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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-01
LOCAL AND SUBURBAN.

CorneIia NAV Davis, daughter of poor
parents, Is adopted by wealthy Southern
family.
Bridget Doc is under arrest charged with
highway robbery.
Paul Campbell fell down an elevator shaft
end was killed.
The building material men adopt con-
stitution and bylaws.
The city eleemosynary institutions are in
debt for supplies
In order to raise funds for street cleaning
a number of sewer department employees
have been laid off.
The City Council deferred action on the
Exposition bond bill pending an opinion
from the City Counselor.
Mrs George NJ. Paschall died at the
Grand Hotel. In Cincinnati
The hospital collections for sick poor will
be taken up to-day.
The Imperial Electric Light. Heat and
Power Company asks franchise to operate
a hot-water plant
The boundaries of the proposed new under
ground conduit district have been deter
mined.
A farmer near Mascoutah, Ill, died while
a Thanksgiving dinner was being placed on
his table.
J. r Nabanes, a Mississippi stockman.
says that he was dragged and robbed OF
500.
Legal complications may arise from the
failure Of Special Judge Booth to appear
and try cases assigned 10 him In the Court
OF Criminal Correction.
Chief of Police Campbell expects to be
made Chief of Police in Manila under tie
new civil Government.
The divorced wife Of Charles Tyrrell OBJ
tans possession of her children through
modified decree of the court.
Judge Thayer appoints a receiver for the
Guardian Trust Company Of Kansas City.
Harry Lieberman of Chicago Is shot at
craps game on Chestnut street.
The Conductors Insurance Association of
the United States and Canada holds its an
nual session.
The Elks viii eulogize their deceased
brothers at the Olympic Theater tomorrow
afternoon.
Governor Stephens visits St. Louis.
The forty-seventh annual banquet OF the
Caledonian Society of ST. Louis was held
at the Planters Hotel.
Business men OF Edwardsville. Ill. ran q
passenger train to and from Alton.
Two robbers bound and gagged Mrs. Jo-
eeph Moore Of East st. Louis and then
took her purse and money
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-01
ADA PATTERsONs STORY

OF How Four Women Found Fame and
Fortune from one home-a good story
OF patient endeavor. 1t will be told In
To-mOrrow's Sunday Republic.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-01

To Cure Headache in 1O Minutes
Take Parker's Headache Powders. They
are safe and sure. All druggists. Price lec.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-01

The Rest Prescription for Malaria,
C1ills and Fever is a bottle Of Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic. II is simply iron and quinne Ia q
t2gteless form. No cure-no pay. Price 60c.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-01
Marine Intelligence.

New York. Nov 30.-Arrived: Noordland,
from Antwerp.
Boston. Mass. Nov. 3o.--Arrived: New
England, Liverpool and Queenstown.
Bremen, Nov. 30-Arrived: Trave. from
New York.
Liverpool. Nov. 20. - Sailed: Rhynland.
Philadelphia
Yokohama, Nov. 29.-Sailed: Glen Tur-
ret. Tacoma.
Moville. Nov 3o.-Sailed: Ethiopia, from
Glasgow, New York.
Queenstown. Nov. 30.-Saiied: Common
wealth Grom LIVERPOOL, Boston.
Southampton. Nov. 30.-Sailed: Deutsch-
land Qrom Hamburg). New York. via Cher
bourg.
New York, Nov. so-Sailed: Mesaba, Lon
don.
Hong-kong. Nov. 2o-Sailed: Empress Of
Japan, Vancouver and Victoria, via Yoko-
hama, Kobe. Nagasaki and Shanghai
Lizard, Nov 0.-Passed: LAQuitaine New
York for Havrc.
Rotterdam. New. 29-Sailed: Spaarndam,
Boulogne and Now York.
Cherbourg, Nov. 30.-Sailed: Deutschland
from Southampton for New York.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-01
ECZEMA; no CURE. NO PAY

Your druggist will refund your money II
Pazo Ointment fails to cure Ringworm, fet-
ter.Old Ulcers and Sores. Pimples and Black
heads on the face, and all skin diseases &c.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-01
RAILROADS.

