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ST. LOUIS PALLADIUM [Picture of a man in a suit with a mustache and a goatee, looking directly at the camera. The background is a plain, light-colored surface. The man's hair is neatly combed, and he has a prominent mustache.] INDIAN STATES THEATRE Vol. XX. No. 8. [Name] ORPHEAN ACADEMY OPENED. New Dancing School Successfully Inaugurated. The Orphean Dancing Academy opening, Feb. 5th, proved one of the most successful social gatherings of the season. Mr. Jas. W. Grant, the master of the new school, was given a well deserved ovation by a host of his friends. True Reformers' Hall was filled with a gay throng of dancers, who were Antioch Church News. The revival meetings are progressing nicely under the leadership of the pastor, Rev. F. McKinney, assisted by Rev. R. F. Stennis. They, with the church, are laboring hard, and souls are being brought to Christ. Sunday morning, Rev. McKinney spoke from 15th chapter and 17th verse of St. Luke. His subject was "Madness of Sin." The subject was well hardled, and very impressive. Saint and sinner are invited to attend these meetings. Tuesday evening, February 2, Rev. M. P. Mack preached a good sermon from 17th chapter 17th verse of Matthew. Rev. Mack is pastor of one of the leading Baptist churches at Sedalia, Mo. Meetings. THE WRIGHT CUNEY club will meet Sunday at 3:30 o'clock in Taylor's hall, Morgan and Jefferson avenue. Business of importance. C. H. Tandy, president; L. W. Vinegar, secretary. ```markdown ``` INDIANA BUILDING. Indiana's state pavilion at the World's Fair will be an up-to-date club building. The architecture will be of the French renaissance Marshall S. Mahurin, of Fort Wayne, Ind., is the architect. The building will occupy a splendid pition in the state group, facing the north, and fronting on two of the main avenues. Arkansas' site is across the avenue on the north and Iowa's building, already up, is on the east. Rhode Island's building will be immediately west. The outside dimensions of the Indiana building are 100 by 125 feet. It will stand on a rise of treated to a most delightful entertainment. Prof. Wm. D. Flowers, director of the Academy orchestra, gave a fine programme of dance music and the neatly uniformed attendants lent color to the scene that was as graceful as it was unique. The school will continue every Friday evening during the season, except Feb. 26th. Instead of the usual class on that date a grand ball and reception will be given on Monday evening, Feb. 22nd, Washington's birthday. Miss Ella Malone Passes Away. After almost two years of a lingering illness, Miss Ella Malone, of 3718 Turner avenue, died February 1. Her mother died on February 27 of last year of consumption, and left a husband and eight children, one of whom succumbed to the same disease. Miss Malone was an exemplary Christian, and one of the foremost religious workers of Jones' chapel. Although the father has seven remaining the departure of this one seems to have broken his heart. She was only 19 years of age, and the idol of her father. We hope that he will bear the cross patiently, and remember that she died only to live again in a happier home. GRAND LEAP YEAR PARTY. A grand leap year party to be given by the Ladies Interest Club, for the benefit of the St. Louis Colored Orphans' Home at the residence of Mrs. M. J. Heard, 285 Adams street, Friday evening, February 19, 1904. Admission 10 cents. Good music. Mrs. B. J. Carruthers, president. Mrs. E. Weaver, secretary; Mrs. Maggie Jordan, chairman. INDIANAT ground, terraces reaching down to the street level. The main entrance is to be through a portico in the center of the north side. This will be highly orate, and supported by large columns. A porch on the north side will serve mainly to ornament the entrance. On the east and west ends are to be porches 16 feet wide the entire length of the building, thus screening the visitor from the sun at all hours. Three doors on the north side will open into a lounging hall 52 feet long and 25 feet wide. On the same floor will be check rooms, a post office and the custodian's room. A wide stairway will lead from ST. LQUIS, MO., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1904. NEGRO PROBLEM VIEW Former *torney-General Walker Says Blacks Must Be Assimilated. EXPECT TOO MUCH OF THE RACE Current Topics Club Listens to Various Phases of the Race Question at Regular Meeting. (St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) R. F. Walker, former attorney general of Missouri, in an address before the Current Topics club at the Central Y. M. C. A., on "The Negro Problem," took occasion to express his opinion in vigorous language. "The Negro who would dine at my table insults me," said Mr. Walker, "and the white man who attempts to place the Negro on a plane of social equality with himself by inviting him to his table or to his bed is an enemy to individual liberty and a disgrace to his race." In concluding his address Mr. Walker gave this solution of the perplexing "Negro Problem." "The Negro has to be assimilated or wiped out. To talk of wiping him out is absurd. Let him be taught industry and honesty. Teach him to use his hand, and his head, so far as it is capable, in directing his hand. Then teach him honesty by being honest ourselves. That is the solution of the problem and the salvation of the Negro race." Members of the club who took part in the discussion preceding Mr. Walker were T. D. Cannon, who spoke on "The Negro, a Backward Race," and Louis D. Goodwia, on "The Negro, His Efficiency for Citizenship." DECLARED RACE IS BACKWARD Mr. Cannon, among other things, said: "Slavery has passed and no power can bring it back; but in slavery the Negro found a school such as he found nowhere else, at any period of time, and a better school than he ever founded for himself. That school found him a savage clothed only in his nakedness of soul and nakedness of body, and in 200 years it lifted 7,000,000 of his race higher in the scale of civilization than the race had ever reached before. NEGRO NOT BACKWARD. Attorney Goodwin in his argument offered statistics to show that the Negro had advanced in civilization since his emancipation at a rate unprecedented in history by any race. "The whites expect of the Negro," he said, "in less than a half century what it required thousands of years for their own race to acquire." In answer to the argument that the Negro has an unnatural tendency to criminal lust that evidences he is little above the animal, Mr. Goodwin said: "If we were clean ourselves we might criticise the Negro, but the crimes he commits are the crimes we taught him and are the same crimes that the whites commit. It is the boast of Kentucky that there lives the pure white stock, but I say to you that among the THE MUSEUM OF THE ARTS AND CULTURE the rear of the lounging, hall to a land- ing, south of which is the reading and music room, 43 by 18 feet. Under this is the lunch room. On the second floor on the north side is to be the state reception room, 50 by 18 feet, decorated with historical relics. Apartments are to be provided on this floor for the governor and for the commissioners, and there will be several private sleeping rooms for the officials. Over the space (twenty feet square) occupied by the grand staircase will rise a dome of stained glass, forming a part of the roof. The building will be of staff, and cost about $40,000. THE CATHEDRAL OF THE UNION WEST VIRGINIA BUILDING. West Virginia's building, a handsome structure of the Colonial type of architecture, is 100x120 feet, and stands close to and directly west of Colorado's building. Porches 16 feet wide extend on three sides, and at the rear the porch is 10 feet wide. The main part of the structure is square, but the large porches in the center of each facade, supported by six large Corinthian columns, cause the building to fine-handed whites of Kentucky more crimes are committed against the purity of women every year than ever were committed by the blacks. "The only standard to be employed in dealing with the blacks, or with any people, should be the standard of justice." WALKER VERSUS CANNON. The Negro Question, which lay dormant for awhile, has been aroused again by the animated discussion by the members of the Current Topics club at the Y. M. C. A. building. B. F. Walker, one of the speakers, said: "Teach the Negro honest by being honest ourselves." He as much as insinuates that the race, as a whole, is dishonest. He should remember that the Negro is but a looking-glass in which the characters of his first owners may be seen. The Negro, when first brought here, was in a state of infancy, so to say. He knew nothing, and child-like, acquired character from imitating those who possessed him. He was so totally ignorant that he readily assumed all the manners and habits of those he was brought in contact with. So if Mr. Walker charges him with being dishonest, let him search the records of the early settlers of this country. Attorney Goodwin takes the opposite stand, that the race is not backward. He says that "The whites expect of the Negro, in less than half a century, what it required thousands of years for their own to acquire." We highly appreciate Mr. Goodwin's noble defense. Such an address strengthens the belief of the much-abused race that there are a few remaining to whom it may look for a helping hand."Editor CITY NEWS. Notes and News Concerning Our People--Weekly. Record of Social Events, Deaths, Marriages and Births--Written Especially for St. Louis Palladium. Pickett's Headache Powders give instant relief. 2001 Lawton avenue. FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT—For two gentlemen. Call at 1920 Wash street. Mrs. Georgia Guy, of 1509 Gay street, is much better, and will seen be her-seli again. Mr. and Mrs. Hail, members of Antioch church, are sick. We hope for their early recovery. Rev. Golsory is having a revival meeting at 710 South Sixth street. Come out, hear and see this wonderful speaker. The Sunday school teachers are invited to attend teachers' meeting every Friday at 8 p. m. It is very necessary that these meetings be attended. The Harpers' Married Women's club will meet February 10 at 3:30 p.m. They will be entertained by Mrs. W. H. Davis, at 6314 Sophia avenue. "W. patrons are expected to attend." assume the shape of a Greek cross. On each corner rises a tower surmounted by a small dome. Rising from the center of the building is a huge classical dome, on the summit of which stand the sculptured figures of two deer. The first floor will have a large reception hall, occupying about one-third of the space, with ladies' reception on the left. The commissioners' room will be on the right. In the rear will be a smoking room for men and Mrs. Brown, the mother of Miss M. A. Brown, is very sick: Mrs. Laura Campbell, of 2218 Morgan street, is still very sick. Mrs. McIntyre has moved from 4040 Evans avenue to 3025 Lambdin avenue. Mrs. Robert Johnson, the wife of our agent at the Bapist church, is quite sick. Mr. G. W. Smith, who lives at 3129 Lambdin avenue, is very sick. We hope he will recover. Mrs. M. A. Lawrence leaves this week for a short visit with her mother and sister at Edwardsville, Ill. Mrs. Ellen Morgan. of 3038 Lambdin, is improving rapidly since Dr. W. P. Jones has been attending her. Mr. Alfred Shelly, after being sick several weeks, is up and out again. His friends are pleased to see him. Mrs. Lucy Floyd, of 3047 Lambdin avenue, will leave to-morrow to visit her grandmother in Owensville, Mo. Mrs. E. G. Bolden will entertain the L. N. D. S. club Thursday, Feb. 11. All members are requested to be present. Mr. Hutchings Inge, of 2633 Pine street, has been commissioned by Gov. Dockery as notary public. We wish him success. Mrs. Annie Beard, of 4242 San Francisco avenue, is very sick. Her sister, Mrs. E. H. Baskin, died several weeks ago, in Crawford's dry goods store. We trust that our subscribers will be so kind as to come to the office and settle up. All that call at the office and settle up we will allow them 10 per cent on the dollar. INFORMATION WANTED—Concerning Mrs. Annie Johnson, formerly Miss Annie Murrell. She lived in Dyer county, Tenn. Any information will be thankfully received by Mrs. Ellen Mayes, of 4040. The L. A. G. club of young ladies met last Sunday and elected officers. They are starting out on leap year and the World's fair. Miss Carrie Lancaster, president; Miss Bertha Green, secretary; Miss Abby Simms, treasurer. Mrs. M. A. Lawrence was among the unfortunates caught out in the snow storm Monday evening, the 25th, but was kindly cared for by one of the N. D. S. club ladies, where she remained all night. Such is a friend in time of need. Mr. Albert Collins, of 4366 St. Ferdinand avenue, died, quite suddenly, last Saturday. He was buried from St. Jame's church last Tuesday. His son, a lawyer of Washington, D. C., came to attend the funeral. Mr. Collins was one of our oldest and most respected citizens. He leaves a wife and son to morn his loss. $2.00 Per Annuity, Single Copy 6 cents; THE COURT package rooms, an information bureau, and a room for the superintendent of the building. A stairway 10 feet wide, with broad landings, leads to the second floor, where is provided a banquet hall, 35x70 feet. Other rooms, private for the officials, are on the second floor. The exterior finish will be staff and plaster. The interior is finished in woods from West Virginia, and the ceilings are of ornamental metal donated by the manufactures of the state. Mr. S. P. Phillips has removed to 2807 Manchester avenue, where he will open up a lunch counter and restaurant. Mr. Phillips has been a most successful business man for years. He formerly conducted a restaurant at 1907 Market. We wish him success at his new place. P. Sixth grand Mardi Gras ball, given by the Twentieth Century Social Club, better known as the T. C.' S., at Masonic temple, formerly Central Turner hall, Tenth and Market streets. Mardi Gras night, February 16, 1904. Admission 35 cents. Groom 17. Bride 14. Saturday, January 30, Miss Rosie Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor, of 4332 Cottage avenue; was married to Mr. Freddie Carrington, at the home of the bride; the nuptial knot was tied by Rev. J. L. Cobron. A. New Booming House. We take great pleasure in presenting Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Curtis to the public. They are proprietors of a rooming-houses at 705-709 North Fourteenth street, also at 1428-1430 Linden street. They are from the Blue Grass state. They thereby understand their business, and will make things pleasant for their patrons. Everything is in first-class style. [Name] Harmony band and orchestra, James H. Harris and Jno. Eason, leaders. Music furnished for all occasions. Address all communications to Chas. E. Scott, 2230 Walnut street, Phone, Kin. C767. Harris & Mosby's drug store. Wm. Henry Carter, general manager, 2216 Morgan street, St. Louis. Local No. 44, A. F. M. J. W. WHEELER. Editor and Manager. ST. LOUIS. 