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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. VOLUME X. Special to The Plaindale from Mosko The Jim Crow law is now in effect in the new state and from the loeks of things, the best class of white people are displeased. They are opposed to the law and think it obnoxious and an injustice to the progressive element of colored people. WILL Twine and several leading lawyers of Muskogee have filed papers asking a restraint or injunction preventing the carrying out of the law from the fact that it is unconstitutional and not keeping with the Enabling Act. Several thousand dollars has been raised to push it in the courts and several cases will be instituted on various grounds which will make it obnoxious as well as an annoyance to the general public The Indians to a great extent prefer riding with the colored people. A popular instance happened the second day when the Indians were asked to go to the coach with the whites and they emphatically refused. The great trouble with the employee of the railroads who are supposed to enforce the law is there are so many people whose nationality cannot be distinguished that there are colored people riding in the chair cars and Indians and white people in the Jim Crow. On some of the roads a whole coach is given to colored people while on others the old-time Texas and Arkansas Jim Crow is followed to the letter. The Indian Territory is composed of thousands of wealthy colored people who own land and are drawing big royalties from oil and gas leases, and they declare that they will not stand for an thing that tends to degrade them, and there is quite a few who say that if nice coaches are provided with equal accommodations, such as their cars and other conveniences as are given to white people, there would be no objection. The most peculiar thing about the Jim Crow laws, that the Negro land owner and his family have to ride Jim Crow, while his white tenant and family enjoy the comforts of nice chin cars, and all pay the same fare. We shall wait with time and patience for the outcome of this matter, believing that some day a judge will be found who will decide the case on facts instead of so many points of law. What is most needed now is justice, not law COLORRD PEOPLE HONOR LINCOLN Topkis Capital: Members of the Kansas Lincoln Day club, a colored organization of the state, hold their annual meeting at the Metropolitan Hall Feb. 12, by way of celebrating the birthday anniversary of the emancipator of the race. Newyer, president of the organization, urged the Negroes to take an active hand in politics, in its annual ad diers. The Rev. J. Arlington Wilton Kansas City president of the Cornel Baptist convention of the state, upon a Abraham Lincoln" in which he ended the character of the white boy whose course. Several muster numbers given. After the principal excises of the evening which were attended largely both locally and over the state, a banquet was given at which James H. Guy was toastmaster. Following were the officers elected; President, Corvine Patterson, Kansas City; vice presidents by congressional districts, first, J. B. Fleming, Horton; second, R. B. M'Williams, Lawrence; third, Wm. Jackson, Columbus; fourth, A. J. Olmstead, Emporia; fifth, W. W. Shobe, Salina; six h. D. Hickman, Hill City; seventh, C. O. Smith, Hutchinson; eighth, Thor. Glover, Wichita; secretary, C. C. Lytle, Topeka; treasurer, W. W. Evans, Hutchinson; executive committee J. H. B. Taylor, John M. Wright, Freel Roundtree, W. W. Fusher, Nathaniel Svayer, M G Holloway, Benj James, James H. Tompkins and John B. Fleming. Mine Cecil Watts rendered a very pleasing vocal solo which delighted the audience. She formerly lived in this city but has been traveling a number of years with different theatrical companies. She traveled with Black Pattt and her sweet, melodious voice won her many admirers. Corvine Patterson of Kansas City was elected president and is an excellent selection. He is most commissioner of his city, one of the most responsible positions held by any colored man in the West. He is a man of state wide reputation. C. C. Lytle, who was elected secretary, is manshall of the court of Popke. He is comteous, polite and a thorough gentleman and will add strength to the club. J. H. B. Taylor, the old war horse, is still chairman of the executive committee. He was one of the founders of the organization in 1901, when James A. Page was president and J. B. Bass, secretary. Mr. Taylor has been the life and spirit of the club for several years. No day has been too stormy for Taylor to get out and "put the situation up to the boys" and get things in shape for the club's festivities. It is throgh Taylor that the bills are paid and the club feels that they cannot honor him too much. Nathuriel Stayer, retiring president has been a great factor in the organization, and his work and influence has did much to bring the club up to its present standard. Bigbee's band rendered excellent music, and the club feels that they owe them a debt of gratitude. The banquet was one of the most successful in the club's history. It was served by Mrs. Slaughter, one of the best caterers in the city. Excellent music was furnished by Wilson's orchestra. "BILLY" SELLS! The Great Circus Man Passed Away in New York. The news that "Billy" Sells was dead was a shock to the entire city. Mr Sells was one of the most generous outhearted men that ever breathed the breath of life. He was a personal friend of the editor of this paper. No man who ever worked for Mr Sells but what wanted to do again. The lights are out with the fire, the cold of the winter, the one of the heat at once men of his generation. His big heart and his baby brain have found peace at last. "The greatest bare back rider of his day, and one of the two surviving members of the great Bells circus family, died suddenly this morning in a rooming house at 153 West Thirty-third street, New York. His death is believed to have been due to acute gastritis, from which he had been suffering for several weeks. "Mrs. Mac Williams, landlady of [('continued on Page 3.] TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1908. The Color Line in the North! RAY STANWARD BAKER IN THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE. Contained From Last Week FROM INQUIRIES I HAVE MADE VERY WHILE IN THE NORTH there would seem indeed, to be a tenency that re-sirable" among Negroes as among the old American white stock. It personally is this true among the better class Negroes. The ignorant Negro in southern agricultural districts is exceedingly prolific, but his Northern city brother has comparatively few children. I have saved the record from personal inquiry of persons inquiry or perhaps two hundred Northern Negro families of the better class. Many have no children at all, many have one or two, and the largest family I found [in Boston] was seven children. I found one Negro family in the South with an children! In last realism, of course, is not favorable to a large birth rate. All Northern cities show a table surplus, according to the statistics of Negro women over Negro men. Many of these are house servants and, like the large class of roving single men who do day labor on the streets and railroads, they are without family ties and have no children. Dr. Fornist finds that the deaths of Negroes from tumor clost constitute over half the deaths from that cause in the city of Indianapolis, whereas, in proportion to Negro population, they should constitute only one eighth. His observations upon these marking facts are of great interest 'I believe the reason for these conditions is plain. First of all it is due to Negroes leaving the country and crowding it to the larger cities, especially in the North, where they live in a climate totally different from that with which they have been familiar. They occupy unsanitary homes; they are frequently confined to labor with insufficient food and clothing and without proper rest. Of necessity they follow the hardest and most exposed occupations in order to make a livelihood. I regret to say that in appearance and minor ability play a part in making these figures what they are. They easily fall victim to the unusual vices of the city. "Another reason for increased morality is improper medical attention. Not only among the ignorant but among the intellect we find it much trust put in patient medicines, the belief, latent it is true in many cases, but still existing among the ignorant, in the hoodoo habitats against the close following of the doctor's orders. "What shall we do about it?" asks Dr. Furnigs. We must urge those around us to move personal cleanliness, post or upchimme the and less despair in our mind, and have to do so. We more money for it is well to do so. Not to come to our work but to go to the smallest town of the West, where they can have a fair chance. Unless something is done to change existing conditions, to stop this movement to our Northern cities, to provide proper habitations and surroundings for those who are already here, it will be only a question of time until the problem of the American Negro will reach a solution not at all desirable from our point of view." Of course a doctor always sees the pathological side of life and his view is likely to be pessimistic, I saw much of the tragedy of the slum. Negroes in the cities of the North and yet many Negroes have been able to survive, many have learned how to live in town and are making a success of their lives. I shall show more prominently in my next article. It must not be forgotten that Negro families in Boston and Philadelphia [mostly immigrants, it is true] as well as in Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans have lived and thrived under city conditions for many generations. No a few Negroes in Indiana, whose homes I visited are housed better than the average in white families. SIGNE AMONG NORTHERN NEGROES. Not only is the death rate high in the North, but the Negroes hampered by sickness to a much greater degree than white people. Hospital records in Philadelphia show an excess of Negro patients over whites, according to population, of 125 per cent. About 5,000 Negroes passed through the hospital of Philadelphia last year, averaging a combined amount of three weeks each. Mr Warner, in American Charities, makes a sickness the chief cause of poverty among central people in New York, Boston New Haven and Baltimore. The percentage of sickness was twice or more as high as that of Germans, Irish or white Americans. Such are the pains of adjustment which the Negroes are having to bear in the North. A question arises whither they can ever become a large factor of the population in Northern Latitudes. They are certainly not holding their own in the country or in the smaller cities, and in the large cities they are increasing at present, not by the birth rate but by constant immigration. Hortile physical conditions of life in the North are not the only difficulties that the Negro has to meet, we thought he left prejudice behind in the South, but he finds it also showing its teeth here in the North. And, as in the South, a wide difference is apparent between the attitude of the best class of white men and the lower class. One of the first things that struck me when I began studying race conditions in the North was the position on the better class of white people with regard