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TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. The Negroes of This State Should Raise One Thousand Dollars to Assist in Erasing the Black-laws from Our Statutes! Historical Society State House E 北洋戏院 CHARLES KNAVES' BEAUTIFUL TONSORIAL PARLORS. VOLUME VII. The Negroes PROSPESITY IN JOPLIN! Missouri Negroes are Making Commandable Strides in the Business World. Last week was spent by THE PLAINFALER'S Southern representative in southwest Missouri and after filing a neat report from that place, we feel obligated to give a few sketches of the prominent Negroes of that section who are living witnesses to the thriftiness, push and energy of our race in that section The most conspicuous character THE WEEKLY PRESS MR. A. A. CRAWFORD. in that section bears the title of Adolphus A Crawford, who for six years past has filled with honor the position of shipping clerk for the wholesale drug firm of that city. Mr. Crawford is a product of the Carthage schools, together with five years special training under the tutorship of Prof. W. T. Bird of Oberlin College. That his training was thorough and complete is better vouched for by one considering the position which he now holds. Mr. Crawford's position as shipping clerk carries with it the responsibility of the entire stock, and the buying of all patent medicines, and with one assistant G U. Grammar, he takes care of this department with accuracy and dispatch. Mr. Crawford has held this position for eight years, having started with the firm in Carthage, afterward moving with them to Joplin. He is a thorough model young man, and more in that section would do well to follow in his foot steps. Mr Crawford has recently returned from an extended trip through the West, and said much that would cause us to think that one CHARLES KNAVES' BEAUTY of his dearest future hopes lies somewhere around the "Rockies." He He attended the exposition at Portland while out West. We also had the pleasure of meeting P. Fred Roman, the harness maker at 917 Main street Mr. Roman is an admirer of The Plain-REALER, having known its manager TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER. 13, 1905 when a small lad selling papers in Carolina Mr. Roman operates one of the best shops in the city, and enjoys a most enviable trade. The largest Elk lodge in southwest Missouri is under the stewardship of J. Bland Brown, one of the best caterers in the country. Mr. Brown is a most pleasant gentleman to meet, and is well liked by the Elks in that section. He speaks of coming to Topeka to join the colored Elks at that place. The public schools have a new addition this year in the person of Miss E. Morton, from Llucolu Institute, a most estimable young lady who will add greatly to the present faculty of Joplin's colored schools. Charles H. Knaves the proprietor of the barber shop in Joplin hotel, is easily doing the largest barber business in the city. He has been at present location for twelve years. He is easily the political spokesman for the Negroes of that locality. A.J. Shobe, formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas, has opened a restaurant in connection with the R. and B club, and is doing a neat business. Mr. Shobe is one of the best all round cooks in Kansas. He has managed a number of the best kitchens in Kansas. Below we produce the likeness of Walter McCoy, of the well known fighters throughout Missouri and Kansas. Walt is a Kansas boy born in Bourbon county in ';2. He received his early training at that place and later was sent to Quindtre to complete his education. It was at this institution that McCoy JOHN H. HARRIS proved himself an athlete, carrying off a number of honors while playing in the football team of that school. At the age of twenty three, McCoy acknowledged his craze for prize-fighting and immediately went into training, and on his departure from the ring side a few months ago, had thirty two fights to his credit Mr. IFUL TONSORIAL PARLORS. McCoy has made large sums of money during his fighting career and has some of it in evidence in property in Baxter Springs, Quindaro and J plin. He is the present proprietor of the R and P B club at 137 N Mass street, which is doing CONTINUED ON PAGE RIGHT. KANSAS BAPTISTS HOLD FORTH IN COFFEYVILLE! KANSAS BAPTISTS HOLD FORTH IN COFFEYVILLE! The State Convention and the Womens' Mission Union Held a Profitable Session—Many Delegates Were Present from all Over the State—Harmony Provails Throughout the Gathering. The fifteenth annual session of Baptist State convention and the Women's Missionary Union convened at Macedonia Baptist church, Coffeyville, Kas., Rev. P. D. Skinner, pastor, Oct. 3rd. This was one of the most harmonious conventions ever held since its organization, ev. E. A. Wilson, is a scholarly, distinguished minister and disciplinarian, and as presiding officer, has few equals. He is fair and conservative in his deliberations, and is fairly worshipped by the ministers of this state. He is now one of the leading authors of Baptist literature in America. The convention adjourned on Saturday after transacting considerable business which was of valuable importance to the Baptists of this state. Nearly $15,000 was collected at this session and the report showed that several thousand dollars had been paid into the treasury of the convention during the past year. Rev. Wilson was re-elected as president for a second term and John E. Lewis, of Wichita, who has been secretary for the last ten years, was also re elected. The election of these two men was unanimous. Mr. Lewis is the most competent secretary we know of, and always keeps a correct copy of the proceedings of the convention. Mrs. Emma Galnesis president of the Woman's Home and Foreign Mission society, and is one of the strongest organizers in the Baptist church. Mrs. E. Arlington Wilson, one of the assistant financial secretaries of the convention and also one of the leaders of the Missionsry society, is a lady of great ability and thoroughly understands the church work of the Baptist denomination. She is one of the best literary and B. Y. P. U. and S. S. workers in the West and is the equal of any in the United States. We know of no officer connected with the Baptist church who can equal her. The following are extracts from the annual address of Dr. Wilson: "We march beneath the folds of a banner stained with blood, emblazoned with the inscription. "One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." We are here to serve notice to the world that it is 'by this sign we conquer.'" "Mr. President: It is in this spirit of expectancy that we meet in these walls, in this beautiful and progressive city. It is with this prayer of hope, ladies and gentlemen, that we labor and live within the hallowed state of Kansas. Brethren, may we briefly as possible review the past, in order that we may turn our faces to the future, and seek understanding from Him who hath declared that 'Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands unto God.'" "Eastward the course of empires now takes its way. The first four acts already past. The fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last—" "We have need to be proud of America, our boasted republic, "the land of the free and the home of the brave." The first blood consecrated to the cause of American liberty flowed from the breast of a black man, Crispus Attucks. Historians will chronicle our deeds of glowing achievements." "Infamous black laws are being placed upon the statute books in almost every state. The burning of black men at the stake is as familiar in the North as in the South." "Our fathers paid a costly price --- for this country; we cannot at this late hour surrender it into the hands of foreigners, nihilists, anarchists, socialists and lynohers who defy all law and order. No race in America has a birthright to this country like the American Negro. Who dares to question his rights in participating in the national celebrations of America? "Forty-two years ago the Negro shook off the fetters and chains of slavery—walked boldly out of the house of bondage into the glorious fields of freedom and liberty, and has outstripped the last vestige of horrible depression and shame, and now stands side by side with all other races of the earth in civilization. Nevertheless, he toolled on, and today statistics show the following achievements—having, wiped out 45 per cent of his illiteracy, en- rolling in public schools 1,200,000 children; in the higher institutions 30,000, and in the northern and European colleges and universities 20. Graduates from the colleges, 2000 The professions show 30,000 school teachers, 2,000 lawyers, 1,500 doctors, dentists and pharmacists and 23,000 ministers of the gospel. The Negro has taken out 500 patents, published 400 books, besides his numerous songs, edited twelve magazines and 300 newspapers, managed twenty-six banks, besides many other industrial establishments. He owns 23 per cent of the total valuation of the farm property and produces six per cent of the total farm products of the United States." "Thank God, these rocks of impediment like Hell-gate of New York are being blown sky-high by our own Booker T. Washington, the greatest man of the Twentieth Century, the wizard who alone has solved the problem of industrialism by putting 10,000 wheels in motion for the uplitting of his race." "More than 1,900 years ago, from Olivet's brow, seated in His cloud chariot, Christ gave us the marching order, "Go ye into all the world and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. In obedience to the "Great Commission" Baptists have gone forth to take the world for Jesus. The Baptists have gained on their freedom and common sense. Negro Baptists outnumber all other colored denominations in the world. Let us compare the latest statistics. Note first the ministry: Ordained Baptist ministers. 16,554; A. M. E. 6,516; A. M. E. Zion, 3,401; C. M. E., 2,200; A. U. M. E., 125; A. M. P., 106; Zion U. A. M., 20. Total, 11,377. Baptist majority, 5,177. 1830 REV. E ARLINGTON WILSON, PRESIDENT. Note the churches: Regular Missionary Baptist churches, 16,995: A. M. E., 5 816; A. M. E. Zion, 3,050; C. M. E, 1,510: A. U. M. E., 86; A. Cong. M. E., 5; A. M. P., 88; Z. U. A. M., 32; total, 10,587; Baptist majority, 6,408. Other colored denominations are yet very weak, and according to statistics, with the exception of Episcopalians, show signs of early death." Brethren, after twelve month's labor, I am rejoiced to report to you that our work was never in a more prosperous condition than now. Last year at Kansas City, while our convention was in session with the Vine street Baptist church, your special committee on redistricting the state submitted their report. The report provided for the organization of six associations, namely: Kaw Valley, Neosho Valley, Smoky Hill, Northeastern, Southwestern, Southeastern. These associations were to be composed of churches within their immediate territory. The object of the committee on redistricting in recommending said associations was for the purpose of churches representing in their immei diate territory and thereby save heavy railroad expenses of churches sending messengers many miles to attend associations of which they are members. Then again, that our forces may be more united and better systematized in gathering finances for both our district and state work. The October Colored American Magazine. A new cover for the October Colored American Magazine is an indication of the character of matter between its leaves. "The Way of the World" treats world politics and economic questions in a broad and masterly fashion. The leading articles include the illuminating and scholarly production by William H. Lewis, Assistant United States Attorney at Boston, on "The Legal Status of the American Negro," and a contribution from James W. Boldy, the ethnologist, on "The Ethologist of the Japanese Race," in which the distin guished Trojan proves conclusively that the little brown fighter has in him a big dash of Negroid blood. The other stories and articles are far in advance of the average magazine stuff. The appreciation of Hogan, the actor, is a short but interesting study of the evolution of the Negro comedian, while the sketch of "Colored Men and Women on the Stage," by Aida Overton Walker of Williams and Walker marks, a new epoch in the life of colord people of the screen and carpet. Ten cents a copy a all newsdeal ers, or direct from the New York office, Pearl and Cedar streets. NUMBER 50. NEGROES TO TEST THE LAW! NEGROES TO TEST THE LAW! Hoch's Jim Crow School Law is up to the Supreme Court of Kansas The state has filed suit in the Supreme Court by the colored citizens of Kansas City, Kas., to assert if the work done by old John Brown, of Osawatomie and Harper's Ferry, the soldiers who laid down their lives, Abraham Lincoln, who died from a gun-shot at the hands of J. Wilks Booth, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fred. Douglas, Charles Sumner and many other loyal men could be blotted out, and black laws placed upon the statute books to humiliate and hinder the progress of any people. The bodies of these illustrious patriots must have turned over in their graves when Gov. Hoch signed a bill abolishing that which they gave the best blood of their lives to establish. The United States Supreme Court