Sedalia Weekly Conservator

Sedalia Weekly Conservator. VOL. 11. W H Haston . . . . . . . . . . Editor C. M English . . . . . . . . . . Manage Published every Friday morning and entered at Sedalia Post Office as see- ond class matter. Per Year (in advance) . . . . $1 00 Six months (in advance) . . . . . . . . . . 60 Single Copy . . . . . . . . . . 05 For President, THEODORE ROSEVELT. —Vice President. Governor- Cyrus P. Walbridge. Licut. Gov.- John C. McKinley. Sec'y of State- John Swanger. Auditor- Henry Weiler. Treasurer- Jacob Gmelich. Atty. General-Herbert S. Hadley Rail-road and ware house Comm missioner- Frank Wightman. Supreme Court Judge— Henry Lamm. Kansas City Appellate Court Judge— James M. Johnson. Senator. 15th. Senatorial Dist trict— L. D. Hicks. For Circuit Judge— LOUIS HOFFMAN For Representative— E. J. STEVENSON. For Prosecuting Attorney— C. C. KELLY. For Collector— W. S. SCOTT. For Treasurer— T. T. VIETS. For Sheriff— BEN JENKINS. For Coroner— GUY TITSWORTH. For Assessor— C. D. BROWN. For Surveyor— H. O. MOSS. For Public Administrator— W. E. CONNER. For Justice, Sedalia— DAVID KINSEY. For Constable, Sedalia— T. J. ROBB. We are authorized to announce Clemens Honkompt, as a candidate for the office of Treasurer of Pettis County, subject to the will of the voters of said County. THE Conservator stands pleased to the support of the entire Republican ticket, from President to constable. THE personnel of our local ticket compares very favorably with our opponents on general principles but, far above them in political questions. Hence, our reason for supporting them unqualifiedly. Louis Hoffman, one of Sedalia's best type of Christian Jurists, solicits the support of the citizens of this county. He deserves a favorable consideration on account of his excellent qualities. No matter of color can even think of selecting another in preference to him. CANDIDATE, E. J. Stevenson, for the General Assembly, is a product of Illinois Republicanism ranking with the best and most patriotic of our citizens. The party needs his service and he merits your heartiest support. C. C Kelly, the young man, who believes in sustaini g his oath of office under all circumstances, merits the hearty support of all. His official record is sufficient guarantee of his fitness for re-election. COMMITTEEMAN, A. W. Lloyd, of St. Louis, is doing excellent work for the Grand Old Party in Pettis county this week. Many meetings have been held by him and all will produce great results for the entire Republican ticket. --- STRAIGHT-FORWARD Ben Jenkins must be our next Sheriff all hazards. He is every good citizen's friend and all of us will stand by him to the "last ditch". HOUSTONIA's proud son, W. S. Scott, will treat every citizen right, when in office as well as, when out. So, let us elect him at once with a hurrah! PETTIS county needs T. T. Viets for Treasurer, because he is life-long Republican and a gentleman in every sense of term. Vote against him, no never. CHARLES Brown knows how to ascertain the true value of property, real estate and personal. His work is approved by all conservative business men and a majority of our citizens will indicate their preference for him at the polls on the 8th of November. Will you be in the "Brown" band wagon? MESSAGES. Pittsworth and Connor are good Roosevelt Repudiicans and asks your support. Dont be too hasty to scratch, lest you do something that you may regret. CHICKAMAUGA'S hero, Judge David Kensie, knows that he has a majority of Sefalia's vote with Lim, but, like all good Republicans, he is trying to make his election unanimous. T. J. Robb is ready for the constabulary race. A wiser choice could not be made for this position. ```markdown ``` NEGROUS should study the political issues in an unprejudiced spirit. Study not only for your personal good for today, but also for the welfare of yourselves and children. Let your rule of conduct be such that you can bear the closest inspection of all honorable men. Honesty in politics is as ennobling as honesty in any other legitimate business. OUR Congenial friend, Harry O Moss, will make a most acceptable county official. His industrious and intelligent traits of character fit him for the surveyship. PROFESSOR W. T. Vernon, of the Western University, Quindaro, Kas., delivered a very scholarly, practical and patriotic address here, Monday night. The speaker is a man possessing a personality of thought that places him alongside the great lead- THE MKT AND MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS RAILWAY. TO TEXAS A recent visitor to Texas (an experienced traveller) said that while each state claimed to be pre-eminent in some one natural product, Texas surpassed them all in their own specialty. A trip to Texas will reveal many chances for profitable investment. The M. K. & T. R'y reaches all the principle cities in Texas, passing through the most highly productive portion of the state. Low rates are in effect via "The Katy," from Missouri and Kansas points, on October 4th and 18th, at $15.00 round trip; one way, $10.50 from St. Louis and $8.50 from Kansas City. For some new and printed matter about Texas, address "KATY" ST. LOUIS, MO. SEDALIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21:1904 J. W. SCOTT Shoe repairing the best in the city Work is always firstclass No snide work done there. 10: Special rates to College Students. 10: GIVE HIM A TRIAL. 112 W Main Street ers of the race in America, today Being a man of much oratorical ability and, also, a constant devotee o the purest religious tendencies, he can do a great service for his people. This, we feel confident, he will do at all times. Local and Personal Isreal Allen, who has suffered severely since his accident on Monday last, died this Monday morning at eight o'clock from the effect of his injuries. The deceased leaves a widow and other relatives and friends to mourn his demise. The church will, no doubt, greatly miss bim, for his singing was convincing as well as charming. His last singing was at the dedication of the Free Baptist church and those who were present will ever remember its effect. Suffice to say that he died as he had lived—a simple christian. At no time did he allow his suffering to make him utter complaint, he lived well, he died well; he lives forever. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Alexander at the A. M. E. church at 3 p. m., Tuesday, and the body shipped to Lawrence, Kas., where reside his parents Dr W T Vernon, president of western university, spoke her in the A M E church to full hours Monday night. His talk was a plain, practical, haert to-heart republican speech and it conviced his hearers of the necessity of republican victory this fall. Those who did not hear this speaker should tell a deep regret for having missed this common sense talk of the Profess r's. The National Cooperative Burial Association is the best and cheapest. Only ten and fifteen cents. Join now. Verily, the rod has been spared and the child spoiled. The Mises and lads one sees about the choolroom and takes to be ladies and gentlemen, when seen out at public functions, are a lot of little coquets and fops. The lds with hair cracked in the middle to balance the brain, and not serving its purpose, and the lassies with frills and frizzies, and making a complete fizzle of decorum. Truly such has gone the limit and should be halter. Quite commendable for that church officer, who poked the young dude one in the "slats" and closed his annoying "mug". People go to hear speakers talk, and not listen to the bable of a lot of human magpies. It is co-operative in plan; no salaried officers, or hall rents nor delegates expenses. Simply the little ten and fifteen cents a month. Get In The Habit GO TO THE QUEEN CITY LOAN OFFICE FOR BARGAINS IN Watches, Diamonds, and Jewelry LEFT IN PAWN. HERBERT HAKAN 111 West Main --- R. R Davis will hold quarterly meeting at Marshall, Mo., for the presiding elder Saturday and Sunday. In his absence the pulpit at Taylor's Chapel will be occupied in the morning by Professor Allen of Geo R Smith College and at night by A. M. Iodd, one of the divinity students of this same institution. If you are in accord with the principles advocated in this paper, pay your subscription at once and vote the straight republican ticket. In the National. you get a $65 and $100 funeral and it cost only $120 and $180 per year. Office 116 West 2nd st. Editor Huston went to Tipton, Mo., Friday evening to participate in the Columbus