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THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. ```markdown ``` We Hear Every Day. ARKS "I would like just like the satisfactory." YES! That It's a long la We are work price. Cash vice. Try of shoes. Huntsville Notes. "I would like another pair of Shoes just like these. They are so easy and satisfactory." YES! That's what we love to hear! It's a long lane that don't make a turn. We are working hard to lower the price. Cash will do it. Take our advice. Try PAPE for your next pair of shoes. --- Madrew Robinson is on the sick list. Mr. Joseph Holmes is some better. Miss Arthaleus Finney is seriously ill with fever. Mr. Wm. Bailey has accepted a position with the Wabash Coal Co. The services of the Second Baptist church are now being held in the K. of P. Hall. Prof. R. L. Logan spent Saturday in Columbia, looking after his business interests there. The "Tom Thumb" wedding at the A. M. E. Church, last Monday evening, was an enjoyable affair. Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Brown left Tuesday morning for St. Joseph to attend the annual conference in session there this week. Mrs. D. A. Brown entertained Mesdames A. B. Viley and M. A. Salisbury, and Prof. R. L. Logan dinner last Friday evening. Mr. O. J. Brooks, the well known, talented artist of Kansas city was in the city this week, and was the guest of his old friend, Prof. R. L. Logan. The old church property of the Second Baptist congregation has been torn down and preparations are being made to build a new edifice on the same lot. It will be an up to date structure. Persons desiring to employ help or persons desiring to secure employment, will do well to call and see me at the Herald office. J. F. VENABLE. Lincoln Institute Notes. Students continue to arrive almost daily. Many states are represented. Both teachers and scholars are full of enthusiasm to make the work of the present year the best in the history of the institution. President Allen is rapidly creating a "Lincoln Institute spirit" which cannot fail to enhance the value of the school to both patrons and pupils. The Sunday afternoon services in the Auditorium is well attended and with the Chapel exercises in the morning during the week are looked upon by all as among the CASH OR CREDIT. Catalogue FREE. CENTURY MF'G CO. Notice. (Too late for last week.) like another pair of Shoes these. They are so easy and that's what we love to hear! Lane that don't make a turn. Working hard to lower the ash will do it. Take our ad- PAPE for your next pair most important exercises of the course. The President's morning talks are always calculated to instruct and inspire, and in many instances students have voluntarily given expression to the amount of good they have personally derived therefrom. One of the most important additions to the curriculum is Gow's "Morals and Manners," placed in the D Normal year, and taught by president Allen. Heretofore nothing in line of a purely ethical study has been taught before the Senior Normal year, character is then largely fixed, and all who are interested in the intellectual, development of our youth will appreciate the fact that the leading distinctions of right and wrong are now to be carefully presented to the student at an age when a change in habit is still possible, as well as in the more advanced work of the course. Get This Paper Free. Any one sending us four cash yearly subscriptions will receive the Professional World free for one year. Fulton Notes. Miss Annie Dunlap of Auxvasse is reported quite sick. Subscribe to the Professional World, only $1.00 per year. The rally at the M. E. church last Sunday amounted to $75. Dr. J. T. Caston preached his farewell sermon in the old church at Richland last Sunday. Collection $98. The New York Commercial is authority for the statement that the National Manufacturers' association will soon issue a call for a national convention of employers for the purpose of forming a federation for self-protection in case of conflicts with organized labor. On a newly erected memorial stone, at Yarmouth, England, appears this inscription: "In memory of ——, who died of a disease contracted in South Atrica. The Lord be praised." Wiltshire, England, has this epitaph: "Beneath this soil a lump of clay lies Arabella Young, who, on the 24th of May began to hold her tongue." It will pay you Harness, etc. We sell direct from our Factory to Consumers at Factory Prices. This guaranteed Buggy only $33.50; Cash or Easy Monthly Payments. We trust honest people located in all parts of the world. Write for Free Catalogue. MENTION THIS PAPER. DEPT 910, East St. Louis, IL. COLUMBIA AND JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, FRIDAY OCTBER 2. 1903. DESERTED HER HUSBAND. Primary Teacher in Columbia School Suddenly Disappers. Quite a surprise was sprung at the Fred Douglass school in Columbia Thursday of last week when it was learned that Mrs. F. M. Brasheares, who had been primary teacher in the school for fourteen consecutive years, had deserted her husband and her position and left for parts unknown. There seems to be quite a mystery surrounding the affair and about all that could be learned is as follows: On Wednesday morning Principal Coleman received a note from Mrs. Brasheares stating that owing to illness she would not be able to perform her duties in school that day and asked that the substitute, Miss Estella Kirklin, be called to take her place. This was done and the day passed without any unusual notice of Mrs. Brasheares' absence being taken. After school hours Prof. and Mrs. Coleman called at the Brasheares home on 2nd Street and were surprised to find no one at home, and shortly after they had returned home Scott Brasheares, husband of the missing woman, called at the home of Prof. Coleman in search of his wife, whom he had not seen since morning, only to find that he had been deserted and on making inquiry it was found that she had boarded the 11 o'clock train for McBaine. Many stories are told as reasons for Mrs. Brasheares' sudden departure, but nothing reliable could be learned about the matter other than her departure was the outcome of domestic troubles. Mrs. Robert Carter, Mrs. Brasheares' mother, was seen Saturday evening by a Professional world reporter and when asked as to her daughter's sudden departure, said: "My daughter has gone from Columbia to stay. She has been dissatisfied with her surroundings for some time and decided to stand it no longer. She came to tell me good bye Wednesday and I knew she was going." When asked if she knew where her daughter was, she said: "She left McBaine for St. Louis. She will write me in a few days." Mr. and Mrs. Brashears have been married about fourteen years and have always resided in Columbia. They have no child ren. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & Co. Sold by Druggists 75e. Toledo, O. Hall's family Pills are the best. Agent Wanted. The Professional World wants an industrious, energetic, honest man to take the general agency for the Professional World, in this state. Good salary paid to hustling agent. Address. THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. Mr. John McKim Dead. Fulton, Mo., Sept. 27th, 1903. The rider of the pale horse, death, has one more invaded our ranks, and taken therefrom an old veteran of the cross, in the person of Bro. John McKim, who was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, Sept. 25, 1835, living to the ripe old age of 68 years. He died on the anniversary of his birth, Sept. 25, 1903. He was married to Miss Mahalia Scott, in 1855, who was to him a faithful and loving companion until her death about 3 years ago. Of this union two sons survive him, John and William, he also leaves a sister and brother and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. He united with the Second Baptist church of Fulton, in 1880. The funeral services were conducted from the above named church, by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Caston. A large concourse of friends followed the remains to their last resting place. He is not dead, for "In that great cluster's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation; safe from sin's pollution, He lives whom we call dead." O dearest bloom the season knows, Flowers of resurrection blow, Our hope and faith restore; And through the bitterness of death And loss and sorrow, breathe a breath, Of life forevermore. The thought of love Immortal blends, With fond remembrances of friends; In you, O sacred flowers, By human love made doubly sweet, The heavenly and the earthly meet, The heart of Christ and ours. Only Colored Contractor in St. Louis, E. L. Hamlin, Dead. E. L. Hamlin, the only colored contractor and builder in St. Louis, died at the family residence, 4010 Lee avenue, Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. The funeral services, which will be in charge of Col. Shaw