Sedalia Weekly Conservator

Sedalia Weekly Conservator. Published every Friday morning and entered at Sedalia Post Office as see second class matter. Life's Optimism. Life, with its pleasures so short; Life, with its miseries so long! Why worry, when all is ill in hope; Why not meet disappointment with song? Ah! 'tic well for the song-bird to sing. And, warble its sweet charming note; But what man, woman or child Can bring smiles to the soul void of hope. We mourn for those that are gone; We pray for those that are here. Why should our meetings be begun, When the partings are so very severe? By G. C. Davis, Class of '05. UNCLE Samuel is very busy, now a days, making the dirt fly out of his Panama ditch; Poor fellow, he never thinks of resting while humanity's needs are anappeased. Missouri's General Assembly will go down in history noted for greatness in one particular, if no other, that is for devoting a large amount of time and energy to the investigation of rumors. Send us your news happenings. Good news from any source will be handled with the utmost dispatch. The Conservator's columns are constantly open for the publication of the good deeds of the race. JAPANESE running qualities are put severely to the test, when ever they wish to get a good look at a fighting cossack, because the Russian cossacks are firm believers in the sentiment that "it's so disgrace to run, when you are scared". DEMOCRATIC hope that the investigation of the political record of state chairman Neldringhaus would result in his defeat for the United States senatorship was completely annihilated last Tuesday, when the Republican members of the General Assembly stood steadfastly by the causes nominee. Not an effort made to disrupt Republican harmony has resulted favorably from a Democratic point of view. HARVARD College and other eastern schools seem to have quite a different view of the educative ability of the Negro from that maintained by either Governor Davis, of Arkansas, or, Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi. Let the fair-minded public decide as to which is better prepared to render correct judgment on educational questions, the sober-minded men of New England and the liberally cultured East or the prejudicedly beguiled leaders of a biased and non-impartial South. A Southern Governor, the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Arkansas, seems to have run amuck on the "Negro Problem" in his recent inaugural address, his assemblymen. After scathingly berating the unscrupulous "carpet-bagger" of the Re-construction period, he proceeded to flay the Negroalive. No exceptions would be taken to the good governor's statements, if they bore the stamp of authentic substantiation. Take the following statements, taken from his address, and have him or any other man, North or South, to verify them: "A negro is not susceptible of higher education; he is not susceptible of higher moral culture; a negro is a servant, made so by God Almighty, bred and born as such, and no matter with what tender solicitude we attempt to raise him from this position, he is but a servant still." "Attempted education proves harmful rather than beneficial, so I have come to the point where I, for one, am willing to step out and say, 'from this day forward let the negroes in Arkansas educate themselves, if it is posssible; let the sympathy for them some from this carpeting element that keeps them constantly in commotion'; and I most heartily recommend that at this session of the legislature you pass such a law segregating the school taxes of this state, so that the negroes may receive the benefit of the taxes col, lected from their property, and the white children receive the benefit of the taxes collected from the property of the white people of the state." We wonder if this wise and just minded governor has ever visited the schools and colleges, filled with negro students, that are located at Little Rock, very near the Governor's Mansion. Could this great man pass successfully an examination for thoro scholarship, prepared by either of the following gentlemen: DuBois, Bowen, Mason, Dogan, Crogman, Scarborough or a hundred thousand other negroes, who have been educated to the liberal arts, since the emancipation of '63. Conversely, could he intelligently examine these men of eminent culture? If the schools and colleges of Little Rock are insufficient to convince the Governor, have him visit the city of Nashville, Tennessee, and go thru the colleges of that city. If he still has doubts of the negro's educational susceptibilities carry him thru the dozens of institutions for the higher culture of the negro, thru-ont the land, ask the faculties of these institutions, if their efforts have yielded good fruitage. All will answer affirmatively, because their records clear with abundant proofs. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + SEDALIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 1905. PERSONAL. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jackson of West Morgan street served an excellent four-o'clock dinner, last Monday afternoon. Those present were the Misses Ruth Claxtou and Winnie Sealer of George R. Smith College and Clara E. Wilson of Kansas City, Mo.; Mr. Isom Smith and wife also Mr. D. Dunbar, of Ft. Worth, Texas. All present spent a most pleasant time and departed, regretting that their stay could not be prolonged. William Ruby entertained Silas and Nevada Brent, also, Mrs. Georgia Day, all of SweetSprings at dinner Sunday. They accompanied their cousins, the Misses Mayme and Lelia Mallory, of Boonville, this far, on their return home from a two week's visit it in Sweet Springs. Miss Malinda Brockman teacher in the Sweet Springs school and Miss Katie Lucas, of Omaha Neb. were visiting in our city Sunday. Miss Brockman was the guest of Mrs. Della Williams of East Morgan st. and Miss Lucas abode with the Misses Brown of West Morgan street. W. H. Cline. the fuel dealer is doing a "land office" business during these breezy January days. Other Negro business enterprises can be made to go in this city. You had better venture before some one forestall's you. A large number of our citizens is reported as being on the sock list. Among them may be mentioned the Mesdames Mayme Volunteer, Anna Wright, sr; Gertrude Butler, America Rollins, Charlotte Martain and Miss Pearl Myers also Messrs, Nathaniel Anderson and Henry Adams. Born—to the wife of W. W. Morgan a prosperous farmer, living near Dresden, Mo., a girl baby, Sunday Morning Jan. 8th. Both mother and daughter are doing nicely at this writing. The property owners on the north side have begun to arrange for spring improvements. Let this spirit of property improvement be contagious. Claude Murray, wife and child of near Marshall, Mo., have removed to this city to make it their future home. They are at present stopping with John