St. Louis Palladium

ST.LOUIS PALLADIUM Circulated Among 170,000 Colored People in the City of St. Louis and the State of Missouri. The Best Advertising Medium in the West. We Exchange with 125 Negro Newspapers in the United States. Vol. XX. No. 22 Circulated Among 170, DISHOP d Among 170,000 Colored Pe West. [Portrait of a man in formal attire, wearing a suit and bow tie, with a mustache and a serious expression. The background is a dark, oval frame with decorative patterns.]] BISHOP WALTERS Bishop Alexander Walters, of South Carolina, as we have said before, is not only the leading bishop in the A. M. E. Zion church, but he is the leading man among our people. Wherever [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie. He has a mustache and a goatee. The background is a light color.] [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie. He has a mustache and a goatee. The background is a light color.] BISHOP G. W. CLINTON Bishop G. W. Clinton is the youngest bishop on the bench. He is liked by all. He has been acting as manager of the Publishing House of the A. M. E. Zion church. He presided Wednes- [Name not visible] REV. J. W. SELECTMEN. Rev. J. W. Selectmen is presiding elder of Madisonville, Ky., and treasurer of Atkinson college, located at Madisonville, Ky. He has served as presiding elder for eight years, and is one of the leading ministers in the --- the Negro's interests are at stake, there you will hear the voice of our beloved Father in the interest of his people, and the Negroes of America love, honor and respect him, regardless of denomination. he last, which showed his power over the conferer. He is a scholarly, dig- nified, Christian gentleman, and all who come in contact with him are made his lasting friend. Kentucky conference. Rev. Selectmen is now in our city as one of the delegates to the General Conference. He is called the Children's Day man in the Kentucky conference, and travels the largest district in said conference. ST. LOUIS, MO., SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1904. TO ELECT TWO BISHOPS. Stormy Scenes in Conference Before Question Was Settled.—Future of Negro. [Globe-Democrat, May 13.] The ninth day of the A. M. E. Zion conference was one of the most exciting witnessed within the recollection of some of the oldest ministers. The question of whether the body should elect one or two bishops at this session led to a debate which lasted for four hours. The young and aggressive element of the clergy and halty, under leadership of Rev. E. D. W. Jones, of St. Louis, who advocated the election of two bishops, to be stationed in the west, and a general policy of expansion and entension, won a signal victory over the more conservative element, under the leadership of Prof. W. H. Goler, president of Livingstone college, who advocated the choice of one bishop, as represented by the bench of bishops. Bishop J. B. Small, who presided, was compelled several times during the heat of the debate to reprimand the speakers for indulging in personalities. A ballot on the proposition immediately after the close of the debate resulted in a decision in favor of the election of two bishops by a vote of 179 to 118. BISHOP TURNER'S ADDRESS. Bishop H. M. Turner, senior bishop, and Rev. J. M. Townsend, delegate of the A. M. E. general conference, in session in Chicago, as special commissioners from that body, came to advocate before the Zion conference the movement for a closer fraternal union and federation of like interests between the several separate bodies of Negro Methodists. The venerable senior bishop, who has become noted for his advocacy of emigration to Africa as the only solution of the race problem for the American Negro, was received with enthusiasm, and upon being introduced to the conference, he said, in part: "It is to the everlasting shame of the American nation that 75,000,000 of white men are teeming with hate and prejudice of the 10,000,000 Negroes of the country. Men have sprung into national fame with nothing to recommend them to public favor except their hatred for the Negro race. If we were as inferior as they claim we are, we should sink into infamy by the weight of our own degradation, and if they were as superior as they claim they are they would rise above their prejudices and silly fears of Negro domination. "I have no apology to make for my well-known position on the subject of Negro emigration to Africa. God sent us here to this great white race to learn civilization and then go back and show to the world that we are a people." In reference to the subject of federation between the various branches of Negro Methodists, he said he was not authorized to advocate organic union, although he had prayed for it for forty years. He advocated the adoption of a common hymn book and catechism for the use of Methodists, and recommended that a committee be appointed to agree upon plans for consumating this union of Negro Methodism. FRATERNAL; GREETINGS. Rev. J. M. Townsend also addressed the conference on the subject of fraternal union, and Bishop J. W. Hood responded on behalf of the Zion conference. James B. Stewart, editor of the American Baptist, and Rev. C. S. Martin, the fraternal messenger of the C. M. E. church, also addressed the conference, to whom Rev. J. E. Mason, of Rochester, N. Y., responded. A notable incident of the day's proceedings was the presentation to the conference of a life-size portrait of Rt. Rev. James Varick, the first bishop of the A. M. E. Zion church. The presentation was made by Rev. B. F. Wheeler, superintendent of the Hubman home for the aged and infirm, located in Auburn, N. Y. Tuesday the conference convened and the regular routine business was begun. The session was stirring at times, but Bishop Walters, who presided, in his dignified and Christian bearing, was equal to the emergency. "The seventh day of the A. M. E. Zion General Conference was the most active business session yet held. Upon assuming the gavel, Bishop Walters announced that the committee on episcopacy was in session, and before leaving that body he had placed himself upon record in favor of the election of two bishops at the conference. The announcement was greeted with applause. "Rev. A. J. Warner created a storm that lasted several minutes, in an effort to suspend the rules and rush through a resolution fixing next Friday for the debate on the number of bishops to be elected, and next Monday for the election. The motion to suspended was defeated and the resolu- tion referred to the committee on episcopacy, amid shouts of applause from the younger delegates, who seem to control the situation, and who favor the election of two bishops."—Globe-Democrat. Several resolutions were introduced and referred to the proper committee. The regular order of the day was resumed with the reading of a voluminous report by Rev. G. W. Blackwell, general secretary of the conference, in which he reviewed the financial history of the church for the past twenty years, concluding with the announcement that the conference carried a total indebtedness of $40,000. A dozen delegates sprang to their feet demanding an explanation, but order was partially restored and the secretary proceeded to read his report until he reached the item of the bishops' traveling expenses, which amounted to $5,000, when expressions of disapproval, groans and hisses interrupted the speaker, and brought the bishops to their feet to defend the administration of affairs. Each of the bishops in turn made a statement showing the large sum given in the secretary's report as indebtedness was the accumulation during the past twenty years of unpaid balances on amounts appropriated from time to time, owing to the insufficiency of the revenue collected. Rev. J. S. Caldwell, of Philadelphia, general steward of conference, read his quadrennial report of the financial operations of the church, showing receipts amounting to $33,881.16 and disbursements amounting to $133,804.53. These figures show an increase of $29,000 over the receipts of the preceding four years. At 8 p.m. Rev. A. J. Warner, better known as the "Swamp Angel," preached an able sermon. Rev. Warner still clings to that revival spirit of true religion, and he knows how to waken and arouse God's children. M. B. REV. DR. J. W. SMITH, Of Charlottet, N. C., a prominent candidate for the bishopric. Rev. Dr. Smith has for eight years been the editor of the Star of Zion, the official organ of the A. M. E. Zion church. Zion Bishops in Local Pulpits There was no session of the A. M. E. Zion conference Sunday last, but its delegates were very much in evidence in every part of the city and in neighboring towns. The 300 ministers and eight bishops were distributed in all directions, the doors of every Colored church being opened to them. Bishops J. W. Hood, C. R. Harris and J. W. A. Winstark preached to large congregations at 11 a. m., and 8 p. m., at Metropolitan Zion church, 2625 Morgan street; Bishop G. W. Clinton preached to a crowded house at Central Baptist church, Bishop I. C. Clinton preached at Jones A. M. E. Zion chapel, and Rev. B. F. Wheeler and Rev P. J. McIntosh spoke at St. Paul's A. M. E. church. Bishops Alexander Walters and T. H. Lomax dedicated St. Mark's A. M. E. Zion church in East St. Louis, which has recently been rebuilt at a cost of $5,000. The ceremonies attracted an attendance of over 500, in spite of the rain, and a large sum of money was raised for the benefit of the church. Bishop Walters performed the dedication ceremonies and Bishop Lomax preached the sermon. Rev. E. Hunter, of Pasadena, Cal., one of the prominent Zionists of the Pacific coast, arrived Sunday. REV. DR. JOSIAH S. CALDWELL, Of Philadelphia, Pa., a prominent candidate for the bishopric. Rev. Dr. Caldwell has for the past four years been financial steward of the A. M. E. Zion church. During his incumbency he has purchased a handsome building at Philadelphia for the headquarters of the financial department. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. NOTICE TO THE PUBLER. We hope every subscriber of The Palladium will settle up for their paper. We will see every person in the next two weeks. So get your money ready. J. W. WHEELER, $2.00 Per Annum, Single Copy 6 cents. ri. The Best Adver United States. st Advertising Medium in the BISHOP J W ALSTORK. Bishop J. W. Alstork. D. D., was born at Talladega. Ala., September 1, 1852; was educated at the same place. He has served (as pastor) some of the largest churches in the A. M. E. Zion church; was eight years general treasurer of the connection; was presiding DR. J. F. MORELAND, of Walter's Church, Chicago, Ill. DR. J. F. M. Pastor of Walter's M. B. Dr. J. F. Moreland is considered a financier and church-builder. Our acquaintance dates back to 1884, when he preached the funeral sermon of The Palladium man's mother, in Lexington, Ky. We have kept pace with him since that time, and have always found him a Christian gentleman. He was sent to this church by Bishop Walters, and told to go and save a church then in hands of trustees. He came, and the members of the church accepted him. At the time he arrived the church had almost passed into the hands of creditors, but are long his earnest labor bore its fruit, and the Before The Palladium is issued, May 21, two bishops will be elected. The candidates are as follows: Rev. W. H. Chambers, Rev. A. J. Warner, Rev. E. H. Curry, Rev. J. W. Smith, Rev. J. S. Caldwell. The Palladium man knows who will be the two, and without any feeling we say J. W. Caldwell and J. S. Smith will be elected. News of the A. M. E. Conference, at Chicago, has been hard to get, therefore we fail to get an intelligent report: hence nothing this week. --- --- CANDIDATE FOR BISHOP. NO NEWS older 11 years; was elected bishop at Washington, D. C., May 14, 1900, and appointed to the Ninth Episcopal district, comprising northern Alabama, Louisiana, northern Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Hawaiian islands and Porto Rico. deed and all papers connected with it were placed back into the hands of the trustees. His administration in St. Louis was more than a success. But our ideal bishop saw another field open, and said to the board of bishops: "I want Dr. J. Moreland to go to Chicago to build a church for God and Zion." They consented, and although it was hard for this church to give him up, they submitted. He departed, and in less than three years he built a church in Chicago at a cost of nearly $36,000. Now is the time for the conference to recognize his labor, and elect him to the office of business manager of the A. M. E. church. Dancy Speaks. Hon. John C. Dancy spoke last Sunday at Douglass hall. He made a good impression. There were a number of the kids out, whose only purpose was to be seen and make a noise. At the conclusion of the speech, the audience walked out, leaving W. M. Farmer and J. H. Bradley alone. The Douglass hotel is now open for the accommodation of the public. It is conducted on the European plan. At present the rates are 75 cents per day and from $3 to $5 per week. Stop that cough. Pickett's Cough Syrup. > °#BE NOT DECEIVED* ' TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. King of all Hair Tonics, nN “64 OZONO ” ; NN pt fies CALPE fe EAE a i =S ‘ er et Re UNS AN FORE. J AFTER. BEFORE. vn AFTER Ay _. Recognizing tho fact that there are many 80-CALLED hair-growers and HS hair-straighteners now on the market, and knowing to acertainty that man I\ of these aro frauds puro and simple,'wo Wish to rake a straight-forward, honest statement to tho colored race through this great paper. In HY tho year 1871 our Jato secretary, Mrs, S, M. Moore, through a fortunate | W\ circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for este or purchase to any extent until 1875, when it was put upon tho market and | fA T3et with marked success, A‘ter a thorough test by the colored people of AN that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy, truo to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every ’ member of the colored race, because they founc it to cause the hair to grow AN tong and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there ure always a AN number of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other WN people’s goods. Seeing our marked enccess, numerous firms have entered the market, offering hair-growers and hair-straighteners, many of which are jy Worthless, causing the hais to fall out and doing great ‘damage to the hair MN and scalp, and the colored people are, buying these spurious compounds, which are ‘illed with animal fate, and do tho hair moreharm than good. ‘To a thego let us ound a warning—be careful what you use on your hair. Do not NWN bo deceived by flaring advertisements and big words, Buy the King of all Hair Tonics, \ OZONO, f\\\ which is soid with an iron-clad guaranteo to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask you plain question—would we abso- H® lutely agree to forfeit $60.00 if you are dissatisfied with our preparations, N if they were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised for Several years under this guarantee, and we are glad to say that overy one who has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. AN 200 neople aro to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the King of all Hair Tonics.” Ozono will positively HS tako the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Ourly, Refractory, Trouble- f\\ Some Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying o diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, AK and Scurf can not live atter Ozono hes been applied. It will stop your hair N from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natcral color, making the hair long and soft. Now, right here, let us make a statement, Many firms are advertising N remedies to straighten hair, but when they send the preparation they toll Fou to uso bot irons. Friends, do not use hot irons; they, will bura up the ifo of tho hair, and equeo it to drop out. Ozono straightens, without any N outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You.can stop tho use at any time. The good effects on “AW the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. ny ‘The price of Ozono is 0c. a bottle—4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is good at any time: Cut out this coupon and send oN to us, enclosing with it the sum of One Dollar, and we will forward to you N four large boxes of Ozono and one largo bottle of Electrical Skin Refiuer, which makes black skin bright, rongh skin soft and pliant, and cures all AW ckin diseases. Also removes ail facial imperfections, and actually removes AN acnail-pox pits,” We will algo include one fancy jar of;our Blecirical Skin Food—Nattire’s ereat beautifier—removes wrinkles, mgth patches, freckles, 4x and all {-'-1 blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look MN sor. : ‘0 w.._xteo include ane packago of ox: °“iebrated Sealp Soap, which is A. apoviutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and no-soap but a pure soap should ever ° Sam, the Tailor Is the Place to Get Your Spring and Summer Suits. Made to order. 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Susan Gross, 2609 Pine Street. ° : Millinery, y . Up-to-date Hate. Trimmings and all material in that life, MR. A. 1. LEE, Representing the PALACE LAUNDRY, guarantees satistaction ard promp? service. The best Collar and Cuff work in tke city. Pleane,nddrenas all cove munications to 2825 st. Lovie avenue. Anhearer-Rutch Boer Douglass Buffet and Pool Room 1s Xow OPEN Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars J. P. WATKINS, Prop. LAWTON AVE. and BEAUMONT ~ ST. LOUIS, MO be used onthe scalp. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, wo will put in a pint package of Anti-Odor, a postive eure for Gore ‘Throat or Mouth, all forms of 7 ‘omb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all 4 smells and odors arising from the human body, such as fect, arm pits, etc. ‘The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $4.00, but wo let you @ haye it for $1.00, simply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the public in general from imitations of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, wo ave placed upon our coupon our Trade-Mark, ono heed showing Short 4 Hair and the other head Long Hair. Tho U. 8. Governmont has granted us this trade-mark, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington; so: if the coupon has this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. ‘Use only the coupon haying the two heads on it, As to our responsibility, we 4 refer you to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Rtich- mond! Va.” We have thousands of testimonials we have not epace to pub- g lish, ’ Hero is a sample of one: / q Boston Ohemical Company : ’ Dear Sirs,—You aro at liberty to state in any newspaper that I have 4 used OZONO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. 1 havo been fooled 0 often, it does ue good to recommend honest goods. j MAGGIE B. PRocTOR, 4 Here is another: Box 114, Fairfield, Texas. | Gentlemen,—After using OZONO @ short whilo only, I am glad to say 4 that my hair is already straight and growing finely. / MISS BESSIE POWERS, ~ 888 Missouri street, Toledo, O. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and g cause a beautiful and luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, you can use it to secure a glossy long growth. Buy only the genuine *OZONO."" Send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent the seme ¢ day we receive your order. d BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., di 810 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. f lee SEN Gea. hn eM 2 ogee ge Kos Sela he Og ener eae * i Boston Chemical Co., dj SS 810 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. g \Or Im Tenclose you $1.00, for which please send at once f the following goods: 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth 50c. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 0c. 1 Package A§X (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth 50c. '1 Package Scalp Soap, worth 50c. a ~ Total, $4.00. & na : Bama. -siccs;ucreossostaersevewascy: HOUMA, NOsoaeceis.cceey 07 Uae (Streeters cose sca sos soon ee ocosis svi OUNavecnorap esters seventy aa COBY... isseseress opeccvcescecssesssy MEMEO. crrsscessscense an If you want 4 lots like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has f\ no coupon, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon & when you send your order. AN a ar nr rar Mrs, J, W. Wheeler, MODISTE. Dresesmaking, Designing, Cutting, Fitting, Purchasing, THE AMERICAN EAGLE Wall Paper Company. R. H.C. SYDNOR, SAM JAMES and RICHARD SYDNOR, JR, Interior Decorators, ‘Leyers of Hard Wood Floors, Frescoing, Window Shades and Painting, PICTURE MOULDING a £pociaity. Phone 3951 FINKEY AVE, With its Star Furnished Rooms 705-707-709 N. Fourteenth St. BRANCHES: H.C. CURTIS, Proprietor ALFRED HALE, Gen’l Iigr. ST. LOUIS, - = = MISSOURI IF YOU BUY FURNITURE. at Sruner’s NN @QRZORTGITS GOOD. , 9122-24-26 Sor. Broadway 22336 WASH ST.---Furnished rooms for rent to men; reom comfortably furni-hed; on second and third floore; with or without beard. r. Ts Thompson. ar World’s Fair Lunch Room 2807 Menchester Ave. MEALS AT ALL HOURS Home Cooking. Quick Service Give us a call. S. P. PHILLIPS, Prop. CHURCH SERVICES. 8t: Paul A. M. B. Chach ‘Services. Preaching, Sunday, 11:00am Sunday School, 2:00 p m Preaching, 7:30pm All-Sainte’ Epiecopal Church Services. Commnnicn, 7:00 « m Preaching. Sunday, 11:00am Sunday School, 1:00 p m Preuching, 7:00 p m Central Baptist Church Services. Preaching, Sunday, 11:00am Sunday School, 2:30pm Preaching, 7:00 p m Metropolitan A.M.E.Z.Chureb Se) vices, Prenching, sunday, 11:00am Sunday School, 2:30 pm Preaching, 7:00 pm First Baptist Church: Services. Preaching, Sunday, 11:30. ma Sunday School, 2:00 pm Preaching, 7:30 pm Centennial M. E. C!.nrch Services, Preaching, Sunday, 11:36 am Sunday School, 2:09pm Preaching, 7:00 p m Tabernacle isaptist Church Services. Preaching. Sunday, 11:00 am Sunday School, 1:00pm B.Y.P.U., 6:30 pin Preaching, 8:00 p m Antioch Baptist Church Services. Preaching. Sunday, 11:00am kundgy School, 1:00pm By. ©. Us. 6:30pm. Preaching, 7:30om Wednesday evening. Prayer Meeting. Friday evening, Young Peopie’s Prayer Meeting. ‘Rev. Fred. McKinney, Pastor, J. A. Smith, Clerk. All church notices must be mailed to this office on or before Wedneday of each week. -— Reporters will be sent wherever re ‘quested. Only notify this office, District Equity Court Settles Long Pending Legal Contest. ieee A, HICKS IS UPHELD Declared to Have Been the Lemat and Proper Officer of the Or- der, and the Proper Person t neuaae Ove its Washington, May 13.