President Ashley of the Wabash an
nounces the building of the Montpelier-To-
ledo division.
G. A. R officials still insist on a one-cent
per mile rate for the Denver encampment.
Vice President Ramsey's private car Is
being equipped with an electric axle light
fng plant
There has been heavy immigration into
Texas from Southern States.
An English barrister is in this country to
stir up interest In the old Central Pacific
cases.
Western executives will meet In New York
next "Wednesday.
The B. & O. S.-W. and the L. & n. will
build union depot at O'Fallen. Ill.
The International and Great Northern
wants to buy the Waco and Brazos Valley
road and also build an extension.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-01

FAvORITE OLD SONGS
And Little Classics-Look for them in
The Sunday Republic tomorrow.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-01

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Take Laxative Bromo Quintne Tablets. All o.
giets refund the money II IL faiiS 70 cure
w 0royo's signature In on each box. nc. :,
The times., 1900-12-26
Circulation Statement.
chri.tma. in the white House.

The happiest man in the world yester
day was probably the Hon. William Nc
Einley, President of the United States.
Enthroned in the hearts of the American
people, as he has now the right to think
himself, Chief Magistrate of the grandest
Republic on earth at the beginning of the
new century. he envied and could envy
no man.
Looking down from the height of his
good fortune over the years of his busy
life, the President can easily he psrdoned
the vanity inseparable from his position.
He must have deserved we'll OF his coun-
try or he would not have achieved his
great elevation.
We credit Mr.. Mckinley with this be-
lief in the Justice of fate, but sometimes
we wonder if it really is mis- belief. Did
his first Administration, even in his own
mind, justify reelection to the Presi
dency. Surrounded as he is. advised as
he has been and will be, does he think
himself competent to serve the American
people during the next four years as they
have right to expect The President
takes his fellow-citizens seriously enough
but does he take himself seriously? That
is the great question of the day.
The times., 1900-12-26
The Children of the stage.

There was a Christmas performance a
day or two ago, at n New York Theatre,
given entirely by children of the stage.
1t was. of course, largely attended by
children, and 1t may suggest to the
Thoughtful person the question whether
these youngsters ought to be trained for
the profession which most of them are
likely to follow, or enjoined from going
on the stage by some law as that ad-
yocated by the Gerry Society.
It is a well-known fact that the major
ity of the great actors and actresses OF
this age and of past generations have
begun stage life early, many of them
being the children OF actors. and taking
baby PARTS before they could speak
This was the case with Jefferson, the
Booths. Ellen Terry, and many others.
The experience thus gained gives the
young actor a familiarity with technical
ties, and an ease of manner which is
otherwise somewhat difficult to acquire
Like the musician. the actor does his
work most easily when he has had many
years of thorough training, and when, in
addition to natural taste and inclination
there is inherited genius, it seems as il
1t might be just as well to foster this
instead OF subjecting the child to the re-
straints and eonstraints of an education
designed primarily for different tenn
permanent.
Much is said OF the unfortunate influence
OF stage life on young child. To this it
may be replied that the effect of such asso-
Citations depends largely on the parent. A
wise father or mother can guard child ef-
The times., 1900-12-26
Concerning Mr.. Macveash.

The Hon. Wayne MacVeagh. once ID Re-
publican, then a Mugwump, then Demo-
crat. again Mugwump, and now about to
reioin the Republicans. will not be a
member of the new Mckinley Cabinet Our
reason follows:
philadelphia. Pa. Dec. e4.-Forner Attorney
General Wayne M3ckeagh tonight denied the in
thority of the Constitution regarding the power
Of the United States in recently acquired ter
ritory. lie said: 1 have always believed in the
conclusions reached by Mr.. Froude that If there
he one lesson which history clearly teaches it
hat free nations cannot govern subject prov
IF they are unable or unwilling TO admit their
andencies or share their wn Constitution. the
stitutiOn itself will fall in pieces from mere
impotence for its duties. cannot understand
anybcdy, whether an smperialist anti
erisiist, should not rejoice AT seeing a stop
TO further slaughter, a general amnesty pro
ned, and the Philippine Islands, foT the present
government as have just established in the
Sandwich Islands and our Territories have al
Ways enjoyed.
That IN time of peace the Constitution doe.
not follow, but prccades The flag. is as certain
:s ANYTHING in this world can be, for in time Of
where the Constitution authorizes il 10 be. and
it follows the night follows the day that
Whatever is done under its folds must be done
subject to the limitations the Constitution pre-
scrihes, for il is not the fag but the Constitu-
ton, which secures the blessings OF liberty to
ourselves and oar postcrity.
Mr.. MaeVeagh is right. but he will never
be Attorney General in this Administra-
The times., 1900-12-26
A TRUST IN JOURNALISM.
Editor HarmswOrth on the News
paper of the Future.

