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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. VOLUME IN BISHOPS MEET! The Gathering of A. M. E. Churchmen Wax Filled With Pleasure and Much Profit. The meeting of the Bishop's Council of the African Methodist Episcopal Church at Allen Chapel in Kansas City, Mo, January 17th, was certainly a gathering of distinguished and leading bishops, officers and ministers of this country. There were ministers from California, Colorado, and in fact from all portions of the Fifth district. While the weather was stormy and the ground covered with sleet, it did not deter the outpour of people on Thursday morning and night. Too much credit can't be given Rev. Jessie Peck, Crows, and Towers for the great effort put forth by them as well as the members and friends of the church for the success of this meeting. There were eight bishops present and four absent. The following bishops were present, Tarner, Gaines, Grant, Derrick, Tyroe, Sohaffer and Coppin. Bishops Tanner, Salter, and Handy were ill and could not be present and Bishop Smith is in Africa The convention was called to order at 10 a.m. by Rt. Rev. Bishop Grant of the Fifth Episcopal District, one of the greatest bishops in the connection of the church as well as one of the most active ones. Music was furnished by the Western University choir under the leadership of Prof. Jackson, one of the finest musicians in the West. Music was furnished by the Allen Chapel choir at night. Bishop Turner was to have delivered the sermon but on account of an accident having slipped on a sidewalk Wednesday and broke his arm. Bishop Gaines of Georgia was substituted who delivered a masterly sermon, full of devotion and enlightenment, after which communion was administered by the House of Bishops to the public. There were over four hundred communicants. At the evening session the address of welcome and responses were delivered to a crowded audience. Mayor Beardaly of Kansas City, Mo., was to deliver the welcome address but it seemed convenient for him to be absent in Chicago at this time. We think it an injustice to the colored citizens of Kansas City, Mo., to continue to invite the Mayor to deliver an address and never have the pleasure of hearing him. He was supplemented by a councilman of the Tenth Ward whose remarks were kindly received and if the expressions made by him were lived up to by his niece we would have less obstructions in our way. Rev. R. La Boll of Hammibal, Mo. Preceding Elder of the North Missouri conference one of the greatest public orators we know of delivered the welcome address on behalf of the ministers of the Fifth Episcopal district. This was an unique address and was a departure from the usual custom of welcome addresses. He paid respect to each of the bishops and general officers naming their traits, character and position in life which not the approval of everybody present and was not time and time again with rounds of applause Hon. Nelson Crews in behalf of the Fifth Episcopal District delivered one of his soul-stirring addresses which electrified and filled the hearts of the visitors in such a manner that all felt that they were at home and would like to continue TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1907 their stay in the great city. He gave good reasons by pointing out facts and figures why the bishops and general officers and visitors of the A. M. K. Church would be welcomed to the city. On behalf of the Press and white ministers of Kansas City, Rev. Claudius B. Spencer, editor of the Advocate made an enthusiastic address. This is one minister of the white race in whom we have some confidence. He expressed himself fully and consolently as to what he believed and thought of the African Methodist Church and the Negro race His counsel and advice was good and wholesome and if hooded by the Angle-Saxon of America there would be no difference in the two churches. The response by Bishop Evans Tyree of Nashville, Teu., who was equal to the occasion in responding to this address, he accepted the invitation on behalf of the ministers by saying that the advancement made by the Negroes of America along Christian business lines notwithstanding they have been retarded along those lines for years. He was proud of the great advancement being made by his race and if those in the opposite would assist in the advance as much as they do in opposing it the race would be much farther ahead. The white man complains all the time that nothing can be made of the Negroes but after finding so many intelligent and Christian business men among the race and the great advancement now being made, they are now trying to stop him and that the race was now the bus and cry and every stumbling block that can possibly be put in his way is being done. He electrified his audience and was interrupted several times with applause. Bishop Tyree is a self made man, an orator, scholar and dignified gentleman who is making a reputation for the A. M. K. church and the whole Negro FACE After the addresses there were several beautiful songs by use Allen Chapel choir and a banquet was given in honor of the bishops and general officers in the auditorium where over four hundred guests were served. There were several waiters in full dress assisted by ladies who served this banquet. This was a five course dinner and all the good viands that go to make a first class wooledsome dinner for bishops and ministers, the tables were beautifully decorated with cut flowers and it was stated at this was the only first class banquet ever given by a church that the people really enjoyed so much and got their money's worth. Mr. George Teters one of the leading officers of the church was in charge of this banquet, which was the reason why. The following is an editorial from the Kansas City Times on the gathering of the Council: The meeting of the Bishops of the African Methodist church in Kansas City has brought together a number of the most distinguished representatives of the Negro race in America. These men are powerful pulpit orators and control and direct ecclesiastical interests which affect millions of men and women. Some of them have written books, and all of them have made an important impress on the religious thought of the country The Methodist church has been a tremendous agent in the development of the colored race in America. The emotional nature of the Negro inclines him strongly to Wesleyanism, and in that faith he finds a system well suited to his spiritual needs. In the Negro we have an example of what was called in an earlier day, the "enjoyment of religion." His church is to him almost literally "the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." His devotion to it cheers his tall and lightens his dens. He finds in it an unfailing source of comfort for the life that now is and the inspiration of his hope in the life that is to come. In other ways is the progress of the Negroes in America more surely indicated than in the multiplication of their fine houses of worship and in the higher enlightenment of their ministers. Even to persons who look upon the church aa merely an incidental force in the scheme of society, the meeting of the African Bishops in Kansas City is an interesting and helpful spectacle. A Mississippi Judge Declares That Southern Whites are Responsible for Lust Among Negroes. A dispatch to the New Orleans Time-Democrat from Meridian, Miss., under date of January 7, tells how District Attorney J. H. Currie, who delivered the charge to the grand jury for the judge, scored the white men of the South for their unlawful association with colored women. Referring to the Negro as an inhabitant of this country, Mr. Currie is quoted as saying: "He came here an ignorant savage, full of laughter, good humor, story and song: If he had any virtue, it was the virtue of submission and obedience, and he made the greatest slave the world ever saw. As a slave he was faithful beyond all the examples of history, for in the midst of the most conglinary war of modern times, the patient, long-suffering Negro stood by the home of his master and maintained the women and children of the South and at the same time supported the army that fought to for his destiny in civilization without a murmur. I honor him for this and the time will come when an impartial history will record his loyal patience by the side of the heroic courage of his fiery master." Turning to the subject of miscegion, Mr. Currie says: "The accursed shadow of misceguation hangs over the South today like a pall of hell. We talk much of the Negro question and all of its possible ramifications and consequences, but, gentlemen, the trouble is not far afield. Our own people, our white men and their black non-cubines, are destroying the integrity of the Negro race, raising up a menace to the white race, lowering the standard of both races and preparing the way for riot, mob, criminal assaults, and finally, a death struggle for racial supremacy. The trouble is at our own door. We have tolerated this crime long enough, and if our country is not run by policy rather than by law, then it is time to rise up and denounce the sin of the earth. The ANTHONY IN THE LEAD Shawnee County Colored Leaders Declare for the Leavenworth Mar. A big rally was held at Guya hall Monday evening by the colored Republicans of Topeka which was addressed by Attorney Bell and Dr. Monte of Leavenworth and also by Dan Anthony, candidate for congressman, and Wm Biddell, direct or of the penitentiary of Leavenworth. After they had addressed the meeting in the interest of Mr. Anthony, speaking of his good qualifications and high citizenship, and guaranteeing the people of Shawnee county that they could make no mistake in electing such a man to Congress, a standing vote was taken and it was the unanimous consent of all present [quarter 200] that they would stand put for Anthony for congressman. Hon. W. I. Jamison, Roy Ramson, Dr. O. white man who enters into unlawful and unholy relation of sexual and social cohabitation with any race other than his own is an enemy to the peace of both races and a menace to the stability of our civilization." To the white man he says: "Any white man who deliberately breaks down the law of race pride and race separation, should be exposed in a public trial, side by side with the victim of his unholy lust, and scourged by the law until he stands branded with the curse of Cain as a common enemy of both races and all society. This biting, eating corroding sin had its genesis in the shambles of slavery, when the Negro was a helpless chattel and the white man his dominant master, and this is one of his many sins entailed by the accursed relation. The white man had no excuse then, and neither has now, and the lash of the law should fall talck and fast on the backs of both. No many Negro who is conscious of his place in nature is ashamed of the color of his skin, for the blacker he is the closer he is to the law of his race, yet the shameful fact remains today and has existed for years that the black Negro, the full-blooded Negro, the type of a pure Negro race, is looked upon as inferior to his mongrel brother, and if the black Negro could do so he would vote himself with straight hair and thereby destroy his own identity as a race. Such a law conception of racial integrity, such an utter want of racial pride, unifies the Negro for the great struggle that civilization has imposed upon him." If the outside world only knew how white men, of all classes and stations, in the South, boldly and openly spend their time, money and other wealth in seeking to debauch Negro girls and women, and how many of the "race wars" down there are the direct result of decent colored men resenting these insults to their women folks by the men of the superior