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EVENTS THAT MAKE ISSUES; ISSUES THAT FORM PARTIES; PARTIES THAT MAKE MEN; ALL DISCUSSED IN THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. Bryan's Attempt to Find Free Silver is Like Hunting for Gold at the Base of a Rainbow Fools Venture Where Angels Dare Not Tread. VOLUME II. After Reading. WHAT IT SIGNIFIES. Imperialism Defined For the Reading Millions. PRESUPPOSES AN EMPIRE. A Domain That is Higher Than Party or Policy. An entity, Binding, Indissoluble. The Charge of Imperialism, When Properly Translated, Means Duty and Washington, July 19.—Imperialism may serve as a campaign scarecrow, but before the harvest of votes is garnered next November, the people will recognize that it is but a thing of straw. Imperialism presupposes an empire and the magnificent domain over which our lovely banner flies is imperial in its beauty, in its products and in its extent. Such a wealth of hill, mountain, prairie and plain, such an abundance of crystal lakes and such a net work of commerce-bearing rivers were never before bestowed upon any people. Every State is an empire; every county is a principality; for which as true Americans, we are proud, and for which, as Christians, recognizing God as the God of nations, we should be deeply grateful. This domain has been given to us by a power that is, higher than any party or policy, though the Republican party was called into being in order to protest and battle against the division of this mighty empire, which Democracy declared, in the press, in its platforms, and on the bloody battle fields, should be divided. To this extent the charge of imperialism can with truth be made against the Republican party. Abraham Lincoln was the embodiment of that imperial idea, and a martyr to the cause of one flag, one country, and one imperial destiny. Imperialism, if it means anything, the Democracy would have the people believe, implies an emperor, a dynasty, a throne, a crown and a scepter. This feature of imperialism, by no stretch of partisan misrepresentation, can ever be charged against our honored President and candidate for the Presidency. He was the choice of the people; he was honestly elected in a constitutional manner and has been so loath to oppose the will of the people, as expressed by legislation enacted by Congress, that in the four years of his Administration he has vetoed but four bills. He will serve his two terms as many other good Presidents, both Democratic and Republican, have done and will then give way to his successor, chosen as he was chosen, by the free votes of the sovereign people. The partisan accusation of imperialism, when translated into plain everyday English, in the light of the history made during the brilliant administration of President McKinley is simply this: The Republicans declare that it is their policy not to blindly abandon the islands transferred from the Spanish to American sovereignty by the Treaty of Paris. The Democracy, so far as it has a policy, would have the master nation builder of the world abandon its plain duty, furl our triumphant flag and hunt an easy future rather than a working future. Porto Rico, recognizing the fact that she can not stand alone, does not wish to become an independent power, and the only thing possible is for the United States to continue its sovereignty, which is Republican, or to invite Spain to re-enter the Western Hemisphere and commence anew her policy of misrule, of robbery, and extortion from which we have delivered Cuba. To plant the customs of the seventeenth century in the dawn of the twentieth century is Democratic. This is the FRIDAY MORNING. logical conclusion when the D-mocratic cry of the Democratic platform is analyzed. The same is as true of the Philippines as of Porto Rico. Will the Democrats dare to fix a date for the evacuation of either? They are under the flag of the Republic, and there they will remain. This means work and thought and statesmanship for the people of the United States, but it means blessings and liberty, justice and opportunity for the islands placed under our care by column treaty obligations that were approved by the Senate of the United States and urged by Mr. Bryan. Methods of administration and of government are legitimate objects of party differences. It is for all purposes as much an accomplished fact as is the abolition of slavery, another Republican measure for which that party was hated and misrepresented. The people will learn that imperialism, as employed by the Democrats, means that they would have the country shik its duty, turn its back on destiny, count all bloodshed as lo-t, furl the flag and withdraw its protection from people who need it to-day more than ever before in all their history. The charge of imperialism, when properly translated, means duty. And the party of Lincoln, of Grant, of Harrison and of McKinley, is willing to be charged with doing its duty no matter how hard that duty may be. Stripped of all glamor, the Democrats have entered upon a flag-furling campaign. They condemn expansion, yet welcome Hawaii, because its one vote alone enables them to again attempt to overthrow the stable currency of the country. They dey "imperialism," yet about themselves hourse over an Hawaiian "prince." They are welcome to all the votes and glory, they can make out of such duplicity and treachery, which will nauseate, but never deceive, the true American people. A Morsel for Negro Democrats. When one-eyed Tillman, of South Carolina, made the assertion in the United States senate that nine-tenths of the people of the South gretted that the rebellion did not succeed, there were several Democratic editors and Democratic congressmen who rose up at once and declared that Tillman did not represent the sentiment of the South. At this time also there is a good deal of talk about the adoration of Democrats, Southern Democrats, for Lincoln and Grant. One of the leading and most ably edited Democratic papers in the South is the New Orleans States. The editor does not make any bones of stating the Democratic position right out in meeting and says what he thinks and what a lot of other Democratic leaders think, but do not consider it proper to say. In the issue of the States of June 29, we find the following expressive editorial opinions: The history of the Republican party may be written in the story of four crimes, each one a measure of unimagined tyranny and infamy: 1. The emancipation of four millions of slaves, the property of which was protected by the constitution and declared by Mr. Liecoln himself to be unassailable. 2. The enfranchisement of a vast horde of freed slaves, who by their instincts and imaginary wrongs endured by centuries of slavery, were naturally disposed to rob, outrage and oppress their former masters, especially when they had the army and army of a conquering people to uphold them. There are some Negroes here in Kansas who are going to support the Democracy this fall. What do they think of training with a party that designates their emancipation by the Republican party as a measure of unmitigated tyranny and infamy? How do they relish being told by their Democratic thought moulders that it was an infamous crime to allow them to vote? In another part of the article, the editor gives his opinion of the Negro politician, which we commend to the earetul consideration of Col. Jim Beck and others of the race who are training with the cohorts: "We are free to say," says the editor of the States, "that we never had any respect for any Negro politician, and the meanest of any Negro politicians (Continued on Page Two.) CHINESE QUESTION. Mongolian Orientalism Overshadowing Us All. COMPULSORY CHRISTIANITY. Our Civilization Out of Harmo ny With Their Ideas. Work Nearer Home. The Blame of This War At The Door of Europe. A Vexed Problem The Chinese exclusion act, which was born of the spirit of narrowness, and caste prejudice, is bearing bitter fruit. When the bill was before Congress, many prophecies were made by its opponents, as to the ultimate result of such a drastic measure. Those prophecies are now being fulfilled with terrible vengeance; and the final result may yet "stagger humanity." The Chinese whom we delight to call "heathems" have behind them a civilization which autedates, by thousands of years, the civilization which are endeavoring to force themselves upon the people of that country. Confucius, the patron Saint of China, uttered in different forms long before the coming of Christ the thought which is expressed in the Golden rule and which European nations are now breaking in China, so that it would seem that the "Heathen Chinee" is not such a heathen as he is represented to be by the most Christian nations of the world. The moral maxims of the Chinese as handed down to us by their writers, will not suffer by comparison with those of the so called more advanced nations. The disturbances in the Orient which are occasioning much wide spread interest and anxiety result from the dogged determination primarily of Europeans to force upon these people a religion and a civilization which are out of harmony with their ideas. There is vastly more consistency and urgency for combined missionary effort to civilize and Christianize the barbarism in the southern portion of the United States, than there is to metamorphose the Chinese into Western Christian automatons. The money that has been squandered upon a sentiment as vague and diaphanous as that which the missionary societies of America have been subscribing to for nearly a half century in China would have educated all the poor whites in the south, made them better citizens and eliminated lynchings from