St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 24, 1910

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ty 4 * —— * R — * — +9 ly — * * i. > 7 — * are, eS Sean ; ae Ns . * — 2 ‘= > ¥ so he ae Passenger Train and Express ‘on Pennsylvania Line Col- lide at Attica, O., in Early Morning and Engineer and : ; em -. Baggageman Are Among - the Dead. “BLOCK SIGNALS WERE a IGNORED BY THE CREW * "Said to Have Run Past __ Three Semaphores Before cs ie Accident Occurred. = | By Aasociated Press UPPER SANDUSKY, O., Dec. 24.—In ) a — collision between passenger train No. 15 and an express train on the Penn- : sylvania Railroad. at Attica, O., eight miles east of here, at 2 a. m. today _ six people were killed outright and six The wreck occurred on a curve and : = two trains crashed into each other Ea re A F . * ~ Engineer Craig of Fort Wayne, Ind., — ee the express train was killed and Fireman Miller also’ was killed. Three — of the list of the injured are members of the train crew. ac LAM the. seriously injured have been = sent to the Bucyrus Hospital. All the are at an underi.ker’s establish- at Upper Sandusky. of the east-bound tain, Clarence Miller, engineer on Fort % Fe aden train, Fort Wayne; De Witt C. Beebe, baggageman, Fort Wayne ~ 4 — 3 ; Ea fe a — — ————

— Roe mays g Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News. Pas

at LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1910.

A SRISTAASPRESENT

Every newsboy and every carrier regularly selling the POST-DISPATCH will AS USUAL, be furnished with his usual number of copies of TODAY'S POST-DISPAT —

— ae FREE!

per cent. a a ae ee This will be the Christmas gift of the POST- DISPATCH to the army of selling merchants,’ You pay as usual, but their profit will be 100

PAPERS FREE TU POST-DISPATCH NEWSBOYS TODAY Usual Supply — to Street Merchants and Carriers as a Christmas Present. His usual supply of papers was fur- nished free Saturday to every. newsboy and every carrier selling the Post-Dis- patch. the \ Post-Dispatch to its army of sell- ing merchants. Readers pay as usual, but everything the boys get for their papers is clear profit. This is not a gift from an employer to an employe. The newsboys are noi employes éf the Post-Dispatch; they are customers. They buy the papers and sell them at a profit and keep the profit. Saturday it will all be profit, and friends of the boys will be contributing to them direct by buying a paper, for none of the money spent in this way gets away from the boy. It-is all his. Several plans have been tried ‘by Christmas for the newsboys. One [years $300 sweaters were distributed . land several times 9 rand was making & trip with En Craig. se samen SEE GIRL jdrew ai revolver given to them. The -plan of. giving their regular supply of papers ‘to them without cost .is the most satiafactory yet found. In this way all the boys are treated alike and they get\a nice lit- tle sum for themselves. The plan has been tried long enough so that readers of the paper generally understand it. Don’t for- get that Saturday the newsboys gales are 100 per cent profit and don’t miss’ a car waiting for a cold, grimy little hand to search for four pennios change for da nickel. NEWSBOY'S MEAL - SLOW: KILLS MAN

| INA RESTAURANT 1 Starts Fusillade Because of De: lay:in-Serving Steak He Had : _ Ordered. Enraged because a small steak he had ordered was not served promptly, Jack Bennett, aged 18, a news- boy, of ° 2718 Stoddard street. and began fir- in. a restaurant at LBight- ing teenth street and Lucas avenue.at 1 p. m. Saturday. One of the bullets pierced the heart of James Costas, a |former employe of the restaurant, killing him instantly. — e 156 customers in the restaurant at the time dodged under chairs and ‘tables to escape Bennett's bullets. The first shot was aimed at Peter Pappas, tone of the pkoprietors of the restau- rant. It went wild,.and then Bennett turned upon the diners and began shooting at them. Costas had just entered the —— He attempted to get out of the range }of Bennett's ptstol, but was not quick Lieeuate The third shot fired hit him in the breast and. he dropped dead to the floor. The police arrested Bennett, who, | they assert, had been drinking freely.

He was taken to the Central District ‘Police Station. Bennett, who has sold papers at the ington avenue for several. years, went te ge ae . | to the restaurant ‘about 12:30 and’ or- complaining

the Post-Dispatch ‘to ao something on ‘corner of Eighteenth street and Wash- | This {s the annual present of |. *’

(Bla RAILROAD STRIKE OF THE ENGINEERS OFF

After a Conference in Chicago Announcement Is Given to the Public. CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—No strfke on the railroads west, north and south of Chicago by the engineers. This was the brief announcement made public today at the close of the conference between the railway man- agers, the engineers represented by Chief Warren §. Stone of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers, and Mediator Charles P. Neill. None of the details in the plan of Neill on which both sides met in the conference, was given out with the first announcements It was ex- plained that the exact features of the agreement would have to e drawn up and would be.given out later. The settlement provides for a general increase for the employes of 10 1-3 per cent, which on normal service amounts to, about 40 cents a day. Nei’ s Plans. Win. FE —— It was ‘admitted, however, that Neill’s } plea that each side. contriute more of its claims and offers to the eommon cause of peace; had‘ been successful; and that each’ side had agreed that the claims originally. set forth would be modified to enable a settlement. Up to the time of Mr. Neill’s arrival the engineers were seeking practical- ly 17 per cent decrease in the old pay. The railroads had agréed to a raise approximating 9% per cent and there they hung. As early as Thursday it Was conceded by both sides that only a small margin of difference separated them, but that each side feared ‘that greater questions than that of wages were being brought mm” When today’s conference was be- gun Mediator Neill announced tha: his efforts were about concluded, and that unless the conferees reached a settlement today there was little usc for him to remain in Chicago. Both Sides Feared Strike. Visions of arbitration under the Erd- man act on the one hand and of a long, destructive strike on the other brought the opponents together within an hour after the conference began. Attorneys and stenographers at once began to draw up the agreement be- tween the railroad and the engineers, based on the pledges at the conference. Actual signature to this agreement was not expected before late in the ‘after- noon or tonight. Fear of a strike which would have crippled the West was dis- pelled early by agreement of the con- ferees .to let it be known immediately that a settlement had been reached. ST, LOUIS COUNTRY CLUB IS

REORGANIZED; GETS CHARTER|

Members Hereafter Will Not Have to Hold Shares, but Can Join for $400. A pro forma decree of incorpora- tion under the educational, Mterary and benevolent act was granted to the new St. -Louis Country Glub by Judge G. A. Wurdemann of Clayton, Saturday. Attorney’ Daniel G. Tay- lor, secretary, of the, club,, made the application. | The organization will take over the | grounds: and appurtenances of the St. Louis Country Club at Clayton. Under the’ new c er, ‘members will not be required to hola shares but may. become merhbers upon th< dons year dues.. MOISSANT FLIES OVER “pity Does Stunts for for Neaity an Hour ‘in New Rapes , |

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IN LATE STYLES INELOPEMENTS Everything Was Ready for Miss Greenway’s When Press Agent Was Found to Be Lacking.

NO ONE WAS IN PURSUIT There Were No. Objections to Wedding, but They Decided to Run Away, Nevertheless. _ An automobile was puffing in front of 1468 Blackstone avenue at 10:15 a. m. Saturday and inside the house all was hurry’ and confusion. There was going to. be an unnecessary elopement, anc there was no time to lose. Miss Gusto Kawana Greenway was all ready te elope with Raymond McDannold of 136° Belt avenue. Her sister, Miss Neville Greenway, and J. R. Hennig were going with them. ’ They were all ready to m&ke a dash to Hennig’s automobile when Miss Ne- ville Greenway cried: “Stop! We have forgotten something." “Merciful Heayens,” cried Miss Gusto, “what is it? Speak! Do not keer me in suspense.” Send a Reporter, Quick. “We have forgoten to tell the Post- Dispatch .about it. But there is yet time. The trusty telephone is here.” Al! in a flutter over the narrow escape, Miss Revita ealled up the office of the Post-Dispatch. oTntre is going to be an elopement to Clay- fon,” she cried. there at once. We are escaping in an automobile. Raymond McDannold ani my sister, Miss: Gusto Kawana Greenway, are to be married. and Mr. Hennig and I are going along. What are they eloping for? Why, to get married, of course. Opposition? Cer- tainly not. Raymond is an awfully nice boy and there is not the slight- est objection; not the slightest, but an elopement is such fun and.so ex- What's that? I can’t hear you for all the noise they are making, and the chauffeur is. blowing tae horn frantically—you can * that in the .story if you want to, Ke ept Almost a Secret. “Ate all the family here to see us Min Jefferson City: and papa is ‘not at home. Sister and Ray décided a few days ago that it would be a good time to elope while mamma was away, and nobody knows anything:about it except Mr. Hennig and myself and Mr. Mc- Dannold’s sister, Mrs. 8, Gibson. They will depart for Chicago tonight on a wedding trip.’ Isn’t it romantic? ‘Well, that’s all I can tell you now. They just won’t wait for me any longer. Goodby.’”’ They went whizzing away in the au- tomobile. So far, all was well. They had made their escape from the maid- en’s home, If they could recah Clayton ‘pefore there was time for pursuit by relatives, who had not the slightest ob- jection, they would be married and lire happy ever after. 7 The unexpected opposition did not develop. Justice Werremeyer mar- ried them. He explained that he had a right to a kiss, but a rose would last longer, and if it were all the same to the bride he would take a rose. It was all the same to the bride, if not more so. Hennig, how- ever, chose a kiss. Miss Melville explained at Clayton that she saw Raymond (first and was in love with him. but that her sister won him. “I con- sider myself a good loser,” she said. Both the bride and her sister are brunettes of striking appearance. THIS WAS COLDEST MORNING OF SEASON AND A DULL SKY PROMISES SNOW OR RAIN THE TEMPERATURES. ae iy Ws oe 12 (meonm) ....20 eS pear | 2 Pp. MB ikées it wee

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It must be em- barassing for San- ta Claus to have the Weather Bu- reau. in doubt as to whether snow wifl fall Saturday aight. With a temper- ature down to lil degrees, the cold- est of the season, Saturday morn- ng, it was plenty cold enough to make any snow hat fell remain mn the ground un- ‘ch after Christ- nas. Snow was sredicted and dull sray skies of the morning made it 00a a8 if. there was '& be rea] Christmas weather. Later in the day bright sunshine less- ened the prospects of snow and the boy | with the new sled is likely to way Oo —

“Send a reporter out

~ PRICE ONE CENT _ WASHINGTON SOCIETY WOMAN WHO LEFT HER HOME SAME DAY CLUBMAN FRIEND DEPARTED|

of the late Henry M. Hoyt. — Mrs. Philip Hichborn, whose absence fro departed the same day that Horace Wylie, a gave vise to a report that the two had eloped.

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bi Waaktieton Kets hh sat been —— ae lain rominent clubman, $. Hichborn 4s a fomeus beauty and-is the daughter disappeared.

FUMES FROM A GAS STOVE KILL Clerk Found Bodies in Two Rooms When His Calls Were Not Answered. By Associated Press. KENTON, 9O., Dec. 2.—Six persons, two women and four men, were found dead today in two rooms in a hotel at the rear of the opera house. The dead are: . Clark Latham, aged 34. Mrs. Clark Latham, aged 31. Pearl Kennedy, aged 24. Willtam Kenfedy, aged 53. Harry Newcomb, aged 26. Miss Elizabeth Bailey, aged 22. The clerk of the restaurant on the peated calis and went to the rear room the room. — It is supposed the fumes from a gas stove killed all six persons.- Latham was found lying on the floor, while nis wife was sitting in a chair and had fall- en forward upon a table. Newcomb was on one side of the room and the Bai'ey girl on the other. ° Botimhad fallen back- wards, when overcome by the fumes, The two Kennedys were regular room- ers and were in bed; the others wore street attire. ETHEL LENEVE I$ GOING TO FRANCE TO BEGIN LIFE ANEW She Has Accepted: a Position as Stenographer in Nice, Says a Paris Paper. Special Cable te the Post-Dispatch and New York World. Co 1910, by Press Pub. — * View World.) * PARIS, Dec. 4&.—Ethel Clara Leneve, for love of whom probably Dr. Crippen murdered his wife, Belle Elmore, is com-

MANS F SIX IN A HOTEL first floor received no response to his re- and saw four of the bodies lying about ‘17 p. m. on his way home.. He told her

OZEN 10 DEATH ON WAY 10 PLAY SANTA CLAUS William : Vie; Who Lived Alone, Found Dead Near Home With Basket of Gifts. J Frozen to death with a basket of Christmas ‘toys in his hand, the body of William Vie was. found Saturday morning near the corner of North Broadway and Calvary avenue by Po- liceman Burke. Vie was 60 years old, a widower, and lived at 523 Calvary avenue, a sparsely settled street dividing Calvary’ and Bellefontaine cemeteries. — The basket found gripped in his ‘frozen hand contained a few groceries, some Christmas toys and an unopened bottle of whisky. He lived aloné at the ad- dress given, and the toys were for chil- dred in the neighborhood. : Vie' raised and sold bird dogs, and al- ways had a number of the dogs at his ‘home. He sold two a few days ago and went to Baden Friday to make Christ- mas purchases, He was last seen alive by Mrs. Geraldine Aubuchon of 647 Cal- vary avenue, as he passed her home at. he was going to have a Christmas tree Saturday night and invite all the’ chil- dren of the neighborhood to «it. A son and daughter of the olf man live somewhere in St. Louis, but the neighbors do not know where. | The body was removed to the morgue ‘and held for relatives. ‘ This is the first case of the ‘season, so far as the police know, of death from exposure. The minimum ‘temperature between midnight and Saturday morn- ing was 11 degrees. -

tion. of Christmas. Salaries. 3 PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. Pag gy MRS. PICKEL ASKS OR $300 10 BUY Says She Needs a $100 Coat and Suit and Her Son a Full Winter Outfit. Confined to her home in Chicago, not by illness, but by lack of winter clothes, Mrs. Ella M. Pickel declares that she needs $2300 to buy clothes for herself and her son. Saturday in support of her motion in Judge Sale’s court, where a suit has been brought against her husband, Fred J. Pickel, for additional allowance. The Court aNowed Mrs. Pickel $80 a month, but she says this sum is inade- quate and asks for $70 additional, mak- ing $150 a month. In regard to tlie requisition for clothes, Mrs. Pickel testified she has nothing but summer clethes for herself and that her boy is in the same predicament. At first she asked for $150 to buy winter clothes and later doubled this amount, ‘stating in this connection that she could not get a winter coat for herself un- der $100. According Pickel it appears there is a $7 & month deficit in the Pickel family finances. She states her husband’s income-.as $493 a month and says he spends $500 a month. lof this amount she says $350 goes for personal expenses of Pickel of which maintenante of his automobile and ac- cessories is an important item. In addition to the winter coat which cannot be bought for less than $100, Mrs. Pickel says she needs a winter sult, hat, heavy shoes and other items of Industrial Plants Finish: Distribu- ’

a wes. Prisoner: Is — h Worked as Wife’s Se ‘van and ~ Disappeared Ww $6000 Worth of Je A chase of four years by-P kertot detectives and secret * : * t leading to various cities ‘oul United States, for a woman a thief, referred to in police e ulars tributed broadcast as “The Get Cat’s Eyes,” resulted in ‘the 4 Lilly McDowell, alias Elsie | years old, in a St. Lovie 1 store. - Se Mark Shipley, special agent « the Fidelity and Casualty * Ni York, told the —— ire of woman's identity and her c with thefts of — cities. He sent a t fect to the main in New York Sa H, Chouteau an as the one who worked ds home as Clara Stratton in ; days.

