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THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. $1.00 Per Year in Advance. We Hear Every Day. ARKS "I would like just like these satisfactory." YES! That It's a long lar We are work price. Cash vice. Try P of shoes. Independence News. "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. --- Miss Amanda Chrisman has returned from Colorado. Uncle Jordan Evans is still quite sick, also Mr. Sam Jackson. Rev. Caldwell, of St. Joseph, was here Thursday and preached the funeral of Mr. George Fouche. The pulpit of the A. M. E. Church was filled Sunday by the new pastor, Rev. Allen, who preached an able sermon. See S. H. Nuttal, 118 East Lexington street, for first class work in cleaning, repairing and coloring of ladies' and gents' wear. Mr. George L. Fouche, brother of Mrs. Mary I. Jenkins, died Wednesday morning. Funeral was held at A. M. E. Church, on Thursday. Mrs. Eliza Ervin, one of the oldest members of the Second Baptist Church, died last Friday. She leaves a host of friends to mourn her death. Funeral held at the Second Baptist Church Sunday afternoon. There are a great many people who do not read anything in the way of newspapers, unless occasionally they read one at someone's else expense. Such people miss a great deal of information when they fail to read some good paper regularly. Why not take the Professional World at $1.00 per year. 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. Jefferson City News. Miss Alice Pugh is indisposed. Mrs. M. Rankin's baby is reported better. Rev. Duke's, wife and two sons arrived last week. Rev. J. Goins is conducting a ten days prayer meeting. Miss Anna Cohen of St. Louis is visiting Miss Allie Dupee. Mr. Emmet Hoyle of Kansas joined the Baptist church Sunday night. The musical and literary concert was postponed on account of the disagreeable weather. Miss Smyra Kung who has been visiting in St. Louis returned CASH OR CREDIT. Catalogue FREE. CENTURY MF'G CO. REMARKS Notice. take another pair of Shoes ese. They are so easy and at's what we love to hear! ane that don't make a turn. orking hard to lower the h will do it. Take our ad- PAPE for your next pair home Friday morning. Mrs. Thom Horrell received a telegram last Friday, stating that her sister in Cape Girardeau was dead. Miss Ida Richardson of Spring field, Ill., returned home last week with her sister, Miss Mary Richardson, who has been very sick for several weeks. Get This Paper Free. Any one sending us four cash yearly subscriptions will receive the Professional World free for one year. Fulton Notes. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Bradley of Auxvasse spent Monday in Fulton. Mr. John Franklin of Tibbett was a business visitor here Monday. The churches of this place will hold union meeting on Thanksgiving day. Mr. Eddie Bragg is confined to his bed with a severe sore throat this week. A musical entertainment will be given at the Baptist church Friday night. Messers. Sherman Logan and Bird Baynham of New Bloomfield attended stocksale here Monday. Mr. James E. Reese went to New Bloomfield Saturday afternoon to spend Sunday with his parents. Married—On Thursday evening, Oct. 29th, 1903, Mr. E. Williams and Mrs. Minnie Diggs both of north Fulton. Miss Nellie Logan formerly of this place passed through here Saturday enroute to her home at New Bloomfield. Huntsville Notes. Mr. Ira Dunn is on the sick list. Mr. Al Robinson is still very sick. Prin. R. L. Logan spent Saturday at Jacksonville, Mo. This paper comes every week and is only $1.00 a year. Mrs. A. B. Viley spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City. Rev. G. C. Chinn spent Sunday with his congregation in Salisbury. The K. of P. Lodge and the court of Calanthe will give an entertainment in the near future. A daughter of Mr. Spence Rob- It will pay you to send for our Catalogue No. 6, quoting prices on Buggies, 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. DEP'T 910, East St. Louis, Ill. inson, near Yates, died last Saturday and was buried Sunday. A good colored barber shop in Huntsville would pay well. This would be a fine location for a straight forward young man in the barber business. from Denver, Colo., where he has been for some time on account of his health. If you want a nice o'possum for the holidays, don't forget to visit the yard of Fisher, Young, and Woolery, for they have a fine col- Sturgeon Notes. Mrs. Bessie Palmer subscribes for the Professional World this week. Our public school is doing nicely under the direction of Prof. H. B. Stone. Prof. H. B. Stone is attending the teachers association meeting of Boone county teachers at Columbia this week. Rev. Graves and wife, of Centralia, were in town Monday evening assisting Rev. W. L. Lee in a protracted meeting. Remember you get the Professional World for only $1.00 per year, and if you subscribe now, you get it free until Jan. 1, 1904. As a people living in an enlightened age, we should read papers and books published by our people. We should place into our homes and into the hands of our children, more racial literature. School and Teachers. A one day county institute will be held at Paris, Mo., on Saturday Nov. 14, 1903. A school teacher who will offer to de the work of two teachers in order to hold his position should be chased out of existence. A county teachers' institute will be held in Boone county this week GET THE PROFESSI Any one paying $1.00 f to the Professional World SEND YOUR SUBS beginning today (Friday) and continuing for two days. An interesting program has been prepared for the session. Great progress has been made in education in Porto Rico in the past few years. We take the following from Prof. Lindsay's report for the school year ending June, 1902, soon to be published by the National Bureau of Education, which gives us the desired information very fully. The following is briefly extracted: Eight hundred and fifty-seven common grade schools were opened during the year, exclusive of kindergartens, night schools and schools, normal, high, and others, with work above the eighth grade. The increase in schools has been steady,—552 in the year 1898-1899; 133, 733 in the year 1900-1901 and 882 in the year 1901-1902. In the last year 938 teachers were employed, of whom 102 were Americana; 333 were women, 605 were men; 865 were white, and 73 were colored. The enrollment and attendance and attendance show up well. In March, 1902, 42,187 pupils were on the rolls, and the average attendance during the entire school year (nine months) was 39,504. This is excellent and shows that Porto Rico was ripe and ready for Amercon occupation and American education. For some part of the year at least 59,096 pupils came under the influence of the rural and graded schools. Auxvasse Notes. Mrs. Celia Chaiuey, from Kansas City, is visiting friends in Auxvasse. The Professional World contains all the news, and is only $1.00 per year. Mr. Sam Woolery has returned from Denver, Colo., where he has been for some time on account of his health. If you want a nice o'possum for the holidays, don't forget to visit the yard of Fisher, Young, and Woolery, for they have a fine collection of them. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the d.sease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & Co., Sold by Druggists 75c. Toledo, O Hall's family Pls are the best. The South Must Depend on the Black Man. Booker T. Washington in the Atlantic. Various reasons are given to explain why foreigners systematically avoid the South. One is that the climate is so hot, and another is that they do not like the ONAL WORLD FREE for a year's Subscription will get it free until Xmas. SCRIPTION IN NOW restrictions thrown about the ballot, and still another is the presence of the negro in so large numbers. Whatever the true reason is, the fact remains that foreigners avoid the South, and the South is more and more realizing that it can not keep pace with the progress being made in other parts of the country if a third of its population is ignorant and without skill. The South must frankly face the truth, that for a long period it must depend upon the black man to do for it what the foreigner is now doing for the great West. If, by reason of his skill and knowledge, one man in Iowa learns to produce as much corn in a season as four men can produce in Alabama, it requires little reasoning to see that Alabama will buy most of her corn from Iowa. Wise Words. Anxiety never yet successfully bridged over any chasm.—Ruffini. It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.—La Fontaine. To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune.—Franklin. Tragedy is that duel between circumstances and the man in which circumstances are victorious. A fool can ask more questions in a minute than a wise man can answer in a year.