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Sedalia Weekly Conservator. OUR DUTY TO THE Missionary Society. PROF, H. L. BILLUPS, FILLING THE ENGAGEMENT OF The Rev. Dr. G. G. Logan, Field Sec'y Of The Missionary Society of M. E. Church: at the E. L. & S. S. Con., St. Joseph Dist, which convened in Independence, Mo., spoke in part as follows:— VOL. 1. OUR DUTY THE Mission PROF, H. L. BILLUPS, FILLU The Rev. Dr. G. G. Logan, Fic Society of M. E. Church: at Joseph Dist, which convene spoke in part a No where in the world-no better place than America, no better state than Mo., no better city this, could be found in which to discuss missionary work and the missionary. The divine command: "Go ye in to all the world and preach my gospel" is not only imperative but a direct statement. Go we must or aid others to go. Go and carry-the gospel- carry it to all lands, nations, countries and islands of the seas. The call is for missionsries and money-the call comes to-day-to you and to me. Wonderful has been the work of our church along this line. Has she not sent missionaries to all races and nations? Are they, too, not serving in their native land and tongue? Indeed all are helping and we must help. *From Greeland's icy mountains *From India's coral strand *Where Afric's sunny fountain *Roll down the golden sand. *From Bany an ancient river *From many a palmy plain *They call us to deliver the land *From errors" *In vain with layish kindness *The gift of God is strown. *The heathen in his blindness *Bows down to wood and stone *Shall we whose souls are lighted *With wisdom from on high. *Shall we to men benighted *The lamp of life deny? "Salvation oh salvation! "The joyful sound proclaim "Till earth's remotest nation "Has learned Messiah's name. "Waft, waft ye winds it's story "And you, ye Water's roll "Till like a sea of glory "It spreads from pole to pole." Just here we must pause to make special mention of "Darkest Africa, the land of our ancestors. The cry comes and again we must make her blossom as a rose. It was but yesterday when Bishop Hartzell set sail on his sevrnth voyage. Dr. Camphor and his stalwart, faithful, heroic, helpers are already over there. From the "Fatherland" Dr Sherill has just returned. Since this great Missionary Society is doing so much for us, let us in return do something for it. The fields are already white to harvest. The Master's beckoning hand is seen—His loving voice is heard thru out all the ages; over hill and dale, in nook and corner, every where 'tis heard calling; yes "'calling for thee." To His gracious call we may in many ways respond. (1) We may go. (2) We may help others to go (3) We can send money, missionaries and prayers to all the heathen in all the heathen lands. Today now, to you the serious and important question comes, comes directly to you. Which way in which of these ways will you respond? Will the Negro prepare and go as a missionary? trained nurse? as a physician? as an instructor in literary and industrial work? What an open and inviting field! No man in America or in the world can do this work so well as the efficiently trained and prepared Negro. The African race is not unlike all other races. As an illustration, take the Jew; find him in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, India, the Islands of the sea, Jerusalem-Jewry-where ever you find him; he is still a Jew. And he can best be taught and impressed by a brother Jew. So it is with all races. It is therefore true of the Negro race. The nation, the church, the school and the society may be slow to accede to this visibly plain truth; but it is nevertheless true. Then let us get ready as missionaries or get missionaries ready. How? By increasing our missionary collection, by trying to raise our full assessment. By a united effort this we can do. Strive strive as never before and we will succeed. That our great church has signally blessed and honored us, is seen in the recent promotion of our esteemed and honored brother, the Rev. Dr. G. G. SEDALIA, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, June 27, 1903. Logan as Field Secretary of our Missionary Society. Our great church has helped us and is helping us in many, many ways. This grand old church has never forgotten us, will never forget us. When our day was dark we trusted her. She came to our rescue, to our immediate relief. And now, since year by year the clouds are disappearing, our sky grows brighter and brighter. Let us take fresh courage. God helping us, let us rally. Let us show fully our high appreciation of our church, our Missionary Society and this distinguished brother. Strength, potency, comfort and consolation come to those who help themselves. And God helps those who help themselves. With fresh courage then let us with energy push and prove our loyalty to the grand old Methodist Episcopal Church. IMPURE LITERATURE. By Rev. P.M. Mack. Christianity is the gaurpian of childhood. Youth is the time in which to seek the Lord. "Remember thy Crutator in the days of thy youth," "Train up the child in the way it should go," is the voice from the Prophetic age. The voice of the new dispensation is "Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." The most beautiful acts in the life of Christ was when he took children into his arms and blessed them. Many of the teachers, in church and public school, fail to day because they are afraid of public sentiment. Why did Christ take so much interest in children? Because as the child so will the man be. How vast are the possibilities of childhood! In Rome there are two pictures painted by the same artist and representing the same person. One