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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. If the South Accepts Gov. Vardaman's Way of Dealing With the Negro, Who Would Cultivate Her Enormous Crops of Cotton? VOLUME IX. TILLMAN VS. ROOSEVELT! The. South Carolina Fire-eater Condemns the President Dismissal of Negro SENATOR TILLMAN of South Carolina has surpassed President Roosevelt in one thing and that is that he has reached the conclusion that the president has overstapped the bounds of his constitutional rights in discharging the soldiers at Brownsville, Texas. This is something unusual for a Democrat who is one of the rabid supporters of secession, who for years has espoused the rights of the忠 cause and justified the South in nullifying the constitution. Now, Mr. Roosevelt, who was for the preservation of the Union, and whose sympathy was on the side of the rights of mankind and the uplift of the constitution, had ancestors on one side who were secessionists and on the other side they were abolitionists; therefore Mr. Roosevelt on his mother's side is a secessionist and on the side of his father, a Unionist. So he can very conscientiously and conveniently have Mr. Tillman agree with him at times and at other times he can disagree, as he has the proper qualifications to ride two horses at once. In the past few days the president has been overcome by another spell. He has now discovered that he made a mistake in ordering that the dismissed soldiers of the Twenty fifth infantry should be forever barred from holding positions in the civil service. This he says was wrong and he has resisted that portion of his order. Now we think that this is the first time that a president of the United States, who has been declared one of the greatest statesmen of the day, has, after making an order of that character, been made to reconsider it and come before the people and acknowledge that he overstepped his constitutional authority. This is the first president and the first statesman who has gone down in history as having committed such an act. The American people have idolized Roosevelt as a master statesman and the man who never made a mistake, but when he comes out himself and admits that he has made them, we will have to infer that he is not the statesman he is reputed to be. If he overstepped the bounds of authority in ordering that the soldiers could not serve the government in civil affairs then how much more has he overstepped the bounds of propriety in the dismissal of soldiers with out a trial. The president is wrong, and the American people know it Senator Foraker and that class of senators who for years have been fighting to uphold the constitution of the United States and to build up this great American republic know that he is wrong and will never let up until it is so proven. We see that Texas has endorsed the president, which is conclusive evidence that he is wrong, for the South always endorses everything that is detrimental to the Negro One branch of the Southern legislature has also endorsed him which is further evidence that he is wrong. The sooner Mr. Roosevelt realizes that he is not the Jesus Christ who is spoken of in the second coming, nor is he the Son of Man whom the Christian people are looking for, the sooner he will be or more likely to the American people in the official position he now holds. The Saviour lived on earth thirty three years to bring about the information of mankind, and it will be impossible or a president in just six or eight years to reform the people who have had several thousand years to think over so much evil which reigns in the ```markdown ``` TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18. 1907. The president says his case is strong in the Brownsville affair, from the fact that he sent a one-sided investigating committee to make a one-sided investigation and to take the testimony from those whose minds were made up to swear to meet any thing. The following is a portion of Tillman's speech. Declaring that President Roosevelt was more responsible "than any other man," Mr. Tillman read from order No. 20, issued by the War department February 8, 1906, and signed by the president, as follows: The uniform of the entitled man is a badge of honor. It emitted him to peculiar consideration—it shows that in the great majority of cases he has learned these habits of self-command, of self-command, of obedience and of fraternity to the face of danger which put him above most of his fellows who have are pennounced similar privilege. To serve to discriminate against him in any way is literally an insult, for it is in reality one of the most serious offences which can be committed against the stability and greatness of our nation. "That is the milk in the cocoon nut," ejaculated Mr. Tallman, who said it was this "sort of staff" that put into the head of the Negro soldier that he was entitled to demand social equality. At this point Mr. Tillman was interrupted for the first time, Mr. Nelson asking: "Would you deny these privileges to white soldiers?" THE SAME OLD THILMAN. "I will go as far as any man in giving white man, either soldiers or citizens, their rights," answered Mr. Tillman. "Why should not the colored soldier, if he conducted himself as a white soldier, have the same consideration?" persisted Mr. Nelson. "For the simple reason that God Almighty made him colored. He did not make him white," retorted Mr. Tillan, who added that caste feeling was universal; that it pulsated even in the bosom of the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Nelson.] Following a colloquy with Senator Calherson on his position as to the president's authority under the articles of war to discharge the sol, diers, Mr. Tillman remarked that none of the Negroes discharged would return to Texas. MIS REMARKS ABOUT MINO. "One of them," he continued, "that famous Sergeant Mingo Sanders comes from South Carolina. I would like to meet Mingo and shake his hand. But he is not going back to South Carolina." "Why not?" interrupted Senator Foraker. "Because the suspicion that might prevail as to who really did the killing would make it mighty unhealthy for him down there. I wish it were not so, but I can't help it. If he had been discharged honorably he could have come down there and been the biggest man at Negro camp meetings and receive respectful treatment from the whites." AS THEY ALL, KNEW, ME SAID. Senator Tillman convulsed the gall rises and amused many Senators a minute later by illustrating the discrimination between the races in Washington "Negroes are not allowed to drink at all at the bats in Washington, as you all know," he said. The last three words were given with great emphasis, and the senator waved his hand to include the whole Senate. REFERRED TO A ROOSEVELT BOOK Mr. Money called attention to an assault case in Colorado. Mr. Patterson did not justify this, but explained that it occurred in a sparsely settled section of the state. He indorsed the president's message condemning mob violence. Mr. Money again interrupted to quote from memory a statement in one of President Obama's books, entitled "Rough It," in which the president justified the lynching of horse thieves in the early days in Idaho. This reference to Idaho brought Senator Hephorn to his feet with a disclaimer that the sentence was mistaken in the state. "Perhaps I am, as the senator is still alive," retorted Senator Money, much to the amusement of senators and galleries. He at once disclaimed anything but a plausibility in his remarks, and said he would say it was Wyoming if he did not Senator Warren in his last Mr. Warren protested that it was not Wyoming. Mr. Warren said he would name the territory after it not that he knew that two senators would rise and protest. He explained the early frontier conditions, lack of courts and sparse population to justify the methods described by the president. The Crimes of the Whites Far Exceed the Blacks---They are More Brutal and Inhuman Than Negroes. The Governor's reference in his message to the number of colored criminals in the penitentiary and the reformatory should not be based on the population of the white and colored people from the fact that it is impossible for a white man to commit a crime in this country because a premium has been placed upon that color, and every white person is exalted in the highest as to honesty and integrity when compared with the Negro. Therefore the opportunity that a white man has over a Negro from the fact of his being white, and set up as a model race for others to follow. It is unfair for the Governor to compare crimes between the races. Had he compared the enormity and the heinousness of crimes committed by the two races, he would find that the white man has the most atrocious and brutal crimes in the annals of history, shalked up to his credit. No Negro in all the history of crime in Kansas can even be compared with or equal Willie Sell, who at the age of sixteen murdered his father, mother and one or two brothers; John Collins, convicted of murdering his own father as he lay sleeping; Emmet Dalton, murderer and bank robber; Jessie Morrison, who went into a neighbor's house and deliberately murdered her; the blood thirsty Stafelbacks, inhuman fends who murdered scores of people. Has the Governor ever thought of this? We could name many more such crimes committed by young white Kansas, who as criminals make the Negro pale into insignificance, and so impares the sight of the white man that he can only see the acts of some Negro, who perhaps stole a sack of coal or a few chickens. Now, we will compare the crimes DR. VERNON IS SATISFIED. WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan. . . The story that Dr. William T. Vernon of Quindaro, Kansas, the noted Negro orator, who is now Registrar of the Treasury, is contemplating a Congressional career, and would like to succeed Charles F. Scott, in the House of Representatives, in so silly as acarely to deserve mention. Yet, because of its publication here and by a Topeka morning paper as a serious Washington dispatch, there has been considerable attention given the soory. Dr. Vernon is not in the city at present. He is in Kentucky, making some address. He left here a week ago. The story was originally printed in a morning Washington paper, a newspaper, which is making strong efforts to rival the well established Washington Post. After being discussed here a day or two, more or less seriously, the Washington correspondent of a Topeka morning newspaper wrote an elaborate piece about Vernon's prospective emu day, treating it in a serious vein, and sent it to his paper. Vernon is content with his present job. He like it. He appreciates the desperate fight made by Senator Long and the Kinzua delegation to land him. He knows it will give him an excellent opportunity for the next four years. It places him nearly at the head of noted Negroes committed by Negroes. A search of the two institutions, the one at Lansing and the reformatory at Hutchinson and one will find that the colored criminals are there mostly for petty thefting—something to eat or a few clothes to keep them from hunger and cold, as the white man has deceived to keep the Negro on starvation wages. He does not think the Negro is entitled to more than $1.50 per day to feed himself and family which ranges from five to twelve. On the other hand, the average plug white man never receives less than $50 a month, yet this does not stop him from forging chicks, wrecking banks and trains and murdering his own father, mother and sisters to get hold of property and life insurance. A white boy is seldom brought before the courts for petty offenses. It is always settled on the quiet for the sake of his parents who are "respectable," and to help matters along, the offender is given a good position. If they were dealt with in the same manner as are Negroes, the Governor would be called upon to recommend an appropriation to enlarge the institutions at Lansing and Hutchinson. It makes no difference how well qualified a Negro may be the white man will not give him a $75,00 a month job; therefore the Governor's citation of criminology among the Negroes of Kansas should be given a thorough consideration by himself and the white people of this state, and when they have ascertained the causes and the enormity of the crimes, they will find that one crime committed by a single white man will exceed the crimes of a dozen Negroes confined in these institutions. So the per cent. of crime as indicated in the Governor's message is not fair and is an injustice to the race. in the country, with the possible exception of Booker T. Washington. It is a distinct recognition of the advancement of the Negro. Dr. Vernon, has often expressed himself as above indicated; and therefore the allness of the story of congressional aspirations. Dr. Vernon has been very modest and unassuming since his preferment. He has said that his desire is to hold this office for a period of four years, at least; make a good official; understand the duties of his office, keep in touch with the administration and the officials of the government; save as much of the liberal salary as possible, go about the country as occasion may demand or permit, taking a message to his people; keep closely as associated with his old school at Quindato and with the state of Kansas; and then go back to the work for his people and the upbuilding of his institution. Dr. Vernon was telling a Kensan just the other day what his ambition was, and he mentioned these things. The point to all in that Dr. Vernon hopes to be of assistance to his life as a result of his four years at least of office holding in Washington Vernon is held in coteen and respec by others of the treasury department in which he is the head of a bureau. 'There is no great load to carry in holding down the office of registrar of the treasury. 'The man at the head of that bureau has responsibility of course, and a great deal of important work passes through his desk. But previous Negro registers have largely permitted clerks and assistants to do whatever work there is to do, and have rested, made speeches abroad, or simply been ornaments in the department. Not so with Vernon. The first thing he did was to set to work to learn all that transpired in his bureau. He went the rounds of the different divisions and talked with clerks as to their duties. Now he knows just what is done in his office and has made some changes that are creditable. All this has been observed by the treasury department officials. Of course there is time for Dr. Vernon to go out and make addresses. The register of the treasury, usually a Negro, is generally an official who is bright, capable, and able to go forth and speak to the race with some semblance of authority; in other words, to take messages from the national administration. This is what Dr. Vernon has been doing to a considerable extent since he entered office seven months ago. In the last campaign he also was a useful man, particularly in Kansas. But the point to all this is, that Dr. Vernon has no congressional ambition and is just as modest a man as he was before he secured his present office, with which he is abundantly satisfied, and scouring which, and its attendant difficulties, he greatly appreciates. PASSING OF RABBI KAPLAN The rabbi who on Saturday night stopped down and out, after his infamous article against the whole Southern people had been called to public attention by The Citizen, may be used to point a moral if not to adorn a tale. Mr. Kaplan claimed to be a Jew, from his course in this community he was an Ishmaelite—his hand being against every man. A year ago it will be remembered, he published an article in which he arraigned the elergy of this city as ignoramuses and hypoarse. This was overlooked as the vain vaporings of a mind diseased by the infestation of its own overwearing self-consent. But I must be confessed that since he began the publication of the "Barbarian," rightly so named, his chief desire seemed the provoking of discord between the members of his congregation and the other religious denominations of the city. This was the more uncalled for because in Albuquerque, above many other places in the world, the people of all religious faith--from the agnostic to the most fanatical religionist--were living in peace and recognition of mutual rights, civil, political, social and all others. His religious distribes were therefore not only unnecessary, but harmful. Hut when he altered a bithy at task upon a whole section of our country, he reached his limit, and the Congregation Albert in to be congratulated upon the quick and emphatic manner in which they took action. Just at the close of the war Charles O'Connor was asked to bring indictments against the leaders to secession, but he declined, saying that he knew not how to bring an indictment against a whole people. Mr Kaplan seemed able to do so. However, his effort and the consequences are hardly worthy of simulation. Still, had Mr. Kaplin confined his generalization to the men of the South, it is probable that little attention would have been paid to his slumberous attitude, but when he included the women of the South in his effusion he passed the dead line. There is one subject on which all constitution pass both. NUMBER 3.ious Crops of Cotton? MR. ANTHONY WILL DO! Brilliant Leavenworth