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TOPEKA PLAINDEALER --- Historical Society State House Colored Men are Not W OKLAHOMA'S ATROCIO Anadarko Adds Another barity Upon the State Meet Fire Wit OKLAHOMA'S ATROCIOUS CRIME Anadarko Adds Another Blot of Barbarity Upon the State----Blacks Must Meet Fire With Fire. Fifteenth Year. No. 25. The lynching and burning of a colored boy at Anadarko, Okla, Friday of last week is another outrage staged by these savage outlaws. We still believe that the people who can't get fair play in the courts and the officers are lax in their duty, then they would be justified in raising up in all their might and strike the blow if it destroys all the property and lives to bring about justice and fair play, but in this case, where the white man has shoot, judge and jury besides making the laws, it is a burning shame. No community that tolerates such outrages should be permitted to stand. Where there is no law the people fall, says the proverb, so let us meet fire with fire. If one crowd can lynch and burn human beings, why cant another crowd burn and destroy the property of these same people that participated in the crime. When the law is powerless, let the people act. No city or town should be allowed to exist on such a reputation. Sodom and Ge morah fell for just such acts. Get guns, shoot into these mobs. They can be stopped if the officers and court so desired. As long as Oklahoma permits such thugs and thieves to run the state, so long will she be the dumping ground for criminals. No decent progressive citizens in any great number will locate within her borders. People will not settle where mob rule predominates. How long will this condition of affairs be allowed to continue? It is the courts of the country that are responsible for these outrages. As soon as they decide that the law shall apply to all alike, then will the colored man become a citizen. We look for the solution through the Japanese controversy. They will not stand the white man's abuse, nor will they stand for anything less than a man's chance—the same that is demanded and received by those of other races, so the colored man is awakening to this and MUST sooner or later come into his rights. Now when the scrapings of the white race can get first-class treatment on railroad trains, how under high Heaven can a decent, respectable, educated colored man, who pays the same fare be expected to submit to anything less than that accorded to other man? Mr. Green, Supreme Chancellor of the K of P. lodge, who was recently taken from a railroad train and mistreated because he choose to ride as a man, should bring suit for damages in the federal court against the railroad company for failure to protect him in his rights. The conductor caused all of the trouble by telegraphing ahead and the company should be made assist the sheriff and other officials in paying off for his being so fresh. If Mr. Green fails to take action in this matter he should FAIL TO RECEIVE THE SYMPATHY OF THE PEOPLE and be dubbed a COWARD AND UNFIT FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF LAWABIDING AND LIBERTY-LOVING PEOPLE. Green should get busy and that very FAST if he desires the REPEQ OF THE DIGNIFIED, LIBERTY-LOVING RESPECTABLE CITIZENS OF THE COUNTRY. NEGROES CHARGED WITH RIOTING ARE SET FREE The threatened race plot at Delaware, Okla, which occupied the public attention the middle of last month had its closing scene Friday afternoon in the county court, when County Judge Gilluly fired six of the eight Negro defendants charged with plotting on the night of an attempted assault on a white woman by a Negro near there. A Negro by the name of Fields attempted an assault on Mrs. Perry Ballentine on the afternoon of May 15. In an hour after the crime was committed a large party of white men started out to capture the Negro. In the meantime some party telephoned Frank Fields of Lenepah, a brother of the fugitive Negro, that the white people were going to lynch his brother. Following alleged telephone conversation Jess Daniels, Wash Rowe, Tom Carson, Rex Buffington, Sam Brown, and Ben Taylor, after arming themselves, went to Delaware, where theoting is said to have occurred. Emma Allwell and Mary Hicks, of Delaware, were included in those tried. The state granted Sam Brown immunity, the case against him was dismissed and he was called to the stand as the first witness for the state. He told how the party had merely organized to "force the law," and that none of the members so far as he knew fired a shot from their guns. On cross examination Attorney Bett Van Leuven, who appeared for the defendants brought out the fact that with the possible exception of Daniels and Fields, none of the defendants were anywhere near the Ballentine farm when the rioting occurred. Deputy Wade Kivett told of finding Daniels in a barn after he was wounded and also told of the shooting which occurred at the Ballentine farm. He said that he did not see any Negroes at the place of the shooting and estimated the crowd of white men at 75. C. P. Martin, a banker of Delaware, told of the shooting and said that he saw but one Negro and that there was a large crowd of white men engaged in shooting. Mr. Martin also told of the scene on the streets when an attempt was made by the mob to take Daniels. Perry Ballentine told of shooting Jess Daniels after the colored man had made an attempt on his life in a field near the Ballentine home, and it was on his evidence that the judge decided to hold Fields and Daniels on another charge. The state called thirty witnesses and it was late in the afternoon before the arguments were started At tney Van Leuven argued the case for the defendants and laid special stress upon the fact that the testimony of Sam Brown, which was undisputed, was enough in itself to acquit the defendants. RACE GLEANINGS Washington, D. C.—Robert A. Prather, of Little Rock, Ath, has reached here with the long-looked for petition signed by more than 8,000 white railway mail clerks, asking an order segregating white and colored clerks in the railway mail service. The petition says that from fifteen to twenty clerks work in the same car; that the white clerks are often outnumbered by Negroes, sometimes subject to their authority, and on long runs, have to share sleeping quarters with them. Postmaster General Burleson, to whom the immortal document was presented, has promised to take the matter under consideration. Barked Up the Wrong Tree. Newark, N. J., June 6.—When a prominent addition to this city was placed on the market not long since, the announcement was made that the property would not be sold to colored people nor to Italians. Insofar as the Negroes were concerned, the announcement was not unusual and they offered no protest, but it was different with the Italians and they immediately notified the Italian embassy at Washington. The representatives of the Italian government took the matter up with the State Department and within a few days the attention was called to the matter and the protest. The governor gave his assurance that the matter would be investigated Worthy the Saving. Chicago, May 16—The practice of Joe Hudson, a Negro janitor of the Board of Trade, of saving letters tossed into waste baskets of members and officials, may win $2,500,000 for Charles H. Baker, a son of the late William T Baker, at one time presi- TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING JUNE 20, 1913. dent of the Board of Trade. The son was remembered in the father's will, which, among other properties, disposed of profits from water power enterprises in Seattle and Tacoma, Wash. The plaintiff claims that he was his father's partner in these projects and that the $2,500,000 which he avers was his share should be paid him from the estate separately regardless of his share in the remainder of the estate. The letters which the janitor has saved for many years are said to show that the father regarded his business relations with his son as a partnership. Worth Consideration There are 92,000,000 people in Uncle Sam's domain—10,000,000 Negroes and 12,000,000 foreigners, and these people are different in ideas from the real American. This country has more to fear at the hands of the foreigners than that of making discriminating laws against the Negro. Should war be between these governments it would be an easy matter to muster a startling army of enemies, subjects right here in our door. This country could not be safe in enlisting them in her armies or navy either. The Negro has been the standard bearer of the white man, having home his burden in the Revolutionary war. He saved the day on San Juan Heights, and waded through blood for him. Could people be just or a lover of the human family and make such laws that tend to down one who has ever been his friend and neighbor? This government cannot hope to reach the level with other nations of the earth when she lets a few race haters agitate and cause laws to be made to down one and raise another. Merit should win. Let the white man, the Negro, the Japanese, chinaman and all people run in this great commercial race and on the same level, and the one who gets to the end first, let him wear the crown. China enclosed herself by building a wall around herself. She was self-righteous; she had 1,000 years of civilization, and behold the wall is now broken and China's condition is greater than that of Rip Van Winkle. No people can evalt themselves and debase others and still move upwards. —Ennis Cimeter. As all patriotic citizens we are wont to give special praise to our schools, but in the fellowship of general appreciation we must notice and laud the exceptional in others. While in Muskogee, Okla., very recently it was my pleasure to spend some time in our Muskogee Manual Training High school, visiting both its literary and applied science departments. The work done in all departments speaks pages of praise for both the pupils and instructors; and indeed, they have thoroughly competent instructors. I found great interest manifested in Mr. H. V. Williams' classes in biology; he, through his great capacity for work and his insistence upon thoroughness, seems to instill into the young people a pure and interesting conception of his subject, as well as cultivate in them qualities that shall armour them against the fusillading of practical life. Mr. Williams, it will be remembered, is one of our Kuasas University graduates. Domestic science for the girls and manual training for the boys are given special attention with good results. Though contrary to a report circulated in a prominent Muskogee paper, and reprinted in the Kansas City Star, I found many of the young lady graduates of the previous year teaching in ward schools, instead of "employed as cooks at $7 a week," as they asserted. Mr. J. T. Smith, another Kansas University graduate, is principal of the Douglass school) at Muskogee. His reports for the closing school year are very commendatory. —"Cotrespondent." MAPLE HILL, NANSAS. Mrs. E. Davis was in a runaway last Saturday and was thrown out of the vehicle and her knee was badly trained. Richard Wallace and cousin spent Sunday in Manhattan. A number from McFarland attended the dance here recently. Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson spent the latter part of the work in Topocha, the guests of Miss Gildie Duke. Miss Geetrude Officer and sister, Olhe, were callers here Thursday. Mrs. Eater of Eshridge was the guest of Mrs. E. Davis the last of the week. John Wallace has blood poisoning in his left hand, but is getting along nicely. Jefferson Stanley was up from Topeka and spent Wednesday with home folks. Marion Wallace was called to Kansas City, Mo, on account of the illness of his father. DR. SAMPSON'S ACHIEVEMENT DR. SAMPSON'S ACHIEVEMENT --- The great work which has been carried on by the Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, pastor of the St. Paul A. M. E. church, St. Louis, Mo, deserves great commendation. We think a man with such rate ability should be at the head of this great Christian organization and we want it distinctly understood that The Plaindealer is in favor of making him a bishop in the A. M. E. church, and every loyal Christian, layman, minister and bishop should vote with that intention at the next General Conference. When a minister can raise $25,000 within two years and $7,541.15 within three months, he certainly is a hummer. To do this one must have great personality, along with business sagacity and plenty of vim and push. His equal has not been found on earth, beneath the earth or above the earth. This great church has been grooming under the burden of debt for nearly a half century, and at least for the last quarter of a century, and there have been several ministers sent there to reduce the debt, but instead of a reduction, the debt kept increasing, to such an extent that in forty years they have paid out about $50,000 in interest. This is a mistake that is so often made among our people. There is no reason why a well organized church should be burdened with debt from one year to the other, and constantly increasing, instead of decreasing, and would not be if the money was properly invested. We are told that Rev. Brooks will burn the mortgage on his church next August, the balance being $2,000,000. Let every one in the North, South, East and West sing praises to Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, who is the hero of the day in church work, and who is surpassed by no minister of the race of any denomination, and has but few equals among the wind. Now let the members of the A. M. E. church, laymen and bisops lay aside all personal feeling and elect him to the bishopric at the next General Conference, and The Plaindealer will always be found fighting the battle of such men. The great trouble with our people is when a man like Rev. Brooks makes good they let petty foggers pull them down. He has reached the top round of the ladder in church work and there is nothing else to do but give him the highest honor in the gift of the church. His reputation as a pulpit orator cannot be surpassed and when he speaks he draws all men unto him. His faithful officers and members deserve much credit for rallying to the support of their leader, and here we must say that there is no church organization, where the officers and members will refuse to rally to the support of their minister if he is the right leader. There are plenty of ministers with gift of gab and display of dress, but short on business ideas and usually manage to misappropriate the funds intrusted with them, and the sooner they take up the policy carried out by Rev. Brooks the sooner they will have faithful followers and get the right start on the road to success. The following is a clipping from the Central Afro-American on the great work of Rev. W. Sampson Brooks; St. Paul's Financial Achievement. The great seven thousand dollar rally, which has just been successfully closed at St. Paul Chapel, and which has resulted in the raising of $7,544.15 in the space of three months' time, is perhaps the most striking evidence of the power of organizations that has ever been witnessed in St. Louis or any other city. Dr. W. Sampson Brooks, the pastor of St. Paul, needs no introduction to the St. Louis public, for he has been making himself known with a vengeance since his first coming to St. Paul as it pastor. Aside from being a finished schl and brilliant orator, a convincing gleaner of souls for Christ, the world must also bow in recognition to his unequaled ability as financier. Only last year this man completed a rally which netted the church $5,029.41, and when the news was flashed around the world of this accomplishment, people sat in open-mouthed wonder and stared at the bold black newspaper headlines, which told them that a record had been established. When this same people read of this latter conquest where in three months at the time of the year when money is supposed to be scarce, this same W. Sampson Brooks has completed a rally in which almost $8,000 in cash has been raised, we of St. Louis who have leaned to love him and to feel that we should claim him as our own, are silenced with fear and trembling last he be taken from us here; for if ever a city needed such a leader it is St. Louis and her 60,000 colored people. The rally which has just closed, was carried on under the Mock Conference system; the different conferences with their bishops and the amounts raised are as follows: Nightingale, Victor Pearson, $617.10; Matter of Fact, W. C. Gordon, $1,60.10; Earthquake, R. E. Cutter, $1,079.30; Little Kid, Q W. Bell, $957.39; Paupers, T. A. Marshall, $1,01.12; Shipwreck, W. L. Hartgraves, $961.91; Turnout, Dr. D. W. Scott, $826.24; Rough Riders, Jas. L. Haley, $797.75; Mothers Home University, Victoria Clay-Haley, president of university, $171.53; the local preachers, $31; the ushers, $11; Mrs. D. T. Cottman, $5.00. The reports are not yet all in and it is predicted that the amount which at present totals $7,541.15, will teach the hand-one sum of $8,000.00. The balance of the debt was $9,000 when the present rally was entered and with the money on hand it will still take fully $2,000 to finish up all outstanding obligations. The members and friends of St. Paul Chapel have much to be thankful for, as almost every church in the city is in the midst of a rally. Those who worked so faithfully in behalf of St. Paul will not forget the persons of other denominations who aided them and it is the consensus of reason that the broad spirit of giving will still be rife until some other house of worship crying for deliverance will shout: "Free at Last!" THE N. B. S. S. CONGRESS The National Baptist Sunday School Congress convened this year at Muskogee. There were more than four hundred delegates in attendance, representing all of the greater Baptist Sunday schools. A chartered can brought the Austin, Texas, delegation, and the Tennessee association came on a special train, while many other southern states had large representations. A number of the delegates were in Muskogee for the first time, and being surprised and interested in the remarkable business showing that the Negroes of that city make they devoted no little time to visiting, but, according to schedule, the delegates were called to order in the Convection hall on the 5th, Thursday morning, to be in business and executive session until the 9th. Excepting the confusion of committeemen in the corridors and the uncertainties that seemed to beset visitors in the matter of the proper time to enter and leave, the order of business and entertainment was admirably carried out. The programs rendered in general assembly were exemplary and the performers merit the highest praise, for they labored under very trying circumstances, the first few days of the meeting being among the hottest we have had this season. The trend of the Congress was not so much toward seeking the inspirational side as toward the more fundamental thought of how to be more effective among the people. This is the more practical side of religious endeavor and the principle that can be counted upon to bring a glorious fruition. Do not understand that we deserve the inspirational in religious teaching or that we place it in a light of least importance, for now, as in the beginning, this is a place that is never to be lessened without a serious columny and a concurrent demonstration of the intent of Biblical teaching. But on the question of bringing the importance and necessity of the beliefs to bear upon the Price $1.50 Per Year. neutral and non-believing soul, we must be able to produce something more tangible to this practical mind. In this respect the National Baptist Sunday Schol Congress stands preeminently abreast of the times, and no less a defender of all the truth and teachings of Him who rules over all. Sunday afternoon, the 8th, there was no general assembly; the various committees met at separate churches to go through the regular business routine. The Congress closed Monday, though many of the delegates were still in the city Monday night. Rev. E. A. Wilson, formerly of this city, now pastor of the First Baptist church of Muskogee, was on hand and was easily one of the most popular preachers present, being well known because of his work in the National Baptist Convention. He is much more highly appreciated there than when he was in Kansas City. GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA Hon. G. W. P. Brown of Muskogee, was in the city last week. The colored people started a three-day emancipation celebration Thursday. Prof. G H. Jones and family of Langston University, passed through the city last Saturday en route to Pennsylvania to spend the summer. The International Order of Twelve had their annual services Sunday at the city hall. Mr. S. J. Pavor was a business visitor in the city Tuesday. Mr. Sam Brooks of Meridian was in the city Saturday. Miss Laura Edwards who has been teaching at Wichita, Kas, returned home last Saturday to spend the vacation with home folk. Miss Edwards has been re-elected for another term. Prof. Bailey of Langston was in the city Monday. Misses Henderson and Perry left last Saturday for Chicago to spend the summer. Rev. Teombs has returned from a trip to Oklahoma City and Luther. Miss Lallian Rector has gone to Emporia, Kansas, to attend the State Normal. Mrs. Della Stewart of Lockhart, Texas, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Isham of Ripley, was in the city Monday on business. Prof. W. E. Henderson has returned from a trip to Kansas City. Miss Bessie Pierson of Kansas City, Mo. is in the city for a short stay. Prof. Carry and Scales spent Sunday in the city with their families. Mr. Thomas Calloway of Cincinnati spent a few days in the city recently. EMPORIA, KANSAS Mr. Orlando Flowers, who has been seriously sick, is greatly improved at this writing. Miss Cassie Fleming, accompanied by Miss Bonetta Stafford, has returned to her home at Colorado Springs, Colo., having attended school here the past year. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Phil Lucas a fine baby boy. Mother and child are doing nicely. Mrs. Chas. Groves and baby, Victoria, of Kansas City, are visiting in the city, guest of relatives and friends. Miss Mary and Mattle Coleman have returned from Oklahoma where they have been teaching the past year. The many friends of Mrs. Hattie Gayden will be pained to hear of her death which occurred Sunday, June 15th. The body was taken to Dunlap for burial. The services were conducted by Rev. Wm. Alford of the St. James Baptist church of this city. Mrs. Gayden leaves to mourn her loss a husband, father, several brothers and sisters and a host of friends. Peace to her ashes. Mrs. L. H Smith and daughter, Edna, attended the funeral of Mrs. Hattie Gayden which was held June 16. at Dunlap. Mrs. Win Andrews delightfully entertained at six o'clock dinner Wednesday, June 18, in honor of her sister, Mrs. Chas Groves, of Kansas City, and Mrs. Harold of Neosho Fall, Kansas. Mrs. Curtis Faw and Mrs. A Evans have gone as delegates to Lawrence to attend the State Federation of Colored Women's club. Mrs. Porter of Michison visited a few days in ur city last week with friends. When Sheffield Ingalls learns as much as he now thinks he knows he will know that he is not the only pebble on the beach. --- When a court decides that a man is dead and that indiviull stands in life before that august tribunal to defy the decision it must be a trying time for the court. --- A Kansas gentleman is likely to be found with his fingers in the barrel of the sugar trust. He may get a chance to lick off the "grains" but some of the sweetness will remain. --- If a man should be declared legally dead by a court and said man should prove alive and should be brought before that same court for trial we would like to know the nature of the sentence said court would pronounce upon him if found guilty. --- Those southern "crackers" on the reporters' staff of the Journal and Capital keep busy using that ugly and insulting word, "darky". Let them keep this up and then watch the circulation of these great dailies grow among the colored people! --- All the states that have no provision for a Negro national guard can expect no Negroes to volunteer for service should war arise. And Gun Leonard Wood, head of the army, says it is coming. Others know it, but won't say it. Better get right. The Negro has saved the "bacon" once on twice and may again. --- There is but two cents worth of difference between public opinion and prejudice. Many a man has been sent to prison on public opinion or prejudice who was guilty of no crime, while many more guilty of worse crimes than the poor "cuss" was charged with, go free on the same ground. --- There are in Topeka hard-praying church members who would shout more over the death of a certain young man than they would at the second coming of the Lord Jesus. When churches are filled up with such contemptible hypocrites as these nothing good can be expected to eminate from such a conglomerated mass but sin and corruption. --- There are several reasons given in their petition to Postmaster General Burleson by those 8,000 railway mail clerks of the white race why they desire segregation, but there is but one that hurts—having to work under authority of the colored men. But this is acknowledging inferiority. If the colored men were not their superiors in the service they would not be in authority. --- When we write of mobs we always refer to the highest intelligence in the land, the white race. The Negro is not yet educated up to the point of lynching, burning and savagery of the dominant race, and we were certainly surprised to know that any colored man or woman would think for a moment that our "city bastile" article had any reference whatever to a colored person. In the heated season people ought not to expect relief from heat, because when it's cold they want heat and when it's dry they want it wet, and when it's wet they want it dry, and they would not be satisfied if they got what they thought they wanted. Some of those "heat" blizzers would outkick a snow steer in harness if it should snow tomorrow. Take what you get and be satisfied. Because a man is suspicious of crime gives no one a right to decide that he is guilty. A jury of twelve men, good and true, is necessary to bring such a verdict, and until that is done, public opinion or prejudice should keep hands off. In order to keep insulate this rule any person who publicly claims that he believes another guilty should be sent to jail until he can give some proof for his belief. --- Down at Delaware, Ohio, in last month there was a great race riot, a riot in which were engaged about 75 white men and one lone Negro. At the trial of several colored men who had no part in this great not it developed that all the rioting was on the part of the severity-five white men, most of whom were with crops against the Negroes, but the most auguss court in that neck of the woods could not find any cause for sentence of any of these bullies, but the one lone Negro has to stand the brunt of the white men's hellishness. But then this is a civilized nation of white people who have time, money and brains to shoot civilization into others, at home and abroad. "Our Opportunity." Our Fellow Citizen, Hon. A. P. Smith, Draws Attention at The Banquet of the U. S. G. C at Chicago Dear Editor: I desire to call attention through the columns of your valuable paper of my recent visit at Chicago in attendance on the United Supreme Council of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry for the Northern Jurisdiction. Scottish Rite of Free Masonry for the Northern Jurisdiction. I met many of the Topekans in the "Windy City," and they all appeared prosperous. The session of the Supreme Council was indeed a history making affair in point of attendance, visitors, and in good accomplished. There were present distinguished gentlemen from all parts of the country, notably Hon. W. F. Powell of New York, Hon. J. H. Evvans, Grand Master of Maryland, W. L. Morris., Minnesota, Hon. J. F. Rickards of Michigan, and Hon. U. G. Powell of Boston, Mass. For the first time in its history the Supreme Council met outside of the "Six" city. This meeting noted the demise of Fieldism. Occidental Consistory, the largest colored organization of its kind in the United States, swore allegiance and also entertained the Supreme Council during its stay in Chicago. The Mounts did themselves proud in their effort to make every detail contribute to the success and hospitality of our meeting, and in this they proved adepts. The jurisdiction is steadily increasing in strength and wisdom. On the evening of the last day of the session the Peers and Princes of Occidental Consistory spread a banquet that beggars no apologies from its promoters and sustained every sanguine expectation. Covers were laid for four hundred and every plate taken. A number of Peers responded to toasts, notably "Our Opportunity," by Allen P. Smith, of Kansas, whose name is favorably mentioned throughout the country in connection with the registrar of the U. S. treasury. "Our Opportunity." Sir Toast Master, Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander, Peers and Princes. It is a long way from the abyss of human slavery, up through the avenue of civil liberty and the splendid achievement of the Negro race to a banqueting table, spread by colored men, under the auspices of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Presbytery complimentary to the United Supreme Council of the Northern Jurisdiction, in the city of Chicago, and in the adoptive state of the Negro Emancipator, too respond to the sentiment, "Our Opportunity." Few institutions contribute as much to preserve the civilization, promote the moral uplift and intellectual advancement of the people as the establishment of Masonry. The origin and history of Masonry must be preceded by a brief investigation, amount as it is. Whence did it arise and for what does it stand? And is it calculated to challenge our highest admiration? These and kindred questions which an intelligent investigator is most likely to propound are entitled to an answer. They must, in a measure, be answered before one can be expected to appreciate its advantages, its true character and as an institution to induce him to grasp its opportunities. To arrive at a satisfactory answer to these inquiries one must divorce himself from all personal prejudices, divest his heart and conscience of those superfluities of life, which are most likely to influence him in error. Masonry is a beautiful system of morals; it is a science, a system of doctrines which if properly taught and inculcated, the recipient will immediately prove a better man, citizen and a more useful person to society. The antiquity of Free Masonry and the present history is evident in its ancient history is evidently involved in a fable, and few authentic historians, whose works are extant, have thrown but little light upon this subject. The opinion of those who have written on Pree Masonry has differed with regards to its origin, as it is at present constituted. Dr Robertson, who is well known, labored to identify Pree Masonry with Illuminism, ascribes its origin to the association of Donyius Artisianus; Mr. Kleuch, that it originated with the institutions of Pythagorus; Mr. Baruch, that it is a continuation of the Templars. It is easy to see that the institution, however mythical it may appear, it was instituted at a time, sufficiently remote, to entitle the appellation "ancient." And we may here dismiss the subject by noting the fact that its most noted enemies cannot point to a time when Free Masonry did not exist; which gives its fame a preeminence to which the history of no other institution affords a parallel. It is not claimed that the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite as now constituted is of this extreme antiquity, yet the frost of Time decorates her brow. On the first day of May, 1786, the constitution of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the 33d and last degree were alleged to have granted at Berlin, Prussia. But no Supreme Council of the Sovereign Grand Inspectors General was ever established of this grade in the world until after this date. Previously the Deputy Inspector General was charged with the high powers and duties now vested in the Supreme Councils and the grand bodies under them. In the new constitutions this high power was lodged in a Supreme Council composed of nine Sovereign Grand Inspectors General for each nation which possessed all the Masonic prerogatives in their respective districts or states, while two Supreme Councils were provided for in the United States of America, with equal powers in their respective jurisdictions. The first Supreme Council ever established under this new constitution was in 1786 in Charleston, S. C., whose jurisdiction extended constitutionally over the whole United States until they constituted the North and South Supreme Councils. Then the North and South jurisdictions were geographically defined. In 1881 a Council of deliberation was called in the city of New York, composed of Scottish Rite Masons holding Patents of the 33d and last degree. After an exchange of Patents on the part of individual Scottish Rite Masons then present, showing each to be on equal Masonic standing and preregatives, S. G. I. G. of the 33d and last degree, they, after due deliberation, proclaimed the United Supreme Councils of the North and South Jurisdictions of the 33d and last degree with powers concurrent, and geographically defined, of which Illustrious James Rickards, 33d of Detroit, Mich., is at present M. P. S. G. C., and Ill. W. H. Miller, 33d, Sec. Gen. H. E., of Philadelphia, of the United Supreme Council of the North- PETER H. HON. A. P. SMITH. in Jurisdiction, whose "See" is Philadelphia, Pa. It will be seen from this brief account of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry among colored men came into being much after the fashion of our white birthmen. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry, from its very constitution, primarily stands for the best in man. Those who stand in high places of moral and intellectual advancement among the people ought to be the exponents of the highest intelligence and character and material progress. The condition of the colored man in this country presents unlimited opportunities fraught with intimate possibilities for the development of the race's natural resources. Let none imagine that because a people is partially ignorant and lowly that their moral and intellectual leaders do not require all the discipline, learning, culture and practical wisdom that the most complete education can afford. The more ignorant the led, the more skilled and sagacious should be the leaders. Scottish Rite Masonry is not an asylum to domesticate social drones or visionary dreamers, but a fraternity of the most profound thinkers of the widest practical applicability. A body of men thus constituted and seeing the needs of their people should avail themselves of every opportunity to minister unto their necessity. There has been much spoken and written on what some are pleased to term the "Race Problem." But this, like other ill-founded theories that have error for their basis, can never be successfully combatted with argument of enlightened reason, because it is blind to light, and bereft of reason. There has arisen in this country in recent years between the white and the colored people an acute condition. This condition which has grown out of the spirit of commercialism, has robbed the people of the sweetness of their lives. Wherever its power and influence, whether in lodge or church or state, is felt its reign has been a rule wrought of iron rather than one of compassion. Wherever these conditions obtain you may expect, especially surrounding a people that is disposed to be timid, that they are most likely to be made to feel the effect of this demoralizing and degrading influence more keenly than their more favored brother. Hence, in the North this opposition to colored men finds its potential influence in the social and industrial activities; while in the South this opposition is almost purely social and political. This twin condition imposes upon the leaders of the race a double responsibility. It is in effect a demand upon their ability and capacity to devise means that will secure to the colored man a more equitable, social, political and industrial consideration. It is evident, as a fact in the body politic of American affairs, that the white man has grown tired of further care of the colored man. He has grown to be a social burden, a political parasite and an undesirable industrial associate. In fact, he has never been regarded as much of a social factor, and has long since been eliminated from the political equation. All of this in the face of the race's rapid progress. This statement of facts should have but one significance to all fair-minded, intelligent colored men: That they ought, at any cost to themselves, by organized effort and concerted action, relieve the white man of further responsibility of our burden. Fifty years are sufficient for any child to nurse. There ought to be a weaning time, some where and at some place. We may wonderfully improve our condition and yet command respectful consideration, by rising up like men, putting forth determinate effort in an organized intelligent manner, with the means at our command for the betterment of our people. You may think as you will, if this race attains to any appreciable height it must be carried aloof by the character, intelligence and money voluntarily contributed by colored men. This happy solution finds its best expression in the ability of the race to grasp present opportunities for future needs. Our corporate institutions are so formed and constituted, notably our trust companies, that any man of ordinary intelligence, after having successfully performed the duties assigned him, may step into any of the governmental departments of like character and discharge the functions of his office with honor to his country and credit to himself. Demonstrated experience and fitness in large private affairs is evidence of qualifications to discharge public trusts. The absence of any appreciable number of large businesses successfully capitalized and conducted by colored men, especially of a corporate character, is traceable the cause why colored men are denied recognition in party councils and never consulted relative to governmental policies or called upon to fill administrative offices. A people who cannot organize themselves into corporate capacities is hardly fit to sit in councils of the state or nation or preside over the destinies of others. The corporate laws of the several states and nation afford the widest possibilities at the smallest individual cost for any people to evidence their fullest capacity for self-government. Our territorial jurisdiction is bounded on the north by the Dominion of Canada, east by the Atlantic Ocean, south by a parallel line coinciding with the Ohio River, and west by the Pacific Ocean, Missouri and California excepted. Within these territorial lines a colored population of more than two million persons find abode. If we reckon Missouri and California in our calculation for the purpose of this consideration the figures above will be swollen several hundred thousands. The estimated taxable wealth, including bank deposits, accredited to the colored people in this territory amounts to $350,000,000.00. The number of Grand Lodges in this territory is fourteen, with a membership of twenty-three thousand. Two percent of $350,000,000 is $7,000,000. This sum of money, if intelligently invested, would form a working capital which would give to every file colored man and woman of almost every trade or profession, who desired work, legitimate employment at a respectable compensation the year ruona. This has been done by other races, and is still being accomplished by men who are well known to gentlemen who are now present at this banquet, and what any other race has done, the race with which you and I are identified may do with even greater credit to itself than many who have sneched ann commiserrated upon the weakness disorganization and lack of harmony, which is often commented upon by our more fortunate brothers. The Negro is no new specie in the human nature, no new element in the body politic of American affairs, and needs no special legislation, education or special privileges to fit him for the great task set before him. His case is one common to all people whose surroundings and environment have placed him in a depending attitude, Both Phones 53. Holzmark Fur Furniture, Carpets Izmark Furniture Furniture, Carpets, Draperies Holzmark Furniture Co., Furniture, Carpets, Draperies. 