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. St ‘ “Ek ee A N » Se = =q ‘ e ———— ee eee VOLUME IIL. TOPEXA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1401. NGMBER 4. eeu SS —<§$—————————————————————— What's the Matter with the Four Thousand Negroes of Leavenworth, Are They All Cowards? Not One Word of Protest has Been Heard. eae . s dastardly assaults. Signed, citizens demanding the sacrifice, X¥-2. land scrambling and. Sehig tor DEPAAVINy GRULLTY. We infer from this card that|the charred and blackened bones s the writer is a white man and|and flesh of their victim as relics. THE GLEVELAND GAZETTE TELLS an - ——-—__________- — Consequently ignorant of the/and souvenirs of a degenerate ABOUT WHITE MAN'S CRUELTY. j . . Copies of the resolutions pass-'Work of Negroes. We are fur-|civilization, presents the tragic —— Leavenworth Ss H orri b | e Disgrace M ust Be at the meeting will be forwarded |ther satisfied that the writer is a]picture of “Truth on the scaf-lMQB LAW WILL HAVE 10 60. to the governor of Kansas, the| White man because of his singling |fold—wrong on :he throne.’” seers 7 Wi ed Out. sherlff of Leavenworth county|0Ut the “‘dastardly assails.'” Tes Lynching has become a disease| EVERY MEMBER OF A MOB GUILTY— p 7 and the chief of police of Leaven-| Plaindealer has no desire to apol-!and a foul blot upon our body| INNOCENT PEOPLE SUFFER worth, ogize for, or excuse the crimes of politic.—-Detroit Informer. THROUGH THESE DIS- 7 : fe sherift| The other councils throughout] the race's criminal element. = a marks were made but the sheriff . : — a 3 es 5 7 the country are asked to cooper-|But there are many dastardly|A KANSAS SUGGESTION is adi Kansas Paper Pi otest = no attention to them." [tHE Sous) ave sued {0 cooper a sited oa chore) $ SUG It isa dificult matter to fath- KANSA ONT. mY re te ‘= — a. a ie IN i I a a OO nn Oe Twentieth Century Christians Should Send No More Nf EDITOR HOWE’S CRITICISM. What are the Negroes Doing to Suppress Crime—Steps Should be Taken to Impeach Everhardy and Neeley. It was confidently expected that the opening of the new cen- tury would bring to all the world more of “The peace on earth and good will towards men" that has been preached for the past nine- teen hundred years. Events doc- curing during the past few months serve to convince us, that the dream of Calvary, lacks much oj realization. Kansas, so long regarded as the state where law and order pervails over pas- sion and prejudice, has at last yielded to the example of Georg- ia, Texas and Mississippi. It would not Le justice to a large class of our citizens, if it should be allewed to go out that there was no protest—no keen feeling of shame over this damdable dis- grace. The journals of Kansas have been free and unsparing in their criticism. They realize that the brutal murder and tor- turing of Fred Alexander, is a hideous blot upon the fair name of Kansas; that this manifesta- tion of fiendish brutality is more of a disgrace to the white people of Leavenworth, who boasts of their generations of intelligent and educational parents, than the crime charged to Fred Alex- ander reflects upon the Negroes, who have been debared by the cruelty of the same people. Thereisneither an excuse nor an extennating circumstance in favor of the mob for the buraing of Alexander. The entire machin- ery of justice, not only in Leaven- wort, but throughout the nation is in the hands of white officials. If Fred Alexander could have been proven guilty of the mur- der and rape of Pearl Forbes, there was no escape from the vengence of the white man as prescribed by his lan. There is no excuse so far as the Sheriff's powers are concerned. THE SHERIFF'S POWER. Sheriff Everhardy of Leaven- worth says he did all it was pos- sible for him to do te protect his prisoner. Nonsense! Suppose the mob had been after the sheriff or one of his family, would resistance have ended with a formal protest and a refusal to give up the keys? Suppose the mob had been intent on burning at the stake a wealthy citizen of Leavenworth; would the chief of police have allowed it without a fight, and would the sheriff, with fifty deputies, have stood by without firing a shot while the outrage was being committed? The chief boast of America is that this is a land in which all men are equal before the law. Alexander, had as mu ch right to be protected as the bes' citizen of Kansas. He had beer convicted of no crime, and wa: entitled to a fair trial on the charges preferred against him. It was the Sheriff's sworn duty to protect him in his rights anc rr Ritts 68 Ghes Mates watettite WN iia, wale thine weet SIC hs. vsiad cosh Os cau mton Pw se ee Alexander as he would have pro- tected himself. The sheriff also says he is glac the militia was not called out, because innocent people might have been killed, That is not probable. There are no inno- cent people in mobs. Every man who entersa mob intent on barbaric practices, by that act becomes guilty of the most hein- ous crime possible. He is an enemy not only to justice, but to the state. Of course some of the soldiers might have been killed, especially if they had been led by a white-livered commander. But one hundred well armed men led by a man are in no danger from any mob in the world. The sheriff could have had the men, but he did not want them, because he was and is a particeps criminis with the leaders of the mob in the most dastardly crime ever committed in the state of Kansas. GUARD TIPTON’S STATEMENT. Mr. P. E. Tipton, guard at the State Penitentiary at Lansing, was present when sheriff Ever- hardy called upon Warden Tom- linson for young Alexander. To a Plaindealer reporter he gives the following statement of facts: “The sheriff brought young Alexander to the penitentiary on Saturday night about ten o'clock, followed by a howling mob com- posed of all classes of people. the tough element, however largely predominating. The sheriff delivered the prisoner to the warden for safe keeping and he was placed in a cell. The prisoner was absolutely safe so long as he remained in our charge. ‘Varden Tomlinson in reply to the threats of the mob to use dynamite, told them that the prisoner was there and they were welcome to him if they could get him. He further in- structed the guards to fire on the mob in case any effort was made to break into the penitentiary. On Monday the sheriff returned and demanded his prisoner, stat- ing that he had sworn in enough deputies to protect the prisoner from the fury of the mob. Or receipt of a written statement from the sheriff, the prisoner was turned over. There was present at the time the sheriff demandec his prisoner, not less than thre¢ hundred people, in buggies, or horseback and on fvot. There is every reason to believe that the sheriff acted in harmony witk previously arranged plans made with the mob leaders. Because in my presence the sheriff swore in the father of the assaulted gir as one of his deputies and triec to swear in a man name Helmer but he refused. As soon as th parties outside were sure tha the sheriff had Alexander, th buggies and horsemen struck ou at once for town, which goes t confirm my theory that th sheriff was simply acting as agen of the mob. In the presence o the sheriff and his prisoner, th deputy warden remarked tha the prisoner would not live to se the sun set. Several such re marks were made but the sheriff paid no attention to them."* KANSAS COMMENT. KANSAS COMMENT. From the moment, that there was the least indications, that such a henious crime was in pros. pect the newspapers, journalists and leading citizens outside o! Leavenworth, began a most vig- orous protest against such dis- graceful conduct, which would only redund to the great discredit of Kansas, as a christian com- munity. Mr. E. M. Howe, the versatile editor of the Atchison Globe, speaking in his paper in relation to this affair, says: “More terrible things have happened lately than ever before within our recollection. When will the people cease talking of a ‘higher life,’ and seriously con- sider the importance of the lower life?’ When will they accept the fact that the greatest question in the world is the sexual question? How long will we continue to make a great deal of questions that are of no importance and neglect, subjects of the most vital interests to humanity? How long will the people act the hyp- ocrite and receive nothing in re- turn save derisive contempt? “There can be no doubt that the white and black races hate each other. Northern people hate the blacks more bitterly than do the white people of the south, for the reason that in the north more impudent, worthless Ne- groes are found than in the south. In the south, the bad Negroes are forced to behave themselves. These are facts that must be met. “There are many worthy col- ored people in the north; they are largely in the majority, and they can benefit their own race by attacking the impudent, dan- gerous loafers. The better class of Negroes are blamed unjustly every day. One remedy is for the good Negroes to adopt every effective means of improving the condition of their weaker breth- ren. If something is not done, a serious condition will finally con- front the black race. The whites are in the majority; they control everything. “The manner in which the mob acted at Leavenworth last mght shows the hatred the whites entertain towards the blacks. Alexander, the Negrc who was burned at the stake, ha¢ not been proven guilty of the murder of Pearl Forbes; we have not seen any evidence to indicate a probability that he murderec the girl At Wichita last Sun- day a man chased a Negro, and would have lynched him had he not escaped. Here is a problen worth thinking about: The twc races hate each other, and the whites are in control. There should be fewer cake walks anc more serious consideration of < serious fact with which we aré confronted."" OFFER $500 REWARD" Seattle, Wash., Jan. 19.