Herndon on west Johnson street. Dr. J. M. Harris was called to Windsor, Tuesday on professional business. If the good Doctor was two men, we would keep him busy just the "samee," as the Chinaman say. Train porter Peter Abbott, of the Katy, injured his right hand severely, while unloading trunks at Schell City, last Thursday morning Rev. A. M. Sonerville who has charge of the M. E. Church, at California Mo; preached for Rev. Richard Davis last Sunday night. Frank Cooper a student was summoned home Monday to attend the obsequies of a recently departed relative. Is there any harm in a gentleman calling from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. ? You will have to ask those that know. Brother Luke Johnson's house on E. Morgan street was tally distroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon. Isom Smith one of our city subscribers, paid us a pleasant call last week and left important news items. John Pennick of Kansas City, Mo., was a visitor to our office last Wednesday afternoon. He is an ex student of Western University and has had several years experience as a printer. Owing to ill health he had to remain out of school this year but hopes to enter next year to finish his fourth year's work. The Academic and Normal Seniors will be feted by president and Mrs. Lowe tonight. Many novel features will be introduced for the amusement of their guest. C. W. White, porter on the Missouri Pacific, running between Kansas City and St. Louis was home on a visit this week. NEWS NOTES Programme Adopted. The following outline of the commencement program has been adopted by the Faculty of George R. Smith College. Thursday Eve. April 27, public program of Literary Societies; Fri. eve. April 28, prize Medal Retorical contest; Sunday, April 30, a.m. Baccalaureate sermon, p.m. Anniversary address; evening. Annual Sermon Monday, May 1, a.m. Class Day 2p. m. meeting of Trustees; 3 p. m. Graduation for English department. 8 p. m. Academic graduation. All members of the graduation Class will prepare orations to be handed in on or before Feb 15. One half of class will speak at graduation, selected for general scholarship and excellence of oration. Kansas City, Mo., January -- The United Sons of Allen held thier usual monthly meeting at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Doyle this being the first meeting of the new year much enthusiasm and interest developed among the members both intellectually and financially, Mr. Doyle and his affectionate wife enjoyed having the honor of entertaining the club at its first meeting in the New Year. They spared us ther expense nor pain to demonstrate their appreciation for the Sons of Allen. The Club, after acknowledging in suitable terms its high esteem for host and hostess, departed for home. Those present were the Misses G. Sanion and W. M. B. Offutt; the Mesdames Cara Shy, H. Reed F. W. Whaley, M. B. Dean, S. M. Hill, Bert Hill D. A. Willis, L. H. Weston, S. H. Barnett; M. C. Carter; the Messers. W. M. Rice, J. W. Crow, C. D. Frazier, W. D. Lee, E. Harris, E. W. Goodwin and master L. D. Heins. The following gentlemen and their wives were also present—B. F. Cargyle, L. G. Perry, W. H. Baker, A. E. Hackley, H. W. Bean aud S. H. Smith. Leslie's weekly of last week presents the cut and write up of William H. Craig, who was recently elected captain of the Amherst Agricultural college foot ball team, Mr Craig is a young colored gentleman hailing from Boston Mass. The captaincy of the team comes to him as a reward for excellence in athletics. He is a member of the Class of 06 and has played three years on he college team. This recognition of negro ability by one of the leading schools of the land causes the utterances of Governor Jefferson Davis, of Arkansas, to appear extremely fallacious. Dr. H. K. Carroll, church statistician, states in an aarticle published in last week's Christian Advocate, that the Methodist Episcopal church has a total membership 2,847,932, with 27,121 churches presided over by 17,000 THE WEST Improved and strengthened by features: Enlarged farm depa culture—care of the horse—Boy national Sunday School Lesson—Michaud's health and beauty hint practical cookery—latest styles full crop and market reports. The Inter Ocean is the only West dition to the Associated Press re service of the Central News and York World, besides daily report special correspondents. ALL THIS FOR ONLY WEEKLY CONSERVATOR WEEK Y INTER OCEAN BOTH FOR ONE YEAR .... This Offer Open On MISSOURI GRAN K. OP Collection — — Disbursements — — Face value of policies can Cash on deposit — — A. W. 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ALL THIS FOR ONLY 5 CENTS EXTRA WEEKLY CONSERVATOR.....$1.00 WEEK Y INTER OCEAN.....$1.00 BOTH FOR ONE YEAR.....$1.05 This Offer Open Only A Few Weeks Collection $9.281.18 Disbursements 5,552.44 Face value of policies carried 595.600 Cash on deposit $10,892.34 A. W, LLOYD, GRAND CHANCELOR. YOU'RE NEEDED The Southwest is really in More men are needed -you're nee- unimproved land -land not yield- pobe. The same thing in a differ- Few lines of business are adequa- penings o mills and manufactur- newspapers and lumber yards, sas, Indian Territory and O'klaho- fer wonderful oppor unities for d lines. THE OPPORTU The M. K. & T. has no la- terested in the upbuilding of the west, and know that with its pro- the prospects are brighter and tha the older and more densely popu- investigate conditions and satisfy these statements Southwest is really in need of nothing so are needed -you're needed. There are vast land not yielding the crops of which the same thing in a different way is true of the busness are adequately represented. The mills and manufacturing plants, small stoves and lumber yards. The oil and gas field. Territory and Oklahoma are practically useful opportunities for development along THE OPPORTUNITY IS NO M. K & T. has no lands for sale, we are the upbuilding of the country. We believe know that with its present needs and op-ports are brighter and the future more hopeful and more densely populated states. We wi conditions and satisfy yourself of the truth is really in need of nothing save people. You're needed. There are vast areas of not yielding the crops of which it is cary in a different way is true of the towns. Are adeq tately represented. There are o-manufacturing plants, small stores, banks, or yards. The oil and gas fields of Kan- and Oklahoma are practically new and o-ilities for development along commercial OFTUNITY IS NOW It has no lands for sale, we are simply in- ing of the country. We believe in South- th its present needs and opportunities, later and the future more hopeful than in usely populated states. We want you to and satisfy yourself of the truthfulness of Februa- The Southwest is really in need of nothing save people. More men are needed -you're needed. There are vast areas