624-26 Minnesota Ave. Colored Peopl ored People's Ha Colored People's Hair. 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Kansas City-Western Continental Creamery Co., Topeka, Kas. Trollly to Kansas City. Cars leave Third and Delaware, Leavenworth, for 10th and Main, Kansas City, Missouri, every hour on the half from 6:30 A. M., to 10:30 P. M., except Saturday and Sunday night last car leaves at 12 o'clock midnight. Sunday when the weather is nice, cars will leave on the half hour from 8:30 A. M., to 9:30 P.M. Express car leaves Leavenworth, if not delayed, at 8 A. M., and 2 P. M. Leaves depot at 6th and Penn., Kansas City, Missouri, at 11 A. M., and 5 P. M. WILL. H. WITTIG, President and Manager. Geo. Eysell D Union Depot D Mail Orders Prompt Opposite Waiting All the Best Brand of W o. Eysell Drug Co Union Depot Drug Store Mail Orders Prompily Attended. Opposite Waiting Room All the Best Brand of Whiskey—Bottled in Avenue KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI West 360 Bell Pho Geo. Eysell Drug Co., Union Depot Drug Store 1036 Union Avenue Home Phone West 360 and his hope for rising lies in the possibility of developing his natural resources Armour saw his opportunity in the by-products of the packing industry; Pullman saw his in the sleeping car; Carnegie saw his in Beasemer steel; Frederick Douglass saw his in a break for freedom, and Occidental Consistory saw hers in her invitation to this Supreme Council; therefore, Peers and Princes, may we not see ours in the financial uplift of the colored man? Furniture Co., carpets, Draperies. Kansas City, Kansas People's Hair. We Sell More CREOLE HAIR Goods than any other store in the United States—Wigs, Plaites, Braids, Transformations, Puffs, Etc. All shades guaranteed to wash and comb. All kinds of Straightening Combs, Pomades, and Skin Preparations. FRONT PARTS—Made with a part in the centre, 50c 75c, 100, 150 and pp. Will stand combing. dows of Gold dow Gold better carefully selected, thor- skilfully churned makes all butter, always pure, the churns in patented to preserve all its good- our Grocer for wins favor. nery Co., Topeka, Kas. O THE PUBLIC..... Kansas City. ware, Leavenworth, for 10th and ari, every hour on the half from cent. Saturday and Sunday Washing and ironing By Electricity has passed the Experimental Stage and is Recognised Everywhere as the Most Satisfactory and Economical Method of Doing Work Which is Necessary and Yet Dreaded By Most People More Than Any Other Part of Domestic Service. ELECTRIC WASHERS That Will Do the Washing for an Ordinary Sized Family for Five Cents Are Now on the Market and the Electric Iron is Now so Well Known That it Readily Speaks for Itself. Our SALES DEPARTMENT Will Send Any of These Appliances to Your Home for a 30 Day Free Trial. Could Anything Be Fairer Than That? Kansas Gas & Electric COMPANY, Phone Market 4650. Water, Softened and relatively in our extire Water a rain water filled with im- pure sparkling crystal like Every drop of the 25,0 chemically treated to kill the trag by a compressed air- ricals. in is perfectly soft and ab- through every process of neatly eliminates the we- mpounds are unnecessary; added in addition is good AND KNOW IT IS PURE. position is just one of our which go toward making our bundle of laundry and se Deep Water, Softened and Parified is used exclusively in our extire Washing Process. Not ordinary rain water filled with impurities from the air and roof top; but pure sparkling crystal like water from our own wells 65 feet deep. Every drop of the 25,000 gallons of water we use a day is chemically treated to kill the alkali that is in it and then treated again by a compressed air system which eliminates all the chemicals. The water then is perfectly soft and absolutely pure and is used unstintingly through every process of laundering. Such water greatly eliminates the wear on clothes for strong washing compounds are unnecessary. All that is needed in addition is good pure soap—WE MAKE OURS AND KNOW IT IS PURE. This water proposition is just one of our hobbies—we have dozen others which go toward making our service the BEST. Send us a trial bundle of laundry and see for yourself. e Mutual, "T ounder & Mg'r. kberg. . pular Price The Mutual, "The Soft Water" Laundry C. H. MATTHEWS, Founder & Mg'r. Olof Ekberg... The Popular Price Tailor SPECIAL PRICES: SUITS Made to Order for $25.00 Overcoats and T $25, 27.5 Mercoats and Trousers According Dairy Mme. Good Hair SUITS Made to Order for $25,27.50,$30 Overcoats and Trousers Accordingly. FOR SALE.... 240 Acres Good Farm Land... Three miles from Nicodemus, Kan.— 60 acres in cultivation. Good farm residence—never-falling water supply. $30 per acre—one-half cash. Address, THE PLAINDEALER FORTY ACRES of good sweet potatoes and watermelon land, located four miles from Topeka FOR SALE This land will produce from 150 to 300 bushels of potatoes per acre and from $75.00 to $100.00 worth of melons per acre. Address, THE PLAINDEALER. Joseph. Mo. FAR MISSOUR: PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN PORT SCOTT, PITTSBURG, WEBI CITY AND JOPLIN Leave Topeka at 9:00 a. m. F. E. NIPPS. Ticket Agent. Phone 371. THROUGH TRAIN SERVICE When In Kansas City and in want of a nice room call on Mrs. Hina Roch, 420 East 6th street. --- Over Walk-Over Shoe Bins A BARGAIN. softened and parified our extire Washing Process. filled with impurities from the air, using crystal like water from our own tap of the 25,000 gallons of water treated to kill the alkali that is in the compressed air system which eliminates soft and absolutely pure and is very process of laundering. Itates the wear on clothes for the unnecessary. Solution is good pure soap—WET IS PURE. Just one of our hobbies—we have and making our service the BEST. Laundry and see for yourself. SE 519 Virtual, "The Soft Water" Laundry rg. . . Price Tailor , 27.50, $30 rousers Accordingly. 708 KANSAS AVE. Mme. M.Beard, Hair Specialist. FARMS For Negroes Colored men, why not buy a farm in a land where a man is a man where ONE crop will pay for your farm. I can sell you a farm in Logan county, Kansas. PRICES FROM $10 TO $20 per acre; easy terms, good soil, best climate. If you mean busi-ness, write S. E. CAREY. Attorney at Law, Russell Springs Kansas. If you are hungry and want a good dinner go to the Sunflower Cafe, 310 Kansas avenue. PHONE 519 708 KANSAS AVE. ```markdown ``` PHGENIK, ARIZONA. Plaindealer. By chance your paper reached my desk and after carefully looking it over I remembered your paper like a top, and saw the names of many of my old friends, and knowing the great power of your paper and a strong man behind it, and noting the spunk of your reply to old "Pitch-fork" Ben. Tillman, I am prompted to say, "Bully for you!" Only a few more brave boys who are not afraid to sing or talk or pray are needed. By the way, I am on the edge of the world and preaching for life in the "baby" state—lifting up my voice for Jesus. I have been here two months. We have the sunshine, but everything is lovely. The churches are doing fairly well for a new country. If I can help your paper some among the colored here I am at your service. I see two or three people here who take your paper, but none of them seem to talk of its excellent qualities. The paper is just the thing for these people as it broad-guaged, fair and liberal, with a good fighter at its head. May the Lord bless you and your noble work. There are three colored churches here, A. M. E., C. M. E., and Baptist. Yours very truly, J. H. JONES, B. S., Pastor Second Baptist Church, 5 So. 10th St. HUTCHINSON, KANSAS. Rev. J. C. Ragen, pastor of the Second Baptist church, Mrs. A. E. Shackelford, and Mrs. R. B. Perkerson were delegates to the National Sunday School Congress at Muskogee, Okla., recently. They were joined at Arkansas City by other delegates and a delightful time was experienced on the trip, and occupied a special car from that point on. All report a successful meeting. Rev. Ragen met many of his old acquaintances, all wanting him to come home, but he is very well satisfied in the Sunflower state. BALDWIN. KANSAS. Mrs. Elizabeth Porter was born at Knobnoster, Mo, Sept. 12, 1863, and died at Lawrence, Kansas, May 21, 1913, aged 49 years, 8 months, and 9 days. About twenty-nine years ago she came to Baldwin. She was a member of the Baptist church, a consistent worker and ever found at her post, always willing to give her time, money and talent. She was a faithful wife and a loving mother, and took special pride in beautifying her home. Her kind words and deeds won for her the respect and admiration of both white and colored, of which a deluge of floral offerings was a tribute. Rev. J. M. Brown of Lawrence preached a most sympathetic and appealing funeral discourse, admonishing all to live as the deceased, thus making a record esteemed by all. Most beautiful music was rendered during the service by the white quartet. She leaves a husband, Mr. Sydney C. Porter, one daughter, Mrs. N. J. Stokes, Paola, Ks, a sister, Mrs. Amy Smith, Lincoln, Neb., and three brothers, Mr. Charles Huff, Kansas City, Mo, Mr. Henry Huff, Warrensburg, Mo, Mr. Lilburn Huff, Lincoln, Neb. Her last words were "All is well." Interment at Oakland cemetery, leaving only a mound of flowers. "Face to face, Oh blissful moment! Face to face, to see and know; Face to face with my Redeemer, Jesus Christ, who loves me so." Rev. N. J. Stokes of Paola, spent a few days in Baldwin visiting his wife. Mrs. Anna Lowry and daughter were down from Lawrence Decoration Day. Card of Thanks. We wish to thank relatives and friends for their kindness and sympathy during the illness of our faithful wife and loving mother, Mrs. Bettie Porter; also for the beautiful floral offerings. MR. SYDNEY PORTER, MRS. JOSEPHINE STOKES, REV. N. J. STOKES. Nowata is not on a boom, but quite a lot of building is going on. The First Baptist people will soon be in their new building. When completed it will be the finest colored church in the city. The Second Baptist church has just completed the steeple of their church and it adds greatly to the appearance of the structure. The Pastor's Case Again. Since our last writing the actions of A. Jones, pastor of the Second Baptist church, by running the church in a monarchial form, has succeeded in turning out enough members and those who were disgusted and quit to give him a chance to organize a new body called a Christian church. We that are members and own our homes here must suffer this treatment for falling too pay three months' dues, such were recommended by said A. Jones, when he refused to pay $83.00 house rent, claiming that his wife rented the house. Mrs. Jones made many friends while here in the last sixty days. She left this town in good standing, but the pastor refused to recommend her with a letter when she asked for one and even opposed it. Preachers must do better or hunt new fields. We want ministers of the gospel who are Christian gentlemen, and not mere shysters who can bleat and spout wind and make a great noise, but have as much education and religion as would make a mere speck on a gnat's heel. We do not need the kind that believes God is asleep or deaf, and that it takes yelling to make God aware of his presence on earth. J. J. ROSE. WICHITA, KANSAS. A wedding that came as a surprise to their many friends was that of Miss Boatrice Burks and Mr. John Reed, which was solemnized at the home of the bride's parents on North Santa Fe avenue, Wednesday evening May 28th. The young couple dispensed with a wedding trip and went to housekeeping at 505 E. 11th St. Mrs. Martha McKeether of Denver, Colo., is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. R. B. Hill on N. Water street. Miss Hazel Crouch and sister, Mrs. George Brown have gone to Des Moines, Iowa, to spend the summer. Mrs. E. P. Blakenemore has returned from a trip to Pine Bluff, Ark., after spending the winter there. The father of Mrs. Ida B. Frazier died at his home June 8, and the funeral was held Tuesday following. Mrs. N. Clark Smith returned on the 4th from Tuskegee, Ala, where she spent the winter. Miss Beatrice Clayton is at home from Topcha where she attended the T. I. and E. I. Miss Constance Hazel has returned to her home at Boston, Mass, after teaching here all winter. Mr. Charles D. Brooks of Wellington was a recent visitor in the city. Letters have been received in the city announcing the marriage of Miss Vera James and Mr. George Lyde, former Wichitans. Miss Ethel Whitman of Pratt, is the guest of her sister, Miss Ernestine Whitman. Miss Louise Vincent of Kansas City, was a recent guest of Miss Gertrude Owens. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nichols of Winfield were recent visitors here. Mr. Edgar Wells has gone to Colorado Springs, Colo. Mrs. John Dodson (nee Sallie Rawles) of Chicago, is visiting her relatives and friends. Mr. Carl J. Gross of Newton attended the Eta Virp Girls farewell party complimentary to Miss Hazel Crouch on Tuesday night, June 10. Six weddings have occurred here recently and it seems that all the brides are from the Vashti club, and there are only eight single members left and wedding bells are still to ring. Mrs. F. H. Cox was hostess to the G. L. A. club on Wednesday afternoon, June 3rd, at her home on N. Water St. The members present responded to roll call with quotations. A question box was conducted by Miss Isis M. Brooks, and many intering questions were asked and answered. The hostess served a dainty lunch and the club adjourned to meet at the residence of Miss Lulu Covington on N. Water St. June 10th. The first commencement of colored schools was held in L'Ouverture Auditorium Friday, June 6th, at 8:15 p. m. The program was as follows: Music, Chimeth-Clark orchestra; chorus by graduates "The Thre Chafers,"—Truhn; Invocation, Rev. C. A. Williams of the A. M. E. church; chorus by the class, (a) "The Spring Song,"—Mendelsohn, (b) "Barcarolle"—Offenbach, by boys of the graduating class; address, Dr. E. A. Wilson pastor Metropolitan Baptist, of Kansas City, Kas.; chorus, by the graduating class, "The Blue Danube"—Strauss; distribution of diplomas by Supt. L. W. Mayberry; benediction by Rev. E. T. Fishback of New Hope Baptist church; music, orchestra. A reception was tendered the graduates on Thursday, June 5th, by the 7th grade and faculty of L'Overture. The class roll is as follows: Oscar Blanchard, Mattie Fishback, Maggie Gardner, Russell Johnston, Ruth Johnston, Ruth Jones, Glessner McColough, Fred Prichard, Bessie Pritchard, Dale Robinson, Edith Thomas. Grand St. School: Herman Bowman, Susie Lewis, and James Wright. High school: Gordon West, and Frances Rawles. Miss Louline Pair and Mr. Maynard Griggs were quietly married Tuesday night, June 10, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ulmer Pair, on N. Wichita street. Miss Hattie Anderson of Kansas City, is the guest of Mrs. Grant G. Brown of Cherry street. Wichita is royally entertaining a --- host of delegate who are here attending the Baptist State Sunday School convention, in session from the 17 to 20 inclusive. Mrs. C. J. Perry of Topeka was the recent guest of Mrs. L. C. Carr. Prince Hall Grand Court, Heroines of Jericho, Kansas and Nebraska jurisdiction, met here Tuesday morning June 10th. The session opened at nine o'clock in the Masonic hall. Tuesday night at 8:30 a reception tendered the grandd officers. The following program was rendered: Music, orchestra; invocation, Rev. E. F. Fishbabck; vocal solo, Miss Mabel Griffin; welcome address, Mrs. Grant Ewing; response, Mrs. W. S. Blake, Atchison; selection, Vastl club; address in behalf of Masons, Mr. Henry James; response, C. II. M. Collins, of Kansas City, Past Grand Master of Prince Hall Grand Lodge; clarinet solo, Dr A. K. Lawrence; reading, Mr. Ambrose Woodard; vocal solo, Mr. Winifred Burks; selection by the orchestra. Wednesday night at 8.30 another program was rendered as follows:— Quartet, Mrs. J. E. Lewis, Mrs. Nina Bly, M r.s.E. T. Fishback, and Miss Edna Hammond; invocation, Rev. C. A. Williams; address, Attorney Fred Helm; vocal solo, Floyd Alexander; reading, Mrs. Gertrude Anderson; selection, Vashti Girls; instrumental solo, Mrs. Eliza Vernon; reading, Mrs. Cornelia Clayton; oration, Mr. Ambrose Woodard; vocal solo, Mrs. Celia Tullman; reading, Mrs. Ida B. Frazier; instrumental solo, Miss Alberta Lewis. Thursday night: Music by the orchestra; invocation, Rev. S. B. Butler, of the Second Baptist church; instrumental solo, Mrs. E. T. Fishback; installation of Grand Officers; grand drill contest by the different courts. The next meeting will be held at Kansas City, Kans, the second Tuesday in 1914. The Vastl Girls club met at the residence of Mrs. Lulu Wilson on N. Main St., Monday evening June 9th for the rehearsal of their chorus. At a late hour Mrs. L. A. Payne, nee Ida Wilson, assisted by Miss Ethel Woodard, served refreshments consisting of lemon sherbet and cake. Those in attendance were Mrs. G. L. Scott, director for the chorus; Misses Isis M. Brooks, Ethel Woodard, Mabel Griffin, Irene Woodard, Aulty Lewis, Mae Tripplett, Ellen Roach, Laura (Tulliford, Effle Steps, Nellie Scott, Mrs. Jessie Jones, Mrs. L. A. Payne, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Payne, Jr., have moved to their cozy home at 626 N. Water St., and invite their friends to call and see them. Miss Emma Brown was hostess to the Eta Virp girls Wednesday night, June 11th, at her home on W. Murdock avenue. Miss Georgia Penny and Miss Vida Herriford left Monday night, June 9, for Kansas City, Mo. Children's Day was observed Sunday, June 8th, by the New Hope Baptist church and the Second Baptist church. Miss Anna Smith, Mrs. N. Clark Smith and Mrs. L. B. Lloyd attended the Chiles-Williams nuptials at Topoka June 11th, returning home last Sunday, much elated over their trip. Miss Bettie Mae Hall, who has been a student at Tuskegee Institute, has returned to her home in this city. Miss Mayme Boone, who has been teaching at Oklahoma City, Okla., while en route to her hame at Lincoln, Neb., stopped over a few days in the city, guest of Miss Myrtle Hurst. Mrs. A. A. Fuller who has been spending the past few weeks at Independence and Coffeyville, returned home on Thursday of last week. She brought her aged mother-in-law, Mrs. Laura McFarland, with her to visit a few weeks. Mrs. McFarland is 70 years of age and in good health. She can get around nicely and is very much impressed with Wichita. This is her first trip out of Independence for thirteen years. Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Young were recent visitors in Topeka. Mrs. McDaniel of Oklahoma is visiting her daughter, Hazel, at Mrs. L. Brown's. The second Sunday in July will be "Old Folks" day at St. Luke's A. M. F. church, instead of the first Sunday, owing to the fact that the corner stone of Ward Hall at Quindaro will be laid the first Sunday. Every effort will be put forth to make the day a pleasant one for the aged folk. Buggies and other vehicles will be provided to get the people to and from the church. An old fashioned basket dinner will be spread in the dining room of the church. Mrs. John Gregg is visiting relatives in the city. Mrs. Filen Greer of Kansas City, attended the commencement at K. U. of which her daughter, Estellene, was a graduate. Mrs. Guss Miller entertained the ladies of the Auxiliary Board on the 9th and a pleasant time is reported. Mrs. Anna Johnson has returned home after a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Fred West, at Wichita. Mrs. Baker of the North Side entertained the Excelsior Art club at its last meeting and an enjoyable time spent. Sunday, June 8th, was quarterly meeting day at St. Luke and was well attended. Collection was something over $100. The presiding elder, Rev. J. F. C. Taylor, was present and delivered two excellent sermons. Kansas City, Kansas Women. YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN NOTES. The Yates branch of the Young Women's Christian association, 5th St, and State Ave, held its second monthly social for its members and friends in hte association building on Thursday evening, June 12. The affair was well attended and thoroughly enjoyed. Miss Phynola Moore of the Social committee played the role of hostess. If you would like a good time, don't forget that the association observes this event on the second Thursday in each month. A standing invitation is extended to all members and friends of the Y. W. C. association. Our "Bible Study" class met on Monday evening of this week and enjoyed an interesting lesson. Mrs. Anna Nettles was welcomed as a new member to the class. Mrs. Philip Brown and Mrs. Scruggs were visitors. The members of this class are noted for their promptness. Our hour is from 8 to 9 o'clock every Monday evening. The Y. W. C. A. vesper service on last Sunday was enjoyed by all. The general secretary talked on "Charity." The congregational singing included the associational song and was a feature of the service. (The vesper service is held every Sunday from 3 to 4 o'clock. All are welcome. An interesting group of girls and boys attended the Y. W. C. A. "Story Hour" at the association on Tuesday. The general secretary played the role of story teller. Prominent among our recent visitors in the association were Dr. W. T. Vernon, president of Campbell college, Dr. H. T. Kealung, president of Western University, Rev. J. S. Payne, Salma, Rev. H. H. Jones, Los Angeles, Calif., Rev. J. R. Ransom, D. D., Mrs. Katherine D. Tillman, Mrs Laura J Harlan, Miss Olive Henderson, Mrs. Mamie B. Bradley, Mrs. Katie Powell, Miss Ida Godrey, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Brown, Mrs T. E. Anthony, Mrs. Marie Wilson, and many of our own association women. The City Federation, Mrs. E. D. Robinzine president, met in the association rooms on Wednesday afternoon of last week. More than forty women were in attendance. Come and be a Booster for the Y. W. C. A. Bible Class! Come and join the Culture club! Come and join the Camp Fire Girls! Who'll be a booster for the Camp Fire Girls Bible Class? Come and join the Y. W. C. A. Choral class! Come and join the Sewing class! Come and join our Physical Culture WANTED AGENTS: To write Life and Accident Insurance Policies for Shawnee County. NTA'L LIFE INSURANCE CO Chicago, Ill. T. W. TROUPE, State Agent 428 Lincoln St., Topeka, Kan. State Agent, E. D. JONES. STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES Fresh Meats, Cigars and Tobacco. 322 E. 1st St. Topeka, Kansas. H. T. GEEDER, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. —Disenses of Women a Specialty— $1.00 PER DAY TO LIVE AGENTS; Sells to every colored man and woman on earth; this is the quickest kind of easy money; send 15c stamps or coin for 50c sample and terms; money back if not satisfied at first glance. WICK CHILES,.....Editor SUBSCRIPTION' RATES. One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Advertising Rates Per Month $2.00 Per Inch. Entered at the Postoffice at Topeka as Second Class Mail Matter. SUPREME CHANCELLOR S. W. GREEN EXPLAINS! The following from the New Orleans (La) Daily Spokesman is the story of Grand Chancellor Green's experience with a Florida mob as related by himself: "I arrived home safely last night after an unexpected and unusual experience with a Florida mob. As has been my custom for the past five years, and in pursuance of my duty as head of the order of Knights of Pythis of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, I left this city on Saturday, May 17th, 1913, with a train ticket and a ticket for a birth in the Pullman car for Jacksonville, Fla., going from there to Ocala, Fla., to meet the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of that Jurisdiction, which began session on Tuesday May 20th, 1913. "It has been my custom for years when traveling long distances and having to be up at night carrying on my duties at Grand Lodge sessions, in order to obtain rest and meals while en route, and for the conservation of my health to try and secure as comfortable accommodations as possible under the law. To this end I readily paid the extra fare for drawing room accommodations when possible and sleeping car reservation when not otherwise because of the conditions mentioned. While quietly occupying a seat in the Pullman on Sunday the 18th inst., the train conductor informed me that the sentiment in the day coach occupied by white people was opposed to my riding in the Pullman car and that he would advise that I take a seat in the day coach for colored people. While he admitted that I was clearly within my rights under the law, but in order to avoid trouble, I could go into the day coach, if I so desired. I readily consented to take a seat in the day coach in order to avoid any trouble. "After hard and ardous labor at the Grand Lodge session at Ouala, Fla., and holding many sessions all night and day, I was very much tired out upon my return to Jacksonville, and in order to avoid any appearance of a desire to oppose pubbie sentiment, I tried to comply with the spirit, as well as the letter of the law, by paying extra tare for the drawing room from Jacksonville to New Orleans and felt myself secure as being entirely separate from the white passengers, without any need of being in their presence, as I kept the door closed all the time. To my surprise when the train arrived at River Junction, Fla., on route to this city, I was informed by the conductor of the sleeping car that expressions from some of the white persons at the depot at River Junction were decidedly against my occupying even the drawing room in the Pullman car. Then I readily consented to abandon the drawing room and go into the day coach in order to avoid trouble. "Upon my arrival at DePauk Springs, I ha, a large crowd of seemingly irresponsible young white men and boys had gathered around the outside of the coach and were pointing to me while I sat in the day coach for colored passengers. Just before arriving at Milton, I ha, I was informed by some one of the train crew that a mob was being formed for the purpose of taking me from the car, although I was then in the day coach. Up on my arrival at Milton, the crowd discovered me in the day coach and someone claiming to have a warrant for my arrest caught hld of my hand and I went with him out of the car and the train pulled out. A crowd of 17 or 18 persons surrounded me with one large man on each side of me, holding each of my hands and are accompanied me from the deport into the town where they carried me to the jail and interviewed me. After learning my name, residence and position I occupied and the dutie I was called upon to perform, the crowd second to become somewhat appeased and I was placed in jail to do. Mr. Martin. The next morning I was carried before a justice of the peace and allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and plead $25 00 an costs for violating the Jim Crow law. In this connection I wish to state that while Shriff Harwell was not present during the trouble, he had left word with his chief deputy, Martin, to see that no harm came to me, and Mr. Martin carried out his instructions to the very letter. I wish to commend in the highest terms possible for the kind treatment accorded me, under the circumstances, by Sheriff Harvell of Santa Rosa County, Fla., and his deputy, Mr. Martin, for fully discharging their duties as conservators of the peace, and only regret that in every county and parish in this Southland we do not have such brave and conscientious officers in the discharge of their duties as the two just mentioned. I wish to add that for the past five years I have traveled to and from Jacksonville, Fla., over this same road every year occupying Pullman berths, or drawing room without molestation on the part of any person and have frequently while traveling got off the train and greeted my friends and acquaintances and went back to the seat or drawing room in the Pullman car. The trouble seems to have stated when the train conductor inquired as to how I came in possession of the ticket for the berth and when he was informed, stated that he had been in charge of the trains over that road for the past 17 or 18 years and had never seen a colored person occupy space in a Pullman car. It seemed that someone among the train crew had inflamed public sentiment to such an extent that persons in the several towns on the road had decided that I should not occupy space in the Pullman car. It is a sad commentary upon the boasted American claim of justice and fair play that a citizen, decently clad and complying with all the requirements of the law, will not be allowed to travel on account of necessity, in comfortable cars when willing to pay for such accommodations as the public transportation companies may afford. "I wish at this time to thank the Daily States of this city for the kind and humane mention of the occurrence. Also the managers of the Daily Item for the very fair account of the affair published in their issue of Tuesday evening, May 27th, 1913. I also thank the Daily Spokesman of this city for kind words and manifestation in my welfare and safety. I regret that the Daily Picayune noted for its conservatism, saw fit to hold me forth as a Negro Pythian Boss instead of being the Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of N. A., etc., and in their headlines setting forth that my insistence uponiding in Pullman cars got me into trouble, as such headlines are calculated to inflame public sentiment against what they may believe a violation of the laws. I think the home papers should at least give a fair account of the occurance and thereby allay public sentiment with respect to the rights of persons in public convergances." HAWATHA, KANSAS Mrs. Wm. Cobb gave a very pleasant surprise party on Wednesday evening of last week in honor of her husband's birthday. The evening was spent in games and music. Refreshments of sandwiches, lemonade cake and strawberries were served. Mr. Cobb received some very handsome and useful presents. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stockton, Mrs. J T. Stewart, Mrs. Ben Macey, Jr., Mrs. A S Millet, Mrs. Jessie Bailey, Mrs. Ella Baker, Miss Mayme Grone, Mrs. Edna Groome, Miss Pearl Brooks of Horton, Mrs. Pearl Alexander, Mrs. Maycie Millet, Mrs. Owen Banks, Messrs. Sam Macey, Wilhelm Miller, Jim Douglas, R. Cascy, and Quinley Bailey Miss Pearl Brooks of Horton attended the institute here last week, and was guest at the House of Mr. and Mrs. John Miller Mr. A. S. Miller preached in Highland last Sunday Dr. M. Potter of Leavenworth, preached at the Baptist church last Sunday. Children's Day exercises were held at the Second Baptist church last Sunday afternoon. The program was excellent. The little folks all rendered their parts well. The joining d closing address by Mr. Irene Layey and Mrs. Leah Miller were fine. Other important numbers on the program were a dialogue by four little girls of Mrs. Edna Greene's 10s; reitation by Mrs. Irene Ellington, and Mayne Rieshe; paper by Mrs. Rohal Greene; and a duet by Mrs. Ella Baker and Mrs. Pearl Brooks. Mrs. Alex Lenear acted as organist, as her daughter, Blanche, was away from the city. Mr. Layey returned Sunday evening to her home at St. Joe, M., after a few days' visit with Mrs. George Walthall. Mr. Louse Hughes and grand mahtcy, Mrs. Meta Hughes, are visiting friends at Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Giannville Henry left Monday afternoon for Aurora, Ill., where he will open up a pantitulum Mrs. John Henry has been suffering with some eyes, having almost lost her sight of one. Miss Blanche Lenear returned last Sunday afternoon from a week's visit with relatives at Falls City. WATCH US GROW G. F. PAYTON, 1300 Quincy Street. Phone 1193. Free! Free! Free! 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Mr. Brazil Winters and Mrs. Ella Young went to Joplin, Mo, on the 17th to concult with a specialist in regard to Mrs. Aughtlaw, mother of the former. She has a cancer. The Sir Knights and Daughters of the International Order of Twelve had their annual sermon preached last Sunday by Rev. J. W. Warren, who is pastor of the A. M. E. church at Independence, Kas .Many visitors were present from Pittsburg and Cherokee. Rev. J. H. Van Leu, state missionary, filled the stand all day on the 15th at St. John Baptist church. The pastor, Rev. W. W. Ewing, was at Chatman. Mrs. Hattle Watkins and her sister, Annie, who have been sick since May 27th, went back to Kansas City on the 17th, their present home. They were visiting their father and sisters. Mrs. S. A. Kinnell left here Tuesday for Wichita to attend the State Sunday School convention. Mr. F. Ewing, who attended the Topeka Industrial Institute at Topeka, has returned home and gone to work at $2 per day that he may go on with his studies and finish. We hope he will make good. Mr. O. S. Stewart who was hurt recently, is able to be up again and has gone on a trip as cook for a fishing party into Oklahoma. Mrs. Mary Griggsby of Independence, is visiting in the city, guest of Mrs. Hannah Adkins and Mrs. L. F. Taylor. If you are a constant reader of The Plaindealer you will not be behind the times. Keep posted. US GROW because we treat our Groceries are like every-one cit enemies. Match Us Grow AYTON, incy Street. e 1193. Free! Catalogue of the Latest Styles of We are the largest dealers in Creole Hair Goods, Raw Hair by the pound; Electric Combs, Etc., in this country. We show a larger variety of styles and sell more Fine Creole Wigs than any other manufacturer in the United States. Write for catalogue. IT IS FREE. SAM WILLER, HUMAN HAIR GOODS CO., * Shreveport, La. eet & Son, Funeral Directors. We carry one of the finest lines o UNDERTAKING GOODS UNDERSTARING GOODS in the State. We never sleep. Three Licensed Embalmerr in attendance 6.38 Quincy St. Phone 52 GENERAL CONTRACTORS. ackburn, nd Feed KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. BRAIN WORK COUNTS. The farmers must get their heads into their work. I do not advise you to work longer hours in the day or to work any harder while you are at it. My text for the men on the farm is to get in more head work. Some men seem to slave away many hours a day and get accomplish very little. I question if these men read the Bible. The Bible says, "A man shall earn his bread by the sweat of his brow." Most men leave their heads out of the game and make a poor living by the sweat of their backs and the sweat of the backs of all the rest of the family.—Professor A. E. Chamberlain, St. Paul, Minn. WHAT ONE MAN HAS DONE With "Wornout" Land Another Might Try Also With Success. A farm of 100 acres, twenty-five miles out of Philadelphia and with good railroad facilities, was sold for taxes some years ago because the land was worn out. It had a thin, gravelly soil. Most of the land lies on the side of a ridge and has a moderate slope but about five acres are level meadow, on which a fine spring is situated. A market gardener purchased the farm at a tax sale. He cut trenches about 500 feet long and 20 feet wide across the mendow, the bottoms of which were covered with gravel, and diverted the spring water into them. A stand of watercress was then started, and by fall it covered the trenches and the owner began to cut and ship it to the Philadelphia markets. As cold weather approaches the cress is protected from frost by rough houses built over the trenches. The north sides of the houses are of inch boards, against which corn fodder is stacked to keep out the wind. The south sides are of glass. The heat of the sun and the warmth of the spring water are sufficient to keep the cress growing rapidly all winter without resort to artificial heat. A portion of the beds is cut over each day, and in about ten days it is again ready for cutting. The returns the first winter were about $100 a day from the cress. A narrow strip of soil between the back of the house and the edge of the trench is devoted to violets and has proved very profitable. On the remainder of the farm French illacs are set about four feet apart and kept well cultivated for four years. The bushes are then taken up and forced to bloom about the Christmas holidays. A handsome profit is realized each year, and steady employment is given to a large number of men. The former owner "couldn't make it pay."