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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. Negroes Who Curse and Villify the Race are Not Worthy to Hold Positions of Honor and Trust, Especially That of Training the Minds of the Young. Historical Society State House VOLUME IV. Rev. W. L. Grant, the Popular Kansas Divine, Delivered a Speech in Colorado Last Week and Attracted Wide Attention. Pictures the Negro and His Condition as They Are. The following notable address was delivered by the Rev. W. L. Grant at Temple theater, Colorado Springs, Colo., under the auspices of the Young Men's Progressive Club. Fifteen hundred people heard the speaker, seventy old soldiers (white) were on the platform, fifty little boys and girls under the direction of Mrs. M. Butler, sang national airs and Prof. J. H. Jackson, A. M., president of Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, presided. Other speakers were Hon. Geo. W. Gross, of Rocky Ford, Congressman Brooks, Revs. Rice and Burleigh. To Rev. W. E. Gladden is due much of the success of this grand Emancipation Day celebration. Rev. Grant's address was vociferously applauded from beginning to end. He spoke as follows: AMERICAN PROBLENS. "Mr. PRESIDENT, AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:—This marks the 39th birthday of the Negro-American's freedom. Nearly forty years have passed into history, the busiest period in the history of the republic, and the opening pages of the book of the twentieth century disclose the phenomenal social, civil and political problems of the age. The past is secure, the present pregnant with rare opportunities, and the future suggestive of the moral greatness foreshadowed by the unprecedented material progress of receding decades. Indeed, we stand on this threshold of newer conquests, conquests which are the ripened fruitage of poetic and philosophic prophesy sung by bard and sage, peer and peasant during the pilgrimage which genius and civilization have undergone the past one hundred years. Well might Bishop Berkeley writes 'Westward the course of empire takes its way. The first four acts already past. The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; AMERICA FOR AMERICAN#. "America for Americans is the keystone in the arch of our national superstructure. Here the German and Irish, the Negro and French—all races and nationalities—have found shelter and protection. Those who sowed the seed of liberty far back in the Sixteenth Century—seed which has grown upon the arid and the fertile valleys alike, piercing even the flintiest rock and changing the wildest flowers of the aboriginal Aztecs and Mayas for the chrysanthemums of our earlier civilization, seed, which chained the forests and jungles to the wheels of civilization—I repeat, those who planted civilization in this country were the sentinels of a new social and political order. They shed their blood for America's Independence. Their ashes are scattered to the four winds but their souls still go marching on. Every nation has its heroes and martyrs. Deep down in the hearts of all Americans are altars of sacrifices made sacred by the imperishable deeds and heroism of their fathers. It is their holy of holies, the ark of the covenant of their western pilgrimage: "Men who their duties know, and knowing dare maintain." The first test of the virtues of this new race of men was their successful triumph of arms in a conflict with Great Britain. They threw off the chains of industrial and social slavery which made them serfs in the land of their nativity and proclaimed the sovereignty of the human conscience and soul on the Western hemisphere. Of the names of Washington, the first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen, of Nathaiel Green, of Thomas Jefferson, of Alexander Hamilton and James Monroe, it must be said that each was a prince who bore upon his shoulders this new empire in which the citizen was the king and the ballot was the sword. "It must always remain an inspl ration to American youth that these departed saints built better than they knew, for the great Constitution of the United States of America contains this holy truth in the exordium of that memorable document; "That we believe God created all men free and equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Here is a sentiment as holy and divine, as infinite as Jehovah himself, framed by angels whose lips and hearts were touched by the fire of true, unadulterated patriotism which, though, for the present, obstructed and thwarted by Tillmanism in several States of the Union, is not dead, and it may yet happen that when Marcus Antonio conspires enough against Rome that the outraged conscience of the nation will assert itself like a volcanic eruption and drive the enemies of true government to their proper place. THE RESULT OF THE CIVIL WAR has either settled the doctrine of secession and nullification forever, or a million of