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THE PALLADIUM. Vol. XIX No. 6 G. K. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The Southeastern Passenger Association, comprising all the railway lines south of the Ohio and Potomac and east of the Mississippi rivers, has granted a rate of one and one-third fare for the Tuskegee Negro Conference to be held at Tuskegee, Ala., February 18-19. These Tuskegee Negro Conferences have grown year by year increasingly in interest and influence. Those who would study the problem of the crop lien system and the conditions under which most of the Negro farmers of the South live, can find a valuable opportunity for such study at Tuskegee. A cordial invitation is extended to the general public to attend the Conference session next month. Persons desiring farther information can address Principal Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. Tuskegee, Ala. My Dear Sir:— The Twelfth Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference will convene at Tuskegee, Ala., Wednesday and Thursday, February 18 and 19, 1903. You are doubtless aware of the object of these conferences, i. e., the discussion of best ways and means for the betterment of the condition of the Negro of the South. More and more the moral, intellectual and industrial condition of the race will engage the thoughtful attention of those who come to Tuskegee from all parts of the FELA & COMPLEXION Howard University, Washington, D. C. Howard University, Washington, D. C. INDIAN GIRL'S BODY TO REST IN A DAKOTA RESERVATION. Laura Berzey Will Be Sent To-Day to Yankton Where Her Mother's Sioux Relatives Are Buried. The body of Laura Williene Berzey, the girl of Indian extraction, who died Tuesday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Berzey, No. 1541 South Second street, will be shipped to South Dakota to-day for interment in the Sioux Indian cemetery at the Yankton Reservation. The funeral was conducted by Father Downing of St. Vincent Church this Thursday afternoon. Laura Williene Bersey was the grand-daughter of David E. Dezera, whose father was a native of San Domingo, and whose mother was a Sioux squaw. Dezera was educated, and his command of the Sioux tongue, as well as the English language, secured for him the position of official interpreter under General J. S. Harney, at Fort Bandall, S. D. Dezera married a Sioux woman, and his daughter, Louise, who came to St. Louis to live in 1859, and married My Dear Sir:— country to study these questions at first hand. The reports from different parts of the South, particularly from the state of Alabama, touching the needs and progress of the race, are always helpful and suggestive features of Tuskegee Negro Conferences. It for no other purpose than that of listening to the reports and to the valuable suggestions made, you and your friends—in short, every Negro—ought to try to be present at these meetings. Bring your family. The school will see that you are entertained without cost to yourself. Will you not help us extend the invitation all over the South? You can easily do so if you will tell all of your friends of the approaching conference. I am sending you two other letters like this one. Will you not, in the interest of the race, have your letter read in the next church meeting, or before any large body which meets near you? The other two letters might be addressed, by you, to persons in other communities; and thus the news will be carried everywhere. Kindly let me hear from you at once. Further information may be secure by addressing Mr. W. J. H. Boher, our Negro Conference Agent, or by writing me. Yours very truly, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Principal. William Berzey, a creole, is the mother of the little girl who died Sunday, Jan. 9th. Laura Williene Berzey was born in St. Louis, and spent most of her life here. With her mother, the girl, when quite young, went to the Yankton Reservation, where she received her allotment of 120 acres of land, which fell to her under the Federal laws. Mrs. Berzey remained at the reservation several years, and the child attended an Indian school there. She was subsequently sent to the Indian Industrial School at Genoa, Neb., and it was while she was a pupil there last April that she contracted pleurisy. The girl was brought home last April but never recovered her health. It was her desire to be buried on the Yankton Reservation, which is the home of her mother's relatives. Three of Laura Berzey's maternal great-uncles of pure Sioux blood—Long Nose, Left Hand and Brave Face—were scouts under General Harney, and are said to have done good service. Four sisters of the girl—Madeline, Celeste, Virginia and Katherine are now pupils of the Indian Industrial School at Genoa, Neb. Phebe, the at home.—Republic. Principal A CRREFULLY MANAGED BUSINESS. St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 31, 1902. 2218-20 Morgan street. The following is a statement of the amount of business actually transacted by W. C. Gordon, undertaker and embalmer during the period of eight months, beginning May 1, 1902, and ending Dec. 31, 1902. Mr. W. C. Gordon began business at his present location on the 1st of May as afore mentioned, and the office has handled during the eight months of the business upwards of $40,000 and over 25 per cent of the 1,000 colored funerals in the city during 1902, which is a remarkable and healthy state of business. The facts herein given proves the worth and value of a business carefully managed and establishes this business as one of the first of the city in quality and standing, if not more. It will be also noticed that Mr. Gordon contributed largely to charity and patroniles nearly all the leading papers in the city and some few outside thus helping other business to exist and showing the sympathetic trend that enables one business to aid another. Mr. Gordon employs much help about his business and his employees are treated kindly by him and think very highly of him. During the holidays they presented him with a handsome cuckoo clock which adorns the walls, a memento of their feelings towards him. The office opens year, 1903 in a prosperous condition and bids fair to rival the numerous similar establishments in the city, because Mr. Gordon's method of conducting his business is such as to win and retain to himself a large amount of the funeral business of the city. The clerks, manager and other employees about the premises are all polite and accommodating and nothing is left undone which would apply to the satisfaction and wishes of patrons and visitors. PROGRESSIVE WHIST. The residence of Mr and Mrs. Wilson of 2632 Lucas Avenue was the scene of much merriment last Thursday evening January 8. The numerous guests spent the evening in playing whist. From the easy manner in which Mrs Wilson entertained her guests, it is quite evident that she is an ideal hostess. Among those present were Dr and Mrs. Craddock, Mr and Mrs. Theo Williams, Ms and Mrs Howell, Mrs. C. G. Garret, Misses E. Smith, Piersons, and Jackson. Dr O. T. Fields, won the gentleman's prize, Mrs. Craddock, the ladies prize. A real old - fashioned Dutch supper was serv'd. Mrs. Wilson was assisted by Mrs. Ruth Davis. We are indebted to Miss May Clematis of the Washington Bee for the following excellent points: A letter should be written so that a third party can read it. Don't imagine you are admired because you are told so. Deception is often the underlying principle with some people. It is your dress that men often admire, and not yourself. Put the same face in tattered gowns and see how much you are appreciated. You can win more by coaxing than you can by threats. Kind words sooth the most stubbor heart. Girls are not at all careful of their association now. Some girls like others because they dress well. Don't forget that character is necessary all the time. Flashy dressing will suit the girl who has no taste, but not a lady of refinement. $500.00 Concert and Passion Play combed. The Devil's Cook Kitchen. The Devil's Wife, and How She Keeps House. Ad. 10. Prof. G. W. Craft, 2817 Manchester avenue. At the True Reform Hall to-night Mayor Wells will address the Self-Improvement Federation. Let every lady come out. A new restaurant at the True Reformer's hall. To-night after the address of Hon. Mayor Wells go in the restaurant. Miss Vere Henderson of 2605 Leffling-well avenue is quite sick at this waiting. Hon. Rolla Wells will speak at the True Reformer Hall to-night. Last week the printers' devil was on a christmas jag and, in making up the Palladium, failed to get many of advertisements places. However, as we were kind to many of our advertisers in our New Year's issue, we know they will not hold us responsible for