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mood, for the house committee had laid in fine sup
ply of ales of which the great sailor had been absorb
ing pretty freely, What / do for yOu?
"Oh, nothing much" ] answered. Some day,
when you've leisure, ] wish you'd introduce me TO
Rip Van Wrinkle"
RIP Van Winkle2" he repeated, rip Van
Wrinkle? Who the devil is Rip Van Winkle2'
Why, don't you know the chap you and your
men got hold of that night up i'm the Cats0ls and
"Oh-that old tale laughed Hudson. Seems 10
1 did hear of that. but there wasn't any truth an
it. What would ! be doing giving away any grog in
a hundred miles away2 Never on your life, Shylock
That was tale got up to injure me With the Front
btiOnists."
1t quite evident that Mrs. Rip Van Wrinkles
suspicious quite correct. i sorry too, for /
have always rather liked Rip himself from what
had read of him. and Sc was unpleasant TO discover
that he a base deCeiver, after ALL
II of a cruise with old Columbus and Cap
tain Kidd at that time Hudson continued, down in
the West ndes-sO you see ! can prove an allbL
Il testify to that said Columbus. Noah,
you along, tOO.-don't you remember? Kidd was
showing as where he'd cached his hidden treasure"
'Ill never forget it, put in Noah Il never was
sea-sck I'm my life, before or since
oh / don't doubt your word Hudson, ] said at
this point II than half believed the story
anyhow. 1 thought I'd like to meet Van Wrinkle
that's all. He always seemed to TO have certain
cOmpaniOnabe qualities Good night"
And with this / walked on. The whole structure
of Rip Van Wrinkles story had fallen TO the ground
at the very first touch-very much his rifle was
said to have done, when, after his sleep Of twenty
years he awoke and found the stock crumbling be-
meath his hand.
There were now two things to do Look up Rip
Van Wrinkle and win his confidence course that I
depore-Or seek out Deidrick KuiCkerbocker and ask
him frankly the of the Information upon which
he based his report of what really happened TO Rip
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Mr.. Homes? If you do you not the brilliant thing
you think you are"
We'll" 1 demurred, lit does sound improbable, but
I've always taken it on faith"
And haven't snapped the lady What's more.
/ don't intend to. I do intend TO discover the truth,
and If you want the business you can have it. II
you don't say So and I'll worm the real story out OF
the old in other way
The proposition attracts me-" said I, after a
moments reelection 81 may be able 20 do you both
service. If / should restore your confidence in
him"
"Conddence?" she cried. shriIy. Restore my con-
fdence i'm Rip Van Winkle-LOrd! I never had any"
''Theu why did you marry him?" I ventured.
To get with him. she replied. KIP van
Wrinkle born hir and he tried it once too often
when he tackled me-"
Have you any evidence that he was elsewhere?"
me-"
what is it?' I asked.
The fact that he told the yarn about the Cats
kill nap himself, is enough for me. When Rip Van
Wrinkle said he'd been to the tap-room, 1 knew he'd
been to church. and vice versa. Reasoning on that
line. his mere statement that he'd been asleep out
in the woods proved 10 that he'd been pretty wide
awake somewhere else
The lady raved for two three minutes in
this strain and finally stopped from sheer lack Of
breath.
Very well. madame" said 7. "Iu take the case.
Perhaps in a week 1 shall have something to report
WhereupOn, after "a few moments of commonplace
conversation, she departed
Later in the evening. at the club, while eating
my dinner / observed Hendrix Hudson taking his
the other side Of the dining-room, and plunged into
the business i'm hand at
Hello. Hudson said l. as after ordering my cof-
fee served in the library. ] TO leave the room.
How is everything with you?'
"serenely lovely" he replied-he was in genial
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ing to appear i'm public during the electoneerng days
and in presenting cigars TO the friends who chafed
him about buying the report is probably not true
So far writing is concerned. Mr.. TarNngtons next
long story will probably be novel Of theatrical NE.
He has, in point of fact been working on this theme
for some time.
Mr. Henry Harland best known as the author of
''The Lady Paramount and The Cardinals Snuff
