St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 17, 1917
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SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1917, A — — A Ey ee 1 — ee J . — House Rebs Theater Box Office of $1000. — BROKER’S WIFE lair raid had taken place over the sou i WHO ASKS FOR DIVORCE Community Dedicated. | eastern counties of England and was] St. Patrick's day is being celebrated] ERIE, Pa., March 17.—As hundreds of J still in progress. by the St. Leo's Protective Association | persons were leaving a theater here last | tae The last Zeppelin raid on England o- With ceremonies dedicating St. Leo's] night a masked bandit armed with 3 curred on Nov. 20. when two of the] Temperance Hall, 2331 Mullanphy em rifle held up the cashier and forced bim raiding airships were shot down by the] as a community house. A to turn over the box office receipts, Blazing Airship With Bodies or Crew Falls Outside Compiegne, | 45 Miles From Capital British off the North coast. music, dances and eee $1000. The robber escaped. ee X28 — . — — z: „„ — — — — ö — . Stories from Life—Proving the Practical Value of The Encyclopaedia Britannica 4 ang information which would pertnslikevice be wor dition to the Britannica’s daily ess and N ment on general topics. There are 41,000 articles in the LOUIS READY T0 LEADER SAYS Sen of Terminal and Three Roads Will Walk Out at 6 P. M,, om Declares. PARIS, March 17.—A Zeppelin has been shot down in flames near Com- peigne. All of its crew were lost. It was sighted shortly before dawn and was reached by French anti-air- craft guns at a great height, probably more than two miles. The airship caught fire and the wreck- age, with the burned bodies of the crew, fell outside Compelgne, Several of the crew jumped out and were crushed to death. The others were There can be no doubt in your mind about how the Britannica can help you, and your need for it, when you read here how a few owners use it. Some of these stories show a few of the countless thousands of instances where the Britannica, by giving just one item of information, has Peaceable Picketing. f — Portrait by Gerhart Sisters. * uns. EUGENIA ROBERTS. John Bannon, international vice | president of the Brotherhood of Rau- road Trainmen, at 11 o'clock this a i morning in his headquarters at the '* American Annex, patch reporter that 2600 trainmen in St. Louis would strike at 6 o'clock 5 tonight, “and will hold out until or- ' ganized labor wins over » eapital.” organized These men, Bannon said, will be ealled from the Terminal Association, the Louisville & Nashville, the Balti- = more & Ohio and the Big Four. Dach man weeks ago received ex- plett instructions as to his individual duties in case of strike, Bannon de- clared, and the brotherhood officials expect these instructions to be car- ried out without further orders. Bannon would not say what these ' ‘imetructions were, nor would he ad- mit that picketing was to be done, but os said the men would take every ad- Vantage given them by the Clayton anti-trust act. This law exempts labor Be unions from prosecution as a trust in , Bt restraint of trade, and thus indirectly = . ganctlons peaceable picketing and per- ~ suasion in an effort to discourage arike- breakers. Ne Extra Trainmen Here. The brotherhood leader further ex- - plained that there are no extra train- men in St. Louis, but that each man is en his own division, waiting for the hour tio walk out. : able to verify The brotherhoods have a reserve furd of over $12,000,000," he contin „We @an hold out as long as the public tan stand the injustice done us. Auto- matically at 6 o'clock tonight every cne of the 2500 strikers in St. Louis will go on the reserve fund strikers’ payroll Bach man will receive from $50 to $60 a month during the strike.“ Cotton Belt and Wabash officials today said that they had not been reports from New ‘York hat the brotherhood employes on their lines would not go on strike. On the other hand, Bannon, for the brotherhoods, said that thus far the » Cotton Belt trainmen have not been - called out, but that there was a pos- 5 night. sibility that they might go out to- 4 > entered into consideration yet, for ' certain reasons which it is best not 4 to state at the 3 4444. present ere he Mails Will Be Protected. 4 ne leaders of the four brotherhoods ~ who are here directing strike develop- mont on the Southwestern lines, called Voesterday upon District Attorney Oliver 4 and Supt. Frank McFariand of the Raii- way Mall Service, to assure the Gov- ' &rnment that the strikers will not inter- a8 tere with carrying of malls. - Supt. McFarland conferred today with |» the local superintendents of raliroads aa with a view to making arrangements . kor the safe transportation of the mails tm and out of St. Louis. He said at ‘noon that he was unable to state what _ pians had been made. Labor agencies are employing guards for strike duty in the interest of the ploy “experienced railroad workers to take the places of the brotherhood men. STRIKE WOULD MAKE 10,000 MEN IDLE IN-EAST ST. LOUIS A canvass of Fast St. Louls fac- tories made today by a Post-Dispatch reporter, showed that atout 10,000 men wil be thrown out of employ- ment there in the event of a railroad Seven thousand of these will be idle by Tuesday night. Officials at the three big packing plante—Swift, Armour and Morrie— neh employ 6900 men, said that $000 of these will be laid off imme- diately when stock shipments cease. They are workmen employed in kin ins and in working on freshly killed meat, The Aluminum Ore Co,, which em- ploys 2200 men, will lay off 2000 men by Tuesday night if the freight tie- Ip is effective. The American Steel Foundries has nous raw material on hand to op- 5 o rate 10 days. At the end of that - time, if the strike is effective, the vompany will tay off about 1200 men. The Missouri Malleable Iron Go, has | enough ore to run four weeks, but. the aluminum company, has no . ‘The National Stockyards Co. will ite employes busy at something F 10 days, but will dispense with de of them at the end of that time. said to a Post-Dis- “The Wabash men have not* MRS, C. V. M. ROBERTS SUES FOR DIVORCE AND ALIMONY Alieges Husband, Stock Broker, Nag- ged Her and Borrowed Money From Her Relatives. Mrs. Eugenia Roberts, a daughter of Paul Bakewell, patent lawyer, yester- day filed suit to divorce Charles van Hook Roberts, stock broker, who lives at the Washington Hotel, alleging that he has a violent temper, was irritable and nagged her. She also alleges that he used profanity before her mother and his two children and that he in- sulted the plaintiff and her relatives. The petition says Roberts told his wife he had become involved in specu- lations and she must obtain money for him from her relatives. She says he obtained loans from some of her rela- tives for what he claimed were “grave and pressing emergencies,’’ but instead of being grateful, his conduct toward her became worse. ; The couple were married Oct. 2, 1906. They have had several separations. Both are Catholics, and it is said Archbishop Glennon was instrumental in effecting one reconciliation. Mrs. Roberts lives at the Cathedral Apartments, Lindell ulevard and Newstead avenue. She asks for custody of the children and for alimony. Roberts announced he would contest the suit. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT a First apoltcation gives relief. 500 SUIT TO CONSTRUE THE WILL OF MISS ELLEN M’KEE FILED A suit to construe the will of Miss Ellen McKee, who died in 1905 and who owned a majority of the stock of the Globe-Democrat, 290 shares, was filed to- day by Andrew Hill, of Barrytown, Mich., one of the beneficiaries. Miss McKee provided in her will that. the stock was to be held in trust by Charles H. McKee, executor, for 9 years after her death and that on-thirty- sixth part of the dividends wag to be paid for the benefit of Hill or membérs of his family. This interest since he: death has amounted to 360,000, the pe- tition sets forth. Hill, who was a first cousin of Miss McKee, has a wife and 10 children, in- eluding six daughters. None of tho married children lives at his home. 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Ducker of Poplar Bluff, Mo., reported ‘ast night he had been robbed of a diamond valued at $1000 and $4 in bills by a negress in a house at 2127 Chestnut street. A suspect was arrested. —— Announcing for Monday a Sale of 10,000 Dozen. Handkerchiefs From Ireland * Tagen have just arrived, and represent the seconds and small lots of one Hof the leading makers of the world. There is an immense variety of Hand- kerchiefs for men and women, and we urge our patrons to anticipate their fu- ture requirements. day papers. See details in Sun- address relative SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1917. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ALLPARTSOFRUSSIA SUPPORT NEW REGIME Attitude of 6,000,000 Soldiers at Front Now Big Factor in Situation. 4 Continued From Page One. til that time the chief dissat[Sfaction at the economic disorganization of the country and the criminal mismanage- ment of affairs was vented against the Cabinet and the influence of the court was only vaguely alluded to, without touching the person of the Emperor. It became definitely known that all irre- Sponsible and evil influences, symbolized by such figures as Sturmer, Protopopoff and Rasputin had a deeper and more kowerful source than the Government itself. Court Scandals and Intriguen. The prevalence of Startling rumors of court scandals and intrigues and the existence of mysterious channels which teemed to run from court circles into the camp of the enemy, contributed to bring the Imperial family into Complete dis- favor. Whether these were true or not it was felt that the weakness of the ruling family in allowing persons to direct the affairs of the country who were secretly designing against the best interests of the nation and apparently doing all possible to, interfere with the proper conduct of the war, unfitted them to govern the country. There was little restraint in the man- ner in which this opinion was expressed Accusations were made against the Em- press in almost every gathering where people privately assembled to discuss the political situation. From the tribune of the Duma the same thing was hinted in veiled form. Prof..Miliukoff, in his ad- dress at the opening of the Duma last November, read an account from a Ger- ten ME BA To all officers and employes: stated in the press for several days past that at 6 m. on Saturday, March 17, 1917, all locomotive pes, firemen, train conductors and brakemen 1a number of important railroad systems, includ- g the Baltimore and Ohio, will stop work in a body hiess otherwise ordered, in other words, go on strike. Such action under any circumstances would be — menace to the public welfare, and I am un- 4 ing to believe that the rumors are well founded, least so far as the Baltimore and Ohio employes concerned. In any event, if such action is even nder contemplation, it seems to me only fair to the en in the service of this company that I should tate the situation clearly as it is understood by me. 0 September 2, 1916, the Congress of United States passed the so-called Adam- eur law, to become effective on 1, 1917. This act, as you know, was ei was indefinite in its terms, addition to this, many able lawyers others felt that the law itself was un- 4 consequently the Supreme t was asked to say, first, whether the Vas constitutional or not, and, second, if BL ty eee, how it should be interpreted e case was argued before the Supreme on January 8th, 9th and 10th, 1917. a decision of the case, the railroads Rinstructed to keep their records of the worked by the various employes affect- y the law, so that, whatever final con- * be reached concerning the law, n should receive the full benefit from Aale when the law was to become effec- 5 that is to say, January 1, 1917. e Baltimore and Ohio Company is 80 ‘the time of all its employes affect- d if the law is declared constitutional er to pay and will pay by special eae increased wages due righ em- Sm — January 1, 1917. n and Ohio offered last Sum- r ham matter was under discussion, peepee that if the law is found sonstitutional, to have all matters in oversy submitted to arbitration be- i of arbitrators to be chosen - $ nt of the United States. TIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY — Office of the President Pan dealing. other case. more loyal to inconvenience, numbers, and directions. It has been broad- ing to force and not to the spirit of fair It is not necessary that Baltimore and Ohio employes should