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OPEKA PLAINDEALER. Historical Society State House WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER! The Syndicate Gleans Some Interesting Notes from Eye and Nose A movement of widespread importance and no doubt of national significance to the colored people along the lines of industrial development of the young colored men in the United States is perhaps embodied in the recent suggestion made to the President of the United States by Hon. Henry Latchfield West, commissioner of the District of Columbia, that young colored men, graduates of the steam engineering department of the Armstrong Manual Training school of this city, be employed in that capacity on the Panama Canal now under construction by the United States. In recent years the education of a large number of colored youths in this country has been directed along lines of practical training which is intended to fit them for work of a highly skillful character, and this suggestion in connection with the Panama Canal construction is highly important in many respects, giving this class of educated, skilled workmen an opportunity to demonstrate their ability and to reflect it upon them Alma Mater and the race This letter of employing graduates of the Armstrong Manual Training school was mentioned to Commissioner West by Dr Bruce Evans, principal of that institution, on November 21 Commissioner West brought the matter to the attention of the President, who accepted the suggestion and immediately wrote to Mr T. P. Shontz, chairman of the Isthmian canal commission, urging that he given looking to the employment of these young men in that connection. In reply to the President's letter, Chairman Shontz stated that he had retweeted the matter to Chief Engineer Stevens, who has direct charge of the employment of engineers, and he issued the President that every consideration would be given to the graduates of the Armstrong Manual school in the selection of the engineering force. A letter from Commissioner West to Chairman Shontz explains ation of the ability and fitness of these young men for employment states that several of the graduates in engineering are now employed on engineering work incident to the construction of the new railway terminal, that three others are employed at the Washington Navy Yard and are giving civic satisfaction, while another is in charge of the most difficult housing machine on the new highway bridge connecting Anacostia and the city of Washington. From the council and board manner in which the President received this suggestion from Commissioner West, it is certain that he is thoroughly interested in this movement and is exciting himself in a way that includes that practical results will follow. Chief Engineer Stevens is expected in Washington on or about Dec. 15 and Commissioner West will arrange a conference which will be attended by the principal of the Armstrong school, and this matter will be taken up in detail with the Chief Engineer, and it is confidently expected that this conference will result in a number of these steam engineering graduates from the Armstrong school being employed in the construction of this great American waterway. It is said that Dr. Booker T. Washington has had information concerning this movement, and his relation to this subject warrants the TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1905. belief that he will undoubtedly give it his hearty co operation. Should the hoped-for result in connection with the employment of skilled colored mechanics and steam engineers come out of the movement now under way, the object of which is to give employment to these Armstrong graduates, there is no reason why even a much larger number than those already mentioned might not also be given work in the construction of the canal. Competent and efficient graduates from every colored industrial school in the United States will have an opportunity to be employed on this canal and should avail themselves of it. A huge number of prominent colored men have already received the idea of skilled colored mechanics being employed on the Panama Canal with a great deal of satisfaction, and it is felt by all of them that is the colored man his participated in the country's victories of war as well as of peace, he should have a part in the construction of this international waterway, which will probably be the greatest peace victory of this century. Having contributed our brain and muscle to the ultimate success of this stupendous enterprise, we and our children will be especially proud in later years when we can look back with the pleasant satisfaction that, as a part of the great American people who made the Panama Canal a realization, we lent a helping hand. General Oliver O. Howard, for leader of Howard University, Washington, D.C., is authority for the statement that "there is no Negro problem" at I that 'all that has been written recently of the colored man's status and the future of that society of which he constitutes a large element, one truth is true." The great and powerful generals who have helped stretch out American civilization like a cover over this North America stand today in the sunlight of American Progress and achievements and reflect the glory of her beginning. We are wont to praise them for their worth, their strength and their magnificence. He continues, "I have never known one whose education has rendered him useless in society." The Negro like all others, has rendered strong proof of his manliness and would not be deprived of the results of his labor by a biased and prejudiced people who seem to care nothing for his rights as a citizen and as a man African League, Buchanan, Liberia, Africa sends out a beautiful, extra 17 page edition to its regular number for November. It contains many interesting notes and comments, the most important of which are the cents of the president and vice president of the republie of Liberia, Hon. A Barclay and Hon. Joseph David Summerville, respectively. Then comes spendful half page out of the statues of the supreme court, B. R. Richardson, A. B. Roberts and J. D. Dossen. Other important feats to show the college of West Africa, the court house of Monrovia and Monrovia proper as it nestles close by the water's edge. It tells of the life and condition of the people with an almost exhaustive treatise of the wealth of the republic, of its manners and customs, habits and wealth of that far off clime. It presents that portion of Africa in its true light divulging much of its hitherto hidden history. News comes from Hattburg, Miss. that D. B. Holmes, A. T. Bowe, and Albert T. James, white, have been arrested on indictments returned by the grand jury, charging them with complicity in the lynching of Ed Brock and Kid Georges colored. News comes from financial circles that Negro banks did a $11,000,000 business last year. Dr. Caldwell Welcomes the A. M. E. Ministers! Thefollowing is the welcome address delivered by Dr. D. E. Cildwell before the A. M. E. Annual Conference, at Osceola, Ark., Bishop B. F. Lee presiding, Nov. 15, 1900. "Mother is a very old world but it sounds sweeter to the man of seventy than to the boy of twenty. There are some things in life that never grow old. The sun, in his magnificent glory is as new and as welcome to the aged and infirmed as to the young and gay. We greet him youth; we greet him in manhood; we greet him still more in our declining years. The flag of our country never grows old to a loyal patriotic American citizen. We followed it at Bunker Hill; we stood by it in the seven days' sight at Richmond; we were baptised in our blood at Gettysburg; we held its staff after it had been shot to pieces in the wilderness; we sanctified it by our prayers at old Appomattox; and lost, but not least, we carried it to glory at old San Juan Hill; yet she is always new and her glory never smothers in the patriotic breast. The word welcome is in old, old word yet it is forever now. The first welcome that history records was a celestial greeting. It was a welcome given by all men to her creator. When the morning stars rising together and the sons of God shouted for joy. The second welcome of Biblical importance, was the welcome given our blessed Savior. It was given by the wise men of of the east upon the plains of Judæ. Welcome generally arises from two causes either on the account of deals done or services rendered that meet popular approval or on the account of the innate love of the object welcomed. When the father welcomed the return of the prodigal son it was not for the good he had accomplished or the fame he had won. He had wasted his substance in mortous living and had violated every law of his being. Yet upon his return, he received a royal welcome. It was brought about by the father's innate love for his son. Now brethren, I, in behalf of the professional man of this city who I have the distinguished honour of representing, shall proceed to welcome this conference to this growing little city for some of the following reasons: First, because of our must love for Christianity, we love every thing good, grand, pure and sublime. We feel like using the language of the poet: I have thy kingdom land The house of lame shocks The church our blest Re dreamt saved, Secondly. 'We welcome you for the many good deeds that you at a body, have performed. We welcome you because you have gone into the highway and hedges of sin and have robbed the devil of his most precious jewels. We welcome you again because you is a body have stood sentinel at the door of domination to ward off all who would enter there. We welcome you again for the great men you have produced. And although Booker T. Washington may be the ideal of our republic, the orator of the nation, the Cicero of America, the Demosthenes of the state of Alabama, as well as the distinguished guest of a most distinguished president, Bishop H. M. Turner will forever stand as the greatest living exponent of Negro manhood and courage Al- though the storms of persecution and the waves of cowardice may roll round him thick and fast, like the great rock of Gibralta, he stands unchanged amid the storm, saying "Boll on, ye dark wild billows roll, my manhood I will continue to uphold." He believes that nothing can take the place of absolute manhood and freedom. Bishop Turner says in action what Patrick Henry says in words, "Give me liberty or give me death." America has agreed to give me Negro everything else on earth but manhood. They have agreed to educate his children providing he does not teach them manhood. They have decided that he may enter the business and commercial world and win wealth and fame, but for God's sake, do not possess manhood and do remain in a Negroe's place. There is no special place for a citizen in a republican form of government. He may be a biggger at the wood pile or he may be president of the United States. The history of your great man would be incomplete without mentioning the name of Richard Allen the founder of your church, and the black John Wesky of America. I shall not attempt to censor him. Millions of Saints in glory stand as a monument to his greatness and ten thousand churches bespoke his praise. I would not overlook the sander lights, men who have worked hard for the master, yet whose names may be unknown to fame. While the poet was true when he said "full many a flower is born to blush anseen, and wastes it's sweetness upon the desert air." yet the least we do for Jesus is most precious in his sight. The professional man of the city welcome you here again because you represent a great and grand institution. Your influence fell over the state of Arkansas, over the south and over the Union, far over in Africa and the Isles of the sea, while Michael's Chief Secretary of Heaven is kept busy recording the names of your Saints as they enter the room. Brother, I have decided to call your conference a spiritual volume. A volcano that bursts once a year and sends forth her fire and smoke even to the gates of the New Jerusalem and spreads her lava over this southland end, I might say, to some extent, over this entire Union. But thanks to the Almighty God, her fire is not the fire that burns not the smoke that smiles, nor the lava that kills. She sends forth the fire that parties, the smoke of redemption, and the lava that builds. Her fire burns upgrate once only; her smoke stifles only superstit on, her lava kills all unreasonable malice, and when the unborn bastion of the future shall stand upon the crowning heights of civilization and with a spy glass in hand shall view the depths from which we rose, he will see no greater force for our uplifting than the work of the A. M. E. conference and no greater lever of elevation than your venerable Bishop and devoted clergyman. Again we welcome you. As peculiar men, men whom the nation needs and heaven approves, God's people are always peculiar. We welcome you as messengers from God. Almost as celestial beings beating good news and glad tiding of great joy. The world has always welcomed her great men. Entire nations sometimes assemble to welcome the return of some great hero. It was so with Dewy; it was so with Grant. When Wellington returned to England after the battle of Waterloo; the battle in which the sun of Napoleon set forever: the battle which plugged from his brow his chief star of hope; the battle which dragged him down from the throne of a king and consigned him to the fate of an exile upon the lonely island of St Helen; all England threw open her gates and bade her conquering hero come in Rome, yes, conquering Rome, the city that sat upon her seven hills and invaded in glory the lily and the sun, gave the Census such a welcome to the world will never see ag in. We welcome you not as hewers from the field of blood and carnage. Your mission has been a grander and more noble one. You have fought the greater battle of life—the battle of peace. You have sealed the highest mountain, the mountain of sin. The mountain that blocks the way from earth to plory. You have lifted up the fallen instead of pulling down the strong. You have given to the world eternal life instead of instant death. You have caused wives and mothers to rejoice over the redemption of their husbands and sons are not to wail and mourn over their destruction. In short your mission has been to raise up the fallen and to bind up the broken hefted. And if it pleases your honor, Most Worthy Bishop, I hope you will excuse me for extending a special welcome to old father Evans, the present pastor Jonesboro and the man who pastored and built this church. When old father Evans came here, he found his children without shelter. When he called his trustee board together he found it composed of young men. Old man Evans said, "Where are your old men?" Some said one thing and some mother. Old man Evans still asked for the old man. He recalled the old warriors of Zion and when the old Negroes became interested the white folks became interested and lent Evans $1000. The Negroes received inspiration and worked with renewed vigor. Hence this church. And again most worthy Bishop, we feel thankful to you and grateful to Almighty God for the possession of our present pastor in the person of Boy, T.V. Townsend. We feel that his presence with us for another year would aid greatly to the Master's cause. He leaves a reputation as spotless is a stat and a name that will never die. I shall close this address with the words of Daniel Webster at the unveiling of the monument at Bunker Hall. In describing the future of that Historical structure he said, that in use and use until it meets the sun in his coming. Let the early light of the morning gold it and parting day longer and play upon its summit. so let it be with the A. M. E. Church. For those and many other reasons which time will not allow me to state, we extend to you a hearty welcome to our growing little city." LINCOLN. NEB. Misses L. thel and Edna Watkins of Conah were guests of Miss Maud Vannell on Thanksgiving. C. R. Bennett and wife spent last week with relatives in Milford, Neb. Miss Katie Alexander and Wesley Gill were married last Friday by the father of the bride, Rev. A Alexander. J. W. Campbell and wife of Chicago are visiting friends in the city NUMBER 47. (Saturday) Knights Templar Had a Glorious Thanksgiving in Topeka. The 12th Annual Conclave of the Missouri Vully Templan Association given Thanksgiving at the Misonne Temple was a grand affair and a success in every way. Emanual Commandery of Kansas City, Ks. was the only visiting one that brought a full drill team. Far West and Mt Oread did not have a full drill team therefore could not enter the drill contest for the prize cup. The parade at 3:30 o'clock headed by a select band under the leadership of Prof. J. M. Ferguson. Cyrene Commandering lead the parade, Emanual and St Joe followed. The Sir Knights in uniform from other commanderies joined in. There were over one hundred fifty uniformed knights in the procession. After marching through the principal streets, they returned to the Hall where a sumptuous banquet was served to them. Over two hundred sat at the table. Much praise is due the ladies' committee and their assistants for the fine style and manner in serving this banquet. The table was in the form of a triangle and beautifully decorated with flags, flowers and forms. The course served was all that one wishes. Messines Ed Drain, H. C. Wilson, Robt. Sime, Chus. Morton, Jos. Brisheen, and W. Williams formed the committee. They were assisted by Sir Knight A. T. Allen whose knowledge of this kind of business is unequaled. Sir H. L. Monroe, the toast master, presided with much dignity. Sir A. D. Butler, chairman of the Temple association and member of the Northwest commandery response to the toast, "Object and Ann" was the most impressive toast of the evening. Sir W. D. Hawkins, of N. W., responded to the toast, "Operative vs. Specialive Knighthood." Sir P. C. Kinneale, "His colored Masonry any Ideals," Sir W. D. Carpenter of Far West, "A knightly construction of the command, right dress," Sir J. Hume Childers "Our fraternal dead." This concluded the toasts after which the Sir Knights matched up stairs to the large hall where several hundred people had assembled to witness the competitive drill for the