of unimproved land -land not yielding the crops of which it is capable. The same thing in a different way is true of the towns. Few lines of business are adequately represented. There are openings to mills and manufacturing plants, small stores, banks, newspapers and lumber yards. The oil and gas fields of Kansas, Indian Territory and Oklahoma are practically new and offer wonderful opportunities for development along commercial THE OPPORTUNITY IS NOW The M. K. & T. has no lands for sale, we are simply interested in the upbuilding of the country. We believe in Southwest, and know that with its present needs and opportunities, the prospects are brighter and the future more hopeful than in the older and more densely populated states. We want you to investigate conditions and satisfy yourself of the truthfulness of these statements On January 17th. February 21st and March 21st, the M. K and T. Ry. will sell excursion tickets from St Louis, Hamibal and Kansas City to Indian Territory Oklahoma and Central and Eastern Texas at $15 For The Round trip class COLONIST tickets will be sold on the the standard one way rate plus $200. advantage of this opportunity to see the Southwest for yourself. One way second class COLONIST tickets will be sold on the same dates at one-hall the standard one way rate plus $200. You should take advantage of this opportunity to see the Southwest for yourself. We are in possession of all sorts of information valuable alike to the investor and home seeker. If you are interested, tell us what you want, how you much to invest, and we will gladly furnish the information. Write today for a cpoy of our book "Business Chaice". It's free. Address We are in possession of all sorts of information valuable alike to the investor and home-seeker. If you are interested, tell us what you want, how you much to invest, and we will gladly furnish the information. KATY", ST. LOUIS. MO. "", ST. LOUIS, MO. "KATY", ST "KATY", ST. LOUIS, MO. ministers. This shows that the church has 10.121 more minister than church ed fices. His article also shows that the African Methodist episcopal church has a total membership with 786.125 members looked after by 6510 ministers, housed in only 5,316 chu edifices. This church has 994 ministers without churches to occupy. Editor A. N. Johnson was elected by the Emancipa ion Association of Mobile, Ala. to go to $15 For The Round trip Washington D. C., and invite President Roosevelt to visit their city during his tour of the Southern States. Mr. Johnson departed for Washington on the evening of the 4th to perform his duty. FOR SALE—A $300 Styvestan Upright Concert Piano; will sell for $125; $10 down, rest in terms to suit; must sell at once; call at or write the Conservator's office, 116 West Main street. NO.38. PROVES GREAT POWER Cured Her Rheumatism. Hundreds of people afflicted with rheumatism have spent years under the care of excellent physicians in vain. Then they have settled down to the conviction that it is fastened on them for life. Mrs. Dissmore was not willing to join the ranks of the hopeless merely because her doctor did not know how to help her. Here is her story: "Four years ago I suffered greatly with rheumatism in my hands and knees. After I had been sitting a while my limbs seemed so heavy I could hardly walk on the first attempt. So long as I kept moving I was all right, but just as soon as I stopped, something seemed to seath in my knees and make them ache. My hands were so bad I couldn't touch the palms of them on a flat surface; they were swollen and pained so." "Did you call in vibration?" "I doctored steadily for over a year; then one doctor said: 'You have taken medicine strong enough to kill almost anything.' Still, it did not kill me nor the rheumatism." "How, then, did you get rid of it?" "At different times I had read in various publications about Dr. Williams' wonderful Pink Pills for Palo People, and I finally decided to try them. I took them steadily for four months in accordance with the directions. By that time I was completely cured." "Have you been free from it ever since?" "Since then I have had but one slight return of my trouble, and a box or two of the same pills made me all right again." Mrs. F. A. Diusmore lives in hearty enjoyment of her recovered health at Woburn, Mass., entirely freed from the grave anxieties that rheumatism always brings. When it appears in but a single joint it shows that the blood is in a faulty state in the whole body. It may at any moment break out elsewhere, and one of the dancers is that it may break out in the heart and then the result must be fatal. The only security is to keep the blood all the time in a perfectly sound condition. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make healthy blood. All other relief is superficial. This is thorough. These pills are sold by all druggists. All the fun of having a bank account is destroyed for a woman because the cashier knows how much money she hasn't got—N. Y. Press. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drugstores refund the money if it fails to cure E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. You can't play truant from the school of experience. - Tuck. Piss's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure. - J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan 6, 1900. In 50 years suicide has increased in Great Britain by 200 per cent. ALL CROPS GOOD IN WEST- ERN CANADA. "Potatoes the Finest I Ever Saw." Owing to the great amount of interest that is being taken in Western Canada, it is well to be informed of some of the facts that are bringing about the great emigration from portions of the United States. The Canadian Government have authorized agents at different points, and the facts related in the following may be corroborated on application. At the same time they will be able to quote you rates, and give you certificates entitling you to low rates on the different lines of railway. The following letter copied from the North Bend (Neb.) Eagle, is an unsolicited testimonial, and the experience of Mr. Austen is that of hundreds of other Americans, who have made Canada their home during the past seven or eight years: "I presume some may be interested to know how we have progressed this year in the Canadian North West. We have no complaint to offer. We have had a good year, crops were good and we have had a delightful season. I threached from my place 8,650 bushels of grain. My oats made 65 bushels per acre and weighed $42\frac{1}{2}$ pounds per bushel. My wheat made $31\frac{1}{2}$ bushels per acre and is No. 1 quality. My harley made about 30 bushels of good quality. My crop is a fair average of the crops in the Edmonton district. "All crops were good here this season. Potatoes the finest I ever saw, and all vegetables adapted to the climate. We have had a very fine fall but no exception