St. Louis Palladium

ST.LOUIS PALLADIUM Vol. XX. No. 51. THE PALLADIUM'S Traveling Correspondent Interviews Prominent Negroes in Chicago----Sees Governor-Elect Dencen and Others. Mr. Editor—I arrived here several days ago, as you know, during which period I have met and talked with many of the leading Negroes and prominent white leaders, including Gov-elect Deneen. I spent Thanksgiving day in Indianapolis visiting friends and making inquiries concerning the congressional flight of Mr. Knox. The general opinion of the entire population of that city seems to be that Mr. Knox is a harmless, bantering old man, in the fullness of his dotage, but the Freeman is the "deadest" Negro journal in America to-day. Its foundation, once on rock, is now of sand, and it is floundering about like a rudderless ship. No man of the African race who opposed the Roosevelt ticket can ever hope to breast the tide of public opinion. Julius F. Taylor, editor of the Chicago Broad Ax, is one of the men who sold out soul and body to the democracy. They say that Taylor got $100 for his activity, but I doubt it very much, for I think that he could be bought for much less. Julius is a "bad egg," with as much mouth as Nick Chiles, and as harmless as J. D. Miller, of the American Eagle. Gov.elect Deneen says that he is going to treat the Colored people right, and I believe he will. He's a big-hearted, determined, square-shouldered fellow, full of strenerous life, and I like his looks hugely. You can throw "the Conservator" out when you begin to sum up Negro newspapers, for the Conservator is a church organ, and its editor, M. Allison Sweeney, is an innocent, religious old man, full of heavenly spirits. Dr. Dan Williams is the biggest Negro in Chicago. He sewed up the paricardium of a fellow's heart, who had been cut, and the fellow got well. Besides which he has performed many other delicate operations with great success. I shall at a later period before leaving Chicago furnish you with a complete history of Julius F. Taylor and the Broad Ax. I will quiz the public on Booker Washington and the southern Negro press, next week, for that is the subject of my next article. WILLIE SNOOKS. Y. M. C. A. Notes. "Work for young men by young men," is a fundamental principle of our organization, but the far-reaching influence of this principle is but imperfectly understood. While a young man may accept the general principle that wisdom comes with age and experience, still he will rarely seek out this wisdom for the guidance of his own moral conduct. The example and lives of the companions of his own age have far more influence with him than the wisdom of sages. If these companions are vicious, the chances are that he will become a criminal; if they are frivolous and pleasure seekers, he will delight in the same pursuits; if they are selfish and grasping, he will become sordid, and will attribute the same characteristics to all mankind. It is in personal influence among young men that the Young Men's Christian association seeks to do some of its best work. To develop among young men the ability to make intimate friendships, the power to stand firm in the presence of temptation. Is there not great need among the young men of the race for such an organization that stands for the development of all that is clean and manly? Our membership contest continues to grow in interest. The "Reds" are at present more in evidence. The "Blues" are not saying much, but "sawing wood." Somebody will be surprised before the contest is over. R. B. Montgomery, of the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate, gave a stirring talk at the Literary society last Tuesday evening. Special programme next Tuesday night, Ladies' night; refreshments. Rev. S. W. Parr will speak at 4:30 Sunday afternoon. Come and hear him. Large drill class at 4 p.m. PLEASE COPY THIS. Sick at 1311 Spruce street is Mr Thomas Brown, n.a.; most among strangers. He has a sister in Memphis, Tenn., but r.a. has married since she saw her and he knows not her name. Bluff City News and Colored Citizen of Memphis will please copy. J. W. WHEELER, Manager of the St. Louis Palladium. ST. LOUIS, MO., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1904. Antioch Church Notes. Mr. Alexander Terry is on the sick list. Mrs. S. Franklin, of 3921 St. Ferdinand avenue, who has been quite ill, is able to be out again. Miss Hattie Novell, the guest of Mrs. Alice Jones, is being much entertained. Miss Norvell is quite well known here. Rev. Anderson is doing nicely in his new field of labor. The attendance is good, and the collection fairly good, but there is room for improvement. Rev. C. C. Calhoun, of Lexington, Mo., preached at 8 p. m., Sunday, 27th, to a full house. All enjoyed the sermon. Among the visitors were Prof. W. G. Hynes, of Nashville, Tenn., and Mrs. Carrie Floyd, this city. Rev. S. P. Anderson, the pastor, preached a fine sermon at 11 a.m. Sunday, 27th, from Genesis 49 and 22. Many good thoughts were brought out such as were food for followers of Christ. Mrs. Nettie Thomas, of Edwardsville, Ill., who is visiting her sister, Mrs. Mary A. Lawrence, in company with a party of ladies, namely: Mrs. M. B. Allen and daughter, Miss Bertha and niece, Miss Hazel Bryant, attended the fair Monday. Several dinners have been given in honor of Mrs. Thomas. She was also entertained by Mesdames A. Tillman, M. B. Allen and M. V. Shelby. St. John's Mission Sunday School. Sunday, October 23, at 603 Red Bud avenue, St. John's Mission Sunday school was reorganized by J. W. Wheeler, with the following persons: Miss Emma Fontain, Mrs. Amandy Mitchell, Mrs. Hattie Saulsbury, Miss Bulah Fountain, Miss Mammie Fountain, Miss Lena Cole, Little Josephine Cole, Ada Cole, Allie Keithely, Frankie Keithely and Miss Gasey. Miss Ednor Edwards and others opened at 3 o'clock, singing hymn No. 585. Prayer by the superintendent, J. W. Wheeler. After prayer, singing, then the 19th Psalm was read The pastor appointed Miss Lena Cole as leader in singing; Mammie Fountain as secretary; Miss Bulah Fountain teacher. After a few remarks were made by the acting superintendent, the cards and tickets were given out and adjourned to meet November 6. On the 6th of November the school met in pursuance to the time set. School was opened by singing hymn No. 85. Prayer by superintendent. Singing, after which the lesson was spoken of, instructing those present to the importance of a Sunday school and living an exemplary life. At this juncture cards and tickets were given out to new scholars. Several visitors were present. Among them were Mrs. Fearson, a member of St. Paul's chapel, who promised to give us all of the aid she can. School closed to meet November 13th. Mammie Fountain, secretary; pastor, acting superintendent. Lyceum Sketch Club. The Lyceum Sketch Club will present, at Douglass hall, on Thursday evening, December 8, Mr. John B. Vashon, the eminent versatile actor, in the musical comedy "Miss Amanthis." The club will spare no pains to make this the most important social event of the season. Mr. James W. Grant, as the much harrassed but hopeful "Brownsmith," is irresistibly funny. Mr. R. A. Hudlin, as the valiant "Captain Littlepop," is the impersonification of the equisite military beau. Mr. Wm. S. Grant, as the impressionable "Mabicombe," is a living example of the curative influence of marriage. The charming vocalist, Miss Vella Crawford, as "Annie Babicombe," fascinates all by her graceful acting. The captivating singing soubrette, Miss Almeda Hutchinson, as "Susan," plays the part with a dash and vivacity that is pleasant to see. Last, but not least, Mr. Vashon, as cute, cunning "Miss Amanthis," a lovely little maid of about 250 pounds weight, and as lively as a kitten. It is worth twice the admission fee just to hear her sing. At the close of the performance the Great Western orchestra will furnish music for dancing. At Rest. We are just in receipt of a telegram stating that the mother-in-law of Mr. Moran had just died. Mr. Moran started for Texas on Tuesday, but the angel of Heaven had taken the spirit of this good lady before Mr. Mason arrived. Yet the hope of a son-in-law to meet her beyond the river, where God and just spirits dwell, is the hope of all. Mrs. Mason, her daughter-in-law—though with her at the time of her death—is prostrated from the loss of such a good Christian mother. Mrs. Ruth Harris, of 2721 Mills street, is quite ill at this writing. [Name] FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES. The funeral of Mrs. Isabella was preached last Tuesday evening by Dr. E. C. Cole, at the First Baptist church. Miss Sophia R. Monday, of Henderson, Ky., is in the city, on a visit to her sister, Madame B. Slaughter, of 4409 Lucky street. "Yes," said Madam E. B. Cole, the Doctor's wife, "The Palladium is the best and grandest paper in town. It never fails to come." Rev. B. Moore, of Texarkana, Tex., preached a grand sermon to a crowded house, at the First Baptist church, last Sunday night. Come again, Doctor. You are welcome. The Carnation club will give a grand concert and entertainment, December 12, in the interest of the First Baptist church. This promises to be the finest of the season. The public is cordially invited. Madam Sarah F. Louis and Miss J. Ophelia Wells, managers. The B. Y. P. U. of the First Baptist church had a fine meeting last Sunday, 5:30 p. m. After the Biblical discussion, the literary programme was taken up, and the following persons made addresses: A. W. Washington, W. C. Henderson and Madam S. M. Bulloch. Mr. Brown read a fine paper. Mr. Chas. Bollinger, president; Mr. Garfield, secretary. Mr. John H. Brooks, the son of Brother Henry Brooks, of 1307 Spruce street, died last Monday morning at 6:30. His funeral took place last Thursday at 2 p. m., at the First Baptist church, and was preached by Dr. E. C. Cole. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was well cared for by that order. May he rest in peace. The dinner and concert given by the Pleasant Workers and Ruth clubs, on Thanksgiving day and night, was indeed a grand success. The good ladies who had the dinner in charge served everybody nicely, which reflects great credit on the church. Capt. Wm. H. Butler was manager, and be it said to his credit that the clubs raised $75.43 over and above all expenses. The musical entertainment given by Prof. Will Lindsay, the musician and philanthropist, at the First Baptist church, last Wednesday night, was the grandest affair that the members and friends of the church ever witnessed. The gentleman demonstrated the fact that he was master of the situation—in fact, he made the audience laugh from start to finish; hence it can be said, with some degree of certainty, that he is the best in the world. Prof. J. Arthur Freeman, the principal of L'Overture school, and one of the best educators in Missouri, returned to the city on Thanksgiving, at 12:30 p. m., from New York, where he has been playing with the Coleridge Taylor Chioral society. Prof. Freeman made quite an impression on the eastern people, so much so that the manager of the society hated to see him leave. He resumed his duties at once in school, and at the First Baptist church, where he is organist, and has a host of friends. Gone Home to See Their Mother in Newport, Ark. Mrs. Nell'e Bouyer and Miss Jessie Hase, of 2232 Morgan street, left last Thursday for their home in Newport, Ark., to visit their mother. They have lived in St. Louis for the past eleven years, and retuned home to their mother. They take their mother many valuable presents and a purse of greenbacks and silver. We wish them much pleasure. They have been subscribers of the Palladium for the past four years and they will still take it in Newport, Ark. Mrs. S. H. Ingram, of 2213 Market street, is quite ill. CITY NEWS Notes and News Concerning Our People--Weekly Record of Social Events, Deaths, Marriages and Births-- Written Especially for St. Louis Palladium. Miss Rubie Fontroy is still very sick at 116 South Leonard avenue. Dr. T. A. Curtis, the dentist, has removed from 2603 Lucas avenue to 2645 Lawton avenue, second floor. What has become of the pastor of Compton Hill church? He was the only Negro so-called democrat that was for Folk. For sale at the office of the St. Louis Palladium all the goods that are manufactured by the Boston Chemical Co., at Richmond, Va. Mr. A. W., of 4214 Maffitt avenue, is doing a good business handling coal. He will sell you coal by the basket or ton. Give him a call. Mrs. Ella Barnes Johnson, of 2715 Wash street, is still selling the Mexican Indian soap. Call and try it, for it is most wonderful. Mr. T. A. Ford, the groceryman at 1315 Clark avenue, is meeting with success. His business is increasing. We wish him much success. Sam, the Tailor, has completed his store. He has four large, cozy rooms to store his goods, the same direct from the mills, at a reasonable cost. Grand Master S. T. Pettigrew and wife were in the city last week. They attended the World's fair. He visited Elizabeth Temple of the S. M. T. Mr. Mason, one of the proprietors of the Newport cafe, left last Tuesday to visit his mother-in-law and wife, who is very sick. We hope for her recovery. Prof. C. G. Williams, of Boonville, Mo., and his family, visited the World's fair last Saturday. Prof. Williams is a member of the state committee. Hon. Chastine, of Kansas City, one of Kansas City's leading attorneys, is a shrewd politician. He came to our city to put up his fence. He is looking ahead. Prof. Williams, one of Kansas City's public school teachers, was in St. Louis Saturday. He is one of the leading teachers in that little city. He called at our office. V. J. Lancaster, of 2206 Walnut street, wishes to find the whereabouts of his brother, Frank Lancaster. They formerly lived in Louisville, Ky. Call at Palladium office. Hon. Nelson Crews was in St. Louis last Sunday. He visited St. Paul's chapel, and he was well pleased with Rev. W. D. Cook's sermon. He called at The Palladium office. Mrs. Gus Wangrum and Mrs. Z. D. Pates, of Columbus, Ky., guests of Mrs. Frank Davis, 3916 Fairfax avenue, left this morning for home, delighted with their visit to the World's fair city. Mr. Jas. E. Washington, stenographer and agent, of 73 Hernando street, Memphis, Tenn., called at our office this week. He also represents the Bluff City News, of Memphis, Tenn. Miss Mae Sheppard, of 720 Fourth avenue, South Minneapolis, visited her father, Mr. J. Sheppard, of 2828 Wash street. She visited the fair, and was well pleased with it. She is the idol of her father, and is most lovely young lady. Prof. A. Gray, of Little Rock, Ark., and little son, visited his brother-in-law, Mr. Wm. Ingram, of 2647 Pine street. They took in the fair, and were well pleased. They also visited Anheuser-Busch brewery. They left Tuesday for home. We have just received a letter from Mrs. H. B. Williams, of Chicago, Ill. She send her subscription. Mrs. Williams was formerly a member of St. Paul's chapel, but after the death of her husband she moved to Chicago. She is indeed a true Christian Many she prosper in her new home. The World's fair has just closed, the greatest in the history of the world. The Palladium has done all that it could on its part to make it a success. Mr. D. E. Francis is entitled to the admiration of the civilized world and those connested with him in this stupendous work. We lift our hats to all concerned. $2.00 Per Annum, Single Copy 5 cents. Mr. King, of Mexico, Mo., was in the city last Sunday. He left a few days ago for home. Mr. King and several other gentlemen of Jefferson City, Mo., were in the city a few days. They left for home. Prof. W. H. Harrison, of Jefferson City, was in St. Louis last Sundy. He is secretary of the U. B. F. & S. M. T. The friends of Mr. James Durling will be sorry to learn that he is sick at his residence, 3623 Cozens avenue. Chamber Street Baptist church. Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.; Sundayschool at 2 p. m. Rev. David Johnson, pastor. FOUND—The Palladium man found a lady's glove of the left hand, with a dime in it. The same can be had by calling at 2617 Lawton. Quartermaster General Humphrey desires the adoption of a retirement plan for employees of his department who have grown old in the service. Sleep should not be grudged. A hard worker needs eight hours. If the night sleep is not broken it is well to rise at the hour of waking—assuming always that one feels fresh. A second and invited sleep does little if any good. It is said one can lighten the hair by taking equal parts of rhubarb stalks and honey and steeping in three parts of white wine. Let it stand for 24 hours, strain-and use as a lotion, wetting the entire hair, massaging and leaving to dry in. Do not try to sweep an invalid's room, but wring a clean cloth out of cold water to which a few drops of ammonia have been added, and carefully wipe the carpet, matting or floor, turning and rinsing the cloth and changing the water as it gets dirty. A mouth that sometimes appears blue and livid around the lips belongs to a person with weak heart. Especially is this sign marked when the muscles around the lips appear to be tightened so that the mouth looks as if it were gathered in hard creases and fast closed. WHERE NERVES ARE UNKNOWN. The women of Japan, in contrast to their Occidental sisters, have long been noted for their perfect poise and self-possession. Their placidity under what would ordinarily be considered trying circumstances has surprised American tourists. Patent medicines guaranteed to cure nervousness in its many forms have little sale in Japan. The meaning of the term "nervous prostration" is unknown. Japanese physicians are rarely rich. An explanation of this happy state of affairs has been made by a returned traveler. "To begin with," says he, "there is never any change in fashions, so the Japanese woman has no worries at all on that score. Then, housekeeping is greatly simplified, so that Japanese housekeeping is hurt by none of the jars and frets that rack the nerves and prematurely age her western sister. The Japanese house has no draperies, no dust traps in the shape of superfluous ornaments. People all put off their shoes on entering the house, so no mud and dirt are brought in. Japanese women have no heart-burnings over euchre prizes and 'bridge' stakes. They never have to compose club papers on subjects concerning which they knew nothing. They never sit up nights planning how they may outshine their rivals in dress at some social affair. They do not bother their brains with schemes for marrying their daughters to rich foreigners. They never have to give eight-course dinners with two-course pocket-books. They live simple, happy, peaceful domestic lives, and live them long." While we should be sorry to see American women restrict their lives to the narrow sphere of the Japanese, there is no doubt that three-fourths of their nervous worry is caused by "trying to do too much." Simplicity is the keynote of sanity and health, and American men as well as women may well profit by the example of the happy Japanese.