anniversary exercises given by the pupils of the Tipton school. This was the first public entertainment given by Prof Gravette this year. A large audience greeted the children and Prof Gravette aided by his able assistant the Mrs A L Thomas presented a very instructive program. Editor Huston addressed the audience on "The resultant influences following the discoveries of Columbus" His remarks were greeted with heartiest applause. He secured several subscribers for the Conservator. While in the city Editor Huston was the gues. of Prof Gravette at the residence of Mr and Mrs Hall. Mr Smith Overton and wife of Dallas, Tex., have enjoyed a pleasant stay here in the North. They were guests of Mrs. Mattee Stewart for several weeks. Mrs. Stewart in company with her daughter, Mrs. Overton, "did" the world's Fair in grand style. This community was shocked early Sunday morning by the tragic death of Houston Burress a sixteen year old son of Isam, Houston was an employed at the Hucklebill's hotel, as high belt-boy and, was thus engaged in his duties, when the fatal hour came. From the evidence, at the coroner's trial and the post mortem examination of the body, the boy came to death by alcoholic poisoning caused from an over nauseance in whiskey drinking. The witnesses testified to his saving said that he had drunken twenty whisky and on gin and he also stated that these drinns were given to him. The three men accused are Frank Holdner, the bartender at the Huckin's bar, Jos. Temple, clothing salesman, and a Mr. Iuston, a clerk in the Benton county courts, who lives at Warsaw, Mo. These men are now under $1000 bond each, for giving liquor, to a minor. Houston was carried to his father's home on East Cooper street, in a carriage, at 7:45 P. M. and died in a short time while after reaching there. Autopsy and Corner's trial were held Monday morning. Sylvester Powell was the most important witness, testifying deceased told him of drinking 20 whisky's, and he also testified of his having drunk beer at the bar and then assisted Houston to his home. 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Good Groceries. LOWEST PRICE. Also Feed and Flour of the Best Grades. Phones, Bell 790, Q. C. 399. FRESH FISH! I keep a fresh stock of fine Buffalo, and will give you your money's worth. 10c. a lb. FELIX WARFIELD 113 East Main St. Everybody is having 25 hpotos for 25 cents taken by Lewis S. Edwards at 305 Ohio St. --Departments-- College, Academic, Normal, Commercial. Art. Music, Elocution @ Industrial. CATALOGS FREE. Fall term opens Sept. 20. I. L. Lowe, D. D. Ph. D., Pres. Sedalia, Mo. Christian School. tion, Expenses Low. SEDALIA WEEKLY CONSEVATOR WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO-DAY? We shall do so much in the years to come but what have we done to-day? We shall give our goal in a princely sum, But what did we give to-day. We shall lift the heart and dry the tear. We shall plant a hope in the place of fear. We shall speak the words of love and cheer. But what did we speak to-day? We shall be so kind in the after-awhite. But what have we been to-day? We shall have the heart of a smile. we shall bring to each johnse into a smile, what have we brought to-day? we shall feed the hungry saints of earth, and to scantfast faith a deeper worth. we shall feed the hunger saints of earth, but whom have we fed to-day? we shall reap such toys in the by and by, but what have we sown to-day? we shall build our marshes in the sky. Nixon Waterman, In Christian Intell- gencer. A Clean White Shroud BY AXEL TEGNIER (Copyright, 1904, by Lady Story Pub. Co.) THE dragoon, Bengt Getting, had got pierced in the chest by a Cossack lance, and his comrades laid him down on a heap of worms in the little wood. There Pastor Rabenius gave him the last sacrament. The Swedes were on the ice-covered fields before Weperil, and a whistling wind out of the north was driving the withered leaves off the trees. "The Lord he with thee," whispered Rabenius, tenderly and fatherly. "Are you now ready, Bengt Getting, to depart from thence after one good day's work?" Bleeding to death, Bengt Getting lay with hands clenched. The hard eyes were wide open, and the stubborn and bony face was go tanned by sun and frost that death's blue pallor was apparent only on his lips. "No." answered he. "It is the first time I have heard a single word from thy mouth, Bengt Giting!" The dying man clenched his hands the tighter, and bit those lips of his, which opened against his will to utter words: "For once," said he, slowly, "may indeed the most wretched and tattered of the soldiers be allowed to speak." He raised himself a little on his elbow, and at that uttered such a lamentable M. "NO," ANSWERED HE. cry that Habenius knew not whether it came from tortured soul or body. He put the cup on the ground, and spread his handkerchief over it lest the flitting leaves fall into the brandy. "And this," he faltered, and pressed his hands on his brows, "this will I, who am a servant of Christ, behold morning after morning, one after the other!" On all sides the soldiers pressed forward from among the bushes to look at the fallen man, and hearken to his words. But their captain, in a gust of anger, drew near with drawn sword. "He a cloth over the fellow's mouth," he cried. "He has aye been the most mullish man in the whole battalion. I am not more unmany than the rest of men, but I must do my duty, and I have many recruits and undisciplined men arrived with Lewenhaupt. They have now taken fright from his grooming, and refuse to advance. Why do ye not obey? Have I to command?" Rabenius took a step towards him, and on his white wig he had a complete wreath of yellowed leaves. "Captain," said he, "among the dying UNTIL THE DAY DAWN Until the day dawn and the day-star rise in your heart, 2 Peter 1:19. If you are a child, 2 Peter 1:19. the servant of the Lord alone commands. For three years have I seen Bengt Getting in the ranks, but yet I have never seen him speak with any. Now, on the threshold, before the Judgement Seat of God, no man can force him to keep silent." "But with whom should I have to speak?" asked the dying dragon, bitterly. "My tongue is as grown up and stricken. Weeks and weeks passed without me saying a word! Nobody has at any time asked me about anything! Only my ear had to keep at the ready, lest I did not hear the orders. "Advance, march," were we ordered; march through marsh and snow. There was nothing to reply." Rabbitin knelt, and gently took his hands in his. "But now will ye speak, Bengt Getting? Speak, speak, since all now gather to hear you. Of us all you have now the right to speak freely. Have ye a wife, peradventure, an old mother at home, whom ye would that I will greet for three?" "My mother starved me and forced me into the troops, and never since then has a woman had any words to say to me than: 'Get out of the way, Bengt Getting; get out, get out! What do ye want with us?'" "Then have ye nothing at all to be sorry for?" "I am sorry that I as a child did not spring into the mill stream, and that when ye stood before the regiment and exhorted us to go on again in patience, I did not step forward and fell ye with the musket." "Nay, will you have what troubles me? Have ye never heard the bag-gagers and outposts say how in the moonlight they have seen their dead comrades hobbling back in throngs to the troops, and heard them cry; 'Greet my mother for me;' they call them the Black Battalion. In the Black Battalion I will now walk. But the worst is that I will be buried in my miserable rags and bloody shirt. It is that which troubles me. A common dragonoon does not wish to be buried like to the good Gen. Liewen; but I think on the comrades killed at Dorfsnleckl, for each one of them the king ordered to be given out two boards for a coffin and one clean white shroud. Why should they be better off than me? In this troubled time, where a man falls he lies. And I am sunk so deep in wretchedness that the one thing in the world which I envy all others, is each his clean, white shroud!" "My poor friend," answered Rabenius tenderly, "in the Black Battalion, if ye believe truly thereon, ye are in right great company, Goldenstolpe and Sperling and Col. Morner already lie dead on the field. And recall the thousands of others! Recall the friendly Col. Wattrang, who came riding up to our regiment, and gave every man an apple; he is lying with the guardsmen and all the comrades, under the high road at Holozin. And have ye in mind my