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ST. LOUIS PALLADIUM Vol. XIX. No. 52. Christmas Gift Our very large and comprehensive Jewelry, Silverware, Art Wares, Cu Stationery, etc., will lighten the d our entire stock is made only as the stmas Gifts, 25 cts. to large and comprehensive assortment of all that is best Silverware, Art Wares, Cut Glass, China, Leather Goods, y, etc., will lighten the difficulties of Holiday Gift sele stock is made only as the best is made—and you pay th Christmas Gifts, 25 cts. to $10,000. Our very large and comprehensive assortment of all that is best in Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Art Wares, Cut Glass, China, Leather Goods, Music Boxes, Umbrellas, Stationery, etc., will lighten the difficulties of Holiday Gift selections. Every piece in our entire stock is made only as the best is made—and you pay the lowest price here. Solid Gold Link Buttons, $2.75 per pair. Chased, Roman or Polished Solid Gold. Real Stag Hair Finely-tempered steel— Others at $3.25, $7.50, $22.50, $37.50. Solid Silver Thimble, 50c. We show a large variety of silver sewing requisites, at low prices. A large and beautiful assortment for your selection. ety reqi pri Gentlemen's Coin Purse, $1.00. Very convenient; is made of real Calf skin, natural color. Two sizes, 3x3 and 31/4x31/4. MERMOD BROAD TOYS ARE And they're the finest and chil- tives that ever came from To- children down to see the mar- toys do their funny stunts—see and paper toys—the new ga- dolls—the instructive and enterti And Dear Old SANTA C Big, fat and jolly as ever. good little boys and girls to beautiful things he's brought way from Wonderland. TOYLAND is in our Basement. DOLLVILLE is REMEMBER, Famous p lowest in the city—compa- this statement. The Christmas Store. FOR FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMO ROB'T P. FRIT JEWELER ERMOD & JACO MERMOD & JACCARD'S BROADWAY AND LOCUST YS ARE READY they're the finest and choicest representa- t that ever came from Toyland—bring the ren down to see the marvelous mechanical do their funny stunts—see the wooden, iron paper toys—the new games—the pretty —the instructive and entertaining story books Dear Old SANTA CLAUS is Here, that and jolly as ever. He wants all the little boys and girls to come and see the fabulous things he's brought with him all the from Wonderland. D is in our Basement. DOLLVILLE is on our Main Floor. REMEMBER, Famous prices on toys are the lowest in the city—comparison will corroborate this statement. Broadway and Morgan. T-CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS GO TO OB'T P. FRITSCHLE, JEWELER, TOYS ARE READY And they're the finest and choicest representatives that ever came from Toyland—bring the children down to see the marvelous mechanical toys do their funny stunts—see the wooden, iron and paper toys—the new games—the pretty dolls—the instructive and entertaining story books And Dear Old SANTA CLAUS is Here, Big, fat and jolly as ever. He wants all the good little boys and girls to come and see the beautiful things he's brought with him all the way from Wonderland. REMEMBER, Famous prices on toys are the lowest in the city-comparison will corroborate this statement. FOR FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS GO TO Diamonds, Watches, Etc. EET STREET. - - ST. LOUIS. 2716 MARKET STREET. is the purest Anticeptic Healing Soap made. This Soap will positively cure Blackheads, Tetter, Rash, Ringworm, Barbers' Itch, Old Sores, Chapped Hands or Face, Blotches and Rough Skin. Indian Wonder VEGETABLE Soap At Druggist AG Andrews' Drug Store, 140 10c a Cake. At Druggists or Agent. Refuse Substitutes. AGENTS WANTED. s' Drug Store, 1401 Morgan Street. ```markdown ``` Real Stag Handle Carving Set, $5.00. Finely-tempered steel—encased in silk-lined boxes. Others at $3.25, $7.50, $10.00, $13.50, $13.75, $18.00, $22.50, $37.50. ```markdown ``` Write for Our New Catalogue. It Contains 5,000 Illustrations. Mailed Free. Solid Gold Scarf Pin, $1.75. Roman or Chased Fleur de Lis design. Broadway and Morgan. ST. LOUIS. ST. LOUIS, MO., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1903. MERMOD & JACCARD'S, Broadway and Locust s. to $10,000. What is best in Diamonds, Watches, Mer Goods, Music Boxes, Umbrellas, Gift selections. Every piece in you pay the lowest price here. Stag Handle Carving Set, $5.00. Stered steel—encased in silk-lined boxes. $3.25, $7.50, $10.00, $13.50, $13.75, $18.00, $7.50. MEINHOB & LAPIN AND JEWELRY CO. Manicure and Toilet Sets. A large assortment, each set consists of from 5 to 20 pieces; in silk-lined leatherette case, ranging in price from $5.00 to $100.00. ACCARD'S Mermod & Jaccard. Remember, when you buy jewels from this firm, you exchange silver and paper dollars for gold and silver. You can get your money's worth on any article that comes from The day before Richard the Third was killed, he counted the strength of his army. He said the name of the king is a tower of strength, so is the name of Mermod & Jaccard a guarantee that all is genuine that comes from that firm. MERMOD & JACCARD. 150th ANNIVERSARY. Phillis Wheatley Day, December 5 1903, To Be Observed Friday, December 4, at 2:30 P. M., At Wheatley School, Papin and Boyle Avenues.— J. Arthur Free man, Princip- pal. —PROGRAMME. 1. Music—Chorus, "Lead Kindly Light" .....Dykes 2. Paper—"The Life of Phillis Wheatley" .....Miss Blanche M. Dore 3. Music—Chorus, "The Star Spangled Banner" .....Arnold 4. Recitation—"Panegyric to Gen. Washington," Myrtle A. Bronson. 5. Music—Chorus, "America" .....Carey 6. Recitation—"How Did You Die?" .....Beatrice M. Johnson 7. Music—Chorus, "Vesper Hymn" .....Russian 8. Essay—Phillis Wheatley 9. Address—"It Is Meet and Right That We Emulate the Life and Character of Our Noble Prototype" .....Lulu Emerson 10. Miss Lucy M. Arnold 11. Music—Chorus, "Swanee River" .....American It Is Rumored That Miss Ada Young is a member of the foot-ball team, as she wears a sweater. That Miss Mamie Fowler will get married on the 15th, if the fellow keeps his word. That the barbershop loungers and the restaurant pimps, newspaper grafters, the women guys will soon get their walking papers. Still Sick. Mrs. L. Smith, of 2518 Baldwin street, is still confined to her room, and she is very sick. Big Nigger Grafters Confidence men, toughs, pimps and men who have no visible means of living, except grafting on unsophisticated men and women; men who claim to know, everybody, and men who sit around barber shops and restaurants, men who go from door to door pretending to have a pull with everybody, men who graft our newspapers, and men who have been caused to leave other cities—these men should be held at arm's length. No place of business can prosper by having these buzzards setting around, guying men and women. We have been taken in by some of these toughs, and we have got The Palladium's eye on them, and we propose to land somebody in a hole where the dogs can not bark at them. We were asked a plain question the other day about two things, and one of them was, "Who was such a man?" We could only draw up our shoulders like a Frenchman. The next question was: "Can you tell us how many papers there are in the city?" My answer was: Three. Question, Can you give us the names. Answer, I will—The St. Louis Advance, The American Eagle and The St. Louis Palladium. We think if the Negroes ever expect to be a people they must be honest and outspoken. SECOND QUARTER CIRCULAR. United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of Mysterious Ten of Missouri and Jurisdiction. To the Officers and Members of the U. B. F. and S. M. T. of Missouri, Greeting: ENDOWMENTS. The following endowment claims during first quarter have been paid: Sarah Walden, of St. Elizabeth Temple, Hannibal ..... $100 00 Martha Thomas, of Bright Light Temple, Fayette ..... 100 00 Fannie E. Coombs, St. Arena Temple, St. Louis ..... 100 00 Fannie Wilson, Golden Rule Temple, Kansas City ..... 100 00 Laura B. Mansfield, St. Phillips Temple, Huntsville ..... 100 00 Wm. Sneed, J. H. Williams Lodge, Centralia ..... 100 00 Mary Herald, Gilbert Temple, Kansas City ..... 100 00 Carrie Walker, Ada Temple,St. Louis ..... 100 00 Total paid endowment this quarter ..... $800 00 BURIALS. The following burials also have been paid: Laura Bell Mansfield, St. Phill- ips Temple, Huntsville..... $ 43 50 Henrietta Givens, Young Worker- t's Temple, Hilldale..... 50 00 Martha Thomas, Bright Light Temple, Fayette..... 60 00 Fannie Wilson, Golden Gate Temple, Kansas City..... 60 00 Sarah Waldon, St. Elizabeth Temple, Hannibal..... 60 00 Mary Herald, Gilbert Temple, Kansas City..... 60 00 Fannie Coombs, St. 'Aurora Temple, Louis..... 60 00 Carrie Walker, Ada Temple, St. Louis..... 60 00 Wm. Sneed, J. H. Williams' Lodge, Centralia..... 60 00 $512 50 Total paid burial.....$11,500 The records show our present liabilities not to exceed $1,000 and our monies in hand, including this quarter, more than $5,000. We could settle every dollar we owe and still have a balance of over $4,000 cash balance on hand in our treasury. We invite contrast. Yours in J. M. and T. S. T. PETTIGREW, Grand Master, Dalton, Mo. W. H. HARRISON, Grand Secretary, Jefferson City, Mo. I Am Going to L. Hopkins & Bros. for Christmas Dinner. Cream of chicken, with rice; scolop oysters alarine, celery, olives, English Gerkins. ROAST TURKEY, with cranberry sauce. BAKE CHICKEN, Mother's Style. Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes. Roast Duck. Quail on Toast. Current Jelly. ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING,with hard and Brandy Sauce. Pumpkin and Mince Pie. Ice Cream and Fancy Cake. Fruit in Season. Claret Punch and Black Coffee. JOHN MEYERS, 104 N. JEFFERSON AVE.. Between Chestnut and Market Streets. THE EVERY DAY BARGAIN STORE. DRY GOODS And up-to-date LADIES' AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. P. Pastor of St. Paul church, 2800 Law-candidate for bishop of the great A. M. ten avenue. He is spoken of as a E. church. J. H. Still They Come. Another new rooming house at 2635 Lucas avenue, which will be under the control of Mrs. A. Campbell and W. H. Fields. It is fitted up in the latest style. When it is completed it will be the best house north of Pine street. It is strictly first-class. We hope to speak of this house as a financial success. This house contains 11 rooms, and has all modern improvements. See their ad. in The Palladium. Christmas Bazaar. The members of Harper W. C. T. U. will hold a bazaar at the Elliot Avenue church, corner of Elliot avenue and Wash street, Friday evening, December 18. Useful and fancy articles of all kinds will be sold, the proceeds to be used as a contribution to the W. C. T. U. fountain at the World's fair. The Palladium's Two Mascots. Little Sarah C. Bruner and Gertrude Mahoney, of 2836 Easton avenue, are in the best of health, and the two most loveliest children. They are looking forward to Santa Claus on the 24th, who will bring them many lovely things. Mrs. Martha Dale, of 2115 Lucas avenue, is quite sick at this writing. Dr. O. T. Field in attendance. [Name] FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ITEMS The pastor, officers and members of First Baptist certainly appreciated in no small sense the magnanimous and liberal gift of the Central Baptist church of $600. The trustees of First Baptist church added $400 to the gift of Central Baptist church, and paid the Barada-Ghio Real Estate Co. $1,000 last Wednesday morning, thereby reducing the original debt to $13,000. A grand rally will take place at First Baptist church the 3d Sunday, 20th inst., and Rev. Dr. George E. Stevens will again bring the Central church to the rescue of First Baptist church in the afternoon at 3 p. m. of the same day, with the hope of raising $400. This rally will be followed by a fair at First church, beginning Monday evening, the 21st inst., and closing the 25th inst., and on the first Sunday in January, 1904, the First Baptist church will celebrate the fifth anniversary of their pastor, Rev. Dr. Cole, and the church will close these three efforts with the hope of realizing $1,000. Rev. Dr. E. C. Morris, of $2.00 Per Annum, Single Copy 5 cents. D. P. ROBERTS. Law-candidate for bishop of the great A. M. ? as a E. church. ANTIOCH CHURCH NOTES. Covenant and communion at Antioch church Sunday, the 13th. All members are expected to be present, and visitors are welcome. Rev. Oden addressed the B. Y. P. U. last Sunday. All enjoyed his talk, and were pleased to have him with them. The B. Y. P. Unions of all churches are respectfully invited to meet the Antioch, First and Fifth Baptist church unions in their quarterly union meeting. Sunday, December 20, at 3 p. m., at Antioch Baptist church, 4225 Kennerly avenue. Come one, come all. Remember, children, the superintendent of the Sunday-school says if you are good Santa will call to see you Christmas night at church. So come out to see him. He may bring you something. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. See the progress of the Order of the U. B. F. and S. M. T. See the second report in The Palladium. Read for yourself. Did you see the Famous and Jaccard's ads? They show up well. O, yes, there is John Myers' and Deppe's new ads, and a dozen others—they are live ads. . Helena, Ark., president of the National Baptist convention, has been invited to preach the anniversary sermon of Pastor Cole. The St. Louis Colored B. Y. P. U., a Christian organization which composes the three churches, namely, the First Baptist, the Fifth Baptist and the Antioch Baptist, will meet on the third Sunday in the present month at the Antioch church, 3 p. m., in quarterly meeting. It is hoped that a large crowd will be present. Miss E. Buckner president. Stevens church church of the raising by a mg Mon- closing Sunday Baptist hn anni- cr. Cole, the three realizing aris, of Rev. E. C. Cole preached an excellent sermon at the First Baptist church last Sunday night. His subject was: "The Church of God Being Founded Upon the Truth." He demon- strated the fact that the theologians look for issues, and that the democratic party is doing likewise, but the Bible is the truth and the only issue by which men and women can be saved. He advised his hearers to live honest, upright and truthful, and to come to God and live. At the close of his sermon several came forward and joined the church. St. Louis Palladium. St. Louis Palladium. 1903 DECEMBER 1903 SUN. MON. TUES. WED. THUR. FRI. SAT. .... ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... CURRENT COMMENT. A man in Chicago has had his eyeball painted, and one in New York is annexing a new ear. These city folks will soon have a fresh face every 12 months. Senator Cullom predicts that Senator Gorman will be the democratic candidate for president. The felicity of senatorial courtesy is beautiful to ponder over. Annexation sentiment in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Indian territory is running high. Perhaps they can work up a boom for some old canal—irrigation or other—and ride in on that. A professor in a far western university advances the theory that the peculiar virtues of girls are due to clothes, and that if the boys and girls were dressed alike all would be equally gentle and refined. A professor of the University of Chicago has discovered that a man's brain power may be increased 60 per cent. by the use of lecithin. As badly as we need the treatment, we waive our claim until the more urgent demands of the Chicago university have been supplied. Mme. Patti has engaged the bridal suite in a St. Louis hotel under these stipulations: "Absolute quiet in the rooms above her. Decorations that will set off her dark complexion to advantage. Meals prepared by her own chef. Pure air in the rooms at all hours." Luxuries come high, but the madame is built that way. St. Joseph, Mo., has taken up a plan of disenumbering its streets of the derelicts of society, the tramps and the homeless idlers that is as simple as it is heartless. It compels them to submit daily to a cold bath, until in desperation they are driven forth into the rural byways toward Leavenworth or Kansas City, where humanity shrinks from such instruments of torture. City Committeeman John Boyle, of Philadelphia, was consulted by some fellow-democrats to a certain candidate for ward leadership. "Mr. Blank is a first-rate man," said one of his callers. "He talks like a book, as the saying is." Mr. Boyle responded bluntly: "We don't want a man that talks like a book. The man we need is a fellow that talks like a burglar-proof safe after it has been locked up for the night." When rivals for a young woman's affections get to the fighting point, the young woman ought to be allowed to take a hand in the game. In Louisiana the other day two rival lovers met, fired, and both fell dead. The girl is left without even one of her passionate suitors, and they are done forever. It would be much better when rivals agree that they cannot live without the object of their devotion to draw lots to determine which shall find some way to remove himself as quietly as possible. A New Yorker afflicted with a beetling brow back of which mental wonders battle for freedom offers to turn loose at space rates a bunch of news about things ancient and modern. The tender is accompanied by the intimation that what he does not know is not in the books and is not worth looking for. It is passing strange this vehicle of guff should go far from home seeking a market for his wares when the Wall street crowd will pay handsomely for the right tip. The west is a poor market for "gold bricks." Brof. Irving Fisher, secretary of the New Haven Anti-Tuberculosis association and occupying a chair in Yale university, shows the progress in the fight against consumption. He says that in 70 years the death rate from tuberculosis in England decreased from 39 to 13 per 10,000 of population. In Germany in 15 years it has declined from 31 to 19. In the United States in 1890 the rate was 23 per 10,000 of population and now it is but 19. And wherever modern methods have been employed a like reduction is discernible. The proposed organization of a National Farmers' alliance, which is to control the distribution of foodstuffs and do away with the profits of the middlemen, contemplates the object originally aimed at by the founders of the Farmers' alliance organized in the early '90s. The greatest difficulty to be encountered is to induce the farmers who are scattered over a vast area of country to become members of any co-operative concern, but it is even more difficult to hold the farmers in such an organization after they have joined it. AN EVIL IN FOOD THE LAW SHOULD REACH. In reference to the use of alum baking powders Prof. Schweitzer, of the State University of Missouri, says: "The deleterious effects of alum and the soluble salts of alumina upon the human system, even when used in small quantities, are too well known to need relating; their use in baking powder is dangerous, and should be restricted." The effects of the continuous use of alum baking powders are thus summed up in a medical publication:— "Alum taken into the stomach retards the digestion of the food. "It is an irritant which inflames and irritates the stomach and intestinal canal. "It is an astringent and tends to constipate the bowels, which interferes with digestion. "It renders the albumen of the food partially insoluble, and therefore takes away from its nutritive value. "It is absorbed into the blood, which it tends to thicken and coagulate. The free flow of the blood through the organs of the heart is thus retarded. "It its continued absorption into the system causes some forms of nervous prostrations and many of those affections of the nerves from which both women and men suffer. "Fourteen grains of alum have caused the death of a child. Larger does have frequently resulted fatally in the case of adults. "No drug so powerful and deadly, no matter in what proportions it may be employed, can safely be used in any article of food." A FORMIDABLE RIFLE. With a Charge of Cordite This Weapon Will Send a Bullet A great advance has been made in small arms by George E. Rounds, of Plymouth, Mass., which may have a wonderful important bearing on the armaments of the world and the battles of the future, for through his suggestion the range of the modern rifle has been greatly increased and its penetration more than doubled. The result is a finished rifle of the Winchester model of 1895, short, like the old civil war carbine, but unlike them it has a tapering barrel which approaches one-half inch in thickness at the rear end and is formed of a fine piece of nickel steel which gives a maximum of strength. The gun is of 405 bore, and the cartridge looks like any other except perhaps the shell is not choked on the end where the bullet fits in. Inside the bright brass shell is a charge of 52 grains of cordite, a smokeless powder which has long been in favor by the users of the big British naval guns, and as used in them resembling the long black flexible strings of licorice found in the confectionery stores, the strips being bundled into fagots for the big cannon, which, of course, is not done in Mr. Round's gun. Fifty-two grains of cordite, it is asserted, has the explosive power of nearly a pound of common black rifle powder, and it will drive the 300-grain soft nose, tin-coated, bullet out with a muzzle velocity of 2,204 feet per second, while at 100 yards range the striking energy is represented by 3,235 foot pounds. From tests made by the Winchester company, it is calculated the gun fired at an elevation of 45 degrees will throw its projectile a distance of ten miles, while at shorter ranges its enormous muzzle velocity gives it a very flat trajectory, amounting to ordinary ranges to almost point blank shooting. In the matter of penetration the cordite leaves the others completely out of sight. A high power 30-30 sporting cartridge at 100 yards will penetrate 30 inches of pine, and a United States government high velocity ten inches deeper, but this new one at the same range will bore through 100 inches of pine wood. -St. Louis Republic. His Investments. Now, the visiting foreigner, being known to be immensely wealthy, was besieged by reporters innumerable. "Are you going to buy any newspapers on this side?" asked one who knew that the visiting foreigner had a leaning toward journalism. "Well," he said, "I bought the New York Herald yesterday——" Fifty pencils flew over the pages of fifty note books. "And," he continued, "I bought the St. Louis Globe-Democrat the day before that——" More penciling and much excitement. "This morning," he went on, "I bought the Philadelphia Times——" Twenty reporters rushed for telegraph offices. "And to-morrow," he resumed, "I think I will purchase the Washington Post and the Baltimore American. Don't you know. I like to read the various newspapers of a country. They give one a fine idea of the conditions of things, and then they are so blooming inexpensive at their price per copy, don't you know?" Thirty pencils fell from 150 fingers, and thirty great lights broke upon thirty inquiring minds.—Lippincott's Magazine. Three Women. "I will grant each of you one wish," assented fate to three women. "I choose beauty," exclaimed the youngest. "Give me power," said another. "And to me a low, persuasive voice," the last murmured. Each had her will. The beauty of the first was ruined by an accident. The power of the second lasted but one season. But the third woman kept her talisman through a long life, and from it came many things, among them power.-Minna Thomas Antrim, in Lippincott's. HIS ANNUAL MESSAGE President Roosevelt's Communication to National Law Makers. SUBJECTS OF IMPORTANCE Control of the Trusts—Frauds of Various Kinds—The Isthmian Canal and Panama Revolution—The Merchant Marine—Our Insular Possessions—Foreign Relations. President Roosevelt's annual message to congress deals largely with a few important questions, leaving those of minor interest to the annual reports of the executive department heads. The first subject to receive attention at the hands of the president is that of the trusts in connection with the operations of the department of commerce and labor and the bureau of corporations. Of the results which this bureau will accomplish he says: "The preliminary work of the bureau of corporations in the department has shown the wisdom of its creation. Publicity in corporate affairs will tend to do away with ignorance, and will afford facts upon which systematized intelligence is already developing facts the knowledge of which is essential to doing so. Duties and duties of the business world. The corporation which is honestly and fairly organized, whose managers in the corporation are well trained with their stockholders, their competitors and the public, has nothing to fear from such information. The obligation to deal squarely with their stockholders, their competitors and the public, has nothing to fear from such information. The obligation to not be embarrass or assault legitimate business, but to aid in bringing about a better industrial condition—a condition which will be necessary to law and recognition of public obligation by all corporations, great or small." Capital and Labor. On the subject of capital and labor the president says: The consistent policy of the national government, so far as it has the power, is to hold in check the unscrupulous man, whether employer or employee; but to re-engage in the individual development of the country. We recognize that this is an era of federation and combinations of the country, and we do not have any actions and labor unions have become factors of tremendous importance in all industrial centers. Hearty recognition is given the far-reaching effect on the It has been recommended through both corporations and unions, and the line as between different corporations, as between different unions, is drawn as it is between the individual and the other. On conduct, the effort being to treat both organized capital and organized labor, as well as asking nothing save that the interest of the country is required. However, with the interest of the general public, and that the conduct of each shall conform to the fundamental rules of obedience to the law, the law and the law and the law should be for the�ation, labor union, or individual disregards the law or acts in a spirit of arbitrary or tyrannous interference with the law and the law and the law and the law and the law and the law and the law. The first decision is to stop, paying not the misconduct is stopped, and the rights of the person or their lives are given a hermitage to the person or their individual, but only to one vital fact—that is the question whether or not the conduct of the individual or to to the individual should be required to be a law. Every man must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to do as he likes with his property on his labor. If we are not as does the law, we should not be the law and no man is below it, nor to we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked The Merchant Marine. The president does not believe that any financial legislation is needed or advisable at this time. On the subject of the merchant marine he asks that commission consisting of a secretary a dean of commerce and a general secretary of commerce and labor be appointed to investigate its needs and report to congress desirable legislation. He reserves in his office the immigration makes no specific recommendations. He refers to the naturalization frauds being perpetrated in the large cities especially, and the small towns especially, in the country. He recommends that appropriation made for the purpose of enabling the attorney general to prosecute the violations of the anti-trust laws be extended to include all violations of national laws, including national frauds, the postal and public land frauds. He refers to steps now being taken by the state department for making bribery and corruption connections with this the president says. "The exposures and prosecutions of official corruption in St. Louis, Mo., and other cities have been made by the givers and takers of bribes becoming fugitives in foreign lands. Brirley has not been included in extradition treaties heretofore, as the necessity for it has not been established. There is much official corruption in former years, there has been more developed and brought to light in the immediate past than in the past, and there is no reason why it should be the policy of the United States to leave no place on earth where a corrupt man fleeing from this country can rest in place, there is no reason why it should not be included in all treaties as extraditable." The Alaskan Boundary. In connection with the Alaskan boundary decision the president reviews the history of the case leading up to the appointment of the tribunal, its sessions and decision, pronouncements result entirely satisfactorily. The result is satisfactory in every way. It is of great material advantage to our people in the far northwest. It has removed from the field of discussion and possible danger a question liable to be commonly society because it is with a missing year. Finally, it has furnished a signal proof of the fairness and good will with which two friendly nations can approach and determine issues involving national sovereignty and their nature incapable by submission to a third party. For a judgement see also "The award is self-executing on the vital points. To make it effective as regards others, it only remains for the two governments to appoint each on its own behalf, one of more scientific experts, who are in need of all. I am in the�or to together to lay down the boundary line in accordance with the decision of the majority of the tribunal. I recommend that the congress make adequate provision for the appointment, compensation and expenses of the members to serve on this joint standard of commission on the part of the