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TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. The Election of Albert Parker, a Democrat, for Mayor of Topeka was a Cutting Rebuke to Cranks---No more mob law in Topeka. Historical Society State House FOR GREATER TOPEKA. WELL! WELL!! WELL!!! WILL JIMMIE TROUTMAN, LITTLE MARGARET, AND WIND-BAG LINDSEY, PLEASE RISE AND TELL HOW IT ALL HAPPENED. PROBABLY HAROLD CHASE COULD EXPLAIN SOME OF THE MYSTERIES OF A GOOD CITIZEN. ABUSE, MUD SLINGING AND NULLIFICATION DON'T PAY. REPUBLICANS HELD NO PRIMARIES THIS YEAR — REPUBLICAN VOTERS THEREFORE HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND THIRD PARTY PROHIBITION. THEY CHOOSE THE LESSER OF THE TWO EYILS, PARKER BEATS OUT HIGHS BY ELEVEN VOTES. VOLUME III. The Election of All FOR GREAT WELL! WELL!! WELL!!! WELL TLE MARGARET, AND WILL RISE AND TELL HOW PROBABLY HAROLD CHASE THE MYSTERIES OF ABUSE, MUD SLIP NULLIFICATION REPUBLICANS HELD NO PRIMARIES THEREFORE HAD TO CHOOSE THIRD PARTY THEY CHOOSE THE LESSER OF THE HUGHES BY ER It seems from the returns that the Democrats have elected Albert Parker mayor. It is to be deplored that the Republican party allowed a lot of cranks and non-voters to participate in their so-called primary, therefore, the result of Tuesday's election should be regarded as a rebuke to that kind of a policy and should not be regarded as an endorsement of the Democratic. The policy of running girls and boys into a Republican campaign should be discontinued in the future. Those Republicans who voted with the Democrats on Tuesday and made possible the election of Mr. Parker, did so because the platform upon which Mr. Hughes ran was lacking in those entities that distinguish the regular Republican platform from the third party. There was a special effort made by Jimmie Troutman and Ben Perkins, John Jones and Margaret Hill McCarter, and Old Daddy Lindsay to sling mud at the Plaindealer because of our outspoken denunciation of a policy that we knew would fail to receive the endorsement of the GOOD CITIZENS of Topeka, but we have been vindicated. We now suggest to our late adversaries to take the advice of the prophet of old, "Go to the pool" of Siloam and wash and be cleansed. Then come NEW YORK LETTER Dear Friends: I told you in my last letter that there were many churches in this great city; and I must again speak to you concerning these places of worship. The Bethel A. M. E. church, in Brooklyn is located on Bridge street, near Myrtle *Ave*. This is one of the most prominent churches of color. The structure is a large brick, and to reach the auditorium you walk up board steps the entire width of the building. The interior is quite pretty, but not as large as Seventh street church. The large galleries on all three sides of the auditorium gives the church a large seating capacity. The lecture room, dining room and kitchen are in the basement. Rev. H. C. C. Astwood, the pastor, is a native of the West Indies. He is a wide-awake man, and is doing all in his power to urge our people to embrace religion, education and business. One of his sons is preparing to enter the Law Department of Harvard University. I attended the fair at this church and enjoyed looking at the many exhibits. The booths were very pretty decorated like flowers. Everything was nice, but a certain class of young boys and girls. They whispered, talked and laughed continually during the rendition of the program. I just wished those boys and girls were my children for one night, and with the help and strength of the Lord I would spend that night in giving them a sound thrashing. It seems to me that it would be more elevating, and more protection to girls characters if their fathers and mothers would have their daughters sit side by side with them in church and not on a back seat with a crowd of boys and thereby becoming a nuisance to all present. I must tell you about another church in this letter, and that is the Holy Trinity Baptist church. Rev. Tibbs is the pastor in charge. He is little, but loud. This is a very large brick church, and the pipe organ is as large as some houses I have seen. I received a circular announcing that on Sunday afternoon the audience would be entertained by Madam Sellka and Coun- Next time William home to your father's house which the grand old party. The election of the remainder of the Republican ticket shows conclusively what Topeka people think of good men who have more than one idea. Col. Hughes can attribute his defeat to the unnecessary abuse by himself and some of his friends on parties who happened to differ with him. People who expect public favors must remember that every citizen has rights in this government and they must be respected. The colored people have reason to feel proud of the re-election of Fred Stonestreet as marshal of the city court and Mr. W. G. Williams to the Board of Education. Mr. Stonestreet has made a splendid officer and is deserving of the magnificent endorsement he received. The election of Mr. W. G. Williams as member of the Board of Education brings the Negro into a new official position in relation to the people of this city. Mr. Williams is a quiet young man who has made himself a good name among his employers. Tails is a position demanding good judgment and common sense and Mr. Williams should seek to benefit the schools and promote the interest of the thousands of young school children. felor Alfred C. Cowan. Madam Selika, who had been living in Brooklyn, had a day or two previous moved to Jersey City. In moving the Madam contracted a severe cold and was unable to attend. Counselor Cowan made an address on Municipal Reform, which was heartily endorsed by all. The choir rendered several choice selections. One interest feature about the choir was that the tenor and alto singers were father and daughter. The tenor, Prof. Kelly, is an aged man and has a voice very much like Charlie McNairy, of Topica. You know then that he must be a good singer. I must add that the people of this church were quiet and attentive. They displayed the best of behavior. The members of Seventh St church will no doubt like to hear about Dr. H. B. Parks. He is making New York his home. The Dr. has his office in the large bible house, and is conducting his secretaryship to the honor and credit to himself and denomination. Mrs. Parks is well, and the children also. I am continually being surprised, and am forced to believe myself exceedingly green. Since my last stay in the city I have heard many individuals refer to events that occurred while they were on the "stoop." My first impression was that the "stoop" was the name of some street, and my next impression was that these New Yorkers must have an appointed hour to go through some stooping process, and during this process these enumerated events took place. I was determined to conceal my ignorance and wait on providence to enlighten me on this mystery. Providence opened the way. I heard a little child speak of being on the "stoop." Here was an opportunity. I ventured to whisper, "Where is the stoop?" The child pointed out the window, and I learned that the "stoop" is a little porch under the window. One peculiar thing to me is that so many of the members of our race consider one especially favored by the gods if they have never had their feet trod Southern soil. This does not apply to the thoughtful representative citizens, but to a class of shallow-minded individuals. Often aged men and women avoid conversations that TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1901. would lead to their identity with the South. These poor simpletons forget that the recognized leaders of this country are not ashamed to own the South as their birth place. The South, or slave states, was the birth place of Douglas, Langston, Bruce, Booker T. Washington and T. Thomas Fortune. The world is not asking where is your birth place? It is asking if you are a man, if you are a woman. If we are representatives of true manhood and true womanhood. it matters not whether we were born in the North, South or in the wilds of Africa. LUTIE LYTLE-COWAN. ISN'T THIS NICE? Dear Editor: Enclosed you will find my subscription to the Plaindealer for another year. I should have sent it in before this, but I let it slip my memory. I would not be without it for anything. I am proud of it, as well as its editor, and wish you more success in the future than you have had in the past. Your efforts meet my approval more than any Negro paper does with which I am acquainted. It is my ideal in the aim it puts forth. The Negro can be encouraged more by letting him know what other Negroes are doing in his state and other parts of our country than by pointing him to any other example. To point him to the success of some other race permits him to find an excuse for himself in the advantages of the other and his apparent disadvantages which are not so real as he imagines, if he hustles and economizes. What think you of this proposition? Keep something going on, and I am yours fraternally. HORACE DWIGGINS. 735 Walker. TO THE RACE MEN OF THE STATE OF KANSAS. You have been listening to learn what success has attended our efforts toward unity and bringing to justice the late evil-doers. Your deep insight and common sense surely will not ask to see the details in public print what we have done. what we are going to do and what we shall do? No. I believe not. The executive committee of the council and mln.sters' union met in the city of Atchison pursuant to call Friday and Saturday, and as perfect harmony prevailed in each committee and between each committee, all members expressed their gratification and high degree of encouragement. We will not report in this issue what churches, councils and individuals have donated to the prosecution fund as you will agree it is better to give a little time for all to give that one report may contain all donors. Eleven cities have formed councils and some of them have forwarded money. Several churches have forwarded money, too. The ministers' executive committee believes every church in the state will contribute, for certainly the pastors of churches will go on record in showing they have some interest in the suffering of their people. Rev. Bacote, of Kansas City, with his$ 43.00 raised to this end certainly sets an excellent example to Kansas. Our communications show thirty-five councils will be in line soon. We are now negotiating a contract with a lawyer to proceed in the Leavenworth matter, and if you sincerely expect this part to be probed and pushed you kknow lawyers don't work on credit and in a case like this, will demand a good fee, and don't be so unkind as to expect your officers to do business empty handed. So success or failure rests on your donations to this fund. Hereafter council or individual monies must be sent to the secretary, Prof. Frederick Roundtree, Topeka, Kans., who will transmit the same to Hon. D. F. Trupton, treasurer, Emporia, Kans. The churches will forward their contributions to Rev. W. L. Grant, secretary of Ministers' Union, $22 Everett avenue, Kansas City, Kans., who will transmit it to Mr. Ewing, treasurer, at