the printers' devil's mistakes. SELF-IMPROVEMENT FEDERATION. This federation will open its third series of lectures Saturday evening, Jan. 17th. Hon. Rolla Wells, mayor of St. Louis, will talk on self-improvement, and |Dr. Runge, an eminent physician, will give an illustrated lecture on old and New Russia. January 24 Judge Franklin Ferris will talk on "Why I Love My Country," followed by "Pictures and Stories of the Castles on the Rhine." January 31 Mr. Isaac Morton will speak on "The True Way to Work," and Prof. Greeley of Washington University will illustrate "Some Interesting Facts About Wild Animals." February 7 Mr. Jas. L. Blair will give a talk on "How to Make One's Self," and Prof. W. L. Sheldon will illustrate "The Story of the Battle of Gettysburg." February 14 Supt. F. Louis Soldan will speak on "Our Boys," and Prof. Herman von Schrenk of Washington University will illustrate "The Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees of California." February 21 Mr. Charles Nagel will tell "Why I Honor George Washington," and Prof. E. H. Wuerpel of the museum of fine arts will illustrate "The Great Buildings of Modern Times." Tickets can be secured from the following committee: P. H Clark, P. H. Murray, C. H. Brown, E. C. Campbell, B. J. Carruthers, T. A. Curtis, J. A Freeman, J. A. Agee, W. M. Farmer, D E. Gordon, Wm. Hartgraves, Hutchins Inge, A. W. Lloyd, C. E. Guentin, A. W. Scott, Geo. Simms, Chas. Turner, J. B. Vashon, J. W. Wheeler, Frank Robinson, H. C. Madison, J. D. Miller, M. T. Bailey, J. McWorter, Capt. W. H Butler, Mrs. E. M Armstrong, Mrs. Christine Blair, Mrs. J. A. Hamlin, Mrs. Elmira Napier, Mrs. Jos Saunders, Mrs R. B. Stovars, Mrs. Nellie Gibson, Mrs. C. E. Sile, Miss Helen Burrell, Mr. Edw. Williams, Mr Thos. Marshall, Mr. Albert Burgess, Mrs Mintie Wright, Miss H. Georgiana White, Miss Mabel Wheeler. ADVANCEMENT OF THE PALLA DIUM. The progress of the Palladium as a weekly paper has been beyond our expectations, although the financial success has not quite reached the mark. Our fearless, courageous and impartial account of all matter has gained for us the reputation of being foremost among weekly papers. Our aim has been to edit the Palladium as a daily paper during the year 1904. So far things have a bright aspect for that end, and we shall endeavor by constant hard work, to inform the public of the daily occurrences among our race. Rev. U. A. Credit of Philadelphia, will preach at Central Baptist Church to-morrow, Sunday, Jan. 18. Miss Leona Palmer of 4020 Finney Avenue has just returned from an extensive tour through the east- Her many friends are pleased to hear of her return. Mrs. Jennie Harris of 3930 Fairfax Ave, again consigned to her bed. She is now under the care of her sister Mrs. Luella Davies of Montgomery. who came to St. Louis to care for her. We trust Mrs. Harris will soon be up again. A certain young lady in the 4200 Block on St. Ferdinand Ave is greatly affected by the Banquet. Mr P. H. Harris of 5719 Prescott has been quite ill for the past ten weeks but is much improved at present. Mr and Mrs. Harris have two lovely girls and they seem to be very intelligent. They took part in a concert some years ago and impressed those who heard them with the fact that they were above the average children of these age in intellect Dont miss the opening lecture by Mayor Rolla Wells, at the True Reformer's Hall, Saturday evening, January 17. Yours Only, Chancery J. Filley. TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE NOTES. (Special to Palladium) The New Year has started out well indeed with the school. During the week of prayer, quite a large number of students were converted, Dr Frank H. Sanders, Dean of the Yale University, is spending a while with us. He is lecturing to the young men of the Phelps Hall Bible Training School every morning and to the student - body at night in the Chapel. It has become known that Mr Andrew Carnegie is $200 at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute some time during the latter part of February or March, to inspect the new library building at the school, for which he gave the money some time ago. Several photographs of this building have been sent to Mr Carnegie and he has become very much interested in the building, especially in view of the fact that the plans were drawn by one of the instructors of the school and practically built by the students of the school. Robert K. Wallace. TRANSIT COMPANY Life is uncertain and accidents prevalent. Men are crippled every day and many are killed. You ought to leave your folks independent to a certain extent so you had better have yourself insured by the American Mutual Aid Association, 723 Wainright Building. Write for circulants. AT BEST WITH GOD. Last Sunday morning Miss Willena Bersey passed away. After ten long months of accute pain and suffering the Reaper came with his scythe and cut the soul from its tender bindings. Never before did any mortal suffer with such christian fortitude and resignation as did this child. Her mother and father sent every available moment at her bedside hoping against hope that she would be spared to them still longer. As her spirit neared the River of Jordan, her vision seemed more and more penetrating. She said to her mother one day: "O, mamma, how I dislike to leave you, but I must go. I hear the glad chimes. He is coming with his angels singing for me." On Friday, a few days before her death, she said to her parents: "You will bury me along side of my little sister Philemon, won't you?" They answered yes. Although Mr. and Mrs. Berzey have five children left, Virginia, Madeline, Celesle and Catherine at school in Genova, Neb., and another, Phoebe, at home, they cannot reconcile themselves to the death of one. She was fourteen years of age. Mr. Berzey left last Thursday with the body for Yonkton Reservation, Dakota, where the interment will take place. Mr. Berzey fear the affect of the grief felt for Willena upon Mrs. Berzey. we can only console her by reminding her that "A happy union waits beyond the Gates of Paradise. The weather we have been having makes us long for good old summertime. Miss E. Alexander, a teacher in one of our public schools is ill at home. The Doctor in attendance says that overexertion during a game of basketball is accountable for her illness. She is the third one to succumb to its ill effects. The snow covers the ground now, but the natural flowers can be secured Mrs. Teresa's 1308 Olive St. Mr and Mrs. J. Q. Adams are the happiest couple in Rock Springs. They have two or three of the loveliest children that ever lived. That is the tie that binds husband and wife together. Even the mother - in law enjoys their apparent bliss - How strange! $2.00 Per Annum, Single Copy 8 cents. NAMELESS WRITERS It Has Now Become a Business to Threaten. Since the trouble in the Central Baptist Church the vile and cowardly curs have began to show their power by intimidating certain members of Central Baptist Church by writing threatening letters. Several letters have been placed in our hands, and if their is any detective work that can unravel and bring to justice we shall do so. Since the court refused to hear any more of the case of J. L. Cohen some busy body is now trying to intimidate and sending threatening letters through the mail to the person that were with the church. We are informed that some sneaking hand has tried to put a young lady's eyes out. The lady is now in the hospital. We will find out who it was that are writing these nameless letters. Look out, we are on your heels. Mrs. K. Chaning's son, Elect Chaning left for Jefferson City and other western cities in Missouri. He is with the Alabama Jubilee Singers, 2804 Laclede avenue. Mrs. Luda Keathely of 7602 N. Broadway, died last Tuesday at 7 p.m. She was buried yesterday. She leaves a large family to mourn her loss. We will speak further next week about the good mother. Rev, J. W. Muse, pastor of the Compton Hill Baptist Church, has resigned the pastorate. Ill health is the cause. A grand rally is now being worked up to be at the First Baptist church February 1. Don't fail to come out and help them. NOTICE. We again call attention of the Collector at the Custom House to the fact that there are several toughs lounging around in the Janitor's Room. It would be well to put a watchman on to these loafers. We understand that several overcoats have taken feet and walked off. Clear the Halls and Janitor's Rooms. One who knows. WE CALL THE REPUBLICS AT- WM. P. DYES. A new saloon on 2800 Manehester Ave has just been opened by Mr Wm. Dye a man who understands the business. He has one of the most pleasant places out west. Mr Dye thoroughly understands the business and you will be welcome and treated