Sedalia Times

SEDAIIA TIMES W. H CARTER, Editor and Man'ger Mrs W. H CARTER, Edifores Dr C S Walden Representive Send all Money's by Post-Office, Orders, Express Order to W. H. Carter, Published Every Saturday Evening The Times office 120 E. Main st. Rules of this office for this Yeor: 1st All advertisements in the City is pay able first of every month, unless other- wise agreed. All foreign advertisements must pay dart in advance with contrat, copy or e- lectro plate. 2nd All Subscription cut of this city must be paid strictly in advance. All articles for publication must be written plan, and on one side of the sheet. New items of all kinds FREE The Whist club will try and meet Wednesday night at Wm. Ogdens Who are we going to have for Alderman of the first and second wards next spring? Have you thought of that yet. Congress and President Roosevelt has signed the death warrant to the coal trust, and put it on the free list, by efforts of Senator Vest of Missouri, Colored man in Montgomery, county, Alabama, has discovered three very rich veins of silver on his farm, for which he is offered $3,875,000 Mr Andrew Carnegie has accepted an invitation from Booker T. Washington to visit the Tuskegee Institution some time during the Carnegie gave February or the first new library building at Tuskegee and is becoming more and more interested in the work of the school. There is some talk of a Negro Investment company being started in this city soon, and it is said to be started so that a person or persons can take stock as low as 50c This something that is greatly in need in this city, and there is no reason why one could not be successful. It is hoped that those who are ai the bottom of this enterprise will soon put it in opporation and with good men at the foundation that will command the respect and attention of the entire public regardless of color. The members and friends of the C. M. E. Church, gave a nice concert at their church Wednesday night, which prove to be a success in every respect. Rev Warfield their pastor, is doing a good work and his memders are giving him able support. They began the work of papering their church and will have it completed by Sunday at which time they will hold their Quarterly meeting. The public is invited to come. It seems as if the majority of those old moss-back hill-billy democrats from across the river. thinks that all they are elected as representative for, is to do something against the Negro as a voter and a free American. The first bill that was offered in the legislation Monday, was one from one of these "moss-backs" to kill the sufferage of the aged and uneducated Negro who has never had a chance to learn to read and write. by offering a bill which declares that all voters must be able to read and write. By next Monday we would not be surprised to heard of an other "moss-back" from about the river counties, come creeping in with another jim-crow bill. Well, we need not be surprised at any thing we hear from such men that is against the Negro, they are Negro haters and they cannot keep showing. But yet some Negroes will vote for their election. Mrs W. H. Carter entertained Mr and Mrs Chas Lewis, Mrs Herrington, Mrs Simpson and Mrs Shaw of Omaha, Neb., at her home on east Cooper street last night, Sedalia has the best Negro quartette that can be found in the state making no exceptions, the boys seems to be adopted to this special work. The singers are Jno W. Williams, tenor, Arthur Channels tenor, Richard Smith baritone, Frank Bledsoe bass. Mrs Harvey and daughter o Garnett, spent a delightful visit in this city, with her mother and sister Mrs Shipley and Mrs Susan Johnson. Fayette-Mrs Agnes Schills, of Fayette, a very prominent colored lady died last Saturday and was buried Sunday under the auspices of the Daughters of Tabernacle. Willie DeBoe who has been so sick for sometimes, is slowly on the me. Dr Mason spent several days in this city staighten up some matter at Geo. R. Smith College. In school we find fractions exceedingly hard. HOW DID BABY KNOW? Freddy—Ma, what is the baby's name? Ma—It hasn't a name yet. Freddy—Then how did it know it belonged here?—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He took two millions and was known As a great financier. —Washington Star. Rose to Dizzy Heights. She—You say your brother is in the army? He—Yes; been in it for six years. "Suppose he has worked his way up?" "Oh, yes; he started in the ranks, and now he's in the balloon service." —Yonkers Statesman. Her Belief. "You believe in short engagements, don't you, dear?" asked the happy and accepted lover. "Short engagements have always been my rule, darling," replied she. And even then he did not seem happy.—Detroit Free Press. Both Blind "What makes you think, Bobbie, that your teacher is blind?" "Why, I took supper at her house, and she said, 'Bobbie, where are your feet?' and they were right on the table, both of them, in plain sight, all the time."