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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. A Twelve Pounder Was Sufficient to Silence the Ground Hog Battery, Causing His Hogship to Seek Refuge Among the Innocent Onlookers! Prominent Candidates A Few Points About Men Who Seek Nominations on the Republican State Ticket. Kansas politics is grow-ssional convention act will be held at Mary 28th, and the at Wichita. May is for various posi- north with regulari- gretted that Shawne the battle ground faces. THE PLAIN- al that the Repub- many good men Voters will make selecting either man. If his skill as a politician equalled his worth as a man he would be nominated and if he were nominated and elected we have no hesitatancy in saying that he would make as able and conscientious a governor as Kansas has ever had. Mr. Troutman is a strong friend of our people. He is always active in promoting our interests. If Shawnee county secures the gubernatorial nominee, the Negroes of Kansas will have a staunch friend in the executive chair. Hon. T. J. Kelly, better known over the state of Kansas as Tom Kelly, is "fat, fair and 40." He was born in the town of Elmwood, Peoria county, Ill., on December 8, 1861, and came to Kansas in 1870. Incidentally we may say that his parents came with him and settled on a farm in Gardner township, Johnson co. He moved to Miami county in the fall of 1884, and for four years worked on a farm in the summer and taught school in the winter. In 1887 he was married to Miss Catharine Graham of Wamego. At this time his family consists of his wife and daughter, Hazel, aged 13 years. In 1889 he was elected county clerk of Miami county on the Republican ticket and was re-elected in 1891, although that was the year when the Populist wave so nearly swept every Republican office holder out of office. During the years 1892-93 he served as chairman of the Republican central committee of Miami co. After retiring from the office of county clerk he was engaged in the hardware business in the city of Paola. In 1894 he was a prominent candidate for the nomination for auditor of state before the Republican convention, but when George Cole beat him for the nomination he immediately took off his coat to work for the ticket. In February, 1898, he was appointed receiver of the National bank of Paola, and was so successful in the management of the bank that all claims and all depositors were paid in full. When Frank Grimes took charge of the office of state treasurer, he appointed Tom Kelly as his assistant, a selection that met with general and hearty approval. During the campaign of 1900 he served as secretary of the state central committee. Unless the unexpected happens, he will be a prominent candidate for state treasurer before the state convention at Wichita, with a good prospect at least of securing the nomination. He belongs to no faction, and at this writing it seems practically agreed that he will have no opposition. VOLUME IV. Interest in Kansas politics is growing. The Congressional convention for the First district will be held at Holton, on February 28th, and the State convention at Wichita. May 23rd. Candidates for various positions are coming forth with regularity. It is to be regretted that Shawnee county must be the battle ground of contending forces. THE PLAINDEALER is thankful that the Republican party has many good men within its ranks. Voters will make no mistake in selecting either man who is now asking their endorsement for a position. Hou. R. B Welch Indiana is now furnishing much of the political timber in Kansas this year. R. B. Welch, one of Topeka's most successful attorneys, announces himself a candidate for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas. Mr. Welch was born in DeKalb county, Indiana, in 1850, on a farm. He early saw the error of his way and moved his parents to Illinois, receiving his education at the Wesiyan University, at Bloomington. In 1878 he was a member of the Illinois State Board of Examiners. He became Superintendent of schools at Pontiac, during which time he read law in the office of S. S. Lawrence. In 1879 Mr. Welch became president of the Kansas State Normal school at Emporia. He discharged the duties of this position with credit to himself and profit to the people of Kansas. In 1882 he resigned the presidency of the State Normal and entered upon the practice of law in the city of Topeka where he has been ever since. As president of the Board of Education of this city from 1886 to 1895 he did much to bring our city schools to their present state of efficiency. He was county attorney of Shawnee county for two terms—1889 to 1893—and made a splendid record. He is a good citizen and a faithful friend of the Negro. Hon. James A. Troutman Hon. James A. Troutman was born in Fulton county, Ind, in the year 1858. It is fair to say, however, that the place of his birth was a matter entirely beyond his control; he would have been born in the state of Ohio if his wishes had been consulted It is to be said to his credit that he lett Indiana as soon as he could bring his parents and the rest of his family with him to Kansas in 1865. The only schools he ever attended were the country schools in the neighborhood of his home. The length of the school term was three months each winter, and as he says, he commenced each term at the same place he had commenced the winter before. Notwithstanding this desultory and limited style of schooling, Mr. Troutman managed to acquire enough book knowledge to teach school and was a country pedagogue for three years. He read law with the well known law firm of Peck, Ryan and Johnston and since his admission to the bar has been located in the city of Topeka. For several years he has been the senior member of the firm of Troutman and Stone. In 1892 Mr. Troutman was elected as member of the legislature and was an acknowledged leader of the famous Douglas house. At the annual meeting of the Kansas day club on January 29, 1894, Mr. Troutman was one of the speakers. His speech on that occasion created a sensation. Rhetorically it was a gem and at once established his reputation as the peer of any orator in Kansas. The next summer, without any solicitation on his part, he was nominated by the Republican state convention as a candidate for lieutenant governor. As presiding officer of the senate, in the face of many difficulties, he proved himself a skillful parliamentarian, and won the respect of the entire senate, two-thirds of which body was opposed to him politically. Politically he has been above petty scheming and has steadily refused to sacrifice any principle or suppress his opinions for the sake of gaining political advantage or official reward. During the past year his name has been very frequently mentioned in connection with the nomination for governor Hon. T. J Kelly. Hon. J B Betts. Hon. J B. Betts, contractor, builder and legislator, was born on a farm in Morgan county. Ill, February 22, 1851. His parents moved to Ohio when he was an infant, but moved back to Illinois after a brief stay in the Buckeye state. They moved to Kansas in 1860, settling first in Atchison county, but moved to Jefferson county in 1861. The fact that young Betts came to Kansas when he was a lad of 9 and lived through a stirring period of the history of the state, has both made him a thorough Kansan and given him an independence and self reliance that he might not otherwise have obtained. Mr. Betts married at the age of 25 and iu 1883 moved with his family to Topeka and engaged in the business of builder and contractor, which he has followed ever since. In 1899 he was elected as Republican member of the city council for the First ward. Last year on the death of Harry Safford, who had been elected to the legislature from the Thirty-eighth representative dlstrict, Mr. Betts was nominated by the Republicans and elected by a large majority to fill the vacancy. Mr. Betts has for a good while been prominent in fraternal work, being a member of the Masonic order, the Workmen Modern Woodmen, Fraternal Aid and Ancient Order of the Pyramids He employs from forty to sixty all the time, paying them good wages TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1902. He will be renominated without opposition. George W. Tlucher, George W. Tincher, of the Sixth ward, will be a candidate for councilman. He has been a resident of Topeka for over thirty-five years. Since 1895 he has been foreman at the State Printing Office and is regarded as an efficient workman. He was a member of the Board of Education of the Potwin school before the city was annexed to Topeka. He is a firm believer in public ownership of public utilities. He is a good friend of the Negro. J. W. Edmonds, who has been in the employ of the State Printing House during all these years, speaks in the highest terms of Mr. Tincher. He is a resident of the First precinct of the Sixth ward. L. P. Wilson, of Culver, Kansas, is the oldest man in the employ of the Internal Revenue Department of Kansas. Mr. Wilson enjoys the good luck of being born in Ohio. He has been retained by Hon. J. M. Simpson, the newly appointed collector. A. B. HON. JAMES V. TROUTMAN, Candidate for Governor. JOHN H. HARRIS HON T J. KELLY, Candidate for State Treasurer. PASSIN *PASSING COMMENT* There are hundreds of Negroes in this country, or rather a few politicians attempting to apologize for the action of the President in his removal from office Southern Negro politicians Just what these Negro trimmers and apologists expect to realize The Bee is unable to say. Colonel James Hill of Mississippi has been removed and a white man appointed in his place. This means that every Negro in the South who holds a representative place will be removed and a white republican or democrat be appointed in his place. Is this what Mr. Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington have been talking about? Is his the outcome of his visits to the White House? The Southern Negro might as well look the matter squarely in the face and prepare for the coming political revolution that is being inaugurated by Mr. Roosevelt and his white republican party South. The democrats are laughing in their sleeves and are encouraging the executive to continue in its good (?) work in the removal of Negro republicans from office and in 1904 it will be seen that the white man's E. P. Wilson. Lincoln Day Exercises The arrangements for the Lincoln Day exercises have about all been completed and they will be held in Representative hall on next Wednesday evening, that being the date of Lincoln's birthday. Quite an elaborate program has been arranged and without a doubt will draw such a crowd as will tax the capacity of Representative hall. Secretary J. B. Bass has received replies from quite a number of out of town people who will come to see and hear the exercises and take part in the banquet that will follow the program. The following is the program at Representative hall: The Twenty-third Regiment Band; March, Willow Grove, by Sorentia. Address by the President, Jas. A. Page. Lincoln as a Statesman; Jas. H. Guy. Race Organization, Dr. W. H. Hudson. Solo, by Mrs. J. H. Hare. Overture, Fall of Jericho; Twenty-third Regiment Band. The Reconstruction Period; Capt. S. A. Harvey. The Negro as a Soldier; Rev. W. L. Grant. Solo; Mrs. J. M. Wright. Lincoln, the Emancipator; republican party South will not materialize. If there is a Negro office holder South, who expects a retention or renomination he is mistaken. A few political trimmers holding office will endeavor to convince the masses of the Negro that Mr. Roosevelt is their friend and that he is their protector. There are breakers ahead which will revolutionize the political atmosphere South.—The Bee, Washington, D. C. For the past four or five years Negro women have had a mania for club life. But did you ever stop to notice that the clubs and federations among us are doing actually nothing for the benefit of the masses? The women who constitute them are of the "kid glove order," who think themselves too good to work among the lowly, and who do little to tone up our club life. They leave the platform amid applause, after a flowery paper talk on some burning race question and retire to their parors where whist and euchre and merry music are indulged in until early morning. They live uncon- J. B. HON. R. B. WHICH Candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court J. B. HON J. B. BERTS Candidate for Representative from the 28th District Prof. W. T. Vernon. Inter-state Greeting; Dr. M. O. Ricketts. The Flower of the Forest, Waltz; Twenty-third Regiment Band. After these exercises the dollar per plate banquet will be tendered the visiting speakers at the Chiles Hotel and will be participated in by quite a large number. The toasts will be of a political and racial character. Owing to the fact that all the responses have not been received as yet the assignments have not been made as to the complete list of toasts. The following, however, is a partial list: J. A Page, Toastmaster. The Lincoln Club, Our Ideal; Dr. W. H. Hudson. From Lincoln to Roosevelt; W. W. Fisher. The Negro as a Journalist; J H. Childers. The Negro as a Lawyer; W. I Jamison. Music; G. W. Jackson. A Moses; W. L. Grant. A Lesson from Lincoln, N. T. Sawyer. Several unassigned toasts will be given by out of town people whose acceptances have not been received in time for this issue. Band master Jackson is getting the Twenty-third Regiment Band in great form for these exercises and every one should turn out to hear them. The exercises at Representative hall are open and free to the public, and all should come out and do reverence to Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipator. The program will commence promptly at 8 o'clock. cerned and at ease while four millions of their black sisters are out wonder in the cold, in the bonds of iniquity and the gall of bitterness. The fact is that the secular clubs existing under the good name of charity are only agencies to bring together certain classes to the exclusion of the poor, ignorant women who need to be led by the "educated class." These rings confine their feasts to the great and their favors to those in power, and are not proverbial for hospitality to those whom society never considers, and charity often serves with protest. The recent meeting of the Woman's Federation was a disgraceful harangue. Which shall be greatest in the kingdom? was the leading question. The low moral condition of the race demands that these women take off their kid gloves; stop office-seeking and come down and help at shoulder work.—Miss N. H. Burroughs in the National Baptist Union As a Citizen Will Soon Be Passed Upon by the Supreme Court. The Negro's Rights The exact language employed by Judge Taney in the famous Dred Scott case is as follows: "Can a Negro whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as laves, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all of the rights and privileges and immunities guaranteed to the citizen? One of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court of the United States in the cases specified in the constitution. * * * "The question before us is, whether the class of persons described in the plea in abatement con pose a portion of this people and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think they are not, and that they are not included and not intended to be included under the word 'citizen' in the constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government chose to grant them. \* \* \* "They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit, etc., etc." The foregoing is the gist of the most infamous legal opinion that ever fell from the lips of a justice of the highest court in the land, infamous because it was born of falsehood and its twin sister race prejudice: infamous because conceived in ignorance, real or assumed, and uttered with the evident purpose to deceive and mislead the people as to the real status of the Negro at that time. As if uncertain as to the soundness of his opinion, this learned and eminent jurist proceeds with an interrogation: "Can a Negro whose ancestors, etc.," and, gathering confidence as he proceeds, concludes that a Negro had no rights which a white man was bound to respect. This monstrous assertion is in direct violation of historic truth, and when it was uttered shocked the moral sentiment of the country and excited the indignant rebuke of some of the most eminent and learned jurists of Europe who declared the sentiment to be so execrable as to be almost incredible. It was promptly met and answered by Judge McLean of Ohio, and Judge Curtis of Massachusetts, associate justices of the supreme court. In the course of an elaborate opinion by Justice McLean he said, among other things, "Our independence was a great epoch in the history of freedom; and while I admit the government was not made especially for the colored race, yet many of them were citizens of the New England States and exercised the rights of suffrage when the constitution was adopted, and it was not doubted by any intelligent person that its tendencies would greatly ameliorate their condition. * * But if we turn our attention to the dark ages of the world, why confine our view to colored slavery? On the same principle white men were made slaves. All slavery has its origin in power and is against right." Judge Curtis, in a learned and able deliverance, said: "To determine whether any free perons descended from Africans held in slavery were citizens of the United States under the confederation, and consequently at the adoption of the constitution of the United States, it is only necessary to know whether any such persons were citizens either of the states under the confederation, at the time of the adoption of the constitution. NUMBER 6. "Of this there can be no doubt. At the time of the ratification of the articles of confederation all free, native born inhabitants of the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and North Carolina, though descended from African slaves, were not only citizens of these states, but such of them as had the other necessary qualifications possessed the franchise of electors on equal terms with other citizens." Judge Gaston of North Carolina, a state which has recently disfranchised the Negro citizens, delivering the opinion of the court, said: "Whatever distinctions may have existed in the Roman laws between citizens and free inhabitants, they are unknown to our free institutions. "Before our revolution all free persons from within the dominions of the king of Great Britain, whatever their color and complexion, were native born British subjects—those born out of his allegiance were aliens. Slavery did not exist in England, but it did in the British colonies. Slaves were not in legal parlance persons, but property. The moment the disqualification of slavery was removed they became persons and were then either British subjects or not British subjects, according as they were, or were not, born within the allegiance of the British king. Upon the revolution no other change took place in the laws of North Carol aa than was consequent on the transition from a colony dependent on a European king, to a free and sovereign state. "Slaves remained slaves, British subjects in North