St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 17, 1910

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Only Evening Paper in St. Louis. With the Associated Press News Service. -" Ax SNe, vie, hein 4 ‘ey Vp te Py oe ne . _ f y. . Ss , - + a ‘ - oo i _ " Fy Ke 3 7 some eee” —_— ne ee ~—SHILDREN, THIRD WIFE IS LOVAL » Wife Mo. 1 Gets Custody Or- der From Clayton Court as Cafe Bride Asks Annull- ment of’ Last Ceremony and Refuses to Prosecute When Prosecutor Tells Her That Is Only Step He Can Take. | HUSBAND'S ATTORNEY was NO. 3’S —Po \ A Real Estate Millionaire. Was P a if © ze ‘ - a oom jurisdiction,” said Shackelford. , them. _ ing to _ Charlotte Bente, was — Not said: a nulled.” With Newest Mother-in- Law and Daughter When Women Started to Clayton and All Seemed Friends. In one courtroom at Clayton Sat- urday forenoon Judge Wurdemann Wag ‘coneidering a motion by Joseph Dixon Jr., attorney for Mrs. Charles R. Drummond No, 1, giving her full eontrol over her three children and prchibiting their father from seeing ‘them or having any control over In. an adjoining courtroom Mra. Drummond No. 3, accompanied by her mother and by Drummonds’ etterney, Ford Thompson, was walit- see Prosecuting Attorney Shackelford to talk with him about annulling the midnight marriage in -a Clayton rathskeller of Charles R. ’ Drvmmona to Miss Charlotte Vin- cent ten days ago. Mrs. Drummond No. 2,,who was Miss not present. She is still the legal wife of Drummond. Judge Wurdemann granted the mo- _ tion, made on behalf of Mrs. Drummond No. ‘ 1, who was Miss Maude Ringen and who now lives in Webster Groves, and by the order of the court she now has complete possession of her three children—Charies Ringen Drummond, 10; _ Louise, 8, and Lillian, 4 years old. : ‘No. 3 Will Not Prosecute. | ne ushered pete the office of the rs. Drummond “Tl want my marriage an ‘That is not a matter coming under oF Prosecuting Attorney. Do you : watt \prosecute Drummond for mar- | ryliig’ you whtle*he had another wife?’ o rhote to say to you.” “No,” she replied, ‘I don’t want to , Prosecute him at all. I want my mar- ‘annulled. If you are not the one attend to it for me I have nothing b3 Was “erely by chance that the two parties did not meet in the same court- | if While waiting for an audience with ; Thompson, jad been closeted with the Prosecut- : 1 | to ‘eay,” ; aie ene of her mother’s ultima-} ‘Shackelford Mrs. Drummond talked - with Milton Stearns, an old friend, and _ amused herself by using her powder { rag on his nose. After Mrs. Drummond No. 3, her r, Mes. A. P. Vincent, and Ford Drummond's attorney, thre Attorney for half an hour the came out and started back to declining to discuss what had penta at the conference. The touring car in which Mrs. Vincent, vod egg and Ford Thompson, ~ had left the car and his en by Thompson, who rep- him last February when Mrs nd No. 1 asked a change in the “ote: of the court in regard to Drum- ee to see their three efter the advent of | fo. 2 and long before ‘ » they came from Shackelford's ce Mrs. Vincent was in a very Oommunicative mood. ‘I have at all to say,” she an- ij in very decided tones. “Noth- ‘murmured Mrs. Drum- _you Drummond's attorney,” : Toy sgpredir climbed to PROFESSOR, CAUGHT AS A PEEPER, QUITS COLLEGE Beloit Authorities _ Announce That Head of English Depart- ment Is Not Responsible. BELOIT, Wis., Dec. 1”7.—The climax ofa Beloit college sensation was reached this morning when Prof. F. A. Chase, head of the Department of English, quit the college. The community was startled Thurs- day night by the report that police- men, summoned to capture a man peening through the windows at the horse of an Bast Side young woman, had found Prof. Chase by the win- dow. Friends of Prof. Chase denied that he had done anything improper. Others declared that he was suffering from a nervous breakdown and was temporarily out of his mind. Today the college authorities an- nounced that Prof, Chase was not mentally responsible and that he would take a vacation for recupera- tion. That he has for a long time been a nervous wreck is generally be- lieved. TO LONDON FOR CHRISTMAS, TAKES TURKEYS WITH HIM Chicago Man Runs No Risk of Being Forced to Eat English Roast Beef. CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—Samuel Chicago financier, who departed last night to spend the holiday season in England, carried the most important part of his Christmas dinner with him. Desiring to make certain that he will have, a genuine Christmas feast, he took two large turkeys from his coun- try place at Libertyville, Ill. The birds, raised especially for this occasion and fed to the minute, were brought into town in an automobile and placed aboard the 18-hour train on which Insull departed for New York. Mr. Insull and the turkeys will sail on the Mauretania tonight. HANGS HERSELF IN POSTOFFICE Missouri Girl, Despondent, Found Dead by Father. PLATTE CITY, Mo., Dec. 17.—Shut- ting herself in the little reom back of the letter case in the postoffice here early today, Nannie Hymer, 18 years old, assistant postmistress hanged her- self from a hook in the ceiling. She was found dead a haif hour later by her father, Frank Hymer, a rural mail carrier. The girl had been il] and despondent for a week. STOCK BROKER FIRM SUSPENDS Failure of Judson & Judson An- nounced in New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—The suspen- sion of the Stock Exchange firm of Judson & Judson was anounced on the floor of the Exchange today. The liabilities and assets, while not made public, are not large. The firm was formed in 1901 ang is composed of A. M. Judson, C. Y. Jud- son and Percy W. Sherman. PERUVIAN REBELS TAKE TOWN LIMA, Peru, Dec. 17.—Insurgents have taken the town of Abancay, capital of the department and province of Apuri- mac, in Southern Peru. Many persons on both sides were killed or injured. The Government is rushing troops to the scene. Insull, “VOL. | 63. NO. 119. + ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER {7, 1910, “PRICE ONE CENT. L SEPARATE TAX BILLS DEMANDED BY D. R. FRANCIS Attorney Asks Collector That Personal and Realty Amounts Be Divided. WANTS MATTER SETTLED Koeln Says He Understands Ob- ject Is to Force Him to Bring Suit. A formal demand that the personal and real estate tax bills of David R. Francis be separated was made Sat- urday upon Collector Edmond Koeln by Judge Franklin Ferriss, repre- serting Francis. The demand is made that the taxes on Francis’ real estate and on his personal property be shown on.- separate bills. Koeln told a Post-Dispatch reporter after the demand was made that he un- derstands that the purpose of the de- mand is to separate the items and cause Koeln to bring suit for the collection of the personal taxes at once so that the matter may be settled in court. He said that he is of the opinion that Francis will pay the taxes on his real estate without suit. Personal Tax Bill 844,000. The personality tax. bill- of Francis amounts to $44,000, being at the rate of $2.20 per hundred dollars on an assess- ment of $2,000,000. This amount was fixed last year by Assessor Brinkop, who assessed Francis’ personal taxes at $1,000,000 after Francis had failed to make a voluntary return of his hold- ngs This was later doubled as a penalty for refusing to make the return. Brin- kop aiso proceeded against Francis in the Court of Criminal Correction. This suit was defeated by Francis on a tech- nical point. The tax bills now being paid are on the assessments made at that time. MILLIONAIRE ARRESTED AS HE SPEEDS T@ COUNCIL MEETING John T> Davis Was in Hurry for. Special Séssion but Is Taken to Station. John T. Davis of 47 Portland place, millionaire member of the City Coun- cil, was in such a hurry to get to a special meeting of the Council Saturday morning that he exceeded the speed limit in his automobile. Motor Cycle Policeman Schneider fol- lowed him several blocks and arrested him at Delmar and Vandeventer ave- nues. Davis protested. He said he was a City Councilman on his way to at- tend a meeting and he should not be ar- rested. Schneider said he couldn’t help that, and that he would have to go to the station. Davis was taken to the, Laclede Ave- nue Station, where he renewed his pro- test. Acting Capt. Hall,eafter hearing his statement, released him, and no charge was placed against him. He con- tinued his trip to the City Hall. TT ee he atin NS A Continuous Performance! The POST-DISPATCH continues to distance all its rivals in the volume of advertising of the merchants of St. Louis, and of all other kinds of legitimate advertising, for the very substantial reason that it pays. Here is the most remarkable continuous record of advertising supremacy ever exhibited by a metropolitan daily newspaper: . Last Sunday the POST-DISPATCH printed 377 colum#ffs of legitimate advertising—a new record un- der normal conditions. Tuesday of this week the POST-DISPATCH beat three of its competitors combined by 6 columns Home Merchants’ Advertising. Wednesday the POST-DISPATCH printed 101 columns, the largest amount ever printed—excluding special editions—on any ohe Wednesday in the his- tory of any St. Louis newspaper. On. Thursday the score was, POST-DISPATCH 121 columns, while three of its competitors combined printed 120 of St. Louis merchants’ advertising. Yesterday, Friday, the score of St. Louis mer- chants’ display advertising was POST-DISPATCH,,. 109 soluinens Three of its competitors -combined carried only - - The above is a record of five da _ week wherein the POST-DISPAT( 66 96 s out of seven of this has shown its heels _ to its competitors like ‘a thoroughbred to selling platers’’ Rice a } Eftte La no offense intended. | WINGED-HEELED LONDON REPORTER | HAS RIPPIN’ TIME moned From His Bawth to Jump Across Atlantic. SEES TAFT AND. “CHUCK” President Shocks Him With In- formality; “Wottell,’’ Says Famous Bowery Character. | By Leased Wire From the New “ irk Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—W. R. Holt, London journalist, who came on the Mauretania for a whirling 38 hours’ visit to America, arose early today, after a night about.town with New York reporters, and prepared to com- plete his break-neck tour of the city before re-embarking at 6 o'clock this evening. He will sail back on the Mauretania which is making a record holiday round-trip. Six hours ahead of time, the big turbiner was ready early this afternoon to sail back to England. The liner had been at her dock less than 32 hours, and but for the fact that she was advertised to sail at 6 o’clock this evening could have cast off lines shortly after noon. In the 20 working hours which had passed since the steamer docked, before dawn yesterday, 6500 tons of coal had been stowed away in her bunkers, her hold had been relieved of 1000 tons of express freight and replaced with an equal amount, the necessary scrubbing and polishing had been done and she was ready for her passengers. The laat load of Christmas mail for the steamer will leave the postoffice at 5:15 o’clock this evening. Will See Mayor. Today Holt’s route included Grant’s Tomb, Fifth avenue in the promenade hour, Central Park, the Stock Ex- change and the foreign quarter, to- gether with the City Hall for inter- views with Mayor Gaynor and other prominent men. Holt was evidently taking copious mental notes throughout his huscling trip. “I have seen a Sreat many typical, Americans—fully 20 national- ities, I should say,” was. one of his comments. Had to Bolt Oysters. “Most excitin’—most excitin’! Not a moment’ to catch me breath since |, had me morning bawth, ye know. Motor cars, trains—trains, motor cars; every blessed instant on the move, y’know. But, oh, I say, guch a time as I’ve had! Such a bally well, rippin’, bloomin’, bouncin’, bang around time as I’ve had! Quite, I assure you. Right—oh! I’m off!’’ In such fashion he panted over the American oysters he was sampling in Churchfll’s last night—with apol- ogies “for bolting the same, but, as he explained, “what could one do, y’know, when one had to do what he had to. One must bolt if one should subsequently burst under such circum- stances.”’ For young Holt is London’s galloping reporter—beg pardon, journalist, y’know, for one does not speak of writer chaps on newspapers in England as reporters —one doesn’t y’know. Had a Varied Itinerary. rip with the Mauretania going and com- ing; to try In the 88 hours he was in America to see all he could see of the United States and to come heme and be as clever as possible in telling of all that he had been able to observe in the short time the Mauretania would be in port—38 hours! One thing is certain. The young man gathered no barnacles on the way over. After the Mauretania had reached the pier a littl after 4 o’clock yesterday morning, he caught a train for Wash- ington. He saw President Taft, “Un- cle Joe’’ Cannon, the Washington monu- ment, the halls of Congress and the Na- tional Library; came back to New York on a thundering five-hour limited, test- ed New York restaurants, went to the opera, interviewed Sarah. Bernhardt, “Chuek” Conners and Caruso, skidded over the Brooklyn’ Bridge and came back over the Williamsburg Bridge, lis- tened to rathskeller ragtime, winced as t-> ate chile con carni at Joels’ and said when he arrived at his hotel that he really feared he was so knocked up he’d probably fall right down on the bed without taking his bally boots off. Right-O!”’ Started Trip Nearty Broke. “Quite amusing,” said he. “I got the summons—what you American chaps call the assignment, I believe, while I was in my bawth. Fact, I assure you. I came out drippin’ to pick up the wire and talk to my chief. Forgot, y’know, and got a rotten shock placing my wet hand on the hook. No Johnny Walk- er about that, I assure you. “Then I got my orders. “Take the Mauretania for America. See the Pres- ident, see everything else you can and then come back on the Mauretania.’ It was a bit sudden—rather, y'know. But I answered most promptly, Right-Q! “I waited: only to finish shaving and have my bacon and eggs; thumbed a slive? of shag into my brier, y'know; 4 Galloping Journalist Was Sum- Holt’s assignment was to make the 7 WOMAN AND A MAN HURT IN CAR COLLISION) Mrs. Kate Pfeifer’s Ribs Broken in Crash at Grand Avenue and Heber? Street. — , OTHERS LEG IS BROKEN Cherokee and Grand Avenue Trolleys Come Together at the Curve Junction. Mrs. Kate Pfeifer of 3821 Cottage avenue and Willlam Sommermann of 1800 Rutger street were severely hurt at noon Saturday when a Cher- okee car crashed into a Grand. ave- nue car at Grand avenue and Hebert street. Mrs. Pfeifer and Sommer- mann were on the Grand avenue car. The Cherokee car, westbound, was turning into Grand avenue, just as the Grand avenwe car, started over the crossing, The Cherokee car rammed the Grand avenue car near the middlé, and Mrs. Pfeiffer and Sommerman were caught in the crash. Several of Mrs. Pfeiffer’s ribs, on the right side, were broken. Sommerman’s left leg was broken. Both were sent home in ambulances. BUNNESS ESTATE MONEY I$ GIVEN TO VICTIM'S BROTHER Indiana Judge Orders Disposition of $2223 Belonging to Andrew Helgelein. LA PORTE, Ind., Dec. 17.—An echo of the Belle Gunness case was heard yes- terday when Fred Pitner, admuinistrat- or of the estate of Andrew. Helgelein, filed tris final report showing that he had in his possession $2223 which Judge Gallaher directed be turned over to Asle K. Helgelein of Aberdeen, S. D., brother. Andrew Helgelein, a wealthy South Dakota farmer, came here on Mrs. Gunness’ invitation, expecting to marry her. He is known to have -brought $3000. After the Gunness fire, in which Mrs. Gunness and her -children lost their lives, Helgelein’s body was the first‘of ten unearthed in the private graveyard maintained by Mrs. Gunness. The Gunneéss estate restored Thé miss- ing money to the Helgelein estate and this goes to the brother. HEAVY FOG BRINGS DARKEST DAY TO THE DARKEST CITY Pittsburg Is Compelled to Light Arc Lamps; Many Accidents Are Reported. PITTSBURG, Dec. 17.—One of the darkest days in its history is upon Pittsburg. Electric signs are burning as brightly as if it were midnight. stores and offices are lighted and headlights on street cars are used. Many accidents have’ occurred, but no deaths have been reported, Trains were delayed and there is much con- fusion in the handling of rgilroad work generally at terminals. Pitts- burg is the center of the fog. Reports from points ten miles away wd that the sun is shining and temperatures are lower in the busi- ness t district. the mercury registering 2 degrees below zero. STUDENTS GET PRIZES FOR BEST AND WORST MUSTACHES CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—The four-weeks’ mustache handicap, conducted: by the senior class of the University of Chi- cago, closed yesterday afternoon at a matinee dance in the Reynolds Club. The young women of the class voted Capt. Bill Crawley of the 1910 football team to be the most handsome wearer of adornments which a majority of the members have imposed upon each. “He received a box of cigars as his reward. Roy Baldridge won the booby prize, a mustache cup obtained vy the commit- tee -at the cost of much effort. Frank Coyle received a blue ribbon for the heaviest mustache grown in one month. The balloting of the girl students was secret. The class edict provides that no male member shall shev2 ais upper lip before he receives a diploma in June. The present awards are regarded as preliminary. SIGNALS FAIL LIGHTSHIP MAN Suffers Two Weeks With Broken Ankle Before Help Comes. LEWES, Dela., Dec. 17.—Lewis Rob- inson, assistant keeper of the 14-fdor bank lightship, suffered for nearly two weeks with a broken ankle because his signals for assistance could not be un- derstood by passing vessels. His plight was not discovered until yesterday, when Kéeper Wilton returned to the ship from shore leave. Robinson fell through a trap door on the lightship. Vessels were signaled while the injured man lay in pain, bu cwing to the high wind and sea no com- northbound, | | MILLIONAIRE WHO ENDED LIFE SRN SSRN oe PHILIP JPIEDART. RicH MAN FINDS BRIDE SHOPPING FOR HIS FIANCEE Sorrowed Because She Wanted $50,000 Before Marriage; Milliner Sympathized. Special to the Post Dispatch. CHICAGO, Dec. 17,—Sympathy won a millionaire husband for a Chicago mil- liner, and, by the same token, a desire for a marriage settlement of $50,000 lost the same husband to a Cincinnati girl. W. Cc. Langenau of Cleveland is_ the husband. : Langenau is at the Congress Hotel on the start of~his honeymoon with Mrs. Langenau, who less than a week ago was Miss Pear! King, proprietor of the French Art Shop, a millinery establish- ment in Congress street, near Michigan avenue. Langenau says he married Miss King because she was sympathetic with him when he told her that his flancee wanted him to settle $50,000 on her be- fore the wedding. He met her while buying the Cincinnati girl a new hat. Langenau is a retired hardware manu- facturer of this clty. He has a daugh- ter who is the same age as Mrs. Lange- nau. She is the wife of Robert E. Mc- Kisson, twice Mayor of Cleveland. Langenau’s 40-year-old son is hig fath- er’s successor in business. The Lange- nau residence in Cleveland, where the wedding took place, is in Euclid avenue. “Tt believe in marriage for love and I don’t want any of this advance séttle- ment thing in mj love a..airs,” said Langenau. “I am a widower and, hav- ng retired from business, I became in- terested in a Cincinnati young lady. The courtship came to an-.end woen my financee said she would like to have me settle $50,000 on her before the mar- riage.”’ MORE CLOUDS, WITH RAIN - TONIGHT OR SUNDAY; NO CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATU RES. lp. m eb 35 5 ee 39 Vesteiainis Temperatures. Highest 45 at 32 p. m. Lowest m. Clouds will flit across the face of the moon Satur- day night, becom- ing denser as the night gets older, and toward morn- ing, or maybe not until Sunday, rain will fall, but there will be no decided change in tem- perature. The lowest tem- perature Saturday night will be about 32° degrees above zero and the: indi- cations are that, in: of. the oO YovAa UCKE T.SHOP- ING EARLY, moisture that may | NAUGHTY, NAUGHT. SAYS COUNCILMAN, CALENDAR IS GONE. That. Council Rooms Be Kept Chaste’ Schniederhahn _ Insists (as Regards Art.) Councilman BE. V. P. Schniederhaler’ took from the wall of the office’ of Sec- retary Alexander Galt of the City Coun- cil Saturday the calendar of a bonding company which he considered: improper there. . . | 3 ate It bore the picture of a woman, wearing a necklace, a couple of red roses in her hair and a crim- son bolero. Discussing his action, he said: “As a member of the Council I have a right to object to being hung on the wall of the secretary’s office a picture I regard as improper. I wouldn't have such a picture in my room. It cer- tainly: cannot be considered art and could not properly be included in an art gallery. “T don’t want to be considered a crank, neither do I wish to justify as art every impropriety and indecency so labeled. | ‘Three years ago I told the manager of the company which put out these calendars that they were objectionable. Two years ago the calendar bore the picture of a woman wearing a few more clothes. The one this year wears still more clothes, but it is still objection- able. I hope that next year the com- pany will print a picture of a woman correctly attired.” Schniederhahn declares that nude and lewd pictures will have to come down from the walls of saloon# He has in- duced some saloon keepers to take them down and has forced others. [LECTURER TELLS HOW TO LIVE AS LONG AS MR. METHUSELAH Declares Vitality Is Extracted From the Earth and Will Stave Off Old Age. CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—Methuselah, the oldest man mentioned fn the Old» Testa- ment, died at the comparatively early age of 969 years, in the period, of his adolescence, so to speak, if the theory of Walter Freeman Cooling is true. ~* Cooling, author of “The Science of Comparative Mythology,” in a lecture at Handleham last night declared that the success of his attempts to discover, re- store and translate the lost lariguages of prehistoric times gives the secret ot succession of types and of longevity by showing how to extract vitality from the earth and make it. possible td stave off the ravages of old age and wrinkles, the advance announcements of approaching dissolution. ¢ He asserts that all matter is alive, | that all species of plants and animals |’ are related by common descent.and thai worlds, crystals, molecules and are living bodies, formed of indestruct- ‘atoms Mitionatre, Brooding cause He Thought } Sickness Would Christmas Joy of Sends a Bullet ” His Heart. ~ SITS AT A WINDOW TO FIRE im SHC oe' Fourid Dying ‘in | Hig 3 Brought to @ realization that he owl not hope for the gift of good health f Christmas, Philip , Medart, millionaire. president of the Medart Patent ulle bedroom of his home at 1720 avenue, at 6:50 o’clock Friday and died almost instantly. — Grief over the death of his daughter, Mrs. Adele Hart, last hastened his break-down and uted to the despondency which him to take His life. oak Medart was 72 years old and for t years had been in failing health, | it had been only during the last t weeks that he had been compelled to keep to his room. -*. fore Christmas, so that the | en of the Yuletide would not be mae te »-}the family and so that ne . ga y withheld talbematiin orem g@ nd would not admit the po fi »rmation was still withheld fr ja -d District was admitted to t 4-Mrs. Jennings, speaking ‘ore rov ‘nding Medart’s death, 3 Irs. Glasgow had left the 1 res, idence and had gone home och ock. At 7 o'clock she was calf ed by a telephone mpegs She wea told that Medart ors Whi °n she arrived at the Medart bi ” she; found that he was dead, Ai >cording to her statement, he ! begs 1 sitting In a rocking chair in | tom er room, which was his f Tise chair faced one on the vin ar ja ag him a view of the nelghbor- — ho His wife had been si ing wit him. She left the room to go Ww stat s and had not been away him. more than five minutes = Bs Se tr irs =F ’ ad risen ffom the chair, wn revolver, which he { his h Willie m F. Muthail, & relative