Lowring, Kans. The executive council has set price of council constitutions 10c a copy. They are in the hands of the president at Atchison and from the same head you will be given the number of your council. The committee further voted that all official council matter must come from the president or through his O. K. That officers of local councils are held responsible for the success of their body. That the executive committee will decide the time for next annual session of state council. That the councils and ministers' union, prosecuting a common cause, should hold the same close and intimate relations. Other private matters will be sent your organizations direct. Thanking you for the confidence manifested in your letters, I am yours for my people. W. H. HUDSON, M. D. Atchison, Kans. THE AMERICAN NEGRO THE OUTLOOK PRESENTS SOME INTERESTING FIGURES ON RACE PROGRESS INCIDENTALLY SKINS HANNIBAL THOMAS-ASTONISHING INCREASE IN WEALTH—MORE DEVELOPMENT—FRUITS OF INDUSTRY EDUCATION. FALSE STATEMENTS REFUTED In his introduction Mr. Thomas makes it known that he is partly a Negro, though throughout the book he refers to the race as if he were not a part of it. One gets the feeling that he is making the most of the fact that he has enough blood connection with the race to enable him to speak from the inside, yet he is not proud of being a Negro, and never once refers to the race as "our race" or "my race." Mr. Thomas acknowledges that he was a "carpetbagger," that he fought in the Civil War, and afterwards was elected by the colored vote in South Carolina to the Stato Legislature, and still later held a judicial position in that state. Still he claims to have been engaged in educational work in the South though diligent inquiry so far falls to bring us accurate information as to where he was engaged in the work of education. At any rate, it is clear that the last twenty years of Mr. Thomas's life have been spent mainly in the North near Boston, away from the great bulk of the race and out of direct touch with the tremendous constructive forces which have been at work during the last twenty years for the regeneration of the black man. We have seldom seen a "carpetbagger," black or white, who did not take a gloomy view of the future of the South and of the Negro. So long as the Negro, by his vote, was able to keep the carpetbagger in office, the Negro was all right; when he ceased to do this the future became very dark. On the other hand, men like the late S. C. Armstrong, of Hampton, and the late Dr. Cravath, of Fisk University, who were soldiers, and remained in the South after the war, not for the purpose of getting office, but of lifting up the Negro and the white man have always taken a hopeful view of the future. One strain that runs through Mr. Thomas' book from first to last is his insistence that the Negro get land and education. This, however, is not new, for this is the thing that most of the educators in the South for more than thirty years have been insisting upon. More recently the importance of land-getting has been emphasized though the medium of the Tuskegee Negro Conference and the various local conferences that have grown out of it and are now scattered throughout the South. There is no mistaking the fact, though, that we main object of the book is to show, in a word, that the Negro so far has been a failure from a material, mental, and moral point of view. Over against many of the bold, unsupported statements made by the author of "The American Negro" as to the lack of material progress, we want to place a few facts that will tend to show whether or not the efforts of Negro schools in the South have been fruitless, and whether or not the Negro has stood still or gone backward. First, let us take the State of Virginia, where the colored people have been under the direct influence of the great Hampton Institute as well as of other schools. The Hampton Institute and its work, however, Mr. Thomas strangely omits altogether, or brushes it aside as being of no consequence. The official figures in relation to the Negro's ownership of land in Virginia for the past year are as follows: The Negroes now own one-twenty-sixth of all the land in Virginia. They own one-sixteenth of all the land in Virginia east of the Blue Ridge; one-tenth of all the land in twenty-five counties in the state; one-seventh of Middlesex County, one-fifth of Hanover County, and one-third of Charles City County. The Negroes of Virginia are acquiring land at the rate of about fifty thousand acres a year. Their real estate holdings would appear much larger if there were added the farms for which they have contracted, upon which they are making payments, but have not received the title. In regard to the Negro's material progress in the State of Georgia, the State Comptroller has recently given out the following figures, which are reliable in every respect: The aggregate of property owned by Negroes in Georgia is $14,118,720, as against $13,560,179 last year. Of this $3,461,390 is city and town property, and $4,274,574 is represented by farm lands. They own $72,975 worth of merchandise, have $34,480 in cash solvent debts and $469,637 in plantation and mechanical tools. The total number of acres of land owned by Negroes is 1,075,073, and there are 11,905 Negro voters in the state, as shown by the digest. Their property returns show a flattering increase for every year since 1879, when they returned for taxation only $5,182,338 worth of property. In 1889, ten years later, they had doubled their possessions, returning for taxation at that time $10,415,350 worth of property. Other Southern States could make as good showing, and yet Mr. Thomas would have us believe that practically no material progress has been made. According to the theory advocated in his book, he would have us throw a wet blanket over all this splendid advance through individual effort, and have the General Government enter into a scheme of buying and selling lands to the negro much on the old "forty acres and a mule" plan. He would have the negro trained to look to Washington for everything, instead of depending on himself or his State, and have the whole South flooded again with Federal officers. A fair idea of the value of Mr. Thomas's economic ideas can be obtained by reading the passage in his book wherein he criticizes such men as ex-President Hayes, Morris K. Jesup, William E. Dodge, and Dr. J. L. M. Curry for not following his advice to invest the John F. Slater Fund of a million dollars in Southern lands. According to his theory, which he outlines with much detail, if his advice had been followed, instead of that of bankers like Morris K. Jesup, the million dollars would have yielded the first year an interest amounting to four hundred thousand dollars, and the second year it would have yielded five hundred thousand dollars. Clearly, according to this showing, Mr. Thomas's rightful place is in Wall Street, rather than in the field of book-writing. It is perhaps true that no single agency has accomplished more in stimulating and guiding the education of the Negro along proper channels that the John F. Slater Fund. At least this is the opinion of experts and of men of National reputation in the educational world. The author of this book condemns practically every method that has been used for lifting up the Negro; everything is wrong except that which he advocates, but which he himself, it seems, has failed to put into practice anywhere in the South. He advocates industrial education all through his book, yet condemns it as it now exists in many Negro schools at the South. He goes so far as to outline a curriculum for the teaching of agriculture to the Negro. We have recently placed this curriculum by the side of that of one of the largest industrial schools in the South, and find that what he condemns the educators of Negro youth for not doing is actually being done in several schools, and is fast spreading all through the South. Mr. Thomas devotes much space to a contention that the fundamental mistake in the education of the Negro is in educating him along the Anglo-Saxon lines, and yet, at the end of his long contention, it is almost piliful to see how he knocks the foundation from under his own logic by stating that a certain literary college in Kentucky, where there is almost no attempt at industrial education, and where the bulk of the students are white—only a small proportion being Negroes—is the only institution in the South that is educating the Negroes along correct lines. How a college that exists mainly for white people educate along anything but Anglo-Saxon lines? And in what respect is the curriculum of Berea College—a very worthy institution—different from that of Fisk University and Atlanta University? But, plainly, the main point of the book is to discount the morals of the Negro. In this respect many of Mr. Thomas's statements are so extreme and so entirely unsupported by evidence except his own bare assertions, that much that is good and valuable in the book will be discounted. We believe that no one would be quicker to refute many of these unreasonable statements than the Southern white people themselves. A writer, who is unknown and almost unheard of, who makes such statements with expectation of being believed, should be careful to fortify himself by giving names places, and dates, and not deal so largely in generalities and statements taken merely from his own head. He speaks constantly of having received his information from a "certain governor" or a "certain physician" or a "certain teacher." For example, does the author of "The American Negro" expect himself to be taken seriously by intelligent and thoughtful people when he says, "The consequence is that there is no school of prominence in Negro training which has not had among its pupils young freedwomen sustaining immoral relations with white men, whose school expenses have been, in many instances, defrayed by such persons with the knowledge and consent of the school authorities?" It would be hard to make any of our readers believe that such a statement would apply to men like Dr. Frissell, of Hampton, the latr. Dr. Cravath, of Fisk University, W. A. THOMPSON. This Brave Young Repudlican Should be Retained by all Means. M. FOR DEPUTY WARDEN—W. A. THOMPSON. When the governor appointed Mr. Jewett, of Wichita, to succeed the present Warden Tomlinson of the penitentiary, it was confidently expected by the many friends and admirers of Mr. W. A. Thompson, that he would be care for. For the past two years Mr. THE Thompson has very satisfactorily filled the very important position of deputy warden. His administration has been marked by a careful attention to the various duties devolving upon him. A man of exceptional courage and splendid executive capacity, he has made a faithful assistant to Warden Tomilinson. Such a man should be above the petty influences of party the President of Wilberforce University, and numbers of Institutions under the control of the Congregational, Methodist, and Baptist denominations at the South. In another statement he says: "We shall, however, in view of all the known facts