race, it could not be surprised if the Negro men, who are taught that they are not good enough for the white women, should be ten times worse at attempting assault than they are reported to be. A. Taylor, chairman of the meeting, and others, spoke in the interest of Mr. Anthony's candidacy. The Anthony fellows have not Topoka fire, and you can hear nothing but Anthony for Congress. Hon. J. B. Fleming, one of the old war houses of Brown county was also present whooping it up for Anthony. I here seems to be no doubt but that Anthony has a complete grasp of Shawnee county and will hold it to the end. STRICTLY CASH! Repaired by Jewel Mayer at the Richmond Moe, Milwaukee at the recent mending of the Northwestern Press Association at St. Joseph Moe. "Should paper be discontinued at expiration of time paid for." Before you can three times repeat this subject, *Should paper be discontinued at expiration of time paid for each and every edition will have already answered the query in his own mind. "Should paper be discontinued at expiration of time paid for" "Yes." "No." "Yes." "No." "Yes." "No." That's the way your answers go. The editor of the Richmond Mus curium is not posing as a know it all on the subject. Each editor man has a fund of personal experiences and a bunch of convictions of his own. Over the counter from week to week, we continue to learn human nature and the two sides of this subscription question. The credit subscription problem sources the milk of human kindness oftener and gives more editors the multigrubs than any one thing in newspaperdom. It is a vital topic, and a press association or a newspaper worker's journal can find not one question that merits closer study. By way of getting to my investigations and the facts deduced and proved in my office, allow me to say that for five years I thought that unlimited credit was the best and only right way to run a country weekly. And maybe you still feel that way. I changed my mind three years ago, when I woke up to the fact that I had much more circulation than annual receipts from subscriptions. And with three years of circulation efforts and collection campaigns and agent canvassing I was never able to round up and solve the problem under the credit system. For the past year our office pushed collections preparatory to adopting the "stop when the time's out" plan. Yet on Nov. 1 there was exactly $1,580 earned money due, counting up to that date as if papers were to be suspended on that day. Counting the 1,000 additional renewals about due on the list, you see that the sum normally due was $2,500. My experience is that 60 per cent of one's subscribers renew in advance, 25 per cent renew carelessly, but surely, some time, and 25 per cent run delinquent and constitute a loss in the end; also that we carry delinquent accounts equal to or exceeding in dollars the names on the subscription list. Further, my experience is, that a dollar a year delinquent subscription, when a year behind, nots, when paid, 65 cents, if two years back, it nots 65 cents per year; when five years back it nots about 25 cents per year and when a subscription runs seven years delinquent you have lost both cost and profit when it is paid to you. These cash values are figured on those that do pay. Three-fourths of the loss is on the over two years delinquents. Owing to the fact that so many of the "big" delinquents go wrong and have to be either compromised or lost, the real table of results in delinquent values, counting in both the pays and the never pays, is like this. On the basis of $1 a year in advance, the man who subscripsions runs delinquent gets his paper from you for 75 cents the first year, 50 cents for the second, 25 for the third, and free for later years. At $1 credit your cash results are annually 50 cents, per name. Why charge the cash man $1 when you are cutting the price to the delinquent? Why should we offer encouragement to credit business? If the cash subscriber pays $1, then the credit man ought to at least be charged $150. Every one of us who sells a home print weekly on a credit for $1 is working on a basis that loses one-half of the half that don't pay in advance. But the first reason that urged going to the "stop when the time is out" home in the public demand for it—the preference of a majority of the cash subscribers. Rural routes and daily papers are educating the people up to it. Folks are getting some on the mail order place, and will soon force us all to stop when the time is out. Seventy-five per cent of the credit subscribers finally pay. A safe majority of the people are honest. Fifty per cent pay in a voice always. Twenty-five per cent pay NUMBER 4. CITY POLITICS GROWING WARM! A Passing Glance at Some the Men Who Want to Serve the Tax Payers of Topeka. Councilman William Green, one of the most successful business men in the city of Topeka, announces himself a candidate for mayor, subject to the Republican primaries in March. He conducts one of the best fancy groceries and meat markets in the West. He has been identified in business in Topeka for the past quarter of a century and has been in council for several years. He is a clean, upright, honest business man, and if elected to fill the position of mayor the citizens and taxpayers will have nothing to regret. He has always worked for the interests of the taxpayers and citizens as he does his private business. While he has not announced himself on any special platform, he says that he will work for the advancement of the city and the upbuilding of its citizens. Ernest R. Simon, one of the well known younger lawyers of the city, has announced his candidacy for judge of the court of Topeka. Mr. Simon is 29 years old. He was educated in the city schools, the Topeka Business college and Washburn college. He studied law with Garver and Larimer for two years and was admitted to the bar six years ago, and was admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of Kansas the following year. Thereafter he took the full three years' course in the Washburn law school and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Last year he was elected a member of the faculty of the Washburn law school as instructor in the law of torts, one of the most important branches in the course of study, which is evidence of his legal ability. He has been private secretary and law clerk to Chief Justice Johnson of the Kansas Supreme Court for four years. Mr. Simon's legal training and work have been such as to especially fit him for the position he seeks. He enjoys the confidence of the other lawyers of the city, and if elected, will discharge the duties of the office efficiently and impartially, and with credit to himself. Mr. Simon has always taken an active interest in local politics, and has been a member of the county and city central committees for several years, and was chairman of the city central committee in 1902. He was born on a farm in Illinois, but has lived in Shawnee county nearly all his life, coming to Popka eleven years ago. He is married, has two children, is a tapayer and a member of the Westminster Presbyterian church. C. H. Kutes, who announces himself a candidate for councilman from the Fifth ward, is a staunch friend of the laboring people and is interested in the upbuilding of Topeka, and the taxpayers will have nothing to regret in nominating and electing him to that office. He has announced himself a candidate for that position subject to the Republican primaries next March. He has been identified with the business interests of the Fifth ward and its citizens for a number of years, and knows what is needed to control the many improvements that are going on in that portion of the city. He is kind and affable, and will give them fair consideration. He has no opposition for this office, which shows that he is an influential and progressive citizen. FOR YOUNG FOLKS SEESAW SWIMMER. A Delicate Feat of Balancing and How to Perform It. Cut 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 the knife on one of the sharpened corks. If you succeed, reject that try one with a heavier knife. You must have two knives that will balance unloaded. Having found such knives hold them level on the corks with their points almost in fact, moving the bottles of no excess and set on their points at so A hand pouring wine from a glass into two bottles. HOW TO HOLD THE BREW. wineglass or tumbler containing just enough water to make the whole affair balance when you take your Lands off it. So far you have accomplished a striking and "ticklish" balancing feat and that is all. Now attach a bullet, or any small heavy object to a thin and carefully lowering it into the water in the little glass. As soon as the cold touch on the water the glass begins to go down, the knives to mingle like seams on the cool air it is more of the colu you pull onto the lower glass so it if the colu it has you will have a smash before it is half under water. But you can put it up at any instant. As you do the glass follows if it were held to the colu and so you can keep it so sawing 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 held up by the thread alone. The part that is under water is held partly by the thread and partly by the water which holds it up with a force equal to the weight of an equal bulk of water. The coin, therefore, precesses 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 glides to its original position Birds With Teeth. Birds are simply reptiles which have shed their soul 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 those birds were not able to fly at all, and they nearly all lived on fish. Gradually as they grew well through centuries they grew more fortnorm, longer and stronger than before, but their teeth and gut sharp hard 19's instead. There were no birds before them. ever since they have grown and become stronger. So the old birds have become more like joke after Three about bye How pr look but one but W or or t u d ut A QUESTION OF CARPETING. A Neal, Pretty and Insensitive "Hill and Mim" 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 Ann Ains after I had told her of my plans and the one of my purse. "But how can I make one?" I asked after thinking of all of the cottont garner in the family. "By now, to work, she replies 'and we can run out of it textile at home on your nails and ususus'." all over on carpet we must use a small hose on carpet all of such cotton rugs and cut them all of such which we will be of union mess flings out from soft goods will be up close in the wearing thin rugs cut from stilts more rigid and shall be about as thick as six ply of the china or an out straw when we into the carpet." said Aunt Vivian she rolled and twisted a staircase her fingers First we in strips all the dark and all the bright cooled rags. There we mixed well, lapping the ends about an inch sewing them of generally acros with the machine. Not stopping to clip the thread each time, we soon had a long set sewed, and the clipping it at we would it into a hole of about one inch each. We had decided to make it by 12 feet. These would be twelve yards of yard wide carot. Each square yard of carpet in just one pound of rags as we stopped when we had sewed twelve pounds of rags The rags were newel hit and mills and of a ming, colors that we selected the cloth in six different colors a pound of cedar, and had it in it thread about so that there would be no strips. Besides the rags the corpse took six pounds of chain, at 25 cents per pound, $1.50, twelve yards weaving, at 10 cents per yard $1.00 total $2.70 A convenient kitchen Table. The dish shown here with illustrates a table that represents not a little ice and cedar or wind rose to make the most convenient still save the Ladder Word it has a hinge top, which keeps doors and puts for a into a bloc