Sedalia Weekly Conservator

Sedalia Weekly Conservator. Journalism Mission In Our National Life. Address Delivered By Reverend R. Davis Account The First Anniversary of Sedalia Conservator—Here, There, And Everywhere—White Woman On Race VOL. 11: The River Side Publishing Co. said that journalism may be defined as the art of getting up a newspaper, and by the word newspaper, a daily, or at the outside, a weekly publication of general circulation is implied. Reviews and magazines, whether dealing with the absturse problem of political economy and social regeneration, or furthing an assortment of serial and short stories, poems, and sketches, for the passing of an idle hour, have nothing in common with journals proper. So also with the so-called "Trades papers" and those devoted to scientific or other special subjects. They are not in the category anymore than a grocers price current or a theater program. A news is and must be first of all a means of conveying news to the public, and journalism is the trade of the men who prepare this news. From time to time we are favored with essays on schools of journalism, generally, the production of gentlemen whose ignorance of actual newspaper work is in direct proposition of their pronounced opinions regarding the necessity of an university for teaching the unteachable. For if it be true that the poet is born and not made, it is true also that journalist must be born with an innate capacity for his work if ever he is to make any headway at it. His education can only be acquired in one school the school of experience. Farming, driving a gig, and writing editorials are accomplishments held to be within the power of every adult male not an inmate of a lunayctic asylum; but writing editorials is not all there is to journalism. The preparation, day by day, of a great newspaper requires the services of hundreds of men in many and varied capacities. Its mechanical make-up is a triumph of art, involving the use of intricate machinery and scientific processes; its business department must be as carefully guarded in every detail as the daily work of a bank or a merchants office. The business of the newspaper is to give the news; and the ideal newspaper is the one that gives the best and freshest news in the most readable shape, and with due regard to the relative importance of the respective items. There is but one other "desideratum" of a newspaper, and that is, that it should give all the news. To do this the journal must contain advertisements; these are news, the most constantly varied the freshest, the most interesting news of all for without newspaper advertisements trade would be impossible and newspapers would perish from the earth. By their means all can learn where best and cheapest to supply their wants, and by advertising all can make their wants known. It is the task of the journalist to furnish his readers with a paper which shall combine the double function of a narrator of the story of the world from day to day, and of an epitome of commercial information. To render his paper an acceptable medium to the public who want to sell or buy, the journal must have an extensive circulation; to obtain this circulation he must provide the news-seeking public with the best and fullest information gathered from every corner of the earth. The gathering and publishing of news is an expensive process, but the advertising columns furnish the sinew of war. A first-class newspaper attracts first-class advertisements; the advertisements enable the publisher to create and maintain a first-class newspaper. Thus, we see from what has been said that the mission of the journalist in our national life is an imprtant one. He may be considered as the molder of public sentiment, for he, of all men, can get the ear and eye of more persons than any man in America. His mission and business is to discuss problems and interests that affects our national life financially, socially and religiously. In the political arena he reaches the men who could never be reached by those seeking posts of trust and honor were it not that he is a journalist. The journalist is to study human character so that he may be able to advise the reading public as to the worthiness or unworthiness of him, who seeks to be placed into positions of public trust of the republic. He should be able to go into impartial investigation of the merit or demerit of any who would seek the suffrage of the community, state or nation. The journalist, like the preacher, teacher, doctor, lawyer, should be a man of one work; his profession should engage his whole time and attention. The journalist is not a one-sided character, for if he would be an instrument in the hands of providence in educating the people in the way they should be edcauted, he must be broad and fair-minded, fearful of nothing but the wrong, swayed by nothing but the true principles of justice. The true mission of the journalist is like, in kind, to that of the herald of the gospel of Christ; he is to get the news from every conceivable source and give it to the people, news gathered from all the passing events of the day that is wo thy to be read by his subscribers. Thus, Mr. Chairman, you see by what I have said what my convictions are of journalism in our national life. I do not forget that I am discussing this subject before men who are engaged in this important work, and I revere you for the good that you are doing in your journalistic profession. Your services may not be as highly appreciated as they ought to be at the present, but you be sure that nothing save the good of the people in lifting them to a higher plane be your aim, and the generations unborn will arise to call you blessed. Remember that harvest time always follow seed sowing. Seed thought is like seed corn; the germ first, then the blades, next the stalk, and by by, the full ear of corn. But the planting must preceed all this. So in your work keep at it, continue at it, always at it, and the rising sun of a better day will at last shine on your pathway and you will have your place in the galaxy of other great journalists. SEDALIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, MAY 20 1904. Here. There. And Everywhere. To hatch chickens from boiled eggs with a wooden hen see me Phillips. Mrs. Lizzie Harper departed for her home, Montgomery last Wednesday. The Moorehead brothers of Lexington, Mo. visited their sister at Kansas City last week. Mr. Thos. Young and wife of near Lexington were visitors at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Warrens recently. The closing exercises of Miss Parker's school at Lexington, Mo. was well attended and the people of that vicinity were well pleased with her work. Miss Martha Fowler, our Malta Bend, correspondent writes good news for that locality. She was a recent visitor at the Paxton home in this city. The Board of Education of Tipton, Mo. have elected Prof. A. H. Gravett, principal of their (col) school for the ensuing school year. Pof. Gravett taught at Georgetown last. Mr. F. B. Turk and wife who formerly lived here but recently at Kansas City have moved to Denver Col. They are at present stopping with Mrs. Beatty of 2443 Gilpin ave. Prof. Shelton French, who has been attending the General Conference of the A.M.E. church, at Chicago, returned Sunday and and resumed his work at Lincoln School Monday. G. W. Thomas, the banker, was in a peck of trouble Saturday. We all sympathize with George and though unable to ascertain his trouble, it appears that he sat on something hot or other wise. Rev. G. W. Reeves writes from Glasgow that the Rev. I. Will Jackson D. D. was with him on the 8th, and preached three polished sermons. The quarterly collection ammounting to $46.87 was taken. Good for Glasgow and brother Reeves. Rev. H. Green, of Marshall, Mo. former teacher of the editor of this paper, was a visitor at our office last Thursday. We were pleased to meet him in our own sanctuary. He was called to this city to preach the funeral of the late Rev. Harrison White. A reception banquet was given Thursday evening, Mav 12, by the Roosevelt negro Republican club at Douglass Hall, Lawton avenue and Beamont street, St. Louis, Mo., to Jno. C. Dancy; recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia. He delivered the address before the club. Prof. F. R. Pirkins closed the Malta Bend school with an excellent excercises at the conclusion of which Miss