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THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. $1.00 Per Year in Advance. You Can A You Can Always Find The Latest Novelties and up-to-date Goods in every Department... Our efforts are always directed to furnish goods for the same money or the same go money than you can find elsewhere; Our efforts are always directed to furnishing better goods for the same money or the same goods for less money than you can find elsewhere; BUT WE NEVER CUT THE QUALITY TO MAKE A CUT PRICE. Schultz Dry Goods = = = = = and Carpet Company, JEFFERSON CITY, MO. Schultz Dry Goods = = = = = = = = and Carpet Company, JEFFERSON CITY, MO. Columbia Notes. Miss Addie Mosely arrived Saturday from Kansas City. Mrs. E. L. Boone is improving rapidly at the Parker Hospital. Subscribe for the Professional World and east ten votes for somebody. The Odd Fellows sermon was postponed last Sunday on account of rain. Miss J. Ethel Fowler will remain in Columbia until after the Teachers Institute. Mr. Berry Richardson is having a foundation put in for a new home in Garth's addition. Mrs. Emma Mason returned to her home in Fulton Monday after spending several days with Mrs. Morton. Miss Maggie Williams and Rev. A. A. Adams have been elected delegates to the Baptist Sunday school convention. Mr. Jefferson Waldon returned Wednesday from Macon, Mo., where he went as a delegate to the A. M. E. Electoral College. Mrs. Jefferson Waldon and little grand-daughter, Lillian Richardson, are in Carrollton where they went to attend the funeral of Mrs. Waldon's sister-in-law. Everyone paying $1.00 subscription to this paper is entitled to cast ten votes for the most popular married lady in Boone county. See the names elsewhere in this paper. At a meeting of the S. M. T. last Monday afternoon the following officers were elected: Mrs. Gertrude Hurd, W. P.; Mrs. Lizzie Williams, W. S.; Mrs. Marion Drew, treasurer; Mrs. Charlotte Lange, chaplain. Decoration Day was generally observed in Columbia last Saturday. A procession headed by the Columbia band consisting of the old soldiers and a number of citizens and school children was formed at the Second Baptist church at 2:30 and marched to the cemetery where many flowers were strewn upon the graves of loved ones. Do You Want a Cut? If so send us your photo and $2 and we will furnish you a cut, guaranteed for twenty years and so return your photo. CASH OR CREDIT. Catalogue FREE. CENTURY MF'D CO. CASH OR CREDIT. Catalogue FREE. PRICE $33.50 It will pay you to send for our Catalogue No. 6, quoting prices on Burgles, Harness, std. We sell direct from our Factory to Consumers at Factory Prices. This guaranteed Burgle only $83.50; Cash or Easy Monthly Payments. We trust honest people located in all parts of the world. Write for Free Catalogue, INVITOR THIS PAPER. SEPT 7 910, East St. Louis, IL. cted to furnishing better or the same goods for less sewhere; ods - - - - - - carpet Company, CITY, MO. RECEPTION TO BISHOP SHAF- FER. Columbians Turn Out to do Honor to Distinguished Guest. The reception given in honor of Bishop C. T. Shaffer by the citizens of Columbia at St. Paul's Hall last Monday evening was a delightful affair, such as would do credit to a much larger city. It is to be regretted that owing to the disastrous floods in and about Kansas City, the home of the Bishop, he was compelled to leave Monday afternoon and consequently was not present to receive the hearty welcome of the hospitable citizens of Columbia, nevertheless the program rendered was a very creditable one and the addresses made were fitting and appropriate, to say the least. A large delegation of ministers were present from neighboring towns who had come upon the invitation of Rev. P. C. Crews, pastor of the A. M. E. church, at whose solicitation the Bishop came to Columbia. Presiding elder, M. S. Bryant, represented the Bishop in his absence and acted as master of ceremonies during the evening. The hall was packed with the best and most representative citizens of Columbia until standing room was at a premium. After the following program was rendered an elegant supper was served by the ladies of St. Paul church: Hymn (lined by). Rev.J.H. Williams Invocation..... Rev. D. W. Oakes Song..... St. Paul Church Choir Welcome Address..... Mrs. A.J.L. Hicks On Behalf of 2nd Christian Church Welcome Address..... Dr. J. E. Perry On Behalf of 2nd Baptist Church Welcome Address. Eulaee Douglas On Behalf of St. Paul A.M.E. Church Song..... St. Paul Church Choir Welcome Address..... Prof. J. B. Col- On Behalf of Public School Recitation.....Miss Eva Estes. Buy your Millinery of Miss Chandler, 106 E. High St., Jefferson City, Mo. Watch for the Date. Grand entertainment to be given at the opera house in Ashland, in the near future. Mrs. Macean P. Bass, general manager, Mr. J. E. Bass and Miss M. F Johnson stage managers; Mr. Lewis Douglass and Mr. Athena Anderson, chief ushers. PRICE $33.50 It will pay you to hand for our Catalogue No. 6 quoting prices on Burgles, Burmese, etc. We sell direct from our Factory to Consumers at Factory Prices. This guaranteed very only $33.60; Cash or Easy Cash, Pergams. We trust most people located in all parts of the world. Write for Free Catalogue, INFORMATION THIS PAPER. DEPT 910, EAST St. Louis, IA. COLUMBIA AND JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, FRIDAY JUNE 5, 1903. PROGRAMME. Rare Old Book Owned by a Jefferson City Man Containing Original Act. Jefferson City, Mo.