St. Louis Palladium

ST.LOUIS PALLADIUM. ST. PAUL, A. M. E. CHURCH. Notice to the delegates who visit our city to the National Grand Lodge and Temple—If you desire to attend Sunday services, you are cordially invited to attend our service at St. Paul A. M. E. church, Leffingwell and Lawton avenues. As all are welcome. H. H. THOMPSON. Vol. XIX. No. 30. Notes and News Concerning Our People--Weekly Record of Social Events, Deaths, Marriages and Births-- Written Especially for St. Louis Palladium. ANTIOCH CHURCH. Sunday, July 12, is covenant and communion. All members are expecte- ted to be present. Mr. Stephens, of 2125 Walnut street, is still very ill. Mr. King Cannon, of 4355 Maffitt avenue, is sick. Mrs. L. W. Vinegar, of 1331 Gay street, is still improving in health. Mrs. Ellen Clifton, of New Castle, Rv. is visiting her granddaughter at 3731 Vista avenue. Mr. Chase, father of Mrs. M. B. Allen, of 2623 Thomas street, is very sick at this writing. Rev. Lewis Lane, at 3944 St. Ferdinand avenue, has been very sick, but is much better now. A new grocery store has been opened at 1301 Clark avenue, by Mr. A.J. Smith, of Nashville, Tenn. Through the columns of this paper the public will be kept posted as to the progress of the association. Mrs. William Parks and daughter, of Mobile, Ala., are visiting Mrs. P. W. Williams, of 3727 Rutger street. Miss Etta Green, of Louisville, Ky., is visiting Mrs. Ellen Harris, of 3731 Vista avenue. She will remain all summer. Mr. J. H. Hynes, of 1920 Wash street, had a very dangerous operation performed last week. He is at present doing well. Mrs. Julia Young, of Kansas City, who has been stoping at 3944 St. Ferdinand avenue, is now at 4010 Finney avenue. Mrs. Rend Anderson, of 902 Jefferson avenue, Cairo, Ill., will visit Mrs. M. B. Ellison, of 912 North Sixteenth street, on July 16. A certain bank porter was in Chicago last week, and says he had a busy time—better take your wife up next time, she would enjoy the trip. Mrs. Tillie Ross and daughter, Beatrice, left, last Wednesday, for Chicago, where they will spend several weeks. We wish them a pleasant trip. Mr. J. W. Carrie, of the Bank of Commerce, has entered the matrimonial field again. He married the dashing widow, Mrs. Tody Moore, who lives on Mills street. Remember the Laclede restaurant, 2746 Laclede avenue, where you can get nice meals, ice cream and soda water. MISS J. W. SCRUGGS, Prop. The Edwardville Intelligence says Mrs. Lucy McClain entertained at dinner, Sunday, Madames A. Williams, Anna Tillman, M. Moore and M. A. Lawrence, all of St. Louis. The pound party given July 3 by the Ladies' Noonday Social club was quite a success, and the lady for whom it was given feels that she yet has some friends in the time of need. The B. Y. P. U. is not what it ought to be. Young and old alike, let me urge you to attend this meeting, and make it a success. Yes, I will expect you next Sunday at 6:30 p. m. Miss Ada S. Kirkman, one of Mobile's (Ala.) prettiest girls, is now a ST. PAUL, A. reader of the Palladium. Miss Kirkman is highly pleased with the Palladium, both as a paper and a race journal. The church is doing nicely, working in peace and harmony, and the leader, Rev. F. McKinney, deserves great credit for his untiring efforts to build up the cause of Christ and bring the church to the front. Mr. Dixie Smith, of 1034 North Lefingwell avenue, is the whole show these days. He is the champion whist player of the city and a ladies' man of the front ranks. Be careful, Uncle Dick. The Palladium man is still on duty. Base ball game at Pastime park, July 12, between Banners and the St. Louis Stars, for a purse of $25. Game called at 3:30 p. m. This will be one of the hottest contests ever played on these grounds. Admission, 15 cents. An interesting and highly appreciated Bible class is being conducted at Y. M. C. A. by Rev. T. T. Thompson. A class is held for a minute study of the Bible from 4 to 5, and one for a general study from 5 to 6 p. m. every Sunday. All men are invited. Do not forget the Sunday school at 1:30 o'clock every Sunday. As the Sunday-school is the future church, we, as Christians, should attend and see that the children are trained or instructed in the way they should go, and assist in what ever is needed to be done. Tuesday evening, July 14, the following programme will be rendered: Instrumental solo, Mr. Sexton; paper, Mr. Robt. Cosby; vocal solo, Mr. Henry Jenkins; oration, Mrs. Fannie Jackson; critique, Miss Nellie E. Copeland; vocal solo, Miss Hattie Lewis; debate; social. Beginning Tuesday evening, July 14, under the direction of Prof. J. A. Freeman a series of literary programmes and lawn socials will be held at Y. M. C. A. The literary programme will consist of addresses by prominent citizens, singing, recitations, essays, debates, orations and inter-collegiate oratorical contests. Public invited. H. W. Sexton and R. M. Mitchell. These two gentlemen are graduates from an art and drawing school—Mr. Sexton from Cleveland, O., in 1895; Mr. Mitchell from the art and drawing school in 1892 and S. A. Calman. These experienced gentlemen now have a study at 2605 Lawton avenue, and the collection of their drawings has excited the most skeptical mind which proves their wonderful genius. It would be well for any person to call at their studio that they may be convinced that they are truly two great artists, and their work will commend them to the lovers of oil paintings and art in every particular. Of course, most persons have their doubts as to the genuine work by them, but if you will visit their studio you can see them with brush in hand at work on some of the most difficult pictures. You will then be convinced for their profession. They invite you to call and see for yourself at 2605 Lawton avenue. Negro Hair Wanted. Mrs. J. H. Clark wants to buy nepal hair or combs. Good prices paid for all kinds of hair. Call at 2609 Pine, or 4200 Red Bud avenue. What We Would Like to See. The Palladium, with 400 new subscribers, by the middle of August. The fellow who relieved the Palladium man of $9 last Thursday night. WANTED—An enterprising, ambitious, non-sectarian Colored man, who can invest about $300 in St. Louis. Address, C. D. House, 2309 Market. ST. LOUIS, MO., SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1903. AND BIERMANISM. Congressman Bartholdt and his brother-in-law, Geo. Beirman, are two of as lucky Germans as ever came over the Rhine in pursuit of political spoils. Heir Bartholdt is indeed lucky to be able to successfully flim-flam a certain element of voters and hangers-on to further his purposes, and thus retain the position gained for him by Mr. Filley and Ziegenheim. Bartholdt isn't a smart man, and no one ever regarded his as such, but he belongs to that oily class of politicians who deal in empty promises, and flit about here and there in quest of public favor. Beirman is Bartholdt's man "Friday," and he acts as a "Federal Patronage Broker" for the South Side congressman in dispensing federal patronage at the local counter. With his brother-in-law, Beirman, drawing $3,000 per year in a fat office, and his sister-in-law drawing $1,500 per year as secretary to him, with a dozen of other relatives holding many minor positions, Herr Bartholdt has swept the local pie counter clean, and offers only a glad hand and more promises to the Tenth district voters as inducement for their future support. In an explanation as to why Bartholdt did not appoint some good man as his secretary, a hechman of Herr Doctor said that it could be an impolition, as the doctor could trust no one else with the confidence of his office. Is it possible that there is not an honest, trustworthy man in the 25,000 voters of the Tenth district? Bartholdt's assistant head janitor in the custom house has been recently airing his opinion as to the fight which the Palladium has been making against Bartholdt. This head janitor, including his position, is a true specimen of Bartholdtism and Beirmanism. Although the position of assistant head janitor had been abolished for years, with numerous negroes applying for it since the death of Beverly Jackson, it was not deemed necessary to have an assistant until Bartholdt and Beirman decided to reward their hechman, whose most notable act in city politics was to aid in the escape of "Boodler" Hartman, when Mr. Folk and the grand jury were after him. (We may yet talk the matter over with Mr. Folk, as we have positive proof.) The Palladium always has and will continue to fight all bad men, whether in or out of office. Mr. Westhus and Judge Gallenkamp, two office-holders from the Tenth district, are as clean and honest men as could be found in any section, and are a credit to the party and its principles. (Judge Gallenkamp has made a single mistake since entering office, and though he did not appoint the man, he should free his office of the notorious Negro Bradbury, a man who, in 1892 and 1944, headed the "Negro Democratic State League" as its president. So strong did Bradbury grow in the principles of democracy that he shot a man in their defense in 1892, at Jefferson City, Mo. There is no place in the ranks of the party for such men as Bradbury, and Judge Gallenkamp should drive him out and reward the place with a better representative). The Palladium will continue to insist that Congressman Bartholdt lay aside his nepotistic inclinations and to tote fair with all concerned. The honest voter will hardly stand for the practicing of Bartholdt's methods another two years, with such available men as Chas, Nagel, Judge Spencer, Max Starkloff and Judge Zachritz in the field. In our next issue we will tell a little story concerning certain federal bids in St. Louis, and how Kaltwasser got the contract of laying the linoleum in the St. Louis custom house. (Kaltwasser is, the writer thinks, chairman of Bartholdt's congressional committee). Negress Attempts Suicide. Despondent because her husband "was mean to her," Mrs. Hattie Moore, aged 37 years, colored, of 2017 Howard street, tried to commit suicide by jumping from Eads bridge at night. Her 13-year-old son prevented her. The woman had climbed the bridge railing, when the boy seized her skirts. The two struggled for several minutes, the boy holding his mother until help arrived in answer to his screams. The woman was sent to the city hospital. New Papers. The St. Joseph Spectator came to our desk. A newsy paper, well edited, by Prof. W. H. Jones, of St. Joseph. We wish him success in his undertaking. On the 5th A. C. Cass, of Denver, Col., first vice-president and traffic manager of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., died at Redstone, Cal. In an effort to save a boy from drowning, on the 5th. Elias Trimble, an old resident of Wilkesbarre, Pa., lost his life. Bishop Alexander Walters and his bride, Mrs. Lelia Coleman Brown, of Louisville, Ky., were the guests of Mrs. Rev. E. D. W. Jones and Mrs. Dr. C. F. Crews while in the city on their honeymoon. He preached at Washington Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion, Sunday evening, to a packed and enthusiastic audience, and the ladies of the church extended them a grand reception on Monday night, at which a highly-cultured crowd gathered to do honor to a great man and an exceptionally polished woman. The bishop, having just passed through the heavy requirements of the meeting of the National Afro-American Council, coupled with his church work, found the strain too much, and was taken quite ill on Monday, to the serious regret of his many admirers. Through the skill of Doctors Crews and Curtis, and the careful, patient nursing of Miss Mary Hill, of the Provident hospital, he was restored to his health again. He highly congratulated Dr. Davis on the thoroughness and efficiency of nurses turned out, as evidenced by the treatment he gave. Bishop Walters, after going over the church record and consulting with the officers and members, was more than pleased, and expressed great confidence in the excellent work of Dr. Jones. Dr. J. B. Collert reported his district and C. E. office in excellent working condition, and though it had required much sacrifice to build it up to where it is, he had endured and stuck to his exalted calling until he brought success. The bishop and wife left Wednesday evening for New York. Women's Work. The St. Louis Women's club has undertaken the noble work of establishing and supporting a charity ward at the Provident hospital, at Beaumont and Morgan streets. The ward will be furnished with two beds, and all the additional necessities of a hospital ward. During the summer vacation the club members will perfect the plans for a vigorous campaign along both charitable and literary lines, to be carried out on the reassembling of the club in September. With Mrs. S. P. Vashon as president, Mrs. Haidee Campbell as chairman executive committee, and Miss G. F. Gibson as secretary, there will be no lack of effort for a successful season. To Exhibit This Newspaper at World's Fair. No World's Fair has had an exhibit of journalism. The Missouri commission plans, however, to make an exhibit in the Missouri state building at St. Louis. As part of it, a bound volume of this newspaper for the 1903 will be included. The exhibit will be arranged by the Missouri commission, through its department of publication, of which F. J. Moss, of St. Joseph, is chairman, and Walter Williams, superintendent. This department will make a special exhibit. A New Restaurant. Mrs. N. Sydnor, of 2741 Wash street, has opened a new restaurant. She is from Memphis, and we believe she will prosper. Meals to suit all. Prices from 15 cents to 25 cents. Colored Y. M. C. A. Notes Y. M. C. A. literary meets Tuesday evenings 8 o'clock. THE ITEM. A newspaper called The Item, published by Mr. J. W. Taylor, of Fort Worth, Tex., comes to our desk. An interesting paper. A Most Remarkable Character. Mr. Robert Johnson, of 209 South Fifteenth street, was born in 1815; therefore, was a slave forty-five years; he passed through the civil war in the commissary department, rnd since that time, through friends, he has secured several good positions; in 1881 he was employed by the late Hon. John W. Turner, Street Commissioner under Mayor William L. Ewing, then under Hon. D. R. Francis, who was Mayor of St. Louis. For the past ten years he has been a patient sufferer; not being able to do any hard work, yet he was always willing to do something for a living. He is now a newdealer, selling papers; by that means he makes a fair living. He sells the St. Louis Palladium, and if you wish to help him, you can do. Remember he cannot get out, but you can get the St. Louis Palladium by calling at his house—209 South Fifteenth street. Newly Fitted. Mr. E. L. Arnett has had his saloon newly fitted up in the latest style. Go and look upon Mr. Arnett's newly decorated saloon. We have been looking for it. Holt's Saloon, 1925 Market street. Something new. The Jockey Club, 3924 Sophia avenue. Wm. Dover, Proprietor, is always ready to fall you up. Bruner and Hogan, the 200 Bar, at 1322 Market street, is just the place for you to get a "night-cap." The Gem Saloon—Hugh B. White, Proprietor, is the place to rest the weary head—1911 Market street. If you wish to help the good cause along, go to old friend Jeff Smith, 1201 Morgan street, and get good drinks. Then we see the Pink Coat Bar, Twenty-second and Market streets. Williams and Head will do you up fine. Passing to Chas. Harris, 33 South Twentieth street. He will attend to you in first-class style. Good beer and wiskey. A fine place of resort is 1911 Market street, where you can get either an "eye-opener" or a "night-cap." Hugh B. White, Proprietor. The Rosebud Bar, 2220 Market street, Tom Turpin, proprietor, can "dress you up" with all that makes a man lively—good beer and wiskey. Jeff Smith's is the place to go—1201 Morgan street. Don't forget the billiard hall at 2326 Market street. A. A. Brooks. The Green Tree Saloon, 1600-1602 Morgan street, is all right. Don't fail to see Simon Brown. Try Pickett's Headache Powders. Don't fail to get them. 2601 Lawton avenue. Don't forget Teresa, the Florist, 1308 Olive street, the best in the city. Go to 2132 Franklin avenue to get household goods and inquire for Mr. Louis Huggins. A New Rooming House. Mrs. Mary White has fitted up a new rooming house at 200 South 14th street. It is indeed, a model in beauty and convenience. She has ten rooms fitted up in the most elegant style from bottom to top. She is now ready to receive guests, both single and married. Don't fail to give her a call. She will give general satisfaction to her many guests. Remember her number—200 South 14th street. Stop that cough. Pickett's Cough Syrup. Remember Mr. John W. Wheeler Jr. is a professional pianist. He plays high-class music and he takes high-class advertisements for the Palladium. When you help us you help a worthy young man, John W. Wheeler, Jr. A Coal Yard. Mr. John Fitzhugh, of 2354 Chestnut street, has opened a coal yard. Mr. Fitzhugh's legs were broken at the Century building, May 30, 1902. He has been confined to his home for eleven months. He is able to get about and has opened a coal yard. We trust that the good people will help a worthy at 2354 Chestnut street. Yes, Jim Ray has opened and is doing a good business at 2135 Market street. Headquarters for the National Grand Lodge are located at 2:49 Chestnut street. Don't forget 1911, 1923, 2108, 2120, 2135, 2220 and 2326 Market street. You must go there. They want to see you and your friends. $3.00 FREE To Every Person Sending their name and address. Write at once, enclosing stamp, for particulars. Address Scott Remedy Co., P. O. Box 570, Louisville, Ky. Pickett's Headache Powders give instant relief. 