post, G. A. R., of which the deceased was a member, will take place from Central Baptist church, Twenty-third and Morgan streets, next Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock, conducted by the pastor. --- DIED—SNEED—At his home in Centralia, Mo., Friday Sept. 25th, 1903, William Sneed, age 35 years. He was reared in Centralia and was a most industrious young man and a Christian gentleman. He leaves a wife and two children, a brother, sister and other relatives and a host of friends. He was a member of an excellent family and a brother to Prof. G. W. Sneed of Labadie, Mo. He was a member of the U. B. F. Lodge and his funeral was conducted by the members of that order at Centralia last Sunday. Dr. Perry. Dr. J. E. Perry, who has practiced in Columbia, Mo., for eight years with flattering success, has recently located in Kansas City. The doctor has purchased a house at 1214 Vine Street, which he expects to occupy in a very few days. His office is located at 705 east Twelfth street. Office 'phone, 1211 grand; residence phone, 69 east. Breakfast Bacon Hogs Noted for vigor, economic growth, and prolificacy, giving 8 to 18 pigs at a litter, saving and suckling them. Bred by T. L. Beazley. **TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY** Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 250 LINCOLN : INSTITUTE, MISSOURI STATE SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH. DEPARTMENTS. College, Normal, Preparatory, Industrial, COURSES. Clinical, Sub-Normal, Drawing, Fine Arts and Mechanical, Shoe-making, Typewriting, College Preparatory, Model Training School, Carpentry, Blacksmithing, Farming and Gardening, Sewing. ADVANTAGES. Competent Teachers, Good Location, Free Tuition, ern improvements, Buildings Heated by Steam, School Certificates, Board only $8.5 One of the best equipped schools in the country for great State of Missouri. First term opens Sept. 7th mation, write BENJAMIN FRANK Competent Teachers, Good Location, Free Tuition, New Dormitories, with Modern improvements, Buildings Heated by Steam, Diplomas are State School Certificates, Board only $8.50 per month. One of the best equipped schools in the country for negroes. Supported by the great State of Missouri. First term opens Sept. 7th. For Catalogues and information, write BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M., Pres. LYNCHERS LIKELY TO SUFFER. LYNCHBURG, TENN., Sept. 29. The coroner's jury returned a verdict to the effect that the negro, Allen Smith, who was killed last Thursday night during a raid on the Moore county jail, was "deliberately, maliciously and premeditatedly" murdered and 27 men are named in the verdict as guilty of the crime. Fourteen of the mob are under arrest and warrants for the others have been issued. Three of the prisoners have turned state's evidence and have been released on bond on condition that they will appear as witnesses for the prosecution. FARMERS' DAY AT COLUMBIA Tuesday, Oct. 6th, we are to have the best tented exhibition that travels. Gentry Brothers' Big Tented Animal show comes with more trained elephants, ponies monkeys, dogs, and ether animals ever gotten together. A whole train load. This is the largest show of its kind in the world, and the most interesting exhibition ever witnessed under canvas. The prices for this section of the country have been reduced to suit the times. You can take your whole family for a little money and give them a treat never to be forgotten. Come to town early and see the grand free street parade, over one half a mile long, given precisely at 11 o'clock. Free elephant and pony rides given to all children. Two exhibitions daily, rain or shine under our perfectly waterproof tent. Remember the date. Columbia Oct. 6, day and night. CATTLE DYING NEAR JOPLIN JOPLIN, Mo., Sept. 27.—An epidemic among the cattle of northern Indian Territory is killing them off by the hundreds. The disease is what is known as spleen fever and the black leg, and is fatal in nearly every case. In the evening the cattle may be in the best of health and the next morning be dead. In a distance of two miles along the Frisco a Joplin man counted sixty-five head of cattle, which had died from the disease. It is said that the cause of the disease lies in the second growth of grass. Don Park, aged 32 years, who runs a confectionery store in Kearney, is said to be the smallest man in Missouri. He is 42 inches tall and weighs 56 pounds. He weighed only thirteen pounds when he was five years old. His parents were larger than the average, and he has four brothers and sisters who are of medium size. Mr. park is not badly shaped, and differs from the rest of mankind only in being small. He traveled with a circus several years, but, like a modest Missourian, so disliked to be stared at that he quit the business. --- ```markdown ``` ANTAGES. Free Tuition, New Dormitories, with Mod- eated by Steam, Diplomas are State Board only $5.50 per month, the country for negroes. Supported by the opens Sept. 7th. For Catalogues and infor- JAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M., Pres. Jefferson City, Mo. Potatoes Light, Sorghum Crop Good, Apples Rotting. U. S. department of agriculture, climate and crop bulletin of the Weather Bureau, Missouri section, for the week ending September 28, 1903. Light to moderately heavy showers occurred in nearly all sections of the State on the 26th, but during the remainder of the week just closed the weather was very favorable for maturing the corn crop, and also for wheat sowing and the harvesting of late forage crops. The temperature averaged slightly below the normal, but there was very little cloudiness, and late corn has ripened rapidly. Light frost occurred in localities in the northwest section on the twenty-fourth, but did no damage. The cutting of corn has been general in all sections and in many localities is nearly completed. Considerable early corn is dry enough for cribbing. Cotton, in the extreme southeastern counties, is opening rapidly and picking is in progress. Except in a few of the extreme southern counties, where the ground is very dry, wheat sowing is progressing favorably with the soil in fair to excellent condition, and in a number of the northern counties is nearing completion. Early sown wheat and timothy are up and looking well. Potato digging is in progress, and while good yields are reported in some counties, in many the crop is very light. The crop of sweet potatoes is generally good. Sorghum is being worked up and a good yield and quality of syrup is reported in most sections. Clover is being bulled with satisfactory returns, as a rule. There is considerable complaint that apples are rotting and dropping and in most sections good winter apples will be scarce. Pastures are reported dry and short in some of the southern counties, but elsewhere they are in good condition. CASTORIA. Bears the Signature of Charles H. Pitchin The house is kind o' restless now, The old cat purrs a bit And then gets lonesome for a chance To arch her back and spit. There are no footmarks on the floor, The parlor's dark and cool, And not a door slams anywhere, Since Willie's gone to school. The old dog loiters at the gate And whimpers all in vain, For some one will bid him bark And pull his ears again Great wisdom's purchased at great cost, It is life's stubborn rule. We feel we help to pay the price When Willie goes to school. —Washington Star. --- VOL. II. NO. 48 THE CORN IS SAFE. SCHOOL TIME BRIEF IOWA NEWS Roland Kean, aged 62 years and an old resident of Waterloo, is dead. Cornelius Brasher, an early settler of Wapallo county, aged 76 years is dead. Rev. McMillen of West Branch has been called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Lyons. Henry Moore, a wealthy farmer and former official of Clerke county, dropped dead on the streets in Osceola. Indictments were returned in sixteen of the twenty-four cases to come before the grand jury at Sioux City. Jens Paulson of Boone, who attempted to kill his wife with an axe, has been bound over to the grand jury. Radcliffe, with 800 people, boasts four banking institutions. The town is in the midst of a thrifty German settlement. Henry Hall, aged 60, of Fort Madison, bearing the burden of ill health and family troubles, suicided by taking a dose of laudanum. Seven-year-old Warren Lightfoot fell from a tree at Burlington onto a picket fence. One of the pickets penetrated his right lung three inches. The boy may die. Jos. Patton has begun suit against the city of Sanborn for $10,000 damages for the loss of the services of his wife, who was badly injured by a fall on a defective sidewalk about six weeks ago. Mrs. Patton has also began suit for $10,000 alleleng total disability. Yesterday morning the workmen in the railroad shops in Missouri Valley found and killed 131 snakes, which, on account of the flood conditions, had left the low lands and crawled up into the buildings. A large number were also killed on the ground outside. Franklin county has just made a court record of which her citizens are proud and for which the taxpayers are undoubtedly thankful. Judge Whitaker convened the September term of the district court and cleared the docket in three days. The grand jury met and immediately adjourned because of nothing to do. The county jail had not a prisoner, and there was not a jury case to try and not an equity case. SCORES LABOR ORGANIZATIONS Knights of Labor Adopt Resolutions Condemning Those Which Support Enemies of Roosevelt, Pittsburg, Sept. 30.