St. Louis Palladium

STLOUIS PALLADIUM 30 HON. GEORGE W. PARKER. Louis, nearly four years ago. Some now let the party see that all will be The rightful elected mayor of St. body says that the election was stolen well next April. Vol. XXI. No. 4. SIXTH ANNIVERSARY Of The Pastorite of Rev. E.C. Cole of First Baptist Church. Last Tuesday night, while the wind was blowing very brisk and the weather was damp and cool, the members, friends and visitors of the First Baptist church could be seen wending their way down to said church, in anticipation of taking part in the banquet and celebration of the Sixth anniversary of the pastorate of Dr. E. C. Cole, which was advertised to take place there on that night. After a pretty good crowd had gathered, and the pastor's office and the chapel began to fill up and the dishes began to rattle [Name] on the table, Dr. Cole thought it was time to begin the exercises. He informed the deacons that everything was ready, hence everybody were kindly invited in the auditorium, together with the dozen or more notable preachers that were present. Mr. Charles Rollinger was appointed toastmaster for the occasion, and he arose and stated the object of the meeting in a few choice words. Afterward Prof. J. Arthur Freeman and his choir sang a sweet selection, then prayer was offered by Dr. R. Gillum, of the Centennial M. E. church, who was the first on the programme. Following him was an address by A. W. Washington, who, in his remarks, gave some interesting figures to show the good work of the pastor, Dr. Cole, since he took charge of the First Baptist church six years ago, which is the following: St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 31, 1904. The seventy-seventh annual report of the First Baptist church, to-wit: Assets, $52,537.39; liabilities to date, $13,311.83; $3,500 less than when he first took charge of the church. The present membership is 944, 700 more now that it was six years ago. He has raised over $24,000, attended 600 funerals, buried 400, visited 5,000 sick and dying persons, joined together in holy wedlock 300 couples, hence it can be readily seen, said he, that he has raised the church from comparatively nothing up to the finest there is in the city. Mr. Washington advised the brothers against rolling stumbling blocks in the preacher's way; also the sisters not to tempt the preacher, because both is wrong, and are agents of the devil. He failed to get many amens, nevertheless his remarks was pointed and impressive. The next on the programme was a song and dance by a four-year-old child by the name of Gertrude Price, the foster daughter of Mr. N. P. Hairton. It was quite a treat to all present. Next, a solo by Madame Ida Wilburn, which was real nice indeed. Following her was an address by Rev. Geo. W. West, and a sweet solo by Madame Carrie Miller, afterwards quite a host of speakers spoke, namely: W. C. Henderson, Deacon N. P. Hairston, Rev. R. H. Cole, Rev. W. D. Venerable, Rev. Dr. R. Gillum, Dr. Dudley, Dr. Bain, Rev. Brown, Rev. Davis, Dr. J. W. Muse, Dr. W. P. T. Jones, Rev. Christmas and Rev. Armsted. Afterwards Prof. J. Arthur Freeman rendered an excellent solo, which caught the house like a storm. In fact, he is one of the best songsters in the city. Deacon Hairston, who had made a lovely speech, arose and said that the ladies of the arrangement committee wanted to say something. At this juncture Madame Lula Alexander was introduced, who in turn made a nice little speech while presenting Rev. Dr. Cole with a handsome portable English rocking chale, which was made out of extra fine material, and which seemingly cost $40. Her words had not scarcely died away before Madame Leatha Newcomb came for with a nice little toilet ornamental box, and in a few choice words presented it to the pastor on behalf of the committee, and another lady presented one to the doctor's wife. The doctor seemed to be the most cool and collected of all present, but a psychological student could see down in his heart that he was the happiest man on earth. He arose, and cautiously thanked the ladies for their kind offer, and also the gentlemen for all the good words and kind expressions they had so beautifully made in his behalf. At the conclusion of his remarks, every body was invited back in the chapel, where an extra fine cuppe and refreshments of various kinds was prepared. The ladies on the committee arose and caught the arms of the gentlemen and marched into the chapel, and they spared no time nor pains in caring for everyone that were present, and at the close of the banquet everybody went home rejoicing. A Progressive Citizen. Mr. Samuel Leonard, a stanch, true and tried republican, has lived in St. Louis for 15 years, and has lived in the Sixth ward for the past six years. He knows every man, woman and child in the ward. He is as true a man as ever lived, and all consider his word his bond. Therefore he stands as one of the landmarks in republicanism in his community, 1501 Gratton street. ST. LOUIS, MO., SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1905. CITY NEWS. Notes and News Concerning Our People--Weekly Record of Social Events, Deaths, Marriages and Births--Written Especially for St. Louis Palladium. Mrs. Ida Hall is quite sick at this writing. Mother Gurthrie is sick at 2132 Biddle street. Mrs. Mattie Robinson has removed from 2828 Adams street to 3961 Fairfax avenue. Miss Beatrice Ross will arrive from Chicago next Sunday. She spent a most pleasant time. Mrs. Clara Wilson will soon leave for a visit to her old home in Knoxville, Tenn. She will be gone a month. The Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain are in the lead. They are widening their field daily at any cost. Mrs. J. A. Youre, of 2611 North Lefflingwell avenue, is up and out again, after being quite ill for two or three week. The Lousiville & Nashville road, the only road to Louisville and Nashville. All that come to the World's fair need this line. 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. 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. 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. T. A. Ford, the groceryman at 1315 Clark avenue, is meeting with success. His business is increasing. We wish him much success. Mr. Richard Bryant, a brother to Mrs. M. B. Allen, of 1623 Thomas street, is quite sick at Edwardsville, Ill. We hope for his early recovery. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Williams, of 4214 Maffitt avenue, are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine baby girl in their home. Mother and daughter are doing well. --- Mrs. A. H. Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Tillman, Mrs. Anna Williams, Rev. F. C. Christmas and Mrs. M. A. Lawrence spent New Year's day at Edwardsville, Ill., and were the guest of Mrs. Mary F. Brandon and daughters, Mrs. Nettie Thomas and Miss Euriell Brandon. All returned home the asme day, well pleased with their trip. St. Louis Palladium - 1905 . Mrs. Walker, of 4219A Kennerly, is still quite ill. Mrs. Armetta Fields has removed from 2121 to 2128 Chestnut street. Mrs. M. E. Allen, of Colorado Springs, is visiting Miss Dora Scott, of 1325 Baker street, East St. Louis. She is spending a most pleasant time. Mattie B. Cross, of Chicago, Ill., left Sunday, the 1st, for her home. She was much pleased with her visit to our city, so much so that she expects to come again this summer. The St. Louis Patriarchy Social club will give a banquet to-night in honor of the visitors. The visitors will leave with Mr. Temple at 11:30 for Philadelphia on business for the Odd Fellows. Mrs. C. Carey, of 3326 Franklin avenue, enjoyed the Christmas fine. She has nine children, all of whom are at home. She is as happy as a big sunflower. The old Kentuckian, our beloved friend and brother, the celebrated Dr. Arthur, was at the Newport restaurant last Wednesday. Oh, we are yet friends. Miss Zenobia Posey, of Nashville, has been a clerk at 211 North Jefferson avenue, has returned to her home. Another Nashville young lady will take her place. Wright & Bolen, the druggists at 2333 Market street, are two of the leading druggists of our city. Call and examine their stock. They are well supplied. Don't forget the number. The Christian, Wisdom society had their annual sermon preached by Dr. Cole at the First Baptist church, last Monday, 1 p. m. They also served a nice dinner on same day and had quite a success. Mrs. Eva G. Boldan, of 711 Rutger street, will entertain the Ladies' N. D. S. club, Thursday, January 12. All members are expected to be present, as it is election of officers. Hour of meeting is 2 p. m. The reception to the grand master, S. T. Pettigrew, was a grand success. The United Brothers and S. M. T. showed their strength. The grand master spoke words of encouragement to the order. All were pleased and it was one of the happiest times that we had had for years. 一 The progressive parlor social given by Mrs. Anna Williams, of 2832 Adams street, Tuesday, December 27, for the Ladies' N. D. S. club, was a pleasant affair. A short literary and musical programme was rendered. A very pleasant evening was spent. Mrs. Williams' door is always open to the Ladies' N. D. S. club. The concert and drama which was given at the First Baptist church, last Monday night, was the finest that was seen at said church before. Hence Mr. Garfield Craven deserves much credit and praise for writing such a fine play and managing the concert so well, even to making it a success. Misses Katie Johnson and Isabella Morgan returned from Memphis, Sunday morning. They spent a most delightful time at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. Stevenson, of 456 Wellington street. Mrs. Stevenson and daughters exerted themselves to the utmost to make their stay a pleasant one. The young ladies feel deeply indebted to them for their hospitality. They return imbued with new energy for their school duties. Mrs. Anna Tillman, of 4010 Finney avenue, kept open doors Monday, January 2, and from 1 to 8 to the ladies of the N. D. S. club and their friends. Nuts, coffee,cake and fruit were served each one that called. The cake was quite a treat, having been made by the daughter of the host. The lady lives at Pine Bluff, Ark., and sent the cake to her father, Mr. Allen Tillman, and he divided with his friends. Mrs. Tillman deserves much credit for the royal, yet home-like way she treated each caller. The Levee Mission Sunday-school, of which Mr. Jos. W. Lee is a teacher, and a faithful Christian, and where both white and Colored children meet every Sunday for the purpose of learning the way to Heaven, made Mr. J. W. Lee, a present of a handsome Bible on December 30, 1904, which shows their appreciation for the good service that he has performed since he has been in their midst. At the banquet, last Tuesday night, there was seen a dainty piece of china-ware with the battleship Maine stamped on its face, which was the property of Mrs. S. P. Philips, and was quite an ornament to the table. Pickett's Headache Powders give instant relief. 2601 Law on avenue. $2.00 Per Annum, Single Copy 5 cents. K. NEIDRINGHAUS in Party Caucus Selected Successor to Senator Cockrell. L Mrs. Lettie B. Smith (nee McKinney), of 4459 Maffitt avenue, presented her husband a bouncing baby boy, Tuesday, December 27. William T., the father, is one of the happiest men in the city. Mrs. Belle Rodgers, of 3944 St. Feruland, entertained at two o'clock dinner, New Year's day, in honor of her husband, who has just returned from a trip south. Several of their friends were present, and the goose was not spared. The watch meeting which was held at the First Baptist church, last Saturday night, was very largely attended. A good many gave thanks to God for sparing them to be present at that hour; there was about 2,000 or more present. Mr. J. M. Tolbert, who lives in Dallas, Tex., came to our city looking for a suitable location but the rheumatism caught him. He has been confined to his bed for the past few weeks. We hope for his early recovery. (Dallas Express please copy.) Andrew Russell is the most successful undertaker our city affords. He has been in business ten years and is an adept in the art of embalming. During the past year he has conducted the funerals of four hundred and twenty-three bodies, at a cost of $25,800. He employs more help than any Colored undertaker in the city. Beginning on Fourteenth street near Washington avenue, his business has grown to such an extent that a larger establishment was required. He then moved to 2120 Market street, in partnership with W. C. Gordon. The firm dissolved partnership and Mr. Russell remained at the same place. He is quite an excellent business manager. (See Palladium's yearly book for particulars.) W. C. Gordon has buried five hundred and sixty-four bodies at a cost of $40,727.91, during the past year. He has collected last year for business, $43,666.18. Mr. Gordon was formerly of the firm of Russell & Gordon. Although Mr. Gordon has suffered recent bereavement in the death of his wife, he still proves his business capacity. He is at present located at 2218 Morgan street. He has been in the business for ten years. Really the firm of Russell & Gordon is the first successful embalmers and undertakers in the western or eastern states. When they first began fifty bodies a year was good, now the combined business is 987 bodies, with an outlay of $66,527.91. The yearly book of the Palladium will show further on. PRESIDENT MISSOURI STATE BUILDING + STLOUIS-1904 This is the state building where the republicans are in charge, and before long they will send a republican senator from this state to represent the people and not a party. SUCCESSFUL UNDERTAKERS. "In Sumertime Down by the Sea." This is the title of a new and magnificent song and chorus written by Alfred J. Doyle, with a remarkable pretty waltz chorus. This song will surely be admired by everybody. CHORUS. In summer time, down by the sea, The only real place, boys, for me; Take a ride on a trolley, get there before dark; Take your sweetheart to Dreamland or to Luna park Luna park. In summer time, down by the sea, The sun where we all like to be; Where the breeze softly blows, And where every one goes. In summer time, Down by the Sea. Price, 50 cents per copy. By sending 19 cents in postage stamps to the Theatrical Music Supply Co., No. 44 West Twenty-eighth street, New York, a copy will be sent post paid. A. B. MR. GEORGE E. TEMPLE Stands to-day as the leading young Negro in Missouri. He is thoroughly educated and understands his people. He holds a city clerical position and holds it by his merits alone. Hearty Odd Fellows. Col. Levi S. Orr, of Memphis, Tenn., and Mr. L. N. Porter, of Little Rock, Ark., are grand directors of the Odd Fellows. They are the guests of Deputy Grand Master George E. Temple. AGENTS WANTED. $75 PER week and expenses easily made selling combination policies for a big sick and accident company. Write today. Address U. S. PROTECTIVE SOCIETY, Salisbury, Mo. START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT—HAVE THE PALLADIUM SENT TO YOUR HOME AND BE UP-TO-DATE ON ALL MATTERS OF INTEREST. THE WEEK'S NEWS TERSELY OUTLINED An Epitome of the Most Important Events at Home and Abroad the Past Week. CONGRESS'WORK IN NUTSHELL Latest Developments in the Russo- Japanese War, Together With Items of Interest Culled From the Important Happenings All Over the World. CONGRESS. Senator Stone, of Missouri introduced a resolution in the senate to investigate the campaign expenses of political parties in the national election. Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio, presented the majority report of the committee on merchant marine, which urges the need of immediate relief for the American merchant marine. THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST. The czar has ordered a mobilization of 200,000 more Russian troops to join Gen. Kuropatkin. Admirals Togo and Kamimura have been made the recipients of several costly presents from the emperor, including watches formerly worn by his majesty. Admiral Togo declined a public reception by the municipality of Toledo, declaring that the time was not yet rite for such a demonstration. The czar has given the imperial sanction for the expenditure of $800,000,000 in the rebuilding of the Russian navy. The programme proposed will occupy ten years. Gen. Stoessel is being sharply criticised by the Japanese press for permitting the destruction of the Russian warships in the mouth of the harbor of Port Arthur and dispatching torpedo-boat destroyers to Chefoo subsequent to his offer of surrender. A Mukden dispatch of the 2d said that a heavy cannonade and rifle fire was begun on the Russian center early in the morning and continued during the day. It is said to have been an effort on the part of the Japanese to break the Russian center, which proved unsuccessful. Russia's war expenses, up to November 23 last, amounted to $238,000,000, of which $161,500,000 was for the army, $41,000,000 for the navy and $35,500,000 for various military requirements, making about $22,500,000 per month. The estimate up to the end of the year was $364,000,000. Both in Paris and London the opinion is that the squadron under Vice-Admiral Rojestvensky will have to be recalled, as adherence to the original programme would invite disaster, in view of the fall of Port Arthur. The Russian Baltic squadron will not proceed to Vladivostok for the present, but will await further developments near the island of Madagascar. The Russian prisoners of war taken at Port Arthur will be detained in barracks at Yahuthweil, near the shores of Pigeon bay, until arrangements are completed for transferring them to Japan. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. The famous Harvard class of 1886, of which President Roosevelt is the leading member, will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary next June by making to the college a gift, without restrictions, of $100,000 in cash. Dr. Crow, an osteopath, was convicted at Goshen, Ind., of practising without license. The result of the case affects every practising osteopath in the state. Theodore Thomas, the widely-known orchestra leader, died at his home in Chicago, of pneumonia, after a brief illness, in his seventieth year. Judge George H. Williams, who was attorney general in President Grant's cabinet, has been indicted for malfeasance in office at Portland, Ore., of which city he is mayor. Judge Williams is 83 years of age. The Massachusetts house of representatives unseated Representative Thos. F. Curley of the seventeenth Suffolk district, who is serving a jail sentence for fraud in connection with United States civil service examinations. He was a prisoner when elected. Eight men are known to be dead, others missing and three seriously injured as the result of the explosion of the boilers of the towboat Defender near Huntington, W. Va. Col. William J. Bryan has visited his daughter, Ruth, at her home in New Orleans, for the first time since her marriage to William Homer Levitt, the artist. The baby did it. Lawrence Allwhite, a white man, who, according to the confession of his son, murdered Mrs. Rachel Kinkannon and her daughter, Mrs. Amelia Mauldin, near Newport, Ark., was taken from his guards by an undisguised mob, escorted to a railroad trestle, outside the town, and hanged. The federal grand jury at Guthrie, Okla., after 17 days' session, returned eight indictments against Charles E. Billingsley, president of the Capital national bank, which failed last May for over $1,000,000. The charges are mainly false entries, made to deceive the bank examiner. Statistics show that more than $230,063,000 worth of property in the United States was destroyed by fire in 1904, making the largest annual ash heap in the history of the country. A St. Louis weather prophet says the winter will be a mild one, but to look out for a sizzler next summer. Miss Muriel Byram, one of the noted beauties of Chicago society, was accidentally shot and killed while cleaning a rifle in her home. In his annual report to the secretary of the interior Gov. Otero of New Mexico takes a decided position against the uniting of that territory with Arizona as one state. Secretary of State Hay has gone on record in favor of uniform naturalization courts, definitely named. Fire, destroyed the department store of Jacob Steinback, at Long Branch, N. J., on the 2d causing a loss of $200,000. Adjoining buildings were damaged by fire and water, and several firemen were overcome by smoke. Added to the dangers naturally arising from the war in the far east, rumors of an Anglo-American alliance, anarchistic uprisings in Poland and a big strike of oil workers in the Caucasus is filling the czar's cup of bitterness to overflowing. Joshua Lewis, who was for many years prominent in politics of central Illinois, a warm personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, and the oldest man in Union county, being 92 years of age, was found dead in his bed at his home east of Alto Pass. The Fall River (Mass.) textile workers, involved since last July in a strike against a $12\frac{1}{2}$ per cent. reduction in the wages in the cotton mills, by a vote of approximately three to one, on the 30th, approved a continuance of the contest. The Cunningham Milling Co.'s plant and the Little Rock Furniture Manufacturing Co.'s building at Little Rock, Ark., the latter owned by Memphis (Tenn.) people, were burned early on the morning of the 31st. The loss is estimated at $150,000. In a collision on an L bridge between a freight train and a combination "pony" engine and passenger car, used to carry passengers between Bridgebury, Ont., and Buffalo, N. Y., on the 2d, six persons were injured, three probably fatally. The reverly incident to the ushering in of the new year at St. Louis resulted in the killing of two persons by stry bullets and the serious wounding of two others. There was much malicious mischief carried on under the guise of celebrating. Harry A. Faulkner, convicted of perjury in connection with the St. Louis bribery deals, whose sentence was affirmed by the Missouri supreme court December 13, after being given three weeks to put his affairs in order by Marshal Finks of the supreme court, was taken to the state penitentiary to begin his three years' sentence New Year's eve. United States Senator Mitchell and Congressman Herman, of Oregon, have been indicted by the federal grand jury at Portland, Ore., for conspiracy to defraud the United States government out of public lands. Other indictments are expected. The legislature of Delaware, in extra session, on the 30th, after disputing nearly all day over a division of offices, passed the bill extending to January 1, 1906, the time the new judgment lien law shall go into effect, and then adjourned sine die. District Attorney Jerome, of New York city, notwithstanding two offers of bail to the amount of $50,000 for Nan Patterson, declines to recommend that bond be accepted for the woman pending her second trial for the murder of Caesar Young. The Chinese government, through the imperial vice commissioner to the World's fair, Wong Kai-Kah, has presented to President Francis the Chinese pavilion at the exposition. The tender was made in person by Mr. Wong and accepted by Mr. Francis. Developments in the case of Mrs. Chadwick indicate that insanity will be her almost certain line of defense when the case comes to trial. Robert Bikerdyke, member of the Canadian parliament from the St. Lawrence division, Quebec, will, at the next session of parliament, introduce a bill making it a criminal offense to circulate United States money of any kind, bills or paper, in Canada. The building, loan and homestead companies of Illinois show large gains during the past year, and the total resources are now more than $40,000,000. President Roosevelt has directed the removal from office of John H. Hall, United States district attorney for Oregon. Hall was charged with obstruction of justice in connection with the alleged land frauds investigation. May Irwin, the actress, has offered to furnish bail up to $50,000, for Nan Patterson, the former show girl accused of the murder of Caesar Young. Assistant Attorney-General Norris Brown, of Nebraska, has been permitted by the state supreme court to file application for a rehearing in the case wherein the law permitting state officers to give indemnity bonds is declared unconstitutional. By consent of Bishop Tuttle, of Missouri, the presentment against Bishop Talbot is to be withdrawn, and another, which calls for answer to more serious charges, prepared. Horace E. Andrews, president of the Cleveland (O.) Electric Railway Co., has signified the willingness of his company to try an experiment in three-cent fare for a distance of two miles from the center of the city on the lines of that road. Dr. Hiram W. Young, a well known young physician of St. Louis, who started, on the 26th, in company with E. Hopkins, a young civil engineer, on a cruise to Florida in a gasoline launch, which he had received as a Christmas present, was drowned in the Mississippi river, about twenty-five miles below St. Louis, on the 29th, by the upsetting of the launch, which struck a snag. On the 2d the eighth general assembly of Idaho convened at Boise, and organized, J. Frank Hunt, of Bennock county, a prominent Mormon, being elected speaker of the house. PORT ARTHUR HAS FINALLY YIELDED The Foes Meet and Agree on Terms of Surrender. Mikado Orders Gen. Nogi to Show Vanquished Every Courtesy-Japanese Army to Enter the City on Tuesday. Tokio, Jan. 3.-The Russian and Japanese commissioners appointed to arrange the terms of capitulation of the Russian forces at Port Arthur signed the compact of surrender at 9:45 o'clock Monday night. Tokio, Jan. 3.-Port Arthur has surrendered. Exhausted by months of almost constant fighting, decimated by disease and casualties, and hopelessly sealed in its rock fortress, the gallant garrison has yielded, and the end is written to the most dramatic war incident of modern times. At nine o'clock Sunday night Gen. Nogi, commanding the Japanese army of investment, received from the Russian general, Stoessel a note saying that he had found further resistance useless, and asking for a meeting to arrange terms of capitulation. The note was simple and direct, and the Japanese general immediately named commissioners to confer with representatives of the Russian commander. Late dispatches from Japan have shown that the gallant defense of Stoessel and his men has nowhere been given a finer appreciation than in the land of his foes, and it is more than likely that Japan will embrace the opportunity to show her magnanimity and admiration of the galantry of Port Arthur's defenders by allowing them all the honors which a victorious army may bestow upon the vanquished. THE TERMS OF SURRENDER. Rank and File of Russian Army Made Prisoners of War. Tokio, Jan. 4.—A telegram from Gen. Nogi giving the text of the capitulation convention was received Tuesday afternoon. It is as follows: Article 1. All Russian soldiers, marines, volunteers, also government officials at the guard and harbor of Port Arthur, are taken prisoners. Art. 2. All forts, batteries, warships, other ships and boats, arms, ammunition, government buildings, and all objects being longed to the Russian government shall be transferred to the Japanese army in the existing condition, and all objects shall be longed to the Russian government shall be transferred to the Japanese army in the existing condition. Art. 2. On the preceding two conditions being assented to, as a guarantee for the fulfillment thereof, the men garrisoning the mountain, the men garrisoning the mountain, the Sunshui mountain, *Ants mountain and the line of eminences southeast therefrom shall be removed by noon of January 3, and the same shall be removed by noon of January 4. Art. 4. Should Russian military or naval men be deemed to have destroyed the mountain, the mountain, the caused alteration in any way their condition at the existing time, the signing of this compact and the negotiations be annulled, and the Japanese army will be Art. 5. The Russian military and naval authorities shall prepare and transfer to the Japanese army a table showing the fortifications of Port Arthur and their respective positions, and maps showing the location of mines, underground and submarine, and all other dangerous objects; also a table showing the composition and system of the army and naval services at Port Arthur; a list of army and navy officers, with names, rank and duties of said officers; a list of army steamers, warships and other ships, with the numbers of their respective crews; a list of civilians, showing the number of men and women, their race and occupations. Art. 6. Arms, including those carried on the person, ammunition, war materials, government buildings, objects owned by the government, horses, warships and other ships, including their contents, excepting private property, shall be left in their present positions, and the commissioners of the Russian and Japanese armies shall decide upon the method of their transference. Art. 7. The Japanese army, considering the gallant resistance offered by the Russian army, will permit the officers of the Russian army and navy, as well as officials belonging thereto, to carry swords, and to take with them private property, directly necessary for the exercise of their duties, viously-mentioned officers, officials and volunteers who will sign a written parole and volunteers who will take up arms, and in no wise take action against the interests of the Japanese army until the close of the war, will receive the consent of their country. Each army and navy officer will be allowed one servant, and such servant will be specially released on signing the commissioned officers and privates of both army and navy and volunteers shall wear their uniforms, and, taking portable tents and necessary private equipment, respectively officers, shall assemble at such places as may be indicated by the Japanese army. The Japanese commissioning indicate the necessary details thereof. Art. 9. The sanitary corps and the accountants belonging to the Russian army are required to take an anse while their services are deemed necessary for the caring of the sick and wounded prisoners. During such time, corps shall be required to render service to the soldiers of the Japanese army and accountants of the Japanese army. Art. 10. The treatment to be accorded to the residents, the transfer of books to the residents, the administration and finance, and also detailed files necessary for the enforcement of this compact shall be embodied in a supplementary compact. The supplementary compact shall have the same force as this compact. Art. II. One copy each of this compact shall be prepared for the Japanese and Russian armies, and it shall have immediate effect upon signature thereof. White is always in good taste for the girl bride's wedding gown, leaving the tins for her maids. Shower bouquets are more graceful and effective than the ordinary ones. Simplicity instead of ostentation marks the refined wedding. It is reported that owing to the losses suffered at the hands of ticket scalpers several Mexican railways have decided to issue no more round trip tickets. The Japanese have three forms of salutations—one for saluting an inferior, one for saluting an equal, and another for saluting a superior. NIEDRINGHAUS IS NOM.NATED St. Louis Man to Succeed Francis M. Cockrell in the Senate: Republican Caucus Breaks to the State Chairman and Makes the Choice Unanimous. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 6.—The republicans held their caucus on the United States senatorship in the hall of the house of representatives Thursday night. The caucus was an open one. Richard C. Kerens, Thomas Niedringhaus, Nathan Frank, L. F. Parker, P. Dyer, Richard Bartholdt and William Warner were present. Speeches were made by about half of the member of the caucus, which consisted of 93 members. Ballot was reached at 10:30 p. m., as follows: Niedringhaus, 36; Kerens, 28; Bartholdt, 2; Frank, 1; Parker, 11; Warner, 12; Dyer, 3. Second ballot: Niedringhaus, 38; Kerens, 29; Parker, 12; Warner, 9; Dyer, 3; Bartholdt, 1. Third ballot: Niedringhaus, 40; Kerens, 30; Parker, 12; Warner, 8; Dyer, 3; Bartholdt, 1. The break came on the fifth ballot, when the Parker forces changed to Niedringhaus. There was a great demonstration and general clamor to get into the Niedringhaus band wagon. Dr. Tubbs, charman, rapped for order. The Kerens men were indignant at the break, and Grace, of St. Louis, mounted a chair and yelled: "Mr. Tubbs you have my contempt as chairman." Tubbs replied: "I am sorry to have the contempt of such a distinguished man as the gentleman from St. Louis." There were hisses and confusion, which lasted for half an hour, when Speer, of Osage, moved the nomination of Neidringhaus by acclamation. Neidringhaus had received a majority from changes from Parker, Warner and Dyer. Mr. Niedringhaus was called before the caucus and made an address, thanking the caucus for the nomination, and pledging his best efforts in the United States senate. RUSSIAN FLAGSHIP SUNK Rojectenvensky's Flagship is Reported to Have Struck a Rock and Sunk in Indian Ocean. Paris, Jan. 6.