—Arab proverb. A state is an association of similar persons for the attainment of the best life possible.—Aristotle. Many a man whose word is as good as his bond among his fellowmen fails to pay his vows unto God.—Millard. Sometimes melancholy is greater than it would otherwise be through selfishness—through not rejoicing Hats and Millinery I am now prepared lic my complete Winter Hats and M ask that you call goods and get my elsewhere. Miss C HIGH STREET, CLARENBA MILLI HAVE A FULL AND CO AND WINTER HATS AT NEFF BUILDING, Sewing and Dress I am again at my sewing roo style cutting and fitting of s nished reception room for m MR.S 12 N. 6th street, COLUMBIA, MO my prepared to show a complete line of hats and Millinery you call and it get my prices be- fore. Chair ENBACH & CO. LINES ALL AND COMPLETE B DER HATS AND TRIMMER Dressmaking sewing rooms and pre- fitting of skirts and the room for my customers MRS. M. I. MBIA, MO. I am now prepared to show the public my complete line of Fall and Winter Hats and Millinery goods, and ask that you call and inspect my goods and get my prices before going elsewhere. HIGH STREET, JEFFERSON CITY, MO. Sewing and Dressmaking. I am again at my sewing rooms and prepared to do the latest style cutting and fitting of skirts and shirt waist. A well furnished reception room for my customers. MRS. M. L. HUGGARD, 12 N. 6th street, COLUMBIA, MO. with them that do rejoice.—William Mountford. We have compelled every land, every sea, to open a path for our valor, and we have everywhere planted eternal memorials of our friendship and of our enmity.—Thucydides. Booker T. Washington. The word is writ that he who runs may read. What is the passing breath of earthly fame? But to snatch glory from the hands of blame— That is to be, to live, to strive in- There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body, or a human brain, and he is a wise man who expends no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted. — Gladstone. A countrywoman remarked to her neighbor during a conversation on their return from market: "How is it, Mary, that you have been married four times, and I've never been married at all, and I'm much handsomer than you?" "Aye, to be sure," returned Mary, "but it ain't handsomeness that does it, Sarah; it's the 'come hither' in your eye."—New York Tribune. It's shametul when youth fails to show proper respect for old age, but just the contrary in the case of Dr. King's New Life Pills. They cut off maladies no matter how severe and irrespective of old age. Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Fever, Constipation all yield to this perfect pill. 25c at Gilman & Dorsey's Drug Store. LINCOLN INSTITUTE, MISSOURI STATE SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH. DEPARTMENTS. College, Normal, Preparatory, Industrial, COURSES. Classteal, Sub-Normal, Drawing, Fine Arts and Mechanical, Shoe-making, Typewriting, College Preparatory, Model Training School, Carpentry, Blacksmithing, Farming and Gardening, Sewing. 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ACH & ARTZ, INERS, COMPLETE LINE OF FALL AND TRIMMINGS. JEFFERSON CITY MO. ssmaking. rooms and prepared to do the latest skirts and shirt waist. A well fur- my customers. S. M. L. HUGGARD, MO. Booker T. Washington. The word is writ that he who runs may read. What is the passing breath of earthly fame? But to snatch glory from the hands of blame— That is to be, to live, to strive indeed. A poor Virginia Cabin gave the seed And from its dark and lowly door there came A peer of princes in the world's acclaim, A master spirit for the nation's need, Strong, silent, purposeful beyond his kind, The mark of rugged force on brow and lip, Straight on he goes, nor turns to look behind With one idea foremost in his mind, —PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR. I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; Awoke and found that life was Duty; Was then my dream a shadow lie? Toll on, on sad heart, courageously, And touw wilt find thy dream: to be a noonday light and truth to thee. ```markdown ``` VANTAGES. Free Tuition, New Dormitories, with Modi- cated by Steam, Diplomas are State Board only $8.50 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. VOL. III. NO. 1 ```markdown ``` DUTY. Normal, Music/instrumental, Vocab Work-working, Machinery, Cooking, Cooking Laundering RUPUS L. LOGAN, Editor Columbia - - - - Missouri DUMONT'S AIR-SHIP IN PERIL During Inspection New Airship Is Nearly Carried Away. Paris special.-Santos Dumont, accompanied by Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, minutely inspected Santos-Dumont's balloon No. 10 yesterday. Santos Dumont entered the car and ordered that the balloon be brought out of its shed in spite of the strong wind that was blowing. The wind caused the balloon to give a sudden lurch, which threw to the ground the men who were holding the guide rope. The danger from near-by trees was considerable for a few seconds, but the guide rope was soon recaptured and the balloon brought down in safety. WANT MONEY TO BUILD LEVEE Will Ask Money of Government to Reclaim Alluvial Land and Maintain Levees. New Orleans, Nov. 4.—The largest and most influential levee convention yet held in the Mississippi valley opened here today for the purpose of making an appeal to the national government for sufficient aid to levee both banks of the river and maintain these levees at a maximum grade, for reclaiming and giving protection to the alluvial lands and improving navigation. The attendance includes governors, senators, congressmen, high railroad officials and representatives of commercial exchanges at levee boards from many states in the valley. SHOPLIFTER GETS A SENTENCE Woman Shoplifter is Made an Exile for Life. Chicago, Ill. Nov. 4.—An exile for life in Germany was the sentence negatively imposed on Mrs. Mary Stein, convicted of shoplifting, by Judge Clifford today. The woman's husband pleaded that a sentence of a year in the house of correction, proposed by the court, would result in the prisoner's death. Mr. Stein exhibited a steamer ticket for Germany, and declared that if the court would permit, Mrs. Stein would depart immediately for Germany, and never would return. Judge Clifford agreed, and made Saturday next the time limit for sailing. GAMBLING IS NOT A DEFENSE Miller Grain Company Scores a Point in the North Dakota Court. Fargo, N. D., Nov. 4.—Judge Pollered of the district court has held that gambling in options is no defense in the case of the John Miller Grain company against John A Klovstad. The Miller company bought grain from Klovstad. The Miller company bought grain from Klovstad and under his order purchased options for certain amounts. Wheat went down and Klovstad refused to pay. When sued he claimed it was a gambling debt and illegal ENTICE GIRLS FROM HOMES Chicago Woman With Two Victims Is Under Arrest at Peoria. Peoria. Ill., Nov. 4.—A woman giving her name as Johanna Harris and her residence as Chicago, but refusing to state where she resides in that city, was arrested last night at the Union station and is held pending an investigation. With her were two young girls, for whom she had purchased tickets for Chicago. The girls confessed that they had been enticed from home and the woman also confessed. Railroad men say she shipped two girls to Chicago Saturday evening. TOY PISTOLS MUST BE BARRED Chicago Council Votes Against the Deadly Noise Maker. Chicago. Nov. 4.—Chicago children are to be protected from the toy pistol, which, through a mistaken idea of patriotism, was allowed to cause the death of 400 persons following this year's fourth of July celebration throughout the nation. Ald. Patterson's ordinance prohibiting the sale or gift of this deadly toy to minors was recommended for passage yesterday, the judiciary committee of the city council so voting. SHOOTS ACTRESS AND HIMSELF Jealous Man in Seattle Fatally Injures the Woman. Seattle, Wash. Nov. 4.