—Col. W. Q. Dallmayer of this city, many years ago State Treasurer, is the owner of a rare old law book which bears the title, "Territorial Laws of Missouri." The volume was printed in this city in 1842 and contains the laws of the District of Louisiana, the Territory of Louisiana, and a few of the acts of early Missouri Legislatures. At this time, when so much interest in the history of the Louisiana purchase is being awakened, the book receives an added value. It contains a section which shows an act of the General Assembly, approved November 16, 1820, providing for the location of the seat of government, naming John Thornton of Howard County, Robert Gory Watson of New Madrid County, John B. White of Pike County and Jesse B. Montgomery of Boone County as the commission to select the seat of government. This section fixes its location in the following language: "Four sections of land, belonging to the United States, which shall not have been exposed to public sale, situated on the bank of the Missouri River, within 40 miles of the mouth of the Osage River, if such quantity of land within the limits aforesaid can be found, which shall not have been exposed to public sale, for the permanent seat of government for said State of Missouri, and shall make a report of their proceedings to the next General Assembly of said State. The said commissioners shall meet at Cote Sans Dessein on the first Monday in May next." --- Go to Mrs. Bauman 117 E. High st, Jefferson City, Mo., for all kinds of sewing and dressmaking. 5-22-4 To Meet Here. The Grand session of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor of international order of twelve will meet in Columbia July. Joe F. Herriford, C. G. M. of the order was in the city Thursday reviewing the arrangements preparatory to the grand session. He found them satisfactory and the order in an excellent condition. See S. Rost, the Tailor, 215 Madison st. Jefferson City, Mo, for all kinds of Tailoring, cleaning and pressing. May 22-4t. A Creditable Hall. By the untiring efforts of Rev. P. C. Crews, the old church property of the A. M. E. church, on Walnut St. has been remodeled and improved until it is practically a new building and a very suitable place for holding public entertainments. Rev. Crews evidently saw the folly of allowing the building to go to waste practically unused and renting a hall for holding church entertainments. Call on John A. Shot, The Tailor, for suits made to order. All kinds of cleaning and repairing. 5-22-4t From the Sedalia Times.—Mrs. Anna Wright, one of Sedalia's charming and intelligent young school teachers, has been elected to teach at Columbia next year. We are pleased to congratulate her and extend to her our best wishes in her new field of labor. Mrs. Wright is the oldest graduate of Lincoln school now teaching. She graduated in the year of 1887. YOUR TRACE SOLICITED The Flood Situation. Few people now living ever saw the flood situation so serious in Missouri and the damage to crops and the loss of property can hardly be estimated. Telegraphic reports from all sections of the country show that the flood is more general than in 1844. At Topeka, Kansas, hundreds of lives have been lost and many thousand people are without homes, while Armourdale, at Kansas City, is entirely inundated and houses are moving down the river like chips, and great fires have been raging in the large warehouses and factories. Telephone messages from Jefferson City late Thursday evening stated that the water was from bluff to bluff as it was in 1844 and the staying qualities of the bridge were being tested, the water being already far up on the north approach. No trains are being run in the Missouri bottoms on the Callaway side. The C. & A. operates from Mexico to the bluff and return. At McBaine, eight miles east of Columbia the entire town has been under water for three days. A representative of the Professional World visited there Thursday and saw the most distressing sights; the houses were two-thirds under water, all families having moved out except those occupying the hotel, which is a two- and a half story building and the water was still rising at the rate of one inch per hour. No trains have run on the main line of the M., K. & T. for three days and the Columbia branch suspended operation Thursday as the water had covered a goodly portion of the track. Much stock has been reported lost. Mr. Pitts, who lived on an island opposite Providence, and is one of the most thrifty colored farmers, lost 500 barrels of corn. The condition at Roceport is reported equally serious. $5.00 worth of purchase tickets from Miss Chandler's millinery store, 106 k. High st., Jefferson City, will entitle you to a life size portrait for 98 cts. A ticket given with every $1.00 purchase. May 22-4t- Remember The WABASH ROUTE is the direct Line to BOSTON Mass., Account of the National Educational Association July 6, to 10, 1903. Greatly reduced rates. Diverse routes, including many attractive boat trips, Stop-overs allowed at Detroit, Niagara Falls and New York. For Rates and Souvenir Folder giving full information in regard to Side Trips, etc., write H. E. WATTS, P. & T. A.. NOBERLY, NO. The Voting Contest. The Professional Word Voting Contest which begun last week is already becoming interesting. Each of the contestants have received a number of votes. All persons who intend to vote should do so as soon as they pay their subscription. Everybody is entitled to vote whether living in or out of Boone county. A Request. We will consider it a great favor if our readers will patronize the merchants whose advertisements they see in this paper. Prof. W. T. Verno Who has just closed