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1 1 SATURDAY ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH DECEMBER 4, THE PET OF TRUSTS. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Founded by JOSEPH PULITZER.

PUBLISHED BT THE PULITZER PUBLISHING CO. CHARMING EVENING GOWN. HUMAN BUZZARDS. must learn all about It through the Sunday Post-Dispatch. There will be a hundred other features of equal Interest.

A St. Louis society girl admits that she likes to flirt. She thinks it is fun. Her physician tells her it Is an evidence of disease. A gamin analyzes angel who wants to love him, and an angel tells how to reform a gamin who does not want to be loved.

A little maiden of St. Louis drinks milk that costs $3 a gallon. A St Louis woman was courted seven years, yet she did not become acquainted with her husband. The question has been asked: "Is orthodox religion a barrier to progressive thought?" St. Louis ministers discuss it pro and con.

These and other striking features, all new and up to date, will appear only In the Sunday Post-Dispatch, say nothing of the great laugh depart-ment of eight pages In colors and the news of the world in the most presentable form. Can you afford to miss what your neighbor cannot do without When the vote on Hawaiian annexation to be taken the opposition should with one voice cry out in the words of cVinnlcl ever be ae- Gov. Griggs Will Hot Bay That to Be Rewarded. SpcUJ to tb Teat-Dispatch. PATERSOX.

tw I do not f-h i hebJ--fVr bearing upon It" Aa' noJhinK to say." vc on th ail ftt-wMa-A u.iiri or lions: corpora- Rall- rn Railroad. Paternon fe'lectric lUil's raterson VAft 111, war Co. natinp Pater- safe Deposit ater Co. and Last v.unsouaated Gas mmnnnl. bllla an me corporation tru- esldent Hobart and all th blar In the Wm.

labor day holiday Wll volln against tne labor WILLIAM BLAKE IS DEAD. 1 Old Western Pioneer Who Crossed th Plains With Premont. POMONA. Dec. Blake, the first white settler in what is now Pomona Valley, is dead.

Deceased wu bora in New York City and was a member of the troops that were with Fremont on hia first expedition across the plains. He assisted as lieutenant in the Unltel States army, planting the Stars and Stripes first on Pike's Peak. came to California with Fremont in ISiT. and was a participant in the struggle about Santa Cru that wrested California from Mexico. He bore dispatches from Gen.

Fremont to Commodore Sloat In negotiations for the transfer of the State from the Mexican to the United States Govern. ment. THREE-FINGERED JACK. He Is Now Safe in Jail at Tulsa, I. T.

Special to the Tost-Dlspatch. TULSA, I. Dec. 4. "Three-Fingered Jack," a member of the Jennings gang, was brought in last night by Deputy Marshals Thompson and MeLanaban of this place and Bud Ledbetter and Peyton Tolbert of VInlta.

lie was captured at the H-arles rancn. tweniy-nve mtles southwest of here, after a fiepce battle between the outlaws and marshals lasrtlng over an hour. Al and Frank Jennings and Tom and Simp O'Malley escaped. One of the outlaws was wounded, but It was thought not seriously. They left th-Sr Horses, saddles, several inchester and camp outfit, escaping on foot.

NEWS FROM ALASKA. A New Tind Which Pans Out RlcU Placer. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24. The remain of ex-Gov.

Church, who died in Juneau. Alaska, Nov. 25, arrived here on the steamer Corona, When the Corona left Juneau all the testimony had been taken ln the trial of "Slim" Birch for the murder of United States Deputy Marshal Watt, but no verdict had been reached. Ex-United States Marshal Louis I. Williams of Juneau says that rich placer mines were discovered in Princa William Sound late in October.

The surface gravel panned out cents to the pan. PUGET SOUND SALMON. The Catch in Seventeen Days Sold foi $1,000,000. TACOMA, Dec. are fourteen salmon canneries on Puget Sound, the total output for 1S07 being fish, 4C7.0UO cases, bringing in $1,034,500.

Seventy- two traps and a large number of gill netters supply them. me principal neu was the cockeye salmon, which made, a mur-h larger run this year than usual. Htsti that marketed for $1,000,000 were caught in seventeen days, that being the length of the run this year. TO BE ABSORBED. Standard National Bank Preparing Liquidate.

