St. Louis Palladium

ST.LOUIS PALLADIUM. A. H. H. One of the men who lead "Doc." Bartholdt to congress, making him look like he was the only pebble on the beach. J. H. H. A. Dr. Roberts, pastor of the St. Paul chapel, is much elated over his rally of last month. He should now take his vacation. He has worked hard, and has the entire confidence of his church and the people of St. Louis. Dr. Roberts, pastor of the St. Paul chapel, is much elated over his rally of last month. He should now take his vacation. He has worked hard, and has the entire confidence of his church and the people of St. Louis. 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. 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. 31. HON. C. One of the men who lead "Doc." look like he was the only pebble on A FOURTH OF JULY PARTY. The Fourth of July party given by Master Harold Latour Hutt, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bragg, of Kinloch Park, was enjoyed by the little people who were his guests. After a day spent in dancing and merry-making under the grand oaks on the Heights, the evening was patriotically closed with brillant fireworks fired from the lawn of Bragghurst by Master Harold and his little guests: Girls—Sarah Brown, Ellis Dalton, Laura Rhodes, Bertha Williams, Viola Williams, Clara Williams, Georgia Henson, Maye Henson, Phygenia Hartman, Eile Brent, Ethel Bragg, Etta Baugh, Geneva Bragg, Lulu C. Bragg, Duth Bragg, Boys—Walter Brown, --- Garrett Dalton, Willie Rhodes, Silas Rhodes, Thomas Thornton, Samuel, Jones, Arthur Williams, Moss Woolfolk, Elwood Woolfolk, Ahart Palmer, Robt. Bragg, John Henson, Clarence Henson. A certain brother, acting "boss" during the absence of his father, gave orders that his three sisters, who are now at home, should either get married or leave. We wonder why he doesn't leave first? They live on St. Ferdinand avenue. Mrs. W. P. Smith, of 2632 Randolph street, left last Wednesday, to visit friends in Newton and Great Bend, Kas. From there she will visit friends in Denver, Col., and return home sometime during September. ST.LOUIS,MO.,SATURDAY,JULY 18,1903. MORE BARTHOLDT 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 fimfam a certain element of voters and hangers-on to further his purposes, and thus retain the position gained for him by Mr. Filley and Ziegenhein. Bartholdt isn't a smart man, and no one ever regarded his as such, but he belongs to 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 chienman of Herr Doctor said that it would be an impolicy, 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 henchman, 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 that notorious Negro Bradbury, a man who, in 1892 and '94, 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). 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. 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. Hon. C. F. Adams, assistant register of the United States treasury, spent a few days in St. Louis visiting friends. Mr. Adams holds several important offices in the Afro-American Council. He thinks that the council is doing a great work for the race throughout the country. The Censor and "Slippery" Dyer. Last week's issue of the Censor contained a rather lengthy discussion on Postmaster Baumhoff. The entire article, if boiled down, wouldn't amount to a row of pins. It is simply a war of malicious and slandering words, equivalent to the ravings of one of the poor unfortunates incarcerated out on Arsenal street. Most fanatics are possessed of one predominant mania—this escaped lunatic, Dyer, however, has two—one, the Negro; the other, Postmaster Baumhoff. In the article mentioned, Dyer remarks that Postmaster Baumhoff has been known to burst into a song through the columns of the Palladium, that remarkable journal of Afro-American culture, by Brig-Gen. John W. Wheeler. We would have the honorable gentleman know that neither Mr. Baumhoff nor any other white man has ever written one line for the Palladium. It is not necessary for us to go to the postmaster for information. We do not, like many "wise guys," await developments, and then complacently remark: "I told you so." The Palladium strikes while the iron is hot. It exposes crime and villain during its supremacy. "Brig-Gen. John W. Wheeler" does not, like "Slippery Dyer," stand in a pond of filth, and cast forth mud to besmear men and women, with a view to obtaining "hush money." "Slippery Dyer" forgot about the $1,500 hush money he obtained, and the revolver held under his nose when he missed his guess as to the person he was fooling with. The Censor always has been edited with a view toward slandering some innocent person, and compelling that person to "pony up" to keep an article from being published. The Palladium stands alone. It asks no odds of anyone. Whenever an article becomes public through its columns, no one doubts its authenticity. In 1897-98 Dyer was slipping and sliding between two wings of the republican party. A position in some department under Ziegenhein offered itself, into which Dyer slid. Later, when Dyer was discharged, he began a vile attack on his former employer. Such has been his course in all his dealings. Just like a snake who, seeing the eye of its charmer turned away, strikes its poisonous fangs into the bosom on which it rested, "Slippery Dyer" awaits the first opportunity to turn against friends and benefactors. He will find the title "Brigadier-General" well earned. Lincoln Institute Notes. President B. F. Allen of Lincoln institute, on his return from Boston, where he attended the recent meeting of the National Educational association, was greeted with an informal reception very delightfully planned by the faculty and the teachers attending the summer school. President Allen, in his usual happy vein, gave a very entertaining account of his trip, electrifying the audience as he transported his hearers from scene to scene in historic Boston, Cambridge, Concord, Salem and vicinity, while each one present in turn thought "It is good to be here." The summer school connected with Lincoln institute is proving a great success. A large number of teachers and others interested in educational growth have been enrolled from all parts of Missouri and from adjoining states, and each one in attendance, in spite of the excessive heat, is working away with ready enthusiasm and a good will that is truly commendable. Lincoln Institute "Heights," with its magnificent shade trees, its velvety lawns, studded with beautiful flowers, its swings and fine baths, forms an ideal summer resort, and with such phenomenal growth in this, its second session, with such loyal patrons, eager and anxious to tell the good news abroad, of a fountain of knowledge to be had almost for the asking, we are justified in predicting a brilliant future for Lincoln institute summer school; and we heartily congratulate President Allen upon his success in this line, as well as in the many other departments of his work for this institution, and for the upbuilding of the race. Those Loafers. Mothers better thank the Palladium man for calling the attention of the city authorities to the loafers hanging around street corners guying the girls. A month ago, loafers could be seen on almost every corner; now they fly upon the approach of the police like mice before a cat. The time has come when notifying the authorities has become an absolute necessity. We want to keep our girls clear of pitfalls. The Palladium man cares nothing for the likes or W. H. The second man who aided Hon. C. I. Filly in clothing "Doc" Bartholdt in order to make him presentable to the public. dislikes of a few tom-boy girls, who are sowing the seed of contempt toward him. Our interest centers in the race, which is of far greater importance than a few insignificant individuals. U. S. POSTOFFICE. The Peoples' Drug Store, located at Jefferson avenue and Morgan street, has recently secured a sub-postoffice station for the benefit of our people and U. B. F. and S. M. T. Notes. The Texas delegation, 100 strong, will arrive at Union station at 7 a.m., July 18, headed by F. F. Gross. Prof. W. A. Gaines, our present national grand master, came from Kentucky with a delegation of U. B. F. and S. M. T. members. We welcome them all to Missouri. Mr. Morgan T. White, of Texas, our old friend, will be on hand. Mr. White is dyed in the colors of the U. B. F. A better man never lived. Past Grand Master W. H. Gibson, of Kentucky, will be present. He is loved and respected by all. Prof. Willis N. Brent will assist in the work during the session of the grand lodge in St. Louis. He is the most dignified and the best executive officer ever connected with any order. [Image of a man with a white beard and a dark suit, wearing a bow tie. The background is a plain, light color.] CAPT. C. H. TANDY. Of this city, Treasurer of the National Grand Lodge of U. B. F. and S. M. T. 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. WANTED-An enterprising, ambitious, non-sectarian Colored man, who can invest about $300 in St. Louis. Address, C. D. House, 2309 Market. Mrs. Robert Thompson, of 2231 St. Charles street, left last Thursday, to visit her mother in Mobile, Ala. She will be gone a month. $2.00 Per Annum, Single Copy 5 cents. N. HENRY ZIEGENHEIN, C. I. Filly in clothing "Doc" Bartholdt in to the public. U. S. POSTOFFICE. The Peoples' 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. 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, QUINCY REGALIA COMPANY, Per WILLIS N. BRENT, Afro-American Dept. Stop that cough. Go and get Pickett's Cough Syrup. 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. Go to 2132 Franklin avenue to get household goods and inquire for Mr. Louis Huggins. Yes, Jim Ray has opened and is doing a good business at 2135 Market street. Headquarters for the National Grand Lodge are located at 2249 Chestnut street. 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. I St. Louis Palladium. J. W. WHEELER. Editor and Manager. ST. LOUIS. 1. MISSOURL. IF WILLIE WERE A KING. I eight I'd be a king awhile—I bet you then they'd be A lot of things made different that don't seem right to me. I'd fix it so a boy could play till ten o'clock at night take an idea from Where I could go and hook them out whenever I would wish. And there a boy in Sunday school who has a pa that's bad. And drinks and gets in jail and makes his mother awful sad— mother He never has new elo's to wear, and one when he cried time past in Sunday school, when I was set in by his side. **act** The other ast him what was wrong, and so he said his pa. The night before, had pounded him and nearly killed his ma. If I was king I'd go and find the boys that used that way. on a berth I make them all so glad I bet they'd never cry no more With places on their arms and legs all black and blue and sore. And there's a little girl I know that has no pa at all, And she can't walk, because one time her brother let 'er fall— I buy a pony cart for her, all soft and inside And she her just as glad as though her he had never died. And I'd put up a castle here, so mad'd not feel so bad Because our house was not as grand as what the Bronsons had. I wright that I could be a king—there's lots I'd like to do; Aunt Liza's teeth don't seem to fit-I'd sit her some that's new; but her soler that's new, I'd fix it so a boy could go wherever he would please. And not get whipped because he tore his trousers climbin' trees, But oh the best of all the things I'd do would be to let Beys always cat their pie before the other things were et. -S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald. The KIDNAPPED MILLIONAIRES A Tale of Wall Street and the Tropics By FREDERICK U. ADAMS Copyright, 1901, by Lothrop Publishing Company. All rights reserved. CHAPTER XII.