St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 2

1 St. Zmoa gMraa. gulg 28,1800. A BOGUS PKIEST. THAT ARE TO BE ft Barr's St.

Louis. Nobody's going; to buy much at this season unless, it's such a bargain that they can't help themselves. If you have a boy between the ages cf 4 and 14 you can't stay away from Barr's, because they're clearing out $4.50 suits for $2.50, and all suits worth $4.75 to $5.50 lor $3.50. You can't have too many pretty fresh ginghams. Barr's are closing out all their elegant novelties the best imported fabrics, that have been selling right along for 50 up to 75 cents, at 19 cents a yard, and no reserving of the best patterns all must go.

Then there's linen lawns, the onlv complete kprii in fct. oeauxy in every You'll be much pi ore ways so much bigger ijrsswsy" -IT -4 VIM i' "Vs Why, it's as Take those one Tuesday special chase. If you find Lcuis this seascn. Come take your natural to Barr's to give bargains as embroidered 45-inch flouncings at 49c; oi tnem.cieanngout now at iyc. surprised at the goods than you now are at in reality than in sound.

Extra heavy boned French woven corsets, your size you pet a big bargain. Genuine $16, $i3 and $20 Suits going lor $9.75. 1500 fine Suits go in this Suits that gentlemen of leisure need, that men of business want Suits that struggling, poorly paid people should get. It's their benefit, our gift, their gain! our loss Think of it Black Cheviots, Worsteds, Fancy Cheviots, Cassimeres. Suits that everybody knows are worth $16, $18 and $20 going at $9.75.

$3, $3-50, $4 and $4.50 Pants going at $2.50 $6.50, $7 and $8 Pants going at Nearly two thousand pairs offered at these prices. Even a life-long gatherer of good things will be surprised by the great bargains offered in these two sales. We guarantee them to be as represented. It's dollars placed in your pockets by a purchase. All sizes, all kinds.

See windows. More Suits We have a large number of All-Wool Suits in sacks and cutaways, that are worth $10, $12 and $14, which we are selling at $7.50. Large lines of genteel Dress to sell for $22 and $25, go now that it is late in the season, for $15.00. Other cood things offered are $3.50 Flannel Shirts for S1.69; 552 Shirts for 98 cents; Hosiery (fine imported) at 25 cents, worth double the money; Shoes for men, Shoes for ladies, all go at reduced prices. Two bargains mostly called for are the $3 lien's Shoes for $2.25, and the Ladies' $3 and $3.50 Shoes for $2.35.

jfJH CLOTHIER, 408 NORTH BROADWAY. i ft ALLIGEDKIWZKALANDIB CREATES A 6EK8AT10N IS CATHOLIC CIRCLES. frhe Tititor Tails a. Variety of Stories and Frequently oatradlcta Himself Saying Man Af tor Breakfast and Otherwise Ic-norlnc Chnrcli Laws The Police Called Upon to Treat Him as aa Impostor. The police and priests are scouring the city for "Father Laarentz." a bogus Roman Catholic priest who has cot been seen here since last Thursday.

The "Father" la a small, this man, probably 6 feet 6 leches tall, is About 55 year of age and has hair which Is largely gray. At 9:30 o'clock Thursday night he drove up in a carriage with a companion to the Alezlan Brothers Hospital, and claiming that he was Provincial of the Maris Fathers rf New Zealand, he asked for lodging for the for himself and his companion, whom he claimed was a physloian and a brother of bis. The Brothers bad no room for them, howeyer, and they drove away. Next day the Alezian brothers notified the two Catholic book stores hero to be on the lookout for the reverend gentleman as he was evidently a fraud. "Father Laarentz" did not go to the book Stores, however, but put In Is time visiting churches and convents.

lie visited the Ursu-line Convent and told the sisters there of the efforts he was making to convert to Roman Catholicism the natives of New Zealand, and cf tbe struggle he had to carry on the work with the limited funds at bis command. Bis tale was such a pitiful one that a sympathetic sister, who Is an Instructor lit the Convent, gave him i. He religiously accepted the donation and devoutly thanked the kind sister for her generosity, lie Is said to have obtained a like sum in a similar manner from a sister of St. Joseph, who teaches at the parish school on Eleventh, between Biddle and O'Fallon streets. This was last Saturday.

It Is supposed that he has Visited people about the city and collected various amounts from them to help christianize the unfortunate natives of New Zealand. AN CNFAKDONABLE OFFSB. Yesterday morning, however, F-ev. Father Laurentz was guilty of an act which, while no offense against the laws of the land, Is one cf the worst violations of the laws of tho church which he could possibly commit and one which priests and believers In the faith regard with horror. it Is an inexorable law of the church that no priest shall, under any circumstances, touch a morsel of food any day on which he aaya mass until after he has concluded the mass.

Yesterday "Eev. Father Lanrentz" visited St. Joseph's Church on Eleventh and Biddle streets. The Jesuit Fathers there believing him to be what he represented hlmsnlf had him say mass on the altar. "Laurentz, who la well posted on church matters, went through the services all right and at their coneiusl bad breakfast with the priests.

lie had evidently not eaten anything creviously during the day, for he ate with a great deal of relish and proved himself to be a very heartv eater. After brer.kfast he went to the convent of tbe fcisters of t-t. Francis on Fourteenth and O'Falion streets and represented to them that he was stopping at St. Joseph's Church and had come specially to mass for them. They accepted his stt mant as true and Laurentz said the mass juo.

haviugSarlsen from a hearty breakfast. When the priests at St. Joseph's learned this yesterday they were horror-stricken. It was not untd late at night that they heard of it. Other priests had also heard of Lanrentz's exploits here, and about 10 o'clock Father Tan der Sanden, the Chancellor-" of the diocese, who Is also Cfcaplain of the Alezian Brothers' Hospital, was aroused from his slumbers r-r several priests who bad called at the hpvpital to In-foimhimof the bogus priest.