—The long pending and bitter legal contest be- tween the Burns-Hicks and Hayes fac- tions of the Knights of Labor was de- cided Thursday in favor of the former by Justice Anderson, of the district equity court. The decision declares Henry A. Hicks and simon Burns, successively general masters-workmen, to have been the !egal and proper off- cers of the order, and in a sweeping way upholds their contentions. The case was brought by Burns, Hicks, Thomas H. Canning, John Fer- ‘nau, Frank B, Yourison, Morris Car- -‘mody and the order of the Knights of Labor, Incerporated, against John W. Hayes, I. D. Chamberlain, Isaac | Sanderson, Michael D. Juage, James R. Mansion and Heury A. Beckmakcr, and others. Was Not Lawfally Expelled. Justice Anderson holds that Hicks was not lawfully expelled from the os der. The district court that tried eee Justice Anderson holds, was an illegally constitute! tribunal, and Jeven if it had been legally constituted, was without jurisdiction. He said fur- ther that Hicks not only was a member of the Knights of Labor, Incorporated, but was its general master workman at the time of the meeting of the gun- eral assembly of the order at Niagara Falls in November, 1902, and as such was the only proper person to preside over its deliberations. . ‘The delegates constituting that as- sembly, he held, had a right to sit as Knights of Labor delegates, and were actuated by good faith, and they, with those who were admitted to the floor of the assembly, subsequent to the preliminary organization, constituted the lawful general assembly of the cr- der of the Knights or Labor, at the Niagava Falls meeting. ~The court, after granting the prayers ‘of the ccmplainants, said it refrained from considering the personal conduct of the members of: the order, although it added: “There is much to criticise in the conduct of certain persons connected with each side, and running all throug the history of the order are found those who have shown deeper concern for their own welfare than for the welfare of the order. If this unseemly strife is persisted in, it means the disintegra- tion and final dismemberment of the order.” TWO HUNDRED MEN ARE IDLE Poor Mustness Causes Lake Shore Railroad to Redvee ite Work. ing Force Several Hundred. Cleveland, 0., Mey 18—Two hundrea men in the various departments of the Lake Shore have been laid off from work in the Collingwood shops. The statement was made by General Man- ager W. H. Marshall Thursday. The men will continue t obe laid off the entire length of the line until their working force has reached the mini- mum, or until business conditions make a perceptible change for the bet ter Said Mr. Marshall: “Business is poorer this year than It has been for some time. The gen- eral indications are that the summer will witness a falling of until condi- tions will be decidely less favorable than they were last year. We are re- ducing the force over the entire line, and although I can not say now how many men will lose their positions, I presume they will number 700 or 800." THE Y. M. C. A. CONVENTION Arrival of Minx Helen Gould Creates & Demonxtration By the Dele~ antes tn Adicndamnes Buffalo, N. Y., May 13.—The repre- sentation of the majority and minority reports of the committee of twenty- one of the International Y. M. C. A. furnished the feature of the secorel day’s session of the association's inter- national convention. The question as to whether the international commit- tee shall have a merely advisory rela tion over the local orgapization, or whether it shall have definite authori- ty. The question has been disputed for years. The minority report favors definite authority. ‘The arrival of Miss Helen Gould end a demonstration in her honor at Convention hall, where the evening session was held, was another feature of the day. Charges Criminal Assault. Akron, 0., May 13.—The grand jury ‘Thursday returned an indictment against Art Sims, the prizefighter, on the charge of criminal assault. Sims, a few years ago. gave promise of becoming the champion lightweight of the world. Secretary Hay Coming. Washington, May — 13.—Secretary Hay left Thursday for St. Louis, where he is to represent the president cf the United States and deliver the address of welcome to the International Pross vongress on the 19¢h inst. THE PALLADIUM’S CONTEST. For the Most Popular Lady in the Western States. Winner to Receive a Gold Watch and. Chain. Open to all, single or married. _ The closing vote will be June 7. Cut out coupon printed below, fir out with your name, and the one you vote for, and send to Palladium office. Veepheeeeeesersteres a COUPON. . * PALLADIUM'S CONTEST. + ° . © My name §8....¢2-2-2---ece<eee * © LVOte TOP... crecsscsensesesecss * * . # City or TOW. <es-ceeedes-ce+ © ° . * Blath icc cctaoseseee teceecceservonseeces CHURCH DIRECTORY. St. Paul’s, A. M. E., Leffingwell and Lawton; Rev. D, P. Roberts, pastor. St. Peter's, A. M. E., Elliott and Montgomery, Rey. James Madison, pas tor. : St. James, A. M. E., Pendleton and &t. Ferdinand; Rev. W. C. Williams, pastor. Quinn’s Chapel, A. M. E., Caronde- let; Rev. J. A. Christoper, pastor. St. John’s Mission, A. M. E., Lowell Rey. F. E. Clark, pastor. ‘Ae M, By ZION. Metrcpolitan A. M, E. Zion, 26% Morgan; Rev. E. D. W. Jones, pastor. St. John’s A. M. E. Zion, 113 Eiler 8t.; Rev. R. P. Christian, pastor. Colored Methodist, 3966 Fairfax avenue; Rev. 0. Heavlow, pastor. Lexington Ave. A. M. E. Zion. 42144 Lexington Ave ; Rev. Dopovan’ pastor. ME Centennial M. E., Elliot and Wash- ington; Rev. Gilliam, pastor. BAPTIST. Seniral Baptist, Twenty-third ana Morgan Sts. First Baptist, Fourteenth and Clark Ave.; Rev. E. 0. Cole, pastor. Fifth Baptist, 4117 Papin St. Pilgrim Baptist, Kossuth and Pars 8t.; Rev. Brown, supply. Antioch Baptist, 4223 Kennerly Ave.> Rey. F. 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"Kind Master, how shall we supply Their hungry months with meat? Two hundred pennyworth would scarce Provide enough to eat." But in the multitude there moved A lad unknown and poor. Whose fish and bread the Saviour used To show His mighty power. All seated on the ground, the throng Beheld the mighty deed. Apostles, from God's sample store, Supplied their every need. The children, too, His thought controlled, A heart, so sweet. For every soul was satisfied Ere sank the light of day. The world about us everywhere Has many a desert spot Where souls are hungering for God's food, And where hearts are filled Oh, let us heed the Saviour's voice, And answer Him in love, With willing hearts and eager hands Bring blessings from above. -John Thomas Stone, in Christian Work. THE PASSION FOR A CROWD The coming of the crowd makes a crisis for the Christian preacher and for the church, says Rev. Geo. E. Burlingame, in the Baptist Standard. Popularity is a promise of peril. It is not in the isolation and obscurity of a narrow sphere of influence that the preacher's fiercest battles with the tempter are fought; not when Nicodemus talks with him by night; nor when he ploughs the heart of alone woman at the well for the sowing of the word. The real test comes when all Jerusalem is astir with wonder at the adoring thousands who cry hosanna; when Sychar empties itself at the preacher's feet; when the multitudes press and throng the man whose message has caught their ear and awakened their transient interest. How often, alas! does the coming of the crowd prove to be the undoing of the preacher who drew it together! Nicodemus becomes a mere incident, the Samaritan sinner fades into insignificance, and the patient tolling teacher is transformed into a crowd intoxicated demagogue. If we may parody a part of our text in order to fit this man, we should read it thus: "But when he saw the multitude, he was moved with the passion for a crowd." This passion for a crowd brings upon the preacher—and upon the church as well—an avalanche of temptations which are well nigh irresistible. It tends to superficiality in service. In the smaller sphere we demand of ourselves the most thorough and genuine effort and method. We lake nestling in the mountains has the passion for a crowd leads us to a tolerance of less thoroughness. We become more extensive, but less intensive; broader but thinner; the blue lake nestling in the mountains has become an overflowing sea, but the little lake had depth; the great sea is a shallow fraud. The passion for a crowd depreciates the individual. He is no longer a soul to be won at every cost, a life to be rescued from peril and woe. He is simply a bead on the counting frame; he has value only as he is a part of a crowd. A story is told of Bishop Grafton, of Fond du Lac, who once went to church to deliver a sermon. He found an audience of six or seven persons gathered to hear him. He was angry and chagrined, and after a sharp scolding at the parish for its inifference, he left. He told some of his auditors that he had spent four days on his sermon and he did not propose to waste it on a handful of people. The doughty bishop was sorely afflicted with the passion for a crowd. Individuals had no value and presented neither opportunity nor obligation. The passion for a crowd leads to the love of popularity. Where the crowd is considered essential to success it is accepted as a sure sign of that success, and thus becomes an end in itself. The soul of the preacher is drawn into sympathy with the popular estimate of himself, and the graces of self-satisfaction and self-laudation are rapidly developed. It is far easier for the average Christian teacher to be popular than for him to be inflexibly true to bis divine commission. For the passion for a crowd further tempts him to compromise with the truth. If the crowd is so essential to his success, and even to his personal satisfaction, then no word must be uttered to alienate or alarm his impulsive and easy-going constituency. He must handle their failings gently and ignore their sins entirely. If he must have homilistic exercise, he may use the Jews for a punching bag or the Mormons for a cushion to jump on. The crowd is his only while he tickles its ear and warms its fickle heart. Truth must waive its claims in favor of truckling. Conscience retires to make room for compromise. The crowd cries for smooth things; their itching ears can endure only teachers after their own lusts, and the man who has a passion for a crowd must how at the shrine he worships. This malady of the soul of the teacher or leader, so fatal to the character of its victim, is not inevitable and a necessary evil. If it were so, we should need to pray for empty pews, and hope for general indifference in religion. We should view with regret and fear the growth of our classes in Sunday school. We should seek to restrict our circle of friendship and acquaintance. If the coming of the crowd must mean the birth of the passion for a crowd, then Paul should stay away from Ephesus, and Spurgeon from London, and Moody from Chicago, fleeing from the teeming populace as from the plague. There is a preventive of this perilous passion—an anti-toxin which renders the preacher and the teacher and the church immune to the vicious poison. Jesus had crowds; he preached to them, he taught them, he healed them, he saved them; but he was never for a moment fascinated nor captivated by them; he had no passion for a crowd; he was immune to it by virtue of the preventive which possessed his soul. Our text tells us what this preventive was: "When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were distressed and scattered as sheep not having a shepherd." Not passion for a crowd, but compassion for the multitude—a divine and tender pity for them all, in their sore distress and need. It was because this tender sympathy for the multitude filled the Saviour's heart, that the crowd could never prove a temptation to