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$3.50.

Complete dairy outfit in edge of city.
city water, good room house, with lease
for 3 years, pasture paid, 8 cows, % hogs
acres in potatoes. good horse and new
wagon, new harness. chickens. new fences
one of the choicest milk routes. netting
about S. day. For sale at this figure for
just one week
THE STRAUSS AGENCY.
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F. NJ. PRESCOTT.

Has for sale a modern house.
8 room modern house, lots, on Topeka
ave nea- 10TH
room house, lots and barn, in High
land Park on new car line, cheap.
6 room house, new. 3 lots large barn,
we'll cistern. fruit trees. near Washburn
college fine horne. $3.50
Bargains in different parts of the city.
Farms, vacant lots and western lands.
F. N. PRESCOTT.
Room IS, Real Estate Bldg
S. w. Corner Seventh and Jackson SITS.
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WOOD & DICKINSON.
Real Estate, Rentals and Loans.
534 Kansas Avenue. topeka Kansas


A fine moden asst 81
40 sell on
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srRAYED OR STOLEN.

LIBERAL. REWARD will give a liberal
reward for the return of a bay gelding
Shetland pony that strayed from my barn
Thursday night, July 9. Pony is bright
bay, black name and tail. 4 years old,
about A inches high; star in forehead,
slight cataract on right eye. C.zE. FoOte,
S11 Buchanan St, Topeka
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For Sale by.
]. E. SHAFFER,
Bell Phone SOS. I12 East 9th Str.

1 lot Topeka ave, good room house.
would exchange for small tract. Price
81 ,3o0.
lot, east front, Clay st, 5 room house,
cellar, cistern, city water. Price 81 300.
IL lots West St, good room house, eel
lar, cistern barn, nice shade, s., $50.
IL lots Van Buren, ST., room house, $50
cash; balance monthly payments at $780,
2 lots Monroe St, 10 room house, strictly
modern, good barn, nice shade, So 600.
Z lots near Santa Fe shops, good 7 room
house, cellar. furnace, well, cistern. barn.
We want offer on this. Price 81 300.
100 acres only miles out, good land,
good room house, barn, orchard, we'll els
tern, some timber, only $40 per acre.
50 acres 3 miles from Silver Lake, good
land. well improved, only $500.
go acres Jefferson county, highly i'm
proved, one OF the best farms in the coun-
", SIS per acre
/ have all kinds of real estate for sale
and exchange. Some royal snaps.
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Union Pacific.
WESTBOuND.


Missouri Pacific
effective July 5, 1899
No. 301, passenger, leave Topeka .9:l5 am
No. 315, local leave Topeka 1900. TOO am
No. 392, passenger, arrive Tope ka-.. $50 pm
No 314, local, arrive Topeka. $50 pm
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FOR RENT
2 large second floor rooms with water,
South Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-11

FOR SAILS room house. l lot. on Chand-
Ter St. price 1850. Call at 800 Lawrence.
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FREE -AsPENsARx.
CARPET CLEANING.
LOST AND POUND.


LOST-A steel boat with air-tight cham
bers at ends, in North Topeka during the
flood. Finder please leave information
with H. G. Parsons. at State Journal Of
hce-
FOUND-A bunch of keys at corner 6th
and Kansas ave. Inquire at Journal Of
flee.
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ELIAS WHITE,
REAL ESTATE.

room brick house, I lot, $500.
2 lots and lumber worth $500, $3.50
room house, lots, 81 200.
7 room house, 8 lots, 81. 500
room house, 2 lots, terms. $500.
( room house, ~ lots, terms. 81. $50.
s room house, lots. terms, 81, 300.
room house, 2 lots. $3.50.
room house, lots, $500.
4 room house, lot. 800.
5 room house, ? lots, 800
room house, ~ acres, 800.
3 room house, 10 lots, $3.50.
4 room house Fillmore ST.. 81 eco.
21s acres, room house, 81 800.
10 acres, good buildings. 81 500.
10 acres miles north. $500.
50 acres miles southwest, $42lD.
Hotel Kansas ave. business, 500.
4 room cottage. 2 lots. s., 25f
5 room cottage. IL lots. 81, 100.
ELIAS WHITE, 10 W. Fifth ST
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MUSICAL.