The — WARM CLOTHING Depositions to this effect were filed tc *he deposition of Mrs. | Dyer has. v “many. citi aa tren ear meting took ve than a dozen suspects, . went to New York to who was. then under itentiary. for her cor kidnaping of Willie W Lily McDowell was night in a downtown depart by Detectives Joyce and Supt. Maher ofthe taker the detectives she narrowly esca was looking for her in | s te were The woman is ca irl the Cat’s Eyes” on it of ’ across her left eye. The prisoner has The left eye has a ite con Seat see —X — ie

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w. Withdraws Prosecution of Alleged Count and Countess, in » $200,000 Sale of Paintings, but Prosecutor Continues With the Case. OUTBREAK AGAINST PLAINTIFF FEARED! Accused Win Sympathy of Spectators as Evidence Is Submitted—Testimony Is Completed and the Case. Goes Over Until Jan. 2 By Associated Press. . TOURS, France, Dec. 24.—At the open- ing of the court today in the case of “Count” and “Countess” D’Aulby de Gatigny, the attorneys for the Duchess @e Choiseul-Prasiin, formerly Mrs Charles Hamilton Paine of Boston, an- | nounced that they withdrew the con:- _ plaint and Would retire from the case. ’ fhe Public Prosecutor, however, insist- ead that the trial be continued. Immediately following this announce- —* it was discovered that the Duch- had departed hurriedly from Tours and her destination is a. secret. Partil- mans of the defendants, and there are many since the trial began, declare that a demonstration hostile to her was planned. afforded additional sur- in proceedings that had been ly by unexpected episodes, dramatié situations and quick clfanges pathies of the spectators. Duchess instituted her sult D’Aulbys, whose real name be Daulby, charging that they her out of $200,000 in con- the sale of pictures alleged she brought an expert who ridiculed the supposed character men of standing testified to the honesty and charitable practices of the defend- ants with a conviction that brought tears to the eyes of the crowd in the 18 Own Aintense Daulby assert- —J in- good faith. ne ot guaranteed the authenticity works and if they were , too, had been deceived in mdded that “he had be- triended the Paines when they were in Paris, acted as a con- ‘dential agent for them in the pur- nae of pictures and wines and became an intimate friend * Mrs. Paine. last statement caused Madame Dandy to rise before Judge Robert /an@ denounce the complainant as one ‘who had sought to destroy the hap- piness of her home. — Daulbys were successful in the sympathy of the fashion- e folke who have attended every 58 of the trial, and today there + = = @ noisy pro-Daulby demonstra- - tion when M. Sturel, addressing the Court, said the Duchess wished to abandon the prosecution because of e conviction that the case had col- . LP Nothing, he said, had been bs proves. against the Daulbys. * Refuses to Dismiss Case. Bernard of counsel for the defense sked the Public Prosecutor to abandon ve prosecution, saying that the defend- ats had jpromised that the letters al- to have been written by the w and which, he said, formed | of the complaint, would Prosecutor declined to stop the , but in view of the day’s develop- — the friends of the Daulbys de- sare themselves confident of their ac- The —— of evidence in the case ‘as concluded this afternoon, where- on an a: until Jan. 2 was

Her REAL OR NER A INT LAL AED ALS SER RE SD LUO NK, PAE [ISSOURI FOREST YIELDS KING OF — ~ CHRISTMAS TREE FOR THE COLISEUM — — — — — — es J — — — ee ee ee ‘oma 4 @) “ey ° \ wane a

Those Who Attend Post-Dispatch Christmas Festival Fund Dinner Dressed in Regal Splendor.

The biggest Christmas tree in Jeffer- son County has been torn from its native heath and brought to St. Louis to glad- den the eyes of ‘thousands at the Post- Dispatch Christmas festival at the Coll- seum Monday. At the end of its over- land journey of 387 miles it has been safely delivered within the walls of the Coliseum and is being placed in position to receive its gala dress of vari- colored electric lights, gilt and tinsel and a thousand glistening ornaments. One of the biggest problems of the Christmas festival is getting the Christ- mas tree. Nothing less than the biggest and best tree that can be found will do for the purpose and Christmas trees of the kind needed for a whole city’s Christmas celebration do not grow very close to St. Louis. Furnished by Telephone Company. .. Last Christmas the Bell Telephone Co. furfiilshed the Christmas tree'and when Stephen A. Martin, Chairman of the Tree Committee, went to E. F. Carter, commercial manager of the company, and requested the company's co-opera- tion with its perfectly-equipped and ex- perienced pole squad, he readfly gave assurance that the Bell Telephone Co. would find the tree and deliver it within the walls of the Coliseum. T. E. Obermoeller, superintendent of uburban construction, was charged with the responsibility of finding the tree and Will See It delivering it at the Coliseum. He knew that the biggest Christmas trees grew in the neighborhood of Local, Mo., four miles south of House’s springs, on the Gravois road, in Jeffersen County, 37 miles from St. Louis. A pole wagon and team were sent down Tuesday in charge of Tom Coyle. Obermoeller, accompanied by M. B. Is- sing, follewed in his automobile. ~ Captured |After Hard Work. The most perfect tree that could be found was on the farm of Frank Schaf- fery, one-half mile west of Local. It was 40 feet high and perfectly symmet- rical. The pole wagon was backed up to it and it was cut down, and with the aid of block and tackle was lowered directly on the wagon, but the opera- ‘tion required four hours. By the time it had been made snug on the wagon and the branches all caught up so that they would not drag, the afternoon was well spent and the start for St. Louis was not made until] Wednesday morn- ing. The journey was finished at 1:45 a. m. Friday. Two hours were required to get the big tree into the Coliseum, and many more hours to set it up, ready to receive the electric Hghts and decora- tions. The Unier Electric Light ang Power Co. will furnish streamers of dif- ferent colored electric lights that will

}make the tree a dazzling spectacle.

CONTRIBUTION! 8 on PAGE TEN.

Woman, Suspected of Being Much-Hunted Gem Thief, Taken Continued From Page One.

of her head. Off came her black hair and another “rat” was removed. Ther the woman stood before Shea with ‘héy short black hair closely combed, as described by Miss Riker. The woman refused to make a state- ment. Chief Smith has asked other resi- dents of St. ouis who have lost dia- monds by servant girl thefts to go to headquarters Saturday and look at the woman, The police of Chicago claim a prior right to the woman. Chief Young has been asked to turn the woman over to the Chicago officers, saying that they desire to prosecute her and feel that they have a splendid case against hér. A decision will be made later whether to send the woman to Chicago or to prosecute her for the Dyer robbery. The woman is 5 feet and 5 inches tall and weights 1156 pounds. Her hair is black. The false hair she wore is brown. She wore a black gilk dress, with expensive trimmings, and a big black picture hat. Her face is red and she has a sharp nose. The “girl with the cat’s eyes” is wanted by the police of Buffalo, Pittsburg, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleve- land and Chicago for numerous dia- mond robberies. The police of those places have notified Chief Young that if 8t. Louis and Chicago does not prosecute her they are anxious to get her. Two receipts for advertisements in St. Loulg newspapers Sunday and four answers were found in the woman's possession. The ads were for a ser- vant girl and asked applicants to |give references. “The woman would insert an ad- vertisement seeking to employ a ser- vant.” Mosher said. “In each case e demanded references. The an-

ad swers containing the names of Tor- ee ee TAG DAY FUND CHECKS ARE MAILED T0 14 HOSPITALS Tota] of $40,009.30 to Reim- burse for Treatment of Sick Poor During Year. Fourteen hospitals were partly reim- bursed for treatment of the sick poor during the year closing Sept. 30 with checks sent out Saturday: morning by the Hospital Saturday and Sunday As- ssociation’s president, D. R. Francis. The checks total $40,009.90, and were in amounts directed by the Auditing Committee, of which John J. Dieckman is chairman. Eleven of the hospitals are regular participants and the other three re- ceived donations. The intention of the association is to pay two-thirds the ex- pense of treating indigent patients, with a limit of $1 a day. Some of the hos- pitals have an expense above this amount, so the amount received by this class falls below two-thirds of the cost. This was the eighteenth annual dis- tribution of the tag-day funds.

WOMAN CROWDING DN ACAR WOUNDS MAN WITH HATPIN A. J. Harvey Is Nearly Blinded When Passénger’s Head Adorn- ment Strikes Face. As A. J. Harvey of 2710 Washington avenue was standing on the rear plat- form of a pay-as-you-enter Page car at 7 a. m. Saturday, his face was cut by a hatpin worn by a woman who brushed past him. Except for the fact that Harvey wore spectacles he might have lost his right eye. The hatpin struck the rim of the glass and was deflected so that only the fleshy part of the face was injured. The cut, on a level with the eye, was an inch long, and a quarter of an inch deep. ‘\ The point of the pin was protruding an inch or more through the hat,” said Harvey to a Post-Dispatch report- er. “The car was badly crowded. I got on at 2700 Washington avenue, and was on the platform when the woman got on at Jefferson avenue. “As she crowded past me I felt a sharp sting on the face. When I put my hand up I found I was severely cut. The woman turned and apologized. Of course it was an accident, but it seems to me that women should not wear hat- pins with long points protruding. “T understand that in Chicago the long pins are prohibited by ordinance. I think, after my experience, that they should be prohibited here.”’ Harvey is a builder, with an office at 108 North Ninth street. After going to his office he stopped the flow of blood from his wound. AGED MISSOURIAN I$ BURNED Fire at Union Star Costs Life of Man 95 Years Old. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 24.—In a fire that destroyed five buildings at Union Star, Mo., M. H. Cochrane, 9% years old, was burned to death this morning. Cochran lived alone, and it is sup- posed that his house caught fire while he was cooking breakfast. The flames spread to business houses and a milli- nery store, drug store, office of the Union Star Herald and a vacant store were destroyed. The loss is. about $10,000.

arguments for the changé are:

Kipling Asks Medicine Hat Not to Be Bluffed Out of Birthright of Name by Joke UDYARD KIPLING, according to a special dispatch from Medicine Hat, has written a characteristic letter to citizens of that place, aft- er being informed that the town contemplated changing its name. “So far as I can make out from what I have heard when I was with you in 1907 and from the clippings you inclose,” Kipling writes, “the chief “1, That some United States journalists have some sort of joke that Medicine Hat supplies all the bad weather of the United States. . ; ‘9. That another name would look better at the head of a prospectus. OW, as to the charge of brewing bad weather, I see no reason on earth why white men should be bluffed out of their city’s birth- OTTAWA, Ont., Dec, 2%. y

Delegates Act. Favorably Upon - Measure Although Majority Are Opposed to It. LIKELY TO FIGHT CHANGE Support Is Given on Condition . Freeholders Take Responsi- bility for Early Vote. Votes enough to give a two-thirds ma- jority to the bill designating Jan. 31 as the date of the special election for the adoption of the new charter are in- sured in the Council. now that the mea- sure has safely passed the House. The bill had its first reading in the Council at a special meeting at noon Saturday. It will'have its second read- ing at the regular meeting Tuesday, and a special meeting will be held Wednes- day to vote on it. If the bill is passed by the Council, as now seems probable, it will go to the Mayor for his signa- ture Wednesday afternoon. There i little doubt that the Mayor will sign it promptly. The passage of the biJl any time be- fore Jan. 10 will give the Board of Election Commissioners ample time le- gally to call the special election for Jan. 31, If the bill is’ passed before Dec. 31, the date the Freéholders have fixed for formally transmitting the proposed charter to the Mayor, no changes in the schedules it contains will have to be made, as the Freeholders will then know to a certainty that it will go to the people for adoption or rejection Jan. $1. With three members absent the bill received 21 votes—three more than two- thirds—in the House of Delegates. But four members—one Republican and three Democrats—recorded themselves against [ the measure, although several an- nounced that they supported it under protest and on the sole condition that the Board of Freeholders accept the re- sponsibility for allowing so brief a period for the new charter’s considera- tion. Are Expected to Fight Charter. Although three-fourths of the dele- gates supported the bill, most of them are opposed to the new charter. It is expected that they will use what in- fluence they have in trying to compass its rejection. At the caucus in the House Friday afternoon the questions .which delegates asked of City Counselor Walther indi- cated that most. of the 16 present were hostile to the charter, but they were dissuaded by Speaker Rombauer from voting against the bill setting the elec- tion. He contended that the delegates could not afford to prevent the people from expressing themselves as to the merits of the charter. When Clerk Findly called the names of the delegates on the passage of the bill Tuesday night, several took oc- casion to explain that they voted for it only since the Freeholders had consented to take the responsibility for the short time given for studying the new charter. Delegate Eilers was the first to ex- press his reasons for supporting the bill while personally opposed to fixing the election at such an early date. He was followed by Delegates Holliday, Rus- sell, Samel and Walker and Speaker)? Rombauer. , Says Censtituents Oppose It. Delegate Brennan was the only Dem- ocrat to take the floor. He said he and Delegate Gallagher in the House two years ago had worked for the passage of the bill creating a board of free- holders, but that his constituents were opposed to the new charter, Those voting aye were Chapman, Du- ing, Eilers, Gregory, Hamilton, Hilden- brandt, Hilkerbaumer, Holliday, Igoe, Jacobs, Koch, Mischel, Oheim, Paule. Rower, Russell, Samel, Taussig, Tirre, Walker and Speaker Rombauer. Dele- gates Brennan, WBigel, Gallagher and Soy voted “no.” Delegates Buder, Gold- en and Speitpel were absent. When Councilman Espenschied moved Friday afternoon to have a regular meeting of the Council Saturday to give the election bill ite first reading in that branch of the Assembly, Councilman Schutz, Schneiderhahn and Lehmberg voted against it. This is taken to in- dicate that they will not support the bill when it comes before the Gounch for passage.

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. Phones: Central 86 and Bomont 2088. GIRL’S TEETH PULLED 10

MAKE CROSS-EYES STRAIGHT Dentist Believes They Have Found New Method for Curing Such Troubles.

