Sedalia Weekly Conservator

Sedalia Weekly Conservator. VOL. 1. MENTALITY. The Geoligist has gone down into the bowels of the earth and has unfolded to civilization the periods of creations and with the correct study of the earth we have been able to find the resemblance between the teaching of the Bible and the strata of the rock. The Astronomer has brought our attentions the working and sphere of the heavenly bodies and has enabled man to predict the condition of affairs several hours before they occur. The Philosopher has made it possible for us to give a correct study of the human body and many other living things in the world. With the Geoligist at his desk, the Astronomer at his telescope, and the Philosopher studying the great problems of the human body, we have one of the greatest examples of mentality that can be pictured be fore us today. The work of all these persons depends upon the mind, yet one may say the mind is working in each alike, but you can easily see the field each is persuing. The correct study of the mind is Psyhology. All sciences presuppose the fact that the mind is subject to certain uniform laws; for all sciences are the product of the mind; Mathematics, the Law of Physics, the Theory of Evolution, and the material philosophy are the mental products; for, if memory and thou't worked differently today than they did yesterday, we could not depend upon our reasoning powers in any of our sciences The great work of Psychology is to investigate mental law for the mental powers cannot be trained correctly without the knowledge of Psychological laws Man is possessed with the power of reasoning which enables him to solve many great questions. First he is conscious of an object and then thought, the power of decision is able to tell what way or work to pursue. Correct Reasoning is the result of training, yet some Psychol ogist claim that the old belief in innate ideas, i. e. certain fully developed ideas are given at birth. Nothing more than the germ of these ideas exist in the mind. Were it not for experience, the germ would never be developed into an idea. On the other hand, rich soil and rain will not make an oak tree without the acorn with which to start. Neither will an acorn make a tree with out the rich soil and rain to develop it. Some Philosophers seem to reason that the germ of a thing is the thing itself any more than an acorn is an oak. Yet, the limit of intuitive ideas are still in dispute and time may bring it around when those things that are now claimed to be intuitively will be the result of experience. What beast would have detected any analogy between the steam rais ing the lid of a tea kettle and the strength of a horse and put the steam to doing the work of the horse What Ant would have seen the similarity between the vibrations in the yeilding air and the apparently unyeilding telephone wire? Human reasoning is characterized by applying known expedient and methods to unknown and untried cases merely on the preception of similarity. The highest examples of this we see in Newton's detecting a relation between a falling of an apple and the moon moving in its orbit and then applying the math SEDALIA, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1903. ematical law, deduced therefrom, to every atom of matter from a drop of rain-water to the farthest star. The base of reasoning is consciousness of self-existing. the foundation is assumption, the premise being conceded, the other things follow. We, therefore, perceive a necessity which we term law. Of the origin of law, we know nothing. We can not reason beyond the fact of existence, and the existence of consciousness is in itself a manifestation of law. We may find law existing in every abstraction of reason and in every emotion; we may follow the golden thread thru all the perplexities of the past, we may find the law existing in every process of creation, but the clue is swallowed up finally, in the darkness and the darkness deepens into the Diety. In as much as the consciousness did not originate in the law but is only conscious of its existence, then the law is superior. If the inquirer would turn from Biology to Psychology, from the external world of life to the internal, he has but turned from reason to consciousness to prove th'existence of law; to prove that which is demonstrated to that which is self evident. If he questions the future, he knows the answer will be from the past, for the historian is the only prophet. Plan presupposes purpose, to have faith in the presence of an eternal and just will is to reverence the past and trust future. It makes faith as sure as law, and thought as broad as the universe. This, then, is the highest conception of Mentality. When reason can no longer give knowledge it gives faith. Ignorance is the soul of fear; knowledge of the natural proves faith in the supernatural. "The voice of natnre is the voice of God. Mentality begins with a relative knowledge of the visible and ends with a faith in the invisible. Worthy of all reverence is that mind which can read from nature and humanity a universal law, and from that law draw a faith which is stronger than death. Greater still is that heart which can read from a universal law a universal love and think the thoughts of God. Not after him but with him. Faith is of God but love is God, and 'whosoever loveth most is kin to God.' J. W. Cooper, B. S.D. HOW THE MOB IS USED TO PROLONG DEMOCRATIC RULE IN THE SOUTH. A Letter to the St. Louis G. D St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 12. There is something savagely grotesque in the assumption by such men as Tillman, Carmack and John Temple Graves that they represent elements in the South that Stand between white women and black brutes. They and others of their ilk tell us that mobs are necessary in the South to defend the virtue of white women and children. When a Negro brute or white brute assails a white woman or a negro woman, he places himself outside the protection of the law. He becomes a wild beast, and