to the rule as the fall season is, I think, the most pleasant of the year. We have had no snow yet (Nov. 9), and have been plowing and working the land preparing for an early seeding next spring. Last night the mercury dropped lower than any previous night this fall and this morning there is a crust of frost on the fields sufficient to prevent field work. No doubt many would imagine that Alberta had put on her winter overcoat before this and that the people were wrapped in furs, but it is only a question of time when this country will not be looked upon as an iceberg, but a country fit for the best of mankind to live in. "We are now assured of a transcontinental railway, which is to be built to the Pacific during the next five years. The Canadian Northern road is graded to within seventy-five miles of Edmonton. It comes from Winnipeg, and will reach us next summer, so with one railroad already at hand, the second to reach us in less than a year, and the third to penetrate our city and open up this country to the west across the Rockies to the coast within five years, we surely have reason to believe that the country is progressing. "Very respectfully. "L. J. Austen." SEEDLESS APPLES. Not Anything New, Because They Were Known Centuries Ago—Valuable Only as a Curiosity. The very wide public notice which the so-called secess苹果 is now enjoying is being lavishly advertised, and, second, the public generally accepts it as a genuine novelty. This apple, like the stoneless plum, has been known to pomologists for more than two centuries. The seedless apple was known before 1628 at latest, for in that year it was described by the French pomologist, Lelectier. In several of the old herbals, the seedless and bloomless apple is described, and in one case it is well illustrated, early in the seventeenth century. Moreover, these old authors refer to still earlier writers, like Pilny and Theophrastus, as describing the seedless and bloomless apple, so that it seems certain that it has been known since the beginning of the Christian era. in 1768, Duhamel, the great French bontainist and pomologist, in his book on "Fruit Trees," described it as follows: "Apple without petals, fruit oblong, the seed vessels distributed in a double series, crowned with a proliferous calyx." This reference to a double series of seed vessels looks difficult, but it is easily understood when we examine closely some of the "seedless" and "bloomless" apples of modern times. In these there are nearly always two more or less rudimentary cores, one above the other. Duhamels book on "Fruit Trees," just cited, was a famous and important work, and is still one of the most valuable for historical reference. In 1807, Poteau and Turpin, two eminent French pennologists, produced a new edition of the work, in which they gave a full description and a colored picture of this same bloomless apple, calling it the fig apple. An outline of this fig apple is shown in Figure 1. The seedless apple seems to have come to light in this country about 1808, says the Country Gentleman. In that year it was reported to the Farmers' club (New York) as having been found in West Virginia. The fruit was again before the same club in 1870, this time coming from Connecticut, with the state- Fig. 1—Fig Apple of 1807. ment that the original tree had been in bearing for over 50 years. This would take the seedless apple back at least to 1830 in America. Mr. Robert Manning, of Boston, in 1869, wrote that he had seen this apple under the name No-core at an exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural society several years before. He said that he had also received a similar apple from a French nurseryman. The greatest previous outbreak of the seedless-apple craze in this country occurred about 1890, or less than 15 years ago. At this time the matter was thoroughly written up. The most comprehensive article was by Prof. L. H. Bailey in American Gardening, January, 1890, from which some of the foregoing references are taken. Fig. 2 shows a section through the Bloomless apple, as it was then called. Prof. Bailey attributes the seedless character of the apple to the fact that the abnormal flowers seldom have any stamens. The pistils therefore are not pollinated. When other trees of other varieties grow near, these may pollinate the flowers of the seedless apple, which may then bear a number of seeds. As to the merits of the variety, Prof. Bailey said: "It appears to possess no value aside from its curiosity." Mr. H. E. Van Deman, then United States pomologist, said of it: "My opinion is that the variety is practically worthless so far, as a fruit, but is quite interesting as a curiosity. Anyone who plants the trees of this variety will be disappointed, except in having their curiosity satisfied." Improving the Farm The farm should be well fenced and divided into lots of 50 acres or less for a rotation of crops, says Farm and Home. Sow peas and German clover for a green-fallow to add humans to the soil. All grain, hay and roughage of all kinds should be fed on the farm and sold in the way of pork and beef, therefore adding to the fertility of the land. Water for Cows. Water for cows should always be warmed during cold weather. This is particularly, necessary when ice forms in the troughs, but it also pays during the sharp weather of late spring and early winter. Cows prefer warm to ice water. —Orange Judd Farmer. Buy from the nursery with a reputation to sustain. Happenings in Missouri. Convicts to Build Reads. Convicts to Build Roads. Representative George Church, of Bates county, chairman of the road committee of the house, is willing to try the convicts in the penitentiary on roadmaking. He does not desire to go into the matter in a wholesale way, but he will encourage any plan that may be proposed looking to an experiment along these lines. The plan, as proposed, is to begin the construction of a state road from Jefferson City to St. Louis. That a complete test be made of the practicability of the system of working convicts on the road, it could be started easily from the Jefferson City end, and if it proved advantageous could be pushed to final completion not only to St. Louis, but later to Kansas City, making a great state highway, as has been mapped out by the national road organization. In order that a system might be evolved a certain number of prisoners, to the number of 200, or perhaps less, could be fitted out with prison camping equipment. With adequate guards there would be little likelihood of escapes. It has been suggested that a portable stockade might be taken along and stretched over the portion of the road on which the convicts were working. Under this plan there would be little attempt to escape or likelihood of a success if attempted. The material for a good maacadam road could be found in abundance along the proposed route. Men