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THURSDAY-ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH-OCTOBER 7, 1897. business view of the matter. The ques WOMEN FIGURE IN THESE TRAGEDIES. THE EVENING MAGAZINE.

THE RICHEST CHILDREN IN THE WORLD. While the Mtfrlborough baby, in all probability, will never have to soliloquize on such gloomy them. ac ir. still all the talk -Jhat is going the rounds about his beinir th ru.yJ, hah i. dine, or to wear a coat one season or two, absurd.

There are dozens of youngsters who red wagons ana not feel the loss. The Grand St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Founded by JOSEPH PULITZER. PIBIJSHED BT THE PULITZER PUBLISHING CO.

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TELEPHONE NUMBERS. Business OfBee Kditortal Rooms The 8. C. Beckwith Special Agency, Agent Foreign Advertising, 48 Trlbnne Building, New Tork, Atd 469 The Rookery, Chloagn, like The Crown Prince of Siam and Prince Chowfa Maha have over The Barnato children, despite the losses their father sustained before his death, ar probably worth many millions. In '92 William Waldorf Aster's wealth was estimated at $150,000,000, s-ince which lime ithas greatly increased.

In accordance with the traditions of the Astor family, it is more than probable that the bulk of it will go to the eldest son. The Archduchess Elisabeth, daughter of the late Crown Prince of Austria, has fabulous wealth, principally invested in Hungarian securities. So also her cousin Archduke Franz. tion to be determined is the interest oi the How can it secure tue heapest and best service? How can reduce political corruption ana mumciya. loot to a minimum? Municipalities are great corporations nd the methods by which their work can be done most cheaply and emcienuy he methods the people interested In them should demand.

If experience anu investigation show that municipal own ership offers the greater efficiency with the less cost In money and political moral ity there should be no hesitancy in adopt ing the system. With the same vim put Into their busi ness that they put Into their street pa rade, the South Broadway merchants will their full share in building up and enriching the city. HYPOCRISY AND SNOBBERY. In (nnnwfinn with the honoring Of Miss Edna Whitney of Chillicothe, wno was rejected by the Kansas City Carnival Committee because she was a working girl, Topeka displayed in her carnival arade some beautiful mottoes on the ubject of labor, reflecting on Missouri and glorifying Kansas. In the light of the facts published in esterday's Post-Dispatch these mottoes have a brazen ring.

Last year the Topeka carnival author ities administered a most humiliating snub to labor. In the voting for queen-ship -of the carnival Miss Blanche Mof- fett, an attractive and popular ycung lady who earned her living as cashier a restaurant, distanced the candidate the Topeka 400. When it became ap parent that the cashier would win ine carnival committee stopped the voting nd announced that there would be no Carnival Queen. In short, honest labor in the person of beautiful and estimable young lady was given a contemptuous snub in Kan- as. St.

Louis has redeemed the honor of Missouri by her handsome treatment of Miss Whitney. The whole State has pro- ested against the discrimination of the Kansas City committee. The snobbery in this case was limited to a few com placent idiots in the "silly" set of Kan sas City. But their snobbery was not as bad as Topeka's. It was not mixed with hypocrisy.

The train robbers are claiming a share of Dingky prosperity. The foolish fel lows should contrive to have their rob beries legalized, as the lungley scneme has been. A REMARKABLE CAMPAIGN. The campaign just begun by Mr. Henry George for Mayor of New York promises to be one of the most remarkable and picturesque political campaigns that city has ei'er witnessed.

And for several rea sons it will be the most interesting news event In politics that we are likely to enjoy this winter. The Post-Dispatch will give better and fuller reports of it than any other Western newspaper. Mr. George's candidacy is of especial interest to Democrats, because of his hearty Indorsement by the various ele ments that supported Mr. Bryan, al though he is not in full accord with Mr.

Bryan on the money question. Mr. George Is original. He takes none of his opinioiis at second hand. And he Is so able and so entirely honest that he is second to no living leader of men.