NEW YORK, Dec. sre now In progress which will probably result in the liquidation of the Standard National Bank of this city and the business bv the newly organised I roauce Exchange Trust Co. The Standard National Bank has a capital stock of and its surplus is Literary Notes. "Queer Janet," by Grace Le Baron, Is a story for boys and girls-a simple story of happy child life, with Christmas carols and good deeds galore. It Is one of those books that exert a happy influence on the young reader.

(Boston: Lee Shepard Clifton Johnson has edited a of 1 papers on "The Dl-tf bv One Who went to n- wood cuts and the f.e simile of pages from an old-time primer add Interest rthe representation, which wilt old memories in many readers. (Boston. Lee Shepard.) CaslieV. Magazine for December contains CA fnllv illustrated article, show ing how the parish of Shoredlteh. London, obns electric light and heat from ty obtains annulIy tZ yr book I.

"The lie worth Tb" Compiled from the writing, of ST AS ot moral an, religious 'Thust of Poe is to stand in the Po. Al-A the central feature of a section of cove as the icvoir1 speclai- 1T ro under in. nlan, of J.fferson-wa. burnt the plans i of I fir of Oo tobcr. 1 McKlm.

Mead White, 'Twm 'or bocks. Th. Atlantic for January a new anl vr-Th. IUttl. of th.

Gl rtrker. be begun. It by Mr. Atlantic published Tim. continue.

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bTtncP-r. thai Iher. I. -baau th. claim thai wage.

fca. increaaed I1- ll'rd I a- of Chicago have J.t brought out a mrrovd edltt of Cr-k Iteoh 1 slriao. Oliver. lilutralUaa a.shrs ba aaJo. rrrd fir riyaltjr.

The bo I1. ani ractUai. i Railroad. Erie 'BlroaJ New York IT Office 513 Olive Street. TEEiTS OP SUBSCEIPTIOH.

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43 Tribune Building, New York, And 4t3 The Rookery, Chlca AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. CFiVTl'RT "A Virginia Conrtshlp." OI.YMI'K Whirl of the. Town." IMI'KitlAL Y'lins Wlnthrop." II A LIN'S "Northern ights." II ul'K INS- Continuous. FT VXPAHU- Sam Devere's Own Company. CoLLSLTM Sli-dny bicycle rnce.

MATINEES IMPERIAL -i 1 I.ar.iue." 11 A LIN'S "The Lat Stroke." Jit l'K INS' Continuous. Yi-rk Stars. SHAM AND SHIFT. Congressman Dingley has outlined he thinks Congress will do in There is nothin the the in the outline to create confidence in either the or the ability of Republican leadership, or to arouse a thrill of expectation. gross will occupy itself with the appropriation bills, with bankruptcy legislation, with the immigration -question, with the railroad pooling bill and a few minor matters.

Nothing is to In attempted in currency rm or to redeem the Republican pledge to restore bimetallism for fear of the Senate. Cuba is to be left to the thrifty and shifty political methods of the President. Alaska, New Mexico and Arizona will fill in the spare time. 'n the subject of the deficiency in the revenue the paramount factor in the governmental situation Mr. Dingley seta no need of legislation.

When the Wilson bill wan causing a deficiency the subject was so important that the President called an extra eessie-n. Now that the Dingley bill is a worse deficiency there is occasion to touch it. Vague promises of letter results in the future are regarded as sufficient to reassure the country and ward off a bond issue. The contributors to the campaign fund have been taken care of, and that is enough. Sham, shift and evasion with an eye pingle to the next election is the Republic-nn programme.

The shit 'eng interests are vastly greater than the railroad interests. This is a fact that Congress must consider in dealing with pooling schemes. MISSIONARIES AND THE MARKET The tie rm.tn-Chinese situation illustrates how missionaries are related to the extension of the market for modern production. The missionaries go ahead and educate the natives to the need for machine-made goods. After a while, eome still benighted natives kill a missionary.

Then the government behind the missionary steps la and demands indemnities which represent an extension of the market for Its commerce. The natives are forced to yield, and soon the lilg warehouse of the P.iKish or German factor rlst putting the humble chapel of the missionaries in the shade. Two German missionaries have been killed by the Chinese. Rut Germany Is not contented with asking Indemnity that ill satisfy the families of the murdered men. She wants a big Bum of money for herself, a coaling station, a harbor for her warships and a railroad franchise for an entire province.

