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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. He Sees no Good in Educating His Black Sons and Daughters. In a message to the Mississippi legislature Gov. Vardaman said. "As a race the Negro is deteriorating morally every day. Time has demonstrated that he is more criminal as a free man than as a slave, that he is increasing in criminality with fearful rapidity, being one third more criminal in 1880 than he was in 1880. In the south, Mississippi particularly, I know he is growing worse every year. You can scarcely pick up a newspaper whose pages are not blackened with an account of an unmentionable crime committed by a Negro brute and this crime, I want to impress upon you, is but the manifestation of the Negro's aspiration for social equality, encouraged largely by the character of free education in vogue which the state is levying tribute upon the white people to maintain. It is your function to put a stop to the worse than wasting of a half million dollars annually—money taken from the toiling white men and woman of Mississippi—and devoted to the main purpose of trying to make something of the Negro which the great architect of the universe failed to provide for in the original plan of creation." Old Vardaman, the most ignorant and debased executive that ever filled a gubernatorial chair is not only a disgrace to the state of Mississippi but the entire nation. His annual message to the Legislature is a tirade of abuse about the Negro and his condition since Emancipation. He takes great delight in calling the Negro an immoralist and a criminal and places him lower than the scums of the earth and advises his Legislature to make no appropriations for the education of Negro children; that millions have been wasted in a useless cause in trying to elevate them. Now if this old rebel slink would take the time to ask any twelve year old colored school boy or girl if Mississippi ever produced any intelligent colored men, they would refer him to the late James Hill, postmaster in one of the largest cities in the state, John R. Lynch, who represented the state in the halls of congress, at present paymaster in the United States army and is an honor to any state or race that exists, the late Senator B. K. Bruce, who so ably represented Mississippi in the Senate and we can truthfully say that the state has not had another since his time. As to the morals of the Negro in Mississippi, old Vardaman ought to keep mum. If the truth was known, he has devoted most of his life to debauching colored woman, and now that the children born unto them need to be educated, he is villanious enough to ask that no funds be used with which to educate them. This mode of living in major portions of the South, not only Mississippi, has been kept up by the Southren whiteman ever since the first black slave woman landed until this day, and Vardaman is not an exception to the rule. He represents the Southern whiteman's policy and what he says is a shame, a pity, a burning disgrace for the thousands of educated and industrious colored people of Mississippi to live under the administration of such an ignorant whelp. So disgraceful and low is his policy that President Roosevelt ignored him and the state on his southern trip. If it were not for the Negroes, Vardaman and his white cohorts, who decoy the Negro would starve as well as their wives and children. The Mississippi white man is too lazy to work. All he is fit for is to rob the igno- TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1906 DECISION IN THE SCHOOL CASE! The Supreme Court Decides That a Negro Has no Rights Which a White Man is Bound to Respect---The United States Supreme Court is the Only Hope We Have for a "Square Deal!" rant Negro. If the Negroes could be kept out of the schools he would continue to do the drugery of the whiteman at no expense to the latter. If the Mississippi whiteman don't soon learn to work the Negro will not only leave their lands but will have to take off their women. This old cry about outraging white women by Negro men will soon play out. Sensible people began to see that it is all bosh. If education is bad for the Negro, why is it not bad for the whiteman? More the living, high way robbery, murdering and, in fact, all sorts of infamous crimes in the annals of history have been committed by the enlightened whiteman of America of the Vardaman. type What race was it that sold human beings, bought their own children, sold them into bondage, begot children of their own slaves and their own children. What is lower, Mr. Vardaman, than this? Yet you claim the Negro becomes more inferior and worthless as he becomes educated. Now if the white men of your stripe who have been free for centuries, and lived upon the free labor of the Negroes part of that time and yet guilty of all we mentioned above, how can you claim that education has benefited the white brother? The Negro has made graeter progress morally in forty years than the whiteman of the Vardaman stripe with all of his education has for centuries. N. CHILES The most infamous decision ever passed by the Supreme court of Kansas or by any court in the United States since the Dred Scott decision was that of the Supreme court in deciding the case of Mamie Richardson vs the school board of Kansas City, Kansas. This decision is far reaching and leaves no redress for a people who have been free only a few years, and who, since that time have been made objects of ridicule. The court has almost reversed itself in a former decision, where it held that the legislature could not make a special law to take the place of one that is general in its nature and that a law had to be general in its nature to be constitutional. The attorneys for Mamie Richardson raised this point and other constitutional points, and the court came back with the decision that the legislature had a right to make any law special or general, that it saw fit to meet the application of those who wante it, especially when desired by a class of people who are looked upon more favorably than others. We would like for the court to answer this question: Suppose the rich white people of Kansas City had petitioned the legislature to build a separate high school for the poor whites, and the law had gone into effect, and the poor whites had appealed to the court for the same causes as applied to the Mannie Richardson case, what would have been the decision? There is just as much sense in saying that the rich whites have a right to have a separate school for their children as to say that the Negroes and whites should have separate school's In talking to Mr. Cyrus Lelurid, one of the leading Republicans of the West, and an honorable gentleman, we informed him that the decision in the case had been reached, and that the court had held that the special act of the legislature in reference to the Kansas City High school was constitutional. He said CAPT. REYNOLDS RECEIVES A MEDAL. The Drill Corp of Cyrene Commandery presented their drillmaster, Captain William Reynolds with a fine souvenir at the Masonic hall on New Year's eve. It was quite a surprise to the Captain. He had just ordered his men to begin drilling, when suddenly Hon. A M. Thomas broke from the ranks, presenting his JOHN R. sword to the Captain, as if a mutiny was about to break out among the men. The Captain was bewildered till Mr. Thomas began to address him in a few well chosen words, saying tha, the drill corp and Cyrene Commandery held him in high IN THE Decides That a Neg to Respect---The Unite Only Hope We Have that he had thought that the court could guess one decision, as it had been wrong on almost all others, and he was utterly surprised as well as disgusted at the infamous decision in the case. Now we believe that some of the leading Republicans and white men are disgusted at the decision and even hint that the court is constituted of men who are ourselves. We have come to the conclusion that the majority of the white Republicans in Kansas are men who are out for revenue only, and that they so live and act. It is a burning outrage to have a Supreme court made of men who pretend to believe in the principles and doctrines of Lincoln, Grant, Brown, Lovejoy, Phillips, Douglass and other illusorious men who died for the cause of liberty and justice, occupy such an exalted position and then hand down such an infamous decision as that of Last Saturday. There seems to be a general habit among the tribunes of the judicial departments of Kansas to place money first, popularity second and if there be any justice left, they will perhaps grab after it. As soon as the honest voters of the Republican party put men in judicial positions who will use a little more justice in their decisions, the better it will be for the people who have to live under such decisions. So absurd and contemptible was the decision that arroused the body of old John Brown, who turned over in his grave, and Kansas experienced an earthquake on Sunday. We are glad that the chief justice of the Supreme Court, while lying in his bed at the Copeland hotel, fell the shock. W hope it was sufficient to shake from him that blind prejudice that he has manifested towards the colored people and other classes will in the past few cars. There is no excuse for honest men who hold judicial positions and have to decide the destinies of the people to create class esteem and felt it an honor to present him with a gold medal for the excellent service he had rendered and for the many victories he had caused them to achieve in competitive drills, they having twice won the silver cup out of the three occasions. The medal is a beautiful, design, it is a gold emblem of a passior cross and a circle with a triangle suspended from a gold bar. Captain Reynolds accepted the gift, expressing his thanks for the high compliments shown him and the respect they had shown him since he had been in command. He also pledged himself to them to continue to do as he has done heretofore, and to lead them to all the victories he can. Capt. Reynolds is one of the best dulled and military men in Kansas. He enlisted in the late Twenty-third Kansas and was elected Captain of A Company and served in Cuba with this regiment. While there, he ranked as Major on the first battalion. It is conceded that he has no superior and very few equals in military maneuvers, and when on the field, his ability is never questioned as to his command or regulation. Captain Reynolds is now proprietor of the Topeka Pantitorium and is progressing rapidly, and we some day hope to see him high in the military circles of the country—this is his aspiration. If the Captain had been given the proper consideration, such as is given white men, he would now be holding a commission in the regular army. legislation. As long as this class of men hold these positions and render such decisions, the harder it will be for the masses to live together in peace and harmony. This will extend not only to the colored people, but in the near future, it will affect the poor whites. The people do not elect the justices of the Supreme Court nowadays; the cliques and factions put them there to be used for their own individual interests. We are sorry Justice Birch did not have either time or courage to write a dissenting opinion. We should like to know what it would be. He ones it to his position and to the people of Kansas to write this opinion. We shall continue to look for it even if we never see it. We think that things are getting in pretty bad conditions in our Supreme Court when one of the judges cannot write a dissenting opinion because of the fact that he is too busily engaged with other matters. This is the excuse made by Justice Birch. This is one of the paragraphs in Justice Taney's decision on the Dred Scott case "The rights and privileges conferred by the constitution upon citizens do not apply to the Negro race." This meant that the Negro had no rights that the white man is bound to respect. This man who held the highest judicial position under the government, who was highly educated and claimed to be a follower of the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ, and who took the oath of office as a lover of humanity and justice, and then said that the Negro was no more nor less than a horse, cow or any other animal The Supreme Court of Kansas has decided that the school board may separate Negroes and whites in the public schools paid for out of the public funds, if the whites think the Negroes are offensive and uncongenial to their comfort and happiness, and Isalah M. Horton is a young man of great force of character and strong persistency of purpose. He is industrious, honest and honorable a young man of sterling worth and integrity. He has had to work his way up from the very bottom, and under circumstances that would have discouraged the most enthusi- JOHN H. HARRIS astic, but he never faltered. He is just such a person as heroes come from. As a teacher, he is competent; as a citizen he is a forceful factor for OL CASE! Which a White Man is urt is the that if one law was not sufficient to separate them and make the Negro feel humiliated in the presence of the whites, the legislature could enact another law which would be more compulsory and compel the Negroes to attend any school that the whites may select. Any kind of an old school building, in an out of the way place either in a swamp or a hollow or upon a mountain, with incompetent teachers, bad sanitary arrangements—any old thing. The whites control the school boards all over Kansas and there is a large majority of them who are prejudiced against the Negro and they now have a Supreme Court to confirm any outrage that the school boards may perpetrate upon the colored people, and those wronged can have no constitutional rights nor any redress for the same. Let us continue to stand up like men and battle for the right. We shall not lose any time charging this to the Republican party, as the principles of the party will outlive all the Julas Iscariots ever born or yet to come. It will only be a question of time until the principles of the party will be carried out to the letter. Governor Hoch can now see the irreparable mistake he made in not vetting the bill. Had he done so that would have been the end of it. The legislature and the Supreme Court which the colorful people make, and Governor Hoch, whom they helped place in the executive chair, have done them a wrong that cannot be righted. The governor appointed two members of the court who decided that he was right in signing the bill. The United States Supreme Court has declared the Jim Crow car law unconstitutional, and the proper thing for the Negroes of Kansas to do is carry their case to the Supreme Court of the United States Lose no time. Let's start at once NUMBER 2. Will Ask the Voters for the Nomination of Probate Judge. Hon. George A. Huron, has practiced law in Topeka for several years, announces himself as a candidate for Probate judge, subject to Republican primaries March 10. He has lived in Kansas for twenty-seven years and spent most of that time in Shawnee county. He is an honest, upright gentleman and a lawyer of ability. He enlisted in the service of his country in the Seventh Indiana infantry, August, 1861 and was mustered out in September, 1865. He participated in twenty-three of the great battles and was always ready for duty. Mr. Huron is a late long Republican and believes in the principles of his party and lives up to them. He is not a Republican for revenue only, but believes that the salvation of the country lies in the Republican party. During the late rebellion he was appointed by Governor Morton to look after the welfare of the sick and wounded Indiana soldiers who were in the Army of the Potomac He and his estimable wife did much for the suffering and wounded. Judge Huron was the first man to institute free schools among the colored soldored soldiers during the war from 64 to 65. While at City Point, Va., where the Twenty eighth colored troops were in camp, he asked permission of Colonel Logan, who was commander, to institute schools in the regiment and with the assistance of his wife, he selected three of the brightest men in each company and had them come to his tent where the established what is new known as a Normal school, and inspected these men now to teach the soldiers. He went to Indianapolis his home town, and secured several school books which were distributed among the soldiers, who took great interest in the study and were delighted to have some one to instruct them to read and write. The schools were successful from the beginning to the end, and several years afterwards, while on a visit to Indianapolis, Judge Huron met one of the soldiers who is now a minister, conducting one of the best churches in Indianapolis. He thanked the judge for the race in general and for himself in particular for the kindness shown by himself and wife in in- JOHN H. HARRIS structuring the soldiers to read and write. It can be safely said that Judge Huron was the first man to institute free schools after the prayer of Governor Berkley of Virginia, who in making his report concerning the colonies said he prayed God that they would not have free schools or newspapers among them. This was over one hundred years before the free school system among soldiers was established in Virginia. Judge Huron has never held an elective office of any kind in this state. He is a member of the G.A. R and several secret organizations, and if elected to the office of Probate Judge the people will have no cause to regret anything he may do. The judge is making this campaign upon the merits of good citizenship. He is a man who has earned his education and livelihood from childhood up without the assistance of anyone. herd e # af whey oo =e oF om ff ™~ (7 ee , ANNUAL MEETING KANSAS CORN| Manhattan, which whea properly certi-| itself or the elements of which it is com- [If four years’ allowance of butter color 66 BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION, certificate or receipt for the fare pald to| posed