Carondelet Residents Have Made Frequent Appeals for Re- | lief From Evil. VEGETATION IS BLIGHTED Chemicals Ruin Plants and Trees and Make It Dangerous to Breathe Air. Investigation by Post-Dispatch report- ers Saturday showed that the chief source of the smoke cloud which hangs continually over Carondelet, and hich frequently spreads over the entire south- west portion of the city, is the row or low stacks of the Edgar Zinc Co., at the foot of Blow street. Not even the Manchester avenue brick kilns, with their slow, low-lying fires, Mass., has bought an entire Mass., babies © of & in St. Louis. — —— The Lowell Bleacheries Co. of ground in South St. Louis for the 3 site on the Mississippi a big cotton mill. The water in St. Louis, the Lowell — too high. for bleaching cotton. — send forth fumes so dense as those} which come almost constantly from the il chimneys of the zinc works. . Residents of Carondelet have made frequent appeals ‘to the city authorities for relief from the almost intolerable nuisance. Not only fits denseness, but Its chemically poisonous © character, makes this smoke a@ menace to human health and plant life. Vegetation can hardly exist in the near neighborhood of the works, and trees and plants re- peatedly have been destroyed by the smoke, which sometimes settles down in crystallized form, like the outpourings of a volcano, on roofs and soil. High Degree of Heat Needed, The smoke is of such blackness that it can,be distinguished clearly from al! other smoke at a distance of more than a mile. At night, and frequently by day, fire rises with the smoke through the chimneys. “‘We have tried auitomatic methods of stoking, in the hope of reducing the smoke,” said John Field, superintend- ent of the Edgar plant, to a Post-Dis- patch reporter, “but we have found them unavailing. The coal clinkers clog the feeding apparatus, and it becomos impossible to get the very high degree of heat needed for the reduction of the ore. The heat required is from 2600 to 2300 degrees. “The people living around here have: appealed to Hdgar for relief, and he has told them he would be glad to find «a way to abate the smoke, but that he ‘knew of none. The plant has been here nearly 40 years.” Other Smoking Plants. .” It would do little good, Carondelet residents say, to abate the smoke of other. establishments there so long as the zinc works’ smoke remains in its present volume and denseness. . Some of the establishments which produce smoke most plentifully in that portion of the ofty are the Union Sand Co., which has its hoisting machinery along the river front; the Whitman Agricul- tural Co., Second street and Loughbor- ough avenue, with three stacks; and the Standard Steam Laundry, 7128 South Broadway. Mrs. B, B. Graham, one of the most earnest of the members of the Hxecu- tive Committee of the Women's Smoke Abatement Association, said to a Post- Dispatch reporter: “T am confident that the women will succeed in this campaign against the smoke evil. The women took an active part in the movement for small parks and public playgrounds, and the success of the movements for those needed ob- jects has greatly encouraged thosq who are behind the present big undertak- ing. Studying the Subject. ‘We realize that this undertaking Is a big one, and for that reason we have undertaken to prepare ourselves thor- oughly, by studying the subject of amoke production and prevention from every standpoint. We are now holding a meeting every other day for this prac- tical study. “The educational part of the work will be extended to the entire member- ship of our organization, and to the public. Once the public understands the question, the end of the nuisance will be in sight.”

— ⸗ Avoid Crowded Cars. Christmas shopping in comfdrt. No broken packages. The Columbia Taxi- cab. Call us up. Lindell 5600, Central 200. ROAD TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEATH OF ST. LOUIS BOY Eleven Others Lost Life in Col- lision When Frank G. Fred- ericks Was Killed. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. &. ~For what is believed to be the first. time on record, a railroad took upon it- self in court the responsibility for a wreck in which there was loss of life when attorneys for the Denver & Rio Grande yesterday asked permission to