strike in order to ob- tain fair treatment, either in this or in any This controversy can be settled in an orderly way and settled fairly, and it should be kept in mind that the question sub- mitted to the Supreme Court was a very com- plicated and important one; and, further- more, there were other cases before the court which had to be decided in proper order, and no one, I am sure, would wish to have this matter passed upon hastily or incompetently by such an important tribunal as the Su- preme Court of the United States. It has been stated that the employes on some of the other lines will not be affected by the strike order. more patriotic citizens than the employes of the Baltimore and Ohio Company! I cannot believe that such is the case. lieve, nor will I believe, that Baltimore and Ohio employes will without cause take hasty, unwarranted and unnecessary action, the direct effect of which will be to bring great would do great and unforseen harm in other I hope it will never be said that Balti- more and Ohio employes in a time like this took action which gave satisfaction, aid and comfort to those opposed to the welfare of the United States. ~ Is this because they are their employers or are they I cannot be- if not real distress, to large which might and probably Daniel Willard, — New Government in ° : * ussia Abolishes All * > a * eligious Restrictions. LONDON, March E. HE provisional Government in X Russia has issued the fol- lowing appeal to the people, according to Reuter’s Perograd cor- respondent: “Citizens: The Executive Com- mittee of the Duma, with the ald and support of the garrison of the capital and its inhabitants, has suc- ceeded ih triumphing over the ob- noxious forces of the old regime in such a manner that we are able to proceed to a more stable organi- zation of the executive power, with men whose past political activity assures them the country’s confi- dence.“ The names of the members of the new Government are then given and the appeal continues: “The new Cabinet will base its policy on the following principles: ‘1 An immediate general amnesty for all political and religious of- fenses, including terrorist acts and military and agrarian offenses. 2. Liberty of speech and of the press; freedom for alliances, unions, and strikes, with the extension of these liberties to military officials within the limits admitted by mil- itary requirements. ‘3. Abolition of all social, ious and national restrictions. 4. To proceed forthwith to the preparation and convccation of a. constitutional assembly, based on universal suffrage, which will es- tablish a governmental regime. 5. The substitution of the police by a national militia, with chiefs to be elected and responsible to the Government. ‘6. Communal elections to be based on universal suffrage. 7. The troops which participated in the revolutionary movement will not be disarmed, but will remain in Petrograd. „8. While maintaining strict mil- itary discipline for troops on ac- tive service, it is desirable to ab- rogate for soldiers all restrictions in the enjoyment of social rights accorded other citizens. ‘9. The provisional government desires to add that it has no in- tention to profit by the circum- stances of the war to delay the real- ization of the measure of reform above mentioned.“ relig- man paper which spoke of a group of mysterious persons who were gathered around the young Empress. He used this article as the basis for an attack upon the dark forces“ which reflected the pro-German influence at the court. It was the general conviction when the revolution began that it had been provoked by the Government, working through the medium of the police and that the Government has decided upon this daring expedient as the means of completing its precious efforts to tie up the industrial activity of the country and bring the war operations to a complete standstill. But the force which was set in motion and which first appeared easy to control, drawing to itself all the dis- cordant elements of the country, which were awaiting an opportunity to revolt, soon became so tremendous that it was impossible to hold it. So swiftly, unex- pectedly and completely did the great change come that the people are almost dazed and seem scarcely able to under- stand what has occurred. People Regard It as Dream. Inured through centuries to the grind- ing oppression of autocratic rule and regarding freedom as a glorious dream which would forever remain a dream, the people seem disposed to regard their liberation as at most merely a tempo- rary respite, which must soon give way to the ancient law of imperial will. Grand Duke Michael Accepted Throne Conditional Upen Public Consent. LONDON, March 17.—Grand Duke Michael accepted the throne of Rus- sia conditioned on the consent of the Russian people, according to a state- ment received here today from the semiofficial Russian news agency. The statement follows: “Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, accept- ing the throne from his brother, de- clares that he does so only with the consent of the Russian people, who should by a plebiscite establish a new form of government and new fun:ilamental laws.” The declaration made by the Grand Duke on his acceptance of the throne, as given out by the news agency, “ol- lows: This heavy responsibility has come to me at the voluntary request of my brother, who has transferred the n- perial throne to me during a period of warfare which is accompanisd with unprecedented popular disturb- ances. Moved by the thought which is in the minds of the entire people, that the good of the country is para- mount, I have adopted the firm reso- lution to accept the supreme power only if this be the will of our gen- eral people, who, by a plebiscite organized by their representatives in a constituent assembly, shall estab- lish a form of government and new fundamental laws for the Russian State. “Consequently, invoking the bene. diction of our Lord, I urge all citi- zens of Russia to submit,to the pro- visional Government established upon the initiative of the Duma and in- vested with full plenary powers, until such time, which will follow with as little delay as possible, as the consti .- tuent assembly, on a basis of uni- versal. direct, equal and secret suf- frage, shall, by its decision as to the new form of government, express the will of the people.” Russian Garrison Mutisies at Fortress Guarding Hestngfos. LONDON, March I7.—The Russian gar- rison at the fortress of Sveaborg which defends Helsingfors, has refused to join the revolution, acocrding to a dispatch received by th ßwedish newspaper Ny- heter and forwarded here by the Stock- holm correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Co. The Ruesian soldiers, the dispatch adds, mutinied and the fortress has been declared in a state of siege. SPRING TIME DANGERS Avoid colds by taking Father John Medicine as your epring tonic and body 1 | RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IMPRESSES AUSTRIANS Emperor Charles Returns Sud- denly to Vienna From Budapest, When on Way to Transylvania. By CYRIL BROWN A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch and New York Werid., (Copyright, 1917, by Press Pub. Co.) BERLIN; March 16, via London, March 17.—The Russian revolution has made a tremendous impression in Austria, where its moral effect will naturally be greater than in Germany. It explains reports from the Eastern front several days ago. where intrenched Russian soldiers were heard cheering. It also explains Em- peror Charles’ sudden return to the Au- strian capital from Budapest, on March 8, instead of continuing, as had been planned, his visit to Transylvania. The first vague rumors of the revo- lutionary movement in Russia sounded so good to Emperor Charles that he hurried back to Vienna to watch devel- opments, Synchronizing with the Rus- sian reyolution, Chancellor von Beth- man-HollWeg’s visit to Vienna is now regarded as significantly more than a polite formality. Saturday afternoon, it is understood, will be devoted exclusively to confer- nces betwen the German Chancellor and Austrian statesmen, at which Count Tisza, rumored as the probable suc- cessor of the Austrian premier, is also expected to be present. The best expression of moderate Ger- man public opinion is voiced by the So- cialistic Vorwaerts, which says: “If the revolution remains victorious, it will mean at first, not a weakening, but a strengthening of the bonds be- twen Petrograd and London. ‘Rodzianko, President of the Duma, and Miliukoff are closer to Lloyd George than were the Czar’s ministers. “There are Only two possibilities for Russian liberalism to maintain itself now—either a great victory over Ger- many and the fulfillment of the pan- Slavic dreams of conquest or else a speedy conclusion of an honorable peace. Between these two possibilities the new Government must choose, Will it rec- ognize that the first possibility is in reality an impossibility, while the second is near at hand and graspable?’’ ENTIRE BRITISH ARMY IN WEST IN MOTION Roads, Railroads and Even Water Mains Built in Wake of Germans. By a Staff Correspondent of the Associated Press. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, March 16.—The retreat of the Germans in the Ancre and Somme re- gion continues to give the zest of move- ment to the war in the West and a trip nowadoys along the ever-extending new British lines reveals a picture the like of which has not been seen on this front for more than two years. Progress was made by the allies in the battles of the Somme last summer and autumn, but after the initial for- ward step the fighting became so bitter and the resistance so dogged that the advance could be counted almost by feet if not at times by inches. Recently the onward movement has been rckoned in miles and it is strange to see field fortresses that last year cost thousands of German lives to defend now yield within a few hours after the British meavies“ have begun to pour out their torrent of high explosives. The British gun crews show their high morale which is in evidence throughout the army. They whistle and sing and ban- dy grim jests as they work. As the firing button is pressed the crew jumps back for a moment from the gun carriage, but have leaped again to their allotted posts before the easy acting recoil has returned the mammoth weapon to its original position. The forward movement of the British on so wide a front has brought into play all the machinery of motion in warfare. Roads seems to spring us overnight in most unexpected places, railways have audactousl) flung them- selves forward regardless of mud and shell holes and with a completeness which even includes most pretentious sign posts bearing the names of French villages which exist now only as geo- graphical remnants. It ig also a rev- elation of the intensely practical side of modern war to see a six-inch water main stretching itself into territory but recently occupied by Germans. Roard bedding has called into play all _ the ingenuity of pioneer battalions, com- posed not only of experienced British workmen, but of real pioneers from the Prairies and mountains of Canada an? the far lands of Australasia and Africa. Road materia! is scarce, but the refuse of battle often serves the purpose. Broken rifles, bits of clothing, frag- ments of shells and occasionally a few shells that fail to explode are used in the foundation of the new paths. The remains of a recently evacuated village bring great joy to the pioneers, for thar means a temporary supply at least of much-desired broken brick and stone. Meantime the British troops are rev- elling in the joy of occupying high ground. They are now on the Somme crest and Bapaume and the country east lie on a slope that gradually de- scends all the way to the French bor- der. One can but marvel at the forti- ae 24 It is possible now to sit in with a group of resting the remnants of a dugout British shelis drop into lines, see the shrapnel break flash and a white puff of above the opposing trenches the heavier high-explosive into Maring fountains of and flying debris. testing shell man shrapnel brown puffs rying about on 174 He q F head. Children Cry for Fletcher's ASTORI The Kind You Have ture of Chas. H. Fletcher, and deceive you in this . r supervision for at — 30 — „Just-as-good“ are but F What | Is more an > CASTORIA oric, Drops and Soo yrups. 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MARCH 17, 1917. — Oe „ ie 6 eng | ST, LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, SATURDAY EVENING, ——————OOOOO = i = ST LOUIS POST-DI SPATCH A DEPLORABLE BLUNDER. | come desirable, plans were made for the improve- speci sont ment. | Pounded : 2 2 eg 6 e ot-improvement In any other country of civilization it would ) — by 9 2 aha and bettered municipal service are pledged in the have been a matter for local initiative and action. 