predecessor, Nicklas Uppendich, powerful preacher of the Word? He fell in his vestments, before Kalison. Over his grave the grass has grown, and the snow swept, and no man can indeed show the place wherein he sleeps." Rabenius bent lower over the dying man, and smoothed his hands and forehead. "In ten or 15 minutes at the most, you will have died. Maybe it is, in these few minutes you make up for what ye have neglected to do in the past three years, if ye turn them to good account. No more are ye one of us! Do you not see your pastor on his knee beside you, with bared head? Speak, and tell me thy last wish, nay, command one. Think of one. By reason of you the regiment is in disorder, while others storm forward or by now are up the scaling ladders; fear have ye put into the young men through your death wound and acony—none but you can make amend. They are listening to you. Bengt Getting! Only you have the power to stir them to advance. Bethink yourself. Your last words will long resound. In coming years they will be repeated at home, before those sitting and roasting their pears, behind the stove." Bengt Getting lay still, and over his eyes came a shadow of conjecture. Then he slowly lifted his hands as if in supplication, and whispered: "Lord help me to bring about this!" He made a sign that now he could only whisper, and Rabenius laid his face close to his in order to hear his words. Afterwards the pastor beckoned to the soldiers, but his voice trembled so that he could hardly make himself heard. "Now has Bengt Getting spoken," said he. "it is his ast wish that you take him between you on your muskets, and carry him to h's old place in the ranks, where he was obstinately silent day after day, year after year." The drums were now beat, and the advance began, and Bengt Getting, leaning against the shoulders of his comrades, was borne step by step over the field onwards towards the enemy. Then the whole regiment followed him; and behind him walked Rabenius with uncovered head, and marked not that he already was dead. "I will see to it," he whispered, "that thou gettest a clean white shroud. Thou knowest, the king does not consider himself more than the lowest soldier, and so will he himself lie one day." The lamp I hold is weak and small Amid earth's moral night; I sometimes think if it should fall, Or know that it had spilled at all. Stop-over privileges are strictly limited on the return trip of the czar's excursionists in Manchuria. OPENING OF A UNIQUE BUILDING A Monument of Wise and Successful Newspaper Advertising. Pure Food Factories That Make Postum and Grape-Nuts. Out at Battle Creek, Mich., among the trees, flowers and green lawns is a most unique building devoted entirely to advertising. It is occupied by the Grandin Advertising Agency Ltd, which handles among other accounts, the advertising of the Postum Cereal Co. Ltd., aggregating in round figures one million dollars a year, perhaps the largest appropriation of any one concern in the world. The furnishings of this grand structure are rich and complete, and all the appointments are worthy their beautiful environment. Prominent newspaper and magazine publishers and their special represent- Pure Food Factories That attives in large number from New York, Chicago, and various parts of the country attended the formal opening of this building, and a banquet in the evening at the Post Tavern as guests of C. W. Post Oct. 3, 1904. The publishers inspected the 14 or 15 factory buildings of this father of the prepared food industry with especial interest, for it has grown to its present colossal proportions in a trifle less than 9 years, a marked example of the power of good and continuous advertising of articles of pronouncement merit. FAILED IN REAL POLITICS. Rueful Reminiscences of a Theatrical Star Who Was the Easy Victim. Maclyn Arbuckle, the successful star of the eastern company playing George Ade's "The County Chairman," began his career first as a lawyer, then he was a politician. In the Theater Magazine appears this characteristic account of the demise of these early ambitions, written by Mr. Arbuckle shortly after he became an actor; "As I go about the city I notice signs of 'Attorney at Law'. Ah me! I wonder if they are young lawyers. If so my heart goes out to them. There they sit companion pieces to Dickens' Micawber, ever watching and waiting for something to 'turn up'. Poor souls! They go to their offices and open their invisible voluminous mail, and take their clients one at a time, and fill their safe drawers with fives and retainers. Oh, it is glorious! Three short weeks ago I was one of them—shingle swinging to the tune of 'Destitute and Raggy' by the rough zephyr of legal poverty, and it is professional, you know, to be legally poor. But how different now! I closed the lid of the casket that bore all that remains of the 'Legal Wreck' and consigned the remains to the fraternity that they might be buried with becoming professional dignity—funeral expenses to be paid out of 'fees due me' fees that never came! It is a great awakening from a three years' sleep, a young Rip Van Winkle slumber! Fight, you lawyers, over your fees! Seize the farmers' lands, for fees, you know! Take all. I quit-claim to you in free fee for love and affection. And, oh, you candidates for political and judicial honors, ride your scrawny horses and mules through Red river bottoms, dine with the dear colored voters, kiss the sweet, pretty little dirty child of the dear voters, take your mysterious grips to the 'speaking', ride all night, take stock in every church, colored and white, school barbecue! Oh, what bliss, what felicity, to have a huge colored gentleman demand a five, and suggest that if it is not forthcoming he will 'surely turn his whole following and district against you,' and oh, what woe when you haven't the five to stay his cruel power! At last the day has come! Up early, spreading tickets broadcast, 'Vote for Maclyn Arbuckle, Justice of the Peace.' Opponent looking sly at you and wondering about your strength. Visit polls. Your men (colored) proclaim you elected without a doubt. 'Want a quarter' for their dinners. What's the news from Wagner's, Hoom's, Holmes' Schoolhouse, Wilkins' Woods? Conflicting accounts. Sometimes ahead, sometimes behind. The sun sets and you little know that your glory and responsibility sets with it. Polls close. Niggers yell (for everybody). Returns slowly come in. Hope up, but votes down. Opponent gets full. You go to bed, full of expectations. Get up, fall down. Defeated! You are a member of the large and honorable body How to Make German Pie A delicious pie of German origin is gaining favor here. It is made of crust raised over night, as bread is raised, with the addition of an egg worked into it in the morning. Sweetened to taste, this crust is rolled out about an inch thick, laid in a pan and the edges trimmed. Peaches cut in slices are then pressed into the dough, sprinkled with sugar, and grated lemon may be dusted over the fruit. Apples may be used instead of peaches, and likewise huckleberries. his theo Jordan, ers of D all sect In the h Prof. credit D rather e essential but in thought ognized tion Dap gated to time ha tion. In the Make Postum and Grape-Nuts. --- In his address to Publishers at the Battle Creek banquet Mr. Post likened the growth of a modern commercial enterprise to the growth of an apple-tree. Good seed, plenty of work and water are needed, but the tree will not bear apples without sunshine. The sunshine to the commercial plant is publicity secured by advertising. It is impossible even with the heaviest advertising to make a success unless the article has merit of a high order. Merit is the good tree and sunshine makes the apples grow. A good salesman who knows how to talk with his pen can present the logic, argument and sales- man ability to thousands of customers at one time through the columns of the newspaper, a strong contrast to the old fashioned way of talking to one customer at a time. He spoke of the esteem of the advertiser for a publisher that takes especial interest in making the advertising announcement attractive. Advertisements should contain truthful information of interest and value to readers. The Postum methods have made Battle Creek famous all over the world and about doubled the population. of 'Defeated Candidates.' Meet successful candidate. Congratulate him. Knew it all the time. Opponent gets full again. Friends console, tell you you are all right, only too young. Help