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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. The Meeting of the Western Negro Press Association at Muskogee Was a Gathering Out of Which Will Come Much Good! --- VOLUME VII. THE EDITORS AT MUSKOGEE! Western Negro Press Association in Annual Session Takes a Stand for the Rights of the Race. The Western Negro Press Association convened in its ninth annual session at Muskogee, Indian Territory last Wednesday morning Nick Chiles, president. W. H. Duncan, secretary, Prof. John H. Jackson and Miss B. Ridley, members of the executive committee, were present. This was one of the most important sessions ever held in the history of the organization. The sessions were held in Wiley Jones' hall on South Second street. This building is occupied by professional and business men of the race. Of this the association can be proud, that they met for one time in a block owned by a colored man. The sessions were lively and of great interest to the people in the territory. There could have been no better place selected for holding this meeting at this time than at Muskogee, for the reason that there is quite an agitation going on among the people of the territory, caused by the question of statehood. The opinion of a majority of the colored people is for joint-statehood, for the reason that the Indian Territory is democratic and is predominated over by Southern rebels and Negro-haters who will do what they can to retard the progress of the race: For this reason they are in favor of admitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state, but they all agree that it is better not to have any state at all than to have Jim Crow laws. The colored business men of Muskogee are gaining ground and adding much strength to their business. There are several substantial business firms in that city, managed and owned by colored people that are a credit. The session closed on Friday evening with a banquet and program. Music was furnished by the Queen City orchestra; Hon. W. H. Twine was toastmaster. Hon. J. C. Jones, attorney at law, read a ery strong paper on joint statehood, which was very convincing and showed that the writer had given the matter thorough consideration. Mr. Jones is an able man and will become a potent factor in state politics. Prof. J. E. Johnson, president of the first fire insurance company ever organized by the colored people of the United States, read a paper on "The Moral Status of the People." It was well written and gave an outline of what was best for any people who wish to surmount the highest pinnacle of fame. Messers, Nickens, Gordon and Twine are to be commended for their faithful efforts which were crowned with success in bringing the association to Muskogee. These gentlemen are tireless workers and are doing much to uplift the race. While confining themselves to the circumstances and conditions which surround them, they will become more liberal and less hide bound on keeping the races apart. The session was a success from start to finish. Below we publish a clipping from the Kansas City Journal of last Monday morning. We are at a loss to understand why the editor could not understand the resolutions declaring against separate schools in states where slavery never existed. "The annual meeting of the Western Negro Press association at Muskogee was marked by admirable conservatism and temperance in its discussion of the condition of the Negro in the South. The delegates to this meeting represented the most advanced thought and wisest counsel of the race here in the West, and the resolutions adopted at the close of the meeting are of peculiar interest. "The salient points of the resolutions deal with the objections of the Negro people to adoption of "Jim Crow" regulations in the proposed new state While there are many white people who are in favor of "Jim Crow" legislation, the protest of the Negro editors is natural and reasonable. After bedorsing the administration of President Roosevelt, the resolutions urge Negroes to acquire land and become independent farmers, and it is pointed out that the right given the freedmen in the territory to sell their lands without restriction is being abused and that if the evil is not abated many of these freedmen will become paupers and wards of the nation. "The denouncing of lynching is, of course, indorsed by all lovers of law enforcement. But one of the resolutions admits of criticism not only because of the spirit which prompted it, but because insistence upon it has done great harm to the advancement of the Negro race in gaining the sympathy of the whites. The resolutions declare against separate schools in states where slavery never existed. Just why the Negro editors incorporated such sentiment as an official expression of their organization is not easy to understand. Social equality will never be achieved through attempts of the Negroes to force themselves where they are not wanted. It is this false idea that fosters much alleged prejudice against the Negro. It would seem that the good sense of the leaders of Negro thought would suggest that by endeavoring to educate and elevate his race and enlisting the aid and sympathy of the whites lies the hope of the Negro, and that by continually harping on a subject that is not and never can be acceptable to the whites they are defeating their own cause." This hide bound, blind Bactimeus editor of the Journal says the ideas of social equality are false, and that they foster much prejudice against Negroes. In speaking of what seems to him good sense on the part of the leaders of thought among the Negroes he says that in educating and elevating the race and enlisting the sympathy of the whites lies the hope of the Negro, and that by continually harping on subjects which never can be acceptable to the whites the Negro is defeating his own cause. Now in answer to this man of prejudice who is blind to all reason or justice, let us say that the Negro is seeking no sympathy from the whites, Indians or any other race. All he wants is justice and respect paid him as the editor of the Journal or any other man would have paid him. If the editor of the Journal will teach the white man to be fair to himself and to the race of which he finds so much complaint, and would make a recompense of all the warships heaped upon them by him for three centuries past, there would be no cause for criticism on the part of the white man by the Negro seeking to have the same rights as an American citizen as the white man enjoys. The mixed schools are the proper thing for the reconciliation of the two races. If they are educated in one school room, using the same text book, the same spirit of fairness, that is, "to do unto others as you would have them do unto you," as they graduate from the same class, and go out into the world to earn a livelihood, the white boy will not speak disparagingly of his class mate as a baboon, monkey, or the inferiority of the one to the other when he knows the colored boy is able to comprehend and carry out any proposition laid before him in the school room as well as the white boy. They are taught when together CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 29, 1905. KANSAS AFRICAN METHODISTS' 30TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE! Peace and Harmony Marks the Annual Meeting of One of the Grandest Christian Bodies in the World Spiritually and Financially the Church Has Made Commendable Progress-It is a Proud and Living Monument to Negro Enterprise. The Kansas A. M. E. Conference convened in its 30th annual session at the First A. M. E. Church, Rev. Ward, pastor at Kansas City, Kansas on the 20th, with Rt. Rev. Bishop A. Grant of the Fifth Episcopal Diocese, presiding. There were several visiting ministers and over ninety who were members of this Conference present. The welcome addresses were made by Miss Bertha Cole on behalf the church; Rev. Mitchell on behalf of the Ministers; Hon. B. S. Smith, attorney-at-law, on behalf of the legal profession, and the Mayor, on behalf of the citizens, which was responded to by Rev. A. O. Terrell of Atchison, Kan., and Dr. W. H. Hurd of Atlanta, Ga. This was one of the most prosperous conferences ever held and collected something near $3,500. The increase of membership is growing so rapidly that they were compelled to make a new district with Wichita as headquarters. The session was harmonious from start to finish. Bishop Tyree of the Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory Conference was a visitor and preached at Alben Chapel, Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday a. m., and at the First Methodist Church on Sunday evening. At the two sermons preached by him there were over forty members added to the two churches. Bishop Grant is one of the best presiding Bishops in th connection. He carries on the business with love, diplomacy, affection and with the ability, courage and ambition of a great man. We did not hear of any friction or disturbance in this body. The Ministers all repect and reverence each other. Rev. B. R. Guy was elected Secretary, and is one of the best the conference ever had. He has served in this capacity for several terms and has the reeputation of always keeping a good record of the transactions of the conference and always given them good presentable minutes. The conference will meet in Hutchinson next year. Too much praise can not be given Kev, Ward and the members of his church for the comfortable way in which they prepared for the members and visiting friends. Meals were saved to them in a large hall where everyone dined. There were several hundred visitors from over the state in attendance at the conference. Presiding Elders Braxton, Ransom and Griffith have done much and are doing much to increase the membership, finance and morals of the people of their respective districts and the Bishop showed good judgment in adding to the Presiding Elders list, Rev. A. H. Brooks, who pastored at Ottawa, Kan., and who has filled that position before. He is honest, conscientious Christian gentleman and the members and friends of the new district will be delighted to have him because he will be much advantage to his people. APPOINTMLNTS. Omaha District—J. W. Braxton, presiding elder; Omaha, St. John, Jas. W. Wilson; Atchison, A. C. Terrill, Lincoln, W. T. Biggers; Hawatha, P. D. Davis; Troy, A. J. King; Tongatoxie, A. Simms; Beatrice, H. M. Rivers; Holton, Wm. Solly; Nebraska City, A. Gamble; Fremont, W. M. Moore; North Topeka, C. A. Woods; Oskaloosa, C. A. High land, F. L. George; South Omaha, J.W. H. Morris; Bouner Springs, Prince Williams; Quindaro and Fall City to be supplied. Topeka District--G. A. Griffith, presiding elder; Topeka, St. John, J. P. C. Taylor; Leavenworth, Geo. H. Hall; Lawrence, J. M. Pope; Argentine, J. W. Williams; Manhattan, C. L. Holly; Topeka, Brown's chapel, N. T. Gamble; Ottawa, W. P. Green; Emporia, W. B. Johnson; North Lawrence, T. W. Walthall; Junction City, E. D. Abbott; Osage City, C. A. Morgan; Olathe, James Holmes; Lake View, S. H. Barker; Holliday, J. M. Mitchell; Kansas City, Grant Mission, to be supplied. Wichita District--A.H.Brooks, presiding elder; Wichita, H. W. King; Hutchinson, J. P. Howard; Nicodemus, B. R. Ross; Sterling, W. G. Barnett; Garden City, L. W. McCormick; Minneapolis, S. Morris; Arkansas City, B. R. Guy; Winfield, R. C. Lee; St. John, J. R. Ramsey; Newton, S.S.Washington; Speed, D. G. Cole; Great Bend, K. P. Bond; Ellsworth, S.W. Alexander; Dodge City, Eldorado, Anthony, Larned and McPherson to be supplied. Ft. Scott District—J. R. Ransom, presiding elder; Kansas City, First A. M. E. church, A. M. Ward; Ft. Scott, M. Wooten; Parsons, J. F. Sage; Garnett, H. D. Harris; Iola, L. C. Newby; Pleasanton, T. W. Kidd; Paola, J. J. Pleasant; Baxter Springs, H. H. Jones; Gitard, W. H. H. Jones; Independence, B. F. Bates; Galena, Louis Parks; Yale, R. F. Green; Oswego, A. H. Daniels; Bassitt, J. S. Bass; Chanute, J. E. Fletcher; Cherryvale, J. J. Watson; Weir City, J. A. Allen; Coffeyville, H. Sheppard; Mineral City, Jas. Banks; St. Paul Mission, H. Frazier. Roadale to be supplied. Transferred to Missouri conference—G. H. Smith. BISHOP GRANT LECTURES! The Eloquent Divine Tells the Nebraskans Some Undeniable Facts. Bishop Abram Grant of the Fifth Episcopal district of the African Methodist church of America, lectured Monday night at the African Methodist Episcopal church, corner of Webster and Eighteenth streets, before a large audience on the question of "Problems Confronting the American People." His lecture was divided into several heads, the first of which was the problem of industrial education. He paid a glowing tribute to Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute and the great work he was doing for the industrial elevation of the colored race. "There are but two Washington in this country," he said, "and they are George and Booker Washington." The speaker believes in co education. He did not believe in separate schools. By the association and function of varied intellects, whether of the white or black race, true genius and individual development would soon assert itself. He maintained that this world was not large enough for man. There is no limit to the human intellect. He believed that industrial education was as essential as the higher branches. He spoke upon the subject of immigration and showed that within the past year 1,800,000 foreign ers had landed in America, many of them who could not speak the English language. At this rate of increase of foreign population he wanted to know what would happen to the United States in the next twenty years. One thing was sure and that was whenever the black man was called he stood ready to keep the constitution intact and the flag afloat. In regard to labor and capital, he believed that there was a common ground upon which labor and capital could meet. He advised the colored men to keep out of the unions and trade organizations, unless among themselves. The white laboring class was the natural and virulent enemy of the black man. The only resource for the colored man was to attend to his own business. The labor troubles can only be settled by Congress or on the battlefield. The speaker did not expect to live to see this latter alternative, but he said "some of you will." Crime, he maintained, was the direct result of intemperance. Crime has cost this country $800,000,000, while education had cost it but $105,000,000 within a very short period. The crime of drink stifles the judge on the bench and the preacher in his pulpit. A sober and industrious nation cannot be kept down. Divorce, he thought, was a growing evil and the only remedy was to delegate a committee to select a wife or husband for the man or woman who did not know how to do the selecting. A man should not take a woman from a home to a rented house. Until he owned a home or was able to own one he should not marry. He decried the growing tendency of women's clubs to destroy the sanctity and beauty of the home. A woman should attend first to her own home before devising plans for the care of other homes. "The settlement of the Negro problem was possible if only all discussion of it was let off. It is slowly solving itself. * * * He has accomplished much in forty years and what is not possible for him in the coming hundred years the Tillmans and Jeff Davises not-withstanding."