at our command, be justified in assuming that not only are fully ninety per cent. of the Negro women of America unchaste, but the social degradation of our freedwomen is without a parallel in modern civilization." A little later on, Mr. Thomas seems to have forgotten this outrageous statement regarding Negro women, and says, when speaking of the whole race: "It is correct to say that fully ninety per cent. of the freedmen are reasonably law-abiding, and, apart from an instinct for petty pilfering, are fairly honest in deportment. They have the confidence and support of orderly white society, and are rarely molested by its lawless class." In another case he says: "For instance, the Negro's ethical code sternly reprobates dancing, theater attendance, and all social games of chance." A few pages further on he forgets this statement, and adds: "It is as much a quest for physical excitement as the promise for pecuniary gain which impels the Negro to indulge in petty gambling, and makes him the chief 'policy player' of the community, in every city, North and South." In another instance he states that the high death-rate and low birth-rate of the Negro people shuts out any possibility of their attaining formidable proportions in this country. A little further along in the book he speaks of the "ever-increasing millions of Negro citizens." In stith another statement he speaks of the South being overrun with incompetent, illiterate doctors, among other classes of professional men. Now, what are the facts? In Alabama, for example, no man, black or white, can enter the medical profession without passing a very severe examination. Perhaps with the exception of the State of Virginia, the examination in Alabama is more severe than that of any other state in the Union. In that state a diploma from no college is accepted. No one can enter the medical profession without taking the regular State examination, and it is very rare that any man can pass this examination inside of ten days. The code of medical ethics in the South perhaps is higher than it is in the North; no man of any race involved in a single day, be tolerated in the profession of medicine who does not have a correct, moral life and was not well prepared professionally for his work. In Alabama they about twenty-five Negro physicians, and we have almost without a single exception, these men are highly educated, are successful in their practice, are respected by their white brother physicians, and have high moral and business standing in their communities. There are nearly seven hundred thousand Negroes in Alabama, and it is bordering on the ridiculous to speak, for example, of that State being overrun with Negro physicians, when there are only twenty-five to practice among seven hundred thousand people. What is true of Alabama is in an equal degree true of other Southern States. No set rm himself on the p NUMBER 14. Job law in Topeka. HOMPSON. Repudlican tained by all Means. political changes. The new warden will find it highly important to surround himself with capable and fearless men, thoroughly conversant with the wiles of the criminal. Governor Stanley would have pleased a large proportion of the citizens of this state by appointing Mr. Thompson warden. It is reported that Mr. Jewett will fill the position with one of his immediate JACKSON friends. The Plaindealer hopes that Mr. Jewett will do no such thing. Such radical changes are prejudicial to the good of our state institutions. Here is a man eminently qualified for the position. He has been tried and not found wanting. When hardened criminals have escaped from the penitentiary Mr. Thompson has proven his worth by pursuing them and bringing them back to the penitentiary at the risk of his life. of individuals have made a higher record professionally and otherwise since the war than the Negro physicians. Further on Mr. Thomas enlightens us again in the following statement: "The preacher in charge of the moral training of his peole, and the teacher engaged in their mental instruction, will steal from each other and from the whites as readily as the most indigent freedman." This statement will include such ministers as the Rev. Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, of Gammon Theological Seminary, the Rev. Dr. F. J. Grimbke, of Washington, D. C., and such teachers as Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, of Atlanta, Ga., Professor Hugh M. Browne, of the Hampton Institute, and Mrs. B. K. Bruce, woman principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and Miss Maria Baldwin, Principal of the Agassiz public school of Cambridge, Mass. It has remained for Mr. Thomas to inform the public that such persons will steal from one another and from the whites. He further proceeds with the statement that the more intelligent Negro is, the more does his disposition to theft enlarge. In answer to this, some years ago, a careful investigation was made, and it was found that not a single man or woman who had graduated from one of the larger institutions in the South was to be found in a State prison. Mr. Thomas says: "There are, in all of the large cities, North and South, among the race, so-called voudoo and conjure doctors to whom vast throngs go for amulets to ward of disease, and for treatment when sick." As a practical test of much that the writer says in his book, we should be interested in having some one interested in sociological conditions in Boston or New York ask Mr. Thomas to lead him to one of these voudoo and conjure doctors to whom "vast throngs go for treatment." We venture the statement that not much else than voudoo can do that few if any voudoo or conjure doctors can be found in our Northern cities; at any rate, we hops some of our readers will put Mr. Thomas to the test. The following statement is equally unworthy of belief: "It is, therefore, almost impossible to find a person of either sex, over fifteen years of age, who has not had actual carnal knowledge." We awe not been slow to point out the weaknesses of the Negro race nor to condemn the Negro's follies. We know that the race at many points is weak and needs to make itself strong, but at the same time we are convinced, through direct and reliable evidence, that there never was a time in the history of the race when so much real progress is being made materially, educationally, and morally as is true at the present time. This progress is slow, but it is steady and sure, and no one need become discouraged or lose hope for the Negro race. Mr. Thomas, on the other hand, would it, seems, lift the race up much as one would build a house. This cannot be done. If the author of "The American Negro" had spent his time during the last ten or twenty years in going through the South, speaking directly to the colored people in their schools, their churches, conventions, and associations, about the weak points that he brings out in his book, and this book had been the (Continued on second page.) progress of the race. --- Copeka Plaindealer. Copeka Plaindealer. published at Toptek, Shawnee county, Ks., every Friday morning by the Plaidener Publishing Co., 314 E 7th st. NICK CHILES - - BUSINESS MANAGER J. H. CHILDERS - - EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year by mail. $1 Sex months by mail. $50 Three months by mail. $50 Ratered at the postoffice at Topela as second class mail matter. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1901 [In order to insure publication of matter in the current issue, corre- spondence must be in this office no later than Tuesday.] Now for Greater Topeka. Good morning, Mayor Parker. Here's to Jimmie Analytical Troutman. May he soon find congenial company. Big mass meeting run by a few cranks does not indicate the sentiment of the city. Some of these days some of the "good" fellows will learn that the Plaindealer is published in Topeka. The defeated parties can take unto themselves some of the medicine they tried to give Nichols and Hazen last fall. All matter for publication in relation to the Afro-American Council should be sent to Dr. W. H. Hudson, Atchison, before sending to the office. The editor of the Atchison Globe may not be a good orthodox Christian but his immense love for music will be accepted as a cover for a multitude of sins. He took all the Globe carriers to hear the Marine Band. --- Now that the city campaign has become a closed incident, the good citizens of Topeka will settle down to business. The success of the bond proposition will open many avenues of employment for the laboring men, and will bring to the town many new business houses. Let the spirit of expansion grow. --- Now that the Commercial club has succeeded in securing the new Santa Fe shops, it would not be a bad idea to labor a little with the Missouri Pacific road and secure better passenger and freight service over that line to Topeka. Topeka merchants will gain much business from the towns located along that road between this city and Pittsburg. Prof. Edward Stevens, formerly connected with the Topeka Industrial Institute, has renounced his allegiance to the Stars and Stripes and reaffirms his allegiance to king Angriff Mr. Stevens has founded a declaration of his intentions to the Secretary of State at Washington. He is prompted in doing this because of the treatment received by Negroes in America. The lawlessness of the American white man has driven this man, who by the way is a Negro, back to a foreign flag. We wonder if this is wisdom* Governor Stanley and the Republican leaders of Kansas will do well to look after the colored Republicans of this state. Every day leading white Republicans are being cared for. Plans are being made for them, but up to this time no place has been made for leading Negros. The Republicans will do well to see that W. B. Townsend, the most fearless Negro advocate or the party policies in Kansas is cared for. Mr. Townsend deserves to be cared for by the party. His services have always been at the disposal of the party. If the party can care for all the petty clerks o. the State Central committee, surely it can provide a place for one of it hardest field workers. The Plaindealer has its eye on the party leaders and they can expect to hear something drop before long. President McKinley will do the thing that will appropriately make him the step-father of his country by asking Congress to appropriate money to send the famous Marine band to every town and city in America. It's music alone will make better citizens. NORTH TOPEK.. Mr. Robert Jordan has been quite sick at his home, 903 Western avenue, but is somewhat better. Daughter Pace, a member of Masidanie Tabernacle No. 93, has an attack of the la gripe. Daughter Wooten is some what better. There will be a masquerade entertainment given at the U. K. T. hall, 609 N. Kansas avenue. Three prizes, 1st, a beautiful waist pattern to the prettiest masked person; 2nd, a beautiful silk handkerchief to the next prettiest masked; 3rd, a beautiful pair of gents' hose. Mrs. Ellen Hyde Cook, pianist. Admission, 10c; April 6th. Rosebud club No. 3 met at the residence of the Rev. Thursday night. The club was called order by song