—Country Gentleman. Killing the Country. Agriculture on the newer sections is carried on at the expense of the fertility in the soil. A twenty bushel crop of wheat removes from the soil in the straw and grain $930 worth of plant food per acre, or 401/2 cents per bushel in selling wheat and burning straw this is actually removed. Last year's crop of wheat—150,000,000 bushels—removed from the soil $70,000,000 worth of plant food. In other words, the state of North Dakota is worth less as a crop factory by $70,000,000 than be fore the past season's crop of wheat was grown. Add to this all other grains sent out of the state, and the sum will be much increased—North Dakota Experiment Station. Where the Chicken Gets the Ax. The following method of killing fowl is a neat and proper one: Set a square post about two feet in the ground and about two and one-half or three feet (or as desired) above the ground After clip The following method of killing fowl is a neat and proper one: Set a square post about two feet in the ground and about two and one-half or three feet (or as desired) above the ground. After clipping the fowl's head off (for this I prefer a corn cutter or knife to a hatchet or ax) place the fowl in the box where it will bleed freely. This method, to my notion, is more humane than to have it flopping about on the ground — Farm and Urside. Silo Ought to Be Handy. Build the silo next to the cattle barn where the feed can be taken right from the silo into the barn. A feed carrier makes light work in such a case THE BUSY LITTLE BEE. Beees like music and are easily taught to gather at the call of certain strains but they do not like harsh or loud voices or disordant sounds. An even tamer is an absolute necessity in a keeper. Swarms have been known to "growl" because a loud talking man stood near the bites. It is a mistake not to wire the sheets in the brood frames, for when it comes to extracting the frames, to say nothing of holding the completed frame at an angle, it is a great comfort to dud that the combs are not continually breaking loose from the frames, which would otherwise be the case. To transfer lives before swarming time remove the top of old hive and set a single story hive over it Make all the joints be tight Now have foundation in new hive, and the bees will soon work up into it. After the queen gets to living well you can lift off the new hive and do what you please with the old hive and combs Furnished Rooms. When in Topeka and want a neatly furnished room, call at 113 W. 10th St. Mrs. B. F. Austin, Prop. Rooms by day or week. Strictly first class. For Sale. MY MAIR DRESSING, MANICURING AND MASSAGE PARLORS. My equipment is all up-to-date and comparatively new. The business is well established and in splendid location. Reasons given privately for desiring tq sell. None but an experienced operator can handle the trade. Address. MRS. A. DORSEY-CLAYTON, 18021; Main St., Parsons, Kansas. BARBERSHOP AND BATHS Shining Parlor Everything neat, clean and up-to-date. 317 Kansas Ave. TOPEKA, KA 127 West Railroad Street. SHERMAN TROTTER, Prorrietor. BOARD AND LODGING. Everything First Class. NORTH TOPEKA, KANSAS. CHANUTE, KANSAS. Mrs. Dollie Twis entertained fifteen little girls and boys in honor of her 9th birthday, Saturday, June 7th. The evening was spent in games and amusements of various kinds, after which light refreshments were served to the delight of all. Those present were Caster Perrin, Willa Biggs, Vaughn Brooks, Jessie Evans, Clarice Moore, Lillian Bolden, Acie Carter, Edith Maddox, Stanford Evans, Lloyd Martin, Simon Brooks, Lillian Maddox, Clarence Johnson, James Maddox, George Mimm, Many tokens of remembrance were received. RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS The Building Trust club held a meeting at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Green on Friday evening, June 13th, and the captains reported as follows: Captain No. 1—Mrs. Green, $82.35; Captain No. 2—Miss Hammond, $30.80; Captain No. 3—Mr. Kemper,$115.60. The president, Mrs. R. Gaines, and Rev. O. W. Green, were all smiles and all were well pleased. The sum of $200.00 was turned over to the trustees to pay off the note on the church lots. They will now begin on the building. Remarks by the president and Rev. Green, after which the club was delightfully served by Mrs. Green, after which the club adjourned to meet again Friday July 11, at the home of Mrs. Williams. MIRS. R. GAINES, Prec. MIRS. S. WILLIAMS, Sec. ATCHISON, KANSAS There was a mistake in the item about Miss Hattie Ingram in last week's issue of The Plaindaler: Miss Hattie Ingram left for Chicago Sunday, June 8, to attend the wedding there of Miss Florence Hawkins and Mr. H. O. Fletcher, Miss Hawkins went to school hero and was quite a bright scholar. Mr. Fletcher had the honor of being selected a mad carrier in Chicago two or three years ago. He taught in Lincoln school nearly five years and has many warm personal friends in this city who wish him and his bride a long, happy and prosperous journey on life's sea. His bride is one of the state's most highly respected and accomplished young women and all. Atchison will miss her cheery voice and sweet disposition from its scenes of social, literary and church circles. Mr. and Mrs. Pettus have returned to Atchison from Pt. Leavvnworth, accompanied by Miss Mary Gilmore Smith, and they will make this their future home. LAWRENCE, KANSAS. Miss Mabel Gloed has returned from a two weeks' visit in Kansas City with relatives and friends. Mrs. Franklin Walker was the guest of Mosse Gray to dinner Sunday in his lovely new home on California St. The Kansas University graduates are Miss Huzel Schloss, Miss Mario Overtreet and Mr. Mosse Gray. If its Thursday evening, you will find your friend at Wilson's. GRAHAM RETREAT A STRICILY PRIVATE FAMILY, has a large beautiful modern home with up-to-date furnishings. Rooms for rent to attract first class people. Board obtainable. Call Bell 2532. MRS. W. W. GRAHAM. 320 Virginia Ave., Kansas City, Kaz. Mrs. Aquilla Coleman left Sunday on a visit to friends at Newton. Prof. J. I. Harrison spent several days last week in Atchison, Kas. WANTED: A little girl from ten to twelve years old. Nice home for the right girl. Miss Ogeal Smith is enjoying a few days' vacation at Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Dance every Thursday night at Wilson's garden. Full orchestra and plenty of refreshments. Mrs. R. O. Hayden and Mrs. A. F. Wilson of Kansas City, are guests of Mrs. Cyrenaia G. Gaines. Miss Ruby McKnight left Wednesday morning to spend a week with Miss Isis Brooks at Wichita. Mrs. L. B. Granderson who is visiting in the city, went too Kansas City this week for a few days. "That Blond Person," an interesting drama will be staged at the Central Baptist church June 27th. Mr. Samuel Patton of Omaha was in the city the first of the week, the guest of his brother, Mr. L. Patton. Mrs. Allen Alexander left this morning for Columbia, Mo., to accompany her aunt back to this city. Mr. Chas. Bradshaw of Kansas City spent the first of the week in the city visiting his parents and friends. Mrs. L. B. Granderson of Chicago is visiting in the city this week, the guest of Mrs. J. W. Washington, 425 Lime strecet. "The Passion Play" will be given at St. John A. M. E. churc June 25, entitled "In His Steps," by Rev. R. A. Adams, D. D. Miss Goldie Duke left Wednesday morning for Lawrence to attend the session of the State Federation of Colored Women's clubs. Rev. J. C. Caldwell, D. D., general secretary of the Allen C. E. League, will preach at St. John A. M. E. church Sunday, June 20th. Mrs. Annie Garrett returned to her home in Kansas City after a very pleasant visit in the city with Mrs. N. Chiles and Miss Willa Smith. The Excelsior Art club met at the home of Mrs. J. W. Washington, 425 Lime street. The next meeting will be with Mrs. E. Rucker, 801 E. 11th. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wright gave a dinner last Sunday at which the guests were Misses Georgia White, Elizabeth Brown, Willa Smith, Helen Jones. Mrs. James Buford and her grandniece, Mrs Enola B. Wade, left Sunday morning for Denver, Colo., on an extended visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. A. B. Montgomery of Abuquerque, N. M., spent a few days in the city this week. She was called to Burlingame to attend the funeral of her father. Mrs. Annie Wilbams entertained at dinner Monday evening at her home, 12th and Lane, complimentary to Mrs. A. P. Wilson and Mrs. Estella Hayden of Kansas City. Mr. McKinley Warfield of North Topeka has just returned from a three weeks' visit with his sister's family and friends at Lansing. He reports having an enjoyable time. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thompson who have been living in Omaha, were in the city last Sunday, guests of Mrs. Thompson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe. They were on route to California, to reside. Miss Minerva Woodson, who has been teaching school at Memphis, is in the city, guest of her sister, Mrs. C. G. Pishback and Miss Kate Woodson. Miss Woodson intend to spend her summer vacation here. The "Jeyance" club entertained at progressive whist last Saturday afternoon, from 2:30 to 5 o'clock, at the home of Miss Corinne Jones. After the games a course of lies was served. The visit is present were Misses Ola Carter, Helen Jones, Elizabeth Brown, Georgia White, Drs. Ross, Hawkins, Strain, Grimes, and Davis. Wilson's garden open every Thursday evening. Come early and stay until the last car. Mr. Simon McCoy of Kansas City, a former Topeka boy and musician, was in the city a few hours yesterday, visiting with friends. The Tuskegee Band, Orchestra and Glee Club will be the attracting feature for Topeka on July 3rd, at the Auditorium. This great musical organization comes under auspices of the Kansas Ave. Department Y. M. C.A. This promises to be the greatest attraction of the season. Hon. Cyrus Lindell,business agent of the State Industrial Department, Western University, was in the city a few days last week taking a little recreation. Mr. Lindell has made a splendid showing in conducting the business end of that institution, and is putting forth every effort to accomplish more next season. --- Miss Anna Smith of Wichita, who was here attending the Chiles-Williams nuptials, left Sunday for her home, accompanied by her mother. Miss Smith is the daughter of Prof. N. Clark Smith, one of America's most noted bandmasters. She is a teacher in the public schools of Wichita, a talented musician and a highly cultured young lady. ```markdown ``` Miss Helen E. Jones and Miss Elizabeth Brown, of Montgomery, Ala., are guests at the Chiles home. They are two of the Southland's fairest daughters—educated and highly cultured, and the society folk of beautiful old Topeka are leaving no stone unturned to show them that Kansas hospitality is unsurpassed. The young men vie with each other as to what next, and the girls are exhausting every effort to amuse and entertain. They are very pretty girls; talented musicians, and possess a temper as sweet as the jasmine of picturesque Dixie, and Kansas would indeed, be glad to receive them as her own. Miss Louisa and Mr. Hilliard Oden entertained a number of young people at a lawn party last Wednesday evening at their home south of the city. The lawn was beautifully decorated and lighted with Japanese lanterns and the young people enjoyed themselves at whist and dancing. At a later hour in the evening they were served with ice cream and cake. The party spent a very pleasant evening, and each agreed that they had been highly entertained, and Miss Louisa and Mr. Hilliard have won the name of ideal entertainers among their friends. The party returned to the city in the wee hours of morn on a hayrick, which was the finishing touch to their evening's merriment. The Ladies Shamrock club closed for the season Tuesday, June 10th, with a picnic at Wilson's Summer Garden. There were about twenty-five guests present and the ladies had some very beautiful art work on exhibition. Mrs. Burton received first prize for the best work, and Mrs. Wilson received two prizes, one for the most work and one for the best attendance. Mrs. Edmonds received a prize for good attendance. Mrs. Wilson awarded her second prize to Mrs. Bradhaw for good work. The ladies of the club have donated $10,00 this year for charity, besides numerous personal gifts. They have planned to work among them-clues during the vacation. (They will meet the first Tuesday in October, 1913, with Mrs. Payne, out at Seabrook. Mrs. Mary Smith, of Pleasanton, mother of this writer, a school nurse Sunday, and for the next few weeks will see that we occupy a seat in the amen corner of the house of the Lord, instead of making the usual Salbath search for the tiny tube in the murky waters of the treacherous Kuw. She is one of those grand old ladies whose tanks the navies of time are rapidly ammplishing, and her noble nature and pleasant smile is a joy that will never be erased from memory, and we will throw back our shoulders and stand at attention and obey every command from that detect one of all—mother Our joy: She is here to dictate and serve every act and deal Our prayer: That Providence will ever guide, shield and protect her that she may ever keep her kindly words and influence near. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BUSINESS MEN'S LEAGUES The Plaindealer is authorized to ennounce that all members of the Business League are urged and must anxiously request to be present Monday evening. Business of importance will come before the body, and if you have the League, its object and aim at heart, you will not fall to be present. Wallace Out of Danger. Mr. A. J. Wallace, the young man who was shot and dangerously and seriously wounded by Mr. W. M. Morris Thursday morning, June 12th, about 8 o'clock, is out of danger and is doing fine. Mr. Morris, who was arrested, charged with assault with intent to kill, has been released from the county jail on bonds of $1,000. Mr. and Mrs. Ole Entertain. Mr. and Mrs. Ole Entertain. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ole's beautiful home was thrown open to about thirty-six guests on Thursday afternoon, and the genial hospitality for which the Oles are noted was most thoroughly enjoyed by all present. Games of all kinds were played on the lawn, and at twilight a very delicious dinner was served with all seated on the grass in front of the house. The outing was very informal and pronounced by all to be one of the most delightful affairs of the season. The out-of-town guests present were Miss Ora Carter of Lawrence, Dr. J. Louis Ransom of Kansas City, Miss Georgia White of Chicago, Miss Helen Jones and Miss Elizabeth Brown of Montgomery and Mr. Cyrus Lindell of Kansas City. Blackwell—Connelly. Mrs. Lalu Blackwell and Mr. Edward Connelly were married Tuesday evening at 8:30 o'clock at the residence of the bride's daughter, Mrs. T. J. Williams, 738 Garfield Ave. Rev. C. G. Fishback, pastor of Shiloh Baptist church, performed the ceremony, which took place in the parlor which was decorated in pink and white. Miss Enid Link played Mendelssohn's wedding march. The bride's dress was of white voile, trimmed in seed peatls and shadow lace. She carried a bouquet of white carnations. The groom wore black. The bride's second day dress was of London smoke satin trimmed in silver braid. Brick ice cream of pink and white and pink and white cake was served: They received many beautiful and useful presents. Mr. and Mrs. Connelly are cozily situated at their home, 1159 Buchanan street. Both the contracting parties are well known in Topeka and have a host of friends who wish them a long and prosperous journey through life. Mr. Connelly is a retired fireman. On Sunday afternoon the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wright on Western avenue, was the scene of a very pleasant tea, given in honor of the visitors in the city, at which Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Ray were hostesses. During the afternoon a musical program was rendered, which was composed of several vocal numbers rendered by Mrs. Wright; instrumental solos by Miss Helen McLean, Elizabeth Brown and Helen Jones and Mr. Walter Jones; and a vocal solo by Miss Jessie Olen. After a dainty lunchson was served Mr. J. L. Harrison acted as toastmaster, and Mr. Stewart responded to a tribute on "The Noble Work of God," with his usual salvery tongued oratory: Judge Thomas on "Divorces," Mr. Whitney on "The Kind of Home I will Build for the Wife I Got," and Dr. Russell on "The Things a Doctor's Wife Should Expect." The visitors present were Dr. Ross, Strain, Hawkins, Gimes and Davis, Miss Georgia White of Chicago, Miss Elizabeth Brown and Miss Hel of Jones of Montgomery, Ala., Miss Willa Smith of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Miss Ora Carter of Lawrence. THE NEGRO EDUCATIONAL CONGRESS AND ITS OBJECT! Any movement that has for its end and aim the betterment of mankind, is deserving of more than a passing consideration by the people. To become a greater factor in the activities of American life, and a larger contributor to its growth and prosperity, is the home of the members of the Negro National Educational Congress, of opposition to the Negro, as a citizen and a man, be on the increase, there must exist some cause or reason for such opposition—the location and elimination of which is one of the tasks that we have undertaken. We shall be pleased to have the good will and hearty operation of all who are in sympathy with the race, strugling against great odds—endeavoring to teach a higher sphere in man's civilization. By thrift, honesty, industry, economy, intelligence, and good deportment, coupled with greater reverence for law and the responsibilities of citizenship, we hope to win and hold the respect and confidence of the people. The Congress—Its Object. The Negro National Educational Congress, called to meet in Kansas City, Mo, July 15 to 19, 1913, will devote its entire time to working out some plan whereby conditions of the race may be bettered. During his half century of freedom the Negro has made marked progress along all lines of human endeavor, and the hope of the race lies in his ability to make greater strides in the future. This Congress will concern itself not only with the affairs of the men and women of the race of today, but seek to so guide and direct the youth that they may be better prepared than were their fathers and mothers to enter into all of the activities of citizenship and national life. It is not the purpose of this Congress to supercede, displace, or usurp the plan of any other movement having for its object the betterment of the race, but rather to contribute all possible support in the same direction. To find some ground of mutual sympathetic and harmonious cooperation upon which the races may work for the common good, is an effort rich in possibilities and worthy of the time and energy devoted to its development, as intended through this movement. If this Congress succeeds only in awakening interest and changing conditions along ONE or TWO neglected lines it will have well rewarded each and everyone who contributed to its success. As it is one of the penalties of intelligence to burden its possessor with increased responsibilities to one's fellowman, and as the means of developing a higher type of useful and self-relying citizenship becomes the more apparent as the race advances intellectually, the men, and women of today cannot escape their indebtedness to their less fortunate neighbors and to their own posterity. The following address was issued at the Saint Louis convention in 1910. It was prepared by a committee of the most thoughtful and intellectual men of the race. It should find a place in every Negro home in the land: An Address to the American People Issued by the Negro National Educational Congress, Held at Saint Louis, August 25, 26 and 27, 1910. "We the delegates to the Negro National Educational Congress, commissioned by the President of the United States and the governors of the states which they represent, to assemble in convention and earnestly to consider the ideals which should determine and control the thought and deeds of the people whom we represent, congratulate our country upon its era of peace and prosperity. "While the country is at peace and is prosperous, there are, nevertheless, many grave problems claiming the attention of all serious Americans, among which is the relationship of all mankind under the flag. "We declare our faith in the democratic from of society in which we live. No other form of society guarantees to the individual the requisite freedom for the maturing of his power for great public service, and at the same time secure to the individual the fruits of his own toil. "Believing that a democratic form of society requires for its members in all things that make for good government, rightous civic life, commerce and industrial property, we regard equality of opportunity as the sacred guarantee of a democratic unity to each and all the members. "We affirm our faith in the following declaration of principles: "We believe that the owning of property gives the people amortage in the community life, that it develops a consciousness of manhood and womanhood, and that each ownership has moral value since it implies thrift, morality and a sense of responsibility. It makes one an alert, useful and cautious citizen in his community. Let each American own his own home, "We believe that the school has been established by county for its own preservation. The needs by society require that the largest and fullest training shall be given to those men and women who are to be the leaders of the people. At the same time no child should be denied the opportunity of the best possible elementary education, act impaired by such form of manual training as may be suited to its strength and degree of development. We further believe that vocational training should find a place in all secondary education. "We believe that the best interests of society are promoted by giving to each of its members an equal chance to