triuned. Signets. A review of the Venezuelan case is given and its amicable adjustment through the efforts of this country, and the statement of the judge of this dispute has materially helped the cause of international arbitration. He says our relations with Turkey are friendly, and we have a good process of adjustment. He calls attention to the signing of a new commercial treaty with China on October 8 which should give us more commercial impetus to prepare there for the full measure of development cannot be looked for until the present abnormal conditions are settled. He strongly advocates the extension of the agreement to include all aspects as possible. He recommends government assistance for the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark expositions, and such legislation as will tend to the fuller development of Alaska, especially in regard to the land laws. Insular Possessions. In connection with our insular possessions he recommends an appropriation for the payment for those already built by the island government. He asks that the governor of Hawaii be empowered to disregard this appropriation and submitting to the legislature. He reports steady progress being made in both Porto Rice and the Philippines, and sakes for the latter new tariff arrangements. He believes that new laws are needed in connection with the administration of the public lands, and wants them heed, so far as possible, for the homeowners being made in irrigation in the west under the irrigation law, and does not believe new legislation and continuation of the work of forest preservation, and the reservation of the public lands lying about the headwaters of the He notes the increase in the number of government employees under the civil service rules, and pronounces the results wantageuates, and concludes with the arm's recommendation of suitable maneuver grounds in different sections of the country, and some provision that will enable them to make promotions where such are deserved. For the navy he wants a naval base established in the Philippines without unnecessary delay, recommends the establishment of a naval general staff along lines similar to those The Isthmian Canal. More attention is given the isthmian canal and the Panama revolution than to any other subject. The legislation leading to the Panama revolution and review. He sees no necessity for reverting to the Nicaraguan route, and pronounces present conditions ripe for the building of the Panama canal, and in this way. When the congress directed that we should take the Panama route under treaty with Colombia, the essence of the constitution of Colombia controlled that route, but to the route itself; to the territory across which the route lay, not to the name which for the moment the territory, more than the name to authorize the president to make a treaty with the power in actual control of the isthmus of Panama. This purpose has been achieved. He reviews the relations of this government with Colombia relative to the matter of transit across the isthmus from the time of the signing of the transatlantic treaty of transit across the isthmus to the citizens of this country, 1846, down to the present time. For an interpretation of the meaning of the previous government officials, including Secretary Cass and Secretary Seymour. Says we are under obligations to the world to build the canal; notes the repudiation of the canal. "Nevertheless the government of Colombia not merely repudiated the treaty, but repudiated it by the time the Colombian congress adjourned that not the scantiest hope remained of ever getting a satisfactory treaty, from which Colombia made the treaty, and yet when the Colombian congress was called to ratify it the vote against ratification was unanimous. It does not appear that the government made any real effort to secure The Panama Revolution. He reviews the incidents of the Panama revolution, and says the action of the Panama revolution is the terms of the treaty guaranteeing peaceable transit across the isthmus, and could considerable length of the disturbances that have occurred in Panama since 1847, and the efforts of the United States to preserve the rights guaranteed its citizens by treaty. "In short, the experience of over half a century has shown Colombia to be a country of great military strength. Only the active interference of the United States has enabled her to preserve so much as a semblance of sovereignty. Had it not been the military power of the United States of the police power in her interest, her connection with the isthmus would have been sundered long ago. In 1853, in the wake of the Mexican-American War, 1862, sailors and marines from United States warships were forced to land in order to patrol the isthmus, to protect life and property, and to see that the transit of the isthmus was safe. In 1852, in 1853, and in 1860, the Colombian government asked that the United States government would land troops to protect interests and maintain order on the isthmus. Colombia's Latest Proposition. Colombia's Latest Proposition. "Knowing that revolution has already come, the Colombian] says that if the government of the United States will land troops to preempt transit, if requested by Colombian charge d'affaires, this government will declare martial law; and by three of the conquerors, the public is disturbed, will approve by decree the ratification of the canal treaty as signed; or, if the government of the United States agrees—with new and friendly members—next May to approve the treaty. (An emissary of vice president, he says, and if it became necessary will go to the isthmus or send representative there to adjust matters to the satisfaction of the people there.) This dispatch is noteworthy from two standpoints. Its offer of immediately following the congress contrast with the positive and contemptuous refusal of the congress which has just closed its sessions to consider favorably the government which made the treaty really had absolute control over the situation, but did not allow the government to dispatch further calls on us to restore order and secure Colombian supremacy in the isthmus from which the Colombian government had acted to obstruct our burial by preventing us from the canal, by enabling the canal question in all its phases, and the inability of Colombia to maintain order on the isthmus, and its repudiation of the canal treaty which would have guaranteed permanent peace there, "Under such circumstances the government of the United States would have been in their sum to a crime against amounting had it acted otherwise than it did when the revolution of November 3 last took place in Panama. This great enterprise of the United States has held up to gratify the whims, or out of respect to the governmental impotence, or to the even more sinister and evil politics of the United States they dwell at off, yet, against the wish of the actual dwellers on the isthmus, assert an unreal supremacy over the territory. The possession of a territory traughed upon the United States in musin question carries with it obligations to mankind. The course of events has shown that this canal cannot be built by our own; therefore it must be built by the United States." The New Canal Treaty. He refers to the new canal treaty recent- ly submitted to him. With the resuscitation and sank of A- dams. "By the provisions of the treaty the United States guarantees and will maintain the independence of the republic of Panama and the States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a strip ten miles wide and extending three nautical miles into the Congo outside the zone necessary for the construction of the canal or for its auxiliary works, and with the islands in the bay of Panama, of Panama and Colon embraced in the zone necessary for the United States assumes their sanitation and, in case of need, the maintenance of order therein; the United States enjoys the power and authority which it would possess were it the sovereign of the territory to the exclusion of the exercise of sovereignty in the canal and canal property rights belonging to Panama and needed for the canal pass to the United States, including any property of Panama and Colon; the works, property and personnel of the canal and railways are exempted from taxation as well in the canal zone and its dependencies. Preference to the personnel and importation of supplies for the construction and operation of the personnel and provision is made for the use of military building of fortifications by the United States for the protection of the transit. In other details, particularly as to the acceptance of the canal, company and the Panama railway by the United States and the condemnation of private property for "the Hay-Herran treaty are closely followed while the compensation be given for these enlarged grants remains the same, being $50,000,000 payable on exchange of the property from that date, an annual payment of $50,000 during the life of the convention." BUTLER CASE IS REVERSED Missouri Supreme Court Sets Columbia Verdict Aside. THE SENTENCE IS ANNULLED The Court Rules That There Could Be No Bribery Because the Board of Health Had No Power to Let Contract. Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 10.—The Missouri supreme court Wednesday reversed the decision of the lower court in the case of Edward Butler of St. Louis, and ordered the defendant discharged. Dutler was convicted in the Boone county circuit court on the charge of attempting to bribe Dr. Chapman, a member of the St. Louis board of health, to induce him to use his influence in having the board award the garbage contract to the St. Louis Sanitary Co., a corporation in which Butler is interested. The case came to trial in St. Louis, but went to the Boone county court on a change of EDWARD BUTLER The opinion was written by Judge Fox, and was concurred in by all the other judges. The court holds that the board of health had no authority to let the garbage contract, but that this power belonged to the board of public improvements. The board of health having no authority to award this contract, the defendant could not bribe members to do something which they had no authority to do. The court quotes many decisions sustaining this position, and holds that the trial court should have sustained the demurrer to the indictment. The court holds, also, that the ordinance under which the contract was to be awarded was not signed until September 17, 1901, hence it was not in effect and no bribery could have taken place, as the evidence showed that the attempt was made September 16, 1901. The lower court failed to give proper instructions on this point, and this, the supreme court held, was another reason for reversing the case. SUB-TREASURER AT ST. LOUIS Thos. J. Akins, Chosen to Succeed Gen. G. B. Farrar as Sub-Treasurer at St. Louis. Washington, Dec. 10.—President Roosevelt has decided to appoint Thos. J. Akins, chairman of the Republican state committee of Missouri, to be assistant United States treasurer at St. Louis. Gen. G. B. Farrar, the present sub-treasurer, notified Secretary Shaw, several days ago, of his withdrawal from the contest. Mr. Akins is one of the best-known republicans in Missouri. He has not been, it is understood, an active candidate for the office, but has indicated to the president his willingness to accept, provided it did not interfere with his activity in Missouri politics. DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE. Call Issued For a Meeting to Decide Upon Time and Place for National Convention. Washington, Dec. 10.—James K. Jones, chairman of the democratic national committee, has issued a call for the committee to meet at the Shoreham hotel in this city Tuesday, January 12, for the purpose of deciding upon the time and place of holding the democratic national convention. Trapped a Bald Eagle Evansville, Ind., Dec. 10.—Albert Baylor, a farmer, living a few miles north of here, set a steel trap to catch some animal that had been devoring his small stock. He caught a large bald eagle that measured nearly eight feet. An Excellent Idea Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 10.—Orders have been issued by President Corrigan of the Metropolitan Street Railway Co., that coffee urns be installed at all cable line terminals, and hot coffee served to gripmen on demand without charge. Waffield & Lane BARBER SHOP ```markdown ``` FIRST CLASS WORK Guaranteed. 2310 MORGAN ST. World's Fair Barber Shop. The World's Fair Barber shop is up- to-date. Everything is in fine order. Here's the soilloquy of its owner, Mr. Sanford Warfield: clean. We have all Negro papers on hand, Eagle, Advance and The Palladium." B. BELKER, Dealer in Groceries, Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Meat and Vegetable Market. ill9 and ill21 Morgan Street. St. Louis, Mo. DR. S. B. BELL, FIRST-CLASS Barber Shop and Bath, In the True Reform Hall. First-class Barber. S. W. Corner Pine Street and J. Jason Avenue. SEXTON & MITCHELL'S EXTRA FINISH Art School, 2605 Lawton Ave. Now Open for Pupils. Terms Reasonable. Fine Oil Paintings for sale. 