Sedalia Weekly Conservator

Sedalia Weekly Conservator. Negro Bishop Discussed Negro Bishop Discussed Dr. George Elliot Proposes That Matter Be Given Considered At This meeting of General Conference. Let Merit And Worth Count, Not Color. VOL. 11. The Methodist General Conference which convened and is now in session at Los Angeles, Cal, was treated to a bit of the all-important Race Question last Thursday. Before the conference met in Chicago, four years ago, there was a few negro methodist agitating the negro bishop matter, thus adding another phase to the negro question in America. It does not come up in the form of an appeal for better treatment of the black man politically, socially or industrially, but, since there has been and is now, an agitation on the part of some negro methodists, who have passed the stage of all hope for them to out-grow the positions now filled by them in the methodist church, and yet their very ambitions reach toward a higher place, without first worthy of it, by merit, but hoping that by the "Scarecrow" argument that 300,000 negroes affiliated with the methodist church are demanding it, the position will be perchance, granted by the conference as a gift, out of sympathy for the race and that they will be honored by being pushed up to fill the places. It comes up before the conference in the form of a resolution praying for the consideration of the advisability of the election of a colored bishop to preside over the negro conferences. Just why this last idea strikes us is, that after having looked into the matter closely, we find this one thing comforting us: if a negro be chosen, because he is a negro, will he be accepted by the entire method dist chuch? The answer comes back so forcibly in the negative, that we are compelled to conclude that the election of a negro bishop would cause a rupture in the church. As surely as we are given a negro bishop, there will be given the world a new methodist church. For, unless this be chosen because of his worth and distinction, it will simply be a gift out of ourpathy. And further, if a negro be elevated to episcopal honors, under the present agitation, some of the white conferences will not recognize him, as a fit man to preside over them. Would this not bring about a move on the part of the snubbed black bishop to have his conferences be come independent of the great church of which they are a part and would that not be setting up a new methodist church? The 300,000 negro methodist are not demanding a man from their race to be made bishop. It is the work of a few. The truly intelligent negro knows that when ever a negroshows himself to have acquired the attainments necessary to be thus elevated and, when the time comes, when a bishop is to be chosen, that it will be a question of worth not color. The 300,000 black methodists are not ready yet, and, may it never be, to stoop to recognize a bishop, simply, because he is black. If he be a black bishop, let him be one that the methodist church will delight to honor, because of his pre-eminent service. Great men are not chosen to preside over the affairs of any organization out of sympathy for a particular faction in it, but, their worth in magnitude of influence and power of developing the organization, are the balances in which they are weighed before chosen. A negro must not be chosen bishop out of sympathy for the less enlightened clamorous faction in the church, but, if there be a vacancy in the episcopacy to be filled, let the negro be put into the balances and be weighed with his white brother—measured according to the standard by which other bishops are measured; before chosen, and, if he is not found wanting in any of the requirements requisite to his attaining this high recognition, the methodist, void of all prejudice; the church that sets a loft the standard of worth and exacts all men to it; that is blind to all, she selects men for her service; the church that works with and among us not out of mere sympathy for us but because she knows that we are called as much as other men to share in the great dangers and benefits of redemption and feel that for her to attain that perfection in the religion of Christ, the World's Savior, she must fulfill the law: "Show them the way;" the church that holds up before the world an insignia upon which this expression of Christ is inscribed, "And tho I be lifted up I will draw all men unto Me", she will award him this honored position. Terefore let those negro methodists, who are yet imbued with Ante-Bellum idea that the white man should sympathize with him and give to him because it is asked for; let those, who are living over the days of slavery and are straining under the hardships of past oppression and discrimination all to arouse the white man's sympathy for what was once a down trodden race; let it be known that the American Negro is not asking for recognition from the whites out of sympathy, but that it weigh him and reward him as he merits, and that the weighing be done in the same scales that men are weighed in and not in scales for negro men only. Bishop Isaac Lane Preaches At The Court House. Bishop Isaac Lane, one of the senior bishops of the C. M. E. church, preached two able sermons, in the large large criminal court room, at the Court House, Sunday, May the 8th. The good bishop enjoys the happy distinction of having presided, as bisoop for more than 31 years, in his church. During this long period he has not had to miss any of his episcopal duties, on account of ill health. He resides, at Jackson, Tenn., where is located Lane college, an institution owned and operated by the C. M. E. church for the higher education of her youth. We are pleased to congratulate the pastor, Rev. T. H. Warfield for the interest he is taking in his church and the community in general. May he secure other valuable services as that of the good bishop, in the near future. Princess Snow White Presented By Pupils Of Lincoln School Friday evening, May 6th, at Quinn Chapel A. M, E. church was presented the pleasing musical drama, Princess Snow White The entertainment was given as a benefit for Sharon Court. The young ladies and gentlemen acquitted themselves most acceptably. Mrs. Mattie L. Teeters, of the Lincoln school Faculty, rightly deserves many plaudits for the excellence of the rendition of the evening's program. SEDALIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, MAY 13 1904. OURTOWN EDITOR. J. J. Rollins the Photographer is home for a short stay. Prof. H. F. Thompson was in the city Saturday on business. The Operette recently at Quins Chapel will be repeated on May the 20. Rev. William Alexander, pastor of the A. M. E. church left for Chicago, Ill., to attend the General Conference of the church. Quite a crowd stood on Main street Monday wating for the parade, but it went up Lamine and the crowd got the (hookes). Mrs. Susan Martin left on the 5th. for Topeka, Kas, to be with a very sick sister. Miss Alace Baylor of Sweeney is the guest of her uncle Fred Bush, of E. Pettis St.. Mrs. Maria Herndon who has been attending Geo R. Smith College during the past session returned home to Warrensburg this week. While here she made her home at Mrs. Lue Flitcher, on W. Morg in street. While on the north side look at the progressive buisnesses conducted by Sweringen and Co. J. F. Kuhn and Co. and W. M. Diggs, Grocers and Ray Holt, the up to the standard meat men. They advertise with us hence should have your support. H.S. Cousins of Chaaleston W. Va., who was called to this city last week to attend the funeral of his son-in-law, the Rev. J.A. Dorsey returned home, Monday Via the Mo. P. 12 45 P. M. train Mr. Cousins is the only negro employed in the Mich. Central