might be sent on ahead to break the rock and prepare it for the highway. Or it could be broken at the penitentiary and hauled for miles over the newly-made road until it was deposited in its proper place. These details have not been fully worked out by Mr. Church, but if a feasible plan is proposed for the construction of the highway he will no doubt favor it. For a Soldiers' Memorial Approximately speaking, Missouri furnished 100,000 men to each of the contending armies of the war of 1861-55. The national government is about to refund to Missouri moneys paid out by the latter in recruiting soldiers early in the civil war. It is suggested that an appropriate use for this money would be to erect a Missouri soldiers memorial building, devoted to the uses of a historical museum of portraits, literature and antiquities of the state, coupled with the libraries of the state university, that would for all time be consulted and enjoyed by the descendants of those who wore the blue or the gray. The State Historical society of Missouri has prepared a bill to submit to the present legislature asking the setting aside of the national government refund, amounting to about $475,000, for the purpose of building a fireproof Missouri soldiers' memorial in the shape of a building to be used jointly by the society and by the state university for library and museum purposes. Kerens Makes a Statement. R C. Kerens, formerly member of the republican committee from Missouri, who was unsuccessful in securing the republican caucus nomination for United States senator to succeed Francis M. Cockrell, made a statement as to the action of the legislature looking to the investigation of the campaign contributions of Thomas K. Niedrinhaus, the successful candidate. Mr. Kerens said: "I have read the proceedings upon the resolution offered by Mr. Grace in the house of representatives of the Missouri legislature. I had no advice or knowledge of that procedure. The legislature is perfectly competent to manage its own affairs without suggestion from any one. I have not and will not intrude upon their prerogatives." For a 30-Year-Old Crime. Dr. J. M. Wilkerson, of Springfield, was arrested by an officer from Arkansas on a warrant charging him with killing the husband of Mrs. Kate Kaffery, of Huntsville, Ark., 30 years ago during the stormy period just after the civil war. Dr. Wilkerson was in Arkansas most of last week. He claims that Mrs. Rafferty tried to make a settlement in the case a few weeks ago, making a trip to Springfield for the purpose. He says she offered to refrain from prosecuting him on his payment of $5,000. Dr. Wilkerson says he refused to pay her the money, charging that the whole affair was merely a blackmailing scheme. Dr. Wilkerson is quite wealthy. A Card in the Overcount. Early last fall Charles Drennan, of Joplin, bought an overcoat and in one pocket of it he found a card bearing the name and address of a Philadelphia girl, Miss Christie Mienne. Drennan wrote Miss Mienne and received an answer. Next they exchanged photographs and now it is announced they are engaged to be married. Miss Mienne put the card in the pocket while working as clothing inspector In the factory where the coat was made. Fields Black with Crows. The country around Medoc, ten miles northwest of Joplin, is literally covered with crows. For the past week there have been thousands of the big black birds over the fields. Farmers living in that vicinity say that their wings make a noise like thunder when they rise in flight. Several fields of corn in the shock have been totally destroyed by the birds. The crows do not seem to be migrating, but simply sojourning in the neighborhood. Seen from the trains, the fields seem fairly blast with them. To Build a Canal. When the spring overflows come thousands upon thousands of acres of the richest farm land in Bates county is covered by water by the Marius des Cygnes river, said to be the most erratic river in the United States. Last spring it overflowed seven times, causing a loss, it is estimated, of $100,000 by the loss of crops, cattle, timber and inability of the Missouri Pacific railway system to operate its trains over it on account of washouts, for a number of days. Last summer the land owners interested formed an association and employed competent civil engineerra from Chicago to come to Bates county and go over every mile of the river to make an estimate of the cost of and finding out the best method to carry off the flood waters. After two weeks' work they made their report to the association to the effect that a canal be built parallel with the river, 25 feet wide at the top, 15 feet wide at the bottom and 12 feet deep which would be of sufficient dimensions to carry the water away and the cost would be about $19 per acre for all land benefited. The men interested in this enterprise expect to build this canal, which will enhance the value of their bottom land worth from $5 to $23 per acre to $20 to $100 per acre. Cockyell Born in Missouri. F. M. Cockrell, the new member of the interstate commerce commission appointed to succeed Mr. Yeemans, of Iowa, was born in Johnson county, Mo., October 1, 1834. He received his early education in the common schools of the county; graduated from Chapel Hill college, Lafayette county, in July, 1853; studied law and has pursued that profession, never having held any public or civil office prior to his election to congress. He was elected to the senate to succeed Carl Schurz, independent republican, took his seat on March 4, 1875, and was re-elected four times. Traces to Build Reads. At the good roads' convention in Sedalia, W. H. Moore, president of the national association, delivered an address and recommended the holding of a constitutional convention in the interests of better roads. He also recommended the appointment by Gov. Folk, of a highway commissioner, who shall be a competent engineer and road builder; that poll taxes be applied to bettering the roads, and that tramps, vagrants and paupers be employed on state road work. To Grow Oranges. Following the report of the department of agriculture at Washington, that oranges can be grown in the big red apple country of southern Missouri, arrangements are being made by apple growers of the Ozarks to set out orange groves. The Japanese orange has been crossed with the Florida orange, resulting in a tree as hardy as the Arkansas and southern Missouri peach. Growing Cities. It is announced by the enumerators who are taking the census, that Joplin has a population of more than 30,000, the required number to make it a city of the second-class. The census will show that Joplin's population is close to 35,000. Springfield is also aspiring to become a city of the second-class. Its census recently taken, showed that the city contained 32,388 inhabitants. Lewis After the "Hazers." Lewis, of