prize cup. Linnaeus and Cyrene were the only contestants. Cyrene under the command of Capt. Gen. Wm. Reynolds was the first the on foot with twenty one men. They executed several movements forming the K. I which elected much up place. Reynolds came on second under the command of Capt. Gen. P. C. Kinech with twenty one men they made a time showing and one of best dressed teams in the association. They executed several line movements. These five judges decided that Cyrene made sixty-five points and Emmanual, nitty eight. Miss Cyrene G. Smith sang "Stat Springled Bunnet" while the commanderies stood parade rest. Her dress was white with the flag draped across the shoulder, and her sweet, clear voice brought forth several rounds of hearty applause. Her rendition of the song won her a warm place in the hearts of the music loving people and a conclave in the future without her on program will be far from being complete. The grand match was imposing and all enjoyed the looks of the gallant knights in their waving white plumes and glittering swords. WHY? On almost every farm in the west there is, during the busiest part of the season, a scarce of good, dependable horses. There may be exceptions; but generally speaking, this is the rule. Sometimes we hear of a farmer who is said to be "horse poor," but this is because his horses are of such a poor quality that he is obliged to keep them or reduce the number by slaughter. The man who has more good horses than he can use to advantage can always very quickly reduce his horse herd and increase his bank account at the same time. It may not pay to buy a horse or to hire one through this busy time, but if a man raises a colt or two every year, he can generally nil out any shortage in his teams from these young things and still not hinder them from growing into money. Then why is it that there are not more colts raised on the farm? The economic up to date farmer should never pay out money for anything that can be profitably produced on his own farm. And if the ordinary farmer whose works is mostly done by his own boys cannot profitably raise colts, who can? Then why not do it? Outside of the stallion tree, his farm raised colts need not cost him one cent in money; all that goes into them being the product of his own land and his own labor. At the same time, he has a home market for his hay and grain and if he breeds good draft stock, he is practically sure of the top place for this feed when he sells his colts. Now there may be many reasons why no few colts are raised, but the principal one is the failure of the mares to breed; and there is a reason for this also. (One mistake is in not breeding the mare until she is five years old or more, another is in putting it off too late in the spring, so we have the foal dropped after seeding is past. A lifetime's experience has taught me that nature's laws can never be entirely set aside with impunity. The nature we can keep to natural laws in the reproduction of the spines, the more successful we our efforts be. So start you young mates right, or good tooling to develop, then breed to toil when about three years old and keep them at it. Breeding on the muth or tenth day after foaling is the surest and best, but don't let them miss year if you can possibly help it. Don't fear that you will stunt or spoil them by this coarse in hundreds of edges only good results have been reported. And don't fear to overstock the market. The very best drafters are always scion and high prairie, therefore, breed to such stallions as will insure you the very best, or even raise mules, they always have brought and always will bring a good price. Now this is not simply a theory, but almost entirely the plain lesson of practical experience, which has taught me that there is money in it, and that, one year with another, more farm work can be done with six mates that are rusing colts than with five goldings or unbred mates, size and conditions being other wise about the same. But to be successful in this, be sure and breed your mates when they desire to breed N. N. French, in Northwestern Agriculturist. AN INDUSTRY THAT IS BEHIND AN INDUSTRY THAT IS BEHIND. Probably no part of this country's great animal industry is so fat from what it should be as the production of feeding cattle. Since corn land has become so high priced every year has brought a greater dependence by corn belt farmers on feeding cattle from the grazing country, and every year it has been harder to buy the right kind. Well bred feeding steers have been so much in demand and have sold so close to the prices of fat cattle that many feeders have found more money in the common kind that could be bought at a low figure. This is all right for the feeder, but those who passed the common stuff have lost heavily because it had to sell so low. Some ranchmen have seen the necessity for better feeding animals and have graded up their herds to a high standard. In the herds of corn belt farmers these cattle have topped markets and won prizes at fat stock shows, all because they were bred so that the feeder could make prime breeds out of them. And it has paid those far-swing breeders to grade up with successive grades of good beef blood. But the quality of the feeding cattle offered shows very clearly that even the western breeder has not paid enough attention to this subject. It has become an accepted fact that one must go west for a big bunch of good uniform feeding cattle, but they are not plentiful even there. Too often the man who is producing feeders in the west or in the past is breeding scrub cattle. Too often he is not following a course of grading up but is mixing not only breeds but types. Thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of cattle are sold every year in feeder condition that are not fit for the feed lot because they are not bred right. They will low and always will, while well bred cattle carrying no more fat are in good demand from corn belt farmers to finish. Every cattle breeder should look at this problem in the light of the facts—which are that he is producing cattle unprofitable if he is not raising well bred ones, and that well-bred feeding cattle are selling and promise to sell at a good big premium over the other kind. There are and always will be plenty of people who will raise common stuff. The feeder end of the cattle business is far behind the finishing end of it. There must be more breeding of good steers to keep pace with the advanced steer feeding of the present and the critical markets of the future. And the increasing cost of producing cattle, the keen discrimination of feeder buyers, the limited outlet for scrubs, all make at a positive necessity for the breeder to waste no time and feed no inferior cattle.—The National Stockman and Farmer. Musings at Night HIS IDENTITY By Nellie Cravey Gillmore (Copyright, 1904, by Daily Story Pub Co.) Hollister controlled himself by a powerful effort. His face looked almost blue in its deathly pallor, and his lips seemed stretched in a taut line across his teeth. There were black, indented circles under his eyes, doubly accentuating the tense, unyielding bitterness that broke through their studied restraint. He was standing with one elbow, pressed against the sharp edge of the mantel shelf; in this position, he had been staring fixedly at his wife perfectly impassive face for fully half an hour "Is your decision final?" he asked at last. "I have said so" "You, then, in so many words, give me carte blanche to hunt this fellow down and—" She interrupted him with an emphatic nod "Hadn't you better reconsider? You know what I mean when I say that I will—" "I perfectly understand, Edgar. But my mind is unalterable." Hollister entered "Of course your attitude is thoroughly transparent to me. You feel confident enough of your ability to protect this scoundrel and yourself—" The look on his wife's face stopped him. "It is unnecessary to prolong this," she said, rising, you have taken your attitude which you assert is final, and I I have done the same. Just one last word. If you ever find out that you have made a grave mistake, the time will be too late. I shall not ask you to honor me with your trust again; once is sufficient—may, superfluous—as has been demonstrated. Had you seen fit to listen to me for one moment in reason and faith—everything might have been different but when, on the other hand, you chose to insult me (from the beginning), and unhard, why then—we must both submit to the inevitable. She swept past him as she finished speaking and laid her hand on the door knob. But Hollister intercepted her taking her roughly by the arm. I will give you one more chance to prove and establish your innocence in my eyes, he said quiriously "Who was the man, Beatrice?" The woman's face did not change a fraction, except perhaps to grow a shade whiter and a shade more determined "I cannot tell you one said "You will not tell me." "Very well, then if that is more agreeable to you I will not" "I saw his face once remember, and the day will come when both you and he will regret most bitterly that—" "We ever lived?" Doubtless. The day is already here. She shook off his hand and pulled open the door. Hollister followed her out into the corridor. "There's one thing more," he insisted "I have held this back till A "Is your decision final?' the last, hoping that you might come to your senses without so violent an incentive, but—" "Well?" "If you still persist in your present course, by this time to morrow, I shall have to ask you to—leave my roof. Beatrice Hollister seemed to away, almost imperceptibly for an instant, and a strange light flashed in her eyes, but she controlled herself mag- ficiently, and acknowledged the threat with a weary shrug, he should never know, as long as they both lived, that he had stabbed her to the heart. Hollister went back to the library and threw himself defectedly into a chair. Some of his anger had begun to wear off and give place to a miserable sense of depression and guilt. In all the years of their married life, she had not once given him cause for suspicion or distrust until yesterday. And that she had given him no small cause on that occasion, he could not doubt. There was the evidence of his own eyes to damn her—and she had denied nothing. She had only asserted her innocence of wrong, absolutely) and emphatically, but in the very face of contrary proofs He had seen the man put his arm about her and kiss her: he had heard the endearing words he used, and those spoken in reply. That was all, but certainly it was enough to justify the course he had pursued. But perhaps, after all, had he approached her less insultingly, there might have been a better chance of learning the truth. Her manner, belligerent enough at first, had gradually grown to impress him with an undeniable sense of his own shortcoming and her rightful claim to consideration. Still she had blamed him for lack of faith, while most positively exhibiting it herself! A clock somewhere striking nine, roused him from his reflections. He rose abruptly and turned the gas. Afterward, he saw that the front door was securely holted, and then went slowly upstairs to his apartments. At J. African Elephant Doomed Unless public opinion is kept informed as to what is going on there is very little hope that the African elephant can be preserved. In the first place, owing to its far larger growth of tusks this species is the main object of the ivory hunter. The African ivory is the whiter the harder and the dearer of the two. Also the tusks are very much larger than those of the Asiatic elephant so that the hunter gets more money for less trouble—or rather did get it, for hunting the elephant for its ivory can now only be carried on in Asia in parts of the forests of Burmah, or "by permission" in certain districts of India—Count) Gentleman and Land and Water. Italy is Beggars' Paradise. Italy seems to be a paradise for clever and unscrupulous baggars for it was in that country that Turchi, who died a few years ago, tended his rich harvest of charitable dolls. When at last the bigger died his sordid rooms were found to be treasure-houses of silver and gold and securities. When they had been thoroughly ransacked the spoil amounted to no less than 2,000,000 francs all of which went to two nephews of Turchi who were in a deplorable condition of poverty and to whom the old man would not give a crust of bread during his life. "Pirates" and "Adventurers" Pirate is a Greek word coming directly from "Pelrates which means, circumcledically 'one who tries or at 'tempts'—in other words an adventure 'Adventurer' too" is a word that has lost respectability but not so far as "pirate" which acquired its special sense at least 2,000 years ago "Pelrates" and the Latin "pirata" are known only in this sense. Cicero defines the pirate as the common enemy of all. Value of Habit of Reading. The late Cornellus Vanderbilt, when addressing some university students, said, Cultivate the habit of reading for a certain time every day. As a brain molder and wit sharpener I know nothing to equal it. I have known man man in my time who have made large fortunes and every one of them loved books at least as much as he loved dollars. My Castle of Fancy. I have a castle of fancy, thronged with a thousand guests; Knights and lords and ladies in velvets and satins dressed. Soldiers armored and sturdy, and fresh war drums. Guarding the castle portals are stalwart men-at-arms. Mountebankes prelates and beggars—a varied and motley train. Winds through my castle of fancy in some myttical, far-off Spain. There are pennons on tower and turret, forth from the casements flung Are banners of royal splendor with gold-on broderies hung. There are music and dance and laughter; the trumpet delivery blaze. Wassail and trumpet making as tankards are tossed in air. O' I live it all with the people who dwell in my demeens. I walk oftimes with the mighty and I sup with kings and queens. When my heart grows sick and weary, oppressed by this humdum world, I board my fleetest shallow its wings of thought unfurled. And soon through clouds of musing, tangle and dim, Loom up my tactical castle on the far horizon a rim. Then flung to the winds are its banners the trumpet a blast is blown. And the rates are swung wide open when come again to my own. -Edith Tupper in New York Herald. In the abandonment of despair, the door of his wife's bedroom, he paused a moment and listened. There was not a sound, no he supposed she must have retired. He moved away a few steps, then, impelled by some unexplainable motive, he turned and went back again tipping softly against the panel of the door. There was no response, and he pushed it open slightly and glanced about the shadowed apartment, no one was there. With a terrible sense of foreboding he entered noiselessly. The drawers and closets had all been ransacked, and a general air of desertion prevailed. Hollister sank down in the nearest chair, and buried his face in his hands and groaned. Once he looked up and about him in sudden fright; the miserable impatience of the room termited him beyond measure. Now that she was gone a thousand different solutions of what he had taken as incomprehensible proofs of her guilt, flashed into his brain. He started up from his chair as though under a lash, and lighted three of the five gazelles. The first thing that met his glance, was a faint white note pinned to the cushion on her dressing table. He unfastened it with shaking fingers, and smoothed out the paper. "Dear Edgar." On the one of my departure, and after thinking over everything, I have declared that after all, I probably owe you some sort of explanation of the other night. The man was my father. He escaped from prison last week and appalled to me for help. Not withstanding the circumstances, I did not—could not refuse. He has gone away now and I never expect to see him again. When you confronted me with your terrible accusation, the only thought I had then was fear for my father. I had promised him under solemn oath to tell no one—not even you—of his escape. Poor old man. His life has been a fearful one, and I am afraid he has been far more eliminated than sinning. "You cannot blame me now Edgarf Your lack of trust has wounded me beyond description, it has driven me, broken hearted from your home. If you had only trusted me a little while—things might have been so different! But by your own request, I am passing out of your home—and life—for ever. Beatrice." The note slipped from Hollister's hand and fell unheeded, on the floor. For a long time he stood straight and motionless as a statue, the dead white of his face offsetting the brilliance of his eyes to an almost uncanny degree. When his strength came back, he moved mechanically over to a chair and dropped heavily into it flinging out his arms across a table in the abandonment of despair. Presently, the touch of something small and soft and tremulous on his hair, brought him back to consciousness. He started up half dazedly. His wife stood looking down at him with a light in her eyes that thrilled him through and through. "Edgar," she said, in a little weak, pitiful voice. I I forgot something. I had to come back." "You—forgot something I don't—can I help you?" he blundered out, struggling to his foot and wondering stupidly whether he were still asleep. What did you forget?" he asked, battling for self control. "I—why—why it was it was you, Edgar! she rolled violing he self hysterically to his outstretched arms. To destroy self respect is never economical.—Sir Oliver Lodge. INDIAN LEGEND ABOUT BIRDS. Belleve the Great Spirit Made Them From Falling Leaves. An Indian story that has been handed down and is still believed by many Indian tribes is one about the transformation of leaves into birds. Long years ago when the world was young the Great Splitt went about the earth making it beautiful. Wh wherever his feet touched the ground lovely trees and flowers sprang up. All summer the trees wore their short green dresses. The leaves were very happy and they sang their sweet songs to the breeze as it passed them. One day the wind told them the time would soon come when they would have to fall from the trees and die. This made the leaves feel very bad, but they tried to be bright and do the best they could so as not to make the mother trees unhappy. But at last the time came and they let go of the twigs and branches and fluttered to the ground. They lay perfectly quiet, not able to move except as the wind would lift them. The Great Spirit saw them and thought they were so lovely that he did not want to see them die, but live and be beautiful forever, so he gave to each bright leaf a pair of wings and power to fly. Then he called them his "birds". From the red and brown leaves of the oak came the robins, and yellow birds from the yellow willow leaves, and from bright maple leaves he made the redbirds, the brown leaves became wrens, sparrows and other brown birds. This is why the birds love the trees and always go to them to build their nests and look for food and shade.