is the delineation of Innocence and the other of Guilt. The Artist had seen a little child in all the beauty of Pristine purity, and drew its charming features on canvas. Years after he saw, in the streets of Rome, a man with disheveled hair, haggard countenance and tattered garments—the impressions that crime had written. That man wa that once lovely child. Even now it is one of our saddest reflections that all the criminals in our state prison, county jails are city holdovers; all the magdalenes who have gone astray from the paths of virtue, were once innocent and beautiful children on the bosom of maternity. And it is our most joyous reflections that all the men and women who have risen to distinction; who fill positions of trust and honor; who are ornaments in society and pillows in the church of God, were once little children. Who can, and who will wonder that so much of the holy Scripture is devoted to the proper training and development of the childhood of this age. And what are some of the weighty rersons why due attention should be give into the books our children read? I st. the young mind is on the alert to know, for its surroundings are new and novel, All that is familiar and old to us, is new and strange to children; when we went to strange states and cities we can remember how our curiosity was excited. The children are travelers in a new world, and as a stranger, a traveler, every palace, venerable church, sacred shrine, moss clad tower, famous battle field and scene of some wonderous deed that illuminates the pages of history is full of novelty and interest to little children. The world of nature familiar to you is not so to children, it is strange to the child, and excites its curiosity and wonder. The sun, the moon and the stars that have shed their golden light upon our earth for sixty centuries; the moon that has silvered our earth and ocean ever since creation began. Ebe stars that have jeweled the firmament, long since before the star of Bethlehem or the wise men followed it. The thunder, the lightning the tornado and the beautiful rainbow—these are among the many things in nature with which we are familiar, but they are new and marvelous to childhood. The prayer of the child is tell me a story of the past. In this alone they ask, not so much for amusement as for information, for the young mind is longing to know, and finds pleasure in knowledge. Mind must have material for thought. Both body and mind have growth, Food and knowledge are analogous; Food for the body and thought for the mind. As the body would perish without nourishment, so the mind would languish without intelligence. Mind is a field wherein will grow either weeds or grain; mind is a studio, wherein will be found forms of beauty or objects of deformity; mind is a builder, and the habitation that it rears will either be a palace or a hovel. What the mulberry leaves are to the silkworm, so is thought and reflection to the mind; mind must have thought, whether good or bad. The companionship of thought is as real as the companionship of men. We should exercise care in the choice of those with whom we associate, because their influence is moulding our character and guiding our destiny Weshould watch over the character of the thoughts with which we hold communion. There are three sources of thought, namely, observation, reflection, and communication. The last should be subdivided into conversation and books. Our first mental impressions are received thru the senses; the eye, the ear, the lip and the nerves, and out of these impressions the imagination weaves new forms of mental beings and by its magic power of combination it creates the new out of the old. The furniture of the the mind comes largely from conversation, but books, good or bad, are material for reflection. They stimulate thought which is the parent of power; they mould the man and give direction to his life; they have the sweep and sway of power that belongs neither to sword, nor to the sceptre. Take two great contemporaries one a warrior, one a master and the other a pupil, and behold the difference; Alexander the great carried his victorious banner to the very banks of the Indus, but his Empire has faded from the vision of mankind, and the other, Aristotle, carried his victorious banner into the realm of knowledge and today he swails his mental sceptre over the opinions of the civilized world. What shall the thoughts of childhood be? Books. Show me the books a man reads and I will show you the man himself. What is the relative effect of good and bad books upon their respective readers? Take the criminal classes of the largest city in the United States, New York City, especially, those between the ages of seven and twenty, and you will find that the majority of them have been under the influence of impure literature. Out of 3,813 inmates of our houses of refuge, between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, nearly all who could read were readers of dime novels, and seven-eights of all the inmates of our juvenile asylums, were under the banetal influence of impure literature Jesse Pomeroy confessed that before he committed his horrified crime, he had read not less then sixty dime novels. Who was not startled by the story of a Mississippi Judge whose son was found guilty of murder, in his sunny south, amid his beautiful Savannahs. This boy had read the stories of criminal adventures, and his parents had not disapproved of this kind of literature, he was thrilled with a desire for freedom; he fled from his parental roof and plunged into Mexico; he returned to Texas and thence to New England, where the once innocent, manly and fascinating youth, corrupted by impure literature committed the greatest crime known to law. The New York Sun of November 12th, 1883, published an article that will appear in next weeks issue. Take the statistics in New York City alone, of the youthful criminals, for six months, how startling are the facts. Their ages were from seven to twenty years. 