should be dealt with like a beast. If mob law stopped here no one would have a right to complain. But the mob is used by a political power to perpetuate its rule. The mob is the mainstay of the Southern Democratic machine. With it the machine keeps he Negro in subjection. It is used to intimidate and harrass the unprotected black race. For the slightest pretext, the negro is hunted down by the rabble and whipped and persecuted. The mob never protects the home of the Negro. No Negro girl or Negro woman ever found protection from a wuite mob. In the South it is simply the licensed rabble permitted for the slightest pretext to go out into the homes of the Negroes to kill and to burn. If it stopped when it had butchered some negro criminal it might be defended, but it reeks its fury upon the innocent, upon the helples, upon the little black children as well as upon the strong and lusty. The mob simply means a suspension of law. It means that the homes and the lives of the blacks are placed absolutely at the mercy of the lawless. Here and there a judge has denounced the mob and appealed to the populace for justice and mercy for the blacks. But these are exceptions and not the rule. Courts of justice in the South have seldom stood between the black man and his white oppressor. The old maxim of the law, that a man is considered innocent until he is proven guilty, is actually reversed in the courts of the South when a negro is accused of any crime. Look at the prison pens of the South to day. Look at the thousands of Negroes serving long terms for offences that no white man will ever be condemned to prison for. Siberia may be a black spot upon the earth's surface but the prison pens of the South, cover crimes as black and as hellish as are written around the mines of Siberia. The negro shuns the courts of the South because he knows from them he is likely to be practically retuned to bondage. This is not an overdrawn picture. The political conditions of the South are simply damnable. Accustomed to political supremacy, the Democrats in the South have grown arrogant and despotic. They fear no power but the power of the machine It makes and unmakes governors, judges, and legislatures. Every of ficial in the South is the creature of the machine. He owes nothing to the people. Elections are merely a manipulation of the ballot box. In the North, where elections are usually honest, no party dares to fly in the face of a healthy public opinion and usually makes a pretense of decency. But the ballot-box stuffer, the election commissioner, laughs at moral sentiment, and defies public opinion. He knows only the power of the political cutthroats who made him. The republican party, knowing the states of the south are mere democratic dependencies, has grown callous and indifferent. It expects nothing south of Mason and Dixon's line and has permitted itself to become careless of the fate of the Republic ans in those provinces: It has for gotten the overthrow of law in Tennessee where Clay Evans was de frauded of the office to which he had been unquestionably elected. It grows indifferent over the fate of Taylor that a Democratic mob removed from the executive office in Kentucky. It hears the cry of imperial Missouri, shackled by the in famous Nesbit law, without heeding. And thus Democracy fastens its fangs in the very vitals of constitutional liberty. In Alabama the Negro has again become a chattel. In no southern state is he a citizen. He is taxed without being allowed Our Correspondence Boonville Mrs. Martha Hammond has returned from Kansas City, and is now with her parents and sister. Her father has been ill for some time. Prof. C. G. Williams was intertained by the Prof. of Lincoln Institute who lectured at the teachers' institute, which is attended by a large number of teachers, Lodge, and Mrs. C. Hughs. Princess of Magdalene Temple are the delegates who represent their lodge and Temple at the Grand Lodge which was heid at Macon City on Aug 18. Mrs. Mary Baily and MissLula Fosters also visited the Grand Lodge. The morning and evening services at the A.M. E. Church were well attended. The sermons delivered by Rev. Sage were excellent. Beautiful songs were sung by the choir. Mrs. Zeoba Craddock, who was once a wife of Prof. Craddock, member of the choir, joined the church in the morning and was baptized in the vening. Mr. R.H. Watson, Master of St Mark's. Otterville' Mrs. Ann Richardson and son are yet on the sick list. Mr. Will Finley of Boonville came up to visit his mother. Prof. J M. Morney of Solesville, visited here Sunday. Mrs. Grace Hogan visited her mother Mrs. Sallie Finley, Sunday. Jas. Beatty, who has been very sick with typhoid fever is improving. Mr. Daniel Johnson of Clifton visited Kelly Hogan Wednesday night. Mr. Sam Wright bought a nice lot of hogs from Mr. James A. Hogan. Mr. Edward Arnold of Smithtown was the guest of Miss Jennie Hogan Sun. Mrs. Geo. Hopkins after a short visit with relatives here returned home Fri. Miss Estelle Dobbins and Mr. Clifford Robinson and wite visited their aunt, Mrs. Beatty, Sunday. Louisiana. Miss Jane Lynch is a Quincy visitor. Miss Daisy Palme is on the sick list. Gloomy weather has been our lot for the past week. Mrs Isles returned from Clarkesville, Sunday after a sojourn of one week. Mr. Archibald Rose of Springfield, Ill. is visiting his parents in this city. Mrs. C. Rose of Springfield, Ill., retrned home after a visit of two weeks. Miss Mayme Levells is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Henry Johnson of Chi. Earl Williams, one of our most talented and best musicians, is visiting Chi. Miss Turner, of Wichita, Kansas is in our city and hopes to make this her home Miss Luanae Johnson, of this city is visiting her brother, Henry Johnson of Chicago, Illinois. Prof. C. C. Hubbard of Paris, Mo., is a guest of his mother Mrs. Rev. A Hubbard of this city. Mr. R. Berry returned after a two weeks vacation to resume his duties at Paul's Dep't Store. Misses Ogden and Hammond of New