St. Louis Palladium

ST.LOUIS PALLADIUM Vol. XX. No. 10. C.F. HOLLAND 1893 MARKE We are surprised to hear that Dr. Arthur has gone into the saloon business at Lovejoy, Ill. We will calmly await developments. We thought the CITY NEWS. CITY NEWS. Notes and News Concerning Our People--Weekly Record of Social Events, Deaths, Marriages and Births-- Written Especially for St. Louis Palladium. Mr. Tandy is again quite sick. He arose too soon. Mr. Huggins, of 2201 Morgan street, has been quite ill. Mr. Joseph Tandy is sick at his home, 2620 Baldwin street. Mrs. Georgia Guy, of 1509 Gay street, had a relapse, and is again confined to bed. Mr. Jeff Smith, of 1201 Morgan street, will soon visit Hot Springs for his health. Remember J. P. Watkin's buffett, at Douglass' hall. You will do well by patronizing him. Miss Vaughn, the office girl of William Knight, 211 North Jefferson avenue, is one to be admired. Robert Johnson, of 209 South Fifteenth street, has been sick with pneumonia for the past two weeks. He is one of our most energetic agents. The wife of Mr. Parks Dillard, of 2742 Walnut street, was not expected to live at this writing, February 18. We hope for her recovery: All the Pullman boys who are in the city Monday night, February 22, will go to the Knights Templars' ball, at their hall. Miss Victoria Lawson was surprised last Monday by a number of her friends, who appeared at her residence all masked. They had a general good time. Miss Lawson left for Speed, Kas., Tuesday morning. THE HOUSE OF THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. BRIDGE STREET RHODE ISLAND BUILDING. All the details of the Rhode Island building are similar in design to portions of colonial Rhode Island architecture. The main staircase will have mahogany rails and posts, and old ivory finished post-balusters, treads and trimmings. To the right of the reception hall will be a writing room, and to the rear of the writing room the women's parlor, both provided with large open fireplaces with gas logs to burn natural gas, and the mantels are to be exact. doctor's calling was that of medicine, but it seems otherwise. Oh, yes, the old adage says: "There is a divinity that shapes our end, rough hew as we may." The Sunshine club met at Mrs. Lee Martin's, 2612 Baldwin street, and had a grand reception. The proceeds went to Mrs. Brown, who lives at Leffingwell and Montgomery avenues. This was a worthy donation to a worthy sister. The Sunshine club, of North St. Louis, visited the Old Folks' home February 4, and surprised the old people by giving them a fine party. This organization is doing much good for the poor. President Mrs. R. Samuels; secretary Mrs. Braford. Miss Annette Campbell, of 2635 Lucas avenue, will soon visit New York city, Baltimore, and other cities, accompanied by The Palladium man. She will leave her business with her partner, and The Palladium man will leave his business in the hands of The Palladium staff. Home Again. Mr. L. W. Vinegar, of 1331 Gay street, and who is now visiting his home in Paducah, Ky., writes the following article to The Palladium: "Having the pleasure of visiting my old Kentucky home again, I find there are many changes in its apearance as to what it was some twenty-five years ago. But now and then a cluster of offsprings of the old parents come to me in a surprise like a bunch of sweet flowers in spring time. Though the old folks are all gone, yet some little bud of my ancestors is yet in bloom, and all looking forth to the future with pride. Their parents, once all filled with vigor and intelligence, look forth with progressiveness. I have had the pleasure of seeing youths in good positions; viz., in factories, churches and schools. They are doing their part of a nation's heirs who a half-century ago had not the right of freedom. But from what I hear and see, the young Negro, if given the right of way, will soon take his place in the front rank of this advanced age, and leave a record to go down in history and a name to be remembered for "those who die and leave behind them footprints in the sands of time." RNOPE ASIAN copies of some old colonial mantels. To the left of the hall will be the information room, with space for storage of parcels, information desk, long distance telephone booth and drinking water fountains. To the rear of this room is to be the smoking room, and adjoining it the private office of the commission. The second floor will have a state or executive room, 20x30 feet, a reading room 16x17 feet 6 inches, with a bath room for each two rooms. All rooms on the first and second floors will open direct to the porches and balconies ST.LOUIS.MO.,SATURDAY,FEBRUARY 20,1904. Death of Alfred White Alfred White, 94 years of age, one of the best known and until a few years ago one of the wealthiest Negroes in St. Louis, died Tuesday morning at the city hospital. He first came to St. Louis 60 years ago, but afterward went to California, where he saved about $30,000. He returned here and invested his money, largely in real estate, but his speculations were unsuccessful. He was declared of unsound mind in the probate court last November. The funeral was held from the residence of J. A. Kelbey, 1515 Olive street, at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Thus they pass out one by one, and are known beneath the sun no more. We know to our knowledge that he had property and money enough to have secured him a better place for his last days. But the handling of his property by a certain so-calley lawyer placed him in a penniless condition. So much for the Nego so-called lawyer. Announcement. Wait for the great Rose Bud club ball at the New Douglass hall, Monday, February 22, 1904, corner of Beaumont and Lawton avenue (formerly Chestnut street.) Don't fail to hear the great piano contest between Mr. Louis Chaurin and Tom Turpin and others. We also entertain The Smart Set Company on this occasion. Tom Turpin, general manager. THE PULLMAN BOYS. Remember the Knight Templars' ball at Masonic hall, on Monday night. Everybody will be there. Mr. J. C. Jones has taken 30 days' leave of absence. He will go to Los Angeles, Cal., for his health. E. Oliver is in town. He will attend the case of Bud Brown, who is charged with taking Pullman porters' overcoats. D. C. Young is a jolly, good fellow. He is head cook on the dining room cars of the Missouri Pacific, and he is O. K. Mr. Pleas Mason, of Natchez, Miss., has gone in the Pullman service. Runs to Louisville, Ky. He is much pleased with his run. Mr. H. B. Reece is a very popular train porter on the Chicago & Alton. He is nice, neat and tidy, and well thought of by the patrons of the road. Dr. Holland, of Twenty-third street, was among the Smart Set as a chiropodist. The doctor is an up-to-date, all-round man. Watch him, and you will see. Knights Templars' ball Monday night. Mayor Wells has ordered that all St. Louis must turn out Monday night at Masonic hall. He may declare the date a holiday. Mr. Jessie First, of Chicago, is one of the popular waiters on the Alton Limited. He was surprised by a number of his lady friends in this city on Valentine night. We wonder what the wife thinks in Chicago. 77 through glass sash doors. The flat roof is to be covered with canvas and used for a roof garden. On the front of the building will be a plazaza extending up two stories, the roof forming part of the roof garden. Over the front entrance is to be a small balcony, and at each end of the building a one-story plazaza, with balcony on the roof. The building is to be covered on the outside with expanded metal lathing, and plastered with hard plaster in two coats, the finishing coat to be colored and lined off to represent seam-faced granite. THE MONUMENT Virginia's building at the Louisiana Purchase exposition is to be a replica of Monticello, the home of the president who made the Louisiana purchase. Mr. Jefferson was an enthusiastic student of architecture and an amateur draughtsman who brought back from The buffet that was conducted by the late Jim Ray will be open soon under the management of a well-known gentleman. We wish him success. We know his name, but withhold the same. A.R. Please it is on the "Katy Flyer" to San Antonio. He has been on this list for a number of years, and is liked very much by the Pullman company. In fact he makes friends wherever he goes. We wish him success. Mr. G. H. William, one of the favorite porters on the Clover Leaf, is looking well. He was with the Pullman company for many years. At one time he was considered in a good condition as the average man, in Birmingham, Ala. He has two lovely children. He owns his own home at 1517 Goode avenue, St. Louis. 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 Halle 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. The Kink That Won't Come Back. You can make your hair just as straight and smooth as you want to by using the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow, and the kink that was there before will not come back. The Ozonized Ox Marrow also keeps the hair from falling out, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow. It never fails. One bottle does it. Sold over forty years to ladies of refinement all over the country, giving perfect satisfaction. Send us 50 cents and we will ship you a bottle express paid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. *HOME AGAIN. Mrs. Cordelia Hannah and son, of Chattanooga, Tenn., returned home last Wednesday evening after spending several weeks visiting their relatives, Mrs. H. Jordan, of 3320 Fairfax, and Mr. W. Boni, of Scott avenue. Their stay was quite a pleasant one. They hope to return during the fair. Pickett's Headache Powders give instant relief. 2621 Lawton avenue. LANDERS CO. ADMISSION, 50 CENTS. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT-Don't forget the Knights Templar Entertainment EASTER MONDAY. his foreign tours many studies of famous old buildings. The plans and specifications for Monticello to the minutest details by his own hand, are still extatn. As this exposition is a Jefferson centennial, it was Virginia's proud privilege to reproduce some spec- LANDERS CO. PLACE OF MEETING. The LaBors Aid Daughters of Shebla Temple No. 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, 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 chairman of the sick committee, 1212 Morgan street. FANNIE PHILLIPS, 1308 North Thirteenth street. 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. The World's fair will open April 30, 1904; close, December 1, 1904. The officers of the fair association are determined to surpass all other World's fairs. ANNOUN A G MASQUERADE BALL WILL DE G KNIGHTS $2.00 Per Annum, Single Copy 5 cents! THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM imen of Jefferson's own architecture in her state building, and instead of taking one of the Virginia university buildings designed by him, she has done well in choosing the home he designed and built for himself, and in which he lived and died. 19 FIRST BAPSTIST CHURCH NOTES. Dr. Rev. E. C. Cole will baptize his host of converts next Sunday. The ushers are very polite young men. The protracted meetings are still going on at the First Baptist church. Rev. E. C. Cole has had great success, and up to last Sunday night about seventy-five converts had joined the church. A. W. Washington, of 2011A Walnut street, has been sick for two weeks, and has been confined to bed. He will spend a few weeks on his mother's farm in March and April, with hopes of improving his health. Madame E. B. Cole, the esteemed, intelligent and beloved wife of Rev. E. C. Cole, can be seen mingling every Sunday with the members of the First Baptist church. She said she would work her hands off before she would see the church debt go unpaid. Anderson Russell, successor to Russell & Gordon, undertaker and embalmer, livery and boarding, carriages furnished for all occasions. 18-20-22 Market street, St. Louis, Phone, Kinloch C, 330, Branch, 609 East Missouri avenue, East St. Louis, Ill. Phone. First Baptist Church of Bridgeton, Mo., has services as follows: Preaching 11 A. M.; Sabbath school 2 P. M. Preaching 7:30 P. M. Rev. W. W. Perry, Pastor. UNCEMENT. A GRAND HALL AND ENTERTAINMENT DE GIVEN BY THE TS TEMPLAR . 22, 1904, at MASONIC HALL, (Formerly known as Old Central Turner Hall) ION, 50 CENTS. UNT-Don't forget the Knights Templar ment EASTER MONDAY. St. Louis Palladium. Is it necessary to hyphenate all these Asian towns? Why shouldn't we spell it Phil-A-Del-Phia as well as Chin-Wang-Tao? Korea's emperor has hundreds of wives; almost as foolish as Solomon, who was wise enough until he acquired the marrying mania. A Massachusetts court has decided that the free distribution of cigars by a candidate for office is not bribery within the meaning of the law. English $2\frac{1}{2}$ per cent. consuls are quoted at 86%. United States two per cents are quoted at about 105. Financially, Uncle Sam stands first by a large margin. The Japanese can stand being referred to as "pigmies" by the Russian papers. It is recalled that the Standards even reduced the term of reproach for the American people to "pigs." There are 74,169 postmasters in the United States, and to every one of them a bill introduced in the house of representatives by Ezekiel Samuel Candler, of Corinth, Miss., is of the deepest personal interest. Mr. Candler would have the burden of liking postage stamps removed from the lips of the letter writers and put into the mouths of the postmasters. Women stenographers, and women in various other clerical positions of the Erie Railroad company, are to be displaced by young men. They will not be forced out, but when one leaves the service her position will be filled by a man. An official said that the rule was due to the limited qualifications of the gentler sex for success in railroad work, and the impossibility of advancing them to higher positions. European countries are more advanced in the use of cement than the United States. Germany, with a population of one-half that of the United States, used 40,000,000 barrels of cement last year. This country used only 18,000,000 barrels, but the demand is increasing rapidly. Millions of barrels will be used in the construction of the Panama canal, for instance, and the cement plants of Kansas may furnish most of it. Why should any man in good health cease work at 60, when at that period in most men their mental powers have reached their highest training; they can accomplish more with less exertion than at any other period in their live? They do not work so hard as at 40, because they have learned to produce the same results without friction; experteness has taken the place of youthful, sometimes blind enthusiasm and energy, part of which is wasted in making mistakes. An unexamplied amount had been expected by stockmen who had been watching the work of organizing the forces of the Louisiana Purchase