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ST.LOUIS PALLADIUM COLORADO STATE BUILDING LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION ST. LOUIS, 1904 Vol. XX. No. 11. W. T. Curtis' Newport Hotel, at 2323 Market Street. Completed at last the Newport Hotel, which is the most complete Colored apartment in the city, at present for our people, so don't forget it. Fourteen rooms on the second floor, with all the modern improvements. Mr. Curtis is quite pleased in its general make-up, and we know he will fill the wants of our people, who have been so long without realizing the good things of this world. In connection with this magnificent hotel, Mr. S. Lourrey and Mason, two gentlemen who thoroughly understands the business, have a first-class restaurant at 2321 Market street. The Buffet is 2323 Market street. Don't fail to spend a night there. The Masonic Temple, the Cradle of Liberty. Last Monday night the Knight Templars gave a masked ball, which was quite interesting in many features. The large crowd that attended had a pleasant time. The Knight Templars, defenders of the Christian religion, turned out in large numbers. We know them to be true—wherever they go we are certain they are accompanied by their wives. Among those present were: Thomas Jordon, C. W. Prentice, Wm. Dickerson, Wm. McKoin, H. H. Jones, Milton Fields, Samuel Prince, John Bell, Joseph Smith, Chris. Henderson, W. H. Harrison, Major D. Bell, Fleming Lee. Mrs. Oga Lucas, of 1518, was very attractive, also Miss Ruby Lee and mother. Mrs. Joseph Smith kept her eye on Joe, as he was expressing his thoughts concerning a certain young lady. Mrs. Henderson, of 2625 Olive, was there. Mr. Hawes and daughter Clara, of Belleville, were there enjoying themselves. St. Louis Mutual Burial Association. OFFICERS. L. S. Williams, president; R. H. Owens, vice-president; Annie K. Russell, secretary; A. Russell, funeral director; Main office 2120 Market street, St. Louis, Mo. Phone, C390. We shall in our weekly issue speak more of the good work of this institution. We believe it is a good organization. Miss Lizzie Hodge, of Bridgeton, Mo. died February 19. She was a patient sufferer, and as death entered her chamber she was willing to go. The Missionary Circle of the First Baptist church in Bridgeton aided in the expense of her funeral. She leaves a father and brother to mourn her loss. May she rest in peace. You must go out and see the two Big E. E.'s, at Douglass hall, 2645 Lawton avenue, just above The Palladium office, 2617 Lawton avenue. The Rose Bud Ball. On Tuesday last the Rose Bud club gave its third annual ball and piano contest at the New Douglass hall, corner Beaumont and Lawton avenue, and it was one of the largest, finest and best-conducted affairs of the kind ever held in St. Louis. The hall was packed and jammed, many being unable to gain admission, and the crowd was composed well-dressed, good-looking and orderly people, from all classes of society. A great many of the best people in town were present, among them Being The Palladium man, to enjoy the festivities and witness the great piano contest. Mr. Tom Turpin presented an elegant gold medal to the successful contest, Mr. Louis Chaurin, Messrs. Joe Jordan and Charles Warfield were a tie for second place. Mr. Mann Reynolds, Mr. Conroy Casey and Mr. Ed Williams were all close up in the contest, and were well received by the crowd. Music was furnished by the matchless World's Fair band. Mr. Tom Turpin was general manager, aby assisted by Messrs. Tom Watkins, John H. Clark, George Isabell, Lonnie Johnson, Charles Warfield, Sam Patterson, Willie North, Alonzo Brooks, Howard Anderson, Dick Curry, Louis Chauvin, Richard Kent, George Kinsey, Mr. Helms, E. J. Bruner, and several others. The bar was presided over by Messrs. Charles Turpin, Charles Weinstock, Ed Isabell, Walter Nevels, Dave Young, Henry Taylor and "Fatima." Messrs. Ike Commodore and "Nubbs" Watson sold tickets. The union waiters promise to do better fixt time. The club desires to thank their many friends for their very generous support, and promise on the occasion of their next annual ball to see it that every piano player of note to it that every piano enters, and will give an elegant diamond medal to the winner, and hold the contest at the Exposition coliseum, where there will be plenty of room, and all can hear and see to the very best advantage. Among those present The Palladium man noticed: D. H. Siegles, Jos. Brown, E. Arnett, Nimrod Jackson, Charles Overton, W. T. Curtis, Bobby Reynolds, Tim Presnahan, Jimmy Hopkins, Geo W. Holt, George Washington, Henry Allen, Ed Grimes, John Flannery, J. McGivley, John Nelson, Ed Angelica, Tom Broady, Charles Thompson, Len Swink, Mike O'Donnell, Allek Jackson, Lee Marion, Frank Phelps, "Sam" Pendleton, Wm. Schoenfeld, Frank Beard, Dave Lewis, "Bill" Lindley, John Armour, Burrell Armstead, Clarence Gains, Charles A. Hunter, George Jones and wife, Pitman, the barber, and others. Mr. Samuel Patterson came from Chicago just to attend the Turpin ball. Clarence Goins danced with every girl that would look pleasant at him. He went out of his cavat, but still held on to his half-smoked cigar. You Ought to See. In passing 204 North Fourteenth street, we chanced to look in the window of Sam, the Tailor. We thought it was a mill where woolen goods were woven. Not less than two hundred bolts of goods were stored to make spring and summer suits. So get your orders all in, as Easter will soon be here, and Sam the Tailor will make a new ran of you at 204 North Fourteenth street. STILL CONFINED Mr. Grooms, who was in the wreck a few months ago, has not been able to get out, 2807 Scott avenue. Embalming Course. Mr. Edward Hudson is taking the course of instructions in embalming at the Harris School of Practical Embalming. 2837 Manchester avenue. ST. LOUIS, MO., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1904. THE EXHIBITION CENTER MINES AND METALLURGY BUILDING. The Mines and Metallurgy building forms part of the east wing of the fan like general ground plan of the exposition. The outside dimensions are 525x750 feet. The building is divided into eight oblong parts almost equal THE PULLMAN BOYS K. M. Johnston, came from Hot Springs. He is a great fellow. W. M. Bradley has been acting a messenger for the company in the place of Richard Calvin. He has been on the sick list. Bradley is O. K. C. H. Lewis is on the Denver run over the Missouri Pacific. He is a good fellow. Our friend, George Page, was up to see Mr. R. O. Forsythe. We hope it is nothing serious. George is a good man. C. H. Hehn is a bird. He has always got a good word for a fellow. L. Bledsoe is on the platform. We hope he will get a first-class run, because he is a good, first-class man. L. Matthews is on the Hot Springs run, and likes Hot Springs very much. Mr. Dillon Parks went out on his run, as his wife, who was reported last week at death's door, is much improved. K. M. Johnston, after returning from an extended trip to New Orleans, where he reports having had quite a pleasant time, during the carnival, left for Hot Springs, on the 22d. Mr. George Potts, a Pullman porter, has much property—one house at 4440 Lucky street, and several other places in the city. Mr. Will Pitts and Carter Stevenson have just returned from Old Mexico. They look well. Mr. William P. Dye has got beautiful presents hanging upon the walls of his saloon. Oh, you ought to see them. The presents were brought from Old Mexico. We received a money order from one of our good fellows. Although small, it was all he owed. He said: "Because it makes me wiser. A beauty, a dandy, and it comes in handy, for readers of The Palladium to pay what they owe to such a valuable paper." Dear Reader, it takes money to publish this paper. --- in area. The division is accomplished with glass covered and ventilated arcades, from 30 to 50 feet wide, which makes it possible that each one of the eight divisions shall receive abundant light from every side and that no skylights shall be necessary directly over any of the exhibition spaces. At 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. Victory Morgan, of 3019 Clark avenue, is quite, sick with diabetes. Mr. A. Russell, the undertaker, has been on the sick list for the past two weeks. Mr. George Sullivan, who we found at 2518 Goode avenue, has been quite sick. He is better now. Albert T. Harris, practical embalmer, lecturer and demonstrator, 2837 Manchester avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Miss Fannie Howard,daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Douglass, of 4337 Cottage avenue, is quite sick at this writing. Mrs. Eliza Fall, of 1619 Chestnut street, has been quite sick. She is better now. She is the mother of Mrs. Gorman, of 1222 Pine street, a Christian lady. Antioch Baptist Sewing circle meets every Friday at 2 p. m. in the parsonage of the church, on Kennerly avenue. Mrs. S. Dillon, president; Mrs. Arvitta Anderson, secretary. Mrs. Dora Thomas, of 320 South Compton avenue, spent two weeks in Memphis, Tenn., visiting her two sisters, Misses Ella and Nettle D. Thomas. She returned looking well. O. yes, we saw several dudes—that owe The Palladium office. One of lives on Randolph street, in the 2600 block. And a dude on Market street. We will put them on the mules soon, in the 2300 block. L. A. Coppridge, leader; Chas. A. Hunter; secretary; C. H. Scott, treasurer; Maurice A. Jordan, manager. Coppridge's World's Fair Band and Orchestra. Local 44, A. F. M. Music furnished for all occasions. Headquarters, 1614 and 1716 Morgan street, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Ellen Morgan, of 3034 Lambdin avenue, departed this life, Sunday, the 21st, after an illness of several months. She was buried from St. James A. M. E. church, Thursday, the 25th, at 2 p.m. She leaves one daughter, two sisters and other relatives and many friends to mourn her loss. The sons and daughters of Rebecca No. 3 meet the second Wednesday in each month at Eleventh and Franklin avenue, at 8 p.m. Mrs. Sadie Harris, president, 1529 Gratiot street; May Wilson, vice-president, 1431 Morgan street; Mrs. Annie Henry, 2614 Mills street, secretary; Lizzie Robinson, assistant secretary. The N. J. D. "400" Social club has reopened its elegant club, at 717 North Thirteenth street, corner of Morgan, for instruction in dancing. Open every night. St. Louis' leading pianists have been engaged to render music. The World's Fair band has also been secured for two nights each week. The best of order will be maintained. Mann Jackson, president; Geo. Washington, secretary; Andrew Vaughn, sergeant-at-arms. Click Banks, musical director (Cold Turkey). Pickett's Headache Powders give instant relief. 2601 Lawn avenue. EVERY DARKEY IS A KING. DOUGLASS HALL, Corner of Beaumont and Lawton. Monday Night, March 7, 1904, Under the management of E. L. Arnett. FRITZ EMORY Two well-known colored comedians will appear in the Title Role and a splendid event, entertainment will be seen. COME EARLY AND AVOID THE RUSH. intersection of the two principal arcades through the main axis a colonnaded rotunda is shown with an appropriate monument. The ground floor will furnish an exhibition space of about 265,000 square feet and about 150,000 square feet may be gained by the introduction of gal- UNCLE SAM'S BOYS Our Colored Clerks and Carriers in the St. Louis Post Office. Mr. Rogers seems to be quite a society lion. Geo. Evans is as happy and smiling as ever, and a great bowling enthusiast. We hear that Mr. Ralph Stone is thinking seriously of getting married. Set your nets, young ladies. He is a good catch. Mr. H. White, formerly of Tennessee, who is connected with the local office, will go south on his vacation. He has been talking of purchasing a home. We wonder what that means? Messr. John Davis, Victor Pearson, F. Geren, J. Slaughter, W. H. King, and Milton Roland, are very assidious in their religious duties. May their efforts have a tendency to bring others to Christ. Among the new clerks who have made exceptional merit marks in their examinations, are the following: W. Harold King,' state of Mississippi, 99 4-5; John Jones, state of Kentucky, 99%; Henry G. Sloan, state of Minnesota, 99.4; W. Burke, state of Arkansas, 99%. These marks made by our young Colored clerks are very pleasing indeed. Still another proof that all they desire is the opportunity to show their worth. W. H. CARTER. W. H. Carter, editor of the Sedalia Times, is a candidate for Republican state committeeman-at-large. There are several other candidates. We wish them all success. We are for no one at present. Hope someone will win. ANTIOCH CHURCH NOTES. The revival meeting closed Sunday, 21st, with quite a success. We believe the meeting has done much good. Men and woman were brought to know Christ in the pardoning of their sins, and Christians were revived. Sunday, the 28th, at 12:30 p. m., Rev. McKin- ney will baptize those that have come EVERY DARKI A Brand New Musical Comed DOUGLASS HALL, Corner of Beaumont and Lawton. Under the manager FRITZ EMORY Two well-known will appear in u splendid evenings be seen. $2.00 Per Annum, Single Copy 5 cents; (1) teries. A sub-division of the exhibit space into numerous alcoves for each classification is suggested. The walls of the buildings are set back from the facade 18 or 20 feet, forming a covered loggia which surrounds the entire building. Mr. Theo. C. Link, of St. Louis, was the architect. into the church during this revival. All are welcome. Rev. M. M. Tompkins, a native of Africa, united with Antioch church, Tuesday evening, and was married to Miss Maggie Berning, of 4392 Cottage avenue, Wednesday evening. We wish them a long and happy life. Rev. Fred McKinney was very much indisposed for a few days last week, so much so that he was detained one or two days, but we are pleased to see him out again. Rev. Lewis Lane is out again, after a few days' illness. Mrs. Harry Williams, of 1623½ Lucas avenue, entertained the Ladies N. D. S. club, Thursday, the 25th. Mrs. Mattie V. Shelby has been elected superintendent of the Sunday school at her church. The right person in the right place. She is being assisted by Mrs. Eva G. Bolden, who knows no such word as "fall." Mrs. Alice Jones, of 315 South Twenty-second street, made a flying trip to her old home, Collinsville, Ill., Saturday. EGYPTIAN RECEPTION. ORPHEAN DANCING ACADEMY. Next Friday, Night, March 4. A Orphean Dancing Academy will reopen next Friday night, at True Reformers' Hall, with a novel feature in the form of an Egyptian reception. Marci Abdel Haleen, and his retinue of Egyptian artists, who are here to attend the World's Fair, will be the guests of the academy on that evening, and will attend in full oriental costume. The mask on last Monday evening, which was given in lieu of the regular Friday evening class, was a pleasant and successful affair. The class will meet regularly hereafter every Friday night. RKEY IS A KING. :: Real Comedy will be the next attraction at er of ment and Monday Night, March 7, 1904, Boston. management of E. L. Arnett. Unknown colored commedians wear in the Title Role and a evenings entertainment will COME EARLY AND AVOID THE RUSH. 15, 25, 35c. :30. Performance begins at 8 p. m. CAKE WALK AFTER THE SHOW. St. Louis Palladium. The average annual loss by fire in the United States during the last 14 years was $140,000,000. These figures will give a strong impression of the losses by the Baltimore fire, which