2601 Lawton avenue. $2.00 Per Annum, Single Copy 5 cents. U. S. POSTOFFICE. The People's Drug Store, located at Jefferson avenue and Morgan street, has recently secured a sub-postoffice station for the benefit of our people and the general public. We should feel proud of this new achievement, being the first of its kind in the city, and show our appreciation by sending all of our money orders and registered mail through this office. United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Ten and Knights and Daughters of Tabor. My Dear Brothers and Sisters: I am pleased to announce that we have been given an important function in the Quincy Regalia Manufacturing Company. This company is the first to recognize the standing of fraternal orders among colored persons, by the establishment of a department designed to serve the interest and meet the special conditions of the race. In excellence of goods, appropriateness of designs, accommodation to peculiar conditions and reasonable prices, this company challenges competition and invites your patronage. My long official relation with these orders enables me to know and appreciate the wants and requirements of my brothers and sisters, and since I am devoting my entire attention to these interests, I can guarantee you entire satisfaction in the choicest goods at the lowest prices. Write for catalogue, price list and descriptive circular. Thanking you in advance for your co-operation in outfitting and raising our fraternal orders to a higher plane, I am yours fraternally. Afro-American Dept. Stop that cough. Go and get Pickett's Cough Symp. H. H. Temm & Sons, druggists, 2605 and 1901 Franklin avenue, are the places to get fresh medicines. Mr. P. W. Metz, of 812 Iron street, is one of the best carpet cleaners in the city. Call on him. He is up-to-date. Stop that cough. Pickett's Cough Syrup, 2601 Lawton avenue. Mr. Wm. P. Dye's Buffet, 2801 Manchester avenue, is the place to rest your weary head by taking good cigars and beer. Mr. A. Smidts, who keeps a saloon at 2042 Market street, has moved to 2108 Market street, where he will be pleased to welcome you and your friends. We take pleasure in presenting to the public Geo. S. Williams, who has been conducting a saloon at 715 Linden street. He has been in the business for years, and is known to keep an orderly and quiet place. You will do well by calling at his place. We will have more to say about him in the future. FANNIE LEE. World's Fair artist. Pictures of all kinds called for and delivered. All sizes crayon, pastel, water color and oil paintings, a specialty. Fine frames and high grade work. Terms reasonable. Cash or credit; also lessons given. Call or write to 456 N. Sarah st. The Palladium wants ads. If our true friends wish to assist us, they will secure ads., forus. Electa Temple, No. 31, S. M. T. Meets Second Thursday of each month at 8:00 p. m., Knights of Pythias Hall, Lucas and Jefferson Aves. Mrs. Annie D. Hyatt, M. W. P. Lulu O. Dell, Sec'y. GEO. W. F. BULLOCK, Ladies' Barber AND TONSORIALIST 3320 Franklin Avenue, St. Louis. Sending their name and address. Write at once, enclosing stamp, for particulars. Address Scott Remedy Co., O. Box 570, Louisville, Ky. J. W. WHEELER, Editor and Manager, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURL 1903 JULY 1903 SUN. MON. TUES. WED. THUR. FRI. SAT. ... ... ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 .... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... CURRENT COMMENT. More boys are born every year than girls. This is made necessary because of the invention of the toy Fourth of July pistol. So long as the state conventions shall continue to tempt him with a fourth nomination Mr. Cleveland will steadfastly decline to decline. Levity reached its extreme when a Michigan man was addressed as "989" by his wife after he got out of the penitentiary. He has sued for divorce. An $18,000,000 drainage system is one of the penalties New Orleans will pay for having been built on a marsh below the level of the Mississippi river. In the fiscal year just closed the foreign trade of the United States was more than $2,400,000,000, a total never reached before. Exports led imports by about $400,000,000. Mrs. George B. McClellan, widow of the famous general, who has been residing in Europe for many years, has returned to this country and will make her future home in Washington. George E. Roberts, director of the United States mint, has bought and consolidated two newspapers in Des Moines. He will find the newspaper business very different from directing a mint. It is said in Philadelphia that when Samuel H. Ashbridge went into office as mayor of that city he had debts of record amounting to about $40,000. When he retired last April at the close of his term he became president of a bank. Twelve thousand people gathered around Mother Eddy at the Christian Science convention. Could Mark Twain have gathered that many? Laugh and the world laughs with you, but promise to cure its rheumatism and it gives you its money. In Denmark there are companies which insure women who have a fear of becoming old maids. They pay stated sums every year, and should they marry before they are 40 what they have paid in goes to the less fortunate. After they are 40 they receive pensions for life. The greatest bank in the world is to be organized in New York. It is to have a capital of $100,000,000 and will make a specialty of financing great enterprises. When it begins doing business the Bank of England will have to take second rank among the world's great financial insultations. Mrs. Duncan G. M. Rae, a well-known Colorado woman, has invented and patented a cake beater which will delight the heart of the modern house-wife. It is a simple little instrument of three wheels and five pendant wires, fastened with a rivet at the bottom which fastens on to a kitchen table. The cakemaker sits with a bowl on her lap filled with the ingredients, and does the rest by turning a little lever. Two New Jersey anarchists, indicted for taking part in a labor riot, have forfeited their bonds of $6,500 which their friends put up to keep them out of jail, by failing to appear in court. That a man who openly proclaims his belief that there should be no law must himself be lawless should occasion no surprise. The incident is a striking commentary, however, on the anarchistic doctrine that if there were no law all men would conduct themselves honestly. —Iola (Kan.) Register. Los Angeles has the biggest park in the world. It was presented by a newspaper man by the name of Griffith and is called Griffith park. The giver asked that no railroad leading to the park should be permitted to charge more than fire cents fare, Central park, New York, cost over $15,000,000, and consist of 840 acres. Griffith park, Los Angeles, is a tract of 3,000 acres. It includes 2½ miles of frostless foothills bordering on Cahuenga valley, five miles of Los Angeles river bottom and a beautiful little valley. The railway across the Andes, between Chile and the Argentine Republic, which was projected 20 years ago, is at last to be completed. The loftiest part of the pass, which lies not far south of the great Andean giant, Aconcagua, and which has an elevation of 3,000 feet, is to be penetrated by a tunnel, which will serve both to avoid snowdrifts and to decrease the maximum elevation of the road. The terminals of the railway on each side of the pass are now within one day's travel by mule caravan from one another. WORSE SINCE MORNING Bulletins Through Various Sources Indicate That The Pope's End is Very Near. IS ONLY INTERMITTENTLY CONSCIOUS. Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli, the Grand Penitentiary, Called In to Administer Absolution in Articulo Mortis, in View of Impending Dissolution. Paris, July 9.—A special from Rome says: The condition of the pope has become worse since morning, his weakness is increasing hour by hour, he is only intermittently conscious and the end is imminent." To Administer Absolution. Berlin, July 9.—A special to the Lokal Anzeiger from Rome says the condition of the pope has suddenly become worse, and that Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli, the grand penitentiary, has been called in to administer absolution in artico martis. The end, is is added, is immediately impending. Another Faintting Flt. London, July 8.—A special dispatch from Rome, filed at 2:30 p. m., says the pope had another faiting fit; that the action of his heart is very feeble, and that his condition has again become very critical. Pone's Condition Very Grave. Rome, July 8, 6:50 p. m.-The pope's condition is very grave. His doctors are alarmed at the continued weakness, which is complicated by certain functional disorders. His holtness is restless and drowsy, frequently falling asleep. THE MORNING BULLETIN. Though Cautiously Worded It Was Not Reassuring. Rome. July 9.—The physicians in attendance upon Pope Leo, at a quarter of ten Wednesday morning, posted the following bulletin: "The night passed tranquilly enough, though the pontiff had no restorative sleep. The pulse was frequent, but regular. Breathing was as free as last night. The condition ering. However, the general condition of the pope does not permit of a long examination, but it seems that the pneumonia tends to solve itself, and that the pleuric liquid is not regattion of the patient is not tranquilizing, because of the state of depression, which at intervals increases. [Signed.] "LAPPONI." "MAZZONI." THE BULLETIN DISCUSSED. improvement Did Not Assume Procedures Doctors Wished. Rome, July, 8—11:35 a. m.—As can be seen by the bulletin, the pope's condition is not so favorable as it was Tuesday night, due to the fact that the improvement after the operation of Tuesday has not assumed the proportions the doctors wished. While the inflammation of the lungs is decreasing, the patient's general condition does not improve, and there is a tendency towards a radical change for the worse. The pontiff is extremely weak and even chloroform seems to have lost its power to give the sufferer the relief of tranquil rest. Besides, what depresses the pope is the difficulty he is experiencing in breathing. At times he appears to be upon the point of strangulation and then his breathing gradually becomes weaker until his heart apparently stops. Another great pre-occupation of the doctors is the derangement of the patient's kidneys, as a result of which blood poisoning is feared. The outlook now is that the pope's life may perhaps be prolonged more than could have been expected 36 hours ago, but the hopes of his recovery are still very small. The following particulars were obtained of the doctors' visit Wednesday morning to the pope: "How feels His Holiness?" asked Dr. Mazoni. "I do not feel as well. I am weaker," replied the pontiff. "Perhaps you did not sleep sufficiently?" "No, no," answered the pope. "I was better last night. I am sorry, because to-day should be a day of great work." "Surely," Dr. Mazoni replied, "His Holiness does not intend to work?" Both the doctors then proceeded to convince the pontiff of the necessity for rest, urging him not to place obstacles in the way of his recovery. "I shall do as you wish," said the pope, "in conclusion, with a sigh of resignation. Vanderbilt Entertains Emperor. Vanderbilt Entertainer. Emperor Berlin, July 9.—The papers here, Wednesday, print accounts of the banquet which Cornelius Vanderbilt gave on board his steam yacht North Star at Travemunde, July 4, in celebration of Independence day and at which Emperor William and Prince Henry of Prussia were present. The yacht Hohenzollern fired a salute of 21 guns, by order of the emperor. The music was furnished by the local band of Travemunde, and included a number of American airs, and also, at Mr. Vanderbilt's request, the "Song to Aegir." compounded by the emperor MISSOURI STATE NEWS. R. D. Rodgers, Judge. R. D. Rodgers, recently appointed to the bench of the Eleventh judicial circuit, composed of Audrain, Lincoln, Montgomery, St. Charles and Warren counties, is 40 years old and a native of Audrain county, having been born southeast of this city in March, 1863. He was reared on the farm and attended the common schools. In 1892, after a four years' course, Mr. Rodgers was graduated from the law department of the state university at Columbia and was admitted to the practice of law the same year. Two years later he was elected police judge in Mexico, and in 1896 and 1898 to the office of prosecuting attorney of Audrain county. He also taught school some time before taking up law. Judge Rodgers is unmarried and prominent socially, is a pleasant companion and a deep student, both in law and current matters. Cole County Grand Jury. Judge James E. Hazell of the Cole county circuit court was in St. Louis, a few days ago. He said that he would convene a grand jury at the July term of his court. The July term opens on the 27th. The trial of the men indicted in connection with the boodle scandals will come up during the term. Judge Hazell says he is anxious that these men have every opportunity for a fair trial, for which reason he will not call the grand jury until the second week of the term. "I have not yet decided," said Judge Hazell, "what will be taken up by the grand jury. I will consider matters as they now stand before sending my letter of instructions. The boodle scandals which have not yet come up for consideration by the previous grand juries will be fully probed." Saved Her Child. Charles Hesser, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hesser, of Carthage, was rescued in an heroic manner, after sinking twice in a well into which he had fallen while playing. Attracted by the screams of the drowning boy, Mrs. Hesser ran to the scene, and after futile attempts to reach the child from the curbing jumped into the well. She succeeded in holding him above water until aid came, but almost at the cost of her own life. The well was in process or construction, and contained ten feet of water. Mrs. Hesser was lifted in a bucket. Hammond Company to Rebuild. The Hammond Packing Co. of St Joseph will put a thousand laborers, if it can secure that number, at work in South St. Joseph at once. These men will be given employment at the ruins of the buildings destroyed by fire recently, and at the Viles and Robbins packing house. The Hammond company does not want one of the men in its employ before the fire to leave the city. New Teacher for University. Dr. C. R. Hedrick, instructor in Yale university, has been elected professor of mathematics in the Missouri state university. Dr. Hedrick received his degree of A. B. from the University of Michigan; A. M. from Harvard and Ph. D. from the University of Gottingen. He has made several important publications in mathematics. He is 27 years old. Wife's Grave Remembered. George T. Murphy, former assistant superintendent of the St. Louis public schools, by his will filed for probate directed that flowers be placed upon the grave of his wife, Alice, in Bellefontaine cemetery every Sunday, and on May 3 of each year. He left $500 for this purpose, and to have his burial lot in the cemetery kept in order Rich Zine Strike. A big zinc strike has been made on four lots of, the famous Eleventh Hour ground, near Joplin. The drill shows a solid 20-foot race of ore of the highest grade. The four lots have been sold to a syndicate of eastern capitalists, headed by Frank Nicholson. The land will be developed at once. Made Him Hysterical. The sight of his store and furniture burning in a fire which damaged four buildings and their contents to the amount of nearly $25,000 so unnerved Benjamin Miller, of 2910 Oregon avenue, St. Louis, that he cried hysterically and had to be removed from the scene. Mrs. Samuel Lobban. Mrs. Samuel Lobban, aged 35 years died at her home in Roanoke, Howard county, a few days ago, after a lingering illness. Burial in the Roanoke cemetery. Sued for Divorce. Fred Striblen, a prominent merchant of St. Joseph, has been sued for divorce and maintenance. The grounds are extreme cruelty and desertion." Lafayette County at World's Fair. The court of Lafayette county has appropriated $500 for use by the Lafayette County World's fair commission for making a county exhibit. Early and Sunday Closing. The butchers of St. Louis have resolved to close their shops evenings and Sundays after September 1. Grocers also favor the movement. Fred Linkemeyer Kills Himself. Fred Linkemeyer, 28, engineer for the Jefferson City Light, Heat and Power Co., shot himself through the heart. Temporarily deranged. Big Packing Plant Burned. The immense plant of the Hammond Packing Co., at St. Joseph, was destroyed by fire. Two lives are known to have been lost. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS. The Twenty-First International Christian Endeavor Convention Begun at Denver, Col. Denver, Col., July 10.—Thousands of Christian Endeavorors from all parts of the United States and Canada, with a few from abroad, arrived here during the day, and many more are on the way. The weather is perfect, and more than 10,000 persons attended the opening mass-meeting of the twenty-first International Christian Endeavor convention Thursday afternoon in the big tent erected near City park for the occasion. A rousing song service, led by Rev. F. H. Jacobs, of New York, proceeded the opening of the convention, which occurred at two o'clock by President Francis K. Clark, father of the Christian Endeavor movement. After devotional exercises, led by Dr. B. B. Tyler, of Denver, a welcoming song was sung by a chorus of 600 voices, conducted by Prof. James H. Peabody, speaking for the state, Rev. Dr. Robert T. Coyle for the churches, and Chairman William E. Sweet for the committee of 1903. Hearty greeting was also extended by George F. Libby, of Colorado Springs, who joined the first society in in Maine 22 years ago. Ten-minute responses by delegates followed. At the business meeting of the United Society of Christian Endeavorers in the afternoon all the old officers were re-elected. THE BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE. Five Thousand Delegates Attending the Thirteenth Annual Convention at Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga., July 10.—With an attendance estimated at 5,000, and delegates representing almost every section of the United States and Canada, the thirteenth annual convention of the International Baptist Young People's union was called to order in this city, for a four-days' session, by President John H. Chapman, of Chicago. The opening session of the convention was preceded by a praise service, which was led by a grand chorus of 600 voices. The delegates of the convention were welcomed by Gov. J. M. Terrell in behalf of the state; Mayor E. P. Howell, in behalf of Atlanta, and former Gov. W. J. Northen, in behalf of Georgia B. Y. P. U.; Emory W. Hunt, president of the Dennison university, Granville, O., responded to the address of welcome in behalf of the board of managers of the International union. The morning session of the convention was devoted principally to the appointment of the various committees and general routine work and organization of the body. MUST BE PRESENTED TUESDAY. Secretary Hay Communicates President's Desire that Jewish Leaders Will Not Delay Petition. Washington, July 10.