—Robert Webster Jones, in August Housekeeper. Mr. Jeff Smith, proprietor of a business at 1201 Morgan street, is very sick and has been confined to his room for the past month. We hope that he will soon recover. Mr. Smith is one of the best men in St. Louis—a whole-souled business man. We have had business dealings with him for the past two years, and we never met a more upright, thorough golemmen in all our dealings with him. Very Sick. THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI. The Missouri Teachers' college, a department of the University of Missouri, will undertake university extension work this winter in the Kansas City public schools. The teachers of that city have organized a club for the study of books outlined by the faculty of the college, and each book is to be supplemented by lectures either by Dr. A. Ross Hill, dean of the college, or Doctors Frank P. Graves or J. S. Meriam, of the faculty. Such an arrangement practically brings the best instruction of the college to the home of the teachers. Other cities of the state may well follow Kansas City's example. Experiments by the Missouri Agricultural college with 100 kinds of peach trees for five years show that the peach crop in Missouri could be greatly increased by a proper selection of trees. Prof. J. C. Whitten, who has conducted the experiments, says for commercial orchards, the best varities are Mountain Rose, Crawford, Elberta, Family Favorite and Salway. For home use he recommends Connett (southern early), Thurber, Lewis, Carmen, Champion, Crosby and Gold Drop. These varieties ripen in the order named, and are hardy enough to fruit when others fail. The Missouri College of Agriculture at Columbia will offer an eight weeks' course in horticulture, beginning the 3d of next January, for the benefit of young men who want to learn the more important facts connected with fruit growing. The college is a part of the public school system of the state, and hopes by offering a number of short courses during the winter to be of more practical value to the citizens of the state. C. J. Keyser, of McCurry, Gentry county, Mo., has just been elected Adrain professor of mathematics in Columbia college, New York city. Prof. Keyser graduated with honors from the university of Missouri in June, 1892, and has been actively engaged in teaching most of the time since. Dr. J. S. Meriam, of the Missouri Teachers' college, a department of the state university, will visit most of the country schools within a radius of ten miles of the college. This week he walked out four miles, and spent the afternoon in a rural school teaching two classes during his visit. To meet the growing demand for instruction in poultry farming, the Missouri Agricultural college will offer a short course on the subject, beginning the first week in January. Some person actually engaged in a successful poultry business will be secured as instructor. Compliment After Compliment Received From Prominent Men and Women. We are pleased to announce that Mr. A. W. Washington, of 2011 Walnut street, has received numerous letters from the president, Theodore Roosevelt; President McKinley's wife, and many other prominent people all over this country in honor of his poems and other writings. We say to him, still go farther, still go farther, for it is better farther along. She Resigned. Miss Laura G. Otten, an Illinois teacher, resigned her position as teacher on account of ill health. We hope that she will soon recover her health, that she may return to her duties in the school room. Notice. John W. Wheeler, Jr., is again an active worker for the Palladium. All contracts made by him are O. K. So help this young man and you help yourself. Visiting Sister and Other Relatives. Mr. D. L. Tucker, John Martin and Mr. I. Martin, of Brownsville, Tenn., took in the fair. While here they stopped with their sister at 4226 San Francisco avenue. NUN AND THOMPSON OF 2337 MARKET STREET. The above genelemen can be seen any night at the Newport cafe with different ladies spending money, as if they were millionaires. Oh, you ought to see the agony they put on. Missouri State Gleanings. The police of St. Joseph are convinced that some woman who sewed a white button on a light overcoat with black thread can furnish a clew to an unknown negro who tied the hands and feet of Mrs. Gay, wife of a farmer, near Agency, and cut her throat. All efforts of the police are being bent in running down this negro. Clothing, slightly bloodstained, resembling that worn by a mysterious negro seen near the house, was found with the clothing from the Gay home and from a neighbor named Smith in a pasture near the scene of the murder. Mail Carriers Give Banquet. The rural mall carriers of Johnson county met at Holden and gave a banquet to the members and their families. The invited guests were the postmasters and editors of county. The purpose of the function was social intercourse and exchange of views for the betterment of the service. The county has 39 carriers. J. M. Books is president of the association and H. C. Alpin, vice-president. School Bonds Rezistered. State Auditor Allen has registered school district bonds as follows: St. Clair county, one of the denomination of $100 and one of the denomination of $50, bearing interest at the rate of 8 per cent.; Christian county, one of the denomination of $400, bearing interest at the rate of 8 per cent.; Caldwell county, one of the denomination of $500, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. May Know Something of Murder. James R. Norman, a horse trader, was arrested at Fayette by Sheriff Dierker on the charge of obtaining goods under false pretenses, but he may have to answer to a more serious charge, as it is thought he knows much concerning the death of Mrs. Stone and her three little children, whose bodies were found in the river at St. Charles several months ago. Woman's Victim Dies in Hospital. Luther Messenger, who was shot by Mrs. Louise Ackerson, died at St. John's hospital in Kansas City. Mrs. Ackerson was arrested, but later released at Messenger's request. Before his death, Messenger told the officers that he did not blame the woman for shooting him. Mrs. Mary M. Barclay. Mrs. Mary M. Barclay, mother of Judge Shepard Barclay and Dr. Robert Barclay, of St. Louis, and a member of one of Missouri's pioneer families, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Howard Pratt, in Milwaukee. Albert Frankenthal. With the death of Albert Frankenthal, aged 63, which occurred at his residence, in St. Louis, the career of a business man who had been identified with the commercial life of the city since 1858 is ended. Thought Employer Was a Burglar. Dr. J. H. Willett, a Webb City physician, was shot and instantly killed by Claude Price, 16 years old, whom the doctor had employed. The boy mistook his employer for a burglar. Zinc Smelters Resuming. The zinc retorts in the third block at the Cockerill smelters at Nevada are being put in, and the entire plant is again in full operation. The smelter has been shut down for two years. Prickett Appointed Oil Inspector. Gov. Dockery has announced the appointment of Joseph Prickett, of Noel, to be coal oil inspector for McDonald county for a term of two years, to succeed Thomas Gibson. Killed by a Train. Lem Edwards, aged 23, was killed by a "Katy" train at Sedalia. His foot became entangled in a semaphore wire, and the locomotive struck him before he could get loose. Fell From a Scaffold. James F. Bryan, a distant relative of the noted free silver advocate, sustained serious internal injuries by falling from a scaffold near Mexico. Its Chief Attraction. Charles Monk, of Carthage, recently bought a burro colt which is attracting much attention because it looks like an overgrown jackrabbit. Appointed Probate Judge. Paul T. Lmpke, of Ste. Genevieve, has been appointed judge of the probate court of Ste. Genevieve county, vice J. L. Bogy, deceased. Appointed Oil Inspector. Gov. Dockery has appointed Joseph Prichtt, of Noell, oil inspector of McDonald county for a term of two years from October 26, 1904. Trouble Ahead. Twelve indictments against men charged with registration frauds have been returned in St. Louis by the October grand jury. Life Had No Charms. Despondent over ill health, Mrs. Louisa Keth, 66 years old, committed suicide in St. Louis. She suffered from extreme feebleness. Death of William T. Johnson. William T. Johnson, treasurer of Bates county, died at Butler. He was serving his second term and was a prominent citizen. Mayor Neff's Father Dead. Col. Andrew J. Neff, father of Mayor James H. Neff of Kansas City, died at San Antonio, Tex., where he had gone for a health. "THE ORIGINAL UNCLE SAM." He Lectures on Constitution and Declaration of Independence While Traveling. Frank S. Colburn, who claims that he is the original living "Uncle Sam," is at the present time in St. Louis, having arrived from New York city, walking the entire distance. Colburn states that his resemblance to the original, as handed down to modern days by caricaturists, was derived by eight years of study of the character and all of the ideals that it is supposed to embody. He walked across the continent in 1897, expounding the constitution and declaration of independence, which he claims he knows from beginning to end, and started on his present journey on June 20 of this year from New York city. Colburn is 46 years old, the same age as President Roosevelt, and his birthday falls on the same day as that of the president. He claims that his sole idea in assuming this role is to enlighten the American people on the constitution and declaration of independence, two documents which he thinks are held in ignorance by the majority of the American people. Colburn never makes his journeys except by walking, and it is his intention of going from St. Louis to the Pacific coast. Janitor Stele Postal Money. Charles H. Mauch, janitor of the post office at Poplar Bluff, was arrested on the charge of riffing the mails. He paid $255, the amount which it is alleged he embuzzled, and gave bond in the sum of $1,000. W. R. Randall, postmaster at Poplar Bluff, signed Mauch's bond, after which Mauch was released. His trial will come up about January 5. Mauch admits that he took the money, but says he did not know why he did it. Now that he realizes the full import of the act, which he claims did not impress him at the time, he is remorseful. The old man wept in the United States marshal's office as he told his story. The fact that he has a wife and six children to provide for makes his situation the more pitiable. Acrobat's Fatal Accident. A. Gibson, an acrobat, was instantly killed at the Paris theater, on the Pike at the World's fair in a fall from a trapeze bar on which he was performing. The accident occurred in front of an audience of several hundred persons, many of whom became panic-stricken and fled. The exits were crowded for a short time, but no one was hurt in the rush from the place. The theater was closed for the night after the accident. Wires Saved Her Life. Rose Valentine, a chambermaid, employed at the Wright hotel, fell 70 feet from the fourth-story window, at Poplar Bluff, and sustained only a fractured arm. While seated on the window ledge another chambermaid warned her to be careful. The woman replied that she had nothing to live for, and threw herself backward. Telegraph wires broke the force of the fall. Will Recommend Higher Salary. The legislature junketing committee devoted a day to the examination of the state industrial home for girls at Chillicothe. They will recommend that the superintendent's salary be increased from $900 to $1,500 a year, and that an administration building be erected. Father Anthony Verrina. Rev. Father Anthony Verrina died at St. Vincent's college, Cape Girardeau, aged 84 years. He was born in Genoa, Italy, but has been connected with the St. Vincent's college for 59 years and was president from 1868 to 1880. Appointed Coal Oil Inspector. Gov. Dockery has announced the appointment of E. S. Hays to be coal oil inspector of Buchanan county, to succeed himself, for a term of two years from May 17, 1903. Not Always Fat Men. People who laugh, it seems, do not always grow fat. Judge Peebles, residing near Clinton, is famous for his hearty laugh, yet he is stall and slim. Found Dead In His Room. William J. Taylor, special agent of the Atlanta & West Point railroad, was found dead on the floor of his room at Horn's hotel, in St. Louis. The Register's Opinion. The Register has decided that people who earn their money in Webb City and go away from home to spend it are of very little value to the town. To Build Electric Railway. The Houston, Licking & Salem Electric Railway Co. has been organized at Houston. Bonds will be issued and placed on the market soon. Rich Widow Commits Suicide. Mrs. Kate Brasfield ended her life by taking poison at Plate City. Mrs. Brasfield was the widow of the late Judge John S. Brasfield. Celebrate Welding Anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. John Shannon, of Palmyra, celebrated the fifty-seventh anniversary of their wedding with a dinner to their relatives. Celebrate Golden Wedding. A large number of southwest Missourians attended the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morris at Nevada. BE NOT DECEIVED TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA King of all Hair Tonics, "OZONO." BEFORE. AFTER. TRADE-MARK. Recognizing the fact that there are many SO-CALLED hair-growers and hair-straighteners now on the market, and knowing to a certainty that many of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the year 1871 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a thorough test by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy, true to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every member of the colored race, because they found it to cause the hair to grow long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there are always a number of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other people's goods. Seeing our marked success, numerous firms have entered the market, offering hair-growers and hair-straighteners, many of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair and scalp, and the colored people are buying these spurious compounds, which are filled with animal fats, and do the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning—be careful what you use on your hair. Do not be deceived by firing advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics. OZONO. which is sold with an iron-clad guard, we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask lutely agree to forfeit $50.00 if you if they were not true to all we clare several years under this guarantee, who has used Ozone has been satisfied, 20,000 people are to-day using recommends Ozone as the King of take the Kinks out of Knotty, King some Hair. It will make short, hair your head of all itching, worrying s and Scurl can not live after Ozone be from falling out. It will restore grah hair long and soft. Now, right here, let us make a remedies to straighten hair, but wha you use to use hot irons. Friends, do no life of the hair, and cause it to drow outside assistance. Nothing but O straight forever. You can stop the the hair are seen in a day or two afte The price of Ozone is 50c. a b this liberal offer, which is good at a to us, enclosing with it the sum of four large boxes of Ozone and one which makes black skin bright, row skin diseases. Also removes all fa small-pox pits. We will also include Food—Nature's great beautifier—re and all facial blemishes; makes the younger. We will also include one package absolutely CHEMICALLY PURE, iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or Now, we ask you a plain question—would we also $0.00 if you are dissatisfied with our preparations, to all we claim for them? We have advertised for it is guarantee, and we are glad to say that every one is been satisfied in every respect. 0-day using our preparations, and every purchaser the King of all Hair Tonics. Ozono will positively Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Trouble-like short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the set us make a statement. Many firms are advertising hair, but when they send the preparation they tell Friends, do not use hot irons; they will burn up the use it to drop out. Ozono straightens without any nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays can stop the use at any time. The good effects on day or two after the first application. is 50c. a bottle—4 boxes do the work. We make it is good at any time: Cut out this coupon and send the sum of One Dollar, and we will forward to you and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, in bright, rough skin soft and pliant, and cures all removals all facial imperfections, and actually removes ill also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, eyes; makes the old look young and the young look make one package of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which is ALLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $0.