reached nearly the same amount. A man in Utica, N. Y., has been arrested and fined for snoring in church. That is a step in advance, and the reform might be extended to sleeping cars and hotels. It is a shame for a man to keep everybody else awake in such a manner. Jules Verne, the celebrated French author, recently celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. The aged author is yet in good health, except for an almost complete blindness, and he enjoys the reputation of having written a book for every year of his life. The first white child born in Chicago has just celebrated his eighty-second birthday. Please add him to the list including George Washington's body servant, Abraham Lincoln's law partner, and other original characters. There is already quite a respectable army of him. It is distinctly to the credit of Baltimore that there was no looting or attempt at looting during the terrible fire which wiped out the business district of the city. The people fought bravely to save their homes, and none of the disgraceful scenes that usually accompany such disasters were witnessed. The latest fashion in dogs, says a Paris cable story, is for Pomeranian Loulous. The name, for all its spelling, has a suspiciously American sound, and in the photograph the dog bears a strong resemblance to the common poole of commerce with an abnormal hirsute development. To be in style, get a loulou. The time and circumstances of Senator Hanna's death make the case without a parallel in our history. It is the first time a senator has died after his reelection for a new term and before the expiration of an old one, thus creating two vacancies, both to be filled by the legislature in session at the time of his death. An excellent idea in horticulture comes from an inspired genius in Rhode Island. He says that cherries can be saved from the birds by setting out mulberry trees, because birds prefer mulberries. That would be a great scheme were it not for the fact that mulberries do not ripen until long after the cherries are gone. There is one good thing about these wars in far countries; people who read the papers learn so much about geography. Before we took the Philippines from Spain not one man out of 50 knew where the islands were; by the time this Japanese war is well under way the average citizen will be acquainted with the whole Pacific ocean. The management of the Louisiana Purchase exposition should arrange for a matrimonial day in honor of the year. It is reported that Director Taylor has already received a barrel of letters proposing marriage, and at this rate it should not be difficult to get up an entertaining "national leap year celebration," a ticket to the grounds on that day entailing the holder to a marriage license without further cost. It is a strange thing to express the value of novels in terms of wood, but an English periodical has lately been estimating what it calls the "tree value" of the modern novel. Since paper is made of cellulose, and the chief source of supply of cellulose is timber, it is estimated that nine popular novels have swept away 4,000 trees. According to this every popular novelist ought in duty bound to spend at least a part of his spare time in planting trees. The entire fortune of Moses B. Clements, of Portland, Me., amounting to about $100,000, has been left to trustees, who are directed to distribute it "to benefit society, relieve distress and assist worthy and deserving religious, charitable and benevolent associations, objects and individuals." The matter of distribution is left entirely to the discretion of the executors, the only restriction being that they shall have disposed of the entire estate in the manner indicated within ten years. The main difference between battleships and armored cruisers rests on their relative power to hold the battle line, but this does not mean that the latter are deficient in fighting power. In securing intelligence of a threatening enemy the observing vessels must have strength enough to overcome hostile ships, to disclose the main body, and when this is sighted to delay its progress until their own battleships can reach the scene of action. It is evident that only less in degree to the battleship must be the value of the armored cruiser. The American dentist long ago conquered Europe, and now he has a chance to invade Asia. The emperor of Korea wants a dentist, and to the right party will offer a two years' contract with a salary of $3,600 per year and $5,000 for expenses. The one condition is that the successful applicant must speak English and French. Corea is a rather shaky country to live in just now, but it is safe to say that if the emperor succeeds in holding his throne long enough to make a selection the court dentist will be a Yan-kee. Missouri State Gleanings. ONE MAN HUNG THE JURY. Lone Juror Saved Kiann Kid From Conviction of Murder in the First Degree. One man hung the jury in the Kiana Kid murder case at Macon. The other eleven were for conviction of murder in the first degree as soon as they left the box. The eleven men argued and pleaded with the differing member, but to no avail, and they finally gave it up. Clay Payton, the man who stood out for acquittal, refused to talk of what took place in the jury room, but the foreman, Thomas Jobson, said: "I never saw a plainer case of murder in the first degree, and eleven of us promptly decided that way." Christmas eve, Klana Kid went into Howard's saloon, in Keota, according to the state's evidence, and shot three Italian miners who were drinking at the bar. Two were instantly killed, and the other wounded. The defendant contended that he was at a card game during the shooting. The case will be recalled for retrial March 7. Tramp Incendiar Killed. A tramp robbed and set fire to the Eastey & Hopkins lumber yard office at Fairlay and shot the city marshal, who had attempted to arrest him. A crowd of citizens opened fire on the tramp and killed him. He had two companions, with whom he had robbed the post office, a meat market and barber shop. The money and some of the stolen articles were found on him. His companions escaped. The loss to the lumber company is placed at $7,500. The insurance is $4,000. Suspicion had been directed to the tramp, who had been seen in the lumber yard. The marshal came upon him accidentally, and ordered him to surrender. The tramp replied with a shot. When the marshal fell, dangerously wounded, the citizens began firing. The tramp had nothing by which to identify him. Self-Inflicted Wound Fatal. Fred Sigler, who shot Mrs. Julia Smith because she would not marry him, and then shot himself, died at the St. Louis city hospital. Sigler shot himself through the head and did not regain consciousness. Mrs. Smith was not seriously wounded and will probably recover. Sigler was a carpenter and boarded with Mrs. Smith in Omaha. He followed her to St. Louis. He entered her apartments against her wishes, and when she refused to promise to marry him, Sigler fired two shots at her and then shot himself. To Vote More School Bonds: The St. Joseph board of education has decided to submit to the voters a proposition to vote bonds for $170,000 for the extension of the school facilities of the city. Several bond issues of this nature have been floated in recent years, but still the schools are overcrowded, and more room is yet needed. For a New Electric Road. A proposition to build an electric railroad from Higginsville to Lexington Junction, connecting the Chicago & Alton and Wabash, has been submitted to the citizens of Lexington. The proposition submitted also includes the building of a bridge across the Missouri river. Alleged Gamblers Arrested. Fred Harget, alias "Sawdust Jack," and Fred Seldler, alias "Swede," were arrested at Clayton by Deputy Constable G. A. Bode on a charge of gambling. They are accused of operating at Creve Coeur lake. William Johnston, a St. Louis negro, swore to the warrant. Fatal Ouverture Over Board Bill Arch Morgan shot and instantly killed John Denny and fatally wounded his son, James, aged 18, near Stafford. Morgan had been boarding with Denny, and they quarreled over a board bill. Government Is Secure. The board of directors of the World's fair has executed the formal document giving the federal government a lien upon the exposition receipts in order to secure the loan of $4,600,000. Neland Has Pneumonia. On the eve of a match for the amateur state championship, Attorney Charles T. Noland, the noted billiard player, was stricken with pneumonia in St. Louis. 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. Caught at Warrensburg. John Galloway, wanted at Pekin, Ill., to answer to a charge of criminal assault, was arrested at the railroad station at Warensburg. Caught a Burglar. Arthur Leon, a 16-year-old boy, captured a negro burglar in his home at Wellston, St. Louis county, with the help of a neighbor. Alleged Deserter Caught. Austin Mortimer, 22 years old, an alleged army deserter, was arrested in the St. Louis dispensary, where he was being treated. Robbers Gets Five Years. George Ryan pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery, in St. Louis, and was sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary. "Snake" Kinney Arrested. Thomas E. Kinney, charged with assault to kill on Walter Sloan, a negro, surrendered in St. Louis, and was released on bond. Two Convicted of Murder. Price Edwards was convicted in the circuit court upon a charge of murder in the first degree. He was charged with the murder of an old man, Joe Buckner, near Wentzville, on April 12. His partner, Allen Henderson, was found guilty of murder in the first degree the day before. Buckner was shot while standing in his own door, after which the house was burned to the ground. Neither jury was out an hour in returning a verdict. Notwithstanding all parties are colored people, a great deal of interest was manifested in the case by the people. Buckner was the father-in-law of Edwards, and the principal witnesses against Edwards were his own daughters, who heard the plot made by their father to murder the grandfather. Accidentally Killed Himself. Andrew Coleman, of Valley Park, St. Louis county, was shot and instantly killed by the discharge of a shotgun in his own hands. Coleman had been watching an alleged horse-thief, who had been captured the night before, and was returning to his home about 8 o'clock in the morning. When within ten feet of the house he slipped on the sleet and both barrels of his gun were discharged. The shot entered Coleman's left breast. Members of his family, who witnessed the tragedy, hastened to his side immediately, but he was dead. Coleman was 40 years old, married and the father of a family. He lived in St. Louis county nearly all his life, and was prominent in politics. He Found Joplin's Wealth: Ellott R. Moffet, aged 76 years, died at his home in Crystal Springs, Ark. Mr. Moffet had the distinction of sinking the first shaft in the Joplin lead and zinc district. He came to Joplin in 1870 and put down a shaft in what is known now as East Joplin. A rich body of lead ore was found at a depth of 45 feet, and the mine formed the foundation for an immense fortune for Mr. Moffet, who at that time was without financial resources. Mr. Moffet built the lead smelter in Joplin which is now operated by the Picher Leland company, and was instrumental in the building of the first railroad into Joplin, which is now a branch of the Frisco. Judge Bradshaw Dead. Judge Joseph Bradshaw, of Lewis county, died at the age of 72 years. He came with his parents to this country when 4 years old. He crossed the plains in the early fifties, returning home by way of Panama. In 1880 he was elected associate judge of the county court, and six years later was promoted to the position of presiding judge, which office he held for twelve years, making eighteen years continuous service. During this time he did not miss a meeting of the court, although it was necessary for him to make a trip of eighteen miles overland once each month. He was a prominent factor in county politics. Black Horse Trooper Dead. Maj. H. A. Ricketts, aged 68, died at Mexico of heart disease. He was a major in the Black Horse cavalry of Virginia, the flower of the confederate forces. He was a prominent figure in business circles at Mexico for many years, being for a long time president of the Southern bank. Elevator Burned. The Missouri & Kansas Grain Co.'s elevator at Neosho was burned. A large amount of grain and feed was destroyed. The loss is mostly covered by insurance. The fire originated in the engine-room. Negro Charged With Murder. William McCoy, colored, was arrested in Kansas City, charged with the murder of George Fields, colored, who was found dead with his skull crushed. Robbery was probably the motive. The Cameron Sun Sold. S. Howard Leech has sold the Camerson Sun to Staples & Hulen, of Mexico. The Sun will continue to be democratic. Editor Leech has purchased the Poplar Bluff Citizen. For Public Building at Lebanon. Says a dispatch from Washington D. C.: Representative Lamar has introduced a bill providing for a public building at Lebanon, Mo., to cost no over $20,000. Piano Salesman in Trouble. E. E. Harland, a traveling salesman for a Huntsville piano house, was arrested at Macon. He is charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. Baptiste Minort Guilty. Baptiste Minort, charged with murdering Vincent Gosser, was found guilty by a jury at Lexington and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment New Craft Indictments. New indictments for grafting in the sale of supplies to the city have been returned by the St. Louis grand jury against J. P. Holden and W. Scholl. Up to the Governor The Missouri World's fair commission has selected Mrs. Gentry and Mrs. Bland as state building hostesses, subject to Gov. Dockery's approval. Death of Joseph Franklin. Joseph Franklin, vice-president and manager of the William Barr Dry Goods Co., St. Louis, died at his home in Oakland, St. Louis county. Stroud Surrendered. Will Wallace and Harry Stroud fought at Graysboro. The latter used a gun and Wallace sustained a fatal wound. Stroud surrendered. HINTS FOR INEXPENSIVE GIFTS matter of judicious shopping, but for the woman of limited means, the providing of remembrances for her friends and loved ones means infinitely more. She it is who must exercise her ingenuity, and in so doing she usually turns out from the odds and ends of her fancy-work basket, with the assistance of bits of ribbons, dashes of paint and the strokes of her pencil an array of really exquisite gifts that both bring pleasure to the recipient and reflect due credit on the giver. It is a startling statement, but none the less true, that the kindling pile, the potato masher, a well-sharpened penknife (or better still, a curved carving blade) and a nail afford excellent opportunities for producing some lovely things. Select a perfect board (walnut, cherry or pine) about 12 inches long and four inches wide, and have two pieces not more than three-fourths of an inch thick, cut four by DESIGN FOR BROOM HOLDER. four inches. These squares fastened at either end of the baseboard with small brass hinges so placed that the squares will fold in, i. e. toward each other, a good rack is formed. Trace a scroll design on the baseboard and a rosette or diaper design on opposite sides (i. e. the outsides) each of the squares; cut carefully and deeply with the knife, along