—Kansas City Journal. The Raven in Folklora. R Boswell Smith, an Englishman, has recently made an exhaustive study of the place of the raven in folklore, in religious legends and in literature. It is a curious commentary on the people of some Christian nations that they should hold the raven in abhorrence when the legends and in some cases the authentic histories of the church, tell them that the bird which they shun was the companion of a dozen or so saints and martyrs who gained rather than lost in sanctity from the companionship. We walk in sleep and think we see; on the lives are clothed with dreams; for that we look in which substance norms is shadow, 'twist ourselves and Thee. We are immortal now, and here Chances and changes, night and day, are landmarks in the eternal way. Our fear is all we have to fear The soul that drifts all darkly dim Through floods that seem outside of grace. Is only surging toward the place Which Thou hast made and meant for him. For this we hold—ill could not be Were there no power beyond the till. Our wills are held within Thill with: The ends of goodness rest with Thee. Fall storms of winter, as you may; The dry boughs in the warm spring rain Bhall put their green leaves forth again. And surely we are more than they. Love is Life. Our days are few and full of strife; like a winter and fall but but whoo who art the all-in-all. My name is Love, and love is lilest Coin for the Bride. In Holland when a girl is betrothed, it is the custom to place a money box, often in the form of a china pig, which must be broken before its contents can be taken out, on the hall table, or some other conspicuous place, and every one who calls is expected to drop a coin into it, which goes to help in furnishing the young couple's house. If the sum put in is a large one a paper is generally attached to it with the name of the giver written on it. It is really a more sensible arrangement than that by which a mass of often useless presents is bestowed on a bride. --- Charming Away Rheumatism. Chrope rheumatism is a disease of advancing life; its aches and pains are most wearing; it cripples so many of our friends that it is not surprising people who begin to feel its grip are ready to try anything and everything for its arrest. A stolen potato worn in the left hand pocket is a very widely employed charm for this purpose in England. It is one which offers many points of interest to the folk lore student. It is of great antiquity, dating from the time of the Romans and before. In those days a certain root was carried in such as were anxious to avoid not only disease but other " POULTRY Walnuts for Fowls Every year thousands of bushels of walnuts go to waste all over the country, and few farmers think of their value for poultry food. For years we have been gathering the walnuts and storing them in some shed or outhouse, and we consider every bushel of them worth fully as much as a bushel of oats. It is not necessary to remove the hulls, but do not store them more than a few inches deep, as they may heat and rot. A 10x12 space will hold a big wagon load safely. When real cold weather sets in we hash up a bushelful with an old axe and feed them to the losing hens. The great amount of oil contained in the kernes will do more to help keep up animal heat than almost any other foodstuff we can produce, and we have never had disease in our flocks when we have walnuts as part of the winter ration. With eggs at present prices, and high prices during the past year, we may look to see them sell high all through the coming winter, and should do all within our power to make our hens lay. HEMORLINE FOR PILES FOR THE MILLIONS THE WORLD ROUND THE ONLY PERFECT ABSTRACTION CURE NO COMPARISON WESTERN UNIVERSITY. Prof. G. Archie Gregg, by special invitation, delivered a memorial address at the Forum in Lawrence, Sunday, Nov. 19th, in honor of the late Rev. DeClelland of the Colorado Conference, who died recently in Denver. Miss Gertrude Tooly, an elocationist of some ability from Chicago appeared before a large audience of the students and residents of Quindaro last Wednesday evening. Selections from Dunbar and other popular authors were very well rendered. The Christian Endeavor under the student leaders is progressing nicely. Next Sunday evening the subject "For what I am thankful," will be discussed by all. The James A. Handy Literary elected three delegate last Friday evening, to attend the sessions of the Inter-State Literary association. Dr. Barkedale, of St Louis, addressed the students in chapel last Friday. He said that a successful life begins by building first a good character, that the more complete a man's attainments in body, mind and soul, the more he will get out of life, the greater will be his enjoyments, and the more he will be able to assist and encourage his less fortunate fellow beings to reach higher attainments, that to the illiterate and unlearned the world is dumb and silent, and cold, while the scholar dwelle amid an innumerable throng. To him the flowers have a language, the trees have voices, and there are semens in the stones. The students attended the game of football between KU and Lincoln Institute last Saturday. In a clean, manly and gentlemanly contest the Kansas boys went down to defeat 17 to 0. The brutal slugging and prize fighting propensities of the Lincoln Institute team were in very conspicuous contrast. The grand old state of Missouri observes a better show of "metal" manhood than that furnished by her representative young men in the two games with, Kaukee turns this year. Review work was begun Monday in all departments. Due all the first term examinations will be held. State rivalry for the highest record in scholarship, later and department is ringing forth some lively interest. Prof De Lee of Willforce University arrived this week and assumed charge of career department, lately lost vacant by the department of Prof C. E Starr to accept a similar position, offered at Langston University, Langston, O. T. A new business enterprise has been added to the many being carried on by the thrifty and progressive colored men of the District of Columbia. This new organization is the Protective Benefit association which has been incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, and has for its object the paying of benefits, sick and otherwise, to persons availing themselves of the insurance protection this company affords. The main office of the company is at 609 F street, and the president of the association's board of directors is Dr. W. Bruce Evans, principal of the Armstrong Manual Training school. Mr. William L. Pollard, one of the leading young lawyers of this city, has resigned from a lucrative and important position in the Post Office department in order to devote his entire time to a large and growing law practice. Ex-Congressman George W. White, left the city last week and will be absent in New Jersey about ten days. Mr. D. Webster Davis, a well known orator, lecturer and humorist of Richmond, Va., delivered three lectures in this city during the week. Florida Sleeper VIA FRISCO NEWS OF THE WEEK. Rev. W. P. Greene was in the city this week visiting relatives. Berry Elder of Kansas City was in town last week. Mrs. Wm. Jacobs, of Kansas City, spent Thanksgiving with her daughter, Mrs. J. M. Wright. Rev. W P. Banks came to accompany his family to Salina this week, where he is pastoring a church. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Harris are the proud parents of a bouncing baby boy. Chas. Thompson of Osawatomie, Kas, came up to attend the funeral of his sister, Alberta, Tuesday. William Curtis of Abilene, Kas, came down last week to take Scottish Rite degrees. Mrs. Ella Kirkman of Kansas City, spent Thanksgiving in the city visiting relatives and friends. The father of Joseph Curry whose residence is in Ottawa, visited him last week. A good physician is wanted at Weir City, Kas. This is a good mining town, Write to Harry C. Duncan or J. C. Moore for particulars. A. D. Butler, one of the prominent mail carriers of St Joe and also a member of St Joe commandery, attended the conclave last week. Steve Paskell returned from St Louis where he has been to attend the funeral of his brother. Ed Greer, cook on a private car, has returned from a hunting trip where D. E. Cain won honors, having killed more game than any one in the party. E. D. Cary was also in the hunting party. Miss Alberta Thompson died Monday morning at the residence of her uncle, John Thompson. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon from Brown's Chapel church, Rev. Gamble officiating. Miss Mattie Bradshaw and Miss Ethel Booker of State Normal returned home Sunday night. To our many subscribers: We are in need of money and need it bad. Please pay up your subscription. We have a machine to pay for and can't eat paper. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Williamson and baby Bornice, of Kansas City, Kaa. spent Thanksgiving in the city visiting Mrs. G. H. Henson. The Willing Workers met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lytle last Monday evening at half past eight o'clock. Refreshments were served and all enjoyed themselves. W. H. Mackey, Sr., father of U. S. Marshall Mackey was a visitor at this office this week. He came to Kansas in 1855. He says there is not another soul living in Geary county now that was there when he came. He has past his 77th birthday and is as vigorous and healthy as his son. The Marshall is proud to have his mother and father as his guests this week. Mrs. Electro Page-Perry elaborately entertained at dinner Thanksgiving in honor of her guests from Kansas City. The dining room was in white and green, the parlor in pink and violet. The flowers were pink and white carnations. The football team of Colorado springs had two colored players with them, Messrs. Jackson and Roberts. The Colorado team won the game over Wasburn and one thing we are proud to know is that the team stayed at the National Hotel, one of the leading hotels of the city and there was no discrimination as to color. The public institutions of Colorado do not discriminate and Kanas might take a few items from them. The National hotel is still doing business and no one is kicking. No one has been injured. The proprietor of the hotel is recommended as the young men say they were treated as kindly as they could wish to be. So the world moves on and perhaps after a while each dog will be required to wag his own tail. 2x4 THEATRES ARE DOOMED! Vaudeville. The long looked for has come and at last the Crawford Theatre will be the home of refined vaudeville. This change was made since Mr. Crawford opened the Grand Opera house. It is connected with one of the best vaudeville circuits in the country and nothing but high-class actors will be seen at this house. Bar room performers and other broken down "hams," calling themselves actors, will have to go to the woods so far as Topeka is concerned. Mr. Crawford's houses are open to all and the Texas Rebels who have been operating ax4 the atres in this city will have the pleasure of settling the "race problem" among themselves and the empty seats. The people who desire to see a good, clean show and have comfortable seats, and sufficient space in which to remove their wraps, will flock to Mr. Crawfords spacious vaudeville house—not a store building relined but a magnificent theatre constructed especially for the business. For the benefit of the management of the "Novelty", a store building between Eigth and Ninth on Kansas Ave., we wish to announce that this is the way Topeka deals with Texas rebels who try to sow the seed of discord, hatred and prejudice among people who have lived side by side in peace and harmony since the borning of the state Mr. Thomas Woods of Dodge City is in town this week on business. Rev, J, B. Bell left Monday for Kansas City. Dr. E. S. Lee returned this week from Columbus, Ohio, where he has been visiting relatives for the past three weeks. Mrs. G, L. Scales gave a kitchen shower for Miss Mary Johnson, who is to be married soon, at her home last week. Twenty three of Miss Johnson's friends were present and she received several pieces of granite ware and other kitchen utensils after which a two course luncheon was served. All present enjoyed themselves. Rome Colvin announces himself a candidate for sheriff, subject to the Republican primaries in 1906. He was an Ohioan by birth, came to Kansas 21 years ago, and has lived on the north side of the river during that time. He is the owner of the largest livery barn, feed and sales stable in Topeka. He is well known and stands first class with the voters. Jacob Sprague died at his home on Van Buren last Sunday. He was a member of Benevolent lodge, also the C. M. E. Church. He leaves a widow and several relatives to mourn thier loss. He came to Kansas from Mississippi at the at time of the Exodus bringing with him a team of mules which he prized very highly and kept them until they died, the last one died in 1904. Mr. Sprague ran a dray wagon and was known by everybody in the city. He was an honest, upright, old gentleman and was 65 years old at his death. A PLEASANT AFFAIR. On Wednesday evening, at their suburban home in Potwin, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Scott, ably assisted by their cousin, Mrs. Carrie Toler, of Chicago, very pleasantly entertained a few of their friends, whilst being the leading feature of the evening. At 10:30 an elegant repast was served in courses. Those present were Mrs. M. Adams, Misses Sadie Lane and Birdie Jenkins, Mrs. Edw. Wicks, A. M. Thomas, James Hare, J. M. Dorsey and little Miss Phinn Morrison. At a late hour the guests departed, expressing gratitude to the host and hostesses for the evening's enjoyment. --- Mrs. Ietia Vaus. who has been visiting relatives and friends in Oklahoma for the past month, returned to the city this week. Juanita Adams, a sweet girl graduate of Western University, who resides in Kansas City, arrived today and in the future will serve in the capacity of book keeper and assistant stenographer. Frank A. and Richard Harris returned one day this week from St. Paul, Kans., where they had been to attend the last sad rites of their beloved mother. She had been alling several years, and Friday of last week the brittle thread of life was severed, and the spirit of the sufferer was wafted to God who gave it. Mrs Harris was a faithful and conscientious Christian, a loving and devoted wife and mother. The family has the sympathy of a host of friends, and while she is gone from them forever, it is good to know that she lived in the way that God would have her, and her good deeds will live forever as an example of love, truth and Christianity. A. J. C. C. "AUTHENTICATED FAT ESTIMATES." "To my mind the system of 'authenticated fat estimates' of the American Jersey Cattle Club, in spite of its ludicrous name, is the best system of testing cows that has yet been arranged for any breed association. It is as nearly ideal as can be hoped for under ordinary working conditions on dairy farms. My former article was dictated because of a desire to congratulate your association upon their inception." This is the opinion of Prof. Woll, of the Wisconsin Agricultural College, in regard to the system of authenticated tests instituted by the American Jersey Cattle Club. The rules governing a testing system calling forth such an encommium from such an authority are well worthy the careful consideration of all Jersey breeders. These rules were adopted simultaneously with the institution of a Registrar of Merit, and were approved at the annual meeting of the club, May 6, 1903. An authenticated fat test under the rules of the club may be for seven days or for one year, but the emphasis is decidedly on the test for the longer period, as best calculated to demonstrate the dairy quality and value of a cow. When a breeder determines to put one or more of his cows under authenticated test his first step is to notify the secretary of the club, so that arrangements may be made to appoint a qualified tester. The club usually calls upon the state agricultural experiment station nearest the home of the cow to be tested, and a tester is sent under its direction to supervise the test. In cases where the cow is too far away from an experiment station, some competent and reliable tester is sought for in major proximity. From the day the cow is started it is necessary for the owner to weigh the milk of each milking and keep record of name. The tester visits the cow or cow at intervals of about a month, remaining two days on each visit, during which time he sees the milking done, taking a sample and making a fat test of each milking separately. The result of his work he sets down on a form furnished by the club, makes assistant to name, and it is counter-signed by the director of the station he represents and forwarded to the club. At the end of the year's work the owner of the cow makes report of her milk production to the club on a form furnished for the purpose, giving in detail the amount of milk of each milking throughout the year. He is also required to give the dates of the first and last milkings, the date of calving immediately prior to the test, the weight of the cow, either actual or estimated, and, if possible, the kinds and quantities of grain feed given the animal, also the rough feed, and to state the time she has been in pasture. The average percentage of fat in the milk, of the two consecutive days per month is applied to the entire milk of the month in which