his most prosper University, Q Who has just closed his most prosperous year as President of Western University, Quindaro, Kans. THE VOTING CONTEST. We present below the following Professional World Voting Contest Every person who pays one year's scription will be entitled to ten vow Mrs. L. E. Richardson, Mrs. Macea Bass, We present below the following names of ladies as entries in the Professional World Voting Contest. Others will appear next week. Every person who pays one year's subscription or renews their subscription will be entitled to ten votes. Mrs. L. E. Richardson, - - - - Columbia, Mo. Mrs. Macea Bass, - - - Ashland, Mo. Mrs. Anna L. Hicks, - - - Columbia, Mo. The lady receiving the highest number of votes will be awarded the prize, which is a fine broad cloth dress pattern. Clip the following cupon and fill out properly. Stop at BLAINES BIG..... ARGAIN 306 E. HIGH STREET, JEFFERSON CITY, MO. For Gents Furnishing Goods And Shoes of all kinds. YOU CAN SEE THEM ON THE STREET AND OUR PRICES NO ONE CAN BEAT. Open 5:30, a. m. Close 9:30, p. m. VOL. II. NO. 31 COMPANY STORE. RI. T. PRICES. R Mail Orders Promptly Filled Agents Wanted. We desire to engage some good agents to solicit subscriptions for the Professional World. Liberal commissions will be paid and only one agent will be engaged for the same town, only persons of good standing need apply. Address, Professional World, Columbia, Mo. Nifong Manufacturing Co., DISTILLED WATER ICE, standard for QUALITY, SERVICE AND PRICE. 'Phone 111. Regular Morning and Special Deliveries 365 days in the year. COLUMBIA 365 MISSOURI. n, A. M., B. S. D. ous year as President of Western Lindaro, Kans. ** I CONTEST. ing names of ladies as entries in the . Others will appear next week. subscription or renews their sub- s. - - - Columbia, Mo. - - - Ashland, Mo. - - - Columbia, Mo. number of votes will be awarded dress pattern. FURNITURE! 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. AN EXPERIMENT. From the Christian College Chronicle. THE editor laid aside his blue pencil as he took up a manuscript signed "Mignon." It was a poem, a sweet song, rich in coloring and pure in tone. It was written in a careful Spencerian hand, delicately shaded. This was long ago. The editor mused, looking—dreaming—past the waiting pile of manuscript on the desk. For a year he had corresponded with "Mignon." It was two years since he had first accepted her poems. This woman's soul was pure and beautiful; and for this he loved her. Weeks ago he had even asked her to become his wife. He received a flattering reply which in his eagerness he read as favorable to his wishes. The letter closed thus: "I cannot promise you my love, when you have never seen me. I am Mary. It is "Mignon" who writes the poems and also the letters. Then it is that I forget that I am MARY. "I have never seen her. Next week I shall go—I shall see "Mignon," murmured the editor as he laid the poem with the accepted. The little editor feared that Mignon would be disappointed when she should behold him for the first time. He was small and so slender that his coats seemed always to hang in folds. But when one looked into his face, he was reminded of the pictures which the masters have painted of the beloved disciple. No one had told the little editor of this. As he went home in the evening he rejoiced in the return of springtime. The flower girl at the corner was overwhelmed with joy when he purchased all her flowers, the daffodils, the jonquils, and the sweet violets. As he took the flowers his glance fell upon his frail white hands. A feeling of disgust with his physical insignificance passed over him. When he dropped into the leather chair in his own room he was discouraged, and felt that the joy of the springtime was not for such as he. Dinner time passed and the night came. Weary of his own bitter thoughts he slept and dreamed—dreamed that Mignon was homely. He saw a raw boned woman, and the voice he heard was harsh. He awoke and lay in a cold perspiration with the gaunt spectre of his dream haunting his soul. Sometimes he could not believe Mignon like this; but he knew that it was possible. Forgotten was the little editor's fear that he might not find favor in the eyes of Mignon. He would disgust her with himself. For his first appearance he carefully selected most unbecoming garments. There was a Prince Albert coat shiny across the back and hopelessly frayed in front. He allowed his hair to grow long on his neck, and his collar was low. He wore a large tie of an appalling shade of blue, illustrated in a conspicuous design of horseheads and crossed riding whips. His trousers were short and bagged at the knees. He wore low shoes run down at the heels, and a derby hat which crushed his ears outward. In this disguise which would have concealed the editor's identity from his most intimate friend, he walked up the pavement before the fashionable boarding school in which Mignon lived and taught Latin and Greek. On the little white bed Mary lay, weeping. A music teacher rapped at the door and heard a muffled "Come," in answer. "Are you not ready? What's the matter? Are you ill dear?"