—Crazed with the knowledge that she had deserted him for another man, Claude H. Arbuckle, formerly a floorwalker in a local dry goods house on Monday night fired two shots into Gladys Grey, formerly a variety actress at Nome, in a room at the hotel Cecil, and then blew out his brains. The woman will die. COMMERCIAL Nixon on Shipyard Deal. Nixon on shipyard Deal. Lewis Nixon, president of the wrecked United States Shipbuilding company, was the principal witness Wednesday and Thursday at the special commissioner's hearing on the motion to make the receivership permanent. He swore that Charles M. Schwab, having agreed to accept $9,000,000 cash for the Bethlehem steel plant, cabled J. Pierpont Morgan, who was then in Europe, and increased his price to $30,000,000. This amount in cash and securities was paid and the deal arranged in the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Nixon also admitted that a prospectus, widely advertised a year ago last June, stating that the companies in the trust were earning $2,250,000, was probably false. The cash used to pay for the Bethlehem plant was loaned to Nixon and Dresser by Schwab himself. Nixon also testified that the reason given by Schwab for increasing the price was that he had to give Morgan $5,000,000 in preferred and common stock for his services. Against Women Stenographers. Against Women in Stenographers By means of rules for reproof and correction, the Chicago agents of the Grand Trunk railroad are endeavoring to get rid of all women stenographers. Twenty have already been put out. They are accused of turning the offices into lunch rooms, gossiping about their male friends and matrimonial chances, and turning in "candy-besmeared manuscript." One superintendent does not hesitate to give the real reason—namely, that women stand in the way of the promotion of male employees, they themselves not being fitted for promotion to higher positions. A New York Sun editorial criticises the "frivolous and thin" methods of ousting used, and says sarcastically that of course men stenographers could not be guilty of gossiping about women, the races "little time they had last night," and always devote their minds exclusively to business. The Pennsylvania Retrenches. While the demands of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen remained still unanswered by the Pennsylvania Railroad company, the officers of that great system have dismissed 7,000 workmen in the past week or suspended them. This is expected to warn the disconcerted trainmen who are asking for shorter hours. This cut in the pay roll is part of the general policy of retrenchment which includes abandonment at least temporarily or proposed improvements to the extent of about $10,000,000. In a statement given to the press President Cassatt made a guarded contradiction of the foregoing report, although admitting that some cessation of low grade improvements had been ordered. He said there was no falling off in the traffic so far. Wednesday the demands of the employees were refused. Trust Company Failures. A dispatch from the City of Mexico. Oct. 16, announced that the International Bank and Trust company of America, William H. Hunt, president, with branches in leading American cities, had gone into voluntary liquidation. It had been widely advertised as a solid institution with $2,000,000 good capital. Mexico will investigate. Over-bonding was given as the cause. Two big trust companies of Baltimore, the Maryland and the Union, announced their suspension Monday to the surprise of financial circles. The news caused a rush on several other Baltimore banks. The Union people claimed that their failure was due to the alarm caused by the closing of the Maryland and said they were solvent. Western Railroads Busy Notwithstanding persistent reportrs from the West that all railroads have begun a policy of retrenchment in anticipation of the general decline in the volume of business. President Ripley of the Atchison system gave out an interview at Chicago denying that any of his lines were laying off men. He admitted that the increase in operating expenses due to payment of higher wages is causing some close figuring. Hawaii's Big Sugar Crop. The Hawaiian sugar crop for the year is approximately 420,000 tons. The Grosscup Trust Cure. The latest suggestion of Judge Grosscup for removing the uncertainty about the facts of corporations is to put the organization of all corporations on a fixed and known basis, compel them to start on assets equal to their capital and keep them subject to inspection like banks or trust companies. He believes that this can be done by the federal government. Miscellaneous Happenings The entire crop has now been started to market. It is the largest in the history of the islands, although the profits to the planters is smaller than it was in 1901. The average price received for the sugar this year was $75 a ton. Some of the plantations are paying as high as 24 per cent annually. One Line Cuts Grain Rate. The Toledo, St. Louis & Western railroad, known as the "Clover Leaf," has announced a reduction in the rate on export grain from St. Louis to New York of $21\%$ cents per 100 pounds less than the rate which its competitors are pledged to maintain. It may cause a general revision of tariffs. LEGAL AND CRIMINAL The Law In the Home. A unanimous decision handed down by the supreme court of Massachusetts Tuesday, sustains the ruling of the lower court that a person drunk by the voluntary use of intoxicants may be arrested in his home without a warrant and convicted without regard to the place where the act is committed. The case was that of Anna Conlin, who was arrested and taken from her home while under the influence of liquor. A White Man's County. The Henderson, Tex. Times published at the county seat of Rusk county, owned by former Speaker Millner of the Texts house of representatives confirms recent reports of systematic outrages against unoffensive negroes by white men in pursuit of a plan to make Rusk "a white man's county." It says humanity, civilization and Christianity has been invaded as never before in the history of this country. Strikers May Use Pickets Judge Smith at Cincinnati has modified the injunction against the striking molders and coremakers which restrained them from gathering upon the street or approaching employees of Lane & Bodley. The court holds that the men have a right to picket and gather on the streets, so long as they confine themselves to peaceable methods. First Postal Case Fails. A disagreement of the jury was the outcome of the first trial of postal frauds cases, that of former Assistant Attorney General Daniel V. Miller, at Cincinnati, for connection with the John J. Ryan turf investment schemes. It is feared that this result may have an unfavorable effect upon the other postal cases. Self-Incrimination Protected. Self-Incrimination Protected: The New York court of appraisal decided Tuesday that Jesse Lewisohn, the rich clubman, who had been summoned in the case of Richard Canfield, the gambler, could not be compelled to testify on the ground that his testimony might be used afterward as ground for an indictment against himself. Strange Jersey Justice. The acquittal of David Lamar, the rich New York broker, and the thugs whom he was alleged to have employed in a conspiracy to take the life of his coachman, James McMahon, by the Freehold, N. J. jury, caused much surprise and some talk of jury fixing. LABOR AND CAPITAL Labor Drives Out Publishers. The large and well known publishing house of Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago was reported to have decided to remove its printing plant from that city. This move was taken only after the company had been compelled to secure an injunction against the striking pressfeeders who had demanded an increase of from $2 to $3 a week in wages. President McNally said to a reporter: "We have either got to move or get out of business. I have been in business in Chicago since 1886 and never have the unions been so excessive in their demands as in the last four or five years. We are paying higher wages than are paid in New York or any other city in the United States. Owing to the excessively high wages we cannot compete with publishing firms within a radius of 500 miles of Chicago. They are taking business away from us." At a recent mass meeting of students of Northwestern university, Dean Holgate made the contention that football was "a great help in religious duties." He said all that students needed when at sea in the mazes of theological thought was "a scrimmage on the football field or a run about the cinder track." EXECUTIVE Bennett Bequest to Bryan. Before the probate court at New Haven, Conn., Wednesday, the sealed letter in connection with the will of the late Philo S. Bennett of that city was opened in the presence of the widow and executors, W. J. Bryan and A. P. Sloane. Thus it became known to the public that Mr. Bennett had left $50,000 to Mr. Bryan in the interest of the political principles which Mr. Bryan advocates. The will also gave him $30,000 outright and Mrs. Bryan $10,000. Bryan declared his intention of not accepting the money for his personal uses but would dispense it for educational and charitable purposes. He admitted that he had often received considerable sums from Mr. Bennett before his death. The widow contests the Bryan bequest. Funston for Better Pay. With the ojbect of getting a better class of army