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Paris edition of the New York Herald telegraphs that Vice-Admiral Rojectenvensky's flagship, the battleship Kniaz Souvaroff, has struck a rock and foundered. The latest report from Vice-Admiral Rojectenvensky's squadron was contained in a dispatch dated Tamatave, island of Madagascar, January 2, in which it was stated that the vice-admiral's division of the Russian second Pacific squadron, consisting of five battleships, three cruisers, two transports and a hospital ship had anchored on that day in the roadstead of Sainte Ste. Marie, an island on the east coast. NEGRO ASSAULTS WHITE GIRL High-Class Residence Suburb of Louisville, Ky., the Scene of a Flend's Brutal Crime. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 6.—Miss Alice Brightwell, a protege in the family of John T. Bate, a bank teller, was assaulted Thursday by a negro in Mr. Bate's residence at Crescent Hill, a high-class residence portion of Louisville. The young lady was badly injured. A detail of police was at once sent to the scene, and four officers with bloodhounds have taken up the trail of the negro. The Crescent Hill district is in a state of high excitement, and Capt. Reilly, of the Louisville police, has given orders if the negro is found that he be brought to the county jail here, instead of being taken to the police station. GILLESPIE IS FOUND GUILTY Indiana Man Charged With Murder of His Twin Sister Gets a Life Sentence. Rising Sun, Ind., Jan. 6.—James Gillespie, who with his sister, Mrs. Belle Seward and Mr. and Mrs. Myron -arbour, was indicted for the murder of his twin sister, Elizabeth Gillespie, was found guilty, Thursday night, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The other defendants are still to be tried. The trial lasted over five weeks, and was bitterly fought throughout. Miss Elizabeth Gillespie was shot and killed while in the parlor of her home preparing to entertain the Woman's literary club. "Pittsburg Phil" is Ill. Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 6.—A special from Asheville, N. C., says: Georgia Smith, better known as "Pittsburg Phil," the race horse owner, is ill at a sanitarium there, and his condition is serious. W. L. Douglas Inaugurated. Boston, Jan. 6.—William L. Douglas, of Brockton, was inaugurated governor of Massachusetts Thursday. He is the fourth democrat to hold that office within the last 50 years. All the other state officers are republican, and the legislature is heavily republican. Port Arthur Garrison Marshaled. London, Jan. 6.—Special dispatches from Tokyo say that the Port Arthur garrison was marshaled at nine o'clock Thursday morning at Yahutsul, in accordance with the terms of the supplementary agreement. Mrs. J. W. Wheeler, Mrs. J. W. Wheeler, MODISTE. Dressmaking, Designing, Cutting, Fitting, Purchasing. 3004 LAWTON AVENUE. 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One of the Best 204_North 14th Street. Miss Mary White's Rooming House With all the Latest Style Improvements She formerly lived at 200 S. 14th St 1409 Market Street B. MUNCHWEILER Dealer in LADIES' and GENTS' SHOES DON'T FORGET THE NUMBER 1409 Market Street G. W. ROBINSON, Second-Hand Furniture BOUGHT AND SOLD. Moving and Expressing, General Jobbing and Repairing of Ranges, Stoves, Etc. a Specialty. 4025 Easton Avenue ST. LOUIS, MO. Louis Deppe, Importer and Dealer in FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Wines, Whiskies, Brandies, ETC., ETC. Southeast Corner of Market St. & Jefferson Av. St. Louis, Mo. Newport Hotel, 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 The Royal Sons and Daughters of Douglass Will meet at DOUGLASS HALL on the Second and Fourth Thursdays of each month MRS. FANNIE LEE. Royal Mistress. BERTHA TOLBERT. Royal Secretary. THE CONFERENCE. The conference that was held in Poplar Bluff, Mo., October 5. Below are the appointments made by our beloved Bishop A. Grant: St. Louis district, Rev. J. D. Barkesdale, presiding elder. St. Paul, Rev. W. D. Cook; Lexington, Rev. A. A. Gilbert; Higginsville, Rev. W. B. Brooks; Boonville, Rev. W. H. Spurloch; Sedalia, Rev. Wm. Alexander; Jefferson City, Rev. L. P. Duke; Washington, Rev. S. L. Bean; Marshall, Rev. A. O. D. Steele; Holden, Rev. M. McFerrin; Union, Rev. J. H. Randells; Pacific, Rev. W. F. Hamilton; Osage, Rev. H. McTassell; Chamois, L. S. Walmia; Miami, Rev. P. W. Weaver; Pleasant Green, Rev. E. Thomas; Speed, Rev. J. E. S. Reed; Allen Mission, Rev. O. W. Harris; Black Water Mission, Rev. Chas. O. Jackson; evangelist, Mrs. Sarah V. Bean. Kansas City district, Rev. F. G. Snelson, presiding elder. Allen Chapel, Rev. F. Jesse Peck; Ebenezar, Rev. J. F. McDonald; St. John, Rev. Edw. R. Vaughan; Independence, Rev. J. H. Allen, Westport, Rev. J. 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McAllister; Quinn Chapel, Rev. C. A. Williams; De Soto and Caledonia, Rev. L. H. Harris; La Forge, Rev. Chas. Cummings; Tyler and Cottonwood, Rev. J. D. Rice; Farmington and New Tennessee, Rev. J. E. Edwards; Carruthersville, Rev. B. G. Dawson; St. John and St. Luke Mission, Rev. J. W. Wheeler. Evangelists, Mrs. Lulu E. Cheatham, Katie P. Yates, Dora Russell, Georgeann Hyde, Jane Johnson, Edw. R. Vaughan, secretary Missouri annual conference. EPISCOPAL ADDRESSES Bishops of the A. M. E. Church and Post Office Addresses. RT.REV. B. W. ARNETT, D. D., Wilberforce, O. RT.REV. WESLEY J. GAINES, D. D., Atlanta, Ga. RT.REV. WM. B. DERRICK, D. D., Flushing, Greater New York, N. Y. RT.REV. C. T. SHAFFER, D. D., M. D., Chicago, Ill. RT.REV. ABRAHAM GRANT, D. D., 3349 Pennsylvania avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. RT.REV. H. M. TURNER, D. D., LL. D. 30 Young, Atlanta, Ga. RT. REV. MOSES B. SALTER, D. D. 30 Vanderhorst street, Charleston, S. C. RT. REV. B. F. LEE, D. D., Wilberforce, O. RT. REV. EVANS TYREE, D. D., 13 North Hill street, Nashville, Tenn. RT. REV. JAMES A. HANDY, D. D. 1341 North Carey street, Baltimore, Md. RT. REV. C. S. SMITH, D. D., M. D. 39 East Columbia street. Detroit, Mich. BETHEL INSTITUTE, 110 Hanover street. 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. BEN WINTER, Pastor. NOTICE TO ALL—In sending matter for publication, please send something with it, as the printer must be paid. We can not publish a paper on wind. J. W. WHEELER. YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT WHITE ROBINS. Rare Birds Hatched in the Yard of a Denver (Col.) Man Grow to Maturity. White robins are almost as scarce as white blackbirds, but for some reason this season has been favorable for this kind of a "sport" from nature, and several white nestlings have been reported in Denver and vicinity. The only white robins to reach maturity are those belonging to C. A. Lyman, of 1902 Race street, says the Denver Republican. The eggs from which they came looked just like the other two. There were three robins hatched, but one was just like his father and mother, an ordinary redbreast. The white robins were especial favorites with the parent birds, and grew more rapidly. After they had begun to fly out of their nest in an elm tree in his back yard, Mr. Lyman caged the fledglings, but the mother continued to feed them until about a week ago. Since she quit them they have become quite tame, and eat out of their owner's hand. The white robins are the same size and shape as the redbreasts, but every feather is snowy white and they have bright pink eyes. As is the case with most albino animals their sight is not very good, and they will peck at a worm several times before finally getting it in their mouths. Three years ago a white robin was hatched out in a nest in the same tree, but it died before reaching maturity. The pair of robins which hatched these white birds are old birds, and Mr. Lyman thinks they are the same as those which hatched the white bird three years ago. LONG TROUSERS I've got 'em on at last, but say— I hate to go outside; As soon as I show up in 'em I know that I'll be gued; O' course I like 'em, but I wisht I wore 'em sev'ral days, The kids ull make me feel blamed cheap, In half a dozen ways. "Hey, Jim, them britches shows yer wrists." Ull likely come frum Joe. K. High water pants, I know; An' probly something 'bout like this, Yer feet should give a party an' Invite yer britches down." Well, anyway. I won't be called Jim Spindishanks no more; An' stockin' holes won't show up like They all did before; I feel an' look jist like a man, That there can not denied, I得 got 'em on at last, but say— I得 got 'em on at last, but say— Bice Dudley, in Kansas City Star. FARMER LADS STURDIER. Statistics Which Show They Are Physically Much Superior to Boys of the Cities. Statistics compiled by Dr. D. C. Hudson, director of the gym. at Ohio state university, satisfy him that the country boy is the physical superior of the city lad. Two hundred and fifty members of the freshman class at the university have been subjected to a thorough physical examination. The average country lad at the time he enters the university is 67.5 inches in height, and weighs a half pound less than 140. The city-bred young man is an inch and a half taller, and weighs two and one-half pounds more. The boy from the country, however, is of the more sturdy build. Six out of every ten are evenly developed; that is, the right and the left sides will not vary more than four-tenths of an inch, while only two out of every ten city lads come within this class. Most of the boys from the city have one hip high and one shoulder a little low, with the result of a slight curvature of the spine. The countryman is practically free from this deformity, and his muscular action is stronger, although somewhat slower than that of the city student. Seven out of every ten city freshmen use tobacco in some form, while but three out of ten from the rural districts are addicted to the habit. How to Make a Flute. Wrap a piece of paper around a pencil. Paste the edge down, making a tube. To one end fasten a triangular piece of paper somewhat larger than the opening. To play draw in your breath through the open end of the tube. To Promote Longevity. The Rooster—I'd advise him to try to grow tough.—Puck. THE NEW SIGNET FAD. How One May Make a Novel and Interesting Collection for Room Décoration. This fad is the gathering of signets. The outfit necessary to begin needs only to consist of a dozen sticks of sealing wax. Red, white, brown, gold, green and black will be the range of colors. A light wooden box to keep the equipment in, a white taper cut into several pieces to permit its insertion into the box, a box of matches, and a stock of unruled writing paper complete the outfit. The paper should be cut into various shapes such as squares, ovals, oblongs, etc., in sizes varying from one-half inch to a couple of inches in length. Now you are ready for your quest. Just keep your eyes open for the discovery of rings or watch charms adorn- MAKING THE SEAL ing your friends or acquaintances, which have a figure or symbol engraved upon them. You will be surprised to see how many curious seal rings and fobs you will find, and when you come across those which you desire to begin your collection with, ask for permission to obtain your impression. This is done by laying a piece of your writing paper on a solid, smooth surface. A table is the best support. Hold a lighted match to your sealing wax stick till it melts, then rub the sealing wax quickly over the middle of the paper. Then wet the seal with the tongue so that it will not stick to the burning wax; press it into the yielding mass a second or so being careful to lift it straight up when removed, thus securing a clean cut edge. Repeat the operation as many times as you wish duplicates, for if it is a particularly fine signet you will have little trouble in trailing your duplicate for others which you may not be able to procure except by this means, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. When you have enough to make a good showing, then comes the time to mount your collection for exhibition. This is done to the best advantage by pasting your specimens on a stiff cardboard, say 16 to 22 inches in size, and if you combine your colors and sizes happily you may achieve quite a tasteful, artistic effect and add an attractive, interesting ornament to your room by framing the group of signs and hanging them on the wall. DOG THAT CLIMBS. To climb straight up a tree is not the easiest thing in the world for a dog to do. In fact there is perhaps not another dog in the United States that can accomplish what a Scotch colliie does in a western town many times a day, says the New York Herald. He is petted and feasted by his admirers and struts as proudly through the streets as does the most prominent citizen. The peculiar A wolf climbs up a tree. THE CLIMBING DOG. thing about the dog is that he will not climb any other tree than that shown in the picture, and he will not climb more than once without an intermission. When he has reached the knot on the tree, which he grips with his teeth, he lets himself down gently and trots off with his nose in the air, and any amount of entreaty or coaxing will not tempt him to come back until he has taken a turn around three squares. If on his return his audience still awaits him he will climb again, but if the bystanders have gone he looks a bit sheepish and trots briskly to his kennel and sleeps away his wounded vanity. A Dog's Faithful Vigil When John Weakley walked from his home a few miles from Vineland, N. J., to Newfield, to catch a train for Philadelphia the other day, he laid upon the platform while he bought a ticket a package he was carrying. The train came, he boarded it and forgot all about the package. When he returned in the evening Weakley found his dog, which had followed him to the station, guarding the package. The animal had stuck to it all day, snapping at anyone who attempted to take it—Phila'delphia Record. AMERICAN GIRLS. AMERICAN GIRLS. BY THOMAS COBB. "Do you think that Americaa girls are really nice?" asked Sibella. "The question seems rather general," I suggested. "You understand perfectly well what I mean!" she cried, somewhat petulantly. "Perfectly," I admitted. "I wish," said Sibella, "you would try not to be horrid." "Maitland," I remarked, "has been away four months." Sibella stared at the window and sighed deeply. "Four months and five days," she murmured. "Now," I retorted, "you are too particular." "Sometimes," said Sibella, "I think one is not quite particular enough." "Then you are beginning to repent?" "How can I repent if I have not done anything wrong?" she demanded. "Anyhow," I suggested, "one can make up one's mind never to do it again." "Ah!" said Sibella, with another sigh, "one may not get the chance—" "To make up one's mind?" "To do it again," she answered. "Still," I reminded her, "you drove Maitland away." "He simply went to America for a change—" "The week after you broke off your engagement!" "It—it really wasn't my fault," said Sibella. "Did you know that he had returned?" asked Sibella. "I heard it at the club," I admitted. "You haven't answered my question!" cried Sibella. "Let me see—" "Do you think that American girls are really nice?" she persisted. "Anyhow," I answered, "the fellow has got safely away." "I met Eustace at Mrs. Beresford's the day before yesterday," she faltered. "No doubt you talked over old times?" "Why, naturally." "And you—you felt pleased to see him?" "I think Eustace seemed nicer than ever!" she exclaimed. "Then I suppose I must offer my congratulations the first time I see him?" "Are you going to Lady Ashmore's to-morrow night?" "Are you?" I asked. "Why should I stay away?" she demanded, rather excited. "Then certainly I shall go!" "Because Eustace will be there?" said Sibella. "I am to congratulate him?" I asked. "He would think it rather odd if you didn't," she retorted. "Ah, well," I answered, "it is an old story." "How old?" asked Sibella, and she leaned back languidly on the sofa. "Put it down at a decade." "But then—then I could only have been about 11," she murmured. "You see," I urged, "it's something like life itself. Nobody knows when it actually begins—" "Of course," cried Sibella, abruptly, "they are often immense,y rich!" "Those who cherish an ideal, you mean?" "I thought you had grasped the fact that I was talking about American girls," said Sibella, reproachfully. "I suppose," she continued, "their money is an attraction to some men." "Fortunate that Maitland wasn't attracted by it," I suggested, and I fancied she looked at me rather reproachfully. "You don't think Eustace is that kind of man?" she said. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." "I shall see you at Lady Ashmore's to-morrow!" she exclaimed as she rose from her seat on the sofa. "I intend to try to do my duty," I retorted. "You shall have two waltzes as a reward," said Sibella, graciously. "Tantalizing?" "So near and yet so far," I answered. "But still," I added, "I hope you will have a good time." "Why shouldn't I?" she demanded. "I shall try to congratulate you both—" "I don't understand you," said Si-bella. "I said I should try to congratulate you both." "Both?" she murmured. "Of course—you and Maitland." "It is scarcely a thing to joke about!" she exclaimed, with her face afame. "I assure you." I insisted, "I never felt less like joking in my life." "Then why do you suggest that I should be congratulated?" demanded Sibella in a rather low voice. "Upon your engagement—" "That," Sibella faltered, "was ended months ago." "But you told me it had been renewed." "Indeed," she said, with a sigh, "I—I told you nothing of the kind." "Upon my word," I insisted, "you certainly said I must congratulate Malitand—" "Why, of course!" "—when I meet him at Lady Ashmore's to-morrow night." "Don't you understand?" cried Sibella, impulsively. "He is going to marry some American girl," and she laughed a little strangely. "Sibella," I said. "Well?" answered Sibella. "Upon my word, I am sorry if—" "How very absurd you are this afternoon!" sue exclaimed, but she turned away her head as I took her hand. Fresh DRUGS Daily 2601 LAWTON AVENUE. N. W. Cor. Jefferson and Lawton Aves. Open Day and Night. Both Telephones. Attorney - at Law, III Clark Ave.. St. Louis, Mo. We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only p tically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. A. RUSSELL, Livery Boarding and UNDERTAKIN only thoroughly experienced and thouly competent Colored Undertakers in the A. 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(6) Because it is the official organ of Wright Cuney Political Club. (7) Because it is fearless in denouncing crime regardless of consequences. 69 Notice to the Sunday school at St John's mission, 603 Red Bud avenue. There will be no school Sunday, January 8th and 15th. We may have services at night January 15th. J. W. WHEELER, Supt. The Editor and the Doctor. The following is again going the rounds: If an editor makes a mistake he has to apologize for it, but if a doctor makes a mistake he buries it. If the editor makes a mistake and does not correct it, there is a lawsuit, swearing and the smell of sulphur, but if the doctor makes a mistake there is no correction, but a funeral, cut flowers and a smell of worm. A doctor can use a word a yard long without knowing what it means, but if the editor uses it, he has to spell it. If a doctor goes to see another man's wife he charges for the visit, but if the editor goes to see another man's wife he gets a charge of buckshot. When a doctor gets drunk its a case of "overcome by the heat," and if he dies it is heart trouble. When an editor gets drunk it's a case of too much booze, and if he dies it is a case of delirium tremens. Any old college can make a doctor. You can't make an editor, he has to be born.—Freeman. Yes, editors are born. We have a sample in St. Louis of that man trying to publish a paper, when he ought to be in the cotton field. Notice. We have stopped free-doings in the paper. Since the World's fair we have received hundreds of locals concerning coming guests, and those who are here. The senders undoubtedly expect the articles to be published free graits. Through investigation it has often been discovered that the senders are neither subscribers to The Palladium, nor do they even bear a friendly attitude toward it. Any locals not accompanied by a compensation will find their way into the waste basket. Please Settle Up With Us. Some of our subscriber think that as we are a good collector that we don't need money. We will say we don't need much, but the printer needs more. Please pay us so we can pay our printer. About 400 of our subscribers are—are—well you know. Pay us, and we will settle all our wee. When you read the Palladium don't forget to look for the Pickets' ad. They are all over the Palladium. 2601 Lawton avenue. "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU." MR. MAURICE ORMAN. The Dumas Dramatic club will present the four-act drama, "Because I Love You," at the Odeon, Monday evening, January 9, 1905. Mr. Maurice Orman and Miss Rachael Ellison will be seen in their regular characters. Mr. Orman is by no means a stranger to those who have witnessed the productions of the Dumas Dramatic club. His two most prominent characters are: "Dionysius, in "Damon and Pythias," and Harry Maynard, the leading role in "Past Redemption." Same can be said of Miss Ellison, she having appeared as Ca- JOTTINGS. JOTTINGS. —Fire does $150,000 damage at Berlin, N. H. —Montana is now to the fore with a land fraud scandal. —Gen. Stoessel, the gallant defender of Port Arthur, is to be court-martialed. —Sixteen negroes were hanged or burned in Mississippi by lynchers during the year 1904. —William J. Bryan and his son-in-law, William Homer Leavitt, have effected a reconciliation. —Missouri Agricultural college opens with but 45 students, owing to a mistake in the date of opening. —Portland (Ore.) citizens are said to be indignant over the indictment of former Mayor Williams for malfeasance in office. —Capt. C. C. Scott, Albany, Mo., a pioneer of the northwestern section of the state, is dead. He surveyed Harrison county before its settlement. —Henry V. Poor, founder of Poor's Railroad Manual, and one of the best-informed railroad men in the country, is dead at his home in Brookline, Mass. —Philadelphia newspapers throw hot shot at Gov. Pennypacker of Pennsylvania on account of an expression in his message of a desire to muzzle the press. —Gov. Beckham has issued a proclamation convening the Kentucky general assembly in extraordinary session January 12, for the purpose of authorizing another site in the city of Frankfort, or contiguous thereto, for the proposed million dollar capitol building. WHO IS THE MURDERER? The following table shows the number of people annually sacrificed on American railroads: | Years ending | June 30, 1902 | June 30, 1903 | June 30, 1904 | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Employees in- | | | | | .jured | 33,711 | 39,004 | 43,266 | | Employed killed | 2,516 | 3,233 | 3,367 | | Passengers in- | | | | | .injured | 6,089 | 6,973 | 8,077 | | Passeng's killed | 303 | 231 | 321 | Total killed and injured.42,619 49,531 55,031 The casualties on American railways due to train accidents are increasing faster than the mileage, faster than the increase in freight or passenger traffic, faster than the operating expenses or gross income, faster than the money spent on rolling stock or improvements, and faster than the total number of passengers carried. In 1903 the American traveler's liability of death on railroads was in the ratio of six to one as compared with the traveler in England. This year's startling increase in the number killed in the train wrecks of this country makes the discrepancy between the safety on American and British roads yet more disgraceful to us. The installation of the block signal system is acknowledged to be an effective safeguard against train accidents. The most enterprising railroads in this country are adopting it; it is used almost universally in Great Britain. It does not absolutely prevent accidents, but it does greatly reduce their number. The railroads have reduced the number of accidents among brakemen by the adoption of the automatic coupler. Congress, however, had to force the adoption of the automatic coupler. Let Congress now force the railroads to adopt the block signal. The railroads can afford to do this. Their earnings are increasing, even with the payment of dividends on an excessive fictitious capitalization. A. E. lanthe in "Damon and Pythias," and playing the lead in several other local entertainments of the club. Mr. Henry McGill will be seen in the greatest of all character roles, "Buck Tyson;" Mr. Bewick Prutt, as "Lige;" Mr. Albert Story, as "Squire Ripley;" Mr. Wm. E. Officer, as "Major Duffy;" Mr. Oscar Ficklin, as "Dink Potts," and Mr. Marion Brooks, as "Horace Verner;" Miss Sadie Wells, as "Ginger;" Miss Celestine Jones, as "Nance Tyson;" Mrs. M. V. Cannon, as "Prudence Freehart." Seats are now on sale at the Colored drug stores. U. B. F. OF TEXAS. Houston, Tex., Dec. 21, 1904. The board of directors of the Mutual Aid Department of Texas met at the office of the grand treasurer at the U. B. F. hall. The full board was present, consisting of W. F. Bledsoe, president, Marshall; F. W. Gross, secretary, Victoria, and Joseph Nichols, treasurer, Houston. The report of the secretary showed that for the three months ending November 30 the following amounts had been collected: Widows' and Orphans' fund. $4,411 90 Grand Lodge taxes. 595 78 Sale of supplies. 236 57 Home and Business fund. 32 50 National Grand Lodge taxes. 4 54 Interest on U. S. bonds. 60 00 Total receipts for 3 months. $5,341 29 The board appropriated $3,300 for widows and orphans as first payment on policies of deceased members for this quarter. The report showed that the department had been able to pay the beneficiaries of each deceased member for the year ending September 1, 1904, $240, making a total of $1,728 to all. There were several claims before the board for adjustment, which brought representatives from Columbus, Waxahachie and Galveston. Lane Chapel, 3966 Fairfax Avenue. We are informed that Rev. Hevelow has been appointed elsewhere, and Rev. Winter has been appointed pastor of said church, 3966 Fairfax avenue. We feel that Rev. Hevelow has done a great work in building Lane chapel, and think he will do good wherever he goes. May God bless his family, and may he prosper in his good work for the Master. Preparing for Old Age. Dr. W. P. T. Jones has bought another house and lot on the corner of Newstead and Cottage avenues. He will build a store and otherwise beautify that corner for business. This makes the third house and lot bought this year by Dr. Jones. He will soon retire from practice, and then live at ease. [Name] MR. A. A. BROOKS, Who is the proprietor and manager of the largest billiard hall in the west. He keeps pace with the billiard players and is authority on any question that may be raised. He is O. K. Antioch Church Notes The pastor, Rev. S. P. Anderson, delivered a very interesting sermon, Sunday, the 1st, at 11 a. m., from Joshua 24th chapter and 15th verse, and at 8 p. m. Rev. Lewis Lane proclaimed the annual memorial sermon from 4th chapter of Hebrews and 9th verse. Saturday evening, December 31, watch meeting services were held, watching the old year out and the new year in. The service was well attended. The annual financial report of the church was good. It shows that the church is progressing nicely, and, spiritually, she is moving on. M. B. The Palladium believes in pictures—well its all right, Wheeler. You're hard to beat. The Forum. Yes, we believe in pictures of good men. We will soon present a set of pictures of the best Negroes in St. Louis. The St. Louis people complain because the Palladium won't keep anything hid. Wheeler is a hero; he's all right. The Forum. The people do not complain about Wait for the Grand Bazaar and carnival to be given by the citizens of St. Louis, January 24, 25, 26 and 27, 1905, for the benefit of the St. Louis Colored Orphans' Home, at Masonic temple, Tenth and Market. Don't forget the dates. The churches, missionery circles, women's clubs, secret and benevolent societies, military organizations have been asked to co-operate in making this a grand success. Many have happily responded. Special features for each evening's entertainment. Come on the Pike. Season tickets, 75 cents; single tickets, 25 cents. JAMES W. GRANT, Chairman of General Committee. [Name] We would like to see this lady in St. Louis, as the Freedman Journal has always got her cut in their paper. We wonder if it is free doings. Please come this way, sister. Newspaper Women. Women are constantly demonstrating more clearly their capacity for success in newspaper work. Thousands of women hold positions on newspapers in this country. In fact, the daily newspaper in the United States that has not a woman or women on its staff is a very rare exception. Many women are newspaper proprietors, and show ability for business management as well as editorial and 1914 MR. CHAS. PITMAN Is one that is an honor to his race. contact with him. He holds a position He is respected by all that come in in the custom office. Announcement the Palladium keeping things to the front—only a few bad Niggers complain about the Palladium, and with the assistance of our Chief Desmond, we will soon send them out of the city, or put them on the rock pile. The editor of the St. Louis Palladium—or the lion in the west—is saying some verd hard things, just now.—Bluff City News. No, we are not the lion of the west, but we are a terror to evil doers. reportorial work There are woman's press clubs in nearly every state, and women newspaper workers are as enthusiastic devotees to their profession as men. They have contributed largely and variously to the success and popularity of the newspapers of this country, and are now recognized as a great and growing factor in the profession. Women are not restricted to any one department of newspaper work. Women are employed not only as society reporters and correspondents, but as news reporters, news editors and editorial writers. In fact, a bright woman can make herself useful in almost every line of newspaper work and the retirement of women from journalism would be a great loss to the profession and to the public.-Searchlight. We heartily agree. The editors of the Palladium and assistant editress have done much to keep the Palladium before the public. She has the mettle to defend her title in that line. She has taught several reporters—their place—and with her blue pencil she cut right and left. Twenty-Five Years of Married Life. On Monday, January 8, 1905, at Central Baptist church, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jenkins, of 2739 Wash street, will celebrate their silver wedding, who has journeyed together as man and wife for twenty-five years. "Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder." Thus we believe, where man and woman are joined together and are traveling towards that Heavenly land, it will be well with them, and God's spirit will assist them in all that is right. For twenty-five years Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jenkins have walked together, and next Monday they will renew that covenant in the presence of their many friends and the church of God. We extend our best wishes and congratulations to them and trust that God's blessing will still abide with them and peace and happiness may attend them in all their paths of duty. Mr. Peter Mitchell, of 1613 Franklin avenue, visited his mother after 20 years' absence. The mother was rendered doubly happy, principally by the meeting of her son, and again by his gift of a thousand dollars to his dear mother. May God bless this dutiful and thoughtful son to his aged mother, who is past ninety years of age. [Portrait of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. H. C. CURTIS THE STAR FURNISHED ROOM MAN Rooms like Home. Sweet, Sweet Home 705-701-709 North Fourteenth Street Branches: 1106-1408-1128%24-1400 Linden Street H. C. CURTIS, Prop. Monroe Motley, Mgr. Aref Hule, Night Clerk H. C. CURTIS THE STAR FURNISHED ROOM MAN Rooms like Home. Sweet, Sweet Home 705-701-709 North Fourteenth Street Branches: 1106-1408-1128%24-1400 Linden Street H. C. CURTIS, Prop. Monroe Motley, Mgr. Aref Hule, Night Clerk A. H. Neatly Furnished Rooms 703 and 711 NORTH 14th. Street. Branches 1433 and 1519 Lucas Avenue, ST. LOUIS, MO. KENNY BROWN, Manager. DELIA BROWN, Proprietress. ODD FELLOWS' BAND and ORCHESTRA Under the direction of S. J. LANE, TEACHER OF MUSIC. OFFICE: 1323 WASH STREET. J. H. Is the place to go when you are hungry. They have good things to eat, cooked just to suit your taste. You can get MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Visitors from Alabama should call there. Room for everybody. PERSEVERANCE LODGE 1765 G. U. O. of O. F. Meets the first and third Wednesday nights in each month at their new hall, 3719 CASS AVENUE. W. C. BLAANT, N. G. T. A. GREGORY, P. S. S. L. Pickett. Drugs fresh daily. Don't pass his door—2601 Lawton ave- Palace Bath House P Palace Ba [Name] OTHELLO! OTHELLO! By the Lyceum Sketch Glub. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. The Cream of Local Dramatic Talent to Appear in Shakespearian Tragedy. Watch for the Date. The Lyceum Sketch club takes pleasure in announcing that it has decided to present Shakespeare's sublime tragedy, "Othello," with the strongest aggregation of players ever associated together in an amateur dramatic production in St. Louis. The entire great production will be under the personal direction of Mr. James W. Grant, the dean of local dramatic managers. Agents Wanted Both sexes, to sell our Scott's Magic Hair Straightener and Grower, and Scott's Face Bleach and Beautifier. Beats anything of their kind. Sells for 30 cents each. Every woman and man will buy when shown a package. Over 100 per cent profit for agents. You can easily make clear $5 a day. We also furnish and beautify your homes without any cost to you. Write to-day for particulars. Address, Scott Remedy Co., Box 570, Louisville, Ky. The above famous remedies are for sale in St. Louis at Mrs. Mattie B. Robinson, 2318 Papin street. THE PALLADIUM REACHES MORE HOMES THAN ALL OTHER RACE PAPERS PUBLISHED IN THE WEST AND IS UP TO DATE ON ALL MATTERS OF INTEREST. Teachers and preachers wanted to write sick, accident and death insurance. Can earn $50, $75 and $150 per month. Experience not necessary. Address Home Protective Association, Hannibal, Mo. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE LATEST-READ THE PALLADIUM. The White 1501 Gratio Choice WINES AND CIG SAMUEL H. LEONARD, ORTER'S TAILORING CO., ORTER'S TAILORING CO., Makers of all Garments for Ladies and Gents. Ladies' Work a Specialty. We Make Suits to Fit and Guarantee Satisfaction. Suits from - - $18.00 to $50.00 Pants from - - $4.00 to $15.00 Artistic Cutters and Fitters to the Trade. CHAS. Q. CLARK, - - Proprietor. 2122 MARKET STREET. Hot and Cold BATHS 25c. Also SHINING PARLOR For Ladies and Gentlemen. Cigars and Tobaccos AND LAUNDRY BRANCH. The Best Service in the City. Frank E. Lewis AND Charles Tonsall, Proprietors. 2234 Market St 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 pains to do credit to the play and honor to the club. 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 Finney avenue, room 4. Agents wanted everywhere. Try Palmer's Perspiration Odor Destroyer; only 25 cents per box; 5 boxes for $1. All Shines Five Cents. GO is Jefferson and Market, to get a shine. Harry's place First-class shine. THE PALLADIUM IS FIRST—THE OTHERS FOLLOW. For Ladies and Gentlemen 1910 NOTICE. The Sons and Daughters of Rebecca No. 3 meet the second Wednesday in each month at Eleventh and Franklin avenue, at 8 p. m. Mrs. Saïle Harris, president, 1529 Gratiot street; May Wilson, vice-president. 1431 Morgan street, Mrs. Annie Henry, 2614 Mills street, secretary; Lizzie Robinson, assistant secretary. And baths is the neatest, warmest baths and shop in the city. Clean towels used in every case, for the coal man as well as the clerk in the office. Four barbers who can shave any person with ease and satisfaction. Try them. JOHN W. ALPHRAN, Mgr. Mr. Jeff Webb, better known as "Airship," Chicago's crack comedian, is now at the Marble Heart club, and has made a big hit with all who have seen him this week. He is putting on a sketch entitled, "The Man With Many Wives." Barnes and Edwards are in a dancing and singing sketch, entitled "The Black 400." They are making a tremendous hit. Call at the Gem and Marble Heart club and spend an evening, and have a good time, at 1911 Market street. H. B. WHITE, Proprietor. HARVEY CROSS, Manager. Duché. One of the best Plano Tuners in the city of St. Louis—La Frenche. He can be found at 1118 Olive street. —The Illinois assembly declares C. S. Deneen formally elected governor. A. MR. CHAS: RENDALL, Is one of our enterprising young men. He holds a position in the internal revenue collector's office. FOR RENT—Furnished room' for gentlemen, at 3232 Lawton avenue. ROOMS FOR RENT—716 N. Jefferson avenue. Mrs. Emma Murphy. Sam, the Tailor, 204-206 North Fourteenth street, has enlarged his place. He is the leading tailor in St. Louis. Next week we will give full particulars of his store. Will our subscribers please pay our collectors and don't tell them you will see us. We can't get around to see you all, so please pay them. J. W. WHEELER James L. Mays, Proprietor BARBERS Joseph Lee - - L. J. Jenkins. 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 11th St.) ST. LOUIS, MO LOUIS HUGGINS, Formerly of 2132 Franklin Ave., BUYS Furniture, Carpets, Stoves. Residence and Flats 2612-14 Franklin Ave. ST. LOUIS, MO. 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 Furnaces, Stcves and Ranges Repaired and put up. Expressing and Moving. 1124 N. Sarah Street Phone Lindell 249 A. Stop that cough. Go and get Pickett's Cough Drops. [Image of a man with a mustache and a bow tie, wearing a suit and a necktie. The background is a plain, light color. The man's face is centered in the frame, and he appears to be looking directly at the viewer.] 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. 715 North Twelfth GEORGE WILLIAMS, Pro Curtis' Newport B W. T. Curtis' Newport Buffet, nes, Liquors and Ciga 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. The Douglass Social Club, 2106 WALNUT STREET. First-class accomodations in every respect. The members will be gladto welcome you at this cozy resort. PHONE KINLOCH D 2127 CHAS. NARCISE, President. NEWPORT CAFE. 2321 Market Street, St. Louis, Mo. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. QUICK SERVICE MEALS AT ALL HOURS LOWERY & MASON, OF DALLAS, OF FORT WORTH, The Douglass Buffet and Pool Room A First-Class RESTAURANT in Connection Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars, and the best of service offered. PETER B. BURKE W. T. Cun 233 Wines, Also the Famous A Choice Wines and Whiskies of the Best Brand. 715 North Twelfth Str ORGE WILLIAMS, Prop. Curtis' Newport Buff 2323 MARKET STREET. quors and Cigars. GOV. A. M. DOCKERY'S FAREWELL MESSAGE Congratulates the People On Happiness and Prosperity. HE MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS Gov. Alex M. Dockery sends the following message to the general assembly: To the Senate and House of Representatives: On the threshold of your labors I congratulate you upon the happiness and prosperity of the people, and the fidelity and impartiality with which the laws have been administered. The four years past have been an era of almost unexampled prosperity. Every interest in this state has felt the thrill of expanding and remunerative development. There have been no drones in the hive of our teeming industries. Enterprise has been unhampered by the croaker or the pessimist. Our people have kept pace with the marvelous transformation of the country. Missourians glory in the achievements of their state. The greatest of all industrial expositions in history afforded our people opportunity to demonstrate her proud pre-eminence. In the lavish display of opulent resources and genuine hospitality. Missourians won the piadmit of actions. All the world delights to do us honor Our accomplishments in agriculture, horticulture, mining, manufacture, transportation could have been possible only a state where life is protected, the rights of property jealously guarded, and the laws enforced so as to promote the interconnectedness. It is a high privilege to legislate for the people of such a commonwealth. Our bounding prosperity, however, may degrade to mere commercialism. In the presence of such an untwanted situation it is possible that patriotism and rugged integrity may be induced by an increasingly greed for gain. By an increasingly sequences will meet your stern disapproval. Finance. I felicitate you upon the extraordinary satisfactory condition of our fiscal affair taxation has been reduced to 17 cents on the $100 valuation, which is below that of any other state, there is now a very large taxation burden. Our payment of all demas due, the available cash balance in the state treasury, to the credit of all the funds, is $115,583.64, of which $1,060,066.21 was credited to the state revenue fund. Onwards the treasury balance is $1,078,323.13, of which revenue fund having $179,222.19 to its credit. This comparative exhibit tells the story of greatly-increased revenues. The growth of our income is due in most cases to increases nearly two hundred million dollars in the assessed valuation of real, personal and corporate property during the period covered by the assessment. The enactment of the modified beer inspection law, which has already brought $1,555-$55.70 to the treasury. The fees collected by the state, insurance and other departmental funds in excess of the interest on public money collected during the last four year was about $180-600, being more than one hundred thousand dollars in excess of the income from source during the preceding four years. The state auditor estimates that six percent of the present biennial period. This income will be ample to properly enlarge and maintain our state institutions and meet all the requirements of a frugal and responsible state. The total assessed valuation of all property of the state for the last year was nearly one billion, four hundred million dollars, which nearly one hundred and thirty-two million dollars contributed to the enactment of public service corporations, the increase in the assessment of such property being over thirty-three millions in excess of the amount for any year prior to the enactment. State Bonded Indebtedness. Congratulations are also due the people upon the payment of the entire bonded debt. At the beginning of this administration, all of the bonds were outstanding. All of the bonds of the state is now free from bonded debt. More than forty millions of bonded obligations, principal and interest, have been liquidated since the inauguration of Gov. Silas Woodson. The only remaining liabilities are those of the state, which, by the vote of the people, practically constitute an endowment for the university and publishes schools. School Money. I also desire to advert, with special pleasure, to the distribution by the state of nearly five million dollars in aid of the public schools during the last four years. I believe that the amount one million dollars over the amount disbursed during the preceding quadriennial period. This increased outlay to the public schools is due almost solely to the increased inspection law and the enhanced assessment of the taxable property of the state. State Institutions. It should be the occasion of profound satisfaction to all progressive citizens during administration, as have appropriated our larger equip our public institutions. The appropriations for the same purposes during administration were only $1,415,988, being about a less than during the last four years. Former administrations were as generous in appropriations as the revenues then generated, and we have enabled this administration to greatly augment expenditures for public improvements; we should continue. Missouri is an enterprising and developing state. Her people demand institutions which, in capacity and appointments, shall be in charge of decemnosyngyn institutions and may be in which we live. Apple appropriations should be continued for our penal institutions, decemnosyngyn institutions and may be in which we live. They are each entitled to impartial recognition, and undue pressure by over-realous partisans of any special institution a just appropriation of public money. Reports received from the officers of state institutions disclose frugality and business sagacity in their management. In lieu of the officers earnestly request a careful examination of their several reports. No scandal has vexed this administration in the conduct of public institutions. The officers have been required to earnestly request a careful examination of their several reports. Some of the institutions have almost reached the limit of their capacity. Appropriations for necessities of appropriation must be made by the general assembly. Their wants will be presented to you in due time by credited representatives. I bespeak for each and every one of these worthless acts of appropriation, liberal and imitative education. The educational system of the state, including the public schools, the four normal schools, the School of Mines and our great university, should each be the recipient of essential appropriations, which include the four hospitals for the insane, the school for the deaf, school for the blind, the federal and confederate soldiers' homes, the feeble-minded colony, the industrial home for girls, are entitled to a generous share of our revenues. The fish hatchery, fruit experiment fair should be fostered, by sufficient aid Missouri at World's Fair. Missouri's exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase exposition surpassed that of any other state. Her commercial glories were enthusiastically acclaimed. She was very advanced at competition in grand prizes, gold medals, silver medals, bronze medals and other awards of honorable distinction. The beautiful Missouri building was thronged with visitors of every nation from the opening day until its destruction by fire a short time before the close of the exposition. The loss of this building was deeply regretted, but even yet its broken arches, ruined columns and black-ened walls are mute, though eloquently存址的 at the tireless enterprise, matchless resources and generous hospitality of Missourians. The exposition at St. Louis exploited the product of the "massive field" free estory and other industries. It was an invitation to capital and labor, and a hospitable welcome to immigration. It has mightily strengthened the feeling of fraternity which is rapidly cementing the great commercial nations. It has brought the world into its hostility to the new, and the down-global universal peace. It has stimulated the thrift and genius of the nations who are contesting for trade supremacy. It has hastened the coming of that auspicious time when the state was as a world power in commerce will be the acknowledged victor in every mart. Boodling. The exposure and punishment of bribery in connection with municipal and state legislation has engaged public attention during the two years, when the grant jury at St. Louis, under the direction of the circuit attorney, disclosed a system of bribery in that city which appalled good citizens. Corruption was shown to exist in many cities from 1899 and prior years. Many indictments were returned, and a number of recurrent public officials have already reached the judge. The people were placed at the disposal of the circuit attorney during the progress of these investigations. Subsequent to the startling exposures in St. Louis, the press and in the halls of legislation, that bribery had tainted our general assembly. In view of the boodling alleged to exist at the state capital, I requested the judge to examine the evidence and make a searching and impartial inquiry. The grand jury convened, and I then exercised the only authority given the governor in such cases by detailing the evidence, establishing either the cutting attorney of Cole county in the conduct of the investigation. The results of the inquiry are known. Speedy and impartial trials, establishing either the governor or the judge, demanded by the people. Whatever laws may be necessary to make more certain the eradication of bribery should receive your prompt approval. The executive, the state and city governments can easily drive the boodlers from both state and municipal capitals, by acting in hearty and decisive fashion. However, are clearly defined and limited by the constitution and the laws. Each must act within the sphere of its authority, and the state and city governments can effectively stamp out corruption should it appear; acting in unison and in harmony, the task is an easy one. Township Organization. State Boards and Appointive Officers I invite special attention to the report of the state board of mediation and arbitration. The labors of this body have been available beyond the time of the state. The board has been able, even with limited powers, to reconcile the differences between employers and employees, to available benefits to the victims, and have been characterized by wisdom and a proper regard for the interests affected, as well as the interests of the victims. We have given their recommendations for certain amendments to the law authorizing arbitration. In this connection I desire to commend the hearts of policemen, the hearts of police officers, election commissioners, World's fair commissioners, geology, agriculture, health, pharmacy, dental examiners, emmets, barbers, charities and corrections and fish commissioners for loyal devotion to public interests committed to the welfare of the victims, them, as the general assembly to give consideration to their several reports and recommendations. The superintendent of insurance, the adjutant-general, commissioner of labor, the commissioner of laborings and loan associations, mine inspectors, factory inspector and beer inspector have also been diligent in the performance and faithful to every trust imposed in the Binding Twine Plant. A binding twine plant has been constructed and is now in active operation at the state penitentiary. It is claimed by those who favored its establishment that it will enable the state to lower the rate of prime necessity among the farmers. Executive