square. He has four rooms, one is for the pool tables, one for the gentleman who wish to rest awhile and he very beautiful waiting room for the ladies. The most refined can wait for the car out of the bad weather with no impropriety. The saloon is a very quite and orderly place. Ge and inspect this beautiful resort. We are pleased to learn that Mrs. Josephine Silone Gates, President of the National Association of Colored Women has appointed the following well known and efficient women of Missouri, to the following responsible positions. Mrs. Susan P. Vashon Superintendent of Kindergartens work Miss H Geargiana Whyte, Supt. of temperance work, Miss Anna H. Jones of Kansas City, Supt. of Race Literature, These Ladies work is undes the Jurisdiction of National Association of Colored Women. WEST PLAINS, MO. Mrs. Allene J. W. Prowell, wife of Rev. J W. Prowell departed this life on the 5 inst. at 2 A. M. She was formerly of Little Rock, Ark. She leaves a husband one girl and twin boys and a host of relatives to mourn her loss. She was a faithful Zelious christian and died in faith. COMING EVENTS. We will soon be entertained by Mr J. B. Parker, the negro gentleman who saved our lamented president Wm. Mc Kinley from instant death. Timely notice will be given through the columns of the Palladium FOR RENT: One neatly furnished large front room. Suitable for two or more gentleman known to each other. No other roomers in the house, Mrs. Stokes, 2162 Morgan St. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Entered at the postoffice at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter. published Weekly by J. W. WHEELER, Manager and Proprietor 2617 Lawton Avenue. MISS KATE JOHNSON, Editor. C. H. Tandy, Representative. Business matters pertaining to the paper should be addressed to The Palladium Office. Communications for publication must reach us not later than Wed- nesday. For one inch, one insertion..... $ 50 For one inch each subsequent insertion..... 25 For two inches, three months..... 6 00 For two inches, six months..... 10 00 For two inches, nine months..... 14 00 For two inches, twelve months..... 20 00 Standing and transient notices SUB3CRIPTION Per year.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months......60 Single copy......05 (1) THE ST. LOUIS PALLADIUM IS on its 17th year of regular publication. (2) Never has missed an issue. (3) No fake subscription list to "catch" honest advertisers. (4) More bona fide subscribers than any other Negro paper in St. Louis or state. (5) The ONLY Negro newspaper published in St. Louis as the organ of the Republican party. (6) Because it is the official organ of the U. B. F. and S. M. T. the largest order in the state of Missouri. (7) Because it is feerless in denouncing crime regardless of consequences. The Palladium is sold at the following places: 2617 Lawton Ave.; 1208 Wash St.; 2652 Lucas Ave.; Charleston, Mo.; West Plains, Mo.; 3104 State St., Chicago, Ill. PHILIPPINES FOR NEGROES. Another haven of rest (?) has been discovered for the American Negro and coincidently the settlement of the Negro question in America. The long-standing only solution of the Negro problem, namely, the settlement of Africa, has given way to a new colonization scheme introduced by Senator Morgan of Alabama. Really, the amount of brain tissue expended by many of our leading men in devising schemes to dispose of the American Negro would speak well for them, if it were not utilized in pro-pounding such erratic ideas! Senator Morgan has even gone so far as to draw the attention of President Roosevelt to his proposed emigration of Negroes to the Philippines, with the result, it is said, that the President has sent Thomas Fortune as an envoy to investigate conditions there. The Negro seems to exist merely as a thorn in the flesh of American citizens. Bright fatures have been presented for those of the race who settle in Africa; the latest, however, is the Philippines. If the American Negro is wise he will remain in the land of his birth. If he acknowledges himself incapable of sustaining the oppression he receives here, when this country has been settled for him, what will be his fate when transported to a country in which the only object is the "struggle for existence." From the attitude the President has always maintained toward the persecuted race, it is not for a moment to be thought that he will give Senator Morgan's plan one moment's consideration. He is far too sensible a man to think of colonizing Negroes in the Philippines. PARENTS AND TEACHERS. The lot of a public school teacher is undoubtedly one of the hardest. One of the chief causes is the lack of sympathy that exists between parents and teachers. Teachers are annoyed from 9:00 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. by the disorder of an average of 35 pupils, and when they complain to the parents, they receive, if anything, a severe rebuke. Girls who have spent the greater part of their lives in securing an education by means of which they expect to support themselves, find upon receiving their assignments, that they are totally unable to control children ranging from six to ten years. A child goes home with some cock- and-bull story of what the teacher did to him, and in the majority of cases, instead of being reprimanded by his parents, is sent back to school with orders to tell that teacher she'd better not repent the offense or his mother will come down and see her about it. No parent has the slightest idea of the insolent attitudes some of the children assume toward the teacher. Disobedience and impudence need not necessarily be embodied in words—actions are far more expressive and more often resorted to. If parents would but give their children to understand that any report of disorder will be punished without question, teachers would not have their nervous systems worn out and have to secure Leaves of Absence to recuperate their health. A teacher has but one aim in view and that is the development of the minds of those in her charge and she needs all the sympathy and assistance that can be tendered her. CHARITY BALL The annual Charity ball of the Provident Hospital and training School will take place at True Reformer's hall, Monday, Feb. 23, 1903. The invitation list is now being prepared. Send in at once the names and addresses of all persons you desire to be invited. Address all communications to Dr. Edward J. Davis, Provident Hospital, Beaumont and Morgan streets. D. E. GORDON, President. HUTCHINS INGE, Secretary. Sam, the Tailor, is the place to get your Winter Suits, Made to order. One of the Best 204 North 14th Street. Frank C. Hart, Shaving Parlor, Fine Cigars, 4136 PAPAN STREET, IST. LOUIS. Mrs, Annie Taylor, Barber Shop 1302 MORGAN STREET, First-Class Work. Sexton & Maxwell, First-class Photographers 1407 Market St. Hewsome & Randals, Teachers of Stenography and Typewriting. Applicants prepared for Civil Service examinations. Office—4265 St. Ferdinand Ave. Your wife needs a pair of shoes. Get them at Munchweilers, 1409 Market. John A. Logan Lodge No. 139 of the U. B. F. meet at K. of P. Hall the second Wednesday in each month at 8 p. m. J. W. WHEELER, W. M. DAVID GORDON, Sec'y. Furnished room for rent, 716 N. Jef ferson Ave. MRS. BAYNARD. FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT. Gentleman only. 3639 Cottage avenue. If single beds were more numerous than they are a great many people would be better off. When one is tired, sick, cross, restless, out of sorts, he or she ought to sleep alone and not communicate by proximity the maladies that affect him. The brute creatures when sick go away by themselves till they die or get over their troubles, and this instinct a great many human beings have. Those that have it are best if indulged in it—not to the slightest degree of neglect, however. Where two children in a family must share the same room, in a great many cases they would be better off to have two single beds rather than one wide double bed. We can share a great many things with those we love, but solitude clings to us from birth to death. We come into the world alone, and we live in it alone, in a certain important sense, and to get and keep our "bearings" we must sometimes be left alone. It is good that we should be—Family Doctor. An Odd Nugget of Gold. There have been many large and oddly shaped gold nuggets found in the United States and elsewhere, but the oddest of them all was that discovered at the Midhas mine, on Sulky gully near Melbourne, Australia, in 1837. The nugget was fat and almost the exact counterpart in contour of a colossal human hand held open, with the exception of the thumb and forefinger, which were closed together in a manner so to make it appear that the thumb was