our system of government in that quarter as completely as the rays of the morning sun dispel the mists. Confessedly the best place for American missionaries to exercise their persuasive powers and expend their energies toward the uplift of human kind is at home, and in those corners of it where there is still a mighty army of unregenerate barbarians, who are but one remove from cannibals—they do not eat their victims—though they roast them. The Chinese heathen have not yet reached this high point of civilization. We hear of no lynchings in China and no burning of men for crimes real or imaginary. This then is the difference between the followers of, and believers in the teachings of Mahamet and Confucius; and the righteous and holy Europeans, who seem to feel that they are especially commissioned to civilize and Christianize these people who had a religion and a civilization when European nations were living in caves and eating the raw flesh of wild animals. Tonations, families, races God gives missions but he has not commissioned any European nation to carry to these children of the Orient a religion which they cannot assimilate nor reconcile to TOPEKA, KANSAS, JULY 20, 1900. their methods of thought and belief, since for five thousand years they have had a religion of their own which may in every essential be to them what the white man's religion appears to be to him—if not more. The spread of Mohamedanism in China is doing much to clog the wheels of European missionary effort in that country, and the stereotyped missionary reports of the spread of the religion of Jesus Christ in foreign lands especially deceive no one who is a close and critical observer of the work of these misguided and overzealous defenders of a faith of which they possess a monopoly. The humanity of the Chinese is beginning to assert itself and is made more manifest in their determination to rid their land of "Christian dogs" as they characterize the missionaries who are spending as much to convert one John Chinaman as it would require to educate one of our white heathens at the South who now kills time and kills Negroes for lack of something better to employ his talents and to make him think great, noble and elevating thoughts. The Negro meanwhile is placid, loyal, tractible and unconcerned about what is transpiring around him, as he always has been—perhaps. And he has not been included by the managers of the Republican party in the equation. If, however, they are wise they will cultivate the Negro this year as they never have before and thus with his united vote, which is accessible and getable, offset any defection in the ranks which may occur. The present Chinese imbroglio bears upon the domestic politics of this country whatever is to be the policy of the President in treating conditions which must sooner or later arise, is perhaps not even known to the President himself. It is a disagreeable and annoying situation and coming right upon the eve of a presidential campaign is more so Rich Gems from the Political Mine. Died Early. Indianapolis Record That Negro party has died a-bornin'; its demise was but a fitting end to a misfit conception. As Near As He Will Ever Be. New York Tribune. "Bryan in 1896 was nearer presidency than he ever will be again. The ramshackle, rotten Democracy is now fast on its way to the political bone-yard, and it will have no help from the Populist this year." (Great cheers.)—Ignatus Donnelly, Cincinnati Populist Convention, May 10, 1000. "If we continue the gold standard, it means that the dollar shall continue to increase; that men now employed will be idle men, and the number of idle men increasing shall be a mueace to every man who is employed",—Bryan in October 1896. "I tell you that the worse thing you can prophesy from the failure of free coinage is better than the best thing you can hope for under the gold standard."—Bryan in October 1896. "My friends, I want to impress upon you that instead of relieving the panics and bringing confidence, the declaration of our nation in favor of gold would simply make money scarcer and times harder and prices lower; and, my friends, this condition will continue unless on next Tuesday you cast your votes for the restoration of the money of the constitution."—Bryan in October 1806. Who is William J. Bryan? He is the candidate of the democratic party. He is the platform of the democratic party. He is the democratic party. The democratic campaign this year is to be a campaign of, by and for William J. Bryan. Who is this man Bryan who is the whole thing in democratic politics? He is a populist from Lincoln, Neb. 5000 MEN WANTED: Men who will keep up with the times by reading the PLANDEALER. HETALKS TOBRYAN. Nick Chiles Sees the Great Apostle of Free Silver, HE IS AN ARTFUL DODGER. Evasive Answers When Asked About Jim Crow Cars and Disfranchisement. An Ardent Admirer of Ben Tillman. Doubtless Birds of Same Feather. A Pointer. After a fourteen blocks ride from the business portion of the beautifully picturesque city of Lincoln, Neb., you arrive in the neighborhood of the dwelling place of the Great I Am, who styles himself "the champion of the oppressed." After questioning him a little to prove to your own satisfaction the sincerity of his protestations, you will not be long in reaching the conclusion that he is nothing more than a big fog horn tooting as the pilot pulls the cord. Old Ben Tillman is the pilot. We were never more surprised in a human being than we were after a close range study of the personality of this self-styled political reformer. He is a cunning and artful dodger. While he proclaims that he is the champion of down-trodden humanity he would not say that the party he represents was not opposed to a certain element of much abused people. He lives in a cosy, two-story cottage, with a large, roomy veranda extending in a half circle about it, and bright with a coat of new paint. We were met at the door by Mrs. Bryan, who received our card and presented it to her distinguished husband. We were seated on the porch, and after being courteously received and greeted by the democratic nominee, proceeded to ask some pointed questions to which only evasive answers were given us. "Mr. Bryan, do you consider Senator Tillman of Sonth Carolina a representative of true democracy?" "I do not care to discuss personal matters." "Well, do you think his utterances in and out of the senate consistent with democratic principles?" "Read our platform." "Do you mean to say that your platform contains all that is most beneficial to the masses of the body politic?" "No, but what it lacks the people will have to trust to my judgment." "What do you think of the 'Jim Crow' car law and the disfranchise amendment to the constitutions of the southern states relative to the elective franchise?" "They are responsible in those states for their actions; read our declaration of principles." "Now Mr. Bryan, in keeping with common justice and humanity, do you think the Negro is recieving just recognition and equality before the law in the south?" "I wont answer that question. Is your paper republican or democratic in politics?" "Republican, sir!" "I thought so fom your questions. I have never been asked such questions before." "Now Mr. Bryan, dont you know that the colored people are not being respected in the southern states, and there your party is the dominant power? That respectable Negroes are compelled to ride in separate coaches with the dirtiest, lowest people of their own race, and to come in contact with the meanest and most contemptible of the white?" "I wont answer that." But Mr. Bryan, the colored people ought to know what you think of the treatment they get at the hands of FRIDAY MORNING. your party in the south." "You've read the Declaration of Independence? Then read what Mr. Lincoln said in reference to the dark races in the Philippines." "Is it not a fact, however, that the Declaration of Independence didn't apply to the Negro, and he was kept in bondage years afterward?" "Well, we wont discuss that. Just read our platform." Seeing he terminated the interview with this remark, we thanked him for the courtesies shown us and bade him good day. One can see by his evasions that Mr. Btyan is playing a double game, fishing for Negoro votes, and at the same time holding with "Pitchfork" Tillman whose malevolent hatred of the black man make him the curse and bane of our national congress. With this prospect in view, alas poor black democrat. Major Brown, of Topeka, with big tears running down his cheek, begging for his race to vote with the parties who "sometimes shoot niggers, and will do it again, to keep them from voting," must have been a pathetic sight. Maj. J. M. Brown sues for [Damages. Maj. Jno. M. Brown has brought suit against the County to recover $224.50 damages itemized as follows. One horse killed, $109.00; one horse injured, $75.00: set of harness lost, $8.00; set of harness injured, $6.50; one coupling pole, $2.50; one chain lost, $6.00; chain broken $.50; axe and halve, $1.00; expense work and labor getting log out of creek, $25.00. This accident occurred November 3, 1899, when Major Brown was hauling a walnut log on a wagon with four horses. He was crossing a bridge one mile west of the Reform School on Soldier creek. The bridge gave way and Major Brown and load was thrown into the creek. Elders and Deacons at Lawrence. The fifth annual meeting of the Elders' and Deacons' institute of the Christian churches of Kansas, convened in Lawrence July 4, and was in session two days. The program was of unusual interest. Time would not permit a full discussion of all the subjects, but suffice it to say that it was one of the best meetings they