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $0.00 if you are dissatisfied with our preparations, 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 every one who has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. 20,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the King of all Hair Tonics. Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublesome Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, and Scurf can not live after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and soft. Now, right here, let us make a statement. Many firms are advertising remedies to straighten hair, but when they send the preparation they tell you to use hot irons. Friends, do not use hot irons; they will burn up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop out. Ozono straightens without any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You can stop the use at any time. The good effects on the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. The price of Ozoon is 50c. a bottle—4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is good at afy time: Cut out this coupon and send to us, enclosing with it the sum of One Dollar, and we will forward to you four large boxes of Ozoon and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which makes black skin bright, rough skin soft and pliant, and cures all skin diseases. Also removes all facial imperfections, and actually removes small-pox pits. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—Nature's great beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, and all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look younger. We will also include one package of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which is absolutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever The Douglass club has changed officers. Mr. Charles Norcise, president; Mr. John C. Collins, manager; Mr. George Sanders, secretary. They are moving things along nicely. Mr. J. Miles has gone into another business. They regretted very much to lose such a valuable man. All wish him well in his new business. 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. Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cir- culation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months, $1. Sold by all newadulters. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 625 F St., Washington, D.C. IF YOU BUY FURNITURE. AT Thuner's And baths is the neatest, warmest baths and shop in the city. Clean towels used in every case, for the coal man as well as the clerk in the office. Four barbers who can shave any person with ease and satisfaction. Try them. JOHN W. ALPHRAN, Mgr. Messrs. Wright & Bolen have opened a drug store at 2333 Market street. These two gentlemen thoroughly understand the drug business. They are graduates of Howard university, of Washington, D. C. They are polished gentlemen, and ask the patronage of the public. They were formerly with the Harris & Mosby drug store. Sam, the Tailor, 204-206 North Fourteenth street, has enlarged his place. He is the leading tailor in St. Louis. Next week we will give full particulars of his store. Will our subscribers please pay our collectors and don't tell them you will see us. We can't get around to see you all, so please pay them. Those wanting new fall costumes made will please call upon Mrs. R. H. Brown, now called The Newstead Avenue Dressmaker The Louisville & Nashville road, the only road to Louisville and Nashville. All that come to the World's fair need his line. Write for Information and Free Catalogue L-893 THE ENGLEWOOD CO. Consolidated Factories 51-63 Randolph St., Chicago, Ill., U S. A --- The Douglass Club. NOTICE. True Reformers' Barber Shu J. W. WHEELER. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is patentable, patentable communications seriously confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Mann & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the IF YOU BUY Why Pay Cash WHEN YOU CAN BUY ON Easy Credit Terms PIANOS $124.75 UP. ORGANS $19.00 UP. SEWING MACHINES $7.50 UP. STOVES and RANGES $2.10 UP. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE Of all kinds at 60 cents up. IRON and STEEL SAFES, TYPEWRITERS and OFFICE FURNITURE. From $6.25 up. We are the largest manufacturers on earth, have unlimited capital and sell direct from the workshop to the fireside to the warehouse. We are the honorable people in all parts of the world. No other manufacturer will let you use the goods for years while slowly paying for them. BEFORE. AFTER be used on the scalp. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $4.00, but we let you have 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, we have placed upon our coupon our Trade-Mark, one head showing Short Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U.S. Government 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 having the two heads on it. As to our responsibility, we refer you to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va. We have thousands of testimonials we have not space to publish. Here is a sample of one: Dear Sirs,—You are at liberty to st used OZONO, and give it my most hea fooled so often, it does me good to recom- Here is another: Gentlemen,—After using OZONO a s that my hair is already straight and grow A last word. OZONO is absolutely cause a beautiful and luxurious growth. you can use it to secure a glossy lion "OZONO." Send us $1.00 at once, and day we receive your order. BOST 31 Dear Sirs, You are at liberty to state in any newspaper that I have used OZONO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been fooled so often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. Gentlemen.—After using OZONO a short while only, I am glad to say that my hair is already straight and growing finely. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and 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 same day we receive your order. Boston Chemical Co., 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. I enclose you $1.00, for which please send at once 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00. worth 50c. 1 Bottle Electrical S (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth 50c. 1 Total, $4.00. Name. Street..... County..... If you want 4 lots like above, send $4 no coupon, let her write her name on a when you send your order. 4 Boxes of Ozone, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth 50c. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c. 1 Package (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth 50c. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth 50c. Total, $4.00. If you want 4 lots like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has no coupon, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order. Sam, the Tailor Is the Place to Get Your Fall and Winter Suits Made to order. One of the Best 204 North 14th Street. Miss Mary White's Rooming House 1311 Spruce Street With all the Latest Style Improvements She formerly lived at 200 S. 14th St. 1409 Market Street B. MUNCHWEILER Dealer in LADIES' and GENTS' SHOES DON'T FORGET THE NUMBER 1409 Market Street G. W. ROBINSON, Second-Hand Furniture BOUGHT AND SOLD. Moving and Expressing, General Jobbing and Repairing of Ranges, Stoves, Etc. a Specialty. 4025 Easton Avenue ST. LOUIS, MO. Louis Deppe, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Wines, Whiskies, Brandies, ETC., ETC., Southeast Corner of Market St. & Jefferson Av. St. Louis, Mo. Boston Chemical Company : THE FOLLOWING GOODS Douglass Buffet and Pool Room IS NOW OPEN Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars J. P. WATKINS, Prop. LAWTON AVE. and BEAUMONT ST. LOUIS, MO. DR. S. B. BELL; In the True Reform Hall. First-class Barbers. 8. W. Corner Pine Street and J. fies son Avenue. B. BELKER, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Meat and Vegetable Market. 119 and 1121 Morgan Street, St. Louis, Mo Mrs. Susan Gross, 2609 Pine Street. MR. A. L. LEE. PALACE LAUDRY, guarantees satisfaction and prompt service. The best Collar and Cuff work in the city. Please address all comp munications to 2825 st. Louis avenue. Agents Wanted Sam,the Tailor Ladies or gentlemen wishing employment that will pay $50.00 or $75.00 or $150.00 per month can secure it by writing HOME PROTECTIVE ASS'N, HANNIBAL, MO. Jas. L. Mays, Prop. A. Claypool K. Casey Barbers THE Equal Rights Barber Shop. JUST NEWLY FITTED UP. READY FOR BUSINESS. Massage: First-Class Work. Coal Orders Promptly Attended To. 1331 Poplar St. (Near 14th St.) ST. LOUIS, MO. LOUIS HUGGINS, Formerly of 2132 Franklin Ave., BUYS Furniture, Carpets, Stoves. Residence and Flats 2612-14 Franklin Ave. ST. LOUIS, MO. Coal, Kindling, Wood. HAULING AND EXPRESS WAGONS. TRUNKS CONVEYED FROM OR TO UNION STATION. Office: 4017 Easton Avenue. MR. C. YOUNG. WILLIAM T. DAVIS, SHAVING PARLOR, 2811 Manchester Avenue. First-Glass Barber Shop and First-Glass Work Guaranteed. GEO. W. F. BULLOCK, Ladies' Barber AND TONSORIALIST 8320 Franklin Avenue. St. Louis. Mrs. W. E. Mack, 26 S. 14th Street. NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS. St. Louis, Mo. World's Fair Lunch Room 2807 Manchester Ave. MEALS AT ALL HOURS Home Cooking. Quick Service Give us a call. S. P. PHILLIPS, Prop. 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 WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE ```markdown ``` Made to order. One of the Best 204_North 14th Street, NEWPORT HOTEL 2321-23 Market Street In the Heart of the Colored Business District. Cars pass the door direct to World's Fair. For rates, etc., address MARION A. BROOKS, Prop. 2323 Market St. J. M. H. Dorsey Wood, Coal & Ice, EXPRESS WAGON Hauling to all Parts of the City 2629 Morgan St. RAMSEY'S THE STRICTLY MODERN ROOMING HOUSE Of the city for Gentlemen and the general traveling public. Every convenience desired by patrons of high class rooms at moderate cost. 12 S. 15th Street. MRS. HATTIE J. RAMSEY, Proprietress. H. E. HOFER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 2008 Walnut St. Special attention given to both Civil and Criminal Cases. Wm. A. Overton, Plumbing AND GAS FITTING. Furnaces, Stoves and Ranges Repaired and put up. Expressing and Moving. 1124 N. Sarah Street Phone Lindell 249 A. Telephone—Kinloch C-397. THEO. H. TEMPEL, Dealer in Staple and Fancy GROCERIES, 2601 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. California Canned Goods a Specialty. BARBER SHOP HAIRCUTTING In the Latest Style, 25 Cents. Good Music for Balls, Parties and all Social Occasions by the Old Reliable ADAMS BAND. 105 N. 13th Street. J. E. ADAMS, Res. 1306 Clark Ave. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Connecting the Commercial Centers and Rich Farms of MISSOURI, The Broad Corn and Wheat Fields and Thriving Cities of KINSAS, The Fertile River Valley Trade Centers and Rolling Prairies of NEBRASKA, The Grand, Picturesque and Enchanting Scenery, and the Famous Mining Districts of COLORADO, The Agricultural, Fruit, Mineral and Timber Lands, and the Wine Gings of ARKANSAS, The Sugar Plantations and Immense Rice Fields of LOUISIANA, The Cotton and Grain Fields, the Cattle Ranges and Winter Resorts of TEXAS, Historical and Scenic OLD AND NEW MEXICO, And forms with its Connections the Popular Winter Route to RELIGIOUS MATTERS ("I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills whence chomce my help."—Fs. 21:1.) Whene'er depression filts thy heart And grief has stolen peace. Lift to the hills thine anxious eyes, And every fear will cease. Whenever hunging wearly About thee, day by day. Lift up thine eyes unto the hills, And cares will fall away. Whene'er the sunlight of thy day By clouds is hid from sight. Unto the hills thine eyes shall turn, That thine eyes will see. Will give the knowledge of His strength Who watches oyer thee. And thou wilt hear the tender voice Which whispers—"Trust in Me." And trusting Him, poor troubled soul, What need to worry more? For since He does the burden bear, Its weight for thee is o'er. Lift to the hills thine eyes Unto the hills each day. Christ's love is shining steadily, And clouds must fade away. —Mary D. Brine, in Christian Work. THE GLAD HEART. It Makes the Burdens Lighter and Quickens and Intensifies the Abilities. "The true hand drives a truer nail, The glad heart sews a longer seam." If you want to do work easily, get a gay, glad heart. You know how hard it is to do anything, how the lessons drag, how the tasks seem to pile up, when you feel a little sad or unhappy. On the contrary, any of us can remember times when the work in hand fairly flew, because our hearts were so glad about something that the fingers had to keep time to their joyous beating. But my thought to-day is as to the excellence of the work done, rather than the ease or rapidity of the performance. Good work is almost always joyous. Heart sunshine gets into the painter's colors and brightens all the dull, dead pigments. By and by people get to talking about it. "The canvas glows and throbs with the life pulse of genius!" The life pulse of love and happiness, rather. The painter has told nobody, but they found it out, those careless onlookers. They knew his heart was gay as he painted in that trudging berry-picker, those sheep and cattle feeding in the meadows. Might he not have painted the same thing in a trouble-filled house, with new griefs knocking at the door? No, not that same thing. Something must have been lost out, some sad thing have crept in. Our mood gets into everything, whether it is shutting a door or making a picture or poem. So, then, for the sake of the good that we can do, let us shut the door on the whole sulking, frowning crew of ugly feelings, and call in the good little brownies of gladness and good will. They will work while we are sleeping. We shall wake to find that happy thoughts have noselessly cleared away our troubles overnight, and fresh light will seem to be poured on the old problems, "bright ideas" find some swift, sure way through all the tangles. Brigat, clear, outlooking eyes see better than tear-dimmed ones. Every sad and gloomy moment is a waste of power. But can anyone be always glad? He can always keep the attitude of gladness. He can hold his joy-cup right side up, so as to catch any drop of gladness. Eyes and lips can learn to smile so easily that little pleasures move them. It is a matter of habit and training, quite as much as of natural temperament, or even of circumstances. That being the case, do not some of us need to make us other habits and start in on a new course of training? Not because we shall be happier, more peaceful, richer every way—that is all true, but it is not the reason. The real motive ought to be that we shall be stronger for our work in the world, whatever it is. "Be strong; be strong!"—how the Bible echoes with the inspiring command! And it adds, also, by way of explanation: "The joy of the Lord is your strength."—Anna Frances Burnham, in Pittsburg Christian Advocate THE POWER OF LOVE. You cannot get fat feeding on fog. There are no losses in loans of love. Every loveless day is worse than lost. Love is the evidence of having learned of Him. Good cheer puts love's gifts into caskets of gold. Love is the light that shines farther than all others. Love is the only voice that can preach loud enough to reach the heart. The pleasure of resisting evil is greater than the pleasure of yielding to it.—United Presbyterian. What would you think of a lover who stayed away on account of the weather? Yet we say we love the Lord.—Ram's Horn. Our love must make long marches, and our prayers must have a wide sweep. We must embrace the whole world in our intercessions.—C. H. Spruegeon. The way to broaden love is to deepen it. Jesus loved His disciples more, not less, because of the inner circle of the four and his special joy in the companionship of John. Seah love is shallow but not wide. As our affection breaks through to perfect love of God it will break forth to purer and more fervent love of all God's creatures. STAND BY! A Nautical Phrase Which Brings Its Message and Its Lesson to the Christian. The lingo of the sailors, which smacks of the salt sea and the vasty deep, contains many short and suggestive phrases, which in a figurative way may have a meaning and an application for landsmen. Among the terse commands which often ring out from the quarter-deck is the familiar order: "Stand by!" These two little words "stand by" are usually introductory to some special piece of work. Sometimes it is: "Stand by to heave the lead!" sometimes: "Stand by to lose the to-gallant sails!" and again: "Stand by" to get the cutter aboard!" or: "Stand by the main sheet!" The phrase as used by the men of the sea, who have no time to lose in roundabout expressions, means to keep near to a post of duty and to maintain oneself in a state of attention, ready to execute a piece of important work without delay and without a miss as sooa as the next order comes. There is also another familiar application of these words among seamen, as when the captain of one ship "stads by" another vessel in distress, keeping near it on the high seas so long as danger threatens, ready at a moment's notice to render needed assistance. In life at large there is constant need of "standing by" to do the thing that is duty or to offer the succor that is required by some suffering or perishing soul, says Rev. Charles A. S. Dwight, in New York Observer. To "stand by" is to be alert and attentive to the duty of the moment. A captain would make short work of a sailor who while on watch should remain star-gazing, or should take a nap in the long boat, while sharp, quick orders were being given on the execution of which might depend the safety of the ship and its passengers. So on land as well as at sea eternal vigilance—a constant watchfulness for the chance to do or dare—is the price of success and fame. Not aloofness but alertness is the characteristic of the successful man. The scholar who "stands by" to mark and ponder the instructions of a teacher, the clerk who "stands by" to catch and execute the request of a customer, or the order of his employer, the conductor who "stands by" to read carefully and obey the telegram from the train-dispatcher, the watchman who "stands by" to guard valuable property from loss by fire or theft, the doctor who "stands by" the bedside of the sick to save a still more valuable life, the statesman who "stands by" his desk at the nation's capital to follow with close thought the latest developments in world-wide politics, all afford illustrations of admirable achievement through attention to the task of the hour. By thus "standing by" to do the next thing many a man, once in very humble circumstances, has climbed the ladder of success by successive rounds of effort, until at last perhaps the whole world knows his name and holds him in honor. For one opportunity improved leads to another, and one duty done affords the basis for a bigger and braver doing thereafter. The Christian is a man who "stands by" to hear what God may have to say to him, and to execute the Divine commands as they come. "Standing by" is after all but the modern colloquial paraphrase of the familiar injunction: "Watch and pray!" The Christian is perpetually on guard, ready alike for defense and for advance against evil. Life is crowded with golden opportunities of service for God and man. Heed the call of the Great Captain when He commands: "Attention!"