This morning ather Van der San Jon called at the officeot the Chief of Police and made a report ot tbe matter. be was accompanied by another priest who gave a description of "Father Laurentz." Father Van der Eaoden said ha did not know whether the man bad done anything for which he could be prosecuted criminally and it was not his desire to have him arrested, but to have tbe police see him, as he itas a fraud and should be watchel to see fa at he did no wrong. The police wera sent to St. Joseph's Church to catch the man, but be was not stopping there, although he claimed that be was. COyFLICTTV STORIES.

It appears tbat while Father Van der Sanden and tbe authorities were hunting for tbe bonus priest he was calling on Vicar-General Brady at St. John's Church. Ha told the Vicar-General that his name was Katber Laurentz and tbat he was Provincial of tbe Marist Fathers In Zealand, and tbat he was now on bis way from Koine to New Zealand. He said he bad not been in St. Louia since 1ST.3.

and was astonished at the changes which had since taken place here. He also told the Vicar-General tbat be was stopping at St. Joseph's Church, but would leave to-morrow morning for San Francisco. Father Van der Panden says that the man told Fattier BrJy further that he had not been In Chicage. Ibis Father van der sanden says he can prove to be a lie." lie was in bicago a couple of weeks a to and remained there nearly ffeei.

It is said tbe priests there finally learned he was a fraud and he was forced to leave the place. While there he also bad a companion with him, and he claimed the man was studying' fcr tbe priesthood. "Father Laurentz" Is alleged to have also collected money there, but did it In such a manner as not to make himself amenable to the law. He asked for nothing, but told a pitiful story and the people would give him money. Tbe priests here were Informed to-day that the man has been stopping at tbe Hotel Noble.

Just how mucn money be has collected here Is not known. Father Van der t-anden says he is certain the man is not a regular priest and says that if he was bis offnns- against tbe laws of the church by saying mass after he has eaten breakfast wouid be all tbe more unparuonable. Tbe priests here Relieve the man nas been passing himself off for a priest for years. The affair has created tbe greatest sensation among local pr iests, and they are talking of little else to-day. Great Racing, There will be great racing to-morrow afternoon at the Fair Grounds, forty-five horses being entered lor the five races.

The Eastern book opens daily at 10 a. m. on Saratoga. Admission 60 cents, and ladies with escort admitted tree. THE STOCK BR OKKKS.

Th Landing Supporters of the Market Absent Stocks still Heine; Koncht Freely. By Private 'Wire to Gaylord, Blessing 4 Co. NewTork, 9 a. m. There are no leaders or big traders in the street; even Mr.

White, who has been the strongest supporter of tbe market, lias left it for a fortnight's vacation. There are a good many sound and successful operators with large means, who continue to buy stocks down and they believe tbat the turning point maybe nearly reached. The Flower and Vandcrbllt houses talk in the strain; tbe dullness they say has been too long continued and In the natural course of thlncs, in a speculative way, when there is renewed activity, it will be towards improvement. 10 a. m.

Earnings of Louisville Nashville for the third week of July, Increase. 12 m. Union Pacific earnings, June surplus. Increase, $21,919. TELKbUAFHlC 1JRKVITIES.

Mrs. Hannah Sullivan of Newcastle, the only female centenarian voter, died there yesterday. She was born In Ireland In 177a, and bad ten children. She died of cancer. Eev.

John E. lieriey, a well-known minister of Pottstown, has just completed tbe thirtieth year under a dietary system, which Las for Its principal feature tbe eating of but one meal a day. lie is 67 years old, and Is bale ad hearty. Denies Her Husband's Charges. Mrs.

Elizabeth Sullivan, who has been sued by ber husband for divorce on the grounds that she neglected ber household duties, enters a denial to tbe allegations in ber husband's petition. She says she bas always demeaned herself asi a fainful and dutiful wife ausua DE and Lynch streets, a two-story, five-room, brick dwelling, with 25x160 feet of ground, bouse numbered 2616 McNair avenue, renting at $22 per month the property of Mr. Charles J. Bremer; sold for to Mr. Albert and Anna Murkh.

Northwest corner of Wyoming and Thirteenth streets A Slxl22-ftot lot, owned by Mr. P. W. Provenchere, sold at $23 per root to Mr. Gustav F.

Vogel, who will improve the site with a business house. Tuxedo The follow ln named parties have purchased ground In Tuxedo: T. Hofman, 50 feet on Providence avenue, $450; Eugene Wriitbt, 50 feet on Tuxedo boulevard, $500; Mrs. M. O'Connor, 50 feet on Providence avenue, $150.

SCHOOL NEWS. The Beard Arranging- I'or the Election-Principal ft. nrpliy's Boom. Considerable Interest is centered In tha meeting of the Joint Teachers and Gules Com. mlttee of the School Board which takes place late this afternoon.

