St. Louis Palladium

ST.LOUIS PALLADIUM. Vol. XIX. No. 37. [Illustration of a man in formal attire, likely a historical figure]. DEW MOORE MCKSON REV. MOSES DICKSON. Father Dickson's cemetery will be assisted by other organizations and dedicated August 30. It will be under churches. Take Suburban car to Oak-the auspices of the Knights of Labor, land Station. THE PYTHIAN CONCLAVE. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES. The Pythian Conclave and festivities will make next week a gala one in the great World's Fair city. From present indications the twelfth bi-ennial supreme session, K. of P. will eclipse all former conventions. Every arrangement looking toward the safety and welfare of the great host of visitors and delegates has been perfected. The various local committees are BUSY promoting the best interests along their special line of work. Inasmuch as this great assembly is of national character, looking forward to the betterment of the race and country, the undivided support of the public generally is solicited. Fully 5,000 uniform men will be tented at Camp Jackson (Hoehn's grove), in GRAND EN-CAMPMENT, under command of Maj. Gen. Jackson and inspection of Gen. B. J. Carruthers. On the afternoon of September 3, a grand military parade a mile long will pass through some of the most important streets of the city. At night 20,000 people will attend the grand military drill at the St. Louis Coliseum. Attendance at Chicago in 1901 was 10,000. On Sept. 1 the grand spectacular play of Damon and Pythias will be presented at St. Louis Exposition Music hall. This is expected to add greatly to the numerous attractions of the gala week. There will also be a band concert every afternoon at 4 o'clock, excepting Thursday, at Camp Jackson, Attention, Ladies! ARSANIA M. WILLIAMS, Chairman Press and Publicity Committee. KNIGHTS OF PHYTHIAS. NIGHTS OF PITTLES. The twelfth biennial session and encampment of the Supreme Lodge and Uniform Rank of the K. of P. will convene in this city August 31-September 5. Delegates from all parts of America, West Indies, Europe, Africa and the Islands of the Pacific will visit St. Louis. Regiments, battalions and companies of the Uniform Rank have been registered and will be present. They will enjoy camp life at Hoehn's grove the entire week. A reception will be given Monday evening, August 31, at Camp Jackson. Tuesday the opening of the session will take place. There will also be a grand street parade. Thursday evening there will be a grand competitive drill and exhibition at the Coliseum, followed by a ball. Fifteen hundred dollars will be awarded to the victorious drilling company. A. W. Lloyd, chairman; Wm. H. Robinson, secretary. ```markdown ``` Largest of the exhibit in the Main Picture. Dimension, 525 by 1,300 feet, covering over fifteen acres. Will contain four miles of tracks for railways exhibit, and ample space for vehicles and marine transportation exhibit. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES. The B. Y. P. U. of First Baptist church met last Sunday at 5:30 p. m. Rev. W. Pierce, president; Miss Zenobia Brown, secretary. The Evening Star club gave an entertainment at Sexton's garden last Monday night. It was a grand affair. The four clubs—Pleasant Workers, Carnation, Ruth and Gentlemen—will continue working to raise the debt of the church. The rally at the First Baptist church will continue for the next two weeks, as the postor, E. C. Cole, is desirous of raising $500 or $1,000 in a short time. He appeals to all churches and members to assist him. A SURPRISE PARTY. A party of young people met at the residence of Mr. Samuel Hillard and carried a surprise to Mrs. S. P. Farrier, of 4000 Finney avenue. Mrs. Farrier, mother of the deceased Miss Leota Farrier, has just returned from Washington, Ind. She was overjoyed with the thought of knowing that the young people had remembered her so kindly during the lonely days. Those who formed the party were. Misses: Justina Freeman, Mae Barrett, H. Luvenia Mallory, Lillian Vanderburg, Hazel Richardson, Frankie Bard, of Chicago. Messrs: Thomas Irving, Bransford Lewis, Samuel Hillard, William Hyatt, Thomas Taylor, of Cairo, Ill., John Douglass. An elaborate musical programme was rendered by the following participants: Miss Mae Barrett played the Beethoven "Moonlight Sonata." It was well rendered. Mr. Thomas Taylor played a selection from Faust. Mr. Lewis' overture, "Poet and Peasant," is well worth mentioning. Mr. Hilliard's vocal selection, Wagner's "Evening Star," was rendered in an excellent voice and with much feeling. He responded to an encore with Roylen's "You." Mr. William Hyatt furnished music for dancing. The party was chaperoned by Mesdames Marietta Polsere, Julia Douglass, and Mr. John Douglass. Every wife, mother and sister should possess one of these irons. Mrs. Hawkins, of 3940 Fairfax avenue, is the agent for them. Give her a call. ST. LOUIS, MO., SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1903. A NEWPORTER'S VIEWS. A Man Who Believes that When a Woman is Good, Color Does Not Count. The Booker Washington Civic Improvement league, of Newport, Ill., met yesterday in G. W. Young's hall, and firmly resolved to take up the much-needed work of ridding the village of the most indescribable lawlessness. Rev. Hoffman's sermon on crime producing thieves and rascals was more than fulfilled in Newport last week and Sunday. Report has it, and with every appearance of truth, that the wretch, the leader of the mob of adulterers, crap-shooters and would-be decent sympathizers, actually attempted to ruin the girl he was rearing. Report says that this school-girl, about 16 years of age, to whom morals and manners must not (?) be taught, only by the parents, ran from a room on Seventh and Morgan streets, or in that vicinity. You may read of famous runs, but the run of this humble and defenseless Colored girl saved her virtue. The learned divines all over the United States preach about the chastity of the innocent WHITE women, not about the individual good WOMAN. WHITE only is good. Women, as a whole, are not good. They are good in so far as they are WHITE. Hence, God created some women bad, since they were not white. That sacredness known as white women, not WOMEN, but WHITE WOMEN, must be protected by that relic of barbarism and anarchy called LYNCHING. Especially is lynching applicable if the offender is a "licentious Negro." Hence, Mayor-of-Belleville-like, many high officials, while betraying the trust of the people by accepting bribes, endeavor to convince them that respect for the law is foremost with them, by introducing jim-crow car bills and inciting the lower and more ignorant of white rabble against the humblest and best class of citizens, in many respects—the NEGRO. The Missouri legislature, BOODLERS, PERJURERS and BRIBE-TAKERS are all of this class. The sentiment of that legislative boodler's speech will be taken up by many a white divine. Now, Mr. Negro, GUILTY or NOT GUILTY? if it is actually true that that sacred essence known not as WOMEN, but as WHITE WOMEN, has been assaulted by a black-faced man, you will atone for it in a furnace of treatment so CRUEL AND HIDEOUS that the barbarous Turk would blush to look upon it. The old black father or mother who has survived the destructive flames of slavery's lake of intensest fire, are compelled to leave humble but dear little homes by mob violence. Seldom, Danville-Illinois-like, is there any redress, any more than there would be on the Congo river. The tender-hearted Christian (?) divines seldom, if ever, preach how the gull-tless Colored people are treated during mob-violence. But these same Christ-like, weeping divines (?) reach their tender sympathy half-way around the world into Russia's internal affairs by means of petition written in the hideous and lurid light of a burning Negro's body. This burning Negro was accused of assaulting, not the chastity of women, but a WHITE WOMAN. He atoned for the hideousness of his crime at the hands of an infuriated mob of the best citizens. The daily journals say, "While maid and matron looked complacently on, and all went merry as a marriage bell." The following Sunday the white divines scriptually teach their congregation mob-law justice; for WHITE WOMEN must be protected. But will a sermon be preached or an article be written about the run made for her purity by that unprotected, NOT WHITE girl? A run from an PALACE OF WINES AND WET CLUBS immoral monster, who wished to reduce her to disgrace and shame. He may well thank his God that the girl was not WHITE, for his black carcass would have been reduced to charcoal long before this, sanctioned by the many officials, white divines and daily newspapers. Who will take as his text the run made by this sixteen-year-old Colored girl for the preservation of her honor? Furthermore, the woman who bravely defended the girl in the fight in the saloon can never loose the reward due her. No matter what sins she may have to answer for, the blessings of mothers will shower upon her for preventing her dastardly husband from injuring the girl he raised. Mrs. Wright, of Jefferson City, has the interest of the order at heart. A. W. Green and Charles Blanton, of Kansas City, built a gallows to hang their superior officers, but they were hanged themselves. A. W. Green was chairman of the caucus. Dr. Casten beat him to the office of board of management. Miss Hattie Williams, of St. Louis, held her own. She was re-elected as vice-grand princess. Miss Ella Lane lost the election of assistant grand secretary. S. T. Pettigrew, grand master U. B. F. and S. M. T., was in the city last Thursday. He spent a few hours at William Farmer's office. Then went to —. The keys of the city will be turn over to the K. of P. next week. Keep your eye on September 3. The grape parade of K. of P. will take place. Mrs. Tillie Ross, and her loving daughter, Miss Beatrice, will return from Chicago, to-morrow. Her daughter, Miss Ross, is the secretary of T.Palladium. Mrs. C. Foster has visited her cousin, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Lewis, Mothers of Newport, send your daughters to the ebony king of the corrupt dive to be taught morals and manners. He says the day school teacher has no right to do it. Many of you mothers were in sympathy with him. Send your daughters to him. At least let him and the two school members, his backers, select the teacher who shall teach your daughters. ESSENCE. THE SESSION OF U. B. F. AND S. M. T. One little sheet bearing the title of a newspaper, published at Columbia, Mo., attempted to throw mud at the old board of U. B. F. which met at Macon last week. It said that there was some mismanagement of affairs by the old board. The writer of the article must have been looking for something of that kind. By the wise legislation of the board of management of the Grand Lodge last year, the new board was enabled to make an excellent showing. By the aid of Providence only 48 deaths occurred this year, while last year's death list reached 64. A number of the brethren attended the session solely to secure offices, with no regard for the welfare of the order. At its last session there may have been a desire to cast reflection on the old board, but it was nipped in the bud. There never was a more harmonious meeting. More good was accomplished by the order last year than since its organization. ITEMS FROM THE GRAND LODGE At a concert in Macon, Mo., a certain lawyer and a certain principal of St. Louis were the escorts of two pretty girls about three and one-half feet high. Oh, you ought to have seen them! Now, don't mention their names. Mrs. Anderson, of Montgomery, and Mrs. Cummings, of St. Louis, were the most attractive ladies at the session. Mrs. Garnett, of Jefferson City, presided at the organ during the joint session. She is an excellent organist. Prof. Willis N. Brent presided at the joint session of the Grand Lodge. He is the most perfect presiding officer in the state. Mrs. Jennie Irving was the representative of the Palladium in the Grand Temple. Miss Martha V. Webster, the national grand princess, visited the Missouri Grand Lodge. She is a typical Kentucky beauty. She is a teacher in the public schools of Louisville. Mrs. A. Watson, grand secretary of the Grand Temple, is the moving star in that Temple. Her report was the most able we have ever heard. Mrs. Kate Moore, grand princess, is an excellent presiding officer. She is loved and respected by all. Miss Linnie Green, of Macon, worked very hard to make the Grand Temple a success. Mr. J. Goatley, a member of Justice lodge No. 100, had better attend to his Kansas City ladies and let the St. Louis lady, who once lived in Mexico, alone. You understand! Mr. J. W. Swan, of Mexico, Mo. keeps us guessing as to what sort of a man he is. Well ____? Mrs. Lulu Brenner, secretary of Elizabeth Temple No. 12, attended the session, looking as lovely as ever. She was accompanied by her little daughter Cecelia. Mrs. Annie Hyatt, princess of Electa Temple, was also present. Mrs. Della Fields, of Carondelet, was present, accompanied by Mrs. Annie Smith and Mrs. Martha Mitchell, princess or Eureka Temple. LAST, BUT NOT LEAST. An Old-Fashioned BARBECUE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1903. For the Benefit of St. Louis Colored Orphans' Home Building Fund and Winter Coal. Mrs. Wright, of Jefferson City, has the interest of the order at heart. the interest of the order at heart. A. W. Green and Charles Blanton, of Kansas City, built a gallows to hang their superior officers, but they were hanged themselves. A. W. Green was chairman of the caucus. Dr. Casten beat him to the office of board of man- agement. Miss Hattie Williams, of St. Louis, held her own. She was re-elected as vice-grand princess. Miss Ella Lane lost the election of assistant grand secretary. Notes and News Concerning Our People--Weekly Record of Social Events, Deaths, Marriages and Births--Written Especially for St. Louis Palladium. Rev. Lewis Lane, of 3944 St. Ferdinand avenue, fell from a coal car and was very painfully hurt. Mrs. A. H. Cooper, of 23 Targee street, entertained Mrs. M. Lawrence at dinner Monday. Mrs. R. Corbett, of 4437 Kennerly avenue, who was overcome by heat last Wednesday is much better. Mrs. Anna Tillman, of 4010 Finney avenue, is somewhat indisposed this week. Mrs. E. C. Cole, wife of Rev. E. C. Cole, who has been very ill, is up again. Mrs. C. McKinney, wife of Kev. McKinney, we are sorry to say, is still seriously ill. Mr. Charles Brandon, of Edwardsville, Ill., wil spend Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Mary Lawrence. A new restaurant, known as the Kentucky restaurant, has been opened at 1528 Morgan street. A large delegation will leave Sunday night for Washington, D. C., to attend the grand session of the True Reformers. Mrs. Alice Jones, of 315 South Twenty-second street, spent a few days at Collinsville, Ill., last week, with relatives and friends. Mrs. Etta Wilson, of 3033 Dearborn street, Chicago, returned home Friday morning, much pleased with her visit to the World's Fair city. Mrs. Charles Harris, of 33 South Twentieth street, wife of the Owl saloon, left for Chicago last Monday. She will spend several weeks there. Mr. John Fuche, of Hannibal, Mo. died last Monday. He was the uncle of Mrs. John Clark, of 4251 Sacramento avenue. She last last Tuesday to attend the funeral. Mrs. Carrie Floyd, of 2529 Belle Glade avenue, and five of her lady friends, spent last Sunday with the former's sister-in-law, Mrs. S. Jackson, in Collinsville, Ill. Mr. Frank Bowen has moved from 3835 Chouteau avenue to 4289 Sacramento avenue. Mr. John Clark has opened a saloon on Fair and Margaretta avenues. We wish him success. Mrs. Cora Elgin, of 1536 Gratiot street, has just returned from a two-weeks' visit to Clarksville. She is looking well. LAST, BUT I An Old-Fashioned BA At HOEHN THURSDAY, SEPT For the Benefit of St. Louis Colored Orph Admission: Adults. 