—N. Y. World. Everybody Was Pleased. "I hear the dinner was a grand success." "The best yet. All the people we invited first declined, and we had a chance to ask those we really wanted." —Town Topics. BLOOD POISON Have You Sore Throat? Pimple. Infected Stones. Achess. With br proof. Sore Throat. Curve. W Infected Stones. gase. W. have hospital 100,888. O X THE FIVE CENT CIGAR. Average Life of Popular Brands Said to Be Five Years. "The average life of the nickel cigar is five years," said a prominent tobacco man to a writer for the New Orleans Times-Democrat, "and it is curious to note the differences which have enabled cigar men to arrive at this general average of the five-cent cigar's life. Many cigars of this class run through a long series of years. There are some brands now that have been running for more than a quarter of a century under the same name, and they are really the same cigars, made in the same way, having the same flavor and all that sort of thing. In this connection I have been impressed by the remark which we often hear about certain brands of cigars changing in quality. I heard a man say the other day that he had been smoking a certain brand of cigars for two years or longer, but that the cigar was getting so bad that he had concluded to quit buying it at all. 'It is nothing like the same cigar,' he said; 'the taste has changed, and it tastes like a mixture of cabbage leaves.' Now he was altogether wrong about that. I know the cigar, know how it is made and all about it, and I know that no sort of change has been made in the process of manufacture. The trouble is that man's taste changes. He may get up feeling badly, his stomach may be in bad shape, and of course the cigar will not taste as it did when his system was in better condition. The cigar is blamed, and he simply dashes the thing into the street, and quits buying it. Instances of this sort are very common. Mind you I do not mean to say that some of the brands do not change. There are tricks in the cigar business, just as there are tricks in other trades. But in nine cases out of ten the trouble is with the smoker. But recurring to the age of cigars, the average to which I have referred has been settled upon by tobacco men and is accepted throughout the country. It is reached by taking the two extremes, the good and the bad five cent cigar, and nigging back to the middle. Some five cent cigars close failures, having nothing in them to recommend them to the public. The material out of which they are made would not make decent 'three-fors,' the kind that are sold to the negroes on the river. The higher grades of five cent cigars are made as carefully, and with as much skill as the cigars that are sold at a higher price, and I do not mind saying that many of them are really far superior in material, flavor and method of manufacture. So many of them, however, are of the cheap kind that the average is lowered to five years, while the average life of the higher priced cigars will run to a much higher figure." TWO MOONS OF SALT. Some Interesting Statements Concerning Amount of Salt in the Sea. Roughly speaking, says the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, if you take the salt out of the sea water, you deprive it of a thirtieth of its weight. On that basis one-thirtieth of the entire weight of all the sea water in the world is salt, and, as salt and water bulk about the same, we may estimate, also, that, by bulk, one-thirtieth of the huge mass of the ocean is pure salt. What does this bring us to? Good as His Word. Mortified Bridegroom—You told me your father's wedding present would be a check for four figures. Blushing Bride—Well, isn't $11.30 four figures?—Chicago Tribune. Another Year. Harry—Don't you remember that when we were engaged last summer we cut our initials on that tree? Marjorie—Oh, that's a chestnut.—N. Y. Sun. He Wanted to Know. "Where's Jane?" asked the master. "Upstairs, arranging the mistress' hair." "Is her mistress with her?—Philadelphia North American. Her Limit. Miss Mark—Does she patronize bargain sales? Mrs. Down—Does she? Why, she would buy eggs at one.—Harper's Bazar. "Has Sniquer any secrets from his wife?" "Not one. But he thinks he has."— Town Topics. THE SIDALIA WEEKLY TIMES. ONLY $1, A YEAR. Payable in advance QUEEN CITY TELE- PHON CO, Wants to put a Phone in your residence Only costs you five ce BUY YOUR s of all Kin D. E. UHL all kind of fresh and salt Meats, north Ohio street P EMENTS—WOOD'S OPERAT GHT TO ALAFORN best shows that has been here Dealer in all kind of fresh and salt Meats, Game and Fish. Shop North Ohio street Phone 380 AMUSEMENTS—WOOD'S OPERA HOUSE— One of the best shows that has been here this season. TUESDAY NIGHT, Jan. 20 The Fatal W Short Talks On ByCharlesAu No. 2 I talked the other day with a man who said that he didn't believe that advertising different from other businesses that advertise. He said that his store had been an ex- was very fair, and that the