R. R. Shops located at Charleston and has work for this sem. for a number of years. The Young ladies and gentlemen can be served to the choosiest drinks and best ice cream at the Post Dispatch Cafe, on South Ohio just below the Pacific express company's office. The managers are courtious and obliging we desire our friends to visit them when anxious to refresh themselves. August the first will be Negro day at the World's Fair. Since we are all going to see the Fair, dont you think it would be a more enjoyable trip if we would all wait and go in a body on Negro day? And, too, would it be doing too much if we make that day one of the best? The Germans, Irish and all other peoples, under the American flag will have special days and will not attend the Fair in body until that day, we, too, should do likewise. SOUTH GROVE Mr. Harrison Fisher made a business trip to Salt Springs Wednesday. Mr. G. L. Carter of Elmwood visited in our vicinity Sunday. Mr. Lee Steverson made a business trip to the county seat Wednesday. Miss Rosa B. Jones and Mr. Horace Cooper were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Shannon Sunday. We are having rainy weather now. Messrs Samuel and Ed. Shannon made a business trip to Marshall Sat. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes of Higginsville has moved in on vicinity we are pleased to have them come. Mr. W. S. Steverson has completed his course at Geo. R. Smith College, is know at home enjoying a pleasant vacation with parents and friends. Rev. Jno. Baker preached to a large crowd here Sunday every one seem to enjoy the service we invited to come again soon. The Swellest OUR STEIN BLOCH SUITS are the most popular with careful dressers this season and we have them from $10.00 and Up These suits are equal in every respect to the high-class made-to-order garment. Also large up-to-date Furnishing goods The Kidd Clo. Co. 227 OHIO ST. The Conservator is read in many homes here, the subscribers speak highly of it. We wish its unfurling citor limitless success in his grand effort and hope it will be read in many more homes in Mo. and elsewhere. It will help move the great walls of ignorance so held him and by so doing we will help our selves. UNION HILL. Harry an Abram White were in Slater Monday and Tuesday on business. Mrs. Agnes Thomas attended in Gillian Sunday. Rev. H. Cheeks passed through the Hill Wednesday in route to Slater. The farmers in this locality are very much behind with their work due to the continued wet weather. Harry White and wife were shopping in Slater Saturaday. Mr. Charlie Edith of Napton never cancels a date regrdless of wind rain snow or storm. Died at his sister's Mrs John Tyres in Arrow Rock May 7th, John Penn; burial on the old home place 4.15 miles northwest of Arrow Rock funeral conducted by Rev. Hayse. As we close our letter we learn that Miss Pearl Mills is quite sick with pnemonia. John Sandreg and Ed. White are confined to their rooms with the German Measles. Rev. and Mrs. C. R. Smith returned home Wednesday by way of Arrow Rock., Arthur an Will Connay went to Arrow Rock Tuesday night the 3rd. to be initiated in the G. U. O. O. F. Sweet Springs. Mo. Miss Ida M. Thompson, G. H. P. of the International Order of Twelve and teacher of the Higginsville school, delivered a very instructive lecture before the Knights and Daughters of the Sulphur Springs tabernacle, last Saturday nikht. Miss Thompson was very much pleased with the progress made by the Order at this point and spoke in the most glowing terms of their new hall. Her visit was the occasion of many happy expressions of fraternal love and. Miss Thompson has kindly consented to return again in the near future. John Oliver, one of our hustling young farmers, orders the Conservator, thru our wide awake agent, James Wilson. SHOES Comfort, Style, and QUINN BROS., 200 Dont Paper UNT You have seen DEXT WALL I Rooms Papere Remember the place. 109 E. Seco Fireworks! AT J. F. That Combine ! ! ! ! Art, Style, and Durability, BROS., 206 OHIO S Paper Your UNTIL We seen DEXTER'S complete ALL PAP Rooms Papered For 90c. U the place. Dexter's E. Second S orks! Firew AT F. KUH : ! ! : That Combine ! ! : ! Comfort, Style, and Durability, Go To QUINN BROS., 206 OHIO STREET. You have seen DEXTER'S complete line of Rooms Papered For 90c. Up. Remember the place. Dexter's Book Store. 109 E. Second Street. Fireworks! Fireworks!! THE GROCER. Cor. Lamine and Pottis Sts. With every purchase, great the Boy or Girl, a ticket. A presented at the store, on Jun of firecrackers, or to the girl WM. COU and Pettis Sts, Phone, Q. C. purchase, great or small, we girl, a ticket. And for each the store, on July 3rd., we w rs, or to the girl, a package . COURTN Cor. Lamine and Pettis Sts. Phone, Q. C. 10. Bell, 419. With every purchase, great or small, we will give, for the Boy or Girl, a ticket. And for each $1 in tickets, presented at the store, on July 3rd., we will give a bunch of firecrackers, or to the girl, a package of torpedoes. FRENCH SHRINKER & UPNER Mesdames Lucy Martin, Stella Abbott and son Car', departed for Sedalia Sunday evening in route to Springfield. They stopped over in Sedalia for several days. Conserva.or's First Anniversary Fittingly Observed At Quinn Chapel. Monday evening, May, 9th, many friends and supporters of the CONSERVATOR congregated at the A. M. E. church, Qinnn Chapel, to participate in the first anniversary exercises of this youthful journal. Manager English and Editor Huston had arranged a very interesting, program, devoting the evening to the discussion of, American Journalism. The musical numbers and addresses were far above the average selections formerly heard, Miss Ruby Martin and Master Thomas Umbles pleased the audience so well --- --- FOR :::: Combine ! ! ! ! and Durability, Go To 206 OHIO STREET. For Your Room UNTIL DEXTER'S complete line of PAPER. pered For 90c. Up. Dexter's Book Store. cond Street. ! Fireworks!! AT KUHN Sts. Phone, Q. C. 10. Bell, 419. great or small, we will give, for And for each $1 in tickets, in July 3rd., we will give a bunch girl, a package of torpedoes. URTNEY'S GREAT SHOE STORE. The most complete stock and best equipped Shoe Store for business in Missouri :: :: :: 228 Ohio Street. with their vocal renditions, that they were recalled for an encore. The following is the program, Instrumental selection, Miss M. Minniola Jackson; Vocal solo, "You'll Be Sorry", Master Thos. Umbles, Introduction, J. J. Rollins as Chairman; Instrumental selection, Mrs. Mattie L. Teeters; Invocation, Rev. T. H. Warfield; Instrumental solo, "Harrison's Inaugural March", Henry Pettie; Vocal solo, C. M. English; Discussion, "Political Journalism", Hon. H. G. Phillips; Instrumental solo, "Marche De Concerte", Miss Blanche Holiday; Contralto solo, Miss Ruby Martin; Discussion, "Journalism's Mission in Our National Life", Rev. R. Davis; Instrumental solo, "Valse De Fleurs", Miss Irene Fletcher; Vocal solo, "The Message of the Violets", Master Thomas Umbles; Discussion, "Negro Journalism", W. H. Huston; Cornet solo, "My Lodging's in the Cold Ground", C. M. English; Social enjoyment and refreshed mood. --- SEDALIA WEEKLY CONSERVATOR. A Leap-Year Occurrence By CABOL O. RICHMOND HER friends thought it high time that Miss Patterson married, though she had times without number pointed out to them that such was not her manifest destiny. Having turned 40, more or less, her contemporaries had all tasted marital bliss once or twice, a few even more, and some with a divorce or two left in the trail. The latter reached the conclusion that she was having too easy a time, living too selfish a life—those happily married wished to see her as blessed as themselves, so one and all set about giving her