—Simon Burns, general master workman of the Knights of Labor returned from Washington, where he has been attending a meeting of the general executive board. He reports the adoption by the board of resolutions which state that the action of certain labor organizations to take up the fight of the enemies of President Roosevelt, because of his course in the dispute existing in the government printing office, is not in the interest of organized labor but is a political move, and that, if carried out, will disrupt or lower the organizations. Resolutions suggest that the controversy be referred, for decision, to Senator Hanna, who, it is stated, is a friend to both organized labor and Roosevelt. The resolutions say that Roosevelt is the best friend of organized labor ever had in the white house. STIRRED UP AN INSURRECTION Spanish Officer in Manila Held for Inciting Ladrone Leaders Against United States. Manila, Sept. 30.—Dominador Gomez, a former Spanish officer, awaiting sentence on the charge of maintaining an illegal organization known as the Union Obrero, was today charged with rebellion and insurrection for inciting the Ladrone leaders in the provinces of Rizel, Bulacan, Laguna, Cavite and elsewhere to take up arms in rebellion and insurrection against the authority of the United States. This has resulted in a recent outbreak of an insurrection in the provinces named in the form of guerrilla warfare, carried on through the influence of the Union Obrero and aided by its numbers, so-called nationalist, who are connected with the Juntas now located at Hong Kong, Madrid, and in Japan. TO DEDICATE LIBRARY Cedar Falls Will Formally Open Carnegie Building Sept. 24. Cedar Falls, Sept. 30.—Thursday, Sept. 24 will be a great day for Cedar Falls. It is the day set for the dedication of the Carnegie-Dayton library and if the day shall be fine, a large crowd will be out. The building is beautiful and a great ornament to the A Brief Resume of Recent Occurrences in the World of Affairs GENERAL POLITICAL LEGAL A Brief Resume SCIENTIFIC Is This Radium's Secret? Lord Kelvin in a paper read before the science branch of the British association, Sept. 12, offers one solution of the mysterious power by which the enormous and continuous emission of heat occurs in the new element radium. After computing the total emission of heat that would occur in 10,000 hours, Lord Kelvin concludes that it would be utterly impossible for so much energy to come out of so small a particle of radium. It seems, therefore, absolutely certain that the energy must be supplied from without. He suggested that etheral waves might in some way supply energy to radium while it was emitting heat to matter around it. Experiments are suggested to prove this theory. A Sculpturing Machine. The attention of the public has just been called to an Italian invention of Bontempi which A. Conan Doyle, the novelist, is exploiting in a foundry at Battersea, Eng. The invention is a copy drill on the principle of a pictograph. The clay model or the life subject is placed near the marble block, then while a guiding point is passed over the surface of the model the pointer is so connected electrically with powerful steel drills brought in contact with the marble slab as to carve the likeness of the subject in the model. In one day the work which would occupy a skilled workman a month was achieved. Rapid Growth From New Food. The result of a series of experiments made by Dr. Shinnkishi Hatal, professor of neurology at Chicago university, is a discoverer of a new food called lecithin. It is an organic, phosphorous-containing body found in eggs, brain matter and the white corpuscles of the blood. White rats which were fed on this substance experienced a growth 60 per cent faster than ordinary, all the parts of the body being stimulated alike. A similar effect is expected when the food is given to human beings. Submarine Beats Torpedo. The first satisfactory test to determine the relative value of the submarine and torpedo boats of the navy was made at Newport Tuesday. The submarine boat Adder made an attack on the torpedo boat Craven and as in the preliminary trials, the submarine was victorious. The crew of the Adder were much elated, as there had been a feeling that the submarines were of little use. To Color and Bleach Diamonds. W. S. Fuchs of Chicago announced the discovery of a process by which he is able to change a diamond to any color chosen and make the color permanent, by menas of the Roentgen rays. The method consists in directing an X-ray through the coloring matter before the rays touch and penetrate the diamonds. By reversing the method the color may be removed. Payne Ignores Subpoena. Postmaster General Payne, on advice of the attorney general, decided to ignore the subpoena summoning him to appear before the United States commissioner at New York as a witness in the Beavers case. The counsel of Beavers wished to force the government to disclose its case against their client. Hobson for Congress. Capt. R. P. Hobson of Greensboro, Ala., since his resignation from the United States navy, has been taking an active part in public affairs. The cordial reception he has received on his free lecture tour in his congressional district has led him to be a candidate for congress in that district against John H. Bankhead. Congress to Meet Nov. 9. It has been reported semi-officially at Oyster Bay that the president will not summon congress in extra session until November 9. The October idea was abandoned on request of many prominent republican members and senators. Strike Hurting New Orleans. The lockout of 8,000 longshoremen by the ship agents of New Orleans resulted in the almost complete tie-up of the commerce of that port, so that a vast amount of traffic was diverted to other cities; hence extraordinary efforts have been made to arbitrate the difficulty. Heavy rains in Minnesota and the Dakotas did damage to the wheat crop estimated at $10,000,000. Miscellaneous Happenings Maxim Has An Airship. Sir Hiram Maxim announced through the Westminster Gazette, London, that he has invented an airship and would soon make known the result of his experiment. RELIGIOUS An Episcopal Pope Wanted. The religious press is discussing with great interest the recent editorial of the New York churchman, the leading organ of the Protestant Episcopal church, in which the conclusion is reached that the "chief executive is as necessary for the church as for the nation." It is asserted that the history of Christianity justifies it and that the experiences of every organization demonstrates its necessity. It thinks Christendom should be unified and should have a head with incalculable help, provided that head should be a constitutional and representative one. It thinks, in fact, that it is more dangerous for the church not to have a head. A Mayor Goes to College. A mayor goes to college. Charles H. Leeds, mayor of Stamford, Conn., has announced his intention of taking a course in political science at Yale this fall while continuing to perform his official duties. Mr. Leeds is already a graduate of Princeton and was formerly a member of the New York Stock exchange. He gave up his seat because he did not approve of Wall street methods. He is the mayor who objected to a mouse-killing contest for kittens and who admitted that he had promised the liquor dealers that he would not enforce the Sunday closing laws. New Examinations for Teachers. The new system of examination for the certificates of teachers in Massachusetts is now complete and in the opinion of the Journal of Education, "the combination of oral and written tests, the balance between scholarship and experience, theory and common sense, is the best yet developed. The objects of these new tests is not to shut people out but to authorize everyone who probably would make a good teacher. Salvationists on Horseback The Salvation Army began its first cavalry campaign on Tuesday, when a party of Salvationists started from Cincinnati, and after securing horses at Jackson, Ky., began their singing and praying ride through the mountainous feud districts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. The journey is expected to last several weeks. Correspondence Church Training. Physical Culture Endowment. President Harris of Amherst has just announced that the daughter of the late Charles