-CONTINUED. "I supposed you knew them. I will introduce you to-morrow. There is John M. Rockwell, whom you know; andrus Carmody, a big iron and steel man; Palmer J. Morton, a railroad magnate and financier; R. J. Kent, a big Wall street operator; Hiram Haven, a sugar manufacturer, and Simon Pence, who is also a financier—you want to keep your eye on Pence—he is likely to own your drawings if you don't watch him. Don't lend him any money. Then there is Sidney Hammond, a personal friend of mine," concluded Mr. Hester. Mr. Vincent's eyes bulged out as these names tripped from the tongue of Mr. Hestor. He was speechless. "You don't wish to quit a good game like this, don't you know," said Hestor. "Bob, Mr. Vincent has not dined. Serve him the best there is on the boat. You will excuse me; I am going to confer with Capt. Waters." In the meantime six famous men were in conclave in Mr. Morton's stateroom. With the exception of Mr. Pence, they had entirely regained their composure and proceeded to business as calmly as if they were within sight and sound of Broadway cable cars, instead of being captives on the high seas. "Gentlemen," said Mr. Morton, as all were seated, "let us speak this matter over and see what can be done. Have you any plan to suggest, Mr. Kent?" "Not a plan," responded Mr. Kent. "We are in for it. This fellow Hester has his plans all laid, and I am going to watch him carry them out. There is nothing we can do." "I do not agree with you," said Mr. Morton, leaning back in his chair. "It will be a remarkable thing if six men of our financial standing and alleged ability cannot find a way to circumvent the plans of a knave or a fool. This looks to me like a money question." "Money?" exclaimed Mr. Kent. "Well, how much money have we?" He reached down into his clothes and produced 38 cents in change, and extracted from his fob pocket a $5 and a $2 bill. "I have $7.38 to contribute to this campaign fund." "That has nothing to do with the matter, Kent," said Mr. Morton with some impatience. "The fact is well known that we can command an almost unlimited amount of money." "You can't command it out on the Atlantic ocean," drawled Mr. Kent. "Let's see just how much we six plutocrats have in actual money. I have $7.38 and it is." He placed it on the table. "How much have you got, Haven?" Mr. Hiram Haven had been making an inventory and produced $31.62. "You are affluent," she added. Mr "You are affluent." observed Mr. Kent. "And you, Mr. Corso?" and you, Mr. Carmody? "I find on examination that I have $12 and some small change; $12.25, to be exact," said Mr. Carmody, Mr. Palmer J. Morton, finding that Mr. Kent was determined to pursue this. cash investigation, announced that he had $428.85. Mr. Rockwell was less fortunate in his immediate possessions. He scheduled $78.15. "Well, dig up, Brother Pence," said Mr. Kent. "What is your contribution to the war chest?" "I have 11 cents and a Brooklyn bridge ticket," said Mr. Pence. "You see I never carry anything but carfare. It is so easy to lose money out of your pockets, and then you may be held up and robbed. I lost a silver dollar through a hole in my pocket once, and have never carried any large sums of money since." "So I have heard," said Mr. Kent. "Well, pass over your 11 cents. You know the story of the widow's mite. Everything counts. Let's see; we have a total of $558.20. That is a good average for six millionaires. I seldom carry more than $100. Now, what can we do with it?" we looked at Mr. Morton. "I do not suppose we can do anything with that amount of money," responded the financier. "That was not my idea. Still it is a good plan to know just how much we have on hand. I look at the matter in this light: If this man Hestor is not absolutely crazy he has some definite object in view. It may take the form of a demand for a ransom. The question for us to decide is, first, shall we pay a ransom; and second, if so, how much? Personally I regard this in a purely business way. My time is worth money. We have been trapped and our time captured with our persons. I should be willing to make a reasonable compromise. Since I am the one most to blame for this affair, I shall insist on standing half of any fund which may be agged upon." "I have often thought of what I would do if kidnapped and held for ransom," said Mr. Carmody in a reflective way. "I have always thought that I would die rather than pay a dollar, but now that the fact confronts me I believe that the thoughts of those at home outweigh my scruples. I think I should be ready to contribute to any such fund." "Who are you going to give it to?" asked Mr. Kent. "Why, to Mr. Hestor," answered Mr. Morton. "It will do no good," replied Mr. Kent, with the decision of a man who has unalterably made up his mind. "He is as crazy as a woman's watch. He will laugh at you. Mark my words; it will do no good to talk to him. Your only hope is in that Capt. Waters. You might try that $558.20 on him, but I don't believe he would touch it or a hundred times that amount. I tell you we are in for an ocean voyage with a land-up on some island." Mr. Pence groaned and abstracted his eleven cents from the pile which yet remained on the table. "I am not so sure about Hestor," said Mr. Morton. "He loves money as well as the best of them. Hestor acts crazy but it may be assumed. If we offered him say $2,000,000 he might regain his sense. What do you think about it, Mr. Rockwell?" "I am not very hopeful," said Mr. Rockwell. "In the event we decide on such a course I would suggest a larger amount. I will cheerfully pledge $2,000,000 to a $5,000,000 fund." "That is more than your share," said Mr. Morton. "I think your suggestion as to a larger amount is a wise one and I will pledge half of it." This was objected to by all except by Mr. Pence, who had been busy with a pencil and announced that he HE HAD DIFFICULT NAVIGATION BETWEEN THE BUFFET AND HIS STATEROOM. could not see his way clear to contributing more than $25,000 to any fund. He explained that money was at so low a rate of interest that it was a drug on the market. "Why, I have $4,000,000 right now in the bank which is not drawing a cent of interest!" he exclaimed. "It is an awful loss to me! I really cannot spend more than $25,000 for this purpose. And to think that there is no return for it; absolutely no return!" "You would return," said Mr. Kent. It was finally agreed to pledge a sum of $5,000,000 of which Mr. Morton insisted on paying $1,500,000; Mr. Rockwell pledged $1,250,000; Mr. Carmody, $750,000; Mr. Kent, $750,000; Mr. Haven, $725,000, and Mr. Pence, $25,000. Mr. Morton was delegated to conduct the negotiations with Hestor, and if he failed he was also to confer with Capt. Waters as a last resort. After a general discussion the party separated, and at midnight quiet reigned on board the good steam yacht the "Shark." She was then plowing the Atlantic at a 20-knot rate, at a point about 100 miles southwest of Montauk light. At the suggestion of Mr. Haven it had been agreed that in the future no open resentment should be displayed towards Hestor. "It is better policy to dissemble." argued. Mr. Hayen. "We will gain nothing by affronting him. Moreover, if we appear resigned and unconcerned, we may throw him off his guard. Personally I would like to break his neck, but it will be better to appear cordial, even if we do not feel that way." Sidney Hammond talked with estor until late in the night, but was unable to influence him in any way. He decided to abandon such efforts for the time, and to await developments. Mr. Vincent wandered about the boat, kept clear of Capt. Waters, and made several ineffectual attempts to enter into conversation with the crew. He finally repaired to "Social Hall," where he kept Bob busy until midnight. It may have been the swell of the sea, but he had difficult navigation between the buffet and his stateroom, and did not awaken the following morning until the sun was high in the heavens. It was another beautiful day. The sun was to the starboard of the yacht. This showed a course about northeast. It was evident that the boat was somewhere off the New England coast, and not headed for any South Sea islands. Was it possible that Hestor had repented of his rash idea and was about to return? Mr. Kent was the first to appear in "Social Hall." Mr. Haven soon joined him, and in a short time all of the party were on deck. "Good morning, gentlemen." Mr. Hestor stood before them in the full cruising uniform of a New York yachtsman. He looked uncommonly well in it. He bowed pleasantly, stepped up to Mr. Morton, extended his arm and shook hands cordially with that gentleman. He thus greeted the others and seemed delighted at his reception. "I trust that you enjoyed a good night's rest," he said. All had done so except Mr. Pence, who said he did not like the water. "Oh, you will soon get used to it," responded Hestor. "Ah, here comes Sidney. Good morning. Sidney. Beautiful day, is it not? By the way, where is Mr. Vincent? Send one of the boys and call him. You have not been formally introduced to Mr. Vincent, have you? I will present him at the breakfast table. I will admit that his advent was a bit informal, don't you know, but he is here and we must treat him as one of us." Under the spur of Hestor's good nature, and the understanding arrived at between the captives the preceding evening, conversation became general and spirited. Sidney looked on in quiet amazement. The stirring events of the day before had seemingly been forgotten, and the entire party acted as if bent on heartily enjoying a much-anticipated pleasure cruise. Mr. Rockwell quietly explained to Sidney what had been agreed upon. "After breakfast," said Mr. Hestor, "such of you gentlemen as choose can change your business suits for yachting costumes. You will find them much more comfortable for lounging around. Mr. Pence will look like an old sea dog in the clothes I have selected for him. I will have them placed in your rooms, and if they do not fit I have assorted sizes from which to make a selection. You will find that I have anticipated everything. Ah, here comes Mr. Vincent! Good morning, sir! Glad to see you aboard the yacht. Shake hands with Mr. Rockwell. Mr. Rockwell-Mr. Vincent—L. Sylvester Vincent, of Chicago. Mr. Carmody—Mr. Vincent." Hestor introduced the uninvited guest to all present. Breakfast followed, and it was quite a merry party. All were hungry. Mr. Hestor was in boisterous good humor, and kept up a running fire of talk and questions. He persuaded Mr. Carmody to promise an early interview with L. Sylvester Vincent, and that Chicago promoter saw visions of wealth in the aromatic vapors which arose from his coffee. When breakfast was ended, Mr. Hestor led Mr. Carmody to the main saloon, and with much pride displayed the books of the well-selected library. CHAPTER XIII. AN OCEAN CRUISE. Mr. Kent seated himself with Mr. Haven and Mr. Pence in comfortable chairs on the starboard side of the yacht. A few fleecy clouds drifted overhead. The sun was warm enough to temper the air from the ocean. There was just enough breeze to ripple the swells. "This is not at all bad," said Mr. Kent, as he stretched out his legs and lazily smoked a cigar. "I have been thinking for years of taking a vacation, and now I am taking it." He looked at his watch. "It's five minutes of ten," he said, looking at Mr. Haven. "I wonder if they have missed us yet. There will be some fun on the Stock Exchange when the news comes out." "If I had sold sugar yesterday as you did," said Mr. Haven, with some acridity, "I might look at this matter in the calm and philosophical way in which you do. You know you sold sugar yesterday, Kent." "I generally know what I sell and when I sell it," said the non-committal Mr. Kent. "I would like to have a lot of it sold right now. Six abducted millionaires is not a strong bull argument." "Just think of where money on call loans will go to." sighed Mr. Pence. "I wish I had remained at home. Oh, why did I make this fool vyage?" "You certainly are in bad luck, Brother Pence," said the sympathetic Mr. Kent. "They could use that four millions of yours to-day before the session is closed. I suppose money will go to 100 or 200 per cent. The boys will fight to get it." Early in the forenoon Mr. Morton found Hestor and asked for a private conversation in his stateroom. The request was readily granted. "Mr. Hestor," said the big financier, after a rather awkward pause, "you must be aware that your guests are men whose time is very valuable, and whose interests will be imperiled by their continued absence. You know that we wish to return. Thus far you have refused to comply with our request. Is there no way in which we can compromise the matter?" "I know of none which will not disarrange my plans," said Hestor. "You are all having a good time. What more can I do for you?" "I will come to the point at once," said Mr. Morton. "I am authorized by the gentlemen on this boat to offer you $5,000,000 for our immediate return to New York harbor." "I could not think of it," said Hester promptly, as if declining an ordinary business proposition. "I have more money now than I know what to do with. That is why I went into newspaper reporting. No money could tempt me, Mr. Morton. Let us drop the subject and go on deck. It is too fine a day to remain below." Mr. Morton realized that he had failed, and that there was absolutely no hope in that direction. He said nothing to his associates of his lack of success, but waited for a chance to speak to Capt. Waters. It was late in the afternoon before he had an opportunity to make any proposition to that official. Hestor was on the upper deck. Capt. Waters entered the saloon, which at that moment was occupied only by Mr. Morton and Mr. Rockwell. As the captain entered the room, the latter, at a signal from Mr. Morton, discreetly retired. Capt. Waters stood for a moment at the center table and idly turned over the leaves of a magazine. Mr. Morton advanced to the table. "We are favored with beautiful weather, Capt. Waters," said Mr. Morton. "Good cruising weather," responded the captain as he turned and started for the companion way, Mr. Morton placed himself squarely in front of him. "Capt. Waters, I wish to have a few words with you in private." "Not