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‘WOMAN DECLARES Mrs. Barbara. Cervanka Couldn't Resist When Prof. White Held. Her Hands, She Says. POLICE SEARCH FOR HIM 3 _They Want to Question Him « About Certificate of Deposit “Owned by Alleged Victim. kw Police are watching the office of J. T. White, a clairvoyant, 3965A Olive street, seeking to question him concerning a ‘certificate of deposit for $1250 he is al- leged to have received from Mrs. Bar- is obara Cervanka after a series of clair- ‘os voyant readings. August Belles of 1327 ese» South Broadway, also a clairvoyant, =e » Whom Mrs. Cervanka says introduced i _ ther te White, has been arrested. He wen. Bave a common law bond of $300 to an- eo #®wWwer any charge that may be preferred. ot +. Mrs. Cervanka and her son held a es» Conference with Chief of Detectives oe; Smith Saturday to discuss the charges “that should be placed against White and Belles. Soulfal Eyes Attract. Mrs, Cervanka told the police that she % was entranced by White's soulful eyes - « « dand said that when he held her hands sre ;@nd gazed at her a sort of soulful mys- i> the Influence oaused her to obey his i» 6 gruff dictations. When he demanded : contents of her purse and took _ j-2* Charge of the certificate of deposit tell- _ f«,ang her he could watch over her for- Ro _ tunes better if the money was trans- * «+«-ferred to the Lafayette Bank, Mrs. Cer- — 4. wanka said she had not the power to resist. The transfer of the certificate and loss of the money followed several readings ~%n which Prof. Belles told her that a _buried treasure was hidden on the prop- erty owned by her in South St. Louis, Mre. Cervanka told the police. This information was given her after the fortune teller had sold her a wish- ing powder for $1, telling her to hold the powder to her right temple and make three wishes, she said. When ghe wished that she might sel! her prop- “at a profit; the clairvoyant imme- tely told her to keep the property ) he would assist her to find the den treasure, according to her state- -— wy vf = Po. eS) mw Sh she mot “~ ert & Suds & - — ‘ x a “ Eee Fe ee ee wee ee re Oe ee Ow hs Enjeined to Silence. Cervanka is 54 years old. She | job. from a chilis and fever. giw: » up his job to nurse his wife. ert beg t also became ill, and it was all Papa MVgurray could do to care for them all, Post-Dis quires Your Assistance and N¢ :eds Your Dime. EVERYB ODY CAN Will B e Brightened by the Ef- f¢ »rts of St. Louisans. Alm(é 4 gurrounded by downtown sky- scraping wholesale houses, whose busi- ness dum ing the year aggregates mil- lions of dollars, is a gray and dingy discourg ,gefi famiiy whose prospect of a merry / Cibristmas is not very bright. The lute of the city can be blamed for their p¥ ight. The family of Robert Mur- ray, si¢ k because of a auick change of climate ;, indeed is in a pitiful state. Murr ay was an industrious workman in Ale xander, La. A friend told him of the W onderful opportunities of a hig city { and Murray, with his wife and four » children, the youngest of which is 14 m@ oaths old, moved to St. Louis. Change Brought Illness. The change from‘’the warm, balmy clims te of the South to the blustering wint feval «. The money saved for a rainy day was spent. Murray sought work. But: it was hard to find, and being a strat nger in the city, he was not able to g et from one place to another quickly. Al tter days of perseverence, he got a “Then his wife, Dora, became sick Murray had to Rob- and Eben and George and baby Al- ca.use he, too, finally succumbed to climate and disease. { [he supply of food ran low. Coal b@ ught to warm the two rooms was al-. mx ok i, conceived the idea of taking Santa CI] aus into his confidence and telling the m isfortune that had overtaken the fam- ia y, thinking things could be changed. st exhausted. Then Robert, 11 years i Plight Ig Discovered. He wrote a letter to old Saint Nich- olas, in care of the Post-Dispatch { %Histmas eFstival Fund, and Santa’s i igent found the family. The children need warm clothes and ! food. And little Albert’s mamma and | papa would like to have some money so the doctor would make them well. Perhaps his papa could find work and his mamma would not have to lie in ue visited Belles frequently for a few: before he introduced her to White! th ago. She was told by White,’ not to tell her son and daugh- r visits to his place, instructions Mrs. Cervanka tel] her relatives of the deliv. — certificate of deposit of her 7 re ee * ee * er ee see ens ‘tH she conferred with officials : . the. Carondelet Bank, in which t# e had been deposited by Mrs. Cay c- matter was — to @ ie sit sh Lafayette Bank Thur s- _ Are Arrested. Detectives were unable to find Wh ite on South Broadway ¥ ‘ri- not returned Saturday {ind ia they knew nothing of his whereabouts. His office, on was closed Friday, an@ he N was arrested Friday at Wh ite’r Olive street. He was om e of to the place while t } po- waiting for White. Bellag , told that he was seeking @ [rhite Belles was Edward. -Ro- of 1231 South Broadway. member of the trio of all- Charles W. Keeler, a fo rtune “rg Olive street. He wa» ar- » to the police sti ition. at midnight riday bond to appear to answ any that might.be made aj sainst the police that t- ie had ite had made 4 fr strike, calied at his off ice to Post-Dispatch rq porter Central District Police had no connectia@ a with aq matter of the ce# tificate f deposit of Mrs. Cervenka. Ha’ Said he White occupied adjoining 1 »oms in -puilding at the South Broad- gfidress, but that there is 4 10 part- bed all the time. _ The children, according to Mrs. Mur- ray, never before have had such a dis- mal outlook for Christmas. She is sure they would like pretty toys and pres- ents and nice things that would make them forget their unfortunate predica- ment. ’ As it is, the children take care of the rooms. Robert and Eben, the oldest, sweep the floors and do other work to make their mamma happy. It wouldn’t be fair not to make the Murray children bright and cheerful on Christmas day, would it? Then save them the pain and anguish of knowing ‘lthey are but one of thousands of fam- ilies in St. Louis who, because of mis- fortune, can look to a dismal Christmas day. Contribute whatever sum you can spare to the Post-Dispatch Christmas Festival Fund and then you may feel sure that the poor children and their parents will enjoy the happiest day of their lives when they are entertained by the citizens of St. Louis at the mon- ster Christmas day dinner‘that will be given at the Coliseum. The Murrays live on the first floor at 1418 Washington avenue. ; TOPLINERS TO AID CHRISTMAS FUND Volunteers of Services From Vaudeville Artists Pour Into folonial Theater. The benefit for the Post-Dispatch Christmas Festival Fund at the Coloniai Theater on Delmar avenue, near Euclid avenue, next Sunday afternoon and evening, promises to be a greater suc- cess than was at first anticipated. Vol- unteers for the vaudeville bill are com- ing in faster than the management can accept them. There will be six topliner vaudeville turns and the newest moving pictures (teh Festival Fund Re-: HELP There A re Many Sad Lives Who house @ saat shelters a sick, sad and) ‘ ar of St. Louis brought chilis and } i. ‘Mr. and Mrs, W. T. Sanders, “sam el cee MORE WORKERS ARE NEEDED IN' CHRISTMAS FACTORY OF JOY lBoys WHOSE CHRISTMAS WILL BE. BADE. HAPPIER Br ia chbang LL GLI Na Rye Eg be hy ee Robert, Eben, George and Albert Murray. NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS. HE Post-Dispatch will send T eontrinution lists to re- liable persons on request. No one is authorized to solicit money for the Post-Dispatch Christmas Festival Fund. Give contributions tv persons only whom you know to be reliable. Contributions and list collec- tions should be sent bv check to the Post-Dispatch Christmas Fund, or by messenger to the eashier of the Post-Dispatch, Upon request an authorized em- ploye evil] te sent for collec- tions. CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL FUND CONTRIBUTIONS $ 250 Post-Dispatch Previously reported “Bon Ami’ H. L. Griesedieckh’s sepebes Co., List 4638 Cc. L, Hilleary Mre. John E, F,.. H, Britton Henry Ittleson Henry Koehler Jr. A. B. Barrett Premier Shirt Waist Co., List 6805 MeKeighan.... Cash Ross H. Bradley, Virden, Ill. No name Montgomery City, Mo. .... Fred Wood Stobte, Bupker Hill, Il Francis D. Seward Jr Frenk R. Henry , - J. JI. Newman Lumber Co... Mrs, W. J. Holbrook H,. L. Parker Mfz. Ry. Co. and Moore List’ General Aecident Fire & Life Ins. Co., List 2530 List 4950 Globe Store, List 9905. Lungstras Dyeing and Clean- ing Co., List 8316 Olgxn M. Anderson Albert vig Pca, List 2609. Mrs. Cc. E — ‘Bliinge, “Fascinating *eeeervrevreee - nn | oO mn 3 mitt S OCT GR SSS mt tt Gertrude Fitzgerald stir the hearts of young men and girls. To be sure of securing seats for this benefit, it might be aviiakis to reserve your seats by telephone. The ticket office at the Colonial Theater will ne open all day Saturday, and the box of fice man will be at his post early Sun- day morning. Use the Bell phone and call Monroe 1490, and ask that the seats you desire be put aside for you with your name on them. You can call for them early Sunday and avoid the rush at the box office. If you want to spend a happy after- noon or evening take your sweetheart rfyour wife to the Post-Dispatch Christ- mas Benefit at the Colonial Theater. You will not only see one of the best vaude- ville shows seen in St. Louis this sea- son, but you will have the satisfaction } of. having furnished the means of mak- ing a poor child happy on Christmas day. CHILDREN’S'BAZAR TO HELP THE FUND They Will Sell Baskets and Other Articles Which They Made Themselves. Little children, pupils of Mary Insti- tute and Smith Academy, living in the St. Regis Apartments, will give a bazar Saturday afternoon from 1 to 6 o’clock in the Langan Building, Euclid and Delmar avenues, for the benefit of the Post-Dispateh Christmas Festival Fund. Work and waste baskets and other ar- ticles made by themselves will be of- fered for sale. Those who will partici- pate are: Walter Langan, George O’Neil, Marion and Catherine Carlis, Dunean Meyer, Frances and Jack Car- ter, Maurice Duncan, Everette Garret- son, James Allen 4nd Miss Rozier. These children have been weekly con- tributors to the Post-Dispatch Pure Milk and Free Ice Fund, and are certain of a big success in their new venture to alleviate the suffering among the poor. ——_—___@-—___-- Employes Tork Penne No, M. P, Ed Ginane .. ‘Coast and far TAFT COMPLACENT OTHERS SEE PERIL TO PACIFIC COAST Humphreys Says Invaders Could Seize Northern Pacific Rail- way at Bellingham. TAWNEY HELD TO BLAME Hobson Declares Representative Has Recklessly Misled Pub- lic as to Conditions. By Wire From the Washington Bu- reau ‘of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—President Taft today declared the war scare a tempest in a teapof. He believes the country should have more soldiers, espe- cially officers, but he is not of the opinion of the Secretary of War and Gen, Wood, that there is immediate of a great national reserve. opposite view, taken when he was b | Séeretary of War, has been dug up by officers of the War Department. President Taft fears for his economy plan, if the agitation for a greater na- tional defense continues. In spite of this, the congressional delegation from the Pacific Coast is doing everything to keep up the agitation. Representa- tive Humphreys of Washington, who called at the White House, told newspa- per men that the defenseless condition of the Pacific Coast was known to the world at large. How Invaders Could Land. “The whole Western country is at the mercy of an Eastern nation,’’ he said. “Japanese warships and vessels contain- ing an army of 100,000 men would not have the slightest difficulty in passing through the straits of Juan de Fuca, going up to Bellingham, Wash., a city of 2%,000 people, and landing upon the wharves there. They would not pass within 17 miles of a United States gun. “Landing at Bellingham, they could take possession of the Northern Pacific Railroad and have the whole Pacific West at their mercy. The country would supply them with subsistence and forage. “The conditions ought to be remedied by torpedo boats and fortifications. The Pacific Coast could be made compara- tively safe by the expenditure of less than half the cost of a modern battle- ship.”’ Representative Hull of Iowa, chair- man of the Committee or. Military Af- fairs, declared today that there was a dearth of field artillery and a dearth of men in the coast artillery. He con- siders the lack of field artillery the greatest menace. Hull favors the na- tional reserve plan. Nation Kept in Ignorance, Secretary Dickinson continues to re- frain from comment on Chairman Taw- ney’s statement that the War Depart- ment was trying to “Hobsonize’’ Con- gress into making extraorainary appro- priations for national defense. He said Tawney had a constitutional right to say what he pleased. — Representative McLachlin of Califor- sit hit back at Representative Tawney. He said said that ‘‘alleged patriots have kept the nation in utter ignorance of its helpless condition until war has come, and has then placed unenduring, un- trained, untutored men, armed With ob- solete weapons, in the field to uphold the national honor.”’ In answer to Tawney’s charge that it is cowardly to make known “our admit- ted national weakness,’’ McLachlin said: “The most wicked national cowardice I can picture is demanding of our people to come to the national defense and. then jending them forth an unequipped mob to deadly camp or against a prepared en- emy, to be murdered,’’ Hobson Assails Tawney. Representative Hobson also replied to Tawney today. ‘There would have been no trouble,”’ he said, ‘‘if I had not trust- ed Tawney and if he had not violated my confidence without giving me the slightest warning. Tawney has been recklessly misleading the public by stat- ing that 60 per cent of the country’s to- tal revenues are devoted to purposes of war, knowing that the public would think he meant current appropriations for the army and navy. “Tawney refers to an alleged conspira- cy or plot to get an increase of appro- priations during the present session, whereas his whole effort is clearly one to prevent the American people from knowing the facts. Tawney is the most responsible for the present utter lack of pt ee : is «: nt ina nn th: sil Parte TWALLEN TELS F TO-MILE AN HOUR FLIGHT AT NIGHT When Motor Cycle Is Seized, Santa Claus Robber Describes Ride From Denver. Frank Wallen, the Bremen avenue Santa Claus, told a Post-Dispatch re- porter Saturday that he traveled 3000 miles ona motor cycle at a rate of 75 miles an hour. The distance repre- sented a circuitoug route from Denver to this city. Wallen says he rode only at night and accomplished the terrific speed despite the fact he was unac- quainted with the roads he traveled. ‘Wallen revealed this information after the police had seized a $300 motor cycle found in his bachelor apartments in North Venice and resulted in additional charges being placed against the se}f- confessed postoffice robber and burglar. Other information obtained by the Federal authorities and city detectives Friday afternoon resulted in the re- arrest of Richard Henry, 3202 North Eleventh street, whose information aid- ed the police in catching Walien. Henry is suspected of being fmplicated with Wallen in several robberies. Additional Charges Are Made. Wallen, who was originally charged with robbing the postoffice and six stores at Dawton, Tex., is now also charged with having robbed the post- office at Springville, Utah, and the post- offices at Anchor Hill, Ill., and Peoria, Ill, It is claimed by the Federal de- tectives that Wallen purchased his mo- tor cycle in Denver with three of ten $100 money orders which he stole from the Anchor postoffice. He registered the orders at Harpe, Ill., they assert, and forwarded them to himself at Den- ver in care of the Windsor Hotel. “I did some fast traveling on that machine,” said Wallen as he gazed at the dilapidated motor. cycle taken from his rooms. “Country officers were watching for me along the route, but I fooled them- by traveling at night. Somé nights I made as high as 80 miles an hour, but I usually traveled no faster than 75. I guess I must have made at least 3000 miles covering the route I took. Sometimes I traveled in a circle to keep from being caught.” ———- gs Millionaire Ends His Life Because of Failing Health _Continued From Page One. turned to St. ‘Louise and engaged in business. Before leaving Belleville he received some training as a mechanic and began working on inventions. One of these, the Medart pulley, was so successful that in 1879 he established a factory for its manufacture. This became one of the most widely known manufactories in St. Louis, and from the profits its own- er accumulated a large fortune. When the Civil War began Medart was an athletic young man of 23 years, and he left his work shop and his in- ventions to join one of the first three companies of volunteers organized in St. Louis for home defense. He was one of the sturdy Germans—told of in Winston Churchill's novel, ‘‘The Crisis’’ —who had been quietly drilling for the defense of their adopted land while home-grown patriots were devoting themselves to oratory about the merits of the impending conflict. This was a three-months’ enlistment and when was filled he joined the Third Missouri Volunteers and was made First Sergeant of Company K, going into regular service under Gen. Francis P. Blair and later becoming one of those who “fought mit Sigel.” Start- ing with the volunteers in St. Louis he finished after Sherman had marched to the sea and was mustered out of the service at Atlanta, Ga., as a captain. Since the war he has been prominent in Union veterans’ organizations and besides being a member‘of the G. A. R., he was a member of the Missouri Com- mandery, Loyal Legion. After the war he had only his energy and mechanical skill as,capital, but he soon turned his inventive genius to good account. He married Miss Elsa Stange, Oct. 17, 1864, and was the father of two children, Mrs. Adele Hart, who recently died and William Medart, who was assdéciated with his father in business. i . 2 ‘ , ; ae e agus panies ¥ ag ee ore |English Reporters. . Skims Across Sea’ ———— ee Continued From Page One. up at the windows. eI lowered my win- dow and said: ‘Here you are, kiddie, I’m Holt of the Mail. Got anything for me?’ ‘Hi ’as,’ said he, and handed it up. It was a bag of gold. I felt better then, y’know. Well. rather!’’ Shocked at Informality. When young Holt got off the Mauretania there was a big motor car ready, and with a whisk of tis bag he was inside. He shot to the Pennsylvania station, ,where a special train was waiting to dash him along to another ‘big motor car awaiting him at Washington. He was there before noon. The car went whirring about the capital, permitted by special police dispensation to break the speed laws. Attaches of the English Embassy had already arranged for the young man’s reception. Holt had only to wait a few minutes before he was in the White House clasping Mr. Taft's cordially extended hand and basking in the beaming smile of the big man. Holt was somewhat surprised that he was not required to attire his short, slender body in formal frock coat and put on a “topper,” bat instead, just as he was, in his blanket ulster and steamer cap, he could go right tn and see the ruler of the United States. In fact, he admits, he was surprised all around. { “The informality of the thing!’ he panted during a slight moment of inaction while the motor car did,the work for him. “Astonishing — rather. Why, ft fawncy that if a Britisher found him- self received in that quick, every-day fashion he’d be thrown into a hor- rible funk, y’know. I was in a bit of a one, I assure you, when courteous gentlemen just opened a single door and I found myself facing the Presi- Aient himself, ' “IT didn’t know whether I should just bow or—well, what really, y'know. But the President made that all most charmingly easy. He put out his hand and caught mine in a good, hard grip. It was most friendly, I assure you, it was. And he laughed and urged me not to be in such a great hurry, y’know. He said he really didn’t think I could see it all in 32 hours. I laughed—well, rather. Told him I had, for a moment, though I could, y'know. Rather not, y’know. Eh— What? “He told me a story about oysters that he thought rather good, y’know. As for me—well, I—oh, well, I suppose it must be an excellent wheeze, y’ know, though frankly, I confess that—well, he said when he was visiting in London, on his way home from the Philippines, he met a London merchant who told him he’d no use for Americans. And the Presi- dent asked him why. He said: ‘Because when I was in a restaurant there I or- dered some of those oysters one hears 80 much of—those American. oysters that are fat as babies. And when I was eating them I remarked that I couldn’t see anything about them that I could recommend. I said to the walter: "Why there’s no taste to ’em—not the slight- est,’ and the waiter said to me, he said: ‘Oh, isn’t there, though. Wait till you strike a bad one.’ The fellow was ac- tually chawffing me.’ “Well, I confess,” continued Holt. “It did sound to me as though the waiter had been shockingly impertinent, you know. But I laughed heartily. And Il shall print it, of course. Oh, quite! Has a Ripping Teme. “There was a gentleman who seemed a sort of Government official and I was astounded when he talked freely over some matters with the President right in front of me! Fawncy anyone doing that if a foreign journalist were‘ visit- ing the Premier. By George, y'know.” The London reporter next saw Uncle Joe Cannon. It was a brief talk and Uncle Joe didn’t try to tell him any jokes. But he did hand him one of his jet-black cigars. The Englishman isn’t sure that this was not done by way of a practical jest. Quite, because the first puff he got nearly floored him, he said. — “Yet I went on smoking it,”’ he added. “I rather felt obligated to do so, y’know, father as if it were part of what you American journalist chaps call my as- signment. Not bad, eh?’ This young man is a fresh-faced, blue- eyed, good-looking little man. “What kind of a time did you have?’ shouted a group of Washington report- ers, as he swung aboard the 6 o'clock limited to return to New York. He Greets Chuck for $3-Hour Visit} be avenue, scarlet rover; Dr. A. B. S507 Olive stree?. ton avenue. 2% Waterhouse, 11 Dillon street, . bop. 158 Chouteau avenue, chicken |” case to the Health Department, acer ing to ls Lawrence. ay ri ive Dollars a . Him, | ay want to say for the beneftt some poor dyspeptic that | Dyspepsia Tablets will io ws . Si} % and a cure every ve dollars a box would not stop my purchasin them should I ever suffer a m. “The one ager ng hn box my druggist’s digestion is all r “Many of my netahbere ave tried these tablets and and found t just as Ellms also wants me to use in endorsing Stuart’s lets.” ae ‘Elias an i, fonaatn, Be Mrs, Jas. serene of toant ada, writes “For eighteen r suffered from what I su bladder and kidney medicine from three different | without any sign of cure. I felt so at last I was hardly able to do nu they would make me feel better, x really thinking I had d after only three or four been taken all the acid trouble peared and then I discovered lL. hs had acid dyspepsia, es the docto: had been treating me for be diape | bladder trouble and one of th eM me for rheumatism, _ e : for finding eure so good and so pleasant to take & Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets. I am a prised at the change they naveg ad in me.” ue All druggists sell and recomme’ Stuart’s Dyspepsia — becaus: they contain only the simple natural digestives, and taken after meals pre vent acidity and cause prompt. tion and assimilation of food. Physicians everywhere indorse the he! because they are as safe for the chi as for the adult; ~— are a and every form of stomach ment. “Ripping! Perfectly ripping!” cried the Englishman, with a wave of his cap to prove his enthusiasm. It was after 7 o’clock when he arrived in New York. He deiayed dining that he might have the pleasure of a feast in a New York restaurant. He approved the oysters, and American grilled ham with candied sweet potatoes got a eulogy. “Oh, scrumptuous!” said the Englisr journalist. But American cheese got a black mark in his observation book. He expressed himself as charmed when the orchestra played “America,” which to him was “God Save the King.’ Then he started for Chinatown. At Barney Flynn’s he saw the famous picture of George Washington and “all the dead British soldiers,’ and politely said it wag most striking. Then he met Chuck Conners. “Good evening, Chawney,” said Chuck, with an elaborate bow. Young Holt lifted his eyebrows slightly... “Good evening, Conners, my man,” said he, and patted him lightly on the shoulder. All Chuck could say in ro from New York. The latest vaudeville turn which has been offered and which has been accepted is Princess Tarpeia, presented by Charies F. Hiestand. The Princess is called “The Undisputed Man- acle and Handcuff Mistress of the World.” This is an entirely new fea- ture. Princess Tarpela will escape from shackles and ropes fastened on her by tenet Jeller had told |” tae pe police, detectives or any one who G+ mes fortune chooses to do so. a ee es fie ber Trained Birds to Act we nat rgxe’ “i a. eadligr 3 Cannon's Australian Bird Circus is *fanother. big attraction. It consists of ? # trained cockatoos, who do almost human acts. A fire company of cocka- toos rushes to a burning building at the window of which a girl bird is screaming for help. The fire bell is rung and before the apparatus gets there a bird brings a bucket of water. Then the department arrives, rescues the girl and quenches the flames. Black and McCune, military acrobatic comedians, do a tremendously funny jact. Perry and White, refined comedy vocalists, sing and talk amusingly, and Klein and Clifton have one of the F.. H. Peters Vv. C. Feldman James and Martha Wilder... Bessie F. Flooding Mre. John B. Sliaughter.. William Schlesingher preparedness. It is natural that he should go to great extremes to prevent the facts from becoming known. His reference to patriotism is almost peurile —in speaking of a man’s being a coward to admit another man could whip him. The strongest man alive, unfitted, could Ibe killed by the weakest man, armed. “He refers to the nation’s resources and to the spontaneous outburst of pa- triotism that would prove our chief de- fense in time of war. ,We called out half a million men in 1812,: but 3000 En- glish regulars burned Washington; of a quarter of a million men in the Spanish War, 14 died of preventable diseases for every one that was killed tn battle. This was because of our unpreparedness. . “A man who would leave his country without preparation for war ts either superficial in his knowledge or his pa- triotism is blinded by his personal inter- est.”’ COLLEGE STUDENTS RUN CARS Collect Fares While Strike- Breakers Handle the Motors. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Dec. 17.—The street railway company started running 2 cars this morning with imported strike-breakers as motormen and col- lege students as conductors, Two policemen were on each car, There were many poseenqern. “BUSTER ‘BROWN SHOES” |. xe Ae: siete a eee jae en : a The Don’t Worry Club Now give their Typed Letters, Lists and Addressing work to Deems, 3d and Olive. All enya THOMPSON, SUED ON MILLINERY BILL, FAILS TO CONTEST IT The suit of the Lichtenstein Millinery Co. of New York against Samuel A. Thompson of St. Louls for a millinery bill of $1040 was tried Saturday before Judge Muench. Thompson was not in court and the evidence was heard on a default. Judge Muench took the case under advisement. The suit ig on a bill for millinery al- leged to have been purchased by Thomp- son in March, 1999, for a woman. Thomp- son's wife mate a statement after the suit was filed, declaring the clothing and finery was not purchased for her or delivered to her. In the depositions read Saturday, em- ployes of the millinery store testified Premier Shirt Myrtle Baugh. .$ .2:! M. Grosskrentz D. Kettelkamp. Emily Meler .. Emma Mohl 8. Whitchurch. Amalia Meyer.. Edna Sweet .. Belle Gilbert Ida Williams.. Elsie Abraham Stella and sesommnnn Brewerties Oo... ash J. Clerehce and gga Crow. Grace A. Leath Widmann & Walsh ° Arthur and hy Johnston... Rogotzkie E Lauramt W. Templar Pauline Mueller E. B. Ky » told me at m7 ons oom we ; Fee Se 8 V. ; hytong: I Mortimer, List S416. Lydia Rathjen. List @7 Berthold & Jennings Lbr. Co., List 3904 Charies Quinn Co., Liet 3821. List 9975, oto-Eng. Dept. Remmers Pattern Co., Lecal Freight Office C.., B. ee &. Ry. Co., List 560.. General Accident eee & nae Ins. Co, nt » @0°87 we o pa i) have contributed the films and the serv- ice of a machine and operator for the moving picture show, which will fol- low the big vaudeville bill Three gf the latest independent photo- comedies from New York will be shown. Iberman .... Guckenheim Photo Png. Ly? ares No, F. Warmbold .§2 00 A. Suche. _ . BH, Ortman : wh tet Setar er $1-25

