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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. Historical Society state house 2 VOLUME II. THE NEGRO PROBLEM. Howard's Magazine Presents an Able Discussion. PREVIOUS CONDITIONS AND FAILURES AGAINST US. American Scientists are Against the Negro's Social Advancement. The interminable Negro question is presenting so many phases in these late days that it would seem there was being generated among Negroes themselves a pessimism that, if encouraged would be enervating, and finally demoralizing. The Negro question has become academic and when the opportunity is presented a sophomoric solution is given with all the learnedness that the text books of the colleges can instill in the minds of their more ambitious graduates, graduates of long standing, at that. It has become bewildering, very often exasperating, to encounter these solutions, and the more so because there is no Negro problem but simply the bare fact of the non-recognition by the dominant element in church and state of a man because he is black. In other words, it is a question of prejudice on account of the color of a man's skin as opposed to justice and humanity. After all it is not very alarming when it is considered what the result always is w en prejudice, reflected in artificial law, runs counter to natural law. In the comparatively short history of America the Negro has been denied a common heritage. His capacity for a common education has not even been entertained. As for a higher education and a comprehension of the arts, the sciences and poetry, the Negro has been considered normally out of his element. He was a coward, not fit for liberty and unable to take care of himself. How the Negro has vindicated himself is the common history of the past forty years! Through near 300 years by that "absurd patience" which Miss Pemberton speaks of in "Stephen the Black," the Negro has brought all the adverse prophecies of himself to naught and has stepped upon a higher plane and become a citizen of the country for which he has sacrificed so much to fashion into a modern democracy. What will the harvest be? One failure is to be recorded against him. He has failed as a politician. This is no place to discuss the reasons for his failure, but the inquiry may be made: Will his failure teach a lesson for the future? There is only one man the Negro has need to fear, and that is himself. Fear of a change in the organic law of the land need cause no apprehension, for if one step backward involving the political rights of the Negro be made there ensue the seeds or a disintegration that must finally involve the whole fabric of democratic government. It is therefore in the interest of self-preservation that the dominant element in the country will see to it that no such change shall be made. The presence of ten millions of Negroes in the country will have to be utilized. There can be no standstill for this great mass. The terrific force of progress will move it according to the inertia or momentum of the mass itself. His "dearest enemy" will not deny that the Negro does move along, onward and upward, if slowly, of his own volition. These are momentous times. Never in in recent history has materialism so confidently raised its stony face as in three days of tarriffs, trusts and expansion. Money is the god, and it talks abroad as never before, but it is not the force that makes ideal men and nations. When the founder of the Vanderbilt family died he left eighty million dollars. In those days his social status was just nil. His son inherited and when he died he left two hundred millions. The Vanderbilt family now dominates socially in America and England. Philadelphia society was once "quality," now it is the "smart set." Time was when "the quality" spoke of certain men as "the rich men," but the social door was barred against them. "The rich men" have made the assault and the old-fashioned gentleman goes out and the new-fashioned gentleman comes in. The same phenomenon is visible throughout the social centers of the country. The aristocrats have made a brave fight. Feebly, but ostentatiously, they resolved themselves into the "Sons of Revolution," :Colonial Dames," etc., and some have dated their ancestry back to the Norman donquest and even to the time of Hugh Capet. But nothing has barred plutocrat; he has won and very little remains. Plutocracy and aristocracy combine. Great is the combination! But what of the masses? The masses, alas! They do not seem to know what they want, or how to get what they demand. They know that labar produces all the wealth and that the workingman gets very little of it. The anomalous aspect of the contest between labor and capital is that labor is divided within its own ranks, while capital presents a solid front. White labor will not consort with black labor because the blacks are said to come from an inferior race. This an unfortunate situation which time, no doubt, will relieve, and which our new order of government may bring along more speedily than is anticipated. But at the same time this proscription of colored labor acts as an incubus and creates unrest without hope of relief. The Negro as a factor in all the important movements of this country, must of a necessity become a recognized factor in the labor market. Wendell Phillips, in addressing labor meeting in the west, told his audience that in 50 years, from the time he was speaking, the American people would be astounded at the treatment they had accorded the Negro. Mr. Phillips was radical not only in his ethics, but in the application of his orthodoxy to scientific and governmental affairs. His religion was Christ's Christianity, which takes within its scope all humanity, and he saw no antagonism between science and religion, accedtin both as tending to discover the truths hidden in the material and spiritual laws of the universe. What he saw in the Negro was that he was a man who had played his part back in the misty centuries and he had no fears of him in the present. The leading American scientists of his day sternly opposed, some indecently, the idea of the Negro being considered within the pale of society. What else could be expected af the proletariat of the country than scourging part of its constituents because they were black? It is quite probable that Mr. Phillips knew as much about the discoveries of anthropology, then going on in Europe, as did contemporary scientists in Ameri- (Continued on Page Two.) TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30, 1900: WILL N.C. PLAN STAND? Will the President and Republican Leaders Allow it? Less Representation Should Follow Denial of Suffrage. MUST RECOGNIZE THIS. Hon. John Woodward of the New York Supreme Court in Leske's Weekly. The question has been propounded, "Will the North Carolina plan stand?" The "North Carolina plan," so called, is the recent effort of the state of North Carolina to eliminate the Negro vote by the application of an educational qualification, with an exception clause in favor of those whose ancestors were permitted to vote prior to the year 1867. To intelligently answer this question it is necessary to consider the powers of the state in reference to the elective franchise, and in the limited space available for this discussion it will be necessary to assert, without the argument, the silient points. The action of North Carolina