—Secretary Hay, Thursday, communicated to the Jewish leaders the president's desire that they should call at Oyster Bay next Tuesday to consult respecting the disposition to be made of the Jewish petition to Russia. The secretary took occasion to emphasize the president's desire that there should be no further delay in the submission of the petition; that it be ready next week. It is probable the course to be pursued will consist in the dispatch of cablegrams to Mr. Riddle, United States charge at St. Petersburg, directing him to inquire of the Russian government whether it is willing to receive a petition, the nature of which will be briefly outlined by Mr. Riddle, and further proceedings will be governed by the Russian answer. The president is being deluged with singly-signed petitions in behalf of the Russian Jews, and these are forwarded from Oyster Bay to the state department by every mail. The petitions are identical, and as they are directed to the president alone, no question of transmission to Russia is involved, and they are being filed at the state department. TO BE NEAR IF WANTED. Cardinal Gibbons Sails for Europe So as to Be Neaker Rome If the Necessity Arises. New York, July 10.—Cardinal Gibbons, who goes abroad to be near Rome when the conclave of cardinals is called, should the pope's illness prove fatal, sailed on the steamship La Touraine. He was accompanied by his secretary, Fr. P. C. Garvin. The cardinal pointed out before sailing that he was not summoned officially to Rome to take part in the conclave. Such a summons, he said, would come only after the death of the pope. When the illness of the holy father took a serious turn, a few days ago, he received a cablegram from Cardinal Rampolla, the papal secretary of state, suggesting that it would be advisable for the cardinal to come over. Found Dead in Bed. Janesville, Wis., July 10.—Charles Randall, a brother of Gen. Geo, H. Randall, U. S. A., was found dead in his bed, with a bullet hole in his head. He was very wealthy, and lived alone on the outskirts of the city. Motion for Rehearing Denied. Chicago, July 10.—The appellate court denied the motion of the state for a rehearing of the case of Daniel Sullivan. Sullivan was convicted of conspiracy, and the appellate court set aside the verdict. STUFFED WITH SAWDUST. Peculiar Development in the Case of Col. W. J. Best, Who Died in San Rafael, Cal. AN AUTOPSY HELD AT CALDWELL, N. J. The Stomach, the Digestive and Other Organs, With the Lungs Found to Have Been Removed and the Cavity Filled With Sawdust-A False Certificate. Newark, N. J., July 10.—At the demand of his sons, an autopsy was held at Caldwell, N. J., on the body of Col. W. J. Best, who died in San Rafael, Cal., in the home of Dr. John D. Woods. It was ascertained that the body had been opened once before, in all likelihood before it was sent east, and that the stomach, the digestive and other organs, with the lungs had been removed and sawdust inserted. While some of the other organs were in place, there was every evidence that they had been disturbed. A Peculiar Embalming. A Peculiar Embalming In searching for evidence of the insertion of a hypodermic needle before death, the physicians were unable to discover any puncture of the skin, even such as is made usually in embalming. That the body had been embalmed there was no doubt. The physicians found that the embalming fluid had been injected from the inside, through a large vein, which had first been broken and then tied. This satisfied the physicians that the embalmer must have known the body was not in its entirety while he was at work. No one has heard that any autopsy had been performed in California; the request of the authorities of that state that one be held here proved to the contrary. Took All Precautions But One. Took All Precautions But One. Physicians agreed that every precaution had been taken to prevent any light being thrown on the cause of death and that no one could say whether it was the result of irritant poisons or otherwise. But if this was the result of design the person responsible overlooked one important matter. He failed to do what he should have done had he desired to have the cause of death, as set down in the certificate sent here from the west go uncontradicted. In this it was stated that Col. Best had succumbed to cerebral apoplexy. Were this the fact the brain would disclose it and the skull had not been opened. That this declaration in the certificate is unfounded was determined by the physicians. They found that the brain was in a healthy condition—so healthy, in fact, that there were not the slightest indications of apoplexy. NEW FACTS DEVELOPING. Fresh Evidence is Being Brought to Light at San Rafael. San Rafael, Cal., July 10.—New facts are developing all the time in the Woods-Best case under the thorough probing it is receiving from the authorities of Marion county. Conny Meghitti, a servant in the Woods family for six months prior to the demise of Col. Best, stated that she saw Dr. Woods give Best a hypodermic injection of some drug. Shortly after he began groaning and soon became unconscious, never regaining his senses. This, Miss Meghetti says, was about April 1, 1903. Coroner Sawyer, in whose establishment the body of Col. Best was embalmed, could not say if any of the organs had been removed. His deputy handled the case. He, when questioned on the subject, would not commit himself, but said that when the proper time arrived he would tell all he knew about the embalming. Evidence of a Powerful Poison. New York, July 10.—The Newark (N. J.) authorities have found evidences of a powerful irritant poison in the body of the late Col. Wm. J. Best, which was exhumed in the cemetery in Caldwell, N. J., and examined by County Physician Wm. J. McKenzie, of Essex county, N. J. Wednesday. A PRIVATE INVESTITURE. Archbishop Farley Privately Invested With the Pallium While Pope Leo Still Reigned. New York, July 10.—Monsignor Farrelly, who brought the pallium to Archbishop Farley from the pope, has conferred it upon the archbishop in his private chamber of the summer retreat at Dunwoood, and in the presence of but one witness. The private investiture will not interfere with the public and formal one at the cathedral in this city July 22, and it was merely made to complete the bestowal during the reign of Leo XIII. BANKRUPTED ON LIMA BEANS A San Francisco Firm Forced to Assign After Cornering the Lima Bean Market. Chicago, July 10.—A dispatch to the Record-Herald from San Francisco says: After losing $45,000 in cornering the lima bean market, and securing 6,000,000 pounds to find nobody who wanted the beans, Lyden & Co. have assigned. The liabilities will amount to $30,000, and the assets are estimated at $25,000. ED. DELEHANTY'S REMAINS. A Body, Believed to Be That of the Drowned Baseball Player, Taken From Ningara River. Buffalo, N. Y., July 10.—The body found in the river below the falla Thursday, was identified at Drummondville as that of Ed. Delehanty, the famous outfielder of the Washington American league team. The body was mangled. One leg was torn off, presumably by the propeller of the Maid of the Mist, near whose landing the body was found. M. A. Green, a stockholder in the Washington team, identified the body by the teeth, two crippled fingers and the clothing. The body was shipped to Washington. Mr. Green, Thursday morning, identified the luggage left by Delehanty on the train at the bridge last Thursday night when he was put off. In it was a pass to the Washington grounds made out to Mrs. Delehanty, Delehanty's effects have been sent to his wife by the Pullman people. Frank Delehanty, of the Syracuse team, and E. J. McGuire, a brother-in-law, from Cleveland, are here investigating the death of the player. They do not believe that Delehanty committed suicide or that he had been a spree in Detroit. In the sleeper on the Michigan Central train on the way down from Detroit Delehanty had five drinks of whiskey, says Conductor Cole, and he became so obstreporous that he had to be put on the train at Bridgeburg, at the Canadian end of the bridge. Cole says Delehanty had an open razor and was terrifying others in the sleeper. When the train stopped at Bridgeburg Cole did not deliver Delehanty up to a constable as the Canadian police say he should have done. He just put him off the train. After the train had disappeared across the bridge Delehanty started to walk across, which is against the rules. The night watchman attempted to stop him, but Delehanty pushed the man to one side. The draw of the bridge had been opened for a boat, and the player plunged into the dark waters of the Niagara. Delehanty's relatives hint at foul play, but there is nothing in the case, apparently, to bear out such a theor. The body, when found, was nude save for necktie, shoes and socks. The clothes had probably been torn in the passage of the rapids and in going over the Horseshoe falls. The body was much bloated. TROOPS LEAVE EVANSVILLE Police, Armed With Rifles, Left in Charge-Seven Funerals Thursday-Two More Dying. Evansville, Ind., July 10.—After talking with Gov. Durbin over the telephone, Thursday afternoon, Brig Gen. McKee ordered all troops removed from Evansville. The Terre Haute company left for home at 7:20 Thursday night, and the Evansville company was relieved from duty. The Vincennes company is left in charge of the jail and courthouse. The four Indianapolis companies, the Martinsville company and the battery, with the Gatling gun, were ordered to leave for Indianapolis at midnight Thursday on a special train. The last of the troops, the Vincennes company will leave for home Friday morning. The city will be left in charge of the police department, which is armed with rifles. There were seven funerals Thursday. All were conducted quietly. The ministers in one or two cases prayed for the city and county administrations, and said this was not a time for criticism, but for sympathy for the friends of the dead. Two more of the wounded are pronounced by the surgeons to be in a critical condition. Adam Browski and John Bee are sinking, and if they die the list of fatalities will be increased to 12. The grand jury is taking testimony on Monday nights shooting. WILL LIVE TO PAY PENALTY Negro Murderer of Policeman Massey on Road to Recovery-Dreeds Returning to Evansville. Jeffersonville, Ind., July 10.—Contrary to all forcecasts made by physicians attending Lee Brown, the negro who shot a policeman and precipitated the Evansville riot, will probably live to pay the penalty of his crime. When Brown was placed aboard the train at Vincennes, Ind., to be brought to the reformatory for safe-keeping, it was said he could not survive the journey, his wound being sufficient to kill an ordinary man. Thursday he was well started on the way to recovery. Brown had a paroxysm of terror when told that he would be taken back to Evansville and manifested relief when Gov. Durbin later countermanded the order for his removal. It was learned Thursday afternoon that a negro named Cain McGee is lying in the Deaconnness hospital, in Evansville, with a bullet in his arm which he received Sunday night when the mob fired into Bud Fruit's place. Big Fight Expected. Jefferson City, Mo., July 10. Attorneys for Senators Farris, Matthews Smith and Sullivan, who are under indictment 5y the Cole County grand jury on the charges of bribery in connection with the "alum bill" in the legislature, Thursday announced that they expect to go to trial when the circuit court court on July 27. They have asked for blank subpoenas for 100 witnesses, but the clerk has refused to issue the blanks except upon an order from Circuit Judge Hazell. The request for the large number of subpoenas indicates a big fight. St. Louis Palladium. THAT BABY. It ain't no trouble now to find The things that used to be A scattered round about the house, Or hid away from me. The paper's allus right to hand, The kid's on the chair, My hat don't leave the front hall peg Most 'fore I hang it there. An 'everything is orderly, An 'just the way it's put, Without a ratt o' cur's truck A-kickin' under foot. But when I look around the room An 'see the chairs just so An all the things a-settin' in The place they ought to go. I'd give the rest o' this ol' life If I could only see That baby strewin' things around The way they used to be. Portland Oregonian. The KIDNAPPED MILLIONAIRES A Tale of Wall Street and the Tropics A By FREDERICK U. ADAMS Copyright, 1901, by Lothrop Publishing Company. Copyright, 1901, by Lothrop Publishing Company All rights reserved. CHAPTER XI—CONTINUED. Mr. Carmody was a gentleman of impressive mien. He had retained his dignity and his composure most admirably, and addressed Capt. Waters with the easy air in which he was wont to issue orders to the managers and superintendents of his vast enterprises. He calmly drank a little of a glass of water and stepping forward, faced Capt. Waters. That gentleman was a study in bronze. He was in full uniform. The gold braid of his cap, the bars of gold on his shoulders and sleeves, and the rows of brass buttons on his coat, were in sharp contrast to the plain apparel of the group which now clustered around him. A long, thick scar across his left cheek and extending to the point of his chin, showed plain in the electric light which flooded the room. The closely-cropped gray moustache; the shaggy, black eyebrows beetling over the gold blue eyes; the iron-gray hair beneath the cap; the erect, impassive pose of the figure—proclaimed the character of the official who held in his control the immediate destiny of the group of men who now commanded him. Mr. Kent did not join this party. He had paused by a starboard window and was gazing out as if deeply concerned in a study of the weather. Hector stood a little back of the captain, while Hammond had seated himself by the table. In his face auger and bewilderment struggled for mastery. "Capt. Waters," said Mr. Carmody, placing his hand familiarly on the broad shoulder of that official, "on behalf of the gentlemen on this patrol. I demand of you, as its captain, that you immediately put about and return to New York. You are responsible. Mr. Hestor is clearly irresponsible. It is our wish to return at once." "It certainly is! It certainly is!" exclaimed Mr. Pence, attempting to grasp Capt. Waters' hand. That official glanced at Mr. Hestor as if waiting for him to answer. "You know your orders," said Hestor. "You are the captain of this night." "I get my orders from Mr. Hestor and obey them," said Capt. Waters, addressing no member of the group in particular. His voice was gruff, but not unkind. "We are headed east, nor east. When he says to change her course, I will change her course. Until then, not. That's all." This was a long speech for Capt. Waters. He turned and walked to the door. "The Shark" is yours, gentlemen," said Hestor, airily. "The servants are yours to command, but I will issue all necessary orders to the captain. You gentlemen, who have such great interests under your control, must realize that, in such an outing as I have planned, Capt. Waters must not be annoyed with conflicting orders. I have provided everything for your comfort, and am sure you will thank me for the treat I have in store for you. I will rejoin you in a few moments. I wish to study our charts and determine our course for the night. Then we will have some music in Social Hall. I would like to see you for a few moments, Sidney; if the gentlemen will excuse you." Mr. Hammond hesitated a moment. Mr. Carmody stepped to his side and spoke a few words in a low tone. Sidney listened, and bowing to him and the others, joined Hestor and followed him into his private staterooms at the forward part of the deckhouse. "Well, I'll be damned!" said Mr. Haven, with perhaps justifiable emphasis, as Hestor smiled graciously and departed with Sidney Hammond. "We are kidnapped." "Did you just find that out?" drawled Mr. Kent, as he reached for another cigar. "I knew that five minutes ago." "You take it mighty coolly," said Mr. Haven, glaring at the big speculator. "One would think that the kidnapping of six of the wealthiest men in New York was an every-day event by the way you take it." "I have seen stranger things than this happen," said Mr. Kent. "Take it easy. Take it easy. You will get Pence excited." Mr. Pence had passed the stage of excitement. He was lost in the depths of despair. Had one of the marines entered and commanded him to walk the plank it would not have added to the weight of woe which overwhelmed him. Mr. Palmer J. Morton had taken no part in the brief proceedings which had accomplished this revolution. He grasped the situation from the moment Hestor made his first declaration, and realized that whether their dilemma was the result of a plot or the whim of a maniac, that arguments and force were useless. Mr. Morton prided himself that he could divine the machinations of the cool-headed business schemer, but was he expected to cope with the fantastic plots of a crazy man? It was enough to know that he had been duped. He must devise a way out of the trap which he had helped to set. "Gentlemen," he said, "this is a serious affair, but we must meet it coolly and with deliberation. It is of no avail to storm and rage. We are caged, and it will do no good to beat our wings against the bars. I feel myself largely at fault in this affair, but all of us are likely to make mistakes and to suffer lapses in judgment. In this—" "Mr. Morton," interrupted Mr. Rockwell, "I think I speak for all present when I say that we do not hold you in the least responsible for this ridiculous event. I should have done the same thing." So would any of us." "I thought that newspaper trust one of the best things I ever heard of," said Mr. Pence, and his eyes brightened for the moment at the thought. "I figured it out that the stock would have paid 20 per cent. dividends on the original investment. Oh, it is awful!" Mr. Pence evidently did not refer to the magnitude of the vanished dividends, but to his present sorrow. "We must retire to one of the staterooms and consider what can be done," said Mr. Morton. "I presume the owner or the officers of the "WHO THE DEVIL ARE YOU?" DE- MANDED HESTOR. boat will not object to our movements, so long as we comply with the rules of discipline. We have been informed that the yacht is ours, and