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— ——ſ ONE. BR ji ~ |HOW THE PUBLIC COULD BE MADE TO FORGET . THE HIGH COST OF LIVING ONE DAY, ANYWAY | | Tae. GAS Co 1S Going o Gwe CHRISTMAS PRESENTS: ) _Mrs. Turnbull Continues to Class Letters Unfavorable to Her Case as Forgeries. SHE ACCUSES DETECTIVE * Witness Gets Relief From Ordeal When Case Is Adjourned Over the Holidays. ? ° “WHO'S Looney — — Buy — MORE - BRIDGE |}: ~~ TICKETS. _ 108 ANGELBS, Cal. Dec. %—Mrs. _Tdliian Turnbull, chief witness in the contest of her daughter, Beatrice,’ for almost one-fourth of “Lucky” Baldwin's KEEP YouR FARE ITS A oe ane PRES trom — — who once sued Bald- deception, is seeking to estab- marriage between herself and n. Her evidence in the former case hag been destroyed and the at- torneys for the estate were endeavor- testimony when they asked what possible reason there could be 3 , ‘for #0 many forgeries of her letters WHY NoT THe Too ? ————— more of her alleged let- tore were introduced and she de- clared every one of them “base, ’. atrocious forgeries, perpetrated by a villain tn the employ of that treach- erous man, James R. Wood.” a Weed an Employe of Col. Pope. 5 is the Bosten detective em- by Col. Atbert Pope, whom Trumbull previously declared me out to Baldwin.”’ ~“—. vat the letters contained this UNITED RAILWAYS &{ Suaaestion Teo THR COAL MAN, pentence: “I resisted Lucky Baldwin more than I did Col. Pope, for I loved Col. Pope. I shall never betray his oe A woman never betrays the : Turnbull declared she never The Laclede Gaslight Oo. is giving away gas as a Christmas présent—but it is in balloons and footballs which are being distributed to boys and girls who call at the company’s offices. ee to other corporations which may desire to show their beneficence. t he was going to vive he said: “Giddap.” he cartoonist here makes When the coal man was asked wrote this or anythrng like it, al- “pian she loves. Never!” “Mrs. though it is quoted as part of the ‘e ider nee in the decision rendered by HUSBAND WINS DIVORCE. SUES 2. MEN FOR $300,000 One Suit Is Against — Doctor and Other Against Federal Employe. By Wire From the Washington . BBureau of the Post-Dispatch, WASHINGTON, Dec, 24.—Ten minutes after Justice Ashley M. Gould granted him a decree of absolute divorce today and gave him the custody of his five children, William N. Matteson, well known in real estate circles, filed two suits asking $150,000 es from each of the two men he says wrecked his home. One is a physician with a large practice—Dr. John Stutz. He is promi nent in church work and its identified with one of the largest Lutheran churches in the city. He came into the home of. Mr. Matteson professionally, end her ¢hildren. For years, according to the husband’s testimony, substantiated during the hearing by the evidence of servants in the house, and by a confession sworn to have been made by Dr. Stutz to Mr. | Matteson’s brother, Edward 8. Matte gon, he continued to come to the house unrestricted in the guise ¢@f physician and friend. Geverament Employe. The other man is Louis F. Holden. He is an employe of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. Holden denies absolutely any intima- cy with the woman. He appeared with Teounsel. He contested every step of the testimony, but only to the end that Justice Gould said from the bench: “Since the case of Mordaunt vs. Mor- daunt, when the Prince of Wales per- himself like a gentleman, we can- * g RF # Fe A eo? of B i Lib Bese) ela tied g seg — — * — 4 «1 wes ey =, — = 8 *X ate or 3 —— Bc — * V⏑—⏑I O— : Z ACA Na ieee eed eR EN” RR Pe ARE er, Ph. — hes es ee > 4 — Re ee See . 5 7 7 + eee — > lh bite 5. i iv ; ‘ — * ee — 5. Fed * * — ayo pte es - at dy ad b 5 wt 8 i: — — - poss oer ‘4 vert — — Bs p ee eee — a Peng ns naan {Rogue 9 called to attend Mrs. Lulu Matteson. MODERNISM HELD HERESY BY Tht OF LOUIS CLERGY Priests Are Required to Take Oath Against New Thought Prevailing in Europe. The oath agatmst modernism, which Catholic priests all over the world have been required to take, has been sent by Archbishop Glennon to the clergy of the fiiovbese of St. Louis. The priests are required to swear that they do not be- lieve any of the modernism doctrines, which are somewhat akin to. Buddhism. The oath was intended by the Pope as a check on modernism in Europe. where many noted writers have bee advocating it. The principal tenet of modernism is that God is within every cne and that there is no need of an ex- ternal religion, and conseyuently ne need of churches and priests. According to the Rev. Father D. 8. Phelan of the Western Watchman, the Pope has defined modernism as the em bodiment of all the heresies since timie began. The oath is written in Latin, and go%s into a minutely detailed discussion of modernist theories. Prof. Schell of Ger. many and Prof. Murray of Italy, and revera] noted French writers, have bee. strongly advocating these theories, an¢ their writings, according te Father Pho lan, have been widely distributed throughout Europe.: -“The oath really has no significance in this country,”’ sald Father Phelan to a Post-Dispatch reporter. ‘There is no modernism, within. the religious mea"- ing of the term, in this country. The taking of the oath by the clergy of the United States is merely a formal mat- ter. All the priests throughout the world have been required to swear tha’ they do not believe in the doctrines of modernism. “The oath was go long and of so littic significance in this country. that I did not take the trouble to translate it for the Western Watchman.”’ befits and 8100 white iamonds, ok “aes Bis . 6th at. han i {CITY HOSPITAL STAFF TO PLAY SANTA CLAUS FOR BOY PATIENT Francis Blake Jr., 6 years old, pet pa- tient of the city hospital, where he has/| been since he was badly. burned six months ago, will fare very well Christ- CAPT. HICKMAN IS | MAKING A STRONG FIGHT FOR HEALTH Policeman’s Friends ‘Believe He Is Waging Winning Battle After Collapse. Police Captain James Hickman of the Laclede Avenue Station. who is known as “Fighting Jim” through his. many fearless attacks on rioters during his & years’ service on the police force, is now fighting to regain his health. He is in a serious condition from a nerv- ous breakdown at his home, 4541 Arco avenue. His condition has im- proved within the last two weeks, but his physicians say the danger line has not yet been passed. Capt. Hickman has been confined to his home two months. lapse he fought against failing health as systematically and relentlessly ag he had struggled with evil-doers while he was serying the public. His improve- ment encourages his friends and it is hoped he will soon be able to again take charge of his post. After earning the reputation of a fearless fighter in Indian wars, Hick- man joined the St. Louis police force almost 3% years ago. He is 58 years old. His name has been mentioned at vari- ous times for Chief of Police when it was evident there would be a vacancr In that position. He was made a cap- ‘tain by the Police Board in October. 1908, which was as soon as the law would permit after he was made a lieu- tenant. The place was kept vacant for him until his service would legally en- title him .to accept. ~ While a Sergeant Hickman helped take out the first car during the strike in / 1900. On one occasion, supported by 10 mounted men and 380 foot policemen, and without firing a shot, he opened the way for a string of street cars through a crowd of 20,000 strikers and sympathiz- ers. ; > To Cure That Tickle, Spenag a Nickel. ‘Red Cross + Cough Drops, 6a per box. Navajo Indiang Kill Cattle. MONTROSE, Colo., Dec... %&—Cattle men in the western part ef Montrose and San Miguel counties are greatly concerned over the presence in that section of Navajo Indians from the Utah reservation, whe are reported to be killing BE. A. Hodgkiss, a prominent cattleman, has wie for — — “BUSTER BROWN SHOES” For boys. For girls At Nugent's * Ohio’s Former Lieutenant-Governer After his col- | cattle and deer in abundance. | Chicago Committee Is Raising Fund to Help Families of Stockyards Firemen. By Associated Preas. CHICAGO, Dec. %.—~The' stockyards ‘fire, in which 2% lives were lost, includ- ing that of Chief Marshal James Ho- ran, wag still unsubdued today. Flames continued to shoot through thick clouds of smoke from the ruins of Nelson Mor- a Fine had not spread. Dozens of streams of water were being poured. en the smoldering ruins, and probably will be for several days. Capt. D. Lannon, injured itn the fire. died late yesterday. . Coroner. Hoffman, Lafter a day's investigation, announced the inquest will be opened Wednesday morning. - A&A pecullarly pathetic scene occurred at the fire this afternoon when the body of Capt. Dennis Doyle, the last to be recovered, was taken from the ruins. Pipeman Edward Doyle, a son of the Captain, collapsed when his father’s body was found. Edward Doyle haii been at the fire 36 hours. He had as- sisted in finding the body of his broth- er, Nicholas Doyle, and refused to leave until] that of his father was recovered. -The Citizens’ Relief Committee, of which Harlow N. Higinbotham is chair- man, and John J. Mitchell, treasurer, established headquarters at a downtown bank today. A fund of $250,000 is de sired. Of this, $50,000 has been sub- scribed. The dependants resulting from the disaster are about 100. The arrange- ments for financial aid will provide $2000 to each widow, to be invested so she may be comfortable during life. For every child left fatherless, the same sum is to be invested, the principal to be paid when the beneficiary is‘ 21 years old. Money .for present needs will be given at once, debts will be paid, and if any fireman’s home has a mortgage it will be lifted, so that his family may begin life anew without interest bur dens, Gifts ter Men. No need to give HIM a chea sts, tat rit bait tai + — * ftis Bros.. fi. will find gressive, patrons. & Co.'s beef warehouses, but. the’ .| articles accumulated in the division of “THE IDEAL JEWELRY HOUSE.” BELATED SHOPPERS establishment’ open on Saturday night as late as necessary to accommodate all Seventh and St. Charles CATALOG ON REQUEST. Walter Beck Also Had a List of Names and Addresses That Is Being Investigated. Several naines and addresses, written on slips of paper,' were found in the pockets of Walter Beck when he was taken to the:city hospital early Satur- day morning with two of Policemen Connelly’s bullets in his right leg. The police think seck may have robbed these places: or planned to rob them, and investigation wtil be made. . The names are: Dr: Gerber, 2490 Flore avenue, Maplewood; Mrs. Burder, 202 Park avenue; Mr. Sander, 6117 Washing- ton boulevard; 7831 Bine avenue, Maple- wood, and 4334 Washington boulevard. Beck says they are places where he has. worked. -Beck was passing Fourteenth and Lo- cust streets with a bundle on his shoulder at %:30 o’clock, when Conne} ly called to him to stop. He dropped the bundle and ran. Cennelly fired. two of the bullets striking him in the right leg. The bundle was found to — 20} silk underskirts. Beck denies that he stole them. He said Saturday he was: passing.a house near Fourteenth and Locust streets when a window was opened and the bundle was thrown out, almost hitting him in the head. He felt it was his duty to pick it up and carry it-somewhere and he was doing that when -Confielly interfered. If he had béen left alone he thinks he might have-found the owner and restored the 20 skirts. The man ts 82 years old. He has been living at Father Dempsey’s Hotel, 1127 North Seventh street. Besides the ad- dresses, a small Bible and 0 cents were found on Bim. , Half of his right foot is missing. He rays he lost it-in a railroad accident. Policeman Connelly says he never saw a mah with a foot and a half run as fast as. Beck. 1 _—— Dead Letters Bring $0646. WASHINGTON, Dec. %#.—The sale of dead letters of the Postoffice Depart- ment in the last few days, embraced 7391 items aggregating $9846.80, or an average of —* for each parcel sold. this pro- growing NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS The month of December will be the last month in which Taxes for the current year, 1910, can be paid without penal- Would advise those who have not paid, but desire to do so, and be promptly waited on, not to wait until the last few days, when the office is crowded. - Statements will be furnished if requests are madé on or before December 27, 1910, and accompanied by postage. .. ’ EDMOND KOELN, teeta — — — —— ad [noes PULL HALF-TON OF ry Christmas Shipment From Idit- arod Heaviest of Season. St. Louis —is holding Little ‘‘No-Name’’—our ter in whom so many St. 4046 Bebe Jemeau, prize doll.. he - has just completed), and little friends. Louis Missouri is holding a reception in our doll depart- “a. ment annex this afternoon (lim- ited to the hours of 3 until = 6, owing to the tiring — * Little *'No-Name” Has a Name! “LO UIS MIS SOURI” (Selected by @ committee representing three of the N — Arrived in St, Souls this morning a reception in our Doll Department this from three until six, — dren have been interested—arrived in the city this morning and ex- pressed. himself delighted with the name selected for him. This name —Louis Missouri—was suggested by 12-year-old Clementine Curry Shenandoah Av., who is now the proud possessor of the heantiful of — will be glad to greet all his B. NUGENT —— BRO. DRY GooDs co. Broadway. Washington Av... £hs ea NSYLVA | Steel Train of —— and Conches. , NO EXTRA FARE Leaves St. Louis §:44 8. m, exrives Mec: Sell Sa oe One Block from Broadway, | | | Ticket Officet —— Tenth and Olive Streets, St. Louis, Mo... z. B. MODISHTTE, General Passenger Agent. 4 '| CARETS—best WHALEBONE amor — — - You can insure comfort and good Collector of the Revenue. —— a tae : — — © eRe ee — —* TE ETH, $3.00 We ——— — —* .22⸗ “se caress Soene ee Crowns, vy eg co tdoceste gl Cpeenoces thas) wy ue overeating and drinking by seeing to it that they ali take a CASCARET at bedtime during the holidays, Cas-| \¥ medicine on earth g. ‘, for the little folke—Dad and Mother. er. 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— ee — —— — — — ee eee — RATES 38 BY MAIL IN ADVANCE | | — —* — 2.00 Berl tah —— onder, express money i, i hi tp hp in i ie ke i i i te ni ei i ee __verrrvrerrrrvwreveVeerVewwTweT eS ee * — —— Year --- 1910 @anuary, February, March, April, May, Jume Sunday only .. . 269,644 Daily Only . 2... 166,525 % ~ Circulation Books Open to All 0060004 —— U e = BLIMINATE DEAD MAN’S OCUBVE. * ‘o's RE Ee 6 ORE IE ROE Eo NINN eee x ~QNE ADVANTAGE. —— — provement districts, Article 25 of the proposed — certpalton sag, Baer soll ol bacagaat pedis — meee — a ⸗ F combine In an idea! ity Beaute —— Aeritorious improvemonts will no-‘longer be blocked because of the Yeeling that it is unfair to tax the whole city for that which especially benefits. only a limited district’ The way' is opened to assess the cost of improvements against those ‘directly benefited, thus placing the burden on increased values, due to the improvements, where it properly belongs. London has gone farther in this direction than any other- city, not only assessing the cost of improvements against the property benefit-|- ed, but turning the increased values to public a@ccount.:. When it was decided to widen the Strand from 45 feet to 95 feet and cut a 100-foot avenue from the Strand to Holborn, the city pur- cost. After the improvements had been com- pleted, the unutilized property was sold for enough advance to pay the entire coat of the im-| provements. The. lotal “improvement district is employed rin many American cities. Fifteen years ago Kan- sas City, Mo., had not an acre of park or a yard Cae OX — * % * » — a A pl A — — — —7* chased acres of surrounding property at great]. y 3 * * F — — — — — — — —— — — — —— LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE ‘Vote the Ne New Charter. To the Editor of the —— ——— Your position in regard to the aow shanter ean- not be too highly praised. ‘We weet the charter submitted and we want it adopted. Crime is an individual matter, therefore responsibility should be made an individual matter. The new charter will accomplish this object as nearly as practi- cable. When the operation of the’ recall may seem too slow the criminal laws may be swift enough, and no man with standing enough to get elected to office will be fool enough to take the risk of much frregularity. The present cumber- some ‘machinery of city government will be greatly simplified and greater efficiency and an enormous saving of money is bound'to result. Away with hair-splitting quibbles. The peo- ple’s committee, the Board of Freeholders, has reported, and I move that the report be adopted. TAXPAYER. Street Cleaners’ Pay. To the Editor of the Post- -Dispatch, I have seen considerable in your valuable paper * — —— —— ALLY AIOE CL — — as in reward to the cost of living. Now, I am work- ing for the Street Department cleaning streets. Since the first of February we have only aver- aged 21 days per month at $1.50 per day. We have our carfare to pay and hoes and shovels to pay for, which only leaves us about $29 per month to pay our rent, buy our fuel and cloth- ing and live. How can a man who has a family to school and feed live on this amount? The only way is to buy a cheap grade of flour and have a soup bone once or twice a week and “Dead. Man’s Curve,” in Forest Park, is appro- prietely named. There have been innumerable automobile accidents there and innumerable nar- butter two or .three* times a week—no apple of. parkway. Today it has-nearly 2500 acres of sauce—potatoes once a day, a cup of coffee once park and 45 miles of boulevards. The $10,000,000, 15-cent coffee, etc. Ro as ;: Sage La: ; J —5 * * ———— + oe ee + wee ee ew ee Fee wert nren ee “= * — — — —— —— * — —— oe MF — a i ade GA} OIC 5 i be — ; — al « a5: >: re a > at bay Wa row escapes. From the viewpoint of the land- scape artist, a road that cyrves down one hill, crosses @ guiley on a bridge-and then winds up another hill is doubtless beautiful. this road is as dangerous in design as it has been proved to be in reality. ‘The accidents there are by no means due to the mania for speed. To descend slowly and make the turn on low speed is to increase the difficulty 4m making the ascent ahead. To descend at aver- age speed, make the turn and get tothe top of the hill beyond is dangerous enough. But to ne- _ gotiate the hil) across the bridge the temptation to keep up speed is very strong. A man on foot almost unconsciously braces himself for a com- ing ascent. The childish instinct to run down one side and up the other asserts itself in the case of the chauffeur. | It is a dangerous piece of road—too dangerous _ to be maintained in a park whose good roads and varied attractions make it the scene of much pleasure driving. The Park Commissioner shoul‘ put that dangeroua piece of road out of exist- ‘ence. With the curves taken out of it, it may be léss pretty, but it will be.safer. St. Louis cannot afford to maintain a death trap. - = = = -- S rs If Uncle Sam examines his stocking carefully he may find the Sugar. Trust in it, disguised as Cuba. we phi ie. rw FRANELIN FERRISS FOR SUPREME VOURT. 