is that of the state in its highest sovereign capacity, by means, of an amendment to its constitution; so far as the people of that state are not limited by the provisions of the federal constitution, they have a right to determine the qualifications of electors, the only possible limitations upon this right, prior to the adoption of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, being that clause of the constitution which guarantees to each state a republican form of government. In reference to their own state officers they are free to determine this question; it is a matter in which the people of other states have no concern so long as a republican form of government is preserved, and the federal constitution merely provides "the house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature." It will thus be seen that the federal constitution makes no provisions for the qualifications of a voter; it simply makes use of those provided by the states, which has resulted in a great variety of qualifications, ranging from educational tests to abstinence from dueling, and in nearly one-half of the states it is not even necessary that a man should be a citizen of the United States in order to be a qualified elector of representatives in congress; while in the matter of the election of a president and vice president of the U. S. it is not necessary that the people should vote directly for the electors at all, the provision of the federal constitution being merely that "each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the congress." The 13th amendment does not pretend to deal with the suffrage and it is generally agreed among law writers and publicists that the Negro can claim no right of the elective franchise under that clause of the 14th amendment, which provides that "no state shall make or enforce any law abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States," because, as has already been suggested, the right to vote is not a privilege of citizenship in the U. S., but is a privilege ex- tended by the states. This amendment does, however, provide that "when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for president and vice president of the United States, representatives in congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such state." This is a distinct recognition of the power of the states to restrict the suffrage, but it imposes a political penalty upon the state for refusing the right to vote to all male citizens. It does not, however, point out any way in which the Negro may be restored to his rights, and it is extremely doubtful if it is practicable to enact legislation which will be effective in applying the penalty. The 15th amendment, while it did not grant the elective franchise to anyone, or deny the right of the state to determine the qualifications of voters, had the effect of extending the privilege by the provision that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U. S., or by any state, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." This is not a limitation upon the power of North Carolina to provide an educational qualification for its voters, even though it should operate to disfranchise every citizen of color in the state, and it is not for us to question the motives of a sovereign state while it confines itself to the limitations fixed by the constitution. When, however the state goes beyond the establishing of an educational or other qualification, and excepts from its operation those whose ancestors were permitted to vote at a time when the suffrage was confined to the white race, with possibly a few free men of color, it is encroaching upon the federal constitution, and we have a right to question its conduct. No man in a condition of servitude in the state of North Carolina was permitted to vote prior to 1867; to have been a freeman was a condition precedent to the right to cast a ballot, and to preserve this right to the ignorant descendents of these freemen, while denying the right to those whose ancestors were in a condition of servitude, is denying the right of citizens of the U. S. to vote on account of a previous condition of servitude. It is not necessary that the individual who is disfranchised should have been in a previous condition of servitude; it is sufficient if the disfranchisement is made on account of a previous condition of servitude on the part of anyone. The 14th amendment is a condition extending the privileges of individuals, and under well settled principles of law is to be construed liberally to produce the results for which it was designed, and an effort to accomplish by indirection what is forbidden to be done directly is as much a violation of the constitution as though North Carolina had declared in plain language that "no member of the Negro race shall be admitted to the electorate of this state." As the court say in the U. S. vs Reese (92 U. S. 214), "this amendment does not confer the right of suffrage on anyone, but prevents the states or the United States . . . NEGRO LEADER SCORES Charles I. Taylor Talks About our Big Guns. Real Problem--Too Much Politics Not Enough Business. PROBLEM IN THE SOUTH THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE NFGRO Mr. Editor:—I am not a subscriber to your paper, but I am the son of one; and as your paper is widely circulated among our people, and as its greatest effort is to uplift our race, I request that you publish in its columns this article, and if it causes one prodigal to come to himself and say, "I will arise and go back to my people and say to them, "People, I have sinned against heaven and before thee," I claim that the Reporter and certainly the writer is well compensated. I admit that the text is somewhat broad, but will say in the outset that there are exceptions to the above assertion; but what is so alarming to me is, that as a rule these exceptions are among the illiterate and common class of our people. My readers may ask, "You mean to say then that our leaders and educated men are more inconsistent than our common people?" That is just what I mean to say, and with every word of it emphasized. Our preachers preach from their pulpits and the street corners; our editors contribute whole columns in editorials; our lawyers and statesmen plead before republican conventions, and teachers discuss before educational meetings these questions: "The disfranchisement of the Negro," 'Jim Crow car,' "Mob violence," and the "General mistreatment of the Negro in the south," and they get right down out of their pulpit, out of their offices, from before the conventions, and leave the educational meetings and go right by the little Negro grocery store on the corner, go up town and help to further enrich the already wealthy white merchant who helps oftentimes to do the very things they are kicking against. Inconsistency! There was a time when there were no cotton mills in the south, no great flour mills, no mattress factories, no paper manufacturing establishments, no great wholesale department stores, and a hundred and one other establishments necessary for the development of the south. And what did the southern white men do? (the leaders I mean.) They saw that the north was sucking the very life-blood out of this section of the country, and urged the establishment of the necessary institutions, and patronized them and exhorted their followers to do the