940-212 N. Broadway. city platforms of the two parties. But in Russia it had to be referred to the capital — . The plank in the Democratic platform giving] for approval. Three times the recommendation RATES BY MAIL IN ADVANCE assurance in strong terms of patriotic support to} as sent for the perfunctory sanction, with results of which Kropotkin gives humorous descriptions. the President in enforcing American rights and Years afterward when he visited the town on protecting American citizens will be read wich] scientific research, he found the improvement still peculiar satisfaction and pleasure by thousands] held up by red tape and inertia. of St. Louisans, who will feel a corresponding sense of disappointment at the total omission of On him were imposed more than the ordinary sacrifices of those who renounce their privileges any reference to the national crisis in the Re- publican platform. | and attest their love for humanity by turning It is not true, as Chairman Schmoll says, that against their own class and social set. Now, like Voltaire, he can be called home in-his old age by a pledge of this character is only dragging Gov- ernment affairs into a municipal contest. A great the voice of the nation to behold the wonders which the years have wrought—wonders in which national emergency has made such patriotic prom- ises not only desirable but necessary as an ex- he must be conceded a part. No doubt it will be a joyous home-coming with belated bestowal of pression of public opinion. When the civic bodies of unofficial status long earned public honors. throughout the country are giving formal assur- ance of loyal support to the Government in the existifig grave ‘crisis, the silence of a political r month......5i0c »...-85e Bt. ‘ ener put mon at posteffiice, St. Louis, Mo, as second-ciass Kinloch, Central 8 POST-DISPATOH PLATFORM. Iko that my retirement will make no difference in its cardinal principles, that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or 5 Democrats, One R on April Ballot, Wi Balance in Boy ad 1122 * ms The Democratic and N 8 day of five Democratit gm lican, took action which The names of the six candid de printed on both the Deu Republican ballots, tion. There are five hc „ ans on the School Board, and ocrat. There will be alt gepne A PERILOUS UNDERTAKING. At this writing we can only express the hope that the railway managers and the railway broth- erhoods will not refuse to heed the earnest appeal of the President in behalf of national safety and atch Average c¢treulation entire year 191¢ Sunday, 356,193 Daily, 204,201 gy” The POST-DISPATCH sells more papers in St. Louis and Sub- -urbs every day in the year than there are homes in the eity. — — ETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Kind Word for the Police. To the Batter of the Post-Dispatch. Answering an “Old Resident's” letter knocking the police, I beg to suggest that his brother could nave Walked to almost any police station, where hé would have been sure to have been found help. He could have called Olive 5000 on the Bell phone convention supposed to be representative of the political thought and sentiment of the fourth com- | munity in the United States seems particularly unfortunate. This silence has the greater significance in view of known plans to obtain for the Republican city ticket the votes of certain well-recognized ele- ments in the St. Louis population. : If, as is asserted, the omission was deliberate and decided on despite the protests and efforts of Republican leaders who insisted on a declaration of patriotic principle and purpose, it becomes more than merely significant. It becomes a deplorable blunder, which the electorate will resent and ought to resent. = —_ = i i Some of those Russians who had to pay $30 a pair for shoes recently could be expected to walk roughshod over the Government at the first op- portunity. NATURAL PAOIFISTS. Some embrionic Goldsmith or themeless Cowper is overlooking a great chance to sing the simple joys of an untroubled, rustic people. There is a vacancy for anybody competent to handle the job. The land is Greenland and the people are Eski- mos. Inasmuch as no Eskimo bard appears on the and with the flashlight system they would have horrizon a foreigner may seize the opportunity. sent him a patrolman or probably two or three in no less that 10 minutes. I live on one of the largest beats in St. Louis and never have any trouble getting the very best co-operation from our Police. I have no stand-in with them. We are in business in a lonesome spot, have been awak- ened by the police to lock doors I had overlooked, have been cautioned about characters known by them ané seen loitering in the neighborhood, the police watching for the safety of youngsters going and coming to a school just a block from us. Of course while doing this if a drunk decided to take a nmap on the opposite half of his beat it would take a patrolman sometime to get to him. If you want policemen closer to you use your influence to have the long West End beats shortened. You can't do this by knocking. | A ; Criticism for Kiel. To the-Bditer of the Post-Dispatch: Tant ie laughable that Henry Kiel, the Mayor of Louis, Mo., aproints men at $10 a day on a wd to deliberate on a question of taxes, when hardly any of them are taxpayers on real estate? A YOUNG TAXPAYER. ; Favors Protest Meeting. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: I agree with the views J. M. G.frecentiy printed in this column that Americans in St. Louis ought to give some expression of their resentment to- wards Senator Stone for his shameful action. Therefore, I second the move that the Post-Dis- patch as the leading American paper here call a meeting for protesting to Senator Stone, President Whison, the Foreign Relations Committee and all others against our senior Senator. To prevent a repetition of the Belgian deportation protestation meeting let all who agree with Senator Stone re- main at home or call a meting for commending ‘him. Resolutions protesting against Stone’s action approved by many citizens of St. Louis ought to do moch to show that St. Louisans and Missourians are backing the President in his attempt to uphol3 our national honor. i B. Those in Favor. Say Aye. Baitor ot the Post-Dtepetonh: ee that it will do any good, but I ask enough if Valuable space to protest against this e business of calling children “kiddie.” The is only one letter shorter than “children,” it wae neither brevity, euphony, wit, intelli- taste nor plain common sense to 4 it. Why sacrifice a good Angic-Saxon such twaddile? YOUNG RBSIDENT. 45 E | i 4 Te the Editor of the Post-Dispatch : It is so urgent for the welfare of all that the pres- ent industrial crises should be considered in a spirit of forbearance and amity, that I want to call attention to this fact: The railroad men have shown their patriotic feeling by assuring the President that they will do nothing to ham- per, but everything to help him in case of na- tonal need; hence it is now the turn of the em- pleyers to express their good-will toward the pb try. In relation to their men they hold an Intrenched position, and can afford to be magnanimous rath- than bring to the whole population the misery ‘Gislocated life and incalculable privation. Let th their men as allies, not ene and d spare the people. LEONORA B. HALSTED. The Eskimos, according to latest information, have no taxes to pay and no policemen to obey. They are content with a monthly newspaper which gives énly the barest accounts of the great war. They have no music halls and no movie theaters. They are troubled by no need for na- tional preparedness and wouldn't recognize a rail- road strike if they met one on the highway. They have no important matters to detain them at the office when the fishing is good, and the gas com- pany never threatens to cut off because of unpaid bills. The doctors do not carve them for appendicitis and the lawyers don’t trouble them with writs of injunction. They have no filibuster- ing Senators and are undisturbed by the feminist movement. And, crowning joy, there is not a vers librist among them. It is almost unnecessary to add that the Eski- mos are the world’s champion peace-at-any- pricers. = = ™ re wo AN EVANGELISTIOC UNION. The vaudeville players of the country having formed a union, isn’t it about time the evangelists of the modern school were doing likewise? The profession is getting so crowded with ex-pugilists, ex-athletes and ex-this-and-thats that it is high time something were done to regulate competition. Time was when evangelists were mostly ordained clergymen who were graduated from pastorates into the field of evangelism and there was little difficulty about their credentials. But in these days when a man’s previous ability to land a left hook or run the century dash in 10-flat or field & bunt fs considered a satisfactory apprenticeship for guide duty along*the sawdust trail, there ought to be some precautions Out in California recently a dusky young man who said he was Tom Longboat, the famous In- dian runner, had no trouble in getting a job at a revival. After he had given a satisfactory amount of admonishment to the ungodly, he collected his pay and disappeared. Then it was discovered that he was not Tom Longboat but an impostor. That sort of thing is a hardship on the bona fide evangelist. After a man has spent the flower of his youth working up from the flyweight division to the 133-pound class, or even the middleweight, and has finally taken the good-night wallop that serves as his diploma, it is not fair that he should be cheated out of his reward by some brash pre- tender whose only idea of a kidney punch is that it must be some new kind of hash. = = „ KROPOTEIN’S LONG EXILE ENDED. Not the least dramatic of the consequenges of e Russian revolution is the vindication with end of exile it brings to Prince Peter Alexelvich Krop- otkin. The very thing that has happened he pre- dicted on the outbreak of the war. The Prince is one of the worthy types of the ancient Russian nobility without whose sympathy and active co-operation the slow movement against autocracy would have been at many stages prior to the present intexicating suc- cess. Member of a family which for centuries had been numbered among the ruling classes, a page in boyhood at the imperial court, an army officer, an administrator in Siberia, a geographer whose discoveries reversed the conclusions of science as to the continental structure of Asia, a Nihilist by the public welfare to avert a strike in the crisis confronting the country. The situation and the danger of a railroad block- ade cannot be more’ clearly and strongly stated than the President has stated them. He says an agreement with a continuation of traffic is im- | perative. We are certain that the American people stand | solidly with the President in this appeal and warning. They will support him in any action to safeguard the nation's vital interests. They will not tolerate conduct on the part of any element of the people which endangers the country and threatens to bind its @nergies and defeat its aims. Neither the railway managers nor the brother- hoods can afford to ignore the warning nor dis- regard public interests. It would be a perilous un- dertaking. >. A. i i Curious that all battleshéps sunk by mines are invariably “of an old type” in the official reports. = = * i i A PETROGRAD AND DUBLIN. Since the last St. Patrick’s day the long list of Irish martyrs has been extended. An ill-starred attempt was made to accelerate constitutional agitation by armed force, the first serious at- tempt in a century of discontent and unredressed grievances. In hundreds of gatherings in honor of the day comparisons will be drawn between the Dublin uprising of Easter day last April and the tri- umphant movement in behalf of self-government and against reaction at Petrograd in this present March. To judge of the full accuracy of the par- allel we must have more definite information as to what the Irish leaders would have done in the event of complete or partial success. Would they have joined themselves to Germany, as much their enemy as the enemy of other races in Western Europe? Or did they plan to do on a more serious scale only what Ulster had already threatened to do? Would they have merely held the strong places in the island until, aided by their pressure, the Irish representatives at Westminster