Of course, tho missionary does not penetrate heathen countries for the purpose of extending commerce. When he teaches the natives to wear "store clothes" he does not do It with the intention of raising prices for the London or Herlin clothing manufacturer. That, Snow-ever, la what his work tends to do. JCow that the English have taken alarm at the label "Made In Germany," and the German manufacturer cannot successfully with American workmanship. It Is ne ssary far the Kaiser to find r.ew markets for German-made goods.

What so easy as to coerce China into luiylng them? To boodle or not to boodle Is now the question for the Fpeclal session of the Illinois Legislature. It seems to be Just a question of tlmo allowed. ATHLETICS TOR WOMEN. Women who engage in athletic and kin dred exhibitions for a consiJpratUm real Ize the physical danger to which they are pubjectlng themselves. "It will break us -wn and make us old before our fail oni of them recently.

This etartling-ly candid opinion is shared by many phy- Sclans, as well as by women, who have Kivcn much attention to euch matters the good of th Ir sex. Vet the evil of over-exertion does net cease. Women have imbibed the commercial of the and are daily detroylng their ln-aita and converting themselves into for the) ettke of money. This eub Jeet, strikingly Illustrated and discussed from revrral standpoint, will be present ed only by the Sunday Post-Dlspatcr ji'tma man nai ti unique very latest out He Is Intel caterer. He will contract lo furr at much per evening.

II mi a business, and Ms plan is at. vldeuca la Bt Louis society, -y, an to is BIGGEST TOWER IN ENGLAND TO LET. Halifax, England, has a tower to let. It Is one of the most remarkable structures in the world. It i3 higher than the Bunker Hill Monument, and It was built by Edward Wainhouse to spite Sir Henry Edwards.

The two men became bitter enemies, and Mr. Wain-honso built the tower to spy up-on Sir Henry Edwards' grounds. He fitted up the monument with telescopes and field glasses, and for a while, until the two became reconciled, he used daily peer from the narrow windows into the Baronet's home. This tower is owned by the descendants of the builder; who would be glad to part with it. They are even willing to have it removed stone by stone, but this is TIIK SPITE TOWER.

expensive that no one would be willing do it, even for a gift. The structural work is perfect. It consists of three feet of brick wall and two of solid stone. It has every chance of standing forever, and it offers an Invitation to some American millionaire to come and buy it, and so own one of the wonders of the worid. A PACE LIKE IRON.

Arry In my Tour father the ah door face, and I ah told him he was Carry: What did he say? Arry: Said I ah had such a hard it ah shouldn't have hurt me ah. face THE DEATH-BED. We watched her breathing through the night. Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of lifa Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we se rn'd to speak.

So slowly moved about. As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears Our fears our hooes belled We thought iher dying when she slept And sleeping wImi she died. For when the morn came dim and sad And chili with earlv showers Her quiet eyelids elosed she hpd Another morn than ours. TOM HOOD.

POST-DISPATCH SNAP SHOTS. The 'Burban conductor meant no harm When he grabbed each ladv by the arm; But the order's out that he'll grab no more And ducky's heart is the least bit sore. Recipes for the prevention cf colds are not to be sneezed at Just now. We want to junket when we have. nt enough money even to fumigate.

The Peabody-Murphy appeal is still working for the appealer and not for the peeler. China Is anxious to arbitrate. We thus have another evidence of progress In the Orient. The City Council of Havana is also rotten: Even the minutes of its evil doings have disappeared Perhaps the Czechs of the Austrian Empire had read about scene of our House of Dele- gates proceedings. A.

WUZ una. Anotner iny Aiiuwiauii iiLay uo xrom xne Chillicothe 1eauty. So many alcoholic object lessons are given in nearly every community outside, the schools that the rising generation should be pretty well Informed without Instructions in the schools. As the price of cattle is so high and a Philadelphia ex-Alderman has just choked to death on a piece of beef, is there not now another opening for the vegetarian propaganda? A San Ftanciseo student's leg has been cured of a sprain by baking. If baking a man's leg will cure It, and the surgeon does not afterwards pull It too hard, the new schema is a very good one.

It is remarkable that among so many vile political odors the Administration organs can distinguish that the fragrance iieuu me iieaunwnt Street Mosque that of a Poecat. The death of "Anti-Toxin Ben" will not be mourned by the Antl-anti-toxin contingent of the medical fraternity, and It may more or less arouse the humane societies to an investigation of poor Ben's lockjaw. Gov. Bradley's lead-pipe cinch on the appointment of a girl to break the bottle for th battleship Kentucky has been clearly from the first. A 1 1.

