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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. We Believe in a Spirit of Unity, A Feeling of Fellowship and A Gospel of Brotherhood. If you're With Us, Shake! OKLAHOMA. The Negro's Eldorado. Its Resources And its Possibilities. Normal & Industrial Institute. Ten years ago, Oklahoma, the Cherokee Strip and No Man's Land were classed as the wilds of the central part of the United States. They were then the famous hunting ground of Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the face and White Horse, famous Indian chiefs. Today 500,000 people have transformed them into a garden. Trees, laws, farms and cities are as plentiful as guats in Arkansas, and as modern as those of Kansas or Illinois. Electricity and steam, combined with Yankee push and genius, have made the cordion of civilization hum. Guthrie, Kingfisher and Oklahoma City are the principal cities and business centres. Around them are clustered a legion of hamlets and towns, dotting the prairies like stars in the firmament. Railroads, the advance agents of commerce and trade, are penetrating the country like arteries in the body. Five years of good crops have put the people on their feet. And now, the Free Homes bill, which recently passed the Congress, has practically emancipated the people from all governmental contingencies, and everyone boasted of being a freeman. This bill, it is said, practically gives back to the people of Oklahoma, $18,000,000. There are 100,000 colored there. Thus it can be seen the Negroes are benefitted not less than $4,000,000. What consolation there must be to the many widows and young women who have acquired "claims" at great privations! LOGAN COUNTY is essentially a Negro stronghold. In Guthrie, alone, there are 5,500 colored people, who worship in twenty churches. The public school building is a massive, modernly improved structure of 12 rooms, with a High school department equipped with scientific appliances, excellent laboratory and library. The school population is 1,000. About 700 are enrolled. Ten teachers comprise the teaching force. At least three more teachers are needed. Prof. F. C. Long is the principal. He is graduate of Alsom university, a splendid teacher and disciplinarian. All the assistants are graduates of some academy, normal school or college. Their proficiency is unquestioned. The standard for teachers is probably higher than that of Kausas or Missouri. This is a fitting safeguard for a new country, and augurs much for the grammar school, the poor man's university. It is a noticeable texture that all the teachers, colored and white, are practical church workers, most of them being members of churches of their faith. Many of the people own excellent homes. About a hundred business places are operated successfully by colored men. Judge Perkins, "the invincible" is the proprietor and publisher of The Guide, a strong race paper. The Constitution is another race paper, bright and newsy. A colored Baptist preacher, Rev. Morton, is county clerk. Two members of the school board are colored, so is the city marshal. We met the venerable, astute and cynic, E. P. McCabe. He is deputy auditor of Oklahoma, and we are informed, he is gathering the satellites about him preparing to make a dash for the governorship in the near future. LANGSTON CITY. On the 20th we preached the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of the Guthrie High school. Next day we were invited to address the students of the Normal, Agricultural and Mechanical university, Langston City. We were curious to see this hamlet. Its population is exclusively Negro. The postmaster, Mr. Haglewood is an old Kentucky friend of ours; the druggist, the merchants, physicians, all are colored. It is an up-to-date village. The houses are painted, lawns beautiful and business houses unique. There are no "darktown quarters." The university VOLUME II. Middle Ground. HOMA. do. Its Resources ilities. Normal is a half mile away. Although the school is only two years old, having been established by the government in 1898, three magnificent buildings have been erected: The girls' dormitory, the agricultuasl hall and the administration building. These buildings represent an expenditure of $50,000. Two other buildings are to be erected this year. The sum of $25,000 has been provided for them. This school is destined to be the greatest Negro university in America. We looked into the faces of 235 students as bright and intellectual as those of Wilberforce or the State university. The faculty is an exceedingly strong one: Prof. I. E. Page, president, professor of mental and moral Philosophy; Prof. N. J. Johnson, professor of General history; Prof. J. S. Tucker, professor of science; Miss Z. N. Page, musical instructress; Prof. P. C. Parker, superintendent Agricultural department; Prof. W. Jackson, superintendent Industrial department. There are several student teachers. The matron is a Kansas lady. Professor Page is a graduate of Harvard and Brown universities, and is easy the leading Negro educator of the country. Dignified in bearing, polished in manners, possessing superb executive ability, and a natural-born teacher and orator, he is the Jesse R. Harper of the territory. His unparalleled success at Lincoln college, Jefferson City, Mo., is an eternal monument to his character and intellectual attainments. Prof. Tucker is a graduate of Cornell university, and, it is said of him that he is master of the sciences. He was formerly the principal of the Guthrie High school. While the other teachers are not personally known to us, they are said to possess rare accomplishments for the professions of their choice. There are more retired teachers and preachers in the territory to the square inch than anywhere on the face of the globe. Every other man is an "elder." If Dickens and Irving were alive, they might revise the impersonation of "Ichabod Crane" and the "Village Parson." Young men with brains and some money might become magnates in this new empire. The houserenting problem in Denver, which is fast developing surprising conditions for the colored population to face, demands serious attention. The prejudice against colored tenants in all sections of the city has increased so rapidly that finding a suitable house for colored families is like hunting for a mustard seed in a wheat bin. There is just one loophote and just one sensible thing for colored families to do. They can buy easily in many desirable sections on small payments. The opportunity is golden and will not last forever. Colored men and women, buy homes! Stop wasting your energies on frivolous or useless things. Get out of the notion that you must live in the very heart of the city. Buy a cheap, cozy home anywhere in the residence district or suburbs, and then you can defy prejudice, see your holdings increase in worth and find a happy and practical solution of a problem which otherwise is bound to disgrace you and drag you down. Starting From the Top: The BEE is about to conclude that some of the Negroes must start life over again. Instead of the Negro starting at the bottom of the ladder he started from the top. He cannot remain at the top because he has not built a good foundation upon which to stand. The Negro must start life over again. His new leadership is a failure. The pulpit is doing nothing but build churches; they should be building homes. FRIDAY MORNING. W. L. GRANT. Buy Homes. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JUNE 1, 1900. THE NEGRO DEMOCRAT. The holding of the S calls to our mind the palm In those days there were than Price Thomas and B "Thurman's bandanna", its carrying messages for the police force. It can be safely anno oblivion. Leaving Kansas itics, Negro democrats arley Anderson, the noted able spirit of C. H. J. Tayl It held state conventions, spoils in case of party such hardly a memory. The holding of the State Convention of the "once great Democratic party" recalls to our mind the palmy days of old "Alphabetical" Taylor and Bill Eagleson. In those days there were Negro democrats in the land. Men immeasurably larger than Price Thomas and Ben Perkins, whose fealty to the party of "Jeff Davis" and "Thurman's bandanna", is not without its hope of fee and reward, in the shape of carrying messages for the governor at the state house or watching wily prisoners on the police force. It can be safely announced that in Kansas the Negro democrat has passed into oblivion. Leaving Kansas, and going out into the wide, wide world of national politics, Negro democrats are not to be found, except possibly the few attaches of Charley Anderson, the noted Tammyany side light. In the long ago, when the irresistible spirit of C. H. J. Taylor walked among men, Negro democracy was an entity. It held state conventions, passed resolutions, and in the end demanded a part of the spoils in case of party success. But the Negro democrat is gone. In Kansas he is hardly a memory. THE TEACHER, PARENT AND PUPIL. School has closed for without change in our city buke to the gang of scam besmirching the good nana course between teachers a feeling among many of themselves a little above has not met with that cor. To benefit the pupil and preparation for the fu in this aim the child must rent. The school work boast of the marvellous in the race's acquired wealth must be seen in our home that make noble men and to respect and obey their merely a place to go, but ties results in great bene. Teachers should uncation, to find out the ren are kept from school allow their pride to prev clothing. Many remain things can be remedied if pared than are our teach the importance of proper School has closed for the Summer