The committee will take up the mntter of filling the vacancy In the Su- perlntendent's office occasioned by the eleo- tion oi sir. jamos g. layer to ine secretaryship of the board. It Is generally understood In school board circles that another Assistant Superintendent of Schools will be ap pointed, arid Prof. Geo.

T. Murphy, principal of the Clinton School appears to be on the cards for the plaoe. He 'has been connected with tbe schools In the capacity of principal for year9 and has a very strong backing for the position, which it Is understood the board will create. This will Hill leave the chief clerkship vacant, end the board's action with reference to it will be watched with Interest. THE SCHOOL ELECTIONS.

The Election Committee of the School Board will meet between 6 and 6 this afternoon to arrange for the election which will take place Aueust 11, to fill the vacancies in tbe board. The committee will select judges, clerks and polling place, and report at the adjourned meeting of the board to-morrow evening. TIiJbi FIKSr IJ.1LK. Texas Cotton to lie Sold on 'Charge for a Charity. A bale of cotton occupied a conspicuous position ou tbe platform of the Merchants' Exchange.

It had been shipped to tbe E. O. Stanard Milling Co. by M. H.

Armstedd ft Co. of Houston, to be sold for the benefit ot the Houston Orphan Asylum. It will be sold by auction on 'Change tomorrow noon by Thll S. Lanhnm. The bale Is tne first cotton from Texas tbls season.

It was sold In Houston for $125, re-donated and forwerded here tree of freight for sale. It Is expected that a Kood price will ha realized, and that, possibly, the purchaser will waive his rights and that the bale will travel further in the interest of the asylum. The Institution is non sectarian, and Is a necessary charity. The consinzors expect to realize a handsome sura for it out of success ive sales of tbe nrst bale ot cotton. ERADICATES BLOOD POk SON AND BLOOD TAiNT.

Qkveral bottles of Swift's Specific (S.S.S.) entirely cleansed my svstem of contagious blood poison of the very worst type. Wm. S. Loomis, Shxeveport, La. CURES SCROFULA EVEM IN ITS WORST FORMS.

-8- had scrofula In 1884, and cleansed my system entirely from It by taking seven bottles of S. S. 1. I have not had any symp toms since. W.Wilcox, Spartan burg, S.

Cm T5 HAS CURED HUNDREDS CASES OF SKIN CANCER. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed Iron. Swift Specific Ox, Atlanta. Ga 1 unrrttiiNc HEACRCHE POWDERS i Ji -laotig by sua cipcrt 4 ebctslit. leMberl im tha boa I m- A "'hum1 I nHiefcl thortty.

SJT or ul proia4 perfact- I nln tna Headschra II IK dexs. A TRIAL WILL r. For a Disordered Liver Try BEECHMVS FILLS. 25cts. a Box.

OB" ALL DriUGKJISTS. 1.. tmc Drtncai i causae SCARLET FCVCR, COLDS, MEASLES. CATARRH, AC. trrl UK Or THI INVISISIC SOUND DISC mr r.rl cf iiiaii) lim.lar 1,1.

MU. wj.hl.l RMftk H. A. ALKS, Kri4rj Us CPIfY! Flmpiea, Granulated SrVllXJ t)rranently Cure-a DISEASES ttf iSf Wf PENDED ON yf IS KL E. 1 aaaae a choice lor 21 cents a yard.

it is for most people to eat. a dollar's worth of style and Ana draperv nets for ocsc, the prices. Barr's bargaii bargains are al- worth S2.75, for $1.25. It's a job pur- i'ntoittiiir HE WILL HELP CHICAGO. T03I PALMER A GOOD HEAD WORLD'S FA1K.

FOR THE Millions, How lie Blade and How He Vses Them His 1 lieory of Money Making and His Porstnal Characteristics A Talk ITith "Pioneer Walton" A Look at the Harrison Cottage. Special Correspondence of the TosT-DispATcn. ASHIXGTOX, July 6. Ex Minister Palmer's appointment as the head of the World's Fuir Is very popular 1 Washington. He was ne of the richest members of the Mlil- onalre Club, and was pointed out as one of Gold Bags" when he first came here.

After a short time, however, he showed himself to be a man of broad culture and a thinker. He made several speeches, which read like the old English classics, and at the end of bis first year he was known as the jolliest and brainiest of the new Senators. A short experience with him showed that he did not worship bis money. and he put on no more airs than the poorest messenger who stood at tbe Senate doors. He soon rented the big mansion on Scott Cirole whioh Win-dom then owned and kept open house.

The year following he bought a lot and built his $85,000 brown stone palace on MacPherson Square and entertained magnificently. One of the doctrines in his philosophy of life is that a man should cultivate his social nature and that of his friends. Palmer did this. He went on the principle that it was just as easy to say a pleasant thing as a mean one, and his actions bred im friends as fast as though they had been so many Australian rabbits. Before bis term was over be bad the friendship of all bis brothers, and he got more bills through for his constituents than any man from tbe Northwest.

Palmer is a man of strong friendships, and be sticks to his friends. He is also a man of few enemies, and he once told me that life was too short for revenge, and that be could not afford to spend time thinking bow to get even with a man who did him an Injury. These features of his character made bim an excellent Minister to Spain, and they will make htm strong as head of the Fair. Ha is a diplomat without a diplomat's hypocrisy. and be will make the Fair popular in this country and THE WORLD OVER.

