Sedalia Weekly Conservator

Sedalia Weekly Conservator. THE holiday are over; let each of us be up and at it with an unconquerable will. May God vouchsafe unto you, dear reader, a prosperous and Happy New Year filled with abundant opportunity to do good. CALRB Powers still languishes in a Kentucky prison, as a victim of partisan hatred and throttled justice. Another stigma upon Kentuckian history that will not be easily erased. ERE we reach you again, Missouri State government will have passed into new hands. It is most earnstly hoped that the coming session of the General Assembly will enact a better class of laws for the police and electoral administration of our three great cities—St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joe. RECENT outbreaks of crimes among our own people in this city impel us to state that the laws are too laxly executed. Some restrictions should be placed upon lawlessness and the outlaw class. Our religious, social and domestic circles are severely injured by this constant reign of infectious crime. PRESIDENT Roosevelt still maintains his position on the Federal appointment proposition. He emphatically declares, by actions, as well as word of mouth, that merit and character must be considered rather than racial or color distinctions, whenever he is to select individuals for the Public Service. Every student in all of our schools, colleges and universities, should bend their energies with renewed zeal, during the coming days of the new year to study. One's best time to study is when the earth is enshrouded in the drapery of winter. Let the winds of the blizzards quicken the student blood within us all to greater activity. SENATORIAL aspirants are numerous in Missouri just now. All are men of great personal worth and partisan usefulness, but owing to factionalism among former party leaders, difficulties may arise in the legislative caucuses before a satisfactory selection for this honorable place is made. If the selection of either of the announced candidates will foster factionalism, it would wisdom if the party to set aside all the present aspirants and select for Senators thore Republican, who is immuned from factional tendencies. OATH OF THE. "WHITE CAP" FRATERNITY The Mobile Express publishes the oath that the recruits to the "white cappers" fraternity must take and observe, which is as follows; "I do solemly swear to keep and never reveal the secrets of this organization, and I do solemly swear that I will live and abide by any of its rules as they now are or as they may hereafter be revised; that if ever called upon to sit upon any grand jury or any other jury to hold out forever against any member of this organization. I will assist in every way directed by the organization tocompel negroes to vacate any and all property owned by merchants, to assist to put all obnoxious negroes out of the way. I fully understand that death shall be the penalty to any and all members revealin any of the secrets or workings of the organization." It may be clearly seen that the primary idea of the organization is to torment and annihilate the negro. Its influence pervades the grand jury and courts of justice, which are made subject to its will. Nothing more diobolical nor incendiary could be fostered by any community than that maintained by such an organization. Their power must be stayed by national and state laws fearlessly executed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + SEDALIAN GETS COLUMBIA BRIDE Briscoe - Huggard Wedding Columbia. Mo., Dec. 26. 1904—Dr. A. C. Briscoe of Topeka, Kas was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Lange Huggard, of this city. At 11 o'clock A. M. today. The ceremony was preformed at the residence of Prof. J. W (Blind) Boone, on North 4th. st. in the presence of only few intimate friends. Rev. H. G. Gregory officiated. The bride, Miss. Huggard, is the only child of Mrs. Minta Lange Huggard, of this city, and is highly cultured. She graduated from the Western Baptist College, and taught for several years at Warensburg, Mo. She resigned to become a member of the Blind Boone Concert Company. Hence her scholastic culture has been greatly broadened by extensive travel. Dr. Briscoe, is a Sedalia youth. His mother, Mrs. A. J. Adams, still resides here. After attending George. R. Smith College for one term he left that institution to enter Lincoln Institute, from + + + + + + which he graduated with honor. He resigned the principalship of Warrensburg School to take up the study of Denistry at MeHarry Dental College, Nashville Pen From this institution he graduated last April and then began the practice of Dentistry at Topoke. Success has smiled upon him continually, because of his excellent qualities. His many Sedalia friends join all others in congratulating him upon his recent success. The newly married couple will reside in Topeka, Kans. Pioneer Dead at Smithton. Smithton, Mo., Dec. 19, 1904—Died at his home of near here, Julius Hopkins, age 61 years-Decased has lived here since his birth and with in one mile of his birth place. He was a good neighbor, a worthy citizen and upright man, was well liked by both his white and colored neighbors. He leaves wife two sons, two daughters, two brothers and a sisters to mourn his death. His friends extends their sympathy to the bereaved in their greif and affliction. SEDALIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30 1904 All Roads Lead To DEXTER'S BOOK STORE Where you can secure the Best Bargains in Stationery, Writing paper. Envelopes, Pen and Pencil supplies. Wall Paper 20 to 30 per cent discount. XMAS PRESENTS. The very place to make useful Holiday selections. Call early that you may have good selections. A welcome awaits you at DEXTER'S BOOK STORE 109 East Second St. The following Sedalians, who have been aching out of the city have come home for the Holidays: Miss Lillian J. Martin of Windsor; Miss Alice Holmes of Smithon; Miss Sarah Brown of Pilot Grove; Miss Missia Williams of Muskogee,I. T.; Miss Leotha Drake, of Alma; Miss Effie V. West, of Dresden; Miss Ardonia Abbott, of Windsor, Mr. E. L. J. Simpson, of Sweet Springs; Mr. A. H. Gravett, of Tipton and Mr. F. S. Grear, of Georgetown. Mrs. Lucy Murry, one of our Holden, Mo., subscribers, is spending the holidays here with her sister, Mrs. Kittie Violet. Ralph, her son who is a student at George R Smith college is very pleased to be her for the present. Moses Mitchel, wife and daughter. Anna, departed Sunday morning for Bolivar, Mo., to be at the bedside of a very sick son and brother. Prof. A. C. Maclin, head of the mathematics department of Geo. R. Smith College, visited home at Keeling, Tenn., during the Xmas holidays. Mrs. Charles Holiday, Miss Blanche and Mrs. Bohon, of Smith ton, are spending the holidays in Chicago. They left for the city Saturday. No hot tears were shed Nor angry word said— 'Twas just simply R. Q. Wright disappointed. O, Anna! Inclement weather interefred all the holiday entertainments. Many, who had made extensive purchases for elaborate displays, were sorely disapdointed. The storm king is raging here this week with all his fury ONLY 5 CENT for this paper WEEKLY IN OF CH THE LEADING AND HOME ONLY 5 CENTS EXTRA for this paper and The WEEKLY INTER OCEAN OF CHICAGO THE LEADING NEWS, FARM AND HOME PAPER OF THE WEST THE WEST Improved and strengthened features: Enlarged farm d culture-care of the horse-national Sunday School Less Michaud's health and beauty practical cookery-latest sty full crop and market reports The Inter Ocean is the only dition to the Associated Pres service of the Central New York World, besides daily res special correspondents. 