3 B nga Hadley plainly cherishes no illusions as to. the qualities a member ‘of the State Supreme. Court should have. His selection of Franklin : Ferriss is as much a subject for congratulation to him as to Mr. Ferriss himself. +--Htupe-F--ziss 4aa lawyu of proved ability .and high standing and a man of\character and cu)- ture. His capacity has been d strated on the cireuit bench and in other positions of 2 public and semi-public nature. It is ‘assurance, not promise, that in’ his new office he will win new _ distinctions. His selection will set at rest some , ely rumors and uglier suggestidbns as ‘0 the © political. purposes that might be subserved in 4 ees this — — a." gies 44 “The paroled convict who was married just be- fore he left the penitentiary thinks he has sions may be preserved at times. = = - — ‘EXPLOITATION. While Ouba was occupied by our troops, our * “earpetbaggers” Occupied the iron fields of Cuba, result reported by the United States Geo-: logical Survey this year is that-“some of the ‘i> Eastern plants have fron mines in Cuba which ‘ean uted over one-half ‘the total imports in attempting to establish Democratic govern- * ‘under Republican institutions, the Cubans how wae the Steel Trust as well as the Sugar ust and Tobacco Trust to’ satisty before they. satisfying themselves or anyone else. 3 —* dealing with sch problems at home, it has i thus far the part of wisdom to minimize It is not hard to shoot “insurgents” who. feel the worst in what facta. mean, without comprehending the facts. - forts cannot be shot dowr. Every volley j n their face makes it more sure that they * —* ended. Exploitation, « ba #0 by the bayonet abroad, will be judged finally at home and Judged on the facts. — eT at ee pays >= — 4 ees. a a, + with a new and virility ‘fondness: for sybaritical epicurianism,’ Practically, — cost has been met by assessing expenses in 20 ap- nual installments with 6 per cent interest against property in eight, park districts, apportioning to each district its share according to its benefits, and to each property owner according to his ben- efits within the district: In Chicago, which has combined its parks and boulevards into a chain, a park is established anywhere on petition of a certain proportion of property owners, and both purchase price- and maintenance assessed against the petitioners. . Article 25 of the new charter will open. to St. Louis all the possibilities that have been so hap- pily realized in other cities. It is decidedly a valuable provision in behalf of civic ea) , The action of the House. .of Delegates in ap- proving the bill for a charter election on Jan. 31 by an overwhelming majority is miost wise and} commendable. The Council should follow its ex- ample. — 7 vv ‘IMPORTANT INFORMATION. More astonishing than Edward F. Gereke’s plea of guilty to violating the smoke ordinance was his explanation that it was the first and the lasi offense of the kind of the St. Louis Paper Box Co:; of which. Mr. Gereke is secretary, | For five years; he said, the company had been using an efficient smoke consumer, The day in question ; this. device was undergoing repairs. Thus we have authoritative information t'.at there is such a thing as an efficient smoke con- plaints have been plentiful that there is no such thing, The first revival of the anti-smoke cam- paign. brought a chorus of assertions that. the smoke ¢ould not be prevented. There has been much ‘learned in two weeks. it becomes more. and méré apparent that the smoke can and will” be “prevented. Progress is being made. There should be no diminution in the ef- forts at abolishment. of smoke. = = = rer The man found searching the Hungarian col- ony ‘in Granite City fora Pole was not Dr. Cook. oe ig Teh ' SS SS = EXTRAVAGANCE. President Ripley ‘of the Santa Fe Railroad has again asserted his belief that we are too extrava- gant. James J. Hill has deplored the extrava- gance of the time. view in an effort to explain, the~ dissatisfaction of the people with the economic system. “Per- sons. spend too much,”’says Mr. Ripley. “They have not saved enough for a rainy day.” Unless statistics are unreliable, there never was a time when the people in the aggregate had so much laid by for a rainy day; when they were so wel] fortified with insurance, with surpluses, with savings accounts, as they are now. Never was there so much money in cireulation or so — per capita. In 1880 the money in circula- tion was $973,382,000, or $19.41 per capita; now it ie $3,113,058,000, or $35.01 per capita. The numbér of savings depositors increased from 6,107,083 in 1900," with $2,389,719,954 of savings, to 8,705,848 in 1908, with $4,898,576,696 to their credit. Never was there so much wealth or so much new wealth in process of creation: Never weré: crops so large {or the returns from them so great. There are millions, of course, who live up to their Incomes” and millions, -perhaps, who live more or less beyond their incomes. But there al- ways have been. There always will be. We must look beyond popular extravagance for the cause . | Of whatever it ts that Mr. Ripley seeks to explain. Economy and frugality are not to be decried. Thrift is always in order. But thé complaint of} ae grows tiresome. — ' = - - 4 ‘It was very ‘thoughtful of’the young woman who — — Jloved at 18, married at 14 and is seeking’ a di- vorce at 16, to declare that youthful marriages may turn out all right. Now and then a woman who loved at 35 and married at 36 is divorced at Se eer er eee ee wee died ate ‘, > oS Buck te op ; ¥, Paget A million ‘dollars? —— beef. ‘destroyed in sagged om lta Fourteen ' turkeys * setolen from J. Pierpont Morgan’s denroost. Pre- CC —— sumer. This is most valuable information. Com-! Every railroad magnate and | +every stand-pat politician has expressed the same popular extravagance as the cause of everything : 4 before you get the long-sought “green.” a day made out of Now suppose our city dads had to live on this kind of grub for a while—a piece of flank steak for breakfast twice a week and one soup bone once a. week for supper. I think there would be a change. I think they would be willing to put us on the monthly roll and give us $40 per month, which we ought to have. The city management has been run by one political party for a good many years, and now is about to take a change. We will see what they will do for us. A STREET CLBANER OR STARVER. Election Judges’ ‘Experiences. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch, : Having served twenty-five (25) years in all capacities from chalenger to judge, I can say the task is not-an easy one; it is all work and poor nay, and when it comes pay day you reach the climax by losing. half a day’s time. T pity the ordinary. ‘workingman who has to lose a half day's time, and this time of the year perhaps his job... When’ I arrived at 10 o’clock the line of men.was one-quarter of a block long. Waiting @ line one-quarter of a block _ leng in waiting I made a joking:remark to the paying teller, and he ad- vised me to practice Christianity. I have spent, 23 eents for corn and bunion cure for my feet, ag the hard floor is very penetrating on: your feet. I would like to make a suggestion to the Board of Blection Commissioners, to divide the city into wards or districts and on different days tn pay off the small army of election judges and clerks. E. C. ZANSCH, . Judgé- Twentieth Ward, Eighth Precinct. Poisoning Harmless Dogs. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. It would be greatly appreciated by the resi- dents of Wagner Terrace if the Humane Society would investigate the ruthless poisoning of harm- less dogs by people who work under the cover of darkness. Several valuable animals have. been destroyed in this manner here of late, and in pro-. ‘Tt tection te the, many children who live “in the}: neighborhood, an ‘end should be put to the prac- tice of distributing poison intended for dogs where children may perhaps get the benefit of it. WAGNER TERRACE. Firemen’s Risks. ar ‘ To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Why can’t the firemen be more careful? I be- licve that when possible firemen and Salvage Corps men Sught to do all in their power to put Gout a fire and save lives, goods, etc., but I don’t believe in this “dead hero” business. They ought to bear in mind that one good, live fireman is better than any number of dead heroes and not risk their lives unnecessarily. When any build- ing known to contain explosive or very inflam- mable material is burning, I think it ought to be fought at a’ safe distance, that is let it burn, but try fo keep the flames from adjoining bufldings. This thing of going. into buildings known to con- tain ofl, paint, ete. is very wrong, and leaders of the fire companies ought not to expect or allo their men to enter or approach too near such buildings. Leather goods houses very often contain a very explosive leather cement (I have seen cans of this stuff go up without any -apparent cause, as I was an employe in a place where it was kept). No doubt the house in Philadelphia where so many poor firemen were killed om the 234 inst. contained a stock of this cement. (Any shoe factory employe can verify this statement about leather cement being very explosive). The recent fatal fire in Cincinnati was also in the leather goods district of the town. Very often leather goods dealers and shoe findings supply dealets ‘carry a large stock of this cement un- ‘known to the insurance companies. Another thing I don’t think right is the per- mitting the storage of gasoline in a business or residence section of the city. We ought to have a law compelling the storage of gasoline to be made out on some lonely road, same as -we do with our dynamite. Think of all the oil stored ic St. Louis, down In the’ narrow street district, na of dur serious fire last summer down on the) levee, also the big fire on the railroad tracks last- July 2, where we lost one of our best firemen. “THE SWEBTHEART OF A FIREMAN. Street — Work. To the Editor of the’ Post-Dispatch. . One of your correspondents states that $155,000 was saved out of the appropriation for the Street Department during the past year. This is nothing to boast of, as the money was intended for work by the poor old fellows cleaning and repairing streets. They are scarcely allowed to work more than half time. It.is not hard to save money by depriving the laborer of work. I filled a position as overseer for a time at $2.50 —* day, but lost so much time pay days and bad ther that,I was compelled to seek other em- bes yment. I could not subsist with my family on snowballs during the winter. Tov*save money) eliminate all sinecures, also a little “insolence of officé.” work identical with that of the overseers, get pay, rain or shine, work or no work. — — Why not treat all alike? NO WORK NO PAY. and. getting your voucher, ‘tramp upstairs and find ‘The so-called inspectors or monthly men, whens E “ar 8 me 4 PEACE AND WAR. Jack London in the January. Forum, War itself, the old red anarch, is passing. It is Aafer to be a soldier than a workingman. The charke for life is greater in an active campaign than in a factory or a coal mine. In the matter of killing war is.growing impotent, and this in face of the: fact that the machinery of war was never so expensive in the past nor so dread- ful. War-equipment .today,-in time of peace, is more expensive than of old in the time of war. A standing army costs more to maintain that it used to cost to conquer an empire. It igs more expensive to be ready to kill, than it used to be to do the kill-, ing. The price of a Dreadnought would furnish the whole. army of Xerxes with killing weabons. Not only has war, by its oven evo- lution, rendered itself futi®e, but man himself with greater wisdom and higher ethics, is opposed to war. He has learned too much. War is repugnant to hig common sense. He conceives it to Be wrong, to be ab- surd, and to be very expensive. . For accomplished, it ‘is not worth the price. Just as in the disputes of in- dividuals ‘the arbitration of a ‘cfvil court ‘ instead ‘of: blood feud is more practical, so,”man decides, is arbitration more practica] in the dis- putes of nations. Fae QvUuIcK CHANGES, | From Puck. “Can you tell me what country has the most powerful Dreadnought?” “No.” “Or who holds the aeroplane alti- tude record?” “No. Le) ‘“Or which liner Kas the trans-“At- lantic speed record?” “No.” +. “Or in what State = the sreatest graft-steal in the history of the coun- try exists?” “No.” “Then maybe you can tell me the name of the richest baby in the world?” - "No, Confound it, man! I haven't seen the morning paper fyet.” Wise Cat, From the New York Telegram. Our neighbor’ killed His Thomas Cat, For reasons all his own. Then he was sorry for the deed, He felt so sad and -lone. Next week he advertised for one, And e’er he got replies, The old cat turned up ‘set erator the damage wrought and the results | JUST A MINUTE. Written for the Post-Dispatch by Clark McAdams, DECEMBER 724, Only two days now till Father, Troubled with some slight strabismus, Gets to telling Tom and Jerry : How it is with him at Christmas. — — BEFORE MORGAN. Those of us who are disposed to be- Neve that there never were any such times as these times nor apy such giants as Roosevelt, Rockefeller, Morgan,‘ etc., will be the better ablé to judge for read- ing this paragraph from ‘The Influence of Wealth in Imperial Rome,” ade Wil- liam Stearns Davis: “As with most panics, the causes of this one, which convulged the Roman’ financial world in 8 A. D., were not obvious. About a year before, the firm of Seuthes & Son of Alexandria lost ; three richly Jaden’ spice. ships on the Red Sea in a hurricane. Their ventures in-the Ethiopian caravan trade |. also were unprofitable, ostrich feathers and ivory having lately fallen in value. It soon began to be rumored that: they might be obliged to suspend. A little later the well-known purple house of Maichus & Co. (centered at Tyre, but with factories at Antioch and Ephesus) suddenly became bankrupt; a strike among the Phenician workmen and the embezzlements of a trusted freedman manager being the direct causes of the disaster. Presently it became evi- dent that the great Roman banking house of Quintus Maximus and Lucius Vibo had loaned largely to both Seu- thes and Malchus.; The depositors, fear- ing for their money. commenced a run on the bank, and distrust reid be- cause of men, experienced on the Via Sacra (the first century Wall street). ’ ‘ who said that the still larger house of the Brothers Pettius was also involved with Maximus and. Vibo. The ‘two threatened establishments might still} have escaped disaster had they been able to realize on their other securities. Unfortunately, the Pettii had placed muck of their gepositors’ capital ‘Ip loans among the noblemen of the Bel- gae in North Gaul. In quiet times such invéstments commanded very prof- itable interest; but an outbreak among that semi-civilized people caused the Government to decree a temporary sus- pension of processes for debt. The Pet- tli were, therefore, left with inadequate resources. Maximus and Vibo closed their doors first; but that same after- noon the Pettii_ did likewise,”’ FOR THE ANTI-PUN CLUB, Was Christmas Eve made from: Santa Claus’ rib? R. M. Dr. Cook says he is going to devote the rest of his life to convincing us of his sincerity. Not at our expense, he isn’t. However, the earth is not going to swallow Kansas unless it is inordinately | fond of hair in its food. From Lane’s Prairie. Tom Skaggs gave @ candy breaking to the young folks Friday night, a good time reported. ‘If you want to hear good singin~ call}. on Joe Brown. He is one of the best of singers tliat ever flopped a iMp> | Mr. Enoch Mallow has bough farms near Paydown from the Price : A large crowd attended the singing at G. H. Birdsongs’ Sunday night... Chas. Dehn on his way home lost his hat.—j] Missouri Sharpshooter. —— a * “at 4g es INVIDIOUS COMPARISON, Soe ‘ a yi

