St. Louis Palladium

ST LOUIS PALLADIUM WRIGHT & BOLEN. Druggists. Telephone Number Central: 5205 LEARN IT NOW. Wedding bells and Christmas bells internugled their glad chimes in tune harmony at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Cole, 3527 Lawton avenue, Tuesday morning, December 25, 1996. The occasion was the marriage of their only daughter, Izella Ada, to Mr. Chilford Harry Evans, of Kansas City, Mo. A color scheme of green and white carried out by the decorator's art transformed the spacious parlor of the bride's home into a veritable summer woodland and gave to the wedding a setting full of charm and beauty. Promptly on the hour of nine Mrs. Eldith L Harrison, seated at the piano, began the rendition of the beautiful Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin. Under a bower of green the groom, attended by his best man, Dr. Wm. 2. Thompson, of Kansas City, met the Rev. George E Stevens, D. D., pastor of Central Baptist church. Through allees of white ribbon borne by Clara Shaffner, Irene Hairston and Miriam Curtis, came the beautiful bride leaning on the arm of her father and preceded by Miss Rebecca Rouse, of Trenton, Ill. her bridesmaid. The beautiful ring ceremony, was pronounced in a most impressive manner by the Rev. Stevens, after which the happy couple were showered with congratulations by the many friends who had assembled to witness the nuptials. The bride's wedding gown was of French lace over chiffon and silk, made en train, high neck and short sleeves. The bridal veil of white tulle was held in place by a wreath of lilies of the valley. She carried a beautiful shower bouquet of lilies of the valley and white hyacinths. The room and best rian were conventional dress. The bride's mother was handsomely dressed in black Brussels net over silk. To the inspiring strains of Mendelsohn's wedding march by Flower's orchestra the bridal party repaired to the dining room for the wedding breakfast. The dining room was profusely decorated in pink and white. The bridal table was a dream of beauty. A wedding reception was held from 10 to 12 o'clock and the popularity of the bride was attested by some two hundred and fifty guests, who called to offer congratulations and express good wishes. The contracting parties are both well connected. The groom is a graduate of Purdue University in Indiana, and has adopted manual training as a profession. He has filled with distinction positions in Evansville, Ind., and Baltimore high schools, and is now director of manual training in Lincoln high school, Kansas City, Mo. The bride is a member of one of the most popular families in St. Louis. Her father, Prof. R. H. Cole, has been a successful principal in the St. Louis public schools for 29 years, and, is prominently identified with the educational, religious and social life of the community. She is an accomplished musician and social favorite wherever she is known. Her early training was in the public schools of this, her native city, and at Oberlin Academy. She has also taken a special course in music at Fisk University. The couple enter upon their married life under most pleasant auspices, with a host of friends to wish them "Bon Voyage." One of the pleasant features of the occasion was the admirable manner in which Mr. James W. Grant, as master of ceremonies, managed the details of wedding and wedding reception to the comfort and convenience of the guests. He was able assisted by the following society matrons: Mesdames Gordon, Huffman, Kelley, Billinglys, Curtis, Helms, Hairrson, Chase and Shaffner, and Misses Grant, Wheeler, Parker, Eslick, Jones, Armstrongs, Moseley, Hutt, Campbell and the two Misses Smith. The prepares were large in number, costly and of great variety, sent from friends in St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Evansville, Terre Haute, California and other places. Among the visitors from out of the city who came especially for the wedding are Mrs. J. W. Wrenn and Mrs. Henry E. Cook, of Cincinnati, O. both amns of the bride. The happy couple left at 1 p. m. over the Pennsylvania line for Indiana on a short bridal tour. They will make Kansas City, Mo. their home after New Year's. The following is the list of presents: Mill- CITY NEWS. Notes and News Concerning Our People--Weekly Record of Social Events Written Especially for St. Louis Palladium. Mrs. Henry Simms is now stopping at the Douglas hotel. Prof. Bruce, of Brunswick, Mo., was in the city this week on business. Mr. Daniel B. Smith arrived in St. Louis last Sunday for the holidays. Mrs. Stevenson, of 2716 Lawton ave., spent Christmas in Kansas City, Mo. Miss Dorothea Nesbit was among the T. C. G. C. girls who spent Christmas in Louisville. Miss Elmira Nesbit will depart in a short while for Ohio. She will remain for an indefinite time. Mr. Tommie Brown, one of the "Grand Leader" boys, departed Christmas eve for Louisville, Ky. Miss Leona Lee, of 4310 St. Ferdinand ave., entertained a few friends at her home on Christmas day. The Morrovia club held their regular Washly whist party Christmas migration,ember 25,'06. Mr. Chas. Turpin, who has been confined to the hospital for some time with a broken limb, is improving. Miss Charlotte Brown, of No. 19 S. 14th street, died Monday night, December 24, after several weeks' illness. Miss Almeda Hutchinson, of 2842 Lawton ave., left last Saturday for Indianapolis, Ind. She returned New Year's. Mrs. Laura Wheeler, formerly of 421 S. Ewing ave., has removed to Chicago, which place she will make her future home. Mr. Charles Herron, of St. Louis, died in Denver, Colo. He was buried from the First Baptist church Sunday, Dec. 23, '06. Mr. Ernest Walker, who is now a meat inspector, was transferred from Kansas City to Pittsburg. He passed through St. Louis Christmas. The Bohemian club's annual ball on Christmas night was quite a success, as is the custom. The attendance was large and everyone enjoyed themselves. Mr. Haines, of No. 6 N. Beaumont street, was hurt in a wreck in California. It is to be hoped that his injuries are not serious and that he will soon recover. Miss Jeanette Cunningham, of St. Joseph, La., the neice of Mr. and Mrs. Hy. Pendleton, of 755 Walton ave., is visiting in the city. She will remain about three weeks longer. Mrs. Clifford Evans, formerly Miss Izella Cole, was tendered a reception on last Sunday by some of her girl friends. She was married on Tuesday, December 25, Christmas day. Mf. Erie J. Penrose, of 2930 Lawton ave., entertained a few friends Christmas day. Quite an enjoyable time was spent and everyone departed for home feeling that Christmas day, 1906, would be long remembered. Miss Florence Rennaker, of 2631 Short Market street, entertained at her home, Thursday, December 27, 1906. Quite a number of young people were present and quite a pleasant time was spent. Mrs. Davis, the mother of Miss Rennaker, is noted for her hospitality and made things very enjoyable for everyone present. Mrs. Mamie Tibbs, of 4117 Finney ave., who several years ago weighed less than 140 pounds, is now married and has a family of seven or eight children, and weighs about 210 pounds. The little folks of L'Overture Kindergarten deserve much credit for the excellent program rendered on Friday, celebrating Christmas. Drugg $2.00 Per Annum, Single Copy 5 cents; in the West. ION MR. JOSEPH GANS OUR CHAMPION MR. JOSEPH GANS THE NEW YORK TIMES Telephone Number Central: 5265 LEARN IT NOW. Joseph Gans knocks out his man in eight rounds. Killed him on his feet. Gans Good to Mother. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 1.—A holiday present in the shape of a check for $6,000 from her son, Joe Gans, was the agreeable surprise of Mrs. Gans today. Accom anying the check was a letter Rev. W. D. Cook, pastor of St. Paul's Chapel, sent us a very beautiful calendar and souvenir. It is made of aluminum with a cut of the church and photo of Rev. W. D. Cook. The calendar is an endless, or we might call it a perpetual calendar. The cut of the church, of Rev. Cook and the calendar are all engraved on the aluminum, which is $5\frac{1}{2}$x4 inches. It is a beauty of beauties. We also received a very pretty card with a basket of holly and these words: "With Every Good Wish for Christmas." We also received a calendar from our Undertaker Anderson Russell, with his cut thereon. It is a calendar worthy of our business men. He could have added to this calendar, however, by having the cut of his very noble pretty sister, as she is the one who keeps things level around 2322 Chestnut street. Another most exquisite beauty is one from Mr. S. L. Pickett. This is indeed an object lesson. At the top is a beautiful red flower, below which are two children, full of glee, astride a barrel, with four beautiful puppies, harnessed as horses. Below in a golden circle is inscribed 3. L. Pickett, 2601 Lawton avenue, drugstore, open all night, corner Jefferson and Lawton, St. Louis, including the trademark of the bell-capsic plasters. Around this card are the 12 months of the year. Other calendars that were worthy of praise were the two very beautiful ones received from Mr. W. H. Mosby, who has lately gone in business for himself at 809 North Jefferson avenue. One is very similar to that of S. L. Pickett's with Mr. Mosby's place of business and address inscribed. The original calendar from Mosby's Pharmacy is the one, however, of which we would make special mention. It is ornamented with a cluster of roses, in the center of which is a winter scene on the farm. It is a typical farm scene and Mr. Mosby deserves much credit for the manner in which this beautiful calendar was planned. The calendar from the old stand, "Wright & Bolen," is up to the standard. The calendar is a series of flowers, with the name "Wright & Bolen" inscribed, and the address, 2333 Market street. The prevailing flowers of these calendars are chrysanthemums, roses, carnations and violets. The last but not the least of the calendars to arrive at the Palladium office was that of Mr. Chas. Q. Clark, our young merchant tailor. It very unique, being the only one of its kind we have received. Mr. Clark has his cut, also the cut of the interior and exterior of his tailor shop, 2315 Mar- of good wishes. Last night Mrs. Gans sent her son this telegram: "Thanks. Keep stepping, Joe." When Joe fought Nelson in Goldfield, Mrs. Gans told him by wire to "bring home the bacon," and when the victory had been won Joe told his mother by wire he had "not only the bacon, but the gravy." ket street. It also contains a telephone directory, both of business houses and residence 'phones. Passes Away Suddenly at the Provident Hospital. Mrs. Kate Paccard, of the Douglass hotel, died Thursday, Jan. 3, at 2 a.m., at provident hospital. She has been ill since September and has been confined to her bed for many weeks. About two weeks ago the physician in attendance advised her to undergo an operation. On Wednesday morning she was removed to Provident hospital, where the operation to have been performed Thursday, Jan. 4. She was a member of Sprig of Myrtle Court No. 13, Order of Calanthe, and also of Elliott Avenue Church. The funeral will take place Sunday, Jan. 6, at 1 p.m., from Elliott Avenue Church. The Douglass Hotel, corner Beaumont and Lawton avenues, St. Louis, Mo. The largest hotel in the west for colored people. Neat and clean, electric lights and steam heat. Rates $1.50 per week and up. Douglass Building, Hall and Hotel Co., Prop. Address all communications to the company. Douglas Hall, for concerts, entertainments and parties; hardwood floor, good stage, well ventilated; $25 per evening. SPIRITUAL CHRISTIAN UNION. The Spiritual Christian Union is to draw together all persons in bands of love and sympathy, uplifting all out of darkness into light, showing all the true light, the giver of all life. Those desirous of living on a higher plane are asked to join us. Come with cheerful hearts overflowing with love for others, thereby receiving a blessing in return. Lectures and tests by J. S. Weatherford and Mrs. E. Brooks at the Masonic building 2720 Morgan street every Friday evening 8 p. m. All are welcome. Lucile E. Herriford Meets the 2nd Tuesday night in each month at 8 p. m. at Taborian Hall, 11th and Franklin avenue. GRACE E. MULLIGAN, H. P. LULA LEE CHATMAN, C. R. MR. JAME A. SYDNOR I NOT ONLY A Paper Hanger of prominence, but he is also engaged in PAINTING, WHITENING AND KALSOMINING..... Give him a call. 3990 PAPPIN STREET THE POPULAR Barber Shop 1331 POPLAR ST. First-Class Work and Up-to-Date Barbers. G. W. HOOD, Proprietor. Wm. KNIGHTS Jewelry Store at 211 N, Jefferson Av. is the place to go. Ten years experience. G. W. ROBINSON, Second-Hand Furniture BOUGHT AND SOLD. Moving and Expressing, General Jobbing and Repairing of Ranges, Stroves, 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. MR. H. YOUNG. Coal, Kindling, Wood. HAULING AND EXPRESS WAGONS. TRUNKS CONVEYED FROM OR TO UNION STATION. Office: 4017 Easton Avenue. Mrs. Susan Gross 2600 Pine St. Millinery. Up-to-date Hats. Trimmings and all material in that line. WILLIAM T. DAVIS, SHAVING PARLOR, 2811 Manchester Avenue. First-Glass Barber Shop and First-Glass Work Guaranteed. Mrs. W. E. Mack, 26 S. 14th Street, NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS. St. Louis, Mo. BELL, OLIVE 1438. MAXWELL, First-Class Photographer 1407 Market Street. B. BELKER, —Dealarin— Groceries, Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Meat and Vegetable Market. 119 and 1121 Morgan Street. St. Louis, Mo. Grand Royal House Officers. A. D. Hyatt, M. E. G. Q., St. Louis. E. D. Hudson, M. N. G. K., Kansas City. H. H. Thompson, G. N. F. H., St. Louis. A. Williams, F. M. of H. L. Cliff, S. M. of H., Kansas City. M. Harris, M. E. G. S., Hannibal. C. Stevison, E. A. G. S., St. Louis. J. Coleman, S. K. of F., Columbia. N. Smith, E. H. of P. R. A. Morton, G. H., Kansas City. M. Douglas, F. K. G., Fulton. M. Canterbury, S. K. G., Kansas City. M. Bartholomew, F. C., St. Louis. M. Monroe, S. C., St. Louis. F. Clay, F. A. L. True, S. A., St. Louis. Grand Trustee Board. Jessie Miller, St. Louis. M. E. Bolden, Moberly. S. More, Kansas City. CORNELIUS A. BROWN Lunch Room AND ICE CREAM PARLOR. Privileges Bought to Serve Hot Sandwiches at Balls, Parties, Picnics, Etc. Residence and Stand: 1114 S. Compton Av. Bell Phone, Grand 1707. Everything Strictly First-Class. Missouri Bell Temple NO. 208 OF THE S. M. T. Meets the 2d. Friday in each month at Hall, Jefferson and Lucas Av. at 8 p.m. U. B. F. HALL. Alice Connon, W. P. 4355 Maffit Avenue Carrie Rowen, W. R. 1929½ MARKET STREET is an up-to-date club. ..Pool Tables.. and other conveniences for the amusement or the gentlemen that attend. MR. CHAS. NARCIS, Manager. MAJOR BROWN TEACHER MANDOLIN AND GUITAR 2616 Leffingwell Ave. International Drum and Bugle Corps Are open for all Engagements and Campaigning at 105 N. 15TH STREET. E. KING, - Manager DOUGLAS HOTEL CAFE Makes a Specialty of Sunday Dinner. Fruits Seaved in Season. All Kinds of Sandwiches Served. MRS, CHAS, BRYANT, ST LOUIS, Prop. Mo$^{3}$ MAURER MEAT and PROVISION CO. CASH MARKETS. 1 and 10 South Jefferson Avenue. Bomont 269M. Kin. D-725 No. 5 South Fourteenth Street. Main 2103A. Kin. D-25. 