him. He refused their proffered crown because he was not a candidate for popularity; he uttered plain truth that scattered and drove them from him, because they needed the truth more than he needed their praise. He healed their sick and opened the eyes of their blind, because to him each needy one was a single individual sufferer, and he loved them each and all. There was no room in his heart for the passion for a crowd; for it was moved with compassion for the multitude. LUXURIES ONE MAY HAVE. A Distinction Between the "Things" That Money Buys and What We Are Ourselves. There is much difference between the luxury of things and the luxury of life, says the Baptist Union. One may live a luxurious life with very few luxuries in the way of things. It is such a wrong notion that rich surroundings indicate a rich life; that only money can purchase the real luxuries of life. The truth is, that quite often the luxuries of "things" indicate the lack of real luxury. Many a modestly furnished home is luxuriously furnished, after all; for the furnishing is in that which money cannot buy. There is the luxury of ideal love; where hearts are knit together in ideal union; where friendships are rich, where life is filled with the luxuries of the soul, that money cannot buy, which poverty can never take away. These are not only the permissible luxuries, they are the possible luxuries to all true hearts. When one reads the best books, mingles with the best friends, enjoys the truest love, and gives it in return; when the love of the Christ is the power pervading all, there is the luxury of life, which is not dependent upon things, either in possession or absence. Earl Cairns was once addressing a company of laboring men, among whom were many unbelievers and agnostics. The earl was a very rich man, and lived in what one would call a luxuriously furnished home. Referring to his own home, and to his faith in Christ, he said: "It is a pleasure to me to know that the costly things in my house, which you cannot possibly share with me, are not the things out of which my happiness is made. Had I to leave them all toorrow and to take to the humblest of homes, I should carry all my joy with me. I rejoice that in my own life that exceeds in value all other things is what I can share with you, for it is within your reach as well as mine. My most earnest desire and prayer for you is, that Christ may reveal Himself to you, satisfying, as I know He only can, every desire of your hungry hearts." That was a luxurious life, and it is possible to us all. 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These are not to be used for the proper treatment of the Scalp and Hair. After a treatment with our wonderful Hair Preparation your Scalp will be in a healthy condition and the Hair is bound to grow. Our Preparations are as follows and can be purchased from our Agents or we will send to any address by mail on receipt of price in Registered Letter. JOHNSON'S HAIR FOOD 25c JOHNSON'S HAIR GROWER 50c SPECIAL OFFER. Send us one dollar, ($1.00) and we will send you at once by mail the $1.50 treatment below: a boxes Johnson's Hair Food, 1 bottle Johnson's Hair Grower, 1 box Johnson's Dandruff Cure and 1 box Johnson's Shampoo Paste. The retail price of what you receive is $40, but we will send it to you for only $1.00 or a few weeks. You should order at once, as we are likely to withdraw this offer at any time. FREE SAMPLE. If you have not notested our Preparations and would like to do so, we shall be glad to send you a free trial box of Johnson's Hair Food on receipt of 10 cents in stamps to pay postage, packing, etc. When writing us please mention this paper. Address JOHNSON MFC. COMPANY, 699 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON, MASS. REGISTERED PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A Wonderful Face Bleach, AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER. both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaranteed to do what we say and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a mutilate person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours a shade of brown will appear on the skin in spots but bleaches out white, the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Small pimples will disappear without the skin. When you get 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 keeps it from falling out. Highly perfumed and very durable, the express money order, Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. THE NO-SMELL thrown in free. Any person sending us one of a letter or order express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D. it will come by express. 25c. extra. In any case where we deliver what we claim, we will provide the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. (GRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street, RICHDAM. VIA.) The Ingram House FIRST-CLASS ROOMING HOUSE AT 1507 Pine Street This house has been fitted up in the most fashionable and modern style BATH And all improvements that make a house comfortable and home-like. --- ```markdown ``` P AFTER USING. TAKEN FROM LIFE. This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes hair grow. It nourishes the scalp, prevents the hair from fall, imitates the hair growth long and silky. It sold over forty years and is the first preparation sold for straightening kinky hair. Newear of or Marrow as the genuine never falls to it. Or Marrow as the genuine never falls to it that healthy, life-like appearance so much desired. A foilless necessity for ladies, it is the superior and lasting qualities it provides for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Fulldirections with every hair product and dealers or send us 60 cents for one bottle or $1.40 for two bottles. Send postal or express money order. Please mention name of this paper when ordering. Write your name and address. OZONIZED OX MARROW CO.. 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. 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 [Image of a man with a mustache and a bow tie, wearing a suit and a necktie. The background is plain and oval-shaped.] Chinese Restaurant in Connection. Duck Nudles and Chop Suey AT ALL HOURS. Do You Play Pool and Billiards? THE BILLIARD TABLE A. A. BROOKS, Proprietor The Douglass Social Club 2106 WALNUT STREET First-class accommodations in every respect. You will be glad to welcome you at this cozy place. PHONE KINLOCH D 2127 CHAS. NARCISE, J. MILES, Secretary NEWPORT CAFE SHORT ORDERS A SPECIALT 2321 Market Street, St. Louis OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. QUICK SERVE MEALS AT ALL HOURS LOWERY & MASON, OF DALLAS, OF FORT WORTH TEXAS. R. J. RAYMOND Attorney - at ... L 1111 Clark Ave., St. Louis, M BROOKS, Proprietor. Glass Social Club, ALNUT STREET. Notions in every respect. The members welcome you at this cozy resort. CHAS. NARCISE, President. Secretary PORT CAFE. ORDERS A SPECIALTY. At Street, St. Louis, Mo. AND NIGHT. QUICK SERVICE. AT ALL HOURS. VERY & MASON, DILLAS, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS. RAYMOND, ey - at - Law, Rk Ave., St. Louis, Mo. A. A. BROOKS, Proprietor The Douglass Social Club, 2106 WALNUT STREET. First-class accommodations in every respect. The members will be gladto welcome you at this cozy resort. PHONE KINLOCH D 2127 CHAS. NARCISE, President. J. MILES, Secretary NEWPORT CAFE. SHORT ORDERS A SPECIALTY. 2321 Market Street, St. Louis, Mo. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. QUICK SERVICE. MEALS AT ALL HOURS LOWERY & MASON, OF DALLAS, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS. R. J. RAYMOND, Attorney - at - Law, 1111 Clark Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Dermalade MARY HARRIS We Guarantee Dermalade if used according to directions with Dermalade Soap to remove Tan, Freckles, Moth Patches, and Skin Diseases. It ensures your complexion three shades lighter. Sold by Druggists, if not, may be ordered direct. DERMALADE produces perfect complexion and is unequaled in massage treatment of the face, neck and hands. After others have failed try Dermalade and be convinced. Dermalade, 50c. Dermalade Soap, - 25 Cents The Dermalade Mfg. Co. 99 Florida Street, Buffalo, N. Y. FOR RENT. RENT—716 N. Jeffer- FOR RENT—One furnished room at 2612 Lucas avenue. Mrs. Patterson. ROOMS FOR RENT. ROOMS FOR RENT—716 N. Jefferson avenue. Mrs. Emma Murphy. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, second floor, 4008 Finney avenue. Furnished Room for Rent, at 813 North Sixteenth street. Neatly and well-furnished rooms can be had at 2612 Morgan street; also special accommodations to World's fair visitors. FOR RENT—A furnished room, for gentlemen only, at 1920 Wash stree. Mrs. Permella Hynes. If so, go to the Standard Pool & Billiard Parlors. They are the leaders of the city for pastime pleasure. No saloon connected. Strictly first-class. CITY NEWS. Notes and News Concerning Our People--Weekly Record of Social Events, Deaths, Marriages and Births-- Written Especially for St. Louis Palladium. William Dover, of 3924 Sophia avenue, is getting rich quick. Rev. Easton's sister arrived Monday to attend the A. M. E. conference. Mr. G. W. O'Hara, of 2641 Morgan street, is confined to his bed very ill. Mrs. Nellie Bolton, of 4264 Sacramento avenue, is sick at this writing. FOR SALE—Horse and buggy, at 2801 Manchester. Call. A good bargain. Mr. Hall, who has been very sick for a month, is reported much improved. Rev. P. H. Willinn, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., is one of the able divines of the far east. Mrs. Mary Corbett, of 4437 Kennerly avenue, who has been quite sick, in much better. Rev. J. W. Selectman, of Madison, Ky., is now one of the able men of the Zion church. Prof. J. B. Bates, Missouri instructor of physical culture, stops at Room 4, 2323 Market street. Mr. Edward Becker, of 901 South Ewing, is very ill. He is a brother of Mrs. L. Richardson, of 3116 Rutger. Rev. David Johnson, pastor of Chamber Street Baptist, is a worthy young man, and his church is very proud of him. Rev. C. N. Payne, formerly of East St. Louis church, is now in Evansville, Ind. He is one of God's most able men. FOR RENT—A neatly-furnished front room, for one or two gentlemen; or man and wife, at 4229 Kennerly avenue. Clarence Cannon, son of Mrs. Alice Cannon, of 4355 Maffitt avenue, has been quite ill, but is much better at this writing. Miss Buelah Strange, of Augusta, Ga., is stopping with Mrs. Grooms, of 2807 Scott avenue. She will remain until after the fair. Mr. Chas. H. Brandon, of Edwardsville, Ill., spent Sunday, the 8th, in the city, and was the guest of his sister, Mrs. M. A. Lawrence. Dr. Arthur, of Brooklyn, the once doctor, now saloon keeper and P. M. of Brooklyn. We wonder who was in his company when he was here in St. Louis. The Kansan Sun has at last come to its mother's milk, that is, begging the people to take it for $1. Consisting of eight sheets of patent matter—$1 is enough for it. The Sedalia Weekly Conservator and the Columbia World ought to be satisfied with 50 cents per year. You can see why. Mr. William T. Smith, of 4439 Maffitt avenue, is home on his vacation, and under the instruction of his wife, he is putting in the time making garden. They will have home-grown vegetables by and by. We are informed that the property that was owned by Mrs. Ballard, of Brooklyn, Ill., is now the property of Dr. Arthur, the postmaster. We will investigate. We know it is not straight goods. Dr. W. A. Arthur, the post master of Brooklyn, Ill., by some