19 committed murder, 50 attempted murder, 100 were guilty of burglary, 32 of highway robbery, 39 were drunkards, 19 were guilty of grand larceny, and 93 of larceny, 16 were suicides. 12 attempted suicide, 11 were murdered, while others were guilty of train wrecking, of arson, forgery, contefiting, picking pockets, manslaughter conspiracy to kill, mail robbery and of malicious mischief. In all 441 youthful criminals, now let us turn our attention to some of these impure publications, and to the extent of their circulation. It is said that there are six-hundred thousand and copies of these story papers published weekly in the city of New York for the young people of our country. Three of our metropolitan publishers have issued 670 different trashy story books and periodicals. Let us look over the contents of only one of these weekly papers, a story paper, how attractive it is to the young people. Here are some of the contents of a single number: (1) a conspiracy against a poor school girl; (2) One girl hired to impersonate a rich girl, and marry a villian in her stead; (3) a beautiful girl, by lying deceit, seeks to captivate one whom she loves; (4) six assaults upon an officer, while making an arretr; (5) a conspiracy against an officer to prevent the arrest of a criminal; (6) a man murdered by masked burglars; (7) a woman who died in New York, comes to life in Italy; (8) two attempted assassinations; (9) one confidential operator at work to swindle a stranger; (10) an assault on the highway; (11) a hired assassin; (12) one babe stolen to substitute for another; (13) one case of clandestine correspondence, and meeting between a girl and her lover. (14) last but not the least. A girl running away at night marries to hide her shame. Now as to the author, what must be the moral turpitude, the utter filthiness, of the mind of man or woman, thus which is filtered weekly such mental putrefaction? Do not tell me of sources of rotten fens, or of malarious marshes; there is nothing on earth can be compared with the detestable filthiness of the mind of such an author. Yet our young ladies and young men delight in reading such. To the parents it is time to put a stop to your children reading such papers, and furnish religious books and respectable papers for them to read, MANUAL CULTURE By Finis Washington. Modern education the factors may be grouped as industrial, political, social and moral, each of which is essential to the realization of an harmonious ethical training. Education means to train, not necessarily the intellectual faculties, but all parts of the body that will in any way assist in the happiness and well being of the individual. If education of the head and hand together will in any way aid man in reaching that station in life where he will be made happier, more contented and better able to provide for those dependent upon him, then it has value worth considering. An education which discovers the duty men owe to themselves and to society, to growing objects of natural or acquired capacities and their position, and prosperity in life which trains men to perform their duties is not to be observed lightly. The results of manual training schools have somewhat been loosely attributed to the industrial factor alone instead of attributing them to an harmonious cooperation of all the ethic elements involved. The ethics of a modern manual training school may be expressed in words of Macqually, "Utility and progress." Education is acquisition, and training. The type of modern society, which largely determines our civilization is the industrial man. Less then three per cent of the boys of this country can hope to make a living by practicing the professions. To omit industrial discipline in education is to wage war against common sense. The manual training school is the modern means of acquiring a knowledge of things and of men. Its training is a discipline that maybe described as having ethical proportions. The industrial training is a technical training. The present manual training schools of the South reveal that the new education differs from the old chiefly in the administration of the educational powers. The time given to manual training might be given to language, or mathematics or philosophy. The question is, "Which training is of the most value?" Manual training does not mean training in language, in mathematics, or phi- NO. 8 losophy. Shall education consist in the acquisition and training in language, math ematics, philosophy or science, or in a sufficient amount of these and in industrial culture? The manual training school has for its function the fitting of the young for careers in life appropriate to their character, positions, and their prospects. It teaches them to think and fits them for making an honorable living. In fact it is a world-school. Provided that a course in manual training is, "sufficiently literary," could not every school introduce the industrial factor into its curriculum, and harmoniously administering educational powers, already possessed with absolute certainty increase, and intensify the benefits of educational work. Manual culture involves a knowledge of things, and the graphic language of facts, forms and objects. As the end of school is not solely industrial, drawing becomes