had ended Asquith’s paltering and forced the legislation which ought long before to have been accorded? Or would they have held out for the Utopia of an unfederated and independent Ireland? : Whatever the object of the insurrectionists as a whole, many undoubtedly were actuated by pre- cisely the same motives that actuated those who struck for popular rule at the Russian capital. Another obvious and basic feature in the paral- lel is tnat a Government of the Irish and by the Irish and for the Irish at Dublin was opposed by the element in the British Isles that corresponds exactly to the element in Russia that opposed gov- ernment by the consent of the governed at Petro- grad. | 3 : Whatever the differences between the two move- ments, what was done at the Russian capital may fittingly be cited today as justifying new hopes for the early righting of Ireland’s wrongs. Democ- racy during the days when the Russian republic was established planted a new line of stakes 80 far out as narrowly to circumscribe in their new and splendid sweep the boundaries still given over to oppression and irresponsible rule. A victory was won whose influence will extend to many cap- itals and give new heart everywhere to those struggling for equality of opportunity. i i ad A New York Judge vindicates the right of “i married man to drop cigar ashes on the carpet at home, but it is protection, not vindication, that the married man wants. = = i i se BELLEVILLE’S ‘‘ENDOCRIMAPATHIC’’ COPS Have you an endocrimapathic tendency? If not it will be useless for you to apply for a job as a Belleville policeman. Belleville policemen are supposed to have one and be ready to produce it for examination every time they are called upon to do 80. The endocrimapathic tendency reveals what a policeman will do when it is up to him to do some thing. A scientist who is up on such things can look at a policeman’s endocrimapathic tendency and find out exactly what that policeman would do if, for instance, he were invited to have a glass of Belleville beer. There are unscientific persons who think they know the answer without looking at,the police- man's endocrimapathic tendency. That may be, but there are other contingencies in the line of a Belleville policeman's duty which have a leas ob- vious trend. Perhaps it is just as well to leave it was not easy tew decide i eame at last tew where we're at exactly how the matter goes Tew crime society and sport as little as we must report epitomizing all things new i gave to each its meager due And advertising in its turn boiled down tew that for which we yurn behold thou reader reading stil! the sumwhat decimated bill and famine broods i served you hash Or in a clash of planets moons and all things else i slipped you prunes perhaps when all is said and done Of what lies deeper in the cup we have refined ourselves and lo the unadulterated stuff r 3 , es ee Sas 122442 . ‘ a4 a9 ; + — 7 * , pat yy on D — ‘ ** * ’ 4 e . a K 9 40 9 7 . 1 ö o o „ — — 2 7 — 11 f JUST HALF A MINUTE. POEM BY THE COPY BOY. im getting out a paper now that fairly knits a body’s brow No filler fantasy or guff but only necessary stuff what things should finally abide But weighing this and sifting that tew war i gave no more than shows Not much tis true but still recall so much more than no news at all | paign, the Boxer rebellion, the Spanish- it is as if while kingdoms crash we only have a sample run when editing is tightened up i cannot say i only know There lies before you pure enuff SOME ADVERTISEMENT. The following advertisement, ap- pearing in the Musical Monitor for March, will interest St. Louisans: : F. CONSTANTINO, : World-Famous Tenor—Open for : Engagements. The world-famous tenor, F. : Constantino, will soon return : from his very successful work : done in St. Louis, where he: : gang the role of Louis XIV in : the opera of that name, written : by Homer Moore, critic of the : St. Louts Republic. Mr. Moore : secured F. Constantino as he : considered him the best tenor in : the United States to create this new role, and the different telegrams pouring in here cer- : tainly show that Mr. Moore's : judgment was justified, as they : cannot praise enough his per- : formance there, and claim tre- : merftious successes every even-: : Ing the opera was given in the : : St. Louis Odeon Theater. Upon : Censtantino’s return to our city : he will soon get ready for sever- „ al concert engagements in Ari- zona and Texas, secured for him : by A. Rosen, manager, also in : all probability one or two weeks’ : Opera season in Kansas City. : Several other requests for the : great singer had to be refused : on account qf lack of time. Ad- : drees Secretary. 1086 South West- : lake avenue, Los Angeles, Cal. * ö She was thrown off, alighting on her MILITARY TRAINING IN | ~ HIGH SCHOOLS BEGUN Retired Army Sergeant Drills 250 Students at Soldan for an Hour. Military training in the Soldan, Yeat- man and McKinley high schools for- mally began yesterday afternoon under the direction of Maj. Charles E. Stod- ter, U. S. A. At Soldan 20 students volunteered for the trairiing course, and were placed under the immediate charge of Sergt. William McGowan, retired, and for- merly of the Seventh Cavalry. McGown, a veteran of the Sioux cam- American war and the Philippine in- surrection, was in full dress uniform, and maintained a friendly attitude to- ward his recruits. “Fall in,” he ordered, when the stu- dents had gathered on the drill ground. With a motion of the hand he signified the line for them to mark. An hour later he had taught them such simple evolutions as right dress, parade rest, right about face and the salute. Maj. Stodter expressed pleasure at their progress. The Drill Sergeant selected & boys who had previous military training, and put them through squag formations for minutes more. In the six high schools the present total enrollment for military training ts 532 boys out of 37% eligible for such in- struction. Central has 4 enrolled, Me- Kinley #, Yeatman 14, Cleveland @ and Sumner (negro) 8. JANITOR ONE OF MEN KILLED - IN BOSTON BOMB EXPLOSION BOSTON, March 17.—A bomb exploded in the Suffolk County Courthouse late yesterday, killing two men and injuring another. One of the dead was Louis A. | Zelinger, a janitor employed in the build- ing. The other, apparently a foreigner, is believed to have been the bearer of the explosive. The object of the bomb carrier is un- certain, but thé fact that Judge W- nam A. Loring’s session of the Supreme Judicial Court was only % feet from the anteroom in which the explosion o- curred, indicated to the authorities that this may have been the objective. It fs thought the explosion was premature. WOMAN ON MOTOR CYCLE KILLED Mrs. Ethel Shute, a widow, % years old, of M10 North Tenth street, was killed instantly last night when a motor- cycle which she was riding with William Griffin, a motoran, of Zi ave- nue, hit a depression at and Bissell street. head. Her skull was crushed. FLOWER SHOW HAS EAL CARDEN EFFECT Natural Setting Obtained by Skilled Landscape Gardeners Who Arranged Blooms. The spring flower show at the First Regiment Armory, Grand and Manches- ter avenues, seems leas a flower show than a garden of flowers. In so seem- ing it is not less a flower show, but on the contrary it is its greatest achiev- ment. Those who have seen the flower shows of many cities say the natural garden effect is realized hefe as it has not been at any other show.” One enters from the wind-swept street and it is as if one has been carried by magic to a warmer climé where flow of every kind bloom tn rigtous profusio always. Arrangement te evident, but. is the arrangement which skilled land- stape gardeners make, not the unnatural placing that is usual at indoor shows. It was the endeavor of L. Jules Bour- det and his aids to create a garden and in so far as the main picture is concerned they have succeeded so well that the necessarily conventional show- ing of cut flowers and table decora- tions and the like does not seems incon- gruous. The effect is substantially easisted by by the Park Department, bed of friendly flowers as will wel- come the people to the parks a little later. And snap dragons, the same that lift their spears in homely gardens without end, but not the same. The map dragons are aristecratse now. They have been brought cut and cul- tivated to sich a degree of beauty and perfection that they are crowding for place In the vases that have here ifs | Olive Tablet Gos Dr. Ferdinand cient management of every municipal farm for fortunates and motorisation The Socialists declared fot warehouses and cold st reduce the cost of food, tric and gas plants, ice WaT natural evolution as the result of a remarkable in- tellect’s observation of Russian social forces, a closely guarded political] prisoner and finally a fu- gitive im foreign parte, his career embraces a series of striking episodes unsurpassed in modern biography. | A reference in one of his books has supplied a the whole subject to the scientists. The policemen who have been ordered to get their endocrimapathic tendencies ready for inspec- tion are thinking it over. They say that when they joined the force nothing was said about and they understood that all they had to do was to walk their beats about 12 hours a day and make everybody bebave, for #75 a month. They: are ‘inclined to balk at the order to lay bare their 5 a ba,” 7 5 5 1 . a * 5 Aes ee hie i ; Probably by the time the whole truth of what is happening in Rus- sia reaches us we shall learn that the country has also gone in for woman suffrage. 7 Leenl Concern Wine Geld Medal, NEW YORK, March 17.—Oneof the five gold medals given annually by the! American Museum of Safety went te} i i * 4 5 iti 7 29 \ ie, * * * * ö 4 oS 7 — Za © It looks as if Russia were off the a « ae) Za E e ee —
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m April Ballot, Will Rest Balance in Board. he Democratic and ne ventions, by the nomination , | of five Democratit candigns Board of Education and one Si n. took action which will restos artisan baiance to the School B r the April election. 3 je names of the six candidate ted on both the Dem: jublican ballots, assuring thelz „ There are five holdover Rem on the School Board, and one ut. There will be six rep fis bach party when the new ~ ts * 4 * 12 41 i= Utility Sports Bags. match the incoming sports ; 20 raters, scarfs and hats, 1 om nobby new utility bags. These : i, wide-mouthed affairs, with ‘big ring to swing upon the arm. w hold tennis shoes, contain the eater when it isn’t in use, carry a 1 ok to read on the beach, knitting for , idle moment and such small accesso- ps a handkerchief, pocketbook and 1 — — — : * Be Better Looking—Take cae ARs 77 | “aig 8 a poor — ve a bad taste in your mouth—@ y, no-g feeling—you should take ive Tablets. we Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets act on | the liver and bowels like calomel—yet 8 no dangerous after effects. They 43 ag That’s why millions of boxes are gold annually at 10c and 250 | All druggists. Take one or two N 5 0 777 4 — * pe. 3 * te | AT TIMES To put strength in her me. “5 ; N E 2 8 a 2 ‘NEEDS IRON . the bile and overcome constipa- per box. the pleasing re ve Tablet „Columbus, 0. = 9 bes ow 25 4 a me pi ' Dr. Ferdinand King Says: 2 oa EVERY WOMAN > 5 „ 3 1 Bee RY DAUGHTER nerves and color in her Ss cheeks. as There can be no beauti- * ful healthy, ray - cheeked '. Women with- * ce the cost of food, munici . E ai er season to relieve ur j F * m of public improvement. that when wo- men needed & iron they gen- erally took rescribe organic 8 particular form te oes no eeth nor upset It willincrease the strength a endurance of wea nervous, ir- ritable, careworn, haggard looking wom- en 200 per cent in two weeks’ time in many instances have used it in my * * own practice with most surprising re- Ferdinand * M D> . : NUXATED IRON recommen * i * : a c . . & * . ati ‘ ~ . ; ‘ ' . — ‘ vg 7 be o you. Phy E aa * * = . i Pie 5 ee 7 * 1 ** * If your skin is not fresh, smooth and 2 or has suffered from an unwise : 10 * use of cosmetics, here is an easy, inex - declared against the a e way to clear it: Spread ona Resinol Ointment, letting it remain i | Is Unreasoning Panic That Canses 80 Many Widowers to Make the Foolish Marriages They Are Famous For. * HE way ot a man with a maid has ever been held to de one of the in- scrutable mysteries of life, but there is a stranger thing still, and that is the way widowers marry. To the innocent bystander it looks only too often as if a man, otherwise Sane, took leave of his senses, when he came to make a second marriage. It ig a common spectacle to see a