to the Negro. In the South, every white man and woman has a vigorous and vital opinion in the race question. You have only to apply the rules, the explosion is sure to follow. It is not so in the North. A few of the older people still preserve something of the war-time sentiment for the Negro, but the people one ordinarily meets don't know anything about the Negro, don't discuss him, and don't care about him. In Indiana polls, and indeed, in other cities, the only white people I could find who were united in asses- sid in the Negroes are a new patient mostly in the love of a charity woman and the city. But it is unease, we equally true of the Kuhan Jews or the Ishams. One of the first white men with whom I talked [at Ishanapolis] said to me with some impatience: "There are too many Negroes up here; they hurt the city." He said it without heat, but as a sort of tentative conclusion, he hadn't RACE PREVIOUS IN BOSTON In Boston, of all places, I expected to find much of the old sentiment. It does not exist among some of the older men and women, but I was surprised at the general attitude which I encountered. It was one of her tation and I with trawl. Summed up, I think the feeling of the better class of people in Boston [and else where in Northern cities] might be thus stated: We have helped the Negro to liberty; we have helped to educate him; we have encouraged him to stay from his own feet. Now let's see what he can do for himself. After all he must survive or prash by his own efforts. In short, they have "rest the handling on the rocks." Though they still preserve the form of the outraging the Negro, the spirit seems to have it all. Not long ago the Negroes of Boston, annual concert at which Theodore Dancy, a colored musician of really notable accomplishments, was to appear. Artocratic white people were appealed to and bought a considerable number of tickets; but on the evening of the concert the large block of seats purchased by white people was consequently vacant. Northern white people would seem to be re interested in the distant southern Negro than in the Negro at their doe. Before I take up the cruder and more violent expressions of prejudice on the part of the lower class of white men in the North I want to show the beginnings of cold shilling as it exists in varying degrees in Northern cities, and especially in Boston, the old center of Boston. Superficially, at least, the Negro in Boston still enjoys the widest freedom; but after one gets down to real conditions he finds much complaint and alarm on the part of Negroes over growing restrictions Boston exercises no discrimination on the street cars, on railroads, or in theatres or other places of public gathering. The schools are absolutely free. A colored woman, Miss Maria Baldwin, is the principal of the Agassiz school of Cambridge, attended by 600 white children. I heard her spoken of in the highest terms by the white people. Eight Negro teachers, chosen the ordinary channels of competitive examination, teach in the public schools. There are Negro policemen, Negro firemen, Negro officeholders,—fully as many of them as the proportion o. Negro population would warrant. A]Negro has served as commander of a white post of the Grand Army. NUMBER 8 particular, have many white sheets. Dr. Coursey, a colored physician from the Harvard Medical school, was for a time home physician of the Boston Lungon Hospital, in which the patients were primarily all white, and he has now a practice which is called a home white and colored patients. Dr. Coursey has also served on the school board of Boston, an important elective office. The Negro poet, William stanley Braithwaite, whose father took a degree at Oxford, [England] is a member of the Author's Club of Boston. His poems have appeared in various magazines [often in the Century for last September] he has written a volume of poems, a standard anthology of Zazebian verse and he is about to publish a critical study of the works of William Dean Howells. Several of these men meet white people socially more or less. I give these examples to show the place occupied by the better and older class of Bison Negroes Most of those I have mentioned are mule tattoos, some very light It shows what intelligent Negroes can do for them lives in a community where there has been little or no prejudice against them. But with crowding new immigration, and meted by all other causes I have mentioned, these conditions are rapidly changing. A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston, refused Negro guests, now several hotels, restaurants, especially collectionery stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. The discrimination is not made openly; but a Negro who goes to such places is informal that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again. A strong prejudice exists against renting the small houses in many white neighborhoods to colored people. The Negro in Boston, as in other cities, is building up "quarters" which he occupies to the increasing exclusion of other classes of people. The great Negro center is now in the South Land, a locality once occupied by some of the most aristocratic families of Boston. And yet, as elsewhere, they struggle for the right to live where they please. A case in point is that of Mrs. Mattie A McAdoo, an educated colored woman, almost white, who has travelled abroad, and is a woman of refinement. She had a flat in an apartment house among white friends. One of the renters, a Southern woman, finding out that Mrs. McAdoo had colored blood, objected. The landlord refused to cancel Mrs. McAdoo's lease and the white woman left, but the next year Mrs. McAdoo found she could not rent her apartment. The landlord in this instance was the son of an abolitionist. He sailed to her; "You know I have no prejudice against colored people. I will rent you an apartment in the building where I myself live if you want it, but I can't let you into my other building, because the tenure object." An attempt was even made a year or so ago by white women to force Mrs. Baldwin, the colored school principal to whom I have referred, and he is allowed to the institution of Boston; to leave Franklin House, where she was living. No one incident, perhaps, awakened Boston to its strict of race prejudice more deeply than this. [ i b . minute ] HIGGINSVILLE, MISSOURI. I. L. W. Watt let here on last Wednesday, the Loth most, on a visit to Holt, Kau. Mr. Lou Lord of Slater, Mo. was in the city last week visiting her sister, Mrs Maggie Matthews. Rev. Chas. Calloway of Odessa, Mo. in passing through the city on last sat- urday stopped over to accompany his wife home, who had been visiting here several days with her sister, Mrs. Joseph Johns. THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. VOLUME X. JIM CROW IN THE NEW STATE! special to The Plaindealer from Muskoka The Jim Crow law is now in effect in the new state and from the locks of things, the best class of white people are displeased. They are opposed to the law and think it obnoxious and in injustice to the progressive element of colored people. W. II Twine and several leading lawyers of Muskogee have filed papers asking a restraint or injunction preventing the carrying out of the law from the fact that it is unconstitutional and not in keeping with the Enabling Act. Several thousand dollars has been raised to push it in the courts and several cases will be instituted on various grounds which will make it obnoxious as well as an annoyance to the general public The Indians to a great extent prefer riding with the colored people. A peculiar instance happeed the second day when the Indians were asked to go to the coach with the whites and they emphatically refused. The great trouble with the employees of the railroads who are supposed to enforce the law is there are so many people whose nationality cannot be distinguished that there are colored people riding in the chair cars and Indians and white people in the Jim Crow. On some of the roads a whole coach is given to colored people while on others the old-time Texas and Arkansas Jim Crow is followed to the letter. The Indian Territory is composed of thousands of wealthy colored people who own land and are drawing big royalties from oil and gas leases, and they declare that they will not stand for an thing that tends to degrade them, and there is quite a few who say that if nice coaches are provided with equal accommodations, such as chair cars and other conveniences, are given to white people, there would be no objection. The most peculiar thing about the Jim Crow laws, that the Negro land owner and his family have to rule Jim Crow, while his white tenant and family enjoy the comforts of nice charm cars, and all pay the same fare. We shall wait with time and patience for the outcome of this matter, believing that some day a judge will be found who will decide the case on facts instead of so many points of law. What is most needed now is justice, not law. COLORRD PEOPLE HONOR LINCOLN Topkoy Capital: Member of the Kansas Lincoln Day club, a colored organization of the state, held their annual meeting at the Metropolitan Hall Feb. 12, by way of celebrating the birthday anniversary of the emancipator of the race. Nawyer, president of the organization, urged the Negro to take an active hand in politics, in annual dues. The Rev F. Arlington Wilson, Kansas City, president of the Cornel Baptist convention of the state, spoke upon "Abraham Lincoln" in which he extended the character of the race whom he discussed. Several musical numbers given. After the principal exercises of the evening which were attended largely both locally and over the state, a banquet was held at which James H. Guy was toastmaster. Following were the officers elected; President, Corvine Patterson, Kaussa City; vice presidents by congressional districts, first, J. B. Fleming, Horton; second, R. B. McWilliams, Lawrence; third, Wm. Jackson, Columbus; fourth, A. J. Olmstead, Emporia; fifth, W. W. Shobe, Salina; six h. D. Hickman, Hill City; seventh, C. O. Smith, Hutchinson; eighth, Thos. Glover, Wichita; secretary, C. C. Lytle, Topeka; treasurer, W. W. Evans, Hutchinson; executive committee J. H. B. Taylor, John M. Wright, Fred Roundtree, W. W. Fisher, Nathaniel Sayer, M. G. Holloway, Benj James, James H. Tompkins and John B. Fleming. Mine Cenl Watts rendered a very pleasing vocal solo which delighted the audience. She formerly lived in this city but has been traveling a number of years with different theatrical companies. She traveled with Black Patty and her sweet, melodious voice won her many admirers. Corvine Patterson of Kansas City was elected president and is an excellent selection. He is most commissioner of his city, one of the most responsible positions held by any colored man in the West. He is a man of state wide reputation. C. C. Lytle, who was elected secretary, is marshal of the court of Topeka. He is courteous, polite and a thorough gentleman and will add strength to the club. J. H. B Taylor, the old war horse, is still chairman of the executive committee. He was one of the founders of the organization in 1901, when James A Page was president and J B Boss, secretary. Mr. Taylor has been the life and spirit of the club for several years. No day has been too stormy for Taylor to get out and "put the situation up to the boys" and get things in shape for the club's festivities. It is through