St. Louis Palladium

ST.LOUIS PALLADIUM. Vol. XIX. No. 41. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` LITTLE WINNIE BOYD, of MEXICO, MO CITY NEWS. CITY NEWS. Notes and News Concerning Our People--Weekly Record of Social Events, Deaths, Marriages and Births--Written Especially for St. Louis Palladium. Mrs. Ophielia Morgan, of 2646 Randolph street, has returned from her visit to Chicago. Mrs. Rosa Cunningham, of 1118 North Twenty-Second street, seems to enjoying life. Mrs. W. P. Smith, of 2632 Randolph street, has returned from Great Bend. She is looking well. Mrs. J. Allen arrived from Hannibal, last Tuesday. She is stopping Mrs. Mary Lawrence. Mr. Chase, father of Mrs. M. B. Al- of 2623 Thomas street, who has every ill, is out again. Miss Mamie Washington, the leading singer of the Antioch church, is again, after a severe illness. Mrs. Mamie Ingram and son, Delancy, are returned home after spending several weeks in Russellville, Ky The explanation sent us about some Papists was not inserted. Free nacing is passed with The Palladium. Rising Sun lodge of the Knights of door was organized last Saturday by the grand master of the state, Thomas evens. FOR RENT—One neatly-furnished ent room, to nice gentleman em- ployed by the day. Apply 3930 Fair- avenue. Miss Minnie Williams, of Paducah, G. is in our city attending school. He is a niece of B. J. Owens, of 2632 avon avenue. Hot Shots—Watch Developments. That the publisher of the Profession-World will or wants to marry a grand Temple officer. Miss Katie Johnson, the editor of the Louis Palladium, has secured a position as teacher in the public schools, we wish her success. That the girls who go to school and we men and boys coming to see them are no good. They had better stop school and go to work. The mother that is too lazy to go to the grocery, lets her girl go to gab the grocer and butcher man, will the day see her folly. ```markdown ``` THE CHURCH OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN WISDOM ST. PAUL CHAPEL, 280 LAWTON AVENUE Where Conference Will be Held, October 7, 1903. Mrs. E. D. W. Jones left Thursday night for Hartford, Conn., to visit her parents. Her son, Dancy, accompanied her. Mrs. Morton, of Columbus, Ky., is visiting Mrs. M. Green, of 4226 San Francisco avenue. She will remain several days. The Ladies' Noonday Social club will give its second reception some time in October. Mrs. M. Lawrence, president; Mrs. E. Bolden, secretary. Golden Gate Juvenile No. 7, of S. M. T., has one of the best chaplains in the person of Miss Mamie McKay. The Juvenile is meeting with success on every hand. In less than three months there will be a mighty rattling and change of scene among many of the high flyers. Mothers! Mothers! You know what the change will be? Mrs. Fitzpatrick could not wait longer, so she married Mr. Valentine about a week ago. Although they have passed the 50-mile stone, yet they wanted to be one. Mrs. A. Goff and Miss Blanch Dore have returned from their visit to Mrs. Beatrice Young, of Baltimore, Md. They also visited Washington, Philadelphia and Atlantic City, in which they spent many happy hours taking sea baths and gathering sea shells. In due time the predictions of The Palladium are coming true. What's that? School girls and boys or men don't go together. When girls can spend half of the night in a ball room, and glanting men and boys on the street at night, Sumner high school has no use for them. The Palladium man had made up his mind to let the matter of the school girls rest, but since a few would-be women pass The Pallidium and never speak, we will again start on these upstarts, and show them and the public that they can fool the mother and father, but not the Palladium man. We know more than we shall tell. So, so, so! Mrs. Fanny Welker, who is in our city on a bridal tour, was tendered a grand reception by Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Richardson, of 3116 Rutger street. About 50 persons were present and enjoyed themselves. The tables were spread with all the delicacies of the season. The center of attraction was the dashing Miss Madge Washington, of Chicago, who electrified the guests by her beauty. She will leave to-night for Chiacago, and return in a few days. FOR RENT—Two rooms, for gentlemen, meals or without, at Mrs. Gillispie, 2626 Mills street. ST.LOUIS,MO.,SATURDAY,SEPTEMBER 26,1903. NOTES FROM NEWPORT MADISON), ILL. Newport passed through another quiet Sabbath, though somewhat marred by crap games in the alleys, as gambling is prohibited in the saloons. Both the Freewill the Missionary Baptist churches were engaged in rallies to-day. Quite a number of visitors from Brooklyn were present and collections were good. One-eyed Pitchfork Tillman, of South Carolina, and Vardaman, Mississippi's nominee for governor, both of whose pigmy souls are internally damned with Negro hating, ought to be sent to the primary school of wisdom's highest degree, to test their abilities to understand true psychology. Through this it might be possible to get it into their thick pates that mind is man, whether the skin of the man be black or white. The new child-labor and compulsory attendance school law of Illinois is excellent. Parents may now be fined for not sending their children to school during the school term in the districts in which they reside. Madison has risen to the dignity of a board of education, now; so it is to be hoped that the board will see that the law is strictly obeyed, just for the sake of the child, who is soon to be held strictly amenable to the eternal mandates of the state. The Booker Washington league of Newport, at its regular meeting, this afternoon, Sunday, September 13, appointed a committee to wait upon the board of education. The board will be requested to enforce the law here in Newport It is an indescribable shame how ignorant parents actually rob their children by meddling with school processes of which they know absolutely nothing. Most any teacher can and does win and hold the liking of most children if the parents just let the children alone. I have seen children progressing most excellently and rapidly under our teacher, who gives his whole time to them. Then the little one would be taken from school and allowed to run the streets by meanness of the parent. Our teacher here in Newport, in teaching morals and manners, said that no mother or father could make a lady out of their daughter if they permitted her to associate with crap shooters, whisky heads and beer bloaters. That, if a wife of his should permit his daughter so to act, he would brain that wife with a baseball bat; that a mother living in the same house in adultry, beast-like, before her daughter, was not fit to be a mother, and ought to be horsewhipped within an inch of her criminal life. The truth of these statements hit hard so many women thus living in Newport that they found relief only by accusing the teacher of abusing the parents. There is not a single boy or girl in Newport who can or will take the fifth year's work according to the Illinois state course of study. Yet ignorant, vicious and water-brained people, many of whom can not, write their names, are running their beer gaps about pupils being "too high in books to be taught in Newport." So without the St. Louis board's knowledge they steal them into the St. Louis schools. Henry Altemus Company announces for the fall: "The Story of the Golden Fleece," by Andrew Lang, with pictures by Mills Thompson. The charm which ancient Greece exercises over the human mind seems to defy time, although its story is made up of shadows—beautiful, vague, appalling, with only tremulous lines of reality faintly showing here and there. But Mr. Lang takes these dim pictures and makes them glow with majestic grandeur and marvelous loveliness. He never gives us a croute. Mr. Lang is one of the few who can splendidly convey into English whatever saga or legend he sets his hand to, and his telling of "The Story of the Golden Fleece" will do much to bring him into closer friendship with his American admirers, always eagerly awaiting every product of his pen. He has quickened with a new breath the strange struggles, combats, and achievements of the Heroes, which makes the publishing of the present book something of an event, and recalls the stanzas prefixed by Mr. Austin Dobson to Mr. Lang's "Ballades and Verses Vain," particularly the lines: "Laughter and song this poet, too, O Western brothers, sends to you." "The Story of the Golden Fleece" is an artistic and finished piece of work. Its beauty goes to one's head, yet that it will "take on" in the market place seems a prediction reasonably safe to make. St. John Sanders, a coal-dealer, invites the patronage of Newport's public. Go to G. W. Young's for cigars, ice cream, confections generally and The Palladium. Mr. H. B. Kinser handles good and cheap groceries, and politely and quickly waits on you. Call on him. In G. W. Young's hall, Rev. Green Price, of the A. M. E. church at Brooklyn, is organizing this afternoon an A. M. E. church. The latest kind of entertainment, "The Cotton Patch Exhibition, Chicken Roost and Cat Shake," given at the Missionary Baptist church, Thursday night. Rev. Enoch Gibson, pastor. Since the flood the board of education has fixed up the school quite nicely, at considerable cost. We Colored people don't pay taxes enough to run a school four months, probably, so we have little else to do but to send our children in. An education is about all we will be able to give them. Don't rob them of that. Parents of Newport, the law says you shall no longer rob your children. "No child under 16 years of age and over 14 years of age shall be employed in any (industrial) institution, who can not read and write legible, simple sentences." Even then, "an age and school certificate must be approved by the superintendent." Parents of Newport, buy books for your children if you have any love for them. Some children came to school all last year without books. Parents who bought scarcely any books for their children last year were sending them to St. Louis at the cost of ten cents per day boat fare. A 200-day session would cost them $20, yet these parents were too poor to buy the needed books. "Fifty thousand children in the state of Missouri, 33,000 enrolled, and only 22,000 in regular attendance at school," so said State Superintendent Carrington to the Negro state teachers' convention at Jefferson City more than two years ago. This criminal interference of the child's regular attendance at school by Colored parents should be legally stopped for the child's own benefit. When a man in the saloon or any other business says: "I can make no money out of decent people" he seems to imply he would reduce the whole community to indecency that he may make money. Such a reprobate is just in line with his slanderous thoughts when he is inducing a woman to rob poor orphan children by keeping them out of school. "I am afraid my house may be set afire, the reason I hold with the mob." A sickly excuse for your awful crime. ESSENCE. Report says that there is a most immoral and shameless dive of beer slushers conducted by a not-long-age school girl in the rear of families living just across from G. W. Young. Each of these families has a 12-year-old girl, living within 20 or 30 steps of the "joint," where one of the mothers herself said one may hear the filthiest of language. Why don't you mothers have the authorities stop the exercise of that black rot right in the yard with your daughters. You know of it. It is said that one of you intend to call on the school board Wednesday night concerning educational processes of which you know nothing, so interested are you in your daughter's welfare. My poor, ignorant Colored friend, when will you stop your meanness? CAPT. C. H. TANDY. Who was Chairman of the Meeting Last Thursday. He is still the Champion of young men against all Wouldbe-Leaders. A Massmeeting. Last Thursday night a large representative meeting was held in Metropolitan church, 2625 Morgan street. The meeting was called to order by Capt. C. H. Tandy. Mr. Harrison was elected secretary. The chairman then spoke at some length in glowing terms of the success of Postmaster F. W. Baumhoff. Several other representative gentlemen followed, namely Prof. A. D. Longston, Editor J. D. Miller, Dr. W. P. Curtis, Rev. Gilliam, J. W. Wheeler, and others. A committee on resolutions was appointed, and reported resolutions highly complimentary to our postmaster. The full particulars will be published in The Palladium next week. The meeting was one of the most representative ever held in St. Louis. At a late hour the meeting adjourned. Watch next week's Palladium. Notice. We would like to have the cuts of prominent business and professional men, to appear in the St. Louis Pallathem at the World's fair. them in the World's fair. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Literary society was addressed last Tuesday evening by Prof. Peter H. Clark. For one hour and ten minutes he entertained the audience, and they declared they would be pleased to hear him an hour and a half more. Prof. Thornton will be the next speaker in the series of lectures, for Tuesday evening, 29th inst. The public is invited. The Ladies' Auxiliary has been regularly organized, and is now down to strictly business. Miss Hallie Pearson, of Webster Groves, was chosen president. They meet each Sunday afternoon 2:30 o'clock. Miss Georgia White will address them next Sunday. Eccl 4th chapter is the lesson for Bible study next Sabbath. Rev. Thompson will be pleased to see a crowded house at that time. Special invitation to strangers visiting the city. Young men who have nothing to do but stroll the streets on Sundays between the hours of 4 and 6 will find it to their advantage to visit this class. [Picture of a man in a suit and tie]. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES. The B. Y. P. U. organization met at First Baptist last Sunday at 3 p. m. Its aim is to strengthen the young people in the Baptist cause, and to assist them morally, socially and religiously. After prayer and Bible lesson a literary programme began. Prof. Freeman read an excellent essay on "Time." Messrs. Garfield Craven, D. P. Washington and Miss Anna Thomas also read interesting papers. Miss Middleton, Mrs. M. A. Lawrence and Mr. Conway sang. The meeting adjourned to meet again at Mount Calvary Baptist church, 4259A Cottage avenue, on the third Sunday in December. Miss Estelle Buckner, president; Mrs. Annie Davis, vice-president; Mrs. L. Newcomb, conductor. The Pleasant Workers' club gave a lawn party last Monday night. Quite a large crowd attended. They will give a high-tea party and drama soon. The Ruth club served the B. Y. P. U. with refreshments last Sunday. Everyone enjoyed the repast. The Congregational Song society, which meets every Wednesday evening, in charge of Prof. Freeman, is progressing rapidly, owing to the care and attention of Mr. Freeman. The funeral of Mr. R. Banks, who died last Thursday, at 210 South Fifteenth street, was preached by Rev. Wm. Pierce at 2 p. m. last Sunday. The K. of P. Muusic The music at the Coliseum on the night of the.K. of P. prize drill and ball was furnished by Prof. Turner's band. The audience was electrified by the sweet music. As Prof. Turner directed the band he stood before that vast audience as the great Gilmore or Sousa. Prof. Turner is one of the best band directors this city boasts of. HERE IS YOUR MULE. We are getting ready for another Load of Deadheads. We are getting ready for another Load of Deadheads. 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. JOHN H. HON. I. STURGEON, One of St. Louis' Most Honored Citizens To Whom It May Concern. I desire to correct some mistakes afloat concerning my property at 3944 St. Ferdinand avenue. I have no relatives living, and I desired to leave my property to some Christian person. For the good care given my wife during her illness, the cheering words given her on her death-bed and for the faithful care given me before and since her death, I will leave the homestead at 3944 St. Ferdinand avenue to my foster daughter, Mrs. Belle Rodgers. REV. LEWIS LANE. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: G. M., S. T. Pettigrew, Dalton; D. G. M., Dr. J. E. Perry, Columbia; G. S., W. H. Harrison, Jefferson City; A. G. C., S. C. Hubbard, Louisiana; Treasurer, Dr. O. C. Queen, Hannibal; G. C. Rev. O. T. Redd, Macon; S. M. Robert Vaughn, Paris; J. M. R. A. Morton, Kansas City; R. S. G. W. Montgomery, Gooch's Mills; L. S. Dr. J. D. Sexton, Macon; I. S. Robert Watson, Boonville; O. S. H. A. Lewis, Wellsville; Grand Organizer, J. H. Williams, Centralia; G. S. B. Thos. Stemmons, Hilldale; Trustees, G. L. Greene, Old Franklin; Robert Renfro, Moberly; P. L. Given, Bunceton; Board of Management, B. K. Bruce, Brunswick; Dr. J. T. Caston, Fulton; William Rice, St. Louis; J. S. Lothan, New Franklin. New officers of Temple; W. G. P., Kate M. Moore, Columbia; V. G. P., Hattie Williams, St. Louis; G. S., Olivia Watson, Minneapolis; A. G. S., Carrie Stevenson, St. Louis; G. C., Bell Thompson, Moberly; Treas, A. M. Williams, Mexico; G. J., S. A. Pettigrew, Dalton; Trustees, S. A. Mott, Macon; Julia Coleman, Columbia; Ida Garnett, Jefferson City; Sarah Jackson, Kansas City; F. M. Brashears, Columbia. We wish to say that the officers elected for the U. B. F. and S. M. T. should rally around the grandmaster and let the good work proceed. Graves, Gorman and Tillman. Graves, Gorman and Tillman. If the Negro papers in the United States didn't mention the above names they would naturally die of want of notoriously. After almost 300 years of journeying side by side, the white man never became so troublesome until the Negro began to crowd him in pursuit of happiness and this world's goods. Not until then were such bloodhounds as Graves, Gorman and Tillman turned loose to harass the Negro. Let the Negro papers cease to mention their names—only consider them as three imps from the region of damation. Letters From Over the Sea. Letters From Over the Sea. London, England, Sept. 6, 1903. Mrs. Clay: Dear Madam—I write to let you know that we arrived here last Monday. Your son, Johnnie, is well. He has been out every day looking at the many things in this city. Sunday was very tiresome, and everything was closed, and in comparison, with our old St. Louis, is very lonesome. We went to see Williams and Walker last Monday. They are meeting with success. I will write again in the first of October. Rest assured I will care for your son, Johnny. Yours, with respect, MRS. BELL, DAVIS. Quite a large number of Antioch church notes attended the B. Y. P. U. convention at First Baptist last week. The pastor, Rev. McKinney preached the morning and evening sermons last Sunday. His sermons were full of practical as well as spiritual thoughts. You are invited to attend the B. Y. P. U. every Sunday at 6:30 p. m. A. Tillman, vice-president; A. B. Thomas, secretary. Rev. J. O. Edwards preached a missionary sermon for Antioch Mission circle on Wednesday, September 16. It was very instructive. PHOTO OF GRAND LODGE, U. B. OF F. AND S. M. T. The photo of Grand Lodge, taken by Mrs Den slow, of Macon, Mo., is an excellent reproduction. Every member ought to have one. Price, 65 cents. American fathers are the best fellows on earth. In addition to paying millinery bills they have cheerfully given their daughters more than $200,000,000 with which to buy foreign titles, coronets, gewgaws and flap-doodle. Five widows and daughters of soldiers who served in the revolutionary war are now drawing pensions from the United States government. Their names and ages are: Hannah Newell Barrett, 103; Esther S. Damon, 88; Sarah C. Hurlbut, 85; Rebecca Mayo, 90; and Rhoda Augusta Thompson, 82. A New Jersey spinster, aged 94, has kept green in her heart the memory of a lover who died 70 years ago, admitting no rival there and attributing her longevity primarily to her fidelity, and after that to her all around aversion to doctors, never having had one called in since her debut. Ex-Congressman E. B. Taylor, of Warren, O., who succeeded James A. Garfield as representative in congress on the advance of the latter to the presidency, has just completed the fifty-eighth year of his practice of the law. It is said that no other lawyer in Ohio is able to show so many years of activity in the profession. Frank Schaukee, of Vincennes, Ind., holds the record of the country as an inventor and patentee. He has designed no less than 6,024 instruments of various kinds, obtaining patents upon all of them. None of his inventions, however, has brought him fortune, although he is drawing a small income from some of them. King Alfonso, of Spain, recently distinguished himself by shooting a ferocious buil stamped from a herd that was being driven through the streets of Madrid. The incident is given publicity in Spain as illustrating the young monarch's courage and marksmanship and his ability to defend himself if attacked by assassins. Secretary Wilson wishes to see agriculture taught in the common schools and thinks that would be a good way to keep the boys on the farm. If the secretary will take a second think he may perceive that it would be an excellent way to send city boys out to take the place of the boys who flee from the practical education of the farm itself. By means of the Boer war, Joseph Chamberlain excited the British people while a member of the cabinet. Out of the cabinet he will probably intensify popular interest, and in a time of peace. If he can turn the British kingdom into a protective tariff affair he will produce a greater effect on the world than any Englishman since Sir Robert Peel. Charles M. Rice, of St. Louis, recently had the odd experience of celebrating his birthday in three countries. On his twenty-first birthday his parents enjoyed with him a birthday breakfast in Tangiers, Morocco. At noon they stopped off at Gibraltar, which is an English possession, and took an anniversary luncheon there, and continuing on their journey in the evening they had a birthday supper in Algeciras, Spain. Estimates of the corn crop have been for a yield of about 2,200,000,000 bushels, so that if it is cut down a third by early frosts, as reported from Washington, it will not be over 1,500,000,000 bushels, which is 75 per cent of a fair crop. The Chicago market was scarcely affected at all by the Washington report of such serious damage, which was evidently regarded in Chicago as greatly exaggerated. A loss of 700,-000,000 bushels of corn between "two days" by frost would sent the market soaring. While the number of persons who will take a baby to the world's fair will probably be extremely limited, the fact that a day nursery, or creche, is to be established there will probably increase the number. It will not be necessary for papa to stay at home and take care of the baby while mamma goes to the fair. Everybody ought to make way for the rising generation. They have to, sooner or later, anyway. In this day nursery all the babies will be ticketed and by returning the proper ticket you get your baby back. The government calls attention to the money to be made in raising goats, and appears aggrieved because citizens persist in turning their energies in other directions. It states that $25,000,000 a year is paid out for imported goat skins, when there are great areas in the United States suited to the goat. Rather than see Uncle Sam feeling so bad about this matter, a great many would undertake the raising of goats if it were not that the goat has so long been an object of ridicule that we shrink from furnishing merriment for the people. Most of the books issued by the government printing office serve as "filling" for the bottom shelves of libraries, never touched from one generation to another. Why cumberdeth they the earth? The "public printer" is busy at a great and largely worthless task. The wasting of the money may be borne with some equanimity. We care nothing for money. If the public printer did not spend it some other equally useless expenditure would be made of it. But why should millions of black, cloth-bound "books" be hurled at our helpless heads? TURKISH PROMISES DISAPPEARING Feeling Growing That War is the Sole Solution of the Problem. WILL FIND BULGARIA READY Details of Aatrocities by Turkish Troops Far Exceed Anything Yet Published—Protest Meetings Held in London. Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 25.—The reports, emanating from Turkish quarters that the government is in danger of being carried away by popular excitement and that Bulgaria is likely to take the first hostile steps, may be regarded as ridiculous inventions. It is, however, a fact that all hope of good results from the Turkish promises of reform has long disappeared, and the feeling is growing that war is the sole solution to the Macedonian problem, the only question being whether it will come this autumn or be postponed until spring. Bulgaria Prepared for War. Bulgaria Prepared for War. Preparations for the mobilization of the Bulgarian army have been carried out with singular completeness as to detail and a declaration of war will find the Bulgarians sufficiently prepared. The equipment for the soldiers is ready. Large quantities of ammunition are on hand and the stocks of general supplies are remarkably comprehensive. The appearance of the troops shows attention to details and their soldierly qualities are a revelation to foreigners. The officers are fully equipped for their profession, and the men willingly undergo hard drill daily. Gen. Nicolaieff will probably be commander-in-chief in the event of hostilities. The details of atrocities by the Turkish troops in Monastir daily reaching the Bulgarian government equal and even exceed those already published. THE FRENCH HAVE DOUBTS. The Sincerity of the Porte's Reply to Teddy's Note Questioned Paris, Sept. 25.—The French foreign office officials doubt the sincerity of the porte's reply to the Bulgarian note, believing it is merely a maneuver to impress the powers with the idea that Turkey is doing her utmost to effect a settlement before going to war. A similar impression seems to prevail at Sofia, since Bulgaria, in answering, requires Turkey to cease mobilizing, stop the massacres and withdraw her troops from near the frontier before she will consider the proposals. BATTLE OF KRESNA PASS. The Insurgents Inflicting Heavy Loss On the Turks. Constantinople, Sept. 25.—The battle of Kresna Pass, according to the latest advices received here, is still in progress. The insurgents are successfully holding strong positions and their casualties are slight, only a score being killed or wounded, while the Turks, up to the present, have lost five officers and 220 men killed or wounded. TURKISH REPRISALS. Maddened by Defeat Turkish Soldiers Burn Bulgarian Villages. Sofia, Sept. 25.—According to a telegram received here to-day from Kostendil (43 miles from Sofia), six hundred Turks were killed in a fight at Kotchani, September 18. The Turkish force numbered 7,000. After the fight the troops, enraged at their losses, pillaged and burned a number of Bulgarian villages. Orders to Sharen Bayonets. London, Sept. 25.—Dispatches from Sofia report the arrival there of war correspondents from all parts of the world and further state that the insurgent leaders have given orders to the bands not to resort to retaliative operations for some days longer. It is announced from Salonica that the Turkish military authorities have received orders to have all the bayonets and sabres sharpened. Great meetings of protest against the Turkish atrocities in Macedonia were held in London and Manchester last night, in the former case at the City temple, where Reverends R. J. Campbell, John Clifford and F. B. Meyer were among the speakers. Turka Steal Fifty Women. Sofia, Sept. 25.—Advices from Uskub say Turkish soldiers recently took 50 women from the burned village of Klissurti and all attempts to recover them have been unavailing, the soldiers refusing to obey their officers. Panal Secretary of State. Rome, Sept. 25.—The Osservatore Romano, the organ of the vatican, says the pope has chosen Mgr. Guiseppe Wilpert, the apostolic prothonotary, to be secretary of state. Dangerously Ill at St. Louis. St. Louis, Sept. 25.—Col. A. M. Hardy, of Washington, Ind., who served one term in congress from the Fourth Indiana district, is dangerously ill at the city hospital. He is suffering from typhoid fever and it is thought that he can not recover. A. Singular Find. New York, Sept. 25.—A farmer at Sound Beach, Conn., found, upon pulling up a cornstalk, a heavy gold ring encircling the stalk. Through engraving on the inside it was identified as one lost in 1867. VETERANS' ANNUAL REUNION Twenty-First Annual Reunion of Illinois Soldiers and Sailors. Gen. John C. Black and Mrs. John A. Logan Address Twelve Thousand Veterans and Their Friends. Carbondale, Ill., Sept. 25.—Gen. John C. Black, national commander in chief of the G. A. R., Thursday delivered an eulogistic address to 12,000 veterans and their friends at the twenty-first annual reunion of the Southern Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' association. A cordial reception was given to Gen. Black. Mrs. John A. Logan spoke to the veterans, and addressed some of her remarks especially to the Thirty-first Illinois regiment, which her husband served as colonel, when he first entered the army. She began by saying: "God only knows what home means to me; I am again with the friends so dear to me, the friends of my girlhood and of those eventful years of my beloved husband's life. You know my trials; my country knows them. They are mine to bear till I meet those two dear ones in the great beyond." In referring to her son, Maj. Logan she said: "Carbondale will ever be dear to me as it was here the happiest moments of my life were spent. Since I last saw you I have laid my son, who was born here, on the altar of my country, and he sleeps sweetly by the side of his historic father." Last night a public reception was tendered to Mrs. Logan COURT HOUSE DEDICATED. Elaborate Ceremonies in Commemoration of Opening of Bloomington (III.) Court House. Bloomington, Ill., Sept. 25.—Thursday occurred elaborate ceremonies in commemoration of the formal acceptance by the county and the opening to the public the use of the handsome half-million dollar courthouse building. In the morning the principal address at the exercise in the courthouse yard was made by ex-Vice-President A. E. Stevenson, Mr. Stevenson said: "Mob spirit is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority. Unless it is curbed it will sap the foundation of organized society. The killing of a human creature is no less murder when it is the act of a mob than when it is the act of an individual. There is no safety to society but in an aroused public sentiment that will hold each participant amenable to law for the consequences of crime either perpetrated or abetted." At the circuit court room dedication, Thursday afternoon, addresses were delivered by Judge Owen T. Reeves, Supreme Court Reporter I. N. Shillips, Hon. Thos. F. Tipton, John T. Lillard and Charles L. Capen. Last night A. E. Stevenson, Judge Lawrence Weldon, of the court of claims; Hon. J. S. Ewing, Congressman John Sterling and others spoke at the banquet to the bar and distinguished guests. Thousands of visitors from the county inspected the new building. TO RIP RAP THE "BiG MUDDY" Meeting to be Held in Kansas City to Seek Government Aid to Prevent Floods. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 25.—A meeting to be attended by congressmen of Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa will be held at Kansas City on or about October 15 next for the purpose-of asking big appropriations from the government to rip rap the Missouri river sufficiently to prevent a recurrence of the recent floods such as visited that section of the country last spring. Among the congressmen who will be present are Smith, of Iowa; Hitchcock, Burkett and McCarthy, of Nebraska. Representatives of the different commercial clubs interested will also be in attendance. Senator Millard, of Nebraska, who will also attend the meeting, says that unless something is done Iowa will gain considerable land from Nebraska as a result of cutting. FEUDISTS THREATEN LIVES. Many Persons Connected With the Curtis Jett Prosecution in Danger of Death. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 25.—Advices from Jackson, Ky., indicate that a virtual reign of terror is still on there. Several persons identified with the prosecution of feudist Curt Jett, and sentenced to be hanged after his trial at Cynthiana, Ky., several days ago for the killing of Town Marshal Cockrill, have been threatened with death, it is said. J. Bruce Little, one of those under the ban, is Kentucky agent for a Cleveland lumber firm. He has been forced to move to Lee City, Ky., and makes weekly trips to Jackson, not daring to stay there over night. The firm has written him to recommend someone to take his place, if he is killed. Will Resume Operations: Colorado Springs, Col., Sept. 25. Superintendent J. D. Hawkins announced, Thursday, that the Standard mill at Colorado City, owned by the United States Reduction and Refining Co., will resume operations between October 1 and 10. Papal Protonotary, Not Secretar Home, Sept. 25. The Osservators Romano announces that Mgr. wilpert has been appointed papal protonotary, not as stated in a dispatch published in America, papal secretary of state, which is a totally different office. MISSOURI STATE NEWS. Johnston Indicted for Murder. After a continuous session of nine days, the grand jury at Eminence indicted George Johnston, charged with the murder of Della Johnston, his young niece, at Winona, June 13. Over 100 witnesses were examined. The trial will not take place until next March. Della's parents live at Birch Tree, but on the day before the crime the child, who was only eight years old, and her mother went to Winona to visit relatives, and the little girl, being very fond of her uncle, George, who had lived with the family a long time in Texas county, was permitted to spend the night at his house, while her mother stayed elsewhere. The defendant's wife left home to attend a lodge meeting, and her sister, Mrs. Blanche Chilton; George Johnston and the child remained at home. For some reason, when they retired Della occupied a bed with Johnston, and Mrs. Chilton was supposed to sleep in a front room. About 11 o'clock the neighborhood was aroused by the frenzied cries of Johnston, who can about the street declaring that somebody had tried to drag him from his bed and murder him, and that in the struggle he had been severely cut on the abdomen and chest. Friends went into the house with him and found Della dead on the bed, her face mutilated by an ax which lay on the floor. The wall was bespattered with blood. The child had risen, and when struck fell upon her face, dying instantly. It was at first believed that the child had been mistaken for Mrs. Chilton, who stated that she had met Charles Nebit in the yard by previous appointment and without Johnston's knowledge. Packer Commits Suicide. Packer Commits Suicide. Left peniless in his old age, after a loss of $65,000 in the June flood, discouraged and despondent, Henry Mockley, proprietor of the Riverside packing house, Kansas City, committed suicide by cending a bullet through his brain. The packer was 64 years old and had lived in Kansas City for twenty years, building up a business from small beginnings. When the flood came the foundation of his plant was washed out, and the building was left in ruins. About three weeks after the waters subsided the remainder of the building caught fire by reason of spontaneous combustion in the mineral cotton that was used in the meat coolers in the basement. Mockley himself had a narrow escape from being