can't, and it has a h A KITTLE ON TABLE. ber of drawers which are always con- venient also closet room. Two slides pool in which pans may be set when one is sitting at work at the table, while in the long place on or the side of the table is a chance to hang a man inside of kettles and other kitchen utensils. These are protected from dust by a washable curtain that slides down and rest at the front of t opening. On Wednesday evening, February 6th, at Metropolitan hall, 406 Kansas avenue, the Arms Dramatic club, under the mat agement of J. M. Dorsey, will present for the last time in the city of Topeka, that beautiful home life drama, entitled, "The Last Loaf." If you have not seen this play and desire to see it, this is your last opportunity. General admission, 15 cents. COMMENTS 'My wife and I witnessed "Free Last Load" at Lakus' opera house and at St John A. M. E. church and consider it the best product ever presented by our people in Popk.' W. E. Jackson. D. A TAYLOR. M. D 101 Hanover Ave. North Phone 741 Call an answered day and night Sec Home (210-440-7108) Resident 1573 Van Buren Immigrant Lee's Drug Store 921 Kew Ave. 101 Phone 741 7510 A M 711 Phone 24 1111 I. A. JAMISON, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGON $5,000 Received will can chic cub den PUBLICATION NOTICE (First Published in the Lopez dinner June 15, 1990) To Adolps Bailey, atlas Adolph G. Gill; Mr ——Bethan and Mr. —- Healan and Mr. —— Icahan where Christian names are unknown and who are brothers or Hattle Robert see Hattle Beahorn, deceased. —— Beahan and —— Heathen and —— Beahan, whose Christens notes are unknown, and who are known of the said Hattle Roberts are little than determined; and the unknown persons and dishews and the unitors, executors, and administrators are in force of the orr and Adolph G. Gill; theologian and a lot brothers and sisters of an Lives the several p. and who would enter the several question — vs. the other to have at least a question about where at least the said Hattle does not have Hattle? B. or, to need, had been at the use of, with a term some and was to have an additional determination as for You are not, or you are hereby notified that W. & Roberts, planned to run did on to buy or share, as 12 with the Check of the Supplement, of the State of Kansas a petition to, for and cause, make, the object of was to be certain the case of a certain payment, rendered by the District court setting within the for the County of Shawness, in the State of Kansas, in an action pending, before the Act was filed with the Court. W. F. Schoen, Lack Anthon, and B. P. Hutchinson Attorney for the District ofسم. A. W. A. Stoth, Chick N. S. Cout M. D. Lawrie, Tatto and cleaner Headgears of the New Yankees-land 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 slopes 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 derby but which seems to have caught the public fancy is the extensive use of the materials. The texture, material and trimming and the silky appearance of the felt proclaim at once that quality in these and so clearly evident that even the unpracticed eye approves the difference. What's the price? It may stand in the way of an immediate purchase, the man who wears a finer derby is death to it to the registration quite. The rich man in the pensive preservation color and offset the slight nose in cost. The many men hesitated to use the shape of their deity once they have found a becoming black and it is really a difficult thing to convince the man of plainer idea concerning dress that he should adopt one of the new high crown shapes. For the man who does not fancy a high crown there is a rather distinct derby with a some 23 ter c b a and a noted from, which is more be conting to a c son is made of by murky. T. mutilal skil, from the pea of the skin, and with labiated in Brazil a hematin, from the Plate river. A strip of the body is taken from the hip and put through certain process, he render it as soft and fine, and cast it last silk. The pollen turns white, does not spot wit rain or the nutriment it similar to our beaver but smaller in size, and it produces the most material for to mbing the market with the exception of over. Very light shades are replacing the "all white" gloves, light tan and moke belts favorites. These are worn not only with pumps to match, but also with those in contrast. h "Aren't men funny?" said the little bride who was learning how to cook. "Here is a whole panful of soup stock that has got to be thrown out just because of a form of mental indigestion that has attacked John since he saw it. "Why, we lived for weeks and weeks on this very stock or some just like it. You know, one of the things I learned at cooking school was how to make soup stock. So the very day we came back from the honeymoon I made up a quantity of it and put it in the refrigerator. John likes soup, so we commence dinner with it every day. It was awfully easy just to take a few spoonfuls of the stock and season it one day with tomatoe the next day with pans the next day with celery, and so on. John ate it as though he were from shred and compilé." I am so that I finally took out my bowl of stock and showed him how I made it. "What' he said, 'I've been eating the very fine soup in day, and thought I was getting thirsty!' I suppose he thing, in fact, a soup by any other name would be tasty. I thought there was an uneasy resemblance between those early portions of liquid refreshment, it's just like those cappes in that they make all in one big bowl and pour into a Torrent shaped bottle and later with different names." "And from that day to 1954" resisted the disappointed bride "he has looked upon a soup with suspicion and my cooking with content!" "My dear," said the experienced housekeeper "some day you will learn that what a man doesn't know won't hurt him and that it is only when the doctor wheels revolve in the dark and he can't see them go round that he appreciates your house-coping. Telling a man how you do that is just as distillationizing as girl or him a peep behind the scenes at the catale opera."—New York Press AN ODD BOOKCASE. One That Will Hold Large as Well as Small Volume. If you have ever bought books you know that it is practically impossible to find one that is suitable for holding both large and small volumes. To meet this want here is an attractive design. The case consists of more room than one of the very stylish, but also how inexpensively it is made. ```markdown ``` You are the point of contact with part of the spine located to small bones, but one of the bones are so pliant that large volumes may be set upon them from the outside of the bone, the less of the bone being exposed rather than the back. Of course the idea may be carried out directly or horizontally, according to the tenderness of the spine or women who takes it. Lachy Vallomo Journal of one terrestrial of service to four tabesponfuls of salt hazel and even then it should be used in molestation, in experience has shown. --- LOCAL NEWS City Federation meets January 25th at its usual place of meeting. All are required to attend The Golden RoI Att club will meet with Mrs Belle Forte in North Toneka Feb'y 1st. Mr. D. F. Tipton of Emporia spent several days in the city this week, the guest of Mr. N. Chles Mrs. Harriet Crawford of Huntoun and Buchanan, who had a stroke of paralysis about two weeks ago, remarks about the same. --- Mrs Wilson entertained the Committee of Nine Friday. After business was transacted a nice lunch was served. Those present report a fine time. Mr and Mrs. Lewis Peaches entertained at their home, 404 E First street, Thursday evening in honor of Mrs. Mary Nicholson of Oklahoma City. Those invited were Mr. and Mrs. John Birdwhistle, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wims, Mr. and Mrs Sam'l Jarrett, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff. Johnsor, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bass, Mr. and Mrs. Nolan Clardy of Roseville, Mrs. Lula Tumpkins, and Miss Walter Crockett. The following guests were entertained Saturday at the home of Mr and Mrs. James Cooper, southwest of the city, in honor of Mrs Florenon Flantroy of Garden City, Kansas: Mr. and Mrs. Will Robinson of Buxton, Ia, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Cooper, Misses Bessie Hawkins, Ogeal Wilson, Mary Jordan and Lulu B. Harris. The guests thoroughly enjoyed themselves with the hostess and her agreeable family, and after partaking of a fine dinner, returned to the city with much regret that they could not longer stay. Mrs. Georgia A. Smith-Tarb died Tuesday night at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Paulina Parks, 321 Taylor street, the same house which she was married sever ago. While attending t Baptist convention m, Tenna., last fall, tted an illness from t ever recovered. S Topeka, Nov embe and was married to Mr. bet June 19th, 1889. They ha resided in Colorado for a number of years, first in Colorado Springs, where they lived nine years and eight years in Denver, their present home. Mrs. Tarbet was a devoted wife a conscientious, upright, cultured Christian lady, a member of Zion Baptist church, Denver, Colo., president of the Mission circle and also of the Temperance union of that city. Besides her husband, she leaves a brother, Mr. A. W. Ryder of Vinita, Okla, and a sister, who were at her bedside at the time of her death, and other relatives and numerous friends to mourn her loss. The funeral will be held from the First African Baptist church this afternoon, Rev. T. J. Carr officiating. Remains will be interred in the Topeka cemetery. The husband and relatives have the sympathy of THE PLAINDEALER in this their hour of bereavement. ```markdown ``` --- THE CRITIENDEN MISSION This is to certify that the 11 renee Crittenden Mission for col real girls and women is opened at 1020 Wash- burn avenue, and will take women and girls coming from all parts of 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 yearly contributions Contributions of food, fuel, furniture, bedding or other material donations will be thankfully received Anyone desiring to contribute to the much needed work may address Mrs B. F. Malone, 825 Center or Mrs. M. J. Cox, 1020 West barn avenue, Topeka, Kansas. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Mrs S, Malone Mrs. Ella M. Guy Mrs. M. E. Van Cleve, Mrs. M. J. Cox, Mrs. Ann Jacobs. The environments will be good Religious and manual training. WANTED-A man to raise sweet potatoes on shares. Address, D. Chiles, PLAINDEALER office. David Chiles has a good home for an old man and his wife, who desire to raise clakers on the shares. Will furnish a good modern house and nine rooms. Address THE PLAINFATHER. An entertainment for the benefit of the Masonic building fund will be given by the Committee of Nine. Jan 31st, at the Masonic hall. Ad mission, 15 cents single, 25 cents per couple. Music will be furnished by the Wilson sisters. --- Mrs Louise Allen has returned from Natchez, Miss., after a two years' stay with her father. She enjoyed good health and a pleasant time and says she is much more impressed with Kansas than with Mississippi and that school facilities for the education of the colored children are very poor in that section of the country. The Hon Ernest R. Gimon, who has announced himself candidate for judge of the court of Topeka, has been an earnest hardworking Republican for a number of years and should receive the support of his party for his activity and loyalty. He is an upright young man, and if elected to the office will perform his duties faithfully. NOTICE. To the subscribers of Yale, Weir City, and Chanute: The representative of THE PLAIN-DEALER will call on you soon for money due the paper. Please have your money ready, as we need considerable in our business. We hope all will be prepared to meet the agent when he calls. encers and pastors of the A.M. church, by Western University, last Friday afternoon. Bishop A. Grant and Prof. Shelton French were exceedingly anxious to have the distinguishibd divines visit the institution during the session of the House of Bishops, which began last Thursday and continued until Saturday evening. Six closed carriages conveyed these eminent prelates from Allen Chapel to the school grounds, where they immediately partook of the six course dinner so elegantly prepared and arranged for their enjoyment by the cooking department of Western University, under the direction of Miss Josephine Wright, of Wilberforce University, the instructor in this department. Their first gaze was met by decorations of lighted candles and fancy table designs, and a delicious repast followed, consisting of meats, sauces, cakes, ices, and toothsome edibles that ministers only know how to fully enjoy, and that only enthusiastic students no carefully trained and instructed know how to prepare and serve. Miss Wright received many compliments and congratulations from these great race leaders for the surprisingly good results that her department is bringing out for the honor and progress of the University. After the dinner the bishops re- tired to the Auditorium, where Bishop Shiller, and Bishop Lee, of Wutherforce, delivered to the assembled students very instructive talks on their opportunities and the necessity of getting ability to succeed in life. Prof. R H Brower, a graduate of Western University, has proved himself to be one of the most intelligent young men of Wyndotte county. He is doing a great work in our school here. There has not been a time in the history of Quinn, data when our school has done more othient work toward instilling into the minds of the youth the great principles of right, justice and the importance of counting one in the great republic of ours, is being taught by him. He is a Christian young man and ARE YOU of Protection A NATIONAL FRATERNAL INSURANCE SOCIETY Incorporated Under the Laws of Kansas for $350, $500 and $1000. and $200 for children aged from 6 to 12 would carry some Insurance. We want every town. Write at once for terms and Ladies of Protection. P. C. Thomas, Nat'l Supt. J. G Groves, Nat'l Treasurer THOMAS. Nat'l Sec. Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. National College... Element State University Ten weeks in each calendar year. At beginning of any quarter. 30 year. —$15 per quarter in advance. CARTER Begins March 12. CARTER begins May 15; for further particulars write to ER, M.D., Registrar. Issues policies for $350, No issue policies for $100, $150 and $200. Every intelligent Negro should care good, live, hustling agents in every to Liberal terms to the right persons. The Knights and Ladies Col. James Beck, Nat'l Pres. James M. Mason, Nat'l Vice Pres. P. C. THOMAS Headquarters: 413 Kansas avenue, Louisville National Medical College Medical Department S FOUR QUARTERS of ten week Students may begin at beginn weeks made a school year. TUITION VERY LOW—$15 Labatory fees Extra. SPRING QUARTER S SPRING QUARTER begin Write for Catalogue or further C. W. HOUSER Issues policies for $350, $500 and $1000. No issue policies for $100, $150 and $200 for children aged from 6 to 12. Every intelligent Negro should carry some Insurance. We want good, live, hunting agents in every town. Write at once for terms Liberal terms to the right persons. The Knights and Ladies of Protection. Col. James Beck, Nat'l Pres. P. C. Thomas, Nat'l Supt. James M. Mason, Nat'l Vice Pres. J. G. Groves, Nat'l Treas Louisville National Medical College... Medical Department State University FOUR QUARTERS of ten weeks in each calendar year. Students may begin at beginning of any quarter. 30 weeks made a school year. TUITION VERY LOW—$15 per quarter in advance. Labatory fees Extra. KALOI PROTECTION 112 West Green St., an indefatigable worker in the Sunday School. He is a young man of whom the race should be proud, because so few of our young men look seriously into life. A lover of race enterprises, he stands out as a beacon light for all who desire to do something for humanity. 'he Dunhar Literary Society, organized by Prof. Brower, is doing great work. The young people love him, take an interest in, and are doing what they can to make the society a success. Prof. G A. Gregg, teacher of mathematics in the University, also addressed the Mount Olive Baptist Sunday School on Sunday. Prof. Gregg is a young man's friend, and his pleasing but forceful disposition has done quite a deal towards bettering conditions in this community. It would be a blessing if we 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications tions strictly confidential. HANDBOOK. We accept free, global agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly largest or culation of any scientific journal, for 83 a year, four months, $1. Hold by all moderation. MUNN & Co. 381 Broadway, New York Broadchurch Office, 625 M. H., Washington, D. L. Miss Buelah Hamlet. Atkinson, Kis, conducts a nice rooming house. Give her a call. IF YOU WANT LONG AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR USE Mme. C. J. Waker's Wonderful Hair Grower. It positively excels all others. It not only grows on hair but cures the scalp of all diseases, and leaves the hair in a soft, fluffy and natural condition. This wonderful preparation was discovered by Mme. Walker after years of research and has proven beyond question to be the most beneficial scalp and hair growing preparation ever used. It has given perfect satisfaction to the hair dreds who have used it without one single exception. One treatment positively stops the hair from falling out. Address all communications to, Mme. C, J. Walker. 2317 Lawrence St. Denver, Colo INSURED? LOUISVILLE, KY. had more men of his kind; men who know the right and do it. Mr. Rt. Bradford, a long time resident in this community, interests himself in the well being of those who are interested in themselves. He holds a high position in the church of which Rev. Mess is the pastor. Mr Andrew Haynes recently took to himself a "better half." Mr. Alfred Gray, a well thought of citizen here, a short time ago, was called away to that undiscovered country. Mr William Floyd, who has been quite sick at his home on Twelfth and Buchanan, is slowly improving Rev. Brown spent a few days in Kausas City, Kausas this week on business Mrs. Mosley of Auburndale has been quite sick, but is better at this writing. The Golden Rod Art club met Friday afternoon with Miss Loula B. Harris. The local clubs are in receipt of the New Year's greeting from the state president, Miss, G. D. Robbin nine of Kansas City, Kansas. The chancel chapter of St Simon will meet January 29th at four p.m. with Miss Lena Thompson. Miss Mabel Bryant is spending a few days in Atchison visiting Miss Cainie Wilson. St Simon's Guild and Ladies Auxiliary met with Mrs D H Watkins January 11th, Mrs. Henry Dilhair read a splendid paper on "Home and Foreign Missions" FIRST AFRICAN The sowing circle must this afternoon at the residence of Mrs. G. A. Solomon, Twelfth and Fourth. The rally last Sunday resulted in the raising of $150. Only a parish report was made and the clubs were requested to make the amount $250 Sunday. Sunday's congregation was a large one and the pastor's very excellent sermon was highly appreciated. The subject was "God's Plumbline." The Sunday School is unusually interested in the lessons of the quarter which are now in the Back of Genesis. The subjects for the G.E Society are very near the same as those of theabbath School. Mrs. Hattie Barker of Arkansas City is the guest of Mr. J. M. Wright. Mrs Jerry Williams, corner of Center and Washington, is all. Rev P. Johnson is sick at home on E. Twelfth. Rev John A. Gregg of Leavenworth spent a portion of the week in the city. Poor Commissioner Hals says this is the best winter and that the poor have suffered less than any winter since he has been in office. Mra. F. E. Buckner entertained the Svartika Whist club Saturday afternoon, and despite the stormy weather, there was a full attendance. Miss Georgia Watkins won the prize The annual Lincoln Day exercises will be held in Representative hall at the state house Tuesday evening February 22th 1907. Good speakers have been secured and the exerci. es promise to be the best ever. Mr. W. M. Thomas, who was in the regular army for several years, has engaged in the real estate business. He is temporarily at Keith's hospital, but will open an office soon. The ladies' auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. would like to meet the members of all the clubs in the city, in a conference concerning a lecture by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, for the benefit of the piano fund of the Y. M. C. A. Wednesday evening, Jan'y 30th, at 7:30. --- Prof. N. Sawyer addressed a large and enthusiastic audience at Kansas City one evening last week on "The Needs of the Negro." Mr. Sawyer is one of the most logical and convincing talkers in the state, and his advice was well received and no doubt will accomplish great good. The Hon. Charles Curtis has been elected United States Senator and the colored people can feel assured that they will find some support, although they may not get all they expect. It can be safely said now that this is the first mixed blood to grace the halls of the senate since the days of B. K. Bruce, the first colored United States senator. The Swartlha Whist club, one of the latest social organizations aiming the ladies, was organized at the residence of Mrs. W I. Jamison, at the beginning of the New Year. Wata Mrs. Jamison as president and Miss Lena McNeal as secretary, the membership includes sixteen maids and matrons, who meet fortnightly at the homes of the members We predict for it a happy future and as its name implies, long life, good luck and prosperity. The members of St. Simon's Episcopal church will hold a reception at the residence of Mr. J. H. Challers for the benefit of Rev. H B. Brown rector, celebrating his efficient service in charge of the parish during the past year. The church has made great progress along all lines and the members feel highly encouraged over the outlook and extend a cordial invitation to their many friends to attend services at the church each Sunday The Lakes judge has elected the following officers for the ensuing year W. T. McKnight, exalted river Marshall Perry, esteemed leath. knight, J. H. Childers, esteemed loyal knight, Bert Luckner, esteemed lecture knight, William Vaughn, esquire, Charles Bradshaw, see y, Chas Lytle, treas'r, Jau. Anderson, tyler, trustees, J. M Wright, Ed Harland, Robert Washam; James Brown, Arthur Spears. The installation of the officers will occur in two weeks, and the newly elected officers will serve refurbishments for the members A BARGAIN 107 413 Lincoln street, price 6150 Bree W. M Thomas, 429 Kausa's avenue, upstairs, or Keith's hospital. The Spade in Modern Warfare. The deadlock of the contending armies in Manchuria immediately after the battle of Sha Iliver recalls the campaigns of the civil war. Kuropatkin 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 1904 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 estrograde movement from the Wilderness battlefield to James river, fortified the lines taken up successively his Spottyylvania, 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 Johnson. Johnson most army advance of his expedition, Sherman, with strong fortifications. Sherman fortified the ground taken as he gained his army step by step against the enemy's reserve lines. Prelonged entrench always and in a brute struggle for the mastery, and finally the the branetwork, the parapet, and the place of hosen bodies to be sold in sillets