participate in the political, commercial or industrial life of the patton. Each individual should be "APEX" THEATRE 302 Kansas Avenue. MOTION PICTURES 5c----ADMISSION----5c 3--EVENING SHOWS--3 :: 3--REELS--3 H. O. ABBOTT M. A. OGILSVIE FRANK R. WILSON permitted to work where he can work best and may secure the largest return for society and for himself. Efficiency and trustworthiness are the qualifications for good service, and these should be recognized among all classes of men. "We believe that the new call, 'Back to the farm,' should become universal. Brain, brawn, a few acres and faith in God are calculated to make any man happy. The rural home, the rural school and the rural church should be made attractive to the youth of the rural community in order that they may be kept from the crowded cities, where are found the sunken multitudes, sleeped in crime with lost vittue, without purpose and without hope. "We believe in the spread of temperance as a result of a seed-sowing of a quarter of a century. Only a sober and temperate people can hope for good health, long life and happy homes. "We believe that disease and crime are far too prevalent among the people, but these must be scientifically studied and proper preventive measures adopted. The hygienic and sanitary conditions must be intrusted to trained officials, and the administration of justice must be committed to unprejudiced men. "But the church with her kindred institutions, without regard to parish and denominational lines, must adjust herself in every preventive and rescue measure to the actual needs of the people in order to save them. Simple, busy lives, in neat, sunny homes, with a crown for idleness, will greatly lessen both disease and crime. "Any kind of legislation which wrongs one member of society must ultimately wrong all. The common carriers in some parts of the country, which make ample provision for one part of the traveling public, fail to provide for another part and suffer ladies and children to be placed in the most indictment situations, wrong the entire body of society." "We indicate any qualifications for suffrage which will give an orphanate electorate. We condemn any legislature or practice which prescribes a qualification for one voter that does not apply to all. Such a dental or control undemocratic and traught with mischief. "We do believe that the press of the country, whether daily or weekly, or monthly, exerts immense influence frequently, however, the power of the press is abused. This Congress, while approving of any and all measures giving freedom to the press, insists that a race should not be held responsible for the crime of an individual of that race by the practice so commonly in vogue in the American press of almost invariably mentioning the race stock of certain races in connection with the crimes of individuals of those races, thus indicating the race as well as the individuals, or at least creating a presumption in the public mind against the race so insulted." W. S. SCARBOROUGH, A.M., Ph.D. President Wilbursoff University, Nola, Ohio U. A. GRAHAM K. K. PINKSTON J. M. WRIGHT 3--3 3--REELS--3 President Western College, Macon, Missouri. J. WILL JACKSON, D. D., Regent Geo. R. Smith College, Sedalia, Missouri. GEO. E. STEVENS, D. D., Pastor Central Baptist Church, St. Louis, Missouri. J. W. BELL, D. D., Illinois Baptist Association, Chicago, Illinois. HON. I. P. BRADLEY, Kansas City, Kansas. HON. W. C. HUESTON. COL. GEO. T. WASSON. J. SILAS HARRIS, President. DR. J R A. CROSSLAND, V. Pres. HARRY R. GRAHAM, Cor. Secy. JESSIE D. KOBINSON, Rec. Secy. If you are a constant reader of The Plaindealer you will not need to ask concerning the news of the day. Office hours: 9:30 to 10:30; 3 to 6 Bell phone 901. DR. THADDEUS P. MARTIN, Physician and Surgeon. 812 Kansas Ave. Residence: 1026 Buchanan St. Residence phones: dell 901-2. Ind. 2889 Red DR. J. M. JAMISON, Physician and Surgeon. Examining Physician of the Knights and Ladies of Protection. Special attention to Diseases of Women and Private Diseases... Office and Residence. 327 Madison St. Bell phone 1091 Both phones 774 Res., Bell 641 OLIVER A. TAYLOR, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Office 334 Kansas Ave., over Gibbars Drug Store, across from Throop Hotel. Calls Answered Day and Night. Residence 1535 Van Buren St DR. W. ROGER RUSSELL, DENTIST All Work Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction. 812 Kansas Avenue. - Phone 349 When in Omaha THE : PATTON : HOTEL N. P. PATTON, Prop. (2 Blocks So of Union Station.) —CAFE IN CONNECTION. Meals at All Hours. Phone Douglas 4445. 1014 16-18 South 11th St. OMAHA, : NEBRASKA The Highest Market Price Paid for Eggs At PAYTON'S Quincy Street Grocery. The Wilson Orchestra Open for engagements. Dance and Party Music. DWIGHT BURTON, Mg' Phone 3108 ARGENTINE, KANSAS. Miss Thesea Baldwin entertained the Juvenile Board of the A. M. E. church on Sunday evening, June 7. everyone had a fine time. Mrs. Lucy M'Daniels passed away a Monday, May 26, at the age of 63 years, after a brief illness of about two weeks. She was a devoted Christian and a membehr of the Baptist church. She leaves seven sons and two daughters, and a host of other relatives and friends to mourn her aparture. Mr. Frank Lytle of St. Joseph, o., is in the city visiting his brother, r. Joseph Lytle. The remains of Mrs. Callie Rooks Great Bend, Kas, but formerly of Argentine, were brought here for Increment Tuesday, June 3. The children of Mrs. Gonzales on Ruby avenue, have been seriously ill with measles, but are now better. Edward, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tarwater was recently buried. ABILENE KANSAS Mrs. H. Gant and little grandlaughter, Parkina, of Kansas City, were the guests of the Warder family last Sunday and departed for home Monday. The Mission circle met at the residence of Mrs. N Warder Friday evening, June 6th, and was well attended. The Daughters of the Tabernacle have a social recently which was a financial success. The members of Mt. Zion Baptist church gave a shower surprise party Saturday night, June 7th, in honor of their new pastor, Rev. C. P. Morrow, and family, 9th and Walnut streets. The members marched in a body of quietness to the Morrow domicile where the pastor and his family were busily engaged in conversation with some lady friends (in reality "spies")) and beforte the objects of their prey were aware they were in the midst of "Steal Away to Aus" in low sweet tones. The door was slowly opened and all unmarched and presented this home a tub full of commodities. After passing a new moment in pleasant conversation and Rev. Morrow had extended his heartfelt thanks for the deed of loving kindness shown, and encouraging them to move in their Christian activity, and reach still higher in the elevation of life and asked the blessings of God upon the people, all departed for their homes feeling that the time and effort had been well spent. Messrs. R. Stewart and A. Patterson of Solomon were recent visitors in the city. Mr. N. A. Warder has been on the tick list but is much improved Rev. C. P. Morrow took charge of the Mt. Zion Baptist church on Sunday, June 8th, and preached an excellent sermon morning and evening Mrs. H. Davis of Pueblo, Colo., who was a visitor in the city, went to Topeka too witness the graduation of her daughter, Miss Emma Davis, who attended the T. I. While here she visited with her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lewis. The Daughters of St. Paul were tests of Mr. Park Catter at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Camper on Thursday evening, June 5th, and a pleasant time is reported The Children's Day program was big success. The church was nicely porated by the Sunday school committee, of which Miss Irene Robinson was chairman The choir made special music for Children's Day exercises and a large number of white was present Misses Iner Gordon and Irene Robinson are contestants in a rally for Ward Hall assessment, which will hold July 22d Rev I. B. Smith, D D, Ph D, was passenger to Lincoln, recently. Mr. I. J Gordon made a trip tooley, Okla., on business recently. Mrs. Ella Burt and Mrs. Othellooundtree of Omaha, Neb., were in city recently, guests of Mrs. I. B. Smith. Rev. R. S. Brown was guest at anuncheon on Tuesday evening, June 0, at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. Triplett. Ref Brown has the esteem of a large number of the professional white men of the city. The Sunday school expects to give its annual picnic room PITTSBURG, KANSAS. Mr. James H. Hunnigan of Confey- ville and Miss Stella Cain of this ity were united in the bonds of holy atrimony at the home of the bride's ents, on June 2. Rev. J. T. Elias icated The bride was one of the erschers in Douglas school in this ity and has a host of friends, who are ery to lose her in the school, but her and husband a prosperou- happy journey on life's sea. Rev. J. T. Elias spent a few days Muskogue, Okla, during the Na- l Sunday School congress Mr. Hester recently spent a few days in Galena. Mr. Henry Cole has repainted and remodeled his home on 11th St. Mrs. Roper entertained a few of her friends in honor of the Misses Hawkins and Sparrow of Topeka and the evening was spent in music and conversation. Those present were Mrs. J. T. Elias, Mrs. J. Jones, Mrs. Ernma Isaac, Mr. Hurt, Mr. Walter Hughes, Mr. George Dismuke, Miss Leota Fletcher, Adam Giles, Allie Abernathy, Esther Elias, Beatrice Dismuke, Lella Crouch. Ice cream and cake were served and all report a splendid time. Irene Smith lis seriously ill. The Mt. Hebron Baptist church gave a Sunday school picnic June 10, and about two hundred children were present. All had a jolly time with lots of good things to eat. Mr. Albert Bell of Iola, Kas, spent a few days in the city recently shaking hands with old friends. INDEPENDENCE KANSAS. The cool weather experienced in this section a few days ago gave one the impression of early spring, but the sudden change knocked that idea higher than a kite. Rev. B. M. Stratford attended the District convention recently held, at Galena. He reports an excellent session, accomplishing much good. Rev. Bridget had change of Rev. Stratford's church while he was at the Galena meeting. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Crums expect to leave soon on their annual fifteen days' vacation. The Children's Day program at the A. M. E. church was a grand success. A splendid program was rendered to a large crowd. The choir under the direction of Miss Alice Fluellen rendered excellent music for the occasion. Mrs. Warren, the pastor's wife also deserves much credit for the arrangement and instruction of the children. A collection of $12 was taken. Rev. Warren has his church in splendid condition. Rev. Mrs. Bridges of Parsons was a recent visitor in the city. Miss Blanche White, who was reported quite ill, is much improved Mr. V. B Brady, after a long seige of illness, is progressing nicely, and he in company with Mr. Ira Fields were the guests of the Misses Pluellen at lunch Sunday June 6th. It is reported that Rev. Warren has about 150 young fowls and an excellent garden, which shows that he is worker in more ways than one. Mr Henry Taylor graced the pulpit for Rev. Johnson at Cherryvale on June 8th. Messrs. Chester Harris and Bush were recent visitors at Coffeyville. Rev. Stratford graced the pulpit for Rev. Warren a few nights ago. Boose, in spite of probition, seems to play a prominent part in this city. Miss Burns of Lawrence, who recently completed a year in teaching at Coffeyville, visited with Mrs. G. W. Wright a few days. It is reported that Mr. Davis has sold his interest in a barbershop to a newcomer in this place Little J. W. V. Warren says he gets his "training" quite often. Mr. and Mrs. Clem Fluellen were visitors in Coffeyville Sunday, June 8. They report a pleasant visit. Quite a bit of sickness is reported The members of the Baptist church contemplate the erection of a new edifice in the near future CENTRAL LA MISSOURI Miss Mabel Mayburn of Centralia, and Mr. J Jamison of Mexico, were quietly united in wedlock at the home of the bride's parents, Sunday, June 8th, at 2:30 p. m., by Rev. Laws, the Baptist pastor. An excellent dinner was served the guests and all joined in washing the bride and groom much happiness and prosperity in the path of life. Those present were Rev. E. L. Thomas of the A. M. B. church, and daughters, Misses Coralie and Cletha, and Mrs. Fannie Lloyd. Miss Carrie Gosby and Mr. Seward Washington were united in wollok at the Baptist church, the Rev. Mr. Laws officiating. The bride is one of the best young women of the city and she and her husband have the best wishes of a host of admiring friends. Miss Coralie Thomas has returned from Columbia where she spent a few days and reports a splendid time. The A. M. R. church now have their electric lights in for which they so long planned, and all are in capture. Children's Day, June 8th, was a grand occasion at the A. M. R. church. An excellent program was rendered at the Baptist church on Children's Day and was enjoyed by a crowded house. The Baptist conversion convened here on the 20th. Mr. Edgar Harris, Misses Jessie with Corne Shealy, Misses Tom Jacobs, and Alex Wake were recent visitors at Columbia. Mrs. Belle Dixon has been very sick and her friends hope for her early recovery FOR THE FARM BOY. Senator John Sharp Williams, a practical agriculturist, has handed out a few words of advice to the boys. "My word to the farm boy," he says, "would be that the three elements of success are industry, perseverance and intelligence. Industry without intelligence does not win, intelligence without industry does not win, and the two together must be coupled with perseverance, and to this must be added that degree of honesty in dealing with one's neighbors that makes friends for life." WHITEWASH FOR FARMS. Australian Method of Manufacture South Americans Use Cactus Juice. The Australians use a whitewash which it is inspected will not rub off. It is prepared in the following manner: Dissolve two pounds of ordinary glue in seven plums of water and when all is dissolved add six ounces of bichromate of potassium dissolved in a pint of hot water. Stir the mixture up well and then add sufficient whiting to make it up to the usual consistency and apply with a brush in the ordinary manner as quickly as possible. This dries in a very short time and by the action of light becomes converted into a perfectly insoluble waterproof substance which does not wash off even with hot water and at the same time does not give rise to mold growth, as whitewash made up with size often does. It may be colored to any desired shade by the use of a trace of aniline dye or powder coloring, while by the addition of a small proportion of calcic sulphite its antiseptic power is much increased. A recent consular report states that a traveler in the rural districts of Uruguay will be struck by the fine white color of the farm buildings even during the wet season. This neat effect is secured by the use of a whitewash prepared by macerating the sliced leaves of the common cactus in water for twenty-four hours, producing a liquid of creamy consistency, to which time is added and the whole well mixed. It is suggested that in sections of the United States where the cactus is abundant it might be utilized with advantage in this manner. The effect is durable. These whitewashes, like all those which contain milk, flour, glue or other organic matter, are not recommended for use in damp, interior places. Board's Dairyman. Roller Gate. A farm gate sixteen feet long, as it should be to get through easily with a hayrack, is too heavy to slide easily. There is a cast iron roller made for the purpose and sold in hardware stores. The cut shows how it is fastened to the posts so the gate slides halfway back. In a long gate there is always a center piece up and down, with a diagonal brace running from the center to the the purpose and sold in hardware stores. The cut shows how it is fastened to the posts so the gate slides halfway back. In a long gate there is always a center piece up and down, with a diagonal brace running from the center to the front end of the gate. The posts are mortised to let in a two inch block, and the casting that holds the roller in let into this block and an iron washer slipped over the bolt so the casting will turn easily.—Farm Press Excellent Horses Rules. No horse should stand on a cement floor. This is an axiom insisted on by all who know much about breeding. Following are others, and they are excellent; Every horse should have clean bedding and his feet picked out and kept clean. There is no excuse for thrush. Have no mangers and feed hay off the ground. Feed grain out of a pail or portable feed box that may be removed when the horse has finished. Keep the horse clean and be sure he has feed, light, rest and exercise. No man, has a better right to stand up squarely and look the world squarely in the eye than the farmer. He is the creator of this nation's wealth. Stand up so the back of your neck will touch your collar.—Kansas Farmer. ```markdown ``` The Hive In Winter. Either the hive entrance should be too shallow for a mouse to intrude or it should be protected by wire cloth having three moshes to the inch. The essentials of successful bee wintering are good stores, warmth and hives. Do not place bees in clumps upon low ground where the bottom boards will become dump and remain so all winter. Place the bunches upon dry ground raised up on 2 by 4s or upon hive stands. A southern slope with shelter from west and north winds is highly advisable. Practically nothing can be done at this season of the year that will be of any advantage to the bees. It is generally best to leave them strictly alone at this time. However, a slight exception might be made in connection with bees stored in cellars or other winter repositories, in which case it is well occasionally to ventilate the cellars and sweep up the dead bees that accumulate on the floor. 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National President. National Secretary Home Phone W 626. Bell Phone West 3136. A Trial Is All We Ask. 1839 QUINDARO BLVD. KANSAS CITY, . . KANSAS. 8 THE TWO KANSAS CITIES. Mrs. Harry Taylor, 1110 N. 10th street, has been ill since last Sunday, suffering from la gripe. Mrs. Dora Maddux, 906 Walker avenue, left last Monday evening for Denver, Colo., to spend the summer. The next meeting of the Golden Eagle club will be Monday evening, June 23, at the home of Mrs. Mary Bufford, 122 La Fayette avenue. All are invited. Prof. and Mrs. J. E. Patterson left last Wednesday evening for Saint Louis, Mo., and from there they go to Chicago, where Mr. Patterson will do eight weeks summer work in the University of Chicago, in psychology, education and science. Mr. Patterson has just received notice of his appointment by Gov. Hodges as a delegate to the National Negro Educational Congress. Mr. Wm. Gardner, a highly respected citizen of this city, died early Monday morning at his home on N. 5th street. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the chapel of Undertaker Jno. W. Jones, 440 State Ave. Rev. M. I. Warfield officiated. The members of St. Paul's Chapel, C. M. E. church, gave a reception last Monday evening for the Golden Eagle club, in appreciation of the good work of this club in raising money for the rally. A very nice programme was rendered, after which ice cream, cake and punch were served. The Ministers' Alliance met Monday at the Metropolitan Baptist Baptist church, Rev. J. M. Booker presiding. The most interesting feature of the program was the presence of Miss Cora Annis, of Cleveland, Ohio, head of the Galeda classes of the N. B. S. S. convention. She explained the work of the Galedas. Election of officers will be held at the next meeting Monday June 23. The State Federation of clubs convened last Wednesday morning at Lawrence. A large number of delegates from Kansas City are in attendance, among whom are: Mrs. O. B. Johnson, Mrs. Scott, Miss Marie Johnson, Mrs. Isaacs, Mrs. Jacobs, Mrs. D. W. White, Mrs. S. M. Banks, Mrs. I. F. Bradley, Mrs. Ethyl Weeden King, Mrs. Nellie Holloway and Mrs. Eona Berry Swain. Rev. and Mrs. James E. Richards, 1027 Minnesota avenue entertained at 6 o'clock dinner on June 13 for Rev. W. Bannon, of Canon City, Colo. Miss Ruth Bradley entertained last Saturday evening at her home, 400 Haskell avenue, complimentary to Miss Clora Polk and her brother, Mr. Polk, of Arizona, Miss Desdamona West of Kansas City, Mo., and Miss Mabel Gleed of Lawrence. About seventy-five guests were present from the two Kansas Cities. A very enjoyable evening was spent in dancing and cards, after which refreshments were served on the beautiful lawn. The guests were received by Miss Ruth, Miss Erva French and little Louise Thompson. Everyone left well pleased, and all declared that Miss Bradley and Mrs. Bradley had lived up to their records as Kansas City's most lavish entertainers. The Knight of Tabor and Daughters of the Tabernacle held their annual sermon Sunday at the Eighth St. Baptist church, Rev. D. B Jackson pastor. The Knights, 75 strong, formed in a line and matched from their hall to the church, headed by the Western Imperial band. The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. G. E. Horsey, M. D. Dr. Horsey delivered one of the most powerful lodge sermons ever heard in this city. Another feature of the program was an address by Prof. John M. Marquess. The Railway Clerks Progressive club was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bianche, 815 Nebraska Ave. Kansas City, Kansas. The object of the entertainment was that a bond of friendship might be cemented between the postal clerks and their wives whereby they might be one closely affiliated for the good of all concerned. The program was as follows: Instrumental music furnished the Mandolin club; address, Mr. S. H. Randolph, stating the origin of the club, which was very interesting, being outlined in a few well chosen remarks; paper, "Am I My Brother's Keeper?" Mr. W. D. Holmes, which was very interesting; remarks by the president, Mr. C. W. Bailler, subject: "How We Came to be Thus Far," speaking of the conditions which prevailed; paper, Higher Yet," Mrs. DeWit Howard, written by Miss Williams, ten years old, of Bruce school, and was read to show the importance of the subject in which we were all concerned; closing selection, Mandolin club. At the conclusion of this the guests were invited to partake of the contents of the punch bowl and prepare themselves for a short game of progressive whist for one hour. The prizes were won by the following:—1st, Mrs. DeWit Howard; 2d, Mr. C. Williams; Srd, Mrs. William Lewis, after which refreshments were served Mrs. A. M. Pope—Turnbo Results of "Poro" Treatment. "PORO COLLEGE" Largest College of its kind in the world. 300 PINE STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO. OUR GUARANTEE Every box of "PORO" is fully guaranteed without reserve. No or restriction. Should the contents of this box, FOR ANY REASON, not meet with the approval of the purchaser, it may be returned at our expense, stating where purchased, and we will replace some free of charge. consisting of ice cream, strawberries and cake. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. McLyden, Mrs. White, Mr. S. H. Randolph, Miss Layten of Cheyenne, Wyo., Mr. and Mrs. Payne, Mr. R. C. Knox, Miss Pennington, Mr. and Mrs. DeWit Howard, Mr. C. W. Bailer and wife, Miss Gertrude Lanhford, Mr. Collins, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Graham, Mrs. William Lewis, Mr. Williams. All present agreed that they had spent an enjoyable evening, and paired, hoping they would witness these occasions more frequent. 1. Splendid Sermon. To say that Rev. J. R. Ransom preached a splendid annual sermon to the old soldiers and the Woman's Relief Corps would not be doing him full justice, but we do say that he preached a sermon that will never be forgotten, one that aroused many thoughts that were lying dormant. After a few timely remarks by the post commander, Mr. Caston, Rev. J. H. Denby told incidents that proved the valor and integrity of the colored soldiers, and compared the Christian warfare and the earthly warfare, which was well received. Miss Cornelia Wilson, the efficient secretary of the W. R. C., recited the poem of the day, "Let the Old Soldiers Talk." All credit must be given Miss Cornelia Wilson, Miss Lucinda Wilson and that tireless worker, most worthy president of the W. R. C., Mrs. Cora Dameron, who can point with pride, mingled with sorrow to the monument (in Woodlawn cemetery) erected to their country's dead, marking the final resting place of those who died in battle, whose loyalty impelled them to protect their families and their homes, and die in the defense of their country's flag. MRS. CORA DAMERON, Pres. MISS CORNELIA WILSON, Sec. MISS LUCINDA WILSON, Pat. In NELLIE THOMAS, Reporter. Eat or Sleep? Then... When in Kansas City and want first class service and a fine place to stop, call on Mrs. Josephine Daves, 317 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. BROWNLEE, NEDRASKA. Editor Plaindealer: I took the advice offered in your valuable paper and I am now on a claim in Cherry county, Nebraska. The only thing I am sorry for is that I did not come here three or four years sooner. A great many people will prove up on their claims this fall. All of them are doing well—raising their own produce—corn, potatoes, peas, rye, oats, alfalfa, millet, hogs, cattle, mules, horses poultry of all kinds. They are here from Canada, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky. Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, still room for more, who are living in the cities, paying rent and depending on jobs for a living. If our people would only come out here and invest $14.00 in a homestead, and go on their claim and prove up in three or five years, that section would be worth in cash from from $3,000 to $5,000, which is big pay for 3 or 5 years of hardship. If only our people would come and take this land! So many come and say it is no good, but the white people are taking it every day, while our people are contented to black shoes and look after other little jobs just to be in town, when they could come out here and soon be a man. I had rather be a king among dogs than a dog among kings, for the man who lives at home is a king in his own palace. I pray the time will come when our people will get busy and get this land. It will soon be too late. So, come now. I am as ever yours for the church I am as ever yours for the church and the race, (REV.) T. B. J. BARCLAY. G. Q. LAKE, Drugs, Medicines, Toilet Goods. Cleanest and Best Stock in Kansas. N. E. Cor. 6th and Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Mr. Linest Majors of Omaha, Neb. and Miss Amelia Barksdale were married Friday, June 12th. It was quite a surprise to her many friends. The bride is the accomplished daughter of Rev. James Barksdale, who now has a charge at Poplar Bluffs, Mo. She graduated in the business and normal courses at Western U., with the class of 1910. Mr. Majors is a mechanic of no mean skill and we predict for him a prosperous future. The Plaindealer extends congratulations. Master Jerry Frazier, Jr., is visiting at Denver, Colorado. Master Dovie Wilkerson has gone to Hopeka too spend his vacatloon. Miss Mamie Brown, teacher of Dunbar school, returned Tuesday after a two weeks' visit at Harrisonville, Mo. Mrs. Mollie Thompson and mother visited relatives at Atchison Kans, last week. Mr. Paul Granger who has been seriously ill for the past two months is out and among his friends again. Mr. Norval Barksdale returned last Sunday from Jefferson City, Mo., where he has been attending Lincoln Institute. If you are a constant reader of The Plaindealer you will not be be be hing the times. Keep posted. Farm and Garden How to Handle the Squealers and Their Dams to Get Best Results. In raising hogs cheaply it is necessary to begin with the sows. They must be fed well in order to produce a good litter of strong, vigorous pigs. Oats are a splendid feed. They are a well balanced food. Corn is not suitable. It is too fattening. Also provide plenty of pure water. Exercise is necessary. This can be provided by feeding the oats on a feeding floor, scattering them thinly. It is not necessary to grind the oats. The sows should be handled so one can go up to them at any time. A good time to have them farrow is about April 4. A good place is a stall in the horse or cow barn. The time of farrowing can be deter-mined quite exactly. The milk comes into the teats four to six hours before farrowing. Don't feed the sow for twenty-four hours after farrowing, but give her slightly warmed water. They feed some feed like oats and some shorts. When the little pigs are five or six weeks old begin feeding them some grain feed like ground oats. A good A man in a suit is kneeling on a dog's back, with the dog lying on its side. The dog appears to be a small breed, possibly a puppy. The background is a plain, light-colored surface. FEEDING THE LITTLE FELLOWS. way is to fence off their trough so the sow can't get to it. Wean the pigs when about twelve weeks old. A good pasture should be provided For early spring a rye pasture is fine This can be followed by a mixed pasture, as follows: Peas, two bushels pet acre; barley, one bushel, and rape three to four pounds. Some grain should be fed, as the pasture alone will not be sufficient. Then plant a patty of squaw corn. The pigs can be turned into this the middle of August. The sows that are to be used for breeding should not be turned into the corn, but keep them on the pasture and feed some grain, as its or shorts. This requires the minimum of labor and makes cheap pork. An expensive hog house is not neces sary. A straw shed will answer very well. Set up some posts in a circle with an alley leading to the east. Put woven wire fence on the posts and some poles on top. Throw the straw over it when thrashing. The A shaped houses are fine for the sows after they have farrowed - W. R. Lanson, Super Intendent Hettinger Substation, N. D. DAIRY FARMS LAST. The greatest advantage in dairy farming is its relation to the fertility of the soil. No other system of farming exerts it in this respect, and but few equal it. A farm used for dairy purposes does not lose in fertility, but gains, and may be used for this purpose almost indefinitely. --- Drilling Oats Is Best. Oats which are skilled usually yield just a little better when broad casted. Because of the uniform covering less seed is required and the ripening is more even. Alfalfa land should be disturbed as early in the spring as the ground is in condition, as alfalfa starts rather promptly and will be injured if it is already under water. "GOING TO LAW." According to a recent decision of the United States supreme court, the states have no power to insult constructs be between railroads and shipers limiting the liability for loss of interstate shipments. Where a train from year to year remains in possession after the expiration of the year with the requisition of the landlord and without a new agreement a tenancy for a new year on the date is created - Grizwold Voss Branford Co. 68 ATl Rep 1957 You cannot contempt the mail carrier to leave his regular route so to come within a quarter of a mile of your house if it is one half mile or more from his route. You might possibly have the route changed to position to the postoffice department and with the assistance of the member of congress from your district Farm and Garden SEED BED FOR ALFALFA. Small Seed and Delicate Nature of Plant Require Compact Soil. When alfalfa is grown on corn or potato ground the preparation of the seed bed is a comparatively simple alfalfa, writes I. R. Waldron of the North Dakota experiment station. The land should be disked in the spring and worked with a peg tooth harrow. After disking and harrowing, the ground should be worked occasionally during the spring with disk and harrow, in order to conserve the moisture and to kill the young germinating weeds. Growing alfalfa after a corn or potato crop is of added advantage in ```markdown ``` Photograph by Long Island agricultural treatment station BLEEDING ALFALFA WITH HAND DRILL that the seed bed is firm below the top, two or three inches. The small seed of the alfalfa and the delicate nature of the young plant demand a compact seed bed in comparison to what is allowable for corn or even for wheat. In an open, porous seed bed the soil is apt to dry out in the upper few inches, and if this occurs shortly after the germination of the alfalfa the young seedlings are quite liable to die through lack of moisture. If alfalfa is to be grown after a crop of small grain the land should be fall plowed. The fall plowing allows the seed bed to become more compact than spring plowing and, in addition, aids in conserving moisture. The fall plowing should be worked in the spring in much the same manner as the corn or potato ground. Alfalfa may be grown upon summer fallow, though this probably has no advantage over corn ground in most instances. GOOD ADVICE. Reading good farm papers never made any man a poorer farmer or a poorer man How many do you read? SAVING THE STRAWBERRIES. Marsh Hay is Good For Use as a Mulch—Way to Keep Celery. As soon as the ground froze mulch the strawberries. Use a light, con- crete material that will not pack down too closely and thus smother the plants. Marsh hay is excellent for this pur- pose, as it contains few seeds. Last winter I kept celery in the fruit cellar nearly all winter. At harvest I dug the plants, leaving considerable soil on the roots, removed them to a dimly lighted corner of the cellar and picked them closely. A little ad ditional soil was packed in among the roots, and the plants were then thoroughly watered, taking care not to wet the tops or get any in the heart of the plant. Every three weeks during the winter it was thoroughly watered. It kept perfectly and continued to grow slowly throughout the winter. - Professor Wright, Pennsylvania State College, in American Agriculture. Among the Animals. For some years past a number of dairy men in Australia have adopted the practice of blanketing cows during wet and cold weather. The results in every case are spoken of as being highly satisfactory. Keep the horseshoes well tightened on the hoofs now, as this is the time of year they are most frequently lost by being hooved in the mud or snow or because of long usage. They are too high priced to be lost, and, besides a house shelters the hoof and is a disturbance to the animal in travel. When an ewe drags her lamb put her in a small pen for two or three days or until the lamb is strong enough to follow the hoof. Examine the udder and fores to see that they are not fevoured. If the lamb is unable to consume all the milk for a few days the ewe should be milked out at least once each day. The production of farm yard manure in this country now represents a value greater than the total value of the corn crop. The estimated annual value of farm manure produced in America is $233,000,000. All authorities agree that more than one-third of this material is absorbed wasted by the farm. (First Published in The Topeka Plaindealer, May 30, 1913.) Case No. 27,919. Sheriff's Sale Notice—(On Allad Order of Sale.) SHERIFF'S SALE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, State of Kansas. The National Council of the Knights and Ladies of Security, Plaintiff. va. F. E. Barnes, John G. Cooper and Cora T. Cooper, Defendants. By virtue of an alias Order of Sale issued to me, out of said District Court, in the above-entitled action, I will, on Monday, the 30th day of June, A. D, 1913, at 2 o'clock P. M. of said day, at the east front door of the Court House in the City of Topeka, in the County of Shawnee, in the State of Kansas, offer at public sale, and sell to the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand, all the following-described real estate, to-wit: Lots 389,391,393,395 on Polk St. except the east 105 feet of lot 389 and the north eight and one-third feet of the east 105 feet of lot 391 on Polk Street, in the City of Topeka, Kansas, except the right to the owner of the excepted part of said lots to use the north ten (10) feet of the rear 45 feet of said lots for the purpose of a driveway and the maintenance of a private sewerage across said 45 feet, lying and situate in the County of Shawnee, in the State of Kansas. The above-described real estate is taken as the property of said defendants, and is directed by said alias order of sale to be sold, and will be sold without appraisement, to satisfy said alias order of sale. Sheriff of Shawnee County, Kansas. Perry, Doran and Dean, Attorneys. (First Published in The Topeka Plain- dealer, June 15th, 1913.) Edwin R. Bennett and John H. Danby, if they are alive, will take notice, and if they are dead, their unknown heirs, executors, administrators devisees, trustees and assigns will take notice that they have been sued by C. K. Streeter in the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, to quiet his title as against them to lots 368 and 370 on Michigan Avenue, in what was formerly known as Jenkin W. Mortis' Addition to the City of Topeka, but now as in Oakland, Shawnee County, Kansas, and to bar them from ever setting up any lien thereon or claim thereto adverse to him, and that they must answer the petition nled by him as plaintiff in said action in said Court on or before the 28th day of July, 1913, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against them accordingly. MATT CAMPBELL. Attest: Plaintiff's Attorney. C. W. BOWER. Clerk of the District Court (SEAL.) (First Published in The Topokan Plaintiffer, May 30, 1918.) In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Edna Mayetta Banfield. Plaintiff James M. Barnfield, Defendant PUBLICATION NOTICE State of Kansas. County of Shoreau. County of Shawnee, ss. The above named James M. Bansfield is hereby notified that suit has been commenced against him by the above plaintiff, asking for divorce, a restoration of her maiden name and other relief, and that unless he appear and answer same by July 12th, 1913, same will be taken as true and judgment rendered accordingly against you be prayed for. A. J. BOLINGER, Attorney for Plaintiff. Attest: C W BOWER. Clerk of the District Court. (Scal.) WONDERFUL RESULTS ON SHORT NOTICE I have used your Pomade. Its the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lo smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mrs. Louise H. Hayes of Pineville, S.C. Try Lord's Her Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruly hair and Lord's Royal Wash in lotion for the complexion. You can consult for them. Be sure not to use the genuine (or manufactured by the Ozontes D. Marrow Company, Chicago, D. NOTICE We wish all our subscribers in Mushoget, Oklahoma City, Guthrie, Wagoner, Okmulgee, Beley, Tulsa, Vinita and other towns of Oklahoma that our agent will be around to see you soon, please be prepared to meet. FOR THE FARM BOY. Senator John Sharp Williams, a practical agriculturist, has handed out a few words of advice to the boys, "My word to the farm boy," he says, "would be that the three elements of success are industry, perseverance and intelligence. Industry without intelligence does not win, intelligence without industry does not win, and the two together must be coupled with perseverance, and to this must be added that degree of honesty in dealing with one's neighbors that makes friends for life." WHITEWASH FOR FARMS. Australian Method of Manufacture South Americans Use Cactus Juices. The Australians use a whitewash which it is asserted will not rub off. It is prepared in the following manner: Dissolve two pounds of ordinary glue in seven plates of water and when all is dissolved add six ounces of dichromate of potassium dissolved in a pint of hot water. Stir the mixture up well and then add sufficient whiting to make it up to the usual consistency and apply with a brush in the ordinary manner as quickly as possible. This dries in a very short time and by the action of light becomes converted into a perfectly insoluble waterproof substance which does not wash off even with hot water and at the same time does not give rise to mold growth, as whitewash made up with size often does. It may be colored to any desired shade by the use of a trace of aniline dye or powder coloring, while by the addition of a small proportion of calcite sulphate its antiseptic power is much increased. A recent consular report states that a traveler in the rural districts of Uruguay will be struck by the fine white color of the farm buildings even during the wet season. This neat effect is secured by the use of a whitewash prepared by micratering the sliced leaves of the common cactus in water for twenty-four hours, producing a liquid of creamy consistency, to which time is added and the whole well mixed. It is suggested that in sections of the United States where the cactus is abundant it might be utilized with advantage in this manner. The effect is durable. These whitewashes, like all those which contain milk, flour, glue or other organic matter, are not recommended for use in dainting, interior places.