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ST.LOUIS PALLADIUM ST. PAUL CHAPEL, 2800 LAWTON AVE., REV. W. D. COOK, PASTOR. DON'T MISS MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, At MASONIC TEMPLE. ADMISSION 25c. MUSIC BY HARMONY BAND. Vol. XX. No. 52. ST. PAUL CHAPEL, 2800 LAWTON Fourth Semi- Annual Reception The hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Jones, at 315 South Twenty-second street, where so many social gatherings are held, opened wide its doors to welcome the Ladies' Noonday Social club, Wednesday, November 30. The club ladies that were not present have much to regret. At 9:30 a short programme was rendered by the club ladies. First opening chorus by the club, lead by Mrs. F. S. Ming; second, welcome address by Mrs. Mattie V. Shelly; third, response by Mrs. Mamie Edwards; fourth, instrumental solo by Prof. L. H. Patterson, of this city; fifth, duet by Mrs. Alice Jones and Mary A. Lawrence; sixth, paper by Mrs. Mattie Robinson; seventh, instrumental solo by Miss Hattie Nowell, of Grevilleville, Ill.; eighth, recitation from Dunbar by Mrs. J. Lawless; ninth, solo by Mrs. M. A. Lawrence; tenth, paper by Mrs. Eva G. Boldan; eleventh, solo by Mrs. Alice Jones. The guests were further entertained by some very complimentary remarks by Rev. W. L. Batchlor, of Covington, Tenn, and Rev. F. C. Christmas, also the loving singing by Mr. T. L. P. H. Davis, Master Harrison-Foster and Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson. At the close of the programme refreshments were served by Mr. S. Rodgers and Authur Bolden. The out of town guests were: Mrs. Lucy McClain and Mrs. Nettie Thomas, of Edwardsville, Ill.; Miss Hattie Nowell, of Grevilleville, Ill.; Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Batchlor, of Covington, Tenn.; Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Ramsey, of Toledo, O.; Mr. C. L. Burke, of Webster Groves, Mo., and Mr. T. L. P. H. Davis, of Indianapolis, Ind. That were present space will not allow their names to appear. A very enjoyable evening was spent. Each guest on leaving gave words of praise to the club ladies for the royal and yet home-like manner in which they were treated. Grand Scenic Spectacle. Strictly first class and up to date. Illuminated, artistic exhibition by Prof. W. G. Hynes, Tennessee's famous exhibitor. He has a wonderful, attractive exhibition. First week in the city. Opening engagements with special exhibition at Central Baptist church, corner Twenty-third and Morgan streets, Rev. G. B. Stevens, pastor, Monday night, December 12, 1904. Programme -Burning of the General Slocum ship at New York city, Wednesday, June 15, 1904. Iroquois Theater burning, Tuesday, December 29, 1903. Race pictures and the progress. First part of the Life of Christ in moving pictures. Proceeds for the church. Come one, come all, and help us. Admission, 10 cents. W. G. Hynes, Exhibitor. W. M. Posey, Operator. Funniest of the Funny. Prof. John B. Vashon was at his best last Thursday night, at the Douglass hall, in the role of a young maid of sweet sixteen, who only weighs 250 pounds, and as innocent as a girl of ten years of age. Miss Vella Crawford's sweet and melodius voice captured the audience. The old compaigner, James W. Grant, as usual, kept the audience in an uproar of laughter. Really all the company was good. Next week we will quiz the public on the play. DON'T The World's Fair W MONDAY, DE At MASONI ADMISS MUSIC BY HA ST. LOUIS, MO., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1904. CITY NEWS. Notes and News Concerning Our People--Weekly Record of Social Events, Deaths, Marriages and Births--Written Especially for St. Louis Palladium. Dr. W. P. Curtis, after many months of sickness, is out again attending his patients. We hope for his utmost recovery. 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. The steam heat is now on at the Newport hotel, and each room is comfortably heated, and a few rooms are for rent by the day, week or month. 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. Mr. Frank Davis, of 3916 Fairfax avenue, will leave soon for Columbus, Ky. He has been in poor health for some time. We hope for his recovery. You can have your lace curtains laundered and mended at 4020 Finney avenue, from 35 cents to $1 per pair. Address Lace C. Laundry, 4020 Finney avenue, City. 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. Mrs. Benning, of 4347 Cottage avenue, has been quite sick for the past two weeks. She is one of the good Christian workers in St. James church. She is better at present. Mrs. Thomas Ware, who formerly lived in St. Louis, returned to her home in New York. She has been in our city visiting the fair. While here she stopped with Rev. S. P. Anderson, 2330 Morgan street. Mrs. Alsie Womble, of 3973 Fairfax avenue, is a bride of a few months, and from all indications she will make a model wife. The only way to do that is to adhere to all that is noble. We hope her future will be happy. She is a relative of Mrs. Gross, the milliner, 2609 Pine street. Mrs. Gus Mangrum and Mrs. J. D. Pates were the guests of Mrs. Frank Davis, of 3916 Fairfax avenue. They spent a very pleasant week in our city. They visited the fair and many pleasant places of amusement. They left for their homes in Columbus, Ky. They speak in the highest terms of our city. MISS liters' Christmas Ball, GEMBER 26, C TEMPLE. BECAUSE I LOVE YOU SO That Is the Public's Selection, and the Dumas Dramatic Club Will Present it. Those who read the unique proposition the Dumas Dramatic club offered the public in The Palladium for the last two weeks will be anxious to learn the result. It was left to the public to decide which of the club's former plays they would prefer seeing the club reproduce. The following plays were offered for consideration: "Bound By an Oath," "Because I Love You," "Damon and Pythias," and "Past Redemption," and we are glad to say that the novel idea of selecting a play has met with great success. The drama, "Because I Love You," has been decided on, it being the most popular of the four. It has received a vote of 268. The club feels safe in recommending the play, "Because I Love You," and the rehearsing will begin at once. The costuming and stage settings will be up to the requirements. On account of the club's past experience in this play, we will be able to give a true presentation. Almost the same cast will appear, and in addition a large chorus is to be rehearsed along with the play. We feel very grateful to those who sent in coupons, and will spare no pain to do credit to the play and honor to the club. GREETING. To Ali Concerned: Although we have been open for business only about three months, we take this opportunity to thank our many friends for the support they have given us so far and to state that we also owe the constantly increasing volume of our business to two facts: We deal with absolute and unswerving fairness with every patron; we handle only goods that will sustain the unrestricted guarantee of their manufacturers and ourselves, so that our customers can have no reason to become dissatisfied. The stock of each department is large and complete, and receives daily additions, so that we always have what you want in drugs, toilet-articles, cigars, candies, stationary and soda, Hot and cold. Wishing all a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year, and hoping to "Meet you at the Fountain." We are respectfully. WRIGHT & BOLEN, Druggists. 2333 Market Street. Y. M. C. A. Notes. Our meeting last Sunday was addressed by Rev. S. W. Parr. His subject was: "Is the young man safe?" Mrs. Amanda Smith was also present, and gave a very searching and helpful talk to the young men. Tuesday evening, at the literary society, the programme was the best we have had for several weeks. The attendance was quite large. Comments on President Roosevelt's message will be made at the meeting next Tuesday evening. Sunday afternoon meetings will be held at Central Baptist church. This is a mass meeting for both men and women. Don't fail to come at 4 p. m. Palmer's Toilet Balm On of the finest toilet creams on the market is this bleach. We do not recommend this bleach to turn you white, because nature can not be changed. But will guarantee that it will remove all sunburn, pimples, blackheads and blotches. It will make you from two to three shades lighter. It will make the skin clear and natural. Simply rub it into the skin, and it will fade out the color you want. Comes in two shades, pink or white. We will pay $100 to anyone who can prove that our balm is not just what we recommend. Small size, 50 cents; large size, $1. Address all letters to Palmer's Toilet & Perfumery Co., 4020 Flinney avenue, room 4. Agents wanted everywhere. Try Palmer's Perspiration Odor Destroyer; only 25 cents per box; 5 boxes for $1. Gone South to Spend the Winter. Mr. Geo. Gallaway, of 2618 Pine, left a few days ago to spend the winter in Florida, the sunny southern state. Mr. Gallaway took a very interesting part in the last election. We wish him a pleasant trip, and hope that he will enjoy his new home. In an official statement given out by the interior department at Washington, on the 7th, the government's purpose to prosecute every guilty man in the public land frauds to the full extent of the law, and regardless of his position in life, was announced. Dr. T. A. Curtis, the dentist, has removed from 2603 Lucas avenue to 2645 Lawton avenue, second floor. Alonzo Kelly Was Jealous, and Emp tied Revolver at Her. The body of Mary Kelly, aged 29, living at 1922 Wash street, who was taken to the city hospital Tuesday morning at an early hour, is literally perforated with bullet holes. Alonzo Kelly, her husband, is responsible for her condition. He emptied the contents of revolver into her body, and every let took effect. The woman will die. Mary Kelly received a bullet in the neck, two in the head, one in the right shoulder and one each in the breast and hand. She suffered a paralytic stroke soon after her arrival at the hospital and lost her power of speech as a result. The shooting occurred at the home of the Kellys. The husband is said to have been jealous of his wife. Kelly was arrested shortly after the shooting at the St. Louis Women's club by Special Officers Fox and Delaney and taken to the Carr Street station.—St. Louis Star. We were pained indeed to hear of this most dreadful calamity. Almost without warning, Mrs. Mary Kelly, 29 years of age, was launched into eternity. She lived at 1922 Wash street, with three small children, the oldest not eight years of age. Surely, men who can so far forget the duty they owe to wife and children as to murder the wiff of his bosom, and to make three girls orphans, is not worthy to d___ among men. A Cert in Minister. The Little Church on Poplar Street, Near 14th—A Drunkard or a Most Ignorant Man. Last Monday there was a funeral at the church, of a man that was almost a stranger among us. He died at 1311 Spruce street, at the rooming house of Mrs. White. Several young men of good repute were pall bearers. At the church the so-called minister gave vent that of a drunkard or else he was the most ignorant Negro that God ever let live. Men who claim to be of God ought to live and talk so, and men who have churches ought not to allow every man that says he is a minister to fill their pulps. North St. Louis in a Boom. Mrs. D. A. Gordon and Mr. Reed were married on last Tuesday evening. Miss Lucy Jenkins and Norvice Oneal were married November 30. Had quite a swell affair. Miss Mary Henderson and Charles Kibby are bride and groom of a month. Mr. G. W. and M. Bolan are well pleased with married life. Mr. James Henderson, of 2606 Parnell street, died Sunday, December 4. Buried Wednesday from Metropolitan church. Miss M. Brown, of 2616 Leffingwell, is at this writing very ill. Mrs. Hannah Lanson, of 2802 Montgomery street, has returned from a visit to her sister at Jacksonville, Ill. Mr. L. Burnett, of Lebanon, Ill., is now trying to get a divorce from his wife, Georgia M. Burnett. The Filipino's have gone. What will become of our lady loves. Miss Isbella Bolar and Charles Jenkins are among the few to continue the matrimonial path. A WISE LITTLE BOY. A teacher was telling a class of boys that they should all be ambitious, even to the hope of some day being president of the United States. "Every boy who hopes some day to be the president stand up," said the teacher. All stood up but Freddy, who began to cry. "Why, Freddie, don't you want to be the president?" "Boo-hoo!" sobbed Freddie: "yes, ma'am, but I can't." "Why not?" asked the teacher. "I'm a democrat." The Little Barber Shop. Mr. B. B. Hall, proprietor of the barber shop at 1326 Morgan street, is an up-to-date one. One can go there and his modesty will never suffer a shock. There is a concourse of ministers that congregate in that shop, and the air is always filled with heavenly thoughts. Would there were more places like it where one could go without hearing God's name called in vain. We congratulate the little gentleman upon his way of conducting a shop where men can gather and exchange opinions with God's representatives. $2.00 Per Annum, Single Copy 8 cents. 9. LANDERS CO. FTER THE PARTY. neon, in Chicago Daily Tribune. SAINT LOUIS FAIR The Host—"Well, It Was a Great Success. They All Said They Had a Lovely Time. Now I S'pose I'll Have to Figure Up How Much It Set Me Back." First Baptist Church Notes. Mrs. J. S. Brockman and baby, of 2724 Mills street, are quite ill at present. Mr. Brockman has also been very ill, but is better at present. Mrs. Barbara Woods, of 1237 Linden street, is very sick at this writing, December 6. She has lived there for 20 years. She is an excellent Christian. Mrs. Wilson, of 114 South Rankin avenue, left a few days ago for Dallas, Tex., on business for the True Reformers. We wish her a pleasant trip. Mrs. S. Rucks, of 2218 Morgan street, is working hard for the best interests of the Carnation club of the First Baptist church. They who work for the Lord shall be repaid ten-fold. Dr. E. C. Cole preached two sermons at the First Baptist church last Sunday-11 a. m and 7:30 p. m. He baptized two candidates and administered the Lord's supper last Sunday evening. The play which was written by Mr. Garfield Craven, "The Life of a Country Girl in the City," will be played at the First Baptist church on January 2, 1905. Mr. Craven promises to make this the finest that was ever heard at said church. Mrs. Laura Parker, of 2218 Morgan, is very sick. She has been one of our subscribers for the past four years. She was married a few months ago to Mr. Parker, who is one of Mr. W. C. Gordon's most reliable men. He is also feeling indisposed at present. The funeral of Mrs. Spates was preached last Sunday at the above church by Rev. E. M. Lawrence, of the Kayne Avenue Baptist church, of Nashville, Tenn., of which she was a good and faithful member. She died at the home of Madame Nora Lee, her sister-in-law, 1308 Clark avenue. Madame Sarah F. Louis and Miss J. Ophelia Wills will manage the entertainment and concert next Monday night, hence everyone that attends will be treated right. Go there and enjoy yourselves. The St. Louis B. Y. P. U., the largest Christian organization in the state, will hold its quarterly district meeting at the Chamber Street Baptist church next Sunday, 3 p. m. A large crowd is anticipated. The Carnation club will give a grand concert and entertainment on the night of December 12 at the First Baptist church. All money raised will be given to said church to be paid on the main debt. The public is cordially invited. Mrs. Walter Brown, of Columbus, Ky., was the guest of Mrs. H. C. Curtis, of 707 North Fourteenth street. She is the daughter of Rev. R. C. McCarmack, of Columbus, Ky. She left a few days ago well pleased with the fair and our city. The illuminated and artistic exhibition that was given by Prof. W. G. Hynes at the First Baptist church last Monday night was the grandest, as well as the greatest that was ever seen there before. Those stereoicon pictures seemed to have real life, and elicited applause from all who were present. Madame Katie L. Boswell, the vice-president of the B. Y. P. U. at the First Baptist church, is a wide-awake Christian lady, and she is the promoter of several societies which have for their purpose the upbuilding of young girls and helping the falling, sick and dying. This is indeed the best step that could be taken by any woman, hence we commend this good Christian lady to the world as the model of a true woman. vss: es <a ute gs. eg gi Seg ata SSSIISG “BE NOT. DECEIVED® , \TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. { : King of all Hair Tonics, ; 66 99 f . OZONO. : OD Gai hay Ye . bg Oy < Net \\eO Gs AG FELD NG LN \ RE. AFTER. » ‘BEFORE. eg AFTER , Recognizing the fact that there are many 80-OALLED hair-growers and hair-atraighteners now on the market, and Knowing to certainty that many of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored ace, through this great paper. In the year 1871 our late secretary, Mrs, 8M. Moore, through a fortunate N circamstance, 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 N met with marked success. A‘ter a thorough test by the colored people of that time it was crneed an honest, legitimate remedy, true to il 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 fino, and as beautiful as en April morning, Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there ure always a number of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other People’s goods, Seeing our marked success, numerous firme have entered market, offering hair-growers and hair-straighteners, many of which are Worthless, Camsing tho hair to fall out and doing great damage to tho hair tnd 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 gound a warning—be careful what you useon your hair. Do not be degeived by flaring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all iair Tonics, , OZONO-~. § which is soid with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we abso- lutely agree to forfeit $50.00 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 satisiied in every respect. ‘20,000 ‘people ‘are to-day. using ‘our preparations, ‘and every purchaser recommends Ozono as tho King of all Hair Tonics.’ Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublo- N somo Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, N snd Scurf can not live alter Ozon0 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 s statement. Many firms are advertisin; N remedies to strnightfen hair, but when they eend tho preparation they tell youtomse hot irons. Friends, do not use hot irons; they will burn up the A life of the hair, and cango it to drop out. Ozono straightens without any N outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You can stop the use at any time.’ The good effects on the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. S _ The price of Ozono is 50c. a bottle—4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is good at any time: Cut out this coupon and send tous, enclosing with it the sum of One Dollar, and we will forward to you four large boxes of Ozono and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, Which makes black akin bright; rough skin soft and pliant, and cures all S skin digeases. Also removes all facial imperfections, and actually removes small-pox pits. We will also include one ey jar of our Electrical Skin Food—Nature’s great beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth petcnes) freckles, Sand all {arial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look jonuger. .7- 7°) We wilt algo include one ackage of our todrated Scalp = which is aveolutely CHEMIOALLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever ‘The Douglass club has changed of- ters. Mr. Charles Norcise, president; ‘Mtr. John ©. Collins, manager; Mr. Jeorge Sanders, secretary. They are noving things along nicely. Mr. J. Miles has gone into another business. ‘They regretted very much to lose such wt valuable man. All wish him well in sis new business. ‘The Sons and Daughters of Rebecca No. 3 meet the second Wednesday in vach month at Eleventh and Franklin avenue, at 8 p. m. Mrs. Sadie Harris, gresident, 1529 Gratiot street; May Wil- san, vice-president, 143t Morgan street, Mes. Annie Henry, 2614 Mills street, yeeretary; Lizzie Robinson, assi.tant secretary. True Reformers’ Barber Shop Ani baths is the neatest, warmest naths'and shop in the city. Clean tow- als used in every case, for the coal man as well as the clerk in the office. Four barbers who can shave any person vith ease and satisfaction. Try them. JOHN W. ALPHRAN, Mer. Messrs. Wright & Bolen have opened 4 Grug store at 2333° Market street. These two gentlemen thoroughly wn- lerstand the drug business. They are graduates of Howard university, of Wastington, D. C. ‘They are polished gentlemen, and ask the patronage of the public. They were formerly with he Harris & Mosby drug store. Sam, the Tailor, 204-206 North Four- eenth street, has enlarged his piace. He is the leading tailor in St. Louis. Next week we will give full particulars- of his store. ‘WiN our subscribers please pay our sollecters and don’t tell them you will wee us. We can’t get around to see vou ‘all, #0 please pay them. J. W. WHEELER. ‘Those wanting new fall costumes nade will please call upon Mrs. R. H. 3rown, now called The Newstead Ave- aue Dressmaker ‘The Lousiville & Nashville road, the rely rosd to Louisville and Nashville. vl that come to the World's fair need this line. ‘The Douglass Club. NOTICE. 60° YEARS* EXPERIENCE ‘Trape Marks Desicns. 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And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in apint ackage of "Anti-Onor, ‘a positive cure for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of Womb ‘Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all smells and odors sues from the human body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. ‘The actual value of this Grand Aggrogation is $4.00, but wo let you g have it for $1.00, simply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the & mublic in general from imitations of our is, and to avoid mi stakes, we Gave placed upon our coupon our Trade-Mark, one head showing Short 4 Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U. 8. Government has granted us (| this trade-mark, and itis registered in the Patent Office at Washington #0 if the coupon has this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. Uso only the coupon having the two heads on it, As to our responsibility, wo f refer you to the Editor of Ste ee or to the Metropolitan Bank of Rich- mond, Va. We have thousands of testimonials we have not space to pub- 4 lish, ’ Hero is « sample of one: ~ d Boston Ohemical Company : 4 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 go often, it does mm good to recommend honest goods. j MAGGIE B. PROCTOR, a Here is another: Box 114, Fairfield, Texas. @& Gentlemen,—After using OZONO® short while only, I am glad to say 4 that my hair ie already straight and growing finely. ~ 5 : MISS BESSIE POWERS, i 883 Missouri street, Toledo, 0. 7 A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and gj 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., 810 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. & | I Boston Chemical Co., 4 SS 810 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. ¢ \er a Tencloso you $1.00, for which please send at once f the following goods: 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00. .1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth 50c. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c. 1 Package A GL pia, Anti-Odor, worth 0c. 1 Package’ Scalp Sop, worth 0c, - Total, $4.00. ; A Maino. s040-acseoc0ssacsecgacsaceoes +s HOUR) NOrec.ccz sacs eve ae. ec vase Schea Ste weedrezeu nado ted OUST Y hed ese. scauneouso. ere Oomntys. esas scene ys csceccnorese cies UNUO sa secy ce cecooes 7 Mm If you want 4 lots like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has gi\ no coupon, let her write her name on piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order. (* A RRA ARAL AR ARAN Sait the Tailor Fall es ee Soo Miss Mary White’s Rooming House 1311 Spruce Street Dplirerenyerys 1409 Market Strect B. MUNCHWEILER ester ta LADIES’ and GENTS’ SHOES DON'T FORGET THE [IUMBER ~ 1409 Market Sireet - Gi. W. ROBINSON, Second-Hand Furniture BOUGHT AND SOLD. Moving and Expressing, General Jobbing and Repairing of Ranges, Stoves, Etc. a Specialty. 4025 Easton Avenue 3 on Lours wo ae 6O0OO0O08 08! Louis Deppe, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Wines, Whiskies, Brandies, starkel 3t-& Jefferson Av. SL LOWS, Me Asheuser-Honch, Boer Douglass Buffet and Pool Room 1s Now OPEN Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars J. P. WATKINS, Prop. LAWTON AVE. and BEAUMONT ST. LOUIS, MO. DR. S. B. BELL, —rinst-ctass— Barber Shop and Bath, In the True Reform Hall. First-class Barbers. 8. W. Corner Pine Street and J ffer gon Avenue. —Dealarin— 7 Groceries, Wi roceries, wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Méat and Vegetable Market. iN19 and 1121 Morgan Street, ‘St, Louis, Mu Mirs. Susan Gross, 2009 Pine Strect. M Il IWINnery. Up-to-date Hats. Trimmings and all material in that!ine, MR. A. 1. DEE, Representing the PALACE LAUNDRY, guarantees sitisinetion ang promp: service. The best Collar and Cuff work Im the city. Please address alt com munications to 2625 21. Louw ayenue, ANNUAL REPORT OF COMPTROLLER Fligh Finance Figures With No Chadwickianism About Them. NUMBER OF BANKS INCREASED jpeic ae gre rey see sa em Washington, Dec. 9.—The forty-sec ‘ond report of the comptroller of the currency has been sent to congress.! The report starts with a detailed statement of the resources and liabili- ties of the national banks, as shown by the five reports of condition made in response to the call of the comp- troller. In commenting on this state~ ment, the comptroller says: ‘The number of reporting banks has increased from 5,118 on November 17, 1903, to 5412 on September 6, 1904, and there has been a gradual increase during the year in the aggregate re- sources of these associations from $6,310,429,966.37 on September 9, 1903, to $6,975,086,504.05, the increase being $664,656,537.68. With the exception of the United States and other bonds on deposit in the treasury department to secure public deposits, and the hold- ings of silver and of legal tender, there has been an increase in every item of resources, the principal increase be- ing in loans and discounts, amounting to $244,704,467.44, or from $3,481,446,- 772.04 to $3,726,151,419.48. The increase in bonds on deposit to secure circula~ tion’ was $36,839.860; other United States and miscellaneous bonds, etc., $42,295,309.56; and. in holdings of spe- cie, including coin certificates, $10%,- 192,767.59. The banks’ holdings of specie and legal-tender notes on Sep- tember 9, 1903, were $554,306,026.94, and on September 6, 1904, they were $661,456,529.53. ‘The paid-in capital stock was grad- ually increased since September, 1903, from $753,722,658 to $70,777,854, or an increase of $17,055,196. The surplus and undivided profits aggregate $583,- 137,047.94, an increase of $26,765,598.02 during the past year. The deposits of the banks—individual, government and bank—amounting to nesrly 75 per cent. of the total labilites, aggregated $5,- 130,235,940.31, a net intrease during the year of $597,804,693.93. From a classification of the loans and discounts, it is shown that nearly 22 per cent. of the total volume of loans is held by the banks located in the city of New York; over 20 per cent. by the banks located in New York, Chicago and St. Louis; about 54 per cont. by the banks located in the cen- tral and other reserve cities, leaving 46 per cent. as the proportion of the loans in banks located elsewhere than in the reserve cities. In September, 1903, approximately 18 percent. of the loans was in the New York banks, 26 per cent. in the New York, Chicago and St. Louis banks, nearly 52 per cent. in all reserve city banks and 48 per cent. in banks located elsewhere than in reserve cities. ‘The character and amount of each class of the banks’ loans in Septem- ber, 1904, were as follows: Demand paper, with one or more individual or firm names, $279,779,356; time, single- name paper, $61,024,135; demand pa- per, secured by bonds, stocks, ete., $818,937,913; time paper, secured by bonds, stocks, etc., $699,702,946; time paper, two or more individual or firm ‘names, $1,316,707,069. DOWIE IS PAYING OUT. cae araes eclaieema dt resaaiees Chitago, Dec. 9.—John Alexander Dowie has paid 60 per cent. of the debts he owed a year ago, 2nd to that extent has shown himself to be a first- class prophet. Now he says he will pay the remaining item of 40 per cent. if his creditors will be good fellowa just a little longer and give him an- other month. Dowie set his hand to divers notes on December 12, -1903, when he promised that on or before December 12, 1904, he would fulall his chosen role of the great restorer and be clear of his creditors. ‘The exact amount of the indebted- ness owed by John Alexander Dowie was never made public, but it mounted into the hundreds of thousands, tie has paid off nearly $200,000 this year, and still owes seven of his biggest creditors $125,500. The 49 per cent. of his debts which Dowie owes now, and on which he has asked another month's time, are divided among seven ‘ereditors. If Dowle can pay off all those debts by January 12 there will be a hot time in Zion that night. ppmidnbiae dir tae elec Springfield, Ill.. Dec. 9.—Goy. Yates has appointed Charles A. Hammer 1, of Stockton, Jo Daviess county, a mem- ber of the board of trusiees of the in- stitution for the education of the blind at Jacksonville, viee John A. Brown, of Decatur, deceased. Marries Predecessor's Widow. Lincoln, Ill., Dec. 9—County Judge Demald McCormick was married, Wednesday, to Mrs. Bridget Moos, widow of Judge Emil Moos, who was predecesscr 10 JuCge McCormick ¢= the benck. 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, Rev. J. D. Barkes. dale, presiding elder. St. Paul, Rey, ‘W. D. Cook; Lexington, Rev. A, 4. Gilbert; Higginsville, Rev. 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, Rey. A. O. D. Steele; Holden, Rev. M. Mc- Ferrin; Union, Rev. J. H. Randelis; Pacific, Rev. W. F. Hamilton; Osage, Rey. H.McTassell; Chamois, L. 8. Wal- son; Miami, Rev. P. W. Weaver; Pleas- ant Green, Rev. E. Thomas; Speed, Rey. J, E, S. Reed; Allen Mission, Rev. 0. W. Harris; Black Water Mission, Rey. Chas. 0. Jackson; evangelist, Mrs. Sarah V. Bean. Kansas City district, Rev. F. G. Snel- son, presiding elder. Allen Chapel, Rev. F, Jesse Peck; Bbenezar, Rev. J. F. Mc- Donald; St. John, Rev. 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. E. Christopher; Carthage and Neosho, Rey. W. B. Long; Lebanon, Rev. Henry Green; Waverly, Rev. P. W. Chester; Rey. S. S. Pitcher; Ash Grove, Rev. Henry Mitchell; Nevada, Rev. D. J. Malta Bend, Rev. J. B. Wallace; Joplin, Gordon; Ward Mission, Kansas City, Rey. Wm. Hawkins. Evangelist, Mrs. Rosetta Binkley. Cape Girardeau district, Rev. N. C. Buren, presiding elder. Cape Girar- 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, Rev. J. A. Chandley; St. Peters, Rey. T. L. Watson; Bonne Terre and Valley Mines, Rev. J. W. Wiley; Kirk- ‘wood, Rey. P. S. Cheatham; Festus and Herculaneum, Rev. F, E. Clark; Bel- ‘mont, Rey. P. Thurmon; Commerce, Rev. F. L, Scott; Fredericktown, Rev. J. R, Hopkins; Oakridge, Rev. W. P- Mealister; Quinn Chapel, Rev. C. A. Williams; De Soto and Caledonia, Rev. L. H. Harris; La Forge, Rey. Chas. Cummings; Tyler and Cottonwood, Rey. J. D, Rice; Farmington and New ‘Tennessee, Rev. J. H. 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 Rus- 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. Meots the first and third Wednes- day nights in each month at their new hail, 3719 CASS AVENUE. W. C. BLANTON, N. G. 