vacation. Teachers have been reappointed without change in our city schools. This is as it should be, and is a deserving rebuke to the gang of scandal mongers who sought to secure the defeat of some by besmirching the good names of all. There should be greater and more cordial intercourse between teachers and patrons of our schools. There has grown up insensibly a feeling among many of the patrons of the schools, that the teachers as a body feel themselves a little above the masses, and for that reason the work of the teacher has not met with that cordial sympathy and support, its importance entitles it. To benefit the pupil should be the desire of the teacher, and the proper training and preparation for the future should be the ambition of every parent. To succeed in this aim the child must the harmonious and united efforts of both teacher and parent. The school work must be supplemented by healthy home influences. We boast of the marvellous influences of thirty years of freedom, and point with pride to the race's acquired wealth and intelligence, but the real fruits of our emancipation must be seen in our homes, from whence comes the moral and religious influences that make noble men and virtuous women. In our homes children should be taught to respect and obey their teachers, and that attendance on the public schools is not merely a place to go, but prompt attendance and due attention to their various duties results in great benefit to them in future years. Teachers should undertake, aside from the rules laid down by the Board of Education, to find out the reason why the pupils are absent from school. Many children are kept from school by reason of the destitute condition of the parents, who allow their pride to prevent them from applying to the proper parties for books and clothing. Many remain away from school because parents are indifferent. These things can be remedied if we can only use the right methods. No one is better prepared than are our teachers to impress upon the minds of the parents of the young, the importance of proper school training. OUR GRADUATES. Last Friday, three and Henrietta Jackson, who were granted diplomas, groes have been graduate hope that many more will rather startling and appear pupils in our five colored mong our white schools; hundred pupils into the of them? Are they abscised and indifferent treatment courtesies from white pupils higher grades, and leave Our people have no quiring as to the progress or unpleasantness be colored reports of the pup of every source of income very time they should be to society when they show Children do not attend should be taught at home the High School through over-indulgent parents as they have done. We lose these boys, go to fill the ever increase school education is required to embark. It is and professional man. so few graduates from our need of home discipline people higher than fine Last Friday, three young ladies, Misses Minnie Nichols, Gertrude Bradshaw and Henrietta Jackson, completed the prescribed course in our High School and were granted diplomas. This is not given out as startling information, because Negroes have been graduated from the Topeka High School before, and we sincerely hope that many more will be in the future. But the above fact suggests a question rather startling and apparently unanswerable. What becomes of the thousand Negro pupils in our five colored schools, beside the three or four hundred scattered among our white schools? Every year the colored schools send from one to two hundred pupils into the mixed schools, and it is a fair question to ask what becomes of them? Are they absorbed by the whites? Are they forced out by the prejudice of and indifferent treatment from their teachers, or frozen out by the lack of social courtesies from white pupils, or are they unable to master the difficult lesssons of the higher grades, and leave school disgusted with their own incapacity? Our people have not contracted the habit of visiting the schools and carefully inquiring as to the progress of their children, hence they cannot be aware of any friction or unpleasantness between pupil and teacher except through the very likely colored reports of the pupils. Then along with the necessity of availing ourselves of every source of income, we oftimes withdraw our boys and girls from school at the very time they should be kept there. Then again, we allow children to "go out" into society when they should be home carefully preparing for their next day's lessons. Children do not attend school for the purpose of forming social connections, and should be taught at home to understand that point. We lose more of our boys from the High School through their fondness for "society" and nice clothes, fostered by over-indulgent parents who do not want to see their children "tread the wine press" as they have done. We lose these boys from the ranks of sturdy men, and they in many instances go to fill the ever increasing columns of the baser element. A first class common school education is requisite to a successful career in whatever business a man may desire to embark. It is needed by the farmer and artisan, as well as by the business and professional man. With the thousands of Negro children in our public schools, so few graduates from our High School is discreditable to the race. It argues the need of home discipline and the giving of an impetus to the ambitions of our young people higher than fine clothes and a good time. THE NEGRO BUSINESS MAN. A careful perusal oest of Negroes each week Negro engaged in any l restaurant. This same It has always appeared a men should complain I feeble efforts by the gree where there are nearly a spend annually for that only a very small portio This condition obt groes in the city engage A careful perusal of nearly two hundred newpapers, published by and in interest of Negroes each week, would not convince the skeptical that there was a single Negro engaged in any line of business except here and there a doctor, a lawyer and restaurant. This same observation may in justice be applied to our local papers. It has always appeared singularly contradictory and paradoxical that Negro business men should complain bitterly because of an apparent lack of appreciation of their feeble efforts by the great mass of our people. Here in the great city of Topeka, where there are nearly 2,000 Negro families to be fed, clothed and warmed; who spend annually for that purpose nearly $500,000.00, one is astonished to find that only a very small portion passed into the hands of the Negro business man. This condition obtains in spite of the fact, that there are a large number of Negroes in the city engaged in the business of supplying the wants of humanity. Here we have Negro groceries, coal dealers, pea nut vendors, in fact the Negro is in all lines of business except selling dry goods. The Negro business man has got to hustle; he must advertise his wares; keep in touch with the market and utilize his small capital to the best advantage. HERE, THERE. FRIDAY MORNING. now either Helps or HERE. T And Everywhere. A World's News Br ed In Breezy Tillman Never Told the Truth. From The (St. Louis) American Eagle. When Senator Tillman says that colored mothers are teaching their children to hate white people, he maliciously misstates the truth. Gives Good Advice. Oklahoma Guide Rev. W. L. Grant's, of Topeka, sermon was sublime to the graduating class. We wish that every Negro in Oklahoma could have heard him. He told the class that they must go forth and elbow their way through the world. "Don't wait for luck, for luck is a fool; hit every man an intellectual blow you can." We Didn't Cz71: We Asked and Received, From An Exchange. The colored Republicans of Kansas, in convention assembled last week, adopted resolutions which read as though they emanated from a debating society before the decision of the judges, and then they went to the real Republican convention next day, and didn't do a thing. If you don't ask for what you want, Bro. Childers don't get excited when you hear the babies cry. Some Fools in the Race. From The Indianapolis Record. There is a class of colored folks who, when they have attained a little notoriety in any particular line, appropriate the name of some white person, prefix the distinguishing brand "black," and parade their inferiority before the eyes of an unappreciative public. Thus we have a complete assortment of Black Moseses, Talmages, Pattis, Spurgeons and Sousas, supplemented by a few Bronze Melbas, etc. As there are plenty more fools of various colors scattered over the country, we are assured that this line of curios is inexhaustible. Let the Women of the Race Federate. From The (Kansas City) Riage Sen. From The (Kansas City) Rising Son. It is to be regretted the General Federation of Women's clubs is so devoid of common broadness as to be disposed not to recognize the colored women's clubs, at its convention in Milwaukee in June. To spring the infernal color question in an institution of this kind, assumed to be organized for the uplifting and bettering of moral standard of the people of America, is to remind one that the Negro race is damned on every side. There being no social features connected with the Federation of Women's clubs, no argument can be made in righteous defense of the narrow stand taken by the organization. Far-reaching Decision. Washington, April 16.