—Omaha Bee. Southern Fools. Macon, Ga., Sept. 14 —Unlons the higher courts reverse Ordinary Wiley's decision, Martha Johnson, a Negro woman, will not participate in the division of the estate of John Boardman. In a decision handed down yesterday Ordinary Wiley allowed the will to be probated as filed with the exception of the eighth provision, which makes a bequest to the Negro woman, the section of the will over which the fight was waged. It will be remembered that the will of Boardman, who died some weeks ago, was filed in the office of Ordinary Wiley for probate, and almost immediately Mrs Boardman, acting as guardian for her eight year old daughter, Juliette, took steps to prevent the will being probated. Boardman had a one-fourth interest in the estate of his father, which has been estimated at $15,000, and of this he left one half to his daughter. He made several small bequests and $3000 to Martha Johnson, the Negro woman, and provided further that she was to get all that was left after the other provisions of the will had been carried out. In his decision Ordinary Wiley declares the document to be an inofficious will and contrary to natural affections and moral duties. He further gives the opinion that the woman used undue influence on Boardman and that such a will was against public policy. Judge W. I. Notingham, counsel for the woman, will appeal the case to the superior court, and, Major Marion W. Harris, attorney for Mrs. Boardman, will make another strenuous fight opposing him. --- NUMBER 38. A BLACK FIRE INSURANCE CO.! "Rising Sun" is the First in the History of the Race Financed by Riches Men in the Territory. The greatest enterprise ever gotten up by the colored people of the United States is the Rising Sun Fire Insurance Company of Muskogee, whose authorized capital is $100,000 and which is doing quite an extensive business throughout the territory. The company is establishing agents in all parts of the territory. This is commendable and is a step in the right direction for colored business men. They should be identified as in all business departments of this country. The officers of this company consist of some of the most reliable men in the territory whose aggregate wealth runs up into the thousands. R. H. Waterford, the President is one of the leading physicians of the territory; H. N. Johnson, sec'y, is an educator, highly influential and strictly business; J. E. Johnson, general manager, is a thorough business man and understands his work. These gentlemen are pushing this corporation to the front. The colored people should insure with this company and help expand the business as rapidly as possible. Special inducements are offered to colored agents to solicit business over the territory. Young men will do well to take hold of this matter and travel in the interest of the company. The following are the directors: A S. MeRea, W. H. Twine, J. W. Adams, T. J. Elliott, M. C. Simmons, J. H. Garnett, Jake Simmons, P. B. Austin, W. H. Sims, L. F. Fue, L. A. BeN, W. M. Grimmett, Robert Love and A. H. Mike. The colored people of Muskogee should rally to the support of this corporation, as it is safe and sound. It seems to us that it is time that we should become aroused to the fact that there are coloured people as competent to do business as white men and they will give employment to our people where the white people will not. Let the good work go on and build up this great corporation launched by the enterprising colored people of the territory. Territorial Notes. The Gold Bond Savings Co. of Muskogee, Indian Territory, and one of the most substantial institutions of that city controlled by colored people, had a peculiar experience several days ago by the depositors making a run on the bank. The president, Dr. Sims, told them to come and get their money, it was waiting. They had plenty of money to pay depositors and plenty left. This bank is doing a first class business, and this is one of the two banks we know of which have stood runs this year. This speaks well for this bank and especially its officers. The colored people, who are mostly depositors, should rally to its support, by depositing their earning therein and receiving good returns. There was a time when colored people were afraid of each other, but now they have learned that our people can do business on a more substantial basis than the white man because they do not require large salaries and useless expenses to carry on business and for this reason can better afford to pay good dividends and transact business on the safe site. This bank is very careful in its investments and carries nothing but first class collateral as security. This is a great advertisement for the institution, and has proven that it is reliable, from the fact that they CONFINUED ON PAGE EIGHT. ORS pr ~ O erey BOYNTON, I. T. meetings at the homes of members, They are hard workers and are at present pushing the work of raising fande to creot their charch, work on which began this week, Atthe lsat mecting Mre. Augusta Front ead a paper on ‘Mission Work.” Resolutions of condolence were passed out of sympathy to Mr. and Mra. B,C, Makins, whose little son, Clint, who died recently. The other day Will CG, knocked awhite man down and stamped him with a shoe heel. A poor. sake from Texas, a bystander, put In with: “If a nigger’l done a white man that er way wharI cum from in ‘Teas he would be lynched quicker'n seat.” Will just gave hima chuckle under the chin and laid him down to tell him that he could notdo that way here, That Texas coward is uew a wiser man, and it is hoped a better one. The black Creeks don’t fear a white face, though it be from Texas, Johnny Grayeon, the grocer, bas Dought the West Kenefick avenue, livery barn and ie putting new life in the business, R.E. L, Mitchell, the big general merchant, har just received @ car load of flour, Ootorve E. Hunter, a youog man late of Misnixsippi, left Sunday for Tuskegee Institute, He came here about two years ago, «ince which time he hax worked at carpentry, He qoex to the Booker Washington echool to better tit himsclf for hin chogen trade, Ie will return to Boy nton, for he etys he will never again tive ia Mesnixsippi, Me ix ambitions to prepare himself to do ficient work, Ham, dort forget the sale of Lots here Oct. 2 by the United States government, Hou't tine this good thing. The beginning of record wok of school sho s# an enrollment of) bs The rengnition of Reve be «| Strothers we pastor of the Briptirt | charch has heen weeepted. Vor the | prement no uccersut will be called The buf dozen Baptist: pre rhers hove will We nulized. Deacon dei Be smith who waste be ordained to thitotie, was tured down for the time hemyg for saying on hie examination tithe behesed the deacon may tactesse authority over the pastor, Johnny must go lack and yuthim another experrenco— the orthodox fath. | Mrs. Aume Grayson and brother, Elliott, epost last Sunday hene with their parents, Mr. and Miw, Jack Rich. Attomcy Stewart of Muxkogee, Hpent a few hours here Sunday, the guest of Dr. A. J, Alston. Attorney A. L. J. Meriveather mide a trip to Muskogee Sund ty to meet his aunt, Mie, Alice Jones of Gainsville, Teass, whom he had not ween for twenty-four years, she mcompanying him to Boynton and will be his guest during her etay. FB. W, Carter ia assistant depot agent, the first colored man to fill the place, J. W. Simmons of Coweta, win here lort week. Joe Cloveland hay returned from & pleasant wojourn of ever] wee hy in Kansas City, Mo, R, UL Curtis of Clarkeville,made a buyinexs here thie weoh, J, Orlando Mitchell of Muskogee wasin town thie week, Jobo N, Burnett has remgned as OMAHA, NEB, Mrs. Harry IL, Walker of St.Joe, ie the guest of Essex Williame and wife, 824 S. 24th street, Dewey Allen and wifo ure rejuio- Ing over adaughter born to them leat week, William 8, Joseph of Lesd,8.D., fe spending afew days bere.” , Tenth Hi of St. Joe, is the guest TT PRS SNe ego of bls brother-in-law, 11. V. Plum- mer, fona few days. Escot W. Powers will return Sunday from a five months business trip to Californis and Nevada, _ Mr. Andy Brown was painfully Injured laet week by falling from 2 atreet car, whioh will detain him at home for about two weeks. Mrs, R. W. Workcaff entertained at dinner Sunday in honor of Mrs, Williams of Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Jobn W. Long has returned from Kansas City, Kae,, where she attended the A.M.E. conference. "There are many strangors and steer inthe city this week at. tending the Ak-Sar-Ben festivitics, TO ALL THE CHURCHES, We wieh to notify all persons who have cards to please return them at the State convention which will convene Oct. 3, '05, in the elty of Coffeyville, at the Macenonia Baptiat church, and we alao bruet that all circles willreport. We further ask any person to help us who feels a desiroand they can do so by sending in any kind of needle or fancy work for our grand exhibit. We will appreciate it. Mra. Emma Gaines, Pres. Mra. Lucile Buchanao has just returned from Hot Springe, Ark., where she has heen for rome time for her health, Mra.Mary Williams who han been on the sick list is convalescent, Mrs, Cecilia Harris is very wick. We hope her a npeedy eecovery. Rev. J. E. Jones, Sunday school missionary of the West Tennessee, Evet Arkinsasand North Missiseip- piguneral asvociation, visited the salem Haptist Sunday shool and made in eacent talk on the work. Mra. Lilly Oliver, who haw been very sich fora month, is now on the reeosary, Mes, &. IL, Hewlett has gone to Senatobi, Miss., to vieit with her daughter, who is very wich. Mas. WL Gillis expecting to leave soun for Come, Mas, on a visttto her mother and friends, Mis. GW. sinith, whe las just returned from a) tup through the Northwest, i very atek. She vise obit Portand, Oregon, and san Pranciseo, Calif, Mrs. Osborne ind daughter, Miss, WESTERN UNIVERSITY, The Gieat Educational Institution for Kansas aud the West. ...... 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Julla, have returned from Cohoma, Miss., where they visited with their relatives, Mra, Rosie Bates and John Osborne. They attended the rowival atthe Mt. Moriah Baptist church, Rev. W. Robinson, pastor, which wae agrand aucoess, adding twelve to the church. Misa Argenis Huddleson has re- turned from Covington, Tonteasee, where she taught school during the summer, Joe Berry, who has been employed in the sorvice of Y. M.& V. rail- road se brakeman for about 23 years has just recoverd from 8 xevere at: tack of malarial fever. Oscar Jackson who met with 6 serious accident about a month ago has recovered and will resume his position at the Memphis Door and Sash works, The City Conquest of the BY. P. U, held its monthly mecting at the New Salem Baptist churchjof which Tey. J. F, Bradshaw is prstor, and wasa auccess. The discussion of the lesson topic: *¢Tha Iferalds of the Cross in the Home’? was very intereating, which was enjoyed by all that participated. The neat meeting will be hold at the Salem Baptist church on Carolinia steeet, Rev. J. M. Hooker, partor, on the fifth Sunday in October, Mrs. M, A, Gillie, mother of the Gillis brothars, the famousgrocere, bas gone to Chicago fora visit of two monthe. We wieh her s very pleasant trip, | GALENA, KANS, Mrs, Sallie White of Saint Louie, who was called here on account of the illnces of her son, Clarence, left Monday for hor home, The entertainment given by the Kuighte of Pythias last l'riday eve was quite a succeus. Ben Grigaby attended the Joplin cotebration last Friday, Homer Bunch visited friends in Columbus the firat of the week. Mins Susie Pigg of Baxter was a visitor lant Saturday. Julian Rodgers of Saint Louis, parred thivugh the city Wedne day enroute to Baxter Springs to Visit relatives, William Milles attended the fair at Pittsburg two daye laat week, Mesdames Willis Young and Se FI wi so pier R. Carter of Western Tuskegee at Topeka, addressed the students, Onterence and visitors at the exer. cives in honor of veiting ministers at Western University last Friday afternoon. The Uaiversity choir sendered appropriate selections (or the occasion. The Negro race in America is go- ing throug a ceacible—insults, fu- Justice, mob burnings, fire and tlke gold Is losing its baser elements and welding sogether all that is pure, nuble aod righteous. Oppress-on incondensiogin the hearts ot Negro students torce—potential energies thatatsoma future time will burst forth, volcano-liks, lato human en+ deavors that will startle the universe, and onueem great nplifting of cur people throughout every section of this nation. Ksosas Negroes ace Pressing onward aod up, and West- ern University is moulding toe fu- wore leadess of the race, Studente are present this year from all parts of Kansas, Missouri, Colorado. Nebraska, Iowa, Ukbaho- ma, [udian Derritory, Texas, Cali- fornia and Washington, Mr. C, Jinarajadara, Colombo, Ceylon, East India, accompanisd by Judge Keplioger of Kansas City, Kans., visiied Western University Tuesday afternoon. Our cnrol!ment continues to grow. We are veey much gratified with the interest that the Negea parents are manifesting in our institution. We are endeavoring to train our stu- dents for the practrcal walks oflife, Owing to the growth ofthe {nsu- tution, 1 has been necessary to pur- chase a large majestic sange, regu- Tarhotel size; this will make an addition in the convenience of our boarding department, The young men of the earpentry department are getting considerable practice iu the cunstruction of the principal's cottage, It has always been the purpose of this institution to have our students learn to do by doing. We believe in having results accomphehed by the students. The Booher T, Washington Liter ary Suotety haw been reorganized for the preeent school year. The tll Ibt of officers will appear in the Nertissue, ’ Oar Young Peoples’ Suciety of CL, has started its work already ania full corps of officers has been elected, ‘This society hae always been very influsatial among our stu- tent body in teadig the young people tu Chriet. Whibs our insti- untiun is undenominational, at ts strictly Christian aud every effort iy brvught to bear to induce our stu- dents to live the Christ life. Principad W. R. Carter, spent last: Friday at Kanaas City, Kan, aud Quindaro, attending the Kausas conference of the A, M. E. Church He delivered two addresses, one at Western Univereaty, While there he was the guest of Bishop A. Grant. A special course ha: been arranged: in vailosing. This course ts espe cially designed for pantitoriym work, and can by completed in one school yeae, There is such a de- mand fartramed young people fur ‘his kind of work, that our trustees deemed it advisable to establish the| oourse. Several students have al | ready enrolled for the special work, Mise Lizzie James, has been ay- pointed mstructrees in millinery, Many of the young women are taking advantage of the upportunity and are endeavoring to equip them~| selves to become first-class millinern, Still thereisroom for afew more students. Inis the duty of every parent totry to give their children overy advantage possible. Our terms are reasonable and expenses moderate, and we will be pleased to correspond with any persons who desice information concerning our work, Mra. M. E, Garret) and grand- children, Marion’ and Wm. R. Carter, Jr., have seturned from their summer vacation in Colorado. Wanted!—From thirty to ity colored coal miners forthe Atchi- son Coal Co., located near the city of Atchison, Kansas. Work guar- anteed the yea: round, with good pay. Thisisathree-foot vein of cosland the company is desirous of working sll colored miners if possible. , Addresa ‘Wr. Ogilvie, Supt, of Minos, Atchison, Kana. Rollen Smith attended the grand emancipation celebration at Joplin last Friday. Mra. Bunch left Sunday morning for Mineral on ashort visit. Joseph Lark and H. Bunch spent Saturday evening in Joplin. Mrs, Zach Daniele was a visitor in Joplin last week, . Mra. M. P. Whoaton of Baxter, was a visitor in the clty this week, Mesdames Fred Kdwards and Grant Smith left Tneaday fora visit In Joplin, WESTERN UNIVERSITY. Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk, Old Gold and Blue, We are the people From WestenU, S| From Western U, School Yell. With this yell of the students of Western University, the greatest day'sevent of the institution ended ‘Friday aftesuoon when the entire Kansas A, M. E, Conterence lead by Bishops Abrsm Grant aod Tyrees Reve, Hurdand Parks of New York, visited the campus and inspected the buildings and atudents at work. So very favorably were these dead: ers of Kansas communitiesimpress- ed with the growth and usetulness of the work, that inside of twenty- one minutes $315 or $15 per minute was donated from pessonal funds forthe purpose uf furnishing the twenty new rooms of the addition to the girl's dormitory. Friday night the students attended the conterence fo a body and President Wm. T. Vernon delivered one of his famovs urations on education and the building otarace. Western University thus stands alone, tower- wg head and shoulders above all others, the beacon lightto all Ne- groinstitutions of the west, aud grant likeisetretching out arddu- ingta marvelous work in giving character, intelligence and skill to the sons and daughters of rising Negroes. Persons building new homes in and near Western University are expecting te largely pay forthem by the income frou boarding and roum mg town atndents, Over one hundred enrolled at the end of first two weeks of schvol, and stiff coming in daily shows how Western University is growing to ward being the preferred snetitution for western Negroes Laat week Ciuy Anderson of Omaha, Nebrarka was elected cap: tain uf Western University foot ball team. =Lhe boye are practicing regularly tor the coming games joheduled with Fort scott, Sedalia, St. Louis at Jefferson Cuy. Linculn, High School, Kansas (ty, Mo, and Second Haskell Indians, Lawrence Chaplain George Prioleu, ex- eacher of Wilberforce University, x presiding elder cf Ohio confer- uce ead chaplain, Ninth calvalry Jultcd States army, addressed the tudents last week, and impressed ipon them the world’s demand for nen—men of character, intelligence ind productivenees. The possession of one quality dues not satisfy, the jack of two witl not do. A maa must have all three qualities, then he world will make openings for him. Rev. BR. T. Watson, D, D,, of Uhiladelphia Penao., addressed the student body Jase week, Rev. Wate sou hae @ great reputation as aa evangelistainger, and he rendered atew old plantation mebodies with a rich sweet voice, Mre. C. M, Hatlof Philadelphia, Penn., wife of C, M, Hall, a colored pankes} aceompanted by Mr, Lew: is of Kan-as City, Kans, paid us a pleasant call last week, Comingin contact with the dis tinguished visitors of the past wock and drtukingiu deeply their thoughts and words of encouragement, the students of Western University have been greatly inspired and bene- fited, and go about theip work and study with swouter hearteand mogo determined endeavor, knowing weil that po matter how poor, ner how badly hemmed in tney be in lite, there iano power of prejudice, aa. versty,nor poverty that oan keep WESTERN TUSKEGEE, ‘The amount of grain tn be given @ cow daily will depend a course oa {Re size of the cow, and, to some em teat, on the question of whetser she ie tled up ta the barn during the day or has a large amount of exercise ta the open alr, In the latter case she can make use of more grain than she can If she ts kept stalled, and can put {t ta a good purpose. Some of the re cent Investigations have put money {ato the pockets of the farmers by showing that our cows do not require the very large amount of grain they ordinarily receive. It used to be the practice of some of the more ambitious dairymen to feed fifteen or twenty pounde of grain to each large milker dally. It has been demonstrated that a large part of this grain was wasted and that generally not over elgtt pounds of grain can be used to advam tage. Previously @ good deat of greim went through the animals undb gested and was dropped on the pap tures without result, except as to the small amount of fertilizer added te the land, When the smaller amount ie fed It fe more fully digested. It will thus be apparent that fo the past our Ignorance bes cost us millions of dollars in wasted food. Even yet some of our dairymen have not learned the truth in regard to thie matter and are still pouring large quantities of grain Into their cows, most of which will nut bring back s cent—Farmera’ Review, Milk In the Stable. A goo many heepera of cows have In the cow stable and dehind the cows pege on which to hang the milk pails ‘hat are too full of milk to prevent of their being further used at that milly Ing. A man fills the pall, hangs It om the hook and proceeds to milk am ether cow. By the time the milking {s completed*sereral paila havo bees hanging on the pegs tor fifteen min utes to half an bour, In addition the empty pails hung on the samo pegs hefore they were taken for milking purposes and just as realily gathered germs as when they had the milk ta them. So far as the milker can sea, there fe no reason why this practice should not be continued. The pails look clean when thes ore taken dpwa. to be used for milking purposes aad the milk In the pails that have bees hangiog there looks as clein os any other milk, The palls are hung toe high up to catch any sisible atrt. Phe custom {4 bad, but Its hadness 1s hard to prove, becaure only the stvent and the sclentist knows thet ‘az alr fe full of odors and Kerms any that they are constantly set‘linc in the paile to become manifert tater in bad favor. ed butter or quicktv courlne milk, The milk should be removed (rom the stable as fast as mi.hed, that the time of exporure to S*d odors may be as short as possible. Cooting Milk In Winter, Most milk producers now now that milk must be quickly cooled In sum mer to Increase Its heering power, but many do not know tha. the prow ess is also necessary in wirter, Mem that make a business of delivering milk hnow that at certain times fa winter they have as much trouble with milk souring as they do in the summer. The cooling of milk in the winter should’ be dane {n exactly the same rsv as it is in summer; namely, by piacing the milk fn cans in tanks of cold water as seon as the milk is drawn from the cons In the winter ice and snow may be easily obtained for reducing the tenmerature of the water jn the tank, As this le entirely without expense there Is ne good reason why It should not de done. Milk for all purposes will thes. keep very much longer than if ft Se not cooled after belog drawn. Chepped Teate and Udders. ‘As Fpring comes and the cows are turned out to pasture and lay around on the damp ground many times there $a considerable trouble with their teats and udders becoming chapped from coming {n contact with the damp earth. Some cows have become almom unmanageable from the very cause and you know the old saying that “an ounce of prevention !s worth more than a pound of cure.” If dne will procure @ box of vaseline and keep In the barn, and es they notice any hardening, drying or chapping of the teats rub the vaseline into them well the trouble will soon disappear, but if it gets well started there je sure to be serious trouble, which some times takes & long time to cure, Milk Velnn ‘The milk veins of sw dairy cow go @ good ways in Indicating her ability at the pail. These socalled milk veins are really lerge blood veins running from the udder forward to near the forelegs, where they enter the body, ‘The orifices where they enter the body are called milk wells. These large veins convey the blood from the udder to the heart and lungs, where 48 fe purified and again forced to the udder, A cow ean not give a large flow of milk without large milk veins, ‘When examining « cow for the dairy, feel slong the under side of the belly fer ese veluc. If they are large and twrteegs, ste fs = good cow, other thiags Delug equal. | The temperature for churning ranped. ‘trem 1S to 65: degrees, accordisg te eentitions, while 60 an¢ 68 degrees ave (Re resi commen (omperatures, Ts _VINITA, L. T. , C.J. Jennings attended the Baptist asociation Letd last week at Mal. vio, Ind, Ter. Walter Peterron, a well known barber, formerly of this city, came up from Claremore Monday of last week to visit hie wife. Mr. and Mrs. T. HH, Finley en- tertained at dinner on Thurwday of last week complimentary to Mrs.N, Williams of OklahomaTy,, Mra.S. Johnson of Pueblo,Colo., and Mr. E, S, Willlams of Coffeyville, ‘There was a grand lawn fete held at the home of Mra. N. Washington oo Thursday evening of last week for the bonetit of the Firat Baptist eburcb. Mr, and Mia. Eaves are located on North First treet The Ladies Ait claly was royally entertained on Tuesday of last week by Mrs. 8. L. Hill, Clara Willlams, Eva Venters ond Master J.T. Williama left Sunday of last week for Jefferson City, Mo., to resume their atudies at Lincoln Institute. Miss Williams of Kaleo, was in town and spent a few days last weck and was the gucat of Mre, John Williams and Mrs, Finley. Mrs, Sallie Miller, Mrs. Annie Peterson and Miss Eather Owens have returned from Ft. Svott, Ks., where they attended the funeral of the late Stepney Miller, which waa held on Thursday of last week, He was Mre. Miller's bueband. T. H. Finley made a fiying trip to Muskogee last week to attend the Woatern Negro Preasassociation and reports 8 pleasant trip. The Olive Social club was enters tained last Thureday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Davisanda good time was the characterietia feature of the evening. Miss Georgia Rider returned last Friday from Denver, Colo., where she spenta month with relatives and reporta plensant trip. Mrs. Wm, Callen is here from Parsons, Kans., and will visit with her husband several weeks. Mre. M, A, Sorrel left Tucsday for a few daya visit to points in the Suntlower atate, Miss Ella Holt is visiting with Telatives in Kansas City, Kas. Wiliam Madden of Hayden was in the city Sunday evening enroute 0 Saint Louis on business, H. F. Watsonand wife, A. Rider and wife and Miss Della Hil at- tended a basket meeting and bap- tizing at Big Creek church, near Centralia, last Sunday, Rolen Naves, while attending a picnic at Possum Creek was shot acaidentally throug) both legs, but not eeriously injured, Mrs, William H. Martin visited several days in Coffeyville, Kannas, last week, On Tuesday of tast week fire was disouvered in the roof of the eleotrio light plant, but by the prompt work of the firedepartment and in the absence of the wind, the fice was soon under control and extinguished before spreading toother buildings anrrounding. The be making ap- paratus and the roof suffered most damage. The damage todynamos boilers, eto., has not as yet been determined, The plant wasinsured for $12,000 and this may cover the lose. The cost of the plant before the fire wae $37,100. Itis thought the fire oaught from a chimney burning out. Pies. ba 8s ne ta Rae sad SPRINGFIELD, MO. Ladies wishing millinery work done call on Meadamesl., Werndon, Geo, Webb, Jr., and T, C. Greens street, ‘Theis patterns ase of the latest designa and enn eatify youdn any ‘chic bonnett you desire, Mre, Chitwood of St, Louis, js visiting her cousin, Mrs, Kite Webb. Mra, Waltor Majors haw been quite iL, Mra, P, UH, Smith of St, Charles, Ie visiting ber son, U, 1. Smith, nnd frieuda, and fs the guest of Mrs. 5, Vaughn. Rosovelayden who contemplaten Giulshing a course in medicino this seuson, left last week to euter the Mobarry college, Nashville. We wish him success, Mrs. B. F. Abbott and son re: turned Monday from an extended visht at Sedalia and Sweet Springs. Miss Dovoy Williama opened her school last Monday, teva, Nicholeon and Dorsey car: ried out 8 nice program Sept. 22 at the former's church. M'CRATI-PARKER WADDING, Quite na unique affairand one that will be referred to in after years in the history of Spriugfield was the wedding of Miss Corinne Parker, one of Springfield’s prima donas, to Mr, Joseph II, McCraty of Kansas City, which occurred at tho home of the bride, Rev. B. F. Abbott of Pitts Chapel Methodiat Episcopal church, ofticiadng. The bride was droeased in white organdy and carried white flowers. The groom was attired in an Englich Ohesterficldgarment. Presenta ro- ceived amounted to $250, One hundred of theirselect friends wore present and enjoyed agrand repaat, Mrs. Willis Smith played tho wed- ding march. Aaswell time wasenjoyed by 44 couples Wednesday evening at the Blue Ribbon club's social affair, Mr, Roy Calloway presided at the punch bowl. LINCOLN, NEL. Mrs, M, C. Walker of Atchison, Kas., enroute home from Denver, etopped in the city and visited her sister, Mrs, Major Moore. Misses Beulah and Gracia Cor- neal left last week for Jefferson City, Mo., where they entered Lin- qoln Institute. Mr. Joshus Coleman and Mre. Anna Ford of Sterling, Ill, were uuited in marriage Isst Wednesday evening at the home of Thomas W. Coleman, Rey. Mra.8.MoWilliawe A, T. Creel and wife left Mon- day tor Omaha to spend the winter. Dr. Jenkins has returned to the city and resumed his studies at the medical callege. W. II, White aad wife returned home Tuesday from Kansas. Subseribe for Tuk Puainpearen and keep posted. Mrs, Jones gave a 4 o'clock din- ner Suuday in honor of Mre, Peppia. Other invited guests were Monsre, Fred Douglars aud Chas, Smith. Miss Cora Clinkecale of Chicago, ia visting relatives here, Chester Powell of Savarnah,Mo., ia in the eity to reside, and ho bas acvepted a pusition at Sandereon’s shoe store and will be stockman fur the firm. We learn that Rev. J, Thomas is having a large attendance at his meetinga at Tecumseh, Take a trip out and enjoy yourself, Dr, Jenkins filled the pulpit at the Mount Zion Baptist church last Sunday for Rev, Thomas and will presoh again Sunday, Revs. Kemp and Vanderzee con- duoted services last Sunday at the African Methodist ohurch. MANHATTAN, KANS. — ne ‘The second sunual session of the Smoky Hill River sssociation held at Junction City Sept. 5-112 wasa grand one. The women raised $209.69. This association has done well since its organization in this city one year ago. Mrs, Kd Freeman and Mrs. M, Wafford visited in Topelsa lvst week, The group meeting of the Ep- worth league held with the Second M.E.church of this clty was a grand suucess. Miss Lucy Holmes organist of the Olay Center league, rendered some of ,her best music, which was excellent. Rey. J. King preached at the 2d Baptist and A, YM. E, churches aut week, Meudames Leana IHincs, Addic Crulee and Ella Wickman vieited in Topeta lant week, A laige number of delegates and visitors from hero attended the aasocistion recently held ut Juno: tion City, Rev, Terrell brought hiv cousin from Clay Center tu attend tho group mecting of the Lpworth league. They are noted for their singing, Cards are out anuouucing the marriage of Miaa Bertle Brown of thieclty to Mr. Thomas Pride of Paxico, which happy event took place this week. While Mies Lucy Holmes is, un- fortunately, blind she ie certainly Uleased with s wonderful musical talent, Rev. I, Quarles of Oklahoma recently spent afow days in the city and preached at the 2d Baptist church on the 17th. He was for- merly pastor of this church. KANSAS CITY, MO. Wa, Houston of the drug firm of Mouseten & McCampbell, was home last Saturday from Lawrence, where ho Is attending K.U,, taking @ course in pharmacy, Mesdames Frank Bufkins and Henry Booker of St. Louis are In the city, gueste of their mothor, Mra. Jordan. Theconcert and hop given by we ladies of tho St. Auguatine Episcopal church was quite a auc cess and the managers, Mrs. Nero, Mrs. Cole and Miss Victoria Over- all, dexerve much oredit. Mrs. C. F, Jonca of Cinciunati, is visiting her son, Richard, of 1227 East 16th steect. Arthur Pullum haa returned from Chicago where ho has becn looking after property left him through the the death of a relative. Mrs. R. Burne entertained with a nine-course dinner in honor of visitors at her home, 2223 Grove strect, last Saturday, The Jenkins Sons’ bsseball team played a white team Sunday and were viotorious, Some of these young fellows are professionel players, but are kept out of the beseball union on account of their color. Quite a number of our young men will take the civil service cx: amination this year. Mra. Madgo Brown-Jones passed through the city enroute to Em poria, where she will take a course at the State Normal. NEWTON, KAN. Miss Ennice Coleman who has been sick, is improving, Johnny Underwood is able to be out again after a tong illuess, Frank Childe ivin the city on s visjte to his parents, Master Theodore Coleman, who liaa been working in Wichita on the Searchlight, ia home with his parerta on account of sickness, Joun Gardner of Hutohinson, is visiting in the city, Miss Bettio Norrell bas scturiced from a visit to Uktahoma, and she reporta a pleasant tip. J. M. Gross and family returned Sunday noon from their western trip, having vieited Denver, Colo rado Springs, Pueblo, Rocky Ford, La Junta and Jas Vegas, N. M. They enjoyed their trip very much and are greatly benefitted by their vacation, Let the... AMBRICAN Steam Gaundry Do your family washing—5e pound. It will save you money. 114 W. Seventu 8, PHone 341. ———— aJ. W. RYAN Times Iidg, Leavenworth, Kansas, AGENT FOR Heim's Famous Beer, bemple Houm ie Connection, Orders Nbipped ta Alt Parte of the Country | APECIAL BEER —DyMThaauer, the IHeat onthe Marker — For @ Virst-classhhave Call at LITTLE GEM” BARBERSHCP, Clean Linen and Towels, 1313 Dopoe m1, OMAHA, NUB Go, G, TUCKER, Prornimraen When in ATCHISON don't forget Dt. ROBINSON'S RESTAURANT 623 Maln Street, | Just three blocks from Union Depor Meals 20c, Mrs, Mary Rubinson, + + Propr pe RR i i Aa ; i Che Cosmopolitan Cafe s 3 ia the place fo do when you want € 3 SOMETHING NICE 10 EAT, € 3 a € 3 . 