25c. $2.00 Per Annum, Single Copy 5 cents: LLURGY. evoted to exhibits of minerals of every de- of processes of handling ores and minerals S. T. Pettigrew, grand master of U. B. F. and S. M. T., was in the city last Thursday. He spent a few hours at William Farmer's office. Then he went to —. The keys of the city will be turned over to the K. of P. next week. Keep your eye on September 3. The grand parade of K. of P. will take place. Mrs. Tillie Ross, and her loving daughter, Miss Beatrice, will return from Chicago, to-morrow. Her daughter, Miss Ross, is the secretary of The Palladium. Mrs. C. Foster has visited her cousin, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Lewis, at 2614 Stoddard street. She will start this evening for her sunny home in the south. Mrs. Sarah Sprague, of 1424 Morgan, is conducting a rooming and boarding house, known as the Palace hotel. Mrs. Sprague is an excellent business woman. She attended the session of the U. B. F. at Macon last week. The First Free-Will Baptist church, at Vandeverent avenue and Poplar street, gave an excursion to Carbon-dale, Ill., last Sunday. They had a pleasant time, realizing $140. Rev. Bullock, is pastor. The Palladium is in receipt of the following invitation: "Don and Dona Felipe Negron Flores request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Laura to Mr. O. M. Wood, Monday evening, August 24, at eight o'clock, From the residence of her brother, Don Ramon Negron, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1903." It comes as a surprise to Prof. Wood's St. Louis friends, but all wish him and bride joy and happiness. The 400 Base Ball Team has met and defeated all of the Colored teams in St. Louis, and also some of the semi-professional white teams of Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. Their hardest game was with the Paducah (Ky.) team, who have never met defeat, in a series of three games. The first game in Paducah stood 8 to 3; the second game, 2 to 2, 16 innings; the third game, 6 to 6, 14 innings. Games are accepted from any first-class team. C. W. Williams, president, "400" Bar, 1300 Morgan street. MRS. H. MILLER BURNED. Mrs. H. Miller was very badly burned by gasoline, at 2617 Lawton avenue, and she will be disfigured very much. Troubles do not come singly. Her husband, Mr. Miller, has been confined to his bed since Wednesday. For Rent. One of the most beautifully-furnished flats in the city; is occupied by Mrs. Christiana Gille, of No. 2614A Stoddard street. Call and see her, married couples or single gentlemen. Ladies' terms reasonable. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS. The schedule of autumn examinations by the civil service commission, among which will be held examinations for railway, mall, departmental and post office clerk and carrier. There are an unusual large number of Colored applicants applying for these positions, several of whom are under the care of Newsome and Randals, receiving instruction and qualifying themselves for the position. Call and see them at their office, 4265 St. Ferdinand. BUT NOT LEAST. BARBECUE EHN'S GROVE. SEPTEMBER 10, 1903. Red Orphans' Home Building Fund and Winter Coal. 25c. Children, under ten, Free. Duncan, Mrs. M. B. Caruthers, Mrs. A. Jones, Mr. A. B. n. Mr. James W. Grant. Mrs. M. J. McLean, Sec. Mrs. E, Napier, Treas. J. W. WHEELER. Editor and Manager, ST. LOUIS. MISSOURI. CURRENT COMMENT. Already Servia's new king has run against a cabinet crisis. The wearer of a crown obtained through assassination has never yet found the job an easy one. The famous homestead of the late Senator Allen G. Thurman, the "Old Roman" of Ohio, located at the state capitol, is to be sold to pay the debts of the estate. A current prediction is that the world's yield of gold will be doubled in ten years. If this rate of increase is to be kept up a new definition of money may be needed. Philadelphia's strike in the textile industry caused a loss in wages and otherwise of $17,500,000. Arbitration will be one of the world's greatest gold mines when properly appreciated. Commenting on the beating of a white woman by the superintendent of the penitentiary a Georgia paper says: "Is this the twentieth century?" More pertinent: Is this Georgia? Senator Cockrell, who will reach the age of 70 next year, is not inclined to shoulder the heavy labors of a presidential candidate, but says he is willing to accept another term in the senate. South Dakota's building at the world's fair will be a corn palace. Only corn will be visible on the walls, both outside and inside. The state will also exhibit extensively in mines and in agriculture. The most northerly railroad in the world was opened for business on the 14th of July. It runs from Gellivare, an inland town in Sweden, located 50 miles north of the Arctic circle, to Oftoten, on the coast of Norway. It has been built by the English owners of the iron deposits near Gellivare for the transportation of the ore to tide water. Among the Jefferson relics to be shown at St. Louis will be a display of articles and papers once belonging to Mr. Jefferson, the chair in which he sat while writing the declaration of independence, the French clock he used at Monticello, a replica of his statue, which will be placed in the new parthenon to be erected in his honor in Washington city. The New York capitol has cost $2,721,900. Massachusetts has a $7,000,000 capitol in Boston and Michigan a capitol building at Lansing costing $1,500,000. Texas has recently completed at Austin, at a cost of $3,700,000, one of the most elaborate capitol buildings in the country. Indiana has expended $3,000,000 for the same purpose, Iowa $3,500,000, Kansas $3,500,000 and Minnesota $2,000,000. Congressman Littlefield and Joseph Manley, both powerful men in Maine politics, are publicly opposed to changing the present prohibition law of that state into a statute providing for local option. The influences they represent will easily control the republican state convention, and therefore the movement to force the resubmission of prohibition to the voters is not likely to prosper. Leo XIII. was the second in length of pontificate, and the third in point of age of the popes. The only pope who reigned longer than he was his immediate predecessor, Plus IX., whose reign of 31 years and 7 months was considerably longer than his 25 years and 4 months. The two popes who surpassed the 93 years to which Leo XIII attained last March were St. Agathus, who died in 682 at the great age of 107, and Gregory IX., who succumbed in 1241 at that of 99. George J. Gould, the railway magnate and millionaire, is credited with a desire to go to congress from the New Jersey district in which his summer home. Lakewood, is situated. The present representative, Benjamin F. Howell, is willing to retire in Mr. Gould's favor. Mr. Howell has served five terms already and is getting weary of public life. Another eastern millionaire, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, is being urged by residents of Portsmouth, R. I., to go into politics in a small way. There are over $100,000,000 in half dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels and cents in circulation, about $50,000,000 in silver dollars, $75,000,000 in one dollar bills and $45,000,000 in two dollar bills. And still the cry is for change, change. In New York the street car companies instruct conductors to refuse anything larger than a two dollar bill for fare, owing to the impracticability of carrying enough change to break up the fives and tens that would be forced upon them. A majority of fares are paid in nickels. When the new $2,000,000 school of journalism is established we shall see if it sharpens the nose for news of its graduates. In all the "chairs" and studies spoken of by President Eliot and other college professors we do not notice one that is devoted to teaching what is news and what isn't. That is all there is to "journalism." All there is to poetry is rhyme and reason. But no college in the world can plant it in any human head. What is news and what isn't can be partially learned in a newspaper office, but it is the next thing to instinct. AMERICAN CONSUL ASSASSINATED William C. Magelssen Murdered at Beirut, Syria, by Turks. VICTIM WAS FROM MINNESOTA Shot By Assassin While Riding in His Carriage Through the Streets Last Sunday-Our Government Washington, Aug. 28.—The state department has received a cablegram from Minister Leischman, at Constantinople, announcing that William C. Magelssen, United States vice-consul at Beirut, Syria, was assassinated, Sunday, while riding in a carriage. The American minister immediately brought the crime to the attention of the government and demanded action by Turkey. Acting Secretary Loomis cabled Minister Leischman instructing him to demand the immediate arrest and punishment of the persons guilty of the murder. No demand for money indemnity for the man's family has yet been made, but that probably will follow. Magelssen was appointed from Minnesota. Squadron Ordered to Beirut. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Aug. 28.—President Roosevelt, Thursday night, issued orders that the American-European squadron under command of Rear-Admiral Cotton, should proceed at once to Beirut, Syria, to be in readiness to support any demand the United States may make on account of the assassination there of Vice-Consul Magelssen. Acting Secretary of the Navy Darling sent the following telegram, at 12:15 last night, to Rear-Admiral Cotton, at Nice: "Vice consul at Beirut reported assassinated. Proceed immediately nearest port. Report. [Signed] "DARLING." It is expected the squadron will get away immediately upon the receipt of this cablegram, the Brooklyn, San Francisco and Machias going together. The Brooklyn and the San Francisco are at Villefranche and the Machias is at Genoa. Magelssen, who is a Scandinavian, was appointed vice-consul at Beirut, September 20, 1899, by Consul Gabriel Bie Ravudal, who is of the same nationality. At the time of his appointment as vice-consul he was a consular clerk in Turkey. Magelssen was appointed on the recommendation of Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, who says that he was the son of a prominent Lutheran minister. He was born at Bratsburg, Filmore county, Minnesota. Mr. Magelssen was 30 years old, having been born in 1873. He was educated in the common schools of Minnesota and was a student of the Lutheran college at Decorah, Ia., for three years. For a time he was assistant city assessor of Sioux Falls, S. D., and also associate editor of a paper called the Echo, published there. In the absence of particulars no motive can be ascribed for the crime, and the state department officials have no means of suggesting a theory as to why the viceconsul should have been killed. There have been no complaints, and the meager cablegram conveys not the slightest suggestion of a cause for the crime. President Roosevelt is concerned over the situation, as it has developed to-day, because it indicates an intolerable condition of affairs in Turkey. He recalls the fact that only recently a Russian consul was murdered in Turkey. The European squadron is so situated that it will require several days for it to rendezvous at Beirut. Meantime the officials of the state department will be fully advised by Minister Leishman of the details of the crime, and the president will then be in a position to present to Turkey the demands of the United States with a naval force on the spot of sufficient strength to enforce them adequately. IDE WILL SUCCEED WRIGHT. As Vice-Governor of the Philippines When Latter Assumes Office of Governor General. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Aug. 28.—President Roosevelt announced, Thursday night, that Henry C. Ide, at present a member of the Philippine commission, would be designated as vice-governor of the Philippines, in succession to Gen. Luke E. Wright, when the latter assumes the office of governor general. Mr. Ide has been a member of the commission several years and is held in high esteem by the president and the officials of the war department. The president has selected a man to fill the vacancy made in the personnel of the commission, and has proffered the commissionship to him. No answer to the offer has been received, and until this is at hand the name of the man selected will not be made known. Miss Sturgis to Enter Convent. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 28.—Miss Mary Tyler Sturgis, a well-known young society woman of this city, will enter the monastery of the Convent of Georgetown, D. C., to-day, to take the vows of a novitiate. Miss Sturgis is the daughter of Gen. S. D. Sturgis Gen. Miles Leaves New Hampshire. The Weirs, N. H., Aug. 28.—Lieut-Gen. Miles, yielding to urgent requests, remained to take part in the camp fire of the New Hampshire Veterans' association, and made brief remarks. He left for Boston Thursday evening. The bank at Dalton, with a capital stock of $10,000, was chartered by the secretary of state. An incendiary fire destroyed the large barn of Marion Fullhart, near Omaha, Putnam county, with five head of horses. Edward Wells, a Nodaway county school-teacher, left recently for Santiago, Chile, where he is engaged as professor of science in a French school. Miss May Schafer, of Conception, has filed suit against Thomas M. Glass, a farmer neighbor, for $20,000 damages, for alleged defamation of character. Samuel B. Cook, secretary of state; C. T. Brune, state bank examiner, and several men of Nevada will go to Englewood, Ok., on a two weeks' chicken hunt. Julius Erickson, the St. Louisan who foretold McKinley's career with remarkable accuracy, has again read the stars and says Circuit Attorney Folk, of St. Louis, will be elected governor in 1904 and president of the United States in 1908. The Bank of Arrow Rock, at Arrow Rock, Saline county, was visited by four burglaries at an early hour the other morning. The vault was blown open and wrecked. The burglaries secured a small sum of money and hastily made their escape, the explosion arousing the whole town. The total paid admissions to the state fair at Sedalia last week were 21,859, while the gate receipts were $5,500 in excess of last year. Although the amount of premiums was $8,000 more than in 1902, the fair will have more than $2,000 in the treasury after all indebtedness is paid. Plans are making for some changes in the library of Missouri university so as to give room for the Vest collection of books, which was presented to the university by ex-Senator Vest when he retired from congress. An additional room will be fitted up with shelves and tables, making an additional reference room. At a meeting of Missouri stockmen and breeders at the state fair grounds in Sedalia, it was decided to perfect a state organization in the interest of the industry and to prepare for a grand exhibit at the world's fair next year. N. H. Gentry, president of the Missouri state fair board, was authorized to appoint a committee of five from each class of stockmen to meet at Kansas City, October 22. Mrs. Naomi Wright, in the enjoyment of almost perfect health, has just celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday in Ten Mile township, Macon county. Five generations assembled to do her honor and the roll call showed five children, 34 grandchildren, 90 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Her oldest son is 70. With her husband she came to Missouri in a wagon pulled by oxen in 1829. Morgan G. McMahan, for 30 years a missionary to the poor in St. Louis and northwest Missouri, is dead in St. Louis. Mr. McMahan was born 63 years ago in Saline county. At 38 he began his life of Christian mission work, and in the face of repeated offers of commercial positions, for nearly a third of a century his life was one of simple heroism. He never married and had no living relatives except a sister. Andy Rimbue, deputy county assessor of Macon county, was assaulted by Charles Reed, camp boss of the Central Coal & Coke company's properties at Keola. The officer alleges that when he was making his official call at Read's residence Reed, without any provocation, shut the door in his face. Then the officer says he went to the rear door, where Reed met him and administered a heavy blow on the face of the officer. President W. S. McDearmont, of the Cape Girardeau normal; Superintendent J. M. Greenwood, of Kansas City; President John R. Kirk, of the Kirksville normal; Prof. J. A. Whiteford, of Moberly; President E. B. Craighead, of the Warrenburg normal; Prof. G. B. Buchanan, of Sedalia; Walter Williams, of Columbia, and Commissioner J. H. Hawthorne, of Kansas City, embracing the foremost educators of the state, met at Jefferson City on Saturday in the office of State Superintendent W. T. Carrington to formulate plans for the preparation of a state