burned to death. The fire left him penniless, and, although his credit was still good, he felt himself too old to make a new start and he killed himself. He leaves a grown son. Wreck at Jeplin. An east-bound St. Louis train on the Frisco was wrecked at Joplin by plowing into a freight train standing on the Kansas City Southern tracks. The passengers were badly shaken up, but no one was injured. The engine was badly demolished, and several freight cars loaded with lumber were thrown into a deep gulch. Traffic was delayed on both roads six hours. Rooster Kills a Baby. The 18-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Copeland, while playing in the yard at the family home at Safe, Maries county, was attacked by a rooster, which flew upon the child's shoulder and thrust its spur into the back of its head at the base of the brain. The little one lingered several hours and then died. Brave Miner Saved Girl. While attempting to ford Turkey creek, near Joplin, in a buggy, Otto Grass was drowned, and Miss Evalyne Reynolds came near losing her life. The horse was also drowned. Miss Reynolds' life was saved by a miner, who was attracted to the scene by the woman's screams. The body of Grass was recovered. Dockery Offers Rewards. Gov. Dockery has offered a reward of $300 for the arrest and conviction of each one of the men who held up a Burlington train near St. Joseph. The reward is good for one year, and is the largest the governor can offer for the apprehension of any criminal. Policeman's Fatal Fail. Unable to grasp the railing on account of the crowded condition of the platform, Policeman Thomas J. Hodican was thrown from a Transit car in St. Louis, sustaining injuries which resulted in his death at the city hospital. Accidentally Killed Brother. The six-year-old son of William Stilson, of near El Paso, in Barry county, was instantly killed by a bullet from a revolver, in the hands of the child's older sister, who was playing with the weapon. Died on Operating Table. William McQueen died near Coralcana while under the influence of opiates, administered before an operation, made necessary by the dislocation of a hip in a runaway. Blow Paralyzed Him: Charles Riley, a carpenter, is in St. Louis city hospital, suffering from temporary paralysis, the result of a blow a fellow workman dealt him on the neck with a picket. Bond Issue Carried. In the special election at Kansas City, the proposition to issue bonds amounting to $2,175,000, for public improvements, carried by a big majority School Teacher's Body Recovered. The body of Miss Lora Jordan, the school teacher who was drowned in the Lamine river, near Otterville, on September 13, has been recovered. A Fatal Fall. D. H. Dearing, a farmer, fell from the loft of his barr, west of Palmyra, and was so badly injured that he died several hours later. MILITARY VERSUS CIVIL AUTHORITY Judge at Cripple Creek Renders a Decision in Favor of the Latter. HELD WITHOUT WARRANTS "To Hold That Military Is Supreme and Not Amenable to Law Would Overthrow Free Government and Substitute a Monarchy." Cripple Creek, Col., Sept. 25.—In the district court here, Thursday, Judge Seeds overruled the motion to quash in the case of the four military prisoners for whom writs of habeas corpus were issued recently and ordered the prisoners turned over to the civil authorities. These prisoners have been held by the military for about two weeks without warrants and with no formal charges against them. Judge Seeds said that he could not subscribe to the doctrine of the respondent that the military was supreme and not amenable to the court, as to do so would overthrow free government and substitute a monarchy. The court said that the question involved was: "Does the executive order calling troops constitute a justification of the arrest?" He held that civil law had not been overthrown in Teller county and no evidence had been presented that lawbreakers would not be prosecuted and punished by the civil authorities. Judge Seeds also strongly rebuked the presence of the troops in the court room. Gen. Chase declined to obey the order of the court, but Gov. Peabody instructed him last night to turn the prisoners over to the civil authorities. History of Cripple Creek Troubles A strike of the union miners was ordered at Cripple Creek about the middle of August by the Western federation of Miners in support of the mill men at Colorado City and other points who had for a long time been contending for an eight-hour day. The mine owners, alleging that a large percentage of the men desired to work if protection was assured, called upon Gov. Peabody for troops, although the civil authorities denied the necessity for such a course. The governor, however, decided that troops were needed, and, on September 24, ordered almost the entire national guard of the state, about one thousand men, to the district, under command of Brig-Gen. Chase. Since that time several prominent members of the miners' union including all the members of the executive committee, which have the strike in charge, have been arrested without warrant and held in the guard house. Habea corpus proceedings were begun in their behalf last week. Gen. Chase and his legal advisers held that although martial law had not been formally declared, it was really put in force by the order issued by the governor directing the troops to maintain order and that, therefore, the civil court had no jurisdiction. Gov. Peabody's Views. Denver, Col., Sept. 25.—Gov. Peabody said last night that the decision of Judge Seeds in the habeas corpus cases at Cripple Creek would be respected. He stated that the formal order in the case would be issued from headquarters in the field. He said: "Judge Seeds has decided against the military, and as the national guard is in the Cripple Creek district for the purpose of aiding the courts and the civil authorities generally, there was nothing left for me to do except to order that the prisoners be turned over to the civil authorities." GLUT IN ANTHRACITE COAL. Over Forty-Three Million Tons Have Been Mined Since Last January. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 25.—The orders for a restriction of the anthracite coal output has affected nearly all the collieries in this region. Over 43,000,-000 tons of coal have been mine since January 1, which is several million tons more than was ever produced for a like period in the history of the mining industry. The present glut in the market and the efforts to prevent a break in prices is the cause of the restriction. BANK OFFICIALS INDICTED. Charged With Accepting Deposits After the Bank Was Declared Insolvent. Chardon, O., Sept. 25.—The grand jury, Thursday, returned two indictments against George H. and R. N. Ford, the bankers of Burton, O., who recently failed with liabilities aggregating $1,125,000. The Fords are charged with obtaining property under false pretenses, in accepting deposits after the officials of the institution are said to have known the bank was insolvent. "Red Shirt" Gordon Captured Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 25. "The city marshal at Jacksonville, Tex., Thursday telegraphed Gov. Pardee that he had arrested "Red Shirt" Gordon, the notorious convict who escaped from Folsom prison in July last. The convict's photograph has been sent to Texas officials. Light Frost in Kansas. Lawrence, Kas, Sept. 25.—There was a light frost in Douglass and Clay counties last night, but it is believed no material damage was done. The temperature was 42 degrees above zero The Grant Heirs Offer It as a Gift to Galena, Ill. It Was Presented to Gen. Ulysses R. Grant By His Fellow Townmen At Close of the War. Gelena, Ill., Sept. 24.—Bris-Gen. Frederick D. Grant, his brothers and sisters, wish to deed the Grant home stead to this city, as will be shown by the following letter to Isaac P. Moore: "It is not probable that any of my father's family will ever again live in Galena. My two brothers, having located in California, where they have established homes; my sister and family being in the east and in England, and I being in the army, it is not likely; that any of us children will ever go to Galena to live. "This little house, which was the home of my father and mother, is of some interest as a historic relic, and I believe would be of interest to the people of Galena. I wish to consult the mayor of the city and let me know if it would be possible for me to deed the property to the town, which could keep it as an historic relic. You know that the citizens of Galena presented this house to my father in 1855, just after the civil war, and he and my mother took a great deal of pride in owning this property, and we, his children, do not wish to sell it, but would like to have it preserved and have it the property old Jo Daviess county, for whom we have the warmest recollections and among whom we passed many happy days. "If you will let me hear from you on these points you will greatly oblige, yours truly. "FREDERICK GRANT." The city will accept the building and it probably will be converted into a hospital. CHARLES B. FARWELL DEAD Illinois' Former United States Sca ator Passes Away At His Home in Lake Forest. Chicago, Sept. 24.—Former United States Senator Charles B. Farwell died at his home in Lake Forest, Wednesday day of heart trouble after seven months' illness. Mr. Farwell had been prominent in local, state and national politics since 1844, when he came to Chicago from Ogle county, Ill. In his business life he engaged succession in real estate and banking, and in 1864 purchased an interest in the present house of J. O. V. Farwell Co. He was born in Steuben county N. Y., 80 years ago. After serving a county clerk, member of the state board of equalization, and in the state senate and house of representatives, he was elected to the United States senate from Illinois in 1887. He leaves three daughters, Mrs. Reginald DeKoven, Mrs. Dudley Winston and Mrs. Hobart Chaffield-Taylor, and son, Walter Farwell. THEY'RE BOUND FOR BOSTON The Honorable Artillery, Two Hated Strong, Leave London to American Airs. London, Sept. 24.—To the straits of "The Star Spangled Banner," "Marching Through Georgia," and other American airs, some two hundred members of the Honorable Artillery company left their London armory Wednesday and took a train for Liverpool, to embark on the Dominion line steamer Mayflower, bound to Boston, Mass. A large crowd of friends of the artillerymen assembled at the armory to wish the company a successful "campaign." Many of the members of the company who participated in the previous visit expressed keen regret at being unable to accompany the departing detachment, while these ing were evidently delighted at the prospect. Prior to the departure of the artillerymen, Lieut.-Col. the end of Denbigh, commanding, paraded the company, whose smart uniforms and good alignment created an excellent impression. WILL DEFEND ITS TITLE The Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. B Defend Its Title to Coal Lands Held By It. Denver, Col., Sept. 24. "A statement as to the coal lands between the government and the Colorado Fuel Iron Co. has not been considered said D. C. Beaman, attorney and retary for the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. The statement was made in theial of the report that the company had settled with the government in lawsuit over coal land by paying $900. "The company's lands," continued Mr. Beaman, "have all been leag entered and the title will be deferred at all hazards. There is no disposition to entertain a proposition to compromise. Klondyke Shipments Close- Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 24.—Ause- the general steamship lines re- notice. Wednesday, that no mo- freight will be received by the WM Pass & Yukon railroad for trans- tion to Dawson and other points be- White Horse this season. President's Message Will be Brief Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 24.—Ause- the president has begun work on annual message to congress. The message to be presented to the exten- sive session will be comparative brief St. Louis Palladium. gt, LOUIS, 2 ‘MISSOURL ee THE GITY INCORRUPTIBLE, ork! ‘Tis roar of labor, CScaseless, deafening sound, sow vom the trembling seaffoids, XXow (rem the yawning grounds xo the ted fzes of Vulean, AY.s Cyclops pristine powers, coo match their feats of magle Wii shape this world of ours! yits myriad panting engines, ‘Ws countless pieks and drilis, ghey atch tho threatening rivers, Ty pleree. the hostile hills: y) ceam and smoke and lightning Hains captive forces. play, gr. welt with Titan touches Tine city of to-day. suit from thelr sunken foothotds Sthose conweb buildings rise vince panes ray back the morning, {hove foreheads touch the skles; ye many @ erowded workshop, {hd toiling mill and mine, gil up thelr costly treastires qT) make them fair and fine. yet, vold of elvie honor, bf fustiee, Might and law, What were the proudest’ structures tric wer the round world saw? gum sas a queenly empire, Soir power and wealth and state Rj iame and triumphs failed her, Visi sons no longer great. inn stand the nation's bulwarks, Hier tortunes wax apace, vile Yieture guards her hearthstones, {vd Truth her market-place; Lp twits are streets and temples fot aware the courts of kings— a toe and glorious city ‘of iscosporeal things! -Dova Read Goodale, in Youth's Com- “i KIDNAPPED MILLIONAIRES A Tu otal Ss 1) Hight, 1901, by Lothrop Publishing Company, ba Sy ene Paiaking Company. CHAPTER XXIU—Continvep. \ cheer went up when they saw Hist immediate danger was past. Vinent’ went to the rescue of Sovks.” who was dripping with wa- ter and chattering with fright, but ntively subdued. “You are a mascot, all right, Socks," old boy!” said Vincent, as he joosened the chain so that the monkey would not choke to death. {hts beats climbing trees, doesn't in” Mr. Carmody and the others made an examination of the hull of the boat. ‘The strain had caused a slight leale in the third compartment, but they had no difficulty in stopping it. The kitchen was somewhat disar- ranged and a number of dishes lroken, but the damage was not seri- ous. “he dumping Jupiter” had pwcesstully withstood its baptism n] thus far had justified the hopes { the builders. Yor hal¥ an hour Sidney held his course straight ont to sea. Then he jealed to the north, ‘The big lateen fils were pulling splendidly, and though the craft resjonded slowly to tle tiller, there was no trouble in holding her to the course. ‘They now had a clear view of the coast. Where is the gateway?” asked Mr. Carmody, who had been looking ‘ently along the shore for some time. “cannot see it.” I can see it,” replied Sidney, “but 1 would never suspect it was an in- it unless I knew it to be a fact. Pro any point at-sea the rocks look wii and continuous. The gateway is just south of our flagstaff. Do ov see it mow?” It was as Sidney said. ‘The coast wis sy formed that no inlet showed. Voli @ mile from shore there was nfhing to distinguish the entrance ty tie bay from a seore of ragged iujentations in the black cliffs, As tiny proceeded they came to the Tide of rocks which formed the ro horn of the erescent, ‘This they imagined to mark the north Vondary of the island, but as they neved it they found it was but the sth end of a bay which seemed to le 12 ov 15 miles across, “This is a pretty good-sized island, Hieminond,” remarked Mr. Kent, as tis new panorama spread out be- fore their view. ‘There was a puzzled expression om Swney's face, As Mr. Kent spoke, the snassive outlines of the snow- White peak, which had been seen fom the island, slowly eame into Xiew above the hills along the coast. Th Jond now opposite them was low Ml fairly flat. ‘Phe big rock on their Port side was seen to be the end of ‘spur of small momntains whieh ne down to the ocean, “Ido not understand it,” said Sid- There is no sich island as this ‘ony of our mags? Where ean we \) This istand is at least 40 miles bee ond perhaps longer. ‘That must * the northern end of it.” pointed to the cape per 8s 15 miles away. It was now two feeck in the afternoon, and Mr. ‘oclswvell and Vincent announced that tuner was ready. ‘They stretched Savning over the afterdeck and set ‘table beneath it, Sidney lashed the Sev in position and all proceeded to fue the repast. A haze was steal- iE over the ocean and the wind dy- you For a time “The Jumping qiiter’ had been making four or {tiles an hour, but the breeze, as ame heavy with perfume from the Site ied down until it was barely Shute enough to straighten ont the sails, joo uh Capt. Hammond, what ao “think of it?” asked Mr. Morton as he lit @ cigar and leaned back im his chair. “There is but one thing to do,” sald Sidney. “We must keep on this course until we round that cape, At this rate it will be dark before we make it. We will stand well out to sea, 80 as to have plenty of leeway in case of an east or northeast wind.” The big mountain peak was now almost exactly to the west of them. “If that is old Popocatepetl, as I think it is,” said Sidney, pointing at the huge purple mass, “Vera Cruz 2 Oa5 TSE== “GEN$ SS —_ Dae ae iF TL \| TA BINA ca voy ae. Mf SS 4 j oo L WE a ie 4 7 ~f ae “I DO NOT UNDERSTAND 11,” SAID SIDNEY. is only a little northwest of here. When it gets dark I will hold her north, and take no chances of run- ning ashore on this island.” As"the afternoon wore away, the haze settled ang slowly blotted out the shore line. ‘They crawled along at hardly two knots an hour. It was exasperating progress, but there was no help for it. In the evening the haze lifted and showed the eape still in the northwest. ‘This proved that the tide was pulling against thein. ‘The wind @ cd away to a breath, and the sun sank, a huge red ball of fire in a bank of orange clouds. At ten o'clock the wind ‘swung into the southeast and freshened, but the haze yet hung over the sea, and Sidney held his course to the north. All but Sidney and Mr. Kent retired to the bunks and slept soundly as if on an ocean