holding the finger in place. Its greatest length was 121 inches and its greatest width 8 inches. It was of the very purest gold, with but a little of foreign substances adhering, mostly between the "fingers" and weighed 617 ounces. It was found in the northwest main drive of the Midhas mine, 120 feet below the surface of the earth and at a depth only fifty feet from where the famous Lady Brassay nugget was discovered the year before. It weighed fifty-one pounds of pure gold. THE DEAD SEA. Scientific observation justifies the estimate that a daily average of 6,500-000 tons of water is received into the Dead Sea from the Jordan and other sources during the year. During the rainy season the amount is very much greater; during the dry season it is, of course, very much less; but this average will be maintained year after year. There is no outlet, and the level is kept down by evaporation only, which is very rapid, because of the intense heat, the dry atmosphere and the dry winds, which are constantly blowing down the gorges between the mountains. This evaporation causes a haze or mist to hang over the lake at all times, and, when it is more rapid than usual, heavy clouds form and thunder storms sometimes rage with great violence in the pocket between the cliffs, even in the dry season. A flood of raid often falls upon the surface of the sea when the sun is shinning, and the atmosphere is as dry as a bone half a mile from the shore. The mountains around the Dead Sea are rarely seen with distinctness, because of the haze. The waters of the Jordan, when they reach the sea, are as brown as the earth through which they flow—a thick solution of mud—but the instant they mingle with the salt water of the lake the particles of soil are precipitated, and they become as clear as crystal, with an intensely green tint. Carrying so much soil and having so swift a current, one would suppose that the sea would be discolored for a considerable distance, but it is not so. The discoloration is remarkably slight. The oJordan has quite a delta at its mouth, breaking into a number of streams and frequently changing its course because of the obstructions brought down by its own current—Chicago Record-Herald. THE OBLIGATIONS OF WEALTH. Miss Helen Gould Says They Are to Use Wisely the Gifts of God. Miss Helen Miller Gould was recently asked to say something concerning the obligations of wealthy young women. Her reply was as follows: "There is one obligation upon all persons, rich or poor. We are required to do our utmost to use wisely the gifts which God has granted us; we are expected to live for others rather than for ourselves. The possession of wealth is an undoubted aid in bringing about the happiness of unfortunate ones, and the possessor may reasonably be expected to carry on a larger work than a person with very limited means. It is also true, however, that spending money is only one way of meeting our obligations. I have known many consecrated men and women, almost penniless, who carried on a great work for the Master, and they accomplished more real good than those whose labor ended with the distribution of wealth. They used the talents which had been given them, and their hearts' interest was in what they did. "It is not enough that we should distribute alms. We should be careful to see that our gifts reach the proper persons and are not placed where they will accomplish more harm than good. Many well meaning people expand their money where it really isn't needed, while they ignore the urgent cases which they might discover before their very eyes. They are not true to their obligations. They are not commanded to distribute money, but to do good to others, and their possession of wealth should enable them to do good largely. "It requires time and attention to use one's gifts to the best effect, and comparatively few are willing to give the necessary time. It isn't right that we should give to unknown charities without investigation, and yet to investigate will require many hours, perhaps. That is the hard part. It isn't pleasant in the beginning to refrain from calling on one's friends in order that we may look into some appeal for aid which has been made. Yet if we make those social calls and neglect the call of duty we are not true to the obligation to consider others before ourselves. We are falling to make use of the gifts which God has granted to us, of our capacity for doing good. But after a time, when we have become thoroughly accustomed to thinking of others before ourselves, our greatest pleasure will be found in acts of charity."—Success. RALEIGH'S BURIAL PLACE. The Question as to Where It is Has Been Revived in Eng.and. The question of Sir Walter Raleigh's burial place has lately been revived in England. Three churches claim both the head and body of the gallant courtier. Immediately after the execution, which took place in Tothill street, Westminster, on October 29, 1618, his wife placed the head in a red bag and rode off with it in a mourning coach. This treasure she kept for twenty-five years. The body was buried in St. Margaret's church, but shortly after the execution Lady Raleigh wrote to her brother, Sir Nicholas Carew, asking permission to bury her husband in his church at Beddington, where she desired also to be buried. History is silent from that time on. It is known, however, that the son treasured the head as his mother bad, and tradition says that it was finally interwed with him at West Horsley, Surrey. Dr. Brushfield, who has made a thorough study of Raleigh history, is of the belief that when investigation is made, the three bodies—father, mother and son—will be found buried together. He has suggested to the British Archaeological Society to inscribe the stone under which his body is supposed to be buried in St. Margaret's, London, with his name and coat-of-arms. It is a curious fact that no English memorial to this "universal genius" exists. The west window in St. Margaret's, dedicated to his memory through the enterprise of Dr. Farrar, was the gift of this country—London Chronicle. Four trainmen were injured and several passengers were shaken up in a head-on collision between a north bound Illinois Central passenger and a freight train in the yards at Central City, Ky. Friday. This Is a New Scheme for Health and Beauty. The latest scheme to renew health and prolong life is a vibrating chair. By means of this peculiar bit of mechanism it is claimed that youth can be restored, muscles strengthen, and wasted tissues replaced. The principle upon which the vibrating chair is worked is an odd one. The chair has a heavy rubber seat and back. Underneath this is a coat of thin rubber. The heavy rubber contains perforations which are covered by the thin rubber. The seat and back of the chair are filled with water when the patient sits in the contrivance, and then a hammer, which strikes a rubber disc, is set in motion. This hammer starts vibratory waves in the water, and these waves are communicated to the body by means of the perforations in the chair. Lillian Russell and Barnhardt are using vibratory chairs, and this means of acquiring strength without expending energy is becoming quite a fad in New York. The vibratory chairs cost from $200 up, and consequently will never become popular among the majority of beauty seekers. A Confessicn. I had been brought up among people who looked on dancing as an invention of the Devil. The music set me tweaking all over, and when I grew older and had to go to dances, I hated to sit in the whist room, where sometimes I kept elderly parents later than they had intended to stop, so that their daughters might have a little more amusement. I have done a multitude of foolish things in my time, and most of the particularly egregious ones are connected with dances. Once I had faithfully promised to go to a dance down Bromley, and did actually dance and take the train. But the move I thought of it the less I liked what lay before me. So at the next station before that to which I had taken a ticket, I put my head out of the window and asked a porter if there was a train back to London soon. He said I should just catch one if I hurried across the bridge, and I did. Confronted with the necessity of making excuses to my hostess, I conceived that there was nothing for it but to tell the truth. I thought she would be angry, but to my surprise she was greatly amused. On another occasion I actually arrived on the scene, and immediately fell into an evil temper, because dance music made me want to dance, and I couldn't and wouldn't. Many people had offered to teach me, but I was not going to spoil their amusement. On this occasion somebody came up and offered me her card and asked me to take some dances. It