stock was abo Fatal Wed Talks On Adv by Charles Austin B No. 25. her day with a man who had failed believe that advertising a drug store businesses that advertising could no store had been an exceptionally go that the stock was above reproach. Short Talks On Advertising ByCharles Austin Bates. I talked the other day with a man who had failed in the drug business. He said that he didn't believe that advertising a drug store paid, and that it was so different from other businesses that advertising could not possibly help it. He said that his store had been an exceptionally good one; that the location was very fair, and that the stock was above reproach, but there were two other drug stores nearby which had been there for some time before he came. The people round about were acquainted with them, and to some they were just a little bit more conveniently situated than the new store. My friend, the druggist, didn't try advertising. That is the way he knows that it does not pay. He said: "People do not realize that there is a difference in drugs—that the paragoric they get in one drug store is better than that which they get in another." Advertising would have saved that man's business. By advertising he would have introduced himself to come acquainted with him and his store in the them that there were different grades of par but he didn't try it, and so he knows positive. Maybe he would have had to advertise this before he would have found that he was a expenditure. Advertising a new business is in the dull season. It is the after-effect that diate returns. Even if a new man were to meet his prospective customers personally, it would be some time before he would make actual buyers of them. people, and they would have become acquainted with him and his store in that way. By advertising he could tell them that there were different grades of paregoric, and that he kept the best grade; but he didn't try it, and so he knows positively that advertising doesn't pay. Maybe he would hand it over. in him and his store in that way. By different grades of paregoric, and the end so he knows positively that adverbs have had to advertise three or six monies found that he was gaining actualising a new business is, to a certain it is the after-effect that must be look of a new man were to. Maybe he would have had to advertise three or six months, or possibly for a year, before he would have found that he was gaining actual profit on his advertising expenditure. Advertising a new business is, to a certain extent, like advertising in the dull season. It is the after-effect that must be looked at and not the immediate returns. Even if It is this way with a traveling salesman. The first few trips in a new territory do not consume very many pages of his order book. In the mean time he is getting acquainted—advertising. He is letting people know who he is and what he is doing, and what he wants. If he is pleasant and courteous and persistent, he will win trade, but it will take time. Do not expect an ad to do more than a man. Copyright, Charles Austin Bates, New York. Wedding, in Advertising Justin Bates. 25. who had failed in the drug business. He a drug store paid, and that it was so rising could not possibly help it. exceptionally good one; that the location move reproach, but there were two other drug stores nearby which had been there for some time before he came. The people round about were acquainted with them, and to some they were just a little bit more conveniently situated than the new store. My friend, the druggist, didn't try advertising. That is the way he knows that it does not pay. He said: "People do not realize that there is a difference in drugs—that the paragoric they get in one drug store is better than that which they get in another." Advertising would have saved that man's business. By advertising he would have introduced himself to the people, and they would be he that way. By advertising he could tell regoric, and that he kept the best grade;ely that advertising doesn't pay. free or six months, or possibly for a year, gaining actual profit on his advertising s, to a certain extent, like advertising it must be looked at and not the imme- PARECORC 1ST CRADE PARECORC 2ND CRADE PARECORC 3RD CRADE No. 25. Any Advertisement the size as this column, will be run four extensive weeks in this paper for a small sum of 35 CENTS C C. LAWSON ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR. OTARY PUBLIC. 107-8-9 Katy Bldg. sedalia Mo. LIVER YORK mastering of all kind and general repair work, prices reasonable save orders at 120 E. ain street. at Geo Dugans East 5th st AS W SCOTT Painter, Paperhanger, Organist. save orders at Times office 1 hon 258 —CALL ON— MBOOK LUMBER CO For all kinds of Building material. 