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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. VOLUME II. BE SURE YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT. A man with a Record-- H. R. Hilton. A SUPPOSED ANGEL Topeka Needs More Like Him in a Horn. You all have heard of one H. R. Hilton, editor of the Good Citizen. He is supposed to be a perfect model of an angel! If you think back for several years you will remember that this Pharisee was loaning money for widows, orphans and laboring men of the east. Wise men came from the east to meet the Saviour once and donated quite heavily to the father and mother of Christ, and received their blessing in return. But the wise men who came to Hilton from the east and donated are anxiously waiting for an honest blessing in return for their assessments. The readers of Holy Writ remember whensin the Saviour said he asked for bread, and they gave him stones; he asked for meat and they gave him bones. This is what the plious Hilton gave his eastern poor people who Intrusted their earnings with him! Everybody knows we have a lot of Pharisees and saducers in Topeka, who know everybody's business and meddle in everybody's business and forget their own, and oft' time forget there is a dark cloud behind them while they are raining on some one else. These same kind of hypocrits went to Jesus one day after they had debauched and ruined the character of a good woman, and said to Jesus, "We found this woman in the very act." He said "you without sin cast the first stone." If I remember right no stone was cast, and they sneaked away. The Plaindealer will find these meddling hypocrits out, and we are preparing a 12-pounder for Mr. Hilton, and as soon as politics quiet down, we will give the gentleman more space. Coffeyville, Ks. Sept. 10, 1900. Rev. Lacy of Weir City, Ks., made a democrat speech to about 10 or 12 colored and several white people on Saturday night at the city hall. I wish to state that the sooner such men are out of the way, the better it is for good men. I have no room in my house or at my table for such democrats, hell-hounds! Only think, a few days ago 80,000 of our people had their rights taken from them, and now for a preacher of God's gospel to stand and proclaim such, should not be allowed to stand in any church in this land and country. God forbid that he received anything from any church. Let him go to the people he is working for, for his support. Now Mr. PLAINDEALER, what do you say of such a man as this man is? He is our color, but not our kind. (Hang him.) BEN. A. GARNER. Holton. The two infant children of Pat Montgomery have been taken to the Home for the Friendless. Emma Ford is suffering from a relapse. L. Parks and wife and daughter attended the reunion of the Twenty-third Kansas in Topeka. They report a nice time. A good many people are expecting to attend the Emancipation celebration at Valley Falls, September 22. A game of base ball was played Friday by the colored nine and the Pottawatomie Indians, in which the colored beat 26 to 18. The colored quartette sang at Wetmore last week at the Old Settlers' reunion. The tough NORTH WESTERN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. The seventeenth annual session of the Northwestern Baptist association convened with the First Baptist church, Kansas City, Kas, August 14-19. In point of attendance, christian unity and dignity and spiritual fervor, it eclipsed all previous meetings. The Sunday school convention was presided over by Rev. J. H. Vanlue, of Wichita. It was unusually large and business-like. Forty-seven schools reported progress in all the departments. The Sunday school mass meeting Tuesday evening was a brilliant literary event. The papers, essays and recitals were of a higher order. Misses Merriwether and Luoy Bledsoe, of Topeka, were very active. Misses Hickerson and Sanborn, of Frankfort, delivered excellent recitations. Miss May Jones, of Olathe, was impressive and humorous in her role. The delegate from Vine street Baptist Sunday school exhibited rare powers as an essayist. Everyone knows what to expect when Miss Bledsoe is at the piano forte. The customary reports on Temperance, Education and Missions created considerable comment and renewed efforts along the lines indicated. President M. D. Jones never presided over a better Women's convention. Youth and age, culture and experience combined to make the sixty delegates to this department a unique assembly. Fervent prayers, impassioned exhortation and appeals for a twentieth century movement in home and foreign missions in Kansas, America and Africa electrified the feeblest Christian. The pioneer women, workers like Sisters Cox, Gaines, Harris, Robinson, Hicks and Howard were lifted high in the scale of consecration. About thirty Home and Foreign Mission circles were represented. The association proper convened Thursday morning, with Moderator P. W. Barker in the chair. In his annual address, he reviewed the growth of the association, the vicissitudes through which it had passed and the successes which crowned its efforts. "To God, alone," he said, "we must give the praise." Indeed, he must have, amid the afflictions which now darken his home and his own failing health, found joy in as noble an occasion and realized more fully the sentiments of "There's a light in the valley for me." Rev, P. D. Skinner, D. D., preached the introductory sermon. Not a few declare it was a masterpiece judged from a doctrinal point of view. Rev. Edwards preached an eloquent sermon on "Immortality Revealed in the Gospel." Other able, well-prepared efforts were made by Rev. J. H. Ramey, J. M. Middleton, W. P. Banks, E. C. Stoner, P. W. Barker and J. R. Richardson. The address of Dr. Ball, Guadaloupe college, Seguin, Tex., urged a stronger manhood as a safeguard from national decay. Prof. Adam S. Green, principal city schools, Hopkinsville, Ky., delivered a brilliant address on "Hymnology." "That an improvement in divine worship," said he, "is imminent, no one will gainsay the fact. We must quit singing meaningless rhymes in Christian worship." The association indorsed the National Baptist Publishing company, and urged the churches and Sunday schools to purchase periodicals and literature of it. 2. The TOPEKA PLAINDEALER as its official organ. 3. The national and state administrations as against Tillmanism, "Rome, Rum and Rebellion." Thus ended one of the most prosperous meetings in the history of the association. Rev. C. G. Tutt rendered excellent sermons Sunday, and large crowds attended the services. He left Tuesday for a missionary tour to Horton and St. Joe. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1900. Those who profess to distrust the liberal and honorable purposes of the administration in its treatment of the Philippines are not justified. Imperialism has no blace in its creed or conduct. Freedom is a rock upon which the republican party was builted and now rests. Liberty is the great republican doctrine for which the people went to war and for which a million lives were offered and billions of dollars expended to make it a lawful legacy of all without the consent of master or slave. There is a strain of ill concealed hypocrisy in the anxiety to extend the constitutional guarantees to the people of the Philippines, while their nullification is openly advocated at home. Our opponents may disgust themselves, but they have no right to discredit the good faith and patriotism of the majority of the people, who are opposing them; they may fear the worst form of imperialism with the helpless Filipinos in their hands, but if they do, it is because they have parted with the spirit and faith of the fathers and have lost the virility of the founders of the party which they profess to represent. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. The republican party doesn't have to assert its devotion to the Declaration of Independence. That immortal instrument of the fathers remained unexecuted until the people, under the lead of the republican party in the awful clash of battle, turned its promises into fulfillment. It wrote into the constitution the amendments guaranteeing political equality to American citizenship and it has never broken them or counselled others in breaking them. It will not be guided in its conduct by one set of principles at home and another set in the new territory belonging to the United States. If our opponentis would only practice as well as preach the doctrines of Abraham Lincoln, there would be no fear for the safety of our institutions at home or their frightful influence in any territory over which our flag floats! 'EQUAL RIGHTS = TO ALL' Col. John Brown Confesses. Col.-Major J. M. Brown fired the initial gun of his campaign this year in the interest of Bryanized democracy, in a speech in this city last week. As a campaigner in the interest of the party that forced him to flee for his life through the Mississippi swamps, the doughty colonel-major presents a rare and unique figure. He is a political and racial contradiction. There was one remark made in his recent speech that very fully illustrates the calibre of the man. Col.