He will travel over the United States In Its Interest, wili know all of the Governors before and will have every one of them working for bim to make tiie Exposition a success. I hear It rumored tbat be will-take a run over to Europe and look np matters there this year or next, and the acquaintance he ha will do wonders. Benetor Pulmer is in many respeots like Chauncey Depew. He can make nearly as good an after-Uiunar speech as Chauncey and there Is no man In public life who can equal him in singing Methodist bymns or Moody and J-an key songs. Like Mr.

Depew he bas a temper as smooth as the Lake of Como in Its gentiext mood. Nothing worries blui. He doesn't fret and he never loses his head. If be Is ever annoyed he doesn't show It, and he can do an immense amount of work while pretending to do nothing. He understands how to make others work for him, and he car ries on one of the biggest businesses of the country with no friction.

Just uow much Tom Palmer Is worth I don't know. I believe if anyone asked him he would tell him in a lazv. unostentatious way. without thinking. I know, however, that ha has his millions, aud tbat his lumber mills.

pine forests, bis great salt wells and his real estate, if put under the hammer, would bring in a pile tbat wouid have bought out Job ten times over, that would have made the Queen of bheba now down to him as she did to Solo mon, and would have redeemed Midas from the lust of more gold. His wife is also worth several millions, and the two control one of the biggest fortunes of the country. THIS FORTUNE was made In lumber and Senator Palmer mar rled the daughter of his nartner. When began life he was for a time unsuccessful, but alter his marriage In connection with his father-in-law be made money hand over fist aud now everything he touches turns to gold. He once told me tbat a man ought to work hard until his property brought him an In come of $2,000 a year and after that be ougbt to let up and take things easy.

"Everything comes to the man who waits," said he, "aad if you keep your eves open you are sure to make by and by. I don't believe tbat a big fortune makes a man anv hannler and after be gels to a certain point be reaches tbe limit of his spending power. There Is no mas in the world who can for his personal gratification use more than 4 per cent on a million dollars, and as for me, I can be satisfied with little." Still Senator Palmer has a nnmber of very expensive luxuries. His farm near Detroit Is one of them, but the Increase In the value of the land bas mads this pay Itself many times over. If he could move this farm to tbe World's Fair it would be one of tbe great Sights of the exposition.

It contains 657 acres, and it is laid out like a great English Park. There is a big forest on It, in which are shady glens and roinantio drives, aad where you may wander through all the mazes of Rosamond's bower and lose yourself in the end. Every one of these walks bas Its name, and some of these nooks are called after tbe Senator's friends. I remember Henderson avenue and Sherman's Hill, and I saw a gray squirrel playing on Evarts' Knoll. The Senator bas sixty fine Perclieron horses, each of which Is worth at least 11,000.

He brought some of them over from trance, and he bas one horse years old which weighs 2,000 pounds. He bas four months old colts which weigh as much as the ordinary horse, and he bas bis own theory of borse breeding. Ha fell ia love with the Per-cheron borse In making a study of Boss Bonbeur's FAMOUS PICTURE, "The Horse Fair," and be believes It Is the finest horse that walks. He claims that It la a cross between the Arabian and the Ncrman and It was with this Idea that be sent his farm manager to Jerusalem to pick bins out an Arabian stallion. The farm manager found tbat very few of the Arabian horses were sound, and Palmer's permit from the Sultan to take away a borse from his dominions amounted to nothing.

Outside of Percberon horses Senator Palmer runs to Jersey co a a. His butter costs hlu a doWar a pound, bnt be gets 12 worth of fun out of every pound, and toe eighty cows which be keeps are a perpetual souroe of amusement to Blui. win I could give you a picture cf bis barn. The cow stable Is as wall lighted as a parlor, and the floor back of where be animals stand Is ao clean tbat you could drop "m.Drlfb,aakr-ebief on it and pick it up with out so 11 In The woodwork of this sble Is polished yellow pine, finished In oil and la well finished of many cottages 1 Ji-N A Jk i i i rlUtrfril frt I that taken out In the camps generally. At tbe Lamb Diggings is to be seen a large increase of working force, and tbe output Is large, from tbe Porter mines being 140,000 pounds.

Part of the force is employed In sinking a new shaft or the ontput would have been double. hyers A Jamison are still working In rich dirt, but are waiting for new maohlnery to be placed in or der to work full capacity, iney took ont 000 pounds in less than five days. Herrln A Alyers are working both lead and zinc, and In each shaft, as well as all their drifts, find it is Detter as they continue, iiudd rucxetc nare sunk their shaft 165 feet, and are in a fine body of both lead and zino ore. Tbe Llnzee diggings are taking on new On the Bally Sanderson lease the lead, which cropped out at the grass roots, increases In both quantity and quality tbe deeper they get. It is estimated tbat the output In Carthage district last week, will reach.

15,300, whioh Is very good for an infant district. The mining fever Is spreading. and, unlike those which attack the body, proves both fascinating and profitable. Many St. Louis drummers are feeling its Influence ana next wees s.xcw York drummer will eay farewell to his grip and make acquaintanse with "tbe pick and profit" which belong to mining.

The prosperity of this section Is attested by the growth of the various foundries In this district. Tbe Carthage foundry bas enlarged, adding to it a boiler department. The business of machine agents from St. Lonis Is also very much Greater. At the Fair Grennds.

great races at tbe Fair Grounds Flve to- morrow afternoon. Betting on Saratoga from 10 a. continuing on St. Paul and all Eastern races. Admission 50 cents, and ladles with escorts free.

