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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. Backed by the Kansas Delegation in Congress and the People of the State, W. T. Vernon Will Be Made Register of the U. S. Treasury VOLUME VII. SOUTHERN JUSTICE VS. THE NEGRO! Judge Miller Unloads Himself Before the Grand Juriy—He Dislikes the Blackman. Copish circuit court met this morning, Judge D. M. Miller on the bench and other officers of the court present. As was expected Judge Miller was equal to the occasion and his charge to the grand jury was one of the most sensible and logical discourse listened to in many years. His manner was that of positiveness and showed that earnestness in supposing lawlessness his, which has always characterized his charges. Every subject was given the choicest attention by the judge and he dealt with the charge so as to command attention. After the empanelling of the grand jury Mr. Juo. B. Mayen, one of the best citizens of Copish county was made foreman. Judge Miller said: "I am glad to talk to you. It is true the circuit judge under the law is required to deliver what is called a charge. I have earnestly striven in the best way possible to uphold the law of my country. My efforts here met with some degree of success. This gentleman, is a place for a calm, deliberate talk to this grand jury. This, I will endeavor to do. The grand and petit jury sometimes do not have any conception of what the oath means. He spoke of the grand jury of last court, when one of the jury, said he, would find an indictment but it would cost the county too much. If you have any such on this jury, Mr. Foreman, excuse him at once. This court has never any trouble with juries in this county. I can't say this of other counties. Fewer of the graver crimes have decreased since last court. However there has been nearly forty men killed in this district. This is ten times as many as should have been; of these, most of them were Negroes. He complimented his district as compared to other localities. Sokpe of white men killing Negroes. We pay too little attention to such crimes, he said, unless some prominent man is murdered in some very brutal manner, we give it little consideration. The time is upon you for every man to do his duty. It is the duty of the grand jury to have the evidence. If a man is brought before you and you have the connecting evidence it is your duty to indict. I am not now, never have I been, nor ever will be, a Negro's man; neither am I in favor of social equality, and if a Negro gets out of his place I am in favor of putting him back. But if a man is brought before you for killing a Negro, and you have the evidence fine an indictment. This court will expect you to indict every Negro. If any white man, has wilfully murdered a Negro, and if you have the evidence, I want you to find an indictment. I see on this jury some men whose heads are white with the frosts of many winters. I know, gentlemen, you will do your duty. I see some young men, the hope of our country, God bless them! He called attention to gambling. Some, he said, did nothing else for a living, riding in rubber tired buggies and who would get minors drunk and steal their money. These are a menace to society, a theft and a robber. Illicit retailing came in for a part of the charge. Ninth tenths of the crimes com- TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1905. mitted are from blind tiger whisky and the hip pocket pistol. It used to be a Negro had a cheap gun, that would not kill you ten feet. Now they have the best makes. Why, do you know that one of the best law abiding citizens of the eastern part of this county came to me a few days ago and said we must have help down at Georgetown. There is no much lawlessness down there, gambling, illicit retailing, etc., I am afraid for my family to go to church and it is no better at Rockyport. If I can't get protection I will use my gun. I want this to be said that this is the best grand jury ever empanelled in Copiah county. The most important cases to come up for trial at this term are Young and Hogg, who on July 11 killed a Negro in the custody of Traveling Sergeant Dodds and the Boyd poisoning case. There was a good crowd in town at the opening of court." The above article is from a Mississippi paper and shows the injustice and contemptibleness of Southern justice meted out to the colored people by men who are supposed to administer the laws fairly and equally to all altsk. When such men as Judge D. N. Miller, who now occupies the Bench at Hazlehurst, Miss., are dead, the better it will be for the entire South. He will never get justice until he meets the devil and there be one of his archangels with all the other white Southern hell hounds like him, that have gone before him. We sympathize with the colored people of Mississippi that have to be predominant over by such ignorant and stupendous hypocrites as this would-be Judge Miller. TOPICS OF INTEREST. The senatorship contest in the Republican party to succeed Burton in 1907 is simmering down to four active candidates, with room on the outside for a whole raft of passives. The four are Charles Curtis, W. R. Stubbs, Phillip P. Campbell, and Joseph L. Bristow; and the passives now in sight are Marcus A. Low, David W. Mulvane, W. A. Calderhead, James F. Getty, Charles F. Scott, Victor Murdock, and always and never overlooking E. W. Hoch. Really, Gov. Hoch is active in his own hopes and secret wishes, but friend Stubbs is so aggressive that the governor cannot find an opening. For until after the next campaign, Stubbs and Hoch go hand and hand as they have since the bosses were busted two years ago coming next month; and since Stubbs was the first to file on the office, his friend can't consistently go in. Indeed, Hoch must first be elected to be governor again before he can think out loud of any other office, and in the meantime the shrewd Quaker of Lawrence is putting in plugs which Hoch must respect. So before Governor Hoch may consistently start out for the senatorship, after his re-election to be governor, his friend, Stubbs, must have had his day in Kansas and failed. This does not put Hoch out of the running, and especially it does not bar him from hoping and thinking and even secretly planning. That he will do in the nature of things; for with all the state patronage his command and a half dozen or a dozen, state senators under obligations to him, he would be a political incompetent not to hope and even plan for an opportunity to happen by which he might take the prize. Besides all this, the governor's strong temperance following will seek to make the opening for him to go in. The wise men of the Republican party look for Senator Long to keep [Continued on Page Eight.] MATTERS AT WASHINGTON! The Washington News Syndicate Sees Chance for Our Own Prof. Veonon ---Other Interesting Notes. It is stated that the position of Register of the Treasury will go either to W. T. Vernon of Quindaro, Kans. or S. L. Williams, an attorney of Chicago. It is not likely that the President will give another term to Judson W. Lyons, who will soon have held the position eight years. Mr. Lyons is the Republican National committeeman of Georgia, a well-balanced, able, man, and his record has been good. The President, however, is inclined to the belief that eight years represents about long enough for one man to hold a place for which there are so many others fated and heartily willing to serve. The President is inclined to favor Mr. Williams, who is said to have the backing of Prof. Bookes T. Washington, but such a strong showing was made in behalf of Mr. Vernon that he may get the position. The entire Kansas delegation in Congress, accompanied by Representative Tawney of Minnesota, who was the vice chairman in charge of the speakers' bureau in the last campaign, saw the President this week and urged the appointment of Vernon. They told the President that Vernon did splendid service in the last national campaign, speaking in six states and paying his own expenses. As an orator he is said to be excelled by few white men. As an educator he ranks with Professor Washington. He is the head of Quindaro Industrial Institute, Quindaro, Kane. The Presidentsimply said he would consider the recocommendation. 000 The critical and acute situation attending the administration of Dr. John Gordon, president of Howard University reached a state of eruption last Friday when the whole student body of that institution, as an indication of the contempt and protest against Dr. Gordon, greeted him with jeers, hisses and groans when he entered the university chapel to conduct the regular exercises for the day. A further rebellious spirit was shown when Dr. Gordon arose to begin these exercises, the entire 700 students marching out of the room. Following the unceremonious exit of the angry and excited students, pandemonium reigned for several moments about the university campus. Marching about the grounds, the students were hooting, singing songs, and denouncing Dr: Gordon in the most bitter manner. The college exercises were abandoned for the day, and after some hours quiet was restored and the students went to their rooms. This outburst of denunciation and display of rebellious spirit on the part of the Howard students is due the intense feeling and bitter opposition to Dr. Gordon's prejudicial conduct towards the students and teachers of the university and the colored people in general, as detrimental and out of harmony with the race and the interests of the university. The trouble with Howard University dates back several months. A committee of graduates representing the patrons and friends of the university, was appointed at an open conference held in Galbraith, A. M. E. church last May, which presented a petition to the board of trustees at its annual meeting, May 31, praying for the removal of Dr. Gordon as president. The committee suggested that the board of trustees appoint a committee to consider the petition and such other matters as ma be presented bearing on the conditions existing. In a statement issued December 9 by members of this committee, it is stated the five months intervening since the petition was presented have given opportunity for celored people throughout the country to consider the matter and give expression to their views. The fact has been clearly demonstrated, they say, that the opposition to Dr. Gordon is not confined to a narrow circle in the city of Washington, but that practically the whole race is opposed to him, bitterly, and that the farther one gets from Washington the more pronounced and hostile is the feeling. It has grown among all classes and has become a conviction that Dr. Gordon is not a fit man for the presidency of Howard University. The statement presents the following propositions as indicative of the attitude of the committee; "It is a fact that Dr. Gordon does not possess the confidence nor even the respect of the student body. "The graduates of all departments are practically against him. "The professors and teachers are far from being united in the opinion that he is the right man on an acceptable man for president of Howard University. A poll of professors and teachers on University Hill who are associated closely with Dr. Gordon and come in contact with him daily probably would disclose that none of them would commend him as the right man for the place. We respectfully suggest that such a poll be made. "The colored people at large, whose interests are paramount, and who regard Howard University as peculiarly their own institution, are united in the demand for his immediate removal. They desire, how ever, that its doors shall continue to remain open on equal terms to all races, and that officers and instructors shall be chosen on merit and without regard to race." Criticising Dr. Gordon personally and as the executive head of the institution, the statement says: "It is the general opinion that he has not the gifts and qualifications to represent the university before the public on the platform or in the pulpit, lacking in magnetism and power of speech. "He does not possess tact, and has therefore, antagonize his officers, teachers and students, instead of drawing them to him. "It is a serious misfortune that, by reason of lapse of memory or lack of continuity of purpose, his word given to either professors or students has not always been faithfully observed. We do not attribute moral blame. "It is not probable that any one would claim that he has brought financial, executive or disciplinary ability, or scholarship, or influence, or dignity to the office of president of the university. As a matter of fact there has been a serious deterioration in these respects from the standards of former presidents. The statement closes with part of an editorial from the Christian Recorder, the official organ of the A. M. D. church, which says in part: "It can not be emphasized too strongly here that there is no objection to Dr. Gordon because he is a white man. We heartily welcome all our white brethren among us as workers, who come in the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, we honor and reverence them, but there is no room in our schools and colleges for the "Lily White" educator of the Gordon type who insults the manhood of the race. Dr. Gordon should be removed at once." 000 "Under these circumstances there is no career of usefulness for him at this university." The vigorous fight for appointment as justices of the peace for the District of Columbia was ended last Wednesday when the President sent to the Senate for confirmation the names of six of the present incumbents, one, Robert H. Torrell, being a colored man. It had been hoped that the colored people would be able to hold two of the six justices as they had when the number was ten, but in this they were disappointed, E. M. Hewlitt, failing to be re-appointed. The statement of the committee presents petitions, letters, clipping and opinions, which, it is asserted, represent the sentiments of colored people of intelligence and standing outside of the institution. Among the petitioners are bishops, clergymen of every denomination, school teachers, representatives in public life, lawyers, doctors, dentists, business men, editors of religious and secular papers and representatives of other callings. 