—The Seth Carter case, familiar to the people of Texas, was decided today by the Supreme court, and in a way that is of great importance to Texas and all the Southern states. The decision changes the whole practice of investigation in criminal charges against Negroes and their trial on criminal indictments. As is well known, Seth Carter is under indictment charged with murder. He moved to quash the indictment alleging that notwithstanding a quarter of the population of Galveston was composed of Negroes, no members of that race were included on the panel of the grand jury. The record shows that his counsel, Wilson H. Smith, a Galveston colored attorney, asked leave to introduce testimony to this effect, but the petition was denied. And also that the Galveston court overruled the motion without investigating. The Texas court of appeals sustained the trial court on the ground that evidence had been offered by defendant on the ground that evidence had been offered by defendant on the point raised. Justice Gray of the United States supreme court holds that this was a false assumption, as such evidence had only been tendered. He says that by this tender Carter preserved his rights under the constitu or Hinders Us. THERE. An Epitome Of The Brightly Arrang- Paragraphs. tion, therefore the decision was reversed and the case remanded. The entire supreme bench assents and agrees with Justice Gray. The opinion is expressed here by eminent jurists that this will have a far-reaching effect and means the successful appeal of every Negro found guilty of crime by either state or Federal courts where members of their own race are not included on both the grand and petit juries. Henceforth, in order to make convictions against Negroes stick, members of that race must be included in all panels of grand and petit juries. If He Only Could From The Brunswick (Ga.) Herald. John Temple Graves does his race very little credit in his solution of the Negro problem, as set forth at the conference held at Montgomery last week. He very readily proves that the Negro is equal to the white man in every particular, and finally admits that it is but the color of the skin that builds the bridge. If this be true, what is the Negro's part of this burden? Mr. Graves' picture is but a presentation of unwarranted prejudice and hatred on the part of the white man for the Negro. The Negro has no blame to bear, and yet, at the hands of "the finest race upon earth," and in the face of the Omnipotent, he is to be exterminated in order to satisfy dyspeptic imbibers of the fruits of Negro labor. If such men as John Temple Graves were to change the color of their hearts, they would have a more crimson circulation towards their "upper story" and thus get brighter visions of the "spotless" Negro. To Restore Lieut. Flipper. A matter of very considerable importance came up before the recent conference of the colored Republicans of Kansas, which inadvertently was overlooked and omitted in our recent publication of the proceedings of said conference. Along with other interests of the nation, the race is profoundly interested in Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper, whose courtmartial and dismissal from the service seemed to us to be such a rank injustice to one of our most brilliant military men. It is needless at this time to enter into the details of the court-martial proceedings, but we, nevertheless, feel that the punishment of Lieutenant Flipper has been sufficient to mitigate even graver offenses. We can point to his honorable conduct under the terrible stigma cast upon him by the findings of the court-martial. The matter of securing a memorial from the Negroes of every State in the Union, asking Congress to restore Lieutenant Flipper to his position in the army, met the enthusiastic and hearty approval of every Negro in the late conference. In furtherance of their desires in the premises, the following resolution was introduced and adopted: WHEREAS, Our most esteemed friend and respected citizen and soldier, Lieutenant H. O. Flipper, has heretofore presented his claim and application to the Senate of the United States, asking to be reinstated to his former rank and station in the United States Army; and, WHEREAS, Said application was by said body referred to the committee on military affairs, and WHEREAS, Said committee has failed to report back said application, we, the citizens of the State of Kansas, feel deeply grieved and chagrined. Now, therefore. Be it Resolved, That we do hereby memorialize our delegation in Congress to use every honorable means to secure the resurrection of said application and to secure favorable action thereon, to the end that justice, equity and fairness may be dealt to said H. O. Flippar, that he be restored to work and to the performance of the lasting and valuable service in the United States Army to which he has been and is now so well (Continued on Page Two) Published at Tupelo, Miss., Stuartco county, very pretty town, by the Flounderder Pub- lishing company, Id. K. Seventh street. [In order to insure publication of matter in the current issue, correspondence must be in this office not later than Tuesday.] DO WE NEED IT. We are about the only class of people who surrender entirely our chance for financial development. We spend much time in the organization of political clubs for the purpose of increasing the opportunities of some white man to hold office. We lay awake nights racking our brains, trying to conceive novel and ingenious schemes for spending the few hard dollars we earn. At any time one can find two or three gathered together rolling some morsel of scandel under the tongue, but rarely find them seeking to strengthen the absent. We find our people busily engaged in organizing and developing social and literary clubs, but no clubs are organized to increase the commercial and industrial influence of our people in any community. We spend years of time organizing lodges and such, for burying the dead and caring for the sick, and but little to increasing our trade relations with our neighbors. We spend hours worrying over an imaginary race problem, when the race problem is but ourselves. What are we going to do with ourselves? How can we develop and conserve the latent energy and ability of our people? What more can we do to provide employment for the children of our race? Topeka is a fair index to all American cities. The Negroes of Topeka are a fair example of the Negroes all over America. In some respects we of Kansas enjoy exceptional business privileges, but we are failing to take due advantage of all opportunities. We have probably ten or a dozen small grocery stores with an aggregate capital of fifteen thousand dollars invested, and yet how very little are they doing to increase their business and control the large trade of the Negroes of Topeka. We have a number of blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons, barbers, and a few in almost every line of work, but what are they doing in a concerted way to utilize the business of the race. What is greatly needed by the Negroes of Topeka and Shawnee county is an organization to develop and advance the financial interest of our people. Such an organization could have for its purpose the inducing of intelligent and industrious Negroes to come to Kansas and settle on farms, and the devising of ways to aid them get a start, by making openings for their produce at a good figure. It could try and get some of our boys as apprentices in these shops and places about Topeka that they may have an opportunity to develop into skilled laborers. What we need is a "Commercial Club." Other races have them and they very successfully advance their financial and industrial interests. THE CONFERENCE. No conference in the past quarter of a century has been held that will have so much influence on the growth and development of the Negro in America, as the recent one held at Montgomery, Ala. With all the clamor for a repeal of the constitutional amendments, which guarantee to the Negro anything like civil rights, there has developed a strong feeling against the probability of such being done. The great mass of American people will resent any move which seems the least bit tainted with the virus of restricting the rights and privileges of the people. The addition of a large foreign population, the great majority of which belong to the darker races, demands that the Anglo-Saxon leaders of American civilization should carefully weigh the probable influence of any adverse legislation against that element. Another beneficial feature growing out of the Montgomery conference will be the enlisting of a large number of Southern men and women in the cause of the Negro. Heretofore the Southerner has considered the Negro only from a hostile standpoint. Realizing more the need the South has for the labor of the Negro, there will be less passion and more sympathy in his investigations. These investigations will be conducted along lines and with a view of ascertaining the best methods of transforming the Negro into a more desirable neighbor and citizen. The race will gladly welcome the most critical and searching investigation into its present development. Although the statistics may show there is a larger criminal element among our race than among the whites, there will be discoverd such remarkable racial development along all lines of progress, that the most skeptical will be convinced that racial development is not circumscribed by a black skin. The next session of the conference will find many converts to ex-Governor McCorkle's views of the new South and the Negro. THE frank and cordial treatment of the Boer envoys by the President and Secretary of State showed those gentleman that the efforts to make it appear that the Administration is prejudiced against them are unfounded. In fact, it was quickly made apparent to them that the government had done all that it could do, for it had already tendered its good offices to bring about peace, a thing which no European