1402 Market St. 2606 Franklin Ave. 2830 Easton Ave. Kin. C-720. Pork House, 3858 Garfield Avenue. R. R. HATCHER Union Credit Company 410 Colonial Security Bld'g FORMERLY HOLLAND BUILDING 211 N. Seventh St MONEY FURNISHED To Salaried People Without Security ALL Transactions Confidential St Louis Phone: Olive 893 BRADERS OF THIS PAPER DESIRED TO BUY ANYTHING ADVERTISED IN ITS COLUMNS SHOULD INSIST UPON HAVING WHAT THEY ASE FOR, REFUSING ALL SUBMITTURES OR IMITATIONS. See Friedman's "ad." He is our friend Anything in life will a man give for money, and Mr. Friedman has the dough. Call and see him—1324 Market street. GOV. FOLK'S BIENNIAL MESSAGE TO THE FORTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MISSOURI State of Missouri, Executive Department, City of Jefferson, January 24, 1907, Fourth General Assembly of Missouri: The making of laws for a great commonwealth is a great undertaking. You will be required to work under most favorable conditions. Missouri is prospering in wealth, in population, in morals, is second to none. Every city is second to none, advancing in material resources and in population. You have come at a time when it is needed to be done, and will be required to do so. Sponsibility is large, for you meet in the beginning of the great era of government into effect this idea. In this commonwealth must come from you. It is for you to crystallize the Missouri spirit of law enforcement to suggest measures for your consideration, to adopt or not, as in your judgment may seem best for the state. You may substitute my judgment for your own. My views may not always be your views, but the opinions I shall give you are the opinions of one man sincerely expressed with the welfare of the people alone in mind. The finances of the state were never in better condition. On the first day of Janu- ber 2014, the state budget balance in the treasury belonging to all funds of $1,188,450,75, including $74,579,85 in the revenue fund, and on the 24th day of Janu- ber 2014, the state budget balance in the cash balance in the state treasury of $2,222,310,10, belonging to the various funds, including $554,089,22 in the revenue fund, and on the 24th day of Janu- ber 2014, the state budget balance in the sources for the biennial eriod ending December 24th, 1906, was $1,108,776,65, the subsur- sure fund, and on the 24th day of Janu- ber 2014, the balance of $2,222,310,10, on hand. The receipts of the treasury show a healthy growth, due to increased appropriations, this balance is large, the demands for appropriations will probably be greater than before, and caution should be exer- cised in making appropriations as heretofore. A surplus is better than a deficit. White liberality be shown all of the state institutions, and appropriations should be constantly guarded against. Estimated Income. The state auditor estimates the total receipts into the state revenue fund for the ensuing biennial period will be about $7,165,000.00. The appropriations should include the sums of the estimated revenues, the surplus, of course, being taken into consideration. Collateral Inheritance Tax. During the past two years the collection from this tax has amounted to $51,365.00. This is for the state University, and is made by legislative appropriation. Taken from this tax varies greatly fro year and as a consequence the University has any fixed sum from it. It would be a better plan to have this tax diverted into the revenue fund and a regular appropriation made for the University from the revenue fund. The departments of Labor, Building and Loan, Mines and Mining, Factory, Beer Inspection, Dairy Commissioner, Insurance, and Legal have been well managed by capable officials, who have faithfully performed their duties. Each of these departments will submit for your consideration a detailed work for the past two years, so that it be unnecessary to review each one now. The Building and Loan Department reports that there are 124 building and loan associations of assets in 1906 of $452,399.15. For the first time in the past decade there was not a failure in 1905 or 1906. Such associations are based on the local basis, the national plan having been disastrous. On September 1st, 1906 the total assets of such associations were $1,088,000. The insurance department has grown to be of great importance to the people. The work of that department during the past two years has included the workers and in expelling undesirable companies from the state has been most commendable. The two per cent tax collection from the insurance department for the year 1906 amounts to $494,066.06 which sum has been turned over to the state treasurer, as required by law. Before the department from the various companies for the year 1906 up to December 1st, amount to $5,599.06, which has been turned over to the department fund in the treasury of the state. The question of insurance is one of vital concern to the people. For all years during the past two years paid during the year 1906 $5,536.302. For life insurance premiums alone there was paid to companies domiciled in other states. The insurance department back to Missouri policy-holders during that period was $4,977,772.65. The investigations of the conduct of some of the officers and employees of the past two years developed many abuses of trust on the part of the officers and directors of these companies. These investigations Through the action of the various state insurance commissioners of the United States, certain laws have been reconsidered that I comment to your consideration: A standard policy act, for use of all life insurance companies, is the annual abortion act, to require life insurance companies, either to pay the amount earned to the different policyholders. [This act would limit the amount of surplus which the companies are per capita.] An act prohibiting discrimination and treating between agents and policy-holders An act prohibiting corporations from act as agents of life insurance com- pany. An act regulating the election of the directors of mutual life insurance companies act prohibiting the publishing of estimates and illustrations which misinform the public about the benefits or advantages promised thereby. An act prohibiting life insurance companies from making any kind of a political action. An act forbidding insurance companies from expending more than $5,000 for any specified purpose without the consent of the person. An act prohibiting life insurance companies from paying any officer a salary in excess of $5,000 annually. The entire contract between the interested parties and defining the status of the persons who solicit insurance companies act regulating disbursements of An act regulating the disbursements of life insurance companies. An act requiring non-resident or foreign life insurance companies to keep at least 70 per cent of premiums received in policy-holders invested within this state. Penal Institutions. The penitentiary at Jefferson City is the largest single prison in the world and is practically the same as 1906, 2.051. There were between 165 and 1906, 2.167 January 1st, 1905. The average daily per capita cost for the two years 1905-1906 was 37.18 cents. This per capita cost is now in course of expense, except repairs and new buildings. During the past year the new female department has been completed and a hospital on the most improved and modernized campus in now in course of repairs. The total earnings for the last period up to November 30, 1905, were $54,092.38, the estimated total for the period. The total of the dues incurred, including repairs and an annual paid out for new buildings, aggregates $59,616.12. The Missouri Training School for Boys at Boonville has 461 inmates, with an average age of 18.5 years. The day. There was an appropriation for this institution in 1905 of $75,695, includ- ing $7,500 for new buildings. Here boys under 18 who commit crimes are conceived and educated under a military discipline so that they may become useful citizens. The Industrial Home for Girls at Chillicothe has 130 inmates, with an average age of 18. There are 48 cents. There was appropriated last year $63,000, including $30,000 for new buildings. The law are detained and reclaimed from wayward ways to useful and moral lives. Eleemosynary Institutions. State Hospital No. 2 at St. Joseph has 1,345 inmates, with an average daily per capita cost of $12,150. The appropriations for 1905 were $27,700, including $15,000 for new buildings. State Hospital No. 3 at Nevada has 1,145 inmates, with an average daily per capita cost of 42 9-10 cents. The appropriations for 1905 were $85,275, including $63,900 for new buildings. State Hospital No. 4 in Farmington has 462 inmates, with an average daily per capita cost of 54½ cents. The appropriations for 1905 were $144,300, including $55,000 for new buildings. State Hospital No. 5 for the establishment of a sanitarium for the treatment of incipient pulmonary tuberculosis. The government mission to locate the sanitarium and erect the necessary buildings as far as the appropriation would go. This commission also sent the sites available for this purpose, the sanitarium was located at Mt. Vernon, in Lawrence county. The buildings are now under construction and are expected that the main building will be completed within a short while, so that the sanitarium will soon be open for patient admission. This report in detail, and this report will be sent you for your information. Lincoln Institute at Jefferson City had an average daily attendance for 1905-6 of 467. The appropriations for 1905-6 were $1400, including $25,000 for new building. Anti-Lobby Law. Anything that obstructs the due course of legislation is injurious to the public welfare. The professional lobbyist is an important tool to obtain the rights of people who are not employed to obtain equal rights for all the people. It is always in the interest of special classes against the people. While special interests of all kinds are important to the operation of the people, the operation of the professional lobbyist breeds 'corruption and should not be tolerated. I recommend the consent of a lawmaker to curcise for anyone for compensation to lobby with the members of the legislature. All persons, of course, should be permitted to appear before committees and measures in the regular and open way. Any person should also be permitted to file printed arguments or briefs with members of the legislature. The lobbyist is obliged to what is going on, it should be provided that copies of the printed arguments or briefs be filed in the office of secretary of state and subject to public inspection. Elections The elections, both primary and general, cannot be too safely guarded. The purity of the ballot is the foundation of any election. The ballot could be improved upon. Amendments would be advisable, giving more power to election commissioners to supervise elections, allowing any citizen to question the legality of any registered voter, so that the registration lists may be purged of fraud before election day. The registration lists would also be required for constitutional amendment made to include towns of 10,000 inhabitants and over. Race Track Gambling. The last General Assembly enacted a law to prevent the registration of bets on horse races to be run within or without the state. Under the system of licensing race track gambling, that the statute formerly permitted, a constant stream of young men were kept on their horses, and the thieves by the alluring gambling at race tracks. After the law was enacted, making the registration of bets on horse races a delony, some of the gambers, renamed the bettors, were required by debauching the youth of the state, attempted to defy the law and run in disregard of the authority of the state, and the local officials who failed or refused to enforce it. Race track gambling has been stopped in Missouri. It is worthy of mention that this form of gambling is falling into disarray all over the country, and it will not be long before only a few states will permit it. One of the most vicious forms of gambling is the "bucket shop," where wagers are made upon the rise and fall of the stock market. The stock market usually assume the form of a sale or purchase, but in reality there is no sale or purchase. The injury that these places are in great. The present statute upon this issue made inadequate protection given in the statute it is extremely difficult to establish by legal proof the injury. The injury is only a light fine. I recommend the enactment of a rigid law to suppress these places. Other methods of gambling have been made telonons, and the stock market is only made telonons. All employees, telegraph company officials or operators knowingly aiding in maintaining the shop should be punishable by principal's Cnd. Labor. Child labor is the enemy of civilization. It goes ham, and hand with ignorance and trepidation. The stock market is alarming extent, in many, if not all of the manufacturing states. I have visited many of the factories of our own state, and I have seen little children working away at the looms or in some other capacity. In some cases [Image of a man in a suit with a tie]. JOS. W. FOLK, Governor of Missouri. it was claimed that the child was the sole support of indigent parents. Investigation developed that the claims in a majority of cases were not bona fide. How- ever, the case of the man is so poor that he must rely for support upon the labor of a little child, he is poor enough for the state to sup- port him, and in great need to ruin the child mentally, morally and physically, as is usually the case when children of tender years are permitted to have their children interested in these children, for they will be the future citizens of the com- monwealth, and the state is concerned morally, and the duties of citi- izens. Instead of sacrificing them in the hopper of greed, they should be at school, acquiring an education, and fit- tion during the years of duty, citi- ship in the years to come. I recommend rigid child laws, and I assure you they will be strictly enforced within this state if I have the power to enforce them, I would suggest an amendment to the anti-trust laws of the state, adding a requirement that a result of a violation of the trust laws in creating monopoly and destroying competition is too serious to permit one to establish a monopoly, and that be paid out of a small part of the proceeds of lawlessness. It should be just as serious an offense to violate the anti-trust laws as it is to violate the larceny statutes. Railroad Rebates. One of the reasons our times is the railroad rebate, giving one shipper an advantage over another. While rebates on interstate shipments must be paid in cash, the railroad's a stringent state law on this subject, and I recommend the enactment of a statute requiring corporations or the directors, employees or agents of any railroad giving rebates on shipments within this state. The greatest need of the state and nation just now is not new laws so much as the proper enforcement of the laws we have been difficult of enforcement, because the wrongs flowing from its violation are public in character, is the dramshop law. *Inrestricted the liquor traffic is demoralized and the law is tougher through the dramshop and excluse commissioners of the dramshop been enforced to the letter. In a large majority of the counties of the state the local officials at least endeavor to carry out the law there are some counties where the local officials are more strict their duties and where the sovereignty of the lawless liquor sellers is greater than the sovereignty of the state. They say greater than the so-called law they overrule the statutes of the state, and set aside the mandates of the commonwealth with impunity, and the state power. There are other counties where the local officials are more strict their law, but are unable to do so. It is difficult where there are number of dramshops or illegal liquor sellers to control looms are not permitted at all, as the local option counties, to prevent the unlawful sale of intoxicants. It has been found that the only effective way to deal with the liquor traffic is through an officer with pleaner power to revoke licenses for violation of law. The subject of pure food is one in which everyone is interested. That many of the foods and preparations on the market have been demonstrated. Many statutes have enactment of proper statutes, done much to correct this condition. I heartily recommend to you the adoption of a pure food, appropriate provisions for its enforcement. New Capitol. Public buildings are milestones in the progress of the nation, and the greatness of a commonwealth. Our capitol building is creditable and will be serviceable for several years to come, but it will not be keeping with Missouri's wealth and stature. It will not be many years before a new capitol will be sorely needed. A new capitol should be paid for as it is being constructed in time for an additional taxation or issue of bonds. To do this it will take ten years or more to construct it. It would be well for you to master the propriety of inaugurating this work at the present session of the legislature. Commission to Revise Laws. The session of 1909 will be the regular revising session of the General Assembly. There is an urgent necessity for proper preparation of the state. Revisions heretofore have been made hastily, with the result that the statutes are full of contradictions, causes and difficulties to the commission of men learned in the law should be provided for to revise the statutes, and the result of their work ready to submit to the forty-fifth General Assembly. Constitutional Convention. There are other constitutional amendments to the constitution, questions of revenue and taxation. It has been urged that the time has come when constitutional convention should be called. The making of the law would be a grave undertaking, fraught with serious consequences to the people should a mistake be made. It is therefore necessary to arise since its adoption, and the needs of state throbbing with commercial activity. Bishops of the A. M. E. Church and Post Office Addresses. RT.REV. B. W. ARNETT, D. D. Wilberforce, G. 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. L. J. COPPIN, 738 South Twelfth street, Philadelphia, Pa. RT. REV. MOSES B. SALTER, D. D. 30 Vanderhorst street, Charleston, S. C. RT. REV. B. F. LEE, D. D., Wilberforce, Q. RT. REV. EVANS TYREE, D. D., 13 North Hill street, Nashville, Tenn. RT. REV. B. T. TANNER, D. D., 2908 Diamond street, Philadelphia, Pa. RT. REV. C. S. SMITH, D. D., M. D., 39 East Columbia street, Detroit, Mich. RT. REV. JAMES A. HANDY, D. D. 1341 North Carey street, Baltimore, Md. BETHEL INSTITUTE, 110 Hanover street, Cape Town, South Africa The Home Protective Association A reliable, progressive, fraternal as sociation. Headquarters at Hannibal, Mo. better understand the laws of the Missouri and under the super of the Missouri Insurance de ment. Organized on a safe equit e plan that will perpetuate the As sociation Imperial officers—C. R. McDowell Chief Regent, Hannibal Mo.; J. H. Pel- ham, Imperial, Councillor, Hannibal Mo.; M. A. Lev, I. Secretary, Hannibal Mo.; M. A. Deal, Imperial Treasurer, Hannibal Mo.; O. C. Queen, Medical Director, Hannibal Mo.; Geo. F. Neil, Imperial Organizer LaGrange, Mo. Imperial Advisory Board—A. R. Chinn, Glasgow, Mo.; R. H. Smith, La- Grange, Mo.; W. H. Dixon, Palmyra Mo. The official is a guarantee that it is founded on a business principle. We recommend the circulars to the pub- lic and ask that the people rally to the standard, they have been before the public for many years and they are doing a great work. We shall speak from time to time about this much made organization. Office at 3351 Finney Avenue, Rev. R. H. Sydnor. Sons and Daughters of Rebecca No. 3 meets at U. B. F. hall, Jefferson and Lucas avenues, on the second month at 8:20 p. m. Mrs. Sadie Harris, President 1590 Gradt. Street. Mrs. Lula Wallace.....Vice-President 1531 Gratit Street. Mrs. Annie Henry.....Secretary 2814 Mills Street' Miss Sallie Hackney.....Ass't. Secretary 209 South Fifteenth Street. S. W. WILLIAMS, DEALER IN Gents' Furnishing Goods AND A FINE LINE SHOES A SPECIALTY. Call and Make Our Place Your Headquarters. 