'T. A. GREGORY, P. 8. The Ingram House FIRST-CLASS ROOMING HOUSE AT 2647 Pine Street runanaseotesad te Becerra BATH a eC VIOLET DUDLEY, Prop. ! x xX THE PALACE HOTEL, 2103 CLARK AVENUE, Beard and Rooms ST. LOUIS. ost woe Sexton & Maxwell, First-class Photographers 1407 Market St. “*Follow the Flag.” Banner Route To the Great Gateways Kensas City, Chicago, Omaha, Toledo & Buffalo. Yor cad tsetan.” Mag nificent Eqnipment and Train Service, Ticket Office, Eigth and Olive streets THE PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS Roosevelt Sends His Annual Message to Lawmakers. MANY IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Sees a Pressing Need for Labor and Trust Legislation. NO WORD ABOUT TARIFF. Leaves the Subject for a Special Message Which He Promises at a Later Date. Shows Good Results from the Work of the Agricultural Department—Outlines Our Relations with Foreign Countries and with the Philippines—Urgens Need of Adequate Naval Force as Guarantee of Peace and Asks for Revision of Immigration Laws. Washington, Dec. 5. — President Roosevelt's annual message to congress makes some 18,000 words. In accordance with established custom considerable space is devoted to a resume of the year in the administrative departments of the government, but much of the message is given up to a discussion of those subjects which are considered of vital interest to the nation, and upon many of which he deems legislation needed. It is this portion of the message which we give below. To the Senate and House of Representatives: The nation continues to enjoy noteworthy prosperity. Such prosperity is of course primarily due to the high individual average of our citizenship, taken together with our great natural resources; but an important factor therein is the working of our long-continued governmental policies. The people have emphatically expressed their approval of principles underlying these policies, and their belief that these principles be kept substantially unchanged, although of course applied in a progressive spirit to meet changing conditions. Caution Against Extravagance The enlargement of scope of the functions of the national government required by our laws, by our course, increase of expense; and the period of prosperity through which the country is passing justifies expenditures for permanent improvements far greater than would be wise in hard times. Battleships and forts, public buildings, and improved waterways are investments; the government must have the money; but abundant revenue large surplus always invite extravagance, and constant care should be taken to guard against unnecessary increase of the ordinary expenses of government. The cost of doing government business should be regulated with the same rigid scrutiny as the cost of doing a private business Capital and Labor. In the vast and complicated mechanism of our modern civilized life the dominant note is the note of industrialism; and the relations of capital and labor, and especially of organized capital and organized labor, to each other and to the public at large come second in importance. We have seen that the life of our peculiar form of government, with its sharp division of authority between the nation and the several states, has been on the whole far more advantageous to our development than a more strongly centralized government. But it is undoubtedly responsible for much of the difficulty of meeting with adequate dignified leaders, by the total change in industrial conditions on this continent during the last half-century. In actual practice it has proved exceedingly difficult, and in many cases impossible, to get unanimity of wise action among the various states on wise subjects. From the very nature of the laws affecting the employment of capital in huge masses. tion should not for one moment be tolerated. Wage-workers have an entire right to organize and by all peaceful and honorable means to endeavor to persuade their employers to join with them in organizations. They have a legal right, which, according to circumstances, not be a moral right, to refuse to work in company with men who decline to join their organizations. They have under no circumstances the right to commit violence upon those, whether capitalists or wage-workers, to refuse to support their organizations, or to withhold those with whom they are at odds; for mob rule is intolerable in any form. Employer's Liability Law. The wage-workers are peculiarly entitled to the protection and the encouragement of the law. From the very nai- nage their occupation railroad men, for instance, to be mained in doing the legitimate duties, unless the railroad companies are required by law to make ample provision for their safety. The administration has been zealous in enforcing the existing law for this purpose. That law should be required and strengthened. Wherever the national government has power there should be a stringent law for the employment law, which should apply to the government itself where the government is an employer of labor. In my message to the Fifty-seventh congress, at its second session, I urged the passage of an employer's liability law for women, a new that recommendation, and further recommend that the congress appoint a commission to make a comprehensive study of employer's liability with the view of extending the provisions of a employment and constitutional law to all employers within the scope of federal power. Medals of Honor. The government has recognized heroism upon the water, and bestows medals of honor upon those persons who by extreme and heroic daring have endangered their lives in saving, or endeavoring to save, lives from the perils of the sea in the waters over which the United States has jurisdiction, or upon an American vessel. This recognition should be extended to everyone whose cause of compassion bravery and self-sacrifice in the saving of life in private employments under the jurisdiction of the United States, and particularly in the land commerce of the nation. Prevention of Railroad Accidents. The ever-increasing casualty list upon our railroads is a matter of grave public concern, and urgently calls for action by the congress. In the matter of speed and comfort of railway travel our railroads give at least as good service as those of any other nation, and there is no reason why this service should not also be as safe as any other. In order to ensure our leading roads have been foremost in the adoption of the most approved safeguards for the protection of travelers and employees, yet the list of clearly avoidable accidents continues unduly large. The passage of a law requiring the adoption of a block signal system has been proposed to the congress. I earnestly concur in that recommendation, and would also point to the congress the urgent need of legislation to ensure safety limiting the hours of labor for railroads employed in train service upon railroads engaged in interstate commerce, and providing that only trained and experienced persons be employed in positions of responsibility connected with the operation of trains. Of course, nothing can ever prevent accidents caused by human weakness or misconduct; and there should be a system of training and experience, whether officer or mar, who by issuance of wrong orders or by disobedience of orders causes disaster. The law of 1901, requiring interstate railroads to make monthly reports of all accidents to passengers and employees on duty, should also be amended so as to empower the government to make a personal investigation, through proper officers, of all accidents involving railroads, and to provide them with a requirement that the results of such investigation be made public. The safety appliance law, as amended by the act of March 2, 1903, has proved beneficial to railway employees, and in order to ensure that the safety of inspectors provided for by appropriation should be largely increased. This service is analogous to the steamboat inspection service, and deals with even more important interests. It has passed the House of Commons and developed its utility, and should receive generous recognition by the congress. Unions of Government Employees. There is no objection to employees of the government forming or belonging to unions; but the government can neither discriminate for nor discriminate against nonunion men who are in its employment, or who seek to be employed under it. Moreover, it is a very grave impropriety for government employees to band them together, either for their own benefit or to improperly high salaries from the government. Especially is this true of those within the classified service. The letter carriers, both municipal and rural, are as a whole an excellent body of public servants. They should be amply paid. But their payment must be obtained by arguing their claims fairly and honorably before the congress, and not by banding together for the defeat of those congressmen who refuse to give promises which they cannot fulfill. They already taken steps to prevent and punish abuses of this nature; but it will be wise for the congress to supplement this action by legislation. Corporations. When we come to deal with great corporations the need for the government to act directly is far greater than in the case of labor, because great corporations can become such only by engaging in interstate commerce, and interstate commerce is peculiarly the field of the general government toinate the abuses in great corporations by state action. It is difficult to be patient with an argument that such matters should be left to the states, because more than one state pursues the policy of creating on easy terms corporations which are never operated within that state at all, but in national government alone can deal adequately with these great corporations. To try to deal with them in an intemperate, destructive or demagogic spirit would, in all probability, mean that nothing whatever would be accomplished, and with abatement or elimination it would be in compilated it would be of a harmful nature. The American people need to continue to show the very qualities that they have shown—that is, moderation, good sense, the earnest desire to avoid doing any damage, and yet the quiet determination to proceed, step by step, without halt and stop, in eliminating whatever of mischief or of evil there is to interstate commerce in the conduct of great corporations. They are acting in no spirit of hostility to wealth, either individual or corporate. They are not against the rich man any more than against the poor man. On the contrary, they are friendly alike toward rich man and toward poor man. In a spirit of justice and deceency toward his fellows. Great corporations are necessary, and only men of great and singular power can manage such corporations successfully, and such men must have great rewards. But these corporations should be managed with due regard to the rights of the poor man, and this can be done under the present laws it must be done. Where these laws come short others should be enacted to supplement them. Yet we must never forget the determining factor in every kind of work, of head or hand, must be the man's own good sense, courage and kindness. More important than any legislation is the gradual growth of a feeling of responsibility and forbearance among capitalists and wage workers alike; a feeling of respect on the part of each man for the rights of others; a feeling of broad community of interest, not merely of capitalists among themselves, and of wage workers among themselves, but of capitalists and wage workers in their relations to each other, and of both in their relations to each other, and of both in their make up the body politic. There are many captains of Industry, many labor leaders, who realize this. Bureau of Corporations. The bureau of corporations has made careful preliminary investigation of many important corporations. It will make a special report on the beef industry. The policy of the bureau is to accomplish the purposes of its creation by cooperation, not antagonism; by making constructive legislation, not destructive prosecution, the immediate object of its inquiries; by conservative investigation of law and fact, and by refusal to issue incomplete and hence necessarily inaccurate reports. Its policy being thus one of open inquiry, to ensure that the bureau has been able to gain not only the confidence, but, better still, the cooperation of men engaged in legitimate business. The bureau offers to the congress the means of getting at the cost of production of our various great staples of commerce. Of necessity the careful investigation of special corporations will afford the commissioner knowledge of certain business facts, the publication of which might be an improper infringement of private rights. The method of making public the results of these efforts is the bureauffice law, means for the protection of private rights. The congress will have all facts except such as would give to another corporation information which would injure the legitimate business of a competitor and destroy the incentive for individual superiority and thrift. The bureau has also made exhaustive examinations into the legal condition under which corporate business is carried on in the various states; into all judicial decisions on the subject; and into the various systems of corporate taxation in use. I call special attention to the report that the commissioner should ask that the congress carefully consider the report and recommendations of the commissioner on this subject. The business of insurance vitally affects the great mass of the people of the United States and is national and not local in its application. It involves a multitude of policies and examples of the different states and between American companies and foreign governments. I urge that the congress carefully consider whether the power of the state is not constitutionally be extended to cover interstate transactions in insurance. Rebates Above all else, we must strive to keep the highways of commerce open to all on equal terms; and to do this it is necessary to put a complete stop to all rebates. Whether the shipper or the railroad is to blame makes no difference; the rebate must be stopped, the abuses of the private car and private terminal-track and side-track systems must be stopped, the legislation of the Fifth Congress requires that any person or corporation be unlawful for any person or corporation to offer, grant, give, solicit, accept or receive any rebate, concession or discrimination in respect of the transportation of any property in interstate or foreign commerce whereby such property shall by any device whatever be transported at a less rate than that named in the tariffs published by the carrier must be enforced. The legislation of the Fifth Congress of the act to regulate commerce it remained a mooted question whether that act conferred upon the interstate commerce commission the power, after it had found a challenged rate to be unreasonable, to declare what thereafter should, prime to declare, be the reasonable maximum rate for the transportation in dispute. The supreme court should also note that as the law now stands the commission denounce a particular rate as unreasonable. While I am of the opinion that at present it would be undesirable, if it were not impracticable, finally to the commission with general authority to fix railroad rates, I do believe that, as a fair security to the shippers, the commission to be issued should include the signs of the given rate has been challenged and after full hearing found to be unreasonable, to decide, subject to judicial review, what shall be a reasonable rate to take its place; the ruling of the commission to take effect immediately, and to obtain unless and until it is reversed by the court of review. The government must in increasing degree supervise and regulate the commission engaged in interstate commerce; and such increased supervision is the only alternative to an increase of the present evils on the one hand or a still more radical policy on the other. In my judgment the most important legislative act now needed as regards the regulation of corporations is this act to confer on the interstate commerce commission the power to rate rates and regulate, and to stay in effect unless and until the court of review reverts it. Department of Agriculture. Department of Agriculture. The department of agriculture has grown into an educational institution with a faculty of 2,000 specialists making research in the sciences of production and congress opposing industry and indirectly, $6,000,000 annually to carry on this work. It reaches every state and territory in the union and the islands of the sea lately come under our flag. Cooperation is had with the state experiment stations, and with many other institutions and individuals. The world is carefully searched for new varieties of grains, fruits, grasses, vegetables, trees and shrubs, suitable to localities in our country; and marks benefit to our producers has resulted. The activities of our age in lines of research have reached the tillers of the soil and inspired them with ambition to know more of the principles that govern the forces of nature with which they have to deal. Nearly half of the people of this country devote their energies to growing crops. The little has been done to prepare these millions for their life work. In most lines of human activity college trained men are the leaders. The farmer had no opportunity for special training until the congress made provision for it 40 years ago. During these years progress has been made in the number of 5,000 students are in attendance at our state agricultural colleges. The federal government expends $10,000,000 annually toward this education and for research in Washington and in the several states and territories. The department of agriculture has given facilities for post-graduate work to 500 young men during the last seven years, preparing them for advanced lines of work in a department and in the state institutions. Irrigation. During the two and a half years that have elapsed since the passage of the reclamation act rapid progress has been made in the surveys and examinations of the opportunities for reclamation in the 13 states and three territories of the arid west. Construction has already been begun. The largest and most important therill of the reclamation act has completed for works which will utilize the funds now available. The operations are being carried on by the reclamation service, a corps of engineers selected through competitive civil-service examinations. This corps includes experienced consulting and constructing engineers as well as experts in environmental and legal matters, and posed largely of men who have spent most of their lives in practical affairs connected with irrigation. The larger problems have been solved and it now remains to execute with care, economy and thoroughness the work which has been laid out. All important details are being carefully