the outline of the design, and then slope the work inward, leaving the design higher toward the center. Then select a firm, round nail, the point of which has been formed by filing the nail four ways. Place the point on the wood, and hitting it with the potato masher with uniform strokes hammer a background, formed of the nail impressions placed as closely together as possible. A pleasing finish can be added by beveling the edges with a sharp chisel. If dark woods have been used rub linseed oil on the wood with a piece of flannel; if pine, stain the background with mahogany paint and oil the design, which will DESIGN FOR BOOK RACK. stand out with fine effect against the dark background. Magazine covers can be made this way by boring holes along the left edge and fastening the front and back with strong silk cord. Round, square or diamond shaped pieces of wood of proper size make artistic whisk-broom holders, the pocket at the back being formed by a piece of leather or felt and ribbons or cords forming the strings. A foot rule thus ornamented and beveled on an edge, with the inches indicated in indelible ink, is a very acceptable addition to the writing desk. So, if any reader is in a quandary over the question of an inexpensive gift, let her resort to the possibilities of the kindling pile and her potato masher. CLEANSING OF FEATHERS Not More Difficult Than Cleaning Lace, If You Know How to Begin the Task, "Hardly any woman who owns an ostrich feather thinks of washing it at home," Henry D. Burbled tell me. "She believes the cleaning of the feather involves some intricate and difficult process, and is withal such a delicate matter that it can only be accomplished by a professional cleaner. But if she only knew it, cleaning an ostrich feather is not any more difficult than cleaning a bit of face. All there is to it is the knowing how, and that is what I'll tell you. "A suds of soap and lukewarm water must be prepared and then the soiled feather should be dipped into it and drawn through the hands a few times, as often as necessary, until the feather appears clean. Under no circumstances should it be allowed to remain in the soapy water; just dip it in and then draw it through the hand to squeeze the water and soap from it before dipping it in again. If it is very dirty, it ought to be washed in two suds; then, when the cleaning process is over, it must be rinsed through several bowls of clear, cool water, the rinsing method being the same as the cleaning, dipping the One's photograph is always a gift heartily welcomed by friends, but to embroider a number of frames re- DELFT PICTURE FRAME. quires much more time than the busy housekeeper has to give to such things. In lieu of these a new and particularly pretty effect, can be produced with an ordinary blue pencil. Select smooth white mats and decorate them with delft sketches. Suggestions for the sketches can be found in magazines, among one's bric-a-brac or in the china closet. When covered with glass and bound in any desired way these mats bear a striking resemblance to genuine delft ware. Pen and ink or sepia sketches also look remarkably pretty on picture mats. Brass rings, which can be bought cheap at the hardware store by the dozen or gross, make brilliant decorations for odd bits of fancy work. A ANOTHER DELET FRAME. silk throw of mingled designs in high colors looks well with the ends fringed with finger lengths of ribbons of different colors, on the ends of each of which are sewn a brass ring of correct size. Oriental pillows thus finished have a decidedly Persian tone, and tablecovers of dark material slashed and finished with the brass rings are really very beautiful. A fire screen drapery that never fails to please can be made of black sateen with brass rings sewn on with gay-colored silks, in groups of five or seven, to form rosettes, and a vine effect or scroll pattern can easily be worked out by arranging rows of the rings and fastening them at the point of contact with bright-colored silk floss. A particularly striking screen curtain, which was "conjured" by an ingenious woman, was of black sateen, with the roses and apple blossoms cut from flowered art-ticking, appliqued here and there with a buttonhole stitch of black thread. Viewed from a little distance the effect was very beautiful, indeed, and had all the appearance of having been hand-painted. While gifts of these sort are entirely inexpensive, they are the most appreciated, for after all who can measure the love that is woven into each stitch of the needle or the affection which is recorded with each stroke of the pen?—Cincinnati Enquirer. feather in the water and then drawing it through the hand. "When it is thoroughly rinsed it must be drawn through the hand repeatedly until it is about dry; then it should be placed on the thigh and slapped with the hand, to bring it out fluffy. That is the whole operation. The fluffing of the feather may require a little practice, and it would be well to clean a poor feather before taking a more expensive one through this course of home cleaning, in order that the necessary dexterity, a thing that readily comes to one, may be obtained."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Revival of India Linen. India linen is to be revived for lingerie waists. Not the stiff nailsook imitation called India linen, which, of course, is all cotton, but the real linen woven and bleached in India. It is very fine and soft, and looks cooler than almost any other white goods. Some handsomely embroidered waist patterns are among recent importations. Cover for the Cook Book When you get a new cook book cover it neatly with plain white oilcloth sewed at the corners inside the lids. It can then be cleaned after a chance drop into the batter. The suggestion applies equally to all the old books and is recommended as a pleasant half hour's work on a rainy day. FIRST CLASS WORK Guaranteed. 2310 MORGAN ST. World's Fair Barber Shop. The World's Fair Barber shop is up-to-date. Everything is in fine order. Here's the soliloquy of its owner, Mr. Sanford Warfield: We have all Negro papers on hand, Eagle, Advance and The Palladium." B. BELKER, Dealarin Groceries, Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Meat and Vegetable Market. 119 and 1121 Morgan Street, St. Louis, Mo FIRST-CLASS In the True Reform Hall. First-class Barbers. 8. W. Corner Pine Street and J. fies son Avenue. SEXTON & MITCHELL'S EXTRA FINISH Art School, 2605 Lawton Ave. Now Open for Pupils. Terms Reasonable. Fine Oil Paintings for sale, Portraits Enlarged in Crayon, Pastel, Oil. Sam, the Tailor Made to order. One of the Best 204 North 14th Street. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER. both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaranteed to do what we want 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 directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a mutilate person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours shade skin in spots but bleaches out white, the skin remains 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 remain. Small pox bumps, making the skin the color you wish, stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER. that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and it makes it difficult to our hair, particularly, to make the hair soft and easy to comb. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. WE No-SMH known in a 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 please present to us, and sent C. G. D., it will come by express, 25c. extra. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. CRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By 1 TAKEN FROM LIFE: This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky on curly hair straight as shown above. It noises ishes the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beef imitations. Get the original Ozonized Ozone show as the general never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful, giving it that healthy, life-like appearance so much desired. A toilets necessity for ladies gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is the best and most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists in the same order and up to $1.40 for three bottles. We pay all expenses charges. Send postal or express money order. Please mention name of this paper when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 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, 1111 Clark Ave.. St. Louis, Mo. We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only p tically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. A. RUSSELL, Livery Boarding and UNDERTAKIN only thoroughly experienced and thou y competent Colored Undertakers in the A. RUSSELL, boarding and UNDERTA We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only practically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. ```markdown ``` We have our own conveyance Carriages furnished by 2118-20-22 Market St., ST. LOUIS Porters and Waiters THE HUGH B. WHITE ...SALO At 1911 M (Opposite Unit Choice Wines, Liquors, C ..CAFE IN CO Remember the Ge TELEPHONE PURNISHED ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY BILL EVERYTHING STRICT The Brunsw we have our own conveyances and do all our own work Carriages furnished for all occasions. Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone Parters and Waiters Headquarters THE GEM THUGH B. WHITE, Proprietor of ..SALOON.. At 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) Wines, Liquors, Cigars, and the best CAFE IN CONNECTION Remember the Gem. 1911 Market. TELEPHONE K 1386A. ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY. BILLIARD ROOMS IN CO. EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. Brunswick Sal We have our own conveyances and do all our own work. Carriages furnished for all occasions. 211S-20-22 Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone, C-390, THE GEM. HUGH B. WHITE, Proprietor of ..SALOON... At 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars, and the best up-to-date. ..CAFE IN CONNECTION.. Remember the Gem. 1911 Market. TELEPHONE K 1386A. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY. BILLIARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. The Brunswick Saloon, G. W. HOLT, Proprietor. 1925 Market Street, (Near U Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. 5 Market Street, (Near Union Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. 1925 Market Street, (Near Union Station), Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. ST. LOUIS. Fine Wines Imported and and Liquors. Domestic Cigars. DYE'S fet and Pool Ro DYE'S Buffet and Poor WM. P. DYE, Proprietor. 2801-3 Manchester Ave., Telephone—Kinloch B-181 TELEPHONE: KINLOCH A, JAMES H. HARRISON, Phar. D. HARRISON & Mc anchester Ave., St. L. Telephone—Kinloch B-1812. TELEPHONE: KINLOCH A, 1275. ARRISON, Phar. D. GEO. V HARRISON & McKOIN 2801-3 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Telephone—Kinloch B-1812. TELEPHONE: KINLOCH A, 1275. JAMES H. HARRISON, Phar. D. GEO. W. McKOIN. HARRISON & McKOIN, Funeral Directors AND EMBALMERS, 2743 Wash Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. All Work First Class. Successful Embalmm Calls Answered Promo SEE T Maurer Meat and CASH MARKET 1402 MARKET No. 3 S. Fourteenth Street. TELEPHONES: BELL, Main 2103-A KINLOCH, D-25 B 2606 FRANKLIN AVE 8 and 10 South J THE JOCKEY First Class. Terms Most R Successful Embalming Guaranteed. Answered Promptly, Day or SEE Purer Meat and Provision CASH MARKETS: 1402 MARKET STREET. Fourteenth Street. Branch: 3204 Lac TELEPHONES: 3-A KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell 1004-A KIN FRANKLIN AVENUE. KINLOCH C 8 and 10 South Jefferson Ave. JOCKEY SALO All Work First Class. Terms Most Reasonable Successful Embalming Guaranteed. Calls Answered Promptly, Day or Night. Maurer Meat and Provision Co. CASH MARKETS: 1402 MARKET STREET. No. 5 S. Fourteenth Street. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. TELEPHONES: TELEPHONES: BELL, Main 2103-A KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1033 2606 FRANKLIN AVENUE. KINLOCH C 720. 8 and 10 South Jefferson Ave. THE JOCKEY SALOON, 3924 SOPHIE AVENUE CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND WINES, LIQUORS AND CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS, One Block West of Fair Grounds. WILLIAM DOVER, Proprietor IAM DOVER, Proprietor Orienced and the only pracer Undertakers in the city. SELL, DERTAKING and do all our own work. for all occasions. N, MO. Telephone, C-390. Ms Headquarters: GEM. Proprietor of LOON... Market St. (On Station) Tigers, and the best up-to-date. CONNECTION.. m. 1911 Market. 1386A. HIARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION. ONLY FIRST-CLASS. Tick Saloon, reet, (Near Union Station), occos. ST. LOUIS. Imported and Domestic Cigars. E'S Pool Room, proprietor. St. Louis, Mo. och B-1812. OCH A, 1275. GEO. W. McKOIN. K McKOIN, ```markdown ``` Terms Most Reasonable, ing Guaranteed. Notly, Day or Night. Provision Co. MARKETS: T STKEET. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. TELEPHONES: LL, Lindell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1032 UUE. KINLOCH C 720. Jefferson Ave. Y SALOON, ORS AND CIGARS, Fair Grounds. ER, Proprietor FOR SUNDAY READING I KNOW NOT NOW. "I know not now," yet would I e'er obey His sweet commands, Content to trust. My Father knows the way: Some day the film upon the glass With sorrow's every cloud shall pass. His love shall then be shown; His "why" shall then be known. SOURCES OF COURAGE. Christian Fortitude Is Grounded in Knowledge of God's Presence Mistakes Round to Occur Jesus invited men to courage on the ground of God's good will. "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." There is this deep and broad distinction between Christian courage and any form of stoicism; that it moves and lives in the atmosphere of God's presence. It is the courage of the child rather than of the soldier. Though ready to endure and strive, says the Boston Congregationalist, though desirous of all the soldier-like qualities, assurance comes because God is our helper and not because we are strong. In acknowledging our weakness we are facing the facts of life. In trusting God for help we are putting on the armor which secures us against assaults of pride. One of the crying needs of our own time is Christian courage. We are not to be secure by putting ourselves on the defensive, but by acting for God. It is not good praise for a Christian to say that he never makes mistakes. You might in these same terms praise a stone in the pavement, or a knothole in a board. The real question is whether the Christian is attempting anything for Christ. If so, he will be sure to make mistakes; we may say, indeed, without irreverence, that God intended him to run the risk of blundering, for that seems to be the only way of learning open to us mortal men. The true courage is willing to risk mistakes, if it can only accomplish something. The one thing it is forever unwilling to do is to sit still and not venture. We can only understand it when we define our life in terms of acquaintance with God. He who always recognizes Christ's presence is not afraid that blunders arising out of well-considered and unselfish effort can be irretrievable. True Christian courage recognizes more than Christ's presence; it feels the impulse of His trust. Christ believes in us. He has intrusted His honor to our hands. Therefore we may go on, watchfully indeed, but without fear, to any work to which His voice may call us. The Holy Spirit is our guide, and we are listening for the indications of His purpose. We are not afraid that, whether through us, to our happiness, or without us, to our shame, His purposes can fall. Optimism may be a mood, passing, as moods pass, into its opposite, discouragement and despair. It should be rather a form of courage founded on a child's faith in the good will of his Heavenly Father. So it becomes at once independent of our feelings and surroundings and a help to others. How much we all lean on men who have the steady cheer of this unvarying Christian courage! To look for the best, not because the world is good, but because God is working in it to bring about His purposes, which cannot but be good; to cultivate the social love which seeks the best in man, to count discouragement a forgetfulness of God, and idleness an ingratitude, this is the way of courage and of joy, which is at once becoming and rewarding to the children of God. GEMS OF THOUGHT. The way to displace evil is to do good.