exposition, and the sum apportioned was fully commensurate with their expectations. The expenditure for live stock cash premiums at the Chicago world's fair was $132,725. Cash prizes offered to live stock by the Louisiana Purchase exposition alone, from its own funds, will aggregate more than $260,000. The grand canyon of Arizona is a mile deep, 15 miles wide, 217 miles long and painted like a flower." President Roosevelt visited the grand canyon in May, 1903, and contemplating it he said: "It is beyond comparison; beyond description. It is the one great sight which every American should see." The Santa Fe now runs trains daily to the rim of the grand canyon at Bright Angel, a three hours' ride by rail from the main line at Williams, Ariz. The passenger department of the Frisco railroad system has issued a most attractive "Louisiana Purchase" calendar, particularly appropriate and instructive in this world's fair year. It is embellished with handsome illustrations of "De Soto at the Mississippi, 1541." "Founding of St. Louis February, 1764." "Transfer of Northern Louisiana, 1804." and "Marquette's Voyage of Discovery, 1673." With the calendar are maps of the present St. Louis and world's fair site. There are more ways than one to whip the devil around the stump. Under the neutrality proclamation of President Roostvelt American citizens have no right to make contributions to the war fund or give assistance to either of the belligerents, but the Japanese consul general in New York proposes to raise $5,000,000 in this country for the Red Cross fund. When the heathen Japanese carries a red cross in one hand and a repeating rifle in the other he probably will pass for a good Christian by the time he strikes the Russian army. The American people in general have come to feel a deep interest for Mr. Hanna. Even those who cannot bring themselves to approve of his political methods have watched with no little satisfaction the broadening of his sympathies and the development of his intellect under the fostering conditions of official life, Mr. Hanna, while he has been growing in grace and in popularity, has become something of a public institutions, and his restoration to health and strength was sincerely wished for even by the bitterest of his political enemies. Missouri State Gleanings. CONVICT WAS RECAPTURED. Negro Prisoner Made During Escape, But Was Caught Again by a Farmer. Andrew Washington, a negro convict, sent to the penitentiary from Buchanan county to serve nine years on three counts for burglary, of which sentence eighteen months had expired, made his escaped from that institution, but was recaptured and returned to the prison. Washington was employed in the Bruns Shoe Co.'s shops, and, on leaving the shops, he managed to get into a large storm buggy standing within the prison walls without attracting notice. His absence was not discovered until the cell count of the penitentiary's inmates was made, and then a search for him was instituted, but without discovering his whereabouts. When the buggy was driven out of the enclosure that night by Ed Dulle, a member of the Bruns Company, the vehicle contained, beside a cargo of bundles, the negro convict, who dared scarce to breathe lest his presence be detected. When the outskirts of the city were reached the negro left the conveyance and took his way to the adjoining timber. During the night he entered a farmhouse nearly ten miles from town, where he stole a suit of clothes. Next morning the farmer discovered his loss, and, while going to the next town to report it, captured the convict attired in his apparel. He took him prisoner, bringing him back to the penitentiary, and received the standing state reward of $25 upon delivering the man to the warden. Lee Deford Surrenders. Lee Deford, the defaulting cashier of the Bank of Altamont, for whom a reward of $300 was offered by the governor, surrendered to J. Britton, the bank's attorney, at Gallatin. Britton says he will claim the reward, and will pay it into the assets of the defaulted bank. Neither he nor Deford will talk of the latter's whereabouts since he disappeared. Mr. Britton says it was on his inducement that Deford returned after he had gone as far as he could very well get. Mr. Mead, receiver of the defaulted bank, says that efforts have been made by some of the bank's customers to defraud its owners. The case will be brought before the grand jury. Deford refused to talk other than to say his shortage was due to helping friends out of trouble. He says he will not "peach" on them if they want to send him to the penitentiary for fifty years. He will not state where he has been since leaving Altamont. Juror Married Couple. Walter R. Cook and Miss Harriett Mae Buchanan enjoyed the distinction of being the first couple that ever stopped the wheels of justice in the Clayton circuit court long enough for a marriage ceremony. After getting their license in the recorder's office, the couple inquired for a minister to perform the marriage ceremony. They were informed that Rev. John Score, pastor of the Mount Zion church in Creve Coeur, was then in the courthouse, serving on a jury. They asked that he be called, and Judge McElhinney consented to an interruption of the case on trial. Failed to Reach a Verdict. After being out 22 hours, the jury in the O. P. McCarver murder trial, at Farmington, reported that it could not agree upon a verdict, and was discharged by Judge Davis and the case set down for trial again on May 31. McCarver was admitted to ball in the sum of $10,000. It is reported that on the final ballot of the jurors ten were for a 35-year sentence and two for murder in the first degree. McCarver shot and killed Henry Litt because he refused to drink with him. Admits Having Two Wives. W. P. Vandergrift, confessed bigamist, is in jail at Moberly. He was arrested in Oklahoma City, Okla., by Marshal Pattison and returned without requisition papers. He admits he has another wife now living in Washington, D. C., and gives no reason why he committed the crime, except that he loved the woman ne last married and did not weigh the consequences of his act. He married his second wife about three weeks ago in Moberly. Engineer Loses an Eye. John Dougherty, an engineer on the Chicago & Alton railroad, had the sight of his left eye destroyed by the bursting of a glass water gauge while in charge of a special freight train near the town of Shackleford. Dougherty is married and lives at Slater. Dentist Took Cocaine. After writing two notes to his wife, from whom it is said, he is separated, Dr. Joseph H. Witfield, 25 years old, a St. Louis dentist, attempted to end his life by taking cocaine. At the city hospital his condition was pronounced serious. Crusade Against Vice. The World's Fair Protective association has been organized in St. Louis, to suppress vice in the exposition district. It is a part of a general crusade. 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. He Wanted to Die. After cutting his throat in a vain attempt to commit suicide, William Towny, of St. Louis, begged Police Sergeant Sullens to kill him. TOBACCO IN MISSOURI. The Plant Can Be Profitably Grown In, Every County in the State. A series of practical experiments conducted during the last year in Missouri demonstrated conclusively that tobacco can be profitably grown in every one of the 114 counties of the state. The industry is on the increase, and the indications are that more tobacco will be planted in Missouri next spring than at any time in the history of the state. Missouri now ranks as the ninth tobacco state, Kentucky standing first. The fact is, therefore, remarkable that the latter averages only 808 pounds to the acre, while Missouri has for several years produced 830 pounds to the acre. The maximum yield to the acre in this state is now placed at 1,600 pounds, and the minimum at not less than 500. The recent experiments demonstrated that the most profitable varieties that can be grown in this section of the country are the "yellow prior," the "seed leaf" and the "white burley." The tobacco land should be broken deep and the surface thoroughly pulverized by harrowing and rolling. Mark the rows four feet apart, and drill the plants 30 inches apart to obtain fine fiber, and thin leaves. Manufacturers want tobacco that will absorb largely of sugar and licorice. If the land is flat, a slight ridge for the plants will prevent smothering by heavy rains. A tablespoonful twice filled full of seed will sow four square rods of bed, which, if all grow, will produce enough plants for five acres. The seed should be mixed with a gallon of dry ashes or fine earth to distribute evenly, and the surface of the bed should be firmly packed. Transplanting is advisable when the plants are four or five inches high. Cloudy weather, immediately following a rain, is a favorable time for transplanting. When the plants have begun growing, cultivate thoroughly with plow and hoe, eradicating all weeds and grass; kill all the worms, for one of them, alone, can ruin a plant; prime each plant by pinching off the three leaves next to the ground; remove every bloom as the bud appears, allowing from ten to sixteen leaves to each stalk, according to the strength of the plant, and keep all "suckers" plucked off. Two methods of harvesting were found to be so equally profitable that either is advised. Our method is to cut the whole stalk and suspend in the "dry house" with all leaves on till it is cured. The other method is to strip the leaves from the stalk and string with twine or sticks. Fatal Fire in Kansas City. One person perished and four others were injured, one perhaps fatally, in a fire that destroyed a three-story brick apartment house in Kansas City. The dead—Miss Jessie Averill. aged 20; burned to death. The injured—Miss Ida Parish, badly burned and injured internally; Miss Lena Snelling, face and hands burned, serious; Miss Margaret Shaw, face and head burned, seriously; Mrs. Minnie Taylor, head and hands badly burned, arm broken. Supposed Corpse Awakes. After being picked up for dead beside the Burlington tracks and taken to the morgue in St. Joseph, John Miller surprised Coroner Doyle and City Physician Owens by coming back to life. It is supposed that Miller was struck by a train, but his relatives think he met foul play, and that the body was placed beside the track to throw off suspicion. Miller's skull was badly crushed, and he may yet succumb. Will Erect a New Building Action has been taken in Mexico toward the erection of a $15,000 Y. M. C. A. building, and a committee on ways and means has been appointed. The pulpits at the different Protestant churches in the city were given up for use by speakers of the Y. M. C. A. there being services morning, afternoon and night. Identified By a Wart. Detective John Wilson arrived in St. Joseph from El Paso, Tex., the other day, with Roscoe St. Clair Ellis formerly manager of the Rorick department store, by which concern he is accused of embezzling $450. He was identified by the El Paso authorities by means of a large wart on the index finger of his right hand. Big Blaze in St. Louis. In St. Louis a brick factory building at the northeast corner of Fifteenth and Poplar streets, occupied by the Willbrandt Surgical Instrument Co. the Goodfellow-Brooks Shoe Co., and the Belle Hickey Manufacturing Co. was destroyed by a fire of unknown origin, entailing a loss of $130,000. Death of H. T. Buckler. H. T. Buckler, aged 57, died of heart failure at his home south of Sturgeon. He was well known in Boone county, where he resided for many years. An Offer From Springfield. Rev. J. N. George, president of the Chicago theological seminary, has been asked to accept the presidency of Drury college at Springfield, Mo. Drank Horse Medicine. Despondent over a love affair, Miss Edna Whisman, of Triplett, took polsonous horse medicine and died, She was 16 years old. TAPS SOUNDED FOR DEAD STATESMAN City of Cleveland Now Paying Tribute to Its Distinguished Dead. REMAINS GUARDED BY MILITIA Fully Fifty Thousand People Passed the Flower-Covered Casket to Take a Last Look Upon the Features of the Dead Statesman. Cleveland, O., Feb. 19.—This city has truly been one of mourning Thursday. The mortal remains of Senator Marcus A. Hanna now lie in state upon a shrouded catafalque in the auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce, where they were taken immediately upon their arrival here from Washington. Surrounded by a veritable garden of flowers and guarded by a detail of soldiers from the state militia, the city of Cleveland now claims its own distinguished dead. During Thursday afternoon from 1:30 to 9:30 o'clock Thursday night fully 50,000 people passed the flower-covered casket and took a last look upon the features of the dead statesman. Under Military Guard. When finally the last person of the great stream of people had passed out of the doors of the auditorium, there gathered silently about the catafique the entire membership of Memorial post. G. A. R., of which Senator Hanna was a member. With bared heads and weeping eyes the old softlers lattened to the voice of their chaplain reading the ritual of that order for the dead. At its conclusion the shrill notes of the bugler sounded from the gallery, to be immediately followed by the thrill of the drummer sounding "taps." The service over, the veterans, marching in couples, passed the bier for a last look at their comrade. A detail from Troop A then took up its stand at the head of the catafique and the building was closed for the night. Thousands Disappointed. With snow blowing into their faces fiercely and the cold wind chilling them through, thousand upon thousands of people stood for hours in a double line, stretching for more than five squares, waiting for an opportunity to pass into the building, where lay the remains. Although the crowd was passing into the auditorium at the rate of more than sixty a minute, the line grew rapidly, and when at 9:30 o'clock the doors were closed for the night, there were still several thousand persons who had waited patiently, but were compelled to return home disappointed. Arrived In Driving Storm. The funeral train bearing the body of the dead senator and the members of his family arrived in Cleveland during a driving storm. When the train came to a stop, the first to leave it was Gov. Herrick, followed by members of the funeral party. The family and immediate friends who occupied the private car were the last to leave the train. Body Lying in State. The floral tributes were the most elaborate since the funeral of the late President McKinley. A whole carload from Washington officials accompanied the funeral train. They included a beautiful wreath from the president. The casket, completely covered with flowers, was taken from the car through the depot and deposited in the funeral car. Troop A, which will act as escort at the funeral to-day, was at the depot, drawn up in two platoons, when the train arrived. When the casket had been placed in the funeral car and the members of the family and friends had been assigned carriages, the cortege, headed by a platoon of police, and followed by Troop A, on black horses, moved for the Chamber of Commerce building, where the body will lie in state until to-day noon. A Short Eulogistic Address. Upon the request of many friends of the Hanna family, Bishop Leonard will deliver a short eulogistic address at the conclusion of the regular funeral service to-day upon the life of the dead statesman. Bishop Leonard will be assisted in the services by Rev. Wm. M. Pierce, president of Kenyon college, at Gambier, O.; Rev. Dr. McGrew. of St. Paul's, and Rev. A. H. Jones, of St. John's church, this city, of which Mr. Hanna was a vestryman. At the close of the services at the church the body will be conveyed to Lakeview cemetery, and after a brief burial service in Wade mortuary chapel, will be placed temporarily in the Wade vault, it not having yet been decided where the body shall finally be interred. Paid $1.07 For Wheat. Chicago, Feb. 19.