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j 0ealta tPeeklg ottscrtMtd VOL. i. The Life Beyond 1 his Life There Is a life beyond this life, Where fiictuls do not betray, SS liere frienilsliin' HW word Who made the night and day. There is a life beyond this life, Where hearts can never break. Unselfish love there reigns su preme, From daylight' cloao till wake. There is a life beyond this life, Where idols ne'er arc broken. Where venomed serpents arc nut hid Within the offered token. There is a. life beyond this life, That life of lives sublime, When every life is like that life, Of all lives mo'.t sublime. Anon. SEDALIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, December 25 1903. NO. 34 !....' i V", NEGRO'S OPPORTUNITY IN THE COMMERCIAL WORLD. Not since the Negro's arrival from "Darkest Africa," 1619 has hiii opportunity been so large, inviting and promising as it is to-day. Indeed, th's is his inviting field, and unlimited op portunity. For the intelligent, progres sive, down to date Negro, the Commercial World opens wide her doom and bids him welcome. The growing and perpetually expanding government under whose flag he lives and toil gives him great hope ai'd reason to hope. Our constant acquisition of new territory gives him great and additional opportunity. To equip the negro for this impor tant incrcasingopportunity, edu cational facilities arc not want ing. To achieve permanent and per petual success'he like all success lulmenand nations must have both, training and experience to cope with other nations; his su perior, only, by virtue of ecu u ries of general and special, the oretical and practical education. If with all these plus a techni cal, piofcssional, business and industrial education, other races can only succeed, how can the Negro hope to succeed with lens effot t, yes with the odds against him? Laws which make and govern these conditions must be studied, to be understood, to be mastered, to be properly applied. Along with common sense one of the Negro's greatest needs to day is to properly economize. If you would train a nation you must train the individual, to properly train the individual you mutt begin with the infant. To-day The Negro Commer cial World is sadly in need of more energetic well trained com petent accountants. The de mand and increase of efficient helpers grows with the years. The Magic-thc wonderful growth, the weekly increase of mercantile business in the Negro-business world calls for an increased number of capable young men and young women who posess a sufficient and usa ble amount of business training. Youug u en, young women scire the paxjng golden opportunity, Think-feel-act. Act now. II, L. Billups, CHRISTMAS. The Day Wo Celebrate. Christmas Day has been cele brated more or lesti every since the Birth of Christ, but at that time most of the people were in heathen-dome aud only a few would have any celebration. Yet as time rolled on and pople be came more christianized and civ ilized this day has been held by more people The first Xmas that has any great bearing in history was held by the Franks in the year 4 and the Day wag set for the great baptismal ceremony when the king and the nation was to be come, at last, christian. The King of of the Franks Clouis, was atfirnt a heathen, but by this ceremony on Xmas, he and all his people took Christ for their Master and a christain nation was set up in Middle Europe as a bulwark against the wild heath en of the Northern land. In the year of 800 Xmas Day was long remembered through out Europe because of the Cor nation of Charlemagne and histo rians have aid of him 1h.1t no soveign, no human being perhaps rendered greater service to civ ilization of the world and the great day, the Cornation-day, in the life of this hero of mediaeval chivalry, is a date easy to be re membered, livery school-boy should be grateful for so simple a "date of anchorage," Christ mas of the year BOO. Also anoth er Xmas that dawned upon the land of Europe was the Corna tion of William the Conqueror in the year 1066 on Xmas Day. These all are great happenings that occurred on Xmas Day in remembrance of the coming of Christ; yet most" people were atill in ignorance and did not ob serve the Day but the tide of af fairs has changed and the hap pening of this Day, the Birth of Christ, has caused it. The celebration is no longer to only a few people while others are still living in ignorance, but it has paved the way so that all nations can glorfy and magni fy the Holy name, and all may praise what the angel said on that morning "I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people; for there is born to you this day in the city to David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord " and all may join with the Angelic host and sing "Glory of God in the highest and on earth peace among men1" From the dawn to the present time man has made great pro gress. He has come out of the heathen tage until now he is working and prospering in every avenue of life. The Birth of Christ also laid the foundation of Education, which has been the main factor in bringing man from the state of heathendom and tak ing the celebration from a nation al and making it a Universal Cel ebration. From that time man has been working and hunting the ideal that was set by Christ, for before man had nothing that was perfect and only had to mod el after that which seemed real in the sight of himself, but since then in all degrees of civilization this tendency toward tne ideal is found. Our greatest philoso phers and scicnts Newton and Franklin have been only able to " think God's thoughtaftcr him." What vision of unnumbered stars in space must have filled the brain of Kepler before he gave to the warld the great laws of plan etary motion! Could the fingers of Raphael or Angelo have wrought their wonderful crea tions upon canvass, without their souls beiug first expanded into contemplation of the beauties of nature and the inspiration drawn from her inexhaustible store house. Why should we trust to the senses alone in the pursuit of wisdom, and happiness and neg lect to use the purer fountain of the soul truly. "Man does not live by bread alone." Since the way for man has been made then the aim of true living should be to make the ideal real; to actualize in every day affairs this spiritual essence which per mit all things to create for our self the condition of our happi ness, forall truly great and hap py lives have been those of ser vice. "He that loseth his life shall find it," in the service of others. It is an unchangeable law that we get from life what we put into it the; out