WORRAIa us Polk, piano lessons. pupil,
home, Soc Church and lodge playing free
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE@The John
ID Knox home. ..I3elvOir,' with acres.
Would take Topeka residence worth from
5000 TO 5000 as part payments. Mrs.
John D. Knox.
FOR SALES room house, 2 lots, cash or
payments. Call at lis N. Lake ST.. To-
peka. Kan,
FOR SAI.E-Cottage 81 Chestnut ST., par
ty leaving city. Inquire on premises; good
neighborhood.
FOR SALEGood room house. close in.
paving paid: also lots near shops. Geo.
Miller. 100 Seward ave.
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JEWELER AND OPTICIAN.
F. W. SWEARING EN- jeweler and grad
tate optician. We guarantee every pair
of glasses to fit and every watch we re-
pan We carry the largest line of
watches, clocks, diamonds, cut glass, etc..
sn the city Watch inspector U. p. r r.
72f Kansas ave.
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SEALS AND sTENo1Ls

THE ]. {. DARLING CO., 734 Kan. Ave
Rubber stamps. brass end aluminium trade
checks. Prices low. Catalogue free. Tel 292.
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w. NJ. FORBES,
1o7 W. Seventh st.
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JAMES b. HAYDEN, Jeweler and Optl-
cian. Complete stock of watches, dia-
monds, suverware, etc. Eyes examined
and spectacles properly fitted.
The colored American., 1903-03-07

With all its shortcomings, there are
many things for which the Republican
party commands admiration One OF
them is the splendid discipline enforc-
ed in the ranks of members of the
House Of Representative during the
session of Congress which is now clos
ing The Omnibus Public Building
Bill has displaced the River and Har-
Dor bill, as the pork barrel, of the
majority for the nonce, and though It's
fate was trembling in the balance,
the Republicans rallied to the support
of the program prepared by the leaders
and over and over again buried the
Democrats under a practically unanl-
nous opposition. After the policy or
the leaders was carried out, and the
measures determined on were favor
ably disposed of, then reward came in
the withdrawal of opposition to the
Public Buildings bill, and members
may now return to their constituents
ready for congratulations, without the
need of defense for unfulfilled cam
paign promises.
The colored American., 1903-03-07
SATURDAY. MARCH 7 1903.
AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT.

Theodore Roosevelt is an American
President. No need of praise, however
high, can detract from the welI-earheo
glory that belongs to other lhcuih
hents of this important Office, nor mas
anyone the desire to invite 1nVldlous
comparisons. Men have served thelr
day, and have discharged with lnIeill-
gence, courage and patriotism the
manifold duties devolv1ng upon Che
Chief Magistrate OF the greatest soN
ernment upon the face or the gIoDe,
and filled with distinction an once
which has no duplicate in the gamuC
NJ nations But nevertheless, Ihe
United States has never, in the years
it has pleased Providence 10 give US
an earthly existence, had man IN the
White House who embodied In so many
respects and so completely, the Cyplcd
American-the strenuous, hlgn-pur-
posed, rich -blooded, energetic, athletlc;
versatile. volatile and thoroughbred
pentIemen-as Theodore Roosevelt. A
mighty hunter, a chivalrous antagon-
ist. an aristocrat of democratic pro
clivities. full of health and as Well
balanced mentally as physically, at
home on the field of battle, and IN lhe
drawing-room, generous alike 10 mass
es and classes, the person1hcatlon OF
Justice and equity, we have at once
in this remarkable combination Oh
brain and Drawn, the master OF state.
craft and the admirable Crichton or
polite society-at once the warrior, the
civilian, the intrepid knight-errant
and the economist, the embodiment OF
blood and iron, and the polished man
of letters.
Where in all the land, where in all
the quarters of the earth, has Nature
made counterpart to this genius. who
by the ordination of the Almighty, has
become President of the deSt1ny-con-
trolling power of the world? The
historian who shall venture to record
the story of this century will write In
letters of fire. beside the names G
Luther, of Bismarck, of Gladstone, OF
Gambetta, of Washington, Franklin.
Lincoln and Grant, the proud scion of
the house of Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt never was a fol-
lower of men, he is not now in the rear.
He is essentially a leader of thought
a moulder of sentiments creator of
The colored American., 1903-03-07
SOUTH CAROLINA PASTIMES.