Editor is the Right Man to Succeed the Hon. Chas. Curtis. The first district is now up in arms and full of excitement, vim and push in search of a candidate for congressman to succeed U. S. Senator Curtis, who has served this district in the lower house at Washington for the past fourteen years. After beating the bushes for the past three or four days, the voters have succeeded in counding out of the brush at least a dozen candidates who are willing to serve the people of the First district in the halls of Congress. The one most favorably spoken of, and who will in all probability succeed Mr. Curtis is that undaunted and matchless here, and statesman, D. R. Anthony, Jr., editor of the Leavenworth Times, Leavenworth, Kans., whose associates for the past two generations were abolitionists and who rocked the cradle of liberty among the early settlers of Kansas and founders of Leavenworth. He is a bright energetic, honest and upright young man and if sent to Congress neither the people of the First district nor the American people will ever have anything to regret, but they and their descendants will have the pleasure of enjoying some of the blessings of the good laws that he will introduce and have passed. Mr. Anthony is a conservative business man, and he will weigh and consider all propositions that are for the best interests of his constituents. The voters of Shawnes county who have heard of his candidacy are pleading themselves to his support. He will continue the good work that has been done by Mon. Charles Curtis and the two will work together in harmony in Washington. Let everybody who believes in good government and fair play, get in the Anthony band wagon for it is gliding by with rapid speed and those who want to be right and hear all the music had better get in on the front seat. As usual the fellow who tags on behind is apt to be annoyed by the bass drum. NEGRO FARMERS HOLD MEETING The Sunflower Agriculturists met in their third annual session Thursday and Friday of last week at Bishop Baptist church, C. A. Groves president and Mrs C. A. Groves, acting secretary. There was a great crowd present and everybody enjoyed the discussions of the different subject pertaining to the advantages of far life. J H. Childers made the address of welcome and J. C. Carson, one of the leading farmers of Douglass county, responded Of the numbers on the program an instrumental solo by Miss Alberta Guy, and vocal solos by Mrs. J M. Wright and Mrs. Lizzie Brown are serving of mention. J. G. Groves, J C. Carson, Attorney of Hill City and several other farmers discussed subjects that were interesting and entertaining --- JOPLIN, MO. Wm. Rose, formerly of Joplin, but who has been living in Omaha, Neb., for the past three years, died in that city last Monday. His remains were shipped to this city for burial. Mr. Rose had been living with his mother up to the time of his death. He had a sister in this city. Mr. John W. Holt of East Joplin met with a very painful accident several days ago by stepping on a nail while at work at the Central School Building, resulting in blood poison. He has suffered very greatly, but at present seems to be getting better. Another case of assault on a white woman by smallbugging committed at the hands of a nigro, is reported to have taken place right in front of Mayor Lyons' residence on Lane street last Friday night at eleven o'clock. We have serious doubts as to whether the crime was committed by my colored person although several of our colored boys are under arrest for the crime but as yet there has not been sufficient evidence to hold any of them for it. Mr. S. H. Houston has a force of man doing the bank work on his residence on North Main street. The literary at the M.E. church with Mr. John Webb and Miss Millissa Jnell as president and secretary is the attraction every Friday night. Some fathers are a degree to their families and to the community in which they live, especially that one who will live on the threshold of his old dren's doorstep. The M.P.C. is the real pleasure of the hour at the M.E. church. They had with them last Sunday afternoon some of the best talent in the city. No man or sit on man that assumes the responsibility and has the house to be placed at the head of any corporation or industry even down to a head water of a cheap apartment house can be recognized as an intelligent man that will curse the ministers and absolutely refuse, to go inside a church building girls, beware of that man we have some of this kind of Joseph IOLA. KANSAS The trustees of the first A.M.I. church have purchased a house and it at the corner of Buckeye and Lincoln streets and will erect a new church in fire. Mrs. Coler, who has been quite is convulsed. Mrs. Jennings of Oklahoma who has been visiting in our city, has returned home. Rev W. R. Johnson pastor of the First A.M.F. church is growing in popular favor among all classes of our ethos. Jola has a good colored brass band which is a credit to our city. Mrs. Ferguson who was dangerously ill from an operation, is up and out Rev. E. W. Green Jr. has assigned his charge and is following his trook of horse showing Rev W. B. Johnson visited the Bishops Council at Kansas City this week SENECA. KANSAS Mr. Sanders Smith and Miss Jessie Brewer were united in the holy halls of matrimony last Wednesday evening. Miss Florence Lillery has returned from St Joseph, where she has been spending the holidays among her relatives and friends. Miss Mamie Loggins has returned to Lawrence, where she is attending the State University. She spent the holy days with her father and sisters. Mrs. Ann Lillery has been on the list this week. The Misses Loggins Miss Brow and Miss Lilley attended the sup per given by the Knights and with the Ornament in Central Last week Miss Hollins Lilley attended a Thursday evening in honor of her mum Miss Mum Loggins Miss musical lutrons were tendered and every one clad themselves most lovingly into tamed Miss Hattie Nestley spent N Years on Oranga Mr and Mrs. Brow Lilley met turned from Plattsham Mrs. who attended the ceremony Mr. Lilley father Mr. Mum This have been said punish not only the an abomination For offences and not done, despite the spirit of the Lord is send His sword through the land to let men know there is a God, and a Judgment. FOR YRUNG FOLKS SEESAW SWIMMER. A Delicate Foot of Balancing and How to Perform It. Out the tops of two long corks into wedge shape, insert the corks firmly in the necks of two bottles of equal height and place the bottles on the table about ten inches apart with the edges of the corks parallel to each other. Now try to balance a table knife on one of the sharpened corks. If you succeed, reject that knife and try one with a heavier handle, for we must have two knives that will not balance unaided. Having found two such knives, hold them level on the corks with their points almost in contact, moving the bottles if necessary and set on their points a small, thin 2x1. HOW TO HOLD THE SKESAW. wineglass or tumbler containing just enough water to make the whole affair balance when you take your hands off it. So for you have accomplished a striking and "ticklish" balancing feat and that is all. Now attach a bullet, coin or any small heavy object to a thread, carefully lowering it into the water in the little glass. As soon as the coin touches the water the glass begins to go down, the knives turning like seaweas on the corks, and the more of the coin you submerge the lower goes the glass, so that if the coin is large you will have a smash before it is half under water. But you can pull it up at any instant. As you do so the glass follows as if it were glued to the coin, and so you can keep it sousawing up and down. Perhaps the reason of this is not clear to you. The coin is held up by the thread and does not touch the glass, so how can it affect it? Well the coin is not held up by the thread alone. The part that is under water is held partly by the thread and partly by the water, which buoys it up with a force equal to the weight of an equal bulk of water. The coin, therefore preases the water and consequently the glass downward with an equal force. Now, when you pull out the coin this extra weight is taken off, so the glass rises to its original position. Birds With Teeth. Birds are simply reptiles which have shed their scales and teeth, grown wings and feathers and invaded the dominion of air. The very oldest bird of which science has any record had very sharp teeth, rather weak wings and a long tail adorned with twenty pairs of quill feathers. Some of these birds were not able to fly at all, and they nearly all lived on fish. Gradually as they developed through cuticles they grew more feathers, longer and stronger wings, lost their teeth and got sharp, hard bills instead. There were no birds before the reptilian age, and every bird that files today traces its ancestry back to a sharp toothed snake. So the old joke, "As long ago as when bens had teeth," is not so much of a joke after all. How He Guards His Neck. There is nothing very remarkable about the bird known as the created flycatcher, as far as appearance goes. He worms a crest coquettishly upon his pretty head, and from under it his eyes look particularly large and bright. His name is created flycatcher, and what has made him especially noted is his little peculiarity in arranging his nest. When he has completed the building of it's nest he hunts about until he finds the nest's keek of a snake. This be carries to his nest and fastens the uss as of decoration. It has been surprised that his color object in doing this is to brighten away any intruders. Six Words in a Pound. I will not dought to go to for knowledge of by doing er I will repouting or facts with heard will not make what it and? some one used to it will not make it and Willot Mary I am the best. My don't you just present it all! She're I try see me wild It all I just but you know, But it isn't I just me on She doesn't or first or steve I wouldn't mind that I tell you But she its up to stiff and vain It sometime as just give me a pain Now Many I laudeth, why, she Has one that a modest as can be And such a grateful child! Oh, dear, I'm afraid that mine is spoiled as can be Western University, QUINDARO, KANSAS The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West Department: Theological, College, Norman COURT Advantage Information WILLIAM T. VERNON. A. M., D. D. President Here {Office—Let—While ... derce—Let—Westre. OTTAWA, KANSAS. Rev. and Mrs A. Clayborne entertained Rev I. H. and J. L. Washington at dinner Sunday. Miss Retta Dilson returned to Lawrence. Monday, after visiting a while with her sister, Mrs E. Clayborne. A series of Holiness meetings were recently attended on at the A M E. church Rev Williamson of Argentine was also her assisting in a series of meetings. He took his departure for home last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Orange Carter of Lab- city. Mr. were recent visitors in our town. They stopped at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis. A glen- trest table was set for them together with Rays L. C and I. L. Washing- ton Mr. and Mrs. Win Lewis at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Glaspe. Misses katherine and Addie Glaspe also spared no pains to elaborately enter tam them. The membership of the Third Baptist hour is gaining admirably under the leadership of the pastor. In a meeting conducted by the pastor about two or nine months ago there were six ob- tributions to the church of which four were for baptism. 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When ordering one postal or express money orders, and pay the paper. Write your name and address plainly so. The Uzonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine x about my signature) Charles Fors Paint 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. parture for home Saturday. Rev. J. T. Crawford of Weir City will assist in the meetings beginning Monday night, January 14th. The Plaindealer columns have been devoid of Ottawa news lately. There are several subscribers here. Rev. L. M. Leonard of Kansas City is verally a spiritual preacher and a revivalist. The church and Pastor Jas. L. Washington is wide awake and concerned in their efforts. Mrs. F. P. Whitfield, a representative of the National Baptist Missionary Department was in our town Friday night. Although the happened in during the revival, a goodly sum was given her for missions. She stepped at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Clayborne while here, and asked that she be assigned there again should she ever pass through WEIR CITY NEWS. Mr. A Johnson was sick a few days last week, but is up Mrs. Kurlough and Mrs. A Knoll are numbered among the sick this week Pav Spencer pastor in charge of the Mil church at Pittsburg, visited by Ionge pastor here on the 5th and will return on the 15th to adminis- tion the Lord's Support on the stead of Rev. R. Lansom, P. P. Miss Emma Houses of St Paul, Kas, has been visiting Miss Emma Berry the last two weeks. Mrs. Eliza Jones has been sick the past two weeks but is better now. Grandma Baker is reported very ill. Mr. B. C. Chattman received word on the 15th from Representative W. C. Crowan that he would be appointed on the 14th as painter in the Stathouse and he will have Wear on the 15th for To-poke. We wish him a success and that he may read the Plankhalter which will keep him posted about home happenings. The young people are having a jolly time in the way of entertainment, one at Mr. and Mrs. Dusse, one at Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Perry closing at Mr. R. C. Chattman. Roy J. L. Crawford left Wear on the 14th for Ottawa to run a ten day's meeting. His pollt will be allied on the 20th by Roy J. W. Livingston of Theroko. A brick plant is to be erected in Wear this Spring. NOTICE ' NOTICE TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF MEMPHIS. "to the subscribers of Memphis Town. Do not be surprised if you do not receive your paper hereafter. It will be the fault of the agent, and the excuse of the agent probably will be that you have not paid your sub- cription to him. We would like to have a remittance from our subs- cribers in this portion of the country and unless we do, the paper will be stopped. If you wish to continue, pay the agent so he can send the subscription in as this will be the last week. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text or figures. It appears to be a grayscale portrait of a person with a beard and mustache, looking slightly to the right. The background is indistinct and lacks any discernible features. Miss Bertie Wilson entertained the O W I. S Thursday evening of last week at her home on Quincy street. The next meeting will be with Mr. Roy Wilson. Lincoln Day will be observed as usual For particulars, address W. W. Fisher, 1834 Harrison Dr.P. Holmes, Regular Medical Physician with Thirty Years of Experience in the United States. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale abstract or a blurry photograph of a landscape. A GREAT DIVINE HEALER With 25 years Experience. He will cure you at a distance of one hundred yards. Will relieve any one of Fever and Chills in five minutes. Will cure you of all diseases, Old Sorce, Toothache, Cramp Colic. Rheumatism, Nervous Trou Univer O, KANSAS The Encelader Art club met last week at the home of Miss Louis Peaches, on East First street. The ladies are giving their attention to Battenburg, and are doing good work. The hostess served a tasty lunch and a zonephone furnished delightful music. Mrs. Jones will entertain the club next week at her home on Buchanan street. bless, Loose and Stiff Joint—in fact ALL DISEASES OF MANKIND. He makes peace where there is war, brings loved ones back to their home who have been driven off by unfair means. HE IS A MEDIUM. He tells you every thing you ever did in your life, who you favor, mother or father, or ever will do. On September 5, 1905, he brought Ira Burrell, of Greenville, Texas, back to life Try Meand You Will Be Blessed, HOURS AT EACH OFFICE, 8 a.m. till 12 m. 348 James St. Kansas City, Kansas. 