liner. Save for the bank of fog, it was a perfect night on the water. ‘The raft swayed gent- ly to the deep breathing of the sea, and the masts groaned in_ musical cadence to the rippling of the water. At midnight Mr Kent took the tiller, and Sidney stretched himself on a steamer chair and enjoyed two hours of untroubled slumber. He awoke and relieved Mr. Kent, who then took his nap. Twice during the night Sidney turned the boat to the west, and held that course until the hollow thunder of the surf warned him to stand out. At about three o'clock ‘the breeze quickened, and a 20-mile breeze sprang up, coming straight from the west. This compelled him to cease any more landward experl- ments, and “The Jumping Jupiter” rolled along at a five-mile-an-hour rate. “It is satisfaction to know that we ‘are going somewhere,” said Sidney to himself. “We must be past. the cape by this time. If the fog lifts with this breeze, daylight will show where we are.” ‘As he spoke there was a faint glow in the eastern sky. Mr. Kent awoke with a yawn. “Where are we at?” he asked. Sidney shook his head. “We are headed nor,” he said, CHAPTER XXUT. THE RESCUE. Representatives of the New York Record watched every European port for the arrival of Walter B, Hestor and the steam yacht “Shark.” Ac- cording to all calculations, the yacht was due at the Azores not later than May 12th, but no word came from these islands. Day succeeded day with no news of the famous millior- alre correspondent. In the meantime the detective staff of 40 picked newspaper men under Jack Stevens was indomitable in zeal but barren in results. Mz. Chalmers was steadily losing faith, but by no word or action did he dis- close his loss of confidence to Miss Carmody. He prepared the leader for an article to be published in ‘The Record on Wednesday, May 17th, in which was set forth the discover: ies which had been made pointing to Hestor as the prime mover in the conspiracy. ‘This was in keeping with his promise to Miss Carmody. In the meantime Editor Van Horne had sailed for New York, but was not due until the 22d or 29d of the month, In a cipher eablegram Chalmers had given his superior the essential facts concerning Hestor. ‘he reply of Robert Van Horne was prompt and decisive in instructing Chalmers to make public the facts. ‘The inference was plain that Mr. Van Horne had ‘no hesitancy in sharing his manag- ing editor's suspicions. Mr. Chalmers ‘therefore prepared a four-page arti- ‘cle, and awaited for the day fixed for ‘the disclosure. Miss Carmody ordered the steam yacht bearing her name put in com- mission, and her captain announced that he was ready to weigh anchor ‘on an hour's netice. At three o'clock Tuesday afternoon ‘a cablegram was handed to Mr. Chal- ‘mers, It was in the cipher which had been given to the reporters working on the mystery. ‘Translated it read as follows: ‘avana, Cuba, Tuesday. May 16. To William Chalmers, New York Record: Have solved mystery. Col. John MeIn- tyre, of Havana, built Hestor bungalow year ago. Hestor designed it, Located Jhine hundred miles southwest of Havana. ‘Metntyre will act a3 guide. | Mefntyre js in Havana with me. Usaw the ‘Shark’ unday jn Gulf, Whe Instructions te Hotel Pasaje, Also wire $500. Claim ‘special reward of $0,000. “BERNARD SEYMOUR, cna merece? ae ee Chalmers dashed into Jack Stevens’ room with the cablegram. “Can we rely on that?” asked Mr. Chalmers. “Seymour was deceived once. He may be wrong again. What do you think?” “I think he has found our man!” said Stevens without a moment's hesitation. “That cable sounds like business. It explains Seymour's si- lence. He is the luckiest reporter in the country. I would stake my life he is right.” “We will take the chance,” said Chalmers. “Do not say a word. We will leave for Havana to-night. Be ready to start at seven o'clock. You will go by rail.” Chalmers issued a few instruetions to his assistant and hurriedly ex- plained what had happened. A few minutes later he was on his way to the Carmody mansion, having first ascertained that Miss Helen was at home. In a few words he explained what had_happened. The young heiress was radiant with joy. “I knew you would find them!” she exclaimed. “From the moment you said we could not fail, T was sure of success! Oh, isn't it splendid! 1 could ery for joy!” “This is no time to ery,” said the practical Mr. Chalmers. “We must start for Havana at once. How soon can you be ready?” “can be ready in an hour,” said Miss Carmody. “Mrs. White is here. She is going with me. Can you go, Mr. Chalmers?” “Certainly I can go,” said that gen- tleman. “You did not intend to leave me behind, did you?” “Why of course not,” said Miss Carmody, “but Tam so excited T do not know what I am saying. Will Mr Stevens go with us?” “He will go by rail and boat, and we will mect him in Havana,” said Chalmers. “You had better send word to your captain at once. ‘Tell him I will be on the yacht by seven o'clock. Please warn him to keep the destination a seeret. Do not for- get to take along lots of wraps; it may be cold on the ocean.” Chalmers returned to his office, and for an hour was busy with in- structions to his assistants. He is- sued orders that ‘The Record should give no hints of pending develop- ments, and selected a special cipher to cover new possibilities, He then proceeded to the pier and boarded the yacht. Miss Carmody and Mrs. Isabel White had arrived, and the latter was ina flutter of excitement. The yacht swung on her keel and headed down the East River and out into the bay. Before twilight had faded, the “Hel- en Carmody” was well ont to sea and making for Havana with a “bone in her teeth.” ‘The “Helen Carmody" was a fine specimen of marine arehitecture, She was fitted with every convenience and luxury. She was larger than the “Shark,” having more staterooms and more powerful engines. While more comfortable and stauncher, she was not so fast as the “Shark.” Mr. Carmody had sacrificed speed for room and artistic effect, yet there were few yachts that could show a wake to the “Helen Carmody.” It was late Saturday afternoon when the frowning heights of Morro castle were seen across the waters, and it was nearly midnight when they dropped anchor in the harbor of Ha vana. It was decided to remain on the yacht until morning, so the “Helen Carmody” Iny within easy dis- tance of the shore. Sunday morning a yawl put out from the Havana docks. It had as passenger a small man with a “sandy” moustache, and hair which could be classed under no other color than red, He sat straight and looked dignified. He wore a natty suit of gray, with a large carnation in the Japel of his coat. ‘This was an im- ‘portant event in the life of Mr. Ber- nard Seymour, but he felt equal to ‘the occasion. There was a subdued ‘twinkle in his blue eyes, which no ‘assumption of dignity could entirely offset. He critically watched the perspiring Cuban at the oars. Then he looked at the “Helen Carmody.” ‘The yaw] came alongside the brass- railed gangway. Capt. Baldwin, of the “Helen Car- mody" stood at the hed of the gangway. Mr. Bernard Seymour sa- Juted him with an impressive gesture. “Good morning, Captain!” Capt. Baldwin bowed but said noth- ing. “I am Bernard Seyinour; special commissioner of ‘The Record,” said Mr. Seymour. “Present my eard and my compliments to Miss Carmody and Mr_ Chalmers.” “Come aboard, Mr Seymour,” said Capt. Baldwin, “I am glad to meet you.” “Ah, is this Seymour?” said Mr. Chalmers, who now appeared. “Glad to meet you, old man. Accept my congratulations. I hope you are meet you, Miss Carmody. ‘The plea ure is all mine.” There was a twinkle in his eye which was irresistible, and Miss Care mody laughed until the color eame to her cheeks, and she looked more charming than ever. She took Mr. Seymour in charge, and induced him to tell the story of how he came te solve the mystery of the Hestor bungalow. Mr. Chalmers listened to. ‘Mr. Seymour's carefully prepared ‘narrative. “When T received Mr. Chalmer's telegraphic advices,” said Mr. Sey- ‘mour, “L made up my mind that the first place to search was along the lumber docks. I thought it all over, and said to myself, it is like this: If Hestor has built a house in trop- ical America the umber probably came from New Orleans, which is the great lumber” market of the south. The contractor might hail from any place, but naturally he would ship his material from New Orleans. It was nearly dark when I arrived in the city. I went to the hotel, looked at my mail, and went from there to the docks. I questioned ‘stevedores, dock-wallopers, sailors ‘and levee men of all descriptions. 1 ‘went finally to a resort frequented by such men. There were probably 50 of them in the room. I picked out ‘a smooth-looking colored boy and told him I would give him $5 if he would ask every man present if he ‘ever helped load lumber for a man named Waiter B. Hestor. I told him all about Hestor; that he was a news- paper man who owned a yacht called the ‘Shark.’ and that he was eccen- tric, and liberal with his mouey. “He was a bright coon,” said the veracious Mr. Seymour, “and he wanted to earn that money in a hur- ry. He got on top of a beer keg and made a speech. Once in a while he would misstate a point, and I would correct him. When he was. through a darkey, with a face as ‘black as the ace of spades came for- ‘ward and asked me how much I would give to know what boat that lumber was shipped on. I did not want to appear too anxious, so T of fered him $2. We went to one side, and he told me that about a year ago a man arrived in New Orleans with = yacht called the ‘Shark,’ and that the owner superintended the loading of a lot of lumber, doors, windows and stuff on a schooner called the ‘Sam Walker.’ He described Hestor to a dot. He said Hestor’s chief amuse- ment was to throw money to the ne- groes along the levee to induce them to sing and dance. He would stand on the ‘Sam Walker’ and throw coins by the hour, until the levee was black with darkies. I knew he had the right man. I gave him the $2 and promised him $10 more if he would locate the ‘Sam Walker’ for me. At about midnight we found that the schooner was at Lake Pont- chartrain, and was going to sail the next morning. I paid my colored friend and started for the ‘West End” I found the ‘Sam Walker.’ I wanted to get the information without exeit- ing suspicion. T learned that the first mate was ashore in some of the drinking resorts of the place. ‘Then T ran across a friend of mine who was much intoxicated. I used him as tool. Early in the morning I found the first mate. From him I learned that the schooner was going to Ha- vana. He was pretty full, and I bribed him to let me go aboard the schcon- er. There was no way to shake my friend, whose name is Bender, so we took him along. ig id REN eI 9 The Wurst Yet. “Is this the best wurst yon ean send me?” asked the lady who walked into the meat store with a package of that edible in her hand. “Madam,” answered the man, “it is the best wurst we have.” “Well, it is the worst wurst I ever saw.” “Tam sorry to hear that. ‘the best Ian do is to try and send you some better wurst from to-day's lot, but as T said, that was the best wurst we have ai present. I am sure, how- ever, that the wurst we are now make ing will not be any worse than this and it ought to be better. T assure you that as soon as I get the wurst you shall have the best of it. We never gave anyone the worst of it so long as we have been in the wurst business and you may be sure when we give you the wurst it will be the best, for our worst wurst is better wurst that the best wurst of our competitors.” But the lady, whose eyes had ta- ken on a stare of glassiness, was seen to throw up her,hands and ile from the place, for She’ was afraid the worst was yet to come.—Balti- 2 American. i ae ra Down in the Joplin mining district once a traveling man was rampsing around in the suburbs of the town ‘at two o'clock in the morning. ‘The country down there is as fall of prospect holes as the top of a pep- per-box. Some of them are 300 feet deep. As a natural consequence the traveling man stepped into one of those holes. He fell ten or twelve feet, and then striking a cross tim- ber clutched it and saved himself from what appeared to be a terrible death. All night long he clung to that cross timber, yelling himself hoarse for aid. When day broke ke was stil hanging there exhausted, disheveled, and pitiable. When the sun came up it cheered him a little, and, grad- ually, as hope eame back, he suat moned courage to look into the yawning abyss beneath him, Nerv- ing himself for the supreme test he glanced downward, and found that his feet were swinging within four inches of the bottom of the Fate, ‘The prospectors had abandoned it at a Cavth of 15 feet.—Topeka Capital. el eee ee VV > YVYYY ; : IVYVYVY 5 VYVYVVE : 2 E.L, L ; Choice Wine ARNETT, Proprieto: > Meals served i 5, Liquor 7 > 0 Drinks ot atti : and : 2 pen day pee propery ve F : ‘ iin Soon wish them ars F tes ly served in the une : : - (org Shank Phone, he Cate : s Genes ANNER B. : = Le is iz '» Mana; Pe “4 — ee BALL - - a s ee ELL. SES eethe, : Ash HO NETT, Pro} 3 sa ae yprietor. e a AAA A. x F YvYVY — = YVYY . GEO. 8. WIL! ISON 3 0 LU Erne namat “no XOTICHAny ete oe Teer. > pening St Any entering e F 5 ii a — g colored ev snd Special Part a | kk A. ice siere fon ntaenen See i RLS irene = tte wiemstart 3 weve ‘ation 3 AAKAAAS |S:3: BREWER, Proprietor. = | —-_—sE, W. TERRY. Managor. | TJ. BREWER, Proprietor of NEW RESTAURANT and DINING HALL, at 2837 [Manchester Ave. First-Class Meals, 15c The only place where you can get the very best for jyour money. Give them a call. ea, The American Mutual Aid Association. PERCY STONE, General Manager. (123, 724 and 725 Wainwright Bldg., St. Louis,°Mo. 2 ceased to do business in Missouri. Indiana, Arkansas | Kentucky and Mississippi. | Weekly benefits for sickness and accident. Ben- | ms efits for death. ‘Free use of surgeon or physician to all members. | Write for circular. St. Louis Dairy Co. Delivers exclusivelyin Bottles to the family trad@ 2008 Pine Street. R. J. RAYMOND, Attorney - at - Law, Ill Clark Aye., St. Louis, Mo, ae Tor profes- ‘sional lectures, board and room rent for one term. By the Quarterly System is offered unrivaled oppor- tunities for those who must retain teaching positions asa means of live~ lihood, and | yet desire to study Medicine. | STUDY MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT THE Louisville National Medical College FIFTEENTH YEAR. thy Con Ba Tae eee chy eet au aie Seaneea eee See Buena er ai bets fae ee seaBQROTimEN oft Pbarmagy;, Frm years, Sx months each W. A. BURNEY, M. D., Dean, Louisville, Ky. Be TT ee ge RR ee ESNet ee caaeTe eee ee e “aw RR AGENTS WANTED SWING NG Tt opens Seen MADB hb y\ } Lawn Swings and Settees, Hammoch ky Chairs, Camp Chairs and Stools, ie i LS Ironing Tables, Wash Benches, Etc, AV \ ce f / 1 Agents easily make / Y $5 to $10 Per Day. Me A a Af Yom JASN ‘Will furnish samples at i] Veco | ae b\ acai picsstotoee desing Li lege \\ agency. 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WHEELER, JR., General Collector and Solicitor. MISS BEATRICE ROSS, Secretary. 2617 Lawton Avenue. MISS KATE JOHNSON.....Editor. C. H. Tandy.....General Reporter Business matters pertaining to the paper should be addressed to The Palladium Office. Communications for publication must reach us not later than Wednesday. ADVERTISING RATES. For one inch, one insertion.....$ 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 settle south of coot 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. (7) Because it is fearless in denouncing crime regardless of consequences. The St. Louis Palladium is sold at the following places: 2617 Lawton avenue. 209 South 15th street. 1208 Wash street. 2652 Lucas avenue Charleston, Mo. The Old Black Man and the Jefferson Club. The Old Black Man has gone back on his companions of by-gone days. Last week he tried to give the Jefferson club the worst of it. We are sorry he has such little respect for his former companions. He says that no respectable Negro would be a member of the Jefferson club. Many men belong to that club in order to better their condition in this life. The fact that they belong to it does not necessarily contaminate them. Some of them have been driven out of the republican party. The Old Black Man has just left the club, and now endeavors to be smear them. The Palladium has criticized the Jefferson club members, but never as scathing as the Old Black Man has. ITEMS ON THE OLD BLACK MAN. Some years ago when the Old Black Man was $300 in debt to his printer, who paid the bills? Edward Butler and other democrats? When he gets behind again, who will pay that bill? Not Mr. Butler, nor Mr. Hawes. Who then? Why! Why! Nobody. What then? H— and the deep, blue sea. The Professional World, a patent sheet published at Columbia, Mo., by a man named Logan, who rolled S. T. Pettigrew from the Huntsville school a few years ago, says he was at the Grand Lodge of the U. B. F., at Macon City, Mo. The roll of the Grand Lodge does not show it. He is what we call a "petticoat man." He did not show his face in the Grand Lodge, but stood around the Grand Temple near the women. We shall baptize this little fellow a "Petticoat Logan" next week. We will show why he is hanging around the Grand Temple. THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. We are glad, indeed, that the State Historical society, through the efforts of Mr. Walter Williams, has given all Negro newspapers an opportunity to display their ability in the journalistic line. Now is the time for the newspapers of Missouri to make a supreme effort to make an excellent exhibit. The Palladium has already sent the weekly copies of seven-months. Every Negro in the state ought to subscribe for The Palladium in order to assist us to produce a creditable presentation. It is a question of the race and not the individual. Mr. Walter Williams has extended this chance to us in order to enable us to gain some prominence in newspaper work, and each and everyone should assist by having his "ad." appear in our paper. --- The day of a $2 a year weekly newspaper has passed. The standard price for weeklies now is $1 per year, which is all that should be asked—Columbia Professional World. The following leading newspapers rank from $1.25 to $2.40 per annum, thus showing that the Professional World speaks at random: Metropolis Gazette, Colorado Statesman, New York Age, Altanta Age, Chicago Conservator, St. Joseph Spectator, Chicago Broad-Ax, Galveston Times, Omaha Progress, Kentucky Standard, Christian Recorder, Washington Bee, Omaha Enterprise, Freeman's Journal, the Fort Worth Hustler and many others. KENTUCKY RESTAURANT. Mrs. N. Young, from Bowling Green, Ky., has opened a first-class restaurant at $1528\frac{1}{2}$ Morgon street, where she will be glad to accommodate the general public. Everyone likes the good old Kentucky cooking. Go taste it. $1528\frac{1}{2}$ Morgan street. 