decided several years ago that each state had the privilege to frame its civil rights law, and the constitutionality of the law adopted by Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio cannot be questioned. It is now up to the courts of Kansas to rescue the state from the throes of Southern deviltry and forever put an end to this strife. If Kansas can enact laws discriminating against colored people in white schools, they have the same right to include the French, Indians, Chinese and Mexicans. How ridiculous it would be if such a law was passed. The Goddess of Justice does not show any special favors, and we have confidence that the judges of the courts will be guided by the spirit that should guide all men. These judges have taken an oath that they would uphold the constitution of the United States and of Kansas, that they would administer the laws to all alike. No where beneath the lids of the Holy Bible upon which rested their hands when they took this sacred obligation, can be found where the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ever discriminated against one nationality in favor of another. Jew and Gentile were all equal. The Saviour recognized the poor, decrepit and blind, which was doing justice to all, and we can't see why men who have taken oath can not stand up for the law. We have a civil rights law in this state which makes it a crime to discriminate against citizens in public places or schools of learning. The colored people of Kansas City are to be commended for the manly stand they have taken in the defense of their rights, and also in securing one of the greatest lawyers in the United States to defend them. Hon. B. P. Waggener, general attorney for the Missouri Pacific and the state Senator, has given his assistance in this case, and also the firm of Waters and Waters, the senior member of which firm followed General Grant to Appomatex, and who has great ability as a lawyer. Senator Waggoner is an able Democrat, while Waters and Waters are independent Republicans. Notwithstanding the ability of these lawyers, we ought to raise $1,000 for attorneys fees. The case can be decided but one way if justice is done. PS ee Wee 7 a ce * WESTERN UNIVERSITY, [the colored Y.M. U. A, work, Into be misstonaries, They ought to LIVE! 6 th ofschoo! hes past, and his address be urged the studentsto| combine and start some kind of} + ne month ofse! , dig on, dig deep and dig up new/tusiness enterprise in osder that eam o as already 140 students have been en-tidygy that the world (s waiting tol;hoy may boable to give employ- i ae rolled—ten lesa than the whole year’s! raaiy receive from the genlus Of] nent to eomeothera of their race| | —=<——_ | sarctiacat of last year, Stl they/sisek hands and minds. He elo-| .4o are in need, and in this way] ¢o Spies come dally. uently pleaded for the acceptance!) 41, to build up the race. 7 eye ged Ferd Rack)” |. snemonth’s showiog fa the de. ot Christlanity, and over Gftecn |"? Yours tral, x le Last apring we published a descrip | Partmente has been excellent. The! siudents came forward snd grasped Hanson WGiGR deslev fee: beedl Lea on est Navober - thon of a feeding rack to be made with | literary department has been con- his hand, ———s 4 Samples of ehrunken wheat are be| ‘The nitrogen of the soil 1s one of te or withont ‘treat which plane wore | siderably enlarged this year and the! The University team defeated DUNLAP, KANS. ies submllted to us by Dersons resid | moet important constituents and & for furnished us by a subset a a1 1@ rust sfficken bel a 1 that ickly disap Datente on the rack had expired and | curriculum improved — sree Lincola High School In Friday at] stra, C, 8, Gordon, wife of oaF| tracts tek Shot tt eit annetg| UEINE element. that quickly: lear who had ao further use for the plang, |ened. Theclassesin Algebra, Ge-) (oor bait, the scores being 10 to O-/rcloved pastor, arrived inthe city’ sow such grata for seed the coming! the chief agents of holding it In the Mr, Ira I. Nixon, @ prominent stock |ometry and Logic under Prof. At-|an6 game was played on the Pasco| on the 2ard ult,and wasgreeted by, Ter. It te very prover iat they! soll is the humus. When the humus man of Dewitt county, Ilinols, writes |chie Gregg, are made up ofhigh|.+ yeen Street, Kansas City, Mo. a [ly] Should osk this question and it te em | becomes exhausted the nitrogen es @oncerning this plan as follows: 4 at 15 a ’ ahost of friends and was royally! ceodingty Important that it should be! capes with {acreased rapidity. Ex- “] have added 8 trough all arouné|grade young men an womens! The students gave them a fine social entertained by all. anawered with intelligent diseriminm| pertmente with continucue wheat the rack floored to the outside of | who are advancing with unusual 2¢-| ypon their return In the evening. ‘The funcral of Mr, Claban Stew-| Hon, During a trip that we made the] growing on the same soll have shown poste and used pleces 1% feet by 8) curacy and precision. Rev. W. R.| Bishop Grant entertained the be Baptlat churoh| "2 week Ia Angust over the wheat/ that the antmal and vegetable matter Saches nailed on out side of poste |i toy {Latin and En. P a 1 resid art was held atthe Baptist churcl! growing area in the northern part of] tn the soll disappeara very rapidly. which catch what would waste if the | Vaughan in charge of 14: faculty at the Episcopal residence, | Sept. 2rd, Rov. C, 8. Gordon! the state we noticed that some of the) This causes the liberation of the nitro trough was not were, have bolt ghsh is making a fine showing in Thureday evening, October 3rd. offictating, ot ws So Sorunken ae 1k was! gen, As long as the nitrogen fs {a mine of 3x4's where this man ust : . Mrs . Hot worth catting. In some localities! combination with fe tof Sat’ for poste, which makes {t very since aha Lake “ bse ad A bounteous tepast vi vervel Hign| Reve 3 He Van Lou preached at] tue stands were fairly geod. ‘The ver| the humus, or decaying animal and strong. I have used oak lumber, and |F. E. He Wasscm in charge ‘There are more graduates of High) 10 yaitist church Monday night|riations ran all the way from No. 3| vegetable matter of the soll, it (sin @ T thtsk I have the best rack 1 ever |sciencesis getting material results} schools, County Institutes and Ne ee down to wheat that was really unfit! steatte form: but as soon as the humus 5 bad ext aha N a mV é as Dade ‘4 ied | Pe gaw for shock corn, straw, hay, or ear era, a8 ear corn oF ground feed cas be fed all around in the trough, which ta forty two feet jong and large enough to teed a car load of cattle. if butlt with S2¢'s you will be compelled to use ene inch longer bolts than this mas Bas is his rack where the 3124's are Delted together, My rack bes 23's fer the bottom bolted full widib of reek and one un etch end to hold the Seer, i have used 143¢1nch stum for slats instead of 116, and placed them eight Instead of six inches apart. “J am feeding cotton seed meal with ground cob meal and will give you my resulta when cattle are shipped out am feeding 100 head, and I cexw @aw cattle do better or look nicer.” aay changes in the original plas ‘will of course necessitate correspon fag changes in the bill of material, Dest as originally planned and as shows in tba out the following mate slals ore required for the rack sixtees Beet long: Two pleces 2x8 16 feet feng; 2 pieces x4, 14 feet: 4 pieces 2x4, 16 feet; 2 proces 2x4, 14 feet; 1 plece, 2x4, 12 feet; 2 pieces 1x6, 18 feet; 2 pleces ix¢, 16 feet: 5 pieces B26, 14 feet; 9 pieces 1282, 16 feet; 3 Ploce 1x18, 14 feet; 66 pieces, 1x3, 4 Geet; 4 wood screws, 8 inches long; 4 Belts %x9 inches; 4 bolte %x7 Inches; 26 bolts, %x5 inches; 10 bolts %xé feeheos; 8 bolts Yx%% aches; 8 pounds A-penay ~'re nails; weabers Gop all bolte; 4 pounds 10-penny malls =Wallace’s Farmer. Werking Brood Marea. Some of the loacing horse breeders ef the country never put their brood mares in harness. They provide a» @roise in other ways in order to keep @e stock in vigorous bealth. As 8 @ule these breeders bave exteusive grace paddocks, into which the mares ere turned for several hours each day throughout the winter season. Horse fweeders who nelther work their mares vor turn them out daily invart ably get a small proportion of in @rease, Sore foals are lost imme Qarely, and others are born so weak that they dle soon afterward. Most horse breeders, especially those of long experience, prefer that mares {n foal should bave regular ew ercise in the form of light work, but Serking and straining should be ayold- ed under all circumstances. For best results it is a good plan to use three Borses for worl that would be re quired of two under ordinary cir @umstances. This {s not done at an additional expense of onethird, be eauso three horses will do more work than tno, if the speed alone 1s con aldereg, Then It often bappens thet plows and cultivators may be set an fach or tno deepr and tho extra work thus accomplished 1s worth & great dea}, although {t may not show on the surface, A man can drive three borses fasicr than tno aud rest less at the end of the row. Usinn Good Rams. While looking over some large flocks tn Central South Dahota we find too many who do not appreciate the uso of a first cliss ram. Wo have recently seen a bunch of 600 ewes whore lambs alone would hase brought at least $590 or more, hat a good pure bred ram been used. Feeders do not want them at hardly any price nnd the exe lamhs are not Bt to keep as breeders, When one Yooks at tuere things from any point ef view It fs a puzzle to know why $0 many sheep raisers continue te e@arry on the buainers In auch a care Yess manner, A Rood even lot of lambe are always jn good demand, while poor ones are not wanted at all— Northwestern Agriculturist. Relectian af Stack. A medium sized rcale with good falr sized femaler of food conetite- tional vigor and mature age will 0 far better than the largest mates with the emelicst females The wise farmer always selects the very peat eorn of graite of all kinds for seed; equal care should be given the selec then of breeding stock in wurkeys. The beet raised on the farm should be Rept for producers, and the fact ehould be kept in mind that torkey heas of the best quality Im thelr ace. ead or third year of laying make the dest producers. The medium sired, well formed bens that bave gvod gtrong bone and constitutional vigor are the ones to select for breeders — Walliace’s:Farmer ~* WESTERN UNIVERSITY, One month ofschoo! has past, anc already 140 students have been en rolled—ten less than the whole year’s enrollment of last year, Still they come daily. The month's showing in the de. partments has been excellent, The literary department has been con: siderably enlarged this year and the curriculum improved and strength: ened. Theclassesin Algebra, Ge- ometry and Logic under Prof. Ar- chie Gregg, are made up ofhigh grade young men and women, who are advancing with unusual ac- curacy and precision. Rev. W. R. Vaughan in charge of Latin and En- ghsh is making a fine showing in students who take this work. Mrs. F. E. H. Wasscm in charge of sciencesis getting material resulta from her classes, Prof, Lewis Spurlock, director of Industries, has interwoven the in- dustr al departments into smooth running order, and Issupeavisingthe erection of several outbuildings and a steel water tank 5o feet high. The tailors under Prof, Wm. Kennedy's exacting instruction are earnestly engaged in learning panti- torium work, while those advanced are working upon orders for pants and sults for winter patrons, The carpenters under Prof. Chas. E, Starr are making aubstantial pro- gress in building a pump station, glezing, painting, remodeling and repsiting furniture from the dormi- tories. They have just received the plans and specifications for two out- side buildings, The printers under Prof. H. Re Graham, nave been busy setting copy for the school’s monthly jour- pnal,“The University Uplift,” and doing job printi:g for the inatitu- tion. The mechanical appearance of the issue thie week in a great tri- umph for the thorongh imetuction they receive. The dressmakers and milliners under Miss Gertrude Clark, are cn- gaged in theory work before taking up their practice with the new sys- tems. The girls take greatinterest and care in learning to conform rib- bon and feathers with face, figure, and uptodate styles of female toggery. ‘Lhe farmere under foremen, John Walker, are busily engeged in housing the crop of potatoes and cabbage raieed upon the University farm this summer, ‘The classes in demestic science under Mise Josephine Wright, are enthusiastically mastering thetheory of hygienic cookery. The girls are patiently awaiting the completion of the news trades’ hall, when they will begin practice with new ranges, tables, utensils ard every conven. lerce used in ecientific cocking The music students under Prof, Robert G, Jackson, are making splendid yregrete, The piano and vocal solof chorus and oratorio are ‘on a high clees order. | ‘Te stem gray hersand hookkeep- ers under Vref, Albest Russ, are Mung effective work lurnishirg copy for* The Uy lift,” and to a number ot colored weekly payers, besides keeping the ncertnts 4 the growing hetief subserbers, ‘The work of the matron, Madame Sadie 1) Curry, has shown its good resultsin the health, care, etiquette aud tidy quarters of our young lay does, ‘Tnerr che rfut ese sad good