-Thi Seattle branch of the Interna tional Council of the World, a1 organization of colored citizens has desided to offera reward o $500 for the apprehension an conviction of each and every per son implicated in the death b violence of Fred Alexander 2 Leavenworth, Kan., on Tues day night. ee am rr —— PTD y CRSA per a fet eee oe, worth, | The other councils throughou the country are asked to cooper- ate in the work. SHANE FOR KANSAS, The burning of the negro, Alexander, at the stake in Leav- enworth Tuesday night is a hid- cous blot on the fair Kansas. Mob law is despicable in its best light, but the action of this mob strotious without bounds, coward- ly, cold blooded and indefensi- ble. The evidence against the Negro was not at all conclusive, and he was entitle under the !aw to be heard in this defense. The leaders of this mob are all known to the authorities, ahd the sheriff and his deputies who so grossly abused their official duties, should be punished to the law's extent—as are the participants in the recent similar case in Ak- ron, Ohio.—The Olatha Times Herald. Editor Howe is more of a hu- manitarian than an orthodox Christian, and his strictures on the inhumanity of man to man, are worthy of deep and serious consideration. This is undoubt- edly the boldest statement on the race question that we have seen in any paper. And coming from a white man of the standing and ability of Mr. Howe, it merits more than a passing notice. However, Mr. Howe, like all men who seek to lay the blame for some gross misconduct on the shoulder of the other fellow, merely apologizes for his own in- herent cussedness without offer- ing a remedy. The intense hat- red manifested by the whites towards the blacks, is unknown among the blacks. But we are not disposed to accept Mr. Howe's statement without some reservation and modification. The Negroes know that there are many thousand of intelligent and enlighten white people, who con- demn the crime of the Leaven- worth mob, and for that matter, of all mobs. This large and in- fluential element of good white people, must like the large ele- ment of good Negroes, share the odium of its criminal classes. The suppression of crime is not a matter to be undertaken by any one particularracial element. It isa common concern. It is a concern in which the stronger clement must take the lead both in example and precept. One must necessarily infer from the statement of the editor of the Globe that the Negroes were giv- ing no attention to the reclama. tion of its criminal elements. Those acquainted with the work of the race knows this inference to be wrong. We know that a: rapidly as the intelligence of the | masses of our people reaches < |higher degree, larger and tnor effective forces within the race are organized and directed agains! '|the criminal elements developec | through the ignorance and super stitution ingrained in our peopl by slavery and its consequen | race prejudice. | The Plaindealer is in receip | of the following note. ; January 22, 1901, {| Mr. Editor: Why do you no || advocate a public mass meetin -|throughout the columns of you y| paper for the Negroes of the cit t|to organize a ‘ Good Citizen -| Club,’’ for the redemption of thz Ce te Missionaries to Africa, Send them to _ Leavenworth $4. PBR asym cates dolce deciles sat bisa tbitne o aan sandra @hle tea Sonanalte cet tee Rhy: dastardly assaults. Signed, [coneanenty ignorant of the work of Negroes. We are fur- ther satisfied that the writer is 2 white man because of his singling out the ‘dastardly assails.’’ The Plaindealer has no desire to apol- ogize for, or excuse the crimes o! the race's criminal element. But there are many dastardly assaults committed and charged to our people, when no Negro is guilty. An incident occured in Kansas a few years ago. A woman was “dastardly assault- ed,’’ and she knew it was a Ne- gro because the black rubbed off. The white man has practiced de- ception since Jacob worked Isaac for the birthright of Esau. How- ever we do not desire to escape the share of our responsibility in the suppression of crime among our people, that steps should be taken, to reach the young ele- ment of boys and girls who are drifting into crime, we believe, and should be pushed with vigor and energy. This is a work that the churches’and the public can meet on the same ground, Every Negro should labor to de- velop a public sentiment favor- able to the race. But. under no circumstance should the race's weakness be accepted as an apology for the white man’s vio- lence. This is a white man’s country. He makes the laws. He executes the offenders. He should be compelled to aid in the enforcement of his laws and not in their nullfication. Lynch law must go in Kansas. RODE ON WAGON. Mayor Neeley of Leavenworth in his efforts to apologize for the despisable cowardice of his police department seems to have overlooked the fact, that they were others watching the brutal drama. We take the following from the Leavenworth Times: It is reported to the Times by areputable citizen that a city policeman rode on the front seat by the side of the driver in the wagon that conveyed Alexander to the stake where he was burned This policeman had on both the “‘star"’ and his police uni- form. The fact that the burning was planned and executed by the police influence cf this ad- ministration and their associates and followers is well understood. The plea of inability to cen- trol the mob, put out by the Sheriff and Mayor Neeley onl; serves to bring out the facts that the police department and the Sheriff department acted in con- cert with tbe violaters of the law. There was every evidence that all arrangements for the murde1 of Alexander was completed be- fore the Sheriff went to the pen- itentiary for him. No sheriff’: posse was within the jail wher the mob came, but instead crow. ibars, chains, files, sledges, etc.. were found in places most con. venient for the use of the mob, The legislature should not onl; impeach and remove Sherif Everhardy, but should punis! him as an accomplice to the hor ible death of Alexander. Anc Mayor Neeley beleives the sami way. | WRONG ON THE THRONE. Kansas has again dishonore her name by one of the mos | brutal, bloody deeds perpetrate upon a defenseless victim, upo' the flimsiest evidence that eve Fc te phe aa acy acta Bethea seca Sitar ge seth Seas 3 tit tes ettizens demanding the sacrifice, and scrambling and fighting for the charred and blackened bones and flesh of their victim as relics and souvenirs of a degenerate civilization, presents the tragic picture of “Truth on the scaf- fold—wrong on che throne.”* Lynching has become a disease and a foul blot upon our body politic.—-Detroit Informer. A KANSAS SUGGESTION A Method Whereby Mobs Can Be Suppressed. Pieace allow me epace in your pa per to state a few facts concerning the burning of the Negro, Fred Alexan- der, of Leavenworth, Kansas. We, the people of Kansas, have been peti: tioning President McKinley in behal! of our brethren of the south, and now we have had the most brutal, horrible, henious crime ever perpetrated in the history of the state, right here in our very door. What are we going to dc about it? Sit calmly by and see out people tortured to death in this horri- ble manner and say nothing? ‘The man may have been guilty. ‘but 1 don’t believe he was for he talked and acted like an innocent man. If be had been guilty be would have con: fessed when he knew death was inev- itable. But, even if he was guilty should a mob take the law into their hands and put him to death as they did? No. He should bave been given the protection of the law and punished accordingly. Kansas should stop basting of her brave and free ‘sons, and hide her face in shame until she does all she can to wipe out this blot toat has been placed upon her name. There are some truly noble minds in Kansas and if we, who call our- selves the upright and, denounce all mean and lowly acts, let this act pass unpunished, are we not placing our- selves on a level with the element that composed thatimob? 