Crawford, has been reading of the hazing that is practiced at the state schools, and introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor for any student at any one of the state institutions to "assault or intimidate any person with indignities." If the hazing results in permanent injuries, those guilty are subject to confinement in the penitentiary for not less than two years. New Warden and New Chapelia. Matt W. Hall, the new warden of the state prison, took charge Tuesday, succeeding Frank Wooldridge, of Cass county. The new prison chaplain is Rev. George P. Tatt, of Bunceton. Employees of the prison presented Retiring Warden Wooldridge with a gold watch. St. Joseph Has Gen Feyer. C. L. Johnson, a gas expert from Coffeyville, Kan., declares that natural gas and oil exist at St. Joseph in paying quantities at a depth of less than 1,550 feet. Gold Miner of '49. Pernbroke V. Wise, aged 72 years, patent and pension attorney, died at St. Joseph. He was a veteran of 15 battles in the civil war. He was a gold miner in California in '49. $1,000 for Poultrymen. Woods, of Howard, is so well satisfied with the work of the state poultry association that he would have the organization legalized and $1,000 a year set aside for its use. Frowns Upon Sunday Games. Blair, of Caldwell, introduced a bill to prohibit baseball and football on Sunday. There already is a statute prohibiting horse racing on Sunday and the Blair bill frowns upon other athletic games on that day. Corporal Punishment. Walmsley, of Kansas City, introduced a bill in the house forbidding corporal punishment of school children. The punishment in case of conviction is a fine of not less than $10 or more than $160. SUFFERED FROM CATARRH OF LUNGS SO COMMON IN WINTER CURED BY PE-RU-NA. HARD WORK MAKES STIFF JOINTS RUB WITH MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT GOOD FOR ANY ACHIEF OR INJURY TO MAN OR BEAST THAT IS CURABLE BY A LINIMENT RUB IT IN HARD The coming winter will cause at least one-half of the women to have cataracts, coughs, pneumonia or consumption. Thousands of women will be affected. and tens of thousands will acquire some chronicle alliment from which they will never recover. KEEP PERUNA IN THE HOUSE IN THE HOUSE Unless you take the necessary precautions, the chances are that you (who read this) will be one of the unfortunate ones. 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During a recent revolution in Paraguay, according to a correspondent, a minister of war and the admiral of a fleet were captured when swimming for liberty and dragged from the river "by a single shirt collar." The whole Paraguayan navy was captured in the same time the plot was hatched in the Banco de Sesquema, a navy correspondent. One dark night a steamer sailed from the port of La Plata bearing several hundred patriots, with Krupp field pieces, rifles and ammunition. When the boat got near that historic spot, Humata, which played such an important role in the war, sall and death of the Dictator Lopez, she encountered the entire Paraguayan navy. This navy consisted of a steam barge seized from a private river company and manned by 100 men. It was commanded by the minister of war, who turned himself into an admiral for the occasion. A战术istic South American night took place. At the first shot the war minister and the admiral jumped overboard and tried to swim ashore. But the pair were caught by the victors and dragged out of the water by the single shirt collar mentioned --- Long-Felt Want. "Now, some patent medicine man ought to get up a 'Regulator for Chills and Fever.'" suggested the deep thinker. "What do you mean? An ague cure?" "Well, no; I mean a regulator that'll make the chills come on warm days and the fever on cold days."—Cleveland Leader. Exemplified. Mr. Greene—Funny how mothers will believe that their own children are so much better than anybody else's children. Mrs. Greene—I know it. Now, if all children were like my little George, it would not be so strange—Cassell. Jours Just in Time. "Gracious! I can't find the right department," sighed the exhausted shopper. "Oh, my! I'm nearly dead." "Undertaking department in the basement, ma'am," suggested the prompt and attentive floorwalker. Philadelphia Press. The whipping post has lately been suggested as a cure for about everything except freized finance. Why not try it on that? N. Y. Mad. MIGHT HAVE SAVED IT. A Lot of Trouble from Too Much Starchy Food. A little boy of eight years whose parents did not feed him on the right kind of food, was always nervous and suffered from a weak condition of the stomach and bowels. Finally he was taken down with appendicitis and after the operation the doctor, knowing that his intestinal digestion was very weak, put him on Grape-Nuts twice a day. He rapidly recovered and about two months thereafter, his Father states, "He has grown to be strong, muscular, and sleeps soundly, weighs 62 pounds, and his whole system is in a fine condition of health." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. It is plain that if he had been put on Grape-Nuts at an earlier period in his life, and kept from the use of foods that he could not digest, he never would have had appendicitis. That disease is caused by undigested food decaying in the stomach and bowels, causing irritation and making for the growth of all kinds of microbes, setting up a diseased condition which is the active cause of appendicitis, and this is more marked with people who do not properly digest white bread. Grape-Nuts is made of the selected parts of wheat and barley and by the peculiar processes of the cooking at the factory, all of the starch is turned into sugar ready for immediate digestion and the more perfect nourishment of all parts of the body, particularly the brain and nerve centres. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville" found in each pkg. PEARY'S CREAT METEORITE Maminoth Metal Body from the Heavens Discovered by the Arctic Explorer. The largest, heaviest and most interesting meteorite ever discovered was the 37%-ton chunk of iron and nickel and count brought to the Brooklyn pavy yard by Lieut. Peary's latest arctic expedition, and recently dragged through the streets of New York by 24 horses to be deposited at the main entrance of the American Museum of Natural History. There, on a massive pedestal reaching clear down to bed rock, this extraordinary celestial visitor, an awe-inspiring spectacle of the stupendous missiles whirling through space, rests in its last abiding place. Like a real ghost, come to take permanent residence in order to prove vague, ghastly superstititions, so this mammoth Greenland meteorite stands—12 feet long, eight feet high and six feet thick—as if to verify the declarations of science that all about us are stars and planets and heavenly bodies consisting of minerals and metals identical with