enlistments Brigadier-General Funston of the department of Columbia in his annual report advocates the payment of $18 a month on first enlistment, $30 for corporals, $45 for sergeants, $60 for first sergeants with advancement for length of service. He declares that under existing conditions the quality of the rank and file is not satisfactory. He cites the large number of desertions, discharges and refusals to re-enlist, and says the wonder is that so many good men stay. Perry Heath to Retire. Capt. Harry New, the republican national committeeeman for Indiana, is said to have the administration's backing as a candidate for the secretary-ship of the republican national committee, the position now occupied by Perry S. Heath. Senators Fairbanks and Beveridge are working for New, and while they have only kind words for Mr. Heath they say the president feels that Heath's alleged connection with the postoffice scandal makes his retirement imperative. More Postal Officers Ousted. Postmaster General Payne on Wednesday dismissed from the service M. W. Lewis, chief of the supply division; C. B. Terry, a clerk under Lewis; Louis Kempner, superintendent of registry system, and Otto Weis, a clerk in the New York postoffice. The dismissals were made as a result of the recommendations contained in the report of Mr. Bristow for extravagance in the use of materials and for other irregularities. Other Department Frauds. During the week Washington reports have told of the investigation of new land frauds by which vast forest territory in the Northwest has been secured through the use of dummy settlers under the forest reserve law. Also the war department is investigating the charge of wholesale fraud in the quartermaster's department of Governor's island, New York. Missouri Beats the Maine. In her trial trip over the Cape Ann course on Wednesday the new first-class battleship Missouri averaged $18.05 knots an hour, which with the tidal allowance was expected to make her official speed 18.22 knots. The average speed of the battleship Maine was only 17.98 knots. Contract Miners Deported. In execution of contract labor laws the immigration officers at Philadelphia held for deportation 27 coal miners who arrived from Wales last Sunday under contract with the Ellsworth Coal Co. of Ellsworth, Pa. German Attacks President. Senator Gorman of Maryland in the course of a newspaper interview severely criticised President Roosevelt for devoting so much time to the various state elections, calling him a "meddler." EDUCATIONAL Philadelphia's school superintendent. Edward Brooks, moved by the popular outburst about overworked children, has placed himself on record in Miss Jane Addams, head worker of Hull House, Chicago, says in "Charities," the New York review, that logical connection has been discovered between child labor and tramp life. This has been found from tramps who stop at lodging houses. The hatred of premature overwork is found to be the starting point of vagrancy in most cases. RELIGIOUS SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIAL World of Affairs favor of a study hour in the public schools in every case where it is necessary to obviate having the children loaded too heavily with work to be done at home evenings. He explains, however, that many of the so-called recitations are virtually periods of instruction. Geography a Live Study. That the study of geography is no longer a mere recitation of text book facts, but a subject constantly enlivened by the current news of the world, is well illustrated by a new department of the Journal of Education, which publishes each week those items of news which bear directly on the physical or political geography of the world. They are grouped under the heading, "Geography of the Day." Women Students' Exchange. A Women Students' Exchange has just been opened at Barnard college, the women's section of Columbia, the object of which is to assist self-supporting students in disposing of the products of their handiwork. Everything, from shirt waists to molasses candy, is offered in this collegiate department store. School Banking Illegal. The attorney general of New York, in response to the inquiry of school teachers desiring to put in execution a plan for collecting and banking the savings of their pupils, has given notice that such a scheme would be in violation of the bank act. The Peabody Fund. The trustees of the Peabody fund have decided that its proceeds hereafter shall be distributed more evenly throughout the South, especially in aid of rural schools, instead of being concentrated so largely on the Normal college at Nashville, Teen. The income is now $80,000 a year. Negroes Nation's Wards. The Aurora, Ill., Methodist conference last week adopted a memorial to congress, urging that the negroes be put on the same basis as the Indians, to be educated at government expense. Health Test for Teachers. One of the rules of a new set of sanitary regulations adopted by the Indiana board of health prohibits the employment of teachers afflicted with consumption. SCIENTIFIC San Francisco's Airship. In an airship constructed by himself Dr. August Greth made his initial trip Oct. 18, sailing for two hours over the city of San Francisco and finally coming down in the waters of the bay through an error in opening the wrong valve of the balloon. The ship resembles Santos Dumont's in some respects. The motor power is a gasoline engine of 500 pounds weight. Radium Endangers Life. That a small piece of radium held for some time on a man's pillow would produce in one hour paralysis of the brain and death is the statement made by William J. Hammer, a radium expert, in a lecture at Philadelphia. Radium for Solium. A Washington dispatch says that a consular report on the new metal, solium, contains the statement that radium can be manufactured in a liquid state from solium at a cost of $5 a quart. This new metal is said to possess a very light specific gravity, and to be hard as steel and brilliant as silver. Its chief component is chloride of solium. It is said to be suitable for ship armor plate. RELIGIOUS The Cause of Infidelity. In his installation address as president of the Princeton Theological seminary Dr. Patton said that if incarnation he left out of the Christian religion there was nothing left but "an emotional morality associated with the name of Jesus." That conception of Christianity, he declared, was not a religion, but a moral philosophy in competition with other moral philosophies. Cost of Living Increased. Statistics covering the cost of living of the workingman in Chicago for five years from 1898 to 1903, were made public by the Chicago Employers' Association. They are designed to show that the assertions of labor organizations that the cost of living has advanced from 25 to 40 per cent in the given period are not based on facts. According to the figures the average increase in the cost of living in Chicago for the five years is 11.3 per cent. WILL OF MISS MARY P. ROPES How Miss Mary P. Ropes Divides Her Large Estate Among Public and Charitable Institutions. Salem, Mass. special—About $1,000,000 is given to public and charitable institutions by the will of Miss Mary P. Ropes, filed for probate yesterday. The bequests to charity and education immediately available amount to more than half a million, and the remainder of the estate will go to the same purposes at the death of the testatrix's sister, Miss Eliza O. Ropes, now far advanced in years. The institutions benefited are many in number and widely scattered. As specific blocks of stocks and bonds are given to most of the various institutions, the value of which is not stated or not yet appraised, the exact amounts distributed are unknown. Chief among the beneficiaries are: Harvard University, to found the nathaniel Rbpes chair of political economy; Essex institute in Salem, Peabody Museum at Harvard, Peabody Academy of Science in Salem, The Salem Fraternity, Salem Seamen's Orphan and Childrens' Friend society, Od Ladies' Home in Salem, Bertram Home for Aged Men in Salem, Salem Public Library, Salem Woman's Friend society, Salem Public hospital. Swedenborgian School in Waltham, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, $2.500, Carlisle Indian School $2.500, Berea College, $20.060 Other institutions benefit as follows: Urbana New Church university, to endow a chair in modern languages and a scholarship; the New Jerusalem church in Cincinnati, the Ohio New church Swedenborgian association, the American New church Tract Publication society. BOY BIGAMIST IS SET FREE Victim of Dance Halls and Ignorance Excites Judicial Pity. New York special—For being married to two young girls. Joseph Lauer, 16 years old, was arraigned before Judge Crane in Part I. of the county court, charged with bigamy. Judge Crane asked the boy if he knew he was committing a crime in marrying two girls. Lauer replied in the negative. "Where did you meet them?" asked Judge Crane. "I met them both in dance-halls," said young Lauer, who is a good-looking, curly headed youth. "I fell in love with the first girl as soon as I saw her, I asked her to be my wife, and as she promptly accepted, we went away that night and were married. A few weeks later I went to another dance and while walzing with Nellie I thought I would like to have her, too. We got married, and a few days later I was sent to jail." "You are in an unfortunate position," said the judge. "You've been in jail now for two months, and you are nothing but a boy. I believe you didn't know what you were doing at the time. I shall suspend sentence." DIES AS RESULT OF MISTAKE Mattoon Physician Gives Wrong Medicine and Jury Exonerates Him. Mattoon, Ill., Nov. 4.