new made graves and five billion of dollars were ruthlessly sacrificed. The abolition of slavery was an incident of the war. It was a war necessity. Let us grant that the North and South have been divided on social and political questions long enough, that the Negro should no longer stand in the way of the unity of the nation. I ask in all solennity which section of the country has won? If slavery was wrong, cruel and barbarous in 1861 it is no less so in 1902. Then, if in the light of the logic of events, it was right to free the Negro because slavery was wrong, it is morally true that the government should have sustained him in the exercise of his civil and political freedom and that no sovereign state has the right to so change its Constitution as to conflict with the Constitution of the United States in the definition and execution of the rights of the citizens. If South Carolina has the right to change the constitution in 1896 to abridge the rights of the citizens, it had the right to secede in 1861. THE NEGRO AS A CITIZEN is a composite factor in our cosmopolitan acquisition. He is docile, patient and forbearing. He has imbibed the spirit of Americanism beyond the expectation of the most sanguine. Among the alien races here, the Negro is the only one that has stood and looked the Anglo-Saxon in the face, still maintaining the warp and filling of his peculiar physiognomy and racial entity. The Indian, brave and unconquerable, is well nigh exterminated and a remnant of a once powerful race is here and there in our western new lands. With few exceptions they refused the civilization and christianization of the Saxon and, as a result, have fallen before the sword of modern progress. The Chinaman is content to live in seclusion, to amass fortune to be spent in China. The Japanese, most thrify of all modern peoples, have incorporated the spirit of modern progress in their governmental policy. Immediately after the late civil war, the Negro set about to establish himself as a citizen. Without money, estate or lineage, he grappled with the social and political problems that confronted him. "Today, after thirty-nine years of freedom, he has these things to his record. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 3, 1902. Publish ten magazines. Manage and operate business enterprises, 47,250. "Thus, the race, undismayed by prescription, which, like the root of a mighty oak, had its birth in the soil of slavery and was watered by innumerable streams of colorphobia, has steadily gone on climbing and climbing the ladder of civilization. They are the Sampsons whom the Philistines fear. THE SIN OF DISFRANCHISEMENT. "Though ninety percent of all Negroes in the United States whether North or South are Republicans and have been wedded to that party since their Emancipation, suffered untold persecution for its principles in season and out of season, and be it remembered that they were the votes of Negroes that saved Hayes to the presidency in 1876. Now that this new dispensation of our commercial supremacy to worship the golden calf is of infinitely more importance than human liberty, or even the changing of the constitutions of certain states to conflict with the constitution of the United States, that the North and South should unite in the suppression of the Negro's rights, that the nightmare of Negro domination, like Hamlet's ghost, has come forth and unnerved the nation, that Republican presidents and congresses have winked at the efforts of certain Southern states which have determined on the Negro's downfall politically, and therefore socially as well, the opening chapter in the twentieth century drama is the fact that the Negro has been slain in the house of his friends. The attack of Brutus on Caesar or Haman on Mordecai are sonnets of sentimentalism as compared with this betrayal of a whole race. No objections can be urged against the permanent union and progress of this great country: indeed, the Negro would most readily assist in this as in other matters, for he is essentially a man of peace. But the Negro has no claim on Democracy. It was always the enemy of his progress; it fought to enslave him; they taught their children that the Negro by divine origin is the white man's inferior. On the other hand, the Republican party has stood, until recent years, for human rights and the majesty of the law, and, resting securely on the eternal fitness of things, the Negro had come to regard "the Republican party as the ship and all else as sea." Stranded in mid ocean, where maelstroms and quicksands abound, we must tread the wine press alone for there is none to help us. Stripped of our political armor, our citizenship will fall below zero. Our women will be without protection, the Negro will neither have standing in the courts nor respect among his fellows. Perhaps our condition may be improved upon it in the future we vote for those men whether Republicans or Democrats who