you to prepare for the Salt river packet. There you are. Three long months canvassing, starving, enduring, speaking, praying, hoping and wavering! Money and office gone. There you are! Where? You don't know yourself. Nobody else." PATRIOTISM OF JAPANESE. From Empress Down to Peasant Girl All Make Sacrifices to Help Relief Fund. Societies and associations have been organized in Japan to relieve the families of the fighting men, and every one makes certain contributions to the relief fund. Some men contribute money or goods, some their labor, and most of the lint and bandage used for the wounded are the works of women, from the empress down to the peasant girl, writes Nobushige Amenomori, in Atlantic. Little boys and girls willingly forego their daily sweetmeats, and give the small monies thus saved to the relief societies. A boy 11 years old in a country school made one day a contribution of two yen. It was thought too much for a country boy's gift. The school-teacher and the elderman of the village suspected the money might have been given the lad by his parents to satisfy his vanity, in which case it should be admonished against. An inquiry was accordingly made, and brought out the fact that the boy had actually earned the money for the purpose by devoting his play hours to the making of straw sandals. Even some criminals working in prisons have made several applications to contribute their earnings to the funds, though their wishes have not been complied with. In every village a compact has been made that those remaining at home should look after the farms of those at the front, so that their families may not be disappointed of the usual crops. Since the outbreak of the war the government's bonds have been twice issued at home, and each time the subscription more than trebled the amount called for, the imperial household taking the lead by subscribing 20,000,000 yen. Thus the hardships of the war are cheerfully borne by every man, woman and child in the land. The Color of Hair From the color of a man's hair may he learned a good deal in regard to his intellectual ability, says a professor who has for some months been closely studying the subject. School boys with chestnut hair, he maintains, are likely to be more clever than any others, and will generally be found, at the head of the class, and in like manner girls with fair hair are likely to be far more studious and bright than girls with dark hair. In mathematics and recitations these boys and girls, he asserts, especially excel. On the other hand, he says that boys and girls with brown hair are most likely to attain distinction through their individuality and style, and that those with red or auburn hair do not often excel in any respect. No Kinship. Congressman James Hamilton Lewis, of Chicago, is the politest man in the country. When in Seattle, one night after making a fiery speech he was coming down the aisle bowing right and left, when he discovered an elderly colored lady, "Why, good evening, mammy," the colonel said. His speech hadn't pleased her, so she replied: "Look heah, sah, I is not yc mammy; you ain't nothin' but jes' poor white trash!"—Woman's Home Companion. ATTACKS DARWIN THEORY. Holland Professor Electrifies Congress of Arts and Science by Denouncing Popular Idea. Combating the theory of Darwin as to the origin of species and advancing a theory of his own which revolutionizes all ideas of biologists and phylogists, Prof. Hugo D Vries, professor of botany in the University of Amsterdam, Holland, electrified 350 members of the congress of arts and science who gathered at the meeting of the section of phylogony in convention hall at St. Louis recently. His address, which gave for the first time to the scientific world in detail the results of a lifetime research, roused immediate interest, and following the eminent European Prof. Charles O. Whillman, of the University of Chicago, took instant objection to his theories. President David Starr Jordan, the most noted of the defenders of Darwinism, and biologists from all sections of the world participated in the hot debate which followed. Prof. De Vries does not wholly discredit Dr. Vries. On the contrary, no rather emphasizes some of the main essentials of that renowned scientist, but in such a manner that if the thought of the Hollander becomes recognized as a basic principle of evolution Darwin must necessarily be relegated to the ranks of those who for a time have occupied the stage of action. In theoretical language the thought of Prof. De Vries is in this strain: Natural selection is only a seine and is no force of nature, no direct force of nature as has so often been asserted. Artificial selection consists of two main principles, called variety-testing and racial improvement. Species as we see them in nature fluctuate within fixed limits which are not seen to be transgressed. William K. Huber, of Niantic, Pa. has one of the most peculiar household pets in Montgomery county. It is a crow, and it is deemed the champion killer of mice and rats in Douglass township. The bird never misses its prey when it sees a mouse, and the rats have to fight for dear life to escape it. Fox and rat-terrier dogs cannot compete with the crow in killing rodents. Bats have fallen victims to his talons. The crow sleeps in the house, and often sits on the shoulders or lap of some member of the family. The New York Tribune remarks that Japanese soldiers are equipped with tans. This probably accounts for the fact that there are no flies on them. The new Russian cruiser can steam 14 knots. This ought to enable her to keep out of reach of Togo's warships until peace is declared. 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"I'll let you dismiss the congregation if you'd like." "Why, yes," said De Koven, "I would like that very much. Accordingly at the end of the recession, I set up places with the organist and began to play Mendelssohn's 'Swing Song.' He played beautifully. The dancing people, enthralled by the wonderful music, returned to depart. They sat in rapt enjoyment, and after the 'Spring Song' was finished, Mr. De Koven began Chapin's 'Funeral March.'" "Suddenly a heavy hand was laid on his shoulder and he was pushed off the music aton." "You can't dismiss a congregation," said the organist, impatiently. "Watch and see how soon I'll get them out." GOING TO STAY YOUNG. Even Government Inspectors Couldn't Make Her Older Than She Looked. A Brooklyn woman lately returned from Europe was described to her husband who had remained at home ever experiences with the customs inspectors who had taken her business, and who has come up the lay, relates the Brooklyn woman "When he asked me my age, she said." When he asked me my age," she said, "I told him 30." He said, "I claimed that." "But, my deat," exclaimed the husband, "you're over 30." "I know it," she returned, "but do I look more?" "No, you don't; that's a fact." "Well," she concluded, triumphantly, convinced that mere man was squelched once more by the force of feminine logic, "until I look more than 30 I'm going to be 30, and I don't care for the old United States government and all its customs inspectors and declarations. They can't make me older than I look or want to be." Long Way Round. A new word has been introduced into the Flemish language. It is *Snellipaardeooszoendeeerspoorwepetrolirijing*. The etymology is: "snelll, rapid; *paardeloos, horselees; *zeendeeerspoorwepg,* without rails; *petrolirijting,* driven by petroleum. The whole word, ascan be easily seen, means motor car.—Detroit Free Press. Rates Lower and Service Equal to the Best. to All Points East. via the Nickel Plate Road. 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Piso's Care for Consumption is an infallible medicine for congues and colds—N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. The Chiropodists' society, of Chicago, has been incorporated. Houray for the corp crop! Chicago Journal. CURE YOUR KIDNEYS. When the Back Aches and Bladder Troubles Set In, Get at the Causes. Don't make the mistake of believing backache and bladder ills to be local ailments. Get at the cause and cure the kidneys. Use Donn's Kidney Pills, which have cured thousands. M. B. Capt. S. D. Hunter, of Engine No. 14, Pittsburgh, Pa., Fire Department, and residing at 2729 Wylie Ave., about. "It was three years ago that I used Donn's Kidney Pills for an attack of kidney trouble that was mostly backache, and they fixed me up fine. There is no mistake about that, and if I should ever be troubled again, I would get them first thing, as I know what they are." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. TO TEXAS A recent visitor to Texas (an experienced traveler) said that while each state claimed to preamble in some one natural product, the K. & T. Rye reaches all the principal cities, passing through the most highly productive areas, and rates are in effect via "The Katy," from Missouri and Kansas points, on October 4th and 18th, at $15.00 for the round trip one hour 1.50 from Louis and $5.50 from Kansas city. For someone running a picture matter THIS WOMAN KNOWS WHAT ONE OF THE SEX DISCOVERED TO HER GREAT JOY. Mrs. De Long Finds that the Indescribable Pains of Rheumatism Can be Cured Through the Blood. Mrs. E. M. Do Long, of No. 109 West Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa, found herself suddenly attacked by rheumatism in the winter of 1896. She gave the doctor a chance to help her, which he failed to improve, and then she did some thinking and experimenting of her own. She was so successful that she deems it her duty to tell the story of her escape from suffering : "My brother-in-law," she says, "was enthusiastic on the subject of Dr. William's Pink Pills as a purifier of the blood, and when I was suffering extreme pains in the points of my ankles, knees, hips, wrists and elbows, and the doctor was giving me no relief, I began to reflect that rheumatism is a disease of the blood and so that, if Dr. William's Pink Pills are so good for the blood, they must be good for rheumatism and worth a trial. "I was in bed half the time, suffering with pain that cannot be described to one who has never had the disease. It would concentrate sometimes in one set of joints. When it was in my feet I could not walk, when it was in my elbows and wrists I could not even draw the coverlets over my body. I had suffered in this way for weeks before I began using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Two weeks after I began with them I experienced relief and after I had taken six boxes I was entirely well. To make sure I continued to use them about two weeks longer and then stopped altogether. For several years I have had no reason to use them for myself, but I have recommended them to others as an excellent remedy." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills furnish the blood with all the elements that are needed to build up healthy tissue, strong muscles and nerves, capable of bearing the strain that nature puts upon them. They really make new blood and cures all diseases arising from disorders of the blood or nerves, such as sciatica, neuralgia, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' dance, nervous prostration, anaemia and all forms of weakness in either male or female. They are sold by all druggists. RAISE ENORMOUS PUMPKINS Thirty of Them, Grown by Pennsylvania Gardener, Weigh Nearly Four Hundred Pounds. All feats in pumpkin raising have been surpassed by John Weir, who owns a small garden in the farm of the Philadelphia Vacant Lots association, in Philadelphia. Several weeks ago Weir threw some pumpkin seeds on a steep embankment which borders his farm. There were signs of miniature pumpkins on his vine, and to prevent them from interfering with his other vegetables he threw the vine over the top of a tree. Then he forgot all about the pumpkin vine. He was started one day to see pumpkins appearing among the foliage of the tree. There was a big bunch of them, big and heavy, and they were bearing heavily upon the branches of the tree. In order that they might thrive in comfort Weir built a shelf under each pumpkin, and they grew bigger and stronger until they encircled the entire tree. All together they were 30 of them, weighing, collectively, 350 pounds. They are now getting ready to appear in a large aggregation of pumpkin pies. Practical Joke Costs a Wife Because he pulled a chair from under her at the moment she was about to sit down upon it. Floy S. Ande, son, of Kansas City, Mo., has sued Martin E. Anderson, her husband, for divorce. She alleges that she hit the floor so hard that it permanently injured her. SAFEST FOOD In Any Time of Trouble Is Grape-Nuts Food to rebuild the strength and that is pre digested must be selected when one is convalescent. At this time there is nothing so valuable as Grape-Nuts for the reason that this food is all nourishment and is also all digestible nourishment. A woman who used it says: "Some time ago I was very ill with typhoid fever, so ill everyone thought I would die, even myself. It left me so weak I could not properly digest food of any kind and I also had much bowel trouble which left me a weak, helpless wreck. "I needed nourishment as badly as anyone could, but none of the tonics helped me until I finally tried Grape-Nuts food morning and evening. This not only supplied food that I thought delicious as could be but it also made me perfectly well and strong again so I can do all my housework, sleep well, can eat anything without any trace of bowel trouble and for that reason alone Grape-Nuts food is worth its weight in gold." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Typhoid fever like some other diseases attacks the bowels and frequently sets up bleeding and makes them for months incapable of digesting the starches and therefore pre digested Grape-Nuts is invaluable for the well-known reason that in Grape-Nuts all the starches have been transformed into grape sugar. This means that the first stage of digestion has been mechanically accomplished in Grape-Nuts food at the factories and therefore anyone, no matter how weak the stomach, can handle it and grow strong, for all the nourishment is still there. There's a sound reason and 10 days trial proves. Happenings in Missouri. Campbell Camp Divided. Campbell Camp Divided. The confederate veterans of Springfield and Greene county are divided into hostile factions over a proposition to place their cemetery in the hands of the federal government. The fight has been raging for several weeks and some of the opposing old soldiers seem almost ready for a war of extermination. Campbell camp is one of the largest organizations of ex-confederates in the state. The rait that the camp has local control of the southern cemetery at Springfield gives it much importance over the state. Several years ago the confederate association of Missouri erected at the cemetery a costly monument and thousands of people attended the imposing ceremonies. Since then the cemetery has been a greater pride to the veterans of Missouri. At Springfield are buried the union and southern soldiers who fell at Wilson creek, August 10, 1861, and in other battles fought in Missouri. The two cemeteries are side by side, separated by a rough wall of Missouri limestone. Ever since President McKinley made his speech suggesting that the time would come when the union and confederate dead would be protected alike by the United States government, a sentiment has existed in Campbell camp favorable to the transfer of the cemetery to the general control of the federal authorities. When a resolution was introduced in the camp asking the government to consider the proposition of transfer the strife broke out. At the camp meeting, when the matter was first discussed, one-half the members left mad. They were the opposers of the proposition. This disruption of the meeting left the faction in favor of the transfer of the cemetery in full control and they passed the resolution. At the next meeting a motion to reconsider was introduced and the camp went into executive session in order to keep the public from finding out just how bitter the fight had become. Some of the secrets of the debate leaked out, however, and gray-haired veterans talked as defiantly of federal authority as they had in their younger days of the warlike qualities of the northern men. The motion to reconsider was lost on technical grounds, the faction in favor of holding on to the cemetery contended, and this added to fierceness of the controversy. The Daughters of the Confederacy came into the struggle, the women standing almost solidly against surrendering the cemetery. The daughters did not get to vote on the proposition, but created a great deal of sentiment in favor of their side. The matter was taken before the state ex-confederacy association that met in St. Louis last week but that did not quiet the disturbance in Campbell camp. Dover Is Distinguished The little town of