exists to a greater or less extent | were tnken at a dose the consumer A I “ACE ea <4 the Kansas Corn Breeders’ Associotinn vwill be beld at Manhattan, Kan. Janu ary 22, 23 and 24, 1006. ‘The meeting bemns with an evening session January 22 at 8 p,m. fon, Fd- ward Taylor of Edwardsville, Kan, will Bpeak on “Reciprovity and Markets.” He has made a speciality of corn, alfalfa and potatos and is well informed on the subjects upon which he will Ircture, Prof. W. J. Spilunan, head of the grass and forage plants investigation intercsts of the United States Department of ‘Agriculture, will talk on “Mendle'’s Law aad Iie Apphestion to Practical Prob- Jems in Corn Breeding.” At 8-90 a. m. January 23 corn judy ing elasees will be held in which the members of the association and farmers will be given practice work in judging corm, At 10 a, m, Supt. C, If. Elling of the F%. Haye experiment station will lec- ture em “Development of Corns for ‘Western Kansas.” Farmera of the west- era part of the state are attempting to take corn fartner and farther west, At present there is no reoognized well bred corm which may be resommended for Western Xansos, and Superintendent Elling’s discussion of this subject will be very timely. Prof. W. J. Spillman will again talk on “The Value of Good Management on the Farm.” We has made n special study of farm manage- ment since being connected with the government work, and has established several motel farms in the southern states, . At 1:30 p.m. Di, CG. Hophins, prov fessor of agronomy und chenustry of the University of Mhaws, Champaygn, will wpeak on “Iractical Corn Breeding for Amprovement sn Yield and Value.” Pro- fessor Hophiny and his twelve assist ants Dave done a great deal to amprove the protein and oil content of corn, and he be considered a leader im the cur test work in coin Liecding, and has disued mapy Valuable bulletins upun this sub- ject. Followmg this, reports will be hearl from the farmers who competed in the| “Yield er Acre Contest,” in whuch they will tell how they grew their big yiclda of corn, At the same session D. Ward King of Maitland, Mo, well known as the orginator of the King Road Drug,” will speak on “Good Roads.” After the lecture an opportumty will be given to eee the drog in operation on the roads. At the evening scasion, 8 p. m, an+ mouncementa of the awards of pnzes in the corn exhibits will be made, Follow- ing tha Mr. CP, Hartley, « graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural Col- lege, sow assistant physiologist of the U. S. Department of Agneulture and known a2 Uncle Sam's Corn Breeder, will give a lecture on “Corn Breeding,” with stereopticon illuatrations. All sub- jects upon which lectures are given will be open for discussion, ‘The morning scasion of January 24 will begin at 8.30 with @ corn-yudsing elass, ‘This will be followed by a busi- hess session presided over by tno prai- dent of the assolation, Hon. J, W, Robi- eon of Towunda, Kan. Olfners for the ensuing yeur will be ekcted. Tutther corn judging work will bo given from 1:30 to 3.J0 p. ma. Avie fiom the cuunent agieulturits which bave buen acured for tho pro: gram w sprial feature of this meeting will be the instruction given the farmers in corm-yudging. ‘Lhe agricultural de- partment of the cullegs hus numerous inquiries for information upon this sub- ject but it is practically impossible to ve instruction in regard to at through correspondence. In these classes tho farmers will not only receive lectures Upon corn judging but will devote con- siderable time to practical work and will be assisted by capable instructors, OF the eighty varieties of corn tested at the Kansas experiment station dure ing (he past three years a large per cent of those producing the highest yields are Manhattan, which whea properly certi- certificate or receipt for the fare paid to fied by the sccretary of the assoctation and joint ticket agent will be guod for the purchase of a return ticket for one- third fare. STOCKING WITH THE BEST. sittings of eggs from puro bred utihty type fowls should bo boughts twenty: five to thirty chickens should be reared Tho cockercls ehould te fatted in the falt and dieposed of, and tho pure bred pullets retained for the following year's breeding pen. By thls means a farmet ‘can stock his farm with pure bred poul- ‘try In two years. When the flock of poultry is large aud has unlimited range a utllty type cock: eret should be used for every fftren liens, ‘The other male birds of the flok should Le disposed of; also the hens more than 21% years old and any fowls not In active or healthy condition. It Is preferable, however, to obtain the cggs for hatchang from a breeding pen of pure bral male and ten of the beat hens of the flock rather than from all the layers indiacrimmately. <A pure bred utihty cockerel aud ten pullets should be bought in the fall and snould constitute the next year’s breed ng pu. In buying eggs for hatching or pure bred fowls for poultry farming a preferengs should Le given to flocks of poultry thot have been bred for winter laying Le cocherels ghould be suld in the early fall. Unless uiey are housed fn the tlds and require httlo attention or extra feed, the most profitable age for matheting ls & montha, After thia age the cost uf feed per pound of gain in live weight of tie cucketels rapidly an- creases. When cockercls ate kept on the farm wntal they are 6 or 7 months old the protita are matetlally reduced. ‘Lhe winter production of eggs is the most valuable asact of the — pulleta. Matly winter layimg demands hberul feeding, which included in addition to the gram, waste meat, or animal food, and vegetable food, ‘The pullets should Le comfortably and permancntly housed in the fal); transferring mature pullets to w strange pen defers egg production. Vullets are more profitable egy pro- ducers than hens. At the agneultural experiment station at Utuh, experiments showed that the profit from young hens of pulleta was about five times greates than that from the old hens. Not only did the old hens lay considerably fewer egg, but the eggs were worth leas per doven, This is accounted for by the fact that the pullete laid a larger pro- portlon of their eggs im carly winter, when the price was good. The old hen wero three to four years old. The re: eulta of this experiment have beea ac- complished with fowls kept in confine. ment, During the winter montha, a po- riod of between ¢hree and four uionths they were not outside of the building. With many poultrymnen and faruers tho idca ia prevalent that sf a hen lays only a few eggs the firet year she is more likely to du well the second year, Whenever experiments have been eattied v7 the reaults go to prove that hena that pick 100 eggs at lesa the flint: year are light Jayer the peeond, On the other hand, thove thit produce 140 te 200 and more egga the tint year also yield ante isfactorily the second, ‘The reaulia of a number of expeii- menta carried on in Mame showed that ten pullets in egg production equaled seventeen year olds or twenty-four two year olds, ‘The farmer should select from the flock of pullets the ten best winter lay- ers. A regular Ieg band or a piece of wire should be placed around the leg of ecch of ten pullets. The next winter the ten pullete (which ere now yearling hens}, should be scparated from the Jay- ing hens and kept in good health and medium flesh, They are not fed for winter laying. In February or March they are mated with @ suttable cockerel, their rations are jucressed and they are brought into laying at tne thue their eggs are required for hatching. Malo birds used for breeding purposes should not be allowed with tho female except during the breeding season, ‘Tho carler birds are out of their moult and tn full wlumacea the eooner itself or the elements of which it {9 com- posed exists to a greater or less extent In almost all the food they ent. What we do by giving them the salt is slmply to Increase the supply. KEEP POULTRY HOUSE CLEAN. A writer in a prominent poultry jour. nal says that the houses should be whitewashed and cleaned twice a year. ‘By cleaning it ts assumed he meuns, aes thing removed and tne house thor- ‘oughly renovated. ‘The poultry :nan who works on any other plan oan not heep tho house free from vermin and disease, no matter how freely be may use insect powder nor how thoroughly the white- washing is done twice a year, Twenty scare of experience on raising poultiy bas taught the writer that no Louse ought to go longer than two months without being thoroughly white: washed in every nook and crevice, lo certain scasons the work is done tore frequently, All our houses are built with acrakhing sneds so it is eaxy to do the whitewashing while the hena are in the shed, and then by shutting them n the house whitewash the scratching sheds. Insctea powder is, of course, A necvesity, but less of it will be necessury if the housea are kept dean by lime and disinfectant, and st Is plmust impossible lo have the ansects ponder do its full duty othuwise.-Ex, | COLORING MATTER IN BUTTER. Since the oleo manufactuiers have threatned to get a law pasad, prohib- itang the ase of coloting matter in but. ter, w numlar of farm papere have dis: cussed the proa and cone of thay eub- Jeet. Sume years uge annate, which ae 4 Vegetable cempound aud pertectly hatniees, was used almont erciusively tur the quluiing of butts, but am recent yeurs auine dycw bave been substituted und eae are claimed tu be potsunous and uyunvus to health Whether the sual umunt wed an coloring butter would base any eval ctferts on the bu wlan syoltin as a question, We hnow of hy euenuiic expentents showing that us atall quantities of aniline dyes oe» are uaed to culos butter are hanmtul, Jn discuming this matter an a recut dasue of Orange Judd Fart, EB. t, Bou nett, of lowa, said in parts Lhe dairy comuesioner of Lowa te quoted us say ing thut at takes abuut ube oume ot color te lu0 pounds vf butter, Lbrs om vune taken at a engl meal would be burinful, without doubt, An adult wal eat perlups one pound of butter pa weeb, 5U pounds per year, 10U pound: would Just two yoars, Av at as artifici. ally colored about half uf the yeur, he would be four yeure cating ths om vuuce ot butter colur. ‘Ake same leo turer who argued at the chautauqu aguinat the use of butter colus was even miure strongly opposed to the use of meat of any kind. Leetsteak, for an- stance, contains a powon 3 the form of uria acid. For this reason he argued that all soups sbould be nade without any meat, and that meat be banished from the table. Mrs. Romer, a famous health lecturer und domestic evonmy teacher, declares strawberries are untit for human food, and Dowie ay just oy ‘ulumorous in dis duounatien of pork and oysters. If we do uot color winter butter the process man buys it and chase at of ate undesirable Jasons it ut has any, and then colors st ond puts at on the market Sbnaesotu enacted a pure food law for- bidding, umung othr thugy, the use of snilue butter colors, and later the dany cummussioner suspended the lau, foare ing Minnesota butter would lose ite prestige in market, other atates allow- ing ite use. The oleo men are not en- titled to consideration sn their opposi- tion to coloring butter, because they colored their lard and tallow compound and sold it for butter untul the Jaw in- terfered, and they wish to do so yet. But commercialeam ia not all that should be considered. Our farmers do not wish to color their butter for the wake of getting a better price, of there- by they poison their customers. ‘they want a clean conmience avd clean, healthful products to leave the farm, something that Js good food for the na- tiony, for lo, the farmer fecds them all and delights in bis vocation, And so we come to thist Nut a an: glo caso has ever been reported of death or of the stightest Injury to bealth from fhe use of butter, colored or uncolored. eee KALLITHRIX PARLOR MAIR GOODS, HAIR Ol NAMENTS, NEW POMPA- DOURS, SWITCHES, WIGS, TAVES, FRIZZES AND RANGES Ama MS. M.L. FIELD, S1IQ WANDSAS ALE Mf four yeare’ allowance of butter color were taken at @ dose the consumer would not wish a second dose nor would he i€ he swallowed all the salt nt once which he gets in four yenre’ ration of buiter, If may be argued that salt ie not poisonous, and that butter color is, ‘There ts no salt without ite hurtful im- purity. We get no food, no drink, breathe not a ringle brenth of alr, but has some poison in it, Absolutely ater: tized fom and drink and alr 49 not ob- tainable, nor fe it necessary, Butter in a pocutialy healthful food, and the only difference between eating it colored and uncolored i9 in the added pleasure whee it hae the “natural June color.” WASHINGTON LETTER. Wachington, Jan. 7. 1906 —Mr. George W. Ellis, secretary of the American Jegation at Monrovia, Liberia, who {is on hie vacation in this country, called at the Smithson- ian tnstitution last Tuesday and pre- sented that institution with a pamph- Jet of 9.000 words relative tothe habits and customs of the Val spesk ing people of western Africa, anda collection of their work was also contributed. “Mr, Eltia, during his stay in Africa at Monrovia, hae made astudy of these people and their customs and habits, andthe collection presented to the Smitheon ian Instiute is considered by them a very valuable acquisition, the addi- tion being regarded as more than ordinary in value. The information and specimens of this nature already op exhbition in the National Mueeum have fora lor along time been con: sidered very meager and defective, and this addition from Mr. Ellis will undoubtedly be of valuable interest and importance in bringing this col- lection up to the perfection desired by the officiala of the Smithsonian Institute, In the annual report of the Asso- ciated Charities for the District of Columbia just issued, plane are eet forth for the future of the social settlement work in southweat Waeh- ington for the colored people. Itis proposed to widen the scope of this branch and enlarge the home. The resident worker in charge is Mrs. Sarah Coline Fernandez, Tt is reported that the Isthmian Canal commusion has decided to ex- periment with colored Jabor from the Southern stat ewill be transported tothe isthmus and given employ: mentin connection with the con struction of the Panama waterway, The committee on privileges ana elections has decided to give a num- ber of colored men in this locality a hearing in connection with that plank of the Chicago Republican party platerm which demande the reduction of Southern representaticn in Congress. A hearing ie expected to take place some time about the ° Rev.J.H.Richardson House Mover and Builder All work guoranteed. Prompt attention given to all out of town work, Res. Itilian Ave., South Fort Pickering, Memphis 'Fhone 987 MEMPIDM, BERN The Little Gem Restaurant, 100 KANSAS AVFNUR @ firet-olase place for a square mealor lunch. Ice cream and cigars, W. H. Henderson, PROPRIETOR. “THE KEYSTONE,” RESTAURANT AND CAFE Firet clare service. Sbort orders a specialty. When in Kaneas City, call and aceme. If you're pleased tell your friends, ifnot tell me RS. STREET, Peop. T2N4 S Elet BRANT 91, “A Townof | Splendid Opportunities’ In an address before ths people of Boley, Prof. J. C. Liftwich said, “Yoley is the Negroes’ paradise."' This is a business man’s way of saying what he knows about a place. BOLEY is an agricultural and commercial center of quite an immensity of country, as well as a large population of colored people, there is a great many things you ought to know about: Its wondersul opportunities for proGtable invest- ment. Its opportunities for fruit, track and stock growing. Its delightful and healthful climate, The Boley Business Men's Club is an organi- zation of vigerous men with an ambition to give you any information along these lines. Its no trouble to answer questions. Wri'r today for anything you want to know to the Boley Business Mens Club Boley, Indian Territory, Be, INSURED? ee. e oie PS we You SVEN NY EY i. . Knights and Ladies P Qi i] i @ Vo J wt of Protection Nae 74) f. A NATIONAL FRATERNAL INSURANOE etl eo SOCIETY . Pp ere —_—. Rb Incorporated Under the Laws of Kansas, Issues policies for $350, $500 and $1000, We issue policis 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 snould carry some Insurance. We want good, lve, buathng agente in every town. Write at once! for terms. Liberal terms to the right persons, The Knights and Ladies of Protection. Col. James Beck, Nat'l Pres. ¥. C, Thomas, Nat'l Supt. James M, Mason, Nat'l Vice Pres. J. G. Groves, Nat'l Treas J.H. CHILDERS, Natl Sec., Headquarters: 413 Kausas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. middle of February and its result is looked for with keen interest by the colored people throughout the coun- wy. The African Colonization Chris- tian church {undenominationa!) was incorporated sass Wednesday for perpetual existence. The object of the church being to bring together all colored people Joyal to Africa, interested in the religious, political and social environments of the Ne- grorace. It is the «desire of the church to unite euch persons for mutual help and support with a view to colonizing and Christianising Africa and for its civic development. LINCOLN, NEBR. C. R. Bennett and wife gave an informal dinner last Sunday in honor of Mrs. Foster of Hastings. H, M. Williams has completed bis new residence and now occupies it with his family. Misa Sarah Williams, a prosper- ous Isdy in our midst, bas bought the former home of HI.M, Williams. Mrs. J, W. Bedeil ix detained at home by sickness, Millard, eun of Wm. Woods and wife, ia on the mend from bis recent illmces. Miss Maude Hancock of Kanras Mre. Margaret Brown, who has hecn sick, ix improving. W.D. Grantand wife entertained at dinner on New Year's day in honor of a few of their friends, Covers were laid for eia, Outof- town guests were Mrs, M, Chapman of Council Bluff, Ja,, and Mre ©, Stout of Red Oak, Ta. Rov. Times Phanie fe tn phe “4 wan sda ow dicee ae reve al seeks, Go to.. H: BROWN, The Grocer Fine Groceries—Just Opened— Everything Freeh—Give us a Trial. HOME 'PHONE £282, B31 Joplin Kt, JOPLIN, MO, TS Mme. De Vaul Vincent’s School of highclaes tailoring Tutition reasonable. Write for information, 2B13 Woelat St. KANSAS (1T1, BO ——__.._.