will go farthest for our protection. MAY HELP THE NEGRO INDIRECTLY. "This sudden disfranchisement of the black race has opened the eyes of thousands of our people. Awakened by this typhoon of political retrogression to find ourselves shorn of all that is the pride of American citizenship, it has already awakened activity in business pursuits throughout the country. It will unite the race, North and South, and develop the innate qualities so long dormant and inactive. It is certain that double interest will be manifested in education, the acquisition of property and in the establishment of business enterprises, and these in time will prove indestructible levers on the engines of the race's possibilities. And, too, the virtues, qualities and accomplishments of the race will have given us a new Negro who will be jealous of his political rights, and who will willingly pay his life blood for those privileges vouchsafed him by Almighty God. Then, we verily believe that one Negro shall chase a thousand and two will put ten thousand enemies to flight. In the meantime we will find consolation in the scriptural injunction: "It must neede be that offenses come, but woe unto him by whom they cometh." THE LABOR QUESTION THE LABOR QUESTION is one of the problems that confront us. America is a theater of industry. Her mining, manufacturing and stock raising interests are the marvel [Picture of a man in profile, wearing a suit and tie.] HON. J. D. BOWERSOCK. Republican candidate for Re-election to Congress from the Second District, and whose name will Probably be Presented to the Legislature for United States Senator. Hon. J. D. Bowersock Served His Constituents Well. The Second District's Favorite Son Not a Slow Man in the Senatorial Fight. Hon. J. D. Bowersock, the far-sighted statesman who looks after the Second district's interest in Congress, has decided to let his name be presented to the Legislature for United States Senator. Mr. Bowersocks record in congress is one in which not only the people in his district feel an especial pride but those of the entire state. On all questions he has been a ready and active worker, and at all times looking out for the interest of his constituents. Mr. Bowersock is not a politician by any means, but a good, common, straightforward business man, and his splendid record in Congress will show that he did not try to further the ends of a few political hucksters, but was ever on the alert for the prosperity and happiness of all. Should the Senatorial toga happen to fall upon him, we have no reason to doubt that he would fill the office with credit to himself and the great state of Kansas. Mr. Bowersock is a well known Mr. Bowersock is a well known manufacturer at Lawrence, and has colored men in his employ who have HON. J. D. B. Republican candidate for Re-elect District, and whose name will the Legislature for U been working for him for more than twenty years. J. E. Latimer, the man who has said more than any person in the Second district to advance Mr. Bowersock's candidacy for Congress and the United States Senate, prints the following editorial in last week's issue of his Pleasanton Herald: "Speaker Henderson has declined the nomination for congress in the third Iowa district. Mr. Henderson says he don't approve of the tariff reform resolutions of the party. Two years ago Mr. Bowersock wrote an article favorable to tariff revision and a great howl went up. Since then he has had the satisfaction of knowing that every Republican state convention in the United States has adopted his suggestion, which demonstrates that our congressman is a broad-minded gentleman and knows the needs of the people—just the kind of material for a United States senator." LEAVENWORTH NEWS Hon. T. W. Bell, a few women, children and old men assembled in the city hall at Leavenworth, last Thursday night, to resolute as the Negro usually does after he has slept on his rights, and got left. The farseeing colored men looked on in disgust and said nothing. The fact is, Mr. T. F. Bufkins was substituted as principal for A. H. Walton, who is in bad health. At the end of the term the Board said that in case Mr. Walton did not teach Mr. Buffkins should have the principalship again. As time passed, it became known that Mr. Walton would not be able to resume his duties, but meantime the Board had changed. Prof A. M. Wilson, of Ft. Scott, was informed of a vacancy in the princip_lship of the North Leavenworth school. He made an application and solicited the support of several colored people, along with that of Mrs Walton; and he secured the position. In the meanwhile the friends of Mr. Buffkins were asleep, and particularly the ones to whom his business was entrusted. That is why he and his friends called this meeting and kicked so hard. Dereliction of duty is the sole reason Prof. Buffkins was not appointed. That the people idolize him was demonstrated at the meeting, and nobody is to