502 Buchanan St. TEXARKANA, TEX. OLD PHONE 405 1409 Market Street B. MUNCHWEILER Dealer in LADIES' and GENTS' SHOES DON'T FORGET THE NUMBER We give Eagle Trading Stamps. A WEEKLY VISITOR Calling on 170,000 Colored People in the City of St. Louis, and the State of Missouri..... An Afro-American Newspaper, Published For The Good Of The Race..... ...$2.00 A YEAR... THE LEADER POOL ROOM. 8 and 10 S. 14th St. AYMOND, at ... Law, ... St. Louis, Mo. DO ALL IT WILL COST YOU to write for our big FREE BICYCLE catalogue showing the most complete line of high-grade BICYCLES, TIRES and SUNDAYS at PRICES manufacturer or dealer in the world. BUY A BICYCLE from anyone, until you have received our complete Free Cata- describing every kind of high-grade and low-grade latest model and learn of our remarkable LOW new offers made possible by selling from factory middlemen's profits. DEAL without a cent deposit. Pay the Freight and mail and make other liberal terms which no other will learn everything and get much valu- ply writing us a postal. agent in every town and can offer an opportunity le young men who apply at once. BROOK TIDES ONLY R. J. RAYM Attorney - at 1111 Clark Ave., St. R. J. RAYMOND, Attorney - at - Law, 1111 Clark Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 1CENT IS ALL IT WILL COST YOU to write for our big HILOGRAM catalogue showing the most complete line of high-grade BICYCLES, TIRES and SUNDRIES at PRICES BELOW any other manufacturer or dealer in the world. DO NOT BUY A BICYCLE from source or on any kind of terms, until you have received our complete Free Catalogues illustrating and describing every kind of high-grade and low-grade bicycles of pattern and design. PRICES and wonderful new offers made possible by selling from factory direct to rider with no middlemen's profits. WE SHIP ON APPROVAL without a cent deposit. Pay the Freight and house in the world will do. You will learn everything and get much valuable information by simply writing us a postal. We need a Rider Agent in every town and can offer an opportunity to make money to suitable young men who apply at once. NO PUNCTURE-PROOF TIRES ONLY $4.80 PER PAIR NAILS, TACKS OR GLASS WONT LET OUT THE AIR ORDER $4.55 WE FROM PUNCTURES. experience in tire years experienced making. No doubt THORNS, CACTUS, PINS, NAILS, TACKS or GLASS. Serious punctures, like intentional knife cuts, can be vulcanized like any other tire. Two hundred Thousand pairs now in actual use. Over Twenty-five Thousand pairs, sold last year. DESCRIPTION*: Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous, allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of that which we only been pumped up once or twice in an ordinary tire. We have a prepared fabric on the tread. "Holding Back" sensitizable soaps is overcome by the patent "Basket Weaver" soaps. The soaps are in two sizes: tresses is $8 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are $18 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is sent. We will pay a cent until you have examined and found a FULL CASH WITH ORDER of 5 per cent (diesel) of every brass brace hand pump and two Samsonium puncture clamps to be used in case of intentional knife cuts at OUR warehouse. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as Express or Freight Agent or the Editor of this particular offer. We will find that they will ride easier, run faster than any other and when you want a bicycle you will give us your order, order it once, hence this remarkable tire offer. COASTER-BRAKES built-up wheels, soaps is charged by dealers and repair men. Write for our bicycle. Do NOT WAIT but write us a postal today, wonderful offers we are making. It only costs a bicycle or a pair of tires from COASTER-BRAKES. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures when wet. It is also very durable and resistant to water, and that their tires have only been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially designed rubber. The tread. That "Holding Back Weather" condition can be achieved by using soft roads or soft rails, which prevents all air from being outtered between the tire and the road thus overcoming all suction. The regular price of these tires is per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only one pair. The regular price of these tires is approval. You do not pay a cash until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you send FILM TO YOUR ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one nickel镀 brass plate with a 10% discount to your order. The pressure closers to be used in case of intentional knife cuts or heavy gashes). Tires to be returned are expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We will charge you an expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. You may post your Postmaster, Inkress, Express or Freight Agent or the Editor of this paper about us. If you order a pair of shoes, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than they you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you receive your order you want your order. We want you to send us a small trial at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. COASTER-BRAKES built-up wheels, saddles, pedals, parts and repairs, and pixes charged by dealers and resellers everything in the store is half the usual prices charged by dealers and resellers like the SUNIPR catalogs. Leaders and representatives do NOT WAIT but it is a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and old ones. with your hands and face? They seem to be all chapped. Get a bottle of Carr's celebrated cream it will cure them in one night, and keep the skin soft and smooth. For sale at all Colored Drug-stores. Put up only by 2636 Randolph St., Louis, Mo. Anderson & Jacksons COAL, KINDLING, ICE AND EXPRESS. Light Moving. All Orders Promptly Attended To. Coal by Basket or Ton. Telephone: Kin Central 6648 L. OFFICE: 2822 EASTON AVE., St. Louis, Mo. E. M. Hawkins SHAVING PARLOR AND BATH. DOUGLAS BUILDING. U. B. F. and S. M. T. S' Louis Royal House No. 1 meets the first Friday night in each month at Free Reformers Hall, Pine and Jefferson 3rd floor at 8:15. All members invited to be present. Mrs. A. D. Hyatt, M. E. Q. Miss Jess Miller, M. E. Scribe. A. U. K. and D. of A. Sunlight Council No. 603 meets the fourth Friday night of each month. Mrs. Lula Lee Chatman—E. Q. 1525 Pine St. Jennie Jones, Sec. 700 Jefferson Ave. Ruth Temple No. 163 S. M.T. meets the fourth Friday afternoon in each month at Free Reformers Hall, 3rd floor, at 2:30. All members of U. B.F. and S. M. T. are invited. Henry Young 4017 EASTON AVENUE. Professional Sodder and Gardener. Will Give Perfect Satisfaction. WOOD. COAL. EXPRESS. All orders promptly attended to. $8.50 Regular Price $8.50 per pair. To introduce We Will Sell You a Sample Pair for Only A Barber Wanted For a Colored Shop and one for a White Shop. Salary for Colored Barber $12 to $15 per week. It pays Address Prof. F. R. Smith, Nicholson, Miss., for further information. The "Leader" Barber Shop. 1417 MARKET STREET HOT, COLD, SEA-SALT, and Shower Baths, 25c. Shaving, 10c. Mustache Dyed, 25c. Buff Hair Cut, 25c. Children's Hair Cutting, 15& All Shines, 5c. J. H. KENT, Proprietor, ST. LOUIS, MO. Yours in F. G. & B.; A. F. & A. M. J. H. KENT, - - Manager The Oriental Barber Shop First class work guaranteed. JOHN H. WATTS, The Haircutter, Proprietor. 617 N. BEAUMONT STREET. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished Room at 2744 Walnut Street. MRS. MARY GRAY. NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS BY THE DAY, WEEK OR MONTH. PLEASE GIVE US A CALL. PALMER, 2117 CHEST- NUT ST. M'GREGOR & HORN. 1547 GRATIOT ST. Dealers in Fresh Meats of all Kinds and Family Groceries. We solicit your trade, as we handle the best of goods at 1547 GRATIOT ST. Nicely furnished rooms to rent at 1234 Clark ave. Good neighborhood. Mrs. Bievens. OXY Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This will almost any other make, SOFT, LASTIC and EASY RIDING. PUBLIC DEBT DECREASED DURING DECEMBER $9,258,652, CAUSED BY IN- CREASE OF CASH. INCREASE CIRCULATION During the Year Just Closed National Banks Increased Their Notes to the Extent of $55,248,122. Washington—The monthly statement of public debt shows that at the close of business Dec. 31, 1906, the debt less cash in the treasury amounted to $940,071,777, which is a decrease for the month of $9,258,652, which is largely accounted for by a corresponding increase in the amount of cash on hand. The debt is recapitulated as follows: Interest bearing debt, $922,7,780; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,118,65; debt bearing no interest, $400,232,208; total, $1,324,068,853. The total does not include $1,121,986,869 in certificates and treasury notes outstanding, which are offset by an equal amount of cash on hand held for their redemption. The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: Gold reserve, $150,000,000; trust funds, $1,121,986,869; general fund, $193,836,222; in national bank depositories, $158,753,158; in Philippine treasury, $4,398,584; total, $1,628,974,834. Against which there are demand liabilities outstanding amounting to $1,239,977,758, which leaves a cash balance on hand of $388,997,976. Circulation Statement. Circulation Statement. Washington—The monthly circulation statement issued by the comproiler of the currency shows that at the close of the calendar year 1906 the total circulation of national bank notes was $596,162,469, a gain for the year of $55,248,122, and a gain for the month of $2,781,920. The circulation based on United States bonds amounted to $549,280,084, an increase for the year of $44,437,766, and an increase for the month of $2,298,637. The circulation by lawful money aggregated $46,882,385, an increase for the year of $10,810,356 and an increase for the month of $483,283. The amount of bonds on deposit to secure circulating notes was $551,263,840, and to secure public deposits $166,824,206. OVER THIRTY KILLED. Nineteen-Year-Old Operator Allows a Train to Pass on to Collision. Topeka, Kas.—Four white men, a negro porter, and about thirty Mexican laborers lost their lives, and 55 persons were injured when two passenger trains on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad collided head on four miles west of Volland, Kas., at 5:10 o'clock Wednesday morning. The trains were Nos. 29 and 30, running between Chicago and El Paso. They met on a sharp curve with fearful impact. Adding to the horror of the collision, fire from the lamps in the cars and from the locomotive was communicated to the splintered wreckage, and spread rapidly, consuming five of the forward cars of train No. 29, westbound, and burning a number of the passengers. All but three of those who perished are thought to have been Mexican laborers who were on their way from Columbus Junction, la., to Mexico. The officials of the company place the blame on John Lynes, the 19-year-old telegraph operator at Volland, who failed to stop train No. 29 at his station after receiving orders to hold it there until train No. 39 had passed. Lynes is being held by the authorities of Wauansee county at Alam for investigation. Five minutes before the trains crashed together the operators for hundreds of miles along the line of the Rock Island system knew that the collision was certain, as Lynes had wired from Volland that he had let No. 29 pass, but there was no earthly means of preventing the disaster. TO NAVIGATE THE MISSOURI. Omaha to Establish Line of Steamboats to Run to St. Louis. Omaha, Neb.—At a joint meeting of the executive committee of the Omaha Commercial club and the board of directors of the Omaha Grain exchange, the announcement was made that a corporation is in process of formation to establish a line of steamboats and barges to ply between Omaha and St. Louis on the Missouri river. Annual appropriation will be asked. BREAD WAS POISONED. Acid and Iodofor on Wagon Loads of It—Food for Chicago Jews. Chicago—Four men, said to be members of the bakers' union, have been arrested on the charge of putting acid on hundreds of loaves of bread distributed among the Jewish residents on the west side. A strike is in progress at a local bakery, and it is claimed that strike sympathizers threw the acid, and also iodoform on wagon loads of bread and rolls. PREFECT OF POLICE OF ST. PETERSBURG KILLED. Shot Down by a Youth, Who Turns Weapon on Himself While the Guards Saber Him. St. Petersburg—Maj. Gen. Von Der Launitz, prefect of police of St. Petersburg, was shot and killed by a young man at the Institute of Experimental Medicine. The young terrorist coolly turned his revolver against himself while falling under the sabers of the prefect's escort. The terrorists' organization has issued a proclamation avowing and justifying the killing. The crime was accomplished with so much ease that it has struck terror to the hearts of all other officials on the revolutionary death list. The assassin was about 22. The police avow he was a Jew. He was provided with a card of admission, but it bore no name. How he obtained it is a mystery, as there were only 150 issued to select parties. He was attired in evening dress, which was completely out of harmony with his toll-stained hands. An Indescribable Scene. The fall of Gen. Von Launitz was followed by a scene of indescribable hysteria and confusion. The duke of Oldenburg, who was one of the few men who retained their composure, seized the assassin's hand, after he had fired twice, and several succeeding shots were discharged into the ceiling. But before the duke could disarm him one of the officers who accompanied the prefect drew his saber and struck the assassin, a blow which completely cut out a portion of his skull. As the man was falling he shot himself in the stomach with the last bullet in his revolver. His death was instantaneous, but several officers continued to hack his prostrate body until the duke of Oldenburg struck up their swords and forced them to desist. It was while Gov. Gen. Von Der Launitz was governor of Tambov that there occurred the terrible repression of the agrarian disorders in Tambov province, and it was in retribution for these that Maria Spirdonovo shot Chief of Police Luzhenoffsky, one of the subordinates of Gen. Von Der Launitz. THE NEGRO. Senate Spends First Session After Holidays Discussing Brownsville. Washington—After two weeks of vacation, the senate devoted its first session to the further discussion of President Roosevelt's order dismissing the negro troops of the Twenty-fifth infantry for "shooting up" Brownsville, Tex. Senator Culberson, of that state, defended the order, bringing to its support many points of legal construction, and justifying the action by many quotations taken in connection with the affray. He closed with an impassioned statement of the position of the south on the negro question, which he declared to be the most vital and dangerous problem before the American people. Senator Foraker replied briefly, expressing his intense interest in having speedy action on his resolution for an investigation. Senator Lodge proposed an amendment to this resolution, which has the effect of admitting the president's authority as commander-in-ief of the army to take the action he did, and of restricting the investigation to the occurrence in Brownsville. On motion of Senator Hale, the resolution was given the right of way Monday. Senator Culberson concluded his speech of an hour and a half by saying: "This problem involves labor, education, suffrage, social order, civil liberty, self-government and the integrity of the white race. The end no man can see. Southerners feel deeply and profoundly on this problem, and its ultimate solution. Closing their eyes and looking down the ages, different vistas rise; sometimes the black race is deported, sometimes the races live together as now, in perfect peace, one subordinate to the other; sometimes they turn with unspeakable aversion to a blended, corrupted and inferior race; sometimes there is war between the races—which may God avert. In the midst of such awful possibilities any man or party who would create false hopes in these people deserves no place in the confidence of the American people." Britain Borrowing Trouble. London—The attitude of Great Britain in the event of a quarrel between the United States and Japan is still discussed here. In an editorial the Standard points out that everything hinges on whether the aggressor is provoked, that being the essence of the Anglo-Japanese treaty. For instance, should the United States invade Korea, Great Britain would be bound to assist Japan, but if Japan invaded the Philippines that would be a private adventure in which Great Britain would not mix. Three Minutes Too Late. Vicksburg, Miss.—Will Harvey, a negro, was hanged at Mayorsville, Miss., three minutes before notice that his sentence had been commuted by the governor reached the sheriff. Harvey's attorney was notified by Gov. Vardaman that the negro's sentence had been commuted to imprisonment for life. He hurried to the telephone and called the sheriff. The latter did not reach the telephone until three minutes after the drop fell. Harvey was hanged for the murder of another negro. U. B. F. & S. M. T. St. Louis Royal House Meets the first Friday night in each month at the U. B. F. Hall. MRS. A. D. HYATT, M. E. J. MRS. J. M. MILLER, M. E. L. ELIZABETH TEMPLE NO. 12 OF THE S. M. T. Meets the Second Monday in the afternoon at 2:30 p. m., and the Fourth Friday night at 8:00 p. m., in each month, U. B. F. Hall, Lucas and Jefferson avenues. MRS. HATTIE WILLIAMS, W. P. 3813 West Bell Boulevard. MRS. LULA BRUNER, Secretary, 286 Eastern Avenue Queen Esther Temple OF THE S. M. T. Meets the first and third Wednesday in each month at 4 p. at U. B. F. Hall. MRS. CARRIE STEVENSON, W. P. MRS. MAHALIA MACKLIN, Secretary. St. Louis Temple No. 184 OF THE S. M. T.'S Meets the 81 Wednesday in each month at 4 p. at U. B. F. Hall. All visiting sisters and brothers are welcome. MRS. SARAH KARRS, W. P. MRS. EMMA ELKINS, W. P. Weheler Grene. CELIA BROWN, Sec. 2225 Walnut St. S.M.T. 