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J. B. Parsons, of Jefferson City, returned home Monday after attending the teachers Institute here. Miss Maggie Williams is attending the Baptist Sunday School convention at Montgomery City this week. Mr. Talton Woods took out a fishing party of young people last Monday. They spent the day angling on Hinkson creek. Miss Blanche Morrison left Tuesday for Chicago where she will spend several weeks in the conservatory of music at the Chicago University. Master George Caldwell is spending the summer in Chicago and visiting his parents before returning to school in September at Fisk University. The handsome new residence of Mr. Berry Richardson is nearly Miller's Twentieth Century Negro Literature WRITTEN BY This book contains One Hundred Treatises on Thirty-Eight General Topics in which the negro problem is viewed from every possible standpoint. No work could more fully represent the higher stratum of negro citizenship. 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Highest commissions on once to pay mailing expenses. on at once. This is the opportunity of your life. HOLS & CO., Naperville, Illinois. COLUMBIA AND JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, FRIDAY JULY 3, 1903. How's This? Vendredi is a French word. It means Friday. Pompeii was at the mouth of the Sarnus river. Pittsburg, Pa., is called the "Iron City." Philadelphia was laid out in 1682. The population one year later was 500. The Old Colony was a name given the first Plymouth settlement in Massachusetts. The population of Virginia in 1900 was 704,771. Of this number 435,612 were whites and 268,962 were negroes. Cavite was a Spanish military post on a narrow peninsula on the island of Luzon, about eight miles southwest of Manila. Chloral hydrate is a combination of chlorine and alcohol. It was discovered by the chemist Liebig. It produces deep sleep. The United States took formal possession of the Hawaiian islands August 12, 1898. Sanford B. Dole became territorial governor. Perspective in drawing is the art of representing objects on a plane surface in the proportions due to their relative distance from the eye. There was a sacred way called the Via Sacra in Rome and one in Athens. The Athenian road led from the Dipylum gate to Eleusis. The salary of the president of Mexico is $50,000, the same as that of the President of the United States. The salary of the governor general of Canada is also $50,000. The monument to Lincoln at Oak Ridge, Springfield, is of Quincy granite. It is 120 feet high. The sculptor was Larkin G. Mead. It cost $264,000. The statute of Lincoln is bronze. To filibuster means to pilfer, to acquire by filibustering. In political slang, filibuster means to obstruct legislation by speeches, calling for divisions or other dilatory measures to gain time. Benjamin means "son of the right hand." Among the Hebrews the right hand indicated good luck. Benjamin's mother, Rachel, who died when he was born, called him Benoni, "son of my sorrow," but his father, Jacob, changed the name. The Missouri Liberals formed a part of the Republican party in Missouri in 1870. A political move by Carl Schurz resulted in dividing the party in Radicals and Liberals. The Radicals professed the principles of the Stalwarts in New York politics. The newspaper which afterwards became the London Times was founded in 1785. It was called the Daily Universal Register. It adopted the name the Times January 1, 1788. The first proprietor of the Times was John Walter. The word levee is from the French word "lever," to raise. It is an old creole word used to designate the mounds raised on both sides of the Mississippi river to protect the land on a lower level than the river. The term has come to be applied to all banks used as wharves, such as the levee at New Orleans. The Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy was killed by a mob of pro-slavery men at Alton Ill. He had been publishing a religious paper that dealt freely with slavery. He had been driven out of St. Louis. There was a declaration of the powers against slavery in 1815. It was signed by the representatives of the nations at the congress of Vienna. The cities of refuge were appointed by the Mosaic law. There were six such towns used as 1865 "Old Glory," the same yesterday, today and forever. YOUR TRADE SOLICITED "Old Glory," the same yes asylums for involuntary manslayers. The homicide was safe from the "avenger of blood" within these cities or within 1,000 yards around them. Under Joshua, these cities were Kedesh, Sechem, and Hebron on the west of the Jordan and Bezer, Ramoth-Gilead and Golen on the east. The Pharisees were a sect of Jews which was especially exact in its interpretation and observance of the law. They were called Separatists by their opponents. The Sadduces were adherents of a skeptical school of Judaism in the time of Christ which denied the existence of angels and the authority of the historical and poetical books of the Old Testament and of the oral traditions upon which Pharisaic doctrine was largely founded. OLDEST CLOCK IN MISSOURI. M. V. Pabor, of Frederictown, owns a clock which was brought to Upper Louisiana from North Carolina in 1800 by George Fredrick Bollinger, who afterwards as a member of the first Missouri General Assembly in 1812, was the leader in bringing families from North Carolina to make the first permanent settlement in that part of Upper Louisiana, now Southeast Missouri. Bollinger county was named for him. The old clock is 8 feet 4 inches high. It will probably be secured by the Missouri World's Fair commission, through W. H Marshall of Moorehouse, for exhibition in the Missouri Building. AMONG THE HUSKS. It is stated that before Cornelius Vanderbilt died he said to a friend: "I don't see what good it does me—all this money that you say is mine. I can't eat it; I can't spend it; in fact, I never saw it. I dress no better than my private secretary, and cannot eat as much as my coachman. I live in a big servant's boarding-house, am bothered to death by beggars, have dyspepsia, cannot drink champagne, and most of my money is in the hands of others, who use it mainly for their benefit." It is a terrible thing to come toward the end of life and find one's self condemned to live among the husks. --- DRY GOODS, GARPETS, LADIES READY-TO-WEAR GARMENTS. yesterday, today and forever. WANT LABOR LAWS REPEALED. Kansas City, Mo., June 27. The Employers' Association, with a membership of nearly 8,000, including most of the business men in Kansas City, has started a movement to repeal all city laws that discriminate between union and independent labor. Among the laws that will be attacked are several that favor the product of union labor exclusively, the most obnoxious to the Employers' Association being that which forbids the letting by the city of printing contracts to any but unionized shops. It also will oppose the eighth hour law now enforced by the city administration, as well as the ordinance requiring an applicant for engineer's license to be examined by a board composed entirely of union men. O. J. BROOKS ARTIST PORTRAITS IN OIL FROM LIFE. PASTELS, CRAYONS. Studio 1512, North 5th Street, KANSAS CITY. - - - KANSAS. Nifong Manufacturing Co., DISTILLED WATER ICE, standard for QUALITY, SERVICE AND PRICE. 'Phone 16. Regular Morning and Special Deliveries 365 days in the year. COLUMBIA - - - - MISSOURI. THE VOTING CONTEST. We present below the following new Professional World Voting Contest. Every person who pays one year's subscript will be entitled to ten votes. Mrs. L. E. Richardson, Mrs. Macea Bass, Mrs. Anna L. Hicks, The lady receiving the highest num the prize, which is a fine broad cloth of Clip the following cupon and fill 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, - - - - ♂ shland, 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 enpon and fill out properly. VOL. II. NO. 35 COMPANY STORE. RI. T PRICES. R Mail Orders Promptly Filed MRS. EDNA WATTS HARDIN FACE MASSAGING, SHAMPOOING, HAIR DRESSING. Nursing a Specialty. 