—Millers here Thursday paid $1.07 a bushel for No. 2 red wheat. Wheat for May delivery sold at 99½c a bushel, a gain of an even two cents. Scarcity of wheat suitable for milling purposes was the important factor in causing the advance. As a Permanent Military Camp. Washington, Feb. 19.—The house committee on military affairs Thursday heard Col. C. A. Edwards, U. S. A., and Representative Slayden, of Texas, in favor of the selection of Fort Sam Houston, Tex., as a permanent military camp. For a Military Wagon Road. Washington, Feb. 19.—Senator Nelson offered an amendment to the army appropriation bill, appropriating $250,000 for the construction of a military wagon road from Valdez to Ft. Egbert or Eagle, on the Yukon river, Alaska. The good people of Venice, Ill., and also of Madison, read The Palladium, Mr. Lewis Watkins, our enterpriseing 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. A MOST REMARKABLE CHARACTER. Mr. Robert Johnson, of 209 South Fifteenth street, was born in 1815; therefore, was a slave 45 years. He passed through the civil war in the commissary department, and since that time, through friends, he has secured several good positions. In 1881 he was employed by the late Hon. John W. Turner, street commissioner under Mayor William L. Ewing; then under Hon. D. R. Francis, who was mayor of St. Louis. For the past ten years he has been a patient sufferer, not being able to do any hard work, yet he was always willing to do something for a living. He is now a news dealer, selling papers. By that means he makes a fair living. He sells the St. Louis Palladium, and if you wish to help him, you can do so. Remember, he can not get out, but you can get The St. Louis Palladium by calling at his house, 209 South Fifteenth street. And All of My Patrons. Mr. M. Barnes, our energetic agent, is doing fine work. He cells 20 to 25 copies a week. The congregation of Central Baptist like The Palladium for the stand it took in defending them when the Old Black Man took delight in sticking that congregation in the short ribs. At that time The Palladium thundered forth the shot and shell, and consequently gained the admiration of that church. Mr. Barnes is all right. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE If you want the very HIGHEST WAGES paid for your services go to the..... Christian Employment Bureau. 2603 LUCAS AVE. J. M. H. Dorsey Wood, Coal & Ice, EXPRESS WAGON Hauling to all Parts of the City 2629 Morgan St. 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. Wm. A. Overton, Plumbing AND GAS FITTING. Furnaces, Steves 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, 2635 LUCAS AVE. Everything First-Class. All Modern Improvements. ROOMS AT MODERATE PRICES. FIELDS & CAMPBELL, Proprietors. "Follow the Flag." Banner WAFIELD, Prop. S. J. LANE, Jd., Mgb. Waffield & Lane BARBER SHOP FIRST CLASS WORK Guaranteed. 2310 MORGAN ST. 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, Dealer in Groceries, Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Meat and Vegetable Market. 1119 and 1121 Morgan Street, St. Louis, Mo. DR. S. B. BELL, FIRST-CLASS Barber Shop and Bath, In the True Reform Hall. First-class Barbers. B. W. Corner Pine Street and J. fess son Avenue. SEXTON & MITCHELL'S EXTRA FINISH Art School, 2605 Lawton Ave. Now Open for Pupils. Terms Rasonnable. Fine Oil Paintings for sale, Portraits Enlarged in Crayen, Pastel, Oil. Sam, the Tailor Is the Place to Get Your ...WINTER SUITS... Made to order. One of the Best. 204 North 14th Street. REGISTERED PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A Wonderful Face Bleach. AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER. both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2 Guaranteed to do what we say and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. 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 mulatto person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours shade or two will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin 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, get the color you wish, stop using the veerage. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and so makes hair fall apart. It is highly perfumed, and makes the hair soft and case. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. We sell it in known free. 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., it will come by express. In any case where it fails to do 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 ```markdown ``` This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or irritated hair soften and shine the scalp, prevents the hair from fall and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted for straightening kinky hair. Sold for straightening kinky hair. Bake or imitations. Get the Original Ozonized Ozonizer. Keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful, giving much desired. A toilet necessary for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed. It is the best and most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a prepara-bottle. Only $0 cents. Sold by drugstores and dealers. Send us $0 cents. We pay all express charges. Send postal or express paper when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. THE ALCOVE. 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. 2032 Market St. THE A All Nations invited except Carrie and Cafe in the West. with a first-cl MISS N. GRAVES, FIRST-GLAS DRESSMAKER. PLAIN SEWING ALSO DONE. Call 3731 VISTA AVENUE. 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: Freedman Journal. Chicago Conservator. Topeka Plaindealer. Indianapolis Recorder. The Afro-American. The Vicksburg Light. Arkansas Appreciator. The Dallas World. The Springfield State Capital. The Sedana Times. Eagle-Herald, Gainsville, Fla. The Reformer. The Truth Teller, St. Louis. Southern Christian Recorder. Cincinnati Brotherhood. Star of Zion. Washington Bee. Seattle Republic. Woman's World. Bluegrass Bugle. Chicago Broad Ax. Paducah Bee. The Parson Weekly Blade. The City Times, Galveston, Tex. Eagle, Kempsville. Ala. Christian Recorder Of the A. M. E. Church. The Press, Quendo, Kan. The Light, Vicksburg, Miss. The Mayor, Hopkinsville, Ky. Oklahoma Guide, Guthrie, Logan Co. American Eagle, St. Louis. The Watchman, Columbus, Ga. Texas Guide, Victoria Texas. The Lancet, Baltimore, Md The City Times, Galveston Texas. The Sunday School Monitor, Nashville, Teen. The Business Herald, Donaldsonville Ala. The St. Luke Herald, Richmond, Va. The Progress, Omaha, Neb. Nashville Clarion, Nashville, Tenn. Missouri State Republican. The Pythian Blade, Vicksburg, Miss The Christian Organizer, Lynchburg, Virginia. The Columbia, Louisville, Ky. Colored Messenger, Kansas, Mo. Temple of Health and Physical Review. Savanna Gazette, Savannah, Ga. Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Fla. Voice of Missons, New York. Searchlight, Wichita, Kan. Tribune, Pueblo, Colo. Colored Citizens Press, Chicago, Ill. Banker, Merchant and Manufacturer Publisher of Money, New York. Teche Valley News, Jeanerette, La. St. Joseph Radical, St. Joseph, Mo. Palladium, Nashville, Tenn. Pythian Blade, Vicksburg, Miss. Bee, Paducah, Kv. Southern Advocate, Hot Springs, ississippi. Etheopian Abbiville, S. C. Wisconsin Advocate, Milwaukee, wisconsin. Eagle, Kempsville, Ala. Chicago Visitor, Chicago, Ill. Kenucky Reporter, Owensboro, Ky. Pythian Journal, St. Louis, Mo. Rising Sun, Kansas, Mo. Southwestern Advocate, New Orleans, uisiana. Republican Guide, Baltimore, Md. The Advocate Citizen, East St. Louis. Fargo Sun, Kansas, Mo. The Albquereque Amerian, 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. MISSDURI PACIFIC RAILWAY AND IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE, KNOWN AS THE GREAT SOUTHWEST SYSTEM Connecting the Commercial Centers and Rural Areas MISSOURI, The Broad Corn and Wheat Fields and Thriving Cities of KANSAS, The Fertile River Valleys, Wood Centers and Hard Parks of NEBRASKA, The Grand, Picturesque and Enchanting Scenery, and U. C. Famous Mining Districts of COLORADO, The Agricultural, Fruit, and Timber Lands, and Hot Springs of ARKANSAS, The Sugar Plantations and Immense Rice Fields of LOUISIANA, The Cotton and Grain Fields, the Cattle Ranges and the Regions of TEXAS, Historical and Scenic OLD AND NEW MEXICO, And forms with its Connections the Popular Winter Route to CALIFORNIA For descriptive and illustrated pamphlets of any of the above States, address pamphlets* Agents, or H. C. TOWNSEND, General Passenger and Ticket Agent S. LOUIS. --- St. Louis. LCOVE. This is one of the finest Buffet Everything up-to-date ass Orchestra. THE WORLD'S FAIR. 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. ```markdown ``` 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. 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. Centennial M. E. Church Services. Preaching, Sunday, 11:30 a m Sunday School, 2:00 p m Preaching, 7:00 p m Tabernacle Baptist Church Services. Preaching, Sunday, 11:00 a m Sunday School, 1:00 p m B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p m Preaching, 8:00 p m Wednesday evening. Prayer Meeting. Friday evening. Young People's Prayer Meeting. Rev. Fred. McKinney, Pastor. J. A. Smith, Clerk. All church notices must be mailed to this office on or before Wednesday of each week. Reporters will be sent wherever requested. Only notify this office. 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. In the Missouri Club. With a few more low-down, dirty Niggers like the Nigger that got knocked down last Saturday night, out of the way, would put the Negroes on a better basis. RELIGIOUS MATTERS DAILY BREAD AND DAILY CROSS We do not shrink to ask for daily bread Of Him who taught to us that daily prayer: And should it fill our souls with nameless dread, That He asks us our daily cross to bear? His gifts are every morning new and sweet. And every evening they are plenteous still; But in return, He simply dethreatent That we should wear His yoke, and do His will. We take His daily boon with eager hand, And, like ungrateful children, cry for more; But when He hegs our help in every land, We turn Him empty-handed from our door. Lord, teach us how to pray and how to live! To know that daily bread means daily cross; That who get are poor unless we give, And losing self is gain instead of loss. -Rev. Joel B. Slocum, in Boston Watchman. THE WILL OF GOD. Men Too Often Leave God Out of Their Reckoning in Planning for the Future. We should always have reference to the Divine will, says Christian Work. James warns those who say "To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain," by reminding them of the brevity of life, that it is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away. It ill becomes one so transient and frail to boast of what he will do definitely on the morrow, and where he will tarry for exactly one year, and how he will trade and be sure of gain and not loss. "For that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, ye shall live and do this or that." "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it." Because men leave out of their reckoning the will of God and go their way, they often bring themselves and their friends into great perplexity and trouble. A change of location, a change of business, a change of church relations may be made wholly irrespective of God's plan and purpose, and may bring loss to all concerned and great dishonor to God. Such little things may change the destiny of unborn generations. Upon such slender threads do often hang eternal destinies. But will not such thoughts make life an intolerable burden? Will this not make life one continual bondage? How can one always know and do the will of God exactly? When God's will is deliberately recognized as the best thing, it will not be hard to ascertain that will. "He that is willing to do His will shall know of the teaching." When one wills to do, he will know, and when he refuses to do, he will cease to know. When the heathen world "knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful." And then they lost their knowledge of God, and became vain in their imaginations or reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and degenerated into the grossest idolators. Neither is God's will hard to do. Paul exhorts us to present ourselves as a sacrifice upon God's altar, "that we may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." He is not a hard Master. His yoke is easy and His burden is light. "Lo, I come! I delight to do thy will, O my God!" When we say this we shall not be greatly troubled by self or friends or foes or circumstances. The pleasures, wealth and honors of the world will have but little power over us. We shall ever be singing: "We worship Thee, sweet will of God, And all Thy ways adore, And every day we live We seem to love Thee more." Thus finding and doing God's will, it remains for us to abide in it. "He that endureth to the end shall be saved." "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." "Safe in the center of Thy loving will, My God and Father, this indeed is rest; No sad forebodings now, no dread of ill: How free from care I am, how truly blest! "Within that place of perfect safety hld. From henceforth let me evermore abide. My fears are gone, my restless longings stilled; My God, I trust Thee, and am satisfied. "The blood of Christ has washed away my sin." And through that blood I am at peace with Thee; My will is Thine, no controversy now. Thee that passeth knowledge keepeth me. Toiling Terribly. Easily wrought work is usually worthless work. "How hard shall I run?" inquired a notice of his trainer on the eve of a great race. "Until you drop," was the grim reply. "I toiled terribly," said Sir Walter Raleigh, explaining his method of achievement. "Ye have not yet resisted unto blood," wrote the apostle. The best work is wrought with travail. Do not despair, but rather rejoice, when things "come hard." -S. S. Times. Attendance Upon Public Worship. When a man can willingly forego even the outward services of religion and stay away from the house of God, and let the seasons of devotion and communion pass by without a thought of regret, his faith and love must be at a low ebb. A living plant seeks water, a living soul longs for the refreshment the sanctuary.