jcorduct is mm striking harmony with the colored ¥.M, U. A. work, df his address he urged the students tc dig on, dig deep and dig up new {deas that the world (8 waiting tc gladly receive from the genius o} black hands and minds. He elo quently pleaded for the acceptance of Christlanity, and over fiftecr Students came forward snd grasped his hand, The University team defeated Lincola High School In Friday at foot ball, the scores being 10 to 0. The game was played on the Pasco at 1gth Street, Kansas City, Mo. The students gave them a fine social upon their return In the evening. Bishop Grant entertained the faculty at the Episcopal residence, Thursday evening, October 3rd. A bounteous repast was served. There are more graduates of High Schools, County Institutes and Grammar Schools attending this year than ever before. The students accompanied by teachers witnessed the Priests of Pallas parade, Tuesday evening, October 3rd. The students who come out on the street oars from Kansas City, Mo., and Wyandotte, Kan., have doubled fa number this year. The University Choral Club will present the Prodigal Son” at Alicn Chapel, Friday evening, October 17th. The members are picked from the best voices, amd come from every part of the great west to Kan- sas City to get higher vocal culture at Wesfern University, This will be the greasest musical treat ever presented to the colored people ot growing Kansas City. RANSOM TAYLOR tADVISES. Mr. Editor: The time is aow at hand when self consideration should be taken in our affairs of life. ‘There is one leason that the Negro must learn and that is to purchase homes and then keep them in good repairs, meeting the requirements of the progressive tsmes, thus be- coming substantial citizens in the country wherein we live. The Negro should not bold himaelf as a prey for other nations to gainriches from, but see to it that he gets and hald something for himself. Every effort should be put forth among the black people to diminish the number of crimes by our race. They should leave off excursions on Sundays and let them psy their debts. We hardly know where to find the young people of today. They arenotinthe Sunday achools nor in the church service. They are more generally found in the parks, the theatres or promenading the streets. They frequent all ports of places of amusements and many of them when they have run their race and hayo reaped what they have sown they have no place to jay their heads, There are no more small houses being tilt for Negroes to rent, but they are all large houses nga, and if the Negro mut rent he must take the old shacks or pay the price according to the building. avo Tho Nase HM] Baptist church is Doing rapidly renilt, ‘Ihe Boot, Baptiat church denied £5.25 to aweint this chumh, for which the otheers and members are truly and gricfously thar kful. ane Everyone should patronize and helpthe Topeka ludustrial Institute which is deatinad todo a great and yloriowa work for the race, We are taunted daily on account of our Jack of edueation and many are Iaughed to econ who aro pressing ‘forward because of the faults ond ‘shortcomings of others, ooo | ‘The young men of the race are occupying positions as janitors for solute or bootblacks on the streets, orcaged behind [ron bars, while their pareuta, many of them, sce suing for divorce, They prepare nothing for the future, while the young women are striving with mivht and muin to keep up with the fashions and be in wtyle; but when both are joined in marriage they find that there ie nothing to either, and then they part, No yopug men, are asplring for the ministry, neither do they seck tobe missionaries. They ought to combine and start some kind of business enterprise In order that they may boable to give employ. ment to some others of their race who are in need, and in this way help to build up the race, Yours traly, Ransom Tavtor. DUNLAP, KANS. Mra. C, 8. Gordon, wife of oa: beloved pastor, arrived inthe city on the 28rd ult, and was greeted by ahoat of friends and was royally entertained by all. "The funcral of Mr, Cloban Stew- art was held at the Baptist churoh on Sept, 23rd, Rov. C. 8. Gordon ottictating. Rev. J. HL. Van Leu preached at ‘the Baptist church Monday night the 25th ult. Rey. Dickerson was with us on the 24th ult., enroute to Junction City. Rev. Gordon returned from the State convention last Saturday and reports a pleasant trip. Mrs. A, Patterson has been on the sick liat. Mise M. Glenn who bas been on the sick list for some time is some- what improved. ‘There will be a grand concert in in the city on the 20th given by the young people of the church. BT. JOSEPH, MO. Misses Ethel Gross, Lula Bell, Emma Dayton, Leola Burns ana Edna Lee, graduates of our high school, left during the past week for Lincoln Institute at Jefferson City. Miss Mildred Jackson went to Spellman Seminary at Atlanta, Ga.; Charles Lewis to study medicine at Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C., and Robert Wil- son is on the point of leaving for Towa University. All of these are recent graduates of the Bart- lett High school, Father 1. P. Daniels, priest of the St, Matthias colored Epis- copal mission of St. Joseph opened a parochial school at br: church Monday, October 2nd. ‘Lhe Francis street Baptist church gave a benelit to Cnaries Lewis last Thursday aight undet the direction of W. Gassway. Mr. Lewis had becn church clerk and this was an expression of appreciation for his good pur- pose in going higher ba educa- tion, and also for his good work as church clerk. Miss Zelma Endicott, who was transferred from the Lincoln school to South Park school, reports an increased enrollment. A very fine exercise was hela at the Bartlett High school last friday in honor ot the memory of Edna dteele, who died recent- ly, Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Mont- gomery, the foster parents of Miss Steele, dcnated to the school a valuable collection of song books, Principal J. H. Sims of the qualifications of his new teacher of manual training, Mr. McGee, and he feeis sure of beimg able to turn his patrons of the north end to a strong and firm belief in industrial education in which he himself sc firmly believes. Rev, J, C. Caldwell did not get off to conference last week because it was postponed on ac- count of Kansas and Missouri floods. The Tennis players lined up for a finalty on last Saturday. Dr. W. S. Carrion and A. E. Sims each beat the other a set Alex Lyons and his partner in doubles beat Charles Lewfs and Dr. Carrion 6-2; 6-3 and won, out as champions for the season, of 1905. T. J. Edwards, teacher and field secretary of Topeka Indus- trial and Educational Institute, has been in the city for the past week in the interest of that school, He has made several public addresses and reports a splendid reception by several of our most wealthy people, includ- ing the mayor, whom all our people respect very highly. Mr, Edwards left for Wathens, Kas, hast Monday, mua 7 apscclsiel A a ; Re near Ox ise vl -. Samples of shrunken wheat are be fog submitted to us by persons resi {og in the rust stricken belt. Theve persons ask whother It will be safe to sow such grata for seed the coming year. It ts vory prover rat tbey should ask this question and It fe ex ceedingly Important that it should be answered with irtelligent discriminn Uon. During a trip that we made the third week in August over the wheat srowlng area in the northern part of the state we noticed that some of the wheat was #0 shrunken that it was Bot worth cutting. In some localities the stands were fairly good. The ve nations ran all the way from No, 3 down to wheat that was really unfit to make good food for chickens, We Dave no doudt whatever but that such grain town for seed will not give good Fesults. It will be found quite practi cable in many instances te 90 winnow the shrunken wheat that the very light material will all be blown out of !t. ‘The best sample odtainavle, therefore, from the crop should usually answer for sowing next season, One dimculty fa in the way however, Maoy farm ers are not possessed of a fanning alll, so prevalent has the custom be come to take wheat-direct from the machine. Every farmer ought to have @ fanning miQ for such woth«-Tarn and Fireside, ‘The Geetructive Rat. Housewives in the country some times complain that poultry raising Is @ great care on account of the losses that occur among the young chicks largely due to the presence of rats. ‘The rat is far barder to hedge against than the cat, A good strong part tion to the poultry house or a good wire fence around the poultry yard ‘will keep out cats, but these have lit Ue effect ia checking the depredations of rate, They can gnaw through the partition and tunnel under the wire fence and do the work so expeditiously that the damage to the flock 1s done before the farmer has had time to take combative measures. Then when be begine to fight the rodexta he finds that the process {s not a smooth one. ‘The animals avoid the ateel trap and the wire cage. Poison ts the only thing that seems to be effective, and the farmer hesitates about employing this, as be 1s afraid of hurting other animals. But this method of cestrue ton will be found to be about the only effective one if the rats are very nuo erous. If polaon is used it shoulé be placed where only the rats can get ap eens to it. es ates ere Tor rine ieee ae Dealers in wool seem to have 20 feare of @ decline of wool prices for another year at least. In xerious weatern states dealers have ‘already Been closing contracts for next year’s wool clip at from seventeen to twenty cents per pound and seem willing te take all they can get at those Sgurea ‘While many farmers have sold their wext year’s crop on such terms as these some ere willing to walt until spring to dispose of their clip, taking the chances on the price going down, They don’t consider there is much risk te ran when buyers are 89 anxious to contract so far abead, and prefer te take chances rather than to sell now aaé likely to regret making the agree ment before shearing time. The farmer who breeds and ratees good sheep may be pretty sure of reaping some xeoil profits from cots Ais wool and mutton during the next few years. The sheep business car tainly has a briskt outloo% at the pre> ent time, Seaton’s Potato Vleld. Revised roturns justify *he estt- mate of an arcrage siclt of 1104 bushels of potatoes this car, instead 109 vushels, as stated In the last punber Tho averane sled for the previous wen scars was 81 bushels, making the present a bumper : ear for this crop Maing fx cre ited with the largest averare acre jlold 215 bushe els, The Southern tates had from 6t te 80 bushels, except Florida, whieh grow 102 bustels lown's yield was 186 buskels and Wisconsin's 126, both extremely food for this country, The average of the cld New England states fe higher than in the same number of Rewer western states—Farn, Stock end Home, Our Butter Abroad. ‘The government has been making weekly experimental exports of the West quality of creamery butter to Manchester, England, continuing pret fous practical tests of the merits of wach butter from the United Btates Is comparison with the highest grades of butter from other countries to be found in British markets, The results ae stated by the butter wan of the airy division have been, in a general way, quite favorable, but not such as to encouzage commercial operations along the same line at the present price of butter in the United Statee— Raroum‘s Midland Farmer, No Lime On Manure, 3t ts a mistake to put Itme im the manure heap, for it destrare the sats et ammoais, and by compernng tt to take the gaseous form drives It of Lime will rot macure very quickly asd do its 6rb, Sell bat fe wil De st fhe qxpente of o lope nitrogea. dich 4a’ an ,togredient ef’ antnonia eays the Farm Javrnal, ané it's geod axtberity, EOSS OF TON sueErOgen. ‘The nitrogen of the soil is one of its moet important constituents and a fer tillzing element that quickly disap pears, It volatizes rapidly and one of the chief agents of holding it In the soll Is the humus. When the humus becomes exhausted the nitrogen es capes with fucreased rapidity. Ex- periments with continucus wheat growing on the seme soll have shown that the animal and vegetable matter in the soll disappears very rapidly. This causes the liberation of the nitro gen, As long as the nitrogen is in combination with and forme a part of the bumus, or decaying animal and Vegetable matter of the soil, it is in & atable form; but as soon as the humus decays the nitregen fs liberated to various gases and soluble forms, which are easily Jost from the soil. It t@ the statement of scfentists that chere fs no element that fe so readily fost as nitrogen. It la not posible for tke mineral ferme of plant food, such 4 potash and phosphoric acid, to be converted Into gaseous and soluble forma by the orinary chemical changes that take place in the soll, as in the case of nitrogen. Wits them the principal ‘ess '- in thelr removal from the sol! as plant food. But with hnmun it !s different. There 1a a loss of course of the plant food by its being used by the crops, but much additional Is leached downward by the soll water and some is seat Of fa the form of gas when the humus Gecays. We have an illustration of this in the decay of piles of mangre and vegetable matter. We say that we can smell the smmonia risieg from them; but