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naiergt af House of Delegates Fix Tuesday De Beaufort Poses for Mov- ing Pictures of His Rom- ance With Heiress. HIS BULLDOG ON JOB in Last Scenes He Rolls in Gold and Drives a Tandem Automobile. NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Pereons whe attend moving picture shows will soon have a chance to see the’ Chicago ro- Gago and says he is going to get $25,000 and royalties for the venture But .the the Kilgallen mansion is dust- the bric-a-brac and Pa Kilgallien is ng life in his shirt sleeves when ughter bounces in with her prize. evidently surprised and does not any effort to put on a coat, much to the disgust of the Count. Im the next scene the Count ts shown |, @ Working man—just to win the old@% it is the opinion of members of the | House of Delegates that the House wiil ‘man’s favor. He is switching cars his ‘worry because he he has had time to become fonity dis- gusted with it. Smoking cigarettes on top of a box car in a Chicago zephyr op the nerves of - ts his job while = Pen to Pa. In the next sce. /the Count is shown presenting a fountain pen to Pa. Pa is something of a joker himself and tells the Count that the pen is of no use to him because he has writer's cramp from signing checks and _ the -banks won't accept his rubber stamp signature. Then Pa changes the subject to some- thing disagreeable and hopes the Count will find it convenient to get out be- fore it becomes necessary to fill his coat tails full of boots. Of course, the Count Gcoean’t pose as one of the bright- est men fn the world, but he is bright enough to catch the drift of Pa’s re- marks and drift away. Deg Disperses Creditors, Then a long line of insistent creditors fs shown outside the Count’s door and here is where his bulldog gets into the picture, by jumping out among the cred- _ fters, whereupon they disperse in confu- pion. The scene at the hospital, where the Countess was taken with a broken leg : and other injuries, shows the Count . trying to ‘“‘butt in” disguised as a Red - ross attendant. His nemesis, Pa Kil- gallen, ever on the job, is there and disperses the Count with a few well- Girected and very swift kicks. Then comes another scene outside the @oor of the Count’s room in the hotel, where a long line of men stand wait- ys ae _ tag for his appearance. The dog is agair put over the transom and charges the cs gttacking party. They race away and on the return trip to his master’s room »’ Yige picks up a silk hat, a sample pack- age of a new brand of cigarettes with an offer from the manufacturer for the use of the Count’s name and a pro- posal from a moving picture agency. - Oount Rolls in Gold. The last scene shows the Count lit- erally rolling in wealth and two men with shovels sucn as are used by labor- _ ers in Pa Kilgallen’s stee! mills are _ keeping the Count from being buried by. a flood of gold. | he gets out of the pile and goes Sk a tandem auto, the first ma- aie himself and the second for the Driving very slowly “up Michigan ave- ‘nue they in front of the Kilgallen band behind which men announcing where and the y the money want to call it “The 4 t's Revenge.” What Pa will call ft when he sees it'will probably be un- table.

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TOBE RED Afternoon as Date After Citizen’s Request. POLITICIANS | DOUBTFUL Do Not Relish Idea of Voting Themselves Out of Power, as Provided in New Scheme. At the request of the Central Trades and Labor Union, the Building Trades Council, the Missouri Referendum League, the Single Tax League and the Federated Civic Bodies, the Committee on Election and Registration of the House of Delegates has set for 2 p. m. next Tuesday a public hearing on the bill fixing Jan. 81 as the date of a special election for the adoption or re- jection of the new charter. was presented by J. P. McDonough of the Central Trades and Labor Union, P dg. Coughlin of the Bullding Trades Coun- cil, Stephen Ryan and EB. H. Beck of the Single Tax League, and Sheridan Web- eter of the Federated Civic Bodies. To gain time for the consideration of the bill the House of Delegates has recalled its concurrence in the Council's oint resolution under which it was pro- sed to adjourn from Dec. 2 until Jan. not take final action on the. bill until after Tuesday—either at a special meet- ing or the regular sitting Friday. Unless the Council meets on three con- secutive days to hurry thé bill to pas- ‘sage, it will not become operative until Jan. B. Both Republican and Demoratic poli- ticlans are beginning to question the wisdom of voting themselves out of power by adopting the new charter with its provisions for fewer elective offi- cers, civil service, centralization of au- thority in the Mayor, abolition of the House of Delegates and the elimination of all wards and their committeemen. RUNAWAY FREIGHT CARS HIT TROLLEY, 12 PERSONS HURT None in Passenger Car Escapé Injury in Wreck After Coup- ling Bréaks. SARATOGA, N. Y., Dec. 17.—Nearly a dozen passengers were injured on the Hudson Valley Railroad north of Schuy- lerville early today when two freight cars broke from an electric engine and crashed into a passenger trolley which was followed closely. None of the passengers escaped injury, although there were no fatalities. The wreck caught fire from a coal stove in one of the freight cars and the three cars were destroyed. The injured included the Rev. Dr. Daniel Hoffman Martin of Glen Falls, seriously hurt in- ternally; James Nichols of Thompson, arm broken; Robert Tucker, Greenwich, arm and leg Broken; Daniel Salvey, Thompson, leg broken.

At Work on the Census. The labor involved in the compilation and tabulation of the. statistics of the 12th Census which is now proceeding at the Census Office is one which the av- erage person cannot realize. The me- chanical means at hand for performing this greater labor are far mory efficient than has ever been the case in the past. a is the Remington-Wahl Adding and Subtracting Typewriter. More than a score of these machines are used in the ‘recapitulation of statistics of the present census. They are remarkable machines in their capacity, every one of them being equipped to add any- where from 10 to 16 separate columns on the same page. As the adding is done as a part of the writing, the oper- ation of these machines affords a tre- mendous saving both in time and labor. SISTER OF STIRLING . PRICE DIES Mrs. R. R. Brown Succumbs to Blood Poisoning. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 17.—Mrs. R. R. Brown, a sister of Gen. Stirling Price, former Governor of Missouri, died at her home in West Seattle yesterday of blood poisoning resulting from a scratch on her hand from a splinter four days ago. Mrs. Brown was a native of Georgia and her husband, as well as her broth- er, served in the Confederacy during the Civil War. She was 65 years old.

Reception and Fall for Employes of - Barr’s, The Wm. Barr Dry Goods Co. will give a complimentary reception and ball to employes this evening at Armory Hall, Grand and Manchester avenues. It lg expected that at least 8000 wil) be the best dancers. This is the first of a series of similar affairs to be held dur- ing the winter, others having already been planned for Jan. 10 and Feb. 15.

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Ee - SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1 1, ER 17, 1910. Is DU Wiki, leg —Baroness Hengeimuller, Wife of Austrian Ambassador to the U. S.. “VIENNA IS CHARMING” —Mrs. R. C. Kerens, Wife of American Ambassador to Austria.

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By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Mrs. Richard C. Kerens of St. Louis, wife of the American Ambassador to Austria, was one of the passengers on the Maure- tania on the sensational trip across the Atlantic with its big Christmas mail, and is now stopping at the Plaza to rest before proceeding to St. Louis to spend Ohristmas with. her children. Mrs. Kerens, ordinarily a good sailor, suffered considerably on the trip over, which was perhaps the roughest in the experience of the big Cunarder. Ambassador, Kerens had intended to return with her and had got as far as Calais, when he got a message from the State Department which made it necessary for him to return to Vienna, and Mrs. Kerens does not know as yet whether he will be able to get home in time for Christmas. sail today he cannot get here in time, so will not come. If he cannot In that event Mrs Kerens will make only a brief stay, returning to Vienna early in January, but if the Ambassador is able to get Mrs. Kerens is delighted with her experiences at the Austrian court. She cannot speak too highly of the reception accorded her and the Ambassador in social and court circles. She says Mr. Kerehs is as pleased with his experi- ences there as she has been. “I can assure you,’’ she said to a Post-Dispatch correspondent, ‘‘that there are no finer people anywhere than those I have met in Vienna. The Emperor is a grand character and is deeply beloved by his people. Every ex- perience I have had in Vienna has been most pleasing. The people there are more than gracious; they have that fine quality of kindness and cordiality which maxes new friends feel like old ones. “Of course, most of our time in Vienna has beeri out of the regular season. When we reached there I had thought the season would be entirely over, but soon after I arrived Col. Roosevelt came, and the reception accorded him led to many functions which enabled us to meet a great miany people in a short’ time that in the ordinary course of s0- ABERNATHY WILL CATCH WOLF BAREHANDED 10. WIN $5000 Roosevelt’s Friend Will Repeat Hunting Feat for New York Millionaire. LAWTON, Ok., Dec. 17.—‘‘Catch ‘em Alive” Jack Abernathy, former United States Marshal for Oklahoma, will soon demonstrate to a New York millionaire and a party of friends that it is possible to catch wolves alive with His bare hands The wealthy men offered Abernathy $6000 for such an exhibition and he accepted This information e to O. 8. Shep- pard, chief of the Lawton Fire De- partment and an o]d friend of the ex- Marshal. Abernathy requested Shep- pard to send him six of his best wolf dogs for use in hunting the wolves. Abernathy excited the admiration of Col. Roosevelt by his peculiar method of catching wolves, and the latter descrioced the feat in’ his magazine articles.