____ A Fitstalaes Hotel With Meusonatle Rates AR rs Rl a ain Lae ae a Ni se ! ame Sg “fe — 7 rd * Sy if KD 7 a a Oak Leaf Hotel Fast hide Kuty Katiroad DENNIS TICK SAP p Old triends all expected—New friends all all invited. VINITA, 1. Te $$ $______. G. E. Anderson, Pool and Billiard Parlor, Cigars and Tabacco. Headquarters for those who wich a nicetime Whenia ' they or oa oe te . Pot. - REET HOW TO RUN THE SEPARATOR. Separators will skim closest when the milk is fed through them as soon as it comes from the cow, i.e., at blood temperature. In case the milk gets cold before you are ready to run it through the separator, it should be heated to blood temperature again. Money will be received by observing this rule. It requires considerable skill to be able to run a separator at the right speed. A separator should always be started slowly and never run at higher speed that for which the directions call. When you run too fast you are throwing butter away in the skim milk and endangering life and limb, as the separator bowl is liable to burst. Running a separator slow is dangerous only to the pocket book; it does not skim the milk clean under those conditions. It is a safe plan to frequently test the skim milk with a Babco tester just to see how the separator is doing. In case it gets out of order and you are not able to remedy it, the manufacturer or his agent should be notified at once. After the milk is all separated it is a good plan to run a few quarts of skim milk through the machine to wash out the cream which would otherwise be lost. In stopping a hand separator simply let the crank go and allowed the bowl to stop itself. There is danger of injuring a separator by trying to stop it too nicky - Farm folks. FEEDING SKIM MILK TO HOGS A correspondent writes that he is running a dairy and that he has a good deal of skim milk which he expects to feed to hogs. He says, "I wish you would inform me as to how skim milk can be fed to best advantage to growing pigs or to fattening hogs, and also what you consider it worth per hundred weight." The value of skim milk as a food, of course, depends upon the relative price of grain products. It is worth more for growing pigs than it is for fattening swine. The consensus of opinion based upon data gathered from experiments, is that skim milk should never be fed in larger proportion than one to five, and that one to three, that is to say one pound of graza to three pounds of skim milk, usually gives better results than a larger proportion of the latter. At the Wisconsin station it was found that where one part of grain was fed with three parts of skim milk and when corn was valued at 29 cents per bushel, that the former was worth 15 cents per hundred weight for fattening purposes. Buttermilk was found to have the same value as skim milk, but where either of the products mentioned are fed to young fruiting pigs, we believe that its feeding value may be regarded as being fully 30 per cent higher or as high as 29 cents per hundred weight. HOW CONCENTRATION PAYS A well known Wisconsin dairy man owns 50 acres of land and is now carrying 25 first-class cows upon the farm. These are only grades, yet last year they earned for him over $100 apiece in the sale of the cream alone, and together with the skim milk averaged $120 per cow per year. He uses four times as much dairy in intelligence, dairy thinking and dairy reading, and consequently does business on one fourth as much capital as the average dairyman. Don't feed all the unsuitable potatoes and the pumpkins to the cows and horses but give the swine their portion of it. Green food will keep their appetites in good condition. DAIRY DOTS. The cleaner milk is kept, the longer will it remain sweet and the better will be the cream rising. One who will not read the experience of others in dairy work greatly reduces his chance of making money. When cows are dry, they should be fed so as to keep them in a thrifty condition without becoming too fat. No other farm produce robs the soil as little as that of the dairy, especially when the skim milk is fed on the farm. One disadvantage of dairying is that it must have good attention seven days in the week and fifty-two weeks in the year, holidays included. Alfalfa or cow pea hay can safely be given to a milen cow in whatever quantity she will eat it. It is rich in the elements that produce milk. The dairyman who so handles his work that his soil fertility and bank account grow continually is a man who keeps learning more about his business all the time. The care of milk may be said to begin before it is drawn from the udder. The milk vessels, the cow and her quarters should be well cleaned before milking time. No other line of farming requires more attention to detail, more regularity in work, more persistence than durying; but it is such things that make a man successful. This is the time of year when many dairyman will have bitter butter. Clearness in the stable and other places where the milk can gather bad odors may remedy the defect. The most desirable cow is well bred, well fed, well handled. Some one of these particulars may be lacking when a cow makes profit; but it greatly reduces the chances if any of the three is lacking. A great advantage of drying is that it will yield a good profit every year, while the point from most lines of farming will vary from year to year. In the end he was still to drying will be the winner. Never to sow heavily just before dropping a seed. Thus failing them capably it is heating food in cause of them to enter or ginger in the utile. Thus a cow should not be fed heavily just before drying, she should do well for SOURALS Sows should be mated so they should farrow at about a year old. The runt pigs will gain more rapidly if permitted to remain with the sow a few days after the others are turned away. Clean out the hog troughs every day if necessary. Troughs half full of litter do not make very desirable places for the pigs to eat out of. Because a hog is a hog is no reason why he should live all the time in a muss. He will be about the cleanest animal on the farm if you will let him. The stunted pigs will make fine fat porkers for the meat barrel next winter if singled out now and penned by themselves where you can give them extra attention. PULLETS AND EGGS. While it is a good plan to depend upon the pullets for eggs during the coming winter, the year old hens will be laying in good shape, but it is not a good plan to push these birds too hard provided the rate of good breed and have a good stock as egg producers. Let them lay well, of course, and feed them properly, but plan for them to produce their best eggs at breeding season, being sure to mute them up with the best male obtainable. The eggs from these year old hens, if they are the right sort of hens, will turn out better chicks than the eggs from the pullets. Another point just here—if you are not in a position to use incubators the coming season it will pay you to get together a few year or two year old hens of the larger mixture to use as incubators. Never mind if they are not purified if they are large and broody they will make ideal mothers set on high grade eggs, and will be worth their keep for this purpose alone. VEGETABLES FOR FOWLS. In their natural state fowls are heavy consumers of vegetable matter and insects. This teaches that under artificial conditions fowls should have substitutes for their natural food. In the way of vegetable matter cabbage leaves or a whole head suspended where the fowls can get at it at will, by reaching well up for it, are hard to beat; though finally cut clover hay is excellent, and beet tops, or whole beets, are beneficial. Most scraps substitute the insects nicely, and cut bone supplies much needed material in winter that fowls get out of the earth in summer. Imitate nature closely as possible in feeding The flavor of hen's eggs is declared by an English medical man to be very materially affected by food. When the hens are scavengers their eggs are made unfit to eat, but a diet of sunflower seeds produces remarkably fine and sweet eggs. POULTRY PICKINGS Don't feed too much coin to growing chicks. Rather give them food that will make bone, muscle and vigor, with just enough carbonicous food to keep them in good condition, but not fat. Some writers advise moving grat with wet food for the fowls and chicks. This is not at all necessary, as they will pick up all the grat they need if it is kept where they can have access to it. When the brooding hen reuses to voluntarily return to let coop at night, but spits outside, you can be pretty sure that the coop is other furiously lousy, filthy or close, or perhaps all three investigate. A bird that is either very thin or overfit, is not a good breeder, whatever its excellence in shape and color. The breeding bird needs be in such vigorous condition that its chicks may make a good strong start in life. Commerce making plans now for the housing of your birds next winter. If new houses are to be built, there is no better time to do the work than right now; if the old houses need repairing or painting, this is a good time to get busy. BACK TO THE FARM. A little incident occurred at the Missouri Agricultural college this week which serves to emphasize the fact that the new agricultural education leads boys to rather than from the farm. Students of the old college gave a regular country entertainment at the completion of the new barn. The girls were brought on a load of hay and good old country games served for amusement. This is one of several recent occurrences which shows that the boys of the department have no desire to get away from the beat things of country life. GRAIN AND THE ANIMAL. Naturally there always will be differences of opinion as to whether grain or other stock food brings the most to the owner sold at market prices or fed to the stock. Conditions have much to do with the solving of this problem. If feed is high and stock low in price it doubtless pays to sell off the surplus food, but it decidedly does not pay to sell any needed by the animals, and here is just where the mistake is frequently made. For example, with grains and hay selling at high prices the farmer figures that he can afford to stint his stock, even if they get quite thin in order to have more food to sell. Of course he knows that he can get less for the than animal than for the one in good condition but he argues that the difference he receives for the grain in one town offsets this, but does it? Suppose a cow that is thin and giving the minimum quantity of milk would sell for 2 lbs it纠织 to assume that the same animal would harm double that amount in good condition and a full corn yield would at more 25 lbs with the is an independent of the value of the obtained milk and the fresh value of the other minute. The sub just is worth careful consideration and thorough experiment on the part of those who doubt the soundness of the argument.—Farm Stock Journal. Do not let another year pass without trying some new variety crop on your farm. AT CLOSE OF DAY Dear little hands, that I can hold Within the hollow of my palm; Dear little frame, that I can hold Within the room of my arm; God grant those hands ever be Faithful to Thee, and true to me. Dear tired feet, enchained by sleep; They've travelled miles at home today; I pray that God those feet will keep Within the paths of truth alway, Great Guide, that they may ever be Faithful to Thee, and tro to me. I lay my boy down in his bed, And kiss the yielding finger tips; Dream angels throng about his head, And slumber seals the notsy lips. God grant those lips may ever be Faithful to Him, and true to me. Heart of my heart, my child, my son, Thy mother's flesh is like thine; I field them to a mine; Thy strength divine— My Samuel to I bring. Bachold my servant, Father—King! Mary I loom in Good Housekeeping LAWRENCE. Clarence Tipton of Emporia, was a visitor in Lawrence last week. Mrs Escoc and daughter Mable, who spent the holidays in Muskogee I T., returned home last Friday. Bishop Grant was in Lawrence on business, last week. Mable Gleed returned home last Saturday, after spending two weeks with her brother, F. D. G'yeid, of Kansas City, Kansas. Herman Smith, of Minneapolis, Minn., was a visitor in Lawrence during the holidays. The Terpsichore in girls have issued invitations to their mid winter party, which will be given at Johnson's hall, January 18th. Tha Forum rendered a very interesting program last Sunday. The New Years ball given by Strodes Orchestra was enjoyed by al. The hall was beautifully decorated with palms and other decorations. Many couples could be seen chatting in cozy corners, and the sweet strains of music were carried on waves of sound to the many dancers tripping the light, fantastic toe. Among the out of town guests were: Mrs Buckner and daughter Corinne, Miss Winifred Morton and Thomas Morton, and Trussie Smothers, Messrs Groves, Stuart, Smith, Hudson and many The Red Star Hotel Boarding and Lodging Open Day and Night Mrs. Frances Harris Propnetor THE AMERICAN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED LA CAPITAL STOCK One Million Shares of non-assessable stock Most Gigantic Move ever LAUNCHED for The BRAIN and MUS ployed. The DOOR o All Officers and Agen Write today for litter CHAS. D. CLEM, Pres. D. H. HILL, Vice-Pres. Headquarters, COFFEYVILLE When You Arrive in Kansas Leave the Union Depot Unt 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 CHAS. D. CLEM, Pres. REV. P. D. SKINNER, Sec. D. H. HILL, Vice-Pres. Dr. J.T. WHITTAKER, Treas Headquarters, COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS. 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 you trunkier. Houses for rent. Isming Houses for sale. Satisfaction Guaranteed List property with WEAVE BROTHERS MAIN STREET 911 OAK STREET List property with WEAVER 911 OAK STREET When in Weir Stop at others. At a late hour all dispersed declaring they had had a lovely time. The "Jolly Five" and friends entertained royally at Miss Ella MoPike's, Christmas eve, with a "Jewney Xmas Tree." Games were indulged in until a late hour, when a dainty three course luncheon was served, after which the presents were distributed, all being surprised by the appearance of old Santa Claus, who finally turned out to be Herbert Gleed. Miss Agnes Grey entertained in honor of Miss Thompkins. Those present were the Jolly Five and friends. After a dainty luncheon the guests left, declaring Miss Grey a charming hostess. Rev Mr Griffith held Quarterly Meeting at St James A M E church on the north side, last Sunday. SPRINGFIELD NEWS. Little Lounie Bostie is very ill at this writing. The Oak Leaf club will throw open her doors to the guests every Thursday evening. Mrs. George Webb is at the bed side of her sick brother, in East Springfield. The wife of Mr William Tidwell passed away last Tuesday, leaving a husband and host of friends to mourn her loss. Wendell Campbell, who has been very ill, is convalescing. Minn Clayanna Harris of Onceola Mo., is in the city to spend the winter. The Passion Play by Rev. Williams was a fine affair. Mrs Charles Stewart has been a little indisposed. G. Webb has created a lovely little club house on his premises on Broad street. Teachers and scholars have resumed their usual work since the holidays. Mrs Ulysses G. Hardick has had a severe cold. Homer Herndon returned from Kansas City. Alexander Adams and wife, of Chetopa, were visiting Mrs. P. T. Murphy and Meadines Higgs and Crawford. AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CO., LAWS ARIZONA.) 1,000,000,000. Stock ONE DOLLAR per share. Ement for the Negro's advancement. SCLE 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 LE, KANSAS. Kansas City, Don't until You'Phone WEAVER 911 OAK STREET Memphis Business Men, CALL AT THE-' Palace Barber Shop F. W. Me FOR A HAIR CUT, SHAMPOO, S AND M —First-class W 359 C CALHOUN St. Go o Ben FOR ANY STYLE HAIR CUT, SHAMPOO, SEA FOAM, TONIC, SHAVE AND MASSAGE. Go o Ben Gilliard's when you want first-class staple and Fancy Groceries. Satisfaction Guarahteed. M'GEE NEAR COR. LAKE J. W. Cat Brick cont Tile and Man Estimates Ch 169 HERMANDO St RUDD M'GEE NEAR COR. LAKE. Memphis 'Phone 957 Tile and Mantel Work a Specialty. Estimates Cheerfully Purnished, 169 HERMANDO St MEMPHIS PHONE 2678 RUDD BROS., Dealets in Staple and Fancy Groceries and A full line of Cigars a Poultry, etc. Free deliver We solicit a share of your Groceries and Fresh Meats. A full line of Cigars and Tobacco, Vegetables, Poultry, etc. Free delivery to all parts of the city. We solicit a share of your patronage. 