—United Presbyterian. Faith is not a belief that we are saved, but that we are loved.—Edward N. Kirk. Seek to cultivate a bouyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.—Alexander Maclaren. In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie. Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns.—Carlyle. I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.—Emerson. Be not anxious about to-morrow. Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's temptation and do not weaken and distrust yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them—Charles Kingsley. You remember the famous line of Robert Browning, "God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world?" That was the one source of the optimism of Browning; but the optimism of Jesus went a great deal deeper. It was the fact that God was in His earth, so that the ravens were fed and the lilies were adorned, and so that the very hairs of a man's head are numbered—it was that which gave a radiant quietude to Christ.—G. H. Morrison. GOD'S INVITATION. Through Our Daily Need and the Experience of God's Continual Provision Comes Heart's Rest. The mercy of God is free, but it is not cheap. The greatest of heresies is to deny God's will to save, but next to it is that other heresy which asserts that sin is no affront or trouble to God and involves no cost to Him or to the man whom He forgives. The careless, easygoing, morally indifferent deity of some men's thoughts is neither the Jehovah of the Old Covenant nor the Heavenly Father of the New. The death of Christ is both God's protest against sin and His proof of will to save the sinner, says Congregationalist. When God invites there are no limits to His wish to help. The prophet rightly interprets God's thoughts when he uses the most inclusive of all pronouns, "Ho, every one." Yet in the nature of the case there is a limit on our side in our desire. Water and bread are for the thirsty and hungering; the invitation is for those who feel a heart's desire for what God gives. Even God cannot help the self-satisfied except by destroying their self-satisfaction that they may seek His help. Christ both enlarged His mission and stated its necessary limitations when He said: "I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." The scribes and pharisees would never have enlarged the borders of God's mercy to include sinners they despised. And here is one of the ironies of Christ, in speaking of the "righteous" to men in whose idolized Scriptures was the ordinance and record of a continual sin-offering and whose ritual worship culminated in a day of atonement for the sins of all the people. God's invitation pledges satisfaction to our hunger and thirst. Jesus renewed the promise in like terms: "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." What the final satisfaction of the soul in righteousness may be we cannot know, in the meantime we must take God's promise in the terms of the image He Himself has chosen. There is food for every hunger. There is water for every thirst. How often did Christ say: "According to your faith be it unto you." He who desires to be pure, shall be pure. He who longs to be honest shall be true. He who follows after love shall be loving. Ours is an ever-present, ever-helpful God from Whom the renewal of our desires from day to day obtains continually renewed provision. Through this renewal of our daily need and the experience of God's continual provision comes heart's rest. We do not find our satisfaction because we have become like God through independence of all changes in our life, but because we trust in Him and He sustains us. God's invitation does not sever us from God, it makes us consciously His loving and cooperating children. We can never be independent of His sustaining care; but faith and love make our dependence joyful. Work is transformed and patience glorified. For it is to the laboring and the heavy-laden that Christ offers rest of heart. SERVICE FOR GOD. Ordinary Duties Are the Means of Discipline in the Highest Qualities of Character. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." There is a depth of educational philosophy in this inspired statement, says Bishop J. H. Vincent. Our young people ought to be trained from the beginning to make use of educational advantages as religious opportunities. They should be guarded against confining all religious inspirations and aims to Sabbath hours and Sabbath services. There should be no break between Sabbaths. The cable of Divine influence should stretch through the seven days, sending out wires to touch with their Divine charm every hour of every day. What is true of study is also true of worldly labor. Kitchen-work, shopwork, farm-work, as well as schoolwork, are Divine duties; they hide pearls in their rough shells; they are means of discipline in the highest qualities of character. Through the faithful discharge of such plain duties comes some of the sweetest and mightiest energies from the Heavens. The young convert should be guarded against the fearful heresy, that when he leaves the hour of song and prayer and revival power and goes to his homely service in the shop or field, he is imperilling his spiritual life by leaving the place where spiritual power especially belongs. Honest service for God, with pure motives and the spirit of prayer in the lowliest places, is a means of grace, without which, as collateral and supplementary agencies, devotional hours are absolutely worthless. Revealing Ourselves. In the long run every man reveals himself in one way or another. The Scripture says: "Behold your sin will find you out." It is just as true that a man's goodness will find him out. The Lord tells his followers not to let their left hand know what their right hand doeth, an injunction which applies particularly to the individual who is disposed to advertise his good deeds, but is no contradiction of the truth that in time good deeds as well as evil, somehow discover themselves. "By their fruits ye shall know them." Thorn trees do not produce grapes nor do fig trees grow stinles. "Murder will out," and so likewise honesty, charity and the rest. It is really wonderful how certain traits are revealed and how easily men trained to watch for them detect them. Mr. Arthur E. McFarlane speaks of the four tests by which ticket-sellers detect counterfeit money. The final test is "the peculiar twit of the man's hand as he shoves it at you."—North-Western Christian Advocate. 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 eny 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. PHYSICIANS. W. P. Curtis. W. D. Scott. Wm. H. Mansifee. O. T. Fields. G. S. Jackson. W. P. T. Jones. J. P. Stafford. Dr. Davis. C. F. Crews. W. N. Perry. J. W. McDowell. S. H. Bell. A. W. Craddock. W. Brabham. C. C. Sibley. DENTISTS. T. A. Curtis. H. G. Anderson. INSTITUTIONS. Provident Hospital, Beaumont and Morgan Sts. Colored Orphan Asylum, 4216 Natural Bridge Road. Central Baptist Poor Old Saints' Home, Morgan St., near Jefferson Ave. Y. M. C. A. Home Association, 2633 Lucas Ave. Colored Catholic Orphan Asylum, Normandie. All church notices must be mailed to this office on or before Wednesday of each week. Reporters will be sent wherever requested. Only notify this office. WANTED—25 young Colored men, with common school education, to pass civil service examinations, and prepare themselves for positions in government service, on the World's Fair Grounds, in 1904. Call and see Newsome & Randays any evening at their office, 4265 St. Ferdinand avenue. The Mississippi legislature voted down a proposition to invite Grover Cleveland to address the body. Rents in the new Vanderbilt dormitory at Yale are so high that only rich students can take rooms. Russia estimates that the cost of the war with Japan will be $320,000,000, and hopes to be able to raise a loan. It is confirmed at Washington that negotiations for an arbitration treaty are in progress with France. The Missouri supreme court upholds the board of public improvements in regard to specifying certain brands of macadam in paving contracts. It is estimated that nearly 12,000 cars of exhibit material are due to arrive at St. Louis in the next 60 days prior to the opening of the World's fair. The Russian gunboat Mandjur, it is reported, will be allowed to remain at Shanghai after being dismantled and having the fires drawn. 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 Sedatia Times. Eagle-Herald, Gainsville, Fla. The Reformer. The Truth Teller, St. Louis. Southern Christian Recorder. Cincinnati Brotherhood. Star of Zion. Washington Bee. Seattle Republic. Weman's World. Bluegrass Bugle. Chicago Broad Ax. Paducah Bee. The Parson Weekly Blade. The City Times, Galveston, Tex. The 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, Tenn. The Business Herald, Donaldsonville Ala. The St. Luke Herald, Richmond, Va. The Progress, Omaha, Neb. Nashville Clarion, Nashville, Tenn. Missouri State Republican. The Lynnman Blade, Vicksburg, Miss the Christian Organizer, Lynchburg, Virginia. The Columbia, Louisville, Ky. Colored Messenger, Kansas, Mo. Temple of Health and Physical Re view Savanna Gazette, Savannah, Ga. Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Fla. Voice of Misstons, New York. Searchlight, Wichita, Kan. Tribune, Pueblo, Colo. Colored Citizens Press, Chicago, Ill. Banker, Merchant and Manufacturer Publisher of Money, New York. Teche Valley News, Jeanerette, La. St. Joseph Radical, St. Joseph, Mo. Palladium, Nashville, Tenn. Pythian Blade, Vicksburg, Miss. Bee, Paducah, Ky. Southern Advocate, Hot Springs, ississippi. Etheopian Abbiville, S. C. Wisconsin Advocate, Milwaukee, wisconsin. Eagle, Kempsville, Ala. Chicago Visitor, Chicago, Ill. Kennedy Reporter, Qwensboro, Ky. Pythian Journal, St. Louis, Mo. Rising Sun, Kansas, Mo. Southwestern Advocate, New Orleans, ouisiana. Republican Guide, Baltimore, Md. The Advances Citizen, East St. Louis, Ming Sun, Kansas, Mo. The Albuquerque American, a newspaper published in New Mexico, is on our desk. A paper well edited and quite newsy. We heardly exchange. J. M. Griffin, editor and proprietor. Any of the above papers can be had at the Palladium office. We will count the list next week. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY AND IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE, KNOWN AS THE GREAT SOUTHWEST SYSTEM Farms of MISSOURI, The Broad Corn and Wheat Fields and Thriving Mills of KANSAS, The Fertile River Valleys, Trade Centers and Rolling Prairies of NEBRASKA, The Grand, Picturesque and Enchanting Scenery, and t. b. Mountains District of COLORADO, The Agricultural, Fruit, Mineral and Timber Lands, and Famous Hot Springs of ARKANSAS, The Sugar Plantations and immense Rice Farms of LOUISIANA, The Cotton and Grain Fields, the Cattle Ranges and Winter Resorts of TEXAS, Historical and Scenic OLD AND NEW MEXICO, And forms for the Cattle of the Popular Winter Route to CALIFORNIA For descriptive and illustrated pamphlets of any of the above States, address Companies' Agents, or H. C. TOWNSEND, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. ST. LOUIS. Many exhibits are arriving at the St. Louis World's fair grounds and are being installed in the exhibit palaces. With a few more low-down, dirt Niggers like the Nigger that got knocked down last Saturday night, out of the way, would put the Negroes on a better basis. 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. 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 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 Scot 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: 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. (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, and you must pay or you don't get in. KEEP THE FLAG FLYING. NOTICE Wait! The greatest Negro poet and humorist, Paul Lawrence Dunbur, 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 Rule Temple, Kansas City ..... 100 00 Laura B. Mansfield, St. Phillips, Temple, Huntsville ..... 100 00 Wm. Sneed, J. H. Williams Lodge, Centralia ..... 100 00 Mary Herald, Gilbert Temple, Kansas City ..... 100 00 Carrie Walker, Ada Temple,St. Louis ..... 100 00 Total paid endowment this quarter ..... $800 00 M. B. Mr. Andrew J. Smith, who formerly lived in Memphis, Tenn., who also conducted a first-class grocery, has come to St. Louis, and he has a most successful grocery and meat store, also another department connected with his store which will invigorate the inner man. Mr. Smith has a wife and sons, who assist him in business, and he knows no such word as fail. He is of a jovial, good disposition. When he makes friends he knows how to keep them. He is liked by all who come in contact with him. Go and see, and send order for what you need. He will supply you with all that you need. His place is at 1315 Clark avenue. BURIALS The following burials also have been paid: Laura Bell Mansfield, St. Phillips Temple, Huntsville.....$ 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 ..... $513 50 The records show our present liabilities not to exceed $1,000 and our monies in hand, including this quarter, more than $5,000. We could settle every dollar we owe and still have a balance of over $4,000 cash balance on hand in our treasury. We invite contrast. Yours in J. M. and T., S. T. PETTIGREW, Grand Master, Dalton, Mo. W. H. HARRISON, Grand Secretary, Jefferson City, Mo. 