Box" each of which sold i'm the neighborhoOd of l00,
says VIII be much better than either OF these. The
forthcoming story is to appear serialy in Of the
leading magazines beginning next June. and the book
publication viii not take place before next taIL Mr..
Harand has made his visit in New York much longer
than he had planned. He says that he may not
return TO England before the early spring
book which is attracting much attention in Eng
land just Is Lord Nevilles Prison Life 1t viii
be remembered that this scion OF a noble house
sentenced to five years az Old Bailey for fraud in OBJ
tanning the name of a wealthy relative 20 use a
security. He was liberated only short time ago,
having served out his term, with the exception of five
months for good behavior Lord Neville says that
during the first nine months Of his Imprisonment he
spent eight hours a day in knitting stockings and he
confesses TO finding this occupation rather absorbing
He takes occasion to condemn the judge who convicted
him and also the system of solitary confinement He
says he wrote the book in the hope that IL might
have some effect looking to the Improvement of the
condition for future prisoners 10 is expected that
edition Of the book viii shortly be published here.
The most notable book for February is Sydney
Whitmans Personal "reminiscences OF Prince Bis
marck." Mr.. Whitman had Che good fortune 10 meet
Bismarck shortly after he began his retirement and
home Mr.. Whitman who had been educated In Ger
many and had become specially interested I'm Bis
marck. 70 the favorable attention OF the great
man through having written Imperial Germany a
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For a little while, barring q few trivial matters which
were brought 20 me- there was no business or any I'M
pOrtauce my books, but at last case did come up
which filled me, at least with great deal OF interest
IL a gusty night in the latter part Of March.
was Just about 20 up my oce and start for the
club when sharp zap on the outer door struck vi
Come in.' j cried turning the electric light so
that its illumination concentrated itself upon the door
way leaving me i'm the comparative darkness of the
The door opened with jerk and there. peering
into the room with a piercing eye that seemed 10
gather everything before 10 in at glance, stood a
gauut wiry whose face had more OF the quail
tiles of the hatcnet than of the olive branch
"Shyock Homes in?" she demanded IN raspins
voice that would have driven better man than my
self drink if he had had to listen to it for life
Il am shylock Homes. madame" said J. rising,
and oneriug the lady chair
'Thanks-Ive no time 20 set" she answered IL
business I'm after not clFlhiy- Are you All you re-
said 20 be- or just plain fraud like all other men
THAT is leading question, madame, fepIea
wariIy 'I can't say that I'm all I'm said 20 DE. De
cause there people who assert tEat am q IIeaN'
the possibility OF which you intimate. judge, now
ever from the vivid wilderness of my conscience,
which never troubles n the slightest degree, that
j am not a fakr If YOU have come. however. TO ask
me To- solve the mystery of Self must decline the
"Humph," she retorted you have a certain
amount OF sagacity after all. had idea you might
be one of these Trance idiots who go off into spasm
and take money for telling people what they see in
you do me wrong" said T. with short laugh.
merely TO show that however unusual her method
of approaching me. did not intend 20 take onense.
Look added turning the electric light fun upon
my own face, DO I look ike fraudg'
"No. YOU don't she answered shortly. You've
got tolerabIy decent face. Rather sueaky eyes per-
haps but The whole YOU look SNUG enough 20 De "a
Sunday-school superintendent. / think i can trust
you
Thank YOU" said I. And now, do sin down and
feIl me what I do for YOU
with an uI grace the lady took the profered chair
this time, opened her retcue and took out a card
Mr. Shylock Homes said she. 'Tm a bitterly de-
ceived wOman-Or. at least. I'm beginning TO think
and I want you TO find out the TRUTH Here is my
. card"
took the paste-board and slancing at &C casually
was astounded to see who my visitor was. The card
read as follows:
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GREATEST BOODLER?