Another murder is reported from
South CarOlina-thiS time also among
the whites. 1t occurred near Spartan
burg and appears to have created only
4 passing ripple on the surface of
affairs there. But few weeks ago
local magistrate in that state, himself
the representative of law and order,
was sent to Jail to await trial for the
brutal murder of a fellow-citizen, next
the Lieutenant Governor Of the state
sacrificed a valued and useful mans
life to his overheated idea of honor
now a school teacher, a school prin-
3ipal too, sends into eternity the soul
Of one of his own pupils after a, dis
graceful fist fight.
This is but the natural harvest from
sowing the dragons teeth. We are
taught by the temperance folks of the
brutalizing effects of alcohol upon it's
victims, of the degenerateS in the
second generation which it produces,
and saddest of all of the dense ignor-
ance of the victim touching his pro-
gress to moral infamy, and we find a
close analogy in this wanton disregard
among Southern white men of the cCm-
mandment "Thou shalt do no murder
and in the hghtness with which they
view human life even among their own
race and their own neighbors.
The conclusion cannot be resisted
that the murders, lynchings and out
RACES which have for a long series of
years been the portion of the Southern
Negro has been re-acting upon the per-
petrators, that they have sapped the
white mans moral nature and have
developed an appetite, a gluttOny for
blood which the crimes against the
Negro cannot appease. The Negro
needs protection it is true, but civiliza-
ton among the white men of the South
iS itself at stake, and We present the
thought to their conservative and up
The colored American., 1903-03-07

standards He conceiveS an idea, ana
if it squares" with. his conception CT
right, as enunciated by Christ from
the Mount of Olives, and emphasized
by Paul from the summit of Mars Hill,
the clamor of the unenl1ghtened anu
the fear of those who SIT in the seats
of the mighty, are alike powerless to
shake him from the foundation thus
built upon the rock of eternal truth.
without bombast or braggadoc1o
Theodore Roosevelt is ahead of the
party upon every issue of moment. He
is in accord with the great hearts OF
the American people upon every ques-
tion involving the national honor, or
the welfare of the toiler. He is op-
posed to the grinding trusts, which
traffic mercilessly with the necessltleS
of mankind. He came to the rescue
en- the coal famine BODIED evil Tor
millions. He pleads for reciprocity,
rs a means of modifying, yet sustain
ing and strengthening our prosperity
nrodncing nolicv of protection. He
counsels tariff revision in the interest
of the consumer, without menacing
the existence and development of our
relations with the people of our new
possessions, and asks for them the
privilege of our common country as
rapidly as they shall demonstrate their
capacity for approaching them. Upon
the vexed question of citizenship, as II
refers to the black and white, he takes
that all men stand as equals under the
Constitution, and that the door CT hope
shall not be barred against any one
because of race, color or condition,
previous or present. He stands for
national greatness, national dignity,
and national integrity in the army, the
navy, and in civil life, and represents
in deed and in spirit, the principles
of the fathers who sacrificed their all
for the perpetuity of the American Re
public. The future of our government
and the enlargement of her free insti-
tutions are safe as long as so sturdy,
unse1fish, far-sighted and incorruptlbIe
a patriot as Theodore Roosevelt guides
the American Ship of State. He is,
more conspicuously and aggressiVely
than any other Chief Executive, the
typical American President.
The colored American., 1903-03-07

There are probably no living de
scendents of Crispus Attucks, but II
one of them should turn up and apply
for admission to the Sons or Daughters
of the Revolution, there would be
something doing. We are vicious
enough to wish for some such centre
shot into the ranks of these 81 am
hoIier than thou people who steal the
livery of patriotism to serve the devil
Of ariStocracy.
The colored American., 1903-03-07

right men as another factor in the
great Southern problem which de-
mands solution Its correction Will De
materially aided by a healthy puplc
sentiment, demanding that the fuli eA-
tent of the law shall be given to every
murderer whether white or black.
The colored American., 1903-03-07
AS OIHsRS SEE HIM.