—The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. James Chester Welch died in this city yesterday as the result of a mistake in medicines. Dr. O. W. Ferguson, one of the oldest practitioners in this city, administered bichloride of mercury where calomel was intended. Coroner Kirshaw held an Inquest over the remains and the only witness examined was Dr. Ferguson, who testified that Mrs. Welch, mother of the child, came to his office and asked for some medicine for her baby. A box of bichloride of mercury tablets was lying on his prescription shelf and Dr. Ferguson, upon putting up calomel tablets, supposed he gave the latter to Mrs. Welch. Several hours later the child was taken seriously ill and died in great agony and then the fatal mistake was discovered. Dr. Ferguson testified that the bichloride of mercury was the cause of the child's death. He was exonerated by the jury. H. C. FRICK PRESENTS PAINTING Washington, Nov. 4.—H. C. Frick, the steel king of Pittsburg, today presented to President Roosevelt, for the government, a painting of the signing of the peace protocol which terminated the Spanish-American war in August, 1898. The picture, which is the work of Theobald Chartran, cost Mr. Frick $20,000. FORTUNE FOR SINGER'S SON Wealthy Aunt Dies in Sweden And Leaves a Million to Her Heir. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 4.—Edward Segulin, son of the once famous opera singer, Zeralda Segulin, received intelligence yesterday from Sevenborg, Sweden, that a wealthy aunt had died and left him a large fortune. It is said here that it will amount to $1,000,000. An Arkansas Planter By OPIE READ Printed by Permission and Copyright 1896 by Rand, McNally & Co. Chicago CHAPTER XXIII.—(Continued.) The Major sent a dispatch to the governor and then went to the county clerk's office where he found the hardware dealer and a number of men waiting for him. The report that he was charged with serious news was already spread about; and when he entered, the clerk of the county court, an old fellow with an ink-blot on his bald head, came forward with an inquiry as to what had been meant when the Major spoke of the cartridges. The Major explained his cause for alarm. Then followed a brief silence, and then the old fellow who kept the records of the frosts and the clock, spoke up with the assertion that for some time he had expected it. "Billy," he said, speaking to the clerk, "I told you the other day that we were going to have trouble mighty soon. Don't you recollect?" "Don't believe I do, Uncle Parker." "But I said so as sure as you are standing there this minute. Let me try a little of your tobacco." The clerk handed him a plug, and biting off a chew, the old man continued: "Yes, sir, I've had it in mind for a long time." "Everybody has talked more or less about it," said the clerk. "Oh, I know they have, Billy, but not printedly, as I have. Yes, sir, bound to come." "The thing to do is to over-awe them," said the Major. "I have just telegraphed the governor to send the militia down here. And by the way, that fellow Mayo ought to be arrested without delay. Billy, is the sheriff in his office?" "No, Major, he's gone down to Sassafras to break up a gang of negro toughs that have opened a gambling den. He'll be back this evening and I'll have the warrant ready for him by the time he gets back. Any of us can swear it out—reckon all our names better go to it." "Yes," the Major agreed, "we'd better observe the formalities of the law. The militia will undo all that has been done, and as for the fellow that brought about the inquietude, we'll see him hanged in front of this door." Old man Parker, who kept the records, nudged his neighbor and said: "Inquietude is the word. I told my wife last night, says I, 'Nancy, whenever you want the right word, go to John Cranceford.' That's what I said, Major; and I might have said go to your father if he was alive, for he stood 'way up among the pictures, I tell you; and I reckon I know him as well as any man in the county. I ricollect his duel with Dabney." "He was to have fought a man named Anderson Green," replied the Major, "but a compromise was effected." "Yes," said Parker, "Green's the man I was tryin' to think of. It was Shelton that fought Dabney." "Shelton fought Whitesides," said the Major. The men began to titter. "Well, then, who was it fought Dabney?" "Never heard of Debney," the Major answered. "Well, I have, and somebody fought him, but it makes no difference. So, in your father's case a compromise was effected. The right word again; and that's what makes me say to my wife, 'Nancy, whenever you want the right word go to John Cranceford;' and, as I said a while ago, your father either, for I know him as well as any man, and was present at the time he bought a flat-boat nigger named Pratt Boyce." "My father was once forced to sell, but he never bought a negro, the Major replied. "That so? Well, now, who was it bought Pratt Boyce? You fellers shut up your snortin." I reckon I know what I'm talkin' about." With the Scientists Wages paid street car men in the United States annually amount to more than $88,000,000. There are three waters in the state of Indiana which actually impart magnetic powers to needles, knife blades, and the like. Any considerable quantity of one of these waters will deflect the needle of a compass. The county judge and several other men came in and the talk concerning the threatenal negro outbreak was again taken up. "It seems rather singular," said the Judge, "that we should worry through a storm of politics and escape any very serious bloodshed and reach a climax after all these years. Of course when two races of people, wholly at variance in morals and social standing, inhabit the same community, there is always more or less danger, still I don't think that the negroes have so little sense—" "Ah, the point I made," the Major broke in. "But you see a labor plank has been added to their platform of grievance." Parker nudged his neighbor. "I says, says I, 'Nancy, John Cranceford for the right word.'" "There's something in that," the Judge replied. "Nothing can be maidder than misled labor. We have been singularly free from that sort of disturbance, but I suppose our time must come sooner or later. But I think the militia will have a good effect so far as the negroes themselves are concerned. But of course if the soldiers come and the trouble blows over without any demonstration whatever, there will be considerable dissatisfaction among the people as to why such a step should have been taken. Uncle Parker," he added, turning to the record-keeper, "think we'll have much cold weather this winter?" Parker did not answer at once. He knew that glibness would argue against due meditation. "I see a good many signs," he slowly answered. "Hornets hung their nests on the low limbs of the trees, and there are other indications, still it largely depends on the condition of the wind. Sometimes a change of wind knocks out all calculations, still, I feel assured in saying that we are goin' to have a good deal of frost first and last; but if the militia don't get here in time we are nightly apt to have it hotter before we have it colder. ast night while I sat at home b y the fire a smokin' of my pipe, and Nancy a-settin' there a-nittin' a pair of socks for a preacher, I looks up and I says, 'there's goin' to be trouble in this community before many changes of the moon." I says, and I want at all surprised today when the Major here come a-ridin' in with his news. Don't reckon any of you ricollect the time we come mighty nigh havin' a nigger uprisin' before the war. But we nipped it in the bud; and I know they hung a yaller feller that cost me fifteen hundred dollars in gold." The old man was so pleased to find himself listened to by so large a