Pleadie Fowler was granted a diploma for excellence in elocution and deportment. Prof. Perkins' work has been so gratifying that he was relected for the next session The North street M. E. church of Marshall, Mo. informs us thru a correspondent that the work is moving along nicely. The pastor Rev. A. H. Higgs, is push- The Swellest men in town are wearing our clothing. OUR STEIN BLOCH SUITS are the most popular with careful dressers this season and we have them from 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. ing things to the front. On the 1ts., P. E., W. H. Smith visited the charge nd did yeoman service for his cause and the general good for the church During the quarterly meeting servide, 6 accesions were made to the church. Rev. J. S. Dorsey, of Springfield, Mo. passed thru our city last Thursday from Macon, Mo. in route to Warrensburg to visit a sister. Rev. Dorsey was fresh from attending the commencement of the Western Baptist college and reports everything to be in prosperous condition. Plans were perfected at the recent meeting of the board of trustees, of which he isa member to erect a new building at a cost of $21,000. This with the present accommodations will make this institution a representative school of the higher education of the Baptist youth in this state. Pres. E. L. Scruggs, was unanimously re-elected president. Miss Fannie Counce, departed for her home, Coffeyville, Kas., after a nine month stay in our city. Miss Counce is an exceptional young lady and thorough going. Her stay here has been a very pleasant one, and she has made legion of friends in the highest circle of society Miss Counce was employed in the Conservator office, unlike the usual workman she worked to please and not for salary. Every one who was fortunate to get her acquaintance, speak of her the most endearing terms. We hope to have her with us again soon. Rev. E. D. Burns closed a successful eight months' term of the Blackbur colored school with a two night exhibition last Thursday and Friday nights. A large crowd was pleasantly entertained at both meetings and all expressed themselves as highly pleased with Mr. Burn's work. He says the people of Blackburn are thorobelievers in education, regardless of race or color. W. H. Huston editor of the Sedalia Conservator, Friday night gave a very instructive talk on the needs of the race, emphasizing the necessity of harmony beween parents and teachers and the importance of the race being eduated. Rev. Burns preaches at Sedalia, Blackburn and Gilliam but will make Marshall his home the next few months. He is one of the hardest workers in the intellectual and spiritual fields and his labors are well received. Marshall Republican Res. Findly, of Hugheville and James Wilson, of Sweetsprings were Sunday visitors. John Lewis of Blackwater, Mo. came over Monday on the Katy to visit John Herndon and wife of W Johnson st. Miss Minnie Lewis has returned to her home at Hughesville, from Jefferson City where she has been attending Lincoln Institute. Plans, to affect a combinding of all the methodists denomination in the united states were presented to the A. M. E. Zion General conference at St. Louis. Editor W. H. Huston and Misses Laberta Smith and V. Jackson went to Dresden Friday to be present at the closing exercises of the public school at that place conducted by Miss Effie V. West. It is reported that during a session of the A. M. E. General Conference at Chicago. A bishop read a report of his expenses was $5000 which brought hisses bawls and jeers from all the house. It is persistently rumored that the World's Fair officials are turning the negros down; now is it not a fact that the faction of negros who are looking for boodle and trying to make politics are the ones that are turned down and doing the yelping? Money to loan; no commision: H. G. Phillips. SHOES Comfort, Style, and QUINN BROS., 20 KUHN & CO. : : : : That Combine : : : : Comfort, Style, and Durability, Go To QUINN BROS., 206 OHIO STREET. ```markdown ``` Corner Lamine & Pettis Sts. Golden Roast Coffee a lb 20c Q brand Syrup a can 10c Q brand Sorghum a can 10c Cream Chese a lb 20c Old Country Soap 6 bars 25c X-ray Soap 6 bars for 25c Sweet Apple C We also sell all kinds of Cane Butter, Eggs Etc. WM. COU We also sell all kinds of Canned Goods, Cigars and Tobacco, Butter, Eggs Etc. Quick Delivery. Elwang's Book. Editor Logan. of the Professional World, has secured the book written by a Rev. Elwang, on the negro problem, and submitted it to the faculty of the M. S. U. Editor Logan treats the book with contempt as it righteously deserves. Altho, had the editor never penned a line against it reasonable men, black or white, quickly located the reverend to be a southerner from the most biased, prejudiced and negro hating section, who being, both by nature and cultivation, crooked will never beable to see things as they are. So, brother editor, do not try to convince him of his errors but, know yourself what is what and, then, continue to improve your race, as you hava been here-to-fore. "Short Comin'." "Only one Chicago newspaper told us of the big row in the white Methodist Conference, at Los Angeles, Cal. the other day, and that was done in a few sympathetic words, while all the Chicago dailies rush to the public undergrt head lines with every little debate entered into in the Negro conferences and try to impress their readers that the Negroes in a meeting, are worse than white folks". —Chicago Conservator. One Exchange, colored, came to us this week with its whole front devoted to the, "Extremely boisterously deliberations of the A.M. E. church". And, another came shedding tears, because some hostelries, at Los Angeles drew the color line—a universal occurrence. Journals that, herald to the world all the bad things done by the race or, every injustice inflicted upon it, serve only to create a greater prejudice between both races. at Combine : ; ; : and Durability, Go To 206 OHIO STREET. BLUE FRONT. Sts. Phoees, Q. C. 10 Beil 149. Sayman's Soap 3 bars 25c Hair Pomade a bottle 25c Hoyt's Cologne 5 anc 10c Best Coal Oil per gal 20c Corn meal 2 sacks for 25 Good sweet bacon lb 12%c per gal 25c nned Goods, Cigars and Tobacco, etc. Quick Delivery. URTNEY'S GREAT SHOE STORE. The most complete stock and best equipped Shoe Store for business in Missouri :: :: :: 228 Ohio Street. NO. 3. M IDDLETON, by all that's great!" "Why, Jarvis, where did you come from? And you, Masters?" "We didn't have to come. This is home. You are the one to tell us where you came from." "I can say nearly the same thing that you have, for this city is now my home; but it's true that I've come to town very recently." "Well, have you been to lunch? No? Come on with us, then. We want to know what you've been doing while out of our sight." When the three men who had not seen one another for ten years were seated—at least, two had not seen the other—Jarvis and Masters looked the new arrival over with much interest. They had been unusually intimate as boys and young men, but Middleton had finally drifted away, and had been entirely lost sight of. His present reappearance indicated a state of health, wealth and happiness that had scarcely been promised by his earlier career, and his companions were eager to hear his story. "Yes," he responded to their looks of inquiry, "this is home, for I live with my family in the suburbs." "Family, eh? Masters and I have been married several years, but you, er—" "Oh, don't hesitate." Middleton laughed. "You wonder how such a spendthrift as I ever could afford to marry. Am I not right?" "Just about, I may as well confess." "Let me add to your surprise by saying that besides being here with my family I am here to live on my money - retired at 35 from all but gilt-edged investments." "You take away a fellow's breath! Can't you tell us about it? There must be something unusual somewhere in it." "There is" "Well, then, unless of course there's some reason—" "Oh, no, not in the least. We used to tell one another about everything, and I don't know but we may as well resume confidence now that we shall most frequently. My fortune came to me by the most extraordinary circumstance you ever heard of. A ghost is the source of it." "A ghost!" his two friends exclaimed. "Oh, no. Mid, you can't palm off any of the old riemarole on us now, in our mature wisdom." "Honest, though. Do you want to hear about it?" "Of course. We haven't