Pratt of Brooklyn has given to Amherst an annual income of $1,500 to enable graduates to fit themselves as teachers of physical education, while at the same time assisting in the work of physical culture at Amherst. It is the first endowment of its kind. Francis E. Clark, head of the Christian Endeavor societies, has just got into complete operation the adaptation of the correspondence school idea to the Christian Endeavor movement. The object is to thus train a band of skilled workers in every church. Text books have been prepared and regular courses outlined for seniors and juniors. Two More Cardinals. American Catholics are given the assurance on semi-official authority that two additional cardinals for the United States are to be created in the very near future. Pope Pius could not do anything to make himself more popular in this country than to accord the American church the recognition to which it has long been entitled but which has been withheld from it. McKinley Day in Ohio. Fully 100,000 people saw the unveiling of the bronze statue of William McKinley at Toledo, O., on McKinley day. Senator Hanna presided as officer of the day and paid a glowing tribute to the late president. The statue is of heroic size and mounted on white granite and marble. The day was generally observed throughout the state. Bulgaria's New Church. The Society of the True Life is the name given by Bishop Vincent to a new church established in Bulgaria, for people who will not join the Methodist church, but who are dissatisfied with the Greek church. About one thousand have joined already. COMMERCIAL Irrigation Congress Meets. The National Irrigation congress has been in session at Ogden, Utah, with delegates representing twenty-six states and territories. President Clark said that there now remained in the arid and semi-arid zones about 600,000,000 acres of valuable public land. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson said that the main problem now was to prevent waste of water where the snows melt in the mountains and also by leakage from canals. He charges that farmers used more water than is necessary and suggested the plan of basing charges for water on the quantity used rather than on the acreage irrigated. High Heeled Shoes Doomed High Heeled Shoes Doomed. President Lucy Baker of the National Dressmakers' Association said before its convention at Chicago that high heeled shoes, peek-a-boo waists and peroxide hair were no longer to be the fashion. She declared that high heels ruined the feet and figure and that the persons who wear them are disgusting. Close fitting waists with sloping shoulders and straight fronts are "to do away with those loose pouch fronts which set off the kangaroo walk and the square Gibson shoulders of the military girl." Cubans Here for Big Loan. Two members of the commission appointed by President Palma of Cuba to negotiate a loan of $25,000,000 for the payment of war pensions arrived at New York on Tuesday. They are Mendez Capote, president of the Cuban senate, and General M. G. Menocal. They immediately began conferring with prominent American bankers. Enormous Tropical Imports. Enormous Tropical Imports. The department of commerce and labor figures up a grand total of tropical and sub-tropical products brought into the United States in the past year at a valuation of $409,000,000. This is a gain of $100,000,000 since 1895. The tropical islands of the United States contributed about one-eighth of this total. Shortage of Cars. The usual shortage in freight cars for the moving of crops in the West is reported, only with worse conditions than heretofore. At Topeka, Kan., it was said that 25,000,000 bushels of wheat lay on the ground in Kansas, while elevators are overflowing. The exposed grain has been damaged considerably by rain. Through Lading for St. Louls. The railroads entering St. Louis from the east, in response to the demands of the St. Louis papers, have about decided to issue direct bills of lading on goods shipped to St. Louis. Heretorefore the merchants of that city have had to pay the cost of transportation across the Mississippi. Activity of Tailor Trust. General Secretary White of the United Garment Workers of America says that the tailors' trust is about to establish 100 stores in New York city and branches in several cities of more than 25,000 population. This is not viewed with alarm by the union as it is expected to put an end to the sweating system. The Most Profitable Bank. The First National Bank of Uniontown, Pa., has reported a gain of 135 per cent in surplus and undivided profits in the past year. This is believed to exceed the record of any national bank in the United States. This bank now ranks fifth in financial standing. SOCIOLOGICAL Is the Home Disappearing? The article written by Mrs. Russell Sage in the September Club Woman on "The Passing of the Home," is causing a great deal of discussion. She holds the average American man responsible largely for the tendency toward living in hotels and flats, charging that the paternal instinct is not properly developed. The man is constantly looking for diversion and his wife is expected to assist in the search for amusement. The desire of women to be free from household af- Evidence of Blacklisting Original letters tending to prove that certain mine operators are systematically blacklisting men who leave their employ so as to prevent their employment elsewhere were published by the Philadephore North American Wednesday. RELIGIOUS SCIENTIFIC EDUCATIONAL fairs, she thinks, has created the servant problem. Vegetariana Enter Arkansas. Edward W. Conable, who founded a vegetarian colony at Roswell, Colo., has lately bought 8,000 acres of land near Rogers, Ark., for the purpose of establishing another colony of vegetarians, pantheists and perfectionists. Their belief is that "God is the universal life force that permeates every living thing" and that "it is possible for man so to perfect himself physically as to come into absolute harmony with the soul and live eternally in the flesh." In Rogers there will be no butchers and no doctors. If you are ill you will fast till you get well. Animals, fowls, fish will positively not be admitted. The one who swears or chews or eats a cooked breakfast will be driven out. Prominent citizens of Cambridge, Mass, have formed "The Tuberculosis Ald and Education Association." Its objects are "to cure at home, if possible, persons suffering from tuberculosis; to relieve with food, as far as possible, all needy tuberculosis persons; to educate the entire community in the care and prevention of this disease; to promote the establishment of hospitals for hopeless cases." Spanking Machine In Use. Spanking Machine in Use. The Minnesota state training school has adopted a spanking machine to supersede the previous form of punishment by hand. The superintendent reports satisfactory results, saying that the humiliation of being put in the machine has more effect than the old method. A. Non-Alcoholic Hospital. The Frances E. Willard Temperance organization is about to erect a $75,000 hospital in Chicago in which alcohol will not be used in any form. EXECUTIVE Unions Attacking Administration. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in session at Salt Lake City passed a resolution Wednesday censuring President Roosevelt for reinstating Miller in the bookbinders' department at the government printing office at Washington while under the ban of the union. It was passed unanimously. Various other local unions have taken similar action. To Transfer the G. P. O. It was reported at Washington that the president had decided to ask congress to authorize the transfer of the government printing office to the department of commerce and labor. This is based on the report of Secretary Cortelyou concerning the extravagances of the present management. Army Cadets May Smoke. By order of the secretary of war, the West Point cadets have been permitted to use tobacco during relief from quarters within the barracks. The restriction had been found irksome and could not be enforced. It is held that as the cadets are of college-boy age, they should enjoy college-boy privileges. Caused Battleship Accident. Reviewing the case of Ensign Wortman, who was court martialed five months ago for causing the death of nine men by explosion of a gun on the Massachusetts on Jan. 19, Secretary Moody decides that Wortman was responsible through culpable inefficiency in the performance of his duty. Needs of the Postal Clerks. The National Association of Railway Postal Clerks has been in session at Washington and reports a membership of 6,943. Representative Tawney of Minnesota told the association that he would ask congress to give the clerks shorter hours and more pay and steel constructed mail cars. Cruiser Maryland Floated. In launching the new armored cruiser Maryland at Newport News, Va., through some miscalculation the ship stuck