and prayer. Quotation of the Bible, Mr. Hoard; a paper on the Negro race, Mr. T. Wims; a paper by Mrs. Ida M. Johnson, subject; "Protect our Community." A beautiful talk by Rev. L. L. Proceeds of the evening, $3.50. Thirty-five persons were present. Luncheon was served in five courses. The age in which we live is preeminently a scientific one. The scientific spirit is entering into and permeating everp phase of knowledge; it is dominating the mental activities of the thinkers; it is conquering the world. With the proselytizing crusade of this spirit has come the corresponding method of that and investigation, which method has been steadily gaining ground and until today it is followed by most thinkers of all shades of beliefs and opinions. With civilization the upward movement of man from a lower to a higher state of living and thinking—it was perfectly natural that this new spirit should have come into the world and that this new method follow in its wake. It was equally true that we had abundant warrant in human nature to expect that there would be a hard struggle between the old and the new, for power is never willingly surrendered and besides living for a length of time under the influence and authority of a fixed set of ideas, creates an intellectual inertia that is hard to overcome The problem of education is an old one. The necessity of education was inherent in the very nature of civil states. The perpetuity of society and institutions depend upon it. Education is the effort of one generation to prepare the next for the duties and struggles of life, to fit it to its environment. Now this same end may be predicated for all states of society. Every community seeks by instruction to preserve the best it has in the way of customs, ideas and institutions. With the savage this instruction is simple in its aim and method, but as we move up the scale in the development of civilization, we find that the problem of education, in its aim and method loses more and more of its simplicity and becomes instead, more and more highly organized and specialized. Then the question of education is one of development. It must be studied along with the story of civilization as one of its chiefest elements. A state of society gives rise, character and direction to a system of education. The system in turn becomes the teacher of society, pointing out new fields and new possibilities. If intellectual inertia characterize a state, if immobility fixes to minds and institutions we will find it all reflected in its educational theories and its reflex influence on society will not be one of progress but of conservatism. And so it is with all nations in all ages, their social conditions reveal their theory of education. If it resulted in a means of progress, it was largely predetermined by their own character. With the dismemberment, decay and fall of the Roman Empire, Europe is plunged into the gloom of the dark ages, but the dark ages were better for the history of the world than the conditions that gave rise to them. Authority and the church had become too insolent. Liberty, political and intellectual lay all but lifeless while conscience was stifled and bound. Authority now felt safe. It shut itself up in monastic walls. Then came a period of depression in which the voice of reason and conscience seemed hushed and the cry for liberty to hate died out. But it was a period of germination, which later burst out in two great intellectual movements. The Renaissance and the Reformation. These movements caused throughout Europe a great political and intellectual awakening, educational that received a new impulse and the organization of schools quickly followed. Let us plant a land mark at the beginning of the Seventeenth century. The lessons of the Renaissance were now absorbed by a thousand minds. They gave new energy, new spirit and new motives to every form of mental activity. Man was actually beginning to think. He had discovered himself. He had discovered new pleasures of life. He had begun to study nature and see the world in which he lived. Early in this century two philosophers come to light. I refer to Descartes and Bacon. The former discovered on the freedom of conscience, individual responsibility and the right of free inquiry. The latter went over the then existing state of knowledge, attempted to organize it and laid the foundation for inductive reasoning and investigation. They stand for a new age, a new civilization, a new order of things intellectual, religious and social. The Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries were periods of confusion and disorder. Authority was resorting to all manner of devices to recollect its shattered forces. The human mind was fairly revolting in its new found liberty. It was thinking along all lines and arriving at all kinds of conclusions. It brought everything before the tribunal of reason and made Rome howl. These were centuries of reaction, and to them we are largely in debt. Out of this confusion grew free inquiry and free speech, free institutions and Democratic ideas; modern science, modern philosophy, modern education. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries are rich in new ideas and institutions. The student of the history and philosophy of education can ill afford to pass them by without a careful and critical examination. Education becomes more and more popular. The individual comes more and more into prominence. Public schools multiply and great universities are founded. Socialistic ideas begin to develop. The cry for liberty, equality and emancipation goes on and finally bursts out in the French Revolution. In these centuries too, we have the settlement of America and the American Revolution. What changes have taken place! What expansion the hu- A Book Free! The Story of My Life and Work IS AN AUTOBIOLOGY BOOK BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal of Tusteege Normal and Industrial Institute, and the greatest living artist of the 20th century. He spends 400 pages and beautifully ill-ustrated with over 50 photo-gravures in cloth. $150. Here indeed is a life-story stranger than the real it is a retold of the most thrilling experience, before struggle and rebellion. "GLENNON" which tells us about Mr. Washington's autobiography. Free Offer! Send your own address and orders we will immediately book. We warmly welcome to have a copy to introduce it in your community. We will also send you a copy of the ten carts in slamps we will also send our magnificent gallery. horizon of thought, how enlarged. We are now ready to take a view of educational theories as we find them today. It is assumed that there is a science of education. Its purposes and aims are found in the teachings of sociology. The data of this new science are all the phenomena of mental activity from the first manifestations of consciousness in the child up to complex conceptions as the nebulous theory, Psychology resolves, classifies and organizes these phenomena, hence we find that psychology is the foundation of our science of education. It is demanded that teaching be psychological, that it follow the natural and progressive laws of the unfoldment of the human mind. If one undertakes to teach a child he must know the child and to know it requires a knowledge of the laws governing the growth of its physical and spiritual organism. A whole host of pedagogical maxims have been worked into the bone and tissue of our educational system. Methods of teaching have been revolutionized. Individual aptitudes have been given great play. Learning has been made more agreeable and teaching is becoming professional. Nor has this new impulse given to education spent its force. New light and new inspiration are being daily revealed. We are today in the midst of a great onward movement, and the grand results already achieved are only an earnest of what the fall harvest will be. Achison, Kansas. President Brooks, of the Lane university, has resigned. A law enforcement league has been organized in Crawford county. Wamego claims that it ships more potatoes than any other town in Kansas. G. Holiday, of Belle Plaine, has been appointed a lieutenant in the regular army. C. S. Jobes, of Wichita, would like to become comptroller of the United States treasury. Governor Stanley has appointed Oscar E. Learned to be judge of the new county court of Douglas. He met theTEGER, of Abilene have celebrated the sixteenth anniversary of their marriage. The educational commission of the Methodist church has decided not to move Baker college to Topeka. He met the MICHIGAN, of Wellington, is an aspirant for the Republican nomination for secretary of state. W. H. Boyakin, aged 35 years, of Robert Hale post, Blue Rapids, claims that the oldest ex-soldier in the state. It is said that Topeka will be among the places visited by President McKinley, in his contemplated western trip, the summer. Lewis Kirby has raised $23,000 toward securing the proposed college to be erected in Kansas by the Swedish mission conference. Lewis Kirby has been arrested at Omaha Jigamy. He admits his guilt. His lawful wife was a Miss Penlinson, of Omaha Kan. Orlando Whittock, burglar and confidence crook who escaped from the Kansas pententary two years ago has been captured in Stoddard county, Mo. The sympathy between persons afflicted with smallpox seems to be encouraging to matrimony, judging from reports from various portions of the state. Health Officer Swan says that over 2,000 cases of smallpox have been reported to him during the winter, but the epidemic will now gradually diminish. Patrick Walters, supposed to have been the oldest man in Kansas, died at Cherryale on Saturday morning, aged 104 years. He was in good health to a few days before his death. Now that Findlay has lost in his reports to become a state railroad commissioner, he will recognize his claims to the position of collector of internal revenue. Miss. Nation wrote a letter from Cincinnati to the Home Defenders advising them to attack Leeworth and referring to the "beeseked officials and brined pulpits" of those cities. The demand for the traveling libraries connected with the state library is greater than the supply. These libraries are sent to the people who must be kept most attached being the foreign body both west and J. N Moore, of Neosho Falls, has brought suit against United States Marshal Steril, for $10,000 damages alleged to have been caused by the seizure of his stock of goods, under a process executed by the Federal court, in a year sentence, have arrived at the Leavenworth prison from Manila. They are John Nicolemous, convicted of killing a fellow soldier, and George Stanley and Charles Feaster. Twenty-fourth infantry convicted of outraging women. The two latter are negroes. A man in Emporia has been adjudged insane because "he had the impossible notion that he could stand on a railroad track and buck a locomotive into the ditch." Frank Montgomery suggests that this shows how the police conclusions and asks whether it is fair to condemn a man without a trial. The affairs of F. O. Popenoe, until recently proprietor of the Topeka Capitol, prominent Republican politician and member of the State Supreme Union, are in very bad shape. His liabilities are placed at $7,000; assets very small. Popenoe is in Costa Rica. Suffixed fied there to escape facing his credible it. It held that he saak $20,000 in the Capitol. The legislature of has granted a territorial board of agriculturists in Kansas made very similar to that of Kansas. PRESIDENT natural result of his efforts in this direction, we confess that we should have more respect for him and for what he says. We people in the United States do not have a very high regard for a man who goes to England to make known the weak points in the body, but we do not have high regard for an individual who goes to New Orleans to condemn Boston. The citizens of Atlanta do not have much respect for an individual who goes to New York to condemn the people of Atlanta. The men of the white race will not have high regard for a writer who seems to be a villain, a race and goes outside of it to emphasize its weak points before an audience of another color. The remedy for such an extreme case of the blues as Mr. Thomas evidently has is to be found in going out into the woods and entering into hard, earnest work for their uplifting. So long as the men and women who are actually engaged in a first-handler manner in the lifting up of the Negro do not become disillusioned with the faith in the future. It is sad to think of a man without a country. It is sad to think of a man without a race; and this, we fear, is about the position in which Mr. Thomas may be described establishment at Kansas City, uncharteredly offered self through the medium of his book.