12:30 to 5 p.m. 1613 Cottage St. Kansas City, Mo. rsty, --- JM. || Miss Geneva Robinson left Monday for her home in Kansas City, Mo. Mrs Newton Hickin entertained at luncheon Sunday in honor of Mr. and Mrs Levi Harrison Miss B Tuttle Hughes, who has been all but improved Mr. Bruce Henderson of Robinson is visiting classes on this city Miss Bonnie Hughes spent Sunday visiting in Kansas City Miss Calie Wyne is attending col- lege at John Neb Miss L. Carpenter entertained inform- ally Sunday afternoon in honor of her conson Miss Geneva Robinson those present were Miss B L. Hughes, B Robinson Geneva Robinson, and Messrs Chase Smith Leonard Perriv, and John Thomas besides the hostess Mr. Lorett Nelson spent a few days last week at this home in Atchison. Kev Goldwell is conducting revival meetings at the A M K church, with much success. Miss Lilhel Ginaa has been transferred from the Bartlett high school to the Frederick Avenue school, where she has charge of the first and second grades. Mr. George Thomas and Miss Hazel Brown were married last week. The May Standing Club met last week with Mrs. Slanks at her new home on Angelique street. Mr. James Holt of nineteenth street left last Wednesday night, Jan 2, for Jasplin, Mo. Mrs. Miss Iaul was removed from her home Jan 9 to the City hospital. Rev James Labelle returned home from his trip as preceding elder on the 8th. Rev Kidd returned home Friday, Jan 11 when he had been caring for his wife a few days. He has returned with a glad heart and a big mind, because he can now be called papa. Mr. Anderson Peace of south Pennsylvania as reported very ill. Miss Willie Montgomery returned to her home Friday evening, accompanied by her suitor, Dora Barces. MANHATTAN, KANS. Rev Wilson Banks, pastor of Halton, was in town Sunday and preached two able sermons at the Mount Zion Baptist church. Rev Pope arrived from Jopeka Friday night, Sunday he carried on his usual order of service at the A. M. E. church. The A. M. E. church last week and this is having two weeks of prayer. The old students who spent their vaca- tion at home are back and have started vigorously to work. A few new once are added to the list, namely, Mr. James of Jopeka, Mr. Emmet Page of Eskridge and Mr. Harley Robinson of Great Bend. Mr Arthur Robinson is in the city, visiting his altar, Mrs. J. M. Pope, Mr. Robinson is one of our old K. S. A. C students and his many friends in Man hattan were indeed glad to see him. Mrs. Addie Williams very pleasantly entertained the many young friends and students at her home Friday evening, Jan. 11 at a surprise party given in honor of Mr. Halley and Mr. Arthur Robinson of Great Band. The evening was spent very enjoyably in games and cards. Refreshments were served at 11 o'clock, after which the guests departed declaring Mrs. Williams an ideal hostess. Mrs. Reynold Keil is very sick with malaria fever. Mrs. Cattie Bradshaw of Cherokee, Ka, is dangerously ill at the home of her sister, Mrs. Brown. Mr. Robert Mitchel, who has been sick for the past month, is gradually mending. Mrs. Gilbert Haines will entertain the Aid Society Friday afternoon The second Baptist church served an system supper Thursday night. A good crowd was in attendance. WESTERN UNIVERSITY the original composition in music as written by Miss Mabel Harding of South Maryland I F., a student of the Harm- nary Class of Western University, and which won the first prize of the recent Interstate Latency will be published in regular sheet music form and will over the West by Post Right Jackson, music director and Post Albert Ross Browness center. Miss Harding's picture will appear on the outside cover. Last Sunday the University Forum was filled by Post Imanil and Miss the lower editor and teacher of Isa- nity Arts and Post II King and Post III Star of Summer High School also made collective addresses. A rich intellectual heart was our good fortune to carry. The afternoon last Friday evening he solved that coincident has a tenancy he hold back the laws. We were on thirsty city and intelligently taught out Misses Anna Smith and Edith Lam for the negative with a mortal victory over Misses Charles Hamilton and this Walker in the alternative. A notice debate between Summer High School of Kentucky Issues and Western University will take place in the next month. The literary societies in already of school, material for the next year. The event was attended the banquet and reception given to the House on Pleasure of the A.M. church at Allen Chapel Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Greenly of Mint tale Hill are visiting their brother dose Greenly Mr. J. W. Washington has returned to Columbia, Mo. leaving two nervous hearts behind Miss Cinttia Johnson expects to reside in Minnesota after March Morning Star No 4 has nitted up a new hall which looks neat and commutable The political post is beginning to hold a view at the postoffice Sunday has brought out an injury how will the new grass stand on a prospective indigent who has said inappropriate things about the women of the race. If you are from Missouri want and are There are over 600 male colored voters in the third ward. Colored men, can't you get your hands together and get some of the political spoils for your men while the other fellows are using us to get all of them? Let us have our cautious moor and keep the spies and traitors out. The agent of the Plaindealer will be around to your neighbor's door for 150 more subscribers. Tell them they can not impose on you longer by reading your paper. See the agent. Rev. Hmothers is preparing for a big rally for the spring and is planning something very new. Mt. Zion church has called Rev. January to pastor them. Mrs. Max Turner and Mrs. Ida Creig of Denver left for home Tuesday. The colored people are wondering who will represent them on the school board next year. Will it be someone really interested in the children in a way the race can see it? W. H. LUCAS. 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. 128 Kanans Ave TOPEKA (1867 Published in The Tupman Flea-dealer, June 14, 1868.) To Adolph Belley, also Adolph Gogell; Mr. — Beahan and Mr. — Beahan and Mr. — Beahan whose Christian names are unknown and who are brothers of Hattie Roberts now Hattie Beahan, deceased. — Beahan and — Beahan and — Beahan whose Christian names are unknown, and who are sisters of the old Hattie Roberts now Hattie Beahan deceased; and the unknown heirs and devices and the unknown executors, administrators and trustees of the storeaid Adolph Belley, alias Adolph tisogan, and of the afore-said brothers and sisters of said Hattie the several persons who would, under the several persons who would, under the laws of the State ofansas, have been heirs at law of the said Hattie Roberts, now Hattie Beahan, deceased, had also been at the time of her death a fame sole and whose real names are unknown, defendants in error: You and each of you are hereby notified that W. A. Roberts, plaintiff in error, did on the 8th day of June, A. D. 1906, file in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas, a petition in error and case-made, the object of which is to obtain the reversal of a certain judgment rendered by the District Court sitting within and for the County of Shawnee, in the State of Kansas, in an action pending before said court wherein the said W. A. Roberts was plaintiff and the said defendants in error were defendants. W. F. SCHOOK, L. M. MONROE, and R. P. HORCHKEE, Attorneys for plaintiff in error. Attest: D. W. VALENTINE, Clerk Supreme Court SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 14. For the submission of a proposition to amend section 8, article 3, of the constitution. Use it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Kansas, two thirds of the members elected to each house thereof concurring thereto: SECTION I. The following proposition to amend the constitution of the State of Kanaa is hereby submitted to the qualified electors of the state for their approval or rejection. That section 8 of article 3 be amended so as to read as follows. See § 8. There shall be a probate court in each county, which shall be a court of record, and have such probate jurisdiction and care of estates of deceased persons, minors, and persons of unbound minds, as may be prescribed by law, and shall have jurisdiction in cases of habeas corpus. The court shall consist of one judge, who shall be elected to the qualified voters of the county, and hold his office two years. He shall hold court at such times and receive for compensation such fees or salary as may be prescribed by law. The legislature may provide for the appointment or selection of a probate judge pro tem, when the probate judge is unavoidably absent or otherwise unable or disqualified to act in any case. SEC 2. This proposition shall be submitted to the electors of the state at the general election of representatives in the year 1900 for their approval or rejection. The amendments hereby proposed shall be designated on the official ballot by the following title: "The probate judge amendment to the constitution," and shall be voted for or against as provided by law under such title. Passed the Senate February 8, 1905. Passed the House February 22, 1905. I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of original renato concurrent resolution No. 13, now as file in my office. J. R. DUBROW, Secretary of Nine D. A TAYLOR, M. D. VICTOR AND NEILSON 191 Kansas Ave Both 'Phonus 714 Calls answered day and night Office Hours {2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p.m. Residence 1518 Van Buren Office over Lee's Drugstore 921 Main Ave Office Hours {8 to 10 a.m. 14 and 64 p.m. W:W. CALDWELL, M.D., Physician and Surgeon Ind. 600 Phone: (Ind.) 1011, Office 480-1 " " " Jion. 481-8 Office 601 Kansas Ave. TOPEKA, KAN BALL PHONE 105: MAIN OFFICE HOURS 7 to 10 A.M. 13 M. to 6 P.M. IND. PHONE 100. 7 to 10 P.M. J. M. JAMISON, M.D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Assuming Physician of the Knights and Lady option. Special Attention to demands of women and private diseases Jilan and Residence. BY MAMISON SUNSET. It Takes Nerve Everything depends upon your nerves. It is nerve force that causes the brain to direct the motion of your body; it is nerve force that causes your heart to pulsate, and send the blood through your veins; it is nerve force that causes your stomach to digest food, your kidneys to filter the blood, and the liver to secrete bile. In fact, nerve force is the power that runs your body, so if you feel worn-out, irritable, nervous, cannot sleep, or eat well, have pain or misery anywhere, your nerves are weak, and your system run-down. To restore this vitality take Dr. Miles' Nervine which will strengthen and build up the nerves. You cannot be healthy without strong nerves. "For eleventh years Dr. Miles' Nervine and Anti-Pain Pills have been used to treat a wide range of life, while raising children, my nerves become all worn-out—could not sleep; had no appetite, indigestion very bad and had such painful diarrhea. Then I began using Dr. Miles' Pills. Then I began using Dr. Miles' Pills. Then I began using Dr. Miles' Pills. And soon found myself in perfect health." 824 Pittsburgh St, New Castle, Pa. Dr. Miles' Nervine is sold by your drugstore and will serve but not the bottle will benefit. If it fails, he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co. Dildart Ind Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind Williamson Rooms and Board-first class accommodation. When in Okmulgee -top at the above hotel if you want good treatment at REASONABLE : RATES. DO YOU CARRY L If Not, W The Knights of the A FRATERNAL DO YOU CARRY LIFE INSURANCE? If Not, Why Not? The Knights and Ladies of the Orient. A FRATERNAL BENEFICIARY SOCIETY. WILL ISSUE YOU POLICIES FOR PAYING, PARTIAL LIFE, SH BENEFITS, FROM $2.00 to $3. No home loving man can afford to THE KNIGHTS and LADIES rized by the laws of the State of K of Insurance of Kansas. Its officer Company. LIBERAL TLRMS T Address: Na 5011 OurMotto, "Prompt WILL ISSUE YOU POLICIES FOR YOURSELF AND CHILDREN, PAYING, PARTIAL-LIFE, SICK, FUNERAL AND DEATH BENEFITS, FROM $2,00 to $1,500.00 IN CASE OF DEATH No home loving man can afford to be without LIFE. INSURANCE THE KNIGHTS and LADIES of the ORIENT is duly authorized by the laws of the State of Kansas, and is under the Sup't of Insurance of Kansas. Its officers are bonded in a reifiable Suity, Ucile George Dupree transacted busine s in Kansas City Sunday. He is one of the few Negroes that always has an eye out for business and if a few of our youngsters would follow his n's, they would find that they were making input std orow to solving a problem. Mr. J.D. Page has returned for in Ginal a where she s or her rough ter, Mrs John Peeg. Mr Wesley Page of Eskridge attended the Farmers' convention last week The M. M. Whit club met with Mrs. Francis Buckner, 918 W 8th street Saturday afternoon. cum mings hotel 1009 St. Louis Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. First-class accommodations for first-class people. Rates reasonable. Headquarters for railroad men When in Muscogee Stop at Mrs. Nettiee Drake's 612 South Third St. First class accommodations. M. D. Lawrie, Tailor and cleaner Suits and Trousers made to Order PANTS $8.50 to $11 SUITS $15 to $45 EX-SLANE PENSION 14,000000 will be asked for from Congress. Ex-slaves, do you want this nation to do what all other civilized nations have done? The ex-Slaves and their Chil- drenshould Support this movement. Now is the exact time to strike while the Negro is playing an important part at Washington. Our delegation is there. Send one dollar to help support our servants at Washington. We must be heard. Send your name and dollar. Get on the Role. For particulars, write, Rachel T. Michell, 916 La Rue Street, MEMPHIS, —:— TENNESSEE. Oak Leaf Hotel Old friends all expected—New friends all all invited. LIFE INSURANCE? Why Not? s and Ladies Orient. BENEFICIARY NETY. FOR YOURSELF AND CHILDREN, BICK, FUNERAL AND DEATH 1,500.00 IN CASE OF DEATH to be without LIFE. INSURANCE of the ORIENT is duly autho Kansas, and is under the Sup't ers are bonded in a reifiable Suit, TO AGENTS. For information national headquarters, Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas. Payment of Claims. Pearl McNeal, East Side Katy Railroad DENNIS HICKS, Trop. Nat'l Secretary. MEN'S FASHIONS. Headgear of the New Year-Soft Hats Have Taken the Season by Storm. If there can be said to be any difference in the shapes of derby hats that difference lies in the crown, which this season is much higher. It is predicted on good authority that representative spring shapes will show a decided preference for extreme crowns. Attention still centers on the efforts to create a style for brown derbies, though the public shows little or no disposition to accept them so far. Manufacturers' new samples show a variety of shades in brown, but the best known shops are not predicting a successful season for them. A new departure in the dorby hat which seems to have caught the public fancy is the extensive use of fine materials. The texture, material and trimming and the silky appearance of the felt proclaim at once that quality is there and so clearly evident that even the unpracticed eye appreciates the difference. While the price-50 may stand in the way of an immediate purchase, the man who once wears a dorby hat is both to return to the regulation quality. The rich appearance of the more expressive hat and the dumblility and preservation of its color and shape affect the slight browness in cost. Too young man habitats to change the shape of their darry once they have found a bromming block, and it is really a difficult thing to convince the man of picture ideas accompanying dress that he should adopt one of the new high brown shades. For the man who does not fancy a high crown there is a rather commanded style with a sense ```markdown ``` Beginning at the top the cut shows the upper part of life, the high enough density, the "American William," the "American Shield" and the elbow. What pointed horn, which is more beaming to certain types than the high crown. Soft hair have taken the season by storm. More styles in these are shown than for many years back. An impressed departure the soft hat has taken is its universal use for evening wear. The hat so used comes in black only, is well made and lined with satin. The name that distinguishes it from the alpine is "Tuxedo," and it may accompany all styles of evening clothes and go to almost any function with dignity. The moist popular soft hat of the season is made of belly nutria. The material is taken from the under portion of the little animal, which inhabits the Brazilian boundary along the Flame river. A strip of the belly is taken from the peat and put through certain processes which render it as soft and fine as the stiffest milk. The peat turns water and does not spot with mud or snow. The nutria is similar to our beaver, but is smaller in size, and it produces the finest material for hat making on the market with the exception of beaver. The soft hair made from it comes in several shades, but soft fawn color seems to be the most popular. There are several shapes also. The college boy wears his hat with a ring crowned in the crown. This style is called "Master William." Then there are the "wildecape," the "knotabout" and another style which is a considerable degree reminiscent the shades. Milk hats are always interesting, just as are ladies' evening hats, and the shapes change from one season to the next. Very young men wear crowns a trifle less curved or holder than the cut represents if there is any perceptible difference in the shape. On the other hand, styles in such hats for older men have the bell crown much more emphasized and are a bit larger and heavier looking. The middle aged man wears a googly silk band on his silt hat while for the younger man is substituted a narrow band of cloth. Owing to the increased popularity of the soft hat already described for evening wear there has been a decided decline in the use of the opera hat since early fad designer. Fabienia Futera Ellisons are extensively used in dams trimming The dart is in again—the old fashioned mean that runs in pairs each side of the bodice front and fits like a glove. Very light shades are replacing the "all white" gloves, light tan and mode being favorite. These are worn not only with gowns to match, but also with those in contrast. A Wife's Experience and a Commem- That Points a Moral. "Aren't men funny?" said the lit- bride who was learning how to cook "Here is a whole panful of soup sto- that has got to be thrown out just b cause of a form of mental indigence that has attacked John since he saw "Why, we lived for weeks and wee on this very stock or some just like you. You know, one of the things I learn at cooking school was how to mat soup stock. So the very day we can back from the honeymoon I made a quantity of it and put it in the frigerator. John likes soup, so we commence dinner with it every day. was awfully easy just to take a few spoons of the stock and season one day with tomatoes, the next day with peas, the next day with celery and so on. John it as it though we were farmished and complimented me so that I finally took out my bowl stock and showed him how I made it. "What, he said, 'I've been catching the very same soap every day an thought I was getting infinite variety I suppose,' he flung at me, 'you fand a soap by any other name would see as tasty. I thought there was an avid resemblance between those dail portions of liquid refreshments. Who it's just like these cheap portions that they make all in one big bottle and pour into different shaped bottles an label with different names." "And from that day to this," finished the disappointed bride, "the bus took upon my soap with suspense and me cooking with contempt." "My dear," said the experience housekeeper, "some day you will learn that what a man doesn't know won't hurt him and that it is only when the dramatic whole revolves in the face and he can't see them go round that he appreciates your housekeeping. Too big a man how you do things is so disillusioning as giving him a pen behind the screen at the comic opera.