have had. If hospitality is an incentive to a good time, you may know what to expect when you go to Lawrence, for the good people of that city know how, and do entertain strangers most royally. The Elders' and Deacons' institute was organized in Topeka December 25, 1895. It has for its object a higher standard of Christian knowledge, a better understanding of official duties, a closer co-operation of churches and to encourage mission and evangelistic work throughout the state. The auxiliaries of this institution are the Ladies' Aid societies and the Bible schools; each of these have a president and secretaries, each is given a place on the program and each president presides when the period of his society is reached on the program. As the institute is in its infancy, and for lack of an understanding (throughout the brotherhood) of its objects, it has met with some difficulties, but as yet the pressure has not been strong enough to impede its progress. The first part of the program was of a literary nature, and afforded an opportunity for some very interesting papers. Miss Lizzie King, of Kansas City, Kas., read a paper on "An Up-to-date Sunday School," which was very excellent and worthy of an encore. It showed Miss King to be equal to the occasion and to possess the tact of a deep thinker and writer. Mrs. Cora Alphin, of Kansas City, Kas., read a paper on "Church Finance," which was above the average. It treated of the finance of the different departments of the church, and averred that too much of the money raised for building churches was being squandered by unscrupulous officials. The paper was prepared with due consideration and care, and was to the point in every particular. NUMBER 29. MET AND ADJOURN'D Knights and Daughters of Tabor in Session. A PROFITABLE MEETING: The Order Growing Rapidly. A Most Splendid Showing. The Officers Elected. Over $1000 Paid in Endowments to Widows and Orphans. Meritorious The Knights and Daughters of Tabor of Kansas and Nebraska held their grand session at Lincoln, Nebr. last week in Senate chamber. Chief Grand Mentor Frank Wilson officiated. Sister Emma Gaines, grand chief preceptress, A. W. Hopkins, grand chief scribe, W. M. Core, grand treasurer, were present in their usual mood for transacting business for the order. This was one of the best sessions held in several years. Something over $1,000 was paid out last year for the benefit of widows and orphans. Over $1,500 was collected in the last year; several hundred new members weps added to the order: there were nineteen deaths reported. The same important officers were re-elected for next year, except Sir C. M. Johnson. Chief Grand Mentor Wilson makes one of the fairest and best presiding officers we ever met. He uses every precaution to prevent any misunderstanding, which insures success in the order. He is building up the order in such a manner as to reflect credit upon him. The grand body ought to to see that the chief grand mentor receives a reasonable compensation for his services, as he is growing old in the service and works faithfully for the order. The order is growing rapidly through his zeal and courage. After a four days session of hard labor, there was a grand street parade and a picnic at Shaw's park, four miles west of Lincoln. The parade was grand, and several oldtimers remarked that it was the finest seen in Lincoln for years. Excursions came from Omaha with a band and about three hundred people. About thirty carriages were used in the parade. The knights and daughters in costumes of purple, white and gold, crowned with wreathes of silver and gold, made up the lines. The session adjourned to meet in Leavenworth in 1901. Memorial exercises were held on Friday. It was a most impressive ceremony. For one hour the great door of the senate chamber was open in order that outsiders might be admitted, by order of the chief grand mentor. As the name of the deceased was read from the memorandum of the grand recorder, the representative of the lodge of which he was a member would rise and give a brief history of his life. This was a very appropriate conclusion to a year of pleasures and pain. Prayer and song closed the service. The following is a list of those present and members of the Grand Tabor. A. O. Merrill, Mary Moore, W. L. Jordan, D. L. Taylor, Salina; Dt. Elnora Smith, Topeka, Kas; Mesdames L. Milton, Leavenworth; Demps, Kansas City, Mo; Alice Tucker, Omaha, Nebr; Sir Knight George C. Tucker, G. P. P., Omaha, Nebr; Mary Smith, D. G. P., Parsons, Kas; Mrs. Jennie Alexander, Lawrence, Kas; Sarah Serrese, South Omaha, Nebr; Ed. Henderson, Kansas City, Mrs. Bessie Hall, Ft. Scott, Kas; Mary Perkins, Dunlap, Kas; Mrs. Carrie Brown, Atchison, Kas; J. G. Burdette, Atchison; Mrs. Nannie Dunlap, Junction City, Kas; Mrs. --- WILLIAM McKINLEY, FOR PRESIDENT. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, VICE PRESIDENT. STATE TICKET. For Governor, W. E. Stanley. For Lieutenant Governor, H. E. Richer. For Associate Justice, W. A. Johnston. For Secretary of State, George A. Clark, For Treasury, Frank Grimes, For Auditor, George E. Cole. For Attorney General, A A. Godard. For Supt. of Public Instruction, Frank Nelson. For Insurance Commissioner, W. V. Church. For Congressman at Large, Charles F. Scott. For Congressman First District, Charles Curtis. For Congressman Second District, J. D. Bowersock. For Congressman Third District, George W. Wheatly. For Congressman Fifth District, W. A. Calderhead. For Congressman Sixth District, W. A. Reeder. For Congressman Seventh District Chester I. Long. THE Democratic platform can be read in three words—"Ag'in the Government." THE trouble in China is all due to desperate agitators. They have their Pettigrews in China. THERE are now at the Paris Exposition five Kansas farmers from one township. This is merely a sample prosperity fact. The Republican majority in Oregon was over 11,000, and it was piled up against complete fusion. What will it be in other states? Mr. ALTGELD has announced his intention of retiring from politics after the Kansas City convention. He will not wait for the November ejectment. EIGHTY-ONE per cent of the delegates to the Democratic convention recognized that 16 to 1 was no longer a live issue. But Boss Bryan wanted it and Prince David voted for it, so that settled it. THE man who votes the Republican ticket this year will vote to keep the $200,000,000 in the United States that is now annually paid to foreign shipowners for doing our foreign carrying. The man who votes the Democratic ticket endorses the proposition to leave this business in the hands of foreigners, where it now is. EX-SENATOR HILL made a gallant fight for sound money at the Democratic convention. In an interview at Kansas City, he said: 'The strongest silver men are with us. Even Jones is with us, and has so declared, but he is dominated by Mr. Bryan. Just the same as I am opposed to imperialism in a nation, so'I am opposed to it in an individual. This is imperialism of the worst sort." BOOKER T. WASHINGTON writes that the effort to organize a National Negro Business league at Boston, August 23-24 is meeting with the most gratifying commendation and assistance from business men and women in every section of the country. It is to be understood that this organization is for colored people who are engaged in the most humble lines of business as well as for those who are engaged in the higher lines of trade. Few people understand how many successful colored men and women there are who are engaged in business of all kinds in remote towns and who are succeeding in a quiet way. The object of this meeting will be to get hold of such people and give them such encouragement and advice as will enable them to do more and better business. At the same time a demonstration will be made of the enterprises of the race that will do much to help and strengthen it in the eyes of the world. All persons engaged in business who have not yet communicated with Mr. Washington are urged to do so at Tuskegee, Alabama, at once. Such an effort deserves and should have the hearty encouragement and assistance of every man and woman of the race interested in its future. An Absurd Claim. Somewhere we have seen the statement that "all Gaul is divided into three parts", but there is an utter absence of evidence that this particular ingredient in the make up of our esteemed contemporary the Colored Citizen, has been divided, rather the assumption would point to an extra allowance of the viscid liquor. With some very specious reasoning the versatile genius who presides in the editorial chair of the Citizen undertakes to offset the statements appearing in our issue of May the 11th relative to the financial representation our people were recieving from the present state administration as compared to the late lamented Mr. Leedy. It is an absurd claim on the part of any set of men, that the money paid by the United States to the officers and members of the Twenty-third Kansas should be credited to the Leedy administration. We admit that Mr. Leedy made it possible for Negroes of Kansas to wear shoulder straps, but he only did this when the conditions of war rendered it unnecessary to raise a full regiment, and for political purposes. He knew when he sent Lieut. Colonel James Beck chasing over this state recruiting men, that active operations in the Spanish-American war were past and that the probability of the Negro troops going beyond the confines of Camp Leedy was as remote as is the hopes that the present number of allied troops at Tien Tsin forcing a way into Pekin. If Mr. Leedy had been honest and sincere in his profession of esteem and friendship for the Negro; he would have designated