the means for a graphic presentation of the aesthetic taste. Industrial discipline forms habits of inestimable worth. The finish of a manual lesson is an unprejudiced record of the industrial boy. It is difficult to make plain the harmony of mental and manual work. The industrial factor in education is, but one element in the reconition of types in the world of worths and forms. The new educations reconizes hand power as well as brain power, and the boy is enabled to express his comprehension of things, and of men, not only in their traditional manner, but by graphic language of sketch, chart or diagram. The healthfulness of manual training is of itself a sufficient reason for its introduction as it touches life at every point. It deals with realities. The building of this educational bridge is the departure in modern education. Manual training is likely to increase both the cost and the efficiency of the public schools. But in a ratio immensely in favor of efficiency. The mass of American boys must succeed if they will succeed at all in industrial occupations. A servite adherence to traditional class interests has forced all minds along a narrow school course and by the exclusion of the industrial factor has kept the curriculum a fragment and has maintained a discrimination against the essential group of industrial rights, duties and interests into which all men are born. In many instances it is better for some young people to have less of the higher education and more of the knowledge and principle of industrial occupation of tools, of the construction of typical forms, in the applied arts, and possess both a trained mind and a skilled hand. The industrial factor in modern education is a permanent factor. Its effects are already a revelation to education of the unkown power of boyhood. And is the nearest approach to the world of experiments into which the American boys have yet to come. It will help the student to appreciate the dignity and nobility of labor and make them reliant and competent to lay out work for others. It is not by inspection that one realizes the good of manual culture; rather inspiration and application. If manual training will cultivate the attention which is the main spring of all education train the eye to see things in their true relations and the hand to execute the creation of the brain, it does for the individual what few subjects will do, it embodies several in one. Intellect is not a fixed quality; it no more abounds in science or classies than it does in manual training. It is a well known fact that but few pupils reach the High School and fewer still the college and university. The higher education affects mainly the few, but is the leaven which leaventh the whole lump. A JUNE BRIDE The Sulliva —Brown Nuptials Mr. Arthur Sullivan and Miss Berta Brown were married on Wed. evening at the home of the bride's mother on W. Morgan St. The wedding was a private affair, only family and immediate relatives being present. Rev. G. W. Ball officiating. After the ceremony the couple was driven to the 'Katy' station and boarded the south bound Sedalia Weekly Conservator. t mR Ay Get ee J maui ie fg FB a ee Mae iC Ei ; Sy a Be Ry veer ng tee RMR = Fes iy, i re a” George R. Smith College. Rev. I. L. Lowe, D. D., Ph. D., President. CALENDAR FOR Fall term opens Sept. 22, closes 1903-04 Dec. 11, Winter term opens Dee, 14, closes Feb. 19, Spring term eae ite a> nie Amant: ce ‘The purpose of the College is to give a thorough, practical christiay education, It cares for the health and physical training, provides for refined social culture. gives careful attention to morals and manners, and aims to lead the student to a personal religions life, The work of the College is divided into six general departinents, 1, Primary and Grammar Grades, providing a thorough drill in ‘the elementary branches, Il Academy or College Preparatory, withClassical, Sc ientific, Bib lical English, Normal and Commercial courses, : HY Art Departiment—Drawing, Painting aud Decorative work, IV Music Department—Vocal and Instrumental Music, Theory and Harmony, V_ Industrial Department—Sewing, Dressmaking, Cooking, Do- mestic Economy, Mechanical Arts, Agriculture, VI College of Liberal Arts-—Complete elective courses leading to the several academic degrees. SEDALIA WEEKLY CONSERVATOR. _ Published Every Suturday. Office, Room 13 G. R. Smith College \ Application for second class mail rates filed, June (6,'03 _W. H. HUSTON EDITOR. +C. M. ENGLISH MANAGER This Space Will Notify You| SUBSCRIPTION, When Your Subscription 1s Dwe One Year $1.45. Six Months 75 Contributions must be accom. | One Month 18. panied by name asanassurance| ~~~ | of good faith. ‘Think for Thy-Seif one goo thought; | And know tt ta bo Thine own, Allarticles for publication must "Tis better than a thousand gleaned be in by Wednesday. | rom field by others sown, train for Wagoner I. T., where they will make their home at present; The groom is one of Sedalia’s most highly respected citizens and a man of business tact and ability, He has a position as stenographer clerk for a large wholesale and retail firm—one of the largest in Wagon. er. Mr, Sullivan completed the bu- Siness course under, and secured his present position thruour much loved Prof. Billups, Regiscrar and Professor of Commercial Dept., G, R. 5, College. The bride is one of Sedalia’s society flowers and a yery popular contralto singer. We shall miss her from our cir- cle—her charming features, grace- ful bearing and alluring voice. She has all the qualities that go to the’ making of an industrious and a ing housewife, and the Conserva- TOR congatulates Mr, Suilivan | having secured her for his better half, A Thoughtful Leadership Asserting Itself. Immediately after emancipation, the race was wanting in thoughtful leadership. The effect. of which has been very keen. ly felt, Achievements attained by any people may be attributed maitly to thoughtful leaders, consequently, many errors, we have committed, are the result of those, who were directing us, failing to study the projects under taken, From the remarks of an able educator, Prof. J Dallas Bowser, of K. C. Mo,, at marshall, Mo., we gleaned this woeful fact, namely; that our boys and girls go out inte life with very limited capacities to do useful things. And he gave several very pr:ctical illustra- tious that demonstrated his proposition conclusively. This led us to think why did such a condition of affairs exist? To what may this neglect to increase our mental, moral and industrial capacities be charged? There can be but one truthful reply to these queries, our, leaders have failed to be thoughtful enough to implant into the youthful mind an eagerness to undertake great aims and achievements in life. For, if they had, we would see more at- tempts made to do some of the great deeds in life. We are pleased, however, to note that there is arising, in this country, a class of Jeaders, who are thoughtful and philosophic. They are studying the true status of things and instead of shrink- ing, from them, as many do, they meet them boldly and fear- lessly, aud by confronting them courageously, they hope and will supplant them with better ideas, purer hopes and loftier aspirations, Public sentiment does not change them from their purpose to map out a route whereby their fellow racemen may accomplish things truly noble. This, in itself, shows them to be thoughtful. Who does not fear public sentiment? Only the true leader; the leader that molds it rather than that it should mold him. We are proud of our thoughtful men; we are glad that the future is auspicious with sigus of more to come, All hail to such fearless characters as Booker ‘T’ Washington, J. Wesley, E. Bowen, W. T. Vernon, Bishops Gaines, Shaffer, Lane and Turuer, So long as our institutions shall give tous such men as these we need have no fears of meeting the dif- ficult affairs of this age, Negro Equality. From the New York Sun, Who said that all men are created edual? Thomas Jefferson, the father of all democracy, Who gave the Negroes the right of suffrage in New York? The Democratic party, Who presided over the conven: tion which gave this privilege to Negroes? Martin Van Buren, a Democrat, Who afterwards elected Martin Van Buren to the presidency of the United States? ‘The Democratic party Who married a Negro woman and by her liad mulatto children? Richard M, Johnson, a yood Dem ocrat. Who elected Richard M, John- son vice president of the U. S.? The Democratic party, If President Van Buren had died ind Richard M, Johvson had be some president, who would have become the Democratic mistress of the White House? < ‘The same Negro woman, Who made the Negro a citizen of the State of Maine? ® ‘The Democratic party. Who enacted a similar law in Mas achusetts? The Democratic party, Who gave the Negro the right to ote in New Hamsbire? The Democratic party, Who permitted every cclored per- jon Owning $250 in New York to], ecome a yoter? A general assembly purely Dem-| cratic, Who repealed the laws of Ohio hich required Negroes to give|: onds and security before settling || 1 the state? The Democratic party. Who made mulattoes legal voters 1 O,? A Democratic supreme court of || hich R. Wood waschief justice, | What became of Rhuben Wood? The Democratic party elected |, im governor three times and he is], ill a leader of the Dem. party, 1 Who helped to give free Negroes r e right to vote in Tennessee unt, er the constitution of 1795? General Jackson, Was Gen. Jackson a good Dem.,?|| He generally passed as such, \ Who, with the above tacts and|t lany others staring them in the]! ce, are continually whining about |! egro suffrage and Negro equality? | c The Democratic party. Strive To Do Something Truly Great. In this day af modern inventions, rigid competition and ex- haustless energies many individuals are tempted to cease striving to do the things that their energies and talents fit them to accomplish. ‘To these elements we would speak a word of goodcheer, stud- y your. . ities and adaptabilities, your powers of endurance and resourcefuiness. When you have done this, concentrate your most potent powers to one purpose, namely: the accom- plishment of something truly great. Cowards and cringing weaklings neévr succeed, The bold sensible and adventurous have always and will ever achieve their purposes in the world, To often do we hear it said, by men and women of power, tho’ at the time dormant, that is too great au undertaking. We must notatteept it. Would it not far better to attempt sonething that is moraly right, with a pure motive and fail, than never attempt anything? The voices of the age join in one acclaim, yes. Youth of the twentieth century, veuture with judicious tread upon something that will make the world about you better by having had you as one of its inhabitants, Do not allow the weak and faint-hearted dauntyour purpose- the attempt to do the thing you know to be right and honor- able. Push tothe front. With a firm and elastic step, march to the bar of opportunity; seize it and accomplish something. The world, the nation, and the race is calling for the earnest, capacious, cautious but venturesome youth. Won't you be oust Won't you attempt to inspire others? Think deeply andsober- ly and we feel assured that fyou