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. 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. The A. M. E. conference, known as the Missouri conference, will convene in St. Paul's chapel, October 7. Dr. D. Roberts and other ministers are making preparations to receive the visiting divines. We are confident that citizens generally will make things pleasant for all. TRUE REFORMERS' HALL, ROOM 2, SECOND FLOOR,MADAM IRVING'S HAIR-DRESSING PARLOR. Shampooing, straightening, scalp massaging a specialty. Braids and bangs to match in color and quality. Call and see her work. The St. Louis Fair from all indications the St. Louis Fair will excel any ever held in this city. The officers of the fair are well pleased with the many applications for space. Many, doubtless, will be denied, for lack of space. None of the Portland, Me., hotels supplies pie for breakfast unless special order is given—Portland Advertiser. This reminds us of a scene in Albany, N. Y., when a prominent New York police official years ago stopped at a tavern kept by Mitchell, who afterward went to New York, to the Hotel Brunswick, if we are not mistaken. The New Yorker at breakfast asked for pie. The waiter, one of the unfortunates who for years had been systematically kept in darkness, answered: "We don't serve pie at breakfast, sir." The New Yorker recared: "No poy at breakfast? Five dollars a day and no poy? Dye call this a hotel? Where's Mitch?"—Boston Journal. SAY, FRIEND, Mr. Jeff Smith, of 1201 Morgan, wants to see you. Go there and inquire. Mr. Geo. Williams, of 715 Linden street, told us to tell you to see him. He has something for you. We have been looking for it. Holt's Saloon, 1925 Market street. Something new. The Jockey Club, 3024 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. 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. J. M. H. Dorsey Wood, Coal & Ice, EXPRESSWAGON Hauling to all Parts of the City 2629 Morgan St. Mrs. J. W. Wheeler. MODISTE. Dressmaking, Designing, Cutting, Fitting, Purchasing, 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. THE HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 2336 WASH ST....Furnished rooms for rent to men; rooms comfortably furnished; on second and third floors; with or without board. T. T. Thompson. Ladies' Barber AND TONSORIALIST 3320 Franklin Avenue, St. Louis. Nicely Furnished Room for Gentlemen Only, Grand Lodge and Temple CAN BE SECURED FROM THE Denslow Art Studio, Blees Block, Macon, Mo. Staple and Fancy GROCERIES, guarantees satisfaction and prompt service. The best Collar and Cuff work in the city. Please address all communications to 2825' st. Louis avenue. RAMSEY'S THE STRICTLY MODERN ROOMING HOUSE California Canned Goods a Specialty. G. W. ROBINSON, Of the city for Gentlemen and the general traveling public. Every convenience desired by patrons of high-class rooms at moderate cost. Manager Wa Trustworthy lady or gentleman to manage bus joining territory for well and favorably known standing. $20 straight cash salary and expense check direct from headquarters. Expense money nent. Address Manager, 610 Monon Bldg. Wanted manage business in this county and ad- ly known house of solid financial and expenses, paid each Monday by ense money advanced; position perma- n Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Manager Wanted Manager Wanted Trustworthy lady or gentleman to manage business in this county and adjoining territory for well and favorably known house of solid financial standing. $20 straight cash salary and expenses, paid each Monday by check direct from headquarters, Expense money advanced; position permanent. Address Manager, 610 Monon Bldg., Chicago, Ill. The "Owl" Saloon Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Bottled Beer Everything Genuine Remember the Place Northeast Corner 11th and Chestnut, for Society and Club Meetings, Social Parties, Etc. Entrance to hall 106 N. 11th St. Hall well supplied with dishes and cooking utensils. The Rosebud Bar, 2220 Market street, Tom Turpin, proprietor, can "dress you up" with all that makes a man lively- good beer and whiskey. --- Carpenter and Builder, and General Repair Work. All work promptly attended to. Call and see me. 2837 MANCHESTER AVE. Shop-2816 Walnut Street. THE PHOTO OF THE W. M. DENSLOW, Proprietor. Sexton & Maxwell, First-class Photographers 1407 Market St. Telephone—Kinloch C-397. THEO. H. TEMPEL, Dealer in 2601 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. Second-Hand Furniture BOUGHT AND SOLD. Moving and Expressing, General Jobbing and Repairing of Furniture, Ranges, Stoves, Etc. 4025 EASTON AVE., ST. LOUIS. 33 South 20th Street Phone Kinloch C 43 WILLIAM JAMES and MR. R. SAUNDERS, Managers CHARLEY HARRIS, Proprietor The Palace Hotel 1424 Morgan St. Mrs. Sarah Sprague is conducting a rooming house. Call and get lodging. Mr. Wm. P. Dye's Buffet, 2801 Manchester avenue, is the place to rest your weary head by taking good cigars and beer. GEO. W. F. BULLOCK With or without Board. S. P. PERKINS. Tennessee Shaving Parlor Everything Neat, Clean and Up-to-date. 1326 Morgan Street, ST. LOUIS. MO. MR. A. L. LEE, Representing the PALACE LAUNDRY. MRS. HATTIE J, RAMSEY, Proprietress. A. H. NOTICE HALL FOR RENT J. W. Scruggs, Agent. provements, Buildings Heated by Steam, Diplomas are State Schooli 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. Wednesday evening. Prayer Meeting. Friday evening. Young People's Prayer Meeting. Rev. Fred. McKinney, Pastor. J. A. Smith, Clerk. All church notices must be mailed to this office on or before Wednesday of each week. Reporters will be sent wherever requested. Only notify this office. CHURCH DIRECTORY. St. Paul's, A. M. E., Leffingwell and Lawton; Rev. D. P. Roberts, pastor. St. Peter's, A. M. E., Elliott and Montgomery, Rev. James Madison, pastor. St. James, A. M. E., Pendleton and St. Ferdinand; Rev. W. C. Williams, pastor. Quinn's Chapel, A. M. E., Carondelet; Rev. J. A. Christoper, pastor. St. John's Mission, A. M. E., Lowell; Rev. F. E. Clark, pastor. A. M. E. ZION. Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion, 2625 Morgan; Rev. E. D. W. Jones, pastor. St. John's A. M. E. Zion, 113 Eiler St.; Rev. R. P. Christian, pastor. Colored Methodist, 3866 Fairfax avenue; Rev. O. Heavlow, pastor. Lexington Ave. A. M. E. Zion, 4214A Lexington Ave; Rev. Donovan, pastor. M. E. Centennial M. E., Elliot and Washington; Rev. Gilliam, pastor. BAPIST. Central Baptist, Twenty-third and Morgan Sts. First Baptist, Fourteenth and Clark Ave.; Rev. E. C. Cole, pastor. Fifth Baptist, 4117 Papin St. Pilgrim Baptist, Kossuth and Pans St.; Rev. Brown, supply. Antioch Baptist, 4223 Konnerly Ave.; Rev. F. McKinney, pastor Mt. Pleasant Baptist, foot Dock St. Pleasant Green Baptist, 711 N. Eleventh St. Baptist Church, 110 S. Leonard Ave.; Rev. Perry, pastor Chambers Street Baptist, Tenth and Chambers; Rev. Cox, pastor. Compton Hill Baptist, LaSalle St. El Bethel Baptist church, 638 Athlone Ave. Ruck's Church, Baptist, 14th and Morgan; Rev. Rucks, pastor Bethany, Presbyterian, Nineteenth and Wash Sts.; Rev. Washington, pastor All-Saints, Episcopalian, 2135 Washington Ave.; Rev. C. M. C. Mason, pastor Missionary Baptist True Reformers; Rev. J. L. Cohen, pastor KENTUCKY RESTAURANT At 15281 Morgan St. MEALS 15c, 20c AND 25c The Best in the City for the Money MRS. NANCY YOUNG, Prop. MRS. L. CLARK'S She treats the scalp, stops the hair from falling out. Best of attention is given to all ladies' work. 2115- Lucas Ave., St. Louis, Mo. "Follow the Flag." Banner Route To the Great Gateways Kansas City, Chicago, Omaha. Through sleepers to New York and the East. Magnificent Equipment and Train Service. Ticket Office, Eigth and Olive streets. AND IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE, KNOWN AS THE GREAT SOUTHWEST RAILWAY Connecting the Commercial Centers and Birth Faces of MISSOURI, The Broad Corn and Wheat Fields and Thriving Cities of KANSAS, The Fertile River Valleys, Trade Centers and Killing Fields of NEBRASKA, The Grand, Picturesque and Enchanting Seas, and the Famous Mining Districts of COLORADO, The Agricultural, Fruit, Mineral and Timber Lands and Hiking Routes of ARKANSAS, The Sugar Plantations and immense Rice Fields of LOUISIANA, The Cotton and Grain Fields, the Cattle Ranges and Wheat Fields of TEXAS, Historical and Scenic OLD AND NEW MEXICO, And forms with its Connections the Populi Winter Route to CALIFORNIA For description and pamphlets any of the above States, address Company Agents, or H. C. TOWNSEND, General Passenger and Truck Agent ST. LOUIS [Name] L. W. VINEGAR. International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen. L. W. VINEGAR, Organizer. No. 122. I. B. S. Firemen meet every 1st and 4th Thursday in each month in Tobin's Hall. Office----806 North 14th Street. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By FROM ALIVE: OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted) This wonderful hair pomade is the only only preparation in the world that makes hair shine. It nourishes the scalp and prevents the hair from out or breaking off, curled, or fried. Sold forty years and used by thousands. Warranty harmless. Testimonials free on orders. It is the best straightening kink hair. Beware of allegations. Get the Original Ozonized OX MARROW or buy the straight hair, soft and beautiful. Keep the necessary for ladies, gentlemen and children. This wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair at home. It is the best and most economical. It is not the only pomade for anybody to produce a preparable pomade. Sold by druggists and dealers. Only 50 cents. Sold for one bottle or two bottles. Sold for 50 cents for one bottle or two bottles. Sold for 50 cents for one bottle or two bottles. Send your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The Falladium wants ads. If our true friends wish to assist us, they will secure ads., for us. HOUSEHOLD HEROINE OF THE JUNGLE. American Woman Shot the Biggest Tiger Ever Killed in the Wilds of India. Few women can boast of killing two tigers, three bears, two panthers, and a number of smaller animals. This is the record established by Mrs. James C. Donnet, daughter of John H. Whitehouse, of the Larches, Irvingon-on-Hudson. Mrs. Donnet went to India some time ago with her husband, who is an officer in the British army, and her surprised and delighted parents have just received from her a letter which shows that their delicately nurtured daughter has been teaching the athletic British girls a few things in the art of killing wild beasts in their native jungle. The letter is in part as follows: "I am the proud slayer of the largest tiger ever shot in India, and he fell at my first shot. He measures ten feet eight inches, has a perfect coat MRS. JAMES C. DONNET. (American Woman Who Holds Tiger-Shooting Record.) and teeth two inches long. It took 16 men to carry him into camp and I did it all myself and it was such a difficult shot. I am a sort of big bug in camp now. The natives bow down and kiss the hem of my dress, for I am the first lady who has ever shot in these jungles. Ah, I am a lucky boggar. So just listen while I tell you about it: "We heard a tiger had killed a lot of deer in a piece of bamboo jungle about six miles off, so I got about 40 beaters together and took up our position near an open space, while the beaters went into the jungle with drums and horns, driving six buffalo in front of them and making hideous noises. After about half an hour, when the beat was nearly up to my tree, I saw a huge tiger. He was going full bat, so I saw it was a case of then or never, and although it was a very blind shot I let blaze at the vanishing stripes as they flashed through the bamboos. "A roar and rush told me the monster was hit, but I could see nothing, as the jungle was so dense. When the shikar came up I told him where I had fired and got down and with loaded rifles we approached the spot where, about ten yards from where I fired, lay the very finest monster I ever saw and his great striped body did indeed look like a slain king of the forest. The shikar and I all but hugged in our excitement. The monster was indeed glorious with his ten feet eight inches spread out in their full, his guns rolled up, showing his enormous teeth and his skin in its prime, and oh, so beautifully black and yellow. "I had already shot three bears, two panthers and a tiger, besides all sorts of deer and other smaller beasts, and when I saw that monster lying there stain by my own hands it was the proudest and happiest moment of my life and I shall never get over the feeling of exultation." TO REMOVE A RING A Needle Flat in the Eye and a Bit of Thread Will Do It in a Few Seconds. Most girls have had trouble in removing rings from their fingers. "There is really no necessity for all this ado about removing a tight ring," said a jeweler. "In that, as in everything else, the secret of success lies in knowing how to do it. Here is a recipe that I have found unfailing for removing a tight ring, and there is no painful surgical operation involved, either. Thread a needle flat in the eye, using a thread that is strong, but not too coarse. Then pass the head of the needle under the ring. Care, of course, must be used in this, and it would be best to soap the needle before beginning. The needle, having been passed through, pull the thread through a few inches toward the hand—so." By this time the jeweler had passed the needle and thread under the ring on his own finger and was prepared to illustrate the little lecture. "Wrap the long end of the thread around the finger toward the nail in this manner. Then take hold of the short end and unwind it—so. The thread, thus pressing against the ring, will gradually remove it, however tight or swollen the finger." A Solomon in Maryland. "A Maryland justice of the peace, in deciding an action against a railroad company for killing a cow near a road crossing, decided the case in favor of the plaintiff for the reason that "the defenders had no sign up at the crossing." FUSINESS IS FATAL. Tact and n Calm, Easy Manner Are the First Essentials of Really Good Manners. Etiquette is not a mere code of formal, useless rules; it comprises the whole range of good manners, and consequently good breeding, tact, politeness and charm. We begin to learn etiquette when we are told to eat with a fork in preference to a knife, or our fingers; to sit with our feet under the table, instead of on it. Many persons have an idea that perfect manners, and a knowledge of how to act under all circumstances, is born in those called upon to move in good society, and that it is snobish to try and obtain it through books. Thus this there can be no greater mistake. The children of the most cultured must submit to a long education in etiquette. Much, of course, comes to them almost as naturally as speech, through the knowledge their children possess; but then the parents must have knowledge in the first place. It is the perfect acquaintance with what is good form, the consciousness of feeling perfectly at ease in whatever situation one may find herself, that gives the easy air of good breeding so full of charm, so well worth attaining. Natural tact, innate refinement, go far, but they do not take one all the way, any more than a naturally clever child can get on without any teaching whatever. But one thing is certain—it is only those who are naturally refined, and possess an inborn tact, who can ever hope to attain perfection of manner, for the foundation of all good breeding is tact. A tactful person grasps a situation in an instant, and is at once prepared to speak and act correctly, no matter what company she may be in. She is neither too familiar, nor too reserved. Next to tact, a calm, easy manner is absolutely necessary to the attainment of an air of good breeding. Fussiness is fatal. An over-accentuated politeness and desire to please is more to be commended, certainly, than the lack of both, but it is almost as far removed from the ease of good breeding.—N. Y. Weekly. NOVELTY IN MIRROR3. Glass Retains Its Transparency, But Possesses Reflection Properties of Looking Glass. Here is a glass which apparently can be used either as a mirror or window. It resembles a mirror because it has the ordinary silvered surface, yet it is unlike a mirror, because it is transparent. On the back of the transparent or translucent plate is a coating which consists of a silvering material, amylacetate, gun cotton and fusel oil. This coating ```markdown ``` BOTH MIRROR AND WINDOW. is also transparent or translucent, and by means of it the plate is made reflective. Thus the glass, while retaining its transparency, possesses all the reflective properties of a mirror. No notable improvement has been made in mirrors for a long time, and for this reason the news that a new method of coating them has been discovered is of more than passing interest.