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Business Manager of The 3t Louis Republic being duly stvorn. says that the s.ctual numb-.r of full anil complete copies of the, daily and Sunday Republia printd during the month of July, 1905. all In regular editions, was as per schedule below: Dtte, Copies. 1 Scnday.. 85,660 2 112,240 8 97,670 4 89.630 6 88,330 6 89,800 1 90,125 Date, Conlet. 17 83,700 IS 83,890 19 83,410 20 84,300 21 87,520 22 Sunday.. 85,460 23 84,790 04 83,740 25 84,170 8 Sunday.. 85,940 9.... 10.... 11.... 12.... 13.... 14.... ....84,640 ...84,870 ...83,860 ...83,850 ...83,980 ...85,910 2G H4.UUU 27 84,480 23 86,910 29 Sunday.. 85,540 30 84,330 31 8.20 15 Sunday.. 84,760 16 85.050 Total for the month 2,687,555 tiesi all copies spoiled in print ing, left over or flled 43.4J5 Net number distributed.... 2,642,100 ATenige daily distribution 85,229 And said W. B. Carr further says that the number of copies returned or re ported unsold during the month of July was JUS per cent. CAR Sworn to and subscribed before ma this Ust Cay of July. 1503. J. F. FAR1SH, Notary Public City of St. Louis, Mo. My term expires April 26. 190L HEAVIEST PENALTY. In its hours of sharpest severity the criminal law of this free land is crowd ed with "ifs" and "huts." There is no danger of excessive punishment in cases where the offenders are public enemies. Let us have but one "if in the pro ceedings against the men captured yes terday under suspicion of having to do with dynamiting outrages. If conclu sive evidence points to their guilt they should be dealt with after a fashion whica will make the penalty memorable for fifty years. Dynamiting is worse than a plain, in dividual murder. In malevolent pur pose, each dynamite fiend is a concen tration of many murderers. It is for so ciety a misfortune that a convicted dynamitard cannot be hanged unless he has unquestionably caused the death of another person. Considering the danger to innocent people, the very attempt to blow up a street car or inhabited house should be a capital crime. Dismiss slobby sentimentality in the treatment of these men just captured. If there is no proof of guilt, grant their innocence and let them go. But if there is proof, search the law for the heaviest penalty that can be exacted. None of the felons named in the law is worse than the dynamiter. In a community of healthful sentiment he could find neither jnercy nor sympathy. HELP FOR MILITARISM. Congressman Rodenberg'a Macedonian cry ifor help to the Republican State Committee of Illinois received prompt response. Yet all the professional Ger man orators in the country and all the money in Mark Hanna's treasury will not save Mr. Rodenberg. The Germans of the Twenty-first Illinois District re sent the action of Rodenberg in ship ping Chicago politicians into the dis trict to teach them their duty as Ameri can citizens. Doctor Markbreiter, the Rodenberg agent from Chicago, is not to make speeches and openly work for the Chi cago man who pays his salary aud al lows a liberal expense account. His work, is to be of that quiet, effective character among the "leading Germans'' in each community, so highly indorsed and commended by Mark Hanna. The Chicago importation is prepared to an swer every argument that can be brought against his employer, and is a subtle, specious rcasoncr in fact, a pro fessional politician. This Chicago agent of McKinley and defender and apologizer for European monarchies in their colonization schemes aud imperialistic principles should receive a frigid reception fronl every true German-American whom lie approaches with, his new definition of the meaning of the Declaration of In dependence. ON THE WRONG SIDE. -Raymond Lalla. the Filipino educated at Oxford University, who offered his services to stump lor McKiuley. will fiud if he reads the platforms of the re spective parties that Bryan is the man he wants to stump for. "While I am in favor of giving my people independence ultimately," he is reported to have told Senator Hanna, "I favar this Government retaining the is lands until my people are instructed in the art of governing themselves." This is the Democratic 'policy with re gard to the Philippine Islands and it is most decidedly not the Republican pol icy. So far as Americans have been abkj to determine the Republican Phil ippine policy it contemplates the con quest ot the Philippines and their con version into colonies of the United States. If this were not the Republican policy that party would declare its pur pose to give the Filipinos independence, as by doing so the Philippine insurrec tion: could be ended without arms and loss: of life. . . T,bs- Democratic policy is' not ta pive the Filipinos independence at onec. The duty of the United States to foreign na tions having' interests in the Philippines demands that these interests be protect ed and this can only be done by a stable government. Admiral Dewey declared at one time that the Filipinos were much better qualified for self-government than the Cubans, and it is likely that no great time will elapse after the end of the insurrection before the Fili- 1 pinos are self-governing. They will be independent, to all intents and purposes. as soon as the American people phice Bryan in the White House. "APATHY" IS GOOD. Senator Hauna is not alone in his dis covery of the fact that a condition of apathy, as regards the popular response to the declaration of principles con tained in the Hepublican national plat form of 11100, prevails in the minds