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Wesley Branch who has been a Sedalia resident for nearly a year returned to his home in Suene last week to spend the Xmas holidays. Virginia, the daughter of D. L. and Mrs. White is convalescent from a severe bronchial ailment. Charlie Dillon, who was seriously cut by Fred English, of near Beaman, is resting quietly at this writing. Rev. E. D. Burns has been a Sedalia visitor all the week. His church people have enjoyed his stay with them very much. Isam Burress is suffering from a sprained shoulder but is able to be about the street. Dont fail to attend the amancipation service at Taylor's chapel Monday night, Jan, 2nd 1905. Mrs. Pauline Enix, of Macon, is visiting Mrs. Albert Moorehead and her father, Henry Allen. Scoot Hayden came home to spend the X-mas Holidays. Mr. Lloyd Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias order, an eminent lodge man in other circles and Committee in a large of the Central Missouri Republican committee. He is now seeking the position from the hands of the party he so faithfully served during the passed political combat. Mr Lloyd came to Sedalia, and in company with the editor and others went thru out the country, calling the sinners to repentance, the result is, some where in the neighborhood of 800 negroes voted at the poles in Petit country. Does Mr, Lloy deserve anything for his services; A the asks of the party, is a chance to earn some money upon which he can live. S. M. Pearson, who is conducting a Moving Picture Entertainment, give a performance at Taylor's Chapel Thursday evening. Read the Conservator and be constantly in touch with progressive people and things. 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AWISP of a girl was Nan, lean as to body and lithe as to motion, as she slipped between piles of coffee bags in search of those stray beans which trickled out of snags in the sacks. Much in the way, she was oftentimes, of stevedores and laborers and she escaped sudden and violent death from the hoofs of horses and wheels of wagons by the merest ghost of a mis. Admitting, for argument's sake, that Nan's face was clean, a condition in which no man had ever seen it, and also admitting, a wild flight that, her being habited in raiment that was whole and clean, Nan would have been pretty. The dirty little chin was well turned, the nose a pure Grecian, the mouth sensitive and the blue eyes—they were never lifted in vain when their owner begged a few coffee beans. That mass of unkept, tangled hair might look a coarse red in the shadow of the dock archway, but let the sun flame on it and it glistened a mesh of reddish gold. "Puts me in mind o' the gold we used to get on the Guinea coast," remarked the old wharfinger, pointing to Nan's sun-lit hair, and he had about as much T imagination in his cranky old head as the post around which the ships wound their hawers. Those were rough, hard men about the docks; hard work, hard weather and hard drinking took all the smoothness and softness of them, but there was something in this dirty little girl with the red-gold hair which made them all kind to her—even those gloomy-faced men who, day after day, carried on their bent backs sacks of coffee up an inclined platform to the second story of the warehouses—men who each year became more bent, until, as the sailors said, they could only see by looking through their own legs—even these men had a grim, weary smile for Nan. The British bark, Belle of Scarboro was discharging coffee at one of the wharves and Capt. Harper, a bluff Northumberland man, took much interest in Nan. For five years a little girl with aureous hair and blue eyes had been sleeping in a north country graveyard and Capt. Harper, looking sadly and wistfully at Nan, thought she was like that little girl. He also imagined that his wife would think she resembled that little girl and it was very lonesome for Mrs. Harper in her home near Scarboro when the captain was at sea. "I wish I could take her home with me," said the captain to Mr. Stuart, his mate, a sour-faced old Ayrshire man, "but I suppose it would be breaking some blooming law and I'd be in quod or the ship'd be libeled." "It wad be keednaping," replied Mr. Stuart. "'Idna think of it." The bark started in to load oil cake 'or London, but the child came on board frequently. She had made a warm friend of Peter, the cook and TAKE YOUR CHANCE It may appear a risk too great. For you to take. You may believe it's tempting fate, Your soi may shake. But show yourself a worthy knight And couch your lance. Dash in the thickest of the fight. And take your chance. You may have had a sorry deal— One often will. The cards you hold are poor: you feel Your lack of skill. But summon up your stock of sand, The stakes advance. With confidence play out your hand, And take your chance. There's hap and hazard all through life You'll find it so. No use of shrinking from the strife Without a blow. Strike hard and never heed the rest, Wake from your trance. Lay on about you with a zest And take your chance. Don't be too timid or too cold To cast your lot. For Fortune still is with the bold, Who fear her not. Upon your hesitating kind She looks askance. You only need make up your mind And take your chance. -Chicago Daily News. that gentleman seemed seized with the desire of making Nan plumper, for he would smuggle a bowl of burgee from the crew's breakfast and keep it warm for her, or maybe a lump of duff which, from its solidity, would seem to be well calculated to increase the weight of most anything. But Capt. Harper looked at Nan with a more wistful expression every time he saw her, and Mr. Stuart, observing the expression, quoted from the laws of nations, rather obscurely, but with honest purpose, to dissuade him from any rash action. There came a day when the hatches were battened down, stores were being taken on board and sailors eloft were touching up and examining the running rigging, getting ready for sea, a woman came down the wharf, a large, red-haired woman, from whose sodden face whiskey had goaked every expression, and seizing Nan she shook her violently and then struck her with her clenched hands in the face. One of Nan's blue eyes disappeared behind a puff of purple swelling and the child ran screaming to some hiding place about the docks. A longshoreman handling coffee, seeing the blow, swore at the woman, he being too chivalrous to raise aught but his voice against a woman, and she replied in such a tide of blasphemy that the man, one of the hardest swearers on the wharf, looked at her in speechless envy. When the woman left the wharf, after a vain search for Nan, the child crept on board the bark and sat sobbing in the gailley. "Is she your mither?" asked Mr. Stuart, peering in the door. "She ain't," replied the child with vigor. "she's my aunt and I hate her. If I could I'd buy a stove bigger than that!"—pointing to the one in the gailley—and "I'd poke her in it and watch her burn. I'd love to hear her scream and swear." "It's unchristian and unregenerate," remarked Mr. Stuart, "but it's natural to a carnal mind." "How can I save that child from such treatment?" asked Capt. Harper, striking his hand against the ship's rail. "Ye can't," replied Mr. Stuart, pessimistically, "without making things worse. Ye can shut her up in an asylum or reformatory, like a bird in a cage to keep it away from hawks, but the bird will beat its wings against the bars and weesh it was free again and running the reesk of hawks." It was late in the afternoon when the tug passed a line to the bark to pull her away from the wharf. Nan had shaken hands with the entire crew and had gone ashore. The men were aloft getting ready to unbend sails when the bark was out in the stream, and Peter was on the wharf ready to cast off the bow hawser. One of the men on the tonsail said Peter veled how he was to get aboard with it after the ship was loose from her lines. There was a splash when Peter cast off the hawser, and he sprang into the bow rigging, he yelled: "Man overboard!" "What!" cried Mr. Stuart, rushing to the starboard rail. "Pore little Nan," said Peter, with pathos, "sank like an iron belayin' pin." "We'll drag for the body," cried the crowd on the wharf. "It won't be a heavy drag, poor little, thin thing," said Peter. "Perhaps it's for the best," remarked the captain, sadly. "The Lard's na got much against her," said Mr. Stuart, comfortingly, "and He rub out a muckle of that when she stands before Him." The tug pulled in her lines, the sail-were loosened, the yard braced, and with a fair wind astern the bark pushed her way through the