—surprise melting into tenderness when Mary lifted her tear stained face, and cried: "I'm so homely—not plain—just ugly!" The Principal of the school had glanced in through the half open door, and now her arms were around the weeping girl. "Dear child, you must not feel that way. We all love you, and you are beautiful to us. Your wonderful eyes and your soft auburn hair! Don't cry; your eyelids are red and swollen. Here, wear the dainty lavender gown. Sunday, when Madame D'Ole saw you in that little gown, she said you were "la plus belle." When the card was brought to Mary's room later in the afternoon she went to receive her guest in the drawing room. Madame had begged to arrange her "hair marvellous." In her excitement Mary's cheeks were delicately pink, and her large eyes were bright and soft like twin evening stars. When she stood in the reception hall with the sunlight making a shining halo of her hair, she was as fair as a Madonna. The little editor forgot his ridiculous garments as he bowed with courtly grace before the princess of his dreams. When the little servant of the shining ivories closed the folding doors, he hastened to his mother. Perhaps she could fathom the mystery of this man's appearance. "Law chile, you say he didn't have no white shirt, and his buttons were all dangling by threads!"—and she stirred the soup in her chauldron in troubled silence. "Miss Mary's too good for anybody but a bad man. I've allus said it." When the dinner bell rang the girls, who knew that Miss Mary's Prince Charming was expected, and had watched the walk until the last chance was gone, reluctantly left their posts. "Did you see him?" one girl whispered. "No there was not a creature came up that walk all afternoon but an agent—an umbrella mender, or a toy balloon man—I didn't notice which." When the girls took their places in the dining hall they were transfixed by the sight of Miss Mary ushering that "agent" to the faculty table. If Miss Mary was embarrassed she gave no sign. Two weeks later a gentleman of irreproachable appearance called to see Miss Mary. This time the faculty were charmed with the brilliant conversation and the courtly grace of the little editor. Mary strolled with him in the orchard when it was in blossom and violets were blooming in their path. It was then Mary accepted "Mignon's" lover, and in the month of Roses they were married. CALLIE BELL INGELS, '02. SPRING. Dip down upon the northern shore, O, sweet new year, delaying long. Thou doest expectant nature wrong; Delaying long, delay no more. What stays thee from the clouded noons, Thy sweetness from its proper place? Can trouble live with April days, Or sadness in the summer moons? Bring the orchids, bring the fox glove spire, The little speedwell's darling blue, Deep tulips, dashed with fiery dew, Laburnums, dropping wells of fire. O, thou, new year, delaying long, Delayest the sorrow in my blood, That longs to burst a frozen bud, And flood a fresher throat with song. —Alfred Tennyson. Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man; teach, or preach, or labor as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another. And nearly the best thing that men can do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this; learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds from our own charcoal.—Ruskin. He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.—Lavater. The Latest Innovation in London Is the Lightning Lunch. America is about to make another raid on London, says the London Express. It has been tubes and boots and other things. This time it is food, and busy city men are to be taught to bolt their luncheons at lightning speed. Mr. J. H. Wyman, who is proud of having fed 300,000 people on Chicago day, and from 50,000 to 75,000 on every other day of the great exhibition, is preparing the scheme, and he promises 30 new kinds of pie. In the States, he explained, pie stands for fruit pie and the like, and we are to have pumpkin pie and all the rest of the wonderful gradations of color and flavor that represent American pastry cook genius. But 30 sorts of pie will be a mere corner of the menu, so to speak. There will be scores and scores of other wonderful dishes to baffle the analytical powers of the consumer. There will be no waiters or waitresses. The city man will simply help himself to anything that he may fancy, and then report how much he owes at the pay box. Mr. Wyman has great faith in common honesty. "Put a man on his honor," he says, "and he will pay." At the same time he will have an inspector or two on duty to see that there is fair play. At first it is proposed to open three establishments—one in Holborn, another in the Strand, and the third near the Bank. When their success has been assured other luncheon bars will follow. About the novelty of the fittings Mr. Wyman is silent. "Others are after my ideas," he said; "and I think they will surprise London." AN EXCEPTIONAL MUMMY. Body of an Egyptian High Priest of Four Thousand Years Ago. The German Oriental society has been most successful in its explorations at Abu-Sir in Egypt, and most interesting "finds" were distributed among the Berlin museums. One of the most important discoveries, says the London Antiquary, was a perfectly preserved mummy of Jen Em Jechvet, the high priest of the temple, who died about 2,000 years before Christ. The body was found in a family vault, which also contained the remains of his priest and reader and their wives. Only three tombs of such an age have been found in good preservation during the last century, and this is the first time that the contents have been brought safely to Europe. Jen lay in his coffin enveloped in a brown linen shroud, just as he had been placed there 4,000 years ago. In accordance with the fashion of the time, he has small side whiskers, and a longer tuft on his chin, and his eyes are made to appear unnaturally long by means of the careful application of rouge. The wig, which is large and parted down the middle, has a bluish tint verging