of the people of the West. Mr. Hauna is, however, probably unique in ascribing this apathy to He publican overconlitlonce. These persons of whom he speaks are at the present time, he says, "so tilled with confidence that they fail to enthuse." There is reason to suspect that, deep down in his heart. .Mr. Hanua is a bit distrustful of this sort of "confidence." It's so ilcin nibly like indifference, don't you know. Another fact, also, which the shrewd Hanna has in all likelihood seen as clearly as the next 111:111 is this: the apathy toward the Hepublican platform and candidates hits as an accompanying feature a marked drift away from the Hepublican party of elements which have heretofore been peculiarly faithful. In Xew England there is a notable pro portion tf voters of the old American stock who refuse to subscribe to the new IJepublicau doctrine of Empire which means the repudiation and final overthrow of the Republic. In the Mid dle West and Northwest the German Americans are equally opposed to the policy of imperialism and militarism. And among what the trust plutocrats call "the common people" there is a very sturdy and determined trend of senti ment against the party which stands for the trusts and which does their bidding at the people's expense. Chairman Hauna of the Republican National Committee should prepare for the shock of learning in November that the apathy which he already sees was not the apathy of Republican overcon fidence, but of popular dissent from the Jiew and uuamerican doctrines of Re publicanism. It is based on distrust and will speedily develop into open aud widespread defection. The promise now is that there will be no "general apathy" manifested on November (, but a tre mendous Democratic enthusiasm in stead, under which Mr. Hanna, his creature. McKiuley, and the imperial trusts will go down in defeat. CHINA'S POSITION. It would be well if the Chinese Im perial Government were made to under stand that the first step necessary to secure any moral countenance whatever from the United States Government Is a satisfactory guarantee of the safety of the foreign legations in Tekin aud their speedy surrender into the hands of the allied forces at the gates of that city. Until this shall be done there cannot safely be any negotiations with China on other points of the existing crisis. In fact, the American ultimatum is al ready demanding a reply from tho Chinese Government. The firing on the foreign legations must cease, this ulti matum declares. The foreign diplomatic representatives in Pekin must be pro tected. The alternative is war on China. Under existing circumstances, there fore, the Chinese request that this Gov ernment usq Us good offices with the Powers to stop the landing of British troops at Shanghai may not properly re ceive the atteution it would otherwise deserve. There is no manifestation of ill-will in this attitude toward China. There is but one issue now between her Government and the civilized world. Until the foreign legations in Pekin are saved from massacre and delivered into the good keeping of those of their own blood China is an outlaw nation. She must justify herself before the world If she now desires other treatment than that proper to outlaws. HEROISM AND ITS REWARD. Express Messenger Lane, found dead in his car when it was opened on ar rival at Columbus, O., with eight bullet wounds in his body and two cartridges missing from the cylinder of his own revolver, has evidently won his place among the heroes whose controlling principle is that of faithfulness to duty. Men of this type, who grapple with death in defense of the trust assumed by them in their daily vocations, are far braver than the soldier who risks life on the battlefield. The excitement of war does not exist to stimulate them to plucky deeds. The promise of glory is also missing. It is simply a fine loyalty of spirit, backed by pure grit, which auimatcs their bosoms. They have undertaken and promised the per formance of a certain duty. It is iu their fiber to do what they have under taken. There is always a temptation to be wail the fact that heroes of the class to which Express Messenger Lane plainly belongs fail of that reward of widespread and permanent honor to their names which they assuredly de serve. This, however, is a cheapening and degrading view. The reward for noble deeds comes to their doors in God's gift to them of the character which makes such deeds possible to them. Aud do not for a moment be lieve that this is a meager or paltry re ward. The man who knows himself to be brave, faithful and trustworthy to the final test of bravery, faith aud trustworthiness may well be content with his self-respect as his reward for whatever demands may be made upon those qualities aud by them met. PORTO RICO'S PLIGHT. There is an increasing pathos in the conditions under which the people of Torto Rico face the world which cannot fail to impress itself upon the minds of thoughtful Americans as rather an un happy illustration of the blessings of American control. The Attorney General of Illinois has just ruled, in the case of certain natives of Porto Rico residing in that State, that they are not entitled to vote as American citizens unless they shall have taken out naturalization papers, being, in the cya of the law," foreigners just as if they were still subjects of Spain. This, Attorney General Monroe holds, is because Congress has not as yet passed a law fixing the civil rights aud politi cal status- of Porto Ricans. Taken iu