fast on her ways with only one end resting on the water. On Tuesday, however, after working night and day since Saturday, the cruiser was successfully floated. The corn market at Chicago experienced a jolt Wednesday as the result of severe frosts which visitd the western corn belt Tuesday night, doing considerable damage to the crop. The cotton crop in Texas also suffered, the temperature going down almost to the freezing point. A sever snow storm raged in Canada and the Northwestern states, snow falling to the depth of three feet in Manitoba, and eight inches in the Yellowstone park region. A POOR MAN'S EDEN Has Traveled Much, but Never Saw the Equal of Indian Territory. I moved to the Chickasaw Nation from Texas in November, 1899, and stopped in the town of Comanche nearly two months. Owing to the unsettled condition of the country, could not have purchased land if I had been able, so I rented land on Cow creek, three miles north of Comanche (about fifty acres), planted thirty acres in cotton and twenty in corn. Made twenty-two bales of cotton and 500 bushels of corn, worth $1,187.50, and only with the help of one grown son and one boy ten years old; made about $100 outside of my crop, besides 180 bushels of oats, and sold $64 worth of hogs and $6.60 worth of chickens, over and above home needs, all from a very small beginning, for I only had $15 when I landed in the town of Comanche. Thinking it would improve my wife's health, I moved back to Texas in the winter of 1900. When the Comanche country opened I came to Fort Sill and registered, but got no claim, so came over in Chickasaw and rented again, four miles southwest of Comanche; planted thirty acres in cotton and gathered twelve bales off it; ten acres in corn and gathered 220 bushels. Corn and cotton both were worth $26. I bought a small start of hogs—ten pigs—and have sold $42 worth of pork, keeping 700 pounds for my own use. I have a sow and five pigs left. I also raised twenty-five bushels of Irish potatoes and twenty bushels of sweet potatoes, fine turnips and all other garden vegetables that will grow anywhere in the north temperate zone. There is an orchard on this place of about thirty peach trees, bearing excellent fruit for the past three years. This is confessedly the best country I ever saw for a man of moderate means to make a living or to get a start, if he will only use industry and economy. It is a fine country to raise stock, the winters being short and mild. Cattle and horses go through the winter here very often without feed. It is also a fine country to raise fowls. I bought my wife eight hens to start with, and she has sold $950 worth of chickens. We have seventy-four left, besides those for our own use. We have kept no account of the eggs sold, but they are selling all the time at 20 cents per dozen; butter at 25 cents. My wife preserved fifteen gallons of peaches and canned three dozen half-gallon jars, put up four gallons of sweet pickles and preserved three gallons of grapes that grew on the place. We have good health and good water here. Can get water from wells at from sixteen to forty feet. In my judgment this is the place for a man of limited means to make money. I have traveled over several states and have never seen anything that will compare with this for farming. O. E. MARTIN. Further information about Oklahoma and Indian Territory is given in "Rock Island States Southwest," a 64-page booklet recently issued by the Passenger department of the Rock Island System. For a copy, write John Sebastian, Passenger Traffic Manager, Chicago, Ill. The Rock Island System also issues a monthly paper called the Western Trail, and devoted to the territory traversed by Rock Island lines. Each issue contains letters from men and women who have bettered their condition in life by removing to the Southwest. The Western Trail will be mailed you for one year for 25 cents in stamps or silver. Homesekers' Excursions twice a month via Rock Island System to points in the Southwest. Full information at all Rock Island ticket offices. Late Supper. A very steady and serious country gentleman had joined a newly established London West End club which offered the advantage of bedrooms for country members temporarily in town. When next the squire visited the modern Babylon he put up for the night at the club, which had in the meantime become extremely fashionable and its hours correspondingly irregular. The squire went to bed at an early hour, when all was quiet and decorous. If there were a racket in the night he slept through it. Next morning he came down to breakfast at his usual hour—8 o'clock—but was surprised to find the room in the middle of the dusting process and not a cloth on the tables. While he was gazing helplessly around a sleepy-eyed waiter came up to him. "I beg your pardon, sir," he said, apologetically, "but no suppers can be served after half-past 7." -Tit.Bits. Knew What a Skeleton Was. Knew What a Skeleton Was. Some days ago two little fellows of 7 and 8 years heard older people speaking of skeletons. The 7-year-old listener intently to the conversation, when the older boy, with an air of superior knowledge, said abruptly: "You don't know what a skeleton is and I do." "So do I," replied the younger. "I do know. I know for certain. I do." "Well, now, what is it?" "it's bones with the people off." An Arkansas Planter By OPIE READ Printed by Permission and Copyright 1896 by Rand, McNally & Co. Chicago CHAPTER XVIII (Continued) "But if he suckles it to sleep there's no harm in it, Uncle Gideon." "Ah, clod-head, but it may have bad dreams and wake up, with a cry. Let's go back there." "Are you in earnest?" "As carnest as a last will and testament." "Then let me tell you that I'll do nothing of the sort. You don't catch me prowling about a man's house at night, and you wouldn't think of such a thing if you were strictly sober." "Jimmie, you never saw me drunk." "No, but I've seen you soberer than you are now." "An unworthy insinuation, Jimmie. But having great respect for your plodding judgment, I will not go to the negro's cabin, but will proceed rather to my own shanty. And I want you to come with me. Tom Cranceford and Sallie Prutt will be there and in the shine of the fire we'll cut many a scolop. What do you say?" "Uncle Gideon, don't you know how strongly opposed Mrs. Cranceford is to Tom's—" "Bah, law-abiding calf. They are going to marry, anyway, so what's the difference? Jimmie, the most useless man in the world is the fellow that keeps just within the law. But perhaps it isn't your law-abiding spirit so much as it is your fear. In blind and stupid obedience there is a certain sort of gallantry, and in trotting to Mrs. Cranceford's cluck you may be wise." "It's not that I am afraid of offending her," the giant said. "The girl is too good for Tom any day, or for any of us when it comes to that, but the distress of his mother haunts me, and I don't want that girl's affection for Tom to haunt me too. One haunt at a time is enough. But I tell you this, if it should come to a question I would decide in favor of the girl." "Jimmie, you are improving. Yes, I am doing you great good. I found your mind an insipid dish and I have sprinkled it with salt and pepper. You are right. Always decide in favor of the young, for the old have already had their disappointments. Well, I'll go. Lift your paw. My horse can't move out from, under its weight." "All right," said the giant, laughing and stepping back. "By the way," he added, "tell Tom to be sure and meet me at the landing at two o'clock tomorrow. We are going down to New Orleans." "What, alone? I ought to go along to take care of you. I could steer you away from all the bad places and by this means you would naturally stumble on the good ones. I'll see you when you get back." At home the old man had lighted his fire and was listening to its cheerful crackle when his visitors came, laughing. With a boisterous shout Tom kicked the door open, and when the girl remonstrated with him, he grabbed her and kissed her. "That's all right," old Gid cried. "One of these days the penitentiary doors will open for you without being kicked in. Ah, delightful to see you, my dear," he said, bowing to the girl; "refreshing to see you, although you come with a scamp. Sit down over there. I gad, you are a bit of sunshine that has lost its way in the night." About her head she had wound a scarf of red yarn, and as she stood taking it off, with the fire-light dancing among the kinks of her flax-like hair, the old man stepped forward to help her. "Hands off," said Tom. "Don't touch her." "Wolfish protector of a lamb," the old man replied, "I ought to throw you out; but it is not my mission to cast out devils." The girl sat down on a bench and Tom took a seat beside her; and with many a giggle and a "quit that, now." "Don't wash your face too often," is one beauty's good advice. "Don't wash it at all," is another's