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THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. $1.00 Per Year in Advance. VOL. 11. NO. 8. MERRY CHRISTMAS The Professional World BUFUS L. LOGAN, B. S. D. - EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in Advance - - - $1.00 Six Months in Advance - - .75 Three Months in Advance - - .50 Single Copies - - - .05 Advertising Rates on Application. Job Work of all Kinds Solicited. Published Every Friday. Entered at the postoffice at Colum- umbia, Mo., as second class matter, Jan. 15, 1902. Agents wanted in every town in the state. PRESS OF THE MISSOURI STATESMAN The editor of this paper wishes all of its many readers a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. The little folks need not any longer fear that old Santa may not get here on account of no snow. Santa is now traveling in an automobile and next year he will probably make the rounds in an air ship. We hope to be able to discover more originality in the papers read before the teachers association this time than heretofore. Remember that many people read the books that you do—see? If you are not a subscriber to the Professional World you should order it now and read the best negro paper in this section of the country, and the only one published for $1 a year. The Crossland episode will be a source of much regret to the negroes of Missouri, first because Dr. Crossland is a nergo and secondly because he is a Missourian. His appointment was the first of the kind ever given to a Missouri negro, and the fact that it was found necessary for the state department to dispense with his services as minister is to be regretted. Will Not Appear Next Week. The Professional World will not appear next week as the management desires to take a much needed rest. We resume publication on January 9, 1903. All correspondents will please make note of this and govern yourselves accordingly. EDUCATION OF NEGROES Former President, Grover Cleveland Speaks His Sentiment Regarding the Same. Philadelphia, December 11.—Former President Cleveland presided tonight at a public meeting in aid of the Berean Manual Training school, an institution which aims to give members of the negro race the benefits of an industrial education. The meeting was attended by prominent jurists, educators and business men. Mr. Cleveland was the principal speaker, and Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskegee Institute, also made an address. The institution was established less than two years ago and has an enrollment of 200 students. The colored population of this city is 60,000, increasing at the rate of 10,000 a year, and this meeting was held for the purpose of interesting people of Philadelphia particularly and people of the country generally in their education. Mr. Cleveland is personally interested in their education, and in accepting the invitation to attend the meeting he said: "I regard the object which the meeting is called to promote so beneficent and so important to the advancement of a mass of our citizenship greatly in need of improvement and care that I have considered it my duty to comply with the request to preside at the meeting." In his address tonight Mr. Cleveland said: "I am impressed with the importance of this occasion. It is absolutely certain that everywhere in this broad land good people should be keenly alive to their duty and interest as related to the colored men, women, youth and children, who constitute a factor, large or small, in the population of every community. It is foolish for us to blind our eyes to the fact that more should be done to improve the condition of our negro population; and should be entirely plain to all of us the sooner this is undertaken the sooner will a serious duty be discharged and the more securely will we guard ourselves against future trouble and danger. Our colored people have been supplied with a measure of public school privileges, even though in this they have been at a disadvantage compared with their white neighbors. We will not fail to estimate at its true value what has thus been accomplished, nor will we fail to appreciate the importance of continued and increasing effort in extending to this class of our citizens opportunities for ordinary school education. "No one who has given the subject deliberate thought can doubt that, if we are to be just and fair