Canton, Ill., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Sidles of this city. Miss Daisy Huff, of Quincy, is one of --- [ ]O. 17 our visitors and Miss Lilian Anderson is enjoying a short stay in Chicago. Miss Mattie Turner of St. Louis is visiting her Cousin, Mrs. Downing of this city and Miss Jones of Jefferson City is also visiting Louisiana relatives. Rev. Jackson of the 1st Bapist Church preached his farewell sermon Sunday, was an around one. Louisiana people express regret at his leaving. Miss Florence Ross is the guest of her aunt Mrs. Florence Kelley of Joliet Illinois and Mrs. Edward Livington, of Chicago, is another of our guest. Alexander Iles seemed very uneasy last week and made several trips to the city of Clrakesville; but, since his wife's return, he wears a diffent smile-eh Alex. Among those, who took advantage of the excursion rates to Chicago Friday, were the following: -Mesdames Mitchell, Gordon and Johnson: Misses Lillian Anderson, Lily English, Lena Johnson, Florenee Ross, Luanna Johnson and Mayme Levels and Messrs. John Meriweather, B. F. Harrington, E. F. Williams and M. L. Mackey. Malta Bend, Mo. Mrs. Sarah Neff is improving fast. Mr. Pete Kile spena Fri. in Mt. Leonard Mr. Sam Fowler is improving slowly. Miss Amanda Thomas is improving very slowly. Mr. Jas Watson of Waverly made us a visit this week. Roa and Reb Fowler are visiting in Sedalia this week. Rev. A Jackson of Kan. City came in Sunday for a visit. Mr. Werter Randell is visiting in Marshall this Week. Mrs. L. D. Fowler is visiting in Grand Pass, Mo. this week. Miss Hannah Wilson left for K. C. Mon. for a two weeks visit. What's the matter with Marshall? We never can hear from it. Mr. Pearl Curl left for Sedalia for a week's visit with old friends. Quitenumber from Waverly attended the quarterly meeting Sunday. Mr. Joe Sanders drove over to Sweet Springs Sunday with his family. Quite a number went to the picnic at Mr. Ed Allen's Sat. It was grand. Mrs. E. J. Brooks of Waverly was the guest of Mrs. Emma Fowler Sunday. Miss Nora Crutchfield is visiting her brother John and family in Marshall. Mrs. Maria Lee, her neice, and Mrs Sarah Reed left for Kan. City monday. Rev. J. W. Hampton of Waverly held quarterly meeting for Rev. Williams Sun. Messrs. Tom Sanders, Will Henderson and Tom Rhodes spent Fri. in Marshall. Mr. Peter Henderson of California arrived Friday to visit his nephew, M. Neff Quite a number of children enjoyed a candy pulling at Mrs. Frank Barber's. Miss Francis Cruthfield went to Marshall to visit Miss Lillian Allen a few days Rev. C. Tayes arrived Monday from Waverly where he preached a noble sermon Sunday. Mrs. Mary Doolian left Thursday for Kan. City after visiting her mother, Mrs Eliza Whips. Misses Hannan Wilson and Sarah Reed visited Mrs. Robert Stevenson at her country home Friday. Misses Martha Fowler and Millie Davis SEDALIA WEEKLY CONSERVATOR Published Every Saturday. Office. 104 E. Main St., Up Stairs Entered June 16,'03 at Sedalia, Mo., as second class matter under Act of Congress of March 3, 179. This Space Will Notify You When Your Subscription Is Due Contributions must be accompanied by name as an assurance of good faith. All articles for publication must be in by Wednesday Editorials Can the Constitutional Rights of Any Element of the American People Be Forever Curtailed. From the reading of an article published in the Globe Democrat of recent publication, which we also reprint elsewhere, in this issue, we glean the following woeful facts, namely; that there is a certain element of our citizens which is denied many of the fundamental rights gauranteed by the Federal Constitution and sanctioned by a large, a very large majority of Americans. The writer of the article also alleges that this wholesale abuse of laws is for partisan favoriteism, and perpetuation, and from the fact cited we must admire the truth of these allegations. Hence, it very logically follows, that the inquisitive will ask how long this state of affairs will be permitted to run its nefarious race unhampered, and what steps should and must be taken to right these greatest of all wrongs perpetrated upon the defenseless and forbearant element. That citizens are disfranchised contrary to true American ethics is acknowledged by all; that ballot manipulations are faudulent is an open avowal of the parties who deal in such wickedness, goes beyond dispute. And that the courts, both State and Federal, evade their duty in dealing with such conditions any sane person can very redily perceive. Yet in the face of all this, the common people, the "bone and sinews," of the republic stand apparently powerless to act. These conditions cannot be evaded forever; they must be dealt with by a strong hand. Who will act? The conservative citizen, the citizen who ever comes to the front to steer the "ship of state" thru the reefs of adversity more than once. State legislation may dodge, with impunity, the laws by making evasive statutory enactments; Federal courts may render adverse decisions and hand down unamerican citations of laws, but a day is approaching when the reading, earnest, liberty-loving, and conservative citizen will assert himself. The Republican party, in its nationl platfoam may dodge the constitiuontl abuses that have been allowed to run so long in the South for the purpose of mollifying southern sentiment but, there is but one way to handle those conditions, that way is the right way—the way Hamilton, Washington, Justices Jay and Marshall, Lincoln, and scores of others of the builders of the Republic desired them to be handeled, i.e., to grant to all men the full constitutional rights. The Democratic Party may yell that it is "Race Question" when the people begin to ask that these abuses be righted, but these will be of no avail because those people who are being so bitterly crushed are developing manhood, acquiring intelligence and wealth—in fact they are acquiring power that will force the meeting out of justice. Therefore we say we have no time to lose in lamenting our