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Spring Has Come--Now is the Time for the Boys to Trek to the Farms and Listen to the Voice of the Turtle. T1 historical Society late Baron. VOLUME III. The Outlook for K PAUL BRAY'S BUDGET. INTERESTING GOSSIPS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. CONGRESSMAN WHITES' MEMORIAL Hon John P. Green's Eloquent Tribute to a Brilliant Negro—Exercises at Metropolitan Church. THE RISE OF AN ABLE NEGRO. Metropolitan A. M| E church was taxed to its full capacity Friday evening the 22d inst, by our 2,000 people of Washington and elsewhere to participate in the testimonial and reception given to Ex-Congressman Geo. H. White. The occasion was full of interest and inspiration. It was an ovation that must have caused the able leader's breast to swell with pride and gratitude. What better evidence of the high esteem and value placed upon him by his race, could he desire? People from all parts of the country and representing nearly every faction of political leadership vied with each other in adding the highest praises for his splendid services to his race. Standing alone in Congress as the representative of 10,000,000 American citizens, confronted as he has been by the strongest opposition, Mr. White has fought persistently and hard for every right and interest of his race. He has done tails at a great sacrifice to his personal advancement. His record is unmarred by that selfishness HON. GEORGE H. WHITE, The last Negro Representative in Congress. which has marked so many leaders of our race. He is as fearless as a lion, has the courage of his conditions and above all, honest and manly. He is the type of leader the race wants.needs and must tie to. The speeches praising Mr. White were as numerous as they were good and the vast audience at no stage grew restless. The speakers of the evening were: Dr. J. Albert Johnson, pastor of Metropolitan A. M. E church. Prof. Kelly Miller, of Howard University; Prof. Jesse Lawson, of the Afro-American Council; Dr. W. ... brooke, pastor of 19th Street Baptist church; John P. Green, superintendent United States Stamp Agency, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, president of the National Association of Colored Women, Dr. W. S Montgomery, superintendent of Colored Schools of the District of Columbia, and Dr. W. J. Howard, pastor of Zion Baptist church. Mr. John W. Pope, Rich Square, N. C., on behalf of Mr. White's constituents at the Second Congressional District of North Carolina, in a clever little speech, presented Mr. White with a silver berry set, and Miss Ella M. Boston, superintendent of the National Memorial Home Association and the colored citizens of the District, presented the guest of the evening with a silver tea service. Owing to illness, Congressman Dick could not be present. Letters of regret were read by Miss M. L. Jordon from Dr. F. J. Grimke, and from Mr. Cortelyou secretary to the president. The letters of commendation were read by Miss Otte M. Brooks. During the course of Hon. John P. Green's speech the audience became greatly enthused. The people for the moment seemed to forget that they were in God's house, and rose to their feet cheering, yelling and wailing hats and handkerchiefs. It was like a political convention. Mr. Green is a very eloquent orator and the spirit which he put into his utterances electrified and caught his hearers. Address by Hon. John P. Green: When I left the State of North Carolina, where I had the honor of being born in 1857, our distinguished guest was not yet born. After an absence of 40 years and 6 days, I returned to the old North state, and found that in the meantime our distinguished guest had been born and was elected to Congress. I take great pleasure in standing here tonight to give praise to him: to sing the song of his praises, and for fear that some of his distinguished record might escape me. for you must know when you undertake to give the public career of George H. White, you cannot count the incidents on your fingers, and for fear that one or more of them would escape. I have put them on paper. 1. A teacher in the State Normal and other schools prior to the year 1880. 2. In 1879 admitted to practice law in all the courts of North Carolina. 3. In 1880 elected to the lower branch of the North Carolina Legislature. 4. In 1884 elected to the Senate of the State of North Carolina. 5. In 1886 elected as solicitor and prosecuting attorney of the Second Judicial District of North Carolina, and again elected to the same honorable position holding the office and discharging honorably and efficiently the du es pertaining to the same for the period of eight years. 6. Elected Delegate at Large to the St. Louis Republican National Convention and voted for the nomination of William McKinley, president of the United States. 7. Elected to the 55th and 56th Congresses, and here perhaps I ought to say, that in the States of Ohio, West Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania and many other states in the North, the Hon. George H. White has proven himself to be an orator of the first class in speaking for the Republican party, and it would be a very generous and very beautiful acknowledgment of the great services performed by this distinguished colored gentleman to the Republican party in its time of need to see him given a prominent and responsible position within the gift of the nation. As Congressman, Mr. White introduced and secured the passage of a number of bills of importance to his district, which cannot now be enumanted. He also introduced the following of general interest to the colored people of the United States: 1. To appropriate $1,000,000 to reimburse the depositors of the Freedman's bank. 2. A bill to appropriate the sum of $230,000, being bounties and back pay of colored soldiers not demanded by them or their heirs, $100,000 of which was for the erection of a home the balance to be put in government bonds for the support of the aged and infirm colored people in said home. This bill was drawn and introduced by Mr. Brownlow, of Tennessee, but was called up and pressed through the House by Mr. White, of North Carolina. It passed the House, but died in the Senate during the last hours of that body. 4. A bill for the protection of all citizens of the United States against mob violence. He could not bring to the support of that bill a sufficient number of votes to pass it. The last effort of Congressman White was the great speech which he made, and we all know about that speech. I want to read the closing paragraph of it: "Now, Mr. Chiarman, before concluding my remarks I want to submit a brief recipe for the solution of the so-called American Negro problem. He asks no special favors, but simply demands that he be given the same chance for existence, or earning a livelihood, for raising himself in the scales of manhood and womanhood that are accorded to kitted nationalities. Treat him as a man; go into his home and learn of his social conditions; learn of his cares, his troubles, and his hopes for the future; gain his confidence; open the doors of industry to him; let the word "Negro," colored," and "black be stricken from all the organizations enumerated in the federation of labor. Help him to overcome his weakness. punish the crime-committing class by the courts of the land, measure the standard of the race by its best material, cease to mold prejudicial and unjust public sentiment against him, and my word for it, he will learn to support, hold up the hands of, and join in with that political party, that institution, whether secular or religious, in every community where he lives, which is destined to do the greatest good for the greatest number. Obliterate race hatred, party prejudice, and help us to achieve nobler ends, greater results, and become more satisfactory citizens to our brother in white. This, Mr. Chairman, is perhaps the Negroes' temporary farewell to the American Congress; but let me say, Phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again. These parting words are in behalf of an outraged, heart-broken, bruised, and bleding, but God-fearing people, faithful, industrious, loyal people—rising people, full of potential force." PEKA PLAINDEALER. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1:01. CITY ELECTION NEXT TUESDAY. DO NOT FORGET TO GET OUT EARLY AND VOTE FOR A BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. TOPEKA NEEDS SANTA FE SHOPS DO NOT FAIL TO VOTE FOR THE BOND PROPOSITION-NOW IS THE TIME TO RESENT ABUSE EVERY REPUBLICAN WHO STOOD UP FOR A BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION OF OUR CITY AFFAIRS WILL HAVE A CHANCE ON APRIL SECOND TO VOTE FOR THAT KIND OF A MAN. We understand that Albert Parker the Citizens' nominee for mayor is, and always has been a strong advocate of city ownership of the water works. Next in importance to the success of the Santa Fe bonds, to the citizens of Topeka, is cheaper water. This is of especial interest to the laboring classes of this city. A strong effort is being made by the class of fellows who bolted the straight Republican ticket last fall to obscure the real questions before the people. The Plain-dealer stands for the progressive business of the city. The adoption of the bond proposition, and the city ownership of water works, means work for the laboring man and less cost of living. The severe criticism of the Warner supporters by the Hughes factions dures the late campaign, has given the Democratic leaders a means to break into the Republican ranks. The men who supported Mr. Warner are all good citizens anxious to promote the best interest of the city. Many of these men have been forced to the support of Mr. Parker because of this abuse. Republicans must learn that there is no argument in abuse. That it means no more, although it may come from Mr. Troutman, Mr. Foster or Larimer or Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, or any other good citizens. These were the last words uttered by George H. White, our honored citizen. I have given you his public life as a teacher; as a prosecutor, as a member of the Legislature, as a Congressman, and as a stumper. I give him to you as a prophet, and I guarantee that his prophecy will be fulfilled; and why will it be fulfilled, because this Negro race has wrapped up in it, as he says, potential force and because we are Americans. One man said here tonight that this is a white man's country. I deny that statement—it is not a white man's country. (Prolonged applause.) A race of people brought against their will to foreign shores; bleak shores from their sunny land; a race of people who came nere side by side with the white people; helped to chop down the trees, grub up the roots; plow up the virgin soil and plant producing cotton and tobacco; a race of people which has fought for this nation, poured its blood in a living