3.25: bucks, $2.00@2.75. ——————— ————— U, S$, GOVERNMENT BONDS, . Reported dail for the Post-Dispatch b H. Walker & Co 807 N. rons streea, - 5T. LOUIS, Dec. a

SECURITY. . registered , coupon

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ww ” Fruafta. — BANANAB~On orders at 2i4c fn shipping me ~&i $47.50 per 1000 and at $5.00 per CRAN BERRI ES—-Jersey at $0. 25429.50 and delivered. Howes at $10 per hartei RAPD FRUIT—Fiorida at $3.50 Sus and 408 and $4@4.25 for s TPP LE ‘S—-Mar ket firra and in tor v4 ae quiet; fancy fruit held Een davis at $1.50 NO to for choice to pn ‘Ung at $1.i BOanT 3 for No, % and 0 €2.252.500 for choice to fancy: wiliowtwig at from $1. WG 2 for poor to fair wp to $3 for fancy; winesap at £2 to $3. hth as in aua! iu all frozen and damages a} homicaiiv lems baet- ern bulk baidwin at $3 per “Swrel measure deliver rea! packed potning fat $2. "Od 2.85 for NO, and $34£3.' cr fancy: baldwin at hoa = 8% for No. j and $3.25@4.85 for ; v; fancy spy ar $2.85 ¢pi GRAS tS—-New York pony ‘ catawbas at il yy, 1° deitvered. according to qumalit LE MONS—California at $3.25443.! , niee box in Jobbing way and some at $2.30@3 for off LIMEs —At $1 100 in barre! lots. MALAGA GRAPES eat acs ete per bo rre ORANG ES-—Florida at $2.50@2.75 per box for bright and russete: California at $2- 8.25 per box: Louisiana at $2.50@2.75 per HOLIDAY DECORATIONS—-Qu podium at $s@9o * eae Toe . a3.t , ‘and geo $3 per cra 90c per dozen; Christmas t per bundle for 2s, Se. 4s and trees at 500 to $5 each, as in ai ———— a aa Market Quiet. RK, aise. He

Becca nicer ackers and. of Markets and F INCREASE IN SUPPLIES

BUTTER Extra nook ext 16%c; BEAR FACTOR IN WHEAT| “2-222 nd Pn i gg inferior

Prices. Close Nearly One Cent Lower After Displaying Considerable Weakness—Corn Is Higher ani Oats Steady. Ge lBe: brick. 16%@17¢; No. 2, o@ ec: off ESH FISH—Quote biack bass, 1 Ib. for large, lic peg 3 Be. a. Size; crappie at Sc for medium and i2e¢ ; 2 on at l044c, gross do écy wg ~ cat, for large. 7c for medium and for dressed bullheads with collar Seked lle; eollar bones on. Ite; buffa groes at Sc: medium gross at 4c. I

MONDAY'S COMPARATIVE FUTURE QUOTATIONS. Reported by the St. Louls Merchants’ Exchange. DECEMBER WHEAT. High. St. Louis Chicago Kansas City Minneapolis Toledo St. Louis Chicago Kansas C pinne apolis JULY 92% @ 4b 9 3% ° 91% Minneapolis 108% Toiedo St. Louis . Chicago mamas CA ccovesve St. Louis Chicago Kansas City JULY Se ie oe 1 6314 h ago -& 32% «is Kansas City i 65% St. Louis eee ee ee @eevesrece Chicago *se@eeeeeeoeeee St. Louis Chicago *e eee e84¢88 @envreeaeeeeee ChIcAgwO ccccocececee 45@44% 54@%

. More favorable Argentine news, large receipts, uncertain cables and heavy selling by commission houses, gave wheat a weak turn Tuesday. The run- in of the professional shorts on Satur- day also had weakened the technical position and made the market more vulnerable to attack. In corn the buying carried more strength than the selling and prices were firm, despite receipts on the local exchange of 271,200 bu, against 135,600 bu last year and a heavy primary move- ment. Trade in oats was quiet, with professionals making the market. World’s shipmentg were about as esti- mated, but 1,168, bu less than last week and 4,256,000 bu less than last year, The shipments in detail showed.