counsel. "Don't be a goose," says a third, "but use a little common sense and wash your face twice a day—night and morning." Don't be afraid of soap. It is not the enemy to the complexion that many people consider it. It is infinitely better for the skin than the dirt which will collect in the pores after a warm day. On the Bench Before the Fire BEAUTY DONT'S Printed by Permission and Copyright 1866 by Rand, Nally & Co. Chicago they picked at each other. Old Gid, in his spilt-bottomed chair, leaned back against the wall and feasted his eyes upon their antices. "Kittens," said he, "I will get you a string and a button. Ah, Lord, I was once a delicious idiot." "And you've simply lost your deliciousness," Tom replied. "Ah, and in its place took up age. But with it came wisdom, Thomas." "But didn't it come too late?" "The wise utterance of a foolish youth," said the old man. "Yes, Thomas, it came too late. Wisdom is not of much use to an old codger. He can't profit by it himself and nobody wants his advice. Did I ever tell you about the girl I loved? Ah, she was glorious. June was in her mouth and October fell out of her hair." "And you didn't marry her because she was poor, eh?" "No, but because she was rich, Jimmie. She wanted me not; and she married a wealthy fool and the imbecile made her happy. I could almost forgive her for not loving me, for I was On the Bench a mate on a steamboat, but to let that fool make her happy—it was too much and I cast her out of my mind. But when is your wedding to take place? In the sweet light of a distant moon, or within the sunshine of a few days?" "Hanged if I know." "Tom!" cried the girl, putting her hands over his mouth, "that's no way to talk." "I said it to make you do that," he replied, his voice latticed by her fingers and sounding afar off. He took her hands and pressed them to his check. "A pretty picture, and I'll long remember you as you sit on that bench," said the old man. "Sallie, how old are you?" he asked. "I don't know, sir. Pap and mother couldn't put it down 'cause they didn't know how to figger, and when I got so I could figger a jittle they had dun forgot the year and the day of the mouth. Most of the time when I'm by myself I feel old enough, but sometimes Uncle Wash calls me foolish and then I'm awful young. But Aunt Martha never calls me foolish 'cause I help her in the kitchen." There came a scratching at the threshold. The old man got out of his tilted chair and opened the door, and BEAUTY Don't wash it oftener. If cleansing is necessary during the day, use a little cold cream. Washing the face too frequently removes the natural oil and gives the skin a withered look. Don't use hard water if you value your complexion. The excess of lime in hard water neutralizes the oil in the pores of the skin, and thus hardens the cuticle. a dog, prancing in, lay down in front of the fire, with his nose between his outstretched paws. "What a pretty dog," said the girl, and with a look out of one eye and with a slight wag of the tail the dog acknowledged the compliment. "Oh, he's gallant," Gid replied, sitting down. "And he knows when a truth has been told about him." "No good at hunting, is he?" asked Tom. "He is not a sportsman," Gid answered. "He pays his keep with companionship. I sit here and read him to sleep nearly every night. He tries to keep awake but he can't. But as long as I read a lively book he'll lie there and look up at me as if he enjoys it, and I believe he does, but 'Benton's Thirty Years in the American Senate' will knock him most any time. Old whatteley's logic makes him mighty drowsy. I reckon you cubs have been to supper. If you haven't you may make yourselves at home and cook something. Old Aunt Liza cooks for me, out there in the other room, but she's generally away in the service of her church and then I have to shift for myself." "We've been to supper," the girl spoke up. "but if you want something to eat I'll cook it." "Bless your life, not a bite," the old man protested. "To eat now would canker a memory. I took sacrament over at the Major's. Now, I'm going to lean back here and I may talk or I may drop off to sleep, and in either event just let me go. But if I doze off don't wake me, not even when you get ready to leave. Just pull the door to and that's all." "Ain't you afraid to sleep here all by yourself?" the girl asked. "I'd be afraid somebody'd slip in and grab me." "I could scarcely blame anyone for grabbing you, my dear," the old man replied, smiling upon her, "but as for myself, the grabber would get the worst of it." A long time they sat and talked of neighborhood happenings, the death of a burly man who it was never supposed uch Before the Fire could die before Wash Sanders was laid away; they talked of the growing dissatisfaction among the negroes, of the church built by Father Brennon, of the trip to be taken to New Orleans by Jim and Tom. The firelight died down. A chunk fell and the dog jumped up with a sniff and a sneeze. Old Gideon took no notice, for leaning back against the wall he was softly snoring. "Let us leave him just as he is," said Tom. "But it looks cruel," the girl replied. "He suffers from sleeplessness and to wake him up would be still more cruel. Let's do as he told us." are her don't self acle aw- over in the his and The girl put the bench out of the way, that he might not fall over it in the dark; and out of the room they tip-toed and silently they closed the door. By the hand he led her to the road, and with a coo and a song they strolled homeward. The clouds were scattered and acres of light lay on the cleared land; but the woods were dark and the shadows were black, and he walked with his arm around her. They heard the galloping of a horse and stepped aside to let the rider pass, and when he had passed, with his head in the moonlight and his horse in the dark, the young man said: "I know that fellow." using lit- too oil k. Don't think that the skin is as thick as the hide of the rhinoceros and treat it accordingly. If you do, you will have premature wrinkles and lose delicacy of coloring. Don't bathe the face with clear alcohol; it is too drying to the skin. A little rose scented alcohol may be used occasionally to advantage, particularly if the skin is oily. "Why didn't you speak to him?" she asked. "Because it wouldn't do for me to have any words with him. He's the man that's trying to organize the negroes." He left her at Wash Sanders' gate; he heard her feet upon the steps, and looking back he caught the kiss she threw at him. CHAPTER XIX. A steamboat ride to New Orleans will never lose its novelty. Romance lies along the lower river. The land falls away and we look down upon fields bounded by distant mist, and beyond that dim line one's fancy gallops ritously. Not alone the passenger, but the seasoned captain of the boat stands musing and motionless, gazing upon the scene. In his mind he could carry the form and the rugged grandeur of a mountain; upon a crag he could hang his recollection, but this flat endlessness is ever an unencompassed mystery. The wind from the gulf was soft, and the two friends stood on the hurricane-deck, charmed with a familiar view. "It is just as new to me as it was when I was a boy, coming along here with father," said the giant. "And yet I don't see what makes it interesting, no woods, nothing but a house here and there." "It always makes me think I'm going over the flat side of the globe, and I catch myself wondering what's just beyond," Tom replied. "There's the city 'way round yonder. How long do you want to say?" "I don't know exactly." "Got any particular business down here?" "No," he said, hesitatingly. "None that I know of." "Just pleasure, is it?" "Well, I reckon we might call it that." "Might call it that? I've come because you wanted me to. There is nothing going on that I care to see. What is it you're after?" "Oh, just to look around a little." "All right, old fellow, I'm with you, but as soon as you get tired of looking around I wish you'd let me know. It seems to me that I've been gone a month already. You know why." "Yes, I know; but you've got a consolation that I never had—you know what to expect when you get back." "Yes, that's true, and may be you'll know what to expect one of these days." From the museful distance the giant removed his gaze and upon the boy at his side he bent a kindy look. "I have been reading a good deal of late," he said, "and old Gid has told me that I am improving, but I have found no book to speak a word of comfort to me. I took the heartache away back yonder—but we won't talk about it. We'll poke around down here a day or two and then go home." "But hang it, I thought you came to enjoy yourself and not to conjure up things to make you sad." "You are right, and you shan't hear any more sad talk out of me." It was early in the forenoon when they stepped ashore and stood upon the old levee. The splendid life of the Mississippi steamboat is