KETCKKEB AKD WAS CATTTTKED. Jehn Ballard, Who Forfeited II is Bond ia Criminal Case, Arretted. Detectives McGrsth and O'Connell arrested John Ballard at the corner cf Sixth and Lo cust streets, yesterday evening, and placed him In the Four Courts, hold-over on several charges. This morning a warrant was sworn out charging him with burglary In tbe second de gree and larceny. There are two cases of assault to kill pend ing against Ballard In the Court of Criminal Correction.

Karly in May he became intoxi cated one evening and on Cass avenue drew his revolver and fired at a huckster who was driving past on his wegon. A private watch. man beard the shot and attempted to arrest Ballard. Tbe latter fired one shot at tbe watchman, and then surrendered when he saw the racer's gun. Two warrants charging him ith assault to kill were sw rn out.

Bond was furnished In tbe sum of $8m In each action. About a month inter Ballard disappeared from tbe city and the bonds were deciarea lorieitea when me eases were called. It-was about this time that tbe burglary with which Ballard stands accused was committed. On the night of Jnne 10, the residence of Jas. Bradley, 917 Leonard avenue, was broken in to and a chest of carpenters, tools valued at $25 was stolen, several have been found where thev had been pawned.

Bradley pas been out of the city and retired a few days ago. liailread Wrecks. There were two railroad accidents within be city limits yesterday, ceither of them of very serious nature. Tbe axle of a car on a freight train broke near Theresa avenue yesterday afternoon. Four cars were derailed and William Harrison, who resides at 2013 Hickory street, was thrown to the ground, fracturing his right leg.

At about noon the engine of a Missouri Pacific suburban train raa agaiBBt the rear car of a freight train which had been switched near Grand avenue, but the lant car of which just fouled the main track. Six cars were de railed and the west bound track was blocked for several hours. Fatally Stabbed. Charles Davis, colored man was stabbed lsst nljfht while play In craps with another colored man named John Chapman. The two were playing In Brldgewater's saloon on Eleventh street and Christy avenue, and the usual quarrel ensued.

Chapman drove knife in Davis' abdomen inflicting what is in ail probability a fatal wound. Davis was taken to the City Hospital and Chapman was arretted. Escaped From the Asylum. Some time yesterday two boys, James Burnes and Patrick sneehan, escaped from tho St. Joseph Orphan Asylum, Fifteenth and Clark avenue.

They have not yet been ap prehended. Bnrnes Is 12 years old, bas brown hair and wore brown pants, a waist and a white straw hat. Sbeeban is two years younger and wore jeans pants, blue waist and base ball cap. He was bare-footed when last seen. Rascals Pnwished.

Salf.m, 111., July 28. County Superintendent of Schools S. 8. Hawiey, attracted to his servant girl's room last night by cries for help, fonnd Smith Phelps and Charles Purcell there. One of them knocked the girl down and tbe other attacked Mr.

Hawiey. The tat ter secured a hatchet and cut Phelps in the head. Purcell got out of the window and escaped. Phelps was taken home and is in a critical condition. Off to Jefisrsoa City.

This morning Belle Wilson and Annie Schneider, two colored women, convicted In the Criminal Court of grand larceny and sen tencsd each to serve two years in the pent tentiarv. were taken to Jefferson City this morning by Deputy sheriff John Pohlman to "do time for their respective offenses. Assaulted In av Saloon. Patrick Smith was sent to the City Hospital shortly after noon to-day suffering from tbe effects of a kick In ihe side. Smith was found by Officers Qulgley and Dixon at Seventh and Spruce streets.

He said that he had been as saulted by a gang of men in a neighboring sa loon and badly beaten. There have been no arrests. Vfamau's Christian Hint. The ladles of the Woman's Christian Home announce an excursion on the Oliver Beirne on Saturday evening. The boat will leave the toot oi locust street at o'clock and supper will be served on board.

The ladies bold themselves responsible for a good bill of fare and an excellent meal will certainly be pro viueu. inert win oe good siusio and every swu to an eujoyaoie time. A Bold Tblef. An unknown negr entered Louis Guen- ther's shoe shop, 6623 South Broadway, between 8 and 10 o'clock Saturday night and. beforo the proprietor could divine bis laten tions, crabbed a pair of shoes from the win dow and made 03 down the street.

He was act captured. JASPER COUNTY MINES. EOWZISC-EFARING HOCK HAS BEEN USED IX BUILDING FK.NCES. Inspeelor'Woodson's Visit New Companies Being Worked Cp Big Bargains in Vl-nnble Land Village Camp That Have Grown Cities A Week's Record From the Mines. Bv Telegrarb to tbPoT- HSPATCIT.

CARTI July AUTHAGE. 28. "Dia monds la tbe rough" have no special attraction mmmm iu luusB wuu Are i i with their value. rxi Ti(i wnnlrt timnlv dtVi is be turned over without further tion. In Jasper County there are ivlng thousands of acres of land which.

hen viewed by men who wanted to locate on land suitable for farm-Ins, were simply Ignored as worthless, and land more invl! Ing: ia appearance was chosen. To-day the land rejected for farming In early days is yieldinsr th9 richest recurns to those who settled upon it for the timber furnished. Many of them when digging wells discovered here and there mineral in large bodies. Lead always had a marketable value, and even in the days when transportation was costly those it were able to make extra cash, kiiirz those early days many changes havQ teen made, and to-day "Missouri soft' is known as a commodity of value all over ihs world. More recently the einc oreJafch is found almost every where In this section has also become a valuable marketable article, whereas some years ago It was looted upon as valueless and was simply ignored or piled up In farm fences.