hook or crook has got the property of Mrs. Ballard of that city, and she is now the outcast and is living on charity. Will the public look into this matter. Rt. Rev. George W. Clinton, D. D., of the A. M. E. Zion church, will preach at the First Baptist church Sunday, 11 a. m., May 8, and Rt. Rev. C. R. Harris, D. D., of the same church, will preach at First Baptist church Sunday, 11 a. m., May 15. Do not fail to hear these great men of God. Rev. E. M. Small, formerly of St. Mark's church, St. Louis, is here attending the General Conference. Rev. Small is indeed a good preacher. We have heard him preach in Big Zion, and the sermon at once stamps him as a coming bishop of the Zion church. He now is pastor at Sebree, Ky. The leap year social given by the young ladies of Pilgrim Baptist Missionary circle, Thursday, May 5, was a great success. The young ladies sang the opening chorus, then followed "Showers of Blessings" and prayer by the pastor, Rev. R. H. Brown. Among those present were: Misses Florence Nebbit, Daisy Nebbit, Lizzie Lewis, Mamie Whithead, Martha Whithead, Bena Rodgers, Elsie Carter and Messrs. Adams and Frost. THE PALLADIUM WANTS ADS IF OUR TRUE FRIENDS WISH TO ASSIST US, THEY WILL SECURIT ADS. Mrs. R. B. Stovall, who is now in Denver, Col., will soon return home. Her health has not improved. P. A. Sample, business manager of Wisconsin Weekly Advocate, Milwaukee, Wis., called at our office during the week. Rev. B. F. Wheeler, D. D., is a candidate for editor of the Star of Zion. Clover Leaf will give an outing, May 26, 1904, at Hoehne's Grove. Admittance 25 cents, children free. Mrs. Ousley of Hopkinsville, Ky., is visiting her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ousley, at 1315 Clark avenue. The Beneficial Tailoring Co. is a Colored enterprise; all Colored workmen. 2809 Manchester avenue. Satisfaction guaranteed. D. A. Jackson, Manager. Lieut. Gillespi, who is at present stationed at the World's fair grounds with the Filipino scouts, was entertained at dinner last Sunday by Mrs. Belle Huston, of 4322 Cottage avenue. The C. M. church, 3966 Fairfax avenue, will be dedicated May 15, at 2 o'clock p. m. All are invited. Rev. Hevalon, pastor. Sexton's Garden, 2605 Lawton avenue, is now open to the public. First class in every respect. Good for social and church parties. The best of order. Don't fall to consult Mr. Sexton before securing grounds elsewhere. On Friday, May 4, a few select friends of the afternoon millinery class gathered at the residence of Mrs. L. E. Cash to tender a farewell to their esteemed teacher, Mrs. Rachel Harris, who leaves for her home Saturday morning. Those present were: Mesdames Harris, Byrd, Irving, Sharp, Cooper, Tyler, Smith and Cash, Messrs. Tyler, Byrd, Cash, Irving and Mitchell, Misses Smith, Warwick, Simms and Tyler. A very enjoyable evening was spent, when which refreshments were served, and at a late hour the guests departed, wishing Mrs. Harris God-speed. A CLIND CHRISTIAN Gentleman Who Conducted Barber Shop 1526 Morgan. We call special attention to Mr. A. Donahue, of 1526 Morgan street. We knew him before he lost his sight. He has been blind for over two years. Mr. Donahue is a worthy gentleman, and although blind, he and his amiable wife are conducting a barber shop. We that are blessed with out five senses should feel it our duty to assist this gentleman. Now, if you want to help him, go there at least once a week from your regular barber and get shaved. We will try and do our part. You can buy a paper from him, the St. Louis Palladium, which will net him $2½ cents on every Palladium that he sells. Remember, gentlemen and ladies, we have got our sight, but we can not tell how long, so help him. He has lost one of the most important senses that men and women possess, that of sight. Remember, 1526 Morgan street. WILL THE POLICE DEPARTMENT Protect the Negro in Their Religious and Social Meetings? We call especial attention to the condition of things around Jefferson avenue and Pine street. The True Reformers' hall was bought for the accommodation of many of our societies, who meet there day and night. Children's societies also meet there. What we wish to know is why the polite department does not drive the lewd women away from those corners. Our wives and children can not approach those corners without coming in contact with some of those women. If these were Colored women, they would have been resting in the workhouse or have been driven out of the city long ago. Since the opening of the Grand Central hotel they have been scattered from that corner; now they make the southeast corner of Pine street their hangout. We ask Mayor Wells, Chief Kiely, Detective Desmond and assistants to please disperse them. We thank Chief Desmond for his kindness in dispersing the young dudes who annoy our school girls. Now if he will kindly lend us his assistance again, we will be greatly obliged. SUMMER AT HAND. Some months ago we called attention of the common "nigger" habit of showing their heads out of windows. We again call the attention of the Colored people on Lawton avenue and Pine street and Lucas, avenue and between Jefferson avenue and Beaumont street, to act a little decent, as this will soon be a drive from Fourth street to the World's fair. Why not keep those heads in? Why will you still act and do like common "niggers do when a band of music passes in the street, or a few common "nigger" boys and girls make a noise in the street. Why will you show your heads out, talking from window to window? Why not be a little decent, and if you have not got good behavior instilled in your head, why not try and act like somebody? Anderson Russell, successor to Russell & Gordon, undertaker and embalmer, livery and boarding, carriages furnished for all occasions. 18-20-22 Market street, St. Louis, Phone, Kinloch C, 390, Branth, 609 East Missouri avenue, East S, Louis, Ill, Phone DAVE YOUNG. Night. The Rosebud Bar, TOM TURPIN, Prop. Also a first-class cafe in rear. Open all night and day. All Prices. Private Dining-room. 2220-22 Ma GEO. C. GEO. W. Ba And 1300 The "Ow 33 South 2220=22 Market St., PHONE: Kinloch D-8; 2220=22 Market St., St. Louis, Mo. PHONE: Kinloch D-855. GEO. COX, Vice-Pres. BUD GATEWOOD, Captain. GEO. WASHINGTON, Sec. IRWIN WHEELER, Bus. Agt The 400 Base Ball Club C. W. WILLIAMS, Proprietor 400 Bar, And President 400 BASE BALL CLUB. Headquarters the 400 Bar, 1300 MORGAN STREET. The "Owl" Saloon 33 South 20th Street 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 Fine Wines, Liquors and Excursionists give us a call. Headquarter Ask for it, you'll get it 1201 Morgan St., Jas. Williams, MIXERS Chad I. Propr. GEO. FO CAN'T PLEASE YOU NO ON EVERYTHING THAT IS APPROPRIATE SERVED HE STEVE SMITH, Manager GREELY RES OICEST OF LIQUID REFRESHMENTS TO BE H Twelfth and Wash Streets, Curtis' Newport B JEFF. SMITH. Prodr. IF WE CAN EVERYTHING STEVE THE G CHOICEST S. E. Cor. Twelfth W. T. Cun 232 Wines, 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, W. T. Curtis' Newp IF WE CAN'T PLEASE YOU NO ONE CAN. EVERYTHING THAT IS APPROPRIATE SERVED HERE. CHOICEST OF LIQUID REFRESHMENTS TO BE HAD. S. E. Cor. Twelfth and Wash Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. W. T. Curtis' Newport Buffet, 2323 MARKET STREET. Wines, Liquors and C nes, Liquors and Ciga Wines, Liquors and Cigars. RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION Meals can be Ordered by Telephone, Kinloch C 1199 Also the Famous Art ATTEN ST. PAUL A. M. E. C. A. M. E. C. The Fine Steel Engl ST. PAUL A. M. now completed. The mode. Size of piet Also the Famous Anheuser Beer. ATTENTON! M OF ST. PAUL A. M. E. CHURCH, ST. JAMES A. A. M. E. Churches in the State The Fine Steel Engraving of the last Miss ST. PAUL A. M. E. CHURCH, week o now completed. This picture is said to be Size of picture is 16x20, and is ma TENTON! MEMBERS M. E. CHURCH, ST. JAMES A: M. E. CHUR M. E. Churches in the State of Missouri Also the Famous Anheuser Beer. 2323 Market St. ATTENTON! MEMBERS ST. PAUL A. M. E. CHURCH, ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, and all A. M. E. Churches in the State of Missouri: Afro=American Picture Company of St. Louis, the only firm in America, conducted by Negroes, doing this kind of work. Every member of the A. M. E. Church should have one of these pictures. For particulars call on or address AFRO-AMERICAN PICTURE COMPANY, 2341 Market Street, St. Louis, Mo. AGENTS WANTED. 2339 Market Street ers for Colored Professionals. ROSEBUD BAR. ROSEBUD BAR. ket St., St. Louis, Mo. PHONE: Kinloch D-855. ROSE BUD BAR. ROSE BUD BAR. WINE LIQUOR The Greeley Saloon. 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. SMITH, Manager. REELY RESORT. LIQUID REFRESHMENTS TO BE HAD. 1 Wash Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. Is' Newport Buffet, 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 Liquors and Cigars. EUSER BEER. 2323 Market St. TON! MEMBERS OF CHURCH, ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, and all arches in the State of Missouri: ing of the last Missouri Conference held at CHURCH, week of October 12th, 1903, is picture is said to be one of the finest ever is 16x20, and is made by the A. B. C. JOHN H. CLARK Day. ```markdown ``` 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, 111 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 thouly 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. We have our own conveyance Carriages furnished 2118-20-22 Market St., ST. LOU Porters and Waiters THE C HUGH B. WHITE ...SALO At 1911 M (Opposite Unit Choice Wines, Liquors, C ..CAFE IN CO Remember the Ge TELEPHONE FURNISHED 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, M$\textcircled{0}$. Telepho Parters and Waiters Headquarters THE GEM HUGH 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. 8118-20-22 Market St., ST. LOUIS, M.O. Telephone, C-390; Porters and Waiters Headquarters. 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 WM. P. DYE, Proprietor. Manchester Ave., St. L. Telephone—Kinloch B-1812. TELEPHONE: KINLOCH A. 1275. HARRISON, Phar. D. GEO. V HARRISON & McKOIN DYE Buffet and WM. P. DYE, 2801-3 Manchester Ave., Telephone—Kir TELEPHONE: KIN JAMES H. HARRISON, Phar. D. HARRISON TELEPHONE: KINLOCH A. 1275. JAMES H. HARRISON, Phar. D. GEO. W. McKOIN. Funeral Directors AND EMBALMERS, 2743 Wash Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. All Work First Class. Successful Embalm Calls Answered Prom SEE Maurer Meat and First Class. Terms Most R Successful Embalming Guaranteed. answered Promptly, Day or SEE urer Meat and Provision All Work First Class. Terms Most Reasonable Successful Embalming Guaranteed. Calls Answered Promptly, Day or Night. CASH MARKETS: 1402 MARKET STREET No. 2 S. Fearleenth Street. Branch: 8 TELEPHONES: TE BELL L. Main 21G3-A KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell 2606 FRANKLIN AVENUE. KIN 8 and 10 South Jefferson THE JOCKEY SA 1402 MARKET STREET. Seventh Street. Branch: 3204 La TELEPHONES: C3-A KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell1004-A KIN 5 FRANKLIN AVENUE, KINLOCH C 8 and 10 South Jefferson Ave. JOCKEY SALO No. & S. Fearteenth Street. Branch: 3204 Lacule Ave. TELEPHONES: SEE L. Maln 2103-A KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lladell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1032 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, Prop WILLIAM DOVER, Proprietor rienced and the only prac- undertakers in the city. SELL, DERTAKING and do all our own work. for all occasions. S, MΦ. Telephone, C-390. Headquarters. GEM. Proprietor of LON... Market St. (On Station) Gars, and the best up-to-date. CONNECTION.. m. 1911 Market. 