A ius aaugnter so pretty an honor merely be cause he was Governor of Kentucky? Who Got ItP From the St. Joseph (Mo.) News. An Interesting question, which no one seems able to solve, is what became of Judge Bland's It was understood by him that it was to go to the Fopulist campaign fund. These campaign contributions are never accounted for, anyway. It will rot do to tell who contributes, nor will it do to tell who receives the money, for often that would up a big row, The result is that the managers; of the campaign tuna nave it all their own way.

It Is believed that that Is the secret of Boss Croker's great wealth, and it Is also be lieved that that will acount tir Chauncey I. Filley's maintenance for the last twenty years. Now, who got Bland's Prosperity for Divorce Courts. From the Springfield (Mo.) Republican. St.

Louis had 100 marriages on Thanks- giving. That was certainly a wave of Drosnerlty for the divorce tiiurts. A II THE WALKING FISH. Within the last month very remarkable fish have been captured In this country, found many thousands of miles from their native seas. One was caucrht on the Pacific coastyv(fV the other day near Batter ton.

Mr. O. Warner of Philadelphia caught the curiosity, which turned out to be native of the Indian Ocean, and which is known the world over as the walking flsh, so called because it really does havesTRAXGE FISH FOUND feet which it uses 'KE rACiFlc as a mode of loco- C0AST-motion. As a matter of fact, the walking flsh is a ghoulish-appearing thing, for the little claw legs which are seen, two on each side of the creature, are decidedly uncanny. A QUEER RELIC.

A relic Just acquired by the Paris Military Museum Is the wood and iron leg of Gen. Dumesnil, who lost one of his own legs at Wagram, and replaced it with a contrivance of timber and Iron springs. When the general, at a later day, was summoned to surrender a fort near Paris, his reply was: "Give me back my leg and you can have Vincennes." The old Napoleon veteran survived until 1S32. THE MAIDEN PLEDGE. We've lived together these twenty years Pol, the parrot, and We've shared our joys and feared our fears Under sunny and cloudy sky.

The new year is coming, smart '9S, Bringing its changes and woes; But Pol and I will be mate and mate When the New Tear comes and goes. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. a (This eolumn Is open to everybody who has a complaint to make, a grievance- to Tentllate, Information to give or a subject of general Interest to discuss, or a public service to acknowledge, and who can put he idea Into less than 100 words. In Loco Parentis. Tc the Editor of the Post-Dispatch.

Has a public school teacher any right to order a child to remove a preventive against scarlet fever or diphtheria because the odor is offensive to her delicate nostrils? It seems to me very commendable in parent? having their children wear a harmless little bag of camphor or some other preventive against diseases so prevalent among cliii-dren at this time and they should not be subjected to euch embarrassment as occurred in one of our best public schools twice this week by the teacher telling her class that if the "mean smelling stuff" was not removed she would make a "personal investigation" and pend tlie child to the principal. AN INTERESTED PARENT. St. Louis. Peddling Is No "Soft Snap." To the Editor of the Tost-Dispatch.

I wonder if those that want laws to keep peddlers from houses ever give anything a second thought. I am sure if people would Just think a little they would never treat a peddler unkindly. People do it, not because they are bad, but because tuey are tnougntless. I suppose peddlers are a good deal of bother to people, but which class has the most trouble, the well-to-do people or the poor man that is compelled to peddle? I want to tell the people that don't like peddiers that It is the hardest work a man can do and pays the hast. I am a man 'th a family to keep and am compelled to peddle part of the time, tout am glad to do any kind of work at any kind of wages before I will peddle.

I have walked the streets many a day all day without any dinner and male from 2) to 30 cents a day. Is there any one that don't like peddlers who will give a man that don't like to do it something else to do? If there i- please answer through Post-Dispatch a i. A.uui3. A PEDDLER. Paving Alleys on Sunday.

Kditor of the Tost-Dispatch. I rarely attend church. I am not a strict observer of the Sabbath, but I hav seems to me to be a wholesome regard for the sanitary and moral worth of the day So I do not like to see its disregard countenanced officially by the municipality as it Is countenanced when contractors fJr allev paving work are forced or even permitted to employ men and teams seven days in the week as thev ar dniner on allev i-nri, tween "'age and Evans avenue, north of venue. GOOD CITIZEN. Telephone Rates.