connection with the argu ments advanced to justify the passage of the iniquitous Porto Ricau tariff bill, this judicial classification of the Porto Ricans as foreigners makes them a peo ple without a :ig or country. We have annulled their Spanish connection and have not, it seems, admitted them to the rights of American citizenship. We have put an end to the advantageous trade conditions under which they dealt with Spain and have imposed a tax upon them for the privilege of dealing with the United States. Iu all essentials we have made them a subject and disfran chised people, under proconsul rule, robbed, rather than protected, by us, seeing in our Hag only a standard un der which they exist as aliens and help less victims of political and commercial greed. This is a shameful spectacle for an American to contemplate, but It is pre sented to our gaze iu the broad light of day. What are we going to do about Porto RicoV Our goctl name as a just and liberty-loving people is involved iu our answer to this question. So far we have sinned against these helpless folk with an ominous deadness of the nation al conscience. Of one tiling we may rest assured the sin must be either abjured and the wrong righted or a bitter atone ment will yet be demanded. The Chinese are boasting that they will recapture Tien-Tsln within two weeks. This boast will probably be as religiously fulfilled as was General Bul Ier's that he worn! eat his Christmas dinner in Pretoria. To judge from Roosevelt's campaign speeches up to the present it might be well for Hanna to bribe the physician whom Roosevelt is consulting for a sore throat to keep the throat so sore as to keep Roosevelt silent. Those persons who have seen peculiar applicability in the predominance of "Li" among Chinese names will be stumped to find the applicability in the similar predominance iu Chinese names of "Won." General Buller is out trying to catch Ooin Paul Kruger. If Buller's work is as efficient as it was off Ladysinith, he will catch Kruger so fast that Roberts will have to hasten up to looseu tho catch. Secretary of State Hay showed no hes itancy In pulling down the American llag that floated over the Porcupine dis trict in Alaska. But that was done for the profit of dear old England, dontcher kuow. President McKiuley paid $20,000,000 for 10,000,000 Filipinos. From a slave trader's-staudpoiut this would have been a profitable transaction had not the Fil ipinos refused to come into the pen. Whether or not Colonel Flory switched iu the place of a striking switchman during the railway strike of 18&5, as is charged, his friends certainly "switched" on the street car consolidation bill. Paying men salaries to work and with holding material with which they may work is a unique method of financiering for which the present city administra tion can claim undivided credit If such a Hlbernicism is permissible, the ringing Democratic speeches to be heard at the Sedalia rally will consti tute the haudwriting on the wall for Republican hopes iu Missouri. China must be made to understand that she can't work the old "Babes in the Wood" murder game on the foreign legations by sending them out from Pekin marked for slaughter. Our Government's hurried outlining of plans for naval warfare iu the event of a sudden clash with European Pow ers looks as if England were holding Mr. McKinley to his contract. Considering that the undoubted death of the German Minister in Pekin keeps the Kaiser from talking to Li Hung Chang, his loquacity to his subjects seems not unreasonable. "When Mlssouriaus contemplate the Ziegenhein gang in St. Louis they do not feel willing to elect others of "that same line breed" to the control of State affairs iu Jefferson City. What with the letter of withdrawal of Towne and the speech of acceptance of Bryan the people of the United States have got lots of good American reading within a week. It's the 200 trust magnates of this country who will profit by imperialism. The something over 70,000,000 American people will pay the cost in blood aud war taxes. It seems to be the opinion in this State that ability to ride a railroad quudri cycle a few blocks is uot a satisfactory test of fitness for public office. For the remarkable equanimity with which Spain can regard the proceedings of the Powers in China she is entirely iudebted to the United States. If you want to make a Republican mad these days just say a good word or two for the Declaration of Independ ence or the old Republic. Missouri's business men are support ing Dockcry for Governor because they know he will adminster Missouri af fairs on a business basis. Trustism and its salaried servitude do not appeal strongly to the young men of a nation whose passion for independ ence is proverbial. Presently the shirt-waist man will take to lace yokes aud then those who pleadeu for him will wish they hadn't. Old MlHHouri. Ilupiiy Land! Old Missouri's at her best Happy land! Happy land! Politics till she can't rest Fun to beat the band! Hear the trumpet and the drum? Early, but they're flshtlnc some. With the blc fight still to comer Happy, happy land! Old Missouri's in her pride Happy land! Happy land! Campaign talk on every side Ain't the outlook Brand? Blamedcet State ot all tho lot, Watita her politics rcdhot Hear that boillnir in tho pot? Happy, happy land! RIPLEY D. SAUNDERS. MERCENARY AND UNPATRIOTIC INFLUENCES. To the Editor of The Republic St. Louis, Aug. 11. Your editorial in to day's issue, "No Tory Tactics," sounds a note of warning that