-Major says: "The republican party is doing now, what it has been doing for the past few years, relegating brains, common sense and education to the rear, and putting ignorance foremost among Negroes of this country." This remarkable confession was a conclusion to his bitter and virulent attack upon the manager of the PLANDEALER. The men who make this paper have resided long enough in this community to believe our ability in any capacity will compare very favorably with that of the man who made his war record on the Kansas refugee board. The most remarkable feature of this conclusion of the colonel-major is the confession implied. For almost 20 years John Brown was regarded as the leader of Negroes in Kansas, and when he makes this confession he simply tells to all the people of Kansas, what a few have long known that he was ignorant and incapable. There are those in Kansas who know that during his term of service in the auditor's office that he was a blank failure; that he spent his time tearing up the paper that he spoilt trying to fill a position obtained through treachery to E. P. McCabe; and there are a great many others know that John M.Brown in four years drew $10,000 from Shawnee county as county clerk, for which the county received no adequate recompense. We have no hesitancy in sayina that John M. Brown is an ignorant,elfish Negro leader, who is for the Negro, so long as he is the Negro. We will wager $25 to a button that he cannot successfully make out a tax roll today after four years in the county clerk's office, and put dollars to doughnuts that he will stumble on a little dusky road notice. A careful examination of the record of the colonel-major convinces us,beyond a reasonable doubt that when he left the republican party, the party lost none of its brain. Col. Brown belongs to that element that pust office above principle and efficiency. Philip Jackson, a Negro democrat of Charleston, W. Va., presented Bryan with the following and asked him to sign it: "I do not countenance the Jim Crow car law or any other measure that discriminates against any American citizen on account of color." Bryan refused to sign, saying he did not want any new issues injected into the campaign. We never touch upon this question of separate schools, but with a feeling that the most un-American system of fostering and perpetuating race prejudice is bound up in this scheme. But we have them and must submit to its iniquity. Kansas City, Mo., has as fine a system of schools as is given to Negroes in any city in this country, that decrees that the black-faced pupil must receive his instructions in a separate building from the white. The corps of teachers are most excellent and we understand are devoted to their work, Kansas City however, is dominated by democratic influences. There, like farther south, there is a manifest disposition to repress the colored child. They seek to do so in Kansas City by a lack of large enough buildings and these properly furnished. There is no doubt but what there are many thousand Negro children of school age in Kansas City, kept from school because the buildings are not sufficiently equipped. The people of Kansas City owe it to the nation, to provide as liberally for the education of the children as it does for police services. If this is done there will be less for the police department to do and more for the teacher. We quote from a Kansas City paper: There has been a good deal of complaint lately among the colored people in regard to the lack of room in the Lincoln high school and the failure of the board of education to fulfill its many promises of enlargement. The school was too small when built, having really only four good class rooms, and with the growth of the city and increase of colored population the building is at present entirely inadequate. Last year the basement of a neighboring church was used for some of the first year pupils. The recitation rooms were separated from one another by a partition of canvas only and were so dark that on cloudy days the gas had to be lighted. Attendance fell off, pupils complained of their eyes and several cases of illness were reported as a consequence of the basement room. This year the board promised better quarters, but the opening of school is but two weeks off and nothing has been done. There are other needs in the school besides that of room. One of these is an instructor in music. All of the other city high schools have a paid instructor in music, yet here with a race to which music seems to appeal pre-eminently, this branch is entirely neglected. Though the school is smaller than the other two high schools, there seems to be a crying need here of a school matron. This is strongly felt by the most advanced colored women of the city, who have the good of the school at heart. There are only two women teachers in the building and they; as the others, have their hands full with school work. There is little or no supervision over the girls and this is a thing needed here more than almost any other place. In the ward schools there are eight kindergartens for white children and none whatever for the colored, though there has been some talk of starting one this year. Trained kindergartners may be obtained from St. Louis, where the work is being carried on successively in the colored schools. The concert given by the Twenty-third Regimental band at Garfield park last Sunday afternoon was highly appreciated by those in attendance, and, it is hoped, proved a financial success. Prof. George W. Jackson deserves much credit for his untiring efforts to make the band one of the leading musical organizations of the state. The Dyson restaurant, located at 440 Minhesota avenue, Kansas City Kas., is the best restaurant in that city. FOR RENT—Unfurnished rooms at 112, 114 East Seventh street. Call at THE PLAINDEALER office. Don't forget to ask your friend to subscribe for the PLAINDEALER. BISHOP TURNER'S FLOP Bishop Henry M. Turner of Georgia has gotten married and gone democratic, all inside of thirty days. The papers tell us that he has signified his intention to work and vote for Bryan. Well, "Everybody to their liking," as the old woman said when she kissed the cow. The newspapers seem to think that the accession of the bishop to the ranks of the Bryanized democracy is a good catch for Bryan, in that the bishop represents a good many thousands of African Methodists who are located in the North and West, who may be susceptible to the blandishments of the bishop, and follow him into political perdition. Well, mebbe they will, and mebbe they won't. It is more than likely they won't. If this rumor with reference to the bishop's intentions is authentic, (and it appears to have the oorand and sanctity of truth lingering about it), the metamorphosis of this distinguished prelate with the orotund eye and eyes like Mars, is the most remarkable event in modern politics. His conversion was more sudden than Paul's, p'raps. The Atlanta Journal of July 27, 1900, in an editorial commenting on the New Orleans riot strongly insinuated that Robert Charles got his inspiration for his work as a sharpshooter from reading Bishop Turner's paper, The Voice of Missions because several copies of that publication had been found among his effects. This insinuation appears to have nettled the bishop pretty much as Peter was when the maid accused him of being a friend of Jesus, causing him to cuss and swear and deny with all possible emphasis that he ever knew his Lord. The bishop, however, did no cussing editorially; but he did deny all knowledge of Charles in an editorial which appears in his paper of September 1, in the following words: "We are not responsible, nor any other editor, for the deeds of men who read their papers. If he (Charles) did read The Voice of Missions, he found it no republican or democratic, or any other party paper. He simply found it advocating the cause of religion, missions and emigration." This was written before the announcement of the bishop's political change of heart. The news of his conversion reached us on August 30, by way of Chicago, where the Western headquarters of the democratic party are located, and it was probably known to Chairman Jones and his colleagues for at least a week before it was given out to the public. So that it will appear that when the bishop wrote his editorial denying any knowledge of Robert Charles he was a full-fledged, dyed-in-the-wool Bryan democrat, though he alleges that his paper was neither democratic nor republican. Before his denial was off the press in Atlanta, the announcement of his purpose to support Bryan and take the stump for him had been spread broadcast by the Associated Press. If the bishop's logic is safe to tie to (and we doubt it) then the influence of great editors does not influence. His advocacy of the chimerical African deportation scheme and the appropriation by the government of $100,000,000 to carry us all to Africa, is admittedly a mistake and yet The Voice of Missions is declared to be published for the very purpose of influencing Negro public sentiment along those lines. If this scheme succeeds would The Voice of Missions consider that its editorial advocacy of it had contributed to its success. That its influence does influence is attested by the glowing and enthusiastic contributions from its correspondents in all parts of America and Africa, who appear to be at one with the bishop in the exploitation and promulgation of his Quixotic and NUMBER 37. erratic scheme to deport the Negroes from America to Africa. After all, the bishop is very human and hence fallible. He has been playing politics under the name of religion, missions and emigration and he has emigrated from nowhere politically to the democratic party and promises to prostitute his splendid abilities and talents towards the triumph of the corrupt organization which in his own state recently passa Jim Crow car law which forces him to ride in a separate apartment and submit to all sorts of indignities because he has curly hair and considerable Negro blood in his veins. He will use his influence to defeat the republican party, which during and after reconstruction gave him prominence and national repute. Lincoln made him a chaplain in the army and the republican party of Georgia made him all he was and is politically. He deserts the republican party because individuals in the party, not the party, do not fill the measure of his expectations. Politician as he is, he has yet to learn the meaning of consistency. Bishop Grant well says: "This is no time for a change in the administration. I shall not vote for Bryan nor advise my race to vote for him, but on the contrary, I shall vote for McKinley. With the problems now confronting the nation and the following complications, we cannot afford to make any change." Speaking of Bishop Turner's attitude, he says Turner has become very much incensed at the race riots and the failure of the administration to protect the race. The Bryan forces, he says, may have promised, in the event of success, to call out the Federal troops to prevent lynchings, and such promises may make many colored people go over to the Bryan side. "But," Bishop Grant says, "while vigorous steps are being taken he remembers that all legislation for the colored race has been enacted by the republican party, and he has much more confidence in the