staid, fat, middle-aged widower, with a houses full of children, marrying a fluffy-headed little girl, no older that his own daughters, or a polished society man, whose first wife had belonged to his own Class, taking his cook or his housekeeper for his second wife. Indeed, so little marrying sense do widowers, as u class, display, that they have become a sort of consolation prize to women, who comfort themselves with the fact that ſt they can’t be a No, 1 wife there is no difficulty in becom- ing a No. 2 For they don’t need any bait—neither looks nor charms not in- telligence—with which to angle for a widower. All they need is just to be Sally- on-the-spot, and he'll come up and flop into their nets. , OBODY has N Strange psychic phenomenon of why a man will marry for his second wife a woman he wouldn't have looked at for his first, nor why a sensible, practical, intelligent man, with 4 or 80 years of experience in life, should, in ventuying into the holy estate a second time, throw all prudence and caution to the winds and contract an alliance that seemingly any idiot would know was inevitably bound- to end in disaster. Yet we have all seen widowers who were men of culture and _ refinement marrying coarse and illiterate women with whom they had not one thought or idea in common. And we have seen the misery that resulted. And we've teen widowers bring silly, undisciplined, unwise young stepmothers to rule over turbulent children who were nearer her age than she was to her husband’s, and we've looked on in pity at the fight that followed. And we've wondered what made these widowers mare as they did. We have wondered how a man whose e¢irls were the gently-bred daughters of a lady could put over them to rear them a woman who had none of the qualities of their own mother, a woman who could teach them none of the elegan- cies and graces that their own mother would nave taught them; a woman who was incapable of making or holding for them the place in society that their own mother would have done. And we have wondered how any man could have been deluded enough to even hope that any young girl would have the tact, the self-control, the far- reaching intelligence to enable her to fil the most difficult of all roles, that of stepmother. We have wondered how any man could have been so blind as not to foresee that bringing such a one into his house was like bringing in a firebrand, and that the result would in- evitably be a home that was always in a row and a turmoil, and that the end was bound to 0s that his children would be alienated from him, and driven from bim, and ais own heart torn in two be- tween his love and duty to the two fac- tions. We have wondered at these things, and now an Archbishop of the Middle West has explained them. He says that the widowers who make these unsuitable marriages for the most part are men who have become panic-stricken upon the death of their wives, and who re- marry as soon as possible merely that their children may be cared for. Fur- thermore, marrying in haste, they marry without judgment the first woman that is handy. In his long experience in dealing with foolish and weak humanity, the Arch- bishop has seen thousands of these mar- riages that have turned out 80 unhap- | pily that he is now establishing a home where motherless boys may be taken care of, and their fathers thus prevented from being driven into precipitate and undesirable marriages. No doubt the Archbishop is right. A woman whose husband dies leaying her with a houseful of little children, has always been a tear-compelling object of sympathy, but in reality she is not half so pathetic or so forlorn and helpless as the man whose wife dies, leaving him with a lot of children to care for. If the woman has money, she suffers nothing but her bereavement. She can keep her children together. She has no anxiety about their upbringing, about their being kept clean physically and spiritually. She has the consolation of her comfortable, well-ordered home. She does not need to marry again in order to have somebody to look after her children. But the widower with children is in a desperate plight unless he happens to have a mother or sister who fan step into the breach. He does not know what to do for children when they are sick or when they are well. He doesn’t 8 * FOAM—To 3 cups of light brown sugar add 1 cup of boiling water. Dissolve the sugar, and boll until it spins a long thread. ‘Remove from the fire, and, when it stops bubbling, pour it on to the whites of 2 eggs which have been beaten stiff and dry. Then add 1 teaspoonful of vanilla and 1 cup of chopped walnut meats. Drop from a teaspoon upon waxed paper. Peanut Butter Fudge.—A quick nut fudge that ie delicious may be made with peanut butter, which does duty ever explained the ' even know what clothes they ought to have. He must be at his business all day and cannot watch them. He knows that they are running the streets and learning the things should not know. He can only turn them over Ao hirelings, and there is no wonder that he grows desperate and thinks that any woman to take a mother’s place over ‘his brood is better than no one. And if he marries a woman inferior to his first wife, that is no wonder either, because the job of stepmother is not an alluring one, nor one that appeals to a women attractive enough to be desir- able to other men. I know a cultivated and attractive young widower with three little girls, who declared that a widower with chil- dren is a pariah that no woman of his own Class will look at. It takes a wom- an With the spirit of a martyr to want to undertake a ready-made family. And there you are. That explains why widowers marry foolishly. They marry because they’ve gotten into a panic, but that does not help their case. Jumping out of the frying pan into the fire has never been a successful remedy for any trouble. So. let us hope that in every community the Archbishop’s plan for es- tablishing a home for motherless boys will be followed, so that widowers will not be driven by a desperate distraction into hasty and disastrous marriages. For it is eternally true that those who marry in haste repent at leisure. , 75 AUB RHEUMATISM PAINS HIGHT AWAY Don’t Suffer! Relief Comes the Moment you Apply St. Jacobs Oil. Stop “dosing” Rheumatism. It’s pain only; not one case in fifty requires internal treatment. Rub soothing, penetrating “St. Jacobs Oil” right on the tender spot,” and by the time you say Jack Robinson—out comes the rheumatic pain and distress. St. Jacobs Oil conquers pain! It is a harmless lo- cal rheumatism cure which never disappoints. and doesn’t burn or discolor the skin. It takes pain, soreness and stiffness from aching joints, muscles and bones; stops sciatica, lumbago, backache, neural. gia and reduces swelling. Limber up! Get a small trial bdot- tle of old-time, honest “St. Jacobs Oil” from any drug store, and in a moment you'll be free from pains. aches and stiffness.—ADV. Special Prices at Checkerboard Stores e SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1917. ou as Win 4 2 ter Left Miserable? RE you dull, tired, achy all over, bothered with a bad back? Do you feel all out of sorts? Do you lack the energy you need for the day’s work? Don’t worry so much about it! This is a com- mon condition in March. So many of us neglect our exercise in winter, eat too heavily, indulge our desires too much, and get slow, lazy and half-efficient. Then, with the organs working badly, comes a chill, a cold or a grip attack, and it weakens the kidneys. started right again, help the kidneys. Use Doan’s Kidney Pills, the remedy that has done so much for St. Louis people. Be Guided by These St. Louis Cases To get Whittier Street Blair Avenue | Grattan Street — — A. F. Vitrey, commercial prin- ter, 2621 Whittier street, says: “About two years ago, I had a ~bad attack of kidney complaint which lasted for about two weeks. I first noticed pains through my kidneys and felt tired, especially on arising. My back ached: I had been read- ing the statements of so many St. Louis people who had been benefited b Doan’s Kidney Pills that I decided to try them and got some at Teiber’s drug store. In no time they fixed me te and I have been free from kidney trouble ever since.“ Mrs. A. L. Browne, 4715 Blair evenee, says: “] suffered for a long time with Lr and bil h a dull, bearing- in the small of ~ on — nnoyance of my neys gave me a ’ too. Three 22 of Doan's dne ht. I have ha given May $1, 1 On May 9%, 1916, Mre. Browne said: 1 haven't had occasion to use Doan’s Kidney Pills in quite a long time. My opinion of them has undergone no change during the past year.“ sine (Statement 15. G. F. Schoenfelt, retired pho- tographer and artist, 1429-A Grattan street, says: “I was constantly annoyed by pains across the small of my back; in the morning I was lame and sore and could hardly get about; my rest at night was greatly disturbed. After using various medicines, and failing to fined relief, I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills. In a short time I was rid of the trouble.” Audrey Av. ( Wellston) | Mrs. Edward L. Weaver, 6332 Audrey avenye, Wellston, says: “My back was so lame that at times I couldn’t keep from cry- ing. The pain ran up my back into my shoulder blades. It seemed that I could feel a swelling over my kidneys. Tak- ing cold, I think, caused me to suffer in this way. I had a tired feeling and didn’t have enough energy to get around. I was nervous and restiess and couldn't sleep well. Doan’s Kid- ney Pills cured«me, and the cure has lasted ever since.” | S. Eleventh Street N. Sixth (E. St. Louis) Louis Kapp. 2409 8. Eleventh street, says: My kidneys acted too frequently; my back ached awfully, and at times my work was more than I could do. 1 couldn't rest at night and could turn in bed only when I was helped. In the morning I was tired and lame, and when I stooped, 3 twinges shot through my kidneys and loins. I had tried plasters and differ- ent medicines, including the doctors’. Doan’s Kidney Pills did me more good than any- thing else. They restored my kidneys to a normal condition, and the backache went away.” Mrs. Mary E. Snyder, G18 N. Sixth street, East St. Louis, says: I took a heavy cold and it settied on my kidneys. Soon after 1 com- menced to feel awfully weak and hed soreness in the small of my back. Occastionalivy I had spelle of dizziness and my sight became dim, The kidney secretions were unnat- ural and caused much annoyance. After using less than half a box of Doan's Kidney Pills 1! saw im- provement. A box and a haif rid me of the trouble.” (Statement given an 10, 1914.) DOAN'’S MADE A 16, 1816, other A I ommended em in 1916. 1 thiak vat, highly of them as I ever 1 * Editertala How St. Louis Keokuk Power — Keokuk „ and got the lion's share of it at a rate present actual cost of its lue- tion and delivery here is one of the most inter- of St. Louis’ industrial history, | It is rst time in print. „323 ee | Stone & Webster of Boston ſinanced it under the 7 River Power Com- has never minority in it. Tue North American 8 nearly al of the stock of the Union Elects and Elecerte of. Missouri (the county a which Union Electric ? es * 17. 917), and a 42% spew 7 interest ; inca of e eee power to a The Mississippi River Power to deliver to the Mississipp Tf Missouri), ’ With that contract as a basis, the Mississippi River Power Company sold a $15,000,000 bond Buyers cities pay much higher — sells it for, in this city and county. Inelu an estimated —but not yet 5 return to s olders in the Keokuk plant. cost to the Power com of producing and deliv cri | to Union Eletric’s 2 —— — a is $642 horse ear or than the vehe on whieh Union Electric buys r Electric sells it to large St. Proof of these facts can be records of the Illinois and Missouri missions. The of How the seven contracts were and upon what basis the St. Louis rates were will be told tomorrow. from the Service The Electric Company UNION ELECTRIC; Main Ofice— 12th and Locust Branches: 4912 Delmar; 3026 N,Grand; 3012 8. Grand = — — n — — — — — — ——ñ——— — —— ͤ bĩ4 , — C — — — — — At All Druggists, 50c a Box, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., Mfrs. FINISHED FAMILY WASHING Hundreds of housewives Follow this treatment on ri and retiring for a few days watch yourskin improve. There is absolutely nothing better complexion, hands, and ¥ * ‘ 2 * first : a 5 4 8 as 2 ingredients, both as nuts and as ave relieved themselves of the burden of wash butter. 