609 Lafayette St., Jefferson City, Mo. For Sale! A Ffne LYON & HEALY ORGAN good as new. Cost $300 can be bought at a Bargain. Call on or address R. L. LOGAN, COLUMBIA - - - MISSOURI. TAKE THE WABASH TO DETROIT, MICH. TO THE INTERNATIONAL EPWORTH - LEAGUE CONVENTION The Missouri State Epworth League has designated The Wabash as the Official Route to Detroit. The most attractive and lowest-priced summer trip ever offered. For particulars and souvenir folders 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., JOBERLY, MO. ing names of ladies as entries in the Others will appear next week. subscription or renews their sub- es. Columbia, Mo. Lshland, Mo. Columbia, Mo. number of votes will be awarded dress pattern. fill out properly. RUPUS L, LOGAN, Editor Columbia - - - - Missouri MUST NOT SAY IT Magistrate Henry J. Furlong, in the Gates-avenue police court, Brooklyn, yesterday decided that it was a misdemeanor to call a woman an "old maid." Miss Mary L. Story had Mrs. Lizzie Fitzpatrick summoned to court. They have been living at 722 Gates avenue, and trouble arose between them. Miss Story complained that Mrs. Fitzpatrick had annoyed her. "Did you call her names?" asked Magistrate Furlong of Mrs. Fitzpatrick. "Yes, I did," was the reply. "When she annoyed me I told her she was an old maid. I also told her she was jealous because she didn't have a man, as I have." "You have admitted enough to prove the plaintiff's case," said the magistrate. "When one woman calls another woman who happens to be over 20 years of age and unmarried an old maid, the first woman is guilty of disorderly conduct, which is a misdemeanor. I shall therefore hold you for the court of special sessions." "This is only a trivial matter," pleaded the defendant's counsel. "On the contrary it is a very serious matter," returned the court. IMPORTANT WITNESS GONE Man Who Saw Men Leave Ewens Hotel Disappears. Jackson, Ky., July 1.—There is considerable anxiety over the disappearance of Gray Haddick, who testified to seeing Crawford and Tharp, teamsters for Hargis, coming away from Ewens Hotel just before it burned. Following the assault on the bridge one night and threats to burn him out, guards were placed around Haddick's house, but the guard was removed and Haddick is now missing. Judge Cardwell, who fined two men on the charge of firing Captain Ewens hotel, has received notice of a threat of assassination and has taken up his residence in his store. He will be guarded by the militia. KILLS BABY AND WOUNDS WIFE Orin Price, Stage Driver, Commits Murder Because of Jealousy. Stites, Idaho, July 1.—Orin Price, a stage driver, shot and killed a two- year old baby, wounded his wife and Ed Leach, a saw-mille hand last night. Jealousy was the cause. MONON FREIGHT DITCHED Three Tramps Were Killed Near Ashgold Indiana. Lafayette, Ind., June 26.—A Monon south bound freight was ditched near Ashgold at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Three tramps were killed. SANKEY HOPELESSLY BLIND. Best Occultists Say Evangelist's Optic Nerve Has Been Destroyed. New York, July 1.—Ira Dl Sankey the evangelist, is now hopelessly blind. The best eye specialists say his optic nerve is entirely destroyed. WONT LAUNCH GALVESTON. Richmond, Va., June 24.—It was decided today not to launch the cruiser Galveston on account of the insecurity of the basin bank. The launching has been indefinitely postponed. BIG PRICE FOR FINE HORSE Minneapolis, Minn., July 1.—M. W. Savage, of this city, owner of Dan Patch and Directum, the famous horses recently purchased by him has refused an offer of $92,000 for them, made by W. W. Gentry, of Bloomington, Ind. Rev. H. Collins, pastor of the Swedish Free Mission church of Colorado Springs, Col., has been expelled from the Ministers' association of the Swedish Free Mission on the charge that he has joined a sect called the "Holy Jumpers," said to be an offspring of "Dowleism." TO SIGN CUBAN TREATY Is Delayed Because of Questions Raised at Washington. Hawana, July 1.—The signing of the final treaty between Cuba and the United States has been postponed until next week because of a delay arising from questions raised at Washington. PAYNE MADE ILL BY FRAUDS Confined to His Room by Gastritis SAYS HE WILL NOT RETIRE Until Department has been Reorganized. Statement will be Made Regarding Tulloch's Charges. Washington, D. C., July 1.—Postmaster General Payne was clinfined to his apartments at the Arlington yesterday by a severe attack of gastritis, but according to his physicians his condition is not serious. Mr. Payne, whose health is impaired and who has suffered from many attacks of acute indigestion, has not been well for several days. While he has been at the department every day except Wednesday morning and yesterday he has suffered severely, and for the last three nights has been troubled greatly by his stomach affliction. These attacks are becoming more frequent, and the immense amount of work and the consequent worry occasioned by the investigation has not help him at all. There have been many rumors of Mr. Payne's intention to retire from the cabinet on account of his health, but he will not do so if it is possible for him to remain. The president has no desire to lose the services of his postmaster general, but wishes him to remain at the head of the department to complete the investigation and to reorganize it, and put it on a business basis. According to Mr. Payne's physicians he will be able to resume his duties shortly. Has Much to Do. An enormous amount of work confronts the postmaster general. It will be weeks and probably months before the investigation in the postal scandals will be completed. This is trying as well as unpleasant work, and after this disagreeable task has been finished, Mr. Payne will be compelled to turn his attention to the complete reorganization of his department. Several of the chiefs of the most important bureaus of the department have been dismissed or have resigned and these vacancies are filled temporarily. Mr. Payne will be called upon to exercise the greatest care in selecting men of high character for the heads of these bureaus. New rules for the conduct of business must be framed and provision will be made to guard the government against fraud in the contracts made in the future. The department is now working under an antiquated system and a modern one will be devised. All this work must be done under the personal direction of Mr. Payne and the tiresome details will require his consideration for months. Mr. Payne therefore has a year of the hardest kind of work ahead of him, and many of his friends fear he will break down under it. BOYS TRAPPED IN CAVE IN One Dead and One In Critical Condition As Result of Accident. Quincy, Ill., July 1.—One boy dead and another dying, is the result of the collapse of a cave in a bluff at the northern edge of the city yesterday afternoon. Frank Gray, aged 9 years; Frank Weber, 10; and Andrew Falkin, several others were in it yesterday when it fell. Falkin managed to dig out and ran for help. The Gray boy's father headed a rescuing party, and after half an hour's digging found the boys. Gray was dead. Weber was unconscious, and the physicians entertain little hopes for his life. The other boys in the cave at the time were not hurt. ILLINOIS BANK LOOTED. Robers Get $3,000 in Cash—Posse in Pursuit of the Bandits. Cary, Ill., July 1.—The private of L. E. Mintch was robbed early this morning of about $3,000 in money besides some notes and securities. A posse is in pursuit of the robbers. UNION PACIFIC ROAD ACCUSED Santa Fe Charges It with Allowing Shippers Rebates. Chicago, July 1.—The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road came out openly as the accuser of the Union Pacific railroad before the interstate commerce commission today, its representative taking a prominent part in trying to prove the latter company had been allowing Peavy & Co., rebates in the form of elevator service at Council Bluffs and Kansas City. SIR THOMAS CONFIDENT He Was Met Off Sand Hook by a Fleet of Yachts and Escorted to the Harbro—He Accepts an Invitation to Dine with the President. New York, July 1.