stream; a race of people which worships the same God—no race of people can thus exist and not be a part of the community in which they live. (Great and prolonged applause.) There are just two men in this nation—the white man and the black man—no other man counts. The Chinaman does not, the Indian does not, the Japanese does not—no man counts in this country except the white and black man. No race other than the white man and the black man has presided in the Senate or sat in the halls of Congress. We came here against our will; our destinies are linked together. They might attempt to crush us; they might think we are about giving up the ghost, but as sure as there is a God in heaven above, or we have men like George H. White, and office or no office, we will fight these people to the end. (Prolonged applause.) When Mr. White arose to speak there was a repetition of the former scenes. He stood as one dazzed for nearly five minutes before the applause sufficiently subsided to enable him to proceed. With a voice that plainly showed how deeply he was affected, he thanked the people for the honor shown him and hoped that he would be able to measure up their expectations. Though out of congress he would continue to fight for the rights of his race. He would never falter in his duty. Mr. White is president of the local Afro-American Council which has completed arrangements for testing the constitutionality of the disfranchising amendments passed by the Louisiana and North Carolina legislatures. This is a step in the right direction. White is all right, all right. The country will hear from him again. Two years ago, a cry was raised that in the event of the election of certain candidates for councilmen the citizens of Topeka would have an extension of the water works and cheaper water rates. Those who have watched the course of this element in our city politics have seen only a lame attempt to do what the people have demanded. Keep this in your mind when you go into the booth to mark your ticket. Mr. Parker is one of the heavy tax-payers of the city and during his entire term as register of deeds employed a colored man, Mr. Geo, Waters, as clerk in his office. The Daily Capital is playing its inconsistent rate to the end. It is now insisting that the people that it abused and smote come up smilingly and kiss their hand. Consistency, what a jewel. We understood that the supporters and friends of Mr. Warner in the late primary can expect nothing from the Hughes element. This is mighty poor policy. When Republicans resorts to such methods, its time to sing the doxology. Colored people can rest assured that they will have a square deal under Mr. Parker. Colored voters and workers should see to it that all registered voters should get out on election day and cast their ballot. No one believes a candidate who says openly that all the respective people are on one side and the lawless element on the other. There are good men and tax-payers on both sides. The Pen and Pencil Club were the guest of honor at a banquet given by Ex-Congressman white last Monday evening. This is the second function of the kind given the club and second in the history of Washington where a leader of the race has gathered around the festive board in honor of the representatives of the Negro. It is a new departure and one that will bear its fruit. The critics of the Negro Journals cannot offer the fact that they have great influence in molding public sentiments and heralding the doings of the race so that all who read may learn of our progress. Such occassions as that of the white banquet bring out leaders closed to the people. Misses Gaskins and Gaines served the dinner; spread covers for forty guest. The menu was very toothsome and the wines and other assesories—well, they soon went downand the spirits of the members rose. President L. M. Hershaw acted as toastmaster. Among the speakers who responded to toasts were Messrs. H. Y. Arnett, R. H. Thompson, Rosco C. Simmons, H. P. Slaughter, A. O. Stafford, A. L. Manley, Edith E. Cooper, F. M. Sims, W. T. Menard, and others. PAUL H. BRAY. ANXIOUS TO GO HOME. Atlanta, Ga., March 19.—A petition asking the state of Georgia for transportation to Liberia has been presented to Gov. Chandler by representatives of the Negroes of Elbert county. The paper recites that the signers are tired of living in Georgia and states further a belief that the white people of Georgia would be glad to see them go. One thousand Negroes, mostly of the country cotton-feld-picker type, signed the petition. The largely increasing number of lynchings in this section is said to be at least partly the cause of the desire of the blacks to move. Gov. Chandler told those who presented the petition that he could do nothing for them. MANNED AND MANAGED BY NE- GROBS. The Charlotte "Observer's" correspondent, Mr. Bryant, who recently showed so clearly that the failure of the Vesta Cotton-Mill in Charleston was not due to the employment of Negro labor-since it had failed twice when employing white labor—now reports an interesting visit to Fayetteville, N. C. where there is a silk-factory not only manned but managed by Negroes. The mill is owned by a Northern firm—the Ashley & Bailey Company, which has large mills at Patterson, N. J., and also at Columbia and Marletta, Pa. Its North Carolina mill was built two years ago, and has been managed by Mr. T. W. Thurston, a mulatto formerly employed in the Paterson mills of the company. He has white foreman in two departments—a young German in charge of the reeling, and a young Englishman in charge of the weaving—but the rest of his hands are colored. The mill, as described by Mr. Bryant, is a three-story brick building, lighted and well kept, with over two hundred employees, who are as neat as their surroundings, and work with an animation showing pride in their position. The discipline of the mill, he says, is of an unusually rigid sort. As in all the mills in North Carolina, the employees are mainly girls and boys between ten and eighteen years of age, and the manager insisted upon having the right to correct these children in the old-fashioned way, if he took them into his mill. The colored people of the town, however, made no objection to this, and the number of applications was so great that he was able to select for the work only the more promising of the applicants. The friends of the manager insist that he has never resorted to whipping except where the boys have been guilty of the wanton destruction of machinery. Some of the whippings have occasioned scandal and have been severely criticised in the newspapers of neighboring towns. Nevertheless, says Mr. Bryant, the manager of the mill is working in the belief that he is bound to maintain military discipline, not only to make his mill a success, but to prove the capacity of his race. Among the mottoes about the mill, Mr. Bryant noticed the following: "Our battle-cry—Remember the failure of the Vesta Cotton-Mill;" and "We fight not against flesh and blood but against ignorance and idleness." "At first," says Mr. Bryant, "the people of Fayetteville feared that the employment of colored labor in the mill would cause racial trouble, but they are now convinced that it is a good thing for the town, from two standpoints: It takes the young Negro from the streets and makes a good citizen of him, and it pays out about four thousand dollars a month to be spent for food and clothing." Mr. Bryant reports that the mill is already a demonstrated success. The owners of the mill, however, more cautiously refer to it as an experiment which promises to be permanent. If Negro labor can not only man but manage a silk-mill its future success in the making of cotton is assured—The Outlook. LET US BE BRAVE. Editor E. L. Winters of the Corsicana Oil City Afro-American, judging by his utterances is aiming to arrest the attention of Negroes only, as he proceeds along the road of journalism. He addresses his criticisms when speaking of reprobates, to "colored reprobates;" when discussing gambling he makes it clear that he is discussing "colored gambling;" and so on he proceeds placing "colored" before all things which he does not find worthy of commendation. Editor Winters should remember that newdness, gambling, loafing and other crimes in Corsicana are not shortcomings which afflict Negroes only. He should remember that as a public journalist his paper should be broad enough to stand for morals, law and order, for the people throughout the land. We admit that it takes some nerve to take this position, but editing a fearless newspaper is a brave man's job. The Dallas Express is of the opinion that the crimes which afflict Corsicana and the balance of the country are offenses which the whites participate in more freely than the blacks, and the journal which cannot afford to go to the root of the evil should retire from the field of criticism, that those who have courage and convictions may have room to go on with the work of reformation. Conditions in Corsicana cannot be made what they should be by Negro's efforts alone. What is true of Corsicana is also true of the country at large. The truth is, all the people must come to have a higher regard for law and order. Public journals and public sentiment must rise high enough to endorse a bad Negro as against a bad white man, and vice versa, and until this is done law and order and constituted authority in this country will continue on the decline—Dallas Express. INHUMAN FIENDS. LET THE CITIZENS OF TOPEKA WATCH OVER THEIR DAUGHTERS BEWARE OF THE WHITE RAVISHER. White Brutes Abroad—Another Attempt to Ravish a Little Girl—Mr. Grotewhle's Daughter Subject to Assault. SLICK SLATER HAS SOME EMULA ORS. A short time ago this unusually quiet and moral city, was thrown into consternation over the brutal assault of Slick Slater, a white fiend, on the 16-year-old daughter of a prominent Santa Fe shopman. At that time, there was much talk of lynching this fiend. He succeeded in escaping the vengeance of an outrage people. The escape of this villian seems to have given encouragement to that class of fiendish brutes, who have no regard for the tender years of the girls. We take the following from the Daily Capital of 26th inst., which reveals a depth of deprivacy hardly to be expected in a community like Topeka: "Another fiend in human form is loose in the vicinity of Topeka. This fiend attempted an assault on 7-year-old Esther Grotewohl Sunday afternoon. Luckily the child broke loose from him, and gained the safety of a neighbor's home. "Esther Grotewohl is the daughter of W. E. Grotewohl. She left her home at 1246 West street at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon to attend Epworth league at Martin church. She was accompanied by her 4-year-old sister and two other little girls. A block distant form her home they met an elderly man with side whiskers, who