nation had done. THE good people of St. Joe, Mo., are entitled to a first-class race paper. They pay for it and the St. Joe merchants liberally patronize the advertising columns. The triune forces in charge of the St. Joseph Radical are amply able to give their readers a strong paper. Let them leave out the dirty insinuation of a "guess who" column and the people will have no reason to complain. Can't you do it, Ira? THE Illinois Republicans have ruined a large batch of Democratic expectations by holding a harmonious convention and putting an excellent ticket in the field. The indications are that this is going to be a record-breaking year for Democratic disappointment. OUR total foreign trade this fiscal year is likely to exceed two and a quarter billion dollars. WHEN Admiral Dewey made his sensational entree into the political arena, he astonished the world by announcing "I am a Democrat." Pugilist Jim Corbett made the same statement last week under the same circumstances. Great minds these. CORN, steers, hogs, beef, mutton, eggs pork, bacon, hams, cotton, hides, lard and hay all advanced in price during April. The farmer is still getting a share of the general prosperity. If the Boer envoys will but take she pains to investigate they will ascertain that they are being utilized for campaign material by some rather small Democratic politicians. The Hon. Arthur Pue Gorman thinks Hon. J. P. Altgeld should take a course in political science. Mr. Gorman is said to be an excellent tutor in that particular branch. The selection of such men as Wood, Dole and Allen for governors of Cuba, Hawaii and Porto Rico rather tends to confuse the Democrats. KANSAS has experienced a few cyclones, but they were not of sufficient severity to offset the prosperity now raging in the Sun Flower state. When the Kansas City convention denounces trusts the Tammany delegation will ask for a special dispensation in favor of the combine. MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD Populism possesses the courage of its convictions. But the other variety possesses the faculty of political dickering. POLITICAL NOTES. The State Central Committee met at the Copeland Hotel on the 26th inst. and organized by electing Hon. Morton Albaugh, of Kingman county, chairman; Hon. T. P. Kelly, Assistant State Treasurer, as Secretary, and Hon. P. I. Bonebrake as treasurer. There was not so much of a contest as the belligerent element had calculated. The State officers were invited to indicate their preferences for the managers of the 1900 campaign, which was duly approved by the committee. There were strong speeches indicating harmony all along the line, and that the differences among the party managers had all been settled. The committee will conduct an aggressive campaign. Major G. W. Ford, of Fort Scott, Kan., is not only an able superintendent of the National Cemetery, but he is a smooth political "mixer." His presence on the State delegation to Philadelphia this year, will bring the effete east in contact with the great big man. "Fighter Joe" Hudson, editor, and Dell Kizer, business manager of the Daily Capital, have handed their resignation to the board of directors of the Capital Company. We wonder if this is the result of the Leland fight? Abilene. Miss Mary, Moman was born January 9, 1884,' and died May 10, 1900. The funeral services were held at the Mount Zion Baptist church at 3 o'clock, May 11, conducted by Rev. W. W. Steward. Sermon from Jeremiah 15:9; text, "Her sun went down while it was yet day." Six of her young lady friends act- 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. ed as pall-bearers, and laid the remains of their companion to its final resting place. Pall-bearers were Ina Halm, Minnie Halm, Vina Tyler, Bessie Allen, Maud and Hallie Hampton. Flower girls, Bessie Hampton and Grace Banks. In obedience to the will of the Master of the Universe, Mary answered the summons of the messenger from on high. As a reward for her faithfulness, the Master has called her to her Heavenly home. She was ready and willing to do the Master's bidding. As she had previously received a knowledge that she must depart, she cheerfully bade her friends and relatives adieu. She had set her house in order, Jesus, being the chief guest, had taken up His abode therein. She was gentle and kind, and highly esteemed by all who knew her, for her life and manner before us was as the blooming Rose on Sharon, and its purity as the Lily of the Valley. She has gone to a fair cline to be assigned to her mansion and rest. Alas! as the grass that withereth, and the flower that fadeth, she is no more. Emporia. Harriet Walters, ot Leavenworth, who has been attending school, will start home Sunday. Mabel Rodgers, who has been attending Normal the past two years, will start for Oklahoma, Saturday, where she will attend the institute. Martha Lyle, who has been very ill, is well.now. Ambing the High school graduates this year is one of our own race, in whom we should feel especially interested. That is Miss Pearl Henderson; she is sixteen years of age, but has climbed step by step until she has reached the highest step in the Emporia High school. Rev. Sauber delivered an excellent sermon Sunday at the Presbyterian church, to the graduating class. Addie Lyle is very ill at her home. Junction City. The High school commencement exercises last Thursday night were grand. There was only one colored graduate, Malissa Harden. She displayed wonderful talent in delivering her essay on Toussaint l'Ouverture. Rev. Alexander was out of the city Sunday, holding quarterly meetings at Abilene and Minneapolis, for Rev. Burton, who is attending the general conference at Columbus, Ohio. Z. Johnson and wife entertained quite a number of friends at their residence Saturday evening, in honor of their tenth anniversary. Those present were R. P. Banks, P. Dunlap and wife, A. Johnson and wife, D. Hunley, wife and daughter; Matilda Hur- LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE BUGS OUR GOODS ARE THE BEST OUR PRICE THE LOWEST PARRY MFG. CO. Indianapolis coooms and big however, at 50 lb. moved them to clean write me if you in each town for us to out at $15 railroad company. SEND YOUR J. L. den, Delia Richardson, Mary Tyler, Alice Richardson, F. Bruster, D. Burnside, William Hurden and wife, Lizzie Robertson, Mary Baker, Willie Wilkes; J. Wilkes, Martha Turner, Jennie Turner, Mesdames Turner and Maggie Wilkes; James Turner, Gus. Johnson and M. Harden. The guests prepared Mr. Johnson to open a tin establishment. In the splendidly decorated hall, two tables were well furnished with all the edibles of the season. At 12 o'clock the guests departed, with the impression that the Johnsons are fine entertainers. The subject debated at the Lyceum Friday night was "Resolved; that the telegraph is more useful to humanity than the telephone." It was ably discussed by G. Brown and Mr. Aldride on the affirmative, and W. Hammonds and N. Dunlap on the negative. Although Mr. Hammond preached a sermon, when Mr. Aldridge took his text and walked, and stood tiptoe, shaking his hand at the judges, they were compelled to decide for the affirmative. Rev. W. W. Stewart, just called as pastor of Abilene Baptist church, was in the city Wednesday, and preached a powerful sermon at the Second Baptist church. We have several talented ladies and gentlemen in the city, who are taking an active part in the literary society. As president Aldridge knows how to appreciate intelligence, he has that luck, as well as executive ability, to preside over a body with such pleasing smiles. Fort Riley is to have 200 more soldiers; that will make a garrison here 1,200 strong, the largest in the United States. Mexico, Mo. Prof. John Smith, of Moberly, was shaking hands with friends on the street Monday of last week. Sarah Scroggens, who has been visiting in Fulton, passed through Thursday enroute to Denver. Prof. James Coleman, of Moberly, was in town on business Gem Piano and Organ Co. ```markdown ``` S Missouri Pacific Railway Missouri Pacific Route THE GREAT SOUTHWEST SYSTEM, Traveling the States of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Cansas, and the Indian Territory. Five (5) Daily Passenger Trains are run on this line in each direction, between Kansas City and St. Louis. The Famous Hot Springs Of Arkansas Are reached ONLY by this LINE H.C. TOWNSEND, G.P. & T.A., ST. LOUIS, MO. E.N IPPS, Agent, TOPEKA, KAS. Fannie Lewis left for Kansas City Thursday, where she will spend the summer. Mary Yarnall was the guest of her brother, William Holt, last week. She returned to her home in Independence, Mo., Sunday. Mattie Clair, of St. Charles, passed through enroute to Fulton. Rev. T. L. Smith, of Columbia, passed through Friday enroute to St. Charles. Miss Annie Ball, of St. Louis, was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Hays, last Sunday. Rally at St. Luke M. E. church Sunday for trustees, a neat little sum of $25 netted. Miss Morman, of Kirksville, is the guest of Rev. Jennings and wife. Elder Hart, of Louiskille, Ky., preached at the Second Baptist church Thursday night. Mrs. J. G. Hayes is expected home from Macon City this week. The "National Guards of the Saint Luke M. E, church, gave a grand, unique birthday anniversary, Thursday evening, May 17. Over 600 invitations were issued, accompanied with a little sack to contain as many pennies as the guests were old. To Restore Lieut. Flipper. (Continued from Page One.) qualified to perform, and that a vindication to our honor and pride as a race be fully met; and be it further Resolved, That we in conference assembled do hereby pledge our service and our utmost efforts to aid said delegation in Congress in furnishing information, data, literature and records in furtherance of said end. 