either the Twentieth, Twenty-first or Twenty-second to be recruited from Negroes and officered by Negroes. The orders from the War department was for so many regiments of soldiers. This order did not designate that they should be red, white, blue, black, or green, or that they should be Dutch, Swede, or Irish, but Mr. Leedy's recruiting officers refused to recruit Negroes until he designated our distinguished military friend Col. "Jim" Beck to go forth. He must needs wait until there was no show for a regiment. He contended that it would be good politics to make up the two battalions of the Twenty-third from Negroes and then urge the Negroes to beg the departmentts to grant them another battalion in order that they might have a full regiment. He knew that it was impossible to obtain such a concession when orders were then being prepared by the War Department to muster out volunteer regiments. The Negroes of Kansas know that the position of Governor Leedy was like that of a great many others regardless of party affiliation, that the Negroes of Kansas would not be able to get together a body of men who would meet the requirements of our army regulations, and by that means the venture would be a failure and would devolve upon white friends of Mr. Leedy who were angry because the Negro was ever given a chance. Hence all this talk about the Lincoln of Kansas is the veriest rot and balderdash. And, again, another feature, of the late Twenty-third Kansas which is well known, to every member of the regiment, is that that the regiment would have ceased to exist a month after its first pay day had it not been for Republican influences. It is entirely due to “that Indian” whom the lamented “Major Brown” proposes to scalp, that the officers and privates of the Twenty-third Kansas were sent to Cuba and drew Uncle Sam's money from Sept. 1st 1898 to April 10th 1899. It is well known that Colonel Beck solicited the leading Republican Negroes of Kansas to ask Congressman Charles Curtis to petition the War Department to send them to Cuba to do garrison duty. Mr. Curtis never hesitated a moment. Without waiting, he took the train for Washington and as a result of his visit the name of the Twenty-third Kansas was listed for duty in Cuba. Now, if there is any grounds for claims that the Leedy administration should have credit for the $199,000 paid the Twenty-third Kansas, it is only fair and honorable to all that the Republican party credit for the work of Hon. Chas. Curtis who is always a staunch friend of the Negro and the money which was paid the soldiers during their Cuban service. It comes in poor taste that Colonel Beck and Major Brown should so far forget the services of Kansas Republicans in the effort to give them real military titles. It looks like smiting the hand that succors. The Republicans of Kansas, black and white, labored for the success of the Twenty-third Kansas in spite of Leedy's efforts to make its officers all “pops”. Fruits of Expansion. HONOLULU, July 1, via San Francisco, Cal. July 10.—It is to the colored people of the Southern States that the plantation-owners of the Hawaiian islands will turn for relief in the matter of the vexed labor question. John Hindi and J. B. Collins, of Kohala plantation leave today for the Southern States in quest of Negro laborers. It is hoped to recruit 300 or 400 at New Orleans. The plantation owners will pay their expenses and give them $30./month. BY CHARLES S. HUNTER. A Jayhawk at K. C.—A Reverie Me n' Duck n' Dave n' Bill 'N' Johnny Smith n' Towne 'N' Jakie Jones and all the Dems From here n' all aunr' Went to Kansas City th' other day- Jes' to take part in the biz Of outm' o' Bill Bryan up To make McKinley sizz. Duck he brings along a heap O' way-down-eastern juice; 'N' when the boys all tuk a sip The waggers wagged plumb loose, 'N' many sai a lot of things They hadn't torter sed. 'Bout down' Bill's pet money plank —Bout' boys wiff off head. Dave he said he never saw Sach carryin's on before. 'N when Dick Crocker called his hand, He swore 'n' swore 'n' swore. 'Th whole blam'd swore was twisted, Ben Tillman aust of all-- 'N said to keep th 'miggers' back They'd build a Chinese wall. 'N bimeby, when time to vote, Wus drawin' pow'ful nigh-- 'N Billy writes a telespatch 'N sends us his defy-- Why the whole darned push was upset. Yet they tuk the bitter pill, 'N sed they'd tak a darned sight wuss 'N keep in touch with Bill. No we patched up some blamed makeshift- 'Gamst' spanson and the like. 'N trotted out a mighty team To ganter down the pike. But, draft my cats, we've got no show-- 'Th' race's none run 'n' lost; 'N the only thing for us to do Is to stop and count the cost. 'N' the next time we're hank'im' 'I' turn them rails out— 'N' strum'n hard to tid'r nitts. We'll know what we're about. So boys, don't be down-hearted, 'Cause Mark his trumped your trick, 'N' lh' next time that we play th'game A winner we'll try to pick. - CHAN S. HUNLR What is really best for us lies always within our reach, though often overlooked. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. A lady preacher at Joplin recently stopped in the middle of a discourse and picking up a Bible said she was going to throw it at a man that was unfaithful to his wife. As she swung her arm around every man in the church but one ducked under the seat. After giving the man who stood the test without flinching a good puff, as the newspapers term it, the preacher learned that he was a deaf mute. The revelation was discouraging until the dodgers explained that they had seen a woman throw a brick at a hen and knew she wouldn't hit the fellow she was throwing at and dodged as a matter of necessity, not of conscience. Racial Unrest. What Does It Augur. Never before in the history of the Negro race in America has there been such a feeling of unrest as now fills the hearts of every thinking man and woman. That passive indifference, that contentment to drift with the tide, that abiding faith in the letter of the Scriptural admonition "Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof," no longer characterizes our people to the marked degree of former years. There is dissatisfaction in the church, unrest in politics, an ever varying discontent in all walks of life. It is the inevitable march of destiny; the irresistible force of evolution transforming the child-race of christendom into a people measuring to the standard of the world's most powerful and puissant nation. It is the approach of the millennial dawn—prophesy is being translated into actuality and Ethiopia is stretching forth her hands to God. Imperialism and the Negro. If utility can be considered as a legitimate ground of right, the imperialistic policy of the government, as far as it affects the Negro, cannot be considered in the light of a national evil. The acquisition of our island territories, and our ultimate joint sovereignity in Africa and Asia as a result of the part we are playing in the settlement of affairs in the far-off Orient and the Dark Continent, means broader opportunities for the Negro in the race of life. Not only as soldiers doing garrison duty in the lands we have acquired, but those tropic climes are peculiarly situated and adapted to the temperment of our species of the genus homo The offer of the Hawaiian planters, through their agents in this country, is the first card in the inter-national, interracial game which promises so much for the Negro. Practical Adytee from Table and Fiction. When we see dollar-and-a half-aweek errand boys and choremen sporting rubber tire buggies and traps, attending every "swell" society function, walking with a stride as \*\*\* * * * \* \* \* \* \* \* arrogant and imposing as a multimillionaire, we are reminded of the little religious(?) homily of the "grasshopper and the ant." While the sun is shining on both sides of the street, the commons full of greens the fields teeming with an abundance of cabbage, turnips, etc., the improvident many who are sporting the season's "latest" are entirely unmindful of the fact that just beyond these sunny, sultry summer days, are the cold, dreary, comfortless hours of the coming winter. You are singing now, beware that you do not dance before the hills blossom into another summer. "Sufficient for the day" was never intended to be taken literally. The man who does not provide for the future is a fool, and he alone is wise who takes time by the forelock. A Step in the Right Direction. The organization of what is to be known as the "institutional church" by the leading ministers and educators of the city of Chicago, if it measures up to the full expectations of the founders is destined to revolutionize the social and industrial status of the Negro, not only of Chicago, but of the entire union. It is unquestionably one of the most important undertakings ever attempted by our people, and the student of economics will watch with more than passing interest the outcome of the enterprise. All the colored churches are co operating in the endeavor to put this institutional church on a solid foundation. They have already acquired valuable property. As at present outlined the various departments are comprised under the following heads: Education, kindergarten, business courses, industrial training, cooking, sewing, printing, reading-room and library, lecture courses, deaconesses' training school, gymnasium and physical culture, employment and information bereau, day nursery, friendly visiting, mothers' meeting, recue work, free baths, etc. The building will be opened and the various departments set in working order at once, but the grand formal opening ceremony according to Bishop Grant, will not take place until the latter part