The nomination of Mr. George by the United Democracy, the Democratic Alii ance. People's Party and Single Taxers of New York indicates that he is far more popular now than when In 18S6 he obtained nearly 70,000 votes. It is certain that his present campaign will, for bril liance and picturesque features, be of unusual interest. The Post-Dispatch will present to Hs readers every move in this remarkable fight.

is it possible that the medical stu- ueius in ieveiano, wno stole a corpse, dressed it in duck trousers, coat and hat, and made a tour of the saloons with it, afterwards placing it in a tree, from which it, fell, are to be doctors who are to minister to the sick'in decent fam ilies? The names of these Idiotic wretches ehould be obtained and pre served for future reference throughout the country. The 'big Sunday Post-Dispatch is com ing again, freighted with good things from all directions. It will have more inimitable art work, more entertaining reading, more news and more of every thing attractive to newspaper readers than any other Sunday paper in St Louis. An American fleet should be at Havana. The life of every American citi zen in the Cuban capital is In danger Mr.

McKinley's policy may result in a massacre of Americans before another sun has set. The gods seem to have determined upon the destructlon'of Spain. Never was there a people so mad as these Spaniards. Aft" Tlrtnna Ic .1 ueeuuuig upon nis war record or the big crops. His hope Is in nis ban and Uncle Sam's bar'l.

The Luetgert display Is enough to start every man to studying the skeleton in his own house. The reddest October is making itself visible in the Northwest. Democracy and Bradyism. From the Sedalia (Mo.) Democrat. The resolutions adopted by the Brvan Club of Hardeman, Saline County, protest ing vigorously against identifying Democracy with Bradyism in St.

Louis, are fairly me sentiment amonz uemocrats in the State. This club is an active organization which has kept up Its meetings regularly to continue the battle for good government In which a prelimi- nary engagement was fought last Novem ber, and the members see that the party of the people must keen Its own skirtx nn- contaminated if It would retain the con fidence of the people. The members do not believe In permitting the Democratic party to oppose Ulleylsm with Bradyism, or In allowing the battle for gixat principles to dogeerate into a controversy as to whether the St. Louis kettle or the St. Louis pot Is blackest.

If the Governor is wise he will listen to the vole tf the Democrats who nominated and elected him, but who are asking n. favors of him except that of a clan, honorable, fair, Impartial adminis tration. MURDER AND SUICIDE. fX BOYNR FALLS. Oft.

7. Wm. Shain shot and killed Mrs. Freeman Lea evening, and when cornered by officers of the law he ehot himself dead. The murder took place at Clarion, eight mile from here.

Mrs. Lee had parted from her husband and was on Intimate term with Shaln, who asserted the woman had squandered money which be had given ber wltU which to procure divorce. Kansas City are levins- en Ssturiir tnorning for their home, after a very de- nsnuut visit in St. Louis. Mr.

and Mrs. Chas. E. Semple of Hunts-vllle. are visiting In Use city.

They came here to attend th Vetted Prophet ball and other fall festivities. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Jameson are visiting here from Boston, Mass but leave soon Tcr.

London. whore they will visit relatives before returning home. Miss Marian Williama of California, come to St. Louie to Join alsier. Miss rZrH "nd hr brothers.

Mmdti. tu pass the winter. Ewln. of the leading Jurists of Texas, ani Rev. Quincy Earing bronertrC' tht.

brother. Dr. ayu C. Kwmg of Grand ave- M'LEMORE-BEMIS NUPTIALS. A Pretty -Wedding at a Morgan Street Residence This Evening.

Miss May Bemls. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Bemis of 8614 Moran street, will be married at 5 o'clock Thursday evening to Mr.

Thomas' J. McLemore of this city. The ceremony, an elegant If quiet affair, will be iolemnlzed at the handsoma Bemis residence by Rev. Dr. W.

W. Boyd, in the presence of about 100 guests relatives and Intimate friends. During the ceremony the bridal par will etand before an Immense Iorent.ne mirror In the Thls will be draped with soft pink silk and milax. and banked at either de by quantities of palms, ferns and exotio plant. The reception-room will be similarly decorated with Catherine Mermet roses, asparagus ferns and knots of pink ribbon.