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home they will both remain longer. cial life we might not have met until the opening ofthe current season, and that made things exceedingly pleasant for us. Won't Discuss Incidents. “The etiquette of the Austrian court is extremely rigorous, but one who has lived much in Washington and has be- come acquainted with the customs of the diplomatic circle there cah soon fit in very readily to'the customs of the Viennese court. And then everyone there is so helpful and kind that one must necessarily feel at home from the very beginning. “The whole official circle Was ver} cordial] in its treatment of us, aside from the formal and more or less official relations that necessarily exist between an Ambassador and his wife and the functionaries of the court to which he is accredited. “Then Vienna itself is a charming city and most interesting. Its life is a mix- ture of the artistic and the picturesque, and there seems an endless variety. of ‘things to please or entertain.”’ When it came to discussing any of the little personal incidents of her ex- periences with court life, Mrs. Kerens begged off. “The only experiences I had,’’ she said, ‘‘were those one is accustomed to have in social life and, of course, couldn’ talk of them. The responsibilities of an Ambassador extend to his wife, but-you can just say that in every way, every experience I have had has been as pleas- ant ‘as it could be.”’ | enna >.

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Leave-to-day 8:45 A. M. ©) SRRRIS and Eye Royal Lady of Vienna Court Says She. Does Same. Things -_Each Year and Longs for Society in New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—'‘Washington life is dull and stupid; society there is provincial; to get to New York is heaven to me,” said the Baroness Hen- gelmueller, wife of the dean of the Washington diplomatic corps, who was raised on Thursday by the Austrian Emperor to the highest royal court po- sition—that of Royal] Lady of the Pal- ace. The Baron and his wife are guests at the St. Regis and are here on a holiday shopping trip. “We have lived in Washington 16 years; I have done each year the same things with practically the same peo- ple,”’ she went on, when asked her opin- ion of social life at the capital. ‘*Here in New York formal calling and tea taking are practically eliminated be- cause there are sO many more inter- esting things to do. Since Presiden: Taft and Mrs. Taft are in the White House, the social atmosphere is some- what changed. They are Western, you see. ‘Mr. Roosevelt and his family were New Yorkers, and many of the most distinguished people from this city, who do not know the Tafts, used to be pres- ent at the White House functions. The Vanderbilts, the Webbs, the Sloans and others often visited Washington and were present at the diplomatic and White House functions. “IT cannot say that Washington social life compares with that of. foreign so- cial centers, but New York society is just as interesting and charming as that of Vienna, Berlin or any of the other “great cities of the Continent. “Logically, of course, Washifgton should be the social center of the coun- try. It never will be, however, for no city oan take the honors away from New York. The atmosphere is differ- ent and a social climate is as hard to change as any other kind.’’ The Baroness speaks English, French. German and Russian fluently. f Pconvincing simplicity and before

"TOOK N’ $600,000 Gave $1800 to Save Heathen} and Kansas Gity Men Eager- ly Bought Stock. HOPE TO*+ GET EVEN “Brother” Blanchard Is Gone and His Copper Land Is Sold in Bankruptcy.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 17.—This city has always liked a “live wire” promoter, one who can go out and get money where money isn’t if nec- essary, but Ben Blanchard played the game too strong. Fifty business men of this city who have invested 5600,000 have hopes of getting their noney back eventually, for the min- ing property in Arizona has been sold in bankruptcy procedings and uurchased for their own protection ‘y the local men. Now they are man- iging the copper mine and hope to get even. They will be mighty glad -2 wet back what they put in and will willingly sacrifice their hopes of gi- gantic profits. Before they bought stock all the local men who could go vere taken down to see the property nd the reports they brought back were glowing. Around the Iron King mine Blanch- ird built a village for the nrtiners, every house painted white and every roof red, something new for an Ari- ona mining camp and very effective -2 the eye Expensive stamping ma- hinery brought from California wculd not work, however, and there Vas an assessment, which was the eginning of the @nd. Preached to the Miners, In a church at the camp Blanchard ised to preach eloquently to the auiners on the higher life. Once, in Kansas City, he was in church, a stranger, when the minis- .er was trying to raise enough money .f send a missionary abroad. The contributions camesso_ slowly uinister was discouraged and about v give up when Ben Blanchard arose ind with the seductive voice that charmed, so many steck, asked how much it would re- quire to put this missionary on. the neathen firing line and keep her there ‘or a year. With a weary voice the pastor named the amount. “Only that much?” asked Ben. “Why, if that is all that’s worrying you come here and get the money. { believe I have that much in my pocket and if I haven't I'll give you « check for the balance.” Nets a Good Day’, Profit. “Will the kind brother please come forward: asked the pastor, while the congregation struggled to get a glimpse vf the man with the money. Innate modesty kept Blanchard from going forward until three pillars of the church came to his seat and escorted him to the pulpit. There he made an eloquent speech on the happiness it gave hint to be able to send a missionary among the heathen, not neglecting to tell his audience how éasy it was for him to do this because providence had been kind enough to put him in pos- session of a copper mine in. Arizona rich enough to send missionaries to the furthermost ends of the earth and keep them there till all the heathen had seen the light. . Has Gone Far await. It was a notable effort, deliv sred with the congregation was through with Blanch- ard he had sold $8000 of stock. The expense to Blanchard of sending the missionary was $1800, so that the day’s work showed a good balance in his favor. Lhis was the beginning of the Blanch- ard mining boom and hundreds of Kan- sas Cityans joined his procession to the goal of wealth. Blanchard has gone to London and all} nis local investors appear to be satisfied to allow him to rem that far away.

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Controversy Is Expected to Re- sult in the City Getting Nothing. A bill contemplating an aggregate in- crease of $5000 In various license taxes, after having been passed by the Coun- cil and amended in the House, is the subject of controversy between the Council and House of Delegates. As the measure left the Council, it provided for increases that would have yielded about $40,000 a yedr more than the present schedule. The delegates cut the Councils figures and in addition voted dowh an emergency clause that would have made the bill an ordinanse in time ¢0 authorize the collection of next year’s licenses according to the proposed rates. Amendments Declined, When the House's amendments came before the Council for concurrence Fri- day, they were declined, without any mention of thanks, and a e¢onference committee was appointed to persuade the House to accept the original sched- Although Councilman Espenschied suggested that it was better to take $6000 this year than lose all in an at- tempt to, get $40,000, he could find no one to agree with him. Councilman Schneiderhahn opposed this policy of compromise and declared it must “be $40,000 or nothing.” The city probably will get nothing. Without an emergency clause the bill caanot become effective until 10 days after it is signed by the Mayor. Next Tuesday is the last day on which the Mayor could sign the measure with the hope of making it operative this year. Tuesday is also the day on which the conference committee\4s to meet, with little hope of harmonious action.

} Fore Wealthy mene mous as Good Dresser, E | came Demented on St set, et staedt, who died of paresis B : ernoon at the State Hospital for ¢i | sane at Farmington, where | _ under treatment for several probably take place Monday from the Wagoner Chapel, seat street. The body ts expected to 2 Aiacovered and his: wiles ean otini She had Aim declared insane an was sent to the Farmington a Mrs. von Wedelstaedt was his : wife. He married her three yess She was Mrs. Margaret iT Chicago. When he lost his x ) - . took a position In a downtown dé ment store. mecentis: elie: aes eee friends at Kansas City, Mo. His wife was a Miss Garth. She left. hii $60,000 when she died. Her mother, M L. D. Garth, lives at* 4601 wet | avenue. Two weeks ago Von ¥% condition became worse. Tén daca his mind became a blank. During & last week of his Si-we Wr to leave his bed. —

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ASTI FETES Entertainments and Music Be- sides Sacred Services Will Be Had During Week. EXTRA CHOIR OFFERING Three Bodies Will Sing Venite Adoremus at St. Alphonsus’ Catholic Church.

Preparations for special Christmas services are being completed by the pastors of the various churches. Aug- mented choirs will render special music in most of the churches at the morning and evening servicea, Christmas enter- tainments «will be given by many of the Sunday schools the last of the week. Bishop Tuttle will preach Christmas sermons at Christ Church Cathedral, Thirteenth and Locust streets, at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m., on Christmas day. There will be special sacred music at both services. The regular holiday festivities of the parish will begin on the night of Dec. 26 with an entertainment for news- boys at the parish house. Tuesday night the Sunday school festival will be held and the Woman’s Club will give a reception Wednesday night. Thursday night the Girls’ Club will entertain. The choir, under the direction of EF. M. Read, will have a special musical program at morning and evening serv- ices at the Grand Avenue Presbyterian Church. Appropriate holiday sermons will be preached by the ‘Rey. John F. Cannon. The Christmas entertainment of the Sunday school will be held next Thursday night. Each class and society will bring gifts to the poor, following a custom established by that church several years ago. The Christmas story will be shown by stereopticon pictures. High Masses to Be Read. Solemn high masses Will be said in the various Catholic churches, followed by the Benediction of the Blessed Sac- rament. musio and Christmas » carols. Daily prayers will be said during the novena preparatory to the feast of Christmas at St. Francis Xavier's Church. Two solemn high masses will be said Dec. 2% at St. Alphonsus’ Church. One will begin at 5 a. m. and the other at 10:30 @. m. The boys’ sanctuary choir will sing ‘“‘Adeste Fideles” before each mass. The “‘Venite Adoremus” for three choirs will be sung by the choir proper, the choir of children and the choir of angels in the distance. High masses will be said Christmas day at St. Francis Xavier's Church. The solemn benediction in the evening will be under the direction of Prof. D. A. Delisle. Special musical services will be given at 4 a. m., 5:30 a. m., and 10:30 a. m. Solemn high masses at 5 a. m. and 8 a. m. will be celebrated at St. Vincent de Paul’s Church by the Rev. Father F. IV. Nugent. At the early mass the mu- sic will be under the direction of the Christian Brothers’ choir and the Sisters of St. Joseph and 8t. Vincent Four Christmas day masses will be celebrated at St. Rose’s Church, Good- fellow ‘and Maple avenues, of which the Rev. Father J. J. MoGlynn is pastor. The services will be at 4:30 a. m., 6 a. m., 7:30 a, m., and 8:15 a. m., and 10:30 a. m. The first will be a high mass with sermon. *The solemn high mass at 10:30 a. m. will be followed by the Benedic- tion of the Blessed Sacrament. A Pas- sionist Father from the Normandy Re- treat will preach at the last mass. y x Southwest, to take eavebbinrs of the tr excursion via Frisco on or Zess : . 20th—Just right 0 go home for Xmas ‘ou can ibis alee deint (2. Texas and Okia- ho to many Ar! an ML VCH | ESS than r of the round trip a FRISCO . ‘I So ae Or \) SeeeeeeeT ea eee ee eee S 25.00 i | Cee een 25.00 Me reere eee eee es eeenene ae mt ee eee eee ee et eases 05 . Saat Meet eet eee eeterteeses ey nett ott 14.25 aa *Peeeeeeeeaee DPR eee ree eee eeeeeeeeene eee ee ee eee eee eee eee Pee ee eeeeer eee eeee oints in Missouri, other. States at r fare—here area from St. Louis: 23,75 kets good in any These tick of the 7 Frisco's ‘in through treina leaving St. Louis dally 9» = m, he Texas. at 2:86 The Dm der Ohitkone leavin 8:46 1. ro Limited, leaving at gta D>. m, ares, Limited. ee ie ae Express, Arkansas and eee reece pointe; ing, chair” cre te _fouRist. SLEEPERS j who followed her pitiful story. The choirs will render special aT We'S | SAVED ALONE BY NAZIMOVA'S ART It Has Brilliancy and One Big Moment, but Js Faulty in Construction. FALLEN WOMAN ° THEME The Old Teaching of Rehabilita- tion Refused Is Emphasized * Anew. By RIPLEY D. SAUNDERS. dé HB FAIRY TALE,” the first ex- T ez of the work of Arthur Schnitzler, the now famous Austrian dramatist, to be presented in St. Louls, was Mme. Nazimova’s offer- ing at the Sam 8S. Shubert Theater last night. Again, as in Ibsen's “Little Hyolf’ and “A Doll’s House” earlier in the week, Nasimova distinguished herself by a character interpretation of the rarest insight and truthfulness, her role in this newly seen play being that of a hapless young actress who cannot escape the consequences of a sin of her dawning womanhood. The Fanny Theren of her last night’s playing was a figure of fateful tragedy that touched deeply the hearts of those It is the old story of the human refusal to re- habilitate the woman who has once gone astray. The fact that God Himself has pardoned her, saying, “Go, and sin no more,’’ seems to have no bearing upon her case as affecting the verdict of her fellow men and women. Damned Fanny Theren is by her one misstep, and damned she remains, even in the eyes of the man whom she truly and purely loved and who, at one pe- riod of the Schnitzler drama, promised to be strong enough to uplift and hold her secure in his own confident and protecting love. The ‘fairy tale of the fallen woman who reforms” swayed this man’s soul to the point of ‘absolute as- surance of its unreality and tmpossibil- ity. It made inevitable his ultimate re- jection of Fanny as a thing unclean and not to be tolerated in any guise of de- cent womanhood. * Deep in the shadow of this blight at the first curtain’s rise, and never there- after emerging from it, the portrait necessarily drawn by Mme. Nazimova was of almost unrelieved gloom, its one brief lightening being at that wistfully joyous moment when, even but for a little time, Fanny Theren had some rea- Son to hope for deliverance from the curse through the seeming courage ‘of Theodore Denner, the man of her faith- ful loving. . In this little period of respite Nazi- ly came that gripping scene of the sec- ond act when, following an appalling-* ly frank discussion of her problem, the truth becomes plain to her that Theo- dore Denner, along with al! the rest of the world, sees only the moral leper’s brand upon her breast. The play ,then moves unbrokenly to its close of keen- est poignancy. Possessing a first act made delightful by shrewd character-drawing, clever lines of somewhat tronic humor, a.skill- ful foreshadowing of the story’s relent- less logic and an acute exciting of the audience’s sympathy and interest, the Schnitzler play then moves to its sec- ond and greatest emotional act, that where, as I have already sald, Fanny begins to learn how little she has to ex- pect at the hands of the man from whom she hopes so much. Here, however,. and in despite of its tial revelation of Theodore Denner’s littleness in his surrender to worldly convention, the play begins to reveal its one defect, that of becoming a’ thesis, an almost academic argument of its own themé, rather than maintaining its vital original form of a drama in which the theme receives its treatment through the medium of vivid action alone. This defect is heightened and made more obvious with the story’s further progress, the last act becoming weari- some wecause of its sustained reitera- rtion of arguments for and against the social saving of its heroine. As a conse- quence, slowly but surely, one feels one’s interest flagging, the closing ca- tastrophe having long been seen ag in- evitable—and the last curtain fall upon a drama from which the element of sus- pense, 80 priceless in dramatic value, had been eliminated many, many mo- ments before its appointed time. This, of course, is fatal. It is Nazt- Tale” from unreserved and instant con- demnation as falling to present an ex- ample of skillful drama worthy to rank with the works of Ibsen, Sudermann and Hauptmann, abreast of whom we were told, thig Arthur Schnitzler of Vi- enna had the right to stand. Mr. Brandon Tynan as Theodore /Den- ner gave the one disappointing portrayal in a vein of hair-tossing melodrama and ultra-emphasis that direfully weakened its appeal. Some finely commendable work was done by other members of the company. The cast included Mr. L. Race Dunrobin as Leo Mildner, Mr. Fred Tiden ds Robert Well, Mr. Reginald Mason as Dr. Frederick Witte, Mr. Or- lando Daly as August Witte, Mr. Thom- as Russell @s Berger, Mr. Edward R. Mawson as Albert Wandel, Mr. William Hasson as Moritzki, Miss Gertrude some as Mrs. Theren, Mies Marie Al- len as Ninnette, and Miss Elsie Esmond as Emmy Werner. “A Doll’s House” is the offering at today’s matinee. “The Fairy Tale” will be gepeated this evening. Coren mires 9 actuation seem De Corn and. Bunion Remedy.

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. tist, it meant that the burden lafd on & _ heer poet of Oregon, stand for the high- a eet Away «ry people by what lies concealed deep- ___—s studied all with respect. He would have ‘more deeply important than its expres- gion. Even if he had found the best _ $m all is lacking in strength and skill for its own highest expression, he would have thought of it all as prophecy, sure - t0 be realized from the life of the , eee whole pedple in high and still higher ee of Simpson’s (The Gold-Gated West) are lyrical. The epic or narrative poem ~" *# represented by “Lincoln in the Black- ‘. f. ea _ fellow a Mes ¢ * « * G ing H. Revell Co.), in which Isaac C. Ae s 4 as he king from the common routine of =. rag ‘of Northe ' ‘Jyrical odes to express the spirit of io. tells again to suit his own pur- > * . r ‘ r i N LL LEN A LEELA LENE LEAL LANL NE TR aa ESR ty HEU fats ee ut ao _ SATURDAY & EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1910.