Carolina became North Carolina freemen. Foreigners until made members of the state remained aliens. Slaves manumitted here became freemen and therefore if born within North Carolina are citizens of North Carolina. And all free persons born within the state are citizens of the state. The constitution extended the elective franchise to every freeman who had arrived at the age of twenty one, and paid a public tax, and it is a matter of universal notoriety that, under it, free persons, without regard to color, claimed and exercised the franchise until it was taken from freemen of color a few years since by our amended constitution." This testimony in respect to the status of the Negro as a citizen is sufficient for our purposes and discovers the ignorance and the malice of Judge Taney, whose biased decision has made his name infamous wherever it is known. Before the federal constitution was adopted Negroes in five states at least, voted for delegates to the convention, so that they were in every sense part of the people of the United States comprehended in the declaration: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, etc." The constitution is, and was intended to be, the people's document—the palladium of their liberty. It was to defend and bless the Negro who helped to make it, as well as white men. Negroes fought side by side with them in the revolution, in the common struggle for liberty, and in several of the states they as citizens had voted, as has been stated, for delegates to the convention and afterwards on the adoption of the constitution. The disfranchisement of the Negro in the light of these historical facts is an unwarrantable procedure on the part of those states in which these laws have been adopted and are now in force, and if they are not repealed or declared unconstitutional by the supreme court of the United States there is no other conclusion to be reached than that the constitution is a lie, and the blackest lie ever evolved from the brain and heart of the white men who made it and persisted in by their posterity who now insist that the Negro was not contemplated in this palladium of our liberty, the bulwark of the republic. No nation deserves to live, no nation ought to live, whose foundation was based upon a lie. The Negro is a citizen of the United States and of the states wherein he resides, and no state can legally deprive him of his rights as a citizen until the constitution which made him a citizen has been nullified on amended by the same power—the people—and that now makes it a living, tangible fact. BRUCE GRIT. Published at Topeka, Snawnee county, Ks., every Friday morning by the Plaidealer Publishing Co., 114 E 7th st. The Colored American of Washington says that T. Thomas Fortune's visits to the White House are growing more frequent. Look out to see him capture the Haytian ministership. T. Thomas Fortune's chances for the appointment of minister to Hayti are growing brighter daily. The leaders in all sections are urging his appointment and eel confident that he will succeed. In his address to the Mississippi conference of the A. M. E. church in Greenville, Bishop Fowler told the ministers that they should eliminate the big words characteristic of Southern colored preachers. "You do not understand what you are talking about, neither does your congregation, therefore, cut the big words out," said Bishop Fowler. COLOR VS. MOBS For more than three weeks we have watched with unusual interest to see if the dailies and weeklies over the state would announce in glaring head-lines the heinous outrage committed upon the 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Heidleberg, of Pleasanton, by a white man, but as yet our search has been unrewarded. The papers of that village except one, The Enterprise, have tried to keep mum as much as possible and only made it public by a little eight or ten line local choked off in an out of the way corner among the "patent medicine locals"—in fact all the papers in Linn county took the same precaution in avoiding it, which can only be accounted for on account of the color of the brute that committed the crime. No mob of hoodlums danced in drunken dismay around the burning body of the cringing cur, or riddled his hanging form with bullets. The excitement soon simmered down and the big burly white brute was given a preliminary hearing and bound over to the district court. They are as quiet as clams, having apparently forgetten that such a beast ever existed or that such an inhuman outrage had ever been perpetrated. It's queer indeed, what effect the color of a person that commits a crime will have in the matter of justice. Had this man been black, every sheet in the state that could find enough seventy-two point type to fill two lines would have announced: "Outraged by a big, burly Negro, etc.," following with a description of how the determined barbarians took the law into their own hands and meted out "justice." We are glad however, that the honorable citizens of Pleasanton were so much in the majority as not to permit the lower element to disgrace them by overriding the law with their barbarous and uncivilized actions. We wish to state for the benefit of the cowardly curs who went from Pleasanton to Fort Scott to participate in what they believed would be the lynching of a Negro charged with a far lesser crime, that if they are anxious to stain their hands with human blood, they have missed a golden opportunity in allowing a member of their own race and about the same calber as themselves to escape. AITER THE BATTLE We thought from the amount of noise made by the enemy that a fierce battle was brewing and therefore proceeded to lay in a large supply of smokeless powder and a few forty pounders. Not expecting to battle at such an early date, we had a large supply of black powder on hand, and poured volley after volley into what we supposed an army equal to that of the Potomac but when the firing ceased and the smoke cleared away, to our surprise it was only a ground hog that never saw his shadow. We at once sent out the ambulance of THE PLAINDEALER to bring him to the hospital. He was completely demoralized from excitement over our heavy cannonading and a few flesh wounds. We asked him in ground hog language what he meant, attacking so large an army and that he was old enough to have known better, that we are always supplied with shells for much heavier game. He gave us the ground hog grunt as if to say: "Heal up my wounds and let me go, I will know better in the future." We do not fight behind breastworks or use stink pots—only small shells and large ones when the occasion demands it. The colored people and their children need have no fear from further reconoitering or assaults from the ground hog enemy who will hereafter be found looking strictly after his own affairs. Failing to see his shadow, together with his blank shots, may drive him into line with the great mass who are building character and homes and returning thanks to the medium that stands for justice and right and a ready champion of their cause when unjustly assailed—THE PLAINDEALER. There seems to have grown out of the conflicting reports in the daily papers and the miscellaneous street gossip, a great misunderstanding of the cts in the Lowman Hill controversy. It is needless to recount at this time the causes which have led up to the present unfortunate condition of public sentiment, but suffice it to say that on the demand of a great majority of the white citizens of the south end of the Sixth ward, Mr. George W. Dailey, their representative on the board of education, secured a separation of the white and colored children. We say their representative for the reason that this gentleman sought at no time to consider the Negroes, except as a lot of sheep to be herded off on the banks of a ravine. When the old building was burned, Mr. Dailey stated to several people, and to the editor of this paper, that the locality on the corner of Brooks and Munson streets was an unfit locality for a school house. To Messrs. Clarence Long, Albert Bass and others when the colored children were turned away from the school in Campbells court, Superintendant Davidson made the same statement. Through the efforts of Mr. Dailey a magnificent eight room building, built of pressed brick upon a substantial stone foundation was built on the corner of Morris and 11th, at a cost of nearly $14,000. Through the efforts of Mr. Dailey a delapidated, ancient structure was hauled from the ends of the city and placed upon the old burnt rock foundation on lots "unfit for a school house," and labeled "a place for the Negroes." Talk about Jim Crow cars in Texas, we would like to know something about the "Jim Crow schools" of Kansas. If this is not a case of the "mote and beam" we would like to see one. When the Negroes of Lowman Hill discovered this remarkable exhibition of educational generosity on the part of the board of education, they felt like the fellow on his way down to Jericho who fell among thieves and saw the Jewish priest go by on the other side. He protested against such unchristian treatment. They asked the board of education to provide them with a decent building in a healthful locality which request has been flatly refused. In order to deceive the Negroes, many tricks have been resorted to. Sensational stories of burning and breaking into public buildings have been cunningly concocted and set aloft for the purpose of influencing public sentiment against a peaceable people. In order to deceive the Negroes, the superintendent of schools gave it out that the new brick school would not open until Tuesday morning, while the Douglass school was