The dining-room will be lighted by rose-colored lamps and elaborately adorned with great bowls of glowing American Beauties and trailing viaes. Miss Florence Bemis. the bride's sister, will act as of honor, and Mr. Richard Thomas, a cousin of the groom, as best man. The bride wili be gowned in white mousse-line de sole oi-r silk, the skirt finished with five narrow ruffles and the waist daintily trimmed withnounces of handsome old lace, the gift of htr mother.

The maid of honor will be gownnl in white organdie over siik. with sash and neck-ribbon of rose-color. The receptbn. following Immediately after the wedding, will Include the guests at the ceremony. At 6 o'clock, an elegant supper will be lerved.

after which Mr. Mc-Lemore and hs bride will go East to remain two weeks. Vhen they return they will bw at home on Tridays in November at 3Sii Washington toulevard. T' v. -j in? ui.uee r.

oiepnen a. bemiR, Is nt 1 Ha ijmt. i Co. of this cits-. SALE OF UNION PACIFIC.

It Is Still Open to All Bidders, In cluding the English. LONDON, O. 7. A dispatch from. Wash ington, published here to-day, quotes Attorney General McKenna as saying he ban received no inquiries through the United States Consul General or others In London in regard to tht purchase of the Union Pacific Railway.

The following message has been received In reply to an Inquiry of the Consul General cabled to Attorney General McKenna: "To the Consul General of the United States, Londm: "The road hit not been ld ta the Hehlff syndicate. It will be sold to the highest bidder on Nov 1. M'KKXNA." It Is learned that there have been several atitempts to criranize a syndicate here for the purchase rf the Union Pacific Railroad, out not one ol them thus far has ecured Important rinaacial backing. OFF FOR THE PENITENTIARY. Two Murderers and Eleven Bobbers Leave for Jefferson City.

Deputy SherCI Troll left for the penitent iary with the ftllowlng prisoners Thursday! Frank Wllliitns, murdc-r. life: Lee Shelton, alias Stack Lee, murder, 25 years; Louisa Neil, murder. 10 years; Jos. Smith, robbery years; Dennis Dumont and Evans Young, Urglary, years; Gm Glaser, burglary, 3 yefrs; Louis Wuhs. Dennis M-Cabe, Henry Nlson, Lucy Mitchell, Stella Allen, robbery, 2 years each.

THE THEATERS. In the very eicellent company that Is pre sentlng "The Cod Mr. Best" at the Century this week are several young women who would tal prises In a beauty show. One of these Is Carrie Francis, a statuesque blonde, who tttracted attention several years ago by cover work in society plays. The Century is 4olng a good business thla week, probably jecause it did the graceful thing and redudd prices.

"The Mysterious Mr. Bugle" is ciming next week and the astute Mr. Bra expects It to make money for the house. With Its clevr acrobats, pretty girls and marvelous mechanical accessories "Su-perba" Is pleating large audiences every night at the Oiynplc. Next week Kelly and Mason will prar at thla house In "Who Is Who." The Imperial stock company Is demon-stratlng Its ve-natillty this week by presenting "The laie Mr.

Bron," a fare. Next week "OiKUo" will be put on. "Nancy and ten vaudeville acts consiltute the 111', at Col. Hopkins continuous show-houie this week. Tom Nawn in "Shanty Town" i pleaslnc big audiences a I Havilti'a.

Flynn Sheridan's Doubl Show, now at the Standard, la chiefly remarkable for tie charm, of the women la the company, bit there are several performer. In It bo do excellent vaujevli. "turns." Jubilee 3aengerfeL ctvnvvtTl Oct T. The Director iw.i.i. km f.

alKal an-re baenKerfe.t. 1 irfThe nU.h number to maun r.a ben the event, mnX uis IhMon ot Cln.tot.iU f-vi Oiwn Consulship. diet WASHINGTON'. Oct. "-The Prealatot at Kanture.

"amtw A. hatr Inta-aWs lUm-We KILLED HIS RIVAL. Special to the Post-Dispatch. UNEVILLE, tKrt. 7.

William Bruce Johnson Barnh.ll. prominent vounn farmers, became involved in a quarrel on return from a dance last night about who should escort Miss Julia Smith home. A tight ensued. Knives were used and Bruce' a weapon severed Karnhtll'a Jugular vein, causing death. The girl saw the fight and heia tsarnnius neaa in ner lap as he breathed his last.