-Henry Van Dyke. THE POWER OF WORDS. Tongue and Lipa Should Be Watched as Unruly Members Capable of Doing Great Mischief. That is a solemnizing sentence in St. Matthew's Gospel beginning, "By thy words." It contains a warning which will startle anybody who will stop long enough to think about it. In this sentence Jesus ascribes to words a force and significance far beyond that which we grant them in our ordinary thinking. But is not Jesus right? Is it not true, as He declared, that it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaketh? The Chinese have a proverb, says Wellspring, expressing the same idea. "Words," the proverb says, "are the sounds of the heart." And, as Hazlett has observed, they are the only things which live forever. They live because man breathes into them the breath of his own immortality. A sound made by the lips is not a word until the soul pours into it its feeling or thought. A word is breath stained by the mind. If this be true then in a genuine sense words are deeds. They are among the most effective of all the deeds we perform. It is possible to caress and to strike with the mouth as really as with the hand. An orator is mighty because he can strike with his tongue. Demosthenes struck the Greeks so hard they could not refrain from striking Philip. James Otis and Patrick Henry struck George III., and thus made our fathers brave enough to load their muskets. Beecher struck the north until the north struck down slavery. These illustrations illustrate the glorious power of words. But think of the fatal imposture and down-pulling force of words. How many good causes have been struck down by men whose tongues were wicked! Every community bears the marks of the fearful ravages wrought by the tongue. The description of James is as true to life as the day he wrote it: "Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue." Every one of us has been wounded by the words of some enemy or thoughtless friend, and alas how many our own injudicious speech has injured! Our dictionaries will all plead against us trumpet-tongued at the judgment day. What a lot of foul and cuttings words they contain, words that have pierced more hearts and let out the life blood of more lives than any dagger, sword or saber displayed in London Tower! Wise indeed the psalmist when he said: "I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle." FREEDOM AND FREEDOM. There Is a Fatal Bondage Which Human Presumption Is Not Ashamed to Call Liberty. The liberty of the life without is of little service to him who is in the throes of slavery within. When the Master said that if He set men free they would be free indeed, He did not think for a moment of the circumstances of life. It was a freedom of the sort that no chains of the earth could effect. Paul in prison was a freer man than the emperor on his throne. The emperor had outward freedom; his word was law, and there were many who stood ready to obey his first word; but he was a slave to a cruel passion; he was in chains of dissipation; he was bound hand and foot by the very life of freedom of which he boasted; he was in prison in the machine that made him so "free." But Paul was the free man; men could bind his feet but not his heart; they could put him in the inner dungeon and feed him on bread and water; but his was the freedom of the sons of God, and there was a table spread for him in the lower dungeon, at the head of which the Master sat. And there was a glory like unto that which never was seen on land or sea; Heaven opened before his mortal vision. This is the difference between freedom and "freedom!" What matters your outer liberty if within you hear the rattle of the chains! There is the freedom to drink strong drink—but there is a greater freedom in being able not to drink it. There is the freedom to go just where you please, and go where you choose to go—but there is a greater freedom in being able to refuse to go, when "the flesh lusteth against the spirit." There is only one real freedom; it is the freedom of the inner life. There are those who fare sumptuously every day; but their heart's food is ashes, is the east wind. And there are those whose fare is of the common sort, while a veritable banquet is spread before the heart. And your freedom—? "Save me from that fatal bondage which human presumption is not ashamed to call liberty?"—Baptist. HELPFUL AND TRUE. Hope is the mainspring of life.—Socrates. The cause of your failure is always within.—N. Y. Observer. If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve happiness.—Fichte. The advantage of the fires of sorrow lies in the things which they cannot consume.—George Matheson. Great positions are sometimes occupied by very small men. Learn to distinguish between the man and his place.—Wellspring. We are to respect our responsibilities, not ourselves. We are to respect the duties for which we are capable, but not our capabilities simply considered.—W. E. Gladstone. Understand that your wealth or your education or your religious light is not thoroughly made your own till you have begun to use it for other people.—Phillips Brooks. Fresh DRUGS Daily 2601 LAWTON AVENUE N. W. Cor. Jefferson and Lawton Aves. Open Day and Night. Both Telephones. R. J. RAYMOND. Attorney - at - Law, III Clark Ave. St. Louis, Mo. We are the only thou tically competed A Livery Boarding We have our Carrier 2118-20-22 Market St Porters are TH HUGH H ...S At 19 Choice Wines, L ..CAFE Remember FURNISHED ROOMS F EVERYT The Br G. W 1925 Mar Fine Wines, Liquors, C only thoroughly experienced and the only competent Colored Undertakers in the A. RUSSELL, boarding and UNDERTAK We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only practically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. We have our own conveyances and do all our own work. Carriages furnished for all occasions. 2 Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone Porters and Waiters Headquarters THE GEM THUGH B. WHITE, Proprietor of ..SALOON... At 1911 Market Street (Opposite Union Station) Wines, Liquors, Cigars, and the best CAFE IN CONNECTION Remember the Gem. 1911 Market TELEPHONE K 1386A. 5 ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY. BILLIARD ROOMS IN CO. EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. Brunswick Sale G. W. HOLT, Proprietor. 5 Market Street, (Near Union Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. 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. Porters and Waiters Headquarters. THE GEM. HUGH B. WHITE, Proprietor of ...SALOON... 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SELL, DERTAKING TOMB OF THE MAYORS and do all our own work. for all occasions. S, MO. Telephone, C-390. Ms Headquarters. GEM. Proprietor of LON... Market St. On Station) Gars, and the best up-to-date. CONNECTION.. m. 1911 Market. 1386A. HIARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION. FIRST-CLASS. Tick Saloon, Proprietor. Street, (Near Union Station), Accos. ST. LOUIS. Imported and Domestic Cigars. E'S Pool Room, proprietor. St. Louis, Mo. och B-1812. OCH A. 1275. GEO. W. McKOIN. R McKOIN, WM. P. DYE, Proprietor. A horse-drawn carriage Terms Most Reasonable, ing Guaranteed. Notly, Day or Night. Provision Co. MARKETS: T STREET. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. TELEPHONES: LL, Lindell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1022 NUE. KINLOCH C 720. Jefferson Ave. Y SALOON, AVENUE. OORS AND CIGARS, ER, Proprietor 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 Wed- nesday. ADVERTISING RATES. For one inch, one insertion.....$ 50 For one inch each subsequent insertion.....25 For two inches, three months.....6 00 For two inches, six months.....10 00 For two inches, nine months.....14 00 For two inches, twelve months.....20 00 Standing and transient notices per line.....10 RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months......60 Single copy......05 No Excuse for Non-Payment. From the present time on, all who live south of coot 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: 2014 Standard Issue EVEEN 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. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The People's Choice for President. We will have nothing more to say in politics until the party gets together, namely: Hon. C. I. Filley, Kerns, Nagle, Akins, the Hamilton club and the 50,000 Negro voters in the state Otherwise, let the Negro keep out of the different factions. Notice to Our Contributors. We trust that you will give us original matter, and don't write some story that you have heard. If you do, we will tell on you. Dr. Cresslind, of St. Joseph, may do so, but not our contributors. Please take notice. All free doings is passed with the St. Louis Palladium. It takes money to pay the printer. J. W. WHEELER. The above was in The Palladium last June. A certain church sent us some matter in July, and we was told to send the bill to that church. We did so, and we have not heard from the bill or the 75 cents—ah, children. We have sent that bill to St. Peter above, andyou must pay or you don't get in. Don't miss the Knights Templar ball, Monday evening, February 22, 1904, at Masonic hall. KEEP THE FLAG FLYING. Wait! The greatest Negro poet and historist, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, will appear in St. Louis, Monday evening, March 21, 1904, Central Baptist church, corner Twenty-third and Morgan streets. Seize the opportunity and hear him. Tickets now on sale. Wm. T. Burns. INFORMATION WANTED—Concerning Mrs. Annie Johnson, formerly Miss Annie Murreil. She lived in Dyer county, Tenn. Any information will be thankfully received by Mrs. Ellen 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 Rue 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 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 fall. 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. BURIALS The following burials also have been paid: Laura Bell Mansfield, St. Phillips Temple, Huntsville ..... $ 43 50 Henrietta Givens, 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.....$113,000 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. RAILROAD ITEMS. Mr. R. C. Wallis has been promoted to the position of contracting agent of the I. 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. Remember Mr. John W. Wheeler Jr. is a professional pianist. He plays a high-class music, and he takes high-class advertisements for The Palladium. When you help us, you help a worthy young man. J. W. WHEELER. M. B. . On July 17, 1867, J. W. Wheeler arrived in St. Louis, and he has been in public life or before the people for 31 years, and he has kept a scrapbook for 25 years on the doings of white, and black men; so it is no use for men who were, 20 years ago, in TOWER ON MANUFA TOWER ON MANUFACTURES BUILDING TOWER ON MANUFACTURES BUILDING Manager Wanted Trustworthy lady or gentleman to joining territory for well and favorable standing. $20 straight cash salary a check direct from headquarters, Exp enent. Address Manager, 610 Mono orthy lady or gentleman to manage business in this co ory for well and favorably known house of so 20 straight cash salary and expenses, paid each from headquarters, Expense money advanced; po sager, 610 Monon Bldg., Chicago Trustworthy lady or gentleman to manage business in this county and adjoining territory for well and favorably known house of solid financial standing. $20 straight cash salary and expenses, paid each Monday by check direct from headquarters, Expense money advanced; position permanent. Address Manager, 610 Monon Bldg., Chicago, Ill. THE JAPANESE AS MEAT EATERS. The London (Eng.) Globe says: The vegetarians in this country have been fond of citing the Japanese as an argument in favor of "natural feeding." These wonderful people of the east, it is well known, are vigorous, hardy and alert, capable of sustaining great physical fatigue, and brilliantly active in the field of mental energy. All this has been ascribed to vegetarianism, not without a note of triumph by English vegetarians. But a correspondent writing to the Chronicle gives another version of the story. He declares that the improved physique of the Japanese is due to "the more generous diet which they have enjoyed of recent years." The Japanese wrestlers, he points out, are the descendants of a long line of meat-eaters, and their average height is probably close on six feet. They come of the same stock as the Japanese, and are subjected to the same climatic conditions, but while the average Japanese is a diminutive individual, the Japanese wrestler, on the --- --- the gutter, to talk and throw slurs at dead men. When a man dies, whether he be friend or foe, we should throw the mantle of charity over his shortcomings in life. So you who are now preaching what men ought to be, ask yourselves this question: "Has Wheeler got me in his scrap-book?" CTURES BUILDING manage business in this county and ad- dy known house of solid financial and expenses, paid each Monday by sense money advanced; position perma- in Bldg., Chicago, Ill. contrary, who often traces his descent through centuries of meat-eaters, is tall, sinewy and lithe. The same writer declares that the Japanese were vegetarians in the past more from necessity than choice, and while he thinks their staple diet of rice and pickles may have made them tough, he is quite certain that it has stunted their growth. In these days, apparently, there is as little vegetarianism in Japan as Shintoism. The Russian ministry of trade and commerce has made the interesting discovery that fully 50 per cent. of what is known in Great Britain as "Danish butter" in reality comes from Russia, Denmark acting merely as the agent or middleman in its transport. Since 1896 Danish exports of butter to England have risen from 3,810,000 poods to nearly 5,000,000 poods, whereas Russian direct exports to our shores have risen from 471,000 poods to about 1,200,000 poods. Consequently it is being recommended that steps should be taken so to mark Russian produce as to make its origin clear. 