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1, one still may sell in 10. With ~Daries Follen Adams among these 10, his fir edition of “Yawcob Strauss. and Other Poems” (Lothrop, Lee & herd Co.) is secure of its place as | staple. We need humor as breakfast bacon in a life which possibly be al] cake and confec- tione'ty. Charles Follen Adams, with an ear the music of English which might have meant such lyrics as “Hark, Hark/the Lark at Heaven’s Gate Sings,” has kind and cendescending enough to give us the staples of life which we ad and pay for as readily almost as we do for breakfast bacon. Let us re- Joice with him and thank him. He will wet né penny for his pains in pleasing us which he has not deserved and earned, witH at least seven of these poets, Ameri born, and one of these vol- untarily expatiated, at least, eight of them ¢@xpress the American spirit, as if they were “to the manner born.” At least one may be still British, but none write “American” than those whose jnames show that they have no British, blood in them. This leaves for the last the. poorest poet, the most competent artist and the most eloquent writer of the 10. The “Poems}| of Max Efirmann” (Dodge Co.) do not fisually cross the line which di- vides thie highest art of prose eloquence from thie art of poetry. No doubt’ he may crops it if he pleases. But let that ass. “Max Efirmann” is as great a master ih his 7 and for his purposes, of Saxon-English as Daniel Webster or Wendell (Phillips was for his. He is the most forg:ib¥™ of'gll the orators of pres- ent day ton, If we were filled, pressed | then filed again until lee were running jover with all the delusions which, inf the nature of things, belong to all political reyolt, he would stil] be “first am@ng his peers’’ in the eloquence of its expfession. Witness this, which is eloquence} at its highest: “THE GREATER HEROISM.” Work as if] thy task were made for thee; yas nursed into literature by ourl woman, in her lonely cab- .her maternal sou] entering his as her fingers traced his future in the ashes of her hearth. The mother cf such a son justifies the pride of his sons and his sister, who have now col- lected and published his poems through the J. B. I#ppincott Co. of Philadsl- phia. Neither he nor what he has writ- “ten is likely to be forgotten while the great tragedy and the undying epic of the life of the Oregon trail is remem- bered. Whether his poems belong to immortal art or not, he, his feelings and his failures, his struggles and his Successes belong to immorta) history. Only the powerful historical imagination can now picture what his life meant. as one of those who were first in the struggle of the last generation, which tamed the wilds of our North Pacific ‘Coast. As their life entered his, he ex- pressed it, now in the mode of Poe, and now in that of Burns. Sometimes he followed Horace far off. At last, he fell captive to Swinburne, as so many others have done. But he makes no failure and achieves no success under the control of other poets, alien to his own best, th which there fs not lucid demonstration of the spirit in which ais mother stooped to write destiny in the ashes of her hearth as she taught him to spell. As the highest art for those who are born to speak Pinglish lies in learning to control it through the alphabet for all its purposes of prose and poetry, this was the beginning of the highest education in art. Poets must be made into sts, after being born poets. As his began to make him an ar-

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if riches are dishonorable verty withthe dignity of virtue. dine sumptuously, eat thy crust; Let love befthy guide and justice thy God— Not for thy@ lf alone but for all men! Pursuing the-te things, thou wilt be misjudged And in the! jloaming of thy days, forgotten: him was of using the highest powers of | Then uncom jaining, lie thou down at even, the English language to express the highest powers of the American spirit, So far now, when both are dead, this Missour! mother and her son, the plo- Cheered by e love in thy heart And by the jfull-grown soul of thy charity; Thou hast won the heroic battle. Yet not stdirped the sweet earth with blood: But in the garden of love and sacrifice Hast thou planted serenely growing flowers, That shall still blow when thou dost slumber In.the shadow land of dreamless sleep. In the spirit of the Missouri woman, stooping to jwrite in the ashes to teach her son the beginning of art for Oregon, there was the deep feeling. of the inex- pressible which yet to be expressed in life and in| words which fit life. “If these words! of Ehrmann defining the “greater herbism’” . were cut upon her tombstone, What more could this age: say for the spirit of life which the high- fest art does \itself fullest honor in ex- pressing? i. ‘est Arherican spirit which the highest art can express. His book of verses is one of 10, pub- lished lately. Their best is inspired by the faith art this country needs, and deeply needs, to have great things said in a truer, greater and more memorable they have yet been said in r country. Taine, judging ev-

any o est under its surface, would have spirit in all as even “THE CASTLE BUILDERS.” ‘N this book Charles Clark Munn gives what perhaps is as true a picture of lovemaking d court- ship as has been written in the recent past. Mr. Mumn does not surround his hero and, heroine with an | idealistic halo, but his {love scenes at \time ap- proach, the prosaic until the reader, if the reader has ever made love, finds that the heroine in'“The Castle Builders” is wooed in much the same fashion that any one of our common, garden va- riety of love affairs is conducted. Mr. Munn is’ somewhat given to re- trospection of his own work—stopping and summing up what he has alread@y told, and in that way the book is drawn out to an unusual length. But the cen- tral figure, Uncle Asa, well repays one for any other matter that might prove uninteresting. — Uncle Asa is one of those few who makes one feel better to have known, even in a boo His simple homilies are not platitudes and his genia) op- timism might almost warm the heart of the Sphinx. Uncle Asa is one who can hear larks singing in the sky in the midst of a hurricane; can hear the ripple of a brook in the boom of an angry ocean and,.see nothing but the (Loth-

- Among these 10 volumes the impulses & War’ (The Sigma Publishing , St. Louis). Its author, ‘Theophilus ,sdiddiing,” might well have given his -workers of epic art the encour- t and countenance of his own “hanks. epélied out bravely and in full, “to show that he fears neither for him* i sieht nor for them any reputation high or low, whith any poet may deserve, Another epic is “The Pilgrims” (Flem- Kettler uses Miltonic blank verse and "14 years of the history of the Pil- grim Fathers."" The motive, but not the measures of the Byronic epic ap- : og the selections from the writings His publishers are Mur- obolden rift ina thunder cloud. Jacobs &/rop, Lee & meh sel Co.). story | | mone ee tary tales of the oldest folk- | “THE VICAR. F THE MARCHES.” Europe, to express the ERY delig’ tful is it to encounter t of the viking’ in an epic which, V such a picturesque romance ae {s te of its surface, he intends for “The Vicar of the Marches,” in e of the modern world, as it is} which Clinton Scollard, himself a poet, tells a poetic grippingly dramatic story of medievi! times in the most cap- ; tivating vein of'surrender to the story's Si tes ces ot takapeare ant own colorful atmoapphere. ‘English Bible. The complete} The scene of . Weollard’s moving nie ste + of this “Saxon-Einglish’” ts a/| tale is the Italy of thoze days when the “ education, of which Mr. Peterson | black-browed and sinister Exzzelina de in reach, In “Judith.” a poetic 4 Romano, tyrant and wholesale murder- : & * A ¥ - yi age ¥ « hoody roe * is ts in ys se Sos i q of we ey * eh : 4 Ff: 2 4 i ; F i TP 2 -. | “ : ae * y | | Picture (‘‘People of Position;’’ by Stanley Review. Hyatt. The Wessels & Bissell Co.)

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- “CHILD PROBLEMS.” i ROF. GEORGE B. MANGOLD, as- 7 sociate director of the St. Louis School of Social Economy and well known as a popular and chautau- quq lecturer on social questions, has written ‘a book in which he calls the attention of his readers to the child problems of our time. The volume is part of the series known as “The Citi- zen’s Library,’’ edited by Prof. Ely of Wisconsin University. It is divided into five parts, as follows: Infant and child mortality, recent aspects of educational reform, child labor, the’ delinquent child, the dependent and neglected child. s Dr. Mangold starts out by saying that “society is slowly beginning to realize that child problems are the greatest of our time.’’ To make society realize fully he introduces facts, statistics, argu- ments and suggestions for practical re- form. In the part dealing with mortality Dr. Mangold makes it quite clear that low- ering mortality rates is a better pre- ventive of ‘‘race suicide’’ than clamor ing for higher birth rates. He believes that the human race would be benefited were it possible for the mother to con- centrate her energies on the care of a few healthy children, instead of spend- ing her substance in bearing children only to bury them before they live to become economically useful. He be lieves that a child which does not reach maturity is a loss to society. He therefore prefers fewer births and still fewer deaths Instead of many births and many deaths of infants. In the second part Dr. Mangold points out the changes in ideas and ideals of education. He knows the many agen- cies working for the betterment of child life; thus preparing the way for more efficient generations. He favors indus- trial training and instruction in the laws of sex as helpful reforme. In telling of child labor, Dr. Man- gold shows the harm done by harness- ing the child to the wheel of labor. He shows what has already been done to- ward putting a stop to it In this coun- try and abroad, and suggests further reforms. In each case he suggests re- forms’ that can be carried out with very little difficulty today, and is careful not to ask for reforms which cannot be ap- plied immediately. In the part devoted to the delinquent child the author shows the causes of delinquency, gives a histor,:of the Ju- ventle Court: dnd the probation system, and points out the value of this work. Here; too, he makes suggestions for pos- sible improvements and shows how both juvenile courts and probation can be made more effective. The part devoted to the dependent and neglected child gives the reader an in- sight into this important problem. It appears to be a greater problem. than many persons even suspect. From the facts marshalled by Dr. Mangold one can easily see that the handling of this problem means either good citizens or criminals and inefficients. He shows’ that where the parent fails to do his duty by the child {ft is the business of tthe State and nation to take the place of th ‘parent. To what extent and with

thinking about them carefully. There is nothing technical about the book. The statistics used are so arranged as to be palatable even to those who are not in ‘love with figures. “Child Problems,”’ substantially bound in half leather, contains an extensive bibliography for those who care to fol- low the preblems outlined in the book, and a complete index. (The Macmillan Co., New York.) o a ees “THE SLOWCOACH.” O you know what a caravan is? We apply the word to an Ori- ental convoy of travelers and merchandise; but the English use it for a@ house on wheels, such as gypsies travel about the country in and travel- ing photographers use. Edward Verrall Lucas has written a young folks’ story about such a caravan which was given to a widow with many children by a mysterious friend. The widow did not know where they were to spend the summer and was ir despair over her inability to find an appropriate place when the caravan arrived. The title of Mr. Lucas’ story is “The Slowcoach,” which igs the name the children give to their house on wheels. He tells very delightfully, but in the prolix style an- ciently thought necessary for young folks’ books, the tale of the children’s summer wanderings about England. (Macmillan.) ‘“SCOTTTE AND HIS LADY.” és DIVIDE people,” said Scottie’s mother, “into four classes, the wilfully cruel, the carelessly neglectful, the well-meaning but ignor- ant and the loving and devoted. These last understand us. People are learn- ing, I think, that we are eager to be kind to them, if they will only be a little kind to us. So always take it for granted that people mean well, and even if they disappoint you, give them another chance.” That is good advice for any dog to follow. Some equally good lessons for human beings are contained in Mar- garet Morse’s entertaining tale of a Scotch collie, which is the property of an affectionate mistress, but is stolen and goes through various hardships and adventures, including a close shave at vivisection. -Four pictures by Harold M. Brett are reproduced im tint. Cpeneh- ton, Mifflin & Co.) Cost Se Per Box; You Save $1.95 in Doctor’s bills. Red Cross + Cough Drops

: TEMPLE THURSTON does not sound Irish and “Who’s Who’’ © gives no support to the suspl- cion, yet one cannot help thinking that he is a “recessive” and that the ances- tot whom he most resembles bore a name strangely like Patrick O'Leary. “The Greatest Wish in the World’ is the title of Mr. Thurston's latest novel, the hero of which is Father Patrick O’Leary—the finest figure of a priest in the literary recollection of this re- viewer—a golden monument of goodness who carried his creed so far that he would lie his soul into Purgatory rather than hurt the feelings of the humblest and the least; who would “sooner give Benediction for one ‘poor rogue of a fella whe has got himself into trouble than Mass” for half the comfortable gentry of London.” “Imagine the sound of the sonorous Latin phrases’ of the Benediction re- peated by Father O’Leary “in a broad and beautiful brogue. It was like an organ with a sob in it! His singing! That was execration! Every note he foully mutilated with a benign expres- sion on his face. It was a torture of the Inquisition! Brutal murder done in all the fanaticism of faith! Only the heart of him sang in tune. It was that after all’ which reached the hearing of God.”’ . “Sure ye can tell me,”” he would say softly to these who were heavy laden with big or little sins, and they would pour out their heart’s secrets to him, receiving whimsical absolution that healed and @uoyed and braced: “Sure I don’t call that a He at all. ‘Tis only a misstatement of what might Have been the truth if it hadn’t been the oth- er thing.”’ Glory be, if you are not Irish and have no drop of the Irish blood in you, or if you are of those revivalists who have grown so wildly fanatical they canfiot bear a bit of the truth about the consistent inconsistency of the best members of that too richly endowed people, do not read after this E. Temple Thurston. He would shock you sadly. |He has an Irish way of telling a story, digressing endlessly and yet in the end making every digression count for him as a virtue. There’s a Mrs. Parfitt in the story and it is one of the geod Fater’s mira- cles that he discovers she has a heart. She is his housekeeper and when Peggy Bannister comes to live in the presby- tery she calls that lady Mummy Par- fitt even as she calls the priest Daddy O’Leary. Peggy is a waif left on the altar steps by her mother, who, op- pressed by sin and no food, thus in- sures her offspring good care while she is away the longest road. Sure you'll’ love Péggy when you see her “‘tumbling down that narrow garden path between the avenues of roses and twining a tan- glied mass of legs and arms’ about her Daddy O'Leary. She is a fine child, who gives to the sweet souled priest what was taken away from him when, his love having gone into religion, he took upon himself the vows of priest- hqod—and that was the “Greatest Wish in the World:’ parenthood. To follow the life in the presbytery is to add a beautiful chapter to your ex- rperiences of people:, Every personage is memorable and only oné is mean. (Mitchell Kennerly.) “THE MOTOR MAID.” N. AND A. M. WILLIAMSON, (; who wrote “Lord Loveland Dis- § covers America” and “Rosemary in Search of a Father,’’ have produced an automobile story which, unlike some motor fiction, can be enjoyed by per- sons who couldn’t afford to buy gaso- line for a car if one were given to them, and who don’t get a ride in a friend’s machine oftener than once in_ six months. Perhaps this is because the tale of tonneau and tyre (that’s the way the Williamsons spell tire) is told middle-aged pair honeymooning insidé the big blue car along the French Riviera, but of the seat In front, right beside the chauffeur. That was where Lys @’Angely sat. The chauffeur and the maid, who had but lately adorned much higher social stations, got on famously together, and itheir comradeship made their tour a half unconscious courtship through the most lovely scenes of Europe. These scenes, and the acquaintance which grew amid them, are woven into a most captivating romance, “Seeing beautiful things when you travel by rail,” says the maid, “lg mostly getting half a glimpse, be ginning to exclaim, ‘Oh, look there!’ then DInngrng into the black gulf of a tunnel, not coming out again until the best bit has carefully dis- prpearee behind an uninteresting, t-bodied mountain. But traveling by motor-car—oh, the difference! One sees, one feels: ones is never, never bored or impatient to arrive anywhere, * * * ery sort of work that you’ do on a motor car always seems to take exactly half an hour. You may think it will be 29 minutes, but you know in your heart ft will be 30, to the last sec- ond. The people in the glass house lost count of time through playtng some ghastly kind of double-dummy

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By MRS. HUGH FRASER The author, a sister of the late Marion Crawford, and wife of a distinguished British diplomat, has had a rarely interesting and eventful life. Her bright, fresh and entertaining recollections of notable people and events will place her memoirs high among the noteworthy books of the season. | Illustrated, 8v0, two vols., $6.08 net. il, The Blue Bird ‘By MA' RICE MASTERLINC! %@ The best loved and most widely known of all Maeterlinck’s writ- ¢ - ok ings. An ideal gift for a lover of good books. In two editions, 12m0, $1.20 net. Also New Theatre Edition, hand- x somely bound; large paper, $2.00 net. * ASConstrained Attitudes . sy rranx mM. couey 4 More delightfully pungent, pithy essays by the author of “IMAG- alls INARY OBLIGATIONS.” ary Magdalene Edwin Markham says of it: “We have had no finer piece of pure dramatic literature from the pen of Maeterlinck.” 12mo0, $1.20 net™ )What's Wrong with the World? By G. K, CHESTERTON A question of world-wide interest, brilliantly, wittily, epigrammati- cally and rebelliously discussed by one of the cleverest of modern essayists. 12meo, $1.50 "ae + The Better Man By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY An absorbing rapidly moving story of clerical life, full of human nature and heart interest. Illustrated, 12mo, $1.50 New York By MAURICE nacrencincr@gp portraits and facsimiles are wefaladltons othe work = New York Tribune: ss bat Ametionn history will 52s oat read it.” re Brg 8v0, $3.50 net, with postage. — CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS. 153 Fifth Avenue, New York. mse}

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Written testhehinbale and coming directly from the Vice-President of the Confederacy and a chief statesman of the Union before and after the war of secession, this record of a distinguished Southerner has unusual interest. Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens |

CONTAINING HIS “PRISON DIARY” EDITED AND WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION By MYRTA LOCKETT AVARY ae In the course of this daily chronicle, Mr. Stephens indulges im some per- ° sonal recollections of his youth and early Congressional life; states his’ olitical creed; gives his. estimate of various public men; sets forth - his ‘iews of Davis and Lincoln; discusses points of peting: Root which at issue with Davis; and discloses what he believed be the cate the Confederate cllapee The last pages recount hi is interview” President Johnson, in which the views of. both Bho he negro: lem, arid on negro’ suffrage before it was tried or even decids upon, are het2 Asa hen Brees? qnd a

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. AN OLD RULE. From the New York Evening Post. be It is an old rule of legislative assem- blies, as stated by Walter Bagehot: “If you want to raise a cheer, make a speech in favor of economy; if you want to make yourself unpopular, ad- vocate a particular saving.’’ A modern instance of this wise saw is afforded by the history of the attempts made in Congress to abolish needless pension agencies. In gach of the last three pen- sion bills, as passed by the House, there was @ provision cutting out all agencies save the one in Washington. The esti- mated saving is $500,000 a year. But in every cage the Senate has insisted upon keeping the superfluous agents in their jobs. It is expected to do so again as soon as the House bill gets to it, amended as it was yesterday by a clause dispensing with 17 useless agen- cies. It will be interesting to see how Senator Aldrich votes. Will he be for squandering the $600,000 in order to show that he spoke the truth when he said that Congress could save millions an- nually if it would only attend to the nation’s business in the spirit of busi- ness men?

A Prosperous 92,000,000. , From the Boston Transcript. Nowhere else in the world lve 92,000,- 000. people who have so many reasons to consider- themselves prosperous, and so many reasons for facing the future with confidence. The next census ought to show the population of the continental United States to be in excess of 100,000,- 000.

Lawmakisg Lawyers. From the Rome (N. Y.) Sentinal. There will be 82 lawyers in the new Legislature of 201 niembers. Of this number 4 are Democrats, 29 in the As- sembly and 17 in the Senate: 8 are Re-. publicans, 27 in the Assembly and 8 in the Senate, and one is dh Independence League Senator.

Mission of the Farmer. rom the Manitoba Free Press, The farmers are going to Ottawa to say what they think and ask that the things which they consider should be done shall be done. There are several matters in regard to which they will lay their views before the Government. The tariff, of course, will come up for discussion.

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. Written fot THE~ SEASON. This is the season of the year when the Intake Tower tales appear, and souls are harrowed by the life the keeper lives there with his wife. They are cut off from solid ground, with only ice upheaped around, and have to pass the winter nights with phofhographs, electric lights, good feather beds, a heating plant, a nicely furnished ) restaurant, a nickelodeon in. case they wish amusement in the place, a little kid or two to play around and drive dull care away, an observation parlor where the family can take the air, a cellar full of sauerkraut, potatoes, gingerbeer and stout, a thousand cans of ° this and that, a very warm and cosy flat. a telephone that runs ashore, a ton of bacon in the store, a cook that cannot get away, and not.a creditor: to pay. That dreadful life we read about fy0m now un- til the ice goes out, and always starts the waiting tear of sympathy this time of year. The illus- trations with the print to give the commonwealth a hint of how the. keeper is marooned—alas! how often have we swooned at sight of those gigantic floes which hold the Tower .in their throes, the show of peril all about, and the keeper's stomach sticking out so; far he cannot see his, feet, with all the things he has to eat, the sweet domestic, life he leads, the great provision for his needs, the good to- bacco that he smokes, the book of old Joe Mil- ler’s jokes, the even tenor of his life, his home, his children and his wife. All ye with tears and cries of Wow! | prepare to weep and say JUST A MINUTE. the ——— by Clark

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" ¥ _ ~ ~ 4 - ade 0 ie been Bat ae, Om € a f ) ee s f f *. £ ¥ 2) ws ? + : r $ » snted in St. Louis Early in January (and : tb Za . ~ | | el Ae, (o> , : ES Se f | Sec | irda eae ‘> Pa A PERS Chslataaiy oreeead ‘eas ‘itees rery care! Vhich Have Never Before Been Sung in This § al ote Sate aly ° ‘ity) Were Reviewed for the Post-Dispatch : By Ripley D. Saunders. 4 HARPENTIER’S **Louise,’’ ‘the beautiful mmusie-drama, which will constitute the final offering of the Chicago- Philadelphia Grand Opera Company’s engagement at the Coliseum next month, is especially remarkable in at itd appealing libretto and lovely score alike are of Charpen- sr’s creating, this richly ‘gifted favorite of Bohemian Paris semnbling Wagner in being both poet and composer. Charpentier, intensely dramatic in each of these allied fields f art, has produced in ‘‘Louise’’ a melodic story of the utmost “rm. The rise of the curtain upon its first act reveals the at- some of Louise’s father, a Parisian workingman, and the title- ¢ heroine of the opera is on the stage at the instant of the} ‘e’s opening, being seen busy at her household duties. And, too, her romance then has its immediate beginning. ough the open window comes the song of Julien, her artist r. It is love’s signal to Louise, and, when she responds to its ‘| summons, Julien begs her to fly with him, since her ents have refused him her hand. But the girl’s mother over- ars the youtig artist’s entreaties, abuses him roundly and berates. r daughter for giving heed to his wooing. _ QUISE prepares supper for herself and her parents and serves it when @ her father returns home from his day of toil. It is a simple and omely scene, and, in the course of the accompanying conversation, the ither tells Louise, affeationately, that he disapproves of Julien’s suit and 8 unwilling that she should marry the young artist. Her heart aching because of this forbidding of her love, Louise picks up the evening paper- and reads “pu Paris is eh fete.” The joyous announcement deepens the, pensiveness of her own mood. “Paris!” she

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; on whom one could lean, feeling.sure of a strong support. R. 8., 4020 Laclede av. be lenient about: little | lamities that a wite 1 an not avoid. : ment not to buy me a

He must:be a man whom I love and with whom complete companionship would exist regardless of personality, beauty, station, object, condition, wealth or poverty. E. 8., 3432 South Jefferson avenue.