Bruce killed his father- a year ago. He la In Jail. il.a claim Is elf-defense. IN SOCIETY'S GAY WORLD. Pink and White Reception and Other Pleasant Events of Autumn, Mr.

and Mrs. J. C. Van Blarcom will give beautiful reception on Oct. 14.

as a compliment to Miss Marie Turner and her fiance, Mr. Palmer Clarkson. The handsome Van Blarcom residence, in Westminster place, will be elaborately decorated the bride-elect's favorite colors pink and white. Later in the evening there will be a dance, followed by an elegant supper. The cards are marked "informal," but the afTair will probably be one of the most notable events of the season.

Miss Turner's bridesmaids will be among the receiving party. Mrs. W. E. Ferrenbach and her sister, Miss Elizabeth Heine, have returned to the city after a three months' tour of Califor-n'a and the West.

They vteited Yellowstone Park and Salt Lake, going subsequently to Santa Barbara, San Pedro, San Diego, Santa Monica, Coronado Beach, Long Beach and various other resorts. Misses Eda and Eugenia Jones gave a pleasantly Informal "at home" last Monday evening at their home on Lucas avenue. In honor of their cousin and guest. Miss Mary Christy of Kansas City. The evening was enjoyably spent in music and dancing.

Miss Genevieve Jones of 4239 Forest Park boulevard Is entertaining Mtea Celeste C. Crook of Jackson, and Miss Ber-nardine Hame of ML Vernon. 111., two pretty and clever girls. Miss Crook, who is very fair, with blue eyes and heavy golden-brown hair, is a remarkably fine pianiste and vocalist, wh le Miss Hame is a vlolln-lste of no little ability. Mrs.

Paul Jones of Laclede avenue will give a theater party, followed by a supper next Friday evening. In honor of the two young ladies, and Miss Estelle Brown of Lindell boulevard gives a luncheon to them Thursday. This evening the fair visitors will be enterta ned at an Informal dance Kiven by Miss Francis Ber ry of 3731 Delmar avenue. The young ladies with their hostess. Miss Jones and Mr.

ant Mrs. Paul Jones, attended the P. ball Tuesday evening. Mrs. Otto Forster gave a theater party at the Century Monday evening to her daughter.

Miss Lucille Overstolz. and her two guests. Misses Ursula King and Maude Keebler of Kansas City. After the theater a delightful souper was served at the handsome Forster residence, on Washington avenue. Miss Elsie Johnson has Issued invitations to an Informal dance, which she will give on Oct.

13. Just eighty young people have been invited. The dance will be preceded by a musicale. in which some very excellent musicians will take part. Gossip of Mid-Week.

Jeanette Ayern is visiting here from Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ward have gone to Chicago for a brief visit. Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Howard have gone to Chicago for a brief visit. Miss Mary Kennard expects to pass this winter school In the East. Mr. H.

R. Mallinson of New York City is visiting a week In St. Louis. Miss Margaret Dent has come to St. Louis from Omaha, to reside.

Miss Marie Bassett of Faris, Is the guest of Miss Grace Clarkson. Mrs. C. W. Mead and little daughter are visiting here from Kansas City.

Miss Maude Keebler of Kansas City Is visiting Miss Lucille Overstolz. M'e Lucille Overstolz la entertaining Miss Ursula King of New York City. Mrs. A. C.

Benson leaves to-day for Nashville, to be gone several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bagby are visiting here from the interior of the State. Mr.

and Mrs. Ferguson Forsyth have gone to San Francisco to pass six weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Andre Soanlan are the proud possessors of a week-old boy.

Mrs. J. T. P.ombauer has gone to Colorado and California, to remain several weeKs. Mrs.

James Barker and Miss Stella Bar ker returned Wednesday from a flying trip East. Mr. Walter Tcwnsend has Just come home from Arkansas, where he passed a week. Mrs. A.

3. Bridges and Miss Mabelle Bridges have returned from their trip abroad. Mrs. J. L.

Sarber visiting here from Cairo. 111., and will remain ten days with friends. Miss Marv Watchom has returned from i Utica, N. where she was the guest of i friends. Mrs.