American .. Russian .. . Danubian ..... =e Indian Argentin Chili and North Africa .. .«- 276,000 388,000 222,000 CORN. ,000 13,200,000 t Wk. Prev. Wk. Last : Danubian .. ..1, TT 000 000 884,01 5. 2,0)

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mmm om dressed at 6%c. medium dressed at German carp—large dressed at 5e, dressed at 4c, large gross at, 2c: suntan 3%c for small to 4%e for lara; white pt at 3c; large striped bass at 6¢;' ecis, Te; tles—soft shell at oe, turtle meat. 8c LIVE POULTRY—Turk . l4e: culls, 94@10¢c. Chickens—Springs, | *: springs. bro:iers. i2e> % ' Ducks, ll‘,c. Geese, © Guineas—Young. 1%c pound and over. | dozen, $4; under 1% pounds. $2.00: ozen, $2. PIGEONS AND UABS—Live pi > per dozen. Squabs—Fancy homers @2.50 per dozen; common live squabs ’ dead Rigcene at 7T5ec per dozen. RABBITS—At 35c per dozen—re ject) worthless. Jack rabbits at tjc per dos ee tera op Opossum, 15@25c each. WHEAT. ROASTING | PIGS—At $1@1.50 per he %, @t a@ ¥ to : Bee se Se 8b VEALS—Cholée (119 to 140 pounds) 9 1% 91%b : per pound, e... to nds at See 103% 104% ae eb 101% @ a 104%biover 175 “a panoe. rou 9514 Dy

ST. LOUIS, Dee. 1. Low. Saturday. Last Year. 04%y%b 9la@evliua 90a

9 Gn and neoatian 2 at Base at Psy 2@3c per pound, i oe Gusirahio” welaht ow Far . ribet 61% ‘ pound—inferior, thin, etc., at 614 @ ne 45'4b Vegetabies. } 62% @ % POTATOES—Offerings fair but 7 siow. Michigan rurais off at 93c, sma nesota burbanks ssen Gee hea Gs CORN. 62% Br 62 en fanc *g. - SPA NISH ONION v BEETS—Home-grown at 48'4a loose. Northern sacked at 46% ' New Orleans ai BRUSSELS &

° GBTEM acces vtoes } suas 48% a%a 383%@34b bulk, ae: aT iorthern pep, 08 pounds oy) delivered | 52@65c; No. 2 yellow, old, 70c; No. $ U yellow, 584%¢@59c; No. 2 white, 62i%c; No, 3 white, Pt tres CB ot pa oop Quote: No. 2 oats, 47%4@47%c; No. 3 | BAt8 irate dellve oats, 47c; No: 4 oats, 464%c; No. 2 white, 48lec; standard, 481, 4 @48i4C ; No. 3 white, 474-@48%c; No. 4 white, 47@47%ec; No. 2 rye, 94c. at 2 GGPLANT ot STOCKS OF GRAIN IN 8T. LOUIS ELEVATORS. tee in 45%b 45%%b 83%

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r pe EARSLEY—New ay unchee. bushel ropes. gone. Northern af erecta tubs. Florida -bu crates No, 2 red wheat. ‘ hard wheat. ; 2 yellow corn. P ot Si.) $1. hae 00 and 1 269 46. oa eT eae ‘DISHES —

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Russian .. ... 332,000 American .. .. 238,000 Argentine