blame but themselves. As soon as the new Board was organized, with a new Superintendent, the application ought to have been pushed, but they waited until the procession had passed and then hollowed for it to stop. I am told that the Board never saw Prof. Buffkins' application; that it OWERSOCK, action to Congress from the Second will Probably be Presented to United States Senator. was put away in the pigeon-hole by the old Superintendent, in the archives, where his friends never awoke to find it until it was too late. Both of these gentlemen stand high, and we are sorry for friend Bufkins. He is a rustier and deserved the place. We thought his connection with this paper at one time would have schooled him enough to know you must not sleep when you want to accomplish something. These mass meetings are hurtful. Oh, our friends can harp when they are fighting each other but let the white people burn a Negro in Leavenworth and you would not hear a grunt from these same fellows who called this meeting. To us tt looks like politics. Mr. R. G. McFarland, Dept. clerk of the District court of Leavenworth county, is a candidate for the office of Register of Deeds. He is a young man of prominence, having served three years as deputy clerk. He has a host of colored friends and will win. L. Montgomery and Bros., have opened a fine place for the waiters and porters, known as the Waiters and Porters' Club, at 122 North 5th st., Refreshments, Lunches, Cigars and Reading Room. When in Leavenworth give them a call. A TRIP TO THE SOUTH Their train left the Union depot at Kansas City at 9:20, via the Wabash with the following persons on board; Rev. E. A. Wilson who was chairman of the delegation and had made all arrangements for the trip with the passenger department. H. B. Cunningham who had been employed by the R. R. Co. as special porter to look after the special chair car and the comfort of the delegation. H. I. Monroe, Mesdames M. J. Cox and E. Gaines of Topeka; Mrs. Julia Lee of Perry, Kansas; Revs. Geo. McNeal and E. M. Wilson, Misses Mattie Dagley, Rachel Dagley and Emma Brown of Kansas City, Mo.; Rev. W. C. Howell, Lexington, Mo.; Rev. J. E. Ford, Denver, Colo.; Rev. B. S. Topp, Osawotonie, Kans.; Clark Austin, Lawrence, Kans.; Rev. J. W. Gordon, Newton, Kas., Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Groves, Edwardsville, Kans.; Rev. A. Fairfax, Parsons, Kans.; Rev. J. A. Goree, Lawrence. Kans.; Rev. J. C. Swancy, Richmond, Mo.; Rev. S. D. Saunders, Chillieothe. Mo.; Rev. H. E. Strickland, Kansas City, mo.; Rev. G. H. Johnson, Weir City Kans.; Mesdames J. A. Houston, Sallie Christian, Alice DeGrafenreid and Hannah Milton of Pittsburg Kans.; and Mesdames Alice Richardson and Nellie Collins of Kansas City, Mo. The delegation received many delegates from other states along the route; Rev. J. D. Rouse joined the delegation at Evansville, Ind, Miss Beatrice James of Indianapolis, Ind. joined at Nashville, Tenn. The evenings and mornings were cold, many of the company using their over-coats and wraps, until the sunny south was reached. The train reached St Louis on the 16th at 7:30 a. m. The delegates spent the day sight-seeing. Some of them went out to the World's Fair grounds which are being put in readiness for the fair in 1904. They saw the Mo. State, the Textile and the Industrial buildings in course of erection. At 4:20 p. m. the delegation left St Louis via the L. and N. road in their special car with streamers flying to the breeze, and the words Kansas delegation on one side and Missouri and Colorado on the other. The train steamed away through Illinois and Indiana, reaching Evansville, where Rev. J. T. Rouse, joined them, and on through Kentucky, reaching the first state where it depends on what kind of blood you have coursing through your veins as to what place on the train you ride or sit in the depot. By this time the delegation began to realize that they had some colored folks on board which up to this time they had not thought of. The change did not effect them, as they were riding in a special car, but as they picked up persons on the road enroute to the convention, they asked them to come to their car and find good accommodations. The new comer was always glad to make the change. Finall the old state of Tennessee was reached with its hills and poor land, Nashville was reached, and the most of the party who had been asleep up to this time were awakened to get a mid-night view of this beautiful city whose depot ranks second to that of St Louis. After making a short stop there the train started on another journey toward the sunny south. Reaching Columbia, Tenn., Mrs. M. J. Cox of Topeka called the writer's attention to the fact that in that city many years ago she, with her entire family consisting of mother, father and many brothers and sisters, was sold at public auction and was forever separated from her relatives, no two of them being sold to the same man. Her