party with that record than the party that controls North Carolina and other southern states." And Bishop Grant voices the sentiments of thousands of Negroes. Bishop Turner's logic is again at fault if as Bishop Grant states he is incensed at the race riots and the failure of the administration to protect Negroes. He joins the democratic party—the party responsible for race riots and all the odious and repressive laws which operate against Negroes in the South, in order to find a remedy. Do men gather fists of thorns? Bishop Turner might as well expect to find a high state of morals in Hades as to look for justice for his race in the democratic party. But Bishop Turner is sui generis—the last of the Mohicans And the Negroes will not follow him into the political heated house which he has chosen for his future habitat. It is difficult to understand how it comes about, that Bishop Turner, after having editorially declared that he was neither a democrat nor a republican, should suddenly, and almost before the ink in his editorial was dry, pronounce for the Bryan democracy. Did he have a vision and see a new light? The fierce talk which is heard in democratic circles about the dangers of imperialism, which it professes to fear, together with more talk about its concomitant evils, ect., etc., and much more would lead one entirely unacquainted with our system of government to suppose that there was really something to be dreaded from the acquisition and administration of our new possessions, and the operation of our rights in the Philippines particularly. But those who are quite familiar with the history of the country know that the annexation of Texas in 1845, acquisition of New Mexico in 1848, the coding of the province of Louisiana in 1803, Florida in 1859, the Gadsden purchase in 1853 and the purchase of Alaska in 1867 have not destroyed our republican form of government, and the purchase of the Philippine Islands by th's government will not have that result because they will be governed precisely as these other possessions are governed when their inhabitants [In order to insure publication of matter in the current issue, correspondence must be in this office not later than Tuesday] WILLIAM McKINLEY, FOR PRESIDENT. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, VICE PRESIDENT. STATE TICKET. For Governor, W. E. Stanley. For Lieutenant Governor, H. E. Richter. 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 For State Senator, John T. Chaney. For Representative, 37th District. J. B. Simms. For Representative, 38th District. H. G. Safford. For Representative, 39th District. E. D. McKeever. For District Judge, Z. T. Hazen. For County Attorney, Galen Nichols. For Probate Judge, W. E. Fagan. For Clerk District Court, A. M. Callaham. For County Superintendent. S. F. Wright. For County Commissioner, Silas Rain. We consider Congressman White's scheme of locating 50,000 Negroes in New York as suicidal to their best interest. The congested conditions which already prevail there, as it relates to the laboring classes, should suggest to the congressman the utter folly of his contemplated project. The unsubdued and fertile western lands offer, to our mind, better opportunities to Negroes than can be found elsewhere in this country. Kansas can support and welcomes within her borders 2,000,000 thrifty, progressive and enter prising immigrants. One of the Massachusetts free sliver leaders, Hon, Tim Coakley, who has served a term of enlistment in the Philippines, is so disgusted with Mr. Bryan's policy of surrender that he is coming home to support the republican ticket. He declares that national honor is paramount to financial questions. In other words he places the nation above the dollar. "If there is any one who believes the gold standard is a good thing, or that it must be maintained, I warn him not to cast his vote for me, because I promise him it will not be maintained in this country longer than I am able to get rid of it." Hon. William Jennings Bryan, Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 16, 1896. 5000 MEN WANTED: Men who will keep up with the times by reading the PLAINDEALER. A TALL Negro democrat published an article stating that the Negro was disfranchised in Oregon and could not own real estate, or contract debt. This was an old law passed long before the war of '61. (Now Mr. Niger democrat,) the 14th and 15th amendments stopped that law. To the subscribers of the PLAIN-DEALER of Arkanaas City, Ks.: P. B. Andrews is not connected with the PLAINDEALER in any way whatever, and is not authorized to collect for the same.—Business Manager. PRESIDENT McKINLEV's letter of acceptance, like all of his public papers, is a strong document. It covers every issue now before the American people. THE ghost of imperialism is so transparent that even a near-sighted man can see 16 to 1 through its shadowy form. CHAIRMAN JONES insists that it is not the square thing to dtscuss his round cotton bale trust. A remarkable thing about the Bryan notification was the failure of the speakers to make any reference to the Negro, or any bid for his sympathy or support; not that democrats are accustomed to appealing to the Negro; they admit they have no claims upon his suffrage. But in view of the efforts they are making to enlist the support of the Germans, Irish, Swedes and all foreigners, as well as every other class of Americans, it is deeply significant that the Negro should be thus ignored. It shows that the party still cherishes the sentiment expressed by their apostle Tillman, that "they would rather lose without the Nigers than win with them." In this they are consistent. They cannot rally the support of those whom they would disfranchise; they have no claim upon a people whose civil and political liberties they would destroy. Bryan's party has never recognized the Negro as being an American citizen; it has never conceded his right to be a factor in the government of this nation, and consequently it does not propose to honor him by asking him for his vote. The only notice given the Negro is that which he receives from the southern contingency of the democratic party, in the way red shirt gangs, intimidation and disfranchisement. Notwithstanding these facts, we find Negroes laboring for the success of the democratic party. Whether this perversion of judgment is due to mental aberration or moral weakness, we cannot say. But certainly it is a piteous spectacle to see these deluded people licking the hand that smites them, adding fuel to the flames that threaten their destruction, and caressing the political dragon that seeks to destroy them. A Teacher's Flop Mr. Editor: I am a graduate from the Negro High school of Kansas. For 23 years I have been a student under one of the leading principals of Shawnee county, who taught me to hate democrats at the cost of my life. He has said to his class when he was teaching, that he would suffer his throat to be cut from ear to ear before he would vote for a democrat. He told his class how he swam the Mississippi river with two revolvers on to save his own life, leaving his wife and baby to die in the swamps of Mississippi. This same teacher has caused hundreds of my people to lose good homes in the South and come away from the hell-holes of the barbarian, as he called them in his many speeches. Some of our people have lost their lives voting to put my teacher in office, and while he was in office, did he say to us, "Vote the democratic ticket." No; but he said: "Die before you vote for a democrat." No, Mr. Editor, my teacher has fooled all the Negroes one time, but he can't fool all the Negroes all the time. If he wants us to go back to the democrats, he must first go back to the South and make friends with the rebels down there. Tell them that he has lied on them, and that he is no more worthy to be called a man, but make him one of the hired servants. What did my teacher have when he came away from the South, but two revolvers? What has he got today, since he has been under the care of the republicans of Kansas and Shawnee county? How much has he given the widows of those men who followed him into the jaws of death for the sake of office. Now since he is out of office he says to the sons and grand-sons of the men who lost their lives for his sake: "Come, go with me to the democratic party and say' to them, 'You did right when you shot my father at the ballot box, who carried the musket three long years for the freedom of myself and mother.'" The republican party may have made some mistakes, and they have done the same and are still making them. Tell me what the democrats have promised my teacher outside of a little office for himself? Have they guarantee'd to him that they would quit building "Jim Crow" cars in the South, stop shooting down innocent Negro men and women when they can't find the one charged with the crime. We are not trying to encourage crime and law-breaking, but first get the right man, then you have law in your own hands. Put it to him, and let the man who has lived a good citizen go and make a living for his family the best he can; and say to these base leaders of ours who want a job with the democratic party, "Go south and tell your tale of woe." You can help THE PLAINDEALER- Put the names of three of your friends who like a live, up-to-date journal of opinion, on a postal card, and address it to this office. We will send them sample copies of Kanaas' best Negro weekly. Maj. John M. Brown and Hon. Paul Jones will debate the issues of the day in Atchison, Sept. 13. Col. John, will be in Dunlap on Sep. 21. Rev. Grant will meet him. We hope the colored people will ask the Maj. how many different positions he has held under the republican party in Kansas, he will tell you four years in the auditors office, four years county clerk and had an application with Hon. Chas. Cnrtis for a foreign mission if one could be found that he could fill. It did not materialize as quick as the colonel expected and the quit the party. Newton There were several ladies in the city Sunday from Valley Center, Peabody and other places. The Home and Foreign mission of the C. M. E. church gave an old Virginia wedding last Tuesday evening which was largely attended and was a success financially. The little Mission Band