Totals .. ..2347,000 2,210,000 Broomhall’s Liverpool cable said: “The wheat market was affected at the opening by the strong Buenos Ayres market on Saturday, and light world’s shipments, and the undertone Was firm with shorts nervous. Following the opening there was a further slight ad- vance, prices being %d to %d higher. Later there was realizing by early buy- ers, and the vance was lost, and more too. Sel#®ng was in the way of realizing, with a large firm here selling on a private report of clearing weather in Argentine. There was a quiet de- mand for spots and cargoes were in- active. Corn opened unchanged - and later declined %d to \d with the under- tone easy. Larger American offers, in- creased world’s shipments, and a quiet demand for cargoes led to realizing.” Liverpool wheat futures closed 4d up to %d lawer. Corn, %*d to %d lower. Antwerp wheat, %c up: Berlin, “%c to %c up, and Budapest, %c up, Buenos Ayres prices’ opened 2%c lower. They were 3c to 4c higher Saturday. Liverpool wheat stocks decreased 8%,- 000 bu for the week to 3,224,000 bu; corn, 59.000 bu to 1,335,000 bu. Wheat on passage for the week de- creased 1,648,000 bu, to 31,432,000 bu; corn increased 274,000 bu to 6,148,000 bu. Winnipeg wheat receipts startled the trade, the total rolling up to 1421 cars, against 426 cars last vear. Minneapolis had 989 cars, against 870 last week and only 667 last year. Duluth rece!tved 10 against 41 last week and &4 last year. Minneapolis wheat stocks increased 6090,- 000 bu in two days. Local wheat receipts today were 33,000 bu, or 28 cars local, 2 through: last year, 67.100 bu, or 56 cars tIocal, 5 through. Corn, 2%].200 bu. or 1% cars local, 2 through: last vear. 135,600 bu. or 104 cars local. 9 through. Oats receipts 113.900 bu, or 53 cars local, 14 through: last year, 91.800 bu, or 44 cars local, 10 through. Total primarv wheat receipts today, ee bu, against 1,202.06 bu last vear. ipments, 268.000 bu. arainst 145.980 hu last vear. Corn receints. 1.564.870 bu against 1.150.600 hu last vear. Shinments, 594.935 bu, against 428,780 bu last vear. Fxport clesrances of wheat and corn today were 589.000 bu; of corn, 11,000 bu: of oats. 5690 bu. The Canadian wheat 10,833,000 bu, an increase of against a decrease of tt og Bsn. week and 135,000 bu last year. Crop expert B. W. Snow cabled from Buenos Ayres: ‘“‘Weather bad. Having too much rain everywhere. Yield per acre much reduced in Santa Fe and Cordoba by frost and rust. Harvest progressing slowly. Wheat crop pros- _— in Western part of Buenos Ayres going back rapidly, also in northern part of Pampa central. Yield will be be- low average. Harvest in this section probably begin end of this week. Cen- tral Southern Buenos Ayres and Pampa central about 5,000,000 acres, prospects excellent and promises average yield %5 bu. Harvest a week later than usual and should commence in three weeks. If present prospects are maintained in this latter territory it will help offset losses elsewhere and the crop would ap- roximate that of 1907, or 192,000,000 bu. ats harvest begun in Buenos Ayres under unfavorable weather conditions. General yield per acre estimated about an average. Minneapolis wired: “Cash wheat sell- ing at good carrying discount with May. No. 1 Northern 5c under, and No. 2 Northern 7c under. Elevators are good buyers at this discount. Mills buying moderately. Can find no change in flour trade.”’ The domestic visible figures showed: Wheat, increase, 440, bu; corn, in- crease. 2,072,000 bu; oats, decrease, 368,000. Totals: Last Year. Wheat 70,888,000 42,600,000 Corn 4,126,000 1,510,000 Oats seccccessees 19,958,000 15,349.000 Changes: Last Week. Wheat once —g 1,069,000 uebidekines ~

bag A Bg lower. to stead increase in receipts: eoal Roca ong ye gl epg ers ash oa c to %ec lower for white and mixed; demand only m mainly local. 7 Sees uote: No. 2 red wheat. ‘ No. 3 rod Stn: Wes rea ie: Se" 3 ae Sere 06 n: No. $ Rand, 8c@s1.08 ua: ms 8. Wheat. Corn. Oats - 35.008 271.200 118,900 4.000 20,400 oat. Ss (ACH Virginia. $1.15@1.25 and kale at red. N

St. Louis .... Orleans bunched sp Kansas City ilwaukee Minneapolis soctabdce 31,000 | ket —— ‘TURN 1PS—Home- -grown bulk unwashes Total primary _..1,398,384 1.564.870 15@20c pe be bases one at r bushe ox loose leans SHIPMENTS Pt 25¢ per dozen bunches. neat. @eeeeeeeees 40,8: reece eeeeee 2.2

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e+ 45,000 . 3 Spelter “quiet; ~- 16,20, East Tota! meer CHICAGO PROVISIONS, Antimony dull; rthern ¢ son's, $7 is “beaat unsettled; $14.50 5: South 14@ or irae: a er” — -ige with collar bones off; at c. €0 oWar ar bones a snapping “turtles at: heat ee re—Cheice arora er ‘pe old, per iat: (ouistana pe at 15@20e pet 30@ st —«dLaeals $0 4506.45, New York; |

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Kansas City Livestock. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 11,—Cattle—Re- ceipts 15.000, including 1000_ outheres. ket steady: native steers. steers. 50@6. 50: Southern cows ‘and heifers, $3@4.50: native cows and heifers, $2.75@7; stockers and feeders, $3.75@5.75: bulls $3. MM @5: calves, $4.50@8: Western steers, $4.504@ 6.50: Western cows Hoge—Receipts 13.000. * Marke 10¢ $6.2 "hight. —_~ PROTEASE VM , en 7, * od me lower: bulk of sales, $5.25@6.20: “a6. 80; packers and butchers. $6@6. 2: $5. 30@6. 10: pigs, $4495. Sheep—Receipts 9000. Market steady: mut- tons. @4: lambs, $4.24426.25: range weth- ers and yearlings. $2.25@5: range ewes, $2@4. eee ee, ee ee EX Soham dete GOH! at ee meet nr > “ it. ee oe -