It is said that not long since a farmer sold his rock fence for $100 and thought he had FOOLKU THE BUTIK. Bat when be afterwards learned that his was not an ordinary rock pile, but valuable for the mineral it contained, he regretted his bargain and thirsted for knowledge which would make him wealthy. His kind of roclc Is found all over this section, and it reaches from grass roofl down to 200 feet, as late developments attest. The zlno ore Is found but the most A vis't made covered th sometimes in soft ground, profitable Is In flint. to-day to a mine dls-fact that at one hundred and twenty feet deep the miners found in a drift mountains of Einc-bearing roclc from which in a space of ten feet wiae and twelve feet btgh they take out from six tr ten tons daily, working six men nicut ana day shifts.

The sij ht Is simply enchanting, and, what is best, those who work the mines in a few months see a pile of icold which is charming as well as useful. During the past week State Inspector Woodson made his annual tour of the mines, and. being a practical miner, be can ludve as to tiieir worth, as well as note whether reouire ments of the law in regard to safeguards are observed. lie expressed surprise at the limited acreage which is being worked, and says he Is convinced that Carthage, "the Queen City of the West." is simply built upon a vaet body of ore, the value of which cannot te estimated. This conviction Is fast taking hoid uf.cn those who own property, and ruuny are ready to give rp HOMES to have a chance of petting the wealth upon whlca tbev think they live.

1 lie territory adjacent and for miles aronnd Is also being picaed op for mining purposes and will as caDitai is expended upon it yield returns not to be obtained as easily In other channels of business. Last week the 1'enman Smelting which controls 160 acres of fine land for prospecting, was formed with a capiltal of $50,000 in 5,000 shares. New companies are being worked on with ease, as capital, which sniffs from afar a good dividend, is beinic brought here quietly, ing to the fact that to get a good thing it is unsafe to talk loudly of what the Investor's intention mav be. During the past week the half Interest in a lease whs sold for $10,000. The option was thirty days before and In the meantime developments were made.

which proved the property to be worth $100,000. Tbe men who toxik the option know they got a bargain. Other deals of like character have been made and the interested parties wish they cnnld recall the figures, but when once a oargalu is made our peopio con slder it a bargain always and never back out. THK PAST WEEK IS MIS1NO HISTORT has been a good one. Much ore has been taken out and mines In all the camps are being put in better order for future working.

Oronogo mines now make a turn-in wnicn win. as grows, show the camp to be better than It was before the cyclone swept away tbe town. A consolidation of three of the best mines has been perfected under the name of the Oronogo union Mining co. ana their returns are in creasing. Lehigh Camp is spreading, and her acreage of developed land will soon attract more attention than the most sanguine an ticipated, uelievllle is on the up-grade and will soon develop into a camp of magnitude.

ana aio as a city win show strides in tbe way of civilized lite equal to any In tbe county. Carl Junction mines and miners are making sure progress and when the autumn leaves fall, their smokestacks will attract the atten tion of passengers on the trains. Galena still Is getting there, as her output will attest, and as me proms are expenuou in MW MACHINERY for extended development, the operators demonstrate their faith in the future of the camp. Joplin mines are never likely to be come a by-word or a reproach, for as they continue making new strikes tbe various owners are determined to push on the work. nut sausiieu witn even a good thing.

Webb city can boast of mines on which there sre no flies, and as her territory Is rich In lands which can be worked easily and ber record for big dividends is already made it Is no dliBcuit matter to attract eitiier buyers of leases or those wishing to prospeel. as they realize mat --only tuose tail who never try. Cartervllle. which lies "just across th branch," Is still on top in mining matters. and they boast of tbe finest plants of sny.ln the county.

Webb City and Carter vllle in tneir growth during the past decade imply demonstrate that mines are attractive. 1 rom village camps of a few hundred 'they have grown to cities having from four to five thousand each in population At the Alba mines, the operators are tubing out big pay ing stuff, and are sure of spreading their camp, as the land adjacent Is giving Indies tions of deposits equally as rich. New Hope and Beevllle mines are still going down into rich stuff and preparations are being made to put in machinery. Tbe Little Jersey mine is now fast coming to the froau In aa old shaft they found a A HEAVY BODY OF ORE. which, like all the mineral t.ev tafcannt la sbaatli average el 400 AND of his cattle and horses, and he bas rules pasted up In the stable9 for his men.

A whip is never used on the horses aDd no lond words can be spoken to the cows. A regular recora Is kept of the milk each animal Kives, snr eaoli cow has its name and Its page In the herd Le) k. It takes a steam enelne to uoine won 01 these cow stables, xne hay is raiseuto trie second story by steam. The oats and corn are ground Into meal In tbe same way and the water is pumped ana ensuaee cut up uy steam. Senator Palmer believes In modern inventions.