they belong, and the result is the fat production for that month. The sum of the fat of all the months of the test is the fat production for the year. The average percentage of fat for the year is the result obtained by dividing the sum of the total fat by that of the total milk. One half of the expense of the authorization of tests is paid by the club that is, one half of the traveling expenses of the tester and one half of the amount paid him per day, provided the result of the test renders the annual eligible to the Registry of Ment. When a number of rows are tested in a hard at the same time, the expense per head is correspondingly reduced, the tester being permitted to test as many rows as once as he can properly and safely oversee the milking of. In the case of year's fat tests, the following are the records acceptable by the club, and admitting the cow into the Register of Merit: 200 lbs butter fat within one year from dropping first calf, animal not to be more than 30 months old at beginning of test; 300 lbs butter fat within one year, if cow is more than 30 months old and less than four years at beginning of test; 350 lbs butter fat in one year, if cow is between four and five years old; 400 lbs, butter fat in one year if cow is five years old or over. As attention is more generally called to this mode of testing and to the importance of the long test in demonstrating the dairy qualities of Jersey cattle and so laying a reliable foundation for future breeding that is calculated to take still higher the average standard for lesseys in the dairy, no doubt more and more of the lesseys breeders will avail themselves of this system of anthoxicating tests, and thereby obtaining entry for their animals in the Register of Meat. Considerably over one hundred cows are already eligible to the Register of Merit, either on their year's fat records or on fat or butter records for shorter periods, but so far only thirty nine of them have been entered therem. As to some of the individual records so far made in year's fat tests more may be said in subsequent articles. R M. GOW EXPERIMENT IN IOG FEEDING. The Department of Animal Husbandry of the Texas Agricultural Experimental Station has just sent to the press Bulletin 78, describing extensive experiments conducted by F. R Marshall in feeding fermented cottonseed meal to hogs. The subject is one of lively interest to every one interested in the cotton industry, as well as to swine breeders, for the possibility of feeding cottonseed meal in any form to hogs means increased demand for the meal and greater developments in the hog industry of the south. The bulletin is extensively illustrated and gives a full description of the experiment, as well as experiences of the feeders and the opinions of the packers when the hogs were sold and dressed on Fort Worth market. The following is a summary of the bulletin: 1. A comparison of the results of this experiment with those of other stations at which cotton seed meal was fed in the ordinary way indicates that cotton seed meal may be used in larger quantities and for longer periods when fermented and fed in a slop. 2. The reports of feeders who have used cotton seed meal for hogs indicate that a light feed of cotton seed meal may be continued indefinitely, and that the consumption of green feed lessens the danger of death from feeding it. 3. In this trial the hogs were yard fed during the hot summer season, consequently they were under conditions making the trial as severe as possible. Under such conditions fermenting cotton seed meal does not entirely remove its injections effect when fed to hogs. 4. The results of this experiment show that for the first 43 days of the feeding the mixture containing cotton seed meal and corn gave larger and cheaper gains than the straight corn ration, while during the second period of 40 days the results were reversed. This leads to the suggestion that to improve a corn ration it would be advisable to add cotton seed meal to it for about 40 days, preferably for other reasons also, during the last 40 days of the feeding. 5. The hogs that received cotton seed meal as a part of their ration in this trial showed less fat and more lean meat in the carcass. 6 The carcasses of the hogs that received cotton seed meal, contrary to the previously expressed opinion of the packers, were firmer and therefore more acceptable to them than those of the corn fed hogs. Copy of this bulletin, which will soon be distributed, may be obtained by any one free of cost by applying to John A. Craig, Director Texas Agricultural Experiment Stations, College Station, Tex. Farming is something that has to be learned by actual practice. Theory and what the other fellow has done will not do except as suggestions. One needs to know what is right, and what to do, when it is not right, to make it right. The most convenient farm and farm buildings are the best time savers and the best work doers. READ THE PLAINDEALER if you would know what the race is doing. To be posted and keep posted keep an eye on THE PLAINDEALER, the most progressive race journal of the country. It contains all the news of interest to the race. Read it and be wise. DECREES OF FASHION PRETTY AND CORRECT THINGS TO WEAR. Blouse or Shirt Waist Suitable for All Materials—Skirt With Shirred or Plain Yoke—Velvet Ribbon Trimming—Hints for the Home. Popular Separate Blooms. Popular separate blouses. Again and again it has been prophesied that the separate blouses must be put one side, but as yet practical womens will not give them up. The between blouses, dressy enough for the theater or luncheons, but high necked and long sleeved, seem to get prettier and prettier. The loveliest of them all are made of those exquisite flowered silks—with shadowy flowers that fade in out of the background in so artistic a way. Those exquisite soft crepes with flower prints are charming draped and trimmed with tiny hand-run tucks, or puffs, or lace. Soft drapy silks are very good—but so are stiff silks, and a combination of both. The soft chiffon failes, in exquisitely soft shades of pink, or blue, or violet, make up into beautiful blouses. But, besides silk, soft fine woolen stuffs—mostly white, are being used a great deal. Albatross, silk-and wool stuffs, soft wool crepes and a dozen others are made up into as attractive blouses, in their way, as the silks are in theirs. Magnificent Evening Coats One of the novelties of the season in the way of an evening coat is cut on the lines of a mandarin 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. Holero laces, 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 wrist and suspending the watch in front. Silk belts that match the gown are draped tight without buckle, delineating the suppleness of the wrist. There was never a more favorable time to get out old bits of old trimming and use them to good advantage. Narrow toes have broadened and wide toes have narrowed and the compromise is a sensible and pleasing width. Blouse or shirt Waist. This shirt waist will be found most excellent for all t o waistings of the season, cotton, linen, silk and wool, and is as smart as it is simple, besides suiting stout figures well, there being no greater mistake extant than the theory that such are at their best on plain waists. The wide tucks at the front that give sample fullness below the stitchings, and the broad box plant at the center, are both new and desirable, and combine most satisfactorily with the plain bark. The model is made of chevrolot, white with lines of blue, and is worn with a blue linen stock. But this lost can be anything one may prefer, or can be omitted altogether in favor of ribbon tied in a big bow, although it really is made i table both for this special waist and as a model for the odd ones of which there can never be too many. The waist is made with frosts and back that are fitted by means of shoulder and hard arm seams and is gathered at the waist line, the back being drawn down smoothly, the frosts made to blouse over the belt. The sleeves are the accepted ones of the season, and are finished with straight cuts, and the shaped stock enlaces the neck. The quantity of material required for the medium size is 4% yards 11 inches wide, 4 yards 27 inches wide, 2 yards 64 inches wide, with 4 yard of any width for stock. Worn at Chicago Heres Show, An effective and elaborate white worn in India law, and face insertion, worn at the Chicago show, had a narrow pointed bodice girdle and above the girdle were puffs of fur and the material, which fitted the tight fitting lining perfectly. This extended to the line of a yoke, where a lace bertha was set about the shoulders. The sleeves were made of puff of the lawn and lace and ended at the elbow. The hats worn at the horse show were very elaborate, the Gameborough, Reynolds and Victorian style predominating. Black hats with colored plumes are much in evidence. Velvets are the rage for evening coats. There are several kinds, and liberty and chiffon velvets are deemed the most desirable.—Chicago Record Herald. Missen' Skirt with Shirred or Pink Yoke. Full skirts that fall in soft, graceful folds appear to gain in favor day by day and are peculiarly becoming to young girls. This one can be gathered at the upper edge to form puff shirrings, or once only and joined to a contrasting yoke, but in either case the fullness is made to form he ```markdown ``` plains at the lower edge. The model is made of embroidered batiste, with hand of heavy lace appliqué, but all the pretty soft stitches—silk, wool, cotton and linen—are equally appropriate. The shirred yoke is much lined and is always pretty when the figure is skander, but when, as often is the case in young girls, additional built at the belt is to be avoided, the plain yoke made of lace or of other fancy material is to be preferred. The skirt is out in one circular piece, straight lengths of the material being sewed together to give the necessary width, and when shirred is arranged over the foundation that also serves for the plain yoke when skirts are not used. The quantity of material required for the medium size is 6% yards 28 inches wide, 5 yards 27 inches wide or 8% yards 44 inches wide, with 6% yards of applique and 3% yard of all over lace when robe is used. A Pretty Fall Fashion. A pretty fashion which has been started of late is that of wearing cowlades of colored velvet or ribbon, on the left side of the corsage rather high up, and the other on the right side at the waist line. They are loose and are generally of a contrasting color to that of the gown with which they are worn. Hosettes of burnt cowlage velvet make an exceedingly pretty accompaniment to a smart afternoon gown of brown plisse chiffon. With the Housewife To remove rust from steel cover the article with sweet oil and leave it for two or three days, then dust it thicker with finely powdered, unlabeled time and rub till the rust disappears. Lemon juice will remove most stains from the hands and grease from kitchen tables. This being the case, it is well to save the squeezed-out lemons used in cooking for cleansing purposes. Flatirons should be washed every week and always kept in a clean, dry place. Few housekeepers use such dust wax in ironing. Do not allow your iron to become red hot, as they will never again retain the heat. To remove iron stains on matte apply to them a mixture of oxyacid and methylated spirits, leave it on a short time and then rub dry with a soft cloth. Lemon juice will sometimes remove the stains. When winds blow and there is free in the air put handkerchiefs, collars, socks and all small articles in the wash to dry in a pillow case. The fall is spared whipping by the wind, they will freeze dry and be quickly gathered for boiling. The hat scarf differs from the wool, since it is wound about the back, never over the face. New scarf is one of face in black, white and colors with embroidery in solid color and contrasting colors. Ribbons of all descriptions are to be wed upon the new hats. Among the new ribbons are the plaids, the floral, the motra and double faced embroidery, satin and taffeta. The high crowns will lead in the large hats, the Directoire and the Gainemborough being the most popular. The English round hat will be a favored hat this season. Wrinkle About Particles. To prevent portieres catching underneath the door when opened quickly,护翼 a small ring (such as are used for picture frames) into the center of the door frame, to this fasten a blind cord sufficient to reach to bottom of curtain. Put another ring in the center of the door at the top, thread the cord through and fasten to the bottom of the curtain, and as the door is opened so the certain rise. Topeha Plaindealer. Published at Topkea, Shawnee county, Kas. very Friday morning by THE PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO. 110 EAST SEVENTH STREET NICK CHILKS. . . BUSINESS MANAGER J. H CHILDERS. . . EDITOR 41 DESCRIPTION RATES One year by mail ... $1.50 Six months by mail ... $1.00 Three months by mail ... $0.50 Entered at the post office at Tepeka as second class mail matter FRIDAY, DEC. 1905. I hereby announce myself a candidate for sheriff, subject to the Republican primaries. ROME, COLVIN. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Sheriff, subject to the Republican primaries. JOHN M. WILKERSON. G. W. Better announces himself a candidate for Sheriff, subject to the Republican primaries, 1906. Jonathan D. Norton announces himself a candidate for Sheriff of Shawnee County, subject to the Republican primaries, 1906. THE PLAINDEALER was honored with a visit from His Excellency Gov. Hoch this week. The Governor shook hands with the printers and clerks. He said he felt at home in a print shop. He asked the force it the towel could stand alone which joke they all enjoyed for the towel was in a bad shape at the time. We are glad to have the Chief Magistrate of Kansas to visit our establishment and learn of us and what we are trying to do. Governor, you are welcome. Call again. --- TORREA, Nov.—Charles E. Denton, of Harper County, is a candidate before the Republican party for Secretary of State, and Senator Long is said to stand sponsor for him. Mr. Denton is a banker at Attica, where he has lived twenty years or more and he and Chester I. Long have been close friends, ever since the latter began in politics. Attica is the initial point of the branch railroad which connects Medicine Lodge, when Senator Long lives, with the outside world. In consequence, Senator Long is at Attica often, and he always finds time to visit his friend, Mr. Denton. In this way, friendship, more binding than political ties, has been formed between the two men, and now it has been published that, if Mr. Denton wants to be Secretary of State, he will have the powerful support of Senator Long. Indeed, it is reported the Senator long already has begun to manifest an interest in Mr. Denton's candidacy. Senator Long also is said to be ready to support W. J. Litzgerald of Ford County for lieutenant governor, if Mr. Litzgerald will consent to make the fact. However, he is for Mr. Denton before all others, and, without opposing any particular candidate for the same nomination, he will do all he can honorably in his behalf. This statement of course, is not authorized, for Senator Long is a man who keeps his own counsel, but it is the talk of his friends in that part of the state, and the Republican politicians there abouts are beginning to lay wires to that end. ```markdown ``` Mr. Denton's formidable opponent for the nomination he makes in R. M. McGonagle of Thomas county, who has been in the field a year or more. Mr. Gonagle is more widely known in the state than Mr. Denton, and no man of western Kansan has a larger personal following. He has lived in the North west many years and, while he liken politics and take an active part in it, he is a successful business man; one of high commercial honor. For awhile, his old friend, Charles Hall of Russell County, was a candidate for the same office, but later it is said that Mr. Hall will not press his candidacy, con- 0 0 0 Another Republican recently mentioned for a state office in Frank S. Travis, of Allen County, who has a mild boom for state superintendent of insurance. Mr. Travis is in the insurance business at lola, and belongs to the anti-Scott faction of Allen County politics. ```markdown ``` Governor Hoch's address before the Commercial Club of Kansas City has given to his boom for United States Senator added impulse. There is no doubt of the Governor's fitness for public speech. Ill-mannered newspaper correspondents tried to make fun of him when he went down east to launch the battleship, Kansas, but, when he was called upon to make a public utterance, he invariably put the blush to them by his simple eloquence. At Kansas City the other night, he carried off the laurels. The egotist, John S. Wise, of New York, was expected to do this, but it was Hoch who got the applause and afterward the praise. Even the Kansas City Star, which applied to Mr. Hoch, in earnest, the epithet, "Deacon," in the boss butter campaign, and often since has had fun with him, give to him the proper credit for that speech. So, by every oratorical effort, Gov. Hoch gets a notch further along in his boom for United States Senator. Really, if the governor could be persuaded to confess his innermost thoughts this ambition would pop out. For, surely, after so much praise and with so great an opportunity presenting itself, the boom not only has taken lodgment, but it has begun to gnaw. Every act of the man lately, his very walk, his abstraction, his unconscious pose—all combine to set the multitude to guessing, and the guess invitable and logically is that he has the thought in mind. " " " The center of interest in the railroad rate question, which has been so active before the people since the last Congress, has been transferred to Washington by the movement of the United States Senators in that direction. In Kansas, the hard fight ended when Senator Long, after he had been bidgered and bated, told his critics that a proper sense of the dignity of his high office, and of his own integrity would not permit him to surrender the prologative of his office to the President, or permit him to stand for a measure until he should be informed of its