To the j-tor of the roat-DUpatoh. I in several of the daily papers an artlcl-i saying that there was a war ln telephone rates. Now let me tell you that m-steo of reducing rates the Bell Telephone company is taking advantage of their subset lbers, because of the fact that it will before the Kinloch people rea i-v to give service. The Hell people nave several beautiful plans by which tney try to make the people believe It Is aa cneap if not cheaper, than the old rate, a good deal like taking a sugar-coated quinine pill. iTJ.J? um and substance of It Is that the Jo nv teen setting will 1 per rear, and they compel you to VhJL -ar contract.

You can see right 1 reason why they were so kind fnnl nn.11 contracts up to Jan. 1 not rnrKtvf? of course, said they did It faience of their customers. Any or Telephone Germany to v. of their stamp are going There tfie best of it, ring me up. subYcribf.ht.

ia he some movement by the to resut thia rnn't the Post- au balf rolling tT su iouis QFF CENTRAL. yy- 1 mm -5rw fyJTrZZ? The newest -wrinkle for an evenln(r gown is to have the low-en fr- lapels folded over the fWnt of "'ZZ This Is particularly becoming; -ith pouch effects now so universally -worn. With the wrinkled sleeves and eash belt the whole effect la very graceful and cling-Inff. HARD TO PLEASE. "Will you wear your gray skirt for cycling? "No; nobody would look atene In It." "Then why not put on you rationals?" "But people stare so." THE KNOCKER.

I am a Knocker. That is all I do. I tarry by the wayside with my hammer. And I wield it when my friends appear In view. I am the foe of beauty, peace and glamor.

I love to stir up strife. I heap abuse On men and women of whate'er condition; Both friends and enemies do I traduce. For I'm against ail manner of ambition. I love to linger when the sun is low And peaceful men are planning for the morrow. And tell them all the evil things I know About their friends, and till their hearts with sorrow.

Oh. yes, I am a Knocker, good and strong; nave no conscience, seit-respect, no station; God doesn't know me. All my ways are wrong. I have no counterpart tn all creation. J.

ETCHER GUXN. THE WEEK. A St. Louis Lady Sings of Them Pierre Love Story Notes. London mot far off, form the scenes for the drama.

It is a story that could easily be turned into a rather commonplace play. (London and New Tork: F. Tennyson Neely.) THIS art of using a vast number of words so pleasantly, to describe as in a long-drawn out prose "poem very ordinary scenes and things this art that Pierre Loti has in such perfection how great an art it is! Here is a story, "Ra-muntcho," of the Pyrenean Highlands, a simple love story of a youth who is noth- Otr but a smuggler, a country vagabond TUmost, and a girl who has as little self-control or character as a fiheep. Rut Loti Illumines it with his wonderful art. The Basque country and the Basque people are ethercalized and glorified under his touch.

Ramuntcho and Gracieuse are a second Paul and Virginia. And the reader enjoys and marvels at It. ln A NEW book of short stories of New Mexican kr by Charles F. Lummis is always welcome, The Enchanted Burro" gives a promising title to this new volume. It is a panorama of odd happenings and queer superstitions.

The stories are not only of New Mexico, but of South America, where Mr. Lummis has lately been studying human nature. These stories will Interest old and young alike, broadening wonderfully the knowledge concerning out-of-the-way regions of our vast continent. (Chicago: Way Williams). HE newest addition to the children's library is "Mother Gon.se in Prose." The familiar Mother Gow rhymes have been elaborated and made into stories as ridiculous as the subjects call for.

Of course these stories do not improve upon Mother Goose, but they will furnish the children with variety and keep them happy. A number of clever full-page Illustrations not enough, howeveradd to the effect. Way Williams. Chicago, have given the book a pretty and appropriate dress. Books Received.

"The Madonna io Art." by F.stelle M. Flurll. "The l'rinc of the Tin Klves." by Charles Blelcht. aptsln 1'nicBsse. by Theophlle Gantler.

Illustrated. Lorraine, a Romance." hy Robert W. Chambers, author of "The King In Yellow," etc. i'rom Charles Sons, throngh Jona I Bolsnd Itk and Stationery A Capital Conrtslilp," by Alexander Blaca, author of "MI Jerry. Illustrated.