My ideal is neither great nor un- heard of, neither an Apollo nor re- pulsively ugly, not wealthy nor par- ticularly poor, but a man .who can} be sympathetic toward all humanity, who is glad to help the needy, and who has a comfortable business and attends to it. A man whose judg- ment and will power are equally bal- — We. WHAT SHALL WE GIVE FATHER ror CHRISTMAS? dévotion to his family, and it is to him first and foremost that I wish a Merry

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. ae" _ ¥ marching, and keeping step to songs of their own singing, they a The mother begs Louise to return home to her father, who is dangerously iM, his heart well-nigh broken by his daughter’s flight to ‘her lover, and 80 yearnful with fatherly love that he oH frem him. a apening acene, “him, _ expense. But, when they have tired of the diversion and returned to their ‘act is, in its exquisite perspective and visual devélopment, one of the =~ ae ‘students: are followed by a company of dancers. Then come a body of e men ‘comically bestriding papier-mache horses. 2, forest-maidens, & merrily masquerading rout, untii ea Dertons are on _ the stage at once. { “Sune of it a jubilant pageant of youth and lieve and song. But the glad repeats, wistfully, to heracit as the curtain falls. _ The scene revealed at the rise of the second-act curtain, changing in its nature with the act’s progress, is said to be a masterpiece -of pictorial effectiveness, blending realism and idealism ‘with the result of. attaining overwhelming beauty. The audience sees a street at the foot of the hill of Montmartre, long after midnight, with rag-pickers, coal-gatherers, vagrants and other creeping human things of the darkness en¢éamped there in wretched squalor. The gradual dawning of day is shown. As the light comes, the night dwellers slink away. Milk-women, old-clothes-men, hucksters and the like emerge upon the scene, passing and repassing. Their | widely differing but all-distinctive cries are blended with and woven into the music of the orchestra. Then a merry throng of girls fills the stage; working girls, employed in the dressmaker’s shop on the right. Last of all comes Louise, under the watchful ‘care of her mother, who, however, * Yeaves her #t this point. As the mother departs, Julien, who has been ‘conveniently concealed, comes out and again beseeches Louise to fly with him, but the girl, though deeply loving the young artist, is obedient to her parents’ commantis and repulses him. The curtain falls, then rises on the second scene of this act, showing the interior of the dressmaker’s. shop, with Louise, although one of the ‘twenty. or more girls employed there, sitting apart from her companions, surrendered to sad thoughts of her hapless romance. A simging voice is heard from the street beneath the window. It is that of Louise’s lover. The other girls crowd around , the window, espying Julien and mocking Louise» pays no heed to their mischievous jests at her. sweetheart’s tasks, she rises and agatiad goes out, the song’s echoes irresistibly Psat in her soul. picture shown at the rising of the curtain on the opera’s third most perfect ever presented on the stage. In the foreground is seen 8 pretty little cottage that stands on the edge of the hill of Montmartre. .. Below, and extending far into the distance, one beholds the city of Paris, _ the picturesque course of the Seine, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the Pal- als de Justice, the great boulevards on the left: bank of the river, all \won- .. dertully presented. _ Here, in this little cottage, Louise and Jufn are living, happy in thetr great though unblessed love. here is impassioned scene between the two, in which is revealed the truth that Louise has surrendered herself to _ the young artist, that she is all rapt in the absorbing emotion which he has groused, that she is drinking of Love to the full, without thought of right ee uty. ‘ The night falls. Louise and Julien go within as the darkness deepens. "The great and beautiful Paris beyond the Montmartre bill its splendidly meaatand, in light; brilliant in the nearer distance, faint and more faint as the stately boulevards sweep farther and farther away. It ts the night of the students’ revel on Montmartre. ae to crown Louise, loveliest of Moutmartre’s sweethearting girls. They are com- Gay- emerge into view carrying Japanese Janterns on long wands. The Then flower-girls and The crowning of Louise is accompanied by joyous ceremonies that ‘revel is interrupted by the arrival of Louise's mother, worn and. dejected. cannot live if the girl remain -Lontse turns her back on Julien and goes with her mother: - With the curtain’s rise on the fourth act one returns to the story's e Ifuise is once mére at home. But her tather, weak and ‘frritable from illness, upbraids her for the sin of her flight to her lover, ‘end che: gives litte sign of Aad deserted Julien and foresworn her love. The mother, too, oF ; is hard d ee taunting yeas girl crneily for the shame she has broyght Louise can bear it no shibeir: Thoughts of Julien a her mind. Her love will not be denied. This is he is the tittle cottage on the edge of the oking all Paris—the cottage where she. er. The reproaches of her father and mother—is it for these’ bit- : s, that ba ‘fled from the sweet wooing of her artist-lover? | from, the streets through the window. are continually not her home. - Her hill of Montmartre, over- and Julien were so happy to- that affection for the sake of which Lotise+ HE Post-Dispatch will pay Five Dollars for the best sugges- tion, Three Dollars for the secon best suggestion and One Dollar to each, of the authors of the twelve suggestions that are con- sidered next best. Address: FATHER CHRISTMAS, POST- cscs beni E finest Christmas gift for father, I think, is a happy, kind, contented family, where every member. tries to follow the Golden Rule, ‘“‘Do unto oth- ers as you would have them do unto you.” The costliest gift amounts to nothing if it is not accompanied by love and good will, Father appreciates the| gift, be it ever so small, if it is given with a smile instead of a frown. B. M. N., 50980 Page bl., city.

waiting for him with a friendly smile, his meal ready and all sorrow put aside, that his wife and children are satisfied. L. W. 33826 N. Ninth street. If the money comes, as it often does, from father’s pocket, let’ us give him a new Christmas gift of a written promise that we will discon- tinue the practice of giving Christ- mas presents, as the Post-Dispatch 80 well explained my reason in the little verse of tonight’s issue. I will repeat it: Only tén days now till custom, Meanwhile laughing in its haunts, Causes us to give each other Something neither of us wants. Except to the children of our home —the little ones must have their Santa Claus, I:think many fathers would be happy Christmas day to know that in the future the many, many, dollars that we so uselessly spend, giving someone something that he does not want, may be used in a better cause. MRS. IL. HEIMASTER, 4874 Bircher ‘street. Give him a snow shovel. I think he will need that more than anything else on Christmas morn. F. ENRIGHT, 3648 Palm st. Give him everything he wants, and plenty of it. We could not give him as much a8 he has given us. J. Hv M., Litchfield, Il. Embroidered pillow for his den, Box of embroidered linen handkerchiefs, Six ties, black or colors, as he prefers; Slippers (crocheted), or fancy vest. Any of these gifts may be made at home by loving hands with little ex- pense. They would be appreciated by/| father more’ because of the thought and consideration long before Christmas, as it takes time to complete any of these, than for the real value of the gift. a Ty 4215A Blaine av. Father likes his whisky, He also likes his beer, I will give him some of each To keep him in good cheer. You knew this is Christmas time, Then will come*New Year, Father will swear off drinking * To please his little dear. M. A. GUERIN, 2741 Cass avenue. There is a gift within the reach of all, rich and poor-alike. The quality is the same,. no matter what the price, and that gift is kindness. Give father kind- ness. HARRY PIERCD, 4127 Red Bud av. I think the best Christmas present I could’ give father, would be to place undar his plate on Christmas morning a receipt to a bill that had been bother- ing him, and that I paid with my year’s savings. This would take no money from his pocket, and would take a great deal of worry off his mind, and he would enjoy not only his Christmas dinner but his breakfast also. M. DE PELZER, S536A Easton avenue. As I am only a. schoolgirl and as Christmas is soon near, I would suggest as a Christmas present for father a nice cup with the name father on it and a saucer so at each meal he wWould think of me. ANNA GARDNER, 719 North Leonard avenue. * Give father a thinking cap. It will comfort his weary brain. F. E. D., 3947 Washington boulevard: I expect to give father a nice pair of shoeg, two pairs of warm socks, a nice shirt and tie, etc., which he will ap- rectate more than a diamond. K. -L., 631 Collinsville av., E. St. Louts. I am a little girl, 6 years old, and I think it would be nice for me to get papa for Christmas a present. Of course I ain't large enough to give papa much of a Christmas present, but as I am but 6 years old I can give papa & good kiss and hug and remember him - wh my prayers and think what a good papa I From your little friend, AMELIA HART, 1713% Gratiot at. have. As I am only a schoolgirl and nave only Saturdays to earn a little money, therefore an expensive present would be impossible, but with miy love and best wishes a small present would give him «a Merry Christma’ and be greatly &p- preciated. 1. J. MILLER, Madison Co. *Gien Carbon, ill. I would ifke to give papa what every daughter ought to, that is something I could make home myself and that would take none of his njoney. NINA NEIL, 2359 Pope avenue. ‘I would like to be able to say: “Fa- ther, after today you don't have to get up early and go to work any more, for we have denied ourselves lots of com- ae -Oil- We are going to sive father a new clay pipe for a Christmas present be- eause his old pipe is getting old and strong. I think Ne will like this pres- ent best of all. Yours respectfully, JENNIE McCLAIN, " Festus, Mo. I suggest that father get a sur- prise bank gote out of his year’s earn- ings. MRS. E. L. REID, 2026 Carr street. The best present we can give father for Christmas would be a pair of suspenders for each pair of trousers. ‘above to take sister and me to Sunday Wouldn’t that make father happy?’ MRS. A. ROBINSON, 2755 Clark avenue. Lots of love and happiness, pleasufte and no bother, That’s what I would thtnk the best, | a present for my father. JOSEPHINE LARRIMORE, 4228 Blaine avenue. I think the best Christmas present for father would be to let him t&ke a goodly portion, of his hard-earned wages and buy what he wanted with it. I would have him enjoy it in the way he liked best. CHARLES ARDINGER, Sikeston, Mo. As Christmas comes on Sunday, may father be gifted with a .spirit from school, something he never did; and may his health be as good in the fu- ture as in.the past. VIRGIL P..DUBBS, 1517 West Billon. - Christmas is indeed a season of gifts; but it is not always in the tokens of the day that we are to look for the truest expression of its spirit. In: this joyous time I feel, first of all, for Father, who ‘would present him with a few ‘brief lany more, then give him three cheers.

Christmas, now and for years to come. This is an inexpensive -gift,. but father. won't have to pay for it. MRS. H. T. STONE, 2914 Laclede avenue. I suggest we shall give ‘father’ the chair next to ‘‘mother.’’ A. McDONOUGH, 501 Lockwood avenue, Webster Groves, Mo. My suggestion for father’s Christmas gift is this: I love him most dearly, and if I was a young man and had a good position and he had to work, I words, ‘“‘telling’’ him he need not work EARL J. FREI, 436 Blair avenue. Give one good, kind father a cheerful smile, a hearty welcomie, every day of the year, as well a8 an extra good smile on Christmas day; he will then forget that his daily work is hard and tire- some. Then present him with a use- ful article, the vefy best one circum- stances allows. has 713 N, Fifteenth street. East St. Louis, Il.

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This contest closed at noon to- day. Prizes will be awarded at an early date. O be my ideal I want, him to be strong and earnest, full of energy and that high sense of duty to all around, not satisfied to drift down the stream of frivelous content, but to make the way better for his having gone over it. I want him true as steel to his friends, generous, yet uncompromising to his foes, to all evil. The kind of man who if crushed down by fate today could see some ray above his head to- morrow. Who has sufficient moral fiber not to be rigidly bound by class feeling and narrow prejudices. KE. A. R,, 3117A Nebraska avenue. A man capable. of bestowing affection, Big in phy feal stature, With intellect in proportion to his size, Cheerful, jolly, witty and wise, M. L., Box 210, Benld, Ill. ——- -— ~~: Just a human man with a dash of mis- chief to flavor his virtues. A>-B., 6809 Page. [ ste him often in my dreams Princely and glorious hé seems In shining armor he doth stand Upon a summit star-swept, grand. He calls my name, he beckons me, My soul fs thrilled with ecstacy. Then Grandma groans: ‘Oh, you ninny, You'll be In luck to catch Swat Kinney.”’ PHYLLIS HARNEY. shucks, To win my love he must be a nerkt: good, clean character and also a healthy man. THERESA M. WREN, 3023 Evans ay. He is a stimulant I cannot do with- out. AUGUSTA CAMPBELL, —_—_— “Just my Dearie."’ What MUST He Be to Win Your Love? ,To be my “hub” he need not be, +make the sucpessful business than—in- you from all storms and showers; I'll be your: rainbow, I'll He for you.” — MISS M., 6429 Myrtle av., Wellston, Mo. So very, very good. But there’s one thing I will not do, And that is chop the wood. DULERE DAVISON, 6111’ West Park avenue. He must be a gentiéman in every re- spect, In all business matters must be correct, A’ Democrat that is stanch and true, A yearly subscription he must send to yous MISS F. E. ABERNATHY, Fredericktown, Mo. He must possess those qualities which tegrity, a good education, ambition and perseverance. He must possess those which make the ideal “home man:” gen- tleness, consideration, thoughtfulness and forbearance for all, be God-fearing, loving, and belfeying in me. A comrade

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Put Team in First Division Next Year. geri. HELP. INTERESTS © Purchasers Believe Winner Will Increase Value of Real Estate: '- That the Browns will be a first-divi- -_ sion team in the American League race i= Mext season is the hope of the new . _ Owners of the club, according to a man ae who is well acquainted with the mem- Po “bers of the syndicate that purchased ea Robert L. Hedges’ interest. __ They are not so overenthusiastic that 4 DAs they expect the 1910 tail-ender to figure be Sed a pennant contender, but it is said enough money will be spent as ag the club ts formally turned over er owners to purchase players caliber that will put the team a higher position next season. _The purchasers will attempt to kill with one stone fh running the They naturally believe that the the was a good investment and that a winning team will reap big bar- oe But most of the men. connected club are heavily interested in in St. Louis. They realize a winning baseball club will go a ies toward advertising St. Louis and that local property will consequent- dy fmerease in value. ks Will Elect New Officers. st when the new owners will call first meetirig will not be decided after next Tuesday, when President Johnson of the American League, and Frank Farrell of the New York . Club, will call for a conference with the They are coming for the purpose of _{mvestigating the standing of the men who bought Hedges’ interest. There ems no qifestion but that the transfer Wi meet with the approval of the, merican League committee. After “gon and his colleagues give their to the deal, the stockholders will to. elect officers. Manny Hodgman, .who with Ben kins went to New York to engi- ® Bastern end of the deal, is said e@ choice of the others to suc- Wedges as president. Whether fl remain. vice-president re- * seen. -omers may make some ef- sve the holdings of John. ‘al McDiarmid, the Cin- have stock in the club. rotiate for Lake. “Hodgman are still in ‘They have held confer- th Fred Lake, the Boston sl manager, who is expected to dere as Jack O’Connor’s suc- _ves0r, but are unable to negotiate With him as he is still on the reserve ist of the Hub club. » Adkins is scheduled to leave New Zork Saturday for St. Louis. Hodg- q will likely remain over a day t will be here in time for the con- Tuesday. " te the fact that Mr. Hedges his ill] health as the cause for from the baseball business, bw York come reports that ‘Comiskey of the Chicage Club ad some to do towards ousting o ae a a that Comiskey ig egy en Hedges is al- rok dickered with Fielder > ase part interest in and ana ve Browns. There are de- ar s of tes ee. bye TO MEET KUPTZ IWS, B..A. 6, BOXING SHOW ley Daiwitz of the Missouri Ath- : Club will meet Frank Kuptz of the th Broadway Athletic Club in what ‘ould prove the feature bout of the ting program Saturday night at the ath Broadway Athletic Club. He will up against a comparatively ‘dark ree," as very little is known of Kuptz. What should prove another good bout is that between Peter Sturnholt of the Mis- Athletic Club and Jack Pezolt of B. A. c. They will fight at 135 Benhy McGovern, the pride of the M » C4 will meet Billy Weckerlin of the 5 B: -.- C. in the 120-pound class. Jack will swap punches with Fred at 1% pounds. Will Stengel) Jim Murphy, and Will Haller and Gunn, both of the & B. A, Ci VAN WORMER NAMED DANES CAPTAIN FOR 1911 * men at Barnes University Fri- t, Frank D. Van Wormer was d = 3 Thar captain for i911. Van owner who wanted his first base- man, second baseman and outfielder, put the price pretty high. “You can have him for Catcher Clarke and Outfielder Birmingham,” Hedges ts said to have told the Cleveland mag- nate. Somers didn't drop dead, but at that thought the price pretty high. How- ever, Hedges held out for the catcher and fly chaser. Wouldn’t Give Two for One. ‘No, I cant listen to that, as I would be giving two good players for one good one,” said Somers. “Then the deal is off,’’ replied Hedges. The St. Louls and Cleveland club owners went their different ways. Later Hedges was approached by Secretary Ed Barnarfd/ of the Naps. “We would like to have Griggs,” he told Hedges, “and will make & lib- eral offer but not Clarke and Birm- inghani.” and that conference ended. Before the day ended, Hedges and Somers again ran into each other. “Well, I still want Griggs,” was Somers’ address. “You can have him for the players I mentioned,” responded Hedges. “Now, let’s get down to business, I don’ t like the idea of giving two g00d players for one, as much as I like Griggs.” om you let me have Clarke and Birmingham and I will give you Griggs and whatever price you name to boot.” Can’t Buy Good Players. “But I can’t buy good ball players with money,” was Somers’ comeback. “See here, Bob, you need a catcher and I need Griggs. What say you if we trade even up? “Alli right, Griggs belongs to you, Charley.” “Good, Clarke is crane catcher, Bob. . FRANK KAVANAUGH ANAUGH CHOSEN TO COACH DARTMOUTH TEAM HANOVER, N. ‘H., Dec. 17.—Frank W. Kavanaugh of Worcester, Mass., who was a star end on the Dartmouth foot- ball team of 1899 will be coach of we team next year. a >

Saturday Soccer Schedule. The Saturday Afternoon Soccer League will start its second series of the season at Athletic Park Saturday afternoon. The Crunden-Martins the Americans, while the Johansens and the Third Nationals meet in the second contest. ,% 2 Kauffman Wins From Rawson, PROVIDENCE, R. I.,°Dec. 17.—Benny Kauffman of Philadelphia last night was given a decision over Tommy Raw- son of South Boston after ten rounds of furious boxing. The (first three rounds were nip and tuek but in the latter part of the contest Kauffman wal- loped* his opponent so often that the décision was well earned, i.