same. Being novices, it was impossible to compete in quality with their more wealthy and experienced brother in the north, but the far-sighted leaders of the south said, "We suffer yet a little while, and then we suffer no more." As a result the great manufacturing establishments & department stores are being built right in our midst at an enormous rate. I have never in my life heard a lecture or heard of one by a Nelaw requires, and the very same professors spend their money at a white man's grocery store about three blocks farther away from their homes than a grocery store owned by a colored man (a graduate of Clarke university at that) just as well fixed in his store as the white merchant, each having about a $5,000 stock of goods. Is not this inconsistency? It is everywhere else just as it is in Anderson, and it is largely the fault of the people who are posing as leaders. Out of about 4,000 colored people in this city, gro teacher or a professor in a Negro college encouraging Negro enterprises and a patronage of the same. This is a deplorable truth, and unless our leaders wake up to this truth and change their tactics, the opposite race will not only disfranchise us, lynch us, build Jim crow cars for us, but they will do things to us that we have not yet dreamed of. I know Negro professors at Clarke university, Atlanta, Ga., who will walk three miles up town before they will take back seats on the trolley cars as the Enterprise Grocery Co., owned by colored men, has the patronage, according to careful study and observation, of 50 people, and four-fifths or about 40 of these people work for less than $1 per day, and fully half of them are women who do not buy groceries (as that is done by their husbands), but buy such as soaps, starch, washing powders, &c. About 8 out of the 50 are men of families; about 3 are men who get from $1.25 to $2.50 per day for wages; and none out of the 50 are the leading Negroes of Anderson; 4,000 Negroes here and one colored grocery store with 50 customers tell the tale for Anderson. How about Spartanburg? Indeed their is a sufficient number of Negroes, and they spend enough money (and this does not include the thousands of Negroes in the county), to make 5 grocery stores and two dry goods stores rich in twelve months and not boycot the white merchants either; and then it would not be long till Negro merchants could employ Negro boys and girls as clerks and bookkeepers. What our leaders want to do is to teach our people to be self-supporting; and the only way to do that is to stop spending every dollar they can rake and scrape with the white man, and running around the Negro who is trying to do business. Spend some of your money with the little Negro merchant and some with the white man, and after awhile your sons and daughters who go off to school and become educated, will come back to their homes and get positions that will pay them handsome salaries. Then our young men won't be compelled, after they have finished at college, to go and work in the hotels of the North and away from home where they have a hundred chances to go astray, to one for them to be what God and man—I mean the true man—would have them be. Then and not until then will we improve our moral standard. May God help our leaders to wake up to these facts and stop talking so much about the surface troubles, but get down to the root and remove the cause. Anderson, S. C. TO PROCEED AGAINST PORTER'S SLAYERS. Denver, Colo., Nov. 22.—District Attorney McAllister of Colorado Springs had ordered Sheriff Freeman of Lincoln county to proceed against the members of the mob who burned Preston Porter, Jr., at the stake last week. The order was issued after correspondence between Governor Thomas and Mr. McAllister. Just how the grand jury will be chosen has not yet been decided. Mr. McAllister says it will be composed of men who will do their duty at all hazards. The governor insists on a prosecution. We will watch the outcome of the governor in this matter. NUMBER 48. LAST NOVEMBER KNIGHTS TEMPLAR DISPLAY On Thursday Thanksgiving day the commanderies of Knights Templars from Kansas City, St. Joseph, Leavenworth, Omaha, St. Louis and Ft. Scott will be the guests of Cyrene Commandery No. 3 of this city-Extensive arrangements have been made to care for the visiting fraternity's and their friends. A sumptuous dinner will be served at "G. A. R. Hall on East 7th Street at 12:30 p. m. under the auspices of the Ladies of St. John A. M. E. church. At 2:30 a grand street parade will be given, headed by the Twenty-Third Kansas Regimental band. The Banquet in charge of the Ladies of Cyrene and will be an exquisite affair. The following is the program of of the day. 1. Dinner at 12:30 p.m. 2. General reception at asylum. Welcome address—Sir George Smith L. G. C. Kansas. Response—Sir J. H. Green, K. C. St. Joseph. 3. Parade—5 p.m. 4. Banquet—5 p.m. 5. Exhibition Drill at Auditorium. 6. March of Templars—Sir Geo. W. Ford, Grand Capt. Kien, Kansas. 7. Arene Commandery Drill Corps—Sir N Chiles, C. G. 8. Northwest —Sir W. H. Jones, C. G. 9. Emmanuel —Sir J. John L. Miner, C. G. 10. The Unknown —Sir (Program of Banquet.) Dr. S. H. Thompson, Grand Commander of Kansas, Master of Cleremonies. 11. An Introduction —Sir J. H. Childers, No. 3. 12. The Templars —Sir I. F. Brallley, No. 2. 13. What We can do as Masons .....Sir N. G. Watkins, G. M. 14. Together Once More —Sir W. H. Jones, No. 6. 15. The Empty Shrimp —Sir P. C. Kincale, No. 15. 16. Our Military Negroes —Sir J. Owen W. Ford, No. 7. 17. The Blue House —Sir I. A. Jones, No. 1, 7. 18. Our Dependents —Sir G. P. McCampbell, No. 3. 19. The Craft and My People .....Sir M. O. Rickets, No. 9. 20. Messen and Kansas —Huscan No. 12. The exhibition drill will be held at the Auditorium in the evening at 8:30 p.m. It will be a rare treat and every person who can should be there. Be sure and come out and bring your friends. "Tom," McNeal the genial and talented editor of the Topeka Mail and Breeze is the "dark horse" in the Senators fight. GOVERNOR Stanley will appoint Morton Albaught Bank Commissioner to succeed Mr. Bredenthal. This is a fitting reward for a splendid political leader. ONE of the peculiarties of the white man which all as a rule invariably practice upon a Negro, is that ALL Negroes are held to account for what one Negro does. The best class of Negroes should see to it that their conduct over balances that of the tough elements. Will the North Carolina Plan Stand. Continued from 4th column. from giving preference in this particular to one citizen of the United States over another on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." The question asked in the opening paragraph may be answered then, that it will stand in so far as it provides qualifications for voters generally; that it will not stand in so far as it undertakes to except from the operation of these qualifications persons whose ancestors were eligible to the suffrage because of their freedom, while imposing it upon those who have descended from a line whose lives were given over to a condition of servitude. However, as this provision of North Carolina's constitution is a law affecting the rights of individuals, it can only be questioned as to its constitutionality by an individual whose rights are affected, and it may be long before the question will reach the courts. The Plaindealer. Published at Topeka, Kansas, Shawnee