moon-lit waters of the bay. Capt Harper, who had passed a night disturbed by regretful thoughts of Nan, cameo decearly and walking past the galley was astounded to see Nan therein supping up burgeo from a bowl. "It's Nan, sir," said Peter, "she needed a sea voyage and I was afeared her lovin' relations wouldn't part with her so I hid her on board." "What fell overboard, then?" asked the delighted captain. "I'm thinkin'," said Peter, with the air of a man who doesn't want to commit himself, "that it was a capstan bar I dropped over." "I'll adopt her," said the captain, firmly. "Ye can," assented Mr. Stuart, who, like many legal luminaries, twisted the law to suit emergencies. "Nan's dead and the law canna effect the dead." NO BOUNDS TO HIS LOYALTY Balloon Vender Celebrates Recognition by Duchess by Throw- ing Wares Away. A pretty little incident was recently witnessed in Moscow in connection with the imperial children of Russia. While driving in the fair ground with her sisters Grand Duchess Olga espied a peasant offering colored balloons for sale. Giving an order to stop the carriage, she called the man to her side and selected several balloons for herself and her sisters, for which she rewarded the astonished peasant with a ten-ruble piece. The gratified moujik in vain endeavored to stammer out his thanks to the little princess and at the same time, in the characteristic Slavonic manner, he crossed himself and called on all the saints to witness his good fortune. Then, in a sudden excess of loyalty and abandonment, he cut the string which held the remaining balloons together, and allowed all his stock in trade to float away together. THE FARMING WORLD A SOD CHICKEN HOUSE. How a Good Shelter May Be Provided at a Very Small Expense. Those living where alkali grass abounds, will find a poultry house made from the god much cheaper and better than a frame building. If the walls are laid from two to three feet thick and a good roof added, it will stand from 12 to 15 years before beginning to crumble, and many more before becoming useless. It is well when laying up the sod to place pieces of 2x4s into the walls, as shown in the cut, to which to attach the roosts. Make the ends come even with the inner side of the wall, so they can be 2 x 4 for roosts. OUTLINE OF SOD CHICKEN HOUSE. plastered over and leave no hiding place for vermin. Do not plaster until the walls have settled, or the plaster will crack and fall off. One house of this description which has given entire satisfaction for several years, is built 14x20 feet, with three-foot walls. Walls of this thickness seldom settle crooked, while narrower ones often lean so much as to make propping necessary. The house has four windows with frames set within one foot of the outer edge. This leaves space enough to set a dusting pan. The walls are plastered and the hard dirt floor covered with gravel, so it is easily kept clean. Buffalo sod can be utilized for the same purpose, but will not stand so long, the sod lacking the long tough roots which are so characteristic of the alkali grass—Farm and Home. BURRS IN THE WOOL This Is the Time of Year to Get Rid of the Sticky Things and Increase Profits. The selling price of wool in Indiana is very seriously affected by the presence of burrs. Light, burry wool is cut from one to three cents a pound, while hard, burry wool is oftentimes cut more than one-half in price. The sheep are now setting on, and the first frost will cause them to dislodge easily from the stem and attach themselves to the wool. At a slight expense of labor considerable improvement in the quality of wool may be made by ridding the pasture of burrs. Careful going over the pasture once or twice, and then keeping up the watch in passing among the sheep, will tend entirely to rid the field of burrs. Burrs make a puny growth in a thick pasture sod. If sheep are kept in the field they will eat the young burr plants. They will finally rid the field of burrs, if a new supply is not constantly reseeding the field, for they carry the matured seed away in the wool and kill many young plants and prevent others from making a healthy growth—American Tribune. KEEP STEERS COMFORTABLE How the Stock Raiser May Increase His Profits Materially During Winter Months. At a Wisconsin convention a cattle feeder said: "You must keep a steer comfortable. One time I had my steers weighed in, and one had gained only ten pounds during the month, while the others had gained from 50 to 60 pounds each. I thought of course the boys who had weighed them had made a mistake. The second month that steer gained only 15 pounds, while the others had gained 80 pounds. I examined that steer and found he stood where the floor had worn down and that he had stood on his toes, and his legs had become sore. I took him out of that place and put him in a box stall, and he gained 90 pounds a month for the next three months. At another time I let the steers out for the winter and they ran bred, and one steer hit and cracked his born. He gained only 15 pounds the next month. The rest gained 80 pounds each." SEEDLINGS The farmer's team should be one well adapted to his requirements. The dwarfing of a tree occurs by the slight disagreement between the sclon and the stock. Moss-covered trees will be much benefited by scraping and then whitewashing with lime and wood ashes. Judgment is the outgrowth of experience, yet a man may have a wide experience and yet lack in judgment. No one business has any assurance of always proving a profitable one, because changes so frequently occur to disturb all branches of farming. Plaster for the Chicken Feathers contain a good deal of sulphur and the quills phosphorous and lime. Sulphur is found in lime and it is not a bad thing to take those old bits of plastering that you knocked off the back kitchen last year and put them where the chickens can get them.—Inland Poultry Journal. FOOLS SETTING HENS. Minnesota Man Thinks He Has a Sure Method of Breaking the Incubating Habit. Timothy Varney, who lives three miles east of Le Sueur and keeps about 200 hens, has been greatly troubled, as have most people who keep hens, by the persistent desire manifested by the fowls to set in season and out, on eggs, stones or doorknobs or anything else that comes handy, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press; but he has got hold of a plan now which he has quietly tried this season with perfect success, and which he warrants will cure the worst light brahma cluck that ever vexed the heart of man of all desire to sit, and all in less than three hours. The cure consists of a cheap watch, with a loud and clear tick to it, inclosed in a case that is white and shaped like an egg. When a hen manifests a desire to set out of season he gently places this bogus egg under her sheltering breast and the egg does the rest. It ticks cheerfully away, and soon the hen begins to show signs of uneasiness and stirs the noisy egg around with her bill, thinking, perhaps, that it is already time for it to hatch, and there is a chicken in it wanting to get out. She grows mora and more nervous as the noise keeps up, and soon jumps off the nest and runs around awhile to cool off, but returns again to her self-imposed duty. It gets worse and worse with her, and she wiggles about and cackles, ruffles her feathers and looks wild, until at last, with a frenzled squawk, she abandons the nest for good and all. That incubating fever is broken up completely. Mr. Varnay finds use for half a dozen of these noisy eggs, and claims that they pay for their cost over and over during the year by keeping the hens at the business of laying and not permitting them to waste the golden hours in useless incubating. THE OLD HENS Careless Selling of Poultry of Fine Breed Robs the Farmer of His Rightful Profits. On many farms at this time of the year there are found quite a number of surplus males and females that possess pure blood, but which cannot be sold to fanciers, for various reasons. These may have been prize-winners at an earlier period in life, but on account of approaching end and consequent fading beauty, they have lost out and have become the