educational exhibit at St. Louis during the world's fair. Gov. Dockery has appointed the following delegates to represent the state of Missouri at the American Mining congress, which meets in Deadwood and Lead, S. D., September 7 to 12: W.B. Williams, Rich Hill; R.G. Rembauer, Norvinger; J. C. McGrew, Lexington; W.E. Murlin, Bevler; B.H. Johnson, Mendota; B.F. Wiley, Lexington; William Ballew, Higginsville; William Walton, Higbee; H.J. Cantwell, St. Louis; A.A. Daugherty, Mine Lamotte; J.H. B Hartle, Union; Hugh McGregor, Potosi; John Kingston, Granby; W.S. Mears, Joplin; J.W. Ayler, Webb City; Henry Brumbeck, Mt. Vernon. Harris Hurst, the Missouri ossified man, is to be brought to his home in Washington county from a New York hospital. The New York physicians found his case too hard for them. The south wall of a double two-story brick business house of J. H. Kaylor, at Nevada, fell. An excavation for a new building to adjoin it was the cause. Walter L. Lampkin, the law partner of W. O. Cardwell, of Kansas City, has been appointed private secretary to Senator Francis M. Cockrell. Mr. Lampkin formerly lived in Warren-sburg, Mr. Cockrell's home town. STATE ITEMS. Morseless Velled Prophet Parade. St. Louis will celebrate the coming annual visit of the Velled Prophet on Tuesday, October 6, 1903, with an electric paganit which, it is promised, will eclipse all previous celebrations in honor of the prophet. The novel feature of this year's parade will be the employment of electricity for propelling and illuminating the floats. The familiar blanketed steeds, led by dusky grooms in red cloaks, have been discarded for the trolley wire and motor. By this method, of course, the route of the parade will be confined to streets which have car tracks. It will be the first "hoveless" pageant which the Velled Prophet has deigned to honor with his august presence. Swore Himself Off the Bench. At Kansas City, believing that he will not be able to be impartial in the second trial of Lulu Prince-Kennedy for the murder of her husband, which has been set for November 16, Judge John W. Wofford swore himself off the bench and named Judge Joshua W. Alexander, of Gallatin, to try the case. At her first trial Mrs. Kennedy was given ten years in the penitentiary. She killed her husband, Phillip H. Kennedy, a month after their marriage, because he refused to live with her. Lively Times at a Church Social. Lively Times at a Church Social. Rev, Jefferson Denny, a minister of Golden City, and his son, Walter Denny, were arrested and taken to Carthage for trial on a charge of assault and disturbing the peace. The complaining witness is Frank Schmidt, also a resident of Golden City, who claims that the men assaulted him at an ice-cream social. It seems that there was some trouble as to the proceeds of the social. The men fought in the presence of a large concourse of church members. Found in an Abandoned Shaft. The mysterious disappearance of James H. Plumlee, of near Joplin, was cleared up the other day, when his dead body was taken from the bottom of an abandoned shaft, near the Conklin mine, at Chitwood. The shaft in which Plumlee had fallen was 125 feet deep. Theories of murder and accident are advanced as to the cause of his death. Plumlee, who was a miner, had been to Joplin to draw his week's salary, and started to walk home at a late hour. Au. Old Railroad Engineer. An Old Railroad Engineer. Francis D. Becker, aged 70, one of the oldest railroad men in St. Louis, died, a few days ago, after a lingering illness. The cause of his death was dropy and heart trouble. Becker had been a resident of St. Louis for many years. He was a locomotive engineer for 46 years. About three years ago he retired, as he was growing too old to run an engine. He was the first man to run a locomotive across the Eads bridge. Zinc Oxide Plant at Springfield. The location of a zinc oxide plant at Springfield, which has been hanging fire for months, on account of the difficulties attending the securing of the right for a switch, has been definitely settled. The plant will be one of the largest in the country, and will control a large part of the zinc output of the southwest. Missouri Band Tournament. The sixth annual band tournament of southwest Missouri was held at Pierce City, with the following bands in attendance: Monett, Springfield, Aurora, Marionville and Granby. Miss Carrie L. Grande was crowned as the fair Euterpe, goddess of music. Continue. Till November. The cases against Senator Farris and Smith, under indictment for bribery, were continued, at Jefferson City, until November 2 and 4, respectively, upon the affidavit of his physician that Senator Farris was physically unable to attend court. Killed by a Roll of Paper. Frank J. McIntyre, 25 years old, a water inspector employed by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., was instantly killed by a roll of tar roofing paper, which fell from the Mines and Metallurgy building and struck him on the head. Gave Him Five Dollars. The will of Sarah Bechtold, filed with the probate court at St. Louis, says: "On account of the conduct of my husband and the treatment I have received at his hands, I give and bequeath to him the sum of but $5." Assnulted a Deputy Assessor: Andy Rimbuo, a deputy asessor, of Macon county, alleges that Charles Reed, a mine boss, assaulted him when he made an official call at Reed's home. He swore out a warrant for Reed's arrest. Snays Havana's Method is Superior. Senor Pedro D. Bruzzi, in St. Louis on an inspection tour for Havana, Cuba, declares his city's method of collecting and disposing of its garbage is far superior to St. Louis. Cass County Old Settlers. A large crowd attended the annual picnic of the old settlers of Cass county at Chandierville. Hon James Elliott, of Havana, was the principal speaker. Clarksbury Review Sold. The Clarksbury Review has changed hands, W. C. McFadden and J. C. Geddy selling out to J. E. Smith, of Springfield, who assumes charge at once. Telephone for Mountain Grove. The Mountain Grove Telephone Co., with $10,000 capital, has been organized, the object of which is to connect Mountain Grove with other towns. Largest for Years. When the Mechanics' bank became owner of the Merchants' block for $40,000, it was the largest real estate transaction in Moberly for years. Two Men Sacrifice Their Lives in Attempting to Rescue Others. Three Others Missing and Are Thought to be Lost-All Railroad Traffic Blockaded. Council Bluffs, Ia., Aug. 28.-The Missouri river valley from Missouri Valley, 20 miles north, to Pacific Junction, 15 miles south of here, is almost lake for the entire distance, and of the five trunk lines running east from here only one, the Illinois Central, is able to get a train in or out of the city. Two persons, H. H. Larue, of Corning, and A. R. Fash, a Clinton (Ia.) horseman, lost their lives while attempting to rescue a number of persons from the fair grounds, which were suddenly flooded. Larue was electrocuted while pushing a boat under an electric light wire, and Fash was drowned. Three others are missing, and are thought to have lost their lives on the flooded fair grounds. The flood was caused by a sudden rise in the Nodaway river early Thursday, which submerged the grounds before those having charge of the exhibits knew of their danger, part of them being asleep. The water reached a depth of 21 feet on the grounds, and washed away a number of building. The railroads are the heaviest sufferers from the flood. The Burlington, east and south, has half a dozen bad washouts, and their track is under water at a number of other points. Their bridge at Malvern was washed out entirely, and traffic is badly blocked. The Wabash road, which runs south, has several washouts. The Northwestern tracks between this city and Missouri Valley are nearly all under water, and no trains have been run over them. At Red Oak, Hastings, Villisa, Glenwood and Malvern from four to seven inches of rain fell, and the entire country is flooded. The Rock Island and road has been unable to get trains further west than Atlantic, and the Milwaukee is blockaded at Neola. SOLVING MURDER OF A CHILD. Police Accuse Ex-Convict Who Wanted to "See What Was Inside" His Victim. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 28.—After a week of investigation the police think they have learned who the murderer of four-year-old Alphonse Wilmes is, and they have sent broadcast over the country circulars offering a reward of $1,000 for the arrest of Charles Price, alias Emil Waltz. Price, or Waltz, as he is known in Detroit, was seen on the day of the little fellow's disappearance near the spot where the body was found, and he was also seen within a block of the Wilmes home. The police also have a person to whom Waltz, it is alleged, very recently made a proposition to get a child and cut it open "to see what was inside." Waltz, as he is best known to the police, is an ex-convict of such habits, it is alleged, as to place him under suspicion as being capable of such a crime. He answers the description of the man who committed a similar murder at Rockford, Ill. "FAKE DIRECTORY" SWINDLE. Jacob Geist Taken Into Custody Charged With Swindling Bankers and Merchants. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 28.—A "fake directory" swindle of national proportions and by means of which over $1,000,000 has been taken from merchants, bankers, etc., all over the country, is alleged by the local detectives as the ground for the arrest of Jacob W. Geist. Geist, who claimed to represent the National Gazetteer, of New York, and Chicago, was taken into custody here. Thursday, charged with having obtained money by false pretenses from five local firms. The officers declare that Geist's doings are connected with those of James Fallon, arrested in New York last April, and of Arthur Hubbard, arrested in Washington about the same time on similar charges. According to the detectives the men go to merchants and solicit advertising. If a bonifide order signed by the merchant is given it is raised in amount and so changed as to provide for payment at a date before delivery of the directory and advertisement. If the merchant refuses he is persuaded to sign a blank application for a sample copy which later appears as a contract for payment over the victim's signature. It is said that many merchants have paid rather than become involved in legal difficulties. The five local firms were swindled in amounts ranging from $25 to $100. The officers claim the scheme is being worked all over the United States and Europe, with a central office where the papers are altered by means of acids and printing appliances. AN UNDERGROUND PANIC. Another Car Fire On the Metropolitan Underground Railway in Paris-Several Injured. Paris, Aug. 28.—A fire which broke out in a car of the Metropolitan underground railroad at the Hotel de Ville station, Thursday, caused a panic among the passengers, who jumped from the train. Several persons were injured and one woman fractured her skull. The other passengers were less seriously injured. The Massachusetts Placed in Dry Dock at Brooklyn Navy Yard. An Examination of Her Hull Shown Some Ugly Rents Made in Contact with Egg Rock. New York, Aug. 28.—The battleship Massachusetts has gone into dry dock at the Brooklyn navy yard. For the first time the injuries her hull sustained by striking Egg Rock, near Bar Harbor, Me., on August 12, were exposed. From a hole in the starboard garboard strake water came as from a geyser. This puncture is back from the bow, about one-sixth of the ship's length. It extends $3\frac{1}{2}$ feet across the plate, and its greatest width is four inches. Almost directly opposite this rent, on the port side of the keel, are two punctures. One is 18 inches long, running athwartships, and hault an inch in its greatest width. The other, close to the first, extends four feet across the plate and 14 inches along the seam, the widest part of the opening being half an inch. Back of these points minor injuries dot the underbody of the ship on both sides all the way to the stern. At the stern end of the keel a new injury, not before reported, was found. It is on the port side, where the heavy metal plating of the keelson has been ripped and twisted for a distance of ten feet. A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock Will Probe Alleged Indian Tertory Irregularities. Washington, Aug. 28.—Secretary Hitchcock of the interior department has announced his intention of having a thorough and impartial investigation made into alleged irregularities in Indian territory. This announcement was made in response to a request from the Dawes commission, which relates that "the result of years of remitting toll is threatened by financial reports and questionable journalism. We urge that there be assigned to the work of investigation one whose reputation for honesty, ability and fearlessness is well established, whose findings will be universally accepted." THEY HAD A CLOSE CALL Wreck of the Rear Car of Barnum & Bailey's Sleeper Train at Wildwood, Pa. Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 28.—The third section of the Barnum & Bailey circ train, composed almost entirely of sleeping cars for the performers, was wrecked at Wildwood, Pa., on the Pittsburg & Western railroad, early Thursday morning, and a serious accident was narrowly averted. As the section of the train was passing on the northbound track, a freight train on the south-bound track got beyond control of the crew and came dashing down the grade. Just as the last of the sleepers was almost clear, the runaway train jumped the track, and one car crashed into the rear sleeper, damaging the car badly, and rudely awaiting the 40 people on board. None was injured. TRAIN WENT THROUGH BRIDGE Engine and Cars Thrown Into Rife —Engineer and Fireman Escaped by Swimming Ashore. Creston, Ia., Aug. 28.—At Kent, he the engine and 17 cars of a freight train on the Burlington road was through a bridge that had been weak ened by the high water, carrying both with it the engineer and fireman. Both escaped by swimming to shore. The and one-half inches of water fell out Creston and vicinity after midnight. Wednesday night in six hours, waiking tracks out, and destroying much stacked hay and grain. The storm was the worst ever known in this vicinity. CUT HIS COUSIN'S THROAT. A Love-Sick Youth Wields a Rant Because His Cousin Would Not Consent to Marry Him. St. Louis, Aug. 28.—Because she would not consent to become his wife Frank Montgomery, 19 years old of the throat of his 17-year-old cousin Dolle Montgomery, at the home of the girl's aunt, Mrs. Delia Montgomery at 11 o'clock Wednesday night. The cut was made with a razor on the left side of the neck and is two and one-half inches long. The juvenile vein is affected, but not severed. The tor who is attending the case sure there is but small hope for the crime recovery. Montgomery was arrested shortly after the cutting and locked up. Rare Exhibits for Exposition. Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 28.—The North ern Pacific liner Victoria, which is rived, Thursday, from the order brought in a consignment of orchid bulbs from Manila, which will be for warded to St. Louis to be exhibited the fair. Over Four Thousand Smiths. New York, Aug. 28.