county, very Friday morning by The Plaindealer Pub- lishing company, 114 E. Seventh street. Entered at the postoffice at Topeka, Kansas, hawnee county, as second class mail matter. [In order to insure publication of matter in the current issue, correspondence must be in this office not later than Tuesday] KANSAS SEMI CENTER EXPOSITION TOPE KANSAS 1904 We do not exactly see the point to Editor Manly's recent Editorial on "What Constitute an Editor?" but we think he does, and that is sufficient. The colored man must learn to have a business and industrial revival, while having a religious awakening. He must come to consider that respectable and lucrative employment for his offspring while they are yet among the living, should command a reasonable share of their attention. Our young men and women need more opportunities to use their christian education and enthusiasm, where they can get there from some material results. Yes brother King we are long on revivals, in all things but business. Let us have a business revival. In this case every Negro called to preach. THE wrong doing of one bad Negro, in a white man's eyesight makes him quickly conclude that "All Negroes are alike," and a hundred good self respecting Negroes must suffer for what one low down contemptible one does. If this was applied to the white man and his own race, the consequence would be that by force of necessity, bank clerks, cashiers and other important positions by the score, would be filled by some other nationality. The discharge of all the Negro section hands on the Union Pacific branch in east-earn Colorado, because of the doings of one half crazy Negro boy is an injustice to the honest Negro laborer and entitled to the severest condemnation. These poor toilers must be kicked out, and held to account for the doings of one member of the race. If such procedure as this are to hold forth in other places where Negro criminals commit crimes what will be the ultimate end of the self respecting Negro who must earn a livelihood by the sweat of his brow. It will be a day of rejoicing when white men get it through their eraniums that there are good Negroes as well as good white people, red people or any other kind people. One rotten apple, if taken out in time, does not spoil the whole barrel. —American Citizen. A LITTLE PERSONAL To the Public: In the last issue of this paper there appeared on our local page what was intended as a correction of statements made by the editor relative to the appointment of Mr. Jamison by County Attorney Nichols. In my statement I stated what was true. Not only was there a large delegation headed by Mr. J. A. Page, but there were other delegations and individuals who called on Mr. Nichols and urged the appointment of Mr. Thomas as deputy. I make this statement through no unfriendly feeling towards Mr. Jamison, but solely because I know the facts to be true. The "correction" in our last issue was prepared outside of this office. J. H. CHILDREN, Editor. NOTICE. All who have news to be published in the Plaindealer, please have them ready by Monday at 4:30 p. m., and the reporter will sure call. Continued from first page. ca. At time anthropologists could not formulate positive laws as they do to-doy, but Mr. Phillips formulated his laws for the treatment of the Negro as a man, and proclaimed them in his silvery tones. Wendell Phillips' labors and consummate statesmanship are bearing the fruit he so confidently expected. Science and history have now come to the rescue of the Negro to give him hopes and cast beneath his feet the badge of inferiority so long proclaimed. He can now walk with erect head conscious of an ancestry that has served the world and is the basis of the populations of some of the mightiest governments of modern times. The Negro's hope and conscious consciousness whether he be in the masses or in the classes, come in a time when serely needed. Professor Ripley's "History of the European Race" gives the whole story the truth and the whole truth. The work is a compilation of the leading authorities in the science of anthropology. The long-headed African Negro is traced from his home in Africa in prehistoric times, through Egypt, India, Greece, Rome and finally to Europe and the British Isles. Archaeology supplements anthropology in many important discoveries. Through archaeology the pre-historic cave-dwellers of Europe are found to be the long-headed Africans. Singular that there remains to-day direct representatius of these cave-dwellers in France How is that for an ancient ancestry in Europe? And what a pioneer the Negro must have been in those days. It is now the accepted opinion of all the leading authorities that the populations of Europe came from two streams of emigration, namely: One from Asia and the other from Africa; both, separately or amalgamated, overran the continent and settled permanently to receive new acquisitions. The African type are the long-heads, generally spoken of as the Mediterranean or Iberian race, and the Asiatic type are the broad heads. It is from this Asiatic type that the old-time ethnologist derived his Aryan, or white European race, as wholly separate and distinct from the long-headed Negro. Anthropology today utterly demolishes the Aryan theory and is now only concerced to prove that the human race has come from one stock instead of two. It may yet be proven that the original stock was from Africa, which overran all Asia. The evolution of the species is various and environ- mnt produces remarkable changes. It requires a deal of imagination to produce the blond flaxen-haired German from the African Negro but that is the edict of science. The proud Anglo-Saxon may not relish it, but it will have to be accepted. Professor Ripley's book is as great a contribution to literature as to science. It reads like romance. There has been so much of the so-called Anglo-Saxon cult and Celtic depreciation, and Rudyard Kipling and Cecil Rhodes, that it would be considered the most erratic thought to supposed that the author of "The Recessional" is a mongrel, as Prof. Huxley termed himself when the true origin of the European races was made clear to him. But that is the veriest fact, and Cecil Rhodes with his federation of the world by the Anglo-Saxon, and Kipling with his "White Man's Burden," do forget. Observe the distribution of the Asiatic and African hordes through Europe. The broad heads occupy the central portion of the continent, while on both sides of them are the long heads planted. In nearly every corner of Europe is found the long heads chiefly in the cities, while the broad heads generally occupy the country districts and along the mountain ranges. Crossing to the Isles the long heads are found to prevail in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England, and English race to-day are the longest-headed people in Europe. Again observe the peoples whose paternity sprung from the long-headed African: the Slavs of Russia, once of the highest distinction; the Greeks, the Romans and the Teutons, now called Germans. The full scope and meaning of this combination of names can only be gleaned by reading the "History of the European Races." There is found here, too, what nonsense there is in the talk of "purity" of race. The races approximating purity are the most backward, while the most mixed are the leading nations of the world. It is only necessary to