NEW YORK Dee. 25.-Mr Alfred
Harmsworth, editor and proprietor of the
London Daily Mail" who is a passenger
on the Teutonic, due in New York tomor-
row. has contributed to the January num-
ber of the North American Review an
article of striking interest >on what he
calls The Simultaneous Newspapers OF
the Twentieth Century Mr.. Harms
worth expresses the opinion that in spite
OF all the progress that has been made in
the development OF the newspaper hith-
erto, we are still merely at the fringe CT
journalistic development.
Mr.. Harmsworth believes that the fu-
ture newspaper Will have few or no IL
lustrations and suggests that with our i'm
proved machinery 1t will be possible to is
s1e the newspaper of the future in the
form of a small magazine. Mr.. Harms
worth's most striking suggestion, how
ever. is contained in the following para
graph:
MY idea of the newspaper OF the
twentieth century may be thus expressed
in brief: Let us suppose that one OF the
great American newspapers, under the
control of man of the journalistic abil-
ity of Delane, the greatest of the form
er editors of the London Times cer-
tailly the greatest political editor in the
history of journalism. backed by an Or
ganization as perfect as that of the Stand
ard Oil Company. and issued simultan-
eously each morning in say, New York,
Boston. Chicago, Pittsb1rg. st. Louis,
Philadelphia, and other points in Ameri-
ca, or at London. Liverpool. Manchester
Bristol, Edinburgh. Belfast, and New
castle in Great Britain
rs it not obvious that the power Of
sucn a paper might become such as we
have not yet seen in the history of the
press? And would not such journal
eifectually revive the waning influence
of the newspaper upon the life and
thought of the nation? The thing is not
as improbable as 1t sounds. The whole
tendency of the times. both in America
and Great Britain is toward the coneen-
tration of great affairs in the hands of a
few"
The methods by which such journals
would be established, he says, would be
precisely those that are employed in the
formation of the ordinary trust
The times., 1900-12-26

fectually from most bad company, and as a
general thing, even vicious men and wom-
en- will respect tie efforts of parent to
keep a child from acquiring evil habits.
Moreover il the parents are not pure
minded and wise, keeping the child of
the stage is not going to keep 1t from evil
associations 1t simply confines the asso-
Citations to home and perhaps school life.
The child OF an actor or actress can. in the
nature of things, seldom be with its father
and mother unless it travels with the
company. If both parents act in the same
company, as sometimes happens, the child
can frequently take a small part without
injury to its health or morals. II parental
affection cannot be depended upon to shield
it from evil connections in these circum
stances, it SELDOM induces the parent to be
careful about the home secured for the
child if acting is forbidden to it.
The beauty of certain type of play is
increased greatly by the participation Of
children, and, if their parts are properly
written and acted, there is no need that
the child's character should be spoilt by
the experience. The acting generally be-
comes matter of-fact piece of work, as
school work is to the average youngster,
and as for the love of admiration sup
posed to be excited by such life, the
smart scholar of a graded school can be-
come quite unbearably conceited by its
small successes. and frequently does.
Even the cleverest child of the stage is
obliged. as a rule, to do enough hard
work and take enough criticism to coun-
teraet the injudicious praise it may re-
ceive. To the spoiled child of "a family
or a public school there, may be no such
wholesome tonic
The times., 1900-12-26
THE RED CROSS WITHpRAWs.
Not to Hold ns End OF the Century
Celebration.

NEW YORK. Dec. 25.--The joint com.
mittee of the municipal assembly ap-
pointed to arrange the celebration OF the
opening OF the new century on New Year
Eve met yesterday in the council conf
mittee room Of the City Hall and refused
to grant the request OF the Red Cross.
made through Frank d. Higbee. that tho
committee take up the purposed celebra-
tion to be held under the auspices of the
society in Madison Square Garden on
New Year Eve. The committee referred
Mr.. Higbee to the Sub Committee on Plan
and Scope. which. IL Is said will follow
the instructions OF the whole committee.
Mr. Higbee asked at the hearing that
the committee take the lease CT Madison
Square Garden off the hands Of the society
for that night, and use Sousa's Band.
which II has engaged. He further asked
that the committee purchase batch OF
greetings from rulers and other person
ages of note all over the world. the gath
ering Of which cost the society $1,000.
Mr.. Higbee said.
Chairman Sulzer pointed out that this
one item alone would prevent the accept
ance of the proposition The municipal
assembly appropriated only $500 for the
celebration.
Mr.. Higbee announced after this refusal
that there will be no Red Cross ceiebra-
ton on New Year Eve. The society will
postpone the AFFAIR until March l, @he
anniversary OF the acceptance of The Red
Cross Treaty by the United States. and
will welcome the cooperation by the COM
mittee in the latter celebration
a circular was received by the COM
mittee yesterday. signed by DR.. Louis
Weyland. President of the United German
Singing Societies; John w. Fleck. Presi-
dent OF the Beethoven Mannerchor. and
Edmund o. Braendie. inviting the vari-
Gus singing societies of the city to CO.
operate in the New Year celebration
Chairman Sulzer estimates that at least
1.e00 singers will participate In the cele-
hra
The times., 1900-12-26
Plotting ON the mississippi.