story of the affair would make one wonder. Oh God! how could human beings, from a race of people which has for years led the world in civilization, be so cruel. Leaving Columbia behind us, we next came to the Tennessee river on whose south bank lies that beautiful city, Decatur, Ala.. noted for its skilled workmen in iron and metal, where we saw for the first time Alabama's red soil. We met and talked with one Chas. P. Sykes who had been appointed notary public but had NUMBER 38. H. I. Monroe Relates the Trip of the Kansas, Colorado and Missouri Delegations to Birmingham, Ala., to Attend a Meeting of the National Baptist Convention. been threatened mob violence if he attempted to exercise the functions of his office or appointment. He said that he was not afraid and would begin to do business as soon as his commission was ready. He was a brave fellow and the writer wishes him success. For the first time on our trip, we saw colored men firing the engines. No 750 was in service on the train that was taking the delegation to its destination and a colored boy firing. The writer was told that they make the best fireman. The grades are never too heavy for them; rather than have the train later on their account they will burn the fire box out of an engine on a single trip. Colored brakemen and machinists were in great numbers and this is the only thing that would commend the south to the northern colored man. From here a few hours ride brought us in sight of the conventional city Birmingham, and in the state where twenty-three years ago. God put it into the minds of men like the late W. J. Simmons DeBaptist. Vann, Love, Walker, Morris, and many others to put in motion a force that would have for its purpose first to please God, second to being gospel light to the teaming millions in dark Africa and the Islands of the see. Before entering the city the delegation, held song and prayer service thanking God for his guidance on the long journey and his ever watchful eye over the man who was handling the throttle in the engine that brought us safely into Birmingham. Appropriate speeches were made by many of the delegates as we were entering the city and resolutions past, thanking Rev. E. A. Wilson for his good efforts in making such ample preparations for the transportation of the delegation and H. B. Cunningham for the many comforts that the delegation enjoyed at his hands. H. I. Mouroe of Topeka was selected by the delegation to write about the going trip of the delegation and have a copy sent to the TOPEKA PLAINDEALER, Missouri Messenger, and Kansas Record newspapers. The party left their car and went at once to the church reaching there at 9:40 a.m. they found the largest delegation that had ever met the Convention in its history and saw many things that proved to the satisfaction of all that the Baptists are taking the world for Christ. Everything went well until Friday night when the panic arose that will go down in history, as one of the most heart rendering sights that ever took place in this country. The newspapers of the country have told too well the sad story of the awful carnage. The Kansas delegation lost two of its members; Rev. L. H. Johnson of Weir city and Mrs. John A. Houston of Pittsburg. The writer of this article barely escaped death but thanks to the divine ruler of the universe, the rest were uninjured. The homeward trip was taken up Monday evening but without incident until Nashville, Tenn., was reached, where the delegation after praise service, left their car and went at once to the National Baptist publishing house where breakfast was prepared for them without cost. Dr. Boyd and his many helpers are to be congratulated on their good work. The day was spent in going through the publishing house and visiting the many institutions of learning. At 7:30 p. m. the delegation resumed their journey toward home arriving at St Louis at 8:00 a. m. Sept. 24. Leaving St Louis, Kansas City was reached at 6:00 p. m. where the delegation seperated after an eight days absence. Rev. H. E. Strickland did not return with the party but took a forty days vacation, visiting at Memphis, Tenn. and in Mississippi. Rev. J. A. Goree went to visit in Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Groves went to visit in Florida and to cross over to the Island of Cuba for a short sojourn. H. I. MONROE THE RECORD CALLED DOWN In the 13th number and 1st volume of the Kansas Record the attempt to bolster up and defend the actions of a man who has shown gross and intentional discourtesy to an enterprise conducted by and for the colored people, will fall flat and Concluded on Page Four. PUBLISHED at Topeka, Shawnee county, Kas. every Friday morning by THE PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO. 1218 EAST SEVENTH STREET. One year by mail.....