on green, and must originally have been the color of lapis lazuli, in imitation of the hair worn by Egyptian gods. The mummy was lying lightly on the left side, as Egyptians sleep to-day, and the head rested on a support as is still in use in the Soudan. The eyes are turned toward the rising sun. Two staffs were found beside the body, and a little wooden statue. Its Latest Use. "The latest use to which electricity is being put in this city is to light up obstructions in the streets," remarked a citizen who possesses a Sherlock Holmes proclivity for taking note of small things in detail. "I was passing by a big down-town hotel a few evenings ago when my attention was attracted to an incandescent electric lamp attached to a stick which was imbedded in a huge heap of ashes in the roadway near the sidewalk. Power for the lamp was supplied by an insulated wire which ran from the lamp through the grating of an opening in the sidewalk, and thence to the power plant below. It was the first time I had ever seen anything but the old reliable oil lantern used for lighting up obstructions in the streets of this city."—Washington Star. In Belgium. It is a custom in the Belgian parliament, when a member is making a long speech, to be supplied with brandy as a beverage, at the expense of the government. A Literary Item. It costs £50 a year to dust the books in the library of the house of lords. You Can't Get Away from the "PRICE!" It is Bound to Strike You. Any Child can Read the "PRICE" of PAPE'S Shoes 810, Broadway, A man in a suit is being pulled down a door by a woman in a dress. We claim to make our UMBIA BELLE FLOUR the market--better than the gr purchase only the best of it by the most approved me take any blame that may a We claim to make our HIGH PATENT and COLUMBIA BELLE FLOUR the peer of any brand on the market--better than the great majority--because we purchase only the best of soft winter wheat and mill it by the most approved methods--and we're here to take any blame that may arise from its shortcomings. Boone County Milli Physicians Recognize the remarkable tonic and constructive qualities of ANHEUSER-BUSCH'S Malt-Nutrine TRADE MARK. It is endorsed and prescribed by the best doctors. The ideal food-drink, invigorating, sustaining, NOT intoxicating. It contains 14.60% genuine nutritive extract and less than 2% of alcohol. Sold by druggists. Prepared by Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n St. Louis, U. S. A. Orders promptly filled by I. A. VICTOR, Dealer, Columbia, Mo. EYES TESTED BY MAIL. SCIENCE TRIUMPHS. Our experts have a new method, how a person can test his eyes without going to the Oculist. If you have HEADACHE, SORE EYES, GRANULATED EYE, LIDS OR WEAK EYESIGHT, write immediately to us, and we will send you MEDICAL Blanks and optical test cards for testing your eyes. Don't delay. New method. GLASSES FOR $1.00 AND UP. HENRIETTA OPTICAL CO., 2702 Henrietta Street, St. Louis, Mo. TRY IT! way, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI. Pause and Consider. before buying flour whether it's to your interest to patronize home industry. HIGH PATENT and COL- peer of any brand on the neutralize poisons. Clover.—I take great care in harvesting my clover for poultry, both the first and second crop. It should be cut in good time, cured nicely without dew or rain on it, and may be stored in gunny sacks or otherwise until it is needed. We run it through the cutter and then wet or steam it over night, then add bran, meat, bone, salt, etc. Do not skimp the clover. Better waste some rather than that the hens should not have enough. Alfalfa is the only forage plant that approaches clover as "hen hay." Meat.—The egg is rich in albumen. You must feed it into your hens or the eggs will be few in number and the whites will be thin and watery. Granulated beef-scrap and the meat meal and dried blood are obtainable on the market. If you have an abundance of butcher-shop bones, and can obtain cheap meat to boil, thickening the soup with bran and vegetables, you are to be congratulated, provided you do this work regularly. Grit.—This is the most essential grain feed. Without it your corn is of little good and your hens soon die of disease. Use mica grit, pearl grit, gravel grit, cinder grit, any old grit, and, still better, all of them. Waste some grit to be sure you get enough grit. Shell.—One-tenth of the shell is lime. Your egg shells must be heavy if you would hold a choice market. You can well afford to buy oyster shell at 75 cents per hundred pounds in you sell it at sixteen cents per pound, and that is what you do in the egg business. Bone.—Every one admits that the growing an mal requires bone-building material to give him strength of limb Many, however, imagine that the hen old enough to lay eggs no longer needs this kind of supply. The hen, however, is the best judge, and the eagerness with which the laying hen will turn even from ram to pick up fresh cut bone or even dry bones, is the best evidence that she needs it in her business. Do not deny her this. Secretary of the American Poultry Association, Beaver, Pennsylvania. With my topic thus outlined no one will accuse me of talking politics or of discussing the relation of gold to silver; but the above is my text and I'm going to preach the "Gospel of Hen" and discuss the relation of feed to eggs, and how to turn our farm products into cash at a good profit. In doing this I shall try to give you an outline of the food supply necessary for carrying a flock of forty-five pullets one year and give the average cost of these foods and tell something