should ho heeded by our people, nnd by newspapers Inclined to unhesitatingly support the attitude of tho administration touching supposed complica tions in China. There have been dispatches for weeks past, coming chiefly through tho L,ondon news agencies, well calculated to arouse public Indignation, and to seemingly justify a demand for vengeance against the Chi nese Government. Stories of horrible atro cities, committed upon the Ministers of for eign Governments, including our own; tales ot the barbarities of the Boxers and of tho treachery of the Government at Pekin. We now ilnd Secretary Koot intimating that there may he serious nnd prolonged trouble looked for. and the Washington dis patches of the 10th signlilcantly add that there is a "belief that the United States, Great Britain and Japan have a common purpose in China." You have well said that our people aro hostile to "a war undertaken largely through the exercise of the British Influ ence, which seems so strongly potent over the minds or President McKinley and Sec retary of State Hay," and, further, that our "people arc not willing to sacrifice Ameri can blood and treasure to pull England's chestnuts out of the lire," and you have pointed out. in a few vigorous sentences. In disputable facts showing the distinctly pro British tendency of the McKinley adminis tration a tendency that has not only shamed our nation by humiliating conces sions, upon tho arbitrary demand of the British Government, but has led to a prac tical abandonment and violation of prin ciples and traditions that have heretofore! preserved our institutions and made our country to stand "a monument to oppres sors nnd example to the oppressed." "Why has there been this change? What malign Influence is at work that, inside of two years, we find all our foreign policies reversed, and tind an administration "wil ling to sacrifice American blood and treas ure to pull English chestnuts out ot tho lire?" Wo know, and the McKinley administra tion stands condemned for. tho iniluences that led to the betrayal of Torto Itieo, the plunder of Cuba, the slaughter of the Fili pinos, tho scandalous conduct of tho Secre tary of the Treasury In ills dealings with a Xew York bank influences that showed this administration to be absolutely domi nated by the EaHtcrn syndicates, by the men who regard our flag as a. "great com mercial asset." Let us see if similar Influences aro at work now. guiding the administration in the Chinese crisis. The New York Herald cannot be accused of Being unfriendly either to the McKinlcy adminlstration or to the great linanjial combinations in the East. Nolo what it said editorially In its issuo of July 10 last. After quoting from the United States In vestor to tho effect that we should co operate with other Powers In China because the destiny of the Republic is involved, tho editorial went on: "The clipping from tho Investor reflects a propaganda carried on for nearly two years past, and suggests the pressure which during that time has been steadily exerted upon Mr. McKinley to induce him to uso his unprecedented imperialistic power by assuming an aggressive position in the Chinese Empire. "Nearly two years ago a syndicate o American linanciers and politicians, or ganized largely through the efforts of the lute Senator Calvin S. Brice to obtain con cessions from the Chinese Government, felt that it could operate more effectively if it had the immediate and forcible backing ot tne Washington administration. This syn dicate, which included tho Standard Oil magnates, J. P. Morgan and a score of Wall street millionaires and corporations, entered into a compact with a British syndicate similarly organized 'to obtain contracts, de crees and concessions' and to exploit rail way and other public works in Cnlna, and ot which Lord Rothschild and the Lord Mayor of London and a scoro of Lombard street bankers and promoters were mem bers. "By tho terms of the contract made be tween these two syndicates each agreed to offer the other a participation ot one-naif of its own interest in any business hereafter obtained by it In the Empire of China.' "Tho motive of the parties to tho contract, as set forth in tho 'whereases,' was to se curo 'the united action of their respective Governments,' nnd each side pledged Itself to 'use their best endeavors to obtain the support of the Government of the'r tetpect lvo countries to tho common undertaking.' It was further set forth that it was the in tention of tha contract that 'the parties shall act In allianco and together in all under takings obtained or prosecuted by cither or both in the Empiro of China, whether both parties shall participate in tho business or act In alliance and together in all tinder tangible form tho Anglo-American alliance has yet assumed. "That American citizens should look to their Government for protection of their rights in tho prosecution of legitimate en terprises In, a foreign land is perfectly proper; but hero tho most powerful com bination of corporations and millionaires in the country, pledged to obtain the united action of tho Washington Government with that of another country to enforce 'con tracts, decrees and concessions' in distant China, obtained possibly through unscrupu lous officials contracts in which nwitlier tho members of tho syndicate nor any ether American citizen might have ono penny's interest. In oUier words, if occasion arises they are to induce the Unitsd States Gov ernment to help pull chestnuts out of the Chinese firo for the