1386A. HARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION. ONLY FIRST-CLASS. Rck Saloon, Street, (Near Union Station), BACCOS. ST. LOUIS. Imported and Domestic Cigars. E'S Pool Room, proprietor. OCH A. 1275. GEO. W. McKOIN. R. McKOIN, Terms Most Reasonable ing Guaranteed. Notly, Day or Night. Provision Co. T STREET. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. TELEPHONES: LILL, Lindell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1022 NUE. KINLOCH C 720. Jefferson Ave. Y SALOON, ORS AND CIGARS, Fair Grounds. ER, Proprietor St. Louis, Mo. BE WARNED. armings: Pain cells of lurking disease. Backache is kidney pain—a warning of kidneyills. Urinary troubles, too, come to tell you the kidneys are sick. Constant weariness, headaches, dizzy spells, days of pain, nights of unrest are danger signals warning you to cure the kidneys. Use Doan's Kidney Pills, which have made thousands of permanent cures. A man in a coat Frank D. Overbaugh, cattle-buyer and farmer, Catskill, N.Y., says: "Doctors told me ten years ago that I had Bright's Disease, and said they could do nothing to save me. My back ached so I could not stand it to even drive about, and passages of the kidney secretions were so frequent as to annoy me greatly. I was growing worse all the time but Doan's Kidney Pills cured me, and I have been well ever since." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Mr. Overbaugh will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y. For sale by all dealers; price 50 cents per box. Impressions of High Speed. I made two trips in each car of the 14 miles of track. At the end of the first mile the car was going 70 miles an hour; at the end of the second mile between 90 and 100. In fact, my interest was so aroused by the rapidity with which the speed indicator hand kept juraping up, that we were running a hundred miles an hour before I thought to look out of the window. When I did I was disappointed. It was evident we were traveling at tremendous speed, but the car was very steady, and there was nothing exciting. The sensation was about the same as that which a passenger on the Lake Shore road gets when the train is running 70 miles on hour. Later, as I stood by the side of the motonecker, or with the brakeman at the rear, the sensation was far more vivid. Standing just behind the motorwheel in the front of the car, one is far nearer the track than he is when in a steam engine, and the frightful rate at which the track is being devoured is more evident. The empact of flies, bees, and even birds upon the curved glass front of the car serves to heighten the effect. I must confess that I held my breath as I saw the curve come in sight. Apparently the track ended, and the car seemed directed straight into the air at a speed sufficient to send it flying over into the German ocean. As it glided smoothly round the curve the sensation was something like that which one has in an express elevator in one of our American sky-scrapers, when he is dropped from the fifteenth floor, and is not quite sure whether he will stop at the basement or go straight through to China—Henry S. Pritchett, in McClure's. The Value of the Japanese Yen. When the public reads that 100,000,-000 yen has provisionally been set apart by Japan for war purposes it may perhaps put an exaggerated estimate on that amount. Although Japan has a gold standard, the yen is of silver currency, and fluctuates with the price of silver, so that the moment 100,000,-000 of them means scarcely more than £10,000,000. But even this is an immense amount in a country in which the wages of a skillful artisan are often not more than 3 yen a week. The Japanese currency system is decimal. Thus the yen, or dollar, is divided into 100 sen or cents, the sen into 10 rin, the rin into 10 mo, the mo into 10 shu, the shu, finally, into 10 kotsu. Government accounts do not take accounts of any value smaller than a rin, but estimates by private tradesmen often descend to mo and shu, which are incredibly minute fractions of a farthing. No coin exists, however, to represent these lilliputian sums.—London Chronicle. IN AN OLD TRUNK. Baby Finds a Bottle of Carbolic Acid and Drinks It. While the mother was unpacking an old trunk a little 18 months old baby got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid while playing on the floor and his stomach was so badly burned it was feared he would not live for he could not eat ordinary foods. The mother says in telling of the case: "It was all two doctors could do to save him as it burnt his throat and stomach so bad that for two months after he took the poison nothing would lay on his stomach. Finally I took him into the country and tried new milk and that was no better for him. His Grandma finally suggested Grape-Nuts, and I am thankful I adopted the food for he commenced to get better right away and would not eat anything else. He commenced to get fleshy and his cheeks like red roses and now he is entirely well. "I took him to Matamoras on a visit and every place we went to stay to eat he called for Grape-Nuts and I would have to explain how he came to call for it, as it was his main food." "The names of the physicians who attended the baby are Dr. Eddy of this town and Dr. Geo. Gale of Newport, O., and anyone can write to me or to them and learn what Grape-Nuts food will do for children and grown-ups too." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." GOLDEN TEXT—Come, and let us return unto the Lord—Hos. 6:1. OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION. Parable of Barren Fig Tree.....Luke 13:1-9 Healing Inferior Firm Woman.....Luke 13:10-21 Teaching About the Kingdom.Luke 13:22-30 Warned Against Herod.Luke 13:31-35 Discourse at Pharisee's Table.Luke 14:1-24 Discourse on Counting the Cost.... Luke 14:25-36 Parables, Lost Sheep and Lost Coin. Luke 15:1-10 Parable, Lost Son. Luke 15:11-32 TIME—January, A. D. 30. PLACE—Peraca; the same as the last lesson. NOTES AND COMMENTS Jesus has so far (vs. 1-11) illustrated from things lost; now it is a person, a son, and it is a father's heart that bleeds for him. In this, the greatest of all parables, Jesus comes back to His own illustration of the relation between God and man, and pictures it in the simplest and most beautiful and most winning way possible. Most of us are not and need not be theologians in the ordinary sense, but we may all master the theology of the parable of the Prodigal Son, and with that we have the essence of the theology of Jesus. There are several varieties of theology to be found in the 66 books that we call the Bible, but whether they took shape before the birth of Jesus, or after His death, they must square with His own teaching with regard to God and man and salvation or we cannot accept them for ourselves. "A certain man had two sons:" The whole point of the parable is in the relationship; father and son. "The younger of them:" He was inexperienced and headstrong. It is the old story of a boy with a hankering, in itself natural and right, to see the world and a broader life than that of the home of his childhood; he supposed he knew the world had probably bragged of it; distance had lent enchantment and he was wild to enter its varied and fascinating life. "The portion of thy substance that faileth to me:" One-third of the property would be the "portion" of the younger son; two-thirds to the elder. A boy's desire to realize the freedom and activities of manhood becomes wrong the moment it forgets to have consideration for the rights and feeling of others, and the restraints existing because of his relationship to home or society or God. "He divided unto them his living:" Not because he had to; not because he was convinced that his boy would use the money wisely; but perhaps because he saw that a time had come in the boy's life when he must be thrown on his own responsibility. Men are creatures of free will, and this boy was become a man. "Took his journey into a far country:" He wanted to get away from all who had ever seen or known him, from the restraint that their presence would be to him. "Riotous living:" Perhaps he had meant only to see it; perhaps "seeing life" to him meant seeing low, immoral, abnormal life, as it does to so many; perhaps he thought he could play with fire and not be burned, or perhaps it was a case of the candle and the moth—the life of gay revelry had an almost irresistible attraction for him, and he flew to it the moment he was free. "When he had spent all:" That he spent all indicates the sheer madness of his course. He ignored almost every consideration that should influence a young man beginning life. "There arose a mighty famine:" The "famine" usually comes to the one who has thrown away his opportunities. It is neither good economy nor good morals to learn wisdom only from the bitter experiences of foolishness and sin. This young man had not sense enough to learn it in any other way. He did not begin to see the point till he was "in want." Then, when the terribleness of his mistake came to him, what did he do? Did he say: "I will arise and go to my father?" Did he admit that he had been wrong and go back? Not yet. It is hard to do that. He became a swine-herd. "Husks:" The nutritious pods of the carob tree; somewhat like locust pods. The last resort of starving Syrians even to-day. "When he came to himself." One of the most significant sentences in the whole parable; Jesus did not assume that man is naturally depraved—a child of wrath, but the reverse. The far country, with its drunkenness and misery, he is in, to be sure, but it is not his home and that life is not his life. It is unnatural, abnormal and insane. When the prodigal came to his senses, to himself, his real self, he realized it, too—that though he was with the swine he was not one of them—that he was the child of his noble father, that "his better self" was his true self and that in leaving that nightmare land he was returning home. In calling men to follow Hiru Jesus is not calling them to leave their own life to live one that is not their own, but from an abnormal and unsatisfactory life of wrong and unrest back to the wholesome, natural life of children of God. He only wants us to come to ourselves, for that will mean coming to Him. AIMED AT THE HEART The premises add power to our prayers. The help of God is the only hope of man. No need to eat brambles in order to get the berries. He who would establish another's faith must be well founded himself. He who has not heard Christ's "go," has not heard His "come." God gives no man a contract to build the fences around His Kingdom. 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The rest of the 12 months they wander wild over large districts, when it becomes impossible for hunters to kill them in quantities that would "pay." However, during the colonizing period they seem to lose all feeling of fear or nomadism, and the hunter is enabled to slaughter them wholesale. The killing of the parent birds entails the death, by starvation, of the little ones. A nest of them is often found surrounded by the mutilated bodies of the adults and clamoring piteously for food. Few women ho wear aigrettes can be acquainted with the details of these massacres. If so, they would select some other form of trimming. Dealers often try to salve over our qualms of conscience by explaining that the aigrette plumes are manufac- A FULL-GROWN EGRET. lured. This can always be accepted as untrue. These beautiful sprays have never yet been successfully imitated. All that are offered for sale have been torn from the warm bodies of the smaller white herons. 