those composing our own earth. Fascinating though this meteorite is to the scientists, no less is it to laymen throughout the world, for the part which this huge bowler of metal had in maintaining human life on Greenland's most barren shore lends an interest which no other natural curiosity can have. One of the earliest puzzles to arctis explorers was the fact that the knives, the harpoons and the other Eskimo hunting implements so necessary to the native of the frozen north were made of iron. "From the 'Iron mountains' we get our iron," the natives explained to Capt Ross as far back as 1818, and from that day to 1895, when Lieut. Peary succeeded in locating the "mountains," one of the most perplexing things to arctic explorers was the location of the mysterious source of supply. Like many other scientific object of search, the "Iron mountains" were discovered by Peary chiefly through accident, says Raymond Porter, in Pearson's Magazine. Nine years ago he happened to be staying over night in an Eskimo village on Whale sound, when he came across an "oodoo"—a knife used by Eskimo women. The knife was an exceedingly primitive affair, consisting of five pieces of iron fastened together with thongs. "Where did you get this?" Peary asked of the woman. "From the great 'Iron mountains.' answered the hostess. "It's very old. I never saw another like it; but old men in the tribe say that years and years ago, before the whalers brought us knives and blades and harpoon heads, these knives were the only ones used by our people." Peary investigated further, was directed to the ice-bound body of water known as Melvillis bay, and, guided by an Eskimo hunter named Tellikotinah, was led to three enormous bowlers of iron, meteorites, known to the natives respectively as the "Dog," the "Woman" and the "Tent." Here, then was where for centuries the natives had gotten their iron; for, despite almost a century's ravages of arctic elements, the flint-hard surfaces of the masses still showed where natives had labored patiently, breaking and wearing away chunks and sections of the stone to be transformed into heads for harpoons and other hunting implements. IT'S THE WAY YOU PUT IT. Hair Dye Finds Sale as Boot Polish When Introduced as Such. Grigsby was a splendid agent in his own trade, but lately he has taken up a new line—a patent hair dye, relates the Chicago Tribune. He called at several suburban dwellings, but as soon as he proclaimed his business—hair dye—the door was slammed in his face. At length he felt he must alter his tactics, when the next door was opened by a fearful looking female with a forbidding scowl and a few scary gray locks, he commenced apologetically: "I beg your pardon—I was about to introduce a new and wonderful hair dye, but I see it would be something for which you would have no use." The lady blushed and stammered, not to say simped: "No. I suppose not; but if it is good perhaps it might be used for something else—a brown dye, I think you said. I should like some good brown boot polish." "The very thing; it is magnificent for both purposes. Two shillings—thank you." And Grigsby had no difficulty in getting rid of his hair polish. He never says dye. All He Cared For. "You're a coward. They'll steal all the silver." "Can't you let me sleep?" "They aren't in the dining-room." in an awful voice. "they are in the cellar stealing the wine—" "What?" leaping out of bed. "The secondels! Where's my revolver?"—Smith's Weekly. Job Insured. Just before he left the pension office Commissioner Ware was asked for a recommendation by a watchman. This is what Ware wrote: "Dear Jackson: If you are not in Heaven when I get there I'll fix it to have you transferred."—Chicago Chronicle. BEGGARS FORMED A TRUST How New York Panhandlers Worked Together in Powerful Corporation. Several years ago a one-legged youth named Kempton who had left a comfortable home to engage deliberately in begging, conceived the idea of organizing a community of interest among pamphandlers in the Park row district. He picked out strategic spots throughout the city and selected a man to beg in each. These men were always particularly well adapted to their posts, a "blink" (blind man) here, a "crust-thrower" there, and maimed youth somewhere else. In order that the beggars might not be molested by the police, a lookout was appointed for each, says a writer in Everybody's, and in order that the syndicate's interests might be conserved, Kempton employed rounders to observe how faithfully the beggars attended to business, and to collect hourly the earnings of each. In case of arrest each member of the band was assured of legal representation, to be paid for out of the earnings of the pool. The scheme thrived for many months, and at one time there were 20 men in the combination, which became a close corporation of profit and power. There is no knowing to what extent it might have expanded nor how influential it might have become at last had not the nature of the organization given it undue prominence, and caused it to fall directly under the ban of the mendicant squad. One by one the members were captured and sent to the island, and in the end the gang was broken up. Three years ago the mundane tiquad of the Charity Organization society began its work under the direction of Officer James Forbes. As a result of the work Forbes and his men are not loved along the row. "The town's been 'jimmed,'" says the panhandler, disgustedly. The new law which makes it compulsory for the magistrate to give the convicted man not less than six months has somewhat depleted the row and more than filled the workhouse. Fifteen hundred professionals have been sent over during the last three years. On the other hand, the honestly unfortunate man found begging on the streets is warned that he is transgressing the law. He is told where he may obtain lodging and meals pending his quest for work. If he is blind he is sent to a home for the sightless; if he is crippled he is provided with some means of support, such as a news stand, a number of which in New York are operated by crippled ex-pans. It is evident that it is only through some system of centralization such as this, whether operated by the municipality or by private subscription, that the beggar problem can be handled. Normandy's Famous Cows The Cotentin cattle of Normandy, which their owners believe to be the best milkers in the world, are described by the United States consul at Rouen, Mr. Haynes, as long, angular, big framed and unprepossessing in appearance, with heavy heads, necks and shoulders, and white, crumpled horns. In color they vary. Brown, roan and red are most numerous, but there are many piedbald and brindled. Mr. Haynes says it was proved to him beyond doubt that these cows will produce 40 pounds of butter a month, during the greater part of the period of lactation, without any pampering in food or treatment. All attempts to improve them by crossing with other breeds have failed so far as milk-producing capacity is concerned. Youth's Companion. Not a Scrap Left. The editor of a flourishing journal in a California town recently called at the "home of the bride's parents," the day after the wedding. He was desirous of telling his readers all about the event, and wished to give the young couple a good "send-off" as well. The bride's mother met him. "Good morning, Mrs. Jones," said the editor. "I have called to get some of the details of the wedding." "Goodness!" replied Mrs. Jones, in dismay. "They're all gone. You ought to have come last night. They are every scrap."