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, 1004 Morgan Street. Ruth Temple, No. 163 OF THE S. M. T. Meets the Fourth Friday in each month at U. B. F. Hall, Jefferson and Lucas Ave. MISS JESSIE MILLER, N. P., 4350 Cottage Ave. IDA DORDEN, Secretary, 2943 Atlanta Street. S. M. T. Adah Temple No. 32, Meets Second Friday in each month at PYTHIAN HALL, LUCAS and JEFFERSON AVE., at 2 p. m. All sisters and brothers are invited. MRS. ANNIE E. HALLAM, W. P. 1715 Gratiot St. NETTIE WHITE, Secretary, 2955 Fairfax Ave. Sina Temple 124 meets the 2d Tuesday at K. of P. Hall. MRS. KATIE BOSWELL, W. P. 4222 Maffitt Avenue. MRS. ALLICE BELLINGER, Sec'y 1521 Clarke Ave. Rising Sun Council of East St. Louis Ill., meets the second Wednesday in each month. MRS. JOSEPHINE JONES, M. E. LILLIE MASSEY, M. W. R. All are invited. Olive Leaf Drill Corps Meets for drill every Thursday in each week o every month at 2727 FRANKLIN AVENUE. Odd Fellows Hall. CAPT.—MRS. MARY E. MONROE. 2645 LaSalle Street. MRS. L. A. BRUNNER, Recorder. Eureka Temple No. 137 S. M. T. Meets first Friday in each month in the afternoon at 3 o'clock. MRS. M. J. MITCHELL, W. P. 3821 Finney Avenue. MRS. JENNIE JONES, Secretary, 700 North Jefferson Avenue. A. U. K. & D. of A. A. U. K. & D. of A. meets at Geary's Hall, 126 North Main street, East St. Louis, Ill., every 2d Wednesday and 4th Monday of each month, 7:30 p.m. Visiting Knights and Daughters welcomed. JOSEPHINE JONES, M. E. Q. WM. TAYLOR, Secretary. A. U. K. and D. of A. St. Joseph Council meets the third Wednesday at 8 p. m. at 2720 MORGAN ST. ..... Visiting Knights and Daughters are Welcome. MARY BUCKNER, E. L. ADA HARRIS, Recorder. A. K. & D. of A. Good Samaritan Council No. 400 meets first Wednesday night in each month at 8 o'clock at 2720 MORGAN ST. ..... B. A. COLLINS, M. E. Q., 3220 Hickory Street M. L. BOYD, W. R., 1706 Newstead Avenue. A. K. & D. of A. The D. L. Martin Juvenile M. 1 meets the third Saturday in each month at 2 p. m. at 2720 MORGAN ST. S. A. COLLINS, M. Q.. 3220 Hickory Street. BAINE PITTS, P. P. 3229 Rutger Street. MAMIE WILSON, W. R. GEO. W. F. BULLOCK, Ladies' Barber AND TONSORIALIST 3820 Franklin Avenue. St. Louis. S. SEXTON LOCAL 44, A. F. M. West End Music Store 2129 MARKET ST. Instruments Bought and Sold. SHEET MUSIC A SPECIALTY. All Kinds of Repairing Done. ST. LOUIS. NEW DRESSMAKING 2726 MORGAN ST. Such as Ladies' Tailoring and Fashionable Dressmaking. MRS. MAMIE ALEXANDER. MISS NELLIE BOUYER. Telephone A-2064. FRANK MONTGOMERA DEALEE IN Coal and Wood. EXPRESSING DONE. 2621 Barnard St. St. Louis. MRS. R. WILKERSON, 3233a LASALLE ST. Cleaning Feathers For Men's and Ladies' Hats. P.S.PERKINS EVERYTHING CLEAN AND FIRST - CLASS. 924 North 21st Street. 904 N. 21st. St. MUSIC FURNISHED for Receptions, Balls and Parties. JOHN L. FIELDS, teacher of the Harp, Piano and Guitar; now with the Great Western Band and Orchestra. 1621 LUCAS AVENUE Musical Combinations to be hired for small parties and entertainments. Violin, Corneg. Harp. 2-YIOLIN AND HARP. 2-YIOLINS, VIOLA BASS. Bell Phone: Mains 3268. Bell, Bomont 1481. PHONES: Kinloch C-391 LOUIS HENCKEN, (Successor to Theo. H. Tempel. GROCER, 2601 MARKET ST., Orders Promptly Delivered. St. Louis IF YOU BUY FURNITURE. AT Thuner's ITS GOOD. 2122-24-26 South Broadway PHONE: BOMONT 458. S. FORD Prop "It's always fair weather When good fellows get together." Where are you going? I am going to the HOME COOKING KITCHEN TO GET A GOOD MEAL. Strictly Home Cooking Like Mother Cooks at Menus Remember the Number. 2127 MARKET STREET. Meals at All Hours. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. TELEPHONE A-2064. FRANK MONTGOMERY DEALER IN Coal and Wood. EXPRESSING DONE. 2621 Bernard St. St. Louis. --- L St. Louis Palladium. St. Louis Palladium. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY Entered at the postoffice at St. Louis file, as second-class matter. Published Weekly by J. W. WHEELER, Manager and Proprietor. 261 Lawton Avenue. OLIVIA RICHARDSON Mrs. M. A. THORNTON, of 315 S. 22nd. St. is the Reporter and general solicitor for the St. Louis, Palladium. Mr. Charles H. Wheeler, general solicitor and collector for the Palladium. John W. Wheeler, Jr., solicitor. Business matters pertaining to the paper should be addressed to The Palladium Office. Communications for publication must reach us not later than Wednesday. ADVERTISING RATES. For one inch, one insertion..... $ 50 For one inch each subsequent insertion..... 2.5 For two inches, three months..... 6 00 For two inches, six months..... 10 00 For two inches, nine months..... 14 00 For two inches, twelve months..... 30 00 Standing and transient notices per line..... 10 RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year..... $2.00 Six months..... 1.00 Three months..... .60 Single copy..... .05 The St. Louis Palladium sold at the following places: 2617 Lawton Ave. 211 North Jefferson avenue. The Palladium is sold at: 9 North Seventeenth street. 2739 Wash street. CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS UNIVERSITY Wh. it Has Caused It and What Is the Remedy? At no time can a man of business (Colored) approach a merchant and ask for an advertisement for a newspaper but what he is almost insulted about what some other fellow has done. When we are allowed to explain they begin to tell us about what and how some grafter fleeced them, and they never have seen the paper. After listening to them we have come to the conclusion that they have a just complaint. Newspapers that are controlled by Colored men ought to combine and drive these newspaper bloodsuckers and grafters out of St. Louis, and unless this is done the others newspapers will stand guilty of the same crime. The above editorial was written by J. W. Wheeler in 1898, and it is yet good. Again Joseph Gans has rewon the title of lightweight champion of the world, and like the great general of old, he now weeps because there are more to conquer. We would say to him the citizens of St. Louis feel very proud over your victory with the young Hebrew. We shall be glad at all times to speak in the highest terms of our champion. We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Gans when he was here, and we never met a more gentleman in his actions and conversations at all times. We were much astonished and, now that he has again won, we trust that he will again visit the good people of S⁺ Louis, as in no part of this country will you find a more friendly people, and people who feel as near to him as if they were related. Mr. Editor—We are proud to insert in our columns that at our election of officers at 2721 Washington avenue Monday night we again elected Rev. S. Samuels as chaplain at the poorhouse; also his wife as our treasurer. They have done such good work that this is their fourth term. We are certainly proud of them because they are the first and only Colored people elected to any of our institutions. White Christian Willing Workers. Dear Editor: Mrs. M. E. Jones repeated the program which was rendered at the school house the Friday before Christmas at the Baptist church in Kinloch park. Standing room was at a premium. Everyone enjoyed the program and we realized a handsome sum from the refreshments. WILLIAM ANDERSON. Let Principle Rule We hope that the Republican ticket that was voted for last month and was elected will listen to the will of the men who made it possible for your election. The Palladium is a terror to grafters, political bloodsuckers, jack-leg preachers and sharks, and they hate the name of the Palladium. Well, boys, you must start in a better business than grafting. This was also written in 1889. Let no man be appointed to office who has served a term in the workhourse or who has been convicted for crime in St. Louis or elsewhere. Let no man be appointed to office who has no visible means of support other than gambling or lying around places of vice. The ST. LOUISE PALLADIUM Is Recognized As The Leading Afro-American Paper Of The West. M. J. B. We did not issue the Palladium Dec. 29, 1906, because for some reason or other we begun to think of the old days of 1860. At that time the Negro RIP SAW COLUMN OF THE ST. LOUIS PALLADIUM We have learned that it was his sister. We trust that there are more men as attentive to their sisters as he is. We intend to send the lovely lady on Walnut street a present to show our appreciation of her, as she spoke so tenderly of us last week. She might suggest what she would like. Wanted—A good man for a husband. The lady is up-to-date and a good conversationalist; will make a good man a good wife. She does not live three blocks from our office. Address Palladium office at once. In our last issue we stated that Mrs. Pat Smith, of 1234 Presston street, Louisville, Ky., was dead. It was a mistake; it was her sister, Miss Lizzie Hahn. That is the name we knew her by years ago, and we do not know if she is married or not. The lady that lives in the 4200 block on North Market street. It is rumored that she was the cause of her husband being insane. He is now in some insane asylum in Illinois. Is it possible that she wanted to get rid of him, or does the family think that they are better than the average Negro? A number of Negroes who rented Abyssinia hall, when asked for pay refused to respond. They then went to other halls and got dates. We learned that an Odd Fellow lodge owes the proprietor of Abyssinia hall. Now, we don't want any monkeying about this matter. You pay him and he will pay us. Don't you see? 4-11-44. The smelling committee of J. R. Johnson lodge, No. 30, Masonic, had better go a little slow and let a certain man alone in his business, or the Palladium man will have something to say or put someone on the St. Louis Palladium mule. Remember, the good book says: "Let he that is without sin cast the first stone." The dear, sweet lady on Walnut street was very much pleased with the write-up she received in the Palladium last week. Oh, she is a dear, sweet creature, and if she was not married I would be hard to rival for her hand. I have never before met with a dear girl who pleased me more in her general makeup as this good, sweet one. One old black woman on South Ewing avenue, in the 500 block, after having her name changed once or twice on the Palladium and trying to make us believe she was a Miss, and after crossing the street several times getting her little feet wet, because she owed the Palladium man; showed her nigger to Palladium Man Dec. 27, 1906. Christmas night, as we were standing on the corner of Jefferson and Lawton about 12:30 o'clock, a black woman and a yellow woman, two members of Aunt Hagar's family, exclaimed as they passed: "Here am dat Palladium man watching to write somebody up. They went into Pickett's and in about a half hour came out with 5c worth of ice cream." To their utmost surprise the Palladium man was still watching, and they again exclaimed: "Dere am dat Palladium man, like a duck." stopped work on Christmas eve, Dec. 24, and did not go to work until Jan. 1. We were on a week's vacation, so here we are for the next 12 months ending Dec. 28, 1907. We are, with respect, MANAGER. Guests of Dauglass Hotel Week End ing Thursday, Jan. 3. W. C. Scott, St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Weaver, St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. John Miller, St. Louis; Mrs. Mabel Lee, St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Stewart, St. Louis; H. P. Sims, St. Louis; William Shar, St. Louis; Mrs. M. Scott, St. Louis; Miss Adeline Scott, St. Louis; T. A. Williams, Danville, Va.; C. Higgs, Indianapolis, Ind.; George H. Broadshaw, Chicago; Mrs. Charles Bryant, Kirkwood, Mo.; Miss Alma Bryant, Kirkwood, Mo.; George Jones, Kansas City; B. D. Mattnigg, Chicago; C. H. Cave, Kansas City; Miss C. Jordan, Chicago; Stephen Griffin, Troop K, Ninth cavalry; William Carter, Memphis, Tenn.; C. H. Callow, Kansas City; Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Jordan, St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. V. Wilson, Philadelphia; Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Whittaker, Coffeyville; Kas.; Rev. E. S. Willet, Cairo, Ill.; McRherson, Chicago; J. C. Hobbs, Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. Mabel Lee, Toronto, Can.; A. Bullock, Boston, Mass. The Grand Post-Dispatch. At Turner Hall, Christmas day, the hearts of thousands of men, women and children, regardless of race, color or previous condition, were given a feast. This great paper displayed the generosity that made us feel that we have friends. Devoy Busy Man. Edward Devoy, who was in charge, was one of eight of the busiest men in St. Louis. The other seven were in charge of other Post-Dispatch festivals. Devoy was to be seen most of the time beside the railing, where the children passed in line to receive their gifts, and he was so constantly in demand at other places that it seemed as though the only way for him to "get away" with his job was to become ubiquitous. Mr. Devoy was greatly assisted in the success of the entertainment by the readiness of Benjamin Banks, proprietor of the hall, to provide conveniences and decorations. Mr. Ben Banks has this hall well in hand, and these good white people speak in the highest terms of Mr. Banks. The Post-Dispatch did not draw any color line, but let the throbbing wants of hungry men, women and children, white and black, be quenched at the same table, and their presents be received from the hands of these good white ladies who came from their homes to make these people happy. We trust that God will bless them in their store houses. No wonder the Post-Dispatch has so larges a circulation. It is simply this: They are so generous to all people, and yet there are thousands of white men and women, still they come to our relief. NOTICE! NOTICE! We hereby announce that the partnership of Harris & Mosby has been dissolved and in the future Mr. W. H. Mosby is sole proprietor of the drug store at 809 N. Jefferson avenue. This is one of the best drug stores that you can trade at. Mr. Mosby is a young man and one of the most progressive young men in the city. He is kind and pleasant to all and delights in making others happy and contented. We ask, for him, your patronage. USE PICKETT ANTISEPTIC OINTMENT For chapped face and hands, pimples, scrofula, tetter, ringworm, eczema, ulcers, rash, galis, and all skin diseases. 25c. For sale by S. L. PICKETT, 2601 Lawton ave. Cuban party claim revolution will follow adoption of President Roosevelt's plan to hold elections and turn over country to new republic. On last Monday night one of the finest stag suppers ever given in this city was given at the Newport by a number of young men friends of Miss Izella Cole to Mr. Clifford Evans of Terre Haute, Ind. Mr. Curtis gave his personal attention to the menu, which reflected well not only upon the cafe, but himself. After supper, which lasted past midnight, warm and beautiful toasts were given by every member of the party. Some of the main features of the evening were the toast to the bride-to-be, after which, to show their friendship in the most impressive way, and that no one should again be toasted from the same glass, every person present broke the glass from which they drank; the toast to Mr. Evans, which was drunk from a loving cup, and the presenting of souvenirs by Mr. Curtis. The affair was brought to a close by all joining hands around the table, and led by Dr. Thompson, who sang "How Can I Bear to Leave Thee." Those present were: Prof. Harry H. Page, of Jefferson City; Dr. W. J. Thompkinson, of Kansas City; Lorenzo Harris, Bismarck Lavine, Paul Moseley, Louis Washington, Hamilton Moseley, Wm. T. Curtis, Dr. Gec. Cathrell and Ulysses S. Bolon, toastmaster. Miss Brown Entertains. Miss M. A. Brown, of 3224 Lawton ave., entertained at her home Thursday evening from 4 till 9 in honor of Miss Zenoho R. I. Parker and her niece, Bessie L. Brown. The evening was a notable feature in society during the holidays. The luncheon was served in the latest design. Music was served by Prof. Brown's orchestra. There were 35 guests in attendance. Among the distinguished guests were: Mrs. Wilson and daughter, of New York; Mr. S. S. Lovejoy, of Palmbeach, Fla.; Mr. Brooks, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. J. L. Nifong and the Misses Blank, of East St. Louis, Ill. Prof. Brown was assisted by Mr. Jas. L. Harris. Miss Parker left for her home Friday afternoon, accompanied by Miss Bessie S. Brown, who has arranged to stay an indefinite period of time. Miss M. A. Brown joined them New Year's day. Christmas Tree at Orpheus. At the Christmas tree celebration at Orpheus academy Friday evening, many were made happy by receiving the gifts distributed, but none more so than the premier master, Mr. James W. Grant, to whom a number of prominent citizens, through their spokesman, Prof. Arthur D. Langston, presented a magnificent silk umbrella, Mr. J. A. K. Ficklin, president of the Monrovia club in the name of his organization gave Mr. Grant a beautiful gold lined ebony loving cup. He was the happy recipient of many other gifts. The first important event of the new year at the academy will be the presentation of a diamond ring and gold watch to the two most popular ladies, on Friday evening, Feb. 1st. A. B. The renowned John McCord, who has been looking over the different firms of St. Louis and he says that Scullin and Gallagher are putting food in more mouths than any other firm (white or colored), in this city. Great Western Club Masquerade. Keep your eye on the Palladium for the announcement of the first annual masquerade given by the Great Western club, Tuesday evening, Feb. 12th. If undecided, consult Leon Devoux, the Great Hindoo Clairvoyant. He removes the Hoodoo and removes evil influences. 