000 The opening meeting of a convention called for the purpose of organizing a national Negro Baptist Evangelical Association was held in the Cosmopolitan Baptist church December 7, with a large attendance. Rev. Simon P. Drew was elected president. The convention will close its sessions Sunday evening, December 10. It is the purpose of the convention to conduct a series of reviva meetings throughout the United States in the midst of the colored people. The first meeting will be held in this city Sunday, December 31, at the Cosmopolitan Baptist church. A. W. Rodgers, a colored man from Williamstown, N. C., president of the National Relief and Pension association of the United States, a corporation composed of colored men, has arrived in Washington to further the enactment of the Hanna bill, which proposes a pension for all surviving ce-slaves who have reached a certain age. The organization was incorporated four or five years ago under the laws governing corporations in force in District of Columbia. It has a national board of directors, with headquarters in this city. The District has five members on the board, each of the states having a state organization. FRANKFORT, KANS. Sunday will be quarterly meeting at the C. M. E. church. Rev. J. M. Rivers will occupy the pulpit during the day and a large attendance is expected. The Misses Marie, Emma and Hettie Overstreet of Blue Rapids are welcome visitors in our city. Little Theodore Lewis Coffey is reported as being somewhat better after his recent illness. Mrs. William Washington visited her home folks at Blue Rapids last week. John and Epps Russell, who have been traveling with Campbell Bros. circus, are home for an indefinite time. The ladies of the Baptist church awarded Miss Mabel Coffey a hand some gold ring for being the most popular young lady. Misses Sidney Smith and Lulu Walker and Mr. B. Walker were recent visitors from Blue Rapids to our city. NUMBER 48. THE KANSAS CITY SCHOOL CASE! Indications are Point Strongly in Favor of the Colored People in Their Fight for Justice. The High School case was argued in the Supreme court last Friday, by Nathan Cree, one of the Attorneys for the Defendant, while the Attorneys for the Plaintiff filed their brief, but did not argue their case for the reason that the Defendant could not answer properly, the facts set forth by the Plaintiff. The attorney for the defendant was called down several times by the Supreme court which indicates that the plaintiff will win. There is not the slightest doubt that the special act of the legislature, creating a colored high school in Kansas City, Kansas, will be declared unconstitutional and we hope this will forever settle the separate school question in Kansas. Let the conservative people of both races take up the cause of right and liberty, and forever stamp out rebellion and rebellion in Kansas, and say to that class of whites and Nogroes who think they are not fit to attend the same schools to look for another climate, that good people can dwell together on earth as well as in heaven. There is no difference in people when they are law abiding, upright and just, whether they be white or black. The sooner the prejudiced white man learns that he is no better than an honest and intelligent Nogro, the better he will be. LIBERTY, MO. Vom Miles departed this life Dec. 6 after a tedious illness of several weeks. Clarence Parker is ill with typhoih fever. Little Helen Stewart, who has been quite ill, is improving. Black Diamond, the Liberty show company played to a crowded house Dec. 8. The program was well rendered. The entertainment at the Baptist church Saturday evening was a success. The debate was spirited; the payer by Miss Anderson was enjoyed by all; the selection by the Treble Clef club under the direction of Miss H. V. Anderson was a rare treat. The "Mission Wheel" quilt was awarded Mrs. James Houston who had solicited the largest amount of money for Macon College. Wm. Booker spent Sunday in the city. The surprize party given by Rev. aud Mrs. Bryant for their daughter, Lillian, was highly enjoyeb by all present. Pros. Falton spent Saturday in Kansas City. Miss Lizzie Stephenson who has been quite ill is improving and is spending a few days in the city. The Literary society of the M. E. Church met Friday evening. A very short program was rendered. The Young People's Mission society met Tuesday evening to arrange for Christmas. Rev. Goodwin will be in the city soon. A very interesting program was rendered Sunday evening by the Unity Baptist Sunday school. Jimmie Smith is in the city. Miss Eula Douglass has moved. Miss Lonnie Garth has returned. A Paradise for the Negro to Invest His Money. Red Bird. I. T. December 10, 1903. To The Plaindealer, Topeka, Kan. Rev. E. L. Barber is its founder Mr. M. F. Johnson has a nice line of groceries. Mr. Ruffin conducts a dry good and grocery store. Mr. Monroe Williams is general manager of the "Red Bird Trading Co" Mr. Bunce has a first class grocery and meat market. There is a good church here with sixty five or seventy members, and K. of P. bolgs, while the woods are full of the builders of the temple. Mr. W. C. Crum of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, visited Red Bird this week and purchased a business lot and will put in a brick store. Mr. W. F. Woodings of Noosho, Mo., was here last week and bought a site for a grist mill. Dr. Schoen of Springfield will move here the first of the new year. He will bring his stock of drugs and open a drug store at once. The Farmers, Merchants and Business Men's Association will organize a bank in the near future. Mr. A. A. White is our general and pro- fessional pastor: Dr. C. H. Land is the local agent of the Red Bird Investment Company. Write him for any desired information. Dr. Land has several firms to lease or rent, one store house for sale and one dwelling house. A TOWN FOR COLORED PEOPLE ONLY. It will take you only a few minutes to read this little pamphlet. We offer you an opportunity never before offered to the colored man. An opportunity to invest with those that get in on the "ground floor" of a new and promising city opened in the great Indian Territory. The investment is open to the colored man only. The Indian Territory with its immense resources and large amount of money being paid out by the United States to those of Indian rights is the key word of opportunity. The great territory of Oklahoma has been opened to settlement and numerous cities and towns have been opened and all companies with whom we are familiar have published in their literature—"no deals will be issued to migrants." Now comes the great Indian territory, the last good country of the great south west, to be settled. There have been quite a number of prosperous towns opened already in the Indian territory by towns into companies who have expended large sums of money to advertise them and bring them under the consideration of men of the states who with ambition have taken advantage of the opportunity and have prospered The Red Bird Investment Company is the first and only company that has been organized for the purpose of building a city for the COLORFID man, by advertising and sending out colonizing agents to invite the most intelligent and ambitious colored people of the United States to come to a country where there is health, wealth and a future for them. The Red Bird Investment Company now offers you a most excellent opportunity to profit largely by small investments, and to acquire a home where you will be estimated at your true value. Location Red Bird is on the Missouri, Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad, which is operated by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas R. R twenty one miles northwest of Muskogee in the fertile valley of the Arkansas and Verdigris rivers. There can not be found a more fertile location in the beautiful Indian Territory than the country tributary to Red Bird The town plat is located near the south border of a high and magnificent rolling prairie that will do your heart good to stand and behold. To ride through on the railway and watch the panorama unfold itself to your view, is like the realization of a cherished dream of a new home in the great and beautiful southwest. You behold a land of blue skies and conious showers. and waying fields of corn, alfalfa, nuts, wheat, fish potatoes and cotton blossoms. It matters little from what part of the Union you come, you will find here, growing in semi tropical luxuriance, the fruits and flowers to which you have been accustomed in the old home Why Red Bird Will Be a City. First, Because Red Bird is an ideal Second. Because it has a farming country to back it that demands a city to handle its enormous production. Third. Because it is surrounded by numerous well to do colored farmers who are anxious to welcome you and a city, and are offering their hearty co operation in building a city that will become famous. Fourth. Because of its ideal climate, high altitude and abundance of pure water, the health of this country can not be surpassed. Fifth. Because at present there are several business houses located at this point, all of which are conducted by energetic colored merchants, who are doing a thriving business, and the extensive advertising and the untiring efforts of the colonizing agents will induce men of capital and energy to locate at this place and share its many advantages. Ninth. Because Muskogee and Wag over are the only large towns in this section of the country, and are cut off from this rich and extensive valley by the Arkansas river on the west and south and the Verdigris river on the east and north, therefore Red River will be a natural trading center for this great domain. Seventh. Because there are more col and people within a radius of twenty miles of Red Bird than in any other portion of the Indian territory of a much greater area. Eighth. Because Red Bird is in an oil THE AMERICAN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INCORRORATED LAST CAPITAL STOCK One Million Shares of non-assessable stock Most Gigantic Move ever LAUNCHED for The BRAIN and MUSIC played. The DOOR of All Officers and Agents Write today for lite CHAS. D. CLEM, Pres. D. H. HILL, Vice-Pres. Headquarters, COPPEVILLE No Subst of non-assessable stock ONE DCLLAR per share. Most Gigantic Movement ever LAUNCHED for the Negro's advancement. The BRAIN and MUSCLE of the race to be employed. The DOOR of OPPORTUNITY now open. All Officers and Agents Bonded No Substitution M obtainable-fresh and pure. We give the quantity he prescription according to his season so many doctor's ask us. We pride ourselves on Prescription Department. Kohl's Ph Prescriptions a 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. Kohl's Pharmacy Ind. Phone 743. Bell Phone 561. When You Arrive in Kansas Leave the Union Depot Unti When You Arrive in Kansas City, Don't Leave the Union Depot Until You 'Phone F. J. WEAVER, The Locater: He will get you a room in any part of the city, and move your trunk FREE. Houses for rent. Roming Houses for sale. Satisfaction Guaranteed. List property with WEAVE List property with WEAVER HOME PHONE MAIN 6236 BELL PHONE MAIN 3457 location for a city. and natural gas belt. There is one strong gas well now within five miles of Red Bird, and one is being drilled in which we understand that the drilling will be continued to a greater depth to strike oil, as oil is usually found at a greater depth than is the case with gas in this section PR.CTICAL POULTRY NOTES. Fatten and sell off your poultry as fast as they are large enough. They will bring you more now than they will later on Do not have your mixed feed too soft, but have it of such consistency as to fall apart when thrown on the feed boards There are many who enter the poultry business for pleasure, but they don't stay in long just for the pleasure they receive, and are not to be blamed, either. Do not allow your litter in the coops to become damp during the rainy season. Bowls must have dry houses. Many a person puts the money into fancy buildings and furnishings for his hen house that ought to go into the poultry. Don't compel fifty birds to roost where there is room for only twenty-five. No on, has a right to expect eggs unless the hens are in a bright, healthy condition; neglect mother food, exercise, cleanliness, nor protection; and then have a purpose and feed for that purpose. It is claimed that ducks will neither ERICAN DELOPMENT CO., LAWS ARIZONA.) 1,000,000.00. Stock ONE DCLLAR per share. ement for the Negro's advancement. USCLE of the race to be em- of OPPORTUNITY now open. ents Bonded literature and particulars. REV. P. D. SKINNER, Sec. Dr. J.T. WHITTAKER, Treas LLE, KANSAS. We give you what your Prescription calls for. When your Doctor prescribes a drug, you want that drug, and not something almost the same. The drug the doctor prescribes is what we give in the best quality prescribes, and mix the instructions. That is the their patients to come to on our accuracy in our pharmacy a Specialty. 732 Kansas Ave. WEAVER THE 911 OAK STREET grow, fatten nor lay well unless they are somewhat stinted in their food. They should never have more than is, readily eaten up clean—The Farmer's Guide. FRESH WATER FOR FOWLS. Attend to the giving of fresh water twice a day just as carefully this month as though zero mornings were as common as in January. Next to pure air water is the cheapest thing we can supply our poultry Do not forget that water must be supplied in order to get eggs. Reduce the drinking part of your hen's ration and the egg yield will soon be reduced On cold mornings add a little hot water to the bird's drinking water and let it be put into a clean dish. Elevate the water vessel so that not much of the litter can be thrown into the water, as the birds scratch for stray grains Clean water, fresh water, cool water, help along the filling of the egg basket.—Poultry Keeper. Hill City, Kan. Boy M Loe of Nicodemus was in the city last week on business Mr. Harris was in our city last week in the interest of the Plaindealer. Miss Carry Dobrey came down from Logan county Thursday. Mr Ian Hickman is putting on a new addition to his residence this week. Mrs Lana Coulton is on the sick list. Mr. Mrs. Aikson left Monday for Leav onworth. Inter State Program. The order of the program has not yet been made out. These are some of the people who will appear: For the history part of the program: W E Griffin, Destiny of Man; J. D Bowser, Some Unsolved Problems; C. R. X Stewart, What the Negro Has Not Done; S R Bathy, Original Poetry; Wille Washington, Mrs. H. T Oreur; Miss Ambra Keene, Social Ideals; Mrs. E. M Guy, A New Reformation; Miss Huster Hawkins, Treasure Island; Mrs. Q W Hamilton, Woman and Higher Education; Miss Beene Hawkins, Inspirations from Nature to Good; Mr. N Sawyer, Railroad Rate Legislation, Mrs. F D Gheed, Optimism; Mrs. A. Scott King, Miss Stella Christian, Mr. Woody Jacobs, Mrs I Rothwell, Miss Lone Games, Miss Oma, R. Pruse, Mr. Robt. Mitchell, Mossers, Groves, T W. Greene, L L McGruder, Negro in Music; Judge I E Bradley, Nagara Movement; Miss Bossen Turner, Rev A. A Harvey and others Miss Winnfred Morton will also read a paper on the genius of Jonathan Swift The musical sale includes the best talent in this section and there will be a plenty of it. Quadra University will furnish a rare treat under the direction of Prof Robt Jackson, and there are others. I M HORTON. Cham Exe Com Lincoln, Neb. Mrs. Fannie Banks, wife of Madison Banks, died last Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Banks had been sick for several weeks and her death was not unexpected. The funeral services were held at the home, 520 B. St. Thursday afternoon Bay 01 L. Burkhardt promised Many friends attended. Mrs. I. L. Wright is in hospital this week. I. S. Hawkins is committed to his bad Rev W. H. Sanderson celebrated the opening of his church, christian, 23d and 24th, last Sunday afternoon. An excellent sacred program was rendered, and a crowded house greeted them. Fin nancial and was encouraging. There will be a sacred program at Mt. Zion Sunday night, December 17th. Dr. Jenkins preached a very touching sermon at Mt. Zion Baptist church last Sunday night. The Sabbath school has been resurrected and is doing fine under the superintendency of Dr. Jenkins. Rev J. Thomas, the pastor, is yet at the bed side of his wife in Iola, Kun. Joseph Brown, formerly of Lincoln, died at his home in Maude, Neb. last Saturday; his body was brought to this city for burial Monday. The funeral services were held in Newman church Tuesday afternoon Rev. Trower preached Rev. Biggers lectured to his church Sunday night. A good audience histo- Read the Plaindealer. Parsons, Kan. Charley Floyd arrived in the city on the 6th for a visit with relatives. Mrs J A Christian and children of St James, are expected in the city to spend the holidays. A concrete floor is being put in the basement of the New Hope Baptist church. Mr Sam Damla, plasterer, had the misfortune to get time in his eyes last week, from the effects of which he suf