$1,000 Six months by mail.....750 Three months by mail.....500 Entered at the postoffice at Topeka as second class mail matter. FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 1902 Losing Ground. The tirade of abuse being heaped upon Bert Lucas and Galen Nichols by the leaders of the independent forces, is having the effect of making votes for them instead of the opposition. The claim of an unfair primary as to the one particular office of sheriff falls short of its aim and those who advocate are compelled to break ground. The thinking voter wonders why it is, of all the offices for which nominations were made at this fraudulent primary, as they call it, that they should center their fight on one man and one office. We do not believe that the people of this county will at this time or any other countenance such politics, which bears the stamp of dishonesty. Mr. Lucas is a young and progressive citizen who has never yet held a public office and it is a credit to him to say that he would be true to any trust. We predict his election and prophesy that he will fill the position with to himself and his county. We did not care to get into a newspaper controversy about Winfield Freeman. We simply passed him up as a cheap man and a Negro hater and as the Record seems to be his champion we shall see results. Hon. J. B. Betts. the nominee of the republican ticket for the 37th District on the north side will be re.elected by a large majority. He is one of the largest contractors in the state. He served his district with such credit in the last legislation that the people shonld keep him in service for years to come. County Commissioner, S. H. Haynes of the north district has a walk-away. He has served the people of his district so well that he only has to think what his majority will be. --- Rev, M. C. Farland, pastor of the First Methodist Church took a shot at the Negroes of Tennessee town last Sunday evening in denouncing the supporters of the Republican county ticket. He had more respect for the taxpayers who stood in with the whiskey elements than he did the Negroes of Tennessee district. What think you colored citizens of this statement. Why could he not confine his sermon to his own race. They are the ones who are carrying on this work and getting the money. They will take money as quick as anybody. Representative Sims and Williams of the south side have no opposition for the Legislature. They stand with the people and for the people. "Good legislation for the country", is their motto. It is safe to say that Mason Peters, the fusion nominee for probate judge will get more votes from the ranks of the colored voters of Wyandotte county than it has ever been his lot before. And why not? He is unquestionably an able and sympathetic man, who knows how to appreciate the suffrages and also the various enterprises of this peo DOSTER! DOSTER!! The following special was issued by THE PLAINDEALER last Monday and it should voice the sentiments of every true Kansan: THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER in voicing the sentiments of its readers will say to the Republican State Central committee, that the present Chief Justice, FRANK DOSTER, should be endorsed. He is fair, impartial, a jurist and an educated gentleman. Frank Doster is the choice of all the people irrespective of creed, color or politics. Our party did him an injustice in 1896 by saying every mean thing we could about him. We were wrong; now let us repent by proving to the people of Kansas that we are for them, that we are not selfish, by endorsing a just man like Frank Doster. Let our committee be broad in this matter and act with and for the people. Politics should not enter such places as the Supreme Bench, and if we do this it will be an example for the whole world. Kansas always leads in the advancement of justice and right, and we should not forsake our duty in this matter. Two years hence we will have practically no fight at all for the ticket, national, state and county. themselves should they fail to support such a man as the Hon. Mason Peters. Negroes should secure a pledge from our Republican candidates for congress to support the Crumpacker bill. If they refuse don't vote at all. We are against the recognition of Democrats in the south under the name of Republican. It means nothing more or less than the holding of fat federal jobs by them instead of loyal republican Negroes who stood by Grant, Hayes and Garfield. What could President Roosevelt mean by giving audience to Pritchard of Carolina who stated "Thank God, we are delivered from the Negro." Justice Ellis was buried at his home in Beloit last Sunday. Members of the Supreme Court attended in a body. The Hon. R. A. Burch of Salina, Kansas, was selected by the State Central Committee to fill the place of Justice Ellis on the state ticket. Gov. Stanley also appointed him to fill the vacancy on the bench to take affect at once which will be the October term. He is a native of Indiana, was educated in Salina, and is well versed in law. He came to Kansas in '69. THE AMERICAN PROBLEMS of the age. The basic principle of our national greatness is labor. The greatest war of all time is that between light and darkness, the transformation of the natural into the beautiful and useful, the fashioning of raw material into useful aparatus. In order to become a factor in labor circles the Negro must learn to read rock, analyze minerals, to harness the air, understand the improved methods of agriculture, make harness, buggies and wagons, be taught the art of manufacture, domestic and civil science. Skilled labor alone commands rewards and emoluments. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION is the need of the hour. Young men and women should be taught to work, to do things according to system. Trades are essential to both the moral and physical habitude of a race. In discussing the question of education in tee broadest sense of the word, we mean that education which develops the whole being of man—the heart, the head and the hand. RIGHT LEADERS among us as a people is an imperative necessity. Never before in the history of the republic have we needed more sincere preachers, teachers, professional and business men—men and women of character who will materially assist in steering the bark of our national hope safely into the harbor. We are crossing the Alps of American prejudice, but still there is no Caesar to cross the Rubicon. All honor to the many Negro preachers who are doing their duty, and they are by no means few in number, we take courage and move on. But is the duty of every Negro to shun those blatherskites, immoral parasites, who feast and fatten off their flocks, preach the gospel of Christ from their lips, hold up to ridicule other Negroes in order to make J. H. CHILDERS, EDITOR, NICK CHILES, BUS. MANAGER. them soapegoats of their own corruption, whose hearts are the cesspools of infamy and whose lives are broken sepulchres. I here and now affirm that this class of lecherous libertines have done and are doing the race relatively more injury, North and South, than the accumulated devastations of the Kansas grasshopper, and locust scourges. These are the first to deceive the better class of the other race through their tearful, penitential moonings on the condition of their people. And so all classes of Negro leaders should be made to pass counter. Down with the Judas Iscariots! Cassius, begone! OUR FUTURE. "Fellow citizens, I am frank to say that while the Negro hasn't many friends among the other race he can. under new environments, appeal to a larger audience with some assurance that he will have a respectful hearing, for, hitherto the American people have prided themselves as believing in fair play, but, if after we have clothed ourselves in the habiliments of the new citizenship we find the hand of Ephraim still unbearable, then let us turn our faces toward the rising sun, and say to him give us light while we travel. The American people are characterized by push, intelligence and government. They are masters of the air, land and water. And yet I regret to say, that while I love the stars and stripes, I know full well that wherever the American flag floats American race prejudice follows. I cannot consent—God forbid—that the Negro boys and girls of this country, in whose soul the muse of song and poetry blend into one grand and perpetual symphony, whose love of truth and patriotism is the wonder of the age, whose musical genius and aptitude to master the fine arts is a revelation, that these children of ebony should be longer stifled, ostracised and outraged in the land of their nativity. Aye, so far from antagonizing the peace of the nation, I would suggest that a committee of fifty be appointed to negotiate with foreign governments whose colonies could be made to bloom under the magic touch of Negro thrill. Let 50,000 of our young men join the English army, 50,000 more the German army, 50,000 the French army—young men fresh from our schools, who have nothing to do here but serve as apprentices to the most menial labor, from which promotion is impossible. Let these children transplant the lessons of our republic, the most beautiful in the political destinies of a people, in a new land, in monarchies which tremble at the widespread doctrines of political and civil liberty, and wrest from climates free from miasmatic race antipathies the opportunities denied them in their native land, and build empires by sea and land like those of their fathers in the valley of the Nile, whose departing glory is the inspiration of the ages. " The Normans conquered the Saxons; out of the conflict came the British Empire. The Puritans conquered the Indians; out of it came the greatest Republic for all time. So, through difficulty to the stars has been the royal path of national greatness. Among those who form the constellation may be mentioned Washington for America, Gladstone for England, La Fayette for France, Frederick the Great for