considered by boards of management, selected for their thorough knowledge and their practical experience. Each project is taken up on the ground by competent men and viewed from the standpoint of the creation of prosperous homes, and of promptly refunding to the treasury the cost of construction. The reclamation act has been found to be remarkably complete and effective and is quite impressive that a wide range of undertakings has been possible under it. At the same time, economy is guaranteed by the fact that the funds must ultimately be returned to be used over again. Forests. It is the cardinal principle of the forest-reserve policy of this administration that the reserves are for use. Whatever information is used in the use of their resources is to be avoided in the means. But these resources must be used in such a way as to make them permanent. The forest policy of the government is just now a subject of vivid public interest throughout the west and to the people of the United States in general. The forest reserves themselves are of extreme value to the present as well as to the future welfare of all the western public lands, which powerfully effect the use and disposal of public lands. They are of special importance because they preserve the water supply and the supply of timber for domestic purposes, and so promote settlement under the reclamation act. Indeed, they are essential to the welfare of every one of the great interests of the west. Although the wisdom of creating forest reserves is nearly everywhere heart-recognizing yet in few localities there is been misunderstanding and complaint. The following statement is therefore desirable: The forest-reserve policy can be successful only when it has the full support of the people of the west. It cannot safely, and should not in any case, be imposed upon them against their will. But neither can we accept the views of those whose only interest in the forest is temporary; who are anxious to reap what they have not sown and then move away, leaving desolation behind them. On the other hand, where there are interest in the permanent better way the permanent business man, the man with a stake in the country, which must be considered and which must decide. I have repeatedly called attention to the confusion which exists in government forest matters because the work is scattered among three independent orchards, and only one of the great nations in which the forest work of the government is not concentrated under one department, in consonance with the plainest dictates of good administration and common sense. I have always emphasized every point of view. Merely to mention it is to prove that it should be terminated at once. As I have repeatedly recommended, all the forest work of the government should be concentrated in the larger part of the forest, the larger part of that work is already done where practically all of the trained foresters of the government are employed, where chiefly in Washington there is comprehensive first-hand knowledge of the problems of the reserves acquired by the government, to growth from the soil are already gathered, and where all the sciences auxiliary to forestry are at hand for prompt and effective cooperation. The Postal Service. In the post office department the service has increased in efficiency, and conditions as to revenue and expenditure continue satisfactory. The increase of revenue during the year was $3,358,181.10, or 6.9 per cent, the total receipts amounting to $143,382,624.34. The expenditures were $152,962,116.70, an increase of about nine per cent, over the previous year, being that $8,979,492.36 in exchanged revenue. Included these expenditures was a total appropriation of $12,966,637.35 for the continuation and extension of the rural free delivery service, which was an increase of $4,902,237.35 over the amount expended for this purpose in the preceding fiscal year. Large as this expenditure has been, the beneficent results attained in extending the free distribution of mails to the residents of rural districts in the state of New York. Statistics brought down to the 1st of October, 1904, show that on that date there were 27,138 rural routes established, serving approximately 12,000,000 of people in rural districts remote from post offices, and that there were pending at that time 3,559 petitions for the establishment of new rural routes. Unquestionably some part of the revenue has been used for the increased post facilities which the rural service has afforded. The revenues have also been aided greatly by amendments in the classification of mail matter, and the curtailment of abuses of the second-class mailing privilege. The average increase in the volume of mail matter for the period beginning with 1902 and ending June, 1905 was 40.47 per cent, for 1909 and 1910 was 40.47 per cent, for the period immediately preceding, and 15.92 for the four-year period immediately preceding. National Quarantine Law. It is desirable to enact a proper national quarantine law. It is most undesirable that a state should on its own initiative enforce quarantine regulations which are in effect a restriction upon interstate and international commerce. The question of enforcement must be made permanent alone. The surgeon general of the national public health and marine hospital service has repeatedly and convincingly set forth the need for such legislation. Currency. The attention of the congress should be especially given to the currency question, and that the standing committees on the matter in the two houses charged with the matter of our currency and see whether we can agree to an agreement in the business world for bettering the system; the committees should consider the question of the retirement of the greenbacks and the problem of securing in our currency such elasticity as would be necessary; the dollar should be made by law redeemable in gold at the option of the holder. Merchant Marine. I especially commend to your immediate attention the encouragement of our merchant marine by appropriate legislation. On the tariff I shall communicate with you later. Immigration and Naturalization There is no danger of having too many immigrants of the right kind. It makes no difference whether they are sound in body and in mind, and above all, if they are of good character, so that we can rest assured that their children and grandchildren will be worthy fellow citizens of our children and grandchildren, then we should welcome them with cordial hospitality. But the citizenship of this country should not be debased. It is vital that we should know and be aware of the many among our wage workers, and therefore we should not admit masses of men whose standards of living and whose personal customs and habits are such that they tend to lower the level of the American wage worker; and above all, we should not admit any man of an unworthy type, any man concerning whom we can say that he will himself be a bad citizen, or that his children and grandchildren will detract from instead of adding to the sum of the good people in our society, and should take the greatest care about naturalization. Fraudulent naturalization, the naturalization of impersoner person, is a curse to our government; and it is the affair of every honest voter, wherever born, to see that no fraudulent voting is allowed, that no fraud in connection with naturalization is permitted. Naturalization Laws Need Revision. There should be a comprehensive revision of the naturalization laws. The courts power to naturalize should be definite; the national authority; the testimony upon which naturalization be conferred should be definitely prescribed; publication of impending naturalization applications should be required in advance of their hearing in court; the form and uniformity of all certificates issued should be uniform; the courts should be required to make return to the secretary of state at stated periods of all naturalizations conferred. Not only are the laws relating to naturalization now defective, but those relating to citizenship of the United States ought also to be made the subject of scientific inquiry with a view to probable further legislation. By what acts the jurisdiction may be assumed to have been accomplished may how long an American citizen may be abroad and receive the protection of our respect whether any degree of protection should be extended to one who has made the declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States but has not secured naturalization, are questions of serious import, involving personal rights and often producing friction between this government and foreign governments. Upon the request our laws are silent, recommending an examination be made into the subjects of their ship, expatriation and protection of Americans abroad, with a view to appropriate legislation. Protection of Elections The power of the government to protect the integrity of the elections of its own officials is inherent and has been recognized and affirmed by repeated declarations of the supreme court. There is no enemy of free government more dangerous and none so insidious as the defends or excuses the electorate. No one defends or excuses the electorate would seem to follow that none would oppose vigorous measures to eradicate it. I recommend the enactment of a law directed against bribery and corruption in federal elections. The details of such a law may be safely left to the wise discretion of the congress, but it should go as far as under the constitution it is possible to go, and should include severe penalties against him who gives or resumes influence his act or opinion as an electorate visions for the publication not only of the expenditures for nominations and elections of all candidates but also of all contributions received and expenditures made by political committees. Our Foreign Policy. In treating of our foreign policy and of the attitude that this great nation should assume in the world at large, it is absolutely necessary to consider the army and the navy, and the congress, through which the thought of the nation finds its expression, should keep ever vividly in mind the importance of being possible to treat our foreign policy, whether this policy takes shape in the effort to secure justice for others or justice for ourselves, save as conditioned upon the attitude we are willing to take toward our army, and especially toward the attitude is not merely unwise, it is contemptible, and it is not a dignified, to use high-sounding language to preclaim its purposes, or to take positions which are ridiculous if unsupported by potential force, and then to refuse to provide this force. If there is no intention of providing and of keeping the nation up to stock up with a strong attitude, then it is far better not to assume such an attitude. Striving for World Peace. The steady aim of this nation, as of all enlightened nations, should be to strive to bring ever nearer the day when there shall prevail throughout the world the peace of justice. There are kinds of peace which are highly undesirable, which are in the long run as destructive as any war. Tyrants and oppressors have called it peace. Many times peoples who were slofful or timid or shortsited, who had been enervated by ease or by luxury, or misled by false teachings, have shrunk in unmany fashion from doing duty that was stern and that needed self-sacrifice, and have sought to hide from their own minds their own thoughts by calling them love of peace. The peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice, all these should be shunned as we shun unrighteous war. The goal to set before us as a nation, the goal which should be set before all mankind, is the attainment of which comes when each nation is not merely safe-guarded in its own rights, but scrupulously recognizes and performs its duty toward others. Generally peace tells for righteousness; but if there is conflict between the two, then our fealty is due first to the cause of righteousness. Unrighteous wars are common and righteous peace is both should be the right of freedom and the responsibility for the exercise of that right cannot be divorced. One of our great poets has well and finely said that freedom is not a gift that tarries long in the hands of cowards. Neither does it tarry long in the hands of those too slothful, too dishonorable, too humiliated. The eternal vigilance is the price of liberty must be exercised, sometimes to guard against outside foes; although of course far more often to guard against our own selfish or thoughtless shortcomings. Not Ready for Disarmament. Not Ready for Disarmament. If these self-evident truths are kept before us, and only if they are so kept before us, we shall have a clear idea of what foreign policy is, and why it is the duty of our duty to remember that a nation has no more right to do injustice to another nation, strong or weak, than an individual has to do injustice to another individual; that the same moral law applies in one case as in the other. But we must also remember that it is as much the duty of the nation to govern as it is the duty of the individual so to do. Within the nation the individual has now delegated this right to the state, that is, to the representative of all the individuals, and it is a maxim of the law that for every wrong there is a remedy. But in international law we have not advanced by any means, but have advanced in international law. There is a judicial way of enforcing a right in international law. When one nation wrongs another or wrongs many others, there is no tribunal before which the wronger can be brought. Either it is the wrong-supinely to acquiesce in the wrong, and thus put a premium upon brutality and aggression, or else it is necessary for the aggrieved nation valiantly to stay its rights; its rights is devised by the court, that is, by a degree of international control over offending nations, it would be a wicked thing for the most civilized powers, for those with most sense of international obligations and with keenest and most generous appreciation of the difference between right and wrong, to the arm. If the great day should completely disarm, the present day should immediately recrudesce of barbarism in one form or another. Under any circumstances a sufficient armament would have to be kept up to serve the purposes of international police; and until international cohesion and the sense of international duties and rights are far more advanced than at present, a nation desirous both of securing respect for itself and of protecting others, must be adequate for the work which it feels is allotted to it as its part of the general world duty. Therefore it follows that a self-respecting, just and fair setting nation should on the one hand endeavor by every means to aid in the development of the various movements which tend to render substitutes for war, which tend to render another, and indeed toward their own peoples, more responsive to the general sentiment of humane and civilized mankind; and on the other hand, that it should keep prepared, while scrupulously avoiding the use of violence wrong, in exceptional cases to take action in a more advanced stage of international relations would come under the head of the exercise of the international police. A mankind not to sink to it itself and to all mankind not to sink to helplessness before the powers of evil Second Hague Conference We are in every way endeavoring to help, with cordial good will, every movement which will tend to bring us into more friendly relations with the rest of mankind. In pursuance of this policy I shall shortly lay in place the powers which I have with all powers which are willing unto into these treaties with us. It is not possible at this period of the world's development to agree to arbitrate all matters, but there are many matters of possible difference between us and other nations which require the agreement of the request of the Interparliamentary union, an eminent body composed of practical statesmen from all countries, I have asked the powers to join with this government in a second Hague conference, at which it is hoped that the work already so accomplished will be fulfilled some steps further toward completion. This carries out the desire expressed by the first Hague conference itself. The Monroe Doctrine. In asserting the Monroe Doctrine, in taking such steps as we have taken in regard to Cuba, Venezuela and Panama, and in endeavoring to circumscribe the theater of war in the far east, and to secure the open door in China, we have acted in our own interest, as in the interest of humanity at large. That is why the interest of humanity which, while our own interests are not greatly involved, strong appeal is made to our sympathies. Ordinarily it is very much wiser we are useful for us to concern ourselves with striving for our own moral and material betterment here at home than to concern ourselves with trying to better the world we have brought to us against, and under ordinary