Mansion. The executive mansion has been vastly improved by the construction of necessaries and a refurbishing the interior. In richness refurbishing the interior now the equal of any other executive mansion, and much handsomer than most of them. Its appointments are in high handsome order, over to the new administration in better condition than is usually the case, owing to the fact that much of the work of refurbishing has only recently been com- Capitol Improvement. The last general assembly made a decision to repell the capitol building and improving the capitol grounds. This approval was followed by the dissolution and the improvements to the subject of favorable comment on the part of those who visit the state capital. The work of beautifying the grounds and putting the buildings in a better condition will be creditable to this commonwealth should continue. I have secured an estimate from competent architects, and it appears that the appropriate repairs will be sufficient to complete the repairs on the capitol building and to make its surroundings attractive. I earnestly request that this amount be appropriated. Supreme Court Building. The amendment submitted at the last general election authorizing the levy of a tax to construct a new capitol failed to receive the approval of the people. It is not probable that a new state house will be constructed for many years, but it is possible that present building will answer the demands of the state for some time. It is important, however, that a new fire proof structure should be erected without delay, to account for the potential for a strong reporter, the attorney-general, the state library, and properly care for the files of all the state offices which are not needed for the transaction. It is also strongly urged upon the general assembly the pressing need of such a structure. The present supreme court building is not only an architectural freak, but wholly designed to accommodate its rooms are narrow and cramped. It is poorly lighted, badly ventilated, and in no wise fitted for the discharge of the duties devolved upon the supreme judiciary. A suitable character mentioned may be constructed in the capitol grounds. It semes to me, however, that it would be far preferable to secure, either by purchase or condemnation, a suitable outside building within easy access of the capitol building. I submit herewith an estimate by cap- tion of $200,000 will be ample to erect the building. World's Fair Fund Balance. The million dollars voted by the people of Scotland to support the World's fair were not all expended. I recommend that the uneasy balance of the hundred and fifty thousand dollars, be appropriated to aid in the construction of the proposed fire proof building for the Missouri's Claim Against National Government. Under the authority of an act passed by the last congress, the secretary of the treasury has allowed the claim of the amount will reimburse the state for interest on loans procured by Gov. Gamble and on union military bonds issued to equip and maintain troops to uphold the war against the civil war. Congress, at the present session, will undoubtedly appropriate the amount of this allowed claim. I recommend, therefore, such enactment, upon payment, to invest the amount, under proper safeguards, in state, county or municipal bonds of not less than par value, the interest to be annually distributed to the university and the public schools. National Guard. The general government has made generous provision to aid the states in the maintenance of the national guard. The appropriation for this purpose by the state should not be stinted, but sufficient of the militia well-equipped organization of the militia. Pardon Attorney. At the beginning of this administration I approved a bill creating the office of pardon attorney. I believed then that such an office was needed, proper conduct of public business in respect to applications for executive clemency. Upon examination I discovered that the governor's office was the clerical force of the governor's office being ample to perform the duty. The office has remained unfilled. I recommend the repeal of the act authorizing pardon attorney. Game Law. It is imperative that a law to protect visions should be stringent and effective. The necessity for such legislation is so obvious that argument becomes unnecess- School Books. I renew the recommendation made to the legislature to secure cheaper and better school books for our children. This commonwealth is in the grasp of the Amer- ican people. We are the representatives of the people to enact laws to relieve parents from the exac- Excise Commissioner. Under existing statutes the authority to issue dramshop licenses in Kansas City is shared jointly by the county court and the commissioner of Kansas City. At the session of the general assembly, in 1901, I favored the appointment of an execlive commissioner of St. Louis. The commissioner is similar to those exercised by the execlive commissioner of St. Louis. The police board should be wholly relieved of the duty of enforcing such changes in our laws as will divorce the police board from this duty and devolve it upon the county court, and an execlive commissioner, to be appointed by the governor. The act authorizing the compensation of the execlive commissioner of St. Louis is to be repealed, and a fixed salary substitutes. Missouri Statue. The president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co. tenders, without authorization, the Missouri, of heroic proportions, now occupying a niche in the Colonade of States. This statue is one of fourteen erected by the exposition company to represent the people of Missouri and the people of the Louisiana Purchase. They are the work of some of our best sculptors and artists. I respectfully recommend the prompt passage of a joint resolution accepting the statue, and the appropriation of an adequate amount to pay the cost of rebuilding the statue. Lewis and Clarke Exposition. The last legislature appropriated ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the governor, to take possession of the exhibit of Missouri's resources at the Portland exposition, which is to open on May 1, 1905. Under the authority conferred by this act, he have named a commissioner to oversee the Louisiana Purchase exposition, prepare and ship them to Portland. An additional appropriation will be very soon required to install the exhibits and to provide for the force necessary to display them. Good Roads most earnestly invite attention to the necessity for some legislation that will give us better country roads. The "good roads" would be used for the first time in a number of years, but up to this time has resulted in no practical measure for their improvement. It is impossible to construct good roads without money, and the costs must be less than $100,000 per day by taxation. have given this question much thought, and am ready to accept any feasible measure that will secure imposition of high-cost roads. It is possible there is under our present consideration which fixes a maximum rate for country purposes, no other way for permanent improvement except the enactment of a new road in the form of a road in the township or road district to employ the principle of benefit assessments in raising funds with which to construct good roads through the roadway. It is the drainage of swamp and overflow lands was some years ago authorized by your honorable body, and its application was not made in the reclamation of thousands of acres of the�. The drainage law has been upheld by the supreme court as a constitutional enactment, and the law has been a guide in working out the details of a system of the people of each community can determine for themselves whether they want better roads, and, if so, by which the cost may be reduced each year. The relationship for district in proportion to the benefit derived. Vetaes. In the exercise of my constitutional perseverance, I have strained to veto forty-three bills and also several items of appropriation. I have, in the interests of general interest, but the last does not include a single 'sandbagging' enactment. The sweeping investigations of two grand juries have vindicated my judgment in respect to those approving the bill, and would again approve every bill of general import heretofore signed, except one, since declared to be unconstitutional by the supreme court. Our lawsuits should be repealed, and new legislation in some instances enacted; but I respectfully suggest that there is too much tinkering with the statutes. Repaling or amending the bill of law interests should have most careful consideration before approval. Monuments. During this administration imposing monuments have been erected to mark the last resting places of Thomas H. Seward, Governor Stewart Brown, McClurg and King. These stately shafts are a proper recognition of those who served the people faithfully in high public position. There are other monuments in the city that are still unmarked. I recommend appropriations for monuments to James S. Green, Daniel Dunklin, John Miller, Silas Woodson, and Willard P. Hali. A each succeeding governor should be authorized until Missouri shall have suitably marked the graves of all her distinguished dead. Many years since the state erected in 1837 a monument at the historic old city of Ste. Genevieve a monument in memory of her great senator, Lewis F. Linn. It is now somewhat discolored and one of repose is estimated to be sufficient to put the monument and the grounds surrounding it in proper condition. Resume. A resume of a few of the essential things accomplished under this administration may be concisely stated. I shall only present a succinct summary. I shall present a comprehensive and empirical yet progressive expenditure, is a treasury condition extremely gratifying. Our surplus income is now larger than at any time since the reduction of the tax rate has been made. Our treasury surplus will enable the incoming administration to enter upon its labors without the menace of a treasury deficit. Last of the outstanding bonds was paid on February 28, 1903, and Missouri is now out of debt. The tax rate for state purposes has been reduced to seventeen cents on the one hundred dollars valuation, which is the amount of taxes states or any other state of the Union. For many years the question of franchise taxation was the subject of thoughtful consideration. A law authorizing the collection of such values has settled the disputed question. The enactment of the modified beer inspection law has brought more than seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars into the treasury during each biennial period. About two and one-half million dollars have been expended in the enlargement and equipment of the twenty-one growing cities of the state. The establishment of a binding twine factory in the state penitentiary was demanded by the farmers. It is now completed. The assessment of public service corporations was increased in 1904 more than thirty-three million dollars over the assessment of any former state against the national government, for nearly a half million dollars, has been allowed by the national treasury department, and this amount will increase to the education endowment. The display of our resources at the World's fair, for which the people voted one million dollars, has added greatly to the exhibits by the state at the Buffalo and Charleston expositions were also the subject of universal commendation. The money exceeds by more than one hundred thousand dollars the amount received during the preceding administration; the fees of the office of the secretary of the state exceed by more than a million dollars during the same time, and the income of the insurance department, from fees and the tax on premiums, shows a total of nearly five hundred thousand dollars. That this administration has been able to distribute more than 40 percent of the quadrennial period to advance the interests of the public schools should be the pride of every parent and every loyal Missouri teacher. The mooted question of continuing the state school certificates has been settled in harmony with the opinions of the community of all districts in the policy of many neighboring states. This endowment should stand for all time, an endowment that is not only the policy are but the culminating triumphs of administrations during the past thirty-two years, of such excellence, as enable Missouri to boost of the largest cash capital in the state, to freedom from debt; the fearless enforcement of law; the protection of life and property; the maintenance of public peace, and promotion of the general welfare. Within the coming week the administration of which I am a part will expire before the end of this year. To my associates, elected by the people, and to my appointees, my most grateful acknowledgments are due for payment. I am a lawyer and faithful discharge of public duty. I shall surrender the great office of governor without stain and without blemish. I shall surrender the great office of administration of the chief magistrate, I have met them in a spirit of loyalty to my state, conscious of an honest purpose to do my whole duty. I have met them with best wishes for a successful administration; and to Missourians I renew the pledge of tireless devotion to every interest of our beloved commonwealth. I M DOCKERY, Governor. State of Missouri, Executive Department, City of Jefferson, January 4, 1905. When Kitchener Met Defent. It happened on board of the ship conveying Lord Kitchener to India. One afternoon "K. of K." was dozing in his deck chair, for even Homer nods awhile, when the small maiden in question playing with her ball, perhaps by accident, perhaps by design, let it fly into his lordship's face, whence it rolled to his feet. Lord Kitchener woke up and turned upon the child, who by this time had approached him, that basilisk gaze before which the hearts of strong men have often turned to water. But the child was in nowise abashed. "Pick up my ball," she said imperatively. Lord Kitchener frowned and answered not. "Pick up my ball," reiterated the small damsel, insistently. "Haven't you got a nurse?" Lord Kitchener said in an awful voice. The interrogative mood was answered by the imperative. "Pick up my ball!" Lord Kitchener looked around despairingly, but reinforcements were not in sight. "Where is your mother?" he said weakly. "Pick—up—my—ball!" the ultimatum was delivered in crescendo tones which suggested the imminence of something worse to follow, and Lord Kitchener meekly complied. Then he fled incontinently to the smoking room.—From M A P Her Iden of It. Small Angelica's family were moving away from their native town. The night before they were to leave, Angelica was heard to conclude her customary bed-time prayer as follows "* * * * and now goodby, God, for tomorrow we're going to move to Chicago."