British syndicate. "Tho notlDn so sedulously propagated that our trade was suffering because tho United States was not meddling In tho in ternal affairs of China is made ridiculous by the increase of our commerce with tho Empire an Increase exceeding that of coun tries that have obtained footholds upon Chjnese soil. Dire things were predicted as tho result of Russia getting-tho ice-free ports needed as Pacific termini for her transcontinental railways, but the open ing up tho territory adjacent to Port Ar thur has given a tremendous stimulus to trade in all that part ot tho country, and American rails and locomotives nnd elec trical appliances and machinery and cotton goods are now going there, whero formerly wo sold nothing." This article shows there is, in effect, a partnership between British and American syndicates to exploit China and to compel tho Salisbury and McKinley administrations to unite their forces to enforce contracts and concessions that these international brigands wring from the unhappy Chinese. These patriotic Americans would plunder our treasury and sacrillco the lives of our gallant young men, and impose on our people tho awful burdens of war, to do what? To sustain the Integrity of our flag? To protect the lives of our Ministers? To shield the missionaries? No! To rob a peo ple, that they may enrich themselves and their British colleagues in infamy. With the British end of this combination of "Blifll and Black George" in charge of tho London news agencies, and purposely endeavoring to inflame public indignation, what credit can we give to tho dispatches that we may well believe are contrived to deceive in order that the plans of theso conspirators may succeed. Wo learn to-day that the English have practically taken possession of Shanghai, as the Rothschilds probably regard the rich valley of Yang-tse as specially good rack ing, which will be divided with the Mor gans. The United States will further and guard England's interests while she Is still handi capped by her attempt to rob and destroy the Dutch Republics, and when. If ever, sno Is quite free to prosecute her new cam paign of civilizing China, we may expect to see the full fruition of tho hopes and plans of the Morgan-Rothschild alliance. Tho danger is clear; the cause apparent. Will the American people permit to re main In power an administration so hostile to real Americanism, so subject to influ ences at once mercenary and unpatriotic? Let their wisdom and justice answer In November. O'NEILL RYAN. Fire at Ilolbrook College. Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 12. Tho main building of Holbrook College at Fountain City, a suburb of Knoxville, burned to-day, tho loss being $45,000. There was $13,100 In surance. The building will be reconstructed at once. Ho'.brook College recently p-iaae'i from the Foutaln City 3and Company to the Baptists of this asctlon, won will open It this fall, despite the flre. HERE AREOME OF "Pop." said the artist's little hoy, "what's all them fellers iloin' in their shirt sleeves? Is them the fellers that's startln' in to take their coats off an' work for Mark Hanna?" "No. my son," said the artist, benignly, "them ain't the workln' Republicans ymi hear me talkin' about every once in awhile. Them is just a few sketches I made about this here shirt waist fad what you've read NEW YORK RESTAURANTS GAVE SKIRT-WAIST MAW ICY WELCOME. Waldorf-Astoria mi Delmonfco's Refused to- Serve Han Without a Coat. RETOBUC SPKCIAL. New York, Aug. 11 The following is a record ot the experiences of Walter Ware, an actor of the Herald Square Theater, who believes in the shirt waist for men. and was determined to give it a complete trial in the glare of publicity. "I eouiess." he tays, "that I felt a bit nervous when I started out to test first, the utility of tho shirt waist, and, secondly, its status in society. I confess to a feeling of stage fright when I reached the street. "The physical comfort quickly drove away the r.tage fright, and as I turned Into bril liantly lighted Broadway I was content with my attire and the contrast of my condition and that of the hundreds and thousands of over-clothed, but not better dressed, men who passed me panting and gasping. "I found, loo, to my very great satisfac tion that my appearance caused no great sensation. No horses ran away at my ap proach, the cable cars ran along smoothly, the electric lights did not fade out to hide my uncoated form from over-modest view, women did not blush or shriek.though many of them and their escorts looked at me with Interest and frequently I heard the re mark, "There is a shirt-waist man," and several times they added, 'how cool he looks.' "I was happy. I had demonstrated to my great satisfaction that the shirt waist was a good thing, but how would the fashion able world look at it? Would I be permitted to dine in public places? I decided to put the matter to the test. .o Good nt Hotel Savoy. "With a companion, I took a cab to tho Hotel Savoy. There were a number of men und a few women sitting on the palm gar den veranda of the Savoy and, as we passed them, I saw they regarded us with interest, but they showed no indication of surprise or shock. "We went at once to the main dining room and seated ourselves at a table. There were but a few diners, but they acted exactly like the occupants of the veranda. The waiter took our order for a modest supper, apparently seeing nothing out of the way In our appearance. "We were congratulating ourselves upon the success of our experiment. 