stopped and spoke pleasanty to them. He singled out Esther particularly and talked to her while the other children went ahead. He showed her two rings on his fingers and asked if she would not like to have them. She assented, and he told her that if she would go around the corner and take a shirt from the line which belonged to him, and bring it to him, he would give her the rings. He also told her he had some candy and peanuts in a nearby barn which she could have "They went into the yard at 1524 West street, the residence of a Mr. Porter, and there the man caught her up in his arms and carried her forcibly into the barn loft. Once in the loft he drew a knife from his pocket and opened it. At this time the little girl grew frightened, and watching her chance, slipped out of his grasp, slid down the mow to the floor of the barn, and ran screaming to the house of her aunt, Mrs. George Grant, who lives in the same block, wither the other children had preceded her. Mrs. Grant hurried the children to their own home and there little Esther told the story of the assault. "When Mr. Grotewohl came home at 5 o'clock he found his family in hysterics. No attempt had been made to notify the police or the neighbors. The police were at once notified, and the neighborhood alarmed. A mob of angry men, neighbors of the Grotewhols, spent ueight night searching the country west of town for the fiend, but discovered no trace of him. "The distinguishing feature of the little girl's identification of her assailant was that he was an elderly man with side whiskers, and that he carried a basket on his arm. A man answering this description carrying a basket ate supper last night at a farm house just this side of Auburn. When the news came to Topeka Officers Goff and Bundy at once took the trail. They left Topeka about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and had not returned at a late hour last night. "It is thought that the man who attempted the assault is a resident of the Auburn vicinity, although it has not yet been possible to identify him with any resident of that community known to Topeka people. The people of the West street vicinity are very much wrought up over the matter, and if the man is brought back to Topeka he will need all the police protection he can get. HERE'S THE WAY TO TREAT 'EM A quartette of young white toughs jostled a colored woman on Main street in front of the Express office Wednesday afternoon. The woman, who was evidently an employee in some one of the tobacco actories, did not stand very much on ceremony or street etiquet and gave one of the fellows a genteel thrashing and left him and portions of his clothing floundering in the mud and water, greatly to the young fellows' discomfiture and the amusement of a large crowd of white and colored men who witnessed the thrashing which was justly administered—Richmond (Va). Reformer. NUMBER 13 PLEA FOR THE WESTERN NEGRO. (By J. Silas Harris.) Some Reasons Why the Western Negro Should be Recognized by the National Administration. The failure of the Western Negro, those living west of the Mississippi, to receive recognition at the hands of the National administration, is one of the strangest anomalies ever witnessed in the history of American politics. It is conceded by all, that the Western Negro is, in point of character, education and worth, easily the equal of his more favored Northern, Eastern and Southern Kansmen, yet he seems never to have been able to impress the powers that be, with the above facts to the extent of getting some of the good things that have gone to members of his race since their emancipation. Beginning with the administration of General Grant, a third of a century ago, the leaders of the Republican party began the creation of positions for those of their deserving Negro allies, who by their character, ability and worth, were entitled to, and well fitted for such recognition. But during all these years, a period which usually marks the life of a political party, the Western Negro has simply been a looker-on in Venice. It may be of interest to many of my friends who are seeking information, to relate some facts relative to this subject, that has never before, as I know, appeared in print. If all the Negroes who live in the Northern and Eastern tier of states should emigrate at once, their going would not cause the political complexion of a single one of these states to be changed, and the result of Mr. McKinley's first campaign was the first time in the history of the Republic, since the period of the reconstruction that a single vote from the south in the electoral college was given the Republican candidate for president. Yet every position given Negroes by the president, with two exceptions mentioned above, has gone to men living in east, north or south. We have here in the west an army of Negro voters, numbering more than a quarter of a million; men who not only vote the Republican ticket, but whose votes are counted, men who have fought their way to the front in all the great battle of the party, making it possible the election of Republican Congressmen, Governors, U. S. Senators, and even a president. And yet in the face of all this, there has been but two Negroes from this section ever appointed to a political position by the National Republican administration. I do not blame the president for this state of affairs, for it is believed, all other things being equal, that Maj. McKinley would as soon appoint a capable and deserving Negro from Alaska as to appoint one from Georgia. I hold that the white men of this section who are able to get the ear of the president, have been too busy seeking honors for themselves and their poor kin, to do anything to the Negro whose votes made it possible for said white men to be leaders. It is doubtful if the time will ever come when the Negroes who live in this section will support the Democratic party, but the time will come, unless they receive more recognition in the future than they have received in the past, when they will remain away from the polls and let these would-be leaders take care of themselves. It is my opinion that Negroes are big or little in the estimation of the world just in the proportion that they win and hold, or lose the respect and confidence of their Anglo-Saxon brother. There are men here who by education, and integrity, capable of filling any position that colored men have ever filled. There are three white men in Missouri who have never failed to do something to the deserving Negroes of Missouri, Kerens, Bitlinger and Warner, men around whom every Negro in the west is ever ready and willing to rally. I hope that we will have less cause to complain in the future than we have in the past. J. SILAS HARRIS. REV. SHELDON'S WORK. A meeting of the Village Improvement society was held Monday evening at the Congregational church in Teennessetown. The meeting was opened by the Rev Charles M. Sheldon, and in a short address he told of the benefits that had been derived from that the formation of the society and that it was one of the originators of the society that as far as possible his business should be left in the hands of the colored people themselves. Heretofore the business of the society has been largely in the hands of a committee composed of members of the Central Congregational church, and Mr. Sheldon said that the colored people should elect their own officers, and he then turned the meeting over into their hands. The officers elected were Jerry White as president and Miss Eva Over secretary. A committee was appointed to secure vacant lots for those who did not have ground on which to make a garden, or those who could not secure land for themselves. Those composing this committee are W. T. McKnight, Rufus Knott and others. They are the organizers of many lots as double and report at a meeting to be held Wednesday evening at the Congregational church. A committee has been appointed to select the prizes that will be given by the Improvement society this year. The prizes will be useful articles of various kinds. No money prizes will be given. Topeka Plaindealer. published at Topica, Shawnee county, Ks., every Friday morning by the Phaladeer Publishing Co., 124 E 7th st. NICK CHILES - - BUSINESS MANAGER J. H. CHILDERS - - EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year by mail ..... $1 Six months by mail ..... 75c Three months by mail ..... 55c Entered at the postoffice at Topeka as second class mail matter. [In order to insure publication of matter in the current issue, correspondence must be in this office no later than Tuesday] RACE LEADERS. Nearly a half century has elapsed since emancipation. During these years the Afro-Americans have enjoyed a rather checkered career. There has been much said and written about the wonderful development of our people. Much pride has been felt in the multiplication of churches and schools. But overshadowing all, the uppermost destro has been the demand for the enjoyment of civil rights. This has necessarily -rought to the trout men whose lives and education best fitted them to mingle with the politician and manipulator rather than the laborer and producer. Up to this time the Negro leaders have been essentially politicians, more or less selfish in their alms. The "welfare" and "best interest" of the race have been the stepping stones into lucrative offices. Once lifted into position and wealth, interest in the civil rights of the masses has ceased to disturb them. Of course there are exceptions to this rule, but as a general proposition it is true. In their anxiety to reap official recognition the leaders of our people seem to have entirely lost sight of our real condition. As a general proposition a people who own the soil and form a large portion of the great standing army of producers and industrialists, are not denied the right "to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Negro has made remarkable progress in the accumulation of property, but the greater part of his holdings are in the cities, where as an unskilled laborer he manages, by the strictest economy to make enough to satisfy the tax assessor and feed the multipig mouths. The Plaidealera has advocated from the beginning of its existence that the salvation of the Negro was on the farm. In the past ten years we have heard much rolling among the quasi-politicians and statesmen against the pauper emigrant of Europe. But we have seen this same "pauper" settle on the short grass plains of Kansas, and a few weeks ago some of them were making laws over at the State house. There are thousands of these same paupers coming to Kansas and the great west every year. They are taking up all the available cheap lands. By their industry and skill they are gradually encroaching on the tae sa-called "short grass regions" and causing it to blossom as the rose. The race is weak in