forgotten your old yarns. We're listening." "Yes, but I tell you that it isn't one of the old yarns. However, I'll let you hear the whole thing, and you can form your own opinion, so here goes." "You know that I had three characteristics, which used to stand out rather more prominently than others—the knack of making money, the foolishness of getting rid of it in a hurry, and a highly wrought imagination. I suppose the last trait was in your mind when you referred to my prospective statement as one of the 'old yarns.' Undoubtedly it was these three in concerted action, with the last in the ascendant, that operating by some hidden law brought me into conjunction with the unseen powers and put me in the opulent state. This is how it came about: "When you last knew of me I was at the bank. In the way of business I had considerable to do with Mr. Atherton, whom you of course remember. For some reason or other he took quite a liking to me, and invited me to his home. I returned his affection by taking more than a liking to his daughter, the handsomest, sweetest—" "Hold on! Story, please." "Well, she's Mrs. Middleton now, and I haven't changed my opinion, so you can fill it in to suit yourselves." "As soon as I met her I went to saving with the desperate hope that when I got a little ahead I could make a fortunate investment and be enabled to marry. Well, when the bank went down I was out of a good place, but fortunately my savings were located elsewhere, and I was not altogether cut off from expectation. Just then I did a foolish thing. I told Mr. Atherton how I felt toward his daughter, in the hope that he would give me a chance somewhere. It had the opposite effect, and whatever good opinion he entertained toward me was summed up in the declaration that he liked me well enough as a young friend, but that if I espired to the hand of his daughter I must be able to draw my check for at least one hundred thousand. "This let me down a good deal, but in the process it thoroughly stirred me up. I told Miss Atherton how matters stood, and that if I had her encouragement I should go hard after that hundred thousand. Of course, I felt pretty sure of her answer, and when I got it I started out for the money. As I look back to that time I am amazed at my enthusiasm, but I was in dead carnest then. "I came down from our small town to this big New York City, thinking that all kinds of fortune awailed the right man here. After a week I began to lose confidence, and one day I took "I took out my knife, and carefully pricked all over the place where the hand entered the wall. On one end of a brick I found a circular hole, as if it had been ground out, but now filled with dust. In this a ring was sunk, and when I got my finger through it you can imagine my feelings, for it had certainly been put there to open an aperture. If I pulled, what would be the result? Would a door swing open and disclose a skeleton? It took some nerve to pull, but I was never given to hesitancy, and so gave a ferk. "Nothing stirred. I tried again, with a strong, steady movement. At this two bricks came away in my hand, uphold by the ring. They had been fastened together on the inside, and the ring was bolted through. I tried to get the light to shine in the opening, but could not. Then I ventured with my hand and arm, as I had seen the ghostly arm do, but I could not reach anything. "I was much excited, and determined to tear the wall away. That hole was made for some purpose, and I was going to learn what. I brought some tools, and went to work. I supposed that I should have to go to the level of the floor, but when I had taken out about two feet two bricks wide I came to a shelf, upon which rested a small wooden box. Eagerly I drew this out, expecting to find money, for it came to me as obvious that the chinking sound made by the ghostly arm was designed to tell that there was money within for me. But as I took up the box my spirits fell. It could not have weighed more than half a pound. "The reaction from my hope was so great that I went to the table slowly, and opened the box with a feeling something like disgust. A note was lying beside a small bottle. This I unfolded, and read with a slight curiosity, which became exasperation by the time I was through. It merely said that the bottle in the box contained an imprisoned genie in liquid form, whose purpose was to benefit the finder by turning all iron upon which it was poured into gold. "A boax! I exclaimed, in anger from my overstrained nerves. Then I stopped short. How had I found that bottle? By means more occult than I could explain. And there was no denying anything, for box, bottle and note lay before me. If the ghostly arm could do so much, what might not the liquid do? I sobered down. The whole thing was plainly of a piece, and having gone so far, it might be well to go the entire length. "My ardor revived. I took the bottle up gingerly, and held it to the light. It was filled with a bluish liquor which seemed to emit little sparks when agitated. Could it turn iron to gold? My head was fairly dizzy with the thought, I must try. "Taking it over to the brick hearth, I opened it, and poured a few drops on an ax which I had brought into use in demolishing the chimney. Instantly a steaming vapor arose, sending off a tremendous heat. The helve was burned up in the twinkling of an eye, and I jumped back in amazement. By the time I looked again, an ax of gold lay in place of the iron, and the brick was powdered half an inch deep. "As soon as the ax could be examined and I satisfied myself that it really had been changed, I went wild. Everything in the house that was of iron I speedily brought and made over into gold. So eager was I that I did not notice the liquid until I realized that it was all expended. What a fool I had been not to husband it! Yet not altogether, for scattered about was a fortune in gold, which I gazed upon while resting for a few minutes. "Now, there isn't any use in drawing this story out, as you have the main fact. I concealed the gold—my gift from the ghostly arm—and afterward turned it into securities through the proper channels. "The finish is given in a word. I was a rich man, Mr. Atherton, was a willing father-in-law, and I have the loveliest wife in the world. You are both invited to dine with me to-morrow evening, and enjoy her welcome to my friends." A short pause followed the conclusion of Middleton's story. Then Jarvis said, "That's a very interesting way to tell us how you won your wife by making money, but, or—" "Gentlemen," interrupted Middleton, "all I ask you to believe is that the man who resolutely sets to work for a legitimate purpose will receive assistance beyond himself."—Farm and Fireside. the cars to get out in the country and think awhile. I alighted at a village, and renting a wheel, struck off along a lonely road, where everything would be quiet. "As I bowled ahead, trying to let the imagination that had spun so many impossible stories for your entertainment suggest some scheme for getting rich with the few thousand I had on hand, I came upon the most picturesquely situated residence that I ever saw. The plan I was after came to me in a moment. If I could only secure this place and draw the attention of some wealthy city resident to it as desirable for a country house, I could probably double my money in six months. "This was not such a mad scheme as you may suppose, for the locality had wonderful natural beauty and possibilities. I shall not stop to tell you about that, however, but get along in the direct line of my story. I turned into the driveway to see what I could learn, and found that the place was without inhabitant. Inquiry at houses in the vicinity brought to light the fact that no one wished to rent or buy the property, because it was haunted. This was stated in sober earnest by the ruralities, and served to give zest to my pursuit, for it would tend to cheapen the price. As I had no faith in any other ghosts than those of my own creating, that part of it did not trouble me. "It took me several weeks to get the deed. Then I believed that a little tidying up would add to the salability, so I hired some men and directed them in the work. As this would take up the time until late in the fall, and since it would be necessary for some one to be on the ground to give information to anyone who might answer my advertisements, I moved in. Board