victims of the intense commercialism with which this age is charged. These birds find their way into the huckster wagon at commercial rates and a day or two later they may be found in the midst of a struggling, surging mass of everything that the feathered vocabulary has a name for. About that time some farmer, and so far that is concerned, once in awhile a fancier will happen that way when his eye will be caught instanter by the appearance of any such specimens. He becomes interested right away and goes after such specimens as pleases his fancy, and one by one examines every section of the bird, ending by purchasing of said huckster the blooded bird at the commonest kind of a price he can Jew the huckster down to. Then he takes the bird, waits until it mounts and fixes it up and sells it for four or five times the price he gave for it, declaring that nobody has been harmed, for the bird was thoroughbred—Inland Poultry Journal. TO HASTEN GROWTH Lambs Should Be Provided with a Little Feed Besides the Mother's Milk. To hasten growth lambs must have bran, oats and maybe a very little corn in addition to their mother's milk. This extra feed may be given in a small pen or room adjacent to the general feed lot, and connected with it by means of COVERED TROUGH FOR LAMBS a creep or opening large enough for the lamb, but not too large for a mature sheep. The feed for the lambs must be placed in a trough covered to keep out rain if in an open lot and to prevent the lambs getting into it and soiling the feed. The illustration shows a cheap covered trough which can be constructed any desired length. It is made of inch boards.—Orange Judd Farmer. Fruit for Horses and Cows **Fruit for Horses and Cows.** We are asked if it pays to feed fruit to farm animals. Does it pay for you and your family to eat apples and, other fruits? If it does, it will pay to feed fruits to your horses, cows, etc. Our horses and cows are crazy for apples, and as we always give them some fruit they always have an expectant look when we come near them. (In feeding apples to cows they should be spaded in half to avoid choking.) True a pound of apples will not nourish a horse as will a pound of oats, but this is no reason why fruits may not be helpful to animals. It is said that no germs can exist in the stomach while fruit acids are present. Yes, feed your animals fruits, but not in excess, and do not feed green fruits, since you would not eat them yourself.—Midland Farmer. Thrift in sheep is generally secured, when the farmer thinks enough of them to care for them. The Best Missouri News Church Trouble Revived. Church Trouble Revived The action of the Kaseyville Baptist church in excommunicating Joseph Murphy for permitting the young folks to indulge in dancing and card-playing was revived in the circuit court at Macon in the trial of William Mayfield for assault with intent to kill, Mayfield had voted for Murphy's expulsion, and after the inquiry Murphy told Mayfield "there is nothing in you." Mayfield said with that Murphy struck him. Mayfield pulled out his knife and began carving the brother who had been found in error. Murphy was not armed. He was wounded in the abdomen and one side and for several weeks lingered between two worlds. The whole congregation was here as witnesses. One brother testified that the nearest thing he heard to a "cuss" word at the church trial and subsequent fight was "by crackies." The jury found Mayfield guilty and assessed him $100 and costs. Suea as "Common Law" Wife. Mrs. Stella Fusion has instituted suit at St. Joseph for the recovery of her interest in the estate of John P. Hax, formerly one of the wealthiest men in St. Joseph, whose common law wife she claims she was. The suit is against Mrs. Eliza Hax, executrix of the estate, and it is alleged that rents amounting to $5,000 annually have been withheld from the plaintiff since the death of Mr. Hax in Los Angeles, Cal., February 1, 1963. Hax's estate at the time of his death was estimated to be worth nearly $500,000. He was well connected at St. Joseph. The suit has caused a sensation in business and society circles. Burned in Her Own Home. Mrs. Tille Boland, aged 42 years, was burned to death at her home, 1853 Madison street, St. Louis, while attempting to kindle a fire with kerosene. While she was pouring the oil over the fuel in the stove an explosion resulted, probably from smoldering coals underneath the ashes in the stove. Burning oil from the bursting can was thrown over Mrs. Boland's dress, as well as upon her head, face and hands, burning her almost to a crisp in a few minutes. To Debate Tax and Open Shop. The questions for the interstate debates between Missouri, Texas and Kansas universities have been decided upon. On May 1 Missouri will debate Texas at Austin on the following question: "Resolved, That the States Should Abolish the Personal Property Tax." On April 15 at Columbia Missouri and Kansas will debate the question: "Resolved, That the General Welfare Demands the Maintenance of the Principle of the Open Shop." Wabash to Acquire Control? There is a well-defined rumor in railroad circles here to the effect that negottations are pending, through which the management of the Wabash is seeking to acquire that portion of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road, between Hannibal and Moberly, which is 70 miles in length. The Wabash now has trackage rights over the road covered in a lease, through which its freight and passenger traffic out of Kansas City east is moved. Lectures by Business Men. Prof. Jesse E. Pope, head of the department of economics of the state university, announced plans for the introduction of practical business training in the classes in finance, economics, money, banking and credit and in transportation. Weil-known bankers, railroad officials and large employers of labor will address the classes in this department, among them President Ingalls, of the Big Four, who will visit Columbia in May. Alton to Lower Grades. A surveying party is going over the Chicago & Alton line between Mexico and Kansas City. The survey is being made for the purpose of determining the practicability of lowering and revising some heavy grades between Kansas City and Mexico. Students Have Christmas Tree. The students of the Missouri state university held a Christmas tree before adjourning for the midwinter vacation. A large number of gifts were distributed among students and faculty, the majority of them being in the nature of jokes. Bartholdt's Dinner to the Press Bartheldt's Dinner to the Press. Representative Bartholdt, of St. Louis, gave a dinner at the New Willard hotel in Washington city to ten representatives of the Missouri press in Washington, in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of his first connection with the press. Engine Turned Over. The engine of a Burlington passenger train from Omaha to Kansas City jumped the track at Beverly and turned over. Peter Calcutt, of St. Joseph, the fireman, was pinned under the engine and killed. Engineer Farnsworth saved himself by jumping. Refuse Kerr's Resignation: The Missouri presbytery, in special session in Mexico, refused permission to Rev. John E. Kerr to resign the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Montgomery City in order to accept a call from the Presbyterian church at Caruthersville. $40,000 Telephone Company, The People's Telephone company filed in the recorder's office articles of association at Chillicothe, preparatory to securing articles of incorporation. The capital stock is $40,000. To Abolish Prison Stripes. The state board of charities and corrections held its annual meeting at Jefferson City and prepared a report to the legislature. The report will recommend the abolition of stripes from the uniforms of all but long-term penitentiary convicts; the gradual employment of convict labor in the interests of the state in preference to foreign industries; a law prohibiting county courts from keeping insane patients in poorhouses; a law conferring upon superintendents of all state eleemosynary institutions the power of nominating subordinate officers; a law compelling all state institutions to purchase supplies from each other when possible to do so; an amendment providing that the sentence of boys to the training school at Boonville shall be during minority; the assumption by the state of the cost of maintaining the inmates at the boys' training school and the girls' industrial home; a law making it a felony for attendants at the hospitals for the insane and the colony for the feeble-minded and epileptics to abuse patients; an increase in the salary of the superintendent of the girls' industrial home from $900 to $1,500; the enactment of an indeterminate sentence law; the appointment of parole agents for the boys' training school and the girls' industrial home. Folk Will Taboo Dancing. The annual reception and ball to the Missouri national guard, to be given at the executive mansion, will occur January 4. Gov. Dockery and his personal military staff will be the receiving line. This, perhaps, will be the last reception at the executive mansion at which dancing will be one of the features for a long time, it having been announced by Gov.