—The Outlook. The Dold Packing Company's establishment at Kansas City established at $350,000. In September, of 1898, the firm suffered a loss of $350,000 by fire. Several firemen were injured in the fire. It is said that the Dolds will not build on their preset plans, they will put up a plant at Armourdale. Captain William Crozier, of the U. ordinance bureau, has declined the appointment of professor of natural and experimental philosophy at West Point, although the position is a life one and carries with it the rank and emoluments of a colonel. Crozier is a son of Judge Crozier of Leavenworth and a colleague to West Point from Kansas in 1872. There was a strange circumstance connected with the death of Mrs. Jenye Evans, at Independence, a few days ago. On the morning of the day of her death, her physician found her up and around the house, but she declared to him that on that afternoon at 4:30 o'clock she would die. The doctor was present at the time and the nurse and medicine when she suddenly passed away. Death was caused by heart failure. Lincolnis are a native of Lincolnshire, England, where they have been bred in their purity for hundreds of years. They have be... found so well adapted to certain sections, that though other breed lines have been developed them, possessing as they do the properties of producing the most wool and mutton of any breed—25 pounds of wool being a common weight for a ram's fleece. A good breeding flock averages from 12 to 14 pounds. They are very hard, mature early and often rapidly. At the Smithfield show in 1897 three weighed 1,200 pounds. Their longevity is attested by rams living 15 years and ewes to 13 and 14 years. As breeders they stand without a peer, twins being the rule, and triplets very common. Their wool is the most lustrous of any breed, and their strength. For crossing on other breeds they have proven unrivaled, no other breed making so marked an improvement as the Lincoln. This sheep is destined to do for our western ranches what it has done in the Argentine: make them celebrated for their heavy clips of fine woolous wool or the very lightly quality. Grazing lands in Oklahoma are said to have been doubled in rent values this spring on account of the Kowa country coming open to settlement. The Frankfort Review tells how wild creees were recently captured at that place: The sky was full of wild goose before the cold storm came down from the north Monday night, and some of our gunners were wild to get some of them, so by the light of big horrors shot and powder smoke. Quite a number of the birds were brought down. Ben Rice killed five goose and one duck, besides filling the field roundabout with eipped ones. Charley Webb killed five goose, but gave part of the kill to prove to the family, and neighbors that can shoot just as well when it marks as when it's light. The nymphs in that part of town were a regular goosepest, so many wounded were flying around. Will Cisler, a hunter and bush and shot a few times into the air and after being killed by it until there one corn on his shoulder to woot out into Louye's pasture to gather in the goose he knew he had killed but nary a goose had he—so one corn was sounded as though some enemy had around the city, and was leaping it in region Dewey style. The west bound train Monday evening, in charge of Conductor Hanson and Engineer Beebee, ran into a house buggy at the crossing west of Jamestown and smashed the vehicle into kindling and injured the only occupant. The owner, a former police officer, Hutton, aged forty, who lived at Jamestown, was near hard, not that hebeded the next day. No blame was attached to the trainmen, as the usual signals were given by the engineer. An incident worth notice was that a boy who was stealing a ride on the blind side of the road, was hit and the train slowed up, sprang from the platform, ran out and caught the horse, which was not injured, and rode it back to town and had a doctor at the depot when the train backed up with the injured man. When the train slowed up, the driver on the "blind" and was not molested. Few men would have exercised such judgment and presence of mind. As small pox is prevalent in large hunks out in the short grass country near Colby, Mrs. Fred Wertz (noe Baker), thought carolloe acidified boiled up the blood of the sick man this disease in the near neighboring vicinity in which she resided, says the Beloit杯. She accordingly placed some in a pan upon a stove and boiled it to the burning point, when she enclosed it and would then put it into another dish. While so doing she lost her hold upon the dish and the burning contents were spilled over her left hand, causing her very much pain. In excitement she burned her hand of cold water and move the acid which came far from giving any giving any felief. While the wound is in the palm of the hand, causing her to touch things rather lightly at the present time, we are glad to see that she will be able to quench and that she will be all right in a few days. Knowing Mrs. Wertz as we do, we will vouch for the statement that in a year's time she will be able to more skillfully handle dish pans, cook and prepare matter the boss of the house, Fred, will be under complete control of her skillful management. It is probable that Ottawa has the distinction of having registered this spring the oldest voter of any town in the nation. "Aunty" Lewy, the old cop I was man of the First wizard, went to the city clerk a office Friday morning and opined that he was not of her age. Mrs. Lewy gave it without hesitation as 116 years. And while it is possible that she may be mistaken in the exact figure, it is altogether correct. Her statement is very nearly correct. Mrs. Lewis has registered regularly for a long time past. She has made no contradictions in her statements of her age. She could easily be, judging from her appearance, as old as she claims to be; or her age might be judged at half the figures which she gives. Mrs. Lewis is quite active. She declares that she can remember the events following the revolution. She believes that she will live for many years more. Col. F. M. Woods, the venerable live stock auctioneer, who is well known to every breeder of throughbred stock, recently paid the following grand tribute to the cow. It is an epitome of her usefulness and if every man who owns a cow fully understood what Col. Woods says of her, there would be nerubs and poor fowl inmals in the cow. Col. Woods throws her the following bouquet of clover blossoms: "Grand and noble brute; of all God's animal gifts to man she is the greatest. To her we owe the most. Examine into all the different ramifications of the result into which she enters, and note the result should she be blotted out. A Sunday stillness would then pervade the great stock yard industries of our large cities and grass would grow in the great freight trains that plow the continent from ocean to ocean would side track, for there would be nothing for them to do. Fully 50 per cent of the laborers on the farm would be Saturday night and on tables would bare of the greatest luxuries with which they are loaded. The great Western plains that she has made to blossom, financially, like the rose, would revere her name, and would come, and millions of prosperous homes would be destroyed. "None other like the cow; there is not a thing from nose to tail but what is utilized for the use of man. We use her horns to comb our hair; her hair keeps the plaster on our walls; her skin is on all our feet and our horses her tail makes soap; she gives our milk, our cream, our cheese and our butter, and her flesh is the great meat of all nations. Her blood is used to make our sugar white, and her bones, when ground, make the greatest fertilizer. Her skin has put through the first chemical process for the manufacturing of the best white board paper, and it has been discovered that that paper is the most lasting material for the manufacturing of false teeth. No other animal works for man both day and night; by day she sleeps at night, so she brings it back to rechee and manufacture into all the things of which I speak. She has gone with the man from Plymouth Rock to the setting sam: it was her son that broke the first sod in the settler's yard, and she praised the prairie schooner for the sturdy pioneers, as inch by inch, they fought to prove that "westward the star of empire takes it way," and the old cow gazed along behind, and when the days march was done she came and the cow grazed along behind, and breast feet the sucking bob that was, perchance, to become the future ruler of his country. "Who says that what we are we do not owe to man's best friend, the cow. Treat her kindly, gently for without others word fail me to describe." Many farm horses are killed each year by thoughtless owners, says the Kentucky Farm Journal. They would not take their lives as butchers would, nor do they purposely take their lives by intentional cruelty. By carless intention the work is done, and many men are guilty of the charge of killing off good horses if the matter could be difinitely traced. Poor treatment when disease attacks the vital pars of a horse is a scure of much fatality among horses. Lack of judgment under circumstances relating to the care of horses when they are out of condition is another. The lack of proper knowledge of the effect of different foods for horses under peculiar conditions may be added to the list. A great many causes might be given, but it is unnecessary to repeat them here. The horse owner who will give the subject any thought can figure out what the cause of his fatal animals may be shortened or lengthened. There are very few horses worn out. The most of them die from some other cause or other, and these causes are if they want their horse to live to a green old age. It is easier to preserve horses than to procure them. Barring accidents, a sound horse should be as good at twenty as at any other age, yet we want them to be as good to do a full day's work without great fatigue. You must study the care of your horses if you would preserve them. 