present condition but we are girding ourselves for an aggres sive work. We mean to accept the elements of power and en- ergy that will make us irresistible. Are you devoting your leisure to anything of a profitable nature? Can you not utilize those precious moments to a more useful purpose than lolling in idleness? Every individual, in this this age, is counted as nothing if he devotes all his time to listlessness. Find something to do. Be busy. Put forth an effort. You cannot afford to be aimless. Those fancy lamps are alright. The red and blue may be discerned; if one had telescopic eyes. Antoher brilliant illumination of the kind and we shall be no more! W. H. HUSTON C. M. ENGLISH SUBSCRIPTION, One Year $1.25. Six Months 75. One Month 15. Think for Thy-self one good thought; And know it to be Thine own. Tis better than a thousand gleaned From fields by others sown. Sedalia Weekly Conservator. EDITOR MANAGER PROF. A. D. LANGSTON'S Address before the Forum Club of St. Louis, Commended by St. Louis Globe Democrat. The St. Louis Globe Democrat of recent issue commends and quotes Prof. A. D. Langston, s wisdom in the following terms:— "Prof. A. D. Langston, principal of the Dumas school and race commissioner made an address before the Forum Club 2014 Lawton, avenue, on, The Negro and His Citizenship'. Nearly the entire membership of the club attended. Prof. Langston said there was a good deal of feeling as to whether the facts with regard to the negro should be told plainly or not. He declared the present conditions warranted new methods and treatment of the case generally, the great est trouble today being that there were to many excuses made for the Negro. 'In considering his citizenship', Prof. Langston said, 'the subject divides itself into two classes: First, Privileges, the other responsibilities. Our country is the leader of the world, and furnishes to all its citizens the best of opportunities. Too much can not be said for the great privileges accorded the negro in conjunction with all other citizens of this country. "Under responsibilities comes the work that is encumbered upon the Negro as citizen to perform. With regard to the recent lynchings at Belleville, Evansville, Danville, and other places, the Negro in no case was sheer of a county or governor of a state. His duty was that of a citizen. They at once should have counciled order, and let us hope he will always insist, as a citizen, to keep on the side of the law." The speaker also referred to the class of white people who spend much time in telling the Negro how badly he is treated, and pointed out how much better it would be for this class of people to enlist their services in the execution of speedy justice. We gladly accept the wisdom contained this address. With special care we have considered his two propositions, relative to his, i.e. The Negroes Citizenship, Priviliges, and Responsibilities. We are sorry ro state that too often our leaders dwell too largely upon one theme—our Privileges—never giving any heed to our Responsibilities. This condition must be met and changed. We must meet and bear our share of the nations responsibilities; we must make the best of our present opportunities ere we ask and demand of others. It is a plain business proposition that sentiment cannot counterbalance: that he who makes the most of the opportunities he has will be given still greater opportunities. Therefore, instead of so much cry against lynching let us as a people put more energy to work to remove idleness and criminality from among us. Teach all the honor and dignity of being employed. Call the young women and boys from the streets. Then, and not till then may we possess happy anticipations. Getting Out of The Union Again. Are the Southern Democratic leaders trying to take themselves out of the union again? It begins to look that way. They are talking about putting the race issue into the campaign of 1904, with the hope, presumably, of injuring the Republican party thereby. This shows a symptom of the return of the madness which precipitated secession a third of a century ago. There is belief on the part of some of the leaders of the Bourbon Democracy that the race issue could be made to win vote, away from Republicans in the North. This is a revival of the old wickedness which sent eleven states out of the Union and which inflicted a good deal of calamity on them as well as on that part of the country which had no hand in the conspiracy. Yancy, Keitt, Toombs and the rest of the fire-eaters of the 60's of the recent century said that in the event of a war on the slavery issue the fight would not be between the sections solely, but the North would have a fight on its hands in every town where the Democrat party was strong. Moreover, the South, as the secession leaders contended, would have have aid from Europe as well as from the Democrat party of the North. Do the Southern Democratic magnates want another sectional conspiracy? Some recent anties among them point that way. In the contest in Mississippi for the nomination for governor and United States senator the negrophobists gained a victory. Senator Money won his fight for a new term, and Maj. James K. Vardaman, altho not actually successful in his attempt to get the governorship, led his MIDDLEBURY HIGH SCHOOL The purpose of the College is to give a thorough, practical christian 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 religious life. The work of the College is divided into six general departments. I. Primary and Grammar Grades, providing a thorough drill in the elementary branches. II Academy or College Preparatory, with Classical, Scientific, Biblical English, Normal and Commercial courses. III Art Department—Drawing, Painting and Decorative work. IV Music Department—Vocal and Instrumental Music, Theory and Harmony. V Industrial Department—Sewing, Dressmaking, Cooking, Domestic Economy, Mechanical Arts, Agriculture. VI College of Liberal Arts—Complete elective courses leading to the several academic degrees. opponents