G. S. Bichardson will be at home" I to her friends on 1 hursuays during the com- mg winter. Miss Lucretia Hite has returned from Sa lem. 111., where she was the guest of Miss Anna Moore.

Miss Alice Brown Nelson of Denver Colo. has come to St. Louis to auend the au tumn gayeties Mr snd Mrs. Henry Timken have come home from their tour of York. State, the East and Europe.

Mrs E. L. Worthlngton has given up her home on Locust street and Is at home at 3873 Delmar avenue. Mrs John Robert or Jiorsran street Jias come home from Virginia, where she visited her mother and sisters. Messrs.

Jo and Emlle Everest of Paris, Mo have come to su ljuii iu siuuy mtui-cine' during the winter. Mr Clinton Osborne Braiserd will be married on Monday, Oct. IS, to Miss Minnie Ireton of Cincinnati. O. Viss Marie von Phul leaves rxt Wednesday for Baltimore, where she has a host of friends and relatives.

Mr and Mrs. Ferguson M'ade leave on Nov. 1. for Chicago, where they will reside in the future. Mr and Mrs.

C. C. Merrill are sopping In Chicago en from the Mlci.gan resorts to'thflr heme In this city. Mrs Will Murphy of Fort Smith. Ark is ras'insr the week with her si.ster, it's.

Harry Peterson, at 4015 Cook avenue. Mrs Mae Lindsley -Champ his returned from Europe, and is the gunt of her brother. De Coureey Llndsiey. Miss Nellie McOn has returned her home in Brooks. 111., sfter a pleasant vls to Miss Lim llrady of this city.

Mis Mary of Kansas City, who Is' tlie truest of Mrs. Dumjnt Jones, letvef for her home some time next week. Mr and Mr A. H. Duncan or West Pne boulevard leave Friday for Richmond.

where they will remain about two weeks, Dr and Mrs. W. Loeb have gone Ioul'svlllc. and to various other pom lii the stle. They will be absent two -ekt vu, Lucille Fremiti, a pretty girl from r5l, 'J who came here to attenn the V.

ball, will return home early next FVank Baser and Mls Margaret Cu married We-Ieuv terror, quetly at the bride's home, lwrt Wash of Anne Carlisle of will be solemnleed the br.de torn tn Westminster yv. i. Ad C. rrlc and Mi CeU Vric Mrs, last of ha could ell the money the future Duke of Duchess Olga. oldest daughter of the Czar of A ROVING QUEEN.

Queen Natalie of Servia, th divorced wife of the ex-King of Milan, is one of the many victims of unhappy royal alliances. Strong-willed and full of ambition, she was the exact opposite of'her vacillating, pleasure-loving husband. Now, while he spends his time at the baccarat tables of Paris, his unhappy Queen is leading a rambling life on the Continent. Queen Natalie is still a woman of great beauty, and attracts attention by the picturesque if old-fashioned habit of wearing her luxuriant dark hair down her back. MUSIC.

From th'1 Norwegian of Vilhelm Krag. Prithee, play for mo again Sprir.etide's melancholy strain. Silently beside thee stay ng will heed alone thy playing. 'Twill be snrine. as 'twas of yore.

White winged flowers will bloom once more. Tender buds their bondage breaking And to life and love awaking. My sweet Mayday brid. for thee Fervent prayers ari.e from me. I'll re and true, to thee be given Blessings born of highest heaven.

MEN OP MARK. Dr. Samuel Smiles is preparing a volume similar In character to his new cele- i brated "Self-Help" series. William Waldorf Astor is about to erect a huge Napoleonic marble fountain at Clive- I den, his estate on the Thames, formerly owned by the Duke of Westminster. Assistant Secretary of State Day is a ba.se ball crank.

When Judge Day was a student of the University of Michigan he played cn the 'varsity nine, and he has never lost interest in the sport. He seldom misses a game In Washington, and is usually accompanied by one or more of nis four sons. Dr. Edouard Wild, the most prominent educator of the Argentine Republic, now a member of the faculties of the universities of Buenos Ayres and Cordova, is passing through this country on a tour of the world. Dr.