1 do not believe the act of that mob meets the approval of the majority ef our citizens. Then let them affirm their disap- proval by bringing the leaders of that mob to justice. It can be done if the right steps are taken and it should be done. ‘The time to strike is while the iron is hot. ‘The people are aroueed and action should be taken now. Sheriff Everhardy and Warder Tomlinson are both in fault and should be expelled from office fo non-performance of duty and thei bondsmen held responsible. Now, Mr Editor, you 2s an educator, as a lead er, can do much in helping to bring about justice. Appeal to the peopl through the columns of your paper ask them to organize themselves int clubs and leagues and ask their rep reeentatives to bring this aflair to justice. ‘The Governor, our Senator and Representatives will act if we urge them. ‘They must do their duty Lhave written to the Governor, anc to our representative aad senator fron my district, I wish to commen Governor Stanley for bis action it this affair and hope be will do all b cau in the way of justice. ‘The capital punishment bill is al right and should be passed; but think a bill touching on mobing, base: gn taxation, if it could be made: law would do much toward suppre: sivg mob violence. Let the people of a community whether city or country, where th mob oycurs to be taxed from $50,00 to $100,000. Sard taxation to b | paid to the family of the victim. A great many times you can arous |. people to action by adopting finar cial measures, when you cannot a] | peal to their cunscience. | Some white people will act and ac quickly when you touch his pocke book. We must have justice eom way. ; Please do not think I am in sym '} pathy with any rapist because I tal Jas Ido. ‘That is a crime that shoul 1} be punishable by death, but let th ‘|law have its course, and not a mo _| take the law into their own hands. : Jacon Wencner, d Four Bile, Kans. Our correspondents should send in their communications not Tater than Tuesday evening to insure their inser tion the seme week. pstede te Phen tea EN te TAB Se RAE DEPRAVITY, CRULLTY. THE GLEVELAND GAZETTE TELLS ABOUT WHITE MAN'S CRUELTY. MOB LAW WILL HAVE T0 GQ, EVERY MEMBER OF A MOB GUILTY— INNOCENT PEOPLE SUFFER THROUGH THESE DIS- REPUTABLE METHODS. om the depth of human depravity or to evolve its motive power. But depravity is depravity wheth- er shown under a black or white face, and whketherit is found in low or high stations, it deserves only to be exposed and de- nounced. Open meanness and brutality find no apology for its crimes in the fact that it eman- ated from a high social function- ary. The more dangerous is the weapon when used by a corrupt hand having delegated authority. Ordinarily or otherwise, the pub- lic scarcely reads of a crime or anything offensive to the law, but that at once they are charged to the unfortunate Negro, and it is a notorious fact that two-thirds of the crimes perpetrated in the south by the depraved bad white element are accredited to the poor blackman. Even when the Perpetrators are well known to be no less than the very parties who would maliciously persecute the race, yet the offense is laid at the door of the Afro-American. The press of the south exort the people of the north to stand off and hands off, with the avowed assurance that they are the friends of the Negro and know him best. What villamy then that even in his casual passing to daily task he must be assulted and beaten without the slightest provocation, and when the in- vestigation is made it is found that though the Negro was in fact not the aggressor, yet he must carry the badge of shame, must bear the burden of the crime and suffer the penalty. Re- peated instances are at hand cor- roborative of the truth of these cowardly assaults placed to the Negro. They occur all over the south, and the thing which is so unspeskably loathsome is that these bad men will not and dare not acknowledge there own vill- ainy. One thing that betrays unaccountable meanness wasseen too in the late riots in New York when the policeman, acting under authority, took advantage of their official position toabuse and maltreat Negroes. Black men known among the best and most orderly citizens were hunted down and driven from their quiet homes in dead of night, dragged through the public thoroughfare bruised and mangled, for no of- fence whatever, and yet when appearing in court, a band of de- praved and heartless men gave themselves as willing perjurers in defense of their madness. Like wolves watching for their prey, they sought the oportunity to vent a rotten spleen, the out- growth of a depraved apd brutal nature. Black men iu_ their helplessness have been ‘crippled for life; their homes have been looted ‘and wrecked and many now linger in hard and cruel sufferings in the city hospital, |Ask why these abuses, and why these nightly attacks against an jinoffending people and at once the charge is made that the Ne- gro provoked them. As yet noth- ing has been done to redress these wrongs while the very violators of the law under the garb of authority are allowed to go un- Ipunished. We are all citizens ol thecommon country, we bring our offerings of loyalty, devotior and sacrifice to the common al. '|tar, and we have pledgedour liy- es and sacred honor to_maintair the intergy of the nation. Bui from the press and the pulpit w have heard little, very little ir '| denunciation of the shamefnl in ‘|hnmanities of those who woul ‘lareck and destroy our govern Topeka Plaindealer. Published at Topeka, Shawnee county, Ks., every Friday morning by the Plaindealer Publishing Co., 214 E 7th st. NICK CHILES - - BUSINESS MANAGER J. H. CHILDERS - - EDITION EL DESCRIPTION MATES: One year by mail..... 21 Six months by mail..... 750 Three months by mail..... 500 Entered at the postoffice at Topela as second class mail matter. FRIDAY, JAN. 25, 1901. [In order to insure publication of matter in the current issue, corre- respondence must be in this office not later than Tuesday.] KANSAS SENIOR CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION TOPPKA An honest trial is all any man can ask. Is the white man civilized? Not exactly. Less money on foreign missions and more on domestic missions. With Mrs. Nation wrecking things at Wichita and the mob at Leavenworth, Kansas can afford to fall in with Texas and Louisiana. Conservative Democrats give the same reasons for Mr. Bryan's defeat that Republicans used, prior to the election to show why he should be defeated. A Nebraska publication presents the remarkable exhibition of being for the Leavenworth mob on the one page and against it on another. That is consistency with a vengeance. The Topeka correspondent of THE AMERICAN CITIZEN, after perpetrating a nice little josh on us, asks us what we want? Well Joe, we want to be president in 1904, but might be willing to accept the governorship in 1903. Can't you help. The most effective way in which to stop the disanchisement of Negroes in the Southern States is to cut down Southern representation in Congress. The Republicans now have a chance to show their sincerity after heaping so much abuse upon the southern people in the last campaign. Millions of foreigners have come to this country within the last thirty years and settled upon the cheap lands in the West. these people landed at Castle Garden with nothing but rags, and habits of thrift, industry and economy. Now they are among the most prosperous citizens of the Republic. Will the Negro ever learn? No better way to open the new century can be found, than to make generous gifts. We take pleasure in announcing that Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $20,000 for the erection of a new library building at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. This is the first building that Mr. Carnegie has given to any colored institution. The destiny of the American people seems inseparably linked with that of the Negro. There are millions of Negroes in the Phillippines, the West Indies and in the United States. The sensible thing to do is to allow them to progress as rapidly as their intellect and energy will permit them, unimpeded by hatred and prejudices handed down from forebears. THE NEGRG IN AGRICULTURE AND ITS ALLIED PURSUITS. Mr. L. D. Powers, Chief Statistician in charge of agriculture, of the Twelfth Census, desires in his reports to show the progress and status of the American Negro in agriculture and its allied pursuits, and is now making an exhaustive investigation of the same. In addition to the data obtained in the regular course on the agricultural schedules of the Twelfth Census, he has designated Mr. William T. Ferguson, one of his Negro clerks. to make certain additional inquiries, along this line, of well informed Negroes throughout the country, and the PLAINDEALER takes pleasure in urging all those who are requested to aid in furnishing the additional data to make full and prompt replies to all inquiries to the end that the investigations and report may be as full and accurate as Chief Powers desires it to be, The St. Louis American Eagles asks us how we feel now. Well we feel like a fellow in bad company, Hon. J. R. Burton was elected United States senator on Wednesday. Senator Burton will, by his eloquence and ability, do much to bring our State to the prominence enjoyed in the days of Ingalls and Plumb. It is to be hoped that his eloquent voice will be raised against