574 Desoro Sr Con Clay. New Phone 33 Until you see my nice newHOLIDAY 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) Peoples Cafe PENMAN & WILSON, PROPRIETORS. An ideal place to get a nice meal or short order. Everything is first-class, and our special Sunday Dinner is unsurpassed. Give us a call. 105 WEST FIFTH STREET C. E. Anderson, Pool and Billiard Parlors : Headquarters for those who wish a nice time. When in Pittsburg. call on him. 205 EAST THIRD STREET THE KIND OF CATTLE THAT PAYS. A great number of farmers and stockmen claim that they can not afford to raise cattle on land worth $75 per acre, that they can not afford to keep a cow a year on such land for the chance of a calf. This contention is largely true when we consider the quality of cattle some farmers of the corn belt, or high-priced land section, raise. It does not pay to raise scrubby cattle on any kind of land, a fact which the ranchmen of the West have realized. Ranchmen of the West are today raising a better grade of cattle on the cheap land of the Western range than are the stockmen of the central states, where land sells for from $05 to $100 per acre. It will pay to raise high grade cattle on the highest priced farm lands, consequently stockmen of the central states should improve the quality of their cattle. To produce more and better beef at less expense the best grades of cattle must be raised, because desirable or toppy beef can not be produced from a rubber or milion grade cattle. It costs no more to raise a good animal proply than it does to raise a scrubby one. To improve the quality of cattle is not the whole secret of profitable cattle trade and farming. While improving the quality of cattle is the prime factor important to the need of food without it, a constant effort without proper methods of farming will result in a failure of the cattle in the field of agriculture in order to till or whatsoever not be it, depending on hogs to pick up the undigested corn, in a poor as well as Don't Buy elson, Prop. ANY STYLE SEA FOAM, TONIC, SHAVE MASSAGE. Work Guaranteed— CORNER DESOTO ST. Gilliard's E. Memphis 'Phone 957 lin, tractor ntel Work a Specialty. heerfully Purnished. MEMPHIS PHONE 2678 BROS., Fresh Meats. and Tobacco, Vegetables, very to all parts of the city, or patronage. New 'Phone 3308 a Moses, so we simply write this to let the people know. Rev. Cole has had some hard knocks, but we have learned that every knock is a buster, and if you don't believe it come to Denver and hear Rev. Cole preach and sing. He is what the world is after—a money raiser. We have the only choir in the West that sings in robes. Just to let the people know, the church is on Larimer street 25-246r JOHN KIRTLEY, CHARLES HUNTER, EDWARD WADDIE, Trustees. Rey D. D Colt Pastor. Mrs. Emma Wilson, Sec'y. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" 80 STRAIGHTENS KINETY or CURVE HAIR that it can be put up in any style desired consistent with its length. Ford's Hair Pomade is formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" and is the only safe preparation known to us that makes only or curly hair straight, as shown above. It is also suitable for hair born, harsh, kinky or curly hair soft, pliable and easy to comb. These results may be obtained from pure treatments. It is a boiling solution of pure ingredients used for Ford's Hair Pomade (OZONIZED OX MARROW) removes and prevents dandruff, itchy hair, itchiness, itigurases the scalp, stops the hair from itching and brittle, makes it grow and, by nourishing the roots, gives it new life and vigor. Being elegantly designed and harmless, it is a toilet messy for adults. It is also made by Ford's Hair Pomade (OZONIZED OX MARROW) has been made and sold continuously since 1966, and label "OZONIZED OX MARROW" remains in use. States Patent Office, in 1874. In all such long period of time there has never been a bottle returned from the hundreds of thousands we have sold. Ford's Hair Pomade (OZONIZED OX MARROW) is put up only in 50 c.c. size, and is made only in Chicago and by us. The bottle is grown in Charles Ford Treat. On each kink in the bottle, each section with every bottle. Price only 80 c.c. Nold by druggists and dealers. If your drug is not supplied you can be sure it is from the manufacturer. Or use us 50 c.c. for one in the postal or $1.00 for throw bottles or $2.50 for six bottles. The gay postage and express charges are all paid for in cash or money order, and in other this paper. Write your name and ad dress plainly to The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine, without my signature) Charles Ford Park 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. moll method. To put on good flesh and to put it on first a steer should distract slightly all the fool that he takes into his stomach. The tool should be reported carefully, in order that part of it should be placed less firmly on itself so it could be handled with care in markets, etc. If that corn is the only corn to which a steer properly is intended to be a must-on one by payment stations conducted by responsible men selected by the government. Topeka Plaindealer. Published at Topeka, Shawnee county, Kas. very Friday morning by THE PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO. THE EAST SEVENTH STREET. MICK CHILES, BUSINESS MANAGER J. M. CHILDERS, EDITOR Will Van Orsdol announces his candidacy for County Clerk, subject to the Republican primaries. George A. Huron is a candidate for Probate Judge, subject to the Republican primaries. Prof. Vernon has the same trouble in Kansas with non progressive Negroes who find fault with every man of the race who is trying to improve his condition as Prof. Booker T. Washington and other leaders of the race. The scandal monge and blackmailer lurks at every progressive person's door The good thinking and progressive people of Topeka and Kansas give no credence to such slanderous charges as were made against Prof. Vernon, but condemn the seven or eight parties in the severest terms for circulating malicious lies. Three of the parties were honorable enough to ask for their names to be withdrawn from the petition and signed affidavits swearing that they were misled as well as misinformed by the parties who circulated the petition. These parties are the avowed enemies of Prof. Vernon on account of the industrial school at Quandaro, Kans. The petition is nothing but personal aptte work. Springfield, Mo. News. Mr. and Mrs. Win Smith entertained a number of friends at dinner New Year's day, ably assisted by their daughters, Misses Naomi and Edwina Smith. The house was beautifully decorated with potted plants and Christmas colors. A dainty course dinner was served to Misses George Schultz, Davie Williams, Marie De Prist, Tent Hall, Ethal Willburn, Donis Cooper, Misses Clarence Walburn, Cedric and Darwin Cooper, Tandon and Hubert Smith, Mrs. Walburn, Mrs. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Cooper. The elegant dinner was greatly enjoyed by all. In the evening all --- POLILICAL GOSSIP. M. T. Campbell a nounces himself a candidate for probate judge, subject to the Republican primaries, March 11. He has lived in Shawnee county for thirty years and was admitted to practice law at Atchison by Judge Price. Mr. Campbell is one of the most successful lawyers in Shawnee county. He is an honest, upright and conscientious gentleman and if elected to the office of probate judge will give the people who have business with him a fair consideration. Mr. Campbell is a lifelong Republican who believes in the principles of the Republican party and strives to carry them out. JAMES W. GIBBONS. James W. Gibbons, who announces his candidacy for sheriff, is a native of St. Louis, Mo, and has been a resident of Kansas for the past 25 years. He is a foreman of the paint department of the Santa Fe shops, which position he has held for the past eighteen years. When Mr. Gibbons first came to Kansas he was a contractor and had several large painting contracts for the railroads. Afterwards he settled in Topeka and accepted the position he now holds with the Santa Fe, and has given perfect satisfaction to the company and stands well with the men under him. He is a staunch Republican and one of the leading politicians of the state. Mr. Gibbons has campaigned for the Republican State committee several times as well for the Congressional committee of the First district and also under the auspices of the Shawnee County Central committee. He stands high with the laboring people and has always espoused their cause on the rostrum, as he has been identified with them all his life and has known their needs and wants and has always favored and worked for legislation that would be for their interests. Being a laboring man, his sympathy must naturally extend in that direction. He has served this county on several delegations, both state, congressional and county. He is an industrious, courteous gentlemen, who makes friends with every one he meets. He has a host of friends, both in the city and county, who will give him their loyal support. Mr. Gibbone is a taxpayer, and the head of a family consisting of a charming wife and two children to whom he is very devoted. He has just perfected a gasoline engine which will revolutionize the world in painting. It will heat in such a manner that old paint can be removed without any difficulty. This will in a short while bring him a large sum. His home is at 400 Madison street. He is making an act to canvass for the office and the boys will have to keep their eyes open. Mrs. Emma Williams was recalled to Joplin, Mo., by the sudden illness of her sister. Mrs. Pearl Rosner passed through the city last Friday en route to her home at Begga, I. T. She spent the holidays with her parents in Emporia. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. French and Miss Carrie Barnes have returned from Saint Louis. Mr. Wallace Welch had the misfortune to have one of his eyes injured by being struck with a piece of iron. Mrs. Edith Buchanan of Kansas City, spent several weeks visiting in the city. Rev. Wm. Alexander of Sedalia, preached at the A. M. E. church all last week. Rev. J. F. Sige has had a choir stand erected in the A.M. E. church and it makes quite an improvement in the interior appearance of the edifice. The choir appreciates very highly the change. King Solomon Lodge No. 65, A. F. & A. M., recently elected the following officers: N. T. Ransom, W. M.; B. G. Ransom, S. W.; T. C. L. J. W. Robert Moore, Pty. Robert or, mary, John Place, tyler. Western University, QUINDARO, KANSAS Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Vocal), including piano, organ and harmony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Hain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. Hill City Items. Rev. Dan Hickman of Topeka, formerly a resident of this city, and who for a number of years has been a successful preacher of the Baptist church of this place, spent Christmas with relatives and friends who are always glad to see him. Rev. S. N. Lee presents at the Second Baptist church Sunday. The Knights and Ladies of the Orient gave a concert at Woodman Hall Friday night, December 22. There was be a grand social given in connection for the benefit of the Knights and Ladies of the Orient. Everybody attended and enjoyed themaches. Xmas tree together with a social time at the Baptist church Saturday night, December 23. A royal entertainment for both old and young. There was something on the tree for everybody. The ladies of the Second A. M. E. church gave a box supper for the late days. Mrs Hattie Brown of Idaho Falls came down Tuesday, Dec. 20, to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jones. Zubura Lodge No. 44 met Saturday night, December 10th and elected them officers for the annual year. Yale, Kan. There was a lecture to be given at St Paul A. M. M. church by Mr. Kunle Sakkan, the natural Hottentot, Wednesday night, but owing to the sudden eney of the weather it was postponed till some future date. Mr Tom Miller went to Guard Monday. Mr Bonwell was in Pittsburg Monday on business. Mrs Lewis gave a Christmas tree for the little folks. Mr. and Mrs Beasley from Iola were here visiting Mrs Bareley's mother. They returned to Iola Sunday. Watch meeting was held at the A M. E. and the Baptist churches New Year's eve and everyone reports an interesting meeting. Roy K. I. Green is on the sick list and has been for some time past, but at present waiting is very much improved. Mrs Sarah Monday, the sister of Mrs. Person, is very sick. Three girls of this city engaged in a hand to hand combat Monday night about a young man. The entertainment given Monday night by the K. of P's at then hall was said by all to be a grand success. The daughter of Roy and Mrs H. Goodwin of Pittsburg was in our city Monday visiting friends. Mrs Mahinda Madlock from Pittsburg is visiting friends this week. Parsons, Kan. Mrs. Edith Helm returned to Sedalia on the 27th alt. Mr. Dave Foster enjoyed a visit from a brother from Muskogee, I. T., the past week. Mr. I. T. Brown, of Muskogee, was in the city on business on the 27th. Prof. Henry Wilson of Emporna was in the city between trains on the 1st. He was returning to his school duties near Muskogee, I. T. Prof. A. F. Greene made a flying trip to Chelopa, Kan, on the 1st. Wes Miss Neil Glass returned to Muskogre, I. T. on the Lat. The Knights of Tabor gave a ball at Edward's hall on the 27th ult., and a good time was had by those in attendance. Miss Belle Franklin, of Dallas, Texas, is in the city visiting her aunt, Mrs. Sophie Blime, who is sick. Mrs. Piscilla Westfall and Mrs. Linda Williams visited in Kansas City during the past week, the guest of Mrs. Westfall's son, J. L. Crow. Mrs. Lilien Foster returned from Wichita on the 29th, where she transactioned lodge business. On Friday evening, December 30th, Mrs J. K. Sage gave a children's carnival which was thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended. The children were continued to represent Mother Goose characters and played their parts well. During an internship a program was rendered including solos, recitations and papers. A beautiful tableau closed the entertainment. Social events have been quite numerous during the holidays and the out of town guests have not lacked for entertainment On Wednesday evening, December 27th, Mrs. A. H Morton entertained a select number, complimentary to hot sushi and men of St Paul, KAN On Thursday evening Miss Isaida and Anna Bridgewater entertained about forty guests. The house was decorated in green and white with Christmas decorations. The feature of the evening was a guessing contest which was very amusing. Mr. S. O Clayton won the gentleman's prize, and Miss Pearl Brad show the Indies' prize. Refreshments of cream and cake were served on Sat and Sun evening, December 30th, Mrs. Chas tary celebrated her 28th birthday, and a large number of guests asisted to be celebrate. New Year's day, Mrs. Patsy Robertson kept open house from 10 o'clock till 12, and served chocolate to a large number of Indies who called during the two hours. Miss Nancy Poster, who was to have entertained on the 24, has postponed it owing to very inclement weather. Mr Spencer Van Winkle, of Buntington Kan was in the city a few hours Tuesday. He was returning from Yale, Kan, where he had been to take Miss Sadie Monday, who was ill, to her home. Nearly all the holiday visitors in the city have returned to their homes. Lincoln. Neb. Lincoln and Vanity greeted New Year's day with a snow storm Thomas W. Coleman, formerly of Biggs' Pharmacy soda fountain, is now hand "Soda bizzetian" at Valley & Faun's soda fountain. Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Bedell celebrated than fifteenth anniversary of marriage on January 1st. A number of friends assembled, greeting the host and hostess with a number of crystal presents. Mrs. Brown, mother of Mosdames J. I. Wright, W. W. Mosley and J. Founty, took quite all Tuesday. Mrs. A. Brown of Omaha was the guest of Mrs. G. B. Todd Xmas holidays Mrs. Alexander entertained friends to a Christmas dinner in honor of Mrs. Mrs. M. Chapman and granddaughter of Council Bluffs, were entertained at dinner last Sunday. The Aid Society of the A. M. E. church held their New Year's social Monday night at the hall. A good attendance and a success was reported. Pueblo. Colo. Mrs. Allen Duvall of Las Vegas, N. M, is in the city the guest of her brother Robert Kofford. They have sold their business at Las Vegas and are going to locate on a ranch. Presiding Elder Watson is suffering with sciatic rheumatism. Mrs. N. L Bray arrived in the city Friday evening from Louisville, Ky. She joined her husband here where they expect to reside. Mrs. Booker T. Washington is expected in the city some time in January. Honorable W. B. Townsend presented Presiding Elder Watson and wife with a nice big ham Xmas. St. John's members will keep an open house on New Year's day at the church from 2 to 5 p. m. Miss Emma Curtis was the guest of her sister, Mrs. F. W. Robinson at dinner Xmas. Mrs. Allen Duvall was the guest of Mrs. J. P. Watson at dinner Thursday. The Ladies of the Secio Club entertained their husbands Tuesday evening December 26, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rodgers, 901 West Seventeenth Street. Mrs. Emily of Denver is expected in the city this week. She will be the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. B. Townsend. The W. C. I. F. will meet Wednesday afternoon at Baltham Baptist church. Mr. Chris Holmes, one of our progress save young men, assisted in the distributing department at the postoffice during the holidays. The Ladies of the Most had watch meeting at the residence of Presiding Elder Watson's and wife. They report a splendid meeting. Mrs. Noel Curtis is expecting her husband soon from Courtland, Ala. Presiding Elder Watson will start out over his district the last of the week if his health will permit. Mrs. Diane Ashby was a pleasant caller at Mrs. Rene Nelson's Sunday afternoon. Rev. C. W. Holmes was in Canon City Sunday in the interest of the M. B. church of that city. Mrs. Chas. Holmes of 1104 Beulah avenue, who underwent a successful operation at Shallville, KY., is expected to be home soon. Mr. and Mrs. Davison are thinking of buying a home on Beulah avenue. Kansas City, Kan. Among the numerous entertainments and receptions during the holidays there was none that excited the reception given by the following young ladies Thursday afternoon and evening December 28: Misses V. Bland, I. Boone, N. Corbun, E. Bufkins, M. Jackson, B. Cole, G. Jackson, B. Burner, C. Porter, S. Harlan, T. Smothers, S. Freeman, D. Mobley, A. Montgomery, D. Vandiver, Univer D.KANSAS E. Wilson, A. Perkins, N. Penix and L. Generals. These ladies received the married ladies in the afternoon from 3 until 6, and the young people at night at Knights of Tabor Hall, corner 11th and Washington avenue. The hall was beautifully decorated with Xmas colors, holly and mistletoe. Music was furnished by the Nightingale orchestra, which occupied the front platform hid behind palms and evergreen. Punch was served by little Myrtle Hall and Stella Mitchell. The evening was very pleasantly passed with card games and dancing which lasted until the woe hours of the morning, when all departed each declaring that he had spent the most enjoyable evening of the holidays and hoping that are long these ladies would entertain again. Hill City, Kan. Xmas has come and gone and the New year brought us a gentle snow which was much needed in this part of the county. The small grain had begun to suffer. Zerbubbel Lodge No. 44 of Nicodemus and Hill City connected, gave a private entertainment December 27th and installed their newly elected officers for the ensuing year. Rev. Ross, who has charge of the A. M. E. church at Hill City and Nicodemus, spent his fifth Sunday in Lagan county where he has organized the first A. M. E. church of that place. Rev. Ross is one of the most industrious ministers of the A. M. E. church and takes a great interest in the people of Lagan county. Mr. J. B. Knuckles of Idaho Springs, Colorado, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Glenn this week. The box supper given by the ladies of the A. M. E. church was attended by a large crowd and a good time was had. Lawyer Jones returned from Kansas City Saturday after an absence of several days. Miss Mildred Jones, who has been teaching school in the southeastern part of this county, spent the holidays with her parents at Onkley, Kan. Mrs. Jones is one of Graham county's best teachers, having taught school in this county for four years and has always given perfect satisfaction. Miss Birdie Atkinson, who is teaching school at Ialun, Kansas, spent the holidays visiting her father, Swan Atkinson of this place. Miss Birdie is a graduate of Western Tuskegee and her many, many friends wish her much success. She returned Monday, January 1st, to take charge of her school the first of the year. 