1 MISSOURL FEBRUARY...1904 Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thu. 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 F.M. 1st. L.Q. 8th. N.M. 16th. F.Q. 24th. CURRENT COMMENT. The United States consumes half of the 16,000,000 bags which constitute the world's crop of coffee. The birth rate among the foreign born in Massachusetts is 52 per 1,000; among the native born it is 17. There are 5,147 national banks in the United States with authorized capital stock aggregating $766,000,000. Nice place, those Philippines. You can't stand life there without drinking; and when you drink it kills you. Of every 100 alcoholics attacked by pneumonia 70 die, while of every 100 non-alcoholics so attacked only 23 die. Nearly one-half of the mortality in the United States is from diseases of the lungs, and 75 per cent. of it is preventable. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach took a very opportune time to retire from the control of the British treasury. The amount on and was easy to turn over to his successor. Census Director Merriam predicts that the population of the United States will be 100,000,000 in 1910. By that time it will bankrupt the country to take the census. Representative J.·Adam Bede, of Minnesota, maintains that the Monroe doctrine is just as big as the American navy, and no bigger. Could anything be bigger than that? Wages in the United States on the average are more than twice those in Belgium, three times those of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain and one and a half those in England and Scotland. All new schools in Switzerland have a portion of the ground floor appropriated for baths. Each class bathes about once a fortnight, summer and winter. Soap is used and a warm bath is followed by a cooler one. Sick children and those having skin diseases are excluded. The uplifting influences of women's clubs amazes the average plodding citizen who gives a moment's thought to the topics discussed. The latest problem on the card is, "How a Woman Can Be Happy on Fifty Cents a Day." Countless husbands eagerly await the solution. By way of illustrating the effect of poverty on infant mortality a German statistician says that among the aristocratic circles in Berlin 57 per cent. of the children die before they reach the age of five, whereas among the poorest classes the number of doomed children is 357 per 1,000. We Americans write about 40 letters a year, and that average equals 40 per cent. of all the letters written in the world. We surely are a corresponding lot. There are about 8,300,000,000 letters a year written in English, 1,410,000,000 in German, 1,000,000,000 in French, 230,000,000 in Italian, 200,000,000 in Russian, 120,000,000 in Spanish, 160,000,000 in Dutch, 90,000,000 in Scandinavian and 24,000,000 in Portuguese. The farm value of the crops of corn, wheat, rye, oats, hay, barley, potatoes, flax seed, buckwheat and tobacco raised this year is estimated at $2,500,000,000 by the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture. To that great sum may properly be added about $700,000,000 for the value of the cotton crop. This is an amazing aggregation of "quick assets," which can be turned into money whenever it is needed. It is a gigantic pile of commodities which are needed abroad as well as at home. A movement has been started in California to have a world's fair in San Francisco in 1913. It is doubtless assumed by the authors of the project that by that year California and San Francisco will have attained a pretty important place among American communities, and a sufficiently long time will have elapsed between the Louisiana Purchase exposition of 1904 in St. Louis and the Lewis and Clark fair in Portland, Ore., to warrant the holding of an international exposition in some other part of the country. F. C. Penfield, once a resident of Bogota, gives in the Saturday Post a curious account of Colombia and its make-believe government. In his recent message to congress President Roosevelt gave a list of 40-odd revolutions which have taken place in Colombia during the past 60 years. Mr. Penfield says that in Bogota "generals" are so plentiful that the colors of Kentucky wear an appearance of most desolate loneliness when placed in comparison. When Colombinas have nothing else to do they go out and start a revolution. Missouri State Gleanings. MISSOURI CROP BULLETIN. Alternate Freezing and Thawing Has Injured Plants, But Roots Are In Good Condition. The following bulletin has been issued by the Missouri department of agriculture: In the extreme western portion of the state the mean temperature in January was very cold, but in the central and eastern sections the month averaged colder than usual. Temperatures occurred in the northern sections on the 3d, and during the last week of the month very cold weather prevailed throughout the state. The minimum temperatures reached was 12 degrees below in the southern and from ten to 22 degrees below in the central and northern counties. The temperature in months was heavier than usual in portions of the eastern and southern sections, some localities receiving more than 5 inches, the greatest of which fell on the 20th and 21st, but in the western counties it was generally light, some of the west-central counties receiving less than 1 The snowfall of the month exceeded 10 inches over portions of the northern, central and southeastern sections, a few stations reported snowfall in western counties it was light. Up to the 6th the winter wheat received but little protection from snow, except in a few of the northern counties, and considerably injured by dry freezing and by alternate freezing and thawing, but during the severe cold weather of the last week the month the crop was affected, frozen, snowed, some western and some of the extreme southern counties. In portions of the western and southern sections very little precipitation occurred during the fore part of the month, and the amount of rain fell of moisture, but heavy rains fell over the southern and eastern counties on the 20th and 21st, and in some localities in those sections the crop was not growing. The condition of the crop as a whole is below the average, but while in many sections the plants are small they are as a whole, and the crop is not regrowing, buds are very conflicting, and it is impossible at this writing to make any definite statement as to the extent to which they have been injured, but the extent that a large portion of the buds have been killed by the recent low temperatures. WANTS TO SING AT FAIR. Daughter of an Indian Chief Thinks She Would be an Attraction. Princess Chinquilla, daughter of Lone Star, a Cheyenne chief, writes to President Francis of the World's fair from Jamaica. L. L. as follows: "I would like to sing at the exposition in St. Louis. Now, I am a novelty, as no Indian girl has ever been before the public as I have. I am not a Patti. I sing; I please, because I am a novelty. I sing for private and select society circles here in New York. I also play the banjo with my instructor, both classic and popular music. I would like to be engaged to sing in the temple of music or some place of that kind, where I would not have to sing or play over twice daily. I wear my native clothing all the time and everywhere. I am a sensation and a drawing card to any place. Salary, $100 per week for us both and our passes for the entire fair, six months. I am told it runs." A QUEER AURGUMENT. Attorney Pleaded That Father's Death Was a Benefit to His Daughter. In the court of appeals in Kansas City, the judgment of the Jasper county circuit court was affirmed which allowed Eva Bennett, a little girl, $2,000 for the death of her father, P. J. Bennett. The verdict was against M. C. Conkey, owner of a lead and zinc mine near Joplin. Bennett was working at the bottom of the shaft. A fellow-workman upon the surface of the ground was loading blocks of wood into a car, and let one fall into the shaft. The block hit and killed Bennett, and his daughter sued and not judgment in the lower court. Conkey appealed, and his attorney made the astonishing plea before the appellate court that, as her father was a shiftless man, who provided poorly for her, and as his death resulted in her being adopted by wealthy people in St. Louis, therefore, his death was a benefit to her, and not an injury. Brown to Hang March 11. The supreme court has affirmed the decision of the Kansas City criminal court against Charles Brown, of Jackson county, convicted of murder, and set his execution for March 11. Brown killed his stepdaughter with a club because she applied a vile epithet to him when he was intoxicated. Requisition for John Scullin. Gov. Dockery has issued a requisition upon Gov. Van Sant of Minnesota for the return to this state of John Scullin, who was a number of aliases. Scullin is in custody at Minneapolis. He is wanted in St. Louis to answer a charge of grand larceny. Dawson Must Hang. The agreement for a new trial in the Dawson case was heard by Judge Eby, at Paris, and the petition was refused. Judge Eby then called for the prisoner and sentenced him to hang, fixing March 18 as the date. Died on a Train. Clair Commons, aged 40, a former Kansas City business man, died on a Burlington train near St. Joseph. He had been in ill health for some time. Aged Man Killed. Peter Greely, aged 72, was instantly killed by a Transit trolley car in St. Louis. Greely was deaf, and did not hear the motorman's warning. Bank on World's Fair Grounds. BANK ON WORLD FIRM GROUNDS. The Bankers' World's Fair national bank is the name of an institution which is to be established on the St. Louis World's fair grounds. RESCUED JUST IN TIME. Boy Floating On Cake of Ice Lassoed From Bridge at St. Charles. After floating for nearly eight miles down the Missouri river on a small cake of ice, Albert Smitch, 19 years old, a grandson of Jacob Smith, former county judge of St. Charles county, was lassoed by workmen on the Wabash bridge at St. Charles and rescued. Men, women and children, who had gathered along the river front on both sides, cheered the men as they drew the half-frozen boy, whose strength was all but gone, a distance of 75 feet to the bridge with a rope. The boy had attempted to cross the river near Catfish island, on the St. Louis county side of the river, when his skiff was capsized by an ice floe. He was thrown into the water, and the boat was wrecked. Scrambling on to a cake of ice about six feet square, he managed to save himself from the jam, but was without even an oar, afloat in the strongest current. The river was almost closed with ice, only a small channel being open. In this were running heavy cakes of ice, some of them being two feet in thickness. Jamming now and then into other floes or the ice along the banks, the cake carried young Smith past the entire town of St. Charles. His weight submerged the cake of ice sometimes several inches beneath the surface. As he approached the scaffolding of the St. Louis, St. Charles and Western highway bridge, which is being built across the river at St. Charles, he redoubled his shouts for help. Superintendent Broughton of the steelworkers and Superintendent Louis Hissrich of the railroad, who lives at Weilston, had a line thrown down from the scaffolding, but the current was misjudged and the boy passed several feet to one side of the loop. Then Superintendent Broughton and several of his men ran to the Wabash bridge, a half mile down the river. In the meantime the whistles of several engines were sounded to warn a gang of men at work repairing the Wabash structure. Superintendent McPherson, in charge of the men on the Wabash bridge, saw the perilous position of the boy and at once made preparations to save him. The men from the upper bridge soon reached the Wabash bridge with lines of rope. Seventeen ropes were lowered at different points, after a convenient loop had been tied at the end of each to the water's edge. As Smith approached he shouted that he had not the strength to hold on while being drawn up. Then he was told to jump through the loop and let his weight tighten the noose about his body, which he did. Though he sank beneath the surface twice after getting the