circumstances we can do more for the general uplifting of humanity by striving with heart and soul to put a stop to civic corruption, to brutal lawlessness and violent race prejudices here at home than by passing resolutions against our brethren, less there are occasional crimes committed on so vast a scale and of such peculiar horror as to make us doubt whether it is our manifest duty to endeavor at least to our disapproval of the deed and our sympathy with those who have suffered by it. The cases must be extreme in which such a course is justifiable. There must be no better made to remove the mote from our own life than to put a stop to intolerable conditions in the beam form from our own. But in extreme cases the form must be justifiable and proper. What form the action shall take must depend upon the circumstances of the case: that is, upon the degree of the atrocity and upon our power to remedy it. The cases in which we could interfere by force of force must be put a stop to intolerable conditions in the beam form from our own. Yet it is not to be expected that a people like ours, which in spite of certain very obvious shortcomings, nevertheless as a whole shows by its consistent practice its belief in the principles of civil and religious liberty and of orderly freedom, a people whom even the worst of the worst sporadic conditions more than sporadic, so that individuals and not classes are molested in their fundamental rights—it is inevitable that such a nation should desire eagerly to give expression to its horror on an occasion like that of the massacre of the Jews in Kishineff, or when it witnesses such systematic and long-extended cruelty and oppression as the Armenians have been the victims, and which have won for them the indignant pity of the civilized world. The Philippines. In the Philippine islands there has been during the past year a continuation of the steady progress which has obtained ever since our troops definitely got the upper hand of the insurgents. The Philippine people, or, to speak more accurately, the natives, have subsumed from one another more or less sharply, who go to make up the people of the Philippine islands, contain many elements of good, and some elements which we have a right to hope stand for progress. At present they are utterly incapable of existing in independence at the same time as their own. I firmly believe that we can help them to rise higher and higher in the scale of civilization and of capacity for self-government, and I most earnestly hope that in the end they will be able to stand, if not entirely alone, yet in some such relation to the United States of America. This event is in sight, and it may be indefinitely postponed if our people are foolish enough to turn the attention of the Filipinos away from the problems of achieving moral and material prosperity, of working for a stable, orderly and just government, of a strong and independent intrigues for a complete independence for which they are as yet totally unfit. On the other hand our people must keep steadily before their minds the fact that the justification for our stay in the Philippines must ultimately rest chiefly upon the good we are able to do in the islands. I do not overlook the fact that in the development of our interests in the Philippines we must rely on the Philippines have played and will play an important part, and that our interests have been served in more than one way by the possession of the islands. But our chief reason for continuing to hold them must be that we ought in good faith to try to do our share. We have been in the worst piece of work has been imposed upon us by the results of the war with Spalia. For Elective Government. Within two weeks we shall be trying the experiment of an elective lower house in the Philippines legislature. It may be that the Filipinos will misuse this legislature, and they certainly will misuse it if they are misled by foolish persons here at home into standing an alliance with the government into any factions or improper action. In such case they will do themselves no good and will stop for the time being all further effort to advance them and give them a greater share in their own government. But if they act with wisdom and care they can be capable of electing a legislature which in its turn is capable of taking a sane and efficient part in the actual work of government, they can rest assured that a full and increasing measure of recognition will be given them. Above all they should remember that their prime minister is a moral person. It is a good thing to try the experiment of giving them a legislature; but it is a far better thing to give them schools, good roads, railroads which will enable them to get their products to market, honest courts, an honest and efficient constabulary, and that roads can be built for fair dealing between man and man, and habits of intelligent industry and thrift. If they are safeguarded against oppression, and if their real wants, material and spiritual, are studied intelligently and in a spirit of friendly sympathy, much more good will be given them, but by any means a small local poor proper through this effort may in its own proper time and place be proper enough. THEODORE ROOSEVELT 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. Beatrice Ross.....Secretary. C. H. 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The St. Louis Palladium is sold at the following places: 2617 Lawton avenue. 2614 Stoddard avenue. SEVEN POINTERS FOR THE READING AND ADVERTISING PUBLIC. (1) THE ST. LOUIS PALLADIUM IS in its 20th year of regular publication. (2) Never has missed an issue. (3) No fake subscription list to "catch" honest advertisers. (4) More bona fide subscribers than any other Negro paper in St. Louis or State. (5) The ONLY Negro newspaper published in St. Louis as the organ of the Republican party. (6) Because it is the official organ of Wright Camey Political Club. (7) Because it is fearless in denouncing crime regardless of consequences. 69 JOTTINGS. The value of Missouri's farm crops for 1904 is estimated at $161,880,100. President Roosevelt and President Diaz of Mexico will meet in New Orleans next spring. With the closing of the World's fair St. Louis has dispensed with 400 of her emergency police. France has decorated Miss Florence Hayward with the ribbon of the academy for World's fair service. Secretary Morton refuses to be governed by political or social considerations in making navy assignments. The official returns from Kentucky show a majority for the head of the democratic electoral ticket of 11,893. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw estimates the cost of government for fiscal year, ending June 30, 1906, at $619,669,852. Republican congressmen are advising the cutting down of appropriations, having learned that the treasury is rather low. Missouri's educational exhibits at the World's fair received a total of 148 awards in grand prizes, gold, silver and bronze medals. The total attendance at the World's fair for the seven months was 18,740,073, or a daily average of a fraction more than 100,217. Trinity church, New York, forbids its pastors to marry any divorced persons and forbids the use of any of its chapels for such a wedding. Arba Nelson Crane, who served as president of the St. Louis Law Library association since 1881, died, Monday afternoon, after a long illness. Congressman Shackleford, of Missouri, has returned from a month's visit to the isthmus of Panama, much enthused with the canal project. Harry M. Coudrey has served notice on Ernest E. Wood that he intends to contest his election in the Twelfth Missouri district before congress. State Treasurer-elect Gmelich of Missouri announces that he will pay no warrant until money therefor has been appropriated by the Missouri general assembly. --- John Miles shot and killed George Bradley at his home near Game, six miles west of Caruthersville, Mo., Wednesday evening, during a quarrel over rent. Marshal Schies, of Sickles, Okla., died suddenly at Bridgeport, after announcing he had been posioned. A week ago he was married to Miss Loula Looekaba. Chicago courts were roundly scored for the too liberal use of the habeas corpus writ in an opinion handed down with other decision by the Illinois supreme court. Only three persons have made application for the Cicil Rhodes scholarship at Oxford university, England, which is awarded annually at the Missouri university. The executive committee of the St. Louis Business Men's league, after general discussion, held in abeyance the question of advocating a new charter for St. Louis. November was the dryest month of that designation, at St. Louis, since the weather bureau was established there in 1871. The precipitation was only .54 of an inch. Gen. Piet A. Cronje says he will not return to South Africa for at least a year, but has signed a contract with W. A. Brady to appear in a Boer war spectacle in New York. Attorney-General Hamlin of Illinois says that the poolrooms in Madison can be suppressed in ten days if the state's attorney and county officers will enforce the provisions of the law. Prof. Hugo Munsterberg, of Harvard, declares that the Monroe doctrine has become obsolete and advises that some one of the powers should dominate the Central American republics. Thomas K. Niedringhaus, who is in New York city, declares that the story of a $25,000 campaign contribution from the republican national committee to carry Missouri is absolutely untrue. Atorney-General Crow of Missouri is in Washington to argue the case involving the Missouri beer inspection law, which was appealed by the Pabst brewery from the Missouri supreme court. For failing to report a robbery which occurred in an alleged immoral house to his captain, Officer William J. Haberstroh, of the central district, St. Louis, was fined $50 and reprimanded. E. H. Frisby, of Harrison county, was chosen by the republican senatorial convention of the Fourth Missouri district to succeed Senator John C. McKinley, lieutenant-governor-elect. The convention took 231 ballots. Ex-Gov. David R. Francis, president of the St. Louis Exposition Co., is probably the most elaborately-decorated man in America. Kings, prince and potentates have showered decorations upon him until, if he wore them all at once, he would glitter like a circus wagon. Among the lot are the red eagle of Prussia, the crown of Italy, the Leopold I. of Belgium, the sun and lion of Persia, the double dragon of China, and the cross of the Legion of Honor of France. Antioch Church Items. Antioch Missionary circle met in their regular meeting, Sunday, the 4th, at the close of morning service. After the regular business, the circle went into the election of officers. The following were elected: President, Mary A. Lawrence; vice-president, Mrs. Anna Williams; secretary, Mrs. Carrie Bray; asistant secretary, Miss A. B. Thompson; treasurer, Mrs. Susan Rodgers; chaplain, Mrs. Adi Jenkins. Rev. W. L. Batchlor was present by invitation and made quite a talk, his subject being "Workman Needed." His remarks were good and all enjoyed them. Rev. Gray was introduced and said a few words in the way of encouragement to the missionaries, which was much appreciated. The pastor in charge, Rev. S. P. Anderson, preached a fine spirited and practical sermon, Sunday, the 4th, at 11 a. m., from 2nd. Peter, 1 chapter, 4 verse. After reading the following 3 verses, the speaker urged that we as Christians have more patience—in fact, put in practice all the 3 verses, and by so doing become stronger and known more of Christ. At 8 p. m. Rev. Poster, of Kentucky, preached a very good sermon from Matthew 5 chapter and 14th verse. On account of next Sunday being Covenant and Communion, the last in this year, the B. Y. P. U. will not attend in a body the quarterly meeting of the city union to be held Sunday, the 11th, at 3 p. m. at Chamber Street Baptist church. The writer counsels the president of the union to stay at home as it is the duty of every member to be present to partake of the Lord's supper. A society was organized at Antioch church, Monday, the 4th, with about forty-five members, to be known as the McKinney Mutual Aid Benevolent Society. The following persons were elected as officers for one year: Mrs. Susan Rodgers, president; Mary A. Lawrence, vice-president; Jos. A. Smith, secretary; Miss Emeline Phillips, assistant secretary; Mr. George Edwards, treasurer; J. O. Edwards, chaplain. THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI. 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. At 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. PLEASE COPY THIS. Sick at 1311 Spruce street is Mr. Thomas Brown, almost among stangers. He has a sister in Memphis, Tenn., but she 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 Palliaium. 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. Representative-Elect Thomas Owen, of Park county, Ind., was killed by a falling tree. William Whiteworth, aged 65, publisher of the Moweequa (Ill.) Republican, died Wednesday. Twelve successive strikes have given Louis Simones, member of a Chicago bowling team, the much-coveted score of 300. The British steamer Cumbal, Capt. Barry, from New York, October 27, for Valparaiso and Callao, has foundered near the straits of Magellan. Fred Carpenter, a Laplander, and late employee at Zeigler, Ill., was instantly killed in Jupiter mine No. 3 at Duquoin, Ill., by an explosion. William Robbins, a veteran steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river, was found dead in the pasture at his country home, two miles west of Hannibal, Mo. The Faulkner-Webb company, packers at Indianapolis, Ind., have failed for $70,000. The company has branches at Brownsburug, Ind., and Van Wert, Ohio. The senate has reached a decision to vote on the Philippine civil government bill providing for the construction of railroads in the islands on the 16th inst. Speaker Cannon informs members of the house that no expensive legislation will be possible at this session of congress, and that a rigid policy of economy will be enforced. SAN ANTONIO & ARANSAS PASS RAILWAY COMPANY 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, Bceville, Skidmore, Runge, Cuero, Yorktown, Hallettsville, Rock Island, Yoakum, Giddings, Cameron, Luling, Rockport, Kennedy, Karnes City, Flrcresville, 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. KEEP THE FLAG FLYING. ELIZABETH TEMPLE NO. 12 ——OP THE—— S. M. T. Meets the Seddon Monday in the afternoon at 2:30 p. m. and the Fourth Friday night at 8:00 p. m. in each month, True Reformer's Hail; 2900 Pine Street. 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. Agents Wanted Agents Wanted 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 James L. Mays, Proprietor BARBERS Joseph Lee - L. J. Jonkins. 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 ST. LOUIS, MO. Sam, the Tailor Is the Place to Get Your Fall and Winter Suits Made to order. One of the Best 204 North 14th Street. 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. BARBER SHOP, 105 N. 13th Street. Shaving, Shampooing, 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. FANNIE LEE World's Fair Artist Pictures of all kinds called for and delivered. All sizes crayon, pastel, water color and oil paintings a specialty. Fine frames and high-grade work. Terms reasonable. Cash or credit. Also lessons given. Call or write to 456 NORTH SARAH ST. Electa Temple, No. 31. S. M. T. Meets Second Thursday of each month at 8:00 p. m., Knights of Pythias Hall, Lucas and Jefferson Ayes. Mrs. 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 Bratts 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 Streets. ST. LOUIS, MO. JOHN H. BURKE THE ALABAMA RESTAURANT 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. [Picture of a man in a suit with a medal on his chest]. 711 North 14th Street. Branches 1433 and 1519 Lucas Avenue, ST. LOUIS, MO. LENRY BROWN. JELIA BROWN. Pioneer Press. ODD FELLOWS' BAND and ORCHESTRA Under the direction of S. J. LANE, TEACHER OF MUSIC. OFFICE: 1323 WASH STREET. [Name] THE STAR FURNISHED ROOT MAN Rooms like Home, Sweet, Sweet Home 705-701-709 North Fourteenth Street "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 this Bank to Help You. You can than twenty good resolves without it. Not a Toy, BUT HIGH-CLASS-MONEY SAVER Handsomely finished either in Nickie or Oxidized Copper. To-Morrow Never Comes. GET IT NOW! H. C. CURTIS, set. 4 aert THE CHURCH OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY METROPOLITAN ROCK CHURCH, 2625 MORGAN STREET, ONE OF THE LARGEST CHURCHES IN THE WEST. REV. DR. HOLLAND, PASTOR. 40 We shall call daily on our subcrib- be ready, as we must now get down to ers to collect for the Falladium. Please business. The American Eagle's Clerk. Mrs. George F. Moody, of 5110 Hibbard avenue, Chicago, Ill. She was formerly clerk in the American Eagle office when that bird was flying high. Since she quit the walks of that office The Eagle has gone where the woodbine twineth. She will soon leave for the Windy City. Hannah Elias Asks for Jury New York.