in the popular vote, and has a chance to win in the second primary which will be held. Each of those men is opposed not only to letting the Negroes vote, but he is against educating them fitting them for citizenship. Vardaman describes President Rosevelt as "that wife, bronco-busting, coon-flavored miscogenationist." He glorifies the lynching of Negroes with something of the same sort of language that Tillman uses. "Why squander money on the Negro's education" exclaims Vardaman, "when the only effect will be to spoil a good field hand and make an insolenteook? Under the Mississippi plan of 1890 the Negro was abolished as a voter by a device which violated the spirit of the constitution without openly assailing its letter. By the Mississippi plan of 1893 the Negro would be deprived of the means of getting that education for the lack, on alleged lack, of which he has been shut out from the privilege of the ballot. South Carolina. Louisiana and several other states in their section have followed Mississippi's lead in the constitution annulment plot of 1890. Will they do Mississippi's education-abolition plan of 1903? The comments of leading Southern newspapers on the canvass that has just taken place in Mississippi indicates that the new plot will find some favor in the South. The purpose appears to b to put the negro issue in politics in 1904, with the hope of arousing a fire in the rear on the Republicans in the North in that year like that which Vallandigham, Jesse D. Bright and the rest of the copper heads opened in 1861-65. The Republicans hope that this issue will not be precipitated, but if it is thrust upon them they will accept it as they did the challenge of 1861. If the men who are contemplating the new rebellion want to know what their fate will be, let them take a glance at the deom of their forerunners in 1865 and they will be enlightened. SCOTT JOPLIN'S OPERA. Scott Joplin's opera is rehearsing daily at Craw fords theatre. Their present number is about 32 people; he has just received the book of the play (from the publishers hand, the title of the book and play is "A Guest of Honor." Joplin is backed by a strong capitalist who for many years has been manager and proprietor of several well known high class operas (white), this being his first adventure into Negro Opera. They open the season at East St. Louis Aug. 30; then five engagements at Sedalia. His Opera is entirely his original composition including songs and drills. Fall term opens Sept. 22, closes Dec. 11. Winter term opens Dec. 14, closes Feb. 19. Spring term opens Feb. 22, closes April 28. is to give a thorough, practical christian health and physical training, provides for ful attention to morals and manners, personal religious life. divided into six general departments. Grades, providing a thorough drill in laboratory, withClassical, Scientific, Bib- mercial courses. Painting and Decorative work, ical and Instrumental Music, Theory —Sewing, Dressmaking, Cooking, Do- tits, Agriculture. —Complete elective courses leading to Expenses. Board and room for four Weeks $8.0 Tuition — — — — 2.00 Use of laundry — — — .50 Music, Instrumental or Vocal for four weeks, two lessons per week — $2.50 One lesson per week — 1.50 Use of Instrument per month — .50 Use of typewriter in Commercial department, per month — .50 Rooms are lighted, heated, furnished with bedsteads, mattress, pillows. two quilts, mirrors, bowl pitcher and lamp. Students furnish for themselves, sheets and pillow cases, extra quilt and blan- kets, slop bucket, lamp chimneys, mat- ches, soap etc. A reduction of 50c per month is made from the tuition of candidates for the Ministry, and children of Ministers. All bills are payable in advance the first of each school month. Money for students' expenses should be sent directly to the President of the College. Send by draft, P. O. order, express order or registered letter to Pres. I. L. Lowe, Sedalia, Mo. Work and Self-help. A number of students boarding in the College are permitted to earn some part of their expenses by work in the building or on the grounds, provided they are willing and efficient. Liberal pay is allowed for all work done, but employment will not be continued to those who fail to do their work satisfactorily. Most students earn in this way $2.00 a month; some earn larger amounts. Application for work should be made to the President in advance of coming. A large number of students find employment in homes in the city, sufficient to meet expenses of board and tuition. The call for young ladies for these positions is always greater than the supply. Application for such employment should be made in advance through the President of the College. As far as possible we endeavor to safeguard those working in the city, 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 granted only on the written request of parents or guardians. M. THE CHURCH THE NEW PRESIDENT We take pleasure in presenting the cut of President I. L. Lowe Ph.D. of Geo. R. Smith College and we also feel highly gratified to announce to our readers that he has been a tireless worker for this Institution during the entire vacation. As a result of his labors and those of his able wife and Mr. JasSmith of the Agricultural Department the premises have assumed a most beautiful appearance. The lawns are verdant, clean, tidy; the building both interior and exterior, has had a general going over, and the Studio and Dormitory rooms are newly and tastefully papered. These evidences, along with many others of equal significance, substantiate the statements made by The CENTRAL CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE upon the occasion of his election to the presidency of the Institution:— "Rev. Dr. I. L. Lowe, formerly Vice President of the Nebraska Wesleyan University, has been elected president of Geo. R. Smith College, at Sedalia, Mo. Dr. Lowe is thoroly equipped for his work. He is a graduate of Amherst, Mass. THE BARN Taylor's Chapel Preparing to Build. The laity and pastor of Taylor's