of the relation they should bear to each other. THREE COMMENTS ON OUR FOOD TABLE. First. The foods are very largely cereal. I am a firm believer in the theory that the hen can subsist and yield a fine profit in eggs on a ration of grains alone. I have no objection to soft feed, cooked feed, steamed feed, etc., but it has been shown that these are not necessary to profitable egg production. You can probably increase the egg output for a short time by these expedients, but your yearly product will, we believe, not greatly exceed that from a grain and meat ration. By cooked or steamed feed you can surely increase the egg product at the time of year that eggs sell for the most money. Second. I give this table of foods, not as the best one for all, but as a good one for most people, especially the amateur. If your market, location and surroundings enable you to substitute potatoes, turnips, beets, cabbage, etc., for some of the items, well and good; I have no quarrel with you and shall be glad to hear of your success. Or if you can obtain fresh bones from the butcher and will grind them, you can dispense with much of the cut-bone and beef-scrap I have prescribed and reduce materially the cost. Third. You may not be able to purchase in small quantities the feeds I have prescribed at the prices named. Feed promises to be cheap CHICKEN this year and eggs will surely be high. This article is written in western Missouri, and a prominent stock feeder in looking over the table said: "You have those grain prices 50 per cent higher than is necessary for this section this year." Now, you may need to pay higher prices than those specified, but if so you are in a locality where you can sell your eggs higher than "16 cents per pound." At our Beaver Hill farm we believe that our feeds cost us perhaps 25 per cent higher than our estimate, but we will realize more than 25 per cent advance on the price of eggs, for at no time this summer did we sell eggs lower than 20 cents per dozen, and in September people were coaxing for our eggs at 24 cents per dozen, or "16 cents per pound." Right here in the country districts of western Missouri eggs are selling now for 18 cents per dozen. A RICH RATION. Even the critic will admit that this is a pretty rich diet—much better in both quantity and quality than he feeds—and we are ready to admit that it requires a hen with a good digestive apparatus to do the work. She must have the assimilating powers of the dairy-bred Jersey or Holstein cow to reach the mark. No dung-hills need apply. No drones need undertake the management. But it has been done; it is being done; you can do it if you will supply the comforts and conveniences that Madam Hen calls for. To consume ten and two-third ounces of food in three days and give you in return four ounces of egg is no small undertaking on her part, nor is it a small business on your part to secure it. Remember one point just here: two-thirds of the egg is water. The remaining one-third you must give her in the proper solid foods, not forgetting the water, and also provide liberally at the same time for her animal heat, the wear and tear of her system and for the ashes of her animal fires. In other words you must expect lots of your feed to find its way to the dropping-board, but even there it is a valuable product which we have not figured in. COMMENTS ON THE FOODS. A few words about these foods in the order named in our table: Corn.—We use it in smaller proportion than here specified, partly because with us in western Pennsylvania it is very expensive, but more because it is too fattening. Our hens are kept for breeding as well as for egg production. The fat hen may be kept so and be made to lay eggs up to our requirements of "two eggs in three days," but the eggs from a fat hen do not hatch well. Oats.—We consider oats our very best feed. Oats cost us 2 1-3 cents per pound the past season, but they are cheaper now. With an abundance of grit there is no danger in feeding whole oats. We bought hulled oats the past year for the same price as the whole oats. Fed alone, they are not satisfying to the hens. They do not furnish bulk enough. Hulled oats must be accompanied with plenty of clover and other coarse food. Wheat.—At 80 cents per bushel the past season wheat was our cheapest feed. Don't think to economize by buying poor wheat or screenings. If you buy, buy the best quality obtainable. Kaffir Corn and Sorghum.—These are two of the very best of grains, as nearly a balanced ration for the fowls as you can get; but don't depend on these or any other one grain. You must keep up the hen's appetite with variety. Skip from one grain to another frequently. Keep her happy and busy. It pays. Bran.—We esteem bran as the one essential ground food. We use it dry, in large flat boxes about the yards, where the birds young and can jump in and pick a lot of it. We also use it as a basis of all our soft feeds, a carrier for our meat-meal, etc. We always use salt on our soft feeds. Bran is rich in protein; it is a good regulator; it seems to Dates of Missouri Fairs Albany—Gentry County President, C. B. Hash, Secretary, S. W. Clark. Bunceton—Cooper County President, Henry Fricke, Secretary, W. B. Kernes. Columbia—Boone County President, B. J. Brown, Secretary, B. E. Hatton. Cuba—Crawford county President, D. C. Garver, Secretary, Jno. Harris. Carthage—Jasper county Man'g and owner, E. Knell. Centralia—Boone County President, H. C. Threlkeld, Secretary, J. K. Pool. Cape Girardeau—Cape Girardeau County President, D. A. Glenn, Secretary, E. H. Englemann. California—Moniteau County