was obtained at a neighbor's, but I roamed in the house, which was quite old-fashioned and substantially built. "Time slipped by, and I had several possible purchasers. Finally one man took an option on it until spring. He paid me $100, provided I was willing to remain and look after it, I agreed, as I had nothing special to take me elsewhere. It was now the middle of November. "After the sale was thus practically made, time hung much heavier on my hands. I no longer had the stimulus of expectation, and often felt lonesome and tired of the situation. Such a state was inclined, as it always had been, to excite my imagination, and I occupied much of my leisure in cooceting the most unlikely vagaries that ever came to anyone. This was my especial occupation during the long evenings. "One winter's evening I made a fire in the grate, which was not one of the modern kind, but built of brick. Then I sat down before it in an arm-chair, ready to let fancy direct my thought. Taking the solitariness of the location into account, and the rather ancient appearance of the room in which I sat, it was not difficult to have the imagination run. "In this way I was soon able to see that the fire blazing in front of me was in an old-time fireplace heaped high with logs and flanked by andirons. Playing about the floor, too, were the children of years ago in their dress so quaint, while at my right the open pantry was stocked with an abundance of pies and doughnuts and cakes whose peers are now so few and far between. "So I mused until finally bedtime for the youngsters came "After they were gone I sat a little while in the quiet that came to my mind, and just as I was ready to rise the clock on the mantel struck 12. I continued to sit still, listening for the last faint echoes, when I saw the shadow of an arm on the brick at the right side of the chimney. It was a peculiar shadow, at once arousing my curiosity, and really startling me a little. Up to this time I had not seen or heard the slightest indication of any visitant or occurrence that could ever have given the reputation of being haunted to the house. Might not this be of that character? "The peculiarity in this appearance was its extreme thinness, as nearly as I can express it. There was no hindrance whatever to sight. I looked right through it, and saw the divisions of the bricks. I recognized this much at the first instant that it came before me, but as it moved I was attracted still further to the side, where the arm that made the shadow was to be seen distinctly. The moment my eye fell on this I saw at once why the shadow had the peculiarity mentioned—that from which it came was precisely like it in this respect. I could see through the arm itself as readily as I did through the shadow! "Now, never having met any ghosts but those in my own mind, I was for the moment awed and subdued. Naturally I glanced to get a book at the person who owned the arm. You may know that I was still more startled when I saw that there was no person. The arm from the finger-tips to the shoulder, and its shadow, made up all that was visible. Truly this was uncanny, and I virtually stopped breathing as I saw that shoulderless arm move slowly toward the chimney. "I watched it with an utter absorption, and saw the fingers begin to work at the bricks. I could not see the bricks move, but the arm suddenly disappeared up to the elbow. I shivered. There before my eyes was that part of an arm from the elbow to the shoulder attached to no body, and from the elbow to the hand it was shoved out of sight into solid brickwork! "A moment after the hand entered the wall I heard a 'chink, chink, chink,' seven times, as distinct as if I were dropping silver dollars into a pile. When the noise ceased the arm, was withdrawn, and disappeared as suddenly as it came. "I sat quite still for several minutes. I need not blush to say that the spirit of investigation was not very strong in me beyond looking over my shoulder and glancing into the corners of the room. But the more I thought about this singular occurrence, the stronger grew the impression that the arm and its movements were designed to give me directions of some sort. This worked on me until I pulled myself together and decided to look more fully into the affair "I first spent half an hour trying to find out if there was not some natural cause for the appearance—something hanging about the room that would cast just such a shadow. I discovered nothing that was even remotely satisfactory, and convinced that the arm was supernatural, I keyed myself up and took a lamp close to the chimney. No marks of any kind were to be seen. With the activity of search my fall self-control returned, and also, instead of a lessening, as would be natural, there was a deepening of the conviction that there was some important information for me in the movements of the arm. "Well?" "That's just it," broke in Masters. "When we remember how you used to spin yarns, you know——" The Best Missouri News Value of Kansas City's Property. A report by the comptroller of Kansas City. Mo., contains a statement showing the value of the city property, such as the parks, water works, public buildings, schoolhouses and fire equipment. The total valuation, as estimated by the comptroller, is $14,420,343.38. The parks are valued at $4,000,000 and the waterworks at $5,033,000. The fire department, with its equipment and buildings, is estimated to be worth $305,000. The school property is valued at $3,000,000. The city's outstanding indebtedness, after deducting cash and bonds held in the interest and sinking funds, is $3,568,065.01. This includes $500,000 of water bonds issued in January, leaving $775,000 of the amount of bonds voted that has not yet been sold. Dr. Jesse Favors Agriplinists President Jesse, of Missouri university, thinks that young men should take up agriculture in preference to law or medicine. Recently he said: "Unless a boy has a deep-seated preference for some profession it does not seem to me wise for him to ignore the great opportunities that agriculture offers, whether he was born in the country or in the city. In my opinion no other occupation offers so rich rewards, all things considered, as agriculture offers those who are willing to train themselves for it as earnestly as they would train themselves for law or medicine." Slept in Missouri Building. A tall Missourian entered the Missouri building at the fair and after looking about him for a few minutes sat down on a sofa. Evidently the countryman had walked far and was tired. The large, heavily cushioned sofa felt comfortable. Then, to the amazement of a number of ladies present, he calmly removed his shoes and placed them under the sofa. With equal composure he carefully placed his valise on the sofa, and, curling himself up, was soon asleep. Chillicothe Loses the Division. The committee of business men who went to Chicago to confer with President Earling, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, in an effort to have the order providing for the removal of the Milwaukee division from Chillicothe to Laredo rescinded, failed in their purpose. President Earling said that it would take more additional business than Chillicothe could furnish to compensate the company for allowing the division to remain there. Normal Commencement. The thirty-fourth annual commencement exercises of the Second District State Normal school were held Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at Warrensburg. Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, chancellor of Nebraska university, preached the baccalaureate sermon Sunday morning. Dr. J. M. Greenwood, superintendent of the public schools of Kansas City, delivered an address Monday night. There are 68 graduates. To Compete With Standard Oil. Agents of the Penn Oil & Supply company, of Otumwa closed a deal at Chillicothe for the purchase of land from the Wabash Railroad company upon which they will erect a large building and tanks. The Penn company is one of the few that have withstood the competition of the Standard people. It handles lubricating and illuminating oils. To Send Accuser to Asylum The attorneys for Robert Kearney, a rich livery man and grandson of Gen. Phil Kearney of Mexican and civil war fame, expects to secure his acquittal from a charge of highway robbery by having James Troutman, a pal of Kearney's, declared insane. Troutman confesses partaking in robbery and names Kearney as his associate. Missouri Normal Wins. Missouri won over Nebraska in the annual debate at Kirksville between the state normal schools of Kirksville and Peru, Neb., on the question, "Resolved, That the labor unions, in their practical operations, are antagonistic to the general welfare." Missouri had the negative. Shipped In 2,448,000 Eggs. A Greenfield man named Wilkerson paid out $29,000 during the month of April for eggs, butter and poultry and he didn't spend a nickel of it outside of Greene county. He shipped 17 carloads of eggs or a total of 2,448,000. Worth of Telephone in a Store The firm of Porter & Porter in Carrollton has sued the Missouri Valley Telephone company for $10,000 for removing a telephone from their store without proper cause. A Pioneer Drops Dead. W. J. Scarbrough, a pioneer resident of Vernon county, dropped dead from his chair after eating a meal in Nevada. Seven Eisters Die of Consumption. Mrs. W. C. Petrie, wife of a Dawn stockman, has died at Chillicothe. She was the seventh of a family of eight daughters to die of consumption. Mrs. J. C. Van Bibber, of Tatessville, Ray county, is the only surviving member of the family. Resident of Clay County 42 Years. Hubert Marden, a pioneer settler of Clay county, died at his home three miles south of Barry. He went to Clay county in 1842. He was 88 years old. He had lived in the county 42 years. Catholic Priest to Pay Costs. After being on the Livingston county circuit court decket for 25 years, the Menke will case was put out of litigation. Judge Alexander made an order approving the report of the receiver, S. F. Farrar, of Braymer, and discharging him from further service. In 1879, Illet Tobien died in Caldwell county, possessed of a farm of 1,040 acres. His will bequeathed all of his estate to his wife during her lifetime, after which it was to be divided equally between her heirs and the Lexington Catholic church. The heirs of Mrs. Tobien contested the will and it was carried through the supreme court twice on the merits. Subsequently, it was taken twice more to the supreme court and once to the Kansas City court of appeals on technicalities. The final outcome was that the church received one-fourth of the estate. The case which has just been settled was the Rev. Father J. J. Lilly, formerly of Kansas City, but now of Springfield, Mo., and others against Maria T. Menke, of Cincinnati, to decide who should pay certain costs in the original case. In the meantime the land involved, valued at $40,000, has been in the hands of the receiver. The court found judgment against the plaintiff, the Rev. Father Lilly, causing the interests he represented to lose $4,206 in costs. Dabba Wants a Long Term; The case of Judge Hugh Dabbs, against whom Attorney General Crow has instituted ouster proceedings, was argued before the supreme court and submitted and ten days given the attorney general to file brief. This is the case to determine the tenure of Judge Dabb's term. He was filling the office of circuit judge of Jasper county by appointment of the governor, and in the late election was depleted by Judge Redfern, who died the following day without qualifying. Judge Dabbs contends that he is entitled to the office until the election of 1908, and that his term does not expire in 1904. Must Consider the Senators. A recent dispatch from Jefferson City said one obstacle lies in the path of Folk partisans who expect offices under the regime of the St. Louis prosecutor, should he be elected governor, and that is confirmation by the senate, and the 17 holdover members of that body, almost to a man, can be relied upon to thwart the fulfilment of some of the promises and pledges which it is said are now being made. To Be Guests of Gov. Dockery. Mrs. Mary Phillips Montgomery, of Oregon, daughter of the late Missouri governor, John S. Phelps, who presided over the executive mansion during her father's term of office, a member of the lady board of managers of the world's fair, and Mrs. Daniel Manning, of New York, president of the board, will be guests of Gov. Dockery and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Morrow, at the mansion in Jefferson City, June 1. Columbia Bond Case Set for June 2. The supreme court set the hearing of the case of the state ex rel. City of Columbia against the state auditor, Albert O. Allen, for hearing June 2. This is a mandamus proceeding to compel the state auditor to register $100,000 bonds voted recently by Columbia to purchase the electric light and water plants. The state auditor contends that the bonds were issued illegally. Two Suits Against Burlington. Carl Wiles, a former section foreman on the Hannibal & St. Joseph, has brought suit against the Burlington for $15,000 damages for injuries sustained while riding on a handcar. Charles B. Martin, of Shelby county, has brought suit against the same road for $1516 damages by reason of the killing of 3 mules by a passenger train. Work Begun on Sedalia Shous. Vice President and General Manager Russell Harding, of the Missouri Pacific Railway company awarded the contract for grading the site for the company's new shops at Sedalia to Henry Dalhoff, who has begun grading. Work will soon begin on the building, which is expected to be completed by March 1, 1905. Wilson Wins in Holt County. At the Holt county convention Senator Francis Wilson, of Platte City, was permitted to name nine delegates to the congressional convention to be held in St. Joseph. It was a hard fought contest between Wilson and Congressman Cochran. The key to the congressional fight now lies in Nodaway county. Buchanan county is conceded to Cochran. Historic Building Torn Away. A building with a history is being torn down at Boonville. It was a brick structure erected seventy years ago on the corner of Morgan and Main streets from where the southwest trail from Boonville started and wound its way more than 200 miles in a southwesterly direction until it reached Springfield. Catholic Church at Osegola. Rev. Father Thomas F. Lillis, vicar-general of the Kansas City diocese of the Catholic church, May 15 dedicated the new First Catholic church at Osceola. It is built of stone and is the only Catholic church in St. Clair county. Conference One Week Later. The Missouri conference of the M. 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The formula of a noted Boston physician, and used with great success as a Vaginal Wash, for Leucorrhea, Pelvic Catarrh, Nasal Catarrrh, Sore Throat, Sore Eyes, Cuts, and all soreness of mucus membrane. In local treatment of female ills Paxtonels investigate. Used as a Vaginal Wash we challenge the world to prove its equal for theongness. It is revolutionizing and healing power; it kills all germs which cause inflammation and discharges. All leading druggists keep Paxtine; price $0.00 a bout. If you drown not, send to us for it. Don't take a substitute thereof nothing like Paxtine. Write for the Free Box of Paxtine to-day. E. PAXTON CO., 4 Pope Bldg., Boston, Mass. THE ORIGINAL WATERPROOF OILED CLOTHING TOWER'S FISH BRAND Made in black or yellow for all kinds of wet work. On sale everywhere. Look for the Sign of the Fish and the name TOWER on the buttons. A J TOWER CO. BOSTON MASS U. A. TOUR CAMPANION CO. LANDING TROYA CAN. 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The sick and suffering all over the world are asking for Dodd's Kidney Pills. Dear Sirs, I am the doctor who attended me recommended me to take your "Dodd's Kidney Pills." After two boxes I got some relief. But unfortunately I have not been able to go on with the treatment, being unable to find any Pills in the Chemist who sold me the two boxes has informed me that he had sent an order for some, and has been keeping me waiting for more than one month. This is the reason why I am writing to you to request you to have the goodness to send me by return of post six boxes for you as soon as as I receive them from the next. Kindly let me know at the same time where your branch agency in Egypt is to be found. Thanking you in anticipation. Dear Sirs: I want to purchase six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, but I don't know exactly where to apply at Buffalo or London. I suppose they can be sent by express or registered mail from either place. Please get the pills without delay. 