with me, sir," said Capt. Waters. He stopped for an instant with one foot on the stair. He looked Mr. Morton full in the eyes, "I talk in private only with Mr. Hestor," he said. Mr. Morton laid his hand on the officer's arm. He was not accustomed to have his requests refused or his offers repulsed. For a moment he seemed to study the stern face of the official. "Capt. Waters," he said, in a low distinct voice, "do you wish to make a million dollars?" The heavy jaws came together with a snap which was more elequent in its decision than any studied refusal. He disengaged his arm and strode up the companion way. "Keep her off a point," he said to the wheelsman. [To Be Continued.] AN ANTI-CLIMAX. Survivor of the Revolution Embargoed the Orator by His Statement. A certain Pennsylvania town in the early fifties made much of its celebrations of the Fourth of July. For years there had been some veterans of the revolution who had had positions of honor in the procession and on the platform, says the Youths Companion. One by one they had dropped away until not a man was left to fill the accustomed place. It was suggested, however, that there was one old soldier living on a remote hill-farm, and he was invited and secured for the vacant post. The orator had reached his loftiest height of eloquence when he referred to this war-scarred veteran. "We have with us," he said, "a man who deserves to share in an especial way the glory of our celebration. He is far advanced in years. His voice is weak and his bodily powers are feeble. We shall ask him for no extended address; but as an inspiration to our young men and a reminder to us older ones, I shall ask him if he will rise that we may all gaze upon him for a moment, and if he will tell us in what brigade and under what commander he served the country whose natal day we celebrate. The old man toterted to his feet and exclaimed in broken English: "I fight mit Burgoyne!" Many of the Hessians who came over to serve under Burgoyne were never returned to their native land, but were settled in Pennsylvania and Maryland. In the passage of years their history was forgotten, and this especial survivor was destined to furnish an anti-climax to a Fourth of July oration: Two Priests and Matrimony. Archbishop Ryan, visiting a small parish in a mining district for the purpose of administering confirmation, asked one nervous little girl what matrimony was, and she answered that it was "a state of terrible torment which those who enter it are compelled to undergo for a time to prepare them for a brighter and better world." "No, no," demonstrated the pastor; "that isn't matrimony; that's the definition of purgatory." "Leave her alone," said the archbishop; "maybe she's right. What do you or I know about it?" <Cleveland Leader> RELIGIOUS MATTERS THE SCUL'S QUEST Lone wanderer on earth is man, He seeks all things, he needs but one; As brain needs blood, as eye needs light, As wing of bird needs air for flight, So man needs Truth. The truth is somewhere in the world To meet man's need, his soul to feed; If light for eye, and sound for ear, For thirsty lips the water clear, Then Truth for man. Hath God remembered bird and beast, In ambient air, the forest glen, Supplying all their needs, and then The lonely wanderer forgot% It cannot be. Somewhere, somehow the Father's voice is speaking to the sons of men In Word of Truth the soul may ken. Somehow, somewhere the two shall meet, ki bird and mate. Hark! hark—the sound. "I am the Way, I am the Truth, I am the Life, Rest for the weary in the strife, Bread of the soul, its Guide and Stay," The Christ of God. Charles C. Earle, in Boston Watchman. HEREDITY Christian Ancestry a Thing for Which to Be Thankful - The Invidunt's Responsibility. In the judgment day no man can hide behind his grandfather. An evil heredity at the worst is tendency, it is not determination—unless the man is born outside those limits of free will which alone entitle him to be called a man. We owe much to those who have preceded us, but we can never claim from them either an excuse for our misdeeds, an assurance of immunity from the results of sin, or such a finished character as shall procure us happiness and honor, or the commendation of God. The tendency of progress, says the Boston Congregationalist, is to conserve good and shake off evil. If we could weigh and measure what we have received, we should find ourselves unexpectedly and hugely in the debt of those through whom we have derived our life. Their struggles, endurance and self-denials have made us what we are. Men sometimes speak of heredity as if it were a dark and shadowing cloud—the truth is, rather, that it is the dawn which has made possible our sunlit day. Any man may well give thanks for a Christian ancestry. It is one of the best gifts of God. It cannot make a man a Christian, but it brought the blessing of the presence of God about his infancy. One may go out of a godly home to evil; but he is not likely to go so far away as others. The ranks of the worst are recruited now and then from the homes of the best, but in vastly less proportion than men sometimes think. The restraint of the home training has formed the mind, if not controlled the spirit, the ways of the Christian life are home-like ways, the Word of God is familiar to the thought. Even the prodigal remembers the peace of home. Such a gift as the experience of a Christian childhood it is at once a privilege and duty to pass down to our own children. When the child of a Christian home becomes a home maker, the spirit of the new life should not be less Christian than that of the old. There may not be the same observances, but their equivalent in power to testify for Christ should be employed. Every Christian home stands at the end of long and costly development and attainment. When the evolution ceases, degeneration at once puts in its claim. Christ takes us where we are. If we inherit good, he asks for service at the level of our good. If we are born with evil tendencies, a large part of our work will be in the overcoming for which he gives us strength. We are never helpless. The powers of the universe are really on our side calling us to be of good courage, to take our place and do our part. Our mere existence is a pledge of an ancestral victory, not in anywise complete, but offering hope in our own conflict. In so far as we recognize our evil tendencies, we know how and what to fight. And in our battle we are fitting ourselves to be factors in the great world victory of Christ. GEMS OF THOUGHT. The path from neglect and delay leads straight to impatience, doubt and unfaith.—William J. Tucker. All my happiness I owe to the central effort that my father and mother made to make home the happiest place on earth.—Edward Everett Hale. The element of fear has a permanent place in the religious life of man. Only it is not fear of any external disaster, but dread of moral failure and spiritual ruin.—Willard B. Thorp. It is great folly to heap up much wealth for our children and not to take care concerning the children for whom we get it. It is as if a man should take more care about his shoe than about his foot.—Jeremy Taylor. In love cover all things, hope in all things and endure all things, . . . not some, not many things only, not most, but absolutely all things. . . Call nothing intolerable; never say of anything: "It is fist to be borne." Love is proof against all. Love triumphs over all—John Wesley. God permits temptation because it does for us what the storms do for the oaks—it roots us; and what the fire does for the painting on porcelain—it makes us permanent. You never know that you have a grip on Christ or that He has a grip on you so well as when the devil is using all his force to attract you from Him; then you feel the pull of Christ's right hand.—F. B. Meyer. FAITHFULNESS. One of the Highest Traits of Character-Honest Convictions Are Essential. We recognize faithfulness as one of the highest trials of character. Without, one cannot command the confidence of others, he cannot rise into nobleness, or accomplish anything permanently good in life. We may differ widely from another, says the United Presbyterian, but so long as we know him to be faithful we trust him. To be faithful one must first be honest to his own convictions. He must have convictions of truth and duty, for without positive convictions life is aimless and weak, such convictions must be honestly held and as honestly expressed. Suppressed convictions mean an untrue outward life, a false and unworthy course. Faithfulness is far removed from rudeness and arrogance in the expression of convictions. It is true to courtesy, it respects the manhood and independence of others, its tone is one of deference to others, but of independence and of assured confidence in the right. It is not birotry; it is faith. In the formation of convictions one must be faithful to humanity and to God. Convictions should rest on the underlying principles of right to man and obligation to God. Regard for personal interests, or for the immediate results, is violence to righteousness. The principal element in faithfulness is the consideration of what is right—right in the sight of God and good in its ultimate results to men. Personal elements do not form a distinct element, but are held subject to the higher interests of right. We cannot think of Jesus as weighing probabilities, as estimating the consequences of his words as to himself, before He would speak. We cannot think of Him as holding back any word, or turning His steps from any path, because of possible danger or suffering. Nor can we think of Him as speaking with rude dogmatism, or ruthlessly trampling upon the honest convictions of others. Hence a faithful man is a true man; he is a man like Christ, whose aim was to do his Father's will. Such a man is of inestimable value to the world. He stands as a breakwater in a swelling flood of evil. He stands as a mountain rock in the storm. At the head of the nation he directs its affairs in righteousness. On the bench he dispenses justice. In the management of affairs entrusted to him he is prudent and has regard for all interests involved. In the church he stands with Christ; he holds the word of God in his hand and the forces of evil cannot move him. His words and example give moral strength to others, so that he who at first stood alone finds himself supported by many others who had been timid, but with a leader are brave. The great demand of this day is faithful men; men with convictions of right and true to them. Kindly men, courteous men, respectful of others and their convictions, but true to their own and following duty as they see the right. Who so is thus faithful to God as revealed in Himself will have a place in the Holy Hill and dwell with the Almighty. THE OLD-TIME RELIGION Is as True To-Day as It Was Two Thousand Years Ago, and Needs No Revising. Even the thoughtful bystander must have been impressed by a meeting recently held in the Auditorium in Chicago, but to him who takes personal interest in the preaching of a simple Gospel as it is given in the Christian Bible, how significant, how hopeful and encouraging that vast gathering which greeted the Rev. Dr. Torrey as the world greets its notable militant conquerors. There was nothing unusual, nothing spectacular, nothing sensational about what Dr. Torrey told the 6,000 earnest men and women who hailed him as the rightful heir to the mantle of Dwight L. Moody. He expounded the simple truths of the Bible, showed how fully they are suited to the needs of all mankind. He preached the plain and satisfying religion of their fathers and mothers. And they responded as though Pentecostal fire had touched them. The old-time religion that Dr. Torrey preaches is the religion of St. Paul and the other apostles, of St. Augustine, Melanchthon, Luther, Knox, Whitefield, Wesley. It was the religion of the evangelists, of the martyrs. Above all it was and is the religion of the Carpenter of Nazareth. It does not need revising. It is as true to-day as it was 2,000 years ago. And it is needed to-day as much as it ever was to help humanity in right living; to guide us toward fair dealing with one another; to advance a common brotherhood; to teach patience, charity; to quell strife; to counsel respect for law and order—in short, to help us to deal fairly and rightly with the many perplexing problems which confront us.—Chicago Evening Post. Spiritual Living. Spiritual living involves a careful and painstaking obedience to all that is right in dealings with men, but goes further and recognizes the existence of the living Christ, and the reality of another and superior life, into which all believers shall pass at death. As this spiritual life is obtained through Christ, it is logical that all that the Christian represents in the way of station, talents, or property should come under the control of the law of Christ.—Rev. A. S. Gregg. Praying for Others. I have been helped by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them, I have gotten something for myself.