of September or the early part of October. Booker T. Washington will be one of the orators on that occasion. Bishop Abram Grant of the A. M. E, Church is the prime mover in the enterprise. The Christian Recorder thinks that Col. Roosevelt "exalted himself among the favorites of the race" by signing the law, as Governor of New York, abolishing seperate schools in the State, despite the fact that "his failure to accord to his colored fighters who saved his life the laurels deserved, in his history of the Cuban struggle, has affected his standing among Afro-Americans somewhat." We think Governor Roosevelt has repented his error. And even if he has not, he is a hundred times better than the candidate who opposes him on the Democratic Presidential ticket. We are against the whole Democratic outfit, because it is against us. In the District Court in and for Shawnee county, Kansas. The Second Missionary Baptist Church, a Corporation, plantiff, V. D. Stouffer, defendant. No 20,695. To the defendant, D. Stouffer, and all others interested in the hen, claim, or pretended mortgage of the defendant, D. Stouffer, upon the following described land, to wit: Commencing on the east line of Kaw Half Breed Revere, number three (3) and fifty (50) north of the center of the track of the Kansas Pacific railway, thence north one hundred and seventy (170) feet, thence west forty feet, thence south to fifty (50) north of the center of said railway track, thence easily to place of beginning—you are hereby notified that the said defendant has been sued in the District Court of Shawnee county, Kansas, in the above described action for the purpose of determining the interest of said defendant and to have the same forfeited, if any he has; and to have it declared null and void, and that all persons interested therein must answer the petition filed by plantiff herein on or before the 1st day of September, 1900, or the petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered against said defendant declaring said mortgage and principal note null and void and ordering the same surrendered to the court to be released and cancelled and all other proper relief. Every girl in love tells enough of her family affairs to her young man to give him the impression that on his wedding night, he will be a knight errant rescuing a damsel in distress. * * * The present campaign has brought out three young men, comparatively new in Kansas state politics. Major Geo. W. Ford of Fort Scott, Hon. Isaac F. Bradley of Kansas City and Hon. James H. Guy of Shawnee county. These men will take an active part in the present campaign in this state, and will render able assistance to Hon. W. B. Townsend of Leavenworth, whose services have been tested in twenty campaigns, and Rev. W. T. Vernon, the brilliant and talented president of Quindaro Industrial school. The Negroes of this state can well be proud of such an array of men. They are above the class of political manipulators whose advocacy of party principles depended upon their share of the pie. When the Republican clubs of Shawnee county were looking for a fitting representative to send to the National League meeting at St. Paul, Minn., among others, Hon James H. Guy our deputy county attorney, was selected. The Negroes of Topeka have full confidence in his ability and capacity to reflect credit not only upon them, but upon all classes of citizens. Mr. Guy will represent all the Republicans of this county. He will be ably assisted by Hon. W. B. Townsend, of Leavenworth in this work of promoting the interest of the national league of Republican clubs. 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. HOWARD UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON, D. C. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. INCLUDING Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges Thirty-second Session (1900-1901) will begin October 1, 1900, and continue seven (7) months. Tuition fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each $80. Pharmaceutical College, $79. All students must register before Oct. 12, 1900. For catalogue or further information, address F. J. SHADD, M. D. Secretary. 901 R. Street, N. W. City of Washington. A Profitable Way to See The West L to join one of the personally conducted California excursions of the Santa Fé Route. Congenial companions are assured. Special conductors relieve you of all care and contribute materially to your enjoyment. No extra charge. Inquire of T. L. KING, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. OFFICE OF ASST. GEN'L PASS. AND TKT. AGT. C. R. I & P. R'Y. Cheap Excursion Rates to Colorado. On July 7, 8, 9, 10 and 18, and August 3, tickets from points west of Missouri River, and east of Colby, Kan., to Denver, Colorado Springs. Mantou Fuclbo, Salt I take City and Ogden, Utah, and return, will be sold by the Great Rock Island Route Arrive of One Regular fare plus $2.00 Round Trip Return Limit Oct. 31, 1900. BEST LINE TO DENVER ONLY DIRECT LINE TO COLORADO SPRINGS AND MANITOU. Take advantage of these cheap rates and spend the vacation in Colorado. Sleeping car reservations may be made now for any of the excursions. Write for full information and the beautiful book "COLORADO THE MAGNIFICENT"—sent free. JNO. SEBASTIAN. G. P. & T. A., Chicago, Ill. E. W. THOMPSON, A.G. P. & T. A., Topeka, Ks. 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. FRANK HERALD, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Room 313, Long Building, 515 Main Street, KANSAS CITY, MO. MRS R. P. TYLER. . . First-class Rooming House For MICE, CLEAN Rooms, Rooms by The a y e r Week 505 BLUFF ST. KANSAS CITY, MO- MISS NELLIE HICKS Has opened a Musical Institute at her residence, and has secured Three of the Finest Make of Pianos in the city with which to give instruction. Special attention given children; terms reasonable. Parents would do well to send their children to Miss Hicks, at No. OFFICE HOURS 8 10 TO A. M. 3 10 5 P. M. C. SUMNER SUNDAY. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Calls Promptly Answered. Telephone 558. WESTERN UNIVERSITY QUINDARO, KANSAS. DEPARTMENTS, Theological, Normal, Preparatory, State Industrial and Musical. Instructors from Leading Colleges. Good Water, Excellent Drainage, Healthful Climate. School term of nine months, begins Sept. 10, 1990. EXPENSES: Per month. Board $5 $10.Tuition and Room Rent $2 $0 Industrial Training FREE of charge. For further particulars and Catalogue, Address. WM. TECUMSEH VERNON. A.M. WM. TECUMSEH VERNON, A.M QUINDARO, KANSAS. For Sale Real Estate. 4 lots on Washburn avenue, $400 Five-room house, 1 1/2 lots Topeka avenue, $950; three-room brick cottage, cellar, two lots, $550. Terms easy. 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 houses, fine location, $300 to $550. Two lots on Chandler street, $400. New 4 room cottage, 4 lots east front, Martin and Dennis' addition, $550 16 lots on Central avenue, cheap. 12 lots on Quincy street, $100 each; 10 lots on Monroe street, $100 each. LOWMAN HILL LOTS, $50; N. Branner street, 1 lot, neat 3 room cottage, barn and cistern, $450; 3 room cottage, 1 lot, Van Buren street, $500; 4 room cottage, 1 lot, Van Buren st., $500. BOTTOM LAND in 5 and 10 acre tracts near the city. Desirable property in all parts of the city. Call and get R. O. HILLIARD, 413 Kansas Avenue. A. M. THOMAS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 'Phone, 299. 413 Kansas Avenue, Rooms 4 and 5. 'Topeka, Kan. 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For mailing, the book is sold on subscription and strictly on the exclusive territory plan. Write today ADDRESS: J. L. NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, Ill THE PLAINDEALER is the great race paper of Kansas. Only $1 per year. Are you a subscriber? PRINCE OF TOPESAFTER No. 36, meets 14:1 and 3rd Saturday afternoon of each month at No. 800 North Kansas avenue. Ms. Ida M. Jordan, Q. M., Miss Anna Reynold, C. R. MAUDONIA TABARKAGLE No. 36, U. K. T. Hall 800 N. Kansas avenue. Moors 1st and 3rd thursday of each month. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, G. P.; Miss Sarah Walker, C. R. MACEDONIAN LODGE No. 4, GOODSAMAR- TANS and Daughters of SAMARIA, meet second and fourth Friday evenings of each month at o'clock, at 123 Eastenth street. Visiting Samar- tans are always welcome. W. E. Jackson, Chief. ALAN LAWSON, Recording Sec. PERSONAL NOTES. Mrs Mollie Pace is very ill at her home. Thos. McAdoo left Wednesday for Denver. L. Parks of Holton spent Wednesday in the City. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Guy are visiting in St. Paul Minn. Miss Guy of Argentine is spending the summer in Topeka. Mayne Sinns of Ottawa is the guest of Mrs. Langston. Mrs. James Parks has returned from Kansas City. James Parks is with the B. A. P. Co. in Wabash, Ind. Geo. Thomas of Kansas City is visiting in the city. Mrs. M. E. Langston left Wednesday for Colo. Springs. Mary Daniels left for Amboy, Minn. to spend the summer. Mrs. Henry Wade is seriously ill at her home on Chandler Street. John Patterson and Geo. Branford leave Sunday for Denver, Colo. Mrs. Jas. Page and sister, Fannie DePriest left Wednes day for Salina. Lela Langston left Tuesday for Arkansas City the guest of Hattie Smothers. Mesdames O. A. Taylor and A. Turner called at the PLAINDEALER Office Saturday. The Ladies' Guild of St. Simon Church met with Mrs. J. H. Childers last Monday evening. Jailor Grubbs and Lee Woodal accompanied Sherif Cook to Lansing in charge of prisoners. The Auditorium Chorus practices at 618 Kansas Ave. Are you a member of the chorus. The First African Baptist Sabbath school is having its annual picnic at Reform school grove today. Mrs. M. Wilkerson of Argentine has returned home accompanied by her little son Clifford, Sunday The Ladies Sewing Circle of St. John's A. M. E. Church met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. M. Brown Mrs. Jas. Phillips entertained a few friends at 6 o'clock dinner Monday evening in honor of Mrs. Francis Peck. The "System Club" was out on a fishing outing Saturday night. A delightful time is reported by Wm. Gough. The Prince Hall Grand Chapter Order of Eastern Star will convene in Leavenworth next year with Fidelity Lodge. Mrs. Pheobe Jones who has been visiting with her sister Mrs. B. W. Guy returned last week to her home in Keokuk, Ia. Lizzie Cooper entertained the Golden Rod Club at her home three miles east of the city last Friday. A delightful time was enjoyed by alt. Solicitors are wanted in Kansas for the Douglas Hotpital in Kansas City, Kansas. This institution deserves support from everbody. Address W. F. Bufkin- The ladies of the 3rd Baptist church gave a very nice surprise party on their ex-pastor, Rev. Thomas Bell, last Tuesday evening. A very enjoyable time was had after which a three course supper was served. The new Sheldon Drinking fountian will be in place at the Transfer Station. It will be a beauty and reflects great credit on Councilman W. S. Chaney who selected same. At Chicago.—Angelica Grandpre contestained Thursday evening complimentary to Misses Bee ane Lemon, of Galveston, Texas. Dancing and cards were the principal amusements of the evening. Will Price of Peublo Col. and Ed Greer of Kan. City, are in the City enjoying their vacation with friends and relatives. They are both old Topeka boys and are well thought of. In Colorado Will has the name of "Joe Bush the significance of which is worth knowing. On Tuesday night shortly after midnight, the Lowman Hill School was completely destroyed by fire. This school was located in one of the most populous districts in the city and it will at once be rebuilt. This should be a lesson, to the taxpayers and Mrs. A. L. Norman entertained the following visitors at a 9 o'clock breakfast, Thursday morning, at her home, 1515 Central Ave., Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Woods of El Reno, Okla., Mrs. Ellen Butler of Harrodsburg, Ky., Mrs. R. P. Jones and Miss Bessie Sneed. On last Sunday morning at the New Hope Baptist church, the members were favored with a soul-stirring Bible talk, after which a Sunday school was organized by the worthy missionary, Mrs. L. Cox. Everyone is invited to attend Sundays at 10 a.m. Last Sunday Mrs. L. Cox was the guest of William Buford and family Mrs. Cox and the Bufords are old acquaintances, having been owned by the same master in the days of slavery. This was their first meeting for more than forty years, and the occasion was very much enjoyed. WANTED: An all round newspaper man. One who is a first-class compositor, a good proof reader, job and "Ad" setter; a man to make up paper and assume general supervision of the mechanical part of the paper. For particulars address PLAUNDIALEIN Publishing Co., Nick Chiles, Business Manager. Mrs. W. B. McClain entertained a few friends at her home 1207 Lincoln street last week in honor of the 68th anniversary of her mother's. Mrs. Kind's, birthday. It was a complete surprise to the recipient, as she did not find out until a late h ur that those present had assembled in her honor. Mr. and Mrs. John Cooley formerly of Topeka are doing good Laundry business in Lincoln Neb. They landed in that city about five years ago without a dollar aud now have a business worth several hundred dollars. They are doing well. We wish we could say this about several other Topekans. city official in leasing a district where there is located a large number of public buildings and much private property absolutely without fire protection. The people of this district have petitioned for the extension of the water works but the policy of the city toward the water works has prevented them from extending the mains. They should be extended and fire protection given to the district. The population of Kansas is 1,430,000. It is estimated that in this number of people there is one man fitted for war for every five inhabitants. Therefore there are, presumably, on this basis, 286,000 available soldiers. Just what proportion of this number is willing to go to war as a general or some position "equally as good" is not known, but there are many applications being made to the governor by men who want to be captains, chapains or generals, and these letters announce that the applicants are ready to enlist against China if they can have commissions. Last Sunday morning, Chas. S. Hunter and Dennis M. Matthews, of the PLAINDEALER staff, were the guests of Arthur Harris at a "home breakfast" prepared by the latter's mother for the boys who are away from home. The well browned, fried chicken, toothsome fish, shoe-string potatoes and nice, hot rolls, together with other delicacies that "mother used to make" reminded the boys of AULD LANG SYNE. A souvenir bottom-hole boquet was at each young man's plate. It was quite enjoyable and long to be remembered. FROM ST. JOE RADICAL. Will Harris, the "Josh Billings," of Kansas, arrived here Wednesday from his home in Leavenworth to visit a few days with friends before taking his departure for Washington, D. C. where he will take charge of The Colored American, a paper of national prominence. Mr. Harris is one of the best writers Kansas has ever produced his bright and witty paragraphs having been copied by the leading papers of the state. As a printer he has but few equals, and is a workman of the highest class. Since it is a fact that you can't keep a Kansas man down, we predict for him a bright future. Mr. Harris has many friends who wish him unbounded success among them. The Radical. A despatch from Clifton, Arizona says: Orders have been received to put in readiness for leaving, six troops of the Ninth cavalry, colored, which are garrisoned at Forts Grant, Huachuca and San Carlos, established to protect settlers in the several Apache regions of Arizona. The Negro troops will be relieved by four troops of the Fifth cavalry at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. The action will likely call for a strong protest from settlers, who claim they would be left unprotected from sanguinary Indians if the changes be made. According to orders received the six companies will go to San Francisco probably the last of the month. The war spirit is raging in Topeka this week and on every hand one hears talk about "enlistments" and campaigns against the Chinese. One man wanted a companion to go with him to fight the Chinese and the companion said: "I'll lead the fight if you will help me get up a company and run the Chinese out of Topeka." Seriously, however, the reputation achieved by Kansas in the Philippine campaign, caused some sort of negotiation to have been made whereby the local battery of the K. N G. claims to have a promise that in the event of a call for troops the gaurd shall be first recognized and among the members of the battery there is talk, hearing which, gives the impression that the organization expects to take a hand in the Chinese War. Another evidence of good times among the farmers is that nearly every farmer around Topeka is starting an "Ancestral" gallery. They are starting with themselves. All the "portrait artists" in town are busy turning out those wonderful affairs in heavy frames with lots of gilt ann flowers on the corners. Every farmer must now have his portrait in the front room along with the straight backed chairs and family Bible. Officers Ministers and Deacons Unions. The officers for the ensuing year are as follows: president, D. Weeks, Emporia; vice president, A. Bryant, Lawrence; corresponding secretary, B. C. Duke, Topeka; secretary of the institute, James Carr, Wathena; state evangelist, William Alphin, Kansas City; president of Bible schools, Mrs. S. A. Weeks, Emporia; president Ladies' Aid society, Mrs. Cora Alphin, Kansas City. The reports sent in from the various churches were good, and the outlook for the future is encouraging. B. C. Dukf, Topeka, Kas. EDITORIAL AFTERTHOUGHT We—John W. Leedy-et-al-make it possible for Negroes to go to war. The Declaration of Independence does not read like a Democratic platform. The next claim put in by the Negro Demo-Pop-Silver-crats will be that they won the battle of San Juan. Col. Bryan subscribes himself the subservient tool and truculent slave of Tillmanism, when he refuses to openly include the debased and downtrodden Negroes of the south in the class of oppressed humanity, about whose ills he has tramped and talked from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In his recent out-line of the campaign the Democratic nominee stated "that all men are created equal" and that this was one of "the four pillars quarried from the mountain of eternal truth." Hence Mr. Bryan does not regard the Negro as a man. He by his silent acquiescence, justifies the brutal treatment of the Negro in the south and the constitutional subterfuges created to deny him the right of sufferage. The Negro should divide his vote says the Negro Democrats by the way of apologizing for being found in bad company. So says THE PLANDEAER, but we do not believe intellegent Negroes will ally themselves with a party whose chief representative boasts of having murdered and intimidated Negroes to prevent them exercising the rights of American citizens and there is bow of promise in their political heaven. It will be wise for the Negroes of America to carefully analyse the crops reports from Kansas this year. 