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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-21
REFUSED TO TAKE A PENSION,
Old Soldier Simply Wanted to Es-
tablish His Right.
REPUBLIC

IsFsI SfEClaA =
Washington. Dec. 0-One soldier Of tho
Civil War. bent nearly double with diseas6
contracted in the line Of duty. has refused
to take advantage of a pension OF SI3 Q
month granted him by the Government.
He is John A. Daley of Topeka, xas., and
his reasons for not accepting the morey
after making application for the pension
and securing it constitute one Of the curl.
Gus cases before the Pension Bureau.
Some time ago Mr.. Daley filed his papers
for a pension. and after 4 full examination
Ii was found that he was entitled to receto
1t. The matter was passed upon il :he
usual way and the pensioner was officially
informed of his good fortune. By return
mail Daley informed the bureau that he
did not desire to take the money, and had
taken out the papers to establish his right-
full identity as a soldier Of the Fourteenth
Indiana Infantry. He said that this faet
had been questioned and he wanted =
proven. With this he is cont ent.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-21

new banking institution in this city are
now being made. The promoters and larg-
est stockholders are John Wild. Jr., Louis
Latter, John Spindler. J. G. Bardill, Louis
Koch and Louis Biattner, six of the promi-
nent and influential business men of High
land. 1t has not been decided whether the
new concern will be a national bank with
a capital stock Of $4,000 or a trust COM
pany. under State control. The two plans
are now being investigated.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-21

Judge Hiram n. Moore. who assembled to
the bench in the Court of Criminal Correc-
ton on December l, is introducing some re-
forms in the conduct Of that tribunal.
The wheels Of justice are grinding steadi-
" In the court. and Judge Moore presides
as one who might have served three years
instead of three weeks. One noticeable fea-
ture is that the court is In session nearly
every afternoon, something that was rarely
ever the case until he began his career.
When Judge Moore took the bench, to
which he had been elevated from the ranks
OF the st. Louis legal profession, he found
the docket crowded. Many cases had been
continued that were not triable for some
reason or other under Judge Clark, and as
a consequence Judge Moore has found on
several days more than an average number
OF cases for his attention. Judge Moore an
nounced that he would hold night sessions
If necessary in order to catch up with his
docket. While he has not held court open
later than 6 o'clock any afternoon. he has
on one or two occasions sat on the bench
and listened TO cases until tina time.
Judge Moore has all the qualifications
for a good jurIst,'' remarked one of the
lawyers who practice in the court. "While
he talks slowly and deliberately, he is quick
TO see any point urged by counsel on either
side and ~sustains or overrules an objection
carefully"
Asked yesterday If he had any particular
motto to follow in administering justice in
the court to which the people nave elected
him the chief officer, Judge Moore re-
marked:
II have no motto other than the law and
the evidence 1 regard them sufficient for
any Judge to follow and shall always try
to keep these two points in view as the
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To Equal This One

sistent sightseer and incidentally try to ex-
vice. She has made arrangements with
wise. She has made arrangements with
many firms that intend to place stationery
and other forms of Exposition souvenirs on
the grounds.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-21

New Bank Mt Highland, Ill.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Highland, ILL.,, Dec. 20.-The preliminary
arrangements for the establishment Of a
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-21
NEW METHODS

D SOME OF JUDGE q
} MOORE,S EXPRESSIONS. Q
B I have no motto other than the =
, law and the evidence. 1 regard ther1 Q
B sufficient for any Judge to follow, .
, and shall always try to keep these .
, two points in view in any case I am q
, called upon TO decide. .
B All men are expected to protect .
} their wives. All women must be re- q
, spected and protected. .
1t is such negro wretches as you .
} who cause good citizens to take the q
} law into their own hands and burn q
} black men at the stake.
The evening times., 1902-07-21
THE TRANSLATION OF f1R. JEROME
By L. L.