fading, but here the glow lingers, the twilight at the close of a fervid day. No longer are seen the gilded names of famous competitors, "The Lee," "The Natchez," but unheralded boats are numerous, and the deck-hands' chorus comes with a swell over the water, and the wharf is a jungle of trade. In the French market they drank black coffee, listened to the strange chatter about them, and then aimlessly they strolled away. "What's your programme?" the boy asked. "Haven't any." "Do you want to call on any of the cotton buyers?" A woman sitting on a rock, reading a book, with a suitcase in her lap, in front of a large industrial building with smokestacks emitting smoke. England has nearly 4,000 female butchers. Don't go to bed without grooming the face, or you will wake up in the morning with the skin dry and hard. In the morning it is too late to do the work which should have been done the night before. Don't use water on the face if it is sunburned. Dip a soft cloth in sweet cream and lay it over nose and check. The relief is almost instantaneous. Better swallow your good jest than lose your good friend. THE AUTOMATIC DOCTOR The New Slot Machine Expectad to be a Moncy Maker THE KEY Jack Harduppe—Lend me a fiver, old man, and I shall be evrlastingly indebted to you. With Nathan. Now that's what I'm afraid of "We're never able to meet the demand for slot machine novelties," said a man in the business. "We're all looking around now for something new for the St. Louis World's fair. "Personally, I don't care so much about fairs. The machines get a good play there, but there are so many counter attractions and you have to give up such a percentage to get on the grounds that in the end you're not so much ahead. "I'd rather have all the New York hotels for mine than all the fairs that ever happened. The people who pass in and out through New York hotels and their barrooms have money and spend nickels without thinking twice." "Take the case of the fellows who got the talking scale which made such a hit along Broadway. The Sun printed a piece telling how you got on it and the scale hollered out your weight. That was reprinted all over the country and orders piled in on the makers so they could have shipped out 2,500 in a week if they had them. "But their plant was a small one and they could produce only about 15 machines a week and they had to buy the scale bases from another small manufacturer. So the free advertising they got has only driven them frantic. "They can sit down and figure how much money they would be making if all the machines they have orders for were working today, taking 75 per cent of the gross receipts for them. One of the machines down in the Wall street district has taken in $1.50 a day for seven months just as regularly as if it was on the city payroll. "If the inventors had 3,000 machines out they would be making a clean $2,500 a day right along soft ANIMALS IN Dr. Passarge, the well-known German geologist, gave an interesting lecture a while ago in which he told of the influence which the larger animals of the Kalahari desert have exerted in producing some of the peculiar surface forms in that great waste. Most of the great game has now disappeared on account of ruthless hunting both by natives and white men, but the region was formerly populated by great herds of elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, graffes, zebras and other large animals. The crowding of these herds of game to the watering places gave these basins their present shape. The animals not only quench their thirst at these places, but also use the waters for bathing purposes. It is well known that elephants and not a few other large animals delight to roll in mud. Through the rolling and other movements of the animals the ground around the watering places was stirred up and every beast took away from his bath a certain amount of calcareous mud on his body. Thus these places, which orig- inally were only slight depressions, gradually assumed the form of deep hollows or basins. The sides of these hollows are almost vertical and the animals are THE LOAN WASN' Jack Harduppe—Lend me a fiver, old debted to you. Will Notte—Yes, that's what I'm af MERE OPINION It is unsafe to judge a man's patriotism by the loudness of his cheer for the flag. Many a man who can owe his landlord from month to month without worrying tips the waiter just because he is afraid he would be regarded as cheap if he didn't. profit. By the time half the orders are filled the fad will be over. Then the price will be reduced to a cent, and when that ceases to pay the machines will be leased to advertisers. You can step on one of them and it will call out your weight free and will also advise you to 'Drink Zoozum's Whiskey' or take some sort of patent medicine." "I've got a machine under way," said another slot magnate, "that will be a money maker for sure. It's an automatic doctor. "You get on the machine and put your wrist in a clutch that takes your pulse. Then you take a thermometer that's attached to the machine and put it under your tongue. You drop your nickel in and hold your position while a clock right in front of you ticks off 60 seconds. "Then your pulse and temperature have been ascertained by the automaton, which registers both on a bit of card and on the other side of the card writes a prescription for you. "There is a basin of antiseptic fluid to which you return the thermometer so that it's clean for the next corner. We'll put these machines in drug stores and make the drug-gist give us a percentage of his graft on filling the prescriptions. "I'm going to take that machine to St. Louis. I expect that at least a million persons in good health will be willing to pay a nickel to get their pulse and temperature told."—New York Sun. Though, perhaps, he wasn't noted For his business enterprise. Yet he used to raise the mortgage On your mansion in the skies. IN GEOLOGY also responsible for this fact. Elephants and many other animals have a habit of rubbing themselves along rough places and in this way the walls of these artificial basins were gradually rubbed away until they received their present steepness. Similar effects produced by animals in other parts of the world have been noted. In a paper published by Dr. Gilbert, the well known American geologist, a few years ago he said that in the course of ages considerable changes had doubtless been made in the surface features of our great Western plains by the buffaloes and other animals which rolled in mud and in the aggregate doubtless removed from one place to another an enormous quantity of dirt which adhered to their hides. Of course all Americans know of the buffalo wolves which are still thickly sprinkled over the plains where the enormous herds of bisons once wandered.—New York Sun. How He Proposed. Miss Charmer—How did Fred propose? Miss Millyun—He said he didn't know what he would do unless he got some money right away.-Baltimore American. NON'T NEGOTIATED. old man, and I shall be evrlastingly in- afraid of. The courage he must have who faces death on the field of battle is as naught compared with the nerve of the man who openly confesses that he doesn't see anything in the book everybody is raving over. The average woman's greatest satisfaction is obtained when she can sit down quietly somewhere and pick her teeth with a pin. RUFUS L. LOGAN, B. S. D. - EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in Advance - - - $1.00 Six Months in Advance - - - .75 Three Months in Advance - - - .50 Single Copies - - - .05 Advertising Rates on Application. Job Work of all Kinds Solicited. Published Every Friday. Entered at the postoffice at Columbumbia, Mo., as second class matter, Jan. 15, 1902. Agents wanted in every town in the state. Payments may be made in two cen 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. Communications should be made to reach us not later than Thursday morning, to insure insertion in the current issue. No attention will be paid to anonymous communications. Agents wanted everywhere. Write for terms. Specimen copies sent to any address upon request. RAINBOW-GOLD. Ain't the rainbow purty Archt acrost the sky? Blessed promise to us Dat the stobm is by! They ain't no rain no moh Gwine to fall to-day— Le's git the ball an' things 'N scampeh off to play— II. Down theah behin the bahn, Where the win' don' scol'. An' 'n en I'll tell a yahn 'Bout the rainbow-gol',— 'Cause ma, she says hit's so; An' she tol' me, too, Where the rainbow teches, Dat the gol' is blue. Now you see the rainbow 'S got to end somewhere: 'Tain't lak a great big hoop Hung up in the aih; Fur one end's in the sea 'N' yuther on the mount— Where mammy says the gol' 'S more'n you'n me could count IV. Mammy says—an' she knows, Ef I'd tek a train, An' travel fur's hit goes; 'N'en cross the deep main On a big white bird's wing, Till the lan' an' sea, An' the worl' n' ev'rything Would be los' to me, 'N'en I 'ud fin' the lan', Where the rainbow's soul, Jes' lak a dracoon's han', Guahds his pot o' gol', Mammy says—dot beside, Whilst the gol' is theah, Hits bluer'n the skies Way up in the aih. VI. Some day, my mammy says, Ef I live tell then, When I'm all grown up big, Jes lak yuther men, She'll let me go an' fill— Full as they will hol', My hat an' ev'rthing, With the rainbow-gol'. —Chas. B. Johnson. REMEMBER that the price of the Professional World is only $1.00 per year. Of all kinds of immorality, immoral individuals in the pulpit and school room are the greatest hindrances to race elevation. PROF. R. L. LOGAN has again entered upon his duties as principal of the colored school at Huntsville. He is an energetic, ambitious educator and a good citizen. Would that the country had more such negroes.