advice. "It is your bounden duty," they agreed. "You really think so?" she asked, doubfully. Miss Patterson was a serious nature, and duty she held as the highest responsibility of life. To shirr one's manifest duty was indeed to fall short. "Twas in a vital spot, then, that the argument caught her. She put it at arms' length a moment, then met it manfully and yielded. "But nobody seems to want me," she told them frankly. She was quickly overruled by the announcement that as it was leap year, she must take the initiative. They made no doubt that she was too unapproachable; no man, they argued, dared to risk his proposal in the face of a palpable refusal, and they were sure she froze any attempt at sentiment on the lips of a would-be wooer; surely most any marriageable man of her acquaintance would jump at the chance of getting her. "YOU ARE VERY BUSY THIS MORNING." Thus they forced her with sweet words which found a rearing place, and above all shone the magic word of "Duty." Casting about in her mind as to whom she could offer herself without doing violence to her feelings, the lot fell upon a gentleman of the legal profession, having had a long standing acquaintance with him, he being well up toward the half century of life. Acting promptly upon her decision, lest it cool with age, she hastened to don her most becoming walking costume and sallied forth. Glowing with animation, and entering with zeal into the enterprise, now that she had fully undertaken it, Miss Patterson presented herself at the office of "Graham Bros., attorneys at law." Mr. Horace Graham, the gentleman she sought, was engaged; would she wait? This was a slight damper, however she decided on waiting, endeavoring to keep herself up to concert pitch the while. But during the interval several things happened which disconcerted her, and slowly she slipped to the level of common life. By the time she was summoned to the "private office" the tone had been eliminated from her errand, and she trailed in with all her push gone. "Why, Miss Patterson, this is indeed a pleasure! Have a seat. What can I do for you!" This cordial greeting rather restored her nerve, but she could not "screw her courage to the sticking point," so she procrastinated. "You are very busy, this morning?" Evasively. "I am at your service so long as you wish my attention. You called to see me on business?" "Yes—and no—that is, it could not be termed strictly business, and yet it is in a way. But on second thoughts I BILLY AND L They say they are going to shoot you, Old Billy, but don't you fret. For the fellow who dares to meddle with you must reckon with me, you bet; You're a poor old horse, Old Billy, and you aren't worth much, it is true; But you've been a faithful friend to me, and I'll see you safely through. Shoot Old Billy! I guess not, though you may be old and gray; By the side of me did mercy they'll shoot me some day; I haven't much love for the fellows who follow the shooting plan; If they had more pity for horses and dogs, they'd have more love for man. That's right, Old Billy, I like it—your muzzle against my face; We've had rattling times together, and once we won the race— Do you remember it, Billy, the dude that we downed that day; And the way he went, that an old farmhouse should show his tricker how?" Well, Billy, we're both great sinners, for we've both grown old, you know; And we've only a little furrier adown the door. So well fare along together till the Master calls us home. To the happy Home-Land stables, and our feet forget to roam. Tell us that horses have no souls, and they all declare it true; That shows how little they know, Old Boy and it proves they don't know you; think I could talk better with you at home, so if you will call some evening this week, I feel as if I might broach the matter more—more—" She floundered for the right word; she was beginning to be a bit phased by the situation. "Oh, well, all right," he said, cheerly, for, truth to tell, he was expecting a very important client, who was due that very minute. "Say to-morrow evening; will that do?" It suited him very well to call on her as he thoroughly enjoyed an hour with Ina Patterson, who was both bright and clever. And thus it was settled. Ina was relieved when, next evening arrived, to find that all the family were going out, for though she stuck manfully to her purpose, she had to acknowledge a slight nervousness which could not be fought off. As the electric bell whirred sharply she gave an involuntary start, then opened the door herself, and ushered in Mr. Graham. She hovered around him while he divested himself of overcoat and hat, afterward she took him to the library, all the time in an inward futter as to how the momentous question was to be put. They were comfortably settled, talking generalities, when Miss Patterson suddenly paused—they were drifting farther and farther from her point. She pulled herself together and made a plunge. "Mr. Graham, you have known me a long time; do you like me?" "Immensely; you and I always get on swimmingly. Now tell me what it is you want." He came forward and took her hand. "You know it is leap year?" with shy hesitation; it was not so easy, after all. "Y-e-s," he dropped her hand and sat down abruptly. "Well," she began, in a now-or-never tone of voice, "I have decided to ask you to marry me; will you?" "Ina—Miss Patterson, you are surely joking?" "No," with a decided shake of the head. "But—I—I—am sure we are not at all suited to each other. I had no idea you thought of me in that way." "I didn't; it all came about suddenly, unexpectedly. Of course, you know my circumstances. I have enough to support myself, but my income can go no further. You are aware of just how much my father left me. I think if a woman proposes, she ought at least to be able to support a husband, don't you?" He laughed, in spite of his discomfure. "I'm awfully sorry, but it is out of the question. I am a crabbed old bachelor, and so set in my ways I would spoil your life. You deserve a better fate." "You refuse, then?" Eagerly. One would have thought that she had been reprieved from instant death. "I must decline; though, believe me, I am sensible of the great honor you have done me in wanting to marry me." "Oh, but I didn't! I didn't!" With startling animation. "Don't apologize, please. I am so relieved. They can't say I shirked, anyway." "But I do not understand," rather stiffly. This was a distinct slap at his vanity, and he felt a riffle miffed, to say the least. "I will endeavor to explain," which she did, winding up with: "And I could think of no one else in the whole range of my acquaintances whom I could endure in the light of a husband." This sort of relieved his compiency. "If you had accepted me I should have tried to do my duty, but I am so glad you didn't" she added, with a rush, as if fearful lest he change his mind. "Now, let me sing you something, and we will forget there is such a thing as matrimony." With a gay laugh, as she seated herself at the piano. Strange to say, after that Horace Graham could not get Ina Patterson out of his thoughts. Her face would rise insistently between him and his work. He kept looking back to that memorable evening; every time he saw her she seemed to take on some new charm—until at last he came to realize he wanted her badly. Her proposal had thrown him out of his rut. And then her frank avowal that she did not want him, kindled a slow fire within which had risen to a fierce blaze of desire. And she, all unconscious of the storm she had raised. Of what use now his cry: What a fool he had been to refuse her? In the spring he was elected judge, but how worthless all his honors seemed without her to share them. About six months after Ina Patterson received an offer of marriage from Judge Graham, together with a passionate declaration of love and the hope that time might have inclined her affections toward him. It was a novel position. A tidal wave of inclination swept over her; she reviewed the situation and rendered the decision in his favor. Well, well, 'tis a mighty question, and quite beyond my ken— But the more I know of horses like you, the less I brag about men. You've been a good horse, Old Fellow, steady and brave and true; You have given us faithful service—done all that a horse could do. You have kept up with your men, you shall have it; so live as long as you can— For justice is justice, and right is right, whether it's a horse or man. —J. S. Cutler, in Boston Transcript. Edged Tools. First Sweet Young Thing—Oh, I had a most trying time, dear, when he proposed. Second Sweet Young Thing—How was that? First Sweet Young Thing—Why, of course I said "no" at first, and he thought I was in earnest, and was going away, and I had such trouble to make him understand that I didn't really mean it.