Jerome K Jerome protests against alleged transaticns Of
his works the Russian The trouble that
have done their tr&naing honestly They rendered part Of
his works the language the Siav supplemented with
other work which his all This hurts Mr. feelings
The authors quite natural ne
sympathy due the rash and translator such
task It if he either could have read could
not have been thoroughly with the Raa How
else should he have dreamed Of putting Idle Thoughts
low the heads f the eountymen Tooy Tourgueu
Dooevky, and GorEy7 One would think possible make
Chinese mandarin do sepenine dance
The aspect of the ran language nlieaI
to the style of Mr. Jerome wonder that there great
anorists IN Russia How could through
fence Of and Ks and " sand without sound to
soften the eattcr? page as
Of that the algebra quadraie eaa
tions.
But that all After has translated the language
Russian subsequently translate the does
Occidental mind II the language called Durrng,
splitting language the atmosphere Of Russian thought also feline
It's mPenetrabh and little inclined huor How could the
and nohngs of jerome jerome h transported such
mohere and remain lecgnzabe7 poetic
tain their poey2 No wonder his jokes quasled
that their father did know them.
The evening times., 1902-07-21

her Eeck and put it in the dressing Ia
lie at the hotel at which she was then
stopping This was at 10 q m. and at
10 ?. n. It suddenly occurred Il. her thar
she had forgotten TO put that bag back
= its place.
Then she had a spasm Of fright thar
cbainec her to her chair for a moment.
After this she went upstairs and
searched her room for signs Of the miss
ing article Il was not TO be found
flFe minutes later she rang her bell
and sent the boy who responded for rba
maid who had cleaned her room in the
morning That person appeared In the
course OF half an hour, sleepy. but 20
lite.
Yes she remembered the bag. but II
F2d been lying with some torn papers
: al she haG thrown the whole thing il
lhe box kept for debris. Directly fgg5
excited women were going over orange
peel and torn Fits Of paper and stumps
o. cigars like mad, and in jiTy one Of
t1GH hau the chamoi5 bag iu her hand
The $3.50 rcposed suugIy within. Thf.
IS -rue story that's what makes II So
-trauge, but didn't the heroine Of il e.
upstairs and hide that money in the to-
e1 her bess slipper in her trunk. She
s2ic she wouldn't trust il anyyz here Hrr
there again And she vas never known
10 faEIcn Lle trunk
Women HiIi rot lock things up-fhaf-s
ceFta!n-not as long as there are odd
i5y-Ls places where they can hide tbeI-
valusbles. anyway
The evening times., 1902-07-21

patrolled at fixed periods to guard
against the development of any ply
steal defect
IN the vigor Of their competition.
the companies have stopped at Meth
ing in their efforts to place their sys-
TENS within convenient reach of the
public, by the establishment OF branch
offices, and the connection Of busi-
ness houses with the Offices by means
Of messenger caE boxes.
The adoption If the typewriter in
transcribing messages from the sound
er, has added as.eh to the Iegibihty
Of copy, speed of operation, and re-
lief to the operator, and promising
experiments aze now being made with
a typewriter upon which the messages
may not only be Transcribed, but
which will. by the operation Of the
same key board, automatically trans
init the telegraph signals over the
wire. That these improvements have
borne fruit IN a wonderful increase Of
business, while competition has low
cred the cost to the public of tele-
graphing. is shown by the fact that
twenty-five years ago less than 20,
000-0O0 messages were sent during q
year, at an average toll Of over 81
cents, and a profit to the companies
Of nearly % cents per message, while
now loo, 900, 900 messages are handled
annually. with cost to the public Of
30 cents, and at d profit Of about 3
cents per message to the companies
The evening times., 1902-07-21
Ruins Of Old Jerusalem.

The Greek Catholic monks. who are in
possession Of the chief portions OF the
Church Of the Holy Sepulcher. are now
going to build q bazaar opposite it,
where pilgrims may purchase souve-
Mrs OF their visit to Jerusalem. says
the London Standard" During the
process Of clearing the site the founda-
tions Of an old medieval church, forty
meters long and thirty wide. with three
apses. were discovered. a number OF
fine capitals. fragments OF basaIt pill
lars. and bas-reHefs, with symbolic an
imals. were found. all these remains
having doubtless belonged to the choir
Of the church. Last year a valuable sill
yer shrine containing a piece Of the holy
cross and relics Of the Apostles Peter
and Paul-according, at least. to the in
scriptions On the-n-was found at the
same place.
The patriarch Of Jerusalem. it is said.
is keeping other discoveries secret. ow-
ing 10 his dislike Of the Roman Catho-
lie Church. These mentioned above are
all the more important as IL can be as
ed According to the statement Of
medieval traveller the hospice and the
monastery which the citizens OF AmaIf
founded about the year $40. as a refuge
for western pilgrims were situated due
south Of the holy sepulcher about a
stones throw away. The first church
vas built IL honor Of St Mary de Lati-
MS and the second. the ruins OF which
lave now been found. in honor Of St
John, the Baptist. The French monk
Bernard. who lived there in So highly
praised the hospitality and The large
library of the hospice. a Mohammedan
historian says Il was destroyed by the
Kkalif Hakem ana rebuilt shortly after,
ward while according to another ac-
count IL prcspered down 70 the time of
King Baldwin OF Jerusalem from lI00
20 lII8. when the two communities OF
St Mary and st John adopted the lat
ter as their joint protector. This was
the origin Of the knights Of St John.
The remains now discovered, therefore,
are the ruins Of the cradle of this or
dCr- It is most unfortunate that the
preservation Of these very interesting
remains seems Impossible. owing TO the
iHfeeiias which exists between she
Greeks and Roman Catholics Ia Jsru-
salem.
The evening times., 1902-07-21
BILL. u