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The big book which heretofore was sold at 50 cents each and which is now free for the asking, is 84x11½ inches in size, contains thousands of illustrations, descriptions and prices, is thoroughly complete including dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, furnishing goods, notions, milinery, carpets, upholstering, hardware, tools, electrical goods, guns, sporting goods, sewing machines, musical instruments, organs, pianos, furniture, baby carrages, crockery, musical instruments, goods, optical goods, talking machines, moving picture apparatus, buggies, harness, saddles, saddlery, watches, jewelry, silverware, clocks, refrigerators, tinware, everything used in the home, in the shop, in the factory and on the farm, and all were ever offered by any other house. If you have one of our big catalogues or have ever seen one you know what it is, the most complete, most up to date and lowest priced catalogue ever published. If you haven't our big catalogue don't fail to send for one at once. 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Wear, during the night, old, loose kid gloves, or bandage lightly in old, soft cotton or linen. For red, rough and chapped hands, dry, fissured, itching, teversal palms, with brittle, shapeless nails and painful finger ends, this treatment is simply wonderful, frequently curing in a single application. In no other aliment have Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment been more effective. Our objection to the "Star-Spangled Banner" as the national air is that so many citizens of the nation never see anything "by the dawn's early light."—Kansas City Journal. K. C. S. Almanac for 1904 The Kansas City Southern Railway Company's Annual Almanac is now ready for distribution. It contains the usual monthly calendars, many useful household hints and information concerning the Country in Missouri, Arkansas, The Indian Territory, Texas and Louisiana, Write for a copy to, S. G. Warrier, G. Pass, & Tkt. Agt. K. C. S. Ry., Kansas City, Mo. Jersey applejack is said to prevent hydrophobia and cause "snakes." The economic and moral status of the fluid is thus open to debate—N. Y. World. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot Ease. A certain cure for swollen, sweating, hot, aching feet. At all druggists, 25c. Accept no substitute. Trial package FREE Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. The Japanese word just now is Wijublate—Indianapolis News. Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds—F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900 Father—Do you ever have any doubts about the truth of what your husband tells you? Daughter—Never! I know he couldn't tell the truth if he tried!—Chicago Chronicle. LEATHER FROM FISH SKINS A great deal of good leather comes out of the sea—not the kind of leather that comes from the backs of wairus, seal and otter; everybody knows about that. There is a queerer leather, which comes from the bodies of fish, says the Canadian Harness and Carriage Journal. An extremely fine quality of green leather made in Turkey is manufactured from the skin of an ugly fish called the angel fish. This is a kind of shark—a shark with thick, wing-like fins that have earned for him the name of angel, though he doesn't look a bit like an angel, but rather the opposite. The sword grips of the officers of the German army are made from shark leather, too. They are beautiful in pattern, being marked with dark diamond shaped figures. This skin comes from a North sea shark known as the diamond shark. German leather manufacturers have tried to produce a leather from animal hides that shall supplant this skin, but in vain. Unlike animal leather, fish leather is absolutely impervious to water and never gets soggy from dampness. Therefore it is ideal for sword grips, as no matter how much the hand may perspire, the grip remains hard and dry. The sturgeon, despite his lumpy armor, furnishes a valuable and attractive leather. When the bony plates are taken off there pattern remains on the skin just as the pattern of alligator scales remains on alligator leather. The Pacific coast sturgeon and the sturgeon of the great lakes produce a tough leather that is used to make laces for joining leather belting for machinery, and the laces often outwear the belting. The strange garfish, an American fresh water fish, with long toothed jaws like those of the crocodile, has a skin that can be polished smooth until it has a finish like ivory. It makes beautiful jewel caskets and picture frames. The skin cf the garfish used to be converted into armor by some tribes of American savages. The hide is so tough and hard that it makes a breastplate that can turn a knife or spear. Some of the finer specimens that have been found are hard enough to turn even a blow from a tomahawk. The savages who wore this fish armor also used to wear a fish helmet. It was made from the skin of the prickly porcupine fish, and besides protecting the wearer's head, it was used as a weapon of offense. The warriors butted their enemies with it, and as it had hundreds of ironlike spikes, the operation was eminently painful to the object of attack. In Gloucester, the "king town" of fish, the humble cod has been utilized with success for making leather for shoes and gloves. In Egypt men walk on sandals made from the skins of Red sea fish. In Russia certain peasant costumes are beautifully trimmed with the skins of a fine food fish, the turbot. Bookbinders in Europe are binding books with eelskin. The eelskin serves another and less pleasant purpose. It is braided into whips. The writer was the unhappy member of a European private school where one of these eelskin whips was a prominent instrument of discipline, and he has never cared for eels since then. Along the big salmon rivers of St伯利亚 the natives often wear brilliant leather garments dyed red and yellow. They are made from salmon skins. In Alaska beautiful waterproof bags are made from all sorts of fish skins. The queerest use is that to which the intestines of the sea lions are put. They are slit and stitched together to form hooded coats, which are superior to India rubber as waterproof garments. Walrus intestines are made into sails for boats by the Eskimo or northwestern America. Even the frog does not escape. Several factories in France and a few in America make card cases and other small leather articles from his skin. Clocks in China. A Japanese newspaper says: "The home market for clocks is gradually becoming depressed, owing to the war, the high-priced article suffering most. On the other hand the exportation of clocks to south China is increasing. The exports amounted to 370,000 yen (185,000) in value last year, and will probably exceed that sum this year. These clocks are principally used by the Chinese for decorative purposes rather than for telling the time." Surprised Her. A gibl-tongued fakir with a wagon load of bulbs sold out his entire stock in trade in short order the other day. "Here y'are, gents." He was announcing genuine Bermuda Allium cepa bulbs. They'll grow into the most useful flower kings. American household; fragrant and rich in fragrance of the flowers for them that likes that kind. They'll grow anywhere inside the house or out in the garden. Git 'em now an' surprise your wife. Ten cents—three for a quarter!" One confiding soul bought a half dollar's worth and his wife surprised him. Options just onions? Put them in the cellar? Please don't go out without a guardian when you buy flowers hereafter!"—Chicago Inter Ocean. West Virginia Aroused. Roberts, W. Va., May 16. Many interesting discoveries are being made and many wonderful cures reported recently, but nothing has been seen or heard of in this state to equal the wonderful work of a remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills. The people are very enthusiastic about it, for it seems that there is no case that this wonderful medicine cannot cure. That is why the people that of Mr. John J, Ash, of this place, is conspicuous for its completeness. Mr. Ash was a great sufferer with Kidney trouble. He was gradually growing worse till at the last he was forced to get up three or four times every night. He had tried many medicines without any good result, but at last he found the right one in Mr. John J. He says, "the very first bit of Dodd's Kidney Pills did me more good than anything I took in my life." Now Mr. Ash is well and can sleep all night as comfortably as he ever could. Had to Come Across. Guest—Watter, bring me a tiptop dinner. You know what that means, don't you? Waiter—Yes, sah. 