—Samuel Rutherford. St. Louis Palladium. St. Louis Palladium. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Entered at the postoffice at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter. J. W. WHEELER, Manager and Proprietor. JOHN W. WHEELER, JR., General Collector and Solicitor. MISS BEATRICE ROSS, Secetary. 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 fine subscribers than any 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. 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. 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. Antioch Church. Rev. G. L. Jordan, general missionary of Louisville, Ky., preached a fine sermon, Sunday evening, at Antioch church. The B. Y. P. U. will have their annual rally and sermon Sunday, July 19, 1903, at 3 p.m. Mr. M. T. Bailey, of U. O. T. R., master of ceremonies. Invocation by James O. Edwards. Sermon by O. Humphrey. All B. Y. P. U.'s are invited to attend. J. O. Edwards, president; Anna B. Thomas, secretary. Missionary meeting Sunday, July 19 at 12:30. All members are expected to be present. Do not forget that Sunday, July 26, is rally day at Antioch church. Remember charity begins at home. Just a hint to the wise; so take heed. Rev. Fred McKinney attended service at Central Baptist church last Sunday morning. A TROLLEY PARTY A grand trolley party will be given in honor of the ladies of the Noonday Social club, by their husbands and gentlemen friends, in the near future. See next week's issue. Mrs. Brown, the mother of Miss M. A. Brown, of 3224 Lawton avenue, is very ill. Mrs. M. A. Lawrence, who has been much indisposed for a week or more, is able to be out again. The Harper Married Ladies' club had its annual outing at Webster Groves, last Wednesday, July 15. A very pleasant time was enjoyed by all. Mrs. M. A. Lawrence, one of the invited guests, could not attend on account of illness. The Ladies' Noonday Social club elected the following officers at their last meeting: President, Mrs. M. A. Lawrence; first vice-president, Miss Anna B. Thomas; second vice-president, Mrs. Mattie Shelby; secretary, Mrs. Eva G. Bolden; assistant secretary, Miss Ella Williams; Chaplain, Mrs. Alice James; treasurer, Mrs. Annie Tillman; reception committee, Miss M. A. Brown, Mrs. S. Gibbs, Mrs. L. McLain, Mrs. A. Williams, Mrs. B. Robinson, Miss Mattie Williams. Mrs. Belle Rodgers, of South St. Louis, is being entertained at the home of her father, Rev. Lewis Lane, of 3944 St. Ferdinand. Rev. Lane is ill at present. Mr. King Cannon is on the sick list. Mrs. H. H. Thompson, of 2639 Lawton avenue, left with her sister, last Wednesday, for Tennessee. She will remain until September. Sweet Scented. Headquarters of First President of the Colored Democratic-League of the State of Missouri: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE W. A. Wilkinson.....Twelfth District Ornstein.....Twelfth District James L. Dickson.....Tenth District Geco Funtain.....Committee-at-Large W. Herbert Fields.....E. V.-P. St. Louis Mo. Thos. Horrell, 2d V.-P. Jefferson City, Mo. E. M. Cregler, 2d V.-P. Mexico, Mo. Jas. M. Vena, St. Louis City, M. Cregler, St. Louis City. 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. [Name] First Baptist Church Notes. The B. Y. P. U. of the First Baptist church met as usual on last Sunday, at 5:45 p. m. The exercises were conducted by Mrs. Annie Davis. The Biblical discussion and literary programme were grand. Rev. N. H. Bains preached at 11 a.m. for the First Baptist church, and Rev. A. B. Johnson preached at 7:30 p.m. There was quite a large crowd present during the evening services. The members of the First Baptist church are forming themselves into clubs, with Capt. Wm. H. Butler at the head, for the purpose of giving lawn parties, festivals, socials and trolley parties, etc., to raise money to pay off the principal debt hanging over the church. It is hoped that the public will contribute liberally to this worthy cause. The Pleasant Workers' club of the First Baptist church gave their first lawn party and entertainment at Sexton's garden, as advertised last Monday night. It was a grand success. The Pleasant Workers' club of the First Baptist church will give one of the finest trolley parties of the season on the night of July 27, to Creve Coeur lake, in the interest of the church. They will provide accommodations for several hundred people. They will have refreshments of various kinds, also good music; therefore the public is cordially invited. The fare is only 35 cents; couples, 70 cents round trip. Madame Mattie A. Gilree, president; Miss Anna B. Thomas, secretary. Prof. J. Arthur Freeman has organized a Congregational singing society at the First Baptist church, in connection with the regular choir, for the purpose of teaching the whole congregation of said church how to sing correctly by note. The other clubs of the First Baptist church are doing very nicely. We Would Like to See Fewer picnics and excursions among our people. Fewer grafters dressed as lords. Fewer jail-birds and convicts moving in our best societies. Fewer men who have been run out of other states, posing as sanctimonious hypocrites Fewer men making $6 a week, telling the girls they are receiving a salary of $1,600. Remodeled. Dr. S. B. Bell has remodeled his barber shop in the True Reformers' hall. It is now a neat shop, fitted up in the latest style. He has four chairs and neat barbers. Give him a call. Gentle Ruralist Pays to See Logan Statue Flop. Texas Cattleman, on His First Visit to Chicago, Learns Something New Although He Had Heard of Bunko Men. A companion piece to the Chicago confidence men's trilogy—the tunnel cave-in, the lake front explosion and the turning of the Masonic Temple—was explained to Mayor Harrison the other day when William Hegen, a cattleman from Fort Worth, Tex., complained that he had paid $2 to a man to show him the Logan statue in the act of throwing a somersault. The cattleman arrived in Chicago on a stock train one night and secured lodging in a cheap hotel, where he made the acquaintance of an affable gentleman who offered to show him the sights. "He told me about the statue on the lake front that had machinery that made it throw a back flipflop," Hegen said in making his complaint, "and he asked me to go out to see it do the trick. He said it did the somersault at noon sharp and that the clock in the Illinois Central station tower was regulated by the statue. "We went out about town in the morning and I spent much money on drinks. About 10 o'clock we went to look at the Logan monument. The man told me that if he paid the fellow in charge $2 he would make the horse and man turn over before the regular time, and I gave him the money. I had nothing smaller than a $10 bill, but my friend said he would get it changed. I waited an hour and he didn't come. I waited until noon, and then when the statue didn't throw a somersault I thought something must be wrong." "Have you ever heard of a bunko man?" inquired Chief Clerk Merinbaum. "Oh, yes, lots of times," rejoined the cattleman. "I have seen pictures of them in the funny papers, but this man wore a diamond in his shirt front and he looked too much like a gentleman to swindle me." "I guess you're on," said Merinbaum. "On—what's that? I want to know one thing, though. Say, tell me, does that statue turn a somersault ever?" "It will turn over the day you get your money back," said the clerk. ROMAN ARENA DUG UP Ancient Amphitheater Is Discovered Under the City of Paris. Was Evidently Built During the Roman Occupation of Gaul-Effort to Be Made to Restore the Interesting Ruin. In the very heart of Paris, shut in by iron railings and hidden from the street by a little hill, grass covered and adorned with trees, lies a most interesting relic of the days long since gone by when this beautiful city was under the rule of the Roman invader. The spot is known to those who know it at all as the Pare L'Arene, and the Roman arena which nestles quietly in its center was discovered by accident after a sleep of many centuries. It has never been mentioned in any guide book. There was urgent need of a new water supply in the locality on the left bank of the Seine, not far from the Jardin des Plantes. To provide a reservoir the authorities began to excavate in a little park at the corner of Rue Navarre and Rue Monge, frequented only by children and their nurses. After the digging had been going on awhile the workmen came upon a structure belonging to another age. Proceeding carefully, little by little, they laid bare a Roman arena. Whether the work was done by Roman slaves or conquered Gauls under the lash of a Roman taskmaster is a matter of conjecture. The entrance to the arena is from the Rue Navarre. To the right and left are the boxes reserved for the nobles, and one larger and better situated than the rest may have been for the emperor. On either side of the entrance are cages built under the seats. Looking into them the visitor can fancy that one had been a cell for Christians and captives, while from the other came the cries and snarls of hungry beasts that were to devour them in the arena to furnish a Roman holiday in the capital of sunny France. When half of the arena had been brought to view the work had to be discontinued, as it runs under the wall of an adjoining building used by an omnibus company, whose lease has some time yet to run. The city authorities have decided to buy the property as soon as the lease runs out and restore the other half of the amphitheater. Too Practical Bess—Why did you break off your engagement with Jack? Nell—I asked him to guess my age—and he did.—Chicago Daily News. Willie on Literature. "That," said Willie, as he launched a heavy volume at the teacher's head. "is the coming book. It's bound to make a hit."—Columbia Jester. In the Mountains. From the hotel we see the hills That in the hazy distance slip— The watter, too, with gladness thrills As he goes on from tip to tip. —Chicago Tribune. Oh, say, did you hear that Chicago is to be transferred to St. Louis? No, but I heard that J. Q. Johnson Lodge, No. 30, A. F. and A. M. will give its Fourth Annual PICNIC AND OUTING, At Hoehn's Grove, MONDAY, JULY 27th, 1903. Everybody is going. If you don't believe it, come and see. DEATHS. Mr. Slemons, who died a few days ago on Cottage avenue, was employed by Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney Dry Goods Co. for almost twenty-two years. He had been sick for the past six months, yet the firm paid him up to his death. The firm also paid all burial expenses, and promises to do more. Thus his bereaved wife and two children find friends in the husband's and father's former employers. May he rest in peace, and may the firm prosper. Mrs. Mary C. Farrington, of 4320 St. Ferdinand avenue, died on 4th of July, after an illness of one week. She leaves a husband and seven children, six girls and one boy, to mourn her loss. Mr. Ross, of 2615 Lawton avenue, died a few days ago, and was buried Friday. He formerly lived in Chicago. He leaves a young wife. U. B. F. and S. M. T. Notice to the Public: Notice to the Lodge The National Grand Lodge of United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of Mysterious Ten will convene in the city of St. Louis, Mo., 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 Secre tary. Negro Hair Wanted. Mrs. J. H. Clark wants to buy Negro hair or combins. Good prices paid for all kinds of hair. Call at 2600 Pine, or 4200 Red Bud avenue. Statement of the Treasury. Washington, July 17.—Thursday's statement of the treasury balances in the general fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold reserve in the division of redemption, showed: Available cash balance, $225,204,325; gold, $101,143,801. ROOMS FOR RENT. 2616 MORGAN ST.—Nicely furnished rooms. Mrs. Ellen Gooden. 23336 WASH ST.---Furnished rooms for rent to men; rooms comfortably furnished; on second and third floors; with or without board. T. T. Thompson. GEO. W. F. BULLOCK. 3320 Franklin Avenue, St. Louis $3.00 FREE 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. Nicely Furnished Room for Gentlemen Only, With or without Board. 2718 Wash Street. 