—More than 1000 Smiths were present at the tween-eighth and largest annual reunion of the Smith family and friends of Peapack, N. J. Their ages range from a few weeks to 80 years. St. Louis Palladium. YEARS AGO—A BOY'S PLAINT. I reckon years and years ago To be a boy was bully fun; You just was born, and then you'd grow And keep on growing till you'd done You want to school awhile, I know, But mostly you'd just grow and grow. The pies and things they used to make (we often heard my father tell) The pies and dumplings and the cake, The cookies, tarts and jam as well! Of course, corn-bread they'd also bake, But mostly it was pies and cake. You went in swimming every day— In summer-time at any rate. The other boys would come to play; You had a gun; you'd coast and skate. Some work there was, of course—but say— It mostly was just play and play. Twas putting-time the whole year through. And Fourth July would last a week; Old Santa Claus was really true, And drove his reindeerels a like streak. Of course, there were the chores to do— But who would care with Santa true? And then the people who were grown, They gave a boy a little rest; A follow then was let alone, And went to bed when he thought best. Sometimes your father's scold, I own, But mostly you were let alone. Toward be more fun I really know (A mother's club is my ma's forte) If I had been some years ago. (My ma he reads my school report!) Some things, of course, were pretty slow— But I'd a chance it years ago! -Hayden Carruth, in Woman's Home Companion. THE KIDNAPPED MILLIONAIRES A Tale of Wall Street and the Tropics By FREDERICK U. ADAMS Copyright, 1901, by Lothrop Publishing Company. All rights reserved. MR. PENCE DISCOVERS GOLD. With much difficulty Mr. Simon Pence sealed the heights overlooking the bay, and, aided by Vincent, finally reached the top. He cast one fingering look behind, and followed his young and sturdy companion into the half-jungle which lay before them. They found it possible, by following the cliffs along the ocean, to make fairly rapid progress. Their march was hindered by frequent gorges, but they proceeded laboriously but steadily in a southern direction. Shortly after noon they ate their luncheon. They rested on a ledge fronting the sea. Two miles to the south a huge crag reached out into the blue water, and beyond no land was visible. They decided to make an attempt to climb the promontory, believing that it would afford a view of the south shore, and perhaps a general survey of the island. The brush thickened. They slowly forced their way through a thicket; Mr. Pence in advance. Suddenly he gave a cry of terror, and fell over Vincent in his wild retreat. Before them stood a monster—the grotesque figure of a human being, with outstretched arms, hideous face and protruding teeth. At a glance Vincent recognized it as a stone image, and shouted reassuringly to the fleeing explorer. In the open space before them were the massive ruins of temples and palaces; the tomb of a city which had flourished and decayed long before the dawn of recorded history. On mound and terrace were crumbling relics of a former grandeur. The ruins covered many acres, and lay back from the cliffs a distance not exceeding 100 yards. There were traces of ancient fountains, with figures half-buried in the mud and slime of what once were pleasing pooqs. In the center of the ruined city was a pyramidal mound, surmounted by the wreck of what once must have been an imposing structure. Vincent climbed up this mound and gazed with awe on the grewsome figures which were scattered in odd postures around the stone floor of the temple. In one corner the floor had caved in and revealed a subterranean vault or chamber of unknown extent. Vincent lowered himself to the floor below. At first it was so dark he could not survey his surroundings, but his eyes became accustomed to the gloom. He stumbled over the uneven surface and entered a passageway leading to the left. Mr. Pence called to him from overhead, and Vincent answered; his voice sounding sepulchral as it echoed through the corridors. A fallen stone block half closed the opening into a smaller room. Vincent lit a match and entered. The walls were covered with a growth of fungus, but his eyes were riveted to a collection of carved figures of various size which lined three sides of the wall. They evidently were images or idols, and were ugly enough to have scared the worshippers into any confession or belief. They rested on a stone shelf formed by the top of a mosaic wainseoting which projected from the walls. Vincent picked up one of the smaller images and started back to examine it more carefully in the daylight. It seemed remarkably heavy, but he imagined it to be bronze or copper, tarnished by the rust of ages. Vincent found Mr. Pence looking down into the hole, but making no move to quit terraria. "See what I have found," said Vincent, handing the idol to Mr. Pence. "What a singularly ugly thing," remarked the capitalist as he handled it gingerly. "It's awful heavy. What's it made of?" Vincent pulled himself out of the hole and brushed the mold from his clothes. Mr. Pence looked intently at the image. He "hefted" it judiciously. It was of a rusty brown color, but smooth and well preserved. "Remarkably heavy!" said Mr. Pence. His eyes glittered and he was much excited. "Let me take your knife," he said. Vincent produced a knife and opened the big blade. Mr. Pence dug into the flat nose of the idol. He gave the knife a circular motion, and on the end of the blade lay a shining yellow chip. "Gold!" he shouted. "Gold! Solid gold! Solid gold, and it weighs more than ten pounds!" The face of the millionaire was a study. For a moment it shone with the splendor of the gold shaving which rested in the palm of his hand. At that instant he was oblivious to his surroundings. He clenched the image tightly and regarded it with a rapt expression such as a mother lavishes on her babe. Suddenly his attitude changed. He recovered himself with a start. His face darkened. He glared at Vincent and drew back from him as in aversion. "Where did you find this?" he almost shrieked in a voice harsh and trembling with excitement. "Back in there," said Vincent, waving his hand away from the mouth of the cavern "There's lots of them back there." "Take me there! Take me there!" He dropped his voice almost to a whisper. He glanced around as if expecting some one might see or hear him. "They belong to us," he said, laying his hand affectionately on Vincent's shoulder. "To us; do you understand, to us. We found them—you and I. They are ours, Vincent, all ours. We will divide them between us two—just you and I. Help me down there. Let me see them. Are you sure there is a lot of them? Perhaps they are not like this one. Bigger, did you say? Which way is it? How awful dark it is! Take hold of my hand!" Before the magic of the touch of gold the natural cowardice of the elderly millionaire disappeared. Twice he fell and bruised his hands, but THEY WERE UGLY ENOUGH. he did not care. They came to the vault. Vincent went in first and lit a match. Mr. Pence gave an exclamation of delight. He rushed to one of the images, lifted it, ran his fingers lovingly over the surface and laughed with joy. The match burned out and the room was dark as midnight. "Light another, quick!" shouted Simon Pence. "I'll tell you what you do," he exclaimed, as the match lightened up the gloom. "I will stand outside and you hand them to me, and I will carry them where we can see them." Vincent did as he was told. He started at one end of the shelf and felt his way around, and handed the images to the outstretched hands of Mr. Pence, who carried them along the corridor and placed them in a corner of the outer room. It took an hour or more to do this, at the end of which time Vincent declared that all figures were removed. Mr. Pence began testing the images. As he dug into each idol and found it gold his joy knew no bounds. Vincent also was delighted. He owned a half interest in more property than he ever had hoped to obtain, unless by chance some of his cherished plans should find a financier. Both forgot the flight of time. They counted the idols and images and found there were 63. They then attempted to estimate the weight of their treasures. They calculated the smallest one at ten pounds and the smallest ranged all the way up to one estimated at not less than 70 pounds. As nearly as they could judge, after carefully estimating the weight of each image, the total was about 1,575 pounds. "How much is gold worth a pound?" asked Vincent, as he held an idol out at arm's length. He remembered that he could "hold out" a weight of 30 pounds, and this one required all of his muscular effort. "Gold is worth about $224 a pound," said Mr. Pence. "That is based on the amount of gold in colos. This looks like pure gold to me. It is awful soft. Don't rub that image like that; you will wear it out. What time is it?" Vincent had no watch; neither had Mr. Pence, but they thought it was about three o'clock in the afternoon. "We must be going back at once," said Vincent. "What are we going to do with those things? We can't carry them with us. Let's each take two of the smaller ones and start along. We can get help to-morrow and carry the rest of them to the bungalow. In the meanwhile we will put them back in that vault." "What are you talking about, man?" exclaimed Simon Pence. "Go and leave this gold here? Never! Never, sir, never! Go away and leave $350,000 in gold unguarded? I cannot think of it. You go back to camp and get help. I will remain." "Who is going to find it or steal it?" demanded Vincent. "The chances are that no one has been here before in a thousand years. If they had been, the gold would not be here. It is as safe as in a vault in New York. Come along, Mr. Pence. How dark it is getting? What is that moaning sound? We must go back. It is going to storm!" "I will never leave this gold here!" said Mr. Pence. "It is not safe. You go back and I will remain. I am not afraid. I will stay all night if necessary. Come back in the morning and bring help and food." "That is foolish, Mr. Pence," said Vincent. He had climbed out of the cavern and stood facing the sea. "Come on," he said. "There is going to be an awful storm. It looks like a hurricane. Come on; you must not remain here." "Go back, and let me alone," said Mr. Pence. "I will never, never leave here alive with this gold unguarded. I have a gun. I am not afraid. Go on back to the camp. Tell them the gold is ours—all ours. If I stay here and take care of it, I ought to have more than half of it. Go ahead, before the storm breaks!" It was useless to argue with him. Vincent bade him good-bye and started on a run for Morton's Bay. He had not gone a quarter of a mile before the storm struck the island. The first blast swept him from his feet. A falling tree half buried him in its branches, and his face was scratched and bleeding. A few rods away was a gully. Struggling to his feet he run and crawled in that direction. He remembered reaching the edge of the gully. There was a crash and a roar; Vincent saw a flash of light and lost consciousness. How long this lasted he did not know. He awoke with the rain beating on his face. There was a dull pain in his head. The rage of the storm was demoniac. Crawling along the ground, guided by the incessant flashes of lightning, he reached the shelter of rock, which he shared with an iguana and a huge rock python, whose shiny scales glistened in the flame from the heavens. The two reptiles cuddled up to the explorer. The big snake ran his flat head between Vincent's coat and his back, and lay motionless. The lizard was more nervous, and ran back and forth along the narrow ledge, but lay most of the time with his crested back resting against Vincent's right arm. "I was not afraid of them," Vincent explained later. "The storm was so much more frightful than they that I did not mind them. I knew that both of them were harmless, though that snake was big enough to swallow a deer or a man. But he was as scared at the storm as I was, and I tell you any company was welcome that night. I went asleep finally, and when I woke up the storm was over and the snake and lizard were gone." Simon Pence was venturing out of his dungeon when the storm swept in from the sea. He heard the roar and dropped back in time to miss a palm tree, torn up by the roots and hurled over his head. An instant later one of the huge monoliths fell from its pedestal and crashed through the floor to the south of where he stood. He ran back and forth shouting and waving his hands in terror. From a hundred crevices the rain poured in streams upon the floor. At first it ran down the black corridor, but as the storm increased it began to rise. Inch by inch it rose. The millionaire splashed through the muddy flood and took refuge on a slab of stone which had fallen from the floor above. Here he remained all night, the waters steadily creeping toward him until at last it seemed to find an outlet to the west and remained stationary. The idols and images in the far corner were half buried in debris and water. The larger one lifted its head above the flood, and his wicked eyes gleamed in their sockets in the flashes of lightning. Blue flames of electricity ran along the walls of the cavern; balls of fire and tongues of phosphorescent flame glowed in its depths. Above the roar and turmoil of the storm, Mr. Pence could hear wailing cries as of some soul in torment. It was probably his imagination, but there were sounds as if giants were struggling on the shattered floors above his head. Through the long night Mr. Pence remained in this cavern and heard the storm lashing above his head. No sleep came to his eyelids. When day came and the last rumble of the thunder died away in the north, he was so cramped he could hardly move. He succeeded in wading through the water, and after much effort crawled out into the open air bringing one of the idols with him. In the warmth of the sun his clothes soon dried. He sat down beneath a tree where he could watch the opening of the cave. He closed his eyes for a moment and fell asleep. When Vincent awoke and found himself alive and not much injured, except for a contusion on the back of his head, he hunted for the idols and soon found them. He was just starting to return to the ruined city when he heard a shout to the north, and the next instant the report of a gun. Vincent shouted in return, and in a few minutes saw Sidney Hammond and Palmer J. Morton coming towards him. Driefly he ex- plained what had happened, and the three set forth for the temple where Mr. Pence was guarding the treasure. The indignation of Sidney and Mr. Morton was tempered by a fear that the millionaire had not survived the fate which his avarice had tempted. They soon reached the temple. At first they did not observe Mr. Pence. Vincent had crawled down into the cavern and announced that no one was there before Sidney discovered the slumbering guardian under a calabash tree. It was a pathetic figure which the three men approached. His hat had fallen to the ground, and the matted gray hair half covered the eyes of the sleeping financier. One hand was firmly clutched to the idol. In the relaxed fingers of the other hand was a stout club. The linen clothes were bedraggled in mud and slime. The right foot was in a pool of water. Were it not for the slight but regular heaving of the soiled shirt bosom they would have thought him dead. Mr. Morton pushed the idol with his foot. The hand of the sleeper instinctively tightened its grip. He awoke with a start, and with surprising agility sprang to his feet "Back! back!" he shouted. "You shall not have it! I will die first!" He brandished the club defiantly and swung a blow at Mr. Morton, who stepped back, and narrowly evaded it. "Wake up, Mr. Pence," said Sidney Hammond. "You are all right! Come out of your trance; it is time to go home." Simon Pence blinked his eyes, ran his hand over his forehead and came to his senses. He threw himself into Sidney's arms and gave way to his emotions. When he recovered there was no difficulty in persuading him to go back to the bungalow. In fact, he was eager to go. The experiences of the night had overmastered his rapacity. Each of the four carried one of the images, and an hour later were on the raft and soon after all the members of the Social Island Colony once more were beneath the roof of the bungalow. After a meal they repaired to their rooms and enjoyed several hours of refreshing sleep. It was late in the afternoon before the castaways recovered from the effects of the hurricane. [To Be Continued.] Two stories by a Preacher: Two stories by a newspaper. Rev. Dr. Parkin, in his address before the Ministerial union at Witherspoon hall one Monday, told two good stories. The first was of a young minister in the coal regions who had an impediment in his speech. He tried many remedies without avail, till at last, after saving a goodly proportion of his salary by denying himself the comforts of life, he came to Philadelphia to be cured, because he had heard there were so many "speakeasies" here. The other was a minister whose education in business matters had been sadly neglected. He had a small charge also, and eked out a living by writing for the papers. One day he received a check for $15, made payable to his order. He took it to the local bank, and, handing it in, was told to indorse it. He hesitated a moment, and then, taking up the precious document, wrote on the back: "I heartily indorse this check." Philadelphia Telegraph Overmatched. An amusing incident was witnessed in a cigar store the other afternoon. A newsboy, having picked up a cigar stump, walked in and, addressing the man behind the counter, said: "Say, boss, give us a match." The The man behind the counter, looking down, said: "My young friend, we are not here for the purpose of giving away matches; we sell them." "How much are dey?" was the question. "One cent a box," the clerk' announced. The urchin stuck his hand into his pocket and produced, after a great deal of hunting, a penny and handed it to the man. He received his box of matches, and, taking one out, lit the "butt." Returning the box to the man back of the case, he said: "Say, put dis box on de shelf, and when a gentleman comes along and asks you for a match, why, give him one out of my box."