toward our colored fellow-citizens, and if they are to be made more completely self-respecting, useful and safe members of our body politic, they must be taught to do something more than to hew wood and draw water. There way must be opened for them to engage in something better than menial service, and their interests must be aroused to rewards of intelligent occupation and careful thrift. "I believe that the exigency can only be adequately met through the instrumentality of well-equipped manual training and industrial schools, conducted either independently or in connection with ordinary educational institutions. I am convinced that good citizenship an orderly contented life, and a proper conception of civic virtue and obligations is almost certain to grow out of a fair chance to earn an honest, hopeful livelihood, and a satisfied sense of secure protection and considerate treatment. Auxvasse Notes. Mr. Harly Hunter came in on the 20th to spend the holidays with his parents; he is attending school at Lincoln Institute. A little son arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brown on the 14th; mother and newcomer are both doing well. Several ladies of this community have sold their turkeys at ten cents per pound on foot and think it a very good price. Miss Mayme Woods our teacher closed her school on the 24th and will reopen after new Year's. The Professional World is only $1 per year. Mr. Sam Woolery who went to Colorado recently, writes that he has reached Fort Collins and is well pleased with the country so far. National Gleanings. A mayor of national reputation is Mayor John Hinchcliffe of Paterson, N. J., headquarters for anarchy in this country, and the home of Bresci, who assassinated King Humbert of Italy. At the recent silk strikes in Paterson, chiefly led by anarchists, Mayor Hinchcliffe discharged his chief of police, who was afraid to act, and took charge himself, with the result that the rioting was settled in short order. In the twelve million dollar fire not long ago in Paterson, and in the great floods almost overwhelming the city, Mayor Hinchcliffe did more than all others to restore the normal condition of affairs. He has been at the front in other needs of the city. He is a democrat and carries the town over a big republican vote entirely on personal qualities and his record. For many years the best known man in horse racing circles was James F. Caldwell, whose part in the races was starting the horses, and he was known as "The Prince of Starters." In later years he had lost his prestige, but at one time his income was from $20,000 to $30,000 a year. He died at Saratoga, N. Y., recently at the age of 6. He was born in Danville, Kentucky. Ou of 636 students who have entered the law school of Harvard university, 627 are college graduates, which is certainly a remarkable registration. A bachelors degree has now been required for two years admission to the school, and it was feared that so high a standard for admission, if maintained for even a short time, would reflect upon the school by diminishing the applications for admission. The very contrary has been the case, and those who favored the high standard in order that the attendance might be cut down have been sadly mistaken in the means which would be necessary to attain such an end. It is thought by many who are interested in the subject that large classes in university work are not, after all so detrimental. The number of students in the class prevents each one's reciting very often, it is true, but on the contrary, the class discussions must be of a high order, which cannot fail to be beneficial to the entire class. Of the 636 students, 240 are graduates of Harvard; 51 of Yale, 31 Brown, 25 Darmouth, 17 University of California, 12 Amherst, 12 Bowdoin, 11 Williams—in all, 94 colleges and universities being represented. The public schools in Switzer land are operated by the govern- ment, and civil service rules are strictly applied. The teachers, who are mostly women, are very well paid, and never discharged except for cause. When they get so old they can not teach they are pensioned liberally. The result is that the country has an excellent corps of educators. The New York health department has adopted a London idea in connection with the public schools, nurses having been employed to visit the children who have been sent home from