look at Africa today to see the effect of purity of race. It is indeed a dark continent and has been for thousands of years. Its conformation is forbidding, and not until within this last century has emigration sought its shores. When the researches of the archaeologist shall have been made Africa will have a wondrous story to tell the world. Africa has given to the world its substratum of populations and has made Egypt the forerunner of a civilization which is still the marvel of ages, but the inbreeding of for probably 10,000 years has left its inhabitants fit subjects for strategem and spoil. Heredity has had full swing in perpetuating primitive traits, and a dull, monotonous environment has intensified its influence. Progress demands complex conditions in mental attributes and outside bodily contact. The African races have had no such complexity, for there has been no communication with the outside world. But their offshoots or varieties have proved themselves sensitive to differentiation by new environment which has neutralized the effect of ancestral traits. With its heathenism and savagery Africa is an example of the purity of race after a period of thousands of years, while England and the United Stafes, comparatively young, the most mixed nations of the world, show the ejects of mixture in the domination of the advancing progress of their times. Nature is careful of the type and the individual is sacrificed to preserve it. The type once lost is lost forever. There are no inferiors or illegitimates in nature. How clearly has she preserved the Negro and made him the substratum of the *peoples* of the world. If natural law has ordained this throughout the world's history, what other outcome may be expected of the presence of the ten millions of Negroes in this country? Artificial laws are futile against the laws of nature. Self-conceit, arrogance and self-assumed superiority are but the effect of ignorance and the accidents of fickle fortune. America has had its share in the oppression of the Negro. Slavery has swayed its scepter and democratic America sultified itself in extending the foul wrong, but retained within itself the germ to make atonement. Garrison and Phillips and Sumner have made the United States the mighty nation it is today, and their lives still breathe an incense that is exhaled when the native sense of America is fully aroused by the cry for justice. WICHITA. Mrs. G. W. Jones left for Kansas City Wednesday where she will spend the winter visiting her daughter. Miss Lizzie Burnham left Monday on a visit to Joplin Mo. Prof. Gisher's Military band accompanied F. J. Johnston's Concert Co., to Newton where they played Monday evening. Mrs. M. Thomas has recovered from her recent illness and able to be out again. Mrs. W. A. Bettis is on the sick list. The A. M. E. church served dinner at the Peerless hall on CROSBY BROS. Special Offering for this week. The attendants in our Pattern Dep skirts, waists and cloaks. We keep the o Our stock for December is complete. The attendants in our Pattern Department will be glad to show our patrons pictures of all the latest styles in skirts, waists and cloaks. We keep the old reliable but ever up-to-date Butterick Paper Patterns; also the Delineator Our stock for December is complete. NOTION SPECIALS. 15c Toothbrushes, for 9c. 35c Hair Brushes for 25c. 8c India Rubber Dressing Combs, 5c. 2c Lead Pencils, for 1c. Wire Hair Pins, for 1c. Mennen's Talcum Powder, for 15c Side Combs, for 10c. Rubber Cloth Bibs, for 29c. 10c Tau Soap, for 5c. 10c Shell Hair Pins, for 8c per doz. Wire Hair Pins (80 count) for 5c. Safety Pins for 3c a card. 5c Hand Brushes for 3c. Round Garters for 10c. 20c Whisk Brooms for 15c. King's Spool Cotton for 2c. JEWELRY & TOILET SPECIALS 75c and $1 Hat Pins for 50c. 25c Initial Letters, large size, 17c. $1 Gilt Belts for 89c. 50c Gilt Belts for 35c. Baby Rings for 19c. 10c Sterling Silver Hearts for 8c 5c Stick Pins for 1c. 10c Pkg Sachet Powder for 5c. For Half Baby Cloaks, carried over from last season. 50c for 25c. Plaid Dress Goods, strictly all wool; worth 50c price tomorrow 25c. 50c for 37¢c. Hopsackings, Zibelines, Home- spuns and Herringbone Cheviot, all new, good patterns, worth 50c price tomorrow 37¢c. Star Grocery Star Grocery E. MONTGOMERY, PROP., (SUCCESSOR TO J. S. SPROAT) Telephone 252. 112 East WHOLESALE AND RETAIL MAIL ORDERS SHIPPED PROMPT Buy your Thanksgiving Tu Telephone 252. 112 East Sixth Street. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. MAIL ORDERS SHIPPED PROMPTLY. Buy your Thanksgiving Turkey of Us. 25 1 dozen Oranges ..... 121 25 1 lb Citron ..... 15 25 1 lb Lemon Peel ..... 15 10 1 lb fancy Orange Peel ..... 15 20 Cleaned Currants per pkg ..... 15 15 Seeded Raisins, per pkg ..... 10 11 lb pkg. Layer Figs ..... 10 11 lb choice Dates ..... 10 10 Sweet Pickles, per qt ..... 15 15 London Layer Raisins, per lb ..... 15 15 3 lbs loose Muscatel Raisins ..... 25 17 lbs granulated Sugar ..... 1 00 10 Extra fancy N. O. Molasses per qt ..... 15 LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE BUGGY FACTORY ON EARTH OUR GOODS ARE THE BEST OUR PRICE THE LOWEST PARRY MFG.C. Indianapolis, Ind. LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE BUGGY FACTORY ON EARTH WRITE FOR PRICES AND CATALOGUE OUR GOODS ARE THE BEST OUR PRICE THE LOWEST PARRY MFG. CO. Indianapolis, Ind. Great RockIsland Route DRESSMAKING ADVICE. 3 qts extra Cranberries..... 3 lbs bulk Mince Meat..... 3 cans Genesee Preserves..... Anderson's 2-can M Meat..... Extra Table Peaches, per can..... Extra Table Pears..... Sliced Peaches for cream, 3-lb c..... 2 lbs good bulk Coffee..... 1lb can Columbia river Salmon..... 2 cans Sugar Corn..... Gallon can Apples..... Gallon can Apricots..... 1 dozen Lemons..... Thanksgiving day, and a grand concert that evening which was a highly creditable and successful affair. Mrs J. F. Phillips entertained very pleasantly at her home on Monday evening of last week, a number of her friends. The Second Baptist church rendered a fine program at the church on Thanksgiving evening in connection with an entertainment. H. Braden left Wednesday for Enid, Okla., on a visit. Mrs. Lee Anderson entertained Friday evening of last week at her home in honor of Mrs. Dr. Vernella G. W. C. of Kansas who is making her annual visit. The members of the Eria Court No. 7 were present, music and conversation was a pleasing feature of the occasion, an elegant lunchon was served, and the affair was a most pleasant social event. 25c Bottles Violet Toilet water, 10c. 25c Bottles Espey's Cream for 19c. ART GOODS SPECIALS. 50 and 59c Pillow Tops (new patterns) 29c. 50c Denim Work Baskets for 25c. 5c Embroidery Linen (assorted colors) 2c skein. Some new patterns in Mexican Drawn work. BUTTERICK'S PATTERNS. are the best. We are sole agents. $ 3 00 for $ 2 00. French Flannel Waists, that were $ 3 00, will be $ 200 tomorrow. $ 1 35 for $ 1 00. Gray Cotton Blankets, good weight; were $ 1 35, tomorrow $ 1 00. $ 5 00 for $ 2 95. French Flannel waists actually worth up to $ 5 00; price tomorrow $ 2 95. $1.00 for 75c. Striped and self colored Fancy Silks for Shirt waists; special for tomorrow 75c. $1.00 for 75c. Crystal Silks, colors, pink, rose, new blue, tan, grey, turquois, nile, violet, brown and red; special for tomorrow 75c. Half Price. Imported Suit Patterns, to close out; prices cut half in two. ry sixth Street. key of Us. At The Groo You good Tha EARTH WRITE FOR PRICES AND CATALOGUE bu. Kansas bu. Minne We have a dy and n prices. C them over. Turkey LION SH MATTHEWS Yours to Please, THE LION SHOE STORE MATTHEWS AND DRECHSEL 106 EAST 6TH ST. Topeka,Kas. Popular Priced Shoers... You can find everything that you want for a good Thanksgiving Dinner. 