2nd and Vermont streets. NEGRO TRANSFER AND EXPRESS. Pred Bush, Andy Vaughn, Tade Wiltrong, Warren Craig- gad, Frank Williams. Express—Mack Channels, Pet- Noland, Walker Williams, Richard Kemp. NEGRO BUSINESS FIRMS. The Times, 120 East Main St. Steeles Barber shop, 120 East Main St. Wheeler & Chamber's Barber op, 113½ East Main St. Banks and Warfield's Restau- rent, 113½ East Main St. Bishop Grocery store, North Lamine St. Wm. Richardson, Blacksmith, East Main St. Geo. Bimm, shoe maker, East Main St. Jno. Ross, blacksmith, West Main St. G. L. Davis, poolroom, West Main St. Billup's carriage line. Mrs. Mary Saunder, hair dresser, North Lamine St. Mrs. N. Harper, hair dresser, East Cooper St. Miss Lulu Furgerson, dressmaker, North Lamine St. Mrs. J. W. Walker, pension agent, East Main street. COLORED MEN EMPLOYED BY THE CITY. In the city affairs the colored people have but very little representation. They have one regular policeman, J. H. Johnson, the janitor of city hall, Walterarker, one ex-policeman, Wm. Brake, and one substitute on the street gang. 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In a report recently made to Washington, Consul General Gather writes from Frankfort that the chief of the fire department of Hanover has recently invented an alcohol firing apparatus, used in connection with an automobile fire engine, which is said to be very satisfactory in practice. The engine is driven to the scene of the fire by an alcohol motor, and while on the way the steam is gotten up by the new invention noted above so that the engine is ready for operation immediately on its arrival on the ground. Ordinarily it is necessary to keep the engine constantly fired in order that the steam supply may be immediately available. Otherwise much time is lost in getting up steam. BEAGLES WERE TINY DOGS. Diminutive Canines of Ancient Breed That Could Be Carried in a Glove. There is no question that the beagle is a very old breed. Early Roman accounts of England contain references to the beagle, even by name. Books published from about 1580 to 1610 describe several varieties of hounds, including "the little beagle which may be carried in a man's glove." That the miniature hound was extremely popular at the time was evident from Queen Elizabeth keeping a pack which were also said to be small enough to put in a glove, says the Country Life in America. This statement is frequently ridiculed when it is not understood that gloves of that period were not the present-day kind, but gauntlets reaching nearly to the elbow. What became of those glove beagles we may surmise from what we know of the results of later attempts to maintain packs of beagles of eight to ten inches high, the result after some years, being weak puppies that fall short of the fine qualities of the little hunting dog when they are grown up. UNCLE SAM AS MISSIONARY. How the Unclean Pincees in Cuba Were Renovated by the American Authorities. Cuban cities, like Havana and Santiago, previous to the Spanish war, were great breeders of pestilence, and menaces to the world. Now yellow fever and smallpox have been practically stamped out, and the death rate in the island has decreased one-half, and was lower in Havana last winter than in New York, says the Woman's Home Companion. In Havana an engineer corps instituted a general system of housecleaning. Every house in the city was cleaned from top to bottom under the supervision of American officers, whether the tenant was of high or low degree; remonstrances availed nothing. As many as 16,000 houses were cleaned in one month. The sewer sys SHOWN BY THE JEWELERS. Hatpins show large French brilliants set in balls. Long pearl necklaces are shown which tie in the back with silver tassels. For evening wear there are jeweled tortoise-shell combs which come in sets of three and four. Little gilt pins that securely clasp the bow worn low on the back of the hair in the new low coiffure are among the novelties. Sterling silver vases come in beautiful designs, being tall and slender in shape to accommodate long-stemmed flowers. Among bug pins is a dragon fly with wings of emeralds and ruby eyes. Butterfly pins have wings set in emeralds, diamonds and rubies. One of the newest things in jewelry this fall is a thumb seal ring, coming direct from Home. The ring of either silver or gold is massive in appearance and the seal is large enough to be of practical use in sealing letters. It bears an engraved coat of arms or a curiously wrought monogram, plain letters not being considered good form. A silver walnut on the end of milady's long chain is more than an ornament. Some contain a tiny powder puff and powder, a small perfume bottle, besides a place for the pictured face of a sweetheart. Others are intended to hold small change—nickels and dimes—and have a sort of string to hold the coin secure, while others hold a thimble and a small emry. Didn't Enjoy Her Company. Benham—Your mother always drops in about mealtime. Mrs. Benham—I know it, dear; but— Benham—Well, I wish you would tell her that this is no coaling station.