From It. Feann 4 "The Man Who Ws i a novel by Merrick, a.dhor of "A Daughter of tha 1 hilla- ''ium'nVho." by I'lerre VU of land etc. From llerliert Stone A Co as Found In 1 orethoort thought." by Horace i letcuer. leBtlKltor rlFrora I-smson. Wolffe.

Co The Merry Msld of Arradr. I la 1 NordantJS ana Other Utorles." by Mrs Horrno From the J. B. Mpplnctt Co The ITMi of tbe Mereera." T. C.

IU nllu.r of "Creole and From F. r.T..tn..n l-bU-a-Jpfct-r In SVarrh of a by lunula HirJ tlst 1 -'The Living hrl.I. by I'aiU TtDrt. Fm The Century Ulna bv Jnnl "anar Slid KT. X.

Vbver. nirker at work one To Se the Paris rag-Picker be up vr" Win at 5, and at 7 he is on his way home. Early in the morning the refuse from each building is deposited in front of the house on the curbstone. Along comes the human buzzards and jdck It over before it is gathered up by the municipal dust carts. The rag-pickers of Paris herd together in two or three colonies in the city.

They are out casts whom landlords are averse A PARIS RAG-l'K KKR. to renting property. Their hovels are filthy beyond descrip tion and the odor is pestilential. But the rag-pickers, though a rough lot, are a law-abiding folk and give the police but little trouble. SMOKING STATISTICS.

Holland hold3 the first place In the world as a nation of smokers. Every Dutchman consumes, on an average, 100 ounces a year. The Belgian comes a good second with an annual consumption of eighty ounces, fol-fowed closely by Turkey with seventy ounces and the United States with sixty ounces. Germany, France, Spain and Italy tread closely on their heels, while Great Britain comes comparatively low on the list with twenty-three ounces. WOULD TAKE NO RISKS.

Miss Fortissimo: Say, Jack, are you going to play that Wagner Thunder march tonight? Jack: No, I own the piano. IN POKERBURG. Queen of Spades: Wasn't the opera ballet shocking, dear? Queen of Hearts: Indeed, yes; I blushed deeply. Queen of Spades: Ah! a genuine royal flush. BOOKS OF The Poetry ami Romance of Diamonds Loti's Last IAMONDS in History and Ro- mance." a St, Louis literary pro- duction, published by the Schulte Publishing Chicago, is announced as about ready to be put on the market.

This book is the result of much research. It is the story of the queen of gems, told in verse, the incidents having been gathered from history and tradition. The author is Mrs. Louise Ivory Moore, a well-known St. Louis writer and newspaper woman.

She chose for her subject a gem, the acquisition and retention of which has cost many lives, has made and unmade fortunes, has divided families, In spired wars and been the cause of untold tragedy and romance. The diamond is but a nodule of crystallized carbon, jet it is the most precious thing in matter, and Its beauty has evoked for it the worship of humanity ln all ages. The field is one for the writer of romance and poetry. Mrs. Moore has shown how rich is that field.

"Diamonds in History and Romance" Is a beautiful book, especially striking for its fine illustrations. Nilie artists, eight of whom are St. Louis men, have contributed the full-page and vignette pictures. Among these artists are Paul Cornoyer, J. Wilton Cunningham.

Dwiggins. S. Carlisle Martin and George C. Eichbaum. The frontispiece is a reproduction of Bichbaum's fine painting, "The American Woman," the subject of which is a prominent St.

Louis society lady. It is a beautiful picture. Schulte Co. have printed the hook In handsome style, type, jet-black, effects green. the text being ln Bradley with Initial and head-line B' EATRICE 3IARRADEN has turned from "Ships That Fass in the Night" ami other melancholy novels with queer psychological motives to the writing of a capital book for young people, entitled "Untold Taie3 of the Fast," such as "The Bravest of the Vikings," "Joan of Arc and Little Tierre," "The Vestal Virgins," "The Eve of Caesar's Triumph," etc.

These tales are told well, ln simple language, and H. R. Millar has illustrated them with some striking pictures ln Howard Pyle's manner. This makes an excellent gift book for boys or girls. (New York: Dodd, Mead Co.) iHE gypsies will become a new people to you after you have read Paul Kestcr's "Tales of the Real Gypsy" The enterprising author has put himself thoroughly in touch with the life and thought of these wanderers, chiefly by do ing them kindnesses and proving to them his sincerity.