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AWS 4 bE ay RES Ue rer=ae f) ik ; i W Ae AIL ES a oe OF Tse LIONS ROT D or RS Q NO commas’ Bris good bettor best yes better stilt Pronent best thing tea run uncles atl dure glad gladder gloadulina gladder tlt When ye Anew it vill eure every local it Phonomenst averting powtr, the active Prunciple af HEMMLNT 1s taken trom trepeat Baits spening ancwers ws Pharnaceslual Seleace, balirehs Orepinal, Lansers Dortees Uinisiees Yerchants, and Piatra alt wrths of lle,are a waitin Pockuming dt thegreal Cnet a/sltRemed tt, Send far sar boailet af he mat remartase Tastiereatals ever published We will were Miele yu with vagzes anes ’e lien, Sold br ait first chars Drugguts My sur Daler caneed suppdiyn, send us 350, And your Droggisth name and aidresse He will mal jos a SOc ber, Demand EVARINE kite 20 ether: there dene substitate: it ene caret ssvesa THEHEMORUIMECO, MARSHALL, MO.US A Topeka Plaindealer. PUBLISHED at Topanga, Shawnee county, Kae. very Friday morning by THE PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO. the KAST SEVENTH STREET. BICK CHILES, BUSINESS MANAGER J. H. CHILDERS, EDITOR One year by mail..... $1.50 Six months by mail..... $1.00 Three months by mail..... $0.00 Entered at the postoffice at Topeka as second class mail matter. FRIDAY, SEPT 29, 1905. "Hoch is lacking in every element of leadership. He can shoot a phrase, a paragraph, and hit the bullseye every time, but he never shoots with any ammunition which makes a mark on the target. He can choke John D. Rockfellow to death with more inventive speech than Leedy, 'Old Man Elder,' or the entire pop clan ever hurled at the 'notopus.' He has lost the confidence of his party and is rapidly loosing its respect. He is recognized as a clean man, purely sentimental, given to uttering fine speech, is attractive in his manner, but was never born to be a leader."—Wichita Star. This paragraph is the cause of most of the dissatisfaction with Governor Hoch. Personally, Governor Hoch is an exceptionally clean man. As a citizen he has always stood for what is right, but as an official he has shown a lamentable inactivity. When decisive and persistent action has been necessary he has been diligent and hesitating. Governor Hoch's trouble is that he is sentimental instead of practical. The same spirit which led him to apologize and plead for Senator Burton editorially in the Marion Record, when Burton was convicted of a crime, keeps him from punishing other high criminals. This same spirit is what made him apologize for requiring a new board of State Treasurer Kelly—because the law required it—when he should have ousted Kelly from office for not complying with the law. Governor Hoch personally be lieves in the strict enforcement of the prohibitory law, and it was expected that he would take vigorous means to enforce it, but he has been a great disappointment to many people in that respect. His utterances as editor of the Marion Record had led the prohibitionists to believe that Hoch as governor would leave no stone unturned to stop the sale of liquor in Kansas, but it happens that his editorial utterances were also the result of sentiment—as much too radical as his actions as an official is lacking in that respect. Occasionally Governor Hoch is seized with a determination to "do something," but it does not last. An example of this was his desire to stop the exhibition of the "101" show on Sunday. Unfortunately there was no statute forbidding the exhibition. Had there been one it is not likely that there would have been any exhibition to be stopped. Governor Hoch's action was the result of sentiment—a worthy one, to be sure—probably induced by a sermon to which he had the good fortune to listen in the morning. The Ottawa Herald publishes the paragraph quoted above from the Wichita Star, and in commenting further upon it, says: "We produce, elsewhere, an editorial expression from the Wichita Star, a paper which has heretofore been feeling pretty good toward Governor Hoch. We produce it more to call attention to its limpid style than to give circulation to disagreeable things about Governor Hoch. The remarkable feature in Mr. Hoch's case is the unanimity with which his former friends and supporters are expressing their dis appointment. This disappointment does not arise from anything Governor Hoch has done, he has done nothing. It rather comes so far as we can gather, from a feeling of wearinessness which Hoch has superinduced by his talkativeness by his plausible proclamation touching his general intentions, by his perpetual explanation and analysis of The Western Tuskegee, Normal, Preparatory, Industrial, Agricultural, Business, Music, Elocution and Dramatic Art. THE TRADES ADVA Local and Long Dist. 'Phone 747 ADVANTAGES Local and Long PRINCIPAL, Dist. 'Phone 747 WM. R. CARTER, Topeka, Kas all his intellectual symptoms, by his disposition to marvel in public over the rapid birth of his own ideas and emotions, especially the latter, and by his masterly and never ending inactivity touching the things he says he intends to do." Masonic Knockers. A Masonic knocker is usually the offspring of disappointed ambition. He desires and seeks preferment in his lodge without deserving it, and when he fails in reaching his goal everything suddenly goes wrong and he discovers that his mission is to find fault with existing conditions. He will do nothing himself and does all he can to prevent others from doing things. He becomes insanely jealous of the brother who on account of his zeal and love of the order has endeared himself to his associates and who, without seeking them is elevated to positions of honor and trust. He does all he can to discredit the offenders of his lodge in the estimation of the brethren. He is the curbstone Mason who usually does all his Masonic work on the street oorners, in the pool rooms and barbershops. His stock in trade is talk. He is usually full of abuse and vituperation. He knows nothing of the beauties of Masoury and is usually too lazy, ignorant or indifferent to study either his ritualism or symbolism. With a second handed knowledge of a few clauses of the by-laws or a section or two of the constitution he looks wise like an owl, and sets himself up as a Masonic jurist and every man who has the temerity to question the soundness of his position upon any question, is at once put down as a dangerous man who wante to either rule or ruin the lodge. Upon the streets corners he denounces every well informed zealous Mason as the leader of a faction that in seeking to destroy the lodge. He usually knocks upon every assessment as being an outrageous BUTTONS. PORTRAITS. W. H. LUCAS, Photographer. The price at my Studio is cheap, but the work is of the highest class. Why pay such an enormous price when the same careful work can be secured for ONE-HALF? Stop and see me. Cummings & Butler. Porter Exchange Restaurant Topeka Industrial and Educational Institute. A School of Practical and Christian Training. Mechanical and Architectural binding and Tailoring. Sciences—Cooking, Launcing. The Only NTAGES All graduates find ready en-used. Special attention given to Ministers of EVERY de-helped FALL GERMANY. For further information ad- WM. R. C Mechanical and Architectual Drawing, Carpentry, Painting, Printing, Book binding and Tailoring. Sewing-plain and advanced Dressmaking. Domestic Sciences-Cooking, Laundrying, Housekeeping, Market Gardening and Poultry Raising. The Only Undenominational School in the West. All graduates find ready employment. Only the best and most approved methods used. Special attention given to home and religious training. Endorsed by Ministers of EVERY denomination. Terms reasonable. Worthy students helped FALL GERM BEGINS SEPT.12 Send for Catalogue. For further information address, imposition, is never square in his accounts and always complaining about the burden of the institution. He charges all the officials of the Order, from the Grand Master down, with being robbers. He shares none of the labors and responsibilities of Masonry and is loudest in his demands for its benefits. Nearly every lodge in the jurisdiction has in its membership one or more Masonic knockers and every lodge in the jurisdiction should very promptly have one or more Masonic trials and one more suspensions or expulsions. When a brother is heard traducing the character and good name of another brother changes ought to be preferred against him and if after trial he is found guilty ought to be expelled. Until this is done peace and harmony the strength of our institution will be unknown among us —Omaha Enterprise. Defend the Murderers. It is astonishing to us that any reputable paper in Missouri should be found that is willing to defend the Quantrill band that sacked Lawrence anti shot down in cold blood, unarmed men and boys. We would at least suppose that the editors of these papers would keep their moustache shut. When anything is said about the atrocites of the Quantrill band there are some Missourians who say that there were bands in Kansas who were just as bad, the Kansas "Red Legs" that equals the Lawrence massacre for cold blooded, devilish cruelty, but suppose there were, who hears of the members of the "Ried Legs" holding reunions and boasting of the murders they committed? Kansans are not proud of the "Rad Legs" Kansans are not apologizing for or eulogizing the bands that were organised on the side of the Missouri line for the purpose of plunder and not for the purpose of legitimate warfare. There are certain Missourians, editors of Missouri papers, however, who seem to feel called upon to defend and eulogize as cold blooded a lot of robbers and murderers as ever diagnosed any country on earth.—Topeka Mail and Breeze. LAS VEGAS. N. M. Our city is full of new arrivals looking for locations. Rev. Bell preached a noble and soul awakening sermon last Sunday week. The Royal Texas Sextette gave a concert in the club room Thursday evening of last week and all who missed it certainly missed a royal treat. Honston & Dualap are progress. L. M. Penwell, Undertaker. First-class in every particular. Prompt service. Both Phones 192 511 Quincy 2 Fred M. Stone street. G. W. Hamilton. We carry one of the finest lines of Undertaking goods in Topeka. Corner 7th and Quincy Sts. Topeka, Kansas. Corner 7th and Quincy Sts. big colored schools of the country President B.F. Allen has certainly proven himself an excellent school man. Few men can go to a work with so much opposition and pull it to the front as well as he. He has has built up a following among both white and colored that will be hard to beat. No better evidence of the approval of the people is needed than the very large number of young men and women from the best homes in Missouri that crowd the walls of his school. Few men have more bulldeg tenacity and power of endurance than he. ing nicely in their business and deserve great credit and lots more patronage from our people. Miss Florence Taylor, one of our most popular young ladies, left for Newton, Kansas, to spend a few weeks. Mrs. Preston Hayes is in LaJunta, Colo., on an extended visit with friends. Mrs. Maggie Jefferson rendered a solo last Sunday evening that brought tears to eyes of those who listened. Don't Buy Your Fall Hat Mrs. McCully, who has spent a pleasant visit here, has so endeard herself to the people that they very much regret to see her return home. Until you see my nice new FALL STOCK. Every hat up-to-date, and in all the latest shapes. I am sure that you will find something to suit you. School opend on the 18th and to date we are crowded. Mrs. F. J. Jackson of the department of pedagogy, Miss C.M.Carney of the department of vocal music, and Miss M. E. Grimshaw of the department of sewing, spent the summer at Columbia university, New York, studying and posting up in the best and latest method of doing their special lines of work. Mrs. L. H. Slaughter, 115 West Seventh St. Ex-SLAVES Prof. J. W. Daniel went to the Iowa State university, Prof. R. A. West to the Bryan and Stratton Business college, Prof. Shackelford to Chautauqua, New York. Send me my name at once. Your Age enumerator's name and your postal address. Send two-cent stamp for reply and I will send you some MARKING INFORMATION. Write STATIEN P. MITCHELL, Bingham Town. F. K. - Want Agents to handle my work. Big Fur. Lincoln Institute is now one of the LIVE STOCK Good Feed Rack. Last spring we published a description of a feeding rack to be made with or without trough, which plans were furnished us by a subscriber whose patents on the rack had expired and who had no further use for the plans. Mr. Ira I. Nixon, a prominent stockman of Dewitt county, Illinois, writes concerning this plan as follows: I have added a trough all around the rack floored to the outside of posts and used pieces 1¼ feet by 8 inches nailed on out side of posts, which catch what would waste if the trough was not there. I have built mine of 2x4's where this man used 2x4's for posts, which makes it very strong. I have used oak lumber, and I think I have the best rack I ever saw for shock corn, straw, hay, or car corn, as ear corn or ground feed can be fed all around in the trough, which is forty two feet long and large enough to feed a car load of cattle. If built with 3x4's you will be compelled to use one inch longer bolts than this man has in his rack where the 3x4's are bolted together. My rack has 2x4's for the bottom bolted full width of rack and one on each end to hold the floor. I have used 1½x4-inch stuff for slats instead of 1x6, and placed them eight instead of six inches apart. "I am feeding cotton seed meal with ground cob meal and will give you my results when cattle are shipped out. I am feeding 100 head, and I new saw cattle do better or look nicer." Any changes in the original plan will of course necessitate corresponding changes in the bill of material, but as originally planned and as shown in the cut the following materials are required for the rack sixteen feet long: Two pieces 2x8 16 feet long; 3 pieces 2x8, 14 feet, 4 pieces 2x4, 16 feet; 2 pieces 2x4, 14 feet; 1 piece, 2x4, 12 feet; 2 pieces 1x6, 16 feet; 2 pieces 1x6, 16 feet; 5 pieces 1x6, 14 feet; 9 pieces 1x12, 16 feet; 1 pieces 1x12, 14 feet; 56 pieces 1x3, 4 feet; 4 wood screws, 8 inches; 4 bolts $x9$ inches, 4 bolts $x7$ inches; 16 bolts, $x5$ inches; 3 bolts $x4$ inches; 8 bolts $x2$ inches; 8 pounds 8 penny wire nails, washers for all bolts; 4 pounds 10 penny nails. — Wallace's Farmer. Working Brood Mares. Some of the leading horse breeders of the country never put their brood mares in harness. They provide exercise in other ways in order to keep the stock in vigorous health. As a rule these breeders have extensive grass paddocks, into which the mares are turned for several hours each day throughout the winter season. Horse breeders who neither work their mares nor turn them out daily invariably get a small proportion of increase. Some foals are lost immaturely, and others are born so weak that they die soon afterward. Most horse breeders, especially those of long experience, prefer that mares in foal should have regular exercise in the form of light work, but jerking and straining should be avoided under all circumstances. For best results it is a good plan to use three horses for work that would be required of two under ordinary circumstances. This is not done at an additional expense of one-third, because three horses will do more work than two, if the speed alone is considered. Then it often happens that plows and cultivators may be set an inch or two deeper and the extra work thus accomplished is worth a great deal, although it may not show on the surface. A man can drive three horses faster than two and rest less at the end of the row. Using Good Rams. While looking over some large flocks in Central South Dakota we find too many who do not appreciate the use of a first class ram. We have recently seen a bunch of 600 ewes whose lambs alone would have brought at least $500 or more, had a good pure bred ram been used. Feoders do not want them at hardly any price and the ewe lambs are not fit to keep as breeders. When one looks at these things from any point of view, it is a puzzle to know why so many sheep raises continue to carry on the business in such a careless manner. A good even lot of lambs are always in good demand, while poor ones are not wanted at all.—Northwestern Agriculturalist. Selection of Stock. A medium sized male with good fair sized females of good constitutional vigor and mature age will do far better than the largest males with the smallest females. The wise farmer always selects the very best corn or grains of all kinds for seed; equal care should be given the selection of breeding stock in turkeys. The best raised on the farm should be kept for producers, and the fact should be kept in mind that turkey hens of the best quality in their second or third year of laying make the best producers. The medium sized, well formed hens that have good strong bone and constitutional vigor are the ones to select for breeders.