the schools suffering with contagious diseases. Formerly contagious diseases sent home as many as 20,000 children at a time and nothing was done to make them well enough to return to school. Now the nurse visits the home of the child, who has received a card stating that it is suffering with a contagious disease, and the nurse takes the child to the dispensary if necessary, and then shows the mother how to use the medicines. If the child has sore eyes she shows the mother how to use the wash and when the child is again afflicted the mother is able to treat it herself. Local Flashes Sunday will be the rally day of the Christian church. Rev. J. B. Parson will preach. The members and friends of the church are making an effort to raise the pastor's salary. Miss Laura Douglas, who has been very ill at Wentzville, is much better and will be home this week. Her sister, Miss Eulalie Douglass, is with her. Mrs. M. A. Marshall, of Chicago, is in the city. Miss Annie Delly went to Oklahoma Wednesday, where she will make her home. Mrs. Ellen Terrell and daughter, Naomi, are spending the holidays out of the city. Buy your shoes at C. B. Miller's. Prof. J. H. Renfro, of Lebanon, is visiting in this city. Miss Pearlie Farmer, of Wainwright, is visiting Miss Florence Mosley. The young ladies from Lincoln Institute will give a concert at the A. M. E. Hall next Monday evening. Bargains in Shoes at C. B. Miller's. The Professional World is only $1 per year. Miss Mary Hawkins, of Springfield, is spending the holidays with Miss Estella Kirklin. Snoes and prices to suit everybody at C. B. Miller's. Mr. S. R. McWorter is visiting his sister, Mrs. Coleman. Mr. William Foster, of New York, is in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Williams entertained quite a number of their friends in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Foster. Miss Mattie Harris went to Centralia Wednesday to spend Xmas with her parents. The students of Lincoln Institute will give a concert Monday eve for the benefit of the A. M. E. church. Mrs. Henry Smith of Miami is spending Xmas at home. Mrs. Lucy Douglass, who has been spending a few days in Wentzville where her daughter Laura is ill returned Sunday. Miss Eula who has been teaching in Joplin is now at the bedside of her sister. Miss Lida Jones of Centralia Mo., is spending the holidays with Miss Bertha Lamme. Mr. Andrew Tilford, of Cen- LINKER THE TAILOR. Suits to order at $5.00 le for sixty days. First Class W 14 9th St. The Colu cery Suits to order at $5.00 less and Trousers $2.00 less for sixty days. First Class Work Guaranteed. The Columbia Gro=cery Co., Keeps constantly on hand a fresh supply of staple and FANCY GROCERI YOUR PRODUCE WANT FANCY GROCERIES. YOUR PRODUCE WANTED. FURNITURE! PAYNE BUILDING ANOTHER WALTHERS H AND DO POSIT CITY HALL BLDG. PHONE WALTHERS HAS ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE AND DOES FUNERAL DIRECTING. tralia Mo., was in the city Wednesday to meet his brother Clarence, who attended Lincoln Institute. The Columbians who attend Lincoln Institute, arrived Wednesday eve. BLIND TOM'S MOTHER DEAD. Was More Than a Hundred Years of Age. Charity Wiggins, the mother of ' Blind Tom, the famous musician, died recently in Alabama. She was said to be 105 years of age. Blind Tom's mother was a slave and was the mother of twenty children. While Tom was a baby she was bought by Gen. James N. Bethune, a wealthy Georgian, living near Columbus. The blind baby was regarded as worthless and no price was set on him. While still an infant he showed a passion for music and one day crawled to the piano when no one was looking and began playing tunes he had heard. He was able then to repeat any piece after hearing it once. For a time during the height of his fame his mother lived with him in luxury, but she was never satisfied away from her old home. Blind Tom is still living in semiconfinement with the family made rich by his genius at Atlantic Highlands, some twenty-five miles out from New York City. During the summer season he may be seen any pleasant day standing on the veranda of the house listening to the birds sing, and ever and anon rush in to his great piano to imitate the warbles of nature's songsters with his harmony divine. The great musical gifts of this blind and untutored man were an enigma to professional Europe years ago, and doubtless he is destined to go down in history as nature's greatest wonder in the world of music. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Flitchie less and Trousers $2.00 less Work Guaranteed. Columbia. Mo. PROCERIES. CE WANTED. EVERYONE INVITED TO VISIT OUR STORE AND INSPECT THE LARGEST LINE OF FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKER'S GOODS EVER CARRIED IN THIS SECTION OF THE STATE. No Joke, But a plain business fact stated in plain terms. Of course you know what we carry--but we have too big a load of some things that we don't want to invoice. This makes it necessary to Slaughter Prices on these lines. You've read ets for Cold Nights. We've the biggest cut we make now Dress Goods, (lot and Cloaks, (you These must go like April snow we make special prices on You've read about our Hild Nights. We've got some n cut we make now is in Goods, (lot at one-half loaks, (you ought to s ust go like April snow--in a hu special prices on on these lines. You've read about our Hot Blankets for Cold Nights. We've got some more. But the biggest cut we make now is in These must go like April snow--in a hurry. Then we make special prices on Carpets, Rugs, Mattings, Etc. IT TAKES NERVE to ma but--here goes. Come and S NERVE to make prices I goes. Come and bring your IT TAKES NERVE to make prices like these, but--here goes. Come and bring your wife. --- in Jefferson City is the Handsome Stock of Holiday Goods at Geo. Porth's Jewelry Store, 110 E. High Street. Charming Gifts—plenty of them, are ready and waiting for your inspection. Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks, Ebony Goods, Silk Umbrellas, Etc. This Fine Holiday Stock is full of Quality, Beauty and Good Taste, and is offered at the Most Reasonable Prices. Send Us Your Subscription, $1.00 We extend to all a "Merry Xmas," And to all we say "Good Cheer," May your horn of plenty be ever full, May you have a Happy New year. W.W. W. W. PAYNE West Broadway. CLEVER WOMAN SHOEMAKER. Indiana Spimster Who Can Use Awl And Was Skillfully. Indianapolis Sun. Indianapolis has a woman shoe- maker and she knows her trade as well as any man that ever made a shoe. All parts of the shoe look alike to her, and she can build one from the ground up. She is now in business at 122 East Ohjo street. Her favorite work on the shoe is the uppers. This is lighter and finer work and more suitable to a woman. She is Miss Louise Hartness. She is 36 years old and has been in her business for twenty-one years. No other woman cobbler is known in the state, at least none with the business reputaiton she bears. She earns a good salary and is well able to care for herself. As a reporter waited in his stocking feet while she mended a shoe the other day, she told of has experience as a shoe-maker. No false modesty is displayed in explaining her work, for she is proud of the art. When she was a girl of fifteen she sought employment with the old Barnett & Elliott shoe factory. Here she learned her trade and worked for eight years until the factory closed down permanently. Since then she has worked for shoemakers and has also done special work. There is no part of the shoe she does not know and know well enough to put together. "You see," she said, as she commenced work on the material for a new shoe, "I can take the tanned leather, a few tacks, some thread and machine and make any kind of shoe you want." The shoes she wears are her own make and she knows what they are made of. "There is no excuse for a shoe wearing out quickly," she says, 'if it is made of good material.' The finest woman's shoes is as easy for her to make as the roughest hunting shoe. She can make shoes that prevent corns and shoes that don't hurt corns, shoes for short-legged people, and plain, ordinary shoes. Miss Hartness likes her work and says she intends to follow the occupation for many years to come. Catarrh Cannot be Cured with Local Applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials free. F. J. Cheney & Co, Props., Toledo, Ohio Sold by druggists, price 75 cents Hall's Family Pills are the best Will of Judge Martin. The will of the late Judge Alexander Martin was filed for probate Tuesday. Among other provisions, the sum of $10,000 life insurance which he held in the New York Life Insurance Company, is left to his wife and all his real and personal property is to be equally divided between his wife and his