—New York Press." AN ODD BOOKCASE. Ana Wheel Will Skill Lunge on Wet or Smooth Volcanoes. If you have ever bought bookcases you know that it is gradually larger with each find and that it is available for building both large and small volumes. In most this work base is an attractive design. The more examples we now come from one of the everyday style that observes how significantly it is made ```markdown ``` FOR BOSTH BAKES AND SUNSHINE BOOKS. You see the point, don't you? A good part of the space is reserved for small books, but at one and the shelves are placed that large volumes may be set upon them from the open side of the case, the sizes of the books being exposed rather than the books. Or courses the idea may be created on simply or elaborately, according to the taste and skill of the handy man or woman who takes it up—Latter Woman Journal. Lake Minnetonka, Milton, Md. "The manner and temperament of the mistress of a house are reflected in her servants." An entrepreneur best agent made this statement. "The manner in which the servant answers my summons to the front door is almost invariably the clew to what kind of treatment I may expect from the mistress. When a maid appears and wears a forbidding scowl on her face I can be absolutely certain that the woman of the house is a person of a very uncertain temperament. If, on the contrary, I am greeted with a smile and something that seems to approach cordiality I enter the house feeling relieved, for I know that even if the tails refuse to buy the books I have to offer she will do so in a manner that will make me feel that I am a human being trying to earn an honest living and not a social outcast. Servants reflect the atmosphere of a household, just as children reflect the breeding of their parents." -Philadelphia Record. Dangerous Use of Arsenic. Dangerous Use of Arnica. While arnica is one of the drugs included in nearly every household medicine chest, it is doubtful if the average mother, who is wont to apply it so freely to the fingers and toes of has little ones, realizes the risk she runs. Although many home remedies call for the use of arnica, it is said to be highly dangerous to apply it to the skin unless greatly diluted. One part arnica to five parts water, the proportions commonly advised, is said to form a lotion the use of which is attended with great danger. A correspondent who has looked up the subject says that arnica should be diluted more than ten times "If used in full strength," she says, "arnica will cause paralysis. A good combination is that of one teaspoonful of arnica to four tablespoonfuls of witch hazel, and even than it should be used in moderation, its experience has shown." The Plaindealer THE PLAINDEALER PUB,CO, 112 Broad Seventh Street NICK CHILES, Editor and Manager Entered at the Postoffice at Topoh as Second class Mail Matter. FRIDAY, JAN. 18, 1907 A GROWING PREJUDICE! We reproduce, elsewhere, an excerpt from one of the leading papers of the Southwest. It tells in brief the brutal treatment of a Jewish rabbi who dared to speak out against America's unpardonable crime of lynching and burning. The attitude of the people of that city towards a man for speaking out in denunciation of barbarous lawlessness in a measure indicates the growth of public sentiment towards our people. Many things conspire to aggrivate public sentiment and create an intense feeling towards the Negro. During the past decade the literature entering every home in this land has been teeming with exaggerated and lurid accounts of Negro offenses against the law—civil, moral and social. His smallest offense has been magnified to a mountain of crime. Men in high places, regardless of the undisputed advancement of our people, morally, intellectually and financially, have not hesitated to condemn such a struggling race as incapables, and have bent their otherwise splendid talents to the detriment of humanity. When this Jewish Rabbi, influenced only by a desire to condemn a crime of lawless murders in a supposed "land of the free and home of the brave," he is hounded from the town like a felon. When conditions reach such a point that freedom of speech is denied, and a man is punished because he is demanding a "square deal" for the under fellow in the battle of life, then, some things should be done to cure the evil. In this work both the whites and blacks have a duty to perform. White people of intelligence know and believe that the Negro is not seeking social equality. Social equality is the great bugaboo. In the multiplication of his churches, lodges, schools, and in the improvement of his social circles, the Negro is clearly proving to the world that in a social way he is sufficient unto himself. If it is possible for the white man to understand and admit this (and we do not doubt his ability to do so) then the race problem and its evils will pass away, leaving only the ever present problem of dealing with criminals in strict accordance to the law made and provided. In this the Negro has a duty to perform m. His duty is clear as the noonday sun. He must lay aside the ranting and railing which has largely characterized him in the past and present his case at the bar of public sentiment commensurate with the dignity and intelligence of our forty years of freedom and public schools. Recognize and defend the noble virtuous women of our race. Place the virtue and integrity of our people as high as the white man places him and stand ready to defend the same. More good can be achieved by a quiet, dignified line of conduct than by a vicious wind-jamming. J. W. Voohie's It is one of the most cleanest Cales in the city Everything up to date and served in style. Clean Beds a Specialty. Jas. W. H. Martin, Propritton 106COURT STREET. Fred M. Street G. W. Hamilton Stonecreel & Hamilton. Uncle Jack E. Moore W. city and county of entertaking business Corner 7th and Quincy Sts Topeka, Kansas. Governor Hoch is a good man. We believe him to be an honest, conscientious statesman, endeavoring to deal with conditions as he sees and understands them. In his recent message the Governor apologizes for asking the Legislature to make a generous appropriated for Negro schools by citing the absence of Negroes from several of our state colleges. It is hardly fair to bring into his catalog Landsburg college [Swe dush], Campbell University, and a few other denominational schools, located in communities where there practically are no Negroes, and then bear gravely on the number of Negroes in the jails and penitentiaries. It is quite true that the number of Negroes in our penal institutions are greatly in excess of our desire, but this is no reason for taxing the already overtaxed people of Kansas to maintain schools that are not necessary. As a follower of the lowly Nazarene, it strikes us that the proper recommendation for Governor Hoch to have made and urged to be enacted into law, that every man in Kansas should be required, like Daniel of old, to kneel down and ask God to cleanse the thoughts of his mind of evil prejudice and to tear from his heart hatered of his fellow man, and to till his soul with the brotherly love like unto the soul that ran down on Aaron's beard." Ask for a liberal appropriation of the milk of human kindness. --- Chauncey Curtis was nominate for United States senator by the Republican caucus of the state Friday evening in the midst of great excitement and interest. There were several contestants for the place. He was nominated on the fourth ballot, an predicted several hours before the assembling of the caucus. Cyrus Leland, the old war horse of Doniphan county, started the break on the third ballot and on the forty-fourth ballot, Senator Porter of Crawford county sealed the nomination for Mr. Curtis by bringing six voters from the third congressional district which were necessary to complete the nomination. It required sixty six votes to nominate, and up to the time Senator Porter's name was called Mr. Curtis lacked six votes, therefore Mr. Porter is the man to whom Mr. Curtis should feel under many obligations for this master stroke. Senator Porter was an ardent supporter of Congressman Campbell, but after he was released by the congressman, he was at liberty to go wherever he chose and was therefore made one of the Curtis forces. Continued from Page 1. Americans--regardless of racial descent, religious belief or sectional abode--are a unit, and that is, reverence for our women. In no other land on the face of the globe is woman held in such high esteem as in those United States. This feeling Mr. Kaplan did not seem to realize. Hence his attack upon the women of the South, and hence the spontaneous and overwhelming indignation of the community. Nor does the Citizen believe the rising title of weightful indignation had been any sort of Mr. Kaplan had selected for his theme the women of the East, of the West, of the North or of any other section or subsection of our country. The Citizen has found so many persons desirous of reading the unfortunate article of the late rabbi, but unable to procure it, that the offensive part of it is here reproduced. Speaking of the crime of rape on white women, and on even baby girls of six years of age, who died from the outrage, the rabbi said. Now, in the name of all that is good and holy if this crime of the Negro is so hateful to white people that it is punishable by mob violence, why I thunder forth from the mountain, tops, do the white man of the South, with the fewest exceptions, practice daily that same crime on Negro women. If I had taken the trouble to convert Negroes to Judaism I would take a pride in being an example of right counselors and morality to these disciples of mine, and not an example of privileged immorality and high-handed desecration of the fundamental institution of society, the home. If you do not know you ought to know, that in the South it is no disgrace, it is an acknowledged privilege of every white man to have a colored woman as a concubine. By their economic dependence, the Negro women must obey, and when they obey, as obey they must, behold the hollow mockery to point to the Negroes as an immoral race! How in the name of decency and common sense justice can you blame the Negro for occasionally initiating your vile practice which you show him every day? This, too, is a problem that never will be solved by anyone except the white women of the South. The Southern white woman is proverbally lazy, incapable of doing anything, incapable therefore of earning the salt that goes into the bread she eats. She is therefore dependent, body and soul, upon her lerd and master, her husband. She nor you may put it that way, but I put it that way because it is the unwarranted truth. Hence, she is her husband's slave his toy, his plaything, and must acquiescer in everything he does, for her living depends upon him, and him alone. She knows and knows well, the institution of concubinage that exists in the South, but she as well as the concubine are dependent on the man, and they can say nothing—just grin and bear it. Now, if the Southern women were capable of earning their own living, they could say with terrible earnestness: I want you, my husband, to be true to your marriage vow, or behold. I prefer to make my own living, honorally and morally, rather than live with an immoral man."—The Albuquerque Citizen. GALENA NOTES. The quarterly conference and meeting at the A. M. E. church, last Sunday and Monday nights, was grand allure. Rev. F. W. Green, of Buster, Kansas, conducted the meetings. There were seven accession to the church. Rev. J. H. Lavinger preached at the A. M. E. church at 11 o'clock last Sunday. M. Willie Gilton, after spending the holidays with relatives and friends at home, returned last week to Our Lady to begin her school. Clarence Hymon and wife, of Joplin, Mo, were in the city on the 9th inst. and attended a meeting of the K. of Pc. Mrs. J. H. Ewings entertained the Big 4 of Galena, last Wednesday night. Those present were, Merdame Grant Smith and John Harvey, and Todd Roberts and William Crokett. Mrs Violet Harvey of Joplin, was in the city last week, visiting her mother, Mrs Crokett. Mrs McMurry left for Girard on the 12th most, where she will probably spend two or three months. Mrs. P Burnett and Mecara A. C. Cheetum, John Lavinger and Alexander Clay, of Baster Springs, Kane, attended quarterly meeting at the A.M.E. church, last Sunday. The Allen C. E. Leagues of Lit the Bethel are doing good work. R. V. Green and Mr. Clay spoke encouraging words to the League Senior, last Sunday evening. The Albany Hotel NANVORD W MING PROP Rates $5 to $7 per week. Spec. rangements ICE. Home 1 home No.16 EXCELSIOR APPLIANCE, INC Barbers Wanted PROF. HARRY ROBINSON, 314 Felix Street, St. Joseph. Mo., in need of two first-class barbers This is a first-class shop, and good barbers can make good money. BORR ROSS, FREES OSCAR KOULSTYMAN AL. RODGERS BURBANK Mgr. OLYMPIC CLUB. Home Phone 730 Main 918 Baltimore Ave. Kames City, Ma BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chas Smith ... Sam Varbaugh! Scobie Childers ... Ed. Tyton Matt Helen ... Sam Jones KAHF DUNN, Pres R. J. DESTRO, Sec. J. V. PHILLIPS Stewart. Afro-American Social Club When at Leasure, Call and See Dr. We Strive to Please. 'PHONE 1349. 126 W. DOWLAR. WICHTA, KS. INFORMATION WANTED OF WILL DOUBLY Any information of Will Doubalt who was last heard of at Wybark L.T., will be thankfully received by his brother, W. S. BROWN. 