rope, this was successful, and the boy was hoisted to the top of the bridge by the men. A passing Wabash train was brought to a standstill, and Smith was put aboard the engine and taken to the St. Charles depot, where he was cared for. Will Provide Patent Escapes. A contract has been closed by the Kansas City board of education, through Charles A. Smith, the architect for the board, providing for the erection of a spiral fire slide at the Central high school building, and for two at the Manual Training high school building. Each spire will cost $1,297. The slide consists of a steel, tube or casing surrounding a smooth slide, which winds down like a corkscrew to the ground. The spiral is erected some distance from the building, and is reached by a short bridge leading out from each floor of the building. Suicide Clause Void. The Kansas City court of appeals affirmed two judgments against the Ancient Order of Pyramids. One was the case of Sarah V. Hunt; the other was that of Charles Weber. W. T. Hunt lived in Vernon county. He was insured in the Pyramids for $1,000, the policy reading that the money would not be paid in case of suicide. Hunt shot himself, and the order refused to pay the insurance. His widow, Sarah V. Hunt, sued and won. Lincoln's Old Car Sold. The old sleeping car built for the use of President Lincoln was sold at Omaha, Neb., by the Union Pacific to Frank E. Snow, who will exhibit it at the St. Louis World's fair. President Lincoln made journeys in it to the south, and his dead.body was taken in it from Washington to Springfield, Ill. Runaway Boys' Feet Frozen. Two boys, 13 and 15 years of age, were taken from a Missouri Pacific train at Pacific with badly frozen fest. They gave their names as David Friedman and Thomas Killiam, and said their homes were in St. Louis. Their shoes were cut off, and their feet were thawed out in ice water. Killed by a Street Car. C. N. Dorrian, aged 30, a foreman in a shoe factory, was instantly killed by a Transit street car in St. Louis. Four persons were badly injured in the collision of a street car with the carriage in which they were returning from a funeral in St. Louis. Short-Horn Breeders Meet. The Central Short-Horn Breeders' convention was held at St. Joseph. Three hundred delegates from all over the west were in attendance. A City of the Fourth Class. The citizens of Eldon have voted to make the town a city of the fourth class. The vote was almost unanimous, only one being cast against. The Rosebud Bar, TOM TURPIN, Prop. Pool Room in connection. Also a first-class cafe in rear. Open all night and day. All Prices. Priv- ate Dining-room. MASON& LOWREY, Chefs, Late of Dallas State Fair. 2220-22 Market St., St. Louis, Mo. PHONE: Kinloch D-855. MASON& LOWRIE 2220-22 Market St. PHONE: KE We are the only thoroughly ex tically competent Colorea A. RU Livery Boarding and UN We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only practically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. TOMB OF THE MAYOR We have our own conveyant Carriages furnisher 2118-20-22 Market St., ST. LO Porters and Waiters THE HUGH B. WHITE ...SAL At 1911 M (Opposite U Choice Wines, Liquors, ..CAFE IN CO Remember the C TELEPHON FURNISHED ROOMS FOR MEN O E EVERYTHING STR The Brunsw save our own conveyances and do all our own Carriages furnished for all occasions. Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Tele- rers and Waiters Headquarters THE GEM B. WHITE, Proprietor SALOON. At 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) es, Liquors, Cigars, and the FAE IN CONNECTION Remember the Gem, 1911 Mar- TELEPHONE K 1386A. ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY. BILLIARD ROOMS IN EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS Brunswick Sa We have our own conveyances and do all our own work. Carriages furnished for all occasions. 2118-20-22 Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone, C-390. THE GEM. HUGH B. WHITE, Proprietor of ...SALOON... At 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars, and the best up-to-date. ..CAFE IN CONNECTION. Remember the Gem. 1911 Market. TELEPHONE K 1386A. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY. BILLIARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION. EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. The Brunswick Saloon, G. W. HOLT, Proprietor. 1925 Market Street, (Near U Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. Market Street, (Near U luors, Cigars and Tobaccos. Importe Domes DYE'S et and Pool R 1925 Market Street, (Near Union Station). Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. ST. LOUIS. DY Buffet and WM. P. DYE, Proprietor. 2801-3 Manchester Ave. Telephone— "I Want to See the YOUNG M this World."—President F. YOUNG MAN, Learn Pra and thereby fit yourself for you There should be a colored Emba munity with a Colored population. ALBERT T. HAR Thorough individual instruction. 2837 MANCHESTER AVE. SEE Maurer Meat and CASH M 1402 MARK No. 2 S. Fourteenth Street. TELEPHONES: BELL, Main 2103-A KINLOCH, D-25 2606 FRANKLIN AV 8 and 10 South Manchester Ave., St. Telephone—Kinloch B-1812. Be the YOUNG MAN Able to Do a Bold."—President Roosevelt. Learn Practical Embroidery fit yourself for your proper place in your and be a colored Embalmer and Undertaker in a Colored population. T. T. HARRIS, PRACTICE Lecturer Individual instruction. Classes now be HESTER AVE., ST. SEE Her Meat and Provision CASH MARKETS: 402 MARKET STREET, Seventh Street. Branch: 32041 PHONES: KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell 1004-A BRANKLIN AVENUE, KINLOCH and 10 South Jefferson Ave. "I Want to See the YOUNG MAN Able to Do a Man's Work in this World."—President Roosevelt. YOUNG MAN, Learn Practical Embalming, and thereby fit yourself for your proper place in your community. There should be a colored Embalmer and Undertaker in every community with a Colored population. Maurer Meat and Provision Co. CASH MARKETS: 1402 MARKET STREET. No. 2 S. Feurleenth Street. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. TELEPHONES: BELL, Main 2103-A KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lipdell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1022 2606 FRANKLIN AVENUE. KINLOCH C 720. 8 and 10 South Jefferson Ave. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE If you want the very HIGHEST WAGES paid for your services go to the..... Christian Employment Bureau. 2603 LUCAS AVE. --- DAVE YOUNG Night. The Rosebud Bar, TOM TURPIN, Prop. Also a first-class cake in rear. Open all night and All Prices. Private Dining-room. Fine Wines and Liquors. Nored Professionals. Y, Chefs, Late of Dallas State Fair. St. Louis, Mo. Moch D-855. experienced and the only prac- undertakers in the city. RSELL, UNDERTAKING pees and do all our own work. for all occasions. UIS, MO. Telephone, C-390. Vars Headquarters. GEM. E, Proprietor of OON... Market St. Union Station) Cigars, and the best up-to-date. CONNECTION. Gem. 1911 Market. E K 1386A. FILLY. BULLIARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION. CTLY FIRST-CLASS. vick Saloon, street, (Near Union Station), tobacco. ST. LOUIS Imported and Domestic Cigars. E'S Pool Room, St. Louis, Mo. Bainloch B-1812. AN Able to Do a Man's Work in posevelt. Practical Embalming, a proper place in your community. Lecturer and Undertaker in every com- MERIS, PRACTICAL EMBALMER, Lecturer and Demonstrator Classes now being formed. ST. LOUIS, MO and Provision Co. MARKETS: SET STREET. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. TELEPHONES; BELL, Lindell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1022 ENUE. KINLOCH C 720. Jefferson Ave. J. M. H. Dorsey Wood, Coal & Ice, Hauling to all Parts of the City 2629 Morgan St. JOHN H. CLARK. Day. 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 soliloquy of its owner, Mr. Sanford Warfield: "Times are hard, and barbers poor. Gentlemen, please don't pass my door. My rooms are warm, barbers clean. Will lather you well and shave you clean. We have all Negro papers on hand, Eagle, Advance and The Palladium." B. BELKER, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Meat and Vegetable Market. ill9 and 1121 Morgan Street. St. Louis, Mo DR. S. B. BELL. Barber Shop and Bath. In the True Reform Hall. First-class Barbers. S. W. Corner Pine Street and J. fler son Avenue. SEXTON & MITCHELL'S EXTRA FINISH Art School, 2605 Lawten Ave. Now Open for Pupils. Terms Reasonable. Fine Oil Paintings for sale, Portraits Enlarged in Crayon, Pastel, Oil. Sam, the Tailor Made to order. One of the Best. 204 North 14th Street. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2 Guaranteed to do what we want and to be the "bests in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACIL A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a maltuza person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours shade the skin in spots but bleaches out white, the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Small pox pits, tan, liver spots result. Wash thoroughly with soap, then the color on wrist, stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling out. Highly perfumed and makes one hair soft and easy to comb. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. We DISCOVER it thrown in free. If any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D. In any case where it falls to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. CRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street. RICHMOND, VA. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By F ```markdown ``` This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It noises the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. It was the first preparation of the strong-stirring in the sky air. Before of limitations. Get the Original. Overized Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful, giving it that healthy, life-like appearance so much desired. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed. Owing to its superior and lasting qualities is the best and most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation in the world. Only 50 cents will directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists and dealers or send us 50 cents for one bottle or $1.40 for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Send Postal or express money order. Please mention name of this paper when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. TOWER ON MANUFACTURES BUILDING The good people of Venice, Ill., 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. What She Could Do "I am glad," said the wealthy merchant, "that the baby is a girl." "Wouldn't you rather have a boy that you could train to succeed you in business?" could train to succeed you in business? "No, indeed," replied the wealthy merchant. "A boy would go to college, learn to play an instrument and eventually become a member of one of the professional leagues. He would be of no business advantage to me whatever. But a girl—" "What can a girl do?" "Why, she can marry the confidential clerk who is gradually stealing everything I've got and so keep the money in the family."—Chicago Post. Embryo Artist—"What do you think of that for a painting? You wouldn't believe that is thy first thing I ever completed, would you?" Careful Critic—"I might think so, but I wouldn't say so for anything."—Boston Transcript. Calendar for 1904 JANUARY JULY S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 2 E PLURIBUS UNUM Mr. M. Barnes, our energetic agent, is doing fine work. He sells 20 to 25 copies a week. The congregation of Central Baptist Hke 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 t.undered forth the shot and shell, and consequently gained the admiration of that church. Mr. Barnes is all right. 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 A New Rooming House. Mrs. Mary White has fitted up a new rooming house at 200 South 14th street. It is, indeed, a model in beauty and convenience. She has ten rooms fitted up in the most elegant style from bottom to top. She is now ready to receive guests, both single and married. Don't fail to give her a call. She will give general satisfaction to her many guests. Remember her number—200 South 14th street. Established 18e8 PITMAN SHAVING PARLOR 2630 Morgan Street EMPLOYS BUT THE VERY BEST WORKMEN E. L. Pitman, Manager Wm. A. Overton, Plumbing AND GAS FITTING. Furnaces, Stoves and Ranges Repaired and put up. Expressing and Moving. Phone Kin. D-2137. 1124 N. Sarah St. CALL OR WRITE FOR PRICES FIELDS & CAMPBELL. Rooming House, ROOMS AT MODERATE PRICES. FIELDS & CAMPBELL, Proprietors. TESTIMONY CLOSES IN BUTLER TRIAL Witnesses Testify to a Combine Against the Defendant. Tells Them Law Presumes the De- kendant Innocent and Presumption Continues Until Guilt In Established. Fulton, Mo., Feb. 5.