—Detroit Free Press. HOW TO PRESERVE EGGS. Keeping Them in Water Glass Is an Effective Method for the Average Housekeeper. Now and then a housekeeper wants to know of some reliable way to preserve eggs in time of summer plenty for the midwinter season of scarcity, when eggs are so much in demand for holiday dainties. Most methods are somewhat uncertain and some really affect the taste of the eggs even if it "keeps" them in a general sense of the word. Those who are studying the subject of egg preservation otherwise than by cold storage and in large quantities agree that nothing is better than water glass. This is a solution of silicate of soda which has a consistency something like oil. If but a few pounds are needed the price is about 25 cents a pound. But as it is to be diluted nine times its bulk with cold water, and one pound will cover about 150 eggs, the cost is not so great. The eggs must be perfectly fresh, not store eggs, then stored in a cool, dark place, and experience proves that wood or carthenware is better than metal, because after a time water glass will corrode metal. The theory of preserving eggs in any solution is to keep the contents of the egg from evaporating through the porous shell or to prevent air from entering through the shell to the contents. Anything which completely closes the pores of the shell if it be harmless itself is a good preservative. Some of the substances used are too expensive even if efficient; water glass is both effective and inexpensive. FOR SUNDAY READING GOD'S ANSWER. Nearer to Thee, O Father, ever nearer, Thy loving purpose in my life fulfilled, Lifted above earth's strife, my vision clearer, All earth-born passions stilled. Is this my prayer? Why, then, am I forgetful? When lowly bowed beneath Thy chasten- ness, are you? is not the answer to my earnest pleading Hidden within the discipline severe? The very lesson that my heart was needing, Taught by the bitter tear? The weary toll, the pain, the sore bereave- ment, Are ladder-rounds swung down for every Here let me rest, assured my poor petition Is heard and heeded at the Father's throne. The answer comes, with faith the one condition; The wag is all his own. -Miss Hattie Hunting Plerson, in N. Y. Observer. EXPERIMENTAL RELIGION. Truth and Power of Christinnity Is Capable of Demonstration in Everyday Life. Christianity as a religion is as experimental as it is practical, and this aspect of it is not less important than the other, or than any other, for that matter. It has to do with the inner life as well as the outer life and is unique in this respect, fulfilling a demand of our nature which is real and imperative. There is something within every one of us that calls for that in religion which satisfies, which brings a sense of right relations with God and of the right adjustment of our own powers of mind and heart, so as to allay fear and unrest, giving peace and harmony within, that which the prophet calls "quietness and assurance forever." This inward frame, this joyous conformity to God's will, this conscious transformation into the likeness of the Son of God, arises only from the realization of what is known among all evangelical Christian people as "experimental religion." The phrase, says the Northwestern Christian Advocate, is expressive and comprehensive. The idea it embodies is complete and broad, although the terms are too general to be very definite—that is, they do not enter very discriminately into modes and processes, so as to set forth the different elements of the gracious work in their relations to one another and to the whole. It is quite possible to have a satisfying experience in religion without a large amount of knowledge of the technicalities about which the theologians speculate and debate. Plain people grasp the substance as readily as do scholars and thinkers. This is one of the beauties of the scheme which God has ordained for the comfort of all grades of intellect and for all varieties of temperament and susceptibility; and it is proof that there is Divine wisdom in it. They mistake the scope and significance of experimental religion who think of it as relating only to sentiment and emotion. It does relate to these, but only as incidents. It has wider and deeper meaning. All that pardon, regeneration, adoption and sanctification include or imply must be embraced in it. In contents it is as grand as salvation—it is salvation revealed, proved, verified, brought within the sphere of consciousness and incorporated into the substance of personal knowledge. On course it has a psychological side, suggesting material for absturse thought and for learned investigation, but that is not an essential, nor does it come into the range of our purpose in writing. It rather belongs to the class of learned people who come into possession of religion as a concrete blessing, and thus gain the proper standpoint for rational inquiry. Without the knowledge that comes with the experience itself, speculations and theorizing can never reach more substantial ground than conjecture. Those who undertake the exposition of experimental religion without possessing it as a verity of consciousness, reason on the mystery in the absence of the most important data; they seek to solve the problem while omitting the chief factor, the only one that can assure success. It must be, however, that an aspect of religious life capable of such extension and such comprehensiveness will vitally affect the emotions as well as the intellectual activities. It awakens the affections, hopes, aspirations and longings of the soul. It stirs and energizes the sensibilities. It refines and purifies the passions. It expands the spiritual horizon and fills the firmament of hope with stars of ever increasing brilliance. Of course, with its dominating power in the empire of mind and heart, the opposing forces of unbelief and of evil passion must recede and die. There is something in the expulsive power of a master passion. If love increase and abound, hate must diminish. If spiritual knowledge hold darkness, darkness and uncertainty must before the advancing light. If God manifest Himself in the heart, every power of evil must weaken in His presence. Such religion contains what is a substantial meaning of the word "ex- periment"—the power of attesting or proving itself. It becomes its own evidence. It is self-demonstrating. "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself." "If any man will (or willeth to) do His will, he shall know of the doctrine." "Taste and see that the Lord is good." Such is the Divine challenge to men, "Try Me and prove Me." Here are invitations to experiment in the highest and best sense, to put God's word to the test. A mere formal compliance in the spirit of curiosity is not a test. The requirement is that of a thorough surrender, the giving up of one's own will to God's will, not with a reservation or an "if" conditioning the surrender, but taking God at His word and enthroning the Divine will as the supreme law. Such compliance alone meets the condition of the challenge and secures the right to expect this accession of knowledge. This full compliance is an experiment, a test, a proof, and the assured result is experience. Experimental religion includes this knowledge, this Divine assurance in the consciousness, this spiritual illumination, reaching up in its completeness to the witness of the Spirit, which is God revealing Himself as Father to His adopted child. An experience of this kind brings light and love and power. Emotion, pure and blessed, accompanies it. Whether shown in grateful adoration with restful joy, or in acclamations of rapturous triumph, there is substantial oneness in the experience, as there is in the filial relation newly attained. Since temperatment and environment determine the type of emotional manifestations, it is reasonable to expect as much variety in the expression of elevated feelings as there is in temperament and environment. Love, not emotion, is the final test of the state of the heart. He that loveth is born of God. Love is the fulfilling of law. It therefore follows that the love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy ghost given is the highest and noblest experience, the brightest and best and truest embodiment of experimental religion. IF WE ONLY KNEW. Cruel Misjudgments Often Add 10 n Heavy Burden of Grief-A Conductor's Story. How differently we would judge our fellow men if we knew all that was behind their words and acts! How often we misjudge them because of our ignorance! Only those who have been misjudged can fully appreciate the meaning of Jesus' admonition: "Judge not, that ye be not judged." Several years ago the conductor of a Chicago street car made a slight mistake in returning change to a lady passenger. The lady indignantly accused the conductor of attempting to cheat her. The conductor made no reply, and the passenger took his silence as evidence of guilt, and for some time publicly commented upon it. The late Dr. Arthur Edwards, who witnessed the scene, saw that there was something evidently troubling the conductor, and remarked that conductors have a hard time trying to please the public. "Yes, they do," replied the conductor. "But if that lady had known that my little girl died this morning, and that I had to report for duty or lose my job, she would not have been surprised that my thoughts are not on my business." This statement deeply touched the heart of Dr. Edwards, and in tender words he tried to comfort the stricken father. He rode with him to the end of the line, and, as he was about to leave him, said: "Your heart is nearly broken now, but remember that you can meet your little girl again in Heaven." "Do you really believe that? Oh, if I only could," said the conductor. After some further conversation, Dr. Edwards left and as they parted the man said to the doctor: "It is very kind of you to take so much interest in a stranger, and to go so far out of your way to comfort me and I thank you from my heart." Dr Edwards never heard from the conductor again; but we are sure that the man will ever hold sacred the memory of one who comforted him when he was misjudged WORDS OF WISDOM A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud—Guthrie. Let not the stream of your life be a murmur stream—Spiritual Gems. There is no riches above a sound body and no joy above the joy of the heart.—Ecclesiastes. Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose, and you know not how much may be accomplished.—Dr. Wm. M. Taylor. Lord, grant me a simple, kind, open, believing, loving and generous heart, worthy of being Thy dwelling place. O Most Gracians.—John Sergieff. Do not begrudge love deeds and kind words, especially to those who gather with you about the same hearth; and, after all, it is such a little way that can go together.—Selected. Keep the soil of life soft, its sympathy tender, its imagination free, or else you may lose the elementary quality of receptiveness, and all the influences of God may be in vain.—F. C. Peabody. God's will comes to thee and me in daily circumstances, in little things equally as in great. Meet them bravely. Be at your best always, though the occasion be one of the very least. Dignify the smallest summons by the greatness of your response.—F. B. Meyer. Let us do our duty and pray that we may do our duty here, now, to-day; not in dreamy sweetness, but in active energy; not in the green oasis of the future, but in the dusty desert of the present; not in the imaginations of otherwise, but in the realities of now—F. W. Farrar. A CENTENNIAL ODE. The Louisiana Purchase, 1803-1903, By Hubert M. Skinner, Ph. D., of Chicago. The author of the following ode on Louisiana is Mr. Hubert M. Skinner, Ph. D., of Chicago, a teacher, critic and author of note. He is the author of "The Schoolmaster in Literature," "The Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire," "Skinner's Story of the Britons," etc. The Louisiana ode was written to be read on the occasion of the Authors' and Artists' convention, held M. B. HUBERT M. SKINNER, Ph.D. in July at Winona Lake, Ind. Mr. Skinner has been very successful in providing odes for special occasions, all of which have been well received. He wrote the "New Century Ode" for the "Watchnight" in the Chicago coliseum on the occasion of the passing of the Nineteenth century; the dirge at the Ridpath memorial services, and also the ode read at the sixtieth anniversary celebration of De Pauw university.—St. Louis World's Fair Bulletin Louisiana-1803-1903. Only a hundred years, Blowen on the breath of time! Only a phantom screen, Coughing an act sublime! Only a sprig of drops, Flung from the ocean gray! Only the grains of sand Tessed in an infant's play! Never was heard the cycle stroke, Yet the dial pointed to morn. And the air ablaze broke The light of an age new-born. Then a snifftime scene, and a virgin land Like a paradise lay outspread, And Louisiana, fair and grand, To the Saxon world was wed. Land of the heroes of story, who roved through the ages past, Over the rivers waters, and threaded the forests vast. Bearing the cross and the banner, and bringing the shore shore, Daundress and thames with the message that they bore- Eagle and lion blended, angel and man and they wrought and fought and endured and prayed and hoped and dreamed! Gleaming the light of fancy like sheen upon armor glow, As we peer through the mist of ages on the heroes of long ago. Hurricane figures their lengthened shadows cast. **Heroes of Louisiana!** The voice of Time saith nay. Gone from the earth forever the age that we are men; Gone to the realm of story—the Whither, beyond the ken! 'Tis another world that our vision meets. In the myriads thronging in our streets. From every nation beneath the sun Comes the voice of greeting. The world What hath He wrought, who rules the hands. And the centuries in His hands? All that humanity ever had done— Every triumph that man had won. Doubled and multiplied, raised to pow- All has been wrought in this land of ours! View it, souls of the mighty seers! All has been wrought in a hundred years In the history's span, The age of story, the day of MAN! Probet, O what shall the future be, As the ages roll to eternity? Breathe in the pen— What is their limit, with mortal men? Cease, O mortal, and stand in awe. Vainly wouldst thou the secret draw; Vin thy quest, As the Holy Gull, Hid his wings in mail, Over the mountain meres afar Gleamed at night like a passing star, Borne by angels from human sight, Be it his passing light. A thou seet is in a grander world that is yet to be. Only a hundred years, Blown in the bounty of time! Only a phantom screen, Closing an act sublime! Only a spray of drops In the granite gran gray! Only the grains of sand Tossed in an infant's play! "HUNKY" HINES MINUS EYE Captain of the Davenport (Ia.) Baseball Team Meets With a Serious Accident Rockford. Ill., Sept. 24.—Henry "Hunky" Hines, captain of the Davenport (la.) baseball team of the Three-League, met with an accident Tuesday night that cost him the sight of his right eye. Hines was in a blacksmith shop, when a silver of metal struck him in the eye. Examination showed that the eyeball was pierced so deeply that its removal is necessary. MUSIC AND DRAMA Frank Curzon, the youngest and most progressive theater manager in London, is in this country to purchase American plays for reproduction in England. Miss Anita Carrol Mactavish, daughter of Francis Osbourne Mactavish, and divorced wife of the late George H. Elder, of the Green. Spring valley, in Maryland, has announced her intention to enter upon a dramatic career, and while contracts are not yet signed she anticipates beginning her professional work not later than October 15. On Oct. 20th the Kansas City Southern Ry. (Port Arthur Route) will visit a cheap excursion from Kansas City and all aches in Missouri and Kansas to Lake Charles, Shreveport, Beaumont and Port Arthur. The rate for the round trip will be $150 and days from date of sale, good to stop-over or of all points on route, provided final destination is reached inside of 15 days from date of sale, exceptionally low rate, together with similar stopover privileges allowed, should sure a great crowd, especially in view of the fact that this is the most delightful season of rates will probably be placed in effect from points north and east of Kansas City: ask your ticket agent. Every effort will be made by the Company to secure the safety and comfort of its patrons. All inquiries relative to desirable locations to visit or other information will be cheerfully furnished. Address either S. G. Warner, G. P. & T. A., F. E. Roeser; T. P. & I. A. or J. H. Morris, T. P. A., Nana City, Mo. Her Degree of Courage Amie had been suffering from toothache for several days. At last she consented to go with her papa to the dentist. When she was starting, her mamma said: "Now, dearest, be a brave little girl. Show fortitude, and mamma will be proud of you." And did you show fortitude?" mamma imailed. Amie beitled: "It hurt awful, mamma. I guess (reflectively) I showed about twenty."—Kansas City Journal. TRIED BY TIME. Eugene E. Lario, of 751 Twentyth Avenue, ticket seller in the Union St. tion, Denver, Col., says: "You are at liberty to repeat what I first stated through our Denver papers about Doan's Kidney Pills in the summer of 1899, for I have had no reason in the interim to change my opinion of the remedy. I said when first interviewed that if I had a friend and acquaintance suffering from backache or kidney trouble I would unhesitatingly advise them to take Doan's Kidney Pills. I was subject tion, Denver, Col., says: "You are at liberty to repeat what I first stated through our Denver papers about Doan's Kidney Pills in the summer of 1899, for I have had no reason in the interim to change my opinion of the remedy. I said when first interviewed that if I had a friend and acquaintance suffering from backache or kidney trouble I would unhesitatingly advise them to take Doan's Kidney Pills. I was subject to severe attacks of backache, always aggravated if I sat long at a desk. It struck me that if Doan's Kidney Pills performed half what they promised they might at least help. This induced me to try the remedy. It absolutely topped the backache. I have never had a pain or twinge since." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Mr. Lario will be mailed to any part of the United States on application. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Brent Wood See Fac-Simile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sngur. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION PRICE 25 CENTS GOVERNMENT INSTITUTE BONNATINE. Purify Vegetable Milk. CURE SICK HEADACHE. DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE It Cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup, Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain care for Consumption in first stage, and a cure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect after taking the first oozes. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large bottles 25 cents and 60 cents. RAIN Cannot Penetrate SAWYER'S EXCELSIOR BRAND Oiled Clothing and Stickers Warranted Waterproof. Made to stand hard wart. Look decor does have their seal for catalog. H. H. SAVYER & SUC in New York East Cambridge, East I PAY SPOT CASH FOR MILITARY BOUNTY LAND WARRANTIES issued to soldiers of any war. Write me at FRANK H. REGEI, Earth Block, Denver, Colo. PISOS CURSE FOR WHEN WERE IN LOST FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION ```markdown ``` YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT The postman, when he came to-day, brought me a little note From Bessy Brown, and just to say—and its every word she wrote (Of course she must have been in fun, she is so full of tricks), "Miss Bessie Brown, January twelfth, At Home from four to six." I thought I'd be as pert as she, so I sat down to write: "Miss Edith Rogers," and that means me, "away till Friday night." Just then mamma came walking in. She read both notes, and looked so queer! "But don't you want to go," she said, "to Bessie's party, dear?" So that is why she'll be at home, but how was I to know? You'd think that when she wrote that note she might have told me so. For if I have a party soon, I'll ask my friends to come. friends to come. And then I'll simply let them see that I shall be "at home." -May E. Nichols, in Youth's Companion. DUKE OF BRAGANZA. He Is Heir to the Throne of Portugal and May Visit United States Next Year. It is reported from Lisbon, the capital of the kingdom of Portugal, that the crown prince of that country may visit the United States next year. A short time ago a squadron of American warships, commanded by Admiral Cotton, visited Portugal, and the Yankee tars made such a fine impression upon the king and the people of ancient Portugal that the hope is freely expressed that the two countries may be drawn together closer. Civility makes friends among nations, as well as among persons; and we have reason to be proud of our gallant naval officers and men who make a good im- DUKE OF BRAGANZA (Heir Presumptive to the Royal Throne of Portugal.) pression wherever they go. They were praised for their efficiency and excellent behavior by Emperor William, the king of England, the president of France and by the king and queen of Portugal. All this shows that each of us should cultivate good manners, especially in our youth, as nothing wins admiration more quickly than correct deportment, both in private and in public. The crown prince of Portugal is a charming and lovable boy. Officially he is known as duke of Braganza. He is the elder son of King Carlos and Queen Marie Amelie of Portugal, and a grandson of the famous Louis Philippe, duke of Orleans, for whom he was named. He was born at Lisbon in 1887, and reached his sixteenth birthday last March. Should he be our guest next year, it is to be hoped that our American boys will make as favorable an impression upon him as he himself made upon Admiral Cotton and his staff. HOW GORILLAS FIGHT. They Depend Entirely Upon Their Teeth and Never Make Use of Sticks or Clubs. AMUSING PLAYTHING How to Make an Odd Jack-in-the-Box That Performs Some Funny Tricks. A novel jack-in-the-box toy is shown in the sketch. The construction is very simple. Two half circles of cardboard are made into a semicircular box by gluing a strip of cardboard of any desired width around the edges. Just below the center of each diameter the ends of a short wooden spindle are pivoted by means of two large tacks driven through from the outside. One end of a short piece of thick wire is fixed to the center of the spindle. The other end is fastened to the middle of a wooden half hoop, and a lead weight Jumping with a balance NOVEL JACK-IN-THE-BOX. is centrally placed. Toy clowns, animals or other figures should be fixed on the ends of the half hoop so that when the semicircular box is at rest the dolls are below the flat surface of the diameter. Cut a hole of any shape at each end of a piece of cardboard that would be suitable as a covering for the open part of the semicircular box. The holes may be covered by cardboard flaps hinged with strips of elastic, which cause the flaps to spring down of their own accord after being raised by the dolls. As soon as the toy is rocked the figure bobs up and down and appear alternately through the holes in the cardboard lid.-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. HOW IT GREW STRONG. By Trials This Sapling Became a Mighty Tree, Sturdy and Truly Magnificent. A young tree, fair and shapely, as yet had no rough experiences. It had daily been kissed by the sun, caressed by the zephyrs and nourished by gentle rains. To it life seemed fair indeed. But one day things assumed a different aspect. The sun was hidden; the clouds became black and threatening, voicing their wrath in rolling thunder; and the little tree felt itself in the grasp of a rough wind that bent and twisted its branches and tugged at it until it seemed as if it would tear it up by the roots. When it was about to give up, the wind released its hold, apparently exhausted, and the young tree felt relieved. But the wind was merely giving it a respite, and soon came at it again with more fury than before. Again and again this happened, and when the wind finally retired, the tree found some of its fairest branches broken, its roots loosened in the soil, and its body bruised and aching from the topmost twig to the lowest rootlet. It took some time for the young tree to recover from this assault. The sore fibers swelled with the strain that had been put upon them, and the roots dug deeper into the loosened soil that they might send up the increase of nourishment to build up the breaks and allay the inflammation. For days the little tree groaned even when a zephyr played with its leaves. But by degrees the soreness passed away, and the little tree found, as the result of its trial, that its girth had sensibly increased, and it seemed to itself to be stronger and more full of vigor. It, indeed, dreaded another such experience, and when it came it suffered again, though not quite so much, and the period of misery after it was shortened, while it was conscious of a still greater access of life and strength, and a greater grip of the ground. And so it continued getting stronger and stronger after each struggle with the wind until it came to like nothing better than to wrestle with it. It grew to be a mighty tree, so sturdy that it defied even the hurricanes. What a pity it would have been for that tree to have had no rough usage!— Well-Spring. Electricity in Bathrooms. The using of electric light in bathrooms, either public or private, so it is asserted by an English engineer, is dangerous in many cases. Writing to the government Gazette he says that "the electric-light switches most usually employed have brass covers and brass knobs, and it is quite possible that this metal work may be in unsuspected contact with the electric supply wires. In such a case a person standing on a dry wooden floor, and using the switch, would not notice any defect, but anyone in the act of taking a bath, or standing with bare feet on a wet or metallic floor, and attempting to turn on the light, would receive a very severe shock which would probably prove fatal even at the comparatively low pressure of 220 volts." Bentiles Had a Picnic. While Clark Kern, one of a party of picnickers, near Bloomsburg, Pa., was standing on a rock taking a birdseye view of the locality, he was horrified to see a number of large snakes racing around the stone, as though engaged in a game of tag. His cries brought his companions to his assistance, and they killed five rattlers, four large copper-heads and a large number of young snakes. Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed To cure, or money refunded by your merchant, so why not try it? Price 50c. YANKEE INVENTIONS. Chinese Newspaper in the Philippines Describes an Ingenious American Contrivance. Admiral Dewey was a prominent figure at the Saratoga races. Usually he occupied a box. One afternoon a little party of farmers came up to shake hands with him, and thereafter, naturally, the talk turned to agriculture, says the Boston Press, "philippines," said Admiral Dewey, "an American resident brought me, one day, a Chinese paper. He said this paper would interest me because it contained an account of an American invention. Then, with a smile, he translated a paragraph, an something like this: 'The singing of the Yankees is typified well in a hen's nest that he has recently invented and patented. This nest increases the laying capacity of the hens to an unlimited degree. In the bottom of it there is a trap door, governed by a delicate spring. The hen lays an egg, the weight of which is about 10 pounds. The egg drops down into a subterranean compartment, and the door closes very swiftly and silently again. The hen gets up, turns to look at the egg, but sees none there. So she decides that she must be mistaken in the egg, and deposits another egg, which, like its predecessor, disappears. The process continues indefinitely.' Proper Distinction Little Mary's big sister was engaged to Mr. Brown, who was away on an outing trip with Mary's brother. Her father was writing to his son and prospective son-in-law and asked the little girl if she had a message to send to Mr. Brown. "What shall your son?" asked she. "Why?" said the father, "I believe it is the fashion to send your love." Some minutes later her father inquired: "And what shall I say to brother Tom?" "And what shall I say to brother Tom, with sigh, "you may send my fashionable love to Mr. Brown and my real love to Brother Tom."—Philadelphia Press. Texas Finds a Remedy Fate, Tex, Sept. 21. —Tex has seldom, if ever, had such a profound sensation as that caused by the introduction recently of a new antibiotic in kidney diseases. This remedy was already been tried in the thousands; if cases, and in almost every case the results have been wonderful. Henry Vaughan, of Rural Route No. 3, Fate, says of it: I suffered with Kidney Trouble for over 10 years. I was very bad and could get nothing to help me till I heard of the new remedy, Dodd's Kidney Pills. I began to use these pills, and very soon found myself improving. I kept on and now can say I am absolutely cured and free from any symptom of my old trouble. I knew of this wonderful remedy and I would strongly advise anyone suffering with Kidney trouble to try it, 'or I know it will cure." Laundered Fat Woman (after the museum fire)—I miss the tattoo man. Manager—Oh, he's down here, but you don't recognize him without his decorations. You see, the firemen accidentally record the hose on him.—Philadelphia Record Stops the Cough and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, Price 25 cents. "What is that you're baking there, my dear," inquired young Mr. Newliwed, "bread or some cake?" "I don't know. I have not finished yet," replied the young bride. Philadelphia Press. Opium and Liquor Habits Cured. Book free. B. M. Woolley, M. D., Atalga, Ga He—"Her age surprised me greatly. She doesn't look 30, does she?" She—"No; not now. I suppose she did, though, at one time."—Philadelphia Press. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds—N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. Nell—"Yes, we're engaged but I took my time about accepting him." Belle—"Indecet? Waited until he actually proposed, did you?"—Philadelphia Ledger. Chicago, St. Paul-Minneapolis, four daily trains via the Chicago & North-Western Ry. Foozle—"Do you think it wrong to play golf on Sunday?" Niblick—"I think it wrong to play such a game as you do on any day of the week."—Boston Transcript. Perfectly simple and simply perfect is dyeing with Putnam Fadeless Dyes. He hath riches sufficient who hath enough to be charitable.—Sir Thomas Browne. A man's judgment on others is his verdict on himself—Ram's Horn. THE MARKETS. New York, Sept. 25. CATTLE-Native Steers.....4 25 6 5 25 COTTON-Middling.....$ 11% LLOUR-Winter Wheat.....3 75 $ 4 15 LLOUR-2 Red.....83% 82% CORN-No. 2.....54 $ 4 15 OATS-No. 2.....$ 4 15 PORK-Mess (new).....15 00 $ 4 10 ST. LOUIS. COTTON-Middling.....$ 11 BEEVES-Steers.....4 00 $ 5 85 Cows and Heifers.....2 25 $ 4 50 CALYES-(per 100 lbs).....50 $ 6 75 CALYES-(per 100 lbs).....50 $ 6 75 SHEEP-Fair to Choice.....3 50 $ 4 00 FLOUR-Patents.....4 00 $ 4 10 Other Grades.....3 20 $ 3 55 WHEAT-No. 2.....51% 82 CORN-No. 2.....$ 47% OATS-No. 2.....38 $ 39 RYE-No. 2.....59 $ 57 WOOL-No. Washed.....20 $ 50 Other Grades.....12 $ 20% HAY-Clear Timothy (new) 9 0 $ 12 50 BUTTER-Choice Dairy.....14 $ 17 HAGON-Ribs.....19 $ 19 EGGGS-Fresh.....17% 19 LARD-Choice Steam.....$ 78% PORK-Standard Meese (new) 13 30 CATTLE-Native Steers.....4 50 $ 6 10 HOGS-Fair to Choice.....5 75 $ 6 40 SHEEP-Fair to Choice.....5 50 $ 4 25 FLOUR-Winter Patents.....4 20 $ 10 SPIRIT Patents.....4 20 $ 6 8 WHEAT-No. 3 Spring.....80 $ 87 No. 2 Red.....76 $ 79 CORN-No. 2.....$ 67% OATS-No. 2.....$ 37 PORK-Mess 12 90 $ 13 00 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE-No. 2 Red. HOGS-Fair to Choice... 5 60 @ 6 10 WHEAT-No. 2 Red. 79 @ 81 CORN-No. 2 Mixed. 42½ @ 43½ OATS-No. 2 White. 39 @ 40 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR-High Grades... 4 25 @ 4 90 CORN-No. 2. 61 OATS-No. 2. 44 HAY-Choice. 17 00 @ 17 50 PORK-Standard Mess. 10 @ 10% BACON-Short Rib Sides. 10 @ 10% COTTON-Middling. 10 @ 10% LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-No. 2 Red. 84 @ 85 CORN-No. 2. 51 @ 52 BACON-Short Ribs. 9½ @ 10% COTTON-Middling. 10½ @ 10% Plantation To cure, or me COMMODORE NICHOLSON ERVOUSWOMEN NERVOUS Nine out of suffering in s of the first s bad to worse. Don't delay aches that is is wrong. In tion, liver an Dr. C Syru will quickly s complication appetite is go Dr. Cal pleasant t druggists- SENI valua PEPSI No lying ab the merit of CASCARETS. Millio friends how good they are. We w price to anyone who fails to get sat CANDY CA Cascare WORK WHILE YOU Now that sounds like a liberal offer, don't count for success. It's your e Cascarets that will make them f past. Start with a box today. 10c sample and booklet. Address Sterli Best for the Nine out of ten women are nervous—suffering in silence. Sick headache is one of the first symptoms—things go on from bad to worse until utter collapse. Don't delay—if you have frequent headaches that is a sure indication your stomach is wrong. Indigestion, dyspepsia, constipation, liver and kidney troubles soon follow. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin (A LAXATIVE) will quickly seek out and correct stomach complications—headaches disappear, your appetite is good, refreshing sleep is induced. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is very pleasant to take, and is sold by all druggists—50c and $1 bottles. SENT FREE. Trial bottle and valuable book on stomach troubles. PEPSIN SYRUP COMPANY Monticello, Ill. No lying about the merit of CASCARETS. Millions use them and tell their friends how good they are. We want to give back the purchase price to anyone who fails to get satisfaction from the use of CANDY CATHARTIC Cascarets WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP Now that sounds like a liberal offer, but these single 10c sales alone don't count for success. It's your cure and your good word for Cascarets that will make them famous in the future as in the past. Start with a box today. 10c, 25c, 50c, all druggists. Free sample and booklet. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chgo. or N.Y. ASK FOR Wenneker's TRADE MARK Name on Epoch Piece. GALL-STONE CURE. "G Stones in the Kidneys, Stones in the Urinary Bladder or G and all Stomach Troubles resulting from Bilicusness. W does not keep it. order from us. WM.CRAEMER. DRUGGISTS--WE SUR ALL-STONE CURE. "Graemer's Calculus Cure" Is a Certain Remedy FOR CALL STONES. Stones in the Kidneys, Stones in the Urinary Bladder or Gravel, Billions of Damages, and all Stomach Problems resulting from Gracemer. Articulations. If your drastig doesn't work, call GRAEMER. 4100 N. Grand Ave., St. Louis, Mo. DRUGGISTS--WE SUPPLY YOU DIRECT. on Chill Cu oney refunded by your merci Commodore Somerville Nicholson, of the United States Navy, in a letter from 1887 R Street, N. W., Washington, D.C., says: "Your Peruna has been and is now used by so many of my friends and acquaintances as a sure cure for catarrh that I am convinced of its curative qualities and I unhesitatingly recommend it to all persons suffering from that complaint."---S. Nicholson. United States Minister to Guatemala Endorses Pe-ru-na. Dr. W. Godfrey Hunter, U.S. Minister to Guatemala, ex-member of Congress from Kentucky, in a letter from Washington, D.C., writes: "I am fully satisfied that your Peruna is an effacious remedy for catarrh, as I and many of my friends have been benefited by its use."