2821 State Street, At-4-14. Chicago, Ill. I Have Any Number of .. o Rent from $7.00 up. BARGAINS FOR THRIFTY PROLLI G. J. JONES, KALLITHRIX PARLOH HAIR GOODS, HAIR OR NAMENTS NEW POMPA- DOURS, SWITCHES, WIGS, FRIZZES AND MRS. M. L. FIELD, 819 KANSAS AVEN. NOTICE. To Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Mo: We are desirous of increasing our circulation in the two cities. We shall in a short time off a good prize for the most popular lady in those cities, and shall enter them in the race for this prize with the understanding that these ladies work to secure a large subscription which insures votes in securing the prize. BAND OFFICERS KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. The following officers have been elected for the Sunflower Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Jurisdiction N A N A K A A. and A Jno M Lewis, Grand Chancellor, Wichita, Kas J. B Davis Grand Vice Chancellor, Wem. H Pope Past Grand Chancellor Topeka Roy N W hatchieton Grand Chancellor Lawrence Roy J S hing Grand Chancellor West R C Lee Grand Master a Kirchequier Topela Dr I B Anthony, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, Kansas City J. H. Hobson Grand Inner Guard Columbus Fred Martin Grand Outer Guard, Wichita Dr. S. H. Thompson, Grand Medical Director, Kansas City J. H. Guy, Grand Attorney, Topeka A. F. Glovor, Grand Secretary Downtown Board, Wichita S. W. Steming Grand Treasurer Downtown Board, Wichita Doe Williams, Supreme Representative, Lawrence Place of next meeting, Lawrence 1907 PAOLA ITEMS Mrs. Miles Cooper is on the sick list. Mrs. Maude Wallis is visiting her mother in Lawrence this week. Mr. Henry Payne is convalescent. Rev A B Childress is very poorly. Mrs. Vetite Harrel and daughter Nargote are visiting friends in Kansas City this week. Mrs. Pete Miller and Sudi Hamilton returned to their homes in Guthrie, Ok, after a two weeks' visit with their sister, Mrs. Bette Robinson. Mrs. Martha Wilboise of Hildale visited her daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Wilson, Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Lewis Merriman is convalescent. Mr. Walter Webb is in Independence, Kansas, this week. A ten days' unpaid meeting is in session at the Second Baptist church, under the auspices of Rev. Woodson of Kansas City. Mike Sallie Robinson returned to Quindare, Monday. Mr. Worthy Smith of Kansas City is the guest of his aunt, Mrs. Walter Welling. Mr. Warren Parks is in Springdell, En., to remain permanently. Mrs. John Duncan moved to Independence, Ks. Carrie Prince went to Kansas City, Sunday, to remain permanently. Miss Grace Thomas returned to Kansas City, Monday, after a two weeks visit with her parents, her and Mrs Robbie Thomas. RESOLUTIONS Lawrence, Kan, Dec 21, 1906 Hon J. D. Bowerrock Washington, D.C. My Dearest The following organ mation does hereby respectfully request you to aid and support the bill intro- duced as set out in the resolutions here with submitted to you A. SIMS' POOL AND BILLIARD PARLORS Headquarters for all who want a one time Where Hutchinson will now on the SOUTH MAIN STREET. TELLING LIVER-ISH This 2" ..ing? Blue Draught Sip & Passionate Consiguration 25£ ATLANTIC PARK 1917 A Gentle Luxative And Appetizer The people of this county will be very grateful to you for any aid or consideration you may give this matter as we consider this matter of the greatest interest to American people We beg to be respectfully yours. THE SUNDAY FORUM F. D G Harvey, M. D, Pres. Mary J Dillard, Secy. In so much as President Throdeen Roosevelt has discharged without honors the non commissioned officers and enlisted men of companies B, C and D, 23th Infantry of the United States and Whereas, This was done without giving these men their day in court to prove their innocence or to prove their guilty and. Whereas, Simeon Congressman Roberts of the State of Massachusetts has introduced a bill in the Congress of the United States providing for rehabitation of the discharged soldiers the following resolution was adopted December 16th, 1906, by the Sunday Forum Resolved that we write to our Congressman the Hon. I.D. Bowensoch, and earnestly ask him to support the bid introduced in the Congress of the United States, December 15th, 1906, by Congressman Roberts of the State of Massachusetts, providing for the rehabitation of the discharged soldiers of companies 18, C and D of the 25th Infantry of the United States THE SUNDAY FORUM F D G Harvey M D Frey Miss M J. Dillard Seey The above resolution has been further endorsed by the following organizations: The People's Literary Society Wm. Douglas, Frey, M. Cled Seey K. of P Lodge No 1, W A Brown, C. G. A. F. & A. M., J. W Clark W M., F. D. G. Harvey, Seey F. G. J D Society No 2 D M Monroe, Frey, J. H Strode, Seey SPRINGFIELD, MO. Mina Palestina Walburn entertained last week at A. L. Woolard's residence. As each guest entered a heart was presented. Dancing and different games were indulged in, and a dainty lunchroom was served at 11 p.m., after which a repetition of the first two hours was enjoyed. Blue Ribbon Club entertained Wednesday evening after the regular, Mr. S. H. Cox treating a number of chicken and ham sandwiches. Speaking was the main feature and orations of unknown abilities received storms of applause. Over twenty five couples had a most delightful time at Palace Hall in the East End, Monday evening. Mr. Brown is to be complimented on having such a popular resort. Mrs. Lath left for Chicago last week Moody B Bird of Pittsburgh was in the city last week, in route to New York City VINITA, I T Very pleasant weather prevails during this week, but mud on Illinois avenue was the order of the day and seems difficult for drivers. C. L. Humeen was in Bluejacket, I. F. Monday, on business. Mrs. U. R. Smith of Springfield, Mo. was in the city the past week visiting relatives and friends. D. Hicks is reported somewhat better this week. It is rumored that W. I. Venters may soon build a two story brick structure on East Illinois avenue, which will give nice office rooms and a fine drug, clothing or second hand store could do business there. There seeking location for business of such nature will do well to apply for a room at once. Don't be afraid to come to Ventus to locate. We treat all nice, entertain them royally, show them around in the city and will assist them in securing either a position or business place. Be while passing through step off and set for yourself. Little business thanks the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Hawkins, is reported on the news list. GUTHRIE, OAKL, JUN 15 MARRIAGE of migrants to either Indiana or whites of the state of Oklahoma are prohibited in the report of the committee of the gene eral provisions made to the constitution al convention this morning. Further provisions to define migrants as persons of A race or color within the third degree ```markdown ``` And you will the committee could not put a way of斗争 in the law to tar from one of the whites men that certain friendly grip whereby they do know a negro woman in the darkness rather than light, the better class of negroes would point to them as a great committee. WANTED-Colored roomers at 1013 W. Tenth street, Bell 'phone, 2521. B E. Miller of Fort Scott is an employee of the Senate. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Jefferson of Colorado Springs attended the funeral of John B. Jones. Mrs B. W. Batchellor of Lawrence is in the city visiting her aunt, Mrs Chanie Winbourne. Mr. Thompson, the rural route mail carrier of Oskaloosa was in the city this week on business Mrs. G. N. Walker of Oklahoma City, Okla, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. William Bulger, 318 Crane street, and may make Topeka her future home. WANTED -A good short order and pastry cook. None but tho best need apply. Also an up-to-date lady waitress at Martin's Cafe, 106 Court street, Muskogee, Okla. Mon. J. N. Wilkerson, the newly elected sheriff is an old wheel at the mill and he has appointed H. I. Monroe as deputy. Col. J. W. Norton is an exceptionally good man and we commend him for the appointment. The Hon W. I. Jamison, one of the foremost lawyers in the state has been retained as assistant County Attorney by Hon. John Schenck, the newly-elected county attorney, Mr. Schenck was elected on the Democratic ticket by the support of the Republicans and he is to be commended for exercising such excellent judgment in retaining such an eminent lawyer and jurist as Mr. Jamison, who has held that position for years. John B. Jones, aged 44, died at his home on Jackson street, after an illness of several months of tuberculosis. He left a wife, several brothers and sisters and other relatives to mourn his loss. His presence will be missed by his many acquaintances in business circles as he was an exception among the colored people when it came to doing business with the other races. He knew how to get right up to them and do business and make money. He owned a beautiful home and was engaged in the real estate and loan business. He completed several large deals within the past few months. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Mary L. Gufford, Plaintiff. No. 24208. Frank P. Gifford, Defendant. State of Kansas to Frank P. Gifford, greeting. You are hereby notified that in the above entitled court and action the plaintiff has filed her petition for a divorce against you on the grounds of extreme cruelty and gross neglect of duty, and that unless you answer the petition of said plaintiff on or before the 8th day of February, 1907, the said petition will be taken as true and the plaintiff grant ed a divorce from you accordingly. Hence fail net at your peril. In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of December, 1906, I. S. C. C. L. I. S. Chief of said Court, (NEAT) W. S. McCrinock, Attorney for Plaintiff First published December 30th, 1906. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas Bernard L. Neubert, Paint perm of plaintiff on February 24th, 1807 said position of plaintiff with be. k. was not and judgment entered divoreng plaintiff from defendant and giving plaintiff the custody of their minor child, named Willie May Nesbitt. J R. McNARY. Attorney for Plaintiff. First published December 21st, '06. We have received reliable information that John A. Chiles of Dover, Okla., was married Thursday of last week to Miss Cora Woods, a lady of high culture, a graduate of Philander Smith college, at Little Rock, Ark. THE PLAINDEALER wishes Mr. Chiles and his new bride a happy voyage through life. As he has been a widower so long we know now that chickens and hogs will grow on his farm as never before. Mr. Arthur Robinson of Manhattan, who has been residing with his sister, Mrs. J. M. Pope, is in the city on business. NOTICE. To Vale subscribers. The collector for THE PLAINDEATHER will be around to see you soon. Please be ready when he calls. Mr Elhott Donnelly left this week for Alaska after visiting relatives and friends in the city for two months. While here he made his parents a present of a nice little home on Fourteenth and Chandler. Mr. Donnelly is one of the ambitious and industrious young men of this city, and his many friends were sorry to have him leave. Praleau (Bud) Smith was quietly married January 8th to Miss Willma Jones of Los Angeles, Cal., formerly of Lawrence, Kans. The marriage took place at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Mary Jones, 652 Mates street, Rev. Gerdon of the Tabernacle Baptist church officiating. Mr. Smith is the only son of Mrs. Preston Smith of Topeka and is well and favorably known here. He is a splendid young man, and a host of friends extend hearty congratulations. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tussel o. Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steward, Mr. and Mrs. John Tate, Mr. and Mrs. James Steward, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Neil of Kansas City, Mrs. Maggie Williams and daughters, Hattie and Vera, Measro. Willie Williams, Earl Hooker of Denver, Henry Peasant of Kansas City, Henry Molen, Jas. Jones, Mrs. Hattie Molten. W.A.DOXEY &WIFE Practical Bathers Massage and Swedish Movement Treatment, Vapor Baths and Betz hot air treatment. Treatment given for rheumatism, poor circulation. Stomach, Liver and Kidney Trouble. W. A. DOXY & WIFE, Eldorado Springs, Mo. PUBLICATIONNOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Samuel Rysyjs. Plaintiff, vs No. 24,185 Attie Rysyjs, Defendant. The defendant will take notice that she has been sued by the plain tuff above named, and must or before January 25th, 1907 plead to or answer the petition filed in said action, or judgment will be entered in said court divorcing plaintiff from the defendant and for the custody of minor child, Ezzie Rysyjs. SAMUEL R. V. Pimulif. First published December 14th 06 COME TO VINITA, OKLA. A grand opportunity for colored people to buy good farms or city property. The land in the surrounding neighborhood of Vanilla is fertile and rich, cheap in price, will grow cotton, all kinds of grains and vegetables. The health and climate of this metal hortoise is fine. All kinds of poultry and live stock is well kept. The market is good the year round. Now the stock is ready to be sold to other cities. The colored crates are sold, and being the land to white people day and night, a situation can or write. Real Estate Dealer and Colored Immigration solicitor for good farm lands and tenants Come at once and let me put you in the race for a good farm or city property M. A. Sorrell, Office Moden Building, Vanita, Okla. FOSTER WILLIAMS COLLEVILLE LEADING GROCER ALWAYS HAS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST GROCERIES TO EVERY CUSTOMER he gives The Plaindealer FREE WANTED-Educated colored men to travel and distribute samples and circulars of our goods among their own people. Salary $80 per month and expenses Saunders Co. Desk 10, Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. L. P. Hall BARBER SHOP Hair Cutting, Shampoo, Shave. Special attention given to Pimples and Sore Faces. Give me a call. Satisfaction guaranteed. 962 PRESTON AVENUE. MEMPHIS, TENN. The Peoples' Cafe PENMAN & WILSON, 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 Mrs V. L. North Proprietress THE EAST SIDE INN Headquarters for R. R. Psr ters and Traveling Men. First-class Board and Room. Everything strictly modern. 816-18 V MANAH CITY MO Home Phone 611-611-611 Home Phone Main 2018 Y 2 Hings For First-class Rooms and Lodging When in Pueblo, Colo., B. W. Shelton's Rooming House, 210 Lampkin Street; three blocks from the Union Depot. He can be found at the gate of the depot Joseph McNeal has returned from a pleasant visit with relatives in North Carolina. Mr. J. W. Ganaway of Pratt, Kans. stopped over in the city this week, en route to Kansas City to attend the Bishops' Council. Mr Simon Wilson, who resides six miles east of Dover, Okla, died suddenly at Crescent City last week, having been injured by a runaway team. He was a prosperous farmer, and leaves a wife and nine children to mourn his loss. He was a resident of Topeka for several years We are pained to learn of the death of the wife of Honorable Nels n C. Crews of Kansas City, Mo. She was a devoted wife and many friends mourn her loss. Mr Crews has the sympathy of the PLAINDEALER and friends Bishop Evans Tyree of the A. M. E. church, whose district comprises Texas and Indian Territory, preached at St. John church Sunday morning and evening, and lectured for the Y M C. A. Sunday afternoon and at the church Monday night. There were great crowds at each place to luten to his manly and Christian FOSTER COLLEYVILLE & L. CHEAP TO EVERY CU Patronize him. remarks. Bishop Tyree is en route to Kansas City, where he will attend the Council of Bishops. He was the guest of Rev. Ransom and Rev. Edwards. Rev J. E. Edwards, pastor of St. John A M E. church, has done a great and noble work for the church since he has been here and it is now the duty of his members and his many friends to collect his back salary and recompense him sufficiently for his work. We hope the members and friends will not be slow in doing their duty toward Rev. Edwards for he has been faithful and is a devout Christian minister, and we can see where he is in need of several things to make him and his family comfortable. Now let's get busy. Mrs. A. B. Stoner and Mrs. Wm Holloway entertained Wednesday evening in honor of Mrs. King of Oklahoma. The evening was delightfully spent, after which a three course luncheon was served. The hostesee were assisted in serving their guests by Fredda Brantley, Iva Stoner and Ruth Kenney. Every one reported a pleasant evening. Rev. T. N. Haynes and wife, Mertha, celebrated their twenty fifth anniversary at their comfortable home on East Jenkins street, in El Reno, Okla, January 5th. Most of the guests invited attended. Many were the presents received. Music was rendered by Stockman's string orchestra and Mrs. Conrad of Cogar delivered an excellent selection. The guests were served by Messrs. Jefferson and McClain. W. S. Jerman acted as toastmaster. Rev. and Mrs. Haynes formerly lived in Topeka, and The PLANDRATER extends hearty congratulations to them. The Knights and Ladies of the Orient, assisted by Cumberland band, will give their annual entertainment Thursday night January 24th, 1907, at Metropolitan hall. 406 Kansas avenue. The following program will be rendered Music Cumberland Band Vocal Solo Mrs Slaughter Piano Solo Miss Caretta Edwards Address, Fraternal Insurance,1 Prof. S. G. Watkins Piano Solo Mr Walter Jones Original Poem J. Mord. Allen Vocal Solo Mrs. J. M. Wright Music Band. Refreshments WESTERN TUSKEGEE. Mr. Wilson Carter, one of the most progressive citizens of Garden City, visited our institution Sunday and made arrangements to enroll his son. The faculty has begun the reading of petagic papers at their forty-nightly meetings. These papers are very helpful and instructive. The week of prayer was observed last week, and resulted in many of our young men and women consecrating their lives to the service of the Master Governor E. W. Bush strongly commended our institution in his message to the legislature. Such endorsement should encourage and stimulate our many friends. The city commissioner have begun the construction of a new foot macadam road extending from the city limits to the entrance of the ER WIL LEADING GROUP ALWAYS HA institute campus. The road will be completed in two months. Our institution has received a special invitation from Booker T. Washington to send a representative to the Workrea' Conference to be held at Tuskegee Institute February 26-51. Bishop Evans Syree, L.L. D., in company with Rev. J. E Edwards, visted the institution Monday morning and addressed the student body and faculty. The bishop's address was replete with helpful suggestions All of the McAlester people have been kept quite busy on the go during the holidays. The Masons gave them annual banquet at the New Knights of Pythias Hall. The affair was well attended by visitors from all parts of the territory and the citizens as well. Miss Dorsey Hunting of Van Buren, Ath, is the guest of Miss Mary Reeve, Furnace and Parlee Thompson Miss Bertha A. Harding, who is a teacher in the public schools of Chickasha, I. I., and who after spending a very pleasant Christmas with her father, Rev M D Brookins, and sister, Mabel E. Harding, returned to Chickasha, Sunday morning, where she will resume her school work. Mrs. Tico Fitapattuck, accompanied by her little son, Charlie, returned Sunday afternoon from her trip to Colleysville, where she has spent the Christmas hol THE LONDON VAUDEVILLE THEATRE at Old Lukens Opera House Remodtled. Opes Sunday, December 30, Matines and Night, for Butter Week. REFINED MIGH CLASS VAUDRVILLE Change each week Catering to Ladies and Children. Ladies' Souvenir Matinee. Colored Patronage Solorted. 