Louis in his theories concerning the legitimacy Of
bribery. Members of Che ring have testified in the
witness stand that they had had any suspicious
of its being wrong 20 take bride lt had grown so
I'm ST. Louis that 10 appears 20 have been ON
by all parties perfectly permissible trans
action and members of the ring, when bills
TO which they committed failed of passage,
have even gone and VirJuously returned the un-
earned" fees they had received There might, OF
course be some old fOgies left. but that young i'm
teligent, capable lawyer like Folk with everything
TO lose and nothing win 10y it, should adhere the
old fashioned ideas of bribery, and of public prose
cutOrs duty toward it. this passed Buffers under
standing.
Butler pleaded for while, then threatened, but
with no result. Folk went prosecuting the re-
peaters and before Butler could realize what mp.
had actually broken into his council ring. and was
indicting members of it, for political crimes, but
for engaging in the strictly private occupation 9f
DpOdngf
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At the Head of His Profession.

And In fact Edward r. Butler probably stands
at the head of his profession today the most eN-
pert and finished boodIer i'm the country. He loves
his profession and he practices it mainly for It's own
sake He has been worth several millions for several
years: he could have bought himself a Vantage long
ago if he had wished But he preferred 20 stay and
wogk out the practical and conclusive demonstration
Of his great idea-to aake municipal boodling indie
pendent of politics. TO give "a definite and recognized
place i'm the field of business enterprise.
How well he succeeded is fully and graphically set
forth bv Lincoln Stefens On article entitled The
Shameessuess Of St. Louis I'm the March number Of
McClure's Magazine. Butler began back in the lOs
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Butler Tried and Convicted.

And An IengTh an increment was served On But
Ter himself: he tried. and he convicted But
the trial took place in the little town of Columbia
where the state university is located and the jury
were c0untrymen. Butler entering the town had
asked what its business and being told lt was
education replied that that "a he'll of business.
Perhaps this speech gave 0ense 20 of the jury
Perhaps again, Mr. Folks speech I'm this trial. with
its perOration of Missouri, Missouri am pleading
for thee" Influenced these men, one of whom after
the trial said him. Mr. Folk. after listening 10 that
speech of yours ready TO go TO hell FOR you
AT an events. Butler must have recognized that
I'm securing a change of venue from St. Louis court
he had made a grave blunder. For what was the
verdict OF st. Louis cyncaly Overuus what was the
twelve Columbia rustcs? Butler VIII never wear
L. III
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BOodling as d Business.

AS his trade grew, Butler realized
that boodling was. or should be, man
aged as am out and out business, and,
like any other business man. he was
ayerse TO having it made subject to
the shifts and Vicissitudes of politics.
ST. Louis was normally Republican
city Butler was a Democratic boss.
Here was a serious stumbling block TO
his schemes. A Democratic butcher or
baker or caudlestick maker would
naturally resent and oppose the con-
fiscation of his meat or lOaves or can
dlesticks by a Republican competitor
across the street who had beaten him
at the polls. Butler considered his
case precisely analogous. Were not the
city's franchises his wares? What
right had a Republican administration
TO take them OF his hands2 A man
owes much 20 his party, but not his
means of support.
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No Politics in His Methods.

These novel and progressive ideas
Butler preached among his friends,
and found no difficulty i'm converting
a sufficient number of them to carry
out his purpose. With their help he
organized a ring for the thorough and
systematic exploitation of the market
which his Individual effort had ten
tatively but alluringly opened, and the
ring. in the name of commercial eX-
pansion, took possession of the munich
pal assembly Of st. Louis. They formed
the controlling minority i'm both
branches-the council and the house
and with high scorn for the narrow
rammels Of party, with unfaltering
courage voted against the passage Of
any measure, the granting of any
franchise the friends of which sought
20 deprive them of a just cOmpensa-
ton for their efforts in its behalf That
there were in the ring both Republ-
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cans and Democrats IS the clearest
proof of Buffers sincerity and single
ness of purpOse-to do business pure
and simple. And he did mt; and what
is more he did il most lucratively
during the famous Republican admin
istration of Mayor Uncle Henry
Zlegenhein-
Buffers syndicate became famous the
country over. BoOdlers from all the
great cities hOcked there 10 learn The
latest thing in bOOdling-and Butler al-
ways had a fine lot OF samples 60 show
There was the street lighting deal that
made Uncle Henry's' administration
famous from which the syndicate
cleared SIZE. 600 after keeping the citl-
Zens in darkness for weeks; there was
the suburban railway bill which
brought S75. 900. The earnings of the
syndicate since its organization are es-
timated by Mr.. Steffens at $50 5000
worth of franchises and other valuable
municipal assets" In return for what
they learned I'm st. Louis the boOdlers
from other cities put Butler and his
gang on to their own favOrite and best
paytng deals THE graudest idea Of
an" says MIR. Steffens. 'came from
Philadelphia. In that city the water
works were sold out to a private con-
Germ, and the St. Louis fellows have
been trying ever since to lind pur-
chaser for theirs. 1t is worth at least
$40 OO OOO." The plan was to let il go
for about SIS 900 0OO-by mixing it up
with some altering scheme"-the syndi-
cate charging a modest Sl,0OO,OOO broN-
erage commission. as il were. A scheme
that failed was to sell the court house.
The scheme was we'll under way when
cit was discovered that the ground on
which this building stands was given
TO the city on condition that il be used
for a court house. and nothing else
"In fact" Mr.: Stenens goes on, all the
possessions Of the city were listed for
future sale. the list was in existence,
and the sale was only postponed on ac-
count Of an accident-the occurrence OF
Mr. Folk"
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MRS. RIP VAN WINkLE.
Thursday in January.