I suggest that we select our staterooms and meet in one of them and confer together." "You can do anything you please," said Hestor, who had entered the room, and had overheard the latter part of Mr. Morton's remarks. "But the hour is early, and there is plenty of excellent wine straining against the corks in the effort to escape and enhance the jollity of this occasion. Besides, we are going to have music. I have attempted to reconcile Mr. Hammond to his fate, and I know he will favor us with a song." The speaker stopped. Capt. Waters stood in the door, and his hand was on the arm of a gentleman whose face and pose constituted a character study. He was a big, handsome man with a florid complexion, an aggressive black mustache, shrewd blue eyes and a profusion of brown hair which fell to his coat collar. There was no timidity in his attitude, yet there was some indescribable weakness in his general bearing. He was well-dressed, and had a roll of paper under his arm which he carefully guarded. Hestor looked at him in blank amazement. Mr. Pence groaned. "Who in the devil are you?" demanded Hestor, as Capt. Waters released the arm of the new arrival. "L. Sylvester Vincent, of Chicago," was the reply. "What in thunder are you doing on this boat? Where did you find him, Capt. Waters?" "He was in the aft passage way; he had just come out of one of the staterooms." "This is Mr. Hestor, is it not?" said Mr. Vincent, who had entirely recovered his self-possession; if in fact he had ever lost it. "I recognize you from your picture. It was like this: I have been trying for ten days to see Mr. Carmody," and Mr. Vincent bowed pleasantly to Mr. Carmody, who glared back at him. "Mr. Carmody is a very busy man, and my time is of some value also. Well, I followed him down to the boat, and I guessed that he was going to take a little pleasure trip. I figured that this would be a good time to get a chance to talk to him, so I came on board. Anticipating that there might be some objections to my—to my being a guest, and not desiring to intrude on your company at dinner. I remained down stairs until you gentlemen had finished your repast." Mr., L. Sylvester Vincent looked hungrily at the yet loaded table and concluded: "I was just starting to come upstairs and introduce myself to Mr. Carmody when your genial captain—Capt. Waters, I believe—kindly consented to escort me here." "You are all right," said Hester, as he burst into a roar of laughter. "I don't know who you are, or what you do, but if I have any influence you can get a job as reporter on the New York Record any time you ask for it. Capt. Waters, how did our old college chum, L. Sylvester Vincent, get on board the 'Shark?' " Capt. Waters looked rather crestfallen, and glared at Mr. Vincent with an expression which boded that gentleman no good. "He came along about a minute after you and those two gentlemen did," said Capt. Waters, pointing to Mr. Rockwell and Mr. Carmody. "I supposed he was one of your party. He handed me his card and came aboard. I found him roaming around below and knew that something was wrong. So I brought him up here." "Glad to see you aboard the yacht," said Hestor. "You will have plenty of time to talk matters over with Mr. Carmody." "When do you go back?" asked Mr. Vincent, as a puzzled expression came into his face. "We are not going back." Hestor replied. "We are going to the South Sea islands." CHAPTER XII AT SEA. The interview in Hestor's cabin with Mr. Sidney Hammond was brief and spirited. Hammond did not wait for any explanator, but proceeded to denounce Hestor in scathing terms. That gentleman smiled pleasantly and waited for him to conclude. "This is the act of a mad man or a villain!" said Hammond as he paced angrily up and down the narrow room. Hestor had seated himself at a writing desk and leisurely rolled a cigarette. "You do not look like a crazy man, but you act like one. You have not been drinking to excess, and cannot plead intoxication as an excuse for this outrage. Of all the unaccountable things! What do you mean to do? What is your object in detaining these men whom you have induced to become your guests? Have you stopped to think of the agony this will cause their relations? Have you considered how my sister Olive will feel when I fail to return home?" He stopped in front of Hestor, his eyes flashing anger. His voice trembled with rage and he restrained himself by an effort from a physical attack on Hestor. "Don't get so excited, Sidney," said Hestor, as he lit a cigarette. "There is nothing so serious about this as you imagine. Olive thinks you have gone to Europe with me. I sent her a telegram and signed your name to it. I made a copy of the message and here it is." Hestor handed a slip of paper to Hammond, who read as follows: Miss Olive Hammond: It is necessary for me to accompany Mr. Hestor on a short business trip to Europe. We sell early this evening, and I shall be too busy to come home to bid you good-by. Pack my trunk and valise and send me your book. Do me come down town, as I do, know where I shall be in the meantime. Put my scrap books and some writing paper in the trunk, as I wish to work on my essays on the trip across and back. Also enclose the matter I have already written. I shall not be gone long. Reaseale that I can imagine you before I leave, but know that you are used to these sudden journeys and will forgive me. SIDNEY HAMMOND. "That shows that while a forger you are not entirely lost to decency," said Hammond, with evident relief, but no signs of relenting. "But how about these other men? They have dear ones. They have feelings. Think of what they must suffer and how much grief you will cause if you persist in your course. You must put this boat back to New York at once." "It cannot be done, Sidney," said Hestor. "I have this all planned out. To-morrow these men can communicate with their people. I will take care of that." Hestor's manner changed. The smile died on his lips and his face grew dark. "You are my friend," he said in a tone singularly harsh and strident. "You are my friend, but I shall not permit you to interfere in the least with my plans. This is my yacht, and we are on the high seas. The man who refuses to obey orders on this boat will be put in irons. I should not like to see you in the booby hatch, Sidney," and Hestor laughed in an unpleasant way. "There will be some one hurt before I go in irons," Hammond said fiercely. "After what you have done I should not be surprised, however, at any attempted outrage. Do you care to give any sane reason for this affair?" "I gave you the reasons at the dinner table," said Hestor, whose fit of anger had passed. "These men now on this yacht have managed to secure control of about everything in the country worth having. They can Wall Street, the banks, the trusts, the railroads, and dictate to the government. I want to find out what would happen if they should die simultaneously. Such a thing might happen, don't you know? Well, what would be the result? No one knows. I am going to find out. They will be cut off from communication except for one day. During that time they may be dead for all any one knows. Then I will see that word is received from them, saying that they are safe. That will relieve the strain on their families and friends. We then will see how the country gets along without them for awhile. Great scheme, don't you think?" Hammond continued to pace the floor but said nothing. Hestor seemed intensely in earnest. "Does Mr. Van Horne, the editor of The Record, know anything about this?" asked Sidney. "Of course he does not," said Hestor promptly. "I have not seen Bob in six months. This is my personal affair. Just now I am working for myself. I never thought of this until a week ago, and it came to me like an inspiration. Of course I could confide my plans to no one, but I felt sure you would appreciate the scheme and give it your co-operation. You will, when you get over your foolish anger. I must rejoin our friends. They will think I am neglecting them." There being nothing for Sidney to say he remained quiet and returned to the dining room in time to meet Mr. L. Sylvester-Vincent, as has been related. Hestor soon found that his unwilling guests desired to retire to the apartments which had been reserved for them. They were shown to the staterooms, and a servant detailed to look after their comfort. They found that their host had made every effort to anticipate their needs. Slippers, smoking jackets, pajamas, and a liberal assortment of linen and undergarments were provided in profusion. Hestor bid them a pleasant good night, and returned to the upper deck where he found Mr. L. Sylvester Vincent. That gentleman's face yet bore a puzzled expression. He had vainly attempted to engage Mr. Hammond in conversation. He now approached Hestor. "Where did you say you were going, Mr. Hestor?" he asked. "South Sea islands." "But I must go back to New York," explained Mr. Vincent. "Just as soon as I can see Mr. Carmody you must put me off. Which way are we going now?" "About east." "Will you ask Mr. Carmody if he will see me now?" asked Mr. Vincent in his most insinuating manner. "Can't do it. He has retired for the night," replied Hestor. "You stay with us. This is the chance of your life. You are a promoter, are you not? Yes? I thought so. Well, you are in luck. On this yacht are six of the richest men in the world. You can promote any old thing with them if you know your business. Make yourself at home. Keep right at them. Don't let them stand you off. You will have lots of time. I see you have your drawings and plans with you. You certainly are in luck. Bob, show Mr. Vincent to stateroom number eight." "I guess I'm in for it, Mr. Hestor, but you will find me game," he said. "I wanted to go back, but I suppose I'll have to stick. Who are all of these gentlemen?" [To Be Continued.] As It Should Be Written. As It Should Be Written. It is feared that the correspondents who have told how Novelist Richard Harding Davis distinguished himself at the recent alarming fire in Marion, near his summer home, have failed to grasp the graphic possibilities of the situation. Possibly they were limited by both time and space, but it does seem as if they should have told the story a little more after this fashion: The red glare grew stronger, Myriads of specks arose like demoniac fireflies. The exhausted townspeople sank back in sullen despair. All was lost save a few bureaus and settees. The selectmen of the little town looked at one another and ground their few remaining teeth. It was the gnash of defeat. Human strength availed not in the face of this red-tongued Shiva. At that moment, when hope fell dead and faith was badly scotched. a blithe whistle was heard from the highway. "What's this? cried a cheery voice, as a well-built form swung into view. "It's a fire," said Elder Peasely, as he feebly coughed a bunch of smoke from his pipes.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Stingy and Narrow-Minded. Her husband's brother had through his own efforts become very rich. "Now," he said "I will do something for her and the children. I am under no obligations to them, but they are poor and I feel that it will be no more than right for me to help them." Therefore he bought a comfortable home for them and gave her the deed. Then he took her to the furniture stores and they secured carpets, beds, chairs and other things that were necessary to make them comfortable and he paid for them, after which he went about his own affairs rejoicing. She sat in her new home, with her hands clasped in her lap and a sad look on her face. "What is the 'trouble?' her neighbor, asked. "I was thinking of the selfishness and meanness of some people," she sorrowfully replied. "Think of all the money he has. Yet he is too stingy, too narrow-minded even to give us a piano."—Chicago Record-Herald. Looking Up. The lecturer pleaded with the crowd to "look up." In impassioned tones he cried: "God always helps the man that looks up! Never look down, my friends, and do not waste too much time looking sideways. Look up, and keep on looking up! I never knew a man to fall if he looked up. Is there a man in the audience who can say that he always looks up?" A seedy stranger arose in the back row to say: "I can say that I always look up. I have steadily looked up for 30 years, and I am no better off for it. Looking up is my business." "What do you do for a living, my good man?" "I'm a ceiling decorator." The uproarious applause that greeted this sally broke up the meeting.—Detroit Free Press. SUNDAY READING I NEVER KNEW. I never knew, before, the world So beautiful could be As I have found it since I learned All care to cast on Thee; The scales have fallen from mine eyes, And now the light I see. Their inner lives have made me know A broader charity. I never knew how little things As greater ones could be, When sanctified by love from One Who doth each effort see; But now a daily round of care May win a victory. I never knew; and still, dear Lord, As through a glass I see. And perfect light can only come When I shall dwell with Thee; When I shall witness, I awake. For all eternity. —Living Church. THE EMERSON CULT. Extravagance of Expression Into Which Some Admirers of the Philosopher Have Been Led. There is, of course, nothing the matter with Emerson, for next to Lincoln and Franklin he is probably the most original man that this country has produced. But there does seem to be some trouble with those who have recently endeavored to exalt him into a prophet or even a Messiah. At any rate, the Rev. William H. Van Allen, of the Church of the Advent, in Boston, has seen fit to protest in a sermon against some of the extravagances of the Emerson idolaters. He tells us that the question is whether "men will have Jesus to reign over them as their king or Emerson as their cracle." And he is right, declares the Indianapolis News. Of course, he does not for a moment challenge Emerson's title to greatness, or at all quarrel with those who recognize in him a very great man and a valuable spiritual influence. But it is the misfortune of many people that they are not able to take simple and sober views of great questions. Mr. Van Allen calls attention to the fact that one of the speakers on Emerson's hundredth birthday spoke of the celebration of that day as "a special sacrament," and declares that the "quasi-religious character of the celebration is unmistakable." These extremists have been praising not Emerson the poet, the teacher, or the citizen, but Emerson the religionist. He was spoken of by a distinguished senator as "the sweetest of evangelists." Another of the elect told us that "Emerson gave us the programme for our religion for a thousand years." He gave us no programme at all. What he did give us—and it was a precious gift—was the spirit of honesty and courage, and the determination to front our own problems with sincerity and true Christian bravery. And that is much. But there is no programme of any kind in this great man's writings. Others have said that Emerson's religion is an improvement on that of Christ, and that Emerson on a certain occasion "praised a speaker who had distinctly objected to the word Christian as being a limitation." Further, we are informed by some of these modern sycophants that Emerson never "recognized the leadership of Jesus Christ as that of an infallible guide," and much more to similar effect. Mr. Van Allen well asks "could apotheosis go further?" In view of all this it seems fitting to say that Jesus Christ and the humblest, most ignorant and most sinful of the sons of men are brethren. Emerson was a man, and nothing more; a man of noble character and exalted intellect, but still a mere man. The one whom Christians worship is something far different and far greater. Even to suggest a comparison is to be guilty of blasphemy. We do not wonder that the Boston rector is shocked and grieved. But after all Emerson is not to blame. The trouble is with his silly admirers. To them let it be said that it is far too early to make a god out of the noble and gently philosopher. We can understand him too readily. It is far too easy to account for him. But Jesus Christ—the great question of this age, as of all ages, is. What think ye of Him? He is the consolation of the sorrowing humanity, the avenger of wrong and injustice, the redeemer of the world, and the bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh—but who even yet understands Him? To the faithful people who are not Christians we would suggest that they read the Sermon on the Mount, or Christ's great sermon to His apostles, as recorded by St. John, and then read the grandest words that Emerson or any other man ever wrote, and say, if they can, that Jesus Christ does not belong to an entirely different order of creation. Weakness and Strength. It becomes us to know our weakness as well as our strength. The man who feels that he can do more than he has the strength to do often fails. So we see the necessity of preparing ourselves in our special weaknesses. In order to accomplish anything in life we must exert our strength, but we must not overestimate it. We must be true to ourselves, to accomplish all the tasks before us--Rev. G. F. Miller. FIRE ESCAPES Law of Spiritual Self-Preservation Warns Against Taking Chances When Forming Habits. Going down the street the other day, says a writer in the Chicago Interior, walking toward the lake so that the fronts of the buildings between us and the water's edge stood clearly defined against the cloudless sky, we could not help noticing how the facades of all were hung with almost innumerable fire escapes. Like great webs for gigantean spiders they reached from story to story; and silhouetted against the azure background, they formed a very conspicuous feature of the scene. It was evident from their numbers that their presence was not accidental. Without knowing fully the legislation governing their construction, it seemed certain that the state had made their erection compulsory. Past experience had taught the citizen that many a "fireproof" structure goes up in smoke, and that under certain conditions even stone and mortar melt with fervent heat. Those who saw the greater part of Chicago dissolve into cloud 30 years ago have not the confidence in builders' assurances that they once had Even when entering the most substantial structure they have the habit of looking round for means of exit. Taught by what he has