(From the New Orleans tlmes-DeInocfdt-l
"a grown man can't learn the river,
said an dtime pilot. chatting over his
experiences the other day. Hes got to
begin when he's boy and get 1t soaked
into his brain until all the tricks and
turns of the water become as familiar to
him as A b c to schoolmaster. AemoriZ
ing a lot of soundings don't do him any
good. because the shoals are changing all
tho time. It's like this: When a man has
been married long enough he gets to know
the disposition OF his wife, and learns to
steer clear Of things that would rile her,
taking his bearings by a hundred and one
little signs that an outsider would never
notice. That's the way with river pilot
ing. pilot gets SO well acquainted with
the disposition and peeuliarities and tem-
per of tie old Mississippi tina. he learns
TO keep away from shadows. even If he
hasn't been over the course for months
and all sorts OF changes have taken place
since he was gone. They can't tell exactly
how they do il themselves. because IL has
come with them to be more OF an instinct
than a trade, and to say that man can
pick up such things from books and charts
or any experience short OF the experience
OF a lifetime Is all Escasense-
s1Ore queer thing ebout a shoai Is that
a shin will run away from 1t TO a certain
extent. When II gets near the water seems
to act as q sort of wedge ana pasnes u
away. ard a man who knows his business
can tell in a moment that he is approach
ing danger Another little oddlty is that A
river pilot takes his steering sights aft
instead Of toward, as landsuan would
naturally suppose. He gets two shore
points on line AMI steers By them. and il
they open up or widen out. ne hauis over
to one side or the other until they come
together again. fne bar pilot. on the
other hand. depends entirely on his COM
pass. Plotting Is d curious business. ard
most Of the famous meh OF the old davs
have passed away. A few more years viii
see the last Of them"
The times., 1900-12-26
A STATUE oF NATHAN HALE.
Subscriptions for the Monument on
the Yale Campus.

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-About s1.20e has
thus far been raised for a monument to be
erected on the Yale campus in memory OF
Nathan Hale. who was graduated from the
college with the class OF 1773. Among
those who have pledged themselves to
contribute to the fund are Arnold W. Cat
lin, e. $500: Channeey NJ. Depew. 800;
Arthur Matthewson, ;5S 500: Andrew
Carnegie. s100; Thomas Thacher. Presi-
dent OF the Yale Club. New York. $50; Pc
ter Flint. 80. $50; Henry b. Brown, JUS
tice of the United States Supreme Court,
s25. and Prof. James Mason Hoppin, Yale.
$50. Other names appearing on the sub
scription list are George A. Adee. Silas
Wodell. Seth Low, Theodore P. Hall, and
W. c. Witherbee.
Peter Flint is treasurer of the Hale
statue fund He has been at work raising
money since last month. Members of the
Yale Club of this city have assisted him
in his patriotic endeavors
The plans and early model of the Hale
statue by William 0rdway Partridge were
approved by the college two years ago.
TIE final statue in plaster is nearing COM
pietion. A number of Yale men have seen
mis- model and have expressed themselves
is being satisfied with it.
The times., 1900-12-26
NEW YoRK's EXCISE LAW.
Immense Returns in Taxes to tho
Empire State Treasury.

ALBANY, Dec. 25.--According to the
statement OF Commissioner of Excise
Henry B. Lyman, concerning the operation
Of the State Exciae law. commonly known
as the Raines law, s61. .2ss,275 have been
collected in excise taxes since the law went
into operation. In this connection he says:
"In addition TO the enormous revenue
collected the statistics show marked de-
crease in arrests for drunkenness within
the State, being for the last year nine to
the one thousand population, instead of
twelve to the one thousand population, as
under the last year of the old law. The
decrease in drunkenness appears to have
been in about the same proportion as the
decrease in the places licensed to sell, so
that there is an improvement from the
moral standpoint as well as from the>con-
sideration of revenue derived.
The total receipts during the last year
under the old law were s3.172.376 The re-
ceipts each year under the new law were:
First year. s11. .245.374; second year. $12,-
ST2.3i0: third year. S12,s33. .9Sl; fourth
year. s12. .6S6 O56 from May 1 to November
30. 1900. inclusive. s12. 2.351 ,522
Notwithstanding the large increase in
revenue under the liquor tax law. the num-
ber of places where liquor was sold have
been decreased from 80. 431 Ito 27.130, a de-
crease OF e.397.'
The times., 1900-12-26
stephen a. Douglas in the Bear skin
(From the Atlanta Constitution.)