leaders. Its leaders were planted in that time of the moon when they run to politics rather than business. Business is the keynote in this day and generation. The leaders of our people must awake to this fact. The race has politics enough to last it until its accumulated wealth has made it indispensable to this great republic. And when a people like the Jews work themselves by honesty, industry and economy, into the commercial life of this nation there will be no need for demanding legislative enactments to enjoy the ordinary amenities of life. And again. the preacher, like the politician, has preached our people from the farms to the city. Let them raise their voices and send them back. There are thousands of acres of land in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas that can be obtained cheap. Every year these lands are being taken by the "pauper" emigrant. It is high time that the race has more business and less politics derived into it. Andrew Carnegie has given $2,000,000 to public institutions in the past fifty days. How long will it be before a Negro can give as many cents to an institution calculated to benefit the race. Robert Church, the Memphis Negro who recently gave a thousand dollars to aid in the entertainment of Confederate veterans, will add a cubit to this height in the estimation of the race if he will endow some college erected for the education of Negro children, with some of his loose coin. GUESS IT'S COME Gee whiz! Is the millinium at hand? Last week Judge Candler of Fairburn, Ga., sentenced three prominent white men to life imprisonment for murdering a Negro who, it is charged, "informed" on them for illicit distilling. While this is true, yet it is hard to believe. This shows that there is some justice in the courts of the South for the Negro—Detroit (Micn.) Advocate. One hundred of the most prominent Negroes of Phillips county, Ark., met in Helena and organized the Phillips County conference. The purposes of the organization are for the betterment of the Negro race and their remaining on the farms and becoming farmers rather than denizens of the towns and cities, and the urging of the Negroes to work six days in the week. The practice of Negroes to rule, or ruin, does the race no good. Last week the forty-sixth annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church was held in this city. As a gathering of strong Christian men, earnestly devoted to the savings of souls, the world will never witness their superiors. The world owes much to the aggressive spirit of Methodism. Ever since John Wesley sought to reach that class of people that the church falls to reach, the power and influence of the great Methodist church has been steadily growing and increasing with years. In the closing days of the last century this great and powerful ecclesiastical organization pledged to add to its fold two million souls. That this work is being carried forward with the characteristic real and determination of the Methodist church, can be seen in the mighty blaze of religious ferver that is sweeping around the globe. But the Methodist church is not alone in this great religious awakening. At the opening of the new century more has been pledged to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ than ever before in the world's history. But along with this marvelous manifestation of God's presence, among men, one finds an equally strong manifestation of the influence of his satanic majesty. Since the opening of the present century, there have been more Negroes lynched and mobbed than ever before in the history of America. These lynchings have been accompanied by more horrible and sickening details than heretofore. It would seem, that this great Christain nation, not satisfied with the inhuman exhibition of fendish barbarity that occurred in Georgia where Sam Hose was burned, are seeking to invent more barbarous methods of torture. We take pleasure in quoting from the Central Christian Advocate, as an evidence that these practices of the best people of the South does not meet the approval of all. Editor Spencer says: BURNED AT THE STAKE. Well! It looks as if we might as well leave standing, electrotyped, our editorial on burning men alive, to use from week to week. Another such atrocity disgraced the State of Texas last week, when a Negro murderer was burned to death by a mob. Variety is lent to this horror, however, by the incidents, first, that the husband of the murdered woman made lunges at the Negro with a long knife, and second, that the governor made a noble effort to prevent the crime, and third, that the coroner eulogized the torturers. Gentlemen of exas, Kentucky, and everywhere else where mob violence is on the throne, be kind nought to remember that crime thrives on horrible penalties; that society is jeopardized, not protected, by reigns of terror; that there is no real protection but the orderly process of law. But yesterday, as it were, a human being was burned alive in Paris, Texas; now at Corsicana, Texas, the horror is repeated. Women and children looked on. How far is it, anyhow, from Paris to Corsicana? And again he says: THEY SHUT THE SALOONS. It is interesting to note that when the Negro was burned alive at Corsicana, Texas, last week, the "saloons were all closed." Why was that? Did not the saloons have a license? Is it not a legalized business? Why interfere. pray, with the "personal liberties" of the citizens of Corsicana, Texas, and the precious saloon-keepers? In order that the world might know that the "law comedy" of law enforcement is maintained, Coroner Roberts proceeded to deliver a verdict in which the fiendish outrage against public decency was condoned. Speaking of the verdict, the Central Advocate says: Last week a Negro, who had committed an atrocious crime, was taken by a mob from the officers of the law and burned at the stake at Corsicana, Texas, in the presence of more than 5,000 persons. Judge H. G. Roberts, acting coroner, who held an inquest over the remains of the Negro, issued a verdict which we give in part, as follows: "I find that the deceased came to his just death at the hands of the incensed and outraged feelings of the best people of the United States, the citizens of Navarro and adjoining counties." It is just a trifle singular how conspicuous the "uest people" usually are at a lynching. There was one thing about the affair that was quite unfortunate, and that is that a whole train-load of persons who went there for that purpose did not reach Corsicana in time to enjoy seeing the victim burned. What a pity that was, and how keen must have been their disappointment! Still, as burnings at the stake are getting to be common nowadays, they may have a chance in the near future to witness a spectacle of this kind, especially if they are among the "best people." And who could doubt that for a moment? If there is the least doubt or hesitancy on the part of any kindly disposed Christian, let them carefully study the moral conditions of the South and then give lavishly to domestic missions. There is a gigantic problem facing the Christian workers of America, of far greater importance than the Chinese question. What is to be done with the vicious deprivation of the so-called best element in the South? What is to be done to suppress the rapidly increasing criminal classes all around? These are problems for the Christian workers. Now how shall they be solved and by whom? ALL FIENDS NOT BLACK Henry Hobbs, a white man, assaulted a 11-year-old girl at Winchester, O. This is another proof that Negroes do not commit all the crimes; that there are a few white scoundrels and fiends, too. This valuable work is published in one large volume of over 400 pages, and beautifully illustrated with more than 60 original drawings and photo-engravings — size 6 by 8½ inches. SEND YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. We want you to give a copy of this autobiography of the greatest Negro writer, Wendell Berry, in every county and district in the country to sell wantests in every county and district in the country to each town. Write now and be sure to get a copy. Address: Ashvile, N. C., March 17.—Biltmore is often described by enthu-slas as the finest private estate in the world, and perhaps there is nothing in the United States to compare with it in cost or extent, although in Europe—in England, France and Germany—are several country establishments, not including the retreats of royalty, that surpass it in various respects, and after hundreds of years of cultivation are now what Biltmore may be when it has reached the same ripeness and maturity. Biltmore is a single tract of field and forest, including Mount Pisgah, 5,757 feet high, with an area of 147,000 acres. There is only one break in the regularity of the boundary. A little wedge-shaped farm projects into it near the chateau. It is owned by a Negro, ignorant and obstinate, who has steadfastly refused to se., his little place to Mr. Vanderbilt except at a preposterous price. There is no truth in the stories that have been printed in sensational newspapers about attempts to rob this Negro of his little home, nor of the persecutions which he is alleged to have endured from the millionaire neighbor. Mr. Vanderbilt bought the immense tract of land he owns here in the open market. The average price for the whole was about $2.50 an acre. When the Negro farmer referred to was approached he asked advice of a white man, who told him not to sell, so Mr. Vanderbilt's agents paid no further attention to him. When preparations for building the chateau commenced a sidetrack four miles long was laid from the regular track of the Southern railroad for the transportation of material. It could have been shortened considerably if the Negro had permitted it to run through his land. He demanded an unreasonable compensation, which Mr. Vanderbilt declined to pay, and there have been no further negotiations. THE NEGRO IN BUSINESS. The condition of the colored man in this country demands serious consideration from a business standpoint. Is the negro a business factor? That is the question. Can he become a business factor in his present condition? There is a great deal of sentiment in the Negro and not enough business qualities. He carries his sentiment in everything he undertakes. He lacks business principles and lacks the force that should go to make up a real man in the business world. He is deceptive with those of his own race and seeks to take advantage of the more unfortunate. In this city there is no end to the business advocates and those persons who pretend to be so much interested are the persons when they go to purchase goods seek the wholesale stores and other business places kept by those who are intimical to the Negro. If the Negro were a reading class by now there would be at least 50 to 100 first class daily papers printed in the United States. As it is we have hundreds of weekly papers in the United States edited by colored men and it is true, yet painful to state. that a majority of these papers, if not all of them, are supported by white people. The Negro fails to help himself. There is too much jealousy in the race. Until the Negro can be broad enough to help one another it will be years before he will be a factor in the business world.