—Ally Sloper. Twins in No Danger. As regards the possible partition of Siam by the powers, it is consoling to remember, says the Chicago Tribune, that the Slamese twins are beyond the reach of any danger. Happenings in Missouri. Inventor Dies In Almshouse Henry Fuchs, who made a great fortune by the invention of barbed wire and was formerly a partner of John W. Gates, died in the almshouse at San Francisco. Fuchs was at one time one of the best-known men in St. Louis, and after selling out his interests there went to California about six years ago. There he was interested in organizing an unsuccessful guld-hunting expedition to Nome. His last position was as superintendent of the Judson wire mill in Oakland. Suffering a stroke of paralysis, he became helpless and indigent, and was finally sent to the almshouse. Fuchs claimed that Gates had not treated him fairly, and Garces admitted it, and for a time paid $1,000 a year for his support. Honored by a Kansas College "Recently the faculty of the college at Manhattan, Kan., received a request from New York city that their brightest electrical student be sent to the metropolis to take an important position requiring the services of an expert electrician. The faculty promptly recommended a Jasper county boy, Howard Matthews, of near Carytown, who, with his brother, is a student of that institution. Although the young man lacks yet a year of graduating, it is probable he will go to New York to take the place offered as it is an inviting one. To Improve School for Girls At its regular monthly meeting at Chillicothe, the board of control of the Missouri industrial school for girls, decided to spend all of the $5,000 that was appropriated at the last general assembly in building an addition to one of the three residences now located on the state's grounds here. The addition will be two stories and a basement. A Convenient Cow. Nature seems to have an eye to the convenience of both the milkmaid and the progeny of a certain cow on the Tucker farm In Callaway county. "She is a pure-bred Shorthorn and has seven well developed teats, every one of them giving milk," says her owner. "and we give the calf two and take five at a milking time." Use Ench Other's Tracks. Arrangements have been made by which the Chicago & Alton will run trains into St. Louis over the Burlington from Louisiana, Mo., and the latter road will run trains into Kansas City over the Chicago & Alton from Louisville, beginning June 1. This plan will be in effect until the new road from Mexico to Old Monroe is completed. Gov. Rockery to Catholics Gov. Dockery delivered the address of welcome to the Catholic Union of America which opened its annual convention at Jefferson City on Saturday. During the day the corner stone of the Catholic hospital was laid. Special trains were run from St. Louis, Tipton and other points. Hamilton School Bonds Sold. The board of education of Hamilton has sold the $25,000 bonds, recently voted to erect two new school buildings, to N. W. Harris & Co., of Chicago, at par. The bonds bear four per cent, interest and a part of them are to be retired each year during the next 20 years. Child Wife Seeks Divorce. Maud O'Neal has asked for divorce from her husband, Walter L. O'Neal, in the circuit court of Jasper county. According to the plaintiff's petition she is only 16 years old now, and yet she has been married to the defendant more than two years. Crow Won't Fight for It. Attorney General Crow has given an interview in which he says that he has not come out as a candidate for renomination, but that he appreciates the interest manifested by his friends, and will accept the nomination if tendered it by the convention. Water Pitcher 200 Years Old. E. L. Spiller, an electrician at Excelsior Springs, is the owner of a water pitcher whose history has been traced back 200 years. He has refused an offer of $500 for it. It is known as an old flown blue model and is of Holland manufacture. Double the School Capacity. The board of education at Hannibal is considering the feasibility of building an addition at the North school to cost $7,000. The addition would double the capacity of the school. **Bevier Bonds Registered.** Attorney General Crow has ruled that current revenue bonds for $2,500, issued by Bevier for the purpose of erecting a city hall, were entitled to registration. **Salvation Army at Capitol City.** A contingent of the Salvation army has inaugurated a series of services at Jefferson City. Senator Stone Will Not Leave. Each Lived More Than a Century "Grandma" Harding, a negress said to have been 104 years old, died at her home in Kansas City a few days ago. Her husband, who died in the same home last year, was over 100 years old. Freek Litigation: Livingston county has a freak case in court equal to the celebrated mule case from Callaway county, which has attracted wide attention. The title of the Livingston county suit is A. L. Plummer vs. Thomas Maddox et al., an action in ejection. The property in question is a little four-acre strip of land in the extreme southeast part of the county which has been in litigation in the circuit courts of two counties for over 12 years, and apparently is no nearer settlement than it was when the case first started. The lawyers' fees alone amount to many times the worth of the four acres, and the court costs, and the witness fees run up into the thousands. It has been up for hearing in the Livingston county circuit court several times and was twice taken to Linn county on a change of venue. The first trouble started during the civil war when the owner attempted to transfer it to prevent confiscation. Married 73 Years. Judge McKissick and wife, who live five miles north of Orrick, Ray county, are probably the oldest married couple in Missouri. Judge McKissick was born in Tennessee and is 91 years old. His wife, whose maiden name was Rachel Odell, was born in Indiana and is 89 years old. They were married in 1831, so they have now lived together the amazing period of 73 years. They are among the old settlers of Missouri, having lived on their present farm for 67 years. Both the old people are remarkably vigorous and well preserved. "This week a neighbor passing by noticed that the old lady had put out a big week's washing," an Excelsior Springs paper says. Bonds a Third of a Century Old. Gen. John B. Henderson, of Washington, and Arthur C. Huldekoper, of Meadville, Pa., holders of more than $1,000,000 worth of railroad bonds against Macon county, have agreed to accept 18 cents on the dollar for their holdings. There are about $1,500,000 worth of these bonds in existence and the