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He admitted he had bees drinking the evening before the trage- dy, but eaid all that occurred at the dance in connection with himself was a blank—“a dream,” as he expressed it. The first he knew about it, he said, was when he told about it by his brother the next morning. “It had no grudge against them whatever,” said Dawson, “and wouldn’t have thought of raising my hand against either one of them if I knew what I was doing. Why, I didn’t even know Hughes was going with her.” Asked why he had mot appeared on the wedding day last September to marry Miss Hartman, Dawson declined to answer. Seck to Break Wil. Suit has been begun before Judge Philips in the United States circutt court in Kansas City to break the will of Robert White, who lived near Breckinridge, Caldwell county. The suit was brought two years ago by Robert Sawyer, a grandson of Mr. White. According to the provisions of the will Mr, White left $25 to his grandson and the remainder to bis son, William M. White. The estate com- Erised holdings of farm land in Cald- well county, valued at $60,000. The attorneys of the plantiff are seeking to show that he was not of sound mind and therefore could not justly dispose of his property at the tims the will was executed. Workhouse a Sure Remedy. In order to quit the use of cocaine, to which he is addicted. Charles Smide- ly pleaded guilty to vagrancy in the police court in Kansas City, and was fined $50 by Judge Brady. Since he could not pay the fine, this sentence is equivalent to 100 days in the work- house, Smidely told the judge that 2e had just served a 30 days’ sentence in the workhouse, and during that time he could not secure the drug he had ebcome accustomed to using. He stat- ed Yhat while at liberty he could not get along without cocaine, but when locked up he was forced to do without it. Glavétandk Gan Net Attend, A letter from Grover Cleveland bas been received by the officers of Mis- souri university, declining an invita- tion to attend the commencement exer- cises of the university next spring. ‘Mr. Cleveland and the officers of the university have been in correspondence for some time, and in former letters he had expressed a hope that he might be able to attend the commen-ement. He has found his engagements to be in such shape that he can not attend, Mr. Cleveiand says. Fatal Mine Explosion. ‘An explosion occurred at the Seven Devils mine at Oronogo, injuring El- mer Searcy, Frank Shuts, Patrick Me- Loud and Jerry Connor. The men were tamping a shot of thirty nticks of giant powder when the expleston took place. Searcy’s face was shot to pieces, both arms broken, ané he was so badly injured internally thet he can not recover. The other men Were bad- ly bruised, cut and powder-blown, and were uncgnscious for severi hours, “Coon From Arkaras” Dead, Says a dispatch from Chrrieston, W. Va: John Blackford, come‘tian, with Al G. Field's minstrels, cisd here of apoplexy. He was known ‘n England and America as “the coca fom Arkan- saw.” He leaves a wife ed two chil- dren in St. Joseph. He was writing to his children when stricken. George Johnston Exonerated. George Johnston, charged with the murder of his cousin, Delia Johnston, at Winona, was acquitteé by a jury at Eminence. The trial occapied a week, and large crowds thronged the court room every day. Many friends con- gratulated the freed men. Hix Sister Wan tuaulted. Alexander Montville, city passenger agent of the Wabash railroad in Kan- sas City, was arrestea on the charge of assault with intent to kill GV. Meyers. Montville was released on §1,- 000 gond. He claiton that Meyers in- sulted his sister. Dislike Sunday Funerals. ‘The ministers’ alliance of Marshall has agreed to do away with Sunday funerals, except in case of necessity. The clergymen are also opposed to opening the casket for a final leave- taking at the funeral, for obvious rea- sons. A Money Maker. Perhaps the greatest feaixre of the Louisiana Purchase exposition will be “the Pike,” on which has been sold $2,000,000 worth of concessions. A Fatal Runaway. Miss Florence Jennings was killed and Mrs. Charles Jennings seriously in- jured in a runaway at Centralia, The horse jumped from a bridge. raf Mes Onli Nee a ca At the St. Louis World’s fair, the United States and Germany w'll ‘have competitive exhibits of forestry, each to be five acres in extent. Blames the Metropolitan. A coroner's jury which investigated the death of Miss Juliette Shearman, who was killed Saturday evening, No- vember 21, by an electrice car in Kan- sas City, held that the Metropolitan Ce to blame by not providing fend- ers for cat's used on the Independenca electric line. Miss Shearman had alighted from an east-bound car on the crossimg at ®Winth street and Denver avenue, and was struck by the west- bound car. J. EB, Hale, the motorman ‘in charge of the car, testified that Miss Shearman did not attempt to cross in front of his car, when she was struck, ue in trying to evade it she tripped and fell in the center of the track. “I was running at a rate of about six miles an hour,” said Hale. “As I neared the crossing I rang my gong and attracted the attention of Miss Shearman, who had started to cross the tracks. She looked up at me, but when she attempted to step it seemed her hee! caught in the rail, and she fell headlong in front of my car. I made every effort to stop the car then, but Was too close to prevent striking her.” ia aaa tase A corpany has been formed in St. Lonis 20 run an independent packing house. The St, Louis Union Packing Co, is {ts name, and the articles of in- corporation privide for $1,000,000 cap- ital. ‘The directors of the new com- pany are Joseph Hannauer, Albert Blank, Ernest Weber, Patrick T. O'- Neill, James Croft and George W. Dieckriede. They expect to kill cat- tle on the Missouri side of the river, and vill have their packing house at the old St. Louis stock yards, which have been practically abandoned since the market went to East St. Louis, St. Louis had strong —_competition with the packers in the old Louis Dressed Beef Co. When the packers were planning their “merger” they bought the St. Louis Dressed Beef Co., and one of the directors of that company stayed away from St. Louis for months, explaining afterward that his reason was that people said disa- greeable things to him about selling out to the trust, dé Geneok Theater Leased: Martin Veck, of Chicago, and M. Moyerfield, of San Francisco, general manager and president respectively of the Orpheum theater circuit, have elesed negotiations for the lease of the Tovtle theater, in St. Joseph. Tootle bookings will be canceled so far as possible and Orpheum attractions sub- stituted. The change will be made January 1. The Orpheum company hoa theaters in Kansas City, New Or- léans, Omaha, Denver, San Franciseo and Los Angeles. Pupieneed me Gheateed: | Car No. 4 of the Hannibal street rail- way system is causing no end of an- noyance to the company’s patrons, ac- cording to the Journal. The car, it seems, is badly wired, and when it is damp, those who do not wear rubbers and gloves receive shocks while riding on ft. The current escaping is not strong enough to hurt anybody, but tt has caused some funny and annoying things to happen on the car recently. | No Use for It. ‘A Chicago man who wrote a Henry county farmer, wanting to sell him a sulky plow, was suprised to receive the following reply: “Deer Sur—{ kain't use no sulky plow. I have enough troubel gittin the old kind to run, with- ‘out tryin none that is liable to balk on me.” An Editor's Trade. The editor of the Filmore Lever is pleased over a trade he made recently. “We swapped a brass horn for a good- sized hog, the other day,” he says. “Music may have charms to soothe the savage breast, but it doesn’t have a filling effect on the empty stomach.” Jewell Mayen Honored. Jewel! Mayes, editor of the Rich- mond Missourien, is now known as President Mayes. He was elected chief executive officer of the Northwest Mis- souri Press ascoclation in St. Joseph, a dew dayt ao. County Prosecutor Weds. James M. Hull, prosecuting attorney of Vernon county, and Miss Katherine Clack, a graduate of Vanderbilt uni- versity, a daughter of John Clack, @ capitalist, were married at Nevada. Newspaper Changes Hands. J. G. Gallemore, proprietor of the Salisbury Press-Spectator for 18 years, has sold his paper to J. Ritzenthaler, of Huntsville. The price is said to have been $6,000. Leavitts in a Runaway. William Homer Leavitt and his bride were thrown from a pony cart in a run- away at Humansyille. Mrs. Leavitt es- caped unhurt, but Leavitt's arm was fractured, Executive Clemency. Goy. Dockery has issued a sick par- don to Hattie Brooks, a negro woman who was sent to the penitentiary from Audrain county in 1901 for burglary. A New Organization. A state organization has been effect od through N. H. 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Dorsey Wood, Coal & Ice, EXPRESS WAGON Hauling to all Parts of the City 2629 Morgan St- THE MARBLE HEART. We take pleasure fw presenting te the public the opening of The Marble Heart, at 1911 Market street. The spacious dining-room and eoncert hall here in the rear of the Gem. ‘Mirrors line the hall on three sides of the spacious dining room, with 16 chairs, A beautiful inlaid linoleum covers the floor. East of this hall is the kitchen, in the care of a proficient cook, who will supply you with any dish your heart desires. ‘This spacious hall can be reached without coming in contract with the rougher class, by entering the front hall that leads to the room. Musle nightly in the concert hall. Those who desire to participate in the music con- cert will be invited to take part. HUGH B. WHITE, Prop. 1911 Market. mT forced ¥ gon ne SOO PR eee; } a 1 Pein asus ene Lito Y Bete eS - ee “That any person who was duly ap- pointed or commissioned to be an off cer of the volunteer service during the war of the rebellion, and who was sub- Ject to the mustering regulations xt the ime applied to members of the yolun- teer service, shall be hel and consid- ered to have been mustered into the service of the United States in the grade named im his appointment or commission from the date from which he was to take rank under and by the terms of his sald appointment or com- mission, whether the same was actual- ly received by him or not, and shall be entitled to pay, emoluments, and pen: sion as if actually mustered at that date: Provided, That at the date from ‘which he was to:take rank by the terms of his said appointment or commission ‘there was a vacancy to which be coulg be so appointed or eommisstoned, and his command had either been reernited to the minimum number required by law and the regulatious of the War Department, or had been assigned to duty in the field, and that he was act- vally performing the duties of the grade to which he was so appointed o1 sent by reason of wounds, or in hospl- tal by reason of disability received in the service in the line o: duty, at the date of issue of his appointment or commission, if a vacancy existed for him in the grade to whleh so appointed or commissioned, shall be entitled te all the benefits to whiel he wonld have been entitled under this act if he had been actually performing the dutles of the grade to which he was appointed or commissioned at said date: Provided further, That tuis act shall be con- strued 'to apply only in those cases where the commission bears date prior to June twenticth, elghteen hundred and sixty-three, or after that date when the commands of the persons appoint- ed or commissioned were not below the ner of war, or who may have been ab- minimum number required by then ex- isting laws and regulations. IMPORTANT TO ALL MEMBERS OB ANY STATE MILITIA. ‘Under the latest ruling or the Hon. Secretary of the Interior all persons who were regularly enlisted im any State Militia organization and tempo- rarily in the United States service, or serving under United States officers, are now entitled to pension on account of any disability (wound, injury or dis- jeage) that was incurred or contracted while in the United States service, even though they were never regularly mus- tered Into same. This ruling affects all state militia men called fate active service by order of the United States officers; provided, the disabilities were incurred while performing @uty under such orders. tt. ira, Patty—“Doyou really think Dr. Duck- oP ied pause’ tee, Gilin The patient)" don't know so much about that. But he has such a quieting way with him. When I said I hoped I shouldn’t be buried alive, he said he'd look out for that. Wasn't that thoughtful of bim.”—Boston denciattiog St. Louis Palladium. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Entered at the postoffice at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter. Published Weekly by J. W. WHEELER, Manager and Proprietor. 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. For one inch, one insertion.....$ 50 For one inch each subsequent insertion.....25 For two inches, three months.....6 00 For two inches, six months.....10 00 For two inches, nine months.....14 00 For two inches, twelve months.....20 00 Standing and transient notices per line.....10 RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months.....60 Single copy.....05 No Excuse for Non-Payment. From the present time on, all who live south of 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. The St. Louis Palladium is sold at the following places: 2617 Lawton avenue. 209 South 15th street. 1208 Wash street. 2614 Stoddard avenue. SEVEN POINTERS FOR THE READING AND ADVERTISING PUBLIC. (1) THE ST. LOUIS PALLADIUM IS in its 20th year of regular publication. (2) Never has missed it. (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 pub- lished in St. Louis as the organ of the Republican party. (6) Because it is the official organ of Wright Cuney Political Club. (7) Because it is fearless in denoun- cing crime regardless of conse- quences. We hope every subscriber of The Palladium will settle up for their paper. We will see every person in the next two weeks. So get your money ready. J. W. WHEELER, CITY NEWS Notes and News Concerning Our People--Weekly Record of Social Events, Deaths, Marriages and Births--Written Especially for St. Louis Palladium. Mr. Tuck Brockway, of 3508 Bernard street, is confined to his bed. Capt. C. H. Tandy has just returned from Oklahoma. He met with success. Cathrell & Hyatt Printing Co. Give them a call. 3957A Finney avenue. Mrs. Susan Wilson, a member of Elizabeth Temple of the S. M. T., is quite sick in Bayonne, N. J. Furnished room for rent for two or three young men. Call at 2623 Morgan street. Mrs. M. Fowler. Mrs. Anna Tillman has been very much indisposed this week, but at this writing is better. Nicely furnished rooms for rent at 2636 Lucas avenue, and don't fail to call. Mrs. J. C. Baker. Mr. William P. Dye, of 2801 Manchester avenue, will not shave till the first of March, 1904. Mrs. Elnore Cole will leave soon to teach school in Houston, Tex. Mrs. Wilson, her mother, lives at 114 Rankin avenue. Mrs. M. A. Robinson, of 2607 Lucas avenue, will please call at once at 114 Rankins avenue. Business of importance. If you want True Blue Jewels then consult the ad of Jaccards, at Broadway and Locust streets. See ad in The Palladium. The Watha Boys' club will give their first annual reception at the True Reformers' hall, December 29, 1903. All friends are invited to come out. The Mo. P. building, at Seventh and Market streets, is a beauty. So is the railroad. The same is up to date. Mrs. Wright Moore, of 4549 North Second street, lost her baby last Saturday. It was buried last Monday. Such is the end of all that lives. If you wish to go to Texas and all points southwest take the Iron Mountain railroad. FOR RENT—Two front rooms on first floor, furnished or unfurnished. 