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Let our young girls learn to sew and mend their garments. Col. Jas. Beck was in town about thirty minutes last Friday. M. G. Hollway, of Horton, spent a few days in the city last week. Guess Chief Stahl's police won't beat up any more colored Warner men. Quarterly Conference was held Monday night at St. Mark's A. M. E. church. Johnhny Patterson leaves for Denver just as soon as the blue birds whistles. Mrs. T. Parks, of Denver, passed through the city Wednesday enroute to Chicago. Quarterly meeting was held Sunday at St. Mark A. M. E. church. Rev. Ransom presided. A young lady who can cook a good meal and keep a good house is preferable all the time. Mrs. L. A. Anderson announces the engagement of her daughter, Eliza, to Burton Alexandria, Jr. Rev. Moppins, pastor of C. M. E. church, is holding a protracted meeting. Ever one invited to attend. Rev. Voorhees of Manhattan, has been called to the Third Baptist church where he will begin his pastoral duties. Rev. Voorhees, pastor of the Thira Baptist church, is holding a series of meetings. All friends invited to attend. The funeral of Mr. Lewis Wardell was held Saturday at St. John's A. M. E church. The body was in charge F. G. I. B. society. The colored troops fought nobly and when the day was done Many a prohibition corpse lay bleeding in the evening sun. Mr. Jasin Scott and family desire to thank the lodge and many friends for their kindness during the illness and death of wife and mother. Mrs. Julia Scott died at her home Highland Park last Friday night after a long illness. The funeral services were held Sunday at St John's A. M. E. church. She leaves a husband, six children to survive her. Mr. Henry Richard returned from Coffeyville, Union county, Ky., last week where he was visiting his mother. They still continue to Lynch, he thinks, the colored people in that section of the country little better than in slavery days. The United Order of Immaculates of the city will hold Easter services at the Second Cumberland Presbyterian church, 12th and Quincy St. Sunday afternoon, April 7, at 2 o'clock. Sermon by Ruy, P. W. Green. Singing by 2nd C. P. choir. All are invited. Col. Fred Jelitz, of the Kansas State Leder, who has long been regarded as the prince of pungent paragraphs, will find it necessary to look to his laurels. A Mr. Jeremiah Cider has launched the Democratic Agitator at St. Joseph, Mo., and it promises to collapse anything before issued. Jeremiah is a pretty warm article. Special Easter services Sunday at St. John A. M. E church. The house will be beautifully decorated, danced and lighted with electricity at all of the services both day and night. Programme: Prayer and praise meeting 6:00 a.m. m.; song service by the choir 10:20 a.m. mhh.; Easter sermon by the pastor 1:00 a.m. m.; Sunday choir or special platform meeting and Easter cantata in the evening 8:00. A cordial invitation is extended to all. A. M. W. D pastor. REMEMBER THE BAND. NO MEMORIAM. No organization in Kansas is doing more to alleviate our people than the Twentieth third Regimental band under the leadership of Prof. G. W. Jacksboro. It is deserving of the hearty and unstinted support of all our people. On next Monday night a benefit entertainment will be given at the Auditorium. Every person should turn out and help the boys. The entertainment is in the hands of the popular Owl club and will be a success. Steinberg's orchestra will furnish music. Mrs. James Beck passed through Topeka Friday of last week enroute to Denver. Prof. Carter of the Industrial Institute will preach for Rev. B. C. Duke Sunday at 11 a. m. We, the Third Baptist Church are running a revival meeting, every boby is invited. Rev. Bo-Ree Pastor. Miss Lewis Stewart was called to Denver last week to see her Aunt Mrs. Chas. Ramey who is dangerously ill. Rev. B. C. Duke and wife spent last Sunday in Valencia visiting Mrs. Duke's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Young. Rev. Alphin Field Supt. of the Christian churches of Kansas, is engaged in a serries of meetings in Atchison Kansas. SHILOH JO...INGS. "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet till Shiloh came." Shiloh church, corner 12th and Buchan street, was the scene of song, praise, joy and feast of good things all day sunday. The introduction of Pastor Helm to his church and the citizens of Topeka, was very impressive, indeed. The morning service was conducted by Rev. Helm. The program as it appeared in the Plaindealer was filled to the letter, the paper subject, "The Ideal Church," by Prof. Galther Page, was a most excellent production and reflects great credit on the intellectual ability of its composer. Rev. W. P. Grant, a one of the brainstem Negro preachers in America, as usual, preached a brilliant service. The charge by Dr. Cranell, of the First Presbyterian, private and one of the best ever delivered to a brother preacher. The choir sang better than it has for some time. Helm conducted the evening service. The theme of discussion was "The Triumph of Christianity." Large congregations filled the beautiful auditorium at each service, and the church secured from contributions $62.91. Dr. O. A. Taylor led the contributors in the afternoon and proved himself a splendid financier. The B. Y. P. U. will render a program at the evening and night services. Everybody is cordially invited to attend the services and listen to the splendid program. Miss Elia Johnson is yet confined to her bed, but it is our earnest prayer that she may soon recover and take her accustomed place with us. Revs. Johnson, Graham and Stoner were welcomed to the service Sunday. Mrs. Gertrude Jordan is able to be up and out again. Bro. J. H. Bell and wife entertained Mrs. R. L. Helm, Revs. W. L. Grant and W. E. Helm at a most tempting dinner Sunday. Those after-church lunches are very acceptable, indeed. On account of rusning business the note for the Mother's club will not appear this week. We most heartily thank our visitors for their attendance and contributions Sunday and hope that we may be able to serve them in some way as a token of our appreciation. INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE NOTES. The band boys are well pleased with their new instruments and are making rapid progress. Prof. Jackson knows how to handle a brass band. Be sure to attend the concert tonight. Some of our best talent have numbers on the program. There will be refreshments in abundance. Do not fail to be here. Admission ten cents. At the regular faculty meeting Wednesday night the teachers of the various departments reported the work in a very flourishing condition. We deeply sympathize with our matron, Mrs. S. R. McLean. In the death of her mother and with Mr. W. A. Richardson, of the third year normal in the death of his father. Principal Carter reports having had a profitable and pleasant visit to Ft. Scott. While there he was the guest of Maj. and Mrs. G. W. Ford. Do not forget the praise service Sunday afternoon. Come prepared to take an active part. The subject will be, "My idea of Easter." The many lovers of music will be paused to listen that have contracted with the Fisk Jubilee singers to give a concert in Toneka the latter part of this month. We ask your cooperation in making the concert a success. Tell all of your friends about it. Further notice will appear next week. The Imperial Art club will meet Saturday afternoon April 6 with Mrs. Higgins. The Nephus Art club meet at Mrs. Henry Dunlap's 10th Pine St Last Saturday. They will meet next Saturday wit Mrs. Duncs, 1216 W, 1218 St. The Rose End club will meet at the residence of Mrs. Young. All the members are requested to be present to attend to some important business. "A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, the true lore of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world." Hermes. The Ladies Shamrock Art Club will meet with Mrs. J. W. Edmonds, 132 VanBuren, on April 10th. All members are earnestly requested to be present as there is business of importance will come before the club. Miss Victoria Overall, one of our Western brilliant young ladies, went up to Detroit last year and gave the Wolverines a few lessons in dramatic reading. The Detroit Advocate gives Miss Overall a page of flattering compliments. She is reserving of all. The Victoria Art Club met Saturday afternoon with Miss Sadie Lane. The afternoon was spent very pleasantly all members being present. They adjourned to meet next Saturday with Miss Bessie Williams 412 Buchanan st. The Arden Club met last Thursday evening with Mr. Ira Guy Prof. Clinkscale read a review of act. 3 Henry 5, Miss Hester Hawkins gave familiar sayings from the play, and a part of act. 4 was read and discussed. It will meet this week with Miss Mary Jamison. The State Federation of Women's clubs will convene in Leavenworth in June. Exertive preparations for the entertainment of the ladies is being made. The future of this state organization will depend upon the practical work done at this meeting. The ladies of Kansas cannot afford to loose BRIDE OF TOPPERAY No 38, meets 1st and 4th Saturday afternoon of each month at No 106 North Kansas avenue. Mrs. Ida M. Joujan, Q. M. Bliss Alas Reynold, C. R. MACDONIA TABERNACLE No 93, U.K. at T. Hall 600 N. Kansas Avenue. Meets 1st and 4th thursdays of each month. Mrs. Ida M. Joujan, C. P.; Miss Sarah Walker, C. R. MACEDONIAN LODGE No 9, GOOD SAMARITANS and DAUGHTERS of SAMARIA, meets second and fourth Friday evenings of each month at 8 o'clock, at 123 East Seventh street. Visiting Samaritans are always welcome. W. E. Jackson, Chief. ALLIE LAWSON, Record Securing. PEARLY ROSE Tabernaise No 77, meets 1st and third Wednesday afternoons of each month at 2 o'clock at 123 East 11th street. Mrs. W. G. KERCHAELI, H. P., Mrs. M. A. Owens, C. R. sight of the great good accruing to the race from just such work. Before this meeting should be read practical papers on domestic economy, self-culture, as well as art needle work. It is a mistake to make art needle work the chief object of this meeting. A state federation should include a discussion of all matters of interest to our women. No movement has occurred during the past few years that has been watched with so much pride, as has the tendency of our young men to provide homes of their own for their brides. It is a spirit certainly to be admired and encouraged. This spirit in our young men calls for a corresponding disposition in the young girls who are hoping some day to reign supreme in the heart and home. Every young girl should take special pains