—Wallace's Farmer. HT OT ” Se w . ae - » =a: oF SE Ee Sa ne i NEWS OF THE WEEK, 3 PPPPPPIPPPL PPP PLPLEPLLLPAS See us for job printing. Mies Hattie Harper will leave Saturday night for O«lahoma, Communion will be celebrated at St. Simon's church Sunday, Oct. 1, at 7 o'clock a, m. Mies Louvenia Brown left last Wednesday morning for Oklahoma where ehe will teach this winter, Mrs. Belle Bennett returned last Monday from St, Joe and Neosho Falls, where she visited relativos. Mise Pearl Hightower will vieit in Kansas Uity, Mo., nexrt week and attend the Priests of Pallas parade, Mra, Heary Thompson will leave next week for a month's stay in Sedalia, Mo., stopping en route for a short visit in Kangae City. Prof, Ilarrison, Roundtree, iid: loy, Siwyer, et at report hit their schoolx are moving alang nicely and the prospects for a successful term were never better, decure places for your boys to work before and after eclrool hours andon Siturdaye, To permit them to loaf means that they will not remain in xehool very long, Miss Noaa Hincs of Sailing, bos accepted a position in one of the Tudran schools in South Dakota te teach dicesmaking. We hope ber much success in hor work. Please remember the neat meet: ing of the City Medoration for the fonth Friday in October at the Sheldon Kindergarten rooms. —_— Mra, Geo, Berth is expected to return to Topeka within a fow days on her way to her home in Califor: nia and will spend a few days. The Duke siatera who lmvye been quite sick, are improving slowly and we hope to see them in school again in a short time. The Golden Rod Ait club met last Friday with Miss Mary Jordan and plans were perfected for the ensuing year tod officers eleoted au folows; Mises Hestor Hawkins, president; Miss Gertrude Solomtn, vice president; Miss Mary Jordan, secretary; Miss Boseie WJawkins, asslatant secretary; Miss Loula B. Harrie, tressarer, TT *Real Estate For Sale.7® eRe cattle, bogs, pianos, bicyoles, bug: jes,,wagons, harness, cultivators, 7.0940, feed of all kinds, shoes, -—choth men’s and women’s, J.R.Lgtle & Son, 939 Kansas Av, Riley Rogers of Lawrence was in Popeka Sunday, secing his friends. Dolpn Bryant won the wheel race at the fatr grounds Sunday, Mrs, Cora Ray left Thursday for Ft. Scottto visit her mother, Mrs, A. J. Heston left Wednes- day for Kansas City, where she will visit ber sister, Mrs. A, J. Lee, Mire, M. Huggard of Columbia, Mo., la visiting In the city, gueat of her daughter, Mrs. A.C. Briscoe, We aro proud to know that Rev. B, It. Guy has returned to the min- fetry and we wieh him suocers, Wo feol and know that he ia now in the right place. | Mra, Motlie Paco returned last Sunday from Denver, and reports a very pleasant time and looks very much refreshed by the trip. Curdoldsr els ay wld myet thisafternoon at 3 o'clock with Misa Gertrude Solomon, the hour of meeting having been changed from 4:30. All members are very urgently requested to be present as the time for work has arrived. The Ne Plus Ulira Art club will mect this afternoon with Mra,Jones io North Topeka and all members are requested to be present, Mre. Jennie Smith, Pres, Canpv or THasne—We wish to eatend to our many friends our heartfelt thanks for the assistance and words of consolation extended tousduring our recent bereaye- ment. Mrs. M, J, Harris and family, Mr. W. C. Brown who was re seriously burned by the explosion which occurred in his pantatoriam in Lawrence three weekw ago, in in a precarious condition,and aa yet it cannot be aid what the end may Le, Mr, Spencer Hawkins left Mon- day night for Mt. Louis, Mo.,w here he haracontractto build a large chureh, Mr. Chis, Hawking will leave within a few diye to werk with his fatha, We hope to hear of thet carly iim ty the city crowned with success. Rev. G W. Marte arrived last Thuraday night trom Colorado: wherehe has been sojourning for the pactfew weehs [L+ wasdehghted with the beautiful scenery, invigor- ating climate, etc, hut says that thereisno spot on earth Ike our own sunny Kansas. Miss Cora Bennett, who isteach ing school In Council Grove, wries that she fs getting along nicely, and is highly pleased with the progress her pupils are making. We areal! glad to learn of her success, and that it will forever continue is the sincere wish of a host of warm friends. Lm : - WIKGD i ‘ paris OPEN EVERY TOEMAY AND FRIDAY) Niocerrs Pavillion for reat on ressonable terms to private parties any nights except Tuesday aud Friday. Admicoion u5e Por Couple; Single 350 re aus Prownel Boies om Sick eee lea FRANK. BR. WILSON, IM peeger. ., Sar-Oee block Kast of where ibe car stoge eA Whe Ed mtr. Bisbop leaac Lane of Jackson, Tenn., and Rey. C. G, Fishback of Shiloh Baptist church will addresn the Y. M,C. A. Sunday, Oot. 1, at 3p.m., at 406 Kansas avenue, All men are cordially Invited to be present. Special music. Mrs, L. 11, Slaughter will have her fall opening of millinery today (Friday) at her milliuery parlor at 115 West ithatreet. Allthe latest atyles in fall and dress hate at prices as low as the lowest. Don’t buy until you have acon her mag: nificent stock. Shecan pleage you. On Wednerday evening of last week Mars Lizzie Owens and Mrs. Lilah Patton gave a very sociable party at the home of the latter, who however, was sick and could not partloipate, but the evening was very pleasantly xpent in musio and conversation, On leaving every one reported a delightful time, WINFIELD, KAS. Mr, ond Mre. F. J. Weaver of the Weavor Novelty Co., will leave tomorrow for their home at Kansan City after spending cight pleasant weeks traveling through the South- weat and enjoyed a success. They have won the reputation at all the reunions and county faire as having the ewellest novelty and Japanese goods atorea on the circuit. The Weaver Novelty Co, has done much good for the nace in showing the white people of the Soutwest that a man’s color haa no bearing on his Duriness qualities, RACE PREJUDICE IN THE PHILIPPINES! (Springfield Republican ) SE Se eae SE —In attempting the solution of the great problem of preparing the Fili- pinos tor self government there is one moet vital point which seems to have estaped the eye of the home government. It is well known (or should be kuown) that the first step necessary to the accomplishment of ourdeclared object should be to gain the confidence and goo will of the people ‘This must be the foun dation of all our efforts. Without it no success is poseible, ‘The point which seems to have been overlouked by the hume govern: ment.or rather thefa al error which anderlxs our present theasy, 18 the appr tutment of so lurgea percentage ofsouthern whites tu responsible poritions inthe ielan’s, Untke the whites from the North, the southern. eris naturally narrow minded and arrogant mhisdealings with colored races, and his strong and plainly apparent prejudices in this regard make him, with few exceptions, an undesirable resident of the islands. By reason of the fact that a majority of Americane in the Phitip) ines are from the South and that tteir cone tempt and antagoniom toward the uativesieso pronuunced, the reins ofthe government should be almost entirely in the hands of norshen men in order to uffset to some degree the hard feelings caused by the presence ofsv many southerners. While the northern whites are by no means fece of race prejudice, they are more broad-minded and are able to control their sentiments where the reputation of the nation Isatutake, Itis believed what the southern man alec means well and would liketodo hie ehuee of the great work before us, but he is simply unable to control his passions and often allows them to predomi- nate his judgment at the mut vitel moments, 1” The effect has been a natural one The Filipinos are already beginning to protest againat race prejudice through the columos of their press, They are acutely sensitive and resent the open contempt shown toward them by a certain claes of Americans, Asarule,thenorthera map, with his usual diplomacy, studies the Fijipino and showssome regard for the long established custome of centuries. He does not expect to pull theso oJ4 customs out by the rootsin a siogleday, He deals tactfully with the hkes and Gislikes of the people ard tries to win thebr confidence, pointing out their errors ina gentle manner to |aveta triction. Oo the other haed, the southero TWO FOR ONE! The Topeka Plaindealer AND THE WEEKLY Kansas City Star Kansas City Journal One Year — $1.00. A Very Rare Chance! BOLEY, LT, The Colored Town and Home of the Negro. One Year Old and 600 Inhabitants! | 8000 Acres of Land Surrounding Boley has Already been Leased and Bought by Negroes. 20,000 Acres of the Best Land in the Creek Nation Surrounding Boley to be Leased and Booght by Negroes, T. M. HAYNES, Local Townsite Mgr,, BOLEY, 1.7 tan, with bis usual narrowness shows no respect for any except his own opinions, and is openly eflensive inhisconduct, He deals with an intelligent, educated Filipino as he would deal with the most ignorant. He often assumes an insulting overbearing manner where the exercise of courtesy and considera: tlon would have cost him no sacrifice ofdignity, By hislack of tact in dealing with a colored race he neutralizes the efforte of more troad-minded Americans and by reason of his majority is creating the impression that his sentiments are those of theentire American nation, *,* There are, ofcourse, some southern menin theistands whoare exceptions in this regard, but the majority of them are a positive hindrance to America’s mission among these people, Exceptinfew instances, the weld known prejudices ofsoutheeners should besuffiolentto barthem from appointment to high positions in the islands'government. Althoughthey may mean well. their prejudices are bred {n the bone and will not down, even in so trying a problem as that whichconfrontsus. Thesoutherner isnohypocrite. He is trank and does not attemptto hide his feelings, but this is no place for him to show those feelings. Whatever may be said .o the contrary by persons of job molded senthmente, it is well known that the relations between the natives and Americans in thelslande are not as cordial as they were two years ago, and the situation seems tu grow worse as time goeson. The people are not co operating with the goy- ernment. They are pulling in the opposite direction. Their pent-up feelinge are plamly visible io the columns of the native press. They acem to have lost confidence in the ultimate intentions of the United States, Whyt Ask the southerners: here, who, by lack of se$f-control, are responsible fur the breach that has been gradually created between the government aad the peopk, \. Manila, PI. Pe | (Springheld Republscan’s Ldttorial Comment.) Without a ylolation of contidence She name of the correanondent who YOUR REAL ESTATE dean scene BUSINESS, a ater: Where located Properties and business france Waste to-day describing hat you have to sell and glve Cash price on same A,P. Tone Wilson,Jr, REALCESTATIMPECLALIST, 413 Kaness Ave., Torgka, Ks, writes to the Republican from Manila, concerning the responsibil: ity of the southerners for the growing racial hatred In the Philip- pines, cannot be ditclosed, It mey be said, however, that he le an old officer of the United States army, and has never, so far as we know, been identified with antl-Imperial fom. His letteris remarkable not merely for ita attack upon the southerners inthe islands, but also forite admissions concerning the relations between natives and the Americans generally, Wheat he says ccncerning race prejudice need not be doubted. The letter is meacly a bit of cumulative evidence conceening a well damonsbrated fact, a * So strong, Indeed, has the race feeling becomethat the American pressof Manila even selzed upon Mion Roosevelt's recent visil to that city to vent some of the contempt felt by the white man for the darker Filipino. One paper printed aome execrable doggerel, ‘very respect: fully dedicated" tothe young woman, appealing to her to hold atoof from the nativesinasocialway. Certain extraote, more decent than the other verses,may bereprinted to illuetrate the truth of ous correspondent's assertions: We hope that you, with insight true, Will grasp the situation, And judge aright these sons of night Who sepire to be a nation, v7 hese heathen small, with wonders ful gall, Now claim to be our ¢qual— Their nerve intense, their impus dence, Are ot Taft's reign the sequel, We hope to see that you will be Quite thoughtful and disercet In all you say, throughout your stay, To natives you may meet. +* Tor we know the Filipinos, Know their faults and degradati: nj Ant we hope yous visit with us Will acmove abl falee ampreesie us Made by Tait and others ke him Asto what should be the stallen | Are You Going to Kansas Gity? Tf ro, stop with Stra, Fore tune Weaver, She haw euch nice cosy rooms—eo quict and home-like. 1009 McGee Su 410 E, 30tb St, and others Fornished and Unfornished Rooms.» Bell "Phone 3357 Main. Res. 911 Oak St. Kansan City. | Ul these little brown-ekianed heathen In “our Philippine possessions.” *,9 The correspondent's charge against our southern fellow citizens should not be allowed to go before the country without comment. The Republican does not believe that the responsibility for the condition of affairs depicted can be loaded upon the shoulders of the southerners alone. Itisvery easy, a priori, to make them scapegoats, In view of the relations between the whites and blacks in the southern states, but northerners resident in thearchi- peligo must be accounted blame- worthy also, How to distribute the blame with precision would be beyond our capacity, nor is itde» sirable thus to exacerbate feeling at home between the North and South. It is certain that the South was no$ responsible for the acquisition of the Phillppine Islands, and many ofthe southern senators, with real pres- ciencc, have opposed the Philippine “experiment” on the ground that one race problem was enough fos them, and mere, If race prejudice bs now developing In the archipeligo with alarming rapidity, as our Manila correspondent asserts, the South can protest, in Macbeth’s words, "Thou canst not say I did it,” The burden and responsibility of the Boutb, in connection with its domestic problems, sre heavy; to hold it to account for racial dis- couragements in the Philippines, even if individual southerners have catried to the islands prejudices against colored people, dcee not appeal to the sense of fairveer. FRED WHITE, Vres, J 8, WHITE, Mgr | Kansas Credit Co., Money to Loan On Household Goods, Live Stock and Jewelry. WOION, sth St. Kanaan City, Kas —<—<—$— HOTEL WILLARD,— rong St Lani Avenucy owh of Viaduct and onion St, HANSAS OTS, MISSUURL, W. M, AILSTOCK, Trop. Rates @1 0 Fae and $ ov per Day, Meck ROMS Ice Cream ard Soda Watew Florida Sleeper VIA a On November 15th, and daly thereafter, until the summer season of 1905, the Frisco System, in oon- nection with the Southern Railway, will operate through Pullman Bleep- ers between Kansas City, Mo, and Jacksonville, Fla, These sleeping cars will be placed in service as part of the equipment of the Popoler Southeastern Limited,” scheduled tw leave Kansas City6.30P,M. A modernly equipped train, electrie lighted cafe observation car, eto— the route of which carries the travel: er through the populous cities of the southeast, Berth reservations may be made through representatives of Frisco Bysterm or connecting lines, Passsnox’ Trarric Deranvmary, Saint Lovrs. : —_—_—_—_—_S——__ Local and Personal. ment The Summer Garden is more popular than ever. Mre Mattle Carpenter fs home from Colorado where spent several weeke in viciting Gool mude at Wileats Garten every Tuesdiy night. Mra. Magzie Williams, formerly Leanud, of Denver, Celernds, fe vleiting in the city. Wilson's Garden is open every Tuesday night. Congreseman Phi} P. Camubell wan in the city this week and made his announcement asa fuil fledged eindidate for U.S. aenator, Presiding Eller J. Ro Ransom of the Tart Seat district raised over $20,100 during the confererce yeanjuatclosed, which entitles him to the hue ribbon, Wilson's fSammvye Garden will romain open esery Tuesday night as loag a¢ the weather periits. Ladee Me, gentleman 15e or 25e per couple. Meare, DD, Hope, (Robert B, DeFrantzand Wm. Brooks atiended the Cratcher-Sanford wedding at Holton Wednesday evening. »_ Ed F. Landurof Cheyenne, Wyo., spenta few ders in the city this weok with his mother, Mrs. Cook. Sotho Tint conference at” Kanaas City Inet week and visited with friends in Laweence thia week, Rev. G W. [arts returned last week from a fifteen diys trip in Colorado, visiting at Denver, Col orade Springs and Pablo, Mr. Andy Mercombs of Ne stun, a baggizeman on the Sista Fe, 4F- rived ia the ci.y Wedaeadsy eve on