Taylor that the bills are paid and the club feels that they cannot honor him too much. Nathamel Stayer, retiring president has been a great factor in the organization, and his work and influence has did much to bring the club up to its present standard. Bigbee's band rendered excellent music, and the club feels that they owe them a debt of gratitude. The banquet was one of the most successful in the club's history. It was served by Mrs. Slaughter, one of the best caterers in the city. Excellent music was furnished by Wilson's orchestra. "BILLY" SELLS! The Great Circus Man Passed Away in New York. The news that "Billy" Sells was dead was a shock to the entire city. Mr Sells was one of the most generous outhearted men that ever breathed the breath of life. He was a personal friend of the editor of this paper. No man who ever worked for Mr Sells but what want it to do again. A more fitting tribute could not be paid the dead showman than that of H. H. Tammons in the Denver Post, and who was associated with Mr Sells in the Sells Fargo Shows. The writer has heard Mr. Bell's relate the story of his great days abroad, and Mr. Panmen tells the story it central. Hey, "Billy" Sel praised "The lights are out make room; the cedar of the garden has been cut for one of the great men of his generation. His big heart and his baby brain have found peace at last. "The greatest bare back rider of his day, and one of the two surviving members of the great Sells circus family, died suddenly this morning in a rooming house at 153 West Thirty third street, New York His death is believed to have been due to acute gastritis, from which he had been suffering for several weeks. "Mrs. Mac Williams, landlady of [Continued on Page 3.] TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1908. The Color Line in the North! RAY STANWARD BAKER IN THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE. COST AND FROM LAST WEEK I from inquiries I have made, which in the North there would be no need, to be a tenancy to be considered among Negroes as among the old American white stock. It probably is this true among the better class Negroes. The ignorant Negro in southern agricultural district exceedingly prolific, but as Northern city brother has comparatively few children. I have saved the record from personal inquiry of personal inquiry of prospective friend Northern Negro families of the latter class. Many have no children at all, many have one or two, and the largest family I found [in Boston] was seven children. I found one Negro family in the South with 24 children. In his realism, of course, is not favorable to a large birth rate. All Northern cities, show a table surplus, according to the statistics of Negro women over Negro men. Many of these are house servants and, like the large class of young single men who do day labor on the streets and railroads, they are with out family ties and have no children. Dr. Furnist finds that the deaths of Negroes from tuberculosis constitute over half the deaths from that cause in the city of Indianapolis, whereas, in proportion to Negro population, they should constitute only one eighth. His observations upon these stalling facts are of great interest 'I believe the reason for these conditions is plain. First of all it is due to Negroes leaving the country and crowding to the larger cities, especially in the North, where they live in a climate totally different from that with which they have been familiar. They occupy unsanitary homes; they are frequently consulted to labor with insufficient food and clothing and without proper rest. Of necessity they follow the hardest and most exposed occupations in order to make a livelihood. I regret to say that intemperance and immorality play a part in making the figures what they are. They easily fall victim to the unusual vices of the city. "An thar reason for increased morality is improper medical attention. Not only among the ignorant but among the intellect we must omit trust put in patient medicines, the belief, I tent it is true in many cases, but still existing among the ignorant, in the hoodoo militants against the close following of the doct's orders. What shall we do about our asks Dr. Furnigs. We must urge those around us to meet personal and needs, us on a prochine line, and less dissipation and imbureance, we have for us more money for it. Tell the young people not to come to the North but to the small town of the West, where they can have a fair chance. Unless something is done to change existing conditions, to stop this movement to our Northern cities, to provide project habitations and surroundings for those who are already here, it will be only a question of time until the problem of the American Negro will reach a solution not at all desirable from our point of view." Of course a doctor always sees the pathological side of life and his view is likely to be pessimistic. say much to the tragedy of the slum Negroes in the cities of the North and yet many Negroes have been able to survive, many have learned how to live in town and are making a success of their lives. as I shall show more precisely in my next article. It must not be forgotten that Negroes long ago in Puerto Philadelphia [mostly inhabitors, it is true] as well as in Charleston Savannah and New Orleans have lived and thrived under city conditions for many generations. No few Negroes in Indiana, whose homes I visited are housed better than the average white families. Sickness among Negroes not only is the death rate high in the North, but the Negro is amped by sickness to a much greater degree than white people. Hospital records in Philadelphia show an excess of Negro patients over whites, according to population, of 125 per cent. About 5,000 Negroes passed through the hospitals in Philadelphia last year, averaging a confinement of three weeks each. Mr Warner, in American Charities, makes sickness the chief cause of poverty among colored people in New York, Boston New Haven and Baltimore. The percentage of sickness was twice or more as high as that of Germans, Irish or white Americans. Nch are the pains I read,u-nimely when the N procs are having to bear in the North. A question arises whther they can ever become a large factor of the population in Northern latitudes. They are certainly not boiling their own in the country or in the smaller cities, and in the large cities they are increasing at present, not by the birth rate but by constant immigration Hortile physical conditions of life in the North are not the only diff cultures that the Negro has to meet, we thought he left province behind in the south, but he finds it also showing its teeth here in the North And, as in the south, a wide difference is apparent between the attitude of the best class of white men and the lower class. One of the first things that struck me when I began studying race conditions in the North was the position on the better class of white people with regard to the Negro. In the South very white man and woman has a vigorous and vital opinion on the race question. You have only to apply the matter, the explosion is sure to follow. It is not so in the North. A few of the older people still preserve something of the war-time sentiment for the Negro, but the people one ordinarily meets don't know anything about the Negro, don't discuss him, and don't care about him. In India, policy, and indeed, in other areas, the only white people I endured who were made to reside in the Negro area were new people mostly of the low cast, a charity worker and they are. But it, I use, is equally true of the Russian Jews or the Indians. One of the first white men with whom I talked [at Indianapolis] will to me with some impatience: There are too many Negroes up Here; they hurt the city. Another told me of the increasing presence of Negroes in the parks, on the streets and in the street cars. He said: "I suppose sooner or later we shall have to adopt some of the restrictions of the South." He said it without beat, but as a sort of tentative conclusion he hadn't RACE PREJUDICE IN BOSTON In Boston of all places, I expected to find much of the old sentiment. It does not exist among some of the older men and women, but I was surprised at the general attitude which I encountered. It was one of hesitation and with trawl. Summed up, I think the feeling of the better class of people in Boston [and else where in Northern cities] might be but stated: We have helped the Negro to lib- ity; we have helped to educate him, we have encouraged him to stay on his own feet. Now let's see what he can do for himself. After all he must survive or pish by his own efforts. In short, they have "cause the banting on the rocks." Though they still preserve the form of encouraging the Negro, the spirit seems to have id. Not long ago the Negroes of Boston or a used concert at which Theodore Dury, a colored musician of really notable accomplishments, was to appear. Attractive white people were appealed to and bought a considerable number of tickets; but on the evening of the concert the large block of seats purchased by white people was conspicuously vacant. Northern white people would seem to be more interested in the distant southern Negro than in the Negro at their doe. Before I take up the cruder and more violent expressions of prejudice on the part of the lower class of white men in the North I want to show the beginnings of cold shading as it exists in varying degrees in Northern cities, and especially in Boston, the old center of Boston, superficially, at least, the Negro in Boston still enjoys the widest freedom; but after one goes down to real conditions he finds much complaint and alarm on the part of Negroes over growing restrictions Boston exercises no discrimination on the street cars, on railroads, or in theatres or other places of public gathering. The schools are absolutely free. A colored woman, Miss Maria Baldwin, is the principal of the Agassiz school of Cambridge, attended by too white children. I heard her spoken of in the highest terms by the white people. Eight Negro teachers, chosen the ordinary channels of competitive examination, teach in the public schools. There are Negro policemen, Negro firemen, Negro officeholders—fully as many of them as the proportion o. Negro population would warrant. A]Negro has served as commander of a white post of the Grand Army. Several prosperous Negro businessmen have won a large white patronage. One of the chief merchant tailoring stores of Boston, with a location on Washington's real whirrents for $10,000 a year is owned by J. H. Lewis. He has been in business for many years. He employs with white and Negro workmen and clerks, and he has so far the best white trade in Boston. Not long ago he went to North Carolina and bought the old plantation where his father was a slave, and he even talks of going there to spend his life. Another Negro, Gilbert H. Harris, produces the largest wig-making establishment in New England. He is now his place. He impersonates and his trade is excisable. Another Negro has a shop of pharmacy in which all its are white, another, Geo. Hamm, has a prosperous news and a literary store. A dentist Dr. Grant, who has a reputation in his profession for a cement which he invented, has merely in the faculty of the Harvard law school and now enjoys a good position among white people. The real estate dealer who has the most extensive business in