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 TOPE TOPEKA. sity, The Great Educational Institution or Kansas ana the West Departments Theological College, Normal Sub-Normal and State Normal. the Great West. s Faithful Climate, Good In- s. n all inducements offered, --- W.M. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office 606 Kansas Ave. L. 914IND. TOPEKA, KANSAS BELL PHONE 1091 MAIN OFFICE HOURS {7 to 10 A.M. 12 M. to 4 P.M. Ind. Phone 909. {7 to 10 P.M. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Examining Physician of the Knights and Ladies Actus. Special Attention to descent of women and private descent. Office and Residence. 227 Madison Street NEWS OF THE WEEK. Mrs. S. P. Jordan has been on the sick list. Rev. Ransom is confined to his room in Baxter Springs with mumps. Miss Byanna Smith is spending a few days in Kansas City this week. Mrs. J. M. Wright and Miss Inez Wood returned from Kansas City last week. Mrs. Martha Christain and daughter left for Hannesy, Okla. to visit relatives this week. The Sewing Circle of St. John's A. M. E. Church met Wednesday afternoon at the church. Mrs. Rev. Pope and little daughter of Lawrence are visiting in the city, the guests of Mrs. Buchanan, Miss Evelina Robinson and brother, Harley, of Great Bend are visiting in the city the guests of Miss Jennie Buchanan. Mrs. Enola Wade, who has been in Chicago for the past several months, arrived in the city Sunday to remain. Arche Ray, the tonsorial artist of Emporia was in the city yesterday between trains enroute to Atchison, where he has a position. Roy McCoy, age 3 years, died Monday of diptheria. He was the son of Jas. McCoy of 952 N. Western Ave. Interment in the Topeka cemetery. The Atheneum Art club met with Mrs. Eli Cruise, 717 Jackson and was highly entertained. A lunch con was served at 4 oclock and they adjourned to meet with Mrs Wm. Jenkins, 1203 West Laurent, North Topeka, Jan. 16. Mrs. Gertfude Mallory, beloved wife of Irvin Mallory, died at Christ hospital last Friday. She had been ailing for sometimes, but during the past few months had apparently been in good health. The funeral was held from the M. E. Church. The Shamrock club met with Mrs. C. Meaux Tuesday. An hour was devoted to needle work, after which the regular club menu was served. The next meeting will be with Mrs. W. A. Mitchell, 1228 Buchanan, Jan 16. All members are expected to be in attendance. Miss Samella Lacey entertained about thirty guests at her home 1403 Tyler street, in honor of the Rev. H. H. Hawkins, former pastor of the C. M. E. Church previous to his departure for his new obarge. A delicious luncheon was served and the guests spent a delightful evening in social conversation. We had sent to us last week a paper published at Boston, Mass., showing the photograph of a group of school boys in Berlin, Germany, of which two are American Negroes, who are arm in arm with the German boys,—all as happy as larks, showing that the Germans have some good sense and do not teach prejudice to the children. The officers of Excelsior Lodge, No. 3 Knights of Pythians was officially installed at their last meeting as follows: J. F. Armstrong, C. C; J. R. Taylor, V. C., M. M. Greer, Prel; G. W. Jackson, M. of W.; Emory Slaughter, K. of R. and S; W. W. Plumb, M of F; J. H. Guy, M of F; Trustees, H. I. Monroe, B. Pope, H. W. Dillard; J. C. Wilson, M at A: Wellington Porter, I G: Neuralgia And Other Pain. All pain in any disease is nerve pain, the result of a turbulent condition of the nerves. The stabbing, lacerating, darting, burning, agonizing pain that comes from the prominent nerve branches, or sensory nerves, is neuralgia, and is the "big brother" of all the other pains. 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The following officers were elected and installed for the ensuing term by Prince Albert Court No. 85 I. O. O Calanthe at their last meeting: Agnes Persley, W C; Ogeal Wilson, W I, Dora Skearce, W I; Elizabeth Kercherval, W O; Lula Harris, R of D; Myrtle Pope, R of A; Mary Greer, R of D; Mrs. King, J D; Lydia Raimey, S D; Mary Sneed, Con; Bessie Johnson, A Con; Wm Plumb, W H; B. Pope, W P. Installing officer, Miss Ogeal Wilson, made a very appropriate address to the officers immediately after installation. The next regular meeting will be held on Jan. 18 at 3 p.m. All members are required to be present. Joplin, Mo. A most delightful dinner party was given by Mr. and Mrs. J. Stover to a few of their many friends on Tuesday, Jan. 2. The guests included Messis, and麦德蒙 Jas, Cox, Chas, Knaves, H. H. Curtis, G Grammar, N. T. Green, E. R. Suttell and R. Penson, the Miss Canole and Greens, the Miss Panna Lane, Laha Elmore, Beatrice Canole, Melissa Fuell, Schley Winston and Emma Stover, the Messis, S. H. Houston, Ino Phillips, Chas. Brooks, Jackson Phillips, Jas. Smith, and Joe Shepard. Wagoner, I. T. Please allow me space in your paper to say a few words for Wagner as I have never seen anything about it in your valuable paper. We the United Brothers of Friend ship of Beauty One Lodge No. 78 and S. M. P of Valentine Temple No. 70 were installed in the Masone Hall Dec. 28, 1905, by our worthy Brother P Delney. D D G. M, or P. Smith, Mk Those installed were R Brown, W M, W Green, D M, L. F Ford, W S., R None, W C, R Taylor, R S J Davis, L. S. Win Nichols, W F H A Andoom, W P, M. L. Jones, V P, I L. Swift, W E, L. C. Swift, W T, M Taylor, W C, C, J. Ryles, W I, R. R. Trustee, S. Staufor, S. M, D Higgans, Jr. M, S. Taylor, O G K, L. Anderson, L. G. C. The house was well filled with spectators Bros. Prof Wallace and C Alexander of Lincoln No. 39 and Sister K Vann, L. Curtis, A Leak, of Naoni No. 37, took a part with us. You are welcome. Call again. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Laura Friedrick, Plaintiff. State of Kannas to the defendant, Charles Friedrick, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the plaintiff, Laura Friedrick, and that you must answer her petition filed therein on or before the gard day of February, 1906, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered divorcing said plaintiff from you, the said defendant, on the grounds of abandonment, non-support and cruel and inhuman treatment, and for costs of suit. Laura Friedrick, Plaintiff. B. Jas. C. Sylvan, L. M. R. Attorney L. Curtis, Clerk. Rising Sun Fire Insurance Co., OF THE INDIAN TERRITORY. OFFICE: 18 West Okmulgee Avenue, Muskogee, Indian Territory. 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The Negro must be educated if he is to advance." Larned. Kan. Miss Naomi Madison is on the sick list. The entertainment given at the second Baptist church was a grand success. Quite a number of out of town guests were present. Miss Lucile Johnson and Lala Moore were the guests of Miss Munta Smith Xmas. Mr. and Mrs. Brownie James of Hutchinson, spent Xmas with Mrs. Will Jones. Miss Marie Smith, Chas. Fox, and Squire Simpson spent Xmas in Sterling. While there they were the guests of Mrs. Levi Kern and Bernice Rawlins. Miss Fya Bradshaw spent the holidays with her grandmother, Mrs. B. P. Lowne. Miss Sally Wade entertained about thirty invited guests at dinner Monday, Jan. 1st. Mrs. Susie Jones presided at the punch bowl where the guests toasted the birthday of their hostess, wishing her many happy returns of the same. Mrs. Wade conducted the guests to the dining room where the table fairly groaned beneath the weight of delicious worms. A magnificent five course dinner was served by her meces Misses Sai, and Lala Hawkins who were ably assisted. Mrs. Susie Jones and N.J. Hall To say of Mrs. Wade is accomplished in the course, it is saving but little for on this occasion she can pass all former efforts. Albuquerque, N. M. A pleasant surprise party was given Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fields of North Broadway last Friday evening. A most enjoyable time was had. The ladies of the Coal Avenue A. M. E. church served an old fashioned child in supper on Friday evening the 5th. They reported both a pleasant time and a success financially. Mrs. G. H. Byars, wife of our esteemed pastor, Rev. G. H. Byars, returned a few days ago from Quindaro, Kan, where she had been called on account of the illness of her mother. That old familial smile can be seen on Rev. Byars' face again. George A. Miller, one of Albuquerque's priests, died at the Nisset's hospital on the 4th inst of tuberculosis. The funeral was preached by Rev. M. 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Joseph Johnson and Green Watson this week. Miss Hattie M. Patton has returned from Kansas City where she spent the holidays visiting relatives and friends. James Fortson, of Hopkinsville, Ky., who has been visiting relatives in the city, returned to his home Monday. The Little Rose of England club met Wednesday afternoon with Miss Eva Payton, 215 West 5th. street They adjourned to meet with Miss Mable Gays, 1020 Chase street The Thimble Art club met with Miss Luella Gentry at her home in Lowman hill. The next meeting will be with Miss Mammie Davis in North Topeka. Mrs. T J. Carr, who has been visiting relatives in Clarksville, Tenn, arrived in the city last Thursday to join her husband, who is pastor of the First African Baptist church. Wm. Moore of Nicodemus, Kans. but who has been living in Topeka for the past two years, has been appointed substitute railway mail clerk with headquarters in Kansas City. The Excelsor Art club met with Mrs. Gunter 1424 N. Kansas Ave. The visitors were Misses Fort, Wims, Hatcher, Norman and Mrs. Cole. After a dainty lunch, they adjourned to meet with Mrs. Bryant. The Dumas club held its last meeting with Mrs. G D. Raimey, 1406 Quincy street. The next meeting will be held Jan. 19, with Mrs. M. Bradshaw, 211 East 14th street. A surprise party was given on Miss Alberta Guy by her parents at their residence on Western Ave one night last week. She received many presents and the young people enjoyed themselves immensely and were loath to leave at the conventional time. The marraige of Miss Mary Lott son and A. W. Nix, last Thursday evening at Shiloh Baptist Church, was witnessed by many friends. The wedding march was played by the organist, Mrs. Brown and after the ceremony a number of friends were received at the new home 1180 Fillmore. On Friday evening of last week Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Brantley and Mr. and Mrs. James Richardson very pleasantly entertained a few of their friends at their home, 410 Kansas Ave. Music and whist were the features of the evening. A most delicious three course funcheon was served. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Johns, Mrs. Chloe Ramsey, Misses Pearl Hightower, Pauline Jones, Messrs. James Moth el, Frank Harris, Richard Harris and J. M. Dorsey. Rev. David Sims, formerly of Topeka and later of Dover, I. T., preached at Brown's Chapel, Sunday evening. His sermon was a masterly one ably delivered. All felt lifted up after listening to the beautiful discourse. Rev. Sims was passing through this city coroute for Wilberforce where he expects to take a theological course to better fit himself for the ministerial life he has chosen. We wish him success in his ventures. He is one of our Topeka boys and deserves the best that can be given him. Mrs Lee Anderson entertained the following friends at lunch Tuesday evening. Meridamus Mabo Thompson, Matta Tundy, Misses Mollie Prent, Lizzie Owens, Maitie Sueel, Monica Loll, Rivanna Dyer, Liaa Thompson, Mrs. Frank Will, Robert and Lily Perkins. In evening was spent in conversation and music. Every one reported a delightful time. To the Editor:—We desire to inform the public that we are not the official undertakers for the Burial League of the United States, and we are not connected with it in any way whatever. It is a fraud concern. They owe death claims, advertising and printing bills. We desire the public to take notice that we have commenced prosecution against this concern that is defrauding our people in this and other states. STONESBRELL & HAMILTON. NEWTON NEWS. Rev. Burwell, of Wichita, is assisting Rev. Denton, pastor, of the 2nd Baptist Church, in a series of meetings. Rev. Garnett, a former citizen of this city but now of Arkansas City, passed through Newton last week, on route for Great Bend, Kansas, to help Rev. W. H. Turner, pastor of the Baptist Church in that city, with a revival meeting. We are glad to know that Miss Eunice Coleman has completed the course of the dressmaking trade, and was presented with her diploma on Namsday. She is now ready to sew by the piece or the day, and is in accomplished scholar in cutting and fitting for ladies, misses or children. Mrs. Sank Dickerson is on the sick list. Mrs. Reevely and grandson are now the guests of her son, Mr H. Reevely, and family. Mrs B. is of Carrolton, Mo. Joseph Hart is still on the sick list. Capt Payne and wife returned from a visit in the East and report a pleasant and enjoyable trip. Rev Burnell and wife, of Wichita, are in the city. Rev Branigin is on the sick list. Edward Scott and wife, of this city, are the proud parents of a fine baby boy. Mother and son doing well. Mrs Felix Jodson is on the sick list. HASTINGS, NEB. The weather during the holidays has been fine. Robert Walker and Albert Riley of Overton, Neb., visited in this city last week. John Williams and wife visited relatives and friends in Overton. Miss Kate Woods has been quite ill at her home on Belleview Ave., but is now rapidly recovering. Edgus Camper and Gary Gates visited in Grand Island, Sunday. Mrs Foster and daughter Eleanor spent the holidays in Omaha and Lincoln. They report a nice time. Rev J. H. Taylor has gone to Lincoln to hold a two weeks revival meeting. The Christmas tree at Hamilton M E church was a garnd affair and beautiful presents were received, a supper being served after the exercises. Frank Camper and wife pleasantly entertained a few friends monday at 2 o'clock dinner complimentary to Robert Walker and Albert Riley. Guents wore Messrs. Oscar Stewart, and Arthur Hughen and wives, Mrs John Williams, Mrs. Octavia Briley and little nons Cecil and Raymond. All departed reporting a delightful time. John Huff and wife gave a four o'clock dinner last monday to the following guests: Rev J. H. Taylor and daughter, and John Wright, wife and children. Colonel Hull presented his mother with a $500 prize for a Nina present. Paul Smith has returned from Cuney. ATCHOSOX. William Briggs is able to resume his duties at the resturant after an illness of two weeks. Mrs Winifred Morton, Mrs Thomas Morton, E. Smith and R. extended the New Year party in Lawrence. George Gross, of R. Lynd, Coventry, sent a day of the work in the city with Prof W. E. Gray. Mrs Henry Jones entertained at her home on Saturday evening, in honor of the nineteenth birthday of her niece, Miss Stella Roy. The house was very prettily decorated for the occasion. Miss Roy received many useful and beautiful presents. During the evening various games were were played and a dainty luncheon was served. At a late hour the guests departed with good wishes for the hostess and Miss Roy. Miss Emma Matthews entertained the whist club Saturday afternoon, in honor of Miss L. Mitchel, of Yankton, South Dakota. The prize was won by Miss Winifred Morton, which was given to the guest of honor. The second prize was won by Miss Virginia S. Clair. Arthur Harris spent a few days of this week in the city in the interest of the Knights and Daughters of Protection, and to pay the death claim of John Dysart. Mrs. J. W. Wilson is reported quite ill. Washington special to the Topeka State Journal says; What a colored woman thinks of society in general and Washington society in particular is a part of the record in a case now pencing in the New York courts. Mrs. Anna J. Cooper is the lady in question. She is a graduate of Oberlin college and assistant principal of the Washington high school. She lives at 1706 Seventh street, Washington, D. C. Some time ago, Mrs. Cooper, through the influence of Mrs. Beulah Ray Penny, wife of Prof. Penny of the Kansas College of Music at Topeka, signed an application for membership in an "around the world excursion," managed by Frank G. Clark of New York. She paid her deposit and received a reply from Clark, who wrote: 'We should be glad indeed if you decide to go with us. We can assure you a delightful trip.' Three days later Clark learned that Mrs Cooper was colored and therefore returned her money and denied her application to join the excursion. Mrs. Cooper thereupon sued Clark for $10,000 damages and then engaged passage to Europe on her own account. She tagged the Clark party around Europe, visiting the places they visited, and paying her way with $500 worth of travel tickets she had bought from another excursion firm in New York, but she missed, as she explains on the stand, the valuable educational features in the shape of the lectures of the guides that took part in the excursion. In explanation of her demand for damages, based on an alleged breach of contract, Mrs. Cooper declared, 'As a woman of education and refinement I suffered considerable indignity and mortification when the fact became known among my friends in Washington that I was not to be a member of the Clark tour, and that my deposit had been returned.' HER VIEWS OF SOCIETY. 