(Frcm the Atlanta Constltution-)
Mr.. William c. Morris, the well-known
insurance man, was exchanging reminis-
censes with me the other day when some
thing was said about stephen a. Douglas.
you know that Douglas" said Mr.. Nor
ris, like many other great statesmen Of
his day sometimes drank to excess. and In
his frolics with the boys forgot all about
senatorial dignity. | saw him gloriously
drunk in a little Illinois town in 1859 after
he had made a great speech
THE Senator at that time had an iron
constitution He could work harder and
drink more than any of his contempora-
ries and his excesses did not muddle his
head nor tangle his legs.
In this little Illinois town he lost his
equilibrium for once.
After drinking many hours with scores
of tough old topers-drinkfng champagne.
brandy. and whisky. the Little Giant un-
expectedly collapsed
"A moment before he stood like gran
ite statue. Then. without the slightest
warning. he was a shapeless lump OF
boozy humanity. lolling in big arm chair.
The reckless revelers had just sense
enough to know that Douglas was drunk
and their next step was practical joke.
which was a disgrace to the town.
''In front of drug store stood a big
stuffed bear. The drunken mob pulled
him down. They ripped him open ana
pulled out the stuffng.
ut was 2 O'Clock In the morning. and
the sober citizens then on deck were too
few in number to do anything.
.'The town boys had their way. They
TANNED the unconscious Senator into the
bear skin and stitched it up
Then they propped the horrible figure
in n large chair in the hotel lobby and
stood around it in state Of wild and
noisy hilarity until daylight.
Occasionally the bear would give lurch
forward. but the bystanders Strengthened
him up again. The Senator's snorts and
grunts were so decidedly bearish that the
boys were delighted.
In the early morning hours when the
bear left his chair. and gave chase to
his tormentors. swearing at them in good
old ashioned Anglo-Saxon. the tipplers
went into spasms of glee, and it was dif-
ficuIt to induce them TO rip open the bear
skin and put the furious Senator to bed.
That was the meanest practical joke
I ever saw" said Mr.. Morris In conciu-
sion. but it was also the funniest.
"Only a very great man could have out
lived it. But Douglas was such genuine
patriot. and a man of such remarkable
ability. that the people gladly overlooked
his little -indiscretions.'
The times., 1900-12-26
Bryan and Cleveland

1t may be that Mr.. Bryan will do Mr..
Cleveland the honor to answer his latest
antiquities at the Lincoln banquet to-
night, but we doubt 1t.
Between such man as William ].
Bryan and such man as Grover Cleveland
there is nothing in common either in hon
esty. patriotism. or devotion to the public
good. The one is trying to build up what
the other tried to destroy; one is a states
man and the other political wrecker.
And the country knows them both for
what they are.
The times., 1900-12-26
An American SnIdIer.
,rrom 81. st PauI Disnatcb !

lFTOm tfr St. FauI Dlspatchl
General Chatfee has endured hardness a good
soldier from Getty slrg through Indian warfare
20 Santiago. and perhaps having developed COM
mon sense in IA very large degree has not de-
veloped the sense Of courtesy which foreign of
acor, consider a part Of their paraphernslia. Con
-equcntly his offensive" not To Count Walder-
see, directly against the looting OF the imperial
observatory aud Indirectly against all loOting
done in China has shocked the sensitive surface
Of the honor Of other nations, but has been
finally effective with them and greatly approved
by the United States. II is not probable that the
looting which has marked the course of every
other nation in China but our avn will be kept
The times., 1900-12-26
The Origin of Pail Mall.

"Pall MALI pronounced pei meD comes from
Pale Maile an ancient game supposed to have
been played on the present site OF Pail Mall by
Norman monks 10y whom 1t was introduced into
England.
The obscrvant Pepys, in his famous Diary.
makes mention of it thus:
april 2. l6ol. Into st. James Park. where
saw the Duke OF York playing at Peemee. the
first time that ever l saw the sport"