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Old-Time Voting in Baltimore Old-Time Voting in Baltimore. Andrew Simpson, one of the oldest voters in Baltimore, recalls with much amusement an incident at an election in the city in know-nothing times. A visitor to Baltimore was walking near one of the polls with his wife when he was approached by some of the know-nothings and asked to vote. He replied that he did not live in Baltimore, but they said that did not make any difference and hustled him up to the polls and made him vote. Then they threw him into the street. Another party came along, brushed the mud off him, declared it was a shame to treat him so, and asked him to vote again. He protested that he had just voted, but that made no difference, and he voted and was again thrown into the street. In that way he voted three times—Baltimore Sun. A Miracle. An English contemporary tells the following good story of muscular Christianity: In a smoking room of a hotel in Dublin, where sat a huge priest, some men were scoffing stupidly about miracles. Up rose the priest and offered to perform a miracle. He seized the most blatant of the scoffers, carried him to the door, and kicked him into the street. When the unhappy youth returned the priest asked, "An did you break your back?" "I did not," was the answer. "Well, it's a miracle you didn't," answered the priest. -N. Y. T. Bone. FOR SUNDAY READING Of all things far, I love the host The distance from the earth to west; For by that space and all within, God's mercy parts me from my sin. And best I love, of all things high, The space between the earth and sky; For by that height beyond all ken God's love exceeds the love of men. I love, of deep things undefied, A father's pity for his child; For by that depth so far, so clear, God pities all that faint and fear. O Father, Father, endless kind, I thank Thee for my human mind, But chief of all my praise shall be That mind cannot encompass Thee! -Amos R. Wells, in S. S. Times. IF WE HAD OUR CHOICE. Would Our Way Be Better If Whatever Is Painful, Bitter and Sorrowful Were Omitted? Would it be better if we had the direction of our own affairs? sometimes we are tempted to think, says Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D., in New York Observer. If this we were permitted to us, no doubt there would be a great change in the method of what we now call Providence. We would at once eliminate all that is painful and unpleasant in our lot. We would have only prosperities, with no adversities, only joys, with no sorrows. We would exclude pain from our life and all trouble. The days would all be sunny, with no clouds or storms. The paths would all be mossy and strewn with flowers, without thorns or any rough places. All this has a very pleasing aspect for us, when we think of it lightly and in a superficial way. Would not that be better than as we have it now? Would we not be happier, and would not life mean more to us in blessing and good, if we could direct our own affairs, and leave out whatever is painful, bitter, adverse or sorrowful? So most of us would probably say at first, before we have thought of the question deeply and looked on to the end. But really the greatest misfortune that could come to us in this world would be to have the direction of the affairs and the shaping of the experiences of our lives put into our own hands. We have no wisdom to know what is best for ourselves. Today is not all of life—there is a long future, perhaps many years in this world, and then immortality hereafter. What would give us greater pleasure to-day might work us harm in days to come. Present gratification might cost us unlost loss and hurt in the future. Our wants and our real needs are not always the same. We want pleasure, plenty, prosperity—perhaps we need pain, self-denial, the giving up of things that we greatly prize. We shrink from suffering, from sacrifice, from struggle—perhaps these are the very experiences which will do the most for us, which will bring out in us the best possibilities of our natures, which will fit us for the largest service to God and man. There is something wonderfully inspiring in the thought that God has a plan and a purpose for our lives, for each life. We do not come drifting into this world, and we do not drift through it, like waifs on the ocean. We are sent from God, each one of us, with a divine thought for His life—something God wants us to do, some place He wants us to fill. All through our lives we are in the hands of God, Who chooses our place and orders our circumstances, and is ready to make all things work together for our good. Our part in all this is the acceptance of God's will for our lives, as that will is made known to us day by day. If we thus acquiesce in the Divine way for us, we shall fulfill the Divine purpose. It is the highest honor that could be conferred upon us to occupy such a place in the thought of God. We cannot doubt that His way for us is better than ours, since He is infinitely wiser than we are. It may be painful and hard, but in the pain and the hardness there is blessing. One is called apart from active life and shut up in a sick-room. It seems to him that his time is being wasted. There are many things that need to be done, and which he might have done, instead of lying there with folded hands in his darkened room. People to whom his life is a continual blessing miss him when he comes not. He seems in his illness to be leaving a great blank where there ought to have been many good deeds and gentle ministries. Besides this loss to others and to the work of the world, sickness is most costly to the sick man himself. Its money cost is great. Then its burden of suffering is great. What is there to compensate for all this loss and cost to make the long illness really a blessing? Is there anything? If we were directing the affairs of our own lives, we would not put the rickness in. Is it possible that God's way is better than ours would have been? Of course we may not claim to know all the reasons there are in the Divine mind for the pains and sufferings that come into our lives, or what God's design is for us in these trials. Without discovering any reasons at all, we may still trust God, Who loves us with an infinite love, and Whose wisdom also is infinite. But we can think of some ways in which it is possible for blessing and good to come out of sick-room experience. The Master has other work for us besides what we do in our common occupations. We have other lessons to learn besides those we got from books and friends and current events, and through life's ordinary experiences. There is a work to be done in us, in our own hearts and lives, which is even more important than anything assigned to us in the scheme of the world's activities. There are lessons which we can learn much better in the quiet shaded sickroom than outside, in the glare of the streets and amid the clamor of earth's strifes. Our shut-in days need never be lost days. Whatever they may cost us in money or in suffering, we need not be poorer when they are over than if we had been busy all the while at the world's tasks. We need only to accept God's way and go as He leads, and at the end we shall find that in not the smallest matter have we ever been unwisely led, but that at every step He has brought us to some good. We do not know what the future, even the nearest hour of the future, may have for us, but we know that we cannot drift beyond our Father's love and care, and that all that may occur, darkly or disastrously, will reveal joy and blessing at the end. Yesterday, when I said, Thy will be done, I knew not what that will or Thine would be. What clouds would gather black across my sun, What storm and desolation waited me; I knew Thy love would give me what was best, And I am glad I could not know the rest. Until my years are gathered into one Eternal, sanctified. The willful one done. RELIGION AND BENEVOLENCE. The People Who Love God Found to Be Those Who Truly Love Their Fellow Men. Last year a city which maintained a fresh-air mission for mothers and sick children faced its annual need of a large contribution. A canvass of the situation showed that in the past years the money to maintain the work had come almost wholly from church contributions. The committee which had the work in charge thought this unfortunate, since so much of the money was given by those who were already large contributors to many other charitable causes. There was a feeling, too, says Youth's Companion, that the giving constituency might be greatly enlarged by an appeal to the non-churchgoing portion of the community. The charity itself was purely humanitarian, free from all sectarian associations, and enjoyed entire popular confidence and favor. It was decided, therefore, to appoint a prominent clubman as treasurer, to secure the cooperation of social and literary clubs, the indorsement of the secular press, and the agencies other than religious, which might promote this end; and, in order that the success of the movement might be tested, arrangements were made for the careful tabulation of the returns. The plan worked well. The clubs indorsed the movement; the press gave it abundant space and hearty support; the banks became willing depositories, and posted cards above the windows of the tellers inviting their patrons to make contributions. The sum received was large, a substantial increase over previous years. The churches abated no part of their usual effort, and many other agencies assisted. When the returns were all in, and the results tabulated and published, it was found not only that the wide advertising had increased the contributions of the churches, but that the vast majority of the men who had sent their contributions through the banks or to the treasurer direct by check were men whose gift was made in response to the appeal of the churches. More than 98 percent of the money received came from people known to be regular church attendants. The whole city was astonished, perhaps no one more so than the churchers themselves. "There is no use talking," said the treasurer, "I am as much surprised as anyone. There was no rivalry about it, no attempt to make a good showing for the churches. The simple truth is that people who love God are those who truly love their fellow men." Col. Ingersoll was accustomed to say: "The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray." He failed to note that the hands that help and the lips that pray are commonly closely related. Some men pray and do not help, more's the pity, and some men who do not pray do help, and deserve due praise for their helping. But it is possible both to help and pray, and in general he helps most who prays most sincerely. HELPFUL AND TRUE. Love cannot be leased—Ram's Horn. Sympathy is the safeguard of the human soul against selfishness—Thomas Carlyle. Weare all nobly born; fortunate those who know it; blessed those who remember.—Robert Louis Stevenson. What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.—Wendell Phillips. Whoever tries to do each day's work in the spirit of patient loyalty to God is weaving the texture whose other side is fairer than the one he sees.—Dean Stanley. Experience tells us that those Sundays are the happiest, the purest, the most rich in blessings, in which the spiritual part has been most attended to, those in which, as is the temple of Solomon, the sound of the earthly hammer has not been heard in the temple of the soul.—F. W. Robertson. When we go apart for awhile from the stress of life's competitions, it may be well for us to take the opportunity to readjust our sense of values and reconsider our ambitions. So a ship, arrived in port and resting for a time, sends its chronometers to be tested and readjusts its c-masses before another voyage. Boston Congregationalist. St. Louis Palladium. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Entered at the postoffice at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter. Published Weekly by 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. 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 Sco t 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. **EVEN 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 other Negro paper in St. Louis or State. (5) The ONLY Negro newspaper published in St. Louis as the organ of the Republican party. (6) Because it is the official organ of Wright Cuney Political Club. (7) Because it is fearless in denouncing crime regardless of consequences. The St. Lou's 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. KEEP THE FLAG FLYING. THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Now that the National Grand Lodge, U. B. F. and S. M. T., has met and passed, another grand body, the Knights of Pythias, will meet in St. Louis on August 31. This powerful organization will make its session one to be remembered. A grand time is anticipated. Companies from all sections of the United States will assemble here. A parade a mile long will pass through some of the most important streets of the city. Hohen's grove has been engaged for one week, for the purpose of entertaining strangers and native St. Louisans. A drama, followed by a grand ball, will be held at the exposition. This order is composed of men from every walk of life, from the professional to the humblest workman. They are joined, however, under the same band of F. C. and B., and St. Louis heartily welcomes all who assemble at this, one of this city's most notable events. Those who wished to know the whereabouts of Rev. P. J. Jackson will find him at 710 South Sixth street. THE TWO NEW PASTORS OF NORTH ST. LOUIS. We are informed that Rev. Dowing and Rev. H. Davis are watching over a few people who call themselves Baptist. We would like for them to call On The Palladium man and tell him something. Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. P. Jackson are members of said church. We ask, for the sake of all concerned, that they call upon the new pastors and find out what's the trouble with The Palladium man. What preacher was it in North St. Louis that one of the deacons caught betting on race-horses? We know all about it. We take pleasure in mentioning the Denslow Studio of Macon, Mo. A picture of the members of the Grand Lodge and Temple was taken by Mr. Denslow. They are only 65 cents. Everyone should secure one of these photos. See his ad. We hope that the action of the association has settled the question pertaining to Rev. Cohron's tabernacle. We are also informed that J. L. Cohron's membership in that association has been put to sleep. That ought to settle the matter, and the members of the Tabernacle ought to go back to Central and acknowledge their wrong. THE RAMSEY ROOMING HOUSE. We take pleasure in presenting to the public Mrs. Hattie Ramsey who has come to St. Louis to enter into business. Mrs. Ramsey is from McMinnville, Tennessee. She came well recommended by some of the leading men of that state, namely: Dr. R. Boyd, Dr. Crawford, Dr. Noel, Dr. Martin and others. She fully comprehends the task before her and contemplates a success. She is a thorough business woman. She is now at 12 South Fifteenth street. She is buying her home and will soon be fitted up from bottom to top with the most elegant furniture. We wish her success. A New Restaurant. Mrs. N. Sydnor, of 2741 Wash street, has opened a new restaurant. She is from Memphis, and we believe she will prosper. Meals to suit all. Prices from 15 cents to 25 cents. [Name] First Baptist Church Notes There was a grand rally at the First Baptist church last Sunday, for the purpose of raising the thousand dollars to pay the church debt. Rev. Kelly Rucks, with his congregation, was invited to preach the morning sermon, by Rev. Cole. Rev. Rucks preached an excellent sermon. The presidents of the Pleasant Workers, Carnation, Ruth and the Gentelemen's clubs were called forward by Rev. Cole after the sermon for the purpose of receiving the contributions of various members. Afterwards a sumptuous repast was served in the chapel, after which the guests were invited into the auditorium to listen to a sermon by Rev. S. P. Cheers, of Brooklyn, Ill., at 3 p. m. Rev. Cole introduced the speaker, who immediately began his sermon. A liberal collection was then taken up. Those of Pleasant Green church who took an active part in the collection were Rev. Kelly Rucks, Rev. Jordan, of Mississippi, Revs. Martin, Joseph Arnold, Bowley and Vaughn. The ladies of the Twelve Tribes of Israel were: Mesdames Luvenia Tolle, Addie Hauston, Mamie Baptiste, Alice East, Lucy Ellis, Georgia Holmes, Patsy Bradley, Minnie Crawford; also Mr. Frank Baptiste. Those of First Baptist church and Ruth club who assisted in serving dinner were Mesdames Leatha Newcome, president of the Ruth club; Mrs. Katie Boswell, Mrs. Fannie Louis, Mrs. H. Morgan, Mrs. Julia Bailey, Mrs. H. Brooks, Mrs. H. Coffey, Mrs. Annie Williams, Mrs. H. I. Davenport, Mrs. E. Jones, Mrs. Rene Hunter, Mrs. Mary Mosby, Mrs. L. Smith, Mrs. Betty Jackson, Mrs. Nora Lee, Mrs. Mary Bevins and Mrs. M. J. Grant. The congregation was then dismissed to meet again at 7:30 p. m. Rev. Cole introduced Rev. Jackson, one of the most noted evangelists of the present time. Rev. Jackson's sermon was a noble one, and was well received. Another collection was then taken up, which, including the trolley parties, suppers, etc., netted the various clubs, namely: the Pleasant Workers, $147.15; Carnation, $189.76; Ruth, $186.86; and The Gentlemen, $23.94. Total, $529.71. Those of the Pleasant Workers who gave liberally to the general collection, and also made a private donation, were: Mrs. Mattie Gilree, $2; Miss Anna Thomas, $2; Mrs. Sophia Edwards, $2; Mrs. Julia Townsend, $2; Mrs. Angeline Turner, $2; Rev. Cole, $2; Mrs. Mary Fuqua, $2; Mr. James Valentine, $2; Capt. Butler, $2; John Gates, $2; Wiliam Young, $1. A. W. Washington, $2; Mrs. Fannie West, $2; Miss Bertha Smith, $2; Mrs. Lillian Richardson, $2; Mrs. Matilda Crittenden, $2; Mrs. Thompson, $1; Miss Sophia Fleckman, $1; Mrs. Mamie Harris, $2 THE MUSEUM THE TURF STATION, 3939 Fair Avenue. Choice Wines and Liquors. FIRST-CLASS POOL ROOM IN CONNECTION. PETE BLOOMENTHAL ..... Day Mixer JEFF HAMILTON ..... Night Mixer OLIVER LEWIS ..... Proprietor JOHN H. 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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. STATION. or Avenue. and Liquors. OOM IN CONNECTION. provements, Buildings Heated by Steam, Diplomas are State School Certificates, Board only $8.50 a month. Three hundred and eighty-nine students last year. Twelve states represented in student body. Opens September 7. For catalogue and further information write to PRESIDENT BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M., Jefferson City, Mo. Centennial M. E. Church Services. Preaching, Sunday, 11:30 a m Sunday School, 2:00 p m Preaching, 7:00 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 Antioch Baptist Church Services. Preaching, Sunday, 11:00 a m Sunday School, 1:00 p m B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p m Preaching, 7:30 p m Wednesday evening. Prayer Meeting. Friday evening, Young People's Prayer Meeting. Rev. Fred McKinney, Pastor. J. A. 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HOLT, Proprietor. 1925 Market Street, (Near Une Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. 5 Market Street, (Near Uni Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. Market Street, (Near Union Station), cigars and Tobaccos. ST. LOUIS. 1925 Market Street, (Near Union Station), the Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. ST. LOUIS. The Greeley Saloon. PETER H. HARRIS Fine Wines, Liquors and Excursionists give us a call. Headqu Ask for it, you'll get 1201 Morgan St., Jas. Williams, MIXERS Cha . Propr. GEO. FO Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Excursionists give us a call. Headquarters for sports. Ask for it, you'll get it. 1201 Morgan St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Jas. Williams, MIXERS Chas. St. Clair. GEO. FOUNTAIN, Mgr. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Excursionists give us a call. Headquarters for sports. Ask for it, you'll get it. 1201 Morgan St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Jas. Williams, MIXERS Chas. St. Clair. GEO. FOUNTAIN, Mgr. S. L. PICKETT. Fresh DRU 2601 LAWTC N. W. Cor. Jefferson Open Day an sh DRUGS D 2601 LAWTON AVENUE, V. Cor. Jefferson and Lawton A Day and Night. DRUGS Daily LAWTON AVENUE, Jefferson and Lawton Aves. y and Night. Both Telephones. Fresh DRUGS Daily 2601 LAWTON AVENUE, N. W. Cor. Jefferson and Lawton Aves. Open Day and Night. Both Telephones. Keystone Hotel First-Class Accommodation for Colored People Only. Hot and Cold Baths. 305 Chestnut, St. Louis, Mo. M. ROBINSON, Prop. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` P Parlors. They are the leaders the city for pass- pleasure. No been connected. Strictly first-class. No. 1 at 1232 Market St. No. 2 at 2326 Market St. L. A. BROOKS, Proprietor. ```markdown ``` There is always a crowd at the Odd Fellows' picnic. A New Restaurant. Mrs. N. Sydnor, of 2741 Wash street, has opened a new restaurant. She is from Memphis, and we believe she will prosper. Meals to suit all. Prices from 15 cents to 25 cents. 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. 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. 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. FOR RENT. THREE rooms, furnished or unfurnished, at 2614 Stoddard street. MRS. R. F. LEWIS. ONE furnished room for rent; gentleman only. Call 2617 Lawton avenue. Electa Temple, Meets Second Thursday of each month at 8:00 p. m., Knights of Pythias Hall, Lucas and Jefferson Aves. Mrs. Annie D. Hyatt, M. W. P. Lulu O. Dell, See'y. SEXTON & MITCHELL'S EXTRA FINISH ArtSchool, 2605 Lawton Ave. Now Open for Pupils. Terms Reasonable. Fine Oil Paintings for sale, Portraits Enlarged in Crayon, Pastel, OR. Sam, the Tailor, is the place to get your Summer Suits, Made to order. One of the Best 204 North 14th Street. BLACK SKIN REMOVER COPYRIGHTED. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PEACH-LIKE completion obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a maltato person perdy will be. In forty-eight hours a shade or two lighter will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin in spots but bleaches out white. One box of this preparation is all that is required if used as directed. The skin remains beautiful without additional use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples and black-heads, and a red-}}- the color you wish, theเหล่าบทบาท, the preparation. The directions and preparation will be sent to any person for #2, or send Post-Office Money Order, Express Money Order, Registered Letter, or we will send it to C.O.ID. Packed for that no one will know contents recent receiver. THOS. B. CHAVE, 122 W. Broad St., Richmond, Va. CITY OF LONDON Williams & Head, Props. Pink Coat Bar. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. POOL ROOM. S. E. Cor. 22d and Market Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. THE JOCKEY CLUB, WM. DOVER, Proprietor. 3924 Sophia Avenue, Cor. Margaretta, St. Louis. Choice Wines Liquors and Cigars. B. BELKER, Dealer in Groceries, Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Meat and Vegetable Market. ill9 and 1121 Morgan Street, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Susan Gross, 2609 Pine Street. Millinery. Up-to-date Hats. Trimmings and all material in that line. WALTER S. FARRINGTON. Walter S. Farrington is doing a great business on Leonard and Channing avenues as a Veterinary Dentist, Clipping, Braking and Styling 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 Jeffer-son Avenue. IF YOU BUY FURNITURE. AT Thuner's ITS GOOD. 2122-24-26 South Broadway CHILI CON CARNE, The Real Mexican Dishes, at 2718 WASH STREET. Old Shady Place. Wm. A. Overton, Plumbing AND GAS FITTING. Furnaces, Stoves and Ranges Repaired and put up. Expressing and Moving. Phone Kin. D-2137. 1124 N. Sarah St. ```markdown ``` ARNETT'S PLACE. 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. NEW RESTAURANT and DINING HALL, at 2837 Manchester Ave. 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,Mo. Licensed to do business in Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas Kentucky and Mississippi. Weekly benefits for sickness and accident. Benefits for death. Free use of surgeon or physician to all members. Write for circular. St. Louis Dairy Co. Delivers exclusively in Bottles to the family trade 2008 Pine Street. R. J. RAYMOND, Attorney - at Law, 1111 Clark Ave., St. Louis, Mo. STUDY MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT THE Louisville National Medical College School of Medicine, Four years of six months each. Session continues throughout the year. Each session is divided into four terms of three months each. Attendance upon any two terms entitles student to credit for one year's attendance. AND CIGARS. CHAS. CARSON, JOHN DANDRIDGE, Proprietors. RIDERAGENTSWANTED WE WANT a reliable person in each town to distribute catalogues for exchange for a bicycle. Write today for free catalogue and our special offer. J. L. MEAD CYCLE CO., Chicago,* III. WOMAN AND HOME THE AMERICAN BEAUTY. A Composite Made of Photographs of Society Women Noted for Their Attractiveness. Both in its modeling and composition the typical American face is entirely distinctive. A characteristic style in architecture or literature in the United States remains perhaps to be developed, but the American character, temperament, spirit, call it what you will, has already stamped itself indelibly on our physilognomy. The American woman as a type is famous for beauty touched with intelligence. And although the type is comparatively new her character is indicated as unmistakably as that of any of her A. Euporean sisters. The American woman is recognized the world over. The type is besides found in bewildering variety, yet each is unmistakable. The blending of many familiar types of American womanhood in the composite photograph reproduced herewith affords a unique opportunity for judging the typical face. Familiar as the type, or rather types, are, few perhaps can call up a definite mental picture of the general type itself. The composite face of American women, therefore, fills a long felt want. A score or more of artists have patronized the American girl. The drawings are almost always interesting, many of them are charming and all may be readily identified as the American girl, yet no two are alike or even similar. No other country in the world, it is safe to say, affords such an opportunity to its artists. In England, for instance, there is a well known type of beauty, somewhat pale and expressionless, perhaps, but unmistakable English. And there is only one. In America there is often a single family in which every daughter illustrates an entirely distinctive beauty, yet without losing the family resemblance. The composite photograph combines as far as possible the most characteristic types of American beauty as illustrated by twenty well known New York women. It is too much, of course, to claim that the list is complete, but it is at least fairly representative. Nor can it be claimed for such a blending that the ideal type of American beauty has been attained. So varied and distinctive are the types that hundreds of types would have to be considered in such a balance. The composite face, however, is as general and representative as it well can be. Compare it with the typical beauties of other countries, allowing for the impressionistic effect inseparable from such a picture, and the result to the most critical eye cannot fall to be reassuring. The American woman as portrayed in her composite photograph contrasts strikingly with the typical faces of other countries. The face is perhaps, less nervous than that of the typical French woman, especially the young French woman, but to the American eye, at least, it seems better balanced. in contrast with a characteristic English face the difference is especially marked. The two faces express an entirely different mentality. The American woman, set beside her English cousin, suggests wider and more varied interests and an unmistakable air of independence which strangely becomes her. Compared with the typical Teutonic face, the American woman appears the more alert and vivacious. Among those whose photographs make up the composite are Miss Helen Morton, Mrs. Chaucey M. Depew, Mrs. Payne Waittney, Miss Alice Roosevelt, Miss Nathalie Schenck, Mrs. Cornellus Vanderbilt, Jr., and Mrs. John Jacob Astor. — Kansas City Star. Rain Bath for Pillows. Feather pillows, if the covers are quite clean, are benefited by leaving them out in a summer rain, afterward running them for several days on the clothline. Down quilts may be treated similarly without the slightest danger of injury. There will be some shrinkage. Cauliflower with Mayonnaise. Cauliflower is good eaten cold as well as hot. Boil without breaking the head and throw into cold water until wanted. Tear the roses apart carefully, dry and put in a salad bowl with lettuce leaves. Serve with mayonnaise. TO DEVELOP THE CHEST. Easy Way by Which to Increase Bust Measurement Two Inches in Three Months. The neck and chest can be developed finely in three months by the following rules: As you walk about raise the shoulders quickly and then throw them back and then down. Count quickly as you do it—1-2-3—raising them to 1 and so on. After going through this three times or more, you are ready to walk properly. Keep the chest out and be careful each time not to let the shoulders come forward at the last count—3. They must go down and back, if anything. As you walk, continually keep the chest pushed out and the abdomen and stomach forcibly drawn in. See how long you can hold your breath, and, as you hold it, raise the chest higher and higher. This is what singers do when they wish to sustain long passages in one breath. When you find you must exhaust your breath, do not let the chest fall, and take the breath instantly and quietly through the nose only and by pushing out the sides. Then instantly begin slowly drawing in the sides and abdomen and raise the chest higher and higher. Any one who will try this will increase in measure from shoulder to shoulder and around bust two inches in three months. -Chicago Inter Ocean. PLUCKY LITTLE GIRL She Conducts a Small Truck Farm and Takes Care of a Family of Seven People. With the responsibility of a family of seven on her diminutive shoulders, little Eleanor Keefauver, of 110 North Fifty-seventh street, West Philadelphia, is making a plucky fight for existence, and already she is known as the youngest and one of the most successful farmers in America. This small farmer is only twelve years old, and yet she carries the responsibility in supporting her family with the light-heartedness of the wealthiest and most care-free little girl in America. Little Eleanor operates an extensive truck patch, and the product she gathers she sells from door to door, and by this means earns, during the summer, at least $20 a week, besides supplying enough to last all through the year. the table at home with vegetables enough to last all through the year. Her father is a paralytic, and though it is true that there is a little Keefauver boy who brings home every Saturday a few dollars from a stocking factory where he works, and that Mrs. Keefauver does an occasional job of laundering, still Eleanor is the main support of this poor family. Every morning she digs and hoes on her small farm, and every afternoon she pushes through the streets with her little go-cart, selling her fresh and excellent vegetables. She has a host of regular customers, and these customers wait for her every day. They do well to wait for her, ELEANOR AT THE PLOW. too, for she always brings them truck that has been gathered but a few