will perceivee the necessity a immediate activity. A Negro And A Chinaman ) Distinguish Themselves New Haven Conn., June 22,— Chung Hin Wang of Canton China, a graduate of Tientsin uni- versity in 1899, carried off highest honors with the degree of master of College Notes. Allie Brown who has been for some time sojourning at the college left for home last Thursday, Two of the G. R, S.C. boys Guyo Hawkins and Ollie Brown have Gone to Atlantic City N, J. for the summer, A fine Jersey cow valued at $75, the gift of Mesdames Smith and Cotton, has been added to the farm herd, Two large thrifty Agares were presented the College by Rey. and Mrs, Hunt and now adorn the front approach to the College, The population of the piggery were deported to porcine paradise, aa other porkers now perambulate ‘the pen, Dr. Lowe and Prof, Billups were speakers at the St. Joseph District league convention held last week at Independence, The subscription at Taylor Chap- a for tne Manual Training building is well toward the $100.00 mark and will pass that point when completed, Pres, Iowe Sundayed at Clinton Mo. A fine offering was made for the new building—$22.75 aud more will be added. Pastor Gibson and his church are alive to the interests of the college, F, D, Woodford went to Mexico last week to attend a ministerial con vention of the C. M: £, denomina- tion, His return is expected soon, Meanwhile Superintendent Smith holds the fort with the aid of anoc- casionol plowman, Planting is well nigh completed on the farm. The inputincludes 4ooo sweet potato plants, some hundreds of cabbage and tomato plants, on- ions, Beets, beans, cucumbers, mel- uns, tulaups, potatoes, corn, sweet corn, Kaffir corn, millet and cane, Recent rains give promise of an rbundant yield, Expenses. Board and room for four Weeks $8.00 Tuition — —~ — — 2.09 Use of laundry - _ — oo Music, Lnstramental or Vocal for four Weeks, two leasons per week —~ $250 Oue lesson per week = — oo Use of Instrument per month 60 Use of typewriter in Commercial de- partment, per month - — Rooms are lighted, heated, farnished with bedsteads, mattress, pillows. two quilts, mirrors, bowl pitcher and lamp. Students furnish for themselves, sheets and pillow casos, extra quilt and blan kets, slop bucket, lamp chimneys, mat ches, soap ete, A reduction of 500 per month is made from the tuition of candidates for the Ministry, and children of Ministers. Allbills are payable in advance the first of each school month. Money for students’ expenses should be sent di- redtly to the President of the College. Send by draft, P.O. order, express order or registered Lotter to- Pres. I. L. Lowe, Sedalia, Mo, Work and Self-help. A number of students boarding in the College are permited toearn some part of their expenses by work in the build- ing or on the grounds. provided they are willing and efficient, Libera! pay is ‘allowed for all work done, but employ- ment will uot be continued to those who. failto do their work satisfactorily. Most students earn in this way $2.00a month; some earn larger amounts, Application for work should be made to the Presi dent in advance of coming, A large number of students find em- ployment in homes in the city, sufi, cient to meet expenses of board and tuition, The call for young Indios. for these positions is always greater than the supply. Application for such em- ployment should be made in advance through the President of the College. As far us possible we endeavor to safeguard those working in the eity, but cannot be fully responsible for those outside the building. Only young men and women of established habits and character can be allowed this privilege, of out side residence, In case of minors this may be gran- ted only on the written request of pars. ents or guardians, Why the Colored Men Didn’t March St.Louis, Mo., May 9, 1903.- Ow: _ing to the wide spread misunder. - Standing as to why the Negro peopl « of St, Lonis did not form the 14th bivision in the column of the recent dedicatory procession, to which some publicity was given by an ar. ‘ticle in your paper several days ago under the caption of “Why the col. people did not parade," it is my duty both to the management of the ex- position and to the class of people referred to, to set forth in this way the reason that division was not formed, We have in this communi- ty six or seven companies of splen. didly uniformed and well ebuipped Negro Knights{ Pythias, numbering some 500 men, commanded by their brigadier general, R, C. Carter, whom I had the honor to precede in that capacity, These men are drilled beyond the average of such organi- zations and make a magnificent marching parade, They were the nucleus upon which was to have been formed the 14th division of some 1,000 marching men, The con dition upon which they were to have paraded was that their marshal should suppy them with a band of musig, Upon application to Mr, H. T. Mott, adjutant of the parade, it was discovered that it was impossi, ble for him tg secure said music, This fact was not known until Thur April 30. Nor did succeed in secur. ing music until the afternoon of Fri, | the 1st of May and it was 9 o'clock | in the evening before Gen. Carter could be found to impart that fact], tohim, which was too late for him j to place his men in the streets by], 9 o'clock inthe morning. Other civ-| , i organizations of Negro peoplehad |, looked tothe Pythian companies for, for the most imposing appearance of| ¢ hat division, Finding the Piythians |, bsent from the parade on Sat.