He blows out bis stumps bray. naniUe in clearing up his land, and he has a pond in front of bis log csbin home, the water of which Is kept lresh by the pumping of a steam eDglne. Ihis log; cabin of Senator Palmer's Is, I Judge, 'fifty feet square. He lives in It throughout the summer and be tells me It Is way ahead of a esstle In Spain. There Is a wide hail running through: its center and on one side of this is an Immense sitting room or parlor filled with antique furniture, which Palmer got at the old Vermont homestead and broutihtoutto Detroit.

On tbe other side of the hall is a dining-room which must be fully twenty feet square. This Is also furnished in the style of our forefathers, and If you take a meal with the Senator you will find be has the most delicious bam In his larder and that His spring chickens are tender, lie has A GOOD COOK and It Is a recommendation for the man to know that lie keens his servants a long time. Some of Mrs. Palmer's girls have been with her for years, and the Senator is as careful of their comfort as of his own. I was one oi tbe party of Washington correspondents who visited Cape May last week as the guests of the 1'enmiylvanla Eailroad Co.

While there we stopped at the Stockton Hotel, which Is now kept by Walton, the man who made himself famous by his horse racing bets In England some years ago. He looks like anything but a horse-racer, and has given up betting and settled down to keeping hotel on the same scale tbat he played the bookmakers. Picture to yourself a well-Oiled out man of medium heltiht, with a big round head and a complexion as fair as tbat of the girls of old Ireland. Let hi in have eves as bine as tbe skies of Greece, wreathe a pleasant smile abont a well-shaped month and you have some Idea of the "Plunger." He Is a gentleman from tbe ground up and he tells me that no man evergot any cood out of money made on horse races. He does not like to talk of bis own borse-rscing exprlences, snd ssys be has not bet on a race since 1SS4 and that he bas come down to legitimate business.

He is a man with a history and I wormed out ot him something of his story. He talks of tens of thousands In tbe most modest manner and In the enterprises where he has flgnred he bas played dollars as other men play cents. "I made," said he, "$40,000 a year as an oil broker at the time of the oil excitement, and I acted as the agent for Sam Pike when he bought all the whisky In the country just before the tax was put on. At this time I made $180,000 a year and I got one fee of $50,000. I have never been anything but a money maker and since I have been old enough to work, I have made at least $25,000 KVKRT TEAS." "Tell me something of your political experiences," said I.

"I was a candidate for Sheriff in Philadelphia In 1872. There were two other candidates, one a man nsmed Leeds and another Harry Bingham. Well, Leeds was elected, and tbe next year they nominated me for tbe Becprder of Deeds. I went Into the thing systematically, organized 600 election districts. spent $30,000 and was elected.

Shortly after this I took charge of tbe big hotels at tbe Cea tennlal Exposition and owned the Continen tal and tbe Globe. It was a hot summer and the people wouldn't patronize ns, and I made nothing. I tried to get even with mv losses at the hotel by bnylng Pennsylvania Hallroad stock, and had at one time 84,000 shares. It went down and I lost $500,000 by it. I then bought tbe St.

James Hotel In New York and made It pay; got into irouDie scout ine pnrcuase or it irom tbe owners, aad In 1881 found myself down with nervous prostration. I concluded to go to Europe, and I was worth at this time about $300,000. I went to Bohemia and got cared. and returned to London on my way home Just abont tbe time of the Derby. I went out without Intending to bet a dollar, got Inter ested, and made there what the world would call a lortnne.

I nrst pat iiuo pounds on one of my friend's horses at five to one and made 1600. I pnt anotner onnored ou the horse oi another friend at six to one, and he won this and gave me 600 more. I now bad xi.ivv i iook one mousana os it and put It on Iroquois at six to one, and iroqueis BROUGHT MX FS JS0.000. Shortly after this I put $10,000 on Peter at the Royal Hunt Cup against $55,000, and Peter won. At tbe St.

Leger I put 4,000 on Ironuois against 9.000, and I again won. After other winnings I basked Foxhsll for ihe Czarowitg and pnt np $40,000 against $40.000, nd Fox-hall walked in. I then backed bins to win tbe Cambridgeshire for $350,000, and be stock ont bis toague and won It. it was no with other vantnrea, and my winning all told amounted to II. 000.

000. I bad aone Into the betting as an amusement, and 1 was tbunderstrnok when I found upon my return to America that I was looked upon as a borse racer and hnd beeome famous aa "Ibe Plunger." I don't like tbe title nor tbe repntation. I am a man of a faml- 1t and I expect to earn my money from now on by the sweat of my brow and my brain. My advice to young men and to old men who are investing In races I to let tbe bookmakers go West and till tbe soil and to make racing unprofitable by dot patronizing it." While at Cape May I took a ride up past the President's cottage. It Is located abont two miles from tbe main city, and It stands bleak and bare on the edge of the waves.

It is by no mesne sn expensive cottage, and at a glance I should say It could be re-ddplicated for $5,000. There are no fpney furbelows about It. It is painted a light-drab. Is of two stories and bas wide galleries running aronnd It. Mrs.

Harrison, I understand, bas been much worried over tbe criticisms which have been made as to ber acceptance of it, and I understand tbat the President did not know that tbe cottage was to be given until after tbe transfer baa been made and tbe deeds recorded, BASK G. CAJU'KSTER. Crepe Damaged by Beat. DICKI580S, K. July 28.