that ammonia is the ges into which the nitwgen in the Goesying mese is Seing changed. ‘The loss of soll nitrogen can only be prevented by keeping up the hu mus in the soll, In most countries rotation of crops alone ts sble to do this. Some men brag that they Rave grown whent year after year om the same soll for a generation with ont loss, but tt will be found that such doll was in the beginning very rich ta humus, By all means rotate, an@ toclude in the rotation some of the legumes. WinterGrown Asparagus. Anparagus can be grown ir the ceb lar {on winter wherever the owner heate bis house by means of a fur pace. The natural conditions in each & cellar are favorable to the forciug of asparagus, ag the temperature at aight usually hovers around 65 de grees and in the day time runs from 85 degrees to 80 degrecs. We do not Delieve that the amateur will find much profit in this, but some of the professional gardeners do, and it may taterest some of our readers te try the experiment and have a few messes of tender asparagus in winter ‘To get the results named, roots are dug up in the fall before the grouné ta too hard frocea to make digging wom out possible, If the roots bave been frozen, so much the better, ag they then respond wes quickly ts the forclog process. Thev are placed im bozes in the cellar csr the fun aace. Two or three tiches of sot should bo under the rooty and five, siz at more inches of earth above, as the shoots need to be protected from eves the dim Nght that is found fn a cek Jar, Light Js not needed to make the roots produce shoots, as they produce them from the substance Jald up to the roots, but do not take anything trom the soil, Neverthelexs, muck solsturo Is needed, as the shoots can- «ot develop without the help of a good deal of water, A neglet in sup- plying moisture will soon render the Toots unproductive Roots should begin to produce shoots In about twerty-fie days after Seing pliced in the cellar, At some of the stations roots placed in tho sellar about the first of xcember havo produced four of five owl sub Unga before the middie of February. When the roofs are done producing they have to bo thrawn unay, ne they witf thenceforth he of na good for the developing of tops and new reote— farmer's Revicw. eee (ree: ice cert: Mec. aes In Denmark tera Js a box of ime fm every dalry oF creamery, where it fs of use in rinsing out vessels to keep them sweet and clean, and to wash down the creamery floors and to parity the afr ercerally, ‘Wo aro using it to a small extent tm this country, but {t 1s net common enough. It is one of the best purifiers and cheapest, Its use can be applied te the cone’ drinking troughe !n wart weather, to remove the scum or or ganic matter therefrom; it cau be ap piled in the cow stable, where dt fe most favaluable. We know of nothing bs cffective ae slaked line with car bolic acid mized tn It, for giving the surroundings of the barn a wholesome stmosphere, ‘Thie cheap and handy agent ts readily made by slaking the lime, Olh mg a threegalion pall about balt ful, adding about two ounces of crude earbolic acid. If the lime se not all te be weed at one time ft can he put away in an airtight vessel, but it ts dest to use tt fresh. For the dairy and creamery use the slaked iime only—slaked just be fore usiog. It has the physical advan tages, as well, in lighting up the dary, ty- making: It swoet,\ clean. and whele ercae when sprayed ou the walls, tp the epricg 106 fall—Fasreers’ Cuide --- It has become at matter of considerable speculation on the part of the colored people not only in Maryland but throughout the United States as to the true attitude of the Republican party acting through its representatives in the convention held in the Navy, being chairman. This convention adopted resolutions declaring against "Negro domination" and "social equality" the sole issue in the campaign now being waged in that State. The Washington News Syndicate, in an effort to obtain definite information concerning that convention and the attitude of the Republican party towards the colored people in Mary land, addressed a letter to Secretary Bonaparte asking for a statement relative to the critical political situation and the true position of his party in that State. In response to this letter, Mr. Bonaparte makes the following reply: "Gentlemen: In the campaign now in progress in Maryland, the Democratic "ring" relies for success, as it has relied for success in many campaigns during the past thirty-five years, upon appeals to race prejudice. To inflame this prejudice, it has frequently circulated and it circulates now many utterly false and indeed ridiculous stories as to what the Republican party would or might do, if entrusted with power by the voters. While these falsehoods are not only absurd in themselves, but conclusively refuted by experience during the four years of Republic in supremacy in the State, while the late Lloyd Lowdes was governor from 1896 to 1900, they have undoubted weight with a certain class of voters, of whom some are very ignorant and others so intensely prejudiced on this, question as to be almost beyond the influence of reason. Some of these preposterous tales are to the effect that a Republican legislature would compel by law certain forms of social intercourse between the two races, as for example, by establishing compulsory at tendance at mixed public schools or obliging white children to be taught by colored teachers. Others hold out the alarming prospect that a Republican governor or mayor would appoint a vast multitude of colored officials with no regard to fitness or expediency to all sorts of public positions. Of course when we had a Republican legislature and a Republican governor, nothing of the kind was done, and the present Republican mayor of Baltimore has made no such selections for public office; nevertheless some people actually believe these yarns, and others try to persuade themselves there may be some truth in them, so as to vote against their own reason and conscience; and, while such dupes are found, the manufacture, of such falsehoods continues. Stories of the first-class form part of an outcry against "social equality;" stories of the second class give such color as they may to an outcry against "Negro domination;" the resolution of the Republician convention disclaiming any desire or purpose to promote either of these chimerical evils must be understood in the light of the surrounding circumstances as above set forth. In Maryland it has been so understood and has attracted little or no comment: outside the State it seems to have been widely misunderstood, by reason of widespread ignorance of peculiar conditions which prevail with us. I ought perhaps to add that although I am the presiding offloer of the convention, I did not appoint the committee on Resolutions, was not a member of that committee and did not suggest or advise the adoption of the resolution in question. I do not therefore, speak for the convention; but, in speaking, for myself on this subject, I feel perfectly confident that I voice the sentiments of all sincere and earnest Republicans in Maryland. I trust that you will find this a satisfactory reply to your letter of this date, requesting information on the subject of the action of the recent Republican convention. Yours very truly, (Signed) CHAS. J. BONAPARTE." Welcome by officials of the District of Columbia, members of the Cabinet, thousands of enthusiastic and cheering citizens who thronged Pennsylvania avenue veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, and with two hundred and fifty District policemen to escort him to the Executive Mansion while the Notional colors waved from every window, the Chief Executive of this country returned to Washington, Saturday evening, September 30th from Oyster Bay where he had spent his summer vacation. Before the President's carriage was driven from the station he arose in response to the cheering crowd and thinked the people for the reception they were tendering him. Remaining in this standing position he bowed right and left to cheering thousands until the White House was reached. A brilliant scene greeted the Chief Executive as he reached his home, for the mansion was illuminated from basement to attic. This great welcome to the president lasted not more than a half hour and was simple and hearty in its character, and it could plainly be seen that it was in recognition of Mr. Roosevelt as a man. President Roosevelt left Washington, June 28th for his usual summer vocation. At that time he was a power in all of the affairs of National significance. Beloved by a great people he was conceded one of the greatest statesmen in this country. The fierce conflict between Japan and Russia was then at its zenith and the world was shocked at the blood-thirsty and inhuman war being carried on by those nations. Efforts had previously been made by a number of the powers to check that awful carnage and bring these warring people to peace terms. None of these attempts were successful until Theodore Roosevelt, in his characteristic manner, took hold of the situation and exchanged notes with the Mikado, Czar, Kaiser and others, which resulted in securing the conference at Portsmouth, and when that body was abut to fail of its purpose, his great influence was again felt in bringing pressure to bear which induced them to agree upon terms of peace, thus ending the greatest and most destructive war in the history of modern times. This peace and the successful effort leading to it was the achievement of President Roosevelt, an achievement that has placed his name in the foremost ranks of the world's greatest statesmen and benefactors, and the hearty welcome extended by the citizens of the District of Columbia upon the occasion of this arrival was in the interest of his great work in the interest of humanity and the position he has obtained for this country by placing her in the front rank of world powers. The colored people, and in fact, all the people of this country who are in any way interested in the solution of the race question, would do well to read Prof. Kelly Miller's masterly, scholarly, and logical reply to the outrageous and slanderous attacks which have been made at various times upon the colored people of the United States by Thomas Dixon, Jr., in his characteristic writings. This pamphlet, which may be obtained for fifteen cents by addressing Prof. Kelly Miller, Howard University, Washington, D. C., is undoubtedly the best defense of the position of our people in this country that has recently been published. Prof. Miller completely explodes the doctrine of race superiority and race amalgamation, the theme Mr. Dixon employs in such a frenzied manner to stir up the feelings of hatred between the races in this country. By all means obtain a copy of this pamphlet. Announcement comes from the p ARTIST O. J. 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This investigation is expected be concluded very soon and the result, which has been so anxiously awaited in school circles will then be published. DON'T BEAT THE PRINTER. The lying subscriber is a vampire who kills any Negro paper. He lies about his pay day and then slanders the paper when he is cut off for not paying his subscription. We have a number of dude fellows claiming to be paying their girl's subscription, and we are going to show their ladies what dead boots they mix with.—Exohange. Board 63 Per Week Regular Meals 15s HOUSES TO RENT. Neatly Furnished and Unfurnished Rooms. Also Rooms for Light Housekeeping. S. M. POWELL, PROP., Kansas City, Kansas. A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY. I want a housekeeper not over 40 years of age. Five children. Good place. Anyone wanting such a place write to me and get full information. Address B. E. McFarland, Frankfort, Kansas. Newport Restaurant TIBB STARNES, PRO . 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U S A PUBLISHED at Topkah, Shawnee county, Ks., very Friday morning by THE PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO, 111 KAPT SEVENTH STREET. One week by mail.....$1 00 Six months by mail.....$1 00 Five months by mail.....