-elect Folk that dancing is to be tabooed during his term. It is told here that this determination on the part of Mr. Folk was reached after the Baptists, the denomination with which Mr. Folk is associated, solicited him so to do. His special attention was called to the fact, the story has it, that Charles H. Hardin is the only other Baptist who has ever occupied the gubernatorial mansion and that during his term there was no dancing there. Mr. Folk was told that Gov. Hardin's life "was beautiful in its simplicity," and he was urged to emulate the example. Great Evangelistic Campaign. Kansas City is to have a great religious awakening in January if all of the plans that are now in operation are successfully culminated. The Ministers' alliance, representing all of the denominations of "Greater Kansas City," has arranged to hold what is called a "simultaneous evangelistic campaign," beginning January 15 and continuing for two weeks or more. The city has been divided into 20 different districts and in each district the churches will be grouped about some central building, where the services will be held. Fifteen to 20 of the most prominent evangelists in the country will be present to conduct the campaign. Re-Elected Ellis Secretary. The state board of agriculture elected the following officers at its annual meeting at Columbia: President, C. F. Affrick, Clarence; vice president, S. H. Prather, Tarkio; secretary, G. B. Ellis, Columbia; assistant secretary, Miss Snowden Willis, Columbia: treasurer, H. H. Banks, Columbia. Officers for the state fair directory were elected as follows: President, J. A. Potts, Mexico; vice president, J. W. Hill, Chillcothe; secretary, J. R. Rippey, Lancaster; treasurer, C. E. Yater. For More Bank Examiners. In his report to the general assembly Secretary of State Cook will recommend an increase in the number of bank examiners, the present force numbering four. He will give figures showing the loss by years from bank failures since the inspection law went into operation, as compared with a like period prior thereto, and will also show by figures that the earnings of this department will justify increasing the force by the addition of one, if not two, examiners. The disappearance of William A. Hessenstein, cashier and bookkeeper of the Franklin hotel, 4101 Westminster place, St. Louis, simultaneously with a package containing over $800 from the hotel safe, on November 25, was explained last week when Chief of Detectives Desmond received a telegram from the chief at New Orleans stating that the man was under arrest there, charged with grand larceny. Bonfoey's Family Poisoned The family of Hon. S. H. Bonfoey, secretary of the Missouri world's fair commission, were made seriously ill by pomaine poison, supposed to be contained in chicken served at dinner. All are now recovering and out of danger, but a couple of members of the family are yet under the care of a physician. Thrown Out of the Committee: Congressman James J. Butler, John R. McCarthy, Isaac Conran and James F. Farley, members of the St. Louis democratic city committee, were thrown out of the committee at the Jefferson club without the formality of a trial. Two New Banks. The Citizens' bank, of Auxvause, Callaway county, with a capital stock of $30,000, and the Citizens' bank, of Linneus, Linn county, with a capital stock of $30,000, were chartered by the secretary of state. A New Year's Call THINGS are seldom, if ever, just what they seem," modified Belle Farnsworth after her favorite author, "and people, never!" Turning slowly around before the long mirror she noted the faultless reflection of the new tailor-made suit, but her thoughts were otherwise occupied. "One must be positively hypocritical sometimes, I find," she continued, more leniently. "Now, for instance, I am to circulate, as the politician says, among the people of Hanover Square this afternoon, wishing them the joys of the New Year as if life was simply reflected Paradise. But the truth is, the cobwebs are thick in my sky and I have not the ambition to emulate the example of the old woman who went heavenward with her broom. "O, if it were only cobwebs," she added, bitterly, "that obscured my sun, I would not hesitate to try the sweeping process; but—it's more!" Miss Farnsworth had been delegated by her society to make New Year calls in her neighborhood and she had consented. Anything was preferable to mop at home with Aunt Roxy on this special day; the day she died—not the proascal old auntie, but she, Miss Isabelle Farnsworth—for ever since she and Allan Druer had broken faith three years ago, she had considered herself "dead." And he might as well be, for had he not left Cliff Point that very day, "forever," he vowed? And so far he had grimly kept his word. With a sympathetic glance at the suspiciously solemn face in the glass, Miss Farnsworth adjusted the badge of the King's Daughters on the gray lappel and went thoughtfully downstairs. The blithe young year reflected his joyousness on all the faces she met and, in spite of herself Belle began to speculate happily. But the anniversary which "followed" came suddenly abreast of her as she mounted the steps of a pretentious brown stone cottage on the corner, for the fifth and last call. Lost for the moment in the unusually pleasant musing, her fingers sought the bell-pull unconsciously. Her first call had been on "snobs," as Aunt Roxy would have said. They had bowed her in and bowed her out in dressed-up-ilecled fashion, with a patronizing smirk that would have done credit to the king's fool. Another call revealed a fat roly-poly lady who giggled continuously while she displayed her cheap diamonds and entertained the plain tailor-made gown condescendingly. But the fourth call: Well! it would always be a bright spot on the anniversary. A little old lady in soft, velvety costume drew her to a sunny corner where an invalid daughter lay smiling a genuine "Happy New Year" in her welcome. As the thin fingers closed over the caller's hand a long silent chord somewhere in the dead heart vibrated in harmony with the greeting; and Miss Farnsworth concluded that she was not a walking mummy after all. Far from it; the King's Daughter felt like shutting herself in with these other A "I SIMPLY CANNOT." daughters of the king for the rest of the day. But she meant to go back, for they had most cordially invited her. Yes; and her fingers locked mechanically over the silver knob of the brown stone cottage, but—she did not ring! A painful awakening ran over her, bringing up at her "dead" (?) heart with a desperate grip. "I cannot do it," she said, staring hard at the handsomely-lettered plate; "I simply cannot; it is impossible!" She could have manufactured a dozen plausible reasons for the omission, but she could not go beyond that gold and blue lettered plate gleaming above the bell handle. Putting her hands out blindly she turned back to the seven broad stone steps, the way of escape. Had she followed him, or had he followed her to North Adams? If he had followed her was it because he still