President, J. L. Buchanan, Secretary, Aug. Seyffert. Dexter—Stoddard County President, Thos. Connelly, Secretary, S. P. Jeffers. Gallatin—Daviess County (Street Fair and Horse Show), President, C. M. Harrison, Secretary, Robert J. Ball. Hamilton—Caldwell County President, Joe Anderson, Secretary, A. C. Menefee. Harrisonville—Cass County President, H. V. Hurst, Secretary, T. Armstrong. Hermitage—Hickory County President, Chas. Manuel, Secretary, C. M. Bentley. Joplin—Jasper County President, Budd M. Robinson, Secretary, Dan F. Bryan. Kennett—Duklin County President, O. S. Harrison, Secretary, R. H. Jones. Lee's Summit—Jackson County President, J. S. Butterfield, Secretary, H. E. Lampkin. Moberly—Randolph County President, A. C. Dingle, Secretary, E. W. Roberts. Paris—Monroe County Secretary, J. R. Phillips. Palmyra—Marion County President J. W. Lemmons, Secretary G. B. Thompson. Platte City—Platte County Secretary, Will Forman. Rockport—Atchison County President, Miles Sickles, Secretary, John D. Doff. St. Louis— President, C. A. Tilles, Secretary, John Hackmeister. Sedalia—Missouri State Fair President, N. H. Gentry, Secretary, J. R. Rippey. Trenton—Grundy County Secretary, Hugh C. Smith. Warrensburg—Johnson County President, Wm. Sutton, Secretary, J. T. Dofflemyer. Washington—Franklin County President, Fred L. Mauntel, Secretary, Jos. F. Kahmann. Secretaries please forward dates with officers to this office for on. GEO. B. ELLIS, Columbia, M. Miller's RIVER ON A RAMPAGE. Greatest Overflow Since 1844 Much Life and Property Headlines in Kansas City dailies tell a frightful story of property destroyed in that city by high water. Briefly told, this was the situation first of the week: Water six feet deep in the Kansas City union depot. Greatest flood since freshet of 1844. Fifteen dead, while fire add to the horror. Twenty thousand persons driven from their homes. Lowlands are many feet under water. All street cars stopped, water supply shut off and the city in darkness. Fire is raging above the floods in many places in the west bottoms and no means exist for fighting it. Matters in Probate Court. In the matter of Mag A. Todd, on a petition filed alleging that Miss Mag A. Todd had been restored to her right mind and was capable of managing her affairs, the court set a day for a hearing on the merits. On the testimony produced at theearing, the court found that the allegations in the petition were true and ordered her guardian to make a settlement and turn her property back to her. No communication in any way is possible with Kansas City, Kan., Armourdale, Argentine or Harlem. The last three named are wiped off the map and the Kaw river has made itself a new channel and is running twelve miles an hour and twenty-five deep where Armourdale was last Friday. At Topeka, Lincoln and other river cities the situation was even worse,—more than 100 lives were lost and four millions of property destroyed. To-day. May 5, the river is subsiding at Kansas City and Topeka, but will probably not go down for several days at St. Louis. While the water is high at St. Louis the damage has not been great as yet. Estate of David H. Henderson, will probated. Geo. W. Henderson appointed administrator with will annexed. On petition filed to sell real estate to pay debts, order of publication was made. Estate of Frederick Pannell, will probated and Fannie A. Pannell appointed executrix. Testator leaves all his estate to his wife, Fannie A. Pannell. The high waters were caused by the continuous and heavy rains combined with the melting snow in the mountains of the northwest. Estate of Alexander Martin, Mary H. Martin appointed executrix. Probate court meets next Monday morning, June 8, on a two days' adjourned term. One Minute Cough Cure For Coughs, Colds and Croup. A prominent South Carolina woman. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Gratitude compels me to acknowledge the great merit of your Vegetable Compound. I have suffered for four years with irregular and painful menstruation, also dizziness, pains in the back and lower limbs, and fitful sleep. I dreaded the time to come which would only mean suffering to me. "Better health is all I wanted, and cure if possible. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound brought me health and happiness in a few short months. I feel like another person now. 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No person willfully telling a lie or swearing to one ever enjoys a clear conscience afterwards. Few people seem to realize the enormity of telling falsehoods or even swearing to them. WHEN you go shopping ask the merchant you deal with why his "ad" does not appear in the Professional World. If he says he does not need it that means he does not need your trade. AGAIN we urge upon the members of our race to patronize the race enterprises. Remember that this is the only way we may ever become a strong factor. See to it that no well directed or well meaning negro enterprise lacks your support. OUR thanks are due the following named persons for subscriptions this week: Mr. George Henderson, of Midway, Mrs. Lee Emmerson, Mr. James Williams, Miss Cornelia Turner, Mr. Edward Brown, Mrs. Jane Hughes of Columbia; Mr. Edward White of McBaine, and Mrs. Ida Joyce Jackson, of Colorado Springs. PARENTS of Columbbia children should see to it that their children have something to do and keep them off the streets. The old saying that "an idle brain is the devil's workshop" is a true one and these boys and girls who have nothing to do because school is out are more than apt to get