$00 We will pay our respects to the proprietor of the Novelty theatre between 8th and 9th on Kansans ave., and also to the other class of white people who think colored people have no rights that they are bound to respect. The latter is plain on the subject and we will speak our say next week. Advice to the South. Tuskegee, Ala., Oct. 7, 1905. To the Colored People in the Southern States: A great many questions relative to our progress as a race demand our attention and it is important for us to consider them and to keep them clearly before us. One of these questions just now of fundamental importance is that of securing facilities for a sound common school education of the masses of our childien, especially in small towns and country districts. The large majority of our children will never have, perhaps, the opportunity to receive any school education except what they get between the ages of 5 and 14 years, and will never have an opportunity to attend any other than the common public schools. And, yet in the South hardly more than one-fifth of the Negro children five to nine years of age and hardly more than one-half from ten to fourteen years of age were reported by the United States census to have attended school at all in 1900, and of all our children who did attend school during that school year, over three-fifths attended less than six months. In many cases while the schools are open parents are careless about seeing that their children attend school each day. This fault should be remedied. I use these figures because they express compactly, though of course, not exactly, a condition of utmost gravity. And remember that such figures give no hint of the equalor so many of our schools and the incompetence of so many of our teachers. I wish, through this letter, to urge upon our ministers, teachers and leaders of whatever character, to put forth special and immediate efforts to see to it that the school facilities in each community are improved and brought up to a high standard of efficiency. If this is not done many thousands of our children will grow up in ignorance. Whatever the reason may be, the plain fact is that in many communities our people are not being provided for with education in the public schools. I have recently heard of several communities where only $15 per month were appropriated from the public fund for the colored school and this only for a term of four months. We must face the fact that the public schools in many sections are not being improved, and in some parts of the South they have gone backward. It is probable that the children of the race have increased faster than the facilities for their education in some places. At the basis of our educational opportunities, I say, is the public school, and I think it wise to make that school the center of our interests and activities. We should not fail to make prominent at all times and cling to the fundamental idea of the American common school that all of the property of the state should educate impartially all the children of all the people. It is not merely the man who enters the The Western Tuskegee, ADVANTAGES Local and Long PRINCIPAL, Dist. Phone 747 WM. R. CARTER, Topeka, Kas tax office who really pays the taxes. The laborer who pays one mill more to the pound for a commodity because of a license tax really pays the tax, however indirect the payment. By close examination I find that in many communities the small amount of money received for the public schools is in a large degree wasted and dissipated by reason of denominational differences and wrangles over the school. For example, I know of one community that has three small schools of weak character, when there should be only one and that a good one. The Baptists have a school in one part of the town, the African Methodists a school in another part and the Zion Methodists a school in still another part. Denominationalism has no place in public school education, and our people should crush the tendency to let it divide and overcome the public school. We should concentrate our efforts wherever possible, preferring one good school to two or three poor ones. Our leaders should lay special emphasis upon the following points: 1-See to it that a good and efficient teacher is provided. If any qualification is lacking it should not be moral character. Teachers may be weak in other matters, but if morally wholesome, they may greatly help the people. 2-A good teacher cannot be kept in a community from year to year without a reasonably good salary. A poor salary means a poor teacher in most cases, one who remains only a few months and then goes to some other community. It is cheaper in the long run to pay a large salary to a good teacher than to pay a small salary for a poor teacher. 3- If the public school authorities do not provide a decent and comfortable school house, and every effort of the people to stimulate them to do so has failed, the people in the community should tax themselves in order that a good, comfortable school house may be built. Some of the school houses in which our children are taught are fitter for cattle than for human beings. 4-We should get the public school officers to provide for as long a term as possible. But no people can be educated when the schools are in session only four or five months during the year. No community should be satisfied until its school is in session seven or eight months during each year. If our people will save some of the money that they throw away, especially during the fall of the year, for whiskey, snuff and cheap jewelry, } Topeka Industrial and Educational Institute. A School of Practical and Christian Training. Normal, Preparatory, Industrial, Agricultural, Business, Music, Elocution and Dramatic Art. 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 SEPG.12 Send for Catalogue. For further information address, they can, with little difficulty, add two or three months to the public school term. 5—Let us make up our minds that, despite difficulties and many disadvantages, our children in every section of the South shall have a decent education. We should never cease to agitate in every locality for proper school facilities. If our children are not educated now they and their children and their children's children will grow up in ignorance. I repeat, the entire race will suffer. Now is time for our ministers, our teachers and our parents to act quickly and vigorously, and we shall not regret the result. BOYNTON, I. T. By how much Ham spreads himself here by so much the old "reb" bies himself back from whence he came. Since the sale of government lots, in which our people so heavily invested, there has been much dissatisfaction among the Negro haters, and they are selling out as fast as they can. Meanwhile northern people are taking their places. This is encouraging to us, as well as the fairminded whites. A big stock company has just been formed and the business is on. It is a general mercantile company and has a capital stock of several thousand dollars. Mrs. Hattie Eoll of Arkansas, is here, and for the present is a guest of Mrs. Joe Cleveland, the general restaurant proprietress. Rev. E. B. Weaver of Waco, Texas, was in town last week. Dr. Jackson of Muskogee, was here last week for the purpose of regular days for practice in this city. He is a dentist recently settled in Muskogee. Joe Howard of Howard Bros. went to Texas last week. M. Cotton is running the cafe "Mehoree." Miss Catrie Burnett has opened a millinery store and had a grand opening. David Watt, of Muskogee, was here this week in the interest of the K. P. order. Mrs. Sims of Muskogee, spent Sunday in the city. The presiding elder of the Muskogee district of the A.M.E. church held his last quarterly meeting here Thursday night. The Haptists are carrying on a revival under Rev. Wills. Rev. Geo. T. Robinson preached for Rev. J. C. Hicks last Sunday night on the text: "Create in me a new heart." His theme was "Reformation." He advocated an up- above the sea level, and yet far below the tops of the snow-capped mountains which look from a dizzy height down upon the beautiful and busy city, teeming with her cosmopolitan population of more than 220,000 souls. The great winds and waves from the bosom of this world of water constantly fluttering against the western shores of the continent and sending their briny breezes far up into the mountains, which are met by the cool winds which sweep o'er the tops of the snowy heights and heralded back oceanward, spilling themselves all over, give to Los Angeles and her tributary towns, villages and hamlets a temperatnre which is not surpassed anywhere in the known world. The town was laid out many years ago by the Spanish, and from the appearance of the original surveys one can easily see that the present active, thrifty and growing city was not in the minds of the early surveyors. The streets are narrow, crooked and angling; but this is not true of the more recent surveys. Her buildings, until lately, have been built mostly of lumber and constructed low and substantial against earthquakes which have been numerous in these parts --- L. M. Penwell, Undertaker. First-class in every particular. Prompt service. 511 Quincy Street G. W. Hamilton. & Hamilton, [ J. M. Knight. nd Embalmers. ```markdown ``` Topeka, Kansas. to date Christianity and made his hearers see the necessity of a constant reforming. Rev. Wm. Campbell filled the stand at the Baptist church Sunday night. Rev. I. G. Strothers preached at Haskell last Sunday. Rev. William II. Buchanan has completed his church at Haskell and is getting ready for conference which convenes at Wagoner on the 9th of November. An Interesting Letter. EDITOR PLAINDEALER. Dear Sir:—No doubt many who will read this letter will be greatly astonished to hear from me away out here in this beautiful clime, where blizzards never, never come and the scorching, sultry heat is scarcely ever felt. We are in Los Angeles, California, and it is an excellent place, surrounded as it is on all sides with everything that could serve to help to make a place beautiful, healthful and sublime. The city of Los Angeles proper is about twenty miles from the great waters of the Pacific on the southwest and stretches northward and eastward far into the foothills, which are tributaries to the great mountains. The city is about 170 feet in the past, but they are not near so frequent now and the buildings are of modern style and will compare favorably with the same in our eastern cities. Her street railway system is simply up to the best and her sanitary condition is splendid. Race prejudice runs very high. I am more surprised at this than at anything else which I have found, but it is not quite like the old brand of the southern states. It is of a new type. So, dear readers, you can see, by comparing conditions here with those of the South, that we have altogether a different picture. In the old southern states it is the old ex slave holder and the old ex-slave—the white man and the Negro—buthere in Los Angeles we have so many other dark skin races that the moulders of sentiment seem to be much puzzled to know just where to draw the line. There are in and around Los Angeles approximately as follows of the dark races: Chinese, 15,000; Japanese, 10,000; Mexicans, 8,000; Negroes, 10,000; other dark and mixed races, 1000, making a total of 44,000. These figures will show a condition of things which, if true, (and they are approximately true) will help you to measure out this whole matter. In reality the Negro forms only about one-fourth of the dark faces of the city and the other three-fourths are foreigners and mixed races, many of whom the color sentiment moulder cannot tell, by the aid of the microscope, where to draw the line. Now if we have 220,000 souls in all and if the darker races number 44,000, we have a white population of 176,000, and they are divided as to how to class these dark races. Hence you see that in the South the prejudice is firmly fixed, while out here we have moving pictures. --- But the Negro is destined to do well out here if he will only let well enough alone. We have free mixed schools, but there is clamor brewing for separation, but who do you reckon it is making such a clamor? It is the Negro himself. Well, why does he want separate schools? His answer is, "I want my children to have a chance to teach." This is the very same old chestnut which has been cracked and re-cracked over and over and with the same disastrous results. But I must not weary you with a long letter this time, and in conclusion I want to tell you about our church work here. We have organized the Christian church since we came here and I am giving most of my time to this work. We started with ten members and now have seventeen and we are growing slowly but surely. My health is very much improved in the six months I have been here. In my next letter I will write you of some of the social and business customs and also of the financial stamina of the race as I see them here. Now, I want to think you in advance for the space you will give this letter in the columns of your most excellent journal. I will do what I can to increase the conciliation of your paper west of the Rocky Mountains. In my next I will tell you of the Afro-American Congress of California which I attended in August at Pasadena. You can get THE PLAINDEAIRER at T. N. Wyatt's barbershop, 310 South Main street. Mrs. J. B. McCollough and Miss Georgia Simmons have opened a millinery and dressmaking establishment at the old stand. The A. M. E. ob church, Rev. Tombs pastor, is conducting a revival meeting this week. On Household Goods, Live Stock and Jewelry. 