character. This manifestation of independence has been properly received by his constituents, and now it is for him to act in his own conscience and fair judgment. All the people want is right, and no more. If it is excessive rates that is the bother, the Senate and the House, audited by the President, will find the remedy. If it is a question of rebates, the same authorities will correct the evil. A great many honest men, indeed the great mass of the shippers of the country and of employees and employed alike if the utterances of their organized conventions have voiced their sentiments, believe that it is not a question of rates but of remedy. The rates and the way of making them are satisfactory and there would be no complaints if there were no rebates for favored shippers. Therefore the cure is the enforcement of the law against rebates. If the present law is not sufficient, the Congress can make a better one. 0 0 0 W. J. Buchnn of Wyandotte County has gone on a journey with his family around the world, leaving his boom for Congress to take one of itself. In the meantime, H. S. McGrew and E. A. Enright are letting things slide, and when the time comes a delegation will be sent to the nominating convention which will sell out the country as usual. Elsewhere in the district, Charles F. Scott has been busy with his boom, but now he has KANSAS CITY, MO. The Progress Study club met with Mrs. J. B. Hill and Mrs. Josie A. Jones at their residence, 1306 Vine street, Nov. 25. A Thanksgiving program was rendered as follows: Instrumental solo, Mrs. Lulu Bell; poem, Mrs. J. W. Clay; paper, Mrs. M. J. Allen; poem, Mrs. Josie A. Jones; talk, Mrs. Lucinla Day; paper, Mrs. J. B. Hill, vocal solo, Mrs. C. B. Jones, select reading, Miss Sadie Saunders; remarks, Mrs. James H. H. Crews. By special request, Mrs. D. L. McKnight favored the club with an instrumental solo. Delegates were elected to the Inter-State Literary association. KANSAS CITY, KANS. Mrs. Anna Hubbard of 523 State street is visiting in Joplin, Mo. Miss Kate Sharp and Miss Minnie Gilmore of Leavenworth, who have been in the city for the past few days, the guest of Mrs. B. Bailey, returned home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Saunders of Sedalia, Mo. were in the city this week, guests of Mr. George Hubbard and wife. Mrs. E. Drake of 512 Nebraska avenue celebrated her birthday last Tuesday at her home. She received many handsome and valuable gifts Roy Barker of Topeka was in the city last week. Mrs. J. W. Hubbard is visiting in Joplin, Mo. The ministers who attended the meeting of the Executive Board of Kaw Valley Baptist association at Eudora this week report a good meeting. Another wedding will take place at the Metropolitan church soon. J. F. Ready, who was taken very sick at the last session of I. O. O. F. grand lodge at Emporia, is much better. The mortgage on the First Baptist church has been paid, and was burned last Sunday evening in the presence of a large audience. Dr. R. Mitchell, the pastor, is feeling more than happy over his work here. ATCHISON, KANS. Miss Mamie Dillard of Lawrence spent a portion of last week with Miss Winifred Morton. "The "Sunshine Girls" gave their initial party at True Eleven hall last Friday evening, December 1. Music was furnished by Ingram, Waters and Johnson. The out of town guests were Misses Dillard of Lawrence and Johnson of Wuthena, Mrs. W. W Graves of Hiawacha and Frank Walker of Blue Rapids. Miss Limma Matthews entertained Friday afternoon for Miss M. Dillard of Lawrence Games and music were the pastimes. A delicate luncheon was served. Mrs James Mary Hawkine, Hughes and W. Graves of Hiawatha spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. Hattie Ingram. Mr. Henry Fuel end wife of Lawrence-came Wednesday evening of last week to spend Thanksgiving with their daughter, Mrs. Eugene Lett. Miss Winfred Morton entertained the Ladies' Whist club Saturday afternoon. The first prize was won by Miss Stella Roy, the second by Miss Virginia St. Clair. These were given to the guest of honor, Miss Dillard of Lawrence. VINITA, I. T. The A. M. D. church gave a "poor man's supper" and offered a prize to the person who dressed most tacky. As it was found difficult to decide as to who was dressed the tackiest, the prize was not given. A handsome sum raised. Miss Delia Martin was a visitor in Tahlequah last week. Mrs. R. D. Blackwell who is teaching school in the Coffeyville district visited her husband last week. She was accompanied by Mrs. Lazzie Sands. Pleasant hour literary club gave a grand reception at the Rider hall Thursday evening, the first one since its organization. The hall was beautifully decorated and a special orchestra from Neosho, Mo furnished delightful music. The choicest re- 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 societo 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 $1.50. 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 ing secretary on or before the first day of December, sending therewith the required fee. Mr. P. E. Tipton and family of Emporia are in the city. Miss Nora Kemp of Cherryvale visited Miss Cora Page Sunday. the required J. 429 Kansas Miss A. 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 OPPORTUNITY OF TO-DAY The opportunity for the man with little means is probably better today in the prairie states of the Southwest than ever before in the history of the nation. To be sure, there is not the vast open photo of land for the homestead that existed in the '70s. The land then taken up under government laws are now prosperous farms and farms. The opportunity to day in the investment chance; in the purchase of more land at prices less than half the price asked in the Older States. In the Southwest—in Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Texas—are vast areas of unimproved land not yet producing the crops of which it capable. Practically the same thing is true of the towns. New lines of businesses are adequately represented. There are openings of all sorts for the right man. Are you one? If you are interested, tell us what you want, how much you have to brew and we will gladly furnish the information. Write for a copy of our paper. The Coming Country. Its free address. Mr. P. LINDSEY GEORGE M. MORTON P. A. T. M. K. T. RY B. ST. LOUIS, M.D. 1334 Farman St. Omaha, N. H. The Misses Cross of Columbus are visiting Mrs. Ford. Mrs. A. Cooper entertained a large number of guests at dinner Thanksgiving. 123M The said defendant will take notice that he has been sued by plaintiff in the above entitled action and that unless he answers the petition of plaintiff on or before the 26th day of December, 1905, said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered divorcing plaintiff from defendant, and giving her the custody of their minor child, Dwight Williams. (SEAL) JOSEPH REED. Att'y for Plaintiff (ATTIST) I.S. CURTIS, Clerk. First published November 10, '05. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Ruth Coursey, Plaintiff. The above named defendant will take notice that he has been sued by the plaintiff, Ruth Coursey, for a divorce upon the grounds of abandonment and gross neglect of duty; and that he must on or before January 13th, 1906, plead or answer the petition filed by the plaintiff in the above entitled action in said court, or the allegations in said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered, divorcing plaintiff from defendant. Ruth Courney, Plaintiff. By J. R. McNamly. freshments of the season were served. Chester Williams of Battleville visited his family last week. Grand Master Jacob B. Young presided over the grand session of the F and A A V M held in the city last week. PARSONS, KANS. Leroy Darkie, Clarence Glass, Robert Carl and Angel Nestfield attended the Kansas-Missouri football game in Kansas City Thanksgiving day. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Jones of Coffeyville, spent Thanksgiving day in the city, guests of Mrs. Jordan. Coroner W. N. Williams was called to Oswego this week to hold an inquest. Attorney D. N. Matthews is in Oswego attending district court. Mrs. Mamie Tate of Chicago, in the city visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moore. Mrs. Lirzie Morton, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Willis, Earl Montgomery and Mrs. A. A. Glass were called to St. Paul Monday by the death of a mister. Mr. S. O. Clayton was called to Onwego Wednesday as a witness in the district court. Mr. T. Sanders of Joplin, Mo., passed through the city last week en route to Coffeyville to spend Thanksgiving. Prof. Garnett, teacher of languages at Lincoln institute, was entertained at dinner Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. French. He was returning home from a visit to the Teachers' association at Muskogee, Ind. Ter. Mr. Tom Rich of Skatook, I. T., stopped over in the city a few hours while en route home from Emporia where he spent Thanksgiving with relatives and friends. Prof. W. T. Vernon lectured at the A. M. E. church Thanksgiving evening and was up to his usual standard of excellence, and those who were fortunate enough to hear him were profoundly impressed with his talk. Thanksgiving day was observed in all the churches by appropriate services. JOPLIN, MO. A concert and Thanksgiving supper was given last Thursday by the Judges of the Court of Calanthe and a large crowd was in attendance. The literary society of the M. E. church held its usual meeting last Friday evening. The sisters of the Unity Baptist church served Thanksgiving dinner at the church. Rev. S. A. Norris of Kansas City, Kas., delivered two noble and interesting sermons here, one on Thanksgiving morning and one Sunday evening. Mrs. Lindsay of Oswege, Kansas, is visiting relatives here. W. A. Mason left last week for his home in Kansas City, Kas. Miss Zephyr Elmore of Carthage spent Thanksgiving in the city, the guest of Miss Mattie Knaves. Eugene Hatcher spent Thanksgiving day in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Stover spent last Thursday in Neosho. Mrs. Young is in the city, guest of her daughters, Mrs. Shannon and Mrs. T. Bland. Prof. Morton of Granby spent Thanksgiving in the city. Miss Bertha Ransom of Topeka is visiting her sister, Mrs. Laura Foster. Mrs. Georgia Harrison returned last week from a visit with relatives in Bonner Springs. NOTICE. HAIR GOODS, HAIR OR NAMENTS, NEW POMPA- DOURS, SWITCHES, WIGS, TAPES, FRIZZES AND BANGS MRS. M. L. FIELD, $19 KANSAS AVE. Mme. De Vaul Vincent's School of high class tailoring Tutition reasonable. Write for information. T When You Travel select a railway as you do your clothes KATY SERVICE (ASSOCIATED, KANSAS & TEXAS RAILWAY) Suggests Comfortable and Convenient Trains, The "KATY FLYER" and KATY DINING STATIONS Meals, Moderate in Price, Unsurpassed in Quality and Service One Price, 80s MK-7 Rev.J.H.Richardson House Mover and Builder All work guaranteed. Proct attention given to all out of town work. Res Ittian Ave. South Fort Prekering Memphis, Tennessee MEMPHIS LAN Don't Bury Your Fall Hat Until you see my nice new FALL STOCK. Every hat up-to-date, and in all the latest shapes. I am sure that you will find something to surge you. Mrs. L. H. Slaughter, 413 Kansas Avc., (upstairs) Lampkin Hotel, 210 LAMPTIN ST., Pueblo Colo. Near the Union Depot— Rooms neatly furnished— Enquireat depot. B. W. Shelton, Proprietor. Are You Going to Kansas City? If so, stop with Mrs. Fortune Weaver. She has such nice cozy rooms—so quiet and home-like. 1009 McGee St. 410 E. 10th St. and others. Furnished and Unfurnished Rooms Bell Phone 3357 Main. Res. 1911 Oak St. Kansas City. W.M. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office 404 Kansas Ave. BELL PHONE 100 MAIN OFFICE HOURS 12 M. 10 A.M. Ind. Phone 969. 7 TO 10 P.M. J. M. JAMISON, M.D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Examining Physician of the Knights and Ladies section. Special Attention to decesses of women and private diseases. Residence. 327 MADISON STREET. O. A. TAYLOR, M. D. ICIAN AND SURGEON 626 Kansas Ave. Ind Phone 774. Office Hours 7 to 9 a.m. 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Mrs. C. S. Smith, of Kansas City, spent Thanksgiving in the city. Misses Willa Merriweather and MB Patterson returned Sunday from Emporia where they spent Thanksgiving. Miss Martha Long of Kansas City is here to attend her mother who is quite feeble. Mrs. L. Moore of Kansas City, Mo. spent Thanksgiving week in the city, the guest of Mrs. L. Grannison, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Smith entertained at Thanksgiving dinner, Sir Knights Evans, Butler, and Hawkins of St Joe. Mrs. Callie Briscoe left Monday for Kansas City, Mo., after spending several weeks with her aunt Mrs. Susan Tellis. Mrs. C. W Wickliss has returned to her home in Kansas City after spending Thanksgiving in the city with her sister, Mrs. Rosa Walker, 1518 Quincy. street. Rev. S. W. Ward of Greary, O. T. visited his son last week. He preached at the First African Baptist church Sunday evening. The William Lloyd Garrison Centenary will be observed with appropriate exercises at the First African Baptist church Sunday evening. Mrs. J. L. Sanford and little daughter of Wichita, came up Thanksgiving to visit her sister, Mrs. Lee Anderson. She returned Tuesday evening. Revival services have begun at St. Marks A. M. E. Church Miss Etta Scott of Kansas City, Kas is assisting Rev. C. A. Woods with the meeting. Quarterly meeting at St Mark A. M. E. Church, Dec. 17, Rev. J. W. Braxton P. E. will assist Rev. Woods with the communion. All pastors and friends are invited. Sgt. R. Bleadsoe, Sgt. James Briggs, Corpl. Sampson, Copl. Williams, and Pvt. Jack Mitchell of Troop C Ninth Cavalry stationed at Ft. Riley, were in the city this week attending Federal court Remember ladies of the city Federation that it will meet at its regular place of meeting, December 22, at 2:30. A very nice program is being prepared for the occasion. Come out and see what is going on. Let this meeting be the best meeting for the year of 1905. Be on time, at 2:30. City Federation met Friday, Nov. 24, and after the usual business a short program was rendered followed by the election of officers. The election was as follows; Lulu Harris, president; Mary Jordan, secretary; Lizzie Cooper, asst. secretary; Mrs. Duke, treasurer. Mrs. Carpenter, chaplain, Miss Davis, reporter. The executive board is composed of Mescames Source, Smith, Wade and Miss Willhams. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Matley gave a Thanksgiving dinner for the fol- Tired Nervous When you feel languid, tired nervous and irritable, your vitality is low-your supply of nerve energy exhausted, and your system running down for lack of power. The organs of the body are working poorly, or not at all, and you are not getting the nourishment needed. This soon impoverishes the blood and instead of throwing off the impurities, distributes it all through the body. This brings disease and misery. Feed the nerves with Dr. Miles' Nervine, a nerve food, a nerve medicine, that nourishes and strengthens the nerves, and see how quickly you will get strong and vigorous. "My wife suffered with nervousness previous to a recent attack ofiphoid fever, but after her recovery from the fever, she was much worse, and could hardly control herself being exceedingly nervous when the heart excited. She was very restless at night, and never had a good night's rest. She also suffered much from nervous headache, and Nervine was recommended by a friend. After three doses she had a good night's rest, and at the end of the first week's treatment she was wonderfully improved. Continued use of Nervine has completed her entire cure." 2021 Cherry St, Evansville, Ind. Dr. Miles' Nervine is sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. If it fails, he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind lowing guests: Mrs. Sanford, Myrtle Fleming, little Margret Sanford of Wichita and Miss Birdie Jones of Arkansas City, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Anderson, Mrs. U T. Scales, Miss Elizabeth Phelps, and B. Pope. Horace Willis and sister, Mrs G. A. Patton spent Thanksgiving in Kansas City, the guest of their sister, Mrs. R. M. Simpson. They report a very pleasant time. Mrs. A. Chatman entertained informally at her home, 1910 Harrison street. in honor of Miss. L. A. Peach of Denver, Colo. Those present were Messrs. and Mesdames Fisher, Mallory, Higgins and Burton, Miss Lela Ford, Rev. H. H. Hawkins, Mesdames Ida Stewart and Mattie Chatman. H. E. Shepherd, that prince of good fellows, who has been circulating among his friends in this city for the past ten days, departed Wednesday for Chicago. Mr. Shepherd is a favorite in Topeka especially among the fair sex and he is always royally recieved. We are sorry that Dr. A. C Brisscoe, the dentist, will remove to Muskegee, I. T. He was popular among the people and enjoyed a fair practice but better inducement were offered in the Territory. We commend him wherever he goes. His wife will visit her mother in Columbia. She made a host of friends while here. John Glynn, Superintendent of the Bureau of Indemnification and detective agency, was in Topeka last week attending district court. He is one of the best detectives west of the Mississippi river. He was on the police force of Leavenworth for ten years and also was in charge of the Lewis and Clark exposition of Portland, Oregon. He has just been appointed agent of Leavenworth and Territory detective business and all interested in such work will do well to write him. One evening last week, Mr. and Mrs. Simon P. Jordan entertained a few friends at their cosy home, 1175 Lincoln street in honor of the latters birthday. The evening was pleasantly spent in social conversation, cards and other games and at a seasonable hour a delicious repast was partaken of and all departed for their several homes wishing the hostess many more such birthdays. Those who enjoyed Mrs. Jordan's hospitality were Dr. and Mrs. Brincoe, Missen Mary Jordan, Lissie Cooper, Willa Smith, Arnicholas Chiles, Messrs. Ned O'Bannon, John Roundtree and Frank Eagleson. Chas. Wardlau died at his home 623 12th street, last Wednesday after several weeks of illness. He was born in South Carolina and was 37 years old at the time of death. He waa also a member of Euchid Rising Sun Fire Insurance Co., OF THE INDIAN TERRITORY. OFFICE: 18 West Okmulgee Avenue. Muskogee, Indian Territory. 