2 Spigatter..... 25 3 Macaroni..... 25 2 New York Cheese..... 35 11b. Rich Cheese..... 15 2lb. Brick Cheese..... 35 2lb. Swiss Cheese..... 35 2lb. Limberger Cheese..... 35 bu. Burbank Potatoes..... 60 bu. Colorado Potatoes..... 75 bu. Kansas Potatoes..... 40 bu. Minnesota Perls..... 60 We have a big supply of candy and nuts at wholesale prices. Come in and look them over. Turkeys and Geese at Your Price. Silk Waists, good quality and fine stylish; worth up to $ 6 50, will be reticketed for tomorrow $ 3 98. $ 6 50 for $ 3 95. French Flannel waists, that are worth up to $ 6 50, will be $ 3 95 tomorrow. $ 5 00 for $ 2 98. Silk waists, that were marked up to $ 5 00, reticketed for tomorrow $ 2 98. All-wool Gray Blankets, full 11-4 in siz ; worth much more, tomorrow the price will be $ 2 85. Ladies' Jackets of black Venetian cloth, satin lined, velvet collar and correct style; well worth $ 10 00, price tomorrow $ 598. 59c for 48c. Storm Serges, strictly all wool. all the new colorings; marked for tomorrow selling 48 instead of 59c 50c for 39c. Satins for fancy work, all colors; special for tomorrow 39c. $1.00 and $1.25 for 75c. Beautiful all wool Plaids, just the thing for waists, were $1.00 and $1.25; marked tomorrow 75c. The Shawnee ery 108 E. Sixth find everything that you want for giving Dinner. ```markdown ``` STORE 17 lbs Gr. Sugar.....1 00 50 lbs Primrose Flour.....1 00 50 lbs Lilac Flour.....95 1 qt. fresh Oyster.....35 1 Bunch Celery.....45 4 qt. Crambberries.....25 Try a can of our Dunkley Goods they are fine. Monarch goods this year pack at a very lowest price. A fine line of bulk Olives and Pickles of all kinds. Come in and examine our good. Chorus (for society or choir.) We crowd thy gates with cheerful song. Hait the mighty men of Truth, Hait together, linked in three, As Odd Fellows, we are marching on. 2. On this bright "Thanksgiving day" We love "kindness to bestow." And from friendship's links we will not ever stray- With us don't you want to go? You will regret it never! No! We Odd Fellows are ever marching on! Chorus. 3. Some from other cities come, With us they rejoice today. They help make us strong and mighty endless chai Lave the mighty men of peace— Day by day their ranks increase, As Odd Fellows, we are marching on' 4. We give praise unto Ruth, unto her we offer song. Give to her the silver plated shield of Truth, Let her men'rey through all ages Write her history, seal the peace, In our mighty number, she goes marching on' Ten years have past since the first Conference was held and there are many evidences that show the good influence of the movement on the masses of the people. The Negro Conference is working along specific and well defined lines; it is seeking to make the Negro himself improve his own condition, materially, morally, and intellectually. The ways in which the Negro can do this are first to raise his food supplies at home; second, to get out of debt and make no more mortgages; third, to stop lea-fing around town on Saturday in illness and drunkenness; fourth, to oppose at all times the excursion habit; fifth, to have at least two rooms to his house; sixth, to prolong the school term by having a private supplement fund; seventh, to buy homes and farmes. These are the primary objects and aims of the Negro Conference and they can be accomplished without the aid of any political party, without forever complaining about prejudice and without leaving this country. Wise economy and foresight are very greatly needed by our people; Extravagance is and has always been a curse to the race. As a rule the Negro is inclined to spend whether he has anything to spend or not and generally his hard earnings go for things which he does not absolutely need. This year especially while cotton is bringing ten cents a pound there will be a great temptation to live extravagantly. Let this not be the case. Instead of spending our surplus money for things we don't need, let us buy land, repair our houses or put our money in the bank. For the past few years times have been hard and the colored farmers have got far behind. They have learned as never before the burden of mortgages and rents. These hard times are sure to come again unless we profit by past experiences and put away something for a "Rainy Day." The Negro Conference advises every Negro to practice economy and become and independent self respecting land-owing American Citizen. Will you profit by this advise or will you continue us the old rut? For further information about the Negro conference address, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Tuskegee, Alabama. The PLAINDEALER takes pleasure in announcing to its many readers that we have arranged with the OUTLOOK Publishing Co., of New York to reproduce copies extracts from Magazine Mr. Washington's series of articles on "Up from Slavery." The Negro national league, Boston, Mass; reports for the year 1890: Number of Negroes in business. 20,000, among whom were agents and collectors, 1,172; boarding house keepers, 2,328; druggist, 139; grocers 1,839; hotel keepers, 429; hucksters, 2,516; bank officials and insurance agents, 213; undertakers 231; buildera and contractors, 154; photographers, 596; journalists and publishers, 154; manufactures, 461; barbers, 17,480 5,000 of whom were proprietors; butchers, 2,570; blacksmith, 10,762 watch and clock makers, 61—and more than 700 of these business had been established more than others. Sergeant Green Writes. MANILA, P. I., September 12 The Filipinos are friendly with the black man. They are very good people, but very poor fighters, but to consider whom they went up against they have been quite successful. There are only 8000000 of them all told, yet so great was their valor and love of country that they struck a blow upon a nation ten times their number, and had they been equally equipped I believe the United States would have withdrawn their forces. They are capable of running a Filipino government if permitted to do so. They are well enough civilized. They do not practice lynching, burning at the stake, etc., as is practiced daily in a country that professes to have reached the climax of purity and civilization. In all invasions that have been made by the United States there has always been some of the ill-bred white element thereof to come to these foreign parts and create prejudice against the Negro of America. This has been done in Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippines. Yours truly, We, the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, are getting along nicely. The Temples are all getting along with a good membership, tabernacles are doing nicely at this time. The attention of knights and daughters is called to the fact that we are paying rent all the time, and we, as a race are not doing any good, neither are we building up a foundation for our children to build on. We pay our rent each month and that is the last of it. It stands each of us to look the matter squarely in the face and look forward to a day when we can meet in our own hall, where the wicked will cease from