afew days visit, and is the guest of Mr. an} Mea Lee Anderson, at Jiso Willmore street. Misa Mi nie Ramsey wax mariic | toMr, Joha Moutgomery Monday evening at ‘he home of the bride's motheren Tyler street, only the near relitives being proseut, The bride is one of the populie young ladhes of the city and the grown ix one of the lewling barbers,whe has conducte | a shop on East sth street for the pont twenty yer, ‘They will be at home to their frends at 924 Labayette street. W. W, lishe, messenger for the governor, *poke last’ Fradsy at an emancipation celebration a Neva: da, Mo., to over one thousiod per- song, four hundred of more being whites, who were fortunate to hear some history of Old John Brown, Abe Lincotn and Charles Sumner, aod their opinions on the rights of men, regardless of creed or color. We know there are many white people in old Missouri who never heard of the grand old heroew and the work they did until Mr. Fisher enlightened them, We are glad to learn that Rev, Joba F, Csok Taylue was returned Ba pastor of the Saint John African Methodist church for another year, He is strictly for busines, and all members and friends of the church should join im one grand dy and pay off the indelteducea duwu to tho hintdollar, Nev. ‘Taylor did well last year, Let uw all rendee hun greater avsitance this year, for It taker no chald’s play to pay off church dibu, Every dolla paid Bajuserewtsmounes wasted, Salut Jobo iw an cyedasting monument tothe nme in Topeka avd whould be tinencumbend, One of the saost proeporous moe chants in Kunsax Cay, Raneo, os Mr. I. J, Maddua, whe erica a full and festclasw tine of atuple antl fancy groceries, countiy jno- duce and mevtaof all kinds, His market iv uptodate inevery re: spect and you cancall lim over the Tome Phone $42 West or go to hie store, 852 Freeman avenue, and you wil] meet and talk with one of the most polite merchante in the West, and one of the moat succces- tnl anywhere. Ife is o solf made man and is fasteoming to the fronts, Rev, J, W. Jacobs, the effictent ind worthy pastor of Lane chapel CG. M. EL church, 24th and Van Burca streets, hae done much for the improvement of his church and the levation of his people ance being in Topeka, Me is a Chria Uan and desated gentleman, and wehope that his conference will return him to Topeka for another year, Rev. Jacobs has been and is now making preparations to enter- tainthe general conferance of his church which will convence in thin ecitynext May, Itwould beauicidal to change him at this time, as his work has given much satisfaction, aml] the people are so pleased with ham that they are praying Bishop Lane to return him, Andew 3B. Henry, Supreme Lealing Knight of the Weet, LP. 0, E., isin Lawrenee today trans acting business, The Pleasant Hour literary so- ciety will hold Ite first meeting of the season Saturday night, Oot, 4, at iuy’s hall, 425 Kaneas avenue. Program will be announced next week, N. Sawyer, Pres. M, Beck, Sec. 2ND CHRISTIAN CHURCH. The rally given in honor of Klder P. H. Moas, who closed his work with us last Sunday, was a grand success. Etch service was well attended, We feel that we are very much {indebted to Rey. W. S. Blake and people and sll other of the chueche: which helped to make tho rally a aucoces. Elder Moss baptized Miss Addie Posten at 6 o'clock p. m. Collection for the day $18.41. Eller Moss is now giving hie attention wholly to field work, LANE CHAPEL NOTES. Last Sunday was rally day wit ucand $100 was raised. Sunday, Oct. 1, Bishop Isaac Line, D.D., will preach at 11am, All are invited to be present, Monday evening, Oct. 2, Birhoy ‘Lane will lecture at Lane chapel tnd a contribution will Le taken to reluild Line college at Jackson, Teun, ‘The pastor aud officers invite all the members to be present on neat Sunday and py all claims and help in all collectionx ordered by the annual conference. Rev. J, W. Jacolia aud delegates will leave next Tucsday morning for Newton where the aunuat con ference will convene, Special mu- dic Will be furnished by the choir, The Little Rose of Eoglandclub met Wednesday afternoon at Mies ‘Anna Sneed’s home, at5 West Fitth atreet, and adjourned to meet with Miss Bertha Patson, 521 Norsh Jefferson etreet, De. O. A, Taylor is erecting a $3,000 residence on his three lots on South Van Buren street. Charles Whitney is the contractor, On the third Sunday in this month Rev, T. J, Carr will beio- stalled as pastor of the Firat Afti can Baptist church, ‘I'he pastors of the various churches have been in vited to participate ia the services, which willhe held at 3 o'clock, p, m. A later notice will give the program, —_—_— Mr, Wilham Crutcher of Topeka |: was married to Misa Fanuie Corne- ja Sanford of Georgia Wednesday syening at the homeot Mr,and Mra. Danielin Holton, Kansas, A num- verof Fopeka people attended the scdlding = Ontheir return a wed> fig reception was given atthe meat Mr avd Mes. Deunis Hope, The stave Baptist Consontion of Sansis will hold ite fometecnth unl mers Mat Cofleyvitie Os .u- waties, 1903, A speed ed) bas wen inal ta the 6,000 Baptb tr of Kansas, and agratand gherious gathering iv anticipated, ‘The un | mralled succers of the district com entionn recently closed iaiicate | sk Des eens san des 3 eee dete ses rn ics MP sess - Rising Sun Fire Insurance Co, . | Muskogee, Indian Territory. Watch This Space NEXT WEEK AGENTS | WANTED vention evor held by the Negro Bap- tists of Kaneas. $1,000 ts wanted to foster missionary work in Kan: sae, The call is signed by Rev, Matt S, Jones, Cor. and Fin. Sec'y, Atohison, Kansas, and Rev, E. A. Wilson, Pres,, KanrasCity, Kans. Perl W. Morgan, an enterprising and energetic young man who rep: resenta the Kansas City Star in Kansas City, Kan., is reaponsible for the anti-jolnt crusade which big paper is conducting. Mr. Morgan haa charge of the anti- Hquor tight in the whole state of Kansas and even comes to Topeka and handles the big storice of this character’ which originated hare. Dnring his absenco from Topeka he dopende on the local corespon- dents to look after the tight aad gives them frequent directions by telegraph and telephone. He is making a reputation for himself as in the work of “downing” the De- mon Rum and bis talenta undoubt- edly will be recognized and his en- ergy ippreciated by his employer, Mr. W, A. Sizemore, formerly of Topeka, died at Kansas Coty, Mo, ou Thursday, Sept. 21st, age G1 yrs. He was the father of Mra. Moxe: Barber, Mre, A. P, Smith of this city, Mre. H. Il, Hughes of Kan. sas City, and Lucy and William Sizemoro, His funeral was atend- ed at Vine Street Church in Kansas City, Sunday morning, at which services rdvolutions were read from the B. Y. P. U., and the Sunday School, The rematos arrived in the city Sunday afternoon, accompanied by hia wife, youngest daughter Lucy, Mr. and Mrs, Hughes and sen, and Mrs, Marshall. The remsine were taken to the undertakers, Hamilton aud Stonestreet, where they were viewed by loving friende until : :30, DRINK GOETZ Standard Beer THE BEER WITHOUT A HEADACHE. Established 1859, Saint Joxeph, Mo. M. K. GOETZ BREWING CO. |when they wore accompanied to the city cemetery by the Masonic lodge of which he has been a member for twenty-five years or more, and bur ied with Masonic honors, CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank the friends in Kanvas City and Topeka for their kindneses and sympathy during the ilness and death of our loving and devoted husbard and father. We aleo thank you for the beautiful Horal offering, Mrs. W. A, Sizemore, Mars. MH, Huouns, Mas. A. P. Suctu, Miss Lucy Sizastonx, W. RB. Sivemonrr, William MH. Smith arrived in the city Sunday, and is visiting hie fathor, Mr, A. P, Smith. OTTAWA. A most disrespectful act wa: committed hy Marshal Reed o Ottawa at the Santa Fe Depo last Friday. Mrs. 4 H. Brooks, the wife of Preriding Elves Brooks, who re tdes im that city and who was attending the con. ference at Kansas City, Kansas, was on her way to join her hus- band. While she was waiting for her train, some white woman claimed that she had lost her pocketbook. This poor, insig- nificant, red necked, uneducated and uncouth sleuth hound de- manded that this highly respect- ed and cultured Christian lady open her grip and pocketbook 80 that he could search for this money. There were several pas- sengers in the room at this time, but he never offered to search their pocketbooks orgrips. The Texas rebel mayor, Habloran, whose only ambitian is to tan- talize and humiliate the colored people, would appoint none but men of the typeof Reed, whose place should b, in the dog family. It isa disgrace to Ottawa and he name of Kansas to have such a class of inhuman monsters to idminister and preside over the ights of gocd people, We uns! lerstand that Rev. Brooks will ring suit for damages against| he mayor and chief for this owardly aot, Wehopehe will, | s we know thers is no jury in; cansas.that would not give them verdict, Mme. De Vaul Vincent’s 7 School of high clave tailoring Tutition reasonable, Write for information, 1288 Walout 8, KANSAS CITY, MO e ° Comfort in the Sick Room. + a sss > . Depends on many little things. Trained nurses know : what is wanted—an atomizer, with a mild disiafectant, to Spray the room and make the air clean and refresh- ing; a thermometer, fresh absorbent cotton, a hot water bottle—a dozen Iittle things that help the patient. The doctors and nurses know that we have all these things and others, in the most dependable qualities. We take this means of letting you know it. Prescriplions a Specialty, Vsti Phone aoief — # 732 Kansas Ave. — a i es THE OPPORTUNITY OF TO-DAY ‘Tho opportuns ttl 4 46 probably better to-day fn the pral- He ciaee Lt the sotthwent than sree beforsig tos shntory ef the eatone Zo ne fare, thore 1s not the vast open ehvice of land for the bomesicads that existed in the Me ‘The lands then taka up onder government laws are bow prosperous farms an raoches, The Spportonity to-day 16 im the investment chancess la the purchase of farm lands at prices less than baff the prices asked ja the Older States, ak ere Ie ne et more bande to develop the coustry. Ja the Soothwest-ia Ollaboma, Indias ‘Territory and Texas—-are vast areas of Uolwproved land Bot Z3' prodaciag vie crops Of which Isiscapable, Practically the some thing is trne of the towns, Few tines busines are adequnsely Treprescoled. ‘There are openingy of sll sorwe for tbe right Te Jou dre istercsted, tell ue whet you wact, bow moch you bare to invest, avd we will gladly furnish the information, Write fof & Copy ef our paper “The Coming Country.” Ivstree. Address GEORGE MORTON, W. P. LINDSEY. OP. RT.ALM.K, ATR, Dict Luwigration Ast. MK ET, Hy, Br, Lovie, Mae "238d Faroemet, Omaha, deb TO ALL CONCERNED, To skeptics, infidels, hypocrites, preacher-haters, chu reb-rebukers, heartless sinners, cheap, so-called preachers (2x4) of all kinds: We would not lose one moment's time weiting or making an argu- ment on behalf of our church or pastor; but to all God-loving, sober and progressive people, both saint and sinner, we do beg a brief hear. ing and one moment'sconsidoration. Having read in the columns of The Wichita Searchlight of the 16th inst, last concerning the Sec- ond Baptiat church of Wichita and its pastor, Rey, S. M. Hall, we, the members of the aaid church wish to waswer the statement. We know not from whenee the statement came, but kay thie: The whole of itis untrue from beginning to end. Thee ia naught at issue between Rev. Hall and the church over which he his charge. We believe him to be a Christian gentleman anda Galrent pastor, and be has always acted as kuch, aot only towards his members, but to thone who visit hid chureh, As tor the charges, which the article states were made at the as sociation, the Second Baptast church made none whatever, and if any one, be he whom he may, has made any charge either dircot or indirect, we brand him aaa blackmailer and shatt eee that bu is treated as such. We would aro call attention to he fact that God uud hiv ministers make churches; God and his minis tera and bis REAL churches make associations and conventions of every rank; associations nnd logger- head and envious preachers de not make RITHER churches or preachers, Our ¢great™ church at Wiohita elected Rey. 8. M. Hall for its pas- tor, July, 1003, and éa willing to stand by its action in 1803. We are looking after ourown interceta under God, Rev, Hall is a momber of the Second Baptist church, Wichita. Hin letter, accompanied by a wor. thy recommendation fromhis church in Alabama, was deposited in our church Sunday, May 15th, 1904. If some of those people who are finding so much fault with Rev. Hall, would clean out their own houses and get the religion of the Lord Jesus Cheist in their souls, they would find more time to work for God and lees time to find fault. Of truth, the Second Baptivt church bas selected one of the beet men in the state for its pastor, one who truly knows how to treat his members If he continues in the future as he has in the past, and with the help of the Almighty we know he will, we, the members of his church are eatisticd. Done by order of the church, September 17th, 1905. R. Wainon, J, T, Sanronp, B. ALevanper. —Committee, In answer to Mr. A. Chichon, whose article appeared in the greatest Negro paper of the west, "The Topeka Plaindealer." I am glad to know of some good hearted man who has the staminy to denounce the treatment of the Negro of Mississippi by the damnable whites of that country. As I read the article of their cruel treatment, it caused the blood to run cold in my veins. To learn of one flesh and blood maltreating another on account of color causes me to think his spirit will forever be crushed, but right is bound to prevail. The time has come when all such actions must cease. We are supposed to be in a civil country where Christian hearts should predominate and they will triumph above all even under adverse circumstances. We are law abiding citizens and have appealed to our Supreme Ruler of State, and yet our protection is very limited. Our great and noble Mr. Roosevelt has been active in bringing about peace between Russia and Japan, but he turns a deafening ear to the cries of the sunny south asking for protection from him for the inhuman treatment perpertrated upon the black man by the Southern rebels. Just think of it, dear friends, a woman acting as a servant and for some cause refuse to subdue to some of the landlady's dictations. She relates the same to her son and he goes to this servant's home in the presence of her husband, strips her of her clothing and there administers the lash un: til the blood flows, and her husband dared to open his mouth in defense of her. I only wish there were more of our writers this great paper would place the facts before our people as they are, of the cruel treatment received from the hands of the whites in Columbus, Mississippi and other southern towns. The time is at hand when we must place our lives at stake to defend insulted right. While I do not wish to pour into unwilling ears a tale of woe, but worse than the traitor and coward is that man who fails to recount the wrongs of his race or attempts not to have those wrongs mitigated and redressed. Where is the man or woman that would not listen with burning indignation to stories recounted of the sufferings of the Irish peasants, but there is a race whose wrongs are not surpassed by Russian exile and Irish peasantry. While the Israelites still mourn over the desolation a Zion, the Sons of Ham have not been disenthralled from social and political bondage. A civil rights bill was introduced into our American Congress, but it is almost as wholly disregarded south of the Mason and Dixon line as if it had been repealed and forfotton. You ask, "What are the demands of the colored man?" Our answer is, "That he desires whenever our colors fly to be treated as an American citizen, that we may enjoy all rights guaranteed to every American citizen, and that we shall enjoy the same right in Mississippi as in the State of Kansas." L.H. Grosse LETTER OF INQUIRY. TO THE PLAINDEALER: I hereby write this letter of inquiry in an endeavor to find the whoreabouts of my brother, Wm. Crowell, called in short "Will." I heard from him about a year ago at New Orleans, La. Since that time I have written several letters to him, but have heard nothing from him, my letters returning. So, if there are any readers of this paper who know anything of him they will confer a great favor upon the undersigned by communicating to him the desired information. John H. Crowell, Box 127, Orlando, Okla. When you desire to invest $1 50 in a race enterprise that will bring you a hundred fold in happiness and comfort try THE PLAINDEALER. 