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. LANDERS CO. TOWER ON MANUFACTURES BUILDING Manager Wanted Trustworthy lady or gentleman to manage business in this county and adjoining territory for well and favorably known house of solid financial standing. $20 straight cash salary and expenses, paid each Monday by check direct from headquarters, Expense money advanced; position permanent. Address Manager, 610 Monon Bidg., Chicago, Ill. There were two funerals at the First Baptist church this week; namely—Mrs. Glmore, who died at the hospital, and a Miss Hill. Thus you see one by one out they go. Death comes in and shuts the doors. In some graveyard they are laid, a place that is purposely prepared for the dead. The protracted meeting is still going on at the First Baptist church, and Dr. E. C. Cole is having a glorious success. His assistant, Dr. J. W. Muse, whose sermons are so full of logic and demonstration, that even the most illiterate can not fall to understand him, and take heed, and come to Christ and be saved. There have been more than one hundred converts added to the church during the meetings, and Dr. E. C. Cole will take great delight in baptizing Manager Trustworthy lady or gentleman to joining territory for well and favorable standing. $20 straight cash salary a check direct from headquarters, Expent. Address Manager, 610 Mono IMPORTANT. The Married Women's Harper club met at 3914 Sophia avenue, the residence of Mrs. Davis. They were entertained in the most stylish manner. They were conducted into the dining room, where the table was spread with all the good things of the season. Among those present we noticed Mrs. Easton, of San Antonio, Tex.; Mrs. Watkins, Simms, Murphy and others. The house was decorated so as to look like a fairy garden or the paradise above. The whole affair was very pleasant. Mrs. W. H. Davis has been sick since. She is better now. them next Sunday, which will mark the closing of the meeting. Rev. Cole has arranged some nice and dainty little badges for all the young converts, which will serve to distinguish them from the other members of the church. Madame E. B. Cole, the distinguished, cultured and loving Christian wife of Dr. Cole, stands ready to pln on the badges just as soon as anyone rises and tells that he or she is a Christian. The different clubs at the First Baptist church are still working, trying to raise all the money they can to pay on the debt of the church. The St. Louis B. Y. P. U., a religious organization which composes the four churches, namely—First Baptist, Fifth Baptist, Antioch Baptist and Central Baptist—will meet on the third Sunday in March, at the Central Baptist church, at 3 p. m. A grand and glorious time is anticipated. Wanted manage business in this county and ad- y known house of solid financial and expenses, paid each Monday by ense money advanced; position perma- n Bldg., Chicago, Ill. NOTICE. NOTICE. We see that Mayor Cable of Dallas, Tex., does not agree with the Wild Boy of Mississippi, J. K. Vardaman-Mayor Cable reasons from cause to effect, and admits that education is the lever on which the Negro must and will rise. He says, in words unmistakable, that "we have bad Negroes in Dallas. We also have bad white men. We also have good Negroes in Dallas. Such men as S. J. Lowery, and twenty others whom I could name, are men above reproach, and such men as are looked up to by their race." Iilinois Methodists. Paris, Ill., Oct. 12.—The assignments for the Illinois conference, A. M. E. church, were made to-day, having been held over from Sunday evening, pending a conference between Bishop Grant and the presiding elders. The assignments were finally made as follows: Springfield district—Rev. Andrew J. Burton, presiding elder; S. R. Cottrell, Mattoon and Clarleston; J. W. Ousley, Mound City; J. W. Saunders, St. Paul church, Springfield; S. A. Hardison, St. John church, Springfield; R. E. Wilson, Paris; William Collins, Gibbs 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 Rldick, 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. Smit, Lebanon and Carly; evangelists, Miss E. Marie Carter, Robert Earnest, George A. Brown and Mrs. Emma Brewington. H. Simmons was transferred to the Iowa conference in exchange for Rev. G. W. Gaines. 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, 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; Frederick town; J. R. Hopkins; Pune Terre, A. O. D. Steele, Oak Ridge, I. Chonley; Festus circuit, James Randa, Quinn chapel, St. Louis, J. E. Christner; Payne's mission circuit, St. Louis, F. E. Clark; Caladonia mission to be supplied; Caruthersville mission, Perry G. Dawson. U. B. F. AND S. M. T. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: G. M., S. T. Pettigrew, Dalton; D. G. M., Dr. J. E. Perry, Columbia; G. S., W. H. Harrison, Jefferson City; A. G. S., C. C. Hubbard, Louisiana; Treasurer, Dr. O. C. Queen, Hanniball; G. C., Rev. O. T. Redd, Macon; S. M, Robert Vaughn, Paris; J. M., R. A. Morton, Kansas City; R. S., G. W. Montgomery, Gooch's Mills; L. S., Dr. J. D. Sexton, Macon; I. S., Robert Watson, Boonville; O. S., H. A. Lewis, Wellsville; Grand Organizer, J. H. Williams, Centralia; G. S. B., Thos. Stemmons, Hilldale; Trustees, G. L. Greene, Old Franklin; Robert Renfro, Mobery; P. L. Given, Bunceton; Board of Management, B. K. Bruce, Brunswick; Dr. J. T. Caston, Fulton; William Rice, St. Louis; J. S. Lothan, New Franklin. New officers of Temple: W. G. P, Kate M. Moore, Columbia; V. G. P. Hattie Williams, St. Louis; G. S., Olivia Watson, Minneapolis; A. G. S., Carrie Stevenson, St. Louis; G. C., Bell Thompson, Moberly; Treas, A. M. Williams, Mexico; G. J., S. A. Pettigrew, Dalton; Trustees, S. A. Mott, Macon; Julia Coleman, Columbia; Ida Garnett, Jefferson City; Sarah Jackson, Kansas City; F. M. Brashears, Columbia. NICELY-FURNISHED rooms for rent, 1552 Gratiot street. Stop that cough. Go and get Pickett's Cough Drops. RAMSEY'S THE STRICTLY MODERN ROOMING HOUSE Of the city for Gentlemen and the general travelling public. Every convenience desired by patrons of high class rooms at moderate cost. MRS. HATTIE J. RAMSEY, Proprietress. CRAVENS & HEAD Prods Pink Coat Bar. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. POOL ROOM. S. E. Cor. 22d and Market Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. NEWSOME & RANDALL, Stenographers and Typewriters. Applicants prepared for Civil Service Examinations. Office 4265 St. Ferdinand Ave. GEO. W. F. BULLOCK, Ladies' Barber AND TONSORIALIST 3320 Franklin Avenue. St. Louis. Louis Deppe, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Wines, Whiskies, Brandies, ETC., ETC. Southeast Corner of Market St. & Jefferson Av. St. Louis, Mo. Sexton & Maxwell, First-class Photographers 1407 Market St. MRS. L. A. GORMAN NICELY Furnished Rooms BY THE DAY OR WEEK 1222 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo. L. HOPKINS & BRO. Restaurant and Lunch Room Headquarters for Barbers, Porters, Hotel and Railroad Men. PRIVATE DINING ROOMS LATE SUPPERS A SPECIALTY. Fine Imported & Domestic Cigars. 114 N. JEFFERSON AVENUE, ST. LOUIS, MO. WALTER S. 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 Locust streets. All orders are promptly attended to. 300 North Leonard avenue. S. P. PERKINS. Everything Neat, Clean and Up-to-date 1320 Morgan Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. A FIRST-CLASS NEWLY FITTED Has been opened by J. L. MAYS, of Chattanooga, Tenn., who also does business in Chicago. A MANKER of a company. His is employed by Mr. Mays, and they are considered two of the best barbers in our city. They have removed from 1525 Clark Ave. to 1331 POPLAR STREET GIVE THEM A CALL FANNIE LEE World's Fair Artist Pictures of all kinds called for and delivered. All sizes crayon, pastel, water color and oil paintings a specialty. Fine frames 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. 109 Thirty-two diagrams showing Jacob Shafer and Frank C. Ives, famous billard players, at the stand No. 2. 2326 Market street. A. A. BROOK8, Proprietor. BILLIARD Hall No. 1 at 1323 Market Street Hall No. 2 at 2326 Market Street A. A. BROO The Chicago game of pool. This lars will be the prize between ten men second prize, $15; third prize, $10. At BROOKS, Proprietor. Pool. This game is played in rotation. Fifty dol- en ten men playing 100 games. First prize, $25; e, $10. At 1323 or 2326 Market street. A. A. BROOKS, Proprietor. The Chicago game of pool. This game is played in rotation. Fifty dollars will be the prize between ten men playing 100 games. First prize, $25; second prize, $15; third prize, $10. At 1323 or 2326 Market street. A. A. BROOKS, Proprietor. TRUNKS CONVEYED FROM OR TO UNION STATION. en street. pass state. neir busi- pleasant mg is in G. of Shebia Wednes- SOLILO --- They are the leaders of the city for pastime pleasure. No saloon connected. Strictly first-class. Coal, Kindling, Wood. HAULING AND EXPRESS WAGONS. Office: 4017 Easton Avenue. MR. C. YOUNC. NOTICE TO OUR AGENTS. They must report weekly, otherwise no paper will be sent them on the following week. True Reformers' Barber Shop. And baths is the neatest, warmest baths and shop in the city. Clean towels used in every case, for the coal man as well as the clerk in the office. Four barbers who can shave any person with ease and satisfaction. Try them. JOHN W. ALPHRAN. Mgr. 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. 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. Anderson Russell, successor to Russell & Gordon, undertaker and embaler, livery and boarding, carriages furnished for all occasions. 18-20-22 Market street, St. Louis. Phone, Kinloch C, 390. Branch, 609 East Missouri avenue, East. St. Louis. Ill. Phone, I am Missouri; take a look at me, and my mighty rivers that run to the sea—at my mountains and valleys, my woodlands and plains, my mineral, my timber, my live stock and grains. My towns and my cities, my schools and my homes, my uplands, my lowlands, my black wax and loams; the fruits of my orchards, the coal in my hills, the corn of my prairies, the wool of my milk, the thrift of my people, their labor and toll, which bring forth the harvest from bountieous soil, unto which responding; my great bosom yields the food for the cattle of thousands of fields. No state that is richer in forest or mine, a land of the honey, the milk and the vine; with people God-fearing as amy, I trow, who live in the pride of the sweat of the brow, and who wonder, as working the long years through, why Missouri gains not as her sisters do—the sisters less temperate in climate than she, and lacking her rivers that run to the sea; and lacking the railroads which came in the quest of a world-circling route from the East to the West. Oh, great is their wonder that these things—could be, and when they say, "I'm from Missouri; show me," they meet that the mystery of such things has made, the man from Missouri for ever afraid of the books that don't balance, discrepancies that mount; auditors who don't audit; experts who can't count; lobbies in power who make all the laws; judges inermine who indicate flaws in the state constitutions by books or by hooks, and who quash indictments of election crooks; commissioners of funds who sell my patrimony out; fiscal agents who never tell what entries are about, and entries without vouchers relieving them of doubt; school funds which have disappeared without a restitution, leave holes, to cover which I'm asked to mend my constitution; a sinking fund in which is sunk more than the debts I owe; an interest fund to which I've paid more than the people know. The faster I have paid it off, faster it seems to grow. If you want to know the truth of this, don't to my records go. The bonds, the price, the interest clipped, my books will never shoot. For the party who keeps me out of my station, has fallen under machine direction. The committee's in the lobby, and the lobby's on the throne, and the expert's hunt for balances, and all my people groan. Burff they're from Missouri, and really must be shown, just look at me, as I stand here, displayed from zone to zone; and in my southeast corner, projection they will find which they can use to serve or save, as they may be inclined. If I'm a cow, then that's a teat to milk me dry, no doubt. But I'm a man, it is a boot to kick the rascal out. A Faithful Pastor. We are convinced that Rev. W. W. Perry, of Bridgeton, Mo., is doing good work in that city. Our good people only want good and true pastors, who are honest and upright in their dealings with the people. Then God will bless their efforts. We will try and keep the work of the church before the people, and we are confident success will crown the efforts of its pastor, Rev. Perry. Will Graduate. The Meharry Medical college, of Nashville, Tenn., will send forth, on the 1st of March, 59 doctors, 9 dentists and 8 pharmacists. We see that S. P. Douglas, of St. Louis, and G. H. Martin, the son of Dr. D. L. Martin, of Nashville. Tenn., will graduate. They will both locate for business in St. Louis. We see also R. A. Henderson, of Fulton, Mo., and J. I. Teague, of Kansas City, Mo. Wallace H. Hills, chief clerk of the United States treasury department, is on his way to St. Louis with a warrant for $1,000,000, the first installment of World's fair loan. [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie and mustache]. ARNETT'S PLACE E. L. ARNETT, Proprietor. 2801 MORGAN STREET, HEADQUARTERS OF BANNER BASE BALL CLUB. 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. Anheuser-Busch Beer on Tap J. P. WATKINS, Prop. Douglass Buffet and Pool Room IS NOW OPEN Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars LAWTON AVE. and BEAUMONT ST. LOUIS, MO. Carpenter and Builder, and General Repair Work. All work promptly attended to. Call and see me. 1100 S. Compton Ave. Pride of the West No.123 Independent Order of the Court of Calantha Meets the 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. Headquarters for Colored Pro The Rosebud Bar, TOM TURPIN, Prop. Pool Room in connection. ers for Colored Professionals. LOWREY, Chefs, Late of Dallas State Fair. ket St., St. Louis, Mo. HONE: Kinloch D-855. Headquarters for Colored Professionals. ne ebud ar, IN, Prop. Room ction. class cafe in night and aces. Pri- MASON& LOWREY, Chef 2220=22 Market St., PHONE: Kinloch D-852 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, Sec. IRWIN WHEELER, Bus. Art. 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 Place Phone: Kinloch B 1817. WILLIAM JAMES and MR. R. SAUNDERS, Managers CHARLEY HARRIS, Proprietor The Greeley Saloon. Fine Wines, L Excursionists give us a Ask for it 1201 Morgan S Jas. Williams, M JEFF. SMITH. Propr. IF WE CAN'T PLEASE YOU EVERYTHING THAT IS APPROPRIATE STEVE SMITH, M THE GREELY CHOICEST OF LIQUID REFRESHMENT S. E. Cor. Twelfth and Wash Streets, 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 PLEASE YOU NO ONE CAN. THAT IS APPROPRIATE SERVED HERE. F SMITH, Manager. REELY RESORT. LIQUID REFRESHMENTS TO BE HAD. 1 Wash Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Excursionists give us a call. Headquarters for sports. Ask for it, you'll get it. 1201 Morgan St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Jas. Williams, MIXERS Chas. St. Clair. EFF. SMITH. Prodr. GEO. FOUNTAIN, M gr IF WE CAN'T PLEASE YOU NO ONE CAN. EVERYTHING THAT IS APPROPRIATE SERVED HERE. THE GREELY RESORT. S. E. Cor. Twelfth and Wash Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. 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. 1409 Market Street B. MUNCHWEILER Dealer in LADIES' and GENTS' SHOES DON'T FORGET THE NUMBER 1409 Market Street 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. Millinery. Up-to-date Hats. Trimmings and all material in that line. MR. A. L. LEE, Representing the PALACE LAUNDRY HUTCHINS INGE, Lawyer and Real Estate Agent, 1107 Clark Avenue and 2633 Pine Staple and Fancy GROCERIES, 2601 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. California Canned Goods a Specialty. Stop that cough. Pickett's Cough Syrup. --- --- DAVE YOUNG Night. Also a first-class cafe in rear, open all night and day. All Prices. Private Dining-room. [Name] NEW LOCATION. GOOD INVESTMENTS Telephone—Kinloch C-397. THEO. H. TEMPEL, Dealer in JOHN H. CLARK Day. A. B. C. 