—Sir Thomas Lipton arrived yesterday on the steamship Oceanic, filled with a belief that Shamrock III will "lift" the America cup and bearing with him a rabbit's foot as a charm to ward off any bad luck. He showed it to General Corbin and General Chaffee, who had gone out to meet him, and declared that he had received it from a woman. The rabbit, Sir Thomas explained, was shot in a cemetery on the 18th of the month. General Chaffee told him that to bring good luck it should be the left hind foot of a rabbit shot on a dark night by a cross eyed, red haired negro on the 13th of the month in an Arkansas graveyard, but Sir Thomas persisted in believing his charm ample. When the Oceanic was reported Sir Thomas's steam yacht Erin, convoyed by the ocean tug Cruiser, started down the bay. Ex-Commodore Smith's yacht, Privateer, which has been the regatta committee's boat at all the races of the 90 footers held under New York club auspices, also started out to greet Sir Thomas. On Privateer was Adjutant General Corbin, who welcomed Sir Thomas on behalf of President Roosevelt. General Corbin bore an invitation to Sir Thomas to take luncheon at the White House on Friday, which was accepted. ANXIOUS FOR HADDICK Witness In the Ewen's Hotel Fire Case In Missing. Jackson, Ky., July 1.—Here is considerable anxiety over the disappearance of Gray Haddick, who testified to seeing Crawford and Tharp, teamsters for Hargis, coming away from Ewen's hotel just before it burned. Following the assault on the bridge one night and threats to burn him out guards were placed around Haddick's house, but the guard was removed and Haddick is missing. Judge Cardwell, who fined two men on the charge of firing Captain Ewen's hotel, has received notice of a threat of assassination, and has taken up his residence in his store. He will be guarded by militia. UNITED TELEPHONE CO. WINS Are Granted a Thirty Year Franchise in Chicago. Chicago, June 26. After a long and hard fight the ordinance granting a thirty-year franchise to the United Telegraph, Telephone and Electric company to build a telephone system throughout the city was recommended for passage by the city council committee on gas, oil and electric light yesterday. The company is now operating in Hyde Park, but wants to extend its service. MISSOURI LUTHERANS They Start Movement for Uniting All Branches in One Body. Pittsburg, July 1.—The Evangelical synod of Missouri Lutheran church, composed of Lutherans of 16 states and Canada, now in session here, has started a movement to unite all the Lutherans in the United States and Canada in one body. With that end in view, it has been decided to call a general conference to be held in Chicago this fall when plans for consolidation will be outlined. FATHER AND SON DROWNED F. C. Fuller and Boy of Cleveland Disappear on Lake Erie. Cleveland, June 26—Broker F. C. Fuler and his 13-year-old son Harold went rowing on Lake Erie Monday. Nothing has been heard or seen of them since. Today a boat that is positively identified by the boathouse-keeper as the one engaged by Fuler was found, off shore a few miles east of this city. It was upside down. Fuller's relatives have given up hope of he and his son being alive. NO PROSECUTION: IS DISMISSED Harold C. Reed Whom Woman Tried to Escape is Let Go. Chicago, July 1—Harold C. Reed or Mills, to escape whom Miss Laura Stickler is said to have jumped from a hotel window several weeks ago, was discharged today for want of prosecution. Miss Stickler failed to appear in court. ENDS LIFE WITH DYNAMTIE George Coates, Prominent Georgia Railroad-Map Committe Suicide Railroad Man, Committee Subcommittee Brunswick, Ga., July 1.—George Coates, a former prominent railroad and club man of this city, committeed suicide near Urbana, a suburb of Brunswick. Mr. Coates used dynamite and his body was mangled into an almost unrecognizable mass. The body was found in an unfrequented part of the woods. Detroit, Mich., July 1.—Commissioner of Public Works Dewitt H. Moreland, one of the appointees under the "ripper" act of the legislature of two years ago, was removed from office by the city council last evening as the result of an investigation of his office which has been going on for the past two weeks. It is charged that he has misapplied public funds and solicited bribes from contractors. Mayor Maybury at once appointed his cousin, William H. Maybury, chairman of the Democratic county committee, to succeed Moreland. Moreland has disappeared, but it is learned from a source worthy of belief that he is in Mexico or on his way there. He has not been seen about town since last Saturday. The investigation began to grow warm last week and it was announced that on Monday letters from a Medina, N. Y., firm, which supplies curbing, would be introduced to show that a "rake off" of 6 cents per linear foot was demanded by "those in power" in Detroit before the stone would be allowed to come into the city. These letters were furnished by Contractor George Currie, who has had considerable dealing with the public works department. The knowledge that they would be sprung is thought to have caused Moreland to get out. It was also stated that he would be on hand Monday with his defense, but his attorney and the council investigating committee waited in vain for him. Neither did he appear Tuesday and his attorney, Allan H. Frazer, ex-prosecuting attorney, calmed to know nothing of his whereabouts. Frazer still says he has had no "direct" word from Moreland, but will not say whether or not he knows where he is. Mrs. Moreland also refused to talk. Tuesday the council deferred action until Thursday night, when it was voted unanimously to oust the commissioner. The condition of affairs brought to light by the partial investigation has made Prosecuting Attorney Hunt feel justified in calling for a grand jury and yesterday he had a conference with each of the Wayne county circuit judges and it is known, although not officially stated, that he was told the petition would be granted. "The petition will be laid before the judges formally," said Mr. Hunt after the conference. "It will be laid before them sitting en banc. I understand." The contents of the petition will become known only when it is laid before the grand jury. The prosecutor will not state what information it is to contain. He renews the emphasis which he has frequently put upon the statement that it is to be 'a grand jury for Wayne county and the Moreland matter is not the only one that may be taken up." The fall of Moreland marks the second of the "rippers" to get out under dishonorable circumstances, the first being Frank C. Andrews, who resigned as police commissioner when the City Savings bank, of which he was vice president, and which he wrecked, collapsed. He is now serving a 15-year term in Jackson prison. TRIPLE LYNCHING Negroes Strung Up at Newton, Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., July 1.—Meager reports received here from Albany, Ga., state three negroes have been lynched at Newton, Ga., 20 miles south of Albany. The negroes are accused of killing F. S. Bullard, white, while the latter was attempting to quell a row at a negro dance last week. The mob overpowered the jailer, took the prisoners a mile from town, and hung them to a tree, riddling their bodies with bullets. GREAT ABATOIR BURNED Largest Plant In the West, Situated in Cincinnati, Destroyed. Cincinnati, July 1.—Almost the entire plant of the Cincinnati Air company was destroyed by fire this morning. It is one of the largest slaughtering plants in the West. The loss is estimated at $300,000. Four hundred head of cattle and 800 hogs slaughtered yesterday were consumed. RAILWAY TRAVEL IS HEAVY Passenger Agents Predict a Record-Breaking Year. New York, July 1.—General passenger agents of the trunk lines and the Western lines say that the volume of passenger traffic throughout this country now is so great that a record-breaking year for this branch of railroad traffic is indicated. Within the last five years some of the railroads have more than doubled their passenger business. Up to date this year the principal increase in the number of passenger tickets sold by the railroads is for East and West travel. This is said to be due largely to the increase in population in the Western states, the constant current of immigration westward, and the frequency with which Eastern and Western people visit each other. The tourist business also is large. A large proportion of the increase in the through passenger traffic goes to the Pacific coast lines. Special excursions to the Yellowstone park, the Grand canon of Arizona, and other scenic resorts in the far West are becoming very popular. LIVED LIKE AN OX. Dr. Edward Stanton of Kokomo, Whose Diet Was Grass and Hay, Dead. Kokomo, Ind., July 1.