Dover, eight miles from Higginsville, is one of the oldest towns in the state. The population is about 400 and is no larger than it was 50 years ago. The state convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in St. Louis last week elected Mrs. J. H. Campbell, of Lexington, state president. There would be nothing singular about this, were it not that three of the five presidents of the organization were born, reared and married in Dover. Mrs. John N. Edwards, wife of the late Col. John N. Edwards, one time editor of the old Kansas City Times, was formerly president of the Daughters of the Confederacy; Mrs. A. E. Asbury, of Higginsville, was another. Another president born and reared in the county, in Lexington, is Mrs. R. E. Wilson. The fifth president was Mrs. Anna Washington Rapley, of St. Louis. Mrs. Campbell is the wife of the circuit clerk, J. H. Campbell. Dover has many quaint old buildings. The people are of the old school. They know that the world is large and that civilization is advancing with the age. But this does not interfere with their old-time methods of social organization. They still use the old churches erected half a century ago. Theirs is the genuine religion, the kind that "cuts the frills off." Kansas City Day. When D. R. Francis, president of the world's fair, spoke to the Kansas City people who had assembled at the Casino Saturday to celebrate their special day, he said no city has ever made a better showing on the exposition grounds than Kansas City had today. He complimented Mayor Neff and the members of the Kansas City world's fair committee and said that he was glad of the opportunity to have a glimpse of the Kansas City spirit, of which he had heard so much. With nearly 6,000 persons from Kansas City on the grounds, each one wearing a Kansas City badge the celebration was a success in every way. Grover Cleveland Bowers Weds. School Children Hold Reunion The fourth annual reunion of public schools was held at Chamois. There were 22 schools represented by over 1,000 children. Two bands accompanied the procession through the streets to Riverside park, where a free dinner was served to all. Prizes were awarded to the following schools: Shawnee, Glaven, Morrison, Dodds, Luystown and Georgetown. Accused of Stealing Cattle. Dennis Wilson was arrested at Harwood, charged with stealing 25 head of cattle. Long Voyage in Launch Frank Standenraus, of St. Joseph, and his son, Albert, left their home Sunday to journey by boat to the Gulf of Mexico. The two voyagers are on a pleasure trip, and they expect to follow the Missouri and Mississippi rivers to the Gulf and then continue along the coast to Port Arthur. After cruising about on some of the southern rivers that flow into the gulf they will sell their launch and return home by rail. They expect to be gone a year. They carry with them plenty of fishing tackle and five guns, for which they have 2,300 rounds of ammunition, and they will hunt and fish up the streams that they pass. A stop of a week or ten days will be made at St. Louis to give the voyagers time to see the fair. The Jennie is a neat little craft and is the one that won fame for herself and her owners by rescuing marooned persons in the flooded district of North Topeka during the overflow of 1903. The boat is 18 feet long and $5\frac{1}{2}$ foot beam. The launch is equipped with a two horse-power gasoline engine, and a tank in the how holds 25 gallons of gasoline. Seems that fold along the side of the boat in the daytime are raised at night and serve as beds. The boat is covered with a substantial awning. Provisions bedding, a camp sage, a tent and other supplies are carried in a boat which is towed behind the launch. Nominated by Petition. The state ticket of the socialist party was certified to the department of state by Secretary Palmer, of Kansas City. The ticket was nominated by petition, it being necessary to have 1,000 signers to the petition. The state ticket is as follows: Governor, E. T. Beherens, of Sedalia; lieutenant governor, W. L. Garver, of Chillicothe; secretary of state, Charles W. Wilkerson, of Springfield; auditor, William M. Braat, of St. Louis; treasurer, C. A. Richardson, of Kansas City; attorney general, George Bullock, of Poplar Bluff; railway commissioner, C. C. Newman, of Aurora; congressman Fifteenth district, Phil C. Calledy, or Carthage; judge of supreme court Caleb Lipscomb, of Liberal; judge appellate court, Eastern district, J. H Sentenne, of Kirkwood; judge appellate court, Western district, U. S Burnesley, of Monett; national electors at-large, Francis D. Atkins, of Kansas City, and George Mellor, of Liberal. Vincent's Eventful Life. John D. Vinci, grand secretary of the Missouri Masonic lodge, was ordained a Methodist minister at an early age and many of the churches of that denomination in St. Louis were built through his efforts. Of late years he has confined himself wholly to missionary work and the performance of his duties as grand secretary of the Masonic bodies of Missouri. He has been secretary continuously for 27 years and was re-elected to the position two weeks ago while lying in a critical condition at his home. August 13 of this year Mr. Vinci celebrated his golden anniversary as a master mason, when a banquet was tendered him in St. Louis by prominent members of the order from throughout the state. He was well and favorably known in Kansas City. Woman Sayed, Bittinger. Maj. J. L. Bittinger, of St. Joseph Mo., the well-known republican politician and former consul general of the United States to Montreal, Can., escaped a probable tragic death while riding with friends on a scenic railway on the pike at the fair. His life according to eyewitnesses, was saved by one of the ladies in the party, who prevented him from falling from a car as it bounded down an incline. Through modesty the heroine refused to give her name. The car was stopped on the incline when the gripman saw the danger and Maj. Bittinger, who is 68 years old, was taken to his quarters at the Inside Inn. Five of Family Killed. Clifford Regal, aged 14, the last of a family of five to survive the Missouri Pacific wreck at Montserrat, died at the hospital in Sedalia. The body will be shipped to Edna, Kan. His father, mother, brother and sister were instantly killed in the wreck, and while his condition had been regarded as dangerous, he has bravely borne all operations, and his fortitude was a help to many other sufferers. Business Men on His Bond. A. P. Shour, under arrest on the charge of embezzling $100 from the Farmers' Building & Loan association of Chillicothe, was released under a bond of $1,500, signed by 15 business men. The $100, which it is claimed Mr. Shour embezzled, is one count in an alleged shortage of $2,000 in his books as secretary and treasurer of the association. His case comes up for trial in January. In a Fit of Anger. Adam F. Bowers, a farmer south of Eldorado Springs, while in a fit of anger shot and mortally wounded his wife and then killed himself. Missouri County Tax Statement. Missouri County Tax Statement. State Auditor Allen mailed to the several county clerks throughout the state notice of the sum of the county foreign insurance tax to which their respective counties is entitled. The total amount to be apportioned among all the counties is $250,944.77. These figures represent the amount of the foreign insurance tax in that fund on October 1. s20,000 Schoolhouse. Jefferson City is to have a new high school that will cost about $20,000. THE LOWER EAR OF CORN. When Used as Seed It Usually Produces Shorter Cornstalks and Makes More Corn. We have often advised the farmers in the south to select, for a term of years, the lower ear on a twin-eared stalk, for the purpose of breeding down the tall stature of their corn, so that it can be planted closer together. That it will have this effect we well know from long experience. But it seems that some have assumed that the lower ear is always and anywhere conducive to greater production. We believe that this, too, is usually the case if the work is continued long enough to show its effect, for the lower ear will certainly inherit a greater tendency to produce an ear above it than the top ear will. Some years ago a farmer wrote us that he had been following our directions in saving his seed corn and that his corn was making from three to five ears on a stalk, and that his neighbors were all seeking his corn for seed. In the annual report of the Rhode Island station, the