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. ```markdown ``` CHURCH DIRECTORY. St. Paul's, A. M. E., Leffingwell and Lawton; Rev. D. P. Roberts, pastor. St. Peter's, A. M. E., Elliott and Montgomery; Rev. James Madison, pastor. St. James, A. M. E., Pendleton and F. Ferdinand; Rev. W. C. Williams, pastor. Quinn's Chapel, A. M. E., Carondelet; Rev. J. A. Christoper, pastor. Metrcpolitan 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. Heavlow, pastor. Lexington Ave. A. M. E. Zion, 4214A Lexington Ave.; Rev. Donovan, pastor. M. E Centennial M. E., Elliot and Washington; 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, Kosuth 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 Athone Ave. Ruck's Church, Baptist, 14th and Morgan; Rev. Rucks, pastor. Bethany, Presbyterian, 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 Tabernacle Baptist Church Services. Preaching, Sunday, 11:00 a m Sunday School, 1:00 p m B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p m Preaching, 8:00 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. Carpenter and Builder. and General Repair Work. All work promptly attended to. Call and see me. Electa Temple, Mess Thursday of each month at 8:00 or Pythias Hall, Lucas and Jeffrey Mrs. Annie D. Hyatt, M. W. P. Lulu O. Dell, Sec'y. G. W. ROBINSON, Second-Hand Furniture BOUGHT AND SOLD. Moving and Expressing, General Jobbing and Repairing of Furni- ture, Ranges, Stoves, Etc. 4025 EASTON AVE., ST. LOUIS. $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. MRS. L. CLARK'S She treats the scalp, stops the hair from falling out. Best of attention is given to all ladies' work. 2115 Lucas Ave., St, Louis, Mo. "Follow the Flag." Banner Route WADASH To the Great Gateways Kansas City, Chicago, Omaha, Toledo & Buffalo. Through sleepers to New York and the East. Magnificent Equipment and Train Service. Ticket Office, Eigth and Olive streets. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY KNOWN AS THE GREAT SOUTHWEST SYSTEM. Connecting the Commercial Centers and Rich Farms of MISSOURI, The Broad Corn and River Fields and Thriving Cities of KANSAS, The Fertile River Valleys, Trade Centers and Rolling Prairies of NEBRASKA, The Grand Plains of Mining Secrets, and the Famous Mining Districts of COLORADO, The Agricultural, Fruit, Mineral and Timber Lands, and Famous Hot Springs of ARKANSAS, The Sugar Plantations and immense Rice Fields, LOUISIANA, The Cotton and Grain Fields, the Cattle Ranges and Winter Resorts of TEXAS, Historical and Scenic OLD AND NEW MEXICO, And forms with its Connections the Popular Winter Route to CALIFORNIA For descriptive and illustrated pamphlets of any of the above States, address Companies' Agents, or H. C. TOWNSEND, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. DR. G. H. ANDERSON. DENTIST. 1407 Market Street, Hours 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Phone Klnlock C414, Bell Main 584. Spring Ave. Car. O'Fallon Park Car. MR. A. L. LEE. guarantees satisfaction and prompt service. The best Collar and Cuff work in the city. Please address all communications to 3103 Lawton avenue. [Name] L. W. VINEGAR. International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen. L. W. VINEGAR, Organizer. No. 122. I. B. S. Firemen meet every 1st and 4th Thursday in each month at Tobin's Hall. Office—806 North 14th Street. Telephone—Kinloch C-397. THEO. H. TEMPEL, Dealer in Staple and Fancy GROCERIES, 2601 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. California Canned Goods a Specialty. TWENTY-SECOND and MARKET STS. Newly fitted up from bottom to top. Electric lights. Largest Billiard 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 BILLIARD THE GREEN TREE SIMON BROWN, Pr NOAH WARGTING, Geno 1600=1602 Morg Pool Room in Con THE GREEN TREE SALOON. 1600=1602 Morgan Street. Pool Room in Connection. O.K.SALOON H. L. FRANKLIN, Prop. Dealer in Bonded Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco. Pool Room in Connection. 4000 Papin St., St. Louis, Mo. Imported Liquors. Domes. DYE'S Pet and Pool R WM. P. DYE, Proprietor. Manchester Ave., St. Telephone—Kinloch B-1812. THE GEM HIGH B. WHITE, Proprietor. BILLIARD at 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) Liquors, Cigars, and the best Billiard Room. Remember the Gem, 1911 Mar. "OWL" SALO 33 South 20th Street. Liquors, Cigars and Boo- ing 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, Proprietor 2801-3 Manchester Ave., Telephone—Kinloch B. THE G HUGH B. WHITE, Pro- SALOON and BILLIE At 1911 Marke (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 Buffet and Pool Room, WM. P. DYE, Proprietor. 2801-3 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Telephone—Kinloch B-1812. At 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) Choica Wines, Liquors, Gigars, 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, G. W. HOLT, Proprietor. Market Street, (Near U quons, 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. JEFF. SMITH. Propr. They are the leaders of the city for passionate pleasure. No saloon connected. Sincerity first-class. Hall No. 1 at 1323 Market St. Hall No. 2 at 2326 Market St. A. A. BROOKS, Proprietor. Fine Wines and Liquors. PETER H. HARRIS Imported and Domestic Cigars. S col Room, etor. St. Louis, Mo. 1812. EM. oprietor 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. ERS, . . . Managers oprietor. ROOMS IN CONNECTION. IRST-CLASS. K Saloon, et, (Near Union Station), ST. LOUIS. eley Saloon. , Liquors and Oigars. SEXTON & MITCHELL'S EXTRA FINISH Art School, 2605 Lawton Ave. Now Open for Pupils. Terms Reasonable. Fine Oil Paintings for sale, Portraits Enlarged in Crayon, Pastel, Oil. FARMER'S HAIR TONIC. grow. Stops tailing hair. Farmer's Hair Cream, an indispensable hair dressing. Cures Dandruff. Mrs. Lulu Farmer, Manufacturer and Sole Proprietor, 2724 Morgan Street. Keystone Hotel First-Class Accommodation for Colored People Only. Hot and Cold Baths. 2305 Chestnut, St. Louis, Mo. M. ROBINSON, Prop. 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 Juvenile Goods. 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. Metal Top Pieces, the most beautiful the order has ever had, and will last for ever at $4 a pair. These top pieces for supporters' staffs are capable of the highest polish and make a splendid display. We have the only first-class beautifully enameled button for U. B. F. and S. M. T. in the world. They are tricolored and in harmony with the ritualistic law. Fo one is ashamed to wear one, all who see them want them. Rolled Gold Buttons.....75 cents Solid Gold Buttons.....$1.25 Banners of the very latest design and finished workmanship can be procured by paying from $8 to as high a price as you desire. Banners are very necessary and every organization should have one. Jewels for ap department of the order at 75 cents each and upward according to quality desired. All kinds of Paraphernalia furnished for initiation in every degree known to the order. Those desiring these requisites must on naming articles defined give sufficient proof that srid 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 abso'ltely 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. 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. St. Louis, Mo. $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 d.or-2601 Lawton avenue. Millinery. WALTER S. FARRINGTON. Walter S. Farrington is doing a great business on Leonard and Channing avenues as a Veterinary Dentist, Clipping, Braking and Styling Horses. 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, -FIRST-CLASS—— Barber Shop and Bath, In the True Reform Hall. First-class Barbers. S. W. Corner Pine Street and Jafferson Avenue. IF YOU BUY FURNITURE. AT Thuner's ITS GOOD. 2122-24-26 South Broadway CHILI CON CARNE, SPAGHETTI, 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, Km. B-686. ..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. J. T. Brewer and A. H. Howell, Proprietors of NEW RESTAURANT and DINING HALL, at 2837 Manchester Ave. First-Class Me The only place where you can your money. Give them a call. The American Mutual A PERCY STONE, Genera 723, 724 and 725 Wainwright B Licensed to do business in Missouri Kentucky and Missi Weekly benefits for sickness a efits for death Free use of surgeon or physicis Write for circu St. Louis Da Delivers exclusively in Bottles 2008 Pine S R. J. RAYM Attorney - at 1111 Clark Ave., St. L $45 STUDY MEDICINE AN Louisville Nationa Meals, 15c you can get the very best for a call. Dual Aid Association General Manager. Wright Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. Missouri, Indiana, Arka ns. and Mississippi. Kness and accident. Bene- for death. Physician to all members for circular. Dairy Co. Bottles to the family trade one Street. RAYMOND, at Law, e., St. Louis, Mo. MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT THE National Medical College TEENTH YEAR. All State Boards. All buildings are the property of the state. Each session is divided into four each, Attendance upon any two terms entitle- one year's attendance. A practical practice. Medicine, Four years of six months each. Session out the year. Each session is divided into four each, Attendance upon any two terms entitle- one year's attendance. A practical practice. Of Pharmacy. Two years, six months each into two terms of three months each. Formation and catalogue address BURNEY, M. D., Dean, Louisville, Ky. First-ClassMeals,15c The only place where you can get the very best for your money. Give them a call. The American Mutual Aid Association. PERCY STONE, General Manager. 723, 724 and 725 Wainwright Bldg., St. Louis, $o. Licensed to do business in Missouri, Indiana, Arka nsas Kentucky and Mississippi. Weekly benefits for sickness and accident. Benefits for death. Free use of surgeon or physician to all members. Write for circular. 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 Recognized by all State Boards. All buildings are the property of Laboratories and Hospital. By the Quarterly System is offered unrivaled opportunities for those who must retain teaching positions as a means of livelihood, and yet desire to study Medicine. Laboratories and Hospitals. Nearly too many Children in various towns are educated a lucrative practice. School of Medicine. For continues throughout the year. Terms of three months each. Attend to student to credit for one year's attn. Terms: January, April, July of each term. Students may enter any term. Session is divided into two terms. For further information and a W. A. BURNEY. thirty hours each. **Grades of Medici:** 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. THE BEST LAWN SWING MADE AGEN Lawn Swing Chairs, Ironing $5 AGENTS WANTED Agents easily make $5 TO $10 PER DAY. Clearfield Wooden-Ware Co. CLEARFIELD, PA. RAGENTS WANTED town to ride and exhibit a sample 1902 m your manufacture. YOU CAN MAKE $10 likes besides having a wheel to tide for your Models High Grade $9 to $ and 1901 Models BEST MAKES $7 to RIDER AGENTS one in each town to ride and exhibit bicycle of our manufacture. YOU $50 A WEEK besides having a whee High Grade Guarantee 1902 Models 1900 and 1901 Models 500 Second Hand W taken in trade by our Chicago retail s makes and models, good as new RIDERAGENTSWANTED WE WANT a exchange for a J. L. M 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 nec N. APPROVAL to any- --- Pays for professional lectures, board and room rent for one term. Lawn Swings and Settets, 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. YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT Just when I'm having such good times I never had before. With all my playthings spread around On table, chairs and floor; When it's dusk behind the sofa back And black dark under the stair, And I wonder what strange animals Pick up, and by their And think I'll go a hunting them, And begin to clean my gun, Then mamma shuts her book and says; "It's bedtime, son." Outside the window by my crib I see the sky all red, Where the poor old sun, like me, I's pose, Has been carried off to bed. He never sees the fireflies dance, Or hears the whippoorwill; He never sees the rockets dart Straight up from Signal Hill; He never sees the wee star eyes When he opens a window; I wonder now who says to him: "It's bedtime, sun." —Mary Marshall Parks, in Youth's Companion. AN EFFECTIVE TRICK. Dancing Pea Will Amuse the Boys of To-Day as Much as It Amused Their Fathers. This is a remarkably simple but always surprising and effective trick. The performer takes the stem of a broken clay pipe or a straw and, holding it perpendicular to his mouth, places a pea quickly upon the upper end. Then he makes the pea hop up and down to a lively tune on the piano. The whole trick consists in sticking THE DANCING PEA. a long thin needle into the pea. This forces it always to return to its place. A piece of thin wire can be used instead of the needle, which in order to remain invisible, should not be bright and shining. Care must be taken that the needle or wire is fastened well into the pea, so that it will not drop into the performer's mouth.