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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. The Ladies Appearing Above Are Not Only Bread-Winners, but They Are Bread-Bakers, and They Do It Up Brown. ```markdown ``` VOLUME II. Mr. J. K. Hudso A FEW OF A Word in General Beginning with this issue of THE PLAINDEALER it shall be the intention of the management to publish, from time to time, pictures of A Few Popular Girls of Kansas and Elsewhere. We shall say something under each girl's name—that is, as much as we can say under the circum- MISS STAFFORD, EMPORIA. stances. Our case is altered somewhat and made briefer than we intended it should be because of these circumstances: We had intended to give a short biography under each girl's name, but, in the outset, we find an obstacle in our way: we can't persuade or coax any of the girls to tell when they were born, or how old they are, and all these little things are essential to the making of a biography, though the girls may not think so. It is a difficult task to dissuade them against the idea that the divulging of a much coveted secret will of necessity make inroads on their matrimonial chances. To be sure, if any one of the MISS SCOTT, MEXICO, MO. girls belongs to some club, she will eventually tell us so; she will tell us how old the club is, its name, the names of its officers, its place and time of meeting and the several objects for which it was organized. They are very generous about matters of this sort, but as to divulging the secret of their ages—that's a boss of another color: they just won't do it, that's all. In this respect, if in no other, they do away with the moulded and worm-eaten theory that a woman can't keep a secret. However, in our write-up of them, we shall do the best we can. Some of the girls we know personally, and some we do not know at all, but 1773 MISS PERSLEY, TOPEKA. that makes no difference: we shall write as if we had known them all a thousand years. The girls are all clever, intelligent and industrious. They know how to earn a dollar by honest and well-applied toil; they can The Ladies Appe cook, sew, set type, teach school and as well and as widely known as any music, can write poetry and draw, and girl in the Sunflower state. Miss Mc they are handy and not out of place entertainer, in clerical positions. The girls are ac compitted, and by that term we do doors to friends, she entertains on a not mean that they can only play scale of elaborateness, and magnific chop-sticks with their hands crossed cence seldom equaled and never ex on the piano, or sing a ballad so ef celled. True entertainment, as we factually as to pump up water to the understand it, consists of a woman's FRIDAY MORNING. on Should Quit Qu OUR POPULA cook, sew, set type, teach school and music, can write poetry and draw, and they are handy and not out of place in clerical positions. The girls are accomplished, and by that term we do not mean that they can only play chop-sticks with their hands crossed on the piano, or sing a ballad so effectually as to pump up water to the MISS BOWEN, ATCHISON. eyes or bring a sniffling music to the nasal organs at some amateur concert, but they are accomplished in the sense that they exert their several talents to the making of a respectable livelihood. Anna Stafford. Miss Stafford is an Emporia young lady, was born and reared in that cultured country town, and is, as she says in a letter to the editor, "a Kansas girl for true." She is particularly fond of good society and is a favorite in social circles in both Kansas and Missouri. During a recent short visit among friends and acquaintances in Kansas City, Mo., Miss Stafford was the recipient of more social favors from the better element of society folks down there than have been extended any other Kansas girl visiting at the mouth of the Kaw river this year. Miss Stafford's presence is courted at social functions wherever she goes; her pleasing personality and well-rounded mentality are quite inviting, because of their being devoid of all affectation. She is a pleasant and correct conversationalist, a charming companion and a congenial friend. You will please excuse the multiplicity of adjectives, as we are compelled to employ them in the definition of the kind of girl Miss Stafford is. She is a clerk in the office of the register of deeds of Lyon county and has given satisfaction since entering the office in 1897. She comes from one of Emporia's best families—from a family that gives character and strength to the population of that town. May Louise Lewis. The subject of this paragraph is one of two daughters of the late Hensley Lewis, one of Ohio's early pioneers. She was born in Cincinnati and received her education in the public schools of that city. Miss Lewis was educated for a teacher and has made especial preparation for primary work by taking a short course in normal and kindergarten training. She gained experience and reputation as a successful teacher in the city schools of MISS BLEDSOE, NORTH TOPEKA. Atchison, where she is now employed. She has contributed in a literary way to several Negro newspapers during the past seven or eight years and is a poetess of considerable ability. Cornella McKissick. Miss McKissick is not very much of a social "mixer," but she is probably A MISS M'KISSICK, LEAVENWORTH. natural wit and easy flow of language before her guests as well as her cleverness in showing a handsome gown to good effect. Miss McKissick possesses those requisites so essential to the building up, solidity and maintenance of society. Not only that, she is a young woman of superior business qualifications and squeezes a dollar so tight as to almost make the woman on it scream from pain and horror. She exacts the payment of a debt the same as Shylock demanded the pound of flesh. The young lady is worth a comfortable sum of money in her own name and holds a deed to valuable property in Leavenworth. Miss Mc MISS TRUSTY, LEAVENWORTH. Kissick is a seamstress by profession and has profitable patronage. We now understand why Miss McKissick is so "close" with her money: it has leaked out that she will steal a march on the Kansas girls and go to the Paris Exposition late in the summer. Nine years ago she worked on The Topeka Times-Observer, defunct, and, as a mailing clerk, has a record of the disposal of something over a thousand papers in 45 minutes. At one time she thought she should fancy school-teaching, and entered the State Normal at Emporia to take a preparatory course, but she soon changed her mind, and forthwith came out. MISS LEWIS, ATCHISON. (Continued on Page Two.) FACTS AND FIGURES! A Strong Argument Submitted to Show What the Republican Party Has Done. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MAY 11, 1900. Figures don't lie, but beware of the fellow who puts them down! In this instance THE PLAINDEALER has sought to be absolutely correct, basing its statements upon the records of state. In the not so long ago, the arguments used to hold the Negro vote to the Republican party were based upon a supposed debt of gratitude, which the entire race ought to be willing and ready to pay by their suffrage on demand, as the price of their freedom. Years have passed and new conditions surround and confront our people in the state and nation. Just as new questions, relative to territorial expansion, colonial government and the adjustment of the tariff to suit changed conditions, have taken the place of secession, Civil War and reconstruction. The Negro has changed with the times. Liberal school facilities and an inquiring mind have changed the chattel of 1863 (demanding the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to our national constitution as evidence of the truth of the revolutionary axiom, "that all men are created free and equal,") into a progressive citizen whose material prosperity has caused much alarm among the Southerners. As a citizen of this great commonwealth, no restrictions have been placed about his development. Along with the Negroes of Kansas, the Anglo Saxons are singing the praises of "Groves, the potato king," whose wealth is told in six figures. The citizens of the state manifest especial and pardonable pride in the presence of a Negro who has by his unaided efforts gained wealth and honor. These men are not only an honor to the Negro, but to Kansas and her free