—"stand by" to serve as occasion offers and Providence points the way. CHRIST OUR COMFORTER. The Ministry of Suffering Is One of Discipline and Preparation for Service. Suffering may be a rod to chastise. It may be a scepter to empower. All suffering is in the hands of the Sufferer. It is a dispensation, made up of many parts; and it is mysterious because we know only a part of it. We see only in part. We shall not know as we are known until by and by. But, after all, we are told that God presides over nature, and over providence, and over grace, as a loving Father; and Jesus Christ, the Sufferer, who gave Himself rather than that man should die, stands up to intercede for us; and The Holy Spirit is set forth as the almighty and ineffable benefactor. We are carrying on our life under the presiding counsels of a God who knows what suffering is good for, and what it can do. There is a heart of the universe that is warm with love, and that beats above you with infinite sympathy. You have not a God who has no impulse to praise. "And even when He blames, He comforts and consoles you as no mother ever comforted and consoled her weeping child—if you will. The difficulties, trials and terapactions of every kind in this mortal life really drive us up into the higher elements of our nature, practice us in them, make us more sanctified men, veterans as distinguished from militia untrained in the field, old men of wisdom and experience as compared with young men just coming into the trial of life.—H. W. Beecher. The true Christian studies the happy art of making the most of every one with whom he is thrown in connect, of recognizing in each soul and of eliciting from it that feature of heart and mind in which stands the relationship of that particular soul to God. It is this true self of our neighbor which we are required to love.—Edward M. Goulburn. S. L. PICKETT. Fresh DRUGS Daily 2601 LAWTON AVENUE, N. W. Cor. Jefferson and Lawton Aves. Open Day and Night. Both Telephones. We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only prac tically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. A. RUSSELL, Livery Boarding and UNDERTAKING We have our own conveyance Carriages furnished at 9118-20-22 Market St., ST. LOU Porters and Waiters THE G HUGH B. WHITE ...SALO At 1911 M (Opposite Unit Cholce Wines, Liquors, C .CAFE IN CO Remember the Ge TELEPHONE FURNISHED ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY SIL EVERYTHING STRICT The Brunsw G. W. HOLT, 1925 Market St. Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tob and Waiters Headquarter THE GEM. RH B. WHITE, Proprietor SALOON 1911 Market Street (Opposite Union Station) , Liquors, Cigars, and the TEE IN CONNECTI Number the Gem. 1911 Ma TELEPHONE K 1386A. IS FOR MEN ONLY. BILLIARD ROOMS EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS Brunswick St. E. W. HOLT, Proprietor Market Street, (Near s, Cigars and Tobaccos. Import ers. DYE'S and Pool R WM. P. DYE, Proprietor. Quester Ave., Telephone—Kinloch B-1812. TELEPHONE: KINLOCH A. 1275. ON, Phar. D. G ERRISON & McKO We have our own conveyances and do all our own work. Carriages furnished for all occasions. D118-20-22 Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone, O-390 (Opposite Union Station) Cholce Wines, Liquors, Cigars, and the best up-to-date ..CAFE IN CONNECTION. Remember the Gem, 1911 Market. TELEPHONE K 1386A. PURNISHED ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY. BILLIARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION. EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. 1925 Market Street, (Near Union Station), Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. ST. LOUIS. DYE Buffet and WM. P. DYE, 2801-3 Manchester Ave., Telephone—Kin TELEPHONE: KIN JAMES H. HARRISON, Phar. D. HARRISON TELEPHONE: KINLOCH A. 1275. JAMES H. HARRISON, Phar. D. GEO. W. McKOIN. HARRISON & McKOIN, Funeral Directors AND EMBALMERS, 2743 Wash Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. All Work First Class. Successful Embalm Calls Answered Prom SEE Maurer Meat and Class. Terms Mo Successful Embalming Guarantee ered Promptly, Day SEE Meat and Provisi Maurer Meat and Provision Co. 1402 MARKET STREET. No. 5 & 8. Fourteenth Street. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. TELEPHONES: BELL, Mala 2103-A KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1028 2606 FRANKLIN AVENUE. KINLOCH C 720. 8 and 10 South Jefferson Ave. Fine Wines and Liquors. and do all our own work. for all occasions. N, MO. Telephone, O-890. Ms Headquarters. GEM. Proprietor of LOON... Market St. (On Station) Tigars, and the best up-to-date. CONNECTION.. m. 1911 Market. 1386A. HARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION. LY FIRST-CLASS. Tick Saloon, Proprietor. Street, (Near Union Station), Cocos. ST. LOUIS. Imported and Domestic Cigars, E'S Pool Room, proprietor. St. Louis, Mo. och B-1812. OCH A. 1275. GEO. W. McKOIN. K McKOIN, Terms Most Reasonable ing Guaranteed. otly, Day or Night. Provision Co. St. Louis Palladium. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY Entered at the postoffice at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter. Published Weekly by J. W. WHEELER, Manager and Proprietor. 2617 Lawton Avenue. MISS KATE JOHNSON.....Editor. Miss Isabella Morgan.....Asst Editor. C. H. 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The St. Louis Palladium is sold at the following places: 2617 Lawton avenue. 2614 Stoddard avenue. BEVEN POINTERS FOR THE READING AND ADVERTISING PUBLIC. (1) THE ST. LOUIS PALLADIUM IS in its 20th year of regular publication. (2) Never has missed an issue. (3) No fake subscription list to "catch" honest advertisers. (4) More bona fine subscribers than any other Negro paper in St. Louis or State. (5) The ONLY Negro newspaper published in St. Louis is the organ of the Republican party. (7) Because it is fearless in denouncing crime regardless of consequences. 69 The name of the First Ward Nat Turner Republican club was changed to the Booker T. Washington Republican club of the First ward at a meeting held Tuesday night at 638 Athlone avenue. Thirty-five new members were added. The work of Chairman T. K. Niedringhaus of the republican state committee was indorsed. James Fountain is president of the club, and Walter Taylor is secretary. "So shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a looking glass that I may see my shadow as I pass." Hon. Capt. C. H. Tandy was standing up for the republican party when many of those young snipes were in their swaddling clothes, who are now trying their best to shove him out of politics. But The Palladium will give you notice now that such can not be done by any man or set of men so long as The Palladium is at work. Last week we gave our views as one that attended the meeting at Douglass hall, November 22, but we have not as yet exposed any one of them. We are confident that any one of the following gentlemen will make good senatorial timber, and we would to God that all could be elected: Hon. R. C. Kerenks, P. Dyer, Maj. Warner, T. Niedringhaus, Chas, Nagle, T. J. Akins, John Bothwell, and McKinley, and numbers of others who would reflect credit upon the state. We notice in the Newport cafe several very noticeable persons and the ladies were in evidence, namely, Mrs. F. Cooper, of 2333 Market street. Both gentlemen and ladies were lined with diamonds that almost knocked the eyes out of our heads. One gentleman of Chicago, Mr. Poney Moore, who it is reported having the largest hotel in Chicago, No 171-175-175-179-181 Twenty-first street, with 64 rooms; one of the gentlemen is from Baden, Ina., who conducts a large business in that place. But Mrs. Cooper's diamonds outshined them all. Mr. Geo E. Temple is one of the most progressive young men in the city of St. Louis. He is a married man, and has two sons he has trained into well-bred young men. He is the leading Odd Fellow in the city. He holds the second place in the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in the United States. He was secretary of the Forum club for seven or eight years, and is acknowledged to be an expert in that capacity. He is medium-sized in stature, but a Webster in brain, and a Demosthenes in dealing with the U. O. F. The order will never be complete until Mr. Temple becomes grand master. Michael Kelley has sold his coal interests near Danville, Ill., to an eastern syndicate for $3,200,000. --- "YOU ARE GOING ON A LONG JOURNEY." (Adapted from a Popular Print.) [By McCutcheon, in Chicago Daily Tribunes.] STOESSEL POLE NUR ROOSEVELT LIKES CHILDREN. In an address recently at the anniversary of St. Patrick's church, of Washington, D. C., President Roosevelt said: In greeting all of you I wish to say that I am especially glad to see the children present. You know I believe in children. I want to see enough of them and of the right kind. I wish today, in the very brief remarks that I have to make, to dwell upon this thought—a thought that ought to be in the mind of every man and woman here, a thought that while in this country we need wise laws, honestly and fearlessly executed, and while we can not afford to tolerate anything but the highest standard in the public service of the government, yet that in the last analysis the future of the country must depend upon the quality of the individual home, of the individual man or woman in that home. The future of this country depends upon the way in which the average man and the average woman in it does his or her duty, and that very largely depends upon the way in which the average boy or girl is brought up. Therefore, a peculiar responsibility rests upon those whose life work it is to see to the spiritual welfare of our people and upon those who make their life work to try to train the citizens of the future so that they shall be worthy of that future. In wishing you well today I wish you well in doing the most important work which is allotted to any one of our people to do. The rules of good citizenship are tolerably simple. The trouble is not in finding them out; the trouble is in living up to them after they have been found out. I think we all of us know fairly well what qualities they are which in their sum make up the type of character we like to see in man or wife, son or daughter; but I am afraid we don't always see them as well developed as we would like to. I wish to see in the average American citizen the development of the two sets of qualities which we can roughly indicate as sweetness and strength—the qualities on the one hand which make the man able to hold his own, and those which, on the other hand, make him jealous for the rights of others just as much as for his own rights. We must have both sets of qualities. In the first place, the man must have the power to hold his own. You probably know that I don't care very much for the coward or the moral weakling. I want each of you boys, and girls just as much, and each of you young men and young women, to have the qualities without which people may be amiable and pieasant while things go well, but without which they can not succeed in times of stern trial. I wish to see in the man maniliness, in the woman womanliness. I wish to see courage, perseverance, the willingness to face work, to face, you men, if it is necessary, danger, the determination not to shrink back when temporarily beaten in life, as each one will be now and then, but to come up and wrest triumph from defeat. I want to see you strong men and brave men, and, in addition, I wish to see each man of you feel that his strength and his courage but make him the worse unless to that strength and courage are joined the qualities of tenderness toward those he loves, who are dependent upon him, and of right dealing with all his neighbors. Finally, I want to congratulate all of us here on certain successes that we have achieved in the century and a quarter that has gone by of our American life. We have difficulties enough and we are a long ways short of perfection. I do not see any immediate danger of our growing too good; there is ample room for effort yet left. But we have achieved certain results and we have succeeded in measurably realizing certain ideals. We have grown to accept it as an axiomatic truth of our American life that the man is to be treated on his worth as a man, without regard to the accidents of his position, that this is not a government designed to favor the rich man as such, or the poor as such, but that it is designed to favor every man, rich or poor, if he is a decent man who acts fairly by his fellows. We have grown to realize that part of the foundations upon which our lio- erty rests is the right of each man to worship his Creator according to the dictates of his conscience, and the duty of each man to respect his fellow who so worships him, and, oh, my countrymen, one of the best auguaries for the future of this country, for the future of this mighty and majestic nation of ours lies in the fact that we brothers have grown to regard one another with a broad and kindly charity, and to realize that the field for human endeavor is wide, that the field for charitable, philanthropic, religious work is wide, and that while a corner of it remains untilled we do a dreadful wrong if we fail to welcome the work done in that field by every man, no matter what his creed, provided only he works with a 'softy sense of his duty to God and his duty to his neighbor. SAN ANTONIO & ARANSAS PASS RAILWAY COMPANY One of the Best Lines South. We are confident that many of our people are looking for permanent homes, and we would suggest that they look to the great state of Texas, in order to make a personal investigation of the wonderful possibilities of the Lone Star state. Texas, particularly the territory traversed by the San Antonio & Aransas Pass railway, which owns and operates 723 miles of road, as follows: Main Line—San Antonio to Houston. Waco Division—Waco to Yoakum. Lockhart Division—Lockhart to Shiner. Kerrville Branch—San Antonio to Kerrville. Corpus Christi Branch—Corpus Christi to Kenedy. Rockport Branch—Rockport to Gregory. Alice and Falfurrias Branch—Skidmore to Alice and Falfurrias. By reference to the map you will see that they run through the finest and earliest truck-producing section in the southwest. The climate is so that the farmers raise and sell something every month in the year; in fact, it is known as the "open winter" farming country of the southwest, where a man can work out in the open air every day, and does not have to spend all he makes in the summer to keep him through the winter. It is understood that the low rate Homeseekers' tickets will continue to be on sale during November and December to all San Antonio & Aransas Pass points, of which the following are the most prominent local stations: Falfurrias, Corpus Christi, Alice, Boeville, Skidmore, Runge, Cuero, Yorktown, Hallettsville, Rock Island, Yoakum, Giddings, Cameron, Luling, Rockport, Kennedy, Karnes City, Flocresville, Rockdale, Gonzales. You can pack up Sallie and the babies and go south, and they will show you all of these fertilized fields, where you can enjoy life. It is a sad mistake when our people crowd into a large city. You can do better by taking up your home in Texas. We will continue this appeal for the benefit and welfare of the Negroes. (To Be Continued Next Week.) Go on SAN ANTONIO & ARANSAS PASS RAILWAY. If you wish to spend a pleasant winter, GO TO TEXAS. If you have money to invest in land, GO TO TEXAS. If you wish to be benefited by the finest of artesian well water, GO TO TEXAS. If there are another number of other things you wish to do, just take advantage of the never-before-heard-of offer of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway and go to Texas. Just think! Only $15 a round trip to Texas. Quite often one makes his home in a place where the best of advantages are not offered him. The only way to remedy this inconvenience is to take advantage of whatever opportunities afford themselves. Texas is a state that contains acre upon acre of production farm land. It is not only productive during the summer, but what is most unusual also during the winter. A man doesn't have to "lay by" for the long winter months. The climate is such that one can farm all the year around. Some may hesitate because of the supposed difficulty in disposing of crops because of lack of railroads. Such a claim held good long years ago. At the present time, the San Antonio railroad has access to every available point, and makes this special offer of $15 a round trip for the express benefit of those whose funds may be low, and who might wish to purchase land in Texas, and could not afford the regular fare. Don't hesitate longer. Buy your ticket and go at once. GRANT'S GREAT HIT. Orpheus