—Ex-Alderman James H. Cronin, of "I Ain't Done Nothing" fame, was offered as the defense's first witness Thursday morning in the case of Edward Butler, charged with bribing 19 members of the St. Louis house of delegates combine on the St. Louis city lighting bill by paying them $47,500. Witness was a member of the house of delegates in 1899. He swore that he was in attendance at the house meeting on November 28, 1899, and that Butler was not on the floor. In answer to Circuit Attorney Folk's question on cross-examination, Cronin declared that he was the champion of the bill. "You voted for the bill?" "You bet I did; I was boosting it. The newspapers printed my picture. Most all of 'em printed it. I was the champion of the citizens." Cronin swore there was a combine in the house, and in response to Folk's questions, named the 19. Cronin declared he was not a member of the combine and never tried to get in. Questions designed to show Cronin's connection with other combines were overruled. John J. Burke, now deputy clerk of the court of criminal correction, who was also a member of the house of delegates, swore that Butler was not on the floor when the bill was passed. On Butler's direct examination, he swore that he never was on the floor of the house, but Burke admitted on cross-examination that he had seen Butler there, but not on the night the bill was passed. The witness said there was a combine and that the members seemed to be holding conferences when the bill was under consideration. John P. Sweeney, Butler's former "boss" of the house, now ex-member from the Third ward, next took the stand to testify for "De Ole Man." McDermott Swore to a Conspiracy. In an attempt to prove a conspiracy against Butler, the defense put James J. McDermott, of Creve Coeur Amusement Co., on the stand to swear that William M. Tamblyn told him in the St. Louis jail in September, 1902, that because Edward Butler would not get him and others out on bond they were going to combine against him and get him into trouble. With McDermott's testimony the defense closed. Circuit Attorney Folk had sent for ex-Aldermen Charles W. Holtcamp, Lafe Sturtevant and Lemon Parker, to rebut the testimony of Sweeney, Cronin and Burke that Butler was not on the floor of the house of delegates on the 'evening the bill was passed, and court took a recess until 4 p. m. to await their arrival. When court reassembled in the Butler trial at 4:45 o'clock former Delegate Charles W. Holtkamp was put on the stand to rebut the testimony offered by Cronin, Sweeney and Burke relative to Butler's appearance in the house of delegates chamber November 28, 1899. At the conclusion of Holtcamp's testimony Judge Graves instructed the jury in part as follows: "The law presumes the defendant to be innocent, and this presumption continues until it has been overcome by evidence which establishes his guilt to your satisfaction and beyond a reasonable doubt, and the burden of proving his guilt rests on the state. "If, however, this presumption has been overcome by the evidence and the guilt of defendant established to a moral certainty and beyond a reasonable doubt, your duty is to convict. "If you have reasonable doubt of defendant's guilt you should acquit, but a doubt to authorize an acquittal on that ground alone ought to be a substantial doubt touching defendant's guilt, and one growing out of the evidence or want of evidence in the case and not a mere possibility of his innocence." The arguments of the attorneys will begin this morning at 8:30 o'clock. It is understood the court has placed a time limit of six hours upon the argument, in which event the case will go to the jury about 2 p. m. today. It will then be a matter of a little while until Butler shall know his fate upon the event of the second trial growing out of the municipal scandals in St. Louis. Prof. Arthur W. Palmer. Urbano, Ill., Feb. 5.—Prof. Arthur W. Palmer, of the University of Illinois, who had a national reputation as a chemist, is dead. Washington, Feb. 5.—Dr. Rixey, after a consultation at eight o'clock Tuesday night, said there had been a distinct improvement in Senator Hanna's condition and that if nothing occurred to cause a further setback he would be able to sit up in a week. Dietrich Confers With the President Washington, Feb. 5.—Senators Mililard and Dietrich, of Nebraska, had a long interview with the president Thursday. Senator Dietrich talked about affairs in Nebraska, and his own case. THE MISSOURI STATE BUILDING It Is the Largest State Structure at the World's Fair. IS PRACTICALLY COMPLETED. Arrangements Were Made by the Architect, Isaac S. Taylor, to Turn It Over to the State Commission February 3. St. Louis, Feb. 1.—The Missouri state building, the largest structure erected on the World's fair grounds by any state, will be turned over, Wednesday, by the architect, Isaac S. Taylor, to the Missouri commission. The building has reached a stage of practical completion, even to the mural paintings which decorate its interior. On last Tuesday, one of the coldest days of the year, a test of the refrigerating plant of the building was made by the architect's expert, H. H. Humphrey. The refrigerating plant, which occupies a place in the cellar under the hall of state, was installed by the United iron works, of Springfield, Mo. The plant is operated by two motors with a joint capacity of 55 horse power, and is designed to reduce the temperature on the hottest day to 70 degrees Fahrenheit. One 20-horse power motor operates the fan which blows the air drawn over frosted coils into the rooms above. One 30-horse power motor runs the compressure, which condenses the ammonia with which the cooling is effected. After the test of the refrigerating apparatus the building was heated, and a thorough test made of the low pressure, steam heating plant, which also occupies a place under the hall of state. The building has been heated since to dry the plaster and to make it possible for the mural painters to work despite the cold. The mural painting of the building, which is on a grand scale, is done by Duncan & Mora, a firm made up of Jack Duncan, of St. Joseph, Mo., and F. Luis Mora, of New York city. The latter has a reputation as a mural decorator throughout the country. It was he who did the mural painting of the Lynn (Mass.) library. The paintings in the dome of the Missouri building are already in place. They were executed on canvas in the studio of the painter in New York and brought to St. Louis. They were but in place by John Krell, who mounted the Sargent paintings in the Boston public library. The dome of the building is 43 feet in diameter, and the entire inner surface is covered with the paintings. There are 17 large figures. Far down the dome is LaSalle, the French explorer, with a retinue of followers in the costumes they wore when they explored the Louisiana territory. Another figure is France presenting the key, symbolical of the transferring of the ownership of the Louisiana territory to America. Paintings of Indians in combat with pioneers and finally figures symbolical of progress, science, mining, agriculture, music, poetry and art complete the round of the dome, while above all floats a figure of Victory blowing a trumpet. In the pendentives, which occur where the round dome meets the square rotunda below, are mural paintings treating respectively of the prehistoric, the barbaric, the pioneer and the civilized stages of the Louisiana territory. There are mural paintings in the big hall of state and the governor's reception room. In the hall of state are four medallions, which occupy places on the covered ceiling between the windows and represent the four seasons. In the governor's reception room are compositions of stacked flags of various colors. "I expect confidently," says Architect Isaac S. Taylor, "to deliver the building to the Missouri commission next Wednesday. It is entirely ready, with the exception of a general looking over to supply any articles of hardware, etc., that have been overlooked." TWO DETECTIVES FOILED. They Failed to Solve the Pyromanate Puzzle of the Grand Palace Hotel, Chicago. Chicago, Feb. 2.—Two detectives, present for a week in the gulse of guests at the Grand Palace hotel, North Clark and Indiana streets, have failed to solve the puzzling circumstances surrounding four fires that have occurred in the building in a fortnight. The latest fire occurred within 12 hours after the detectives were taken away for other work. The police have reached the conclusion that a pyromanate is a quest at the hotel. Arbitration Convention. London, Feb. 2.—The Anglo-Italian arbitration convention was signed today. The convention is on practically the same lines as the Anglo-French treaty. OVER THE WIRE. Charles I. Beck, of South Orange, N. J., has a unique collection of postage stamps, coins, arrow heads and other curios of historic value. When a telephone of the Chicago Telephone company is "busy" the nickel which you are supposed to have dropped in is supposed to drop out again. Constable John Small tried it 15 times and the nickel didn't drop once, he says. So he sued for the nickel. The telephone company paid $300 in counsel fees and had to surrender the nickel in the end. P. With the approach of the New Year comes a momentous event in the history of St. Louis. Never since its early settlement has there been as great a furor as exists at the present time. Little did the early explorers of the Mississippi Valley and the French settlers of this city think that in the distant future the city they had founded in a wilderness would develop into the center of the world's admiration. The celebration of the Louisiana Purchase is one in which all natives will join—it is of wide-spread interest to the world at large. The representation of the Negro race at the Fair will, it is anticipated, be a highly commendable one. The children of the Colored schools have already begun their preparation of the work for the Fair. The journalistic work of the Negro will show his ability in that line. The three Negro papers of our city will make an excellent display. Those who visit the World's Fair will find that it will surpass by far any that has ever been given. No particular booth will be set apart for the Negro race. They will be represented only as American citizens. No discrimination will be made. LAWYERS. W. M. Farmer. Albert Burgess. E. H. Taylor. J. A. Smith. Crittenden Clark Mr. Hoffer. Hutchins Inge. R. J. Raymond. L. C. Jones. Mr. Henderson. Thos. Campbell. Walter Roberts. W. P. Curtis. W. D. Scott. Wm. H. Mansifee. O. T. Fields. G. S. Jackson. W. P. T. Jones. J. P. Stafford. Dr. Davis. C. F. Crews. W. N. Perry. J. W. McDowell. S. H. Bell. A. W. Craddock. W. Brabham. C. C. Sibley. DENTISTS. T. A. Curtis. G. H. Anderson. INSTITUTIONS. Provident Hospital, Beaumont and Morgan Sts. Colored Orphan Asylum, 4216 Natural Bridge Road. Central Baptist Poor Old Saints' Home, Morgan St., near Jefferson Ave. Y. M. C. A. Home Association, 2633 Lucas Ave. Colored Catholic Orphan Asylum, Normandie. 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. 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. Many exhibits are arriving at the St. Louis World's fair grounds and are being installed in the exhibit palaces. --- GEO. COX, Vlee-Press. BUD GATEWOOD, Captain. GEO. WASHINGTON, SEC. IRWIN WHEELER, Bus. Agk The 400 Base Ball Club C. W. WILLIAMS, Proprietor 400 Bar. And President 400 BASE BALL CLUB. Headquarters the 400 Bar, 1300 MORGAN STREET. A UNION OR A DEPOT FOR NEGRO NEWSPAPERS. To all who are fond of negro news- papers the Palladium office can furnish any of the following papers: French in the ground- into tion. Switzerland tives erest race be a schools ation Negro The will Fair far apart Freedman Journal. Chicago Conservator. Topeka Plaindealer. Indianapolis Recorder. The Afro-American. The Vicksburg Light. Arkansas Appreciator. The Dallas World. The Springfield State Capital. The Sedalia Times. Eagle-Herald, Gainsville, Fla. The Reformer. The Truth Teller, St. Louis. Southern Christian Recorder. Cincinnati Brotherhood. Star of Zion. Washington Bee. Seattle Republic. Woman's World. Bluegrass Bugle. Paducah Bee. The Parson Weekly Blade. The City Times, Galveston, Tex The Eagle, Kempsville. Ala. Christian Recorder Of the A. M. H. Church. The Press, Quando, Kan. The Light, Vicksburg, Miss. The Mayor, Hopkinsville, Ky. Oklahoma Guide, Guthrie, Logan Co. American Eagle, St. Louis. The Watchman, Columbus, Ga. Texas Guide, Victoria Texas. The Lancet, Baltimore, Md The City Times, Galveston Texas. The Sunday School Monitor, Nashville, Tenn. The Business Herald, Donaldsonville Ala. The St. Luke Herald, Richmond, Va. The Progress, Omaha, Neb. Nashville Clarion, Nashville, Tenn. Missouri State Republican. The Sychian Blade, Vicksburg, Miss the Christian Organizer, Lynchburg, Virginia. The Columbia, Louisville, Ky. Colored Messenger, Kansas, Mo. Temple of Health and Physical Re- view. Savanna Gazette, Savannah, Ga. Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Fla. Voice of Missions, New York. Searchlight, Wichita, Kan. Tribune, Pueblo, Colo. Colored Citizens Press, Chicago, Ill. Banker, Merchant and Manufacturer Publisher of Money, New York. Teche Valley News, Jeannerette, La. St. Joseph Radical, St. Joseph, Mo. Palladium, Nashville, Tenn. Pythian Blade, Vicksburg, Miss. Bee, Paducah, Ky. Southern Advocate, Hot Springs, ississippi. Etheopian Abbiville, S. C. Wisconsin Advocate, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Angel Kempsville, Ala. Chicago Visitor, Chicago, Ill. Kenucky Reporter, Owensboro, Ky. Pythian Journal, St. Louis, Mo. Rising Sun, Kansas, Mo. Southwestern Advocate, New Orleans, missiana. Republican Guide, Baltimore, Md. The Advocate Citizen, East St. Louis, Brant Sun, Kansas, Mo. The Albuquerque American, a newspaper published in New Mexico, is on our desk. A paper well edited and quite newsy. We heartily exchange. J. M. Griffin, editor and proprietor. Any of the above papers can be had at the Palladium office. We will count the list next week. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY AND IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE, KNOWN AS THE GREAT SOUTHWEST SYSTEM. Connecting the Commercial Centers and Rich Farms of MISSOURI, The Broad Corn and Wheat Fields and Thriving Cliffs of KANSAS, The Fertile River Valleys, Trade Centers and Holling Frames of NEBRAKSA, The Grand, Picturesque and Enchanting Scenery, and c.e. Famous Mining Districts of COLORADO, The Agricultural, Fruit, Mineral and Timber Lands, and Famous Hot Springs of ARKNASAS, The Sugar Plantations and Immense Rice Fields of LOUIS!ANA, The Cotton and Grain Fields, the Cattle Ranges and Wheat Farms of TEXAS, Historical and Sooic OLD AND NEW MEXICO, And forms with its Connections the Popular Winter Route to CALIFORNIA 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 C. H. Wheeler, collector and solicitor. Miss Beatrice Ross, secretary. John W. Wheeler, Jr., solicitor. Business matters pertaining to the paper should be addressed to The Palladium Office. Communications for publication must reach us not later than Wednesday. ADVERTISING RATES. For one inch, one insertion.....$ 50 For one inch each subsequent insertion.....25 For two inches, three months.....6 00 For two inches, six months.....10 00 For two inches, nine months.....14 00 For two inches, twelve months.....20 00 Standing and transient notices per line.....10 RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months......60 Single copy......05 No Excuse for Non-Payment. From the present time on, all who live south of soe t avenue, will please settle their St. Louis Palladium bills with Miss Kate Johnson, 2627 Papin street. Mrs. M. A. Lawrence, of 3944 St. Ferdinand avenue, is the Reporter and General Solicitor for the St. Louis Palladium. The St. Louis Palladium is sold at the following places: SEVEN POINTERS FOR THE READING AND ADVERTISING PUBLIC. (1) THE ST. LOUIS PALLADIUM IS in its 20th year of regular publication. (2) Never has missed an issue. (3) No fake subscription list to "catch" honest advertisers. (4) More bona fine subscribers than any other Negro paper in St. Louis or State. (5) The ONLY Negro newspaper published in St. Louis as the organ of the Republican party. (6) Because it is the official organ of Wright Cuney Political Club. (7) Because it is fearless in denouncing crime regardless of consequences. NOTICE TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS. We wish to state more to all our contributors that all matter sent to The Palladium for publication is subjected to Miss Johnson for criticism. Some of our readers often see fit to object to the shortening of an article or to the changing of its phraseology. Long-winded articles will be published, providing the necessary charge for publications accompanies them. The manager himself often writes articles that meet with her disapproval, and are consequently consigned to the waste basket. Send your long-winded articles to her, and she will receive your cash, and also tell you just what changing she would desire made. Respectfully, J. W. WHEELER, Manager. A Mishap. We are informed by Mr. Lindsay, one of the proprietors of the Alcove, 2032 Market street, that one A. W. Wilkinson took from the store two barrels of whisky and several cases of beer. We wonder where the other saloon will be established. There is trouble in the camp. Mr. W. E. Price, of Memphis, is now running to Denver, Col. Mr. Henry Lott is to take position with the civil service soon. Crum & Head soloon are doing a fair business. They agree like brothers. The Pure Old Women club was entertained at the residence of Mrs. Maggie Jordan, Thursday last. Mr. S. Robinson, of 1306 Chestnut street, is on 3,210 to Jacksonville, Fla. He is all right a Pullman man. Mr. Herbert Holly went to work as messenger at World's fair grounds, Monday. If you want to have a good old time, go see Mr. Cross at the Marble Heart club. The Hod Carriers' Protective Union of America gave an entertainment last Thursday. It was a success. They are men of mercy. The Cafe at 2032 Market street, once the Alcove, is conducted by Mr. Frank R. Wilson. You ought to go and see what a cozy place it is. You can be served with all that is in the market. Mr. Harrison Cook, of 1923 Market street, the old veteran restaurant keeper, is up again, after almost two months' sickness. He was for a number of weeks in the Providence hospital. We hope for his ultimate recovery. 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 ..... $800 00 BURIALS The following burials also have been paid: Laura Bell Mansfield, St. Phillips Temple, Huntsville.....$ 43 50 Henrietta Glvens, Young Workers' 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, St. Louis 60 00 Carrie Walker, Ada Temple, St. Louis 60 00 Wm. Sneed, J. H. Williams' Lodge, Centralia 60 00 Total paid burial ..... $513 50 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. J. See Miss Brown in the pantomines, "Lead Kindly Light," and "America." Hear Miss Bella Crawford in new songs. Hear Miss O. Williams in birdlike warblings. Hear Miss Brown in humorous and dialect recitations. Don't fail to hear Mrs. Mickey in the great dramatic contralto solo, "Judith." Hear Miss Brown at Douglass hall, in her costume recitals, "Wild Zingarella, the Gypsy Flower Girl," and "Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii." M. B. Mr. Andrew J. Smith, who formerly lived in Memphis, Tenn., who also conducted a first-class grocery, has come to St. Louis, and he has a most successful grocery and meat store, also another department connected with his store which will invigorate the inner man. Mr. Smith has a wife and sons, who assist him in business, and he knows no such word as fail. He is of a jovial, good disposition. When he makes friends he knows how to keep them. He is liked by all who come in contact with him. Go and see, and send order for what you need. He will supply you with all that you need. His place is at 1315 Clark avenue. Editor of Puck Dead. New York Feb. 5.—Adolph Schwarzmann, one of the founders and editors-in-chief of Puck, died Thursday of pneumonia, after an illness of six weeks. He was born in Germany in 1838 and came to this country after learning the printer's trade. With Joseph Keppler he founded Puck in 1876, and had since been at the head of the publication. A COMING EVENT. Miss Hallie Q. Brown New Douglas Hall, Feb. 8. Grand opening of New Douglass hall, Beaumont and Lawton, Monday evening, February 8, 1904. Mr. Jas. W. Grant presents Miss HALLIE Q. BROWN acknowledged by European and Amer- Good Work. St. Louis Woman's club, having learned from reliable sources, some months ago, of the careless and unfeeling manner in which Negro patients at the city hospital are treated, determined to bend its energies toward doing all that was possible to provide a suitable place for the accommodation of those helpless ones, who would otherwise be cast upon the merciless custody of the heartless or ignorant subordinates of the city institutions. In pursuance of this idea the members of the club decided to establish a "charity ward" at the Provident hospital, at Morgan and Beaumont streets. A room has been furnished and a quantity of surgical articles has been provided by the efforts of these energetic and charitable women, and in a few days the apartment designated as the "Charity Ward" will be opened for the inspection of visitors. All that has been done in furtherance of this worthy enterprise, is due solely to the energy and large heartedness of the members of the St. Louis Woman's club. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. 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, Chippewa BOOKER T. WASHINGTON BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. THE TUSKEGOO NEGRO CONFERENCE. Editor Palladium, St. Louis, Mo.; The thirteenth annual session of the Tuskegee Negro conference will be held at Tuskegee, Ala., Wednesday, February 17, 1904. The Workers' conference, composed mainly of teachers and others interested in the education, moral and civic uplift of the Negro people, will be held on the following day, Thursday, February 18, 1904. These conference sessions have grown in interest and importance from year to year. Their influence is felt ANNOUNCE A GREAT MASQUERADE BALL A WILL DE GRE KNIGHTS Monday Evening Feb. 22. TENTH AND MARKET STS. (Fo ADMISSION SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT—D Entertainment E. Frank Morris, of 211 Center street, died last Thursday at his mother's residence. He was formerly employed in the water rates office. He leaves a father, mother and one sister. He was quite an active worker in the First ward as a republican, and he was liked by all who came in contact with him. Rest be to his soul. The election of the Negro Jefferson club was a farce. They want a clean democratic Negro for president. Will somebody tell us who is? We are informed that a man by the name of Hafer was selected, but they found out that Hafer was a Folk man, so he would not do. The Negro democrats have taken their trouble to the White Jefferson club for settlement. ican press the mistress of science of elocution and dramatic impersonation. Supported by an excellent company of artists, in grand recital. Music by the Great Western orchestra. Reception and dance after recital. Tickets on sale at Harris & Mosby's and People's drug stores. Getting in Lines If you wish to get an up-to-date breakfast, dinner and supper, go to Lavery's, 2220 Market street, for they will fill the inner man. RAILROAD ITEMS. Mr. R. C. Wallis has been promoted to the position of contracting agent of the L. C. railroad, with headquarters at Evansville. The new Florida train over the L. & N. and N., C. & St. L. comes out Monday. The Iron Mountain route handled a large business to the west during the holidays. The Cotton Belt route to Arkansas and Texas can't be excelled. The Illinois Central railroad is being double tracked between Louisville and New Orleans. The Tennessee Central is now open from Harriman, in east Tennessee, to Hopkinsville, Ky. We wish to call special attention to the undertaker business of Harrison-McKoin, 2743 Wash street. They will supply you with a winter overcoat that will last until doomsday. THE NEW YORK TIMES throughout the country, and nowhere more certainly than in the south, where the great masses of Negro farmers are located, and for whose helping they are held. Your presence would add greatly to the success of the meeting, and I hope you can be present. Reduced rates of one and one-third fare have been secured over all railway lines south of the Ohio and Potomac and west of the Mississippi rivers. Please be sure to ask for a certificate when purchasing ticket. Please notify me as early as possible if you plan to be present. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Tuskegee, Ala. INCLEMENT. BRAND AND ENTERTAINMENT EVEN BY THE—— TEMPLAR 1904, at MASONIC HALL, formerly known as Old Central Turner Hall) 1, 50 CENTS. Don't forget the Knights Templar MASTER MONDAY. The election of the Negro Jefferson club was a farce. They want a clean democratic Negro for president. Will somebody tell us who is? We are informed that a man by the name of Hafer was selected, but they found out that Hafer was a Folk man, so he would not do. The Negro democrats have taken their trouble to the White Jefferson club for settlement. 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. Hardison, 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. Christbury, Clinton and Lincoln; 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. Luhye, 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. Sydes, 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. Marie 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. 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. Barksdale; 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 chapel, to be supplied; E. 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. Triplitt; 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', W. Louis, T. L. Watson; Deb Soto, to be supplied; Commerce, Jeremiah W. Wiles; Frederick's town, J. R. Hopkins; Fcune Terre, A. O. D. Steele, Oak Ridge, I. Chonley; Festus circuit, James Randa, Quinn chapel, St. Louis, J. E. Christie; Payne's mission circuit, St. Louis, F. E. Clark; Caladonia mission to be supplied; Caruthersville mission, Perry G. Dawson. 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, Hanniball; G. C., Rev. O. T. Redd, Macon; S. M., Robert Vaughn, Paris; J. M., R. A. Morton, Kansas City; R. S., G. W. Montgomery, Gooch's Mills; L. S., Dr. J. D. Sexton, Macon; I. S., Robert Watson, Boonville; O. S., H. A. Lewis, Wellsville; Grand Organizer, J. H. Williams, Centralia; G. S. B., Thos. Stemmons, Hilldale; Trustees, G. L. Greene, Old Franklin; Robert Renfro, Moberly; P. L. Given, Bunceton; Board of Management, B. K. Bruce, Brunswick; Dr. J. T. Caston, Fulton; William Rice, St. Louis; J. S. Lothan, New Franklin. New officers of Temple; W. G. P., Kate M. Moore, Columbia; V. G. P., Hattie Williams, St. Louis; G. S., Olivia Watson, Minneapolis; A. G. S., Carrie Stevenson, St. Louis; G. C., 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. NICELY-FURNISHED rooms for rent, 1552 Gratiot street. Stop that cough. Go and get Pickett's Cough Drops. RAMSEY'S THE STRICTLY MODERN ROOMING HOUSE Of the city for Gentlemen and the general traveling pubile. Every convenience desired by patrons of high-class rooms at moderate cost. 12 S. 15th Street. MRS. HATTIE J. RAMSEY, Proprietress. CRAVENS & HEAD Props. Pink Coat Bar. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. POOL ROOM. S. E. Cor. 22d and Market Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. NEWSOME & RANDALL. Stenographers and Typewriters, Applicants prepared for Civil Service Examinations. Office 4265 St. Ferdinand Ave. GEO. W. F. BULLOCK, Ladies' Barber AND TONSORIALIST 3320 Franklin Avenue, St. Louis. Louis Deppe, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Wines, Whiskies, Brandies, ETC., ETC. Southeast Corner of Market St. & Jefferson Av. St. Louis, Mo. Sexton & Maxwell, First-class Photographers 1407 Market St. MRS. L. A. GORMAN NICELY Furnished Rooms BY THE DAY OR WEEK 1222 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo. L. HOPKINS & BRO. Restaurant and Lunch Room Headquarters for Barbers, Porters, Hotel and Railroad Men. PRIVATE DINING ROOMS LATE SUPPERS A SPECIALTY. Fine Imported & Domestic Cigars. 