'Are you in good standing in Washington society?' Mrs. Cooper was asked on cross-examination. 'I think I am; I claim to be,' was her answer. 'You know what good society in Washington means—that it consists exclusively of the president and his cabinet, the supreme court, the senators, a few representatives, the army and the navy—do you not?' continued Alexander S. Bacon, who represented Clark in the trial, 'and that outside of those few noboby can get into it—isn't that a fact' 'This is democratic America. We believe in America that a man is a man,' replied Mrs Cooper. 'But we are speaking of aristocratic Washington,' interposed Mr. Bacon. SOCIETY AND INTELLIGENCE 'And when we speak of good society,' retorted Mrs. Cooper, 'we understand by that people in good standing in the community and people of good character' 'It is not a fact, Mr. Bacon asked, that society means something more than good moral character and intelligence, and that people in the highest society do not always have the best intelligence? the best intelligence?' 'Well, I do not suppose I know how much of this may be material to the point. The term society is used in different senses by different people; but in my own society I feel my standing is a part of my woaking capital as a teacher, just as the insignia of office of a judge, for instance, may be to him and to the community, so my status in the society in which I move represents to me a part of, as I might say, my working capital' CLAIMS MANY WHITE FRIENDS Mrs. Cooper said she numbered many white persons among her friends in Washington and else where, although a majority of her friends are colored. Mrs. Cooper was then examined as to the details of her trip to prove her exact expenses. As no legal contract had been proven the suit was dismissed. TO KEEP MILK SWEET. Mr W. J. Prazer, of the Illinois exp amment station, gives the following suggestions as to how to secure milk from your own cows that will keep sweet for a reasonable length of time. Keep the cows clean, and do not compel or allow them to wade and live in fath. This means clean yards and clean, well bedded stalls. Everything short of this is positively repulsive and should not be tolerated any longer in a civil and community. Stop the silky habit known as "wetting the teats," by which is meant the drawing of a little milk into the hands with which to wet the teats before and during milking, leaving the hands and teats in the pail. Wash all utensils clean by first using lukewarm water, afterwards washing in warm water, and rinsing in an abundance of boiling water, then exposing until the next using in direct sunlight, which is a good sterilizer. Use milk pails, cans, etc., for no other purpose but to hold milk. Keep out of these intensils all sour or tainted milk, even after they have been used for the day. Using them for this purpose at any time infects them so badly that no amount of washing is likely to clean them. Bacteria are invisible, and millions can find lodging in the thin film of moisture that not on after dishes are apparently in. Bush down the celwebs and put barn free from accumulations and trash. Whitewash the barn at least once a month. The reasons on the above suggest that are as follows. All sour milk is due to the presence of germs. These are almost not in every stable; more almond in a dark stable than in one well light for the person that the sunlight kills the germs; more abundant in a fairly stable than in a clean one. They are found on the uller of the cow and on the hair. They are found in the tests itself, where they establish themselves in little colonies. Hence when the farmer milks on his hands and wets the teats he not only gets a colony of germs in the milk started, but he gets with it a solution of whatever filth there may be on the teats. The very first milk should be milked on the ground and not in the paul. Wash the germs out of the teats by two or three motions, letting these go on the floor. Germs harbor in the paul, hence the necessity for absolute cleanliness. A paul that has held sour milk will be admirably stocked with germs, which even warm water can not remove immediately. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the D strict Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Ilara C. Whitta, plaintiff. William A. Whitla, defendant, State of Kansas to William A. Whitla, greeting: You are hereby notified that Clara C. Whitla has filed in the above cited case and court her actie against you wherein she prays for a divorce and that certain property said petition described, be decreed to be the property of said Clara C. Whitla, and that unless you answer the petition of the plaintiff or be fore 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. [STAT] Clerk of Bail Court W. S. McClintock. Attorney for Plaintiff HOWEK WILKARD, 1009 St. Louis Avenue, North of Vladuct and Union St. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. W. M. AILSTOCK, Prop. When in Lawrence Stop at the Times Bldg, Leaveaworth, Kansas, AGENT FOR Heim's Famous Beer. Sample Room la Connection. KING HOTEL Orders Shipped to All Parts of the Country. SPECIAL BREW-hypertenser, the Best on the Market. First-Class Board and Lod 4mg Ice Cream and Cigars. P The American Collection D. Waddington, Proprietor. Agency 412 Kansas Ave TOPEKA, KAN ANTHONY A Attorney WAITERS AND PORTERS' Headquarters! WAITERS AND PORTERS' We make collections in all parts lot of the United States. No fees charged until collection is made. CHAS. PHELPS' Barber Shop is where you meet them. The leading barber shop in the city....... L. J. Maddux, When You Travel select a railway as you do your clothes KATY SERVICE (Missouri, Illinois & Texas Railway) Suggests Comfortable and Convenient Trains. The "KATY FLYER" and KATY DINING STATIONS Meals Moderate in Price, Unpressed in Quality and Service. Staple and Fancy... Groceries Meats and all kinds of Produce. Home'Phone 784 West. 852 Freeman Ave 49 Kansas City, Ks R.J.Smith R. Lowry. When in Leavenworth call on these gentlemen at ```markdown ``` Open day and nigh. Refreshments of all kinds. 416 Cherokee Street. HOUSES to RENT. Nectly Furnished and Unfurnished Rooms. Also Rooms for Light Housekeeping. 1107 N. 6TH ST. S. M. POWELL, PROP., Kansas Credit Co., Money to Loan Home Phone 5913 Main Open Day and Night Royal Cafe Regular Meals Money to Loan On Household Goods, Live Stock and Jewelry. Wm. McKNIGAT, Mgr. J. T. MORELAND, Sec. T. N. COLLINS, Head Barber. Waiters Catering Association, 1223 BALTIMORL AVE. WAITERS, PORTES AND ALL STRAINGERS When in Kansas City are invited to visit the Association. Neatly furnished Rooms. Baths a Specialty. BUFFET. LICENSED BARBERS Fred M. Stonecrest. G. W. Hamilton. Stonestreet & Hamilton, Successors to J. M. Knight. Undertakers and Embalmers. Waiters Catering Association, 1223 BALTIMORL AVE. WAITERS, PORTES AND ALL STRAINGERS When in Kansas City are invited to visit the Association. Neatly furnished Rooms. Baths a Specialty. --- Stonestreet & Hamilton. Successors to J. M. Knight. Undertakers and Embalmers. --- We carry out the most lines of Undertaking goods in Topeka. Corner 7th and Quincy Sts. Topeka, Kansas. We carry out with the finest lines of Undertaking goods in Topeka. Corner 7th and Quincy St. Topeka, Kansas. JOIN OUR CIRCLE THE PLAINDEALER Is Considered a Household Necessity in 5,000 of the Best Homes in Kansas! The Paper Growing Better - While the Price Remains the Same 40 Per Cent. to Hustling Write us for Particulars the community's good. I consider him one of the most worthy young men of his race in Missouri, and am pleased to commend him to his people and present him to the Western public. JAMES M. GREENWOOD. [EDITOR'S NOTE—Dr. Greenwood is superintendent of Kansas City schools, president of Missouri State Teacher's association, ex president of N. E. A and one of the foremost authors and educators in the United States.] In the summer of 1893 I. M. Horton, a beardless youth, collected all his earthly belongings, one hickory shirt and two dollars) shook the dust of his native city, Augusta, from his feet and made a bee line for Kansas City. After many hardships incident to his mode of transportation, he reached Kansas City about the middle of August. On the day of his arrival he went into business (boot blacking) and continued until he had saved enough money to purchase a barber shop, which he successfully conducted for several years, selling out at a handsome profit. He deposited his money in the bank and applied to the Pullman company for work. Being just the kind of young man wanted by this company, he was employed at once. Leaving the Pullman company after he had seen all of the country he desired to see, he returned to Kansas City and entered the public schools. Up to this time he had had but little or no training and could scarcely write his name, but by dint of hard work, push and energy, he finished in one year the grammar school course, and entered the High School, graduating therefrom in two years. Not being satisfied with a mere High School education, Mr. Horton entered Lincoln institute, the state university of Missouri for Negro youth, and graduated with high honors in the class of 1901. During his entire school career he earned support by doing odd jobs. Mr. Horton, upon his graduation, was called to the principalship of the famous Lebanon schools, succeeding such teachers as Professor W. T Vernon and A. W. Williams of Chicago. At Lebanon his work was of such a high character that he was, at the expiration of his term, unanimously elected in Kansas City, where he has made a record of which any young man might feel proud. As an orator, Mr. Horton takes rank among the leading young men of the race, and with more study and development will some easily class with such men as Dr. Vernon, Hon. N. C. Crews and Prof J D Bowser. Mr. Horton is one of the most active of the younger set of Kansas City young men. In the church, V. M. C. A., charity work and fraternal organizations, he is the same energetic, forceful character. He is acquiring residence and business property in Kausa City which will soon place him among the foremost of solid Missourians. The Inter State Literary society of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Nebraska, Colorado and Iowa is the leading organization of educated Negroes in the West. Mr. Horton as chairman of the executive committee of this society, made the Kansas City meeting the most brilliant in its history and was, as a result thereof, made its president. The Kansas meeting of the Inter- State Literary society was by far the most interesting in its history of fif- teen years. The papers, in the main, were of a high class. The several musical productions would have re- flected credit upon the most finished German and Italian musicians. The oratory by those who took part in the contest displayed much ability and careful training. The recitations proved a rare treat and marked the entrance of a young asplants for elocutionary honors who will be heard from in the future. The cordial support given the association by the citizens of Kansas City was gratifying, and proved the oft asserted statement that this city is the home of more educated Negroes than can be found in any other ```markdown ``` The case with which the president, J. H. Guy of Topeka, conducted the meeting was a departure from that of the average Negro gathering, conclusively proving that we are gradually coming to the front all lines. After an existence of fifteen years and showing so much vitality, it is to be hoped that the public as well those who are to control its destinies for the next year will not let the interest grow less, but make it in the future what it is destined to be a powerful agent for good among the Negroes of the great West. PITTSBURG, KANS. Mrs. Cabby Hogan entertained the ladies' social club at her home on Tenth street Saturday afternoon. The house was beautifully decorated with carnations and American Beauty roses. After whist an elaborate course luncheon was served. Mrs. New Pierce entertained at her home, 312 West Forest in honor of Mrs. Stuart Parker and Miss Tillie Weaver of Springfield. BOYN1OX. I. T. Rev. Wm. H. Bachanan of Ash Creek preached at Allen chapel last Sunday night. It was an able sermon. Rev I G Strothers has accepted the call of the Baptist church of Haskell, I T. John Rentue has received his traction engine, 19 horse power and is preparing to run a threer next season. Misses Edith and Lizzie Brown and their brother, Frank, left Tuesday for Western University. "I the work on the Methodist church is being pushed, and the ladies furnish big dinners daily. It is hoped that the house will be ready for occupancy soon. There being some doubt in the minds of some as to the time of the next payment on town lots, the writer telephoned to the Indian agent at Muskogee, who replied: "The fifteen per cent payment is due six months from time of service or four months from the time the ten per cent payment was due." Ben Rich of Talt, I. T says that town is a black man's town and is growing rapidly. T. C. Cleveland, a practical miner has opened a coal mine on Thomas Harris' estate. Negroes and Juries. In a case carried from Grayson county, Texas to the federal Supreme court some years since, it was held by that tribunal that there must be no discrimination against the Negro as a juror, and as a result the rule in Texas has since been that there must be some Negroes on the panel drawn for grand jurors and also on special venires in cases where Negroes are on trial. However, it has been contended that it is not essential that the Negroes serve—only that they are drawn, and if they do not qualify, the point has been covered. In many instances the blacks do qualify and serve without discrimination, but in a case (that of Marcellus Thomas, a Negro given the death penalty) which it is now proposed to carry to the federal supreme court from Harris county an endeavor will be made to establish the point that the names of Negroes on the grand and petit jury panels, as well as on the special venires, must be in proportion to the number of qualified jurors as divided between the races. It is contended that in Harris county, for instance, there are three Negroes in every seven qualified jurors in the county, hence that that proportion must be observed in drawing names for grand jury service as well as for the trial of all cases, whether the defendant be white or black If such a point should be sustained by the federal Supreme Court, there would be consternation throughout the South as the decision would apply to every state in the union. The decision referred to in the first paragraph was in the case of Rob Smith, taken up from Grayson county, and when it was delivered there was wide discussion throughout the South Inasmuch as in a number of counties in various states the Negroes outnumber the whites, the effect of trying Negroes under such a rule as is proposed is obvious.