thedisreputable political methods of the South. The Plaindealer takes pleasure in announcing the opening of an educational department, edited by Prof. W. E. Gray, of Atchiso. Mr. Gray is one of the brightest Negro educators in the state and will be able to give much assistance to our people. He will gladly answer all questions pertaining to school matters of this state. His first installment willappear next week The Plaindealer will also open a woman's department soon. In the death of Queen Victoria, of England, the world loses one of its greatest rulers and humanity a friend. Especially will this news be received with much sadness by the Negroes all over the world. Her noble stand against slavery and its degrading influences, stamps her as one of the warmest friends the race has had. King Edward VII, will find a difficult problem to take up her work and carry it forward. GREAT BEND. Mrs. Pillows is reported as recovering slowly. The Cuban small pox has appeared in this town out near the college, there are some four or five cases and the public schools have been suspended for the las three or four days. Calvin Haddax died last Thursday morning. He was a retired Baptist preacher, the funeral services was held at the Second Baptist church Friday at 2:30 o'clock p. m. Rev. Lucas officiating. Rev. Johnson pastor of the Baptist church returned Saturday from Colorado, and found his wife with a very sick child. The Second Quarterly Meeting of Great Bend and Sterling A. M. E. churches was held last Sunday the 14th inst. at Sterling; Elder J. W. Braxton presiding, there was a very good turn out and a glorious time was bad. The collection was $18.00. He came to Bend Sunday night and found us in the midst of a protracted effort; he preached Sunday night, held Quarterly Conference in the afternoon and preached again Monday night, he left Tuesday morning for Hutchinson. Mrs. Emily May of Larard who has been visiting in the city for about two weeks, left Tuesday morning for Topeka to be the guest of Mrs. Mary McCray 416 Western avenue. The A. M. E. church of this place is contemplating on building a parsonage in the near future. They have about $50 already. Much has been said and written about the condition of the Negro, his phenomenal progress, intellectually, morally and financially. Those optomists who are so profuse in their praise of the Negro's virtues, either do not base their conclusions upon the condition of the Negro as a whole, or, are looking through lenses which give them, but an imperfect view of what the Negro is actually doing. That the Negro has made some progress in the last 35 years cannot be gainsaid; but, has he kept pace with the times to the extent of his abilities and opportunities? Has he applied all his skill, energy and thought to the acquisition of those things which make a people really great? To be more specific, has the Negro exerted himself to the extent that he should, and grasped the opportunities that encircle him to acquire, accumulate and preserve the product of industrious labor? Has he been diligent in the pursuit of intelligence and virtue? Granting that the Negro is a degree removed from his station of 30 years ago, yet considering the opportunities that have surrounded him for accumulating wealth, for acquiring knowledge and for the acquisition and practice of manly and womanly virtues, the Negro, in my judgment, has done nothing worthy of especial commendation, and is now doing nothing startling, or remarkable. Some race enthusiasts see signs of great promise in the Negro; thinks, he is the coming ruler of the world. But, at the rate the world is moving and the pace the Negro is keeping, it is only a question of time, in my mind, when the Negro's position will be relative to what it was a quarter of a century ago. I that the Negro is profligate, cannot be denied; that he is shiftless, cannot be gainsaid; that he is falsely proud, cannot be controverted. It is urged by those who make excuses for the Negro's weakness that his sphere is prescribed; that his vision is bounded, and that his opportunities are limited. We admit all this; but, the Negro has not taken, and does not take advantage of the limited opportunities presented to him, and use them to the utmost for the substantial upbuilding of himself. His opportunities for money making, i.e., the chance for securing lucrative positions, are limited. The white boy gets a position as clerk in a store, or teller in a bank, or bookkeeper in some establishment. The Negro boy gets a job as bootblack in a barber shop, or porter in a saloon, or hostler in a private family, or waiter in a hotel. Yet the Negro boy, making less than one half the wages of the white boy, will wear equally as fine if not finer clothes than the white boy. The white boy will deposit his money in a bank or invest it in real estate. The Negro boy will deposit his money in a tailor shop in payment for a suit of clothes, or invest it around a crap table. In the course of time the white boy will become a partner in the store, or president of the bank; or owner of the establishment, will settle down to married life in a handsome residence and live in comfort and splendor. The Negro boy will still be porter, hostler or waiter, probably settled down to married life, living in a dilapidated, rented shack near a railroad or some out-of-the-way hole, quite likely has four or five children, and has a $300. piano, paying for it (the piano) on the installment plan. No one will deny but that this is a true picture, of the Negro, and to find one doing otherwise is the exception and not the rule. We will now pay our compliment to the Negro girl. Vain, frivolous and light headed, the Negro girl comes up into the world and contributes her full measure of race degradation. If one, should be imbued with the notion of securing an education, and should be fortunate enough to have parents who are able to comprehend the value of an education, they will toil from morning to night over the washtub in an effort to secure the means whereby this purpose may be fulfill, and the girl, after she shall have secured a smattering of learning, sufficient to enable her to secure a license to teach in a country school, will turn her back upon the washtub forevermore, and after she secures her first month's wages will throw aside the calico dress and don habiliments made after the latest fashion plate. When her term of school is out she will return to her lowly rented hut, invest what little money she has in a piano, expecting to pay the ballance out of her next term's wages. No one can deny but this is a true picture, and to find one doing otherwise is an exception and not the rule. This profligate tendency on the part of the Negro, together with his meager ethical training is the cause, above all others, why he is the object of caste and contumelious abuse. When the Negro race, as a whole, begin to accumulate wealth, acquire knowledge and possesses virtue and character; then will the seemingly impregnable barriers fall away, caste distinction will disappear, and the brotherhood of man will be an actual reality, because the Negro will merit the kindly consideration of those who now seem to despise him. HIAWATHA. The series of meetings being conducted by Rev. House and his assistant, Rev. D. D. Cole, of Ockaloosa, Kansas, have proved quite beneficial spiritually to each of the churches. Rev. F. H. Rhodes, who has been down with La Gripe since New Years, was in his stand Sunday. La Gripe seems to be an epidemic this winter as so many are down with it, among whom, some are Mesdames, Burley, Green, Payne Corneal and Walthael. Miss Pearl Riley, of Baker, is spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Books. Miss Angie Brooks left for Horton Monday. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Corneal left for Topeka, Sunday. Mr. Corneal has a position there during the session of the legislature. Mr. Geo. Phillips is convalescent. Geo. Montgomery returned home from Horton, Sunday. Mr. Gerty Gambols spent Sunday in town. 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. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rg. NELSONS STRAIGHTINE THE LATEST DISCOVERY FOR MAKING KNOTTY, KINNY, CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT BEFORE AFTER STRAIGHTHINE is a safe, certain and reliable preparation. It is absolutely free from injurious chemicals, and cannot injure the skin. Do not straighten the hair, but removes only stimulates the roots of the hair, keeps it from falling out, and produces a rich, long and smooth hair. Straighten it richly and scalp diseases. Straighten it richly and fumed, and in is every way an elegant article for the toilet. It has been tested by thousands. It is the best preparation made. Price, 25 cents at drug stores, or by mail to any address for 30 cents in stamps. Address, NELSON MANUAGEMENTURING CO. Richmond, Va. +1-800-745-2222 agents wanted. Write for terms. 