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— * —— i * Sg eee Shae ee * THIRD PRIZE--Three Dollar: May M. Mahoney, 1717 Geyer.Av. — F IRST of all, he must tink’ there newer: leak Milne ae aL ee ee ea Med ME Ie Ee _ FEE ara CPE GREER AD Mie MMos ee RE SECOND PRIZE:-Five Dollars. Vera E. Coeytaux, 3760A Laclede ke Y IDEA of, a husband is of a‘big. clean, whole-hearted 7 man with enough old4ashioned ideals left .to keep ~..| . his wife whole-hearted and clean also; a man who ean 00000 be. tender when tenderness ’.can soothe, and strong when ‘a Woman needs his strength to lean on: a man who will guide a woman by a love’so great, and yet so gentle, that she will not be conscious of its mastery; a man who will be true until death, not because he has sworn,it at the altar, but because his love has made it impossible to be otherwise. That. is the kind of ‘man for. a woman who deserves the name of wife. . FIRST PRIZE--Ten Dollars Gertrude Carter, 4832A Cote Brilliante Av. IDEAL man ‘is the man who has achieved success, not by acquiring and retaining wealth, but who has lived well, laughed often and: loved much; who has gained the trust of pure women and the love of little childten’ who has filled his niche and accomplished his — who will leave the world better than he found. it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul: who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to ex- press it; who ‘has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life is an inspiration.and whose memory will be a benediction. . _ be a girl liké thé. Heé need not possess money, but the ability to earn it. He must be honest, truthful, ener- getic, kind. a desire to always climb higher on the ladder of life. and if an bducetion were —— his parents, he must have the will to acquire one. He must be sincere in everything and never stoop to anything that would not befit a gentleman. ‘ f FOURTH PRIZE--Two Pearl Wilson, 2220 Salisbury St. ir halal bib an eded apie expects me to be. — ↄ⏑ 4-6666-66-646 66 ⏑ ô⏑ 460666 66 29900444 9606666606-6666664-666666666646 7 * — — — — — — J — — — 8 Drawn for the Puosi-Dispatch By PALMER. = Written for the Post-Dispatch © By Helen Ro' : NCE upon a mid-day dreary, while I want weary, Through. the quaint and curious mares of 8 ment store, fae While, in doubt, I hesitated, hopelessly I , . All the silly trash and baubles I had seen so oft before * Seen and bought—and wished ] hadn’ t—many, many ti ‘Silly trash—and nothing mor ee | 1 ago. This wund will can be shows, by the poorest of children. It does not re- No. answers —— after quire money. Father looks first of all Saturday noon will be consid. | #t the good will that prompted his child * tor emember him by a small token. This ered by the judges of this is what al) parents strive for:day and cortest. night, year in and year out, that in WOULD sucsest tviis tather « pair their old age the child would give them of glasses, as I have to read the Post- peace of ming and show them grati- ' : ith fT ‘enioy tude, when they are grown men and Dispatch —2** gn Ai “ onds are so | WO™eM for all that father has done for ~o i bg oe hosed —* them. JOHN JOSEPH O'BRIEN, SLIFFORD GUIBOR, 1709 Geyer avenue. | . | 2066 S. Twenty-third street. ut Y Y Y %G Y It is all Very well for people in .opu- _ ®Salome."” 5 i —— i i, cme Bey — ——— —* x i * * * — * — F —* ~~ — "4 * n - * Yh oy gin — — ashes ‘ — *5— tig * as ». yy j > F * aan 4 3 * Unless father is very wealthy, let his Christmas be ‘a neat and loving wife, @bedient children, every ready to share his sorrow, double his pleasure and when his dear old form is bent with age d his labor-calloused hands are un- able to provide the necessaries of life— Jet him meet with glad surprise that his spate doliqrs were laid away for sup- in his declining years, instead of nding himself left to the mercy of * cruel world or the poorhouse. MRS. L. B. BECKHAM, | 3016 Locust street. Give father “a front seat. to see L., 6454 Wise avenue. : ‘The best present for father is an alarm , because he is always late to work | gud the alarm clock will help him to be @ time. . JULIUS BLOCK, . $19 Nerth Sixteenth street. - Give father 10 acres of land out in the Ee J S pie AN ie Pl tie i Se ‘ * te q : > lence to suggest a valuable present for father, but from people of limited means I think (and a lot of people will think with me) that now, as winter is about to “set out on his cold, icy ear,’”’ a good overcoat, with a warm pair of gloves and a muffler on the side, would be a very suitablé and sub- stantial present for the "old man.’’ It would be of more solid comfort and would be more appreciated by him than a safety razor or.a silk hat when com- ing home from his office on cold nights when the mercury is hovering around zero. * PERCY A. MacHALE, 2633 Caroline street. A present we would like to get father for Christmas would bé a cap, shoes and gloves to keep him warm this winter, as he is earning a living for us children. MISS — —E OQ’ Fallon, Til. I will give papa m3 my love; a box of + cigars, which will make him ‘happy to know I saved hard to get them for him, and my promise to send him all the money I save so he will be with me next Christmas; as we miss him much since mamma died. Papa is at the Sol- diers’ Home. mn. De * 204 S. — — Nice promises, sweet weet wishes are all fine, but “a gift for father’ means something that will really benefit him. Listen +o my suggestion: “A Merry Christmas, Dad!" and a promise to think of me each time you smoke a cigar from this box! See! And in return I want your resignation as chief support of this family. You have labored hard all these years, reared me to an honorable manhood, so I take your place, at least for awhile. What could be hobler, or grander? I can see the tears swell up in dad’s eyes now, as he presses his son’s hand with a fervent ‘“‘God bless you, my boy.” KATE GREEN, . 9183 N. Bighteenth Street. ‘Only one thing I can give father for Christmas, and it may be a prayer that he niay see many, many more Christmases. BERTHA ANDERSON, 2588 North Leffingwel)] avenue. I am going to give my papa for Christmas my promise not to smoke cigarettes and to quit all bad habits. I am also going to give him a bucket j with which he can buy beer, and also a package of tobacco so that he can make himself happy on Christmas day. P. A. O., 8617 Clark avenue. GIRLS. ‘ the street, Gee! But it makés me so lorn and alone, Thinking of all of those girlies unknown, ‘3 Nary a one I can call on or phone— TRLS in the street car ard giris on Girls that are stunners and girls that are sweet, ' : {Girls that are stately or small and .| Millions of girle—that I never will meet. V Now: I LIVE IN THE. ANITH HOUSE —5—— iD bike You * \#e * hon ~~ *8 ‘ > a” Vat n ———— The Oniformity of Divorce. Rheta Childe Dorr, in the Forum. ‘EARLY a million American mar- riages went to pieces in 2 years. That is, disruption over- took 47,281 marriages a year, 3940°a month—more than 130 a day. No one section of the country pro- duves a much larger divorce crop than another. Louisiana, with its large Catholic population, Mormon Utah and Unitarian Massachusetts furnish simi- lar figures. Broadly speaking, the di- vorce rate rises as we cross the map westward, but, on the whole, the rate is fairly even throughout the country. The rate is slightly larger in cities than in | the country, but divorce is by no means a city problem. It ts astonishing to find that divorce laws, stringent or liberal, affect the rate very slightly. New Hampshire, Utah and South Dakota show almost exactly the game proportion of divorces per pop- ulation and per marriages., New York with its one cause for divorce and New Jersey with its half dozen causes show a rate nearly identical. The solution of our divorce problem lies in securing a better relation be- tween men and women in every depart- | ment of life. It is an anomaly in this republic that there should be any dis- tinctions on account of sex. It is ab- surd that womer should recelve lower wages than men for egual work per- formed “or equal service given. It Is unfair to deny women their share in public housekeeping. It is unjust to tax them and at the same time refuse them citizenship. American women are as well educat- ed, as intelligent, as moral, as conscien- tious, and, within their. opportunities, as efficient as Atmerican men. Once- this is fully recognized; once the last ves- tige of sex prejudice and sex contempt vanishes from custom and from the statute books; once the same standard | of morals is recognized in society as it is in the law; once it is madé at least as easy for women as for men to earn an honorable living; once marriage on absolutely equal terms is made possible no moral or physical advantage on the side of the husband, no parasitism al- lowed on the part of th® wife: Then it will be perfectly safe to at- tach - divorce coupon to every marriage certificate, with permission for both parties to tear it off at will. 5* i, flow Did Louis: _ the Apples? - HEN you have exhausted the pleasures of Christuias _a different diversion may be needed. Ask your |] ‘ - guests to renew their joy of life by: working the following problem, which is submitted to the Post-Dispatch by E. A. Tillery of 1427 North Twenty-fifth street, Bent St. cee nd To John he gave 85 apples, to Henry 50 apples and to William 15 apples. Then he said: os — earomageontog~ tithe ssh ats Selo goad Joh William Henry Sell * Love and Matri imony Advice on Affaits of the Heart, Written for the Post-Dispatch | By BETTY VINCENT. Y dear young people, try to make your behavior toward each other}; M consistent. Do not flirt, violently one day with some one and treat the same per does. nothing bility. I know many gi son with chill contempt a few days afterward. If it else, such behavior shows at least a lack of mental sta- irls.who imagine they are making themselves more attractive to the men of their acquaintance by being all kindness at one time and by ordering these s ame young men about as slaves a little later. In- deed, this sort of behavior, is, I bélieve, commonly referred to as ‘* coquet- ish,’? Well, my dears, it is not coquettish. It is nothing more nor less than a lack of breeding. If you do not care’ enough fér a man to treat him courteously do not permit him to show you any attentions at all. Be consistently kind, or make up your mind to drop him from your acquaintance altogether . A Christmas Present. ‘ B®. H. writes: “Will you please tell ®me whether it is proper to give a young nian a Christmas present whom [I have only known two months? I am very much in love with him.” Whether you are in love with the young man or not, it would not be proper to give him a Christmas present on such short acquaintance. A Ring. : 8S. L. writes: “Would you please ell me whether, or not it is proper ifor me to wear my engagement ring »to business? I am engaged and have a solitaire.” The engagement ring is worn at all times, just as is a wedding — She Was Rude. B. W. writes: “I am in love with ® a girl, but I think she was rude a few evenings ago. She took another man aside and whispered to him for quite some time. Was this proper?” It is always. rude to whisper. If you do not care to talk aloud you should not communicate the facts at all. Fs call upon you in any case tf you have met him only once. Basket Ball, aoe Cc R. writes. “I am a young girl and * have been out very little with men. Would it be proper for me to accept an invitation to attend a basket ball game? The invitation is extended to me by one of the players.’’ I think it would be entirely proper for you to go to the basket ball game. fen id us! ” Surely neue 10thing b Yet, whatever I may g zet,. Deep. into the crowd then plang? y Right and left, with foot and e Picked up fat o Tried to keep from being sat on, adore |. Wrap them up—there’s — more! - “Give me those!’’ I cried then, _ nothing more. 7 Simply those—and NOTHING more!””_ thing and then thet san Tried to keep my feathered hat on, maddened to the 0 y . y core Maddened, saddened, sick and SORE! ; — Til at last, a cierk beguiling all my sad soul into On the counter something piling, said, — r= Seeythese lovely purple sox, I'll * — RE. Ps “What,” I mattered, sadly sighing, ‘What, oh, WHAT all 1 J Buying for thet MAN for Christmas? Tell me, tell me, To. the clerk [I turned then, speaking, ‘‘Must I ever thus g: ; - Seeking vainly — novel for the man that I ador Something. natty, neat and novel for the man I mos Quoth the salesgirl: ‘ “Byermane — Out again, and quickly flitting in the street car (ver i ittin 4 they FOR! reason, Not to WEAR, I hope!’’ I nodded. And Softly but distinctly SWORE! Yet, my heart within me aching abd — * toa vithi — eq Tells me next year I’ll be breaking all ecords as of Though he never’ may put THESE on, though Fre | Yet I know again next season I wil do it all Do it over EVERY —— just as Ih : Clutching wildly at a strap, those awful things I e Got them,home, the box unbroken. But the only word tl At the sight of that strange token was: “Great oe md * a