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. Mrs. Susan Gross, 2609 Pine Street. guarantees satisfaction and prompt service. The best Collar and Cuff work in the city. Please address all communications to 2825 St. Louis avenue. Venioe, III. The good people of Venice, Ill., and also of Madison, read The Palladium. Mr. Lewis Watkins, our enterprising 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 John. 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 newsdealer, 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 sells 20 to 25 copies a week. The congregation of Central Baptist like The Palladium for the stand it took in defending them when the Old Black Man took delight in sticking that congregation in the short ribs. At that time The Palladium thundered forth the shot and shell, and consequently gained the admiration of that church. Mr. Barnes is all right. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE 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, Stoves and Ranges Repaired and put up. Expressing and Moving. Phone Kin. D-2137. 1124 N. Sarah St. CALL OR WRITE FOR PRICES. FIELDS & CAMPBELL, Rooming House, 2635 LUCAS AVE. Everything First-Class. All Modern Improvements. ROOMS AT MODERATE PRICES. FIELDS & CAMPBELL, Proprietors. "Follow the Flag." Banner Route To the Great Gateways Kansas City, Chicago, Omaha. Toledo & Buffalo. Through sleepers to New York and the East. Magnificent Equipment and Train Service. Ticket Office, Eigth and Olive streets THE CONDITIONS ON THE ISTHMUS Ratification of Treaty Followed by Reduction of Land Force. WARSHIPS ARE ALSO LEAVING Colombians Ready to Fight as Soon As They Learn That the Treaty Has Been Ratified at Washington. New York, Feb. 26.—Ratification of the Panama canal treaty resulted in the immediate recall of the United States warships and about one-half of the marines from the isthmus, says a Herald dispatch from Panama. The Marblehead, Petrel, Wyoming and two torpedo boats will remain on the Pacific side. The New York, Boston and Bennington will proceed to Callao. On the Atlantic side all warships except two will proceed north for the maneuvers. Four hundred and fifty marines, under Maj. Cole, will leave on the Dixie for Guantanamo. The belief is that they will proceed later to San Domingo. Colombians. Ready to Fight. Despite Colombia's internal disturbances, letters just received from there declare that the Colombians are ready to fight as soon as news arrives that the treaty has been ratified. One general in Cartagena is quoted as saying that if the government does not declare war the troops on the border will invade Panama anyhow. The last information from the coast is that another regiment of soldiers has been sent from Cartagena to the frontier. Half of the 4,000 soldiers originally sent to Titumat have been moved 25 miles further up the Darian coast toward Panama. Notice to San Blas Chief. It is known now that Inanaquaina, the San Blas chief, has visited Titumati three or four times. American officers have given him notice that the big canoes he has collected near the frontier, if used to transport Colombian troops, will be sunk. He promised to remain neutral, and said he wished peace. On account of the feeling of the Indians, the Panama government has displaced Inanaquaina as the principal chief, and has named Henry Clay, whose headquarters are at the mouth of the Rla Diablo, to be governor-general, with a commission in the army. Friendly to the Americans. San Blas is very friendly to the Americans, and flies the Panama flag. If the Colombians carry out the threat to attack, they can not reach the railroad section as fast as vessels can be sent from the United States as soon as news of the advance arrives. Signed by the President. Washington, Feb. 26—President Roosevelt signed the ratifications to be exchanged between the United States and the republic of Panama on the isthmian canal treaty. The exchanges will be made at the state department between Secretary Hay, acting for the United States, and Mr. Bunan-Varilla, the minister of Panama. CHARGED WITH LARCENY. Wallace Ham, Manager of the American Surety Co. at Boston, Arrested for Larceny. Boston, Feb. 26.—Wallace H. Ham, manager of the American Surety Co.'s branch office in this city, was arrested, Thursday, on larceny charges, the total amount involved being $104,000, according to Chief Inspector Watts. The American Surety Co. is a new concern. Ham is 48 years old. His home is in Brookline. He is married and has several children. Although the sum mentioned in the warrant was $104,000, the American Surety Co., in a statement issued Thursday afternoon, said that the net shortage was $190,000, and that the accounts of St. Luke's Home for Convalescents and of St. Paul's church, this city, of each of which Ham was treasurer, were affected, as well as those of the Surety Co. SAM GOMPERS AT SAN JUAN Conference Between the Labor Leaders and Representatives of Labor On the Island. San Juan, P. R., Feb. 26.—At a conference between Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and delegates of the two Porto Rican labor unions, representing all the organized labor of the island, Mr. Gompers urged their amalgamation under the American Federation of Labor. A resolution to this effect was adopted by the delegates and will be voted upon by the unions March 12. Three Hundred Women Strike. Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 26.—Three hundred women garment cutters struck Thursday against a reduction in their wages. President Harper Suffers a Relapse. Chicago, Feb. 26.—President Wm. R. Harper of the University of Chicago has suffered a relapse of his recent attack of appendicitis, and again is under the closest attention of his physicians. His exact condition is not known to other than his physicians and family. Many Widows on the Market. Gowle, Ia., Feb. 26.—Mayor Sorber, who issued a proclamation that all bachelors must marry or pay a tax, is receiving many letters, and it seems that many widows are on the market. Young People PLAYING HOSTESS. When Maggie takes her Thursday out, I have a lot of fun. I am glad. I'll buy my about Till everything is done! Because we say that on that day The house belongs to me, I ask—it's such a lovely play!— My pa and ma to tea. "Now, ma'am," I say, "don't let me make Your cup of tea too sweet; And, doctor, take a piece of cake, -Blanche Trennor Heath, in Good Housekeeping. WHEN ZOZOKA COMES. The Story of the Fish Hawk's Life and Ways Told for the Benefit of Our Young Readers. Near the river mouth three children were at play on the sand, an Indian lad, a small American girl and her brother. Suddenly the Indian stood up, and shading his eyes with his hand, gazed long toward the southward. "Zozoka comes," he said; "plenty fish." "Where?" cried the white children, eagerly scanning the sea and sky. "His wife, too; it is good," said the Indian. "The Great Spirit smiles on my people. He sends Zozoka to tell us that we shall have big catches of fish, all we can eat and plenty to dry for the cold moons." The children could see two birds coming from the southward. Fascinated, they watched till over their heads swept a pair of magnificent ospreys. "Fish hawks," they cried in the same breath. go to their old home up the river. A gleam of silver showed just beneath the river's blue. Like a shot the fish-hawk dropped and was half buried in the water before he rose, holding a fish in his strong talons. Mounting with a few graceful sweeps of his splendid wings, which spread over five feet, he seated himself on his favorite branch, and tearing the fish into pieces, devoured it with great relish. For a fortnight this devoted couple spent many a busy hour searching for material to repair their home. A few rods from the bank was a dead tree, and Mr. Fish-hawk decided that some of its branches would be exactly right for propping up the sagging east side. Then HAWK WITH FISH. he performed a wonderful acrobatic feat, something no other bird ever dreamed of doing. He rose in the air to a great height, and dropped straight as an arrow to the branch he had selected, breaking it with his weight and catching it before it reached the ground. While Zoozoka was busy breaking the tree branches, his mate searched the shore and river banks. She brought long streamers of seaweed, red and brown, green sea grass and a wisp or two of salt hay from the marshes. With these she wove a new lining for her home, and soon it held two spotted eggs, a little larger than a hen's. When the babies appeared there was work indeed. Zooxaka would swoop down, dive into a wave and come out on the opposite side, with a catfish in his claws. Before starting for his home up the river he always turned the fish edgeways to the wind, for he was a wise bird, and knew that if he carried it broadside out it would present a larger surface to the wind's resistance. Before a week had passed they were famous flyers. To learn to fish successfully was very difficult indeed. First the young hawks fished almost wholly in the river, not venturing to try their luck in the ocean, but one day the bold son flew far out over the breakers, farther than he had ever before. Suddenly there was a splash and he saw a great fish gamboling below. Pausing a moment to take a good aim he shot downwards, struck the fish and firmly imbeded his claws. He attempted to rise, but to his dismay was drawn down, down, deeper and deeper beneath the water. He struggled desperately to disentangle his claws, but now his lungs were filling with water; his strength was ebbing. His struggles grew more and more feeble. His ambition had cost him his life. The next morning, when the hawks flew seaward, they saw a great codfish lying on the beach, with a dead young osprey grimly clutching its back.—Boston Globe. ALBINO DEER KILLED. Its Coat Was Pure White, Its Eyes Pink and Its Fur of Softest and Silky Texture. An albino deer, with a coat as white as the drifting snows, eyes a delicate pink, and with a tread as soft and discreet as an elk fawn, was killed in the Canyon mountains of southern Oregon recently. It was one of the very few albino deer ever seen in the mountains of the west. Old hunters tell of seeing them, usually separate from the main herds, and at various times during the early days; but they were too shy and discreet to be approached near enough for a shot. The deer shown in the accompanying illustration, from the Scientific American, and which was killed in the Can- AN ALBIND DEER. yon mountains, was with four other deer at the time it was found, and had not this been true, the hunters would not have taken it for a deer. Its white coat made it far more conspicuous than the remainder of the herd, and it is perhaps for this reason only albino deer are shunned by their mates. The albino deer bears exactly the same relation to the deer family that the albino of the African race does to the human kind. Aside from its white coat and pink eyes, it is like all other deer; possibly its fur is softer and more silky. The specimen found in the pine forests of the Canyon mountains will be made a part of the exhibit of albino animals at the Smithsonian institution. JOKE PLAYED ON HAWK. Bird Was Very Curious at First, But Later On Become Frightened and Dropped His Prey. Hawks, writes the author of "Travels in a Treetop," have an unusual amount of curiosity. They are trapped, he says, almost as often through their curiosity as through their fear. Sometimes in winter, when there is little to attract their attention, an unbaited trap, if of a new shape or variety, is quite as likely to land a victim as if it held a most appetizing mouse. Once a trick was played upon a splendid black hawk that had been mousing over the fields for half the winter. It often perched upon a straw stack, instead of in the lone hickory tree that stood sentinel-like in the center of the field. Early one morning a plump meadow mouse, with an inflated bladder attached to it by a string, was placed on the top of the stack. The bladder and cord were concealed by the straw. The hawk was apparently a little suspicious when he first noticed the mouse. He was not used to seeing a mouse remain perfectly still in that way, especially when he began to circle about with his great black wings close down to the stack. Presently he alighted in a wary way on one end of the stack; then he walked nearer, eyed the mouse sharply, and pecked at it. At last he seized it in his talons and made off for the hickory. Halfway there, however, he noticed the bladder attached, and gave the mouse a violent jerk to free it from the strange appendage. This only served to make the bladder bob up and down more furiously, and with a scream of terror the hawk dropped the mouse and all and fled to the woods. It was some time before he was again seen in the neighborhood of the straw stack. How Various People Sleep. In the tropics men sleep in hammocks or upon mats of grass. The East Indian unrolls his light portable charpoy, or mattress, which in the morning is again rolled together and carried away by him. The Japanese lie upon matting with a stiff, uncomfortable wooden neck rest. The Chinese use low bedsteads, often elaborately carved, and supporting only mats or coverlets. A peculiarity of the German bed is its shortness; besides it often consists in part of a large down pillow or upper mattress, which spreads over the person, and usually answers the purpose of all the ordinary bed-clothing combined. In England the old four-posted bedstead is still the pride of the nation, but the iron or brass bedstead is fast becoming universal. The English beds are the largest beds in the world. The ancient Greeks and Romans had their beds supported on frames, but not flat like ours. The Egyptians had a couch of a peculiar shape, more like an old-fashioned easy-chair with hollow back and seat. Leaning Tower of Pisa. The famous leaning tower of Pisa has a rival in the Temple tower at Bristol, in England. It is a square tower of early Gothic architecture. All its parts still preserve their normal relative positions, without cracks or fissures. The tower, which is about 115 feet high, is five feet out of perpendicular at the summit. Mrs. Elizabeth H. The woman of Lill Mrs. Elizabeth H. Thompson, of Lillydale, N.Y., Grand Worthy Wise Templar, and Member of W.C.T.U., tells how she recovered from a serious illness by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: — I am one of the many of your grateful friends who have been cured through the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and who can to-day thank you for the fine health I enjoy. When I was thirty-five years old, I suffered severe backache and frequent bearing-down pains; in fact, I had womb trouble. I was very anxious to get well, and reading of the cures your Compound had made, I decided to try it. 