—San Francisco Bulletin THE GENERAL MARKETS. The Feebie Lad. Indulgent Mother—John, I wish you'd quit sending that boy around on all sorts of errands. He's not a bit lately and hardly able to get back and forth from the practice meets of his athletic club.—Baltimore American. Only Sometimes. "Sometimes," said Cholly. "I cawnt help wondashing what some of us ah living for anyway, don't you know." "Jerusalem!" exclaimed his rough old uncle, "do you wonder that only sometimes?"—Chicago Record-Herald. Scientific Discovery After reading about those cracks in the evening luminary we naturally reflect that the man in the moon must be the lone figure man.—Kansas City Journal. CAUSE AND CURE OF RHEUMATISM Shown by Numerous Cures Made by Dodd's Kidney Pills—The cure the Kidneys and the Rheumatism Cures itself—Remarkable Case of Maggie E. Deckert. Eagle River, Wis., Jan. 10th.—(Special)—That rheumatism is caused by disordered kidneys is proved by the cures Dodd's Kidney Pills are making in every state in the Union. They cure the Kidneys and the Rheumatism cures itself. A cure that has caused deep interest in this book has caused the Kidneys and the Rheumatism cures itself. In speaking of it she says: "I had kidney trouble and rheumatism, and was so lame I could not walk. I could not sleep, for I ached all over. I was in a terrible state and firmly believe that I had a MAGGIE Kidney Pills I would be dead. I took nine of them and they have done me more good than all the other medicines I ever took. Now my aches are all gone, I can eat and sleep and I am feeling good. I want all the world to know that Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me." The man who struggles unsuccessfully against fortune is apt to feel that he has been robbed of the decision—Pack. The U. S. Dept. of Agriculture gives to Salzer's Oats its heartiest endorsement. Salzer's New National Oats yielded in 1994 from 150 to 300 bu. per acre in 30 different States, and you, Mr. Farmer, can beat this in 1905, if you will. Speltz or Emmer, above illustrated, gives 80 bushels grain and four tons hay besides per acre. It's wonderful. Salzer's seeds are pedigree seeds, bred up through careful selection to big yields. Per Acre. Salzer's Beardless Rapey yielded 81 bu. Salzer's Home Builder Can... 300 bu. Speltz and Macaroni Whole... 80 bu. Salzer's Victoria Rape... 60,000 Ibs. Salzer's Teosite Fodder... 160,000 Ibs. Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass... 1,000 bu. Now such yields pay and you can have them, Mr. Farmer, in 1905. SEND 10C IN STAMPS and this notice to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., to the Crossie, Wis., and you will get their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples free. [R. L.] Pity the boy who, at his birth, is sickness for life. Chicago Record Herpital Popular Line to the East The spiced-door passenger service of the Nickel Plate Road, the care and attention shown passengers, has made it a favorite with the inexperienced as well as those accustomed to travel. Every feature necessary to the comfort and convenience of passengers, especially ladies traveling alone or accompanied by children, is provided. A Colored Porteon in Uniform as attendance to serve the wants of all and to see that cars are kept serpulously clean. Pullman Sleepers on all trains, and an excellent Dining Service, serving Individual Club Meals or a La Carte at moderate cost. When traveling East purchase your tickets via the Nickel Plate Road, trains depart from the La Salle St. Station, and arrive at garding tickets, rates, routes, sleeping car reservations, eile, call on or address J. Y. Calahan, Gen. Agt., No. 111 Adams St. Chicago, Ill. A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.—Home $36.00 per M. Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 56 cigar costs more than other brands, but this price gives the dealer a fair profit—and the smoker a better cigar. Lewis' Factory, Illinois. The first successful flour mill was erected in London in 1764. THE DISCOVERER Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the Great Woman's Remedy for Woman's Ills. Yours for Health Lydia E. Pinkham No other female medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles or such hosts of grateful friends as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It will entirely cure the worst forms of Female Complaints, all Ovarial Troubles, Inflammation and Ulceration. Failing and Displacement of the Womb, and consequent Spinal Weakness, and is peculiarly adapted to the Change of Life. It has cured more cases of Backache and Leucorrhoea than any other remedy the world has ever known. It is almost infallible in such cases. It dissolves and expels tumors from the Uterus in an early stage of development. Irregular, Suppressed or Painful Menstruation, Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloating, Flooding, Nervous Prostration, Headache, General Debility quickly yield to it. Womb troubles, causing pain, weight and backache, instantly relieved and permanently cured by its use. Under all circumstances it invigorates the female system, and is as harmless as water. 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"For fifteen years my scalp and forehead was one mass of scabs, and my body was covered with sores. Words cannot express how I suffered from the itching and pain. I tried many doctors and treatments, but could get no help, and I was so tired I had to get Cuticura. After bathing with Cuticura Soap and applying Cuticura Ointment for three days, my head was as clear as ever and to my surprise and joy, one cake of soap and one box of ointment made a complete cure in one week. (Signed) H. B. Franklin, 717 Washington St, Allegheny, Pa." To insure accuracy naval chronometers are kept on ice. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chas. H. Hitchin. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA ALWAYS CALL FOR A CIGAR BY ITS NAME "CREMO" MEANS MORE THAN ANY OTHER NAME BROWN BANDS GOOD FOR PRESENTS "Largest Seller in the World." UNITED STATES FARMS WESTERN CANADA FREE IMPORTING CANADIAN WHEAT IS NOW A FACT. 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