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, Chnampaign; 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 Riddjck, Wetung; to be supplied, Beechwood and Beech Ridge; — Dickson, Golconda; J. H. Luney, Galatia; B. F. Moss, Harrisburg; C. H. Holmes, Grand Tower; Sandy McDowell, Murphysboro; C. H. Jackson, Shawneetown; J. W. Edwards, Brookport; A. Perkins, Villa Ridge; F. G. Heard, Edith chapel; J. R. Ford, Hodge's Creek; H. C. Burton, Carbonale; 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; evangelist, 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; 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', St. Louis, T. L. Watson; De Soto, to be supplied; Commerce, Jeremiah W. Wiles; Fredericstown, J. R. Hopkins; Pune Terre, A. O. D. Steeel, Oak Ridge, Chonley; Fesctus circuit, James Randa, Quinn chapel, St. Louis, J. E. Chris;ther; Payne's mission circuit, St. Louts, F. E. Clark; Caladonia mission to be supplied; Caruthersville mission, Perry G. Dawson. U. B. F. AND S. M. T. C. B. P. and S. M. P. 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, Hildale; 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, Cclumbia. NICELY-FURNISHED rooms for rent, 1552 Gratiot street. Stop that cough. Go and get Pickett's Cough Drops. Of the city for Gentlemen and the general traveling public. Every convenience desired by patrons of high class rooms at moderate cost. 12 S. 15th Street. MRS. HATTIE J. RAMSEY, Proprietress. 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, Importer and Dealer in 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. FARBINGTON. 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 Loost streets. All orders are promptly attended to. 308 North Leonard avenue. S. P. PERKINS. Tennessee Shaving Parlor Everything Neat, Clean and Up-to-date. 1320 Morgan Street, 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, of Poplar Bluff, is employed by Mr. Mays, and they are considered staff of the best barbers in our city. They have rem- oved 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 all paintings, a special Fine Art and 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. 108 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. 1 Hall No. 1 at 1323 Market Street Hall No. 2 at 2326 Market Street A. A. BROOK The Chicago game of pool. This lars will be the prize between ten men second prize, $15; third prize, $10. At Coal, Kindling, Wood. 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. TRUNKS CONVEYED FROM OR TO UNION STATION. NOTICE TO OUR AGENTS. They must report weekly, otherwise no paper will be sent them on the following week. 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. ALPHRAN, Mgr. They are the leaders of the city for pastime pleasure. No saloon connected. Strictly first-class. HAULING AND EXPRESS WAGONS. Office: 40i7 Easton Avenue. MR. C. YOUNG. True Reformers' Barber Shop. 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 gay throng of dancers, who were Rooms For Rent, FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT For two gentlemen. Call at 1920 Wash street. 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. A New Rooming 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. C 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. [Image of a man with a mustache and a bow tie, wearing a suit and a necktie. The background is plain and light-colored. The man's face is centered in the frame.] Chinese Restaurant in Connection. Duck Nudles and Chop Suey AT ALL HOURS. HEADQUARTERS OF BANNER BASE BALL CLUB. A. B. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, 3957A Finney Avenue, St. Louis. World's Fair Lunch Room 2807 Manchester Ave. MEALS AT ALL HOURS Home Cooking. Quick Service Give us a call. S. P. PHILLIPS, Prop. ARNETT E. L. ARNETT Wines, Liquor Chinese Restaurant in Connection AT ALL 2801 MORGAN HEADQUARTERS OF BAY We are informed that the so-called Negro democrats of this country will soon meet in St. Louis, with the charter members of the first democratic club, which are as follow: Headquarters of first president of the Colored Democratic League of the state of Missouri. I. H. Bradbury, president, Kansas City, Mo.; W. Herbert Fields, first vice-president, St. Louis, Mo.; Thomas Horell, second vice-pres The Alcove has passed into the hands of Hugh B. White. It will be run on a first-class cafe style, with Mr. Linslay as manager. The departments upstairs over the saloon will be the finest cafe in the city for the accommodation of our people. EDWARD A. NEAL, and General Repair Work. All work promptly attended to. Call and see me. 1100 S. Compton Ave. Telephone—Kinloch C-397. THEO. H. TEMPEL, Dealer in Staple and Fancy GROCERIES, 2601 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. California Canned Goods a Specialty. Pride of the West 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 T, Proprietor. s and Cigars. m. Duck Nudles and Chop Suey HOURS. AN STREET, NNER BASE BALL CLUB. ident, Jefferson City, Mo. Executive committee—W. A. Wilkerson, Eleventh district; Aarmstead Robinson. Twelfth district; James L. Dickson, Tenth district; George Fountain, committeeman-at-large. These are the Negroes who will try to give us a lesson in democratism. They ought to have Tillman, Gorman and Vardaman to assist them. Onward Lodge No. 17 has work first, second and third degrees, Saturday night 9 p. m., February 20. All master Masons in good standing are invited. A. L. LEE, W. M. J. W. GRANT, Sec. s for Colored Professionals. LOWREY, Chefs, Late of Dallas State Fair. ket St., St. Louis, Mo. HONE: Kinloch D-855. The Rosebud Bar, TOM TURPIN, Prop. Pool Room in connection. Also a first-class cafe in rear. Open all night and day. All Prices. Private Dining-room. MASON& LOWREY, Chefs, Late of Dallas State Fair. 2220=22 Market St., St. Louis, Mo PHONE: Kinloch D-855. MASON& LOWREY, Chefs, Late of Dallas State Fair. 2220=22 Market St., St. Louis, Mo. PHONE: Kinloch D-855. GEO. COX, Vice-Pres. BUD GATEWOOD, Captain. GEO. WASHINGTON, See. IRWIN WHEELER, Bus. Agt. The 400 Base Ball Club C. W. WILLIAMS, Proprietor 400 Bar, And President 400 BASE BALL CLUB. Headquarters the 400 Bar, 1300 MORGAN STREET. The "Owl" Saloon 33 South 20th Street Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Bottled Beer Everything Genuine Remember the Plain Phone: Kinloch B 1817. WILLIAM JAMES and MR. R. SAUNDERS, Mansgers CHARLEY HARRIS, Proprietor Everything Genuine Remember the Place The Greeley Saloon. Fine Wines Excursionists give us Ask for 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, THE GREELY CHOICEST OF LIQUID REFRESHME S. E. Cor. Twelfth and Wash Streets, PLEASE YOU NO ONE CAN. THAT IS APPROPRIATE SERVED HERE. SMITH, Manager. EELY RESORT. LIQUID REFRESHMENTS TO BE HAD. IF WE CAN'T PLEASE YOU NO ONE CAN. EVERYTHING THAT IS APPROPRIATE SERVED HERE. 1409 Market Street B. MUNCHWEILER Dealer in LADIES' and GENTS' SHOES DON'T FORGET THE NUMBER 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. INGE. e Agent, 2633 Pine. Millinery. Up-to-date Hats. J. P. WATKINS, Prop. Douglass Buffet and Pool Room IS NOW OPEN LAWTON AVE. and BEAUMONT ST. LOUIS MO. --- --- DAVE YOUNG. Night. The Rosebud Bar, TOM TURPIN, Prop. Pool Room Also a first-class cate in rear. Open all night and day. All Prices. Private Dining-room. [Portrait of a man in a suit with a tie and a badge on his chest]. JEFF. SMITH. Propr. 1870 NEW LOCATION. 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. HUTCHINS INGE, Lawyer and Real Estate Agent, 1107 Clark Avenue and 2633 Pine Anheuser-Busch Beer on Tap Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars JOHN H. CLARK Day. A. B. C. treets, ST. LOUIS, MO. 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. 1409 Market Street Mrs. Susan Gross, 2609 Pine Street. Trimmings and all material in that lines. 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. Stop that cough. Pickett's Cough Syrup. Fixing the Limit. "No," said the editor, "we can't use your story. There's too much originality about it." "Too much originality!" echoed the contributor. "Why. I thought you wanted original story to do," answered he of the blue pencil, "but we draw the line at spelling." Cincinnati Enquirer. Three consecutive divisions Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 15.—Physicians have accepted Dodd's Kidney Pills as the standard remedy for diseases of the kidneys and kindred complaints. R. H. Dunaway, M. D., of Benton, Ill., says: "Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me of Dinettes after everything else had failed and I was given up to die. I have since prescribed them in my regular practice for every form of Kidney Trouble and have never as yet known them to fail." Jesse L. Limes, M. D., St. John, Kansas, says: "I prescribed Dodd's Kidney Pills for the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McBride of this place who suffered from Epileptic fits following Scarletina; results were miraculous; I have never seen anything like it." 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"Bird for the forward, The needle this side, Then over—off—and we've made the seam." Grandmother knows how a stocking grows, Ribbing and purling and heels and toes; Now she is teaching our little Rose. -Mary J. Jacques, in St. Nicholas. DOG TRAVELS ON PASS. Clever Fox Terrier, Known as Dewey. Is Signally Favored by an Eastern Railroad. "Dewey," a well-behaved fox terrier, whose home is in Rye, will be the first dog honored with a regular annual pass, says a New York dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Dewey has been a traveler on the New York, New Haven & Hartford road for several years. Hitherto he has been "deadheaded," or supplied with only trip passes, but now trainmen along the line have made application to the passenger department for an annual. It will be put in a silver case, and Dewey will wear it about his neck whenever he wants to make a trip. Every station agent and express messenger from New York to Springfield knows this dog. Never a week passes that he does not go on a trip of inspection on the line. Dewey leaves home early in the morning on an express train going toward New Haven. He rides 40 or 50 miles in the baggage car, gets out, whisks about among the employees at a station, wagging his tail, then barks furiously at the door of an express car, jumps in when it is opened, and goes on a few stations farther. When night comes the dog crosses the track, boards a train toward home, curls up in a corner of the car, and is sure to awaken and get off at Rye station. The Repainting of Liners. The great Atlantic liners are, as a rule, repainted every trip. The sides of the average first-class liner from water-line to rail represent an area of about an acre. The outworks of decks and cabins amount to almost as much more, while the outside surface of the two great funnels and masts totals over half an acre. Thus there is an area of about two and a half acres to be covered on the big liners at the end of every voyage. The painting of the funnels is the most important and difficult of the whole undertaking, and the men carry on their work from swinging seats. A ROCKVILE (Conn.) man has completed a table that is remarkable. It is a round center table, and is constructed of 3,430 separate pieces of wood of historical interest. In the center of the table is a mariner's compass, with every point in it shaded, one of the hardest parts in the making of the table being the matching of the different shades of wood. Outside of the compass runs an intricate design made of diamond-shaped and triangular pieces A REMARKABLE TABLE. of wood, light and dark alternating and arranged in such a way that there is an actual perspective, and in looking at the table the design appears to be of raised blocks instead of being entirely flat, as it is. The top of the table is remarkable in this particular and in the fact that it is made from wood from many parts of the world, each state and territory of this union being represented, and the entire work being done with a jackknife. The top of the table is 30 inches in diameter and is 16-sided. There are four concealed drawers under the top of the table. The outer rim is of rosewood and mahogany. On the ledge beneath the same idea of inlaid work is carried out in stars piled one above the other. The maker first began to gather wood for this table in 1876, and during all of the last 28 years he has been constantly on the hunt for pieces of historic bits for his table. After gathering the material it took three months to make the table, requiring unlimited patience to TWO TREES IN ONE. Natural Graft Discovered by a Party of Children in a Trump Through the Woods. The children and their teacher were off for a tramp in the woods, where each brown tree trunk showed plainly against the background of snow. Suddenly Richard, who had gone ahead, shouted to the rest: "I have found the queerest tree with two trunks!" and the whole party hurried to the spot. Beside the path they found two small red oaks that after several feet of growth had united into one tree. "It looks like a tree on stilts," declared Alice; "but how did it get two trunks?" Alfred, who had been studying it carefully, said: "There were two trees, and TWO TREES GRAFTED INTO ONE. that knot above the spot where they have joined shows that one top died after the trunks grew together." "Both trunks are alive now," said Richard, who had been testing them with his pocket knife. Then the teacher explained that originally one tree branched, and the other, leaning in that direction, rested in this crotch, and a small branch above this crotch held the trunk securely. That is to say, one trunk grew between two small branches of the other tree. As these branches increased in size they held the bark of one trunk against the other as firmly as if they were clamped in a vice, so that one tree grafted naturally into the other. In time the top of one trunk and the small branches died, leaving this odd and puzzling growth.