3c per week is all we ask for this great weapon of our race's defense. DECREES OF FASHION PRETTY AND CORRECT THINGS TO WEAR. Blouse or Shirt Waist Suitable for All Materials—Skirt With Shirred or Plain Yoke—Velvet Ribbon Trimming—Hints for the Home. Popular Separate Blouses. Again and again it has been prophesied that the separate blouses must be put one side, but as yet practical women will not give them up. The inbetween blouses, dressy enough for the theater or luncheons, but high necked and long sleeved, seem to get prettier and prettier. The loveliest of them all are made of those exquisite flowered silks—with shadowy flowers that fade in out of the background in so artistic a way. Those exquisite soft crepes with flower prints are charming draped and trimmed with tiny hand-tucks, or puffs, or lace. Soft drapy silks are very good—but so are stiff silks, and a combination of both. The soft chiffon failies, in exquisite soft shades of pink, or blue, or violet, make up into beautiful blouses. But, besides silk, soft fine woolen stuffs—mostly white, are being used a great deal. Albatross, silk and wool stuffs, soft wool crepes and a dozen others are made up into as attractive blouses, in their way, as the silks are in theirs. Magnificent Evening Coats. One of the novelties of the season in the way of an evening coat is cut on the lines of a mandarin's coat, richly embroidered in colors and gold thread and lined throughout with Chinese sable. This sable is even rarer than the Russian fur and is less expensive. It has a very long nap and is in two distinct colors, a rich mouse gray near the pelt and cinnamon brown at the tip. Among the newest evening coats are those made of flowered satins and silks. They are quite full around the skirts and profusely decorated with lace and touches of fur. WHILE THE TEA DREWS Bolero lines, to be at all modish, must cling close to the figure. One handsome black velvet gown had appliqué of white' kid for trimming. Moleskin will certainly be worn by those who purchased garments thereof last winter. Broad bows of pink and blue velvet, covered with glittering sequins, are shown for the hair. A questionable fad is a slender watch chain encircling the waist and suspending the watch in front. Silk belts that match the gown are draped tight without buckle, delineating the supplices of the waist. There was never a more favorable time to get out odd bits of old trimming and use them to good advantage. Narrow toes have broadened and wide toes have narrowed and the compromise is a sensible and pleasing width. Blouse or Shirt Waist. This shirt waist will be found most excellent for all the waistings of the season, cotton, linen, silk and wool, and is as smart as it is simple, besides suiting stout figures well, there being no greater mistake extant than the theory that such are at their best in plain waists. The wide tucks at the front that give ample fullness below the stitchings, and the broad box plait at the center, are both new and desirable, and combine most satisfactorily with the plain back. The model is made of cheviot white with lines of blue, and is worn with a blue lines stock. But this last can be anything one may prefer, or can be omitted altogether in favor of ribbon tied in a big bow, although it really is admi- . able both for this special waist and as a model for the bald ones of which there can never be too many. The waist is made with fronts and back that are fitted by means of shoulder and underarm seams, and is gathered at the waist line, the back being drawn down smoothly, the fronts made to blouse over the belt. The sleeves are the accepted ones of the season, and are finished with straight cuffs, and the shaped stock finishes the neck. The quantity of material required for the medium size is 4 1/4 yards 81 inches wide, 4 yards 27 inches wide, or 2 yards 44 inches wide, with 14 yard of any width for stock. Worn at Chicago Horse Show. An effective and elaborate white gown in India lawn and late insertion, seen at the Chicago horse show, had a To the Public: To the Readers of THE TOPKA PLAINDEALER, Memphis, Tenn.: GREETING: Mr. Joe A. J. Cockrell, No. 146 Meachem ave., Memphis, Tenn., is sole agent for THE PLAINDEALER in your city and he is duly authorized to solicit and collect money for the same. Please report all irregularities in the receipt of the paper to him so that he may notify this office; also report to your postmaster if there is any trouble. The paper is mailed regularly from this office each week on Friday. We try to keep abreast of the times and let the people know what is doing in the social and business world. We shall cover the southern territory thoroughly and will write that which we think best for the betterment of the race. We are trying to educate the white man not to dote on his color because he is white, but to respect all men of merit, regardless of color, and that an industrious Negro is as good as an industrious white man. God created all forms of man, beast and fowl, and all nations of the earth are of one blood, and we cannot see why the white man should expect any special privileges over the black man because one is white and the other is black. We want an equal show in the race of life and that is all we ask; to be regarded with the same opinion as the white man when of the same standard, whether he be a gentleman, a tramp or a convict. We want fair play, justice and an equal show in all things and such shall be our motto. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Anna Burson, Plaintiff, vs William Burson, Defendant. To William Burson: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff, in the above named court, for a divorce and that unless you answer the petition filed in the said court on or before the 20th day of October, 1905, the petition will be taken as true, and judgment entered accordingly. [SEAL] ANNA BURSON, PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the district Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. R. H. Miles, Plaintiff, VS No. 23471. Dora Miles, Defendant. The State of Kansas to Dora Miles, Greeting: You are hereby notified that you have been sued for divorce by said plaintiff, R H. Miles, in the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, and that you must answer the petition filed by said plaintiff in said court, on or before the 27th day of October, 1905, or the petition will be taken as true and judgment for divorce will be rendered against you accordingly. A. B. CRUM AND C. A. MAGAW, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Attest: I. S. Curtis, Clerk of the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. [HAR L.] 4. B. M. K. 5282 FOR SALE. 929 KANSAS AVE. 2 lots, 8 rooms, Quincy. ... $3,800 1 lot, 5 rooms, Clay. ... 1,250 2 lots, 8 rooms, Van Buren. ... 3,800 1½ lots, 9 rooms, Western Aves. ... 200 2 lots, 5 rooms, Harrison. ... 1,250 2 lots, 5 rooms, Hancock. ... 500 2 lots, 6 rooms, Bolles. ... 1,500 1½ lots, 7 rooms, 12th ... 2,000 1 lot, 5 rooms, 6th. ... 1,200 1 lot, 8 rooms, 6th. ... 2,100 1½ lots, 7 rooms, Western. ... 2,900 1½ lots, 25 room cottages, Kline, 2,100 Lota Tyler, each. ... 350 1½ acres, 5 rooms, 20th. ... 1,500 1 lot, 2 rooms, Cane. ... 425 Grocery, market stock and fixtures; best location in the city, 5,000. Lampkin Hotel, 210 LAMPKIN ST. Pueblo Colo. Near the Union Depot— Rooms neatly furnished— Enquireat depot. B. W. Shelton, Proprietor. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. E. T. Burrows Company By virtue of an execution issued to me out of said District Court, in the above entitled action, I will, on Monday, the 23rd day of October, A. D. 1905, at ten o'clock a.m. of sail day, at the east front door of the Court House in the City of Topeka, in the County of Shawnee, in the State of Kansas, offer at public sale, and sell to the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand, all the following described real estate, to wily Lot No. 92 on Main street in the City of Rossville lying and situate in the County of Shawnee in the State of Kansas. The above decribed real estate is taken as the property of said defendant, and is directed by said execution to be sold without appraisement, to satisfy said execution. A, T, Lucas, Sheriff of Shawnee County, Kansas, The Waiters and Caterers' association at 1223 Baltimore avenue, Kansas City, Mo., is prepared to serve first-class meals. First-class rooms. First-class barbershop and bath rooms in connection. Wm. McKnight, Business Mgr. Don't Buy Your Fall Hat Until you see my nice new FALL STOCK. Every hat up-to-date, and in all the latest shapes. I am sure that you will find something to suit you. Mrs. L. H. Slaughter, 115 West Seventh St. Howard Uni Medical Including Medical, contic Howard University Medical Department Including Medical, Dental and Pharmacutic Colleges INCORPORATED 1867. Thirty-eighth session and continue eight months for day instruction only. Four-years' Graded Three-years' Graded C Three-years' Graded Instructions are given clinics and practical laboratories in all hospital facilities. All stu. October 14, 1905. For further information F. J. SHADDY SECR 901R St., Northwest. Thirty-eighth session will begin October 2, 1905, and continue eight months. Students matriculated for day instruction only. Four-years' Graded Course in Medicine. Three-years' Graded Course in Dental Surgery. Three-years' Graded Course in Pharmacy. Instructions are given by didactic lectures, quizzes, clinics and practical laboratory demonstrations. Well-equipped laboratories in all departments. Unexcelled hospital facilities. All students must register before October 14, 1905. For further information or Catalogue, apply to F. J. SHADD, A. M., M. D., SECRETARY. 901R St., Northwest. WASHINGTON, D. C. Issues policies for We issue policies for $100, $150 and |||This is the only Color Company in the Every intelligent Negro anou good, live, hustling agents in eve Liberal terms to the right persons. The Knights and K Oil. James Beck, Nat'l Pres. James M. Mason, Nat'l Vice Pres. J. H. CH Headquarters: 413 Kausas Ave. We issue polices for $100, $150 and $200 for children aged from 6 to 20. This is the only Colored Fraternal Insurance Company in the United States. Every intelligent Negro should carry some Insurance. We want good, live, hustling agents in every town. Write at once for terms. Liberal terms to the right persons. Dr.J.M. Amis. Defendant SAN GIOVANNI PROVINCE ITALIA LIVE STOCK The Record Stockman of Denver is authority for the statement that about 5,000 sheep are being fattened at Greely, Colo., by the Greeley Sugar company. They are divided up in pens of 700 to 800 sheep each, each pen being in charge of a feeder whose business it is to watch them closely. Oct. 11, at the time they were put on feed, they averaged seventy four pounds each, and during the first three weeks made a gain of two and a half pounds per head per week. The ration is ten pounds of pulp to one-half pound of alfalfa hay per day per head. To this ration it is expected to add a small ration of sugar beet molasses. Experiments last year indicated that the molasses tended to make a firmer flesh, and that sheep fed with it as part of the ration shrunk less in shipping. The sugar company expects to feed during the season approximately 15,000 head of sheep and 500 to 600 head of cattle. The results last year were a profit of 90 cents per head for the pulp feed sheep. Experiments were conducted last year in feeding pulp and alfalfa and corn, with the result that the pulp and alfalfa fed sheep gained from 15 to 25 per cent more than those which received the corn in addition.—Wallace's Farmer. In the care of the bull gentleness is the first consideration. He learns that no one is going to abuse him and he does not look for trouble. Firstly, a bull should be raised right, then there is no trouble. It takes many months to tame a badly raised bull and our advice is to let such a bull alone. Have a small stable or pen by the barn or other convenient place where the bull may be kept. An exercising lot is essential to his health. Brush him daily and feed him a little grain. Feed only clean hay, and salt should always be before him. Water him regularly. Good service from him is only had by giving him good care. When a bull is kept up and a record is made of each cow bred, all the calves may be saved that bad weather would kill if they came at such times. Have a sort of system about things in the care of See us for job printing. iversity al Department Dental and Pharma- Colleges n will begin October 2, 1905. months. Students matriculated ly. and Course in Medicine. Course in Dental Surgery. Course in Pharmacy. en by didactic lectures, quizzes, oratory demonstrations. Well- all departments. Unexcelled students must register before tion or Catalogue, apply to D, A. M., M. D., RETARY. WASHINGTON, D. C. INSURED? Knights and Ladies of Protection A NATIONAL FRATERNAL INSURANCE SOCIETY Corporated Under the Laws of Kansas, $350, $500 and $1000. and $200 for children aged from 6 to 20. Nored Fraternal Insurance in the United States. would carry some Insurance. We want every town. Write at once for terms. Ladies of Protection. P. C. Thomas, Nat'l Supt. J. G Groves, Nat'l Treas. CHILDERS. Nrl Sec., L. Cars of the Bull. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the Court of Topeka, in and for the City of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Maggie Adams, Plaintiff, vs Thad Simpson, Defendant. The said defendant, Thad Simpson, is hereby notified and required to take notice that he has been sued by the above said plaintiff before Hon. A. J. McCabe, judge of the above named court for the sum of $20 50 and his wages attached for that sum, interest and costs; and that he, the said defendant, Thad Simpson, must answer said cause of action and claim of said plaintiff on or before the 16th day of Sept. 1905, or said claim will be taken as true and judgment rendered against him for said sum according to law. By her attorney, A.M. THOMAS: Before A.J. McCART, Judge. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the Court of Top H. Shawnee County, Kansas Frank Lefty, estrusted in bankruptcy of A. Bear, bankrupt. Plaintiff. vs W. R Case and Son Cutlery Company, Defendant. State of Kansas to W. R. Case and Son Cutlery Co. Greeting: You are hereby notified that the above plaintiff has filed in the above court his bill of particulars against you, claiming that you are indebted to plaintiff in the sum of $86 16 with 6 per cent interest from January 8, 1903, on account of preference received in the matter of A Beur, bankrupt, and in said action has caused a garnishment summons to be issued to C. E. Hubbard, who has answered said garnishment that he is indebted to you in the sum of $140 00. Now you are hereby notified that unless you answer the bill of particulars filed herein on or before the 25th day September, 1905, at 9 a.m., that said bill of particulars will be taken as true and finding made accordingly, directing said garnishee to pay into court in accord with the said answer, such sums as may be necessary to pay the amount claimed herein and the costs of this action, hereof you will take due notice. L. H. GREENWOOD, Judge pro tem. W. S. McCLINTOCK, Attorney for Plaintiff. Ed. O' NEIL, Clerk. 