10s- ADMISSION- 10s BOLEY Indian Territory A progressive town. All eyes are upon the Indian Territory. More money is going to be made in the Indian Territory in the next few years than in any section of the country. In no section of the country has the Negro race with such rapidity to financial immence. BOLBY The exclusive Negro town of the territory, offers occasional oppore as to location and general resources to Negro farmers, orchardists, stock raisers and investors. The adaptability of the soil to growing all kinds of grain, fruits and truck would make a mill and elevator, also a scanning factory paying investments. For further information address The Boley Business Mens' Club. Boley, Indian Territory LIAMS FOR THE DEST AND Mrs. Joy A. Bette, one of our public school teachers, spent Xmas visiting her cousin, Mrs. Tolliver, of Guthrie, Okla. The cousin had never before met. Mrs. Henry Cleaver returned Sunday from Collegeville, where her brother had been killed. Mrs. Cleaver was accompanied by her husband. The Shakespeare Club entertained many friends at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. E. K. McDaniel, on Dec. 26, 1908. The event was an evening with lampfellow. Mr. Alice Hulley was summoned to barricade to the funeral of her son in law. Miss Tilly Woods of Hartshorne was up to attend the Masone banquet. Miss Ada B Wortham returned a few days ago from Texas, where she has been visiting friends. During Miss Bertha Harding's stay in the city she and Dr. Pugh spent an afternoon in hunting. They returned with them buppy full of games—two little squirrels. Mr. Roo Fortune of Walburton was in the city last week on business. Miss Rodesia Stephens, who is a student of the Texas Central College, spent Amas with her mother. Miss Mabel B. Harding, a teacher in the McLester public school, conducted fun exercises at her school on the 20th the play way "Mr. St. Nicholas Mrs Winnie Guess and children spent the holidays with relatives in Guthrie, Ohio. Mrs Guess of Stringtown was up for Xmas to visit her son, Lawyer H. A. Guess. Mrs Katie Alexander is visiting with friends in Durningham, Alabama. Roy M. D Brookins made a flying trip to Alderson this week. Waleb meeting night was a great night at the A M E church. The church was crowded with old and young. CLARKSVILLE, TEXAS Rev P W Wenley of Texaskana proceeded last Sunday at the First Papa- tish church to a large congregation Rev McMillan, Miss Irene Woodson and India Warden were in Paris last Sunday Mrs. Patterson Jackson has returned from Denver Mr. Joe Dyer struck a miracle of bad luck last week. He fell into the wrong place We want one hundred subscribes to read The Plaindealer the best paper in the South. WINFIELD, KANSAS A most pleasant afternoon was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Brown at a ten party Saturday afternoon given in honor of Mrs. Brown a sister, Mrs. James Reager of Humboldt, Mansfield. Those present were: Mendames Dave Johnson, G Johnson, W. Wright, E Wright, J Banks, A. Brown, W. Brown, G. Nichols, W. H. Johnson, Arthur Nichols, Rafert Lee, L. Brown, James Nichols, Andy Smith, L. Nichols, A Monitor, J. W. Woodnand, S. Johnson. The out of town guests were Mrs. Hattie Banks of Arkansas City, and Mrs. Ralph Lee of Newkirk, Okla. The afternoon was spent in music and a guiding content, in which the Aunt prize was won by Mrs. Rafert Lee and the connotation by Mrs. Jones Banks, after which a three course luncheon was served. Mrs Andy Charles and Mrs Arthur Nichols returned from Wichita, Sunday evening where the former went to consult a physician. The Second Baptist church will soon have a fresh coat of paint, at the weather permitting. The contract has been let to Earnest Hahan. Hes ^^ ^^ Bandy believes in the steak bage. He recently shipped a registered boat from Wellington at a cost of $25. He is a beauty. Mrs James Rager of Humboldt has, poster of Mrs Allan Brown left for her home last Monday. At a recent meeting of Manual Chapter No. 22 0 B. The following of those who attended and installed for the evening year: Mrs. Ella Wright, W M; Mrs. Danna Nichols, A M, A J Nichols, P. Myra Franklin, Conductor; Mrs. I Doupain, A Conductor, J W Wood, Brown John Brown Nes. The Diamonds and Hearts drama in three acts under the auspices of the Second Baptist church will be presented about the 22d of February W A Wright manager HAIR-DRESSING, MANICURING AND BEAUTY PARLOK 25 R. SHORMAN AVE. TUTCHINSON KANSAS LADIES—SEPTEMBER 10TH—FOR A LADIES LADIES are invited to wear beautiful hair and beautiful effects. Used and recommended by thousands of grate- ful married ladies. Absolutely harmful. Not worth treat or £1.00. Mailed in pown package upon receipt of price. Write for particular. LE BLUE REMEDY CO. Lenoir, N. C. CASH ZANDITON'S 110 East Sixth street Beats buying on Installment and saves Purchasers Big Money. --- You Can Save on $2 and $3 on Every Garment SAVE MONEY BY EEING ZANDITON A Neat, Pretty And Inexpensive "Hill and Mam" Solved It Satisfactorily. Our new house was to be finished in the fall, and by that time all of our extra capital would be finished also. I was trying to think of some nice but inexpensive way to furnish the second story rooms when Aunt Anna came to visit us for a month, says a writer in the New Idea Magazine. "Twenty years ago the carpet question did not worry young housekeepers for every bride was expected to have a fine web of rag carpet to begin with, and really I think there is nothing prettier or more suitable for upstairs bedrooms than the soft tones of a well made rag carpet," said Aunt Anna after I had told her of my plans and the size of my purse. "But how can I make one?" I asked after thinking of all of the castor garments in the family. "If going to work," she replied, "and when you run out of material at home call on your aunts and cousins." So we began at once and soon had all our material collected. "To insure a smooth, even carpet we must use an cotton rags and cut them all of such width that when woven they will be of uniform thickness. Rags cut from soft goods will beat up closer in the weaving than those cut from stiffer material and should be about as thick as six ply of the chain or an out straw when woven into the carpet," said Aunt Anna as she rolled and twisted a strip between her fingers. First we cut in strips all the dark and all the bright colored rags. These we mixed well, lapping the ends about an inch and sewing them diagonally across with the machine. Not stopping to clip the thread each time, we soon had a long strip sewed, and then, clipping it apart, we wound it into balls of about one pound each. We had decided to make rags 9 by 12 feet. These would require twelve yards of yard wide carpet. Each square yard of carpet requires one pound of rags, so we stopped when we had sewed twelve pounds of rags. The rags were sewed hit and miss and of so many colors that we selected the chain in six different colors, a pound of each, and had it laid thread about so that there would be no stripes. Besides the rags the carpet cost: Six pounds of chain, at 25 cents per pound, $1.50; twelve yards weaving, at 10 cents per yard, $1.20; total $3.70 A Convenient Kitchen Table. The design shown borewith illustrates a table that represents not a little experience and consideration of what goes to make the most convenient table, says the Ladies' World. It has a large top, which keeps dishes and pans from getting into inextricable confusion, and it has a large num- A KITCHEN TABLE ber of drawers, which are always convenient, and also closet room. Two slides pull out, on which pans may be set when one is sitting at work at the table, while in the long space under the center of the table is a chance to hang a multitude of kettles and other kitchen utensils. These are protected from dust by a washable curtain that slides upon a rod at the front of the opening. The French Apron Fad. The wearing of aprons is one of the old useful fashions now being revived, greatly to the saving of our frocks and the comfort of the wearers. The quaintish apron has been set aside for awhile, but is now once more asserting itself. The strictly useful has always held its own. The French have turned a kindly eye to them, and in the days of Louis XIII, women were them and their bunch of keys, showing they were veritable housekeepers. In the time of Louis XIV, dies of the court dummed them when employed in needlework and other arts, and it is from that period we are restoring the airy nothings of lace and muslin to our favor. Sometimes they are of light colored crepe de chine worked in gold. More useful ones of thicker fabric have large pockets. Those are adorned with pretty ribbon bows, and these ribbons sometimes draw up the pocket. Sometimes strong linen aprons are laceed with ribbon at the edge by means of creelet roles. A smashing item for housekeepers A preserver of time and po tence is getting to wrap the silver in which it to be light away for com- pany use. It is laid on one paper in which the three in it is laid on it positively leaves the silver cloth and bright any length of time as a respondent in an event. I am putting here these prints are in artists' work and I am proud of them. Peacock and I am proud of them. These prints are the finest in the collection of gold. I am proud of these prints and any of them. I am proud of them. I am proud of the prints in original and charming, designs of standard articles of jewelry. Among the stones upon which fashion at present bestows her approval are the peridot, amethyst, tourmaline, aquamarine, zircon, garnet and the new American stone, kunzite. FORT SCOTT, KAS January 6th, the Shiloh Baptist Sunday School unanimously elected Mrs. A. W. Johnston as superintendent, and the following by nomination: George Judkins, assistant superintendent'; Miss Grace Owen, secretary; Miss Daisy Robinson, assistant; Mrs. M. E. Drake, treas. The corps of teachers were also elected. The Sunday School, by way of encouragement, presented Superintendent Mrs. A. W. Johnston a red letter New Testament and Psalms. The B. Y. P. U. is doing nicely under the leadership of Bro. Scott, and is largely attended, especially by the ladies. Rev. Matt Jones, pastor of Shilo Baptist church, is still carrying on protracted meeting, and is doing well. The weather is bad, but there are always a faithful few. On Sunday evening Rev. Jones' subject was, "Tnou art the Christ." He preached well and had a full house and fine collection. On Sunday, after the Sunday School was over the church held a series of prayer with the school, which was largely attended. Mrs Ruth Macie has been very sick. She is a member of the A. M. E. church, and a daughter of Marion Tabernacle No. 20. The Tabernacle is doing nicely and had a grand entertainment on the 12th. Mrs. Bennie Hall in O. P. Mrs. Anna Witherpoon in busy taking orders for ladies' tailormade dresses, getting ready for Easter. The garments are made in Kansas City, Mo. All ladies wishing tailor made garments call and see her at 315 E. 1st street. All the latest styles of imperial skirts of spring and summer 1007. The C. M. E church held their quarterly meeting Sunday, Rev. Mev Cray pastor, at the M. E. church, Rev. Allen pastor, the C. M. E. church being so small. Presiding Elder Warfield preached a grand sermon and the house was filled. Everybody enjoyed the meeting and the sister churches were present and partook of the Lord's Supper. The Ministers' Meeting was held Monday Jan. 14, at Rev. Bright's Restaurant. All the churches were represented, and some grand ideas and thoughts on the Bible were brought forth. Rev. Bright has a nice restaurant and the only colored one in the city. He has a good trade and is kind to the young people. THE CRITTENDEN MISSION. This is to certify that the Florence Crittenden Mission for colored girls and women is opened at 1020 Washburn avenue, and will take women and girls coming from all parts on the state NEEDS OF THE MISSION The support of the people, not only of the city, but of the entire state is needed. The mission was established for the state Weekly, monthly or weekly contributions Contribution of food, fuel, furniture, building or other material donations will be that kindly received Anyone desiring to contribute to such needed work may address Mr. I. M.ton, 825 Center or M. J. O. x, 1020 Washburn Vine F.cka, Kansas. ARBOO DIRECTORS Mrs Bette Johnson you Fulmore. Mrs Stewland of the Orphan's Ifme association, asked for a collection Sunday morning to aid in taking care of three small children whose mother is ill in one Issues policies for $350, $500 and $1000 No issue poli for $150, $150 and $200 for children aged from 6 to Every intelligent Negro should carry some insurance. We was good, live, busting agents in every town. Write at once for term Liberal term to the right persons. The Knights and Ladies of Protection. KSTO PROTECTION Issues policies for $100, $15 No issue poli Every intelligent Negro should good, live, busting agents in every Liberal term to the right persons. The Knights and L C. I. James Beck, Nat'l Proc. James M. Mason, Nat'l Vice Pres. P. C. THE Headquarters 412 Kansas avenue of the city hospitals, and whose father has deserted them. The family has been living in Parkdale: The congregation responded liberally to the appeal Sunday is the appointed time for the rally for the building fund. It is hoped that the clubs have prepared themselves to make a successful effort. George Bradshaw of Jetmore is visiting his brother, Charles Bradseaw. Miss Jane Chiles will leave next week for Kansas City to visit Mrs. Carrie Drake. Mrs Georgia Forbes is reported somewhat improved. Her brother, Mr. Andy Ryder, of Vinita, Okla. is at her bedside. The Orphans' Home association will have a session Monday night at the home of Mrs Moline Cinkscale Revs. N T Gaubb's J. R Ransom J. E Edwards, and W H Houseley are attending the Bishops' Council in Kansas City this week 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly American construct in free withor an invention in profit by contacting a common fa- tion security confidential HARDBOOK on Patents and Free. Offer will be presented upon request. Patent not taken through Martin & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in this Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly Largest elr culature of any scientific journal. Tromm is your fortnite city. $1 Sold by all newspapers MUNN & Co. 361Broadway, New York Branch O'Toon, 625 F.M., Washington, D. 4. Miss Buelah Hamlet, 116 N. Egmont St. Atchison, K. conducts a nice rooming house. Give her a call. NOISE Notice to all Fabernacher That Susie Wagoner Scott is expelled from the Western San Fabernade, No. 9, for telling the business to Nath Williams and having him saluting the members on the street and also for depressing character of fighting and blackmailing and scandalizing the members. Do you your I have been trying to inform this woman. She is beyond to despair. She is the worst character I ever saw. SARAH H. HARTON Presiding Officer of the Western San Fabernade, No. IF YOU WANT LONG AND BET LET VIEW Mine C J Waker's Wooden Floor Grown. INSURED? of Protection A NATIONAL FRATERNAL INSURANCE SOCIETY incorporated Under the Law of Karnataka for $350, $500 and $1000 and $200 for children aged from 6 to mould carry some insurance We was in every town. Write at once for termi- ons. and Ladies of Protection. P. C. Thomas, Nat'l Supt Press. J. G. Groves, Nat'l Treat THOMAS, Nat'l Sec. a avenue, Topeka, Kansas. I hereby announce myself as a can- dulate for mayor of the city of Topeka at the next Republican primaries I stand on a platform for the uplifting of the city and its continued prosperity I hereby announce myself as a candidate for city chief, subject to the Ite publican primaries. C. B. BURG. M. M. Hale in a candidate for reelection to the office of City Treasurer subject to the Republican premature. --- WANFED—A man to move sweet potato on shares Address, D. Chiles, PLAINDALE office. David Chiles has a good home for an old man and his wife, who desire to raise clicks on the shares. Will furnish good modern house and nine rooms. Address THE PLAINDALE GRAND OPENING OE THE METROPOLITAN THEATRE OE THE ANY SEAT IN THE HOTSE See opening bill, "Get Rich Quick," introducing Hawkins & M'Clain in two acts interposed with vaudeville. Pine oil painting given as a souvenir at each performance to persons holding lucky numbers. Look in Loe's window. First 100 notes received. Seats on side at Loe's drug store and Loe's barbershop. General Admission Reserve For Mail order only close letter to A. C. AARRIS John W. FIELDS COME TO VINITA, OKLA A grand ouverture de l'honneur pro- S ot M. A. Sorrell, Office Madden Building, Vinita, Ohio The Spade in Modern Wardrobe. The deadlock of the contending armies in Manchuria immediately after the battle of Sha River recalls the campaigns of the civil war. Hurepatkin fortified in the tracks where the battle left him, and so did his enemy. The Russian fortifications are known to be formidable, and doubtless those constructed by the Japanese are equally strong. Early in the civil war the spade was at a discount, but in 1801 both the northern and the southern armies fell to making rifle pits