to learn the full details of housekeeping. To know how to cook, sew, wash and iron, is as essential to the proper education of a young miss as a knowledge of Shakespeare and the latest wrinkle in the two-step. Just now dalty dishes are the fad among a class of our ladies. At this season eggs form a large proportion of a family diet. Here is a toothsome dish: Have ready cooked and heated a pint of nice green peas; season them with salt, pepper and butter; heat six eggs until thoroughly mixed, but not light; add six tablespoons of water, a salt spoonful of pepper and a teafull teaspoon of sugar; not be melted. Put a table spoonful of butter into an omelet pan; when hot, not brown, turn in the egg mixture, shake over a hot fire until the omelet begins to "set"; dust with a half teaspoonful of salt, and with a limber knife, lift the edges of the omelet allowing the soft portions to run underneath, shake again and continue until the omelet is cooked; put three or four tablespoons of peas in a hot pot over the omelet, turn in a hot pot and pour remaining peas over and serve hot. It is a delicious pea omelet. MARJORIE VAULT. The women of St. Louis have taken a practical view of the work before them and the Palladium has this to say: "That energetic and persevering band of women, known in our midst as the St. Louis woman's Club, is nearing completion of the fund for the establishment of a day nursery, where the hard-working mothers who are forced to leave their homes to earn their daily bread, can leave their little ones in safety until their return. This praiseworthy enterprise has for a long while been the primary object of the woman's club labors, and these persistent workers are now beginning to feel that the result of their efforts will someday be the establishment of this noble charity, "A Children's Fancy Dress Party" will be given early in April, where the little folks can enjoy themselves to their hearts content, with music, dancing and games, while contributing their pennies to the aid of the less fortunate little ones. Let the children and their parents and friends rally to the help of the Woman's Club in their noble enterprise." SHAWNEL The colored citizens of Shawnee contributed $5.50 toward the prosecution of the parties implicated in the late Leavenworth horror. We urgently insist that some fordable action be taken in the near future. Hence, we await with great anxiety for the report of the state executive committee. The Negroes of this place realize the importance of a closer communion and a mutual protectorate. An organization was perfected here with Cornelius Jackson, president, and S. B Turner, secretary. We expect to sail under the wing of the "True Eleven." Mr. Frank Jackson, of Merriam, has moved into our community. An enjoyable entertainment was given at the home of Mr. Cornelius Jackson last week in honor of his grandchildren, Misses Huela and Stella Jackson. Mr. Augusta Strickland who has been identified with the Argentine smelter for the past ten years has resigned his position. The Plaindealer has recently been introduced into our town and its weekly reception is always a source of pleasure to its readers. S. B. Turner was called to Argentine last Thursday night by the Negroes of that place to assist in the organization of a local Afro-American Council. The meeting was reported a success. Mr. George Pierce has sold his old residence and moved over on Main St. The Sunday school work will again be revived in Shawnee. WEIR ITEMS Miss Josephine Pratt, Mrs. Gertrude Fisher and Mr. Henry Taylor, of Pittsburg were guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. Dorcas Sunday. Mrs. Josephine Woods returned from Alabama Saturday where she attended the bedside of her brother. Messrs. Geo. Austin and T. D. Berry attended the hand concert at Pittsburg Saturday night. The quarantine has been removed from the churches and lodge rooms and the Easter services will be the reedication of the houses of worship after their doors have been closed by the seal of the law for more than a month. All the Dannies are suffering with the smallpox. Mr. and Mrs. James Anderson, Mr. F. Christian and ye agent were visitors in Scammon Sunday the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Livingston. The Afo-American Council will meet the 11th inst at Second and Clay St. Baptist church at 7:30 p. m. The Royal Cafe has been opened up by parties from Iola. (Write on one side of paper.) 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 OZ20NO. It was not offered for sale until any extent until 1875 when it was put upon the market and met with a great drought test by the colored people of that time it was promoted an honest, honesty, rue to sill that was claimed for the colored race, and worthy in every respect of the hair to grow long and straight, stiff 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 awful, causing the hair to fall on and doing great damage to the hair and the colored people are having these spurious compounds, which are billed with a warning, so do the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning to the careful that you use on your hair. Do not be deceived by daring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics. OZONO. fate to do all that is claimed for you a plain question—would you be dissatisfied with our preparation? We have advertised and we are glad to say that every in every respect, preparations, and every pure Hair Tonies. Ozono will post Harsh, Curly, Refractory, the hair long and straight. It will dispense. Itch, Erzema, Dain been applied. It will stop your hair to its natural color, make statement. Many firms are advertised they send the preparation to use hot irons; they will burn out. Ozono straightens too is necessary, and the hair is at any time. The good effect of the first application is the work. We time: Cut out this coupon and the Dollar, and we will forward the Electrical Skin Rakin soft and plant, and cut rejuvenate one fancy jar of our Electrics we wrinkles, moth patches, free cold look young and the young of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which we no longer a pure soap should 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 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 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, 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 it to it drop. Ozono straightens without any outside needles, necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You can stop the use at time of a 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. Missouri Pacific Route THE GREAT SOUTHWEST states of Kansas, Missouri and the Indian Territory. GREAT OUTHWEST SYSTEM, asas, Missouri, Nebraska, an Territory. UNION LOCK POULTRY FENCE. For Poultry, Rabbits, Orchards, Gardens, etc. All main strands are two wires twisted together. Painted July 12, 1879 and April 18, 1879. Pickets 3 in, apart, Cables 1¼ in, apart at bottom. 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 written free. UNION FENCE CO., DE KALB, ILL., U. S. A. be used on the scalp. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint package of Anti-Odor, a positive care for Nose Threat or Mouth, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $100, 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 thou-sides of testimonials we have not put to public. Here is a sample of one: Bodum Chemical Company: Dear Sirs—You are at liberty to state in any newspaper that I have used (OZON) and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been sold often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. 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 kit when at once, and the g-goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiller, worth $50. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth $50. 1 Package (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth $50. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth $50. Total, $4.00. 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. Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Etc. Price 25 Cents per Bottle. BEFORE AFTER BUFFALO, N. Y., U. S. A. ...Manufacturers... Schrader, The Divine — Healer Relieves the Allicted. Many People Visit him at his Rooms in Topeka and are Greatly Benefited. Schrader will be in Ottawa Kan- sas, on Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesdav next. The Afflicted will do well to visit him, and test his wondeful healing powers. Marseillus, Ul An intense sensation has been creat- ed in Marseilles by the appearance here of the famous Divine Healer Schrader, who arrived yesterday on his overland trip to the west. This man ‘who looks exactly like the pictures of Jesus Christ, is stul in town and he is the one topic of conversation. At the hotel where the Divine Healer is stopping, many afflicted people visited him last night and today, and several of them claim to have been greatly benefitted and relleved of pain. Cer- tain 1 is that this most strange character possesses a wonderful and fest of tanttiet, Last night the Devine Healer ap- peared on the streets and addressed a large crowd before receiving the afflicted at the hotel. H espoke in a most soft but distinct voice and told the people how they could be cured of disease by God's divine power work- Ing through him, At the conclusion ‘of his talk he invoked the divine bless- ing—and It was noticeable that the most skeptical in the crowd bowed their heads. Something about Shroder seems to inspire one with awe. His costume is an Imitation of the dress of Jesus Christ, while bis long wavy brown hair and lengthy beard make him look the exact picture of Him whe perished on the cross. A high forehead and a well-shaped head give him an air of distinction, while a pair of the softest blue eyes complete the picture of the character of bible times. ‘Most of the people who have visited him claim that they received benefits and will go back to him again tonight to receive further treatment. They say that when the Healer lays his hands upon them that an electric cur rent or an indescribable something passes through thelr bodies and they at once feel relieved. The names of those benefitted are withheld from publication by request until they re- eelve further treatment. Mr. Schrader in an interview today gave a history of his life. He sald: HISTORY OF DIVINE HEALER’S LIFE. “I was born 34 years ago in the ‘woods of Wisconsin at a small place called Ellisville, twenty-eight miles from Green Bay. I am of German parentage and my early life was spent on a farm. I never attended school a day in my Ife, and what education I possess was self-obtained. At the age of 13 I first discoverea that I poss- essed the divine power of healing the sick, and since then I have traveled RPL, i eer ge ge ee ber pee extensively carrying on my work. “T cure all manner of diseases know: by the laying on of my hands and th blessing of handkerchiefs. No mat ter how long a person has been aillict ed I can cure him througa God's diving Power. Thousands of people all ove1 the land have been cured by me Among the cures made by me withir the last few days I can name severa at Indianapolis, Ind. They were Mrs F. Smith, cured of nervousness ani weakness; Mrs. Carrie Seller, ectema; B. F. Grash, rheumatism; T, H. Kee. pas catarrh; Mrs. Stokes, asthma an¢ ryheumatism. | “When I was in Denver a few years ago thousands of people came to se me daily and the railroads had to run excursions to accommodate the peo- Pie. At one time 45,000 people were waiting for the divine treatment, and ‘suffering humanity stooa in line for ‘hours and hours waiting for me. Man3 ‘came lame, blind, halt, and of all des- criptions, and they went away cured “After a time I vanished and went into the mountains of New Mexico fo a fast of forty days and forty nights There { was reported to have died, but you see 1 am a pretty ively orpse ‘My reappearance was an astonishment to the people who thought me dead but who see I am here in the flesh. “I was stormed in your city yester day on my back to Denver. I want to proceed on my journey as soon a: Possible, so if the afflicted wish to re celve treatment of me I desire that they call early, as my stay may not be long."