—Dr. Edward Stanton, a character of this place for 60 years, died yesterday, aged 80 years. Years ago Stanton lost his practice and fortune, and it affected his mind. Since then he had imagined himself an ox, and grass and hay was his principal diet. He walked on all fours in the pasture of the county farm, grazing constantly with the cattle, horses and sheep. He almost lost his power of speech, and of late years his conversation consisted of fguttural sounds, resembling those of an animal. He died suddenly, with mouth and stomach filled with grass. It is thought poisonous herbs killed him. He had no relatives. KAISER AND KING PETER German Emperor Sends Telegram Couched in Cordial Terms. Belgrade, July 1.—The German emperor has sent King Peter a telegram couched in cordial terms. The Austrian minister today resumed official relations with the Servian government. King Peter held a reception this morning. Only two foreign diplomats, the Russian and Austrian ministers, attended. The representatives of three or four other countries are apparently willing to recognize King Peter but not the Servian cabinet, in which Colonel Maschin, one of the chief conspirators, holds a portfolio. The king's reappointment of the ministry yesterday is regarded as equivalent to a notification that no punishment will be meted out to the assassins of Alexander and Queen Draga. BUSINESS CLEARED UP Cabinet Looks After Routine Matters Before President's Departure. Washington, D. C., July 1.—Today's cabinet meeting was devoted chiefly to a clearing up of routine departmental matters in anticipation of President's departure, although Postmaster General Payne occupied considerable time, not only in presenting the current situation as developed by the investigation now in progress in the post office department, but in discussing his future plans relative to the investigation. KING EDWARD'S BIRTHDAY Sixty-First Anniversary of England's Monarch Officially Celebrated. London, July 1.—King Edward's birthday was officially celebrated today in London and at all the home naval and military stations. All government buildings were decorated with flags, salutes were fired, warships at all ports dressed ship, and the troops were reviewed. The main function was the trooping of the colors on the Horse Guards parade here, which the king attended on horseback. MRS. McKINLEY'S NIECE. Wedding of Luther Day and Miss Ida Barber Occurs This Evening. Canton, O., July 1.—The wedding of Luther Day, son of Justice Wm. R. Day and Miss Ida Barber, niece of Mrs. McKinley, will be solemnized at the home of the bride's parents this evening. REJECTED SUITOR'S CRIME Kills Sweetheart, Mortally Wounds Her Sister-in-Law and Suicides. Sherman, Conn., July 1.—Angered over her refusal to marry him P. H. Worden of Carmlyne, today killed Edith Roscoe, also of that town, by cutting her throat. He then attacked Mrs. Sherman Roscoe, sister-in-law of Miss Roscoe, with a hammer, crushing her skull and inflicting probably fatal injuries. Worden then attempted to kill himself by shooting. RIOT BETWEEN THE RACES War Begins Between Whites and Negroes DELAWARE SCENE OF TROUBLE Shots Exchanged in Wilmington and Several are Seriously Hurt More Trouble Expected Wilmington, Del., July 1.—A riot broke out in the streets here late last night between whites and negroes but the arrival of the police quickly dispersed the participants. Two negroes were arrested. A gang of negroes numbering probably 200, which had been marching up and down Ninth street, were challenged by about 25 white men and in the battle that followed over 100 shots were exchanged. Policeman McDermott and Green received slight wounds. One negro, James Mercer, was shot in the head but his wound was not believed to be serious. In a brawl in another part of the city, a negro was shot in the stomach by a white man. He was taken to the hospital in a serious condition. The leaders of the negroes who were marching on Ninth street, declared they intended to resent the attacks made upon members of their race the night before. They say they have no sympathy for White, the negro lynched here, but that most of the negroes in and about Wilmington approve of it. As a result of last night's riot, William Cramer, a negro, who was shot during the disturbance in the negro district, died today. William Simms has been arrested charged with murdering Cramer. All is quiet today. After the hearing before Magistrate Hollis today Arthur Cornell, arrested on the charge of murder in connection with the White lynching, was dismissed, there being no evidence against him. Leander Moore and Joseph Shockley, negroes, arrested for shooting Policemen McDermott and Green during the disturbance last night, were adjudged guilty of inciting a riot. Moore was given one year in jail and Shockley was fined $50. DEATH INCREASES A MYSTERY Speculation Over Disappearance of Woman, Increased by. Suicide of Sister. Carbondale, Ill., July 1.—The mystery which for several days has surrounded the disappearance of Angelina Brown from the home of her sister, Mrs. Hutchcroft, near Centerville, has not been solved, and to the excitement surrounding it is now added the sudden death of Mrs. Hutchcroft. Recently Deputy Sheriff Grissom went to Centerville and excavated the old cellar, where it was thought the body would be found. Nothing was secured to give any clew to the mystery. The sister watched the proceedings of the officials and seemed pleased to know that her name was partly cleared of suspicion. She was found dead in her room on Wednesday. It is believed Mrs. Hutchcroft committed suicide. RUNS AMUCK WITH A HAMMER Cuts a Woman's Throat and Crushes Another's Skull. Sherman, Conn., July 1.—Angered over her refusal to marry him, P. H. Worden of Carmilyne today killed Edith Roscoe, also of that town, by cutting her throat. He then attacked Mrs. Sherman Roscoe, sister-in-law of Miss Roscoe, with a hammer, crushing her skull and inflicting probably fatal injuries. Worden then attempted to kill himself by shooting. PLYMOUTH ROCK TO TOUR. Plymouth, Mass., July 1.—As a result of the visit of the liberty bell to Massachusetts a movement has been started to send the Plymouth rock on a tour of the country to visit all the large cities. The idea has been enthusiastically received by the guardians of the rock in this town. Plans are being formulated for the tour. TO MEET CUT IN OCEAN RATES Traffic Manager Tate of French Line Tella Company's Attitude. Paris, July 1.—Traffic Manager Tate of the French Steamship Line said that if the other allied lines reduced their passenger rates because of the action of the Cunard company in withdrawing from the North Atlantic steamship conference, the French line would do the same, but he did not expect there would be any rate reductions during the present season. An Arkansas Planter By OPIE READ Printed by Permission and Copyright 1896 by Rand, McNally & Co. Chicago CONCERNING MEN AND WOMEN OF THE DAY CHAPTER V—(Continued.) "Please don't say that. I don't want to hurt him. I would rather make him mad than to hurt him. Oh, I don't know what ails me, I am so restless and unhappy. I have read every way to cure myself, but can't—I have head and read until I haven't any sense, and now I don't know what to do. But don't you tell me what not to do; don't say anything, but be your own sweet self." She took up a brush from the dresser, touched her mother's hair, and said: "Let me, please." She loosened the thick coll. "Beautiful," she said. "Don't you know how I used to tease you to let me comb it, a long time ago? But it wasn't as pretty then as it is now." Through her fingers the white hair streamed, glinting in the light now sobered by the falling of dusk. The Major's step was heard at the door. "Come in, father. See, I am at my old employment." And in their faces and in the hair streaming through his daughter's fingers the old man read that all was well. He