cared? Or was he married to another and she stumbling on to the fact in this cruel manner? She could settle the whole matter by turning back; but that were impossible to-day, at least. Across the clear sunny air of the New Year's day came the old familiar words: "I shall always carry your image in my heart, Belle; no matter what has come between us." Like a mysterious revelation came a response from the inner sanctuary and she knew that Allan Druer had hidden more than the "image;" it was her very life, and that was why she was "dead." For a moment it came to her that he was still true to the "image" and that there might be a blessed resurrection in North Adams. An answering impulse went to her heart like old wine and she hurried homeward dazed with the possible outcome of the call she did not make. Some one looked from an upper whi- dow in the brown stone cottage as Miss Farnsworth fairly flew out into the street; carelessly glancing at first, then scrutinizing the supple figure in gray. The next minute he was out on the pavement, but the tailor-made gown had vanished around the corner. Quickening his pace he saw the girl ascending the steps of a humble cottage, third from the angle. "Making New Year calls?" he cogitated, "But she did not ring at the Druers', No wonder; poor little girl!" Instead of waiting to be received, however, he noticed that she went right in and closed the door behind her unceremoniously. Miss Farnsworth was at home. Aunt Roxy was snoozing in her easy chair near the fire, when Belle peeped into the parlor, so retreating on tippo she went upstairs with a far-away look in her shining eyes. "I believe I am alive!" she exclaimed, triumphantly, to the dimples in the mirror, "and I am sure he has the image still intact." Removing her wraps the new old Miss Farnsworth settled herself before ```markdown ``` TURNING SLOWLY BEFORE THE LONG MIRROR. the cheery grate in a contented little heap to dream over again those first treasured chapters before the misunderstanding folded them in. "Turn backward, turn backward, O, Time, in your flight!" Writing material and a heap of unanswered greetings lay on the desk at her elbow, and the pen bristled in its rack with impatient waiting; still Miss Belle dreamed on. "Here's a letter for you, Niece Farnsworth." Aunt Roxy had to upstairs and pushed open the door as she spoke. There were no preliminaries with the blunt old lady and she omitted the common courtesy of tapping on the panel, as useless, "seeing it was only Belle." "Not by the postman," queried the girl, a rose color suffusing her anxious face; but luckily the old aunt did not notice the signal of the heart. "No; a boy brought it a moment ago. Some business of the society, I presume," and Aunt Roxy waddled downstairs to her cozy corner again without even a suspicion of the purpose of the message that could not wait to put in its appearance in the conventional way. Hurriedly opening the cream-tinted envelope with its gold and blue monogram on the corner, Belle thanked Heaven for once that her aunt's eyesight was none of the best; then she read: "Dearest, I saw you to-day. The old love is warm in my heart; and I want your forgiveness, and the old-time confidence. Am hungry for your presence—would have starved to death long ago had it not been for the image. Am coming to see you this evening; going to make a New Year's call. Allan." "Things are better than they have seemed for a long time," again modified Miss Farnsworth, folding the gold and blue monogram over her delighted heart, "and people aren't so bad after all!" That night as the happy stars looked down over the rim of the new cycle and winked at some millions of crisp resolutions going up to the Recording Angel, Belle Farnsworth, very much alive, watched her lover out of sight around the corner, humming softly in her old-fashioned way. "One is not obliged to be hypocritical after all, I find," she whispered to the beaming cup hovering near, "and my New Year calls turned out lovely in spite of everything." THE WISDOM OF JOHNNY. A "Johnny," said his father, "what good resolve are you going to make for the new year?" "Well, I'm not goin' to fight with Tommy Jones any more," replied Johnny. "I'm glad to hear that," said the father; "but how did you come to make that resolve?" "Cause I always get licked," was the answer—Cincinnati Enquirer. HAS FUN WITH FIGURES. Frenchman Who Disports Lightly with Certain Sinister Statistics. Some people console themselves for everything, and find an argument to keep others from worrying. Everyone has read the account of the slaughter in Manchuria. The losses of the Russians in the eight days' battle south of Mukden are estimated at about 40,000 men. Add the losses of the Japs, approximately—for they have not yet reported—and you find a tall total, says the Courier des Etats-Unis. During the eight months since the commencement of hostilities, the losses on both sides must have been 200,000 men. But that amounts to nothing, or so little that the thing is not worth speaking of. The average life of a man is 39 years on all points of the globe, and a man dies at the rate of one a second, or a little over. Now, the Russo-Japanese war has lasted eight months, and during these eight months in all the known world we find that the deaths are sixty a minute, 3,600 an hour, 86,400 a day and 592,000 a month. Therefore, for eight months the deaths foot up a total of 20,736,000. Now what do 200,000 men killed in Manchuria in eight months amount to compared with the 20,736,000 who have died during the same period? The proportion is one per cent. It is just as if somebody discovered that in a town in which the mortality is usually 150 a week there died last week 152. The philosophers who reason in this way leave little room for an answer. Statistics are admirably made for closing people's mouths. But let us put figures in a pleasanter light. The fortune of France is estimated at 400 millards, and its population is about 38,000,000. Consequently, each one of us is the happy possessor of about 10,500 francs. But go out into the street and tell every man you meet that he has a capital of 10,500 francs. Nine out of ten will be very much surprised at the good news; and some may ask you to be good enough to mention the name of your madhouse. A PIRATE AMONG PLANTS. Wild Fig Trees Eventually Strangle Others Coming Into Their Embrace. Among the forms of vegetable life in the Mexican tropics the wild fig trees are the most remarkable. Some of them show such apparent intelligence that it is difficult to not credit them with powers of volition, says the Geographic Magazine. In the tropics, where the wild fig floursh, there is a constant struggle for life among numberless species of plants. Certain of the wild figs appear to have earned this, and provide a fruit which is a favorite fruit for many birds, then an occasional seed is dropped by a bird, where it finds lodgment in the axil of a palm frond high in the air. There the seed takes root and is nourished by the little accumulation of dust and vegetable matter. It sends forth an aerial root, which creeps down the palm, sometimes coiling about the trunk on its way. When this slender, cordillate rootlet reaches the ground it secures foothold and becomes the future trunk of a fig tree. After the descending rootlet has secured itself in the ground a branch bearing a few leaves springs from the seed in the palm top and a vigorous growth begins. Then the fig gradually enlarges and incloses the supporting palm trunk until the latter is completely but in the heart of its foster child and eventually strangled. Profitable Flower Bed Two hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents' worth of violets were raised and sold by a young girl who employed her leisure time from household duties in flower-growing. Her violet patch measured 20x25 feet the first season, and the violets were sold to a near-by florist at 50 cents a hundred blossoms, netting a profit of $92.50. The second season, having transplanted more violet plants in about ten feet more of ground, $125 was realized in the sales.