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HaNow X, Eanms Avence. Moots int and ind Thursdays of each month. Mrs. Ida. Jordan, @. P.; Miss Mary Anna Weneter,C. R MACEDONIAN LODGE No. 9, GOOD SAMAR- TANS and DAUGHTERS of SAMARIA, meets sec~ ond andfourth Friday eveaings of each month at 8 o'dock, atza3 EastSeveath street, Visiung Samari. tansare always welcome, W. E.Jactsox, Chiet. ‘Au Lawson, Recording Sec. 11a, 114 East Seventh street. Call at Tax PLainpeaLer office, The Dyson restaurant, located at 440 Minnesota avenuc, 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 cit- ies, and xindly remit sameto the of- fice. seferessoctsssscssseeneloe PERSONAL NOTES. oi Bai tetra cates Rev. Attaway, of Lawrence, spent Tuesday in the city, on business, Misses Fannie and Genie DePriest, of Salina, are visiting in the city. Mrs. Banks, of Leavenworth, is in the city, the guest of Mrs. Mason. Buy your groceries of the Shawnee Grocery Co. H. C. Odell, manager. Millie Christine is a fact—no fake. The coiored people should see her. Dr. A. S, Taylor, of Atchison, call- ed pleasantly to see us Wednesday last. In the shooting match Robt Turn- er and Miss Wright carried off the honors. Do you whut the best Negro jour- nal in Kansas? Then subscribe for the PLAINDEALER. If you want your child educated in music, call on Miss Hicks, 422 East Fourth street. . Mrs. R. J. Buckner will entertain Mrs. S. H. Thompson of Kansas City early in June. Rev. J. H. Wilson, of the A. M. F. church at Manhattan, is the guest of Rev. J. R. Ransom. Robt. Grimes; William Butler and Mitchell Gaskins of Ellsworth are in to the Street Fair. Miss Eva Hawkins, who has been teaching in Oklahoma, is home to spend vacation. Pupils of our schools can make Good Money soliciting for thir pa- per. Write for terms. Miss Lulu Clinkscale has returned from Missouri, after a visit of five months with relatives. There will be a meeting of all the Ladies’ Clubs of the city in the inter- est of the Federation. ‘The Mock Congress will convene at Brown's chapel in adjourned ses- sion Tuesday night, Buy your groceries for cash of the Shawnee Grocery Co., and get the best for the least money. We want 5,000 subscribers by the first of September. Are you doing something to help us get them? Misses E, D. Greer and Lulu Wil- son, of Kansas City, Mo., are attend- ing the street fair this week. Rev, Ransom and Rev. Shaffer have returned from the general con- ference at Columbus, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Young, of Wichita, passed through the city Tuesday, en route to Chicago. Mrs, N. C. Smith, of Wichita, pass- ed through the city Tuesday, ex route to Kansas City, - to Kansas City, % Col. Beck has returned from Washington, D. C., and is a guest at the Chiles hotel. Mrs. DeClue, of Carrollton, Mo., and Mrs. James Parks were among the guests at the Chiles hotel Wednes- day. Miss Bertha Harlan will leave Sat. ‘urday for Leavenworth, where she will spend the summer with her father. Miss Gertie Richardson returned Saturday from her school in Oklaho- ma. She will attend the institute this summer. Misses Gertude and Laura Patter- son, of Florence, Kansas, are visit- ing Rev. George F. Brown at 1205 Washington street. Mrs. Mattie Slaughter is able to be out again after a severe illness, and will spend the summer in Wichita with her mother. Don't wait for some one to offer a prize for you to clean up your yards. Do it because you desire your prem- ises neat and clean. Dr. J. A. Taylor, of Atchison, spent Decoration Day with his friend, Dr. O. A. Taylor, Dr, Taylor is rapidly building up a good practice. A. M. Thomas, our popular attor- ney, is establishing quite a reputation asa skillful lawyer. Just ask him and he'll tell you all about it. Euclid Lodge No.2 A. F. A. M. worked in the first degree last Mon- day night with Past Deputy Grand Master Samuel Hanks presiding. Miss Sadie Stone stopped over Wednesday with Mrs, Buckner, en route to Lawrence from Atchison where she has been teaching during the term. ‘The First Atrican Baptist C. E. meeting will be led Sunday evening by Miss Mollie Perkins. “How to Be a Good Neighbor” is the lesson subject Benjamin Adams, one of the faith- ful emplorees of the Wolf Packing Co., is confined to his home by 2 badly swollen limb. Dr, Taplor is caaing for him. Last week's meeting of the Ne Plus Ultra club convened at Mrs. Duke's. A general good time was reported. ‘The next meeting will be with Mrs. S. Schuck, 1236 Lincoln street, June 2. Mrs, Cora Clark, 1221 Logan street in North Topeka, has been sick for some time under the care of Dr. O. A. Taylor. Mrs. Clark will spend the summer with friends at Bonner Springs. H. F. Stewart, J. E. Williams, James Hunn, W. L. French, C. F. James, of the Autumn Leaf quartette, are stopping at the Chiles hotel this week. They are attending the street fair carnival: They are playing at the Crawford this week. They are finest on the road. Rev. W. L. Grant delivered the baccalaureate sermon to the gradu- ating class of the Guthrie, Oklahoma, Highschool last week. Rev. Grant is one of the best platform speakers in the state, and is always in demand. He is also a strong race man and an eloquent preacher. Clay Odell, our popular and ener- getic townsman, has assumed charge of the Shawnee Grocery Co., (succes- ‘sors to J. W. Glick), two doors West ofthe Star grocery. He will be glad to have his many friends call and ex- amine his fine stock of staple and fancy groceries. The Last Grand Literary enter- tainment of the season will be given Tuesday night, Juue 5, at Odd Fel- low’s Hall, 118 W. Eighth street. Committee: Mesdames N. Chiles and Jr Vernelles. Come One, Come All Admission 15 cents single; 25 cents percouple. Come and have a good One of the most enjoyable outing parties of the season occurred last Saturday on the Big Muddy, about nine miles from the city. The par- ticipants were Misses Pearl McNeil, Ida Wright and Gertie Moody; Mes- sers J. M. Wright, Kobt. Turner and J. L. Harrison. The party was un- der the chaperonage of Mrs. F. Buckner. The Ladies’ Imperial Art club held a special meeting with Mrs, Drucilla Merritt last Monday afternoon for the purpose of deciding about the Federation. After much discussion it was decided not to take part in the Federation. The Imperial Art Clut is composed of Mesdames Drucills Merritt, J-"A. Shields, D. J. Mallory D. Higgins, O. A. Taylor, A. M Thomas, J. F. Ferguson, J. H. Chil ders7J. H. Guy, C. M. Moss, H. W Dillard, Ridley, W.L. Grant, F D. Ratley, J. H. King and Missés Id. Write and Nora Sexton. Topeka’s great street fair isin prog ress, Thereis a magnificent display of the business men and merchants ‘The displays of Crosby Brothers, the Mills Dry Goods company and Charles Adams are very creditable, and well worth seeing. The Negro display was remarkable by its ab- sence, unless it was seen on the Mid- way. The Oak Leaf Club met at the res. idence of Mrs. C. F. Clinkscale. A very yleasant aftemoon was spent; the club adjouning to meet at the residence of Mrs. Drane, 1219 Bu- chanan. The club requests that the delegates from each club in the city meet at the residence of Mre. M. Chiles June 4, to complete the ar- rangment for the conaention, . Prof. Chas. S, Hunter, principal o! the Pierce City, Mo. public school, a vigdrous, brainy, energetic young man, one who domonstrates in his personality the superiority of the trained head and hand over the one- sided species, arrived in the city last Friday night, and hencforth will be a factor in the publication of the PLAINDEALER.. Mr. Hunteris a cul- tured gentleman, a forceful speaker, brilliant writer and skilled artisan. We are glad to welcome him. Notice. Ee Re TM ee eee account of the district conference and Sunday school convention of the Omaha district of the Kansas con- ference of the A. M. E. church, which will convene in North Topeka June 19, 20, 21, 1900, tickets will be sold from all the ticket offices of all railroad companies to Topeka for one fare and a third round trip on the certificate plan. Tickets on sale June 17, 19, 19, good for return until June 25. All persons desiring to take advantage of this rate will ask their agents for a certificate when purchasing. Your certificate will be signed in Topeka by Rev, J. R. Ransom, P. E, Are you a friend of THE Pratw- DEALER? Then send the names of three of your friends whom you be- lieve would like a first-class news- paper. ‘The concert given by the Twenty- third Kansas Regimental band at the Grand opera house Wednesday night was indeed an highly creditable en- tertainment. The boys and those who so generously assisted them, did themselves proud, and everyone is pleased with the manner in which the entire program was carried out. Prof. Jackson is to be congratulated. A meeting of the ex-Slaves' Pen- sion association will be held at the B street Baptist church next Mon- day night, June 4. Everyone inter- ested please come out. Quite a number of members and friends of the First African Baptist church enjoyed thereception Wednes- day evening in honor of Misses Miu- nie Nichols and Gertrude Bradshaw, The walls were prettily draped with pale blue and white, the colors of the graduating class, and vases of flow- ers stood on small tables about the room. Ice cream and cake were served after the program, which was as follows: Invocation, Rev. G. D. Olden; vocal solo, “Jean,” Clarence Bradshaw; instrumental solo, Miss Lucy Bledsoe; essay, “A New Name in History,” Miss Gertrude Brad- shaw; instrumental solo, Miss Eva- Jine Vance; original poem, “An Aim,” Miss Ollie Thurman; essay, “Toussaint L’Ouverture,”” Miss Min- nie Nichols; address, “What Next,” Rev, Phillip