Cambridge, H. Raymond, is a Negro. He employs white clerks and his business is chiefly with white people. Two or three Negro lawyers, Butler Wilson in NUMBER 8 particular, have many white cheats. Dr. Coursey, a colored physician from the Harvard Medical school, was for a time house physician of the Boston Lungon Hospital, in which the patients were practically all white, and he has now a practice which includes white and colored patients. Dr. Coursey has also served on the school board of Boston an important elective office. The Negro poet, William Stanley Braithwaite, whose father took a degree at Oxford, [England] is a member of the Author's Club of Boston. His poems have appeared in various magazines [one in the Century for last September] he has written a volume of poems, a standard anthology of L. zabethan verse and he is about to publish a critical study of the works of William Dean Howells. Several of these men meet white people socially more or less. I give these examples to show the place occupied by the better and older class of B on Negroes. Most of those I have mentioned are mulattoes some very light. It shows what intelligent Negroes can do for them lives in a community where there has been little or no prejudice against them. But with crowding new immigration, and incited by all other causes I have mentioned, these conditions are rapidly changing. A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston, refused Negro guests, now several hotels, restaurants, especially collectionery stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. Their scrimmation is not made openly; but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again. A strong prejudice exists against renting the small houses in many white neighborhoods to colored people. The Negro in Boston, as in other cities, is building up "quarters" which he occupies to the increasing exclusion of other classes of people. The great Negro center is now in the South Land, a locally once occupied by some of the most aristocratic families of Boston. And yet, as elsewhere, they struggle for the right to live where they please. A case in point is that of Mrs. Mattie A McAdoo, an educated colored woman, almost white, who has travelled abroad, and is a woman of refinement. She had a flat in an apartment house among white friends. One of the renters, a Southern woman, finding out that Mrs. McAdoo had colored blood, objected. The landlord refused to cancel Mrs. McAdoo's lease and the white woman left, but the next year Mrs. McAdoo found she could not rent her apartment. The landlord in this instance was the son of an abolitionist. He said to her: "You know I have no prejudice against colored people. I will rent you an apartment in the building where I myself live if you want it, but I can't let you into my other building, because the tenets object." An attempt was even made a year or so ago by white women to force Mrs. Baldam, the colored school principal to whom I have returned, and to whom I am the institution of Boston; to leave Franklin House, where she was living. No one incident, perhaps, awakened Boston to its place in the race. HIGGINSVILLE, MISSOURI. I. L. W. Watson left here on last Wednesday, the 12th in t., on a visit to Hole, Kan. Mr. Lou Lord of Slater, Mo., was in the city last week visiting her sister, Mrs. Maggie Matthews. Rev Chas. Calloway of Olssa in passing through the city on last Saturday stopped over to accompany his wife home, who had been visiting here several days with her sister, Mrs. Joseph John. Miss Ila Renderson of Excelsior Springs. Rev. Woodson of Topeka was here last week assisting in a revival meeting at the second Baptist church. Mr. Phillips of Joplin, Mo., has completed his house in the west part of At this writing there is a great deal of sickness here, town --- The Topeka Plaindealer $ ^{r} $ THE PLAINDEALER PUB., CO. 112 Foul Seventh Street NICK CHIFFS, Editor ABOLPH GRIPPIN, Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year by mail ... $1.50 In Months by mail ... $1.00 birds monthly by mail ... ... Battered at the Postoffice at Topkha as Second class Mail Matter FRIDAY FEB 21 1908 TOPEKA TURNS DOWN JIM CROW' "A play ground for white children only" was a proposed gift to the city of Topeka by Dr. Eva Harding and the Ramblers' club. The Topeka State Journal in commenting on the matter says "It is unfortunate that the fine, generous action of the Ramblers' Club in proposing to give the beautiful five acre wooded tract on West Sixth to the city for a children's park, is coupled with the impossible and impractical condition of excluding colorful children. The city council is sure to describe that it cannot accept the grant and maintain it for the plain and simple reason that the city council acts for all the citizens. A white man is no more a citizen than a colored man and the colored man is no more exempt from taxation to support parks than a white man. The property held by this city is as much the colored man's property as the white man's. The time for raising any foolish questions passed years ago and the council is certainly well enough to say quantitely and family "thin, no we can't consider anything like this" the question of own mother park for red children only" would not meet the situation either. We don't have any "him Crow" street cars in borough and we do not need to go to the expense of maintaining any "him Crow" parks. Let all the parks be for the pay and delight of all in appreciable and well behaved people." The Journal is correct and voices the sentiment of every loyal man, woman and child in the city. The matter was brought before the council Monday night and upon the refusal of Dr Harding to eliminate the word "white," every man in the council voted against the proposition. Dr. Harding then stated that she could run the thing herself, that they meant no harm in asking the colored tax-payers to assist in maintaining a play ground for white children. She then said that the Negro was given the ballot over them and that it was largely through the effort of white women that it was brought about. We will accept this as true, but they were far different from Dr. Harding. Such noble women as Harriett Beecher Stowe, Susan B. Anthony and many others would not countenance a Jim Crew proposition. It is to this class of women that the whole nation owes a debt of gratitude. They delivered a message of peace, and happiness to all creeds, colors and kinds, and their memories will be loved and cherished by whites and blacks as long as time last Dr. Harding is a woman perhaps 50 years of age and has never been married, yet she wants to discriminate against women who not only pay taxes but are furnishing children to play in the parks --- LOOKS DARK FOR PAFF Judging from a Washington special to the dailies, it looks as though someone else is in the running besides Mr Taft. It says, "Who's about it? Republican president nominee seems further from a lot than it did mo ther ago, and to the uncertainty is added the development that many of the districts in the band wagon country, who early thought they saw Taft in the band wagon are..." of the gains made anti-Taft forces. The net result of the few conventions already held are discouraging to the Taft men. In the Fourth district in Oklahoma the regular convention endorsed Taft, but did not instruct for him. In Florida, which had been counted in the Taft column, the office-holding faction found itself in the minority and was compelled to hold a separate convention. One delegation instructed for Taft and the other is uninstructed. The prospects are that all Southern states will present contesting delegations to the national convention. In Ohio, the Foraker-Dick faction refused to participate in the convention." LAST week Mrs. Laura Linton Lowe, editress of the Torch of Liberty, passed away at her home in Mound City, Kas. Mrs Lowe was one of God's nobl women, and her whole life has been spent for the uplift of humanity. She came to Kansas in the early days and taught school till about 15 years ago, when she and her husband became owners of the Torch. She taught Negro children when it was conside ed a crime by some, and her ready pen always pealed for justice and a square deal for the down trodden and oppressed blacks. The life of Mrs Laura Linton Lowe wasn't all filled with sunshine, neither was her path strewn with roses, but she bore her burdens in the way that God would have her. She has passed to a higher life, and the world is better on account of Laura Linton Lowe having lived in it. To the beloved husband and sisters, The PLAINDEVILER extends heartfelt sympathy IN A GREAT many cities exercises were held Ich, 14 in honor of the 91st birthday of theainted Fredrack Douglass, orator, statesman and leader of his race. Like Lincoln, he was a born leader and did as much for the cause of liberty as any man of his time. It was his powerful oratory and mighty pen that brought men and women to the cause of liberty from all sections Frederick Douglass was a bold and fearless leader and demanded every right for his people that is accorded others. Negroes everywhere should forever keep alive and cherish the name of Douglass. Till. talk of disbanding all Negro regiments in the United States Army brought forth a protest from Preston B. Plumb Post,G.A.R., of Emporia They passed strong resolutions against it and paid a glowing tribute to the valor of Negro soldiers We will have a special write up of the new state in our next issue. It will be of special interest to those who wish to invest money in a community where the returns will be three fold in a short while. ENCOURAGED by the best class of white people, Muskogee Negroes are ignoring the Jim Crow street car laws. Justice is bound to win, and since the decent whites and self-respecting colored people have joined hands, Oklahoma's Jim Crow car system will soon cease to be. the very Increment had provision to be rem dered high as coming at the V. M. J. which was pointed till the follow- ing a simple pastor of Gobson chapel which was called away to at the Gobson mah. He will Brooms like and sour, under the in- instruction of our very clever Misses Wilson and Ruthly, combine their pupils and render easy interesting and up- presented exercises. The auditors and unexpected snow storm lastly presented the account of several properly arranged stories for holidays voting. Mr. C. A. Wilburn will entertain the club Friday evening, Feb 21 at his home, 000 South Grant street. Mrs. Lucinda McCracken was a charming hostess to the Woman's Literary Club Wednesday, Feb. 12. The session opened with a roll call to which the members responded with quotations from Whittier. Favored quotation by Mrs. Nellie Edmondson. "It is well we can not see What the time shall be. The biography of Whittier was recordedly well read and made doubly interesting by the presentation of his picture to the club by Mrs. Ora V. Ford. Owing to the very late hour the program had to be omitted but the club enjoyed a very interesting talk by Mrs. Thomason of Fort Scott, Kan. Among the other invited guests were Mead James Pitcher, Ruther, E. C. Johnson, Thomason of Kansas Wam. Hightower. A debulous luncheon was served by the hostess. Club adjourned at 5:30 to meet again July 26th. WINFIELD, KANSAS Mrs G. W. Nichols, who has been on the sick list the past two weeks, is able to be out again. Rey Lums Hinson passed through last week on route to Perry, Ollam. Rey Hudson was on his return trip from Hannah. Mr where he went with the remains of Ray M. C. Gos, who died suddenly at Perry two weeks ago. Rey S. S. Henty prochet in Hilo radio last Sunday. Mrs Henry Franklin, who has been out sick, is much improved. Moses Ibrow and Dolly Loost spent Saturday and Sunday with their brother Lom, six miles north-east of town. They report a new visit. Mr Chad Brown has returned from Park Hill, where he spent several months visiting relatives and friends. He visited Chicago and other towns of not while in the visit. The Lusy does give a successful outcome out of the A M I church last thursday. R. W. Ward r the new pastor of the A M I Baptist church, writes that he will be here the first Sunday in Mahb. He comes highly recommended by the late residents. Mr and Mrs J. W. Ward were in Waltham last week. Mr. Wayne P. Larkin is much better after a short illness. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Latter have sold their residency property. They received some. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Latter have sold their residency to the railroad company, for which they received $1,000. He left for travel was a great man and a pretty girl that is enjoyed by all who attend. Mr. William A. Moore to Latter a well man in his own outfitting in the roads. She is certainly a well doer. The Wellington chapel is a cooler. She and her worthy assistants have grounded on praise. Mr. Lester holding very sweetly during the travel and her son shows for the manned toil. Pay finally will be sent to town all most well. The Ladies Art Society and with Mrs. G. H Robinson Kay N. Bandy preached at his church last Sunday. His next Sunday will be spent in Lilburn, Kan YALE. KANSAS. Mossi Arnbrough and Wells were shopping in Pittsburg Thursday Rev. L. W. Whatchad of army held services at the A M E. church Sunday. A Moor was a visitor in Pittsburg Sunday Saint Goo Gimmel visited the school of Prof J F Finley Tuesday and reported everything in good condition The parents should see that their children keep in school to avoid trouble under the truancy law. Prof. J F Finley is giving good sat stitution in his school work, thus being his fourth year with us. Hope the trustees will retain him another year Mrs. Finnia Upton travel Sunday from Sutter, Okla., and is the guest of her cousin Mrs. J H Arnbrough. Rev A J Rogers of the roke praoch at Mt Hebron Baptist church Sun day Mrs B. B. Jackson is rapidly recovering from an attack of pneumonia. Mr R. R. thawson has built a milk dairy and storm pit combined on his farm. The banport given by the Uniform Rank Monday evening was quite an outstanding affair. Announcements were highly spoken at by all who attended the company put on an exhibition dill commenced by by Capt R. Thomas. Mrs Emma Tipton hit Thursday for a visit with her unit Mrs Dibn Davies of Leavonworth. Mr S. Norwich returned Monday from Loth where he met in visitation. ST. JOHN. KANSAS The weather has been too dry to be probable most of the week. Mr. Gary Shepherd and Harriet Crawford were down from Dodge City, Iowa, visiting Honda. Mr. Walter White left Winslow to Dodge City. Mr. W. Thomas and son Chip were in Cleveland town to W. morning on business. Mr. Harrison and Monroe Lal sunny with their sister and Rita in Hays township. Mr. Sue Roberts on morning for mother in law Mr. P. P. Davis to the lat. the next week bout to play for Hutchison. Mrs. McAuliffe left for Hutchison. Mr. Common Hill return from all holls Thursday, where he is seen ringing to the last week. Mrs. Linda Dawson on the sick list We had a big snow Friday. Prof Baldley, Messrs Frank Wilson and I Norman of Topkaka were delegates to the VM MC convention hall in this city last week. The Blind Bone concert to played to a wolf house on last Wednesday evening at Rohmun's hall. The ladies of the VM I slowest board will have a special service on most Sunday afternoon at the VM I church. A time program is being at longue for the occasion. Baptist church on Sunday of last week. Mr. H. Roberts of Wellington was a visitor in our city last week. The Bachelor Club, command of the leading society young men of our city, gave one of their swell receptions for which they are noted and a valentine party on Friday evening, the 14th, at Young's hall. The hall was tastefully decorated in festivals of pink and white, the club colors. The dining hall was most elaborately decorated the table was beautiful in a drapery of pink and white fancy red hearts that with ribbons were at the plate of each guest as favors. A dainty three course luncheon carried out in the color scheme was served Mr. J. K. Whitted, the president, and Metsa Ora Taylor, Graufrey Jones. Thus an adorn. A. Thomas and Jas Mitchell composed the reception committee. WEIR, KANSAS. Mr J. P. Varbrough of Yale was in our city on the 12th. Mr H K. Jones went to Muskogee, Okla., on the 8th to visit his mother and sister and returned on the 12th. Mrs Lille Sanders, mother and five children arrived on the 15th from Oklahoma to make their home. Mrs H L here, was taken very sick on the 10th and is be host at this winting. Mrs Hille Dapon who has been sick is better. Mr H H plains of Pittsburg, Kans., has opened up a full line of grocery stores promptly delivered in the city or out of the city within five miles. One of the closest stores in the city. Come one and all to 304 West Main street. Mrs S. A. Kinneil district organizer of the W. H and I. M. was called to Coffeyville and will leave the city on the 10th on her mission. Bryan Dillard had a painful accident on Crow's No. 11 on the 10th by having his fingers on his left hand very badly mishandled and is disabled for work we don't know how long. But he is a member of the Orient which gives him 40 per week. There was a bank agent in her about two years ago and sold many books in a set for $40. The agent turned on the 11th and took them back except he allowed Bryan Dillard to keep his Mr Dag Tutter the noted hotel worker on the street on the 17th smoking and with old smells. He expects to open a morning house in Pitt but on the Third street are block in Monk Street. ALMA. KANSAS Rey W. W. Lunnel solves an useful result. With his com- mander the first bishop of china. The church has grown both spiritually and materially. It is living. It is important. The church is the home of of Rey W. W. Lunnel. Mr and Mrs Henry David M. L. land were visiting their brother A. h. thanks, Sunday. Mrs Ann Davis and attend Rev J. wing and Dawn G. Luna at dinner Wed. mday. Mr and Mrs F. Holland entertained Mr and Mrs Oliver Lucas Sunday at dinner. Mrs May Baird and Mrs Catherine Soppe son were visiting Mr and Mrs Simpson sunday BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS. The revival meeting at the A. M. F. church closed with five converts and two backpackers returned. Rev Pierce preached Sunday morning and night at the Baptist church Norman and Hunt are now located in their new shop on Main street their new shop on Main street Mrs. S. M Howard has purchased fine driving horse. In the absence of Rev Ross, Rev Lavender filled the pulpit Sunday morning and night. Mr. Henry Cox gave a birthday party last week in honor of her sister, Bindle Owens, who received many nice presents and those present report is good time. Mrs. Heward of Pittsburg is the guest of Mrs. Dawdy. Mr. Hopkins is improving his home on Military street. The A M F church is progressing nicely under the leadership of Rev Ross Blinde Boone will be in Columbus March 21st Rev Ross was already received complimentary tickets for himself and family. When you are in town and in need of Blacksmith work call on Gee, W Davies. He sure knows how to use the hammer and anvil. Wedding hello will soon be ringing. CLEARING SHOE - SALE $2.50 Values 98c 1234567890 A thousand pairs of Men's Women's Boy's and Girls' Shoes, Shippers and Oxford's ranging in values from $2 00 to $3 00 a pair sells here in this clearing sale at 98c a pair john 1 ELLET Henry Shoe Company 115 Warran Avenue. --- German American State Bank SOLICITS A SHARE OF YOUR PATRONAGE Directors: R. F. Hayden J. C. Dinnin Joseph Groll G. H. Godwin Oscar Bischoff J. B. Betts F. P. Matzger FRED. DREISBACH Groceries and Fresh Meats of all kinds. The Kiehl Laundry does the BEST work to be obtained in Topeka The service is PROMPT and the same courteous treatment is accorded everybody Once a patron always. C. T. HARRIS, Prop., 922]KAN4AS AVENUE BOTH PHONES 626 The Prudential Bank A PARTIAL LIST OF STOCKHOLDERS W W Male Thomas Page David G Page David Bowie F. D. Colburn Geo P Sutt J. B Lummer Arthur Copper Dr A S Andrews N H Looms G F Hayden W W Boyman P. M Bombray P E Chevrier Gay D Alms Jno R Mokai Joo V Abums J. W Going S O Hopkins W V Volkenburg I W Wo D F C B He August Zohoo A Solt F. C. Bavon 634 Kansas Avz. Topski, Kas. S. H. BROWN, Pros. H. C PACK Sec. REAL ESTATE CO., Baya and Sells Land in the Creek and Cherokee Nations. Farm and City Property. J B BATT'S V-Pres CIARENCE L KLINE, ABS'T CABIER German America SOLICITS A SHARE YOUR PAY Direct R. F. Hayden Oscar Bischoff J. C. Dinnin J. B. Be FRED. DR Groceries and of all Both '1 hote 201 The Kiehl does the BEST work that The service is PROMPT and ment is recorded every always. C. T. HARRIS, Prop. The Pender Solors Your Saving A PARTIAL LIST OF W W WILLE Thomas David Bowie F. D. D. J. B LATUMER Arthur G. N H LOOMS G F H. P. M BOWEN P J Clock Joe R MOLL Joo A. S o Hopkins W W J W WOOD D F A Woll 634 Kansas Av. S. H. BROWN, Prox. The B REAL EST Bays and Sells Land in the C Farm and City FARMS AND CITY 1034 WALNUT ST. RECOMMENDS President Neighbors of the Heartstone, Kansas City, Mo. Dear Neighbor. Your check for ten dollars for my recent illness just received by me and your business methods certainly please me. I am glad to know that the members of the Commonwealth are united with the neighbors the more there are together the stronger the order is. You can refer anyone to me in this section of the country, and I will recommend you for you have treated me right. Fraternity. Luna Bursis. A STATEMENT OF FACTS. In the Public The Kansas Watchman is carrying my name to editor. I am not now, and have not been for more than six months connected with any paper. I am not responsible for anything up pearing in the Watchman. J. H. Curtis, Kansas City, Kansas, Feb. 12, 1908 LOST RELATIVES North Jopeka, Kans, Jan'y 25th, 1908 — To the Public; Mrs Martha Britt wishes to find her nephews, Ben and John Turner—two brothers. When last heard of they lived near St. St. Joseph, Mo. with Martin Walk r. Anyone knowing their whereabouts, please inform Martha Britt, Rural Route 3, Box 17, North Jopeka, Kansas. F P. METZGER, Pres. OSCAR BISCHOFF, 2dV-Pres. American State Bank SHARE OF MATRONAGE Directors: Joseph Groff G H Godwin Jolts P P Metzger REISBACH, d Fresh Meats kinds KANAN, VENUH All Laundry to be obtained in Topeka and the same courteous treat- ybody. Once a patron 922 KANAS AVENUE BOTH PHONES 626 Mutual Bank Accounts. $1 will do STOCKHOLDERS Page David G. Page Robusta Geo P. Sutt Tupper Dr A. S. Anheuser Havden W W. Boyman Hesinger Gay D. Almus Alams J. W. Going W. Valkenburg C B Hc August Zohoe F. C. Bavon Topeka, Kas. H. C PACK See. Brown STATE CO., Creek and Cherokee Nations. City Property. ITY PROPERTY COFFEYVILLE, KAS WE INVITE Special Attention To the Following Exclusive Features of THE MATCHLESS LIGHT Good Service Steady Light Healthy Light Prompt Attention to Complaints TOPEKA EDISON GO., MIRROR OF THE MACHINE LIGHT EITHER PHONE 69 "Cheer up Booker Washington" Up to date SHLF FOALS Price 20 cents-stamps on silver. Let us Sing of Our Great Men Too. Apply to W. 14. HUFF, Athens, Ga., Box 50. AGENTS WANTED. Reliable men and women can secure the agency for the best sick, accident and death benefit insurance in America. Send for recommendations of members. Address Department 17. Neighbors of the Heartthstone, Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Harris, a dinnning car man, of Kansas City, was shaking hands with his friends in the city Sunday. Saint John A. M. E. church is preparing for a big building fund fair to start March 2. John Clark and R.B M'Williams two prosperous attorneys of Lawrence, transacted business in Tepka one day last week. Master Chas. Jackson, who underwent an operation at Christa hospital last week is getting along well, and will be out in a few weeks. "The Congo Queen" a musical comedy in three acts by Miss. Cecil Watts, was greeted by a huge audience at the Metropolitan Hall Friday night of last week. Miss Missouri Betting has been turned from Iowa City, where she had been at the bride of her sister, Mrs. Mary Gliese, who was seriously ill. --- The City Federation of Womens' clubs will meet Friday Feb. 28 at the usual place. All clubs must send representatives or they will be dropped from the roll.