and shells. In this respect modern warfare has but the same old answer to the old problem—the spade, the spade. Handling Christmas Presents by Mail. The approach of the Christmas season brings anything but plentiful anticipations to the railway mail clerks who handle the thousands of presents sent through the mail. Their letters are greatly increased by the imperfect manner in which a large percentage of the packages are put up, in many cases being so precisely that, they come apart long before they reach their destination. Breaking 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 clarks are badly overworked, and the present would reach the person for whom it is intended in much better shape than it usually does. A shoe or a carrot box or a breakfast food carton makes a package of convenient size for handling in the mail. China, China or fragile articles of any description should be packed in wooden box. Packages should be neatly tied and plainly marked with the address at 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 inhuman would undoubtedly insure 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 then now exists. The federation movement received a considerable impetus from the recent convention at Port Corinto, at which Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador and Honduras were represented. Costa Rica sent no delegates to this meeting, but her eminent men express themselves as in hearty sympathy with the federationista. This country is not alone in having a serious immigration problem with which to contend. England has discovered that within a comparatively short time she has convicted over 18,000 allens of crimes at a cost to her taxpayers of over $600,000. Furthermore, the indus of allens is raising the rents to a figure which is beyond the resources of her own poor tollers. Many of the allens are paupers and become a burden upon the communities where they settle. Brigadier General Story, chief of artillery of the United States army, makes the encouraging announcement that our new coast defenses render our large cities as nearly impregnable as Port Arthur. He insists, however, that more artillerymen are needed to keep the forts and their guns in their present state of efficiency. The dalal lama is reported to have arrived in Russian dominions, but he didn't take his late kingdom with him. Great Britain had a string on that. The muskrat predicts a mild winter, the goose bone an extremely cold one. Between the two we may expect the usual "all kinds of" weather. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1907 I hereby announce myself as a candidate for mayor of the city of Topeka at the next Republican primaries. I stand on a platform for the upbuilding of the city and its continued prosperity. S. A. SWENDSON, Councilman 6th Ward. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for city clerk, subject to the Republican primaries M. M. Hale is a candidate for reelection to the office of City Treasurer, subject to the Republican primaries. Ernest R. Simon announces himself as a candidate for the office of judge of the city of Topeka, subject to the Republican city primary election. I hereby announce myself a candidate for councilman from the Fifth ward, subject to the Republican primaries. C. H. Kutka The colored citizens of Wichita should get a move on themselves and get a petition signed by both white and colored people, protesting against any further Jim Crow legislation. Get out several petitions and get them signed by every colored man, woman and child in Wichita and get as many whites as possible and present that to the legislature immediately. The Kansas legislature should be more liberal in dealing out patronage to the colored people, as this is all the colored people, get out of the Republicans for a period of two years. The appointment of a few colored men at three dollars per day for sixty days will not work a hard ship upon the voters and taxpayers and at the same time it is needed. Let's be liberal along these lines as the white people control all the best paying offices in the state which are voted for by the colored people. They could at least in return give them a little recognition during the legislature. We can always tell when a question arises in this country where the Negro is getting fair treatment by the actions of the South. It is clearly evident that Roosevelt is wrong by the support the entire South is giving him in this matter. Had these been white soldiers the South would be up in arms denouncing the president for his Czar like act. Tillman, through hatred of Roosevelt, but a far-seeing man, believes that this same act, if allowed to stand will re act upon the white man, and he therefore takes this opportunity to call the American people to the prevention of this act before it is everlastingly too late. We are at a loss to know why it is that of all the Northern senators there is not one yet who has been able to hurl the proper epithets to 'Tillman and other Southern senators who decry the Negroes' inferiority and unfitness for citizenship. If some senator should ask him why the senator hates the Negro at all times, when at the same time in his very state and town one third of the colored population is mixed, the mother being colored and the father white. If the Southern white man abhors the Negro so much, why not that he continues to love and cherish their women and raise families. A gentle reminder of something of the hurled at some of these Southern repressives would serve to bring to their remembrance that they do not have the Negro so much as they pretend. Gilbert is the work that is now being carried on by Poor Shelter P varsity We visited the institute last afternoon when a special program was conducted for the benefit of the babies, general officers and visiting ministers. Over 1226 students were present and the music rendered by the fifty voices of the chorus was something marvelous. So sweet and overwhelming were the voices and the music rendered by Prof. Jackson, and especially the song, "Nearer, My God, to Thee," that the Bishops were overcome with emotion. The band furnished some excellent music for the occasion and there were scores of visitors who attended the exercises, notwithstanding was rain and sleet. The students are making rapid progress and Prof. French is, attentively watching every movement and by his manly and courteous walk he commands the respect of every one on the grounds. SENATOR BLEWART of Wichita has introduced an act to amend the following section concerning the public schools of Wichita. The law as passed in 1889 gave all cities of the first class the right to separate the schools in certain grades up to the High school, except Wichita Senator Bentley, who was at that time a member of the senate, thought it unwise to pass such a law upon Wichita, as it would be detrimental to the tax payers. We hope the honest business men of Wichita will assist the colored people in defeating this measure. We think inopportune at this time or at any time to segregate the children of the public schools The section is as follows: Senate bill No. 142 An act to amend sections 4 and 33 of chapter 227 of the Session Laws of 1859, entitled "An act concerning the public schools of Wichita," and repealing said original sections. Stewart. STRICTLY CASH! unless struck by misfortune or bad crops. The other twenty five per cent never pay, and that's what hurts. The last 25 per cent includes the "ordered it stopp d," "took it only for a year." "never ordered the durned sheet," "refused," "lost address," "you didn't give me credit for last payment," and the last and nastiest lot of all, the "stopped without squaring up." Then, there is a hard up, helpless portion who can't pay. Fields vary but human nature is the name. A one paper town has its peculiar field, but it is surely the easiest of all fields to apply the cash basis. The new paper against the old, established sheet may find hard sledding; but the cash basis is the only sure foundation in these days of rainwater boore and bustless trusts. "But, will it please my people? Will it pay to adopt the 'stop when the time's out' plan in my town? Will I dare to go on a cash basis when my competitor is glad to send the paper for ten years on credit?" The answer is, "Look at your home merchant who sells for cash." As the "stop when the time's out" rule pleases the people it will pay, and because it pays it will make your paper better than your competitor's can be on credit. The general average of country weekly newspaper circulation is around 1,200. My friend, do you collect an average of $25 a week? Do you get an average of $100 a month? Do you get in a sum total of $1,200 a year in subscription? Do you reach that basis on the credit list? The wireless message comes ```markdown ``` back to me in the classic language of J. Fat Tucker, answering, "No, Mike, no, no, no!" Let me give you another personal experience. You never find out how many "never will pay" boys you have until you clean up to adopt the "stop when the time's out" system, by pushing the delinquents to a settlement. You will then rapidly locate the fellows who had laid up excuses to keep on getting your paper indefinitely without ever paying for it. They "didn't subscribe but for a year," or they "told the postmaster to stop it," or the y "never subscribed," or they ordered it stopped last January." The United States postal ruling is. "When a man takes a paper out out of the post office or the mail box he becomes legally responsible for the debt." But how can you collect a dollar or no debt from a man unless he is honest? You can sue him, and any man who takes a paper out of the office from year to year ought to be sued and made to pay for it except when it matches bread from hungry babies and neglected wife. My 8 years experience is that at the best a credit list carries a dollar a head or in total of delinquents year in and year out. This delinquent list can't be made to cash up for over 25 cents on the dollar. From first to last my subscription list has not ever netted me over 75 cents per year off the total list of dollar subscribers, and some years it has run down to 50 cents. I know this. The cash book is what tells the story, that is undeniable. These figures are frank and fact. You feel that you have done better but do you know it? I'll venture the guess that not one credit editor in the press association can prove a better case unless he has under a thousand list or lives either near a paradise or near old Adam's grave. Did you ever notice how a bad crop year pinches you? A credit newspaper is a bonevolent institution, so think many people, and they let the newspaper wait until every one else is paid. Why? Well one reason why is, that so many editors have acted for years as if they don't care when you pay, or if you ever pay, just so you don't or der the paper stopped. The man who takes a paper without paying for it is a worse enemy to that paper than the man who never takes it. A country newspaper's meanest enemies are the fellows who owe delinquent subscription. They meet you with a grant and discuss (and cuss) you with a growl. In their eyes your paper never has anything in it. They know that they are crooked, but are trying to divert their own minds from their constitutional crookedness. When a man pays you $5 back subscription, you are not getting a pickup, as too many count it. You are only receiving the principal of what you have earned, then lent out and are now getting back without a cent of interest. Summing up all the five year delinquents, you lose cash, and the paper would have been better if they had never been on the books. When a subscription gets big, it is as hard to pay as a doctor's bill. No other business on earth has such a credit system as