—Counsel for Hannah Elias, the Negress who, it is alleged, obtained $880,000 from John R. Platt by extortion, asked Justice Truax, of the supreme court, for a trial by jury. Counsel for Platt opposed the granting of the motion and Justice Truax reserved decision. At a time when prices are generally reduced, the Sugar trust has made an advance of 25 per cent. in the cost of sugar. It is said that the trust is trying to replenish its treasury. Richard Canfield, against whom District Attorney Jerome of New York has tried for years to get evidence, pleaded guilty, Wednesday, to keeping a gambling house, and was fined $1,000, as was also his manager. For Lane's Tabernacle C. M. E. church, 3966 Fairfax avenue, 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 meeting; Thursday evening, sewing circle; Friday night, class meeting. REV. O. B. HEAVLOW, Pastor. Residence, 3966 Fairfax Ave. MEN AND WOMEN OF MARK. Frank Scott. W. H. Berzey. Ralph Meyers. W. H. Dorsey. W. C. Gordon. J. G. Pettiford. J. M. M. Stokes. Geo. B. Vashon. George Richardson. Mrs. A. Wheeler. Robert Portwright. Mrs. E. Reynolds. Look to Your Walk Look to your walk. It has more to do with your success or failure than you, perhaps, dream of. Don't slouch. Don't wobble. Don't shuffle. Don't strut. Walk like a man who is determined to play a man's part in life, with head erect and feet planted firmly on the ground. One may see, on the streets of a city, every day, many people who are walking failures. There is not the slightest energy in their movements. Their whole bearing gives testimony of their weakness. How do we know that they are failures? Nothing is simpler. There is a subtle connection between the mind and the body. The mental attitude is reflected in the spontaneous movements of the body, and you can very quickly tell by a man's walk and general bearing whether his mind is alert, his spirit progressive and earnest, and his whole being full of life and vigor and determination, or he is a slipshod, lazy, lifeless creature.—Success. A large elevator owned by the South Texas Grain Co. at Houston, Tex., burned, on the 4th, entailing a loss of $130,000, partly covered by insurance. Hugh McLaughlin, the former Brooklyn (N. Y.) political leader, is dead. Newport Hotel, EUROPEAN. 2321-23 Market Street in the heart of the Colored Business District. Steam heated throughout. Conveniences Unsurpassed. Rates by the Day, Week or Month at Reason- able. Address MARION A. BROOKS, 2323 Market Street 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. J. M. H. Dorsey Wood, Coal & Ice, EXPRESS WAGON Hauling to all Parts of the City 2629 Morgan St. WILLIAM T. DAVIS. SHAVING PARLOR, 2811 Manchester Avenue. First-Glass Barber Shop and First-Glass Work Guaranteed. Coal, Kindling, Wood. HAULING AND EXPRESS WAGONS. TRUNKS CONVEYED FROM OR TO UNION STATION. Office: 4017 Easton Avenue. MR. C. YOUNG. Telephone—Kinloch C-397. THEO. H. TEMPEL, Dealer in Staple and Fancy GROCERIES. 2601 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. California Canned Goods a Specialty. 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. ```markdown ``` A. H. 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, W. T. Curtis' Newport Buffet, 2323 MARKET STREET. Liquors and Cigars RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION ials can be Ordered by Telephone, Kinloch C 11 s Anheuser Beer. 2323 The JEFFE BAR... Choice Wines and W of the Best Bran 715 North Twelfth ORGE WILLIAMS, Pr MIXERS. JO quarters for Colored Profession ROSEBUD B TOM TURPIN, Proprietor. ROOM IN CONNECT s of Applegate's Old Rosebu CLASS CAFE in Rear. Open all N All Prices. Private Dining-Room. MARKET ST., ST. LOU PHONE: Kinloch D855. Wines, Liquors and Cigars. RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION Meals can be Ordered by Telephone, Kinloch C 1199 Also the Famous Anheuser Beer. 2323 Market St DAVE YOUNG, MIXERS. JOHN H. CLARK, Night. Day. Headquarters for Colored Professionals. THE ROSEBUD BAR, POOL ROOM IN CONNECTION. 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 HOME FOR LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN AND GOLD BATHS, 25 O 4 MARKET STREET, - ST. LOUIS, I PALACE BATH HOUSE 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, 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. SHORT ORDERS A SPECIALTY. 2321 Market Street, St. Louis, Mo. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. QUICK SERVICE MEALS AT ALL HOURS. LOWERY & MASON, OH DALLAS, OF FORT WORTH, PETER H. BURTON The JEFFERSON BAR.... Choice Wines and Whiskies of the Best Brand. 715 North Twelfth Street RGE WILLIAMS, Prop. 2601 LAWTON AVENUE, N. W. Cor. Jefferson and Lawton Aves. Open Day and Night. Both Telephones. R. J. RAYMOND, Attorney - at - Law, 1111 Clark Ave.. St. Louis, Mo. We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only p tically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. A. RUSSELL, Livery Boarding and UNDERTAKIN only thoroughly experienced and thou my competent Colored Undertakers in the A. RUSSELL, boarding and UNDERTA We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only practically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. A. RUSSELL, Livery Boarding and UNDERTAKING We have our own conveyances at Carriages furnished for B116-20-22 Market St., ST. LOUIS Porters and Waiters THE C HUGH B. WHITE, ...SALO At 1911 Ma (Opposite Union Choice Wines, Liquors, Cig .CAFE IN CON Remember the Gen TELEPHONE K to have our own conveyances and do all our own work Carriages furnished for all occasions. Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone Parters and Waiters Headquarters THE GEM HUGH B. WHITE, Proprietor of ...SALOON... At 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) Wines, Liquors, Cigars, and the best CAFE IN CONNECTION Remember the Gem. 1911 Market TELEPHONE K 1386A. We have our own conveyances and do all our own work. Carriages furnished for all occasions. 211S-20-22 Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Telephone, 0-390 Porters and Waiters Headquarters. THE GEM. HUGH B. WHITE, Proprietor of ...SALOON... At 1911 Market St. (Opposite Union Station) Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars, and the best up-to-date ..CAFE IN CONNECTION.. Remember the Gem, 1911 Market. TELEPHONE K 1386A. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY. BILLIARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION. EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. The Brunswick Saloon, SILLIARD ROOMS IN CO EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. Brunswick Sal The Brunswick Saloon, G. W. HOLT, Proprietor. 1925 Market Street, (Near U Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. 5 Market Street. (Near Union LIquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. 1925 Market Street, (Near Union Station), Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. ST. LOUIS. Fine Wines Imported and and Liquors. Domestic Cigars. DYE'S fet and Pool Ro DYE'S Buffet and Pool WM. P. DYE. Proprietor. 2801-3 Manchester Ave., Telephone—Kinlo TELEPHONE: KINLO JAMES H. HARRISON, Phar. D. HARRISON & Funeral Directors AND EMBALMERS, 2743 Wash Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. All Work First Class. Successful Embalm Calls Answered Prompt SEE Maurer Meat and CASH MARKET 1402 MARKET No. 6 S. Fourteenth Street. TELEPHONES: BELL. Main 2103-A KINLOCH, D-25 BBB 2606 FRANKLIN AVENUE 8 and 10 South Je THE JOCKEY 3924 SOPHIE CHOICE WINES, LIQUOR Manchester Ave., St. L. Telephone—Kinloch B-1812. TELEPHONE: KINLOCH A. 1275. HARRISON, Phar. D. GEO. V HARRISON & McKOIN TELEPHONE: KINLOCH A. 1275. JAMES H. HARRISON, Phar. D. GEO. W. McKOIN. HARRISON & McKOIN, First Class. Terms Most R Successful Embalming Guaranteed. Answered Promptly, Day or SEE Rurer Meat and Provision CASH MARKETS: 1402 MARKET STREET. Fourteenth Street. Branch: 3204 La TELEPHONES: TELEPHON 003-A KINLOCH, D-25 BBLL, Lindell 1004-A KI 6 FRANKLIN AVENUE. KINLOCH C 8 and 10 South Jefferson Ave. JOCKEY SALO 3924 SOPHIE AVENUE. WINES, LIQUORS AND Calls Answered Promptly, Day or Night. Maurer Meat and Provision Co. CASH MARKETS: 1402 MARKET STREET. No. 5 S. Fourteenth Street. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. TELEPHONES: BELL, Main 2103-A KINLOCH, D-25 BELL, Lindell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1023 2606 FRANKLIN AVENUE. KINLOCH C 720. 8 and 10 South Jefferson Ave. THE JOCKEY SALOON, CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS, One Block West of Fair Grounds. WILLIAM DOVER, Proprietor IAM DOVER, Prop WILLIAM DOVER, Proprietor rienced and the only praec undertakers in the city. SELL, DERTAKING and do all our own work. all occasions. MO, MO. Telephone, 0-390. Headquarters. GEM. Proprietor of LON... Market St. (on Station) wars, and the best up-to-date. CONNECTION.. in. 1911 Market. 1386A. ARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION. BY FIRST-CLASS. Rock Saloon, eet, (Near Union Station), Losos. ST. LOUIS. Imported and Domestic Cigars. E'S Pool Room, proprietor. OCH A. 1275. GEO. W. McKOIN. R McKOIN, Terms Most Reasonable. ing Guaranteed. Notly, Day or Night. Provision Co. MARKETS: T STREET. Branch: 3204 Laclede Ave. TELEPHONES: MILL, Lindell 1004-A KINLOCH D-1038 NUE. KINLOCH C 720. Jefferson Ave. Y SALOON, AVENUE. CIGARS AND CIGARS, ER, Proprietor St. Louis, Mo. Missouri State Gleanings. RESERVE PLAN INDORSED. Executive Committee of St. Louis Business Men's League Approves Roberts' Project. Lieutenant W. F. Roberts, commanding the naval reserve of Missouri, presented to the executive committee of the St. Louis Business Men's league, the other day, the need of a naval reserve, fully equipped and financed, in Missouri, and asked support for a bill which will be introduced at the coming session of the state legislature. The bill was indorsed. This bill will provide for a naval reserve of four divisions, of about eighty men each, to be a part of the national guard of Missouri, and subject to duty either as infantry, artillery or seamen. Already there are naval reserves in 22 states, in four of which the drill and instruction is conducted on rivers. In Delaware and Pennsylvania it is on the Delaware river, and in Illinois and Louisiana on the Mississippi. Lleut. Roberts hopes, if this bill is passed, to secure, in addition to the usual quota of money from the federal government, a ship for training purposes, which will be placed in the St. Louis harbor. Death of Peter C. Van Metre. Peter C. Van Metre died at the hospital for the insane at Nevada. Mr. Van Metre was born at Middletown, Ind., in 1860; moved with his parents to Holden, Mo., and there learned the printer's trade. In 1886 he became proprietor of the Holden Herald, and in 1889 was appointed postmaster at Holden by President Harrison. In 1893 he moved to Warrensburg and became editor of the Standard Herald. In 1897 he was appointed postmaster at Warrensburg by President McKinley, and was reappointed in 1902 by President Roosevelt. Shortly after his reappointment his mind failed, and for two years and five months he had been an inmate of the Nevada hospital. After Mr. Van Metre became insane his wife was appointed postmistress at Warrensburg to fill his unexpired term. St. Charles Bank Solvent. D. B. Seibert, state bank examiner, has completed his investigation into the affairs of the St. Charles savings bank, and reports the shortage of Cashier A. F. Mispagel to be $78,826.74. This is nearly $29,000 more than at first supposed. Immediately after the examiner concluded his work, the directors compiled a statement, using his figures, to show that the institution is till in a thoroughly solvent condition. This statement, which is certified to by Mr. Seibert, sets forth that the assets of the bank amount to $518,616.39, while it owes depositors only $466,-137.86. This leaves a balance of $52,-478.53 in favor of the depositors. An Interesting Case. Mrs. Nevada Bothman was arrested in St. Louis. She is charged with bigamy, it being alleged that she has had seven husbands. Two of them are the plaintiffs in the prosecution. The woman has threatened to implicate one of the plaintiffs in a murder mystery, and a sensational affair is expected to be aired in the courts. Mrs. Bothman (or Bolz, or McCormack) admits that she has more than one husband living, but says that only one marriage is legal. Sad Home-Coming For Husband. In the presence of her 4-year-old son, and while her two other small children were sleeping in an adjoining room, Mrs. William Thart, aged 26, committed suicide at her home in St. Louis by shooting herself through the heart. Her husband, a Frisco engineer, was out on his run and returned home an hour after the tragedy to find his wife dead. Ill health is thought to have prompted the woman's deed. Primary to Select Postmuster. Congressman-elect C. M. Shartel's unique method of distributing federal patronage in the Fifteenth district will begin December 15 at Nevada, where a primary will be held for the selection of a candidate for postmaster. All republicans in Center township and democrats who voted for Roosevelt are eligible to vote. There are six candidates: D. W. Graves, Col. H. Mitchell, A. Ambrose, J. W. Russell, J. C. Light and Mrs. M. A. Martin. Power Mouse Damaged by Fire. Fire damaged a plant of the Union Electric Light and Power Co., in St. Louis, necessitating the use of candles and kerosene lamps in the section of the city depending upon this plant for light. The loss is estimated at $35,000. Its Chlef Attraction. Charles Monk, of Carthage, recently bought a burro colt which is attracting much attention because it looks like an overgrown jackrabbit. Jury Said Not Gulity. In the circuit court at Kansas City, D. Lanznar, of St. Louis, was acquitted of the charge of conspiracy to defraud. L. M. Jones was the plaintiff. Acquitted of Murder Charge. Mrs. Berlina Quinton, charged with murdering her 11-year-old stepson, was acquitted at Chillicothe. A special term of court tried the case. Bevier Miners Resume. Bevier Miners Resume. Mine No. 15 of the Black Diamond Coal Co., in the Bevier district, has resumed work, the company having won almost a complete victory. TO HONOR FAMOUS SCOUT. Bones of Jim Bridger Will Rest Beneath a Monument in Kansas City. The bones of Jim Bridger, famous scout and discoverer of Great Salt lake, will be brought from an obscure grave on a farm ten miles south of Kansas City for final burial in a Kansas City cemetery. A granite monument seven feet high will be unveiled. Mrs. Mary Leightle, Bridger's grand-daughter, will unveil the monument. A life-sized bust of the old frontiersman and an inscription telling of his greatest deeds will be sculptured upon the shaft. The expense is being borne by Gen. Granville M. Dodge, who, as engineer of the Union Pacific railway, was indebted to Bridger for the discovery of a pass through the Rocky mountains, through which the railway was built. From 1824 until late in the 60's, Bridger probably was the west's greatest mountaineer, frontiersman, trader guide and fighter. He was the chief of five of the most powerful Indian tribes, the founder of Fort Bridger, and the discoverer of South Pass. "Vulcan" Offered to St. Louis. "Vulcan" Offered to St. Louis. The great statue of Vulcan, in the Alabama section of the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy, on the World's fair grounds, has been offered to St. Louis by J. A. McKnight, executive commissioner from Alabama, in letters mailed to Mayor Rolla Wells and Pierre Chouteau, of the public museum. It was the original intention of the Alabama commissioners to remove the statue to Birmingham, Ala., but this project was abandoned. Commissioner McKnight believes that the statue could remain where it is after the building in which it is located is removed without detracting from its beauty. The statue rests upon piles driven into the ground for 35 feet, sustaining the weight of 100,000 pounds. It is 50 feet in height, and rests upon a pedestal 5 feet high. Commissioner McKnight declares that the statue can not be duplicated for less than $40,000. The statue is of iron and was cast from a plaster cast made by G. Moretti, a New York sculptor. Seven cars were required to bring the statue from Birmingham to St. Louis. The cost of the iron alone was $2,000. It has been proposed to take the statue to San Francisco and erect it at the entrance to Golden Gate harbor, mounting a torch in the uplifted hand. Insurance Bureau Receipts. State Superintendent of Insurance Yates has paid into the state treasury $896.95, the earnings of his department for the month of November, as against $1,252.90 for the corresponding month last year, a decrease of $355.95. The department, however, at this time is $4,000 ahead of last year. Judge Chrisman Quits Bank. Judge George Lee Christman, presiding judge of the Jackson county court, has retired from the banking business. His stock and that of W. L. Byrant in the Chrisman-Sawyer Banking Co., at Independence, has been purchased by Albert M. Ott and John R. Coggswell. Was Cousin of Lincoln. Archibald Lincoln, 83 years old, died at Liberty. He was born in what are now the limits of Liberty, August 7, 1821, soon after his father had immigrated from Tennessee. He was a cousin of President Lincoln, and resembled him strongly in personal characteristics. Blind Man Disappears. The mysterious disappearance of Emmond Greenspoon, aged 73, a blind man, from the St. Louis Bank of Commerce, where he had just cashed a check for $375, has caused his relatives to fear that he has met with foul play, and an investigation is in progress. Crow in Washington. Attorney-General Crow is in Washington to argue the case involving the Missouri beer inspection law, which was appealed by the Pabst brewery from the Missouri supreme court. Forest Fires Do Damage. Considerable damage has been entailed by forest fires in the lowlands south of Benton. Some of the farmers have had hard fights with the flames to save their corn crops. Hunter Killed by Farmer Boy. In a fight between three hunters and two farmer boys, inside the St. Louis city limits, Thomas Inman, aged 19, a hunter, was shot through the head and killed. 