company that he squared himself for a longer discourse upon happenings antedating the memory of any one present, but attention split off and left him talking to a neighbor, who long ago was weary of the sage's recollections. Wisdom lends its conceit to the aged, and Parker was very old; and when his neighbor gave him but a tired car, he turned from him and boldly demanded the Major's attention, but at this moment the telegraph operator came in with a dispatch. And now all interests were centered. The Major tore open the envelope and read aloud the following from the governor: "Troops are at competitive drill in Mississippi. Have ordered them home." The Major stood leaning with his elbow on the top of the clerk's tall desk. He looked again at the dispatch, reading it to himself, and about him was the sound of shuffling feet. "Well, it won't take them more than twenty-four hours to get home," he said, "and that will be time enough. But Billy, we'd better not swear out that warrant till they come." "That's wise," said the Judge, a cautious man. "His followers would Only 16 in 100 victims of Bright's disease are under 45 years of age. The shipments of iron ore last year from the Mesaba range were 33 per cent of the total production of the United States. The discovery of this range made possible the growth of our iron and steel industry, for in its absence the cost of ore would be double. :: SARDINES ARE BECOMING SCARCE :: Pablo Picasso not stand to see him taken in by the civil authorities; it's not showy enough." And Parker, speaking up, declared the Judge was right. "I ricollect the militia came down here once during' the days of the carpet-baggers, and—" "But let no one speak of the dispatch having been sent to the governor," said the Judge. "Billy, when the sheeriff comes back you'd better tell him to appoint forthwith at least a hundred deputies." "In fact," the Major replied, "every law-abiding man in the county might be declared a deputy." Old Parker found his neighbor and nudged him. "I saws to my wife, 'Nancy', says I, 'whenever you want the right idea, go to John Cranceford and you'll get it.' "That's all right, Uncle Parker," the irritated man replied. "I don't give a continental and you needn't keep on coming to me with it." "You don'z? Then what sort of a man are you?" "You boys quit your mowling over there," the county clerk commanded. "Major," said the Judge, "the troops will doubtless come by boat and land near your place. Don't you think it would be a good idea for you to come with them? The truth is you know our people are always more or less prejudiced against militia, and it is therefore best to have a well-known citizen come along with them." "I don't know but that you are right," said the Major. "Yes, I will come with them." He bade the men good day and turned to go, and out into the hall the Judge came following him. "By the way, Major," said he, "you are of course willing to take all responsibility; and I'd a little rather you wouldn't mention my name in connection with the militia's coming down here, for the ordering out of troops is always looked upon as a sort of snap judgment." "I thought you said you were not going to run for office again," the Major bluntly replied. "I have considered that," confessed the politician, "and next season I shall be a candidate for re-election." "And I will oppose you, sir." "Oppose me? And why so?" "Because you've got no nerve. I believe, sir, that in your smooth way you once took occasion to say that Gideon Batts was a loud-mouthed and most imprudent man. But, sir, there is more merit in the loud bark of a dog than in the soft tread of a cat. I will oppose you when the time comes. SARDINES ARE B Reports just received from all along the Maine coast show that the small herring which we cure under the name of sardines are unusually scarce. The factories say that enough fish are caught daily to supply the immediate demands of the trade. Not a case of sardines has yet been put away for winter or spring supplies. Similar reports are coming from the French coast. The sardine fishermen of the coasts of Brittany and Venice are in great distress and say that their industry for this year is ruined. When the first news was sent through France on May 19 that the sardine fishery of the year was likely to prove a failure the chamber of commerce of Bordeaux appointed a committee to inquire into the condition of the industry. The committee has made a preliminary report, in which, while confessing its inability to explain the scarcity of sardines OH! THE SA Poor Hubby—Well, you know, mono Dear Wifey—Well, it don't seem clo Korea is the granary of Japan. Kerosene inebriety is becoming common in many cities. The boys climb upon the tank car, place their noses over the manhole, and thus inhale the fumes. The effects produced are similar to those produced by alcohol. First a feeling of exhilaration, then a period of stupor, and following is the period of deep sleep. It is stated that in several instances boys, drunk from these fumes, have been taken to hospitals. but I will shoulder the responsibility of martial law in this community, Good day, sir." "Major—" "I said good day, sir." The old gentleman strode hotly out to the rack where his horse was tied, and thereabout was gathered a number of boys, discussing the coming danger which in their shrewdness they had keenly sniffed. Among them he distributed pieces of money, wherewith to buy picture books, he said, but they replied that they were going to buy powder and he smiled upon them as he mounted his horse to ride away. In the road not far distant from the town he met Larnage, the Frenchman. The day before he would have passed him merely with a nod, as he scarcely knew him by sight and had forgotten his name; but the hardware dealer had recalled it and upon it had put an emphasis; so, reining up his horse, he motioned the man to stop. "How long have you been in this neighborhood?" the Major asked. At this abruptness the Frenchman was astonished. "I do not understand," he replied. "Yes you do. How long have you been here?" "Oh, I understand that, but I do not understand why you should ask." "But can't you tell me?" "I can be so obliging. I have lived here two years." "And how long in the United States?" "Ten years. And now will you have the goodness to tell me why you wish to know? Will you be so kind as I have been?" "Well, to be frank, I don't hear a very good report of you." "But who is appointed to make a report of me? I attend to my own business, and is this a bad report to make of a citizen of the country? If you will have the goodness to pardon me I will ride on." "Wait a moment. Why are you buying so many cartridges?" The Frenchman shrugged his shoulders. "Has not the citizen of a country a right to spend his money? I have heard that the Major is polite. He must not be well today. Shall I ride on now? Ab. I thank you." Onward the Frenchman rode, and gazing back at him the Major mused: "The frog-eater gave me the worst of it. But I believe he's a scoundrel all the same. I didn't get at him in the right way. Sorry I said anything to him." (To be continued.) BECOMING SCARCE :: It says that, in its opinion, the sad condition of the fishermen is partly due to themselves. They have never adopted improved modern appliances for catching sardines, but have clung to antiquated methods and outfit. If they had been up to the times the committee believes that the catch would have been sufficient, at least, to avert the almost complete failure of the season's work. The committee suggests that better appliances be at once introduced and also that fishing be stopped on the banks that are favorite resorts of the sardine during the spawning season. The sardine fisheries along the coasts of Spain and Portugal are said to be yielding well. These sardines are regarded as inferior to those of the French coast, but they may prove to be very useful this year in eking out a diminished supply of the French and American fisheries. DNESS OF IT. They is awfully close. Ose enough for you to get hold of it. An Impending Strain. Before General Shafter is boomed any more for mayor of San Francisco it should be ascertained if the walls of the city hall are strong enough to stand a serious hammock strain.