Wendell Crannell; in- strumental solo, Miss Lucy Bledsoe. Dowagiac, Mich. We are in receipt of a budget of very interesting news from the above place, which we will publish next week, Toneauoxie. A.M. E. church is preparing for a Feast in the Wilderness to be giv- en May 30. The church will be all decorated with flowers and leaves; prizes will be given to the one find- ing the hidden mystery. Mrs. Laura Clark is visiting in Kansat City. Miss Lena Walters of Kansas City is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Woods and family. Mrs. Salllic Wood and family en- iertained Mr. and Mrs, Cunningham, Miss Lena Wallers and another cou- ple from Kansas City Sunday; also Miss Cora Caldwell and John Cald- well, ot Tonganoxie. The big pot was in the small one, Elijah Brown and wife are Kansas City visitors. Mrs, Nannie Mitchell and Maggie Bennett are in Kansas City this week. William Johnson is visiting rela: tives in Kansas City. Thomas Nelson made a trip tc Leavenworth; also to Kansas City Mrs. Vinia Toliyer, accompanie: y, her two sons, went to Kansas City this morning. Rev, Burdette, of Lawrence, preached for us Sunday. Mrs. Edwards is expecting to re- move to Kansas City soon. Hornth Toneka. The following received just before going to press. Miss Alta Jones went to Kansas City Monday, to meet Miss Capolia Billiugs of Olath, and will visit a week or more. . Myra Chapter No. 5, O. E. S., last Wednesday installed the following officers : Mrs, Emma Raub, R. Mat- ron; W. M, Radford, R Patron; Mrs. Belle Mack, Ass’t Matron; Mrs. Lu- cy Radford, Treasurer; Miss Mary Small, Secretary; Mrs. Neuta Jones, ‘Conductor; Mrs Mary Cunningham, Warder; Mrs Katie Morgan Ass't Cond.; Miss Ella Mayweather, Ada; Miss Alice Morgan, Ruth; Miss Ma- ria Thompson, Esther, Mrs. Ella Ridly, Martha; Mrs. M. D. Jones, Electa, Mr. W. E. Stewart, G. P., installed the officers, Mrs. M. E. Langston, G. M., gave the Chapter an address, Prof: S. G. Watkins, P. G. Patron, and Mrs. Bertie Wade, R M of Rebecca Chapter, were present. Ice cream, strawberries and cake were served. ‘The following ladies accompanied Mrs. M. D. Jones to Burlington, last Saturday, to perform the May-pole and dumb bell drill: Misses Bettie Pennington, Rebecca Robinson, Eva Garriette, Francis Herald, Myrtle Baptist, Anna Reynolds, and Ethel Wouldredge. Revs. P. W. Barke; and E. C. Stoner, Miss D. J. Bledsoe and Mrs. Blanche Hyde attended the drill. ‘When in Emporia Stopat The Blue Front Restaurant. We have opened a first-class restaurant and lodging house and offer the fol- lowing rates: Board per day $1, per week $3, normal students $2; two ina room, meals 15 cents and lodging 25 cents per night. Call on or address P. B. Moore or Mrs. P. B. Moore, 71x Commercial street, Emporia, Kansas. TUPGANS lanaAl Street Pair Carnival oa GGL TAM! VOTIVE AND Home Products Expeitiaa Osi, Hundreds of Merchants Display Booths ! Grand Electrical Illumination ! Marshall's Military Band ! FIFTEEN FREE BIG SHOWS ! Giving hourly performances on the | open street. CONFETTI BATTLE, Tuesday Night, on The Midway. Fun for Everyone. MILLIE CHRISTINE, The Famous Double-Headed Lady. JERUSALEM, A Marvelous Piece of Mechanism. “MEET ME ON THE MIDWAY” AND SEE THE Orieatal Midway Carnival Company. ‘Ten Big Shows Teo, including the Oriental Trained Wild Animal Show, The Streets of Cairo, The Oriental Theater, | The Scientific Wonder, EASAU, the Snake Eater, WHITE TOM, $10,000 Tpke The Cinematograph, Lunette, Flying Lady, Military Band Concerts Daily, Dur- ing Afternoon and Evening. UNDER SHE AUSPICES OF The Commercial Club. One-Half Fare Rate on Al Rait- roads} Excursions Run Every Day of the Week t MISS NELLIE HICKS Has opened a Musical Insti- tute at her residence, and has secured Three of the Finest Make of Pianos in the city with which to give instruction, Special atten- tion given children; terms reasonable. Parents would do well to send their chil- dren to Miss Hicks, at No. @ Peles 422 EAST FOURTH STREET The Bansas Saving Investowat Canny, Clrd CHANUTE, KANSAS. = ere ee Authorized Capital, 700,000. See eee ee eeanad + Stock solicited by correspondence. General solicitor and and financial agent, | J. S. HALE. | THE CAPITAL LOAN OFFICE. M. MANSON, Proprietor. Will remove to 316 Kansas Avenue, May 1, with a Big Line of Gents’ Furnishing Goods, New and Second-Hand Misfit Clothing. . ° M. MANSON, 316 KANSAS AVE. er George Klien & Co|To my + MARKERS OF Cust Ss: High-Grade Buggy omer and Team Harness, On and after March 3oth I "| will be at «Repairing Promptly Executed... Mcc. 1i's Barber Sh . eCarro arber Shop, 718 Kanass Ave. Topeka, Kan| East Seventh, For. Real Estate. Turee Roos Corrace, N. Tyler street, East front 14 lots, cellar, well, stable, $300 Four Roost Cottace, Good shape, on x acre, 134 miles from the City, $600. Properties oN Lincotn St., Alll in good condition, x to 134 lots, 3 to 5 room residences, fine location, $300 to $550. Sixteen Lots on CentRaL Avenue cheap. 3olots corner 12th and Adamsstreets, 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 $30. Properties on Mor- ris Ave., one-third the original cost. 2 lots, 5 room house in Martin and Dennis addition, $500, easy terms. NN. BranxeR STREET, One lot, neat 3 room cottage, barn and cistern, $450. Euclid Ave., 6 room house, $450. De- sirable property in all parts of the City—bottom land in 5 acretractsnearthecity. Call and get prices. R,O. HILLIARD, 413 Kansas Avenue. Curly Hair Made Straight By| ofl. a > Es a Ca Fa ea — Ge led, 6, EBs FC EY By TTAxEN raox Lire: srron ano Teen TESTI. OZONIZED OX MARROW ‘THE ORIGINAL COPYRIGHTED. Peruse teetuc fom taliap'ot ana eaten ere tins SLURS? “Rasta ee oa se aigatiatag Mey Sale basa of iia Sasa be bee ae ener: Staestagladanres ttttoteep Ge ue ieee HESUGRT OS Talo sees for talesend Fiduoety Hetuaty peumes: Toe greets Hogi Gaeiaigites petreraantrat tone Sebi eeaeeesee ta GobswenSrnder battne salves cone gold br OZONIZED OX MARROW CO.. 76 Wabssh Ave., Chicago, Ill. 1 HAVE MADB ‘careful test Origiaal BET aa et pacaiset gtuleats aod found it a most excellent hair tonic, Itisjust ‘the thing to make tho hair soft, yielding asd straight. Kindly send me twe eee express atonce, Find enclosed Postal '. Tgicaent abowey, state a ala Gaueee, aban Sued Se Rares oprrttinp Srepbear 8 ran promuas dE wamaow oo, $200,000 Worth of Property Has been placed in my hand for disposal, for sale; and of which part has bee n taken under foreclosure. It principally is owned by Eas- tern Firms who are very anxious to sell on reasonable terms. 1 have beautiful huses and lots in all parts of the city, which can be bought al- most at your own price. Asthis property has been placed in my hands for sale recenty, 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 aumber of large and small farms near the city of. To- peka, and farms to dispose of in all parts of the state. J. H. B. TAYLOR, 119 West Fifth Avenue, TOPEKA, KANSAS. PHONE NO, 689. . KANSAS PACKING HOUSE MARKET, | LE Wholesale and Retail. S29, Fresh and sugar cured Meats. SCHMIDT.BRO’S : : : 306 E. SECOND ST. Kellam’s, . ; 7 | 711 Kansas Avenue. | ; : vity and County Schoo} Books and Supplies. ) Kellam Beek & Stationery Co: To my Customers: On and after March zoth 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 oe Kinky and s Curly Hair Without iqjury—Removes aandruff, cures all diseases of thescalp—75c per jar. GEORGE W. STANFIELD, Druggist, 632 Kansas Ave. {Topeka. We Serve Best Meslsia City Polite Waiters, Forrecaad ip auiek Service Gordon’s Palace Motel, aes ORANDAvE. Newly furnished rooms, wth or without 5 board—Hot and Cold Baths, Cigars sou Tne. J. W. GORDON, Prop., Kansas City, Mo. Three room house, r lot, $300; $50 cash, balance, $5 per month. ~ Three room house, 1% lots $275 ; $25 cash, bal- ance, $5 per month. Three room cottage, 1 lot, North Topeka, $100 cash, balance $5 per month, Scott & Scoti, 615 Kansas Avenue. OFFICE HOUES 3 |rr0 9a j 709r, x ‘ LA. SHIELDS, M.D. 3 Office, 1331 Van Burey, 2 Special Attention to Ladies. . JOU. ENIGHT, + UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER. ‘Waa ea * Sane ere es 406 Kansas Avenue. ‘Phone 52 ———$ When in Kansas City Please Call at ; ™~ MH Ghe Chicago Cafe, HENRY COMPTON, Prop. Z 705 E.1z St, - - Kansas cry, 2 rice xovzs: 7 to 10 a.m. toS rx. 0. A. TAYLOR, M. D. Puysicran ann Suraror Calls answered day and night. Telephone, 636. 2264 Kansas Ave ees orzice nouns: Sto lla we. stobr. x. . Toor. u. WH, EB. JACKSON, HM. D. Puysician anp Surcron. Office, 117 West Fifth St. OFmce WOUES? Telephone, 454 Toto. mor8m. 1047. . 710 109. d> M. JAMISON, H.D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEOS, Special attention to diseases of Women and private deases, | OBien so ath = Ren ans Madloon Shampooing and F'ace Dfaasage. Mrs. Hattie E. Van Vleck, Hair Dresser and Manufacturer... Hair to match all Complexions. WITCHES AND STAIR JEWERLEY, 2¢0 East Fifth Street, Torzxa, Kasaas, Practices in all courts, Special attention given criminal cases. % W.I. JAMISON, Arrorvey-at-Law. Office, 117 W. Fifth St. A. M. THOMAS, AttorNEr-at-Law, *Phone, 299. 