was not a card that was likely to be empty very long. "I can't," I said. "You mean you won't," she said. "I don't dance," I said. "You are stupid. I know you don't dance, but I suppose we might sit out?" So I took her card and made a great block of my initials around the supper part of it, and began to feel more contented. When the time came we sat about in a conservatory, and presently supped at a small table with two others whom we knew and liked. It was a very big dance, and the supper-room was comparatively small. We enjoyed ourselves, and took no account of time until the hostess, who was a sort of adopted aunt of all four of us, came and told us that she thought we had probably caten more lobster salad than was good for us, and that she was quite certain we had occupied that table too long. So we retired to the conservatory again, and a good many dances that did not belong to me had gone by before the girl was discovered and taken away from me. Her name was Sylvia, and after that I began to think there might be something in learning to dance. So I learned. Twice a week I might have been seen going with a brown paper pearce, in the direction of Clapham. The parcel head my pomps, and Clapham was the abode of the dancing master who had been recommended to me. He held me very much, and said he could teach me all kinds of fancy dancing in it, would take the trouble to learn. His only grievance was that I steadily lined to come to his weekly dances and meet the other pupils. You paid five shiitings and you got light refreshments. Behold me, then, in the position of the man who has learned to swim without ever being in the water. I could dance rather well, but I had usually done it alone, or with my master for a partner. I told no one, and there came another dance, and this time I ask for Sylvia's card and treated it as I had done on a previous occasion. When the time came I took her to the conservatory, but presently they started a lively waita, and I could wichhold my secret no longer. "Slyvia, shall we dance?" "But you don't dance." "You told me it was easy to learn, and that you would always be glad to teach me." "Did 17 Perhaps I did. Anyhow, I shall be glad." So we wilted, and at the end of it went back to the conservatory. "You didn't want teaching," said Sylvia. "Where did you learn? You dance beautifully." Then I told her the whole truth, and she laughed and asked if I did not think that she would have been a better instructor than the dancer master in Clapham. "Though I could give him a good testimonial," she said. We danced together again, and I was never so happy in my life. And so it happens that a stalk and stoolgy leader-writer has on occasions to go into the office and say to his editor: "I shall not be in tomorrow night; I'm taking the wife to a dance." For Sylvia I liked me as a partner, and I had held dancing in the old days simply because I had not the art. "Yee," said the cynical codger, "it is mighty easy to trade your reputation for money, but you're up against it when you try to trade back."—Baltimore Herald. GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI. OFFICERS. A. R. Chinn, Grand Master, Glasgow, Mo. E. W. Perkine, Deputy Grand Master, Trenton. T. P. Mahammitt, Senior Grand Warden, Omaha, Neb. J. C. Cobb, Grand Junior Warden, Cape Girardeau. R. T. Coles, Grand Treas., Kansas City. J. H. Pelham, Grand Sec'y., Hannibal, Mo. Prince Hall Lodge No. 1, St. Louis, Mo., meets first Monday in each month. All Masons in good standing are invited, W. T. Dixon, W. M.; H. W. Lawless, Sec'y. Lone Star Lodge No. 2, St. Louis, Mo., meets second Mc day in each month. All Masons in good standing are invited. R. W. Marshall, W. M.; Josoph A. Smith, Sec'y. H. McGee Alexander Lodge No. 3. John Casey, W. M.; Albert Hedgman, Sec'y. Onward Lodge No. 17, St. Louis, Mo., meets the third Monday in each month. P. Johnson, W. M.; J. W. Grant, Sec'y. J. Q. Johnson Lodge No. 30, meets the first Thursday in each month. J. L. Henderson, W. M.; J. G. Stevens, Sec'y., 3948 Fairfax Ave. Widows' Son Lodge No. 105, meets second Tuesday in each month. James Flemings, W. M.; J. T. Anderson Sec'y. True Blue Lodge No. 107, meets the first Tuesday in each month. Aug. Barrow, W. M.; J. T. Anderson, Sec'y. CHURCHES. St. Paul's, A. M. E., Leffingwell and Lawton; Rev. D. P. Roberts pastor. St. Peter's, A. M. E., Elliott and Montgomery; Rev. James Madison pastor. St. James, A. M. E., Pendleton and St. Ferdinand; Rev. W. C. Williams pastor. Quinn's Chapel, A. M. E., Carondelet; Rev. J. A. Christoper pastor. St. John's Mission, A. M. E., Lowell; Rev. F. E. Clark pastor. A. M. E. ZION. Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion, 2625 Morgan; Rev. E. D. W. Jones pastor. St. John's A. M. E. Zion, 113 Eiler St.; Rev. R. P. Christian pastor. St. Mark's A. M. E. Zion, 1608 Morgan; Rev. E. M. Smith pastor. Lexington Ave. A. M. E. Zion, 4214A Lexington Ave; Rev. Donovan pastor. 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No children. 2337 Wash Street. Mr. Albert Andrews, of Clarksville, Tenn., spent several months in this city. He recently returned home. Dr. O. F. Fields, who has his office at 2630 Lucas Ave., will remove to 809 N. Jefferson Ave., up over the drug store of Harris & Mosby. FANNIE LEE. World's Fair artist. Pictures of all kinds called for and delivered. All sizes crayon, pastel, water color and oil paintings, a specialty. Fine frames and high grade work. Terms reasonable. Cash or credit; also lessons given. Cail or write for 456 N. Sarah st. R. GOEBEL, The Reliable PHOTOGRAPHER, The latest 14x17 size group photographs taken during the recent session of the Grand Lodge at St. Charles, will be forwarded, postage paid, at 60c per copy. West End Club Hall. Hall for rent for all occasions. Apply to Janitor, E. M. HAWKINS. 3719 Cass Avenue, Take Easton or Cass Avenue Cam. SOMETHING FOR THE NEGRO TO CONSIDER. —Organize parents' associations in each school district, —to get the idle children in school, —to teach cleanliness and manners among them, —to break the habit of going from school in droves. —Stop loafing around other men's business places. You are in the way. —There are 5,000 colored children in the schools and 5,000 out. Put those who are out in. That is our work. "Follow the Flag." WADASH Banner Route Kansas City, Chicago, Omaha, Toledo & Buffalo. Through sleepers to New York and the East. Magnificent Equipment and Train Service. Eigth and Olive streets. AND IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE, KNOWN AS THE GREAT SOUTHWEST SYSTEM. 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Delivers exclusively in Bottles to the family trade 2008 Pine Street. Mrs. J. W. Wheeler, MODISTE. Dressmaking, Designing, Cutting, Fitting, Purchasing, 617 Chestnut St., SAINT LOUIS. H. L. FRANKLIN THE O. K. SALOON 4000 Papin St. St. Louis, - - Missouri, Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. Williams & Head, Props. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. POOL ROOM. S. E. Cor. 22d and Market Streets, St. Louis, Mo. WALTER S. FARRINGTON. Walter S. Farrington is doing a great business on Leonard and Channing avenues, as a Veterinary Dentist, docking, clipping, braking and styling horses. He is an expert at his business. Express and coal business on Channing avenue, between Olive and Locust. All orders are promptly attended to. 308 N. Leonard avenue. S. P. PERKINS Tennessee Shaving Parlor Everything Neat and Clean and Up-to-date 1326 Morgan Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. GEO. W. F. BULLOCK, LADY BARBER AND TONSURLIST, 3820 Franklin Avenue, St. Louis, MRS. L. CLARK'S Hair Dressing Parlor! She treats the scalp, stops the hair from falling out. Best of attention is given to all ladies' work. 2115 Lucas Ave., St, Louis, Mo. CALL AT 2617 FORT OZO Magnetic Comb fumes, Skin Food, EL The King of Two Cronies Saloon And Winter Garden. Chas. Moss and L. Winchester, Proprieter. 2807 Manchester Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Richardson's Cafe, 23d and Morgan Sts. At All Hours. First-Class. There is a LAUNDRY STATION at 3712 Sullivan Avenue. Operated by the Palace Laundry, hoping that you will remember us and don't pass us by. Any Laundry left with us will receive prompt attention. The best collar and cuff work in the city. If you drop us a card the wagon will call. Remember the Number is 3712 Sullivan Ave. B. BELKER, Dealarin proceries, Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Meat and Vegetable Market. 119 and 1121 Morgan Street. St. Louis, Mo. Established 1888. PITMAN SHAVING PARLOR. 2630 Morgan Street. Employs but the very best workmen. E. L. PITMAN, Manager. DENTIST Phone Kinlock C686 Office 2603 Lucas Avenue, N. W. Cor. Jefferson and Lucas. HOURS: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.