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oa e. We'll Win on the Bit if “Mule” Watson Is Fit N NELSON WILL “BEGIN 21ST YEAR e TONGHT = t With Pierce Mathews Puts * dim in Class With Fitzsimmons : and Choynski, 8 8 * “Tonichr’s FIGHT FACTS ! , | MAIN EVENT—Battling Nel- ) a gon, ex-lightweight champion of | | the world, versus Pierce Math- ) * of St. Louis. Weight 135. ) ” SEMI-WIND-UP—"‘Sailor” Jer- | abel vs. Charlie Stapp, eight | 4 ends. 145 pounds. Riu An Charlie Smith ae Battling Ward, 160 pounds. 1 s Open at 7 p. m. CLUB LOCATION — Seventh "and Shenandoah. — ear Mathew Battling Nelson. 0 ‘iMghtweight champion, will ut up his brittle hands and battered 6 in front of Pierce Mathews, u „ Louls second-rater, in a 12-round sight contest at the South way Athletic Club. tonight. 5 0 jing to announcement, both men ° © willing to retire from the ring, after he contest—uniess another lucrative out bobs up. 7 will be the first engagement Nel- in has taken part in since he fought now nearing middle age (he's © decision on points. | hands have several times | in on for breaks, due to cor- | — 5 unding. His nose, too, was Sy st 17 growths rem removed. is chief attention, last year, was de- to conservation of moneys * ng his ® years in the ring. fing this period largest sum med at one time was $23,000. Bat's ire of the purse for fighting Joe ns, ut Goldfield, Nevada. Nelson is fond of exercise, especially vocal muscles which aré by this time attuned to the phrase: In W yearn th ring I never took a backward @ can ng and battered 2 he one. Nelson ought hter wh 17 | outbox Mathews. A fight 0 te’ can always outpoint one who never ‘ of N. here will be his oy gt ag dG RO WR rec! - 22-karat gameness. “strin mide Nelacn dle-strings than di elszon 40 — ttle when the Ad W t had still, ‘Bat, ‘toda idn’t have 0 the “famous t ee. row over the referee question, which nod to cause a breach between the i the Say Commission, has 4 out. k * who — eons > t has yet go 175 2398 hwy * le the final” 4 all K. * 5 meeting of —4 Boe! 2 A be held, to 8 the 2 ir 4| ever made. r YORK, March 17.—The football a committee, which held its annual meeting at the Biltmore last „ broke a long-standing precedent ne Youngstown, O.; a committee for his Ray made as to were to be made in the ; Hall of Dartmouth, . — stated at midnight that the endea to clean whole: 308 in one session and Se nad K of what had wR 18 7 = a city end of the present legislative session. 1 Seekamp Is Undecided. „to the time of the club’s Y'| yesterday and buzzed em through fast- and/of N. V. Boxing Commission „Governor hopes to see declared ions POST-OGPATEH SIS AAW NANFA SST SSS I e * SS oö John McGraw Sings. | BUNCH of baseball players in a training camp one day Were telling baseball stories just to pass the time away; Singing songs of Jersey City, and Herald Square, When John McGraw jumped to his feet and shouted to them there: Chorus. ‘It's a long way from here to Broad- way, 1 It's a long way to hike; It's a long way from here to» Broad- way When the railroad men all strike. Good-by, Pullman coaches, Farewell railroad fare! It's a long. long way from here to Broadway, But my heart’s right there!“ e o * Bronx The top o' the mornin’ and many of them. * * = _ A railroad strike at this time would be a serious proposition. It might stop the spring serious.“ oe 0 Of course, the Boston Braves wouldn't be so bad with the “Big Train“ to fall back on. r SSA N dd The public will have to pay the freight, whether the trains gun or not. Hug’s outfielders, we 1 are murdering the ball. Which, in big league circles, is considered A ap ital offense. Failure to murder the ball in league circles is considered a mino offense. * * . There was an old man named Jerome; The bats built a nest in his dome. And from what people say He was always away When you knocked hare was nobody home. : * „ Charles L. Spencer— Thanks for the — Patrick's Day badge and ,contribu- t We'd print your poem, Mr. Spencer, But fear it wouldn’ t pass the censor. Pat Moran says there is not a sore arm in his squad. Not wishing to take the joy out of life, but the season is still young. * 4 * Thrasher has come to terms with Con- nie Mack. Keep your eye on Connſe's threshing machine. | -“Wildfire’’ eget “Smoky” Joe Wood and ‘‘Fireball’*’ Johnson would burn up the league if théy ‘were all on one team. Bigbee of the Pirates ought to be able to sting the leather. HUGCINS EXPECTS 10 Doak Scheduled to Arrivé at Camp Today, While Pierce Also Is Out of Fold. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 17.—Mil- ler Huggins devoutly hopes to make an end of his holdout squad—now compris- ing Bill Doak and George Pierce—to- day. Doak is slated to arrive from Pittsburg tonight and Hug will try to sign him to a contract at once. If Hug is to be believed, everything is practically arranged. Pierce is still 2 of fold because of a minor wenn Herman Seekamp is still undecided as departure for the north. All depends on the railroad strike. If it proves serious the Cards will de sent home very shortly. But they will stay here as long as fs possible — danger of — left high and dr The squad was divided last night, one- half going to Beaumont for a game with the K. Paul (A. A.) team today and a battle wtih the Beaumont Ollers Sun- day. The other squad will play the Bronchos here today and Sunday. The clubs are mixed veteran-youngster com- bination. Mule Watson was in uniform again er than any other pitcher to date. Pierce — not out for work, as he has a stiff leg: the result of stopping a rifle shot Hornsby’s bat Thursday. Chicago Team Sets Mark of 3061 in 5-Man Event in A. B. C. Tenpin Tourney. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 17. Two world’s records were set by the Birk brothers of the Windy City League of Chicago on the late shift of the American Bowling Congress tournament last night, when they counted 3061 for hig series, winding up with 1102 for the best high game Their other games were 1015 and 944. The former recotd for a national championship total was 2 8006 of the Flor de * uf St. Paul, made at Toledo in 191 ga > ever passed the 1100 Fe 11 ional meet before. The deposed lers were Billy Millers’ aber- dashers of Detroit, who posted 7977 on the night before. With the five-man high mark. placed so high that many followers of the game eure it will stand for years the players will launch tnem- selves against the pins in the minor events with renewed zeal today. The first shift in the morning will sce some of the * . 25 men of the coun- Mike Mauber M William and George Derbach of Chicago, and some of t best men from Indianapolis and Co- lumbia. Edwards and West of Buffalo still top the doubles with 1299, while hi Kallusch of Rochester holds, Ene hi mark in the singles with eh wards of Buffalo, tops the — ents with 1851, several attacks being made pai. his mark pages eg without et- ect. Gov. Whitman Removes Wenck From Office as Head ALBANY, N. F., March § 17.~—Gov. Whitman late yesterday removed from office Frederick A. Wenck, chairman of the State Athletic Commission, on the 8 that he was unfit for the posi- tion by reason of “his character and previous dealings with others.“ The executive dismissed all of the other 88 brought ager the chairman New Yo boxing promoters, inoteding one of attempted extoration. It was announced at the executive chamber that probably no successor ta Wenck would be r as the xing exhibitions legal in this State before the preferred by Harry M. Pollok, John J. White and Patrick T. Powers, were heard by Franklin Lord, the Governar’s legal adviser, Mr. Lord's findl in which the Governor con-* were summarized as follows: 1 deem the Commissioner's . — in borrowing money from «4 of a boxer; charges, . I. therefore, charge is sus- SIGN HOLDOUTS TODAY BROWNS MAY FINISH UP | TRAINING IN 2 SQUADS If Railroad Men Strike, Men Now With Jones May Be Un- able to Rejoin Others. CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., March 17.— Seventeen members of the Browns ar- rived here this morning to complete their training jaunt in Texas. Whether this squad will continue at this total or be augmented Tuesday by 13 others, who are in North Texas, with Manager ong Jones, depends on the raliroad strike If the strike is called it will probably be necessary for the Browns to get into condition in two groups in the South. Whether Jones would try to move his squad to Corpus Christi by automobile is a question. As for the players who reached here today, they are not wor- ride about getting home. May Come by Steamboat. They came here to get into condition, and will not be worried about transpor- tation facilities until time to proceed north for the scheduled opening with the Cardinals. The crowd here can go by steamships to New Orleans and from New Orleans to St. Louis by steamboat. This plan is now being considered by — Agent Willis Johnson, who is ere The players here include: Pitchers— Koob, Plank, Weilman, Hamilton and Groom, with Dave Davenport expected at any time; catchers—Severeid, hite and Hale; infielders—Paulette, Bigler, Lavan, Stevenson and Austin; outfleld- — Shotton, Miller, Jacobson and Tard - ey. The others are with Jones. They play the Denison team today and tomorrow. A teain of soldiers will play the Browns in the first of a three-game series here, beginning today. Jim Austin is in charge of the troup and says his only instructions from Jones were to keep the gang hustling, ‘until he rejoins ua.’ Pratt, Sis and Marsans Find Batting Optics and Browns Tame Dallas Team DENISON, Tex., March 17.—The Brown regulars, under Manager Jones, arrived here today to inaugu- rate a two-game series with the local Western Association team today. Yesterda the squad trimmed the Dallas (lexas Leaguers). 6 to 4, with Kerr and Rogers, the rookies from the Southern ague on the hill. The two hurlers yielded seven hits. but were rather wild, issuing seven bases on balls, Kerr givin three and ‘ Rogers four. Kerr in five innings was found for six hits and three runs. Rogers gave only one bingle me four rounds he was on ine One the K Pad features of 8 clash was the ae of e rownies. p ut three out of 3 while repre Sisier and Marsans made two hits in three attempts. The fielding of Ken- worthy at third also stood out. He handled 12 chances, four putouts and eight assists, — a . ip. Boakes and Lafforgue to Play First Racquet Match at M. A. A. Today Harry Boakes Jr. of Chicago reached St. Louis yesterday and spent most of the day practicing in the slate-walled court of the Missouri Athletic Associa- tion, where he * today Play Frankie Lafforgue of the Racquet Club, in the first of two v matches. This aft - ernoon’s M. A. match will begin at 2 . ok. Haiher the prelimina match een Clarence br an Lloyd Walle of the M. A. and Art W and Eddie Limberg of Pthe Racquet Club will begin promptly at that time, Boakes-Lafforgue match to follow. 8 Boakes wi!l give Lafforgue five aces in his matches here. The second match will be played Sunda morning at the Mk. A Club, For = a match at the BONDS LASTS LES 5 A ROUND AGAINST co NEW YORK, March 17.—Tom Cowler — ge out Joe Bonds in just two minutes 8 — * yor 22. pn TRS ape erie ns LS FT W e a: 72 eu r 7 N * 2S * 8 323 * A 8 8 a ek ga * ——p . 1 1 8 N * es 9 ; . 8 Pee 2 f „. Nop 7h 3 * ) * 2 * 15 8 ~ gh . 5 5 é ates, i 1 : * c v rian Sa ALD SHE 8 : 1 . — — * 1 4 a i eee © del ee; * = - — * 20 N 1 ; e. = ee 3 = oe „ f , ö # : ges 1 5 — 1 8 4 4 * U . 8 8 * 9 > * 9 0 1 i ft +: Sah: l „ — — . _lieietienenandieanes K 2 — — — — 1 . . ee REIN nt ae a eR ee ee Nt : 1 - 7 * 4 > » NEW TEAMS ORGANIZED TO SELL CARDS STOCK Sales to Date Aggregate 812. 525, Exclusive of Original $25,000. By W. J. O’Connor. Subscriptions amounting to $1100 were received yesterday by the Organization Committee of, the company, which plans to sell the Cardinal basebail club to the fans, and this amount brought the grand total up to $12,525, exclusive ot the orig- inal $26,000. It is the aim of the com- mittee to dispose of 2100, % worth of stock before March 31. W. C. Anderson and J. C. Reid rave been appointed captains of teams that will make a more vig>-:vous effort to in- terest local fans in the proposition. There also-will be special solicitors sent out Monday to get -n closer touch with the business men. “Our greatest handicab,“ said J. C. Reid, “is getting in touch with the per- sons who are in a receptive mood. We can’t expect these volunteer salesraen to do all the work. We may find it necessary to put agents out that we can direct from the committee's head jver- ters in the Railway Exchange Jsuilding. But rest assured that the proposition is going over. We will make an announre- ment soon that will clinch it.