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Shampooling and Face Message Mrs. Hattie E. Van Vleck, Hair to match all Complexions. WITCHES AND FAIR JEWELRY. 250 East Fifth Street, Torreka, Kansas. 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 Dyson restaurant, located at 440 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kas., is the best restaurant in that city. CAPTURED RED HANDED. He could not deny it; he had stolen a Plain dealer to get posted. ```markdown ``` 5000 MFN WANTED: Men who will keep up with the times, by reading the PLAINDEALER. BEFORE. AFTER. 411 N. Twenty-Third Street, RICHMOND, VA. The Kansas Saving Investment Company, Colored, Authorized Capital, 700,000. Stock solicited by correspondence. General solicitor and and financial agent, J. S. HALE. THE CAPITAL LOAN OFFICE 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. Kellam Book & Stationery Co. 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. A. C. L. COAL COMPANY Is Headquarters for the Cheapest Prices, the Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the Promotest Deliveries. Get their Prices on Coal, Wood, Feed, Flour, 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. Fresh and sugar cured Meats. SCHMIDT BRO'S : : : 306 E. SECOND ST. 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. NIPPS, Agent, TOPEKA, KAS. IMPORTANT NOTICE!!! CORRESPONDENTS to this paper must use due care in the preparation of their man uscript. We have not the time to reconstruct your news items, and if the matter sent in is not legible, it will be filed as dead matter. Long lists of names of parties attending social functions, extended comment not of a purely news nature must be accompanied by cash to insure publication. Sign your correspondence. Newton. Mable North who has been visiting in Hutchinson for some time has returned to her home in this city. Gertrude Thomas is visiting here from Hutchison, Mrs. Robt. Jones is some better after an illness of a few days. T. Yancy has resigned his position at the barber shop run by H. Bockenmhle. Mrs Will Phoenix of Emporia is stopping with her brother, W. Paige and will make this City her future home. Jake Rickman of Valley Center was seen in the city last week shaking hands with old friends. Valley Falls. The people of Valley Falls had occasion to go on a pleasure trip to Olawkie to celebrate the 70th birthday of Mrs. Holland Robinson. Several relatives and friends were present. Several Valley Falls folks are preparing to attend the Basket Meeting at Oskaloosa the 4th Sunday. Rev. T. W. Fulghem is away and has been for four weeks conducting a series of meetings at Lincoln, Neb. Margaret Martin of Kansas City, Mo. is visiting in the city. Jeanie Furgerson is still in Topeka. Rev. W. L. Hudspeth was the center of attraction at Lake View recently, having preached two sermons for those people. Mrs. Hattie Daniels is convalescent. Holton Maria Warfield visited a week with Ella and Ora Martin. A crowd of fifteen spent the fourth on a fishing tour. A good time was reported and above all things an excellent dinner. Rev. G. C Tutt preached as usual Sunday morning; Sunday School at one, and Baptising of three candidates at 2 oclock. Mary Burnside spent a few hours with Birdie Holton last week on her way to her home in Onago. Rev. Tutt was suddenly called to the bedside of his father in Kansas City. He arrived a few minutes before his death but found him speechless. Joe Davis has been quite ill, but is some better. Mrs. Parks, Eva Parks and Mr. Daniels and wife spent a day at the Plumb farm ten miles west of Holton. Fred Plumb is fast recovering from his sickness. Mrs. Bigsby is visiting relatives and friends at her home in Troy. Mr. Banks and wife have removed to their home in the west part of the city. Mr. Jolly spent the Fourth in Holton. E. J. Davis is enjoying a visit from his sister Carrie, of Topeka. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Reed of Onega, are the guest of A. S. Riley and wife. Sunday was quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. Church at which Leavenworth. Rev. W. Tecumseh Vernon of Quindaro, Kas., preached at the A. M. E. church Sunday. Rosa Harrold has returned from Woodruff, Mo. Nora Douglass, of Quindaro, Kas., was the guest of Bertha Trusty this week. Frances Moore, of Denver, Colo., is visiting friends and relatives in the city. Mrs. Hubbard and daughter, Genevieve, are visiting in Missouri. Jessie Williams is spending the summer with friends in Missouri. Mrs. Fairbanks and Victor are visiting relatives in the city. Blanche Green has returned from Kansas City. Estella Robinson has returned to Leadville. The Bloomer social given by the Episcopal Guild on the church lawn was a success. The sick are M. Neeley, N. Shackleford, Frances Brown, George Green. There will be a rally at the Independent Baptist church Sunday. Espanola Hill entertained a few friends Friday of last week. The latest is a slipper and a shoe. Don't forget to wear sweet peas. The C. M. E. church was considerably damaged by lightning. The lightning struck just over the altar. Mrs. P. L. Taylor is still confined to her room. Nellie Hildebrand, of Douglas hospital, has been visiting her sister. Carrie Johnson is home from Jefferson City, Mo. Ada Gibson is visiting in Kansas City. Garnett. Mr. Powers and wife, of Ottawa, are visiting the former's brother. Thomas Tyler arrived Saturday from Great Bend. Pearl Grant was in the city over Sunday. Wilson Duncan, wife and little daughter, of Richmond, are visiting relatives and friends. Tena Shepherd, of Iola, is visiting her parents. Garnett. Misses Mary Spottsville, Bertha Crutchfield, Nonearl Hurn spent the Fourth in Kansas City, returning home Monday. Anna Richen, of Kansas City, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Hurn. Princeton Manley, of Kansas City, was called home on account of the illness of his father. Andrew Manley and wife, of the Territory, were called home by the illness of their father. Mound City. Mrs. Branson has been ill for the past week, but is improving rapidly. Mr. Sam Kays of Pleasanton is working at the Brick Hotel here. A moonlight social was given by the members of the A. M. E. Church, at the residence of Mr. Fowler, on last Thursday evening. Miss Alexander of Paola, has been the guest of Mrs. Brown for the past two weeks. in Walnut Grove on the 29th, given by the 2nd Baptist church. The pastor, Rev. T. W. Greene, will be assisted by Revs. R. Cox of Salina and Duncans of Lacyne. Every one are cordially invited to attend. The young people of this city were highly entertained on last Saturday evening at the residence of Miss Maybel Van, although the weather was very warm, yet it did not prevent them from partaking of the ices and sherberts. Lawrence. A concert was given at Johnson's Hall, Thursday, July 12 for the benefit of St. Luke A. M. E. Church. The concert consisted of a musical and rainbow drill. The drill was exceedingly good and Mrs. Truss, the manager, deserves great praise for the efforts. There was also a cake baking contest. Miss Cora Hoyt and Messrs John Gregg and Frank Bufkins, all candidates for matrimony, were selected judges. They decided Miss William's cake was best. Thomas McWilliams declares that he will keep his eye on her. Why is Miss Nelson all smiles? Kitty Smother has returned from the Territory. Etta Hill has returned from Muscogee, where she has been teaching. Misses Emma and Willa Brown have gone to Kansas City for the summer. Messrs John Gregg and Jeff. King, after having swindled all the people they could between Lawrence, Kansas City and Atchison, have returned home to spend the summer. Miss Carter of St. Louis is visiting Miss Cora Hoyt. Miss Clara Wallace anticipates a trip to Omaha next week. Mr. Frank Buffin was in the city visiting "the girls" in interest of the PLAINDEALEK. Do you think Miss Stone is glad he came? The Juveniles of the Ruth and Benevolent Societies went to the Poor Farm, last week, for a picnic. Mesdames Cloud, McWilliams and Hamilton gave a picnic in Lake View in honor of Miss Carter from Kansas City and Miss Carter from Lexington, Mo. The principal features were boating and spooning. One of our Lawrence belles is getting quite sedate, since Mr. Woodside has gone west, Archie Gregg came up from K. C., to see his mother, although there was an attraction in the other direction. We hear that Spurgeon Gray is making success as a druggist in Louisville, Ky. He is a Lawrence boy, and we appreciate the fact that he realizes the final aim should be true manhood. We only wish that some more of our boys would profit by his example. Lawrence should feel proud of having a scholarly minister like Rev. Attaway and a talented musician like R. G, Jackson. With the eloquence of the minister and the music of the choir, St. Luke is easily one of the leading Negro churches of the state. Kansas City, Kas. Mrs. W. M. Price and Mrs. Hendry enertained very pleasantly at a six-course dinner last Thursday evening in honor of Mrs. J. H. Parks of Topeka and Mrs. Stubblefield of Sioux City, Iowa. Those present were Mesdames Gray, Davis, Hendry, Nash, Parks and Stubblefield; Misses Gatewood, and Hendry and little Catherine Davis and Hazel Hendry. After partaking of a very palatable dinner, fruits and ices were served and each one departed for their homes with many expressions of gratitude for the evening's pleasure. Mrs. Julia Moates, of Leavenworth, spent Monday in the city. J. H. W. Howard, of Harrisburg, Pa., owner of Howard's American Magazine, a neat, newsy and up-to-date magazine, published in the interest of the colored race, is in our city to introduce his publication in the West. Miss Georgia Gibbs, Fulton, Mo., is expected in the city soon. The A, C, L Coal Co. has secured the services of