—2 to 6 p.m. ST. LOUIS, MO. BUSY BEE RESTAURANT T. J BREWER, Proprietor. A. H. HOWELL, Manager. 2837 Manchester Avenue. Where you can find all delicacies of the season. Meals at all hours. WM. T. DAVIS, First-Class Barber Shop. 2811 Manchester Ave. ONO and Brushes, Per-ectrical Skin Refiner, All Hair Tonics. All goods guaranteed No more The 200 Bar, Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars with the best of accommodation. E.J.BRUNER and D.G.HOGAN, Proprietors. HARRY PENN, Night-MIXERS-JOHN H. CLARK, Day. THE ROSEBUD BAR, TOM TURPIN, Prop. 2220-2222 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. Pool Room in Connection. THE GEM. At 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) Choice Wines, Liquors, Gigars, and the best up-to-date. Billiard Room. Remember the Gem, 1911 Market. ..THE SALOON.. "The OWL" 33 South 20th St. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Bottle Beer Everything Genuine Remember the Place. Phone Klnloch C-43 WILLIAM JAMES and MR. R. SAUNDERS, . . . Managers. CHARLEY HARRIS, Proprietor. 2301-03 Morgan Street And 805 North Twenty-Third Street. Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars. Meals served in the Cafe as you wish them, at all hours. Open Day and Night. Drinks of all kinds Served in the Cafe Furnished Rooms for Men only. Billiard Rooms in Connection Everything Striely First-Class. The Brunswick Saloon, G. W. HOLT, Proprietor. 1925 MARKET STREET (June Union Station.) Fine Wines, Liquors, Oils and Tinctures. ST. LOUIS The American Mutual Aid Associati... 723, 724 and 725 Wainwright Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. Licensed to do business in Missouri. Indiana, Arkansas, Kentucky and Mississippi. Weekly benefits for sickness and accident. Benefits for death. Free use of surgeon or physician to all members. Write for circular. Fine Wines and Libuors. Buffet a 2801-3 Manches HARRY PENN, THE R 2220-2222 Pool Ro TH HUGH E. SALOON and At 19 (0) Choica Wines, Liquor Bill Remember ..THE "The O Choice Wines, WILLIAM JAMES and CHA E. L. ARNETT, ARN SALOON 230 And 805 N Choice Wine Meals serve Open Day and Night. Furnished Rooms for The B 1925 MARK Fine Wines, Liquors, The American PERCY S 723, 724 and 725 Licensed to do bu Ken Weekly benefits Free use of surge $45 Pays for professional lectures, board and room rent for one term. By the Quarterly System is offered unrivaled opportunities for those who must retain teaching positions as a means of livelihood, and yet desire to study Medicine. Imported and Domestic Cigars. S ool Room, etor. St. Louis, Mo. STUDY MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT THE Louisville National Medical College School of Medicine. Four years of six months each. Session continues throughout the year. Each session is divided into four terms of three months each. Attendance upon any two terms entitles student to credit for one year's attendance. Some Big Banks Make Money on Business That Others Will Not One of the strongest New York banks in the Wall street region owes its success to the foresight of a keen-witted man who set out from the start to attract small accounts. Years ago when the bank was a "thirty-cents" affair compared with its present development it cultivated small merchants, doing what it could to please them. They were not turned down if their accounts fell below the $500 limit, and when they needed money, the bank extended reasonable accommodation. These relations have been maintained now for more than thirty years, the merchants growing rich with the bank, until today that particular institution and its customers represent moneyed interests of tremendous power. And yet that bank is run for "revenue only" by cold-blooded men of unusual shrewdness, who are never accused of giving away to sentiment in matters of business concern. Explaining the growth of this bank (one of the most prosperous in the national system), an officer said: "We judge an account not alone by its money value, but by the flesh and blood behind it. Some men could keep only a hundred dollars here, while others having half a million to their credit would not be tolerated. The difference is in the men, not in the capital they represent. It would be absurd for a bank to disregard a young man's chance of future success just because his present resources were not equal to those whose business career began thirty years before he was born. Many a man of modest income has a circle of friends of great value to a bank, and my experience has been that relations once established with that class of customers often bring about most influential connections. No, the bank that forgets the small man is not alive to its own interests. We never snub a little fellow because he is little, or cultivate a big man because he is big. It is the stuff they are made of that counts." Across the street from this bank another institution has grown rich on a different class of business. A man whose balance falls below $2,000 is asked to withdraw his account, for the trouble of keeping it amounts to more than the interest it earns. The bank is known everywhere as a place from which warm-blooded people instinctively turn away. The result is its out-of-town business amounts to little or nothing, while its average number of millionaire accounts is probably as great as any other large bank in New York. It is a private institution in the sense that it does business for a select few, but in the public affairs of a bank it plays little part. Half a dozen others, more or less like it, illustrate the conservatism of last-century methods, having little regard for anything that cannot be figured out on a ledger. But many down-town banks care little for the man who cannot keep $600 or so always on hand, and for these individuals the newly formed trust companies offer excellent accommodations. Some large foreign banks have long found it profitable to accommodate small borrowers. The Bank of France makes loans as low as $1, and out of 6,128,738 separate bills that the bank discounted in Paris last year nearly half were for sums under $20. According to the bank's recent annual report, nearly 90,000 bills discounted were for sums between $1 and $2. The average face value of all bills discounted by the bank during 1901 was only $117,600. In this country some banks in small towns in the West make loans as low as $5, and the chain of banks owned by a private individual in Georgia has thriven on business with borrowers requiring sums of $100 or less.—New York Evening Post. Was Truly a Deer Girl. Was Tracy. While talking about chorus girls I want to tell you with the pure joy the telling of it always gives me about how I cured one Washington boy of his fondness for stage doors and fascinating stage beauties. In a—well, it was a Floradora company over in New York, a girl I have always known well was playing. She was in the infant class in Sunday school with me, so her age—well, her age is nobody's business. The young man was going to New York for a few days and he was simply crazy to meet a chorus girl—a real live "Florodora" girl. I gave him a letter of introduction to my old—she's not really so very old, either—friend and then I wrote her a private letter of information with a course of action I begged her to follow. The young man went over, presented the letter and asked the "Florodora" girl to supper. He sent flowers to her at the theater, but she apologized for not wearing them and said she never wore any flowers but orchids. That instantly made a hole in the young man's bank account as big as the dome of the capitol. She said she was never happy unless her rooms were just simply full of her favorite flower. When he asked what restaurant she preferred she said in an off-hand way, "Oh, I never go anywhere except to Sherry's." So Sherry's it was and the things that elderly girl ordered made even the head waiter turn pale. Nothing worth less than twice its weight in gold pleased her. She loathed cabs, so the most elaborate automobile to be had was called to take her home. Next day it was evident she expected flowers and an automobile to Claremont, and another Lucanian spread at luncheon. She mentioned casually how fond she was of books and he asked what one she preferred. She spoke of a wonderful edition de luxe which the young man hadn't the nerve to refuse to buy when the salesman named the price as $50. That book coded it. He came home to Washington and meditated saving on his laundry bill by wearing celluloid collars and paper garments with calendar bosoms to attach them to. When I saw it I said. "So you met Gladys in New York How glad I am. She's such a dear girl isn't she?" "Dear!" he snorted. "Dear! I should say she is. Three hundred and fifty cold similems in three days is about as dear as anything I ever came BLACK SKIN REMOVER. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaranteed to do what we want and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A POP-UP-Like completion explained if used as directed. Will make a person four or five shades lighter, and a matte person perfectly white. In forty-six hours shade or two will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin beautiful without continual use. 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CRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. DR. G. H. ANDERSON, DENTIST. 1407 Market Street, Hours $ a.m. to 6 p.m. ST. LOUIS. Phone Klatlock C414, Bell Main 584. Spring Ave. Car, O'Kallon Park Car. THE JOCKEY CLUB, WM. DOVER, Proprietor. 3924 Sophia Avenue, Cor. Margaretta, St. Louis. Choice Wines Liquors and Cigars. IF YOU BUY FURNITURE. AT Thuner's ITS GOOD. 2122-24-26 South Broadway Plumbing and Gas Fitting Furnaces, Stoves and Ranges Repaired and put up. Expressing and Moving. Phone Kin. D-2137. 1124 N. Sarah St. Mrs. Susan Gross, 2609 Pine Street. Millinery. Up-to-date Hats. Trimmings and all material in that line. DR. S. B. BELL, FIRST-CLASS Barber Shop and Bath, In the True Reform Hall. First-class Barbers. S. W. Corner Pine Street and Jefferson Avenue. WM. MORRIS & SON, OLD RELIABLE Dealer in LIVE :- MINNOWS 409 N. 18th Street, Bet. Locust and St. Charles Sts. Residence 211 S. Centre St. ST. LOUIS, MO. PETER H. HARRIS L. W. VINEGAR. International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen L. W. VINEGAR, Organizer. E. M. MORTON, President. Meets every First and Third Friday at 806 N. 14th Street. A DAY FROM LIFE OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted) This wonderful hair braid is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kiky or curly hair straight as shown above. It nourishes and protects hair from falling out or breaking off, candrus durtruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over the counter. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for hair extensions. Get the Original Ozonized Ox hair braid soft and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed. Perfect for your hair. It can straighten your hair at home. Owing to its superior quality, it is economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to this braid. Sold by druggists and dealers or send us 50 cents for one bottle or $1.40 for three bottles. 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Griffin, editor and proprietor. *Any of the above papers can be had at the Palladium office. We will count the list next week.* Ian Recorder, of the A. M. E. ress, Quendo, Kansas. Light, Vicksburg, Miss. The Mayor, Hopkinsville, Ky. Oklahoma Guide, Guthrie, Logan Co. American Eagle, St. Louis. The Watchman, Columbus, Ga. Texas Guide, Victoria, Texas. The Lancet, Baltimore, Md. The City Times, Galveston, Texas. The Sunday School Monitor, Nashville, Tenn. The Business Herald, Donaldsonville, The St. Luke Herald, Richmond, Va. Ala. The Progress, Omaha, Nebraska. The Nashville Clarion, Nashville, Tenn. Electa Temple, No. 31, of the S. M. T. Meets the 4th Friday at 8:00 p. m. Mrs. Annie D. Hyatt, M. W. P. Lula Brown, Sec'y. SEWING MACHINE FACTS. More than $20,000,000 is invested in the manufacture of sewing machine in the United States and more than $21,000,000 worth of machines are turned out every year. Yet the sewing machine industry is of comparatively recent growth. The technical beginning of the industry in this country was September 10, 1846, when Ellias Howe, Jr., obtained a patent for what grew into the first really practical sewing machine. Only three of the first Howe machines were made, however, and one of these was deposited in the patent office in Washington as a model. It was not until 1850 that a factory for the making of sewing machines was built, so the enormous business of today has grown up in a short half century. While Howe's invention marked the beginning of a successful industry, he was by no means the pioneer in efforts to substitute mechanical for hand sewing. As far back as 1770 Thomas Alson patented, in England, a machine for embroidering. Another machine for embroidering in a loom was invented by John Duncan in 1804 and twenty-five years later another Englishman named Heilman patented still another embroidering machine. The first recorded attempt at mechanical sewing was the invention of Thomas Saint, who took out a patent in England in 1790 for a machine which executed the old crochet stitch. It was not successful, but some of the features of the Saint machine appear in the perfected machine of today. Bartholemy Thimnonnier patented in France in 1830 the first sewing machine put to practical use. Eighty of his machines were in use for sewing army clothing in 1841, when a mob destroyed them because convinced the would drive seamstresses out of enployment. Thimnonnier built new and better machines, but all his work was again destroyed by angry artisans in 1848. John J. Greenough took out the first patent for a sewing machine issued in the United States in 1842. I was intended to sew leather, but was of no practical use. Walter Hunt of New York built a sewing machine in 1834, but failed to protect it by patent. After Howe's machine appeared Hun declared it embodied the ideas of his machine of 1834, but was unable to establish his claim. A small army of inventors appear after Howe's patent had proved successful, and their genius was devoted to perfecting every part of the machine. How well they have succeeded is shown in the 8,500 patents for sewing machines and attachments issued by the United States since 1850 and the fact that the American sewing machine leads all others in every country in the world. CHAMPION FISH STORY. Two Fish That Fell into the Wate and Were Drowned. They had all met round at the club and were discussing what could be done in the way of training animals, Jones, a most truthful man, had a friend who had trained the mice in his kitchen to come and eat out of his hand. Williams knew a man who had trained his dog to come and call him at a certain hour every morning by barking at his bedroom door. Several other members had known people who had done some miraculous things in the way of teaching animal tricks, etc. But Johnson, the champion tale teller of the club, roared out laughing and said all these feats were nothing to that of a friend of his named Mac Donald. "Why," he said, "my friend Mac caught two fish out of the sea and took them home alive, and gradually by means of taking out a small quantity of salt water and adding a similar amount of fresh, he managed to get his fish to live without sea-water. Then, not satisfied with this, he must try further experiments. So, by means of taking a very small quantity of the now fresh water away each day, he, to his delight, got his fish to live without water at all. He used to teach them all manner of tricks, and eventually taught them to follow him like a couple of dogs when he went out. "One day," continued Johnson, "m friend was walking out in the country by the side of a river, his two fish for lowing him as usual. Suddenly he missed the sound of their footster and glanced round to see if they were lagging behind. He could see nothin of his fish at all, and, looking round he espied something in the water which looked familiar to him, as upon going closer he found to his da may that it was his fish, but, ala they were dead!" "Dead!" exclaimed the audience "How did they die?" "Yes, dead." replied Johnson "They had fallen in and were drown ed."—Montreal Sun. A Pension Widow's Record. Pension Commissioner Ware has just completed an investigation that revealed a strange case of a woman's love for the army. The charge was recently made that Mrs. Ashton of New Albany, Ind., was drawing four pensions. A search of the records brought to light the fact that Mrs. Ashton has had four husbands, and that each one of them was either a soldier or an ex-soldier. I also showed that she drew two widow's pensions of $$ a month, although she did not draw them simultaneously. Her first husband died soon after the war, and in course of time she was given a pension. When she married again her pension stopped, but it was not long until she asked to be restored to the pay roll, owing to her second husband's death. Her claim was verified and she got the pension. Then she married again, and her third spouse went the way of the others, while she went back to the pension office. Before the necessary formalities could be gone through however, she accompanied a fourth battle-scarred veteran to the altar, so she received no pension. The department is awaiting further developments.