—Denver Republican. "Miss Elderly came from a very old family, didn't she?" "Oh, yes." "Well, she looks it." THE DOWIE HYSTERIA SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING IN THE NAME OF RELIGION CLAIMS THERE IS MONEY IN GINSENG Quaker Reflections The spectacular invasion of New York City by John Alexander Dowie and his special train-loads of fanatical followers is one of those psychological manifestations which take place at regular intervals and which tend to raise the query as to whether the majority of men and women are really possessed of the sanity of which they are accustomed to boast. To allege that Dowie is a talented adventurer, trafficking in the cupidity of his deluded followers who are to day numbered by the tens of thousands, is insufficient to obscure the fact that Dowie is a remarkable man, and that his adventure is a money-making one for Dowie. If it is charged that he is "merely after the coin," then it must be further admitted that he is an artist in getting what he goes after. It takes money to build a city like Zion City, which has come into being between Chicago and Milwaukee during the past few years. It takes money to charter a half dozen special trains, load them with people and run them from Chicago to New York. What is the secret of this man's power? John Alexander Dowie is simply one of those psychical freaks of humanity which now and then put in an appearance and who throughout their careers are paragons of mystery. They are gifted with a marked hypnotic influence. They have the power to sway men and women, to enlist their sympathies, to shape and mold their wills and make them subservient to the carrying out of their own cunning devices. (W. L. Howard of Missouri Agricultural College in Chicago Record-Herald.)—I advise the farmers to cultivate ginseng. I do this after careful consideration. Big profits may be realized. The production of ginseng has two large advantages. it requires little or no attention and has no enemies. I mean by enemies that, so far as is known, there is no disease or insect pest which afflicts the plant. All that is necessary is to plant the seed. Nature attends to the rest. It must be planted in the shade and kept protected from the sun. This would necessitate but little expense. A shed or roof of crude structure supported by four posts would answer the purpose.. Ginseng is a hardy plant and thrives in all kinds of weather. It requires but little moisture and can survive a prolonged drought. The principal disadvantage is the high price of the planting material. Either seed or roots may be used, but I would advise the latter. The seed cost about 5 cents each. The roots vary in cost according to age, but I would advise the farmers to use the one year variety. An outlay of $200 will start a ginseng farm, from which large profits may be realized. Any farmer may grow ginseng in Missouri or in any of the neighboring states. The soil of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin has been found by experiments to be especially adapted to the growth of this plant. Missouri, however, is perhaps the best of these states, and produces ginseng of a high quality. Many farmers in this state are now cultivating the plant on an extensive scale, and some have realized fortunes from it. A serious disadvantage is that it requires two or three years to produce a crop for the market. The profits, however, are large. If sold dry to a wholesale dealer the roots bring from $5 to $10 per pound. In China, where ginseng is called the "sacred plant," the roots are sold at as high as $40 per pound. The plant is used for drugs and medicines by the Chinese, but the real reason for its peculiar value is the persistence attached to it. A ginseng rot, which by some freak of nature happens to be in the shape of a man, may be sold at many times the price of an ordinary root. Americans have tested the value of ginseng, and have but little use for it. In consequence at least 95 per cent of the ginseng crop in this country is sent to China, where speculators realize large profits on it. We have been experimenting with ginseng on the Missouri horticultural farm for eight years, and after due consideration I can safely advise the neighboring states to put in a crop. It must be cultivated or there is little Our idea of the real thing in music is a drum and fife corps. Every town has one character that everybody laughs at. No man ever busted up that he did not think he could rise again if he had half a chance. Such men are always tyrants. They can assume an attitude of ineffable meekness when matters are running to their satisfaction, and they can become cyclones of fury when their purposes are antagonized. The spectacle, of Dowie, garbed in his white and flowing robes, delivering the message of the Prince of Peace to that New York audience in one breath, and then stamping up and down the platform and scolding like a maddened virago because an audience of 11,000 people could not be made to maintain the quiet of a country church-yard, was a spectacle which not only shows the true character of the man, but is revolting to every sense of propriety and decency. It is one of the glorious prerogatives of citizenship, however, in this country that men and women may do almost anything in the name of religion, the only restriction being that no interference is made with any other individual's religious freedom. And that prerogative is certainly lived up to with the most scrupulous exactness. Under the protection of that right Dowleism and all kindredisms can be depended upon to flourish their little day.—Des Moines Capital Yes, she's a charming woman— That is, as charmers go; And no one ever heard her Dispensing senses of woe. As to her neighbors' doing, She is discreetly mum— Perhaps the secret of it is The lady's deaf and dumb. profit in it. Few, if any, have been able to realize much from looking for it in its wild state. It is true that it grows wild in every county of Missouri, but the difficulty is in finding it and judging its value after it is found. "Sen diggers," as they are called, are usually rather a low class of people, too lazy for any other occupation. They roam the hills and villages in search of the plant and sometimes are able to earn a scant living. But the trouble is they don't know the value of the plant when they see it, and are likely to gather it before it has attained the proper growth and age to be at full market value. Many of them are willing to sell the seed to the first buyer they can find, without troubling themselves about the roots, which is the source of the greatest profit to the experienced cultivator. The fact that these diggers usually gather the plant without waiting for it to mature is responsible for the decrease of wild ginseng in the last few years. The cultivation of this product, however, is largely on the increase, and ginseng farms are now being cultivated in many sections of Missouri. We have found, after eight years' experience, that ginseng of the highest quality may be grown in this section of the country, and it would well pay the farmers to give it their serious attention. It is perhaps the most interesting of all the experiments now being conducted here, and has attracted unusual interest. I predict a great future for ginseng in this section of the country. Proud of Their Hats The "hot pepper" seller of Mexico is a merchant who derives his livelihood from the fact that the Mexican must have his peppers, whatever else he may deny himself. They are brought to his door by the countryman, or he may go to the market place and find them spread out for sale on matting. The market man, while dressed inexcessively as far as his bodily garb is concerned, wears in nearly every instance an elaborate head covering. Some of these Mexicans own hats that cost as much as the rest of their wardrobe. The pride of the white man in his Panama is not to be compared to that of the Mexican in his sombrero. It is a racial characteristic which finds its counterpart in the apron of the Portuguese onion seller. Her occupation may be lowly, but her apron might be that of a woman of higher degree; plush edged with fur is not uncommon.—Everybody's Magazine. 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Water and Light Question. The proposition as to whether the city of Columbia shall incur an additional indebtedness of $100,000 to start another water and light plant under municipal ownership, to have been voted on the 10th, has been deferred by the city council to the 24th, inst. The matter is of so much importance for the weal or woe of Columbia that it is well to give the citizens time to understand the question. The city, including the Columbia school district, has already a bonded debt of $71,000, which with the proposed $100,000 would make $171,000. What is the matter with good old conservative Columbia? Have the people gone wild and lost their heads that they should ever think of voting for such a proposition? Such a debt would paralize business, lower the value of property, and stop improvements. Neither the laboring man nor the property owner should vote for it. When the $100,000 is used another $100,000 will most likely be asked for to complete the plant. The men who live on big salaries and spend their summers at the seashore, may support such a proposition. But no laboring man can afford to put a mortgage on his little home like this, and the argument put forward to induce the laboring man to vote for it because it will give him more work is all bosh. Vote against the proposition. 