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Men hide many defects of character under an assumption of dignity. A woman finds no trouble in detecting the beauty tricks of another woman. A similarity of tastes in jokes is a great assistant to marital felicity—N, Y. Times. The boy who is paid to be good never earns the money—Chicago Record Herald. The View Point. "Dar's two sides to cv'y question," said Uncle Eben. "When a mule is bein' hiecked to make him travel, he reckons a man's bour de obstatemat animal dar is." As to Popularity. "The man who wants to be popular must be a cheerful liar." "I don't see why." "Because no man can gain popularity by telling people the truth about themselves."—Chicago Poet. **Pa's Views About Goliath.** Teacher—Can any little boy tell me how it was that David prevailed against the giant Goliath? Pupil—My pa says brute strength never is in it with the feller with a pocketful of rocks.—Boston Transcript. Peace societies ought to take heart. 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Whatever form of illness affords you, our interested friends of Grace and Women, will explain your trouble and our method of cure. A copy will be mailed free with a Generous Sample of the Tablets, to any woman addressing THE PISO COMPANY Clark and Liberty Streets, WARREN, PA. Within the past few years, according to a well known writer, a new literature has been added to our growing American stock. It is the literature of the railroads. The Passenger Traffic Department of the M. K. & T. Ky has issued a number of illustrated booklets and pamphlets, which cannot but appeal to the young. The couples of "Indian Territory," "Texas," "Trade Follows The Flag," "Business Chances," "Mexico," "California," etc. 5T. LOUIS, MO. FREE TRIPS TO WORLD'S FAIR. In a context of skill we are going to reward every successful competition with a FREE LOUIS FAIR. We will be at LOUIS, No Caramelling. No Work. Full participation. Map of the World's Fair sent for 10 cents at 249 Park Avenue, St. Louis, MO. 2349 Park Avenue, St. Louis, MO. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISE YOUR advertisement in this paper, the Brtutia Wookly —Yonservator- WR Beaton 0 5.6 +s Editor GM Bugdih cose ye Manager. Dibbibaed every Feiilay mornine and entered at Bodatin Post Office ns see- orl class matter, Per Year (in advance)... $1.00 Kix months (in advance)... 5, 60 ingle Copy cece cee cee OS Obitnarion of more than 10 tines, Derline see ceca eee eos 4 O24 Resolutions, enrd of thanks poi functions ete. perline . " Rueding Noticos por six lines ne WOME - cee eee 2h Vernal Discounts on all ranving saves tisements: Koecial rates to merchants All apace must be paid (oF in ndvnnne Money wnat aecompany all matter for publication | ‘Your patrdnage solicited | Hiaranteed over 700 paid subseriders Voyvments nay be made by PO, Money Coder, Registor letter or Express Or. er Fommumieations shold rench ue by ‘Woduenday tu insure publiention No attent Zn given to. anonymons com pranlentions. #rraspon lene containing nows of in- ferest to the public earnestly slieited Agents wanted, Write for terms ————- Vink for The-Setf one ood thoughts Am knew it to be Thine nen i Wetter Gan a thousand stoaned From fields by others sown, ‘The Consrervator will in all local political contests sup- port for Punic Posrrroxs, only good and reliable men irrespective of their politic- al or business affiliations, We take this position, be- cause we feel that we car hest subserve the Puaic i- TPRESTS by maintaining this Patrioric Stanp. It you doubt self, how can yor hope to have others to place con- fidence in you? ‘Tuere is one occupation that, requires all the time an individu- al has, Jt isas follows:-attending to One's Own BUSINESS. ‘I'm: movementy that are being set in operation for the reforma- Yon among our people, are, in- deed, commendable. No man or woman should fail to lend their moral and financial support to a- ny enterprise that, tends towards the elevation of our people. anv where, esnecially here. You thins seformution is ueedeu? If so, will fou help? Upon what is an individnal's worth based, his rating as riven hy some institution. or (he opin ion of the best citizens of a com munity. based upon his uscful- ness, generosity and character? Jet us be careful, lest we be vrazed by ayorice and greed, Our nobler impulses must predomi- wate if we wish to serve humani- ty, This service is the noblest of all. Vererans of the civil war of this community have lost their most eminent representative, in the person of the late Rev. Harri- son White, of this city. His pre- ewinence is illustrious because of the useful and honorable life he lived. By indomitable will and perseverance, he has reared a Temily, a large one too, ard well educsted and cultured, Besides from this, he has ever stood as an ‘ardent advocate of purity of the home and the higher type of ne- gre character, We are grieved at bis, being teken away, but we Sbout glad hallelujahs over his hoble life and Godly example, _ Witt not the small remnant of vld soldiers, who have fought so mebly for our and their freedom devote more time to their homes a churches, instead of bringing down upon their sacred, gray e disgrace and shame hy he- yee loiters in saloons and pub- lic resorts of questionable repute? Can they not see the diffirence between the life they are living and the life but recently lived by their fellow comrade, father White? We pen this rebuke ap- on their conduct not that we love them less but because the older ‘they become and the more deci- “mated their ranks the more noble ‘they appear, How dearly we love ‘their silvered locks, and how eag- roy will we offer them our strong youg arms to help them along ‘if th will vat use more thought ‘in their futuce conduct! Let no young man or woman, however well educated or refined, pass with contempt any old soldier, however he may have fallen, for he has done for us a noble service, and no blunders he may commit now should remove our charity from surrounding him, | Scroors of all classes will have closed in less thana month's time | This proposition will then submit itself to every parent and guardt- |r of children, what shall I put |my boy or girl to doing? Well may the question cause moments of sober reflection, because, if thet child is not placed in a prop- ler sphere of occupation, during the stonmer vacation, all the mor- al aesthetic ideals instilled by the teacher and parent willbe dwarf- ed, if not totally destroyed. One writer bas truthfally said, that the greatest study of manis man We would say that the study that ‘is far greater than the study of ‘mar, is the study the child, from whom the man or woman is to be developed. ‘There-fore, to have our boys and girls develop the noplest menhood and womanhood attainable, let us look to tneirem- ployment, for fear that they may be thrown into positions, where the acquisition of immoral pro- pensitics may do more harm than the financial income will do wood. In letting your children out for service, dear parent or guardian, ascertain, first, mark you, the condition of the moral :tmosphere into which they are to go, then, and not until then, look after the wages your child is to receive. ‘Too often have we permitted our children to enter positions where the monetary income is great but the evil influences that surround are irresistible to the inexperi- enced youth. And too frequently asa result of their inexperience. have our brightest ant mobliest minded youths been destroyed, simply because they were in im- proper positions by careless ud rents, . thomas Davis, of Dresden. Mo. |hands in the cash for the Con- servator, Mr. Davis is the only wine of a large numder of progres: ive neyro farmers and fruit grow ‘ers of that section that is laying the fondation of future fortunes. | Alford Wilson, of Malta Hend, a present residing in Kansas City. was amoung ‘he excursion ‘ists on our streets Sunday, Mr, Wilson is now employed as check- ing clerk by the Mo. P, R.R. company, ‘The Warsaw public school clos- ed on Friday, May, 6th. with very excellent exercises. Ava mark respect for the teacher, Miss Maude Lewis of Hughesville, th patrons tendered an elegant re- ception. Miss Lewis hus now re turned hom Rev. J. S. Pinkard of