fered much pain. Wish Venters, of Vinnia, stopped over in the city a few hours on the 8th, while on route home. Mr Chiridy, of Chitopa, spent Sunday in Parsons visiting his daughters, Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. Motley. Mr Matt Matthews and Mrs. Frank Benney were quietly married last Satur day (pun) by Rev A Fairfax. Mr Jack Payne and Mrs. Maggie Womack were married at Outthage Mo, recently. Mr Fields, of Chanute, was in the city last Monday (11th). Weekly Cole left Tuesday for Emporia to visit relatives Mr. McAllister, of Muskegee, I. L., was in the city Monday on business. Mrs. Lizzie Sandy passed through Parsons on route to Coffeyville last week. Rev Leonard, of Pansas City, is in the city conducting a series of meetings at New Hope Baptist church The paper read by Dr. J. G. Bullet at the Parent's Congregational Sunday, the 10th, on "Considence Training" was declared one of the best ever heard. It was ably discussed by Rev. A. Fairfax and Prof. A. E. Clark. Mrs. Battree Keygan rendered a very pleasing solo Bishop Grant and wife passed through Parsons Monday (11th) on route to Kansas City. They were returning from points in Texas. Pueblo. Colo. Rev. and Mrs. C W Holmes at the M.E. church will have in a few days for Cannon City, Colo., where they will hold meetings. Mrs. J. P. Watson spent Sunday in Sugar City, Colo., holding meeting Sunday the 10th was William Lloyd Garrison Day at St. John and St Paul A M K. churches. Rev. Bray, pastor of St Paul, preached a special sermon at 11 o'clock in subject "The times of the Abolitionists." A special programme was rendered at night. A special programme was rendered at St John church at night. A very interesting paper was read by Mr Harry Life. Also some interesting remarks by Honorable W H Townsend. The 20th Century Dramatic and Literary Club will meet on the 15th inst with Miss Edith Bray, 618 Arrova ave. The Mochote Arc Club will meet this week with Mrs J K Williams Boll Arroya use Mr and Mrs Henry Nelson entertained at dinner Thanksgiving Rev and Mrs C W. Holmer Rev. H L. Bray was the guest of Mr and Mrs Oscar Baker at dinner Sunday Rev. D V Jefferson of the 8th st Baptist church preached at St Paul Sunday afternoon Rev N L. Bray preached for Rev W R. Hardy of Bethlehem Baptist church Sunday night Miss Wendifd Harrison who was born reported dangerously all with pneumonia is said to be slowly improving. It is the earliest wish of her many friends that she will be able to be out again. The Wendifd Unit at the St. Mary's Baptist church last Wednesday afternoon Frankfort, Kan Presiding Elder Rev J M Rivers preached at the C.M.E. church Sunday and Monday evening. As usual a large crowd listened to the soul stirring verses as are always delivered by Rev. Rivers and all enjoyed a season of refreshing from the Lord. Mr. B Walker of Blue Rapids was shaking hands with Frankfort friends Tuesday. Miss Clara Baird, who has been in our city for several weeks, returned to her home at Centraun Sunday. Mr. Scott Clay is on the sick but this week. Mr. and Mrs C. A. Harriss and Miss Lulu Walker of Blue Rapids were welcome guests in our city Sunday. The work of repairing the C M E. church was commenced last Monday, and when completed it will be one of the nearest and prettiest church in the city. Mr Henry McAlister, one of our most prosperous farmers, living about seven miles south of the city had the misfortune to lose by death two very valuable horses last week. This is indeed a great loss and Mr. McAlister has the sympathy of all. The city school was closed last Tuesday, and will not reopen until January the second, owing to the fact that while the high school basket ball team was in Waterville last Saturday, its members were exposed to the scarlet fever. Therefore the school board and physicians thought best to take no chances and no closed the schools Henry Park of Muskogee was in the city last week. An entertainment was given at the Until you see my nice new HOLIDAY STOCK. Every hat up-to-date, and in all the latest shapes. I am sure that you will find something to suit you. Mrs. L. H. Slaughter, 431 Kansas Ave., (upstairs) home of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Humes Tuesday five of last week for lunch of the A.M.E church Prof. Glen Navon of Muskogee was in town last week on business M. D. Norrel was in collierville last week on business Quite a number of business men met at Ride hall Wednesday one of last work and organized a good road club to cooperate with the whole name good road club The officer President, H. F. Watson secretary, M. A. Norrel treasurer, B. W. Knox The committee of three to cooperate with the other club are Dr. A. J. Jordan D. Hicks and W. H. Martin State Hall the temporal artist, was on the sick last week Bav Porter, pastor of the A M E church at Wagamore LT was the guest of Rev A M Hawkins Thursday of last week. Mr John Buffington was united in matrimony to Mrs Susie Lane both of Ketchum, LT. At the A M F church last Sunday was a nightly Providing Elder 'Tucker hold' his first quarterly conference for this final year. A very pleasant re- sension was witnessed. Mrs Porter Owens is still on the sick list. Roll of Honor 9th grade Mollie Hawkins Laura Lynch 6th grade: Rhota Harron; 3rd grade Hennetta Martin Bloom Hill 1st grade Corn B Neal, James Neal Perfect in Attendance 8th grade: Mollie Hawkins, Laura Lynch, 6th grade Rhita Harris Wylie Watson, 5th Emma Hawkins 4th Janetta Davis, Alice Martin, Lilie Morrow, Carl Porter Louis Wickhill, Cora B Neal, Henrietta Martin, Sadie Hill, Arthur Henry Waltie Barker, Housie Hill; 2nd Stella Martin, 1st Jeanne Neal, Ruth Thomas, Ruby Bean, McKandy Johnson, Alma Hill, Ernest Johnson, Graca Murphy, Lawn Mulproy Enrollment for year, 120, for month. 114. average attendance 85 per cent of attendance 42 Month ended Dec. Mr. and Mrs. Bent Depresson left home implicit for Omania, Noto, earlier a vowt with Dr. and Mrs. J. Forlaine GETTING THE BEST EGG RESULTS For over thirty years I have been a reader of your valuable paper and have been greatly interested in your poultry department. I have been a breeder of pure bred poultry for many years and have bred many varieties. Nearly all kinds, if given proper care will lay well, but to get the best results from your home they should be started right when one month old. Hatch in April and by the first of June divide the pullets and cookerls Start the pullets growing and laying by giving them the same feed you would lay ing heens I use for feed as follows In the morning, wheat, buckwheat, barley and cracked corn Noon, a mash made of corn meal, wheat bran and one-eighth as much beef scrapes. Night, cracked corn, always feeding enough so they will find some early in the morning. Another essential thing is water, plenty of it, and be sure it is clean. I have always found that by following the above plan my pullets grow fast, mature young, have good plumage and are healthy and commence to lay at from 4% to six months old. They continue laying all winter, and in fact, all through the year except when moulting. Then by a liberal use of bone and meat scrap the moulting season can be shortened by one third or more. The two hundred egg hen is not commonly found except in the poultry papers, but you can own her yourself. I have raised for the past eightteen yeas the Rose Comb Black Minotras and find them great egg producers. They spend no time in being broody, but lay large, white eggs, which always command a fancy price in the market. They stand the cold weather equal to the Wyandotte, Rocks or Reds. If you want profit from your poultry, there are three essentials: proper food, good care and plenty of good pure water. D L. Rowe, Poultney, M. in American Cultivator. CARE OF THE DAIRY COW. The cow must have good care. A cow must be kept comfortable. That means that she must be kept warm. You will excuse me for referring to my own business than any other man's, it comes in nicely, for I know more about my own business than any other man's anyway. I was buying cows, and a man who was selling his product at the same place I did mine, offered me a cow. I looked at her, and she looked like a good cow, and I bought her. After I had bought her, I asked, "what is the matter with the cow, that you wanted to sell her?" There is no use in asking before you buy a cow, but if you asked afterwards, you may find out I asked this man, and he said "Well, she does not give milk enough." He had five other cows, and he and this was the poorest one. I took her home and put her in the barn. The temperature in my barn never gets down to freezing. I have a covered barnyard, and the cows never get out from the time she goes in the fall, until they get out in the spring. She freshened Oct. 8, and a year from that day, I had 14,000 pounds of milk, $140 from that one pork cow. That was the heat cow that man owned. What was the reason he did not know it? He turned her out in the morning, and, instead of covering her ribs with fat to keep out the cold, she stood there and shivered, and when she was put under right conditions, she was one of the heat cows ever in the state of Michigan, and yielded a profit like that. Just these three things, let me say again. What will make forty cows give milk, will make one cow give milk. This applies to the one cow dairyman as much as to the forty cow dairyman. When you want a cow, get a good cow, and feed her all she can eat. There is no use in keeping just a cow. It takes $15 or $20 to keep her just a cow, and after you pay $20 to run that machinery, you must make that machinery run to its maximum capacity, and let me say to you today, there is no line of live stock husbandry in that one day and another, will pay as good and even a profit as will a dairy cow.—N. P. Hull. CHANGED CONDITIONS. Prior to 1900 it was not a difficult matter to make a profit out of the products of cows because the cost of maintaining them was in reason and then most any kind of a cow would bring profitable returns from money spent for feed. But things have changed and it is a very different problem today. Six or seven years ago there were very few farmers who did not make a profit at the creamery, but now there are a good many who do not get more out of their cream than enough to pay for their feed. Seve 1 different causes have been assigned for the present conditions. A good many have blamed the trusts for their misfortunes, but there are other reasons. The price of cow feed has been considerable advanced of late, on account of the more extended use made of the by products of the mills. The agricultural papera have been urging the feeding of the mull stuffs to balance the ration. This has resulted in an increased demand for ban, gluten, etc., which has greatly raised prices. The price of land has gone up and the amount of wild hay has decreased and, of course, as the shipments of hay were reduced the price advanced. As the price of coin and wheat advanced their by-products likewise went up. Oil meal is in the trust and its price is managed by the trust. The price of butter fat has not kept pace with the advance of land, feed and labor, daily products remaining on a very steady basis of price while other commodities are continually going up. How to remedy this is the problem for the dairyman. One of the heat solutions is to quit buying high priced feed and raise it on the farm. Instead of high priced bran, feed clover, alfalfa, soy beans, cow peas or oat hay. Better cows must be kept and better methods used in caring for them. Dairymen will be forced to either employ such methods or go out of business—Yarm Folks THE SAFE WAY TO BUY TOOLS. Know Yourself What You Want, and Don't Leave It to the Dealer. When you buy flour, you know just what brand you want. You know by experience what flour suits you best. When you buy tools you merely ask for a saw, a hatchet, a plane, and tell the dealer you want the best he has. In a great many cases you are disappointed, but you can do nothing. The dealer simply represented it as being the best he had. The only safe way to buy tools is to get a trade marked and guaranteed article. Then if it does not prove satisfactory you can return it, and either get another or your money back. Naturally, some tool manufacturers are both to sell tools under a guarantee, most tools not even having a name, and so there has come to be more or less available in buying tools. There is, however, and has been for 36 years, one complete line of tools on the market which are absolutely guaranteed to the purchaser, the trade marked name of which is "Keen Kutter." Whenever you see a tool with that name upon it you are perfectly safe in buying it. It is no longer necessary to depend upon the dealer, just remember that "Keen Kutter" tools are guaranteed by the Simmons Hardware Co, St. Louis, U. S. A., and you are as sure to get a good tool as the sun is to shine on a clear day This line covers not only tools with cutting edges, but tools of all kinds, so that a complete set may be purchased, each article bearing the trade mark and the guarantee. If you are unable to get "Keen Kutter" tools of your dealer, write to Simmons Hardware Company, St. Louis, U. S. A., or 214 Broadway, New York WINTER SUPPLIES. It pays to lay in a winter's supply of growers. During the summer months a large supply is not practical, because there is apt to be loss by materials spoiling or not tasting fresh, but during the winter large supplies may be kept with perfect safety. As soon as your grower gets in his supply of canned goods from the wholesale dealer, it is time to the first advantage in buying him, that he prices are lower. The grower can afford to sell canned goods by the more cheaper than usual and especially so if he ashes them in. The uses that they keep for a long time, and may be bought by the doren. Most families use a barrel or a sack of sugar in a year, and it keeps well if put in a dry place. No many groceries are now put up in pound packages or pint and quart cans that they are easily handled Several families sometimes go together in buying their winter supplies, so as to buy in larger quantities and in this way they get better prices. It is sometimes hard to tell just how much will be needed, but with a little practice the housekeeper can soon plan so as to come out even. The second advantage is that one does not need to be sending for supplies during cold or bad weather. One will often think, "Oh! we shall be doing to town any way, and we might as well buy each week," but oftentimes this proves very inconvenient. The woman who does not attend to all the kitchen work herself knows well how often things run out when least expected. The housekeeper also knows what a comfortable feeling it is when unexpected company arrives to know that she has a goodly supply in the store room and the cellar. Some feel that they do not like to put so much money into groceries at one time, but it pays good interest on the investment and the convenience should be worth something.—Farmers Tribune. FROM CALIFORNIA. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 7, 1905 Edition Plaender and Reader: I wish to fulfill my promise to you that I would write you of some of the things that are being carried on by the race hero in the city and vicinity. We are proud to be able to state that we are represented handsomely among the early settlers who bought land early and cheap and have grown up with the city. We are informed that in less time than five years city and suburban property has more than doubled in value. It is almost impossible for a person to go wrong in the purchase of real estate. He can always sell it for more than he paid even though he only keeps it a short time. We are glad to state that we have quite a number of good, reliable and prosperous individuals who are actively engaged in this class of trading. We have, also, one land stock company which is incorporated and doing a very large business along this line and the colored people here are buying stock and pushing the company right along. We have two undertaking firms here which seem to be getting nearly all of the funnels. Also we have about a dozen grocery stores, several furniture and motion stores, restaurants and roaming houses in great numbers. Several hand tandem dries are in successful operation and we are informed that we are very soon to have opened a large steam laundry by Mr. Stirland in the eastern portion of the city. He came to the city several years ago and invested his money in real estate and his purchases have all been very fruitful and now he is worth fully $100,000. He owns and operates a large grocery store. The lawyer and the doctor seem to do well here. We have some five or six good active physicians and three attorneys. The preachers who are in charge of congregations seem to prosper. We have some several very good church houses which cost from $4,000 to $15,000. We also have several nurses in the transfer business. One indeed, deserves special mention. This company has a large storage house and operates several large stores. But I want to speak now of what our ex Kansas City hotel host and hostess are doing here. I allude to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gordon who came to Kansas City in the 80s and operated a hotel and restaurant 15 years ago in that city which has never been surpassed if, indeed, it has been equaled even down the present time. They came to the city of Los Angeles last April and started a restaurant which very soon proved to be the finest safe by far in the city and they received a large patronage from both races. The landlord, Mr. Avery, seeing their activity and business sagacity, planned and built to their order the building now known as the Canadian hotel at a cost of about $20,000. This is a handsome four story brick structure beautifully built and completed with all the necessary equipment and advantages of the day. The furnishings of this building cost the host and hostess fully $2,500. The first floor has two large rooms that are used as office and dining room and the smaller rooms are used as grill room and kitchen. The three rooms above are divided into 20 bed rooms, ten on each floor. These rooms are well provided with plenty of ventilation, light, water, gas, electricity and free baths all convenient On account of the very splendid fare received here the rooms are almost all filled with guests from sea to sea and from shore to shore. The building is at the corner of Newton and Hewlett streets, which is convenient to all the great railway stations and it is indeed a splendid headquarter for all traveling men. The fare is as cheap as can be had in the city and it is equal to the very best Don't fail to visit the Canada Hotel E. E. HENDERSON INSURING LAYERS. "Lay! Of course she lay! If she didn't she'd go into the pot." This reply to an innocent "That looks like a layer"—was given with an energy that plainly bespoke the man with a sharp eye to the profitable individual. With a small flock it is quite within the bounds of reason to know the layer, and it is the layer in the time of high prices that pays. Eggs are already worth three cents apiece here, and the hours that lay with considerable freedom for the next three months will have put a hundred per cent on their value very easily. Half the secret of success in poultry keeping seems to lie in this ability to weed up the unprofitable. To feed a big flock of young cocks on a falling market, or to keep over a very mixed lot of heens of all ages and conditions, from which few if any eggs can be expected before early spring, is to cut off the profits in advance. Before winter actually sets in there is pressing occasion for a searching examination of the stock. Once realize clearly what results are to be expected and it is easy to determine whether a fowl ought not to go into the pot. From November on the best layers are pretty sure to be found among the early pullets hatched in April, well fed and matured without any check. I have had such pullets of ordinary Plymouth Rock breeding lay a full clutch of eggs in October, and show an inclination to sit upon them. In high condition now and with liberal rations, which must include both meat and green food in some form, these plump, handsome pullets are reasonably sure to keep up a good average of eggs through the winter. Each one is a profitable fowl and pleasant to see. The old practice, once very general, of feeding grain through winter exclusively is certainly, in a cold climate, at once the most expensive and the least productive of systems. Laying hen need a mixed diet, with plenty of bulks; clover hay or bran, exercise with their hard grains, and a small percentage of animal food in some shape. Apples, cabbages, waste and trimnings of all vegetables, raw or cooked, and a warm, soft feed once a day, go far to complete that sufficient and stimulating variety which serves so well to fill the egg basket. Constant attention is, after all, the one indispensable requisite. There must be an interested ego that marks promptly every sign of all condition and remedies the difficulty, whatever it may be. It is too much trouble to take all this pains for the incompetents, the aged mothers and the feeble or defective pullets, from whom results can not be reasonably expected. A hen that cries from one to two dollars a year beyond the cost of her keep is a good, useful member of the home community. There are some that will do it in every flock, and if they are not compelled to support too many detrimental, it should be easy to bring up the average to equal these figures. Donothy in Country Gentleman. WHY IS IT? Why is it that one farmer will put $15 in a cow as feed, and get a net creamery profit of $20, while another puts $15 into the cow and fails by $15 to get his money back? Some good people will at once say: "He had the wrong kind of cows. If he had kept good, annual purpose butter cows, he would have made a profit, too." Possible, but not probable. I went to the bottom of the breed question. I selected the Jersey breed as one that is claimed to be the best cow for butter, making butter at less cost per pound, and more of it than any other breed. Surely, the breed is all right for butter. Here we should have the cause of profits, and a rattle of chink in the pants pocket as the effect. The creamery patrons' investigations that have recently been concluded in Vermont, Connecticut and Pennsylvania show that of the 21 exclusive Jersey herds in Connecticut, 57 per cent make a profit and 43 per cent lose; of the 14 herds in Pennsylvania, 57 per cent make a profit and 43 per cent lose; in Vermont, of the 37 herds, 32 per cent make a profit and 68 per cent lose. This proves that the breed has nothing to do with it. If breed was at the bottom of this question, then all the farmers would make a profit, instead of an average of only 48.6 per cent making a profit. Then I went a step further and put down in one column all the damymen who kept Jerseys exclusively, and who took agricultural or dairy papers of course, no one can tell how much these papers are read and the teachings put in practice, except by the results. Then I put in another column all those who did not read any paper—the fellows who don't believe in book farming, the fellows who say they "know as much about keepin' cows as the fellers who edit them papers". Well, it figures out that the men who read make an average profit of $576 per cow, and, as each patron averaged 14 cows, it reaches the sum of $8004 per year. That is mighty low, because so many of those who took papers apparently did not read with understanding, 10 of them actually losing money. But of the men who did not read, only one made a profit. They averaged a loss of $684 per cow, and, as each patron averaged 10 cows, it took up $834 annual loss per patron. Then these "throw it all" follows are Then these "know it all" follows and losing $11894 because they prefer to go on without the help of "them city editors." That sum would buy quite a dairy library every year, wouldn't it? Or send one of the boys to a dairy school. Now, come back to the buttermaker. I believe the same results would show against the buttermaker who didn't read up on his business. It isn't luck. It is brains that make profits. The more brains a man puts into his business the more apt he is to succeed in winning a name—and some cash. Read, think, study, experiment. Strive to do better today than you did yesterday. Push ahead. Don't stagnate.—Alson Sneer in Creamery Journal. SKIM MILK FOR CHICKENS. Skim milk is a farm product, whose food value is not fully appreciated. It is not generally realized that milk loses little in actual food value by skimming. It is true that most of the fat is removed in the cream, but the most valuable food constituents—i.e., the nitrogens substances are left behind in the skim milk. Skim milk not only contains much nutritive material, but this material is in a form which is, as a rule, easily digested. It is not only a healthful, nutritious food for man, but it may be fed to calves, pigs and chickens with excellent results. Its composition is such that it may be substituted for part of the grain food, especially corn, of these animals with benefit and profit. Some interesting experiments on the use of skim milk for young chickens were recently made in Indiana. Two uniform lots (4 to 6 weeks old) of ten chickens each (5 Plymouth Rocks and 5 Houlands) were fed from July 11 to September 5, under identical conditions, except that one lot received in addition to the food given, all they would eat of a mixed food consisting of two parts crushed corn, one part bran, and one part ground oats. They were fed three times a day except Sundays, when an increased amount of food was given at the morning and evening meal. Both lots also were given all they would consume of cracked bone, cabbage, lettuce, and water, of which no record was kept. It was found that the lot receiving skim milk ate more of the mixed food and made a more rapid and satisfactory gain than the lot which did not receive skim milk. Milk-fed chickens made an average weekly gain of 446 ounces, those receiving no milk, 202 ounces. The most rapid increase in weight occurred at those periods when the largest amounts of skim milk were consumed. The skim milk is considered especially valuable as a food for young chickens during the hot dry weather and becomes of less importance as the chickens grow older and the weather becomes cooler. The vessels in which the skim milk is fed should be scaled frequently to keep them clean and wholesome. Farm block Journal. HOW TO GET EGGS. If it cost in actual money one dollar a year to keep a hen and the hen lays 200 eggs, there is a net profit of 100 per cent, even though the average price of eggs is only 12 cents a dozen. As no other farm stock will pay this average profit, this subject is one that should be studied. On this subject a poultry man gives the following general facts: The pullet that begins laying at the earliest age and continues to lay the longest is the ideal mother for a strain of layers. But there is something beyond this for a laying strain must be started ahead of the eggs from which its members are hatched. The hens must be in the best possible condition before the eggs are laid. "no eggs they lay will hatch out strong, vigorous chicks, and these should be forced to the limit. Vigorous constitution means a capacity to produce a large number of eggs. Good feed and care induce continued vigor. The artificial stimulus grows into a characteristic that becomes fixed and descends to the progeny generation after generation, and in the end a laying strain is established and the value of such a strain is undepotted. Anyone who breeds poultry may do something toward increasing the general average by attending to the details of care and feeding. Upon productiveness depends the profit that may be made from commercial poultry to a large extent. These are not idle theories; they are facts that have been established by years of experience and observation. The study of them is a material factor in making improvements in our flocks. To this we add that eggs being most profitable in winter, every effort should be made for winter eggs Baltimore Sun. Composed by Miss Anne Wright When in the early age of life Without a thought of tear I had no dreams of troubles and strife On shedding bainy tears. But in one early bloom of life While thinking on my way I pictured out the ways of life To avoid what people would say. I never thought of tougher times But was happy as could in My mind and thoughts were undisturbed And my heart was full of glee. And when my wife of manhood Wore swiftly passing away Then began to look forward To a brighter and better day And in my looking forward I saw a loving man Who wanted a tall young man To keep his loyal command Being a happy man Fall of gritish ways I searched into his bossom And found one sunny rays His honest conversation Before they came to part Stoop down with love and pity And won my tender heart As death steals in our home And makes our heart feel sad United in heart by Christ the Lord Him and I did wed Then my days of pleasure grew bright As bright as the golden queen And grew more brighter every day For a told of things unseen. But it matters not how you start in life You will have some cloudy days Though I've been blessed with grace and truth All along my way On this sad page past I am sorry but I must say That God sent death the wage of sin to take my husband away. He is living now amid the earth It is mournful and sad That his foot steps on earth are num- bered The dying words of grace he spoke They often consoled me, For I am crossing the swelling tide Of man's great Story Not. I have often grieved and wept Over toils and troubles and cares. But the angel of God from heaven came And bottled up my tears. I still remain a widow But I think of time gone by That I enjoyed with my dear husband. Who in the cold grave does he. I have often thought of him While in a slumber of sleep And when these thoughts oppress me I can only grieve and weep. While weeping I consider That if I will prepare When God shall call me home to rest I will meet my husband there. Many a cold and dreary night When darkness had covered the seas, I arose in trouble from my couch And fell upon my knees I looked up to God and prayed As honest as I could be It seemed that there was not on earth Any resting place for me. In the still watch of the night Before the dawn of day I stole off in my chamber To find a place to play. The sorrows on earth were sad to me My living hopes were dead. But it seemed that life was happy to all And I alone was sad In the darkest hour of night When the fowls were shrunnering sleep I could feel the waves of trouble also Out on the stormy sleep. In the resting happy hours of night When the panther had failed to leap I was lying down in my lonesome chame- bon But I really could not sleep. At the early dawn of daylight I stopped and faithful sand With a sorrowing heart of pity and woe Wishing that I was dead. The wish was one and that I knew That I had wrongfully prayed I folded my arms with a sorrowing heart For I was sorry for what I had said. But the souls of the Christian soldiers shall soon be happy and glad. Believe the Great Spirit Made Them From Failing 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 Spirit went about the earth making it beautiful. 