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. 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. Montgomery Appointed Judge. Gov. Dockery has announced the appointment of J. W. Montgomery as probate judge of Hickory county, vice Joseph Hartman, who resigned. To Knobnoster From Holden. Rev. H. R. Murphy, pastor of the Christian church at Holden, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Christian church at Knobnoster. SHORT STORIES. Rev. Dr. Rainsford, the New York preacher, was arguing with a youth of his parish about the evils of young men smoking cigarettes. "What would you think," he said, "if you met an angel coming along with a cigarette in his mouth?" "Well, doctor, what would you think if you saw an angel with an umbrella and a pair of patent leather?" One of Sir Archibald Gelke's stories tells of a funeral party at a railway station and is typically Scotch, as showing the proverbial caution of those canny folk. A gentleman asked one who seemed to be a mourner if he were with the funeral. "Man," said the person addressed, "I'm no just sure that it is a funeral, for the corp has missed the train connection." --- Some merchant in Paris hit upon the novel scheme of advertising hair tonic by painting the name of the tonic on the heads of bald-headed men and having them walk through the street bare-headed. But Paris has a law that all advertisements in public places must have a revenue stamp, and the men kicked against having the stamps pasted on their heads, so the plan has failed. An old Rhode Island farmer was trying to convert a neighbor to socialism. He explained his idea of it, and professed his willingness to abide by its tenets. "Why," said he, "under socialism, if I had two heifers, I'd give you one; if I had two horses, I'd give you one." "If you had two pligs, would you divide with me?" asked the neighbor. "Ah," said the old socialist, reproachfully, "there ye're gettin' too near home. Ye know I've got two pligs." The latest story of an Englishman's inability readily to grasp the meaning of American slang tells how one of them saw a man knocked down by an automobile in Fifth avenue, New York. He helped the man to his feet and said solicitously: "Did the auto hit you?" The victim thought the stranger was guying him and replied griffly: "Oh, go chase yourself." The Englishman, in telling of the incident, said: "Most remarkable request, don't you know, for how could I chase myself unless there were two of me?" EVERY WALK IN LIFE. A. A. Boyce, a farmer, living three and a half miles from Trenton, Mo., A. A. Boye and a half mays: "A se- vere cold settied in my kidneys and developed so quickly that I was obliged to lay off work on account of the aching in my back and sides. For a time I was unable to mays: "A severe cold settled in my kidneys and developed so quickly that I was obliged to lay off work on account of the aching in my back and sides. For a time I was unable to walk at all, and every makeshift I tried and all the medicine I took had not the slightest effect. My back continued to grow weaker until I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills, and I must say I was more than surprised and gratified to notice the back ache disappearing gradually until it finally stopped." Doan's Kidney Pills sold by all dealers or mailed on receipt of price, 80 cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Cuff Buttons $L25 pair The most experienced shopper neve: gets a bargain at a church fair. A woman doesn't require nearly so much material to make trouble as she does to make a dress. A man who gets down on his knees to propose will be there for the rest of his life, if he is accepted. A girl always thinks a man is truthful when he tells her that she is beautiful, even when she knows she isn't. It takes a smart man to catch a widow, but any young thing with big blue eyes and an innocent look can capture a widower. The Pills That Cure Sick Nerves Mrs. Dora B. Frazier, No.140 Althea St., Providence, R. I., has been cured of Nervous Prostration by the use of She says: "I suffered for three years and was several times at the point of death. My weight went down to seventy-five pounds. I was afflicted with nervousness, dizziness, suffocating spells, swelling of limbs, sleeplessness and irregularities. I had a good doctor but he could not help me. The first box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills did me good and I continued their use until I was cured. I am now perfectly well." These pills are a specific for all disorders of the nerves from neuralgia to partial paralysis. Sold by all Druggists. The Recomly Enlarged Edition of WEBSTER'S INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY 25,000 NEW WORDS, Etc. New Gazetteer of the World New Biographical Dictionary 2380 Quarto Pages. New Plates. 5000 Illustrations. Should be in Every Home, School, and Office Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., Editor of The Outlook, says Webster has always been My favorite in our house. I have seen no reason to transfer my allegiance to any of his competitors. FREE, "A Text in Pronunciation," instructive and entertaining. Also illustrated pamphlets. G. & C. MERRIAM CO. Publishers, Springfield, Mass. LIVE STOCK AND ELECTROTYPES MISCELLANEOUS In great variety for sale at the lowest prices by K. K. KELLOGG NW HIPFAER CO., IS W. Adams, B. Chicago AN INVITING PPOSPECT. Will Canada in the next quarter of a century take the place of the United States as the great wheat exporting section of the western hemisphere? Everything points that way. In the opinion of experts the United States has reached high water mark as a wheat exporting country. The increasing population over there has reached the point when home consumption is becoming annually greater in proportion than the increase in wheat production. As a matter of fact wheat production is decreasing over there as the land becomes more valuable and by reason of the demand for other forms of produce for home consumption. It is said that the wheat crop this year is not more than 70 per cent. of the crop of 1901 and much below the crops of 1902 and 1903. It is estimated that this year the United States surplus for export will not be over 100,000,000, which is less than any year since 1878 with two exceptions. Not only is this the case, but a considerable quantity of the best Canadian wheat is being imported into Minnesota and also Chicago. All this tends to keep the price of wheat near the dollar mark, and "dollar wheat" is the loadstone that will attract farmers to the Canadian Northwest, where land is cheap and can be farmed on a wholesale basis, particulars of which may be had from any agent of the Canadian Government. The reduction of American exports will have the double influence of increasing Canadian production and keeping up the price. It constitutes a roseate prospect for this country, and needs no exercise of optimistic enthusiasm to foresee the near expansion of the Dominion into the actual position of the "granary of the empire." PARAGRAPHIC PERSONALS The late George G. Vest left an estate of $150,000. Manuel Garcia, at one time a noted singer, is living in London. He is 100 years old. Mrs. Louise G. Smith, whose mother was a sister of Thomas Jefferson, is dead at Louisville. Although 85 years old, Mrs. Sarah McLaughlin, of Lynn, Mass., does a good day's work binding shoes. Hon. Manuel Lucuino Diaz, secretary of public works for Cuba, is in this country for the purpose of studying improved railroad methods. Dr. Chrysander, formerly private secretary to the great Bismarck, is a patient in a lunatic asylum at Hamburg. He suffers from fits of nervousness. Seymour G. Gourlay, lately defeated for parliament in Canada, distinguished himself while a member of that body for his bitter attack on the United States. Henry M. Dellinger, of Washington, D. C., hale and hearty at the age of 83, fitted up the telegraph experiment station at Washington for Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. John Hollingshead, a famous London theater manager, who died recently, is credited with the discovery of the collaborative genius of W. S. Gilbert and the late Sir Arthur Sullivan. Paul de Cassagnac, the prominent Bonapartist deputy and journalist, and once the most notorious duelist in France, died November 4. He was 61 years old, and began his journalistic career at the age of 19. Conversely. "One of the most important things in life, my son," said the father, "to know when to grasp an opportunity." "And another," said the son, "to know when to let go of it, I suppose?"—Cassell's. HAPPY CHILDHOOD. Sometimes milk does not agree with children or adults. The same thing is true of other articles of food. What agrees with one sometimes does not agree with others. But food can be so prepared that it will agree with the weakest stomach. As an illustration—anyone, no matter how weak the stomach, can eat, relish and digest a nice hot cup of Postum coffee with a spoonful or two of Grape-Nuts poured in, and such a combination contains nourishment to carry one a number of hours, for almost every particle of it will be digested and taken up by the system and be made use of. A lady writes from the land of the Magnolia and the mocking bird way down in Alabama and says: "I was led to drink Postum because coffee gave me sour stomach and made me nervous. Again Postum was recommended by two well-known physicians for my children, and I feel especially grateful for the benefit derived. "Milk does not agree with either child, so to the eldest, aged four and one-half years, I gave Postum with plenty of sweet cream. It agrees with her splendidly, regulating her bowels perfectly although she is of a constipated habit. "For the youngest, aged two and one-half years, I use one-half Postum and one-half skimmed milk. I have not given any medicine since the children began using Postum, and they enjoy every drop of it. "A neighbor of mine is giving Postum to her baby lately weaned, with splendid results. The little fellow is thriving famously." Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Postum agrees perfectly with children and supplies adults with the hot, invigorating beverage in place of coffee. Literally thousands of Americans have been helped out of stomach and nervous diseases by leaving off coffee and using Postum Food Coffee. Look in pkg. for the little book, "The Road to Wellyilla." MISSOURI LEGISLATURE. MISSOURI LEGISLATURE. Those marked with a star were re-elected as members of the general assembly not in each instance to the body in which he was serving the last session. Those marked with a "dagger" have served in former sessions of the assembly. SENATE. Dist. Name. Occupation. 1....Josiah W. Peck, B. Banker. 2....Lawrence A. Vories, D. Merchant. 3....J. D. Farmer, D. Farmer. 4.*Vancany. 5....S. T. Gilmar, R. Lawyer. 6. Emmett B. Fields, D. Lawyer. 7. G. W. Arke, R. Lawyer. 8. John F. Mackenna, D. Lawyer. 9. G. W. Humphrey, D. Lawyer. 10. Charles J. Walker, D. Lawyer. 11. T. O. H. Avery, D. Lawyer. 12. E. M. Awake, D. Lawyer. 13. F. W. McAllister, D. Lawyer. 14. T. J. Buchanan, D. Merchant. 15. L. D. Hicks, R. Retired. 16. C. C. Dickinson, D. Lawyer. 17. Robert H. Brown, D. Farmer. 18. A. V. H. Warner, F. Farmer-Banker. 19. George H. Curry, D. Lawyer. 20. Frank H. McDavid, D. Lawyer. 21. T. R. Ely, D. Lawyer. 22. John D. Young, R. Lawyer. 23. James J. Murphy, D. Lawyer. 24. Frank H. Farris, D. Lawyer. 25. A. E. L. Gardner, R. Lawyer. 26. John L. Bradley, D. Retired. 27. Frank DeVlibliss, D. Physician. 28. Bugh McDnoe, R. Lawyer. 29. John R. Raman, R. Lawyer. 30. John Sartorious, D. Grocer. 31. T. E. Kimney, D. Member house of delegates-saloon. 32. David Nelson, D. Lawyer. 33. G. R. Kernann, R. Saloon. 34. W. B. Kineley, D. Promoter. *McKinley's district.* Counties. Name. Occupation Adair—F. M. Harrington. R. Lawyer. Andrew—*Peter Moser, R. Merchant. Athison—James M. Scammon. R. Farmer. Barnett—James M. Scammon. R. Farmer. Barry—Chris D. Kelley. R. Physician. Barton-W. R. Crowther. D. Farmer. Bates—George Church. R. Farmer. Benton-Jonathan Autletr. R. Farmer. Bolinger-Thos. W. Cooper. R. Preacher. Bolinger-Thos. C. Gillespy. D. Lawyer. Buchanan— 1st Dist.-Joseph Albus. R. Clerk. 2d Dist.-John B. Littinger. R. Editor. 3d Dist.-Wm. Connor. D. Teacher. 4th Dist.-H. Watts. R. Commission. Merchant. mission Merchant. Eudora, H. R., Lawyer. Callaway+Wilford, F. Blair, R. Farmer. Callaway-Robt. S. Lamar, D. Farmer. Camden+E. M. Kirkham, R. Salesman. Camden+E. M. Kirkham, R. Editor. Carroll+Newlan Conkling, D. Lawyer. Carter-M. C. Harty, D. Editor. Cass-W. P. Houston, D. Lawyer. Cass-W. P. Houston, D. Lawyer. Charlton-Alex. W. Johnson, D. Lawyer. Christian+D. E. Maples, R. Teacher. Clark+E. P. Spangler, R. Teacher. Clay-F. H. Trimble, D. Lawyer. Clay-F. H. Trimble, D. Lawyer. Cole+Edwin Silver, D. Lawyer. Cooper+H. D. Quigg, R. Physician. Crawford-L. H. Lewis, R. Blacksmith. Crawford-L. H. Lewis, R. Blacksmith. Dallas-Irvin Phillips, R. Physician. Davless-W. E. Land, R. Farmer. De Kabl-Frank Moberly, R. Farmer. De Kabl-Frank Moberly, R. Farmer. Douglas-W. J. Futon, R. Farmer. Dunklin-J. T. Wells, D. Farmer. Franklin-R. Smith, R. Farmer. Gramade+Alonzo Tubbs, R. Merchant. Gramade-S. T. Earixson, D. Farmer. Green- 1st Dist.- A. C. Stemmons, R. Teacher, 3rd Dist.- J. C. Crossley, R. Teacher, 3d Dist.- James Roach, R. Miner, Jefferson-C. H. Klemschmidt, R. Lawyer Johnson-W. Crosley, D. Editor, Ludwig-L. C. Wagner, R. Teacher, Ladcelle-L. C. Detwiler, R. Farmer, Lafayette-G. Glover Branch, R. Farmer, Lawrence-C. E. Wilberwood, R. Farmer, Lewisville-J. D. Walker, R. Farmer, Ladcelle-L. C. Dewtor, R. Farmer, Linn-4-A. C. Pettijohn, R. Physician, Livingston-Richard Lee, R. Farmer, McDonald-J. M. Paul, R. Farmer, Madison-J. M. Chutwood, R. Lawyer, Marles-P. F. Letterman, R. Merchant, Marten-J. M. Walker, R. Merchant, Marten-M. H. Kauffman, R. Farmer, Miller-J. S. Casey, R. Merchant, Mississippi-*W. G. Lee, D. Lawyer, Monteau-G. A. Burkhardt, R. Merchant, Monteau-G. A. Burkhardt, R. Merchant, Monteau-M. H. Kauffman, R. Lawyer, Morgan-R. N. Norfleet, R. Merchant, New Madrid-*G. W. Steel, D. Lawyer, Montgomery-M. H. Drunner, D. Lawyer, Morgan-R. N. Norfleet, R. Merchant, New Madrid-*G. W. Steel, D. Lawyer, Nedaway-J. H. Lemon, R. Farmer, Oregon-*E. P. Dorris, D. Lawyer, Osage-*A. A. Speer, R. Merchant, Ozark-J. R. Small, D. Teacher, Ozark-J. R. Small, D. Teacher, Berry-C. E. Klefner, R. Contractor, Pettie-E. E. Johnston, D. Merchant, Pettie-E. E. Johnston, D. Merchant, Pike-J. O. Stark, D. Farmer, Platte-E. E. Pumphrey, D. Banker, Polk-D. P. Brockus, D. Minister, Pulaski-J. L. Johnson, D. Lawyer, Pulaski-J. L. Johnson, D. Lawyer, Rails-J. F. Barry, D. Farmer, Randolph-W. T. Heathman, D. Real est. Raymond-C. H. Drunner, D. Lawyer, Reynolds-J. M. Drunner, D. Editor, Ripley-J. M. Atkinson, D. Lawyer, St. Charles-D. D. Silver, R. Lawyer, St. Clair-A. Chambers, R. Lawyer, St. Clair-A. Chambers, R. Lawyer, Ste. Genevieve-B. S. Pratte, D. Farmer, Ste. Louis counts- 1st Dist—Wm. Hoebeer, R. Migr. 2nd Dist—Wm. Hoebeer, R. Migr. Sher, Saline*—R. L. Hals, D. Farmer. Schuyler*—W. C. Biggs, D. Editor. Scotland*—L. T. Witty, D. Real estate, W. C. Biggs, D. Editor. Shannon*—W. L. Gilmore, R. Physician. Shelby*—H. J. Simmons, D. Editor. Stoddard*—K. C. Spence, D. Lawyer. Stone*—T. L. Viles, R. Lawyer. Stone*—T. L. Viles, R. Stockman. Taney*—J. M. Depuy, R. Farmer. Texas*—N. Klimney, D. Farmer. Vernon*—W. H. Prewitt, D. Farmer. Washington*—E. M. Dearing, D. Lawyer. Wayne*—D. M. Clark, D. Stockman. Webster*—F. M. Hooten, R. Minister. Worth*—W. W. Aldrich, D. Farmer. Washington*—E. M. Dearing, D. Lawyer. St. Louis city*— 1st Dist.-J. F. Miller, R. Saloon. 2nd Dist.-A. V. Biggs, R. Typesetter. 3rd Dist.-B. D. McMorrow, R. D. McMorrow. 2d Dist.-C. Schneedd, R. Blacksmith. 