—Register. ‘The following are a few of the many who claim to be benefitted while in Topeka: James Hillbert, eyesight greatly im- Proved. ‘Stella Lacy, stomach trouble, now muc! better. J. B, McMilian, asthma. greatly im. Hoved, ‘Wesley Blackman, hearing improv. ed. Lizzie Hannon, eyesight much bet: ter. Miss M. B. Thompson, stomach trouble, much better, E. S. Engle, better of catarrh. R. Warwick, N. Topeka, rheumatism and headaches, {s now better. D. P. Daniels, kidney trouble, now ‘balter. DENVER. Mrs. M. E. Worthy, cured of a bad case of infismmatory rheumatism. ABILENE. ‘The revival at the A. BM. E. church has been well attended. ‘The Senior literary was entertained with a very Interesting debate, “Re- solved, That Booker T, Washington has done more for the race than Fred- eric Douglas.” Affirmative, Mr. Hall; negative, Mrs. Grace Moman. Judged by polnts, the affirative 3 and negative z ‘Miss Mary Bell has been on the sick list, but she is In full btoom, like Tose, again. Mrs, J, B. Lewis is on the sick list Mr. Ray has started a troop, knowr as the Colorado Graauates. Mr. Lom mie Williams joined him. Rev. W. W. Steward gave us a goo¢ sermon Sunday morning and night ‘The Junior literary will give an en: tertainment at the Ohmpick hall Fri day night. ‘Mrs. Nancy Taylor is out again. J, F. White is improving. | GARNETT. Miss Jane Tolson, of Kansas City, Mo., arrived Monday morning celled here by the illness of her father. Mrs. N. C, Blair, of Parsons, Kan., has been visiting her parents, Richard Wallace and wife, the past week. Rev. Bright, of Ft. Scott, Kan,, preache at the A, M. E. church Sun- day. Thos. Tyler, of Kansas City, Kan., arrived yast week, called here by the serious illness of his sister, Miss Mary Tyler. Mr, America Jennings and daughter Ethel, of St Louis, formerly of this city have returned to make this place their future home. Niss Mary Tyler, doughter of Mr. and Mrs, John Tyler, died at her home on East Fifth street this monday noon after an iliness of about three months. DODGE CITY. Mr and Mrs. B. W. Davis gave a dinner in honor of Mrs. M. S. Salles, of Topeka. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Moss, Mrs. B. F. Fletcher. Mrs. G. Stanfield, Mrs. M. M. Greer, Mrs. Eva Reddicks, Miss Rachel Skarce, Mr. J. Gentry. All had a de- lightful time. Mrs. Salles is visit- ing her daughter, Mrs. M. M. Greer. Mrs. B, F, Fletcher is now home from Rocky Ford, Uolo., where she has been temporary residing. Rev. Jones, of Garden City, spent ‘Thursday in our city vi-‘ting. The consignment of sheep to the Kansas City market has been so much lighter than‘was antlelpated that stock yards managers are Investigating the causes, It was discovered that there was a differential of $10 a car in the rate when sheep were shipped to other points than Kansas City. Another is the lack of feeding lots provided tor the feeding and resting of sheep after thelr long transit before they were put on the market But one railroad company maintains a feeding lot for sheep, the Santa Fe. It is claimed that this road hauls 80 per cent of the sheep that are put on the Kansas City market. The Santa Fe's feeding yards are at Morris, Kan. The Rock Island has large yards near Chicago and as a consequence nearly all the sheep the road hauls are taken to Chicago. The Union Pacfic has feeding yards in Nebrasha within the proximity of Omaha and the sheep they haul are mostly taken to the Omaha yards. The stock yards com- ‘pany will ask the rallroads to abolish ‘the differential in freight rates and provide for feeding yards and sheds within a few hours run of Kansas City. Monday evening some young fellows were in a Garnett restaurant talking of ghosts, and one sald a ghost haunt- ed ‘the base ball grounds near the water tower. Another one of the fel- lows boasted that he wasn’t afraid of ghosts and some one of the others bantered him to go out and tackle the one at the ball ground. which he con- sented to do. Thereupon the boys fix- ed up a ghost and sent it on ahead to the ball grounds, while the gang fol- lowed to see the one get scared when the ghost appeared. They arrived all right and the ghost appeared and all the crowd took fright and ran. except the one who said he was not afraid of ghosts. He tackled the ghost with a Dit of rock and made it beg for quar- ter. The laugh seems to be on the ghost and the crowd. ‘The Messenger says: One night last week one of Stroud’s business men was indulging in the luxuries of a ‘sweat-bath in one of the new-fangled bath outfits, and about the time the temperature had reached 100 degrees above blood heat the fringe on a couch was ignited Into a blaze. After the bather had unbuttoned himself from the prison-like apparatus, the flamrs were in good headway and there seem- ed to be no time to adorn nimself -vith clothing, so he seized the firey couch and carried it from the rvom Into the midnight darkness. Some of his superstitious neighbors who happened to be up at that hour actua:'y thought it was an angel which hai descends in a cloud of fire. 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 plentifulandabundant—North, South. Eastand 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 ofthem mak- ing as high as $80.00 weekly. Qur 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 agentsare all pros- pering and risingin the world. Write for full particulars to— * Boston Chemical Co., 310 E, Broad St, | Richmond} Va. PE en SR ER From the Carpet Department. BARNUMS | 4 619 Kansas Avenue. § > It is as natural to have our thoughts run to this de- é H partment at THIS TIME as it is for you, dear reader, to i 4 watch for the first signs of spring. 4 The volume of the business must be done in the next HW Codays. To get a real good send off is half the battle? 4 we are going to make a strong, very strong bid for your 4 trade—the conditions HERE could not be improve 4 upon. The variety and excellency ofthe products We 4 show excel any previous attempt. 3 We invite you to come to our Carpet Department, 4 permit usto figure with you—we are in the mood to f 5 make yougenerous prices, in fact we think we ca? # readily save you $2.50, $5.00, $7.50 and even more on 4 your Carpet and Drapery bill—it depends, of course, o 4 your requirements. 4 Ingrain Carpets, from......-.-.19¢ up g Stair Carpets, from........-...15¢ up 4 Tapestrie Carpets, from.........45¢ up d Body Brussels, from........--.-93¢ up 4 Velvets, from.......---- 000064900 ud H + Moquettes, from...............85¢ H Axminsters, from............$1.00 up i Most of these thoee-fourths goods have borders to match. } Shade Department. | 4 Felt Shades with spring rollers..............+-10¢ i Opaque Shades with spring rollers..........25¢, 35¢ | 4 Shades made to order in any size. | Curtain poles with trimmings complete..........19¢ a Brass Extention Rods..-.......-+22++2+e+++-3¢ Up as Lace Curtains of which we show over fifty style, #y will be found cheaper than ever. See display on first H floor. Price is marked in plain figures. 5 Opened our new line of Upholstery Goods. Satin ¥4 Damasks, Tapestries, Velours, &c., &c. H Leather Goods and Oil Cloths for carriage trimmings “ —all kinds, all widths, all colors. | i Linoleums. Y We are doing a great business in this popular floor | “4 covering. It is the cleanest and therefore the most sanitary floor covering, in use. We show very beautiful 4 designes and coloring—we quote....47}c. 57$c, 67}c of 4a: : Straw Mattings. ! A One hundred rolls just opened. Another sanitary floor covering, growing in popularity with each succeeding 4] season. You will find very choice geods at very reasonable Hl COSt.seeeeeeeeeeece eres eres seI2hG, 15C) 25¢, 35, 45C s Five per cent from above prices if bought by the roll 4 —roll contains 40 yards. ‘4 We believe we can serve your best interests if you wil i give us the opportunity. : Garpet Remnants. i There are necessarily many Carpet remnants in a 4 stock like ours—to avoid an over accumulation the price HW on these are deeply cut—many remants are of room si ze. I PUBLICATION NOLICE. secre Sarena conten fohn 1). French, plainuml, reas niaecennt (No 21040.) To Isabella L. French —You are hereby nonfied tha’ you have been sug an the abme enutled cause sm gett tte Ser sent band. ‘That sacd plaintiff filed Ins petition with the Beets es reset Goa rai ate stare ye ane Ba ye tenis rs ve oe a tant eee ee et Soe ae Siz. JOHN D. FRENCH, Phmut, {ReaD} canes, Ava CaLLAHAil Cen, APRIL SERVICES, Shitoh Maptist Church, Corner Twelfth SUNDAY—Tth. rx am. Preaching, Subject, “The Church” rans, Aggneeren is, ‘Ordinance of the Lord's s2'30 p.m Sunday School, H. I. Monroe, Gyo pm. BY. P. W, Conducior, Mrx fy HfcKnight 7.25 p.m. Chnitian Culture Course, Mrs W.A. Jordan, Biob'p. m, Preaching.*‘The Trumph of Chisitasty piprerSermce Tuesday night the 2od—Rev, W SUNDAY—L4th,? st! a, m, Contereeration and Prasse Service, Rev. He ell rains ‘Sune ay, School H. I. Monroe. 6 30 p.m. BY. P. U..{'onductor, Muss Ada Ups ris p m-Chnatan Calture Course, Boy W. Jordan. Bg p. m, Preaching, Sobyect,~“Fhe Throne of cn the Spinal Magnet of the Universe Prayer Services Luesday night the gtb—Rev.N. Boyd. SUNDAY 21st. rr a.m. _ Preaching, Subject “The Charch.”” suis Sunday School, HiT. Moores é:y0'p. m. Hi. ¥; P. Ue Conductor, Sus Eva Overe, gis Dem CG. Govite dire WA fordan, B08 pr m- Preacinng, Subject, “Diferent Famines ‘but of one Blood,” Prayer Services Tuesday night the r6th—Rev, E. H. Tpshaw. SUNDAY 28th, 11, a. ma. Preaching, Subject, “The Church.” t2't5 Suodsy Schoal, H. 1. Monroe 6:30 p.m. B.¥. P. U.. Conductor, Muss Ellen Page. 7:15 p.m. Chratian Coliure Course, Sirs W. A. Jordaa. Soo p. m. Preachiog, Subject, “The Wheel in the Pm Pygiddle sta Whee.” Prayer Service Tuesday night the aprd-Bf. S. Jackson H. SCHUTE, ‘H, WILLIAMS? 5'W. PASKER. HL MONROF,@ RHIGHTOWER, C.T. BRADSHAW, 1 WepbINGTON, Deacees; A, HM. THOMAS, Arrorngy-at-Law, *Phone, 299. 413 Kansas Avenue, Rooms 4and. Topeka, Kan. pitta h 2 emma ie ele sk ck Re. PROCLAMATION OF REWARD. State of Kansas, Executive Department 1, W. E. 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