a country weekly. Just try to buy groceries, borrow money or purchase type or paper on the newspaper credit plan of paying the account when you have run it 5 years. If you were to try to do anything like that, you would be sent to a place in St. Joe where you'd never see Frank Freytag or John Albus. Your address would be "care of incane asylum." Getting subscribers is one thing, but to keep them and get their cash renewals is doubly hard; circulation schemes have their setbacks in that you get subscribers who won't stand hitched when pay day comes a few years later on. The "step when time's out" solves that problem. An editor ought to trust in God, but when he trusts everybody he will never be able to pay his debts to either God or man. Hell has no horrors like a woman scorned and a delinquent dunned. Under the credit system, when you send out statements you wish you hadn't and when you don't send 'em you wish you had. The editor who sends his paper on credit earns that money twice, and then there's a fourth of it that he never gets. Can our handsome, bachelor schoolmaster editor Dillon figure out what it costs to doubly earn that "sixbitty per cent" part? Try to buy type on a "pay it some time" theory, and they would kick you into the street for a fool quicker than the historic grey cat kicked out the yaller cat's eye. If you treated your paper bill as you handle your subscription list the sheriff would already have you. Try to lire a fifteen dollar a week foreman on a promise to pay him when all subscribers pay up, and he'd fall down stairs to make sure of getting away from a crazy man. You can't get your papers through the postoffice on steen years credit. Your uncle Samuel has found that subscription accounts won't buy breeches. And journalism would be better off if the government would refuse to carry a deliquent paper. People never respect your business any more than you respect it yourself. Unless you feel that your paper is wo th paying for, how can the subscribers ever think so? The paid up in cash subscription list is not only best for both subscriber an. publisher, but it is also best for the advertiser, as it is free and clean from bad beats and folks who buy without intending to pay. And in accordance with the growing public preference as well as the advancing price of print paper and the increase of type cost and rising wages the day is at hand to either raise the price of subscription or make it "stop when the time's out." Each and every local paper deserves support more than it gets. And just in so far as you make it local, readable, interesting, it is indispensible to that community, and just to that extent it will be read. I find, too, that special editions about local events and the serial stories greatly aid in making a country weekly firm in the public regard. If you make your paper interesting you need not ever fear that you'll lack for subscribers on a cash basis. The weekly newspaper is today the crowning triumph of journalism, the defender of home and good name, the bulwark of honest politics and the guardian of the constitution. It ought to be and must be free, and to be free it must be financially indebted. And the one sure way to strengthen a paper is to put it on a business basis, a cash basis, the rule which when once well tried is always adhered to the stop when the time is our system. FEELING LIVER-ISH This Morning? TAKE THEDFORDS Black Draught A Gentle Laxative And Appetizer The most peculiar and striking incident in the history of the American people at this time is that of Ben Tillman supporting the Negro by force and compulsion. He has at last admitted that all men are entitled to a fair and impartial trial before they are convicted, and for his hatred toward the president as well as the Negroes, he he has taken a des with the Negroes as far as possible in acknowledging that right and justice should prevail in the Brownville case. Keepon, Brother Tillman, you remember Saul of Tarsus who went to Damascus to persecute the Christians, but the Lord in His wisdom converted him and caused him to become a lover and a most powerful leader of the people he had once had. There is no question that if Ben Tillman lives long enough he will come to espouse the cause of the respective of to on, because the Votre. To Kansas City, Kansas of Kansas City, Mo. We are our troops of increasing our circulation in the two cities. We shall in a short time off Modern, Convenient. Centrally Located The Albany Hotel SANFORD W. MING, PROP. Rates $5 to $7 'per week. Spaz arrangements ICI 1. Home 'Phone No. 10 EXCELSIOR BRELING, MO 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. BOB BOSS, Pres. OSCAR BOULLEY, BEL AL. BODGERS, Business Mgr. OLYMPIC CLUB, Home 'Phone 7203 Mahn 612 Baltimore Ave., MANNES CITY, MO BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Chase. Smith ... Bam Yarbrough[ Doebe Childern ... Ed. Tipton Matt Buben ... Sam Jones BARL DUME, Pros. B. J. DHEYNS, Sec. J. F. PHILIPS, Stewart, Afro-American When at Leisure, Call and See me. We Strive to Please. 'PROVEN 1349. INFORMATION WANTED OF WILL DOUBTLY. Any information of Will Doubtly who was last heard of at Wyhark, I.T., will be thankfully received by his brother, W. S. BROWN, 2824 State Street, 31-4-18. Chicago, Ill. I Have Any Number of Houses to Rent from $7.00 up. BARGAINS FOR THRIFTY PEOPLE. Call or Write. G. J. JONES, 429 KANSAS AVE. TULSA KANS. KALLITHRIX PARI OR HAIR GOODS HAIR OR NAMEN IS NEW POMPA DOUGLAS SWITCHES WO 11.12.21 ANI MRS. M. L. FIELD, 819 LAWSAS AVL. 2 a good prize for the most popular lady in those cities, and shall enter them in the race for their prize with the understanding that these ladies work to secure a large subscription which insures votes in securing the prize. NOTICE NOTICE TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF MEMPHIS. To the subscribers of Memphis, Tenn. 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 subscription to him. We would like to have a remittance from our subscribers in this portion of the country and unless we do, the paper will be stopped. If you wish to continue, may the agent so he can send the subscriptions in as this will be the last week. Williamson House... Rooms and Board—first-class accommodation. When in Okmulgee stop at the above hotel if you want good treatment at REASONABLE : RATES. GRAND OFFICERS KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. The following officers have been elected for the Sunflower Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Jurisdiction N. A. N. A. E. A. A. and A.: Jno. A. Lewis, Grand Chancellor, Wichita, Kan. J. B Davis, Grand Vire Chancellor, Weir. B. Pope, Past Grand Chancellor, Topeka. Rev. S. W. Batchelor, Grand Prelate, Lawrence. Rev. J. S. King, Grand Lecturer, Weir. E. S. Lee, Grand Master of Rochequer, Topeka. Dr. I. H. Anthony, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, Kansas City. W. A. Wright, Grand Master at Arms, Winfield. J. E. 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. T. Glover, Grand Secretary Endowment Board, Wichita. S. W. Fleming, Grand Treasurer Endowment Board, Wichita. Doo Williams, Supreme Representative, Lawrence. Place of next meeting, Lawrence, 1967. A. SIMS' POOL AND BILLIARD PARLORS Headquarters for all who wish a nice time. When Hutchinson call on him 306 SOUTH MAIN STREET FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" 80 STRAIGHTENS KINERY or CRIRY HAIR shat is can get up in any style desired consistent with the length FORD'S HAIR: Formaldehyde was formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" and is the only safe preparation known to be�hats inakes kilnics or curly hair stirrups, as shown above. Its use makes the most sub-born, hearable, kilnky or curly hair soft, pilishole and may be comb. These results may be obtained from one treatment: for a number of usually someons for a year. This use of the orch's hair, Formaldehyde, OX MARROW, and the new-year deug with one line of high water the ralp as path to be or from falling out by breaking off, mass to grow and by neolibing the long-given to life and the�ig. Being eignur perturved and the hurnthens, the to a other, and the ladders of the older FORD's Hair Formaldehyde (or OZONIZED OX MARROW) has been in all and so long in the course of life and life and has been in the early years of the time. ON MARROW was registered in the United States and in the Office in the United States before the time that has never been a title. For the first time, the FORD'S HAIR TOMADE is now known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW". The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. Charles翟 70 Webash Ave., Chile-go, IL Agents wanted it. We have a number of furnished rooms to rent. Anderson and Anderson, 1013 W. Tenth street. Call up 1521. Miss Lehla Payne, who has been sick, is able to be out again. Mrs Wm. Patton is on the sick list this week. Mr. James Bailey is making an improvement to his mother's home on First and Topeka avenues. Mr. Minor Small left Wednesday for Kalamazoo, Mich., where he will accept a position as shipping clerk with the Gilmore Furniture Co. Mr. E. W. Matley of 1155 Clay street, is at Christ hospital, where he underwent a serious operation this week. The Dumas club met with Mrs. C. M. Monroe Friday, January 18th. The next meeting will be with Mrs. P. Jones, 318 E. First street, Feb. 11. WANTED—A good short order and pastry cook. None but the best need apply. Also an up-to-date lady waitress at Martin's Cafe, 106 Court street, Muskogeo, Okla. Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Ford entertained informally Tuesday for their brother, Mr. Minor Small, at their home, 922 N. Van Buren street. The evening was spent in cards and, music. A three course lunch was served. Each one reported an enjoyable time, declaring Mrs. Ford an ideal hostess. --- Mr. Charles Lytle has purchased his father's shop at 1003 Kansas avenue. His father, J. R. Lytle has concluded to remain in New York. His many friends are sorry to have him leave the old Sunflower state, but wherever he casts his lot the people will be benefitted theroby. WANTED—A good field agent to travel and canvass for THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. The right man cannot from $50 to $10 per month. He must be a good talker and a good worker, honest, and must furnish bond for the faithful performance of his duty. ST. JOHN A. M. E. CHURCH. The workers of the church met on Monday evening and completed arrangements for the final rally which comes off on March 19th. The clubs have fallen into line under their leaders, and the outlook for final In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Mary J Giford. Plaintiff. Frank P. Gilford, Defendant. State of Kansas to Frank P. Gilford, greeting. You are hereby notified that in the above entitled court and action the plaintiff has filed his 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 granted ed a divorce from you accordingly. Hereof fail not at your peril. In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of December, 1906, I. S. CURTIS. Clerk of said Court, W. S. McCLINOCK, Attorney for Plaintiff First published December 30th, '06. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Bessie J. Nealutt, Plaintiff Bessie L. Nesbitt, Plaintiff James Nesbitt, Defendant. Said defendant will take notice that he has been used by plantiff in the above entitle action and that unless he pleas to or answers said petition of plantiff on or before February 2nd, 1907, said petition of plantiff will be taken as true and judge sent unto it. from it petition the custody of the man, named Willie May Nesbitt. victory is full of promise. The old, reliable Rock Island, flanked by the untiring Willing Workers, the A. B. O. U. T.'s and the great army of volunteers will come up with shouts of victory as the appointed time. The leaders of the classes are rallying their forces to raise the balance due the pastor on salary. Class No. 1, Mrs. Georgia Carson, leader, gave a social on Thursday evening, which was an occasion of pleasure and profit. Class No. 4, Mrs. G. J. Coleman, leader, was entertained with an e'possum supper on Tuesday evening at the residence of Mrs. E. Huddleson. Class No. 11. Mr. J. J. Hatton, leader, had an enjoyable time and added a considerable amount to its treasury at the home of the Misses Hawkins on Wednesday evening. The sewing circle was entertained on Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. Cora Ray. It was a delightful meeting. Mrs. Ray served dinner beginning at 11:30 a.m. and many persons availed themselves of good home dinner. Mrs. Alcy Brown of Taylor street was hostess for the Grant Mite Missionary society on Friday afternoon. The ladies of the Missionary circle are not only gathering funds for the mite department of the church, but are doing some practical missionary work among the sick and poor of the community. The Sunday School workers are planning an aggressive campaign for the benefit of the young people of the community. The school continues to grow in numbers and interest. The congregations of the church were large and appreciative last Sabbath. The pastor will be present and occupy his pulpit at each service next Sabbath. Why is it that nine tenths of the worshippers come late to all services? Every worshipper should be in place and join in the opening song and prayer. Can you not do better? Try, and see if you are not the gainer. Mrs V. L. North Proprietress THE EAST SIDE INN Headquarters for R. R. Parters and Traveling Man. First-class Board and Room. Everything strictly modern. 914-10 4; KANSAS CITY MO Home Phone 2018 Main Home Phone Main 3018 Y 2 Rings For First-class Rooms and Lodging When in Pueblo, Colo., Stop at B. W. Shelton's Rooming House, 210 Lampkin Street; three blocks from the Union Depot. He can be found at the gate of tee depot W. 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. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. The defendant will be notified that he has been sent by the plaintiff above named, and must be on January 25th, 1907, to answer the petition of the defendant to the court an order to allow a minor child to live with him. SAMUEL RYAN Plaintiff Last published December 11th, 1906 FOSTER WILLIAMS COTFEYVILLES LEADING GROCER ALWAYS HAS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST GROCERIES TO EVERY CUSTOMER he gives The Plaindealer FREE Rev. J. H. Homesley of Columbia, Mo. is the guest of Rev. C. G. Fishback a few days this week, en route to Burlingame. We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for the kindness shown us during our sad bereavement, and also for the floral offerings. Mrs. J. B. JONES, Mr. and Mrs. GEO ELLIS AND FAMILY. Mrs. Anna Bradley died at her home in Osage City Thursday of last week, aged 50 years. She leaves a husband and four children to mourn her loss. One daughter, Mrs. Chas. Love lives in this city. 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 risen with such rapidity to financial imminence. BOLEY The exclusive Negro town of theritory, offers excedtional oppore as to location and general resources to Negro farmers, orchardists, stock misers and investors. The adaptability of the soil to growing all kinds of grain, fruits and truck would make a mill and elevator, also a canning factory paying investments. For further information address The Boley Business Mens' Club, Boley, Indian Territory WANTED-Educated colored men to travel and distrbute 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 STRELT FOSTER COFFEYVILLES L CHEAPER TO EVERY CU Patronize him. The Old Slave. The next incident came to my station in the winter of 1875 on a trip to Florida. We were going down the coast line and were passing through the rice plantations above Charlestown, Traveling facilities were not so good on railroads then as now. We had a sleeper, but there was no smoking compartment. After breakfast I had gone forward into the smoking car to enjoy my cigar. At a little station a very well dressed Negro man came aboard; but as there were some white gentlemen to each seat, mostly northern tourists, he did not offer to sit down by any of them. After he had been standing awhile in the aisle I moved over and invited him to have a seat by me. At first he demurred, saying he did not like to intrude upon white gentlemen, but upon my insistence he finally sat down, remarking "You must be a Southerner." I asked him why he thought so. His reply was that he did not believe a northern man would invite a Negro to sit by him. In the conversation I interrogated him as to his past history, and will tell his story, as he told it to me, in my own language. Before the war he had been the driver or foreman on the plantation owned by his young master, who lived in a big house up on the hill, where he employed his time with his horses and hounds, after the easy fashion of the old-time Southern gentleman. When the war came the master went with the Carolina troops to Virginia, and left the plantation in care of the faithful driver. The master survived the war and after Appomattox returned home to a scene of desolation. He called up the driver and told him to continue to run the plantation as best he could with hired labor, and to keep half the earnings for himself and to pay over the other half to him. A succession of good crops, with fairly remunerative prices, yielded profits. The driver continued to boss the plantation, while the master devoted his time to the sports of the field. It so happened that an old mortgage on the plantation had not been taken in care of; and the creditors' growing tired of waiting finally foreclosed. At the public sale bidders were few, and owing to the scarcity of money in that region at the time, the bids were not high. From having stored away his half of the earnings the Negro driver was enabled to buy in the plantation and became the owner in fee. When he had concluded his story I said to him, 'What of the master? What became of him?' His face lighted up as he replied, "O, Master still lives up in the big house on the hill, and keeps his horses and dogs. He still gets his half, and always will. He doesn't know that the plantation has been sold." --George W. Moffett in Confederate Veteran. Hon. J. B. Elming of Horton, Dennis Jones and T. W. Bell and Dr. C. E. Motors are in the city this week looking after the candidacy of Hon D. R. Anthony for Congressman. Mr. M. Gardner of Memphis, Tenn., has opened a first class barbershop at Kansas City, Kansas, and is making his home with Mrs. Rebecca Knapper. Miss Mabel Con, one of the leading ladies of Kansas City, Mo., has been on the sick list for considerable time. Her many friends hope for her early recovery. The headquarters for those who attended the Bishop's Council at Kansas City was Compton's Hotel, Mo. and Mrs. Compton are conducting one of the best hotels in the West. Those visiting Kansas City will do well to call at Compton's Cafe and give them a trial. To the people of Kansas City, Kansas; Those of you who wish to build up a splendid enterprise and any man who is interested in the welfare of his race should spend their money with I. J. Maddux, one of the leading grocery stores of that city. He has a first class grocery and meat market. His prices are reasonable and his goods are first class. You call at his large grocery store and find him busy at all times filling orders. So congenial is he and his wife and elkers that it is a pleasure for customers to call and spend their money with him. He is located at 852 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas. He has two phones and if you like you may phone your orders to him which will be promptly filled. He has a Home phone No 784 West, and Bell 2866 West. He carries a first class line of country produce such as poultry, butter and eggs and his equal is hard to find. Stay by a good substantial firm. Do not forget the number. 852 Freeman Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. AT REST. We are sorry to learn of the death of Hon. W. W. Taylor, editor of the Utah Plaindealer, Salt Lake City. His many friends and associates regret the loss of such a strong race leader and stunner advocate of the principles of right and justice. The columns of his paper have always been open for the interest and betterment of the conditions of the colored people of this country and he has always defended them in his strong editorials which were always convincing and instructive. He was one of the original members of the Western Press Association and served as President and was a member of the Executive Committee for several years; Past Grand Master of Masons of Colorado and Utah and also Grand Patron of the O. E. S. The cause of his death was overwork and strain of the nerves. He had been complaining for several months and his hard work and constant study for the uplift of his race caused his sudden collapse. He leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss besides a host of friends. His wife and family have the sympathy of the members of the Western Press Association and they hope that she will be able to continue the good work as has been carried on by her devoted and loving husband Not only the outrems of Salt Lake City and I tak but the entire West will raise the wholesome instruction that has been given by him each week in the columns of his great paper, The Utah Plain dealer. EMPORIA NEWS. Silas Smith who has been in Topeka for the last three months has returned home for a day's visit. Sadie Phillips who has been making an extended visit in Topeka is home again. Sunday was quarerly meeting at the A. M. E. church conducted by Rev. J. P. King of Ottawa. Mrs. Eliza Davis of Kansas City, is in Emporia visiting her daughters Mrs. Robert Harrison and Mrs. Samuel Carter for a few days. Archie Ray who has been in Kansas City came home for a visit. Mrs. James Campbell entertained at a six o'clock dinner in honor of Henry Wilson and wife of Lawrence. Ulysses Lee of Fort Leavenworth is the guest af Miss Dell Tipton. Mrs. Derothy Wright of Western is visiting her parents for a few days. George Williams is on the sick list. Mrs. Holt has been very successful with the literary society at the church. Lehurrt has 300 new houses and they are all full. We have two more rows under construction. S. Armstead is still on the sick list. When you go to Lehurrt dont fail to call at the Armstead hotel or the Price house or the Easter inn, all three are colored and reasonable. Lewis Armstead and Jim Jackson are our busy plasterers they have sixty more new houses to plaster. Mrs Ed Munger has gone to Sedan. Billie Cole of Pittsburg lives here. He is a nice young man. We also have 50 families from Springfield, Mo., about 40 per cent of the city's population are colored. Quite a number work in the cement mills. EX-SLANE PENSION 14,000.00 will be asked for from Ex-slaves, do you want this nation to do what all other civilized nations have done? The ex-Slaves and their Childrensshould 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. Old Lukens Opera House Remodeled Open Sunday, December 30, Matinee and Night, for Private Week REFINED HIGH CLASS VAUDEVILLE Ching and Childrens Servicer Matinee Colored Patronage Solicited James Bryce, M. F., can speak more or less perfectly in sixteen languages. Eliphalet N. Potter, nephew of Biahsp Potter, has purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. WE Alfred DeNett, 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 B. Parker is now fifty-two years of age. He has scarcely a wrinkle in his free and looks like a man who has taken life easily. WANT A popular Japanese student at Harvard is Otohiko 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-ninth year on April 10. Mr. Booth was born in Nottingham, England, and preached his first sermon in the open air when not twenty years old. R. P. Harris of Topeka, the only living man who set type on the first paper published in Kansas, has been celebrating his semicentennial as a printer. For fifty years he has worked continuously at his trade and is still able to turn out a respectable "string." 