—The Washington Bee. NEGRO INVENTIONS The report of the United States Commissioner of Patents, submitted to Congress last week, showing information concerning Afro-American inventors: "To some 165 colored inventors about 400 patents have been issued. Twenty-eight patents have been issued to one, and to another twenty-two. So far as the records show, Henry Blair of Maryland was the first colored patentee. In 1834 he received a patent for a cornplanter, and in 1836 one for a cottonplanter. Employed in the field and in the house, improvements in agricultural implements and articles of domestic use predominate. The sphere of their inventive effort has widened with the added opportunities afforded them to engage in mechanical vocations. They have made contributions to the electric arts and steam engineering, and many, improvements in railway appliances, paper bag machines, etc. Before the civil war the master of a slave in Mississippi made application for a patent, but the Attorney General held in an opinion reported (Attorney General's opinions. Volume IX., page 171) that an invention of a slave, though it be new and useful, could not be patented—The Outlook. PROSPERITY ITEM No less than 140,000 homes are held free of debt by southern Negroes. These have been estimated at an aggregate value of $140,000,000. The holdings of personality by the race are probably worth more than the reality. Illiteracy has decreased among them nearly 50 per cent in twenty years. A. H. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. A. Y. M. G. A. ORGANIZED. Organized on Monday night at Guy Hall. During the past few weeks a strong effort has been made to perfect such an organization. For the past two weeks a bible class has been meeting every Monday night at 429 Kansas avenue. Last Monday night an organization was effected with the following officers: Prof. W. R. Carter president, Capt. W. M. Reynolds; vice-president; Gaitha Page, Secretary and Dr. W. E. Jackson, treas. BUSINESS MEN'S CLUB BUSINESS MEN'S CLUB. Last Tuesday evening a number of the business men of the city met at the office of Mr. J. H Guy for the purpose of organizing a business men's association. Rev. G. W. Guy presided and Mr. Overton acted as secretary. Committees were appointed as follows: On constitution, Mr. Overton, H. C. Odel and J. M. Ferguson. On permanent officers, G. J. Coleman, J. S. King and W. E. Thompson. Decided to meet Tuesday evening April 9th to perfect the organization at which time all colored business men are requested to be present. The Dally Capital has passed into new hands. A new company headed by Mr. Arthur Capper who was at one time a Capital reporter. Mr. Capper has for a number of years very successfully published the Topeka Mail and Breeze. In the hands of a capable newspaper man like Mr. Capper, the Dally Capital will become the most influential daily in the state. It will be agreeable information to Miss Cora C. Cole many friends to know that she is located at Springfield Ohio. Miss Cole was in Topeka last year as contalto in the Fisk Jubilee singers, and made many friends. She has contributed the interesting series of articles entitled an Afo-American Girl in Europe. Miss Cole is now engaged in the Millinery business. Speaking of blind Justice here's a Kansas sample. A white fiend raped a little colord girl over in North Topeka. We understand that he got two years in the penitentary. A Negro was accused of raping a white woman in Leavenworth, and is burned at the stake. From this kind of justice, Good Lord, deliver us! Beware of the white fiends. They are abroad attempting to rape little girls. Negroes must raise up and protect the community. The Afro-American Girl in Europe will tell about Stockholm and the customs of the Scandinavians next week. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION FOR SOUTHERN WHITES. The truth of the Democratic principle that if you lift up the bottom of society you lift up the whole of society is illustrated by the success of the Southern Industrial College at Camp Hill, Ala. This college, which educates young white men from the surrounding territory, owes its start directly to an address given by Mr. Booker T. Washington in New York City several years ago. One of his hearers, the Rev. Lyman Ward, felt strongly that a work similar to Mr. Washington's should be done for the white people of the South, and, after urging it upon others, became concerned that it was his own duty to undertake it. When he first went South, he was of no uncertain as to how his proposal would be nevertheless, instead of going to the mountain whites, who had never looked down upon manual work as menial, he went into a district in Alabama where the whites before the war were supported by slave labor, and opened a school to teach white boys how to work intelligently as well as how to study. His appeal to the common community proved effective, and the scholars came. For financial support, also, he appealed to the outset exclusively to the South. Though the northern of Northern birth and Abolitionism, Mr. Ward decided that he would not work in the South unless the South came in slowly and in small sums, but the first building secured entirely paid for by Southern contributions. In managing the college Mr. Ward's principles, like Mr. Washington's, has been that the school must raise its own food, make its own furniture and apparatus, and put up its own buildings. The college now has a good attendance, and would have a larger one if there were room to accommodate it. In an address in this city last month, President Ward said that the people of the South now recognize that emancipation freed the white man as the Negro, but that the whole nation would believe that it has responsibilities to the emancipation as well as the emancipated blacks. The fact that the white people of the South welcome industrial education makes it, he believes, the duty of the North to help the industrial education of those who were not taught to work under slavery, and whose wealth was blotted out by the war.—The Outlook. J. L. NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, IL DON'T BE DUPED There have been placed upon the market several cheap reprints of an obsolete edition of "Webster's dictionary." 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Williams and children of Sedalia, Mo., are visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. M. G. Holloway and two daughters of Horton are visiting her mother Mrs. R. Keith. Mrs. Rosa McCarroll left Monday for Memphis Tennessee to visit her father who is very ill. Henry Davis and Jas. Mooreman of Excelsior Springs, Mo., spent Sunday in Kansas, City. The Ladies Sewing Circle of St. John's A. M. E. church met Wednesday with Mrs. J. Bennett. The Ad Astra Mandolin club is making fine music these days. They have reached a point that they are invited to play at all free doings. Mrs. Caroline Helm died in Kansas City March 19th and was buried in this city Wednesday March 20th. She leaves four children to mourn her loss. Dr. O. A. Taylor has invested in a new rubber tire cart. The amiable doctor is not only a good judge of disease and their cure, but he has an eye for comfort and elegance. R. J. Rice returned home Tuesday of last week from K. C. where he has been during the past winter and expects to remain for the summer with his brother in the ice cream business. Mrs. W. B. Townsend of Leavenworth and Mrs. S. S. Dilbert of Kansas City, are in the city attending the meeting of the Executive committee of the Federation of Womens Clubs of Kansas. The funeral of Mrs. Austin E. Sharp was held from St John A. M. E. church at 1:30 p. m. last Sunday. Services were conducted by Bethany Chapter No. 8, O. F. S. The funeral was largely attended. Last Sunday at the Shiloh Baptist church a rally was held of which a neat sum was raised. Rev. Joseph Fulton formally of Topeka and graduated of Roger-William College, conducted morning and evening services. The executive committee of the Art Federation met at the Parlor's of Hotel Chiles, Wednesday afternoon and arranged the program for their annual meeting in June. Mrs. W. B. Townsend of Leavenworth, presiding. The Merrit Sisters Concert at 118 West 8th. st. on Tuesday in the interest of St. John A. M. E. Church, was a musical success. The youg ladies were assisted by their brother William Merritt a tenor singer of ability. Concerts by the sisters are always pleasing and enjoyable. The most conspicious features of the concert was the manifest rudness of a part of the audience who persisted in talking during the rendition of the program. The eternal destiny of the children is placed, in a most important sense, in the hands of their parents. The parent is under obligation to instruct and cause his child to be instructed, in those religious sentiments which he believes to be according to the will of God. With his duty in this respect no one has a right to interfere. As soon as he becomes a parent, his decision on this subject involve the future happiness or misery, not only of his own soul, but also of that of another. It is the duty of the parent to teach his child its duties to God and to men, and produce in its mind a permanent conviction of its moral responsibility and especially should it be the constant effort of the parent to cultivate in his child a spirit of piety, or a right feeling towards God, the true source of every other virtue. It seems as though this neglect of installation of deep reference for diety, is one of the prevelent sins or infirmities of our heavy burdened race. Our mothers and fathers in many instances failed to do their duty toward their children. This failure appears strikingly in precept and practice. First in practice. The home life of many parents is one of retrogression instead of progression to their children. Parents who constantly use profane language in the presence of their children, are living monuments of profanity in the offsprings eye and having been born, with love for parents, and thinking or believing to the greatest degree that the parent is right in all things, easily and readily acquire the habit and unless some almost super-human agency is employed to devest them, become habitual blasphemers and regard not the blessed commandment, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." Some parents descend from the human to the brute level and fight like cats and dogs, disturb the peace of their neighbors and quiet of the community