3639 Cottage Avenue. Why does The Old Black Man carry those four hearses as ads. Better cut some of them out, as you don't get paid for all of them. The Wabash to Chicago and Kansas City has fine chair cars. So take that railroad. FOR RENT—A basement room, good for restaurant purposes. Call at No. 5 South Twenty-first street. MRS. DANIELS. Miss Medeline Berzey is suffering from the effects of a sprained back, caused by playing basket ball at the Indian Industrial institution, at Genoa, Neb. Mr. W. T. Curtis will soon enter the saloon business, about 2325 Market street. It will be the fine of finest in the city. The L. N. D. S. club is planning to spend a day during the Christmas holidays at Edwardsville, Ill., with one of their members, Mrs. Lucy McClain. If your blood is not right, call Mrs. W. P. Smith, 2632 Randolph street. She is special agent for Perkin's American herbs. Dr. S. B. Bell, of 2633 Lucas avenue, has just received a letter from his father, who he had not heard from for many years. He is over 100 years of age. We will give more next week. Missouri Pacific railroad to Kansas City is admired by all of the rail companies from St. Louis to Kansas City and all points west. Miss E. Brandon, of Edwardsville, Ill., is expected Saturday to spend the day. She will be accompanied by her niece, Miss Nellie M., and nephews, Wilbur and Edward Brandon. They will be the guests of Mrs. M. A. Lawrence. Mr. Robert Johnson, of 209 South Fifteenth street, sells from 100 to 120 papers, weekly. If you wish to help a worthy Christian gentleman, get The Paladium from him Mr. W. M. Smith, of 3708 Rutger street, is one of our representative men. He is conducting a grocery at the above number. Men and women are coming from the south and setting up in business in St. Louis. We welcome them. Mrs. Susan Holiday, of Brooklyn, Ill., entertained a party of members from St. Louis at dinner Friday, the 4th, the guests of honor being Mrs. Green Price and Rev. N. J. McCrackin, of Chicago, Ill. The ladies returned to St. Louis the same evening, much pleased with their trip to Illinois. On October 11, Bishop A. Walters, at the St. Marks A. M. E. Zion church, New York city, ordained Rev. Mrs. Florence Randolph, as an elder of the A. M. E. Zion church, the annual conference heid last summer at Sommerville having authorized the bishop to do so when in his judgment it was expedient. Mrs. Randolph is well known throughout the eastern part of the United States, and also in Europe. Portland (Ore.) New Age. ROOMS FOR RENT Nicely-furnished room, 2201 Morgan, upstairs. Call on MRS. HUGGINS. Two neatly-furnished rooms for rent at No. 932 North Twenty-third street. FOR RENT—Room at 1002 Wash street, neatly furnished. Mrs. B. KING. NEWS FROM NEWPORT, ILL. Mr. Editor—Among the phases of news presented to the world by The Palladium, December 5, I read the article heralding the information that one Williams, representative and author of the JIM CROW CAR BILL in the Missouri legislature of last winter, is deceased. Not a tear will dim the eye of single Negro in this country—unless for joy—who reads the article, when a race bigot like Williams quits the floor of this, our mundane sphere, for the bottomless neither regions, (I hope). The sooner Vardaman (Miss.), Carmack (Tenn.), Pitch Fork Tillman (S. C.), and every one belonging to that mob of TRAITORS and ANARCHISTS, whose eternal souls are damned with Negroating, join Williams and Crisp the sooner will "the pre-established harmony" of good will for the Negro and the rest of the world be realized. The A. M. E. Sunday school, a late evolution of Newport, held its third session in one of St. John Sanders' residences, with a total number of 31 present, including three visitors. St. John, who promises a year's subscription The Palladium, beginning January 1, 1904, was once a citizen of St. Louis. Barbering with B. T. Rogers on Poplar street, was his vocation for a time. This work being against health, he quit, bought some horses and teamed awhile. At this time, I believe, he became a member of St. Paul. But he is here in Newport now, owns two or three buildings, and has donated a lot to the A. M. E. church. The intention of the new congregation is to erect a church building as soon as funds sufficient can be raised. St. John owns his own teams, is a coal dealer, and is an honorable Christian citizen, who believes in the honorable mode of accumulating property is the best policy in the long run. I am sorry to say that we have some citizens among us who don't care how a dollar is gotten, just so they avoid honest hard work. Not so, however, with Saint John Sanders. In The Palladium, issue of November 28 past, 1903, an article stated properly that Rev. Enoch Gibson, who now takes The Palladium, was a building contractor and ran a vegetable stand. But the article being shorn of completely representing Rev. Elder in his self-application, as effort to get on the sunny-side of the world's goods, as well as the spiritual. We add that, in addition to the above, he has recently built three or four houses of his own, which he rents. He runs a meat market and handles coal. Now if the elder gives as good quality, as big a quantity and is as clean and polite as white men in the same business, we are traitors if we do not trade with him. ESSENCE. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS. The schedule of autumn examinations by the civil service commission, among which will be held examinations for railway, mail, departmental and post office clerk and carrier. There are an unusual large number of Colored applicants applying for these positions, several of whom are under the care of Newsome and Randals, receiving instruction and qualifying themselves for the position. Call and see them at NEWSOME & RANDALL. Stenographers and Typewriters, Applicants prepared for Civil Service Examinations. Office 4265 St. Ferdinand Ave. 1409 Market Street B. MUNCHWEILER Dealer in LADIES' and GENTS' SHOES DON'T FORGET THE NUMBER 1409 Market Street A FIRST-CLASS BARBER SHOP NEWLY FITTED Has been opened by J. L. MAYS, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, who also does business in Chicago. A. MANSKER, of Poplar Bluff is emceed by the men they are considered two of the best barbers in our city. They have removed from 1523 Clark Ave. to 1331 POPLAR STREET GIVE THEM A CALL FANNIE LEE World's Fair Artist Pictures of all kinds called for and delivered. All sizes crayon, pastel, water color and oil paintings a specialty. Fine frames and high-grade work. Terms reasonable. Cash or credit. Also lessons given. Call or write to 456 NORTH SARAH ST. W. B. CATKELL. J. M. HYATT J. M. HYATT. CATHRELL=HYATT Printing Company UP-TO-DATE BOOK AND JOB PRINTING. 3957A Finney Avenue, St. Louis. CALL OR WRITE FOR PRICES. FIELDS & CAMPBELL, Rooming House, 2635 LUCAS AVE. Everything First-Class. All Modern Improvements. ROOMS AT MODERATE PRICES. FIELDS & CAMPBELL, Proprietors. MRS. CORA EUARD, FIRST-CLASS Fashionable Dressmaker AND OTHER NEEDLE WORK. CALL AT 3731 Vista Ave. Louis Deppe, Importer and Dealer in FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Wines, Whiskies, Brandies, ETC., ETC. Southest Corner of Market St. & Jefferson Av. St. Louis, Mo. MISSOURI METHODISTS. October 12, 1903, our beloved Bishop C. T. Shaffer announced the following appointments for the ensuing year: St. Louis District—Presiding elder. Rev. J. D. Barkskale; St. Paul chapel, St. Louis, Rev. D. P. Roberts, M. D. St. James, Rev. W. C. Williams; Allen mission, Rev. O. W. Harris; Boonville, Rev. J. L. Williams; Higginsville, Rev. J. F. Sargo; Sedalia, Rev. William Alexander; Marshall, S. L. Bean; Washington, Rev. Jas. Madison; Waverly, Rev. W. F. Hamilton; Pacific, Rev. E. Thomas; Union, G. W. Cross; Osage City, Rev. J. E. S. Reed; Chamois, M. McFerrin; Speed, Rev. T. W. Weaver; Pleasant Green, M. McTerrell; Holden, Rev. E. W. Clemens; Malta Bend, Rev. C. A. Williams; Jefferson City, Rev. L. P. Duke Kansas City District—Presiding elder. J. C. Owens, Allen chapei, to be supplied; Ebenezer, Rev. William Hawkins; St. John, E. R. Vaughan; Independence, J. H. Allen; Springfield, M. C. Collins; Lexington, A. A. Gilbert; Pleasant Hill, L. H. Harris; Wellington, H. H. McAlister; Westport, J. F. Smith; Joplin, S. S. Pitcher; Odessa, J. B. Wallace; Nevada, H. H. Triplit; Butler, D. J. Gordon; Lebanon, I. H. Johnson; Carthage, A. Long; Ozark mission, G. W. Newman; Ash Grove mission, to be supplied; Neosho, to be supplied; S. E. mission K. C., to be supplied. Cape Girardeau District—Presiding elder. N. C. Buren. Cape Girardeau, Wm. H. Spurlock; Jackson, L. J. Johnson; Charleston, Perry Thurman; Belmont, Richard Phillips; Plouar Bluff, Calvin N. Douglass; Kirkwood, B. W. Stewart; St. Peters', St. Louis, T. L. Watson; De Soto, to be supplied; Commerce, Jeremiah W. Wiles; Frederick town, J. R. Hopkins; Pune Terre, A. O. D. Steele, Oak Ridge, I. Chonley; Festus circuit, James Randa, Quinn chapel, St. Louis, J. E. Chriss; Payne's mission circuit, St. Louis, F. E. Clark; Caladonia mission to be supplied; Caruthersville mission, Perry G. Dawson. Uilinois Methodists. Paris, Ill, Oct. 12—The assignments for the Illinois conference, A. M. E. church, were made to-day, having been held over from Sunday evening, pending a conference between Bishop Grant and the presiding elders. The assignments were finally made as follows: Springfield district—Rev. Andrew J. Burton, presiding elder; S. R. Cottrell, Mattoon and Clarleston; J. W. Ousley, Mound City; J. W. Saunders, St. Paul church, Springfield; S. A. Hardion, St. John church, Springfield; R. E. Wilson, Paris; William Collins, Gibson City; C. W. Thompson, Macomb; J. M. Wilkerson, Danville; J. W. H. Jackson, Champaign; C. H. Sheen, Peoria; P. M. Lewis, Pontiac; G. W. Brewer, Pinkstaff; G. C. Stbury, Clinton and Lucoln; W. A. Moore, Bloomington; A. T. Jackson, Decatur; I. S. Stone, Shelbyville and Tuscola; to be supplied, Normal and Fairbury. Cairo district—P. C. Cooper, presiding elder; McCaleb Tabor, Vienna; P. A. Green, Carmi; C. L. Coleman, Marion and Dumain; H. McClellan, Mount Vernon; Ransom Riddick, Wetung; to be supplied, Beechwood and Beech Ridge; — Dickson, Golconda; J. H. Luney, Galatia; B. F. Moss, Harrisburg; C. H. Holmes, Grand Tower; Sandy McDowell, Murphysboro; C. H. Jackson, Shawneetown; J. W. Edwards, Brookport; A. Perkins, Villa Ridge; F. G. Heard, Edith chapel; J. R. Ford, Hodge's Creek; H. C. Burton, Carbondale; R. J. M. Long, Metropolis; J. H. Sdyes, Cairo. Quincy district—N. J. McCracken, presiding elder. Geo. W. Gaines, Quincy and Bethel. H. Lackey, Jacksonville; J. W. Tiff, Sparta; Green Price, LoveJoy; L. E. Christian, East St. Louis; Torrey Perry, Belleville circuit; W. H. Chambers, Alton; Fleming Gray, Litchfield; C. H. Thomas, Pittsfield and Quincy mission; William Graham, Upper Alton; J. W. Summers, Edwardsville; J. M. Crawfors, Elkville; William Hadley, Centralia; J. P. Coates, North Alton; Sandy Osborn, Collinsville; J. H. Smith, Lebanon and Carlyle; evangelists, Miss E. Marle Carter, Robert Earnest, George A. Brown and Mrs. Emma Brewington. H. Simmons was transferred to the Iowa conference in exchange for Rev. G. W. Gaines. U. B. F. AND S. M. T. 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. S., C. 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, Hildale; Trustees, G. L. Greene, Old Franklin; Robert Renfro, Moberly; P. L. Given, Buceton; 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., Beil 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. The World's fair will open April 30, 1904; close, December 1, 1904. The officers of the fair association are determined to surpass all other World's fairs. 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 33 South 20th Street Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Bottled Beer everything Genuine Remember the Place Phone: Kinloch B 1817. WILLIAM JAMES and MR. R. SAUDERS, Managers CHARLEY HARRIS, Proprietor The Palace Hotel Mrs. Sarah Sprague is conducting a rooming house. Keystone Hotel First-Class Accommodation for Colored People Only. 2305 Chestnut, St. Louis, Mo. M. ROBINSON, Prop. GEO. W. F. BULLOCK, Ladies' Barber AND TONSORIALIST 3320 Franklin Avenue, St. Louis. S. P. PERKINS, Tennessee Shaving Parlor Everything Neat, Clean and Up-to-date. 1326 Morgan Street, 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. Sexton & Maxwell, First-class Photographers 1407 Market St. Mr. Wm. P. Dye's Buffet, 2801 Manchester avenue, is the place to rest your weary head by taking good cigars and beer. FURNISHED ROOM—Gentleman, at 2636 Lucas avenue. Ruth Temple No. 163, of S. M. T., meets the fourth Friday in each month at the True Reformers' Hall. Mrs. Jennie Irving, W. P.; Ada B. Dardy, secretary. All are invited. We have been looking for it. Holt's Saloon, 1925 Market street. Something new. A fine place of resort is 1911 Market street, where you can get either an "eye-opener" or a "night-cap." Hugh B. White, Proprietor. THE PALLADIUM WANTS ADS. IF OUR TRUE FRIENDS WISH TO ASSIST US; THEY WILL SECURE ADS. Everything Genuine 1424 Morgan St. Call and get lodging. WALTEB S. FABRINGTON 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. FOR RENT—1235 Spruce, 8-room brick; will put in order for good tenant. HUTCHINS INGE. [Name] A new second-hand furniture store has been opened at 806 North Fourteenth street by L. W. Vinegar. 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, 2028 Morgan; Rev. E. D. W. Jones, pastor. St. John's A. M. E. Zion, 113 Elder St.; Rev. R. P. Christian, pastor. Colored Methodist. 3966 Fairfax avenue; Rev. O. Heavlow, pastor. Lexington Ave A. M E. Zion, 4214A Lexington Ave; Rev. Donovan, pastor. ME Centennial M. E., Elliot and Washington; Rev. Gilliam, pastor. Central Baptist, Twenty-third and Morgan Sts. First Baptist. Fourteenth and Clark Ave.; Rev. E. C. Cole, pastor. Fifth Baptist. 4117 Papin St. Pligrim Baptist, Kossuth and Pass St.; Rev. Brown, supply. Antioch Baptist, 4223 Kennerly Ave; Rev. F. McKinney, pastor Mt. Pleasant Baptist, foot Dock St. Pleasant Green Baptist, 711 N. Eleventh St. Baptist Church, 110 S. Leonard Ave; Rev. Perry, pastor. Chambers Street Baptist, Tenth and Chambers; Rev. Cox, pastor. Compton Hill Baptist, LaSalle St. El Bethel Baptist church, 638 Athlone Ave. Ruck's Church, Baptist, 14th and Morgan; Rev. Rucks, pastor. Bethany, Presbyterian, Nineteenth and Wash Sts.; Rev. Washington, pastor. All-Saints, Episcopalian, 2135 Wash-Washington Ave.; Rev. C. M. C. Mason, pastor. Missionary Baptist True Reformers; Rev. J. L. Cohen, pastor. NICELY-FURNISHE) ROOMS- 4020 Finkenway. Mrs. H. Palmer. Then we see the Pink Coat Bar, Twenty-second and Market streets, Williams and Head will do you up fine. Jeff Smith's is the place to go—1201 Morgan street. Don't forget Teressa, the Florist, 130 Olive street, the best in the city. The Gem Saloon—Hugh B. White, Proprietor, is the place to rest the weary head—1911 Market street. Mr. Henry Roland would like to see his many friends. He is from New York. He is staying with Mr. Tom Turpin. 2220 Market street. A. H. BILLIARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION. EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. 