stood smiling at them. Out in the yard the fox-hounds began to yelp, and a galsoping horse stopped with a loud, jolting "gluck" at the gate. Then came authoritative commands, and then a jar as if some one had leaped upon the porch. There was brisk walking the opening and slamming of doors and then at Louise's door a voice demanded: "What are you all doing here in the dark? Ain't supper ready? I'm as hungry as she bear." The Major's son Tom had arrived. And just at that moment, and before any one replied to him, the suppen bell began to ring. "Takes me to bring things about, eh? You people might have waited here hungry for an hour. What are you doing here, any way? Lou brushing mam's hair and pap looking on like a boy at a show." "Thomas," said his mother, "I wish you wouldn't be so rough. There, daughter, that will do. Just coil it. That's it; thank you. Major, I do wish you wouldn't laugh at the brusqueness of your son; you encourage him." Tom took his mother by the shoulders and turned her face toward the door. He was a clean-looking, blondish, fellow, younger than his sister—an athlete, a boxer, with far more restlessness of muscle than absorption of mind. He had failed at Harvard, where his great-grandfather had distinguished himself; he had, with the influence of a Congressman, secured a West Point cadetship, and there had fallen under the rapid fire of a battery of mathematics, and had come home scouting at the humiliation which he had put upon his parents, and was now ready to submit himself to any other test that might present itself—was ready to borrow, to lend, or to fight. He picked negro tunes on a banjo, and had been heard hoarsely to sing a love song under a cypress tree. He had now just returned from the capital of the state, where he had spent two days, watching the flank movements of a military drill. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER "You people seem to be mighty sol- emn," was Tom's observation as they sat down to supper, glancing from one to another, and finally directing a Dr. Arthur Cleveland Hall, an expert on sociology, has been chosen an instructor in political economy and allied topics at Princeton university. Mrs. Margareta Danielson of Cambridge, Minn., is 132 years old, she is the mother of two Swedish Baptist ministers and ascribes her long life to her strict adherence to the tenets of the church. questioning look at his father. "What's the trouble? What's happened? Is it possible that old Gideon has paid his rent?" Louise laughed, a wrinkle crept across Mrs. Cranceford's brow and the Major sprawled back with a loud 'haw.' Gid's rent was a standing joke; and nothing is more sacredly entitled to Instant recognition than a joke that for years has been established in a Southern household. I notice that he never goes into the Major's office," Mrs. Cranceford remarked; and Tom quickly replied: "And I don't blame him for that. I went in there about a month ago and haven't had a dollar since." The Major did not laugh at this. The reputed exaction of his executive chamber was a sore spot to him. "How you robbers, young and old, would like to fleece me," he said. "And if I didn't turn to defensive stone once in a while you'd pull out my eye teeth." "Don't see how anybody could get hold of your eye teeth, dad," Tom replied. "You are always busy cutting them when I come round. Oh, by the way," he added with sudden seriousness, "you remember that fellow Mayo, the one that ran for County Clerk down here some time ago?" "The scoundrel who swore he was elected?" "That's the man. He disappeared, you know, after his trouble down here, then he went on from one community to another, a Democrat one season and a Republican the next, and now he has returned as a labor leader. I met him yesterday in Little Rock, and I never have seen a more insolent ruffian. He makes no secret of his plans, and he says that blood is bound to flow. I asked him if he had any to spare, and he cocked his eye at me and replied that he didn't know but he had." The Major was silent, abstractly balancing his knife on the rim of his plate. Mayo, an adventurer, a soundrel with a brutish force that passed for frankness, had at one time almost brought about an uprising among the negroes of Cranceford County, and eager ears in the North, not the ears of the old soldier, but of the politician, shutting out the suggestions of justice, heard only the clamor of a political outrage; and again arose the loud cry that the South had robbed the inoffensive negro of his suffrage. But the story, once so full of alarm, was beginning to be a feeble reminiscence; Northern men with business interests in the South had begun to realize that the white man, though often in the wrong, could sometimes be in the right. But now a problem—graver than the over-thrashed straw of political rights, was about to be presented. "I was in hopes that somebody had killed that fellow," said the Major, and his wife looked up with gentle reproof. "on't say that, dear. The Lord will take him in His own good time." The old gentleman winked at Tom. "I don't know about that," he replied. "I am afraid that the Lord in His management of the universe has forgotten him." "John, please don't talk that way." When she was very serious she called him John. "When you speak so lightly you make me afraid that your relationship with the church is not very sacred to you." "It's serious at any rate. Margaret." "What do you mean by that, John?" "Why." Tom cried, "it means that you dragged him into the pow-wow." "Thomas"—and this time her reproof. "Don't say that, dear. The Lord stand that from you. And daughter," she added, speaking to Louise, "it is not a laughing matter. It all comes from so close an association with that good-for-nothing old Glideon. I know What one woman can do in the matter of office seeking and office getting is well illustrated in the case of Mrs. C. B. Hollarn of Dallas, Tex., who is deputy United States circuit court clerk, deputy United States district court clerk, stenographer for the United States marshal, deputy United States marshal, and as such entitled to carry deadly weapons. ANTHONY LOW It does, and you needn't say a word. Nothing is sacred to him; he has no respect for God and cares nothing for man except to the extent that he can use him." The Major strove to wink at Tom, but there was a hitch in his eye. "My dear, you don't understand the old fellow," said he. "And therefore you misjudge him. I know that he is weak, but I also know that he is strong, and he is quite as necessary to me as I am to him. He rests me, and rest is as essential as work. Sometimes the perfect gentleman is a bore; sometimes the perfect lady is tiresome. In man there is a sort of innocent evil, a liking for the half deprived and an occasional feeding of this appetite heightens his respect for the truly virtuous." "I don't believe it. John.' "Of course you don't. You are the truly virtuous, and—" he spread himself back with a loud "haw," and sat there shaking under her cool gaze. "There, Maragaret," he said, wiping his eyes, don't take it to heart. I am doing the best I can and that is all the excuse I have to offer. I'm getting old; do you realize that? The things that used to amuse me are flat now, and I can't afford to kill an amusement when one does happen to come along. Don't you worry about Gid. Why, Margaret, he has stood by me when other men turned their backs. The river was dangerous during my day, and the pop of a pistol was as natural as the bark of a dog. But old Gid was there by me. "Oh, I don't doubt that he has some good qualities," she admitted. "But why doesn't he mend his ways?" "Oh, he hasn't time for that, Margaret. He's too busy with other matters. There, now, we won't talk about him. But I promise you, my dear, that he shall not, unduly influence me. I don't exactly know what I mean by that, either. I mean that you need hove no fear of my permitting him to weaken my respect for the church. Yes, I think that's about what I mean. But the fact is he has never tried to do that. But what's the use of this talk. I can sum up the whole situation by reminding you that I am the master. There, now, don't sigh—don't look so worried." "But, John, it grieves me to