114 N. JEFFERSON AVENUE, ST. LOUIS, MO. WALTER 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. S. P. PERKINS, Tennessee Shaving Parlor Everything Neat, Clean and Up-to-date. ST. LOUIS, MO. A FIRST-CLASS BARBER SHOP NEWLY FITTED Has been opened by J. L. MAYS, of Chattanooga, Tenn., who also does business in Chicago. A MANSKER, Poplar Bluff, is employed by Mr. MAYS, and they are considered two of the best barbers in our city. They have re- moved from 1525 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 paper folding for high-grade work. Terms reasonable. Cash or credit. Also lessons given. Call or write to 456 NORTH SARAH ST. THE PALLADIUM WANTS ADS IF OUR TRUE FRIENDS WISH TO ASSIST US, THEY WILL SECURE ADS. 158 Thirty-two diagrams showing Jacob Shafer and Frank C. Ives, famous billard players, at the stand No. 2, 2326 Market street. A. A. BROOKS, Proprietor. Thirty-two diagrams showing Jacob Shafer and Frank C. Ives, famous billard players, at the stand No. 2, 2326 Market street. A. A. BROOKS, Proprietor. BILLIARD A. A. BROOK The Chicago game of pool. This lars will be the prize between ten men second prize, $15; third prize, $10. At BROOKS, Proprietor. Pool. This game is played in rotation. Fifty dol- en ten men playing 100 games. First prize, $25; e, $10. At 1323 or 2326 Market street. A. A. BROOKS, Proprietor. The Chicago game of pool. This game is played in rotation. Fifty dollars will be the prize between ten men playing 100 games. First prize, $25; second prize, $15; third prize, $10. At 1323 or 2326 Market street. A. A. BROOKS, Proprietor. Wm. 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. The Marble Heart Musical Entertainment hall is quite a success. The lady singer that entertains the audience each night is quite an attraction. So don't fall to get there on time, and you will go again. --- --- They are the leaders of the city for pastime pleasure. No saloon connected. Strictly first-class. Hall No. 1 at 1323 Market Street Hall No. 2 at 2326 Market Street NEW LOCATION. KEEP THE FLAG FLYING. The revivals in the several churches are meeting with marked success. Central Baptist church leads. Twenty-eight were baptized last Sunday. Rev. George Stevenson has the meeting under his control, with the aid of others. The revival at St. Paul church is meeting with success. Rev. Townsend has led the work, and it seems that God is with him at all times. Dr. D. P. Roberts is proud of the work which God has blessed under him. Wm. K. M. Johnston, formerly Natchez, Miss., has just returned from the city of Mexico, and says Mexico is the place for all industrious Colored people, and that race prejudice exists only in its infancy. Mr. G. W. Held's saloon is crowded from morning till 12 p. m. He is like the rest of a good many more of our saloonkeepers—a good many others. We will see who has been there since I have been gone. NOTICE TO OUR AGENTS. They must report weekly, otherwise no paper will be sent them on the following week. True Reformers' Barber Shop. And baths is the neatest, warmest baths and shop in the city. Clean towels used in every case, for the coal man as well as the clerk in the office. Four barbers who can shave any person with ease and satisfaction. Try them. JOHN W. ALPHAN. Mgr. ANNOUNCEMENT. Examinations in the spring will be as follows: Railway Mail service, postal service, stenographer and typewriter. Newsom & Randals will assist and coach anyone desiring to take any of these examinations. Call or write, 4265 St. Ferdinand avenue. A New Clubhouse. A newly-fitted club room and cafe has been opened recently at 2027 Walnut street. It is fitted up in the most elegant style, and bids fair to rival any club room in the city for accommodations for our people. It has 83 electric lights, dazzling to the eyesight. The rooms are fine and spacious. Mr. Chas. Harris, president; Mr. Sam Harris, vice-president; Mr. John Hammond, secretary. NOTICE. NEWSOME, RANDALS & THOMAS, Stengraphers, Typewriters and Reporters. Competitors coached for civil service examination. Tabulating, letter press copies and minegraph work a specialty. Business letters taken down in shorthand at your office. Cards and circular letters prepared in script. Prices reasonable. Give us a trial. Offices: -4204A Maffitt avenue; 4265 St. Ferdinand avenue. ROOMS FOR RENT. Nicely-furnished room, 2201 Morgan, upstairs. Call on MRS. HUGGINS. Nicely furnished rooms for rent at 2636 Lucas avenue, and don't fail to call. Mrs. J. C. Baker. NICELY-FURNISHED ROOMS—4020 Finney avenue. Mrs. H. Palmer. FURNISHED ROOM—No. 1514 Pine St., for gentlemen only. MRS. ANNIE JOHNSON. FOR RENT—No. 1315 Chestnut St., a restaurant, by da yor week. MRS. NELLIE COTMAN. 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. LOWERY & MASON Will soon open a first-class cafe at 2321 Market street. It will be in keeping with the beautiful saloon, which will be the finest of the fine. Chinese Restaurant in Connection. Duck Nudles and Chop Suey AT ALL HOURS. 2801 MORGAN STREET, HEADQUARTERS OF BANNER BASE BALL CLUB. Open Day and Night. Both Telephones. All Nations invited except Carrie. This is one of the finest Buffet and Cafe in the West. Everything up-to-date with a first-class Orchestra. CATHRELL-HYATT Printing Company 3957A Finney Avenue, St. Louis. Pullman Car Porters. There are between 300 and 400 Colored men who live in St. Louis who are porters on the Pullman cars. They make good money, such as to put them above want. This year, 1904, we will have one column set apart for such news. J. W. WHEELER, Manager. ARNETT E. L. ARNET Wines, Liquor Chinese Restaurant in Connection AT ALL 2801 MORGAN HEADQUARTERS OF BAY S. L. PI Fresh DRU 2601 LAWTON N. W. Cor. Jefferson Open Day and 2032 Market St. THE A All Nations invited except Carrie and Cafe in the West. with a first-cl Mrs. Susan Gross, 2609 Pine Street. Millinery. Up-to-date Hats. Trimmings and all material in that line. MISS N. GRAVES, FIRST-GLAS DRESSMAKER. PLAIN SEWING ALSO DONE. Call 3731 VISTA AVENUE. --- Telephone—Kinloch C-397. THEO. H. TEMPEL, Dealer in Staple and Fancy GROCERIES, 2601 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. California Canned Goods a Specialty. No. 123 Independent Order of the Court of Calantha Meets the Second Wednesday in Each Month, at 2:30 p. m. at Knights of Pythias Hall, Jefferson and Lucas Avenues. Mrs. Maria Campbell, W. C. Mrs. Fannie Newcomb, R. D. 1923 Morgan Street. MRS. CORA EUARD, FIRST-CLASS Fashionable Dressmaker AND OTHER NEEDLE WORK. CALL AT 3731 Vista Ave. S PLACE TT, Proprietor. s and Cigars. n. Duck Nudles and Chop Suey HOURS. AN STREET, NNER BASE BALL CLUB. CKETT. UGS Daily ON AVENUE, n and Lawton Aves. d Night. Both Telephones. St. Louis. LCOVE. This is one of the finest Buffet Everything up-to-date class Orchestra. 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. MR. A. L. LEE, Representing the 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. J. H. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. One Block West of Fair Grounds. WILLIAM DOVER, Proprietor R. J. RAYMOND, Attorney - at - Law, 1111 Clark Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 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. SAUNDERS, Mansgers CHARLEY HARRIS, Proprietor The Greeley Saloon. Fine Wines, N Excursionists give us a Ask for it 1201 Morgan S Jas. Williame, M Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Excursionists give us a call. Headquarters for sports. Ask for it, you'll get it. 1201 Morgan St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Jas. Williams, MIXERS Chas. St. Clair. GEO. FOUNTAIN, Mgr. PLEASE YOU NO ONE CAN. WHAT IS APPROPRIATE SERVED HERE. SMITH, Manager. EELY RESORT. LIQUID REFRESHMENTS TO BE HAD. I Wash Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Excursionists give us a call. Headquarters for sports. Ask for it, you'll get it. 1201 Morgan St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Jas. Williams, MIXERS Chas. St. Clair. GEO. FOUNTAIN, M gr IF WE CAN'T PLEASE YOU EVERYTHING THAT IS APPROPRIATE STEVE SMITH, M THE GREELY CHOICEST OF LIQUID REFRESHMENT S. E. Cor. Twelfth and Wash Streets, IF WE CAN'T PLEASE YOU ONE CAN. EVERYTHING THAT IS APPROPRIATE SERVED HERE. STEVE SMITH. Manager. 2336 WASH ST.---Furnished rooms for rent to men; rooms comfortably furnished; on second and third floors; with or without board. T. T. Thompson. G. W. ROBINSON, Second-Hand Furniture BOUGHT AND SOLD. Moving and Expressing, General Jobbing and Repairing of Ranges, Stoves, Etc. a Specialty. 4025 Easton Avenue ST. LOUIS, MO. A new second-hand furniture store has been opened at 806 North Fourteenth street by L. W. Vinegar. LADIES' and GENTS' SHOES DON'T FORGET THE NUMBER 1409 Market Street Stop that cough. Pickett's Cough Syrup. --- --- JEFF. SMITH. Propr. 1409 Market Street A. H. B. [Name] Rural Directors EMBALMERS, Wash Street, T. LOUIS, MO. First Class. Terms Most Reasonable. Successful Embalming Guaranteed. Answered Promptly, Day or Night. Terms Most Reasonable. Embalming Guaranteed. Promptly, Day or Night. Manager Wanted thy lady or gentleman to manage business in this co- lory for well and favorably known house of se- 20 straight cash salary and expenses, paid each from headquarters. Expense money advanced; po- menger, 610 Monon Bldg., Chicago. STUDY MEDICINE AND PHARMACY Louisville National Medical FIFTEENTH YEAR Recognized by all State Boards. All buildings are the School, and have been entirely remodeled with Laboratories and Hospital. Nearly too Graduates in various parts of the county, then employing lucrative practice. School of Medicine, Four years of six month continues throughout the year. Each session is di- terms of three months each. Attendance upon any two student to credit for one year's attendance. Terms: January, April, July and July of beginning of any year. Students may at beginning of any Departing and @Pharmacy. Two years, si- session is divided into two terms of three months each. For further information and Catalogue address tleman to manage business in this county and ad- d favorably known house of solid financial in salary and expenses, paid each Monday by ters, Expense money advanced; position perma- Monon Bldg., Chicago, Ill. INDY MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT THE Proville National Medical College FIFTEENTH YEAR. organized by all State Boards. All buildings are the property of ol, and have been entirely remodeled with fully equipped ties and Hospital. 100 Graduates in various parts of the country, every one of col of Medicine, Fouryears of six months each. Session throughout the year. Each session is divided into four three months each. Attendance upon any two terms entitles credit for one year's attendance. as: January, April, July and October. Examinations at end Students. July may enter of beginning of any term. arrmnt of Pharmacy. Two years, six months each divided into two terms of three months each. rther information and Catalogue address 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. STUDY MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT THE Louisville National Medical College Recognized by all State Boards. All buildings are the property of the hospital entirely remodeled with fully equipped Laboratories and Hospitals. Nearly too Graduates in various parts of the country, every one of them enjoying a lucrative practice. School of Medicine, Four years of six months each. Session continues throughout the year. Each session is divided into four terms of three months each. 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He was in his sixty-fourth year. Mr. Whitney was taken ill last Friday night at the performance of "Rigoletto," at the Metropolitan opera house, and had to leave before the opera ended. Dr. Walter B. James, the Whitney family physician, was summoned, and found that the condition of the patient was such that, after consultation, an operation was decided upon and was performed by Dr. Bull. The patient rallied so well that it was fully believed he would recover. Mr. Whitney's condition was very grave, however, on Sunday and o' Monday, and at a consultation Tuesday afternoon it was concluded that the only hope for the patient lay in a second operation. A bulletin issued at eight o'clock Tuesday morning stated that there had been a slight improvement in the patient's condition, but shortly after three o'clock alarming symptoms were noted, and hurried preparations were made for a second operation. 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Mr. Whitney's children, Harry Iayne and Miss Dorothy Whitney, were with him when he died. The funeral services will be held at Grace church, where Mr. Whitney was a pew holder. TWO KILLED AND SCORE HURT In a Collision Between a Crowded Chicago Suburban Train and a Switch Engine. Chicago, Feb. 3.—In a collision Tuesday night between a crowded suburban train and a switch engine, two men were killed and a score of others slightly hurt. The accident occurred just as the train was leaving the station at Ashland avenue, with the car platforms crowded with people. The force of the collision hurled the water tank on the passenger engine from its fastenings, and it came down on the front platform of the car, directly behind the engine. The two men who were killed were standing on the platform, and were crushed by the tank as it fell. All the other passengers who were on this platform were hurt, but none of them seriously. MAINE'S LOG CABIN BUILDING Which Will Represent That State at the World's Fair Is En Route On Eleven Flat Cars. Houlton, Me., Feb. 3.