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Miss Jones was to have been married to Mr. Richard Ridley at the Shiloh Baptist church on the 22nd inst., but owing to some unknown cause, after the guests had assembled it was announced that the wedding would not take place. It was quite a sensation in Topeka society and the announcement of her marraige to another is quite a surprise to her friends. The young people have the best wishes of a wide circle of friends. Chas. C Bertha, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Bertha died at Hutchison, Kae, last Tuesday from the effects of drinking catholic acid with sucralal intentions. His mother had just returned from visiting him when she was hastily summoned to return. He planned his death and left a letter to his mother budding her goodbye. He was 21 years of age at the time of death. He was an industrious young man and had just begun to make his business pay when he concluded to end his life. No reason was given. His father and mother are grief stircken over the loss of their son. He was always dutiful to his parents and had never caused them a moment's worry during his life. A NARROW Escape. Judge A. M. Thomas and I were out Wednesday evening overseeing The Judge's fast mate, Lena, and this said Lena having been penned up for several weeks felt ready for a "go" and when The Judge turned west on 5th street and said go, she went. A merry clip was kept up until the Potwin station was reached, when the rapid speed was checked; but Lady Lena was not satisfied and when a block or no further on, just for an excuse for another go, she whied from a street car and plunged forward. I heard something crack, saw the horse and front wheels of the buggy going on ahead, saw The Judge sliding over the dark board, felt a sudden jar and found myself sitting in a buggy without wheels. The Judge was dragged about twenty-five feet, but without a brake, save for a little dust on his overcoat; but the buggy Well, The Judge and I, by help of friends, stored the wrecked buggy, and spent a pleasant evening at whist, and near midnight The Judge might have been seen riding horse back without proper equipment. - J, M, DHL. CAPITAL, $100,000. NESS backed by men who have pounded business basis according to the will all that any THINKING MAN would Rising Sun B Exactly fills the force against FIRE and LIGHTNING rise, Live Stock, Farm Implementors. ORD, President. H. N. JOHN The Clyde by men have proven their ability to basis according to the regular business c THINKING MAN would wish* Big Sun Fire Insur EXACTLY FILLS THE PRESCRIPTION FIRE and LIGHTNING on Houses, Hous ck, Farm Implements, Grain, Buggies, ent. H. N. JOHNSON, Secretary. Clyde PITTSBURG, KAS. Rooms, Board or Lunch Open Day and Night. Everything First-class. L.M. EXACTLY FILLS THE PRESCRIPTION. Hotel PITTSBURG, KAS. Rooms, Board or Lunch Open Day and Night. Everything First-class S. E. HOLTON, Manager 115 West Third Street. Kansas Credit Co., On Household Goods, Live Stock and Jewelry. 1010 N. 4th St. KANNAH CITY, KAN NOTICE OF PUBLICATION. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kausas. Cecilia Terry, Plaintiff. The above named defendant will take notice that he has been sued by the plaintiff, George Terry, for a divorce upon the grounds of abandonment and gross neglect of duty, and that he must on or before December 9, 1905, plead or answer the petition filed by the plaintiff in the above entitled action in said court, or the allegations in said petition will taken as true and judgment rendered, divorcing plaintiff the from defendant GEOULI TERRY, Plaintiff. By J. R. McNARY, Attorney for Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE. In the District court of Shawnee County, State of Kansas. F. H. Martin, Plaintiff. Mrs. Kate Blackburn, Defendant, By virtue of an execution issued to me, out of said District Court, in the above entitled action, I will, on Monday, the 11th day of December, 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 bidder, for cash in hand, all the following described real estate, to-wit. Lots 65 and 67 on Kaw street, in Curran's subdivision 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. L. W. Sheriff of Shawnee County By J. A. Ostrand, Deputy. W. S. McCrae, Attorney First published Nov. 10, 1905. PETER H. BURGESS to their ability to succeed in business regular business customs applicable to e Insurance Co. 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It will save you money. 114 W. SEVENTH Sr. PHONE 34 NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE NATURE'S GREAT HAIR DRESSING Harsh Stubborn HAIR Soft and Pliant and Removes All Dandruff. NOT new or experimental, liable preparation of Nelson's straight line for only the best three years of its life. We have no reason to doubt that it is not strong, durable rods on which that can in any way be long and durable, but it is at any time within no matter how law it should be in our factory they will make it so and still so, if you may desire it at the maximum glide. We have also grown in this proportion, and we hope to top the end given to us and to our straight line and to our safety and to our straight line as no other is now so good as ours. It may be by your care of our stock, or by your own effort, but it is definitely permanent. Reining this rod so that it will not fall over, we see it a loss. If you cannot make any your way we will mail you a full bill long, securely wrapped NELSON MANUFACTURING CO., Nirral biline in new town to lay an oil rollable preparation, Backed by your name in all fields of textile mills. Nelson's Mira glitter oil beautifully portions put up in handsome 4-ounce square in box (white on white) and sold lower where by druggies and agents at 25 cents a box. If you want glitter in your town and 50 cents in stamps and we will mail you a full size box, securely wrapped, just a paid Address. NELSON MANUFACTURING CO., Richmond, Va. We want good agents. Write for price, terms and testimonials. For Sale by J. P. ROWLEY, Sixth and Kansas Avenue. First-class in every particular. Prompt service. Phones 192 511 Quincy Street a fine corn and cotton farm, 71 miles from Guthrie, 90 acres in cultivation, balance good timber land. A 2-room house and a table. The timber on this farm will pay for it. 11 miles to a colored church. Price 2500. Will accept a payment of $500 down and give liberal terms on the balance for further information address C. S. FOWLER, GUTHRIE, OKLA. A Powerful Hair Grower and Positive Cure for Scalp Diseases ARM MISCHAN Grain for Seed. Pamples of shrunken wheat are being submitted to us by persons residing in the rust stricken belt. These persons ask whether it will be safe to sow such grain for seed the coming year. It is very proper that they should ask this question and it is so coolingly important that it should be answered with intelligent discrimination. During a trip that we made the third week in August over the wheat growing area in the northern part of the state we noticed that some of the wheat was so shrunken that it was not worth outting in some localities the stands were fairly good. The nations ran all the way from No. 1 down to wheat that was really unfit to make good food for chickens. We have to doubt whatever but that such grain soon for seed will not give good results. It will be found quite practicable in many instances to so winnow the brisken wheat that the very light material will all be blown out of it. The best sample obtainable, therefore, from the crop should usually answer for sowing next season. One difficulty is in the way however. Many farmers are not possessed of a fanning mill, so prevalent has the custom become to take wheat direct from the machine. Every farmer ought to have a fanning mill for such work—Farm and Fireside. The Destructive Rat. Housewives in the country sometimes complain that poultry raising is a great care on account of the losses that occur among the young chicks largely due to the presence of rats. This is far harder to hedge against than the cat. A good strong partition to the poultry house or a good wire fence around the poultry yard will keep out cats, but these have little effect in chewing the depredations of rats. They can snaw through the partition and tunnel under the wire fence and do the work so expeditiously that the damage to the flock is done before the farmer has had time to take combative measures. Then when he begins to fight the rodents he finds that the process is not a smooth one. The animals avoid the steel trap and the wire cage. Poison is the only thing that seems to be effective, and the farmer hesitates about employing this, as he is afraid of hurting other animals. But this method of destruction will be found to be about the only effective one if the rats are very numerous. If poison is used it should be placed where only the rats can get access to it. Wool Clip Contracted. Dealers in wool seem to have no fears of a decline of wool prices for another year at least. In various western states dealers have already been closing contracts for next year's wool clip at from seventeen to twenty cents per pound and seem willing to take all they can get at those figures. While many farmers have sold their next ear crop on such terms as those on are willing to wait until spring to dispose of their clip, taking the chances on the price going down. They don't consider there is much risk to run when buyers are so anxious to contract so far ahead, and prefer to take prices rather than to sell now and try to regret making the agreement before shearing time. The former who breeds and raises good sheep may be pretty sure of reaping some good profits from both his wool and mutton during the next few years. The sheep business carefully has a bright outlook at the present time. Season's Potato Yield. Revised returns justify the estimate of an average yield of 119.6 bushels of potatoes this year, instead of 118 bushels, as stated in the last number. The average yield for the previous ten years was 81 bushels, making the present a bumper year for this year. Maine is credited with the largest average noce yield, 215 bushels. The Southern states had from 81 to 82 bushels, except Florida, which grew 102 bushels Iowa's yield was 186 bushels and Wisconsin's 126, both extremely good for this country. The average of the old New England states is higher than in the same number of lower western states—Farm, Stock and home. Our Butter Abroad. The government has been making weekly experimental exports of the best quality of creamy butter to Manchester, England, continuing previous practical tests of the merits of these butter from the United States in comparison with the highest grades of butter from other countries to be found in British markets. The results as stated by the butter man of the dairy division have been, in a general way, quite favorable, but not such as to encourage commercial operations along the same line at the present price of butter in the United States—Barnum's Midland Farmer. No Lime On Manure. It is a mistake to put time in the manure heap, for it destroys the rails of ammonia, and by compering it to take the gaseous form drives it off. Lime will rot manure very quickly and do its work well, but it will be at the expense of a loss of nitrogen, which is an ingredient of ammonia, says the Farm Journal, and it's good authority. Western University, QUINDARO, KANSAS The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West Departments Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Normal. The Leading and Best Institution of its Kind in the Great West. 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. MISSOURI'S PRIZE BUTTER MAKERS. The Missouri State Dairy Association at Jefferson City awarded prizes to the best butter makers as follows: Dairy product, W. A Towns, Bethany, Mo. first prize; Mrs. Adam Schroer, Jefferson City second prize; Mrs. George M. Elston, Lliston, Mo. third prize. Creamery product, J. M Price, Missouri Agricultural College, first prize; the Emma Creamery, Emma, Mo. second prize; Pollen Creamery, Holden, Mo. third prize. There were twelve entries in each class. PROFITABLE FEEDING OF THE DAIRY COW. In Jefferson C. H. Pickles, of the Missouri Agricultural College, says There are two common mistakes made in feeding cows first, not feeding liberally enough, second, feeding a ration not properly balanced. It has been found by experiments that about sixty per cent of what a cow can eat is necessary to merely maintain her without producing any milk or gaining in weight. This being true, it is evident that it is not economy to feed only a little more than this sixty per cent needed to keep up the cow's body. Below are given balanced rations that will furnish the materials necessary to produce milk in about the right proportions. By the term "rations" is meant the feed for twenty four hours. If a cow will not give a good flow of milk in the early part of the milking period, when fed a liberal amount of one of these rations, it indicates that she is not adapted by nature to be a dairy animal and she should be disposed of. The amounts given are considered about right for a cow giving from twenty to twenty five pounds of milk per day. For heavy milkers these rations are to be increased, and reduced for lighter milkers. In making up these rations, it is designed that the cow be given practically all of the roughness she will eat and then sufficient grain is added to furnish the necessary amount of digestible material. (1) Clover hay, 20 pounds; bran, 5 pounds; corn, 6 to 8 pounds. (2) Clover hay, 20 pounds; oats, 4 to 5 pounds; corn, 6 to 8 pounds (3) Clover hay, 20 pounds; corn and cob meal, 8 to 10 pounds; gluten or cotton-seed meal, 2 pounds (4) Alfalfa or cowpea hay, 15 to 20 pounds; corn, 9 to 12 pounds. (5) Alfalfa or cowpea hay, 10 pounds; corn stover, 10 pounds; corn, 8 to 10 pounds; and bran, 2 pounds "A Town of Splendid Opportunities" In an address before the people of Boley, Prof. J. C. Liftwich said, "Boley is the Negroes' paradise." This is a business man's way of saying what he knows about a place. BOLEY is an agricultural and commercial center of quite an immensity of country, as well as a large population of colored people, there is a great many things you ought to know about: Its wondersul opportunities for profitable investment. Its opportunities for fruit, truck and stock growing. Its delightful and healthful climate The Boley Business Men's Club is an organization of vigorous men with an ambition to give you any information along these lines. Its no trouble to answer questions. Write today for anything you want to know to the Boley Business Mens Club Boley, Indian Territory. VICTORIA PRESIDENT Issues policies for $350, $500 and $1000. 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. J. H. CHILDERS, Narl Sec. Headquarters: 413 Kausas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. of Protection A NATIONAL FRATERNAL INSURANCE SOCIETY Incorporated Under the Laws of Kansas, Never breed to a boar that is excessively fat or that has had his powers of reproduction overtaxed. The pigs of either will be little, puny and lack constitutional vigor while there will as a rule be but few in a litter. No single grain ration meets the entire wants of the young growing or fattening animal. In all cases and especially with pigs a good variety gives the best results. Dust, cobs and other filth should not be allowed to accumulate on the feeding floors. Cleanliness in the feeding places will aid materially in maintaining health. A hog will fatten when proper food is given irrespective of development attained. Indolence in the healing powers of wounds is always a sign of constitutional debility. Give a good tonic. With hogs especially in selecting breeding stock, select those from dams which are regular breeders in preference to those from transient and uncertain breeders. Even if the product of the latter are finer offering animals. Good breeding will show out in similarity of form and general appearance, color, style and form combining to make up an animal to fill the breeder's ideal. It is not to the credit of the farmer to see on the farm and in the same drove the appearance and characteristics of all of the known breeds. Never breed to a sow that is not a good milker, no matter how good her pigs are at farrowing time, they will become very indifferent pigs by weaning time. No amount of food and care will do them the same amount of good as that drawn from nature's fount. The amount of food consumed by swine in comparison with other animals in proportion to weight is very great. To secure three litters from a sow in a year she must be bred the third day after farrowing. The hen steals her nest away from the house and roosts on trees, vines and farm implements to keep away from the blood sucking mites that harbor in the poultry houses. --- If the sows are in prime condition, good results may be had from breeding the first time they are in heat after the pups are weaned, but if in low flesh, better litters may be expected if they are not bred until they come in the second time. Possible to Cultivate Beauty of the Finest Sort. A good many girls are considered pretty, and plain girls cast a somewhat envious glance at them, and each murmurs inwardly, "Oh, dear, how I wish I wore pretties!" Cheer up, poor little plain girls, for you can be victorious over your prettier sisters. Remember that the face should be the true index of the heart and soul. By cultivating amiable emotions and noble desires the countenance which does not possess outward loveliness will in time have a beauty of a finer and more appealing nature than was ever attained by perfect features and a rose leaf complexion. When one meets a plain girl who is a heartfelt Christian, trying to walk in the straight road, unselfish, loving and pure-minded her plain face becomes a port of revelation of the heavenly soul hidden through the surface of plainness, just as the most priceless jewels are discovered in the most unlovely localities. Remember, plain girls, what the great poet Spencer wrote, "For of the soul the body form doth take."