endured, a Chicago pioneer would not care to spend more than one night on the summit of Mount Blanc unless it were provided with a fire escape. Why should men be less careful of their spiritual than of their physical safety? Why should a man who would not rent an office or accept a sleeping chamber without first looking up the fire escape, enter upon habits of life and customs of society without a moment's thought of the risks involved? Are there not spiritual "death traps," well known to the wise, where nevertheless the young and the thoughtless blithely resort for the careless enjoyment of perilous pleasures? It requires no special genius to enter upon the prodigal's career; but how is one to be delivered from its consequences? When the purse is empty, is there an easy way back to affluence? When the eye sparkles and the pulses quicken under the gentle stimulus of champagne, would it not be the part of wisdom to ask where is the way to safety if the soul should suddenly become conscious of approaching peril? Suppose the pace begins to tell? Suppose the man wakes to find his account overdrawn, his health impaired, and his name under an eclipse? Is there a fire escape leading quickly and easily from this clubhouse life to his old-time freedom and safety? Have his new habits given him a stronger will, a clearer conscience and a more intimate touch with the redemptive elements of society? Before making one's home here, would it not be the part of wisdom to know whether there is from such a career an easy retreat, or whether the soul waking to an hour of menacing peril wakens only to find itself "more engaged while struggling to be free?" The special peril of our day is gambling. Unscrupulous dealers tempt little children and foolish boys with multitudinous devices, through which they can be introduced to the fascinations of chance gains. But where is the fire escape? When the flames are all about you, and the danger is imminent, and it is a question of flight or death, is it easy to unlearn all these diabolical habits? Is it a simple matter to escape the fascinations which attach themselves to all forms of hazard and of chance? The wise man knows that it is easier to keep out than to get out. Ringed about with flames, the unhappy victim of sin's fire traps plunges for a few tragic moments lither and thither, all in vain, and then, as we have so lately seen in the fashionable life of an eastern city, in sheer despair leaps upon death and perishes "with all the imperfections on his head." Do not foolishly "take the chances" when they are too evidently all against you. Do not make any mode of life even your temporary home if from it you fail to find a plain and easy path that leads to a peaceful and secure life, a life "hid with Christ in God." HELPFUL AND TRUE Practicality is the spirit which recognizes and grasps the moral opportunity present in every phase of life.—Mr. Storrs. If I can put some touches of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman then I feel that I have wrought with God.—George Macdonald. Intellect may give keenness of discernment. Love alone gives largeness to the nature, some share in the comprehensiveness of God.—John Hamilton Thom. Beautiful is young enthusiasm; keep it to the end and be more and more correct in fixing on the object of it. It is a terrible thing to be wrong in that—the source of all our miseries and confusions whatever.—Carlyle. Disappointment is like a slave. Through its coarse meshes the small ambitions and hopes and endeavors of a soul are sifted out relentlessly. But the things that are big enough not to fall through are not in the least affected by it. It is only a test, not a finality.—Wellspring. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unvell them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow and wax strong, or we grow and wax weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.—Bishop Westcott. St. Louis Palladium. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Served at the postoffice at St. Louis, m. as second-class matter. Published Weekly by J. W. WHEELER, Manager and Proprietor. JOHN W. WHEELER, JR., General Collector and Solicitor. MISS BEATRICE ROSS, Secretary. 2617 Lawton Avenue. MISS KATE JOHNSON.....Editor. MISS ANNA PARRAM.....Society Reporter. JAMES HUSTON.....Religious Reporter. Business matters pertaining to the paper should be addressed to The Palladium Office. Communications for publication must reach us not later than Wed- nesday. ADVERTISING RATES. For one inch, one insertion.....$ 50 For one inch each subsequent insertion.....25 For two inches, three months..... 6 00 For two inches, six months..... 10 00 For two inches, nine months..... 14 00 For two inches, twelve months..... 20 00 Standing and transient notices per line.....10 RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months......60 Single copy......05 No Excuse for Non-Payment. From the present time on, all who live south of Scot avenue, will please settle their St. Louis Palladium bills with Miss Kate Johnson, 2627 Papin street. Mrs. M. A. Lawrence, of 3944 St. Ferdinand avenue, is the Reporter and General Solicitor for the St. Louis Palladium. SEVEN POINTERS FOR THE READING AND ADVERTISING PUBLIC. (1) THE ST. LOUIS PALLADIUM IS in its 20th year of regular publication. (2) Never has missed an issue. (3) No fake subscription list to "catch" honest advertisers. (4) More bona fide subscribers than any other Negro paper in St. Louis or State. (5) The ONLY Negro newspaper published in St. Louis as the organ of the Republican party. (6) Because it is the official organ of Wright Cuney Political Club. (7) Because it is fearless in denouncing crime regardless of consequences. The St. Louis Palladium is sold at the following places: 2617 Lawton avenue. 209 South 15th street. 1208 Wash street. 2652 Lucas avenue. Charleston, Mo. West Plains, Mo. 3104 State street, Chicago, Ill. The attempted lynching in Evansville, Ind., has taught the lower element that law must be respected. The quicker that lesson is learned the better it will be for the public. We hear of many crimes being committed daily by white men, but the law's course is invariably awaited. Even when our president was struck down by a cowardly assassin, the enraged public displayed its unbounded love(?) for its leader by sitting idly by and awaiting the assassins' electrocution. The only one to display a spontaneous desire for revenge was Big Jim Parker, who exclaimed, with tears in his eyes: "Let me get at him—the dirty dog. I will tear him limb from limb for shooting our president." But when a poor, uncoath the ungrate commits a crime, and rids the universe of some white cur whose room is more preferable than his or her company, the cry is: "Lynch him!" We sincerely hope that such actions will receive their just reward when the final reckoning comes. Mr. Robert Johnson, our efficient agent who sells 120 copies of the St. Louis Palladium each issue, is meeting with more success. He received a letter a few days ago of inquiry. Mr. Johnson was born in 1815, December 17, in Adams county, Mississippi. He is a most wonderful character. You can get back copies of the Palladium from him of any date. Will the police kindly endeavor to keep the corners of Lawton and Jefferson avenues clear of the loiterers who persistently annoy pedestrians? The language used by some of them is shocking to the coarsest ears. We implore Capt. Joyce to exert his influence to rid the neighborhood of such annoying young men. The houses numbered 5, 7, 9 and 11 High street came very near being destroyed Tuesday last by fire. Owing to the quick action of the fire department serious loss was avoided. The homes of Mr. Chas. Turner, Mr. Sanders and others were seriously damaged. The Madison Club moonlight excursion was quite a treat. The famous World's Fair band kept all feet moving lively. The club will give another excursion on August 24. Wait for it. We have repeatedly said that all "free doings" in the Palladium have been stopped. Money talks. Mrs. Fossett, of Franklin, Ind., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. S. B. Ferrer, of 4000 Finken avenue. Headquarters of First President of the Colored Democratic-League of the State of Missouri: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE W. A. Armstrong.....Eleventh District Ormstead Robinson.....Twelfth District James L. Dickson.....Tenth District Geo. Funtain.....Committee-at-Large E. W. Foster.....Freshman W. Horbert Fields, E. F. St. Louis, Mo. Thos. Horrell, 2d V.-P. Jefferson City, Mo. E. M. Cregler, 2d V.-P. Mexico, Mo. Jas. M. Vena, Sec. St. Louis, Mo. E. M. Cregler, City, Mo. Ed. Lynwood, Treas., Kansas City, Mo. The above is published to let the public see who composed the Democratic Negro club in Kansas City about three or four years ago. We notice that the notorious scallawag, I. H. Bradbury, was its president. He came to St. Louis some years ago under the care of Geo. B. Vashon, a Negro democrat. We will have more to say in the future. Predictions are made that the cotton crop of 1903 will be short. Forecasts of this sort have been often falsified in the past when the conditions seemed to be as adverse as they do now. This is a country of lightning changes for the better. A month or two ago the Kansas wheat crop, it was supposed, would be a failure, but the harvesting record tells a different story. Cotton may yet pull up to a point not now in sight. [Picture of a man in a suit and tie]. MR. A. W. WASHINGTON. First Baptist Church Notes. The B. Y. P. U. met last Sunday at 3:30 p. m. The election of officers was postponed until next Sunday, July 12. Nick Clark, of 4253 Labadie avenue, died very suddenly last Sunday. He was a relative of Mr. James Clark, of 1406 Poplar. Mr. N. Slaughter, of 4048½ Fairfax, recently married a very handsome young lady of Henderson, Ky. We wish them joy. Miss Mossie L. Turner, a belle of Owensboro, Ky., and a relative of Miss M. B. Tylor, is here on a visit. She is with relatives at 2243 Scott ave. Miss Sallie M. Wright, who formerly lived at 2243 Scott avenue, now residing in Springfield, Ill., spent a few days last week with her friends, the Misses Tyler, of the above number. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Johnson, of 4048½ Fairfax avenue, entertained the Misses Isabelle Morgan and Katie Johnson at dinner last Sunday. A very pleasant afternoon was passed. Rev. J. W. Muse preached a fine sermon at the First Baptist Church last Sunday. It is to be hoped that other preachers will do credit to the congregation until the return of Rev. Cole. The First Baptist Church's Pleasant Workers' Club will give their first entertainment and lawn party at Sexton's Garden July 13. The public is cordially invited. Admission, 10 cents. Mrs. M. Gilree, president. U. B. F. and S. M. T. Notice to the Public: The National Grand Lodge of United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of Mysterious Ten will convene in the city of St. Louis, Me., July 20 to 24, 1903. Session will be called to order at 10 o'clock, sharp, Monday, July 20, by the national grand master, Hon. W. A. Gaines, of Louisville, Ky. Grand parade, Friday, July 24. Line of march: Form at Twelfth and Olive streets, south on Olive to Chestnut, east on Chestnut to Broadway, north to Washington, west to Twelfth, south to Pine, west to Fifteenth, north to Locust, west to Twenty-eighth, north to Easton avenue. Disband, take Easton avenue car to picnic at Ofenstein's grove. Admission, 25 cents. Competitive drill at 2 p. m. on the ground. Grand banquet Thursday night, July 23, at Stollee's hall, Thirteenth and Biddle streets. Committee DAVID UBAND, Chairman. H. H. THOMPSON, Assistant Secretary. Royal Arch Masons At the annual convocation, last Wednesday evening, of St. John's Chapter No. I. R. A. M., the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Fred'k. R. Hill, high priest; R. G. Humphrey, king; Saml. B. Smith, scribe; Milton F. Fields, treasurer; James W. Grant, secretary. St. John's is the oldest Royal Arch chapter west of the Allegheny mountains and the reports showed the old pioneer to be in a good moral and financial condition. Long may she prosper. A PENSION ORDER. Under a decision rendered by the Secretary of the Interior under the Cleveland administration, May 27, 1893, in the case of Charles T. Bennett, the Commissioner of Pensions organized a Board of Revision in the Bureau of Pensions for the purpose of taking from the files claims that had been allowed under the act of June 27, 1890, for a re-examination; as a result of that re-examination, under instructions then given, pensioners were reduced or dropped in at least 25,000 cases. Upon a careful examination of the action then taken, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Webster Davis has issued the following Order relating to appeals pending before the Department in such cases; "Department of the Interior, "Washington, Feb. 26, 1898. "Order: "It is directed that the pending appeals from the action of reducing or terminating of pensions granted under the second section of Act of June 27, 1890, in accordance with the decisions rendered May 27, 1893, in the case of Charles T. Bennett (7 P. D., p. 1), shall be examined with great care. "In cases where the evidence filed or the certificate of examination, indicates that the pension originally allowed was warranted under a just and impartial construction of the law, they should be returned to the Bureau of Pensions for a special examination, or another medical examination, or both, as may be deemed necessary. "It is held to be proper and just that such pensioners shall be granted a fair hearing, and be allowed an opportunity to show by competent proof that they were disabled in the degree, and on account of the causes alleged at the date when the pension was reduced or terminated. "It will be understood that this action disposes of the pending appeal in such cases by reversing the action taken by the Bureau of Pensions, and remanding the case for further investigation, the reasons therefor being fully set forth. "(Signed) WEBSTER DAVIS, "Assistant Secretary." This Order will result in giving all soldiers affected by the Bennett decision of a chance to be heard, which is what they have been contending for ever since that decision was promulgated. IMPORTANT TO ALL MEMBERS OF ANY STATE MILITIA. Under the latest ruling or the Hon. Secretary of the Interior all persons who were regularly enlisted in any State Militia organization and temporarily in the United States service, or serving under United States officers, are now entitled to pension on account of any disability (wound, injury or disease) that was incurred or contracted while in the United States service, even though they were never regularly mustered into same. This ruling affects all state militia men called into active service by order of the United States officers; provided, the disabilities were incurred while performing duty under such orders. BOUNTIES TO VOLUNTEERS. 11. All soldiers discharged by reason of wounds received in battle, or in line of duty, are entitled by Acts of March 3, 1863, March 3, 1865, and Joint Resolution of April 12, 1866, to receive the same benefit they would have received if they ad served their full term of enlistment. The word wound, as used in the foregoing, is to be understood in the sense of injury, hurt, damage, as contradisfigured from disease or sickness. The bounty can only be allowed when the soldier was actually discharged by reason of the wound as aforesaid. 12. The time for filing claims under the act of July 28, 1866, known as the "Additional Bounty Act," expired July 1, 1880. Claims under that act, not filed within the time limited, cannot be considered by this Office without further legislation by Congress. IMPORTANT TO SOLDIERS AND SAILORS WHO ENLISTED UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME Under the act of Congress approved April 14, 1890, for the relief of soldiers and sailors who enlisted or served under an assumed name in the army or War of Rebellion, they can now secure, under proper proof of identity, new certificates of discharge or orders of navy of the United States during the acceptance or resignation setting forth the true name of the soldier or sailor provided the name under which the service was rendered was not assumed to cover a crime or to avoid the consequences of a crime. Hundreds of soldiers on entering the service enlisted under assumed names for trivial or no special reasons, who have since often wished that they could secure a discharge showing their true names. tf. Admiral Dewey having resigned as president of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial association, Lieut.-Gen. Nelson A. Miles has been elected to succeed him. On the 6th Mrs. F. L. St. John, a prominent society woman and church worker, was killed in New York by being thrown into the rapid transit subway by an electric car. Lewis Nixon, at the request of Receiver Smith, of New York, has consented to remain as president of the United States Shipbuilding Co. ROOMS FOR RENT. 2616 MORGAN ST.—Nicely furnished rooms. Mrs. Ellen Gooden. 1610 GLASGOW AV.—Neatly furnished room for couple of men or man and wife, with or without board. 2336 WASH ST.----Furnished rooms for rent to men; rooms comfortably furnished; on second and third floors; with or without board. T. T. Thompson. The only place where you can get the very best for your money. Give them a call. Ervin Wheeler and James Box, Mixologists. James Barnes, FIRST-CLASS BARBER - SHOP, 1433 Morgan Street. Nicely Furnished Room for Gentlemen Only, With or without Board. 2718 Wash Street. Keystone Hotel First-Class Accommodation for Colored People Only. 2305 Chestnut, St. Louis, Mo. M. ROBINSON, Prop. S. P. PERKINS, Tennessee Shaving Parlor Everything Neat, Clean and Up-to-date. 1326 Morgan Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. Sexton & Maxwell, First-class Photographers 1407 Market St. G. W. ROBINSON, Second-Hand Furniture BOUGHT AND SOLD. Moving and Expressing, General Jobbing and Repairing of Furni- ture, Ranges, Stoves, Etc. 4023 EASTON AVE., ST. LOUIS. CHURCH DIRECTORY. St. Paul's, A. M. E., Leffingwell and Lawton; Rev. D. P. Roberts, pastor. St. Peter's, A. M. E., Elliott and Montgomtery; Rev. James Madison, pastor. St. James, A. M. E., Pendleton and St. Ferdinand; Rev.' W. C. Williams, pastor. Quinn's Chapel, A. M. E., Carondelet; Rev. J. A. Christoper, pastor. Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion, 2625 Morgan; Rev. E. D. W. Jones, pastor. St. John's A. M. E. Zion, 113 Eiler St.; Rev. R. P. Christian, pastor. Colored Methodist, 3966 Fairfax avenue; Rev. O. Heaylow, pastor. Lexington Ave. A. M. E. Zion, 4214A Lexington Ave; Rev. Donovan, pastor. M. E. Centennial M. E., Elliot and Wash- ington; Rev. Gilliam, pastor. BAPTIST. Central Baptist, Twenty-third and Morgan Sts. First Baptist, Fourteenth and Clark Ave.; Rev. E. C. Cole, pastor. Fifth Baptist, 4117 Papin St. Pilgrim Baptist, Kossuth and Pans St.; Rev. Brown, supply. Antioch Baptist, 4223 Kennerly Ave.; Rev. F. McKinney, pastor. Mt. Pleasant Baptist, foot Dock St. Pleasant Green Baptist, 711 N. Eleventh St. Baptist Church, 110 S. Leonard Ave.; Rev. Perry, pastor. Chambers Street Baptist, Tenth and Chambers; Rev. Cox, pastor. Compton Hill Baptist, LaSalle St. El Bethel Baptist church, 638 Athlone Ave. Ruck's Church, Baptist, 14th and Morgan; Rev. Rucks, pastor. Bethany, Preshyterian, Nineteenth and Wash Sts.; Rev. Washington, pastor. All-Saints, Episcopalian, 2135 Washington Ave.; Rev. C. M. C. Mason, pastor. Missionary Baptist True Reformers; Rev. J. L. Cohen, pastor. CHURCH SERVICES. St. Paul A. M. E. Church Services. Preaching, Sunday, 11:00 a m Sunday School, 2:00 p m Preaching, 7:30 p m All-Saints' Episcopal Church Services. Communion, 7:00 a m Preaching, Sunday, 11:00 a m Sunday School, 1:00 p m Preaching, 7:00 p m Wednesday evening, Prayer Meeting. Friday evening, Young People's Prayer Meeting. Rev. Fred. McKinney, Pastor. J. A. Smith, Clerk. All church notices must be mailed to this office on or before Wednesday of each week. Reporters will be sent wherever re- quested. Only notify this office. 2746 Laclede avenue. First-class Meals at Mrs. J. W. Scruggs' Restaurant at all hours. Ice-Cream and Soda. Don't fail to call. Mrs. J. W. Scruggs, Provo EDWARD A. NEAL, Carpenter and Builder, and General Repair Work. All work promptly attended to. Call and see me. 2837 MANCHESTER AVE. Shop-2816 Walnut Street. Sending their name and address. Write at once, enclosing stamp, for particulars. Address Scott Remedy Co., P. O. Box 570, Louisville, Ky. MRS. L. 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Telephone—Kinloch C-397. THEO. H. TEMPEL, Dealer in Staple and Fancy GROCERIES, 2601 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. California Canned Goods a Specially. RAY'S BUFFET. TWENTY-SECOND and MARKET STS. Newly fitted up from bottom to top. Electric lights. Largest Billjard Parlor in the city for the accommodation of our people. JIM RAY, Proprietor. The 200 Bar, Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars with the best of accommodation. E.J.BRUNER and D.G.HOGAN, Proprietors. Do You Play Pool and Billiards? If so, go to the BARBELL'S BARBELL'S THE GREEN TREE SIMON BROWN, Pro NOAH WARGTING, Gene 1600=1602 Morg Pool Room in Conn THE GREEN TREE SALOON. 1600=1602 Morgan Street. Pool Room in Connection. O.K.SALOON H. L. FRANKLIN, Prop. Dealer in Bonded Liquors, Cigars, Tobacoo. Pool Room in Connection. 4000 Papin St., St. Louis, Mo. Imported Duors. Domes. DYE'S Set and Pool R WM. P. DYE, Proprietor. Manchester Ave., St. Telephone—Kinloch B-1812. THE GEM IGH B. WHITE, Proprietor and BILLIARD at 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) , Liquors, Cigars, and the be- Billiard Room. Remember the Gem, 1911 Mar. "OWL" SALO 33 South 20th Street. Liquors, Cigars and Bo- ring Genuine. Remember the Phone, Kinloch C-43. MES and MR. R. SAUNDERS, CHARLEY HARRIS, Proprietor. ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY. BILLIARD ROOMS IN EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. Brunswick Sa DYE' Buffet and Po WM. P. DYE, Propriet 2801-3 Manchester Ave., Telephone—Kinloch B THE G HUGH B. WHITE, Pro SALOON and BILI At 1911 Mark (Opposite Union Sta Choica Wines, Liquors, Cigars, and Billiard Ro Remember the Gem, I THE "OWL" S 33 South 20th St Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars Everything Genuine. Re Phone, Kinloch C WILLIAM JAMES and MR. R. SAUND CHARLEY HARRIS, P FURNISHED ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY. BILLIARD EVERYTHING STRICTLY FI The Brunswick 2801-3 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Telephone—Kinloch B-1812. At 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) Choica Wines, Liquors, Cigars, and the best up-to-date. Billiard Room. Remember the Gem, 1911 Market. THE "OWL" SALOON, Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Bottled Beer. Everything Genuine. Remember the Place. Phone, Kinloch C-43. WILLIAM JAMES and MR. R. SAUNDERS, . . . Managers CHARLEY HARRIS, Proprietor. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY. BILLIARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION. EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. The Brunswick Saloon, The Brunswick Saloon, G. W. HOLT, Proprietor. Market Street, (Near U uuons, Cigars and Tobaccos. The Greeley Fine Wines, Liquors a 1925 Market Street, (Near Union Station), Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. ST. LOUIS. The Greeley Saloon. Excursionists give us a call. Headquarters for sports. Ask for it, you'll get it. 1201 Morgan St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Jas. Williams, MIXERS Chas. St. Clair. GEO. FOUNTAIN, Mgr. --- They are the leaders of the city for passive pleasure. No salon connected. Strictly first-class. Hall No. 1 at 2326 Market St. Hall No. 2 at 2326 Market St. A. A. BROOKS, Proprietor. Fine Wines and Liquors. JEFF. SMITH, Propr. Imported and Domestic Cigars. S col Room, etor. St. Louis, Mo. 1812. EM. Proprietor of HILIARD HALL market St. ation) and the best up-to-date room. 1911 Market. SALOON, Street. Bars and Bottled Beer. Remember the Place. 5:43. DERS, . . . Managers Proprietor. ROOMS IN CONNECTION. FIRST-CLASS. K Saloon, et, (Near Union Station), ST. LOUIS eley Saloon. , Liquors and Oigars. SEXTON & MITCHELL'S EXTRA FINISH Now Open for Pupils. Terms Reasonable. Fine Oil paintings for sale, Portraits Enlarged in Crayon, Pastel, Oil. FARMER'S HAIR TONIC. Warranted to make the hair grow. Stops falling hair. Farmer's Hair Cream, an indispensable hair dressing. Cures Dandruff. Mrs. Lulu Farmer, Manufacturer and Sole Proprietor, 2724 Morgan Street. BOOT BLACK PARLOR. First-Class Work. 803 North Jefferson Avenue. GEORGE JAMES. Miss Mary Graham, of 4121 Fairfax avenue, has opened a Hair Dressing Parlor. She will shampoo the hair for 15c and press the hair for 25c. Call and if not write her and she will go to any part of the city. Louis Huggins Pays the highest price for all kinds of Household Furnishing Goods, Carpets and Stoves, in large and small lots. Feathers a specialty. Furniture taken in exchange for moving at 2132 Franklin avenue. Kinloch Phone, 1489-D. Fashionable Dressmaking Done by Miss Anna L. Cohen. Miss Edith Floyd. 2718 Wash Street. Order in time and save annoyance. U. B. F., S. M. T. and Reveribe Badges for Lodges, Temples, Royal Houses and Past Masters' Councils at the very low prices—50 cents, 60 cents, 75 cents and upWard, depending upon the quality desired quality is considered. Regalias of all kinds, worth $2 and upward, depending upon quality. Knight's Full Uniform at prices to suit the trade. Swords for Sentinels at $3.50 each. 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Those desiring these requisites must on naming articles defined give sufficient proof that grid applicants are entitled to handle goods ordered. I am in a position to furnish anything desired on short notice. My connection with the order for 22 years enables me to assist the membership in getting anything wanted. Six years National Grand Secretary and an officer of one kind or another since 1884 are evidences that I am reliable. Order before you need the goods. Send all orders with cash to F. W. GROSS, P. N. G.S., Victoria, Texas, U. S. A. Terms—All transactions absolutely cash or C. O. D. Orders must be accompanied by one-half cash, at least, but it is cheaper to send cash and save return charges. Special terms for large orders. One of our watch charms would make a pleasing gift. Send for prices. Buy badges and regalia before you need them. A fine gold pin or button would be a nice holiday present. REMOVED. Mr. Sanford Warfield, who formerly owned a Barber Shop at 803 North Jefferson avenue, is now at 729 Beaumont street. Give him a call. First-class work in the barber line. Please take notice. All free doings is passed with the St. Louis Palladium. It takes money to pay the printer. J. W. WHEELER. --- THE HILL SALOON. James Collins, Proprietor. 2807 Manchester Ave. CHOICE WINES, Whiskies, Tobacco and Cigars. Williams & Head, Props. Pink Coat Bar. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. POOL ROOM. S. E. Cor. 22d and Market Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. THE JOCKEY CLUB. WM. DOVER, Proprietor. 3924 Sophia Avenue, Cor. Margaretta, St. Louis. Choice Wines Liquors and Cigars. B. BELKER, —Dealarin— Groceries, Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Meat and Vegetable Market. 1119 and 1121 Morgan Street. $3.00 FREE To Every Person Sending their name and address. Write at once, enclosing stamp, for particulars. Address Scott Remedy Co., P. O. Box 570, Louisville, Ky. S. L. Pickett's. Drugs fresh daily. Don't pass his door—2601 Lawton avenue. Mrs. Susan Gross, 2609 Pine Street. Millinery. Up-to-date Hats. Trimmings and all material in that line. WALTER S. FARRINGTON. Walter S. Farrington is doing a great business on Leonard and Channing avenues as a Veterinary Dentist, Clipping, Braking and Styling Hores. He is an expert at his business. Express and Coal business on Channing avenue between Olive and Locust streets. All orders are promptly attended to. 308 North Leonard avenue. DR. S. B. BELL, Barber Shop and Bath, In the True Reform Hall. First-class Barbers. S. W. Corner Pine Street and Jeffer- son Avenue. IF YOU BUY FURNITURE. AT Thuner's ITS GOOD. 2122-24-26 South Broadway CHILI CON CARNE, The Real Mexican Dishes, at 2718 WASH STREET. Old Shady Place. Wm. A. Overton, Plumbing AND GAS FITTING. Furnaces, Stoves and Ranges Repaired and put up. Expressing and Moving. Phone Kin. D-2137. 1124 N. Sarah St. Sam, the Tailor, is the place to get your Summer Suits, Made to order. One of the Best 204 North 14th Street, ARNETT'S PLACE. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Meals served in the Cafe as you wish them at all hours. Drinks of all kinds properly served in the Cafe. Open day and night. Phone, Kim, B-686. 2301 Morgan Street, St. Louis, Mo. ..The Jefferson Bar... GEO. S. WILLIAMS, Proprietor. JAS. JACKSON, Entertainer. 715 LINDEN STREET. Private Reception Rooms for Ladies and Special Parties. NOTICE—Any enterprising colored man colored man can make money in St. Louis during the great World's Fair. The field is promising and offers wonderful inducements to men with money to invest. All inquiries along this line will receive immediate attention by sending your communications to the above address. CHOP HOUSE. Harrison Cook, Proprietor of a Lunch Room, better known as a Chop House, at 1930 Chestnut Street. The American Mutual Aid Association. PERCY STONE, General Manager. Licensed to do business in Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas Kentucky and Mississippi. Weekly benefits for sickness and accident. Benefits for death. Free use of surgeon or physician to all members. Write for circular. St. Louis Dairy Co. St. Louis Dairy Co. Delivers exclusively in Bottles to the family trade 2008 Pine Street. R. J. RAYMOND, Attorney - at - Law, 1111 Clark Ave., St. Louis, Mo. STUDY MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT THE Louisville National Medical College School of Medicine, Four years of six months each. Session continues throughout the year. Each session is divided into four terms of three months each. Attendance upon any two terms entitles student to credit for one year's attendance. W. A. BURNEY, M. D., Dean, Louisville, Ky. THE BEST LAWN SWING MADE AGEN Lawn Swing Chairs, Ironing $5 AGENTS WANTED Agents easily make $5 TO $10 PER DAY. RIDERAGENTSWANTED one in each town to ride and exhibit a sample 1902 model bicycle of our manufacture. YOU CAN MAKE $10 TO $50 A WEEK besides having a wheel to ride for yourself. 1902 Models High Grade Guaranteed $9 to $15 1900 and 1901 Models BEST $7 to $11 500 Second Hand Wheels $3 to $8 taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores, all makes and models, good as no N.APPROVAL to any- $45 Pays for professional lectures, board and room rent for one term. By the Quarterly System is offered unrivaled opportunities for those who must retain teaching positions as a means of livelihood, and yet desire't to study Medicine. WE WANT a p exchange for a J. L. M Lawn Swings and Settees, Hammock Chairs, Camp Chairs and Stools, Ironing Tables, Wash Benches, Etc. Will furnish samples at reduced prices to those desiring agency. Exclusive territory given. Address, BARBARA FRIETCHIE AND HER FAMOUS FLAG. THE FLAG THAT BARBARA FRIETCHIE WAVED. CAREFULLY guarded and sacredly treasured with other relies which belonged to her great-aunt, Mrs. Barbara Frietchie, Mrs. John Abbott, of Frederick, Md., has the flag which Whittier's heroine waved from the window of her home on "that cool September morn" in 1862. Visitors to Frederick find the pleasant and comfortable home of Mrs. Abbott an interesting place to visit, and the excellent lady takes a peculiar pride in showing the old flag, which is encased in a large frame, but her really prized collection consists of a large cabinet of chinaware, silver tea pot and other articles for the table, together with a long pair of gloves of undressed skin which Barbara Frietchie wore while working in her yard with her flowers. These gloves were made by Mrs. Frietchie's husband, who was a skilled workman of this kind. "I had a much larger collection," said Mrs. Abbott, to a Detroit Free Press correspondent, "but there were so many friends of Aunt Friediech's THE FLAG THAT BAR who wished some souvenir or keepake that I gave away a large number of them. It is so hard to refuse your friends, you know. A great many people call here to see these relics of Aunt Friediechie and a few years ago I concluded it would be best to get them all together and put them here in the parlor so that I would have less trouble in showing them. So much has been written and printed about the flag incident that, not wishing to become involved in any controversy, I have declined to talk about it, leaving newspaper people and all visitors to get information as best they can." "Will you answer just one question, Mrs. Abbott? Did Gen. Reno salute a flag which was waved by Mrs. Friediech, and did that lady give him a flag which was placed on his grave when he was killed next day at the battle of South Mountain?" "That is true, and here is a photograph of the flag Aunt Frietie gave Gen. Reno, which was sent me by the general's son. The flag was taken from the grave and pre- VES AT ALL PRICES. Sulton's in Savage and Semi-Barbarle Countries Are Compelled to Buy Their Brides. In Europe, says a foreign explorer, it is customary for parents to give dowries to their daughters when they marry, but in uncivilized countries quite a different custom prevails. In Uganda a man can buy a handsome wife for four bulls, a box of cartridges and six needles, and if he has the luck to go a-wooing when women happen to be a drug on the market, he can buy a suitable damsel for a pair of shoes. A Kaffir girl is worth, according to the rank of her family, from four to ten cows, and any young man who becomes enamoured of a native girl of New Mexico will have to give at least 12 horses for her. In Tartary no father will surrender his daughter unless he gets a goodly quantity of butter in return, and in certain parts of India no girl can marry until her father has been pacified by a present of rice and a few pumps. Twenty oxen is the regular price for a wife among the Mishmis, but a poor man has more than once succeeded in obtaining a bride on payment of one pig. At Timor no girl will think of marrying a man who is not provided with a certain number of elephant's tusks, and at Unyoro, any desirable but impecunious sulfer may purchase his wife on credit, but will not be allowed to enjoy her company until he has paid the uttermost farthing. Among many tribes of Africa and Asia it is customary for a suitor to work as a hired man for his future father-in-law in the same manner as Jacob worked for Laban. A certain value is set on the girl whom he selects as his wife, and when his wages amount to that much he gets her, and not before. A man who falls in love with a native girl of the Manzoni territory fares better, for all he need pay for her is two deer skins.