He wasn't purty-nary bit. The wrinklin'
hand o. Time
Had written strange devices in tie tan
and powder CRIME
But prospectin' his character. there'd
crop out vverywhaTe
Rich streaks O. golden placer that you'd
never dreamed Was there
And, spite of all his LONELINESS, some
how his rugged face
Jest see-ed to brace fefler up and give
i'm savin' grace,
When times was hard and grub was
high an the ceIors far between,
And into the starving miners life there
widened the streak o lean!
There widened the streak O. poverty
when ali o the world was blue;
When shovel an pan were red with rust.
with nothing at ali to do;
I don't jest sayey the Why Of it-and /
reckon I never will
That I somehow failed TO appreciate the
worth or my paTdnsr. Bill
It's shorely hard to understand the
ways O the human mind.
For We grow indi1eFent-like to gold,
the more o the stuff we find
Twas so with me; I'd lived so long
with old Bill at my side
That never Jest knew the worth Of him
till my paTdneT up an died
''Good-by. old man" lie says. says he, a
Iookin' toward the skies
The Light o new discovery a-shinin' in
his eyes
I see across the great divide. an like
q golden flame
I catch the CLEAN an glitter Of ny ever
lasting claim!"
An then he died-my pardner Bill
There warn't no better Billsi
An I know he washes gravel on the
everlastin' hills
The golden sand in the Stream O. life
a hundred TO the pan.
For the Lord won't play him low down.
cause my pardner was a man!
For fifty year @ storm IN sun BiiI's
blanket has been mine;
And his friendship never broke a strand,
though it stretched from '49
He loved me! which the same is mighty
comfortin' to me.
For I know NY pardneT's grub-staked
for long eternity!
San Francisco Bulletin.
The evening times., 1902-07-21
THE MOTORF1AN'S TRIALS

in ordinary justice to occupy but few
hours. This is point which neither
the capitalist nor the public, nor, IN
scme cases. the workman himself. as yet
appreciates.
a man who is driving a carriage or .
cart along a country road can stand it
to work a great many hours a day; in
fact. he may work practically all the
time he is awake and live to a good
old age. though If his work makes great
demands on his muscular energy he may
live merely animal life He endangers
nobody's life II he Is i'll. intoxicated or
careless. He has but little RESPONSE
buity or mental strain. and he can take
his time. within certain limits, for his
work. He does not wear out.
With the rOtorman. the railway en-
gineer- the telegraph operator, the train
dispatcher. any man who has to do
with transportation In crowded centers
OF population. It is entirely different
his usefulness depends upon his being
IL mental as well as physical health.
alert, vigorous and intelligent no man
can stand such nerve-rackiBg work for
many hours day. during the greater
part Of his life. He viii break down;
and this is not desirable even from the
point OF view OF the company. It would
better, in the long run, to give such
rien shorter day, With opportunity
tor thorough rest, and thus allow them
to remain in condition for work until
old age comes upon them. instead Of
breaking down in middle life, as many
OF them do. It is not good for the COM
munity that q man should have his vital
energy extracted in ne, ten. OF fifteen
years. and then be thrown aside like
d squeezed lemon, to become a charge
on his relatives or the public That
more railroad men and telegraph clerks
and motOrnan do not 90 to pieces moral
IL and physically is good proof that they
are the picked men OF the American
people; but such select material is not
going 10 last Indefinitely.
The evening times., 1902-07-21