—Boston Globe. The Woman with a Baby. Mid the herd of human porkers crowded on the trulley car All is stillfulness and joule, making age and sex no bar; Men collage dates and stay there, letting shrinking indies stand With a look of indignation—and a strap in either hand Yet there is one thing that you've noticed never fails to make a stir— When a woman with a baby comes they all make room for her. I have sat in stuffy coaches on a crowded railway train Listening to case hardened travelers who declared with might and main That they'd see the railway company in hades' fiercest heat Long before they'd even think of giving any one a sent; There are surrections they'd ceased their boating, they'd without demur-For a woman with a baby, they must all make room for her. There is something sweet Madonnalike, in pictures such as that, And it makes the lowest ruffian feel like taking off his hat; For it bears him back to boyhood when losing mother arms Closely clung to him and kept off e'en the heat of earth's alarms So no matter what his station, he will evermore defer To a woman with a baby—he his severity for her Once I dreamed I stood in heaven just inside the pearly gate While to every new arrival good St. Peter said, "You're late; For the places are all taken and the harps are all in use. Golden streets are just no crowded that I had to call a truce" Then a little tired out woman lugged a baby into view And St. Peter said, "We're full up but we'll find a place for you" —S. W. Gillian in Leeds' Weekly. Shilil in Gleve Cutting. The cutters of the great glove houses at Brussels and in France earn even higher wages than the cutters of the most fashionable tailors in London and New York. So difficult is this art of cutting gloves that most of the principal cutters are known to the trade by name and by fame, and the peculiar knives which they use in the business are so highly prised that they are handed down from generation to generation as heirlooms. READY WITH HIS EXCUSE. Clerk Justified Mean Trick by Scriptural Quotation. A certain tailor of very strict principles was in the habit of excusing the faults of his assistants only if they could justify themselves by Scripture. One day a woman entered his shop and asked to see some material, but refused to buy it because it was too cheap. After showing her some other goods, the assistant brought back the same material, this time asking a higher price, whoreupon the customer bought it. Afterward, the proprietor, who had witnessed the transaction, reproved his assistant severely. The latter, remembering the rules of the establishment, replied, "Oh, it's according to Scripture all right. She was a stranger and I took her in."—Harper's Weekly. --- Heard Maine Had Blown Um. A few days after the battlefield Maine was blown up in Havana harbor, and while the whole world was excited over the event, a Frenchman came out of a lumber camp in New Hampshire and made his appearance in Gorham depot. Stepping up to the station agent in a state of great excitement, he asked if Maine had blown up. The agent replied that it had. Tears came into the poor fellow's eyes as he said: "I got a sister; she live down to Rumford Fall; I suppose she blow up with him." MARRIAGE IMPROVES A MAN. Woman's Idea Is That Wife Drums Manners Into Him. "Did you ever notice how it improves a man to be married?" This query was propounded by a young southern woman here. "You can always depend upon it that it is a married man who shows you all the small courtesies in an elevator; it is a married man who stands up for you in the street car and it is a married man who does all the chores at a picnic. The most thoughtless, irresponsible kind of a single man often becomes a veritable model of instability after he gets him a wife. I suppose his wife has so drummed good manners into him that he has to keep practicing all the time to keep in trim. I believe business men have more respect for a married man too. They succeed better in everything they do. Why, only the other day there was a baseball game between the married men and the single men. Who won? The married men, of course. And you can't tell me their wives did not have something to do with it."—Philadelphia Record. e y on rrr ermine emrermepemmemerimermemmiiiiiiitinmeeernnieitinreis ae INTERSTATE Allen church last Sunday night] nh coste more money, and that an im: eter, bulo which in plared and not fasten-| ATTEND THE WINTER SHOWS. | ood use of insect ponder once a wrell! {from Kee. 10:1 on ‘Character| portant part of the subject is to educate /td a strainer dish seven inches arose} 4, ought not to be neoeaxaty 10 arge | for two oF three weeks no that the mothe ITERARY NOTES. 0: so cs. tu . a althe turer te amnrectate an extremely [the top and slx imhes across the button | thoxe Interested in poultry io attend] ¢e hen will not be a breeding place for The program closes Decembes to. Socleties not reporting before that time may have no program repre eentative. gome societies do not apply tor membership until the ses sions convene; while they are and will be admitted, yet it is desired that all applications be filed accord- ing to the president's proclamation. The contest in oratory will be fought out between Lowa, Kenene nnd Missouri, Mr. Walter Groves ofthe Des Moines High e hool rep- resents Iowa, Mr. Andrew Jackson of George R, Jackson of George R. Smith college, Sedatia, will stand up for “Old Missouri” and Western Uni versity will send an orator to prove there ia nothing the matter with Kansas. Miss Azalia Martin, Mr. Mordeca, Allen and Mr, Warwick are the cun testants in poetry. Thirty three societies have reported so far, representing Miesouri. Kaness, Colorado, lowa, and the Indian Territory. T*e corresponding sec retary hopes yetto hear from Ne- braska and Oklahoma, These so- cieties havesent as program repre- sentatives some of the brightest intellect im the West. Delegates may expect an unsurpassed display of intellectual brilliancy. The citizens of Kansas City are preparing for the social side by giving a sories of receptions, partice, balls, etc. The sessions will be hell in the Second Haptist church, Tenth and Charlotte streets, For assignment to lodging, delegates and visitors novotherwise provided for will es port to the church, immediately on arrival. or may write beforehand to Isaiah M. Horton, 1608 E, 13th street, Kanuse City, Mo. Meate will be served at the church for 15 cents. Lodging may be had for 2g cents per person per night, The musical side of the program promises to be particularly good. Several clubs have sent gifted per- furmera. Besides Prof, Albert Phil lips and Prof, Robert Jackson of Kansas City, L. LL) McGrucer of Colorado, Leslie Quinn of Higbee. Mo., Miss Bernice Davis of Iowa will all render instrumental numbers, nut to mention Mrs, Summers, Mad am Schaffer, Miases Hubbell, Bailey, White, Guy and the Glee clubs of Western University aud George R. Smith colleges BOYNTON, L T. And still they grow, Howard Bros. hardware house has been re organized with a larger «pital, and the firm name now is Howard Bron. ant McCuen, George McCuen being the new member, who haa just made an important purchase of business property, coming in posession of the Calvin Langston block, corner int and Kenefick. ‘Tae trustees of Allen A. M. E. chureh have decided to elose in the beautiful frame work of the church edifice immediately. The ladics’ "Thanksgiving supper netted 8 neat vum for the building fund. Mt Zion Baptist church had a Thankegiving concert at night, and served dinner during the day, and realized 4 neat sum for the building fund. HM. W. Carter made a business trip to Bafaula Monday, Mrs, J. ©. Hicke and sou, Otto, have returned after a protracted visit at Vinita. Master Wayman Eyvell hae re- turned to Little Rock, Ark. Mr, A. C. Spann, agent of the Benevolent Relief association, of Muskogee, waa in town thins * week to revive the work in Boyaton, In company with the local agent, be visited a number of old members and eucceeded in his mission. Took for local agent on Mondayn. Attorney R, KE. Stewart of Mus: ogee wae in town last week, and in company with our Dr, Alston, he iv on a visit to Oklahoma, Representatives of the India: ‘Yerritory Suffrago league held : meeting here Tuewday night, a ful report of which will appear dn th next issue, Rev, Geo, T, Robinson delivere what many calls fine discourse 8 cal .. «. THE AMERICAN . NATIONAL’ DEVELOPMENT (CO., + po + [(incorPoRATED KAWS OF ARIZONA.) “8 CAPITAL STOCK 1,000,000.00. a One Million Shares | of non-assessable stock ONE DCLLAR per share. Most Gigantic Movement ever LAUNCHED for the Negro’s advancement, The BRAIN and MUSCLE {of the raceto be em- ployed. The DOOR of OPPORTUNITY now open. All Officers and-Agents Bonded Write today for litcraturee and particulars. CAAS. D. CLEM, Pres. REV. P. D. SKINNER, Sec D. H. HILL, Vice-Pres. Dr, J.T. WHITTAKER, Trea- fay Headquarters, CoFre\VILLE, Kansas. N § b | { t ion = OT erate eran vo Be We give you what your Prescription calls \ for. When your Doc- tor prescribes a drug, w P you want that drug,and not something abmost the same, ' The drug the doctor prescribes is what we give in the best quality obtainable - fresh and pure. , ‘ We give the quantity he prescribes, and mix the’ prescription according to his instructions. That is the eason so many doctor's ask their patients to come to us, We pride ourselves on our accuracy in our Prescription Department. e Kohl's Pharmacy Prescriptions a Specialty.” Ind, Phone 743, dae rene tai: f we 732 Kansas Ave. When You Arrive in Kansas City, Don't Leave the Union Depot Until You 'Phone a F, J, WEAVE : o Us v R, ; The Locater. Hi: will get you a room in any part of the city, and move your trunk FREE. : Houses for rent. Roming Houses for 2 ; sale, Satisfaction Guaranteed. ‘ ‘ List property with WEAVER | an Se eS oe ; MommrnoxeMarN uae 4 TT OAK STREET Allen church Jaet Sanday night from Keo. 10:1 on ‘Charactes Bulldiog.” Ie apoke to a crowded horse and received rapt atteution. D, A. Lee has moved his store back to Lee, and Miee Lula Me Dauauid bs in charge. Teddie, son of John Grayson, came over from the Mission lant weok to epend ‘Thankegiving with his father, remaining till Monday. Mr. IE, 1. Storm of Muskogee, was in town boet week, Boynton Negie business men are in the ewim and are pushing ahead, We bid them continued evergy. To keep up with the times every Negruin Boynton should bo a close reaaer of “Te Peaispeapen. No household should be without ft. SENSIBLE MILK METHODS. | Avery thorough and common hens stuty of the farm and of the high grade tnilk business has been made by I. M Harwood to the State Dairy Bureau. Mito visiting a number of milk farms Whe a specialty is made of producing an eAecllent: giade of mith, Mu Hare wot advances a number of hints whit are made much noe simple and practl- cal Uhan the general run of such suggests fons. Having Leen a milk producer hunself for many years, Mr. Harwood appears to mdetatand the diffiduties of Inucas: lng the expense and tabur of production under present conditions, He makes it Ucar that tu produce a really high grade inslh costs more money, and that an im: portant part of the subject is to educate the buyer to appreciate an extremely pme, clean milk, and to pay accordingly. fle suggests ten cents a quart retail plice for milk in Boston, the farmer to t the increase. Even should the farm- ‘er obtain half the two cents increase, ek one cont per quart mere than the present prie, it would go far teward paying the extra care suggested ‘the extreme care and the expensive methods followed un sume vf the famy milk fame are shown to be not only costly, but unnecessury 5 tw need of exe pensive buildings, eluttic Hghts, costly apparatus of vations hinds nor extiavar gunt hired help, Pine, clan anilk can be produced in anuch lees different mane | her. ‘The first aim is to heep the cows clean und to accomplish this end the stanchion fs preferred. ‘The stand should be of juet the right length, but varying from one end of the platform to the other, 0 that cows of different sizes can be aecomudated, ‘Lhe gutter shoutd be a deep one, and not tuo wide. In this way cons keep fairly clean, but should be groomed before nulking, using an old broom with a short handle te accomplish the work very much more quickly than with a eurry-cumb and biush some: times recommended ‘Ihe udder and flanks must be wiped clean, even washed if necessary. Neat, a good pail should be used. “A good pail tu ae,” writes Me la wood, “can be made by any tinsuuth and should be carefully and smoothly soldered. ‘Ihete should Le soldered upon the top a cover wath a round opening, of uot mote than 612 inches in diam eter, iulo which is placed and not fasten ed a strainer dish seven inches actus the top and els inhes across the button ‘Tins stramer should be a tion dish with bottom mesh ef ting copper woe. A cach malhang two thin bayets of ste talized ulvortent cutton, Lhe fiber ut one Myer across the giler of the other, onowht be Phd he the diet, and over this a atoll ded stiaimer cloth, whack shoald come vp und over the stdes of the dish and by eed by a dag of Lin anugly tting the tnsde ot the dosh. Care inu-t be token tu dave the dish mot toes tan 2 A+ inches deep and the Hing inside Liter inches deep, thus propecting or mowhas abew the Lop vf the dinh, utherwie the maith will be lable te spatter, At the aide of the parl and as ens the tup ae cun be plied thie should be a short spout for emptying, and this should be opt covered with a aay wien the paal fs mn use, thas cagr beim aemosed only. Whe aecessury tor pour out the mlb. Tbe pad of cotton forms a perfect etiain eda mmute glance dat whit bas thus tar esaped the utsnest care, and uley us even ue web at practually wraly the milk trom the stable an. It as a sifeguntd from contaunnation by ties and elculd be thrown away ut the end ot Ue mathing. Such a pad costs abuut vie fouth of a cunt, and propaly used wall lust while milking trom ten to nf tiancows, Phere ehould be ne feedings vr iutsing of dust m the etable just be dure ov duran milking tune.” SoIK when drawn phould be taken quakly to the malk ieom which should Ye cutee the stub, Hoe as the woah pulnt on anust faim, ny epetal place Lemg et apart tor taking ane vt the milk and keeping the mid utensil A stpuiate room as needed whue dust can be kept out and the ath protected trom thes dhe wath shuuld be sun thivugh the woler and aciter, getting at down tu dU digiees as svn as porsiole, ium petsoual axpoumee May Hare wout finds that pnlh handid an this Way die Rept ai pertect condition as jung us ten daye, has program, com paratively simple as it a8, lous dintieule dot the ordimay fame ine hunny get bas chotes done, and there ae pital hope that many will tollow at whan rod ayg mth at present pices te th ten quntiactote Yet the capense as cvtieuiely hght, although at mvolves Keeping a store oF nce, und the work attes one falling inte the rowtate is a much des me tious tem than at b6sk appointee. the suggestions are cortaily valuable he Ulee Larnars whe operate a retaul muh route, Milk handled am Uns way ay guod enough tor the best cass ot tiade and good cnough te cumpete with high giade milk avuter, Compr tation wm almost all ates and towns hao be some vary ox, and oven for the ordt muy run ef trade at has become neces sary to finnish very good nik an onder to hold customers, Math managed an the ordinary manna, without xpocral care to heep the cown clean and “to heepout the duit while milbang, to steven thoroughly art cool qmchly ma suitable place, is carta ta give moe or )se trouble, capecaly am wanes weather Tor the wholesale trade some ot these details will probably be omitted for the present until the contractors are willing to pay more than present: privs, but ven pow the thorough stramims ané quick coubag can hardly be omitted wathont mek of trouble an thew days of uty boutds of health and their ex aching equnementa The Amenian Cul Alyutor, CREAMERY CONVENIENCES, Many Uittle convemmncen can be ren a» one gots from olte aieaniery to an etha, conseniences that lighten the work and aie within the means of every creamuy to have, yet the andiyiduud bute termuker does nut kuow smany of them 1 will got down a few of them here, that more may benefit thereby. 