of the Second Baptist church gave a moonlight social Friday night at the home of Mrs. F. C. Childs. The lawn was strung with lanterns made by the little ones, and was quite attractive. There was a good crowd to consume the refreshments. Rev. H. H. Williamson went to Eldorado to preach Sunday. S. Faulkner and William Webb preached here. The Busy Bees will have an open air concert soon under the auspices of Mabel Hillmon and Mrs. James Gross. Hill City. Carrie Dabney left Thursday for Wellington, Kas., where she will visit several months with relatives and friends. We regret her absence very much, as she is one of Graham county's experienced teachers, and we would like to have her one of our corps of teachers this fall. are prepared to govern them and to submit the authority of the United States, which is just now endeavoring to establish a republican form of government in those islands. There is no more danger to be feared from the establishment of stable government in those islands, nor as much as there is to be feared from the supposedly stable governments which exist in the southern states. In these states the only time the citizen comes in contact with the national government is when he purchases a postage or revenue stamp or cashes a check, or runs counter to the federal statutes as an illicit distiller, counterfeiter or destroyer of government property. Then the federal government steps in and asserts its authority to punish the offender or offenders. The local and state laws are sufficient for the security of the life and property and protection of the citizen when enforced, and the federal government therefore has no authority to interfere in the administration of state and local affairs. When the commissioners, now in the Philippine Islands for the purpose of giving the natives of those islands a form of government conformable with the constitution of the United States, shall have completed their labors, the government of the islands will be administered by natives and fostered and encouraged by American officials. it will be a government of law, and when it ceases to be such it will cease to be a government of lawlessness, as our own southern states do not. There is today a great deal more danger to the perpetuity and stability of the federal union as a result from the attitude of the democratic South on the vital question of Negro suffrage, than can ever result from the establishment of an American form of government in the Philippines. The cry of imperialism has its birth in a sickening sentimentality. It is echoed by a coterie of Americans more or less patriotic, considerably less, who realize that "coming events cast their shadows before," and who are not particularly anxious that a republican president should have the honor and the privilege of writing a chapter in history, as he unquestionably will do when the Philippine question shall have been settled, which will proclaim America to be a queen among the nations of the earth. In the words of Francis Wayland, the government of law contemplated for the Filipinos supposes the people to have a perfect right to select that form of government under which they shall live, and to modify it any subsequent time as they shall think desirable; supposing all power to come from the people it considers the authority or rulers purely a delegated authority to be exercised in all cases according to written code, which code is nothing more than an authentic expression of the people's will It teaches that the ruler is nothing more than the intelligent organ of enlightened public opinion. Of such a government he says. "Her seat is the bosom of the people, her voice the harmony of society. All men in every station do her reverence, the very least as feeling her care and the very greatest as not exempted from her power, and though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.' There is no such government in any southern state of this union, Why? The South is afraid of such a government. The democratic party doesn't want such a government either in the Philippines or on this side of the Pacific. Hence the cry of imperialism. The power of the national government over the Philippines when its form of government shall have been established will be no greater than it now is over any of the states of the federal union, over Hawaii, Porto Rico and Cuba, which are now subject to the authority of the United States and doing apparently well. The farsighted statesmanship of the last half of the nineteenth century has seen that expansion is the remedy for war. The Philippine Islands are but 500 to 600 miles distant from China. What the rock of Gibraltar is to England from a strategic view point in war, the Philippine Islands are to the United States from a commercial and industrial view point. If any one will study the map of Alaska, he will find other good and substantial reasons for the retention and development of Philippine islands in the proximity of the Alutien islands and their advantages for the establishment of ports of entry and coaling stations. No nation on earth ever before had such an opportunity to make itself truly great amou tions as that which is now presented to this nation in Asia and the East. And now that it is on the threshold of victory and ready to possess itself of it, "He who dallies is a daftard, And he who doubts is dwarfed." The Hon. Binger Herman gives some interesting facts in his report on the Louisiana purchase, from which we quote a few excerpts to show what expansion has already accomplished on this hemisphere. "The entire area comprised in the Louisiana purchase covers 883,072 square miles and contains 565,166,080 acres. This excludes the area west of the Rocky Mountains and also that east of the Mississippi, which latter, by other treaties is counted as a portion of the Florida cession and that from Great Britain. The original Louisiana contained approximately 572,873,920 acres and cover 863,553 square miles. * * * the Louisiana purchase proper embraces the entire states of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and North and South Dakota, parts of the states of Minnesota, Kansas, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Louisiana, all of the Indian Territory and part of Oklahoma Territory, or "the beautiful lands." Its area is more than seven times that of Great Britain and Ireland, more than four times that of the German Empire or of the Austrian Empire or of France, more than three times that of Spain and Portugal, more than seven times the size of Italy and twice that of Egypt, nearly ten times that of Turkey and Greece, nearly three times that of Sweden and Norway and nearly six times that of the Japanese Empire. It is larger than Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy combined. It is about one-fourth less than the area of the thirteen original states." What American would today be willing to surrender Louisiana to France, or cut it off from fellowship with the other forty-four states? What American five—ten years hence will condemn the wisdom and foresight which have made the Philippine Islands American territory and opened up the gateways to commerce and markets of the world? And who shall say that the Negro—the new Negro, panoplied in the strength which comes of knowledge and experience, endowed with education and training for the real business of life, shall not here find a market for his intellectual and industrial wares? JOHN E. BRUCE. Horton. To Officers and Members of Masonic Grand lodge: Dear Brethren—I recieved the $100 of Widow and Orphan fund in behalf of my deceased husband, Samuel H. Holloway. I most heartily extend to you my sincere gratitude for your generous act; I assure you that it was a great help in time of need, as well a joy. I wish you a long and prosperous life. My husband was not a Mason just for a name, he was a Mason for the good that was in it; its elevation and chastiy, and mutual love towards one another. And I feel, though separated from him, that as long as a true Mason lives that I yet have some protection and care. I do think it a grand law that you have established for the living members to provide for the widows and orphans of the deceased Masons. That alone is a good memorial. With much respect I am Your Sister Fraternally, MRS. ELVIRA C. HOLLOWAY. Bonner Spings The Baptist church has just closed a twelve day's meeting resulting in much good. Mrs. Campbell died at her home in west Bonner. The remains was taken to Kansas City for burial. Dovie Rhodes visited a week with Ida Groves. Mrs. Roberts of Kansas City is visiting Mrs. M. Alexander. Willa Johnson visited in Kansas City this week. Vivian Rhodes took a trip to Kansas City Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. L. Rhodes will attend the Advent convention at Emporia. The rally at the A. M. E. church was a success. The members and friends of the Baptist church gave a pleasant surprise on Rev. Wright of Eudora at-the home of Mr. and Mr. A. Rhodes. The evening was greatly enjoyed by all. KANSAS PACKING HOUSE MARKET, Wholesale and Retail. Fresh and sugar cured Meats. SCHMIDT BRO'S : : : 306 E. SECOND ST. School Books Tablets, Pens, Inks and all School Supplies at Rev. Orin Freeman and Miss Jones were united in marriage, August 25 by Rev. Palmer of Newton. The young men are about to organize a Masonic lodge. It is a good step, boys, go ahead. Rev. Johnson of Great Bend will preach at the 18th District Baptist church Sunday. Will Fontray will leave for his home in Harrisburg, Ky. Monday. Guthrie Okla Your traveling man, Mr. Buffins, was in our midst last week mixing with the good people of Guthrie. When we say mix we don't mean strong drinks as he is from Kansas and we learn from his lips and others that they do not drink in Kansas, especially in Topeka. Gov. Barnes letter in last week State Capital seemed to have stirred the animals up as there has been a constant growl in the political camp ever since. It has been suggested by the school land commissioner that salt-pork be given the most vicious ones for the present as pie is out of the question. In western Oklahoma a preacher exclaimed that God created all men equal. A man remarked that such could not be the case as a boy sat near him with six toes. The preacher got out of the dilema by explaining that a boy is not a man. There is weeping near the corner of Broad and Harrison. A gentleman from Blaine Co. has taken his best girl. Capt. T. D. Jackson gave a reception for his son, Andrew, who expects to leave at once for Harvard. He is a graduate of Lincoln High School of this city. Everybody spent an enjoyable evening. Kittie Smothers of the Lawrence University arrived in our city to take her position as teacher at Lincoln high school. Troy. David Taylor of St Joe made his parents a short visit the latter part of the week. Bona Etta Morris of St Joe, and Samuel Holt of Wathena, were the guests of Lillie Shoemake from Saturday until Sunday. Etta is the possessor of a sweet soprano voice, and won many friends by her amiability. Sam is a violinist of some note. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY ```markdown ``` OZONIZED OX MARROW CO, 75 Wabash Ave, Chicago, III. + 4 lots on Washburn avenue, $400 Fve-room house, 1½ lots Topeka avenue, $950; three-room brick cottage, cellar, two lots, $550. Terms easy. PROPERTIES ON LINCOLN ST. All in good condition, 1 to 1½ lots, 3 to 5 room houses, fine location, $300 to $550. SEVEN ROOM HOUSE, 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 cott age, 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 prices. R. O. HILLIARD, 413 Kansas Avenue. A Broken Down Engine You have seen firemen filling up engines with coal. The coal is consumed and runs the engine. The ashes are worthless and are thrown out. The body is an engine. Constipation is clogging it up, your skin is sallow, you have foul breath and pains in the back. Liver Granules will care you. Soft out the ashes nature will do the rest. Beau- champ's Little Liver Granules are sold only in 45 cent boxes. Sold by all leading druggists. FRANK HERALD. 515 Main Street, KANSAS CITY, Mo. OFFICE HOURS 7 10 9 A. M. 12 10 2 P. M. I. A. SHIELDS, M. D. Office, 1331 Van res Special Attention to Ladies office hours Telephone, 454 7 to 10 a.m. 12 to 4 p.m. 7 to 10 p.m. J·M. JAMISON, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Special attention to diseases of Women and private diseases. Office, 507 4th. - Rt. 225 Madison WESTERN UNIVERSITY QUINDARO, KANSAS. DEIATENTS, Theological, Normal, Preparatory, State Industrial and Musical. ADVANTAGES. Instructors from Leading Colleges, Good Water, Excellent Drainage, Healthy Climate. School term of nine months, begins Sept. 10, 1900. EXPENSES: Per month, Board 55.90, Tuition and Room Rent $4,000. Industrial Training FREE of charge. For further particulars and Catalogue, Address. WM. TECUMSEH VERNON, A. M. QUINDARO, KANSAS. In the District Court in and for Shawnee county, Kansas. The defendant Mamie Williams is hereby notified and required to take notice that she has been used by the plaintiff Wallace Williams, in the district court above named, in a action for divorce, and that she must answer the petition filed in court, on or before the 2nd day of October, 1900, or said plaintiff's petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered against her divorcing said plaintiff from the defendants and all other proper relief. WALLACE WILLIAMS, By his Atty., A.M. THOMAS. A. M. CALLAHAM, Clerk of Dist. Court. NG HOUSE MARKET, e and Retail. Sugar cured Meats. : 306 E. SECOND ST. books Pens, Inks and all PRIDE OF TOPKEATENT No. 9, meets 1st. and 3rd Saturday afternoon of each month at No. 905 North Kansas Avenue. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, Q. M., Miss Anna Reynold, C. R. MACEDONIA TARKINACAK, No. 5, U. K. T. Hall 905 N. Emusss Avenue. Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, G. P.; Miss Sarah Walker, C. R. MACEDONIAN LODGE No. 9, GOOD SAMAR-TANS and DAUGHTERS of SAMARIA, meets second and fourth Friday evenings of each month at 8 o'clock, at 113 East Seventh street. Visiting Samar-TANS are always welcome. W. E. Jackson, Chief Alain Lawson, Recording Sec. PERSONAL NOTES. WANTED-a good strong boy at Plaindealer office. Our city schools will open Tuesday. Miss Minnie Page is still on the sick list. Miss Maree Chiles left Monday for Chicago. Mrs. B. Manson has returned from Kansas City, Mo. Don't forget the Emancipation celebration at Valley Falls 22nd. Mrs. D. F. Mallory and son Jay are in Kansas City visiting her sister. Rev. Mrs. Lash preached at St. Mark's A. M. E. church Sunday night. The Ivy club will entertain Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wright next Tuesday evening. The next wedding in Topeka will be that of A. P. Roundtree and Miss Georgia Hamilton. Mrs. Bell Thompson and sister, Pearl Monroe of Kas. City, Mo., are visiting their mother. Fred Johnson and Gage Stahl of Lawrence, have been visiting Dean Buckner for the past week. St. Marks. A. M. E. church will have a Rally and Basket meeting on the 3rd Sunday in this month. Miss Myrtle Pennell of Atchison spent a few days in the city last week the guest of Mrs. Robt. Buckner. Kaw Valley lodge No 18 A. F. of A. M. has appointed Dr. Taylor the examining physician of their lodge. David De Frantz has returned to the city, ready to resume his school work next week. He is looking well. Miss Lucy Bledsoe left Monday for Boston, where she will attend the New England conservatory of music. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Smith and daughter Celia have gone on an extended visit to relatives in Carthage, Mo. Mrs. Susan Tellis left last Saturday for Nashville Tenn., where she will spend a month visiting relatives and friends. George Lewis will leave Wednesday morning with his uncle Ed, for Kans' City, Mo., where he will visit relatives for a week. Mrs. W. W. Wilson entertained Mrs. Lewis of Vicksburg. Miss., last Sunday afternoon from 5 to 8, and it was highly appreciated. Monroe Ingram was in the city a few days. He was enroute to Fulton Mo., where he has charge of the Deaf and Dumb asylum. George Anderson, formerly a private in 23d Kansas, has re-enlisted in the 10th calvary and has gone to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Don't miss Valley Falls Sept. 22. Hon. Chas. Curtis and the Hon. Paul Jones will be present to tell the people something of interest. Mrs. D. Thomas has returned from Oklahoma and vicinity and reports a prosperous condition among the colored people of that locality. The G. U. O. I. will have an excursion to Valley Falls Sept. 22. Round trip 75c. This train leaves at 8:30 a. m., at Santa Fe depot, rain or shine one or two the train goes. Quarterly meeting at Mt. Olive M. E. church next Sunday. Rev. Lucas would like to have a crowded church to hear Presiding Elder South. The Union Pacific is putting colored men on the section gangs. It is hoped that more colored men will make application for work on all roads. Mrs. Sarah Thomas of the north side, died at her home on B st. last Wednesday morning. The services were held at the B st. church Fridry morning. Excelsior lodge No. 3 and the courts of Calanthe No 85, will entertain J. M. Wright and wife at their hall 111 - 113 east 7th street, Thursday evening Sep. 20th. All colored organizations are invited to take part in the parade at Valley Falls Sept. 22. We hope every colored person who can will attend this celebration. Mrs. Ellen Darrett died Friday evening at her home on Jefferson St. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Baptist church Rev. G. D. Olden officiating Thos. McAdo is out of the city. It is reported that W. D. Donnell and his wife were among those who lo t their lives in the storm at Galveston. Prof. Donnell was formerly a teacher in the public schools of this city. Rev. Lucas was elected president of the first ward republican club of North Topeka. The club was organized 12 years ago by W. E. Steward and has been quite a factor in politics every since. Miss Ida Wright, sister of Jno. M. Wright and well known in Topeka social circles, will be married on the 15th Inst., to a successful business man of South Bend, Inda. Miss Wright is at present living at Niles Michigan. The Boy Orator, L. M. Head spoke at the old court house last Monday evening. He convinced the people in short order that patriotism can be supplanted by Bryanism. Notwithstanding the rain a large crowd was present. The Oak Leaf club meet with Mrs. Ware 1196 Lane St. The club will now commence its weekly meetings as the warm weather is about over. After a very pleasant session they adjourned to meet with Mrs. Lizzie Washington 1047 Spruce St. Mrs. McGuffin gave a moonlight picnic Friday eve, from 8 to 11 o'clock, in honor of Mrs. Lewis of Vicksburg, Miss., a sister of Mrs. Matleys. Her home was prettily decorated for the occasion, and all present reported a delightful time. Dr. O. A. Taylor returned from a visit to Atchison, Leavenworth and Kansas City, Kans. He says the members of the A. M. E. church refused to give dollar money to support Turner and others who have gone over to the democratic party. If the general conference refuse to pass resolutions condeming their actions the money will be returned to the donors. W. F. Bufkin, traveling agent of THE PLAINDEALER, is in the city this week. He will take up school work again next week in Argentine. Mr. Bufkin made a great hit for the paper. He was in Missouri and Oklahoma and all over Kansas in the interest of THE PLAINDEALER, and did so well that he will continue to put in spare time for it until next summer, when he will bloom as the roses again for the greatest Negro paper on earth. Richard Hodgins and wife left last Saturday for an extended tour in Europe. He will visit the Paris exposition, London, England, Scotland and his old home in Ireland. He will take a ride in his old famous jaunting car when he reaches Killarney. At Cork he will be the guest of the O'Flanigans and the O'Learys. Mr. Hodgins is one of the best politicians in Kansas, and has lots of backbone. He is steward of the Topeka club and is quite wealthy. We hope him a nice trip, and a safe return to Topeka. $20 IN PRIZES GIVEN AWAY. Don't fail to attend the grand prize entertainment to be given at Odd Fellows' hall Monday and Tuesday nights, Sept 17 and 18. Remember the $15 gold watch to be given the most popular lady in the city. Excellent music will be furnished for the occasion. Refreshments will be served. BUFFALO BILL'S Rough Riders From All Parts