and the children fall into line, the son beats his wife when grown to manhood and the daughter either beats her husband or suiting her action to mama's action, submits while her loving and lordly husband applies the chastening red. The necessary moral tone is wanting in many of our homes. The mind of the child, like wax, easily receives and retains impressions. Many parents make it a practice of relating immoral jokes, fables, etc., in the presence of the children and tell them they will kill them if they ever relate what they hear mama and papa say at home; yet the parent seems to forget that each relation of impure matter leaves its sordid imprint on the mind of the child and sends it out in the world with a home accumulated stock of pithy learning and thus the iniquity of the father is visited into the children. In the dark and cruel days of slavery when our people reposed in God alone their trust, they were careful of the home training and thank God there are many mothers and fathers today who value the soul of their child or children so much, that at the dear expense of personal comfort they shield the childs mind. Our father's and mother's of the dark past were very careful of their conversation; when all the children were safely tucked away in their trundle beds and bright eyes were closed, mother and father would draw away to a silent corner of the room and in whispered tones convey to each other such things as was not suitable for childrens ears, but the modern plan is to announce everything before children and thus create a channel of perpetual gossip. Such things should not be. PRIDE OF TOPERATENT No 88, meets 1st and 4th Saturday afternoon of each month at No. 809 North Kansas avenue. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, Q. M. Miss Ana Reynold, C. R. MACDONIA TABBINAGLE No. 90, U. K. at Hall 909 N. Kansas Avenue. Meets 1st and 4th daysions of each month. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, C. P.; Miss Sarah Walker, C. R. MACDONIA LODGE NO. 90, GOOD SAMARITANS AND DA'LIGHTERS of SAMARIA, meets second and fourth Friday evenings of each month at 8 o'clock, at 113 East Street Seventh. Visiting Samaritans are always welcome. W. E. Jackson, Chief Allie Lawson, Record Securing Every action and word of the parent should be well weighed for on them our children hang with earnestness and persistency. Mothers and fathers, in order to raise children who will be a credit to the race and to humanity, must set a living example before them. The example by precept will appear in next issue. The Juvenile Choir organized by J.R. Martin, is an organization of which to be proud and before many months shall pass, it will be one of the leading choirs in the city. Everybody is invited to attend the installation of Rev. W. E. Helm at 3:30 p. m. Sunday. Let everybody attend and give the Reverend and his amible wife a royal reception such as Topeka only is capable of doing. Rev. W. E. Helm, pastor in charge, Shiloh Baptist church, Mrs. R. L. Helm and their two children, arrived in the city Monday morning over the C. R. I. rail road. Mrs. R. L. Helm will take charge of the musical department of the church and the members and friends of Shiloh may be assured of an advancement along the musical and literary lines. In the absence of Pastor Helm the members and friends of Shiloh church, stormed his residence and when the smoke of battle cleared away there was provisions of sll kinds, enough to last some time, left in the parsonage. Come again, dear friends, a faithful loving congregation make a strong aggressive, christian pastor. We extend our thanks to Messrs. Jordan, Patten, Guy Brothers, Rev. W. B. Brown and other firms whose names we did not receive, but who contributed libarally, we shall reciprocate. We received the sad news of the death of our old friend Mr. Willie Lowmax of Abbleville, S. C. He leaves a mother, sister, brother, and wife to mourn his loss. His father was senator for this county for several years during the reconstruction, and did much to advance the cause of his race, he was killed while on his way to Columbia the Capital by the giving away of a rail roal bridge. Willie was a big hearted young man; everybody who came in contact with him learned to love and respect him. The citizens of Abbleville both colored and white will miss him for along time to come. The family has our deepest sympathy. The Shiloh Baptist church will install their Pastor Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p. m. March 31 st. The public is invited to attend. The program for the ocbassion will be as follows: Opening chorus.....Choir Prayer.....A. B. Stoner. Paper the ideal Pastor.....G. A. Page Sermon.....Rev. W. L. Grant Song.....Choir Charge to the Pastor...... .....Rev. P. W. Crannell Charge to the church...... .....Rev. De. Cellard Song.....Choir Closing remarks...... .....Rev. W. E. Helm at 8:00 p. m. Rev. Helm will preach his introductory sermon. 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 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 of R OZON). It was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent until 1875 when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a thigh test by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy, 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 can e 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 initiate 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 buying these spurious compounds, which are filled with animal fat, and do the hair more harm than good. For these let us sound a warning—be careful what you use on your hair. Do not be deceived by flaring adverti-ements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics. OZONO. which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $0.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $0.00 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 Ozono 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 Tonics. 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. Icch, Eczema, Dandruff, and Seurf cannot 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, right 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 hair, and use them to drop out. Ozone straightens without any outside assistance. Nothing else can straighten 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 to us, enclosing 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 cures all skin diseases. Also 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, freckles, and all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look younger. 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. KANSAS PACKING HOUSE MARKET, Wholesale and Retail. Fresh and sugar cured Meats. SCHMIDT BROS., SECOND ST. Stronger and closer spacing than any other make. Our Union Lock Hog, Field and Cattle Fence, Union Lawn Fence Gates, etc., guaranteed first class. Your dealer should handle this line-if not, write us for prices. Catalogue free. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Traveling the States Colorado, Cansas, and the Five (5) Daily Passes in each direction, between The Famous Are reached ONLY N NIPPS, Agent, TOPEKA, KAS. KANSAS PACK 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 Threat or Mouth, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chiblaina, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all snails and colors arising from the hum in body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. The a total value of this Grand Aggregation is $140, 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 it 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 to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va. We have then and of testimonials we have not space to publish. Here is a sample of one: Doctor Chemical Company: Dear Sirs,—You are at liberty to in any new uppe that I have written (NO), and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been found so often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. PATTERN AFTER AFTER A. C. L. COAL COMPANY Is Headquarters for the Cheapest Prices, the Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the Promptest Deliveries. Get their Prices on WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Office 402 Minnesota Avenue. Telephone 152 West. Yard and Storage 917 and 919 North Third Street. E. F. HENDERSON, Manager, Kansas City, Kansas. CARY SAFE COMPANY BUFFALO, N. Y., U. S. A. ...Manufacturers... Fire and Burglar Proof Safes VAULTS, LOCKS, ETC. Contracts to United States Government. ATCHISON. Letters are being received on the absolute necessity of secret race unions throughout the country. Read Scatner Morgan's letter and admit we must be up and doing. The Globe cannot disguise its hatred for the colored people. Every now and then a pretet is found. The latest was infamous white women against colored women. Miss Mal Bowen will spend the Easter at St. Joseph. Miss Myrtle Porter is looking better since her recent illness than she looked before. The musicale Thursday by Greenly, Johnson and Robers was quite creditible. Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Kertford of St. Joseph, who suffered from a disastrous fire at their home last week, have replied the damages and are at home again to the pleasure of their many friends in Atchison. All the churches and Sunday schools promise us a big Easter. Mrs. Nation was here Saturday evening acting what would be called by the white people "very silly," had she been a colored woman. The Negroes have white instructors for every ignorant and silly act, stuil they blame a few of them. The colored voter is truer in his vote than any other set of voters, and no one need have the night-mare over him. Miss Petenelo Rucker went to Kansas City last week. The voters will elect W. T. F. Donald mayor next Tuesday and all the rest of the ticket. Miss Beatrice Esters will leave next week for an extensive visit to California. Mrs. Rachel Glens returned home Saturday from a week's visit with friends in Kansas City. City. Mrs. Lulu Jackson, of Shelbyville, KY, she has a pleasant visit in this city. She as many friends here to welcome her. Dr. Brown has entered on his duties as high school trustee. LEAVENWORTH NEWS. Miss Coran entertained for her friend Mrs. B. F. Sharpe, last Friday, who has left for a visit at her home in Springfield, Mo. Miss Coran is very tall and graceful. She is one of the modles of young women and has a host of friends. The invited were: Mr. and Mrs. Harding, Messrs. and Mdesdames and Mrs. Harding, Messrs. and Mdesdames, Gillmore and Fields: Misses Young, Chesian, Kate Sharpe, Wake, Anderson, Taylor, Gilliam, Jones and Sharpe. Seventeen were present. Next to the excitement caused by the coming of Mrs. Nation is the coming of city election. The white people seem to be all worked up to a frenzy about who shall be mayor of Leavenworth, that is the