'Wait till your supper Is served," suggested my com panion and we waited. "After about ten minutes' absence the waiter returned. His face was drawn in deepest, most respectful sorrow. " 'I am very sorry, indeed,' ho explained, 'but I cannot possibly serve you unless you put on your coat.' "But I left my coat In my room,' I said. In much amazement. 'What shall I do?" I continued. 'I am hungry and must eat." AN OPERATIC SURPRISE AT UHRIG'S CAYE. Three or four persons are entitled to real praise for the production of "Faust" at XJhrig's Cave this week. Somehow there Is little sympathy between the "Faust" Idea and summer evening entertainment, which makes the present success e-en a little worthier than if it came to us In mid winter. The audience that sat under the trees and In the pavilion last night found Itself applauding tho rare old numbers with much of the same enthusiasm that It found at Music Hall last season and other seas ons. Mr. Alexander Spencer, who is ever blithesome, even when he Is angry, got a wonderful lot of product from his little orchestra and his small company. Mrs. Van Studdlford made her first appearanco as Marguerite. The yellow wig nnd tho blue and white costume became her some what and In the music she found fewer difficulties than one might have suspected. Her jewel song was so good that It Is worth being called good. Mr. Pachc. whose pleas ant persistence Is most commendable, sur prised the assembled company by a careful, Intelligent rendering of the Salve DImora. He was not simply brilliant in tho high spots indeed, he was not there at all but he sang tho music throughout with appreci ation and feeling. Mr. Hinshaw, who can not and never will look like the devil, sang Mephisto with that wonderful, skilfully managed voice of his quite as acceptably as I have heard it in a $3.30 seat at Music Hall. Another surprising delight was the Siebel of Miss Emily Gardner, who looked liko a Dresden china boy. She got two recalls and a bunch of posies for her flower song. Mrs. McNeary (Gertrude Lodge), who is always, in some way, better than tho average, wad a most amusine and un conventional Martha. So if you want to hear the ever-growing "Faust" music under summer circumstances cleanly and well sung hie you away to Uhrig's Cave this week. It is well worth noting that Treas urer Ahrens takes a benefit this evening. Other Enturtiiinmciit. "Excelsior, Jr.," this week's offering at Del mar (Janlcn, if not tho best thing the company has done, comes very near bclns tho best. Tha sc-enle artiat, the cotsumtr and thu stage man agement havo combined to present two of tho prettiest stago pictures eer shown at the Del mar. Amons those who illtl notable work in the production were llr. Alexander Clark, hos.e Courier Gj-do was one of his best charactcr ters; Mr. Will H. Sloan. In another German comedy part, such as ho plays bt. that of Wiliam Tell; Sherman Wade, Will Browning. Kd Uegley and Ed Chapman. Miss Ethel Jack son as Mary Lamb, Miss Iluth White, as Ex celsior, Mif.i Lfla Blow, as the Widow Ursula, thared in the appreciation. Captain I. M. Kum rcy, Jr.'s, First Missouri Company gives a drill on the Mage: Little Angellne Danle has a toe dance that won her several recalls, and Mr. Sloan's Hebrew cake walk and O'HoIllhan song, in both ot which he was assisted by pretty girls, are really attractive specialties. Mr. Henry E. Dlxey arrives in this city to-dar, and will begin rehearsals for next week's revival of "Adonif," in which ho plays his old part. "Miss Murphy" had a turn at lto herself In tho open at Forest Part Highlands yesterday after noon and evening. A .balloon big enough to carry a man was Inflated and ascended amid tho trees with a tiny monkey in tow, which after wards camo down on a parachute. Miss Murphy Is -ery eager to 'make the ascent, and Just as eager to come down again.- In the pavilion Ra plnta leads the feature show, which Includes a most amusing' comedy sketch by Sam, Kittle and Clara Morton, a trio of delightful lunmak- THE SHIRT WAIST MUCH ABOUT. about in the payers." "This here shirt waist fad is .1 funny thing anyhow. A feller won't be recognized if he wears galluses or suspenders to kc p his pants up. What's going to keep your pants up? What's goin' to become nf the ft-llcr that's built like a cicarette. like that second feller there- in the picture? Is a dog collar around his waist goin' to do any- 1 " 'Bettor go back for your coat.' tho waiter suggested, respectfully. 'You see, ho explained. 'I'd be very glad to serve you. hut, confidentially, there's been so much talk about these shirt waists that I can't do it. I am very, very sorry.' O.HtriiriMcfl nt I)lmonic('.s. "We left the dinhig-ronin and went into the Hotel Netherland. just across tho street. Tho waiter came to us in great dis tress. 'Impossible, gentlemen," he said. 'I cannot serve you in the presence of ladles unless you wear a coat." "The ladies in the dining-room did, in deed, seem somewhat perturbed. " 'If you insist on eating in the hotel.' the waiter continued. 'I will serve you in a little room on the other side of the house." We did not insist and drove, iustead to Dei monico'e. Napkins und glasses were laid before us. but beforu we could order the waiter returned, and, with a sad shake of the head, said: 'I cannot serve any gentle man unless he wears a coat." "We went to the office and protested, but the cashier looked worried. 