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rs : . SOE Fats. Sex fear.” we cin, Se i = A * * * 2* eM che ae Ba, Ut er - * ne — = : a will $, "a : i St. MEN WILL # ‘2 * * ath Pe - a a4 4 re ; a o> es * % 4 — — aa peat é J * — . a — Sat a ae MPs ea | 3 : re fe : * * —* J — rR * —* J 7 ALL BROWN STOGK Louis Syndicate Eager to Control All Holdings of Baseball Club. ROGER STILL IN HUNT Cardinals and Cubs Apt to Ar- range a Transfer of — Pitchers. — The members of the St. Louls syndi- cate that purchased Robert L. Hetiges’ interest in the St. Louis American League Baseball Co. will make an ef- fort to buy out the minority stockhold- ers of the Browns. The, new owners are éager to control the entire club and if John E. Bruce and Cal McDiarmid of Cincinnat! are willing to accept a fair pri ; for their stock, the St. Loulsans rchase. It fs said that Mr. ‘Bruce isn’t willing — go of his shares, but as the St. Poe have no objection to the sec- t — retary of the National Commission be- ae howd @ part owner, he wil probably con- tinue as such./ Whether @f d sells ‘out remains to be seen. The local men, are anxious that the club be entirely by St. Louisans. * Bedged Gets First Money. 3 ¢ —— of money was made to Mr. _ Hedges. The sum was nét mentioned. The syndicate has had the money de- posited for quite a while, and it is said will be ready at the time named in the contract to make the next payment, It is believed twat the entire transaction ‘will “be closed. within the next two _ months, when Mr. Hedges will step out ‘of the game entirely. . Mr, Hedges leaves for Cincinnati Sat- urday to spend Christmas with rela- * tives in Redland. He had intended de- parting Friday, but was delayed, be- Until he returns ‘e — ‘the team is aa it tne » of a mystery as has an excellent “ss. of the mat on ; : club’s rvuster is ) — M. Stanley Robi- ence in Chicago. According erts fromthe Windy City, Presi- iy vo Foo ‘and Murphy held a con- day asl _tradeg. aa swap Of pitchers is apt -| Bob Harmon, & —2* , who appears as though he a star heaver, is sought by In‘ exchange Murphy is said mally this season... hitch is over the second pitchir wnted by the Cardinals. The deal will vably go through if Murphy lets Lew f@ come along with McIntire for mon If made, * should benefit the - — A GREAT BASEBALL TOWN oni , Dec. 24.-—"St. Louis is one the gréatest baseball towns in the ountry,”” says Ted Sullivan, scout of i dle “If they can make yn y down there o the kind of season Browns this year, it is a oe © Oe that would surprise all of ** “A eity that is as enthusiastic over aseball as St. Louls and as faithful —— it deserves a high class am, continued Charles A. Comiskey’s hant during a chat over the new, — — that the ty of the fans — beon i fi IRRITATED FEMALE ABBED JACKS HEAD 1TH HATPIN. BEING JAK Jounsons PeRSUADED To Derarr FROM SWELL: HOSTeLRY. JACK'S HEAD, | SHOWING yf BUMP, , “The HATPIN AFTER DENT IN SIDEWALK, , 3 — Gees TINA Wi mgt Ys Up Tm EXTRACTED. SAN FRANCISCO. BIT YAcH THE BUTT FOR RESISTING ARREST Tax, STRIKER |. *BouUNcep BRICK © VACK'S Bean’ S ue hi! p che Gave STANARD JOINS COCHEMS’ TEAM Former Princeton Tackle Will Play With All-Stars Against ° Notre Dame. Under the leadership of Edward B., Cochems the all-star football team, which is to play Coach Longman’s Notre Jame all-star aggregation Monday after- noon, is rapidly rounding into excellent shape. In the practice Friday after-: noon the players showed speed and di- versity of plays that looked as if they bad been practicing togéther for months instead of a few days. The latest addition to Cochem’s line- up is big Ed Stanard, the former husky; tackle of Princeton. He showed up Fri- day and looked as big as a house when he paraded on the field in foot- ball togs. His line smashes during his last season at Smith Academy are well rememberéd by football enthusiasts. “If he can’t open up holes in the Notre Dante. line, then Cochems will have a hard time finding a man around St. Louis that can. The Notre Dame stars had possession of Sportsman’s Park again Friday morning amd seem to be on edge. They, executed some trick plays, the like of which have never been seen around St. Louis. The men who were showing up at their best on the Notre Dame team are Dim- ick, “Red” Miller and Don Hamilton. The latter is one of the fastest quarter- backs ever seen on a local gridiron. Coach Longman says that Miller is one of the best backs he ever sam on any team in the country. Several members of the team are track men, which gives additional ‘speed to Longman and Cochems got together Friday and decided on “Billy” Connett as referee for the’ game. Longman wants Coach Quigley of St. Marys to act as.one of the officials, but Cochems believes that some St. Louis man can satisfactorily fill the position. Cochems is in favor of Coach Walker of Central High School and Coach Kelly of Soldan. The game will be of four periods of 15 minutes each. ‘Cochems was in conference with Col, KB. J. Spencer Friday’ afternoon and completed arrangements for holding .he track meet in the First Regiment Ar-. mory at Grand and Manchester ave- nues Monday evening. | SEBASTIAN TO BOOK ONLY INDEPENDENT GAMES FOR TEAM Frank Sebastian, owner of South End Park, considered the best paying semi- professional baseball venture in St. Louis, is keeping the other St. Louis “semi-pro” magnates on uneasy street | jbecause they cannot definitely Jearr the plans of the aggressive “Dutch- the | man.” Charley Bartley’s Trolley League, *ilook very bright to Sebastian. the original, would like to swing Sebas tian in Une for next season. ‘“‘Heine’’ ‘Kulage also has aspirations for a league of his own. Kulage’s chances of organ- izing the league that he is after do not After almost daily consultations with his ‘chief HMeutenant, “Buck” Chapman, Se- ‘bastian chirps that next season his‘team wil] play nothing but independent ball at South End against such teams: as Jefferson City and other strong draw- ing clubs, What! More Smoke Nuisance. ARRY HERRMANN is authority (3 for the statement that the Mc- Quiflin-Grant deal with the Cubs is another big pipe. ; * ” — ‘Only 40 Pounds Overweight. HERE do they bob up frum? Look VW - you, “good .ollowers of fistiana, Marvin Hart has tried to come back again. * * * e Title for $1000, ROBABLY the world’s champion- J ship most easily avquired was that whith went to Marvin, the fat. In fact it wasn’t acquired—it was bought and given to him, the price be- | ing 31000, paid to James J. Jeffries, then retired, to present it to the winner of the Root-Hart battle at Reno, some five or six years ago. Of course this meant a gift to Hart, who was then in the intermediate stage of equatorial development, weighing about 175. pounds, and still had a fair fight in him. Root was a mere middle- weight, when fit, and not a Fitzsimmons at that. Thus Hart sHpped into the throne seat of “pugilism after a one- sided mill. Easy come, easy .go—so with Hart's laurels. Tommy’ Burns caught him off condition (not hard to do with one of Hart’s ‘“‘social’’ tendencies) and the rep utation that went up in a day, like Alladin’s palace, was wiped out in one night, Burns beating Hart in 20 rounds. In the end, you have to pay Dame Na- ture heavily for all the liberties you take with her. Can’t Come Back. HAT Dwight Davis international! T lawn tennis trophy has probably joined the Gone Forever Club. Reason? British and American players say business cares will not: permit of a long ‘journey to Australia. General in- ability to beat Brookes, Wilding and company may (sub rosa) have something to do with it. At any rate, England, the home of lawn .tennis, and the United States are about to enter a dual agreement for an annual international match, omitting Australia and leaving the splendid gift of a. generous St. Louisan stranded in the Antipodes. Aren’t there. enough sporting cor- puscles left in lawn tennis circles to finance a cup expedition to the Orient? — * * Whites Will Look On. F’ that $25,000 win, lose or draw offer | to Jack Johnson is ever made good, Paris will see the first battle for a’ world’s title where both principals were negroes. The spectacle of the Caucas- ian world looking on while Ethiopians contest for highest honors is probably uniqué as regards any line of endeavor. Conditions ‘governing the proposed French bout call for the present cham- pion to meet the winner of the Sam Langford-Joe Jeannette contest, which takes place next Feoruary. ‘Unless Johnson's physique has suf- fered terribly. in the nine months that will have, elapsed between his appear- ance at Reno and his y t contest, the present title holder will’ have no 4diffi- culty in protecting his laurels. Lang- ford will be giving away 40 pounds anda Jeanette % to Johnson; and neither has any compensdting advantage in skill or punching power to make up for it. | One is at a great loss to under- stand the confidence in his ability Uply hes — Johnson that Langford has end in _wincerity,| DOOIN WANTS NO BEER DRINKERS} Phillies’ Managér Also to Put Ban on Midnight. Revelry — of Players. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24.—Charley Dooin’s one year as manager of the Philadelphia Nationals’ has been enough to convince him that the booze fighter is a bad asset for a ball club, and he will have none on his club from now on. He has found out that a player who cannot be de- pended op to be in shape whenéver he is needed is a poor proposition to tie to, and he will countenance no midnight revelry among the Quakers the coming season. “I’ve had my share of the pleasure lovers,” said Sir Charles. “The lads who will work are the ones for me,f not the guys who are always looking, for a chance to get out for a good time. The day of the gay boys in big league ball is passed. One or two of them can ptt a team out of the race. . “T had nine total abstainers on my club last year and yet three men who would not observe the training rules held the club back. If those three men had kept in shape all the time I sreally believe our bunch would have been fighting the Cubs for the- flag. No more of that kind of stuff for me.” Dooin has joined Fred Clarke in his campaign against the lushers, and it’ will not be long before every man- ager in the business lines up in the same stakes. Dooin figures that he ig going to have some pretty good pitching next. season. He has four veterans—Ew- ing, Moore, Rowan and Beebe—to bear the brunt of the battle. After these four men come Shettler, Stack, Chalmers, Alexander and Brennan. Those five youngsters haye all shown a great deal of promise. WOODLAWNS LOOK FOR EVEN ~ BREAK WITH LOGAL ELEVENS The Woodlawns of Chicago, who meet the St. Leos at Athletic Park Sunday ‘in the intereity soccer game, have a very wide-awake manager in V. W. Pike. Ac- cording to a report from a B8t. Louls friend of Secretary Knowles of the Wadodlawns, Manager Pike has ordered Secretary Knowles to try and secure a gymnasium in St. Louis for a work-out on Sunday morning. , According to Knowles, Pike’s plan is to give his players a vigorous work-out indoors for thirty or forty-five minutes, Sunday morning, in order to offset the effects of the all-night ride. This will loosen them up and freshen them for the afternoon’s battle with the St. Leos. Manager Pike is also bringing a sup- of Chicago drinking water to be used by the players in order that the change in water does not affect his men. He is out to take advantage of every opportunity and is confident of at, least breaking even by defeating either the St. Leos Sunday er the Innisfails Monday. a Hans b tee ere | Fypned R. Newman - —5 Se 4 > é OES APRS Se Sy ny Ey Rae cit a ae: — — ig CS NT? aR — e ee — OE BUG. 8 IAEA IA RO ee TIRE MO — öö ieee . - U U U——— * 7 * REMANNS OF THe BRICK. Jaks “NUT” AFTERWARD EFFECT ON “THE GUN IN INDIANA, SMALL BUT UNPLEASANT PARTY USED CHAIR WHILE DISCUSSING COOK'S WAGES WITH JACK * 7 — BRONX CoP BENT HIS NIGHT STICK OVER JACKS “coco” SPEtoinG. 7 Te cit} Mh SNP * 9 in FRISCO USED BotT.a To PONT . HIS OBJECT To JOHNSON'S * jn PLUG HAT, eee ; * F Ae > THIRD LEAGUERS GET A SETBACK 4 Promoters Would be Required to Build Fireproof Plant Before . Play Could Begin. CHICAGO, Dec. 2%4.—The project of a third major baseball league club for Chicago would be seriously affected by an ordinance passed by the City Coun- cil last Monday, designed to insure the safety of baseball crowds. The ordi- nance passed almost unnoticed, but was brought into prominence by the stock- yards fire Thursday, in which Fire Muar- shal Horan and 23 others were killed. ordinance forbids the erection within the fire limits of any wooden grand stand or bleachers with a seating capacity of more than 6000. Wooden grand stands already in existence or under construc- tion may be repaired or enlarged, pro- vided no part of the structure shall be within sixty feet of any other structure. All wooden grand stands must be treated once each year with fire-retard- ing paint or solution. Before a permit can be procured for the erection of a be obtained from the owners of a ma- jority of the frontage on both sides of the street or etrects bounding the struc- ture, Promoters of a third club in’ Chicago would, under the ordinance be com- pelied to build a fireproof plant at large expense before playing could begin. TRIAL HEATS FOR ATHLETIC MEET AT ARMORY TONIGHT The.trials for the athletic meet to be hela by Eddie Cochems at the Armory Monday night will be run off at the Armory Saturday night. The Central V. M. C. A. track and ‘field squad which had a meet scheduled for Saturday night, called off the event for the pur- pose of taking part in the trial heats, Cochems did not give the athletes much notice that he was to bring off an athletic meet and for that reason Athletic Direct®r Roberts of the Central V. M. C. A. figures that his men will have an excellent chance as they have been training for some time and taking part in closed trial meets. ‘Collins Wants a Mat Match. / Billy Collins, a Boston lightweight wrestler, is still eager to meet Al Was- em, -the local grappler. Collins says he will make 135 pounds: for Wasem and bet $200 on his chances. He would also like to hear from Mike Christ. Collins can be reached at 304 South — and B. A, pete for = nea — c Satenehie of the avenue. La — — — — — — Pal Moore Is Nowt ihe Adopted Son of His Manager, Jimmy De Forrest}: PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 24.—Pal Moore in the future may sign his name Pal Moore de Forrest. It became known ing the next two years. — yee and by wie — eve 0m a 5 Dabok F — * — 4 Bi — Fe . X MES aes ‘ ss Daas a — J — — * ae + ‘ j ? % ‘ &. ? | | Strikes andSpares The amended section of the building } new grand stand, written consent must In the Knights of Pythias League the Wainuts tooks three straight from the Lafayettes. Niehaus was high for the Walnuts, with scores of 190, 168 and 229. The Burlingtons took two out of three from the Washingtons, with Mas~ lead- ing, his scores being 184, 170 and 223. The Bxcelsiors whitewashed the Scandias. Fuerman led for the winners, with a total of 629. The Hopes took three in a row from. the Brilliants,; Graff was high for ithe Hopes. His scores were 186, 199 and 179. Laird led for the Brilliante, with 632 total. 5 The Pythagoras won the odd game from the Red Crosses, Von der Ahe had the honor for the Pythagoras, with a total of 513 pins. The Monroes took three from the Royal Monitors. The Monroes shot in great form, not @& man on the team going under 628. Wetter was high, with scores of 181. 203 and 191, The Fountains took four out of five from the Towers in the Office Men's Cocked Hat League, while the Bentons took the same number from the Lafayettes, The Lygias took the odd game from the Juvas in the Meyer Bros, League. The Imperial Crowns took two out of three from the Pearls. The Colonial Girls won the odd from the Red Diamonds and the Fountaing took three in a row from the Disseminators, The Marquette Hotel team grabbed the odd from the Hyde Park B. Bs. Temm was high for the Marquettes, with a total of 570, and Kienker was high for the losers, with 579. In the St. Léuis Tenpin League the Duwells picked the odd from the Bankers. L. Krewinghaus led the Duwells, with a total of 606 pins, Gilhuly had the honor for the Bankers, with a total of 653 pins. In the Olympic League the Andersons cleaned up on the Bauer Regs. Jarrett was easily high man for the winers, with 620 pins to his credit. The Wellstons took two out of three from the Grupes. Ahie- feldt had the honor for the Wellstons, with the fine total of 671, or an average of 223. ; The Olympics took the odd from the Unions. Schnell had the honor for the Olympics, with 594, and Schwabb was easily high man for the Unions, with 627. The Eastons picked two out of three from the esi hg fA ree eae oe — the Bastons, with Booth ith 479, had the honor for “he Goodfeiiows Seminoles scalped the Snattawops. n nice form. the Thurmans Rolling ames from the Ski won three aia top tot tin for. the "inst. with 681 sion The Ben Murmanns lost the dan ficap to the — or in the P. pate n —— gue. usche excelled with 547, ana Cooke held “the “honor the’ Be w e gam eheotina 6 Metzgeera, —* h fts — “Pe — latter” qs, lost 108" otal to) the, 3 : The De Sotos made it fiv from the Blairs in the Linton nora for th straight verkamp — Al _ the with 227 on the thar @ ghet ROYAL RACERS | WILL RUN AGAIN! King George Plans an Attive Season on the Turf Next Year. - men will be interested to King George of England intends to fol- low the example of his father by ac- tive participation in facing. After the death of King Hdward, those of His Majesty’s horses. which were in train- ing were run in the name of Lord Derby, but this arrangement will not be continued next summer and the royal racers will be entered in the King’s name and will be run in His Majesty's colors. The latest issue of the English Racing Calendar, the official] Journal of the Jockey Club, contains details of the en- tries for next season’s meetings that have been already entered into on be- half of the King. The engagements relate to the New- market, Second October, Bath, Bibury Club, Doncaster Spring, Gatwick Oc- tober, Hurst Park Whitsun, Newbury summer and Sandown Park first sum- mer meeting. His Majesty also sub- scribes to several important weight for ——— Basket Ball Loufsiana Hall Friday night the Ptiigrim Congregational! Church five had little dif- ficulty in defeating the Bethel Church team. 43 to 25. Stuewe, the Yeatman High cen- ter, played all around Beindieck, who lined up with Bethel... Meyer of Piigrim tallied & baskets from the field and 6 from the foul line. The lNne-up: thel (25), m. (43). Gent gh (85). ae terehe Peters Meyer 8} seen right forw’ a Beckman tated 20) wees —* 4 Morga ose ae Kelley (4) five. work at guard was commendable line-up: Grace — NEW YORK, Dec. %—American turf-} 7 know that] In the first game of the double-header at the stars for the winners, while Roessel’s | FESR RP —J i Have No Right to Stop Shows. {NO PRO FIGHTS AT S.B. AG Sanctions wilt Be Refused Any but “Simon — Bae > — in * s = . % ‘ Tie, . * ae } : * es —E— pag a * = ao! Berge eo tae , * — —— a y= SS “se ae. J * Beit TH