Dancing Academy Crowning Social Feature of World's Fair Season. Great Crowds Enjoy Good Music, Good Service and Good Order All Summer at Small Cost. The brilliant success scored by Mr. Jas. W. Grant's Orpheus Dancing academy, during the World's fair period, is one of the most distinctive, as well as one of the most creditable social features of the season, and a worthy tribute to the enterprise and indefatigable industry of the promotor and manager. From the very beginning the enterprise has met with the hearty approval and support of the public, and its growth has been phenomenal. The excellent music, good order, fine service and delicious refreshments, all of which are designed and carried out under the direction of the "Old Campaigner," have attracted to the academy the best people of the city, who not only attend to receive instructions in the terpsichorean art and deportment, but have also adopted it as a convenient and suitable resort where they may entertain their visiting friends on Wednesday and Friday evenings. Hundreds of World's fair visitors have been entertained at the academy, throughout the summer, in a way that will cause them to carry away most pleasant memories of their visit to St. Louis. The academy has, under the splendid management of Mr. Grant, performed the phenomenal feat of running all summer, with crowded houses, and notwithstanding the fact that most of the visitors have departed for their homes, the crowds continue to flock to the academy, whose receptions promise to remain the leading social attraction during the coming winter. One of the most attractive features of the academy of late is the individual and class drill, which begins at 7:30, and lasts until the grand reception begins, at 9:30. Many ladies and gentlemen are taking advantage of the class drill to become proficient in the art of dancing. Order or Services For Lane's Barnacle C. M. E. church, 2166 Fairfax Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Sunday Services— 9:30, Sunday School; 11 a. m., preaching; 8 p. m. preaching. First and Third Sunday—At 6:00 p. m., Epworth League. Second and fourth Sunday—At 6:00 p. m., woman missionary meeting. Weekly Services— Monday night, Board meeting; Wednesday, 8 p. m. prayer aeeting; Thursday evening, Sewing Circle; Friday night, class meeting. REV. O. B. HEAVLOW, Pastor Residence, 2966 Fairfax Ave. Vashon's Female Classes. I am forming female evening classes for instruction in language and belles-lettres, mathematics and penmanship. These classes will meet at 2629 Lawton avenue three evenings of each week. Ladies intending to join these classes, address me at the Lawton avenue (or the subscribed) address at once, as there will be no disposition to enroll new pupils after the classes are formed. GEORGE B. VASHON, 2243 Oregon Avenue. Notice. We have stopped free-doings in the paper. Since the World's fair we have received hundreds of locals concerning coming guests, and those who are here. The senders undoubtedly expect the articles to be published free graits. Through investigation it has often been discovered that the senders are neither subscribers to The Palladium, nor do they even bear a friendly attitude toward it. Any locals not accompanied by a compensation will find their way into the waste basket. S. L. Pickett. Drug, fresh daily. Don't pass his door—26c. Lawton Av. ITEMS OF NEWS. The Nevada building at the World's fair is to be removed to Kirkwood, Mo. The World's fair at St. Louis closes with its account with the government balanced. Kentucky's exhibits at the World's fair will be placed in the new state capitol at Frankfort. Senator Reed Smoot's case will be reopened by the senate committee on privileges and elections a week from Monday. One phase of the Denver election case will be fought out in the United States circuit court of appeals, sitting en banc in St. Louis, December 10. Counsel for Herbert Newton, of Oberlin, O., announces that Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick will settle her affairs with his client in a manner satisfactory to all. Oberlin (O.) citizens await with eagerness the confirmation of the report that Mrs. C. L. Chadwick will satisfactorily settle her affairs with the bank of that place. Until December 10 the fare one way on all trains between St. Louis and Chicago will be $5. On December 10 the original rate of $7.50 will be resumed by the Chicago-St. Louis lines. Count Cassini has reported to Secretary Hay that Russia can not accept the invitation to attend the peace conference at The Hague until the termination of her war with Japan. Gov.-Elect Folk of Missouri reiterates the promise made on the campaign platform that he will expose and punish members of the general assembly guilty of bartering their votes on the senatorship. The coal properties at Danville, Ill., belonging to Michael Kelly, have been sold to eastern capitalists for $3,500,-000. This is said to be the largest transaction of its kind ever consummated in the United States. Thomas J. Ward, democratic candidate for sheriff of St. Louis at the last election, has instituted contest proceedings in the circuit court against Patrick Clarke (rep.), who was declared elected to the office. Four hundred emergency special patrolmen who were appointed in St. Louis to serve during the World's fair will be dropped from the police rolls, their time of service expiring with the closing of the exposition. Teachers and preachers wanted to write sick, accident and death insurance. Can earn $50, $75 and $150 per month. Experience not necessary. Address Home Protective Association, Hannibal, Mo. Sina Temple, No. 124, of S. M. T. meets the third Tuesday in each month at 8 p. m., at K. of P. hall. Mrs. Mary Beivans, W. P.; Mrs. Rosa Cummings, W. Sec., 1118 N. Twenty-second street. All Shines Five Cents. Go to Jefferson and Market, to get a shine. Harry's place First-class shine. FANNIE LEE World's Fair Artist Pictures of all kinds called for and delivered. All si ses crayon, pastel, water color and oil paintings a specialty. Fine frames and high-grade work. Terms reasonable. Cash or credit. Also lessons given. Call or write to 456 NORTH SARAH ST. Electa Temple, No. 31, S. M. T. Meets Second Thursday of each month at 8:00 p. m., Knights of Pythins Hall, Lucas and Jefferson Aves. Nrs. Annie D. Hyatt, M. W. P. Lulu O. Dell, Sec'y. True Reformers' Hall MADAM IRVING'S Hair Dressing Parlor Shampooing, Straightening, Scalp Massaging a Specialty Braids and Bangs to Match in Color and Quality CALL AND SEE HER WORK WILLIAMS Pink Coat Bar. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. POOL ROOM. S. E. Cor. 22d and Market Street. ST. LOUIS, MO. J. H. Is the place to go when you are hungry. They have good things to eat, cooked just to suit your taste. You can get MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Visitors from Alabama should call there. Room for everybody. PETER H. HARRIS HENRY BROWN, Neatly Furnished Rooms 711 North 14th Street. Cranches 1433 and 1519 Lucas Avenue, ST. LOUIS, MO. HENRY BROWN. JELLA BROWN. P. PETTRESS. A. B. ODD FELLOWS' BAND and ORCHESTRA Under the direction of S. J. LANE, TEACHER OF MUSIC. OFFICE: 1323 WASH STREET. [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. H. C. CURTIS THE STAR FURNISHED ROOM MAN Rooms like Home, Sweet Home 705-701-709 North Fourteenth Street Branches: 1100-1408-1.28s.14-10 Linden Street H. C. CURTIS, Prop. Monroe Motley, Mrs. Alfred Hale, Night Clerk "The Keyless Bank" REGISTER KEeps THE COUNT TEN CENTS LOCKS IT FIVE DOLLARS OPENS IT HOLDS $30 IN DIMES One Hundred Thousand Already In Use. One good Resolve with the Bank to Help You, is Batter than twenty good resolves without it. Not a Toy, BUT HIGH-CLASS MONEY SAVER Handsomely fitted either in Nickle or Oxidized Copper. To-Morrow Never Comes. GET IT NOW! H. C. CURTIS, 5.17.7 10th 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 HR. B. SAUNDERS, Managers CHARLEY HARRIS, Proprietor Greeley Saloon. The Wines, Liquors and Cigars. We give us a call. Headquarters for sports. Ask for it, you'll get it. Morgan St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Williams, MIXERS Chas. St. Clair. GEO. FOUNTAIN, M gr and Billiards? KS. Proprietor THE FOUNTAIN." Bolen's G STORE, The Greeley Saloon. 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 Do You Play Pool and 1 Standard Pool & Billiard Parlors. They are the lenders of the city for pastime pleasure. No salon connected. Strictly firstclass. "MEET ME AT THE P Wright & Bo NEW DRUG S "MEET ME AT THE FOUNTAIN." Wright & Bolen's NEW DRUG STORE, 2333 MARKET STREET. Unless We Fill Your Prescription We Both Loc Candies Fresh Twice a Week. Hot and Cold Drinks all the Year Motion We Both Loose Money. Be a Week. Kicks all the Year 'Round. Unless We Fill Your Prescription We Both Loose Money. Candies Fresh Twice a Week. Agents Wanted Both sexes, to sell our Scott's Magic Hair Straightener and Grower, and Scott's Face Bleach and Beautifier. Beats anything of their kind. Sells for 30 cents each. Every woman and man will buy when shown a package. Over 100 per cent profit for agents. You can easily make clear $5 a day. We also furnish and beautify your homes without any cost to you. Write to-day for particulars. Address, Scott Remedy Co. Box 570, Louisville, Ky. ONE ROOM FOR RENT—For man and wife, or two gentlemen, 4036 Evans avenue, rear, up stairs. The above famous remedies are for sale in St. Louis at Mrs. Mattie B. Robinson, 2318 Papin street. Neatly furnished rooms for rent; hot and cold baths. 2121 Chestnut street. Mrs. Annetta Fields. THE CHRISTMAS DELINEATOR The December Delineator, with its message of good cheer and helpfulness, will be welcomed in every home. The fashion pages are unusually attractive, illustrating and describing the very latest modes in a way to make their construction during the busy festive season a pleasure instead of a task, and the literary and pictorial features are of rare excellence. A selection of Love Songs from the Wagner operas, rendered into English by Richard De Gallienne and beautifully illustrated in colors by J. C. Leyendecker, occupies a prominent place, and a chapter in the Composers' Series, relating the romance of Wagner and Cosima, is an interesting supplement to the lyrics. A very clever paper entitled "The Court Circles of the Republic," describes some unique phases of Washington social life is from an unnamed contributor, who is said to write from the inner circles of society. There are short stories from the pens of F. Hopkinson Smith, Robert Grant, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Cutting and Elmore Elliott Peake, and such interesting writers as Julia Magruder, L. Frank Baum and Grace McGowan Cooke hold the attention of the children. Many Christmas suggestions are given in needlework, and the cookery pages are redolent of the Christmas feast. In addition, there are the regular departments of the magazine, with many special articles on topics relating to woman's interests within and without the home. Mr. Chas. Tonsall has opened a bath house at 2234 Market street. This is the only exclusive bath house in the city for Colored people, and Mr. Tonsall feels highly pleased in his new venture, feeling sure of success. He declares that all requirements of a first class bath house will be in evidence. An expert attendant will be in charge. Mr. C. H. Wheeler, the brother of J. W. Wheeler, will collect from any of our subscribers. Please pay him, and he will give you credit for the same. J. W. WHEELER. Remember that J. P. Watkins, at the Douglass hotel, has the original Bud, 10 cents a bottle, and the best lemonade for ten cents per glass. NOTICE TO ALL—In sending matter for publication, please send something with it, as the printer must be paid. We can not publish a paper on wind. J. W. WHEELER. Helping Hand Society. Organized in May, 1903, this organization has been of much success to the members of that order, also others that were found in need. Mrs. Ethel Kimble, 2739 Lacede avenue, president; Mrs. Kate Johnson, 4262 Sacramento avenue; vice-president, Mr. F. Arbuckle, 2623 Papin street, secretary, Mr. Charles H. Athle, 3527 Scott avenue, treasurer. Anyone of good health and good character can be a member for 50 cents, at 2739 Lacede avenue. Meetings every first Tuesday in the month. KEEP THE FLAG FLYING. --- [Name] JEFF. SMITH. Prodr. 2326 Market Street [Name] ROOMS FOR RENT. NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS for rent. 103 S. 14th st. FOR RENT — Nicely-furnished rooms at 1809 Lucas avenue. FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT, at 4227A Kennerly avenue. Mrs. L. Smith. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, 2733 Mills street. MRS. STREET. ROOMS FOR RENT—716 N. Jefferson avenue. Mrs. Emma Murphy. FOR RENT—At 2014 Stoddard street, a neatly furnished room; also a nice back room. Mrs. R. F. Lewis. ```markdown ``` NOTICE. [Picture of a man in a suit with a mustache and glasses. He is facing the camera, looking directly at the viewer. The background is a plain, light-colored surface. The man's hair is short and neatly styled. He is wearing a dark suit with a white shirt and a dark tie. The suit jacket is buttoned up. The man's face is pale with a mustache and a goatee. He has a serious expression. The photograph is in black and white. VASHON'S FUNNY FEMALE FAD Douglass Hall, Thursday, December 8, 1904. [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie and a hat, standing in front of a plain background. The man's face is serious and he has a mustache.] We shall call daily on our subscrib- be ready, as we must now get down to ers to collect for the Falladium. Please business. The Lyceum Sketch club will present the eminent versatile actor, Mr. John B. Vashon, in his exceedingly humorous and unique characterization of Miss Amanthis, the funniest female role ever created, at Douglass' hall, Mr. H. Russell, 2120 Market St. Mr. Jeff Smith, 1201 Morgan St. Mr. Jim Day, 1135 Market St. Mr. W. A. Overton, 1124 N. Sarah St. Mr. C. W. Williams, 1300 Morgan St. Mr. Wm. P. Dye, 2801 Manchester Av. Mrs. A. Wheeler, 3004 Lawton Av. Mrs. Hattie Ramsey, 12 S. Fifteenth St. A. A. Brook, 2326 Market St. Wm. Dener, 3924 Saphin Av. Rev. T. T. Thompson, 2336 Wash St. Electa Temple, No. 31 of the S. M. T. Ruth Temple, No. 163 of the S. M. T. Missouri Pacific R. R. office, Seventh and Market Sts. Wabash Railroad, Seventh and Chestnut Sts. Williams, Twenty-second and Market st. Mr. Edward O'Nell, 3729 Rutger St. Mr. Tom Surpin, 2220 Market St. Mrs. Mary White, 2810 S. Fourteenth St. Mrs. Jennie Irvin, 2600 Pine St. Maurer Bray, 1402 Market; 8 S. Jefferson Av. Mr. S. W. Lowery & Mason, 2321 Market St. Mr. G. W. Holt, 1925 Market St. Mr. Theo. H. Temple, 2601 Market St. Mr. Hugh B. White, 1901 Market St. Mr. G. W. Robinson, 4025 Easton Av. Mr. Sanford Warfield, 2310 Morgan St. Mr. Barny Belkər, 1119 Morgan St. Dr. S. B. Bell, 2601 Pine St. Sexton & Mitchell, 2605 Lawton Av. Mr. Sam Weisman, 204 N. Fourteenth St. Ozonized Ox Morrow Company, 76 Wabash Av., Chicago. Crane & Co., 122 W. Broad St., Richmond, Va. Thursday evening, December 8. General admission, 35 cents; reserved seats, 50 cents. Box office now open. Grand ball at 9:30. Great Western orchestra. Mr. J. H. M. Dorsey, 2629 Morgan St. Mr. E. L. Arnett, 2301 Morgan St. Mr. S. L. Picket, 2601 Lawton Av. Harrison & McKoin, 2743 Wash St. Mr. Ingram, 2197 Chestnut St. Cathrell & Hyatt, 3957A Finney Av. Mr. Louis Deppe, Market and Jefferson Av. Sexton & Maxwell, 1407 Market St. Mr. George W. Bullock, 3320 Franklin Av. Mrs. Fannie Lee, 456 North Sarah St. Mrs. Chas Harris, 33 South Twentieth St. Mr. B. Munchweiler, 1407 Market St. Mr. S. P. Perkins, 1326 Morgan St. Mr. L. W. Vineger, 806 North Fourteenth St. Mr. J. L. Mays, 1331 Poplar St. Mrs. Sarah Sprague, 1424 Morgan St. Mr. Walter S. Farrington & Wright, 307 Channing Av. Mr. L. A. Gorman, 1222 Pine St. Miss Estelle Hamilton, 2645 Lincoln avenue. Douglas Hall, 2645 Linton. J. G. Gardiner, 1317 Clark avenue. Newport Hotel, 2321 Market St. H. C. Curtis, 707 N. Fourteenth St. W. T. Curtis, 2323 Market St. A. J. Smith, 1315 Clark Ave. Boston Chemical Co., Richmond, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, 27 South Twentieth St. E. H. Hofer, 3004 Manchester Ave. C. Young, 4017 Easton Ave. H. C. Sydner, 3957 Finney Ave. Mrs. Georgia Smith, 3221 Rutger St. W. Davis, 806 North Fourteenth St. Thatchett & Hyatt, 3957 Finney Ave. Mrs. W. E. Moek, 26 South Fourteenth St. Arthur E. Jones, 2339 Market St. Lynn & Nunn, 2337 Market St. Douglas Social Club, 2106 Walnut St. Scott Remedy Co., Louisville, Ky ARNETT'S PLACE E. L. ARNETT. Proprietor. Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Chinese Restaurant in Connection. Duck Nudles and Chop Suey AT ALL HOURS. 2801 MORGAN STREET, HEADQUARTERS OF BANNER BASE BALL CLUB. W. T. Curtis' Newport Buffet, 2323 MARKET STREET. s, Liquors and Cigars. RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION lis can be Ordered by Telephone, Kinloch C 1199. Wines, Liquors and Cigars. The JEFFERSON BAR..... 715 North Twelfth St GEORGE WILLIAMS, Prop. MIXERS. JOHN H. CL Day. quarters for Colored Professionals. ROSEBUD BAR TOM TURPIN, Proprietor. L ROOM IN CONNECTION. s of Applegate's Old Rosebud Whiskey CLASS CAFE in Rear. Open all Night and All Prices. Private Dining-Room. MARKET ST., ST. LOUIS, MO PHONE: Kinloch D855. GEORGE WILLIAMS, Prop. Distributors of Applegate's Old Rosebud Whisky. Also a FIRST-CLASS CAFE in Rear. Open all Night and Day. All Prices. Private Dining-Room. 2220-22 MARKET ST., ST. LOUIS, MO. PHONE: Kinloch D855. SOMETHING NEW! ACE BATH HOUSE FOR LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN. AND GOLD BATHS, 25 CENTS. 4 MARKET STREET, - ST. LOUIS, MO. TORACCO and LAUNDRY BRAN PALACE BATH HOUSE FOR LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN. HOT AND GOLD BATHS, 25 CENTS. 2234 MARKET STREET, - ST. LOUIS, MO. CIGARS & TOBACCO, and LAUNDRY BRANCH. FRANK E. LEWIS, Manager. CHAS. TONSALL, 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. NEWPORT CAFE. 2321 Market Street, St. Louis, Mo. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. QUICK SERVICE. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. LOWERY & MASON, OF DALLAS, OF FORT WORTH, PETER H. BURKE The JEFFERSON BAR.... Choice Wines and Whiskies of the Best Brand. Twelfth Street S, Prop. JOHN H. CLARK Day. professionals. D BAR, Motor. NECTION. Rosebud Whisky. Open all Night and Day. Room. T. LOUIS, MO. 555. HOUSE LEMEN. 25 CENTS. THE CONFERENCE, The conference that was held in Poplar Bluff, Mo., October 5. Below ‘are the appointments made by our"be- loved Bishop A. Grant: St. Louis district, Rey. J. D. Barkes- dale, presiding elder. St. Paul, Rev. W. D. Cook; Lexington, Rev. A. A Gilbert; Higyinsville, Rey, W. _B. Brooks; Boonville, Rev. W. H. Spur- loch; Sedalia, Rev. Wm. Alexander; Jefferson City, Rev. L. P. Duke; Wash- ington, Rev. 8. L, Bean; Marshall, Rev. A. 0. D. Steele; Holden, Rev. M. Me- Ferrin; Union, Rev, J. H. Randells; “Pacific, Rev. W. F. Hamilton; Osage, Rev. H.McTassell; Chamois, L. S. Wal- son; Miami, Rev. P. W. Weaver; Pleas: ant Green, Rev. E. Thomas; Speed Rey. J. E. 8. Reed; Allen Mission, Rev. ©, W. Harris; Black Water Mission. Rev. Chas. O. Jackson; evangelist, Mrs Sarah V. Bean. Kauisas City district, Rey. F. G. Snel- son, presiding elder, Allen Chapel, Rev. F, Jesse Peck; Ebenezat, Rev. J. F. Mc- Donald; St. John, Rey. Edw. R. ‘Vaughan; Independence, Rev. J. H. Al- Jen; Westport, Rev. J. T. Smith; Pleas- ant Hill, Rev. B. W. Stewart; Spring- field, Rey. M. Collins; Wellington and Dover, Rev. J. Y. Meadows; Odessa, Rev. H. H. Triplett; Butler, Rev. J. B. Christopher; Carthage and Neosho, Rey. W..B. Long; Lebanon, Rev. Henry Green; Waverly, Rev. P. W. Chester; Rey. 8. 8. Pitcher; Ash Grove, Rev. Henry Mitchell; Nevada, Rev. D. J. Malta Bend, Rev. J. B. Wallace; Joplin, Gordon; Ward Mission, Kansas €ity, Rev. Wm. Hawkins. Evangelist, Mrs. Rosetta Binkley. Cape Girardeau district, Rev. N. C. Buren, presiding elder. Cape Givar- deau, Rev. J. L. Williams; Poplar Bluff, Rev. C. N. Douglass; St. James, Rey, W. C. Williams; Jackson and Al- lenville, Rev. R. L. Phillips; Charles- ton, Rey. J. A. Chandley; St. Peters, Rey. T. L. Watson; Bonne Terre and Valley Mines, Rev. J. W. Wiley; Kirk- ‘wood, Rev. P. 8. Cheatham; Festus and Herculaneum, Rey. F. E. Clark; Bel- mont, Rev. P. Thurmon; Commerce, Rev. F. L. Scott; Fredericktown, Rev. J. R. Hopkins; Oakridge, Rev. W. P. McAlister; Quinn Chapel, Rev. C. A. Williams; De Soto and Caledonia, Rev. L. H. Harris; La Forge, Rev. Chas. ‘Cummings; Tyler and Cottonwood, Rey. J. D. Rice; Farmington and New ‘Tennessee, Rev. J. E. Edwards; Ca- ruthersville, Rev. B. G. Dawson; St. John and St. Luke Mission, Rev. J. W. ‘Wheeler. Evangelists, Mrs. Lulu E. ‘Cheatham, Katie P. Yates, Dora Ras- sell, Georgeann Hyde, Jane Johnson, Edw, R. Vaughan, secretary Missouri annual conference. Mrs, J. W. Wheeler, ; MODISTE. Dreesmaking, Designing, Cutting, Fitting, Purchasing, 3004 LAWTON AVENUE. PERSEVERANCE LODGE 1765 G. U. O. of O. F. Meets the first and third Wednes~ day nights in each month at their new hall, 3719 CASS AVENUE. W. C. BLANTON, N. G. ‘T. A. GREGORY, P. S. The Ingram House FIRST-CLASS: ROOMING HOUSE AT 2647 Pine Street eau hag aes ed ap nh BATH ~ NAT atin esd Woneteee ‘VIOLET DUDLEY, Prop X X 3 THE PALACE HOTEL, 2103 CLARK AVENUE, Board and Rooms ST. Louis. by Day ov Week. Sexton & Maxwell, First-class Photographers 1407 Market St. “Follow the Flag.” aN Banner \ ress Route To the Great Gateways Kensas City, Chicago, Omaha, Toledo & ‘ Buffalo. Through sleepers to New York and the East. Mag- nificent Equipment and Train Service. Ticket: Office, Eigthand Olive streets Final Close of the Great Louisiana Purchase Exposition. HAS PASSED INTO HISTORY At Twelve O'Clock Thursday Night President Francis Touched the Button That Stilled the Heart- Throb of the White City. St. Louis, Dec. 2.—The great Louist- ‘na’ Purchase exposition has passed Into history. At 12 o'clock Thursday night, President David R. Francis pressed the electric button that extin- guished the flluminations and. stilled the heart-throf’ of the great White city. ‘The night was one that will not soon be forgotten. The great promenade, the Plaza of St. Louis, was thronged with a gay multitude, and the water in the lagoon flowed silvery white, while well-modulated music flowed out upon the air, and swelled and sunk in melodious noise along the sloped gla- zier of the Cascades. The great floral clock chimed forth the hour of 12. Out went the thousand lights, and the band music crooned itself to sleep like a babe upon the white breast of its mother. The Ivory city has nes- tled to dreams. The great White city has lapsed into shadows and silence. ‘The Day an Eventfal One. “All St. Louis,” and a part of Mis- sovri, moved out to the grounds of the Louisiana Purchase exposition Thurs- day, to witness the closing of the greatest exposition the world has ever known, and to participate in the “Francis Day” exercises. State and municipaiity officially took cognizance of the valiant service rend- ered by David R. Francis, president of the great exposition, to whose tireless energy is due no small part of the suc- cess that has crowned the most stu- pendous undertaking of the kind ever contemplated. Gov. Dockery and Mayor Wells both issued proclamations making Francis Day a public holiday. Much of the glory that has come to Missouri and St. Louis is due to the efforts of David Francis, and the city and state united to do him honor. ‘An Impromptu Reception. President Francis was greeted with surprises when he reached his office. ‘There he found his fellow officers of the exposition already assembled. The directors were there, too. The room was tastily decorated, and a great bou- quet of American Beauty roses was laying across his mahogany desk, tied with a wide band of crimson ribbon. An impromptu reception followed. Business was tabooed for the day. President Francis looked at the batch of papers on his desk that he was ac- customed to wade through the first thing on his arrival every morning. But the invasion of his office by the men who had assisted him in making the great exposition the success it was forbade any business. being transacted. ‘At 10:30 o'clock President Francis and his’ party took carriages at the south door to the Administration building, and the procession moved to the Louisiana Purchase monument in the Plaza St. Louis, where the closing exercises occurred. From the same stand that marked the opening exer- cises, the closing took place. On Thursday, as then, great crowds of people lined the main transverse avenue, and with great enthusiasm greeted the president and his party. The things that President Francis promised them have come true. The people appreciated alt-he had done for his city and state, and the citizens, and they were glad of the opportunity to honor him on Francis’ day. It was I1 o'clock when Mayor Rolla ‘Wells, as chairman of the day, asked Rey. Dr. Samuel J. Niccolls to deliver the invocation. Surrounding President Francis on the platform were many of the most distinguished men of the city and state. Gov A. M. Dockery was present, and made a short address, as did also Gov.-elect Joseph W. Folk. The sun shone warm. The sunlight falling on the waters of the Cascades as they dashed madly down their course reflected to the glory of the ex- position. The towering dome of the great Hall of Festivities gleamed in its ivory whiteness. The great gilded Victory that crowned the magnificent structure appeared as if anxious to step from his pedestal and lay the laurel wreath that he has borne ever since he assumed the proud position, on the brow of the president of the great- est exposition the world has ever known. The great statue of peace that adorns the summit of the graceful Louisiana Purchase monument ap- peared to lean over and turn her eyes earthward, and to indorse the kind words that were spoken in behalf of President Francis by those whe have worked with him for so long, and who kow better than anyone else the yeo- man service he has performed for Mis. souri and for St. Louis. Charged With Embezzlement. Mankiattan, Kas., Dec, 2—Howell D, Ferguson, of St. Louis, was arrested Pablic Lands Withdrawn. Washington, Dec. 2.—The secretary of the interior has ordered the with- drawal of 58,900 acres of land in the Minot (N.-D.) land district, on account of the Buford-Trenton reclamation propect, {BESS the 0 6 Oran Neiceg, “Munde) i poe x i ees HOY my yy [ire 10 ie Ge LS = en ~ A BEAUTIFUL NEGLIGEE. An Attractive Garment That May Be Inexpensively Made by ‘Any Woman: Negligee of white crepe de chine felled in with a girdle of pale green silk. The litle ruffies which border the collar and fronts are also of the green silk, and the jacket is finished at the bottom with a ruffle of the ma- terial. ‘The plain yoke is bordered with in- sertion and a deep ruffie of lace, the Jatter also forming sleeve caps. The a) eg ee) “i the nss> full sleeves are finished at the elbows with lace ruffles ornamented with knots of the green silk. The puffed undersieeves are of the erepe de chine encircled. with bands of the green. The long cravat ends are of lace, and the little tucked plas- tron is of the crepe de chine or mous: seline de sole trimmed with lace. HISTORY OF THE MUFF. A Decree of the French King Once De- termined the Colors and the Furs. “Do you know that the color of a muff once betokened the rank of the wear- er?” aid a furrier the other day as he stroked a beautiful seaiskin muff. “When the muff first came to us from France, in the days of Charles IX., no lady could have worn this fur, for black was decreed by the king to be the badge of the common people, and the court fol- lowers were restricted to ‘the colors. Muffs have gone through more styles than it would seem possible to invent for such a simple article of convenience. ‘They have been long and harrow and, again, large and round. One of the most curious styles Was that of Louis XIV,, called the ‘chiens mauchons,’ be- cause they were made to convey little dogs in. “The muff when first introduced was the exclusive property of the nobility. ‘These muffs were very small and con- sisted of a single piece of velvet, bro- ade or silk lined with fur and the upen- ings fastened with rich jewels. Such arrangements came in during the early part of the seventeenth century. “We now associate the muff only with cold weather, but in the old days it was a regular part of woman's dress and was carried at all times.” NEW RIBBONS FOR WINTER They Combine the Softness and Sheer- ness of the Broad Silk ‘Waavas. ‘The new ribbons have taken to them- selves all the softness and sheerness that characterize the broad silk weaves, and ‘the printings in the dull and faded tones that are seen on-the expensive erepes, gauzes and chjffons are all re- produced in the ribbons. In fact, some houses are making a special feature of broad silks and ribbons in the very same designs, and a delightful note of color contrast is introduced in the latter in the way of borderings. Ribbons broad and ribbons narrow, as well as those of medium width, all find novel applications upon the dressy gowns. With printed centers the bor- ders are often in two shades of a com: trasting color, and these borders are in green, rose, blue, brown and violet, ac- cording to the color scheme of the gown. Bome exquisite ribbons are shown with & metallic gold border, just the same ‘weave as appears on the military uni- forms of those of high rank, and ¢ beautiful effect is thus given to a one color gown. ‘The New Relts. Hand-painted belts in different col- ored leathers will represent a very im- portant item among the autumnschemes. A very pretty example in deep cream, with a leather buckle to correspond, was painted in the palest greens, mauves and pinks in a design of Louls XV. bows and trails of flowers. A brown leather belt with a dull gold buckle was adorned with embroidered sprays of mauve lilac, the leaves and stems being hand-painted. Economy of Effort. “My sakes! How well your husband is trained. How did you ever do it?” “I didn't. He was a widower when I got him. It saves a lot of trouble.”— Chicago Record-Heralg, «~ THE STYLE IN PERFUMES. To Be Up-to-Date You Must Be Very Careful in Their Se- lection. ‘With respect to perfumes, as In most other things, Dame Fashion's particu- lar whim just now Is consistency. In England, where most American fash- ions have their birth—for Paris fash- jons usually come to us by way of London, their earlier market—“Royal Shamrock” is the rage just now. ‘But whatever your particular fancy may be,-having made your choice, you must abide by it, at any rate for the day, which, in this fickle age, is quite a long time. z Everything about you, your toilet water and soap, your boudoir, your gowns, your notepaper and envelopes, even your lap dog, must be perfumed accordingly. Indeed, if you want to display your complete subservience to Fashion's autocratic decrees, you will hang a locket containing the selected perfume on your chain. The only con- solation you haye is that to-morrow you may change your policy, and shed f@ delicate perfume of, say, attar of roses, around you. To some this fashion may seem rath- er irksome, says the New York World. Many women like to change their scents with their frocks, but they must take heart of grace in the thought that things might be’ much worse, and probably will be some day. Consistency has at least one merit —it is easy. For instance, you de- cide that to-morrow shall be a “Sham- rock” day; there is, at any rate, the satisfaction of having only one per- fume to think about at a time. ‘Many women like to be known by a pecular scent, just as the countess was in “Diplomacy,” though if was thought- less of her to leave such distinct proof of her fair fingers having handled a stolen dispatch. Queen Victoria favored lavender wa- ter, almost the only celebrated scent in which England is preeminent. Nowa- days it is unfashionable, and we draw all our most fragrant essences from Italy, the south of France, and even India. Ex-Empress Eugenie, again, has all a Spaniard’s love for strong perfumes, her favorites being lemon, verbena and sandalwood. Princess Christian has succumbed to the fascination of “Shamrock,” and like- wise Mme. Rejane and Mme. Calve; but Mme. Sarah Bernhardt clings persist- ently to her beloved Violettes de Parme. ‘The empress of Russia is said to spend $10,000 a year on perfumes, paste, soaps ‘and toilet waters, which she has sent to her exclusively from the French capita!. Violet is her majesty’s favorite scent to her taste in perfumes is so catholic and general that every day she vaporizes the royal apartments with the concentrated essences of lilac, jasmine, narcissus, jon- quil, tuberose and white violets, A PRETTY MORNING GOWN. It May Be Made of Either Cashmere, Flannel,’ Molleton, or Flannelette. In the accompanying illustration we show-an attractive gown for morning wear that is easily made by any wom- an who is handy with a needle. It is suitable to be made in cashmere, flan- nel, molleton’or flanselette. Our model is in a pretty blue fancy flannel, unlined; it ts slightly open at 5! ae Sa y AR el \\ PSSM LEH hfs fff HM bf #47] i UF fy ay é EOS, i By VEEP ee NED the throat, and turns back with a wide collar or cape of the same material edged with a strap of silk; the fronts slightly overwrap, and are fastened at the top by a large fancy button. A thick woolen and silk girdle draws the gown in at the waist. The bell-shape sleeves are held in at wrists by cuffs of silk. Materials required: Ten yards of finannel, 30 inches wide, and three. quarters of a yard of silk. ‘What He Said. ‘Mr. Suburb—My house is never in terfered with. There hasn't been a burglar in our section gor years. “Eh? Have you policemen there?” “No; nothing but guns.”—N, ¥, Weekly. Common Variety. Rodrick—Perey Sapp is always talk- ing about bis family tree, Is it really a family tree? ‘Van Albert—tI've heard so much about it I begin to think it is a chestnut.— Chicago News. THE SUNDAY BIBLE SCHOOL Zessoa in the International Series for December 4, 1904—“Hezekiah Beopens the Temple.” @repared by the “Highway and By- : way”? Preacher.) Introductory Note. ef Israel. His son, Amaziah, reigned 29 years; Azariah, © years; Jotham, 16 years, und then Abas, the father of Hezekiah, for He years. it was during the relgn of Heze- kiah that the Northern kingdom of Is- rael was utterly destroyed by Assyria. Although Ahaz “walked in the ways of ‘the kings of Israel,” his son, Hezekiah, seemis (0 have had’ godly mother, who brought him up tc fear and serve God. When he became king at the age of 26, he at once began his religious reforms, and God says of him: “He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, accord- Ing to all that David his father had done.”* He reopened the temple and summoned the priests and Levites and ordered them to" sanctify themselves and then to Cleanse the temple and restore its t- ings and furnishings. Our lesson takes up the story at the point where this work has been accomplished, ‘The Lesson Outline. THEME:—A Great Revival. 1. The Preparations.—vs. 18, i9. (@) Filthiness Put Away.—v. 18, @) The Lord's Vessels Restored.—v. 19. Ul, Meeting in the Lord's House—va. 20-dh @) Power of a Good Example—v. 20. @ The Sacrifices.—va. 21-24 @ Praise and Worship—vs, 25-09, G) Offerings to the Lord—y. #1. Domparing Scripture with Scripture, I. Preparation for the Great Revival. (Q) Filthiness Put AWay, v. 18.—The in- dividual or the church that wants @ revival has got to do some house-clean- ing. Prayeflessness, the closed Bible, neglect of religious obligations and church services, worldiiness and in- dulgence of self, cause the rubbish to gather in the individual life. Church suppers and bazars, Sunday night leo- tures, high-priced, unconverted choir singers, church debts, gossip anl friv- olous talk after meeting, are some of the many things that are as rubbish in a church, and must be cleaned ont be- fore the revival can come. (2) The Lord’s Vessels Restored, v. 19—If there is anything being withheld from God which belongs to Him, it must be restored before He can give the blessing—Mal. 3:10. ‘These vessels had been dedicated to the Lord’s service and afterwards taken and put to unholy uses. ‘We do something very similar to this when we consecrate ourselves to the Lord’s service and then go and give our- selves, our time, our energies, our abil- itles and money to the “world, the flesh and the devil.” There is need that we restore unto the Lord that which be- longs to Him, ere we can expect that the revival blessing will come to usor to the Lord’s church. Il. Meeting in the Lord’s House.