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During the past year about 50,000 Americans went from the United States to Canada. Most of these settled upon farm lands, and the writer is informed by agents of the Canadian Government that the greatest success has followed the efforts of nearly all. To their friends on this side of the boundary line the fullest assurance is given of the prosperity that is in store for them. There will always be a splendid market for all the grain, cattle and other produce that can be raised in Western Canada, and with the advantages offered of a free homestead of 100 acres of land, and other lands which may be bought cheaply, an excellent climate, splendid school system, educational advantages of the best, what more is required. The husbandman gets more return for his money than in any other country in the world. On the occasion of Sir Wilfred Laurier's visit to the Corn Exchange, London, Eng., Colonel Montgomery, V. D., made several important statements. "The function (he said) which you have just been assisting in connection with a kindred association has doubtless shown you the importance of the provision trade of Liverpool in its relationship with the Dominion, and the enormous possibilities of the future development of that trade. Well, the grain trade of Liverpool has interests with Canada no less important than those of the provision trade. When it is borne in mind that 80 per cent. of the breadstuffs of this great country has to be brought from abroad, you will readily appreciate with what great satisfaction we view the large and steadily increasing supplies of grain which are annually available for export from Canada, and I challenge contradiction when I say that of the wheats we import from Russia, India, the Pacific, and the length and breadth of the United States, none gives more general satisfaction, none is more generally appreciated, than that raised in the Province of Manitoba. We cannot get enough of it, and it is no exaggeration to say that there are before us dozens of millers who hunger for it. This is not the time to enter into statistical questions, but we look forward with confidence to the time at which, with the present rate of progress, the Dominion of Canada will have a sufficient surplus of wheat to render this country independent of other sources of supply. I think I may, with justifiable pride, remind you that this is the chief grain market of the British Empire, and through its excellent geographical position, as well as through the enterprise of its millers it is now the second milling center in the world." Send to any authorized Canadian Government Agent for copy of Atlas and information as to railway rate, etc. Household Hints. An old typewriter ribbon soaked in a fruit jar of water will make a pint of purple hair dye. Porous plasters embroidered with different colored yarn in various motties are all the rage.—Cleveland Ledger. Billion Dollar Grass. When the John A. Salzer Seed Co., of La Crosse, Wis., introduced this remarkable grass three years ago, little did they dream it would be the most talked of grass in America, the biggest, quick, hay producer on earth, but this has come to pass. Agr. Editors wrote about it, Agr. College Professors lectured about it, Agr. Institute Orators talked about it, while in the farm home by 'he quiet fireside, in the corner grocery, in the village post-office, at the creamery, at the depot, in fact where ever farmers work. The Biblical Doh farm that wonderful grass, good for 5 to 14 tons per acre and lots of pasture besides, is always a theme worthy of the farmer's voice. Then comes Bromus Inermis, than which there is no better grass or better permanent hay producer on earth. Grows wherever soil is found. Then the farmer talks about Salzer's Teosinte, which will provide stolon stock in 10 ft. high. 100 days when in nutrition and greedily eaten by cattle, hogs, etc., and is good for 80 tons of green food per acre. Victoria Rape, which can be grown at 25c a ton, and Spelzt at 20c a bu., both great food for cattle, also come in for their share in the discussion. [K. L.] "What is the difference between the northern and southern shores of Long Island?" "On one sue you hear the sea and on the other you see the Sound."—Princeton Tiger. CUTICURA SOAP The World's Greatest Skin Soap-The Standard of Every Nation of the Earth. Millions of the world's best people use Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuticura Ointment, the purest and sweetest of emollient skin cures, for preserving, purifying and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening and soothing red rough and waxy hands, for baby rashes, itchings and eczema, for soothing sanative, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, especially mothers, as well as for all the purposes of the toilet, bath and nursery. "If a kicker," said Uncle Eben, "allus took de trouble to thoroughly understand what he was kickin' about he wouldn't hab nearly so much time to kick."—Washington Star. Millions in Oats. Salzer's New National Oats yielded in 1903 in Mich., 240 bu., in Mo., 255 bu., in N. D., 310 bu., and in 30 other states from 150 to 300 bu. per acre. Now this Out if generally grown in 1904, will 'add millions of bushels to the yield and millions of dollars to the farmer's purse. To use for 1904. Largest Seed Potato growers in Salzer's Spelt, Beardless Barley, Home Builder Corn, Macaroni Wheat, Pea Oat, Billion Dollar Grass and Earliest Cane are money makers for you, Mr. Farmer. JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 10c in stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and receive in return their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples. [K. L.] Towne—"Senator Dullard seems to have acquired quite a reputation as a wit." Browned—"Yes, he was interviewed once by a bright reporter."—Philadelphia Press THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson in the International Series for February 28,1904—Hearers and Doers of the Word. THE LESSON TEXT. (Matt, 7:21-29.) 21. Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in Heaven. 22. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many wonderful works? 23. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from Me, ye that work iniquity. 24. Therefore whosoever hearth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon the earth; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not; for it was founded upon a rock. 25. And every one that hearth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand; 26. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that it fell, and great was the fall of it. 27. And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at His doctrine; 28. For He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. GOLDEN TEXT—Be ye doers of the word, and not hearsers only—Jan 1.222 OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION. Jesus Withdrawal to Seashore..... Jesus' Withdrawal to Seashore. Mark 8:1-7. Choosing of the Twelve....Mark 10:2-4. Choosing of the Twelve....Mark 13:1-19. Choosing of the Twelve....Luke 6:13-19. Sermon on the Mount....Luke 6:20-49. TIME—Summer of A. D. 28 (part of "The Year of Public Favor"). PLACE.—Not a mountain, but the elevation which overlooks the sea of Gallilee. NOTES AND COMMENTS. (Matt. 7:21-23.) Jesus had just been warning His followers against false teachers. They were to be known, He said, by their fruits. But there might be false disciples as well as false teachers, and false notions of what it meant to be a true disciple. In these verses Jesus shows how tremendously serious and thoroughgoing a thing it is to be a Christian. "Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord:" Profession was not enough now, to make one Jesus' discipline. It is not a question of saying, but of doing. It is a good deal to say, "Lord, Lord." It is right to say it; it means respect, admiration, belief that His teachings are high and true, but a person can have all those feelings about Christ without actually living the Christ life. "Enter into the Kingdom of Heaven:" The kingdom of Heaven as it is on earth. Jesus was not primarily training people to follow Him out of this world, but to follow Him in this world. "But he that doeth the will of My Father:" Saying, when accompanied by doing, is natural and right; without it, it is a hollow mockery. Jesus had been telling what God's will was. "In that day:" The great day of judgment announced by many prophets and expected by all the Jews. "Did we not prophesy?" Did we not preach. New Testament prophecy was preaching rather than predicting future events. "By thy name cast out demons," etc.: Great, showy works, imitating the external deeds of Christ Himself, preaching and perhaps making converts, and yet not living a life governed by the principles laid down in this hillside teaching. "Depart from Me:" A terribly solemn sentence of doom, not from a hard and stern God—there is no such God—but from the loving Christ. (Vs. 24-27.) Here begins the conclusion of the most wonderful body of teaching the world has seen. Some of these lofty ethical teachings have been expressed by the founders of the great world religions, but always hopelessly mixed with the darkness of heathenism. We need not say that the world religions were all false, for they were not, but Jesus' teaching was all true. "Heareth these words of mine, and doeth them:" The hearing without the doing would make one worse rather than better. "Shall be likened unto a wise man:" Jesus does not say a good man, but a sensible man. The wise man took care what foundation he built upon, realizing that the building of a house was a serious matter and that if it was to prove equal to the tests of the storms of years, it must be built right from the foundation up. "Heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not:" This man's opportunities were as good as the others, but he neglected them, did not realize the importance of a sound foundation. His mistake was "not in selecting a bad foundation, but in taking no thought of foundation; in beginning to build hapazhard and anywhere; on loose sand, near the bed of a mountain torrent."—Bruce. The result is a foundation just as worthless as if a bad one had been purposely chosen. A house built on the sand will stand in fair weather. The foundation Jesus has been speaking of is one that will stand the tests of the storms of life. (Vs. 28, 29.) As usual the impression made by the great Teacher was tremendous, and the distinctive thing about it was, as in a recent lesson, that He did not quote "authority" but spoke His own convictions directly from His own heart and from God. Those who heard Him felt that what He said was authoritative. Spear Points. They only rule who scorn all ridicule No wrong path can lead to a right end. Honor leads back on the background of humility. The guides to darkness find their way to their own element. Better to be God's little child than the world's greatest man. world's greatest hero. The moral machinery leads aright when Christ is the motive force. There are many things in which our senses are like a sun-dial at night. The sight of a wrong is the only commission the true man needs. --- Ram's Horn. PRESUMPTION REBUKED. A Plebeian Purp Gets the Gold-Filled Teeth of an Aristocratic Cannine in His Ear. There was an item famine at Ship News the other day, which may have accounted for the story in red ink that a dog fight on the ganglank of La Bretagne delayed the French liner's sailing for several minutes after ten o'clock, the hour set, states the New York Sun. The ship was "happened," said a French Line pilot official, who seemed to think that two yarns were better than one, "was a gaucherie by a proletarian yellow dog and a reprimand by an aristocratic blue ribbon bull pup with bat ears. "The yellow dog was excited, never having been allowed on board before, and went up the first cabin gangplank by mistake, when it should have headed for the steerage. He annoyed the dog with the bat ears and the topaz studded collar, who was going aboard at the same time with his mistress. He put his teeth (two filled with gold) firmly but not viciously, into the ear of the yellow dog, led him down the plank and along the pier to the foot of the steerage gangplank and there let him go. Then the aristocrat hurried back to the first cabin and got to the pier. That was so swollen that if he had got left he would have hired a tiger and chased the liner down the bay. "But there was no fight. The jewelled pup was too well bred for that, and the yellow dog was too much awed by the towers to resent being corrected." Other officials say that no dogs sailed on La Bretagne. SHE WAS FROM KANSAS. And She Didn't "Care a Darn" Whether She Knew the Proper Thing or Not "Me? Oh, I'm a dozen things, according to your point of view. I'm the Kansas schoolma'am. I'm Dickens fat girl. I'm Lady Raw-and-Ready. I'm Bessie ackwools. There are lots of nicknames I deserve, but you can't make me mad by calling me see," she went on, relates a writer in McClure's, "I'm 19. I've been teaching school off in the country ever since by fifteenth birthday. I've saved every dollar I could scrape together—there's nobody in the world to look on, but I can. I'm full—and I'm blowing it all in on this European trip that I've dreamed of all my life, and that greater than all my dreams. I may be crude and ignorant and fresh—but I'm happy; happier than these artistic swells who are bored to death, amazed by the world, and what they don't, and so penned in and tyrannized over by rules or somebody's opinion that they daren't be natural. I don't care a darn whether I know the proper thing or not, and I hate people who pose and pretend that they do. All that stuff hasn't anything to do with life living. How does that sound to you—would stentations. An Atchison man tells the Globe about his uncle, an Irishman, who suddenly became rich. The first thing he did was to buy the best pew in the church. When Sunday rolled around the aisle, carrying a silk hat and elegant overcoat, he found two strange women occupying his pew. "Come out," he said, imperiously. The women were very much shocked, and walked out, their heads bowed. The Irishman said, "oblige me by walking back. I just wanted to show you who owned this pew." Johnny's Idea of It. Fond Father—Yes, Johnny, when the millennium is come the lamb can lie down with the lion in perfect safety. Little Johnny (doubtingly)—I 'spose that's so, but I think it would be safer to the lion, just the same—Stray Stories Got the Right Kind. Gainesville, Texas, Feb. 22nd—Mrs. L. E. Burton of 507 Glad street, this city, writes the following letter:— "I have been awfully troubled with my Kidneys. I was in a bad fix and had been doctoring with the Doctors, but was not well. I tried to help Dodd's Kidney Pills and I found they did me lots of good. I had a slight return of my trouble and I went to the Drug Store and called for Dodd's Kidney Pills. They said there was no such pills. I told them there was. They said they had the best pills that were made and persuaded me to try a box of another kind, not Dodd's. As I needed some medicine, I bought a box but they did me no money. I had Dodd's Kidney Pills, and very soon was completely cured. I took a box up to the Drug Store and showed them that there was such pills and asked them to order some, but as I haven't needed any more I haven't called to see whether or not they got them." She—"Why do you always insist on having your own way?" He—"Why shouldn't I? My way is always the best"—Sommerville Journal. Stop the Cough and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25 cents A woman's train of thought is often on her dress.—Everybody's Magazine. THE MARKETS. New York, Feb. 26 CATTLE-Native Steers. $ 3 75 @ 5 25 COTTON-Middling. @ 14% FLOUR-Winter Wheat. 4 25 @ 5 50 WHEAT-No. 2 Red. 1 07 @ 5 00 OATS-No. 2. @ 57 PORK-Mess (new). 17 25 @ 17 75 LARD-Western Steam. @ 8 25 COTTON-St. LOUIS. 