6,000 Dr. Jacques Bertillon, the famous chief of the statistical bureau of Paris, has written a volume entitled "Alive, hellum and the Way to Fight It." Drink, he declares, is likely to prove the ruin of the French race unless something is done to overcome the habit. Camille Pelistan, the French minister of marine, is noted as a typical Bohemian. He has spent a good part of his life in the Latin quarter, and even now, though compelled to live in the magnificent palace of marine, he frequently entertains his Bohemian friends. CURIOUS CULLINGS. More Men, Women and Children to Read and Pay for This rather dishearming sign was displayed to the view of customers in a fish store in lower Sixth avenue, New York: "Hay Wanted to Open Oysters Sixteen Years Old." The organ of one of the churches in Belfast having refused to work, investigation revealed the presence of a large sol in the exhaust pipe. It was of course dead, and there is no explanation as to how it got there. A Partian who has been much annoyed by dums has connected his bell handle with a powerful electric battery and switches on the current of psychological moments. Be far the police have declined to interfere. A large stock of quail settled down on Main street, Los Angeles, Cal., right in the business heart of the town. They were soon frightened away and sailed off, toward the hills. The oldest inhabitant is trying to cudgel up a precaution for this unusual thing. Aerial dinners are now the fashion in Paris. M. Santos-Dumont recently gave one at which the tables and chairs were suspended from the ceiling by wires, the waiters walked on stilts and the plates and dishes were raised on lifts. The guests got into their seats by means of stolpladders. TOPEKA PLAINDEALER TIMELY TOPICS. An English railway expert is astonished to find that the "one idea of your railways is to 'get there.'" That's why we build them.—New York Herald. No year will be better than this year to make a test to see whether Fourth of July cannot be celebrated without the need as killing of boys and girls—Chicago Record-Herald. Old New York is laughing at Brooklyn because the chief police officer of the united cities says he doesn't see any harm in playing Sunday baseball in isolated sections, meaning Brooklyn.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The boll weevil caused a loss to the cotton growers last year of $50,000,000. The value of the birds slaughtered for millinery 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 Ill. App. 82.) Where a contract recites the payment of $1 as its consideration, 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. 585.) 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. (Bs Bo. Itep, 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 Russian 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. HIGGINSVILLE, MO The Lafayette Co. Colored Fair Ampolation met on Friday Jan. 23, in a general meeting. Mrs. Eva Smith died Jan. 20th. Funeral services were held at the M. E. church, Jan. 21st. Ledie T. Britt has been on the sick list for some three weeks and is improving very nicely at present. Frederick Garrett and family are preparing for shipping after selling his property. They will leave one day this week for some part of Oklahoma. They will be, they will try To see every place you walk. Though you die, I don't know why, Some people will talk. JOPLIN, MO The Baptist Choral Union is pro gressing nicely, with Mrs. J. S. Pangan as president Mrs. T. Bland secretary, and Prof. N. T. Green their worthy instructor. The B. Y. P. U. of the Unity Baptist church was reorganized last Sunday, with Mrs. Matthews Lowe as president, Mrs. T. Bland sec tary. The following program was rendered: Prayer, Rev. Duran. Discussion, Life of Christ. Song, B. Y P. U. Recitation, No Seems in Heaven, by Mrs. J. S. Perman. Select Reading, Mrs I. Bland. Unity Baptist Sunday School is doing a good work for their people Mrs I. S. Penman, superintendent, Mrs. C. H. Knaves, First Bible teacher; Mrs. T. Bland, Second Bible teacher; Mrs. Fred Shannon, primary teacher; Mrs Mugure, Brown, secretary. Mrs. W. Larsy " treasurer. The meeting at Guthur, Ollie, Dungue Bauer introduced in 1801 Constitutional Convention a proposition compelling railroads to maintain separate teachers and waft the locomotives for New York, and providing the service on the Constitution be submitted to parliament for a vote on the people. No say the V. Chattin. Well, Mr. Ingro, you had be to keep your eyes open. Go to the polite and vote for your intrese, or else your reale and daughte will have to hide in the front end of the smoker. Mrs. Philip Douglas, who is been in the city for 5 or 6 years left Monday eve for Arkansas city, where she will visit relatives and friends for two or three months. In the spring Mr. Douglas may leave for Wichita, where he will probably make his future home. Their departure will be greatly regretted as both will be much missed in social circles. D. Hickey still on the rocky hills, and now, being town, very slow. O V A A handwritten note from an old settler of the country, describing the land and its features. tist church from which she was a member, funeral service was conducted by the pastor Rev Rev. Scott visited his daughters Misser Louise and Ruth at the Institute at Topeka. Ellen Sanders sister of Mrs. Talton who has been visiting Mrs. S. J, Rollins returned to her home in Columbus, Ohio, Friday. Rev. A. Ward and wife of Kansas City and Mrs. Anna Garrett of Kansas City attended the funeral of Mrs. Talton. One of the grandest revivals ever witnessed in the history of Olathe is now being carried on at the second Baptist church by the pastor Rev Scott, the result is that many men and women are either professing Christianity for the first time or renewing their covenant. The work of soul saving has never been equaled in Olathe. He is being assisted by Rev. Armstrong of Ottawa and is expecting Rev. Skinner of Coffeyville next week. PUEBLO, COLO. Mrs. Dr. Huff who spent the colldoys with her porents in Fort Smith, Ark., returned last week. Rev. Hardy of Bethlehem Baptist church has started a revival assisted by Rev. George McNeal of Kansas City, Kansas. Mrs. B. F. Grigsby entertained the Modiste Art Club Thursdao. Mrs. J. P Watson left last Friday night for Alberquerque, New Mexico to assist the pastor of that place in revival services Presiding Elder Watson and Rev J. C. Owens left Tuesday night for Kansas City to be in attendance at the Bishops' Council. Rev. J W Sanders passed through the city last Wednesday from La Junta enroute to Denver where he was taking fatter turner who is quite ill. Oscar Baker and wife are the happy parents of a boun ag boy born Jan 8. alrs. George Cotwell of Vic to rspent a few days in the city during the holidays the guest of Mrs Albert J. Stewart Mrs. S. A. Phillips of Ottawa, Iowa is in the city for an ad-demio stay with her daughter Mrs. B Baker. Chas. Holmes one of our progressive young men underwent a very successful operation on his right eye an Christmast ev. Western University, QUINDARO, KANSAS Dr.P.Holmes, Regular Medical Physician with Thirty Years of Experience in the United States. A GREAT DIVINE HEALER. With 25 years Experience. You Must See Him 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 Sores, Toothache, Cramp Colic, Rheumatism, Nervous Troubles, Loose and Stiff Joint—in fact ALL DISEASES OF MANKIND. It makes peace where there is war, houses loved ones back to their home who have been driven off by unfortune means. HE IS A MEDIUM. HE IS A MEDIUM. He tells you everything you ever did in your life, who you favor, mother or father, or ever will do. On September 6, 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. ATCHISON, KAN Mrs. Charles Porter entertained Monday afternoon the Whist club, the guest of honor being Mrs. Wm. Rudd, of Cheyenne. First and second prizes were won by Mrs. Jno. George and Mrs. Gora Jones, and were presented to the guest. Miss Mabel Bryant of Topeka is visiting Miss Carrie Wilson. Lest in Hellford, a rephow of Mrs. Calne Preston, who is head waiter at the Baltimore Hotel, Kansas City, Miss is visiting his aunt, and brought the family nine persons. The was no school to see a Like the old box of butted What will become the old, shaky building, in the next question. Rugee Moore has a 11 pound boy. Poxy Allergen are here from Minneapolis. The well softening for pneumonia. He is very. was never a time in the history of the Republican party that his paper was not ready to defend the principles of that party. Let everybody who wishes to see the good work continue get under the banner of this young Chesterfieldian and march to victory. Young Dan is the man and let us see to it that he lands at the White Home. H. R. Thomé, Main Fowler's Place FRANK WILLIAMS Manager Nearly furnished Rooms in Con- truction MRS. A. L. NOTHEN in love W. L. L. NEIL C. KANACEY, M. W. M. Thomas, 1. 9 Knapstie Avenue MONEY • loan or Real Estate and Chattel Mortgages. He also has list of bargains in Farm and City property. J. W. Voohie's Restaurant I also carry a fine line ot GROCLRIES and MEATS. Give me a share of your trade WHEN IN MUSKOGE I T STOI AT MARTIN'S HOTEL and CAFE It is one of the most cleanest Cafes in the city. Everything up to design a love in style Clea Red Specialty Jas. W. H. Martin, Propriete Mrs. L. P. Allen HAIR-DRESSING MAN BEAUTY P. RI NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING HAIR DRESSING tour up, invigorate and from falling out, increases its growth, to prevent the hair from itching and breaking off at the end, and give the hair new life and vigor. NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING removes Dandruff, causes Letter, Itching and Scaling of the Scalp, etc. I know nothing experimental about Nelson's Hair Dressing, but he kept the hair to be coily and closely lathered it, and it lasted longer. It is very useful that it is soft and more than what we claim for it. NEISON'S HAIR DRESSING all drug stores for 25c. We want good agents in or local Write for price, item Address NELSON MANUFACTURING CO Richmond, Virgi A grand opportunity for colored people to buy good farms or city property. The land in the surrounding neighborhood of Vinita is fertile and rich, cheap in price, will grow cotton, all kinds of gains and vegetables The health and climate of this neighborhood is fine. All kinds of poultry and live stock does well here The market is good the year round Now is the state colored man's chance to get some of this new territory land before it is all taken by other races. The colored citizens are selling and leasing their land to white people every day. For further information call or write. Real Estate Dealer and Colored Immigration monitor 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. NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING A Delightfully Performed Hair Pomads NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING make hair soft, pliant and glossy, and hairstyle to suit with its length. 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. Nettice Drake's 612 South Third St. First class accommodations. Oak Leaf Hotel East Side Katy Railroad DENNIS HICKEN, Prop Old friends all expected—New and all all invited. VINITA, I. T. 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 SEEING ZANDITON