2734 Morgan street. Our Advertisers Are All Reliable And You Will Be Benefited By Patronizing Them. Sam, the Tailor, is the man that patronizes Negro business men, and our people ought to patronize him. 204 North Fourteenth street. For Rent—4336 Cottage avenue, three nice rooms, furnished or unfurnished, to first-class colored people. Isabel and Taylor, two of St. Louis' young men, are doing good business at 1315 Clark avenue. Give them a call. NOTICE. Any article sent to this office for publication must be accompanied by the money—5 cents per line—otherwise it will be thrown away. Use Pickett's Laxative Viburnum for Female Troubles. SAM is Now ReadY To Make your TER SUITS Grades, and over 2,000 patterns to select from satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. THE ORIGINAL SAM THE SAM WEISMAN, Prop. J. WEISMAN, Manager. 204-206 N. 14th Street CHARLES Q. C. MERCHANT TAILOR 615 1-2 MARKET STREET Bell, 1684 Olive. Isabell & Taylor PROPRIETORS Magnolia Bar. Fed and Domestic Wines, Liquor CHAS. WINESTOCK, Manager. W MARTIN. MIXERS. OPEN ALL NIGHT. H. Mosby Has Full Post Store at 809 N. Jeffe and Try His Goods. WINTER S all mares and grades, and over 2,000 your means. Satisfaction guaranteed on e.l. THE ORIGINAL SAM W J. WEIS 204=206 N. CHARLES MERCHAN 2315 1-2 MAY Phone, Bell, 1684 Olive. all mares and grades, and over 2,000 patterns to select from. Prices to suit your means. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Courtesy shown to THE ORIGINAL SAM THE TAILOR. SAM WEISMAN, Prop. J. WEISMAN, Manager. 204=206 N. 14th Street. CHARLES Q. CLARK MERCHANT TAILOR 2315 1-2 MARKET STREET Geo. Isabell. Fine Imported and Domestic CHAS. WINEST Night—ANDREW MARTIN. MI OPEN AL 1315 Clark Avenue. W. H. Mosby Has the Drug Store at 80 Go There and Try His Fine Imported and Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars CHAS. WINESTOCK, Manager. Night—ANDREW MARTIN. MIXERS. Day—ED. ISABELL. OPEN ALL NIGHT. 1315 Clark Avenue. St. Louis, Mo. W. H. Mosby Has Full Possesslon of the Drug Store at 809 N. Jefferson Ave. Go There and Try His Goods. FOR FINE WORK IN TAILORING SEE CHAS. Q Mercha AS. Q. CL Merchant Tailor STREET, Central 6322. Bell, CHAS. Q. CLARK Merchant Tailor 2315 $ \frac{1}{2} $ MARKET STREET, Kinloch, Central 6322. WHY IS IT That the Laws of the State of Missouri Are Not in Accordance One of the greatest evils that is now undermining the society of the Christian community is the unholy state of affairs that the laws of Missouri sanction the act of man and woman living together and not being married. If there ever was a time in the history of Christian civilization that the better class of people should rise up and enter their solemn protest against this growing evil now is the time. This is a matter that should be stamped out for the good of the rising generation—this thing of man and woman living together in such a state, and people knowing the same. They should be responsible for this growing evil. the pastors of the churches dare not speak of it in the pulpit for fear of offending some of his good contributors. We shall enter this, our solemn vow, for the good of the race, to ask that all law-abiding citizens will assist in ridding the community of such. Children that are born out of wedlock are continually making excuses of their birth through life. Suspension of two jockeys and injuring of another are features of day at New Orleans Fair Grounds track. --- A. B. C. The Tailor. 204 N Fourteenth St Winter Suits SUITS I Have Them In patterns to select from. 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He will send you home happily you ever were before. If you cannot call, write. PROF. LEON DE VOUX reading for Miss Magrane 1902. Before she had married Mr. Scott, of Death Valley, Cal. SPECIAL—On presentation of this AL in ten days will entitle ladies or gentlemen thorough Biographical Reading. Formerly CONFIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH F OF THE CITY. will send you home happier if you cannot call, write. a reading for Miss Magnolia had married Mr. Scott, the of Death Valley, Cal. presentation of this AD w tale ladies or gentlemen real Reading. Formerly $5 RESPONDENCE WITH PERSON OF THE CITY. On this gifted man. He will send you home happier, wiser and better than you ever were before. If you cannot call, write. A PROF. LEON DE VOUX reading for Miss Magnolia Fair, of California, in 1902. Before she had married Mr. Scott, the Gold Mine King of Death Valley, Cal. PROF. LEON DE VOUX reading for Miss Magnolia Fair, of California, in 1902. Before she had married Mr. Scott, the Gold Mine King of Death Valley, Cal. SPECIAL—On presentation of this AD within ten days will entitle ladies or gentlemen to a thorough Biographical Reading. Formerly $5, for CONFIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH PERSONS RESIDING OUT OF THE CITY. MEDIUMS DEVELOPED. 2734 MORGAN ST. Between Beaumont and Leffing Hours: 9:00 A. M. to 9:00 P. M. THE NATATO Roller Skating 2118-20 MARKET STREET, is the lead city. Was built and is owned and operat special skating rink floor. Well lighted music and good order. A. A. BRO Mr. George W. Has opened a fine bar at 2034 Che stnut Street section. A specialty: Chile Con Carne, Spaghe style. Don't forget the number, MORGAN STREET In Beaumont and Leffingwell 1000 P. M. NATATOR Over Skating Ri STREET, is the leading is owned and operated by floor. Well lighted and A. A. BROO George Will at 2034 Che stnut Street, at Chile Con Carne, Spaghetti number, 2118-20 MARKET STREET, is the leading colored rink in the city. Was built and is owned and operated by colored. It has a special skating rink floor. Well lighted and ventilated. Good music and good order. A. A. BROOKS, Manager. Has opened a fine bar at 2034 Chestnut Street, and a fine Cafe in connection. A specialty: Chile Con Carne, Spaghetti and Oysters in every style. Don't forget the number, 2034 CHEST NUT STREET. Both 'Phones. Friedman Loan & Mercantile Co. PAWNBROKERS Money to loan on all personal property at lowest rates of interest. Special sale on unredeemed overcoats, Ladies' suits and cloaks from $1.50 up. 1324 MARKET ST. Loan & Merci AWNBROKERS personal property at lowest and overcoats, Ladies' suits and 1324 MARKET ST. Money to loan on all personal property at lowest rates of interest. Special sale on unredeemed overcoats, Ladies' suits and cloaks from $1.50 up. 1324 MARKET ST. If you want to become prosperous, to find out what is best to do, then seek the advice of this clairvoyant, to whom many prosperous men and women owe their present success. He gives a plain statement of facts and shows you the way to help yourself. The troubled and unfortunate should seek his advice. There is no home so dreary, no life so sad, no heart so lonely, no condition so hopeless that cannot be righted and kept aright after a visit to this wonderful man. Is your husband or wife untrue? Does another share the love that is rightfully yours? Have you enemies? Have you a doubtful love affair? Have you lost your lover or sweetheart? Do you want to get them back? Then see this man. He will show you just how to do it, and how to bring about a speedy and happy marriage with the one you love and should have. he will tell you whom, and he or false, your lucky days, He has assisted hundreds all who are unsuccessful, or unfrowned with any difficulty his advice and start aright. pier, wiser and better than colia Fair, of California, in the Gold Mine King 50c with- n to a $5, for Correspondence. PERSONS RESIDING OUT O. STREET, well Ave. ST. LOUIS. ORIUM Rink, being colored rink in the red by colored. It has a and ventilated. Good DOKS. Manager. OBSERVATIONS Mrs. Viola Lankford spent the holidays in St. Louis. Miss Vella Crawford left Christmas eve for Chicago. Ill. Mr. King, formerly of 105 N. 15th st., has removed to 111 N. 15th st. Mrs. McDonald, of 3223 Hickory, has been quite ill for several days. For Sale—Lunch stand, fixtures and a good trade. Apply at 2609 Pine st. Miss Mosby, of 3023 Lawton ave., entertained a few friends New Year's night. Thos. L. Sydnor, paper hanger, 3990 Papine st. Bell 'phone, Lindell, 1453. Give him a call. Mr. Leroy Williamson of the St. Ferdinand Pharmacy, spent the holidays in Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Charles Lee, of 4310 St. Ferdinand ave., has been somewhat indisposed for several days. Hymn books and disciplines of the A. M. E. church for sale at 3224 Lawton ave. B. W. Stewart. Mrs. W. B. Oliver, of 3103 Lawton ave., has been very sick for several weeks. We hope for her recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Asa Reddicke of 1529 Webster ave., will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary January 11, '07. Mrs. W. S. Mitchell, of 1603 Chestnut st., has ben sick for several weeks. She is better at this writing. Mme. Richardson, clairvoyant, gives readings daily at 709 N. Leffingwell ave., where she will entertain all her people. Mr. Brockway, of 3508 Bernard st., suffered from the effects of a paralytic stroke this week. We hope for his early recovery. Prof. George B. Jones has been appointed janitor in one of the judges' courts. Mmh— Brother Jones is going backward. Wright & Bolen are doing business at the old stand, 2337 Market street, where they will be pleased to see their friends as of yore. Mr. W. H. Mosby, of 809 N. Jefferson avenue, is a very pleasant gentleman, and will be glad to see his friends at the above number. The Bostonian Whist club gave a Christmas party Wednesday, December 26, at the home of Miss Mae Robinson, 3810 Morgan street. We all, more or less, want medicine and toilets of all kinds. These articles may be purchased at Mosby's drug store, 809 Jefferson ave. Miss Mary Robinson, of 3408 La Salle street, was home for the Christmas festivities. She will soon resume her duties in the Kansas City schools. All kinds of sewing machines, $5-$20. All kinds of machines repaired at your home, $1. Call and leave your order, 205 N. Jefferson ave. Twenty years' experience. Don't fool them off. All guaranteed five years. Messrs. Willie Williams and Henry Lankford, formerly elevator boys at the Grand Leader, have been promoted to "starter." We are glad to see these young men make a reputation for themselves and hope they will continue upward. They are the first Negro elevator starters in the city. Mr. Haskell, of 4915 S. Compton ave., who is employed by the Lincoln Trust Co., 7th and Chestnut streets, is much elated over the graduation of his son from one of the Chicago medical colleges. A reception was tendered him Thursday by his parents and many friends, who wish for him ultimate success in business wherever he may locate. Mr. H. H. Thompson of this city has just returned from a visit to his wife, who is spending the winter in the Windy City. Mr. Thompson was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Davis, also Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Holt, all of whom are formerly of St. Louis. He spent quite a very pleasant time while on his stay with his wife and friends. Mrs. B. J. Carruthers, of 2617 Pine street, who has been very ill for the past several months, died Thursday afternoon, January 3, '07. She was a member of both the Pythian and Masonic Fraternities, and also of Central Baptist church. The funeral will take place Sunday at 1 p. m. from Central Baptist church, 23d and Morgan sts. The Y. M. C. A. membership campaign is now on for 300 members and will continue until January 15, '07. The members are divided into two divisions, the Blues and Whites. As new members join or the old ones renew their names will be published in this list: The Blues—Thomas A. Marshall, J. B. Collins, J. E. Mitchell, L. J. Rhone, George W. Rose, Charles H. Dodge, Wm. Tayler Al Hedgeman. The Whites—Lewis D. Pugh, Wm. Cross, Wm. Mitchell, John Alphian, Dr. D. W. Cook. It is reported in St. Louis that Dr. Brabham, of South McAlister, I. T., but formerly of this city, is lying at the point of death. Mr. Wm. Burns, of 2731 Lawton ave., entertained a number of young people in honor of his birthday Thursday, December 27, at the above number. We can not publish a paper on wind, so when you have an ad. printed in The Palladium we want our money and not a whole lot of chin music. See Maxwell before the holidays and have your photos made. Prices are reasonable and courtesy is given all customers. Don't forget the number, 1407 Market street. We were pleased to receive a present from one of our mascots. In due time we will in some way return the compliment in our own way. 2836 northwest of our office. Mr. C. H. Calloway, of Kansas City, Mo., is elected attorney for U. B. F. and S. M. T. He is a young man of good address and we speak for him in the future a grand success. Mr. A. A. Brooks' skating rink, 2120 Market street, is crowded at every session. If there were not so many Jim Crow Niggers in St. Louis, the Douglas skating rink would also be in demand. Prof. B. K. Bruce, S. T. Pettigrew, Dr. C. C. Quinn and Dr. Caston, of Jefferson City, Mo., visited the Palladium office this week. They were attending to business of the order of U. B. F. and S. M. T. Mrs. Charles Turnly, of 2844 Laclede ave., departed a few days ago for Chicago, Ill. She is stopping at 6428 Vincennes ave. while in the Windy City. We wish her continued success and a safe return to St. Louis. The Christian Spiritual Union meets every Friday evening at Masonic Temple, 2720 Morgan street, at which time there are lectures and communications with the so-called "dead" by J. S. Weatherford and M. E. Brooks. We have several new applicants for membership in the edad beat society. The first week in January, 1907, an election will be held. One man has 260 shares—if he votes his shares for himself, he will be made president. Mrs. Rachel Richardson, of 3004 Lawton ave., who has for the past four years been register of accounts for Sprig of Myrtle Court, No. 13, Order of Calanthe, was unanimously elected worthy counselor at their election of officers the last Friday in December. Mr. A. N. Johnson, of Mobile, Ala., has sold his business in that city and is looking for a place to locate. He is an undertaker and paper man, and there are plenty of places for a man with money and business tack like Mr. Johnson. We hope wherever he may decide to locate that prosperity may crown his every effort. Mrs. Johnson is also in the city, and they are stopping at 3023 Lawton ave. There is a good barber located at 1603 Morgan street. We have two agents of the Palladium who have gained the good will of this barber, Mr. Wm. M. Hammond, who allows the agents to sit in his shop and sell the Palladium. We ask that those who would like to help these children go and get a shave at 1603 Morgan street, and then buy the Palladium from these two lovely children. The Monrovia club was entertained by a number of young ladies on New Year's eve at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Haines, 2738 Lawton. Whist was indulged in until a late hour, and then all repaired to the spacious dining room, where a splendid repast awaited them. The young ladies presented the club with a whist trophy in the form of a pin, to be worn by the lucky gentleman of the club at each whist. Mr. Billy Wilson had the honor to be the first to wear it. At the residence of Messrs. James and Thomas Sydnor, a pleasure party was given to a number of their friends, namely, Mrs. William Hodge, Misses Sadie James, Georgia Sqdnor, Eunice Bell; Messrs. William Jewel, James Gardner, James A. and Thomas S. Sydnor and the Palladium Man. All enjoyed themselves in innocent pleasure, but when the repast was spread, but few could eat the refreshments, as Mr. James Sydnor cooked and prepared it and he seasoned things so highly with cayenne pepper that few could eat it; but as the Palladium reporter was there, he was not going to be cheated out of his spaghetti he made way with it. One lady was so timid that she would not eat anything, but we had a general good time at 3990 Papin street. Thanks to the Missouri State Life Insurance Co. of St. Louis for the very prompt and full payment by their agent, R. P. Jones, of $250, due in a policy which was issued on the life of my son, Edgar, only four months prior to his death. ARENA BYRD. Mother, 2736 Lawton Bvd. Used—An energetic young man for office boy. Apply Sunday from 9 to 2 p. M. Beaumont Express Co., 1216 N. Vandeventer. L. J. CALLAWAY, Manager. THE CHURCH Xmas week and the holidays was a busy, happy and bustling time with the church. Friday evening, before Xmas, a host of the members of the church and their friends invaded the pastor's home at a late hour of the night and left his table ladened with many good things to eat. Xmas night the members of the choir rendered an interesting musical and literary concert to a splendid congregation of happy people, after which old Santa Claus distributed presents to every person in the audience. No one was slighted. Thursday evening, December 27th, the church celebrated the pastor's 15th wedding anniversary. The musical and literary concert was one of the most pleasant affairs we have wit- Death Comes When We Least Expect It. So in This Case. In the act of his Master's work, death calls for him; therefore, let us be right and in earnest in every thing we do. Rev. Offutt, one of the best workers in the vineyard of Christ, and in the very act of his Master's business, was, without a moment's warning, called to face his Master. Wher. death stepped in the door, Rev. Offutt had just finished singing a song of praise to his Master, and pain struct him near his heart, and he said to the children nothing is wrong, as I am subject to such pains and all would be or soon, but as it was, death said: "The Master wants you to report at once and give an account of your stewardship here." At this the powers of this world's skill vanished nessed for many a day. The vocal solo rendered by Prof. Arthur Freeman, our evangelist, was one of the special features of the program, and it was indeed a treat to all who heard him. Prof. Patterson is to be commended for his excellent skill in arranging programs for such occasions. The march and wedding party was the last feature on the program. It is useless to undertake to describe how beautiful the entire wedding party looked. Rev. Dr. Crushon, pastor of Fifth Baptist church, performed the ceremony in his usual dignified manner, at the close of which Mr. Sexton took a flashlight picture of the entire party as they stood in front of the altar. Watch meeting night, at a very early hour, all available space was taken and a very solemn and impressive devotional service was conducted. Don't forget the $2 rally Sunday. in this case, and the learned doctor saw at once that the King of Kings and Lord of Lords had demanded the presence of Rev. Offutt. For quite a number of years, and from what we could learn, Rev. Offutt had been a constant Christian, as was his wife. But as we see it the good dwelleth not long with us. All the northwestern part of the city was stirred up over this death, and Rev. Offutt was buried from Metropolitan church last Wednesday. The U. B. F. and S. M. T. have bought the large building at 2629 Lawton ave. The order will move in soon. The members of the Negro Democratic club will leave soon and go east in search of light, that is, the few who are left. We are the only thoroughly experienced and the only practically competent Colored Undertakers in the city. We have our own conveyances and do all our Carriages furnished for all occasions. 