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 flipped 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. FARM MISCELLANY The nitrogen of the soil is one of its most important constituents and a fascinating element that quickly disappears. It volatises rapidly and one of the chief agents of holding it in the soil is the humus. When the humus becomes exhausted the nitrogen escapes with increased rapidity. Experiments with continuous wheat growing on the same soil have shown that the animal and vegetable matter in the soil disappears very rapidly. This causes the liberation of the nitrogen. As long as the nitrogen is in combination with and forms a part of the humus, or decaying animal and vegetable matter of the soil, it is in a stable form; but as soon as the humus decays the nitrogen is liberated in various gases and soluble forms which are easily lost from the soil. It is the statement of scientists that there is no element that is so readily lost as nitrogen. It is not possible for the mineral forms of plant food, such as potash and phosphoric acid, to be converted into gaseous and soluble forms by the ordinary chemical changes that take place in the soil, as in the case of nitrogen. With them the principal loss is in their removal from the soil as plant food. But with humus it is different. There is a loss of course of the plant food by its being used by the crops, but much additional is leached downward by the soil water and some is sent off in the form of gas when the humus decays. We have an illustration of this in the decay of plies of manure and vegetable matter. We say that we can smell the ammonia rising from them; but that ammonia is the gas into which the nitrogen in the decaying mass is being changed. The loss of soil nitrogen can only be prevented by keeping up the humus in the soil. In most countries rotation of crops alone is able to do this. Some men brag that they have grown wheat year after year on the same soil for a generation without loss, but it will be found that such soil was in the beginning very rich in humus. By all means rotate, and include in the rotation some of the legumes. Winter-Grown Asparagus Asparagus can be grown in the cold in winter wherever the owner heats his house by means of a furnace. The natural conditions in such a collar are favorable to the forming of asparagus, as the temperature might usually hovers around 58 degrees and in the day time runs from 68 degrees to 80 degrees. We do not believe that the amateur will find much profit in this, but some of the professional gardeners do, and it may interest some of our readers to try the experiment and have a few means of tender asparagus in winter To get the results named, roots are dig up in the fall before the ground is too hard frozen to make digging them out possible. If the roots have been frozen, so much the better, they then respond more quickly to the forcing process. They are placed in boxes in the collar over the faece. Two or three inches of soil should be under the roots and five or more inches of earth above, as the shoots need to be protected from even the dim light that is found in a collar. Light is not needed to make the roots produce shoots, as they produce them from the substance laid up in the roots, but do not take anything from the soil. Nevertheless, much moisture is needed, as the shoots can not develop without the help of a good deal of water. A neglect in supplying moisture will soon render the roots unproductive. Roots should begin to produce shoots in about twenty-five days after being placed in the cellar. At some of the stations roots placed in the cellar about the first of December have produced four or five good cuttings before the middle of February. When the roots are done producing they have to be thrown away, as they will thenceforth be of no good for the developing of tops and new roots. Farmer's Review. Lime for Dairy and Mable In Denmark there is a box of lime in every dairy or creamery, where it is of use in rinsing out varnishes to keep them sweet and clean, and to wash down the creamery floors and to purify the air generally. We are using it to a small extent in this country, but it is not common enough. It is one of the best purifiers and cheapest. Its use can be applied to the cow's drinking trough in warm weather, to remove the scum or organic matter therefrom; it can be applied in the cow stable, where it is most invaluable. We know of nothing as effective as alaked lime with cow hole acid mixed in it, for giving the surroundings of the barn a wholesome atmosphere. This cheap and handy agent is readily made by slaking the lime, slicing a three-gallon pail about half full, adding about two ounces of citrus carbolic acid. If the lime is not all to be used at one time it can be put away in an air-tight vessel, but it is best to use it fresh. For the dairy and creamery use the slaked lime only—slaked just before using. It has the physical advantages, as well, in lighting up the barn, making it sweet, clean and whisky some when sprayed on the walls in the spring and fall—Farmers' Guide. PUBLISHED at Tropea, Shawnee county, Kas, vary Friday morning by THE PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO. 912 EAST SEVENTH STREET. H.I. Monroe, deputy County Clerk is a candidate for County Clerk subject to the Republican primaries, 1906. THE Republicans of Kansas and the entire West feel elated over the prospective appointment of Prof. W. T. Vernon for Register of the Treasury. He is worthy of the position, as well as competent. This is a just recognition of the colored Republicans of the West who can repay the party in votes. The recognition of the colored Republicans of the South who can give no support to the national ticket has been unjust to the Northern colored people. The President and Congress will not forget the pledge made at Chicago to regulate the representatives in Congress, which will reduce the representation of those states where the colored people have been disfranchised by unjust constitutional enactments of the Southern states. The liberties and rights of the people are superior to commercialism. AN APOLOGY. In my notes published Nov. 29th there appeared a rather strong criticism of the actions of certain football players of Lincoln Institute in the games with Kansas teams this year. In my zeal to stand for clean, mainly college athletics and to discourage the opposite tendency, I overstepped the limits of college ethics and propriety, and owe an apology to Lincoln Institute, which I now publicly and voluntarily make. Topcks, December—Since Senator Burton's second conviction by a jury of the federal court at St. Louis, much speculation upon the probability of his resignation by his own free will, or of his expulsion by the Senate, is revived. Some men say the second conviction is the last nail in his coffin, and that resignation, or expulsion, is inevitable. Others say that he is no worse off by the second conviction than he was before, and that it adds no reason for either resignation or expulsion. They affirm that he is made no more guilty by the second conviction than by the first, and that he will continue to hold his office, although not performing its duties, as before. Of course, the Senate is supreme and a law unto itself, and it has the constitutional prerogative to expel him or any other Senator at any time. But it would require two thirds of the votes to do this, and besides it would set a radical precedent, which the Senate is slow to do. Of course, if Senator Burton should at any time accept the verdict of the jury and abandon his right of appeal, his case thereby would be ended and the Senate would expel him. But Senator Burton's friends say he has no intention of doing this, which puts it up to the Senate, and the same friends say he is in no danger from that source. There are reasons of politics, outside of his personal choice, why Senator Burton is not likely to resign. He, himself, is down and out, but his former political associates still are active, and when the vacancy occurs they want a share in filling it. By resigning now he would deliver the office to a rising faction of the Republican party of the state which is not friendly to his old associates, and Governor Hoch would select one of that faction to fill the vacancy. The new Senator not only would fill the vacancy, but he would entrench himself for an election by the legislature. Another reason for Burton to hold on is the welfare of Senator Long, who also wants a hand in making the new senator. He especially wants no surprise to be sprung upon him If the responsibility should be put up to Governor Hoch, the new man might or might not be Senator Long's friend. He more likely would be anti-Long, for lately there is a movement among the old "Burton crowd" and the old "Long machine" to get together in a common cause against the new dynasty which Governor Hoch and W. R. Stubbs have established, and should it be put up to Governor Hoch to appoint a Senator he would appoint a man who would do the most good for the new crowd. To protect himself and set at rest the tears of his new friends, it is reasonable to believe that Senator Long, in addition to encouraging Senator Burton not to create a vacancy by resigning, would discourage any movement in the Senate itself to create one by expulsion. It might be argued in favor of expulsion that the new senator would support a radical railroad rate bill, but it takes two-thirds to expel, and besides there is the hesitancy of the Senate to establish new precedents. The lesson of the recent inquiries before the state board of railroad commission is that the railroad question in this country is not one of rates, but of rebates. Complainants came to Topeka from Wichita and tried to make a case of unfair rates upon charges filed by Mr. Resing, secretary of the Wichita Commercial club. Upon cross-examination, Resing's figures were shown to be so inaccurate as to be ridiculous. One after another his "figures" fell down, until he confessed that they were "faked" by guess and that he had not even examined the published schedules. Even the Wichita papers laughed at Resing. It is by such men that the country has been misled, and the result is an unfair fight on the railroads. At another inquiry before the state board the rate issue was lost sight of wholly in the more important and more tangible one of rebates. It was discovered that it was rebates, not rates, which were at the bottom of the whole trouble. 1 hat there will be railroad legis- Western University, QUINDARO, KANSAS The Leading and Best Institution of its Kind in the Great West. lation this winter nobody doubts, and that stable rates will be protected and made even is equally probable, but the old scheme of making rates arbitrarily by government has been fought out and was lost. When the President in his Raleigh speech turned against the Esch-Townsend bill, and pointed out another and a modified method, the people began to be hopeful of something practical, and reports from Washington are that all interests concerned are getting together. Among the senators who will insist upon a fair bill is Senator Long of Kansas. When he was in Kansas he said he would vote for a fair bill, but would not stand for anybody's bill, even the President's, until he should know its nature. Since his arrival in Washington he has repeated that declaration, and now word comes from him privately that he has no doubt a bill satisfactory to the public and the railroads alike will be framed. Word comes from ex Governor John W. Leedy that he is doing well in Alaska, where he has been living since he left Kansas. He is practicing law at Valdez, of which city he is mayor. He has a good copper prospect in the interior of the country, but owing to the absence of railroad transportation he is doing no development. A railroad company has been formed, however, and a railroad project. He is one of the active promoters of the enterprise, and lately he visited Seattle for the purpose of enlisting capital in aid of it. He was met at the wharf by the mayor and council and a band of music. An incident of the visit was a banquet at which Mr. Leedy made a speech. Valdez is on the seacoast, and will be the initial point of the new railroad. Victor Murdock has had a boom for United States Senator thrust upon him, and since so many are in and it is free for all, the people will welcome it. Victor is new in Congress, and he is young, but there are more original and hopeful ideas of public policy in that red head of his than in the combined craniums of the rest of the Kansas delegation. This is not saying that he is more fitted than his colleagues, but certainly he is different, and that is what Kansas likes. F. I. V. The Thanksgiving dinner at the church was a success financially as was also the concert headed by Miss Jefferson of Houston. Miss Laura Butler deserves special mention in the play"In Dunbar." Rev. Smith has added four members to his congregation. Wake up the people and let the good work go on. Mrs. A. Duval and neice, Allie Johnson, expects to spend the holidays in Pueblo, Colo. The ladies of the city has organized a club called the Autumn Leaf and arranging to receive their guest at a grand dress ball Christmas night in the ball room of the Afro-American club. Mr. and Mrs. Dube Henderson returned to their old station at the Sanitorium Romersville. PUBLICATION NOTICE. No. 23533. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. The said detendant 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, PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Ruth Coursey, Plaintiff. vs Claud Coursey, Defendant. 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 COURSEY, Plaintiff. By J. R. McNARY, Atty. for Plaintiff. "A Town of Splendid Opportunities" In an address before the people of Boley, Prof. J. C. Liftwich said, "Boley is the Negrces' 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 vigerous 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. Incorporated Under the Laws of Kansas, 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 term. Liberal terms to the right persons. The Knights and Ladies of Protection. Col. James Bech, Nat'l Pres. James M. Mason, Nat'l Vice Pres. P. C. Thomas, Nat'l Capt. J. G. Groves, Nat'l Treas CHINA CHINA CHINA of Protection A NATIONAL FRATERNAL INSURANCE SOCIETY Corporated Under the Laws of Kansas, for $350, $500 and $1000. and $200 for children aged from 6 to 20. Colored Fraternal Insurance in the United States. Should carry some Insurance. We want every town. Write at once! for terms. Ladies of Protection. P. C. Thomas, Nat'l Supt. J. G. Groves, Nat'l Treas. CHILDERS, Nat'l Sec., Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West Departments Theological, College, Normal, W.M. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office 404 Kansas Ave. BELL PHONE 1001 MAEN OFFICI HOURS 7 to 10 A. M. 12 M. to 4 P. M. Ind. Phone 909. 7 to 10 F. M. J. M. JAMISON, M.D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Examining Physician of the Knights and Ladies section. Special Attention to demeanes of women and private demeanes. Office and Residence. 827 MADISON STREET. O. A. TAYLOR, M. D. ICCIAN AND SUBGORON 896 Ranuncs Ave. Ind. Phone 774. Office Hours 7 to 9 a.m. 