Walter Little Gets Decision. SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 17.—Walter Little of Chicago took a hundred kidney but was given the decision over Bert Keyes of New York in their 15-round fight before the Southern Athletic Club last night. ANXIOUS We are anxious te dispose of a few USED AUTOMOBILES Before January ist These are all . HIGH-GRADE CARS that have been overhauled and re- painted, and we guarantees every ee ee eee every respect. Just as Good as New theese ears fran

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ROM THE NAPS ‘Nothing doing then,” sald Hedges play: HE 8st. Louis Soccer League has called off negotiations with the Hyde Park Blues of Chicago and as a result the lead- ing eleven of the Windy City league will not show here Jan. 1 and 2, as originally scheduled. The Hyde Parks agreed to val, but later attempted to hold up the local soccerites for more money. The demand was refused. It is probable that the Hibernians, an- other member. of the Chicago league, will be substituted. The Woodlawns will play here Dec. % and 2. Secretary Will Dooling received the following tele- gram Saturday: “*“Woodlawns will be down, re- gardiess of league ruling. “Ee. W. KNOWLES, “Secretary Woodlawns.”’

JACK JOHNSON-READY FOR ANYONE OVER SHORT ROUTE CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—Jack Johnson, heavyweight champion, who will second his sparring partner, Walter Monahan, in the latter’s bout with George (‘Kid’) Cotton at Pittsburg Tuesday night, yes- terday said he had received an offer! from a Pittsburg club asking him if he would consent to box six rounds with an opponent whom the club selects some night during the holidays. Having convinced himself by his work- outs with Monahan that he is in pretty good shape, Johnson said he would agree to fight anyone over the six-round route, if there was enough money in it. “I am not afraid to step into the ring with any of them tomorrow over the six-round route,” Johnson said. “Just let then give me enough money to make it worth while and I will sign articles next week. My short bouts with Mono- ban have convinced me that it will take little work to fit me to go six fast rounds with anyone the club selects.” - al | Tips and Cues ;

Saturday’s Schedule. At Peterson’s—V. Botto vs. J. Wire- back. National Amateur Billiard League tournament. Friday’s Results, At Peterson’s—E. V. Calmer of St. Louis defeated P. P. Trump and- J.’ Wireback of Pittsburg, 60 to 81, in the second game of the series in the National ae, teur Billiard League. At the Grand—Herbert won the class B three-cushion teurnament when he defeated Meyer 30 to 27 in the final match. Bach player had a high run of 38, California Lightweight Is Gr Home Because Boys Refuse ! Meet Him. IS CHAR Charley Harvey Claims Protege Has His Rivals -__oooOo COLD FEET little fighters on the map.” “Who? Why? When?” that he’s a. , piece of cheese, and what’s the result’ Nobody’ll ¥o néar¢him any more, Knock-, _ out Brown and urphy. wouldn’t box him for a man runs for his life eve hears Powell’s name. .. going back to California. have some live ones. He t |a@ $900 offer out there Bast, and this last Young © ~

Yale Swimmers Beat Cornell, NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec, 17.—Yale won the annual swimming meet from Cornell here last night, 46 points to 7. Ths water polo game between the col- leges was won by Yale, 15 to 0.

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1 : ; New York Stock Quotations. “ - ee Nag Om OAR — gan “ar annmetrmn, — 2 DPOF CRE: A AOR ME Re PSM tel Te a | TN, — ne See t-C ispatch’ S Complete ‘Daily G. H. Walker @ Co, 307 | | % , rih age Sagas Sige GIN : j P jlOpen/tttet) Low|Close (IN THE ocd) Sees eee weave pipes ale Seercteeree PsP Be 5 | : Loon’ eeu. i 36 sorte dies he he en | oe : Am. Ice 1001 17 i “ butter, cheese, fish, game or calves Prt ePeeeeeeeCOsHessses Seesesvoseessseseoe ; a Quotations given are prices at t whole. . Yea : ale an ose for butter, eggs, sie : ri , cheese and calves are furnished | by bey reine ss 1000 1.000" Ago. : Aga Butter, Egg and Poultry: H : ¢§ 500 5500 4,000 ; cuenonseiae’ chan . ; ji —_a , ; Toled Fo Bact country wore packed at 173 100 . bis all ie aals Mixed in Their ee eee eee ee ee Outside Demand Is Lig : New . se 1tews—Trade Reports Range Is _ Irreg- Kansas City.” ........-80%-7-% ie ; le Conflicting. EG GS—Current receipts: New cases ipelna. Toledo. ular. DECEMBER con eseeep @eeeere rt ed. 28c; good second-hand cases, %c; cases return roosters, 8c, 3% . wh eeeeeseoee Bee a4 nee MAY eee ee eee irned, 2744c LIVE POULTRY—Hens 9c; ks, 18¢: iB eougis .{ Chi 47% traders in the wheat market again Sat-, New York’ .....00+. coeeeregge 46 aes Sect CORN, broilers, 12c; spring chickens, $c; duc urday, and prices moved through only Kansas City. 45% = sere a “ee 8 as > ae at Tis 4 , 4 : geese, 914c; ‘turkeys, bt hey 7 ¥ sy chickens, a fractional range. The ddy’s news was! St. Louis = ss

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sere eee eee ee eee eee eaeeee - NATIVE CATTLE—Receipts were small, as is usually the ¢ase on Saturday. Most of the arrivals were on a through billing. Only a few mixed lots were for sale, and they ere quiet and steady. For the week — eed steers pre pee 3 ye | pack een ug er en the * - and rices rule ee # B50 hi ih General ‘run of medium A heavy- elute steers closed steady to 10c lower, cows and heifers, steady, bulls a shade higher, veal calves “B0c lower and stock cattle strong and active. serene eee e ee © Kinloch Issues Wanted at Rising Prices; Bank Stocks Firm. re *+e#e 8 @* eer ene Int. Met. com. . Int. Met, pfd.. coRnN. | FE Ld Sou. Laclede Gas Lehigh Val. a % Professionals were practically the only

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u point up at $211, and Commonwealth } (o", arge. bomen off the. collar ‘bonus an Trust strong at $108 bid. St. Louis Union | 9¢; ress 4c, medium was offered at $435. National Candy common was higher,.at ' for small fo c, medium aed Bice. , small tgp $19.50, and this bid. The traction stocks eS large striped bass, were neglected. ot let shell dressed at turties at 2%c, turtle meat a Fruits, tots * se rail—Apples, 2 anges, . mons, 2; bananas, Fee, ok Nantacted on call. ‘By Leased Wire From the New York a on.” Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. U.8.Steel pfd.. Utah C

8.75 were eee eee ees epee eeeeee 2.7 apolis and other important centers very quiet. Statistical news is nearly all bearish. Speculation in the Liverpool market was featureless; prices declined, rallied and closed unchanged. Bearish Amer- a iscounts ~~ $1.322.071. 800 ican advices, predictions of smaller De 181.544.400 world’s shipments, fewer Plata offers, | | 234, 609,000 improved spot demands, some conti- te ad See Tl KNOCKED OUT BY ' NEW YORK, Dec. 17.~The Evening Post in its copyrighted financial review today says: : “Price changes in today’s stock mar- ket were unimportant, trading being dull and uninteresting. Several of the active stocks hardly moved at all, and for long intervals the market appeared to be at_ @ sStandstill.. The movement was utterly Jacking in enthusiasm. Abroad the mar- _ kets were stagnant also. Discounts ad- Wanced % per cent at London. This in- @icates that our bankers will find it dif- ficult to get gold there on Monday. The Associated . Banks again re- ported an improved condition; surplus reserves, in the actual week end showing increased $3,000,000. This ‘Was achieved through a gain of $1,- - «700,000 in cash, where yesterday’s in- p dications foreshadowed a slight loss, and through further reduction of $8,- $00,000 in the loans. Apparently, this! +,” hoor steel trade renctte abd tears 4 joan reduction has been effected | unfavorable New York bank statement. The chiefly by use of the foreign mar- | ™#"*et closed dull. s kets. for the local companies report Miscellaneous. only $2,300,000 increase in their loans, SORGHUM—At 15@20c per gallon. and it is hardly to be supposed that] LINSEED OIL—In lots of from 1 to 5 bar . interior institutions have taken Over) rels at 92c per gallon for raw and 98c for . gt large lines of New York credits, in } boiled. Hyd. eraen ts a. rick pra’ fi a week when inferior demands were HONEY—Comb—choice. 15@16c, amber 13 Gentral’ Coal & Coke com.... high and New York rates for money @l4c, broken and inferior less; extracted or - pelatively low. strained—choice Southern in barrels, 7c, and . in cans, 744c; California, in cans, 8%o for Je With this week’s increase in the amber and 9c for water white; all old or surplus, that account is raised to $9,- candied lo per pound less. 300,000, which compares with $5,900,-| RaGs, ETC.—Per 100 Ibs.: Country rags at 000 a year ago this week, and is rot/65c; old rope at $1.50; rubber boots and go far below $14,100,000 surplus of the! shoes—No. 1 at $8: No. 2 at $5; untrimmed similar week even in the comfortable National Candy common at 19 articles at $4. BONES—Bleached, in car lots track money market of 1908. Excess of | this side. at $20 per to on, inferior stock —. SHEEP rly eac loans over deposits is reduced from late kill, 50@85c; sheattings, 1 C; dry 10 National Candy common at 1 ' the $38,900,000 of a week ago (t0' fallen, 6c ott l ay ae i 10_ Union Send & Material a 9, ly ag Gr a gg oe $88,000,000 today; a year ago it stood | Phy Sas S 20 ty holes —_ “ay (Sue Tee pet 18 at $3.25 to $3.30. Virginia / at $18,300,000. SALT—Granulated at $1.10 and medium at d Tennessee at $2.25@38.25. Christ-| Choice to prime corn- ne. steers. .$6 : 4 ; On th hol h k r bbl, track the side. mas trees, 75c to $1 per bundle be to siz} Good to choice fed steers...... 5 > Se n t e whole, t e ban statement R OIk—ln ets of trees)—school and. church See: Mis- Medium to good steers is distinctly favorable, and does not evar ot 10%40 per Jb for on Bae Wc tletoe os sate on aates Sa orem 4 ecg steers. ‘foreshadow any awkward pressure on | *$:nogmCORN, New crop quotable per ton r at Fer ee eee nears the money market during the balance of the year. PiteRS—Prime white live ‘POTA POnS— Fancy Michigan rurals offered a 59c and on call hs 55c per bu delivered, @ gray y y’s closing and ons were oe small, ) estat ESSER SSSRaaKasasFSZ

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~*~" a U. S. Government Bonds. Reported by D. Arthur Bowman, Th tional nk Bidg., St. Louis, a i: * ST. LOUIS, Dec. 17. _ SECURITY. Due. Bid. Asked. Zs registered. 100% 2s coupon 100 102" 102 Closing Quotations. | 45 cou 102 ‘2 115 MORNING SESSION. Pan, on, Tiniebeten’ 1936 100 isid. Above pemeens are nominal and are sub- ject to all market — |AMERIGAN STOCKS IN LONDON NDON, Dec. 17.—American securities opened on ‘the Stock Exchange here today around S- ; Business was meager, owing SS

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a 8 75° 295.... LOUIBIANA CATTLE me /, cee 390... The appeals of Harry B. Gardner from the receivership orders in the International Fire Assurance Co. ang the Continental Life Insurance Co. were’ dismissed Saturday by the Supreme Court en banc at Jefferson City. This leaves the jurisdiction in the receiver proceedings solely tn the hands of the Circuit Courts at St. Louis for determin- ation. The appeals were dismissed on the motion of the stockholders who dis- charged Gardner at meetings of the companies held during the investigation into the business of the insurance com- panies by the receivers in St. Louis. Gardner appealed from the orders of the judges in the Circuit Court appoint- ing Matt G. Reynolds and G. Lacy Crawford, receivers of the two com- panies. Judge Caulfieid, who was then Excise Commissioner, was appointed special commissioner to take testimony in the receivership suits. In the receivership proceedings it de-

ebbing. Way. at Railroad, James O'Connell, “esident of the International Association , of ‘Machinists, which is. conducting o strike against the railroad, ee cae @ Post-Dispatch reporter: “I think before the conference a& settlement may be reached. The = machinists ang other shop men of the entire Gould system, 8000 men, REG 10 American Centra] I 10 American Credit cn pe gee } Commonwealth Trust a ) National Bank of ew Ble at a 12 National Bank of Commerce at 211. | National Bank of Commerce at 211. 1 National Bank of Commerce at 211. 5 prlaeulostont Valley Trust at 297. } National Candy common at ‘- %. to Ree oOo Kae De AB semen s—California navels at $2.50 to $3 A ANGEE Flo de and Lou a at $2.25 to obbin CORA

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vote should be returned Dec. | whatever the ea of the : a vote, it will the conference General Manager Sullivan hag ex+! infh. pressed a desire to go over the whole! t1t situation slowly and ‘thoroughly andid & so We may be in conference for somé:, days yet. We have not come to an agreement on any point at issue | except wages. The railroad is wills

influences. The Paris market was lower. Liverpool spot and futuré wheat closed unchanged. Paris wheat \%c lower, flour %@l%c lower. Berlin and Antwerp steady. Canners and cutt wheat unchanged. ggg 7 oe PP gaat “Market | 00 lower, yearlings and heretics 10e te lkn| An official report places the new Sactet (barreled)—ven davis—No. 2 lowe ARKAN South Wales wheat crop at 23,520,000 bu, @2.75: No. 1 common storage at $3.25@3.50 SAS CATTLE. inst 26,600,000 bu, actual yield last fancy cold storage at $3.75@4; winesap— COWS. again , 600, ’ t $2.50@3, choice to fancy cold pice. re ie - Sy. eric. year. Drouth is reported in four dis- pag Re - mee tricts in the Punjab of India. In the | 4.7% f xtra fancy, Vir- satis- : fancy ane ot @ a it Sa 8 oe 73 _g20 |irrigated sections conditions are .10 for No. 4 New York and $4.15@4 : | , ow aden be apples The Northwestern wheat car OT Ty ment for the week showed: * : : davia at aus 7s@8 per barrel measure deliv- a Stockholders of St. Louis In- t 10@15 t ieee See “KUMQUATS Florida at 10@150 por quart oe surance Companies Win the barrel, OCOANUTS—At $50 per 1000 and at Chicano . Receivership Suit GRAPE FRUIT—Florida Winnipeg ......... 1,366 : **PINEAPPLES—Cuban, at $2 to $2.15 per = IE owcs kuna cases , National Cand com. jvew. B—On t —So_ist_ pra. / 107 “BANANAS-0) $1 to" $1.25. er = it — eee Minneapolis stocks of wheat for the ae rsst een pe week increased 608,477 bu, the total being os $ d Messina 7! 25 per ’ ’ ~ ton gp bey 178%. CRAREE RRIES- Fancy Jersey's at 12,677,118 bu, or 10,083,655 bu above that at 135. to $8 per bushel crate and $9 wer Cape Cod late howes at $10. of last year. RAPES—Pony baskets catawbas creased 1,205,000 bu for the week, against 32,000 bu. last year. Minneapolis cars of wheat today, $19: last week, 8330; last year, 247. Duluth cars, 81; last week, 30; last year, 43. Winnipeg cars, 196, against 94 last week. ooas Kansas City wheat receipts today, oversee 3 T5@4 80 85,200 bu, against 32,560 bu last year; rerseee 3 Gs 3 shipments, 102,000 bi, against 38,850 ne: 2 = : bs Chicago wheat receipts today, 16,800 400 bu, against 21,600 bu last year; ship- oes 3) ments, 20,600 bu, against 48,515 bu aat° and ae Merr Ket rul ee! with 4 r,, last year. Friday close or 5@10e low > er ‘than the best Local wheat receipts today, 47,300 bu., or 87 cars local, 6 through; last year, 40,000 bu, or 88 cars local, 2 through. Local corn receipts today, &,000 bu, or 62 cars local, 8 through; last year, §S cars; onions,

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K Tel. 58 a Snited pn teen 4s at lee “TRADERS BUY COTTON ON , COMING GINNING REPORT s bring 43c to 45c per bu; Wisconsin burbanks, to dBc: a hios, 48c to 47c; lowa rurals, 85c to . straw rurals, 60c to 65c; Red River Ohios, Sine to 90c per bu. ONIONS—Fancy red held on call at 90c and extra fancy at 95c per bbi, bid. Extra fancy yellow at 90c tS eg extra fancy white at 88c per bu, 77%c b per = —— in car lots at $60 or poor to $100 pines at $1 per sans or DETAILED REPORTS OF DAY'S By wy. Rn a fancy 58c per bu, 48c bid. Wiercmate. TRADING IN WALL STREET or 2x, at Ia: ge:

’ POPCORN Good dry white on cob at $1.25 Receipts b Ga eat 7.—Prices of the lead- @1.75 1 1; cabbage, + today were mostly

+ _, INSURGENTS CIRCULATE 5c. PEANU r he for red. SCRAP IRON AND A crap iron, ling in carloads at $7. 50@8 per ton. Per 100 lbs: Heavy cast, por roaant. 45c; mal- leable steel. vreakage, ve, 85c: light ] 3