—M. B. Jordan, President; M. Oliver, Sec. Clarence Gray, aged 24 years, died at Christs hospital Saturday morning. His remains were jinterren in Ritchie cemetery Monday afternoon. This office is indebted to Mr Jeff Caldwell for two valuable maps presented by him one day this week. They are just what we needed and Bro. Caldwell has our thanks for same. Belmere Price, aged 10 month died Sunday morning at 720 Clay Street. Funeral was held from the residence Monday afternoon. Interment in Topeka cemetery. Mrs. Rosa Wilson, aged 69 years died on the 17th inst., at her residence, 111 Topoki Avenue. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon from her late residence Interment in the Topoki cemetery. Carol, the little 2 month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fisher died at the family home in Prince's addition on the 17th. The funeral was held Tuesday and interment in Riene cemetery. The boys of the V. M. C. A. have organized an orchestra of several pieces, and under the direction of H. G. Brown, they are progressing nicely. Mr. Brown is an old director and will make one of the best musical organizations in the city. Miss Evelyn P. Hickman arrived in Kansas Sunday from Louisville, ```markdown ``` the name of her mother is Frankfort, where loving him and tender care will nurse her back to health. Miss Hickman was employed as stenographer for the National Baptist Foreign Mission Board, and has not only served them with honor and credit to her self, but to Kansas, where she was born and educated. A host of As we go to press we leard of the death of our esteemed friend, Mr John Upnaw. Funeral Sunday at 2:30 at Shiloh Baptist church Richard High ower of 932 Spruce Street, met with a very painful accident one day this week. He was unticing a cow that had been "staked out" when the animal pulled up suddenly drawing the roap so tightly about his little finger that it was severed from the hand. He was taken to Keith's hospital where the injured member was dressed and he is doing fine. --- Among the February '03 class that graduated from the Topeka High school were five of our best young ladies: Misses Emma Ellene Cooper, Elizabeth Scott, Ota Perkins, Elizabeth Pennington and Eva Patterson. They ranked high in their studies, and we shall watch those girls with more than ordinary interest, as we expect them to accomplish much in the future. --- Miss Jennie Willis died at her home on Lane Street Saturday at 9 o'clock. She had been ailing a long time and everything known to human skill was done to restore her health without avail. She was a highly respected young lady, about 28 years of age and a conventious and devoted Christian. Her suffering is over and her soul is at peace with God who gave it. Funeral services were held Monday from the Shiloh Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. C G Fishbuck Interment in Rutile cemetery Mrs. L. H. Slaughter, the popular mullion, left Saturday of last week on Kansas City, wrote she will spend two weeks in one large wholesale milliners studying the forbons. Out of the several hundred ladies that go there from all sections of the country, Mrs. Slaughter is the only one of color. As a trimmer, her taste is excellent and she is considered by the who's salers to be one of the best and most apt milliners that visits Kansas City for instructions. She was accompanied by her sister, Mme Cecil Watts. Later—Since the foregoing was put in type, Mrs. Slaughter has been called home on account of the serious illness of her eldest daughter, Miss Josephene. Dr. Taylor and a specialist are in attendance. The Fleur de Lis club was royally entertained at the residence of Miss Minnie Nichols, 1000 Grand avenue, Wednesday. After a very delicious lunch was served and the subject, "Did the American Negro in the Nineteenth Century make Achievements along the Line of Wealth, Morality, etc., commensurate with his Opportunities? If so, What Achievements did He make? was discussed, and the club then adjourned to meet with Minn Ho fond at the residence of Mrs. Jennie Smith, 1101 Lane St. The Dumss club met last week with Miss B. Scot at 1203 Lane. After business a lovely luncheon was served. Adjourned to meet with Miss M. Bridshaw on Fourteenth street. --- The Ministerial League will give a concert for the benefit of the Shelldon kindergarten next Friday evening July 25th at the kindergarten locus corner of King and Lane on streets. There who have seen the program say it is well worth 45 cents but the price of admission is only 10 cents. The ministers are all going to put on aprons and serve refreshments. The Mothers' Congress is very much in need of funds to meet its obligations and we kindly ask and sincerely hope that the public will respond generously to this appeal. If you cannot come please buy a ticket and help the cause for it is a worthy one and also encourage the ministers in their "mandate of act." Class No. 11 of the St. John A. M. K. S. K. gave an indoor picnic last month after computer store of Miss Bessie Bennett in honor of Miss Emma Cooper, one of their members who recently graduated. The lunch was spread picnic fashion on the floor, and while justice was being done to the feast, toasts were given to the guest of honor. Those present were Miss Emma Cooper, Mrs R. H Wade, Misses Ara Hawkins, Hazel Barton Careta Edwards Bessie Bennett, visitors, Misses Lulu Odell Belle Novella Clark Oliver. --- A Young Negro's Success At College. The Inter-State Literary Society's prize winner in original music "Nocturne," composed and written by Mr. Clyde Andrews of Denver, Colo., a student attending Western University at Quindaro, has been published in high class sheet music form for the piano and organ, and is now being sold all over the western states by professors Albert Ross and R. G. Jackson of Western University. Every loyal Negro should back up this young man by purchasing a copy and thus prepare other young Negro pianists and composers to create a higher ideal in music for them than this degenerating, shakey up to a tragic music. I encourage those who reach up Married to any address at half price, by contacting today. Address: No. department Western University Post 725 Quindaro, Kansas A STATEMENT For the past two months my name has appeared in the OIored Womans' Magazine. It was placed there without first consulting me, and thinking it a nice thing for our women, I did not object but owing to the trend of customary I never my connections with the publication henceforth and forever. Those who patronized the magazine on my account I desire to thank them kindly. C M Houghton. the house where Mr. Sells was room ing, heard him groaning and on entering the room, discovered him in a semi conscious condition. When he ambulance surgeon arrived he said that Sells was beyond help. He died before he could be removed to a hospital. Every man who ever paid any attention to the circus business knew "Billy" Sells. "He was born with a circus, and from childhood knew no other life. Romeo Sebastian, one of the great rulers of thirty years ago, taught the youngster to ride and it was not long before the pupil outstripped the master, inventing new tricks which had never been seen inside the dust ring. 'Billy' Seals was the first man to mount a running horse by leaping from the ground and alighting on the animal's back. In 1890 I. F. Bamum, in take of his circus to London for the first time, selected "Billy" Sells as the representative American visitor. He was then a sleader, graceful lad of remarkable presence and ability. At this time it was said that young Sells was the most graceful man that ever stepped into the ring. "His London success was phenomenal and he was asked to ride before the queen and the royal family. This held and the male attenty of every English rider. On one occasion, when the Prince of Wales now king of England—was present one of the English riders put a suspense on the back of Sells' horse, as all of the roos which is usually used. When Sells went to mount on the thyme his feet slipped and he took a many fall. His spring to his feet, knocked the English riders on both over heels and stooping, just until most of them he shone no given time to remove the roos. This was lonely and he could peel his skin in a tempest of apples, in which the prince joined nearly." WLSTERN UNIVLRSITY Prof. W. W. I. Lasker, first agent, who has been quite ill, is considerably better at this writing, but yet a very sick man. Prof. G. Archer tuggg is all smiles. The first young professor on the campus arrived at his home Valentine day Mother and child doing nicely. The military band of Western university played for the annual sermon of the h. of P. of Kansas City last Sunday afternoon. The services were held at the First Baptist church and Dr. E. Arlington Wilson preached the sermon. The Lincoln day program of the Forum last Sunday afternoon was very interesting. Prof W. H. Harrison of Independence, Mo., Miss Minna Howell of Summer high school, Kansas City, Kan., and Mr. R. C. Wasson of Kansas University were the principal speakers. The Stonyton Jubilee Singers, with headquarters in Syracuse, N. Y., made up of noted colored vocalists from Fish University, filled an engagement in Kansas City last week under the management of the Lyceum Bureau. This buttress is composed entirely of the whites and handles famous lecturers, musical organizations, sanitators and college students of the nation to entertain and attract the people of north, east, south and west. These distinguished vocalists sang to the best Chattian people in the churches and lecture halls of the largest city. One of the best living opportunities to show the miraculous growth of Western University on and last week Miss Kate Guy the soprano of Western University was sign up at a lucrative job and all expenses paid is an unobtrusive study and should be Malone Downs the soprano of the Shirley Inkate Singers left Worthy with the com PUBLICATION NOTICE. No.24,888 In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. State