Wild has held the offices of Minister of the Interior, Minister of Justice and Minister of Public Instruction in his country. "WOMEN OP NOTE. Among eminent French widows, one of the most active is Mme. Michelet, who la bringing out a new edition of her husband's histories and editing his memoirs. Maria Edgeworth once wrote a book entitled "Irish Bulls," and the secretary of the Dublin Agricultural Society ordered a copy, thinking that it treated of live stock.

If an article in the Windsor Magazine is to be trusted, Mrs. John Maxwell, or, to give her a name by which she is known among a large class of readers, "Miss Braddon," puts her novels on paper at the rate of l.atX) words an hour. The Queen of the Belgians, who was born at Pesth, Hungary, has Just entered her 62d year. She is an admirable whip, and her greatest pleasure is in driving her four ponies over the charming country around Spa. According to a Paris contemporary Donna Elvira de Bourbon, daughter or Don Carlos, whose elorement with the painter Folchi created such a sensation last year, has taken a situation in a New York mil-inery establishment, where she makes hats from 9 o'clock in the morning until i at night.

AUTUMN. On these stiff and frosty mornings. When you wake at six o'clock. And you hear the huckster calling In the middle of the block, With a dull and drowsy motion You caress your sleepy head. And you hate the thought of labor.

For you'd rather lie In bed. Thert beneath the crimson comfort. Underneath the snowy shet. With the furry blanket folding And caressing both your feet, You are safer than a monarch. And on airy dreams you're fed.

And you hate the world of traffic, For you'd rather lie in bed. Oh. there's nothing half so pleasant. When the frost Is on the ground. Than to lie in be4 and listen To each soft, recurring soundi There would be no pain or sorrow.

There, will be no care or dread. If we didn't have to labor. And could only In bed J. GETCHER GCNX. Marlborough is llkeiv to inherit on little Russia, heads the list with tsomethine BEETLES AT APIECE.

Fifty dollars seems an extravagant price to pay for one, black beetle. Yet Kansas was once inhabited by these Insects and they Fold readily for that much and eomctlmes for more. The beetle, known as the am-blichila, was supposed to have be-come extinct. But two specimens of it were known, one of which was In the University of Bonn. Two young men travel-lng through Kansas some years ago foundA NATURAL GOLD-numbers of the BUG.

beetles. They were alive and readily aold for t0. In all they made $10,000 in supplying the beetles to scientists. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. (This column Is open to everybody who has a complaint to make, a grievance to ventilate.

Information to give or a subject of general Interest to discuss, or a public service to acknowledge, and who can put the Idea Into less than 100 words. Long letters cannot be printed.) Lynching Condemned. To the Editor of the 1'ost-Dlspatch. The man who, under any circumstances, because of any provocation, counsels the operation of lynch law is felonious. Between such an one and the rapist there is only the difference of degree.

There is no difference of species. They are akin. One is controlled by lust; the other by rage. Both are more bestial than human. They are twin monsters.

They dwell together. The sections that are mob-ridden are cursed with rapes. Let the mob raid for twelve months In St. Louis and this community would horrify the world with Its bestialtv. He who musters a mob is the herald of future ravishers.

The mob is ridiculously in- errectual. It defeats Its own ends. It furnishes its own victims. It spawns more murderers than it destroys. Ravishers are its brood.

It is the first assailant of de fenseless females. The mob is incarnated cowardice. It raids with faces masked. It moves at night. It musters a score to murder one.

It shoots repeating rifles at the unarmed and snacKled The mob is infamously mischievous. it mocks at law. It disrobes the judge. It unoaiancee the scales of justice. It casts reason under passions reckless reet.

It tears the tongue of vindication from the throat of slandered innocence. Such crimes as the one committed on Compton Heights are maddening, but the vaporings of other lawless men give no relief. Let intelligence ferret out the fiendlh miscreant, let the law condemn him and. let the earth cover him as speedily as Justice will allow; hut drive to hiding the frantic fool and self-commissioned judge who only add to society's vexations. This community i Indebted to the Pot-Dispateh for Its maeterly denunciation of the out-croppings of tie mob spirit.