“ Ball Isn’t Worried. “I never cross bridges untii I come to them,” was Phil Ball's answer to the question as to what the Browns would do in case of a trainmen’s strike. But if the brake- men and conductors on the Mississippi don’t go out we'll have tne bai! ciub here for the spring series. As for the Western circuit of games, we ‘ll tote them around in automobiles.’ Ball is more interested just now in knowing what shape Davenport is in, than he is in investigating the strike situation. He thinks that a great deal depends on Davenport, who will report today to Manager Jones at Corpus Christi. Tim McCabe, the other crippled right-hander, has been dismissed from the hospital, and is at home resting for a few weeks before reporting for work. — Webster Groves Basket Team Eliminated Early in Chicago Tournament. CHICAGO, March F.—Not a single Chicago aggregation remained in the University of Chicago invitation basket- ball tournament which continued here at Bartlett Gymnasium today. The near- est approach to a Chicago five was the Evanston High School of Evanston, III., a suburb 15 miles north. Freepo III., St. John's Military Academy of van, Wis., and Waite High School of Toledo, O., were others in the struggle for the trophy and gold medals. Outside teams fell by the wholesale in the opening round which — Sante Rur In the elimination of the fastest squads in — Middle West were re- mo ed from the sce One of the big rss of the initial round was the „. on of Webster Grove of St. Louis. This bunch was Rp to ur.beatable and it had been wr ed by many of the local fans to win the gold ee The record of Webster Groves was that it struck terror in hearts ot the Chicago teams that were entered. Wayland (Wis.) Academy was the team which defeat- ed the Missourians. “eer - * ctory of 2 2 Freeport boys over Loyola Academy was the most 3 in- cident. It was right behind the upset of Webster Groves by Wayland. Webster Groves was overconfident. Mound. City men suffered a 22 to simply because they missed > shuwed great team work, at times carryin the ball down the floor in great style, bu they could not get the range on the ts. Simpson Sets New Record and Scores 13 Points for Tigers in Jayhawker Meet KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 17.—The Missouri University track team defeated the Kansas University team here last night in the annual indoor dual meet, 4 to 39. Robert Simpson, world’s cham pion hurdler, running his last race in the dual meet for Missouri, established a new world’s record in the 50-yard low hurdles, equaled the world’s record, established by himself in the 60-yard high hurdles and scored 13 points. impson established a new world's record of 6 seconds in the 30-yard low hurdles, clearing the four timbers with- out a touch. he former record was 6 It was a special event in which he was opposed by Casey of Kansas and Renick of Missouri. With the win- ning of two firsts in the hurdles and tak- ing second place in the 50-yard dash, Simpson scored a total of 13 points for Missouri. The start of the one-mile relay, the last event, found the score Kansas 39 and Missouri 41. Missouri captured the last five points and won their fourth consecutive victory in the indoor meet. NATIONAL INDOOR TITLE MEET TO BE HELD TODAY NEW YORK, March 17.—Beginning with the five-mile run, the national senior indoor championship program of the Amateur Ath- letic Union, consisting of 18 events, will be. decided here tonight at the Twenty-second Regiment Armory. Sixty-five of the 98 en- trants won Olympic, . intercollegiate tion tities. and new records JI. G. Loo 15 . title in the ares — — high jump, but will m 8 “with sterling 3 other * — of titles y Kelly. Boston. 300- Overton, position. tonight „ do 3 ; 1 —— 8 event, but he { 8 aa ampion Overton of Yale ya in the 1 run. . — last event will de a mediey relay de- teams 4 the Chicago At h- 8 . brook represe Syracuse University Mee — Club, ' Philadelphia and the 12 Irish-American and New York Athletic elubs 97 this cit Shoemaker Retains Title. J. Howard Shoemaker, Brooklyn, national amateur pocket billiards champion, won the title for the fourth time, finishing first in the ent concluded last night at — York, with seven games won none ; | Last Night’s Fights f Buf tale. — Bryan Downey ‘punched Jimmy Duffy all over the fring te a 10-round boat. Duffy was knocked down ta the firet and third rounds, Syracuse-Johnny Kilbane re- fused te meet Young Murphy be- cause the latter weighed 188 five pounds overw t. je eections 5000 fans whe were told return Satar- @ay for their money. Ton Em woe from an 6 rounds. ela- r terms. id w arrive tomorrow and woud then 1 contract. BRIGHAM YOUNG PLAYs | ILLINOIS A. C. FOR TITLE! CHICAGO, March 17.—The Itinois Athletic Ciub of Chicago. and the Brigham Young University. five of Provo, Utah, will meet tonight in the final of the A. A. U. basket bal! championship, having come through the | preliminaries unbeaten The Seward Park Biues of were beaten in the semi-finals team. and ee ——— of Boseman, t., were defeat lliinois Athletic ‘Club in semi- Th tonight for third Me: ' liquors and mix them by measure —age the result in wood —and you yourself could make as godd a drink as | 3667-69 JOHNSON erte Oldest Ford Dealer ; ER. — + ee — — A — ier as 3 2 tes + * 7 ; a] * © 8 be o 7 fy AS ¥ ee Take Home a Bottle of 1 JAck DANIELS OLD No. 7 Round out thes with the bes: straight 200000 Liem LAD WHISAEY 57 A 1% — — — SA gnnmdeadun ggg nden ram münrineg Chicago, March 16, 1917. To E 1 Oo smployes ST, LOUIS SYMPHONY Of MAX ZACH, Conducter ODEON TONIGHT TSCHAIKOWSKY oc 4. — 2. ae Me kK. 3 9 as 4 Columbia °rzsern vss Dae Sin 47 ws FOR NEXT WEEK Could anything be more fair? Is not this disposition of the controversy more satisfactory and safer than a resort to the suffer- ing, uncertainty and violence of a strike? | FAIR AND 415 MER Tomorrow Night—Seats Now, WM. HODGE _ FIXING Si: 85 $1 Mat. Wednesdas-—Sat. } 18 PARK "HEATE Tonight at 6:30 — ae 4 Far. a e SHOR 215 and Ga ae | any L 1 1 4 GRAND 5 10: 20 MAGAZINE GIRLS 2 Nr | Never in the history of the Illinois Central has the manage- ment seen a clearer-cut defnonstration of the intelligence and loy- alty of its employes than during the winter just closing, a winter fraught with unusual operating difficulties, which were met and overcome to an extent that it can be said that the property was never more efficiently operated. The public has been generous in attesting to the fine qualities of our personnel and service. In ex- pression of the management for this result I must needs testify to the intelligence and loyalty of the employes which have made it possible. Contemplating this characteristic of our employes, I cannot believe they can be lacking the foresight to see that the public will be intolerant of radical action at this. particular juncture in our national affairs. Too long has the nation adhered to the prin- ciple of dignified diplomacy in dealing with foreign difficulties to be in sympathy with an abandonment of that method of settling a domestic dispute. To the will of the public we must eventually bow. FAT nden de 1 * f eee Certainly the loyalty of the Illinois Central employes is a testi- monial to the amicable relations which have existed between them and the management through all these years of dignified and diplo- matic dealings. St. Louis Spring Flower Show Armory Hall, Grand and Market 424 ˙ Admissi on 20 Seymour's chestra—Russian Tea Room GAY ETY ase fa aa a BU MATINER ae Jack Reid 8s Record NEXT—Seocial Follies. “ PHOTO PLAY THEATERS LYRIC—Gth & Pi | 4 MURDOCK in “WHERE LOVE 75 GALE HENRY in “ART ACHES” — 8 and Latest Animated Fashions. Mrs. Vernon Castle in “Patria” : wae SA MAT. TODAY — tau The spirit of the times is not such as to justify the abandon- ment of a court that calm judgment indicates will foster comfort and certainties of present relations and employment. All we ask is that your ‘decision be such that it will not cause you future regret, and that it be not unbecoming the intelligence and patriotism of an Illinois Central man and of a citizen of our common country. C. H. MARKHAM, President HULL TOTO ld — b | | CEE Hi Aal Aua PHOTO PLAY THEATERS PHOTO PLAY THEATERS cENTRAI— NB, A bra WHER A POSITIVE SENSATION A Ster of the Barbary Const, San Francisco's Netorious Segregated Vice District HELL MORGAN’S GIRL The Greatest Underworld Photeplay Ever Screened, All Seats 15. NO CHILDREN ADMITTED costinvees 11 . m. to 11 p.m. GRAND AND NEW GRAND CENTRAL 2: pay MARY PICKFORD pay - Ta SS bruary level.” VALUES Ay ON THE LOCAL Mi 443323 eee 1 f rer] year, oF ee eee toes See eee eee ee eee ee — 4 — — t tradin Ret 5 r c 11 9 5 „ „ eee 560 „060 8 „„en rr 0 S 3 5 . pes » gets hie err eee 1 sat In 5 * ve * and a . 323211 N Horna eee „ „„ „566666 666060 4
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3667-69 in ber OLIVE E Pesler tn City. fd Tarte Fork N —U—— eI ~ ny en FONIGHT) Take Home a Bottle of - JACK DANIEL s OLD No. 7 Hound out the week with “the best straight Whiskey. 11 ACH, Conductor : TONIGHT; sas OWSKY | PROGRAM [PFITHS O SPECT K week. ater oe go market “at 5 were comparatively steady on ‘stocks quoted and 2 despite a light investment 5 * RS iy * „ Saaew aeg 9 Rank sn Most Issues Are Higher nite Uncertain Strike 1 0 1 wire From the New York a of the Post-Dispatch. — March 17.—The Eve ; its — finan- & its qt ulet n an. st ace ed anything in inion on the news. th action today sho the European situ- * anxiety over our the 8 the 1 disbel ef in the reality ned ge tee 4 strike. on the Stoc Exchange ~ dull. and such purely pro- . tions as just now make de situation just 1 0 . made Fine ecline — tive trading the ju ent + int and secured by col- 2 110 * will cause gen- e Na tes Government 4 473 declined one point, making s loss for the wee he nee ess, with its expected vote of 4 ies now near at hand. “bank statement reflecte-! this | $15,000,000 gold imports und payments fro the Na- ury. A resultant 330, ' {ncrea in reserves, with cally no expansion” ‘of the Joan nt, added $21,200,000 to the sur- hith Is now back to the end yary level.“ K VALUES STEADY 8 “OH THE LOCAL MARKET * 2 SOME „„ ot MENTS HOUSE Nie $2. mf 1385 eet 2822 * * 2 pesos See eee eee eee „ see eeeee ee ree es * », E35 — — — trading marked the local today's session. sold. Bonds for the stand ss . a CLOSING QUOT STATIONS 2 1 : Ry.” quipment..... — Set odes svc cesses seh. * es el 0 bee ee eee e es eie 2 4 R * B.. „%% % „% „ „ „ „4 * 5s Cairo eee et eer Pee even eee® . „ „ „„ „„ eee | York Curb Close. » 22 — — ay oy Bo ret 55 Weesen ay 2 . i, York Money. 28 ig, 404, com paper, 1 5887 1 — ⁰˙ 5 > — hr 8 5 2 * — 2 S EF 8888828 PRESS Dr 22 8 882888 FERRE NN # g 288888 8 28 — * Ww — Sens Rr F FREE 883825 — * r (new) aon. cor fd. (n. Ww . . - e ") a. — inertia — * t. — pid. 45 NN F. 1355 112% Trtah ee asst ner Virginia-C. C. ed Wabash w. Rata! 84% | 122 1 haa . +] 1114 112813 N shares. - ~~. CHICAGO STOCK MARKET Raporwes by G. H. Walker & Co.. 307 North eurth street. CHICAGO. March 17. T Union Carbide b Metal 338 | eat has, ‘been YORK, — . 9 mar k. nome oe ne. armel Boattering: lots — 2 BB — 2 — have he to 2 today. "walle. the | ¢ 8 4 a or ormal. Iron un PRODUCE. EGGS—Fresh Grete, Noe per dozen: ow „ extra firsts, 8 141 dle. At oa packing re- ' - sy ; oe Ee 3 msd ’ 1 Longfellow SINC RPENTE! iR—No nuns 5 on oT Pe 21 Syn | © 1 — « — cate 1 8 . rae.” 5 5 (is #4 5 a * — te * ro, LINING CLOSERS — on and Ot. Les LO ORES tweed me . ae Ly Fae, — r * . : * UI on an * . Loe EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES AND TRADE SCHOOLS ry - 1. ' | 5 — 8 * * 2 . 88 2 ; 4 : 2 — 1 ¥ 2 kee