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She needs rest a lot more than she does praise. She begins to look haggard and worn, but of course one can't tell her that she is doing all this for the sake of other people's approval, so I suppose she will go until she drops." Yet this is what is happening around us every day. We ourselves can probably plead guilty. We cannot be sufficient unto ourselves. We are not satisfied with the approval of our conscience. We are not content to stay at home, and so manage our financial affairs that we can afford a generous contribution of money. No, that does not always attract attention enough. We must have people tell us how clever and how smart we are. Does this pay? What strength we have do we not owe to our home and our loved ones? Is it not cheaper in the end to sacrifice a little cash and save our strength, than in the end to be laid aside, a nervous wreck and a martyr to our own desire, that our left hand should know what our right hand doeth? Of course there are exceptions to this where money is not to be had, where time is of little value, where leisure is one's stock in trade, but to the ordinary housekeeper and homemaker or a woman employed in town in an office, would it not be better to look to the future, and restrain our desire to shine? Let us carefully consider where our best energies are due, then "do our best and leave the rest."—Brown Eook. CONVENIENT HOUSE APRON. It Enables a Housekeeper to Gq from Kitchen to Parlor Without Change of Dress. Every housekeeper thoroughly understands the value of a good, well-fitting apron as a protection to the clothing. It is almost indispensable in the kitchen, and though no longer worn as an ornament one has only to look over the assortment at a fair or bazar to realize that the apron, if no longer the fashion, is still useful in a large variety of our modern occupations. A busy housekeeper of this city occasionally strays from her kitchen to the sitting room, or even to the front door, wearing a simple but convenient apron which "fills the bill" better than any with which we are acquainted. Arrayed in it, and with the half sleeves which cover the lower part of the arms, she can if necessary, go into her kitchen and prepare a meal and, doffing the apron, present herself daintily and freshly dressed before her guests at the table. The apron should be made of wide goods if the following instructions are followed; otherwise it may be necessary to piece small gores; on the front breadth and to allow extra for the half sleeves: Take two full lengths of cloth, measuring from the armpits, or where the top of the bib would come, to the bot- Binding Tailor SIDE A FRONT Binding Tailor SIDE B DIAGRAM OF APRON. tom of the dress. Cut the half sleeves (which reach from waist to but not over the elbow and have rubber bands run in top and bottom) from one length, and tear the remainder in two lengthwise. Slope the other length from the full width at the bottom to the width desired for the bib at the top, and from the gores cut the pockets and the shoulder straps and also the binding for the back breadths, which are gathered to fit the waist. The dotted lines represent two darts, which take out the fulness and shape the front. Hem the shoulder straps and stitch them to the top of the bib, taking cars to place them so that the edge of the front breadth and the strap slope the same way, so that the straps will fit well when crossed on the back. Make a buttonhole at the end of each strap and either use one large button to fasten the binding and hold the straps, or place a button about an inch from each end of the binding. Hem, and your apron is done. With the aid of the machine the work is quickly finished. 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A recent issue of the Shelbyville, Illinois, Democrat contains a long and interesting letter from Mr. Ellias Kost, formerly a prosperous farmer of that state, who recently emigrated to Western Canada, taking up a claim for himself and for each of his three sons. From Mr. Kost's letter, which was written Feb. 3, 1904, we publish the following, believing it will prove of great interest to those who have contemplated settling in the Canadian North west: "I had in August, 1902, secured a claim for myself, and filed on three quarter sections for my sons. My claim is one-half mile south of the Edmonton and Lake St. Anne trail. "Coming so late in the season we had little opportunity to break and to prepare ground for a first year's crop, still we raised over 100 bushels of very fine potatoes, and sowed a few acres of barley, but the season was too far advanced for the barley. However, we secured good feed from it, and on rented ground 18 miles east of us, raised a fine crop of oats, so that we will have plenty of feed for horses. We cut about 60 tons of hay and thus will have an abundance. We have, all told, about 240 acres of hay, meadow, which would yield the past year over three tons to the acre, and in an ordinary season the meadow would furnish 600 tons of hay. The grass is very nutritious, and cattle on the ranges become very fat without being fed a pound of grain. "On the upland the grass grows from eight to ten inches tall. This is called range grass, and is suitable for stock at any time, even in the winter when the ground is not covered too deep with snow. Horses subsist on it alone, at all times, provided they are native stock. The grass in the hay meedows here is called red-top, and grows from five to six feet in length, and when cut at the proper time yields an abundant crop of nutritious hay. "Our cattle have not cost us a cent since we came on our homestead, only the small outlay for salt and labor in putting up hay and shelter. All cattle have been doing well this winter, and feeding up to the first of January was unnecessary, as there was good range up to that time. "All the snows up to that date were followed by winds from the northwest that melts it very rapidly; these winds are called Chinook winds, and are always warm. In one night a Chinook wind may take away three or four inches of snow. "We have built on our claim a comfortable house of hewn logs, 20x26 feet, one and one-half stories in height, with a good cellar. During the latter part of June we rafted logs down the Sturgeon to a sawmill, about eight miles away, and thus secured 5,000 feet of good lumber which was needed for the house. Later in the season a shingle mill located six miles away. To this we hauled logs and had shingles cut for the roof. "We had an abundance of wild fruit the past season, consisting of gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, eyebberries, blueberries, cherries and saskatoons. The latter are a fine looking berry, red, and quite pleasant to the taste, but not much to be desired in cookery. The strawberries are the same as those that grow wild in Illinois. Raspberries are red in color, large and equal to any of the tame varieties, and so are the gooseberries. The cranberries consist of the high and trailing varieties. The latter are most sought and contiguous to the swamps. The ground is literally covered with them as with a red carpet, but the best and most sought is the blueberry, so called by the Indians. This is the famous 'huckleberry' (wortleberry) of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Pennsylvania, and cannot be excelled for excellence by any fruit cultivated. It is found here both on the prairie and in the timber in immense quantities. "Game is very plentiful so far as prairie chickens, pheasants, ducks of all kinds, and geese are concerned. We have taken nearly 500 chickens and pheasants, also a great many ducks. "An occasional deer is seen, but are not plentiful, only one having been taken during the season in this settlement. "Fish are very plentiful at all seasons of the year. Fish wagons and sleds are passing almost daily along the trail with heavy loads of fish, destined for St. Albert and Edmonton. From the latter point they are shipped south on the Calgary and Edmonton railroad to points along the line, and also to Assiniboia, on the Canadian Pacific railroad." For further information apply to any authorized Canadian Government Agent whose address appears elsewhere. Benevolent Old Lady (outside of candy shop)—"Don't cry, little lady; come in here, and I'll buy you a stick of candy." Small Urehin—"Tanks; dats' got me mudder made me cry for. She keeps de store."—Harvard Lampoon. K. C. S. Almanac for 1904. 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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. REV. H. W. SMITH, D. D. Rev. H. W. Smith, D. D., whose photo adorns this page, is a scholarly and consecrated Christian gentleman. He is respectful to all. He is a man worthy of any honor his church may confer upon him. He has taken a course in proof-reading, looking forward to his avowed candidacy for editor of the Star of Zion. He is an author of several books, and he is the only one of his church that has gotten out a gospel hymn book, and has it at the conference. He is one of the leading correspondents of the Star of Zion, and has been for sixteen years. Dr. Smith is pastor in Winston-Salem, N. C., of a large and flourishing congregation. The delegates are considering him as good connectional timber. He is an able gospel preacher. M. B. REV. H. C. WEEDEN. Rev. H. C. Weeden, A. M., at one time the most prominent layman in the west. Edited and published Zion's Banner, the first church paper of the A. M. E. Zion denomination. Gave the church great prominence through the local dailies. He is now stationed at Springfield, where Zion in this part of Kentucky has been given an impetus along all lines under his administration. Rev. Weeden is prominent in politics, being held in high esteem by the leaders of the republican party. Through his efforts Dr. E. E. Underwood was made delegate-at-large to represent Kentucky in the national republican convention. Rev. Weeden is a very fluent speaker. He is in attendance to the General Conference now in session. REV. J. C. TEMPLE. Rev. J. C. Temple is one of Zion's most eloquent speakers. We met him a year ago, before he was appointed pastor of Metropolitan church, Twenty-sixth and Morgan streets, St. Louis, Mo. He was then a leading light in the conference. He had made a success in St. Louis, so much so that all the churches and pastors and citizens considered him a welcome guest at their churches and homes, and to-day he holds that same good will and respect by all the churches and citizens of St. Louis. Rev. J. C. Temple is a fearless defender of right. He is a man who never antagonizes anyone, but in a Christian spirit always advises for the best, teaching the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. The people of St. Louis know how to appreciate such a strong man of God, regardless of his denominational connection—the Baptists, Presbyterians, Catholics—one of God's true ambassadors and a friend of mankind. SOMETHING GRAND. Mr. S. W. Williams, of 2636 Randolph street, has just returned from Texarkana, Tex., where his wife is conducting a successful millinery store. They will add to their business a dry goods store this summer. Mrs. Williams was in St. Louis a few weeks ago, buying stock for her store. Items From the First Baptist. Rev. George L. White preached a glorious sermon at the