institutions, and to the spirit of a people who live for the good they may do. Kansas is a Republican state. Its departure from Republican ranks has been so very infrequent and its stay of such short duration, that one cannot honestly charge the people of Kansas with desertion of the principles of the G. O. P., or the cause John Brown and Jim Lane so heroically battled to maintain. Politically, Kansas has always been a storm center. But no storms have been so fierce that the cause of the Negro has been lost sight of. Never since the days when New England sent its best sons to Kansas to save it to the cause of freedom have Negroes in Kansas been counted other than citizen, with the largest privileges to public favor, and encouraged and supported in their efforts to achieve political as well as financial glory. The Republicans of Kansas gave to the nation in Hon. E. P. McCabe the first Negro state officer. The Republican party in Kansas erased the word "white" from our state constitution, and the Negro is welcomed in the state militia along with other races. It is not good policy to advise a people to walk backward. Nor would we expect an intelligent people, like the Negroes of Kansas, to live forever upon what has been. What the Republican party has done for the Negroes of Kansas, they were clearly entitled to receive as their portion of the spoils incident to party success. When the party again took hold of the reins of state government as the successor of the Leedy administration, the hope of the opposition to the Republican party in this state was an indifferent treatment of the Negroes, who now constitute the balance of power in the state by reason of the inroads made by the fusion of Populists AND FIGU ment Submitted to the Republic- Has Done. and Democrats. Governor Stanley had this thoroughly in mind, and showed his interest in the future welfare of the Negroes of Kansas by the liberal recommendations to the Legislature in favor of Quindaro Industrial school, requesting an appropriation. In his annual message, Governor Stanley voiced the attitude of the Republican party in Kansas in saying: "One of the most recent movements in the state is the attempt to establish an industrial school at Quindaro in the interest of the Negro. No race ever emerged from slavery and in so short a time reached such an advanced position in all the branches of industrial pursuits, as the colored race in America. They have also made great advances in literature and art. The one great need of the Negro today is progress and development in things fostered and encouraged by industrial education." THE BROOKLYN PRESS HAMER 1895 HARPER WILLS GONERNOR W. E. STANLEY. The Legislature, following up the suggestion of Governor Stanley, appropriated $10,000 to Quindaro and $3,000 to the Topeka Industrial School for Colored Youths. After the appropriation was made for the industrial school at Quindaro, the governor was authorized to ap- party in Kansas and sal-ly the amount of more our people : COLORED EMPLOYEES ISTRATIO STANLEY INDUSTRIAL H Prof. William Tecumsh Vernor year ..... Charles Summer Bowman, Direc 1 point four of the seven trustees or directors of that institution. A number of prominent colored men of the state thought it wise that at least two of these trustees should be white men, to show the sympathy of that class with the institution, and so suggested John Charles Wood, Prinning Miss Amanda F. Moore, Teacher, 9 mos. ... Miss Gracie L. Douglas, Ting and Needle-work STATE HOUSE—AU Paul Jones, Clerk, per year STATE HOUSE William Johnson, Sedgwick They Are Bread-Bakers, an re Bread-Bakers, and They FRIDAY MORNING. to Governor Stanley. He took the position, however, that there were plenty of men among the colored people of sufficient capacity and business experience to wisely expend the funds appropriated by the state, and look after the future management of the institution, and insisted on appointing four colored men as trustees, which he did. Since the building and equipment of Industrial hall, he has expressed himself that the wisdom of the selection of colored men was shown by the fact that in no institution in the state had money been more wisely expended or the appropriation gone farther than that which had been expended by these trustees. In making appointments, the present administration has not omitted the Negro. The following tabulated statement is a succinct resume of the Negroes employed by the Republican party in Kansas and shows very nearly the amount of money received by our people : COLORED EMPLOYEES STATE ADMINISTRATION: STANLEY INDUSTRIAL HALL, QUINDARO. Prof. William Tecumseh Vernon, B. S. D. Sup.'s per year ..... $720.00 Charles Sumner Bowman, Director, 9 mos. ..... 360.00 NUMBER 19. County Attorney. JRES! Henry Fuel, Douglas Co. J. J. Smith, Crawford Co. Rufus Knott, Shawnee Co. Archie Bigbee, Osage Co. Daniel Walker, Morns Co. Cox Johnson, Co. Toliver Bird, Shawnee Co. J. K. K. MR. GEORGE' CLARK, Secretary of State. H. Etherly, Shawnee Co. " " ... 600.00 A. T. Allen, Shawnee Co. " " ... 600.00 $600.00 GUARDS AT PENITENTIARY. F. Townsend, Leavenworth Co. per year ... 600.00 L. C. Bowers, Douglas Co. " " ... 600.00 J. MR. A. A. GODARD, Attorney-General. P.E. Tipton, Lyon Co. " " ... 600.00 D. W. Welch, Geary Co. " " ... 600.00 W. H. Jones, Sedgwick Co. " " ... 600.00 3000.00 Each guard receives two suits of clothes a year. STATE INSANE ASYLUM, OSAWATOMIE, KAS. R, W, post engineer's Helper, Per yearwith THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN MR. FRANK NELSON, Superintendent Public Instruction. board ..... $300.00 Madison Duncan. Coachman, per year with board ..... $400.00 E. G. Green, Kitchen Helper, per year with [Name of the man depicted] MR. FRANK GRIMES, State Treasurer. board.....240.00 Rich'd Wilson, Roustabout, per year with board 240.00 Robert Krisee, Roustabout per year with board 240.00 (Continued on Page Four.) Do It Up Brown. In the beginning, God made woman as an helpmate unto man, but in this day and generation woman has passed beyond that stage. She has become the leader and director in our latter-day social, civil and religious life and exercises a potent influence on political affairs. She has been in the ascendency in the affairs of man ever since Eve had a confab with a snake in the Garden of Eden. During all the ages woman has been wielding a marked influence in the development of races, aside from the part she plays in rocking the cradle of future generations. The evil influences of Catherine de Medici had as much, if not more, to do with shaping the events that culminated in the world's greatest tragedy—the French Revolution—than the blunders of Floquet or Colbert. The matronly simplicity and purity of Mary, the Mother of Christ, has sent almost as many missionaries to the heathens as the preaching of all the apostles. So among all classes of the human family the part of woman has gradually changed. Among no class of people has the transformation and development of womanhood been more noticeable and marked than among our people. Beginning with the dawn of freedom, far behind the men in education and acquired intelligence, they have equaled men in all things. The achievements of the women of our race are worthy our high esteem and regard. With this issue we present the faces of a few of our bright young women. We do not feel that enough could be said in commendation of their efforts to win a place in the world's esteem. There are hosts of such young ladies scattered all over this Western country, whose maiden modesty and dignified bearing stamp them worthy daughters of a struggling race. In their quiet way, they are doing much to solve the race problem. By the purity of their character, they are demanding a higher standard of manhood and womanhood from all who come in contact with them. Their everyday lives are teaching the Anglo-Saxon that the Negro prizes a pure, noble-hearted woman as a "pearl of great price." COLORED MEN CONSULT. Next Monday the colored Republicans of Kansas will hold a conference in the city of Topeka. They come, not as in the past, to protest against party discrimination, but as honest Republicans, seeking to do something to aid in the achieving of a glorious party victory in Kansas this fall. The record of the Republican party during the past two years in Kansas is peculiarly gratifying. The splendid exhibit of