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Faithful to Her Old Home. A grocer in Syracuse gave a brewer an old cat and four kittens a day old. The brewer locked them up in his brewery for the night. When the grocer came downstairs the next morning he found the cat and her four kittens asleep on his doorstep. The brewery was four miles away, and the kittens too young to walk more than a few steps, so the old cat had carried each one in her mouth four miles. The cement foundations of telegraph poles are called cement butts. There is now a company engaged in their exclusive manufacture. H OW many of you have ever seen that little delusion of the swamps, commonly called the "peeper?" One of the first signs of the spring he is, peeping away through the soft, warm nights. Did you ever try to catch one? If you had tried you would know why I call him a "delusion." When you reach the place where the sound seemed to come from, you don't see the little piper—he escapes you as surely as the mystical "will-o'-the-wisp," and chooses much the same kind of a place to live in. The other day Dick, my persistent mature-boy (I call him that because he usually succeeds in prying out nature secrets when he makes up his mind to try), declared he was going to find a "peeper." A friend told him he had watched hours in vain for one, another said her father watched about an hour for one, and at last he saw him sitting right in front of him in the tall grass. When the man got there the peeper just stopped his music and "lay low." The next day some one brought Dick a copy of a magazine which had in it a photograph of a peeper—said to be the first ever taken. That night after supper, as soon as it began to grow dusk, Dick put on his rubber boots and started for the swamp. In about a half hour he rushed into the house, wildly shouting: In his hand was a little pinch of soft mud. He said he had gone to the place where he had heard the peeping and waited. Finally, after keeping still some time, one little fellow CAT ADOPTS A WOLF. Peculiar "Happy Family" Discovered on a Farm Only Two Hours' Ride from Chicago. A singular outcome of a wolf hunt near Byron, Ogle county, only about two hours out of Chicago on the St. Paul railway, is that a two-weeks-old snarling wolf wolf has been adopted by a cat owned by J. G. Blanchard, who lives on a farm near that town. The motherly animal is at the same time rearing a kitten that doesn't belong to her. One day recently Mr. Blanchard found on his farm a wolf den, from which he dragged ten whelps that were not more than a few days old. Nine of these were killed and the bounty of one dollar a scalp was paid for them. Mr. Blanchard's folk thought they would like to have a pet CAT FOSTERS WOLF CUB. wolf, so the remaining animal was carried home and placed in Tabby's nest along with the black kitten. The motherly animal at once began to lick the doggish little brute and the latter suckled at her breast as if he belonged to the cat family. The black kitten also took up with the stranger, wrestled with him at meal time and played with him as if he were his brother. The kitten is older than the wolf has his eyes open, while the "blinkers" in the little round head of the wolf are still sealed. The kitten thus has the advantage of the wolf in feeding but when the latter fails to fully appease his hunger he sets up a snarling and wailing that quickly brings one of the Blanchard children. A nursing bottle is then produced, the whelp is given a hold of the nipple and he keeps it until the bottle is empty. This is the regular season for catching and killing Illinois wolves; and although it is not generally known that many of the gray fellows are left to tell the story of pioneer times the county clerks count a good many scalps and pay out a considerable sum in bounties. The usual price is one dollar a scalp for the young, while ten dollars is paid for the scalp of an old she wolf. The old wolves generally know when their dens are being robbed of their young and set up a dismal howl that may be heard many miles. The night is made hideous with their barking and wailing, the mother making a fruitless search for the young that have been taken from her. A man who lives within an hour's ride of Chicago has successfully raised and tamed a black timber wolf. The animal was the only one of three that were caught at the same time that could be tamed. The owner taught him to do all kinds of tricks and the wolf now hunts foxes for his master distinguishes coins, rides a horse with the bridle rein in his mouth, distributes handbills and does many other interesting things. The owner called him Teddy and wanted to give him to the president, but Mr. Roosevelt declined the gift.—Chicago Daily News. BY MRS·E·H·SMITH peeped again, and Dick grabbed the mud where the sound was, and inside was the frog. We put him in a bottle, and Dick rushed off to show him to the naturalist, who had wanted to see one all his life, and that now he could die happy. Such a cunning little fellow he was, a perfect little frog, a bit over an inch long; of an amber color. I should say, he looked in the lamplight, though I have seen him described as having a "brown back with a dark cross on it, and a white stomach." I intended to examine him more carefully by daylight. We left him in the bottle with a piece of netting over the top. When Dick went to look at him in the morning, there was just a patch of mud in the bottom of the bottle, and not a sign in the meshes of the netting of the runaway's escape. We never saw or heard him again. Dick's little brother "did hope he got back to the other little peepers." He had what looked like a bladder on his throat. This is called his "vocal sac." When he wants to "peep" he fills it with air. I have read that he has a tiny round sucker on the end of each toe, by which he can easily cling to the grasses, and he knows how to "freeze" when he hears anyone coming. All winter the peepers stay down in the mud, but come out when the warm weather arrives, and finally leave the water and live in the trees through the summer.—Little Chronicle. HOUSEHOLD THE CHEERFUL PERSON. He or She-Who Cultivates a Happy Spirit Is Sure to Make Hosts of Friends. Cheerfulness is an amulet, a charm to make for us friends and to render us permanently contented and happy. A cheerful man feels well, does well, and loves those things which are good, while he who is always sad doth ill in the very sorrow he evinces. Long-faced, sanctimonious people are generally avoided, and very justly so, for who wishes to partake of their malady? while those who are accustomed to look on the sunny side of life are courted for the genial spirit which they impart to all about them. Undoubtedly the keenest weapon against misfortune is a bold and cheerful spirit. It was good old Izaak Walton who said: "Every misery that I miss is a new mercy"—a saying worthy of the profoundest philosopher. It is only too true that evils come to us on wings, but retire with a limping pace, and yet most people are ready to meet calamities half way, and thus to indirectly welcome them. There is scarcely an evil in life that we cannot double by pondering upon it. A scratch will thus become a serious wound, and a slight illness even be made to end in death by the brooding apprehension of the sick; while, on the other hand, a mind accustomed to look upon the bright side of all things will repel the dampness of care by its genial sunshine. A cheerful heart paints the world as it sees it—like a sunny landscape. The morbid mind depicts it like a sterile wilderness, and thus life, like the chameleon, takes its hue of light or shade from the object upon which it rests. The world is almost universally a mirror, which reflects back to us the picture of the substance we present to its surface, showing us the aspect of our own breasts, either tranquil or troubled, as the case may be. If the eye is jawdiced, the landscape will be robbed of its beauty, and our own morbid spirit will turn fertile fields into sterile plains. One of the grand secrets of this life, as it regards our own happiness, is to learn to accommodate ourselves to circumstances, not grumbling it every mischance, but pleasantly putting the best aspect up, whatever may happen. Open, unrestrained merriment is a safety-valve to the heart, carrying off the noxious vapors of care and unhappiness. It is the part of the true philosopher to jest as well as to preach, and, indeed, she will be found enforcing some of his most valuable truths by appealing to our natural sense of the humorous. We don't like to see people going through life ever with a frown upon their faces and a sigh on their lips. Such persons do not realize that there is to this life of ours a sunny side.—N. Y. Weekly. PRETTY QUILT BLOCK. Pattern Can Be Used to Advantage In Carrying Out a Neat National Color Scheme. This design I "stole" from a quilt I saw hanging on the line at my next door neighbor's the last time she aired her bedding. It is different from anything I have ever seen, and I thought some one else might like to make a quilt like it. It was very pretty, and used quite small pieces in the making. Very little need be said, as the cut shows the design so plainly. Three colors are used in each block. A pretty thing would be to make such an one of red, white and blue. The corners of blue calico, the squares of STAR CENTER QUILT. white muslin (or white calico with very small red or blue figures) and the cross of red. Any house were there are many children would be apt to furnish easily the blues and whites, and even if the red had to be bought for the purpose the cost would be very slight. A cushion cover would be pretty if formed from five blocks like this, and four of plain goods, put together in "nine-patch" fashion, one patchwork square in each corner, one in the middle, and the four plain ones in the remaining places. A charming national color scheme could be carried out as follows: Have the plain blocks of dark blue and the patchwork ones like this: Red in the corners, white in squares, and blue in the cross. Or a very unique pillow would be all in yellow and black, black in all the shaded portions and yellow in the white part as the cut appears. A pillow 14 inches square could be entirely covered, with one huge patch in this design, in any colors desired. Or have a 12-inch patch with a one-inch strip around the edges. In fact, I can think of a dozen ways to use this pretty pattern, and hope it may prove of interest to some of the housewives who read this paper.—M. French in Farm and Home. TUNIS MARRIAGE FAIR. An English Traveler's Observations at the Famous Matrimonial Heart of Menguelet. A famous marriage fair, or mart, is held yearly at the village of Menguelet, in the well known village on the Wady Jemala, in the Kabyk district of Tunis. It takes place at the end of the harvest season, when the ingathering of the crops is finished, the produce disposed of and the tribesmen of the country, flush with money, as money is reckoned thereabouts, think of adding a wife to the other purchases they always make for the ensuing 12 months. Being within 30 miles of the Ait at the time of the market, I rode over to see how such a show was organized and managed. In the open space the EN ROUTE TO MARRIAGE FA!R. damsels were ranged ready for inspection in the marriage market. There they face the visitors, separated from the noisy part of the fair, ranged in four separate rows and numbering, I should say, between 600 and 700. Each damsel is seated on a small, bright colored carpet spread upon the ground, and each has a negafa—a sort of nurse, attendant and duenna combined—seated beside her. Conspicuously displayed in front of each, moreover, is a big roll of woven stuff. This roll of material plays an important part in the marriage negotiations, and is always woven by the girl herself. The young women are attired in the most expensive and richest garments the parents and relatives can secure. They are painted, patched and powdered, as is the invariable custom of Kabyle belles, and wear sufficient rings, bangles, bracelets, chains and brooches to stock a small-sized jewelery's shop. These jewels are not by any means always the property of the girl or her friends. In fact, they are mostly borrowed or hired for the occasion. As there is a good deal of rivalry between the different dehers and kebails in regard to the appearance of their damms in the marriage market, there is no difficulty in getting on loan as much ornament of the kind as the girl can carry on her person, especially if she is at all good looking. It is not easy for a stranger to decide upon the beauty of the Berber maid, for she tattoos the face as well as paints it. How is sale and purchase effected? In the simplest way imaginable. The would-be buyer has only to walk up to the carpet upon which the girl he wishes to own is seated, touch with his finger the roll of woven stuff in front of her and ask the price. If the young woman, on looking over inquiring tribesman, is satisfied him, she names a very low fig men small sum of ten pieces, which reed upon among the several coats the equivalent of acceptance. If not, she merely quotes a high price, something up in the hundreds, and it is then understood that the offer is respectfully declined and a deal is not likely to be effected. The actual money price to be paid for a girl depends upon the standing of her family and the kebal to which they belong. It is fixed, moreover, by immemorial usage, so that every young man knows pretty well what he will have to pay for a wife. Hence only those who have the requisite means can venture to make an offer for any lot placed or view. It should not, however, be supposed that these young Berber beauties are by any means prepared to yield themselves to the first come who can afford to pay the recognized equivalent to the parents. Kabyle women are anything but the docile and obedient drudge many western readers imagine. They enjoy a good deal more freedom, in many respects than a European wife in a like rank of life. They unquestionably rule the domestic roost, and know how to use the wooden clogs, the kabak, with convincing effect upon the bare patrons of their spouses.