Among the St. Louis dallies the Post-DIspatcli euanis singular and splendid in editorial morality on this question, hucn a course Is the commendable one for the journal of a great, Indestructible civilization. Respertfullv. GEO. B.

VASHON. Poorly Kept Streets. To the Editor of the I'nst Dispatoh. Yesterday my way led me along Laclede, Vandeventer avenue and Manchester road, and such neglected, dirty streets it would be hard to find in any other large city, this side of the Orient. The mud in the gutters was almost knee deep on Lnclede and Vandeventer avenues; looked as if a brush had never touched it since the street had been paved with granite, at the property owners' expense.

Where are the benefits promised so loudly sni with such flourishes by Zlegenhein and his cohorts? There must be better work done in the future or the people of St. Louis are going to know whv not! 6t. Louis. TAXPAYER. A Correction.

To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. In reference to a paragraph under "Men of Mark" in last Friday's issue, I would like to correct the statement that Edward Irving was the chooser of the Twelve Apostles of the Catholic of whichI. Woodhouse is the iole survivor. The Apostles were "called" spontaneously, and at different times, by those drdalnej a prophets. jl At the time of Mr.

Irving'g dath. December 1V44. only six had been "called." he himself being an "Anger' or bishop, an office beneath that of apostle. Mr. Woodhouse Is an aged man.

It Is true; he is years of age, en you Ills recent illness did not alarm us. We have no doubts as to our course If he should 5 but as a matter of fact we do not 10OK I'T IHS U.aiu. "Sufficient unto the day Is the evil thereof No man can tell what a Any may bring forth. One of the m-ords spoken Is "If I will that he tarry till I come, wht is that to Louis. BRCCJC GOPvDON-HOGa.

snd a in SUNDAY CIRCULATION OVER 91,000 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. FAIR GROrXDS Big Thursday. EXPOSITION Bicycle Parade. OLYMPIC "Suporba." CENT1 CY-'-The Good Mr. Best." IMPERIAL.

"TLe Late Ma. Brown." Hi Continuous. HA LIN' "Sun my Town." STANDAKLi "Big Sensation." MATINKES TO-MOUROW. STANDARD "Hig Sensation." IMPERIAL "The Late Mr. Brown." HOrKINS'-Contlnuoua THE CKIME CARNIVAL.

Several columns of space in yesterday's Post-Dispatch were required to chronicle the burglaries and thefts in St. Louis during the previous twenty-four hours The record was unusual because of the festivities of the Veiled Prophet's night. but It 'was not much worse than the average and It served to prove the inad equacy cf the police force to cope with emergencies. Two causes are alleged for the increas ing prevalent of crime in this city. One Is the insufficiency of patrolmen and the other Is the Inefficiency of the force.

It is charged that the force Is demoralized by political Influences and lack of dis cipline. Both causes must be removed. The mat ter of Inadequate police protection has reached an acute stage. Conditions have- become Intolerable. A sufficient and efficient force must he provided for the city.

The carnival of crime must be stopped. Both the Munlc lpal Assembly and the Board of Police Commissioners must do their duty to -wards stopping it. a' a Spain legalizes butchery and the United States legalize robbery. That is why we have Weylers and Dingleys. AN IMPERIAL NAME.

Kditor Walter Williams and the School Board of Columbia have decided that Missouri should be pronounced "Miz zoury." and have ordered the teachers of the Columbia District to instruct the children to call it "Mizzoury." Shade of Col. Benton! Shades of all the vast throng of proud Missourlan who have reveled In the noble and euphonic name of this great State "Miz loura!" "Mizzoura" rolls from the tongue with mellifluous grandeur. It must be spoken with open mouth and erect head. It sug pests beauty and greatness. "Mizzoury' Is dimii.utive.

It ends in a piping squeak A lion's roar to a pe-wee's pipe! Miall Missourians descend from th Fublime to the ridiculous at the bidding of a district school board? It Is absurd Kditor Williams and his "Tooley street' K'hooi Board may make the poor chil dren of Columbia the laughing stocks mi otner Aii.sourians, but they canno change the name of the State. "Mizzoury" is a pretty name for a nice little schoolgirl, but It will never do for the Queen of the Union. Missourians will continue to pronounce It "Mizzoura" the imperial name of a Imperial State. If New Yorkers would unite and smas the bosses they would not only give the! greater city a good start, but they would hear the applause of the whole country. EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON'S VIEW Ex-President Harrison is a "conserva tive man.