—The two-story log cabin which will be Maine's building at the St. Louis exposition, has been started for the Missouri city on 11 flat cars. It was build in sections at Portage, and the 20 men who constructed it and took it apart for shipment will meet it at St. Louis and put the parts together there. The cabin is 140 feet long, 50 feet wide and has 11 rooms on the ground floor and ten in the second story. In its construction 90,000 feet of the best spruce logs obtainable in the state were used. Game Confiscated. Enid, Okla., Feb. 3.—Sixteen thousand quail and prairie chickens have been confiscated in the railway yards here by Deputy Game Warden Shaffer. The game was shipped from O'Keeno and was consigned to a St. Louis produce house. Killed His Father-in-Law. Hobart, Okla., Feb. 3.—Near her Tuesday Frank Warner shot and killed his father-in-law, P. Towne, because the latter had taken Mrs. Warner to the post office against his wishes. Warner is under arrest. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson in the International Series for February 7, 1904-A Sab- bath in Capernaum. THE LESSON TEXT.—Mark 1:21-34. GOLDEN TEXT—He infd his hands on every one of them, and healed them—Luke 4:10. OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION. In the synagogue. Mark 1:21-28 In the synagogue. Luke 4:16-15 Healing in Peter's house. Mark 4:19-21 Healing in Peter's house. Mark 4:38-39 Healing at the door. Matt 8:16-17 Healing at the door. Matt 1:25-26 Healing at the door. Luke 4:10-41 Only a few days later than the last lesson. Place. — Capernaum, a beautiful and lush place on the Sea of Gallilee (Lake Gennesaret). NOTES AND COMMENTS. Jesus and the four fishermen, Peter, Andrew, James and John, left the fishing grounds together and went to the city of Capernaum, which was full of men, women and children—for their work was henceforth to be in the busy world of men. They were to be missionaries, home missionaries at first, then foreign missionaries. "On the Sabbath day:" Jesus' experience in the synagogue at Nazareth was on the preceding Sabbath. What must have been His feeling as He entered the synagogue here? "And taught:" Jesus taught a great deal in the synagogue during His early ministry. Its service was more informal than that of the temple at Jerusalem, the seat of the stiffest and most orthodox Judaism. Though instruction in the law was the main object of the synagogue, its services were in the hands of laymen, not priests (Gelikie), and were more like our prayer meetings than our church services. "Amid the dull, mechanical tendencies which were turning the heart of Judaism to stone, the synagogue may have been a center of life and rallying place of freedom."—Dean Chadwick, "Taught them as having authority;" This is one of the most illuminating sentences in the whole story of Christ's life. The meaning is not simply that He spoke as if confident that He was right—the scribes were doubtless confident they were right—but rather that He did not back up His teachings by reference to the standing authorities (Mosss, etc.), but spoke the truth that He felt to be true in His own soul, depending on the truth itself to make its own impression. His was a message direct from God. Another surprise was in store for the synagogue audience that day. "A man with an unclean spirit:" "The belief in demonical possession was common among Jews and Gentiles in the time of our Lord, and it long obtained in the Christian church. But it has been pointed out that most, if not all, the phenomena associated with this belief are now diagnosed as forms of disease—insanity, epilepsy, hysteria, etc."—Adeney. We should add what psychologists call diseases of personality, "double consciousness," etc. If the unfortunate in this lesson was diseased rather than possessed of a foul spirit, why did Jesus speak as if there was a spirit? (1) Because the man believed it was a devil that was troubling him. (2) Everyone else believed so, too. (3) The best way to meet an insane person is to meet him where he thinks he is. (4) Christ was not here to correct all men's erroneous beliefs; it would have done no good and immense harm. It would have been going off on a tangent. Whether the man was an epileptic or possessed of the kind of devil that the Jews believed in, was a matter of indifference so far as the kingdom was concerned. The point is that Christ healed the man Christ allowed nothing to interfere with His main purpose. "Come out of him:" Everyone saw that the man was cured "What is this:" "What does all this mean?" referring to the whole service "A new teaching . . . unclean spirits . . . obey him:" The two marvels of the day. "Both equally unlooked for—the former a moral miracle, the latter a physical; both revealing an imperial spirit exercising sway over the minds and bodies of men."—Bruce. Note the effect in verse 28. "And straightway:" No time was lost. How full of service for others the Master's days were! "Came into the house of Simon:" Jesus was the guest of His new disciple. "A fever:" Very common in the low, hot country about the lake; commonly believed, like insanity, to be the work of evil spirits. Luke says Jesus rebuked the fever as he had done in the case of the man in the synagogue. "At even:" The Sabbath ended at sunset. Picture to yourself the scene. No painter has ever been able to do it so well as we can in our own minds. Remember the Master's commanding presence, but that He was at the close of a hard day, surrounded by the poor and the needy, not the unsympathetic Pharisees, and radiantly happy in being able to minister to them whom He considered as brothers and sisters. "Suffered not." To speak, because they knew Him:" How did they know Him? Explanations are plenty, but not such as explain. The intuitions of deranged persons are frequently amazingly keen and true, and can hardly be explained. Christ did not want to be proclaimed the Messiah as yet, particularly by these people who were physically or mentally unsound. The time was not ripe. It is a good thing to know a period when you see one. The chariot of sin usually becomes a police ambulance. Our petitions cannot go up if our practice is going down. When the heart is God's abiding place His peace is always there. Death may mark the difference between the walking and the winging of the soul. 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CONSUMPTION NOT A SINGLE WORD MAKING FOR PEACE War May Be Averted, But Things Look Cloudy. RUSSIA'S NOTE HER LAST WORD Peaceful Acceptance by Japan is Not Looked For-Russia Would Force Japan to Take London, Feb. 5.—Not a word making for peace comes from Tokio or St. Petersburg. War between Russia and Japan may be averted, but the prospect of peace grows less with the close of each day. It is evident that Russia expects Japan will not only not accept the proposals in the note to be delivered Saturday, but that she has no doubt Japan will cease negotiations peremptorily, if not immediately, and precipitate war by an aggressive move. A Significant Dispatch. The following dispatch to the London Telegraph is significant: ROBERTO MAYORAL "Russia's reply to Japan has been agreed upon. The czar's decision is to forward a note refusing to accept Japan's proposals and expressing the resolve to defend Russia's position in Manchuria at all costs." While this dispatch is not an official Russian utterance, it is accepted here as reflecting accurately the situation. **Conferences in Tokio.** For the past three days the imperial cabinet has been in session at Tokio. A meeting took place Thursday morning, and the ministers were to meet again in the afternoon, when the emperor was expected to be present. It would be strange indeed if Japan does not know the essential features of Russia's contemplated reply. The constant sessions of the cabinet may be taken as a reflection of the grave way in which Japan regards the status of negotiations. There was much excitement in the parliamentary lobbies Wednesday night over Reuter's agency dispatch from St. Petersburg, reporting that Viceroy Alexieff at Port Arthur had been empowered by the Russian general staff to declare war if the situation should warrant it. This was regarded as a momentous step. The ministers interrogated privately had no confirmation of the statement, but it was evident that they regarded the situation with profound misgiving. Alexieff a Man of Action. Alexieff is known to be a man who will not shrink from any responsibility, especially if the fulfilment of Russia's forward policy in the far east, with which he is in an especial manner personally identified, is threatened. The agency dispatch referred to also reported that an imperial manifesto would be issued declaring that war is expected if the Japanese government does not accept the conditions proposed in Russia's response, which, it is asserted, will be Russia's last word. THE BELIEF IN TOKIO. Russia Seeking to Provoke Japan to Take the Initiative. Tokio, Feb. 5.—Premier Katsura and his associates in the cabinet gave a dinner, Thursday, to 18 representative peers, and communicated to them the nature and progress of the diplomatic negotiations with Russia. Marquis Ito had a private audience with the emperor, at which the situation was discussed. These and other incidents clearly indicate the seriousness of the situation. It is generally believed that Russia is massing troops north of the Yalu river, so as to be prepared to resist the possible invasion by the Japanese. The cabinet, elder statesmen and commanders of the army and navy are in almost constant conference or communication. There is, however, no indication of the course they intend to pursue. The belief is prevalent that Russia is seeking to provoke Japan to take the initiative. Notorious Convict Released. Jackson, Miss., Feb. 5.—Brooks Storey, the most notorious convict in the Mississippi penitentiary, has been ordered released by the board of control. He was sent up from Holmes county, ten years ago, for an express robbery at Durant. The Sully Pool Dissolved. New York, Feb. 5.—The cause of the drop in the price of cotton is explained by the announcement that the Sully pool, which has been boosting prices for nearly a month, has been dissolved. OF SURPASSING GRANDEUR An Indiana Manufacturer's Impression of the World's Fair. He Fears the People of Our Own Country and the World Do Not Realize Its Magnitude. St. Louis, Feb. 3.—Mr. J. M. Studebaker, of South Bend, Ind., president of the Studebaker Bros.' Manufacturing Co., says in a letter addressed to Chief Willard A. Smith and Commander A. C. Baker, of the department of transportation exhibits: "My son and I desire to convey to you our sineer thanks for the courtesy shown us during our recent brief visit to St. Louis. We are interested beyond all manner of expectation. St. Louis is plainly to have a World's fair far surpassing anything the world has yet seen. Its present promise challenges the wildest flights of the imagination. No one can conceive of what has been accomplished without seeing it. The scope of the enterprise is gigantic, its detail is bewildering, and the beauty and artistic combination of buildings, grounds and water make of the place a region of enchantment. The visitor to the World's fair at St. Louis will find himself in fairy land, in wonderland, and this without reference to what his experiences in sight-seeing have heretofore been. Neither the White City nor Buffalo in all their splendor are comparable with what this crowning glory of the twentieth century will display to the peoples of the earth. "My fear is that this impressive fact is not going to be sufficiently well known either at home or abroad. Is your department of publicity organized to deal adequately and satisfactorily with the task of informing the civilized globe of what magic has been wrought for its benefit at St. Louis? It will take enthusiasm, inspiration and prodigies of labor to accomplish this work. The press should blaze with the subject from this time forward. "In closing, I wish to pay a deserved tribute to Gov. Francis and others, the originators and executors, all who have had part in the elaborate and brilliant project now so rapidly and happily culminating in your beautiful city. Association with this brilliant enterprise will confer honor for a lifetime on all who have had to do with its inception, development and frultu." DESERVES CONSIDERATION. An Applicant For Custody of Burns Cottage at the World's Fair Who Has a Good Claim. St. Louis, Feb. 3.—An old soldier with a remarkably interesting record in the British army and also in the United States army, writes from Nottingham, England, to President Francis, and asks to be placed in charge of the Burns cottage during the World's fair, on the ground that he was the last lessee of the property, residing in the cottage from Martinmas 1877 to Martinmas 1882. Two of his daughters were born in the cottage. 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Dublin, Feb. 3.—"Ireland's own band, the finest organization of musicians in all Ireland, has accepted the invitation extended by James A. Reardon, of St. Louis, to participate in the Irish section of the Irish industrial exhibition at the World's fair. In many respects "Ireland's Own," or the Dublin prize band, as they have been known, is a unique body of men. It is composed of 60 musicians, each one a prize winner, and each one a teetotaler. TRIAL OF EDWARD BUTLER. Circuit Attorney Folk Stated That the Case Would Go to the Jury Some Time Thursday Night. Fulton, Mo., Feb. 3.