'I'm sorry, gentlemen," he said "but Mr. Delmonlco is out of town and I dare not make any rul ing. I'll give you tho best private dining room in the house and won't charge you a cent extra." iKUorert at the Waldorf-Astoria. "We thanked him, declined and departed for the Waldorf-Astoria. At this hostelry the attendants eyed our coatless forms sus piciously. But we reached the roof garden and there seemed to make the onlf real sensation of the night. We sat at a little table and gave an order. It was then just 11:35. The waiter took the order politely enough and went away. I never saw him again. The waiters were serving all but us. Twice we asked another waiter why we had not been served. The only answer was, 'Your waiter will serve you.' "Twenty-live minutes passed. It wa3 mid night. The lights were lowered. I com plained to the head waiter of the delay. Ho answered coldly: "We serve nothing after midnight. The roof garden Is closed now.' Served at Train fir's lies tn.u rant. "Really hungry now, wo went to Traln or's Restaurant and ordered supper. The well-dressed men and women gazed at us with tho same well-bred interest that we had met with at tho Savoy. The waiter consulted with tho cashier, who looked around at the women as though for advice. He evidently read In their faces approval, for, to our great pleasure, a cozy supper was soon before us. "And then, fitting finale to this one-night drama, two other men who had hidden their shirt waists under coats, rose and re moved their coats, and the shirt waist man had won a great victory. I'm a shirt waist man for good now even it I cannot for the present tako my meals at Del's or the Waldorf." ers. who are usually seen only during tha win ter season in the regular houses. The- Chicago Ladles' Quartet is composed of young women who not only know how to sing, but want to sing. Tho Van Aufccn3. horizontal bar experts; the Wilson family. In comic antics, and Stanley and Wilson, in a ludicrous sketch, roako up a very pleasing programme. Mr. Maurice Freeman Is playing a new com edy. "A IJusIness Transaction." by Charles K. I lager, at Koerner's Garden, this -week. Mr. Freeman is capitally assisted, by Miss Xadlno Winston and the Imperial stock company. Tho Suburban Garden returned to vaudeville yesterday, the minstrel llrst part that has been a feature of the show for so many weeks being omitted. Tho change is a welcome one. "To lioston on Business" is tho name of a sketch written by George II. Cohan and presented by Charles Wayne and Anna Caldwell. The lines are bright nnd tho situations, cfeverly arranged, Wayne has a chance to do his eccentric dance and Mf: Caldwell shows that she Is a capable comedienne. Roth were heartily received. Car roll Johnson's familiar songs and soft-shoe dances elicited the customary applause. This Is the popular minstrel's last week. George Wilson appears a little further down oa the hill, and gets many a wetl-dcs-crved laugh with Jokes nnd stories that arc new to St. Louis. Tom Erownc. the whistler, made hU reappearance after an absence ot several years. His ability to amuse has not left him. Kelly and Violette pleased with songs and poses. The Iatter"s dresses are a strong feature ot the act. At. TJlanchard and Fred Warren, In a sketch, and the Suburban Quartet are also on tho pro gramme. At Mannlon's yesterday James and Fannie Don ovan headed the bill with a very pleasing new farce. Oukara. the "Jap." was highly entertain ing. Hayward and Hayward. with a budget of new songs, and Jokes, shared liberally In the applause. Gems and Grayson, eccentric musi cians: John Mack's monologues. Jessie Leonard, songs anu dances: Bench and Roberts, the Vitagraph and a farce comedy In one act. en titled "Tho Wild West." were other features. GRAVES DESECRATED. Tombstones in San Antonio Ceme teries Torn Down. REPUBLIC SPECIAL San Antonio, Tex., Aug. li For the sec ond time within a year vandals have dese crated the graves "of the dead In this city. The acts we?e committed some time on Saturday night. Tombstones were over turned and scattered about in several ceme teries. A number of costly granite and marble monuments were broken In half. In the Confederate Cemetery tho greatest dam age was wrought. Twenty shafts wre thrown over or demolished In such a man ner that they cannot be repaired. In one of the adjoining burial grouncs seven beautiful shafts were torn to earth or else muti lated by sledge-hammers. Many headstones were torn off graves. Five negroes are sus pected of the iltnl. Feeling is very hih and violence is feared. ON BROTHERLY LOVE PLAN. That Is How Salvation Army Man Will Run for State Senator. REPUBLIC SPECIAL Wichita, Kas., Aug. 12. James W.-Tapp, who was the Salvation Army candidate for Mayor of Wichita, was nominatetd last night for Stato Senator by Fuslonlsti To-day he announced that his campaign will not be conducted as Salvationist, but on the brotherly love plan. He made ' a world wide reputation in his race for Mayor, his promises of good government being somewhat unique. MEN WE HEAR SO iAt it n'rooj thing -more than keep him from digesting his food proper? 'Sposen a feller's built like a barrel in the middle, like that next feller is, how're you goin' to keep his pants close to the equator like they ought?" ".My son. did you ever see them feller.