into mischief of some kind. Give them a job of pulling weeds, cleaning up the yards, white washing, etc. TAKE THE WABASH TO DETROIT, MICH. TO THE INTERNATIONAL EPWORTH - LEAGUE CONVENTION JULY 16-19, 1903. The Missouri State Epworth League has designated The Wabash as the Official Route to Detroit. Greatly Reduced Rates The most attractive and lowest-priced summer trip ever offered. For particulars and souvenir folder write W. D. Wood, L. S. McClellan, T. P. A. W. P. A. St. Louis, Mo. Kansas City, Mo. H. E. WATTS, P. & T. A., MOBERLY, MO. SPUN OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH. World Taken In by a Yarn of Massacre and Cannibalism. A great many newspapers and geographical magazines published last spring a harrowing story of the fate of an exploring expedition sent to New Guinea by the Paris newspaper, La Patrie. Dr. Henry Rouyer had returned to France with the melancholy particulars. He reported, in brief, that his exploring party had penetrated a short distance inland on the south coast of the great island when they were treacherously attacked by natives, who killed 25 men, four of whom were whites. Thirty-three others were wounded, including Dr. Rouyer. The doctor was knocked senseless by a blow on the head. When he came to he saw the bodies of his murdered friends for the cooking pot. They had begun to roast the body of the unfortunate Mr. Haganbeck when, just in the nick of time to save the horrified doctor, a rescue party burst through the woods, having heard the screams of the men. The doctor owed his life to the prompt appearance of these rescuers. In other words, he lived to fill several columns of La Patricie with the gruesome details of this terrible event. Every newspaper that was worth its salt repeated the sad story. The periodicals of learned and dignified geographical societies gave it considerable space. Petermann's Mitteilungen, one of the most scientific publications, thought that the tragical affair might have been indirectly the result of the doings of a person named Kroesen, who had been sent to inflict punishment upon the natives for stealing property from white men in the British domain. The magazine said that according to the logic of the Papuans they would be likely to hold any white men whom they might catch responsible for the acts of the other whites. One little fact mentioned by Petermann's Mitteilungen might perhaps have aroused suspicion as to the veracity of Dr. Rouyer. This, says the New York Sun, was that nothing whatever had been heard in the geographical world of the activity or even of the existence of the exploring party before the massacre occurred. The same journal now desires to withdraw its report of Dr. Rouyer's story. It says that investigation proves that the report of the massacre of the French expedition on the south coast of New Guinea was "a frivolous invention of an alleged member of a pretended expedition and of the Paris newspaper La Patrie." No such expedition had been anywhere near New Guinea. Dr. Rouyer, who so vividly reported the massacre and asserted that he had been wounded and rescued, has in fact never been nearer to New Guinea than Buitenzozork on the island of Java. The long story which La Patrie printed was adorned with pictures of villages, boats and other things purporting to have been made from photographs taken in New Guinea. The pictures, however, represent scenes in the neighborhood of Buitenzorg. The able narrative of Dr. Henry Rouyer, sad to say, must be relegated to the realm of fable. It is not the first time that the imagination of a romancer has enlivened the pages, not always picturesque and interesting, of geographical exploration. How the Head of the Firm Was Told of Cashier's Defalcation. The cashier of a certain firm had absconded and the head clerk, says London Answers, was decided on as being a fit and proper person to acquaint the head of the firm of the fact on his arrival. There had been a dog fight in the street, and a small crowd was just dispersing as the chief's carriage dashed up. "What's that crowd after, Jorkins?" demanded the head of the firm. "The vacancy, sir," he replied. "Vacancy?" What vacancy? "Cashier, sir." "But we want no cashier, Jorkins." "Beg pardon, sir, but we've a vacancy for one!" "Jorkins, are you mad?" Jorkline, are you mad? "No, sir. That is, sir, I don't know, sir. Fact is, sir—all the cash is gone, and—and—" "Well?" 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The thirty-first annual commencement of Lincoln Institute will be held next week beginning Sunday, June 7th. The following is the program. SUNDAY, JUNE 7. 3:00 p. m. Baccalaureate Sermon, by Rev. Thomas G. Harper, A. M., Rector Episcopal Church, Kansas City, Mo. 8:00 p. m. Sermon to the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A., by Rev. H. A. Gibson, Pastor Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, Ind. MONDAY, JUNE 8. 9:00 a. m. to 12:00 m. Oral Examinations. 1:00 p. m. Inspection of Industrial Work. 8:00 p. m. Address before the Literary Societies, by Prof D. E. Gordon, A. M., Prin L'Ouverture School, St. Louis Mo. TUESDAY, JUNE 9. 8:00 p. m. Graduating Exercises of C. Normal Class. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10. 9:00 a. m. Inspection of Institute Farm. 8:00 p. m. Class Night Exercises. THURSDAY, JUNE 11. 9:00 a. m. Meeting of Alumni Association. 8:00 p. m. Address before Alumni Association, by Mr. I. F. Bradley, '85. FEIDAY, JUNE 13. 20:00 a. m. Commencement Exercises. Presentation of Diplomas, by President B. F. 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