—St. Nicholas. Female Observed in Japan. The Japanese festivals are easily remembered: First of first month, the New Year; third of third month, feast of dolls, for girls; fifth of fifth month, feast of flags, for boys; seventh of seventh month, the day for the god and goddess of love, Tonabata; ninth of ninth month, the "escape to the mountain," the feast of chrysanthemums. The latter is not now generally observed. Trust Formed by Beggars. The beggars of Barcelona, Spain, combined to withdraw from circulation all the two centesimo pieces they received from charitable public. The object was to compel people to give away the coin next and higher in value, namely, five centesimo pieces. carve out each piece with a jackknife. The New York Tribune reports that the maker has pieces of wood from numerous places and things, including the following: Charter Oak, Hartford, Conn.; Washington Elm, Cambridge, Mass.; Washington's headquarters, Valley Forge; Dewey's flagship, Olympia; the Peel house, at Gomersal, England. A. D. 1640; the ship Endeavor, one of the first to circle the globe, 1768 (Capt Cook); the Merrimac, the ship Minnesota, the railroad wreck at White River Junction, the great Chicago fire, the Hoboken wharf fire of 1900, house in Vernon, Conn., in which the first yard of satinet cloth was woven in the United States, 1812; the steamer Portland, foundered off Highland Light, Cape Cod, November 27, 1898; Fort Crown Point, N. Y., built by the English in 1761; lignum vitae, part of mast of the United States steamer Cumberland, shot away by Merrimac in Hampton Roads; courthouse where John Brown was tried at Harper's Ferry; the tomb of Napoleon, St. Helena; the vessel Wasp, blockade runner in 1812; house in Deerfield, Mass., scene of the Indian massacre in 1704; the tree under which Burgoyne surrendered in 1776; Scoville house, Waterbury, Conn., burned on February 3, 1902; Murray Hill hotel, New York, damaged by explosion on January 27, 1902; telescoped car in tunnel wreck of the New York Central, January 8, 1902; the shed in Putnam in Gen. Putnam hung the wolf; the ship Columbia, at Gay Head, bought of the Indians; Old Church, built by the Spaniards at St. Augustine, Fla.; Johnstown flood; Williamsburg flood; Nathan Hale house, Coventry, Conn.; old Enfield bridge; redwood tree, California; tree in front of Daniel Webster's house; Irresistible, of Nelson's fleet, shandoned in the harbor of Bermuda in 1820; white house, burned by the English in 1814; Morro Castle, Cuba; carriage in which President Roosevelt was riding at the time of the accident in Pittsfield, Mass.; Benedict Arnold's flagship, Gov. Trumbull's chair, 1798; the ship Constitution; the Paterson (N. J.) fire; Fanemall, Boston; the ship Kearsarge, Fort Ticonderoga; Libby prison; old house Nantucket, Mass. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson in the International Series for February 21, 1904-Jesus and the Sabbath. GOLDEN TEXT—It is inwful to do well on the sabbath days—Matt. 12:12 OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION. Calling of Matthew . . . Matt. 9:9-13 Calling of Matthew . . . Mark 2:13-17 Calling of Matthew . . . Luke 5:27-32 Question About Fasting . . . Luke 5:28-32 Question About Fasting . . . Mark 2:18-22 Question About Fasting . . . Luke 5:33-39 Question About Fasting . . . Luke 12:1-8 Plucking Grain on Sabbath . . . Matt. 2:23-28 Plucking Grain on Sabbath . . . Luke 6:1-5 Heal on the Sabbath . . . Matt. 7:1-6 Heal on the Sabbath . . . Matt. 8:1-6 Heal on the Sabbath . . . Luke 6:6-11 TIME—The summer (harvest time) of A.D. 28 (part of "The Year of Public Favors") PLACE.—A country road near Capernaum, and a synagogue, in one of the Galilean towns. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Jesus' teachings and methods and those of the orthodox religious leaders were so different in every particular that trouble was certain to come. Many of the scribes and Pharisees may have been perfectly sincere, but their point of view was so entirely different from that of Jesus that they could never see things as He did, and of course they considered Him a heroic and a dangerous man. In the first place, in teaching, if not in character, He seemed to them to be an upstart. He spoke without "authority." And then He had made a publican one of His disciples (9:9-13). The Pharisees saw in the publicans or tax collectors a set of contemptible, unpatriotic mercenaries who had sold themselves out to the hated Roman tyrants. Jesus' eating with publicans and sinners convinced the Pharisees that He was a man of decidedly questionable character (11:19) Again Jesus and His disciples braved all criticism and misunderstanding of the best people by ignoring the weekly fastings and the rabbinical laws enjoined and which all religious people observed. Jesus was directly opposed to asceticism on principle. This opposition was considered an affront to the whole religious system of the Jews. These four things, without the one we take up next, were enough to insure the bitter opposition of official Judaism. (Matt.12:1-8.) One of Jesus' most obsolete heresies was in regard to the Jewish Sabbath. The Fourth Commandment He always reverenced and obeyed, but the absurd restrictions with which the scribes had surrounded it He rejected bodily. "Disciples were hungry:" What the disciples did was to meet the physical necessity for food. "Began to pluck ears and to eat:" This was permitted by Jewish law on week days. A man passing by a wheat field or a vineyard might eat enough to satisfy his hunger. But the oral law forbade this on the Sabbath, on the ground that to pick the heads of grain was harvesting, to rub them in the hands was threshing and to blow out the chaff was winnowing—which things were unlawful! Note Jesus' twofold defense of His disciples: (1) He cites examples (3-5); reminds them of what David once did to meet his own need (1 Sam. 21:6). They would not think of questioning the propriety of David's act, especially since he did what he did with the sanction of the priest. In his case necessity was seen to be above ritual. Even the law (Num. 28:9-10) recognized that certain work connected with the sacrifices was necessary and therefore right. (2) He shows the underlying principles (6-8). "The Pharisees were men of rules, not accustomed to go back on principles. The passion for minutiae killed reflection."—Bruce. "One greater than the temple: Commonly taken as a reference to Himself, but the Greek reads: "But I say unto you a greater thing than the temple is here." The man-made regulations had given way before the claims of the temple service, the lesser interest giving way to the greater. A greater interest than that of keeping up the temple sacrifices was involved here; it was the work of the kingdom itself. This interpretation is the more natural; either is possible. "I desire mercy, and not sacrifice:" (Hos. 6:6). Jesus' way of reminding them that the principle He was contending for was Scriptural. "The Son of man is lord of the Sabbath." Mark quotes Him as saying in this connection: "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." The real good of the Sabbath had been lost; Christ's purpose was to restore it. (V. 9:14). "It is lawful to heal on the Sabbath day:" Jesus does not answer the question directly, but with an illustration tries to appeal to their common sense and humane feelings. The discussion over the picking of the heads of wheat made His position plain on works of necessity; this deals with works of mercy. "It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath:" To refuse to do good to one who needs it to do evil, no matter what the day of the week. Jesus was unyielding, His influence was increasing and the Pharisees saw that the only way to silence Him was to kill Him, and He must be silenced. Good Deeds and Bad. Greed is the devil's seed of need. Death is the only escape from death. Spiritual forces cannot be set down in figures. God can only lead us as long as we walk in the light. We do not defer to-day's punishments by to-morrow's promises. Wickedness is a plant that is most likely to die if we cease to water it. God is not likely to trust truth to the keeping of the man who cannot keep his temper. A sermon our duty to God will not be accepted as a substitute for doing our duty to man. It is a good idea to have some everyday virtues in your possession before you pretend to have uncommon ones. Ram's Horn. FOR THIRTY YEARS Congressman Meekison Suffered With Catarrh—Read His Endorsement of Pe-ru-na. CONGRESSMAN MEEKISON, OF OHIO. Hon. David Meekison is well known, not only in his own out America. He began his political career by serving four as Mayor of the town in which he lives, during which time known as the founder of the Meekison Bank of Napoleon, Ohio to the Fifty-fifth Congress by a very large majority, and is leader of his party in his section of the State. Only one flaw marred the otherwise complete success of man. Catarr with its insidious approach and tenacious ur.conquered foe. For thirty years he waged unsuccessful personal enemy. At last Peruna came to the rescue, and he eing letter to Dr. Hartman as the result: "I have used several bottles of Peruna and I feel g thereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encouraged I use it a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate thirty years' standing."—David Meekison, ex-Member of Hon. David Meekison is well known, not only in his own State but throughout America. He began his political career by serving four consecutive terms as Mayor of the town in which he lives, during which time he became widely known as the founder of the Meekison Bank of Napoleon, Ohio. He was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress by a very large majority, and is the acknowledged leader of his party in his section of the State. Only one flaw marred the otherwise complete success of this rising statesman. Catarrh with its insidious approach and tenacious grasp, was his only ur.conquered foe. For thirty years he waged unsuccessful warfare against this personal enemy. At last Peruna came to the rescue, and he dictated the following letter to Dr. Hartman as the result: "I have used several bottles of Peruna and I feel greatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encouraged to believe that if I use it a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate the disease of thirty years' standing."—David Meekison, ex-Member of Congress. THE season of catching cold is upon Mrs. A. Snedeker, Cartersville, Ga. The cough and the sneeze writes: us. The cough and the sheeah and nasal twang are to be heard on every hand. The origin of chronic catarrh, the most common and dreadful of diseases, is a cold. This is the way the chronic catarrh generally begins. A person catches cold, which hangs on longer than usual. The cold generally starts in the head and throat. Then follows sensitivity of the air passages which incline one to catch cold very easily. At last the person has a cold all the while seemingly, more or less discharge from the nose, hawking, spitting, frequent clearing of the throat, nostrils stopped up, full feeling in the head and sore, inflamed throat. The catarrh is at the very beginning. A bottle of Peruna properly used never fails to cure a common cold, thus preventing chronic catarrh. While many people have been cured of chronic catarrh by a single bottle of Peruna, yet, as a rule, when the catarrh becomes thoroughly fixed, more than one bottle is necessary to complete a cure. Peruna has cured cases innumerable of catarrh of twenty years' standing. It is the best, if not the only internal remedy for chronic catarrh in existence. But prevention is far better than cure. 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Snedeker, Cartersville, Ga., writes: "I saw that your catarrh remedy, Pepcine, is taking others so much good, that I thought, I should that I thought I would try it and see what it would do for me. My case is an old one and I have none of the acute symptoms now, because I have had the disease so long that I had none of the aches and pains, but a general rundown condition of the whole body—sore would try it and see what it would do for me. My case is an old one and I have none of the acute symptoms now, because I have had the disease so long that I had none of the aches and pains, but a general rundown condition of the whole body—sore nose and throat and stomach. I had a good appetite but my food did not nourish my system. I had come down from 140 to about 75 pounds in weight. I now feel that I am well of all my troubles." Mrs. A. Snedeker. Send for free book on catarrh, entitled "Winter Catarrh," by Dr. Hartman. "Health and Beauty" sent free to women only. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. IN PRAIRIE LAND. (Editorial Correspondence) (Editorial Correspondence.) MOOSE JAW, Assinibola Farmers' Review, Chicago, July 22, 1933. "Most of the prairies in the United States have ceased to exist." Man has broken them up with orchards, forests and farm buildings. But in Western Canada the prairies still stretch grandly from horizon to horizon as yet unmarried by the hand of man, save where the iron road has been laid. To a city man there is something deliciously restful about the vast grassy solitudes. "Numerous clumps of trees mark the course of the Assiniboine River, which keeps in sight of the railroad for some distance. "Grass is one of the notable things about all the landscape of Western Canada. It is a remarkable fact that the entire length of the Canadian Pacific railway from its eastern terminus to the Rocky mountains is over plains where grass grows. The sage brush appears at some points, but never to the exclusion of grass. There is thus not a mile of this country that cannot be used for some agricultural purpose—either for tilling or ranching. "Moose Jaw is a town of over 2,000 inhabitants and one of the most important places in Assiniboia, being the center of a very good farming country and a great grain and stock shipping point. "Near Moose Jaw agriculture and ranching go hand in hand; for near the town was seen a herd of beef cattle several hundred in number. On another side was seen a good sized herd of dairy cows, the property of the citizens in the town. "In riding over the prairies we saw many good fields of alfalfa. The great need of the country is timber, which grows readily where planted, as was demonstrated by the shelter bells on some of the farms, and the trees on the residence lots in the town. "Stories were told the writer of men who last year cleared from their wheat crop more than the land on which it was grown originally cost them. This is easy to believe in view of the large crop and high price for wheat last year.—Henry F. Thurston." By sending your address to any agent of the Canadian Government you will have mailed to you a copy of an Atlas, railway rates, etc., giving fullest information regarding Western Canada. America As Italians See It. "The Italian people have no true conception of America," says Mr. Brandenburg, telling of his experience as an immigrant, "though Italy is flooded with books of views principally of New York and the Pan-American exposition, and there is a brave effort made by the Italians in American to write home adequate descriptions of the new land. Once I was called upon to settle a most bitter and acriduous dispute between two men as to what America was like. One, who had a brother in Wilkesbarre, Pa., thought it all coal mines, steel mills and railroads, while the other, whose cousin worked in a New York barber shop, maintained America was all high buildings and railroads which run over the housetops—Leslie's Magazine. The General and the Coachman. A good story is told by a London military paper of a certain English general who was rash enough to pay a cabman his legal fare for driving him to the war office. Instead of proceeding to describe the salient points of his personal appearance, the polite Jeku beckoned quietly to one of the doorkeepers. "Who's that?" he asked. "Gen. Blank." "Ho! was it?" said the cabman, nodding a wise head; "then I don't wonder that it took us three years to finish the war."