—How to Make Money. THE GENERAL MARKETS. Kansas City, Dec. 28. CATTLE—Beef steers ..... $3.40 @ 6.25 ST. JACOBS OIL TRADE MARK. The Old Monk Cure for Pains and Aches of the human, family, relieves and cures promptly. Price 25c, and 50c. NOT SUCH A FUNNY TRICK. "I suppose there comes to every man a desire to do something smart on an occasion," said the drummer, as a sigh took the place of his smile, according to the New York Times. "Well, such a desire came to me as I was leaving a certain southern city after I had called me 'Gineral' and been at great pains to care for me and I made up my mind to reward him with a $5 bill. It was a counterfeit with which I had been stuck, but I thought it would be the biggest kind of a joke to work off on Bob. "I had got a hundred miles away when I was arrested on a telegram for passing counterfeit money," the writer said. I was arraigned in a United States court and had to give bail and appear on three different occasions. I had a lawyer and other expenses, lost a good three weeks altogether and just escaped prison by the skin of my teeth. In addition to this I had to make good to the waiter, who sorrowfully shook his head when he received the money and said: "Do you, Gineral, but dis may be de means of savin' your contemptible soul from the callus!" About His Raisin' "Who's that skeetin' along in that big automobile?" "That's Jones—the successful author." "Why—he used to ride in an ox-cart!" "Hush!—he wouldn't be seen in one now. He only makes his money by writin' about ox-carts, an' the poor folks that ride in 'em!'"-Atlanta Constitution. Real Acting Old Friend—Is your part very difficult to play? Barnstormer—Well, rather! I'm living on one meal a day and playing the role of a man with the gout!—Detroit Free Press. Enough for Her Myra. But I am told your fiance has no education. Isabel O'bey, yes, he has. He is able to teach for at least half a million.—Chicago Daily, News. Found at Last. Hensley, Ark., Dec. 20th—(Special)—That a sure cure for Backache would be a priceless boon to the people, and especially the women of America, is admitted by all interested in medical matters, and Mrs. Sue Williams's place is certain she has found in Dodd's Kidney Pills the long-looked-for cure. "I am 38 years old," Mrs. Williams says, "and have suffered with tide Backache very much for three or four years. I have been treated by good physicians and no relief, but I have been found a fourth last and it is Dodd's Kidney Pills. I have taken only one box and it has done me more good than all the doctors in three or four years. 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FARMS WESTERN CANADA FREE FARMS WESTERN CANADA FREE Three great pursuits have again shown wonderful re- sults. The farmer in the recent Landa of Western Canada this year. Magnificent climate—farmers plowing in their shirt sleeves in the middle of November. "All are bound to be more than pleased with the final results of the past season's harvests."— Extract. Coal, wood, water, hay in abundance—schools, churches, markets convenient. Apply for information to SUPERINTENDENT OF IMMIGRATION, Ontario, Canada, or to J. S. CHAWORD, 125 West St. Kansas City, Mo. Authorized Government Agent. Please say where you saw this advert (element). LEWIS'SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT OF CIGAR ANNUAL SALE 7,000,000 PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION A. N. K.-D 2084 The Old Monk Curo for Pains and Aches of the human, family, relieves and cures promptly. Buy X-mas Gifts Now This is the last week in gifts. The last few days and as a result those we cheat themselves out of a ly, as well as having a m which to choose. Our st it is utterly impossible that is every advantage in the Never before has there be day goods seen in Sedal every line from which you had all the gifts it. We can only give a m in so small a space, but th to you. Dolls and Doll Heads, Mea Drums, Horns, tops, Shav es, Toilet Cases. Work, Manicure Sets, Wood, Glac or, Medallions, Atomizers J. L. Ka Dru 104 West SEDAL last week in which to few days there is a way in those who leave be out of an opportunity living a much smaller re Our stock is so large impossible to exhaust it stage in making your there been as larh in Sedalia. It embe which you would w the gifts in: the world sp ive a mere hint of i ace, but the list may be Jeads, Mechanical Toys Topps, Shaving Sets, Cuffs s. Work, Glove, Jewel Wood, Glass and Wave C Atomizers, Perfumes, I Kautzi Druggist West Main St SEDALIA, MO. This is the last week in which to get your X mas gifts. The last few days there is always a great rush and as a result those who leave buying to the last cheat themselves out of an opportunity to buy leisurely, as well as having a much smaller assortment from which to choose. Our stock is so large this year that it is utterly impossible to exhaust it However, there is every advantage in making your purchases now. Never before has there been as larhe a variety of holiday goods seen in Sedalia. It embraces practically every line from which you would want to choose if you had all the gifts in the world spread before you. We can only give a mere hint of its extent helpful in so small a space, but the list may be suggestive and to you. Dolls and Doll Heads, Mechanical Toys, Steam Engines Drums, Horns, tops, Shaving Sets, Cuff and Collar Boxes, Toilet Cases. Work, Glove, Jewel and Fan Boxes, Manicure Sets, Wood, Glass and Wave Crest Ware, Mirror, Medallions, Atomizers, Perfumes, Etc. J.L. Kautzman, Druggist 104 West Main Street SEDALIA, MO. The Blue Front G R O C E R Y R.Y Is the place to buy your s Candies, Nuts, Fruits, Vegetables. Groceries and all manner of pure fresh eatables. Merry Happy R. Prop. J. B. H. The 116 W. Call a All Are Wished a Merry Christmas and a Happy NEW YEAR. J. F. Kuhn, Prop. Mrs. Richard Sanders For first class hair work. Braids, Bangs, Pompadours, and etc. Shampooing, Dying, Bleaching the Hair a specialty. Facial Bust Massage. Hair Tonics. Massage Cream. Work guaran teed or money refunded. Write for particulars 412 N. Lamine St Bell Phone --- 734- J. W. SCOTT Shoe repairing the best in the city Work is always firstclass No guide work done there. :0:—— Special rates to College Students. :0:—— GIVE HIM A TRIAL. 112 W Main Street --- X-mas in which to get your Xmas s there is always a great rush who leave buying to the last man opportunity to buy leisure- much smaller assortment from stock is so large this year that to exhaust it However, there making your purchases now. open as larhe a variety of hol- alia. It embraces practically you would want to choose if the world spread before you. There hint of its extent helpful the list may be suggestive and Mechanical Toys, Steam Engines wing Sets, Cuff and Collar Box- Glove, Jewel and Fan Boxes, Mass and Wave Crest Ware, Mir- s, Perfumes, Etc. Lutzman, Logger Main Street LIA, MO. Sedalia Steam Laundry Geo. W. Longan, PROP See Him To Be Treated Right. 216 and 218 LAMINE STREET J. B. HOLDNER, The Grocer. 