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> Serene the city jail Monday morning and after | startling other prisoners with wild yeils * : : ST. LOUIS eee ; » held on a charge of petty | was removed to the city hospital. He is, $40 (00 MANE IN ny, »_ became, delirious in his cell at] said to be suffering from alcoholism. ; rd ae ~| TO YEARS BY GIRL MONEY LENDER Explains Relations With Tailor Whom She Wouldn’t Kiss Be- cause He Had Mustache. Jail: Prisoner Becomes Delirious.’ m Halligan, 36 years old, a

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$6 Jointed Doll $9.38 $6 Large Rocker

for Extra large size; full ball jointed; large French bisque head; parted, long curly hair; sleeping eyes, with real hair eyelashes: has on shoes and stockings; honest $6 value; on sale here Tuesday

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$6.00 solid oak McKinley Rocker; uous s braces ; heavy rolled seat, well bolted and high back, SUSE 3 with golden “es 98 ‘e...f Sa Sees: | Be he Oe : we Fege . Washington Ay, oak finish ; Tuesday Charles Streets. 5 5tCharles. Eighth and Ninth diree __ These Items Will Be on Sale Juesday Morning Only hei 12 O'Clock 50c Sewing Boxes, 25¢ Reversible and © Polo Coats, --worth $10.75 Sand $12.75, o£ or * . ° EJust 200 Opats that came to peus | at half price—will he of- 'fefered in the great Coat Sale uesday at the lowest figure we have been able to name : this season for Coats of Qual- HAS $10,200 IN BUSINESS

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Is Employe of Department Store and Lends to Fashionable Women.

$4 Queen Louise Doll; 24 inches tall; has natural curly wig, moving eyes with lashes, exposed” teeth, flesh-enamel body, ball $7 12 3

$2.50 solid oak Rocker; back, cobbler seat strongly bolted ; golden oak fin- ish; Tuesday

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joint throughout, with shoes and Miss Nettie Owens, who disposed of stockings; special for Tuesday.. attempts to bring her into a divorce case by declaring, on the witness stand, that she would not kiss a man with a mustache, says she has made $40,000 in her 16 years as a department store em- ploye. She has made the greater part of it by lending money to fellow work-

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HHigh-Class eC Plush ‘Gea ts .W Ve are offering remarkable values in Sealette, Plush a bargain at this price; while ethe lot lasts, Tuesday, $3.95. - ity—made in reversible style . in gray double textures, also fin tan — belted polo coat styles—all sizes. 40 Silk $3.95 Waists . @ Odds and ends of fine Silk Waists; some of them .worth as high as $14.95; every one is — ——_ SSS a a . ~ me > > Se . + ry «>. \)

‘i Mixture Skirts W orth $5.00 100 mixture Skirts; handsome models; well worth $5; $9.95 95 | | priced for a a ae 8 aoe Taffetaand ‘Messaline - -_ Detticoats. | Made of:very good taf- feta and messaline; ex- tremely good ¢ values; for ${ 00 09 Sn clearance.

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ers and business acquaintances. Miss Owens is the head of the glove department in a downtown store. She is 30-odd years old—the odd is an odd number, and it isn’t 9—and she is strik- ingly fashionable sharply businesslike in speech. lives at 405 North Twenty-sixth strect, East St. Louis. “To be sure, I wouldn't kiss any man with a mustache,” she said to a Post- Dispatch reporter who asked her about | her testimony in Solomon B. Pruschar- sky’s divorce suit. Owns Most of Stock. She owns most of the stock in Prusch- ansky’s tailoring concern, and Mrs. Pruschansky, defendant in the divor:e suit, tried to make it appear that there had been more than a business friend ship between her husband and Miss Owens. Miss Owens’ statement on thi witness stand was in startling contrast to the old saying, long supposed to rep- resent feminine sentiment, that kissing a clean-shaven man is like eating an egg without salt.’’ “I haven’t kissed my father for years,’’ the young woman went on, “‘be- cause he won't shave off his mustache as I’ve often asked him to. I'd as soon kiss a man on top of the head. Why, I'd go insane if I had to kiss a man with .a mustache.. It disgusts me to think ‘of it.’’ Made $600 With $35. “I bought for $2200 most of the stock of Pruschansky’s establishment, and I loaned him $8000, with most of the re- maining stocK*as #ecurity, so that 4 practically own the business. That 3000 is only one-fifth of what I have made since I went into department store work. “At first I worked for $10 a week and in appearance and | She |