4 comparison Of the telegraph
business Of today with that Of a quar-
ter Of a century ago, Is like contrast
ing a crude with a seemingly perfect
ed work: an infant with a giant.
The early history of the business
was a venuresome. uncertain one.
Much Of the first money invested IN 1t
was lost. The public was slow to
recognize the convenience 1t offered,
and commerce bad not learned to lean
upon II with the confidence Of to-
day
During the thirty years between
The establishment Of the first line be-
tween Washington and Baltimore, and
the beginning of the last quarter Of
the past century, the radical changes
III construction and operation were
limited to receiving the signals by
sound instead Of the tape register, The
iron wires were usually strung by I'M
skilled wm kmen, on poles of varying
sizes, along tortuous, winding road
ways, and boldly through principal
city thoroughfarcs TO dingy, iII-ven-
tilated telegraph Offices with their
rough ink-staiued operating desks.
and great banks Of battery jars, Only
one message at time. could be sent
over a wire, and the lines were usually
worked, without inspection, until IN
creasing contact with growing limbs
The evening times., 1902-07-21
GROWTH OF TELEORAPHS
IN THE PAST QUARTER OF A CENTURY
By GEORGE ". RIBBLE.

and broken insulators made them al
most useless, and forced a remedy,
Then began a new era. Commerce
was now depending more and more
upon the telegraph. Competition was
adding zest and energy to the busi-
ness, developing new ideas, adopting
Improvements in equipment and oper-
alton, and applying up-to-date meth
DDS TO every detail of the work, until
the telegraph systems Of the United
States stand today without d peer III
the world Great lines Of copper
wires, supported by carefully select
ed timber, and built by experienced
engineers, thread their way along the
railroads or on right-of-ways secured
across country in the mcst direct
routes. IL the cities connection IS
made through underground subways
which terminate In attractive well
furnished Offices. affording every com
fort and convenience for the employees
and the public
The bulky, untidy battery has given
place to the dynamo, with its greater
effective capacity, and the quadruplex
has made the simultaneous transmits
sion Of four messages over the same
wire. d regular occurrence. The wires
are tested at frequent Intervals with
delicate electrical Instruments, and
the least deterioration Of insulation
detected and remedied, while, as an
additional precaution, the lines are
The evening times., 1902-07-21
The Vulgar Voice.

what constitutes the vulgar zoiee2 In
an article. the reading OF which may be
recommended TO the legion of teachers
Of voice production and their pupils. q
writer in the London Spectator. con-
cludes that this evidence of vulgaritv
springs, like almost all vuIgaritv how
ever displayed, chiefly from two causes
al undue love Of eonspfcuousness and an
undue fear OF the same The person
whose chief aim is to keep him or her
self in the eye cf the world rarely
makes a remark without desiring that II
shall reach the ears OF others besides
the one directly addressed: and here the
peculiarly false sound CT the voice is at
tributed 10 the absence OF singIensss Of
motive. On the other hard. the waver-
ing tone and affected accent of the tiuid
vulgar are aseribed to another form of
insincerity, namely, the wish TO initiate
others with whom one happens TO De,
when they are OF a supposedly. higher
social standing The attempt is sure TO
fail and result ouly in the suppression
OF all evidence of the speakers own per-
sonality-in the voice as well as in tbs
manner. Thus sincerity. paramount in
all art. Is basic in breeding as we'll.
which is the Art of Life. So far so good.
If the world is to be considered aud
characterized as divided into two classes
the vulgar and the not vulgar But for
our part We feel tempted to ask further
whether most of Us DO not at times fail
into the use of the vulgar voiee2 Listen
to sweet woman. in one of her shrewish
moments. haply few. or to the great
actor scolding his valet. IN the rare
case Of these persons. to hear whom
speak is always 10 listen to music. ths
reason is probably TO seek in the fact
that they have learned the supreme SELF
restraint. The anger Of petulance which
unrepressed would have issued il shriIf-
ness. when restrained. tmparts a certain
depth and funness TO the tones-'.the
throbhing voice ana so forth. % the
novel writer's. II reminds US OF the old
definition OF lady-a woman who speaks
in a low tone and thinks in 4 high one
Harper's Weekly.
The evening times., 1902-07-21