—N. Y. Herald. served and is now in the Reno family. "Now that is all I care to say about the incident, and, as I have stated, I do not wish to talk for publication. There has already been too much written about the flag incident. Aunt Friediech was a dear, good soul, and I am always pleased to show these relics to visitors. I have here a 'Frietchie Memorial Register.' and I always request visitors to register." Barbara Friediech was in her ninety-fifth year at the time of the "flag incident," September 12, 1862, and died on December 18, following. When the confederate troops began entering Frederick on the 6th, 8th and 10th of September, Mrs. Friediech took the flag down from her dormer window and placed it between the pages of the old family Bible. She, with other citizens of Frederick, realized that it was dangerous to permit the flag to float while the town was filling up with confederates. On the morning of the 12th, when Gen. McClellan's army, with the advance CARA FRIETCHIE WAVED. under command of Gen. Burnside, marched up West Patrick street, Mrs. Frietchie was at one of the dormer windows and waved her hand as a token of joy. Her grandniece, Miss Julia Hanshaw—now Mrs. John Abbott—and a young Miss Yoner were standing by the old lady's side. The presence of the union forces and the inspiring music caused the patriotic old lady to request Miss Yoner to go into an adjoining room and get the flag from the Bible. This was done, and soon the Stars and Stripes were floating from the window. The enthusiasm and patriotism of Mrs. Frietchie caused the union soldiers to cheer lustfully. The gallant Gen. Reno went into the house and congratulated her, at the same time asking her for the flag which she had waved. Mrs. Frietchie did not give the general the flag, but did get another and give him with a "God bless you and the Stars and Stripes." Gen. Reno waved the flag and proposed three cheers, which were given with a will. Gen. Reno was killed next day at the battle of South Mountain. BRIGHT EASTERN GIRL. She Gave a Unique Turn to Rather Prosaic Way of Earning an Honest Living. She had gone to Denver for her health. Yet her capital was small, and she must earn her living. How to do it, and at the same time grow strong, was a problem. She had been a stenographer, but to take up a position at clicking the keys in a Denver office was little better than in Philadelphia. At last she hit upon a happy idea, which took little of her time, and netted her a good return. She rented a room in one of the big office buildings, whose busy daytime tenants run up into the hundreds. It was on the top floor, and she paid $25 a month for it. Then she invested in half a dozen round, unvarnished tables with painted legs. Cheap little things they were. But she covered the tops with the soft matting that comes around tea chests, and which the grocer she patronized gave her. Next with excelsior, denim, two long wooden shoe boxes, which cost her 50 cents, and some gilt-headed tacks, she made two divan-looking affairs, which held innumerable things. Her next investment was in some gay little Japanese fans at a few cents each, some crepe paper, and more teachest matting. With these she covered the walls artificially and prettily, sticking the fans here and there to give a gay note. Japanese paper napkins, plates, cups and saucers, and a three-burner gas stove behind a screne, completed her outfit. Then the enterprising young woman announced her "tea room" was ready for business. From 11 o'clock to two she served tea, coffee and cocoa, and appetizing sandwiches. Her food was good, and things seemed appetizing. It wasn't long before she had more customers than she could well handle. Before the first month was over she had covered her expenses. It was a clever little tea room, just what it set out to be.—Philadelphia Telegraph Fokyoung People WASHING THE DISHES. Our Polly goes a fishing, be the weather what it may, Not less than twice, and often thrice, on every holiday; She always starts right after meals, and singing merrily. She fishes and she fishes in her little Soapy Sea. She'll catch the best pink china cups, and play that they are trout. And when she drops her line again she'll drawn spoon-minnows out; The plates, of course, are flounders (so round and flat, you know). The kitchen knives are hungry sharks out watching for a foe; Each saucepan is a pollywog, with handle for a tall, And—"There she blows!"—the frying-pan! how very like a whale! *There's nothing left—pour out the sea, and put the fish away, All high and dry, and waiting to be caught another day. -Hannah G. Fernald, in Youth's Companion. BIRDS AND ANIMALS In the Lovely Month of June the Happiness of Their Home Life Is at Its Height. You will recall James Russell Lowell's tribute to June, which begins with those familiar lines: "And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days." These expressions also linger in our memories: "The little bird sits at his door," "The high tide of the year," and "Everything is happy now." We all agree with Lowell that everywhere in June there is home-life and happiness. And what a host and variety of homes there are! We find them of many forms and down in queer places. Perhaps one of the queerest is the home of the swifts inside a chimney at the farmhouse. All day these soot-colored little birds have been racing through the air, twittering socially and gathering insects for the little ones in the many homes down in that big chimney. Perhaps there may be as many as a thousand birds living in one of these large, old-fashioned chimneys—a bird village in soot and smoke. Did you ever see a chimney swift alight on a tree? Did you ever see him alight anywhere? What persistent workers they are! Another family gathering that interests us is that of the porcupines feeding on water plants at the pondside by moonlight. Altogether a family of dull wits we might call them, for it would be difficult to find animals more intensely stupid. But they prize their pondside home, and wander ```markdown ``` KINGFISHER'S NEST. (As Hole and Nest Would Be if Earth on This Side Had Been Removed.) around among the shrubbery and climb trees in perfect confidence that no animal can easily drive them away from their home. The mother porcupine made her nest in some nearby hollow log. The little ones, to the number of two or three in each home, were born early last month, and by this time are able to go out with their mother and seek food as she does. Then there is that home in mid-air, the nest of the Baltimore oriole. The home surely looks enough like a hornet's nest to deceive a bird of prey. Some naturalists regard it as an example of real "protective mimicry." In marked contrast to this bird home swaying if even the slightest breeze is that of the kingfisher, in a hole in the solid bank of earth by the pondside. Not far away from this bank, down in the deepest water, is the family of the bullheads—in some localities called catfish or horned pouts. How fierce and persistent is the mother in protecting her little ones! In spite of this a little bullhead does now and then disappear, and some perch swims off less hungry than before—St. Nicholas. The Lawyer's Rule. "Ever since beginning the practice of law," said a Detroit lawyer, who begged that his name be suppressed, "I have made it a rule not to take cases in which I could not promise my client a percentage of gain over my fees. One day not long ago a business man came to me with a request to sue a debtor. I found that it would cost far more than could be recovered, and told him so. He was indignant, and left vowing to get a lawyer to press the case regardless of expense. A few weeks later he came to me again. 'Well,' said he, 'I took your advice and saved $250 by it. Now I want you to take charge of all legal matters affecting the Blank corporation. Your retainer will be $2,000 per year.' I took it, it is needless to say."—Detroit News. --- HEROIC LITTLE MARY. By Her Self-Possession Ten-Year-Old Katie Murphy Saved Her Mother's Life. Hear this story of a little girl who was as great a hero as any grown man could have been. She was Katie Murphy. Katie was only ten years old, but she had more knowledge and experience of life than many a rich girl twice her age has. That is the advantage of being poor—if there are any advantages, that is—you learn of life in many phases, most of them hard and unpleasant. But you learn also to do things and take care of things and to think and reason in some ways that you would never know at all if you were rich. Katie Murphy's mother was a widow with five children. Tommie and Charlie, aged eight and six, went to school, while Katie stayed at home and took care of Mary and Nellie, the little ones. Mary was four; Nellie, the baby, was two. Mrs. Murphy went out to work every day, leaving home at seven and SHE THREW THE WINDOW OPEN. not getting back till six in the evening Katie was one of those "little mothers" you have read of who have to keep house and mind whole families of children while their parents go out to earn a living. She had never been in the beautiful country and had never seen grass except in a city park, where she only knew it was beautiful and something she and her baby sisters must keep off. But she knew how to keep house in the fashion of very poor people and how to mind the babies all day. She loved them and devoted herself to them. She had had so much care and hard work in her life of lugging babies around that she did not look like a child at all, but like a tiny woman with her pale face and serious ways. And she was a real woman, too, as you will find. In the pleasant weather she took the children to the park in the afternoon and kept them till nearly six o'clock. Then she trundled Nellie home in the baby cart while Mary trudged beside her. At home Katie lit the flame of the gas stove, boiled some water and made tea, all ready for poor, tired Mrs. Murphy. But one afternoon there was a procession and a great crowd in the street, so Katie could not cross with her baby cart and little sister. She had to wait so long that it was long past six ere she reached home. In the hall at the door of their tiny flat a frightful smell of gas seemed to come from under the Murphys' closed door. Katie knew that was something dangerous. "Stay by the baby," she said to Mary. Then she dashed into the outer room. The gas fumes nearly suffocated her, but she sped on into the kitchen. Her mother lay unconscious on the floor, with the gas turned full on in the stove, but not yet, lighted. Katie herself nearly swooned, but she knew enough to turn off the gas and had just strength enough left to run to the window and dash it open to let the air in. She put her head out, took a long, deep breath and screamed and called with all hot might for help. Many a woman would have lacked the level-headedness to do that, but Katie had more presence of mind than half the grown girls have. People from the street and neighbors ran in in answer to her call. Some threw open the other doors and windows, others lifted her mother and one tore out for the doctor. It was an hour before the physician brought Mrs. Murphy to consciousness. He told them that only Katie's prompt action had saved her life. Even half a minute more and it would have been too late. Mrs. Murphy had been taken ill in the shop where she worked and had come home in the afternoon. Feeling very weary, she thought she would make the tea herself. She remembered lighting a match and turning on the gas—that was all. She must have fainted just at that moment and fallen upon the floor. The gas, flowing out, overpowered her so she could not regain her senses, and she would have been suffocated but for her heroic little daughter. People could not say enough in praise of Katie. But as for Katie herself—well, as soon as the people ran in to look after her mother she went back at once to see the baby and Mary and the gocart—Cincinnati Commercial-Tibune. Snowfall in a Parlor. There was an indoor snowstorm on a very clear, cold evening recently at a party given at Stockholm, Sweden. Many people were gathered in a single room, which became so warm as to be insufferable. The window sashes were found frozen and a pane of glass was smashed out. A cold air current rushed in and at the same instant flakes of snow were seen to fall to the floor in all parts of the room. The atmosphere was so saturated with moisture that the sudden fall in temperature produced a snowfall irides. NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We send FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the occultum. 200 page listings, treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured by our physicians, 1000 are listed in the DRS. THORNTON & MINOR. 1031 Oak St. Kaneville, City Mo. An Enthusiastle Bugler. An Enthusiastic Bugler. It is not often that an enlisted man gets a chance to run a part of the battle to suit himself, but that opportunity did come in the Philippines to a bugler in a company of infantry. The captain, finding that L company was too far away to hear orders, sent his bugler after the men to sound a charge. At the first notes the company flew forward. It was right here that the bugler forgot for the time being that he was not the commanding officer, but only his orderly. He saw another chance for L company to move on the jump—too good a chance, he thought, to be lost. He sounded once more, and the lieutenant in charge thought that the order came from the captain, and executed it. Not even yet was the bugler's thirst for action satiated. He sounded again and again, in the pride of generalship, and by the time he came to his senses and sounded a recall, the poor fellows of L company were troubled with shortness of breath. Fortunately, only a few of the company were wounded, and no one was killed, while the Filipinos were routed with disastrous results, so the bugler was forgiven, but sternly cautioned to not do it again.—Golden Days. Anti-Climax in a Mine. Prof. Weed, the noted geologist, recently had a thrilling and hair-raising experience in Butte. He was descending a mine on a ladder and when several hundred feet down the ladder parted, leaving him suspended in the dark. He hung to the round with all the tenacity his being was capable of, determined to strain the very last drop of his vitality in the hope that succor would come. He cried out for help, but the deep, dark walls returned his voice unanswered. His whole life came back to him in vivid retrospection; perspiration dripped from his forehead as he realized that only for a short time could he withstand the awful strain. And then he dropped. Four inches below him he struck a heavy body, which afterward proved to be the globe.—Chicago Chronicle. THE MARKETS. New York. July 10. CATTLE-Native Steers. $ 4 55 @ $ 5 45 COTTON-Middling. $ 11 % FLOUR-Winter Wheat. 3 75 @ $ 45 WHEAT-No. 2 Red. 84 % @ $ 83 CORN-No. 2. 58 @ $ 84 OATS-CHAGO. $ 12 % PORK-Mess (new) 17 25 @ $ 17 75 ST. LOUIS. 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Not a gun was fired during the night, and no street gatherings were seen. Brig-Gen. McKee is practically in control of the city. The troops will be held here, it is believed, till Thursday night or Friday morning. No time for their return has been used. The Evansville company will be relieved at once. When this company scatters to the homes of its members, some trouble is feared in individual cases, due to the feeling against the troops. The general feeling among business interests and influential citizens is that the soldiers, in firing into the mob, only did what was necessary and their duty. Business is partially suspended, all saloons are closed and business houses have shut down. Five funerals of the victims will be held Thursday. It is believed there will be three other deaths, at least, making the total dead 12 or more. The funerals of the others have not been fixed. The effect of the funerals is dreaded, and another outbreak is feared. Several gangs of negroes are working on the business streets. They are attending strictly to their work, and are not being molested. At sundown, however, all negroes disappear, and are not seen until morning. Negro ministers are making house to house visits, urging this course. There were five arrests Wednesday on grand jury indictments for the rioting Sunday night. Those under arrest are Richard Grosbeck, who was socialist candidate for city clerk; A. P. Cardwell, a furniture merchant; J. T. Zeigler, William Trimble and James Steele. All were released under bond. The coroner, Wednesday, began his investigation of the fatalities resulting from the rioting. No verdict was returned. There were no more deaths Wednesday. The three men believed to be fatally shot are in about the same condition as Tuesday. The police authorities say that while many of those shot by the militia were reputable citizens and no doubt drawn into the crowd from curiosity, two or three of those killed were disturbers and had caused the police trouble before. A revolver found on one of the dead bodies had three empty chambers, the cartridges having been recently exploded. ED DELEHANTY DROWNED. The Famous Baseball Player Fell Through the Draw of the International Bridge. Buffalo, N. Y., July 9.—A close watch is being, kept along the river below the international bridge for the reappearance of the body of a man, now believed to be Ed. Delehanty, the famous baseball player, who fell through the open draw of the bridge last Thursday night. The then unknown man was put off a Pullman car on train No. 6, on the Michigan Central at Bridgeburg. He started to walk across the bridge to Buffalo. Kingston, the night watchman on the bridge, ordered him to return to shore. There were angry words between the two men, but it is not known that blows were exchanged. According to Kingston's story the man supposed to be Delehanty started to run toward the American end of the bridge. The draw had been opened to allow a boat to pass, he says, and the man fell in to the river and was drowned. Rivermen say that the body should come to the surface by Thursday at the latest. Supt. Bennett of the Pullman Car Co. said to-day; "I found in the valais left by the passenger put off No. 6 a season pass to the Washington baseball park, made out in the name of Ed. Delehanty. I found in the suit case a suit of clothes with Delehanty's name on it, also the name of the tailor in Washington who made it. There was a pair of baseball shoes in the satchel. I wrote at once to the tailor in Washington and learned the address of Delehanty's family. I wrote Delehanty's wife on receipt of this information, telling her of the happening and telling her I thought her husband was drowned off the bridge on the night in question. Attained Before Entering Prison. Concordia, Kas, July 9. A. J. Patterson, convicted and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for withholding $5,000 collected from the illicit saloons at Clyde as license payments, while he was county treasurer, was pardoned, Wednesday, by Gov Bailey. This is the first case in the state where a convicted man has been pardoned before entering the penitentiary. Patterson contended that the city received the money illegally and could not hold him accountable for it. He paid the money back with interest after his conviction. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. THE LESSON TEXT. (1 Lesson) 17. And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord to Mizveh; 18. And said unto the children of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you: 19. And ye have this day rejected your God, Who Himself saved you out of all the tribes and anes and of the kingdoms, and ye have said unto Him: Nay, but set a king over us. Now, therefore, present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands. 20. And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the trile of Benjamin was taken. 21. When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken; and when they sought him, he could not be found. 