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That is, he is born of a woman and is buried in the earth to await the coming of the great day when all shall be judged according to their deeds, and there is no reference as to race and nationality, or as to rights before the great Jehovah. If the editor of the Journal can show us conclusively that the teaching of colored children separate from the whites is logical and reasonable, we will be willing to accept it, but it is impossible for any human being to prove this to us wherever the white people are teaching their children in the school room and by the fireside that they are superior to the colored children, and that the colored children have no rights which they are bound to respect. The greatest cry in this country now is that the most success that has been achieved with good cattle and horses is the crossing of the breed. The white man succeeded in crossing with the Negro during the last three centuries, and we have seen no degeneration from that fact. He is so afraid of social equality on that a Negro will get close to a white woman and that she might love him. It is just as fair for the Negro to love a white woman as for the white man to love a colored woman. If the white man had been as industrious in separating the races when slavery existed as he is now pretending to be, he would be able to tell a colored man from a white man. It has become so now that they can hardly be told apart, and we do not think it is fair for the original man to deny his race. Where a man is part colored and part white he has just as much right to associate with the white race as with the colored, and it is a fool who does not associate with his race as he desires, as he belongs to both. The association is determined to show to the world the fallacy of the white man and the impracticability of his winning out on this race tone issue. The races are bound to mix, and it is only a question of time when the white man will be glad to accept the Negro in his entirety as a brother and an American citizen The association adjourned to meet in Colorado Springs in 1905, where we will continue the great work of educating the white man in the moral duty that he owes the colored man as a citizen of the United States of America. The law passed by Congress enabling the freedmen to sell his homestead as an outrage and traverses the rights of the colored people of the territory. This right was not given the Indian, but we can tell why it was given the freedmen. It was for the sole purpose of robbing him of his lands by the white man. We want every colored man in a district where he has a representative in Congress to write him to stop this outrage. We should call the attention of the proper officers to this matter at once. OFFICERS. The Western Negro Press association at this morning's session elated officers and adopted resolutions. The next meeting will be held at Colorado Springs. The meeting here will conclude with a banquet tonight. The following officers were elected: President, W. H. Duncan, Colorado Springs, Colo. Vice President, C. N. Sellers, Buxton, Iowa. Secretary, John H. Jackson, Colorado Springs. Corresponding Secretary, W H. Twine, Muskogee, L T. Recording Secretary, F. J. Gordon, Muskogee. Treasurer, Miss S. Ridley, Guthrie, Okla. RESOLUTIONS. The resolutions follow: We, your committee on resolutions of the Western Negro Press association, beg leave to submit the following resolutions: Since it is the settled policy of the white race in the southern states to abridge the political rights of the Negro race, and since the 14th amendment to the federal constitution has been powerless to protect our race from the passage of laws discriminating between the races, therefore be it Resolved, That a committee from the Western Negro Press association be appointed to present a memorial to the president of the United States and members of congress at the coming session, opposing statethood for the two territories, unless absolute guarantees can be given that no "Jim Crow" coach laws and other laws discriminating between the races in public places shall be passed when the territories are admitted as joint or separate states into the federal union. Resolved, That we urge our race to acquire the lands that are now being put upon the market in the two territories as the surest means of becoming landed proprietors and holding their own in the accumulation of that wealth which is conducive to good citizenship and to their material prosperity. Resolved, That we indorse the administration of President Roosevelt and regard him as the most just and fearless chief executive of the nation since the days of the great emancipator, Abraham Lincoln, and congratulate him in securing the recent peace between Russia and Japan. Resolved, That we denounce lynching as well as the perpetrators of crimes leading thereto, be they white or colored, and we call upon our people in all sections of our country to throw their influence on the side of law and order, shielding no one from just prosecution before the courts of the land when crimes are committed which deserve condign punishment. Resolved, That we indorse the positive position as stated in the "History of Education," written by Prof. John H. Jackson of Colorado Springs, Colo., and which has been adopted as a text book by the great A. M. E. church, that no separate schools should be established in states where slavery has never existed, but that in states where both races favor separate schools these schools should exist as means to an end rather than as an end in themselves. Resolved, That we favor the idea of industrial education and the National Negro Business league, advocated by Booker T. Washington as being the surest and most speedy means of producing the skilled laborers so necessary for the material growth our people, and also favor the Niagara movement, advocated by Prof. DuBois and others, as offering the best course to be pursued in gaining those political rights for our people in the South to which they are justly entitled by every consideration of justice and fair dealing; and we do not believe that there should be the least difference of opinion in these movements each of which, we think, is designed to uplift and elevate the colored race along with the other nationalities of our country. R resolved, That the president of the United States and the secretary of the interior department be informed that the rights given the freedmen to raise the restrictions to enable them to sell their homesteads is being abused, and if not stopped, they will soon dispose of their homesteads and will become paupers and words of the nation. R resolved, That intelligently conducted newspapers that will be fearless, honest and consistent in the defense and support of our constitutional rights, privileges and CUTS Engraving Dept. of the Mail = Dreeze makes cuts CUTS immunities are absolutely essential to our future peace, progress and prosperity in this country; we urge the editors of our Negro journals to at all times speak manfully in the defense of our rights and encourage our people in all things that tend to their moral, political and financial uplift; and we further urge our people to read reputable journals published and edited by men of their race and lend all possible moral and financial aid to the publication of such journals. We urge upon our people the necessity of demanding their civil and political rights in all sections of our country and the supreme importance of enforcing these rights before the properly appointed courts of our land. JOHN H. JACKSON, Chr. W. H. DESCAN. ST. JOSEPH. MO. The rain lasting every day and night for an entire week, finally quit, and now St. Joseph is enjoying a real Indian summer. The people throughout the city are quietly making ready for the winter. Very little is doing except the opening of schools and your correspondent has not come into possession of a sufficiency of reliable facts for a fair writeup of our public schools. Some of the best talent in the city rendered a fine musical and literary program to assist the Bartlett High school pupils in the purchase of a new piano last week. The entertainment was held at the Francis street Baptist church on Monday night, September 18th. Every number on the program was fine and the entire list was of the highest order and class in the city. Special and most honorable mention could truthfully be made of every participant. But the A. M. E. church quartette, Miss Zrelda Gordon's and Mrs. W. A. Browns vocal solos and the Misses Scott's duet, as well as others were parts seldom equalled anywhere. All were encored again and again. The audience sat till eleven o'clock and still encored the last number on the program. The large church was comfortably filled and nobody seemed otherwise than highly delighted with this most rare and excellent program. It is refreshing and encouraging to note the reports of the schools. From our daily papers PUBLICATION NOTICE. Inthe Court of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Frank Lofty, as Trustee in Bankruptcy of the estate of A. Bear, bankrupt, Plaintiff vs Gille Mfg. Co., Defendant. The State of Kansas to Gille Mfg. Co., Greeting; You are hereby notified that the above plaintiff has filed in the above entitled court his bill of particulars against you claiming that you are indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $161 36, with six per cent interest from January 8, 1903, on account of preference received in the matter of A. B. ar. bankrupt, and in said action has caused a garnishment summons to be issued to M. S. Marple, who has answered said garnishment that he is indebted to you in the sum of about $140, more or less. Now, you are hereby notified that unless you answer the bill of particulars filed herein on or before the 30th day of September, 1903, at 9 a.m., that said bill of particulars will be taken as true and finding made accordingly, directing said garnishee to pay into court, in accord with said answer, such sums so may be necessary, so far as the same may apply to pay the amount claimed herein and the costs of this action. Hereof you will take due notice. it is learned that at the close of the week Principal Bruce of the Bartlett school had enrolled 224 pupils; Principal J. H. Sims of Lincoln school had enrolled 170; Principal B. T. Perkins of the Avenue school enrolled 53; Principal Burns of Douglass school at the South End enrolled 51, and Miss Endicott, South Park, enrolled 22 pupils. Every thing seems smooth and progressive in our public schools here now. Principal Bruce stated that the freshman class in the High school is just twice as large as a year ago, which shows hope on the start and new spirit for education among our people. Principal Sims is all smiles on his success in getting Mr. McGee of Kansas City to teach manual training to his Lincoln school boys. He always has right side up with the strongest and most progressive wind that blows progress. Bartlett school will no longer enjoy a monopoly as industrial leader in St. Joseph. Furthermore, besides Professor Sims, several white schools, including the white High school, are having manual training this year, and so it seems that after all, Principal Bruce of the Bartlett High school has not labored in vain, for not only his works, but that of other schools, do follow him. The writer has been an onlooker for the past three years in St. Joseph, taking no sides, but from now on she herself is for all sorts of education which gives power, capacity and skill. Let the people be educated fully and all alon the line, is our wish. Lawyer L. A. Kuox of Kansas City was in our city last Friday and Saturday and reports progress among his people of that great emporium. Rev. J. C Caldwell returned from the Kansas conference and now is off for his own conference, and will be returned to us. The Douglass Lyceum held Emancipation service Thursday evening and rendered a good program. The Men's club of Francis street church is alive and pushing well towards the front. All the good elements are getting into good shape for an advance in good works for the people's good. The ministers of the various churches are planning a union meeting for mensaving in the near future. Rev. E. M. Cohran is chairman and Rev. J. C. Caldwell is secretary, Rev. D. J. Mitchell, Rev. J. McLain and Father Daniels are vice presidents and Rev. J. H. Scott is treasurer. WEIR CITY. KAN8. Mrs Anna Boyd returned from Pittsburgh last week where she has been working in the Interest of the Daughters of Tabor and will set up a tabernacle there Oct. 9th. Rev. W. E. Stewart and Presiding Elder Rivers of the C.M.E. church were in the city last Friday on business of the church. Rev. P. J. Jackson of Memphis, is in the city and preached Sunday at St. John Baptist church. Mr. Louis Mermen of Paola, who claims to be 105 years old, was in the city last Sunday by mistake. In returning from Kansas City on an excursion train he went to sleep and did not awake until he reached this city. Mrs. Briny Smith is still sick. Mr. S. Bylel is very sick. Mr. Coleman, who is blind, was in Cherokee last Saturday, guest of J. D. F. Smith and wife. Prof. Payne and his band passed through the city last Friday on the way from Pittsburgh to Joplin, Mo. where they played for the grand emancipation celebration. Prof. Fenley made a trip to Joplin on the 22d and to Ft. Scott on the 23rd. A few p(our, people went on the excursion to Kansas City Sunday. Rev J. E. Fletcher of the A. M. E. church, left on the 19th inst., for Kansas City to attend conference, with the greatest report in the history of the church, both spiritu- ly and financially, having more than $35 in dollar money. All the joints have been closed One of the boys who could not cut out the habit was glad to see Col. R. W. Blue make the boys quit the selling of the fiery liquids. Dave Woody left Monday for the Indian Territory to gather his corn and cotton and to attend the sale of lots in Boynton on Oct. 2. N. 8. Mayweather went to Pittsburg to have a dentist put some gold in his mouth. Several of our citizens were in Cherokee last Sunday attending the rally at the Mt. Aera Baptist church which was a success from every point of view. Mrs. Mary Harris, captain of Club No. 1, raised the sum of $153.34, and Mrs.R.A.Smith as captain of Club No. 2, $144.40, with a public collection of $4.10, making a total of $301.S4, which will be used to enlarge the church building. This shows well for Rev. T.E Pierce as pastor. The good people of Cherokee seem to have a bright future before them. FRANKFORT. KAS. C. M. Hickman, who has been in Topeka for the past two months, has returned home. Miss Agnes Cloud and her cousin, Miss Myrtle Sletcher, who have been visiting the former's parents in this city, returned to K. C. Sunday. Rev. Hitchcock, pastor of the M. E. church of this city, preached at the C. M. E church last Sunday afternoon. The sormon was grand and all fortunate enough to have heard it enjoyed a season of refreshing from the Lord. Miss Clara Baird of Centratia arrived in the city Sunday and will remain with us for some time. WANTED-A good housekeeper for a family of six. Good wages and a gork house to right person. For further particulars apply to ROBERT MADDOX, 035 W, Eighth Street, Junction City, Kas. When in Leavenworth call on these gentlemen at Headquarters Open day and nign.. Refreshments of all kinds 416 Cherokee Street. TERRITORIAL NOTES. CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. had money to pay all the depositors and plenty left. After the people found that the bank was on a solid foundation they began to return and deposit their money as before. We wish this bank unlimited success and hope that the deposits and surplus will continue to grow rapidly as in the past. The Rising Sun Fire Insurance Company, located at Muskogee, saves you money and carries your risk on household goods, houses and barns at a less premium and safer risk than any other company in the territory. Colored agents wanted to travel for the Rising Sun Fire Insurance Co., headquarters at Muskogee. Write J. E. Johnson, General Manager for particulars. They want a man who is honest and reliable and can talk fire insurance to establish local agencies throughout the territory. This is a good position for a sober, bright, industrious young man, who can be reliably recommended. This company wants several good men at once. We stopped over at Wagner, I T. last week and found a number of prosperous colored people. Among them wore W. H. Smith, Son and company, general merchandise; Mrs. Lucy Swift, who keeps a boarding house and a neat little grocery and confectionery store, which is one of the most substantial small concerns in the town. Mrs. Swift is an enterprising young lady, an honest, hard worker, and has accumulated some money since being located at Wagner. J. K. Jones and Company are doing a large business in the grocery line. Isaac Everett has a small business. W.F. Sterrett conducts a small restaurant and grocery, and does good business. He is one of the old land marks of Wagner. The Early's do quite a business; they have just recently moved to Wagner and purchased some valuable property. We met Captain Jones, who conducts the largest mercantile house in Wagner; although he is a Missouri Democrat, he is quite loyal to the colored people and seems to be doing much to assist them in keeping them land. He is one of our subscribers. J. F. Hall, the real estate dealer, is doing quite a business. There are any number of big land owners in and around Wagner among the colored people, in fact they control most of the land in that vicinity. Mr. Henry Kidd, who has lived there for the last forty years, owns and controls over 1200 acres of land and some of it is located near the city. --- See =