—The selection of a jury to try Edward Butler on the charge of distributing $47,500 among 19 members of the house of delegates in 1899 to secure the passage of the ten-year St. Louis lighting bill, was finished Tuesday afternoon and the trial started. The venire of 24 was at once called and the jury selected. Was Weary of the Battle. 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Miss Rose Gordon, 2,102 Oakland av., Oakland Heights, Madison, Wis. writes: "A few years ago I caught a severe cold, which resulted in chronic bronchitis and catarrh. Our family physician prescribed medicines which gave temporary relief only. I began taking Peruna and improved at once. Two bottles curled me. I performed to all sufferers, and am most grateful to you for your valuable medicine."—Miss Rose Gordon. Washington, D.C., 609 H street, N. W. Dean Dr. Hartman: "I used to think that the doctors knew all about our aches and pain and were the proper ones to consult when sick, but since I have been sick myself I certainly knew that I had a cold. During the winter I caught a heavy cold, which developed into catarrh of the bronchial tubes and an inflamed condition of the respiratory organs. The doctors were afraid that pneumonia would set in and prescribed pills, powders and packs until I sickened of the whole thing, as I did not know what to do. I had a bottle of Perunu and she advised me to try that. Shortly after I began using it I felt that I had found the right medicine. I used two bottles and they restored me easily and pleasantly to perfect health. While my stomach was very delicate. Peruna did not nauseate me in the least, but gave me a good appetite, and I wish to ex- health," -Miss Rosalie von Strungeilam CATCHING COLD Is the Beginning of Most Winter Ailments—Pe-ru-na Protects Against and Cures Colds. There is no fact of medical science better established than that a teaspoonful of Peruna before each meal during the winter season will absolutely protect a person from catching cold. Now, if this is true (and there is no doubt of it), thousands of lives would be saved, and tens of thousands of cases of chronic catarrh prevented, by this simple precaution within reach of every one. After cold has been contracted a teaspoonful of Peruna, every hour will shortly cure it, leaving no trace of it behind. 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It will be two stories high, and have a large cen- 110 The LaBors Aid Daughters of Shebia Temple 1 meet the fourth Wednesday in each month at the hall, Eleventh and Franklin. MRS. MARANDA JENKINS, Worthy Matron, 1237 Morgan. ELLA LACY, Vice-Queen, 1206 Morgan St. GEORGIA PHILLIPS, Secretary, 810 N. Thirteenth. ANNIE BARBER. ANNIE BARBER, Chairman of Sick Committee, 1108 Franklin Avenue. PETER JANTRY, inside sentinel, 1313 Linden street. THOMAS NICHOLS, 807 North High street. MRS. ANNIE HALE, 1241 Linden street. MRS. ROSA HICKS, assistant chair- man of the sick committee, 1212 Morgan street. FANNIE PHILLIPS, 1308 North Thirteenth street. Anderson Russell, successor to Russell & Gordon, undertaker and embaler, livery and boarding, carriages furnished for all occasions. 18-20-22 Market street, St. Louis, Phone, Kinloch C, 390. Branch, 609 East Missouri avenue, East St. Louis, Ill, Phone, S. L. Pickett. Drugs fresh daily. Don't pass his door-2601 Lawton avenue. this typical Mississippi house that he wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Southern Confederacy." The replica will stand near the southeastern entrance to the exposition grounds. Mississippi was one of the first states to make an appropriation for an exhibit at the World's Fair. Her executive commissioner is Mr. R. THE GARDENS COMMUNITY HALL tral hall on the first floor. There will be three general entrances. The building will stand directly south of the New York building, and west of the Illinois building. Senator John C. Carpenter, of Chanute, is president of the KENTUCKY BUILDING WORK PROGRESSING. If the plans of the promoters of the enterprise are successfully carried out, St. Louis is soon to have a hotel and entertainment hall that every Negro in the city will be proud of. A large force of workmen are rushing the reconstruction of the building, at the northeast corner of Btaumont and Lawton avenues, formerly occupied by Barnes' medical college, which will be known in future as Douglass hotel and hall. The new hall is to be completed and ready for occupancy on Monday, February 8, and will be opened by Miss Hallie Q. Brown, the world-famed elocutionist, in one of her most brilliant programmes of dramatic recitals, under the management of Mr. James W. Grant, and supported by distinguished local talent. The World's fair will open April 30, 1904; close, December 1, 1904. The officers of the fair association are determined to sirpass all other World's fairs. The Harper's Married Women's club meets the second Wednesday in each month at different places. The place of meeting will be announced in The Palladium each month. Mrs. Florence Jenkins, president, 2725 Wash street. Mrs. Jennie Harris, secretary, 2739 Wash street. H. Henry, editor of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. Gov. Longino is ex-officio chairman of the commission, and Dr. O. B. Quinn, of McComb City, Miss., is the vice-chairman, the other members being Frank Burkitt, of Okolona, the secretary; I. H. Enochs, of Jackson, and V. P. Still, of Senatobia. THE HOTEL Kansas commission, and Representative Charles H. Luling, of Topeka, is secretary. The other members are Senator R. T. Simmons, of Caldwell; Senator J. C. Morrow, of Haddam, and William P. Waggener, of Atchison. LOVISIAN LOUISIANA A Musical, Dramatic and Vaudeville Revival. The amusement-loving public of St. Louis is to be treated to a revival of dramatic, musical and vaudeville art, for which this city was once far-famed. The organization of the Lyceum Sketch club, which took place a few days ago, promises a return of the glories of former days in stage productions. The leading spirits of the new organization are Messrs. James W. Grant, John B. Vashon, R. A. Hudlin, Ambrose A. Clarke, Will S. Grant and other well-known amateurs of acknowledged ability. The purpose of the new club is to give high-class vaudeville, musical and dramatic entertainments on a scale far in advance of anything heretofore attempted. They have associated with them some of the best talent in the city, and the public can look forward with assurance to a season of artistic entertainment. The Lyceum Sketch club will follow Miss Hallie Q. Brown in opening the new Douglass hall, in a reproduction of the mirth-provoking musical comedy, by Mr. Charles Mathews, entitled, "Miss Amanthis," with Mr. John B. Vashon in the title role. Mr. Hudlin, the two Grants and Misses Clara Hutt and Allie Simms will also appear in the cast. NEWPORT NEWS. Your correspondent was over in the city Saturday, Jan. 30. I met my old friend, J. W. Grant, at the Roe building, enjoyed a first-class dinner at Jordan's restaurant, Market street, basked in the radiant smiles of Miss Anna Russell for a few minutes at Russell's undertakers' station, which forms the doorway to the other world, and, finally, I was ushered into the effugent presence of the noted elocutionist, Miss Hallie Q. Brown, by that splendid lady, Mrs. Elmyra Napfer. The exquisite pleasure born in those fleety moments in thus meeting those genial spirits of friendship brought to mind those happy days: "When Gordon Morgan, Free and King, Would of the lyre of knowledge ring." A birthday party was given by Mrs. Lowe, who is a very pleasant lady, to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of her son Lester's birth. Lester is a mannerly, good-natured youth, and received quite a number of presents. May he always wear the jewels of industry, intelligence, economy and truth. ESSENCE. THE OPPORTUNITY For Energetic, Ambitious Young Men, Whose Ability and Aspiration Reach Above the Level of Common Drudgery. It is agreed by all educators and leaders of our race that the only real solution to the Negro Problem lies in our own ability to bid for and receive the trade of our own people. We must first attain professional and business equality and recognition before we can hope to enjoy other equal privileges. The embalming and undertaking business offers more inducements and advantages than any other business a Negro man can engage in. YOUNG MAN, BE INDEPENDENT! BE A BUSINESS MAN! LEARN PRACTICAL EMBALMING! The field is large. There should be a Colored embalmer and undertaker in every community with a Colored population. Albert T. Harris, practical embalmer, lecturer and demonstrator. Thorough individual instruction. For full particulars address. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES. Rev. E. C. Cole preached at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the First Baptist church last Sunday. There was a nice crowd out at each service. Directly after the morning service was over the four clubs—namely—Pleasant Workers, Carnation, Ruth and Gentlemen—met in joint session at the First Baptist church to perfect arrangement by which each club were to raise $100 in a short time, so as to enable Rev. Cole to take up the next notes, which are $500 or $1,000. These clubs are composed of honest and carnet people, and it is certain that they will do just what they say. Rev. E. C. Cole started a revival at his church last Monday night, and it is his purpose, while raising money, to pay off the church debt to raise the devil out of the hearts of sinners, and hypocrites likewise. He is having a good success. Everybody are made welcome at the First Baptist church by the nice and polite ushers—Messrs. Garfield Craven, Willie Carnell, Henry Hall, Jos. Nabors, A. W. Washington and Jos. Williams. MASSAGING. SHAMPOOING SHAMPOOING BARBER SHOP Cor. Clark Avenue and Center Street. Practical Hair Cutting. FIRST-CLASS WORK. SAM. J. LANE, Jr., Manager. Coal, Kindling, Wood. HAULING AND EXPRESS WAGONS. TRUNKS CONVEYED FROM OR TO UNION STATION. Office: 4017 Easton Avenue. MR. C. YOUNG. Mr. H. O. Carrol, of 726 North Twelfth street, is 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. COLLEGE Building proper ..... $140,000 Refrigerating plant ..... 20,000 Sculpture ..... 15,000 Electric fountain ..... 3,000 Mineral decorations ..... 5,000 The HOTEL HENRY The HOTEL HENRY 705-707-709 N. 14th Street | Branches: 1428½-1430 Linden St. H. C. CURTIS, Proprietor MRS. ROSIE CURTIS, Housekeeper ALFRED HALE, Night Clerk MONRO MATLEY, Manager ST. LOUIS, MO. COAL AND EXPRESS Trunks Checked to Union Station and all parts of the city R. S. WILLIS Residence, 110 S. Leonard Ave. Office, 12 N. Channing Avenue MR. J. G. GARDNER & CO., Restaurant AND LUNCH COUNTER. MEALS AT ALL HOURS and on Short Notice Best, Teagascooking at Across the Street from the FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. MRS. GARDNER & SON assist MR. GARDNER & CO. PROF. SOL. HILAND CHIROPODIST Corns, Bunlons, Ingrowing Nails and Trouble of the Feet Treated Telephone Kinloch C 767 2300 MARKET ST. St. Paul's, A. M. E., Lefflingwell and Lawton, Rey. D, P. Roberts, pastor. St. Peter's, A. M. E., Elliott and Montgomery, Rev. James Madison, pastor. St. James, A. M. E., Pendleton and St. Ferdinand; Rev. W. C. Williams, pastor. Quinn's Chapel, A. M. E., Carondelet; Rev. J. A. Christoper, pastor. St. John's Mission, A. M. E., Lowell; Rev. F. E. Clark, pastor. A. M. E. ZION. Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion, 2625 Morgan; Rev. E. D. W. Jones, pastor. Colored Methodist 3966 Fairfax avenue; Rev O. Heavlow. pastor. Lexington Ave. A. M. E. Zion. 4214A Lexington Ave; Rev. Donovan, pastor. M E Centennial M. E., Elliot and Washington; Rev. Gilliam, pastor. BAPTIST. Central Baptist, Twenty-third and Morgan Sts. First Baptist, Fourteenth and Clark Ave.; Rev. E. C. Cole, pastor. Fifth Baptist, 4117 Papin St. Pigimim Baptist, Kosouth and Pans St; Rev. Brown, supply. Antioch Baptist, 4223 Kennerly Ave.; Rev. F. McKinney, pastor. Mt. Pleasant Baptist, foot Dock St. Pleasant Green Baptist, 711 N. Eleventh St. Baptist Church, 110 N. 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. The Young Ladies' Aid will give a grand masque ball at True Reformers' Hall, Tuesday, February 16, for the benefit of Provident Hospital. Miss Emma Armstrong, president; Miss Beatrice Hadlin, secretary. --- ITS GOOD. 2122-24-26 South Broadway Rooming House FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY Gas and Fuel Furnished in Winter Hot and Cold Baths Board if Required Strictly First-Class 4008 Finney Avenue The Palace Hotel 1424 Morgan St. Mrs. Sarah Sprague is conducting a rooming house. Call and get lodging. True Reformers' Hall MADAM IRVING'S Hair Dressing Parlor Shampooing, Straightening, Scalp Massaging a Specialty Braids and Bangs to Match in Color and Quality CALL AND SEE HER WORK Barber Shop At CLARK and CENTER STS. Call and have them attend you. S. J. LANE, Proprietor. Electa Temple. No.31. Meets Second Thursday of each month at 8:00 p. m., Knights of Pythias Hall, Lucas and Jefferson Aves. Mrs. Annie D. Hyatt, M. W. P. Lulu O. Dell, See'y. ELIZABETH TEMPLE NO. 12 OF THE S. M. T. Meets the Second Monday in the afternoon at 2:30 p. m., and the Fourth Friday night at 8 p. m. in each month. MRS. HATTIE WILLIAMS, W. P. Address 703 N. 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