No accusation of prejudic ugainst corporations can be lodged ngainst him, so that his view of munici pal ownership of public franchises must lo accepted as an unprejudiced conclusion of calm judgment. While in New ork last week he said to the World: a reporter of I am inclined to consider municipal ownership as the best men.s to secure to the people the cheapest and best service. Of course, the effects of competition between rriv. te enterprises are not to be lost sight us far as they increase quality and lower price. But the ufual methods of eelllng outright or la receiving for them a royalty give to the people more than a tithe of wliat the people themselves later return.

It should be noted that ex-President Harrison does not In this utterance compare municipal ownership with the worst rni corporation ownership, when the franchise Is obtained for nothing or for an inadequate compensation. He holds that the franchise holder will get back from the people In charges for service 'I more than Is paid outright or In royalty. Of the superiority of municipal ownership over the ranohise-gTabblng etock-watrtlng practice there can be no question. TLU View of he -Frestdent 1 a clear PAINTING BY MACHINERY. The Kansas City, Fcrt Scott Memphis Railway is now using in its shops a pneumatic car-painting machine.

With the new device a freight car can he painted in one hour, while by the old method it take an experi- enced man from two to three! hours. Besides saving material I and labor another great advantage the pneumatic painter has over the man with a brush and a can of paint is that It PNEUMATIC CAR applies the paint PAINTER. to the car with uniform thickness and with great force. The paint is driven Into the smallest crevice or hole in the car and this enables the painter to reach points under the car roof where the man with a brush would be able to make little headway. The new method promises to take the rlace of hand painting entirely.

POST-DISPATCH SNAP SHOTS. In stating weather facts we must Be ana particular. What can we have but drought and drought With new moons perpendicular The drought has hal no effect on the crook crop. The early worm is caught and the early huckster" is run into by the street car. The vehicle manufacturers, in session at Detroit, launched a few shafts at Congress.

Hawaiian annexationists, it is said, will not have a walkover in the Senate. Neither will travelers who start for Honolulu. This "upward movement in wheat" is all right, but it is the forward movement of the fist full of the long green that counts. Before the Hannibal Post-office trouble is settled. Gen.

Gary may have a worse opinion of the "outfit" than ever. There ought to be salt enough in that Saline County Club to save tho Democratic party of the State from appointive corruption. So many of the Boston ball club are not Bostonians that science may be led to ques-tion the superiority of a bean diet in athletics. John A. Logan, must have replenished his wardrobe of twenty-eight suits before the Dingley personal tax began to hit the touri6ts.

The presiding Judge in the Luetgert trial will want to pas a few weeks in a cemetery to modify the gloom that he has absorbed in the course of the continuous bone show. Tlie Grant statue should he where the drought dust cannot always cover it- The hero, in a dry season. Is made to appear as if a brigade of cavalry had just passed him at a gallop. A Sedalia policeman fired five times at a burglar, and the burglar fired six times at him, and neither was hit. Another shot at least will be necessary to determine which is the worst marksman.

It is to be hoped that Chicago's prairie fires may not extend so far as to sweep away the many unoccupied buildings that have been standing around in the Windy ever since the World's Fair. The South Carolinian appears to be getting his beverage outside the dispensaries, arid it is now a much shorter time between drinks than when the Governor of North Carolina visited the Governor of South Carolina. Were Gov. Tanner to attend the Tennessee Centennial Exposition and contract yellow fever, Yerkea might catch It from the Governor and then It might spread to the Municipal Asserooiy oi jnicago. iso wonder the Governor Is scared when he thinks about pestilence.

It might be interesting to know which gets most happiness out of life the driver who is always blocking the way of the street cars, or the motorman who is continually stopping his car so as to block the crossing and anr.oy everyone who is In a hurry to pass. A Lengthening Procession. From th Kansas City Journal. The Chllllcothe Constitution has Joined the rapidly lengthening procession of ntt Stephen Democratic papers. I.