organizer of the committee has assurances from the other holders that they will accept the 18 cents compromise. The debt has been in existence against the county a third of a century and has been a constant source of litigation. The bonds were issued for a road that was never built. Disobeyed a Penishment Order James Henry, 30 years old, has been arrested at Macon and is now in jail charged with a violation of a banishment order in the circuit court. Henry pleaded guilty in April, 1903, to an attempt to kill his mother with an ax. He was banished from the state for a year, but refused to obey the order, and managed to dodge the officers until he was shot in a quarrel with a saloon keeper. To Punish Bird Killers. In recent instructions to the grand jury of Daviess county, Judge Alexander, of the circuit court, called special attention to the cruel and wholesale destruction of some birds that is taking place in Missouri, and told the jurors to indict anybody whom they might hear had participated in the slaughter. The fine for killing a song bird in Missouri is $25. Contrary to the Statutes. After an investigation of the affairs of the Fraternal Bond Insurance company, of Chillicothe, R. G. Yates, superintendent of the state insurance department, reported that the company is not conducting its business in compliance with the law. Russell in Vandiver's Place. The democratic congressional convention of the Fourteenth district nominated J. J. Russell, of Mississippi county, for congress by acclamation. This district is now represented by W. D. Vandiver, who is Mr. Folk's manager. Folk Thinks Butler Will Bolt. Joseph W. Folk delivered a speech at California which was an arraignment of boodlers and a defiance of Ed Butler and his followers, whom he claim have announced that they intend to bolt if Folk is nominated. Texas Won Over Missouri. The debate at Columbia between Missouri university and Texas university resulted in a victory for Texas, which affirmed that trade unionism is detrimental to the general welfare. Missouri Second in Oratory. In the interstate oratorical contest at Notre Dame university, South Bend, Ind., George E. Newell, of Park college, representing Missouri, won second place. In Missouri Since 1831. Joseph Simpson, who came to Jackson county with his parents in 1831 at the age of nine years, died at the home of his daughter in Kansas City at the age of 81. After Rockefeller's Money. The committee having in charge the Rockefeller temple project for the state university reports that pledges and subscriptions now amount to $32,000 and but $1,000 more is needed to bring the cash of the millionaire to Nebraska. Old Pastor Resigns. After 25 years' service as pastor of the St. John's Lutheran church and teacher of the German school about four miles north of Harper, Rev. A. Bergt handed in his resignation. 9.00 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion Cheerfulness and Rest Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. 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Too many people take the skin in the York that the bowels andneys should heal to follow, compulsive condition means a yellow skin, husteress eyes, foul breath, and a general worn out feeling. All this can be remedied by the use of Dr. Caldwell's (Laxative) Syrup Pepsin, which is sold by all druggists and dealers in medicine. A New York man proposes to use three snakes to clear houses of rats and mice. He will probably also clear them of women by this method.—Washington Post. How to Clean Laces. To clean delicate laces, take a large glass jar; cover with old cotton and spread the lace carefully on it. Set the bottle in warm ivory soap sids and leave for an hour. Wash the laces with a cotton napkin in the sun and they will disappear. Runse in dipping the bottle in clear water. ELEANOR R. PARKER. Some men talk and talk, and never seem to get relief.-N. Y. Times. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.-J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Mn., Jan. 6, 1900. 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When He Resorts to the "Brogue" Andrew Can Get the Best of Them Balled Up. Though Andrew Carnegie's English is singularly elegant and pure, he has in his command a weird Scottish dialect, say the Minneapolis Tribune. Mr. Carnegie is a student of Scotch words and idioms. He likes to point out the oddities and freaks of his native tongue. Recently, at a dinner party in New York, he said to a young woman; "Oh, well, then, what do we mean in Scotland when we say a person is just fish?" "I don't know. What do we mean?" the young woman asked. "We mean he is a bit of a weed harum- carum," said Mr. Carnegie, "We weed harum-carum? What hat?" "It is the same as wowf." "But what is wowf?" "Wowf is nook or sal. That is to say, bit by the east. Havers, lassie, have ye no Seats at all?" Then Mr. Carnegie laughed and explained that a weed harum scarum, and finish, and wowf, and nook, and sal, and by the east all signified one thing, "crazy." THE NEPHEW CAUGHT ON. Showed His Mercenary Uncle H Could Be as Saving as Anyone. A naval officer, recently returned from the isthmus of Panama, according to the New York Tribune, tells the following story concerning the wealthiest man on the isthmus: "Senor M—is known all over the isthmus as the stingiest man who ever lived. He will have no lights in his house except candles, and the lone candle in his sit-down room will be at night when he is talking to 'isiters' and is not compelled to have a fight. "The old man has a nephew who makes the money fly. A short time ago he called on his uncle at night. While they were taking the old man blew out his candle, 'What did you do that for?' the youngster said. "Why, we don't need the light while we are talking," the uncle replied. "While the uncle was talking earnestly the boy began to shuffle about in the dark. Much annoyed by the interruption, two old man said: 'What are you doing?' "Only just taking off my trousers,' the boy replied. 'I don't need them in the dark and want to keep from wearing them out.'" War Strategy. Some one was showing the vector around the great navy yard. "But where is the bottling department?" naked the visitor. "The bottling department?" echo the escort in surprise. "Yes, the modern navies are always bolting up something."—Chicago Daily News Leap Year. Dick. Yes, but it took me about three years to persuade her to come to the point. —Detroit Free Press. The theory that boys are descended from monkeys has received an ugly setback in gentileism possesses a monkey who washes himself with soap and water. —Punch. IN AN OLD TRUNK. Baby Finds a Bottle of Carbolic Acid and Drinks It. While the mother was unpacking an old trunk a little 18 months old baby got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid while playing on the floor and his stomach was so badly burned it was feared he would not live for he could not eat ordinary foods. The mother says in telling of the case: "It was all two doctors could do to save him as it burnt his throat and stomach so bad that for two months after he took the polish nothing would lay on his stomach. Finally I took him into the country and tried new milk and that was no better for him. His Grandma finally suggested Grape-Nuts, and I am thankful I adopted the food for he commenced to get better right away and would not eat anything else. He commenced to get fleshy and his cheeks like red roses and now he is entirely well. "I took him to Matamoras on a visit and every place we went to stay to eat he called for Grape-Nuts and I would have to explain how he came to call for it an it was his main food. "The names of the physicians who attended the baby are Dr. Eddy of this town and Dr. Geo. Gale of Newport, O., and anyone can write to me or to them and learn what Grape-Nuts food will do for children and grown-ups too." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book, "The Road to Willeville." Development of the Basin Offers Facilities for Vast Trade with the United States. I have been reliably informed that the British government is now being urged to give national protection to a British company which proposed to run river steamers, under a subsidy of the Colombian government, between Trinidad and Colombian ports, on the Meta river. The situation is this: The whole eastern part of Colombia is practically without an outlet, except that afforded by the rivers Meta and Orinoco. Until lately this channel was used under permission from Venezuela, which republic controls the lower waters of the Orinoco. Trade then passed by steamers through Trinidad, Boliver (Venezuela) and Orocue or Barrigon (Colombia), and afterwards by pack mule to Bogota. Even under the most favorable circumstance this trade was so hampered by transit dues, etc., that it never was very important. However, about three years ago that permission was withdrawn, and navigation by the Orinoco to and from Colombia was prohibited by the Venezuelan government. The vast and fertile districts thus shut off from the world could undoubtedly provide material for a very large trade, and so strongly does the Colombian government feel in this regard that they have been negotiating for an outlet by the Venezuelan circuitous route of the Amazon. There is also a keen desire on the part of Colombia to find another route to Bogota, as it now depends for external trade upon the river Magdalena and the port of Savanilla, but this route is beset with difficulties. Briefly, the Magdalena is very rapid, and landfalls are very frequent; the royal road between Honda and Facatativa, which was for a long time the only route, is often completely closed by landslips. Numerous transfers are necessary on this route, and the cost of transit is enormous and the possibilities of delay indefinite. Attempts have been made to facilitate matters by opening another way between Honda, the head of navigation on the Magdalena, and Bogota via Jirardot, the difficulties of which may be realized by a bare enumeration of the successive means of transport employed from the seaboard—rail, river steamer, another steamer, rail, mule, rail. There is also a route from the Pacific by Buenaventura, but that is commercially impossible. From April to November the Meta is navigable for vessels of considerable size to within 100 miles of Bogota; and the Orinoco, though here and there shallow, affords perfectly safe navigation. This route, therefore, has its advantages, although for its proper development a railroad from the Meta to the capital would be necessary. An English engineer, who has surveyed the route, says that the cordillera would have to be crossed at a height of 11,000 feet (Bogota being 9,000 feet above the sea). However, he says, the road from the foot of the mountains to the Meta is very easy. It is quite obvious that in the development of the basin of the Orinoco itself and the facilities it offers for trade with the United States, there is vast business to be done. Unfortunately immigration and the investment of capital are prevented by want of settled conditions and the consequent risk to life and property. However, it is to be hoped that this state of things will not last long, and that, with peace and security, capital and industry will find their way into that resourceful region and the Orinoco become one of the great highways of the world's commerce. WILLIAM WHITE HANDLEY Coal Trade of Northern Brazil Coal Trade of Northern Brazil. An unequaled opportunity which has been far too long overlooked or ignored by Americans is the coal trade of northern Brazil. There should be an American coal station at Para and a branch at Mannos. Every lump of coal burned here is imported, and the consumption is enormous and steadily growing. Thousands of seamers coal here annually, and the private consumption in Para and other cities and towns in the Amazon valley is very large. Ordinary soft coal sells here for from five to eight and ten times its cost in the United States. The profits are enormous. There is no good reason why a splendid trade in American coal should not be established. At present this enormously profitable trade is entirely in the hands of the English. No concerted effort has been made here to create a demand for American coal. The United States ought to supply this market, and with earnest well-directed effort it can. K. E. KENNEDY Chinese Magistrates' Old Boots. Visitors to China are particularly struck by the numbers of pairs of boots hung in separate wooden cages in the archway of the main west gate of Hsuan-Hua, the valedictory gifts of beneficial prefects. It is an attractive custom in China to invite a departing magistrate whose rule has been popular to leave a pair of old boots for suspension in a prominent place as a hint to his successor to follow in his footsteps. It is a considerable honor to be asked to leave these boots, and the people make the request all the more eagerly because they believe in the efficacy of the hint. No Place for American Workmen. No Place for American Workmen. Hardly a boat arrives here from the United States without bringing some victims of the writer who has pictured New South Wales as "the paradise of the workingman." The unions have by law a monopoly of the work to be done at fixed prices. While some are paid well—mostly employees of government works—thousands can find nothing or very little to do at any price. No encouragement is given for immigrants who are dependent upon their labor for a living. These facts should be known to Americans. ORLANDO H. BAKER ILLINOIS FARMER WESTERN CANADA. A recent issue of the Shelbyville, Illinois, Democrat contains a long and interesting letter from Mr. Elias Kost, formerly a prosperous farmer of that state, who recently emigrated to Western Canada, taking up a claim for himself and for each of his three sons. From Mr. Kost's letter, which was written Feb. 3, 1904, we publish the following, believing it will prove of great interest to those who have contemplated settling in the Canadian Northwest: "I had in August, 1902, secured a claim for myself, and filed on three quarter sections for my sons. My claim is one-half mile south of the Edmonton and Lake St. Anne trail. "Coming so late in the season we had little opportunity to break and to prepare ground for a first year's crop, still we raised over 100 bushels of very fine potatoes, and sowed a few acres of barley, but the season was too far advanced for the barley. However, we secured good feed from it, and on rented ground 18 miles east of us, raised a fine crop of oats, so that we will have plenty of feed for horses. We cut about 60 tons of hay and thus will have an abundance. We have, all told, about 240 acres of hay meadow, which would yield the past year over three tons to the acre, and in an ordinary season the meadow would furnish 600 tons of hay. The grass is very nutritious, and cattle on the ranges become very fat without being fed a pound of grain. "On the upland the grass grows from eight to ten inches tall. This is called range grass, and is suitable for stock at any time, even in the winter when the ground is not covered too deep with snow. Horses subsist on it alone, at all times, provided they are native stock. The grass in the hay meadows here is called red-top, and grows from five to six feet in length, and when cut at the proper time yields an abundant crop of nutritious hay. "Our cattle have not cost