2322 CHESTNUT STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO. W. T. Curtis' Newport we have our own conveyances and do all our own w Carriages furnished for all occasions. NUT STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO. Phone Curtis' Newport B We have our own conveyances and do all our own work. Carriages furnished for all occasions. 2322 CHESTNUT STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO. Phone Central 555. W. T. Curtis' Newport Buffet, 2323 MARKET STREET. Wines, Liquors and C nes, Liquors and Ciga Wines, Liquors and Cigars. RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION Meals can be Ordered by Telephone, Kinloch C 1199 Also the Famous Anheuser Beer. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR MEN ONLY BILL EVERYTHING STRICT The Brunswick G. W. 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Phone Central 554. wport Buffet, STREET. and Cigars. 2323 Market St. ARD ROOMS IN CONNECTION. LY FIRST-CLASS. Rock Saloon, Proprietor. Street, (Near Union Station), Miss. Phone Central 1653. Lillie Bar St Street. S. LIQUORS CARS. Proprietor. EY CLUB AVENUE. Proprietor. Ours and Cigars and SUPPER FARE. Tea or Milk with all Egg or fast Orders. Choice of Meats or Orders. OCH A. 1275. Geo. W. McKOIN. McKOIN, Terms Most Reasonable, ing Guaranteed. notly, Day or Night. A 18 SOUTH TENTH ST. AINS Admission 25c THE CHRISTIAN WORLD A FLOATING CHURCH. How the English "Fen" Country Is Given Religious Privileges. The scattered parishes of the English "Fen" country have been spiritually neglected for many years. The "Fens" are vast tracts of low-lying, marshy land, crossed in every direction by dykes, sluggish rivers and inlets of the sea. A typical Fen village is the parish of Holme, not far from the ancient cathedral city of Peterborough. This is a true bit of primeval fen land, extending over 600 acres of sedge, heather and bog-myrtle. Scattered over this wide area live some 650 fenlanders, who have for generations found the problems of church and chapel, day school, and Sunday school, almost insurmountable, says Christian Herald. During the winter months, however, the widow of the late territorial landlord sent a covered wagon six miles round the Fen to bring the children into school each day, taking them home again in the afternoon. Owing to the peculiar features of the country and the scattered population it was found impossible to secure any suitable central point for chapel or mission room, and a building on wheels was discussed. At last the Rev. George Broke, vicar of the parish, decided upon a floating chapel, which should navigate the intricate winding water-ways. Accordingly, on an ordinary flat-bottomed fen-lighter some 50 feet long and 12 feet wide, a spacious mission room or chapel was constructed, 35 feet long, 9 feet wide and over 7 feet high. Every inch of space was utilized. At the far end of the big room are two low platforms, each three feet wide, and on the upper one of these stands the altar. On the right is a small stone baptismal font, and on the lower platform an oak prayer desk and a small American organ. There is a tiny pulpit, and in the body of the room are two low benches for the choir children, for the congregation about 40 beechwood chairs are provided. There is no church bell, it has been found better to use a flag-staff with special flags. A tiny tug, whose engine is fed with peat, hauls the church along the sluggish streams; and every Sunday there are regular services, besides Sunday school, children's service, mothers' meetings, and the like. The vicar's wife acts as organist, and there is a choir of six specially trained girls. The effect of true consecration always is to cut cleaner the lines of square dealing. GOOD NEWS FROM AFRICA. Letter from Missionary Tells of Power of Gospel to Attract the Negro. A letter from Rev. W. C. Johnston of the American Presbyterian Mission in Euflen, West Africa, shows now the gospel attracts the negro: There were 580 people at Sabbath school yesterday and over 600 at the preaching service. There were 99 in my class of men, and we have a young men's class besides. Yesterday a week ago was our communion service, and we had an average attendance of 220 at each of the three days' preparatory services, and on the Sabbath there were about 650 people present. Eight persons were received on profession. There are 72 on the Euflen church roll now, 33 men and 39 women. There are 242 in the two inquiry classes and the work is rather encouraging, but I have not been able to spend the time in the villages that I need to spend there. There are more than 50 inquirers from villages ten miles and more from Efulen, and we have during this year received into the church six persons living more than ten miles from Efulen. A man's holiness is to be measured by the happiness he creates. Rev. Dr. Reuben A. Torrey, the famous evangelist, closed a three weeks' revival in Nashville, Tenn., on November 8, and on November 18 he opened a mission in Omaha, Neb. The reports are that Dr. Torrey's work in Nashville is resulting in great good. Much regret is being expressed all over the country that Charles M. Alexander, who sings with Dr. Torrey, will not be in this country this winter. Owing to Mrs. Alexander's illness last summer Mr. Alexander has had to cancel all evangelistic engagements to accompany his wife on a long sea voyage. New Seminary Building. New Seminary Chamble. A new building for the German Theological seminary at Bloomfield, N. J., is about to be erected in memory of the late Rev. Dr. Charles E. Knox, for many years president of the seminary, and the pastor of the First Presbyterian church of that town. It will cost $50,000. There is only one other Presbyterian school for training ministers of foreign birth in the country. Many Converts Confirmed. Bishop Cassels writes from Paoling West China, that in his recent visits to the Church Missionary society stations covering over 1,300 miles, he confirmed nearly 300 converts, dedicated several churches, and admired catechists and lay ministers. The outlook everywhere was encouraging. LESSON TEXT.—Genesis 1:1-25; Memory verses, 1-2. LESSON TEXT.—"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."—Gen. 1:1. GENESIS.—The title of the book means origin, creation, beginnings. It belongs to what is known as the Pentetleuch, or supposed to have been written by, Moses. SKIPTURE REFERENCES. — John 11; 19; saim 19:1-6; Acts, 14:17; Romans, 11:29. THE CREATION.—The story of creation is told in the simplest and briefest and most orderly way, as if to write it indelibly on the mind and memory of God. It is the pressing pressure of an inscription on a monument, as some one has suggested, like the Ten Commandments on the Tables of Stone. Its poetic form aids the memorials of God, and reveals the works, the more poetic we do find the acts and facts of God. Comment and Suggestive Thought. Comment and Suggestive Thought. All are agreed that the Scriptures were not given to teach science, and do not teach science. They do not use scientific language, they do not teach science, but state facts in every literary form, in the common language of daily life. Hence, the varying theories of science do not affect its truth. A good example is the difference between the plain statement that the "sun sets," and the scientific statement about the sun standing still and the earth revolving. Most of the objections made to the accuracy of the Genesis account arise from the disregard of this principle, either in regard to geology or language. Ruskin well says (Modern Painters, Vol. IV., "Firmament"), "With respect to this whole chapter, we must remember always that it is intended for the instruction of all mankind, not for the learned reader only; and that, therefore, the most simple and natural interpretation is likelest in general to be the true one." Professor Rice, in his latest revision of Dana's school geology, repeatedly gives the general order of development. Plants, rhizopods (the earliest animal life), mollusks, fishes, reptiles, birds, mammals, man. A biologist told me that while plant life and animal life began at nearly the same time, yet as plant life was the sum of fewer qualities than animal life, plant life was lower in the scale than animal life, and before animal life in the sense that animal life directly or indirectly depended on plant life. Professor Rice calls these periods "the reign," or "the era," "the kingdom," "the group" of fishes, of reptiles, etc.; and adds this note: "These expressions * * * are not to be understood as implying that the several groups of animals mentioned were confined to the era named in connection with them, but only that they were the most characteristic species of the era." That note should be understood as belonging to the description of each "day" in the Genesis record, and the word "day" should be interpreted as freely, as are "reign" and "kingdom" without any king, in the common language of a great geologist. "The opening sentence of the Bible is, perhaps, the most weighty sentence ever uttered. It is a declaration on nearly all the great problems now exercising scientists and philosophers—God, creation, the whole, eternity, cause, time, space, infinity, force, design, intelligence, will, destiny."—Austin Bierbower. The unity of God. There is one God, and only one. In the earlier theological treatises, up to a very late date, one of the first things was to prove by all known arguments the unity of God. In our day science has settled the question. The unity of creation proclaims the unity of God. So far as geology has revealed the past, so far as the telescope and spectrum analysis, which have marvelously widened our knowledge of late years, can tell us—all parts of the universe are constructed on one plan and of the same materials. The everlasting God is a personal God, with all the characteristics which make our souls personal, and how many more we know not. He has will, and wisdom, and affections, and power. He is "infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth." This Creator God is our Creator and our Father. If we sum up in one ideal all that has been written or imagined, or found in all history, of the best that belongs to earthly fatherhood, we can get some idea of what the fatherhood of God means to us. The fact that we have a God and Father brings with it certain duties—obedience, love, worship, prayer. Compare the first four commandments. It also brings great privileges. Communion with such a God, the constant presence of such an ideal, has a mighty character-forming power. There is comfort, hope, strength, life, all good, in the consciousness that the infinite God is our Father, guide, and friend. Practical Points. God's works are a revelation of himself, as well as his word. Neither of them can we fully understand without the other. We need to make a study of both. We learn from God's works of creation something of his wisdom, power, goodness, and love. The more we study them the more we learn to love, to wonder, and adore. This wise and good God is our father; we look upon his works and say, "My father made them all." We rest in the love of the strongest; we trust in the guiding care of the wisest. They were telling fish stories and several accounts of remarkable catchers had been given, when Capt. Kenny of the auxiliary sloop Jennie R. spoke up. The Jennie R. is a stanch little vessel that takes out fishing parties, and these parties are mostly made up of devoted fishermen who know what kind of fish are running at various seasons and what sort of tackle to bring along with them. But once in a while a freak fisherman with freak tackle turns up at the pier and goes along, too. "Talking about big catches," said Capt. Kenny, when he spoke up, "the biggest catch I ever saw made on a single line was 57 ling and a skate. It was on a Thanksgiving day, two or three years ago. "We started out about eight o'clock in the morning with some 60 fishermen aboard, most of whom had been with me often and knew how to catch fish. It was but little past low water and in going out we struck the bar. "While we were getting off there was a commotion on the float, and a skiff put off with a man in it who was waving his hands excitedly and shouting for me to wait. He got aboard, all right, for it took us 15 minutes or so to get across the bar. "While we were going down to the bell buoy the fishermen overhauled their tackle and baited up. The stranger who had come out in the skiff also got out his tackle. You should have seen it. "With a fathom of chain for a leader it would have been just the thing to catch sharks with. The line was a small hawser, and the hook would have anchored the sloop in a blow. "Well, we came to down by the bell buoy, and before the boat had tailed out on her chain with the tide the fishermen were pulling in lines. The bay was alive with them. "It was cast and haul in all the time for everybody but our friend who had come aboard in the skiff. He had taken for himself a place in the midst of the others, baited his hook and solemnly lowered it overboard; but he wasn't getting a bite. "When it was getting to be time for us to get up anchor and start for home, because the fishermen had more fish than they could carry, the stranger got busy. Something was on his hook. "His line tore through the water back and forth from stem to stern of the sloop. It described circles along the side of the boat and zigzagged here and there. The lines of the fishermen were wound up in a skein and some of them were snapped from the rods. "The stranger fisherman braced himself and the others began to cut their lines to save their rods and reels. The water fairly bolled. "At length two or three Irishmen went to the aid of the stranger and helped him to bring up his line with a steady pull. The catch was landed on deck. "In the midst of it was a skate as big as the top of a cook stove, and twisted about the line that held him were all the other lines that he had entangled while skating through the water. On the way up from the bell buoy the fishermen untangled some of their lines, but most of them had to be cut. Every line had a ling on it, and every line was tangled up with the line that caught the skate, and the total number of fish hauled up on that one line was 57 ling and a skate—and I can prove it. "The stranger said that his name was Baxter, and he wasn't very used to fishing. He was so gratified over his big catch that he offered to pay for all the damage his skate had done. "The fishermen good-naturedly refused to be compensated, and insisted that he should take the fifty-seven ling and the skate home. He left the skate and the last I saw of him he was going to Harway avenue with the ling on his back in a burlap bag. No; he never came back." Ranchman's Curious Lariat. "I've a lariat home that is one of the most curious pieces of rope you ever saw," said A. P. Ricke, of Oklahoma City. "It is made of a combination of buffalo, horse, Indian woman and white woman hair. I don't believe there's another like it in the state. "There was a little old man who had a ropewalk up our way and he was a curio seeker. He spent several years getting material for my rope—a little now and a little then—but finally he landed it. The hardest thing of all was the Indian woman's hair, for all though they have plenty and to spare their customs make it difficult to arrange for even a lock. I got the lariat for a sum that is large for a rope, but small when you consider its other value. I've roped many a steer with it since." God and the Scientist. "I have been a botanist for 54 years," said the scientist. "When I was a boy I believed implicitly in God. I prayed to him, having a vision of him—a person—before my eyes. As I grew older I concluded that there was no God. I dismissed him from the universe. I believed only in what I could see, or hear, or feel. I talked about Nature and reality." He paused, the smile still lighting his face, evidently recalling to himself the old days. I did not interrupt him. Finally he turned to me and said abruptly: "And now—it seems to me—there is nothing but God."