— (1) Power of a Good Example, v. 20— Hezekiah is the model for all leaders who would bring about a revival and fill the Lord’s house. He rose early— intense desire.—Ps. 5, 3; 63:1; 130:6. He gathered the rulers—Energetic and systematic methods, 2 Tim. 4:2. Went up te the houso of the Loré—Definite- ness of purpose. Ps. 27:4. Itisdoubtful if any Christian fully realizes the pow- er of a good example. There fs noone who does not influence some other life for good or ill. What a responsibility rests upon the Christian. (2) The Sacrifices, vs. 21-24—The sins of the people must be atoned for. The start must be made with the shedding of blood. Ah, how many attempted re- vivals fail just here. Noted speakers, big halls, fine singers, and depended upon for success, and the “Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world” is forced to take a back seat. Begin with the blood. It will cleanse from all sin (1 John 1:7-9), and thus pre- pare for service. Heb. 9:22. God and His people must be united before re- vival blessing can come, and the blood of Christ 1s the only thing that can bring God and man together, (8) Praise and Worship, vs. 25-30. Xt takes a cleansed heart to give a clent voice, It is only a cleansed heart that can be a devout heart. But how the soul can sing and worship when it has been reconciled to God. Ps. 51:12, 13: .What a power there is in the shout of praise to God. It brought Jericho's walls tumbling down. It scattered the hosts of Midian before Gideon and his faithful band. David urges us over and over again to shout and sing praises unto the Lord. There {s power in the shout and song of praise. I believe we are becoming altogether too formal and cold in our worship. The amen corner is being deserted and the worshiper is afraid to hear his own voice in meeting. ‘Too many are content to sit with closed lips. ‘The Lord wants us to open them, (4) Offering to the Lord, y, 31. If we have cleaned away the rubbish, it we have restored that which belongs to the Lord, if we have been cleansed from all sin in Jesus’ blood, then we are ready to bring offerings to the Lord which He can accept—Ps. 24:3-4; Matt. $:23, 24. he ‘The Golden ‘Text. “Them that honor Me I will honor. Divine reciprocity. A recognition of a mutual relationship, desirable both to God and man. What does God desire? ‘The will, the heart, the life. What does man need? Redemption—because the natural man is a stranger to God. Eph. 2:13, 19. Fellowship, because it fs essential to the Christian life and service. 1 Ccr. 1:9; John 1:3. Rey. slation—because without an under. standing of Ged and His Word, the Christian is like the ship on the ocesa without chart or compass. 1 Cor, 2;10; 3 Tim. 3:16. A GREEDY PAOK OF ILLS SURROUND AOLERGYMAN’S WIFE, Through the Arrival of Timely Aid shy Escapes from the Terrors of a Prolonged. Siler. oe ‘The Rev. W. A. Denton, of Girara, Crawford county, Kansas, tolls tie fol, lowing story of a harrowing experionos of one of the members of his family, “My wife,” he says, * was assailed for fifteen years by @ combination of ail. ments following the birth of our first child. 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READERS OF THIS PAPER DESIRING TO BUY ANYTHING ~ ADVERTISED IN ITS COLUMNS SHOULD INSIST UPON HAVING WHAT THEY ASK FOR, REFUSING ALL SUBSTITUTES OR IMITATIONS. Young People PAPA'S WAY OF SPELLING. I'm having such a dreadful time At learning how to spell! You see, I'm just a little girl, And can't do very well. I've been to school for two months now, And so some words I know; For teacher writes it on the board And says "g-o" spells "go." I've learned that "r-a-t" spells "rat," And "h-e-n" spells "hen." That Rover is a "d-o-g." And "B-e-n" is "Ben." My teacher says she thinks that I Am doing very well; But papa speaks a different way. And says: "Sh! Don't you tell!" You see, my names are Alice May, And my last name is Hall, And yesterday I spelled them out At school before them all. My teacher said: "That's nicely done!!" But papa said: "You're wrong, my pet! For A-l-l-c-e" That's not the way your papa spells; Your teacher doesn't know." My papa wouldn't tell me wrong, or say that isn't true. And tell my teacher says that she Spells just the way I do! I'm 'fraid I never learn to spell— No matter how I try— If "dlaring" 's "A-l-i-c-e" And "sweetheart" 's "M-a-y;" -Ida L. McIntosh, in St. Nicholas. BRIGHT RUSSIAN GIRL. Shows Wonderful Aptitude for Learning and Has Entered Mt. Holyoke College. Tyna Helman, a Russian Hebrew immigrant's daughter, just 14 years old, who four years ago became a student in a West End school in Boston, has entered Mount Holyoke college better equipped for success in her student life than the average college girl. Arriving from Russia in 1900, Miss Helman not only mastered the English language, of which she was entirely ignorant, but became so proficient in it and all other branches of study that within four years she passed through the primary and grammar grades, and last June was graduated from the Girl's Latin school in Boston at the head of her class. Because she knew nothing about English, says the New York Sun, Miss Helman at first was compelled to enter a primary school with children only one-third her age, but with the aid of Russian and English dictionaries, which her father provided her with, she swiftly forged ahead, passing through the primary and grammar grades in a single year, for she had acquired in Russia a good foundation for future learning. From the Wells grammar school, in the West End, Boston, she was graduated in 1901 and finished the four year course in the Girls' Latin school in three years, an uncommon feat. Intending at first to go to Boston university for a year, she took the entry examinations, passing six of the required studies with honors, but subsequently she decided to take the full course at Mount Holyoke college. Even now she has made an impression with her instructors, and her friends believe that she will win fresh laurels during her college life. Miss Helman's father keeps a little grocery store at 198 Marion street, East Boston. She is the eldest of six children and is a born student, mastering the most difficult studies with the greatest ease. She is tall and graceful, of the brunette type, with snapping black eyes and a countenance which fairly shines with intellectuality. USE FOR OLD TENNIS BALLS How They May Be Given a New Lease of Life in a New Dress. The old, worn-out tennis-balls can be put to good use, and will furnish untold pleasure for many poor or sick children. A new dress is all the ball needs. For this new dress most people who do much TENNIS BALL IN NEW PRESS. fancy-work can produce all sorts of odds and ends of wool left over from various articles, either crewel-work, crochet or knitting, for it matters little what kind of wool you use, so long as you make the balls bright and attractive. Anxious to Learn. Crabshaw—Yes. He's trying to learn how to act when in society.—Town Topics. Was Safe. He—Did your papa hear me singing that serenade? She—Yes; but you are safe; he thought it was the cat.—Chicago Journal. Pretty Things Which May Be Made with Few Tools and Inexpensive Materials. Wire working will be found a very interesting pastime, and there are so many things both useful and ornamental that may be made with such little effort that the work has become a very popular way of utilizing spare moments. Three tools only are necessary to produce most of the articles made by wire—a pair of flat-nose cutting pipers, one of round-nose cutting pipers, and a file; then, with a few skins of wire, you have all that is required. Of course, as in everything else, practice makes perfect, and after a few trials you will find that dex- A TOASTING FORK. terity in the handling of the tools and skill in twisting nice turns are acquired very rapidly. A very useful article and a good one with which to make your first attempt at this work is a toasting-fork, shown by Figure 1. To make it, take two lengths of stout wire, one three, and the other six feet long; turn an eye, A, at one end of the shortest piece; bend the other double, and twist it round the central one. An extra twist should be given at the spread of the prongs, and an eye is formed on each wire at B round another piece of same sized wire; the ends are then straightened and pointed with the A SPRING PERCH. file. Now bend the cross-wire down on either side and form hooks, C, in which the toast rests securely. for those who keep cage-birds, we show, in Figure 2, a spring-perch, which is simple in construction. Birds seen to enjoy the motion the spring gives when they hop on it. Take a piece of elm or mahogany wood, and whittle out a short perch, about the thickness of an ordinary lead-pencil. Drill a fine hole about an inch from one end, and pass a piece of hard brass wire through, securing it by firmly twisting the shorter end round the perch in two places, as shown in the illustration. Now bend the remaining wire into a coil of three turns, to give the springiness, and finish off with a couple of bends, as illustrated, by ```markdown ``` which it is attached to the bars of the cage. The perch may be removed easily when it is necessary to scrape and clean it. Hanging-baskets for flowers are quickly made. Two designs for these are given in Figure 3. They are so simple that there will be no difficulty in constructing them by referring occasionally to the illustration. There are any quantity of ornamental articles which may be made, with a little care and ingenuity on the part of BOOK MARK BOOK MARK. the worker. What is called "gold-cased" wire should be used for such work. Figure 4 shows a book-marker of silk ribbon fitted with ornamental wire ribons. These may be made in any design suggesting itself to the worker. The owner's monogram cr initials worked into the design will look very pretty.—People's Journal. Blue Eyes. Persons with blue eyes are rarely affected with color blindness. Faze—Feeze—Feaze. When speaking colloquially, we want to indicate that one has been caught unawares, startled, had his breath taken away, flustered, put in a state of funk, or mentally disturbed and perturbed in any degree, he say "he is fazed," or it "fazed him." The origin and spelling of this word annoyed me for a long time. I have seen it spelled in many ways, as, for instance, faze, fezee, fezee, phase, veese, feese, feise, phezee. Take your choice. The pronunciation is invariably faze. "Why, you couldn't faze him," said of a man means that he can neither be held nor driven. Faze is local United States. Other forms of the word were used in the fifteenth century and are of distinguished origin—N. Y. Press. Her Sacrifice. "If war breaks out," said the little woman with the bright gray eyes, "we must all do something to help. We can't fight of course, but each of us can aid in some way. We must economize on our pocket money and buy nice things for the wounded. We must reduce our extravagances. We can buy cheaper goods, you know, and put less material into our gowns." "Yes," said the dreamy girl with blue eyes, "I know what I can do. I can have my bicycle skirt cut shorter!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Reading the Future "Si Lumpsin," exclaimed his indignant wife, "I'm ashamed of you! Refusin' to lend your neighbor enough oats for seed." "You jest 'tender to yer kitchen business, Marty. I know that feller. Et I loaned him the oats he'd be 'round next summer to borrer my reaper an hosses fur to cut the crop. I naturally nipped him in the bud, I did."—Detroit Free Press. At the Quick Lunch Room. Proprietor—Don't you want some of this pepsin gum. Best thing in the world for indigestion. Newcomer—But I never have indigestion. Proprietor—That makes no difference. You will have it in a few days. 'T any rate, all our customers have it, and we sell lots of this gum.—Boston Transcript. Mother—Why, what grieves you, Willie? Willie—I asked pa if he could spell hippopotamus? "And what did he do?" (Sobbing)—"He thought hard a minit an' then got mad an' said he'd lick me if I bothered him again when he was readin'."—Judge. Moral: Stop First and Think. She—"You say I am the first girl you ever made love to, but your manner indicates that you have had experience. He—Please explain how you know that. After he had gone she was almost tempted to jab herself with her hatpin. —Chicago Evening News. **Blessing Her Stars.** Crawford—What makes you think your wife isn't so much of a new woman as she used to be? Crabshaw—Because since this war scare I haven't heard her say how sorry she was that she wasn't a man—Judge. **Modern Conveniences.** Little Girl (in church)—Why does so many people put those little envelopes on th' contribution plate? Little Boy—Them's to keep the pennies from makin' so much noise.—N. Y. Weekly. **Appreciative.** Brown—Don't you know that tobacco clogs up your brains? Cholly-Thanks, old boy, thanks aw- fully; you're the only one who has ever admitted that I had any brains.—N. Y. Truth. Forty Dollars for a Chicken. Two neighbors in Hazleton, Ind, went to law about the ownership of a chicken valued at 60 cents. The litigation cost $40. Of Course. "Uncle Dick, where do Welsh rabbits build their nests?" "In chafing dishes, little Dick."—Detroit Free Press. Operations by Bursa Saw. In the Emergency hospital, Boston, a four-inch buzz saw, run by an electric motor, has been erected for surgical purposes. THE MARKETS. CATTLE-Native Steers COTTON-Middling COTTON-Wheat WHEAT-No. 2 Red (new) CORN-No. 2 OATS-No. 2 PORK-Mess (new) LARD-Western Steam ST. LOUIS COTTON-Middling CATTLE-Native Steers Cows and Heifers. CALVES-Fair to Choice HOGS-Fair to Choice SHEEP-Fair to Choice FLOUR-Patent Grades WHEAT-No. 2 Red (new) CORN-No. 2 RYE-No. 2 OATS-No. 2 WOOL-Tub Washed Other Grades HAY-Clear Timothy BUTTER-Choice Dairy BUTTER-Fair to Choice LARD-Choice Steam PORK-Standard Mess(new) CHICAGO CATTLE-Native Steers HOGS-Fair to Choice BUTTER-Fair to Choice FLOUR-Winter Patents. Spring Patents ... 4 90 @ 5 40 WHEAT-No. 2 Spring ... 1 40 @ 1 10 WHEAT-No. 2 Red ... 1 05% @ 11% CORN-No. 2 ... @ 50 OATS-No. 2 ... @ 28% LARD ... @ 7 00 PORK ... 11 30 @ 11 35 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE-Native Steers ... 5 00 @ 6 25 HOGSE-Fair to Choice ... 4 40 @ 4 65 WHEAT-No. 2 Red (new) ... 1 05 @ 1 00 CORN-No. 2 Mixed ... 45% @ 44 OATS-No. 2 Mixed ... 23% NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR-High Grade ... 5 50 @ 6 10 CORN-No. 2 ... @ 60 OATS-No. 2 ... @ 37% HAY-Choice ... 14 00 @ 15 00 PORK-Standard Mess ... @ 12 12% BACON-Side Sides ... @ 9 COTTON-Middling ... @ 9 INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT-No. 2 Red (new) ... @ 1 15 CORN-No. 2 Mixed ... @ 45% OATS-No. 2 Mixed ... @ 31% It penetrates to the seat of torture as no other external remedy has been known to do and thousands certify to cures. Price 25c. and 50c. For Rheumatism, Lumbaço, Frost Bites use Mexican Mustang Liniment Best Remedy For Piles Her Mistake. "Mamma," said a little West side girl yesterday morning, "I can't go to school to-day. My tooth is achin' awful." "All right, Lucy," said her mother, "get your jacket and I'll take you to a dentist and have the tooth pulled." The child hesitated a moment and then said: "Oh, mamma, I made a mistake. It isn't my tooth—it's my head that's achin'."—Kansas City Times. As if the eye were not a weapon with which every young woman is already expert, certain rules for an eye drill have recently been promulgated. It seems that the beauty of a woman's orbs lies not so much in their shape and color as in the way she uses them. Hence a long list of directions for rotating them so that the muscles may be best trained. Man never knows when he is safe.—Boston Transcript. A woman attaches more importance to asking three people to afternoon tea than an admiral does to taking battleships into action.—N. Y. I ess. A Teacher's Testimony Hinton, Ky., Nov. 28 (Special)—It has long been claimed that Diabetes is incurable, but Mr. E. J. Thompson, teacher in the Hinton school, has pleased evidence to the contrary. Mr. Thompson had Diabetes. He took Dodd's Kidney Pills and is cured. In a statement he makes regarding his diagnosis, he was troubled with my kidneys for more than two years and was treated by two of the best doctors in this part of the state. They claimed I had Diabetes and there was little to be done for me. Then I started to use Dodd's Kidney Pills and what they did for me was wonderful. It is entirely owing to Dodd's Kidney Pills that I am now enjoying good health." He said that Diabetes is incurable. But Diabetes is a kidney disease and the kidney disease that Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure has yet to be discovered. Fitting Ceremonies A surgeon tells of a patient who was about to undergo an operation for appen- sions in his chest. He sent an unfearless sent for his pastry, so that he could be opened with prayer—Chicago Tribune. CUTICURA SOAP The World's Greatest Skin Soap-The Standard of Every Nation of the Earth. Millions of the world's best people use Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuticura Ointment, the purest and sweetest of emollient skin cures, for preserving, purifying and beautifying the skin, for cleansing and moisturizing the skin, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening and soothing red, rough and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings and, chafings, and many sanative, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest use of products even more effective as well as for all the purposes of the toilet, bath and nursery. Willing to Oblige The Bride-Oh, Jack! You shouldn't kiss me before all those girls. The Groom-I'm glad my little wife is so unselfish, and just to please you I'll kiss all those girls first.