1010 N. 4th St. KANSAS CITY, KAD Mrs. Jack Jordan of Trinidad, Colo., after spending several weeks at Kansas City, Perry and Topeka, returned home Wednesday. John Nolan of Kansas City, Mo., spent Sunday and Monday in the city, guest of his sister, Mrs. R. L. Williams, 1320 Quincy street. Mrs. Fulton and son are visiting in Kansas City, guests of their cousins, Mrs. Lawyer Frye of Kansas City, Kae., and Mrs. I. Mackey of Kansas City, Mo. Attorney T. W. Bell of Leavenworth, spent Tuesday in the city on business, securing the pardon of John Tolliver of Atchison who was sent to prison for fifteen years for the murder of one John Hunt. The Little Rose of England Art club was entertained last Wednesday afternoon at the home of Miss Mable Guy, 1020 Chase ave. The next meeting will be held at the home of Miss Edna Hall, 334 Taylor street. The Ne Plus Ultra Art club met with Miss Nettie Taylor Friday and every one enjoyed a pleasant session, after which a dainty lunch was served. The club adjourned to meet with Mrs.G.W.Thompson, 1033 Grant ave., this afternoon. Mrs. Ruth Stewart has rented a part of the building at 112-114 E. 7th street, where she will open a first-class hotel and lunch room. The hotel will be conducted on the European plan and first-class accommodations will be guaranteed. . Miss Mary B. Jordan entertained Tuesday afternoon from 4 to 7 at her home, 1187 Lane street, complimentary to her sister-in law, Mrs. Jack Jordan, of Trinidad, Colo. It was a most delightful affair and the fifty or more guests who called during the afternoon expressed themselves as being very royally entertained. We are sorry to learn that Rev. J. F. C. Taylor will be transferred to another field, as he has demonstrated himself to be a good business minister and has done much to cancel the debt on St. John's A. M. E. church. The board of trustees is composed of good business men, who sent a committee to Kansas City to wait upon Bishop Grant to have him not accept the resignation of Rev. Taylor, but the matter has gone so far that it is not yet fully decided what shall be done. Mrs. J. H. Hayden of Hennessey, Okla., is one of the leading florists of the territory and owns one of the finest green houses in that section. She is visiting friends in this city, and made this office a pleasant call and paid for a year's subscription in advance. She says the Negroes of Oklahoma speak well of the paper and are anxiously waiting for an agent to call around. She states that the farmers are doing well and that a firm of colored men bought a throching machine, costing several hundred dollars, and are making money by their investment. Mr. Horzce Tunnelly died at his residence on Emmet street last Saturday night. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at B St. Baptist church and the remains interred in Topeka cemetery. He was an old soldier, and was sixty years of age. He came to Kansas in 1882. He leaves six children, all grown and married, and a host of friends to mourn his death. The C. E. society's "shower party" Tuesday evening at the First African Baptist church was quite a nice little affair. The "shower" consisted of oyster bowls which were contributed by members and friends. This was done to save the renting of dishes for future socials. Refreshments were served gratis as usual and there was an interesting literary program rendered. The Atheneum Art club met with Mrs. Hayes Tuesday. Mrs. Rosalie Williams was re-elected president, and Mrs. Hayes vice president, after which an hour was spent in work. Lunch was served and the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Stanley Ward on N. Topeka ave., between Laurent and Gordon Sta., Oct. 17, and all members are requested to be present. Our traveling agent, Mr. A. W. Harris, is now touring Arkansas in the interest of THE PLAINDEALER and is doing a great work. The people of that state will do well to accept of the advantages offered them to secure a good lively paper, which is devoting its efforts and energies toward securing the rights and justice of the colored people, which is the question now before us for consideration. Mr. Harris will also secure write-ups and cuts of the foremost business men of the state of Arkansas, which will appear later in this paper. The marriage of Miss Carrie Phenix of Emporia to Mr. John Minnis of this city took place in Emporia at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Johnson of the A. M. E. church officiating. Only a few intimate friends and relatives were present. At 6:30 o'clock the happy couple boarded the train for their neatly furnished home at 1199 Lane street, this city, where they will be pleased to receive their many friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Reynolds entertained the bridal party and a few friends at 9 o'clock dinner at their home, 1203 Buchanan street. Col. Fred L. Jeltz has resumed the publication of the State Ledger and in the future the paper will be issued twice a month, but we fear that Col. Jeltr will be lynched if he goes up about the State House for firing this shot: "Capt. Collins the capable custodian of the State House is the right man in the right place. Dude janitors' can't bluff Capt. Collins no more than 'dude officers' who are always galloping around the state on public security Capt. Collins has given better satisfaction than any of his predecessors. Capt. is a civil war vet' and used to be Probate of Miami county." The installation services of Rev. T.J. Carr as pastor of the First African Baptist church will be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. A special offering will be given by the members and friends at that time. Welcome Address on Behalf of the Churches of the City by Rev. C. G. Fishback. Address on Behalf of the First African Baptist Church by Miss Agnes Perley. TWO FOR ONE! The Topeka Plaindealer AND THE WEEKLY Kansas City Star OR THE WEEKLY Kansas City Journal One Year — $1.50. A Very Rare Chance! BOLEY, I.T. The Colored Town and Home of the Negro. 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 Bought by Negroes. The bride comes from one of the best families in Kansas, whose father has made history for the race and caused many other colored families to secure homes in Kansas and Oklahoma, but who has been dead now several years. She is a graduate of the Topeka high school and an accomplished and energetic young lady who will travel life's journey and make the path smooth for her husband. This young couple has the best wishes of THE PLAINDEALER and may they be successful in life. To keep well posted read THE PLAINDEALER. TWO The To Kan Kans One Y A Very CUTS Engraving Dept. of the Mail = Droeze makes bar CUTS BOLE The Colored To Home of One Year Old and 6 8000 Acres of Land Surrounding Leased and Bought by Negroes. Land in the Creek Nation Surrou and Bought by Negroes. T. M. HAYNES, Local Townsite Mgr., 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. By virtue of an execution issued to me out of said District Court, in the above-entitled action. I will, on Wednesday, the 8th day of November, A. D. 1905, at 10 o'clock, a. m. of said 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 wit: Lot 486 and the south half of lot 484 on Lane street in the city of Topeka, lying and situate in the county of Shawnee in the state of Kansas. The above-described real estate is taken as the property of said defendant, and is directed by said execution to be sold, and will be sold without appraisement, to satisfy said execution. A. T. Lucas, Sheriff of Shawnee County By J. A. Ostrand, Deputy. W. S. McClintock, Attorney. BUTTONS. PORTRALITS. 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. 123 Kansas Ave. TOPEKA. Meals and Short Orders. Cigars and Tobacco. Cummings & Butler, Porter & Exchange Restaurant 1009 St. Louis Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Ex-SLAVES Send me your names at once. Your AG, ex Master's name and your postoffice adress. Send two-cent stamp for reply and I will send you some REJOICING INFORMATION Write STARLEY P. MITCHELL, Memphis, Tenn. P S — Want Agents to handle my work. Big Pay. ONE! ndealer tar mal $1.50. nance! Florida Sleeper VIA FRISCO TOTEM ```markdown ``` On November 15th, and daily thereafter, until the summer season of 1905, the Frisco System, in connection with the Southern Railway, will operate through Pullman Sleepers between Kansas City, Mo. and Jacksonville, Fla. These sleeping cars will be placed in service as part of the equipment of the Popular Southeastern Limited," scheduled to leave Kansas City 6.30 P.M. A modernly equipped train, electric lighted cafe observation car, etc—the route of which carries the traveler through the populous cities of the southeast. Berth reservations; may be made through representatives of Frisco System or connecting lines. PASSPORT TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT, SAINT LOUIS. 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 get practical women will not give them up. The between blouses, dress, enough for 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-run tucks, or puffs, or lace. Soft drapy silks are very good—but so are stiff silks, and a combination of both. The soft childish failles, in exquisitely soft shades of pink, or blue, or white, 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 attractive blouses, in their way, as the silks are in theirs. --- Magnificent Evening Coat. 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. P WHILE THE TEA DRINK Bolero lines to be at all modish, must cling close to the figure. One handsome black velvet gown had applique 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 suppleness 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. Bleuse or Shirt Waist. This shirt waist will be found most excellent for all the waiststings 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 chevron 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 tled in a big bow, although it really is admirable. SIMPLICITY able both for this special waist and a model for the odd 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 under-arm 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 4½ yards 21 inches wide, 4 yards 27 inches wide, or 2 yards 44 inches wide, with 14 yard of any width for stock. An effective and elaborate white rown in India lawn and face Insertion, seen at the Chicago future show, had a You Must Sleep. If you cannot, it is due to an irritated or congested state of the brain, which will soon develope into nervous prostration. Nature demands sleep, and it is as important as food; it is a part of her building and sustaining process. This period of unconsciousness relaxes the mental and physical strain, and allows nature to restore exhausted vitality. 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If it fails, he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind Local and Personal. New switches, new Pompadour frizres and wigs A full new line in the latest modes. Mrs. Annie M. Trapp, 710 Kansas avenue, Ind. Phone 372 We stopped ever to visit our subcribers at Paola last week on route to Coffeyville. We were the guest of Mr. and Mrs.' Robert Shelby, who own a beautiful home in the best residence portion of the city. Mr. Shelby is one of the best millers in the state and buys most of the wheat used by the company. Paola has several energetic colored people who own their homes, and several oil wells which will pay well some day. We never met a street loafer on the town. We met Mr. Benja min Cooper and boys, who are loyal race men, energetic and prosperous. Mrs. Rosa McCarroll who spent three weeks at Hill City, Graham county, with her sister, Mrs. G. W. Jones, returned home last week. She reports that Mr. Jones is the proud possessor of three of the finest farms in that county, and on the home place are cattle, horses, hogs and chickens too numerous to mention. She says it is Mrs. Jones' delight to raise chickens, geese, turkeys and ducks which swarm the place by the hundreds. She also states that Mrs. Jones will remember some of her Topeka friends at Thanksgiving in the way of some fine fat turkeys. The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Jones seems to be the place where there is never a dull moment and every one always receives a warm welcome when they call upon them. Prof. and Mrs. George W. Jackson gave an at home party Tuesday evening at their residence, 10 o Washburn avenue, in honor of the professor's sister, Mrs. Jennie Sloan of Princeton. N. J. About thirty couples were present to meet the distinguished lady from the East. Music was furnished by Oliver's orchestra. The out of town guests were Mrs. Mileham of Chicago, Mrs. Sloan of Princeton and Mrs. J H. Hayden of Hennessy, O. T. At a late hour luncheon was served and the guests departed for their homes, all declaring the host and hostess to beide entertainers. Mrs. Sloan will leave this week for her home in the East. She is one of the most cultured ladies of Princeton, and made a host of friends here who are sorry to see her depart. INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. "THE WESTERN TUSKROGER." The members of the Home and Foreign Missionary Baptist convention have established a memorial room in Howland Hall. This room will be furnished by these generous ladies. At the session of the C. M. E. conference held at Newton last week it was voted to give our in. Rising Sun Fire Insurance Co. Muskogee, Indian Territory. Wach This Space NEXT WEEK AGENTS stitution the unqualified support of that church in this section of the country. A very pleasing collection was given the work. Thanks, brethren. Still they come! Many students continue to arrive. We have made several improvements and can accommodate many more. Send for a catalogue. Miss Birdie A. Atkinson, class '05, is teaching school at Falun, Kas., and the patrons are highly pleased with her work. The colored people of Wichita, Kansas, have subscribed the funds necessary to purchase a scroll and circular saw and a turning lathe. This machinery has already been ordered. May other towns follow the example of Wichita. Our military department has been re organized for the present term. The young men have always taken much interest in military science. This department has helped the young men in many respects. NOTICE. The Inter-State Literary association of Kansas and the West will convene in annual session at Kansas City, Mo. Dec. 26, 27, 28. Each literary society is entitled to representation by three delegates (one of whom may have a place on the program) and three alternates. New societies and those not having been enrolled at the last session of the association, will be required to pay a fee of $150. Societies enrolled at last session will pay $1 membership fee. The executive committee will convene in November for purpose of making up the program. Any society may become a member of the association by application to the president or correspond- DRINK GOETZ Standard Beer THE BEER WITHOUT A HEADACHE. Established 1859, Saint Joseph, Mo. M. K. GOETZ BREWING CO. ing secretary on or before the first day of December, sending therewith the required tee. Jas. H. Guv, President. 