to open on Monday, and to deceive them still further, Superintendent Davidson opened the Lowman Hill school on Monday at noon. Not a single Negro child has gone to the Douglass school nor will any be sent there until some satisfactory arrangement has been made. To prevent the Negro children from entering the Lowman Hill school, all the doors were locked and big, burley white men were placed on guard. One of these brutes had the temerity to raise his hand to strike Mrs. Albert Link when she presented herself there in a quiet, orderly manner. O, piteous spectacle! a handful of children denied the privilege of school because God wrapped them in a black skin; because a member of the board who boasts of his great interest in good citizenship, opposed the expenditure of a begarly sum sufficient to place the building in a decent locality and in a respectable condition; because the unreasoning prejudice of the white man against the Negro today breathes life into the corpse of Judge Taney's notorious judicial crime. The white people of Kansas boast of their christianity. Especially is this true of the citizens of Topeka and the Sixth ward. We wonder what Christ would look like in their position. This is certainly a very poor exhibition of their christianity. It would be well to call home the thousands of missionaries from Africa and Bulgaria and set them to work on the "heathen at our door." Better stop spending millions on foreign missions and put a few dollars in Kansas. It would be highly beneficial to the cause of Christ. MORE NEGROES THAN WHITES. Desirable positions in the Kansas City, Kas., postoffice, sub-stations and on the carriers' force are gradually going to the Negro race, and it is estimated that within five years, at the present rate of change, the colored employes under civil Send your sons and daughters to the WESTERN UNIVERSITY QUINDARO, KANSAS A great school for our youth. Now a part of our State's Interests—Negroes should here train their children for the work of life and its duties. THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT to prepare for the ministry, desiring to fulfil the demands in our pulpits today. NORMAL DEPARTMENT, preparing or the work of teaching in the public schools and giving a higher training to those desiring the same. PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT, fitting students for the Normal department and giving an opportunity for education to those deprived of such in childhood. MUSICAL DEPARTMENT, for furnishing an opportunity for proficiency in that finest of fine arts—music. STATE INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT. It is the intention of this department to give our youth training, fitting them for the work of life in the industrial world. We are opinioned that in this day of competition and labor unions and stern demands nothing will so aid the Negro as to prepare his child to compete with any in the world of skilled labor. With such training no man need fear for the future of his children or the future of his race. COURSES, Architectural or Mechanical drawing and Carpentry. Printing, both job and journeyman. Tailoring, Bookkeeping, Business Course and Stenography, Dressmaking and plain sewing. FACULTY—The faculty is composed of graduates from Lincoln, Wilberforce, Fiske, Tuskegee and Hampton: the best schools of the country maintained by our people. Following is the faculty. Rev. William Tecumseh Vernon, B S D, Am. Pres. Lecturer in Philosophy and Logic. Charles S. State of Kansas, Shawnee county, ss: In the matter of the estate of Lewis Abbott late of Shawnee county, Kansas. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice is hereby given, that on the 18th day of January, A. D. 1902, the underigned was, by the probate court of Shawnee county, Kansas, duly appointed and qualified as administrator of the state of Lewis Abbott, late of Shawnee county, deceased. All parties interested in said estate will take notice and govern themselves accordingly. W. I. JAMISON, Administrator. PUBLICATION NOTICE Julia Coleman, plaintiff, vs. Anderson Statis, Amanda Scales, Anderson Scales, Jr., and Romulus Scales (a minor), defendants. No. 21,457. Amanda Scales, one of the above named defendants, will take notice that she has been sued in the above entitled action in the district court of Shawnee county, Kansas, and that unless she appears and answers to the petition filed in said action on or before the 8th day of March, 1992, said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered according to the prayer thereof, foreclosing mortgages upon lot No. 152, First avenue East, Crane's addition to Topoca, and forever barring her of any right, time or interest thereon. JULIA COLLMAN. By her attorney, W. J. Jamison. Send your sons and WESTER A great school for our youth. train their children for the w THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT to ministry, desiring to fulfil the de- pits today. NORMAL DEPARTMENT, prepar- of teaching in the public sch higher training to those desiring PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT, f the Normal department and give for education to those deprived hood. MUSICAL DEPARTMENT, for futu- tunity for proficiency in that fin music. STATE INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT tention of this department to giv- ing, fitting them for the work of trial world. We are opinioned competition and labor unions an nothing will so aid the Negro child to compete with any in the labor. With such training no the future of his children or the COURSES, Architectural or M and Carpentry. Printing, both man. Tailoring, Bookkeeping and Stenography, Dressmaking. FACULTY—The faculty is com- from Lincoln, Wilberforce, F Hampton: the best schools of t tained by our people. Followi- Rev. William Tecumseh Vernon Lecturer in Philosophy and service rule in the Kansas metropolis will outnumber the whites. The reason for the condition of affairs is that white men do not take the civil service examinations as they did a decade ago. A class was examined four weeks in Kansas City, Kas., for clerks and carriers, and out of the forty-five examined twedty-six were Negroes, and they passed the highest examinations. The appointment to be made at the local postoffice was that of mailing clerk at Armour station. It went to a Negro who stood not only at the top of the waiting list, but also highest in examination score. "It is certainly a fact that white men are becoming indifferent about postoffice positions," said a carrier who has been on the local force for a number of years, "while the educated class of colored people has been active during the past few year . Negro school teachers, high school graduates and others come before each examining board in great numbers, and they invariably make a high grade. I cannot account for the apathy of the white men, for jobs in the civil service are more desirable now than ever before."—Kansas City Journal. Shampooing and Face Massage. Mrs. Hattie E. Van Vleck. Hair to match all Complexions. SWITCHES AND HAIR JEWELRY. 220 East Fifth Street, TOPEKA, KANSAS J. M. KNIGHT, UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER. 632-36 Quincy Street. GOODS. HONEST WEIGHT. 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No student is made to feel the sting of poverty, but merit alone tells. The most deserving are given credit for the same. EXPENSES—Board per month, $5.50; tuition per month, $1; room rent, $1; incidental fee on entrance, $1. It is not necessary that extravagent habits be encouraged here; students are advised to bring strong substantial clothing, but expensive apparel is not needed by one struggling for an education. School opened Sept. 9, 1901. All arrangements for entrance can be made by writing Pres. W. T. Vernon, Quindaro, Kas. He will send one of the latest complete catalogues giving full information regarding the same. Write at once for information or catalogue to WILLIAM T. VERNON QUINDARO, KAS THE MOST PERFECT Hair Dressing EVER DISCOVERED. Guaranteed Perfectly Harmless. ELEGANTLY PERFUMED. 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In general, we send the money or send a box if we learn the money or send a box if lentes except receiver. CRANE AND CO. 122 west Broad Street, Ricmond, VA. The best place to buy drugs is at Lee's. Mr. George Level has gone to Lawton, O. T. The Pleasant Hour Literary is experiencing a boom. George Clark of North Topeka, member of Kaw Valley 18, is sick. Miss Minnie H. Page is ill at her home, 914 Clay street. Mr. W. J. Burton of Leavenworth is a guest at the Chiles hotel. Dr. W. H. Hudson of Atchison, Kan., spent a day in the city last week. Mr. Clayton I. DePriest is expected to arrive from Chicago this week. Mrs. Wm. Vance is visiting Mrs. Parks at her country home on Vinewood. E. R. Singleton of Yale, Kan., was guest of the Chiles hotel this week, attending the miners union. Mrs. Rovana Lytle of Lawrence, Kan., was the guest of Mrs. Webster of the North side last week. See E. S. Lee, the druggist, at 112 West Eighth street. Preparations are being made to celebrate Lincoln's birthday on a magnificent scale, February 12. The program of the Kansas Lincoln Day Club will begin promptly at 8 o'clock. Mrs. J. H. B. Taylor has returned from an extended visit to friends in Kansas City. John Stamp has opened the Eureka cafe at 402 East Fourth street. He will serve meals cheap to all comers. Mrs. D. A Sizemore is visiting her daughter. Mrs. A. P. Smith, in South Topeka. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Smith are the happy parents of a fine baby girl. Her name is Oliva D. Cigars next. Rev. W. L. Grant of Kansas City, Kan., spent a few days in the city last week, the guest of Rev. Helm. Hon. T. B. Gerow, state employment agent, is doing much for those who are seeking jobs. He is the right man for the place. Mrs. L. Milton, who won the honors as the best cook at the Mid-winter Exposition, left for her home in Leavenworth last Saturday. Mr. Charles David De Frantz returned from Nashville, Tenn., last Wednesday, where he has been attending the Maharra medical college. Have your prescriptions filled at E. S. Lee's, 112 W. Eighth street. Remember J. B. Bass is selling tickets for the Lincoln Day Club banquet. Only $1.00 is the price of a plate at the Lincoln Day banquet. Mr. D E. Simmon and Mrs. D. Scott of Lawrence were the guests of Mrs. J. B. Bass last week. Mrs. Bass returned with them for a week's visit. Arthur Harris, the state representative of the Plaindealer, will visit Wamego, Junction City and Salina. Subscribers will be ready to give him the glad hand. Parties desiring tickets for the banquet which takes place Wednesday after the exercises at representative hall, will call on or send $1.00 to J. B. Bass, secretary of Lincoln Day Club. See Abe Jacobson at 302 Kansas avenue, for new and missit clothing. Also loans money on a' valuables. Topeka is soon to be treated with a first class entertainment in the shape of a high class minstrel. Prof. Jake Lacey is rehearsing twenty people, the best talent in the city. Second Christian Church, corner Twelfth and West streets.—B. C. Duke, pastor. Bible school at 9:30 a. m.; preaching at 11 a. m. by Prof. Carter; preaching at 7:30 p. m., by R. G. Moody. The Douglas Club has issued one hundred invitations to the dancing academy every Friday evening at 118 West Eighth street. The members will spare no pains in having good music and good order. Mrs. Ida Bowser of Chicago came to Topeka last Tuesday to attend the funeral of her aunt. Mrs. Anna Mims, who died on her farm near Tecumseh. She is now stopping with her uncle, Shad Mims. The Oak Leaf Club met last Wednesday with Mrs. W. A. Jordan, 1175 Lincoln. After usual business a dalinity three course lunch was served. The club adjourned to meet next Wednesday with Mrs. S. P. Jordan, 1187 Lane. The invitations are now being issued for the grand valentine masque ball, given by the Western Star Club. There will also be a free valentine box in the hall, too. Don't forget the date, Friday night, February 14, 1902, 118 West Eighth street. Primary election March 5 to nominate one councilman and member of school board in each ward of the city. Mrs. Isaac Leonard, who has been living in Albuquerque, N. M., for the past three years, returned on a visit last Sunday. She ilkes Mexico. A grand ball and cakewalk will be given Thursday night. February 13, at Metropolitan hall. Everybody should attend and enjoy themselves till the wee sma' hours of the morn. Good order will be enforced and nothing but a good time goes. The Guild of St. Simon's will give their final entertainment before the Lenten season, at Mrs. Robert Buckner's. Monday evening, February 10. Members and friends are requested to be present. The bill of fare will be on the-rope-you-in-plan. The dancing academy at 618 Kansas avenue, conducted by H. G. Brown, is meeting with much success. Prof. Brown is pleased with the good order which prevails and the people in attendance highly compliment Prof. Brown for the good music furnished by his orchestra. Hon. P. I. Bonebrake read the riot act to the school board last Monday evening in relation to the Lowman Hill colored school house. He said the building and warks were abominable. He will see to it being put in first class condition. Mr. David Phillips died last week. He was a practical blacksmith. He was buried at Rochester cemetery last Monday. He leaves a wife and two daughters, and a mother-in-law, Mrs. Hattie Crawford, to mourn his loss. Prof Jackson and Mrs. Crawford deserve much credit for the manner in which he was buried. They also wish to return thanks to those who assisted them. St. Simons' Guild met on Monday evening with Miss S. N. Sexton. In addition to other business, arrangements were perfected for a prelentent social to be held at the residence of Mrs. F. E. Buckmer, on Monday evening. February 10. At this social refreshments will be served on the "weope-you-in" plan. All friends are cordially invited to be present. The Arden Club met last Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Clinkscale. The program consisted of a review of the preceding lesson by Mrs. S. G. Watkins, a paper on Louis XI of France by Mrs. R. H. Wade, the reading of scenes I, II, if of act IV or third part of Henry VI and music by Miss M. A. Jamison. The club meets this week with Miss H. Hawkins. The Ladies' Imperial Art Club will meet with Mrs. Marcus D. Owens, 1180 Filmore street, on Saturay at 3 p.m. The Ne Plus Ultra Art Club met with Mrs. E. Ransom Saturday afternoon. A very pleasant time was spent after the regular form of business. The election of officers: Mrs. G. Thompson, president; Mrs. B. C. Duke, vice president; Miss Ella Smith, secretary; Mrs. J. W. White, treasurer; Mrs. J. J. Clark, chaplain; Mrs. J. M. Wright, reporter. A dainty lunch was served. Club adjourned to meet with Mrs. S. Shuck Saturday, February 8, 1902. Memorial services to be held at Shiloh Baptist church, February 14, at 7:30, corner Twelfth and Buchanan International, Chief Grand Meter; song, 193 Taborian Constitution; prayer, by Rev. Wilson; song, 191 the Biography, by Rev. W. E. Helm; instrumental music, by Miss Susie Thompson; literary work, by Miss Sarah Walker; instrumental solo, by Miss Taylor; The Extensive Scope, by D. D. Hope; song, by the order, 199; Father Dickson as a race man, by Rev. H. W. White; Father Dickson and the children, by Miss Minerva Graham; vocal solo, by Rev. E. C. Stoner; reading the resolutions by Sir Lewls. Saturday, February 1, was "Kansas Day" at the Otterie. The club and several visitors were entertained by Mrs. J. H. Guy at 429 Kansas avenue. The hall was decorated for the occasion with the Coterie colors and the Kansas motto and emblem. The following program was rendered: The Kansas-Nebraska Bill, Mrs. D. H. Watkins; Ploneers of Kansas, Mrs. O. A. Taylor; Territorial and State Governors, Mrs. G. W. Guy; Quantrell's Raid, Miss S. N. Sexton; Noted Men and Women of Kansas, Mrs. A. Stafford; Educational Institutions, Mrs. D. Merritt; Soll and Produces, Mrs. F. E. Buckner; Minerals, Mrs. M. E. Young; Kansas Railroads, Mrs. Robt. Keith; The Rivers of Kansas, Mrs. W. W. Buckner; reading, John Brown of Kansas, Mrs. J. H. Guy; vocal solo, Mr. Franc Glenn. After the program elaborate lunch was served by the hostess, assisted by Misses Corinne Buckner, Alberta Guy and Georgia Watkins. A GRAND RECEPTION One of the most elaborate receptions of the season was tendered the Rosebud Club by Mrs. J. S. Brasher, at her residence, 516 Taylor street. The parors were handsomely decorated with palms, carnations and roses, which added greatly to the grandeur of the occasion. During the afternoon one hundred ladies had partaken of the rare treat. Misses Maud Hare and Bessie Bennett, who were stationed at the door to receive the comers, won much credit and great praise for themselves. The club colors, pink and white, with which the rooms were draped, added much to the beauty of the decorations. A dalnty lunch was served, and the guests feasted and made merry 'mid the sweet strains of music by Guy's orchestra. Each guest was presented with a handsome souvenir, and all returned to their homes feeling that they had been royally entertained, and congratulating themselves upon being so fortunate as to have been in attendance. REQUIESCANT. John and Anne Carter. Let none who loved tuem shed a tear. Since Heaven's enriched with two more souls; Two broken bodies are left here; The love that shone in the age-dimmed eye, And the soul that bore as the years went by Are not of earth—they could not die. Nay, let us rather take heed that We have not known them all in vain In the patience that like halo sat— In the harmony with which they trod Their paths, and bowed them to His rod, Still hand in hand, and went to God. J. MORD. ALLEN. CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTES. The session met Monday evening and confirmed the appointment of Miss Lona Gains, who was appointed by the pastor, Rev. Cary, to receive the free scholarship given by the Industrial Institute. Class No. 5 of the Sabbath school met Monday evening and organized a band. The boys were very much enthused and the prospects are very bright. The following officers were elected: President, Samuel Cary; Vice President, Arthur Hardy; Secretary, James Eagleson; Assistant Secretary, Willie Gains; Treasurer and Manager, C. A. Bigbee; Leader, Joe Gaines. A reception was given Tuesday, February 4, at the church in honor of Misses Enis Morgan and Bessie Hawkins, the young ladies who have just graduated from the high school. The church was beautifully decorated and those who attened say it was one of the grandest affairs ever given by any church in the city. NOTES FROM LAND CHAPEL. Our Sunday school department, under the superintendency of Mrs. S. A Owens, is taking on new life. The blackboard drills by Miss Felicia Davis are proving very helpful. The Epworth League will soon favor our friends with a grand literary program. Mrs. Chas, Pallows, Jr., entertained the Junior Missionary society last Saturday afternoon. This bright set of little boys and girls, led by Mrs. A. Pickens, are making marked progress for our home mission cause: They will be entertained at the parsonage Saturday the 15th. Our board is preparing to make strenuous efforts during the