hear you say that you need him." "Had to step back to pick that up, ANTHONY LOW didn't you? Tom, after you're married you'll find that your wife will look with coldness or contempt upon your most intimate friend. It's the absurdest jealousy in woman's nature." "Thomas," said his mother, "you will find nothing of the sort; but I'll tell you what you may expect from the right sort of a wife—contempt for a coarse, low-bred fellow, should you insist upon holding him as your closest companion." "Mother," Louise spoke up, "I think you are too severe. Mr. Batts is hemmed in with faults, but he has many good points. And I can understand why he is necessary to father. I am fond of him, and I am almost ready to declare that at times he is almost necessary to me. No, I won't make it as strong as that, but I must say that at times it is a keen pleasure to jower with him." "To do what?" Mrs. Cranceford asked. "Jower with him? Where did you get that word?" "It's one of his, picked up from among the negroes, I think, and it means more than dispute or wrangle. We jower at times—quarrel a little more than half in earnest." "Well," said the mother, "perhaps I ought not to say anything, but I can't help it when I am so often hurt by that man's influence. Why, last Sunday afternoon your father left the rector sitting here and went away with that old sinner, and we heard them haw-hawing over in the woods. But I won't say any more." "You never do, Margaret," the Ma- N OF THE DAY Henry Graham Thompson, one of the founders of the Union League club of New York, is dead. Mrs. Mary L. Harrison, wodow of the late Benjamin Harrison, former president of the United States, will start shortly on a trip around the world. She will first go to Japan via San Francisco and thence travel eastward. for repiled, winking at Louise. "But let us drop him. So you saw Mayo, eht?" he added, turning to Tom. "Yes, sir, and I understand that he is coming back down here to prove to the negroes that we are cheating them outof their earnings." The Major tossed a cigar to Tom, lighted one, and had begun to talk with a rhetorical and sententious balancing of periods—which, to his mind, full of oratory of Prentiss, was the essence of impressiveness—when a negro woman entered the room. And hereunon he changed the subject. When bedtime came the old gentleman stood on a rug in front of a large fire-place, meditatively winding his watch. His wife sat on a straight-back chair, glancing over the harmless advertisements in a religious newspaper. In the parlor they had spent an agreeable evening, with music and with never an illusion to an unpleasant subject, but there was something finer than an illusion, and it had passed from husband to wife and back again — alook at each other and a glance toward Louise. But they had laughed at the girl's imitation of a cakewalk, and yet in the minds of the father and the mother was the low echo of a hollow cough. Affectionately she had kissed them good night, and had started off down the hall in mimicry of a negro belle's walk, but they had heard her door shut with a quick slam as if she were at last impelled to be truthful with herself, to close herself in with her own meditations. The Major hung his watch on a nail above the mantel-piece. From a far-off nook of the sprawling old house came the pling-plang of the boy's banjo. "Margaret?" "Yes, dear." "What did you say to her?" What did you say to the newspaper. She began to fold the newspaper. "I didn't say anything. She wouldn't permit me." "What do you think?" "That she will do as she pleases." "Consoling, by the — consoling, I must say. But I tell you she won't. I will shame her out of it." CHAPTER VI: The top of the cotton stalks glimmered with a purple bloom, but down between the rows, among the dying leaves, the first bolls were opening. The air was still hot, for at noontime the glare in the sandy road was fierce, but the evening was cool, and from out in the gleaming dew came a sweetly, lonesome chirrup, an alarm in the grass, the picket of the insect army, crying the approach of frost. In the atmosphere was felt the influence of a reviving activity; new cotton pens were builtn along the corders of the fields, and sounds of hammer and saw were heard in the neighborhood of the gln-house, With the dusk of Saturday evening "new" negroes came. In the city they had idled the summer away, gambling, and had now come with nimble fingers to pick cotton during the day and with tricky hands to throw dice at night. Gaunt, long-legged birds flew from the North and awkwardly capered on a sand-bar. Afar off there appeared to hover over the landscape a pall of thin, pale smoke; but, like the end of the rainbow, it stole back from closer view, was always afar off, lying low to the earth. The autumn rains had not yet set in, and the water in the bayou was low and yellow. The summer grapes were ripe, and in the cool, shaded coves at the base of the hills the muscadine was growing purple. The mules, so over-worked during plow-time, now stumbled down the lane, bliting at one another. The stiffening wind, forewhistle of the season's change of tune, was shrill amid the rushes at the edge of the swamp. It was a time to work, but also to muse and dream while working. In the air was something that invited, almost demanded reverie. Upon the fields there might lie many a mortgage, but who at such a time could worry over the harsh exactions of debt? (To be continued). Too Ridiculous. Some of those absurd Filipino girls seem to think their marriages to soldiers ought to be binding even after the boys come home.—Chicago Herald. Dr. Conradi of the University of Leipsic, who has accepted a professorship at the Chinese Imperial university of Pekin, is the first foreign scholar invited to teach Asiatic languages at a Chinese institution. He is 39 years old. Albert Spalding, 14 years old, the son of J. Walter Spalding of New York city, obtained a diploma as professor of the violin at the Bologna Conservatory of Music. He is the youngest person upon whom such a degree has been conferred. Farm, Orchard and Garden Notes The Republic's Red Heart. One man says that the heart of the nation is at the great capital building at Washington, another that it is in Wall street, another that it lies in the Mississippi valley, with its marvelous agriculture; another that its pulsations can be most clearly discerned on the board of trade in Chicago, another that it is found in our great educational institutions. Each opinion is in a way justified perhaps, but, gracefully conceding the merit of each claim, we still think that this most vital organ may be best observed in a night ride from Connellsville to Pittsburg, where is disclosed a Dantean panorama the like of which can be seen nowhere else on earth. What the stoking rooms are to the ocean greyhound—the place where all the power and force are generated to carry forward the magnificent ship to her destination, alike indifferent to wind or wave—is the weird and Titanic vision disclosed by the iron and coal industries of Pittsburg and coal to the country's splendid progress. The miles of coke ovens aglow in the midnight, fires which, like the altar flame of heathen sacrifice, never go out; blast furnaces by the score belching forth their lurid flames heavenward, the blue and green sulphurous fires illuminating the landscape in a most unearthly manner; the great rolling mills where human demons seize and straighten the white hot rails, for twenty miles a roar, a din and glaring inferno where coal and coke and ore and electricity work night and day elaborating the power and facilities for all the progress of the republic—here is great red heart of the nation. Muffle these coke ovens, shut down these blast furnaces, close their rolling mills, let a normal darkness once more brood over Pittsburg, and it will signalize the death of America. If every family in America was as busy from daylight until dark as the pair of wrens which have a nest in a box over our kitchen door there would be something doing in this country and no mistake. These birds raise Rooseveltian families, anywhere from eight to twelve at a time, and it is a literal case of hustling for grubs from the time the young birds