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FLOUR-High Grades. @ 4 75 @ 5 28 CORN-No. 2. @ 55½ OATS-No. 2. @ 46 OATS-No. 2. @ 19 09 PORK-Standard Mess. @ 15 75 BACON-Short Rib Sides. @ 8½ COTTON-Making. @ 14 INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT-No. 2 Red. @ 1 08 CORN-No. 2 Mixed. @ 45 OATS-No. 2 Mixed. @ 43 SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH RELY ON PE-RU-NA TO FIGHT CATARRH, COUGHS, COLDS, GRIP Attending Chapel spring hoping change there a try Peru bottles Peruna for coughs and colds in children. Sisters of St. Joseph, of the Deaf Mute Institute, 1849 Cass Ave., St. Louis, Mo., writes: "We appreciate Peruna very much. It certainly does good work with catarrh and also with colds and la gripe. We have faith in Peruna and have inspired many others with same. We do not like to be without it. It has certainly kept us from being very sick. It did a world of good last winter for our little ones. Thanking you for your kindness to us and our afflicted ones, we remain, yours gratefully. SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH." these wise and prudent Sisters have found Peruna a never-failing safeguard. Dr. Hartman receives many letters from Catholic Sisters from all over the United States. A recommend recently received from a Catholic institution in Detroit, Mich., reads as follows: Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sir:—The young girl who used the Peruna was suffering from laryngitis, and loss of voice. The result of the treatment was most satisfactory. She found great relief, and after farther use of the medicine we hope to be able to say she is entirely cured." Sisters of Charity. Peruna has become our favorite medicine for influenza, catarrh, cold, cough and bronchitis." Another recommend from a Catholic institution of one of the Central States written by the Sister Superior reads as follows: "A number of years ago our attention was called to Dr. Hartman's Peruna, and since then we have used it with wonderful results for grip, coughs, colds and catarrh diseases of the head and stomach. "For grip and winter catarrh especially it has been of great service to the inmates of this institution." All Over the United States Use Pe-r-u-n-a-na for Catarch. A recommend recently received from a Catholic institution in the Southwest reads as follows: A Prominent Mother Superior Says: "I can testify from experience to the efficiency of Peruna as one of the very best medicines, and it gives me pleasure U.M.C. AMMUNITION of U. M. C. make is now accepted by shooters as "the worlds standard" for it shoots well in any gun. Your dealer sells it. The Union Metallic Cartridge Co. Bridgeport, - - Conn. Looking for a Home? Then why not keep in view the fact that the farming lands of 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Western Canada Wrote to the SUPERINTENDENT INGRIDATION, OTTAWA, for information and other information; or to the authorized Canadian Government Agent—J. S. CRAWFORD, 124 West Mint Street, Kansas City, KO. C. J. BROUGHTON, 480 Quincy Building, Chicago, IL. 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Whenever coughs or colds, the lappie or pneumonia make their appearance among the children these Sisters are not disconcerted, but know exactly the remedies to apply. With so many children to take care of and to protect from climate and disease these wise and prudent Sisters have found Perma a never-failing safeguard. Dr. Hartman receives many letters from Catholic Sisters from all over the United States. A recommendation recently received from a Catholic institution in Detroit, Mich., reads follows: Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sir: "The young girl who used the Peruna was suffering from laryngitis, and loss of voice. The result of the treatment was most satisfactory. She found great relief, and after farther use of the medicine we hope to be able to say she is entirely cured." Sisters of Charity. This young girl was under the care of the Sisters of Charity and used Peruna for catarrh of the throat, with good results as the above letter testifies. From a Catholic institution in Central Ohio comes the following recommend from the Sister Superior: "Some years ago a friend of our institution recommended to us Dr. Hartman's Peruna as an excellent remedy for the influenza of which we then had several cases which threatened to be of a serious character. "We began to use it and experienced such wonderful results that since then DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE It Cures Cold, Cough, Sore Throat, Group, Infuenzua, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect after taking the first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large bottles 25 cents and 60 cents. Largest growers of ONION and Vegetable Seeds in the World. LARGE RED GLOBE Our Prices range from 60 cents to $1.50 per pound, and no better seed is found on earth. How to grow 1,200 bushris Onions per acre with each ounce order. 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FREE Homestead Lands easily accessible, from Kailway and Land Company or Wester Canada are the best on the continent, producing the grass (led on grass) ready for market. Markets, Schools, Railways and all other conditions make Western Canada an enviable location for the city. Aruna makes strong children Attending Chapel Services. to add my praise to that of thousands who have used it. For years I suffered with catarrh of the stomach, all remedies proving valueless for relief. Last spring I went to Colorado, hoping to be benefited by a change of climate and while there a friend advised me to try Peruna. After using two bottles I found myself very much improved. The remains of my old disease being now so slight, I consider myself cured, yet for a while I intend to continue the use of Peruna. I am now treating another patient with your medicine. She has been sick with malaria and troubled with leucocrania. I have no doubt that a cure will be speedily effected." These are samples of letters received by Dr. Hartman from the various orders of Catholic Sisters throughout the United States. The names and addresses to these letters have been withheld from respect to the Sisters but will be furnished on request. One-half of the diseases which afflict mankind are due to some catarhal derangement of the mucous membrane lining some organ or passage of the body. A remedy that would act immediately upon the congested mucous membrane restoring it to its normal state, would consequently cure all these diseases. Catarrh is catarrh wherever located, whether it be in the head, throat, lungs, stomach, kidneys or pelvic organs. A remedy that will cure it in one location will cure it in all locations. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. 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, Oliio. GOING SOUTH for the WINTER Two Splendid Trains over the H. G. & ST. L. NY. Chicagou Florida Limited CHICAGO AND ST. AUGUSTINE, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS AND JACKSONVILLE. rates to Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Texas on March 1st and 15th. If you contemplate a trip Southwest, don't overlook this. Don't delay. Write to-day. GEORGE MORTON Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Are pure cann WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISEERS ment in this paper. saw the Advertiser THE MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RHODE ISLAND 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 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 MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC 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 The Ingram House FIRST-CLASS ROOMING HOUSE AT 1507 Pine Street And all improvements that make a house com- fortable and home-like. Mrs. J.W. Wheeler. Dreasmaking, Designing, Cutting, Fitting, Purchasing. Remember J. P. Watkin's buffett, at Douglass' hall. You will do well by patronizing him. 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- 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 ANNOISE 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 A Musical, Dramatic and Vaudeville Revival. The amusement-loving public of St. Louis is to be treated to a revival of dramatic, musical and vaudeville art, for which this city was once far-famed. The organization of the Lyceum Sketch club, which took place a few days ago, promises a return of the glories of former days in stage productions. The leading spirits of the new organization are Messrs. James W. Grant, John B. Vashon, R. A. Hudlin, Ambrose A. Clarke, Will S. Grant and other well-known amateurs of acknowledged ability. The purpose of the new club is to give high-class vaudeville, musical and dramatic entertainments on a scale far in advance of anything heretofore attempted. They have associated with them some of the best talent in the city, and the public can look forward with assurance to a season of artistic entertainment. The Lyceum Sketch club will follow Miss Hallie Q. Brown in opening the 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. 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 shows that color cuts no figure as to ability. The Negro is as efficient as anyone in anything he undertakes." REX. THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF CHINA 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 piazza 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 piazza, 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. 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. 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. M. The newly-established A. M. E. church of Newport is carrying on a protracted meeting for the conversion of souls, I understand. We wish them success, if their effort is a sincere aid to true conversion. There are enough hypocrits in the church already. Adulters and beer-swillers should be kept out of the pale of the church until their reformation. But it seems that the church too frequently puts a premium upon numbers and Judas' silver. We hope the pastor will not be unfortunate enough, to take anybody into his church who holds "views" different from his; for the member holding the antithetic view may be "erroneous." The schoolhouse for Colored children here is far better than many a country schoolhouse for white children. Yet it is a shame how it is abused by whisky-heads almost nightly, right under the nose of residents living near it. Paper and a part of the almost flood-wrecked bookcase have been burned by rascals climbing into the windows. This speaks bad for our Colored community; for the white schoolhouses are not thus treated. Every decent Colored Newportian is against the rot of abusing the schoolhouse and should aid in bringing the rascals to law. It is not haunted. A light there at night is sign of trespassing, which anyone has a right to look after. Any good citizen, interested in his race, would almost shed tears on coming into Newport Colored school, and seeing for himself how few of the little fellows, bright and promising, that have scarcely a book. These parents will look these little fellows in the face, without a blush of shame, at 12 or 14, and say: "Well, men," or daughter, "I have been feedin', clothing and sendin' you to school. Your parents is now gettin' ole. You must now nustle for yourself and help your parents for what we have been doin' for you." May God's judgment be swift and sure upon that child robbing parent; for these are they that mouth about graduates, after they have stunted the child's educational growth by criminal neglect to buy books and regularly to send them to school. After Reverence sat in the southwest corner and received the names, desired by "White Wall" Trickster and Mrs. Sneak Plotter, for office and teachers of the Sunday school. He (Reverence) came forward, and said: "I have nominated the persons I wish to be officers and teachers. We also have a man (the writer) with us who is energetic and wants to work. But we will let him work up a class for himself." All this was done before the statement, "I have studied psychology; Greek and Latin is not needed to explain the Sunday school lesson; God is above the reason of man, and I can not afford to take a man into my church whose ideas differ from mine; for he might draw away my followers. I say his (writer's) ideas are "erroneous." The writer could have retorted: "Your ideas are erroneous," which would have been a mere ignorantus clash of IS, IS NOT, both of which statements would have needed proof. We are going to give Reverence the opportunity to benefit the Colored orphan asylum, in St. Louis, by proving in public debate, any idea the writer holds for truth to be an error. The opportunity will be given in the course of these articles. In our next, the reader's attention will be called to the why Reverence made the statement that writer "held erroneous views." That the statement was seemingly made to do all the injury it could to the writer. (To Be Continued.) OH, LOOK HERE MAN. Aron Franklin, who ought to stay on Sheridan avenue, but rooms on Pine street, says that he will not pay The Palladium man, for the paper sent him over 18 months. Now we will show the public that this man has not been the sanctified angle that the caterers and waiters think that he is. Watch the columns of The Palladium, and we will show from week to week till the $1.80 is paid. We did discount the bill to $1.50. Now he must pay it in full. 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ELIZABETH TEMPLE NO. 12 Meets the Second Monday in the afternoon at 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. Dardy, secretary. All are invited. THE ROSEBUD CAFE PRIVATE BUFFET, 2222 MARKET STREET. Open Day and Night. QUICK SERVICE OYSTERS Served in All Styles. LOWERY & MASON, Of Dallas. Of Ft. Worth. Texas. PHONE: D-855. The HOTEL HENRY Nicely Situated Easily Located 705-707-709 N. 14th Street Branches: 1428I-1430 Linden St. H. C. CURTIS, Proprietor MRS. ROSIE CURTIS, Housekeeper ALFRED HALE, Night Clerk MONRO MATLEY, Manager ST. LOUIS, MO. COAL AND EXPRESS Trunks Checked to Union Station and all parts of the city R. S. WILLIS Residence, 110 S. Leonard Ave. Office, 12 N. Channing Avenue MR. J. G. GARDNER & CO., AND LUNCH COUNTER. MEALS AT ALL HOURS and on Short Notice. Give Them a Call. Best Tennessee Cooking at 1317 CLARK AVENUE, Across the Street from the FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. MRS. GARDNER & SON assist MRS. GARDNER & CO. PROF. SOL. HILAND CHIROPODIST Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Nails and Trouble of the Feet Treated Telephone Kirilogh, C.367 2300 MARKET ST. CHURCH DIRECTORY. St. Paul's, A. M. E., Deningwell 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. 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. BAPTIST. Central Baptist, Twenty-third and Morgan Sts. First Baptist, Fourteenth and Clark Ave.; Rev. E. C. Cole, pastor. Fifth Baptist, 4117 Papin St. Pilgrim Baptist, Kossuth and Pans St.; Rev. Brown, supply. Antioch Baptist, 4223 Kennerly Ave; Rev. F. McKinney, pastor Pleasant Green Baptist, 711 N. Eleventh St. Baptist Church, 110 S. Leonard Ave.; Rev. Perry, pastor. Chambers Street Baptist, Tenth and Chambers; Rev. Cox, pastor. Compton Hill Baptist, LaSalle St. El Bethel Baptist church, 638 Athlone Ave. Ruck's Church, Baptist, 14th and Morgan; Rev. Rucks, pastor. Bethany, Presbyterian, Nineteenth and Wash Sts.; Rev. Washington, pastor. All-Saints, Episcopalian, 2135 Washington Ave.; Rev. C. M.C. Mason, pastor. Missionary Baptist True Reformers; Rev. J. L. Cohen, pastor. 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