—N. Y. Tribune. An Eccentric Story. The members of the Eccentric club, writes our London correspondent, are a lively collection of young people, and are quite ready to join in a joke that goes against themselves. Perhaps that is why they so keenly appreciate a tale that they are now telling. One member of the club does not make a rule of over-paying his cabmen. Recently he took a cab to the club from a point that was only a few yards short of two miles. He tendered the man one shilling net. "Beg pardon, sin," said the cabby, "what might this be?" "That's your fare," said the member. "Oh, it is?" quoth the driver, gazing up at the club premises. "Well, all I can say is—no wonder they call this the Eccentric club!"—N. Y. Commercial Yonkers Musicians. "Do you know the name of that piece we just played?" asked the concert player. "Do you mean the one the orchestra played, or the one you were playing?" asked the sarcastic friend.—Yonkers State man His Qualification. Gent—Er—you have come about the coachman's place. I am very nervous, you know. Are you sure you can drive slowly and carefully?" Applicant—Certainly, sir. Why, I used to drive a hearse,—Alley Sloper. Hope. "Did you tell that publisher that your novel was entirely original?" "Yes." "What did he say?" "He said if might be good in spite of that fact, but he doubted it."—Washington Star. Whisky never put a great thought into a cheap man's head; and whisky never helped a great man to a thought that he might not just as well have arrived at without whisky—Chicago American. THE PASSING OF SENATOR HANNA Ohio Statesman Died In Washington of Typhoid Fever. BEST-KNOWN OF PUBLIC MEN The Ead Came Peacefully After a Hard Fight Against the Dread Disease—Surrounded By His Entire Family. Washington, Feb. 13.—Marcus A. Hanna, United States senator from Ohio, and one of the foremost figures in American public, died Monday evening in his apartment at the Arlington hotel at 6:40 p. m., of typhoid fever, after an illness of two weeks. He passed away peacefully and without pain, after being unconscious since 3 p. m., at which time the first of a series of sinking spells came on him from the last of which he never rallied. Members of Family Present. All members of the family, with one or two exceptions, were at the bedside when the end came. They were Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hanna, Mr. and Mrs. McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. Parson, Miss Phelps, H. M. Hanna and Mr. Dover. During the last hours life was kept in his body only by the use of the most powerful stimulants. Senator Hanna will be given a public funeral in the senate chamber at noon Wednesday, and probably lie in state at the capitol. The funeral will be held in Cleveland Friday. SENATOR HANNA'S CAREER. History of His Successful Rise In Business and Politics. Marcus Alonzo Hanna was born in New Lisbon, Columbia county, O. on September 16, 1867. He attended school and high school at Cleveland, being conspicuous already when a small boy for his unusual ambition for an education. Kow of the boys time at school, he left Hanna to school longer than until their thirteenth year, but Marcus Hanna insisted that he be sent to the high school, and his father consented on his education. The time not occupied in school work in helping his father in his store. This time he was at Garretton & Co., but though the older Mr. Hanna was a good business man, the store was no success. At the age of eleven he was in the play of his father's firm, and five years later, on the death of his father, in 1862, he assumed control of the business and conducted it until 1867, when the firm was Immediately after this Mr. Hanna associated himself with the firm of Rhodes & Co., the pleneer coal and iron firm of Cleveland. He was appointed firm of Rhodes firm in April 1878, when he became senior partner and changed the name of the firm to M. A. Hanna & Co. Shipping Magnate. In that year he organized and equipped the Cleveland Transportation Co., one of the largest lakes. He told, some years ago, how this idea had entered his head when he was still a grocery clerk. "In our grocery department, we had a truck do with transportation on the Great lakes, as many of our goods were shipped by that route, and gradually saw that we had to buy new lakes vessels, so I bought part shares in several of them. As our business increased I determined to buy one and named it after my father, Leonard Hanna. Then, as I needed more vessels, I determined to build them myself, and I started a ship Interested In Iron Mines. "This company has finally become the greatest all over the northwest, and ships my way. I became interested more in iron mines and shipbuilding than in the grocery business. If I had never had access to the railroad, I probably never have owned any, and had I never owned any I should have had no reason for building them, and had I not built a railroad. I should have never mines." In 1844 he was elected to the presidency of the Cleveland Union national convention, and he was a delegate to-large from the state of Ohio to the Republican national convention. He was a warm personal friend. Senator Robert F. Kennedy helped him for the presidential nomination in 1880, 1884 and 1888. In 1895 and 1896 he took charge of Maj. McKinley and conducted it so well that he was chosen chairman of the national committee and given the entire conduct of the campaign. This position he has occupied ever since. Becomes United States Senator. Become Mr. Hassan organized and controlled men's industries, employing a large number of men, often as many as ten thousand. He was always highly respected and well thought of by his employees, who might see him as a champion to make. This relationship with his employees gave him a great labor following in political matters in Ohio. He was appointed United States senator by Gov. Bushnell of Ohio, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sherman. In 1898 he was elected senator by the legislature, and in 1900 by the senate he became in a very short time—partly through force of circumstances, but more because of his strong, individuality—a leader of his party, and an able and powerful political figure during the last twenty-five years. His Domestic Life. In his domestic life Mr. Hanna was exceedingly happy. On September 27, 1844, he married Miss Missie F. F. and Sophia Rhodes of Cleveland. A son and two daughters were the fruits of this marriage. During later years Mr. Hanna was the account of his efforts to establish more amicable relations between labor and capital, and the idea of organizing the labor force was largely due to him. His efforts in this direction have been highly appreciated by leaders on both sides in the labor question, and he has been a model for him with a fine statue in marble representing "Peace." This statue, which stands in his office, is said to have appreciated more than anything else in his possession. --- David Kaphokoakimokweonah has been appointed postmaster at Koekia, Hawaiian islands. This is but another illustration of the administration's preference for men of letters in official positions. Herbert Gladstone, son of the "grand old man," himself now a man of 50, has spent nearly half his life thus far in the house of commons. Our president is not a king; our people is not a third estate; our churches are not hierarchies; our aristocracy is not hereditary. LEWIS FAMILY REUNION One of the Most Extensive Family Reunions at the World's Fair. It Will Be Held Under the Auspices of the Loyal Lewis Legion, Covering Many States. The most extensive reunion that has ever been projected is to be held September 23, 1904, at the World's fair. On September 23, 1803, Meriwether Lewis returned to St. Louis after having explored the vast territory from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean. Lewis societies have been organized in nearly all the states of the Union, for the purpose of having a family reunion on Lewis day, which has been officially designated by the World's fair authorities, upon September 23. Already over eight thousand Lewises have been enrolled on the family roster, and it is expected that by September more than twelve thousand will be enrolled. The reunion will be held under the auspices of the Loyal Lewis Legion, a fraternal organization comprising people of that name. The executive committee of the Lewis Day reunion is receiving additions to their roster daily, and all people desiring information can obtain same by addressing the executive committee, at 915 Washington avenue, St. Louis. It is expected that every Lewis in the United States will send name and address to the executive committee, so as to obtain information regarding the Lewis day reunion. Application for the Lewis day was made officially by the officers of the supreme castle of the Loyal Lewis legion, an organization with officers in West Kingston, R. I., and made up of Lewis societies covering many of the states of the union. Edward S. Lewis, of St. Louis, is president of the Lewis society in this section of the country. It was largely through his efforts that the movement was started and that a special day was secured. The Loyal Lewis legion is an organization that sustains a patriotic, fraternal, genealogical and historical relation to all persons of the name of Lewis throughout the world. It publishes a monthly entitled "Lewisiana," devoted to the interests of the family. In the application for a special day it was pointed out by many members of the organization that Meriwether Lewis commanded the first expedition to explore the Louisiana territory after itscession to the United States, and that he was the first governor of the Louisiana territory. September 23, the day allotted, is the anniversary of the day on which Lewis returned from his tour of exploration. The committee on ceremonies of the World's fair has charge of all family reunions, as of all other special days, and ceremonies. Members of the committee have done everything possible to encourage the family reunion idea. They believe the gathering will bring out a large attendance, besides furnishing an exceedingly interesting and novel feature for the exposition. Col. Culp, secretary of the ceremonies committee, handles the bulk of the correspondence on the subject of the family reunions. He says hardly a mail falls to bring in one or more letters asking for information and details regarding the gatherings. "The Lewis family," says Col. Culp, "has gone to considerable expense in circulating literature of the exposition, and so has the Kingsbury family. For this reason we have considered them entitled to a special day. Both these families will produce notable gatherings, which will be a credit to themselves and to the exposition." URGENTDEMAND FOR LUMBER Steamer Buford Will Sail For Manila with Lumber For Barracks Intended For Orient Troops. --- San Francisco, Feb. 17.—The steamer Buford, one of the fleet of government vessels that was hurriedly prepared for sea at this port, has received orders to proceed to Portland to load lumber there for Manila. The vessel will sail for the north on Thursday. The urgent demand for lumber there comes as a surprise, but is is thought it is intended for the construction of barracks for the accommodation of any troops that it might be necessary to send to the Orient. THE BERRY MURDER TRIAL. Damaging Evidence Brought Out On Cross-Examination Against William McBride. Norton, Kas., Feb. 17.—The cross-examination of Mrs. Viola Berry was continued tuesday in the trial of Chanucey Dewey, William J. McBride and Clyde Wilson for the murder of Burchard Berry. James B. Berryhill testified that in January, 1903, William McBride had said after leaving a store in which he had met Beach and Burchard Berry: "There are a couple of men I'm going to kill as soon as I get a chance." Heavy ice, it is feared, shut off the supply of water at Evansville, Ind. Isaac S. Taylor, director of works for the St. Louis world's fair, acknowledged in a recent interview that he is unmarried. Since then he has received shoals of leap-year proposals from all over the United States. This fact has been published, too, and now Mr. Taylor has received from an Oklahoma real estate man a request for a bunch of the letters. The stranger wants to get married, but desirable mates are scarce down his way, and he thinks that out of the many who have proposed to Taylor he (the Oklahoma man) might be able to find one to suit. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Char. H. Flitter. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SANCUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Alc. 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The population of WESTERN CANADA increased 188.00 by inmate grazing during the past year, over 30,000 being Americans. Write to the nearest authorized Canadian Government Agent for Canada Atlas and other information on Canadian Atlas and other information on Canadian Government Agent for Canada. J. S. CHAWFORD, 125 West Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo. C. J. BROUGHTON, 430 Quincy Boulding, Chicago, Ill. ARE YOU GOING TO THE World’s Fair? Send for Booklet telling how to secure accommodation at THE INSIDE INN” The only Hotel within the grounds. Rates: $1.50 to $5.00 European; $4.00 to $7.00 American, which include daily admission. Address Room 110. THE INSIDE INN Administration Building World’s Fair Grounds. GET READY FOR TEXAS! Get away from the cold and sleet, and Spend the Winter in San Antonio, Galveston, Corpus Christi or one of the other delightful resorts of Texas. Rates are reasonable. If we send you tour book and particiates, The Hot Well Hotel in San Antonio is now open for the season. Very low excursion rates on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. GEORGE MORTON Gen. Fass, and Ticket Agent, St. Louis, Mo. CALIFORNIA FARMS. Catalogue sent free. A. N. K.-B 2009 WHITING TO ADVERTISEMENT in this paper. MEXICAN Mustang Liniment heals Old Sores quickly. MEXICAN Mustang Liniment cures Sprains and Strains. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHILE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION Wasn't Seasick Anyhow. In crossing the ocean a father and son both became very seasick. The father recovered quickly, but the son was so exhausted with the attack that he sank into a state of apathy from which it seemed impossible to arouse him. The steamer was stuck in the water, which caused den shock, said: "I have had news for you. Your father is dead." The son, raising his expressionless eyes to the doctor, replied: "Lucky man!" The U. S. Dept. of Agriculture gives to Salzer's Oats its heartiest endorsement. Salzer's New National Oats yielded in 1903 from 150 to 300 bu. per acre in 30 different States, and you, Mr. Farmer, can beat this in 1904, if you will. Salzer's seeds are pedigree seeds, bred up through careful selection to big yields. Pete free. Salzer's Beardless Barley yielded . . . 