only question, for after the personel of the ticket has been looked into you will find but little difference in the make-up of the several tickets. Democrats seem to have been selected to fil out the Republican ticket. No colored men were given a place on the ticket and none need not apply, for that matter, because the Republican party in Leavenworth is like it is fast becoming throughout the state, a white Republican party and Negroes not apply. All they are wanted for is to vote and whoop 'em up. A great many of the colored women and men have not registered and many of those who have registered will not vote for any candidate but for city attorney and for the bonds to build new schools. Judge Harkness who is on the ticket for city attorney is a good lawyer, and is a friend to the colored people. When he was judge of the city court colored people were treated fairly and when juries were called in his court colored men were selected in common with white men, so when the colored people vote. If they vote at all, they should see you vote for Judge Harkness for city attorney and for the school bonds. The remainder of the ticket had just as well be left unvoted for. Now, on Tuesday, when they send their carriage to haul you to the polls to vote for one white man against another I ask you voters of Leavenworth to consider that this is entirely a white man's fight and the result of which will not benefit the colored people in any particular. Consider the wrongs that have been heaped upon the race in the last few months and only one white man in Leavenworth was their friend enough to say it was wrong to burn a human being. They will tell you to vote and "clean out the ring." What assurance have any of you that if the so-called Republican ticket is elected that the police who took a part in the burning of Alexander will be told to go? Second-hand political promises before election are worth nothing after election. I am informed that there is a young long-legged boy who is a candidate for judge of the police court running this time on the so-called Republican ticket. Last year he ran on the Democratic ticket. It is said of him that he takes delight in abusing our people when they come before him, that he imposes the greatest fines, that he people, that other ropes out of his way, that them severe tongue-lashings, calls them liars and often tells them they are "sassy" to white folk. If he is that sort of a man it would be better to talk back at him now by not voting for him and allowing his opponent to be elected. During the strike down in the coal mine at the penitentiary when 300 convicts threatened to kill fifteen officers and blow up the mines, a convict colored boy who was at work in the mines climbed 720 feet to the top of the shaft and informed the warden of the eminent danger of the guards being killed by the revolting prisoners. The warden called for volunteers from among the guards who would go down to the rescue of the imprisoned guards. Nine men came forth and told the warden they were willing to bid good-bye to their families and risk their lives to try and save the helpless guards, four of those were colored men, the prisoner who crawled to the top and others, Dave Welch, Tipton and Bowers. These men went down and fought with the convicts and captured them and saved the lives of the imprisoned guards. All credit is due to the bravery and loyalty of those guards and they should not only be kept in the employ of the state as long as they desire, but should be recognized in a fitting manner by the warden or governor. FROM A BY-STANDER. LEAVENWORTH ITENS. Rev. W. H. Brown, of Osakaoba, visited friends in the city last week. The pastor of Kansa, has been called to pastor the First Baptist church in this city. Mr. Geo. McAlister was the guest of Miss Minnie Davis last Sunday. Jolly Oaks has last Sunday. The Jolly Oaks club entertained at the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Toller's March 22, for the benefit of the Benevolent allh. The Ladies' Guild, of St. Phillips Mission met with Mrs. Thomas Gish, Wednesday afternoon. The ladies are busy for preparing to give an entertainment as soon as possible after Lent. All members are requested to meet the Guild at the residence of Mrs. Wm. Williams, April 3rd. Light refreshments will be served. The Ladies of the Independent Baptist church are working up an entertainment to be given in May. As is all of their entertainments, this will be up-to-date. The Blossom Art club met with Miss Española Hill the 20th Inst. The next meeting will be with Miss Mary O'Banion next Wednesday. LINCOLN. Mrs. M. Wooton who has been confined to her bed for two weeks is convalescing. Mrs. J. G. Gillum is able to be out and Mrs. H. M. Williams. Rav. W. H. Spree, formerly of this city passed through last Thursday accompanied by his wife, enroute, to Broken Row. Mrs. Julius Miller is improving from her serious spell of illness. The Douglas debating club gave a very enjoyable table social at the K. pail Wednesday. Mrs. J. W. Cooke, after a very pleasant visit of three months among relatives and friends a. Topeka. Des Moines and Omaha, returned home last week very much recuperated. Mrs. Lizzie Palmer returned from Ablene, Kan., Thursday. A grand Silver Dollar rally will take place at the Mt. Zion Baptist church Laster Sunday. The choir will furnish a special musical program. The following officers were elected for the next quarter of the B. Y. P. U. of the Mt. Zion church. Miss Luetta Garner, president; Miss Mary Hawkins, vice; Miss Helen Blair, secretary; Miss Belle Wiggins, treasurer. A special Easter program will be rendered by the Sunday school of the A. M. E. church on Easter Sunday to which a large attendance is desired. Rev. E. P. Gulger and wife left last Monday to attend conference at Fort Scot, Kans. The best wishes of the community go with him, that he may be returned to this charge again, as he proved himself an energetic pastor. EMPORIA. Miss Nellie Erans and Mr. Peter Duncan are on the sick list this week. Mr. Isaac Barr accompanied Mr. Frank Childs to his home in Newton where they are visiting relatives and friends this week. Mr. Saunders of Kansas City, Mo. is in the city visiting relatives and friends. Miss Nellie Titent spent a few days at her home near Plymouth last week. at her home near Plymouth last week. Mr. Harl Irving and Miss Nora Clay, of Americus, were married at the Second Christian church last week, now are at home to their many friends out seven miles northwest of the city. M. S. P. Johnson, one of Emporia's most intelligent and loyal citizens, will leave for California next Tuesday afternoon, which place he anticipates making hus future home. Mr. Johnson has proven himself a perfect gentleman from his youth on up until the present, and his gentlemen and business like manners together with his pleasant ways has made for him, not only in the city of Emporia, but all over the state many friends who will regret hearing of his sudden and far away departure. Besides being the true Christian that he is Mr. Johnson was also a faithful worker in the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, where just before his recent resignation, he held the honorable position of District Grand Secretary of vacancy. Mr. P. F. Johnson, which was appointed by the executive board to fill Mr. Johnson's many friends as well as his co-workers of the G. U. O. of, F. and H. H. of R. wish him success in his future and grand undertaking. Mr. John Hudson and family have moved into their new residence on South Cottonwood street. Mr. Bert Rich is home hand-shaking with his many friends again. WESTERN UNIVERSITY NOTES. Our president, Prof. W. T. Vernon, left Sunday morning for Topela. He spent three or four days on business. Prof. Bowman, teacher in architecture and mechanical drawing, is the acting principal. Mr. Sylvester Banks. one of our last year's graduates, and his cousin, Miss Shelton, were welcome visitors at the school ast week. They were shown through the various departments and expressed a hearty approval of the work. Prof. Jno. C. Woods, the teacher in printing and instructor of our culture, called the school together Friday evening at 4 o'clock for a rehearsal of commencement music. They will meet again later. Prof. John Scales, of Kansas City, Mo., president of the James A. Handy Literary society, has announced that the election of officers will occur Friday night, on which occasion no program will be rendered. On last Friday eve the J. A. H. Literary society was graced with the presence of three distinguished gentlemen. Professors Milton Collins, Thomas Collins and Buffkin. Each made interesting remarks to the society which were very encouraging. Miss Amanda F. Moon, supervisor of the Christian Endeavor, has announced the election of officers for said body to take place some time this week and not Sunday night as this would interfere somewhat with the regular routine of work. The past officers were present at their post of duty and we can only hope the future ones will be as faithful. Mrs. Morris, matron of the college, spent Sunday in Leavenworth, arriving home Monday morning in time for class work. Mr. Samuel Calvin of Los Angeles, Cal., left for his home Tuesday morning. Mr. Joseph Brooks is on the sick list. Mrs. Brooks, wife of Rev. W. B. Brooks, and daughter, Miss Sadie, were visitors Friday night. The series of articles on education by Prof. W. E. Gray will be resumed in this paper next week. The next subject treated will be the "Teory and tendency of modern education" NORTH TOPEKA Rev. H. W. White took charge of B Street Baptist church at Sunday and preached two excellent sermons. Rev. White is a minister of great talent and will do the church great good. He is the man in the right place. The Sunday School will have an Easter egg hunting the Saturday afternoon, April 6th. The hunt will begin at 4 p. m. The children will meet at B Street Baptist church and at 4 p. m. they will form a line and will be led by the pastor. Rev. White and books for the pastor. Rev. White Children from 3 to 6 years will pay 5 cents and children from 7 to 12 years will pay 10 cents to look for eggs and all they find they can have. Ever child in the city is invited to come and take part. Mrs. M. D. Jones is preparing to give a drama of Queen Esther banquet at Lukin's opera house some time in May. The Progressive club, of which Miss S. A. Barker is president, has been started and promises to do great work for the Santa Fe club, of which Mrs. Amanda Alexander is president, gives a 10-cent lunch at her home on Taylor street Friday afternoon, March 29th. Miss Ethel Haley celebrated her sixth birthday at her home, 509 Paramore street, last Saturday. A large number of children were present and sh received a good many presents. She was invited to attend. Everybody is invited to attend the literary at B street Baptist