—Washington Times. The English language is to be systematically taught in Mexican schools. English being deemed as necessary as Spanish for commercial life. More Mexican children than ever before are being sent to the United States for education. BE NOT DECEIVED TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. King of all Hair Tonics, "OZONO." BEFORE. AFTER. TRADE-MARK. Recognizing the fact that there are many SO-CALLED hair-growers and hair-straighteners now on the market, and knowing to a certainty that many of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the year 1871 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a thorough test by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy, true to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every member of the colored race, because they found it to cause the hair to grow long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there are always a number of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other people's goods. Seeing our marked success, numerous firms have entered the market, offering hair-growers and hair-straighteners, many of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair and scalp, and the colored people are buying these spurious compounds, which are filled with animal fats, and do the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning—be careful what you use on your hair. Do not be deceived by flaring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics. which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $0.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $0.00 if you are dissatisfied with our preparations, if they were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised for several years under this guarantee, and we are glad to say that every one who has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. 20,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the King of all Hair Tonics. Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublesome Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, and Scrfu can not live after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and soft. Now, right here, let us make a statement. Many firms are advertising remedies to straighten hair, but when they send the preparation they tell you to use hot irons. Friends, do not use hot irons; they will burn up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop out. Ozono straightens without any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You can stop the use at any time. The good effects on the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. The price of Ozone is 50c. a bottle -4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is good at any time: Cut out this coupon and send to us, enclosing with it the sum of One Dollar, and we will forward to you four large boxes of Ozone and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which makes black skin bright, rough skin soft and pliant, and cures all skin diseases. Also removes all facial imperfections, and actually removes small-pox pits. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—Nature's great beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, and all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look younger. We will also include one package of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which is absolutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever My nearly 10 years constant and consistent experience in this business has specially fitted me for the continued conducting of same. J. T. Brewer and A. H. Howell, Proprietors of NEW RESTAURANT and DINING HALL, WE WANT a exchange for a J. L. M OZONO, with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that in $50.00. Now we ask you a plain question: forfeit $50.00 if you are dissatisfied with not true to all we claim for them? We h under this guarantee, and we are glad to Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. We are to-day using our preparations, and Ozono as the King of all Hair Tonics. Ozono out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Reilly will make short, harsh hair long and sturge itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, not live after Ozono has been applied. It w it. It will restore gray hair to its natural there, let us make a statement. Many fir nighten hair, but when they send the pre- rons. Friends, do not use hot irons; they and cause it to drop out. Ozono straight nance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, a ter. You can stop the use at any time. A in order to do so, you offer the first application of Ozono in 50c, a bottle of do the thir, which is good at any time: Cut out this with it the sum of One Dollar, and we we of Ozono and one large bottle of Electro makes and models, good as no also removes all facial imperfections, and We will also include one jar of your great beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth blemishes; makes the old look young and EMICALLY PURE, and no soap but a pur RIDER AGENTS W one in each town to ride and exhibit a bicycle of our manufacture. YOU CAN $50 A WEEK besides having a wheel 1902 Models High Grade Guaranteed 1900 and 1901 Models 500 Second Hand Whee taken in trade by our Chicago retail store makes and models, good as no We ship any bicycle one without a cent deposit in ride 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL no risk in ordering from us, as you to pay a cent if the bicycle does not DO NOT BUY A Wheel until you have Tire, equipment, and sporting a half regular, prices, in our big free sund tains a world of useful information. Write a reliable person in each town to distribute for a bicycle. Write today for free catalogue and MEAD CYCLE CO., Chicago 20 years constant and consi me in this business has speci ed me for the continued con- ducting of same. RIDERAGENTSWANTED GORDON, Under street. Phone C 1744. Brewer and A. H. Howe Proprietors of BEFORE. AFTER. be used on the scalp. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $4.00, but we let you have it for $1.00, simply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the public in general from imitations of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, we have placed upon our coupon our Trade-Mark, one head showing Short Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U.S. Government has granted us this trade-mark, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington; so if the coupon has this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. Use only the coupon having the two heads on it. As to our responsibility, we refer you to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va. We have thousands of testimonials we have not space to publish. Here is a sample of one: **Boston Chemical Company:** Dear Sira—You are at liberty to state in a newspaper that I have used OZONO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been fooled so often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. Gentlemen.—After using OZONO a short while only, I am glad to say that my hair is already straight and growing finely. MISS BESSIE POWERS, 883 Missouri street, Toledo, O. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beautiful and luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, you can use it to secure a glossy long growth. Buy only the genuine "OZONO." Send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner worth 50c. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c. 1 Package (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth 50c. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth 50c. Total, $4.00. If you want 4 lots like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has no coupon, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order. We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only practically competent Colored Undertakers in the city CHOP HOUSE. Harrison Cook, Pro room of a Lunch Room, better know Chop House, at 1930 Chestnut St B. MUNCH WEILER, Ladies',Gents' Children's Shoes 1409 MARKET ST. 2601 LAWTON AVENUE, N. W. Cor. Jefferson and Lawton Aves. Open Day and Night. Both Telephones. MORGAN KAYES 1900 Boston Chemical Co., 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND I enclose you $1.00, for which please send a azono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Rag, Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c. 1 Pair Odor, worth 50c. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth ..... House, No. ..... City. ..... State. is like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who write her name on a piece of paper and pin to c order. A. 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