|¢ norning, they refused to march]; without the uniformed companies. | ¢ This letter is only necessary be- ¢ ause the false opinion that thel¢ nanagement did not treat my class | i f people with equal courtesy is ob. | aining altogether too widely. And| ¢ tis proper that I should ayail my-|¢ elf of this opportuninty to state for] p he information of all concerned that 5 he polite consideration and respect-| ul interest of Col. Spencer and his| ¢ ids in arranging for the 13th diy. |, f that parade was satisfactory and | 4 ould not have heen in aty sense| 5 xcelled, The entire circumstance | ¢ jas caused, as stated above, by my tter inability to secure the neces-| ¢, ary music until too late for the] arade, Thanking you in advance| g or the insertion of this note, to the | nd that the false impression herein | 1 efore alluded to may be corrected |; am, very respectfully, J. M, 'T. fa The Free Baptist Rally. The Free Baptist rally Sunday June 21, 1903, was a success, The menibers paying one dollar were Messrs, Geo. Kaley, H, Anderson, and Mesdames, Nellie Anderson Martha Butler, Amanda Bills and Alice Jones. Those paying fifty ets. and over were, Mrs, Nancy Will- Zams. 70 cts. Mesdames, Ruth Jack. son, Esther Johnson, Miss E, B, Harland and Mr, Ed, Simpson, The prize winners were Mrs, Sar- ah Mills of Pilot Groye, first prize; Miss E, B, Harland, second; Mrs, Mary Alexander, third prize, these reported the largest amount raised on cards, The total amount raised, $21.30. ‘The first quarterly meeting was held on the Sedalia mission charge June2t. Rev. W. H, Smith P, k. ‘was present and preached two soul sstirring sermons to the delight of the peopie, Our meeting was a suc- eess, the collection was $12.36. Rev. G. W. Ball pastor and wife was pre sent, The ladies were prepared to accommodate, all present with re- ‘reshments on the ground. We kind. hy thank the people of Georgetown, Smithton, Sedalia and clinton, Mo. for their attendance, Testing Negro Disfran- e cenisement ‘| Jackson W, Giles, the colore ‘|man of Montgomery Co,, Ald, ‘| whose suit in equity to test the val | idity of the suffrage provision of th ‘| new constitution of the state wai ‘|decided against by the UVuitec States Supreme Court, will have | two more opportunities to make the test in that court as the result of writs of error allowed by Justice White, as presiding justice of the Vth circuit, So at the fall term of the United States Smpreme Court, the Negro disfranchisement provi- sion of the Alabama constitution will be taken under consideration and their validity tested, Of the two cases in question one was a mandamus proceeding to compel the county board of registra- tion to place Giles’ name on the yo- ting lists and the other was a civil suit against the members of that) board for damages susta ned by’ him because of their refusal to list In both cases the lower court de-} cided against Giles and the Su- preme Court of Alabama sustained the decisions. On motion of Giles’ counsel, who contends that a con- stitational duestion is involyed in each case, Justice White granted the writ, and these important cases will be advanced so there will be no delay. A shorttime ago Giles be. gan equity proceedings in the fed eral court, but when the cases reach- ed the Supreme Court it was prac-|, ‘icaly thrown out on the ground that the evils complained of could 1ot be corrected by proceedings in »quity, The attitude of the Supreme Court was that the control of the vo}: ing franchise belongs to the polit-|' cal branch of the government, and |’ hat concerning it the federal judi-|' iary has nopower, Judging from he dispatches this issue was not, lowever, squarely raised, for Justice Jarlan, while agreeing with the de- ision, criticised the reasoning of he majority on the ground that ‘‘it}! eft the question of jurisdiction in he air.” Two justices, Brewer and | ¢ 3rown, dissented and favored a con- | ( idevation of the case on its merits, |] On this question congress can} ] ake action. Itean punish the South- rn states by reducing their repre- entation in congress in proportion o number of voters disfranchised. f congress secs fit to act along this ne the blow to the disfranchising | } tates will be a severe one, At the] st presidential election Alabama| ast only one vote to every 11.5 in- abitants, as compared with one to very 4.244 Winois, that was be.| | bre the present constitutioa was a- opted s ‘The requirements for the fran-|! hise in Alabama now are either (1) | ¢ bility to read or write an article of| F 1e constitution, rogether with proof | I iat the yoter has been engaged in| ome lawful occupation or calling x the preceeding twelve months, r (2) the ownership of forty acres | F [land or of property assesed at] p 300, s Weekly Current| ¢ NoCake Walk on the Program. Jefferson City, Mo., Feb, 17; When a resolution was introduced this morning topermit the Lincoln Jn. stitute to have the use of the house on Friday for entertainment purpo: ses, one excited Democrat demand. ed to know if it wasto be a cake walk, Judge J. R. Pollard, the read- ing clerk said tbat the Lincoln Inst, Negroes never go in for cake walks but leave that Ethiopian form of a. musenient to common white trash, Kan, City Journal. Unappreciated Carnegie, Ee Ie ee ee Itis no disperagement of Mr Carnegie as a philanthropist to say that, considering how much money he has given away it is wonderful how little he has promoted his owr popularity. He seems to give from the head rather than from the heart, and to be always more solicitous that his gifts shall not be wasted than that they shall stir garteful emotions in any human breast, He is not e- motional in his disbursements and his beneficiaries are not much more emotional than he is. His libraries do not make the heart sing, and the widows and the fatherless do not rise up and call him blessed when he; sets aside a pile of steel bonds for the promotion of scientific research. The results of his bounties must be satisfactory to him for he keeps on yiving, but one could wish that his investments brought him in even better returnsthan they do, Itis pleasant, therefore to notice that his sift of 600,000 to Booker Washing- on’s Tuskeegee institute has more han usual of the quality that warms. he heart. We all are grateful for hat. The interest in thatinstitution ind and its founder is warm, inti nate, and national so substantial an ddition to its resources makes us Mr, Carnegie’s obliged and ap- reciative debtors. Where to Worship. Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday Morning 6 00, a. m, Sunday~school 10 45°" Seng service by Choir 1ro0”” Preaching Afternoon 2 30, p.m. Class~meet: ng 630" " £pworth League 745" Song service by Choir 800" Preaching. | Rev, R. Davis, Pastor. African Methodist E. Church, 4 Sunday Morning Preaching 11 00 Afternoon Sunday-school 200, Class meeting 3 00. Endeavor 7 00, Preaching 8 00, Rev. Wm, Alexander, Pastor, Morgan St. Baptist Church, Sunday ) Preching 1100 a, m, and 7 30 p. i Sunday school 202 p.m, Prayer meeting every Wednesday. a Simpson’s Chapel. Methodist Episcopa! Church. Sunday School 9 00, a. m. Preaching 11 00 a.m, Class meeting 3.00 p.m, Preaching 2730p. m, Prayer meeting every Wed., even» ing, ‘G, W, Ball, Pastor, C. M. E, Church Preaching at 11 00 a, m. and7 30 p.m, Sundayschool 200 Class meeting 3 00 Prayer meeting every Fri. evening T, H. Wartield Pastor Free-will Baptist Church. | Preaching andRally every 3rd Sunday at 11 00a, m. and 7 30 p in Sunday school 200p, m Covenant meeting 3009p. m Prayer meeting every Tues. night Covenant meeting Fri, nights Rey, E. D. Burns pastor, Seb ee BANG! BANG! AE Celebrate the Glorious 4th with a Racket! 2 ‘bball ce oes A Complete line of Fire ¢ rackers, Roman Candles, Pin Wheels, Torpedoes, Whistling Bombs and Flower Pots. ter FOR YOU ELA Se RNS J. F. Kuhn & Co, Cor. Lamine & Pettis. a Ne Lee RATE EES eR INE | "4 ~ , : NEW ICECREAM | i ’ PARLOR, | ' And Lunch R 7 i n unc oom ss. Corner Lamine & Pettis St. ‘ a Having open a first class ICH CREAM PARLOR: t ; sand LUNCH ROOM, we are prepared to serve you with § fthe best cream in the city at all hours at a reasonable’ “price. CALL and SEE US. Open Day and Night, Ke ‘ St. Clair McClain, Propricter. , GIS LO PI Bn cr nn | A a READ THE —~ 15 cents per month. $1.25 PER YEAR | e d ° Lodge Directery | otal pevoon oowtlioon vblce ei | present three problems—sovial, politleal Q. C. Commandery K, T. |and industrial Tho social problem lias Meets rst, & 3rd,, Vridays in each, been settled by the South, so far as iti mouth PB ne duribe orate heels bare tats T. M. Smith E. C, eee Pepe tuie ate Near eh C,H. Lewis Recorder | for bis good and for the country’s woud Sedalia Chapter, No. 5. R. A, M. and. & 4th. Wed,, each month, J. T. Ferril, H, P, , C. H, Lewis, Sec, ~ Centennial Lodge, No. 59. | A. F. A. M, ate & 4th, mondays in each month J. W. Wheeler, W. M . ; E, Poindexter, Sec. Centennial Court, No. 37. ist, & 3rd. Thus,, of each month, Sallie Moffat, Matron, ; Julia Hayden, See, Hawkin’s Lodge, No. 44. ist. & [3d. Mondays in each month, C, O. Brown, W. M, C, W. Holliday, See. Es O. U. of O. F., No. 3542, ist. & 3d, Tuesdays in each month. L: Cowan, N. G, D, Steele, P, S. Hall 120 Main St, Sons & Daughters of Charity Lodge No. 1. Meets 1st. and 3d, Tuesdays each month. D. L. White Pres W: W: Henéerson Sec. Senator Simmons, of N. C. says:- “The present conditions of the Negro present three problems—sovial, politleal and industrial, The social problem lias been settled by the South, so far as it is | concerned, irrevocably. By one device or another we have taken | the ballots from the illiterate Negro not for politcal advantage, but, as we believe, |for his good and. for the country’s wood and for our own salvation. We have dis franchised the Negro, but we have not aealates him oy his family, ‘They still exist, Upon the Southera farm the Negro ‘is constantly surrounded and safeguard ed by influences whieh tend to protect him against the temptations to which his weak and credulous Nature fs peculiarly subject. Whativer in the way of improve ent and development he nas achieved in the past—and it bas not been inconsid- eralile— has been almost entirely achiev= ed in these circumstances and surround- ings, Take the Negro from the farm, carry him tothe great city, place himin the fae- tory, organize him into labor unions, and his individualuy, which at the best is small and weak, will be destroyed; bis i dentity will become merged in the eom- mon mass, and strong tribal propensities will Ubdermine and supplant many of the virtues which are now bis most valu- able assets, und it will bea marvel if his Jest state is not ‘vorse than hus first.’ ‘The Week's Current comments as fol~ lows npon Senator Simmons? remarks — ‘The reader naturally wonders if the senator who is charged with proclaiming the doctrine that the ‘Negro should be harnessedto a mule’? rogaads the sys- tem of peonage practiced in Alabama as a means whereby ‘the Negro is constaut ly surrounded and safeguarded by intla- ences whigh tend to protect him a- gains the temptations to which his weak and credulons nature is peculiarly sub~ ject.” Viewed in the light of these circum. stancesit is not surprising that anincreas ing number of thinking peopleboth North and South are viding Booker T Washing- onin his effective efforts to give the Ne- gro an education, industrial and otherwise ss his greatest andsurest safeguard"?