-Chicago Daily News. Lowest Rates Ever Made to Florida, For Midwinter Exposition and South Florida Fair, Tampa Fla. Tickets will be sold beginning November 15th, 1904, with final limit of 21 days. See that your ticket reads via Seaboard Air Line Railway, the shortest and best route to and through Florida. His Pride. Pneumonia and Consumption can be prevented, and cured in their early stages by Wakefields Cough Syrup. This is a sure remedy for Coughs, Colds, Croup, etc. It should be in every home. Sir John Madden, chief justice of Victoria, who is famous for his prolixity, recently delivered a judgment of 105,000 words, the reading of which occupied him seven hours. Sir John kept awake during the whole recital—Punch. Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds—J. F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Society is the mother of convention, and quite often deserves its child—Chicago Journal. Miriam Wilhelm Miss Whittaker, a prominent club woman of Savannah, Ga., tells how she was entirely cured of ovarian troubles by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:—I heartily recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a Uterine Tonic and Regulator. I suffered for four years with irregularities and Uterine troubles. No one but those who have experienced this dreadful agony can form any idea of the physical and mental misery those endure who are thus afflicted. Your Vegetable Compound cured me within three months. I was fully restored to health and strength, and now my periods are regular and painless. What a blessing it is to be able to obtain such a remedy when so many doctors fail to help you. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is better than any doctor or medicine I ever had. Very truly yours, Miss EASY WHITTAKER, 604 396 St., W.Savannah, Ga." No physician in the world has had such a training or such an amount of information at hand to assist in the treatment of all kinds of female ills as Mrs. Pinkham. In her office at Lynn, Mass., she is able to do more for the ailing women of America than the family physician. Any woman, therefore, is responsible for her own trouble who will not take the pains to write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. Her address is Lynn, Mass., and her advice is free. A letter from another woman showing what was accomplished in her case by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The testimonials we are constantly publishing from grateful women prove beyond a doubt the power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to conquer female diseases. $5000 FORFEIT if we cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signatures of above testimonials, which will prove their absolute genuineness. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. 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Pink- to conquer female diseases. it forthwith produce the original letters and signatures of will prove their absolute genuneness. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. ER NAME and will send you prospectus and full particulars of NINE LVER, COPPER, LEAD, ZING AND QUICKSILVER Mins- send us your name and address. Mining Mape Free. MISSION Co., 325 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. FARMS WESTERN CANADA FREE MIXED FARMING WHEAT RAISING RANCHING Three great permits have again shown wonderful results on the FREE HOMESTEAD LANDS of Western Canada this year. Magnificent climate-farmers plowing in their shirt sleeves in the middle of November. "All are bound to be more than pleased with the final results of the past season's harvests." Extract. Oak, wood, water, hay in abundance—schools, churches, markets convenient. Apply for information to Superintendent of Immigration, OTTAWA, CANADA; or to F. J. C. Broughton, Kansas City, Mo.; C.J. Broughton, Room 483, Quincy Bldg., Chicago, Ill.; Authorized Canadian Government. m. Agent. Please say where you saw this advertisement. LIVE STOCK AND MISCELLANEOUS ELECTROTYPES IN GREAT VARIETY for sale at the lowest prices by N. Kellogg Newspaper Co. DUMAS DRAMATIC CLUB RE QUESTS THE PUBLIC TO DECIDE A QUESTION. The people remember the above organization from its meritorious presentation of several dramas in various first-class theaters of this city, and now the club has decided to reproduce one of their former dramas at the Odeon theater, on Grand avenue, Monday evening, January 9, 1905, and we ask the people to decide which of our former plays they would be more desirous of seeing the club reproduce. The following plays have been our efforts since the club's organization in 1901: "Bound by an Oath," domestic drama in four acts and prologue, by David COUPON. COUPON. Name..... Address..... I am desirous of witnessing a repro ..... Cut this out and Newport Hotel, 2323 Market Street. thanking the general public for their efforts, and we go into our future engidence as in our former productions. in before November 28th. I am desirous of witnessing a reproduction of..... Cut this out and mail to Henry P. McGill, Newport Hotel, 2323 Market Street. We take this opportunity of thanking the general public for their liberal patronage in our past efforts, and we go into our future engagements with the same confidence as in our former productions. All coupons must be sent in before November 28th. We beg to remain, sincerely yours, HENRY P. McGILL. Sec. P NEGRO NEWSPAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES. We have tried hard to get the exact number of papers that are published by the Negroes of the United States, and their standing, from the best of and most reliable authority outside of what we have at our command. There are about 171 Negro newspapers published in the United States, and as near as we can count them, they are as follows: Alabama and Georgia, 15 each..... 30 Illinois and North Carolina, 12 each..... 24 Mississippi..... 14 Pennsylvania and Kentucky, 10 each 20 Texas..... 12 Missouri..... 9 Massachusetts, South Carolina and Florida, 6 each..... 18 Washington, D. C..... 4 Virginia and Tennessee, 4 each..... 8 California, Ohio, New Jersey and New York each have 3..... 12 Kansas, Nebraska, Maryland and Colorado, each 3..... 12 Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Mont- tana, Utah, West Virginia, Wis- consin, Indian Territory have one each..... 7 Teritory have on each..... 7 Published in the south..... 101 Published in the west..... 44 Published in the east..... 26 Fl Va 34 Ir Co 3t 2u Te St Pa A UNION OR A DEPOT FOR NEGRO NEWSPAPER- To all who are fond of negro newspapers the Palliation office can furnish any of the following papers: Freedman Journal. Chicago Conservator. Topcka Plaindealer. Indianapolis Recorder. The Afro-American. The Vick-burg Light. Arkansas Appreciator. The Dallas World. The Springfield State Capital. The Sedona Times. Eagle Herald, Gainsville, Fla. The Reformer. The Truth Teller, St. Louis. Southern Christian Recorder. Cincinnati Brotherhood. Star of Zion. Washington Bee. Seattle Republic. Woman's World. Bluegrass Bugle. Chicago Broad Ax. Raducah Bee. Parson Weekly Blade. City Times, Galveston, Tex. Eagle, Kempsville. Ala. The Light, Vicksburg, Miss. The Mayor, Hopkinsville, Ky. Oklahoma Guide, Guthrie, Logan Co. American Eagle, St. Louis. Hill, Germania Fourteenth Street theater, Monday, April 21, 1902; "Because I Love You," romantic drama in four acts, by John A. Fraser, Germania Fourteenth Street theater, Thursday, April 23, 1903; "Damon and Pythias," historic drama in five acts, Exposition Music hall, Tuesday, September 1, 1903; "Past Redemption," pastorial drama in four acts, Odeon theater, Monday, November 16, 1903. Each person mailing the club one of the coupons below, with the name and selection of the play, the club will mail them a certificate which will entitle them to a handsome souvenir. Souvenirs can be had at all Colored drug stores. Do not delay. Send in your selection at once. Result will be announced in these columns about December 1. a reproduction of out and mail to Henry P. McGill, street. We take this opportunity of for their liberal patronage in our past pure engagements with the same con- tions. All coupons must be sent sincerely yours, DUMAS DRAMATIC CLUB. ORTER'S Tailoring Company. Call and see our fancy collection for Xmas presents. We have his measure and he will appreciate a present and we will appreciate his patronage. CHAS. CLARK, Prop. 2122 Market St. The Watchman, Columbus, Ga. Texas Guide, Victoria Texas. The Lancet, Baltimore, Md The City Times, Galveston Texas. The Sunday School Monitor, Nashville, Tenn. The Business Herald, Donaldsonville Ala. The St. Luke Herald, Richmond, Va. The Progress, Omaha, Neb. Nashville Clarion, Nashville, Tenn. Missouri State Republican. The Press, Quendo, Kan. Christian Recorder Of the A. M. E. Church. The Sylvian Blade, Vicksburg, Miss The Christian Organizer, Lynchburg, Virginia. The Columbia, Louisville, Ky. Colored Messenger, Kansas, Mo. Temple of Health and Physical Rev view. Savanna Gazette, Savannah, Ga. Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Fla. Voice of Misstons, New York. Searchlight, Wichita, Kan. Tribune, Pueblo, Colo. Colored Citizens Press, Chicago, Ill. Banker, Merchant and Manufacturer Publisher of Money, New York. Teche Valley News, Jeanerette, La. St. Joseph Radical, St. Joseph, Mo. Belladium Noahville, Tenn. Palladium, Nassau, Teen Palladium, Nassau, Teen Vicksburg, Miss. Fee, Padnacch, KS Southern Advocate, Hot Springs, ississippi. Etheopian Abbiville, S. C. Wisconsin Advocate, Milwaukee, wisconsin. Eagle, Kempsville, Ala. Chicago Visitor, Chicago, Ill. Kenjucky Reporter, Owensboro, Ky. Pythian Journal, St. Louis, Mo. Rising Sun, Kansas, Mo. Southwestern Advocate, New Orleans, ississippi. Republican Guide, Baltimore, Md. The *A* jvne Citizen, East St. Lodig. Roche Spn. Kansas, Mo. The Albunquerque Ameriian, a newspaper published in New Ilex, is on our desk. A paper well edited and quite newsy. We heartily exchange. J. M. Griffin, editor and ap proprietor. Any of the above papers can be had at the Palladium office. We will count the list next week. At 204 North Fourteenth street is the establishment of Sam, the tailor. His business has become so that he has been compelled to enlarge his place. He now has 204 and 206, all complete and aranged in the most complete manner. Such is the business of any man that gives his customers satisfaction. Mr. Sam is what we call one of nature's gentlemen, and that has caused his success. Go and see, and get your suits for the winter. It was reported, on the 30th, that the Japanese had captured and now hold 203-Metre hill, overlooking Port Arthur. O. S. FICKLIN, Prest. Ladies' Garments a Specialty. Sam, The Tailor. SOME FEATURES OF A RUSSIAN POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. If the Czar Grants the Reforms Asked by the Zemstvoists. Just Think of the Pitfalls the Russian Language Holds for the Peasant Who Stays Up for the Election Returns. Some Politicians Expect the Campaigns Will Be Apathetic, as the Emperor Will Not Allow the "Peepul" to Control the Treasury. It Is Said. Some Politicians Expect the Campaign as Will Be Apathetic, as the Emperor Will Not Allow the "Peepul" to Control the Treasury, It Is Said. CHICAGO RECORD HARALD. RALPH WILDER Suppose a Candidate Had His Voters Nicely Colonized and Just Before Election the Government Should Open a Recruiting Station Next Door to the Lodging House! CLUB MANAGERS. RESTAURANT PROPRIETORS S. P. Phillip, 2807 Manchester ave. Mrs. M. Taylor.....2711 Laclede ave Wells & Gibbs, 2626 Morgan st. J. G. Gardner.....1317 Clarke ave Z. T. Jordan.....1923 Market st Lowery & Mason.....2321 Market st For a good meal, go to the Tennessee Restaurant, No. 1622 Chestnut street. W. M. Smith, 3708 Rutger street, grocer. WOOD AND COAL DEALERS. E. L. Walker.....Elliot and Wash Hasting Bros.....13th and Market sts Paton James.....11 Johnson st Chas. Higgins.....2520 Baldwin st E. M. Hill.....2752 Wash st HOTELS AND ROOMING HOUSES Mrs. A. Campbell, 2121 Chestnut st. H. C. Curtis, 707 North 14th st. M. C. Curtis, 101 North 14th st Mrs. Vincent ..... 915 N. 11th st Mrs. M. Robinson ..... 1304 Chestnut st Mrs. G. Kinney ..... 1617 Chestnut st Mrs. P. Dunn ..... 1512 Chestnut st Madam Cordella ..... 1309 Chestnut st Mrs. M. Griffin ..... 1416 Chestnut st Sam Miller ..... 6 S. Johnson st L. Mathews ..... 1625 Chestnut st PROFESSIONS AND TRADES. BARTENDERS J. Collins & G. Bradshaw. J. P. Watkins, proprietor 1305 Morgan st. "Chinna," F. Watts, Bog O'Brien Billy McClain's. TONSORIAL ARTISTS. F. C. Heart, 4136 Papin st. Joseph Steele, 2315 Papin st. Clark, G. Cromwell, E. Brown, C. Warner, A. Jackson, N. J. Clark, L. Logan, W. Barnes, W. Shields, Will Edmond's. Phone Kin. C 1481. S. L. Donaldson, R. Henderson, C. Mason, J. Evans, W. Smith, B. J. Smith, A. Johnson, Findley's. J. E. Adams, M. King, H. R. Crayton, 105 S 13th. S. Lindley, P. Armstead, J. Armour, World's Fair Shop, 2305 Market. E. White, W. McNair, C. Foster, J. W. Alphran, True Reformers' Bldg. H. C. Clark, R. Williams, G. Bell, Imperial Barber Shop, 1503 Chestnut. MUSICIANS. W. D. Flowers, 2334 Chestnut st. Prof. Turner, 2607 Lawton ave. Prof. J. H. Harris, 219 North Twenty-ninth st. Prof. Coppridge, 2122 Wash St. Prof. Jesse Bass, 2601 Lefflengwalt ave. 4 Capt. C. H. Tandy is still in evidence despite the young snips who want to put him in the back ground. Oxford has reached across the sea and taken the leading American medical man to be her regius professor of medicine. Dr. William Osler, of Johns Hopkins, is the man. How did Oxford get him? There was nothing in his line in this country that he could not have had. Johns Hopkins was proud of him and devoted to him; Harvard, which gave him a LL. D. last commencement, would gladly have had his help in the reorganization of her famous medical school, just now starting with a new plant and huge endowment on a career of great promise. And Dr. Osler's private practice was just as extensive and remunerative as he chose to make it. But Oxford called him, and he has said Yes. There seems to be room for explanation, and the explanation doubtless is that Dr. Osler was born and grew up under the British flag in Canada, and though he has lived for 20 years in the United States, he is as much at home in England as here, and as ready to serve one public as the other.-Harper's Weekly. ```markdown ``` [Name] Sexton & Mitchell's Art School, 2605 Lawn avenue. We also have for sale fine oil paintings. Portraits enlarged in crayon, pastel or oil. Now open for pupils. Terms reasonable. Nicely furnished rooms. JONES' SURE CURE FOR THE RHEUMATISM. PRICE. $2. This medicine works wonderful cures. Relief Established Instantly. Purifies the system and sends all rheumatic symptoms into eternity. We also recommend Thomlinson's Liver Medicine, and the WONDERFUL DEAD SHOT and QUICK RELIEF OIL 1325 CHESTNUT STREET. HOURS---11 to 12; 3 to 4; 7 to 8. The Royal Sons and Daughters of Douglass Will meet at DOUGLASS HALL on the Second and Fourth Thursdays of each month MRS. FANNIE LEE. Royal Mistress. BERTHA TOLBERT. Royal Secretary. B. B. HALL, Tennessee Shaving Parlor Everything Neat, Clean and Up-to-date. 1320 Morgan Street, ST. LOUIS, MO ODD FELLOWS' HALL ASSOCIATION 27th and Franklin Avenue VACANT NIGHTS FOR RENT For all. Secret and Benevolent Societies Apply to W. L. COX, 1426 Morgan Street ST. ARENA TEMPLE NO. 48, S. M. T. Meet the Second Monday night in each month at Pythian Hall, Lucas and Jefferson Ave. MARY E. WILSON, W. P. 1431 MORGAN ST. JULIA TYLER Secretary, 914 N. 11th Street. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaran- to 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 is fitted if directed. Will turn the skin of a blonde brown person four or five shades lighter, and a mutant person perfectly white. In forty-eighth hours shade the skin in spots but bleaches the skin in spots but bleaches the mainting beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and pox pox, ptan, liver spots removed without damaging the skin. Get the color you wish, stop using the vaporizer. 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 durable, it is easy to comb. Many of our customers say one of our boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. THE NO-SMELL thrown in free. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packaged, that no one will know con- tents except receive. ORANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street, DON'T MISS The World's Fair Waiters' Christmas Ball, MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, At MASONIC TEMPLE. Admission, 25c. Music by Harmony Band by Harmony Band. ELIZABETH TEMPLE NO. 12 OF THE S. M. T. Meets the Seddon Monday in the afternoon at 8 p. m., and the Fourth Friday night at 2 p. m., each month. True Reformer Hail, 2000 Pine Street MRS. HATTIE WILLIAMS, W. P. Address 709 N. Garrison Avenue MRS. LULA BRUNER, Secretary Queen Esther Temple, of the S. M. T., meets the first and third Wednesday in each month at K. of P. hall. Ruth Temple No. 163, of S. M. T., meets the fourth Friday in each month at the True Reformers' Hall. Mrs. Jennie Irving, W. P.; Ada B Dardy, secretary. All are invited. [Name] L. W. VINEGAR DEALER IN New and Second Hand FURNITURE CARPETS, STOVES, and a General Assortment of BOUGHT AND SOLD FOR CASH. Also Moving and Expressing a Specialty. 806 N. 14th St. Telephone: Kinloch D-969. [Name] The 'Leader" Barber Shop, Hot, Gold, Sea-Salt, and Shower Baths, 25c. Shaving, 10c Mustache Dyed, 25c. Buff Hair Cut, 25c. Children's Hair Cutting, 150 All Shines, 5c. J. H. KENT, Proprietor, Yours in F. C. and B. A. F. and A. M. ST. LOUIS, MO. M. A. FORD Successor to Mr. Andrew J. Smith of 1315 CLARK AVE. Is the most successful man in the city. 4 FIRST-CLASS GROCERY AND Meat Market, and a Department that will Invigorate the inner man DON'T FAIL TO PATRONIZE HIM W. A. Smith Lodge U. B. F. meets the third Tuesday in each month.