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 free 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. SHADH, M. D., Secretary, 901 R. Street, N. W., City of Washington. TOPEKA Educational and Industrial Institute. Non-sectarian, co-educational, practical education of the Negro youth. Courses: English, normal, industrial, music and business. Tuition $1.00 per month each department. $1.50 per month literary and industrial courses combined; board, room, light, fuel and tuition. $7.50 per month. For further information, address W. R. CARTER, Principal. OFFICE HOURS: Telephone, 454 7 to 4 m., 12 m. to 4 p. m. 10 to 10 p. m. J. M. JAMISON, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Special attention to diseases of Women and private diseases. Office 507 4th. Res. 225 Madison OF KAITLIN 7 TO 9 A. M. 12 TO 2 P. M. I. A. SHIELDS, M. D. Office, 1331 VanBuren Special Attention to Ladies. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M. SUNDAY HOURS: 3 to 5, 7 to 9 P. M. 1 to 3 P. M. WM. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, 404 Kansas Ave. over Wallace's Drug Store. TELEPHON 635 TOPEKA, KAN. Ladies and Children without Escort En route to California should join one of the Santa Fe Route personally conducted excursions. The petty cares and annoyances of long-distance travel are taken off their minds by spec excursion conductor No extra charge. Full information cheerfully furnished. T. L. KING, Ticket Agent, Tac Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. TOPEKA. MRS. R. P. TYLER. First-class rooming House For MICE, CLEAN Rooms, Rooms by the day or Week. 505 BLUFF ST. KANSAS CITY, MO Shampooing and Face Massage. Mrs. Hattie E. Van Vleck, Hair Dresser and Manufacturer..... Hair to match all Complexions. WITCHES AND HAIR JEWELRY 220 Eas Fifth Street, TOPKKA, KANSAS EAGLE'S "Rose Tint" Leads All Others. DON'T BE DUPED There have been placed upon the market several cheap reprints of an obsolete edition of "Webster's Dictionary." They are being offered under various names at a low price dry goods dealers, grocers, agents, etc., and in a few instances as a premium for subscriptions to papers. Announcements of these comparatively Worthless reprints are very misleading; for instance, they are advertised to be the substantial equivalent of a higher-priced book, when in reality, so far as we know and believe, they are all, from A to Z. Reprint Dictionaries, phototype copies of a book of over fifty years age, which in its day was sold for about $5.00, and which was much superior in paper, print, and binding to these imitations, being then a work of some merit instead of one Long Since Obsolete. The supplement of 10,000 go-called "new words," which some of these books are advertised to contain, was compiled by a gentleman who died over forty years ago, and was published before his death. Other minor additions are probably of more or less value. The Genuine Edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, which is the only meritorious one familiar to this generation, contains over 2000 pages, with illustrations on nearly every page, and bears our imprint on cheap imitation. Valuable as this work is, we have at vast expense published a thoroughly revised successor, the name of which is WESTER'S INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY. THE KANSAS SAVING INVETMENT COMPANY, COLORED C ANUTE, KANSAS. Authorized Capital, 700,000. Stock solicited by correspondence. General solicitor and andfinancial agent, J. S. HALE "What The Outlook does is to give the fairest, the most unbiased, the clearest conception of the many momentous occurrences which are shaping the world's history to-day. This weekly combines the functions of the newspaper and of an illustrated magazine, and discusses politics, religion, education, economics, literature, and art."—New York Times. during the months of November, December, and January will appear a series of ten autobiographical papers from telling the romantic story of his life, from birth in a Virginia slave cabin to the eminent position which he holds as the builder and head of Tuskegee Institute and the honored and trusted leader of the colored race in this country. Every Reader of This Paper will surely be interested in Mr. Washington, 11 story, and as a special offer in order to introduce THE OUTLOOK to new readers, we will send THE OUTLOOK for the three months above mentioned at the special price of twenty-five cents (regular price, seventy-five cents), providing the name of this paper is mentioned. THE OUTLOOK tells the story of world happenings every week in short, clear, labor-saving paragraphs. Address Subscription Department B, THE OUTLOOK, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. WESTERN UNIVERSITY QUINDARO, KANSAS. DEPARTMENTS, Theological, Normal, Preparatory, State Industrial and Musical. ADVANTAGES. Instructor from Leading Colleges, Good Water, Excellent Dramage, Healthful Climate. School term of nine months, begins Sept. 10, 1900. EXPENSES—Per month, Board 55 700. Tuition and Room Rent 2oo Industrial Training FREE of charge. For further particulars and Catalogue, Address, OFFICE OF ASST. GEN'L PASS. AND TKT AGT. C. R. I. & P. R'Y. ...CIIEAP... Excursion —RATES TO— COLORADO. Great Rock Island Route 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, Kas. Kaw Valley brand of MINCE MEAT MANUFACTURED BY Chas. Wolff Packing Co. Is made of the very best and strictly pure and - - -- healthful ingredients. Your Grocer keeps it; - - buy some; it will make the best MINCE PIES you ever tasted. - - - Snow's Pine Will be at all the Drug Stores and Dealers' all this winter. GET A LITTLE It will knock that cold in a minute. MANUFACTURED IN TOPEKA BY F. A. Snow & Co A. M. THOMAS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 'Phone. 299. 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. Don't forget to ask your friend to subscribe for the PLAINDEALER. J. M. KNIGHT, UNDERTAKER AND EMBAIMER. 632-636 Quincy Street. Topeka, Ks. Be Sure to Read THE PLAINDEALER'S Sermonettes shortly to be published. This series of articles will be prepared by some of our ablest young men and women and will deal with our race foibles. Every family should have the Plaindealer SOME SHORT STORIES Will be published this winter, thousands of Negroes who bore burden of slavery an passing rapidly away another decade will find them ATRFST. These people have had thrilling experiences. Some have tried to escape from slavery. Some have sacrificed freedom to protect their masters and mistresses. The Plaindealer will publish some of these stories. AREA OU A READER of Kansas' greatest Negro journal of opinion? We want 5,000 more subscribers by the opening of the century. We are going to give an elegant copy of Charles W. Chestnut's beautiful story, "The Wife of my Youff," one of the most thrilling race stories ever written by a Negro. This book goes to the person sending us the largest list of cash subscribers by the 1st of January. George Klien & Co MAKERS OF High-Grade Buggy and Team Harness. ...Repairing Promptly Executed.... 718 Kansas Ave. Topeka. Kan BLACK SKIN REMOVER. RECHTENED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE A Wonderful Face Bleach. AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2 garanteed to do what we say and to be the "beautiful world." One box is all that is required if used as a directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH A PEACH-Like completion obtained if used as a browned, will turn the skin of a black or red dress. Will turn the skin of a light or a mulitaperson perfective two-shades light, eight hours a shade or two shades will be invisible. Is does not turn the skin in spots but bleaches out white, the skin in beautiful communal use. Will remove wrinkles, freeskin, oily spots or bumps or black heads, making the skin smooth, small pox piss, tan, liver spots or removed without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish, stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long a straight and keep it from falling out. Highly priced. The hair soft and easy to comb. Many of our customers say one of our hair boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell for one dollar a box. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or two office money order, express in the order registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid d or if you want consent to the mail postage express. We ex- In any case where we do not d we want it, claim, we will return the money or send a free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receipt. Topeha Plaindealer. LODGES AND SOCIETIES PRIDE OF TOPKATENT No 26, meets 1st, and 3rd Saturday afternoon of each month at No. 806 North Kansas avenue. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, Q. M. Miss Auna Reynoid, C. R. MACEDONIA TABRKNAGLE No. 32, U. K. T. Hall 609 N. Kansas Avenue. Meet 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month. Mrs. IdA. M. Jordan, C. P.; Miss Sarah Walker, C. R. MACEDONIAN LODGE No. 9, GOODSAMARIANS and DUCHERS of SAMARIA, meets second and fourth Friday evenings of each month at o'clock, at 113 East Seventh street. Visiting Samarans are always welcome. W. E. ACKSON, Chief ALLER LAWSON, Recording Sec. PEARLY ROSE Tabernacle No. 77, meets 1st and third Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at 121 East South Street. Mrs. S. A. OWEN, C. R; Mrs W. G. KRECHNAIL, H. P. Everybody knows Fred M. Stone street, who for the past two years has so successfully filled the position of City Marshal. Mr. Stonestreet will be a candidate for reelection. He has made a capable and efficient officer and is deserving of our continued support. Mrs. D. Merritt is improving from her illness. Miss S. A. Barker has returned from Kansas City. A. P. Smith, mail carrier, is taking his vacation. W. A. Bettis, assistant sergeant at arms is on the sick list. Band concert at Shiloh Baptist church on Thursday night. Miss Grace McConnell is improving from her illness. D. E. Henderson, of Emporia, spent a few days in the dity. Mrs. Jennie Watson and Mary Turpin are on the sick list. Miss Ida Jordan, living on Taylor street is confined to her bed. Mrs. N. T. Gamble of Bonner Springs, is the guest of her daughter Mrs. Rudley. Miss Kneppie Rucker, of Atchison, Kansas is an honored member of the Golden Rod club Rev. D. W. Hardiman was called to Galena, Monday by the death of his mother, Mrs. Hardiman. Do not forget Sunday afternoon services at the Industrial Institute. A cordial invitation is extended to all. The ladies Sewing Circle of St. John A. M. E. church, met last Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Martha Bird. Mrs. Emma Buchanan entertained the following ladies: Misses Mary B. Frazer, M. Bradshaw, Dora Ethery, Matheny. Prof. W. R. Carter, superintendent of the Industrial Institute preached for the Mt. Olive M. E. church at its rally last Sunday. Mrs. Charles French and daughter Edna, of Denver, Colorado. are visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Allen, on Woodward avenue. J. A. Page will read a paper at the Pleasant Home Literary Circle, Saturday night; Subject, "American disrespect for laws." The Sunday School Union of the city met at Shiloh Baptist church last Sunday. Ransom Taylor, of the East Hill Baptist church was elected to succeed W. E. Stewart as president. Mr. Pearly Tipton, gusid at the penitentiary was in Topeka this week. He is a true and trusted young citizen. We look for good results from him. A chip of the old block. Mr. James Cooper who lives two miles and a half from town on the Burlingame road has made his daughter a present of an upright Estey Piano. Miss Beatrice Vanderpool, of Chicago, and Miss Anna Johnson, of Kansas City were the guests of Miss Ida Spotts and Minnie Teckle, last week. They both left for home Monday. The Rose Bud met at the residence of Miss Eleanor Brasher, all the members being present. After election of officers, refreshments were served The club adjourned to meet at the residence os Mrs. C. Bradshaw, 1325 Van Buren street, Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The ladies of the Benovelent society presented Mrs. A. Williams with a handsome silk parasol as a token of their esteem and appreciation for her noble work as president. Mrs Mary Anderson made the presentation speech. Senator J. K. Cubbison should be commended for the manly stand he has taken for Virgil Spencer for Page. If the average white man would do as the senator did, keep his word with his supporters, the race would progress faster. Prof. Charles F. Clinkescall is conducting a night school at the Shiloh Baptist church. He has a large class and the school is meeting with marked success. The Ladies Guild of the church of St. Simon of Cyrene, (Episcopal) met with Mrs. R. J. Buckner. Rev. M. W. Bywater conducted the question box. Dr. Cottrell has opened his office at 411 Kansas avenue and will be pleased to have his friends and patients call. The doctor is the latest addition to Topska's corp of able Negro physicians. He comes highly recommended. Mr. John W. Jones and Miss Nancy Smith was married last Thursday evening at 529 Kansas avenue. Rev. Olden officiated. They received several presents. The rooms were nicely decorated. The pastor and members of Brown's Chapel are very thankful to all parties who assisted in rendering the program on last Thursday evening Jan. 17, from which we realized $26.00. Thank you very kindly and when you need our help let us know and we will return the compliment.—W. P. Green, Pastor. The colored citizens of Topeka held a mass meeting last evening at 618 Kansas avenue, speeches were made by many able men of the race and resolutions denouncing the burning of Alexander at Leavenworth were passed. Full proceedings of the meeting will appear in the next issue of this paper. Mrs. J. Sloan Yates, of Kansas City, Mo., will lecture before the ladies' Coterie, on Friday evening at 8 p. m. Mrs. Yates is one of the most talented ladies of our race and her lecture will be a rare treat to those who will have the privilege of hearing her. Her subject will be "Equal Standard of Morals for Men and Women." Miss Missouri Benning entertained the Golden Rod club at a five o'clock dinner Friday, Jan. 18, in honor of Miss Mary B. Jordan's birthday. There were courses laid for ter, and the table had a pretty center-piece of carnation and roses. An elaborate course of tea was served. The girls of the Golden Rod club presented Miss Jordan a large piece of art works, the design being La France Roses. Miss Gertrude Solomon vice-president, made the presentation speech, which was responded to by Miss Jordan. The Oak Leaf club met with Mrs Childs and spent a very pleasant afternoon. The club is doing same very excellent work which is a credit not only to the club but to the race. The Oak Leaf club expects to win the laurel at the coming Federation which meets in Leavenworth, in June. The President of the Federation is sending out some very neat application blanks to all new clubs in the state. Their next meeting will be with Mrs. Draine. Beulah Mission Circle met at the residence of Mrs. M. D. Jones, Friday and rendered a nice program. The ladies were invited to the dining room where they were partakers of many good things. Those present were Misses Amanda Haley, Mary Ford, Rosa L. Williams, Florence Williams, Barbara Barker, Amanda Alexander, Channie Winburn, Cornelia Beach, Bettie Davis, Marie Garrett, Nannie White, Gala Walker Faunie Sails and Miss Barbara Cross of Lawrence. BUSINESS MEN. We take great pleasure in endorsing the following suggestion from one of our prominent business men, and urge immediate action. Let every Negro engaged in business in this city respond to this suggestion. Some time ago a partial organization was effected but was abandoned by its promoters, because of a lack of interest: Mr Editor.—Having on two occasions endeavored to organize a business men's association by calling meetings to which no one—but Mr. Odell—came, and remembering the addage: "Ifat first you don't succeed try, try again." I take this method of moving that the business men of Topeka, engaged in honorable vocation, meet at some place in the near future for the purpose of an organization. If this motion meets the approval of any one, two or three of our business men, they can second the motion by sending a postal card to this office endorsing the same, or, doing so in person. This movement should be auxiliary to the national organization and in unison with it What say you, gentlemen, let us hear from you through the columns of the Plaindealer. Then a time will be set and a meeting called. Courteously. WANTED.—Capable, reliable person in every county to represent large company of solid financial reputation; $936 salary per year, payable weekly; $3 per day absolutely sure and all expenses; straight, bona-fide, definate salary, no commission; salary paid each Saturday and expense money advanced each week. STANARD HOUSE, 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. Mr. W. B. Townsend, the noted lawyer and politician, of Leavenworth, Kausas, is spending a few days with friends in the city. Mr. Townsend is interested it legislative matters relative to securing an appropriation for the Old Folks Home at Leavenworth. Mr. Townsend has always been an earnest worker for the people and has devoted much time to the Home for Aged Negroes at Leavenworth. INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE The band boys have finished the rudiments of music. Arrangements are being made to procure a set of instruments. Prof. G. W. Jackson wishes to meet all of the members of the band in Assembly hall at four o'clock Monday afternoonoon. Our sewing department has secured one half dozen of Madam Brown's dressmaking charts. The Brown dress making system, of Boston, Mass., is one of the best of this country. This system is being taught in all of the leading Industrial schools. It is advisable to have your daughters and wives pursue this course. All persons desiring to enter the class in vocal culture are requested to meet in the reception room, Chrisman hall at three o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The services of Sabbath are always interesting. Choice music is rendered at each meeting. Be sure to be present next Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. The shelving in the library is almost completed. The young men of the carpentry department are being afforded ample opportunity to put their theory into practice. Donations of books are always gratefully received. We have room for several more boarding students. Parents should not neglect the education of their children. The entire expense: board, furnished room and tuition is only six dollars. We hope that every room will be occupied shortly. Write to our principal for further information. WANTED.