hours. Eleanor's farm is loaned to her by the Philadelphia Vacant Lot Cultivation association, a charity of an unusually beneficent kind. This association has two hundred acres of vacant land that certain wealthy Philadelphiaians have intrusted to it until the time when they shall need the land to build upon. These two hundred acres are loaned in patches to such people as are unable to keep up the fierce struggle for an existence in a great city. The association lends one patch to a shoemaker whose sight has failed; another to a laborer whom a blast has ruined; a third to an aged man and woman who are childless; a fourth to the Keefaivers. And its poor pensioners cultivating their/patches under the eye of the association acquire in this way enough vegetables to supply their tables all the year round. Fragrance and Color. Plants with white blossoms have a larger proportion of fragrant flowers than any others. Next come red flowers, then yellow, and then blue. After these may be reckoned, and in the same order, violet, green, orange and brown flowers. Spring flowers contain the greatest proportion of white flowers, and, therefore, are those most generally fragrant, while the reds and yellows belong to summer. Raisins Afford Stimulus. Raisins are specially valuable in cases where sustained physical exercise is necessary, affording both nourishment and stimulus. A bunch of raisins eaten when fatigued often serve the same purpose as a glass of wine. Flgs and dates are both valuable in certain conditions, but should be thoroughly washed and leaked over before eating. Green figs are an excellent food. YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT A THOUGHT FOR EVERY DAY. There's many a thing for you to do. My lad, if you but knew it. That's sent to you, and only you— Don't let another do it. Don't think your task were done as well By Tom or Dick or Harry. Don't say God's work can wait; to-day- Twill do as well to-morrow. Don't put your own will always first, And count His service sorrow. Don't wait till you are strong and wise— Trust Him to gauge your burden; And then at last trust Him, mv lad, To give the well-earned guerdon. -Union Signal. WONDERFUL FIRE HORSE. Prince, Pet of Olanthe (Kan.) City Officins, Does Not Brook Neglect of Any Sort. Prince is the horse upon which Olathe, Kan., depends in cases of local conflagration. Prince was purchased from a farmer living near Council Grove, Kan., four years ago, and since he has been on duty at the city fire department headquarters day and night. He is a superbly formed dark bay, weighs 1,650 pounds and pulls the 3,000-pound hose wagon on a gallop. Prince learned his A, B, C's, so to speak, under the tutelage of cx-Chief Frank Nelson, of Olathe. In the past two years, however, his education has progressed rapidly under the care of the present incumbent, Fire Chief Fred Garwood. Attached to the wall immediately in front of Prince's stall is a large gong, to the lever of which two pull-cords are attached—one passing upward along the wall and across the ceiling to a point immediately over the seat of the hose wagon, the other suspended downward from the gong so as to be within easy reach of a person standing upon the floor—the song being used for ordinary PRINCE AND HIS MASTER. training and actual service alarms. But Prince has appropriated the gong to other purposes, and these without any preliminary training whatever, as will appear. One day Chief Garwood, who, incidentally, is also city clerk, was so absorbed with his books in his office immediately over the fire station that noon passed unobserved by him. A sharp tap of the gong smote upon his ear, but, believing it to be the prank of some mischievous boy, he worked on. At intervals of a minute or so the taps continued, and Mr. Garwood, in no peaceful state of mind, laid aside his books and tiptoed downstairs with a grim determination to spank the offender. Scarcely had he reached the foot of the stairway when a succession of loud rings greeted him. Rushing into the station, now fully bent on doing harm to the intruder, he found to his astonishment no boy there. Prince had the cord firmly grasped between his teeth and was assiduously ringing for his long-delayed midday meal. He had worked out the solution of a difficult problem in procrastination. From that day Prince has utilized the gong to call his chief's attention to the slightest delay in the serving of his provender, be it oats, hay or water. Some time ago, in a season of extremely inclement weather, the horse kept up at intervals throughout each day a succession of gong taps which were entirely unaccountable for, and finally Mr. Garwood secured the gong cord in such a manner that Prince could not reach it. This action aroused the ire of the horse and stamping and kicking succeeded. It finally dawned upon the mind of Mr. Garwood that the horse was pining for exercise, which, being given him, put an end to unreasonable taps of the gong. One cold night last winter as the chief lay asleep he was suddenly awakened by a succession of loud alarms from the gong below, closely followed by the rapid and heavy tramping of a horse's feet upon the floor. With visions of the assembling of the volunteer members of the department, Mr. Garwood called out: "All right, boys, I'll be down with you in a second," and he slid down the pole into the station. There he found that Prince alona was holding the fort. He had pulled out the pin which secured his stall chain, rang the gong and, leaping from his stall, had backed himself between the shafts of the hose wagon ready for a run. Prince repeated this nocturnal joke so often that Mr. Garwood secured the stall chain by means of a long, heavy iron pin. Prince showed his disgust a few nights later by withdrawing the pin with his teeth, throwing it through a large pane of glass in front of his stall and making another false alarm. Prince obeys the orders of Chief Gar- wood or his assistant, but "all the king's horses and all the king's men" cannot hitch him to the hose wagon when they are absent.—Kansas City Star. COLD-BLOODED PETS. Some Amusing Experiences of Mr. Dan Beard, Animal Painter and Naturalist. In an interesting article about Mr. Dan Beard, the animal painter and naturalist, Guy T. Visknlski relates, among other incidents, an experience with a snake. "Snakes?" Mr. Beard laughed. "I had many kinds, but one of my latter-day experiences with them will illustrate how I treated them in my youth. "I managed to secure a baby anaconda several years ago and kept him for a time in my studio, in New York city. One day, however, I wanted to remove him to my home in Long Island, so I stuck the little fellow—he was about three feet long—in an overcoat pocket, put a soft glove over him and made for the ferryboat. "A short time after I was seated and engaged in reading my paper I noticed a man by my side get up rather hurriedly and take a seat in a far corner. Pretty soon another neighbor did the same thing, and then the whole cabin stared in my direction. "In attempting to discover what was the matter I happened to swing a hand around to my side, and it struck against something clammy. I looked down and there, waving from side to side, was a foot of his body out of my pocket and his tongue making lightning-like darts, was the anaconda that I had forgotten all about. "But the sequel of the incident was quite as amusing. "One of my neighbors had witnessed the whole affair, and when he saw me on the boat a day cr two later, he started some pleasantry at my expense. "Why, gentlemen," he sald to a crowd around us, "I dareday he has several snakes in his pockets this morning." And with that he dived a hand into the nearest pocket. "A second later the man gave a howl that was heard all over the boat; and then I remembered that just before I left home I had put several crayfish into that pocket. One of the fish had nipped the man's hand, but it took me some time to convince him that he had not been bitten by an anaconda." A MYSTIFYING TRICK. How to Make a Bottle Stand Upright One Minute and Have it Fall Down the Next. Get a piece of pith, paper pulp, or some other light substance, three or four inches in length, and about half an inch in diameter and trim it into the shape of a bottle. Cut a bullet in two and fasten the bottom of the bottle to the flat side of one of the halves. Make a hole down through the center of the bottle, and provide a piece of heavy wire to slip into the hole easily, with its end out of sight. You can make the hole more readily before attaching the half bullet. The bullet must be covered neatly with paper, so that it will not be noticed, and the whole device should be painted, as this will serve to conceal the trick. Now, you tell the onlookers that the bottle will obey your commands, and having ordered it to stand up, you place it on the table without inserting the wire, when nothing will keep it from an upright position, but holding it down. It is the weight of the bullet, you see, that keeps it standing. Then you order it to lie flat on the table, and as you take it in your hands to give the order you defy insert the THE BOTTLE STANDING UP. wire in the hole, and lay the bottle down, when the weight of the wire will keep it in that position. As the wire goes far enough into the hole to be out of sight no one will suspect its presence. This is a neat and mystifying trick, if skillfully performed. One minute the bottle will insist on standing upright, and the next minute it will tumble down as often as it is set up.—Brooklyn Eagle. Papa Stronger Than Samson. Many a boy who hears a figurative remark made takes the same literally and in recounting it puts an Irishman to shame. An Omaha Sunday school teacher was talking to her scholars, about Samson, of whom she spoke as being the strongest man who ever lived. She attempted to show his enormous muscular power by stating as simply as possible some of the wonderful feats he had accomplished. Young Jimmy, a newcomer in the class, listened with more than ordinary interest and after the teacher had finished, the boy lifted his hard for permission to speak. "Well, James," asked the teacher, "what is it?" "Samson wasn't as strong as my papa is." "Is your father so surprisingly strong?" queried the teacher, smiling. "Oh, my papa's orful strong," replied the youngster, emphatically. "Why, I heard mamma say that he had a elflyant on his hands." Happiest Child in Town. What shall I do in the morning? Why, laugh instead of frown. What shall I do at noontime? Just swallow my passion down What shall I be in the evening? The happiest child in town - Philadelphia Press. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 5. And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched; and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host; and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him. 6. Then answered David and said to Abner the captain of Saul and to Abshai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abshai said, I will go down with thee. 7. So David and Abshai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster; but Abner and the people lay round about him. David delivered three enemy into thine hand this day; now therefore let me smite him. I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him. The second time. 8. And David said to Abshai, Destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord's anointed, and be guiltless. 9. David said furthermore. As the Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish. 11. The Lord forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the Lord's anointed; but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse if water, and let us go. 12. So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gave them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked; for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them. 13. Then said Saul, I have shinned; return, my son David; for I will no more do the harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day; behold, I have played the fool, and have fled exceedingly. 14. And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it. 15. The Lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the Lord delivered thee into my hand to-day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the Lord's anointed. 16. And behold, as thy life was much seized this day, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let Him deliver me out of the tribulation. 35. Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David; thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place. **GOLDEN TEXT.**—Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you— *Luke 6:27* **OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION.** 1. Saul an exile. 1. Sam. 22-23 2. Saul's sultant of David. 1. Sam. 24-24 3. David sparing Saul. 1. Sam. 26-12 4. David's appeal to Saul. 1. Sam. 26-19 5. Saul's repentance. 1. Sam. 28:21-25 **TIME.**—Probably about 100 B. C. David, the popular hero, is an exile. Not a man in all Israel is so beloved, yet he has to leave his wife and home, and become an outlaw. The jealous hatred of King Saul is irreconcilable, and Jonathan, his best friend, advises him to give up all hope of returning to court. Whither shall he flee? Not to Ramah or to Bethlehem. He would quickly be traced to either place, and neither Jesse nor Samuel could protect him long. So he turns his steps south-westward, toward the land of his bitterest enemies. Saul's anger was not appeased by David's departure from court. He now avowedly seeks his life. Hearing of David's exploit of rescuing the city of Keilah from the Phillistines, Saul pursues him there with the royal army; but David and his little band elude him. Then the enraged king hunts David for many months, through the wildernesses of Ziph, Maon and En-gedi, but is unable to capture him, though once the king himself falls a prisoner to David in the cave of En-gedi, and David with surprising graciousness allows him to depart unharmed. Informed by the Ziphites of David's whereabouts, Saul comes with an army of 3,000 men and encamps at Hachilah. "Abner the son of Ner:" Saul's uncle (see 14:50). "Within the place of the wagons: Not trench" as in the old version, but referring to the wagons and baggage which formed a barricade about the camp. "Who will go:" It was and is customary to ask for volunteers for specially hazardous service. "Abishai:" Son of Zeruiah, David's sister, and one of David's most gallant adherents. Entering the enemy's camp at night was a perilous adventure, but David had served long enough under Saul to know him pretty well. He had placed no pickets on guard. "His spear . . . at his head:" Not "bolster" as in the old version, but literally "the place where his head is." Even to-day in Arab camps, the sheikh's spear is thus placed. "Jehovah's anointed:" The origin of the troublesome doctrine: "The dvine right of kings" to govern wrong. "David took the spear:" Perhaps the very weapon that Saul in his madness had hurled at him. David, by his merciful treatment of his enemy, conquered him. He overcame evil with good. Apparently Saul's feeling toward him changed. Yet the astute David trusted him not. There was a ring of falseness in his verbose confession of foolish sinfulness, which warned David to keep out of his reach. So, in spite of Saul's profession of good-will to his "son David," each went his own way, distrusting the other. Shot and Shell Actual liberty centers in essential loyalty. Subtle temptations need swift resistance. Heaven oft takes in what earth casts out. It takes a great man to comprehend himself. A truly great name was never bought at the price of a good one. The wind of words will not carry the flying machine of pride over the walls of repentance.—Kam Horn. Eskimo Language. Commander Peary, the arctic explorer, was talking to a small bunch of newspaper men at Saratoga not long ago and they were asking him a number of questions about life in the extreme latitudes, of which he can talk most entertaining. Some one asked him to spoke the Eskimo language and he said what it is. "I continued the questions," for instance, how would an Eskimo say good morning? "He wouldn't say it," told the commander, with a slight smile. "Indeed, and are they so untouched in the amenities of life?" "Not at all, not all," the explorer explained. "You see in a country where they would have occasion to use those words only once a year, they don't have them."