of Kansas, Shawnee County. The State of Kansas to Harrison R. Kyle Greeting You are hereby notified that an action was begun by the above petition, Loren Keele, on the District Court of Shawnee County, Horseshoe County, on the 14th day of February, 1905, against you, in which and Loren Keele plays for displacement from you for the custody of your minor child, Harry Lewis Keele, for permanent alimony and for other equitable relief and you are further notorious unless you appear and answer petition on or before the 1st day of April, 1905, that all of the allegation of and petition will be taken true and judgment ordered in courtly Allen. R. L. PHOENIX, Clark Dist Court. (1011) Firm published in Public Star pany on their tour of Nebraska, North and South Dakota and Minnesota. The fact that Fish University has hitherto been recruiting this company shows what we have gained. Miss Guy's future is now assured, and Mr. D. A. Coons, the white Iycom Buran manager seems to be just as delighted as we are over his discovery. Miss Katie Guy sang a farewell selec- tion to the Kansas City people at Allen Chapel last Sunday evening in the pres- ence of other members of the Judelee Company and a crowded congregation, and remixed most charmingly. Monday morning at chapel she sang her farewell to the faculty and students, after four years of hard work and study under proof. Robert G. Jackson, director of music department. Miss Guy's house is in Sedalia, Ms. COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS The reminns of Mrs Hilda Minton were brought from Outhat, Soho, Saturday morning. The funeral was conducted by Kissel J. Pleasant of the A.M. Church. The Knights and Daughters of Labry gave a banquet at Williams' but I doubt they night. About 27 members and friends were down from Parsonse and in downstairs. A hall trips from Parsonse was the principal motto of the pro-gram. Dr F I A Dall has been sick a few days. He will be to be schooling on Women's day at the M M chair in Sunday under the date of Mrs. Ann Unter was a humourous spectre. The P I L I and A Club met with Mrs. Dr Whittier this week. The talks top at a brief time and claim that the clubate lunchroom saved them all trouble of having support at home. Harry Watts is recovering rapidly from the incident he met a few days ago. Mr. Chr. Campbell is very sick. Mr. Simpson has returned from the club with his son Henry. He is very ill. The house did not last him. Dr Caldwell was seen from India post on Monday and spat in the law. Pharmacist Wright of Paterson down Monday night. S1. JOSI PH. MISSOURI I took in Honour of Kansas City in the city on business last week. Mrs. James Mathws of Mason City sent in the city the guest of his sister Mrs. Jessica Mathws Mrs. Kearford will leave in a short time in Kansas City to give a course in tans training at Dodge hospital. Pay 1.00 Cabbell will send to Onsite last Wednesday where he deferred an address on Mason City before one of the Inaugural clubs of that city. Mr. Curtis Mathws government man instructed that he has on transferred to the land on the most important street in Mason City to Mr. Mathws was literally at all his man must be there. The latest news that I have received is that it was the ing report of the deceased that a white molested doe would bring them Stop being in the shop and go on and do the right thing by the robbed and taken the man does not disades the white man in continually trying to show his old style and infamous goods off on the Nero. A colored man working at Switt's packing plant had been missing the point of his lunch for several days. He complained to the superintendent of that department and was told that notting could be done about it. The colored man resolved to catch the thief and the next day "fused" a piece of pee and left his lunch in the usual place. The thief stole the pee on this day and suffice it to say the "fused" pleaded its work and everybody in the plant knew who the thief was. It was not one of the other workmen, but the only superintendent himself. He used every means to get the colored man discharged and in only tibid but came near being discharged himself by the general superintendent. A white man will steal anything from a "piece of pee" in a national bank. Prof. V. L. Walker, senior teacher in the high school here has resigned his position to accept the chair of pedagogy at Lincoln Institute, is now as his successor, can be appointed. Mr. Walker has been a member of the high school faculty for four years and is teacher on the force of teachers, tends higher in the estimation of the people than he is a graduate of the university on Nebraska and it schools and other institutes. Mr. Walker is a gentle man of quiet and unrising ways and is well liked by everyone. No one will feel has less more than the last eighty Study clubs of which he has been instructor for two years. He elegantly and himself to be member of the clubing with this regret his love of the unselfield but hard-timed in his new field of labor and similarly love that he work may be crowned with success. The club will present him with a volume of the complete works of the late The Sierra Leone club met wit Mrs. Ann Johnson last Tuesday at 8 Mrs. J. M. Brown, Mrs. Chas Walker and Mrs. M. W. Hodgson of Goldfield, New, were guests of the club. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Lucy Me Brown. Mrs. Lucy Gleod has been suffering from la gripe for the past two weeks. Mr. Lili Pine favored the large congregation at St Luke A. M. E. church Sun day evening with two very excellent vocal color. Mr. Rice and wife will leave this week to take up their residency in Alchison, Kau. The people of Lawrence give them up with much reluctance. They are as excellent couple and we wish them much success in their new home. ARE YOU INSURED? Or are you paying $100 per month for nothing? Most liberal sick, accident and death benefit policy for $100 per month. Every just claim and send for letters of Perfectly Planned Policy Holders the nurses wanted everywhere. Address NIGHTHOUSE OF THE HEARTHSTONE, Dust 12, Kansas City, Mo. 12,201 -ta ta -shrdt uemfwyp 9bgkq 9b Dr. W. Roger Russell DENTIST All Work Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction 924 Kalmstroth W. 721 TOLKRA KANKA When in Lawerence Stop at the Commercial HOTEL Grod A commotions WASH PORTER Prop 612 New Hampshire, Lawrence Photographs The office at my Studio is cheap, but the work for the highest class. Why pay such an enormous price when the same careful work can be situated on ONE HALF of your time? So you take me W. H. LOCAS, 1245 N. 100 PL. J. W. Voohie's Restauran I also carry a fine line of GROCERIES and MEATS. Give me a share of your trade. State Avenue. Kansas City. 8448 Home one of West Upn from 6 a.m to 10 a.m Latonia Cafe Fish of all kinds, Chicken, Porter House Steaks, Ice Cream, Cigars and Tobacco Most popular Restaurant in Kansas City. JACK FIELDS, Proprietor, 912 E.12th Kansas City, Mo Swellest Jewelry Store in Town Swellest Jewelry Store in Town Miss Addis, Has a nice line of Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Cut Glass and Silverware at greatly reduced prices 817 KANSAS AVLNUL. Dr. J. M. Jamison, Physician and Surgeon Assuming Physician of the State of Friedland A physician into information dissection of women and children dissection Officer and Health Officer 75 Mallinson Street 1011 KA KA Hours: 10 am to 6 pm O. A. Taylor, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Calls Answered Day and Night W. E. Jackson, Physician and Surgeon Office of the Kansas State Dependent Phonograph NOTICE A Grand Opportunity for the Negro to Buy Farm Lands and City Property in the New State of Oklahoma. A. S. McRea and M. A. Sorrell own REAL ESTATE and IAW OFFICE in the Negro). A. S. McRea is not only the leading but he is one among the ablest in the race. Mr. McRea also has a large Ivy at Muskogee, Okla. M. A. Sorrell, the well known and is working for the up-building and auction Sorrell is a native born citizen of the well qualified and in a position to protect people, who may want to buy, lease property in and around Vinita, Okla. We buy, sell, lease, or rent farm land loan you the money and insure your formation concerning farm lands and Sorrell, Vinita, Okla., Box 711. When in Vinita, call at and see us; office Sea and M. A. Sorrell owns and operates a state and law office in Vinita. Sea is not only the leading colored man among the ablest in the state of Florida also has a large law practice in Okla. Sorrell, the well known and trusted builder for the up-building and advancement of native born citizen of the Cherokee land and in a position to give reliable who may want to buy, lease, or rent in and around Vinita, Okla. Sorrell, lease, or rent farm lands and cites the money and insure your proper leasing farm lands and cities. Okla. Box 711. Vinita, call and see us; office in Roan A. S. McRea and M. A. Sorrell owns and operates the leading REAL ESTATE and LAW OFFICE in Vinita, Oklahoma (for the Negro). A. S. McRea is not only the leading colored lawyer in Vinita but he is one among the ablest in the State of Oklahoma of his race. Mr. McRea also has a large law practice with headquarters at Muskogee, Okla. M. A. Sorrell, the well known and trusted citizen of Vinita is working for the up-building and advancement of his race. Mr. Sorrell is a native born citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and is well qualified and in a position to give valuable information to as people, who may want to buy, lease, or rent farm lands or property in and around Vinita, Okla. We buy, sell, lease, or rent farm lands and city property. We will loan you the money and insure your property. For full information concerning farm lands and city property, write M. A. Sorrell, Vinita, Ckla, Box 714. When in Vinita, call and see us; office in Room A, Venter's Bldg COAL OF ALLKINDS A1 The Jackson-Walker Coal The Topola Coaling Station, Jackson-Walker Coal & Malt e Topola Coaling Station, 167 The Jackson-Walker Coal & Material Co., The Topola Coaling Station, 107 10as Ave Feature is the issue of tickets to our customers expensive tickets which we handle. and strike, when purchasing to our customers in many cities who are year and then exchange them for instantly adding to our stock, articles Dinner, Tea and Hott Set of 10 real description and numerous articles for or keep our prices uniform with the result given as an inducement for your pur- ply twenty percent discount. SAVE In Tea Co., NCH STORES IN PRINCIPAL C A Fea our business is the issue of tickets to our own in the most expensive tickets which is more or two pound article, when purchased. We have numerous customers in many cities in the entire year and then exchange article of value. We are constantly adding to our stock keepers' food: Dinner, Tea and Lollipop bumps of all descriptions and numerous in We aim to keep our prices uniform with those tickets we given as an inducement for equivalent to fully twenty percent discount. Grand Union Tea Co., BRANCH STORES IN PRIS A Feature that has been the issue of tickets to our customers and is due to be in the next express articles which we handle, so that we bring more or two pound attacks, when purchasing them or other goods. We have numerous customers in many cities who hold the tickets during the entire year and then exchange them for some needed article of value. We are constantly adding to our stock, articles that all housekeepers need: Dinner, Tea and Locket Sets of new shape and pattern, lamps of all descriptions and numerous articles for ornamental use. We want to keep our prices uniform with the retailers generally and those tickets we give as an inducement for your patronage, and we are equivalent to fully twenty percent discount. SAVE THE TICKETS Grand Union Tea Co., BRANCH STORES IN PRINCIPAL CITIES Kansas State Architectural Draughts and Electrical Engines T courses in both theory and practice to ensure advanced training in Drawing and Electrical Engineering. All modern elementary courses in the field of the opportunity to obtain instructive such as for institutes in the country. Designed for young men who want to the Architecture Drawing Course, to and who can do the work required in it. Every effort is being made to make the than ever better. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON DKEFGLE, INSTITUTE, AIA J. C. Tucker Pallithrix Parlor nas Ave. Top itectural Drawing Electrical Engineeri 704 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kas. Architectural Drawing and Electrical Engineering courses in both theory and practice to young Men are to ensure a direct instruction in Architectural Drawing and Electrical Engineering. Persons desiring to take advanced elementary courses in either of the subjects will find the opportunity to obtain instruction at Paskegie Institute, such as for institutes in the country often. There is a growing demand for young men who do themselves by completing the Architecture Drawing Course, to make plans for houses, and who can do the work required in Electrical Engineering. Every effort is being made to make these courses more helpful than ever before. in both theory and practice to to secure advanced instruction in and Electrical Engineering. Parsons de- partmentary courses in either of the unity to obtain instruction at Puske- institute one in the country office. The fifty young men who fit to live, he own a Drawing Course, to make plans to the work required in Electrical art being made to make those courses for DOKER T. WASHINGTON, Pr INSTITUTE, AIA Uckeree Krisel Parlor The Sc BOOKR T. WASHINGTON. Principal LISKEGLL INSTITUTE, ALA HAIR GOODS, HAIR OR NAMENTS, NEW POMPA- DOURS, SWITCHED AND POWDERED. MRS. M. L. FIEL), (1) KANDAJ AVENUE ```markdown ``` A N MORRIS Atorney Law Muskogee, Okla. ```markdown ``` M. A. NORRELL, Notry Path, Real Estate, Lease VINYL DIV. well owns and operates the leading OFFICE in Vinita, Oklahoma (for leading colored lawyer in Vinita in the state of Oklahoma of his age law practice with headquarters and truly citizen of Vinita and advancement of his race. Mr. of the Cherokee Nation, and is to give valuable information to buy, lease, or rent farm lands or Vinita, Okla. farm lands and city property. We ensure your property. For full indies and city property, write M. A office in Room 3, Venter's Bldg Coal & Material Co., station, 207 Texas Ave CHAS. J.SMITH ature is to act as a note of a letter which we handle, I said a letter according to the common disease, any cities who hold the tickets exchange them for some meet-1 our stock, articles that all house-let Sete of new shape and pattern, some articles for ornamental use, on with the realists generally in the event for your prionage, and are discount. SAVE THE LUCKY IS HUA DOUGLIES 1961-10-10, 106, 10-1-1701, Water Store C163-6-470, 071-705-1810 101-10-11-10, 10-1-1101-1901 PRINCIPAL CITIES Topeka. Kas. Drawing Engineering TE is now offering extended and practice to young Men instruction in Architectural ing. Persons desiring to take in other of the subjects will instruction at Packegrove Institute, country office. There is a grow- ing in lives, by completing re. to make plans for houses, and in Electrical Engineering make these courses more helpful HINGTON, Principal Kisel Bros., Husband and Lunch TOPEKA The Scott Cafe Short, Older and Lunch First Cass Me. is served at all Hours. Cigare, Tobacco and Soda Water W. M. SCOTT, Prop. a3 W Warren Lawrence Kas NEWHOME ```markdown ``` W. P. ROSE Fitz Alastair Ave. New Floor A. SIMS' POOL AND BILLIAN PARLOP Headquarters for all who wish a nice time. When Hutchinson calls on him. 406 SOUTH MAIN STREET Mrs. Fitz Smith went to Kansas on Sunday for a visit with her later. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Panels. The Hays Law Land Investment Co. Plantoff. vs C A Rose Kate G Rose and The Obrn, Monroe and Henkel Land Company, defendants. By virtue of an order of sale issued to me out of the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, I will on Monday, February 25th, AD 1905, at 10 o'clock am of saturday, at the east trinfloor of the Court House in Sopka, Shawnee County, Kansas, offer at public sale and sell to the highest and best buffer for cash in hand all of the allowed described real estate, to it — Lots Fourteen (14), Sixteen (16) and Lighteen (15) on Pennsylvania in Avenue in Highland Park Subdivision to the City of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. The above property is taken as the property of the said defendants G A Rose and Kate G Rose and is directed by and order of sale to be sold and will be sold according to law to satisfy and order of sale. J. M. WILKINS Sheriff of Shawnee County, Kansas By JONATHAN D. NORTON. Under Sheriff First published Jan. 24th In the Court of Popeka, City of Popeka, in Shrance County, Kansas. The Capital National Bank of Lopeka, Kansas, Plumrith, A. T. Downey, Defendant The above named defendant will take notice that he has been sued by the affidavit and court in the above titled action, that on the 10 January, A. D. and Court to the day of November A.D. ten per cent per cent and not other per cent do not by an act of Court that at the day of such A.D. and in the event of his failure to answer and defend in said case judgment will be taken against him for the aforesaid sum of money, with interest and costs, and for the sale of said attached property to satisfy said judgment and accruing costs. LEE MONROE & GEO. A. KLINE, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Attent F. L. O'NEIL, Clerk. First published January 31st, '05. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Mary J. Jones, Plaintiff. Amos A Jones Defendant D. Defendant Amos's d'nes is here by to the charge he is in, he'll be the D'r"s first 4 when the y, K's lost a day to end the tombs of a person at the in the d'tess and an an erually out of an open and and a lot of a time by the patient to be paid to the onr be- ing the 24 days of service, 1908 the first time as a person, and and he'll be at least ten B judgement under 14 year 4000 maintain it from the 14th Acts: MARY J. GENTLE Dr J. CARY, h. 841 Check D's: 1000 The OLIVER Typewriter ```markdown ``` Don't write mine writing by hand to him that may leave him in doubt that we certainly read local papers or out of town or hotel into my own writing. I rather on your standing wise people think you can't afford a on graphic. I is sometimes ambiguous. You can write your letters make out on a strict fall in his man's policy enter your and notice make out your counts, or a hotel man or do any kind of writing you need, on any kind, or on the knives of paper, and spice any way you want on You can write any of these things yourself if you do not happen to have a stenographer. For you can easily learn with a helpful practice, to write just as rapidly, and as perfectly as an expert opener or on the OLVIDR because the OLVIDR is the simplified typewriter. When you are ever wired you with. About 50 per cent more durable than any other typewriter because it has about 50 per cent more ports than most other typewriter. Lightly portable easier to write with than these other compilations, intricate machines that require "humming" sound of a whistle, long point and skill to operate. Then in times which can not be ad- mitted to any special space, with which it is impossible to write districts, most mine points on old size documents or to have a responsive special attachment not requiring expels to operate. We are obliged to the OLMR to any responsible place you can write on any mine points and thickness of paper, right out to the edge without the the OLMR to move attachment or spat of mail and work will be not up penning, legible and clear. In the OLMR is the typewriter or the doctor, the lawyer, the insurance wizard, the matron of the total population a man who does his own writing. Write us as we can look at the contents of the OLMR. REUTER'S Shoe Repair Factory KANSAS AVIATION TOPPER KANSAS FORD'S HAIR POMAGE former owner of "OZORIZED OX MARROW" A STRAIGHTLY RINKY OR CIRCLE HARVEY and refuse all others. Full direct mail will every bottle Free only 50 cts. Build by drugglues and dealers. If your druglues or guilds can not supply you, he can get it and send them to our stockroom or mail or $1.40 for three bottles or $5.00 for six be- lief express paid. We pay because and express charges to all joints in U. B. A. When order is sent journal or express money order and written named this paper. Write your name and address plainly to The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charlie Ford Pud 153 E. KINZIE ST., CHICAGO, IL. Agents wanted everywhere. ORGANIZED IN 1888 OLDEST NATIONAL BANK IN TOPAKA 3078. The Central National B U.S. DEPOSITARY. National Bank BIBLIARY. Paid up Capital $150,000. J R BURROW, Pros. E E AM F C THOMPSON, Assistant Cashier E E AMES Cashier arrant Cashier J R BERROW, Pros E E AMES Cashier F C THOMPSON, Assistant Cashier Cet the Spending Habit And it Will keep You Poor and Make you a Slave to your Empire What same argument can you give about the Open a savings account somewhere to start it, and if you want to bring Back county? THE STATE SAVING BANK S. W. Cor., SIXTH AND KANSAS AVENUE Deposit, #1,100,000.00 Gallion Reserve Open Every Evening from 11:00 to 12:00 To pay an account with your name in a teller box, you must deposit your account at A. A. GOPARD P. L. W. W. L. W. E. L. Vice President e to your Employer LIVING BANK D KANSAS AVE. Bldg. 100 Rd. 130, 011 Encl. 114 in a card and the travel to get you mills and to get you mills LAWERAL, Home Vice President and Make you a Slave to your Employer What same argument can you give speaking all you must Open a savings account where it is your start it, and if you want saving Bank county THE STATE SAVING BANK S. W. Cor., SIXTH AND KANSAS AVE. Deposit, $1,100,000.00 Gallion Rsvr 1312,011 Open Every Evening from 11:00 to 11:30 To permit account with your name and card and the teller业务 It is necessary to get your money out of the account per cent, commensal for service of your account A. A. GOPARD P. In W. L. WERPAL, JOHN E. L. GOPELAND, Vice President J. P. 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We never sleep Three License Limit almurs in attendance The Knights and Ladies of the Orient. FRATERNAL BENEFICIARY WILL ISSUE YOUR POLICIES FOR YOURSELF AND CHILDREN PAYING PARTIAL LIFE, SICK UNERAL AND DEATH BENEFITS. IN CASE OF DEATH No home loving man can afford to be without LIFE INSURANCE THE KNIGHTS and LADIES of the ORKNEY rized by the laws of the State of Kansas, and if under the sup of Insurance of Kansas. Its officers are bonded in. Sur Company. LIBERAL TERMS TO AGENTS. F. r information Address: National headquarters. --- 221 FRANCIS STREET FRED. M. STONE STREET The ```markdown ``` ST. JOSEPH, MO S. SORTER.