4t trust one Jong handled, large dip- yer iw handy many thnes Jn a creamery, yet TF haye acen few that have ther, After a buttermaker hus one weed ft, he would nut be without one; care must le taken av the handle won't leak, for then a* iv a source of contamsnation if used in apy milk or cream, Along tin handle with a cheular plate on one end ia handier to at the ¢reans wath than a wooden spade, The Law and Orderleague of Ne- grees that met in Houstun and has so recently closed st jaitiative ses- sion was composed of more than Yoo delegates, Themany counties over the wtate tha, bad held Jaw and arder meetings were represented by 258 delegates, Canvassing the convene tion at was found that out of the nun ber present all own their homes but two and that two hundred and tour ‘were farmers and the remainiler were business and professional men, [1 was a great body of Negroes, any low, ATTEND THE WINTER SHOWS, } It ought not to Le neoeaxary to ary J thone Interested in poultry tu atten some of the poultry shows to be hekt thi: wanta, It certainly is nob necessary tc urge the fancter, but the extabations de not always appeal «o strongly tu the farmer and to the man who heeps fowl for practhal puspom nents, the farmer thinks, pochays, that he stesat the agal cultural fair oll that can be sccm at the poultry show, and that therefore it f4 an wnnceasary expense to attend the wie to estubition But this is nut the case In the first plac, at the time when aged cultural fairs are held the fowls are net fn good conditlon for inspetion, the old fowls being ragged fiom moulting and the young ones not hang attained these developments and mv the eccond pli the bent apecinens acldont or never are feud at the agricultural fais, but are held in tewerve for the xeverer comprti tun and the greater prizes of the winter exhibitions, It we me Like an ation that every wan should know all he can concerning: bin own busmess, and the buwanes of the farmer in sume part, and of the practl dab poultry man ina larger part, has te do with fowls and the various ay phances for Natcing and tening than Vt pe piice can these matters be note fully illustrated than at the winter exhilation, ‘There will be found nearly every variety of fowls, and the best epecimene of the weveral vatieliest there alko are the in- cuhators, biovdirs, coope, fountains, Fuding vewnels and the hikes the various foods, gaits, and shell making materiales In fact, nearly everything needful for the SUCCOMfal proaecation of the business of heeping and reniag domestic fowls, That man is to be pitied who can at tend a fret cise poultry exhibition, ¢s- amine the sarlers evlubits, amt net be the wiser therefor, Such eviatations are aalwationnt! tu thar effects, and while they do niford a ple vant outing te those interested in fowls, they alsa instruct and atimulate the mind, Another valid season for attendance ix fle onulition they inate to baprove tent in fowls and in methods of keep yg them. One cin not study the dined: ed puoducts of the beeter’s art without am seme degree bang stimulated to in. yrove his awn flock, Vnd better fowls tenn better profits, as wal as greater «ntisfaction in one’s work, Still another reason for attanling the winter poultry extubation fs the ple sane that comes from making new acquaint AM iR—Reqtuintanes with persons whe ate iuterestad in the same things that sou an The weiter anmnbere among Te frends nut a few pereans whoin he duet met at a poultsy evtntaticn, and who have added much to the Joy of In ing Powttyy fanuaeis spring from all Clinses, ard ef courses preeent a gent sanety of chiracterastin. but ast fody (hey wall be fonnd te rk well am those quihtis which make for teat manhood and among them ave miny dive apie whan to know ae te adanre The sinall amount of money expended in attending at least one first-cl ae pond fay khow each sear is an investment that will veturn Ture dividends in catsh and im pleasure, It Kcems to ine that the mere statamant of the advantages of attendance cught to be all that os re yaied to bring about ¢ result eo desi. able, Mimi get many a secretary und many ait executive conmatter wlue have labored qeatuteudy te ncan a great eMabition, when they qaunt ap the at tendame, are obliged te contesys that ther cfforte have been only purfidly suecessful, and thit the thousands whe ought to have atfended aun be counted wn handrods or an ten Hs eneht net te be wo, but too often tae HS Eat eeah on Casantze Caniliman: WINTS TO BEGINNERS. Tf your Heck i compurnd vt the con tion bermy ard fowl, and you woah te it piove your flock, gel ad meting er two of tyes Hom wume rbable biecder of the sancty yon want to keep and make wtirt. ‘Lhe cuckerels from the setting will be aufficiently numerous te take the place of all the old cocks un your place, Kill or well off the old cocks as soon ae the new ones bean te crow, and ine thin way gryde up your flock From sub a tagimang it a eany to convert Che com: anon flock bito a thrifty loch of ' grades” and at the sune time have a yen for Ureeding purpows of pute strain ‘These tidy be used to bring up the home flock tnd ta sell to others desuing te intro- dee pure bred wtods on the farm, Grad nally remove all) the old stock and tgrudes,? and na few yeure your farm will be stocked with pure bret poultry of one standard variety, and it 44 best to huve but one varuty, Tt will save lute cf work in preparing separate houses and separate runv fer the separate breeds, The White Plymouth Kuk or the White Wyandottes are good, all ound tneeds, If you must have other fowls, yut in Pekin ducks, Bronze turkeys, or ‘Vonloune geese, thus having w sarnty, lt nothing that will mix or give you extra trouble, Then be vigilunt fa your cure of them; atudy them and mabe it eany for them to Ipy eggs by heaping them free from vermin, well housed and well fed. Such treatment is sure Tring success, and that means that you ure keeping poultry for profit, If the Americun people will give more attention to their poultry it will be found that more profit from this nower, tn proportion to capital snveoted, Ie made than trom any othes farm animal, 4 len without grit in hke an old msn with. ant teeth she can eat, but that te all, Jood must be wall mantinted ta be fuslthful, and grit fe the only tooth 4 fen hes flue apphee to fowls kept an toptement, On the range they know how to take care of themsctyes, Donets erached maga ix a good galt of fine \ Droken oveter whedde as cond asled, See (hat the flock has all the water they want and feed for o special pus pore with 4 0d tood, a httle gieen food aul west mrape or ficah cut bone, but do not feed too much of the latter, Make *e good use of insect ponder one a week for two of three weeks no that the moths er hen will aot be a breeding place for lee to get em the young chickens, 4 Don't make a miotake in electing = breed. Hat is eggs you wunt, take the Leghorn or Minorea; if it is meat for the table, select the Rratmar, Cochin of Langshans, or, Mf sou want both meat und egger, the Ply month Rocks or Wyaae duttes, Be sure and get this matter fully settled before getting a new breed ef any hind—Animale, Fools and Da- CASH, POULTRY ON THE SMALL FARM. An Indiana Fariner trader wistts to know if he can make a nuocese with poultry on a small farm, where he will te competed to bug all his fad. Lee svond a doult poultry rassing 39 more protitable cn w farm where cne can rasee hig own gram No cne can furneh pron theper than the farmer. the reasen bs vbviow Hut notwithetanding this tact many of our most mucceful gg and broiler plants ate cunja lid to buy thet entire supply of feeds, and all making Nast eure at the bumnere Wo there our Ingest and bert poultryinen et the seuntey buy practically all thar ted suppher, yet thee fart dees net synily that thee te more money to be reahaed where ore is compelled to buy all his feed, but on the ether band it points out steatly to our corresgandent that, by juloos management, be can make a steer se i invest any branch ef the pout: try busses if he om necessarily eum: pelted te buy hos food mypphes. Warm quartars for the fowls will lesstn the food Gall wonderfully Hence thin item of anterent to the egg farmer should nub be overlookad Where ane as ao ritiated, Aut he can grow poultry and friut tor gether, that as grow the fiut above and, peultay below, he will realize double deotit fem tas investment Fret and qedltiy go hand a hand 1G hppa Indeata Firwee POULTRY POINTERS. Never allow your poultry te mm te weust hungry, Seattar the cvening meal near thet Jousting plicia, De not be tow sure that your yaultiy fave ne hee Panne them and Sad ont Wall a daey hen produce an ege thar MA hatch vagerous cucko? It bs easier to digest weft food ‘nan hacd pram and fitter fowls <1 ull tw paven Chet feed au thie condition Svahlad indh sutertuted for water wall aften yacvent. bowel trouble on voung chika AV giod poultry home save feed. If Jew Have none Phan to tiald at before winter Clean eggs cel) Rotter than dats ene Seted Cem are casily choad wath vines gar diluted with water, Phe wee of ben the hea te hall mites wive« fe aocumulate dust and coset up the pores, An ance powder ie much Detter, UW. seu hep a mmved poultyy yard? hecp tle ducks, gevse aud turkeys away freca the little chak ea they will hob them, Feed your chicken on latte ate we avout the pay worms that wn, bable to be pighed up fren the ground Darks must have dre qprters at mht, even af they do tive im the water tuorgh the day ‘Ube grevtest half of aay thee me a eliminated by reuevang, tevlls te dry quits Hone Phone Gabe Man (yen bay atid Net Royal Cate : Rewalar t 7 Meals 1s Conte, | B. ELDER, 408 Hrondmap, Ransaseity, mo ” _ A: Special Holiday Gift. AS TO THELEOPARD’S SPOTS My heros MATTER, Howard UU ntsereity, Washington ft, ¢ An able answer and rebuke to the slurs of Thomas Jnixon, Jr.,fopen the Negrorace. Every Negro man, woman and child should read 2:6 Mailed copy lic, Send to ALBATROSS SUPPLY CO., | QUINDARO, KAKS ¢ Gd to., ' H: BROWN, The Grocer Fine Groceries—Just Opened— Everything Fresh—Glve us a Trial NOME "PHONE 1282, O48 Joptin tt JOPEES, NO, ——— -BOTBR WIRLARD,— 1e0g St Bowe Avenue North cFViaduct and Uimor tt, BANPAS CITY, DLASSOURIT } W. M. AILSTOCK, Prop. | Rares; #200, #190 20d $200 per Dor, Union services were held at the Washington avenue Baptist church Thanksgiving. Concerts at A. M. E. and M. E. churches were a success. The K. P's had a grand time at their castle hall Thanksgiving. The Knights Templar made their first appearance on the streets of Springfield Thursday. Mr. T. S. Hardy went to Kansas City Sunday to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. McCrity of Kansas City is in the city. Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Adams entertained a number of friends at dinner Sunday The Blue Ribbon club met Sunday and elected the following oth certe (G) Webb, Jr., president; John M. Adams, vice president; B. A. Hulock, secretary. The regular directors still hold office. U. G. Smith, Manager. An Arian Leaf club has been organized and its manager hopes to make it a success. Mr. Tom Tull is planning to have a vauleville company at his park next season. Judge J. A. Gullaway is very busy now at Greene county court house. Miss Pearl Crawford left for Memphis Saturday. Blue Rubber club kept open doors Taurully and had a most splendid time. Ozer one hundred were present and enjoyed luncheon. Tao special for me was Mr. Frank Jarrett's trust, which was nobly responded to by Mr. F. S. Hardy. Prof Hester furnished the music, and so spared were the selftimes that they were encore many times. The latter was to be complimented for managing the fan such a grand success. Mrs. Mary Parks has been visiting in F. for the past two weeks. The ladies of the Willing Worker church enter and Tuesdy evening at the home of Mrs. A. Paul. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Perry of Joplin, Mr. was in the city to attend the funeral of their brother, Wm. Perry. The G. L. A club met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. H. I. Frazier. The mission circle of the Second Baptist church met last week with Mrs. M. Kyle. M. J. Sullford visited with relatives in Fopp's Thanksgiving. M. A. Fox visited in Valley Center last week. Mr. C. C. Paine was elected to a delegate to the Inter State Literary Association to represent the literary society of the Pembroke Baptist church Mrs. M. Tanner of Earl, O. T. is visiting friends in the city. Tarrantine of Mr. Win Penny were brought to this city Sunday for interment from Joplin, Ms. where he died Wednesday of last work. H. H. H. or Ms. M. L. Currall retires, where will be The funeral service war held on Sunday Baptist chapel Monday afternoon. In the District Court of Shawnee Bunty, Kansas. Hara C. Waltha, plaintiff. William A. Waltha, taken land. State of Kansas, William A. What la, retlag. You are hereby notified that Claire C. Whitha has filed in the above title case and court her act against you wherein she prays for divers and that certain property is said petition described, be decreed to be the property of said Claire C. Whitha, and that unless you answer the petition of the plaintiff on or before the 7th day of January, 1936, the said petition will be taken as true and judgment restored accord ingly. Hereof you will take due notice. I. B CURTIN [+EAL] Clerk of said Court W S. McCLINTOCK, Attorney for Plaintiff. INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. Rev. Robt. Cox of Salina, while in the city last week, made a very pleasant visit to our school. The Rev. speaks in commendable terms concerning the work and the wonderful improvements in all departments. Our Jubilee singers made quite a hit on Thanksgiving when they sang at the union services at the First Baptist church, as was shown by the fact that they had a return engagement at the same church on last Sunday night. On Tuesday night they sang at the United Presbyterian church and Wednesday night at the multiorium. Mr. John R Wright visited relatives and friends in Levenworth Thanksgiving, returning Monday. Prof. M. W. Freeman's father and sister spent Thanksgiving in Manhattan. While there they were guests of Mrs. L. C. Howell and family. Quarterly examinations were held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of its week. Teachers from the various departments report the best records ever made. Mrs. Willis and Miss Hutte Patton were pleasant visitors at the institute last Sunday afternoon. Prof. and Mrs. Wm. R. Carter entertained at Thanksgiving dinner Mrs. J. D Balentyne, Miss Berthy Monday, Messrs. W. J. Johnson and Malcolm Minor. The Institute Jubilee singers left today for Levenworth, where they have a three days' engagement. They will sing at the Soldiers Home Friday night, at the Fort Saturday and will give a special concert at the Fort Sunday night. Under our music director, Mrs. J. D. Bilen tyne, the Jubilee singers have reached a degree of excellence not before attained We are grateful to the different donating mills for the recent donations of our. Most of them donated 100 points. The Thanksgiving services at the institute were well attended by teachers and students. In the evening a social was given for the students, which was enjoyed by all. The teachers' program rendered last Sunday evening was a success in every particular. All the numbers were good, but we must give special attention to Principal Carter's paper on "Industrial Training", in which he brought out many interesting thoughts on industrialism. Especially did he show that the industrial is one complement to which the intellectual is the other, of a true alliance. First one is incomplete without the other. Many other ideas were suggested, which we have a spree to mention. M. and M. Ransom Taylor and Lieutenant, Mrs Joseph Lane and daughter of East Hill were visitors with the history last Saturday night. Mr. George Patton and Miss Elizabeth Wells spent Thanksgiving in the city with relatives. F. x - birth you, therefore, shall make you, y shall be free in book x - John x. Remarks on slavery of Israel. Number of recent slaves in Egypt and in Israel. Past suffering. The rank of people in unpatriot. Fear of religion. Celebration of their freedom. The slavery of the American Negroes for 200 years. In bondage. Suffering of the American slaves. The entailed by slavery. The freedom of American slaves. The blessings brought. The spiritual freedom of mankind. What it is. Deliverance and freedom. Blessings obtained by emancipation. The rights of mankind guaranteed. Note the incorporation proclamation of St John Baptist church, which was organized in 1891. It was at first union church occupied by both Methodists and Baptists. It was located between No. 8 and 8 Shafts Central. Its pastor were A. D. Johnson, H. Thomas, E. F. Berry. Under his pastorate the St. John church was bought. Next inturn was Rev Zacharias Johnson, then Rev. Sime, then Rev. I. G. Gunter, then the Rev. J. T. Crawford, who had the gallery built in this edifice, then Rev. P. J. Jackson. It began with a small membership, but it steadily increased until today it numbers 104 members, besides those who have died and have excluded, etc. The present officers are K. C. Coker, A. Johnson, W. M. Robinson, R. C. Chatman, D. P. Borders, Dave Williams Marshall Lee. It has five different auxillaries and they are pressing toward the mark of a high calling. A grand Thanksgiving dinner, also a next collection was given to the widows, orphans and sick of the church. WEIR CITY, KANS. Dr. C. H. Lane and John Boyd left Weir City, on November 24th for Red Bird, I. T., to make it their future home. K. C. Coker arrived home on the 24th from Independence to spend Thanksgiving with his family. Rev. B. Berry has been appointed agent for the Red Bird Land company, and will soon start out on his work. Mrs. Hattie Borders has been ill for a week past. Mr. Lee Holt has been down a few days with the chicken-pox. Mr. Sum Fuller was kicked by a horse and has been laid up a few days. Prof. J. W. Finley spent Thanksgiving in Pt. Scott. John Webb of Joplin transacted business here Thursday. Mrs. John Martin, died Thursday, after being ill for some time with that dread disease, consumption The remains were taken to Lowell for burial. Anderson Cheatham of Lowell was in the city one day last week. Mrs G Burnett of Keelville, Kans. is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Richard Alexander Mrs C. M. McMurry left last Wednesday for Gibson, I. T. where she will visit relatives for an indefinite period. D W. Hunt of Baxter transacted business here Tuesday. Johnson Wills and Miss Martin of Lowell passed through Galena Tuesday en route to Joplin Mrs. Fred Edwards and Mrs. Grant Smith are visiting in Baxter this week. Preston Brown of Cherryvale spent Monday here. From here he went to Baxter Springs to visit relatives. A GLEAM OF LIGHT. God's mercy will keep forever more and his gift is true, unto all those that liveth the life of Christ, and that you fear to lay aside your sinful way and take up the true life of Christ. All mankind is powerless before the great God whom the Christians serve. And now, just to assist and assure and to aspire you, I will tell you in the maze of business you will find young men upright and just, who are clinging to a age in Christ and old men with hearts of love, singing praises to his name. You will also find Christian mothers and young women with hearts and faces aglow with the hope and smiles of heaven. In hard places where poverty has oppressed, you will find little children with beautiful faces and eye-bearing with love and honor for Christ and sympathy for all mankind. Please understand in speaking of the church of Christ that it includes the ministers of all Christian society. The preachers that live as Christ did and preach as Christ said preach, such men are worthy of our hirs and you should hold such men in high esteem and love as brothers and ministers of God. Even the noble people and sinners help and honor such Christians and preachers that honor Christ. The preachers who live otherwise, are a disgrace to Christ and a shame to their own persons and church. JHON HARRISON Junction City, Kas. The good judgment displayed by the city fathers in holding off the institution of the separate street car law till December 16th confirms the growing belief that somebody is trying to wear it out before its time. W.H. LUCAS, Photographer. 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