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REERS SH RRENNARAKA RRA AN SRO CRE MERERRE RHR 5c Handkerchiefs Children’s bordered, plain wear; 75c Fancy Buitons One large lot of fancy Metal But- sizes, navy, special value, tons, in two medium, in and gray; per dozen Main F 50¢c Satin Damasks™ 66 inches of satin Table Damask of newest floral very fine quality; design; Tuesday special, Main Ftoor—Aisle 2 75c Net Ca:cades Large Net Cascades, in two tab and winding effects: all dainty patterns; put up ‘in holly sale till boxes; noon on 80¢ Ribbon of silk taffeta, moire, 5000 vards, messaline terns; in ine hes; and crossbar chiefs; suitable for school special price, each.. Main Floor—Aisle 2, widths on sale till colored Handker- a \ 3 yards WE white, braided en fine on sale until noon itary Hair pric e $2.50 and green large brown, and 98e to loor. silver, bleached Albums; all yard hold from both the Purses, with on sale until Main Quadruple Mug and case; actual until noon flowered up pat- Brush, 50c Supporters Att Price A full line of genuine Ebony Mil- pepart this sale, per pair, Post Card A bums Regular $2.00 and $3.00 Post Card eolors 400 to 600 cards; this sale, 20¢ to $1.50 value; $1.00 Shet ist Patterns Shirt Waist Patterns, material, soisette ; containing beautifully regular pair; S1ZeS; 50c Slver Mesh Purse: 3-inch genuine German Silver Mesh long kind that won’t tarnish; noon, e Floor—Aisle $1.50 Silyzr Shaving Set plated Silver Shaving lined the IIc $.49 Heavy Moolens Owing to our great Reduction Sale we are forced to give you your choice of a $1.49 Imported Wool- ens, in diagonais and mix- tures; a magnificent value, at ‘79¢ Prure'las This is something you should nof miss; this is a special offer in 44- inch plain and satin faced im- ported Prunellas; in good colors; don’t miss this F bargain, at ° LBL LO OO LOOP DP $1.00. Velvet Cordurcy This special inducement will enable you to secure a $i.00 30-inch velvet corduroy, in black, navy blue and carnation purple, at a very low price; this erste, you should not miss....... 79¢ Silk Eolienne Owing.to our specials for tomor- row we will offer our 40-inch Silk Eolhiennes, in light blue, pink, lavender, navy and black, just the thing for even- ing dresses; special, at, yard Isc @hite Dotted Swiss Tuesday until sold, our 15¢e quality Dotted Swiss; in an assortment of dots, which are used for aprons, curtains and fancy work; special, per yard lsc Duckling Fleece 500 yards of beautiful patterns of 28-inch Duckling Fleeces; in neat figures of latest patterns; very beautiful for ladies, misses and children; Tuesday, per yard Main Floor—Aisle 2. 75¢ Gmbroidered flannels 50e faney Sewing Boxes; con- tains 8 spools thread, 3 spools darning cotton, hooks, 25 eyes and needles; special.. C Main Floor—Aisle 10. 75c Music Folios Black seal grain Music Folio, with” handle and double clasp; usually sells for 75c; special Main Floor—dAisle 6, $1.50 @omen’s Hand Bags All-leather Hand Bags; 11-inch size; with 3 fitting purse bottle and mirror; for ; §9¢ Main Floor—dAisle 6. 75cBrocaded Silk Mufflers Brocaded silk Mufflers; come in black, white and colors; 22-inch square; : Tuesday Main Floor—Aisle 6, 5c @omen’s Initial #dkfs. Women’s soft finish white Hand- kerchiefs, with neat embroidered initial; always sell for 5c; Tuesday Main Floor—dAisle 6. 26c&35cLamb' siool Soles Women’s Fur Jop Julets Leather turn sole with heel; snake- skin and bead trimming; a choice Christmas gift; in AA this sale only, one-half off. IC Plauen Lace Col'ars, 69- Women’s heavy Plauen Lace Dutch Collars; in very fine pat- terns; 5% inches deep; on sale until noon (Main Floor— Main Aide) coc Princess Yokes, 39¢ Women’s Princess Yokes; Batten- berg design; large size; mounted on cards suitable for Xmas gifts; 6n sale until noon (Main 39 Floor—Main Aisle)........ C dead Scarfs Jaceard Silk Head with | pretty floral-de- 38 Men's Bath Slippers 25¢ Men’s Japanese Bathroom Slippers; made of Japanese bam- boo; beautifully decorated in Japanese flowers; this sale only, % of 5s. c $2.00 Reversible Coating for Smoking Jackets 54-inch pure Australian wool re- versible Coating, two colored, Women’s Scarfs, signed borders (Main Floor— QO . 72