troubling and the weary will be at rest. The time is at hand when we should attend to this matter at once. The knights and daughters have rented a hall at 112 East Sixth stree. for the last ten years, and have paid for that hall as rent the sum of $3102, and for a janitor to clean up some one else's hall, $360; grand total, $4062. After all of that you are told to move if you don't pay next month. We pay out our money and receive nothing but a receipt for the same. Come and let us reason together: the mighty hand of death has taken away some of our knights and daughters, and we mourn their loss. Now their children are on the streets Sunday and Monday, away from Sunday school and church; they ought to be in Sunday school and read God's Word, and we knights and daughters ought to "help some fallen brother rise while the days are going by." We are not on record in Topeka as having prepared a home for the widows and their children, but we are on record as having gone to the homes of those who fell and paid everyone of them what we promised, and not one is unpaid today. As we have done that we can do more. The time is not far hence when you can get a hall where you desire to get one, and I might say it is at hand now, and in view of that fact we ought to press the harder. We have made wonderful progress but we have not reached the summit yet. When we shall have met every obligation and shall have gone to the home and paid all we promised, and when we are going down to the Jordan of death, may we knights and daughters and all the children of God hear Jesus: "Come, ye blessed of my Father; enter in to the joy of thy Lord;" and we will go in to come out no more. So let us lay aside every weight and come together. Ransom Taylor, D. G. M. All present C. M. and past C. M. and present H. P. and past H. P. and present Y. M. and past Y. M. and all grand officers are requested to be at their hall, 112 E. Sixth street second Thursday night in December, 1900. Your attention is called to business on that night, December 13, 1900. Ransom Taylor, C. A. W. M. Core, C. A. S. Mr. Editor: I have just returned from Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and while there was requested to make some inquiries upon my return home, as to the whereabouts of Scott Cunningham and Ike McAfee. They have a mother and a sister in Harrodsburg, who are anxious to hear from them. I was also requested to inquire for John Tompston, Shep Tompston, Charley Houston, Thaddeus Houston America Houston, Lucy Hall, Samuel Tompston, all from Harrodsburg. When last heard of they were living in Atchison, Kansas. These inquiries were made by Sarah Bours and Martha Bivens, sister to John Tompston, Samuel Tompston. Scott Cunningham and Ike McFee are sons of Sarah Bours. Yours truly. Dennis D. Hope. First Nat. Bank, Topsko, Kas. Shampooing and Face Massage. Mrs. Hattie E. Van Vleck, Hair Dresser and Manufacturer..... Hair to match all Complexions. WITCHES AND HAIR JEWELRY 220 Eas Fifth Street, Topkea, Kansas Do you want to Save Money? Thats what purchasers will do who inspect the BRAND NEW STOCK of Gents Furnishing Goods displayed by There is a Cold Wave Coming Our well selected stock of Gentlemens Underwear—Stock and Shirts are selected to keep the wearer warm. Our Made to Order Department is prepared to show you an exquisite line of Winter goods from which to select. We guarantee a perfect fit, from the best goods, at the lowest cash price. Give us a trial order. Our Cleaning and Repairing Department is better than ever. We will call for your clothes, clean, press and deliver them. If you cannot buy new—let us fix up your old one. THE HOWARD TAILORING CO. "What The Outlook does is to give the fairest, the most unblied, the clearest conception of the many momentous occurrences which are shaping the world's history to-day. This weekly combines the functions of the newspaper and of an illustrated magazine, and discusses politics, religion, education, economics, literature, and art."—New York Times. In The OUTLOOK LYMAN ABBOTT & HAMILTON W. MABIE, EDITORS during the months of November, December, and January will appear a series of ten autobiographical papers from telling the romantic story of his life, from birth in a Virginia slave cabin to the eminent position which he holds as the builder and head of Tuskegee Institute and the honored and trusted leader of the colored race in this country. Every Reader of This Paper will surely be interested in Mr. Washingto, *story*, and as a special offer in order to introduce THE OUTLOOK to new readers, we will send THE OUTLOOK for the three months above mentioned at the special price of twenty-five cents (regular price, seventy-five cents), providing the name of this paper is mentioned. THE OUTLOOK tells the story of world happenings every week in short, clear, labor-saving paragraphs. Address: Subscript, Department B, Two Outloak, 827 Fourth Avenue, New York City BARNUM'S WE THINK we can add just ordinary pleasures and enjoy giving week by favoring the feast of bargains. We will ment to leave you to judge. Offering of Ladies' Tailor M 25 of these came last Friday. You see them; colors black, oxford a Instead of $6 and $7..... We show a very fine line of Fast Sacques at.....210 Infants' fine Hoods, all colors, 23c Misses school Hoods..... Infants' Zephyr Sacques, assorted at.....25 Infants' Bootees.....100 Infants' Mittens, all principal shade It will pay you well to visit the stocks being in a complete sha NK we can add just a little mary pleasures and enjoyment g week by favoring the gains. We will mention the judge. G of Ladies' Tailor Maid name last Friday. You show colors black, oxford and br $6 and $7..... every fine line of Fascinate ...21c, 38c Hoods, all colors, 23c, 39c, All Hoods....38c yr Sacques, assorted colors ...25c, 39 ees....10c, 15c ns, all principal shades, 10c you well to visit the above ing in a complete shape. WE THINK we can add just a little bit to the ordinary pleasures and enjoyments of Thanksgiving week by favoring the public with a feast of bargains. We will mention these and then leave you to judge. 25 of these came last Friday. You should not fail to see them; colors black, oxford and brown—Instead of $6 and $7.....$4.39 We show a very fine line of Fascinators and Sacques at.....21c, 38c, 47c and up. Infants' fine Hoods, all colors, 23c, 39c, 68c upwards. Misses school Hoods.....38c, 47c and up. Infants' Zephyr Sacques, assorted colors, at.....25c, 39c, 48c and up. Infants' Bootees.....10c, 15c, 19c and 25c. Infants' Mittens, all principal shades, 10c, 13c, 19c up. It will pay you well to visit the above department, the stocks being in a complete shape. One-third Off. We have one lot of Sample Mittens and Gloves from one of the best mills-One-Third Off. One-third Off. The balance of our Eiderdown Sacques, principal shades on hand this week—One-Third Off. About Underwear. We have sold hundreds of dozens this season, far more than at any prior season. We are selling them right—the people know it. 25 dozen Ladies heavy and soft Fleeced Underwear, 19c instead of 25c. old hundreds of dozens tha many prior season. We are people know it. lies heavy and soft Fleece of 25c. We have sold hundreds of dozens this season, far more than at any prior season. We are selling them right—the people know it. 25 dozen Ladies heavy and soft Fleeced Underwear, 19c instead of 25c. 19c instead of 25c. Ladies' Fleeced