what the party is doing for the Negro, found elsewhere in this paper, leaves no room for the grumbler and fault-finder. While we would be proud to have had the honor of supporting some of our many eminent Negroes for governor or some other state officer, still, since in the very nature of things it cannot be so at this time, we feel particularly proud that we are at liberty and able to do something for the men and the party who are doing most for our people. We believe this feeling will and does animate every Negro in Kansas, and especially, those who will participate in the coming conference. The hope of organizing the Republican Negroes of Kansas, so earnestly and eloquently advocated by Rev. W. L. Grant, is no new scheme. It has been tried and advocated by every Negro who has sought to advance the cause of our people in this state. Politically, the Negroes of Kansas need organization: industrially and financially, they need organization more. But this is to be a conference of politicians; a conference of men seeking to carefully guard the best interests of the Negro citizens of Kansas, and incidentally to aid in conserving the race's national interest. For the past ten years a number of the Southern states have been seeking by constitutional conventions, to eliminate, if possible, and to restrict, at any cost, the right of suffrage of Negroes, by the adoption of certain property and educational qualifications as a test. These qualifications have operated to disfranchise the Negroes of Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, and are now being urged in Alabama and Virginia. The Republican party gave the Negro his freedom. This same party gave to him the constitutional rights of an American citizen. Can the party allow the white people of the South, under the guise of "fear of Negro domination," to subvert the amendment to our national constitution? Can we, as a race, sit idly by and see the rights and privileges of our people denied them in a section of this country where they form a large and an increasing class of the taxpayers, without registering a vigorous protest? This is a matter which should engage the serious consideration of the coming conference of the leading colored Republics of Kansas next week. Wichita. The Twentieth Century club met for organization, in the A. M. E. church, Monday evening of last week. Mrs. B. Morris, is recovering from a recent illness. Arkansas City. We are glad to have the fine weather we are having. This is a May day indeed. The fields of wheat, corn and oats, and the grass of a thousand hills, are the best of evidence that we are living in a country that God loves. Rev. Bandy, of the Second Baptist church, preached at Newkirk, O. T., Sunday of last week. Rev. A. E. Clark, of the A. M. E. church, dismissed his meeting last Sunday night, and, with his congregation, attended the donation meeting held at the opera house to raise funds to help India. The amount of $113 was raised. John Moore and P. B. Andrews opened a restaurant May 1, on North Summit street; meals at all hours; when in town, see them. Kansas City, Kas. Nellie Poage, of La Crosse, Wis., is the guest of Emma Miner. Willa Smith, collector for THE PLAINDEALER, was in our city last week. Foster Bell has resumed his residence in this city with his parents on North Water street. The Union concert given by pupils from four Sunday schools, at the A. M. E. church Monday night, was a success. Rev. William Alphine is rapidly improving, and will soon be able to resume his evangelical work. M. C. Younger has begun rehearsing choruses for an opera, to be rendered for the benefit of Douglass hospital. J. A. Wilson, the jeweler, was kept from his shop last week, on account of sickness. J. Dillard, of Lawrence, Kas., was the guest of Judge I. F. Bradley last week. Cordia Roberts and Augustus Hinton were contestants in the High school oratorical contest Friday night. Three white pupils contested. The prizes were awarded to two white pupils. Dr. T. C. Unthank, of Kansas City, in company with Billy Kersands, the great minstrel, visited the colored business enterprises on this side Thursday. Mr. Kersands was favorably impressed with our many institutions. O. B. Johnson and wife entertained a small party of friends in a very delightful manner Wednesday night of last week. At 11 o'clock a light luncheon was served. Those present were Ida Generals, Pearl Tillman, Sadie Davis, Georgia Freeman and Pauline Talliaferro, W. G. Wood, James Freeman, Thomas Harsel and F. K. Douglass. E. F. Henderson, manager of the A. C. L. Coal Co., read a paper before the Twin City Business Men's association Thursday night. Nora Jones, of Leavenworth, was the guest of her mother-in-law, C. E. Jones, of 44 N. James street, last week. Newton. Robert Love has accepted a position with W. H. Paige in the barbershop. Mr. Love is from Emporia, and is said to be a good workman. The Second Baptist church has put a new brick walk in front of the church, which improves its general appearance very much. R. L. Malone has purchased a home on South Main street. The property is alright, and we are glad to see our colored folks coming to the front. Presiding Elder Brown held his quarterly meeting service Sunday, and his quarterly conference the following day. The work is doing finely. This charge and El Dorado have raised $312.28 for building, pastor's salary and incidental expenses. Robert Jones's brother, from Arkansas City, is paying him a visit at his home on West Third street. LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE BUGGY FACTORY ON EARTH WRITE FOR PRICES AND CATALOGUE OUR GOODS ARE THE BEST OUR PRICE THE LOWEST PARRY MFG. CO. Indianapolis, Ind. in Weston, Mo., in 1879. Four years later her parents removed to Atchison. When 6 years old she entered the common schools at Atchison and graduated from the High school at 17, ranking high in her class. Afterward she took a kindergarten course at the State Normal, Emporia. She is a prominent and faithful member of the A. M. E. church and one of the promotive spirits in the literary and social circles of Atchison. To say that Miss Bowen is the belle of the town is to make a statement that will in all likelihood find a majority vote. Her modesty and deportment command the admiration and respect of all her friends and acquaintances. Unlike a great many girls, she never enters unscrupulous combinations or cliques to "run down" other girls, that she might boom and build up her own popularity, but is content with her wide circle of friends whom she has won through honesty and her superior talents. Miss Bowen unquestionably ranks away up near the top notch among Kansas' most popular young ladies. Mary E. Scott. She was born in Mexico, Andrain county, Missouri. When quite young she joined the M. E. church and has devoted much of her time to church work. For the past five years she has presided over the Sunday school and proves to be a faithful superintendent and a lover of the work. In 1896 she attended the district conference which met in St. Charles, Mo. In 1898 the Epworth League and Sunday School convention met in Mexico and she was elected assistant secretary of the convention. In 1899 the convention met in Fayette, Mo., and she was re-elected to the office of assistant secretary. She received her education in the Garfield school in Mexico and in 1895 graduated with high honors from the Garfield High school. Miss Scott was formerly a student in the Kansas City (Kas.) High school and for the past two years has been teaching in the primary department of the Garfield school at her home. Whether in religious, social or intellectual work, her motto is: "Whatever is worth doing, is worth doing well." Lucy J. Bledsoe. This young lady is a resident of North Topeka and is well and favorably thought of by everyone in and out of Topeka who knows her. Miss Bledsoe is a recent graduate of the Topeka High school. She is a Christian, a Baptist by faith, and lends a willing hand to everything tending to promote the interests of the church. Miss Bledsoe is quite a pianist and the announcement that her name is to appear on any concert program, insures a crowded hall or house. A virtue about her playing that should be particularized, is that she ignores suggestive "coon songs" and applies her talents to the classics. Nor does she indulge chop-sticks with her hands crossed, as