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— Fist Trial Resulted in Verdict for » Life imprisonment, Jury Out Six Minutes. CONDUCTED OWN DEFENSE Eloquent Plea for Her Liberty by Prisoner Made Sympathetic | Talesmen Weep. By Associated Press. D, Cal, Dec. 24.—After de- liberating nine hours, the jury in the case of Mrs. Isabella J. Martin, charged with having dynamited the home of Su- perior Judge Ogden March li, 1907, re- turned a verdict of guilty last night, recommending the defendant to the ex- treme mercy of the Court. The verdict marks the end of the sec- ond trial of the case. In the first trial, at which testimony was given that the woman had plotted to kill several pub- ilé men, she was convicted and sent- enced to life imprisonment. An appeal _ 40 the Supreme Court brought an order for a new trial. During the trial just closed, the ac- cused woman conducted her own case and displayed a deep knowledge of the law and its practices. She made her * plea to the jury and her eloquence brought tears to several of the jurors Child Figured in Case. 7 The evidence in the case showed that Mrs. Martin arranged to destroy the residence of Judge Ogden while he and his family occupied it, because of the jurist’s alleged unfairness toward her in the trial of an insurance case in which she was interested. She employed the service of Baby John Martin, whom she has variously claimed to be her child, the child of the Princess Chimay, end,of unknown parents. Baby John te at both trials that he set the dynamite and fired the fuse under fear of death at the hands of Mrs. Martin: if he failed to accomplish the deed. In the first trial the jury consumed little less than six minutes in arriving at a verdict, sentencing her to life im- prisonment. At the close of the case Mrs. Martin informed the court that the trial had been “rotten” and announced that she would appeal. Mrs. Martin is past middle age, of good appearance and is fairly well ed- ucated. In spite of her veneer of cul- ‘ture there are many people in Cali- fornia who breathed easier when the verdict was announced, as she was . known never to forgive an injury and people who have known her have been careful not to thwart her ‘ambitions. | Causes Contest, Mrs. Saran frst came into notoriety in —* early '9s, when her husband, John Martin, died. A short while later her Henry Martin, worth the contest which followed as ‘ase the claim that the boy was the story never received credence, as vely shown later that ; & herself and. her brother-in-law. : —— will which she pretend had been “Tem Oil Company Acquires - Land Near Shrewsbury From | the St. Louis County Gas Co. acres of land at St. Louis County company for $20,- he Sepia it had purchased for a vf nt opposite his residence, The con- t * 4g $17,500. This will set- J suit issued on the * int of Britton enjoinfng the 0 ms ny from establishing its plant An ordinance was passed by i seeking to prevent the lo- New Supreme Justice Welcomes Opportunity to Show He Places Honor Above Money. GIVES UP LARGE INCOME He Finds Pleasure in Simple Life and Does Not Want to Leave Fortune for Others. Judge Franklin Ferriss is receiving numerous telegrams and letters con- gratulating him upon his appoint- ment as Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri. The authors of many of the telegrams and letters say that Gov Hadley is to be commended and congratulated for selecting Judge Ferriss to fill the vacancy on the Supreme bench. When Judge Ferriss reached his office Saturday he found on his desk letters and telegrams from Hanford Crawford, president of the Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney Dry Goods Co.; Edward Devoy, a member of the Board of Freeholders;: Judge Henry 8, Caulfield of the St. Louis Court of Appeals; Thomas K. Niedringhaus, Colir M. Selph, George A. Bayle, Mor- ton Jourdan, Martin L. Clardy, A. W. Nolker, all of St. Louis, and Frank Hagerman and Walter Littlefield of Kansas City, and C. M. Spencer of St. Joseph. Many lawyers and other friends of Judge Ferriss called in person to congratulate him, Judge Ferriss told a Post-Dispatch re- porter that he had not decided whether he would move to Jefferson City, or re- tain his home in St. Louis. He said he did not like the idea of giving up his home here. Places Honor Above Money. Many yf = 8 of Judge Ferriss ex- pressed surprise that he would give up his lucrative law practice in* St. Louis to accept an appointment on the Su- preme Bench at a salary of $4500 a year. To them Judge Ferriss replied that he was glad of an opportunity to demon- strate in this mercenary age, when nearly everybody is striving for money, that in thé profession of the law there is something higher than a finan- cial standard. A lawyer, he said, ought out his career with a term on the: Su- preme bench. Judge Ferriss does not own an automobile and says he does not de- sire to own one.: He prefers the simple life. To the close friends of Judge Ferriss it is known that money has few allurements for him He holds. that a man can use wisely a limited amount of money only and that it is a positive detriment to leave a large fortune to children. DOG COOK WINKS WHEN NEW YORK’S | Mt IS MENTIONED ick A. Cook, the discredited polar explorer, Was in both humorous and serious mood today in his apartments at the Waldorf. He laughed heartily when he was joked about having lost the key to the city pre- sented to him by the Board of Alder- men. And, in almost the same breath, he became reminiscent and half sad. “T am told the King of Denmark is still with me,” said Dr. Cook, with just a trace of emotion in his voice. “That makes me feel all right. My old friends in Denmark were loyal. It is a great country. I like the King immensely.” A moment later the rival of De Rouge- mont, that famous French prevaricator, was chuckling and. conversing about that key again. “Did I get the key to the city?’’ re- peated the placid traveler, in his lux- urious suite at the Waldorf-Astoria. “Why. to be sure I did. I had quite forgotten it. Well, well, me, I don’t know where it has gone to. I wonder if the city will want it?” Then he laughed. Dr. Cook winked when asked if he did not think the city had a right, in view of all that had hap- pened, to demand the key back. “How can the city expect it?’ asked Dr. Cook, reflectively. “I got the key once, and nothing was men- tioned about giving it back. If I knew where it was I might wrap it up and mail it to the city.” “But I guess we'll have to forget it,”” he said, The doughty explorer takes the same attitude with respect to the shower of gifts rained upon him dur- ing his spectacular stay hetre last year. : CANADA DIRECTS EXPRESS COMPANIES TO CUT RATE —— Ontario, Dec. 24.— Railway Commission to be glad of an opportunity to round’ NEW YORK, Dec, 24.—Dr. Freder-' f ORGERY TRIAL Judgment in First of Bitls-of- Lading Frauds Litigation Will Be Appealed. J OTHER CASES TO FOLLOW New York Judge Holds That Bank, Although Innocent, Guaranteed Documents. By Associated Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 2%.—A decision of potential and far-reaching effect in the cotton bills of lading cases, rendered here by Supreme Court Justice New- burger, is being actively and animatedly discussed today among the large in- ‘terests involved, including cotton ex- porting firms, bankers and representa- tives of big foreign mercantile houses. The case is the first one growing out of the cotton bills of lading frauds to be decided, and, while its import was apparently not.realized by others than the parties immediately involved when the case was decided on Wednesday last, the mercantile world today seems to have awakened to the. possibilities involved in it. The judgment found by the court was one for $39,000 against the Hanover Na- tional Bank in favor of the Cotton Ex- change firm of Springs & Co. The rise of the litigation was in the big cotton bills of lading forgeries perpetrated last spring in the name of two firms. Knight, Yancey & Co. of Decatur, Ala., and Steele, Miller & Co. of Corinth, Miss. How Fraud Was Worked. Drafts through New York banks. were negotiated with ‘attached bills of lad- ing purporting to show that large amounts of cotton had been delivered to railroads in Alabama for shipment to foreign purchasers. It subsequent- ly was discovered the bills of lading were forged. It was claimed in the Springs case, just decided, that the in- dorsement by the First National Bank of Decatur, Ala., which first discounted the draft, vested title in the Hanover National Bank of this city, and that when the Hanover National Bank col- lected the money it was considered to have warranted the genuineness of the bill of lading attached to the draft. Justice Newburger held that Springs & Co. made payment to the Hanover ‘National Bank through their mistaken belief that the bill of lading was genu- ine, and hence that even though the bank was an innocent party, Springs & Co. were entitled to recover from the bank when it was found the bill of lading was forged. Appeal Will Justice Newburger, the view thus outlined, directed judg- ment, but deferred the filing of an opin- ion for two weeks. Notice of appeal, it is stated, will be filed at once. Should the higher courts affirm the judgment, it is declared that suits involving several millions of dol- ars will be insfituted by foreign mer- chants who suffered severe losses from the frauds against the several big banks here which handled the cotton bills and drafts. Be Filed. MARRIAGE LICENSES. Roy Hughes ......+-+ pennes 6 00h 08k 1426 Papin Mamie Allen 608 rk Will Jones Ella Lovings William G. Rya Pearl Evelyn — laude Ferguson Mellie Bowman — * Robert Huddleston ..3...- Te Hardin —— rr n Nusemann .......-- ave Ethel PEIN i.ctesecnes pees Henry Dieckman Cleo Cole Benjamin E. Pauline Davis Landrum Baker Valerie H. Lungetras Frank C. Berg Thekla Dorn 4916 Odell ..Richmond Heights — aa Minn Keysport, Til Keysport, Lil .Webster Groves, Mo — Marion, [ll Fort Worth, Tex 8322 Magnolia 1137A Rutger 3362 8S. Broadway Chestnut, Ill Clarence Reynolds Chestnut, Ill Carrie Leasman mtg Bee pig tes wie OS 0 0% weed se oe 5. 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Michael Wersberg. 55, 2849 Indiana; heart Ser, a: Wee ae hg IK, — *—— 8. eae cts , 1482 N Ben Hand in holding with — CLOSED FOR THE XMAS HOLIDAYS creased Reserves and Lew- ered Loans. ⁊ In- By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—-The Evening Post in its copyrighted financial review today says: The New York Stock Exchange and all the other American security markets were closed today for the first of the Christmas holidays. At London the Stock Exchange was open, but devel- oped absolutely no feature. On the lo- cal Produce Exchange the market was in session, but was dull The wide fluctuations of the week in the foreign exchange market direct at- ‘tention to what usually follows in Jan- uary, after the year-end settlement ob- ligations have been adjusted. The gold movement between the United States and Europe in that month has been sufficiently irregular to give interest to the probable course of exchange during the next five weeks. Last January, and in the opening month of 1907, al- though Europe took no gold from New York, we made large shipments. to South America for London account. In January, 1909, we sent gold direct to Europe; in January, 1908, such gold as came to us from abroad was the last in- stalment of, our purchases at a premi- um in the 1907 panic. Outlook Perplexing. What makes the outlook for next month perplexing is that, although we have heavy credit liabilities to meet in Europe, there have also of late been efforts by-some large international] in- terests to build up fresh credits abroad, After next week, there may be import- ant operations to arrange in connection with the paying off of maturing indebt- edness in Europe and the heavy financ- ing that usually has to be provided for at both London and New York. The situation is complicated by the maturity of large one-year loans which our bankers placed on the other side several months ago. These call for sufficient aggregate payments to make it necessary for the borrowers to begin to accumu- late exchange long before the loans mature. Paying off of the New York City warrants, known as “certifi- cates of indebtedness,’ and now held in ‘the vaults of the great Paris banks, will alone influence the in- ternational exchange market in a substantial way. But there will be offsetting move- ments, ang Etirope’s purchases of our forthcoming bond issues must he taken into account. Under ordinary conditions and with our international position what it is, it would be safe to say that a movement of gold to Europe, in — quantity might be looked for. | If relaxation in American finance and trade were td be at all prolonged that movement would be logicar enough, and would involve no finan- cial inconvenience, Bank Return Is Good. The banks were open today and the weekly bank statement was published at noon. It fulfilled the favorable expecta- tions of yesterday, although the actual week end statement showed barely half as large gain in cash as had been ex- pected. The $2,900,000 addition to that account, however, more than offset a $6,200,000 loan expansion and the ‘result- ‘ant increase in deposits; so that surplus reserves increased half a million. Since the “average statement” reported much larger gain in cash and much smaller loan expansion, it follows that the po- sition was growing somewhat weaker in the past day or two. The actual sur- plus reserve is now slightly below that of this week in 1909, and is. also less than in 1909, or 1904 or 1903. With other recent years, it makes favorable comparison. Among other changes of the week, the excess of loans over de- posits is cut down $3,100,000. That ex- cess is now $34,800,000; it was $38,900,000 a fortnight ago and $19,100,000 at this time last year. In the closing week of 1909 the loan excess rose to $25,100,000, but disappeared altogether two weeks later. STOCKS LOWER ABROAD. LONDON, Dec. 24.—With the New York Stock Exchange closed trading Was dull. Prices, however, were % to % of a point lower on the active isgues. The selling came mostly from Wall Street houses. BIRTHS RECORDED. R, and J. mometer F be apd ket; _ girl. G. an * Behre giri. H. and J ; Pahrenkrog. 4 p35 ri, A and L. Schneider, Salina; AP ri. 6151 Crescent; PBSEEE Pitan? Cae ein — > — Ee a Gy org. 420T ire ot: bow Birknes 1 ge iy 7 ae A. Biles, 3702 liahte: twins. * ö— — — ALLO — ——— — —— —— —— EEL LIE —— LOE NL LEI STOCK MARKETS | NATIVE CATTLE—aArriavis — ve NATIONAL shen hires Ill., Dec. 24. —Com parative wecelpts ere eeeeeveeeweeaeeeee eee eeeneeenare eeeeeoeaveeaenveare — Cattle eeeeeeeeaeenee eep ‘ Horses and mules. 150 head, most of them consisting of cattle that were yarded here on a through billing. A part of the market consignments were not offered for sale. A few butcher steers brought $5.10 and some veals sold up to §8, The market was nominally steady. For the week yearlings and big heavy steers show an advance of 100 to i5c, the general run of beeves have gone up 25c to 40c, helfers closed dull with a shade lower average, cows advanced 100 to lic, veals went up Se and stockers registered a gain of loc. EEF STEER QUOTATIONS. Choi xe —— — 6s donb ic $6. 00 o choice steers..... Medium to ~ 2222: 32288 BUTCHE CATTLE — to 0, fancy corn corn — © cho Medium to good — 4 288 Ce ON meres Ce Mem ono SSNTAVASe Ssebavke & e*eeeeeeeeeeeee Fancy Cowen et Slits nbg bidet Medium to good ¢ Canners gutters ere ee eeeee see eee eeesee ees Fancy brills, bu Ils "* @ PSPS — —, ——, —— —,— — ———— Half-fat oulls, eee Sausage Dalle. - TOC ATTLE QUOTATI Good to choice feeders — 322 x Recei a 1 this de- ece artment —— to 200 h a TF 25 his i ol nclude a le billed to a killer. - fh In THERN CATTLE QUOTATIONS. The following quotations show the range Soyer . ASSSSESES ler: HOGS—_With & good moderate supply hogs on sale for Saturday the market was on a shade better basis thes the close yes- terday, or —* —8 than the best time yes- terday morn The top of the market was 5.8 .95 and fo bulk of the hows So sold at $7.80@ 90. Pigs and lights were 15@25c lower, as there was but little demand for them and only the very best were wanted. —* were pretty good buyers, but the eee and city utube were paren | the best pric Packers darn. fa e@ mixed —* from $7.60@7.75 and good = st ‘obe iq) pair @ for —— and re a ob they secured. $0 80@7 75, most of the good w Pigs and onfice sold ‘foes accord- ing to o aval ED PACKERS AND HEAVY. AY. Price. 2 os hm ie > . * 222323 * No 1 7 4 47....229 — J 3 ere 70 57 38. SERSAASS H AN 1 SHIPPERS. — — R ice, 5 Shek Des Des Ben Ds Ds he Ds te De rn Doc De ee kas * 2222 ts] qr ——— ——— 2244 S — — LIGHT TEIGHT SHIPPERS. ‘ . , eee: ere mt GaSe ZRSSES Barca Sex 2 2224 SRSSS RSSSRRS bad J 35. A SHEEP—The sheep hte. was ae from the fact that there was nothing on sale. The market for the week "WHE N TE CRAIN MARKETS s Trade Is Quiet and Prices on the Call Show Little Change. Traders ignored outside bearish news Saturday and favored the buy- ing side of wheat in a small way. A dry weather map in the winter wheat section was the sustaining influence. Cables were a disappointment, Liv- erpoo] coming %d lower on cheaper Plata offers, and favorable weather and threshing reports from Argen- tine ang Australia. A weak wheat market at Buenos Ayres, backed up the Argentine advices. A poor spot demand at Liverpool, with cargoes July offered at 14%@3d decline was a bearish influence. Minneapolis reported the cash de- mand a little slow with mills not buying much wheat, as they shut down tonight until Tuesday. W§Wx- port demands were conspicuously absent. Market news of importance was at a premium. Liverpool spot wheat changed, futures %d lower; spot corn unchanged, futures 4@%d lower. Paris, holiday, Antwerp and Berlin wheat un- changed, Budapest \c lower. The corn market was quiet and pro- fessional, but prices were inclined up- ward. The best buying came from the shorts. The Liverpool market was weak and lower on reports of rain in the Argentine and expectations of an _ in- creased American movement later on; closed wun- firm. Minneapolis cars of wheat today 289, against 319 last week; last year, holiday. Duluth cars 62, against $1 last year. Winnipeg, holiday. .Minneapolis stocks of wheat increased 100,000 bu in one day. Local wheat receipts today were 36,300 bu, or 27 cars local, 6 through. Corn, 52,800 bu, or 25 cars local, 19 through, Oats, 39,100 bu, or 9 cars local and 14 through. Last year, holiday. Chicago wheat receipts today, 22,- 800 bu; shipments, 15,900 bu. Kansas City receipts, 110,400 bu; shipments, 74,- 400 bu. Total primary wheat receipts today, 741,524 bu; shipments, 246,400 bu. Last year, holiday. ’ All cash markets were steady but dull in sympathy with futures. Quote No. 2 red wheat 96@97c; No. 3 red wheat 92@96c; No. 4 red wheat 88@9ic; No. 2 hard wheat 98@99c; No. 3 hard wheat 90@95c; No. 4 hard wheat 80@838c. Quote No. 2 corn 46c; No. 3 corn 42%@ 48c; No. 4 corn 41%c; no grade 39%46; No. 2 yellow 46c; No. 3 yellow 424%@43%c; No. 2 white 46c: No. 3 white 42%@48c n. Quote No. 2 oats 32c; No. 3 oats 31%c; No. 4 oats 30%c n; No 2 white oats 33%4c; standard oats 82%@83%c; No. 3 white 3244@32%c; No. 4 white 314%@32c. No. 2 rye 82c n, GRAIN BROKERS FROLIC ON THE MERCHANTS’ EXCHANGE Firecrackers and Grecian fire made everybody merry over Christmas on the Merchants’ Exchange floor Satur- day. The usual horse play, with slap- sticks and paper bags filled with water, made the journey from the Hall entrance to the pit a perilous one for all late arrivals. and populaf members. President Manning W. Cochrane was forced to take to the tall timber early, following a heavy lower than t m slightly lower basis than the close of last wee. Good * choice lambs are quotable $6@6.35, fair to medium offerings ge a6. yearlings 3t 50@5.25. mutton shéep @4, stockers $2@3 and bucks $2.50@3. Sheep and lambs have been poor sellers all week. HORSES AND MULES—The market here was very quiet today, as most of the buy- ers have gone home for Christmas. The mule market was very well cleaned up, and no more horses than usual were in the deal- ers’ hands. Fresh —— today approxi- mate 160 head, all mul es. INSURGENCY BREAKS OUT AMONG ’CHANGE INSURGENTS Insurgency among the insurgents has broken out on the Merchants Exchange. In efforts to secure candidates for officers and directors to oppose the regular ticket, headed by Nat L. Maffitt, on Dec. 29, at least a dozen members have been mentioned who are being offered the presidency on the ticket have refused its acceptance or an- nounced —* ne names had been used without authorit At a meeting Friday, in the Central Na- tional Rank Building. members announced _ L. Wright of the Albers Commission Co. would head the ticket. Wright said Satur- day under no circumstances would he accept the nomination. he had attended none of the meetings and the uee of his name as a candidate was unauthorized. F. D. Gill and Wm. GCG McCay. — — as candidates for directors, — in cided terms that they were in ore pathy with the movement and a names have been used without their knowledge. Others mentioned on the proposed siate were: James P. Newell, first vice-president; P. Kiely, second vice-president; Louls Spelbrink. Geo. H. Backer. W. “: Dickinson and 4 W. Hofmann for directors tform of principles ——— in caucus assembied, make the fol- declarations: e favor retrenchment and combining the different bureaus in existence as far as vractical without Tapairing their present efficiency. We further favor —— the value and ion of our sees here * a a change shows gg in the annual lati orm is to be known ange Retrenchment nrotect in the bv-laws and e further favor J on memberships. ineurgent pla Mercha hants’ CHICAGO PROVISIONS, — — J al 5 oe ‘ 18.95 bombardment of firecrackers. Nat. | L. Maffitt, the regular candidate for president in 1911, kept out of the fray after the explosion of several big {crackers in the pit. When R. W. Boisselier, the origi- nator of the insurgent movement, ap- }peared a large explosion of crackers took place. The “regulars” claimed up. Boisselier said the noise showed the insurgent movement was gaining force. The ‘market was the only thing that was quiet. President Cochrane received tele- grams of Christmas greetings from all the leading —— CHICAGO CASH GRAIN, white, Of ficial — and iia Reported by St. Lave Moree S Oats in the local market were quot and. the insurgent movement had blown /. iy ‘ Pen eeeeeoeeeve [Seven New Work “T202!2055 « T ee eee 8408 ° °o Paes PPE ee eres BB item 22020220222 BO New ] St. Louis Chicago Chi eeeeeeeee —— —*8 oledo ———— oes BIH @QSIK eo" a. toi | ie 1 uae MAY WHEAT. : = 2. sti WHEA" 4 47 ot ote — Be A 4146%@ 22222 Pear Statement of the New York Clearing House Ba Reported by Simon. Broskmive # Cliffor 4 ain WN —“ Surplus Reserve Dist: F- noe eeeeeeeee — — closed today. will be resumed Tuesday. EXCHANGES CLOSE. The New York and Stock and Cotton Exchanges are The Merchants’ Ex- change and Chicago Trade hold regular sessions. All financial and commercial exchanges will be closed Monday. St. Louls . * : J fe Board of too far apart Business at the usual hours No meeti of the Exchange, “Mona Turkeys lower at then: at — carp— ressed 8 bc ec: sunfi white perch. Te: © perch. Be; ping turties at ¢ he Fruit 53 1: — 3% , the buy bu box. USWEET Fore ae das at mond By: 2 aie bth * bee Dec. holi¢ ‘at —— call eciting 1 rders, loned_ ito i and produce —_— will be F —— Potatoes, 2 cars; onions, x wand Bet wRKE Soe on 4 city make | Butter, Egg and Poult 26—i 18 —3 Eggs, pres Ay Ete. : given are wholesale hand cases, led. ee HONEY—Comb— 6c; 1 l4c, broken and nferjor enw; ext. Sit id ai ye ie Baggy’ Fe ee — Ib. : 18: as 3 ae : . — | articies a. a To fe: bee ae 35 pws Ag oy — fat m poul bones off 1 — Greenest, fei, ener for email — —— ell — — at Se ° bl ‘potatoes, 1 pee gt —— box. PO A SNIPS Home-grews at 85@40c per ae ONIONS—At $1.20@1.30 ce ae —* eae hn le at 20 per dor- LEI —New Orleans curly at 80@85c See eae are ee ae — — at mares

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