-Harper's Weekly. MISSOURI STATE NEWS. The Legislature Convenes The forty-third general assembly convened. The senate elected the following officers: President Pro Tem—Senator Fields, of Linn county. Secretary—Cornellius Roach, Carthage. Assistant Secretary—4W. H. Lewis, Piedmont. Chaplain—Rev. J. A. Bailey, Columbia. Engrossing Clerk—J. A. Lee, Keytesville. Official Reporter—Charles G. Dewey, Jefferson City. Enrolling Clerk—A. L. Hawkins, Palmyra. Folder—Miss May Allen, Mexico. Assistant Folder—Mrs. Ada Knaupp Higginsville. Doorkeeper—Ed Crumbaugh, Columbia. Engrossant-at-Arms—C. G. Foster, Vernon county. All democrats. The republican house caucus agreed upon the following: Speaker—David W. Hill, of Poplar Bluff. Speaker pro tem—G. H. Wilson, St. Louis. Chief Clerk—B. F. Russell, Steelville. Assistant Chief Clerk—Barryman Henwood. Hannibal. Engrossing Clerk—John B. Noble. Montgomery county. Enrolling Clerk—A. J. Jones, Cass county. Doorkeeper—John E. Carter, Grundy county. Official Reporter—Jesse Flowers, Johnson county. Sergeant-at-Arms—John Legendre, Chariton county. Chapla—C. E. Phillips, DeKalb county. Folder—Miss Margaret Davalt, Clark county. Three Children Drowned. Nancy Lucas, 10 years old, daughter of Robert J. Lucas, and Hazel and Myrtle Rollins, young daughters of William Rollins, were drowned in a pond in the back yard of the Lucas home at Normandy, St. Louis county. The Rollins children, from Glen Echo station, were spending New Year's with their playmate, Nancy Lucas. They ventured upon thin ice and fell through. Their screams as they plunged into the water attracted attention, but it was too late to rescue them. Shortly after Nancy Lucas bade her mother good-by and went into the back yard with the other girls, their bodies were hauled out of the bond, the thin ice on which they were standing having given away under their weight. Postmaster Fifty-Five Years Herman H. Knlppenberg, said to have been the oldest postmaster in point of continuous service in the United States, died at his home in Femme Osage, St. Charles county, from a cold contracted on Thanksgiving day. He was for about 55 years postmaster and general storekeeper at Femme Osage, where he accumulated property until now his estate is one of the largest in the county. Hunter Accidentally Killed. While attempting to extract a shell from a repeating shotgun, G. D. Castel accidentally shot and killed F. Finch, a young man, with whom he went hunting, near St. Joseph. Finch was pulling on his overcoat and, although it caught most of the charge, one shot penetrated the eye and reached the brain, causing death. Finch is survived by a widow and four small children. Stockyards Facilities Increased. The St. Joseph Stockyards Co. has decided to increase the facilities of the horse and mule branch of the market there, and will build a new barn at the yards next spring. It will have a spacious pavilion and will be constructed with the view of holding livestock shows in it. Two Struck by a Train. The Rock Island "Golden State Limited" struck a buggy containing Dr. Boxx and F. E. Clements just west of Atcheson. Clements was so badly injured that he died three hours later, and at this writing the recovery of Dr. Boxx is not expected. Defended Lincoln Institute. Dr. Jesse, of the state university, aroused the protests of negro educators in an address before their association at Columbia when he said that Lincoln institute is not the school that it ought to be. Buys Washington State Building. S. S. Pangler, proprietor of the Mount Vernon stock farm near Reger, has purchased the Washington state building at the World's fair, and will immediately move the same to his farm. Stockman Dropz Dead Lambert Whitlock, aged 72, a stock raiser, who lived six miles northeast of Springfield, dropped dead at his home. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause of his death. What the Teachers Want. The State Teachers' association, in session at Columbia, passed resolutions demanding the repeal of the text-book law and asking for a compulsory attendance law. Killed by a Train. Thomas Reedy, of Bevier, was instantly killed by a train at Novinger while en route home from Milan. He was 30 years of age and single. No Liquor at Armstrong. The victory of the Armstrong temperance workers is so complete that all liquor sellers have destroyed their licenses and returned their stock. Drowned in Abandoned Well. Stanley, the 9-year-old son of Mrs. Wallace Dawson, fell into an abandoned well and drowned at Hume. No one witnessed the accident. To Recast Statue. St. Louis officials are considering means of raising funds to recast the statue of St. Louis in bronze to be placed in one of the parks. Unidentified Body Found. The dead body of an unidentified man was found near Lee's Summit. The body bore no marks by which it could be identified. ALWAYS CALL FOR A CIGAR BY ITS NAME "CREMO" MEANS MORE THAN ANY OTHER NAME BROWN BANDS GOOD FOR PRESENTS "Largest Seller in the World." RECENTLY RELATED They were on a golf course not far from Glasgow. "A splendid stroke! Caddie, did you follow that ball?" said the player who had just driven. "Naw, sir," replied the caddie, "but I think that gentleman wi' the red coat can tell you where it struck. I see him feelin' his head." It is told that while John Sharp Williams was speaking in Mississippi man in the audience cried: "I've been robbed by pickpockets!" "I did not suspect there were any republicans present," said Mr. Williams, amid great laughter. "There ain't," cried the victim. "I'm the only one!" Lord Erskine, when chief justice of England, presided once at the Chelmsford assists, when a case of breach of promise of marriage was tried before him in which a Miss Tickell was plaintiff. The counsel was a pimpous young man named Stanton, who opened the case with solemn emphasis thus: "Tickell, the plaintiff, my lord." Erskine dryly interrupted him with: "Oh, tickle her yourself, Mr. Stanton. It would be unbecoming to my position." Senator Stockbridge, of Michigan, often told a story of a very rich lumberman who came to congress from the lake region and rented the furnished house which belonged to a senator whose term had recently expired. The house was a palace and was completely furnished, all except the library, for the senator had taken his books with him. True to the instincts of a lifetime of carefulness, the lumberman-congressman surveyed the library, then accurately measured the empty shelves and telegraphed a prominent house in Chicago: "Send me at once 216 running feet of books." That was his idea of furnishing a library. ANIMALS GO ON STRIKE Even the rabbit is a hardened striker. In rabbit colonies the stronger rabbits do most of the burrowing and as often as perhaps once in two years these become discontented and refuse to work. A species of black ants have little yellow ants which do most of their work for them. Occasionally the yellow species will go on a strike. Their food supply is cut off, but if that does not avail the strikers are attacked or another lot of yellow ants are secured. Both birds and beasts occasionally go on strike, according to observers. A herd of horses will bunch together, neglect their food, become restive, neigh and rub noses when in a field. The outcome is that the herd will not allow themselves to be saddled or harnessed and will chase and attempt to kick the attendants. Female birds take turtrants and refuse to do the housework. They desert their nests and leave their eggs to become cold and barren. The male naturally becomes greatly concerned, but with the bird and beast creation the male will never attack the female, so there is no remedy. Warblers and starlings are given greatly to these strikes. Trapped. Sharpe—I see you are mentioned in one of the books just published. Jill—No, not my head.—Yonkers Statesman. HABIT'S CHAIN. Certain Habits Unconsciously Formed and Hard to Break. An ingenious philosopher estimatea that the amount of will power necessary to break a life-long habit would, if it could be transformed, lift a weight of many tons. It sometimes requires a higher degree of heroism to break the chains of a pernicious habit than to lead a forlorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady writes from an Indiana town: "From my earliest childhood I was a lover of coffee. Before I was out of my teens I was a miserable dyspeptic, suffering terribly at times with my stomach. "I was convinced that it was coffee that was causing the trouble, and yet I could not deny myself a cup for breakfast. At the age of 36 I was in very poor health, indeed. My Sister told me I was in danger of becoming a coffee drunkard. "But I never could give up drinking coffee for breakfast although it kept me constantly ill, until I tried Postum. I learned to make it properly according to directions, and now we can hardly do without Postum for breakfast, and care nothing at all for coffee. "I am no longer troubled with dyspepsia, do not have spells of suffering with my stomach that used to trouble me so when I drank coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." FOR SUNDAY READING THE FOOL HAS SAID. Psalm XIV The dusky deep is set with gems That glimmer with a fadeless light, With huge and wondrous diadems That shine with a dazzling sight And glorify the holy night. And yet the doubters gravely nod And scoff at all the signs of might— The fool hath said there is no God. The sea is emerald and wide And moves with slow and solemn sweep; Resistless is the restless tide That comes from out the hidden deep, The waves in fury lash and leap, And still the critics mope and pled Along the shore and blindly creep— The fool hath said there is no God. The prairies reach in endless green, As level as a threshing floor: No shade to mar the brilliant scene And still the pessimist once more— The fool hath said there is no God. The day, the night, the dawn, the dusk, The dream, the hope and hearts that yearn The joy the bloom, the withered husk, The joy that fails, the leaves that turn, And skies that pale and skies that burn, And man himself, is he a clod? Nay, such belfels all men should spurn— The fool hath said there is no God. —Chicago Daily Chronicle. HIS MOTHER'S PRAYERS. How They Saved One Man from a Suicide's Grave and Made O, the saving power of a mother's prayers! It cannot be estimated. Children may grow up apparently indifferent to their home-training; they may even become vile and profligate; but the memory of the family altar, the father's Bible and the mother's prayers will cling to them. These thoughts should encourage Christian parents to live consistently in the presence of their children, and to persist in maintaining the family altar. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman relates the following incident, which is in point right here: "One of my dearest friends was a profligate until he was a man grown. In a great western city he had determined to take his life, threw himself down on his bed just to collect himself before the awful deed, and jarred a little book off from a shelf just above his bed, and it struck him in the face. With an oath, he threw it from him, and then dawned upon him that it was his mother's Bible, given him to read. He walked across the room to pick it up, just to show her some mark of respect, and read upon the flyleaf, written in her own hand: 'Dear boy, you can never get away from your mother's prayers.' Instead of becoming a self-murderer, he became one of the country's greatest preachers. "O, for a revival of the old custom of having a family altar in the home, where the father acts as priest, and the mother as a saint; we could stir the whole country for Christ. I wish that we might digg the well that our fathers digged before us, and make homes heaven."—Religious Telescope. THE DISCOURAGED MAN. He Is Handicapped and Is Almost Certain to Meet Disaster and Defeat. Discouragement cuts the nerve of present effort and darkens the sky of hope for better things. The evangelist who coined the phrase, "God cannot use a discouraged man," was a wise preacher; he might also have said that the world has no use for a discouraged man. Booker T. Washington, in his "Up From Slavey," gives the keynote of his own success in the following sensible words: "I do not recall that I ever became discouraged over anything that I set out to accomplish. I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed." Such a spirit will carry one through every difficulty, and over every obstacle. Speaking of a Young Man who was to come, an old prophet said: "He shall not fall nor be discouraged." The reason he did not fail was because he refused to be discouraged. The old doggerel, "O do not be discouraged," had a big message even though it was wretched poetry and worse music. The sky is ever dark to him who keeps his eyes on the ground!-Service. The Uncertainties of Revelation. Inquirers, you tell me, demand certainties. They clamor for immediate and unequivocal answers. Doubtless, and overlook the fact that divine wisdom rarely vouchsafes such. God's reserve is vastly more edifying to the docile soul that man's dogmatism. If God's book had had the average man for its author no doubt it would have abounded in direct and categoric replies to all questions. But alas, impatient souls, it is not so. We must accept and adjust ourselves to the limitations and uncertainties to which infinite wisdom has seen fit to subject us, even in the realm of revelation. Nay, these very disabilities are suited to nurture a reverent sense of dependence, a prayerful search for guidance, which in themselves are consummate blessings and which in the end will inherit the promises—J. Henry Thayer. Sacrifice. The candle is consumed by its own flame, but its exhaustion gives light to the world. So is he who lays himself on the altar of a noble self-sacrifice—United Presbyterian. FUN OF BEING SOCIABLE. The Glum Man Who Found He Did Have Time to Pass the Pleasant Word. "Sociability is all right," admitted Bugbee, "for those that have time. I'm too busy a man to indulge. A fellow that's driven all day by business hasn't a minute to be sociable." "Let's see about that," persisted Wixham. "You still take your constitutional from Massachusetts avenue to the office every morning, don't you?" "Bound to; I'd be too nervous to sleep. There's the rub; if I took time to cultivate my fellow man, as you urge, I'd have to give up that walk." "I'll prove that you can get the walk and the sociability, too. First, you'll meet the man mowing the lawn on the Commonwealth avenue parkway. You can manage to say: 'The top o' the morning to you!' as you pass. He's a jovial Irishman, and his pithy reply will keep you chuckling to yourself until you come to the cabmen in front of the Vendome. "You take off your hat, as though you might be going to wipe your forehead, or maybe make a salute, and you say in a hearty tone: 'Aren't you lucky dogs to be able to ride everywhere, while common people like me have to walk?' See if they don't warm right up to you. You'll still be rolling their juicy retort under your tongue when you come to the old man who scrubs the bases of the monuments of William Lloyd Garrison and Alexander Hamilton, every morning. You sing out as though you had known him all your life: 'Keep 'em looking like Spotless Town, eh? and then stop and ask him, confidential like, why he does it. You'll laugh at his reply. "As you cross Charles street buy two peaches for a nickel of the salted-peanut and fruit man, and pass a cheery time o' day. Wave your hand to the children in the swan boats in the Public garden, feed the doves and squirrels on the Common, jolly the newsboys at Park street; and let me know how it comes out." "Say, Wixham," the glum man who hadn't time to be sociable, informed his friend, as eager as a schoolboy, when they met for lunch. "I had two miles of sociability and got to the office on time. That's a great recipe of yours. Say, the old codger said he doesn't know why he scrubs Garrison and Hamilton, but sposed it is just to plaze the boss."—John F. Cowan, in the Interior. A GIRL'S INFLUENCE. It Is Greater Than They Realize— Confession of a Disappoint- This is how Bert came to tell it. His father had died after an illness of four years, and Bert, dressed in an ill-fitting black suit, was taking me to the funeral. As we drove along on our way to the farm, I noticed that he was lost in thought. "The reins were held loosely in his hands, while his eyes wandered dreamily across the river at our side to the hills beyond, radiant in the soft beauty of the summer morning. "He is thinking of the dead," thought I; "let the silence be sacred." "So Mabel is married," he said, at last. Mabel was the pretty district school-teacher whom I had married to a thrifty young farmer two weeks before. "Yes," I replied, startled by his remark, "they were married at the parsonage." After a slight pause he said: After a slight pause he said: "I loved her, elder, but I ought to have known she was too good for me." I waited for him to continue. "She made me a Christian, Mabel did. I used to drive over to W——with her to hear you preach, and on our way home she would talk to me about the Christian life. One Sunday night she got me to decide. I gve up terbaccer, too, for her," he went on. "It was awful hard, for I smoked all the time. The first night I was so afraid the boys would ask me where my pipe was that I went to bed as soon as I'd done my chores. But I knew it would please her. I don't smoke now. I hope she's got a good husband that'll be kind to her." Tears were in his eyes. He brushed them hastily away with the back of his hand, as if they were unhappy of him. I looked away from him to the hills across the river, for my own eyes were strangely dimmed. Bert again broke the silence: "I tell you, elder, these girls don't know what they can do. It is a shame so many of 'em don't half try."—Ram's Horn. LITTLE PROBES The saddest derelict is character adrift. Faith is both a revolution and an evolution. He who keeps his heart young will never grow old. God keeps a reward for the man who does right. It is a lopsided religion that leaves the coachman at the curb. Many a parent has entered the gates of pearl because the hand of a little child was on the latch.—United Presbyterian. The Bible. Alone it has civilized whole nations. It is the one book that can fully lead forth the richest and deepest and sweetest things in man's nature. Read all other books—philosophy, poetry, history, fiction—but if you would refine the judgment, fertilize the reason, wing the imagination, attain unto the finest womanhood or the sturdiest manhood, read this book, reverently and prayerfully, until its truths have dissolved like iron into the blood. If you have no time, make time and read. The book Daniel Webster placed under his willow when dying is the book all should carry in the hand while living—Newell D. Hillis. Witness of John the Baptist to Jesus Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 8, 1905 Prepared by the "Highway and Byway" Preacher. (Copyright, 1905, by J. M. Edson.) LESSON TEXT.