—Globe-Democrat. BOYNTON, L. T. J. B. Smith has opened a second barbershop on Seamon avenue, and has put in a bath tub. This shop is for the accommodations of the whites. Paul L. Meriwether is in charge. Rev. J. D. Morrow is here in answer to a call to the pastorate of the Mt. Zion Baptist church. He has accepted the call, and preached a fine sermon Monday night. H. J. Colbert has returned from an extended visit through the I. T. L. Z. Howard has moved his family to New Town where he will reside for the present. Mrs. Roberta Buchanan and Miss Willa Buchanan have returned from Coweta where they spent the Xmas holidays. Mrs. Addie McIntosh of Muskogee was in town last week. Rev. J. C. Hicks is ont again and preached two able sermons Sunday to the largest audiences he as ever faced in Boynton. A part of the audience was white. Attorney Meriwether is attending court at Muskogee. The J. S. Carter Sons again have a monopoly on the water hauling trade. Their superior facilities have enabled them to drive all competitors from the field. They are constantly making improvements, the latest being the issuance of water tickets. At the first meeting this year of Boynton Light Lodge No. 6377, G. V. O. of O. F., the annual election of officers took place as follows: B. C. Making, E. S.; H. W. Carter, P. S.; David Bell, W. C.; J. B. Smith, W. T.; R. E. L. Mitchell, advocate; R. M. McGuff, warden. One officer was passed—Geo. T. Robinson from P. N. G. to N. F. The installation took place Tuesday night and wound up with the usual spread. Mrs. Julia Carter entertained the ladies mission army this week. Merdames H. W. and R. H. Carter have returned from Muskogee where they spent a few days with their parents. Two brothers married two sisters, the Misses Sims. Theodore Russell, late of Langston; Okla., is in the city. VINITA, L. T. W. H Twine, one of the leading lawyers of Muskogee, was in the city last week on business. Miss Willa Bunch who visited five months with her father at Eufaula, returned home last week. The Pleasant Hour social club gave a swell ball at Jordan's hall Monday evening, about seventy-five couples being present. Music was furnished by the club and all enjoyed a pleasant evening. Miss Georgia Rider was on the sick list last week. Henry Pack was in the city last Thursday on business. Miss Lazzie Davis made a flying trip to Muskogee last week. Josh Holt and wife are now located on East 2nd street. Miss Mollie Hawkins visited at Ft. Gibson last week. Miss Sadie Davis is home from Grand River where she has been teaching school. Altha Moore is still on the sick list. Mrs. T. H. Finley is reported somewhat improved this week. Glo. B. Buckner loaded a car with horses and farm implements last Friday and stalled for western California where he has a fine farm. His wife and daughter left about two months ago for California. Mr. Hubbard Starr of Lightning Creek was married to Miss Emma Munson of Big Creek on Monday evening of last week. Roy Baldridge and wife of Chel SAVAGE SIMMS Miss Mayne Simms, formerly of Ottawa, Kans. and I Mr. Thomas savage of Perry, O. I were married De 26th, at Bathlehem Baptist church The bride was beautifully attire I pure white silk crepe de chine and chiffon, the veil being caught with orange blossoms The bridesmaid, Miss Mattie Allen of Kingfisher, O. T, was attired in pale blue. Miss Naomi Lewis officiated at the organ, Mr. Edgar Johnson was best man. The ceremony was performed by Rev. A. W. Lewis. Mr. Savage is a successful farmer, while the bride has taught school in this vicinity for six years. ANNUAL MEETING KANSAS CORN BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting and Corn Show of the Kansas Corn Breeders' Association will be held at Manhattan, Kan, January 22, 23 and 21, 1900. The meeting begins with an evening session January 22 at 8 p.m. Hon. Edward Taylor of Edwardsville, Kan, will speak on "Reciprocity and Markets" He has made a specialty of corn, alfalfa and potatoes and is well informed on the subjects upon which he will lecture. Prof. W. J. Spillman, head of the grass and forage plants investigation interests of the United States Department of Agriculture, will talk on "Mondale's Law and Its Application to Practical Problems in Corn Breeding" At 8:30 a.m. January 27 corn judging classes will be held in which the members of the association and farmers will be given practice work in judging corn. At 10 a.m. m. Supt. C. H. Piling of the Pt. Hays experiment station will lecture on "Development of Corns for Western Kansas." Farmers of the western part of the state are attempting to take corn farther and farther west. At present there is no recognized well bred coom which may be recommended for Western Kansas, and Superintendent Elling's discussion of this subject will be very timely. Prof. W. J. Spillman will again talk on "The Value of Good Management on the Farm." He has made a special study of farm management since being connected with the government work, and has established several model farms in the southern states. At 1:30 p. m. Dr. C. G. Hopkins, professor of agronomy and chemistry of the University of Illinois, Champaign, will speak on "Practical Corn Breeding for Improvement In Yield and Value." Professor Hopkins and his twelve assistants have done a great deal to improve the protein and oil content of corn, and he is considered a leader in the ear test work. in corn breeding, and has issued many valuable bulletins upon this subject. Following this, reports will be heard from the farmers who competed in the "Hold Per Acre Contest," in which they will tell how they grew their big yields of corn. At the same session D. Ward king of Muttland, Mo, well known as the originator of the King Road Drug," will speak on "Glood Roads." After the lecture an opportunity will be given to see the drag in operation on the roads. At the evening session, 8 p.m., announcements of the awards of prizes in the corn exhibits will be made. Following this Mr. C. P. Hutley, a graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural College, now assistant physiologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and known as Uncle Sam's Corn Breeder, will give a lecture on "Corn Breeding," with stoplight illustrations. All subjects upon which lectures are given will be open for discussion. The morning session of January 21 will begin at 8:00 with a corn-judging class. This will be followed by a business session presided over by the president of the association, Ion. J. W. Robinson of Lowanda, San. Others for the ensuing year will be elected. Further corn-judging work will be given from 1:00 to 3:00 p. m. Aside from the commercial agriculturists which have been secured for the program a special feature of this meeting will be the instruction given the farmers in corn-judging. The agricultural department of the college has numerous inquiries for information upon this subject but it is practically impossible to give instruction in regard to it through correspondence. In these classes the farmers will not only receive lectures upon corn-judging but will devote considerable time to practical work and will be assisted by capable instructors. Of the eighty varieties of corn tested at the kansas experiment station during the past three years a large per cent of those producing the highest yields are native corn. Each member and visitor is requested to bring a ten ear sample of corn, representing his ideal type, whether it is one of the so-called pure varieties or a native corn, which samples may be entered without fee in the competitive exhibits. Prices to the value of several hundred dollars are offered in the various classes, and the prices to be offered for the ensuing year will be announced at this meeting. There has been a great awakening on the subject of corn breeding in Kansas the past year and a large attendance is expected at the coming show. A good program and a good time are assured. One and one third fare rates for the round trip on the certificate plan have been granted on all Kansas railroads. In order for members and visitors to avail themselves of these rates it will be necessary for them to secure of the local agent a Manhattan, which when properly certificate or receipt for the fare paid to fled by the secretary of the association and joint ticket agent will be good for the purchase of a return ticket for one third fare. STOCKING WITH THE BEST. J. C. Elford in the Farm Stock Journal advises that in April or May several sittings of eggs from pure bred utility type fowls should be bought; twenty-five to thirty chickens should be reared. The cockrels should be fatted in the fall and disposed of, and the pure bred pullets retained for the following year's breeding pen. By this means a farmer can stock his farm with pure bred poultry in two years. When the flock of poultry is large and has unlimited range a utility type cockrel should be used for every fifteen hens. The other male birds of the flock should be disposed of; also the hens more than 21'5 years old and any fowls not in active or healthy condition, it is preferable, however, to obtain the eggs for hatching from a breeding pen of pure bred male and ten of the best hens of the flock rather than from all the layers indiscriminately. A pure bred utility cockerel and ten pullets should be bought in the fall and should constitute the next year's breeding pen. In buying eggs for hatching or pure bred fowls for poultry farming a preference should be given to flocks of poultry that have been bred for winter laying. The cockerels should be sold in the early fall. Unless they are housed in the fields and require little attention or extra feed, the most profitable age for marketing is 4 months. After this age the cost of feed per pound of gain in live weight of the cockerels rapidly increases. When cockerels are kept on the farm until they are 0 or 7 months old the profits are materially reduced. The winter production of eggs is the most valuable asset of the pullets. Early winter laying demands liberal feeding, which included in addition to the grain, waste meat, or animal food, and vegetable food. The pullets should be comfortably and permanently housed in the fall; transferring mature pullets to a strange pen defers egg production. Pullets are more profitable egg producers than hens. At the agricultural experiment station at Utah, experiments showed that the profit from young hens or pullets was about five times greater than that from the old hens. Not only did the old hens lay considerably fewer eggs, but the eggs were worth less per dozen. This is accounted for by the fact that the pullets had a larger proportion of their eggs in early winter, when the price was good. The old hens were three to four years old. The results of this experiment have been accomplished with fowls kept in confinement. During the winter months, a period of between three and four months they were not outside of the building. With many poultrymen and farmers the idea is prevalent that if a hen lays only a few eggs the first year she is more likely to do well the second year. Whenever experiments have been carried on the results go to prove that hens that yield 100 eggs or less the first year are light layers the second. On the other hand, those that produce 130 to 200 and more eggs the first year also yield satisfactorily the second. The results of a number of experiments carried on in Maine showed that ten pullets in egg production equaled seventeen year olds or twenty-four two year olds. The farmer should select from the flock of pullets the ten best winter layers. A regular leg band or a piece of wire should be placed around the leg of even of ten pullets. The next winter the ten pullets (which are now yearling hens), should be separated from the laying hens and kept in good health and medium flesh. They are not fed for winter laying. In February or March they are mated with a suitable cockerel, their rations are increased and they are brought into laying at the time their eggs are required for hatching. Male birds used for breeding purposes should not be allowed with the female except during the breeding season. The earlier birds are out of their moult and in full plumage the sooner they will begin to lay in the autumn. The pullets usually begin to lay as soon as they are completely plumed and become adult fowls. It is worth while, therefore, to encourage moulting in every way, giving them exercise, insect food, meat in their rations, with ground bone or oyster shell and sound grain. Sunflower seed, or linseed meal in their food, promote moulting. A teaspoonful of fine salt in the soft foods given daily to a stock of twenty hens should be allowed. Fowls do not depend upon this for the salt which their bodies and feathers contain, for either the material itself or the elements of which it is composed exists to a greater or less extent in almost all the food they eat. What we do by giving them the salt is simply to increase the supply. KEEP POULTRY HOUSE CLEAN. A writer in a prominent poultry journal says that the houses should be whitewashed and cleaned twice a year. By cleaning it is assumed he means, everything removed and the house thoroughly innovated. The poultryman who works on any other plan can not keep the house free from vermin and disease, no matter how freely he may use insect powder nor how thoroughly the whitewashing is done twice a year. Twenty years of experience in raising poultry has taught the writer that no house might to go longer than two months without being thoroughly whitewashed in every mook and crevice. In certain seasons the work is done more frequently. All our houses are built with scratching sheds so it is easy to do the whitewashing while the hens are in the shack, and then by shuttling them in the house whitewash the scratching sheds. Insects powder is, of course, a necessity, but less of it will be necessary if the houses are kept clean by lime and disinfectant, and it is almost impossible to have the insects powder do its full duty otherwise.—Ex. Fi rape TRIN RB SEER URRERRTIRG SRST SRST NESE SR TORRE * FBP RRMRARRESRITY SO Tage ATS PLEA HI . . : 7 . STARTED FROM American city, over the matter, the method of try>|sea, visited relatives In the olty on|corm which may be recommended for Mi) THE BOTTOM. The ease with which the president, ling Negro cases being materially|Sunday of lest week. Western Kansas, and Superintendent | be *) J. 1. Guy of Topeka, conducted the shaneed eave state wherethere! fey. ON. Austin has gone to Eilisg’s discussion of thle subject will] meeting was a departure from that {is « large black population. 9 very timely. Prof, W. J. Spillman Yc. consinusp From rane ony. | Meeting was & Ceparture from that jis & large Diack population. ___| Arkansas on a 18 days trip, “ik saath Acie Ga MPa Wale ce eacal Roles one of the most worthy young [we of his race ia Miesourl, and am pleased to commend him to his peo- ple and present him to the Western prdlic. Javies M. Greesnvoon, ; [Evrtor's sore —Dr. Greenwood is superintendent of Kansas City achools, preeident of Missouri State Teacher's association, ex president of N.E, A. and one of ths foremoet authors and educators inthe United Btates.| In the summer of 18931. M, Hor ton, a beardless youth, collected all his earthly belongings, rene hickory shirt and two dollars) sh vk the dust of bis native city, Augusta, from his feet and made a bee line for Kansas Cuy. After many hardelups incident to his mode of transportation, le reached Kansas City about the mid dle uf August, Ou the day of his artival he went into businces (boot : Dlacking) and contined until he had saved enough money to purchase a barber shop, which he suecestiall conducted tor several years, selling out ata handeome profit. He ator posited his money in the bank and applied to the Paliman eampany i work. Deing just the hind of youny manwanted by this company, he| was employed at once. Leaving toe Pallman company after he hatt seen all of the country he desirel to see, he returned fo Kansas City and cn- tered the public eohouls Upts this time he had had but Litle orno training and could scarcely write his name, but by dint of hard work, pueh and energy, he finished in one year the grammar eckcol course, and entered the Magh School, graduating therefrom ia two yeare, Not being satisfied with a mere High Schon! education, Mr. Horton entered Lin coln institute, the state university of Missourl for Negro youth, and graduated with high honors in the class of soor, During bis entire school career he earned support by doing odd jobs. Mz, Horton, upon his graduation, was calied to the principalship of the famous Lebanon schools, suc ceeding euch teachers as Trofesaor, ‘W.T Vernon and A, W. Williams of Chicago. At Lebanon his work was of such a high character that he was, at the expiration of his term, upanimously elected 1n Kansas City, where he has made a record of which any young man might feel proud Ajan orator, Mr. Horton takes rank among the leading young men of the race, und with unre etudy nnd evelopment will some day easily class with such men ay Dr Vernon, Hon.N.C, Crens and Prof J 1 Bowser. Mr, Horton is one of the most active of the younger set of Kansas), City young men. In the church, Y, M.C. A., charity work and fraternal organizations, he is the same ener || getic, forceful character, He ia ac | quiring residence and business prop-|' erty in Kausas City which will soon plecehim among the foremost of || solid Missourians. |! The Juter State Literary society |’ of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, || Indian Territory, Nebraska, Colora- do and Towa ia the leading organiza-|' tion of educated Negroes in the West. |' Mr. Horton as chairman of the en+]' ecutive committee of this society,|' snade the Kansas City meeting the || most brilliant in Its history aud was,| | as aresult thereof, madeils president, The Interstate Literary, |! Mberer i The Kansas meeting of the Inter Btate Literary society waa by fas the roost interesting in its hystury ot fit, teen years Ihe papers, in the main, were of w high clas ‘Phe several musical productions would have re lected credit upon the m ost finshed German and Italian music.ans. Ihe Oratory by those who tuok part in the contest displayed mich ability aod careful tramng ‘The recta trons proved a rare treat and marked the entrance of a young aspisants tor elocutionary tonors who wi'l te heard fiom in the future. ‘The cordial eupport given the as sociation by the citizens of Kansas City way gratifying, and proved the oft asserted wtatemeut that this city is the home of more educated Negroes than can be found tu any uther Ls ‘oaat. | American city, The ease with which the president, J. IL. Guy of Topeka, conducted the meeting was a departure from that of the average Negro gathering, con- clusively proving that we are grad- ually coming to the front all lines, After an existence ot filteen years and showing so much vitality, i¢ Is to be hoped that the public ss well those who are to control :ts destinies for the next year will not let the interest grow less, but make it in the future what tt is destined to be— a powerful agent for good among the Negroes of the great Weat. LPITTSUURG. KANS. | Mrs. Cabby Hogan entertained the ladies’ social club at her home ‘on Tenth street Saturday afternvon ‘The Louse was beautifally decorated with carnations an! American Boau- ly roses, After whist an elaborate course luncheon was servid Mrs. Ney Pierce entertained at her home, 312 West Lorest in honor of Mra, Stuart Parker and Miss Tillie Weaver of Springfield, RBOVNION. LT. tT. Rev. Wm. H. Bachanan of Ash Creek preached at Allen chapel last Sunday night. [twasan able sermon, Me Zton Bapust church has called Rev N. 1 Morrow of Beggs. Rev I G@ otrothera has accepted the catl of the Baptist church of Haskell. dT, John Rentie has received his trac tam cngine, 1% horse power and is preparing to run a threeher neat season, y Misses Ldith and Lizzie Brown and their brother, Frank, left Tue lay for Western University, Joha Cochran hs leased the Camps bell hotel, “he work on the Methodist church isbeing pushed, and the ladies fur- nich big dinners daily. It is hoped thatthe house will be ready for oc- cupanc) soon. There being sume doubt in the minds of some as to the time of the next payinent on town lots, the writer telephoned tu the lodian agent at Muskogee. who replied: “The fif- teen per cent payment is due six months from time of service or four months from the time the ten per cent payment was due,”" Ben Rich of Tatt, 1. T eays that town is ablack man's town and is growing rapidly. T. C, Cleveland, a practical miner tas opened a coal mine on Thomas Ifarris® estate, Negroes and Juries. Ina case carrt d from Grayson county, Tedas tothe federal Supreme court sone years since, it waa hold by that tribunal that there muet be no discrimination against the Negro As a juror, and as x result the rule in ‘Texas has since heen that there must he some Negroes on the panel drawn for grand jurors and also on special venires in cases where Negroes are on trial. However, it has been contended that itis not essential that the Ne- Groes serve—onty that they aredrawn, and if they do not quality, the point has heen covered, In many instances the blacks do quahfty and serve without discrimi- nation, butin a case (that of Mare cellus Thomas, a Negro glven the death penalty) which it {s now pro: posed to curry tothe federal Supreme cuurt from Jarriscounty anendeasur will be made to establish the point ‘that the names of Negroes on the grand and petit jury panels, as well as on the »pecial venires, must be in Troportion to the number of quali fied Jurors ae divided between the iius, Itiscontended that in Hare ris county, for instance, there are three Negrotsin every seven qual fd jurors im the county, hence thatibat preportion must be observed indraw. ing names for grand jury service as wellas tur the tril of sll cases, whether the detenddut be white or black | Ut sacha poni should be suetwined by the fedesal Supreme Court, therg: would he cousternat on throm hut! the Bouth as the deerion would ap | ply ta everystatejuthennion Lhe decision refereed to an the firet pare agruph was in theease of Rob Smith, tacen up from Grayson county, and when it was delivered there vas wide discussion throughout the South over the matter, the method of trys log Negro cases belng materially changed in every state where there is a large Liack population. Inasmuch asin a number of coun: thes In various states the Negroes outnumber the whites, the effect of trying Negroes under such a tule as Is proposed ts obvious,—Globe+ Democrat, BOYNTON, I. IT. f JH. Smith has opened a second barberebop on Scamon avenue, and har putin a lath tab. ‘This shoy in for the accommodatione of the whites. Paull. Meriwether ia in charge. Rev. J. 1D. Morrow ia here ta answer toacall to the pistaiate of the Mt. Zion Baptist church, Me has accepted the call, and preached atine sermon Monday night, UH. Cotbert hae returned: from an extended vistt through the J, 't' I. Z Mowatd his moved his family te New Town where he will reside fur the present. 