and breastworks as soon as a deadlock occurred in the fighting. The Confederate General Lee, in his retrograde movement from the Wilderness battlefield to James river, forlited the lines taken up successfully at Spotsylvania, North Anna river and Cold Harbor, grant forged his way up to the Confederate outposts and also fortified his lines. In the end he gave up trying to burst through the enemy's strong barriers and moved forward by the flank. The same methods characterized the Confederate retrograde movement from Dalton to Atlanta, Ga., led by General Johnston. Johnston met every advance of his opponent, Sherman, with strong fortifications. Sherman fortified the ground taken as he pushed his army step by step against the enemy's reserve lines. Prolonged contests always end in a brute struggle for the mastery, and finally the the breastwork, the parapet, in the place of human bodies to bullets and shells. In this resp in warfare has but the name wer to the old problem— the place the spade. Sending Christmas Presents by Mail. The approach of the Christmas season brings anything but pleasant anticipations to the railway mail clerks who handle the thousands of presents sent through the mails. Their labors are greatly increased by the imperfect manner in which a large percentage of the packages are put up, in many cases being so poorly tied that they come apart long before they reach their destination. speaking of it the other day, a mail clerk said if people would take the trouble to put the article in a box it would save a great deal of unnecessary worry and labor at a time when the clerks are badly overworked, and the present would reach the person for whom it is intended in much better shape than it usually does. A show or a correct box or a breakfast food carton makes a package of convenient size for handling in the mails. Glass, china or fragile articles of any description should be packed in wooden boxes. Packages should be securely tied and plainly marked with the address of the sender in the upper left hand corner. Postage should be fully prepaid, 1 cent an ounce for merchandise and 1 cent for two ounces on printed matter, including books, photographs, pictures, etc. Federation in Central America. Some of the politicians and party leaders of Central America are reported to be making determined efforts to secure a union of the five republics of that region in an offensive and defensive alliance against the whole world, with the particular purpose of resisting imagined encroachments upon their rights and territory by the United States. Aggression by this country is not at the present time so threatening as to demand the formation of such an alliance, but a union of the states between Mexico and the lathmus would undoubtedly laure to the benefit both of those states themselves and of their larger neighbors. It would give a much greater assurance of permanent peace among them than now exists. The federation movement received a considerable impetus from the recent convention at Port Colonia, at which Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador and Honduras were represented. Costa Rica sent no delegates to this meeting, but her eminent men express themselves in hourly sympathy with the federationists. This country is not alone in having a serious immigration problem with which to contend. England has discovered that within a comparatively short time the number of over 18 to be further digging the hole to fill the hole of the hole. but but didn't take the little kind as with blue fire it fluttered it fluttering on that. The mushrat predicts a mild winter, the goose bone an extremely cold one. Between the two we may expect the ausual "all kinds of" weather. Burda's Liberal Bodyguard. Russells Liberal Bodyguard. The semive of Russia is a historic institution, and collectively the semivos, since they exist in every district, may be considered the very citadel of Muscovite patriotism. They have in part the characteristics of the New England town meeting and the county boards or councils of all the states. No one has ever questioned the purity of motive of their members, who are elected by the people and serve without pay, or their devotion to the czar and the empire. As to the duties or prorogatives of the semivos there are two opinions. The advisers and ministers of the czar who hold the views of the late M. de Plehve would have them attend to purely local affairs and in that sphere be as public spirited as they choose. On the other hand, M. de Witte always sought their co-operation in carrying out administrative reforms and urged them to speak their minds freely upon the condition of the peasantry. The first contact of the Czar Nicholas II. with the zemstvos was soon after his inauguration, when he received the honour of his subjects. Representatives from all the zemstvos of all the Russias gathered in a spacious hall and presented addresses, one after another, in terms of laudation of the new ruler. One zemstvo only one took the opportunity to hark back to the days of Alexander II. and expressed the modest hope that the grandson of that liberal monarch would not restrict his confidence wholly to the brevuary, but would let the voices of his people be heard through their chosen representatives, the zemstvos. At this suggestion the young autocrat turned wrathfully upon the whole assemblage and, stamping his foot, declared that they must forever renounce such chimerical notions, for he would have none of them during his reign In so far as lies in their power the sometimes have stood between the common people and the oppressive agents of the central government. During the present reign they have attempted to exercise the punishing power in local offenses but this has been eternally overruled. One of the czars advises declared "Questions of the sensitive have no more to do with law courts than questions of family life. If a father may chastise his son severely without invoking the help of the courts the authorities, local, provisional and central should be invested with similar power to imprison, flog and otherwise overrule or punish the people." In other words every professional governor and every petty man protect should exercise the irresponsible and whimsical power of an autocrat without recourse to or regard for law. The Liberals of Russia are not banded against monarchical institutions, since these are necessary to the working out of a national destiny, nor against the ruling dynasty. They simply ask that the affairs of the nation be freed from the changing caprice of individuals, the rapacity of a clique, and conducted by competent and honest men, independent of the corrupt and fluctuating influence of the imperial court. Despite the unbroken record of railway disasters in the United States it remains true, as proved by the experience of accident insurance companies that the safest place in the world is a railroad train. Not less than thirty persons were killed and many more than that injured in elevator accidents in New York city in the past year. No such proportion of the persons who traveled between New York and Chicago in the same period were even injured. It is capable of proof that within almost any section of the country more persons are accidentally killed in the day's work than in railway disasters. The explanation of this odd fact is of course, that those places are most dangerous where danger is least expected and those safest where danger is so looked for and so probable that the mind of every man concerned is intent on avoiding and preventing accident. Although John Bull is now a rehe- ment a member of arbitration, at least in closest policy, he is reorganizing the military forces of India on the basis of a $70,000,000 outlay. The troops will be on entrenched at certain points to suit them to train together and co- operate in time of war. Since the great mutiny they have been quarrelled all over the country Railroads and tele- grams have been than, of the situation and in time of war troops can be quicker forwarded to any current scene of dis- turbance. The pioneer work of the Alaskan tel graph system recently completed was begun in 1965, before the title on the book was laid. The projectors used to connect the new and old world by the literature it route Cyrus Field a great amount in 1865 dashed this en- terment to the ground. He new as- sumed entirely on United states t tory and comprises 2127 inks whi- ble 1440 of land litter miles of wireless system. The state of the Illinois courts to appeal, to the courts to adjudicate at the governor of their prison grop, their plenty of hard labor, as dwell in their sentences, will hardly be finds by the amalgamated hoboa. CASH ZANDITON'S 110 East Sixth street Beats buying on Installment and saves Purchasers Big Money. --- You Can Save on $2 and $3 on Every Garment SAVE MONEY BY EEING ZANDITON A QUESTION OF CARPETING. A Nent, Pretty and Inexpensive "Milt and Films" Solved It Satisfactorily. Our new house was to be finished in the fall, and by that time all of our extra capital would be finished also. I was trying to think of some nice but inexpensive way to furnish the second story rooms when Aunt Anna came to visit us for a month, says a writer in the New Idea Magazine. "Twenty years ago the carpet question did not worry young housekeepers, for every bride was expected to have a fine web of rag carpet to begin with, and really I think there is nothing prettier or more suitable for upstairs bedrooms than the soft tones of a well made rag carpet," said Aunt Anna after I had told her of my plans and the size of my purse "But how can I make one?" I asked after thinking of all of the castoff garments in the family. "Ily going to work," she replied, "and when you run out of material at home call on your guits and custa." So we began at once and soon had all our material collected. "To insure a smooth, even carpet we must use all cotton rags and cut them all of such width that when woven they will be of uniform thickness. Rags cut from soft goods will bent up closer in the weaving than those cut from stiffer material and should be about as thick as six ply of the chain or an oat straw when woven into the carpet," said Aunt Anna as she rolled and twisted a strip between her fingers. First we cut in strips all the dark and all the bright colored rags. These we mixed well, lapping the ends about an inch and sewing them diagonally across with the machine. Not stopping to clip the thread each time, we soon had a long strip sewed, and then, clipping it apart, we wound it into balls of about one pound each. We had decided to make rags 9 by 12 feet. These would require twelve yards of yard wide carpet. Each square yard of carpet requires one pound of rags, so we stopped when we had sewed twelve pounds of rags. The rags were sewed hit and miss and of so many colors that we selected the chain in six different colors, a pound of each, and had it laid thread about so that there would be no stripes. Besiden the rags the carpet cost: Six pounds of chain, at 25 cents per pound, $1.50; twelve yards weaving, at 10 cents per yard, $1.20; total $3.70 A Convenient Kitchen Table. The design shown herewith illus trates a table that represents not a little experience and consideration of what goes to make the most convenient table, says the Ladies' World. It has a large top, which keeps dishes and pans from getting into inextricable confusion, and it has a large num- A KITCHEN TABLE. ber of drawers, which are always convenient, and also closet room. Two slides pull out, on which pans may be set when one is sitting at work at the table, while in the long space under the center of the table is a chanco to hang a multitude of kettles and other kitchen utensils. These are protected from dust by a washable curtain that slides upon a rod at the front of the opening. The French Apron Pad. The wearing of aprons is one of the old useful fashions now being revived, greatly to the saving of our frocks and the comfort of the wearers. The coquettish apron has been set aside for awhile, but is now once more asserting itself. The strictly useful has always held its own. The French have turned a kindly eye to them, and in the days of Louis XIII, women wore them and their bunch of keys, showing they were veritable housekeepers. In the time of Louis XIV holds of the court dressed them when employed in needlework and other arts, and it is from that period we are restoring the airy nothings of face and muslin to our favor. Sometimes they are of light colored crape de chine worked in gold. More useful once of thicker fabric have large pockets. Those are adorned with pretty ribbon bows and these ribbons sometimes draw up the pocket. Sometimes strong linen aprons are laced with ribbon at the edge by means of eyelet holes. A Saxing Item For Housekeepers A preserver of time and p tence, nevering to wrap the silver in which it is to be laid away for com pany use. It is a fine paper in which the metal is smooth and it positively keeps the silver clean and bright by length of time a correspondent in anew h. Note I am a jeweler for purer bearer. I am not and 4000. I am old. Pict. I am silver in stored in a room. I am of the the storer in the store like to. Lus initing it I take pins are in spite of it with the feac- com and of it with the signs are she in the and gold I take pins in leaves and an, and in only until fixed as motifs in original and charm- ing designs of standard articles of jewellery. Among the stones upon which flash son at present bestows her approval are the peridot, amethyst, tourmaline, aquamarine, zircon, garnet and the new American stone, kunrita. FORT SCOTT, KAS January 6th, the Shiloh Baptist Sunday School unanimously elected Mrs. A. W. Johnston as superintendent, and the following by nomination: George Judkins, assistant superintendent; Miss Grace Owen, secretary; Miss Daisy Robinson, assistant; Mrs. M. E. Drake, treas. The corps of teachers were also elected. The Sunday School, by way of encouragement, presented Superintendent Mrs. A. W. Johnston a red letter New Testament and Psalms. The B. Y. P. U. is doing nicely under the leadership of Bro. Scott, and is largely attended, especially by the ladies. Rev. Matt Jones, pastor of Shilo Baptist church, is still carrying on protracted meeting, and is doing well. The weather is bad, but there are always a faithful few. On Sunday evening Rev. Jones' subject was, "Tnou art the Christ." He preached well and had a full house and fine collection. On Sunday, after the Sunday School was over the church held a series of prayer with the school, which was largely attended. Mrs Ruth Macie has been very sick. She is a member of the A. M. E. church, and a daughter of Marion Tabernacle No. 20. The Tabernacle is doing nicely and had a grand entertainment on the 12th. Mrs. Bessie Hall is O. P. Mrs. Anna Witherspoon is busy taking orders for ladies' tailormade dresses, getting ready for Easter. The garments are made in Kansas City, Mo. All ladies wish tailor made garments call and see her at 315 E. 1st street. All the latest styles of imperial skirts of spring and summer 1007. The C. M. E church held their quarterly meeting Sunday, Rev. McCray pastor at the M. E. church, Rev. Allen pastor, the C. M. E. church being so small. Presiding Elder Warfield prescheed a grand sermon and the house was filled. Everybody enjoyed the meeting and the sister churches were present and parbook of the Lord's Supper. The Ministers' Meeting was held Monday Jan. 14, at Rev. Bright's Restaurant. All the churches were represented, and some grand ideas and thoughts on the Bible were brought forth. Rev. Bright has a nice restaurant and the only colored one in the city. He has a good trade and is kind to the young people. THE CRITTENDEN MISSION. This is to certify that the Florence Crittenden Mission for colored girls and women is opened at 1020 Wash. burn avenue, and will take women and girls coming from all parts on the state NEEDS OF THE MISSION. The support of the people, not only of the city, but of the entire state, is needed. The mission is established for the state. Weekly, monthly or monthly contrib utions Contribution of tool, fuel, furniture, bedding or other material donations will be thankfully received. Anyone desiring to contribute to each needed work may address Mr. S. M. Morrison, 25 Center or M. M. Morrison, 1020 Washburn Ave. T. L. K. House. AND OF BROTHERS Mrs Bette Johnson in 706 Plymouth. Mrs Stern eldest of the Orphans' Home association, ask for a collection Sunday morning to aid in taking care of three small children whose mother is ill in one Every intelligent Negro should carry some Insurance. We was good, live, hustling agents in every town. Write at once for term Lateral term to the right persons. The Knights and Ladies of Protection. P.C. THOMAS, Natl Sec. Headquarters 413 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kansas. KALOE PRODUCTION Issues policies for $100, $150 and $200 Wnsue poli Every intelligent Negro should good, live, hustling agents in ever laboral term to the right persons. The Knights and L C.1 James Beck, Nat'l Prec. James M. Mason, Nat'l Vice Pres. P. C. THE Headquarters $1.7 Kansas avenue of the city hospitals, and whose fa ther has deserted them. The family has been living in Parkdale: The congregation responded liberally to the appeal. Sunday is the appointed time for the rally for the building fund. It is hoped that the clubs have prepared themselves to make a successful effort. George Bradshaw of Jetmore is visiting his brother, Charles Brad seaw. Miss Jane Chiles will leave next week for Kansas City to visit Mrs. Carrie Drake. Mrs Georgia Forbes is reported somewhat improved. Her brother, Mr. Audy Ryder, of Vimta, Okla. is at her bedside. The Orphans' Home association will have a season Monday night at the home of Mrs. Moline Cinkaule Revs. N F Gamb'e J. R Ranier J E Edwards, and W H Houseley are attending the Bishops' Council in Kansas City this week 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain certain information from another an invention by his behalf. It shall be communicated to him by a notional handwritten document and patients free from fees may if required patients. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsonly illustrated weekly. Largestcirculation of any printed journal. Term $4 a year; four months, $1. Sold by all new dealers MUNN & Co, 381 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 625 F. Pt., Washington, D.C. Miss Buelah Hamlet, 116 N. Eisenst. Atkinson, K. conducts a new rooming hour Give her a call NOISE Notice to all Fabermacher that Susie Wagoner Scott is appalled from the Western Sun Fabermade. No. 9, for telling the business to Nath Williams and having him in salting the members on the street and also for disperting the character of fighting and Blackguarding and sanitizing the members. For 14 years I have been trying to inform this woman. She is beyond to demotion. She is the worst character I ever saw. SARAH H. HARRISON Presiding Officer of the Western Sun Fabermade, No. IF YOU WAY LONG AND BRAIN LIST WAY I Mme C J Waker's Woods. of Protection: A NATIONAL FRATERNAL INSURANCE SOCIETY incorporated Under the Laws of Kau for $350, $500 and $1000 and $200 for children aged from 6 to would carry some Insurance We wa in every town. Write at once for term ons. and Ladies of Protection. P. G. Thomas, Nat'l Supt Pres. J. G. Groves, Nat'l Treat THOMAS, Natl Sec., avenue, Topeka, Kansas. I hereby announce myself as a can dilate for mayor of the city of Topeka The at the next Republican putinure I ally to stand on a platform for the upbuilding of the city and its continued prosperity I hereby announce myself as a candidate for only one subject to the Lie publican prosecutions C. B. Bengo. M. M. Hale is a candidate for reelection to the office of City Procurer, subject to the Republican primaries. --- WANTED—A man to raise sweet potatoes on shares Address, D. Chiles, PLAINFALLER office. David Chiles has a good home for an old man and his wife, who desire to raise chickens on the shares. Will furnish a good modern house and nine rooms. Address THE PLAINFALLER GRAND OPENING OE THE METROPOLITAN THEATRE ANY SEAT IN THE HOTSE See opening bill, "Get Rich Quick," introducing Hawkins & M'Clain in two acts interpersed with vaudeville. One oil painting given as a concerto at each performance to persons holding lucky numbers. Look in Lock's window. First 100 state received. Note on side at Lock's ding store and Lytton barnshop. C. MAIL CODE 1011 AU dropped letter to A C AARRIS 400 W Laths COME TO VINITA, OKLA A grand opportunity for colorful pro- gramming. M. A. Sorrell, Office Madden Building, Vinita, Ohio The Spade in Modern Warfare. The deadlock of the contending armies in Manchuria immediately after the battle of Sha River recalls the campaigns of the civil war. Hurepakin fortified in the tracks where the battle left him, and so did his enemy. The Russian fortifications are known to be formidable, and doubtless those constructed by the Japanese are equally strong. Early in the civil war the spade was at a discount, but in 1804 both the northern and the southern armies fell to making rifle pits and breastworks as soon as a deadlock occurred in the fighting. The Confederate General Lee, in his retrograde movement from the Wilderness battlefield to James river, fortified the lines taken up successfully at Spotsylvania, North Anna river and Cold Harbor, grant forged his way up as the Confederate outposts and also fortified his lines. In the end he gave up trying to burst through the enemy's strong barriers and moved forward by the flank. The same methods characterized the Confederate retrograde movement from Dalton to Atlanta, Ga., led by General Johnston. Johnston met every advance of his opponent, Sherman, with strong fortifications. Sherman fortified the ground taken as he pushed his army step by step against the enemy's reserve lines. Prolonged contests always end in a brute struggle for the mastery, and finally the the breastwork, the parapet in the place of human bodies to millets and shells. In this respire warfare has but the name wer to the old problem—the spade. Sending Christmas Presents by Mall. The approach of the Christmas season brings anything but pleasant anticipations to the railway mail clerks who handle the thousands of presents sent through the mails. Their labors are greatly increased by the imperfect manner in which a large percentage of the packages are put up, in many cases being so poorly tied that they come apart long before they reach their destination. Speaking of it the other day, a mail clerk said if people would take the trouble to put the article in a box it would have a great deal of unnecessary worry and labor at a time when the clerks are badly overworked, and the present would reach the person for whom it is intended in much better shape than it usually does. A box or a corner box or a breakfast food carton makes a package of convenient size for handling in the mails. Glass, china or fragile articles of any description should be packed in wooden boxes. Packages should be securely tied and plainly marked with the address of the sender in the upper left hand corner. Postage should be fully prepaid, 1 cent an ounce for merchandise and 1 cent for two ounces on printed matter, including books, photographs, pictures, etc. Federation in Central America. Some of the politicians and party leaders of Central America are reported to be making determined efforts to secure a union of the five republics of that region in an offensive and defensive alliance against the whole world, with the particular purpose of resisting imagined encroachments upon their rights and territory by the United States. Aggression by this country is not at the present time so threatening as to demand the formation of such an alliance, but a union of the states between Mexico and the Isthmus would undoubtedly injure to the benefit both of those states themselves and of their larger neighbors. It would give a much greater assurance of permanent peace among them than now exists. The federation movement received a considerable impetus from the recent convention at Port Orinio, at which Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador and Honduras were represented. Costa Rica did not delegate to this meeting, but her eminent men express themselves in hearty sympathy with the federationists. This country is not alone in having a serious immigration problem with which to contend. Original has the concern that within a comparatively short period over 180,000 have been to be further assisted by the coming of the new and the tolls of the new. but we shall take the late kingdom with Ma three hundred and sixty eight on that The muskrat predicts a wild winter, the goose bone an extremely cold one. Between the two we may expect the usual "all kinds of" weather. The semirev of Russia is a historic institution, and collectively the semivos, since they exist in every district, may be considered the very citadel of Muscovite patriotism. They have in part the characteristics of the New England town meeting and the county boards or councils of all the states. No one has ever questioned the purity of motive of their members, who are elected by the people and serve without pay, or their devotion to the czar and the empire. As to the duties or prerogatives of the semivos there are two opinions. The advisers and ministers of the czar who hold the views of the late M. de Diehwe would have them attend to purely local affairs and in that sphere be as public spirited as they choose. On the other hand, M. de Witte always sought their co-operation in carrying out administrative reforms and urged them to speak their minds freely upon the condition of the peasantry. The first contact of the Czar Nicholas II with the zemstvos was soon after his inauguration, when he received the honour of his subjects. Representatives from all the zemstvos of all the Russias gathered in a spacious hall and presented addresses one after another, in terms of haudation of the new ruler. One zemstvo-only one took the opportunity to hark back to the days of Alexander II, and expressed the modest hope that the grandson of that liberal monarch would not restrict his confidence wholly to the berneracy, but would let the voice of his people be heard through their chosen representatives, the zemstvos. At this suggestion the young autocrat turned wrathfully upon the whole assemblage and, stumbling his foot, declared that they must forever renounce such chimerical notions, for he would have none of them during his reign In so far as lies in their power the sensitivus have stood between the common people and the oppressive agents of the central government. During the present reign they have attempted to exercise the punishing power in local offenses, but this has been sternly overruled. One of the czar's advisers declared "Questions of the sensitivus have no more to do with law courts than questions of family life. If a father may chastise his son severely without invoking the help of the courts the authorities, local, provisional and central should be invested with similar power to imprison, flag and otherwise oversee or punish the people." In other words, every provisional governor and every petty peasant prefect should exercise the irresponsible and whimsical power of an autocrat without recourse to or regard for law. The Liberals of Russia are not banded against monarchical institutions, since these are necessary to the working out of a national destiny, nor against the ruling dynasty. They simply ask that the affairs of the nation be freed from the changing caprice of individuals, the rapidity of a clique, and conducted by competent and honest men, independent of the corrupt and fluctuating influence of the imperial court. Despite the unbroken record of railway disasters in the United States it remains true, as proved by the experience of accident insurance companies that the safest place in the world is a railroad train. Not less than thirty persons were killed and many more than that injured in elevator accidents in New York city in the past year. No such proportion of the persons who traveled between New York and Chicago in the same period were even injured. It is capable of proof that within almost any section of the country more persons are accidentally killed in the day's work than in railway disasters. The explanation of this odd fact, of course that those places are most dangerous where danger is least expected and those safest where danger is so looked for and so probable that the mind of every man concerned is intent on avoiding and preventing accident. Although John Bull is now a vehement advocate of arbitration, at least in closest policy, he is reorganizing the military forces of India on the basis of a $70,000,000 outlay. The troops will be concentrated at certain points to ensure it can train together and cooperate in one of war since the great mutiny. It has been quartered all over the country. It already and treasures have changed the situation and in time of war troops can be quickly moved to any of the scenes of disturbance. The pioneer work of the Alaskan telegraph system recently completed was begun in 1965 before the Atlantic blew up and I a projectory tried to convert the new and old world by the Berk. It route Cyrus Field's great west point in 1865 dashed this enterprise to the ground. The new system is only on United States of a tory and comprises 2127 in which blee of land line 407 miles of wireless system The state of two Illinois counties in official to the courts to so at the governor of their prison goth their plenty of hard labor, as dwarfed ne their sentences, will hardly be thus by the amalgamated hobos. SIRES AND SONS. James Bryan, M. F., can speak more or less perfectly in sixteen languages. Philadelph N. Potter, nephew of Bishup Potter, has purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. WE Alfred Dennett, who once owned restaurants in many cities from Boston to San Francisco, is insane in the latter city. William H. Baldwin recently finished his thirty-seventh year as president of the Young Men's Christian association of Boston. Judge Alton R. Parker is now fifty-two years of age. He has scarcely a wristband in his free and looks like a man who has taken life easily. WANT A popular Japanese student at Harvard in Oshikito Matsukata, a member of the baseball squad. His father was a former minister of finance in Japan. William Booth, commander in chief of the Salvation Army, began his seventy-fifth year on April 10. Mr. Booth was born in Nottingham, England, and prematurely his first sermon in the open air when not twenty years old. R. P. Harris of Tupcha, the only living man who act type on the first paper published in Kannan, has been celebrating his semicentennial as a printer. Over fifty years he has worked continuously at his trade and is still able to open out a respectable "string." 6,000 Dr. Jacques Bertillon, the famous chief of the statistical bureau of Paris, has written a volume entitled "Alougain and the Way to Fight It." Indeed, he declares, is likely to prove the ruin of the French race unless prevailing is done to overcome the habit. Gustave Pelletien, the French minister of maritime, is noted as a typical Bertillon. He has spent a good part of his life in the Latin quarter, and even now, though compelled to live in the prerequisite palace of marine, he frequently entertains his Bertillon friends. CURIOUS CULLINGS. More Men, Women and Children to Read and Pay for Brian rather disheartening sign was displayed to the view of customers in a public store in lower sixth avenue, New York: "May Wanted to Open Oysters Without Years Old." The organ of one of the churches in Indian having refused to work, investigation revealed the presence of a large oil in the exhaust pipe. It was of course dead, and there is no explanation as to how it got there. A Franklin who has been much an- noyed by Done has connected his boil handle with a powerful electric buil- dry and switches on the current at psychological moments. So far the po- lish have declined to interfere. A large dock of quail settled down on Main street, Los Angeles, Oal., right in the business heart of the town. They were soon brightened away and basked of, toward the hills. The oldest dishment is trying to cudgel up a proposal for this unusual thing. Acelled dinners are now the fashion in Britain. M. Senter-Dument recently gave one at which the tables and plates were suspended from the ceiling by wires, the waiters walked on stilts and the plates and dishes were raised on stilts. The guests got into their seats by means of stairadders. TIMELY TOPICS. An English railway expert is astonished to find that the "one idea of your fellowmen is to 'get there.'" That's why we build them.—New York Herald. He your will be better than this year to make a test to see whether Fourth of July cannot be celebrated without the need an killing of boys and girls.—Chicago Record-Herald. Old New York is laughing at Brooklyn because the chief police officer of the united office says he doesn't see any harm in playing Sunday baseball in lighted sections, meaning Brooklyn.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The bell weevil caused a loss to the cotton growers last year of $50,000,000. The value of the birds slaughtered for military in the same period was possibly half a million. If the birds had been let alone they would have destroyed the weevil. It is a queer economy we practice sometimes. — Brooklyn Eagle. LAW POINTS. If there is an express or implied notice to the purchaser that an agent has no authority to collect money, a payment will not bind the principal. (107 IH. App., 82.) Where a contract recites the payment of $1 as its confirmation, it is valid, although the sum was not actually paid, as it creates an obligation which can be enforced by the other party. (44 S. E. Rep., 886.) When a debtor offers a creditor a certain sum in satisfaction of all demands and the creditor gives a written acceptance of the same, there are accord and satisfaction, though the creditor states in accepting it that he cannot accept it in full settlement. (No. Rep, 162) AGENTS THE ROYAL BOX. There is only one woman admiral in the world. The queen of Greece is an admiral in the Russian navy. The Princess Victoria of Wales is said to make as fine Welsh rabbits as can be produced, and the royal family enjoys them. WRITE FOR TERMS King Edward never partakes of butter or tea with milk. He prefers it in the Husman fashion, with a piece of lemon instead of milk. The German emperor has given orders that deserving school children shall in future be rewarded by a copy of his majesty's photograph.