1925 Market Street, (Near Union Station), Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. ST. LOUIS. The Greeley Saloon. Excursionists give us a call. Headquarters for sports. Ask for it, you'll get it. 1201 Morgan St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Jas. Williams, MIXERS Chas. St. Clair. GEO. FOUNTAIN, M gr PLEASE YOU NO ONE CAN. THAT IS APPROPRIATE SERVED HERE. F SMITH, Manager. REELY RESORT. LIQUID REFRESHMENTS TO BE HAD. I Wash Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. Pool and Billiards? IF WE CAN'T PLEASE EVERYTHING THAT IS A STEVE SMIT THE GREEK CHOICEST OF LIQUID RE S. E. Cor. Twelfth and Wash Do You Play Pool If so, go to the Standard Pool & Billiard Parlors. IF WE CAN'T PLEASE YOU NO ONE CAN. EVERYTHING THAT IS APPROPRIATE SERVED HERE. STEVE SMITH, MANAGER S. E. Cor. Twelfth and Wash Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. Do You Play Pool and Billiards? go to the Hard Pool & Parlors. leaders of the the pleasure. No ected. Strictly No.1 at ket Street No.2 at ket Street A. A. BROOKS, Proprietor. The above cut represents Mr. A. A. Brooks, the proprietor of two billiard halls, at 1323 Market and 2326 Market. There are nine tables, four in one and five in the other, and Mr. Brooks is indeed one of the most remarkable characters in many particulars. Less than three years ago he was a hod-carrier, and worked at his vocation till he had accumulated about forty dollars. He had an eye for business, and rented a home at 1323 Market street. But after he had rented the house, finding he had not quite enough cash, he sought a white friend, who assisted him. By his business tact and ability to manage, he rapidly advanced, until now he is a most successful business man. He lives at 1517 Gratiot street. THE MUSEUM OF THE WEST LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. THE MUSEUM OF THE WESTERN UNION M. C. K. --- JEFF. SMITH. Propr. They are the leaders of the city for pastime pleasure. No moon connected. Strictly first class. Hall No. 1 at 1323 Market Street Hall No. 2 at 2326 Market Street [Name] A. W. BROOKS. The Rev. Dukes, of the A. M. E. church of Jefferson City, conducted the Sunday afternoon service, December 6. The sermon was interesting, well received by all present, and was followed by an excellent address from Presiding Elder Colbert, of the A. M. E. Zion Connection. During the course of his remarks he emphasized the value of holding religious service in the institution on Sunday. This practice was inaugurated by President Allen, and, strictly non-sectarian in character, has proved to be an excellent method of keeping alive, or instilling, as the case might be, a religious spirit in the minds of young people away from home. Earlier in the day the Y. M. C. A. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. 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 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. MISS HALLIE Q. BROWN. Miss Brown is an adept in the art of delivery, and it would be to every one's benefit to join the class which she is organizing. Miss Brown will not only conduct classes in elocation, but also in French, in which she is none the less proficient. While in the city, her classes will be held at 2635 Lucas avenue, in the Y. M. C. A. building. She has already a class of 20, and will begin their instruction about November 14. and the Y. W. C. A. held a very interesting joint meeting. Miss Addie Williams, president of the girls' society, deserves much credit for her untiring zeal in the Christian work of the institution and for the tact and earnestness displayed in securing the attendance of both the younger and older girls upon services that must sooner or later bring forth the peaceable fruits of righteousness. President Allen is very much interested in the graduates' work. Many members of the class of 1903 are successfully engaged in teaching the young idea "to shoot," and one young man was so thoughtful as to send to the institution some of the work of his pupils in the various grades. The character of the work sent indicates H. W. Sexton and R. M. Mitchell. These two gentlemen are graduates from an art and drawing school—Mr. Sexton from Cleveland, O., in 1895; Mr. Mitchell from the art and drawing school in 1892 and S. A. Calman. These experienced gentlemen now have a study at 2605 Lawton avenue, and the collection of their drawings has excited the most skeptical mind which proves their wonderful genius. It would be well for any person to call at their studio that they may be convinced that they are truly two great artists, and their work will commend them to the lovers of oil paintings and art in every particular. Of course, most persons have their doubts as to the genuine work by them, but if you will visit their studio you can see them with brush in hand at work on some of the most difficult pictures. You will then be convinced for their profession. They invite you to call and see for yourself at 2605 Lawton avenue. The whereabouts of one George Henry Johnson, who lived in Concordia parish, La. He left there in 1872. We learn that he moved to East Baton Rouge, La. He has one sister, named Millie Johnson. His father's name is Robert Johnson, who now sells The Palladium, and his stepmother is Abbie Johnson. They now live at 209 South Fifteenth street. Any information of the above will be gladly received by his father, Robert Johnson, 209 South Fifteenth street. 2336 WASH ST....Furnished rooms for rent to men; rooms comfortably furnished; on second and third floors; with or without board. T. T. Thompson. ARNETT E. L. ARNETT Wines, Liquor Chinese Restaurant in Connection TT'S H L. ARNETT, Propriet Liquors and Connection. Duck AT ALL HOURS. 2801 MORGAN ST HEADQUARTERS OF BANNER B 2801 MORGAN STREET, HEADQUARTERS OF BANNER BASE BALL CLUB. The Rosebud Bar, 2220 Market street, Tom Turpin, proprietor, can "dress you up" with all that makes a man lively—good beer and whiskey. THE MILITARY CENTER that he is securing excellent results with Longan's arithmetic, the word method, vertical writing, etc. President Allen and members of the faculty will be at all times pleased to see such tangible results of their efforts from other graduates, for, always, the best proof of the worth of an institution is the work of its graduates, their life and career. Misses Carney and Pigeon are meeting with marked success in the department of music. The vocal and instrumental work of the institution are on a high plane and are frequently commented upon. Miss Carney now has several choirs, and there is much good-natured rivalry when, so to speak, they "vie with Israel while he sings in notes almost divine." --- --- NOTICE THE NEW STATION THE Illinois building will stand on high ground. A broad veranda surrounding the building on all sides will form the lower tier of a pyramid. The apartments will form a second tier, and a square dome will crown the edifice. 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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. Per WILLIS N. BRENT, Afro-American Dept. MRS. L. A. GORMAN NICELY Furnished Rooms BY THE DAY OR WEEK 1222 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo. ROOM TO RENT at 1610 Glasgow Avehue. sculpture groups symbolical of agriculture and other industries. The main entrance leads to a rotunda reaching from the mosaic floor up through all three floors to the vaulted dome. The state room just behind the rotunda has an area of 50x60 feet, inclusive of foyer and stage. 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NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is sold by druggists and agents everywhere. PRICE, 25 CENTS A CAN. If you cannot get it from your druggist or one of our agents, SEND US 30 CENTS, in stamps, silver or Money Order, and we will send you one large can (one month's worth) by mail, securely wrapped, together with our great FREE BRAND OFFER. AGENTS WANTED Write for Terms and Particulars NELSON M'F'G CO., Richmond, Va. tory of Illinois. It will have parlors included in a men's suite and women's suite, smoking and writing rooms, an executive suite, commissioner's room, a hospital room, private room for the commissioners, storage rooms, janitors' rooms, closets, etc., and is to cost $75,-000, of which $25,000 will be expended in furniture and decorations. Watson & Hazleton, of Chicago, are the designers. KEY SALOON, HIE AVENUE. LIQUORS AND CIGARS, OVER, Proprietor JAMES, AND RETAIL DEALER IN Ling and Charcoal, GEE STREET, ENTER STREET, MO. Ferson Bar. WILLIAMS, Proprietor. Liquors and Cigars. STATIC CLUB St. Louis, Mo. BEST HAIR DRESSING Straightine Makes Kinky, Curly Hair Straight It is not only the BEST DRESSING made for the Hair, but THE MOST WONDERFUL HAIR GROWER like any of the other Hair preparations on the It contains no powerful or dangerous HARMLESS. It works directly upon the scalp of other diseases, the scalp and skin of the Hair, thereby causing it to grow rich, stopping it from splitting, breaking off or air soft and pliable, making it easy to do up druggists and agents everywhere. PRICE 25 from your local one of our agents, SEND Order and we will send, you one large can PRIVATE DETECTIVE—Collections successfully handled. Evidence procured for divorces. Shadowing and other detective work done by a well-educated and experienced Colored man. Have just closed successfully one of the largest civil cases in the history of the city. Address PRIVATE DETECTIVE, 2617 Lawton Ave Best References. All persons desiring to perfect themselves in the manner of speech should give Miss Hallie Q. Brown, 2635 Lucas avenue, a call. FOR RENT—The West End K. P. Hall, at 3719 Cass avenue; also two living rooms at same number. Inquire of WILLIAM PRIDE, at 3103 Fair avenue. Mr. H. O. Carrol, of 726 North Twelfth street, 1; working up a good sale for The Palladium. He sells about 30 copies each week. Mr. Carrol is a worthy old man. All the saloon men take delight in buying The Palladium. WANTED—25 young Colored men, with common school education, to pass civil service examinations, and prepare themselves for positions in government service, on the World's Fair Grounds, in 1904. Call and see Newsome & Randays any evening at their office, 4265 St. Ferdinand avenue. Venice, III. The good people of Venice, III., and also of Madison, read The Palladium. Mr. Lewis Watkins, our enterprise agent, is doing a good business. He sells from 35 to 40 papers each week. The citizens of Madison like Mr. Watkins, and all admit that he is a business man. And All of My Patrons. Mr. M. Barnes, our energetic agent is doing fine work. He sells 20 to 25 copies a week. The congregation of Central Baptist like The Palladium for the stand it took in defending them when the Old Black Man took delight in sticking that congregation in the short ribs. At that time The Palladium toundered forth the shot and shell, and consequently gained the admiration of that church. Mr. Barnes is all right. GOOD INVESTMENTS People who say property is high now are 'way off. They mean rent. I still have some bargains in houses. Buy and make money next year. HUTCHINS INGE, Lawyer and Real Estate Agent, 1107 Clark Avenue and 2633 Pine For Adoption. Anyone wishing to hire or adopt two boys, ages seven and nine years, will call on Mrs. Bouyer, of 710 North south street, for full particulars. Anderson Russell, the undertaker, is doing a fine business, and will make his mark, as he is yet a young man. Some woman will soon, soon! Well, he is not married No. 2120 Market street. FOR SALE. At Webster Groves, Mr. B. F. Henderson has a beautiful residence, 200 feet by 150 feet, two-story, containing five rooms. It has an orchard containing 100 fruit trees, a good well and two cisterns. Location, Church and Sharp avenues; price, $3,000. Partial payments. Call at 1107 Clark avenue. B. M. HENDERSON. Attorney-at-Law. MR. PATON JAMES We take pleasure in presenting to the public Mr. Paton James, coal and ice dealer, at 11 Targee street. In 1885 Mr. James was porter in the Pullman service, and served in that capacity until 1891. After that he continued in the same company, but became known as a money-lender. He retained this position two years, after which he went into the coal and ice business at 101 Targee street. He was burned out, losing about $1,100. He then moved to 11 Targee, or Johnson street, where he is now doing a good business. Mr. James is a very sociable man, and is well liked by all with whom he comes in contact. PALACE LAUNDRY, guarantees satisfaction and prompt service. The best Collar and Cuff work in the city. Please address all communications to 2825 st. Louis avenue. MISS N. GRAVES, FIRST-GLAS DRESSMAKER. PLAIN SEWING ALSO DONE. Call 3731 VISTA AVENUE. Mrs. Susan Gross, 2609 Pine Street. Millinery. Up-to-date Hats. Trimmings and all material in that line MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Connecting the Commercial Centers and Rich Farms of MISSOURI, The Broad Corn and Wheat Fields and Thriving Grazing of the KANSAS, The Fertile River Valleys, Trade Centers and Rolling Prairies of NEBRASKA, The Grand, Plain and Mounting Scenery, and 1.0 Famous Mining Districts of COLORADO, The Agricultural, Fruit, Mineral and Timber Lands, and Famous Hot Springs of ARKANSAS, The Sugar Plantations and immense Rice Fields of LOUISIANA. The Cotton and Grain Fields, the Cattle Ranges and Winter Resorts of TEXAS Historical and Scenic OLD AND NEW MEXICO, and forms with its Connections the Popular Winter Route to CALIFORNIA For descriptive and illustrated pamphlets of and above States, address Companies' Agents, or H. C. TOWNSEND, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. ST. LOUIS. MRS. L. CLARK'S Hair Dressing Parlor 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. Banner Route To the Great Gateways Kansas City, Chicago, Omaha, Toledo & Buffalo. Through sleepers to New York and the East. Magnificent Equipment and Train Service. Ticket Office, Eigth and Olive streets HAD NEVER BEEN KISSED. Neglected Ten-Year-Old Lad Could Not Remember Ever Having Received the Tender Curces. I once made a tour of the almshouse of the state of New York, describing them exactly as they were. Every emotion that can be awakened by sorrow was felt during the trip, writes Julian Chambers in the Reader Magazine. The most pathetic incident occurred at the poorhouse of Essx county, located in the hills beyond Whallonsburg, near Lake Champlain. I should say that the trip was made at the request of a state commissioner of charities, who desired that the truth should be told. After inspecting the wards for the aged women and insane, I walked across an open court, deep with mud, to visit the children's quarters. While there, a small, red-faced, red-headed lad attracted my notice. I pitted him on this shoulder and asked his name. He gave it promptly, told me he was ten years old and that his father and mother were dead. I felt deeply touched by the child's words. Soon after I left the miserable shed in which these children were herded together and started to recress the yard. I felt a tug at my coat and found my little friend behind me. His eyes looked up into mine so pitifully that I asked: "What can I do for you, my boy?" "I want you to kiss me." "Certainly; but why?" "I never was kissed in my life!" I never was kissed in my life. When I came to write that story for publication I developed its full pathos, giving the name of the fatherless and motherless lad. As a result he was adopted by a wealthy family near Saratoga; he has been well raised, given a college education and is to-day heir to a fortune. WORKINGMAN'S COST OF LIVING Bureau of Labor Finds Average in 2,567 Families Is $768.54 Per Year for All Expenses. The bureau of labor has issued a bulletin on the cost of living of working-men's families, showing that of 2,567 families in 33 states, from whom data was obtained, the average income per family was $827.19, an average expenditure for all purposes $768.54, average expenditure per family for food $326.90, and average size of family 5.31 persons. The last figure is seven-tenths above the average of private families in the whole country, as shown by the census of 1900. The food expense is more than 42% per cent. of the expenditure for all purposes. An extended investigation covering the years 1890-1902 shows that the cost of food reached its highest in 1902, the average then being 10.9 per cent. above the average for the decade 1890-1899, and an increase of 16.1 per cent. compared with 1896, the year of the lowest prices. It is announced as a conservative conclusion that the increase in the of living, as a whole, in 1902, when compared with the year of lowest prices, was not over 16.1 per cent., the figure given as the increased cost of food as shown by this investigation. RELIGIOUS MATTERS FAITH IN GOD. When dangers come, we fear the worst And yet, God rules and reins above: He has a purpose from the first, He rules and reigns in love. We know not why, we see not how; And yet, God's plans for us are best. Whatever comes, to Him we'll bow, We'll trust—and in Him rest. Whatever befails, the time will come When darkness fades before the light; When we with joy shall reach our home, A home forever bright. This faith in God shall be our stay, Our anchor when wild billows roil. There is safety in the air away. There's safety for the soul. —John M. Morse, in N. Y. Observer. A LITTLE LEAVEN. The Symbol of Evil Because of Its Insidious, Swift, Penetrating and Transforming Power. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." That is an adage, and the emphatic word is the adjective little, says Wellspring. Every one knows that leaven leavens, but it is not so generally understood how small a quantity will do the work. A little yeast will diffuse itself through a large pan of dough, and many a young housekeeper has spoiled many a baking because she has used too much yeast. Just a little is sufficient. Yeast is alive, and anything that is alive, no matter how insignificant in appearance, will achieve great results if you do not check it by a higher form of life, and only give it time in which to work. Leaver is like contagion, and contagion spreads from centers so small they are not visible to the naked eye. A little smallpox—just that on one small boy—will leaven, unless fought, the entire school and at last the whole community. Moral leavening works in precisely the same way. So secret and insidious and swift and penetrating and transforming is leaven that men came early to see in it the symbol of evil. For evil works in secret and with intense and conquering energy. In Jerusalem and also in Rome and in many another city the priests of religion banished leaven from their feasts and ceremonies at certain seasons of the year to remind themselves and the people that all malice and corruption must be driven from the heart It is because influence is so subtle and so powerful that our Lord called it leaven and exhorted His disciples to beware of it. "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!" so He said and says. And Paul, taking up His thought reminds the Corinthians and the Galatians that a little leaven is sufficient to leaven a whole lump. There was one rotten man in the Corinthian church, and it was fatal to allow him to stay there for the reason that the little leaven—one bad man held in esteem and high position—will demoralize and degrade an entire congregation. In the churches of Galatia there was a false idea abroad. Along with it there went much truth but one false principle introduced at the basis of Christian teaching will weaken and ruin the whole; which, being interpreted, means that one evil companion will, unless resisted, undermine and pollute an entire social circle, and that one evil habit left neglected in the heart will spread infection and death into every department of life. Oh, that young folks were wise, and that they would beware of the leaven, of unrighteousness, no matter how little the leaven may be! GOOD FOR FITS. Passion, Idleness, Extravagance, Ambition, Despondency, Doubt and Fear—All Have Remedies. For a fit of passion.—Walk in the open air; you may speak your mind to the winds without hurting anyone, or proclaiming yourself a simpleton. For a fit of idleness.—Count the ticking of a clock; do this for one hour and you will be glad to pull off your coat the next and work like a beaver says an exchange. For a fit of extravagance and folly.—Go to the workhouse or speak to the inmates of a fail, and you will be convinced that "Who makes his bed of brier or thorn, must be content to lie forlorn." For a fit of ambition.—Go to the church yard and read the gravestones; they will tell you the end of ambition. The grave will soon be your bedchamber and the earth your pillow. For a fit of despondency.—Look or the good things God has given you in this world and to those He has promised to His followers in the next. He who goes into His garden to look for cobwebs and spiders no doubt will find them; while he who looks for a flower may return into his house with one blooming in his bosom. For all fits of doubt, perplexity and fear.—Whether they respect the body or the mind; whether they are a load to the shoulders, the head or the heart the following cure may be relied on for I had it from the Great Physician: "Cast thy burden on the Lord, and He will sustain thee." When to Look for Stars: When it grows dark the stars begin to appear, and the beauties of the heavens are seen in their glory at midnight, not at noonite. In our spiritual skies it is as in our natural skies. New lights from God's love are seen by us, as we look up, when losses and trials cause darkness to shut in about us where before all was bright. As Carlyle says: "The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough."—S 8, Times. YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT THE ROAD TO GRUMBLETOWN. 'Tis quite a straight and easy road That leads to Grumbletown, And those who wish can always find A chance to journey down. 'Tis customary for the trip To choose a rainy day— When weather's fine one's not so apt To care to go that way. Just keep down Fretful Lane until You come to Sulky Stille, Where travelers often like to rest In silence for awhile. And then cross over Pouting Bridge, Where Don't Care Brook flows down, And just a little way beyond You come to Grumbletown. From what I learn, this Grumbletown Is not a pleasant place; One never hears a cheerful word, Or sees a smiling face; The children there are badly spoiled And sure to fret and tease; And all the grown-up people, too, Seem cross and hard to please. The weather rarely is just right In this peculiar spot; 'Tis either raining all the time, Or else too cold, or hot. UNCLE SAM'S MAILS. They Can Follow a Traveler All the Way Around the World and Back Again. The United States mails are carried everywhere. It would be almost a physical impossibility for a man to hide himself in any remote corner of the world without being discovered at last by some insignificant agent of a worldwide service, the machinery of which operates quietly and with clock-like regularity. If a bird's-eye view of the different railroad and steamship lines which carry the mails could be taken the giant spider's web thus formed would appear woven in a pattern so intricate that the mind would balk at the mere suggestion of unraveling it. And besides the regular steamship and railroad threads of this maze would appear tens of thousands of cross-lines, representing pony routes, dog-and-sled tracks, swift courier and runner "trails," and even reindeer, whalingship and canoe lines. Every sort of vehicle and beast of burden, and nearly every invention of man for quick transportation, have been pressed into the postal service, and it is possible for a letter to go around the world under conditions so strange that the mere history of its journey would form a story of thrilling interest If a man should start from New York and travel northward to Alaska, then down the coast to California and take AN ARCTIC MAIL CARRIER ship to Manila, and follow the lines of travel to Hongkong, to Singapore, to Canton, to Tokio, to Vlcdivostok, to St. Petersburg, to Vienna, to London, to South Africa, and finally to South America, touching on the way at several Pacific and South Atlantic islands, and thence back to his starting point, he could travel a distance several times greater than the circumference of the globe. If he ordered his mail forwarded to him, and left correct addresses at each place, the letters would dutifully follow him and finally be delivered to him in New York a few days after his own arrival there. All that he would have to pay extra for this remarkable journey of his mail would be a dollar or two in toils, which would represent the charges for forwarding exacted by some of the countries through which it passed. There is in the post office department at Washington the envelope of a letter which traveled in this way 150,000 miles, and another which came safely through a trip of 125,000 miles. Both are marked and stamped in a way to baffle any except a very expert decipherer of puzzles.—St. Nicholas. Crocodile's Mixed Menu. Crocodile's Mixed Menu. The capacity of the ostrich to swallow all sorts of articles is matched by that of the crocodile, if the list given below is a fair sample: The stomach of a recently killed Indian crocodile contained, besides a half-digested calf, a human skull, a silver bangle, some gold ornaments, a tobacco box made of tin, a lime case, a nutcracker, a railway ticket, a horn case containing some 20 copper coins and a soda water bottle containing some mustard. The foregoing list of articles is sufficient to convince students of natural history that crocodiles are passionately fond of brie-a-brace of a substantial nature.—Boston Herald. The World's Grandest Jewelry Establishment WRITE TO-DAY FOR Our Great Holiday Catalog SHOWING THOUSANDS OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN Diamonds Watches Hall Clocks Mantel Clocks Music Boxes Gold Jewelry Silver Jewelry Solid Silver Silver Plate Statuary Dronzes Table China Cut Glass Stationery Leather Goods Umbrellas Opera Glasses Gold Spectacles FREE This grand catalogue is sent to you free. If you are going to make any Christmas gifts you should write for it at once CHRISTMAS GIFTS .25 cts to $10,000.00 Every article guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction—ask your Banker about us Fill out this Coupon and mail to-day and address it to MERMOD & JACCARD JEWELRY CO., St. Louis, Mo. GENTLEMEN:—Please send me your Great Illustrated Catalog. Name..... Town..... County..... State..... MERMOD & JACCARD Jewelry Co. Dept. KE ST. LOUIS, U. S. A. If a mild answer is useful to turn away wrath, a crushing retort sometimes answers the salutary purpose of silencing an opponent. Such, at any rate, was the effect of an answer given by one of Pope Leo XIII's chamberlains to an arrogant member of the kaiser's suite a few years ago. When the German emperor went to the vatican to pay a visit to the pope, accompanied by Count _____, the latter was refused admittance to the audience chamber, which his imperial master had just entered. “Are you aware, sir,” said the count, furious at the slight put upon him, “are you aware that I am Count ____?” “That,” imperturbably answered the chamberlain, “may account for your conduct, but it can not excuse it.” Of a very different character was the clever answer credited to a former duke of York. At mess one day the duke chanced to refer to the array of empty bottles on the table by the humorous nickname of "marines," when an officer of this branch of the service, who was present, asked what he meant by such a disparaging comparison. "I call them 'marines,'" the duke promptly answered, "because they have done their duty—and are ready to do it again." Miss Mitford used to tell a delightful story of the politeness of the Berkshire peasants. Walking in that county one day she was dilating on this subject to her companion, when, on coming to a gate, a boy who was standing near rushed forward and gallantly opened it for the ladies to pass through. "I'm sure you're not a Berkshire boy," Miss Mitford's friend, who was skeptical about the politeness of the country, said to the lad. "Thee'ret a liar, vor I be!" came the crushing answer, quick as lightning. Pope Pius IX. could be very severe when he pleased, in his quiet way. On one occasion, when he granted an interview to a young English attache, the pope offered his guest a cigar. DR.PR Cream Bakin Adds to PRICE'S king Powder DR.PRICE'S Cream Baking Powder Adds to the healthfulness of all risen flour-foods, while it makes the food lighter, sweeter, finer-flavored, more delicious. Exercise care in purchasing baking powder to see that you get Dr. Price's, which makes the food more wholesome and at the same time more palatable. --- --- Some Clever Retorts. Good Health depends upon the food you eat. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. CHICAGO. Thank you, your holiness," the young diplomat answered, in an access of virtue, "I have no vices." "This," placidly answered the pontiff, "is not a vice; if it were you would have it." Good-Bys at $1 a Time. The great ship was just about to sail away, when the worried-looking business man hurried down the gang plank and approached a man who looked as if he had considerable more time than money to spare. "Like to earn a half a dollar?" he said. "Can the moon shine?" was the oracular reply. "How is it to be done?" "You see that lady dressed in black, standing at the ship's side. Well, that is my wife. She will expect me to stand for 20 minutes and wave my handkerchief at her until the ship is out of sight. I have no time to waste; my wife is very short-sighted, so it will do just as well if you take my place." "S'posse she looks through an opera glass?" "Bury your face in your handkerchief, as if overcome by emotion." "That will cost half a dollar, extra." "All right! Time is more valuable to me than money. Throw in a few hand-kisses." The money changed hands. The merchant's business was attended to, and his wife got her farewell. What wonders are worked by strategy.—N. Y. News. —Hogs need a clean bed as much as people do. Especially should dirty sleeping places be avoided. Hogs suffer from inhaling dust as much as men or women, or children do. Disease floats on the air and dust is the vehicle by which it reaches its destination. —Cotton picking will soon be over for the season. Much of it was picked by the boll weevil and some by the boll worm. These are called "enemies of the cotton plant." It seems to us that they are much too fond of it for the good of the farmers. NOTE.