His stories bring one well within the glow of the camp-fire and arouse one's sympathy and Interest. Mr. Kester has learned a. good deal of the Romany and introduces It into the conversation of the people he pictures with excellent effect. (New Tork: Doubieday McClure Co.) TUB uns elot old sttory of the discontent of en sophisticated country wife arid her lopement with a conscienceless art ist to a great city is retold in Mrs.

Arthur Giles' novel, "The Wreath of Eve." Tbe lady becomes enlightened to the villainy or her would-be lover before any real harm is done, and the story ends ln reconciliation. An English village and with mm jtueibuu; cepted which would require a navy defend it." to THE POOLING BILL. The St. Louis Traffic Bureau has not moved too soon In taking up the matter of the railroad pooling bill, which will be brought up in Congress with powerful backing, during the approaching session Stripped of all disguises the pooling bill means the legalizing of a great rami combine which will completely crush nrtatlnn UnPS. competition Between iran--' It" means an agreement among the railroads to distribute the traffic in the manner most advantageous to the roads end divide the earnings.

It is the trust scheme applied to railroad transportation. No ingenuity of wording or of argument suffices to conceal the fact that this amendment to the Interstate commerce law is devised in the Interest of the railroads as opposed to those of the producers and shippers, in short, of the public. The conduct of the pool may be fair to all other interests, but on the other hand it may be unfair. The paramount consideration will be the interests of the railroads and it is idle to assert that the Interstate Commerce Commission can detect or prevent discrimination against shippers, or conditions which will sacrifice shipping interests to railroad interests. If the combine shall find it advanta-treous to discriminate against any ship ping point or any shipping interest it will easily find a way to do so.

That it would grant the rates which would prevail under competition is an absurd proposition. St. Louis had a hint of the kind of discrimination likely to come out of a railroad pool in the proposed time differential on passenger rates. That a pooling law would be Inimical to the great producing centers and the inland cities cannot be denied. It would place them practically at the mercy of the combine.

Put it will be flavored by the railroad and financial interests and through them powerful influences will be arrayed on its side. The West must organize for an effective defense of Western interests. If the pooling bill-should be passed and the Mississippi River appropriation De lefeated to help out the deficiency of rev enue. St. Louis would receive a deaden ing blow, the effect of which would ex tend to the entire Mississippi Valley.

The saddest fact in the life of John Sherman has been his subserviency to the Hanna-McKinley machine. A Senator of the United States, independently rich, and with a political record reaching far away into the past, he has been as an obedient child to the political schemers with whom he has been associated in his old age. Mr. Nagel hits the nail If he says we Olltrht to hpvA a pnnrl municinql rovprn- ment as Hamburg, Berlin and Glasgow. Indeed, our municipal government, pro- lessing to represent a iree people, ougnr.

to De superior to everything- transatlantic. Ahumada says St. Louis Is a great city, and Rothschild recommends the St. Louis region as a good place for the Investment of capital. There is plenty of testimony at home and abroad as to St.

Louis' advantages. There is nothing more nearly related to prosperity than postal savings If Mr. McKlnley's message Is to say nothing about them, many people in his own Pa-fty will marvel at the omission. Judicious advertising Is a prosperity i maker, and no Advertisers ri more prosperous than those who freely use the more than 100,000 circulation of the Post-Dispatch. If extradition does not reach absconding American cashiers It should be made to do ex It is surelv not to the Interest of nnv or an country to shelter thieves of any sort.

I Oklahoma would do well not to go too far Into four and five-cent cotton. It is not worth while to raise crops that leave the farmer in debt when they are sold. could not ln th he rhi. 1 Bway ao mucn vuuno property as he has flis posed of while serving as Governor. Mr.

Gage is knows how to gave th credit of the Dingey law. but the real figures are ha-ha-at the Secretary's efforts. There seems to be a deposition to shift old man Cullom around Just as old man bnerman has been shifted. The reopla will not trouble themselves about what the politician, say of Uncle Fideys revelations. The Good Roads Issue.

From the St. Joseph (Mo Newl The question Is now being asked, which nnmln9 mW "naMt 'or the Democratic at, Gov Missouri who attended the Sood roals ennv.ntir. e. the, -Dockery and Farrls-made he most favorable Impression. Messrs Doekery and Farrls are wise enough to f.

one to enter Into th politics of "I largely in the he future. campaigns of so to.