result of one year's selection of the lower ear as compared with the upper one, showed a result somewhat in favor of the upper ear, and from this one test they have concluded that "the supposition that to increase the number of ears one should choose always from the lower one, because that is the last one developed, is shown to be erroneous." Since no one had advised the continuous selection of the lower ear after the ideal plant is secured, the advice is rather superfluous. In fact, no one experiment can determine the tendency of any work in plant breeding. We have found that not less than seven years are needed to fix the character of corn as a strain or race, and after breeding for the ideal plant we can thus select with some confidence the ideal ears from these plants. The Rhode Island report gives cuts showing the corn from lower and upper ears, and so far as we can judge from the cut, the greater luxuriance is in favor of the lower ear seed. The mistake seems to have been in assuming that what has been advised as a means of getting the ideal plant is always, and in any climate, the best for the crop at once, and that a single experiment can determine the value of any method of plant breeding. Breeding to cure defects in the plant for a certain climate and breeding for continuous production differ very materially.—Practical Farmer. IRRIGATION IN FAR WEST. Work Is Hampered by Large Quantities of Alkali Contained in Most of the Soil. It is estimated that there remain in the dry region of the west about 600,000,000 acres of vacant public land, and that there is sufficient water available, under proper storage systems, to irrigate about one-sixteenth of the whole amount. The area now occupied and irrigated is only 6,500,000. If during the next 30 years only 20,000,000 acres more should be placed under irrigation, the land so reclaimed would provide homes for at least 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 people, as a very small area is sufficient to support a family where the farm is operated according to irrigation methods. The main drawback which has so far appeared in the development of the dry region is owing to the presence of alkali in the soil in some sections. It is found that after putting water on the soil for a certain length of time the tendency of the alkali is to rise toward the surface, and there is a gradual increase of the harmful salts near the surface. The waters used in irrigation, it is also found, contain alkali which helps to increase the deposits after the water dries away. After the alkali once begins to give serious trouble it has sometimes been necessary to abandon the land. The only remedy appears to be to furnish sufficient water to flood the land and soak out the alkali. PULLER FOR SUGAR BEETS. Description of a Little Machine That Has Been Used Successfully in the Far West. A machine such as shown in the accompanying illustration is used extensively in some parts of California to pull sugar, beets. The iron pullers should be HOME-MADE BEET FULLER. from four to six feet apart, at a, and nearer together at b, and about three feet long. The points of the pullers run on each side of the row and loosen the beets, which are lifted and left on top of the ground. The points of the pullers are set slightly lower than the back. Arthur Goodwin, in Farm and Home. The Balance of Power. If there is a balance wheel in American affairs to-day it is in the keeping of the farmer. Diligence and self-content count on the farm for more individual independence than they do in town, for even the most successful man in a city always dependent upon other men and is usually overstrained to near the point of apoplexy. 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Natit } #8 a ED ei i Sy? i Be manpage ye CE LES A The Greatest Expositia; Rw Pain Sh¥ i i “KATY SERVICE.’ iM : er sonke ORS er BLACKBUR?Y. G Howard and wife have mov- ed to town, Misa ‘Tishie Mils spent sever: al days this week with hey pam int, Mry: Mary Motes orrived Mon- day to wait cn Mrs idtey Moten who is ¥ i Mesdantes Mos, Wilson and Lucy Nelson are on the sick list, Tho Waverly Band tarnished music for the Queen conte t Sat- urlay night, Miss Lie’: stewart Of Weverly represe ited — the Queen of Spain and Mss Mery J Seals represented the Queen of Eagland. Miss Seals was victo rious and won the prize. Perry Evans and wife ere vi - icing in Marshal this week Hub Guthr ¢ is slowly improv- Sng trom pleurisy Died Sunday 16th the infant girlof Mr and Mrs Sidney Moten and wa. buried Monday at Salt Pond cem tery. Geo Sets, Jr isin Kansas ity this week attending the horse show. J Brent and J Lucas of Sancet Springs were here on business this week. Lonnie Price of Mt Leonard visited Miss Auna May Carte, Sunday. SWEET SPRING Mr Daniel Biehl of Kinsas City Sunda yed here with his tami. ly. Mrs Marie Jolinson is doing toe World's Pair. Mrs Anna Peppers has. re- turned to ker home Villon Okla after a few days visit here with her mother Mrs Charity Wilson. Danict Pates bias bees corfned for a woes from sticking a vaiin ls | ot Prot Simpson's School is: pro- gressing nicely and he now has es an assistent Miss Malinda Brockman who is quite exper denced in school room work. Mr Olle Moorehead and wife ave visiting Mrs Mooreheads pa- yents this week. Miss Nevada Britt returned from her two weeks visit in Boonville Sunday. My Jno Jones buried his mfant boy Saturday. He has the sym- pathy of the commanivy, Miss Josie Price is spending the winter with her greadmotber and going to school, Wevidently our scribe wauts to uarry; just lisien to this: “How glad we would be if the time was when we could see our selves as trae Afro Americaa cite izens, Going our whole duty as men aud women, teaching the children to be good giris and by and what howe should be. We Jook forward to the day when we have a true iriend, “Dutuk ot the: weary days we have lived! We: must have a friend, a true iriend| To Save Fuel Buy Your Stoves Or ®. Ralph Blair, Dewer in General Hardwar Stovesand Refrigerators, Vinware, Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods. 116 South Osage Street, BAL ER he J. W, MEN ZOIE, de. Sao ohiaa \ Livory Boirdlag aya Sle srablas. FANGY O04 Via5. Nothing Bot Rubber Tired Rigs Hor City Use, SPECIAL ATTENTION ALD TO HUYING & 8Hi LING HORSES AND MULES. seth yeaa 401 W Main at Both Phones 97 one who cat speak a word to drive away the gloom, to own us as a dear friznd at home and in company.” May Miss CD W answer? LEXINGTON. Rey A A Gilbert has again been assigned to pastor the A ME church. ‘This is Rev Giiberts third year here and all pleased te have bim again. During the time The has been bere be ha won she approval of hs members by his practical and christian mode of conducting the atfairs of the chu ch. We hope in the ensuing year @ will be even more succes ful than in thy past. / Mrs Hlizab-th Payton is slowly reco ering from an attack of as- thina and bronchitis. Mis Henry Colley is about re. covered from her recent illness much to the delight of her many friends especially her son-in-law Mr B Conway as dirs Conway and baby are at home again and “Bud” is ali suiles. Rev WH liowell, Mrs Alice Hoimes and Miss Sarah Graham have returned trou St Joe and report avery stccesstul session of diate Baptist Conven ion, J Milton ‘Turner of St Louis spoke to alarge wid eathusastic audience at the cout bouse. Hts address was well received oy bis hearers. He was entertained by Mr € Cradford while is tow Pauline Bloise, cauglter ef Mrs Dre Ball, is sutie ry with x very pdniu foot caused by snag ging iton « rough torre. Miss Eva Taylor who has been cofined to ber Lome for Loe past wees is much improved. Rev AA Gilbert was ¢ Ned to Sedalia to the bedside of Mr Allen the singer whe for past winters have assisted him in revival meet ings. Mr Allen met{with an avei dent by Lalling trom a scaffold ‘The injuries were so sevions that he died ata m before Rey Gil- bert reached the bedside, LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. | ‘The World’s Pair Commission jers have awarded Lincoln Insti ‘tute a Gold Medal, on her exhib- lits. | Onr $10,000 central steam heat ling plant has reached a finihed [stage and has been satisfactorily tested, “he plant is up to date land of reliabie mechanism that tar ks another era in the advance ment of this Institution. | Dr, Allen returned with a glow ing account of bis trip toSt. Lou ‘is, Clayton and Chicago. A most “cuthusiastic meetiag was held at ee Women's Club of Clayton, Where