of the World Coming Here. Octoober 1, will mark the return to Topeka for two performances of Buffalo Bill's wild west and congress of rough riders which has this season attained a degree of success never before vouched to any outdoor enterprise in the history of amusements, Their recent season of 24 performances in New York was marked by a series of audiences that for size broke all records at the immense Madison Square Garden, every performance seeing thousands turned away unable to gain admission. The inherent merit and the genuine character of the entertainment which is never allowed to fall below the highest standard, is in a great measure responsible for this continued popularity of Cody & Salsbury's unique and original entertainment. But a feature that has increased public interest in the exhibition is the addition to their program of the most realistic battle scene ever offered to a peaceful public. Cody and Salesbury have selected as the most timely subject, patriotism instilling and enthusiasm producing page of recent history, the charge up San Juan Hill, as the subject of the most popular spectacular item of their interesting program. to detail, the hill itself, the block house, trenches, trees and barbed-wire fences being built in the arena in exact replica of the one in surburbs of Santiago. To give a reality to the fight these enterprising managers have engaged not theatrical "supers" but nearly three hundred actual participants in the fight round Santigo These are made up of a number of Roosevelt's rough riders cuban insurgents and white and Negro ex-regulars and volunteers of the United States army, and besides presenting a moving tableau of the most thrilling page of recent history, gives to American people an opportunity to pay due homage to the man who fought and suffered in the tenches of southern Cuba and who by their valor sustained the honor of the American soldier and added new luster to American arms. The size of the wild west arena and the number of actual soldiers employed in giving this presentation, place it on a plane far beyond that possible to be given by other amusement managers and imitations must sink into insignificance when compared with this one. All the old-time features of the wild west have been retained and improved upon, and the ethnological department of the exhibition gains an added interest by the addition of contingents representing the newest colonial additions to Uncle Sam's empire, for in the arena are seen for the first time in in the United States representatives of the Filipino, Hawai and PortoRicans, giving illustrations of some of the interesting features of their daily life in their island home. The season in our city being so limited, it behooves intending visitors to secure their seats early and be on hand in time for the grand entry which opens the entertainment in the afternoon at two o'dlock and in the evening at eight o'clock- The location of the grounds is easily accessable from all parts of the city. KANSAS CITY, KANS. Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Grant were the recipients of the most brilliant reception ever tendered a prominent colored couple, by the members of the First Baptist church and the leading citizens of Wyandotte county. The elite vied with each other in the happy role in which he played his part. The lawyer, physician, newspaper man, clergyman, merchant, aritsan and tradesman laid aside all business and mingled together as upon no other similar occasion. It was a unique affair. Much credit is due Mesdames A. Cox, K. Miner, J. Cornell; Lena Brown, the caterer; Dovie Brown, M. Moberly, et al for the beauty of arrangements, the precision which marked the unusual harmony and dispatch of the minutest detail of the whole affair The following program was rendered: Instrumental—Mrs. I. F. Bradley. Invocation—Ex. Pastor D. Jones. Welcome address—Prof. J. J. Lewis Vocal solo—Mrs. Julia Smith. Paper: Duty of members to pastor —Mrs. Wadkins. Instrumental—Miss Richardson. Instrumental—Mrs. J. Fitzhugh of Lawrence. Closing remarks—Pastor Grant. Oratory, music and literary enter- tainment were but a part of the whole. The following menu was served: Bullyon, crackers and olives, orange fillet and cheese sticks, veal copnets and biscuits, lemon ice and salted almonds, brick ice cream, cake and coffee. Covers were laid for 300 persons. The church changed its appearance. The auditorium was made a huge parlor. Lilac, ferns, chrysanthemum forming the basis of nature's granduer left the blending of the seasons as an incomparable event. Rev. and Mrs. Grant most assuredly come to us at a most favorable time and enjoy the distinction of having the confidence of all the people. The following guests were present: Reva Grant and wife, A. E. Wilson and wife; Greens wife, W. Allord and wife K. C. Mo.; Fairak, Parsons, K. a; D. Jones; B. Itchardson, F. W. Ewing, K. C., Mo.; Alpha, F. Hammonds, Griffin, O. Davis J. F. Bradley and wife, County Attorney B. S. Smith and wife, Prota A. J. Needley and J. Lewis and wives, Dr. S. H. Thompson and wife, John Wilson and wife, Dr. B. Johnson and wife, S. B. Chase, Wm. Scales and wife; Medames K. Muner, A. Cox A. V. Watkins; Cornell, L. Dyson, N. J. Nishbough of Lawrence, E. A. Mobery of Chicago; Messr. Wurden, Bachea Frye, L. Wackey, C. P. K, Brown, S. L. Jenkins; Lena Brown, M. Boats, L. Seall, B. Jones, J. H. Walker, F. Garnar, A. M. Miller, C. Edwards, of Topea, J. E. Smith, Todd, J. Willson, R. and E. Bowman, J. Downs, G. Barnett, F. Mobery, J. W. Haywood, H. Wadkins, L. Taylor, F. Fleming, S. Brown, E. North, Maud and M. William, I. and E. Banks, H. Gaira, M. F. Lewis, S. Alrich, M. Andersen, L. Gerren, M. E. Jenkin, F. Palmer, J. Fleming, N. Jones, L. E. Mclee, A. D. Cornell, A. Jordan, L. and G. Pulken, G. and L. Miner, E. Cox, N. and E. Mcfee, M. Mobery, J. Wilkins, A. and Edna Smith, E. Blackburn, N. and M. Richardson, D. M. and F. Rollins, G. and M. Barnes, E. Dillard, J. Red, M. and D. Burdette, A. P., T. and M. Jenning, M. Brown, O. Jenking, M. Alpin, C. and M. Gerren, Geo. Davis, P. Dunn, L. Walker, A. Stevenson, Sam Whining, N. Williams, M. Hughes, A. Taylor. With these and others I failed to get their name, the evening wore away. We have been selected as selling agents for several of the largest and most famous factories in assisting to dispose their remnant output. Read the following and see what we can save you: THESE PRIZES WILL BE MAINTAINED UNTIL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. The Fashion, Black True Two Shirting, sold in the piece (9) 12½c, during this sale you can buy it (9). 9½c Hickory Shirting, nothing more durable, worth 12½c, priced for this sale. 9½c Another lot of Black Satines, worth all of 18 and 25c, at 12½ and 17c Our lines of Dress Goods, Outings and Carpetings for this fall and winter comprise all the leading and choicest novelties. Our buyers were particularly successful in finding the right things at the right prices. BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST ROOSEVELT'S ROUGH RIDERS Will Participate In Each Performance thus Making the Picture One True to Nature. BATTLE OF BENNINGTON The Queen's Favorite Warriors, Germany's Cavalry, Cauchos from 8. America 100 India Braves, Athletes from Arabia, Wild Bucking Bronchos, U. 8. Artillery, Semi-Savage Cossacks, Mexican Aquarines, U. 8. Cavalry, Fifty American Downers, Black Jackets, Annie Johnson, Johnnie Baker, AND A CONTINGENT FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND HAWAII. GRAND STREET CAVALCADE ON THE MORNING OF THE EXHIBITION, PASSING THROUGH THE PRINCIPAL STREETS, LEAVING THE GROUNDS AT NINE O'CLOCK. TWO PERFORMANCES DAILY RAIN OR SHINE Afternoon at 2 o'clock. Night at 8 o'clock. Doors Open One Hour Earlier. ADMISSION, 50c. Children Under 9 Years, Half-Price. RESERVED SEATS, $1.00 Reserved Numbered Seats may be Secured day of Exhibition at ROWLEY SNOW'S DRUG STORE. 6th and Kansas Ave. 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 preparation prepared solely and distinctly to improve the condition of the hair of the negro race. Not a worthless, offensive, obnoxious, greasy mass of injurious nostrums, but a delicately perfumed ungent, beautiful to look upon; made to adorn the lady, polish the gentleman, benefit youth, and gladden old age. OZONO straightens knotty, nappy, kinky, refractory hair. OZONO does this alone. No hot irons are necessary; no plastering down with grease. OZONO individually straightens, without any outside assistance. It will cause the hair to come back on bald spots. It will restore gray hair to its natural color. It will cause the hair to grow long and straight, soft and fine, and beautiful as an April morn. It will cure all itching, burning, running, humilking Scalp Diseases, Dandruff, Tetter, Scurf, and Eczema. It cannot live after OZONO has been applied. It is as pure as the dew-drop, beautiful as the morn, and harmless as the rippling water in the babbling brook. Cleanliness is next to Godliness; filth is a crime. If your hair is short and harsh and kiny; if your scalp is covered with scurf and dandruff, or itch, or eczema, it is doubtless your fault alone. If your little ones' heads are a mass of crusty, scaly, flaky scurf, teeming with germs and microbes, that are invisible to the naked eye, but which are sappling the life from the hair and destroying it forever, and you allow this state to go on, it is a crime. It is your place to stop this—a duty you owe to yourself, to your child, to the Maker. OZONO is your remedy. OZONO will positively and permanently remove all the diseases, and straighten and beautify the hair, making it silky and glossy and black as the raven's wing. OZONO, as compared with other hair remedies, stands as high as the mountain peak, fair as the lily, and glorious as the sun. OZONO is King. "The price is 50c a box. It requires about four boxes to complete the treatment. Write to us at once, enclosing the small sum of ONE DOLLAR, and we will immediately forward to you four large boxes of OZONO. We will also send you one large bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, which makes rough skin soft and brightens the blackest skin, making it several shades lighter. Now, there is much fraud practiced with face bleaches. Understand, we do not advertise this bleach to make one white. God alone can accomplish this, and it would be miraculous. Upin your faith from frauds. We assert that our Refiner will soften rough skin and brighten black skin, but it can do no more. Take our advice; don't fool with any bleach that is advertised to make you white; it is more apt to poison you. We will also include one fancy jar of ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, which is a sure remedy for all Skin Eruptions, Pimples, Black Heads, Liver Spots, and all Skin Diseases. It will remove Wrinkles, Scars, Facial Blemishes, and will positively take out Small-Pox Pits. This is saying a great deal, but it is true. It makes the old look young and the young look younger. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will add a one-pint package of ANTI-ODOR. This remedy removes all smells and odors arising from the human body. Its uses are too numerous to mention. Full directions go with all goods. This grand aggregation is worth $350. Send $1.00, mention the name of this paper, and you will get the goods at once. We skim all orders same day goods are received. We wish to state that we are a thoroughly reliable firm, having many thousand dollars in our business. We refer to the editor of this paper, or to any business house in Richmond. Our remedies and our business is founded on the altar of truth. Write your name and address plainly. BEFORE OZONO! King of Hair Dressings. WHAT IS OZONO? OUR GRAND OFFER AFTER MOORE'S BOOK STORE School Books and Supplies For City and Country— Best Assortment in Topeka of Tablets, Slates, Pencils, Note Books, Etc... Moore's Book Stationery Co, 613 KANSAS AVE. The Kansas Saving Investment Company, Colored. Stock solicited by correspondence. General solicitor and and financial agent. J. S. HALE. ..Trimmed Hats At Cost. . ALSO A LINE OF . Imported German Linens At MRS. ETTALACEY'S, 106 E. Sixth St. A. C. L. COAL COMPANY Is Headquarters for the Cheapest Prices, the Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the Promptest Deliveries. Get their Prices on 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, Mana er, Kansas Ciy, Kansas. 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. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 619 KANSAS AVE. MISSOUR PACIFIC RAILWAY BEFORE. AFTER. CORRESPONDENTS to this paper must use due care in the preparation of their manuscript. 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. Fort Scott. Dr. and Mrs. Alston visited in the capital city Monday. Bertha Harding who was for two weeks a victim of the malaria fever, has recovered. Mr. Johnson is up again and made a flying trip to Guthrie Tuesday. Mrs. Buford, under the watchful careful care of Alston, is improving. A. A. Williams is building a neat dwelling on College Height. The university doors are again open for the reception of students. Rev. Lewis has returned from Dover, where he assisted Rev. Hayes in his revival. He reports having had a successful meeting. W. T. McCall who has been visiting his cousin Mrs. Brookens, left for Guthrie morning enroute to Chicago. We have a wideawake Ladies club in Langston, known as the L. G. C., whose aims and objects are to build up and beautify the city. Streets have been surveyed and street lamps erected and walks will be laid on several streets, all by their struggling efforts. The ladies made no mistake in the beginning by electing Mrs. Z. R. Page as their president, for she is an enthusiastic worker and adviser in the interest of this place. The fine animal known as "Ana May," and owned by Miss Zelia Page, was brought from the race track to her last Tuesday evening. No better riding can be seen in Logan county by a lady than was done by Zelia. She possesses all the grace and beauty that belongs to a lady in horseback riding. Haiwatha. There were no services at the Second Baptist church Sunday, as the pastor Rev. Rhodes was attending the association at Kansas City, Ks. Mrs. Hayes and children of Omaha, Neb., are visiting her sister Mrs. A. Banks. Mrs. Maggie Nelson of Lincoln is the guest of Mrs. A. L. Corneal. Timp Murray leaves Monday for Topeka, Ks. Libby Corneal and Corena Walthall returned home from the association at Kansas City, Ks., Thursday evening. Ray Colvin will attend the academy again this year. Some improvements are being made on the Baptist church. Mrs. Louisa Tobin is suffering from a felon on her finger. A very pleasant party was given in honor of little Helen Brown last Tuesday. All report a pleasant time. Anna Cobbs is still visiting in Topeka. The two young ladies who attended the association say they will not attend another year, as they did not make a single impression this time. There is some talk of organizing a McKinley club here among the colored citizens. Mrs. Porter Barnett of Waldron, Mo., is here visiting relatives and friends. Eva Burley who has spent the summer with Mrs. Fred Burley, will return soon to her home in Platte City, Mo. Sarah Miller will accompany her. Mrs. Anna Johnson and Mattie Barton of this city left Monday afternoon for California. Their many friends wish them a pleasant trip. Wair City. H. G. Smith was badly hurt last Wednesday, while in the act of mailing a letter. He is much better at this writing. Florence and Nellie Wheaton, of Baxter Springs, were in the city a few days attending the bedside of H. G. Smith. Quite a delegation of Weirites attended the reunion at Baxter Springs last week. Mr. Lane and his sister, of Baxter Springs, were in the city Saturday, looking after school matters. Rev. F. Durden, of Parsons, passed through the city Sunday, en route for Mineral. Do not forget Weir 22nd inst. Wichita. Thomas Glover and wife gave a porch party Wednesday, August 29 in honor of their son's, Charles A. Glover's twentieth anniversary. The porch was beautifully decorated and the yard was well illuminated with Chinese lanterns. On a little platform at the left hand side of the porch sat Chinneth's orchestra, which furnished the music during the evening. At about 10:30 quite an elaborate lunch was served. Eula James presided at the punch bowl. Many beautiful presents were received; among them were the deeds to two residence lots in the city of Wichita. At a late hour all departed for their different homes, after spending an enjoyable evening. Arkansas City. W. F. Bufkin of THE PLAIN- DEALER was in the city last week and left for the South Sunday. We think Mr. Bufkin is the right man in the right place. Rev. A. E. Clark had a church rally Sunday which was a success. Rev. Bandy and congregation joined in the rally. Jennie Hooker, about fourteen years old, was shot yesterday morning about 4 oc'lock by a robber, who escaped without being identified by any one of the family. The brute entered the house by way of the door, and Miss Jennie was asleep in that room. The noise made by him awoke her, at that moment the shot was fired from a revolver, and took effect in the under part of the chin about half way from the neck to the end of the chin. It made a very bad wound, but since the ball was taken out by the doctor, we think she will recover soon. Mrs. John Scott is visiting in Indiana. Tohn Wilson has gone to Michigan to visit his relatives. THE PLAINDEALER is read in this place with great interest by our thinking people. Long may THE PLAINDEALER live to give any one or any parties their meat in due season. Carrie Douglass, of Winfield, was in the city Sunday on a visit. Hon. Chas. Curtis and Hon. Paul Jones will be the orators of the day at Valley Falls Sept. 22. D. F. Banks was defeated in the nomination for county attorney. The A. M. E. Sunday school convention of Oklahoma territory which was held at this place last week was a grand success. Joe Sharp sold his boarding house this week. He has a very fine position in a wholesale house. Mrs. Jack Harris returned Monday evening from a month's visit with her mother in Indian Territory. Will Harris returned from El Reno, O. T. last week with a handsome bride. Will said "Come on, boys," and they did. Old Mrs. Gracen is enjoying a visit from two daughters from Kansas. Mrs. Will Logan is expected home next month from a visit to her mother in Kingfisher, O. T. Winfield. Winfield. Johnie Wilson passed through the city enroute to Michigan on real estate business. Mrs. Tom Campbell, son and daughter are visiting in Arkansas City. Carrie Douglas returned home Wednesday. Misses Mattie Rickets and Edna Letcher went to their home at Wellington Saturday. Bertha Warrener visited friends at Augusta last week. Mesdames Wright of Hutchison and Fowler and Miss Douglas were the guests of Mrs. Johnson Saturday evening. They were highly entertained by Mr. Irvin and his graphone. Henry Franklin of Newkirk, O. T. is visiting friends and relatives. Joplin, MO Mrs. Joe Wilson has bəen quite ill at her home on East Broadway, but we are glad to note at this writing she is improving. Mrs. Murray and niece Ethel "took in" the reunion at Baxter Springs. The 7th street Baptist church was moved this week out on Indiana St, to the lot owned by the church. Mrs. Wilson and daughter, Ogeal are in the city for a few days. Mrs. Pierce has returned from a month's visit throughout the state. Lillie Jefferson, who left for Colorado Springs, Tuesday, was given a reception at Century Cafe, Sunday afternoon. The whole affair was nicely carried out and a spendid lunch was served the guests by the Wilson Bros. Mesrs. Heziah Brown and Tom Lewis, old Topeka boys, were in the city with the great Sells Bros. Show. Prof. Vernon of Quindaro College will speak in Joplin Sept. 11, at the Grand church Barbacue given by the A. M. E. church. John Penman is spending a vacation at Noel. Mr. Martin of Neosho was in the city. The death of Wm. Ayers was quite a shock to the community being as it was so sudden; he leaves a wife and three children to mourn his sudden demise. Garnett, Ks. Mr. Price and wife and daughter, Pearl, of Lawrence, visited friends a few days, returning home Monday. Victoria Wallace, who has been spending the summer in Aspen, Colo., visited relatives last week. Johnnie Phillips, of Kansas City, Mo., is here visiting friends this week. Robert Morton, of Parsons, Kas., arrived Saturday to attend school. Le Roy Crouch went to Butler