son Percy. The son's interest is to be held in trust by his wife until he attains his majority, and in the event of her death, her interest in the estate is to revert to the son. --- Lodge and Church Directory. LODGE. S. M. T. Mrs. Ada Douglass, W. P.; Mrs. Lizzie Williams, W. S. Meeting first Monday in each month at 3 p. m. U. B. F. Crispus Attueks Lodge,No. 62. Meetings 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in each month. Visiting members cordially invited. Caleb Hall, W. M. A. M. Schweich, W. S. K. P. Acme Lodge, No. 24. Meetings second and fourth Fridays in each month. W. H. Turner, C. C. and D. D. G. C. W. W. Lampkins, M. F. O. E. S. Amos Chapter, No. 30. Meetings second Friday in each month. Mrs. Bessie Washington, W. M. Mrs. Lizzie Richardson, W. S. LADIES COURT. Golden Queen Court No. 19 meets first Friday in each month. Mrs. Annie Williams M. A. M. Mrs. V. L. Waldon Sec. ST. PAUL LODGE, NO. 12. St. Paul Lodge, No. 12, A. F. & A. M., meets every first and third Tuesday in each month. A cordial invitation extended to all visiting brothers. J. A. Mosely, W. M. J. A. Grant, Secretary. K. OF P. Harrison Lodge No. 12, Huntsville, Mo. Meeting the first and fourth Thursdays in each month. Martin Tony, C. C., W. F. Ansel, K. R. S., I. A. Robinson, M. E. Rev. J. B. Parsons, pastor. Preaching Sundays 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesdays 7:30 p. m. Everybody cordially invited to attend. Rev. P. C. Crews, Pastor. Preaching Sundays 11 a. m.; 7:30 p. m. Sunday school 2:30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday eve, at 8:30; every body invited to attend. M. E. CHURCH Rev. J. Arlington Grant, pastor. Preaching Sundays 11, a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesdays 7:30 to 8:30; all are made welcome. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. A. A. Adams, Pastor. Preaching Sundays 11 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening, 7:30. A cordial invitation ex- tended to all. ```markdown ``` BUY Your Ready-made Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Goods of Jno. Vogt 112 E. High St. - Jefferson City We also make suits to order. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS COPYRIGHT & C. TRADE MARKS DESIGNS Copyright & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is patented, Communications strictly confidential, Handbook of patent free. Oldest agency for securing patents, Patents taken through Munn Co., receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific patent. Turns, $3 a year; for problem in. Sold by all promoters. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 265 F St., Washington, D.C. --- IT'S THE GLOBE'S WISH THAT ALL MAY HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR. Men's Suits in Four Grand Lots. Here's Prices That Will Pleasingly Surprise You. THE EXPANSION SALE GIVES YOU WHAT YOU WANT WHEN YOU WANT IT. Made & Guaranteed by B. Kuppenheimer & Co America's Leading Clothes Makers Chicago Men's LOT 1. Choice of our splendid $12 to $15 suits in leading materials, such as cheviot, worsteds, clays, etc., etc. High grade garments, stylish and well made. 8.88 Here's Prices That Surprise Youths' suits, were $8 to $10, now - - - $6.39 Youths' suits, were $6 to $8, now - - - $4.65 Youths' suits, were $4.50 to $5.00, now - - $2.89 Boys' suits, worth $4 to $5, now - - - $2.96 Boys' suits, worth $2.50 to $3.00, now - - $1.73 Boys' suits, worth $1.25 to $1.75, now - - 93c Furnishings. Underwear, every garment worth 50c to 75c, now - 44c Suspenders, easily worth 15c, now - 7c THE EXPANSION New School For Kirksville There will be a college in Kirksville known as the Lovejoy Industrial Institute for colored boys and girls. This college will be founded by Prof. W. L. Jones. He is appealing to all well wishers of the race throughout the United States for the contribution of 10 cents toward erecting the college, all donations sent to Kirksville National Bank, Pres. Mills. Mr. Jones is an able worker for the race and has done some noble work for them throughout Arkansas and Texas. Exchange. FOR BURNING A DOG From the New Franklin News: "Tuttle, employed as wiper in the Katy round house here, was arrested Friday evening by Marshall Dodson and after spending the night in the city lockup was taken to the county jail Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Long. He is charged