.Weu," j calculated "This IS an unexpected
honor. madame. had hardly dared hope that
should ever
stick 10 BUSINESS, Mr. Homes" she snapped II
didn't come here under the impression that you We're
conducting a series OF FIVE o'clock teas What want
20 know IS, win you look into the question or my hus-
bands whereabouts during that twenty years absence
of his from homer
..Why-ah-" ventured, 'his story has been told.
Mrs van Wrinkle. He was asleep up in the Catskllls.
he wandered or 10 the top Of-ah-one OF the peaks
that noble range. and fel in with Hendrix Hudson
and his men. and
"Oh. nousensei" cried Mrs. Van Wrinkle impa-
uently. They gave him knockout drops I suppose?
You don't mean % say you believe that yarn do you
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Butler and Tweed.

If ST. Louis is right. if Folk is only an incident
momentary check, there viii be no further question
of Colonel Ed Buffers place bOOdler He viii STAND
on top. Others may have made more money out on
it who have operated in bigger cities, but Butler VIII
have given to il the dignity and the security or lesl
mate business enterprise,
City administrations in St. Louis viii come and go
Republican and DemOcratic-but Buffers syndicate.
the controlling minority in the city legislature VIII
remain doing business at the old stand. with new
line of franchises and privileges ana city property LOT
sale to the highest bidder that viii make the parched
mouth of Tweed water in the other world.
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is BUTLER THE
JOSEPH FOLK, The COUNTY RTTORNEY WHO
CHECKED THE COMPLETE SALE OF ST. LOUIS.

He was then a master horseshoer. and
his first success in politics came when
he secured the agency for a certain
horseshoe which the ST. Louis street
railways were purchasing From that
he rose step by step. until his stock in
trade has at one time or another in
Cluded almost every important munich
pal franchise at the disposal of the city
government
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was not many days after the
amusing discontinue Of NJ.
lie Coo. that I have just mar
rated. that, yielding to the
solicitation of my friends, i
opened up "a bureau of infor-
nation in one OF the con-
spicuous office buildings Of
Cimmeria. This / advertised
i'm the newspapers. stating
that I was ready at any time
10 undertake the solution Of
amy or all mysteries that
were brought to my attention
by those who chose to avail
themselves of my services.
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The Accidental Clog.

Joseph Folk was a bolt from the blue.
He came in on Buffers own reform
ticket, and the first thing he did AFTER
taking Office was to prosecute Buffers
''reDeaters" who had helped elect him.
Butler was dazed. He thought he had
thoroughly drilled the voters Of St.
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90 -