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—The cotton market opened steady at an advance of 1@6 points and sold 6 to 7 points net higher right after the call on scattering covering and a little fresh buying inspired by bullish estimates Cc B4AGE—Extra fancy Denial offered on at ne $16 per ton on track, , ae bid; $16 bid for a delivered, held at $18. RUTABAG AB— Extra fancy held on call at er bu, — 2 at lle per pound, 9%o bid. ber towards noon the packing hogs sold at $9.5 the butcher and shipping hogs brought 7. @7.70 as a rule, ze and lights of good quality were ready sale, but inferior grades Most 50@7. 60. while | 60 112,200 bu, or 99 cars local, 8 through. Local oats receipts today, 4,400 bu, or § cars local, 18 through; last year, 59,- veloped that Gardner had given to his wife almost all] of ,is personal property, including a note for $17,000 claimed as ing to grant the advance * pay’ y ‘ which we ask.” Ha Sullivan declined to make any states ment concerning the 50: heavy brass + light copper, randc r wire, $10; zinc. pewter, : tinfoil, $25: tea og deiclcpember in car lots, on : Staves—Fiow barrel, $8.50 for. cotton- for gum-mixed, meal for elm; PETITION FOR CAUCUS leader of were not wees at a MIXED FP CKERS ores HEAVY ‘1200 bu, or 17 cars local, 2 through. ori N Total primary wheat receipts today, 712,760 bu, against 448,886 bu last year; shipments, 244,140 bu, against 241,665 bu last year. Corn and vats were quiet and easy. The movement of corn is increasing and unless the demand improves, stocks will begin to accumulate at primary centers. Cables were unchanged to 4d lower according to grades. Cash wheat closed dull and 1%c lower, with the demand light and mostly from local millers. Cash corn 1%c lower and slow sale. Cash oats scarce and %c higher for white grades; mixed oats steady. Quote No. 2 corn 45c; No. 8 corn, 4@ 4344c; No, 4 corn, 42c; no grade, 40c; No, 2 yellow, 46c; No. 3 yellow, 42@45c; No. 2 white, 45%4c; No. 3 white, 48c. Quote No, 2 oats, 31%@32c; No. 8 oats, 31@31%c; No. 4 oats, 30%c n; No. 2 white, 33%c n; standard, 33%4@33%c; No. 3 white, 3244@33c; No. 4 white, 314%@32%c n. No. 2 rye, 8l%c n. Quote No. 2 red wheat, 98@998c: No. 3 red, 9@964%4c; No. 4 red; 80@92c: No. 2 hard, 94c@$1.2n; No. 3 hard, 91@96c; No. 4 hard, 80@90c. STOCKS OF Gaart Ie. ST. LOUIS ELEVA- of European mill consumption and expecta- GA ARLIC—Held a tions of a bullish ginning report next Tues- STRING BEANS—Florida round green at ae: — buying oA a raat vue | oe $2. Lay og 1S Rong hamper. Texas at 50@65c and there was enou realizing to check the tees “s advance around 15.19¢ for March, but only # PARSNIPS—Home grown 2 at Bot at Fy cba Aa os 7 silght reactions occurred and the market held “BANISH ONIONS—At si 80@1.35 per AA + See 7 gone Rn 5 nim wpa net. higher ae : J. 55 ** 558" the m eo é@ mornin $31 “30 H—tHome-grown hubbard at 385c oes 29 G15, UAsI a pumpkins at 25@30c pe: SUCH ERS AND 5 siti Bis: a 89 00 pounds iis Aurust. 15.06@ SWEET POTATOES—Home-grown Bermu- 15.07c; das at ueen at 50@55c, yellow nanse- 15.86@ 15. _ a mond at Y BOGbOS, — ‘red naneemnena at 50@ The market closed steady, with ystce net ge! er bu box | 2@6 points higher. BDstimated coos pts at Oo eRKRAUT--N w Pe make in a job- the ports today, 40,000 bales, against 68,- bing way; we reese. 1.70; barreis, » Te 7638 bales last week and 86,501 bales last | cas s at $5. a year. For the week, 325.000 bales, avainst SHAL 18__-New ag Pam at 15¢ pér dozen 426,855 bales last week, and 224,240 bales bunches last year, Today’s receipts at New oe ET Nee. Orleans curly at 25@30c leans, 10,612 bales, against 3125 bales’ last Pagel nas xas $3 to 84 $4 per bu crat nfaney. Fiorida at per ie be LIVERPOOL, Dec. 17, 12:30 p. m.—Cot- ton—Spot, good business done; crate. NG BEANS—Louisiana round areen at de points higher to 2 points 4 nidant ica $3.50 to et per hamper. Texas cain rs 79... iddlin fair. 8. mi ng xes & 60c. Be ck ania 8.074: cond middling, 8. middling, 8.00d; OOKOMA TO OES—-Fancv ae at 81.50@ ee wee F a: low 7.894: good ordinary. 7.684; 1.70 De per eS oan 6 ; 7 ordinary. 7.86 of eae h 500 of the day were loose; New Orleans at $4 to 0, pest fn lation and export and included 11,200 Amer- rel ane 50c per dozen bunches. Receipts, none. eas. + and closed RY—California at: §2.70@8.20 crate Futures opened quiet and stead delivered; Michigan golden heart at 85c to ulet. “December, Decem r-SenUary, b ebru- lack oil, Fant pain int ch, a in an’ ee ag crate dette r ru ; @ deliy- — a; gener: February. 7.90164; ‘ T. 92d; es mag i 7.944; April- 200 to Boe pe -barrels, and Dlckle. J :* June-Jul ong rat “T5¢1300 off for ech heads or y. Ta ; May-June, 7.964 he ° $8 per - taken 7. : ‘oat gen 7.98%44; August-Sep po. a at 500 : Western at 15@17c; | tember. September-October, 7.374; BeBe | for new and 2 @ac for | October-November, 7.1614. Det DY, 10080 oe puttalo crates in jobbing emian) at 47@49c. Near- NEW YORK COTTON CLOSE. way at $1.25@1.85 and California $1.75@2 per BRE dglirs'8* spRoUTS—at 12% @15e per 2: UMBERS—Fancy Eastern hothouse a sig 60 per dezen; New Orleans at $1. 35 “SPINACH —Home-grown ho rg’ per bu at Tr dogen ae EaaDeae ee home-grown. i t $4.50. an asset of the Soeaeey: SON OFTEN WHIPPED, FATHER BUYS HIM BOXING OUTEIT North Alton Man Will Train Lad in Effort to Protect Him From Schoolmates. The ll-year-old son of Harry Fore- man of Upper Alton will spend the holi- days practicing on his new punching bags with the new boxing gloves his father has bought him for the pur- pose of training him to be a fighter. The boy has the courage of his con- victions and never side-steps a fight, but most of hig schoolmates are bigger and stronger than he and as a result he has been going home with rather distressing frequency with- his nose bloody and his eyes blackened. It seemed to hig father that what the boy needed @ course in pugilism, and he has bought the outfit and the boy will begin taking boxing lessons without delay. By the end of the school year Foreman expects his son to thop the campus with boys twice his size. Foreman thinks this is prefefable to asking the teachers to protect the ‘boy. DOCTORS WRANGLE OVER WALSH CONDITION; PARDON I$ HELD UP One Set of Physicians Says Jail Term Improved Him; Another Says He Is Failing. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—John. R. Walsh's application for a pardon is held up in the Department of Justice while a dispute over the state of his health is being settled. One set of physicians says Walsh's confinement at Leaven- worth has been as good as a rest cure or a term in a sanitorium. 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EMPLOYE S WIDOW HIS BRIDE AFTER ‘1'm Happy,” Said Dying Man Couple Acknowledged Betrothal at Hospital. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEWARK, N. J., Deo. 17—William T. Haas, superintendent of the tide-water plant of the Pure Oi] Co., in East New- ark, has left for the South on a honey- moon trip. His bride, who is his sec- ond wife, is the widow of James Raffer- ty, who died a month ago in 8t. Mi- chael’s Hospital, this city. She is 27 years old and has two children. Raf- ferty was foreman in the works and he and Haas were lifelong friends. When the doctors told him he was going to die soon he said: ‘Well, for the sake of my wife and two children I’m sorry. As for my business affairs, I think I can settle them satisfactorily if you will send for my friend Haas.’’ This was done. The wife and children were crying at the bedside when Haas got there. .. “Will, I’m in hard luck,” said the dy- ing man, addressing Haas. ‘“There’s no insurance ‘and little of anything else and that’s what worries me about going away. You're a widower, Will, with \two children. My wife’s going to be a | widow with two children.’’ Both Protested; Then Agreed. Rafferty reached out and took Haas’ hand in his and continued: “Within a week.after I am dead and buried I want you to marry Sadie. She’ll be a good mother to your children and I know you'll take good care of her and of my little ones.’’ Mrs. Rafferty protested and swooned. The next day, which was his last, Raf- ferty sent for Haas and prevailed on him to agree to marry the widow if she would accept him. “If she'll have me, Jim,” finally said the superintendent, ‘‘I’ll be glad to make her my wife and you needn't worry about her or your children.’’ After Haas had gone Mrs. Rafferty went to the bedside of the dying man and he told her it would be wrong for her to cross his last wish., She cried and protested, but in the end she agreed. “I'm happy,” were MRafferty's iast words, when he had joined his boss’ hand to that of the hysterical young wife. Then he died. i Christmas gifts attractive and useful. Hair Brushes, Hand Mirrors, Manicure Seta, Desk Sets for Ladies and Gents, at EKoken’s, 915 Market street. NO TUBERCULOSIS FOR ADULTS IN MILK, INVESTIGATION SHOWS New York Physician Finds That EvenNin Children the Danger Is Slight. By Leased Wire From the N Y Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. — NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Dr. William H. Park and his assistants in the research laboratory of the Board of Health, after

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SUAP PATCH IN GAD PIPE LEAKS AND FLAT BURNS Woman Runs Through Street in Early Morning to Turn in Fire Alarm. A leaking gas pipe patched up with soap is supposed to have caused a fire early Sat ay at 7231 Minnesota avenue. The building is a two-story flat occu- pied on the ground floor by James Fox and wife and upstairs by Charles Fal- linger, his wife and his sister-in-law, Miss Anna La Croix. At 1:35 o’clock Miss La Croix was awakened by a slight explosion and a moment later She scented smoke. She called Fallinger and he awoke the Fox family below. Meanwhile the fire had followed the gas pipes through the house and was making rapid headway. In a dressing gown and slippers Miss La Croix, a tall brunette, ran two blocks to the Carondelet Police Station, where she notified Night Clerk Philip Tayon, who turned in the alarm. The damage to the building was $1000, to the Fallinger furniture $1200 and to the Fox furniture $200. Company Invetigatin Fallinger says he notified. a Caron- delet branch of the Laclede Gas Co. Friday that the gas was leaking and says he told the company that if it did not fix the leak he would have to do the best he could with soap David Carruthers, manager of the Carondelet branch, said Saturday morn- ing that he was investigating the state- ment of Fallinger in regard to the leak being reported. The two families were given shelter for the remainder of the night in the homes of neighbors. Miss La Croix seemed none the worse for her early morning race to the police station light- ly clad.

Distinguished Automobiles. Whenever you see a large, distin. guished-looking automobile, think uf the Excelsior Auto Co. They rent them for $4 per hour. Seven-passenger Packard, Pierce and Peerless limousines and tour- ing cars. New Garage, 219 North Cardi- nal. Phonese Central 608 and Bomont 2088. TAFT’S BROTHER GIVES STATUE OF LINCOLN TO END SQUABBLE Cincinnati to Get Memorial After a Break With the Original ' Donor. ° By Leased Wire From the New York nenenn of the F Post-Dispatch. NEw YORK, Dec. 17.—Rather than have any further wrangling over who should give to the city of Cincinnati a

monument to Abraham Lincoln, Mr. and. Mrs. Charles P.,Taft, the former a brother of President Taft, have volun- teered to give the $100,000 necessary for that purpose. .- This decision was taken after Mrs. Alms, the widow of a former wealthy hotel and department store man, and her attorney had refilsed to recognize the sculptor chosen by a committee se- lected for that purpose. The committee selected George Gra: Barnard for the work, but Mrs. Alms. who was giving the statue under the directions of her husband's will, wanted Gutzon Borglum. It was her unalterable stand that caused Taft and his wife to decide to pay for the statue and thus prevent any further wrangling. Barnard will execute the statue for the Tafts.

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KERN GAS BOND President of Concern Willing to Settle at Once if Indémnitors Will Allow It. MEN BEHIND ARE NAMED

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The National Surety ch is ready to Louis $200,000 in settlement of the verdict for that amount given by a fury in the United States Circuit Court on a peremptory instruction by Judge Dyer in the suit. on the surety bond of the Kern Incan- descent Gaslight Co., according to Wil- liam J. Griffin, first vice-president and genera] manager of the surety company. Attorney W. C. Marshall for the defense gave notice of &ppeal. After the case was concluded Friday, Griffin made public the names of the indemnitors of his company on the Kern company’s bond. They are, according tu Griffin, Casimar Tag, president of the | German- American Bank of New York; o2 8S. Hastings, president ‘of the In- dianapolis Gas Co.;"Charles W. Mayer, a New York lawyer, and Harry Keene, brother of James R. Keene and presi- dent of the Kern company. During the trial the attorneys for the city had vainly tried to bring out*the names of the men who ingemnified the surety company for signing the lighting con- tract bond. Griffin explained that his anxiety to pay the amount of the bond was to clear up the complications caused by the suit, in which his company was placed in a wrong light before the public. . He said that the surety company had never sought to avoid payment of the bond, but had only contested payment until such time as it was placed in a position by proceedings in court to enable it to collect from the indemnitors. Would Settle Immediately. “rhe National Surety Co. has $700,000 in bank today, and I would gladly have given a check for the $200,000 to pay the pond if the indemnitors had given their consent in 1900 or any time thereafter,” he said. When we signed the bond we demanded that we be against loss, as is customary. In doing that we agreed to allow the indemnitors to use the name of the company in con- testing suits for payment of the bond. The attorneys in the case were selected and paid by the Kern company. “If, upon examination of the. law, I find when I return to New York that we are not compelled to allow the indem- tors to use our name to appeal the case to higher courts, I will recommend that the $200,000 be paid immediately.” Some time ago an order was made by city officials that no further bonds of city officials or on municipal contracts be accepted in which the National Sure- ty Co. signs as surety. Several attempts were made to settle the Kern company obligation for $100,000, but the proposi- tion failed of approval by. the Municipal Y Assembly.

Large Estate to Be Closed Dec. .29. The enormous estate of Aloys Menne (deceased), is to be wound up in the Probate Court on Dec, 29th. The estate includes the building at 1012-1014 Market street; also the large stock of Furni- ture, Carpets, Rugs and Stoves con- tained in this building. The stock is to be sold régardiess of original cost, as everythin&e must be sold and out of the building by the 29th inst. This stock consists of many handsome, as well as useful articles Christmas gifts, such as Music Cab- inets, Pedestals, Parlor Cabinets, Book- cases, Brass and Vernis Martin Beds, French and Colonia) Dressers, Mission Library and Dining Room Sets; also a score of other useful articles. Any of them can be purchased and stored FREE OF CHARGE and delivered any time you may desire. ROBBED- OF $326 NEAR STATION James A. Dwoleys Is Choked and Beaten by Two Men. Search is being made by the police for a tall man and a short man who knocked down James A. Dwoleys at Nineteenth and Pine streets and robbed him. of $326, Dwoleys, 3 street, had left a and Olive streets at 12:4 a. m. and walked toward Union Station. At Pine street two men stepped from a doorway. One of them struck him and choked him while the other took his pocketbook.

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indemnified j suitable for }' NAME MMT Missourian Issues fliegen’ Stehaeawa of His Attitude and a Caucus Is Called. JAN, WORK __ BEGINS 19 | He Also Declares for Revision of Tariff by Separate Schedules. By Wire From the Washington Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Champ Clark, in formally opening the speaker- ship question for the Sixty-second Con- gress, declares that he has no ambition | to shoulder the responsibility of appoint- ing the House committees if he is elect- ed Speaker and that he will favor a re- vision of the tariff bill schedule by schedule. A caucus of the members- elect of the next Congress Nas been | @alled for Jan. 19 in this city to begin the work of organization. The call for the caucus is signed by the Democratic members of the Mouse of Representatives. The caucus will se- lect a Ways and Means Committee and a Rules Committee, somewhat larger than the present committee of seven. Clark believes one of these committees should then be empowered to select the other committees of the House. Waives Appointing Privilege. In standing by the attitude that he assumed toward Speaker Cannon while a leader of the minority, Clark says in his statement: “As to the mode of selecting commit- tees In the event of my own election to the speakership, I would not care a snap of my finger to exercise the power of appointing them. I have said that to every Democrat who cared to in- quire my opinion. The exercise of that power would undoubtedly have certain unpleasant features.”’ In advocating revision of the tariff by schedules, Clark’s statement points out that the recent Republican stand in fa- vor of schedule revision is not new. He says: “There are two theories of the tariff revision. Revision by one general bill and revision by separate bills for sepa- rate schedules. This is a matter not of principle, but of method. Prefers Schedule Scheme. ‘Individually I prefer the scheme of separate bills for separate schedules, taking the schedules with the least ob- noxious features first, perhaps in cer- tain cases having separate hills for par- ticular items.” The statement proceeds to say that whatever method is decided upon, full hearing, as comprehensive as that which preceded the framing of the Payne- Aldrich law, will be had by the new Ways and Means Committee. he assumption, growing out of ig- norance:- in certain quarters,”’ said Clark, “that President Taft or Sena- tor Cummins or other Republican, has discovered something new in tariff re- vision by the separate schedule scheme is preposterous. As far back as the Fifty-second Congress Chairman Spring- er introduced separate bills for sepa- rate schedules and even for particular items, which were derisively denomin- nated ‘Springer’s pop-gun Dilla’ by ri- bald Republican speakers and writers; and several years before Judge Springer was chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, Mr. McKenzie of Kentucky achieved both great renown and the sobriquet of ‘Quinine Jim’ by se- curing the passage of a bill putting quinine on the free ligt, and touching no other item whatsoever in any tariff schedule.” Hopes to Unite Party. Clark declares that he is heartily in favor of inviting to the caucus all the Democratic members-elect. He goes on to say that his efforts for.the past two years have been directed to the unifica- tion of the Democrats in the House and for that reason thé members-elect should be given every opportunity, if fiat uni- fication is to be maintained, to express their choice in, the gaming of the mem- bers of the committees, SEVEN ORDAINED“AS PRIESTS AT THE KENRICK SEMINARY Archbishop Glennon Conducts | — the Mass and Congratulates Young Men. Seven young men, F. H. Kehiendrink, Paul J. Ritchie, Henry J. Freese, F. & Podlowski, Arthur J. White, Clarence A. Kimmons and Thomas Fox, were ordained ag priests Saturday morning at Kenrick Seminary by Archbishop Glen- non, who conducted the mass, spoke on the priesthood and congratulated the young men. The chapel was filled with relatives and friends of those who were ordained. Six of them will conduct their frst masses Sunday morning. The Rev. Paul Ritchie will conduct his first ene on Christmas morning.

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[Pacific Rushes Into Hotel: and Dips the © , en ° - Senseless and Police Sus- pect Tramps. ; NEW YORK, Dec. I7.~-With his body] - from ankles t6 neck a mass of burns} and his face and feet frost-bitten, Ed- ward Dilicher of Scranton, Pa., is lying in the hospital at North Hudson, N. J., in ,a serious condition. Dillchér, abso- lutely stripped of clothing, ran into the barroom of @ small hotel in Granton, N. J., last night, and fell unconscious to the floor. When he revived momen- tarily he was only able to tell his name and murmur weakly: “Burned in fire by men.” Dillcher then relapsed into wuncons- ciousness and later became delirious. He will probably dle. eco TO == oe i= 2 3 1 | : CA LI FORNIA" De : - OR THE , Northwe TAKE THE.GREAT THROUGH TRAIN “THE ST, LOUIS-COLORADO LIMITED” ‘This Splendid Eleetric-lighted Train leaves St. Louis daily at 2:15 p.m. Arrives | 9:40 p. m.; Denver 4:05 p, m. next day; Salt Lake City 4:45 p. m., second day; isco 5:28 p. m. ; ; Los Angeles 4:30 p. m., and Portland 8:00 p. m., the third day; Tacoma 5:80 a. or and Seattle 7:15 a. m., the fourth day. Wabash-Union Pacific THE SHORTEST LINE i Superb Equipment of Library-Observation and Drawing Room Sleepers— All-Steel Chair Cars (free) and Elegant Dining Cars all the way. If you are planning a trip West, don’t fail to find out how much the 8t. Louis-Colorado Limited can ase to the comfort and enjoyment of your journey. Write t' oday. 3 UNION PACIFIC OFFICES, 903 OLIVE ST. WABASH TICKET OFFICE, EIGHTH AND OLIVE 5ST5., ST. Louis, DIAMOND: _ Save Money By Buyi.g Yuour Christmas Presents of Loftis Bros. & Co. — No matter what you wish in Diamonds, Watches, Solid Gold Jewelry, Silverware and Novelties, we can save you money. If you wish to accom- plish the most with a given sum, you should open a charge account with us, and if you wish all the advantages of choice selections and best values, Ne, 185—Dinner Ring, you must come early—before the final rush is on.

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