are hatched until they can take care of themselves. We noted a small cornfield down in West Virginia lately which was strung all over with white cord attached to stakes about four feet from the ground. We inferred that it was done for the purpose of keeping the birds from pulling up the corn. As we looked at it we wondered how an Illinois or Iowa corn raiser would like to do this for a hundred acre field of corn. We know of one man who has the right sort of grit. The early floods destroyed his field of oats. He then disked it over and planted to corn, which the June floods wiped out, and now he is preparing the field again and will grow a crop of flax. Calamity can't beat this type of man. It seems as if there is no end to the number of men who want to know how to get rid of morning glories, quack grass, pocket gophers and Canada thistles. Men are always more active and interested in trying to get rid of their miseries than they are in hustling to secure their blessings. We think that it would be a good plan for the supervisors of each county to have built one-half mile at least of good mud proof highway, using such material as is available. It would determine the cost of such construction in any given community and prove a valuable object lesson. Men who try to raise corn along the northern limit of the corn belt should remember that they are better off with forty bushels an acre of good, sound, well matured early corn than they are with fifty bushels of soft late corn. We never saw outside of an English park a fairer bit of gural landscape than we saw recently near Joliet. Ill- large pastures of the most velvety blue grass dotted over with thrifty bur oaks—a fit subject for a painter's brush. Every man we saw plowing in Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia lately was using a left handed plow, a plow which threw the dirt to the left instead of the right. We did not find out why this was. We note four things which are common to all sections of the country, whether north or south—the box elder tree, the Virginia creeper, the fool girl hanging around the depot and the beer keg. Crops which may be planted as late as July 1 are buckwheat, millet, turnips and corn for fodder. If the land cannot be planted to something by that time plow it and fit it for a great crop next year. The Right and the Wrong Way. There is a rare secret connected with the making of work—common, everyday hard work—a pleasure instead of a burden. So much of the work of life is done in the wrong way, in the hardest way, and so becomes of necessity a burden. Indifference to or lack of the knowledge of the right and best way to do things is largely what fills the earth with walls over the tyranny of labor. To illustrate, a man undertakes to mow grass with a dull scythe; he tries to plow his field with a plow which will not scour; he tries to work too many acres; he milks his cows in a filthy yard or barn; he neglects to oil up and runs with hot boxes the year round. There is no sort of sense in doing these things this way. It is the wrong, the burdensome, way, and no man living can take any pleasure in his work so done. This is the reason why some people can accomplish so much more and do so much better work than others. They have found out the difference between the right and the wrong of doing work. If we were going into the dairy business to make it the leading industry of the farm we would by all means keep cows of a strictly dairy type, but if the dairy was to be only a side line, with the horse, hog, sheep and fat steer important farm products, we would then make up the dairy herd with reference to the value of their calves as beef animals, in the first place expecting the dairy type of cows to make at least 300 pounds of butter per year and content if the last named averaged 200 pounds. It is the age of economies. Here is the discovery made that the worthless and unrottable old pine stump of the north lumber regions can be so treated chemically as to make each cord of such stumps produce a value of $13.50 in wood extracts—oil, alcohol, rosin, tar, etc. The old stump by this process becomes more valuable than the tree which grew upon it in the old days. A storm cave is like an insurance policy—good thing to have even though you may never want to use it. One can be made to be entered from the cellar for a small sum, and it will seem worth about $10,000. If some day you see the funnel and hear the earthy roar of the demon of the air. The pine ridge county in Nebraska grows forests with a rainfall of only 16 inches a year. Millions of acres in western Kansas upon which a tree has never grown get from 16 to 20 inches of rainfall a year, which would indicate that forests may yet be grown in that treeless region when the right kind of trees are planted and the right treatment is given them. Washington is the only city in America which has no back yard. Every street is paved; the most beautiful of shade trees everywhere; the mean and disagreeable, the uncouth and offensive, are all covered and hidden; even thou poorest negro cabin is white-washed. A quaint sight to a western man are the many old covered wooden bridges which span the rivers of Virginia and Pennsylvania, a type of bridge which because of the force of the winds would not be possible in the west. Many of these bridges are very old, the covering rendering them practically indestructible. We watched the birds as they forged on our lawn one day recently. In side of twenty minutes four blue jays, three robins, two sparrows and three flickers went over if hunting for grubs, and they each seemed to get something too. Of all the improved breeds of cattle the Jersey has become the most generally introduced in this country. It matters not whether one goes north, south, east of west, wherever cows are kept there will the Jersey be found. We saw a man the other day down east plowing under a very fair crop of rye well headed out. Land must be mighty poor which requires such treatment. No So Worse. "Nero wasn't half as bad as he might have been," remarked the man who had been peeping into ancient history, "But he was a tyrunt," objected the party of the second part. "True," rejoined the other, "but suppose he had used a cornet or an accordian as an instrument of torture instead of a fiddle" JChicago News. 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. Entered at the postoffice at Columbia, Mo., as second class matter, Jan. 15, 1902. Agents wanted in every town in the state. Payments may be made in two cent stamps, by postal note, money order, by registered letter or express order. Correspondence containing news of interest and importance is desired from all parts of the United States. 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THAT the subscription list of the Professional World is steadily growing our readers can see, as we are able to publish each week a list of additional subscribers and all names appearing in these lists are persons who have paid and not promised subscriptions. The price of the paper being only $1.00 per year makes it possible for every one to take it. SAM B. Cook is the latest addition to the list of boodling and corrupt politicians. He confesses that he advised one R. B. Speed to dig up $800 for a state senator's vote on a certain measure which was pending before the legislature, yet Mr. Cook is now holding the important position of secretary of state and is an avowed candidate for governor of Missouri. To make matters worse Mr. Cook attempts to defend his action by saying that such a position as he took would have been that of any honest man —See the definition of honesty. LET HIM WHINE The Cole County Democrat prints an interview with one Bredeman, criticising the action of the Lincoln Institute board of regents and Superintendent Carrington for displacing said Bredeman, a white man, who has for some years been an instructor in that school, the state school for negroes. No apology is needed for such action. The people of the state, especially the democrats, will emphatically endorse Carrington's statement made four years ago: "Never, with my sanction, will a white man be permitted to teach a colored school in Missouri, or a colored man to teach a white school. The state constitution provides for the separation of the races in the schools." The white man who whines for being dropped from the list of teachers in a negro school may as well be left to whine.