2d Dist.-Eugene Dauer, R. Merchant. 2d Dist.-D. W. Voyles, R. Lawyer. 2d Dist.-M. F. Kennoy, D. Prooferhead. 2d Dist.-J. M. Donney, Jr. D. Prooferhead. 2d Dist.-J. M. Donney, Jr. D. Prooferhead. 4th Dist.-G. H. Wilson, R. Physician. 4th Dist.-A. R. Thomson, R. Insur. 4th Dist.-W. C. Marten, R. Merchant. 5th Dist.-W. Hilkerbaumer, R. Lawyer. 5th Dist.-W. Hilkerbaumer, R. Lawyer. 6th Dist.-Wm Godfrey, R. Merchant. 6th Dist.-O. J. Grace, R. Merchant. RECAPITULATION. Senate-Republicans, 10; Democrats, 26. House-Republicans, 26; Democrats, 26. John-Republicans, 26; Democrats, 26. Republican majority, 9. One vacancy in senate. A Minneapolis genius has invented a 26-inch umbrella which will fold up, frame and all, into a little case to be carried in the pocket. The handle and all the ribs consist of fine and very strong steel tubes in sections, which telescope one inside the other. The covering is of very fine silk, which takes up but very little room. The wooden handle of the umbrella is hollow, and receives all the rest of the telescoping umbrella rod when shut up. A small and light case, not too big for the pocket, is provided to contain the whole. Captivity of the Ten Tribes Sunday School Lesson for Dec.11,1904 Prepared by the "Highway and Byway" Preacher. (Copyright, 1904, by J. M. Edson.) LESSON TEXT.—2 Kings 17:6-18; Memory verses. 16-18. Read all of the chapter. GOLDEN TEXT.—"The face of the Lord is against them that do evil."—1 Pet. 3:12. TIME.—It is quite generally agreed by all authorities that the fall of Samaria occ curred in 722, or early in 721 B. C. It was about six years after the last lesson. Introductory Note. Following the brilliant, but corrupt, reign of Jeroboam II, the history of Israel is one rapid and desperate plunge toward final destruction at the hands of Assyria. In spite of God's warnings sent by His prophets, the nation forsook it its wicked and licentious idolatry, and the judgments and prophecies of God were finally fulfilled. The time from the reign of Jeroboam II, and to-day's less acclimatized years, and the time six kings ruled, whom were usurpers, gaining the throne by intrigue and murder. For list of Israel's kings from Jeroboam II, to Hosea, see Introductory note to Lesson for November 20, or, better still, use your Bible and make out your own list. The Lesson Outline. THEME: -Sin and its Punishment, L.-judgment fallen, vs. 6, 18. 2. - Judgment Taken, v. 6, 18. (1) The Human Agency, v. 6. (2) The Lord's Overruelling Providence, II.—God's Faithfulness, v. 13. (1) Sent His Messengers. (2) The Message. III.—Seven Stages of Sin, vs. 7-12; 14-17. First Step.—Belief. "Feared Oth- Goods," v. 7. Second Step.—Worldly Conformity, "Walked in the statutes of the heathen," vs. 8. Third Step.—Secret Idol Worship, "Did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord," vs. 8. Fourth Step—Stubbornness. "They would not hear, but hardened their necks." They rejected His statutes," vs. 14, 16. Fifth Step—Open Idol Worship—"They left all the commandments of the Lord, their God, and made them molten images." "Worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal," v. 16. Sixth Step—Spiritualism. "They used spiritualisms and enchantments." v. 17. meents, v. 11. Seventh Step—Utter Corruption "Solid themselves to do evil," v. 12. Comparing Scripture with Scripture. Comparing Scripture with Scripture. 1—Judgment Fallen—Sin has run its course. "Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." James 1:15. "The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy." But as surely as night closes in on the longest day, so sin unrepented of and persisted in at last feels the crushing force of God's judgments. For "He will not always chide, neither will he keep His anger forever." Ps. 103:9. The sixth verse states explicitly that "the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away," and vs. 18 declares that "the Lord removed them out of His sight." This double declaration emphasizes two things: (1) the human agency; (2) the Divine providence. Ps. 76:10. II.—God's Faithfulness. Vs. 13.—In the midst of the long enumeration of Israel's sins vss. 7-17 is injected this testimony of God's faithfulness. The sinner, if lost, perishes in spite of God's efforts to save him. Ezek. 33-11. III.—Seven Stages of Sin—First Step—Unbelief.—"Feared other Gods" (vs. 7). This may mean anything which usurps the place of God. Unbelief turns the heart from God. Second Step—Worldly Conformity. "Walked in the statutes of the heathen" (vs. 8). God calls His children to-day to separation from the world. 2 Cor. 6: 17; Jas. 4: 4; 1 John 2:15. Third Step—Secret Idol Worship.—"Did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord" (vs. 9-12). Ah, how many secret sins there are that are festering within, ultimately to break out in the open sore. Fourth Step—Stubbornness.—"They would not hear, but hardened their necks." "They rejected His statutes" (vss. 14-15). We had unbelief as the first step away from God, then worldly conformity, then secret indulgence in the wicked practices of the world, and now stubbornness. Notice how the thirteenth verse, telling of God's faithfulness, follows the first three steps downward in the progress of sin, and that the fourth step marks the way in which they received God's messengers and His message. Stubbornness bars the gate to repentance and plunges the soul onward to certain destruction. Hear God's opinion of this sin. 1 Sam. 15:23. Fifth Step—Open Idol Worship.—"They left all the commandments of the Lord, their God, and made them molten images." "They worshipped all the hosts of Heaven and served Baal" (vs. 16). Stubborn refusal to hear God's warning voice cuts the soul loose from all restraint. Rom. 1:24. Sixth Step—Spiritualism.—"They used divinations and enchantments" (vs. 17). All the dark mysteries of the devil's devices are included here. It is the last step towards utter abadonment to evil. Paul speaks of "seducing spirits and doctrines of devils." 1 Tim. 4:1. Seventh Step—Utter Corruption.—"Sold themselves to do evil" (vs. 17). Study Rom. 1:21-22 in connection with these seven steps in sin. "The face of the Lord is against them that do evil." "God is a Spirit," and yet the Holy Spirit, in speaking of God to men, uses terms that are comprehensive and intelligent to the human mind. "The face . . . against" one means opposition censure, condemnation. Evil cannot abide in God's presence any more than darkness in the pure light of the sun. The evil doer, the self-lover instead of the lover of God, is a rebel against God and the Lord's face is against him (Kom. 2:4, 5). But Jesus' blood cleanses from all sin, and turns the face of God in mercy towards the sinner. Read all of 1 Peter 3:12 CASTORIA For Infants and Children Bears The Signature Of Cha H. Flatcher. In Use For Over Thirty Years The Kind You Have Always Bought SERMON WAS A WINNER. Such a Good One the Parson Was Requested by the Bishop for the Loan of It. 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Holts............1925 Market st H. B, White...........1911 Market st Bill Dye..........2801 Manchester ave Chas, Harris......-..-.-.88 8, 22d st Tom Turpin ..........2222 Market st a. P, Watkins..........-Douglas Hotel E. L. Arnett......23d and Morgan sts Jones & Saxton....22d and Morgan sts G. Kinsey ..........+-+++++-413 Levee WiIL Lee ...+stseeeeese++e +409 Levee G. Williams..............715 N. 12th st Smith Bros.......12th and Morgan sts R, Kent ......c00+++++-1805 Morgan st Wm. Randall............102 8, 14th st H. F, Harris.........-.-.2236 Wash st Leonard & Key........1501 Gratiot st Harry Jones..........-.1608 Morgan st Billy McClain........1309 Chestnut st Bob Brown ..........+++..209 8, Levee W. M, Curtis..........2323 Market st William Dover, 3924 Saphire ave. BARBER SHOP PROPRIETORS. J. H. Kent’...........-..41 B. 24th st Clark & Andrews..15th & Chestnut sts Chas, Pittman ........2632 Morgan st 8, P. Perkins ........1823 Morgan st M. King......++.++++++-105 N. 13th st 'P. Armstead.......--.-2805 Market st J.W. Alphran..True Reformers’ Bldg. Will Edmond..........1919 Market st Wm. Findley...:......-1621 Market st CLUS MANAGERS. Douglas :........-....Mules & Narcise Elite .......0s+++++0++0+-Chas, Harris Bachelors .........s+-+++++++Ed Lewis Americus ..............C. C. Brandon BUMS oo eee ce eceeectecseeeeees — Young Men’s Social and Literary T. J. Dollar Bill..............R, Kent Missouri .................. H. Ammold Falstaff .............-.. B. L. Amett World's Fair Waiters’ Club, J. G. Stevenson, 3948 Fairfax avenue. RESTAURANT PROPRIETORS. Mrs, M. Taylor........2711 Laclede ave Wells & Gibbs, 2626 Morgan st. Z. T. Jordan...........1923 Market st Lowery & Mason,.....2321 Market st For a good meal, go to the Tennessee WOOD AND COAL’ DEALERS. B. L. Walker.........Biliot and Wash Hasting Bros......13th and Market sts Paton James............11 Johnson st Chas. Higgins........2520 Baldwin st E. M. Hill..............2752 Wash st <{0TELS AND ROOMING HOUSES H. C. Curtis, 707 North 14th st. Mrs, Vincent ............915 N, 11th st Mrs, M. Robinson....1304 Chestnut st BARTENDERS. J. Collins & G. Bradshaw. J. P, Watkins, proprietor. H. Cross. H. Carrick. W. Short. P. Blumenthal. ©. Slaughter. D. Gaines. W. Rice, A. Farrell, Holt’s. H. Cross, H. Carrick, W. Long, White’s. W. Gray, J. Thompson, Bruner's. D. Watts, C. Moss, Dye’s. ‘T. Pinkney, L. Hartsfield, Hartsfield. R. Saunders, C, Harris, Harris’, H. H, Raven, A. Tutt, 224 & Market, D. Young, T. Hale, Turpin’s. G. Franklin, Ed Arnett, Arnett’ Place. P, Hickman, G.Washington, R. Kent, 1305 Morgan st. “China,” F. Watts, Bog O’Brien Billy McClain’s, a F. Boyd, C. Casey, Curtis’. Capritine Grocery, 4134 Papin st. ‘TONSORIAL ARTISTS. F. C. Heart, 4136 Papin st. Joseph Steele, 2315 Papin st. Clark, G. Cromwell, E. Brown, C. Waiter, A. Jackson, N. J. Clark, L. Logan, W. Barues, W. Shields, Will Fdmond’s. Phone Kin, 1481. 8. L. Donaldson, R. Henderson, C. Mason, J. Evans,W. Smith, B. J. Smith, A. Johnson, Findley’s. 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 Leffingwell ave. Helping Hand Society. Organized in May, 1903, this organ- ization has been of much success to ‘the members of that order, also oth- ‘ers that were found in need. Mrs. ‘Ethel Kimble, 2739 Laclede avenue, presents Mrs. Kate Johnson, 4262 Sacramento avenue;vice-president, Mr. F. Arbuckle, 2623 Papin street, secre- tary; Mr. Charles H. Atle, 3527 Scott avenue, treasurer. Anyone of good health and good character can be a member for 50 cents, at 2739 Laclede avenue. Meetings every first Tuesday in the month, \ -- etles 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 at- titude toward it. Any locals not ac- companied by a compensation will find their way into the waste basket. 8. L. Pickett. Drug. fresh daily. ‘Don’t pass his door—s" Lawton Av. Both sexes, to sell our Scott's Magic Hair Straightener and Grower, and Scott's Face Bleach and Beautiffer. 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 with- out any cost to you. Write to-day for particulars. Address, Scott Remedy Co., Box 570, Louisville, Ky. ‘The above famous remedies are for sale in St. Louis at Mrs. Mattie B. Robinson, 2318 Papin street. 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. Jeffer- son avenue. Mrs, Emma Murphy. ONE ROOM FOR RENT—For man and wife, or two gentlemen, 4036 Evans svenue, rear, up stairs. Neatly furnished rooms for rent; hot and cold baths, 2121 Chestaut street. Mrs. Annetta Fields. FOR RENT—At 2614 Stoddard street, a neatly furnished room; also a nice back room. Mrs. R. F. Lewis. THE CHRISTMAS DELINEATOR The December Deljneator, 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 pictoral features are of rare excellence, A selection of Love Songs from the Wagner operas, ren- dered into English by Richard De Gal- lienne and beautifully illustrated in colors by J. C. Leyendecker, occupies a prominent place, and a chapter in the Composers’ Series, relating the ro- mance of, Wagner and Cosima, is an interesting supplement to the lyrics. A very clever paper entitled “The Court Circles of the Republic,” de- scribes some unique phases of Wash- ington 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. Hop- kinson Smith, Robert Grant, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Cutting and El- more Elliott Peake, and such inter- esting writers as Julia Magruder, L. Frank Baum and Grace McGowan Cooke hold the attention of the chil- dren, Many Christmas suggestions are given in needlework, and the cookery pages are redolent of the Christmas feast. In addition, there are the reg- ular departments of the magazine, with many special articles on topics relat- ing to woman's interests within and without the home. NOTICE. 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. NOTICE TO ALL—In sending mat- ter for publication, please send some- thing with it, as the printer must be paid. We can not publish a paper on wind. J. W. WHEELER. Sam, The Tailor. At 204 North Fourteenth street is the establishment of Sam, the tailor. His business has become so tuat he has been compelled to enlarge his place. He now has 204 and 206, all complete and aranged in the most complete man- ner. Such is the busia2ss of any man that gives his customers satisfaction. ‘Mr. Sam is what we call one of na- ture’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 Ar- thur. Teachers and preachers wanted to write sick, accident and death insur- ance. 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 ‘o Jefferson avd Market, to get a shine. Harry's place First-class shine. JONES’ SURE CURE FOR THE RHEUMATISM. PRICE, $2. This medicine works wonderful cures. Relief Established Instantly. Purifies the system and sends all rheu- matic symptoms into eternity. We also recommend Thomlinson’s Liver Medicine, anc the WONDERFUL DEAD SHOT ana QUICK RELIEF OIL. 1325 CHESTNUT STREET. HOURS--11 to 12; 3 to 4: 7 to 8. Everything Neat, Clean and Up-to-date. 1226 Morgan Street, ¢ ae ewan ta a Ve tae oo Ties ee. ted & oe ‘ si Bs f Pe is Ro ae ee ee 54 na ¥ OA i Dh ‘ mY oe ra fe he Bt (REBEL 4 me VS Sexton & Mitchell’s Art School, 2605 Lawten avenue. We also have for sale fine oil paintings. Portraits enlarged in crayon, pastel or oil. Now open for pupils. Terms reasonable. Nicely fur- nished rooms. The Royal Sons and Daughters of Douglass Will meetat DOUGLASS HALL on the Second and Fourth Thursdays of each month MRS. FANNIE LEE, BE Mires BERTHA TOLBERT, Royal Secretary. B. B. HALL, 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. llth Street. : GEO Zig a. —) season y 1 PATENT OFFICE 0S. aoe Ea ‘ BEFORE © / ArTER. A Wonderful Face Bleach. AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER, both in a box fort, orthree boxes for #2. Guaran- ted to do what wesay and to bo the “beatin the World.” One box is all that is required if used as Brectea. 4 WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH, A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained if uscd as titected il tara ‘a ane ofa or brown Dereon four oF five shades lighter, and.» 100 Porwon perfeotiy white. In foray-eightnoursa shade Grtwo Will be noticeable. “It does not turn the Skin in pots but bleaches out white, the ekin re maining beautiful without continaal ‘use. Wid Temove wrinkles, frecklet, dark spots. pimples O tad mpoothe Snell for plstias, Hee Toole ee Hpoved without harmo theskin.” When Fou ge the color zou wish, stop using the preparations THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER. that goes in every one dollar box is enough te make terns hair grow Tong ghd straight, and Xcops it from falling out. Highly perfumed and es the hair soft and essy 10 comb. Many orth ten Gollan eters Sanger gsr nas Rolie Yous THE RO-GMEEE taecwra i teeoe “Avy person sending one dollar ine letter 0 Post Ohice money order, express money order or ‘registered letter, we wili send it through the mail Rewilfedmd by expres aso"arest 8208S O-D in any caso where it falls to do what we claim, Charge. “Packed so that ny ous will Soft gos {ente except recetver. BANE AND co., A 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. | ii E a [ rs Cs “a Pa re L. W. VINEGAR Seon tnd’ FURNITURE CARPETS, STOVES, nd a General Assortment of KITCHEN UTENSILS BOUGHT AND SOLD FOR CASH. Also Moving and Expressing a Specialty, 806 N. 14th St. Telephone: Kinloch D-960. , ene ff — ee, aN | -_— fa Se ee eee |S ae Bw We, Se é The “Leader” Barber Shop, No. . Mth Street. Hot, Culd, Sea-Salt, and Shower Baths, 25c. Shaving, 10e -Mustachy Dyed, se. Suir ulr Gut, 250, Children’s Balt Cutting, 180 ‘hut Shines, be J. H. KENT, Rroprietor, ee ee ‘ST. LOUIS, MO. Ei aars : oe ee ‘ v CO A. FORD Successor to Mr. Andrew J. Smith of I31S CLARK AVE. eee is GROCERY Meat Market, and a Department that will Invigorate the inner man DON’T FAIL TO PATRONIZE HI" COAL AND EXPRESS B.S. WILLIS Wack wo Sitka Av. Office, 2 N. Channing Avenue H. E. HOFER, ATTGRREY AY LAW, 2008 Walnut St. Special attention given to both Givi) and Criminal Cases. W. A. Smith Lodge U. B. F. meets the third Tuesday in each month.