Chapel M. E. church indicated in a tangible form their intention to build a new church edifice in the near future. The pastor, the Rev. Richard Davis held his first rally on Sedalia Weekly Consevator. and by graduate work holds the degree Ph. D. from Wooster. He was given the degree of D. D. by Heidleberg University, (Ohio) in 1893. He has also valuable experience in the Southern field, having taught in Claflin University, at Orangeburg, S. C. and in 1886 and 1887 was Vice President of the New Orleans University. While there Secretary Mason was one of his pupils. A strong friendship has existed between them every since. Dr. Lowe enters this work because he loves it. It is the voice of duty and he responds gladly and willing. Mrs. Lowe is a highly educated lady and is no less enthusiastic than her husband. Together they will give their high intellectual attainments and large experience to the work of the institution, and splendid results will undoubtedly follow. Some lines of industrial work have been arranged and others will follow later on. Secretary Mason and the new President are planning for an unusually strong faculty of which due notice will be given as soon as the plans are fully matured. It is hoped that all the brethren in the patronizing territory will give Dr. and Mrs. Lowe a hearty welcome, and loyal and enthusiastic support. THE CHURCH last Sunday and in the face of adverse circumstances, his efforts far exceeded his and the church's most sanguine anticipations. The rally thus far has netted $118.81. This money is to be used for no other purpose than the purchase of a lot which has been partially negotiated for. The present Taylor's Chapel is incommodiously located and the progressive element of her member ship have long been anxious to have a new church placed in a better locality. This they will have, if they will act hereafter as they acted Sunday, with their leeder and pastor. Yes, he is a progressive minister in the most aggressive manner. Plans are now being formed for a greater rally in October. Then the entire membership and church com municants will take hand and show to the world that Taylor's Chapel is not dead by any means. AN OPEN LETTE Oh for a word from some one of our community leaders, on the subject "Community Development" or against the evils practised by our youth every day! Is it a fact that you have became so selfish that you have lost all concern for the community's welfare? You who pose as teachers in our public schools, as preachers in our pulpits, from whom we naturally expect some suggestions, why is it we can never hear you say any thing? Our preachers preach on Sunday. take collection money, go home on Sunday night and are not seen or heard from only when trying to work up a money rally or when the Doctor prescribes a change of diet and then he makes a call on some good sister just at meal time. (following directions.) You should remember that by your silence you give your assent to the continuation of the existin ge- conditions of this community. And unless you speak out now, we must conclude that you have changed your profession from that of soulsaving to that of big name and mon ey getting.' Let us who support you hear from you. A Reader. P. S. Mr. Editor please allow me space for this and oblige. A PLEASANT REMINISCENCE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. "I guess you have never heard of how Jefferson Davis freed a lot of Negroes long before the thought of freeing the blacks in this country was anything more than a chimerical dream in the minds of some New England Puritans, did you?" inquired Major L. H. Carson, of Nashville, Tenn., of a St. Louis reporter. "It may be a fairy tale, or it may not, but at any rate it will bear repeating, as I received the story direct from my grand father, who claimed to know all the circumstances. It ran about this way: While a young man and shortly after moving from his native home in Kya, to his plantation in Mississippi, Jeff Davis bought over a cargo of blacks just brot over from Africa, by a slave trader, who ran the blockade and landed them in New Oaleans. While they were working in the cotton field one day, Mr. Davis observed his new Negroes make Masonic signs of distress to the overseer. That individual not being a Mason thought the Negroes were carrying on a system of signals preparatory to revolt, and was about to have them whipped, Mr. Davis stopped these proceedings; he tested the Negroes thoroughly and to his amazement discovered that they were third degree masons the brought from the very heart of Africa. Being a mason himself you can understand that he lost no time in giving them their freedom and the choice of either returning to Africa or remaining on his estate until he could provide for them in some way. Most of them shipped back to Africa at Davis' expense, the some remained with him until the end '—N. Y. World. We also lead in the production of ICE CREAM. Mrs, A. P. Carter, of Paris. Mo. is the guest of her sister, Mrs, Jas. Thomas of West Cooder street. QUINN'S BAR Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Bootled Beer. Everything Genuine. Remember the Place. CONSERVATOR We can supply you with Fresh Butter, Eggs, and Fruits and Chickens at all times.—A fine lot of Fresh and Dried Fruits on hand.—Give us your orders.—Quick Delivery GEISCHEN & VIEBROCK READ THE CONSERV 15 cents per $1.25 PER WE DO JOB YOU CAN GET WHAT Y IN THE GROC Sweringe 523 N. We can supply you with Fresh and Chickens at all times.—A Fruits on hand.