5 Mra, Roberta Buch ian And Miss Wilh Buchan have returned from Coweta where they «pent the Nmas holiday a, Mrs, Addie McIntosh of Mueko: gee was in town last week. Rev. J.C, Hicks ig ont again and pleahed two thle sermons Sunday to the Largest audiences he aa ever faced in Boynton, A part of the audience wax white. Attoracy Meriwether is attending court at Muskogee. The J, 8. Carter Sons again have aAmonepoly on the water fauling trite, ‘Their superior facilities have cuabled them to drive all computiters fiom the fidd, They are constantly making improve- ments, the latest being the isnance of water tickets, At the first nwveting this year of Boynton Light Lodge No, 6377, G, U. O, of O, F., the annual election of officers took place as follows: B. C. Makina, E. 8.3 EL W. Carter, P. $.; “David Bell, W. C3; J.B. Smith, W. T.; RE. Le Mitchell, advocate; I, M. MceGuft, warden, One officer was passed — Geo, T. Rebinson from I’, N, G. to N, I, The installation took place Tucsday night and wound up with the usual apread. Mre, Julia Carter entertained the ladies mission army this week, Med umes IL W, and R. 1, Car ter have returned from Muskogee where they penta few days with their parents, Two brothers mar- ied two isters, the Miveex Sims, Theodore Raya, Lite of Lang: ton; Ohl, is in the city. VINITA. LE. Tt. W. HL. Twine, one of the Teading luwyera of Muskogee, wax it the tity Last week on business, Miss Willa Banch who visited five months with her father at Enufault, returned home liwt week, The Pleasant Hour social elul gave aswell ball at Jordan's hall Monday evening, about seventy: five couples being present, Music was furnished by the club and all enjoyed a pleanint evening. Miss Georgia Rider was on the wick list list week, Henry Pack was in the city last Thursday on business, Miss Lassie Davin made a tlying trip to Muxhogee list week, dosh Hott and wife are now Jovated on Eaat gard street, Mini Mollie Hawkine visited at Pt. Gibson last week, Mina Sadie Divina ia home fram Grind River where ehe has heen teaching «heal, Alths Moore in mill on the rick lint, Mea Th OH. Vinkey ia reportd women hat improved this week, fio Tb, Buchner foaded a ear with horse and farm tnplaments Just Meiday and aturted fur western Cilifornia where he lana tine farm, Hin wife and daughter heft about (wa mouths ago for California, Mr. Hubbard start of Lightning Crock was mirried to Mian Eiaima Munson of Big Creek on Monday evening of last week, Roy Baldridge and wife of Chel- aca, visited relatives In the oity on Sunday of leet week. Rey. O. N. Austin has gone to Arkansas on 9 15 days trip, Garfitld Blackwell of Coffeyville wasin the city this week, Mra, Esther French who has been sick so long, shows but very little improvement, Mra. Roso Allen spent several days on her farm near Chetopn, Kansas, last week. Leroy Hicka and Lee Tucher have opened a awell little lunch stand on Hlinois ave. LEAVENWORTH, KAS. Mr. and Mrs, A. G, Hunt were Dleaxed with the arrival of a baby boy Dee. 28. Mis name ix Theo dore Augustus Hunt, The Wait and See club cuter: tained the members of the MY. O, LB. on New Year's night at the rea: denee of Mre. A, IL, Walton, The colors of the club, red, white and green, were beautifully dieplayed inthedecorations, ‘The decorations consisted of evergreen, red and white ribbon, and red and white eunttions, The table decor tions were very elaborate, The punch table was placed ina neat little eazy corner amd pnnch was served by Mise Genevieve Wilxon and Miss Alberta Walton, Music wis fur nished throughout the evening. The amusements consisted of parlor games ant daneing. ‘The menu consisted uf peanut sandsiches, walmon sitad, brick ice cream and cake, coffecand punch The gucat were: Mewars. Leonard Brooke, J. L, Todt, Albert Walton, Herbert Divix, Lawrence Walton, Ebjth Gillam, Oseir Davis, Samuel K. Lowery, Herbert Walton, Charles White, I'rank Colling, Robt. Ris ora Arthur Staples, Ballard Bright, 1. Stokes, George Dorsey, Archie Townsend of Canon City, Colo., and Miss Edna Townsend of Canon City,Colo,, and Miss Emma Rogers of Kansas City, Mo. ‘The members of the Waitand Seeclubare: Misses Delilah C, Lowery, Capitola Wil- son, Beatrice Taylor, Edgatine Walton, Ethylene Wilson, Georgia Taylor, Blanche Green, Blanche Miller, Anna Shepherd, Elna Mil- ler, Blinche Moore, Grace Dulicy, Grace Hardin, Peatl Hayden, Mabte Stal, Mable Brown, Anna Brown, Misa Edgirine Walton was assisted in the decorations by Misses Lama Roger, Ethylene Wilson and. Bhinche Green, | SAVAGE SIMMS. Miss Mayme Simms, tormerly of Ottawa, Kans, and Mr. Phomas -ae ageof Perry, Q, I wera married Dee 26th, at Bathlehen Bapsi t church The br de was beautifully attired in pure white silk crepe de chine and chufon, the ve'l being caught with orange blosszma The bridesmaid, Miss Mattie Allen of Kingfisher, O, Twas attired in pale blue, Miss Naoml Lewis offiiviated at the organ, Mr. Edgar Johnson was best man, The ceremony was performed by Rev, A. W. Lewis. Mr, Savage isa successful farmer, while the bride has taught school in this vicinity for aix years, ANNUAL MEETING KANSAS CORN BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION. ‘The annual meeting and Corn Show of the Kansas Corn Breeders’ Association will bo lield at Manhattan, Kan, Janu: ary 22,27 and 21, 1900, The meeting begins with an evening scasion January 22 af 8 p.m, Hon, Ii. ward Taylor of Edwardsville, Kan, will speak on “Reciproity and Markets.” Ie has mado a speciality of corn, alfalfa and potatoes and ia well informed on the subjects upon whih he will lecture, Prof, W. J, Spillman, hend of the grass and forage plints Jnveatigation intcresta of the United Atales Depaitinent of Agiicuttne, will talk on “Mendle’s Law and Ma Application to Practical Probs tema tn Com Tierding” At Rad a om, January 24 corn jules: ing clawen wall be held in which the members of the ravochution and firmer WH he gin pricthe work au judging cortl, At 10 a, m, Supt. C,H. Eling of the Tt. Maye experiment station wall Ives ture on ‘Development of Corns for Western Kanwis.” Darmers of the weate ern part of the state are attempling to take corn fartner and farther weat. At present there je no recoguized well bred corn which may be recommended for Western Kansas, and Superintendent Ellting’s discussion of thie subject wil Yq very timely. Prof, WW. J. Spillmar dill again talk on “The Vatue of Good Management on the Farm.” We has made @ special study of farm manage: ment since being connected with th Government work, and has established several model farms in the southern states. At 1:30 p.m. De. C. G, Hophius, pro- feasor of agronomy and chemistry of the University of Uhnois, Champaign, wall speak on “Practical Corn Breeding fot Improvement in Yield and Value.” Pro- feesot Hopkins and lne twelve assist: ‘ante hase done a great deat to improve the protein und of content of corn, aid he is considered w leader in tho ear test work In corm breeding, and bis issued many valuable bulletins upoa this subs ject. Lullowing tas, reports will be Inard from the tatmens who competed ia the “Yield Der deve Contest,” in which they will tell how they grew their big yiclds of com. At the same eromon D, Ward hing of Maitland, Mo, well hnown as tue originator of the hing Road Ding,” Mill speak on "Good Kouds." After the lecture an opportunity will Le given to ace the drag iu uperation on the rads At the evening session, $ p.m, an- auuncements of the awaids of prizes in the corn evlabits wali be made. Loiluw- tg tls Mr. CoP. Muley, a graduate vi the Kansas State Agucultuial Cole lege, now assistant phy wolygiot of the U.S. Wepartment ot Agiwultue and Known as Unde Sam's Coru Breeder, will give a hetuie oa “Corn Bieedarg,” with stecoptiun Mustiations, MM sub: jetta upon whic Ketuta ate gaan will be epen tue discusetun, ‘he motning evasion of Januay 24 wall bigit at 9.00 with a cotn-fud ging clivs, ‘Llas will be followed by a Lusi mss weasion prosidad over by the prose dant of the association, Lun. J. W. Kobi sun of dowunda, han, Ofiere for the ensuing year will be elected. Lurther wuin judging work will be given from 1.00 tu 0:50 p.m, Aide from the eniuue agiulturots Whih have been seauied for the pros giam a spetial feature of this mecting wall be the iustruction given the furmers tu curn-judging, ‘Lhe aginultual de- partment of the cullege has nwueious: inyunies for jaformation upon this sub- ject but it ia practically Lupussible to give wuatruction in regard to st through cullespoudence, In these clasts the farmers will not only receive lectures upun curn-pudging but will devote cone aderable time to practial work ont will be asersted by capable anatructors. OF the eighty santies of corn tested at the Kansas eapeument station dur- ing the past thice years a large per cent af those producing the laghest yids are nitive coins, Lach member and visitor iy tequested to Liing a ten car simple st vom, icpreanting his ideal type, Whether at as one of the so-calkd pure ucd Nagueties or a mative comm, which sanplew mey be entered without fee in ne compeitive ealubits, Prizes to the value uf several hundicd dollars are of+ judi the varivus elisses, and the prizes to bu olfucd for the ensuing year vill be annoumed at this meeting, ‘Lhere aa been a great awakening on tho sub- (ut of corm breeding in Kansas the past jear und o large attendineo is expected it the coming show. A good program nd a good time are assured, One and ne third fare rates for the round trip m the cerlifiente plan have been grant+ don all Kansus railroads. In order for nembers and visitors to avail them: elves of these rates it wall be necessary or them to accure of the lucal agent 3 fantiattan, which when properly certl+ ertificate or receipt for the fare paid to ed by the secretary of the association nd joint ticket agent will be good for he purchase of a return ticket for one- hird fare. “F.C. Elford in the Marm Stock Jour. nal advises that In April or May ses eral sittings of eggs from pure bied utihty typo fowls should be bought; twenty: five fo thiity chickens should be reared ‘Tne cochsrela should bo fatted In the foll and dispose! of, and the pure brid pull ta returned for the following year's taciding pon, Hy this means a farmer can stock hia Girne with pure biad pont tay in two yeare When the ilock of poulty da large aut liv untinted range a utility type cork: ered shoul! be umd for every fitien Ina, ‘Mie utler tate bide of the Hock should be dieposd of, alsa the hens amore (ain 24, year oll and any fowls not an active or healthy condition, It fs prefaable, however, to obtuln the Gigs for lutdung ftom a breeding pon of pme Lied male and ten of thy Lest Jung of the flock tather then from atl the Jayera Sudiscrimunately, A pure bred utility cockerel and ten pulleta should be bought in the fall and should constitute the next year’s breed: log pen. In buying egge for betching or pure bred fowls for poultry farming a preference should be given to flocks of poultry that have been bred for winter laying. The cockerels should be sold In the early fall. Unless they are housed fn the fields and require Little attention 2 extra feed, the most profitable age for marketing fa 4 montha. After this age Use cost of feed per pound of guin In lve welght of the cochercls rapidly ia erensea, When cochercls are kept oa (he farm until Uhey are 6 or 7 months old the profits are materlally reduced. ‘The winter production of eggs ta the most valuable asset of the pulleta, Muy winter laying demands hberal feeding, Which includcd in addition to the grain, waste meat, or animal food, and vegelable food. ‘Ihe pulteta should be comfortably amd permanently housed, In the fil; transfering mature pullete tow strange pen defers egg protuetion, Putkts are mare proftatle egy pro ducers than hens. At the agricultural etperlnent station at Utah, experiments showed that the profit from young hens or pulleta was about five dimes greater than that from the old hens, Not only did the olf hens ly considerably fewer aggs, but the eggs were worth leas per dus, ‘This is accounted for by the fact that the pultets Lud a larger pro portion of their eggs in carly winter, when the price was good, the old hens Wate thice to four years ohl. ‘Lhe ree sults of this experiment hive been ace comphshed with fowls kept in confines went, During the winter months, a po- tiv] of between thie ant four months they were not uutsile of the budding. Wath many poultrymen and farmers the idea is prevatont that of a hen Inys cnly u few eggs the first year she ta more Lhely to do well the second year. Whenever experiments have been eartied jun the results go to prove that hens thut PRAM 100 eggs oF Tess the first year are Tight Ligers the second, On to other hand, those (hat produce 130 to 200 and more ezgs the Arat year also yield sate isfuctorily the second, ‘The results of a number of experi- ments carried on am Maine showed that ten pullete in egg production equated seventeen year olds or twenty-four two year olds. ‘Lhe farmer should select from the flock of pullets the ten best winter lay- crs, A regular leg band or a piece of wire should be placed around the leg of even of ten pullets, The next winter the ten pullets (which are now yearling hens), should be separated from the lays ing hens and kept ta good health and medium flesh. They are not fed for wiuter laying. In February or Bfarch they are mated with a suitable cockerel, their rations are increused and they are brought into laying at the time thelr veges are required for latching, Malo birds used for breeding purposes should nut be allowed with the female except dunn the breeding season, ‘the caslier Dida are out of thelr moult and in full plumage the sooner they will begin ty lay in Ge autumn, Ihe pallets usually begin to lay as soon ua they are completely plumed and be- come adult fowls, It is worth while, therefore, to encourage moulling in ev- iry way, giving them exercise, insect foud, meat in their rations, with ground bone or oyster shell and sound grain, Sunflower seed, or linseed macal in their food, promote moulting. A teaspoonful of fine aalt in the aoft foods given daily to a flock of twenty hens should be al- lowed. Fowls do not depend upon this for the salt which their bodies and feathera contain, for either the material tuelf oF tne elements of which it ts com- posed existe to a greater or less extent in almost all the food they eat, What we do by giving them the salt is simply 19 increase the supply, KEEP POULTRY HOUSE CLEAN, - Awnter io a prominent poultry jours ‘nal gaye that the housca should be ‘whitewashed and cleaned twice a year. ‘by cleaning st ia assumed he means, everything removed and tne house thors Gugnly tcnuyated, Lhe poultry mau WhO Wotks on any other plan can not heep the house free fiom vermin and disease, no mutter how freely he may use insect ponder nor haw thoroughly {he whites washing fs done tuhe a year, ‘Lwenty yeara of eapertenco in tubing yultry his taught the water {Int no house ought to go longer than two months without bung thoroughly whites Washed an every nouk and erevice, In contain xaome the work is dune more Heqnently. Al aur houses are built with mratching anode sa it ia caxy to do the whitewashing while the hens ace in the sled, and then hy shutting them ty tne house whitewash the —scratcang sheds. Insects powder is, of course, & necessity, Lut leww of it will be neveswary if the houxea are Kept lean by lime and distnfectunt, und it iv almost impossible to Inve the insects powder do ita full duty otheimive—Lx, © i cide That «Negro Has mo Rights me orn rie = E Si a CHO Re = a