-? that work at changing the street car tracks on a hot day? Them's the original shirt waist men." MYSTERIOUS MAN IN SHIRT WAIST, Stranger in fJorpeons Hue Invades .West End and Successfully Evades Identification. WOMEN FOLKS ARE GUESSING. Parties Promenade tlie Streets Ex pecting Momentarily to Meet the Intrepid Advocate of Latest Fashion. The elite West End. or at least that por tion of the West Knd adjacent to Vandc venter avenue, between Page avenue and Lindeil boulevard, is in a turmoil and flut ter to discover the identity of a model shirt waist man. whose courageous adoption ot the latest summer fad has made him. a con spicuous personage for the last five even ings. Fashionable ladies, hearing the constantly increasing gossip of tho unknown arbiter of male attire, spend long hours of watchful ness in tho early evening, their eyes riveted on tho bright space whero the gleaming electric Ilsht turns night Into day. hoping and yearning for a glimpse of the newest hero of the West End. Last Wednesday evening a young lady dashed west along Delmar boulevard, from Vandeventer avenue, to a group of friends hidden la the shadows of the trees. "Come back, girls," she exclaimed, "and see the shirt-waist man! He just went over Vandeventer avenue In a buggy. You ought to see him! He has on a red waist, the brightest red you ever saw. and every body's staring at him." A babel of "Ohs," emphasized by the pat ter of hurrying feet, resounded along Van deventer avenuo in the direction of Wash ington boulevard, but the horse moved moro hastily than tho pursuers), and the shirt waist man was lost to view somewhere about Olive street. The ladies returned homeward to relate the Incident to other chums and relax the Intensity which their curiosity excited. The custo'mary atmosphere prevailed un til Friday evening, when the shirt-waist man was seen again, this time in front of a drug store at Vandeventer avenue and Olive street, wearing a blue silk blouao shirt, with white cuffs. He was talking to s. friend and evidently was waiting for a car to go to town. A young man who wa3 wheeling a baby huggy tried to learn the shirt-waist man's name. The clerk said ho had not seen the new man. They looked in front and sure enough ho had gone. Saturday evening ho reappeared in the same neighborhood resplendent In the same blue shirt waist, duck trousers and straw hat. Xow he Is the subject of wonder and jocose remarks, and parties of ladles prom enade along Vandeventer avenue, all ex pectancy. In the evening, scouting for the shirt-waist man, and resolved to ascertain his name. Such a hero will not lord the est End Incognito very long, when so many eyes are peering earnestly for a glance at him and his shirt waist. NEWPORT IS NO BETTER. Dr. Braddin Hamilton's Sermon Against Sunday Golf and Whist. r.in'UBLic srEciAL. Newport, K. I., Aug. 12. It is a week to day sinco tho Reverend Doctor Braddin Hamilton preached to society here, and as serted that Newport, with its Sunday goir. Its bridge whist and Its lavish dinners In public places, is not an example which would tend to improve tho world at large. AVhether his words have had effect is a mattor of dispute. Some insist that a chango has followed, but only in one instance doea this contention seem to have foundation. There was less Sunday golf to-day than has been the custom, and thosa who main tain that Doctor Hamilton's words havu had effect point to this. Others declare that the excessive heat of tho last few days made It a matter of prudence to rest ! to-day, while 'still others assert that thiA presence- of tho yachtsmen caused tho change. In regard to bridge whist and tho other customs criticised, apparently no chango has resulted. The fact is tluit social lead ers do not ngree that bridge whist In gambling, for the stakes are not large enough to bring Into the game the deslro for gain. Many parties have been arranged for the next two weeks. Meanwhile Doctor Hamilton Is receiving from all parts of the country letters com plimenting liim upon the .rmon. Doctor Hamilton read with intense inter est a communication signed "Business Man. in which the writer discusses Doc tor Hamilton's sermon as It refers to Sun day goir. saying: "There aro thousands of toilers whoe only freedom from grind, vcek in and week out, year In and year out. Is Saturday afternoons and Sundays." "He could not havo read nil my sermon." said Doctor Hamilton. "I distinctly said that he who labored for six days might be excused for taking exercise In the open air on the seventh. Or. to bo more explicit, I complained only of tho man who played golf six .clays and could not rest from it on Sunday." INCREASED DEATH RATE. Hawaiian ITealtU Reports Courts Established. Honolulu, Auy. 12,-Thc health reports for tho months ot June and July chow an alarming Increase in tho death rate, espcel- ' ally among native Hawaiians and Japanea nf the island of Qahu, which has the onlv complete records. In June the number o"f deaths per 1.000 was 43. in July 49.SS. The increase lnr the past few years, as shown by tables just compiled, has aroused a good deal of discussinn. In t&DG the July deaths numbered 4?. Since then the figures havo jumped to 0, u, S3 and this year 111. Con sumption heads the list of diseases, causing deaths In almost every month, and there la agitation for ptrict measures to quaran tine patients. The Board ot Health i3 dis cussing a quarantine against consumption, as many people come here from other places to enjoy tho mild climate, and It Is believed they are a source of danger to tho population. Typhoid fever has also claimed a good many victims lately, a slight epidemics having developed In ono district ot Hono lulu. The United States Courts1 In Hawaii were formally inaugurated to-day by Judge N. &I Estee. V 3 )- A Y, s rt'Sj i'S;S "3&aLKV-f yf M fcrtTx-4r