22. Therefore they inquired of the Lord further, if the man should yet come thither. And the Lord answered: Behold, he hash hid himself among the stuff, and he has been hither thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward. 24. And Samuel said to all the people: See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said God the king. 25. Then Samuel told the people the man-of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. 26. And Saul also went home to Glbeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched. 27. But the children of Bellai said: How shall this man save us? And they desplumed him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace. GOLDEN TEXT—The Lord is our King; He will save us—Isa. 33:22. OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION. Saul's meeting with Samuel....1 Sam. 9:1-24. Saul anointed king....1 Sam. 9:25-10:3. Saul a changed man....1 Sam. 10:9-16. Saul made king....1 Sam. 10:17-27. TIME—The eleventh century B. C. The saul is uncertain. PLACE—He is uncertain to be a hill town four miles north of Jerusalem and about two miles south of Ramah, where Samuel lived. Saul's Meeting with Samuel.—The whole story of the selection of Saul to be king of Israel would, on a casual reading, appear to be a series of mere casual happenings, and chance certainly does enter into the episode, but no more, we venture to think, than in the lives we all lead. It is to be carefully borne in mind, however, that chance, while it may come upon us by surprise, is not an accident in the Divine economy, but a part of the plan of Providence. That is to say that in our partial knowledge, or almost total ignorance, there is such a thing as chance, but looked at from the other viewpoint, that of Divine omniscience and omnipotence, what we call chance is precisely and minutely ordered. Now, it chanced that Saul was off on a search for his father's asses, which had wandered from their accustomed haunts. It also claned that his search was in vain. It chanced that by the time Saul concluded it useless to seek longer they were not very far from the town in which Samuel lived, and, further, that Saul's servant remembered that the man of God might direct them. That is the human side. Now, from the Divine side it seems that God told Samuel that he was to meet at a certain specified time a man like Saul, who was to be anointed by Samuel as king of the Jews. Much to Saul's surprise upon meeting the prophet, the latter outdid the former in the deference shown the other. Indeed, Saul was not treated as the stranger that he was, but as the king he was to be. Then, after this unusual and unexpected hospitality, Samuel told the young Benjaminite that he was the chosen of God to be the king of Israel. Saul' Anointed King. — The next day, Samuel had some further conversation with Saul, and then accompanied him a little way on his journey. Walking thus out of the village, Samuel requested Saul to send his servant on before, that they might be alone. This was done, and then oil was taken by the prophet and poured over the head of the future king, and a solemn kiss sealed the ceremony. Saul was then told that the Spirit of the Lord should come upon him, and it at he should be, at least for a time, as one of the prophets. Saul a Changed Man.—It is recorded that no sooner was Saul alone again than "God gave him another heart," and when on his homeward way he met a company of prophets the "Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them." This was an evidence of the new heart, because Saul among the prophets so impressed the people, who evidently were not unfamiliar with his past life, that it became a saying among them: "Is Saul also among the prophets?" Saul Made King.—In due time Samuel called the people together to Mixpeh to formally select a king. Then was publicly given the warning Samuel had been instructed by God to give against rejecting the God who had brought them out of Egypt and had saved them so often when the nation was in danger and putting in His place a king. Reproof is the proof of a friend. No man fails of success who conquers himself. Success is not salvation but salvation is success. The rich need our charity as much as the poor. The supreme things are seen with the soul instead of with the senses. What would make a model for one case might only make a muddle in another. The value of a man's opinions on a subject depends on what it costs him to live up to them—Ram's Horn. Mothers,do you know PITY FOR THE ANGELS. The lady with the enameled teacup sipped and told this story. 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It is well known that if a person were shut up in a room for an extended length of time where no fresh air was allowed to enter death would ensue because the air in the room, breathed over and over, would become charged with poisons given out by the body, and there would soon be no fresh air to feed upon. In the case of a disease germ much the same condition prevails. It must have fresh material to feed upon, as the juices it throws off are a certain poison to itself. Hence, if to the blood of a person containing germs of a disease, a sufficient quantity of the effete material furnished by the germ itself be added, the small pest dies because it has no fresh food, free from its own specific poison, upon which to feed. In the case of many of our most common and virulent diseases the bacillus has been isolated and for their treatment an antitoxin has been secured. Nearly everyone is aware that the antitoxins in general use are obtained from horses, and the methods of securing them are being constantly improved upon. Of course the first thing to be considered is the isolation of the offending microbe from the thousands of different variety which surround it. This presupposes the fact that the wicked one is so well known as to be recognizable; that his portrait hangs in the germ rogues' gallery. After the bacteria are removed from a sufferer, they are more carefully cultivated than most plants, the usual medium being bouillon prepared TESTING ANTI-TOXIN HORSE. from filtered, sterilized water and fresh beef. After standing for a few hours, the bouillon is strained, refiltered and resterilized. For several days, a process of reboiling, sterilizing and filtering goes on in white dust-proof closets, by men dressed in most immaculate white. It is kept in sterilized jars, stopped with sterilized cotton. When this bouillon has become absolutely free from all germs, it is inoculated by having the bacilli dropped in from the point of a needle of glass and platinum. The germs multiply as rapidly as in a human body, for the bouillon is kept in a warm incubator for about 72 hours, when it may be seen to be covered with a ghastly-looking, greenish crust, a toxin which is a hideous mass of the disease to be treated, consumption, diphtheria or whatever has been cultivated. It is then injected into guinea pigs which die and are opened and examined. If it is found that the toxin was pure, it is injected into an antitoxin horse. Before one of these horses is utilized for this purpose, he is tested to ascertain if he be free from all disease, by receiving an injection of mallein, a fluid which will arouse into activity any disease which may happen to lork in his system. If he be healthy, the mallein will not affect him. Being proven healthy, the first injection of toxin, about one-half a thimbleful, or one cubic centimeter, is introduced into his blood from a syringe of glass and silver by a thoroughly sterilized, disinfected, white-clad, clean-shaven physician, in a white enameled stable. For three days, the horse is very ill, eating nothing. His bones are sore. He swells, then slowly recovers. In ten days, he is quite well again, when another injection is given, this time of three cubic centimeters. He becomes ill, but less so than in the first instance. Ten days later, 20 cubic centimeters are administered. The effect of this is hardly perceptible by the end of two months, more than one pint or 500 cubic centimeters are given without producing any ill-effects. This dose would kill a large number of ordinary horses, but our friend has become immune, that is, his system is able to resist any number of live germs introduced, because it contains so much of their own poison, that they have nothing to feed upon and die from an overdose of themselves. Now that this antitoxin quality has developed in the animal, each month eight quarts of blood are drawn from him, while every ten days he still re- seives an injection of 500 centimeters of toxin. Thus his antitoxice power is sept up. He suffers no inconvenience. his health is good, he exercises moderately and eats his sterilized grain with relish. If he goes to pasture for a month or two, his antitoxice power is impaired and he has to begin all over again with his first dose of one cubic centimeter of toxin which renders him ill as at first. After being drawn from the horse, the blood is sealed up and stands for several days, when the serum, or thin portion, is extracted by means of a force pump. This serum is used on guinea pigs and its strength thus ascertained. It is now filtered and purified, sealed in small vials and passes into the hand of physicians in general practice, who introduce it into the circulation of such patients as are suffering from the special disease from whose germ it was prepared. Their systems are INOCULATING GUINEA PIG. thus reenforced by a poison to the germs whose demise rids them of the lisease which was preying upon their tissues. While some antitoxins have been obtained with comparative case, experiments with typhoid germs have proven very unsatisfactory. In 1884 Koch discovered the bacilli of typhoid. They are rod-like and thick with the ends rounded, and sometimes joined in filaments. They possess little hair-like projections called flagella and move very rapidly. They are found in water, milk and meats and gain entrance into the system by various methods. Many experiments have been made to secure an antitoxin in from buillon, but to no great purpose. It has been nearly impossible to obtain the "juice between the cells" of typhoid bacteria without destroying the chemical action of germs themselves. No really satisfactory results had been obtained until, recently, Dr. Allan McFayden, of the Jeanner institute of preventive medicine, one of the leading bacteriologists of Europe, after much research, has discovered a method of manufacturing antitoxin for typhoid which, it is generally believed, will soon be universally adopted. The microscrophical cells of the typhoid bacilli are so small and pliable or elastic that no mechanical agent could destroy them. Freezing does not injure them. It occurred to Dr. McFayden to freeze the cells by means of liquid air until very brittle, then to crush thousands of them together in a mortar. This first and most difficult step has proved a great success. The mass now dead, so far as its power of communicating disease is concerned, is allowed to become warm again, and is still chemically alive as to its qualities from which antitoxin may be prepared. Repeated injections into animals have produced a serum, which, it is believed, will prove efficacious. It is too soon after its discovery for a large number of experiments to have demonstrated its successful use, but results so far obtained are very promising. At present about all one can do for a typhoid patient is the administration of baths, nourishment and stimulants. If the new process be proven FREEZING GERMS IN LIQUID AIR. to produce antitoxin, the disease will soon lose its terrors. Upon the death of his grandson from cholera infantum Rockefeller donated $200,000 to be used toward finding a cure for that disease. Two students discovered and isolated a germ, and Dr. Simon Flexner manufactured therefrom an antitoxin which counteracts it. It will come into use as soon as the exact amount for a dose shall be determined. His success has been the means of elevating Dr. Flexner to the position of director in the $15,000,000 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Prof. Behring, of Vienna, is also conspicuously gaining the attention of the medical fraternity, first because of his discovery of the diphtheria antitoxin, which is yearly saving the lives of thousands, and more recently by his experiments with tuberculosis. The death rate from diphtheria has been reduced to but 4 to 6 per cent. from 80 to 90, by means of antitoxin. Dr. Behring hopes to reduce that of tuberculosis proportionately. WILLARD C. APPLETON. Charming Frecks and Accessories That Are Designed for the Summer Season. The high cinture or girdle is gaining favor from day to day and taking on the daintiest of details as finishings. No summer gown will be quite complete without it, says a fashionable authority. As soon as the warmer weather comes the soft Panama shapes will be worn again and of these some very inexpensive kinds can be procured which are not so smart as the real Panama, but still quite good enough for country wear. Very little is required for the trimming of these hats beyond a soft scarf or oriental silk gauze or louisne silk ribbon, and a girl who is clever with her fingers can easily trim a hat of this kind with perfect success. A charming fancy of which we do not seem to tire is that for the little, short lace coats known as tea or coffee sacks and which are often worn over a blouse. There is no doubt of the utility of such garments, especially for afternoon wear at home. They give a finish to a blouse and are not difficult or costly to obtain. A pair of sleeves put into an exaggerated collar, worn with a becoming sash or waistband, will practically constitute one of these little sacks. Some charming afternoon frocks are made in spotted voile. Very smart was one made in a dull shade of red, with a great silk spot thereon, the bodice finished with a shawl-like collar of Irish crochet lace, held together with red and gray taffeta strappings and tiny tags. This frock was very simple, having only a few very small box plaits on the bodice and down the front of the skirt, finished with a well-boned waistband of red and gray shot satin. The hem of the skirt consisted of three large tucks; it just touched the ground all round, but did not trail anywhere. It seemed to be very frou-frouy at the feet. Pale blue is one of the smartest colors for accessories and for entire costumes. These, however, are for occasions. For all the time there's dark blue, true blue. In voile and etamine it is standard, navy and royal blue being the most favored shades. Some of the smartest linen dresses are also in blue, and blue from the most delicate Delft to the deepest navy. And they are made rather simply, for they "must wash." That is, the plain ones must. When it comes to the coquettish affairs, trimmed with contrasting lace and the like, it's another story. These, however, are for occasions rather than all the time. The white frock is the corner stone and foundation of this season's summer outfit, and if, instead of a white frock, a woman has white frocks, so much the better. There are all sorts and conditions of white gowns, and, save for considerations of laundering, there is no reason why a woman of moderate income should not go in for simple white tub frocks, but they must be frocks that may really be put into the tub each week. The white tub frock that will tub is a profitable investment. It will stand laundering better than any colored material. For the white morning frock, linen is first favorite, and, although this season has seen astonishing elaboration of linen frocks, the tailored frock of white linen has a chic distinction of its own for morning wear and for informal afternoon wear. CARE OF THE CISTERN Simple Precautions Which Will Materially Aid in Preserving Henth. In the greater number of cases, typhoid fever is caused either by the use of impure water or milk. Where the farmer has healthy cows there is no danger from the latter source, but it is surprising how much carelessness there is in regard to drinking water, says the American Tribune. If a cistern is used, it should be thoroughly cleaned every fall and only winter rains allowed to empty into it. Where there is no filter, lower a sack containing about half a bushel of charcoal into the cistern and it is well to test the family drinking water at least once during the season, as water which is at one time pure may for some reason become unfit for use. A simple test of drinking water is to fill a pint bottle three-quarters full. Dissolve half a teaspoonful of pure granulated sugar in the water and cork the sugar. Set it in a warm place for two days. If in that time it becomes cloudy it is unfit for domestic use. Be careful that the bottle is absolutely clean and the sugar pure. Another test is to add five drops of saturated solution of permanganate of potassium to a pint bottle of water. This will turn the water a beautiful rose purple. If there is any considerable amount of organic matter in the water, the color will change in a few hours to a more or less dirty redish brown. It has been announced by the Chicago health department, after careful experiments, that a teaspoonful of lemon juice in a glass of water will destroy the typhoid fever germ. This should not be depended upon, however, to make impure water healthy. It is also stated on good authority that one per cent, of borax in drinking water, will make it perfectly safe and the borax instead of being in itself injurious, will aid the digestion. Fruit Gingerbread. Cream one-half cupful of butter and one-half cupful of sugar, add one cupful of molasses, one cupful of stoned raisins, one-half cupful of water, one level teaspoonful of soda dissolved in the water, one beaten egg, one teaspoonful of ginger, $2 \frac{1}{2}$ cupfuls of flour and a pinch of salt.—Detroit Free Press. 17 thoroughly experienced and competent Colored Undertakers A. RUSSELL ing and UNDERT We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only practically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. FORTS our own conveyances and do all our own Carriages furnished for all occasions. Market St., ST. LOUIS; MO. T. R. L. PICKETT on DRUGS I 2601 LAWTON AVENUE for. Jefferson and Lawton Day and Night SEE For Meat and Provisions CASH MARKETS: 02 MARKET STREET eenth Street. Branch: 320 TONES; KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell 1004 BANKLIN AVENUE, KINLO and 10 South Jefferson A TEMM & SCRIPTION DRUGGI Franklin Ave. We have our own conveyances and do all our own work. 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