Saturday. Idelia McCormick and Myrtle Howard came down from Girard Saturday and returned Sunday. TUSKEGEE NOTES. In the death of C. P. Huntington, Tuskegee loses a most valuable friend. During all of the school's years, he has been interested in it. Only recently, he gave $50,000 to the Endowment fund of the school, besides valuable machinery for the Industrial plant. Huntington hall, the new girls' dormitory, is given by Mrs. Huntington. A number of Tuskegee students will return at the opening of the next school session for the purpose of taking post graduate trade work. These graduate received certificates last year from industrial divisions for advanced work. The equipment of the industrial plant is now such as to afford the opportunities for those seeking the best training. Efforts are now being made by one of our teachers to secure the necessary funds for the erection of a new Model Training school. The money is to be collected wholly from the male graduates of the institution. Atchison. Myrtle Pennel spent several days visiting friends in Lawrence and Topeka. Rachel Holmes is visiting her son, Nicholas, in Omaha. W. A. Covington's mother, at Omaha, is recovering from a severe spell of sickness. J. W. Wilson was out of the city Saturday and Sunday at Westport, Mo. Atchison. Two picnics in Atchison in September. One led by the True Eleven Thursday the 13th, the other by the Ebenezer Bnptist church Saturday the 22nd. Both elements are making efforts to give the people a big entertainment. Atchison colored people lead the state in lawn tennis. Noll's drugstore is getting quite Moyerish, and the colored people will resent it. We don't thank you for a special front place no a special back place. Dan Young had a severe sinking spell from over-exertion. We caution him to be careful in his old days. Lulu Carter-Duncan, of St. Louis, is visiting her parents and friends, Richard Carter and wife. Polly McClarthy and Bertha Johnson are in Kentucky for a five weeks visit. Sadie Noland has just returned from a two weeks visit at Lincoln, Nebr. Amanda Brown-Gray, after several weeks of good time here among her relatives and friends, has returned to Washington, D. C. Cora Ingram left for Cheyenne, Mo., last week, to visit with her aunt, Belle Cooper. Birdie Lewis and M. Ingram were quietly married last week. Several friends afterwards presented them presents because they had no invitations out. Helen Taylor had a birthday party Tuesday. She was eight years old. Helen Fleetwood parted company with her sister, A. V. Gray, laet week, after spending a pleasant summer here together, and is now at home in Little Rock, Ark. Lulu Nance, of Chillicothe, Mo., is enjoying her summer stay with her aunt, Inez Wilson. Sarah Green returned home from Kansas City, where she has been visiting her siester, Mrs. Ready. L. Taylor and wife, of Fulton, Kas., visited this city last Sunday. W. Hickey is visiting his son in Kansas City this week. Robert McFadden and Etta Salisbury were married at the bride's home Sunday night at 8 o'clock a large number of friends witnessed the ceremony and a large number of excellent presents were given to the bride. They left on the early train Monday morging for Joplin, Mo. Emporia. Addie Tyles is again able to be up and around. Mrs. A. McClain, of Strong City, is the guest of Mrs. J. B. Odair. Miss Williams, of Oklahoma, is attending the Normal. — Clay, of Americus, was in town on business this week. Look out, students! School opens Monday, September 10. Mrs. Anderson's little girl is much better. Z. W. Crane, of Parsons, was in towd on business last week. The Misses Morris, of Dunlap, are visiting in the city. William Turner, of Newton, and Henry Bryant of Perry, are attending the Normal. Elder Elijah Hunter is in the city this week. Mrs. D. Young is on the sick list. John Frame, of Newton, spent Snnday with us. Mrs. Buckner, Bessie, George and Arthur are with us again. The colored people of Lyon county anticipate a grand time on the 22nd during the emancipation celebration. Robert Harrison and Mrs. Crawley are reported on the sick list. Annt Mary Wilcox has seturned from Kausas City, where she has been visiting her dacghter. Mayme Johnson, of Topeka, is attending the Normal. Mrs. George Douglass Is visiting in Kansas City. Manhattan. Ella Williams left Saturday for Chicago, Ill., where she will visit her brother, whom she has not seen for several years. Miss Williams will be greatly missed, as she was one of our brightest stars. F. Pitts left Saturday for Topeka on business. Little Henry Brown returned Sunday from Topeka, where he has been visiting his uncle. Mrs. Holbert and children returned to their home in Wichita Sunday. She spent the summer here visiting friends and relatives. Will Lane, who has been employed in Gilbert Brothers' barbershop, left Sunlay for Ft. Scott. Clav Center. At a council, called by the Second Baptist church (colored) of Clay Center, Kas., composed of the following brethren, Rev. W. W Stewart of Abilene, Rev. R. P. Baugh of Junction City, Deacons Peter Finch and George Johnson of said church and Deacon J. E. Jones of the First Baptist church of Clay Center, William Hampton was ordained to gospel ministry according to Baptist usage, July 29, 1900. North Topeka Callie Birdwhistle was given a surprise party Friday evening in honor of her sixteenth anniversary. Quite a number of her friends were present and several useful presents were received. JURISCIES OF THE SUPREME COURT. It be resolved by the Legislature of the State of Kansas, two-thirds of the members elected to each house thereof concerning thees: Sacrion 1. The following proposition to amend the constitution of the state is hereby submitted to the qualified electors of the state for their approval or rejection, viz. Section 3 of article 3 of the constitution of this state is hereby amended so as to read: Section 4. The supreme court shall elect seven juries, who shall be chosen by the electors of the state. They may sit separately. In two divisions, with full power in each division to determine the cases assigned to be heard by such division. Three juries shall constitute a quorum in each division and the concurrence of three shall be necessary to a decision. Such cases may as may be ordered to be heard by the whole court shall be considered by all of the juries, and the concurrence of four juries, shall be necessary to a decision in cases to hear. The justice who is senior in continuous term of service shall be chief justice, and in case two or more have commonly served during the same period the senior in years of these shall be chief justice, and the presiding justice of each division shall be selected from the judges assigned to that division in like manner. The term of office of the juries shall be six years, except as hereafter provided. The juries is office at the time this amendment takes effect shall hold their offices for the terms for which they were severally elected and until their successors are elected and qualified. As soon as practicable after the second Monday in January, 1901, the governor shall appoint four juries, to hold their offices until the second Monday in January, 1903. At the general election in 1903 there shall be elected five juries, one of whom shall hold his office for two years one for four years, and three for six years. At the general election in 1904 and every six years thereafter two juries shall be elected. At the general election in 1905 and every six years thereafter three juries shall be elected. Sacrion 2. This proposition shall be submitted to the electors of this state at the general election of representatives in the year 1900 for their approval or rejection. The amendment hereby proposed shall be designated on the official ballot by the following title: "The Judicial amendment to the constitution," and shall be voted for or against as now provided by law under such title. Sacrion 3. This resolution shall take effect and be in Sec. 3. This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute-book. Approved March 4, 1899. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled resolution on file in my office, and that the same took effect by publication in the statute-book May 15, 1899. ©E.D. A. CLARK. [SEAL] Secretary of State. CLAIRVOYANT. MADAM RUSSELL, the world's renewed clairvoyant trance medium and palmist, reads your entire life past, present and future, she gives advice on business, love, marriage, divorce, absent friends, social or domestic affairs. Hours. 9 a.m., to 9 p.m., daily; Sunday, 9 a.m., to 6 p. Parlor, 215 East Seventh street. 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. CAPTUREDRED-HANDED. He could not deny it; he had stolen a Plaindealer to get posted. THE PLAINDEALER is the great race paper of Kansas. Only $1 per year. Are you a subscriber? A Profitable Way to See The West Is 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. Topeka Agent, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 10 A.M. 5 to 5 P.M. C. SUMNER SUNDAY. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Calls Promptly Answered. Telephone 558. 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The petty cares and annoyances of long-distance travel are taken off their mids by spec excursion conductor No extra charge. Full information cheerfully furnished. T. L. KING, Ticket Agent, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. TOPRA. M. M. S. POULTRY FENCING. M. M. S. Mid. July 24, 1876. [Trade Mark.] P.O. July 6, 1876. Saves 50 per cent. of the cost of the completed fence. Write for cat- alogue of our Poultry, Garden, Lawn, Farm and Hog Fences, Gates, etc. Union Fence Co., De Kalb, Ills. HOWARD UNIVERSITY. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. INCLUDING Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges Thirty-second Session (100-1001) will begin October 1, 1900, and continue seven (7) months. Tutition fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each $90. Pharmaceutical College, $79. All students must register before Oct. 12, 1900. For catalogue or further information, address F. J. SHADD, M. D. Secretary. 901 K. Streets, N. W. City of Washington. OFFICE OF ASST. GEN.'L PASS. AND TKT. AGT. C. R. I. & P. R.'V. 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