so many "accomplished" girl piano players are wont to do. She has been studying music about seven years under various teachers, and is now studying music at Washburn College and has been for a year and a half. Agnes Peraley. Miss Persley is a Tennesseean by birth, but-was brought to Topeka by her parents when quite a small girl. Her residence here numbers eighteen years. For reasons best known to herself (and which we have guessed), Miss Persley positively refuses to tell concerns and big however, at 15 to meet these cheap, write me if you need an UNABLE in each town for this purpose. We have close work at all times. A man OUR RELIABILITY is in question railroad company. We will send you a SEHD YOUR ORDER by mail J. L. MEAD how old she was when brought to Topeka. To strike a serious vein, we wish to remark that Miss Perley is a devout member of the African First Baptist church, sings soprano in its choir, and assists the church in whatever way she can with convenience and consistency. She has been a typesetter on THE PLAINDEALER ever since its inception, with the exception of the first two or three months, and is probably the best woman corrector of bad proof sheets on weekly papers in Topeka. She has an eagle's eye. Miss Persley is painstaking and studious. She was taught typesetting during the existence of The Times-Observer down on Jackson street, and has kept pegging away, working on every colored paper that has ever been started since her profession of the art preservative. Bertha Trusty. Without question the girl of positive popularity among the younger set in Leavenworth, and a favorite with the older, is Miss Trusty. She is one of the youngest of four daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Tolivor Trusty, Sr., and is quite a clever girl. The senior Trustys are Leavenworth pioneers and a Kansas landmark. Bertha Trusty is but one of many, and a sister to famous "Knep." She is a student in the Leavenworth High school, is a singer and pianist of merit. She is a talker of chaste and choice language—is not coarse and uncouth and "slangy." Visitors who go to Leavenworth, and meet Miss Trusty, always have pleasant words for her when they have gone. Miss Trusty lends her accomplishments to the church and to charity and is, in fact, an active participant and leader in whatever cause she may be solicited to assist. Her generosity, amiability and ladyship have made her a favorite with friends, a joy to sisters and brothers and a blessing to parents. W. H. The Montgomery Conference. Much interest is now being centered upon the "Southern Conference" to be held in Montgomery, Alabama, May 8-10, to consider the interests of the two races in the South. While I have no connection with this conference there are one or two things that I think our people ought to know regarding it. In the first place, I think it fair to presume that some things are going to be said that we will not like and some things are going to be said that we will like. We must not be disappointed if the first meeting is not all that we had hoped for. The most valuable point, I think, in connection with this conference is that it is going to help help about that which the Negro has so long asked for, and the South so much needed—and that is, free speech. The promoters of this conference have been careful to see that provision is made that all sides of the race question may be heard, but as I understand it the discussion is to be confined, at the first conference, at least, to white men only. It means a great gain when in the heart of the South, we can have a conference of any kind, where men are invited to speak out plainly their views in regard to the Negro. It would not be a conference of free speech, if the discussions were confined to those whom we consider already favorable to the highest interests of the Negro. There could be little gain to our cause if the meeting brought together only those who are already favorably disposed to the highest interests of the Negro. I let us not be alarmed if some of the speakers favor taking away from the Negro some of the rights which he now possesses. If individuals have this feeling in their hearts, it is better to give expression to it than to repress it. Our cause is just, and can stand the light of open, free discussion. As a conference, I am assured that the organization is not going to commit itself by any resolutions, or otherwise, to any of the much discussed plans for the solution of the race problem. It is simply going to serve as a medium through which white men, North and South, can come together for an open, free and frank discussion. In looking over the program, I see that the executive committee has tried to be fair in the assignment of speakers. The Negro's side will not suffer while such true and tried friends of our cause as Dr. H. B. Frissell, Dr. J. L. M. Curry, Walter H. Page and ex-Governor McCorkle are there. If Hon. Bourke Cochran, of New York, for example, is there to advocate, as he is likely to do, the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment, as a solution, ex-Governor McCorkle will be there to advocate that the Negro be treated with absolute justice at the ballot box through an educational test and property test for voting that shall apply equally to both races. Some of our race papers have misunderstood the motive of Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy, of Montgomery, one of the chief organizers of this conference. Mr. Murphy has expressed personal views regarding the Fifteenth Amendment, with which I do not and cannot agree, but in no sense will Mr. Murphy attempt to make the conference stand for his personal views. No black man in the South, who has had the opportunity to really know Mr. Murphy at his home in the South, can doubt that while he may advocate a means of solving the problem, with which we are not in accord, at the same time he is a sincere friend of the Negro, as well as of the white man. So let us prepare our minds, as a race, to hear an open, frank discussion, and if anything in connection with the organization of the first conference is not as we would have it, let us remember that it is a beginning and may, in the providence of God, in the future, bring us great help as a race. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Tuskegee, Alabama, May 5. Holton. Rev. R. C. Lee preached Sunday evening at the A. M. E. church, his Sundays being first and third at Holton, and second and fourth at Horton. Mrs. L. Parks suffered greatly last week, from having the toothache, and after having it pulled, it bled very much. She is improving, but is very weak from loss of blood. Miss Hannah Quarrels returned from her visit in Topeka; she reports a good time. People are rushing in by the hundred for the encampment. Everyone is enjoying a happy time. We welcome everybody to our city, and will do all in our power to make things pleasant for all visitors. Every one attended and enjoyed the grand parade Thursday, led by Marshall's band of Topeka. Yesterday and today were the principal days. The A. M. E. church gave an entertainment Thursday evening. R. K. May is on the sick list, but is some better. STOLEN—Six dollars in money and a revolver from William Davis. The thief has not yet been tound. Mr. Banks spent Sunday in Muscotah. R. P. Brooks spent Sunday in To- MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY peka. T. J. Collins, of Manhattan, is now employed in McHughe's candy kitchen, where he expects to work during the summer; being an old hand at the candy business, his task is easy. Mr. Williams, proprietor of the city hotel, has five of Topeka's brightest and best table waiters employed. Mrs. C. A. Walker is enjoying a visit from her father. Prospects are still very favorable for THE PLAINDEADER. Louis Ford has gone to Nadeau, Kas. Mrs. Marsh is back in Holton at work again. All are glad to see her. Miss Maud Marsh, who has been ill so long, is improving slowly. A Profitable Way to See The West Is to join one of the person- ally conducted California excursions of the Santa Fé Route. Congenial companions are assured. Special conductors relieve you of all care and con- tribute materially to your enjoyment. No extra charge. Inquire of T. L. KING, Topeka Agent, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ky. ARE YOU GOING TO Chicago or the East? THE THROUGH EXPRESS FROM Colorado—Kansas—Nebraska VIA OMAHA. 