Of course it is we'll to remember that
there are some people who are abSO-
lutely beyond reason when their pre-
judices are running riot, but by the
side of the noisy mOuthings of the
coterie CT Boston and Washington de-
famers of the work being done at Tus-
kegee, we would make reference to
statement published very recently in
one of the foremost newspapers of the
country To us it seems to answer
fully and decisively every contention
Of this little band of notoriety seek
erS.
The Brooklyn Eagle, in a very dis
eliminating editorial with reference to
Mr.. Booker T. Washington's address
before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences, Sunday evening, Febru-
ary 22nd, has the following to say,
which will be found of interest by
black men throughout the world:
1.-The Institute did well to secure
Booker T. Washington for it's Wash
ington's Birthday orator. The signifi-
canoe and the suggestlveness of
black man talking on the Educational
and Industrial Emancipation of the Ne
grO' on the anniversary of the Father
and Founder of American liberty, were
manifest. Surely, the world does
move. Men as representative as A. A.
Healy, Albert J. Lyman, and w. H.
Baldwin expressed the views of the
audience on Mr.. Washington address
in fitting terms. In some minds STILL
Mr.. Washington will be disposed of by
the natural but erroneous remark:
For a Negro he is a clever man, but
if he were a white man, he would not
be regarded as anything extraordin-
ary." That will not be said by anyone
who has heard him Those who have
heard him.-and they include minds
like the presidents of Princeton, Colum-
bia, Yale, Harvard and Cornell Uni
versitieS, Senators, Clergymen, Bank
ers and Poets-know that his abilities
are remarkable in themselves and that
few white men have to- their credit such
a record of wise thought, fine humor
stirring eloquence and great results in
character-building as this man has to
his. Not the race to which he belongs,
but the obstacles which he has over
come, and the justice which be is able
to render to both races from him
with distinction. The marvel is that
he is made neither boastful nor vindic-
at1ve, nor vain nor unjust, by the re-
cognition of his uncommon gifts His
duty is seen plainly before him. He
treadS no ether path
The colored American., 1903-03-07

The National Baptist Foreign Mis-
sion Board which operates missions in
Africa. South America and some of
the West indies is to have a grand
rally On Easter Sunday, April 18th
next. By that time it hopes to raise
i've thousand dollars for mission pur-
poses. The Board is the organ of the
National Baptist Convention. which
meets in Philadelphia in September of
this year, Local Baptists should con-
tribute freely to this laudable effort.
The convention, as we'll as it's foreign
mission board, is composed of coIored
men exclusively. and they have been
doing grand work.
The colored American., 1903-03-07

Subscriptions may be sent by post of11ce
money order, express or reg istered letter.
All oommunicationsf for publication shOulo
be accompanied with the name of the writer
Antss Of good faith.
We aolictt news, contributions. op1nlont
and In fact all matters affecting the race
we will not pay for matter, however unless
ft ia ordered by as. All matter INTENDED 1oI
uubIfoation must reach this ONCE by Wed
nesday of each week to insure insertion In
ths current issue.
A-Axsnta are wanted eVeryWnerss csno
for Instructions.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
ALL CAN HELP.

To a man with ever real yearn-
ings for better things, there is
nothing to discourage him in the
vastness of the worlds great
task and his own petty weakness.
He may feel unfit to do good, he
may have erred SO much that life
is one long dread of cold hand
stretched from the past to pull
him back to despair. All this
need not deter from being and
doing his best. If his past has
been evil, then his present efforts
are all the more commendable,
since they have to be ever done
anonymously, ''unheralded and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
RANDOM THOUGHTS.
ABOUT WATER.

The waters of the foulest
stream and of the purest spring
are kin. There is water and
more in the filthy brook; there is
water and no more in the spring.
But no brook is totally impure,
else would it be no longer water.
The water of it has a self-purify-
ing power; give it time, sunshine
and motion and it can once more
flow limpidly towards the sea.
These are facts of the lower
world that none should forget
in their human relations
straight line of kinship runs
through the highest and might
lest down to the lowest depraved
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
ONE FAMILY.

Society cannot afford to over
look the unity of the human
family. 1t is indivisible, and
black fate awaits those who for
get it. The beasts who ravish
innocent girlhood, the brutes
who do unnameable evils and
the violent who break through,
steal and murder are flesh of our
flesh. They do not ask for rec
ognition, nor do they ask for
perfume to disguise the stencil
of their depravity; they prefer
to be left alone. But the naugh-
ty child of a family is not there
by out of the family;,the parent
who dares to think so will later
be stabbed with haggard shame.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
FAITH.