429 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kans. Miss A. F. Moore, Cor. Sec'y, 1214 Vine Street, Kansas City, Mo. I. M. HORTON, Ch'm'n Ex. Com. 1608 E. 13th Kansas City, Mo. The City Federation of Women's clubs will meet at the Congregational church, King and Lincoln streets, Oct. 27, at 2:30 p.m. All clubs concerned are requested to be present. By order of Loula B. Harris, Pres. Mary B. Jordan, Secy. Lawrence, Kan. Miss Lucy Cline, formerly of this city, but now residing in St. Louis Mo., has been visiting among the people of Lawrence, at which place she was born and reared. The young people of Lawrence gave a number of social functions in her honor, one of which took place at the Leonard Hall October 3. The hall vastly decorated; music was furnished by Prof. Strode's orchestra. After serving a dainty lunch, the evening was spent in dancing and whist playing. Many social leaders from abroad were present, and all joined in making the occasion pleasant for their guest. Miss Cline left Sunday for a short visit among friends and among friends and relatives in Kansas City, after which she will return here for the young girls' annual ball, before going East to her home. A Game of Bluff. From The State Record. BY ARCHIMEDES "Come out!" they cried, with jeer and shout, "Come out with club and gun! We'll bluff the rooster from his perch And see Tom Kelley run!" The yelling lines rush madly on, A howling host they come; But, ah, they stop with sudden shock— Tom Kelley wouldn't run. They waver first, and next give back— For pluck a mob will stun— Then he them to their homes again Since Kelley wouldn't run. There may be truth in what they say— It may be only fun— He'd hug the post or do his time, But don't you b'lieve he'd run. In after years they'll tell the tale Of how the chase begun, And how it ended in a rout When Kelley wouldn't run. - HOTEL WILKARD. East on the Southwest Limited You cannot drop your napkin and pick it up in the dining car of The Southwest Limited. A waiter will be there with a clean one. A porter was recently disciplined for brushing a hat with a whisk broom instead of a brush. These are little things, but they show how excellence of service is maintained on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. This Company owns and operates the sleeping, dining, library and all other cars on its lines, and therefore offers its patrons an excellence in equipment and service not obtainable elsewhere. The Southwest Limited leaves Kansas City, Union Station, 5.55 p. m.; Grand Avenue, 6.07 p. m. Arrives Union Station, Chicago, 8.55 a. m. G. L. COBB, Southwestern Passenger 907 Main Street, Kansas City, ESTERN UNIVERS WESTERN UNIVERSITY, The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West. DEPARTMENTS: THE State Industrial COURSES: Classical, mal, Musical (or organ and harp Carpentry, Ple Stenography and Plain Sewing, ADVANTAGES: Spl fluences and T INFORMATION: For write to William T QUINDARO. MENTIONS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-M state Industrial. AGES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Vocal), includ igan and harmony, Drawing (Fine Arts and M arpentry, Printing and Book-Binding, Busine tenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dreesn ain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and TAGES: Splendid Location, Heathful Climate, ences and Thorough Teachers. MATION: For terms, prices and all inducemen ite to William T. Vernon, A. M., PRESIDENT, DARO. DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Vocal), including piano, organ and harmony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Splendid Location, Heathful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered, write to William T. Vernon, A.M., D.D., PRESIDENT, Phones { Office—Bell—"White"4302 Residence—Bell—"West" 15. comfort in the Sick Room ends on many little things. Trained nurses is wanted—an atomizer, with a mild disinfecter the room and make the air clean and use a thermometer, fresh absorbent cotton or bottle—a dozen little things that help these doctors and nurses know that we have aids and others, in the most dependable way to make this means of letting you know it. OHL'S PHARMACY Comfort in the Sick Room. Depends on many little things. Trained nurses know what is wanted—an atomizer, with a mild disinfectant, to spray the room and make the air clean and refreshing; a thermometer, fresh absorbent cotton, a hot water bottle—a dozen little 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. KOHL'S PHARMACY, Phone 743. Phone 561. 732 Kansas Ind. Phone 743. Bell Phone 561. 732 Kansas Ave. Southwestern Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. UNIVERSITY, al, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and age, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Nor- mental and Vocal), including piano, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), and Book-Binding, Business Course, writing, Tailoring, Dreesmaking and Laundering, Farming and Gardening. Location, Heathful Climate, Good In- Teachers. prices and all inducements offered, ernon, A. M., D.D., RESIDENT, the Sick Room. things. Trained nurses know formizer, with a mild disinfectant, knake the air clean and refresh- refresh absorbent cotton, a hot tittle things that help the patient. uses know that we have all these the most dependable qualities. letting you know it. PHARMACY, Prescriptions a Specialty. 732 Kansas Ave. KAN8A8. MEMPHIS, TENN. The members of the Centenary M. E. church had an excellent sermon preached to them by their able pastor, Rev M. Williams last Sunday at 11 o'clock, a. m. Collection during the day $6.00. Prof. L. H. Fields, principal of the Grant school in North Memphis, reports that students are en rolling rapidly, which bespeaks that the parents are very interested in the education of their children. The enrollment for the month of September was four hundred and fifty-two The Kortrecht High School, Prof. E. L. Honesty, principal, reports an enrollment for the month of September, five hundred and three. Georgia Street school, Prof. C A. Thompson, principal, reports an enrolment for the month of September, four hundred and forty-seven. Hooks' school and Kindergarten on October 2nd enrolled sixty-four students. This institution reflect much credit upon the founder, Mrs Julia Hooks, who has worked faithfully for the interest of the race She has for her assistants, Misse Bianche Carter and Maud Peyton We wish her much success in the work. Mrs. W. M. Hereford was calle from Chicago to the bedside of his sister, Mrs. G. W. Smith, who is very ill. Mrs. Dela Demon has just return ed from Hot Springs, Ark., where she has been for two months for the benefit of her health. Mrs. Lillie Boyd has coturned from visiting her sister-in-law. Mrs. A. Harris in Curve, Tenn. Miss Viola Stokes has recovere from an attack of malarial fever. Dr. W. H. McCarty, who graduated in the class of 1904 from the Maharay Medical College, Nashvill Tenn., is doing what every young man could do if he will try. The doctor has built up an excellent practice. Mr. W. A. Taylor, the successful barber has now opened another shop on South street, which is we equipped to give his many patron satisfaction. His brother, G. Taylor conducts the shop No. 1 o Carolina street. Mrs. Mary Abbotte has returne from teaching her summes schoo at Woodstock. Rev. J. P. Peoples has just close a successful revival at the Mt. Hbron Baptist church, adding twelv to the church. He is now conduc ing a revival at the Golden Le. Baptist church. Mrs. E. Kindle has returned from Etters Station, where she spent one week with Mrs. M. Lackey. Mr. J. Osborn has returned from Coahoma, Miss., where he has bee in the grocery and timber business for some time. Mr. Osborn is we known as an energetical business man. To the readers of this paper When you have your address changed please notify the agent a once so that he can have it sent to you without delay, as you should not miss a copy. Wanted!—From thirty to fifteen colored coal miners for the Atchison Coal Co., located near the city of Atchison, Kansas. Work guaranteed the year round, with good pay. This is a three-foot vein of coal and the company is desirous of working all colored miners possible. Address Wm. Ogilvie, Supt. of Mines, Aitchison, Kan Mme. De Vaui Vincent's School of high class tailoring Tutition reasonable. Write for information. 1928 Walnut St. KANSAS CITY, MO LETTER OF INQUIRY. TO THE PLAINDEALER: I hereby write this letter of inquiry in an endeavor to find the whereabouts of my brother, Win. Crowell, called in short "Will." heard from him about a year ago in New Orleans, La. Since that time I have written several letters to him, but have heard nothing from him, my letters returning. So, i there are any readers of this paper who know anything of him the will confer a great favor upon the undersigned by communicating to him the desired information. John H. Crowell, Box 127, Orlando, Okla. ORIKCULTURE On the subsoll depends a great deal. The tree that is planted over an impervious subsoll may do well if it is on a side-hill that will permit the water to run off through the soil that lies above the subsoll. But on other kinds of land the subsoll, if impervious, will cause the trees to grow slowly and bear fruit lightly. Bad drainage and impervious subsols largely go together. We have seen land that was friable on top and down a little way was composed of a layer of stones and clay so closely intermixed that it almost seemed that a great fire had melted them and they had run together. If such subsoll cannot be improved it is better to put the fruit trees in some other place. The surest way to improve the subsoil is by drainage. That lowers the water table in the soil in winter and lets the frost in to pulverise the ground. Where the land is undrained the water table protects all the soil below it from the action of frost. We have known of clay soils through which the drains were dug to a depth of four feet. For a year or two it did not seem to make much difference with the general character of the soil, for the frost had not had time to work. But after the frost for two or three winters had got in to the soil the whole character of the ground seemed to be chanred. For the growing of apple trees especially it is best to select land where the subsit is already in right condition, so that the roots may go down several feet if necessary. This makes it easy for the tree to send its roots deeply and to get down into a moist layer of soil. Trees in such locations stand drouth well and show green leaf when all things else seem to be ing brown with drouth. Leaving the Tree to Nature Every once in awhile we find a man that believes in leaving fruit trees alone, permitting nature to do as she wishes to with them. He generally says that the sprouts on trees, especially the water sprouts should not be cut off. We think that if this man had to raise grapes he would get very few of them. Nature does not have to be fed and clothed, and therefore is not concerned with increasing the fruitfulness of trees and plants beyond the point where they will propagate themselves. But man has greater needs and forces the tree and plants to stop producing in one direction and go to producing in another. The great fruitfulness of trees cared for by man is merely due to the diversion of growth forces from one direction to another. A tree that is planted and cared for by man does not take in more nourishment than does another tree that is left to the direction of nature. But the nourishment that is taken in is made to go into the formation of things man can eat rather than into the formation of wood and leaves, which he cannot eat. The Creator has placed in the hands of man the power of directing the processes of nature to a considerable extent. Man prunes a tree only to make it expend its energies in the fruit buds and so gives him more fruit. We should not leave things to nature, for in the main nature cares nothing for us. There is no moral reason why man should follow the leadings of nature. His own intelligence is not a thing to be lightly set aside. Garden Pointers. In removing the tops before storing be careful not to cut too closely. Decay might result. Put the beets, parsnips, carrots, etc. in a cool cellar in boxes with sand and moist earth between them. The above way is especially suited for cabbage and turnips. Apples, too, can be kept well by the method. Celery in process of blanching is less likely to decompose if the leaves are exposed to the air and sunlight in mild weather. Loss frequently occurs from too close covering. A mulch of manure on the raspberry patch is good for next season's crop, but it should not be so heavy near the plants as to furnish a harbor for field mice, beneath which they can dig down and eat the roots. This is a good time to sow some lettuce seed in the cold frame and start a few bunches of parsley in the frame or the kitchen window. It will not be much trouble to arrange for a good supply of fresh vegetables in the winter. Been Useful to Farmers. BEEES GOOD TO PARTNER. The great value and usefulness of the common honey bee on the farm has been teresly put by Prof. W. P. Hedrick of the agricultural college of Michigan. He says: The fruit grower who complains of bees is an ungrateful wretch. At best fair exchange is no robbery, but the bees take nothing. A crop of honey removes no fertility from the soil, no substance nor flavor from the fruit, nor even the fragrance from the flower. Multitudes of bees may store their hives with "cholically sued sweets" from your orchard, and you may take it and feast yourself on the appleblossom flavored honey, or you may sell it for dollars and cents, yet neither your trees nor your farm is the loser by one penay's worth. If the bees take a little toll from the fruit, what of it? Should they not be repaid for officiating at the nuptials of your fruit blossoms. But do they take toll? To the Public: To the Public: To the Readers of THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER, Memphis, Tenn.3 GREETING: Mr. Joe A. J. Cockrell, No. 146, Meachem ave., Memphis, Tenn., is sole agent for THE PLAINDEAKER 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 manwhom of the same standard, whether he be a gentleman, a trump or a convict. We want fair play, justice and an equal show in all things and such shall be our motto. —NICK CHILKS. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Anna Burson, Plaintiff, vs William Burson, Delft dart. 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 26th day of October, 1905, the petition will be taken as true, and judgment entered accordingly. [SEAL] ANNA BURSON, By her Att'y, W. I. JAMISON. Attest: I. S. CURTIS CLOCK. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the district Court of Snawnee County, Kansas. R. H Miles, Plaintiff. No. 23471. Dora Miles, Defendant. The State of Kansas to Dora Miles, Greeting: You are here by 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, Attorney for Plantiff. Altest, I. S. CURTIS, Clerk of the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. [BALL] Lampkin Hotel, 210 LAMPKIN ST. Pueblo Colo. Near the Union Depot— Rooms nestly furnished— Enquireat depot. B. W. Shelton, Proprietor. KALLITHRIX PARLOR HAIR GOODS, HAIR ORNAMENTS, NEW POMPA-DOURS, SWITCHES, WIGS, TAPES, FRIZZES AND BANGS MRS. M. L. FIELD, 819 KANS AVE. IND PHONE 640. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. E. T. Burrows Company Dr. J. M. Amis, Defendant By virtue of an execution issued to me out of sald 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 sald 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 wit: 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 described 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, By J. A, OSTRAND, Deputy, W. S. McCLINTOCK, Attorney. The Walters and Caterers' association at 1228 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 (at 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, cautic 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 equipped 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. Fonr-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. PROTECTION Issues policies for $350, $500 and $1000. We issue policies for $100, $150 and $200 for children aged This is the only Colored Fraternal Insurance Company in the United States. Every intelligent Negro should carry some Insurance good, live, hustling agents in every town. Write at the Liberal terms to the right persons. The Knights and Ladies of Protection Sol. James Beck, Nat'l Pres. P. C. Thou James M. Mason, Nat'l Vice Pres. J. G Grove J. H. CHILDERS, N We issue policies 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. The Knights and Ladies of Protection. Sol. James Beck, Nat'l Pres. P. G. Thomas, Nat'l Sept. James M. Mason, Nat'l Vice Pres. J. G Groves, Nat'l Treat 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.—Walace's Farmer. Care of the Bull. 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 off 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. University Cal Department cal, Dental and Pharma- tic Colleges. session will begin October 2, 1905, months. Students matriculated only. Graded Course in Medicine. Graded Course in Dental Surgery. Graded Course in Pharmacy. given by didactic lectures, quizzes, laboratory demonstrations. Well- in all departments. Unexcelled all students must register before Information or Catalogue, apply to DD, A. M., M. D., CRETARY. St. WASHINGTON, D. C. Are You INSURED? Knights and Ladies of Protection A NATIONAL FRATERNAL INSURANCE SOCIETY Incorporated Under the Laws of Kansas 50 and $200 for children aged from 6 to 20. Colored Fraternal Insurance in the United States. Do should carry some Insurance. We want in every town. Write at once, for terms persons. and Ladies of Protection. P. C. Thomas, Nat'l Supt. Pres. J. G Groves, Nat'l Treas. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKE YOUR LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER MARROW. FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted) This wonderfully hair made in the only only preparation in the world that makes hair of curly hair straight on show above. It harps on breaking of hair, dries and paints the hair grow long and thick. Sold over the world. It was the first preparation ever made by straightening hair. Beverage is opened Ox Marrow is put in a tiny can then, made only in Chicago, Pa., on an package to be mixed by quantities than claim. It was so potent it never fails to keep hair straight, soft and beautiful. It is the best and most economical product to produce for children and children. A bonus for your hair is the best and most economical product to produce for children. Only 20 cents. Sold directly to you. We are all poised and eager to change your life. Please contact your name and address plainly to ORGANIZED OX MARROW CO. (None guaranteed without my signature) Charles Ford Bark 26 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the Court of Topeka, in and for the City of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Maggie Adams, Plaintiff, Thad Simpson, Defendant. The said defendant, Thad Simpson, is hereby notified and required to 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. McCABE, Judge. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the Court of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Frank Lofty, an trustee in bankruptcy of A. Bear, bankrupt, Plaintiff. 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 Bear, harrupt, and in said action has caused a garnishment summons to be issued to C. L. 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 garnistee 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. - Supply Co. Kansas Goods shipped direct from the factory to the consumer. We save you travelling salesman's and merchant's expense and profits on General Merchandise, Household Novelies and Supplies. We sell the latest inventions before they reach your home dealer. Our goods are all reliable, and manufactured by one of the largest and most responsible manufacturing establishments in the West. Our goods save you labor, time and money. Every day a sale day. If you believe in saving your husband's, brother's or father's earnings you will send a cent today for our illustrated 35 page Catalogue "Not so surprise you would surprise us." The Alabaster Supply Co. Cor. Bath and Promenade, Bannister Hill, KS READ THE PLAINDEALER if you would know what the race is doing. It is indeed an inspiring sight to witness that spirit of ingenuity in any individual that causes him or her to move into the various pursuits of life. However, we generally are prone to give credit more readily to the weaker sex. With pleasure we call the attention of our readers to the Beauty Parlors now being operated by Mrs. Schuyler Winston at 419 Main street, Joplin, Mo. This is the only business of a like nature in the city of Joplin, and the only one operated by a colored west of Chicago. Her parlors are equipped with the latest and most successful appliances, and the most delicate as well as the most difficult massage is given at her place. Mrs. Winston has been engaged in this business in Joplin for the past three years, having been a mission teacher prior to that time. She enjoys the best trade of Joplin and easily realizes three times the average teacher's salary. Mrs. Winston is a typical Missouri girl, was born at the intellectual Athens of that state. (Jefferson City) and was trained from the Lincoln Institute. She was a member of the G. W. Dupee family of Jefferson City, a family well and favorably known throughout the Middle West. Mrs. Winston is a lady of much refinement and culture, which has no doubt done much in building her enviable trade. As she quotes it, "In my business I know no color line. Any young lady who has thoroughly learned the art of manicuring would do well to correspond with her, as she contemplates using one in the near future. SPRINGFIELD, MO. The Blue Ribbon club held its social session at Palace hall last Wednesday evening and was in every respect a successful affair. The management deserves much credit for entertaining much large and refined gatherings. About forty-two couples attended and so spirited were the musical numbers that Cain's orchestra was encored many times. Richard Freeman has resumed his work after a few weeks of illness. Benj. Burton, Springfield's great cornetist, will appear at a future date in a musical recital. Mrs. R. H. Smith of St. Charles who is visiting in the city will leave next week for Sedalia. Edward Drew made a flying trip to St. Joe, Mo., and Leavenworth, Ka., last week. Steward Parker and Alfred Turner attended the Priests of Pallas parade at Kansas City. Miss Pearl Crawford has quite a class in voice culture. Barney Freeman and wife were out fishing on the James river last week with usual luck. Postman William Smith is still making his rounds for Uncle Sam. Success to him. George Webb, Jr., returned last Monday from St. Louis. Mrs. U. R. Smith and R. H. Smith were royally entertained last Tuesday at the elegant home of John Hayward and wife. Rev. I. C. Nicholson of Gipson chapel, left last Friday for Topeka, Kansas. Drury college and Kansas university met Monday on the grid iron, the latter winning by a score of 11 to 0. Hurrah for Kansas. WEIR CITY, KANS. Our old friend, Thos. Montgomery, better known as "Talking Kid" was in the city last week shaking hands with friends. Quite a number of Weirites left last week on a transportation trip to Higby and Huntsville, Mo. Among the messengers to the Baptist State convention were Rev. P. J. Jackson, Mrs. S. A. Kinnell and James A. Moore. J. A. Moore, M. Lee and J. B. Davis were elected by a meeting of the colored citizens last Wednesday night to look after the school interests of our citizens. Mrs. Albert Marshall of Pitts- NEWTON, KANS. C. M. E. conference this last week was a s and the delegates and left the city declari is ideal entertainers. Denton returned last the Baptist State con veyville. Willie Slaughter h to Wednesday. McLuin of this city long with street fairs. Slaughter who has b long time, is improving west side school h for two weeks on acc ria. Set fair next week—M day. Member Mrs. A. Col city Parlor" when in th is a parlor to be proud people declare her to human for the work. T tifier to compare with VINITA, I. T. ry Pack of Muskogee. ry last Wednesday A. J. Jordan was a vi KANSAS CITY, KAS. Miss Kate Sharp of Leavenworth who has been the guest of her sister Mrs. R. E. Patterson, returned to her home Monday. Mrs. D. W. White returned hot Sunday after a delightful visit to Denver, Chicago and other points of interest. Mrs. G. W. Hubbard is the guest her parents in Sedalia, Mo. Mrs. Rachel Porter of Warren, Mo., is in the city and will end the winter with her daughter Mrs. Stella Roberts. Mrs. Lucinda Woods is very near her home, 525 State ave. Wish her a speedy recovery. Issaha Leobah of Topeka was the city last week. Corvine Patterson attended the baptist State convention held last week at Coffeyville, and reports are enjoyable time. Miss Mary Porter, one of our city teachers, is very ill at home on Freeman ave. We hope her early recovery. Miss Lula Graves, a teacher, is ill. We hope her an early turn to her duties. Miss F. Mabel Branch, former in Denver, but now of Cholo, Built Central Africa, writes that "missing link," supporting Dr. Bin's theory, has been found there, a real black man evolved from the monkey. Mr. and Mrs. Phenix entertain last Tuesday in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Brookins of Ft. Scott, a white a large number attended. Cards are out announcing the r. and Mrs. A. J. Hill will ce PUBLICATION NOTICE. in the Court of Topeka, Shawna County, Kansas. Frank Lofty, as Trustee in Ban uptey of the estate of A. Ben ankrupt, Plaintiff vs ville Mfg. Co., Defendant. LINCOLN INSTITUTE. J. W. RYAN, aS nt