us a cent since we came on our homestead, only the small outlay for salt and labor in putting up hay and shelter. All cattle have been doing well this winter, and feeding up to the first of January was unnecessary, as there was good range up to that time. "All the snows up to that date were followed by winds from the northwest that melts it very rapidly; these winds are called Chinook winds, and are always warm. In one night a Chinook wind may take away three or four inches of snow. "We have built on our claim a comfortable house of hewn logs, 20x26 feet, one and one-half stories in height, with a good cellar. During the latter part of June we rafted logs down the Sturgeon to a sawmill, about eight miles away, and thus secured 5,000 feet of good lumber which was needed for the house. Later in the season a shingle mill located six miles away. To this we hauled logs and had shingles cut for the roof. "We had an abundance of wild fruit the past season, consisting of gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, eyebberries, blueberries, cherries and saskatoons. The latter are a fine looking berry, red, and quite pleasant to the taste, but not much to be desired in cookery. The strawberries are the same as those that grow wild in Illinois. Raspberries are red in color, large and equal to any of the tame varieties, and so are the gooseberries. The cranberries consist of the high and trailing varieties. The latter are most sought and contiguous to the swamps. The ground is literally covered with them as with a red carpet, but the best and most sought is the blueberry, so called by the Indians. This is the famous 'huckleberry' (whortleberry) of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Pennsylvania, and cannot be excelled for excellence by any fruit cultivated. It is found here both on the prairie and in the timber in immense quantities. "Game is very plentiful so far as prairie chickens, pheasants, ducks of all kinds, and geese are concerned. We have taken nearly 500 chickens and pheasants, also a great many ducks. "An occasional deer is seen, but are not plentiful, only one having been taken during the season in this settlement. "Fish are very plentiful at all seasons of the year. Fish wagons and sleds are passing almost daily along the trail with heavy loads of fish, destined for St. Albert and Edmonton. From the latter point they are shipped south on the Calgary and Edmonton railroad to points along the line, and also to Assimbola, on the Canadian Pacific railroad." For further information apply to any authorized Canadian Government, Agent whose address appears elsewhere. Delicate Work Ned- Is a swimmer a clergy doctor? Ned- Very. He can tell a woman patient she needs to take beauty exercises without offending her- Puck. CUTICURA THE SET $1.00. 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THORNE TANKS Ask your dealer for STOCK STORAGE unless our name is o from your dealer. we AMERICAN STE MANY PAUPERS IN LONDON Nearly 700,000 Persons Received Aid in England and Wales in One Month Recently. A further reading of the British distress barometer has been issued in the form of an official white paper giving the latest statistics of papierism. This shows that at the end of January the number of persons in receipt of either indoor or outdoor relief in England and Wales was 769,029, the highest total at the corresponding period of the year since 1895. Put in another way, 23.0 out of every 1,000 inhabitants in England and Wales were, at the end of January last, classed as painters. Judged by these returns, London takes a very poor position, for at the end of January 117,367 paupers, or nearly a seventh of the whole number in England and Wales, were resident in London. 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McClelland, voices the sentiment of a vast constituency of Methodists, when he declared that he was not in favor of the General Conference electing a Negro Bishop, but that he preferred to select men for this high and consecrated position in the church because of their worth, of character, usefulness and Godly devotion. If in the selection a Negro be found possessing these attributes, power and strength, and by all means let him be elected. May the day never come when the Methodist Episcopal Church will so forget her mission in the evangelization of the world, to stoop to the election of a negro Bishop because he is a negro. The wisdom of this great church has always been sufficient to sustain her in all great crises, in the past, and we feel assured that if it should be the proper thing to select a Bishop of African decent. It will be an account of the good of the church rather than because of his nationality. Indeed, the Methodist Episcopal Church is not a race church neither is it a partisan organization. It is cosmopolitan in all of its activities, embracing in its membership, all nations, all tongues and tribes, filling them with the buoyant hope of future usefulness and salvation. The depravity of an element of our old men and women, young men and women in this city is lamentable. Self-respect and common decency seem to be a miserer with them. All seem to be crazed with the idea of "Booze getting" at any cost. Our streets in many places are almost impassable because of semi-drunken men and women, emitting the most vile language and indulging in the most profane discourses. Shall we give the city over to the licentious for mere "swag?" Will the officers of the law, appointed and elected to subserve the public interests, sacrifice our young manhood and womanhood, debauch our gray haired fathers formoney? If it is not money that holds them in check, pray tell we what it is? ur will be a crenal of crime if something is not done to restrain the evils that are openly committed under the eyes of the law or its authorized agents: We would have some of our mothers and fathers, yes, grandfathers and grandmothers, look at their own conduct, and may we interpose this question: what do you anticipate for your children and grandchildren if they are to follow your example? These conditions must be met courageously in the open. A longer delay will sacrifice our brighest talent and most ambitious youth. Will you think? ```markdown ``` RUSSIAN duplicity is being sufficiently punished by Japanese chivalry. At the close of the China-Japanese war, it was Russian avocie that provoked a coalition of the great powers to deprive Japan of the fruits of her victories. No sooner, however, had Japan been ousted from Manchuria than Russia upon a mere pretext entered this territory to pacify and subjugate her numerous brigands. The astute statesmen of Japan knew Russia too well to be thus blindly deceived, hence, no sooner had Russia begun the work of permanently establishing herself in Chinese Manchuria, than she began the work of preparation to invite the baughty "Bear," failing in this, to force him out at the point of the bayonet. How well she succeeded in peaceably releasing Manchuria from Russian domination, all know. But Japanese bayonets and courage seem to have a better effect upon Russian tendency to march west ward. This war has caused many exclamations of surprise from many, because of the wonderful display of courage, intelligence, caution and wisdom shown by the Mikado's people. The surprise, however, is shown only by the superficial reader and thinker. Those who have read understandingly are familiar with this fact, that the Japanese have for the past twenty-five years or more been educating her young men in western civilization and art. Her armies are organized upon the latest western idea and the individual worth of her soldiers, as compared to the Russians, rank nearly three to one. The