spring and summer to break all past records. Please do not forget our grand rally Sunday. All the ministers and their congregations have been specially invited to attend the 3 o'clock service. Nearly all have promised to be present without fall. There will be several short addresses by able divines. The Rev. Prof. Carter of the institute will preach for us at 7:30 p. m. All are cordially invited. Our quarterly meeting will be the fourth Sunday in February. GUESS WHO? Was inquiring of her male friends as to his whereabouts Sunday? Is losing interesting in his club because he can't be the "whole cheese"? Ventured to a near neighbor's house with her Sunday, with a heart beating high with fear of meeting the father, and left under cover of darkness? Ranks as colonel among her girl associates and was detained at home from her work one day this week, causing her associates to watch the papers closely thinking she had captured a certain prize after which many have failed? She may succeed some sweet day. Who can tell? Thinks he is wise enough to play one in each end of the city? His wires will become crossed some day, and he will find himself following this motto: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap." Overrated his importance, and whose childish ways has almost compelled him to take a back seat? Being in company with her one evening at a party let his rude actions spill his chances forever? Since he has been in the employ of a man of the medical profession, has almost taken the business in his own hands? We wish him much success, but will withhold our patronage for sometime, as we are as yet unprepared for the grave. When together read over old love letters she received from him, and when brought face to face with them he can not refrain from smiling at his own shrewdness? Takes up most of her time reading love letters? Fell out of the chair when he came to see his girl? Brings "choice" boxes of bonbons when he goes to see his best girl? 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These Hams are the product of carefully selected, healthy, cornfed Kansasas Hogs. CURED AND PREPARED BY THE Chas. Wolff Ask your Grocer and Butcher for "Capital" Hams, no others "just as good. a I LY Ey bi 3" From Our Correspondents §& 5 5 5 & Weekly Paragraphs ZB El Fe oa GE oT To ovr CORRESPONDENTS AND Stpscrivers: What is most needed at this time is money Each week we receive more news than we have room to publish, which necessitates the carrying over to the neat issue. We would like to enlarge the paper, but cannot for the reason that a majority of our subscribers don't pay. If our correspondents would send a small money order each week with their news, it would encourage and assist us in accomplishing our aim to enlarge the paper. If you want your news published, pay up. Subscribe and pay for the paper and get your neighbor to do the same. Our Correspondents should wake up and make a littel cash for themselvesas well as greatly assisting us. ee eee ATCHISON, KAa. | Rev. W. I. Grant of Kansas City Prof. George Dardis, the leading pipe organ player and pianist in this city, was clected secretary of the county Figh school trustee board. A complt- ment to the professor's abifity and a racial step forward. Dr. Allaman, the councilman, fs out spoken agamst agraries in public schools. He says they do harm by de- tracting children’s attention from thelt true studies, A True Eleyen business college has been established here vy this society. whieh is still working hard for ¢leva- tion of their race. The capacity of the college for the tirst year was to be LOLs dUnst, howe 16 Troy eam Launtry Dunton @ Murphy, Props Prompt Service—Clean White work, ATCHISON, -!- -i- Kansas only twenty puplls, but twenty-seven have already enrolled, some of our edu- cators and many of our best people are pupils. They have a typewriter. Eighteen are in the shorthand and typewriting course, twenty taking Vookkeeping and four penmanship. Prof, Draper, sho nas done nothins for the laxt fourteen years but teact in the white ‘nsiness college. ha: charge of this ollege. tittle by little as tae Negro cease: to ficht himself will the race advance Weare glad to be able to report Rev Ward's health much vetver. Rev, W. 1. Grant is expected tc preach at Shiloh Sunday. 9th inst. Rev, I. Wilson is conducting a sue cessful revival at tne a, MB. ehureh Several ecnversions lately. LINCOLN NEWS. Mr. George Shanklin and Mr. Madl-, son Parhs are convaleseing. Little Pay Rubinson is just reeoser- ing from a spell of illness. Mrs, Ellen Williams returned from Oklahoma very much uelighted with the country. She thinks of moving there In June. ‘The quarterly meeting will be held at the A. M. I church on the 16th, at which time Rey. Ransom will conduct the services. Mrs. Clara Shipman entertained 2 few friends Wednesiay evening in hon- or of Mrs. Ida Graham, who returned at Kansas City ‘Thursday. Mrs. Eilen Corneal was on the sick list last week. Mrs. Amelia Vannel will entertain the Sorosis club Wednesday the 12th. AIL members are requested to be pres- ent. Rev. J. W. Jeffress spent several days in Norfolk, Neb. The Ladies of Court invite every- body to attend their grand drama Rock Alien, the Orphan, at K. P. castle the 13th, Mr, Pat Ross spent a few days In ‘Omaha tast week. Earnest Graves. while shating, had Ls toes badly frozen, ‘Mr. Martin Pettman returned ts Plattsmouth last Thursday. ‘An interesting meeting was hel: Sunday evening by the B. ¥. P. U. which was led Sy str. W. W. Moseley Covenant meeting was held at th Baptist church last Sunday afternoor at whieh time much spirit was mani fested. Mrs. M. Moore entertained Mrs Brantley and granddaughter, and Mrs J. W. Cooley Monday afternoon, Light refreshments were served. EMpoRIA, KANSAS. The revival mectings of the St James Bantist church have closed for awhile after the conversion of about thhty-eicht souls. Revs. H. H. Luras and W. H. Pollett are on the sick list. Rev. H. H. Lucas with the assistance of several other ministers, are con- Queting 4 series of revival meetings at the A. BL. B. church and all are invited, Rey. W. L, Grant of Kansas City occupied the pulpit at tlie St. James Baptist church Monday and Tuesday right of last week. Miss Bessie Bufkins is attending the business college now. Miss Lenora Garner conducted the DY. P. U. meeting last Sunday. Miss Nellie Ellis is again able to attend school after several days illness, Mr. Walter Pheonix has returned home after spending several weeks In Strong City, The steward and stewardess of the A.M. 1. church gave a pound party for Rey. 1, H. .ucas and wife last Week, Which proved a success In every respect as they solicited from the mem- Vers of the church and a few friends About ten dollars worth of groceries and two dollars and ten cents in mon- ex. which was presented to them by P,P. Lucas, who acted as spokesman of the party. Responses betng made by Rev. and Mrs Lueas, Those who contributed outside of ..1e church mem- hers were: W. H. Poilett, Chas. E. ‘Terry, Arthur Buckner, P. F. Lew!s and Mrs. Della Dawson. After the presentation of the ofterings, the party slowly and quictiy departed for thelr various homes feeling “blessed,” since “Blessed is the cheerful giver.” Mr. John Holvay of Kansas City vis- Ited in our city several days this week the guest of Miss Anna Stafford. Mr. D. F. sipten entertained a party of young peapie with a bob-sleigh ride 1 GnrusMtanaser, Elects Leh Mrs Gentatne Ports, Prop. ‘steam Heat The. Hotel Imperial, voy Fru ora St Joan Mo Paka eal ams ene, HA aed pate Or the seaeuetauon of he dciae pol, bie Se Jae Slr | por hetoeatin Saturday evening, after which Misses Bertha Tipton and Anna Stafford served hot coffee and sandwiches and hot oysters. The esening from 9:30 until 12 was spent sn varlous games at the Tipton residence. Messts. Arthur asuckner and Perey Lewis dined with Sergeant Lloyd A. Stafford Sunday, Mr. W, L. Pheonix is on the sick list and so also is Mr. 13d. Reeves, Mr. Geo, Buchner has returned to school after several months absence. | ‘The “Buds of Promise" is the name cf a recently organized entertaining club among the young people of which Miss Lela Rich is president, Mr. Eddie West secretary and uss Addie Tis- dall treasurer. We know that the Buds of Promse will bioom as there are some very promising young ladies and gents aniong them. Mr. John Bains is able to be up and around again after several days con: {inement indoors. Sleighbells can be heard any ani everywhere now as ie purest of pure is all over this part of the country. JOPLIN NOTExs. | Howard Flippins made a business trip to Carthage last Thursday. | Mrs. DB. Hughes has heen very sick. | Rev. A. L. Voorhies is holding a series of meetings at the Baptist church. Miss Martha Cope Is very sick at her home on Wall street. The A.M, 1. Sunday school has been changed to 3 p. m. Will White was over from Galena recently and had the misfortune tc have his raglan stolen. ‘The Pastime Whist club met Monday night with Mr. and Mrs. George Peirce. Delicate refreshments were served. Mrs. S.C. Hunter and children are sick. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Steele and family and grandmother, Mrs. Harriet Brown will leave the 15th for Phoenis, Ariz, to reside, The Daughters of Allen Sening Cir- ele was organized last Wednesday and the following officers were elected: President, Mrs. M, Ewing; Vie presi- dent, Miss Frances Pritchett; Treasur- er, Mrs. Agnes Snight; Secreary, Mra Dollie Barber; Assistent secretary, Mra C A. Wittens, Geo. M. Hamme | \merchant : — Sailorkte | SPRICTLY WIGH ART TAILORING 509 Kansas Ave Topeka. eee The wintry breeze has softly whis- pered that one of our young men will soon lead one of Granby's fair young maids to hymenals altar, and wil! serve a hundred doilar dinner to bis friends. A crowd of young people were over from Neosho Sunday. Guiding Star Court No. 15 held me- morial services of Moses ~ xon Sun- day afternoon at the A.M. .. church. ‘The programme rendered was as fol- lows: Song, “Meet Me There,” choir; blography of Moses Dixon, Mrs. C. H. Knaves; Moses Dion as a Minister, Rey. C. A. Williams; Moses Dixon as @ Mason, Prof. N. 7. Greene; sons, “Lead Kindly Light.” choir; His Work for Emanelpation, Rey. H. H. Curtis; vriginal poem, “He Sleeps.” Prof. C S. Hunter: responsive reading by 1a- dies: Court: song, “Shall We Meet Be- jyond the River,” choir; benediction es. ALL. Voorhies. | Miss Maude Cope of Surrance. Kan., came home last Thursday to visit with ne mother and sisters for several weenie: : PARSONS, KANSAS. Mr. D. W. Bradley, onr popular agent tor the Home Rutlding association, fs Dros ing to be quite a hustler. The many friends of Miss Mae aa who has heen with her sister, Mrs, Lou Scott at Kansas City for the past two years, are pleased to welcome her home agatn. | Charley Hudson has resigned his position as cook at the Katy dining ‘all and is succeeded by Mr. Wm, Cul- [lins. formerly of this city, but recently tom Montana, | Mrs, Mae Clayton and sister, Miss jlancy Holmes, will visit their parents jat Clay Center in the very near future. | Miss Nellie Washington and fr [!ase Reynotls were married Sunday rat the residence of Mr, Win, Washing- ton, The ceremony was performed by Rev. B. R. Momtoe. The young people } Pave many friends here who wish ther Western ae Collegete Macos, Missaunt, | A Schoal of ‘Christian and Ministerial Culture. Eamesrany, Noxwat, Acapeaic. “trong {musical department, Com: plete faculty, Healthful location, Splendid influence. par Terus:—For board anc tuition at reasonable rates. Fo! Catalogue and particulars, write to ENOS LARKIN SCRUGGS, A. ¥., Pres. success in their future hfe. S. Hi. Jefferson and J, W, Motley are tking quite an active part in the A. M. E. Sunday scaool. These gentlemen are earnest Bible stucents. Grandmother Cherry, aged 107, died last Tuesday morning and was interred at Oakwood cemetery Wednesday af- ternvon at 3 p.m. Mr. Louis Foster who has been work- ing for a wholesale clothing company at St. Louis for several months, has returned to the city. Miss Elmira Carl entertained in hon- or of Miss Lucy Holmes Sunday after- noon. Mr. J. E, Lewis, Grand Chancellor Commander of the sunflower grand lodge K. of P. of Kansas, was in the city last week and paid to Mrs, Georgie E, Williams, wife of the deceased Brother Elijah Williams, of the Friend. ly Aid lodge No. 7, K. of P., Parsons one hundred dollars donation. Owing to the condition of the books of the home ledge there was no just claim and the one hundred aotlars was as a mat- ter of charity, NEWTON, KANSAS. | Mrs, Royston of Atchison was called to the bedside of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Henry Royston, who is danger- ously ill, ‘The Sewing Society met with Mrs, C Mason last week. All report a fine ‘time. Miss Edith Tandy spent Friday even- ing at Miss Ida Frames on East 12th. Tne evening was spent In ironing and other amusements, Refresaments of bread and milk were served at a late hour. A free for all fight took place in our model little elty one night this week. The particulars have not been obtain- able. At the joint revivals which have been in progress in our city for a few weeks, there has been several conver- slons among the colored people. ‘The attendance art tue Fred Doug- lass Literary Soclety was not as good as it should have been Tuesday night. Allow me to inform those who were absent they missed a treat as J. L. Frame, of Chicago, was to have lect- ured to the F, D. L. Soclety on the subject of the “Literary Negro.” Mr. Alvia Turner, a promising young farmer of Eibing, spent Saturday and Sunday in our midst. J. L. Frame, who is now connected with the Star Dairy, is among the fn- Aisposed. Mr. W. H. Page is shaking hands with his many friends, who well wel- come him back to Newton. He came direct from Charleston, 8. C., where he says {t is much warmer tnen It ha: Veen here for a few days, He will make Newton his future home. We are proud to see ur. Childs, who has been among the indisposed for 2 fow weeks, up again shaking hands with friends. When in Leavenworth wall at... “THE CHOCTAW” * Joe Lacey, Proprietor. Heis always at hom tohis friends. 326 Choctaw Street. Masters Guy and Lloyd Richman were in Wichita last week on business. Miss Hazel Rickman is visiting in Valley Center. | Miss Mary Stevenson of Valley Cen- ter is visiting her sinter, Mrs. Matrie. There will Le a social given by the ; Baptist Sewing Society at their hall on South Main street next Wednesday. Go ’Way Back Qnow's Ping Rapeotorant WEIR, KANSAS. Mr. Joseph Fleteher is still very ser fously sick. Mro, I, T. Taylor arrived home after several week's visit in the states 0: Alabama and Mississippi, Mrs, Rufus Slaughter of Yale wa: the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs D, Wilfiam Sunday. Mrs. J. HL. Jackson is said to be re cuperating. Rey. J. D. King arrived home fron Parsons quite fll, but is reported bet ter at this writing. ‘The night school started some time ago, {s progressing nicely; there art about 25 pupils, whose ages range fron 16 to 45. There has been two literary socicties organized in connection with the school. The Platonian, with R. € Chatman president, and te Cotone with M. G. Brown president. ‘The so cieties will debate tne subject, Re solved, “That age manes a man,” Fri day night at 7 p. m. at the Centra building. EUDORA, KAN. Quite a successful revival was held in the First Missionary Baptist church here for the past three weeks, closing with twenty-three confessing to know that God is God, and that he has par- doned their many sins, Meeting was held at nearly every house In town from the hour of 10:30 till 1 o'clock and player meeting at 3 oclock at the chureb, and until the hour of 2 o'clock at night. This has been the most glor- ious meeting ever held in Eudora. We feel to know that God has answered our prayer and we have been awakened to our Christlan duty. We feel that through our worthy pastor, Rev. H. W. Scott, that God has spoken through bim to the people in this place. Rey. Scott returned to «ts home last Mon- day. May God speea the good work for the upbuilding of our colored race. Rey. K. P. Bond went to Lake View Friday and returned Sunday evening and he reports having very good meet- ings. The union meeting at Eudora has just closed, which was conducted by Rev. H. W. Scott and Rev. K. P. Bond, which was a grand success. It seemed to be the object of every Chris- tlan to work for the interest of saving sinners. God blessed us with twenty- two conversions, NOTICE. | All persons terested wall take notice that my pets tiow 18 on file im the office of the Hhawnee County, | Kansas, Piobste Uourt, asking for authonty to sell the following-eseribed realestate, situate 1m Shawnee County, Kaneas, belonging to the estate of Lens Abbott deceased, forthe purpove of paying the debis of said estate and the expenses of ailmuntstration, to- wi Lots No's 25, ay7 and 25), on Spruce street, West Park addition, Lopekr ity Saud petition os set for hewnig at the office of the Probate Judges an the aty of Lopeba, sand conntyzon Monday, the 23th day of Febrnary, 1yyz. at which m= and place you ‘cau make known any elyections yuu may have to the sranurgofsuch order Dated Feliturry 7th. 1y0.- W.E JAMISON, Adminstrator of saud estate, Sister Martha Jobnson has gone to South McAlister, I. T., to visit her two sons, Sister Tilla Hogg received a letter from South McAlester stating that her Lrother, Jim, got his ter eye shot out in a rock quarry. Little Nolan Johnson is on the sick lst. Sister Winnie Monroe {s on the sick list. Sister mma Wilburn is on the sick list. GREAT BEND ITEMS. The good Lord nas surely been in the revival meeting that was conducted by Rey. Banks of Junction City. There were two converts. ‘The meetings were largely attended and tull of spirit, It is the best meeting that has been here for years. Most of the Christians were spiritually dead, but now they are alive in Christ again. itev. Banks closed his meeting Sunday night and will go from here to Larned. ‘The town was blessed with a heavy snow. Winter has set In ahout right. The Happy slearts Club falled ta meet last week on account of the revi: Xal meeting, but will meet regular hereatter. Miss Mary Rawts Is going to make her home with Mrs Frank Foster for the rest of the winter, Mr George Smith, wife and daughter from Jetmore are visiting relatives here, Miss Sofie Foy is on the sick lst. Mr. J. W, Briseoe and family moved to their new home Thursday, January 9, 1902, Mrs. Wilson Murrant fs on the sick Uist. The Happy Hearts Cub will meet at Miss [liza Perry's Friday afternoon, OLATHE. KAN. | Mr, Henry Williams, after am inese ‘of about ten days, aied at the rest- dence of Mr. Mertins in Fast Olathe Hast Wednesday morning. He was a omnes young man and was held In igh tein all who knew him, His holy was shipped to Versailes, Mo., for aurtal | Arthur Sublett and atiss Cora Thrus. ‘ton were quietly married last Friday ‘hy Probate Judge Lons. Mis. [ila Nelson of Paola is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs, W, .ewis entertained a fow of their friends at eards Thurs: day evening. Rev. W. S. Diahe returned from Em- porla last Thursday, where he has heen assisting Rev. Pouett in a series of meetings for about two weeks. The revival meeting began at the Naptist ehureh Sunday night. The T. P. M. Culture