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Missouri Pacific Route The Dyson restaurant, located at 440 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kas., is the best restaurant in that city. The Dyson restaurant, located at 440 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kas., is the best restaurant in that city. NOTICE—All correspondents for THE PLAINDEALER will kindly collect all subscriptions in their respective cities, and kindly remit same to the office. PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. J. Bennett left Wednesday for Belton, Mo. Quarterly meeting was held at Brown chapel Sunday. Mrs. Maggie Moss is improving, and is able to be out again. Mrs. Ella Made is dangerously ill at her home on Chandler street. Mr. Shill Donnelly is able to be out again, after a severe illness. The Third Baptist Sabbath school is increasing rapidly in numbers. Jack Brown, the popular Santa Fe special car cook, is home for a few days. The Rosebud club will be entertained this afternoon by Miss Pearl McNeal. Mrs. Mary Jones, of Kansas City, Mo., is visiting her cousin, Mrs. E. W. Matley. Sergeant Betts of the police force was sick last week, but he is now out and on duty. Miss Carrie Carter has returned home, from Oklahoma, where she has been visiting. There will be a rally at the Third Baptist church Sunday. Everybody is invited to attend. Miss Margaret Nichols has been confined in the hospital at Chicago, but is convalescent. Miss Ellen Malone will spend Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City, the guest of friends. Mrs. Sallie Malone will entertain the Sewing circle of the Third Baptist church this afternoon. Rev. J. R. Ransom and Dr. G. H. Shaffer are attending General Conference in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. S. H. Thompson, of Kansas City, was in town last week, attending the State Medical association. George W. Smith has been appointed to a $540 per year job at the Federal building. Good for George. Mrs. Hattie Dean-Johns left Monday to join her husband at Wimbledon, North Dakota, where they will reside. Mrs. Walter B. McClain left Tuesday for Holton, Kansas, to attend the department encampment of the old soldiers. Cyrene Commandery will entertain its ladies and the Banner club on the 24th inst. A pleasant time is anticipated. The First African Baptist C. E. society will be led by A. B. Henry, Sunday evening. Subject, "Vision and Service." All those who subscribed for The Greater Republic please be ready on the 15th of this month. Miss Alice Gough, agent. The Golden Rod club will be entertained this afternoon by the Misses Phillips, complimentary to Mrs. Hattie Dean-Johns. Call on M. Manson, 316 Kansas avenue, when you want money at ten per cent. on valuables. He sells misfit clothing, shoes, hats, gents' furnishing goods. Mrs. G. H. Young and son, Earl, of Lawrence, were in the city last week, visiting Mrs. Laura Warner at 1323 Van Buren street. Messrs. John Patterson, Gilbert Jordan, Thomas McAdoo and Simon Jordan were among the excursionists to Kansas City Sunday. Bethany chapter No. 7, O. E. S., installed officers on Thursday evening. Mrs. Drusilla Merritt is royal matron and Miss Bass secretary. Mr. and Mrs. Bert, Lucas are the happy parents of a fine girl. Mr. Lucas is covered with smiles all the Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Gay are the happy parents of a fine son; his name is Robert, and if he follows in the footsteps of General Roberts of Transvaal fame, he will be an honor to his parents as well as to his country. Cyrene Commandery drill corps last Wednesday elected Sir J. M. Mason captain general, Sir N. Chiles first lieutenant and W. Riley Slaughter second lieutenant. The drill corps meets every alternate Wednesday evening. Lawyer A. M. Thomas has received notice from the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, asking all graduates send card of address, and requesting them to give other items of interest about members of the class of 1887. The next issue will be the Topeka Colored Lawyers Edition; then a continuation of A Few Popular Young Ladies of Kansas and Elsewhere. The Topeka Colored Physicians Edition will follow, then the ministers and teachers. The Ne Plus Ultra club met at the residence of Mrs. G. W. Smith last Saturday afternoon and an elegant luncheon was partaken of and enjoyed by the members in attendance, after which they adjourned to meet in the afternoon of tomorrow at the residence of Mrs. Jerry White, King and Buchanan streets. Drs. O. A. Taylor and S. H. Thompson were admitted as members of the Kansas State Medical association. They enjoy the distinction of being the first colored members. Both are gentlemen eminently qualified to pursue their chosen profession, and are enjoying a lucrative practice among all classes. Thos. Bell will be the supply pastor of the Third Baptist church for the next two or three months. He has placed pledge cards in the hands of all the members of the church, and wishes that every person who has the welfare of the church at heart to give as liberally to Christ's cause as possible, as the church is deeply in debt. Wednesday evening of last week the Ne Plus Ultra club gave a surprise party at the home of Mrs. Clark, No. 1155 Lane street, in honor of Miss Emma Blanton of Ellberry, Mo., who is visiting relatives here. A general good time is reported by all. Music was furnished for the occasion by Mrs. Helen Ransom, after which refreshments were served to the satisfaction of the following named guests: G. W. Smith and wife, Mr. Sharpe and wife, Mr. Dunlap and wife, Mr. Thompson and wife, Mr. S. Shuck and wife, Mr. Duke and wife and Mr. Komer and wife. Misses Eva and Lillie Phillips were the hostesses at a delightful thimble party last Friday afternoon, complimentary to Mrs. Hattie Dean-Johns. The rooms were prettily decorated. The first part of the afternoon was devoted to needle work, after which a musical program was rendered as follows: Instrumental solo, Pearl McNeal; vocal solo, Nellie Hicks; recitation, Lena Thompson; instrumental solo, Cora Bennett. The guests were Mrs. Hattie Dean-Johns, Mesdames J. D. Johnson, Cora Bennett, Rosaline Rice, Mary Jordan, Ella Williams, Missouri Benninng, Lena Thompson; Pearl McNeal, Katie Harris, Nellie Hicks, Nora Williams, Gertrude Solomon, Lizzie Spaulding. The afternoon closed with dainty refreshments. One of the auxiliaries of the Shiloh Missionary Baptist church, the Sojourner Truth Social League, this city, has undertaken a new venture to educate the masses. While all young men and women are not by any means going to the bowwows, too many of them have little or no regard for social and civil culture. Indeed, many of them are rude, vulgar and dangerous. They are beginning, as it were, a crusade upon the churches. They make it uncomfortable for those who sit in the back part of the churches—chew gum, eat peanuts, throw notes to girls to whom virtue and chastity seem to be unknown, and congregate in squads to whisper, to ridicule and mimic others who are less fortunate than they in apparel and appearance. This condition of affairs has gone far enough. Parents do not seem to exercise any influence over their children. It is to this end—the betterment of our people—that the above named organization will begin a series of lectures this afternoon at 2:30 at that church. Revs. Lucas, Barker and others will speak this afternoon and there will be speaking tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow evening the talented and eloquent young preacher, Rev E. A. Wilson, D. D., of the Metropolitan Baptist church, Kansas City, Kansas, will deliver his famous lecture on "Women, the Motors of Our Civilization." The public is cordially invited to attend. Sunday, May 13, Rev. E. A. Wilson will preach at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Revs. Moppings and Clark will preach in the afternoon; Rev. Barker will deliver an address to the young men. Dr. Fisk will deliver the second lecture at a later date. To the Subscribers. Miss Willa Smith, traveling agent for THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER, will be in Wamego, Manhattan, Junction City, Abilene and Salina collecting for the paper. Notice. There will be a grand entertainment and installation given by Mace edonian Tabernacle No. 93, Thursday evening, May 17. Refreshments of all kinds will be served. Come one, come all. All Temples and Tabernacles are cordially invited. 