210 bu. Salzer's Home Builder Corn. . . . 300 bu. Speltz and Macaroni Wheat . . . 80 bu. Salzer's Victoria Rape. . . . 60,000 Ibs. Salzer's Teosinte, the fodder wonder . . . . 160,000 Ibs. Salzer's Million Dollar Grass. . . . 500,000 Ibs. Salzer's Pedigree Potatoes. . . . 1,000 bu. Now such yields pay and you can have them, Mr. Farmer, in 1904. SEND 10c IN STAMPS and this notice to the John A. Salzer See* Co., La Crossie, Wis., and you will get their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples free. [K. L.] His Disappearing Pulse. "My!" exclaimed the doctor, "you've hardly any pulse to-day!" "Well, don't you remember, doctor," replied the patient, "you took it when you were here yesterday!"—Yonkers Statesman. Cheap Excursions to the South. Cheap Excursions to the South. On March 1 and 15th, the K. C. Southern Ry will offer to the public the extremely low rate of $10 for the round trip to all points on the Port Arthur Route, including Beaumont, Port Arthur, Lake Charles, Shreveport, Texerhua, Ft. Lauderdale, and all intermediate points. The return limit on these tickets will be 21 days from date of sale, with stopover privileges at all points south of Kansas City on the going trip. Any information desired by the public relative to the cheap excursions will be cheerfully furnished upon application to S. G. Warner, G. P. & T. A., Kansas City, Mo. "Some men," said the quoter, "are born great, some achieve greatness—" "And the great majority," interrupted the cynic, "believe they come under both of these heads."—Philadelphia Ledger. 10,000 Plants for 16c. This is a remarkable offer the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., makes. They will send you their big plant and seed catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1,000 fine, solid Cabbages, 1,000 gloriously brilliant Flowers. This great offer is made in order to induce you to try their warranted seeds; for them you once plant them you will grow no others, and ALL FOR BUT 16c POSTAGE, providing you will return this notice, and if you will send them 20c in postage, they will add to the a package of the famous Berliner Cauliflower. [K. L.] When the villain hissed to the heroine, "Do your worst!" he had no idea she would be remorseless enough to sing the latest popular song—N. O. Times-Democrat. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drummists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. Success may sometimes come unexpectedly, but work alone can hold it.—F. W. Murray. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. W. 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"This smokeless powder is something new, isn't it?" the Bromus, who was reading of some military explosives, "Why, my dear," replied Mr. Bickers, "you have used smokeless powder for years." -Detroit Free Press. Historic Route to Florida The shortest and most attractive route from Chicago or St. Louis to Florida is via Nashville, Chattanooga and Atlanta, over the historic Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry. and Western & Atlantic R. R., via Lookout Mountain, Chickamauga Park, and through the Rocky Mountains. The route is the route of the "Dixie Flyer," the all-year-round train that carries sleepers between Chicago and Jacksonville and St. Louis and Jacksonville. It is also the route of the "Chicago & Florida Limited," a solid vestibulated train operated during the Winter season between Chicago and Jacksonville, and the train between St. Louis and St. Augustine. If you contemplate taking a Southern trip, and desire interesting literature about the route, write to E. G. Woodward, T. P. A., N. C. & St. L. R., Nat'l Bank of Com. Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. She—"Don't let the people know we are on our honeymoon, dearest." He—"Very well. You carry the portmanteau"—Boston Gazette. To Wash China Silk Dresses. China silk dresses may be quite successfully washed. Remove all spots with benzine. Then wash in warm soapsuds, rubbing between the hands; rinse through several waters. Use Ivory Soap and do not rub the soap on the dress. Wring as dry as possible, wrap in a sheet or clean, cotton cloth and when partially dry, iron ELEANOR R. PARKER. Playing the fool is said to be a universal accomplishment—Chicago Daily News. M. Miss Nellie Holmes, treasurer of the Young Woman's Temperance Association of Buffalo, N.Y., strongly advises all suffering women to rely, as she did, upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINNHAM: — Your medicine is indeed an ideal woman's medicine, and by far the best. I know to restore lost health and strength. 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THE CATHEDRAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KATHALA The Louisiana State building; now being erected on a site adjoining that of the United States building, is to be a faithful reproduction of the famous Cabildo as it was in 1803, and will be a conspicuous and attractive feature of the group of state structures. It will be furnished throughout with furniture of the time and style of the eighteenth century. In the replica of the supreme court, room, where the transfers from Spain to France, and from France to the United States, were signed, will be exhibited a fac smile of the treaty between France and the United States, signed by Livingston, Monroe and Maribois. This fac smile has been kindly furnished the commis- A Phenomenal Negro Ball Thrower. Baseball seems to be the only sport of prominence in which the Negro is barred. In all other branches he has from time to time shown his worth, and reached the height of championship honors. Although it has been tried to get him into baseball ranks, all such attempts have met with failure, on account of the prejudice of the white ball player. Recently the subject was discussed at a baseball meeting, and Clark Griffith had the following comment to make: "Too bad that the Colored boys are not allowed to mingle in the fastest baseball company. If they were only welcome, I could have shown the wondering public the most marvelous pitcher of the age, a year or so ago. I happened into the side show of a traveling circus one afternoon, and my attention was attracted by a big, healthy-looking black boy, who was billed as an Australian boomerang The image provided does not contain any text. It appears to be a grayscale sketch of a building with a dome, surrounded by trees and a street scene. 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 sion by Hon. Francis Loomis, assistant secretary of state at Washington, and is quite an interesting document. In the same room will be portraits of the above signers, together with those of Jefferson, Napoleon, Salcedo, Laussat, Wilkinson and Claiborne. In the court yard will be placed an original stone filter, with the old drinking "monkeys" showing the method of obtaining potable and cool water at that time. In one of the cells of the prison within the court yard of the Cabildo will be placed the original stocks, now in the present Cabildo, and which attracts the curious inspection of every visitor. These are the identical stocks used throower. I watched his performance with great interest, and was astounded when he made the boomerang curve and shoot, and then come sailing back to where he stood. I was so deeply impressed that I made an engagement with the manager for a leisure hour next morning. I brought a ball along when I had kept the date, and after I had explained my ideas to the manager, he persuaded the Negro to do some throwing stunts for me. He began throwing the ball, making some really wonderful throws, knocking down a stick set up 300 feet away, and showing himself a marvel of strength and control. Then, having gained the mastery of the ball, he began to throw curves. I had expected him to accomplish startling results, but was dumfounded when he sailed the ball at a plank, and the ball, instead of hitting the board, turned suddenly and came rushing back to his hand. I took a baseball bat and stood up in front THE COURT OF THE REPUBLIC 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 by the Spaniards in punishing their criminals. The lower room of the Cabildo, now used as a city court, will serve as a general reception and reading room, where Louisianaans and their guests can meet, read the latest papers on file from Louisiana, receive and answer their mails, and otherwise enjoy themselves. Robms, with toilets for ladies, furnished completely, will be found in the second story, while similar rooms for gentlemen will be found on the lower floor. The contractors are W. O. & C. G. Burton, formerly of Richmond, Va. now of St. Louis, who are also the contractors for the United States government building on the adjoining site. of the plank, and explained to him that he was expected to throw within a certain area, but that the curve should be so complicated that it would be difficult to hit the ball. The next minute the ball came straight at me like a bullet, and just as I thought I was a dead man, it stopped short, hiked back about three feet, then cut a half-circle around me and then thumped against the plank at my back. I drilled him for an hour, and by noon he could do things with that ball that could not be done by a magician. I figured some on whitewashing him, and ringing him in on the ball field that summer, but the paint might wear off. Too bad that the Negroes are barred. Were it not so, I could have shown the public one of the most marvelous pitchers America ever knew. Destiny that show that color cuts no figure as to ability. The Negro is as efficient as anyone in anything he undertakes." REX. 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, 35x7? 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. NEWPORT NEWS. After your correspondent had chronicled some of Newport's events for The Palladium last issue, life's negative process presented Rev. E. Gibbs' daughter, Mrs. Ella Anderson, coldly robed and placed in the undertaker's cottage of death, ready to dwell in the city of dreamless slumber. She had suffered for sometime with consumption; but all is now ended. If she lived the life of well done good and faithful servant, her loss of earth is her gain of Heaven. We heartily extend our sympathy to the bereaved. Daniel Lilly, Henry and Mary Boyd, are the best informed young people about Newport, of whom I know. Henry, by hard work, could complete the common school course as laid down in the Illinois course of study in one year, and Mary, his sister, in two. But right "here is the rub." How few Negro boys and girls will forge the "shin digs" and rat-hole entertainments, so much in vogue, and get down to hard study? In face of this well-known fact, one hears the ignorantus shell head saying, "he don't graduate nobody." The committee of fifteen found that eight years was the shortest period of time in which the common school branches can be completed with any degree of thoroughness worth considering. More than half of the thirty-five pupils attending Newport school are without books. Is a benchman, church trickster and a would-be preacher fit to judge whether his superior is an injury to a Sunday school? Is a man fitted to teach little children of the twentieth century when he is so densely ignorant as to pronounce beginning "beginding" and howls the decalogue and the Apostles' creed in the most rattle-trap-like and irreverent manner? Is woulr be reverence fulfilling its calling by haranguing for the plaudits of the ignorant, by saying that forty years freedom is not enough time to admit of learning enough for a race to produce infidels? This statement admits that with learning enough, one would not be a Christian but an infidel. This would-be reverence gloatingly stated, "I have studied psychology. Greek and Latin are not need to explain a Sunday school lesson." The latter statement is an ignoramus criticism upon etymology, for the writer is neither a Greek nor Latin scholar. "God is both higher and deeper than the highest and deepest, and man's reason does not nor can not contain him." (Continued.) Calendar for 1904 JANUARY JULY FEBRUARY AUGUST MARCH SEPTEMBER APRIL OCTOBER MAY NOVEMBER JUNE DECEMBER JUNE DECEMBER If you desire to meet all your friends on the evening of February 22, you will find them at the Knights Templar ball, Tenth and Market streets. The St. Clair county (Ill.) grand jury returned 88 indictments to the county court, Wednesday, including nine true bills against County Clerk George K. Thomas, charging him with embezzlement. MUSEUM Building proper ..... $140,000 Refrigerating plant ..... 20,009 Sculpture ..... 15,003 Electric fountain ..... 3,000 Mineral decorations ..... 5,000 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 MASSAGING. Cor. Clark Avenue and Center Street. Practical Hair Cutting. FIRST-CLASS WORK. SAM. J. LANE, Jr., Manager. Electa Temple, Meets Second Thursday of each month at 8:00 p. m., Knights of Pythias Hall, Lucas and Jefferson Aves. Mrs. Annie D. Hyatt, M. W. P. Lulu O. Dell, See'y. ELIZABETH TEMPLE NO.12 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. Garrison Avenue. MRS. LULA BRUNER, Secretary. Queen Esther Temple, of the S. M. T., meets the first and third Wednesday in each month at K. of P. hall. Mrs. Ophelia Benton, W. P.; Mrs. Mahalia Macklin, secretary. Ruth Temple No. 163, of S. M. T., meets the fourth Friday in each month at the True Reformers' Hall. Mrs. Jennie Irving, W. P.; Ada B. 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HILAND CHIROPODIST Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Nails and Trouble of the Feet Treated Telephone Kulloh C. 767 2300 MARKET ST. St. Paul's, A. M. E., Leffingwell and Lawton; Rev. D. P. Roberts, pastor. St. Peter's, A. M. E., Elliott and Montgomery, Rev. James Madison, pastor. St. James, A. M. E., Pendleton and St. Ferdinand; Rev. W. C. Williams, pastor. Quinn's Chapel, A. M. E., Carondelet; Rev. J. A. Christoper, pastor. St. John's Mission, A. M. E., Lowell; Rev. F. E. Clark, pastor. A. M. E. ZION. Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion, 2625 Morgan; Rev. E. D. W. Jones, pastor. St. John's A. M. E. Zion, 113 Eiler St.; Rev. R. P. Christian, pastor. Colored Methodist. 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. Central Baptist, Twenty-third and Morgan Sts. First Baptist, Fourteenth and Clark Ave.; Rev. E. C. Cole, pastor. Fifth Baptist, 4117 Paint St. Pilgrim Baptist, Kossuth 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 Washington Ave.; Rev. C. M. C. Mason, pastor. Missionary Baptist True Reformers; Rev. J. L. Cohen, pastor. 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, S. L. Pickett. Drugs fresh daily. Don't pass his doer--2601 Lawton Av. 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