—American Magazine. Lightning Struck Twice. Dr. J. G. Keith, formerly of St. Louis, who was struck by lightning several years ago, went to Leadville, Col., for his health, and was again hit by a bolt. About 11 years ago the doctor, while walking on the street was struck by a thunder bolt. His left side was partially paralyzed. He went to Colorado for his health and last spring while on the street he was again hit by lightning. This second bolt practically rendered Dr. Keith helpless as far as his left side is concerned. FACTS ABOUT FIGURE NINE Professor of the Occult Has Added a New Wrinkle. Mathematicians have juggled with the mystic figures 3, 7 and 9 for ages, and now comes a foreign "professor" of the occult science to tell fortune by "the force in a simple numeral"—the 9. He reminds his victims that if they multiply any number, short of a decimal, by 9 the two figures of the product added together will make 9. Thus: "Nine times 2 are 18, and 8 and 1 are 9; 9 times 3 are 27, and 7 and 2 are 9; 9 times 5 are 45, and 5 and 4 are 9; 9 times 6 are 54, and 4 and 5 are 9; 9 times 7 are 63, and 3 and 6 are 9; 9 times 8 are 72, and 2 and 7 are 9; 9 time 9 are 81, and 1 and 8 are 9. He might have added that any number in the hundreds of thousands multiplied by 9 will give a product the sum of whose digits is a multiple of 9. Take at random—9 times 545 are 4,905, the sum of which is 18, and into 18 goes 2 times. Take 7,332 multiplied by 9 equals 66,168; the sum of the digits is 27; 9 into 27 goes 3 times. Oh, there is an immense amount of fun in 9. MADE THEM ALL LAUGH. Book Must Have Been Funny, but No One Knew What Is Was. It must have been a very funny story! The type looked funny from across the aisle of the car, the pictures looked funny, and the young lady who was reading it doubled up in fits of stifled laughter every few minutes. The young man in the seat with her could not help stealing a glance at the pages of the book which was evidently so funny, but whose cover was carefully doubled back out of sight, and soon he began to laugh as he unblushingly followed the story page after page, shaking with suppressed merriment. The woman in the seat at right angles became interested and looked over the girl's shoulder. Presently her face broadened into a grin and soon she was convulsively shaking. The man in the seat across smiled at the scene. A boy a few seats down the aisle grinned sympathetically. A darky still further down showed all his white teeth. The contagion spread until the car was nearly on the verge of hysteresis, when the fair reader got up to leave the train, yet no one but the girl herself had any idea as to what the book was. VAST WEALTH OF THE SOUTH. In Natural Resources That Section is Supreme. To its coal supply, more than twice as great as the combined coal area of Great Britain, Germany and Pennsylvania; to its vast stores of oil and natural gas as supplementary sources power of water powers for utilization of power and heat and light the South adds at least 3,000,000 available horse power of water powers for utilization for electrical transmission, also for power, heat and light. The development of this vast water power potential will eventually employ $250,000,000 to $300,000,000 and be equal in working capacity to 6,000,000 men. It will make possible construction of thousands of miles of interurban electric roads, it will furnish cheap power and light for mines and factories, and create, as in Switzerland, the highest forms of skilled mechanical work in the mountains of the South, where climatic conditions are unsurpassed by any other section of the world. In counting up the riches of the South always bear in mind its wealth of everrunning streams, where nature furnishes the power without price except for the cost of development.—Manufacturers' Record. POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD. Guarantee On Their Products. We warrant and guarantee that all packages of Postum Cereal, Grape-Nuts and Elijah's Manna hereafter sold by any jobber or retailer, comply with the provisions of the National Pure Food Law, and are not and shall not be adulterated or mis-branded within the meaning of said Act of Congress approved June 30, 1906, and entitled, "An act for preventing the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated or mis-branded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, liquors, and for regulating traffic therein for other purposes." POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD. Dec. 12, 1906. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of December, 1906. My commission expires July 1, 1997. Our goods are pure, they always have been and always will be, they are not mis-branded. We have always since the beginning of our business, printed a truthful statement on the packages of the ingredients contained therem and we stand back of every package. State Happenings. : ‘a Rich Recluse Murdered, gensas City—Thomas Fanning, aged so sears, a wealthy, property owier 8 Myed alone, Was murdered at his eas ar sis olive street, in this elty. me tead bad been horribly hacked Tig batchet, ‘The crime was 1s co the police by William Lanna- supe murdezed man’s Young neph- oun Lannagan, who 1s one of €F oo heirs, was held for awhile, tee told @ straight story was maced, The dead man had sold ropeny worth $62,000 during the past Mig and he Was supposed to be worth Fiweod. He lived to himself and lit- fe was known about Kim. Until he tis retired from active work a few tars ago be had Worked with @ pick kerhovel as @ common laborer. \wente Game Law Amended, Jefferson City—Representative Kim- ey of Texas county, has prepared a Tuber of amendments to the game jai fish law, by Which he proposes to ftolish the imposition of a license up- tea man huntmg in his own county. ye will also stek to amend the law fo permit the selling of game during the open season, and to Increase the i tense fee charged the non-resident hun- fe. He will seek to amend the pres- fqtiaw relating to fish so that a land- Gmer may use and seine in waters on is own proper «Ye as pean Snenkon alte ee Jeferson City—The democratic cat- ws chose Atkinson, of Ripley county, for speaker; F. P. Dawson, Lincotn, gbiet clerk; R. V. Cooper, St. Louis, tuolling clerk; J. H. Buchanan, Callo- way, doorkeeper; D. W. Jones, Boon- rile assistant ehief clerk; W. N. Me- Kinney, engrossing clerk. Tt was re- jlved that the clerical force of the jouse shall not exceed 100, The re- yublicans named Representative Hill their candidate for speaker, thas ‘oking him the minority leader, A Sharp Letter. Springfield Corporation _ Counsel lewis, of Chicago, has addressed a rey sharp letter to the state board of equalization. ‘The letter accuses the Uoard of fajling to notify either him or the aiforney-goneral of the slate wuvu sspfesentatives of the cor- yorations, for whose higher assess- nent he had made a pl before the Ward, were to make their arguments. Woman. Shoots at a Judge. $. Louis—Miss Rose Weil shot at Juige Jesse A, MeDonald as he sat m the bench. ‘The bullet missed and Miss Weil was arrested. The woman, ft seems, was incensed at a decision ani resolved to kill the judge and eset. They tens Sieaieete.: St, Louis—The republicans have ‘teen away from the pie counter, so ine that when those elected last fall tappointed to office presented them- wives for tide first month’s pay the trosurer withheld the “stuff” until they were identified. Receipts and Disbursements.. Jeferson City—The statement of Su. Auditor Wilder shows Missouri's Teeipts during December to have den $199,789.88, with its disburse- eats for the same month amounting to $331,864.06, Result of a Feud. Springield—Following a feud ot bug standing, Lee Pefley, a wealthy Sccknian, Was shot and killed at Mil Sakee, Barry county, Missouri, by Neher Fogg, who said he shot in sell defense, Shooting at Carthage. Yerthage—Dr. J. W. Meredith was sho ad probably fatally wounded fev Avthur Sanderson, who had “"'d the physician in to attend his We, wae airested, deseph C. Stewart of Webb City Dies. ‘se—Joseph C. Stewart, of Webb City, president of the Center “ck Wining Co, and one of the old- “and weulthiest citizens of the zine Sue disivict, died suddenly at the Hoof C2 years’ Doctor's Wife Drops Dead. Noverly—Mrs, Anna Adams, com: Hcining of a pain in her chest, ‘ ‘ead In the postoffice lobby. S* wes the wife of Dr. C. Adams, Tes had resided here for 48 sears. A Belle of Long Ago. co, Louis—Mrs. Amelia Chouteau ‘chill. & member of one of the old. \{ ‘onilies in St. Louis, and in her i's" days a famous’ belle and y.Y Wed at her home in Louteviite, houlth record of St. Louis shows x “euth rate each year. tn |, iloon_ ascension from St, hy. 2 Aero Club experts ends safe. at Clifdaie, 1h, Preparing for Balloon Races. a. houls—Members of National \..{MY committee were Bere to in- ten |'® St Louis’ offer for the in- “snatlenal balloon races, What St. Louie Pave. Misco. ~More than one-third of the CUS Sixes for 1906 were paid by “Poverty holders of St. Louis, § Seductor With a Conscience, Shyu S=Two “consetence” — con. TS ave zeceived by Unitec ib .J® Re of $300 from conductor tp2ny's employ, Furs! Furs! Furs! Write for Price Circular and ship to McMillan Fur & Wool Co., Minneapolis. A man {sn't necessarily a manufac- turer because he 1s always on the make. Mone PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT |s guaranteed to.cure anr case Bion duys'or money refunded. S00. High aims form high character, and great objects bring out great minds— ‘Tryon Edwards. Garfield Tea is made of herbe—a great point in its favor! Take it for constipa- tion, indigestion and liver disturbances. Reward for American Sailor. A few months ago Capt. Matthew Turner, of San Francisco, owner of a schooner, rescued the crews of two Norwegian vessels that had been wrecked in the South Pacific. He has Just recetved a handsome silver coffee set from the Norwegian government 4m acknowledgment. ‘Fis: cnenee of Gocmterde: Great Britain and her colonies and the United States represent together the fabuluous total of 111,000,000 English-speaking persons, figures which leave all competitors hopeless ly in the rear. Germany and Russia occupy second place with 75,000,000 apiece, and France, Spain, Italy and Portugal follow, with 51,000,000, 43,- 000,000, 33,000,000 and 13,000,000 re- spectively, according to The Atlas of the World's Commerce. ELEVEN YEARS OF ECZEMA. Hands Cracked and Bleeding—Nail Came Off of Finger—Cuticura Rem- edies Brought Prompt Relief. “I had eczema on my hands for about eleven years. The hands crack- ed open in many places and bled. One of my fingers was so bad that the nail came off. I had often heard of cures by the Cuticura Remedies, but had no confidence in them as I had tried so many remedies, and they all had failed to cure me. I had seen three doctors, but got no relief. Final- ly my husband said that we would try the Cuticura Remedies, so we got a cake of Cuticura Soap, a box of Cuticura Ointment, and two bottles of Cuticura Resolvent Pills. Of course I keep Cuticura Soap ‘dll’ the time for my hands, but the one cake of Soap and half a box of Cuticura Ointment cured them. It is surely a blessing for me to have my hands well, and I am very proud of having tried Cuti- cura Remedies, and recommend them to all suffering with eczema. Mrs. Bliza A. Wiley, R. F. D. No. 2, Lis- comb, lowe. Oct. 18, 1906." HAD THE ROBBER’S SYMPATHY. Chivalrous Brigand Commiserated Woman's Life Partner. Lancia, the noted Italian automo- bilist, was asked the other day if he did not think motor racing too dan- gerous. “Dangerous—yes," M. Lancia re- plied. “Too dangerous—no. For noth- ing that benefits mankind—and au- tomobiles benefit mankind inexpress!- bly—is too dangerous for a man to undertake, “I have a good deal of contempt for men who are not brave to the point of rashness. I am like a high- wayman who held up a gasoline run- about on the outskirts of Rome. “This highwayman stopped the run- about with a shot in the air. Then he ran forth from the tomb that had concealed him—the hold-up happened on the Appian Way—and found, to his surprise, only a woman in the little car. “Where, madam, is your husband?” he demanded, sternly and suspiciously. “‘He's under the seat,’ she an- swered, flushing. “Then, said the highwayman, ‘I won't take nothing. It's bad enough to have a husband like that without being robbed into the bargain.” She—“Would you rather walk or ride there?” He—"Well, I've been out in the motor car so much lately that I think T'd rather ride for a change.” —Puck. CRIED EASILY. Nervous Woman Stopped Coffee and Quit Other Things. No better practical proof that coffee is a drug can be required than to note how the nerves become unstrung in women who habitually drink it. ‘The stomach, too, rebels at being continually drugged with coffee and tea—they both contain the drug— caffeine. Ask your doctor. An Ia, woman tells the old story thus: “1 had used coffee for six years and was troubled with headaches, nervous- ness and dizziness. In the morning upon rising I used to belch up a sour fluid regularly. “Often I got so nervous and miser- able I would cry without the least rea- son, and I noticed my eyesight was getting poor. “After using Postum a while, 1 ob- served the headaches left me and soon the belching of sour fluid stopped (wa- ter brash from dyspepsia). I feel de- cidedly different now, and I am con: vinced that it is because I stopped coffee and began to use Postum. Ican sec better now, my eyes are stronger. “A friend of mine did not like Postum but when I told her to make it Nike it said on the package, she liked it all right.” Name given by Postum <o., Battle Creek, Mich. Always boil Postum well and it will surprise you. Read tho little book, “The Road to Wellville” ia pkgs. “There's @ rea- THE PROGRESS OF THE CANA. DIAN WEST. Nearly 200,000 of an Increase In Cana- da’s Immigration in 1906. ‘The progress of a new country can- not be better ascertained than by not- ing the increase of railroad mileage in its transportation system, and, judged by this standard, the Canadian West leads all the countries in the world during the current year. Thirty years ago there was not one hundred miles of railroad west of the Great Lakes, ‘and very little prospect of a trans- continents) route for many years to (aeane, but by the end of 1885 the ‘Canadian Pacific Railway was within measurable distauce of completion, and last year—twenty years later— over 6,000 miles of railroad traversed ‘the provinces of Manitoba, Sas- katchewan and Alberta, In the past year the work of rail- road construction has been vigorously prosecuted, and by the end of 1906, some 5,000 miles of completed railroad has been added, making a total of fully 11,000 miles in the three great ge producing provinces of Canada, Such an increase in the transportation facilities of the country is bound to make good times not only in the dis- triets where the railroads are being built, but throughout the entire west. Allowing $20,000 a mile for construc- tion, the sum of $100,000,000 will be put in circulation, and this in itself should cause good times to prevail in a land where work is plentiful, wages are high, and the cost of living is mod- erate. But the building of new railroads through Western Canada means a greater benefit to the country than merely the money put in circulation by the cost of construction. Addition- al railway building means the opening of new agricultural districts and an additional area under crops; a largely increased output of grain to foreign markets with consequent financial re- turns; the erection of elevators and the growth of villages, towns and cit- jes; and everything else that makes for,the progress of national life, and the opening up of additional thousands of free homesteads, so extensively ad- vertised by the Canadian government agent, whose address appears else where. / It was stated on the floor of the Canadian Parliament recently by a prominent representative that ten years from now would see the bulk of the population of Canada residing west of the Great Lakes, and if the work of railway building during the present year is any criterion, ‘the prophecy made by the Canadian states- man may be easily fulfilled inside of the time stated. During the present year no less than 189,064 persons have found homes in the Canadian west, of whom 57,796 were Americans who have seen the great possibilities of this new West, and have decided to cast in their lot with it. Certainly, our neighbor north of the 49th parallel is making a great record, and deserves the success that appears to be coming fis eae Master of Many Languages. Gen. Picquart, French minister of war, is a sort of Admiral Crichton, for, besides a wide general cultivation, he reads, writes nnd speaks Russian, German and English and Italian. Such knowledge of language is not common with Frenchmen, even those of educa- tion, but Gen. Picquart’s facility is ex- plained, perhaps, by the fact thaat he is an Alsatian. The Alsatians have long been noted in France for the readiness with which they acquire languages. Keep Your Blood Pure. No one can be happy, light-hearted and healthy with a body full of blood that cannot do its duty to every part because of its impurity; therefore, the first and most important work in hand is to purify the blood so that every organ will get the full benefit of a healthy circulation. There is no rem- edy so good as that old family rem- edy, Brandreth’s Pills. Each pill con- tains one grain of the solid extract of sarsaparilla blended with two grains of a combination of pure and mild vegetable products, making it a blood purifier unexcelled in character. One or two taken every night for awhile will produce surprising results. Brandreth’s Pills have been in use for over a century, and are for sale everywhere, plain or sugar-coated. Lecturer on Hysteria. Marie Pierre Feliux Janet, profes- sor of experimental psychology in the University of Paris, who is now tra- veling and lecturing in the United States, figures in the public mind as a hypnotist. As a matter of fact, this is only incidentally, but he is trying to demonstrate that the victim of hys- teria is at the same time two different persons. Taking Precautions, ‘When Speaker Cannon wes swear- ing in some new members Congress- man J, Adam Bede remarked: “Uncle Joe makes ‘em hold up their right hands when taking the oath to see that they haven't anything but their undershirts up their sleeves.” A woman who has applied to the Lambeth Guardians for relief says she is a button-hole maker, is paid two- pence a dozen and that it takes an hour and a half to make them. Evi- dently there are still people who sing the song of the shirt—London Globe. eee aoe pos dyeing with "PUTNAM IADELESS IES. 10e per package, Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend—Plautus. Lewis’ Single Binder — the famous graiznt fe cig, always best quality. Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, Il. 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This includes a milifon tons of sul- phurie acid and half a million tons of soda. Experiments made by Father Joseph Murgas, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., indicate that wireless telegraphy can be car- ried on through the ground as well as through the air, if deep shafts or wells are sunk for the sending and receiving apparatus. By following the directions, which are plainly printed on each package of Defiance Starch, Men's Collars and Cuffs can be made just as stiff as de- sired, with either gloss or domestic finish. Try it, 16 02. for 10c, sold by all good grocers. Those things on which philosophy has set its seal are beyond the reach of injury; no age will discard them or lessen their force, each succeeding century will add somewhat to the re- spect in which they are held; for we look upon what is near us with jeal- ous eyes, but we admire what is farther off with less prejudice.—Sen- eca, ‘ $100 Reward, *$100. ‘he readers ofthis paper wil be pleased to earn sant facta as oat Sue Rcaloa deduce te stence eee able iocaes te ai tc oiaces tone i Geiareh: Hars’ Cuurel Gure'is tie iy" postive caro uvw known to ths medica frateraigy Carats Sofag'acomscaioaul dices requires's coats teraaliy acting directly upon the blood and mocous firiacds ‘Gt ths Upside” thatcbydestoying hs Blintatit of the Miceu, ast oleiee We suet ferehgth ly Sulling pth Sonstiteron tad asset ioe natin fa deta ca wore the peapristre bans schuh Tatth i We cartes powers tia tae? ob Ge finned Boliase for way chs taut It fale eo cate Bear tor rt tinea "Riuste Sf CHENEY 2100 Peds, 0. 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Relieves biliousness and headache, caused from overeating or drinking. Removes uric acid and rheymatism from the systemm. Aids digestion. Price 10c. § PRESIDENT MYERS. ‘The Actors’ Alliance of Dallas, Tex., gave a banquet in honor of Mr. Myers, president of the alliance of this city. ‘hey ‘have done such good work and the Majestic Theater of Dallas. The official staff of the -Actor’s Alliance of Dallas are: Messrs. George Bar- rett, president; Rector Patterson, vice phesident; Sim ‘Vickers, secretary; Frank Johnson, treasurer. Electa Temple No. 31 of S. M. T. meets the second Thursday evening of each month at 3 p. m. at U. B. F. hall. Grace E. Mulligan, W. P., 1417 Pine street; Lula Lee Chatman, U. P., 1524 Pine street; Evelyn Horten, secre- tary. eee te ad aed = vo ve = Paar, oe : Poe oo eae ae sce Young Men's Social, Musicaland Literary Club, 2018 Chestnut Street EMANUEL BROWN, President. Ceo. Vashon, Vice-Pres. Wm. H. Fields, Sec'y es ee Seiten Ass’t Sec'y. 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Mattox, been let into the block between Rangoon and the next block station to the souti, known as Lawyers, and, before the block was cleared of that train, Mattox also let into the same block train first 37, which, not knowing in time that train No. 33 was in the block, ran Into it and caused the catas- trophe. “After passing Rangoon that morn- ing, train No. 33, which, besides the engine and tender, consisted of a pos- tal car, an express car, a combined baggage and second-class passenger car, a first-class car, two sleeping cars and the president’s car, No. 100 (here named in their order fom the engine), ‘at a point something over a mile from Rangoon station, separated into two parts because of the parting of a coup- ling between the express car and the combined car. “The emergency brakes at once ap- plied automatically on both sections of the parted train, as intended in cases of just such contingencies, and both sections were stopped. “Under these circumstances, if the rules of the company had been obeyed no other train could have passed Ran- goon or entered the block in which this disabled train was. i “The undisputed testimony shows that no less than three different rules of the company were violated by Mat- tox, the operator at Rangoon, the ob- servance of any one of which would have prevented the accident. “One of the rules (Rule 118) pro- vides as follows: “When a train enters the block the signalman must give ‘OS train No— and the time to the next block station in advance, and waen the tfain ‘has passed the home block and the signal- man has seen the markers, he must display the stop signal, and when‘ the rear of the train has pasted 200° feet beyond the home block signal he must give ‘BC’ (‘block clear of ——') and the time to the next block stign in the rear. “This information must be entered on the block records. “The operator at Lawyers did not give this information to Mattox, the operator at Rangoon, as to. train No. “Mattox, therefore, not aria re- ceived the required information in regard to the movements of train No. 23, violated this rule in regarding the block as clear of that train before let- ting in the following train, known as first 37. “His exeuse is that the operator at Lawyers did report train No. 33 as ‘by’ Lawyers, but failed to give him the time it passed, as required by the rule. There is some contusion in his testi- mony as to whether this occurred before first 37 passed Rangoon or just afterwards, but the operator at Law- yers emphatically denies that he sent ‘any such message as claimed by Mat- tox and declares that Mattox had nev- er even informed him that train No. 38 wanted the block or had entered it. “While there exists this conflict of evidence, operator Mattox, in his own statement, admits that he did not receive from the operator at Lawyers the time train 33 passed out of the block at Lawyers ,and excuses his failure to secure this information by the statement that after the operator at Lawyers had informed him that No. 33 was ‘by,’ he, the operator at Lawyers, abruptly opened his key, and he, Mattox, could not communicate further with him. “Under these circumstances the fol- lowing from Rule 134 applies: ““If from the failure of a telegraph line or other cause a signalman. is unable to communicate with the next block station in advance (which in this case was Lawyers), he must stop every train approaching in that direc- tion and obtain permission from the train dispatcher before allowing it to proceed.” “Mattox’s plain duty was, therefore, to stop first 37 at Rangoon and not let it enter the block. He admits that this was his duty, and that he did not perform it. If he had, the accidert could not have happened. “In addition to the foregoing, Rule 116 provides: “To admit a train to @ block the signalman must examine the block record end if the block is clear will give ‘B. W. (block wanted for — to the next block station in advance. “From Rule 116, above referred to, it will be seen that Operator Mattox had no right even to ask for the block for train first 37 until he had looked at his own block sheet and seen from it that train No. 33 had passed out of the block at Lawyers. “His block sheet did not show this essential fact. “He admits that it did not, and that, before he asked for the block for first 3s, he had not gotten, as required by Rule 118, the information necessary to make his block sheet show the facts and to complete it. “It was, under these circumstances, his clear duty under Rule 116 to stop train first 37 and not admit it to fe block. He admits this, and that if he had obeyed the rule the accident could not have happened. “It will thus be seen that from evi. dence that is not disputed, the human factor failed at the decisive moment and caused this great catastrophe. “Mattox himself is a Virginian by birth, having been ‘born and reared in Franklin county, the adjoining county ‘to the one in which the accident! oc- curred. He had been employed in pur- suance of the policy of the company to recruit its ranks from among the people along its lines, whose antece- dents and environments are known. “He was twenty-two years old, had been in the employment of thc’ com- pany as an operator for about two years, was educated as an operator and, before being permitted t ounder- take the duties of an operttor, was duly examined on block rules, train orders and othe? matters pertaining to the telegraph service, by W. J. Coap: man, chief dispatcher. “He had, at the time of the accident, bee noperator at Rangoon about twen- ty months. “There is some conflict in the test. mony as to the conduct of Jacobs, the operator at Lawyers. The above con- clusions, however, have been reached without considering any controverted testimony.” Y. M. C. A. Notes. The calendar exhibit New Year's day was very attractive. Miss Dodge, Miss W. Sate, Miss Daisy Mosley; Miss Moman and several other ladies re- ceived for the young men New Year's day. The day was very pleasantly spent, many calls being made. _ At night a literary program was ren- dered. Prof. Arthur Langston gave a forceful lecture, which the audience highly appreciated. Dr. W. D. Cook will speak next Sab- bath, 4:45 p. m., at the men’s meet- ing. The canvass for members is now on. The old members are renewing and new ones are coming in fast. Five hundred men are wanted this year, 300 of them during the month of January. The educational classes are preparing for excellent work. The class in Spanish begins Tuesday next. THEY DO SAY It is reported that the manager of the John Brown Amusement Co. was put out because of some shortage. We would like to know who loses the money? We pity the many dupes who have been caught in the trap. The Douglass Pharmacy has closed its doors to the public. Furnished rooms for rent at 3938 Finney avenue. Mrs. W. M. West. Mr. Page, of Hot Springs, Ark., vis- ited St. Louis during the holidays. He is‘one of Hot Springs’ prominent young lawyers. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is- sues warning to manufacturers that pure food law is in effect and will be rigidly enforced. | Mayor McClellan refuses to appoint Tammany candidate; says he cannot recognize existing control in organiza. tion and will not tolerate relations with Murphy. Interstate commerce commissoiners condemn policy of big dividends, re- gardless of service remlered, and de- clare need for intelligent railway man- agement A HAPPY NEW YEAR ‘The manager of the St. Louis Pal ladium wishes his many subscribers and advertisers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We have en- deavored to publish the Palladium in a way that will please all, yet we have made many realize tne fact that they are not the whole show. Our aim has been to take a high moral stand and we purpose to keep that stand. We have not catered to any one man or woman, or set of men and women. We hew to the line; let the chips fall where they will. Again we wish you a Merry Christmas, hoping that you all may have many more such merry days as the 25th day of December, 1906. ‘The past ear has brought many to success, and many to ruin, Many a rich man has been made peor and many a poor man has leaped into wealth. Many have met obstacles that were almost insurmountable, but by continuous work they have suc- ceeded and are today as happy as any mortals that live. | ‘This time last year we were duped out of much money, so that on Christ mas day we were as poor as a church mouse. Every dollar that we have made this year has been placed in some crevice to clear up a hole that was made last year, and if we are permitted to carry forward the work laid down on the tressel board next year, we will be thankful and “Praise God from whom all blessings flow.” By the aid of a Kinloch telephone, the agent of the Palladium has not had so much walking to do in col- lecting, as many of our subscribers have telephones in their homes, and they tell us when to call. Now we have had the Bell phone put in also. Beaumont 3117 is ready for use in the residence of the Palladium Man. Our Kinloch number is Central 7890. Now you can reach us from any part of the city and by both lines of telephone. We trust that our subscribers will be ready, as we collect from 9 a, m. until 8 p. m. No excuses; ;when you see the Palladium man coming, get out what you owe him, as we must keep on the move, as we have about 1,500 persons to collect from, and we w thank you very much, I am with respect, the collector and reporter for the St. Louis Palladium. ‘Residency, 2617 Lawton avenue; Kin- Toch, Central 7890; Bell, Beaumont 9117. ROOMS FOR REN1T Nicely furnished room for rent at 2736 Lawton avenue. Two gentlemen. Call. Nicely furnished front ron? for rent with bath at 3230 Lawton avenue. If you have aouvts as to business or love affairs, consult the World's Greatest Clairvoyant, Leon Devoux. LEE’S LAXATIVE COLD CURE For Coughs and Colds. 25¢. 8. L. PICKETT. Ant. 2601 Lawton ave. Western lines, in view of increased cost of operation, including wages, decide upon policy of rigid economy in the coming year. SAM, THE TAILCR. Hes begun the making of spring and mmner suits. You have your choice a 490 different ealara. First Baptist Church of Kinloch Park, pg 5 Church Directory. Sunday school at 10 o'clock a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. Evening service at 8 p. m. Mission Circle every fourth Sunday at 3 p.m. Chureh meeting the Saturday before the second Lord’s day in each month. Rey. S. A. Lewis, pastor. Miss Lewis B Brown, Clerk 2734 Morgan Street. If you have doubts as to business or love affairs, consult the World's Greatest Clairvoyant, Leon Devoux. If undecided, consult Leon Devoux. Turner COFFEE AND TEA CO. 2717-A Lucas Ave. Dealer in high grade Coffees, Teas, your Coffees and Teas of the Turner Tea Co. We are equal to any in the city in price and quality. Our Goods R. A. TURNER, Prop. Cuban Face Powder Box 25 Cts. Cuban Face Powder Co. Room 202, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Risse 2G eta stk ed Ben ate te mer: Notice! Notice! The collecting for the Pallad up to the manager, and we st ee on duty from 9 a. m. till 8 p. 1 , hope that our many friends 1 ms arrange to be of good cheer, anc Bc) times make us happy. We sh |__| deavor to do what we can to gi : ee the news of our people. We he Bone the best list of subscribers « I . Beane | Negro. paper in the country, an . Pu. | | have the best collector. Weng | We will soon present sever: gi dy. tures in the Palladium of a num a] the worst Negroes in St. Louis. of them are lawyers, doctor: preachers. Watch for we will } x cents to any one that will gues si we will present. » PROF. ANTHEN JOH) B HAS TAKEN CHARGE OF THE THE LINDEN (Abyssinia Dancing Sc For Newly Furnished Rooms with all Coveniences. 705, 707, 709 North 14th Sreet. Branches: 142814 Linden Street and 1710 Lucas ave. Residence: 2116 Chestnut Street. H. C. CURTIS, Proprietor. JOHN WILLARD, Manager. THOS. ROSS, Clerk. Phone: Bell Olive 1294. ry at ei xs ae a A . ax Bes Suits Made to Order. CLEANING, Dyeing, Pressing and Repairing If you want to buy a Fullman Suit, Call on me! If you wart t sei! a Pullman Suit, Call on me alsv. = RIVERS, the Tailor, 3 South Twentieth St. .» ST. LOUIS MISSOURI.. -.. wi) CATERER. A. HOOE, FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT MEALS AT ALL HOURS. 3946 FAIRFAX AVE. ST. LOUIS, MO. W. L. PICKINS, JOB BRICK LAYING, Plastering and Vault Cleaning. ALL JOBS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Callor Write. 2613 N. LEFFINGWELL AVE. J. Merriwether ° # The Main is BARBER Ges c SHOP. ¥ Poem 5 N. 5th St. et a y) For General Sh] cs Satisfaction. as Ss me ees Sf eee Shaving, 10c. Mustache Dyed, 25c. Hair Cut, 25¢. Children’s Hair Cutting, Se All Shines, 5c. MRS. J. W. WOOD of 4003 Fairfax Ave. is Tae Hair Dressing Business PURE HAIR BRAIDS | MADE TO ORDER. FIRST-CLASS SERVICE. FOR SALE—3014 Lulu Avenue, near Greer Avenue. Patronize The Merchants That Advertise In This Paper. Bishop Seymour Very Low. Springfield, Ill., Nov. 28.—The condi- tion of Bishop Seymour Is very criti- cal, Notice! Notice! The collecting for the Palladium 4 up to the manager, and we shall on duty from 9 a. m, till 8 p.m. W, hope that our many friends will s arrange to be of good cheer, and a: aj times make us happy. We shall eq deavor to do what we can to give yo, the news of our people. We har the best list of subseribers of an Negro paper in the country, and they have the best collector. We will soon present several pig tures in the Palladium of a number og the worst Negroes in St. Louis. Some of them are lawyers, doctors anj preachers. Watch for we will pay 3 cents to any one that will guess wig we will present. PROF. ANTHEN JOHNSON Abyssinia Dancing School, Dancing every Wednesday, Friday ‘and Sunday Nights. 1p ll adaaortoxeen ie vet. of CESSONS TO.Wigein When on AT® ABYSSINIA HALL, 18 S, roth Street, MADAME IRVING MILLINERY, Manicuring, Hair Dressing, Scalp Massage. 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