609 N. Kansas avenue. Admission 10 cents. Important Notice! After May 20 Mr. Charles Sumner Hunter, a schoolteacher of Pierce City, Mo., will be added to the editorial and reportorial staff of THE PLAINDEALER. He will manage things in general around this office and will look after the literary department in particular. Mr. Hunter is a well-educated man, is a scholar and a gentleman, and will add strength and characrer to this paper. He is unquestionably the brightest and cleverest young colored paragrapher and newspaper man West of the Mississippi river, and a great "mixer" and "glad hand" profferer. He knows how to accumulate and retain friends, something a very few newspaper men know how to do. North Toneka. The committee on program for the auxiliary club No. 1, of the Ex-Slaves' Pension association submitted the following to be rendered at Mt. Olive Baptist church, Monday evening, May 21: Call to order by president; devotional exercises by chaplain; roll call and payment of dues; remarks by the president; song by J. W. Anderson, "Ex-Slaves are Marching;" debate, "Resolved, That Congress would be more justified in granting pensions to the ex-slaves than in making appropriations for carrying on the war in the Philippine Islands;" affirmative, A. Scales, Miss Ada Lee and Rev. Rucker; negative, J. W. Anderson, Miss Katie Lewis and S. Huston; closing song, "Uncle Sam Has Gone to the Philippines." Miss Katie Lewis, secretary. Mound City. E. G. Greene has returned home, after an absence of six months employed in the State Insane asylum at Osawatomie. He was much pleased with his employment, and speaks highly of the supervision of Dr. L. L. Uhls. Since the 21st he says "I am now 21 years old." The young people of the Second Baptist church rendered an interesting program Saturday evening of last week. Some members and friends of the A. M. E. church attended quarterly meeting at Pleasanton recently. Many expect to attend the wedding of Miss Eva Hunley and Mr. White, of Butler, Mo. Rev. J. H. Vanlue spent a few days, recently, with Rev. T. W. Greene. Nick Chiles was in Holton this week, on business. N. J. Washington has returned from his home at Phillipsburg, Kas. L. R. Bailey, of St. Mary's, was here this week to take a peep at his Topeka sweetheart. Walter Caldwell, the cracker-jack baseball player, was in town with the Emporia club last Saturday. O.A. Harris and A. J. Gilmore, prominent lodge men of Leavenworth, are expected in the city soon. The following special program will be rendered by the Pleasant Hour Literary society Saturday evening, May 12, at 618 Kansas avenue; Music, Dora Wilson; paper, Mrs. E. M. Guy; violin solo Ogeal Wilson; current topics, Angelica Grandpre; music, Lucy Bledsue; essay, Hester Hawkins; duet, Georgia Watkins and Alberta Guy; debate, Messrs. Page, Roundtree, Sawyer and Guy. Admission, 10 cents. The circle of the Third Baptist church met and elected the following officers: Mr. Thomas, president; Janie Wilson, secretary; Ella Biggers, assistant secretary; Nellie Mason, treasurer; George Jackson, sergeant-at-arms; on executive committee, Mr. Hope, Mr. Ridley, Miss Maggie Cantrell. The following program will be rendered next meeting: Song by circle, current topics, Mrs. Malone; recitation, Ethel Johns; song, Maggie Cantrell and Janie Chiles; recitation, Beatrice Thomas; essay, Nellie Mason; recitation, Katie Hoe; debate, affirmative, G. W. Smith and D. Hope; negative, J. H. B. Taylor and G. A. Bigbee. The subject is to be chosen. Our Policy Again. Remember, THE PLAINDEALER is no six-months campaign sheet and we are not in the business to fleece candidates or the public. We have kept our promises to our subscribers, but some of them have broken theirs with us. This paper, in politics, is intensely Republican; we believe in Bill McKinley and Marc. Hanna. As to races, we believe that all men should stand on an equal footing before the law, having free speech, a fair ballot and an honest count. We are not asking special privileges for anyone; we believe that the salvation of the Negro is like that of all races—in that he must hustle and rustle, to get there. We shall point out the way for him through the columns of this paper; we are not cranks on political jobs, but are very cranky on our people getting down to business, such as farming, the mercantile business, cattle and poultry raising; then they should have the nerve and backbone with which to push it along. Some Negroes imagine that the white man, as a rule, is against them; it is a mistake; they are against themselves. You should get money, deposit it in some bank; when you think you have a sufficient amount, invest in a farm, buy stock in some bank, railroad, or anything that will let people know you mean business. Demand a job from some of these concerns, on the ground that you are an investor, and not because you are colored. Money has no racial qualifications; it buys as much for a colored man as it does for a white man. Corn, wheat, oats, potatoes and barley grow as well for a colored man as they will for a white man, provided always that he plants and cultivates them. Cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry will procreate as fast for a colored man as they will for a white man, provided he cares for them, so we have no kick coming in the Northern states. We acknowledge that the Negro is denied equal rights at law in the South, though he may toil. His rights are taken from him through what the white man of the South calls "legal rights," but which we of the North call robbery. The term as applied to the Negro at law in the South is "a Negro's word counts for nothing at law against a white man." We only contend for equal rights at law, and that is all the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments intended, and the better class of white people ought to see that this much is granted. If this is done you will see one of the biggest changes in the South ten years hence that you have had in the past one-hundred. Let the change come, and come quick! When in Emporia Stop at The Blue Front Restaurant. We have opened a first-class restaurant and lodging house and offer the following rates: Board per day $1, per week $3, normal students $2; two in a room, meals 15 cents and lodging 25 cents per night. Call on or address P. B. Moore or Mrs. P. B. Moore, 711 Commercial street, Emporia, Kansas. THE FREEMAN A National Newspaper. It is conceded to be the leading Newspaper published by the race in the world. No expense is published by the race in the world. The publisher is making it INDIANAPOLIS, an ideal home journal. More special contributors are any two other Negro papers. We want an active city in the United States. Write for IND. Add: The Freeman, Indianapolis. THE CAPITAL LOAN OFFICE. George Klien & Co MAKERS OF High-Grade Buggy and Team Harness. ...Repairing Promptly Executed.... 718 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kan For Sale Real Estate. THREE ROOM COTTAGE, N. Tyler street, East front 1 1/3 lots, cellar, well, stable, $300 FOUR ROOM COTTAGE, Good shape, on 1 acre, 1 1/2 miles from the City, $600. PROPERTIES ON LINCOLN St., All in good condition, 1 to 1 1/2 lots, 3 to 5 room residences, fine location, $300 to $550. SIXTEEN LOTS ON CENTRAL Avenue cheap. 30 lots corner 12th and Adams streets, make an offer. 8 lots corner B and Filmore streets, make an offer. SEVEN ROOM HOUSE on Chandler street, good well, $400. FIVE-ACRE TRACT, Five room residence, good barn, fine location overlooking the city, $800. Lowman Hill lots $50. Properties on Morris Ave., one-third the original cost. 2 lots, 5 room house in Martin and Dennis addition, $500, easy terms. N. BRANNER STREET, One lot, neat 3 room cottage, barn and cistern, $450. Euclid Ave., 6 room house, $450. Desirable property in all parts of the City—bottom land in 5 acre tract near the city. Call and get prices. R. O. HILLIARD. 413 Kansas Avenue. 