—London Chronicle. Embroidery Rules the Day. The love of embroidery of all kinds seems to be on the increase rather than on the wane. Wise women are bringing out long-hoarded treasures of stitchery and having them fashioned into revers collars and similar adornments. Motives of richly colored Chinese embroidery are distinctly decorative when applied to a Brussels net collar, and an old piece of embroidery or brocade of which the ground is worn may have its pattern used in this way very successfully. Liberty is using Chinese embroidered sleeves for bell-pulls. The sleeves are joined into one long strip, stiffened, and a quaint brass handle or ring makes the necessary finish. 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Hudson and others, of New York City, restraining them from making or selling-a foot powder which the court declares is an imitation and entanglement on "Foot-Ease," now so large as advertised and sold over the country. The owner of the trade-mark, "Foot-Ease," is Allen S. Olmsted, of Le Roy, N. Y., and the decision in this suit upholds his trade-mark. The plaintiff all parties have widely attempt to profit by the extensive "Foot-Ease" advertising. Similar will be brought against others who are now infringing on the Foot-Ease trade-mark calls. Worth Something. The new metal, radium, is said to be worth $30,000,000 a pound. Don't neglect to save up your scraps of radium—Chi- 吉 record-Herald. "Her First Run" the title of a little booklet issued by the Chicago & Alton Railway. It is reprinted from the Chicago Record-Herald, and tells of the running of the Alton Limited 100 miles, by a young lady. The story is attractively told, and is illustrated. Copies may be obtained by sending four cents in stamps to Geo. J. Charlton, G. P. A., Chicago. "My parrot says some awfully other things." He—"And who taught it talk?" She—"Oh, I did."—London Habit. Chicago, St. Paul-Minneapolis, four daily runs via the Chicago & North-Westerrr. Trial plus toil equals triumph—Ram's Born. Iowa Farms $4 Per Acre Cash, till crop till paid. Mulhall, Sioux City, Ia. Time is the capital of the intellectual man—Chicago Daily News. Travel on the Two new sleeping car lines, via Big Four ROUTE from Chicago to Dayton Springfield Columbus from St. Louis to Dayton Springfield Columbus For full information and particulare, call on Agents "Big Four Route," or address the undersigned. WARREN J. LYNCH, Genl Pass. & Ticket Art. Aest. G. P. & T. A. CINCINNATI, O. U.M.C. WINCINNATI BROOKS consistently used everywhere in the world wherever the muzzle loader has given way to the breech loader. It is made in the largest and best equipped cartridge factory in existence. 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I will call unto the Lord, and He shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which have done in the sight of the Lord, in a king's hand. 18. So Samuel called unto the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. 19. And all the people said unto Samuel: Pray for the servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not; for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king. 20. And Samuel said unto the people: Fear not; ye have done all this wickedness; yet turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. 21. And turn ye not aside; for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. 22. For the Lord will not forsake His people, for His great name's sake; because it hath pleased the Lord to make you His people. 23. Moreover, as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you; but I will teach you the good and the right way: 24. Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider now great things He hath done for you. 25. But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king. GOLDEN TEXT.-Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart.-1 Sam, 12:24. OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION. Saul defeats the Ammonites. 1 Sam, 11:11-11. Kingdom firmly established. 1 Sam, 11:12-16. How God deals with His people. How God deals with His people. .......1 Sam, 12:17-15 A promise and a warning. 1 Sam, 12:16-25. Saul Defeats the Ammonites. It appears that Saul did not immediately take upon himself either the duties or the responsibilities of kingship. It seems to have "happened" that when the Ammonites threatened the people of Jabesh-Gilead, the report came to the town where Saul lived. Saul still, in spite of his new dignity, acted as the herdsman. Coming up after his herd, he learned the news, and, like the man he was, he was filled with patriotic anger. Jabesh-Gilead had just a week to get ready for the struggle. Saul had practically no following, and something had to be done, and done quickly. In this emergency the untried king sent his faithful few among the people to say that destruction would come upon those who refused to heed the call of the king. The loyalty of the few, and the fear of the many brought to the front 300,000 men, and the Ammonites met with utter defeat. The Kingdom Firmly Established. —The quick action of Saul, and the great victory resulting made the nation willing to accept the new king as ruler in deed, as well as in name, and where as before the refusal of some to accept Saul as king, went unheeded, now the enthusiastic crowd wanted to put them to death. But Saul was magnanimous, and prevented the threatened slaughter. Saul now having shown himself capable of being king, Samuel again called the nation together, that the kingdom might be firmly established, and further took occasion to say some needful things to the people of Israel. Samuel's Integrity.—First Samuel called upon the people to testify to his own integrity of character. Samuel, like, the other prophets, could perform miracles, one of which we have recorded in the latter part of the Scripture section which we are studying, but the ability to perform miracles is not the greatest testimonial to his prophetic mission, but that, in what we term those unenlightened times, he should have maintained the integrity of character to refuse to "receive any bribe to bind mine eyes herewith," as he himself publicly declared, and to the truth of which statement all gave assent. This more than all shows him a man of God. A Promise and Warning—The miracle above referred to was the bringing of rain in the harvest time during which season rain never comes in Palestine. Seeing this, great fear fell upon the people, and they began to repent that they had demanded a king. Samuel told them to fear not, but to turn from their wickedness and serve God. If they should serve God all would be well, but "if you shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed." This truth was borne out in after history, and, indeed, such is the common experience to-day. Individuals or nations rush to destruction and decay, if God is forgotten, but blessing crowns the leading of Divine counsels. Ram's Horn Blasts. A prejudice cannot be a principle. The light of God cures the last of gold. Love cannot be limited by latitude or latitude. Men mistake the glory of gain for the gain of glory. He who serves God only for wages will serve the devil for a raise. Ambition becomes sin when it turns from the blessing of service to the boosting of self. When a man buys a healthy peace at the price of a sickly pride he has made a good bargain. CHURCH ECHOES. One thousand acres of land in Australia have been bequeathed to the Salvation Army. New Zealand Christian Endeavorers now number 129,000. They publish handsome quatra. The pope is the head of over 250,000,000 human beings, or nearly one-seventh of the population of the globe. Books to the value of about $30,000 were distributed last year by the Christian Literature society for China. St. Andrew's is the oldest Presbyterian church in South Africa, and it has for nearly 75 years been the garrison church for Presbyterian soldiers in Cape Town. It is proposed to erect a building to seat about 1,200 people. The American Presbyterians have established a new mission on the Sobat river, beyond Khartoum, and 2,000 miles below Egypt. It is an uncivilized region, and the language has nothing in common with the Egyptian Arabic. The Indian Witness believes that it would be well for future lecturers to reside in India a full year before they intend to take the platform, that their expositions of Christianity in relation to Indian thought might have more point. The native agency in the missions of the American board has increased in number during the last decade from 2,600 to 3,581. This is in accordance with its settled policy of raising up native teachers to spread the Gospel among their own people. One of the unique institutions of Bostons is the General Theological library, a collection of books on theological and Biblical and other religious topics, designed for the use of clergymen. Sunday school teachers and all others interested in such books. During the last year 640 new books were added to the library and 400 free cards were issued to clergymen of Greater Boston. WHAT THE LAW DECIDES Delivery of a telegram, directed to a person in care of a railroad company at a certain place, to the ticket agent of the company thereafter making extensive search for the sendee, is held, in Lefler vs. Western U. Teleg. Co. (N. C.), 59 L. R. A. 477, to relieve the telegraph company from further liability. One who negligently inflicts injury on another is held in Maguire vs. Sheehan (C. C. App., 1st C.), 59 L. R. A. 496, not to be able to escape any part of the loss caused thereby for the reason that because of the condition of the injured person, produced by his voluntary use of alcohol, the shock of the injury brought on delirium tremens, which retarded his recovery. An ordinance requiring all street railways to pave, repave and keep in repair the space between their tracks and between the rails of the tracks and for the space of one foot outside of each outer track, is held, in Fielders vs. North Jersey Street Railway company (N. J. Err. and App.), 59 L. R. A. 455, to be an invalid assumption of the power of taxation and not to be sustainable as an exercise of the police power. Preventing the use, during court hours, of a pavement newly laid in a street adjoining the courthouse in such a way that the noise of the traffic thereon interrupts the business of the court, is held, in ex parte Birmingham (Ala.), 59 L. R. A. 572, to be within the power of a court both at common law and under a statute giving it power to preserve order so far as is necessary to prevent interruption and disturbance of its proceedings. The people in England drink some 800,000,000 gallons of milk in a year. An old Worcester dinner set was sold in London the other day for 388 guineas. The export trade of Canadian farm products is increasing at a very rapid rate. An English mayor has handed over his official salary to be divided between the poor and the town bands. 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Among the many prominent women who recommend Peruna are: Belva Lockwood, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Col. Hamilton, of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. F. E. Warren, wife of W. S. Senator Warren, of Wyoming. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. HAIR GROWTH Promoted by Shampoos of Cuticura Soap And Dressings of Cuticura the Great Skin Cure Purest, Sweetest, Most Effective Remedies for Skin, Scalp and Hair. This treatment at once stops falling hair, removes crusts, scales and dandruff, destroys hair parasites, soothes irritated, itching surfaces, stimulates the hair follicles, loosens the scalp skin, supplies the roots with energy and nourishment, and makes the hair grow upon a sweet, wholesome, healthy scalp when all else falls. 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Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. A UNION OR A DEPOT FOR NEGRO NEWSPAPERS. / To all who are fond of negro newspapers the Palladium office can furnish any of the following papers: Freedman Journal. Chicago Conservator. Topeka Plaindealer. Indianapolis Recorder. The Afro-American. The Vicksburg Light. Arkansas Appreciator. The Dallas World. The Springfield State Capital. The Sedalia Times. Eagle-Herald, Gainsville, Fla. The Reformer. The Truth Teller, St. Louis. Southern Christian Recorder. Cincinnati Brotherhood. Star of Zion. Washington Bee. Seattle Republic. Woman's World. Bluegrass Bugle. Chicago Broad Ax. Paducah Bee. The Parson Weekly Blade. The City Times, Galveston, Tex. The Eagle, Kempsville. Ala. Christion Recorder of the A. M. E. Church. The Press, Quendo, Kan. The Light, Vicksburg, Miss. The Mayor, Hopkinsville, Ky. Oklahoma Guide, Guthrie, Logan Co. American Eagle, St. Louis. The Watchman, Columbus, Ga. Texas Guide, Victoria, Texas. The Lancet, Baltimore, Md. The City Times, Galveston, Texas. The Sunday School Monitor, Nash- ville, Teen. The Business Herald, Donaldsonville, A. The St. Luke Herald, Richmond Va The Progress, Omaha, Neb. Na hville Clarion, Nashville, Tenn. Missouri State Republican. The Cynian Blade, Vicksburg, Miss The Christian Organizer, Lynchburg, Virginia. The Columbia, Louisville, Ky. Colored Messenger, Kansas, Mo. Temple of Health and Physical Rev view. Savanna Gazette, Savannah, Ga. Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Fla. Voice of Missions, New York. Searchlight, Wichita, Kan. Tribune, Pueblo, Colo. Colored Citizens Press, Chicago, Ill. Banker, Merchant and Manufacturer Publisher of Money, New York. Teche Valley News, Jeanerette, La. St. Joseph Radical, St. Joseph, Mo. Na hville, Nashville, Tenn. Pythian Blade, Vicksburg, Miss. Eye, Padcah, Ky. Southern Advocate, Hot Springs, Mississippi. Etheophan Abbiville, S. C. Wisconsin Advocate, Milwaukee: Wisconsin Eagle, Kempsville, Ala. Chicago Visitor, Chicago, Ill. Kenbury Reporter, Owensboro, Ky. Pythian Journal, St. Louis, Mo. Kissing Sun, Kansas, Mo. Southwestern Advocate, New Orleans, Louisiana. Louisiana. Republican Guide, Baltimore, Md. The Advance Citizen, East St. Louis. Mong Sun, Kansas, Mo. The Albuquerque American, a newspaper published in New Mexico, is on our desk. A paper well edited and quite newsy. We heartily exchange. J. M. Griffin, editor and proprietor. Any of the above papers can be had at the Palladium office. We will count the list next week. James Barnes, FIRST-CLASS BARBER - SHOP, 1433 Morgan Street. $3.00 FREE To Every Person Sending their name and address. Write at once, enclosing stamp, for particulars. Address Scott Remedy Co., O. Box 570, Louisville, Ky. THE LEGEND OF THE MISSING MAN J. W. WHRELER. Past District Deputy Grand Master has organized more Lodges, Temples in this city. CITY NEWS. Mrs. Wolfskill, of 4555 Cottage avenue, is yet in poor health. We hope for her recovery. Miss Beatrice Ross, the secretary of the Palladium, is spending a very delightful time in Chicago. Rev. T. H. Phillips, past grand master of U. B. F., will be present at the session of the grand lodge, next week. Mr. Garrett Richardson, of 1923 Morgan street, has been traveling for the past two months. He will be home soon. It is said that dripping water will wear a rock away, but the sitting on the rock of Lawton avenue has never bothered it. One of the son's of Rev. McKinney has an eye on a young Miss on St. Ferdinand avenue. She is pretty and up-to-date, too. Miss Louise Benton is again working for the Palladium, in which she takes a great deal of interest. We hope that she will stay. The St. Louis bicycle girls are in luck. They can rent bicycles for a song almost in Chicago, 50 cents an hour. How is that for Tom-boy girls? Ruth Temple No. 163, of S. M. T., meets the fourth Friday in each month at the True Reformers' Hall. Mrs. Jennie Irving, W. P.; Ada B. Dardy, secretary. All are invited. Mr. Henderson Arnold, of 2625 Goode avenue, was married last week to Miss Naomi Douglass, of 4171 St. Louis avenue. They are now at home to their friends at 1724 Morgan street. Miss Beatrice Hudlin, Miss Ira Haskell, Miss Clotile Hudlin, Messrs. Edw. Levy, Roscoe Haskell and James B. Huston, formed an outing party that spent a very pleasant day last Tuesday, at Meramec Highlands. Miss Cecil Rodeney, of Cape Girardeau, is stopping in St. Louis, for a few days, with Miss Izella Cole, of Hickory street. Miss Rodeney is just from Louisville, Ky., where she attended the session of the Afro-American Council. She will leave in a few days for a short visit to St. Paul, Minn. Miss Louise Benton, of 2624 Lawton avenue, has returned from Helena, N. Y. She came Thursday night, very unexpectedly, which surprised her friends very much. Miss Benton had a delightful time. Her aunt, Mrs. E. Benton, and uncle, Mr. T. Benton, returned with her. We are glad to have them with her friends again. Mr. Wm. H. Owens, Sr., father of Arthur and Wm. H. Owens, Jr., was baptized into the Central Baptist church last Sunday afternoon, by Rev. Sydnor. Mr. Owens is seriously ill at his home, and his recovery is considered doubtful. Mr. Owens was, until a few years ago, a prominent republican in this city, being connected with the coroner's office under Dr. Wait. Mrs. Geo. W. Porter, of 6100 South Ninth street, died last Tuesday morning, at 2 o'clock, from the effects of a fall received from one of the Transit cars about two weeks ago. She was an enthusiastic religious worker and also devoted much of her time to secret society work, and music, being an accomplished musician. The funeral was held at St Paul's Chapel, Thursday, at 1 o'clock, and was largely attended by the many friends of of U. B. F., of the city of St. Louis, and Juveniles than any other Deputy the family. A devoted husband and a host of friends survive her. A REMARKABLE BOY. Accomplishments of a Boston Youth Who Is Blind and Deaf. Kept Up with His Class in Almost All of the Studies—Takes Part in Graduation Exercises and Receives Diploma. Of all the 1,600 recent graduates in the Boston grammar schools no one received more personal attention than Tommy Stringer, the blind and deaf boy, who has held his own among the grammar school pupils of Boston in all the studies except music and drawing, and who received his diploma at the Lowell school on Center street. Tommy had a part in the programme. He sat beside his teacher, Miss Helen S. Conley. In silence he imbibed the spirit of the moment, and gave expression to it in happy gestures, and through the sense of touch he followed the exercises with manifest interest, though not a note of music reached his ear, or a ray from the bright picture his veiled eye. His teacher kept him informed of what was going on in the hall. Through the sense of feeling in the palm of his right hand she brought intelligence to his mind of what the boys and girls said, and his laugh, though it came a little late at times, was hearty. Electricity was the subject of his graduation address. This element he has mastered and understands, and he proceeded to illustrate to the audience some of its qualities. Apparatus of his own construction was placed before him on a table. He examined it with his hands, adjusted the battery, and through the medium of his teacher told the audience what he intended to accomplish. Switches were opened and the circuit completed. He waited for the effect. A bell near by should ring, but there was to response. How Tommy noted the defect the audience could not understand, but he raised his head and said, in sign language, "Too bad." Turning to his teacher as if to reassure her, he made a "never mind" motion with his hands. The farring which comes from the sound had not touched the sharp nerves at the tips of his fingers. The failure of his battery to respond in this case was due, he said, to disarrangement in transit. Other experiments were more successful, and for his efforts he received an enthusiastic ovation, which reached his senses only through the brief description made in the palm of his right hand. Tommy's diploma was presented in the same way as the others, only that his teacher rose with him as he advanced to the front a step or two to receive it, and while the audience was applauding him he calmly examined the precious roll with his hands. Teacher—Next time you're late you must bring an excuse. Don't you forget that. Tommy—Oh, he ain't no good at excuses. Mother finds him out every time!—Tit-Bits. Clever Scheme. "My new play is sure to make a hit," said the eminent actress, "it gives me an opportunity to show 20 superb gowns." "Gracious! How many scenes do you appear in?" "Only five, but one of them's a scene at the dressmaker's."—Philadelphia Press. The Unreasonable Majority. Peace Loving Citizen—But why do you try to reconstruct society by force? Why not bring about your reforms by a resort to the ballot box? Fiery Agitator—We've tried that, and they outvoted us 40 to one. Darn the ballot box!—Chicago Tribune. Where Pa Was a Failure. Clever Scheme. 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 fill you up. 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 Ocat 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 whiskey. 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 Teress, the Florist, 1308 Olive street, the best in the city. Mr. Wm. P. Dye's Buffet, 2801 Manchester avenue, is the place to rest your weary head by taking good cigars and beer. 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. 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. 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. 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 so. Remember he cannot get out, but you can get the St. Louis Palladium by calling at his house—209 South Fifteenth street HARRY PENN, Night—MIXERS—JOHN H. CLARK, Day. THE ROSEBUD BA 2220-2222 Market Street, Phone—Kinloch D-855. St. Louis, Mo. Pool Room in Con IN, Prop. only thoroughly experienced and the competent Colored Undertakers in the A. RUSSELL, boarding and UNDERTA TOM TURPIN, Prop. We are the only thor- tically competent A. Livery Boarding a We have our own Carriage 2118-20-22 Market St. We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only practically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. have our own conveyances and do all our own w Carriages furnished for all occasions. Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Telep We have our own conveyances and do all our own work. Carriages furnished for all occasions. 211S-20-22 Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone, C-390. S. L. PICKETT. Fresh 2601 N. W. Cor. J Open Day Maurer M CA 1402 M No. 5 S. Fourteenth St. TELEPHONES: BELL. Main 2103-A KINL 2606 FRANK 8 and 10 H. H. T PRESCRIB 2605 1901(Fran Best BIG SU BRADE THE GREATEST A. E. WHITAKER, Manager, 1012 Olive St. Rish DRUGS DAY 2601 LAWTON AVENUE, W. Cor. Jefferson and Lawton A Day and Night. SEE Purer Meat and Provision CASH MARKETS: 11402 MARKET STREET. Fourteenth Street. Branch: 3204 La TELEPHONES: 38-A KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell 1004-A K FRANKLIN AVENUE, KINLOCH C 8 and 10 South Jefferson Ave. I. TEMM & S RESCRIPTION DRUGGIST Franklin Ave. An and Av Fresh DRUGS Daily 2601 LAWTON AVENUE N.W. Cor. Jefferson and Lawton Aves. Open Day and Night. Both Telephones. Maurer Meat and Provision Co. Maurer Meat and Provision Co. CASH MARKETS: 1402 MARKET STREET. No. 5 8. Fourteenth Street. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. TELEPHONES: BELL, Maln 2103-A KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lladell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1022 2606 FRANKLIN AVENUE. KINLOCH C 720. 8 and 10 South Jefferson Ave. H. H. TEMM & SONS. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS. Best Always Cheapest. G SUMMER SALE BRADBURY PIANO CO. GREATEST VALUES EVER OFF INTAKER, Manager, ERADEURY New Piano and so Pianos, few weeks posed of discount. 1012 O live St. BIG SUMMER SALE. BRADBURY PIANO CO. THE GREATEST VALUES EVER OFFERED. A. E. WHITAKER, Manager, 1012 Olive St. New Pianos, upright and square. Pianos, used but a few weeks will be dis- posed of at heavy discount. 1012 Olive Street. GEO. WASHINGTON, Secretary. GEO. COX, Vice-President. IRVIN WHEELER Business Agent. BUD GATEWOOD, Cantain THE 400 BASE BALL C MS. reasurer. Headquarters the 400 MORGAN STREET. DICK KENT h Riders Drum C C. W. WILLIAMS, President and Treasurer. 1300 MORGAN DIC Rough Ri Headquarters the 400 BAR. 1300 MORGAN STREET. Rough Riders Drum Corps. HEADQUARTERS AT THE Deer Club, FRED. HUTCHINSON, L. DIO Club, No. 7 Targee St CHINSON, Leader. JOHN FREEMAN DICK KENT, Proprietor. Deer Club, No. 7 Targee Street. PETER H. BURGESS ROSEBUD BAR 2220-2222 Market Street, Phone—Kinloch D-855. St. Louis, Mo. Pool Room in Connection. roughly experienced and the only prae. at Colored Undertakers in the city. RUSSELL, and UNDERTAKING on conveyances and do all our own work. uses furnished for all occasions. , ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone, C-390. DRUGS Daily LAWTON AVENUE, Jefferson and Lawton Aves. Day and Night. Both Telephones. SEE Seat and Provision Co. ASH MARKETS: MARKET STREET. Street. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. DCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell1004-A KINLOCH D-1022 LIN AVENUE. KINLOCH C 720. South Jefferson Ave. EMM & SONS, PTION DRUGGISTS, SUMMER SALE. BURY PIANO CO. ST VALUES EVER OFFERED. New Pianos, upright and square. Pianos, used but a few weeks will be dis- posed of at heavy discount. 1012 Olive Street. IRVIN WHEELER Business BUD GATEWOOD, Captains THE 400 ASE BALL CLUB Headquarters the 400 BAR, STREET. CK KENT ders Drum Corps. No. 7 Targee Street. Leader. JOHN FREEMAN, Manager. CK KENT, Proprietor. And Marcus and Easton Avenues.