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W Nun * * WR eee * Sa ee nn ee eee . RN „ xm aN > eae i) 90 1 e * e ie SA a2 e e W e e OO ales er, aes e 7 7 . « ee > Se A as v 2 eee r * n sep 18 363 * 2 r ²˙ü — . ³ Ä ¹6¹LvJ, branch, of which Shacktown is one ter- ‘4s the other. So when Ikey, having Jolt and expected momentarily that he BUT = | SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1017. — THE POST-DISPATCH DAlLY SHORT STORY Inthe Dynamite Car By Harry Lilly. : | UMING and swearing, Ikey Lan- tern swung aboard the caboose of Number 23, local west, as she pulled out of Shacktewn. Family trou- bles were hard enough on a man with- aut a addition. tie nad an altercation with his daugh- zer the night before over the eternal blazenfritz question, and now, here, nent to the caboose, was this car—with an many placards as a wedding trunk— Dynamite! High Explosives! Handle Carefully! Keep All Lights Away! Tkey's passion welled up and up until it reached the acme of anger. He was too angry to swear. For if there was one thing of which he was more afraid than of snakes, it was dynamite. Ikey vwually waved his hand scornfuly at the agent as his train ran by the station, but today he was too angry to adminis- ter the customary insult to his daugh- ter’s suitor. For three years George Hazenfritz had been trying to gain Ikey’s consent to the match; and for two years Ikey had watched the morning passenger train, and after, as his local freight rumbled by, had given a mocking sa- lute to Hazenfritz, the agent. There are but two pasenger trains a éay—one east and one west—ovcr the minal, while Slowtown, the county seat, watched the morning train, pulled out with his way train, he knew that there Was no possible chance for an elope- ment that day. On the next morning, when Ikey was working east again, the conductor on the opposite run would watch the pas- enger even more Zealously than Ikey himself. He was Ikey’s choice for a son-in-law. All the way Ikey was fearful at each would be blown to atoms. He was glad when he reached his destination and turned the dynamite car over to the agent who met him with a smile. Then he went to a boarding house to rest and make the return trip néxt morning. Next day he was surprised when he learned that a mistake had been made and that the dynamite car was to go back. The agent only smiled when he handed Ikey the message, saying that the dynamite car must be returned. But Ikey—he just swore and vowed ven- geance upon the head of Hazenfritz. . The return trip for Ikey was even worse. He tried to ease his mind by planning how he would leap upon Ha- wenfritz and give him the thrashing that fe deserved. Ke would sneak up behind the agent's desk and land him one that would lay him out. Then he would pound him until he was tired, or someone inter- fered. He would teach him not to send out dynamite cars on his train. Possibly the ST LOUIS PUST-DISPATLH: IT COSTS TOO MUS 1G LIVE. AND YOU-CAN’T PARKA 1 | Ait ( ra A PLAW MAAS WITH A PLAIN, FAMILY = THE - POTATO IS SIMPLE Fook BUT IT’S God EAOUGH 4 No, BUT I SSO ters You Can RUY A Bok OF MATCHES * 's NO USE TRYING pals ae OLB CUSTOMER | WEEK FROM oo Woo ANID 9 ay tea ae Pn \ai.FoR t COSTS TOO MUCH TO LIVE AND ‘OU CANI*T AFFORD. TO DIE darned thing didn't contain dynamite. Perhaps it was an empty car that Hazenfritz had sealed and sent out for a joke, knowing that he was afraid of dynamite, and out of revenge, because he had refused to let him have his daughter. If that was the trick, he would see that thei didn’t have the laugh on him. That Innocent-looking shack up at Slowtown, he was in it, too, or why did he smile so queerly when the dynamite car came in? And what was in that message he held away from sight? Well, he would fix him, too; might as well, while he was at it. As the train pulled into the station Ikey leaped off and crept up the office steps. His lantern swung from his right hand. His left fist was doubled. Cau- tiously he peeped over the screen. He could just see the outline of a head on the other side. The lantern described a vicious circle in the air and—crash—caught in a gas- pipe, while fragments of the globe fell around. * Six feet of lusty manhood rose with a catlike spring and caught ikey by the throat with one hand, then reached around and caught him by the back of the collar with the other. Letting go of his throat, but still retaining a hold on his collar, he shot him out at arm's length, drew him back, shot him out again until his bones creaked. “You deserted old copper-faced Mus- sulman’’—jerk—‘I knew you were a contemptible old sneak’’—jerk again— “you have been all your days’’—jerk once more— but I don’t think you'd try to assassinate a man’’—another jerk you didn’t get the right man, either“ —jerk again. Then he stopped for a moment as a terrible din, caused by the simultane- ous blowing of three locomotive whis- tles and cheers from 24 throats was heard outside. There, go take your medicine!’ he bellowed as he shot Ikey out of the door. Fou lost the game, you cowardly old shack, you.“ Ikey, under the impetus given him by the foot of the muscular cashier of Shacktown, went clear across the plat- form, at the end of the freight house. He brought up on the edge of a group which opened and admitted him to its center. Right in front of him was the dyna- mite car, on the crossing at the end of the freight house. There was a step- ladder, dressed in bunting, in front of the door of the car. she car, also, had a strip of bunting from end to end. A man was assisting a woman in bridal! costume to alight from the car. At the sight of her face Ikey wilted. He Finds “Kondon’s” on the Job. | Don't try to work with your head all stuffed Kondon's Catarrhal Jelly will make you clear Americans have used ĩB— u ee re ad —— — — Ie 18 refre shin Cocoa contains nourishment, than beef.” It was his daughter and Hazenfritz. They had taken their wedding journey an his own train in the “dynamite car.“ (Copyright, The Frank A. Munsey Co.) | Why Not? IF a female duke is a duchess, i Would a female spook be a spuchess? And if a male goose is a gander, Then would a male moose be a mander? * the plural of child is children, Would the plural of wild be wildren? if a number of cows are cattle, Would a number of bows be battle’ 1 9 a man who makes plays is a play - wright, Would a man who makes hay be a haywright? kg a person who fails is a failure, Would a person who quails be a quailure? MERICAN people have a very high a glishmen, and have been specially fickled by a story Col. Cody used to tell. He glishman who had never been in the Wes riding through a Rocky Mountain canyon one gust The Draft in the Range. them and actually carried the English- Not Beautiful man clean off the wagon seat. After 1 rie — N'r you think a he bad been picked us, he bombed the Bs Bae 8 wonderful memory. Bg? et 3 buy his wife a new limou Ds ZS she * 5 sand and gravel out of his whiskers and “She says she remembers the first “Poor body!“ “Beautiful? I showld ar ot. said: man who kissed her.“ No, it cost him $3500," the faces che paket a a NOSE ESSSEL EST SKSERB ; THE DAY BED A ppreciation ot the humor of En- said that some years ago an En- t before was his guest. They were From the Chestnut Tree. day, when suddenly a tremendous i KNOW a barber who is so lazy he of wind came swoopling down upon refuses to cut hair. 5 Shear laziness, eh. PIL 1 the apple you bite is bitten, Would the battle you fight be fitten? And if a young cat is a kitten, Then would a young rat be a ritten? ” the person who spends is a . thrift, Would a person who lends be a lend- | thrift? If drinking too much makes a drunk ard, Would thinking too much make a thunk- ard? — —— — UT why pile on the confusion? Still I'd like to ask in conclusion: If a chap from New York’s a New Yorker, Would a fellow from Cork be a corker? — Life. Too High for Him. HE young man said he would lay the world at my daughter's feet. “And did he marry her?” “He did; and now he's not able to lay even an egg there.“ — er oe For either brain or muscle Baker's Cocoa — — —— —́—— —2—ß— — ‘Walter Baker & Co. DORCHESTER, MASS. 8 more Ltd. POCREGCULORGRUROTARRECRRRRGLT RAST RRESIIT, FERTRLALRLLACRLERTTTRLAR nnn 3 — * . TLEULECUALTERRET CREE EAE LLaTieGIn 5 — — — —— n SEU mie 4 EE wi — 350 with BOX SPRING, ROLL and LOW 4 — we pms pf ey ee ee ee —1— 21 The @ PEL ee ee | — mounts e-Depth. Springs Where Disease : _ Breeds with WOOD ENDS | The New Home Comfort Suited to Living and Bedrooms. Germs breed by millions in unsanitary cuspidors. nul Av. 8 From them are distributed the seeds of tuberculosis, 815-17-19-21 of pneumonia, grippe, bronchitis and other maladies of the lungs, throat and nose. | Toilets, particularly yard toilets, are favorite nest- | — - ing places for the germs of typhoid, dysentery, all in- — — rr 4 testinal troubles and some blood disorders. They are “4 0 he b IC; Charge Accounts Solicited. which their users may be afflicted. In kitchen sinks and in their drain pipes — in the drains of bath tubs and wash basins — in garbage cans — in unwashed milk bottles and in all places where grease, food particles and all matter subject to decay are kept or collect — there disease germs are also depositories for the germs of any disease with always present. ‘ A | St. Louis, March 16, 1917. Railroad executives of the St. Louis lines met yesterday to discuss the th ened strike situation. Among other conditions that confronted them was the infor” mation in the newspapers, apparently given out by the labor organizations, that. freight service would stop on the different roads at intervals of 24 to 48 hours, be ginning 6:00 p. m., Saturday, March 17, but that passenger service would not be dis turbed for at least five days. Notice has been given to the Terminal Railroad * ciation, which includes the Merchants’ Bridge and Wiggins Ferry, that all engine men and trainmen in the employ of those companies would stop work at 6:00 p. m. 6 Saturday. Some of the passenger trains running into St. Louis are handled to Union” Station by the road engine and train crew, while other passenger trains, by resse of certain conditions, change from the road engine to Terminal engine at ees 2 tion, East St. Louis. If Terminal engines are not permitted to haul these t 0 Union Station, the train, of course, is stopped short of its destination, and this with“ out doubt, constitutes an interruption to passenger service. All outgoing trains ds switched and made up by the passenger switchmen and enginemen in the Terminal | Railroad Association yards, these men performing passenger service exclusively. The: order, as we understood it, included these men in the stoppage of work at 6:00 p. * Saturday. ae a In an effort to give the public correct information as to the situation and pre vent, as far as possible, any unnecessary inconvenience, a committee of railroad 6m” ecutives called on the committee representing the labor organizations yesterday asked for a reply to the following questions: Disinfectant Yet you can make a better fight against disease than it can make against you and yours, by the regu- lar use of Lysol Disinfectant. Lysol kills all germs immediately, no matter what their nature. It is im- possible for germs to breed where Lysol is used regularly. A 25c bottle goes a long way; it will make two gallons of reliable disinfectant. A 50 cent bottle makes five gallons. Remember that there is but One True Lysol — the preparation bottled, signed and sealed by Lehn & Fink. Get a bottle today; begin at once to have your home surgically clean as well as eye-clean. Three sizes: 25c, 50c and $1.00. Sold everywhere. Po eA „Will the employes of the Terminal Railroad Association, in passenger yard ice exclusively, be permitted to work, if a strike is called, until such time as the road employes are called out in passenger service on other lines? Second, Terminal engines be permitted to handle r trains to and from East St. in passenger service exclusively, as has been the practice in the past, until 5 ger train service is suspended on other lines?’’ The labor committee stated that they were unable at that time to advise, 4 promised a definite reply this morning. Mr. Curtis, chairman of the four organi- tions in this territory, speaking for his associates, Messrs. Cadle, McLaughlin and Bannon, replied this morning as follows: a ‘OUR SIGN IS OUR BOAD-: Mili „ \ / 24 Cc te 2 > News Yo rk — — * ä — — — — The committee desires to answer that this permission will not be granted Question No. 1: Men.in passenger yard service, as well as all men in freight e will be called out. Question No. 2: Men will not be permitted to run engines har ling passenger trains to and from St. Louis. Further, desire to impart the information that men permitted to remain at work in road service, handling passenger trains, will only be permitted to perform such service or work as has been the practice in the pasty for illustration, as to a train coming into East St. Louis with road engine, it has beam the custom to cut off the road engine and handle from there by Terminal engine; the) road engine crew will not be permitted to handle that train west of East St. Loui To make it plain, the men will not be permitted to perform any work or service whith they have not performed in the past. Trainmen in the service of the Terminal Rall, road Association will not be classified or considered as in passenger service. — In view of the above reply, the labor organization representatives are n uin the public in the statement that passenger train service will not be in for fit days after a strike is called, and we are giving the public this information so thi there can be no misunderstanding as to the . tor int to passe! train service, which will inevitably follow the orders given by the r organi . 8. MeCHESNEY, Chairman, The genuine antiseptic safeguard of the home. Hurts only dirt. *