-John 1:19-24; Memory verses, 28, 27. Read also of John's Ministry in Matt. 3:1-17; Mk. 1:11-11; Luke 3:12-26 and John 3:22-26. Read also the Prophecy concerning John in Mal. 3:1-3; 4:5, 6. GOLDEN TEXT.-"Behold the Lamb of God which taken away the sin of the world." TIME.-John the Baptist began his ministry in the summer of A. D. 26. It was about six months after this, in January probably, A. D. 27. That Jesus came to John for baptism. It was about six weeks later when the deputation of Jews came to him as recorded in this lesson. PLACE.-The preaching of John was mainly in the wilderness of Judea, west of the lower Jordan and the Dead sea. The index of this lesson occurred at Bethlehem. John 1:28. A REMINDER—Let us not forget to keep before us John's purpose in writing his Gospel. Repeat John 20:31. Note the reasons presented in this lesson why we should believe in Jesus as the Son of God and believing might have life in his name. John's testimony (Cf. v. 24) is supplemented with his testimony, vs. 23. Essay 3:16, 17) and Jesus is announced as "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." v. 23. The Lesson Outline. THEME: The Christ Announced. I—John's Testimony of Himself.—vs. 19-26. (i) John's Questioners. (a) Priests and Levites from Jerusalem.—v. 19. (b) Sent by the Pharisees.—v. 24. (c) Their Questions.—vs. 19, 21, 22, 25. (j) John's Negations.—vs. 20, 21. (k) John's Attenuation.—vs. 23. (j) John's Baptism.—v. 24. II—John's Testimony of the Christ.—vs. j—John's Testament of the Christ.—vs. (1) Jesus in Their Mist.-vs. 26, 27. to Them -v. 26 (b) The World's Sin Bearer. The Sign from Heaven.—vs. 32, 33. (3) The Sign from Heaven.—vs. 22, 38. (4) The Descent of the Spirit.—v. 32. (5) The Identification.—v. 33, cf. Matt. 8:16, 17. (6) The Positive Testimony.—v. 34. Comparing Scripture with Scripture. I—John's Testimony of Himself. (1) John's Questioners. John's six or seven months of preaching is bearing fruit. The Jewish leaders are stirred. They appoint a delegation of priests and Levites to go to John to ask who he was, and what was his baptism. They were not seekers after truth so much as they were critics of the truth. They came prejudiced, and they wert away without seeing or knowing the Christ. It is to do-day. Is 6:9, 10; Acts 28:26, 27. (2) John's Negations.—vs. 20, 21. John was not willing to sail under any false colors.—Rom. 12:3. He was not the Christ. He was not Elias. (Note, however, the later testimony of Jesus.—Matt. 11:14; 17:10-12. John spoke literally; Jesus figuratively. There was expectation of a literal return of Elijah. He was not that prophet. This last having reference to Deut. 18:15, which some thought would be a second Moses. (3) John's Affirmation.—v. 23. He was only a voice crying in the wilderness. A voice to utter God's message. Only a voice that the man might be obscured and the message emphasized. What an example for preachers and teachers to-day. (4) John's Baptism.—v. 26.—Matt. 3:11; Acts 19:3-5. Notice John's fidelity to Scripture. He quotes Isaiah the prophet in justification of his claims. God's children ought always to be prepared to reply to the questioner—1 Pet. 3:15. II—John's Testimony of the Christ. (1) Jesus in Their Midst.—vs. 26. 27. "There standeth one, among you, whom ye know not." Their hearts of unbelief would not see or receive Him. Thus at the very beginning we find exemplified that which has ever characterized the world since then. Jesus in the midst of the world but unknown by the world. Note the striking contrast between John's announcement of the Christ to these carpeting critics, and to those who were ready to receive his message. To the former he says: "Jesus is in your midst, but you don't know Him," and on the morrow, when they have gone, he—(2) Points Jesus out to believing hearts as "the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world." The Jews in narrow race prejudice were looking for a national deliverance while the world was forgotten and uncared for. John's broad announcement that the Christ was to be the world's sin bearer must have been startling to his hearers, and yet how blessedly true it was. (3) The Sign from Heaven. The Descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus and the voice from Heaven was the Divinely appointed sign to John whereby he was to know the Christ. It is the accepted opinion of Bible scholars that John never met Jesus until His baptism, which had taken place some 40 days before the incidents of this lesson, the 40 days' temptation in the wilderness having intervened. (4) The Positive Testimony. John was willing to receive the evidence of the Spirit and was ready to bear positive testimony that "this is the Son of God." Oh, that men everywhere would be willing to receive the indisputable evidences which God supplies in His Word, and by His Holy Spirit, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God! "Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world." John's words have echoed through the centuries. God had in expression of His infinite love and mercy and as provision for the need of a lost world, provided Himself (Gen. 22:8), a Lamb, which was a sufficient sacrifice (Heb. 3:12) for the atonement for the world's sin. Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8). "Behold!" then this Lamb of God. "There is life for a look at the Crucified One." (John 3:14.15). Spurgeon says of his conversion: "He looked on me, I looked to Him, and we were one forever." Motor Cars in Germany. The Berlin correspondent of the London Standard reports an interesting legal tangle for owners of motor cars in Germany. According to a law passed in 1901, a motorist can be punished for allowing his car to give off too great a smell of benzine. A German automobilist was fined for this offense recently, and appealed to a higher court. It has now been decided that punishment for such an offense can only be meted out "when the smell of the benzine is so great as to force passers-by to take to another road than that used by the automobilist in question." Great Jap Warrior. When I-ince Fushimi and Justice Holmes, of the United States supreme court, met in Washington the judge said, jokingly: "I suppose the emperor sent you over here because he was afraid you would get killed unless he prevented you from fighting any more?" The famous Jap fighter replied, seriously: "Well, in the Chinese war I was really apprehensive of getting a bullet, because I wanted to live to achieve something, but now I am ready; I do not care; I felt no apprehension."—Chicago Chronicle. The Gypsum Industry. There has been a great advance in the gypsum industry of the United States in recent years, the output for 1903 having exceeded 1,000,000 tons. The expansion has resulted mainly from the increased demand for gypsum wall plasters, which have almost entirely supplanted the ordinary lime plasters for modern structural purposes. A very large quantity is used also in the manufacture of plaster of paris and as fertilizer.—Engineering and Mining Journal. Cattle of England. A herd of aboriginal, wild white cattle, which has been confined for nearly 700 years in Chartley Park, Staffordshire, England, on the hereditary estate of the earl Ferrers, is to be sold. The park, consisting of 900 acres, is to be divided up. The herd has numbered as many as 43, but numbers now only nine. It was shut up in 1248. Batter Steak. Cut one pound of steak into small pieces and put into a well-buttered baking dish, season to taste, make a batter of one egg, one cup of flour and one pint of milk; beat the egg light, add the milk and a little salt and beat up light and pour over the meat; bake about one hour.—Chicago Post. How. Indeed? "That fellow Potter, you know, thoroughly believes that we all 'become what we eat.'" "Then, how does he explain how he became such a lobster?"—Philadelphia Press. How the Cotton Market Is Ruled. The error of a telegraph operator caused a decline of the New Orleans cotton market lately. It's getting so that anything except the actual supply of cotton can play the mischief with the cotton market.—Atlanta Journal. Servant Question. The servant question has reached such a crisis in Germany that the housekeepers of Hamburg have decided to start a school for the training of domestics, in the hope that a free education in cooking and waiting will attract a better class of recruits. Spent in Mountain Climbing. Numbers of Englishmen spend the Christmas holidays mountain-climbing in Cumberland; and a Christmas gathering of climbing men at Wasdale Head, near 3,162-feet-high Scafell, is every year regularly observed. Gone with Dueling With the evil of dueling it is certain that we have abandoned at least a little good. The pink of courtesy, the fine sense of breeding—these have almost disappeared with the duel. — London Saturday Review. THE MARKETS. 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I asked, for I knew that something funny was coming from Ade. "Well, he replied, he doesn't ask a man to do a day's work in ten hours—he gives him 16." "As a boy we didn't suppose that Ade would amount to much," continued the judge, "though his drollery was always amusing." Like our experience with other pretty girls, we sometimes find that when we think Eutune is smiling on us, she really has her eye on the tall man behind Puck. Shouting Their Praises Kirkland, Ill., Jan. 2nd.—(Special)—Cured of the terrible Rheumatic pains that made him a cripple for years, Mr. Richard R. Greenhon, an old and respected resident of this place, is shouting the praises of the remedy that cured him, Dodd's Kidney Pills. "I had the rheumatism in my left limb so that I could not walk over ten to fifteen rods at a time, and that by the use of two canes," Mr. Greenhon says. 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W. A. Smith Lodge U. B. F. meets the first Tresday in each month. JEFF. SMITH. Prodr. They are the leaders of the city for pastime pleasure. No saloon connected. Strictly class. A. B. C. Cost Is $72,000 Per Mile. Sam, The Tailor. At 204 North Fourteenth street is the establishment of Sam, the tailor. His business has become so that he has been compelled to enlarge his place. He now has 204 and 206, all complete and arranged in the most complete manner. Such is the business of any man that gives his customers satisfaction. Mr. Sam is what we call one of nature's gentlemen, and that has caused his success. Go and see, and get your suits for the winter. Electa Temple, Meets Second Thursday of each month at 8:00 p. m., Knights of Pythias Hall, Lucas and Jefferson Aves. Mrs. Annie D. Hyatt, M. W. P. Lulu O. Dell, See'y. Shampooing, Straightening, Scalp Massaging a Specialty Braids and Bangs to Match in Color and Quality CALL AND SEE HER WORK Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. A SAWYER'S SLICKERS will keep you dry in the waterproof clothing made. All sizes and for all kinds dealer or seller and for catalogue. H. M. SAYER'S ON, Sole Maker. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. SALOON PROPRIETORS. G. W. Holts.....1925 Market st H. B. White.....1911 Market st Bill Dye.....2801 Manchester ave Chas. Harris.....33 S. 22d st Tom Turpin.....2222 Market st J. P. Watkins.....Douglas Hotel E. L. Arnett.....22d and Morgan sts Jones & Saxton.....22d and Morgan sts G. Kinsey.....413 Levee Will Lee.....409 Levee G. Williams.....715 N. 12th st Smith Bros.....12th and Morgan sts R. Kent.....1305 Morgan st Wm. Randall.....102 S. 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 S. Levee W. M. Curtis.....2323 Market st William Dover, 3924 Saphire ave. BARBER SHOP PROPRIETORS J. H. Kent ..... 11 N. 24th st Clark & Andrews. 15th & Chestnut sts Chas. Pittman ..... 2632 Morgan st S. P. 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Flowers, 2334 Chestnut st. Prof. Turner, 2607 Lawton ave. Prof. J. H. Harris, 219 North Twenty- ninth st. Prof. Coppidge, 2122 Wash St. Prof. Jesse Bass, 2010 Leffingwell ave. Helping Hand Society. Organized in May, 1903, this organization has been of much success to the members of that order, also others that were found in need. Mrs. Ethel Kimble, 2739 Lacadee avenue, president; Mrs. Kate Johnson, 4262 Sacramento avenue; vice-president, Mr. F. Arbuckle, 2623 Papin street, secretary; Mr. Charles H. Athle, 3527 Scott avenue, treasurer. Anyone of good health and good character can be a member for 50 cents, at 2739 Lacadee avenue. Meetings every first Tuesday in the month. 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. Sina Temple, No. 124, of S. M. T. meets the third Tues.ay in each month at 8 p. m., at K. of P. hall. Mary M. Beivans, W. P.; Mrs. Rosa Cummings. W. Sec. 1118 N. Twenty-second street OUR ADVERTISERS ARE ALL FIRST-CLASS-IT WILL BE TO YOUR INTEREST TO PATRONIZE THEM. 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 Kennedy. 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, Floresville, 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. 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. Just think! Only $15 a round trip to Texas. 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. FURNISHED ROOMS. For rent day, night, or week, at 1237 Linden street. Samuel Woods, Proprietor. THE PALLADIUM GIVES ITS READERS MORE NEWS THAN ALL THE OTHER RACE PAPERS PUBLISHED IN THE CITY AND STATE. This medicine works wonderful cures. Relief Established Instantly. Purifies the system and sends all rheumatic symptoms into eternity. We also recommend Thomilinson's Liver Medicine, and the WONDERFUL DEAD SHOT and QUICK RELIEF OIL. 1325 CHESTNUT STREET. HOURS--11 to 12; 3 to 4; 7 to 8. B. B. HALL, Tennessee Shaving Parlor Everything Neat, Clean and Up-to-date. 1326 Morgan Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. [Name] Sexton & Mitchell's Art School, 2605 Lawton avenue. We also have for sale fine oil paintings. Portraits enlarged in crayon, pastel or oil. Now open for pupils. Terms reasonable. Nicely furnished rooms. 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, Meet the Second Monday night in each month at Fythian Hall, Lucas and Jefferson Ave. MARY E. WILSON, W. P. 1431 MORGAN ST. JULIA TYLER Secretary, 914 N. 11th Street. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaranteed to do what we say and to be the "boss in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PEACH-LIKE complex object obtained if used in a directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a mutabil person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours shade or two will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin of a black person beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Will put pox, tan, liver spots removed without harm to the skin. Will color the you wish to stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling out. Highly perfumed and the soft and easy to comb. Many of our customers love boxes that are worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. THE NO-SMELL thrown in free. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage payable to if we want it sent C. O. D., it will come by express, 250 extra. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. CRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street. Richmond, Va. "Follow the Flag." Banner Route To the Great Gateways Kansas City. Chicago, Omaha, Toledo & Buffalo. Through sleepers to New York and the East. Magnificent Equipment and Train Service. Ticket Office, Eighth and Olive streets PETER H. BURKE L. W. VINEGAR DEALER IN New and Second Hand FURNITURE CARPETS, STOVES, and a General Assortment of KITCHEN UTENSILS BOUGHT AND SOLD FOR CASH. Also Moving and Expressing a Specialty. 806 N. 14th St. Telephone: Kinloch D-96g. The "Leader" Barber Shop, No. 11 . 14th Street. Hot, Cold, Sea-Salt, and Shower Baths, 250. Shaving, 10c Mustache Dyed, 85c. Buff Hair Cut, 25c. Children's Hair Cutting, 150 All Shines, 5c. J. H. KENT, Rroprietor, Yours In F. C. and B. A. F. and A. M. ST. LOUIS, MO. T. A. FORD of 1315 CLARK AVE. Is the most successful man in the city. FIRST-CLASS GROCERY and a Department that will Invigorate the inner man. DON'T FAIL TO PATRONIZE HIM Trunks Checked to Union Station and all parts of the city R. S. WILLIS Residence, 110 S. Leonard Ave. Office, 12 N. Channing Avenue H. E. HOFER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 2008 Walnut St. Special attention given to both Civil and Criminal Cases. Stop that cough. Pickett's Cough Syrup.