—Give us you GEISCHEN & Gieschen & Viebrock HARDWARE, STOVES and REFRIGERATORS. Checks given with each purchase. Return $15 in checks and get 50 cents in trade free. drove over to Marshall Sunday and were the guests of Miss Jennie Giles. Mr.Afred Wilson and sister and children are visiting Mrs. Magaie Pax'on and family in Sedalia, Mo. this week. Saint Louis, Mo. Miss Jennie Taylor of Sedalia is visiting in the city. Miss Manie Patterson of 2612 L.ucas will leave shortly for an extend ed trip thru Missouri and Kansas visiting friends and relatives. Mrs. Paccard has the only swell restaurant in the city conductedby and for colored people. PERSONAL MENTION. Father Martin Reed, of Smithton preached an able sermon at Taylors Chapel Sunday at 11 A.M. Rev. P M. Mack of the Morgan st. Baptist Church, at 3:30 P.M. Both contributed very largaly to the success of Sunday's rally. Mrs. Francis White, who is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Smith Blackson, on Mill street, was injured in a wreck while en route here, just be fore arriving at Kansas City. She hopes to remain here several days ere her return to her home at Dover, Ind. T. --- Some of the prettiest hammocks ever exhibited in Sedalia. They must be seen to be fully appreciated. They are handsome, comfortable, and durable and retail at from 40c--$3.25 Mrs. Cavanaugh, mother of Mrs. Nannie French, very pleasantlp sur prised her daughter Mon. by an un announced visit of a few hours. A Grand Rose Bud. Entertainment at the Morganst., Baptist Church, Thursday evening, Aug. 27. Dramas, Toluax, every thing. Attractive and beautiful. Come early and secure good seats Admission only ten cents. In other cities of this country I have drawn large crowds. Everybody wearing flowers, presented to them on enter the church. Come early so as to secure the choice blooms and buds, 3cts per bunch. Program. The flowers will forma Fantastical Drill 2nd. Chorus by the flowers, America. 3rd Recitation and Song. 4th. A Drama, Naman the Lepper and the Little Maiden stollen from Jeru salem, ey the Assyrian army. 5th. The chief feature will be a Tablaux Jacob's Dream at Pennel. Admission 5 and 10 cents. Mrs. Laura Mack, Gen. Man'g.r. Mrs. Annie Hurdle. Mesdames Minnie Goode, of K. C. Mo., and L. Clarke of Saint Louis, Mo., are visiting at the home of "Uncle" Dan Jones on E. Mor gan street. HOW THE MOR IS USED TO PROLONG DEMOCRATIC RULE IN THE SOUTH to say how the taxes wrung from him are to be used.. He is under the penalties of the law while with out the pale of its protection. He is forced to submit to the outrages of the rabble without the power of public opinion to defend him. The seeds of this great crime have been scattered broadcast over the land. In the North the rabble has undertaken to do what the rabble of the south has done with impunity. The North faces the same condition that the South has faced for the past twenty years. Will the North become as the South has been for so long a time, the victim of the mob? Is it not time for good men of all parties to see why the mob rules? parties to see why the mob rules. The Tillmans, the Carmacks, the John Temple Graveses and the Alagoods are the product of the mob. Mob law has forced such men to the front and given them a chance to tear the mask from the hideous face of the southern Democracy, so called. But when these men get up be fore intelligent audiences, as Tillman does habitually and as John Temple Graves did yesterday, and says the mob stands between the chastity of the of the white woman and its black assailant, it is, as I said in the outset, savagely grotesque when we read of how the chivalrous Alagood of Georgia assailed the chastity of a poor defense less white woman and cruelly and brutally whipped her because she rejected his proffered embrace. Has Southern chivalry descended to this? Has mob rule brought the fair name of the south so low that no one rises up in the halls of the nation or before the people of the nation to defend the South but Ben Tillman, Ed Carmack and John Temple Graves? In the name of the great men of the past, the giants who lived when elections meant the voice of the people and not the rattle of the machine, as a southern man, I protest, Wilson H. Stites. DRESSMAKING. MRS. ALICE SIMPSON 111 East Cooper Street. If you wish to beautify, straighten. and promote the growth of the hair try Mrs. Jackson's MINNIOLA COTTAGE Sedalia, Mo. Mrs. Davis keeps on hand a full line of hair goods, such as braids, bangs pompadours. Also, facebleach and hairpomade. We solicit your patronage WRITE For Prices D.Y,STEEL Popular Tonsorial Artist Courteous Treatment Your Trade Solicited. 120 E.Main. J. M. Harris. M. D. Physician and Surgeon. 116 W. Main St., Sedalia, Mo. Office hours 10 to 12 a. m., 4 30 to 5 30 p. m. Residence. 236. W. Morgan St. Kuhn, the Grocer, see him. Get Billup's Carraige JOHN HURDLE IS POLITE AND WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT. Ring him up. Phone 146 or 164 Funeral and all Calls promptly Looked after. The Conservator Is a paper devoted to the higher ideals of life; a paper edited and controlled by progressive young men. All its work is done by race youth. Our Policy Is to mold pulic sentiment that will develope aggressive character Our Staff Is of the genuine stuff-young men who are not susceptible to narrowness in politics, religion, morals or manners. Advertisers Would do well by advertising in the CONSERVATOR for it goes into more than 300 homes in Pettis Co., alone to say nothing of the foreign circulation. Terms Are reasonable; only $1.25 per year Subscriptions are strictly cash in advance. Advertising rates Made known on application. --- MRS. KINGSBURY. ICE CREAM and LUNCH Will serve Ice Cream and Lunch every Thursday and Sunday at 139 W. Johnson St. Call. GENERAL TRANSFER Piano & Furniture Mover All work done with care at reason able rates. WARREN CRAIGHEAD 'Phone 406 Resdience 617 N. Lamine. St. Wm. M. RICHARDSON. GENERAL BLACKSMITHING. HORSE-SHOEING A SPECIALTY 319 E, Main St. Sedalia, Mo. Where to Worship. Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday Morning Sunday School.....9.30 Song Service.....10.45 Preaching.....11.00 Afternoon Class Meeting.....2.30 Epworth League.....6.00 Song Service.....7.45 Preaching.....8.00 Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. Rev. R. Davis, Pastor. African Methodist E. Church. Sunday Morning Preaching.....11.00 Afternoon Sunday School.....2.00 Class meeting.....3.00 Endeavor.....7.00 Preaching.....8.00 Rev. Alexander, Pastor. Morgan St. Baptist Church. Preaching ..... 