—Columbia Statesman. THE Professional World has always tried to have a mind of its own and never waits to see whose feelings "might be hurt" before speaking. It has always been very careful about the truthfulness of statements and spoke of them freely. THE St. Louis Palladium, a sheet published by one J. W. Wheeler and containing about two columns of news, seems to be surprised that the Professional World would criticise its slanderous state- ments. The Professional World thinks no more of criticising the Palladium than any other sheet like it which is filled with whiskey and wine room ads., and has no regard for the truth. The editor of the Palladium refers to the editor of the American Eagle as "The old Black man." Such references are disgraceful to the editorial profession and no respectable editor would make use of such. But this is a characteristic of the Palladium and, the worst of all, this bulldozing editor has "Rev." before his name. No one needs to hear him preach to know what kind of minister he would make. The Palladium never contains an editorial, but this is easily accounted for as it takes something more than a lead pencil and a tablet to produce an editorial (intelligence) and this is something the Palladium has not. OCTOBER WEATHER IN COLUMBIA. The following data for the month of October have been compiled from the records of the local office of the U. S. Weather Bureau and cover the period from 1889 to 1902, inclusive: The mean or normal temperature of October is 57 degrees. The warmest October was that of 1897, with an average of 64 degrees, and the coolest was that of 1895, with an average of 52 degrees. The highest temperature during any October was 95 degrees on the 13th, 1899, and the lowest, 19 degrees, on the 29th, 1895. The average number of days with maximum temperature above 90 degrees is 1, and the average number with minimum temperature below 32 is 4. The average date of the first killing frost in autum is October 14th. The average precipitation for October is 2.09 inches, and the average number of rainy days, 7. The greatest October precipitation was 7.73 inches, in 1900, and the least, .25 inch, in 1895. The greatest amount of precipitation recorded in any 24 consecutive hours was 3.27 inches, on the 28-29th, 1900. The only October in which snow fell was that of 1898, when a trace fell on the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 25th. The average number of clear days is 16; partly cloudy days 8; and cloudy days, 7. The prevailing winds have been from the south, and the highest velocity recorded was 37 miles per hour, from the southwest, on the 30th, 1896. A.E. HACKETT, Section Director, U. S. Weather Bureau. BACON HOG IN DEMAND The bacon hog is now attracting a lot of interest. This class of porcine has captured the public taste and left the heavy fat hog in the lurch. The packing houses demand a good bacon hog and pay well for it, says the National Provisioner. The bacon type of hog has often been misconstrued and in many cases ridiculed, but this is done more because of lack of knowledge of the real bacon type than anything else. This type does not demand a thin hog as is often thought, but a hog with a thick covering of firm flesh. It is, of course, highly important that this flesh be lean, and this will follow if the true bacon breeds are raised. The bacon hog must possess extreme length and depth. He must be smooth and evenly fleshed from the shoulders to the hips, presenting a neat and trim appearance. While to a large number of people these hogs are strangers, it would be well for every farmer to watch their progress, as they are becoming more numerous every year. So far as reports go, no damage was done in this section to the corn crop by the two frosts last week. The warm weather this week brightens the prospect for a large yield. In Cooper county more than half the overflowed land was replanted, and in Howard county about one-third. This corn is better than the crop that was drowned out would have been.—Boonville Advertiser. Gentry Bros. Famous Shows A wheel in a large arena. A crowd of people are running around it. UNITED. Will Positively Exhibit in Columbia, after noon and evening=-rain or Shine Tuesday, October 6th. Under Mammoth Waterproof Tent Over 500 Highly Trained Animals MORE Handsome, Educated Ponies. Intelligent, Well-bred Dogs. Comical Monkeys and Baboons Baby Elephants, Camels, Sacred Cattle, Donkeys. All New, Nov Shows T Don't Fail to See the O TUESDAY, Don't Fail to See the Grand Street Parade at 10 a.m. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6th. Attend the fall opening and display of hats and millinery goods at Mrs. Annie Adkisson's, Saturday, October 3rd. Marriage Licenses This Week. Asa Jacobs, and Ella Cornelious, Midway. Harold Clark Thurman, of Lamar, Mo., and Freda Milroy Levy, Columbia. J. Hinton Brown, Columbia, and Mary Lawless Denham, Rocheport. L. S. Turner, Brown's Station, and Bessie Johnson Price, Centralia. Earl Tribble, Hallsville, and Christina Finlay, Sturgeon. Frank Richards, Columbia, and May Castleman, Brown's Station. Charlie A. Lee, Deer Park, and Emma Wilson, Easley. Vineil R. Hawkins, and Esther Lee Brown, Columbia. Dudley Morris and Mrs. Francis Baldwin, Columbia. Smith T. Dawson and Ruey Thomas, Centralia. Smith and Jones. The new city directory issued by Thomas Tilden Simmons, shows that there were in Columbia the first of September 2,975 white people over 16 years of age and 980 colored persons over sixteen years old. The directory contains thirty-nine Smiths, twelve Joneses, thirty-eight Williamses, and thirteen Stephenses. The book contains seventy pages and on the front is a picture of the main building of the University under which is the inscription "Hail Columbia, the Gem of Missouri." Want River Improved. Citizens of Hartsburg and vicinity have employed C. B. Sebastian to assist them in getting congress to improve the river at this point. Many farms will be cut away if steps are not taken to save them and the citizens themselves have subscribed liberally to this work. J. W. Young and other enterprising citizens are taking an active interest in the matter. Mr. Sebastian has been appointed a delegate to attend the levee convention to be held in New Orleans this month (October) and he may also attend a meeting to be held in Kansas City in the interest of river improvement. --- Fall Opening. Over 500 Highly Trained Animals MORE Handsome, Educated Ponies. Intelligent, Well-bred Dogs. Comical Monkeys and Baboons vel and Unique this Year. Grand Street Parade at m. OCTOBER 6th. O. J. BROOKS, ARTIST PORTRAITS IN OIL FROM LIFE. PASTELS, CRAYONS. Studio 1512, North 5th Street, KANSAS CITY. KANSAS. The Great Southern Hair Pomade. Softens, beautifies and promotes the growth of the hair. PRICE 25c. GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Fill out this blank, mention this paper, and send it with $1.00 and you will receive by express $2.00 worth of the Pomade and terms to agents: F. J. NOTT, PARIS MO. : F. J. NOTT, PARIS MO.: Enclosed please find P. O. Money Order for $1.00, for which send me as per your offer, $2.00 worth of the Great Southern Hair Pomade, and terms to agents. Name .... Street .... Town or City .... County .... State .... Express Office .... Date of this order .... SEND ALL ORDERS TO F. J. NOTT, Box 81, Paris, Mo. Lodge and Church Directory. 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. U. B. F. Watch This Space. Reserved for The Globe Mercan 210 East High St., JEFFERSON CITY, - - JEFFERSON CITY, - - MISSOURI. Florence Woods, W. P.; Mrs. Lizzie Williams, W. S. Meeting first Monday in each month at 3'p. m. Boone county light lodge, No. 3356. Meetings, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in each month. Visiting members in good standing invited. W. H. TURNER, N. G. J. C. BURTON, P. S. Acme Lodge, No. 24. Meetings second and fourth Fridays in each month. W. H. Turner, C. C. and D. D. G. C. W. W. Lampkins, M. F. 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. 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. 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