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Mr. Frank Eagleson is on the sick list. Music by Yale's orchestra Decem- per 25 at Metropolitan hall. Clem Wilson is erecting a new business building near the Santa Fe depot. The Ivy club entertained Friday evening complimentary to Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Briscoe. Mrs. Susie Tunley of Kansas City will spend the holidays in the city visiting relatives and friends. Messrs. Booker and Iron of Hutchinson came up Sunday to attend the funeral of Charles Bertha. Mr. Duncan Bertha of San Francisco, arrived Sunday to attend the funeral of his brother, Chas. Bertha. Bigger—grander than ever—Wilson's Summer Garden next season. Go to the big benefit Christmas night. Miss Ogeal Wilson left Sunday for Kansas City to spend a week visiting Mrs. Fairbanks, who is with the Sis Hopkins company. Miss Cyrene Smith, a member of THE PLAINDEALER force, left yesterday for Emporia, where she will visit friends until Monday. The Ladies' Sewing Circle of St. John A. M. E. church met Wednesday afternoon at the church and the ladies served an excellent lunch. Messrs. James Bailey and Will Henderson, two of our most prominent young men, spent several days in St. Louis last week, returning home yesterday. Miss Eva Payton organized the Thimble Art club Friday, Dec. 8, 1905. and the club will meet with Miss Anna Gay Thursday, Dec. 14, at 1020 Chase street. Miss Belle Butts has returned from an extended trip to the East. She reports a splendid time while visiting in New York, Marblehead and other prominent watering places. Clark and McWilliams, two of the leading attorneys of Lawrence, Kansas, were in the city this week. They have several important cases in the Supreme Court. The Ne Plus Ultra Art club met with Mrs. B. C. Duke Friday evening. A pleasant meeting was enjoyed and lunch was served, and the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Jackson today. It takes money to do business; so present yourself at Metropolitan hall Monday, December 25. Big Christmas party, the proceeds go to improve and beautify the Summer Garden. Grand Master A. M. Wilson of Kansas and jurisdiction A. F. and A. M. will make his annual visit Wednesday, December 20, to the three lodges of Topeka at their hall on Kansas avenue. Tongue cannot express nor lips utter the appreciation due the many friends who so kindly assisted us in our recent bereavement, the death of our nephew and brother. MRS. J., D. BRADSHAW. MISS BEULAH TOLBERT. Your Life Current. The power that gives you life and motion is the nerve force, or nerve fluid, located in the nerve cells of the brain, and sent out through the nerves to the various organs. If you are tired, nervous, irritable, cannot sleep; have headache, feel stuffy, dull and melancholy, or have neuralgia, rheumatism, backache, periodical pains, indigestion, dyspepsia, stomach trouble, or the kidneys and liver are inactive, your life-current is weak. Power-producing fuel is needed; something to increase nerve energy—strengthen the nerves. Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine is the fuel you need. It feeds the nerves, produces nerve force, and restores vitality. "When I began taking Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine and Anti-Brain Hills I was confined to my bed. I had severe nervous spells, the result of two years illness with malaria. I gradually grew so weak that I was unable to sit up. The spells would commence with cold chills, and I would become weak and almost helpless. My circulation was poor. I had doctored right along but grew weaker and weaker. The Nervine seemed to strengthen me right away and my circulation was better. I have taken in all seven bottles of the Nervine, and I am entirely well." ROSA H. WEAVEN, Stuart, IA. 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 Makes you feel like a new man-- a delicious hot soda at Lee's. Quarterly meeting at St. Mark's A. M. E. church Sunday 17. All pastors and friends are cordially invited to come. C.A. Woods, pastor. Revival services at St. Mark's A. M. E. church. Rev. Miss Etta Scott of Kansas City, is assisting Rev. C, A. Woods. They are meeting with good success. Lee's Drug Store! "The old reliable" is doing business at the old stand, 921 Kansas avenue. When you want your money's worth and a little extra thrown in go to Lee's. Major Davis of McFarland was a pleasant caller at this office Tuesday. He reports things as progressing nicely among the people of that section, and that they are abreast of the times. He returned home Wednesday. The Golden Rod club met with Miss Lizzie B. Cooper last Friday. Mrs. O. A. Taylor gave the girls an excellent paper upon "How We as Negro Women can advance" and "The Progress of Negro Women" was discussed by various members. After light refreshments the club adjourned to meet with Miss Carrie Floyd this afternoon. The Ladies' Sewing Circle of Brown's chapel A. M. E. church met last Friday at the residence of Mrs. Ida Bryant, 721 Locust street, and elected the following officers: Mrs. A. Hall, president; Mrs. J. Rucker, vice president; Mrs. J. Brown, sec'y. The circle is doing nicely. This afternoon it will be entertained at the parsonage from 12 to 6. Miss Mary Frances Johnson and Mr. Gail Albert Bass were united in the holy bonds of wedlock Tuesday evening, December 12, at nine o'clock at their neatly-furnished home, 510 E. Eighteenth street, in the presence of only immediate relatives and a few friends. Rev. N. T. Gamble officiated. The happy couple were the recipients of many valuable and useful presents. The bride wore a handsome gown of cream crepe de chine and all-over lace. The groom was attired in full evening dress. They will be glad to receive their friends at the above number. Happiness and prosperity is the wish of their friends. Miss Fanny Moten is at Ft. Riley this week with the Western Tuskegee Jubilee. T. J. Curry of Ottawa, Kas. is visiting his brother, Joe Curry, in the city, this week. Mrs. Cecil Watts returned home this week from a tour with the Concert Company. She was in the Santa Fe wreck last week. Rising Sun Fire Insurance Co., OF THE INDIAN TERRITORY. A SAFE BUSINESS backed by men who have proven their ability to succeed in business, and conducted on a sound business basis according to the regular business customs applicable to that particular business is about all that any THINKING MAN would wish The Rising Sun Fire Insurance Co. WE write Insurance against FIRE and LIGHTNING on Houses, Household Goods, Office Furniture, Libraries, Merchandise, Live Stock, Farm Implements, Grain, Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Saddles and Musical Instruments. R. H. WATERFORD, President. H. N. JOHNSON, Secretary. J. E. JOHNSON, Gen. Mgr. Mrs. H. C. Fuel passed rthrough Topeka this week enroute to her home in Lawrence. She has been the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Eugene O. Lett of Atchison, for the past ten days. FOR... SALE PROSPEROUS BUSINSS in the best town in Kansas. As I have more business than I can look after, I will sell my interest in the UNION GROCERY COMPANY Corner of Seventh and Union Streets. Ms. John Bliss, my partner, is a perfect gentleman, and eny person buying my interest which is half,would not regret the investment. Come see for yourself or address Foster Williams 1023 N. WALNUT STREET, COFFEYVILLE, KAS. Home Phone 1013 Main. Open Day and Night Royal Cafe Regular Meals 15 Cents. Regular Meals 15 Cents. B. ELDER, A Special Holiday Gift. Hy KELJ.J.MILLEN,Howard University, Washington D.C. An able answer and rebuke to the slurs of Thomas Dixon, Jr., upon the Negro race. Every Negro man, woman and child should read it; Mailed copy 16c. Send to ALBATROSS SUPPLY CO., QUINDARO, KANS CAPITAL, $100,000. ESS backed by men who have pre- and business basis according to the all that any THINKING MAN would w Rising Sun F EXACTLY FILLS THE e against FIRE and LIGHTNING e, Live Stock, Farm Implements RD, President. H. N. JOHN The Clyde Hotel PITTSBURG, KAS. Rooms, Board or Lunch Open Day and Night. Everything First-class. S. E. HOLTON, Manager 115 Wost Third Street. FRED WHITE, Pres. J. N. WHITE, Mgr. Kansas Credit Co., Money to Loan by men who have proven their ability to its basis according to the regular business c THINKING MAN would wish* Bug Sun Fire Insu EXACTLY FILLS THE PRESCRIPTION FIRE and LIGHTNING on Houses, Hous ock, Farm Implements, Grain, Buggies, ent. H. N. JOHNSON, Secretary. Clyde PITTSBURG, KAS. Rooms, Board or Lunch Open Day and Night. Everything First-class. OLTON, Manager West Third Street. E, Pres J. S. WHITF, Mgr L.M. First Both Phon EXACTLY FILLS THE PRESCRIPTION. On Household Goods, Live Stock and Jewelry. 1010 N. 4th St. KANSAS CITY, KAS NOTICE OF PUBLICATION. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Cecile Terry, Plaintiff, vs Myron H. Terry, Defendant. OF PUBLICATION. District Court of Shawnee Kansas. y, Plaintiff, Terry, Defendant. The above named defendant will take notice that he has been sued by the plaintiff, Cecile 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. CACILLE TERRY, Plaintiff. By J R. McNARY, Attorney for Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE. No. 23.492. 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. LUCAS, Sheriff of Shawnee County. By J. A. OSIRAND, Deputy. W. S. McCLINTOCK, Attorney First published Nov. 10, 1905. Both Phones 192 511 Quincy Street --- FOR SALE A fine corn and cotton farm, 7 1/2 miles from Guthrie, 90 acres in cultivation, balance good timber land. A 2-room he .e and a stable. The timber on this iarm 'will pay for it. 1 1/2 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 --- ```markdown ``` NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE Nelson's Straightline is not only the best Dressing for the Hair, but the most powerful HAIR GROW KILK known to mankind it is Nature's own remedy, containing no strong, dangerous chemicals that can in any way injure the hair. It can be used as long as desired, or stopped at an) time without bad effects. Straightline does not affect the color of the hair. backed by years of successful use and hundreds of testimonials. Nelson's height is delightfully perfumed; put up in handsome 4-ounce square tin boxes (like one shown in cut), and sold everywhere by druggists and agents at 15 cents a box. If you cannot get it in your town, send us 30 cents in stamps and we will mail you a full box, securely wrapped, postage paid. Address For Sale by J. P. KOWLEY, Sixth and Kansas Avenue. First class in every particular. Prompt service. A fine corn and cotton farm, 71/2 miles from Guthrie, 90 acres in cultivation, balance good timber land. A 2-room he e and a stable. The timber on this farm 'will pay for it. 11/2 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 NEWS OF THE WEEK. Hot soda at Lee's 25 cents single, 50c per couple at the Christmas party. Nrs. Emma Price of Kansas City, Mo. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Thomas. The various churches and Sunday schools are preparing for Christmas entertainments. The big Xmas party at Metropolitan hall Monday, Dec. 25. After the theatre or after the dance the "proper dope" is a hot soda at Lee's. Mrs. Carrie Langston Hughes and little son, Langston, lost one day this week for Indiana. Capt. Justus of Hill City, who is a member of the United States grand jury, was a caller at our office one day last week. Miss Carrie Johnson of Kansas City arrived one day this week to be present at the marriage of her sister, Miss Mary, which occurred Tuesday night. A member of the Ninth Cavalry writes a friend in this city that about eighteen members of the troop will be in attendance on the benefit party to be given for the Summer Garden. Jake Lacey has opened a place at 2011 Kansas avenue, where he will handle hay, feed and coal. Jake is a hustler—prompt in his service to patrons, and the public should give him a liberal share of their patronage. Remember this is for your benefit to attend the Christmas party. Are you going to buy any Christmas presents? If so, why not buy them from Lee, the druggist? You will save yourself from 15 to 25 per cent in cold, hard cash. Examine the display of beautiful Christmas goods shown in Lee's windows. Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Luhu O. Smith and Mr. William Summers, at 593 Tompkins street, Galesburg, Ills. Miss Smith is one of the leading church and lodge workers of Kansas City, and has many friends who wish her a happy voyage through life. NOTICE. To the people of Arkansas: Owing to a delay in the making of cuts our special edition for that state has been unavoidably delayed, but will appear in a few days. NICK CHILES, Business Manager. Grant Peoples, a man of about 33 years, died in the city yesterday. It is reported that he has a father living in Plantersville, Ala. He had no funds with which to bury himself, hence Stonestreet and Hamilton are holding his remains a few days, until his father can be heard from. Beautiful toilet and manicure sets in gold, silver, ebony, staghorn and mother of pearl. Boxes of fine cigare, cut glass ware, fine pipes in meerschaum, briar, etc. perfume sets, fancy clocks, atomizers, French bevel plate mirrors; up-to-the-minute stationery and many other things too numerous to mention, at prices that compel attention at Lee's drug store. Oysters will be served at the big Xmas party at Metroplitan hall. GRAND NEW YEAR ENTERTAINMENT A committee of Sir Knights appointed by Cyrene Commandery is responsible to the good people of Topeka and vicinity for their complete entertainment on New Year's night at Masonic hall, 404-406 Kansas avenue. General invitation to all the Masonic bodies and their families is hereby made, and special invitation extended to the balance of the pleasure loving people. The celebrated Yale orchestra will furnish the music. Cyrene drill corps will give a short exhibition drill and retire; and at nine o'clock the grand march will start. Admission to the hall, 25 cents. Watch for further announcement. Scotch Rite Re-Union. The first and most successful two days reunion of Scottish Rate Masonry of colored men was held, commencing the 1st at 404 Kansas avenue, Masonic Temple. Degress were confered from the 4th to 32d on a large class. The reunion was successful from several points of view. The personal of the class of the highest degree of integrity and character, the attendance from abroad, and the impressive and effective manner in which the work was done in fact it was almost perfect, and the men who took respective parts have been congratulated upon every hand. Never before in the history of this state among colored men, has the work been of such perfect nature as during these two days meeting. Referring to the prominent persons present: A D Illine, J. E. Clark and others of Salina; C. C. Offing, St James, and G. D Offine of Pasley, and N. A. Clay Horton Scottish Rate Masonry differs from any other organization in existence, from the fact that there is not another body of man bound together with stronger fraternal ties than this body. Its teachings are religious, historic, and philosophic, and the work that is now being done and hope to do by Kaw Valley Consistory for the good of colored men in general and masons in particular would be too elaborate to attempt emancipation at this time. Suffice it to say, that its aim is to imitate the lessons of lager and more useful manhood. The work was conducted by Allen P. Smith, 33 deg, ably assisted by G. W. Guy, 33 deg, Saml Hydre, 33deg, John Armstrong, H. L. Monroe, Dr O A Taylor, Oscar O. Ocor, G. W. Hatta, J. B. Fleming, Louis Knott, Ed. Jones, W T McKnight, W B. Bryant and many others. The crunan closed with an old fashioned love feast and banquet catered by Sr A. I. Allen. Don't fail to see the Ninth Cavalry boys at the big Xmas party. Lincoln Institute Notes The following resolutions adopted by the unanimous vote of the faculty and student body of Lanceol Institute form a very fitting testimonial with which to close the most successful foot ball season in the history of the institution. Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 5, 1905—Resolutions of appreciation and thanks to President Allen and Coach and Manager Professor West, and to the "Incredible Tigers" of Lincoln Institute: Whereas, the Lincoln Institute foot ball team of 1905 has fairly and squarely defeated every team against which it has played this season, and Whereas, these defeated teams are of excellent reputation and high standing, some of them having been trained by the best foot ball coaches in the country, without regard to "race, color, or previous condition," and Whereas, the Lincoln Institute team has added much lasture to our previously earned reputation as a potent force in the menu of college athletics, and thereby has brought our institution into a visible notice of many levels of physical culture and many sports, who were other indifferent with reference to our claims on ignorant of our capabilities; let it be resolved, therefore that we hereby express our thanks and gratitude to President Allen for the encouragement aid and support, ment and immuno, which he has given to our boys, for without them we could have had no team. That we express our thanks and appreciation to our efficient coach and manager, Professor West, whose knowledge, ability and unfiring energy prepared our team for their brilliant achievements. That we express our thanks and apreciation to the members of the team for their splendid work on the guidron. For we talize that the game is "up to them" after all, since we know that no coach, however true and brave, can win a contest unless his men are loyal, strong and courageous, and have good "pushing" qualities. Be at further Resolved. That we pledge ourselves to and in paying the bills incurred by the brilliant campaign of our team abroad, and to assist the president in every possible way in his efforts to place Lincoln Institute on higher ground in every sphere. Pittsburg, Kan. Mr. J. S. Sanders of Won City was in the city Friday on business. Mr R Fields of Weth City was in the city last week and had a tooth extracted which gave him great relief. Mr Henry King went to Grand last week. He is looking for a house this week. Rev Bittt purchased a $45 double baby cab for his two little girls. The A M E church was repaired last week. D R Jones is preparing for a merry Xmas at the Elks. Miss R Bolding had quite an expen one with a colored man and a white woman Thursday night. She said they could not stay in her house. Some more of the negroes of Patsburg should be that way. Miss Dollie Walks was very angry at the dance last week. James Oliver is going to leave the young folks Xmas and join the married men. Jeff Issue is very ill. He has been orrhage of the lungs G. E. Holton asks the public if they know anything of his brothers D. E. Holton or Fred Holton. If so please let it be known through the Plaindealer or direct to him at Pittsburgh, Kan, care of Clyde hotel. Prof. E. W. Clemmens returned from Kansas City, Mo., Saturday. He reports a fine time. Rev. Old Porter of Gatard, Kan, was in our city Saturday curreto to Chacokee. Mr. Walter Leonard is very ill. He is formerly of Butler, Mo. Mr. J. L. Johnson, who drives for Mr. Biles, will go to Shreveport. La Christmas. Mr. J. Jackson and Miss Susie De Bough were hunted in matrimony Mon day night. The lady is 17 and the man is 52 and a good provider. The Pittsburg subscribers of the Plaindealer would like for the editor to see that the news of Pittsburg gets in every week that is sent from Pittsburg every Tuesday, and we can't see why it is not published. That one reason is why we take the paper to see that Pittsburg is represented. Please look after this and oblige. S. E. HOLTON, Pittsburg Correspondent Boynton, I. T. There was an organization of the B. S. of Allan A. M. E. church last Sunday. The following were elected for the ensuing year: B. C. Makins, Superintendent. G. W. English, Assistant Superintendent Miss Maggie McIntiell, Secretary R. E. L. Mitchell, Treasurer, Glen F. Robinson, R. E. L. Mitchell, Mrs Mary Makius and Miss Carrie E. Burnett, Teachers. Pastor Bicks, who presided, announced that the officers would be installed next Sunday and each one would be expected to make a short talk. H. L. Storm of Muskogee, who was here in the interest of the Suffrage League, organized a club. The following are the officers: L. Z. Howard, president; L. M. Motton, vice president; Juno H. Parker, corresponding secretary; G. W. English, treasurer. L. Z. Howard and Gao. McQuen were in Muskegon in business the other day. The L. M. S. of Allen chapel are making their gatherings partake more and more of the social nature. At the meeting held at Mrs. Susie Meriwethers, there was a great spread. There was a social fate given at the beautiful residence of Mrs. Laurena Ezell last Monday night for the benefit of the church. Where is Liam Hogues' Rumor has it that he turned a double somersault in a land deal, pocketed the cash in both instances, and left between sums, not waiting for a train, but left in a buggy. Lam had several razors belonging to customers which he forgot to return. Lam may return but meanwhile his brother shop have been cleaned out. Poor Lam had a chuckered carrot in this town, and has lot under a cloud, well armed with razors. How Hawkins, an marshal of Roynton, was in town last week. The Roynton now lives in Ft. Smith though he is a Creek and has land in this nation. After several months of absence the band boys have gotten together and are now making sweet music. The agent will call on the Roynton subscribers next week. He prepared with the cash. Mrs. H. C. Reed has been on the sock but to a week or two, but is late. CLEANING DAIRY UTENSILS. In regard to scrubbing dairy utensils, everybody is supposed to know how to scrub, but people do not always do the best they know how. Washing may be divided into three parts: first, washing all the dirt off with lukewarm water and washing powder, second, rinsing or cleansing in boiling water, and third, proper drying. This is seldom properly done on the average farm, partly from lack of knowledge of the growth of bacteria, and partly because a farmer is generally in a hurry. By careful washing things will generally come out greasy, even after being rinsed in hot water. A good washing powder which cuts grease should be used, and this may be obtained at almost any grocery store at a very reasonable price. There is no need of drying with a cloth, for after being rinsed in boiling water the dairy utensils will readily dry in a few minutes. Imagine the conditions of wash water after all the parts of a separator bowl and covers have been washed in it, together with the other dairy utensils. It is similar to that of dish water in which the dishes from a large family dinner table have been washed. If the utensils coming from this water are merely rubbed with a cloth and put together again without scalding, it is impossible to obtain good milk or cream after running it through such a separator. They will sour in a few hours and will generally have a bad flavor. Where steam can be bad it is the best known means of sterilizing dairy utensils. Boiling water is its best substitute. Tinware gets rusty when left standing wet, and wooden ware sours and develops a bad color and bad smell when not given a chance to dry quickly, but if dipped in boiling water or steamed they dry in a few minutes. When the housewife washes cloth she first soaks them, then washes them through two different batches of clean boiling water, and tines them. They are next wring out and hung on the line to dry in the sunshine. If the same care is taken with dairy utensils and handling of milk there is no reason why dairy products should not be as clean and inviting to the taste as newly-washed white linen clothes are in appearance. We should by all manner of means he as cleanly with what goes into our hushes as we are with what we put on the outside.—Ch. W. Melch, in Kansas Agricultural Review. --- FRISCO Holiday Rates Third for Round Trip S ON SALE 25, 30 and 31, and January 1, Missio West of Mississippi River or lines in Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas. 1906. December 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 and 31, and January 1, between all points on Frisco West of Mississippi River and to points on other lines in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Texas. Return limit January 4, 1906. To the Southeast Mississippi, Louisiana, Ala. North and South Carolina on sale December 21, 22 and 23. Tourist Tidkets. at slightly higher rates, good 006, are on sale daily. Daily Kansas City to Jackson- To points in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina and Virginia. Tickets on sale December 21, 22 and 23. Return limit 30 days. Through Sleeper Daily Kansas City to Jacksonville, Florida. A. HILTON, Gen'l Passenger Ag't, St. Louis, Mo., J. C. LOVRIEN, Asn't Gen'l Passenger Ag't Kennew City, Mo. calf has learned to eat hay it is not easily overfed on sweet skim milk, prevailed the feeding is done regularly. If the calf has been well cared for until it is about eight weeks old it will be ready to start chewing its cud or summate and it is no baby any more The ideal time to start the calves is in the fall, when we can with good shalter and plenty of feed push them along until they are five or six months old, when they are ready to go to pasture and develop as young animals can only on a free range. After going to pasture they need no more milk, but unless the pasture is very good and plantable should have a little grain. Do not forget to give them a little salt regularly. Milk substitutes are about equal to hay tea and calves can be raised on them, but they are a very poor substitute in my experience. The growth is slow and often there is considerable bowel trouble. If milk can be bead do not bother with these so called substitutes. If you feed limited meal at all feed it sparingly the first eight weeks, later the amount may be increased but my experience tells me with skin milk corn is preferable to loose meal for healthy growth and cheapness. Patent calf feeders with tubing rubber nipples, etc. are hard to keep clean and cost considerable and the nipples soon go to press. They are of little or no advantage. Raising calves is a very easy and simple thing, in fact they will take them calves if you only give them a fair chance. Near these maxims in your memory so you will never fail to practice them. Have a robust call to start, keep it in a clean, dry, comfortable place. Feed and water very regularly. Weigh the milk and test with thermometer (20 deg.) Be sure all food is above suspicion. Keep the feeding vessels perfectly clean KEEP SHEEP ON SMALL FARMS Imports of wool from British markets have so far this year exceeded last year's imports by 48,000 bales. This, together with the high prices growers are receiving for the dip in the wool, is strong argument in favor of more sheep on western farms. Sheep currently can not complain this year, for besides having good prices for wool and lambs there has been an unprecedented demand for wethers and old breeding stock. It is also being rapidly shown that large flocks are not necessary for profitable sheep raising, but that a few added to the other have stock of the farm will bring in a steady and handsome income. Raise all the feed you can on the farm and buy only those feeds necessary to price out. Dear Sirs, Allow me space in your paper to let it be known that on the night of Dec 4, along about eight or half past a mob of white hoodlums at tacked one Geo, McCain, colored, on the street and would have mobbed him had it not been for the assistance of the proprietors and a traveling man named Edwards. McCain has been working at a barber shop here and was making some money and it seems that the hoodlums were mad about it. He was told that he must leave town. McCain being of a disposition not to run payed no heed to this and upon that night was attacked. Also one other, Mr John Scot was also attacked. A. C. COLEMAN. The Raven in Folklore. R Roswell 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 salubs and martyrs who gained rather than lost in sanctity from the companionship. --- A. HILTON, Gen't Passenger Ag't, St. Louis, Mo., RAISING CALVES. I have a number of questions on this important subject, says L. W. Lighty of Adams county, Pennsylvania, in National Stockman and Breeder First, I like to start right and have no use for a poor, weak calf to stait with. It is desirable that the dam be well cared for and well fed and have a six or eight weeks' rest prior to calving, and the chances are favorable that the calf will be robust. A calf that has six or still better eight well developed teeth at birth is generally ready to eat and grow if the feeder understands his part. Do not let the calf drink at the cow. This is not theory, guess or fancy, but I know it is the best practice for the practical diirryman. If you let the calf drink at the cow it very greatly increases the difficulty of teaching it to drink out of a pail because both instinct and experience taught it that the head must be thrown up to get nourishment; but that is not the worst; the trouble with the cow is often more serious, she gets nervous and excited, holds up her milk. The result is caked quarters, when the calf is finally taken away she laments, becomes painful and sometimes starts kicking and becomes real ugly. I have cows six years old that never suckled a calf at all and I am sure I am the gainer in having less work and having the cow and calf do better from the start. Starting the Youngster. The calf is removed from the sight of the cow as soon as dropped to a dry, comfortable place and rubbed dry, then allowed to rest eight or ten hours, after which it gets its first feed. A robust calf will have developed a good appetite by this time and is ready to hunt for nourishment. In careful and patient with the first lesson in feeding and much future trouble will be saved. Take a little milk in the hollow of your hand and put the first two fingers in its mouth. When it begins to suck it gets a taste of the milk and its head will readily follow the fingers into the palm, and as soon as the mouth touches the milk it will begin to drink. A few careful lessons of this kind and you can withdraw your fingers gradually and it will drink out of the palm without further cradle. About three lessons usually surface, though we occasionally most more obtuse cases and nothing but patience will conquer. The calf is of course fed with milk just drawn from the dum. This whole milk should be continued about one week, when a little skim milk may be added, say about one fifth. At two weeks one third skim milk may be used and by the time the calf is four or five weeks old it may go on skim milk entirely. All changes in food should be made gradually. Sudden changes are often daunting. As early as possible it should be taught to eat a little gram. Ground wheat is good, so is ground oats if the cow's hull is sitted out, but corn is really the best. Fresh, sweet skim milk and a little corn produce a healthy and rapid growth. Both these feeds are easily digested and surely will there be trouble if fed regularly and in moderation. Let the hay not be forgotten, as that will hasten the development of the digestive organs. If the little thing can see its larger and older companions munching hay it will begin quite young to mibble of a wisp of sweet fresh hay is placed in reach every day. Cautions. Great care must be taken to have the feeding vessels clean and have the milk sweet and at the right temperature. Do not forget the scale tells the quantity and the thermometer the temperature. Glucose-work is often expensive work. Once the digestive apparatus is damaged medication does mighty little good. If sour milk must be fed allow it to clabber before feeding, but no clabbered milk should be fed to a calf before it is four weeks old if we expect it to thrive well. Creamy skim milk should be pasteurized before feeding, otherwise it is unsafe. Be sure the calf gets all the water it wants to drink daily after it has its portion of milk. This is very often neglected, but the calf will not grow and thrive without it as it will when this want is supplied. Good milk twice per day, four pounds at a feed on eight pounds per day, gradually increasing so as to give it 12 to 14 pounds by the time it is four weeks old. After the ```markdown ``` The Fall Calf. In a Nutshell. NOTICE. The Inter-State Literary association of Kansas and the West will convene in annual session at Kansas City, Mo. Dec. 26, 27, 28. Each literary society is entitled to representation by three delegates (one of whom may have a place on the program) and three alternates. New societies and those not having been enrolled at the last session of the association, will be required to pay a fee of $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 corresponding secretary on or before the first day of December, sending therewith the required tee. JAS. H. GUV, President. 