11 00 Sunday ..... 2,00 P. M. Preaching ..... 7,30 P.M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. Rev. P. M. Mack, Pastor. Simpson's Chapel. Sunday School.....900 A.M. Preaching.....11,00 A.M. General Class.....2,00 P.M. Preaching.....7,30 P.M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening: G. W. Ball Pastor C. M. E. Church Preaching every Sunday morning a$ 11.00 and evening at 7.30 Sunday school ..... 2.00 P.M. Class meeting ..... 3.00 P.M. Prayer meeting every Friday evening. T. H. Wartfield, Pastor Free-will Baptist Church. Preaching and Rally every 3rd Sunday at 11:00 A. M. and 7:00 P. M. Sunday School.....2:00 P. M. Covenant meeting.....3:00 P. M. Prayer meeting every Tuesday evening and Covenant meeting every Friday evening, Rev. E, D. Burns, Pastor. Lodge Directory X Q.C. Commandery, K. T., Meet for regular business the first and third Fridays in each month. J. T. Forrill, E.C. C. H. Lewis, n. K S H T W S S T R. A. M. No. 5. Sedalia Chapter No. 5. Meets irregular session the second and fourth Week, evenings in each month. Visiting brothers always welcome. Wm. Ruby, H. P. C., H. Lewis, Sec. A. F. A. M. M Centennial Lodge, No. 50 meets in regular session the second and fourth Mondays in each month. J. P. Moffitt, W. M. J. T. Eerril, Sec. Centennial Court, No. 37. 1st. & 3rd. Thus., of each month. Sallie Moffat, Matron. Julia Hayden, Sec. Hawkin's Lodge, No. 44. 1st. & 13d. Mondays in each month. C. O. Brown, W. M. C. W. Holliday, Sec. G. U.O. of O. 文 Meets in regular session the first and third Tuesd. Hall 120 E. Main St. D. Y. Steele P. S. Sons & Daughters of Charity Lodge No. 1. Meets 1st. and 3d. Tuesdays each month. D. L. White Pres W. W. Henderson Sec. BLUE FRONT Full Line of Staple Groceries & Cigars. Fresh Bread, Cakes and Cookies. Soda Pop and other Refreshing Drinks Right off the Ice. NEW ICE CREAM PARLOR And Lunch Room Corner Lamine & Pettis St. less ICE CREAM PARLOR be prepared to serve you with all hours at a reasonable Open Day and Night. Having open a first class ICE CREAM PARLOR and LUNCH ROOM, we are prepared to serve you with the best cream in the city at all hours at a reasonable price. CALL and SEE US. Open Day and Night. St. Clair McClain, Proprietor. This County's Rare Thoughtful farmers and Horticulturists of our county will see in the exhibit proposed to be made in the name of the county in the Missouri Building, at the World's Fair, the greatest opportunity we have ever had to exploit thoroly and cheaply this county's markets. The Missouri World's Fair Commission has appropriated $50, to be offered as prizes for a corn contest in the county, and the products of the winners will be subsequently pitted in an inter-county contest to be held at some central point in the state. The Commission has set aside $1,000, for the State Show, and the farmers of the county desiring to compete are put to no further trouble than the preparation of the products for the initial competition. The Commission pays all further expense and the prizes won go to the grower. Products winning prizes at the State Show will be taken to St. Louis to compete further for World's Fair prizes, which will be announced in the name of the grower and the county in which produced. These awards also are the property of the grower. Besides corn contests, the Commission has arranged for competition in exhibits of Blue-Grass, Clover, grains of other sorts, both in the straw and out. A small pamphlet containing "Suggestions for collecting and preparing exhibits in Agriculture, Horticulture, and Mines and Metallurgy" has just been issued and may be had free by addressing the Missouri World's Fair Commission, Saint Louis, Missouri. Government Land in Missouri. For the benefit of those who expect to take part in the inspection of government land, which will be about September, I herein give a list of acres and location. Springfield District 213,939 acres Anyone desiring to see the location of these lands may see map of same at the CONSERVATOR'S office, 104 E. Main St. Other information will be given by meat any time. Chambers & Wheeler are down to date Tonsorialist. Every shave and hair-cut done to please the most fastidious ```markdown ``` --- Having open a first cla and LUNCH ROOM, we are the best cream in the city a price. CALL and SEE US St. Clair McCla To The Farmers of Missouri And Adjoining States. The time approaches for the second Annual Meeting of the Farmers Institute and we take this opportunity to remind the farmers, farmers' wives and daughters, and the officers of the Convention of this coming event, and to ask them to redouble their energies in striving to make a movement so auspiciously begun, a permanent tribute to the business enterprise of the Great Middle West with her fertile acres and manifold natural resources. We urge the organizera appointed last November to see to it that Farmers' Institutes are organized in their respective localities and that as large delegations as possible come up from the different districts to the second annual Convention which will be held Saturday, November 7, 1903. We urge the farmsrs to save some of the best products of the soil to bring along as specimens of what they are capable of producing; and further that if possible they bring their wives and daughters, that the benefit of scientific farming and ad vanced methods in various lines of farm work, as in poultry raising, dairying, bee culture, etc., may be o pen to and discussed by all, and from all points of view. Very cordially submitted, B. F. ALLEN Pres. J. S. YATES, Sec'y. Missouri Journalism's Claim. The display of Missouri's Journalism in the Missouri State Building at the World's Fair, will mean much to the state in the way of influencing homeseekers and capitalists to come to Missouri to live. Perhaps no one other thing in a state is so sure an index to its character, and men of the most desirable type realize this. The journalism of Missouri Opportunity. Yours Respectfully. D. L. Stewart