going sympa thies aud helpful acts come back to us increased a hundred folds. Then the most truly happy and successful life must be the one founded upon these great princi ples that all are with the Univer sal Life; that the infinite source of wisdom is one from which to diaw inspiration and joy, that the outgiving of this joy in ser vice for others is pre-eminently the- life of progress upward and Godward, the life that dignifies manhood and womanhood by lifting them into the higher di vine law of being, the life that will be one of lasting peace, sat isfaction and power. Wc all may join with the poet and say: Hail the Holy child, hail our Lord aud King, Wise men and shepherds mild, Eager tribute bring. Sing all the earth and Heav en, This is Christmas morn, Joy to the world is given, Christ the Lord is born. J. W. Cooper. "Night" Anderson Accidental ly Kills Himself. "Night" Anderson, employed on the Ralph Down farm near Georgetown, was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun Tuesday, Anderson went out in a wagon to do some work, and had carried the gun with him. As there was no one with him, the accident can never be described. From his position; and that of the gun, it is supposed that he had left the wagon and in getting back in the wagon dropped the gun. Evi dently he had the gun full cocked for both barrels were emptied into his stomach, literaly blow ing hiiu ins'ide our. The shot entered about the navel and tore a hole in his back thru which the intestines were carried. Anderson was not dead when found, but lived from noon until 7:30 in the evening, FATAL FIRE. Ladlos Dormitory Burnod. 8TUDENTS M3AP FROM THIRD AND roUHTH FLOORS IN NIGIIT DRESS. Four persons dead, 18 believed fatally injured and probably ten or twelve more or less hurt is the result of a fire which almost totally destroyed Rust Hall, a womans dormitory of Walden U nivcrsity.at Nashville, Tenn.,last Friday night. The direct origin of the terri ple conflagration which was at tended with such terrible results, is not known. It is supposed to have started in the laboratory of the university which was located in the destroyed building. What added horror of the situ ation was the fact that most of those killed or hurt sustained the injuries by jumping from the windows of the burning building. While some of them were burn ed to a more or less extent, death or fatal injury csmc as the result of jumping from the dormitory. The neck of Nannie Johnion was broken by the fall; and besides broken limbs sustained by the others, many of them were inter nally injured. The destroyed dormitory was one of the oldest of Walden University, being sometimes known as the Admin istration Building. The building had no fire escapes, and was so far removed from any other structure that egress by means of other roofs was impos sible. It was a four-story brick building, and from the windows of the third and fourth stories the inmates jumped or fell to the ground. Awakened by the cries of those who had discovered the fire, the other inmates of the building had rushed from their rooms panic- striken. Althoughsome of them rushed down stairs through the smoke and heat, it was but .1 few moment this means of exit bad been cut oif, so rapid was the pro gress of the conflagration. It was then to the windows that they rushed as ottering the only means of escape. There was no time to secure clothingor anything else and the sixty of those who occupied the dormito ry who did reach the windows were clad only in their night dresses. Those occupying rooms on the second floor did not hesitate when they reached the windows, but leaped out into the open. Some of them were hurt, but not fatal ly, and a number were able to limp or crawl away from the scorching heat and out of harm's way. It was a more terrible predica ment for those on the third and fourth floors. The frenzied and screaming inmates crowded the windows, hesitating on the brink. The blind glare of the flames, then almost enveloping the doomed structure, and lighting the ground's ana 'the neighbor hood, showed them the distance they must leap. It was between 40 and SO feet that yawmcd between those in 'To Fourth page. t LOCAL MENTION Read our Pythian' Ad" on second page. " . iV) A hero is a man whb"dicd long time ago. A man will never rise in the the woriil by waiting for the Hy ing machine, Mrs. Katie Violet, is one of the sick this week. She has been con lined to her bed now for two weeks. Miss La Bcrta Smith is taking a short absence from our city for the benefit of her health. Miss Lillian Martin, Smithton wide-awake and up-to-date school mistress spent Sunday with her parents on E. Jackson, St. Mrs. Mildred Sullivan left for St. Louis for the holidays, she will be the guest of Miss Lizzie Fields on La Salle St. G. O. Brown, who is employed by Crouch & son, importers of blooded French, German and Belgian d; aught and speed hor ses, bauds in his name to be en rolled on our list of new readers. Mr. A.W. Loyd, Grand Chan cellor of the Knights of Pythias of Missouri and Mr. Win. Bra shear of Scdalia, organized a K. of P. Lodge at Warrensburg, last Tuesday night with 25 of the leading citizens. The citizens of Scdalia, expect soon to organize a K. of P. Lodge. Rev. P. M. Mack, Dr. J. M. Har ris, Jerry Brown. Wm. Brashear, W. H. Hunter, W. H. Huston and others are laboring to that end. Misses Pauline Terril and Lc ola Scott, two of Geo. R.'s most fascinating young ladies left for K. C. Thursday mcrning where they will spend the holidays with friends. Miss Pearl Myers, who has been confined to her bed for sev eral days, is able to be out again. Her many frieiids and class mates are happy to see her face again. A yonng gentlemen was over heard the other day to murmur these words, "what kind of can dy do you want for Christinas darling? In response she an swered; 'the same kind you bought some time ago," We may anil we may not be surprised what the C. Congress may have on docket along the line of origination of rules and regulations, to go into effect on New Years Day-(1'J04) after their old years adjournment. Wc acknowledge the receipt of Programs of the 19th, Annual Session of the Missouri Teach ers' Association, which convenes at the A. M. E. Church St. Jos eph, Mo, The sesniou begins at at 1:30 p. m. Dec. 29th., and con tinues in session for three days. Prof. J. II. Kenncr, Marshall, Mo. President. Topics of special interest toihe tfducation.il tittd moral welfare of the race, will be ably discussed by men and wom en ofripe experience and round ed culture, mm is -it 4,7' 4 Si A Vi J. - 1 (1 "ti 12 4 1 1 1 i .1 ! .'J i i ! IV.