429 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kans. MISS A. F. MOORE, Cor. Sec'y, 1214 Vine Street, Kansas City, Mo. I. M. HORTON, Ch'm'n Ex. Com. 1608 E. 13th Kansas City, Mo. KALLITHRIX PARLOR. HAIR GOODS, HAIR OR NAMENTS, NEW POMPA- DOURS, SWITCHES, WIGS, TAPES, FRIZZES AND BANGS MRS. M. L. FIELD, 819 KANSAS AVE. Mme. De Vaul Vincent's School of high class tailoring Tuition reasonable. Write for information. 1234 Walnut St. KANSAS CITY, MO Rev.J.H.Richardson House Mover and Builder All work guaranteed. Prompt attention given to all out of town work. Res. Itihan Ave., South Fort Pickering. Memphis Phone 987 M M 1116 7799 Lampkin Hotel. 210 LAMIKIN ST. Pueblo Colo. Near the Union Depot— Room neatly furnished— Enqnment depot B. W. Shelton, Proprietor. A I own several say many of plummed trips and beautiful landscapes. I am proud about those things. Write to me. "KATY" "SL. Louis hands off until a friendly Indian, as Curtis or Campbell, or possibly Bristow, gets within sight, when the senator will give him the necessary votes to elect. This at least is the logic more than a year ahead of the caucus, did the aforesaid wise men believe it will be so until the end. It is said that Senator Long would not be willing to render Stubbs any assistance, whatever and naturally Hoch would be under the same ban. He would help Calderhead, but the politicians look Calcerhead to be shut out by Bristow. These two aspirants live in same district, and neither could expect any help at the start outside of that part of the state. So Bristow will be the candidate of the old "machine crowd" of the Fifth district, and nobody else in that section of the state need apply. There are "machine men" elsewhere in the state, but these owe obligations to local candidates. Especially are they friends of Senator Long' and what are his interests are their interests. The strongest factors of the contest outside of the active candidates will be Mr. Low and Mr. Mulvane. The friends of the latter claim with Curtis out of the way early, he could carry off the prize hands down. He is young, well informed, and eminently capable. For more than ten years he has been in the fore front of Kansas politics, and by his affable manners and breadth of beam has made a following which would be glad to make him senator. However, Mr. Mulvane is tied up to Curtis good and strong, and Mr. Curtis has no intention of getting out on the way early or late. So Mr. Mulvane will stand for Curtis and after Curtis, for Campbell. What Mr. Low will do is his own secret. He is presumed to be for Curtis, and there is gossip that if pressed to it he would accept the senatorship for himself. The issue before the people will be the railroads, but the Democrats will so far outherod the Republicans that the latter will reef their sails and settle back to a conservative platform, as they did in 1804 when the silver question was the whole thing in the party. Such at least is the outlook now. 000 President Roosevelt's recommendations of railroad rate legislation are not what the railroad bailers hoped it would be, and since it is so conservative and even tempered there is strong grond for hope that the leaders of Congress will be able to get together on a wholesome and fair bill. The President's official utterance on this subject confirms the people's early confidence in his resolution, so far as he has the power, to frame a bill which will be alike fair to the railroads and just to the public. The radical and impractical element, which has proceeded on the, assumption that the railroads are the common enemy, will have to take a back seat, and give place in the deliberation to conservative and right thinking men. The one question in all the agitation for railroad legislation is that of remedy, not of rates. Nobody is complaining of unfair rates, but of rebates, and the thing to do is to stop that evil. Rebates could be practiced under rates made by government as under rates made by the owners of the railroads, and the Kach-Townsend bill, or any other bill, which proposes government made rates, could not stop it. It is the desire of the railroads, so the subject is a hopeful sign. If the Congress will go to work fairly and with a desire to do the right thing the rate problem soon will be solved. It will be a bill upon which all may stand, all except the railroad bailers, and Senator Long of Kansas will be in at the making. 0 0 0 The old high bridge which spans the Missouri River at Fort Leavenworth is to be taken down and sold for old iron. This bridge was built more than thirty years ago at a cost of $1,090,000. The money came from Holland, and was realized from the sale of bridge bonds to confiding Dutchmen. The bridge constructed did not cost $1,600,000, but that is what the Dutch put up and it all went. The bridge properly should have been put in front of Leavenworth City, but the speculators who were behind the enterprise located it at the fort, expecting by right of way concessions to steal the 1,500 or more acres of land which comprised the military reservation, but the scheme did not work. For many years the bridge was used by the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway, until the present bridge was built in front of the city. ST JOSEPH, MO The following items were too late for last week The following program was rendered at the A.M. E church last Sunday night in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of William Lloyd Garrison. The church was crowded, all out to do honor to a man who dared to do at a time when it tried men's souls. It is indeed an evidence of the onward progress of race when they do not forget but cherish and hold in sacred memory those who have helped fight its battles. "Out of the shadows of night The race is moving into light. It is daybreak everywhere." The mock legislature at the lyceum last Tuesday night was well attended and proved to be very interesting. At the annual election the efficient and worthy president, Mr. W. A Hill, was re-elected. He has done splendid work and has made the lyceum what it is today—a meeting place for the intellectual giants of the city. Mr. W. A. Hill, Miss Elizabeth Bell and Hon. J. H. Kelly were chosen delegates to represent the lyceum at the Inter State during the holidays. The Men's club of the Baptist church is growing in interest and numbers It meets every Monday night. Don't forget the Studio Tea Party under the auspices of of the art class at the A.M.E.parsonage, Thursday Dec.14. Bartlett High school rendered a splendid musical and literary program at the A.M.E. church Thursday night for the benefit of the piano fund. The Daughters of Allen are arranging to give one of the finest musical and literary recitals of the season. It is the strongest young ladies' organizations in the city. Mrs. L. Green is the president of this popular organization. Rev. Caldwell conducted the funeral of Mrs. Spence Saturday after noon. Mr. Ramsey, the colored undertaker, had charge of the funeral. A coffee was given by the chapter at Mrs. A. Quarles on Thursday, from 4 to 11 p.m. Quarterly meetings were held at both the C.M.E. and M.E. churches Sunday. Dr.J. Will Jackson and Rev. Kirkendall were here and conducted services at their respective churches. Mrs. Louisa Beck, who has been sick for some time, is recovering, and will soon be able to be out among her friends. The churches were well attended Sunday, despite the cold weather. The churches here are manned by some of the strongest ministers of the state and the people seem to appreciate every effort they put forth. The Cassius Brown fund is growing. We hope every one will contribute something to this worthy cause. Dr. J. R. A. Crossland has moved to his new office, corner Ninth and Frederick avenue, where he will be glad to see his many friends. So many requests have come in, and so much favorable comment has been expressed over its successful rendition, that 'The Prodigal Son' will be repeated at First Baptist church, Kansas City, Kans. Friday evening, December 18th. President Vernou returned Sunday from a very successful trip to Muskogee, I. T., where he addressed the colored citizens. He is much impressed with the "Negroes' Paradise" with its Negro bankers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, preachers and wealthy landowners, a land of fertile soil and abundant harvests. Many students will enter this institution next year from that locality. Examinations have been in vogue all this week. Opera chairs of elegant style and design are being placed in the new Trades Assembl hall this week by the contractors. Our new auditorium will accommodate nearly 500 persons. The drama, "Thirty Years of Freedom" will be presented during the holidays by the Sunday School students under Rev. L. R. Vaughn. L.O3 ANGELES, CAI. To the Editor It is a pleasure to me to write a few lines for your dear paper that is doing so much to lift up, encourage and press forward all of the interests of the race. I am only too sorry that so very few of us have our eyes open to the fact that we must get our emancipation through the Negro press. The pulpit all over is being filled with able exponents of the gospel of our Lord and Master and we are pleased to note the wonderful improvement that is being made in the character and quality of the worship in the churches; and while this speaks volumes for the race in the way of advancement along spiritual and religious lines. It is indispensable to our success that we shall as a race give more heed to our newspapers. We have hundreds of efforts being made by splendid men who are fully competent both in intellect and means to publish just the papers we need; and dear readers, you have not even the inkling of a thought as to how many hundred of thousands of dollars these philanthropic Negro newspaper men have tied up in type and other press fixtures, which investment is bringing them little or no returns, simply because the race will not subscribe for and take these papers. When the emancipation proclamation was issued by Mr. Lincoln almost one half century ago, it was circumscribed and handicapped by the American press to such a wonderful extent that the race has never enjoyed the benefits of said proclamation in spirit and substance and only partially so in the letter of the law. The associated press through which and by which all the large Metropolitan newspaper are operaced, has never been in his effort to give to himself his secondary freedom. If the race could have had the aid of the public press these four and a half decades of its struggle, the sentiment in the country would have been far more favorable. The Negro will never be fully placed before the American public upon his merits until this biased sentiment or prejudice in the hearts of the people is changed and this will not be changid until the Negro editor does it with his newsy newspaper; and to accomplish this work the paper must be so ably edited that it will read upon its merits by all American citizens not because it is a Negro newspaper but because it is a worthy journal. We have always had a class of "400", upper tens and blue veins among us who when asked to subscribe for a paper edited by a Negro will say there is nothing in the paper and that when he spends his money, he must have value received. This class of Negroes as a rule, never see a thing good in the race leaders either in the pulpit or the press. He never has time to spend an hour at church or write an article to help the editor make his paper. Now, Mr. Editor, in conclusion I wish to say, I truly hope that the PLAINDEALER will continue to improve in its quality and to widen in its circulation until it is greater than the best of all our Negro journals of America. I remain yours for the race.* Are You Going to Kansas City? If so, stop with Mrs. Fortune Weaver. She has such nice cozy rooms—so quiet and home-like. 1000 McGee St. 410 E. 10th St. and others. Furnished and Unfurnished Rooms. Bell 'Phone 3857 Main. Trial. PHONE 1282. JOPLIN, MO R. S. STRE 1204 E. E. W. H. LUCAS, Photographer. The price at my Studio is cheap, but the work is of the highest class. Why pay such an enormous price when the same careful work can be secured for ONE-HALF? Stop and see me. 123 Kansas Ave. TOPEKA. J. W. RYAN, Times Bldg, Leavenworth, Kansas, AGENT FOR Heim's Famous Beer. Sample Room in Connection. Orders Shipped to All Parts of the Country. 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AND ALL STRAINGERS are invited to visit the furnished Rooms. Baths LICENSED BARBERS E BEST! ONLY or's ction our s Pure wheat our ed the above popular will certainly get the best Grain Co.. 10 The American Collection Agency 413 Kansas Ave TOPEKA, KAS 27 ANTHONY P WILSON, Attorney We make collections in all parts of of the United States. No fees charged until collection is made. Fraternal Headquarters ```markdown ``` Gentlemen's Wines and Liquors. ED. BRADFORD, 301 Independence Ave., KANSAS CITY. : MISSOURI. Headquarters! CHAS. PHELPS' Barber Shop is where you meet them. The leading barber shop in the city....... L. J. Maddux, Staple and Fancy... Groceries Meats and all kinds of Produce. Home'Phone 784 West. R.J.Smith R.Lowry. When in Leavenworth call on these gentlemen at Heaquarters Open day and nigh.. Refreshments of all kinds. 416 Cherokee Street. PUBLICATION NOTICE. No. 23,556. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Ilara C. Whitla, plaintiff, vs William A. Whitla, defendant, State of Kansas) William A. Whitla, greeting: You are hereby notified that Claira C. Whitla has filed in the above entitled case and court her action against you wherein she prays for a divorce and that certain property in said petition described, be decreed to be the property of said Claira C. Whitla, and that unless you answer the petition of the plaintiff on or before the 7th day of January, 1906, the said petition will be taken as true, and judgment rendered accord ingly. Hereof you will take due notice. 1.8 CURTIS. [SEAL] Clerk of said Court W. S. McClintock. Attorney for Plaintiff. Board $3 For Week. Regular Meals 15s HOUSES to RENT. Neatly Furnished and Unfurnished Mrooms. Also Rooms for Light Housekeeping. 1107 N. 6TH St. S. M. POWELL, PROP., HOTEL WILKARD, 2009 St. Louis Avenue, North of Viaduct and Union St. KANNAS CITY, MISSOURI W. M. AILSTOCK, Prop. Rates: $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 per Day. oon