—Capable, reliable person in every county to represent large company of solid financial reputation: $936 salary per year, payable weekly; $3 per day absolutely sure and all expenses; straight, bona-fide, definate salary, no commission; salary paid each Saturday and expense money advanced each week. STANDARD HOUSE, 334 Dearborn Stree, Chicago. ASK YOUR GROCER FOR Ralston The 5 Minute Breakfast Food. Purina Health Flour Makes "BRAIN BREAD." PURINA MILLS, St. Louis, Mo. Reduced Prices to Churches and Societies on Watches and Jewelry Kansas City's Pioneer Negro Jeweler. Mr. Wilson begs to inform his friends and the public that he has a large stock with a complete assortment of watches, chains, rings, pins, etc., at bargain prices. Diamond pins from $15 up. Gold filled watches from $7.50 up. Watch, clock and jewelry repairing a specialty. Brnig work early. 1616 west 9th St., Kansas City, Mo EUDORA. Mrs. Wm. Lee is in bed with la grippe. Miss Josie Crump is on the sick list. Mrs. A. D. Lee's baby is seriously sick. Rev. A. L. Vorbees visited friends in Eudora Sunday afternoon and preached at night to a crowded house, his subject was "Peters Denial of Christ." The young people of Eudora are preparing to give a concert the 14th, of February. Subscribe for the PLAINDEALER it is the best weekly paper published in the west: BE NOT DECEIVED TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. King of all Hair Tonics, "OZONO." BEFORE. AFTER. TRADE-MARK. BEFORE. AFTER. Recognizing the fact that there are many SO CALLED hair-growers and hair-straighteners now on the market, and knowing to a certainty that many of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the year 1871 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent until 1875 when it was put up on the market and met with marked success. After a through test by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest-t, legitimate remedy, true to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every member of the colored race, because they found it to cane the hair to grow long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there are always a number of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other people's goods. Seeing our marked success, numerous firms have entered the market, offering hair-growers and hair straighteners, many of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall on and doing great damage to the hair and scalp, and the colored people are loving these spurious compounds, which are filled with animal fats, and do the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning—be careful what you use on your hair. Do not be deceived by flaring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics. OZONO. iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for Now, we ask you a plain question—would you pay $200 if you are dissatisfied with our preparation to all we claim for them? We have advertised its guarantee, and we are glad to say that ever has been satisfied in every respect. Today using our preparations, and every purse of the King of all Hair Tonics, Ozono will post Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory. To take short, harsh hair long and straight. It will worry, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff after Ozono has been applied. It will stop you will restore gray hair to its natural color. Make us make a statement. Many firms are adver- dress hair, but when they send the preparation ther Friends, do not use hot irons; they will burn us it to drop out. Ozono straightens without but Ozono is necessary, and the hair can stop the use at any time. The good effe- day or two after the first application. We are 50k. a bottle—4 boxes do the work. We which is good at any time: Cut out this compound and the sum of One Dollar, and we will forward it and one large bottle of Electrical Skim Kneen bright, rough skin soft and pliant, and we remove all facial imperfections, and actually we will also include one fancy jar of our Electric beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth patches, foxes; makes the old look young and the young. Make one package of our celebrated Scalp Soap, WELLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap shampoo. which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $50.00 if you are dissatisfied with our preparations, if they were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised for several years under this guarantee, and we are glad to say that every one who has used Ozone has been satisfied in every respect. 20,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the King of all hair Tonies. Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublesome Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, and Scurf can not live after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and soft. Now, tight here, let us make a statement. Many firms are advertising remedies to straighten hair, but when they send the preparation they tell you to use hot irons. Friends, do not use hot irons; they will burn up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop out. Ozono straightens without any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You can stop the use at any time. The good effects on the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. The price of Ozono is 50c, a bottle—4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is good at any time: Cut out this coupon and send us, enveloping with it the sum of One dollar, and we will forward to you four large boxes of Ozono and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner which makes black skin bright, rough skin soft and pliant, and enures at skin diseases. All so removes all facial imperfections, and actually removes small pox pits. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—Nature's great beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth patches, fleas and all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look younger. We will also include one package of our celebrated Soap Soap, which is absolutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever THE GREAT SOUTHWEST SYSTEM, tates of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and the Indian Territory. 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. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Traveling the States Colorado, Kansas, and Five (5) Daily Passes in each direction, betwee The Famous Are reached ONLY 7 H NIPPS, Agent, TOPEKA, KAS. KANSAS PACK Missouri Pacific Route be used on the scalp. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all snellis and colors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $400, but we let you have it for $1.00, simply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the public in general from imitations of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, we have placed upon our coupon our Trade-Mark, one head showing Short Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U.S. Government has granted us this trade-mark, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington; so if the coupon has this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. Use only the coupon having the two heads on it. As to our responsibility, we refer you to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va. We have thousands of testimonials we have not space to publish. Here is a sample or one: Boston Chemical Company: Dear Sirs,—You are at liberty to state in any newspaper that I have used OZONO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been fooled so often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. Gentlemen. After using OZONO a short while only, I am glad to say that my hair is already straight and growing finely. MISS BE-SIE POWERS, 383 Missouri street, Toledo, O. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beautiful and luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, you can use it to secure a glossy long growth. Buy only the genuine "OZONO." Send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Rifter, worth $0.50. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth $0.50. 1 Packet (1 pint) Anti-Oil, worth $0.50. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth $0.50. Total, $4.00. 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OZONO cause a beautiful and luxur you can use it to secure "OZONO." Send us $1.00 day we receive your order. MAGGIE R. PROCTOR, Box 114, Fairfield, Texas. ONO a short while only, I am glad to say and growing finely. MISS BESSIE POWERS, 383 Missouri street, Toledo, O. absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and growth. If your hair is already straight ossy long growth Buy only the genuine ace, and the goods will be sent the same. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. --- KANSAS CITY, MO. Comparatively speaking, few Negroes read Negro journals, and fewer still realize the necessity of them. The majority of our people have a crave for ten cent novels and all kinds of trasby and obsene periodicals, which has a tendency to lead them to make a jest of their own people, thereby intensifying the all-ready heated prejudice of the caucasion. In casting our minds back over the various attitudes of our people, and realizing that they meet with so many adversities, in this boasted, "land of the free and home of the brave." The question naturally suggests it self to our minds, how shall we remedy this great embarrassment? To this suggestion comes the answer: Patronize and build up able and fearless Negro papers and other periodicals. As we watch current events, we note the shaping and moulding of public sentiment, by the undue influence, of the poisonous white papers, whose chief aim is to show the dark side of the Negro. So then it behooves us to strengthen by unanimous support, our papers, that they may be enabled to defend us by helping to shape and regulate public sentiment, and show the good qualities and bright side of the Negro. Color prejudice has invaded the legislative halls, and dictated the legislative policy of both our national and state governments against the Negro. It has marshalled its forces within the pales of the judicial forum, and besmeared the sacred togas of our great legal diginitaries, and has caused our chief magistrate to lend their sanction to its most contempable and damnable practices. - To accuse a black man of any kind of a crime now-a-days, is a notice to the undertakers to prepare a coffin. For if he be captured, inocent or guilty, he is speedily hoisted to a limb or a telegraph pole, and his poor defensless body perforated with bullets, or is burned at the stake. White men commit crimes, and while their hands are yet bathed in their victims gore, rush forward, organize an angry mob, and some defenseless black man is summarily hurled into eturnity without a trial by judge or jury. The present condition of the Negro is sorrowful. He is unsettled. He has no permanent home. He is confused and wandering as the Children of Israel. But unlike them, he is in need of a Moses. And that Moses, can be only in the form of good fearless Negro literature, such as will repel the poisonous effects of the villainous white journals, who studiously cast out the good virtues and character and manliness of the Negro as a citizen. There are two sides to every question. A fearless and able newspaper, is to a race, just what a lawyer is to his client. If every defendent would refuse to employ able counsel to defend himself, the case would obviously be onesided, and every defendent convicted. Just so long as the Negro neglects to patronize and support his own papers, just so long will his cause lack vindication. It is obvious that we need improvement in our papers of today, for the principal news in them are found in the personal columns(a majority of them) and such a Mr. A. took a flying trip to St. Joe-or Mrs. B. is raising chickens, etc. We need to revolutionize Negro Journalism. This is a progressive age and the Negro should clamor for amelioration, advancement and the moiety of rights in public estimation. Without any attempt at flattery whatever, Mr. Editor, I am forced to admit that the PLAINDEALER is on the road to the right kind of good and able newsgiving, and instructive articles, such as will set the young Negro thinking from a philosophical standpoint, and exclaim in emphatic terms: "Quo Vadis," or "Whither Goest Thou,"? We are in the drift—How shall we extricate ourselves? By encouraging and supporting such brave little sheets as the PLAINDEALER, which is just in its infancy, and make it grow to such greatness, that it will be heard throughout the civilized world, and become the Moses of this literary world, to lead the present generation and its posterity from ignorance, vice and superstition, Yours for improved journals, J.F. THOMPTON. NEVADA, MO. Rev. Dr. D. P. Pruett of Oswego, Kan., is conducting a series of meetings at A. M. E. church, many are made to rejoice in the God of their Salvation. Rev. J. A. Ward left on the early train Saturday for Carthage, to hold services Sunday and make the necessary arrangements for the Executive Board which meets there next Thurs- WICHITA. O. W. Thompson who has been quite ill with pneumonia is improving. A concert was given at Peerless hall Thursday evening in the interest of the Second Baptist church. Mr and Mrs. J. H. Covington are recovering from their recent illness. H. Abernathy and family have removed to Kansas City where they will make their future home. Quarterly meeting services were held at the A. M. E. church Sunday. Presiding Elder Baxter was present. Rev. M. L. Copeland is on the sick list. An entertainment was given at the A. M. E. church Tuesday evening. Mrs Cora Lee died Wednesday evening at the home of her sister Mrs. L. Chapman. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. White tendered a reception Tuesday afternoon at their home 119 Murdock avenue. in honor of Miss Neale G. Hawkins and members of the "Hottest Coon In Dixie Co." MEXICO, MO. Mrs. Elizabeth Wade died at her home Thursday evening. She had been an invalid for a number of years. She leaves a husband, one daughter, four grand children and six great grand children. She had reached the age of 75. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon by Dr. R. E. Gillun, of St. Louis, at St. Lukes Chapel. Mrs. Rebecca Brinks is confined to her bed with la-grippe. Mrs. Sudonia is the guest of relatives in Fulton, Mo. Miss Maggie Baskett is at home from Pike county, where she has been teaching school. Mrs. Sallie Gamble is yet on the sick list. Miss Annie Henderson who has been very sick for a few weeks is much better. Miss Annie Kemp, of Fulton, was the guest of friends Sunday. TONGANOXIE. First Baptist church, af Tonganoxie, Rev. R. H, Graham, pastor. Mrs. Jennie Barrett met and organized the B. Y. P. U. The following officers were elected: Mrs. Susan Grant, president; Mrs. Amanda Turpin, vice-president; Miss Sarah Medlack, secretary; Miss Ollie Jones, assistant secretary; Mrs. Vinie Toliver, treasurer. Mrs. Barrett also gave a grand lecture to both old and young, which was of great benefit. The young people of Tonganoxie are organizing for advancement. There is so much to be done to increase the influence of the church, that evety assistant is welcomed. See that your children attend Sundao school. Help them to come by coming yourself. CARTHRAGE. Rev. J. A. Ward of Nevada, Mo. preached at the Second Baptist church Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Deacon Berry Blair of the Second Baptist church died last Sunday at 5 p. m. Bro. Blair was loved by all who knew him. He seemed to realize that the end was near, and he told his friends that he was only waiting on the Lord. He leaves two sons and a host of friends to mourn his death. Sister Ella Leeper is on the sick list. Geo. Spotes went to Joplin Sunday night, he reports a fine time. Mrs. Hattie Ward is numbered with the sick. Jack King is getting a little sporty in his old days. "He aint so warm." Mr, Kingcade of Neosha, Mo., is visiting Mrs. Hattie Ward. MANHATTAN. We are having lots of La Grippe and it has greatly interfered with our meeting. Rev. Voorhies filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. church last Sunday night. His text was "The half has never been told." Rev. Voorhies labors hard as a pastor and builder; and the people of Manhattan acknowledged him to be a pulpit orator and christian gentlemen. His powerful sermons has won for him a great name in this place with both saint and sinner. He has been able to raise his salary which speaks well for the 2nd Baptist church of which he has pastored for the past two years. VINITA, I. T. Royal Crown Temple of W.C. and Sisters of Purity gave an old folks concert. It was quite a success. The A. club met Monday night the 14th, and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Mrs. Lydia Garner, president; Mrs. Hannah Wright, vice-president; Miss Eva Bland, secretary; Mrs. Clarica Hollings, treasurer. Rev. W. W. Stewart has resigned the pastorate of the Mt. Zion Baptist church. Men that preach the Gospel must not hew to close with the Gospel ax. if they do they will find the tender place and will be asked to resign. The young people of Abilene organized a literary society and named it Scicenerona, and they are working nicely. Mr. Warren Warder is the president, and Mr. Solomon Geary, secretary. Mrs. Mollie Parks has been very sick, but is better now. The Sunday School elected Brother Samuel Hampton, Superintendent; he is infusing new life in every fiber of the work. The Abilene colored citizens are preparing to come together and talk about the condition of the race, as we find it very needful. READY January 1st. 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