a . Upright Planes Wt cai Uprignt VI- anos: maho finish , ‘ 15 pow $s special for $3 ll Trunks; + ee this sale heavy’ brass trim- , nen with square $1.50 Ehootizs: fancy uphol- stered seat. 719¢ $2.00 Shooflys: upholstered, with

2 Sample One Motion Collapsible a an Tea Bet; Go-Carts; good ~ leatherette body piece sets and. steel wheels (Sixth 49 ; 7 an piece set.. he, oT . 2.362 bates fancy § ne shape Y $8 tae: 206 rd Tree... 4 50 te r cent cheap- 50 Drum; calf- skin head: complete 25¢ w ith sticke. YANN $2.50 Solid Oak Rocker; high poor) > es O-m, cobbler $5 Child's "ibe Drum; calf- skin head, ‘Oc seat, and strongly J).sk and hAnd-pol- to match at with sticks. $1.50 Moving : Re 2 P ic ture Ma- golden oak.... chine; complete 85 Solid Oak Mc- Kinley Roeker; with film and slides. .9OC continuo u i braces; h cc) $3 Moving Pic- rolled ture Machine; back oma complete with slifes-. $1098 Horses on Plat- . form covered with $2.00 Upright fine quality. plush; complete with sad- on age 25¢ d5e 50c Balky Mul Mechanical complete track and 98 Mechanical c omplete Pi- mah ogany ; Nicely trim- fg 2. -? ines. @] 95 plain ig but large. $1.25 . Veloce 1.29 tirer and $1. 15 China Tea including plates, fancy shapes

Writing Chair A thn Doll Trunks; Square or round top, with trays: 50c Piano Stools: fancy 48 mahogany finish; trimmed C same as pianos: as $1 rome as they t $3.00 orien $1 48 $2 Shoofiys ol- stored: ex-¢4 49 $1.50 Exp bal ger l 50c Granite 50c Toy Tea Sets. . Tea. 25¢ fxn gl Artificial ial S Floér).. ss en Jn_pots..... 90¢ special. ale a ating Gal- $1 ae Ker; Christmas $2.00 Ex eries, complete Ornaments: 50 to Wagons: with gun 75 per cent cheap- large and - here than any- strong ore, Gold and Silver bile: 2 Tinsel; 6 yards +5 tra large: (Fifth Floor).. J§ special.

- 7 tpring seat. ’ $4 Auto rat Red Flyer: $1.98 large size. ’ $8 Handcars: ene or chain $3.98 gears $1 Shooflys: neatly painted red: AQe e i. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY

$1 Doll Beds, with bedding: bress fin- ish; spécial for 50c $3 Grocery Stores, this sale —- with 25 $2 Dol) Bed, rie" extra special. articles edding: nicel xpress Wa register trimmed; re . ereired g i and scales.. $2 size (Fourth Floor.) Fourth Floor. bell $1.50 with te here than any- with track o8e sis the Gha2 and switch.... $1.50 Soldier and 8 temzasg O8¢ Bitte. A Wk RL I HL OH PT > Te Be ee AO RS SA ET A Lh TT TT TIT IAL pont YOUR MONEY can WANr Fit YOU Here's what we mean: If, at the end of 16 days, you can’t eat with the se > we make you as wll as you ever d money is pF ning you a @ritten con- e t. Could anything be 22.2204, 248249) 2224224222 VETS DDS “5 bolted; 148 or oak . Tuesday. 2 2 $1 Folding Table: : $2.00 Cylinder Tube —

Automo- seats; ex- $6.98 oT ae h0c Folding Tables heavy wood frame;

Ce eee ee eer ¢ Christmas RUG Sale

-d brass tested bras Fourth Floor. boiler 750 Go-Carts: Tuesday

Wednesday and Thursday. « meee CASH OR CREDIT Sy ASY PAYMENTS ~ 500 Seamless Velvet Boge—0x12—in exquisite une of Rrcemanigy regular $26 rug Alp? : ‘BYR Buys C27 9: Nes =) “4 pha — _S---—~-:-—~ -

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