Sylvester Banks as soliciting salesman and collecting agent for their business in this city. Mr. Banks is a young man of good address, being a graduate of both our city High school and Western university. One of the pleasantest meetings of the whist club this season was held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. S. H. Thompson, Wednesday evening, 11th inst. The good cheer of the host and hostess seemed infectious, and every face reflected the pleasure A delicious course of refreshments was served. Those present were Misses Lucy V. Ashton, Pearl M. Tillman, Dove Burdette, Sara Chinn, Ella Armstrong, St. Louis, Mo.; Mesdames W. H. Hudson, Atchison, Lulu Cunningham. O. B. Johnson and B. S. Smith J. H. W. Howard, of Harrisburg, Pa., Dr. C. E. Thomas, Anniston, Ala., James Freeman, H. L. Mobe ly, O. B. Johnson, B. S. Smith, A. K. Lawrence, I. F. Bradley and F. K. Douglass. Emporia. Alice Fisher, of Olivet, is here, visiting parents and friends. Sarah Lyle, of Oklahoma, is here visiting her parents. Arnicholas Chiles, of Topeka, is now the guest of Bertha Tipton. Mr. Griffith, of Kansas City, spent part of last week in our city. Monroe Ingram has returned to his home in Coffeyville. Mrs. Alfred Lyle is lying in a precarious condition at her home on Neosho street. Gabriel Bain died at his home on East street Wednesday of last week. He leaves to mourn his death, four children and many friends. He was an active member of the St James Baptist church. Mollie Odair is visiting in Parsons. Mrs. Spencer Watts, of Chicago, is here visiting parents and friends. Emporia. Manhattan. Minnie M. Howell, Effie L. Williams and Sarah Inman are the PLAINDEALER news reporters. We feel like working again after the rain refreshed us. Charles Brown, aged 39 years, died at his home Monday of inflammation of the bowels. His funeral was held at Mount Zion Baptist church with Rev. A. P. Banks officiating. Mr. Brown leaves a wife, three children and many relatives to mourn his death. M. Downey left for St. Mary's, Kas., Sunday evening, to visit friends and relatives. Margaret Reeves went to her home in Topeka for a short vacation. Little Jennie Howell is still very ill. Rev. J. R. Keele returned to his home in Burlingame Monday. Mary Oliver was in the city Sunday. Mrs. Booker, of Tennessee, arrived here Wednesday, and expects to make this place her future home. There was a grand rally at the Second M. E. church Sunday. Rev. R. J. Keele preached at the Second M. E. church Sunday night. The Plungers were in close quarters Monday afternoon. The Woman's Missionary club met at Mrs. Gilbert Harrison's Tuesday evening. The Second Baptist church is being repaired. It will look all right when completed. Rev. R. P. Banks' text for Monday night was "The Church of God and the Saints of Christ." Rev. I. Brogan is in our city. Ottawa. Edwardsville. The potato men have very long faces now for the rain keeps them from digging and shipping. The Pleasant Hill Baptist Church had a Grand Basket meeting and rally. Rev. Burdett was assisted by Rev. Wallace of Baldwin City. The Church was divided into the following societies: the B. Y. P. U. of Edwardsville collected $26.57; The B. Y. P. U. of Loring collected $32.85; and the P. U. of Edwardsville collected $7.10. Mr. Matthews' store was broken into Saturday night and some cash was taken. Lula Anderson of Kansas City wss the guest of Mrs. M. E. Groves Sunday. V. Rhodes and Chaney Smith were the guests of Ida Groves Sunday. Nellie Williams of Kansas City ir visiting her sister Mrs. Fanny Divers. Weir City. A. Dorcas, Jackson Wendom and Geo. Helman, miners at No. 6 shaft, were hurt last Friday by being caught between the cars. John Mays and Alex Young, miners at No. 11 shaft, were hurt last week by falling of slate. Miss Susie Kinnell of Ft. Scott passed through the city last week, enroute home. She was very sick and was accompanied by her sister and Mr. Payton. We are glad to hear that she's improving. N. Meriweathers and wife visited Gid Lee and wife of Fleming last week. We are sorry to hear of Miss Sallie Hawkin's continued illness at Panama, Indian Territory, where she went to attend her sister's bedside. Died:-July 13, of an unknown cause George Coleman, age 36 years, and leaves a mother and other relatives, who live in Leslie South Carolina. Hiawatha Quarterly meeting, conducted by Elder Ransom at the A. M. E. Church Sunday. Mrs. James Allen of Iola, is in the city, the guest of her parents. M. C. Allen and family spent Sunday at Powhattan. Grand Rally at the Second Baptist Church next Sunday. James Cobb, after a month's visit with relatives at Topeka, has returned home. Messrs Edwards, Woodson and Irving spent Sunday in our city. Mrs. Will Payne, who has been quite ill is convalescent. Ogle brothers store was discovered to be on fire Saturday and while Sam Olden was attempting to enter the store, he fell through a glass door. The upper part of the door fell on his back making a very severe cut. Mr. Will Stockton passed through our city Sunday enroute to Horton. Mr. Calvin and Miss Ellington spent Sunday at Sun Springs. Don't forget the meetings of the.Woman's mission circle,on Tuesday evenings. Atchison. Miss Lena Nelson had an afternoon at her residence Tuesday. Several of the leading ladies of the city were present and they say the luncheon, etc., were positively aristocratic. The guests of honor were Mrs. Amanda Brown Gray, of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Maggie Gordan, of Omaha, Nebr. Atchison. Auchison is proud of the accomplishments of one of her daughters, Mrs. Mollie Barnett, who completed the full course this year at the State Normal. Mrs. Maggie Gordon, after three weeks pleasant stay with her friends, returned home Wednesday. Tickets are out announcing the marriage of Miss Lucy Crosby, sister-in-law of Rev. A. M. Ward, to Mr. Judson Early, of Kansas City, Kas on the 25th. A big picnic at Forest Park August 1, under the auspices of Rev. A. M. Ward's and Rev. J. W. Wilson's churches. Rev. Smothers' church will run an excursion to St. Joseph August 1. A new Masonic lodge organization on Friday evening, the 20th, is claiming the attention of the hour; some very good material is taking part. Mrs. Sarah Hinkle had a card party Monday evening. Quite a number of the elites were out. Hutchinson. Rev. J. C. Rainey is preparing to run an excursian from Hutchison ta Halstead on Sunday, the 22. Rev. G. T- Rainey who has been confined to his home with small-pox is out. Mrs. R. Perkins entertained at dinner in honor of her-sister-law. Colored Republicans will have a big raley Monday night. The PLAINDEALER is a welcome visitor in our city and we hope will be in every home soon. Olathe. Sheriff Jones and his able assistants ran in a big crowd of boys last week for gambling. There were no Negroes in the crowd, so the boys got off very easily by paying a fine and costs of $6.25 each. But last winter when some colored men were arrested for the same offense, they had to pay $17.50. The Home Missionary circle met and made a great hit. Among the exercises on the evening's program was Mrs. Blake's essay on "Character." It was one of the ablest papers ever listened to. Mrs. Lida Crump, as usual showed her talent as a declaimer and mimic in "Old Maid Prayers." Miss May Jones surprised even her best admirers by her pathetic reciting of "The Gambler's Wife." Mrs. B. F. Botts deserves great credit for the manner in which she conducted the circle. It would be hard to find anyone to compete with Misses Lida Crump and May Jones intellectually. Mr. Grear and wife, of Trinidad, Colo., are visiting the former's sister, Mrs. Still, for a short time. Mrs. Sadie Talton, of Liberty, Mo., visited relatives and friends last week. She is looking better since moving to Liberty. Mrs. Ella Wilson has gone back to Paola for an indefinite time, and will then leave for Chicago. Met and Adjourned. (Continued from Page One.) Ella McKinnis, Leavenport, Annie Edwards, Kansas City, Kas.; Annie Madison, Kansas City; Hattie Montgomery, Ella Nelson, Atchison, Kas.; Mrs. Grantherson, Kansas City, Kas.; H. J. Kinney, South Omaha, Nebr.; Mrs. Maggie Mack, Armourdale, Kas. Mies Sarah Williams, Lincoln, Nebr.; Eliza Scott, G. Q. M., Leavenworth, Kas.; Richard Nichols, Jennie Nichols, Leavenworth; Lucinda Williams, Parsons; Alice Anry, Omaha, Nebr.; Emma Gaines, Topeka. Kas.; Mrs. Kerchival, N. Topeka; Mrs. Jordan, N. Topeka; Rev. Frank Wilson, Coffeville, Kas. It often happens that when the woman earns the living, the husband develops an inventive turn of mind. This leads to a theory that many great inventions may have been lost to mankind because the wives refuse to earn the living, and give the inventive genius in their husbands' brains a chance. Practices in all courts. Special attention given criminal cases. W. I. JAMISON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office, 117 W. Fifth St. J. M. KNIGHT, UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER. 406 Kansas Avenue. 'Phone 52 OFFICE HOURS. Telephone, 454 7 10 a. m., 12 m. to 4 o. m. 7 10 10 p. m. J. M. JAMISON, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Special attention to diseases of Women and private deceases. Office, 507 4th. Res. 225 Madison Ladies and Children without Escort In route to California should join one of the Santa Fe Route personally conducted excursions. The city cares and annoyances of long-distance travel are taken off their roads to spare excursion conductor No extra charge. Full information cheerfully furnished. T. L. KING, Ticket Agent. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Topeka KA. M. M. S. POULTRY FENCING. P. H. 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