116 W. Main Street. Call and see me for Good Groceries. at the possible LOWEST PRICE. Also Feed and Flour of the Best Grades. Phones. Bell 790. O. C. 790 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may notify us and assign our opinion free whether an communications strictly beneficial. HANDBOOK OF FAMILIES sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. New names, titles, numbers,公司, receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any advertising journal. Terms, $3 a year, from $15. $100 by all new dealers. MUNN & Co. 3018 roadway, New York Braggs Omega, 65 F St., Washington, D.C. FOR SALE—A $300 Styvestan Upright Concert Piano; will sell for $125; $25 down, rest in terms to suit; must sell at once; call at or write the Conservator's office, 116 West Main street. X X ```markdown ``` W H Huston ..... Editor C. M Englsh ..... Manager Published every Friday morning and entered at Sedalia Post Office as sec ond class matter. PERSONAL. The recent cutting scraps that took place here among the minor criminal class, is, as usual, bringing forth a good deal of talk from those who have a care for the youth of the community, against such occurrences; but as is usual it will end with talk. The first case is a girl badly cut by a boy who is already on parole for one crime and under bond in another; the second one is a young man seriously, if not fataly, cut by a man who also has a criminal record. Sedalia is, while taking front rank rapidly as a progressive city, also holding her own as a redevous for loafers and criminals from other towns. The "click" of the ball, coming from the pool hall the "chink" of glasses from bar room, the audible grunt of the gamester in the gambling den on Sunday as thru-out the week, tends to increase immorality and criminality in any community a d the increase of such will soon sap society of its stability. Let there be a meeting of citizens, to not only pas resolutions, but to stand by those passed, put them into the hands of the city council, of the clergy, of the law, in church circles anywhere, every, until your boy or girl has a protection hitherto unknown in this city. Rev. Richardson Davis, pastor of Taylor's Chapel was given a cash present of ten dollars by a small number of friends, last Sunday evening. Mr. T. M. Smith made the presentation speech. From the Chicago Broad Ax we glean the news of our old friend Q. E. Winaleys stay in that city. He delivered a telling and impressive adderss at St. Mark's Chapel, Sunday evening, December 18th. Mrs. Anna Wright departed for Des Moines, Ia., Sunday, to visit her daughter, Miss Birdie. She went by Lexington where she was joined by her daughter, Mrs Lula Coleman. Present your friend with one of those nice photos taken by The Twentieth Century photo Artist. 305 Ohio St. Rev. F. S. Bowles who carries the word to the good people of Windsor, Mo. called at our Sanctum last Tues. and ordered the Conservaror for 1905. Room for more; come on brethern, we will be glad to meet you. Let us urge upon you to patronize those business houses who honor us by advertising in our own papers and periodicals. Miss Estelle Martain and Lenora Dillon Lincoln School teachers, spent the week with friends and relatives in Topeka Kans. Ike Martin, of Otterville, spent the holidays here; he also handed us cash for the Conservator. Mss. A. M. Vanderford, of Independence, Kas, visited her daughers at the Geo. R. this week. Mr. Barnett of Oceola, Mo., spent the holidays with his daughers at the College last week. Pre. I. L. Lowe. Ph. D. of George R. Smith College, attended the State Teachers Association at Columbia, Mo. this week. Prof. A. H. Cravett, principal of the Tipton School, was in attended at the Columbia association this week. ORDER OF PUBLICATION State of Missouri, county of Pettis, ss. In the Circuit Court of Pettis county, State of Missouri, December 12, 1904, December Term, 1904. William Sutbington, plaintiff, VS. Mary Sutbington, defendant. Now, at this day, comes the plaintiff herein, by his attorney, H. G. Phillips, and files petition and affidavit, alleging among other things, that defendant, Marv Sutbington, is not a resident of of the State of Missouri: WHEREUPON it is ordered by the court that said defendant be notified by publication that plaintiff has commenced suit against her in this court the object and general nature of which is to procure an absolute divorce from the defendant on the ground of general indignities, and unless the said Mary Guthington be and appear at this court, at the next February term thereof, to begin and holden at the court house, in the city of Sedalia, in said county, on the first Monday of February next, and on or before the first day of said term, answer or plead to the petition in said cause, the same will be taken as confessed, and jugdement will be rendered accordingly. And be it further ordered, that a copy thereof be published, according to law, in the SEDALIA WEEKLY CONSERVATOR, a newspaper printed and published in Pettis county, Missouri—for four weeks successively, the last insertion whereof shall be at least thirty days before the commencement of the said February term of this court. Attest: C. W. DAUGHERTY, (SEAL) Circuit Clerk. A true copy from the record By N. W. Kennedy, D. C. H. G. Phillips, Plaintiff's Attor- ney. ORDER OF PUBLICATION State of Missouri, County of Pettis, ss In the Circuit Court of Pettis county, State of Missouri, December, 14, 1904, December Term, 1904. Winnie Carr, Defendant. Winnie Carr, Defendant. Now, at this day comes the Plaintiff herein, by his Attorney, H. G. Phillips, and files his Petition and Affidavit, alleging among other things, that Defendant, Winnie Carr, is not a resident of the State of Missouri: WHEREUPON it is ordered by the Court that said Defendant be notified by Publication that Plaintiff has commenced a suit against her in this Court the object and general nature of which is to secure an absolute divorce from the Defendant on the ground of general indignities, and unless the said Winnie Carr, be and appear at this Court, at the next February Term thereof, to be begun and holden at the Court House, in the City of Sedalia, in said County, on the first Monday of February next, and on or before the First day of said Term, answer or plead to to the Petition in said cause, the same will be taken as contested, and judgment will be rendered accordingly. And it is further ordered, that a copy thereof be published, according to law, in the Sedalia Week y Conservator, a newspaper printed and published in Petis County, Missouri—for four weeks successively, the last insertion whereof shall be at least thirty days before the commencement of the said February Term of this Court. A true copy from the record. Attest: C. W. Daugherty. (SEAL) Circuit Clerk (SEAL) Circuit Clerk. By N. W. Kennedy, D. C. H. G. Phillips, Plaintiff's Attorney. Clover Leaf Club Meets every first and third Wednesday of each month in regular session. Jessie Lucas, President. Sanford Fields, Secret'y. Swee Springs, Mo THE MKT WHEN YOU TRAVEL SELECT A RAILWAY AS YOU DO YOUR CLOTHES. KATY SERVICE (MISBOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS RAILWAY.) Suggests Comfortable and Convenient Trains. THE "KATY FLYER" AND KATY DINING STATIONS. Meals, Moderate In Price. Unsurpassed In Quality and Service. ONE PRICE 50c For Fine Whiskeys, Wines, Beer and Cigars Is treated on the Square Don't forget the place 104 East Main Street. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Tickets on Sale December 24th, 25th, 26th, and 31st, and Janu- ary 1st, and 2nd, 1905. See Local Agent. Contractors House and Flue Building, Plastering, Paper hanging, Calciming. HOUSE REPAIRING Given Special Attention. When You Need Something In This Line Done, Call On MORGAN AND SOMERVILLE 116 E. Cooper St., Sedalia, Mo Wanted-Musicians; a mandolin player, and a guitar player; must own instruments and read music; good opening for right parties; Ladies or gentlemen. Apply to C. M. English, 116 W. Main St. Private Orders Given Special Attention. When You Buy MOER :: schlL's beer, You will Be Patronizing a HOME INDUSTRY. : : Co. BREWERS AND BOTTLERS. Cor. Main and Missouri, Avenue. Phone 214. H. H. WEBB, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Marshall, Mo. OFFICE HOURS {9 to 12 a. m. 2 to 5 p. m. MRS. NELLIE DAVIS. --- Hair Dresser. Full line of bangs, wigs, braids, pompadours, and the best brand of hair-oil, face bleach, whitening 104 E. Cooper. St J. M. Harris, M. D Physician and Surgeon. 116 W. Main St., Sedalia, Mo —OFFICE HOURS— 10:00 to 12:00 a.m. 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Residence 236 W. Morgan St. H. G. PHILLIPS. LAWYER. 116 W. Main street SEDALIA. - - - - MO G. W. BROWN, M. D. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE. 211 W. End Beattie St. HIGGINSVILLE, -- MO. OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 10 A.M., 1:30 to 5 P.M., 7 to 8 P.M. ICE CREAM & Groceries. Polite Service Best Bargains Strict attention given all orders Your Money's Worth Always. WM. DIGGS 413 N. LAMINE St GROWTHER & SON. The latest style rigs, and the Best groomed horses—The most courteous treatment accorded to all—Come and see us. Hair Cuts Shampoo Clean Shaves D. Y. STEELE 120 E. MAIN ST. MKT I YOU TRAVEL ACT A RAILWAY AS DO YOUR CLOTHES.