Union Suits of a nice, clean yarn 25c 25 dozen superior quality Ladies Vests and Pants, extra heavy, fine fleeced, almost equal to 50c kind 25c $1.50 quality Ladies' Anti-Rheumatic Vests and Pants, color scarlet.....98c 25 dozen Ladies Camel's Hair, finest wool Underwear now fourths fine wool.....98c 28 Ladies' Natural Union Underwear, part wool 50c instead of 75c. Children's finest Fleeced Vests and Pants, very fine Maco yarn, soft fleeced—12c for size 16, rise 3c a size. Children's Natural Wool Underwear, fully three-fourths fine wool—19c for size 16, risc 5c a size. REYNOLDS & CHILDERS, 810 Kansas Ave. Cream of Roses Is the most exquisite and elegant preparation for chapped hands or lips, and all abrasions of the skin. It possesses ten times the healing properties of glycerine. PURE AS SNOW . . . DELICATE AS A ROSE Gentlemen will find it an agreeable preparation to prevent "razor pimples" and the very annoying distegreable rough skin which so frequently follows shaving. Many People are attempting to ... Imitate Beauchamp's Cream of Roses Imitators and imitations are generally poor. Remember, "us the best that is imitated. Take no other. 25c is bottle. Sold by ... ALL DRUGCISTS. Subscribe for the PLAINDEALER it is the best weekly paper published in the west. OFFICE HOURS: Telephone, 454 7 to 10 a.m., 12 to 10 a.p.m. to 10 p.m. J. M. JAMISON, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Special attention to diseases of Women and private diseases. Office 507 4th. - Rtt. 225 Madison PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court, Shawnee county, Kansas Walter B. Bryant, plaintiff, vs. Mattie E. Bryant, defendant (20501) To the above named defendant, Mattie E. Bryant, greeting: You, the above named defendant, Mattie E. Bryant, are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above entitled court, by your husband Walter B. Bryant, for a divorce; that the petition of the said plaintiff was filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of said county and state, on the 16th of October, 1900, and unless you answer said petition on or before the 7th day of January, 1901, said petition will taken as true, and a judgment will be rendered against you annulating the bonds of matrimony bereftore existing between you and the said plaintiff and divorcing the said plaintiff, and for such other and further relief as may be just and equitable. WALTER B. BRYANT, By GALFN NICHOLS, Att y for plaintiff. Attest: A. M. CAULAHAM, clerk disk court. (First published Nov, 15, 1900.) Ladies and Children without Escort En route to California should join one of the Santa Fe Route personally conducted excursions. The petty cares and annoyances of long-distance travel are taken off their minds by spec excursion conductor No extra charge. Full information cheerfully furnished T. L. KING, Ticket Agent, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. TOFKA. J.M. KNIGHT, UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER. 406 Kansas Avenue. 'Phone 52 Our correspondents should send in their communications not later than Tuesday evening to insure their insertion the same week. THE KANSAS SAVING INVETMENT COMPANY, COLORED. CHANUTE, KANSAS. Authorized Capital, 700,000. Stock solicited by correspondence. General solicitor and and financial agent, J. S. HALE. MAKERS OF High-Grade Buggy and Team Harness. ...Repairing Promptly Executed.... 718 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kan WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By ```markdown ``` GLAZING. Practical glazier. Glass cutting and fitting a specialty, Estimate given on colored, Plain and bent glass. Leave orders with the A. B. Whiting, Paint and Glass Co., Topeka Educational and Industrial Institute. Non-sectarian, co-educational, practical education of the Negro youth. Courses: English, normal, industrial, music and business. Tuition $1.00 per month each department, $1.50 per month literary and industrial courses combined; board, room, light, fuel and tuition, $7.50 per month. For further information, address WASHED As White as Snow Collars.....2c Cuffs.....4c Shirts.....8c Ladies' and Gent's Woolen Garments laundred without shrinkage. CAPITAL HAND LAUNDRY, 111 East Third Street. Telephone 790 and the wagon will call for your bundle. The---- Kaw Valley brand of MINCE MEAT MANUFACTURED BY Chas. Wolff Packing Co. Is made of the very best and strictly pure and - - - healthful ingredients. Your Grocer keeps it; - - buy some; it will make the best MINCE PIES you ever tasted. - - - The Chicago Cafe, HENRY COMPTON, Prop. 706 E. 12 St. - Kansas City, M MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. INCLUDING Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges Thirty-second Session (1900-1901) will begin October 1, 1900, and continue seven (7) months. Tuition fee in Medical und Dental Colleges, each $80. Pharmaceutical College, $79. All students must register before Oct. 12, 1900. For catalogue or further information, address F. J. SHADD, M. D., Secretary, 901 R. Street, N. W. City of Washington. Theological, Normal, Preparatory, State Industrial and Musical. ADVANTAGES Instructors from Leading Colleges, Good Water, Excellent Drainage, Healthful Climate. School term of nine months, begins Sept. 10. 1900. EXPENSES:—Per month, Board 50, Tuition and Room Rent 200 Industrial Training FREE of charge. For further particulars and Catalogue, Address. WM. TECUMSEH VERNON, A. M. QUINDARO, KANSAS. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M. 3 to 5 P. M. 7 to 9 P. M. WM. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, 117 West Fifth St. When in Emporia Stop at The Blue Front Restaurant. We have opened a first-class restaurant and lodging house and offer the following rates: Board per day $1, per week $3, normal students $2; two in a room, meals 15 cents and lodging 25 cents per night. Call on or address P. B. Moore or Mrs. P. B. Moore, 711 Commercial street, Emporia, Kansas. Practices in all courts. Special attention given criminal cases. W. I. JAMISON ATTORNEY-at-LAW Office, 117 W. Fifth St. A Profitable Way to See The West Is to join one of the personally conducted California excursions of the Santa Fé Route. Congenial companions are assured. Special conductors relieve you of all care and contribute materially to your enjoyment. No extra charge. Inquire of T. L. KING, Topeka Agent, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Snow's Pine Expectorant Will be at all the Drug Stores and Dealers' all this winter. GET A LITTLE It will knock that cold in a minute. MANUFACTURED IN TOPEKA BY F. A. Snow & Co. OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 10 A.M. 3 to 5 P.M. C. SUMNER SUNDAY. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Calls Promptly Answered. Telephone 558. MRS. R. P, TYLER. . . First-class rooming House For NICE, CLEAN Rooms, Rooms by The Diy or Week. 505 BLUFF ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. Don't forget to ask your friend to subscribe for the PLAINDEALER. OFFICE HOURS 7 1 0 9 A. M. 12 TO 2 F. M. I. A. SHIELDS, M. D. Office, 1331 VanBuren Special Attention to Ladies A. M. THOMAS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 'Phone, 299. 413 Kansas Avenue, Rooms 4 and 5 'Topeka, Kan. RUBBER STAMPS, SEALS, STENCILS ETC. Largest and Best Equipped Stamp Works in the State. Send for Circulars and Prices J. C. DARLIES, Topeka, Kansas. =