a motorman writes to one Of the New
York papers describing the maEifolI
duties OF his calling. He seems to
sIsink that their number and variety
ought TO excuse the motorman if there
is an accident now ana then. Perhaps
he is excusable from a moral point
Of view, though not from legal This
is q part OF the letter
In the first place, the officers o. the
company require each and every electric
ear to run on schedule time Then there
is tn greasy and slippery rail to con
tend with, to say nothing about the
thouss ads OF trucks that are constantly
on tn tracks Then one foot is con-
tinual'y hammering away at the gong
plug. while the other foot is all the
time kicking on and off the dog that
goes in the ratchet-wheeI OF the braks-
Then there is a sand plug that We must
force down with ali of cur weight, and
there IS the fender to be strapped up to
the rail of the dashboard at each end
of the road. while the other end must
be let down before the car starts back.
The run number must be changed ut
each end Of the road in q socket on the
bonnet. and the controller handle must
be carried from one end Of the car 20
the other There is a bar on all open
cars 10 be lifted up and down at each
terminus Of the road. We must also ring
the conductors bell for all passengers
getting on the car, to 90 ahead. and TO
back up. We must keep a sharp look
out for distractions on the rails and
keep both eyes open for small children
and old people Besides, there are man
hole and insuIator covers that are often
broken or out Of place, and we must
be very careful that fuse does not
blow out"
There is one undeniable fact sug-
gested by this catalogue of difficulties
" hich is worth attention at any rate It
is that the complicated and strenuous
work OF most modern mechanics ought
The evening times., 1902-07-21
WOMAN AND Her VALUABLES

The average woman Ioathes TO lock
things up, says the Baltimore News"
is such nuisance TO have 10 hunt for
the keys when she wishes 10 unlock
them. or to remember Eve minutes after
everything is securely fastened that she
has forgotten two OF three articles, and
50 cach drawer must be opened again
This page Knows an esimable lady who
hes a safe IN her house with a combiaa-
ton lock, and a box in the vault of a
safe deposit company. but she keeps her
purge between the mattresses Of her bed
just the same. and her diamonds il one
Of The vases on the nlanls}piece in her
bedroom Sometimes she hides her
spoons IL her writing desk and some
times she distributes them among her
various pairs OF shoes. but. at all events,
whenever she wants any of these arti-
cles she has regular d-the-5sIver''
huat. for she's always deiiciousIg IN
certain where she has pat them
She has even been known to have she
dinner table set with two-proagcI steel
lu1ks rom Ena kitchen, after she's been
away visiting bic, and has had tIale 20
forget her most reeeat and most Inge-
nious hiding places,
This gage knows other women who
conceal money, in sums ranging from
$50 up, under he edges Of the carpet on
The aoo=. CT back OF the photographs IL
their arerea. They don't put it in bank
because is too much trouble and they
don't lock il Up in q desk. because
they'd be sure TO lose the key They
select the remarkable places mentioned
as safe and no. troublesome 70 reach.
+Cre girl who contends that banks may
tail and bureaus burn Up carries what
oEe- lunds she may be possessed Of
concealed about her person" as the
Jlood-and-thundeF novels say OnIy the
other day she removed the Iittle cham
els Tag that contained $40 from about
The evening times., 1902-07-21
IDEALITY OF DANCING.

4 dancing master has propounded q
new system of how to dance well. Ac-
cording 10 his theory. the only perfect
Walter is the poet, the painter. the
philosopher. or the man with high
ideals
This Is how he expresses himself:
The three elements OF grace are grav-
ity, aexibility and force. Physical cuI-
ture should educate each muscle Of the
body. and whom the body is under the
complete control of the viii. II the mind
have high ideals and ennobling
thoughts, the man viii be graceful.
From this flows the wonderful quality
of personal magnetism"
The evening times., 1902-07-21
"0ne reason that women are paid
less than men is because they are
satisfied with less"

The reason that women are paid less
than mea is because they are willing TO
take less. and they are satisfied with
less because they are not conscious Of
their powers.
They are willing TO start at the bot
tom of the ladder as we all are with
anything untried. and even when they
f2d out their true worth. congeniaI work
often takes the place of higher pay
Their work means more to them
thsn It does to men. and the emolunent
means less. Women are softer than
men. The difference between them is
Ike that between linen and silk Linen
has the strength of masculinity. six
has the deIicacy, the grace, the fneness
o. femininity.
Women are better economists than
men; they can live On less. and are
used TO little sacrifices that would sim
ply be impossible vita men And oftea
in large families. where two or three
women support the entire number. the
family IS cared for on far less than if
their brothers or fathers or husbands
we're providers
Women are oftentimes less satsfac-
tory than men. because they cannot
sink self cannot lose sight Of their
Own personality, and remember that
they are simply so many pairs Of hands
CT so many heads
Then, too, although women are often
mere patient and more accurate than
zen. they have not the same staying
qualities. It IS physically impossible