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Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. I HAVE MADE a very careful test of the Original Oxonized Ox Marrow among our colored students and found it a most excellent hair tonic. It is just the thing to make the hair soft, yielding and shiny. Find enclosed Postal Order Your truly, J. M. Hoffman, Professor of Agricultural Biology, State A. & M. College, Orangeburg, S. C. If your dealer cannot supply you with the genuine Original Oxonized Ox Marrow (copyrighted) send us e-mail, and we will supply you a bottle. Adversary: 12345 Avenue Chicago, IL 60610. Is Wabash Avenue Chicago, IL To my Customers: On and after March 30th I will be at McCarroll's Barber Shop, 116 East Seventh, Where I will be pleased to meet you all again. R. L. SKEARCE. CREOLE POMADE... For Straightening Kinky and Curly Hair Without Injury—Removes dandruff, cures all diseases of the scalp—75c per jar. GEORGE W. STANFIELD, Druggist, 632 Kansas Ave., Topeka. We Serve Best Meals in City Polite Waiters For 10c and 15c. Quick Service. Gordon's Palace Hotel, 654 GRAND AVE. Newly furnished rooms, with or without board—Hot and Cold Baths, Cigars and Tobacco. J. W. GORDON, Prop., Kansas City, Mo. Three room house, $250; $25 cash, balance, $5 per month. Four room house, 1 lot, $350; $25 cash, balance, 5 per month. Two room house, $322; $25 cash, balance $5 per month. Scott & Scott, 315 Kansas Avenue. $200,000 Worth of Property Has been placed in my hand part has been taken under foreclosure tern Firms who are very anxious to beautiful huses and lots in all parts most at your own price. As this pro for sale recently, I wish to wind it up $500. to $1,000. each on easy terms ranging from $1,000 to $7,000 situated city, residences which you might des We have a number of large and peka, and farms to dispose of in all p Has been placed in my hand for disposal, for sale; and of which part has be $c$ n taken under foreclosure. It principally is owned by Eastern Firms who are very anxious to sell on reasonable terms. I have beautiful hues and lots in all parts of the city, which can be bought at your own price. As this property has been placed in my hands for sale recently, I wish to wind it up in short order. Houses range from $500, to $1,000, each on easy terms; also I have beautiful residences ranging from $1,000 to $7,000 situated in the most beautiful part of the city, residences which you might desire. We have a number of large and small farms near the city of Topeka, and farms to dispose of in all parts of the state. J. H. B. TAYLOR, 119 West Fifth Avenue, PHONE NO. 689. KANSAS PACKING Whoelsale Fresh and sugar SCHMIDT BRO'S :: KANSAS PACKING HOUSE MARKET, Whoelsale and Retail. Fresh and sugar cured Meats. SCHMIDT BRO'S : : : 306 E. SECOND ST. Kellam's, 711 Kansas City and County School Kellam Book & FOR SALE OFFICE HOURS 7 70 9 A. M. 12 70 2 P. M. I. A. SHIELDS, M. D. Office, 1331 Van Bures Special Attention to Ladies J. M. KNIGHT, UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER. 406 Kansas Avenue. 'Phone 52 When in Kansas City Please Call at The Chicago Cafe. HENRY COMPTON, Prop. 706 E 12 St., - - Kansas City, Mo OFFICE HOURS: 3 to 10 A.M. 3 to 5 P.M. O. A. TAYLOR, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Calls answered day and night. Telephone, 696. 2261 Kansas Ave OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M. 3 to 5 P. M. 7 to 9 P. M. WM. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, 117 West Fifth St. OFFICE HOURS: Telephone, 454 7 to 10 a. m., 12 m. to 4 p. m. 7 to 10 p. m. J·M. JAMISON, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Special attention to diseases of Women and private diseases. Office, 506 4th. - Ret. 225 Madison Shampooing and Face Massage Mrs. Hattie E. Van Vleck, Hair Dresser and Manufacturer..... Hair to match all Complexions. WITCHES AND HAIR JEWELRY. 270 East Fifth Street, TOPKEA, KANSAS. Practices in all courts. Special attention given criminal cases. W. I. JAMISON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office, 117 W. Fifth St. A. M. THOMAS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 'Phone, 299. 413 Kansas Avenue, Rooms 4 and 5. 'Topeka, Kan. OFFICE HOURS: 6 to 10 A.M. 3 to 5 P.M. C. SUMNER SUNDAY. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Calls Promptly Answered. Telephone 558. FRANK HERALD, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Room 313, Long Building, 515 Main Street, KANSAS CITY, MO. or disposal, for sale; and of which ere. It principally is owned by Eas- so sell on reasonable terms. I have of the city, which can be bought al-perty has been placed in my hands in short order. Houses range from ; also I have beautiful residences in the most beautiful part of the fire. d small farms near the city of To-arts of the state. TOPEKA, KANSAS. HOUSE MARKET, and Retail. r cured Meats. : 306 E. SECOND ST. Avenue. 1 Books and Supplies. Appropriated to build industrial school at Quindaro, Kansas, the sum of ($10,000) ten-thousand dollars, five-thousand ($5,000) dollars of which were spent in the erection of Stanley Industrial hall. In building Stanley Industrial hall, Negro mechanics, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons and bricklayers were employed at wages ranging from $2.00 to $2.50 and $3.00 and $4.00 per day. The sum of ($3,000) three thousand dollars was appropriated to the Negro industrial school at Topeka, payable half the sum. one half at the end of fiscal year. STATE HOUSE-FIREMAN. Ed. Bass, Cowley Co. per year..... 600 00 N. J. Washington, Phillips Co. per year..... 600 00 William Holland, Bourbon Co. per year..... 600 00 1800 STATE HOUSE MESSENGER. William J. Sharge, Shawnee Co. per year..... 480 00 FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1900. Salaries paid to colored employees State House and State institutions..... 16515 00 Appropriated Quindarro Industrial School..... 250 00 Appropriated Topeka Industrial School..... 150 00 Grand Total..... 25515 00 FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1900. Salaries appropriated to colored employees State House and State institutions..... 16515 00 Appropriated Quindarro Industrial School..... 250 00 Appropriated Topeka Industrial School..... 150 00 20515 00 Grand total for two years ending June 30, 1900. Besides these, there were a large number of Negroes employed during the Legislature and as occasional laborers in the various state institutions, whose compensation is not included in the above summary. Nor does this include the annual appropriation of $70000 for the Ladies' Protective Home of Leavenworth, Kansas, one of the most useful institutions operated by the women of our race in the state. To this, also, might be added the appointment of W. B. Townsend as marshal of the City Court of Leavenworth, which position he filled with credit to himself and the race; also George Star of Atchison as marshal of the City Court. This gives the race twenty-nine Negroes employed in state institutions in various capacities, and five in the state school and three at the Topeka Industrial school. That under the present administration the amount of money paid colored employees, and the amount appropriated by the Legislature for colored institutions exceeds $50,000, which is greater recognition than has ever before been given the colored people in the history of the state. This splendid recognition of the race simply goes to demonstrate the fact that everything that has been done for the substantial advancement and promotion of the race, has been done by the Republican party. While the party has not given to one or two individuals positions of honor and trust, it has given to our people larger and more substantial recognition through the aid it has extended to schools and charitable institutions of the race than we could have hoped for under any other system of distribution of party spoils. The industrial schools which have received state aid are splendidly equipped to render investimable benefit to the young people of our race in teaching them trades, along with a good business education. This does not include all the places of honor and trust held by Negroes in Kansas for which we can thank Republican generosity. Hardly a town or county in the state where there are any number of our people but what the Negro is enjoying privileges not allowed to him in the land of Tillmanism and murder. We present these facts to show our people just what benefits they are enjoying under Republican rule in Kansas. These can be used as emphatic arguments in the coming campaign. Now, what can the Pops and Democrats say about this record? Republican State Convention. The Republicans of