Faith has an almightiness of
its own. 1t is a creator of the
good things it hopes for. 1t
makes their very substance.
Faith in the goodness of a man
or woman tends to beget good
ness, just as light arising in the
east fills the place where dark
ness was and leaves no void at
all. tits like day in dark soul
to know that faith in us is still
held dear by those we hold dear.
The things of darkness seem to
to lose their hold and gradually
to seem abomimable as Faith by
its nerving power sublimely
raises our heads.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
MAKING MEN.

Women with silly interests and
stupid vanities are not to be
looked to for 1.-THE NAN" whose
activities shall make America
greater and nobler. A stream
and its source have a sensible
relation in physics, SO they have
in life. Women with real minds
and lofty noble interests are
bound to be higher sources for
each new stream of life than are
snowy dolls with photographic
fittings who squeak out only
words that have first been talked
into them. Mans progress goes
hand in hand with womans, and
all that can make womanhood
better will also make manhood
better.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
GENUINE SYMPATHY.

The whole catalogue of human
woe and error and sorrow no
man can compile, and if he could
the very load of it's terror would
crush him. But every good man,
conscious of his own inner frail-
ty and the battles that he has
had in downing himself, can at
least, in all tenderness, come to
the aid of a few or one of those
natures are just like his. Pat
ronizing will not do, and the
throwing about of a few coins is
an insult. What is called for is
the hand grasp of genuine sym
pathy based upon q common
origin.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
A LONE OAK.

1t stands alone on the edge OF
a cliff; it bows to the storm tends
as they tear by; when they have
passed it still stands. Why
Because the roots are twined
close around the heart of Mother
Earth. The might of its trunk
would hasten its fall if the
strengthen, all -giving earth were
absent. This, pictures men,
when the great, uprooting, tear
ing storms of life sweep over
them. Some go down. Some
survive and are stronger; they
laugh at the buffetings. These
are they whose strenth of cour-
age is drawn invisibly from a
dear, all-giving woman whose
faith upholds.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
NocHANcE.

Some of those whom prudes
denounce most for the evil of
their ways, have never had a
fair and square chance. Bred
like pigs, crowded in narrow
homes like bees in a hive, learn
ed in shrewdness before the grain
Of good character has been seen;
these are by right entitled to the
best chance Society can give
them. Prison may be the best
for them and for society, but
thick walls do not make them
less human in their rights. Lock
ing them in, as a matter of fact,
increases their right to studied
guidance, so that good may grow
where evil fourished.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
NO ABSOLUTE DEpRAv1rY.

The image of the Divine is
never absolutely effaced in any
sane evil-doer. So long as he
lives there is still some one
nerve, no matter how depraved
he may be, that can tingle with
shame or yearn with groanings
for better things. If it be worth
while to cultivate the precious
human plant of righteousness
animals know it not then every
next man to every unworthy one
who has fallen among thieves of
character is neighbor to him, and
as such, in humility and contrite-
ness of spirit, is bound to gently
pour in oil and wine to heal
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
FINAL IMPROVEMENT.

Those of us who believe hope
fully in the final triumph of all
good, must maintain the posi-
bilities of Improvement in every
sane creature, so long as he still
lives. What is his fate after
death we will not assert. except
to suppose that our human en-
lightened hearts of mercy are
only reflections of the Godhead.
Grant capacity for improvement
and the whole problem of evil in
the world grows simple. Dark
ness must be attacked with light,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
Boyd Hotel (!

Notice to the Public Boyd
has opened the old hotel. 1t
will be run in frst-class style.
The tables will be served the
best the market affords. Meals
at all hours. Hoping to receive
a share of the public patronage.
Strangers coming to town will
find the house a pleasant place
to stop.
CHALLIS, IDAHO.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
Stage Line !!
CHALLIS,

Four-horse Concord coaches
and first-class daily stage service
between Challis and Mackay, the
nearest railroad point; Challis
and Three Forks, on the Thun-
der Mountain route.
Stages arrive in Challis at IL
m. and depart at p. M, car
rying passengers, mail and ex-
press, making close connections
with stage lines to different
points in Custer and Lemhi
counties.
G. V. HANSEN, Mgr.
f. Nickerson, Agt., Challis.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13

Canada is far more nervous
over the outcome of the Alaskan
Boundary Commission than is
the United States. She is already
making threats as to what she
will do in case the decision is
against her. Has she a present
ment that she will loose or does
she believe that threats will have
more weight than arguments +?