—Detroit Free Press. Lawyer—"I must know the whole truth before I can successfully defend you. You have told me everything?" Prisoner—"yes, everything; 'cept where I hid the money, and I want that for myself'."—Glasgow Times. The Question Answered Estill Springs, Tenn., Aug. 24th. Many questions are being asked of Mr. C. D. Hale of this place in regard to his wonderful recovery. For two years he has been down with his back. He was so very bad that he could not even lace his shoes, and from this condition he suddenly appeared well and stronger. He is no wonder therefore that his friends are asking him "How did you do it?" He tells him all: "Dodd's Kidney Hill did it," and adds "This remedy is a genuine good medicine and one that I can heartily recommend to everybody." "Everyone around here knows how very bad I was. I was so weak in my back that I couldn't do anything that needed stopping or bending over, and three boxes of medicine he made me as you see, as well as ever I was." "They certainly had a wonderful effect on my case." Tender One Preferred. Dannigan—The doother told me to get a porous plaster for me stomach. Drugstig—Yes, sir; what sort do you want? "my little I care what sort it is, so long as 'the sinly digested.'"—Catholic Standard and Times. M. K, & T. Ry. Annual Scenic Excursion. An excursion to Galveston at this season of the year insures a delightful excursion trip at a small cost. There is nothing so goodor tired bodies and weary minds as ocean breezes, and a trip of this kind at this time will prove both a health and pleasure trip. On August 30th, with final less than fare on Galveston on all regular trains up to and including September 12th, 1903. A special train will be run, composed of day coaches, chair cars and tourist sleepers. A buffer meal service will be furnished at reasonable prices. Berths in tourist sleepers are $2.00 one berth being good for two persons. All applications-for berth reservations should be made to Mr. B. Dray, General Ticket Agent M. K. Fry, Parsons, Kas. A& Katy's" Agent for particulars. Stranger—"I would like to have a tooth pulled." Dentist—"A man who would like to have a tooth pulled must be a lunatic. Guess you'd better go to the nearest apulum."—Boston Transcript. Opium and Liquor Habits Cured. Book free. B. M. Woolley, M. D., Atlanta, I. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth.—Bacca Piso's Cure for Consumption is an innile ble medicine for coughs and colds. N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1000. 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It is claimed by some that the building of roads is strictly a local matter, that the benefits are entirely local, and that the whole expense should be borne by the local committees. This is not the view taken by the most progressive countries of Europe. There the building and maintenance of roads is one of the important functions of government. France, Germany and Switzerland are covered by a network of the finest roads in the world. As a result, the western half of Europe is the pleasure ground of the world. The revenue derived from tourists is one of the principal sources of income for people of nearly all classes. But without these good roads this revenue could never be secured. The aim of the people in those countries is to make their grand mountains, their beautiful lakes, their lovely valleys, their castles and monuments easily accessible by means of one hard, smooth roads. What a contrast appears when we turn to our own country. We have the finest scenery in the world in the great mountains of the west, but it is practically inaccessible. Except as they get glimpses of it from car windows, the grandeur of our mountains and canyons, and the beauty of our mountain lakes, streams and valleys are a sealed book to the general traveling public. And this will always be the case so long as steep, stony mountain trails are the only means of travel beyond the railway lines. Indeed, much of our finest scenery cannot be reached, even by such trails. If the United States government, in cooperation with the states and local communities, would build great, smooth highways, making the wonders and beauties of our great west easily accessible to tourists, in a few years the tide of travel would be turned westward. Not only would millions of dollars spent annually by Americans in Europe be kept at home, but other millions would be brought to our shores by tourists from foreign lands. But the natural attractions of our country are not the only things which are made inaccessible by the lack of good roads. Our places of historic interest are mostly in the same category. Take, for instance, Monticello, home and tomb of the immortal Jefferson. Few Americans even know where it is, much less visit it. Monticello is only three miles from the city of Charlottesville, Va., which is on two great trunk lines. Why, then, is it so little known? Because three miles of about as bad road as can be imagined lie between it and the railway station. One cannot travel over that narrow, steep, rough, muddy country road without a feeling of shame. At present an effort is being made by a small band of patriotic men and women to build what is known as the Jefferson Memorial road, to make Monticello accessible to the public, but only a beginning has been made, and they are finding it up-hill work to raise funds to complete the task. But, after all, the encouragement of travel is not the most important reason for the building of good roads. They are absolutely necessary for the prosperity and happiness of the people. The era of railroad building on a large scale is practically at an end. In the course of commercial and industrial development we have reached a point where the great problem of improving the common roads must be faced. We can no longer treat it as a local question. We have tried that for three-quarters of a century, and in nearly every section of the country the miserable results are apparent. The good roads problem will never be solved locally. It is too vast. It can be solved only by the genius, the wealth, the labor and the patriotism of the whole people. A great national movement is necessary. In cooperation of the nation, the states, the counties and the local communities lies the solution of the problem. CEMENT YOUR CELLAR. 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S" elp me, I could 'a'tore 'er to pieces." As I happened to witness the incident so graphically described by the cockney, I could not help feeling that his anger was righteous—II. Phelps Whitmarsh, in Century. The Gender of the Moon In English, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek the moon is feminine; but in all the Teutonic tongues the moon is masculine. Which of the twain is its true gender? We go back to the Sanskrit for an answer. Prof. Max Muller rightly says ("On the Religions of India"): "It is no longer denied that for throwing light on some of the darkest problems that have to be solved by the student of language nothing is so useful as a critical study of Sanskrit." Here the word for the moon is mas, which is masculine. Mark how even what Hamlet calls "words, words, words," lend their weight and value to the adjustment of this great argument. The very moon is masculine, and, like Wordsworth's child, is "father of the man."—Moon Lore. Locusts Killed by Millions. an important experiment, dealing with locusts, is reported from South Africa. Prof. Edington, director of the bacteriological institute of the Cape Town government, succeeded in destroying millions of the insects by inoculating a few of them and turning them loose. He makes a sort of toxin by grinding the bodies of locusts which have perished of disease. The resulting powder he mixed with water and smeared on the bodies of a few hundred locusts. These were at once released and soon spread the powder to a swarm, and all perished—Chicago Inter Ocean. Her Great Trouble. Kittie, aged ten, is very backward in arithmetic. She was deep in natural history the other day when suddenly she looked up from her book and sighed. "I wish, oh, I wish I was an Australian rabbit," she said. Kittie's family is accustomed to her vagaries and one of them asked without emotion: "Why?" "Because this book says they multiply with ex-traw-nary rapidity," said Kittie enviously.—N. Y. 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You can send it to the company address, by Postal Card or Letter, and the Free sample bottle will at once be sent to you by mail, Pread. Also Children's Book "Baby ville," in Colors. Address Ozomulsion Food Co 98 Pine Street, New York has a feeling of confidence in his cartridges. They don't misfire and always shoot where you aim. Tell your dealer U, M, C. When he asks "What kind?" Send for catcalls. 9 October 2016 Opens on 2nd and 2nd Sept. Furnishes a thorough preparation for business, and secures positions for graduates. page 6ata page giving full information mailed free. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISEERS please state that you saw the Advertisement in this paper. A. N. K.-B 1984 THE 400 BASE BALL CLUB GOVERNMENT BUILDING LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION ST. LOUIS, U.S.A. 1904. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING. Dissections 175 by 800 feet. The largest exhibit building ever erected by the United States Government. Cost, EO. COX, V.ce-President. EO. WASHINGTON, Secretary. C. WILLIAMS, Proprietor 400 A Headq 1300 MORGAN STREET 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. The Pyhian Blade, Vicksburg, Miss The Christian Organizer, Lynchburg, Virginia. Temple of Health and Physical Review. Savanna Gazette, Savannah, Ga. Florida Sentinel. Pensacola, Fla. Voice of Misstons, 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. Palladinm, Nashville, Tenn. * Palmhurst, Nashville, Tenn. * Pythian Blade, Vicksburg, Miss. * Bee, Paducah, C., * southern Advocate, Hot Springs, * Mississippi. * Etheopian Abbiville, S. C. * Wisconsin Advocate, Milwaukee. * Wisconsin. * Eagle, Kempsville, Ala. * Chicago Visitor, Chicago, Ill. * Kentucky Reporter, owensboro, Ky. * Pythian Journal, St, Louis, Mo. * Rising Sun, Kansas, Mo. Rising Southwestern Advocate, New Orleans, Louisiana. Republican Guide, Baltimore, Md. The Advocate Citizen, East St. Louis. Rising 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. Oklahoma Guide, Guthrie, Logan Co. American Eagle, St. Louis. The City Times, Galveston, Texas. The Sunday School Monitor, Nashville, Tenn. The Business Herald, Donaldsonville, Ala. The St. Luke Herald, Richmond, Va. The Progress, Omaha, Neb. Na hville Clarion, Nashville, Tenn. Missouri State Republican. GET BUSY. K. P. — GALA WEEK! — K. P. —August 31, to September 5, 1903.— WANTED—40,000 people to attend the magnificent Competitive Drill and Grand Ball on Thursday, September 3, at the —COLISEUM— Prizes amounting to $1,500 in gold to be given away. ```markdown ``` 2 3 RAY'S BUFFET. 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. BUD GATEWOOD, Captain. IRVIN WHEELER Business Age THE 400 BALL CLUB BAR, and President 400 BASE BALL CLUB. quarters the 400 BAR, ET. Hoehn's Grove all the week. Spectacular Drama, Damon and Pythias, on Tuesday, September 1, at Grand Music Hall. See large bills for particulars. No, everyone isn't out of town; there are a great many left to attend the I will meet you at the Odd Fellows' picnic next Wednesday night, sure. —More than four thousand Smiths were present at the twenty-eighth and largest reunion of the Smith family and friends at Peapack, N. J., Thursday. Their ages ranged from a few weeks to 80 years. RAY'S TWENTY-SECOND Newly fitted up from bottom to Bittliard Parlor in the city for th JIM RAY, Admission, 20 cents. If there is anyone in the city you want to find, come to this monster picnic. United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten and Knights and Daughters of Tabor. My Dear Brothers and Sisters: 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, U. S. POSTOFFICE. The Peoples' Drug Store, located a 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. Stop that cough. Go and get Pickett's Cough Syrup. 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. Try Pickett's Headache Powders. Don't fail to get them. 2601 Lawton avenue. The Palladium wants ads. If our true friends wish to assist us, they will secure ads., forus. Stop that cough. Pickett's Cough Syrup, 2601 Lawton avenue. BUFFET, and MARKET STS. to top. Electric lights. Largest the accommodation of our people. Proprietor. I am yours fraternally, QUINCY REGALIA COMPANY, Per WILLIS N. BRENT, Afro-American Dept. NEWSOME & RANDALL., Stenographers and Typewriters, Applicants prepared for Civil Service Examinations. OFFICE *265 ST. FERDINAND AVENUE. GET BUSY. K. P. GALA WEEK! K. P. August 31 to September 5, 1903. WANTED—40,000 people to attend the magnificent Competitive Drill and Grand Ball on Thursday, September 3, at the COLISEUM Prizes amounting to $1,500 in gold to be given away. Hoehn's Grove all the week. Spectacular Drama, Damon and Pythias, on Tuesday, September 1, at Grand Music Hall. See large bills for particulars. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION ST. LOUIS, U.S.A. 1904 СПАРТЫ USED IN 1858. Way back in the year 1858 the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow was used by Colored people in the north, and is now used all over the country from Maine to Texas and Oregon to Florida. The continued use of the preparation for such a long period of time is a positive proof that it gives perfect satisfaction to all. It makes kinky or curly hair straight, soft and beautiful. Stops falling hair, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow. Never falls. Warranted harmless. Only 50 cents a bottle. Get it from your dealer or send us 50 cents and we will ship you a bottle express paid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE PALLADIUM. We hope to be out collecting, as we have not been able for the last two weeks. Those who can, will please pay Miss Katie Johnson, 2627 Papin. Those north will pay Mrs. M. A. Lawrence, of 3944 St. Ferdinand avenue. Newly Fitted. We have been looking for it. Holt's Saloon, 1925 Market street. Something new. The Jockey Clab, 3924 Sophia avenue. Wm. Dover, Proprietor, is always ready to fill you up. The Gom Saloon—Hugh B. White, Proprietor, is the place to rest the weary head—1911 Market street. If you wish to help the good cause along, go to old friend Jeff Smith, 1201 Morgan street, and get good drinks. Then we see the Pink Coat Bar, Twenty-second and Market streets. Williams and Head will do you up fine. 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 Teressa, 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. 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 the billiard hall at 2326 Market street. A. A. Brooks. Mrs. J. W. Wheeler. MODISTE. Dressmaking, Designing, Cutting, Fitting, Purchasing, MISSOURI STATE BUILDING STLOUIS-1904 Building proper ..... $140,000 Refrigerating plant ..... 20,000 Sculpture ..... 15,000 Electric fountain ..... 3,000 Mineral decorations ..... 5,000 CARL YOUNG. Night-MIXERS-CHAS. TURPIN. Day. thoroughly experienced and competent Colored Undertakers. A. RUSSELL. Building and UNDERT We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only prestically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. our own conveyances and do all our carriages furnished for all occasions. Ticket St., ST. LOUIS, MO. 2118-20-22 Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone, C-390. Maurer Meat and Provision Co. --- At 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) Choica Wines, Liquors, Gigars, and the best up-to-date Billiard Room. Remember the Gem, 1911 Market. TOM TURPIN, Prop. We are the only thor- tically competent A. Livery Boarding a We have our own Carriage 2118-20-22 Market St Fine Wines and Liquors. THE ROSEBUD BAR 2220-2222 Market Street, Phone—Kinloch D-855. St. Louis, Mo. Pool Room in Connection. roughly experienced and the only prac- tion Colored Undertakers in the city. RUSSELL, UNDERTAKING in conveyances and do all our own work. times furnished for all occasions. , ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone, C-390 Imported and Domestic Cigars. DYE'S and Pool Room, 7 M. P. DYE, Proprietor. SEE eat and Provision Co. St. Louis, Mo.