— Judge. He Guessed the Trouble. "This is a cold, unfeeling world," he received, bitterly. "returned his companion. "You he hard the ribald laugh when you slipped on a banana skin too, have you?" Brooklyn Eagle. Sound and Spell. A musical fellow in Brooklyn. A tempted to play on the snutte, but the peace-loving neighbors included his neighbors. B smashing him one on the snutte, baltimore American. A SLIP UP. his Do to urnala n; on. me. is ar to rty gh ian at as if let it's ju es. "My "My having De of not Press. A FIGHTER But So Cantanke ous That It Lived Alone. There died at the aquarium re- cently an angel fish that for years has had a tank all to itself. It dif- fered in the other angel fish exhibi- tions also in the respect that it is really long in captivity, shares New York Sun. Wereason why the angels are hard to keep is their scrappiness among themselves. The fight and pattered wound one another with the shad spines with which their gill covers are armed. This long-lived angel fish killed two or three tank mates, or so wounded them that they died of their injuries, and it continued to attack other angel fish put into the tank with it, until finally, and because of its great beauty, it was permitted to occupy a tank by itself. It was a vigorous, hardy fish, and the brightest-colored fish the aquarium has ever had; and all antho are beautiful. Some angel fish, yellow tails. This one had a tail with a yellow edge and the characteristic angel fish blue of its body was of the deepest and at the same time the most livid and brilliant blue. At times it seemed almost luminous; it was a wonderful and most beautiful blue. Fighter as it was among its kind, it was one of the tamest fish in the aquarium. It took food from the hand when it had been there two weeks, and was ready to take food in that manner always thereafter. On the last day that it was fed something so frightened the angel fish that it jumped out of the water and struck the wire screen over its tank with such violence as to inflict a serious cut in its head. It had been in perfect health and condition up to that time, but, susceptible as all fishes are to fright and shock, this was too much for it, and ENJOYS LIFE IN WAVES. How Holbeln, the Great Swimmer, Is Oiled, Fed and Equipped While Afloat. By way of preliminary to his swim across the channel, Holbeln essayed recently to lower the record created by ill-fated Capt. Webb for the swim between Dover and Ramsgate, a distance of 20 miles if a direct course could be followed, but probably not less than five and twenty allowing for the deviation caused by contrary tides and currents. The swimmer failed miles, the bad weath ing tide against him tempt to reach Rara refused, however, to until he had swam so completed the eetween the coasts of France. Had the mained favorable t that he would have listing time of $ 8 \frac{1}{4} $ hours. Profiting by the last year, when hei to swim the chan accomplishment, M rubbed with oil be water, and, to obvi eyes from the salt, American sticking p goggles. His physic endurance are little ful, and his only fe of a sudden storm. he relies mainly on sense, varied by an wich, supplied to his panions in the accom COUNT BECOMES An Austrian Nobleman Renounces His Station, the World and Its Pleasures. From the pleasures of a gilded youth to a cobbler's bench is the romantic career of Count Edward Stadios, a member of one of the noblest families of Austria. The somewhat unusual moral of the tale is the fact that in the face of a fresh smile from fickle fortune he prefers to remain a cobbler. The affair came about in this way: The young count, having dissipated his wealth, was wandering through a forest in Hungary when he came upon a cobbler, to whom he confessed his poverty. The man of him a home and a trade, and the count accepting, was taken to his home and taught to make and mend shoes. One day a man of law, who had been looking for him a long time, arrived, and told him that by the successive and rapid deaths of all his male relatives he had become heir of the immense fortune of the Stadios and member of the house of peers of Austria. This sudden prosperity coming after so many misfortunes did not turn the head of the noble cobbler, who, according to rumor, ordered himself a simple hut to be built in the forest, and now, having renounced the vanities of the world, he lives in this hut, making and mending his own shoes. Opposed to Wastage Abuse. "Come, now, Charlie, hurry and say your prayers and go to bed. "Where's papa?" "Why do you want papa?" "I want him to be here when I say my prayers." "Oh, never mind. Papa's busy somewhere. Come now, like a good little boy: 'Now, I lay me down to sleep—' Hurry, it's getting late." "But I want papa to listen. I'm going to pray to God to night for a police patrol wagon and a football suit."—Chicago Record-Herald. In ev and ma / Grease that makes your horses glad. FOR 14 CENTS We wish to gain this year more new customers and to offer 1 Pkg. Oily Cases at 1 Pkg. 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