The neat Saturday and yesterday In this section was Intense, tbe Ihffrmnm.t.. at rln cy H1A. It la fMraa EEAL ESTATE NEWS. BUSINESS ABOUT TO REVOLUTIONIZE OTHER DISREPUTABLE QUASTER. AN- The Northwest Corner of Sixth and Elm Streets, With.

Its Swell Front, Sold for 830,000) to a Lonisianian. IVbo Will Chance Its Character James Hardy's Chrstnut Street Property Sold for 635,000. A sale was made to-day of the property at tbe northwest corner of Sixth and Elm, a site which bas been notorious among people of easy virtue for a good many years, and tbe price paid for It, nearly $720 a foot, is a pretty good indication that the value of property In that locality is Increasing a such a pace tbe present occupants will shortly have to evacuate that quarter of the city. Just as Christy svenue was deserted by them, and tbat flourishing business places ill spring np in place of the dens and dives which soon must give way for something better. As stated in these columns a few days since, the commercial district is spreading out and the costly wholesale bouses which the Cupplea Heal Estate Co.

bas erected and others which enterprising property owners and merchants are building west of Seventh street south of Spruce bas influenced a great advance on all the property north of Poplar between Market and Eighth streets. Tbere is a strong business tide la that direction, and it will grow, for available property In tbat locality can be bought very much cheaper than In better established sections. Tbere are, too, a good many buyers out in tbe market for it now, as the building movement inaugurated by the Cupples company a year ago and tbe development of rail way interest in close proximity to it Is making that quarter more desirable ail the while with the addition of new influences to draw trade that way. 1 he house at the northwest corner or sixth and Elm streets Is an old three-story swell front with as varied and extended a history of infamy as any building, probably, In St. Louis, but it will soon enter upon a new and more creditable career for the present owner, W.

S. Haven of bhreveport. is going to remodel it temporarily for business purposes, his Intention ultimately be in a to erect a handsome modern building there. He paid $20,000 for the premises. Including 28 feet of ground fronting on Sixth street by a depth of 128 on Elm, and tbe sale tor tbe Connecticut Life Insurance Co.

was consummated by tbe firm ot Nelson ft Mersman. Mr. Haven has extensive realty interests In this city and Is continually sdding to his possessions. It was only last week tbat Messrs. Kelson ft Mersman aold him tbe property now occupied by Alex Cameron on tbe east side of Sixth street, between Locust and St.

Charles, for $16,000 ana tbe firm says It Is a part ot Mr. Haven's policy to Invest every dollar that be can spare from bis South-1 ern business In M. Louis real estate. He has closely watched the development of the South for years and as It Is growing at wonderful pace now, Mr. Hann says St.

Louis, to which the whole South Is tributary, will be greatly benefited and Its real estate must advance porportton ately- It developed to-day that the livery stable and wagon yard fronting 175 feet on Chestnut street at the northwest corner of Eighteenth by a depth of 109, owned by Jos. Hardy, was sold by the Hammett-Anderson-Wad P.eal Estate Co. for $25,000 to the United Real Estate Co. In which John N. Boflnger is a oromlnent stock bolder.

It It not likely tbat this site hss been purchased for railroad occupation, but the probabilities are that the buyers positively know that the Union Depot Is to be located near there ana that they secured this piece from Mr. Hardy on speculation in the belief that It would sell again shortly at a good round advance for some of the many business enterprises whioh will seek a location thereabouts. MORE RAILROAD PROPERTY. Wn. C.

Wlison Co. sold the frame dwelling and 20i80-foot tot numbered 1713 North Second street, between Howard and Mound, the property of Dsniel Dickey, for $2,500, to the St. Louis, Keokuk ft Northwestern Kail-way Co. The firm also sold a lot of 60x134 feet, locsted on the north line of Ersnklin avenue 100 feet west of Channing, for from Mary A. Wigbtmanto Ashley Cabell, who is going to build some flats there.

MISCELLANEOUS SALE. Oregon avenue House No. 2ii, between Meramec and Charlton avenues, a two-story frame cottage contninlna lour rooms and cellar, lot 25x125. sold for $1,360, from Frank O. Fisher to liouert S.

Wlrthlin, who bought for a home. This property was purchased last week for $1,200. North Seventh street nouse No. 1233, be tween Biddle and O'Fallon streets, a leasehold consisting of a two-story brick dwelling containing six rooms, lot 25x125, sold for $550, from Emll lioehl to Mrs. Theresa Hercog, wbo bought for a home.

Carolina street House numbered 2750, be tween Ohio and California avenues, a two- story brick residence containing six rooms, arranged for two families, with lot 25x125, sold for Mrs. Annie Schaper to Mrs. Charlotte Dunsford for $3,000, wbo bought as an Investment. Old Manchester road nouse numbered old Manchester road, lot 52x115, and a two-story five-room frame bouse, owned by Mrs. Mary Welsh, sold to Win.

Lubman for purehaaed for reairiancA nuruoses. Spring avenue Lo( 8070 on the west side of spring avenue. 210 feel north oi et. i-ouie avenue, owned bv Patrick Gesso, sold to Mrs. Johanna Enrich at 120 oer foot, or $5no.

Mrs. Ehricn will erect a two-story six-room brick house on thla Ins costing Hull plaoe Went side, between Kossuth and Clay avenues, a SSxl31-foot lot, owned by Mr. D. Fruend, sold at $10 per loot to Mr. Thos, 0bea, wbo will luDtuTi the lot with a cwelltnc.

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