ne addressed a large and ‘anpreciative audience, — Pie Olive Branch", a music eal and Liteary society, compos- ed of toe y ung Lidies of the Sens ior and Jucior Classes cul. bra ed the President's return by teaduis tng him acomplim ota y oanque: to shich they invited the eaure faculty, It was Shukespearenigut with the ciao ana the young: he dies carried out a Most excede t progr m, froma ousiness ay well as from 4 literary stand point, Vossing to the jarge dining hall the wuests found toat this ordina- rily plain. altho cheerful, apart ment hed been converted intoa veritable bower of loveliness: by the well duveloped table and skille ful fingers these young wemen, | The ddinty aad excellent mena, srepared by “he club members, | under ‘he supervision of the des| ariment of Domestic science, + Che table tw ey loving nice as a! cel Une shih ativined: ity the wepariment launder og, the pretty ostimnes of the hostesse: in many cies, tae product of theiro Sa hands, aga result of thy rewing depar ment, the excellent read ‘ion of instramentaland vo cal music, wits the variots course VW reinterspersed ina manner dgbly compliments y tothe om: sic dep rtment, logied thorght ad grammacioal espe ssions of he paper: and orations was a tit ting testimonia of the work done in the english department, in fact the ntire effect protuced by th banquet was of such a nature as to prove conclusively the high and favereaching character of the work: being done in Lincoln Insti tute And, as one reflects. that these young womenae to become the home makers and housekeep ers of the future, the social lead ers of the communities in whit they dwell, the fecling of satisfac: tion that the problem is receiving such careful attention in Méssou: ri's State Sceool is intensified and os president Allen. remarked or this occasion, “it would be an ex: cellent object lesson, if pictures of this scene could be distributed among the pubis", The Olive Branch is a member of the N«tional Association of Col ored Women and its members are pledged to go forth into their va- rious communities and take up some form of community work for race elevation, [tis hoped that this idea will be adopted hy oth- er schools as av effective meteod in the hapny solution of the race problem. Ameng the visitors of the week we note the Rey, Snelson, who de- livered a very instructive and in- teresting address; Rev. Palmer, of Mexico, who came to enter his sony Albert, in school and Prof. Arthnr Patterson, class of 03, a teacher of New Haven “o. CLINTON Mre J Puens cho has been very sick for the past week is re- ported some better, Rey J Michel preached at Sec: ond Paptist chureh Sunday night foo Inrge congregation, Mrs Emma Webster who has bern visiting in HK the last twe weeks returned home Saturday. Rev HWeoG Gibson came in ‘rom Sedalia Saturday and returned Monday morning. Quite » number of people from Marchel Cre-k visited Clinton friends Seturday and Sunday. Miss Our Royston after at- tending the Cornival in K C 1e- turned home last week, Miss Lulu Ray, teacher of Mar chel Greek school, was the guest of Miss N. B. Danning Sunday. Mr. ©. Jacobs, who have been visiting Mrs, Parks returned to Kansa City last Monday. HIGGINSVILL'. Rev Bean formerly pastor ot AM B& Chureh at Marshall M but now of Washington Mo visit- ed his wife here last week. Mrs Anna Hall of Ogden Utah visited Mrs Minnie Johnson last week, 2 geet 2 coma, pve be Jl toa RAILWAY moe See the Daily Papers for Our Magnificent World's Fair Service 8 Daily Passenger rains Bach Way, $7.50 Round Trip to St. Louis sold Daily Good for 60 days. $4.00 Round ‘Trips to St. Louis sold daily good ta Dec. (Sth. 'O4 for star Moerschel Brewing Co. BREWERS AND BOTTI 2s ee ee nae Cor, Main and Missouri, Avenue. Phone 214, Private Ordcrs Given Special Attention, Whea You Buy Morx: cirst.'s Beer, You will Be Patronizing a Hour Invustey, 235 oN hy Pr AN A a EASeepy eat 4) Umer a akan ie ie] Be ees ve 1 ada rae CN oa Cs eee io pee + ee fbi Sipe ol ae en fe) ee Bey cae mr Ro ie eS ish eS) Up to Date Dressers Can find Clothing that will please them at E. E. JOHNSTON'S, 297 Ohio St. Mrs Juha ‘Tillman wasa recent visitor at the home of Mrs Stella Combs, Mrs Anna Wright of Columbia was called home las’ week to wit. hess the obsequies of ber gr-nd- mother at Otterville. Mr ‘T’ M Baylor, wife and M «s Alice of neay Pleasant Green Mo were inour midst Monday having some real estate matt: rs settled Messrs Ward: Simms and € H Robin on of tae Mt Moriah vie cinity were jubilant vivitors to our city this week and wade it evident that hey would read the Conse) vator for at least year. Thank you, gentlemen, Mesdames A G Wheeler and V Witcher are sojourning in K. iC, AW Lloyd of St Loviv is here this week looking after the inter est of the ispublican party. Mr Lioyd is one of our committec- men at large and im company with editor Huston is wuring the county and hitting teiling blows for'a staight vote A Correction The rally at Rev, DeBoe’s church at Payette, netted $307.85 instead of $207.81 a> appeared in last week's issue. SOME GOOD MEETINGS. State Committeman Llody Pleasos Pettis Voters. State Committeeman A, W, Lioyd, who divided the time with Dr Vernon at the Av M. BE. church Monday night, spose Puesday might at Houstonia toa goo crowd. ‘Phere were many white republicans in the audience avd the addresses f Vr, Lloyd, Dr. Walden and W. H, Huston vere given applause. ‘Nonight the colored workers 1 go to Goorgetown, later to withton, and in the next few days will visit every point in the county having any considerable colored population, Sedalia Capital see our advertisers when you are about to make pur chases. Teil them of the SONSERVATOR § and we will tell you abuot them | Mrs EH Scott, who was called by Butler, Mo., on account of the death of her neice, Miss Helen | Majors, age 17 years, who died on Monday and was buried oa Weis nesday, returned Monday and al- so reports the death of Misa Le- ua, a sister of the former, 07 the following Saturday and was bur ied on Sunday, Mrs Scott anda sistes, Mrs Amanda Walker, of Kansas City, Be. who she had not seen for Seven years, were pase 'sengers on the same train to Bute Jer and did not know ituntil they tte hted at the station. | ‘This paper only $1 the year. | Elder Buren has taken up his labode in his recently purchased home on west Cooper st.ce . We welcome him and his better sev en-elevenths in ony midst Present your irlend with one of those nice photos taken by The ‘Twentieth Century photo Ar- ‘tist. 305 Ohio St. | ire destroyed the home of Sterling Chambers, South Osage street and the home of Alex Pax ton, on Wes! Pettis, together with Louse | effects. Mrs Patsy Herndon visited her former home near Napton- ville last Week avd rotorped to home much benefited by hes triy Dr J Will Jackson s home for a short visit with his family atter an absence of an eheht months. He hopes to go to St Louis to Hhave his eyes treated, REPUBLICAN MEETINGS. Successful meetings, under the auspices of the Connty Commit tee, were held ut Houstonia, Teus day ight Speakers, at this meet ing, were A, W. Lloyd, Dr C. S. Walden and Editor Huston. Wednesday evening these gen- tlemen, accompanied by Prof. A. C. Maclin, diove thru. the cour try to Georgetown and held a ve- ry interesting meeting. -Tharsday night, a meeting was held a: Smithton, All these meet. ings will bring many good results to the entire Republican ticket Rev. Keeves Has Dono Good Work At Glasgow. Lewis Chapel, M. EB. church, Glasgow. Mo., have just comple - eda neat and moderoly construct ‘ed 6 room parsonage, costing S460 Al expenses have been paid, ex- cept avery smallamount. This pars nage out ranks all others 'n the St. Joseph district, in neat: ness and comfort, During the 8 years pastorate of Rey. Reeves, the church has been renovated, from top to bottom. This good brother believes in doing some thing for the people as well as for himself. He will succeed any- where he goes. POSTPONED, The Jolly entertainment which was advertised for Monday night at the George R, Smith Colley was postponed toa later date on the account of the speaking by Dr Vernon. Wat-h for new ad- vertisement, This paper oly St the year. J. M. Harris, M. D Physician aud Surgeon. 116 W. Mait. St. Sedalia, Mo —OFFICE HOURS 10:00 to 12:00 a, m. 4:30 to 8:30>p, m, Residence 236 W. Morgan St. H, G. PHILLIPS, LAWYER. *~ 116 W. Main street SEDALIA, ore MO. Coates & Wilhite. Leave orders Johy's Lumber Yard. 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