Kansas will assemble in Topeka next week for the purpose of nominating a state ticket and adopting a platform. That the present corps of efficient state officers will be nominated without a dissenting vote, is a foregone conclusion. It is a manifest destiny—there is no opposition noticeable anywhere along the line. The present state administration is a peculiarly strong one, both individually and collectively. Its record is one that all citizens of Kansas, regardless of race, color or political proclivities, can be, and justly are, proud of. During the past fifteen months, no administrative scandals or misconduct have arisen that will demand explanation and apology during the coming campaign, from those who will be sent out to increase the Republican majority in November next. The administration of Governor W. E. Stanley has been wise and conservative, and commends him as a THE PLAINDEALER, as a part of the Republican party of Kansas, feels justified in offering some advice to the coming state convention, although we have full confidence in the ability of the delegates to discharge their duties honestly and conscientiously. After the renomination of our present state officers, the adoption of a plat form is of great importance. The matter should be referred to a strong committee composed of men whose fidelity to Republican principles has never been questioned. There will be no trouble to find such a set of men at this time, because there will be more illustrious Kansans than have been gathered under one roof since the palmy days of Jim Lane and John Brown. These resolutions should indorse the national administration, William McKinley and expansion; they should indorse our very able corps of representatives in our national Congress; they should denounce in emphatic terms the action of various Southern states, notably Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina, for their nullification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to our Federal Constitution as distinctive of rights guaranteed the Negro through the efforts of Republican Legislatures. These resolutions should denounce in unmistakable language, the quarreling and bickering of contentious "bosses" as inimical to party success. They should indorse David Winfield Mulvane for national Republican committeeman of Kansas—select a State Central committee, sing in unison, "My Country,'Tis of Thee," and adjourn sine die, leaving the future to the State Central committee and the plain people of Kansas, and a Republican victory in November would be as auro as night follows the setting sun. With the closing of the state convention, the State Central committee should meet and re-elect Chairman Mort. Albaugh and Secretary Frank Brown. Peace and harmony should prevail all along the line. Publication Notice. In the District Court in and for Shawnee county, Kansas. Alberta Mason, plaintiff. vs. Richard Mason, defendant. No. 20145 The district court has been used by the plaintiff in the District Court of Shawnee county, Kansas, for a divorce, and that unless he makes answer to the petition filed in defendant and non-support or before the sixth day of May, 1900, said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered as prayed for divorce said plaintiff from the defendant on the ground of abandonment and non-support and restoring said plaintiff to her maiden name. A. M. CALLAHAM, Attestor 1. Anna Mason. Tark District Court. By her attorney, W. I. JAMISON. First publication April 13, 1900. Publication Notice. Anna Harlan, defendant. 10.09.2007 The defendant, Anna Harlan, is hereby notified that she will be sentenced to prison for plaintiff in the Daintree Court of Shawnee county, Kansas for a divorce, and unless she makes answer to the petition filed in the office of the clerk of the above court, she will be sentenced to prison for plaintiff will be taken as true and judgment great dered according differing said plaintiff from defendant on the ground of abandonment. 10.09.2007 ENWARD HARLAN Clerk District Court By his attorney, W. L. Jermison. MEXICO NOTES. Junction City. Rev. Banks has returned from Oklahoma, where he spent three weeks. He reports most prosperous times among our people. He says the wheat crop is good, and in many towns the Negroes are in business. There is activity among the churches, but ministers are scarce. They also have good schools. The annual Odd Fellows' sermon was preached at the A. M. E. church Sunday by the Rev. H. Jones, of Quindaro, Kas. Rev. W. W. Stewart, of St. Joseph, Mo., was in the city last week, the guest of Rev. Banks. He has been called to the pastorate of the Baptist church at Abilene, Kas., and left Saturday for that place. Rev. R. W. Watson, of Manhattan, Kas., preached two able sermons in the Second Baptist church the fifth Sunday in April, in the absence of Rev. Banks. Rev. Banks, after an absence of three weeks, entertained his people Sunday with two excellent sermons—one at 11 a. m., and one at 8:00 p. m. His morning subject was, "The Power of Greed;" evening subject, "Rest." Rev. Jones entertained Rev. Alexander's congregation last Sunday evening with one of his ablest sermons. The Lyceum society of the Second Baptist church is growing in interest. The children had a debate last Friday night which was very interesting to them. Tois is a new feature to the program, and the credit is due President Aldridge. No one in the city is more happy than Robt. Maddox, who was presented with a fine boy Sunday night. William Hurden was elected a delegate to the Republican convention, and C. H. Belton, the hog raiser, alternate. S. Hadsom is improving his property on West Tenth street by building an addition to his house. Misses G. Gunn and Jennie Turner gave a social Thursday evening for the benefit of the Second Baptist church which proved to be a great success. We thank the ladies for taking such an interest in their work. Rev. Alexander is making arrangements to entertain the District conference which meets in this city the first of June. A large number of ministers is expected to be present. Rev. Banks expects to take a trip to Leavenworth next week to attend the Northwestern Ministers' and Deacons' union. Carbondale. The Second Baptist Sunday school opened Sunday morning with singing and paayer. The subject of the lesson was "Jesus' Warning and Inviting." Rev. R. H. Graham proved to be an able teacher. At 11 o'clock Elder Graham preached a good sermon, taking for his text John 15:6—"If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered." The sermon was very soothing to those who heard it. Rev. Graham has accepted the call as pastor of the Carbondale Second Baptist church. In the evening he spoke for about twenty minutes from the 38th chapter of Isaiah. The meeting was changed, and some very interesting remarks were made on baptism and the Lord's supper, after which the sacrament was administered. The church will pray that he will continue with us for some time to come. If we follow his instructions we will be able to do a great work in the little town of Salina. Enid, O. T. A. C. L. COAL COMPANY Is Headquarters for the Cheapest Prices, the Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the Promptest Deliveries. Get their Prices on WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Office 402 Minnesota Avenue. Telephone 152 West. Yard and Storage 917 and 919 North Third Street. E. F. HENDERSON, Manager, Kansas City, Kansas. $500 Endowment Insurance $1,000 Mrs. Edward Gibbs entertained Friday in honor of Anna Stafford, of Emporia. The principal feature of the evening was spent in whist and dancing. After a late hour, a sumptuous repast was served. The guests present were Messrs. Crosswaite and wife, Yates and wife, Jackson and wife, Fairfax and wife, Davis and wife, William Garrett and wife; Mesdames Joe Brice, Wallace Dean, Josie Washington, Woodland, F. Binkley; Misses Lula Jones, Nellie Banks, Jennie Guy, Penelope Rucker, Myrtle Harris, Georgie Davis; Messrs. William Griffin, J. Dawley, G. N. Grisham, Tim. Cooper, W. Bufkin, Felix Shaffer and wife. Young Mr. Ray Gibbs, the musical genius, furnished delightful music during the evening. This form of policy is offered in terms of ten, fifteen and twenty years. PROTECTION.—The Endowment policy carries with it full protection during the entire period. 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