413 Kansas Avenue, Rooms 4and5. ‘Topeka, Kan. = ‘HOURS: ses . C. SUMNER SUNDAY. - Pnysicran Anp Surczon Calls Promptly Answered.” Telephone 558. . FRANK HERALD, "erences Abend, Room 313, Long Building, 515 Main Street, Kansas Carr, Mo. COLORED GRADUATES OF THE LAW RENCE HIGH SCHOOL AND STATE UNIVERSITY. While there are not as many colored students in the higher schools of Lawrence as there should be, yet there are more than in previous years. The race should not forget that the standard of its civilization is largely fixed by the character of its intelligence obtained from the higher departments of learning. The race may justly feel a sense of pride in the fact that as often as the various graduating classes are armed with diplomas from High school and university, some colored boy or girl, against prejudice and all its combined evils in America, has struggled to the front. Every colored graduate is a demonstration of the potential power of the race, which will never be realized until the race obtains an economic footing. And, in this connection, it is well to mention the following persons: Inez Chateau graduates this year from the High school. She is a daughter of Thomas Chateau, a prominent politician and business man of the Fifth ward. She deserves a college training to reach her maximum usefulness. R. G. Jackson also graduates from the High school. He is a young man of reserved manners and refined taste. He possesses a striking talent for music, and next year contemplates entering the Fine Art department of K. S. U. He will do credit to the race to finish this course, and will be the first Negro to do so. UNIVERSITY. James Wilson, son of Rev. James Wilson, will complete the course of two years offered by the university in medicine. Mr. Wilson has done good work, is popular among the ladies and intends to push forward until he bears the title of Dr. Wilson. A. E. Patterson, of Kansas City, takes the degree of L.L. B. Mr. Patterson is quite an orator, and no doubt will make a splendid lawyer. In a short time he will hang up his shingle in Colorada. "Here it is to the success of Mr. Patterson." Charles Reese will take the degree this year of B.S. Aside from a collegiate training, Mr. Reese has acted wisely in equipping himself with the trade of electrical engineering. He has trained the hand as well as the mind. He is the second Negro to complete the course, and is a young man of splendid promise. He is already married, however. Lastly, Kitty Smothers will take the degree of B.A. She is a young girl of Lawrence, and has set a high intellectual example for future High school graduates. Miss Smothers graduates with honor, and with a host of friends to applaud her valor and her triumph on the field of education. To them, one and all, THE PLAINDEALER wishes success. Go to Obers to buy gents' wearing apparel at the cheapest prices. LABOR AND CAPITAL. Just now there is a fierce contest going on between labor and capital in Kansas City and other American cities. Capital insists on its right to disorganize itself. Labor insists on its right to organize and be employed on its own terms to the exclusion of others. Thank God, both have gotten considerable to learn before the world of business ceases to suffer from their ignorance and their petty conflicts. And while they are learning at the expense of the public, let us hope they will learn enough to know that the Negro has a right to be employed as other men. Go to Fisher's for new lines of shoes at the lowest prices. THE NEGRO RELAPSING INTO BARBARISM. Dr. Paul B. Barringer, of Virginia, presented a pretended study of the Negro at a recent tri-state medical association of Virginia and the two Carolinas. In this study the doctor points out that the Negro has a legacy of 44 years of barbarism. Bas- ing his study on the law of heredity, he announces the proposition that the Negro is relapsing into barbarism. Since the war, more than 25,000 Negro teachers are instructing more than a million pnpils. From paupers in '63 the race has risen to the possession of more than $350,000,000. In every walk of life where he has been allowed to enter, the white man has stood in wonder at his skill and ability. Negroes have achieved, and are still achieving, distinction and renown in art, literature and science; and in war he had no equal in all the history of the world. It is evident to the intellectually blind that the kind of barbarism into which the Negro is relapsing wouldn't hurt Dr. Barrington. And it is strange that there are so many people in this country who are just like the doctor. They display a great amount of ability in failing to understand the Negro problem. The Negro has discharged his duty to the South by suffering them to live during the rebellion. For years he has discharged it to this government on the bloody fields of battle. And for thirty in the world of life and letters, he has discharged it to himself and to his God. The question now is, Will the South and the country at large do their duty unto him? When they answer this question they have worked the Negro problem. Go to Ober,s for gents furnishing goods. MILLIE CHRISTINE'S TWO HEADS. Among the visitors who arrived in the city this moning from North Carolina was a party of ladies and gentlemen whom the indefatigable Mr. Barnum, of showman notoriety, has nothing to do with, though here for the edification of the curious. The most singularly and physiologically interesting member of the party is a woman, or rather two women rolled into one, who certainly is a rival of the famous Siamese twins, and very much more attractive in appearance than Messrs. Chang and Eng. Those who saw the Siamese twins during their life in this country, will have a vivid recollection of the painful look that their features bore and the constrained movement of their bodies while walk- ```markdown ``` ing in any direction. There is a total absence of this in the party who bears the name of Miss Millie Christine, whose four black eyes and dazzling rows of pearly white teeth, light up a fair Creole complexion with an animation that is really attractive. This singular young woman is the offspring of parents who were slaves in North Carolina previous to the American civil war, and has several brothers and sisters who are like ordinary humanity. During the struggle the family suffered considerable privation; but as a curious illustration of the changes which have taken place in Southern society through the war and the declaration of freedom from slavery, it may be mentioned that Millie Christine is now the owner of the plantation on which she was once a slave. As to the lady herself she has bodily one person, though possessed of two heads, two pairs of shoulders, four arms, two pairs of legs, amalgamated curiously with one trunk. One can only say that an hours audience with her proved her to be a cultured, self-possessed and accomplished person, who has a most singular attainment of being able to hold two totally distinct-conversations at the same time with different persons or the same person, can sing a duet very tastefully in two voices, soprano and contralto, can dance a muzurka with singular grace and facility. There was no difficulty made in exhibiting the upper portion of dorsal connection, and it was done without any infringement of modesty. Millie Christine is not a Midway attraction. Her tent is located at the Fifth and Monroe street entrances. There has been a hot time in the old town this week. Mrs. Fleming has returned to her home in Horton. A strawberry and ice cream social was given last Thursday evening, by the choir of the A. M. E church for expenses of the choir. Nannie Barbee left Saturday for a two weeks' visit with relatives and friends in Leavenworth and Kansas City. Rev. H. H. Brooks preached a very interesting sermon Sunday evening at the A. M. E. church. It made everyone think back in the past to see Rev. Brooks in the pulpit. Rev. Tutt preached at the Baptist church Sunday evening. Fred Plumb is still very low. T. P. Brown is sick with neuralgia. Eva Parks is now improving. Mr. Marsh spent Sunday in Holton. Mrs. Marsh will return to her home in Straight Creek soon. Wichita. L. Lindsay, of Houston, Tex., traveling salesman for a clothing company, is in the city. W. H. Jones, of Lansing, was in the city last week. Mrs. Holbert and daughter, Annie, are visiting in Manhattan. The Knights of Pythias held their annual services at the A. M. E. church Sunday. Rev. W. W. Franklin, missionary and agent of the Baptist Publishing house, is in the city. The concert given at the A. M. E. church Monday evening of last week was quite a success. George Gardner and Lucile Burke were united in marriage Tuesday evening. Wichita. Rev. W. L. Grant, of Topeka, preached at the Second Baptist church Wednesday evening. The Ladies' Sewing guild of the A. M. E. church met with Mrs. J. F. Phillips Thursday afternoon. Dainty and delicious refreshments were served. A pleasant time was spent and thoroughly enjoyed by those present. A very enjoyable feature of last week was the farewell reception Wednesday evening at the Masonic hall to G. H. Young and wife, who left for Chicago Monday. The reception was tendered by the members of the order. At a handsomely decorated table in the center of the hall, the friends and members sat down to a repast at once abundant, tastefully arranged and served. Delightful music was rendered by the Chinneth Mandolin club. Mr. Young and wife, in a brief address, expressed their thanks for the appreciation and kindness shown to them by the members and ladies of the O.. E. S. J. T. Chinneth and B. Wilson responded in behalf of the order, expressing regrets at their departure and wishing them success. Remarks were made by Rev. Copeland. Those present were B. Wilson and wife, H. Abernathy and wife, James Robinson and wife, J. Gaines and wife, J. T. Chinneth and wife, H. Barker and wife William Massey and wife, T. G. Banks and wife, W. C. Neeley and wife, T. Reed and wife, E. Landrum and wife, E. Miller and wife, Rev. Terrill and wife; Mesdames J. E. Lewis, A. Adams, L. Anderson, Abbie Anderson, Mary Clark, N. C. Smith, Lydia Johnson; Misses Grace Baker, May Adams, Winnie Ray, L. Burnham, L. Covington, Ida McDonald, M. Andrews, Alice Thompson; H. W. James, J. Fine, J. Butts, L. E. Simpson, W. Southern, T. Anderson, J. W. Thompson, C. Richey, J. Owens, H. Braden, Rev. Copeland, W. E. Whitted