church every Thursday evening. INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE NOTES. Have you seen a copy of the Western Correlator? It is printed by the students. We sure to subscribe for it. All of the departments are running in "full blast" now. Our pupils take readily to the work that is assigned them. The Mother's League will meet Monday afternoon. It is carnestly hoped that every member will be present. Visitors are always welcome. Principal Carter is attending the M. E. conference that is in session at Fort Scott this week. Prof. Carter tries to keep in touch with the brethren. There will be a consecration service held at the Institute Sunday afternoon. Misses Mary Jamson and Kate Harris will conduct the service. These meetings are always interesting and helpful. Try to attend Sunday and bring your friends. We know that our many friends will be pleased to learn that there will be a concert and literary concert given at the Institute next Tuesday night, April 5th. A choice program will be rendered. Refreshments in abundance. Admission ten cents. Do you subscribe for the Plaindealer? If not, why not? It is the greatest and best Negro paper published. The Silver Dollar Club gave a very enjoyable concert at the Shiloh Baptist church on Thursday night. The piano playing of Mrs. Helm and the orchestral work of the Ad Astra Mandalin Club were the special features of the evening. The concert was a financial success. Mrs. M. E. Langston is quite till at her home 1315 Vanburon st. Mrs.Robert J. Buckner is supplying at Loman Hill School. George Washington Mason on East twelveth street is very ill. YALE NOTES. The birthday party given by Mrs. Fanny Henderson in honor of her husband's birthday was a brilliant success. He received several nice presents, including handkerchiefs and ties. Miss Sadie Martin, of Coffeyville, and Misses Maria Pickens and Granada Turner, of Pittsburg, spent one day and evening in Yale, and were royally entertained at the residence of Dennis Hudson by Dr. J. T. Whitaker, Mesdames Walker and Williams. Mrs. J. P. Pentleton is on the sick list. A revival under the direction of Rev. J. D. Morrow is in progress at the Baptist church. There has been one convert. The public installation of Culan- theans at the hall on Mouday night was a success. School is progressing as usual. Mrs. A. J. Rogers spent Friday in Pittsburg. The pastor of the A. M. E. church, Rev. J. C. Gratton, has began prac- ticing the children for Easter. Sidney Johnson is improving. Mrs. Mattie Williams spent a part of Thursday in Pittsburg, on busi- ness. Do you realize that Cotton is bringing the highest price that it has done for over ten years. Do you realize that in the Northwest industries are springing up, factories are running wages are increasing and peace, happiness, and prosperity is with us, and money is going to be plentiful and abundant—North, South, East and West. In every pocket you will hear the chink of coin, and every pocket-book will be fat with greenbacks. Our agents are already coining money—some of them making as high as $80.00 weekly. Our laboratory is running today to fill orders. Our goods are giving such decided satisfaction, every one is pleased. My friend, don't waste time for time is money; but sit right down and write to us, and we will tell you how to make money every minute in the day, if you will only be our agent. It does not matter whether or not you are at work. You can work in spare time. Our agents are all prospering and rising in the world. Write for full particulars to— Boston Chemical Co., 310 E. Broad St. Richmond. Va. NORTH TOPEKA. St. Luke Temple No. 5 had a grand success with the entertainment at the U. K. T. Hall Saturday night cleared $10.20. Mrs. Ida Jordan committee. Mrs. Wooten of Lincoln Neb. a member of Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93. is very sick There will be a grand entertainment at the U. K. T. Hall 609 North Kans. Ave. Saturday Mar. 30th. by Maceondia Tabernacle No. 93. Mrs. Ellen High Cook pianist. A good time for the young and old. Committee Mrs. Ida Jordan. St. Luke Temple No. 5 is getting along nicely. Pride of Topeka No.36 is getting along nicely. Miss Bettie Carnell has returned from Holton. Miss Carnell is able to be out again. APRIL SERVICES Shillah Baptist Church, Corner Twelfth and Buchanan Streets. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas John D. French, plaintiff, vs Isabella L. French, defendant. (No 201400.) To Isabella L. French.-You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above entitled cause in the above named court by John D. French, your husband. That said plaintiff filed his petition with the clerk of the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, on the 6th day of February, 1901 and that unless you answer the same on or before the 27th day or April 1901, the allegations there will be taken as true and judgment rendered against you divorcing said plaintiff from you and granting such further relief as the court may deem proper. | Seal | JOHN D. FRNCH, Plainoff, Attest, A. M. CALLAHAN, Ulerk. PROCLAMATION OF REWARD. State of Kansas, Executive Department I. W. E. Stanley, Governor of the State of Kansas, do hereby offer a Reward of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for the apprehension and arrest within ninety days from this date, and final conviction, of the unknown party or parties composing the mob, who, on about the 15th day of January, 1901, in Leavenworth County, Kansas, forely seized one George Alexander from the officers of said County and burned him at the stake, said reward to be paid upon such final conviction. In testimony whereof: I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Kansas. Done at the City of Topeka this 25th day of February, A. D. 1901. W. E. STANLEY, (Seal.) Attest Geo. A. Clark Secretary of State. It Beats The "NATION" How Beauchamp's Sarsaparilla and Celery purifies the blood and tones up the system in these "HATCHET" Times. All Druggist "CARRIE" it in stock. Price, $1.00 per Bottle. Your Money back if it doesn't do all we claim for it. A. M. THOMAS. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 'Phone, 299. 413 Kansas Avenue, Rooms 4 and 5. Topeka, Kan. "The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the careful matron, are much more serviceable in life than the petticoated pilosopner, clustering heriones or virago queens. She who makes her husband and children, who reclaims one from vice and trains the other to virtue is a much greater character than ladies described in romance whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from the quiver of their eyes." - Goldsmith. A charming hostess on an Buren street served cocoanut pudding as a desert to her guest the other day. Here is the way it is made: Two cupfuls of grated cocoanut soake. In two cupfuls of milk, the milk being used from a quart. Take the remaining milk and stir in four tablespoons of sugar, one teaspoonful of vanilla and five eggs which have been whipped a little; add one-quarter teaspoonful of salt, then the cocoanut and milk in which it has been soaked. Pour into a baking dish and set dish in a pan of hot water in the oven and bake until a knife blade will not be coated with the custard. Try it and you'll find it delicious. A prominent member of the smart set in Boston has set an example worthy of emulation by our Kansas ladies. It has been a custom down east since the landing of our Pilgrim Fathers at Jamestown to serve four or five courses at the club meetings on Saturday afternoons. This member of the S. S. grew tired of thusly disposing of a week's earnings and surprised the smart set at the last meeting by serving clider and doughnuts. We recommend this to the Kansas ladies, substituting tea and crackers. Topeka has a large number of clubs and it is a pity that a local federation was not effected some time ago. If the clubs are to carry out the motto, "upward, lifting as we go," "it will be necessary to begin with those within our reach. Let us hear from the ladies along this line. Mrs. B. K. Bruce's recent very interesting article on "The Kansas Club Women" was reproduced in full in the Detroit (Mich.) Advocate. This is highly complimentary to our Kansas ladies. Mrs. Bruce is vice president of the Kansas Federation. The atmosphere which parents create in the home by example becomes the rule for children, and to be content with anything lower in attitude than paradise is to live below one's privilege. Much activity is now manifest among the several art clubs preparatory for the coming meeting at Leavenworth. Teachers are being employed and some very fine work may be expected. The infernal habit so many of our people have of gossiping, and circulating damaging stories concerning each other, and especially carrying them to white people, should be dicontinued. All public exhibitions of affection between husband and wife is in bad taste and is always regarded with suspicion.-The Ladies Home Journal. The Imperial Art club met with Miss Guy. The Shamrock Club meets at the residence of Mrs. Rev. J. M. Brown Tuesday April 2. Friday April 5th 1901. The Club will convene at Mrs. Matheny's on Monroe st. The Oak Leaf Club was entertained Wednesday by Mrs. F. Ware at her home on Land st. The Rosebud Club No. 3 met with Mrs. Ida Jordan 903 Western Avenue the next meeting will be at the residence of Mrs. J. W. Choirifester on Van Buron st. The Oriental Art Club met with Mrs. Rosa McCarroll last Friday;after spending an hour for work and business the club was served to a two course lunch after which the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. H. I. Monroe 1160 Buchanan st. The Dumus Club meet at Mrs. Scarce's on First st. last Friday afternoon. A pleasant afternoon was spent and a delicious lunch was served. It adjourned to meet this week at Mrs. U. N. Small's 406 Crane st. The Arden Club met with Prof. and Mrs. Clinkscale last Thursday evening. Mrs. Watkins recited the prologue to act 3 of Henry 5 of England which play, the club is now studying. It will meet this week with Mr. Ira Guy. MAJORIE VAULT. Subscribe for the Plaindealer. Will make the season at the Fair Grounds. McIvor is the handsomest troting stallion in the West. Call at the barn and see him. HENRY HATCHER, Manager. TERMS, $10.00 TO INSURE | 112 W. 71h St. SECOND-CLASS COLONIST RATES TO California VIA SANTA FE ROUTE. Commencing Tuesday, Feb. 12, and each Tuesday following to April 30, 1901, the Santa Fe Route will sell second-class colonist tickets to common points in California at the extremely low rate of $25 This also includes all intermediate points enroute where the rate is higher than $25. Through tourist sleepers to Los Angeles and San Francisco daily; also through chair cars free. Send for illustrated book on California; sent free on application. 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