Club was de- Tighttully entertained by Miss Lentha Young at her home on Woodland ave: nue Saturday evening. George Hf. Young is on the sick list PAOLA, KANSas. The protracted meetings which bave heen in progress at tne different churches, closed witn lttle results. The evii one has seemingly “a bill of sale” of some of our people. The young ladies’ cluw met at Miss Mossie Dilison’s saturday afternoon. Mrs. McCloud of uttawa visited her sister, Miss Eva Wilson, in this city recently. M.C. Peak is traveling for the Amer- jean Book company. An old time candy pulling was en- joyed by the young people at the A ‘M. E. parsonage iast Thursuay night. The Banneke Nterary society met last Thursday evening after a suspen- sion of two weeks on account of the meetings. The officers of both churches have started a crusade against peace dis- turbers. For the last two or three Sunday evenings some of our youne people In the rear of the church have caused such a tumult that the minister could hardly be heara. This should not be allowed. if one wants to have a “good time” tet him go some plac: else, not to church. JACKSONVILLE, ILL. To the Editor of Plaindealer. On account of the smallpox raging In Fort Scott all the churches (colored) and schools were closed for an indefi- nite time. Hence I am out on a evan- gelical tour. From January 19th to ith we were with Brother EB. R. Vaughn, Springfield, Mo. The Lord blessed us fn our labors there and sev- . aa Ep ie rer - <a eral precious souls were converted in our meetings. asrother and Sister Vaughn treated me like a prince while 1 was with them. I visited the public school and found Prot. J. P. King and Miss Beck, graduate of the Kansas State University, giving perfect satis- faction as teachers. Un the 25th I arrived in Fort Scott on the 1:20 train from Springfield. { met Brother 0. Hunter, the local preacher. He in- formed me that we would not be allow- ed to open our church on Sunday, Jan- uary 26. Hence boarued the same train and went home to 517 Nebraska ave- nue, Kansas City, Kan. Arrived home at 6 o'clock, ate supper with Sister Collins, then took the 9:20 train for Macon City, Mo., to attend the sad iu. neral of Brother P. A. Hubbard, D. D. the financiat secretary of our great A M. E. church. Leaves have thelr time to fall, stars their time to set, deat? rides om every breeze, turks in every flower. We live an acuve life today but dead and gone tomorrow. Brother Hubbard was a great and good man, hero for God and bis church. I be Neve he reached the apex of his churct aspirations when he was elected finan cial secretary of our great church. H¢ was a powerful preached, a financia prodigy. May the Lord bless bis com: panian, The Rev. y. C. C. Owen, D D., preached the funeral trom the text I Sam., 20-22, “It’s ony a step betwee attended the funeral: ETAO%oP E , MUSICAL STUDIO | Miss Hicks is teaching music | and singing at her stuiho, 422 | E. 4th st ‘Terms reasonable, | Will teach at the homes if de- | sired. It will pay you to see her before making terms. aNEENENEINIV EINES me and death After the funeral my old friend, Brother Moore, prevailed upon me to come to Jacksonville and hold a meeting for him. We are here end the good Lord is wonuerfully bless- ing our labors. At ciose of my ser- mon last night five persons camie for- ward and entered their names for heaven. Jachsonville has two good brick churehes, Baptist and African Methouist, and !%ey are now ina glori- When You... WANT FINE— 1 1 Candies Fruit, Huts, Ets, CALL OXN— James Manusas, 114 West Eigutu St. Ke He Manufactures his own Candies. our revival, Iwill leave for home Feb- ruary S. M. COLLINS. WESTERN UNIVERSITY. MeKinley Memorial Exercises held In Ward's Hall on Kansas Day, January 29, 1902, 7 p.m. Program: 1, Music, “Nearer My God to Thee," congregation. 2. Biography of Wm. McKinley, Miss Anna Britt. Higeinsvilie, Mo. (Prof. Bowman's division.) 3. Lincoln's Gettysburg address, Mr Henry Tongdon, Moberly, Mo. (Prof Garrett's division.) 4. “Lead Kindly Light,” congrega- tion, 3 Essay, Our Government, Miss Ma3 Jackson, Glasgow, Mo. (Prof. Dow: [mses division.) | 6 Thurston's Nomination of MeKin Jey. Mr. Reuben Brown, Parkville, Mo (Prof. Gazret’s division.) 7. Instrument! soto, Miss Hattian Mailison, §& Wm. McKinley py Justice David | Brewer. Lawrence Brooxs, Gallatin jMo. (Prof. Garret’s divisfon.) 9. Golden Sayings of Wm. McKinley Mr, Wiley Smith, Larned, Kan. (Mis: Moore's diviston.) 10. Music, “Shall We Meet Beyond the River.” congregation. 1. Essay, “Kansas,” Miss Clec Smith, Paola, Kan, (Prof. Bowman's division.) 32 Extracts from speeches of Wm McKinley. students of Mrs. Vernon’: and Miss Moore's divisions. 13, Last speech of President $cKin ley, Mr. Joseph srooas, Kansas City Kan, (Miss Moore's division ) 14, Muste, “America.” congregation Ushers—Albert Dixon, Birdie Groves John Pennick, Eva Jackson. Hon. Thos. Carlile, Campbell, I. T. Dear Sir: I acknowledge the receipt of B. D. Andrews’ appointment to the Fort Gibson colored school and have forwarded the same to him. It is B. D. instead of D B. He accepts the ap- pointment. In the appointment of Mr. B, D. Andrews a3 teacher of Fort Gib- sou colored school, you, the honorable board, have not only bestowed honors upon a worthy young man, but placed a shining light upon a bill whose rays Will beam forth and {luminate the sons and daughters of Ham throughout the entire nation. 1. D, Andrews is a gen ie of whom the colored race feels Proud. He holis the following envia- Ule credentials: A diploma of gradua- tion from Arkansas City, Kan. high school; a diploma of graduation from law department of the Kansas State Valversity. and Jast. but not feast, a certificate of admission to practice law in the state courts of Kansas. Yet, this brilliant young man is scarcely 24 years of age. Thanhing you for your most excellent cholee in the selection of my surcessor, I beg to remain your most humble servant, W. H, FIELDS, Ft. Gibson, I. T. INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE NOTES. A meeting of all ladies who are in- terested In the elevation of the Negro youth has been called tor tals Friday evening by Principal Carter at the Industrial Institute. ‘The praise services next Sunday wil! be conducted by Prof. Freeman and Miss Rhena Barton. ‘the public {s cor- @lally Invited to be present. Mr. Fred Buckner nas returned and taken up his studies fn the night clacs of the bustness course department and will finish as a first class stenographer and typewritist. Several new students from the city have enrolled in the industrial and Ilt- erary departments this week. Master David Douglas of Emporia, who entered the printing department last September has so far mastered bis trade that he spends his Saturdays now 1p a down-town printing office earning money to pay his expences. Rev. Daniel Jones, pastor of the Bap- tist church at Kansas City, Kan., vis- ited the institute Monday und inspected the several departments. ‘Miss Cyrena Smith, daughter of our matron, has so far improved in health that she is able to be up and around again, Miss Sriith contemplates re- turning to Emporia in March. The class In agriculture will begin ther spring course next month. Through the kindness of Congressman Curtis, the school nas been furnished with an abundance of seed for exper!- ment on a large seale this spring, All persons desiring to enter this most practical course will do well to corre- spond with Principal Wm. R. Carter at once. The buciness ‘ourse department has received an order 10 typewrite another poem consisting of sixty thousand words for J. I. Buckner. CHRISTMAS IN PERSPECTIVE, Chris mus a comin’? EC f wuz a turkey Lang bout now. 4 «emigrate. “Kaze te soun’ o* grindin* hatchets Tea thing P sho would hate. Rv ybely’s a settin’, Oexerin On a Chnsimus appertite [pe de ¢yeeo" all de nation’s On de heneveps, day en nicht. . Me? Im full of plans fuh Chris'mus Pall, on bahia’ evan sume THF jes ain't batdly watt stat Te dat Bleseed mawnin’ comes Full 6° thenchts o° pies en turkeys— Tull 6° thonghts af <tuffed bikeshote, Full 0° thoughts 0° frost’ kso'd (cured “poesum Tin de tichle of de als-negg in mah th'nat. Te ne shepin’ Chriemus manntn’, Chaltuun tne bo renee deg eof, Lakin’ in each vuther’s stockin’, Secin’ whut Santy Claus has lef, Eatin’ nuts en cake en canav, ‘Trompin* ‘roun’ en yellin’ fez of Dey wuz houn’ ter wake de grave-yahd Ketehin’ peaple'« Chris'mus gif’. “Long ‘bout don To tek a little Snack of sumpin* nuther. slight— Not «zackly eatin’ mind yer— Jee ter tease mth appertite THT de time 0! proper dotn's, ‘Tel de time n° stuffed bake-shote, ‘Tell de ume a fro’ kvo'd “possum, En de tickle o* de atg-nore In mah throat. Ouah preacher'il be ter dinner— Sez’ moe pintly dat he will. I kinder think de love he bears me Counts seme in mab groc'ry DiI; Tind his appertite’s amazin’, | Doush (thouch) he's welcome ter his seat; Chris'mns ain't no time fo" grudgin’, Chris'mus fs de time ter eat. ‘Time ter lonsen up yo" belt, en ‘Mek yo" ves’ push out yo" coat, En biess yo'se’f wid fros’ kyo'd "possum En de tickle o° de alg-nogs in yo" th’oat. Tecknn I'll miss church dat mawnin', ‘Kaze hit kinder ‘pvears ter me T kin better feel mah “Ilion Richt home wid mth family. [sin pevetave roo blessnns } Wher doey'e erttin’ fo" mah eyes, | In de shane o° happy chillun, Lavin’ wife en stacks 0° ples. Tin «9, wid a humble heaht I'l shove mab Lees berneath dat table white, Tin at de ‘amen’ ter de biessin, ‘Tek de halter off mah appertite. Tin den when de win's of Jenntwerry Come a laffin’ at de hotes in raah ovab- coat I kin think ¢rbout dat sweet Chris'mus ainner, En de tickle o° de aig-nogg in mah load J. MORD. ALLEN.