—Hoard's Dairyman. Roller Gate. A farm gate sixteen feet long, as it should be to get through easily with a hayrack, is too heavy to slide easily. There is a cast iron roller made for the purpose and sold in hardware stores. The cut shows how it is fastened to the posts so the gate slides halfway back. In a long gate there is always a center piece up and down, with a diagonal brace running from the center to the the purpose and sold in hardware stores. The cut shows how it is fastened to the posts so the gate slides halfway back. In a long gate there is always a center piece up and down, with a diagonal brace running from the center to the front end of the gate. The posts are mortised to let in a two inch block, and the casting that holds the roller is let into this block and an iron washer allipped over the bolt so the casting will turn easily.—Farm Press. Excellent Horse Rules No horse should stand on a cement floor. This is an axiom insisted on by all who know much about breeding. Following are others, and they are excellent: Every horse should have clean bedding and his feet picked out and kept clean. There is no excuse for thrush. Have no mangers and feed hay off the ground. Feed grain out of a pail or portable feed box that may be removed when the horse has finished. Keep the horse clean and be sure he has feed, light, rest and exercise. No man, has a better right to stand up squarely and look the world squarely in the eye than the farmer. He is the creator of this nation's wealth. Stand up so the back of your neck will touch your collar.—Kansas Farmer. The Hive In Winter. Either the hive entrance should be too shallow for a mouse to intrude or it should be protected by wire cloth having three netsches to the inch. The essentials of successful bee wintering are good stores, warmth and hives. Do not place bees in clumps upon low ground where the bottom boards will become damp and remain so all winter. Since the bunches upon dry ground raised up on 2 by 4's or upon hive stands. A southern slope with shelter from west and north winds is highly advisable. Practically nothing can be done at this season of the year that will be of any advantage to the bees. It is generally best to leave them strictly alone at this time. However, a slight exception might be made in connection with bees stored in cellars or other winter repositories, in which case it is well occasionally to ventilate the cellars and sweep up the dead bees that accumulate on the floor. This is a positive advantage to the live ones and in a large measure prevents the air of the cellars from becoming *bul*—Farm Journal. If each farmer of a community were to furnish a sample of his seed corn, to be planted by the side of other samples in a field of even soil, there would be some surprises when the crops were harvested. Many a farmer handicaps himself by refusing to believe that his neighbor has a better strain or variety.—National Stockman and Farmer. FOR SOWING COWPEAS. Simple Homemade Contrivance That Does the Work Well. Here you will find a sketch, taken from Farm and Fireside, of a knack to put on cultivator wheels to sow cowpeas and such, as you lay br corn C A B D A (Fig 1) is a wheel. B is boards on which dispan C is fastened with screws around rim. DD are holes one-half inch in from edge of pan, from which peas drop as wheel goes around Fig 2 represents boards on which pan is fastened. A is hole which slips over the hub of wheel and also used to dill pan BIII are wires through boards, which are fastened to spokes to hold all to place. As wheel goes around the seed statters out be tween the corn rows. One of these should be on each wheel. Bskip one row B B G A B Bskip one row each time until once over, then take off and plow remaining rows. For small pots six and one half inch holes in pan fifteen inches in diame- ter on forty-four inch wheel will sow about one bushel to the nore. A heavy washer inside of pan will keep holes from clogging. THOSE FERTILIZER FIGURES. They Tell How Much Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid and Potash You Buy. An occasional question comes regarding the meaning of the numerals used in designating a fertilizer. It would be well if no other designation ever were used, as it calls attention to the composition of the fertilizer and that is the one important thing. The first number gives the percentage of nitrogen in the fertilizer, the second gives the phosphoric acid and the third the potash. When a fertilizer is designated in this way one's mind is drawn directly to the actual content of plant food. We want to know how many pounds of each plant food constituent we are getting when we buy a fertilizer and would prefer to use 100 pounds of a 4-8-10 fertilizer rather than 200 pounds of a 2-4-5, because we would be getting the same amount of plant food by handling only 100 pounds of material. National Stockman and Farmer Simple Bilo Wisdom. The quality of silage depends upon the four factors—nn air tight silo, a water tight silo, the age of the corn and the manner in which it is put into the silo. With the proper construction silos of concrete, brick, tile or wood may fulfill these conditions. Recent experiments in Iowa show that the amount and kind of acid in silage, which acts as a preservative, did not vary greatly between the silage from brick, wood and hollow the silos, indicating that the material of which a silo is made does not materially affect the quality of the contents, provided the silo is carefully constructed so as to be air and water tight—Country Gentleman Keeping Qualities of Silage It is all right to keep allege put up last fall till next winter. We have known of dairymen feeding allege that was three or four years old and, so far as we could see, gave just as good results as allege used the same year as made - Hondo's Dairyman FOR THE GARDENER. How to get rid of some common pests: Squash Beetle - Spray with paris green Tomato Worm - Hand pick with gloves or spray with paris green Potato Beetle - Spray with paris green and lime or brush off in a whirl tow pan and destroy Cutworms - Mix paris green and bran and spread as a bait before plants are set. Put piper colts around young plants Ants may be controlled by punishing holes near their nests, putting in a few spoonfuls of citron bisphide and closing the openings. Striped On guitar Beetle - Cover points with hexcloth screens, spray with a teaspoon of lanolin five pounds to fifty gallons of water Ammo World Spray with parts green spoon to burn parts green oil or now a drop dish with a steep side set to creep and kill them in the air Ammo World Spray with parts green spoon to which it is added some resin soap to create a stick to the leaves Use hollows for full grown heads — Country Gentleman Farm and Garden HENS' SODA FOUNTAIN. Give Them a Convenient Watering Place. One That Keeps Clean. Place. On the first recipe clean. A convenient place should be provided for water for the hens. It is best to construct a small stand about one foot above the floor and place the water dish on this. This stand can be constructed in the partition so that the hens in two pens drink from one dish. It is, however, usually better to give each pen a separate drinking dish. The water stand should be placed where it is light and also where it is convenient to empty the dish and refill it. As a rule, the water dish will keep cleaner if near the south side of the building, as the hens scratch the litter toward the north much more ```markdown ``` Photograph by Wisconsin agricultural experiment station Photograph by Wisconsin agricultural experiment station WATER DISH FOR POULTRY. [Stand like this insures clean water for fowls] than toward the front of the house. A hen faces the light usually when digging in the straw for her feed, and the result is that the litter works back. There are numerous drinking devices on the market, many of which are valuable. A large number of farmers, however, use either a small pail or pan. A low pail makes a very convenient water dish, as the ball enables it to be readily handled with one hand. A pan as shown in the cut also makes a convenient watering dish. Care should be taken not to use watering devices of any kind which have parts that cannot be readily cleaned. A dirty drinking dish is frequently a source of disease and should never be permitted in any poultry house. Attention to Colt's Feet. Don't forget to give the colt's feet attention. There is always a reason for a poor set of limbs. It may be hereditary, but it is generally carelessness on the part of the owner who did not keep its feet trimmed down level with the frog. A colt's feet are continually breaking off and splitting if they are not attended to promptly.—Horse Journal Make the Hone Work. Don't overfed your hems. When they begin to act lazy and walk around as if they had little or no ambition you can make up your mind that they are getting too much food without work. Bury their grain in the soft ground or in deep litter and make them work for it--Kansas Farmer. A productive soil is not a mass of inert material, as many seem to regard it. It is a living, active medium, with organic matter, where micro-organisms are busy in reducing vegetable matter to available plant food. No matter how much chemical plant food there is in the soil, unless there be organic matter the soil will not produce large crops. FROM HORN TO HOOF. Probably no single cause tends more to check milk secretion than the failure to remove all the milk at the time of milking, says Hoard's Dairy man. Cows should be salted at least once a week. The best plan is to have salt under cover where the cows can get to it at will. Rock salt, of course, is best for this purpose. Roots are perhaps most valuable during the first part of the fattening period, particularly with cattle. From forts to fifty pounds per day may be fed at first; then the amount should be gradually diminished. Professor Delichtr of the Illinois experiment station says that the proper water supply for a pig ranges from twelve pounds daily per 100 pounds live weight at the time of weaning to four pounds per 100 pounds live weight during the fattening period. Oats and peas make excellent hay. They may be sown in the spring as soon as the ground can be worked about one and a half bushels of each to the acre. The peas will be ready to cut about July 1, when the oats are yet in the milk stage and the peas just forming in the pods ATCHISON. KANSAS. NOTICE: Please be ready for the agent when she comes to collect, as it is very warm and not very pleasant in walking over the same territory so many times. We want the money.—MRS. C. B. LONG, 1222 10th St. Mr. John Holbert was summoned by his father Wednesday, June 11, lo Ottawa, Kas., on account of the death of his brother, who was shot by A. Edwards Tuesday night. Mrs. Rosa Carter made a flying trip to St. Joe Mo., on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Lutie Duncan. Mrs. Fountain Pitts sprained her ankle last Wednesday and at this writing she is doing nicely. Dr. W. W. Caldwell reports a fine son born to Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Red, 612 O street. Mr. Joseph E. and Mrs. Hettie M. Mason of New York City, are the guests of Mrs. Hatie Montgomery on N. 5th street. Mr. and Mrs. Mason are very cultured, refined and educated people and both very pleasant. Mrs. Mason has been blind for years. She is devoted to her foster mother and her husband, and through the assistance of her husband she will take care of her foster mother, Mrs. Mary Pope, who resides in Kansas City, and Mrs. Mason visited her there recently. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Nolan have returned from Kansas City and are the guests of their daughter, Mrs. Julia Pry and their grandson, Mr. Charles Pty. They are well blessed to live to see their great grand children. The death of Mrs. Eliza Hyston was quite a shock to the community. She was a devoted wife, a true friend and a devout Christian. She was a member of the Daughters of Bethel and a leading member of the A. M. L. church. The funeral was conducted by Rev. H. W. King, assisted by Presiding Elder A. C. Terrell and Rev. J. W. Wilson. Mrs. Greenly presided at the organ and sang one of her touching songs. "Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep. From which none ever wakes to weep-- A calm and undisturbed repose Unbroken by the loss of foes." Mr. Eugene Tolbert is much improved. Mrs. Mary Truhecht, mother of Mrs. Willis Covington, left June 11, on an extended trip. She will visit her son at Quincy, Ill., her daughter at Chicago, and her father-in-law at Jeffersonville, Ind., and from there to Louisville, Ky., to visit with friends, from there to her old home place in Frankfort, Ky., and will return sometime in September. The Knights and Daughters of Taber, International Order of Twelve, hold their annual sermon at Shiloh Baptist and a large number of the members of the order turned out and Rev. J. W. Wil-on preached an excellent sermon. A large sum of money was raised. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Motton, jr. have returned from Lawrence, where Mr. Motton has been taking a course in engineering. They will spend the summer in this city. Every club in the city was represented at the State Federation which convened in Lawrence. Hon. B P. Waggener will hold his annual birthday celebration July 18. Mr. Waggener is an excellent gentleman and every man, woman and child will have the pleasure of partaking of his hospitality, regardless of creed, color or religion. The N. U. G. club, No. 8, had quite a success with their entertainment Monday night. Mrs. Mollie Gamble is numbered among the skil, but at this writing is much improved. She and her daughter, Mrs. Baylous intend to leave one day next week for Kansas City where they will visit Mr. Bolden, an uncle of Mrs. Gamble. Dr. W. H. Hudson had the honor of receiving an invitation to attend the National Negro Educational Association which convenes July 15. The certificate was issued by Governor Geo. H. Hodges. Dr. Hudson, who has some independent ideas on practical education, is the right man for the place and the people of the state will feel that they are ably represented in him. Mr. Richard Nunn arrived home Sunday. All of his friends are glad to have him among us once more. IMPROVIDENT NEGROES From The National Review. Up at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, there are about twenty-five Negro students. Without any actual statistics at hand we will say there are about twelve young colored men. The most of them work in the different white hubs and statenities. The disgraceful part of this affair is the action of one of the Negro students. All this brings these boys have been given big parties, renting and borrowing "from boys" full dress suits, and papyrush hire. Not satisfied with this they continue to make themselves rich ulcers by pretending Why Not Let.... BRO Prescrip He has pleased t in Topeka for 15 next one to the I Drug Store at 404 Kansas Phone BROWN WILL FILL YOUR prescriptsons has pleased the best Phy eka for 15 years. Take one to the big, fresh s store at 404 Kansas Avenue BROWN He has pleased the best Physicians in Topeka for 15 years. Take your next one to the big, fresh stocked Drug Store at Phone 4211. Order Your Ice Cream We manufacture the p the market. 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"The Rho Omegas"(?) have no chatter, have no authority to do business, have no club house, but they have become the laughing stock of the white student body and the white population. It is said that whenever a white club needs somebody to work, the general expression is "Send to the black frat." Recently a young man who graduates from K. U., actually turned his name in as a member of this frat, which exists only in name. When will the Negro learn to quit being a fool and a monkey man? Have we not been end men long enough? Are you surprised when you hear rumblings of separation coming from Lawrence? The things that are causing it is the colored student body. Did you know that last year colored students were bared from the Museum because of the escapades of two students in that place? Whenever segregation comes, the cause can be laid to the Negro. There will be no objections so strenuous to a fraternity among colored, perhaps, if Negro boys had enough money to really have a frat. But why have this deception and fave? Why continue to give these big parties and balls and tent full dress suits? What are the results of these foolish actions? Merely these, the poor white boys who are also working their way through school are now supplanting the Negroes as table waiters and dish washers and housemen. Many clubs that once would have nothing but the Negro students as helpers, now will not allow a Negro student to shovel snow off the front walk. All this morey goes to needy white students. As one of the influential white students and steward of a large fraternity expressed: "The black frat gives more swell parties, has more cabs Home Pastry Cooking is used "as good as lard," thereby of lard. Good, pure lard must be making. eat, Kansas fed, fat, little pigs, fed in open kettles and carefully, odor-proof pails. alls of the best families who say buy. Don't accept a substitute. or butcher. He has it. Huff Packing Co., U. S. A. and wears more evening clothes than we can afford." He stated that beginning in September this fraternity would dispense with its colored help and use only white. These conditions are not the result of the white man's prejudice; they are the results of the Negro students' foolhardiness. Every mother and father who has a son on a daughter at the University, should visit Lawrence often next year and see to it that there is less of the frat, and ball ideas and more study. Then there would not be so many failures of Negroes, would not be so many classes that Negroes are not wanted in, because of their inability to make proper grades. Verily, the black man is his own greatest enemy! SEND IT IN. If you have a bit of news, send it in; Or joke that will amuse, send it in. A story that is true, An incident that's new. We want to hear from you! Send it in. Never mind about your style. Send it in! If it's only worth the while, send it in. 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