First Baptist church last Sunday at 11 a. m. His text was: "Thy Name Will Be Remembered." He said the true name of our Lord and master is Jesus. Said he: Napoleon, Washington, Sherman, Grant, and, indeed, all the big men that are dead, are soon forgotten, but the name of Jesus will live forever, and be remembered by those who have sought Him and had their sins washed away. Adam sold as out, but, thanks be to God, who sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to earth, and bought us in again. Our Lord Jesus was betrayed by a friend. Therefore, I saw to you one and all, watch your friends, and your enemies can not harm you. Christ had 12 men with him, and one was a devil. Now, as that is true, how can you expect to have a church like this, with 900 members, to exist without one. Serve God, come together, live upright, and He will save you all. Immediately after the morning services were over at the First Baptist church, the Pleasant Workers and Carnation clubs met to transact some important business. Madame M. A. Gilree, president of the Pleasant Workers' club, stated the object of the meeting, and informed the members of her club that the parlor social, which was held at her home, 3004 Lawton avenue, on May 3, was quite a success, and she thought that after all of the tickets were in the club would realize $20 from the social. This was good news, and was well received by the club. On motion by Mrs. Sophia Edwards, it was decided to buy three gallons of ice cream for the entertainment and dramatic concert, which would be given on Thursday night, the 12th. Afterwards each member came forward and paid their weekly dues, and the club adjourned, to meet again next Sunday, May 15. MADAME MATTIE A. GILREE, President. MISS ANNA B. THOMAS, Secretary. Mrs. Harriet Digge, of 1132 Iowa avenue, a very noted lady of the First Baptist church, left the city, a few days ago, for Chicago, where she will be married to a very wealthy gentleman of that city. Many wishes of her success through her matrimonial life. The old-fashioned candy pulling that was given by the Carnation club at the First Baptist church, last Monday night, was a grand affair and a success. Quite a nice crowd was in attendance. MADAME M. L. GRANT The brother of Madame Carrie Miller, of 1910 North Eleventh street, has been very sick, but is improving. Bishop Manck's Appointments. Bishop A. Mack will hold a grand rally for the Union Baptist church, of Alton, Ill., the second Sabbath in May, and will leave St. Louis for the same on the Saturday before the second Sabbath in May. He will also preach at Mt. Ewing Baptist church the third Sabbath in May. At Jacksonville, Ill., he will hold a basket meeting for the Trinity Baptist church. At New London, on the fourth Sabbath in May, and one at the First Baptist church at Granville, Mo., on the first Sabbath in June. 2106 Walnut Street. The Douglas Social club has a fine summer garden attached to their clubrooms. It is up to date. If you wish to spend a pleasant evening, and catch a cool breeze, visit this beautiful place. Base Ball. Baseball game at Handlan's park—the 400's vs. the Missouri, Sunday, May 15. Batteries: For the 400's, Craxton and Sexton; for the Missouri, Gatewood and McAnderson. Game called at 3 p. m. Admission 25 cents. NOTICE. 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. Now that the spring is open, natural flowers can be obtained at Miss Teresa, 1308 Olive street. When you go to the Newport, get your flowers at 1308 Olive street. Let's go down to the First Baptist Church and see what the Grand Officers of the Odd Fellows can do. St. Louis. April 24. 1904. An information bureau will be conducted in this city for the convenience of our Colored visitors. All persons having accommodations should register their address at once. The bureau will guarantee to the visitor every place it recommends. The bureau will refuse to place upon its books the address of any person unable to give reference. Call and register' or address H. S. Ferguson, Manager, No. 3 South Twenty-first street. NOTICE. We would like to know the whereabouts of Mrs. Charity Mitchell. We have in our care an important letter for her. It is from the United States senate. Call. Pickett's Headache Powders give instant relief. 2601 Lawton avenue. MR. JAMES A. NUNN. Mr. James A. Nunn, whose cut you find in the columns of our paper, is one of the lay delegates from Kentucky. He is a man of unassuming qualities, fine debater, and carries his point. He fills the chairmanship of the board of trustees of Jacob Street Tabernacle, Louisville, Ky., one of the most prominent churches in the A. M. E. Zion connection, and has great ability as a financier. He is president of the Joint Lodge and Temples of the United Brothers and Sisters of Friendship of Louisville, and it was through his plans that the lodge has secured greater and more valuable property. JOHN A. BROWN T. H. JOHNSON. Delegate from Kentucky conference and secretary of Roosevelt Republican League of Southern Indiana. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Hon. John C. Dancy, of Washington, D. C., and Prof. S. G. Adkins of Press, of State Ind. Institute, Salem, N. C. will be the principal speaker at the men's meeting, St. Paul's chapel, Sunday, 8th inst., 3 p. m. All men are invited. Sunday, 15th inst., the Y. M. C. A. will hold its anniversary meeting at Central Baptist church, Rev. Stevens officiating. Public invited. The annual reports of past year's work will be given in full. A New Company. Walter Farrington and James Wright, at 307 Channing avenue, and 308 Leonard, veterinary dentists, clipping, breaking and styling horses. He is an expert at his business. Mr. James Wright is a coal dealer, a most polite gentleman. He takes delight in sending coal to Aunt Hager's children. Yet he has more white customers than our children. Don't fall to call on him. The firm of Farrington & Wright, 307 North Channing avenue. ASK WILL William Tonsall, better known as "Jock," has joined with Marion Brooks, in Newport Hotel. Call and see him. 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. Twenty dollars straight cash salary and expenses paid each Monday by check direct from headquarters. Expense money advanced. Position permanent. Address Manager, 810 Como Bock, Chicago III. Every person prepared to accommodate in home or hotel. visitors to "The Fair" are requested to register their name and address with "The World's Fair Information Bureau." Address H. S. Ferguson, Mgr., care of "The Palladium." 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, Pzctor. Wanted—A Colored man to work as general housman. Apply at The Palladium Office. According to the new directory, just issued, the resident population of St. Louis is now 693,675. Visit the Fruit Stand at the True Reformers' hall, kept by Mr. Tom Ervin and sister. A newly-married couple wants two or three unfurnished rooms in the west end. Must be in good location. Write 1416 South Cardinal. Odd Fellows Celebrate Anniversary. The Odd Fellows celebrated the sixty-first anniversary of the founding of the order in America by a thanksgiving service at First Baptist church, Fourteenth street and Clark avenue. The programme opened with an organ voluntary by Prof. J. Arthur Tillman. Rev. E. Calvin Cole, pastor of the church, delivered the thanksgiving prayer and Rev. J. C. Temple, of Camden, N. J., former pastor of Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion church of this city, preached the thanksgiving sermon. Addresses were also delivered by J. McHenry Jones, of the institute of West Virginia, grand master of the order; Deputy Grand Master Geo. E. Temple, of St. Louis; Edw. S. Lewis, of Kansas City; Grand Master of Missouri Dr. W. D. Clinton and W. W. Lawrence, of New Berne, N. C. A collection was taken during the service for the benefit of the widows' and orphans' fund. A reception and banquet was tendered to Grand Master Jones and other officers at Douglass hall, Lawton avenue and Beaumont street. True to their intentions, the Odd Fellows order marched through the streets last Sunday afternoon en route to the First Baptist church. Long before the arrival of the order the church was crowded to its utmost capacity. The head of the order Prof. J. McHenry Jones, National Grand Master of the United States, and Hon. Edward Lewis, Grand Master of Missouri; Mr. Tom Burton, Department Grand Master, and our Temple, our pulpit orator, our annual sermon preacher, Rev. J. C. Temple, former pastor of Metropolitan church, now of Camden, N. J., who preached the annual sermon of the Odd Fellows, and many other distinguished personages, were present. Although we might say that the members of the order were drenched by the rain, yet as Rev. Temple progressed in his sermon, the vast audience followed him as he climbed the ladder of Friendship, Love and Truth, until our imagination left us gazing upon the jasper walls of Heaven. It seems as if, as the Rev. Jasper grows in age he grows also in knowledge of Jesus Christ, and as God's ambassador he knows how to impart his enthusiasm to his hearers. After the sermon, Rev. McHenry Jones, the National Grand Master, spoke. His words electrified the audience. It took him some time to come back to earthly things. He himself admitted that the quickest way back from the realms above was to take a collection for the good of the order. Prof. Jones spoke at some length. His talk was bristled with new thought and left an impression upon his hearers that will never be eradicated until put into action. Others spoke words of encouragement, and the order reflected credit upon St. Louis. ODD FELLOWS. We did not miss them, but we were informed that several of the lodges went to other churches to have their annual sermon preached. We thought 28 years ago, when Perseverance lodge was organized, at 1416 Wash street, that they had been taught that if they ever expected to rule, they must obey orders. We also tried to instill that in Ezel lodge, not to infringe upon the rights of St. George lodge of East St. Louis. We trust that during the sitting of the Grand Lodge some of the straps will be taken off of some of those would-be bosses, and teach them that they must obey the State and National Grand Master or they can't abide within the circuit of the Three Links. ANTIOCH CHURCH NOTES. Where are the leaders of the B. Y. P. U.? If you are going to lead successfully, you must attend regularly. Sunday, the 8th, was covenant and communion, and the attendance was good, considering the inclement weather. All seemed to enjoy the service. The Auxiliaries of Antioch church, including the Sunday school, have presented the church a $275 piano. While that is a grand step, Christians do not stop, but continue to work for Christ. Sunday, 22d, the young ministers of Antioch church will have a rally. All are invited to attend. Friends, come out, and encourage the young men, namely, Reverends A. Williams, E. Humphrey and J. O. Edwards. Antioch is one of the leading Baptist churches in the great World's Fair city, and has one of the ablest ministers of the race as its leader. Officers and members come out and support him. --- At 8 p. m. m. Rev. McKinney spoke from St. Luke, 23d chapter, 42d verse and a part of the 13d verse. Many good thoughts were brought out. The leading thought was that when we feel and fully desire to lead a better and higher life, and ask the Lord Jesus in earnest, as did the poor penitent referred to in verse 42, at once we are blessed. 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