with cruelty to animals and if current reports be true, most justly so. Several days ago, while employed as fireman by F. H. Williams, the welldriller, Tuttle threw a live dog into the engine furnace and burned it." --- GALA DAYS AT THE GLOBE. Yes, these are gala days for thrifty shoppers. Despite unfavorable weather conditions, the Globe has been a busy place. Why? Because REAL BARGAINS are found here. People do not come out in stormy weather, unless they can save money. Many of the lines have been broken, such as suits and overcoats. Sizes of better grades have been taken to fill in, thus making the lots complete. LOWER PRICES PREVAIL, while quality is top notch. We're glad to make prices IN YOUR FAVOR, for we appreciate the increasing patronage. THE EXPANSION SALE WILL SOON BE OVER. Don't lose this opportunity—it's a golden one. Why not drop in today? LOT 2. All our $10 to $12 suits, cheviots, worsteds, clays, tweeds, etc., in leading styles and colors. All this season's styles. Many tempting bargains in this lot. 6.87 Overcoats, worth $10 to $12, now - - - $7.39 Overcoats, worth $8 to $10, now - - - $6.45 Overcoats, worth $6.50 to $7, now - - - $4.45 Overcoats, worth $5 to $6, now - - - $3.39 Trousers, worth $3.50 to $4, now - - $2.75 Trouseres, worth $2.50 to $3, now - - $1.98 Trouseres, worth $1.25 to $1.50, now - - - 98c Hats. All styles including the stiff hats, $1.75, $1.50, $1.19 ON SALE GIVES YOU W The weights of 1173 human brains have been collected by M. Marchand of Marbourg, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. At birth the average weight is found to be 9.8 ounces in boys and 9.5 ounces in girls; at the age of one year, 2 pounds and 1.5 ounces and 1 pound 11.5 ounces, respectively, and at the end of three years the weight has trebled. Increase is then slow. Full growth is attained at 19 to 20 years in men and 16 to 18 in women, the mean adult weight being three pounds one ounce in males and two pounds ten ounces in females. Loss by senile atrophy begins in a man at about 48 years, and in women at about 70. Turgeneff, the Russian author, had one of the heaviest brains on record, weighing 4.7 pounds, and Gambetta's scarcely 2.6 pounds, one of the lightest. A small boy of St. Joseph took an alarm clock to church Sunday He probably wanted to wake up the congregation while the minister was preaching. The alarm, however, went off during the opening prayer. The buzzing of the clock almost created a panic, but no one was injured except the boy, and he wasn't hurt until after he got home and came in contact with the family spanking machine, which was operated by his mother. This lot contains all of our regular $8 to $10 suits, in the best of styles and materials. These have been great sellers at regular prices. During this sale at In Other Things Now. worth 50c Jersey 44c $1.00 kit worth 85c Neckwe kind h $1.25 89c Muffler - 19c $1.50 kit shades, 7 $1.39 Our 75c worth Gloves, 1.23 from 75 Cut Prices on Other Cut Prices on Other Things You Need Now. Overalls, easily worth 50c to 65c, now - - - 44c Heavy wool jeans, worth $1.00, now - - - 88c Negligee shirts, worth $1.25 now - - - 88c Our 25c half hose at - 19c Duck coats in all shades, were $1.75 and $2, now $1.39 Boys' corduroy pants, worth $1.75, now - - - $1.29 Men's and boys' working shirts, worth 50c and 65c, now - - - 43c Sweaters worth $2, now $1.39 Caps, the 50c and 75c grade, now - - - 456 Toques, all double goods, worth 75c, now - - 47c WHAT YOU WANT WHAT WHEN YOU oix & Wal ool Books and ry, ```markdown ``` Lartonoix .....For School For School Books and Supplies.... Fine Stationery, Musical Goods, Magazines, Etc. No. 222 East High St. - Jefferson City, Mo. Claud L. Clark's Book Store Everything in Book line, Holiday Gifts of all descriptions. We purchased a line of drummer's samples which we are closing out at wholesale prices. See our Brush and Comb Sets, Toilet Articles, Picture Frames, Books, Etc', Etc. LOT 3. 4.89 GO TO 3.48 Things You Need Jersey shirts, the regular $1.00 kind - - 79c Neckwear, the 50c and 75c kind - - 45c Mufflers, all of our $1.25 and $1.50 kind, at - - 93c Our 75c grade will go at 44c Gloves, mitts, fingers, worth from 75c to $1.00 - - 50c Fancy Jersey Gloves, the popular kind, worth 25c, at - - - - - 17c Mackintoshes, worth $1.50, now - - - - - 99c Extra heavy canvas leggins, worth 75c and $1.00, now - - - - - 68c