- inc remark lLdt greeted lle Lilen4A
and foes of Colonel Ed Butler the boss
of ST. Louis on the streets OF the city
when they came back from the trial of the boss in
the little university town of Columbia. In Columbia
Jury OF twelve Democrats three of them members OF
the Democratic county committee. had been charged
by a Democratic Judge and they had found the Dem
ocrauc boss of ST. Louis and the head of the Demo-
cratic machine in the state guilty of bribery and had
sentenced him 10 three years the state prison. ST.
Louis heard the news and the man on the street
stopped iH astonishment-but only for a moment
Butler viii never wear the stripes" he said and
went his way. such is the faith OF ST. Louis in her
boss.
Butler, his appealed, still rules St. Louis. and
in the municipal assembly, squabbug and bargainins
with him stlll SIT convicted like himself of bribery
perjury members of the old ring that once sur
rounded him, until Joseph Folk the county attorney.
pulled him forth The citizens watched the exposure,
heard the verdict of the Columbia jury. and cynicaly
substituted their own-"Buuer win never wear the
stripes" AT all events, they refused to take hand
they prefer TO remain spectators IL is still up 10
Folk And So the ring" has Joined hands again
around the boss. What is the trouble? Is St. Louis
secretly prou- Of its boss that it spared him in hs
hour of defeat? II so, here is a boss who VIII bear
studying.
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CERTAINLY He is THE BOSS OF ST. LOUIS FOR, THOUGH
CONVICTED OF BOODLIN6- HE RULES THE CITY ASSEMBLY.
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Copyright, 1908, BY John Kendrlek Bangs,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-01
wRITTaV BY P. m STUEss.

ITLER will never wear the stripes" This
was the remark that greeted the friends
and foes of Colonel Ed Butler, the boss
of ST.. Louis. on the streets OF the city
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-01

Art circles are much perturbed over
the prospective fate of the famous pic
ture by TintOretto representing The
Glory Of the Blessed In Paradise ~
which occupies the whole Of the east
wall of the hall of great council in the
palace of the doges. This enormous
painting, said to be the largest il the
world, extends over space of about
2,14O square feet and covers a fresco
painted by Guariento in 400. The
wall and Of course the fresco were
much damaged by the fire which broke
out in the palace in 1911. The defects
in the building, which have now been
discovered have aroused some fear
lest the wall covered by Tintoretto's
paradise" may be seriously cracked.
Orders were given for the picture to
be removed, and a committee of Vene-
tan artists began the difficult task.
They were, however, soon compelled
to desist and reported that owing to
the very bad condition Of the painting
its removal was almost impossible.
The choice is offered either of spelling
the picture in order to examine and re-
pair the wall or of sparing the Tinto-
retto and risking further danger to the
fabric of the palace of the doges.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-01
EEcon Worship Among Many Peo::fes
RESOURCES.

BEoon Worship Among Many Peo:f>a
Figures Of the moon as religious en-
blems can be traced to very high ~
tiquity. The ancient Egyptians EUt.
two moon gods-Khons or khonsu al
Tel or Thoth The latter wore the
moon on his head, either as full
moon or us a crescent. The divine
honors paid to the Cat on the banks of
the Nile were probably due to its sup
posed connection with the moon, as
shown by the cLangeable pupil of the
feline eyes. In Greece both Phnbus
and Phoebe were moon gods, and by
Isis the Greeks understood the same
planet. The Romans had many gods.
With them Luna was the moon, the
daughter of Hyperion and sister of the
sun. According to Livy, the temple Of
Luna stood on the Avertine.
The ancient GOths, Germans and
Firms were all moon worshipers, and
in ancient Britain the moon occupied
high position in the celestial hier-
archy of the Druids, who were always
represented as bearing crescents in
their hands. 1t is possible, too, that
Andraste, the goddess to whom Boadi-
cea appealed with outstretched hands,
was the moon.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-01

Poultney BigeloW attempted on one
occasion to interview Dom Paul Kruger
and met with about the same fate that
many interviewers have had with the
former president of the Beers.
He found the old man in very bad
humor and could get only monosylla-
bles in reply to his questions He en-
ployed every art of the interviewer,
but to no avail. Finally, despairing of
getting any informo ton of use to him
by straight questioning, he determined
to be diplomatic and approach Mr..
Kruger from his family side. So he
asked, very nonchalantly:
rs your wife entertaining this sea-
SOM"
Short and sharp came the gruff an
swer:
Not very"
And the interview closed there.