Muskoge Ind. ‘T. while en route from St Louis to Warrensburg, stopped over here Sunday morning and preached an able sermon tor the Rev. T, H. Warfiicld. The good brother departed in the afternoon for Warrensburg. He spoke in the most flattering terms of the recent strike nade by the negro oil company at Masicagee, well o. 1 belonging to this compeny has produced oil in paying quantit, already. Mrs, Marguerite Cook will serve lunches at her hall on north Lamine for the court sisters next week, The La.e G, Harrison White, A Brief Sketch of His Life And Earthly Career. The Rev. G. Harrison White departed this life, at his home in west Sedalia, Monday, May, 9tiv. at the matured age of 67 years, 7 months and 7 days. He bad been ill for several weeks, bence, death had no terrors for him, " ‘The funeral services were held at the Morgan street Baptist church, Reverends E. M. Wilson, of Warrensburg and Harrison Green of Marshall, officiating. A- bout the bier, sat many ofhis sil- vered headed comrades of Shaw /Post G. A, R.and many promi- [nent citizens, who were his most [intimate friends, After avery sol- emn service, the Remains were tenderly borne to the city ceme- tery, Where they were consigned to the grave, amid the most sa- ‘cred silence, | Rev. White was a strikingty pe of manhood, possessing those el+ ements ol genuine worth thet, not only won friends but, retained them when once won, He was born ia Kentucky, Oct. 16:h, 1836 and died May, 9th. 'o4, | At 21, he ame to Missourn, here he spent the greater part of- his lie, Having married a congenial Companion, in the person of Muss Hanna Whittield, home to him! Was ever a haven of rest and re pose. He delighted in communing, with his children, eleven out of seventeen survive to perpetuate bis memory, ‘Phe Free Baptists are sorely grieved at his taking away, for he was the oldest minister of this| connetion, Indecd, he was the| first to carry that faith among] his people, in Saline county, where they are very numerous. | tis life, tho simp ¢, was of the purest and most Godly of ail teat The city has lost a noble Sittaeiy the clurch a venerable leader, the Old Soldiers a true comrade and | the home a father, who was the| most fatherly of the fatherly, May his children, and’ others, venerate his memory by living as usefully and honorably as belived, | | G. QO. Brown, foreman of ‘Crouch and son fine horse barr |in this city, wes in Newton,Neb and Hossington, Kan. attending to business for the firm last week | Mr. Brown is a young man of striking business qualification "and is weil honord by his eplmoy: fers. | Mrs, Caroline Jackson, in com: pany with Robt, Edwards, of Muskcooge, Ind, T. departed for the World's Fair City, over the Mo P, 12:35 A. M. train Thurs: day morning. They report a mow enjoyable time. Mat Embree, a former resident of this place, was here Monday, bringing himocli richand meeting his old friends. We are grateful to him for ordering us to become a weekly visitor to his home. Mr. Embree hasa paying position at Tipton. Thursday, May 128:30 P. M, Married at the home of the bride parents, Mr, Prank Butier and Miss Girtrude Divers, voth of this city, Revs Richard Day's officiating. ‘Phe newly wedded couple will be at home to friends at the residence ot William Og- den on EK. cooper. Misses Saili aud Malinda Blackburn and Kilen Say of Sweet Springs, beard an eloquent discourse by the Rev. C. Tayes at Blackburn, last 5 iuday, De. C. B, Parsons, of Sweet Springs, Mo, means to secure patrons among the neyros of that community by advertising in their paper now let our people see him at once, Franklin school of Miami, Mo. closed with execlient exercises, on May 14, The _ principal feature of the evening was the may pole dri!l by 12 young ladies, “Parents and patrons of the schoo! are highly pleased with the teacher. Prof, F. N, Ander- son’s work He has bee» retained by the board of education to teach next session, We have, at our desk, program of the Commencement of the Cen: tral Alabama Academy, ‘The ser: vices began on the 15th. and con: cluded on the evening of the 19th with a series ot classically educa- tional specialtios, at the Opera House, at Huntsville, Ala. Phe president of this institution is BH. Ball A. B, a graduate of Geo. R. Smith College, A Gard of Thenks. We thank our friends and neigh bors tor kindness shown, during the illness and death of our be- loved husband and father. Mrs, Hanna White and family. Cemetry Notice. All persons having relatives at the (colored) cemetery are here- by notified to bave their relative's graves cared for in time for Dee- oration Day, May 30th., Dont fail to look after this matter at once. | Further particulars may be had iby consulting D. Y. Steele, or Luke Johnson, Sexton. N. B. Be sure to clean and place Markers at the heads of your friends graves. Money to loan; no commision; H. G. Phiilips |: ennai : MRS. NELLIE DAVIS, wasave $% Hair Dresser. 98 Full line of bangs, wigs, braids, pompadours, and the best brand of hait-oil, face bleach, whitening 1:04 Bo Coo per, St; Dr. C. B. PARSONS, DENTIST. Office over Andrew's Store. Next door to Dr. Jarvis’s. Swewr Sreixcs, Missourr. 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. WORLD'S FAIR FXCURSION, —— VIA } Bat ae , V Grr | Ma Vea tee Meat: ae RSSOURL MANOR eraa RUSSO SCR Pets | ROUND TRIP $5,00, | ‘Tickets sold for all regular } trains of May 21st, 1904 | ‘Tickets good leaving St. Louis, not later than mid night, May 26, 1404 No Baggage Checked, ac " BY Bea FIC = iy Jae sae pe ig A; Ty 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, $9.00 Round Trips to St. Louis sold daily good to Dec. 15th. '04 for pty Gi; er [igs2 ea MK Se ( * ile = WHEN YOU TRAVEL EAI SELECT A RAILWAY AS. a YCU DO Your CLOTHES, Pem\ ) KATY SERVICE “eb ff ran (MISSOURI, RANBAS & TEXAB RAILWAY.) Pi he ehe | Suggests Comfortable and Cocveleat Trales, AR, Wa THE “KATY FLYER” AND Wy Wa \, KATY DINING STATIONS. Vs te . eals, Maverato !s Price, \ t= , Uusurpessed In Quaitly and Service, s/ My ONE PRICE tee a aN 50c Moerschel Brewing Co. BREWERS AND BOTTLERS, Cor, Main and Missouri, Avenuc, Phone 214. Private Orders Given Special Attention, When You Buy Moprs« cut, Keer, You will Be Patronizing a Home Inpusrry. +: +: ———— ’ QUINN’S BAR --104 MAIN STREET.-.. Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Bottled Beer Everything Genuine. Remember the Place. Q. C. Phone 188, - ee iw > > DAC > NORTH SIDE MEAT MARKET, | Ray & Holt Props, —-—__2!. These are some of our prices. Dry Salt Jawls 3 ths, 25c Smoked Jawls a th 10¢ Breakfast Bacon a Ib 15¢ Dry Salt’ Bacon a tb 11¢ Smoked Hams a th 15¢ Picnic Hams a th Me be" Fresh Fish Every Friday—Buffalo and Cat, Per Seturiny Special'Sale Day 4 ths, Boiling meat 25¢. ( Bol} 419 ) Phones ) ooual Cor, Lamine & Pettis sts, Prompt Delivery, Coates & Wilhite. Leave orders John's Lumbor Yard. Phone 1 Plastering, Brick!aying, Concret: ing and General Repairing. All work given prompt attention, ———— H, G. PHILLIPS LAWYER. 116 W. Main street SEDALIA, - MO. FOR— Refreshing Drinks, Hot Coffee, Sandwitches, Fruits Cigars, and Candies TRY OUR ICE CREAM. SWEET SPRINGS, MO Acetate CARPENTER AND BUILDER All work gauranteed, See him he fore you contract R. S. DILLEY 306 W. Johnson Street ACE CREAM & Groceries, | aera ase ot Polite Service Best Bargains Strict attention given all orders, Your Money's Worth Always, WM. DIGGS 413 N. LAMINE St _—_—_ % C. S. Walden, M. D. 109 BAST MAIN STREET, Ur Strats. Prone 213. Residence, 117 E. Morgan St Prose 407. FORTUNE TELLER. Hine only reliable Phrenotogist in the city who can tell your | Past, Present ad Fnture, Prof. Jack Duncan, 135 E. Cooper St. Sedalia, Mo. ———— J. M. Harris, M. D, Physician and Surgeon. 116 W. Main St., Sedalia, Me —OFFICE HOURS— 10:00 to 12:00 a. m, 4:30 to 6:30 p. m. Residence 236 W, Morgan St. The Best Ice Cream Choicest Fruits Coolest) Drinks Are always to be found at A. AVINSINO 225 Ohio St. Sena TONSORIAL ARTISTS. eR e ob Hair Cuts Shampoos Clean Shaves D. Y. STEELE 120 E. MAIN ST. AE MOMMA AAS EAS MS A z Mrs. Richard Sanders } * For first class hair work. } + i % Braids, Bangs, Pompa- § 5 dours, and etc. Shampoo- § = ing, Dying, Bleaching the § * Hair a specialty. BRASS 5 — A = ~ Facial and Bust Massage. ¢ % Hair ‘Tonics. Massage ¢ % Ccream, # Work guaran- § ® teed or money refunded, ¢ % Write for particulars && ¢ . eeeceecceee & 3 412 _N, Lamine St : § Bell Phone — — 734. § RPS RR wr er ae