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, Columbia, Mo. Timepiece HAT can be depended on any and all times is the pride of a business man's outfit. He can depend upon himself when he is sure of his watch. When your watch needs correcting take it to a workman you can depend on. I guarantee my work and pri- ces to be correct. JEWELER AND OPTICIAN. Peck's Drug Store. FISTULA— Mr. Chas. Dougherty, Spencer, Ia., 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 I had cold cure me. You did just as you said you would." A. N. McClary, Mayor of Sabetha, Kan., Writes: "I must say that your treatment and cure of my case of piles and fissure seems now wonderful to me and that the treatment was a great deal more than that 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. Weedson, Cotton Broker, Ne so 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 1 cent was required or paid until a cure was effected." Drs. THORN' Columbia Notes. Mrs. Jefferson Waldon is quite sick. Mr. A. M. Schweish is in St. Louis this week. Miss Viola Salisbury left Tuesday for Chicago. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Taylor are now housekeeping on 5th street. Several teachers are here to attend the Boone County Teachers' Association. Rev. W. F. Botts, of Carrollton, is assisting Rev. A. A Adams in a revival service at the Second Baptist church. Special Election Notice TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24th, 1993, parliament and to for the purpose expressed in an ordinance of said city parliaments of the 3rd day of November, 1993, and of which the following is a copy: To enameled providing for a special election in the City of Columbia for the submission to the qualified voters thereof a proposition for said City to indemnize an indebtedness of One Hundred thousand dollars providing for a special election provided by law, for the purpose of acquiring by purchase or construction water works and the light plant to be owned by said City, for the purpose of acquiring annual taxs in addition to other taxes, sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as it may also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of taxes for the twenty years from the time of contracting the same. To ordained by the Council of the City of Columbia, as follows: SECTION 1. A Special Election is hereby ordered to be held in the City of Columbia on the 24th day of November, 1903, for the purpose of submitting a proposition to the qualified electors of the City of Columbia an indebtedness of One Hundred Thousand Dollars and issue bonds therefor as hereinafter provided, for the purpose of acquiring, by purported light plant to be owned exclusively by said City. SECTION 2. The following are hereby designed as the polling place in the four wards of the City for the special election provided in Section 1 of this ordinance; First Ward, on Lot 14 in Harbinson's addition corner of Railroad Street and Park avenue. Second Ward, at County Court House. The Ward, Wm. Walker's Shop on south 10th street. Fourth Ward, Southwest Corner of Conley Avenue and Hitt Street. SECTION 3. That within each ward there are inmates who are able to read and write, qualified voters and residents of the ward in which they are appointed to act, viz: - Fulvey, W. B., Kellier, J. First Ward- S, L Finley, W. B. Kellher J, W. B. Sandiker, W. Howard Gribble, Wm. McCaskey, Second Ward- S, J. Conley, P. D Hubbell, W. B. Sandiker, R. Remley, W. S. Johnson, Shannon Mountjoy. Third Ward—B. Loeh, Jacob Sellenger, J. T. Gribble, M. L. Lowrey W. G. W. Smith, Hodge Hedge, J. H. Maxwell Ward—C. B. Rollin's, W. H. Cochran, J. H. Maxwell, J. H. Warnett, W. B. Brown, W. K. Stone Section 4. Notice of such special election shall be given at least fifteen days prior thereto by publication in Columbia Missouri Statesman. The Columbia Missouri Herald. The Daily News, and the Professional World, the same day. The City of Columbia, the City of Columbia, Missouri, which notice shall be signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk, and shall contain a full copy of this notice. Section 5. That at such special election the following proposition shall be submitted to the city council in the City of Columbia to incur an indebtedness of $100,000. Thousand Dollars and issue bonds therefor in denominations of not less than $100,000 nor more than $100,000 each, payable in not less than five percent of the total amount of interest not exceeding five per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, with interest coupons attached to conform to the face thereof, for the City Clerk to issue bonds to the light plant by purchase or construction to be owned exclusively by the City. Section 6. That the City Clerk shall prepare and cause to be printed ballots to be used at such election which shall be in the following "For increase of debt—Yes." "For increase of debt—Yes." the former of which shall be taken as a vote assenting to such increase of debt, and the latter shall be seen as dissenting therefrom. NOW, Upon request, the Board certified by the judges thereof to the Council, the Council, if the proposition for the incurring and increase of such debt, be carried, and the amount thereof to be issued, cause bonds of the City of Columbia to be issued, covering the amount of the debt. In addition, such indebtedness the City Council shall provide, for the levy and collection of an annual tax or 35 cents or such part thereof as may be necessary, one hundred dollars valuation on all property owned by the City, and pose of paying the interest on such indebtedness as the same falls due, and to constitute asinking fund for the payment of the principal within section 9. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage. I have approved this the 3rd day of November, 1909. Voters will vote in their respective wards at the places designated in the foregoing ordinance. Joseph L. Sheridan, President of the Sheridan Stove Manufacturing Co., of Quincy, Ill., Writes: "My case consisted of piles, two fixtures and three ulcers and I was practically dead on my feet when I first arrived. I had no pain and I am at this time in perfect health and weigh heavier than at any time during my past life. You refused to accept anything in return until my cure was complete." Thomas W. Long, Cashier First National Bank, Hopkinsville, Ky., Writes: "For five years prior to taking your treatment I had been a constant sufferer from piles, often having to leave my desk for hours and someone else came almost a burden. Within three days after leaving your city I took up my regular work and have since continued without interruption or inconvenience." Mr. O. H. P. Catron, President of the Bank of West Plains, N.C., Says: "Your treatment for my fistula, fissure, piles, stricture and ulcers of the rectum was entirely successful in every respect, and I feel that I have a new lease upon life. I can cheerfully recommend all who are suffering from fistulal problems to go to you. Every promise you make you will fulfill." COLUMBIA FRUIT STORE Corner 9th and Walnut St. The place to buy Fruit cheap. Bonanas 15c, Oranges 30c per dozen, vegetables, Michigan Celery, etc. Special prices on Candies to School teachers for Holidays. Z. C. MARTIN, Nov 6 10t. Prop. The Great Southern Hair Pomade. Softens, beautifies and promotes the growth of the hair. PRICE 25c. 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.: Enclosed please find P. O. 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ROSA MARSHAL, C. P. MRS. MINNIE HAYES, C. R. TILL CURED. Mr. Frank Strain, Probate Judge, Phillipsburg, Kaa., Says: "I was troubled with piles for thirty years; in less than four weeks you were a new man. When you examined me you stated what the cost of a cure you be but did not ask or require a payment until the amount until the cure was effected." J. R. Sprankle, Capitalist, Cleveland, O. W. written. "I doctored for twelve years with physicians in New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Cleveland for plies in the Army and Navy. When you cured me perfectly in ten days and while being cured I was not laid up an hour." Senator J. R. Burrows, President First National Bank, Smith Center, Kas, says: "Your treatment of me was very satisfactory. There have been no signs of trouble returning in any, even if I was treated over ten years ago." 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