Mikado, having voluntarily given his subjects a written constitution, has also fostered the most liberal system of education for all. These and many more agencies have been busy during the past quarter of a century. The Home And Child The year is swiftly passing, the scholastic year is ending and the children are leaving the direct care of teachers for the six hours they have so intensively watched them and are now going for their summer vacations. There are many who may think rearing of a child is largely in the hands of the teachers but those people seem to forget the fact that the teachers only has the child under his immediate care for only six hours during the day, then they leave the school room and must return to the place where they will have the future part of their actions largely molded, for the school children of to day are the mothers and fathers of tomorrow and who is more responsible for them' the one who has them's six hours on the one who has them the rest of the time. The only thing the teachers can do is to direct correctly those propensities in the child which need, I might say, special training along well defined lines, and make them conform to those things that have been set by those who have been studying the special functions in the mental development of the child. It is tree that there are many psychological facts that relate to the development of the child the parents do not study, hence, do not know. Yet, there are many things that are dependent upon the special work of the teacher that are left to the parents, to do their work well will constitute a special duty to child study and child rearing to successfully rear a child takes both the combined efforts of the parents and teachers. If we reflect and study for a moment the condition of the homes in the ancient time we can easily see that the home home was, in most places, secondary importance and that the children were not given scarcely any consideration only intellectual times but move in military. In China the children are put to work as soon as they are old enough there are no illustrated children's books, no nursery rhymes to inspire their imaginations, none of the bright and useful things so necessary to the happy childhood. The child grows up with but few playthings calculated to stimulate the power of the mind, so the education of the child in most Oriental nations is very poor, and we also see that the houses are not in the very best condition. They Seem to put more stress on every thing else than the home, and the rearing of children, intellectually and morally. Speaking on this subject, Karl Schmidt says, "the history of the development of the human soul, the manner of this development is the same in a race as in the individual, the same law, because the same divine thought rules in the individual, in a people, and in humanity. Humanity has, as the individual, its stages of progress, and it unfolds itself inthem. The individual, as the child, is not a rational being; he becomes rational. The child has not got the mastery over it's self, but his environments are his master; he belongs not to himself but to his surroundings. All history, be it that of individuals or humanity, of the starry heavens or the earth, is the development of life toward God. When there is development there is progress. Progress in history is only the more visible, audible, perceptible embodiment of God in humanity. Then to cause this individual development and for it to reach its highest perfection the home must be one of sunshine and happiness. The child should feel when it returns home not an aching heart and a hung down head because of its condition but he should return with a happy heart and a pleasant smile, for with these he can do the tasks assigned him willingly and cheerfully. How many boys and girls have left their homes to roam having this only excuse, unhappy home? There should always be an interest manifested toward the child, and when he sees that one has become in him he will become interested in himself, and the beginning of development starts. One writer has said "Whatever does not interest the mind, that the mind is indifferent to, and whatever it is indifferent to is to mind as if it had no existence." The child should be made to realize things of interest by encouragement and example, and this cannot be wholly done by the teacher, but must be largely done in the home. Ideals may be given in th school room, but after all the greater ideals should be the homes, for there is where he must finally go and live, a home of his own. He should take from the home of his parents happiness and pleasure. But this can not be learnt him the last few years he may be at home, but should start in early childhood and continue as a home of happiness and sunshine. Where there is no genuine love; where there is no love life is a desert of evil; where virtue trembles to trod, where hope falters, where happiness is crucified, music is banished from its joyless air, and all that is his beyond is a voiceless shore of a starless sky. Love and laughter, hope and happiness, are the champions of pleasure, the patrons and allies of civilization, the hand mail of religion, the evangel of God. They are the guardian stars of ever nation's destiny, they fondle the children in the cradle, they linger with frolicsome youth, they minister to struggling manhood and soothe the pillows of old age. Is it better to be among the humblest of those who have given to the hopeless and happiness to the distressed, of our race, than to live in history as a conquerer with hands stained with innocent blood. It would be better to have a name written among those who have loved their fellow man than to wear the laurels, that encircles the brow of an Iron Prince. It would be better to sleep in some quiet churchyard, unknown and unremembered save by those in whose hands we have scattered seeds of kindness and upon whose lives we have conjured smiles of joy, than to be confined in a coffin of gold with desolate homes as ours monuments and widows and orphans as witnesses of our glory. Every kind word we speak, every blessing we bestow is a thread of sunshine into some body's life, and all the umiles and sympathes which comes to us from other lips and other hearts are threads of love and light woven into our own. It is true that the world applauds if we triumph and despires us if we fail. If you have love to give give it to the living; If you have blessings to bestow bestow them upon the living. Who would not rather have one smile, one tender word to day than to know that a million roses would be beaped upon his coffin if he should die to-morrow? The brightest spot on earth is the home, where sobriety dwells and peace abides; where smiling confidence awaits the footfalls of fidelity, and where love fills the crimson bowls of happy hearts to the brim with the chanpaign of laughter and the sherry of song. Again I say who would not rather rejoice among the flowers of love while he lives, than to sleep the dreamless sleep beneath a wilderness of flowers? J. W. COOPER. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY See the Daily Papers for Our Magnificent World's Fair Service 8 Daily Passenger Trains Each Way. $7.50 Round Trip to St. Louis sold Daily Good for 60 days. $9.60 Round Trips to St. Louis sold daily good to Dec. 15th. '04 for return. GROWTHER & SON. LIVERY MEN. The latest style rigs, and the Best groomed horses—The most courteous treatment accorded to all—Come and see us. Sweet Springs. Mo. THE MKT WHEN YOU TRAVEL SELECT A RAILWAY AS YOU DO YOUR CLOTHES. KATY SERVICE (MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS RAILWAY.) 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