and W. H. A. Clark. Olathe. Last evening the agent of THE PLAINDEALER was invited to address the Republican club of Johnson county. The attendance was good and the meeting was an interesting one. The club is so united now that they will and can wield a great influence in the politics of Johnson county. J. F. Botts, an enterprising man of Olathe, is president, and A. A. Bigham, secretary. They all believe in the motto: "United we stand, divided we fall." We hope to hear more good news from the Johnson county Republican club. Abel Miller will be the Olathe correspondent for THE PLAIN- DEALER. Rev. K. P. Bond of the A. M. E. church gave a social Thursday night, which was reported as successful from a financial standpoint. A. L. Stewart, of Galena, is attending court here. In an altercation late Thursday evening, Robert Harris cut Arthur Martin in the face with a pocket knife. Cause unknown. Rev. Blake, of the Baptist church, had an interesting meeting at his church Sunday afternoon. We want every good man and woman in Olathe to take THE PLAINDEALER and learn what is going on among our people. A. L. Hayes, attorney-at-law, is a gentleman who commands the respect of all the people of Johnson county. Success to such men as he. North Toneka. The funeral of Catherine Bryant, who died suddenly at her home Sunday morning of last week, of heart disease, was held Tuesday afternoon at St. Mark's chapel. Rev. Wooten officiated. Although the weather was threatening, the pound party given at the home of Matilda Ross, three miles North of town, was a success. Several young people from town attended and all reported a good time. C. T. Birdwhistle and family have removed from 1216 Logan street, where they have resided twenty years, to 919 West Gordon street. An entertainment was given at St. Mark's church Saturday night. Effie Small, who has been very ill with malaria fever, is reported better. Ed. Brice, who enlisted in the Ninth cavalry, has gone to Utah, where a part of that cavalry is stationed. Kansas City, Kas. Mrs. S. H. Thompson and sister, Mrs. Scott, of St. Louis, visited in Lawrence last week. Dr. F. D. G. Harvey was in the city Wednesday. The Dr. is looking well and reports increasing practice. Mrs. W B. Townsend, of Leavenworth, was the guest of Mrs. M. B. Branche this week. Mrs. Clara Andrews, of K. C., Mo., was a visitor of Mrs. J. J. Bass this week. Mr. Carey, of Chicago, cousin to Dr. Thompson, was in the city this week. The Alpha Art Club met with Mrs. H. B. Cunningham. Mrs. Lizzie Branch, of Chicago, is visiting friends in the city. Miss Laura Beasley was called from Chicago by the death of her father, Mr. Isaac Beasley. Mr. Lee Houston is in Omaha. Miss Alice Brown, of Kansas City, Mo., was a visitor on this side Sunday. Miss Rucker, of Atchison, visited our city this week. Prof. Chas. S. Hunter, widely known throughout the West, as an educator and journalist of no ordinary ability, passed through the city enroute to Topeka, to work on the PLAINDEALER. Mrs. I. F. Bradley entertained most delightfully the Whist Club last Wednesday evening. So pleasantly cheerful was the hostess that the "wee sma" hours crept upon the party ere they were aware, and then they reluctantly left a scene so pleasant. Mrs. M. Bass assisted in receiv- BARNUM'S 619 Kansas Ave. We Place on Sale THIS WEEK We Place on Sale THIS WEEK 3000 yds. of Decorating Bunting $ 3 \frac{1}{2} $ cts One case Decorating Paper, worth 19c per roll of 10 yards, 10cts One thousand new Beauty Pins of good quality, 6 for 4 cts Three doz. Ladies' Crash Skirts 25cts One lot of Ladies' Shirt Waists — one lot of Ladies' House Wrappers, choice of any 69cts Worth up to $2.00, they are slightly mussed and soiled. Special sale on 500 Ladie's Shirt Waists 43c, 50c, 69c, 75c, 98c, $1.25 $1.48 and up. See south window. 50 doz. Honey-comb towels, size 20x38, worth 10c each, 4 for 25c Limit 6 pairs. 25 dozen Ladies' Seamless Black Hose, guaranteed stainless, are extra fine maco yarn, worth 20c, Sale Price 15c 50 doz. Misses and Children's Hose—1 x 1—ribbed— double knee, double heel and toe—guaranteed stainless, the best value in the market, 15c Muslin Flags, stars and stripes, size 6x91/2 1c each, or 12c doz. Size 12x22 4c each, or 49c doz. Extra large size 10c each, or $1.10 per doz. The above are all mounted. Balance of Ladies' P. K. stock Collars—cardinal, pink, light blue 15cts Our line of Ladies' AllSilk and Chiffon Neckwear, sold up to 40c, 19c. Ladies' Lisle Thread Gloves, colors pearl, tan and black were 25c, now 15c. 25 doz. Gent's Percale Dress Shirts, come in the newest patterns and colorings, faultlessly made up, retail elsewhere at $1.00, 58c. 50 doz. Men's Working Shirts, made by the R. L. Mc Donald Co., warranted never to rip, a new one for any one that does 50c. 50 doz. Gent's 4-ply linen collars, will close them out at, each 8 1/2 c. Limit 6 Colars to a buyer. One lot of Ladies' and Children's Collars, soiled and mussed through handling, had sold up to 15c, each 3c. S. BARNUM, Dry Goods & Carpet Co. To obtain these low prices, you will have to refer to this ad. Publication Notice In the District Court in and for Shawnee county, Kansas, Bessie Shelburn, plaintiff John Shelburn, defendant The said John Shelburn, defendant, a resident of the state of Colorado, is hereby notified that he has been sued by the plaintiff, Bessie Shelburn, in the case of the District Court in and for Shawnee county, Kansas, and that that must answer the petition filed in said court in said action on or before the 7th day of July, 1900, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered according to the prayer of said petition. [Attest 7]. - A. M. CALLAHAM, Brent Searleman Clerk District Court Brent Searleman Clerk District Court A. M. 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At the end of the term the policy provides for the payment to the insured of the full amount of the policy. The policy-holder can thereby secure, at a small outlay each year, a guaranteed paying investment. The rates under these policies are so adjusted as to yield four per cent. compound interest on the premiums paid in, after allowing for a very low cost of insurance. DIVIDEND PAYING.—These policies are dividend paying. Each year, after policy has been in force five years, a dividend will be declared. The first dividend declared will be emulative—that is, will cover a period of five years. These dividends will increase the value of the investment, or reduce the cost of the insurance. JAS. J. BUILER, Room 45, Columbian.Building, Topeka, Kas. ing. The following were present: Mesdames W B Townsend, Leavenworth; Clara Andrews, Kansas City, Mo.; May B Branche and O B Johnson. Misses Georgia Freeman, Pearl Tillmon, Sara Chinn, Carrie Davis, and Messrs. A K Lawrence, John R Mayne, O B Johnson, W G Wood, L M James, I F Bradley and F K Douglass. St. James A. M. E. church was comfortably filled last Thursday night at a piano recital by Mrs L E Cunningham. What they lacked in numbers was made up in enthusiasm and appreciation. The program was excellent, every number being roundly applauded. Mrs Cunningham proved her ability as a pianiste. Some of the best local talent assisted and received their share of appreciation. The duet of Mesdames Matthews and Calloway was well received, as was the solos of Mrs Fred Gleed and Mr F K Douglass. The most pleasing numbers by those assisting were the clarionet solos by Mr A K Lawrence and a duet by Mrs Fred Gleed and F K Douglass. Entertainments of this order should be encouraged, being educating and elevating. Ottawa. Lettie Gray left for St. Joseph, Mo., on Saturday, where she will remain throughout the summer. Quite a number attended the entertainment at the A. M. E. church on last Thursday evening and a nice time is reported. Mary Moore and Belle Kennedy, both of Kansas City, are visiting in the town. Rev. Guy reports having spent a delightful week in Fort Scott. Lettie and Rosetta Gray entertained on last Thursday evening Linnetta Lewis, Moodie Jackson, and C Williams, Fred Payne and Sherman Armstrong. M. Curry and wife will move to Pueblo, Colorado, this week, where they will make their home in the future. Rev. Tucker will preach at the A. M. E. church Wednesday night. Prof. Buffins, the traveling agent for the PLAINDEALER, is in the town, collecting and soliciting new subscribers. Lauline Holbert is spending a few days on the Island, the guest of Alma McBrier. Carol Mason will take a trip to Lawrence Thursday, where she will visit her relatives. On Thursday evening last Rosetta Gray, with the assistance of Modie Jackson, gave a farewell surprise party on Lettie Gray. At 8:30 the crowd gathered at the home of Modie Jackson, on Cypress street, and from there went to the home of the Grays. Those present were Mamie Simms, Cora Wilson, Alma McBrier, Nettie Payne, Grace Simms, Vergie and Vada Barnett, Linnetta Lewis, Stella McElroy, Josie Duncan, Henrietta Swangan, Chas. Williams, Percy McBrier, Fred Payne, -Sherman Armstrong, Hyda McBrier, John Payne, Samuel Johnson, L. Edwards. Newton. W. H. Page has been moving and painting his shop. However, he did not move far: from the North half to the South half of the same building that he formerly occupied. Mr. Miller and wife went to Putnam Sunday, and report the roads very heavy for a drive. Josephine Price and Martha Anderson sister and cousin of J. M. Gross's wife, are visiting at the home of the latter. The box social given by the ladies of the C. M. E. church last Thursday night, was a success, both socially and financially. The highest price paid for one box was eighty cents. 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