—There are many ain'tures, made in the kitchen, like making powder, prudent will make powder, lower in price than cream of tartar powder, but better than cream of tartar pow- der and are dangerous to use, in food And the Spring in the Watch, But the Jeweler Didn't Grasp the Situation. While picknicking with a crowd in the country the other day, says the Joppa ews-Herald, Arch Shade accidentally dropped a bottle of wine naturally it has since refected to. He took the timepiece to a jeweler, and the following conversation ensued: "What my watch, can you fix it?" "What is the matter? Did you break the spring?" "No; the spring broke the watch." "The man wondered, but proceeded to examine the injured article." "The spring is broken," he finally answered. "No wonder," said Arch; "I dropped the watch in it." "It began to dawn upon the jeweler that the young man was certainly insane, and just as he was glancing around for some avenue of escape Arch explained the situation." **Bright's Disease Cured.** Whitehall, Ill., Dec. 7. A case has been recorded in this place recently, which upsets that he was glancing around Bright's Disease is incurable. It is the case of Mr. Lon Manley, whom the doctors told that he could never recover. Mr Manley tells the story of his case and how he was cured in this way: "I began using Dodd's Kidney Pills after the doctors had given me up. For four or five years I had Kidney, Stomach and Liver Troubles; I was a general wreck and at times I would get down with my back so bad that I could not turn myself in bed for three or four days at a time." "I had several doctors and at last they told me I had Bright's Disease, and that I could never get well. 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Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto King Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion. 2. And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh. 3. And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4. And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. 5. And King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, not be told nor numbered for multitude. 6. And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims. 7. For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. 8. And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without; and there they are unto this day. 9. There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there. Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Lord, where the Lord made when they came out of the land of Fermu. 10. And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord. 11. So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory the Lord had filled the house of the Lord. 12. And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord. 13. And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord. **GOLDEN TEXT—I** was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord—Ps. 1221. 1. Kings 5. Description of the Temple. 1. Kings 6. 7. The Dedication Ceremonies. 1. Kings §1-11. The King's Address and Prayer. NOTES AND COMMENTS. (1 Kings 5.) When, in his fourth year, Solomon began to build the temple, he found that the preparations of David had made the work very much lighter than it would otherwise have been. Immense quantities of gold and silver and brass and iron had been stored away. Just how great these quantities were and how much they were worth in our money we have no way of knowing, for the numbers, especially in the Books of Chronicles, seem to be greatly exaggerated, owing perhaps to the confusion arising from the use of letters of the Hebrew alphabet for numbers. (Chs. 6, 7.) In these chapters is given an interesting and detailed description of this most magnificent building. The cubit was about 18 inches. As we saw in Lesson IX, the site of the temple was the threshing-floor of Ornan, just outside the city. The temple walls were of nuge blocks of hewn stone. "Like the tabernacle, the sanctuary consisted of two chambers; the Holy place (40 cubits long by 20 broad), and the Holy of Holies, which formed a perfect cube of 20 cubits. . . . Abutting upon the outer walls of the temple were built chambers rising in three stories, for the use of the priests and other officials. The place of worship assigned to the people was the large outer court, containing a brazen 'sea' or laver intended for the ceremonial ablutions of the priests, and doubtless also (though it is not expressly mentioned) the great brazen altar of burnt offering."—Ottley. For more details of the temple see any good Bible dictionary. (Ch. 8:1-11.) "Solomon assembled the elders of Israel," etc.: Solomon believed in the impressiveness of great pageants. The dedication ceremonies covered an entire week, and were immediately followed by the regular Feast of Tabernacles. "To bring on the ark:" Which David had established temporarily on Zion (the "City of David"), one of the two principal hills of Jerusalem. "And the tent of meeting:" The old tabernacle dating from the days of Moses. It had been standing of late at Gibeon, but was now brought to be preserved as a sacred relic in the new temple. "The holy vessels:" The candlestick, table for showbread, altar of incense, the brazen serpent and perhaps the great brazen altar. "Before the ark, sacrificing:" The whole ceremonial was religious and the most impressive part of it to the people was the sacrificing. It expressed their gratitude and praise, but also their confession of sin and their faith that Jehovah might be approached in penitence and would gladly pardon the sin. The animals sacrificed provided food for the immense crowds that stronged the city. "The oracle:" Better, the most holy place. (Vs. 12-66.) After the priests had placed the ark in the most holy place the singers (2 Chron. 5:13) burst forth with what has been called the national anthem of the Hebrews, "For He is good; for His loving-kindness endureth for ever." Figs and Thistles. The heathen have no monopoly on vain repetitions. Character is the only permanent capital in business. The influence of a nation depends on the influence of its manhood. A man's religion in the shop is worth twice his religion in the church. God will not give you power until you have some purpose to hitch it to—Ram's Horn. Strawberry Fishing in Chill. A singular custom prevails in Chill, which in these days of aseptic precautions will cause a shudder among those who see infection lurking in every detail of life, says the New York Sun. It is called strawberry fishing, and is conducted in this fashion: At the close of a dinner, the cloth is removed and there is placed upon the table an immense bowl into which are emptied half a dozen bottles of Bordeaux wine, four of cherry, and two of rum; besides sugar and nutmeg. Into this mixture is put a very large strawberry which floats upon the surface. The bowl is provided with two handles. These are used to lift the vessel, and tilt it so that the strawberry may be brought near the edge and sucked into the mouth. This would appear an easy feat; but it is a difficult one, as the fruit rolls over when touched with the lips. The contestant in the effort swallows a considerable quantity of the liquid concoction. This is the reason for the game, for the bowl is passed from one to the other many times in succession before the strawberry is captured; when that moment finally arrives all of the guests have reached a ripe stage of hilarity. This is the game as it is played among the higher classes. Among those of a lower social standing the fiery liquor of the country is substituted for wine. With them strawberry fishing develops into a function compared to which a fighting mixed-ale party in this town is the recreation of a group of peace-seeking Quakers. A Easeless Drink. Frederick Villiers, in his letter about Magersfontein, relates this incident, says the London Leader: After the battle he came on some of the wounded enemy. "The Scandinavian in command had a bayonet thrust through his stomach and was dying. He signed to me that he was thirsty. I lifted him up and gave him a cup of condensed milk. A wounded companion lying by his side said, in very good English: 'It's no use to give it him, sir; it only runs out of the hole in his stomach.' This was true, but still the poor fellow had the sensation of the refreshing draught passing down his throat. It was his last drink. I can see his eager, hungry look even now, and, though an enemy, I wish I could have come more for him. A few hours afterward he was buried by the side of the fierce of the Highland bride." Coins Hidden by Cromwell's Troops. A remarkable discovery of coins has been made at Hoghton, midway between Blackburn and Preston, at a farmhouse belonging to Mr. Thomas Crook, near Hoghton Tower, the seat of Sir James De Hoghton, and the scene of one of the Cromwellian advances. The coins, says the London Leader, which number 55, are of silver, varying in value and dated near the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. They were discovered under the thatch of a roof, where it is conjectured they were placed for safety from plunder by Cromwell's troops. They are in a remarkably good state of preservation, and were in a curious bag of wash leather. Students in an Awkward Place. Cambridge, England, celebrated the relief of Ladysmith by a bonfire, to which the undergraduates of the university contributed signs, shutters and furniture belonging to the townsmen. Several were arrested and were convicted of theft and fined heavily by the mayor. They have since found out that the conviction bars them out from the church, the law or any other learned profession, and from many other positions as well, but the mayor refuses to take buck his sentences. A. Good Speaker. "Col. Brown," remarked a chappie, "is the finest dinner speaker I know of." "Why," said his friend, with some astonishment, "I never heard he had any ability in that direction at all." "Well, he has. I've dined with him several times at various places, and after dinner he always says: That's all right, my boy, I'll pay for it."—Tit-Bits. THE MARKETS. Another club woman Mrs. Haule. 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ROBERT JOHNSON'S BIRTHDAY. December 17, 1815, Mr. Robert Johnson was born, and he was reared a slave. From his birth up to 45 years of age he knew not the joys of a free and independent man. From that time up to the present has been a patient sufferer from the effect of his left leg. Yet he has managed to make a remarkable living for himself and family. Learning of his helpless condition, the members of the First Baptist church have helped him as far as they have been able, for he is a good Christian man. In order to help him still survive The Palladium thought of a way to help him. As he had been a faithful worker with us 20 years ago, and always willing to do something for an honest living, we at first allowed him 20 papers of the St. Louis Pal- --- BUD GATEWOOD, Captain. IRVIN WHEELER Business Agen THE 400 BASE BALL CLUB For 400 BAR, And President 400 BASE BALL CLUB. Headquarters the 400 BAR, TREET. IF YOU BUY FURNITURE. 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Knight, formerly of 2217 Washington avenue, Watchmaker and Jeweler, is now located at 211 North Jefferson avenue, between Olive and Pine streets, where I shall be pleased to see all of my friends and patrons. Will carry a full line of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. Watches at all prices. Jewelry cleaned free with each order of work. Rings of all style made to order. Your watch cleaned and repaired in 24 to 48 hours, and guaranteed for one year. PERKINS' AMERICAN HERBS.—Dr. J. H. Perkins' Improved Native Compound. A speedy and permanent cure for Rheumatism. Full treatment, $1. Samples, free. The National Herb Co., Washington, D. C. Sold only by our authorized canvassing agent, MRS. W. P. SMITH, 2632 Randolph Street, St Louis, Mo. --- --- MODISTE. Dressmaking, Designing, Cutting, Fitting, Purchasing, RAMSEY'S THE STRICTLY MODERN ROOMING HOUSE Of the city for Gentlemen and the general traveling public. Every convenience desired by patrons of high- class rooms at moderate cost. 12 S. 15th Street. MRS. HATTIE J, RAMSEY, Proprietress. BUFFET, and MARKET STS. top. Electric lights. Largest accommodation of our people. Proprietor. experienced and the only prac- t Undertakers in the city. RSELL, UNDERTAKING faces and do all our own work. if for all occasions. UIS, MO. Telephone, C-390. G. W. ROBINSON, Second-Hand Furniture BOUGHT AND SOLD. Moving and Expressing. General Jobbing and Repairing? Furni- ture, Ranges, Stoves, Etc. Telephone—Kinloch C-397. THEO. H. TEMPEL, Dealer in Staple and Fancy GROCERIES, 2601 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. Electa Temple, Meets Second Thursday of each month at 8:00 p. m., Knights of Pythias Hall, Lucas and Jefferson Aves. Mrs. Annie D. Hyatt, M. W. P. Lulu O. Dell, Sec'y. Robert P. Fritschle. Don't forget to patronize the jewelry shop where diamonds are as good as you could get if you were dead. MUSEUM DAVE YOUNG, MIXERS. TOM TURPIN Night. Day. Headquarters for Colored Professionals. 2220-22 Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. PHONE: Kinloch D-855. 2801-3 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Telephone—Kinloch B-1812. CASH MARKETS: 1402 MARKET STREET. No. 5 S. Fourteenth Street. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. TELEPHONES: TELEPHONES: BELL, Maln 2103-A KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1023 2606 FRANKLIN AVENUE. KINLOCH C 720. 8 and 10 South Jefferson Ave. Back of the Rose Bud. Two large dining rooms; one private. Also LUNCH COUNTER. 2220-2222 Market St. Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars, and the best up-to-date. ..CAFE IN CONNECTION.. Burial Goods of all Kinds Carriages Furnished for all Occasions. Prompt Attention. 1731-3 Biddle St.. ST. LOUIS, MO. Fine Wines and Liquors. Buffet a 2801-3 Manches Maurer M C 1402 1 No. 5 S. Fourteenth TELEPHONE BELL. Main 2103-A KIN 2606 FRANK 8 and 1 S. W. J. LOWERY. A New At 22 Back of the Rose B All THE C where you 2220-22 TH HUGH E ...S At 19 (0 Choice Wines, L ..CAFE Remember W. S. SLATTER. SLAT Undertake Also first-class Cafe in rear. Open all night and day. All Prices. Private dining-room. MASON & LOWREY, Chefs, Late of Dallas State Fair. St.., ST. LOUIS, MO. ONE: Kinloch D-855. Imported and Domestic Cigars, DYE'S and Pool Room, WM. P. DYE, Proprietor. Ber Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Telephone—Kinloch B-1812. SEE Seat and Provision Co. ASH MARKETS: MARKET STREET. Street. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1012 LIN AVENUE. KINLOCH C 720. South Jefferson Ave. THOMAS MASON New Restaurant 220-22 MARKET ST., Two large dining rooms; one private. to LUNCH COUNTER. ONLY PLACE can get the best in the market. 222 Market St. E GEM. WHITE, Proprietor of ALOON... Market St. ( opposite Union Station) Liquors, Cigars, and the best up-to-date. IN CONNECTION. for the Gem, 1911 Market. GEORGE BANKS. TER & BANKS, ers and Embalmers. Telephone Kinloch A 1930. Wood, Cloth and Metallic CASKETS. woods of all Kinds.