—W. G. Hunter, M. D. Member of Congress From Virginia Writes. Hon. G. R. Brown, Martinville, Va., ex-member of Congress Fifth District, 59th Congress, writes: "I cheerfully give my endorsement to your Peruna as a cure for catarrh. Its beneficial results have been so fully demonstrated that its use is essential to all persons suffering from that disease."—Hon. G. R. Brown. The day was when men of prominence hesitated to give their testimonials to proprietary medicines for publication. This remains true today of most proprietary medicines. But Peruna has become so justly famous, its merits are known to so many people of high and low stations, that no one hesitates to see his name in print recommending Peruna. The highest men in our nation have given Peruna a strong endorsement. Men representing all classes and stations are equally represented. Greatest discovery of the age. Ladies cannot afford to do without it. Sent by mail on receipt of your phone number. Wrote everywhere. Write soon for terms and territory. JOHN WYETH 800-222-2222 COMMODORE Nicholson If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your ease, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. EMERSON'S BROMO-SELTZER 10 CENTS. CIRCLES ALL HEADACHES. WHEN PAIN AND ANGUISH WRING THE BROW, A MINSTERING ANGEL THOU: BROMO- SELTZER 10¢ SOLD EVERYWHERE. U.M.C. cartridges and shot shells are made in the largest and best equipped ammunition factory in the world. AMMUNITION of U. M. C. make is now accepted by shooters as "the worlds standard" for it shoots well in any gun. Your dealer sells it. The Union Metellie Cartridge Co. Bridgeport, - - Conn. FISH BRAND WATERPROOF OILED CLOTHING EVERYWHERE. The best materials, skilled workers and sixty-seven years experience have made TOWERS Skilker Costs and Fats homes the world over. They are made in every country and every environment being the SIGN OF THE FISH is guaranteed to give a satisfaction. All reliable stores sell them. A.J. TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A. TOWER CANADA CO. LIMITED TOURIST CAN W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50 & $3 SHOES UNION MACE. You can save from $3 to $5 yearly by wearing W. L. Douglas $3.50 or $3 shoes. They equal those that have been costing you from $4.00 to $5.00. The immense sale of W. L. Douglas shoes shows their superiority over all other makes. J. B. H. Sold by retail shoe dealers everywhere. Look for name and price on bottom. Corona Cot proves there is value in Douglass shoes. Corona is the highest price in Douglass. Fast Color Eye test used. Our $8 Gift Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. Our $12 Gift Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. Catalog fw. W. L. DUGLASS, Brockton, Mass. LIVE STOCK AND MISCELLANEOUS IN GREAT VARISTY FOR SALE AT THE LOWEST PRICES BY A.N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. 224 Wrout Street, St. Louis. WREN WRITING TO ADVERTISER in this paper. BASE BALL CLUB WILLIAMS, Proprietor 400 BAR, And President 400 BASE BALL CLUB. GEO. COX, Vice-President. GEO. WASHINGTON, Secretary. BASE C. . WILLIAMS, Proprietor 400 Headq 1300 MORGAN STREET Mrs. Fannie Newcomb was the hostess of a very delightful party which was given last Thursday evening in honor of Miss Bessie Morgan, of Murphysboro, Ill. Miss Morgan is a teacher in the schools of the above city, and visited St. Louis as a guest of her sister, Mrs. Nannie Richardson, of 1615 Morgan street. Those present were: Miss Carrie Rice of Nashville, Miss Allie Raimey, Misses Annie and Nina Bostwick, Misses Della and Rose Harris, Miss Blanch Lyles: Messrs. William Owens, Jr., John Duke, Garrett Richardson, Ira Penrose, Alex. Harris of Almstead, Ill., Jesse Shelton of Almstead and Arthur Owens. A delicious repast of several courses was served. Death the Great Leveler. Last Monday the Angel of Death entered the home of Mrs. Bouyer, of 708 North Fourteenth street, and bore away the spirit of her son, Rueben Bouyer. Mr. Bouyer leaves a mother, two sisters, five brothers and four children to mourn his loss. Mr. Bouyer's wife died about two years ago, leaving four children to his care. Now that he has passed away, that duty devolves upon the grandmother, Mrs. Bouyer. May he rest in peace. DIVISION MEETING Wednesday Evening September 30. All True Reformers are requested to be present to hear the reports of the delegates who have just returned from Washington. Also the farewell remarks of Chief M. Bailey, who has been appointed to take charge of the 'True Reformers' work in the northwest, with headquarters in Chicago, Ill. PASSED MASTERS' COUNCIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1903. PROF. WILHITE. Prof. Wilhite is working hard to raise his people to a higher standard of morality. He is teaching school near Madison, Ill. He formerly was a member of St. Paul's chapel, and he worked hard for the Sunday school. He is a natural-born educator. The Forum Club. Much has been said concerning this club, its aims, what it has done and is now doing. This is the only club in the United States that does not patronize Negro men. This club makes its brag that it does not subscribe for but one newspaper, and that is The St. Louis Republican. Not since it has been a club has it ever subscribed for one Negro newspaper published by a Negro man. We will soon show that all that glitters is not gold. A MEDDLER. United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Top, end, Knights, and Ten and Knights and Daughters of Tabor. My Dear Brothers and Sisters: I am pleased to announce that we have been given an important function in the Quincy Regalia Manufacturing Company. This company is the first to recognize the standing of fraternal orders among colored persons, by the establishment of a department designed to serve the interest and meet the special conditions of the race. In excellence of goods, appropriateness of designs, accommodation to peculiar conditions and reasonable prices, this company challenges competition and invites your patronage. My long official relation with these orders enables me to know and appreciate the wants and requirements of my brothers and sisters, and since I am devoting my entire attention to these interests, I can guarantee you entire satisfaction in the choicest goods at the lowest prices. Write for catalogue, price list and descriptive circular. Thanking you in advance for your co-operation in outfitting and raising our fraternal orders to a higher plane, I am yours fraternally, QUINCY REGALIA COMPANY, Per WILLIS N. BRENT, Afro-American Dept. --- [Portrait of a man in formal attire, wearing a suit and tie, with a serious expression. The background is plain and white.]] 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 Agent THE 400 BASE BALL CLUB 400 BAR, And President 400 BASE BALL CLUB. headquarters the 400 BAR, REET. Gall! Gall!! hos- Gall! Gall!! We have stated time and time again that all free doings with The Palladium were passed. We have printed several lengthy articles for various persons, thinking that a compensation of a few dollars would follow, but we discovered our error after the articles were published. Some persons fail to take the hint, for they still forwarded similar articles. They have more gall than J. D. Miller and "the other fellow." RAY'S B TWENTY-SECOND a Newly fitted up from bottom to top Billiard Parlor in the city for the a JIM RAY, P 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 fails. 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. 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. 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. Stop that cough. Pickett's Cough Syrup. NEWSOME & RANDALL, Stenographers and Typewriters, Applicants prepared for Civil Service Examinations. OFFICE 6542 ST. FERDINAND AVENUE. HE IS NINETY-TWO. Mr. Nelson Fuller was born in Green county, Ga., during the year 1811. He remained in that state until the civil war. During the first year of the war he was hired out to a miller, who kept him busy grinding corn and wheat for the southern army. After the war he went to Mississippi and remained there for four years. He then began working his way north, until he at length reached Missouri, in 1878 or 1879. He secured a position in the employ of J. W. Wheeler, at that time overseer of street cleaners. He remained in the employ of the street department until about two yars ago, when he became almost helpless. A son, Dock Nelson, attends to his wants. Mr. Fuller's advanced age prevents him from doing any work. He will sell newspapers for a living Those who wish to aid a worthy person will buy his newspapers. He is an agent of the St. Louis Palladium. His address is 2634 Baldwin street. A MOST REMARKABLE CHARACTER. Mr. Robert Johnson, of 209 South Fifteenth street, was born in 1815; therefore, was a slave 45 years. He passed through the civil war in the BUFFET, D and MARKET STS. to top. Electric lights. Largest for the accommodation of our people. , Proprietor. commissary department, and since that time, through friends, he has secured several good positions. In 1881 he was employed by the late Hon. John W. Turner, street commissioner under Mayor William L. Ewing; then under Hon. D. R. Francis, who was mayor of St. Louis. For the past ten years he has been a patient sufferer, not being able to do any hard work, yet he was always willing to do something for a living. He is now a news dealer, selling papers. By that means he makes a fair living. He sells the St. Louis Palladium, and if you wish to help him, you can do so. Remember, he can not get out, but you can get The St. Louis Palladium by calling at his house, 209 South fifteenth street. Williams & Head, Props. Pink Coat Bar. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. POOL ROOM. S. E. Cor. 22d and Market Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. S. L. Pickett's. Drugs fresh daily. Don't pass his door—2601 Lawton avenue. Stop that cough. Go and get Pickett's Cough Syrup. A DEFENSE OF ZION. I wanted to correct the mistaken idea that my race has concerning Zion city and her buildings under God, who is also the kind and loving friend of the African race, and whom God has led to build this beautiful city, for good people of every race and color. I know no better way than to have this article published in your valuable paper. First, I want to say that He is one of the best and strongest friends the Negro has, and it will be through His direct teachings that much, if not all, of this "color line" will be wiped out. It never existed in Zion city, for she knows neither color nor creed. They are all in Christ Jesus. That beautiful city is just a few days over two years old, yet she has a population of 10,000 and has 1,500 beautiful homes built there. I will now try to tell about Zion's politics. The citizens of Zion City, Lake county, Ill., being assembled at the first convention held in Zion City, the night of April 7, 1902, for the purpose of nominating the first officer of this city, did so in a theocratic platform, and gave this reason for forming their new party in political affairs of the United States. They declared their loyalty to the constitution and laws of the United States, and said that both constitution and laws are capable of amendment in a theocratic direction, and they simply purpose the advocating of such alterations in the way provided for by the laws of the United States. They also declared the motto of their party to be: "The Unalterable Truth; Where God Rules Man Prospers." Therefore, their object was to establish the rule of God in every department of government by the free will of the people. They declared that the Holy Scripture, which contains the ten commandments and the inspired Gospel of Jesus Christ, the son of God, constitutes principles of all righteous government for the individuals and the nations of the world. Zion could not have taken any other step. Her leaders, under God, have not acted prematurely, but have acknowledged the absolute rule of God, and unfurled the banner of Zion in the field of political actions. In doing so, a fourth division has been added to the three great divisions into which the operations of the Christian Catholic church has hitherto been divided—the ecclesiastical, educational, commercial and political divisions. We do not use the word "political" in the sense in which it has formerly been used; which in many cases is equivalent to deceitful trickery and subservient to the interest of scheming politicians. Its true meaning is the honest and truthful promotion of public policy, which shall be for the good of all, and which provides for a righteous administration of governments. The purpose of our Lord Jesus Christ was to establish a kingdom of God in this world. It is true the kindom was to come from above and eventually overthrow all others and take the place of every other government on earth. It is spoken of in Daniel ii., 44: "In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall sovereignty thereof be left to another people, but shall break into pieces and consume all those kingdoms, and shall stand forever," that is Zion, the kingdom of God, the restoration of all things that God has promised hereafter the restoration of the kingdom of God, who at the beginning was the sole ruler of the earth and every creature thereon. Zion, therefore, does not deviate one iota in this political action from her own statements. Who can believe that it is God's will that the government of the church, school, college and business interest of God's people should be in the hands of the world, the flesh and the devil? Neither can I believe that the municipal, county, state, national and worldwide interest of Zion should be left in the hands of those who are entirely indifferent to the claims of God. The establishment of the theocratic party is, therefore, simply the final establishment of division in Zion's work for God and humanity. Zion is using her influence as a political unit in such a way as to compel partizans to do right to the utmost extent of her power, and keep them from doing Zion any wrong. Zion's leader will never sell, for any amount of patronage, the birthright of Zion, even where he is compelled to co-operate with parties whose policies he can approve of only in part. For he, as a servant of the most high God, can not afford to betray His trust. It is needless to say that Zion prohibits the use of alcoholic liquors by her members, for she goes further than any prohibitionist would go, for it is embodied in the covenant of every year in Zion City that alcohol shall neither be made nor sold in the ten square miles which compose the city of Zion, and also prohibits the manufacture and sale of every deadly posion, such as morphine, cocaine and opium. Neither does she permit evil traffic of any kind nor the use of any food that the Bible prohibits; from the scavengers of the ocean to the scavengers of the land. The inclosed theater or gambling hells or any other evil thing will not be found in that city. Zion is held for God alone in perpetuity, as God demanded of Israel in ancient days. Of course, the intemperate infidel and impure politician will not approve of any such progress, but Zion can do such, and will do it, to maintain her right and liberty everywhere, and open the gates and keep them open for the free and unfettered proclamation of the eternal covenant of which God has made Rev. John Alex. Dowie the messenger Oh! how he loves the Negro. It is through his teaching that Zion knows no color nor creed, but is all in Christ Jesus. There are more than 70 nationalities living in Zion city. You can hear nearly every language spoken that is known to civilization. He proved his love for the Negro by giving him the same kind of work to do that he gives the white brothers. You will find Negroes in lace factories, candy factories, in bands, as deacons and deaconesses, and even in his own private house. When he had need of another personal servant, he did not employ another white man, but took a black one. So you see that black and white are working side by side. Zion is paying out in wages, $1,200,000 a year, and it has many tabernacles to co-operate. The tie that binds in Zion is love for one another and for their leader, Rev. John Alex. Dowie. MARY C. THOMAS. 724 North Beaumont MISSOURI STATE BUILDING + STLOUIS-1904. P. We are the only thorou tically competent A. Livery Boarding and We have our own Carriage 2118-20-22 Market St., thoroughly experienced and competent Colored Undertakers A. RUSSELLING and UNDERT We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only prac tically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. our own conveyances and do all our carriages furnished for all occasions. Ket St., ST. LOUIS, MO. We have our own conveyances and do all our own work. Carriages furnished for all occasions. 2118-20-22 Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone, C-390. Buffet a Maurer Meat and Provision Co. CASH MARKETS: 1402 MARKET STREET. No. 5 S. Fourteenth Street. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. TELEPHONES: TELEPHONES: BELL, Main 2103-A KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1022 2606 FRANKLIN AVENUE. KINLOCH C 720. 8 and 10 South Jefferson Ave. BIG SUMMER SALE. BRADBURY PIANO CO. THE GREATEST VALUES EVER OFFERED. A. E. WHITAKER, Manager, New Pianos, upright and square. Pianos, used but a few weeks will be dis- posed of at heavy discount. 1012 Olive St 1012 Olive Street. At 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) Choica Wines, Liquors, Cigars, and the best up-to-date. Billiard Room. Remember the Gem, 1911 Market. TOM TURPIN, Prop. Fine Wines and Liquors. THE ROSEBUD BAR. 2220-2222 Market Street, Phone—Kinloch D-855. St. Louis, Mo. Pool Room in Connection. Unhgly experienced and the only prac- t Colored Undertakers in the city. RUSSELL, and UNDERTAKING conveyances and do all our own work. is furnished for all occasions. ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone, C-390. Imported and Domestic Cigars. DYE'S and Pool Room, P. P. DYE, Proprietor. phone—Kinloch B-1812. SEE at and Provision Co. St. Louis, Mo.