—Fulton Gazette. The Voting Contest. Much interest is being manifested in the Professional World voting contest. 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Mr. Joseph Holmes is on the sick list. Rev. W. P. Brooks visited in the city Monday. The State B. Y. P. U. will meet here next week. Mrs. Emma Thorps is able to be out after a few weeks illness. Misses Lucy Hicks and Mabel Finney spent Sunday in Jacksonville. Messrs. Simon and Willie Boone visited Mrs. L. R. Finney, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. William Alien and family returned to their home in Iowa Saturday. They were accompanied to Moberly by Rev. D. A. Brown. A Year's Subscription Free. The first person who will send us a copy of the Professional world dated Feb. 13, 1903, or Jan. 30, 1903, will be entitled to a year's subscription free. Died. DAVIS—At her home in Columbia on 7th street, Sunday morning, June 28, 1903, of heart failure, Mrs. Henry Davis. She leaves a husband and five children among them being a pair of twins about five months old. Her remains were taken to Miami Monday for burial, accompanied by Rev. A. A. Adams and Mr. W. W. Lampkins, her husband and little daughter Gertrude. She was a member of the Second Baptist church, and well liked in the community in which she lived. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the community. Straved or Stolen. A bay mare (dark) about 15% hands high, white hind feet; about 8 years old; barbwire cut on left hind foot; saddle mark on withers. Return to W. H. Cline, Columbia, Mo., and get reward. PILES FISTULA—NO MONEY TILL CURED. It Will Surely Be. It will surely come, in the heavenly home, That sweet rest for which we sigh. All our sorrows gone, and a beauteous dawn Lighting all our darkened sky. Then will come the loss of our heavy cross And the wearing of the crown. It will surely seem like a troubled dream, All the trials that are past. When with happy trend we are gently led through the pearly streets at last. It Will surely pay on that golden day, For the sorrows we have borne, Just to see his face with its wondrous grace, On that resurrection morn. And at last we'll win, when we're free from 'sin All his glorious reward. -Elta Marshall Stauffer. in Gentle Woman Political Leadership of Booker Strange as the assertion may seem, the leading negro political leader is Booker T. Washington. Mr. Washington is not a teacher; he has spent little time in the class room; he is not the originator or chief exponent of the educational system which he so fervently defends. He is primarily the political leader of the new commercial South, and the greatest of such leaders since Appomattox. His ability has been shown not so much in his educational campaign nor his moral earnestness, as in the marvelous facility by which he has so manipulated the forces of a strained political and social situation as to bring about among the factors the greatest consensus of opinion in this country since the Missouri compromise. He has done this by applying American political and business methods to an attempted solution of the negro problem. Realizing the great truth that the solution of this vexed question demands above all that somehow, some time, the Southern whites and blacks must agree and sympathize with each other. Mr. Washington started to advertise broadly his proposed basis of agreement, so that men might understand it. With this justification he advertised with a thoroughness that astonished the nation. At the same time, he kept his hand on the pulse of North and South, advancing with every sign of good will and generosity, and skillfully retreating to silence or shrewd disclaimer at any sign of impatience or turmoil. The playing of this game has been simply wonderful, the success phenomenal. To be sure not all men like the outcome, not all men fail to see the terrible dangers of this effort at compromise. Some have felt it their duty to speak strongly against Booker Washington's narrow educational programme, and against the danger of his apparent surrender to certain manhood rights which seem to be absolutely essential to race development and national weal; and above all, against his failure to speak a strong, true note for justice and right; but all this is beside the object of this paper. Of Mr. Washington's great ability as a political leader of men there can scarce be two opinions. He is manifestly one of the greatest Southerners, and one of the most remarkable of Americans. PILES Notice: We have made a specialty of Piles, Platula and Diseases of the Rectum for 20 years in Kansas City. We offer advantages in the treatment of such diseases which cannot be obtained elsewhere. We accept no money till cure is complete and our charges are always low. Examination costs nothing. Write for our 200 page treatise for men and our 100 page book for women—both sent free. Write to our old patients and investigate the merits of our work. Wo. Walter Scott, Gcn'l Art Home Pire Insurance Co., Kansas City, Mo., Writes: "Your treatment and my cure of the piles was eminently satisfactory. No fee or money was asked until your treatment had resulted in a cure." M. J. D. Swiford, President of the Swifford Bros. Dry Goods Co., Writes: "I was allotted for years with piles and you affected a permanent cure in a short time without a day's loss from my business." Sno. G. Gray, Coefficient of American National Bank, Kansas City, Mo., Writes: Bank, Kansas City, Ma. Written: "Indeed herewith and my check in payment of bill rendered and with it my sincere gratitude for the relief you have given me through your very thorough and effective treatment of my case of pains and insure." Drs. THORNTON & MINOR, OAK STREET, Kansas City, Mo. Lodge and Church Directory. LODGE. U. B. F. Crispus Attucks Lodge,No. 62. Meetings 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in each month. Visiting members cordially invited. Caleb Hall, W. M. A. M. Schweich, W. S. S.M.T. Mrs. Gertrude Hurd, Mrs. Florence Woods, W. P.; Mrs. Lizzie Williams, W. S. Meeting first Monday in each month at 3 p. m. Aeme 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. 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 second and fourth Thursdays in each month. M. W. Tony, C. C., W. T. Ansel, K. R. S., I. A. Robinson, M. E. LADIES COURT. Golden Queen Court, No. 19, meets first Friday in each month. Mrs. M. E. Ridgway, M. A. M., Mrs. Lizzie Richardson, Secretary. O. E. S Amos Chapter, No. 30. Meetings second Friday in each month. Mrs. Bessie Washington, W. M. Mrs. Annie Williams, W. S. 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 extended to all. A. M. E. CHURCH. 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 CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 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. FISTULA Mr. Chan, Dougherty, Spencer, In., Says: "I concluded to go to you after trying all the so-called curatives without any relief. You at once made the necessary examination and informed me that I had a bad case of piles, and you told me you cold cure me. You did just as you said you would." A. N. McClary, Mayer of Sabetha, Kas., Writes: "I must say that your treatment and cure of my case of piles and fixture seems now wonderful to me and that the treatment was a great deal more mild than I had expected. I am entirely satisfied and consider that I am completely cured." Wm. E. Barrett, of Barrett & Tucker Lumber Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., Writes: "I had piles for twenty years and was cured by you. I consider you the best doctors on the globe and would not be back where I was when I came to you for any money." Emmet L. Woodson, Gotten Broker, Ma. No Old Slip, New York City, Writes: "Since you treated me for bleeding piles I have been entirely relieved and feel like a new man. My general health has much improved. Not I care was affected." Drs. THORN The Leading Agricultural Journal of the Nation, Edited by an Able Corps of Writers. 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