Russia; but when merit and truth shall become the evangels of the nations, high up in the galaxy of these celebrities will be the names of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass. Then this now despised race will be the chief among ten Send Your Sons and Daughters to THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT—Preparing trained Ministers for the demands of the pew of today. NORMAL DEPARTMFNT—Preparing Students for teaching in the public schools and giving NORMAL DEPARTMFNT—Preparing Students for teaching in the public schools and giving higher training to those desiring the same. SUB-NORMAL DEPARTMFNT—Fitting Students for the Normal department and giving an opportunity for education to those deprived of such in childhood. MUSICAL DEPARTMENT—Offering training in that art for which our youth seem adapted by nature—Music. INDUSTRIAL DEEARTMENT—Fitting our youth to compete with the tradesmen in the field of organized labor. Here mainly rests the future of the race. This is to be the education of this century. Courses—Agricultural, Mechanical Drawing, Carpentry and Cabinet Making. Printing, Job and Journeyman. Tailoring, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting. Dressmaking and Plain Sewing. Preparations are being made for teaching Scientific Agriculture. The faculty is composed of graduates from the best schools in the country. FACULTY—Rev. Wm. T. Vernon, B. S. D., A. M., Lincoln, President, Philosophy, Logic and Economics; Rev. Jno. S. Johnson, B. D., Ohio State University, Hebrew, Greek and Theology; G. Archie Gregg, University of Kansas, Mathematics; Agustus-C. Perdue, Tuskegee, Architectural, Mechanical Drawing and Carpentry; Joseph Nelson Garratt, Wilberforce, Business Course Stenography and Typewriting Harry R. Graham, Printing and Book-binding; Mrs. Florence M. Crews, I. F. C. Y., Philadelphia, Pa., Literature and Latin; Mrs. S. L. Gross, Dressmaking, Plain Sewing; Mrs. N. Douglass Scroggins, Western University, Instrumental Music; Mrs. W. T. Vernon, B. S. Matron Stanley Hall. In addition, able and prominent lecturers on different subjects have been secured. OPPORTUNITY—Teachers have a common interest in all Students, even the poorest and humblest. We only ask for merit and true worth here. Extravagance is discouraged, students struggling for an education need not feel ashamed of poverty. Come and try. education need not feel assumed of poverty. EXPENSES—Board per month $5.50. Tuition per month $1. Room rent per month $1., Incidental fee only for first month $1. Students received at any time. SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 15, '02. REMARKS—We are trying to help solve the problem. Write us for catalogues or Information. Let us be heard from von at once, we will give all particulars. In the Court of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Sam Friedburg, Plaintiff, va. The Eaton & Glover Company, Defendant. State of Kansas, County of Shawnee, ss. The State of Kansas to The Eaton & Glover Company, Defendants. You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above entitled court, by the above Plaintiff, upon a claim for damages for failure to deliver an engraving machine as per your contract, and that in said suit a garnishment has been issued to M. J. Cheney, and said garnishee has answered that he has in his possession an engraving machine belonging to you and has turned over said engraving machine to the Marshal of said Court, who now has the same, and that unless you answer the bill of particulars of the Plaintiff filed herein on or before the Third day of November, 1902, said bill of particulars will be taken as true, and judgment rendered accordingly, and the property so garnisheed herein will be thus sold to satisfy the Plaintiff's claim. Hereof you will take due notice. Attest: (Seal) E. L. GOOD, Clerk of Court of Topeka. In the District Court of Shawnee Conu- ty, State of Kansas. Callie Clark, Plaintiff, vs. Edwin Clark, Defendant. To Edwin Clark, Defendant above named: You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, by the above named Plaintiff for a divorce, and that said Plaintiff's petition is now on file in the office of the clerk of the afore- mentioned court and unless you appear and answer before the 14th day of November, 1902, said petition will be taken as true and the divorce granted according to the prayer. CALLIE CLARK, By her Attorney, W. I. Jamison. Attest: (Seal.) I. S. CURTIS, Clerk District Court. WM. H. LVCAS. Work as Good as the Best, Prices as Low as the Lowest 132 KANSAS AVE. TOPEKA Laboring Mens', Musicians' and ...Expressmens' Headquarters. J. At STINES' Place 339 Minn. Ave. Kansas City Kas. Go there for a shave, haircut or to spend a leisure moment. When you want the best work done at Reasonable Prices, send your ...Clothes to... D. J FREY'S DYE WORKS OSAGE CITY, KAS. Suits Sponged, Cleaned and Pressed,..... .75 Suits Dry Cleaned and Pressed,..... 1.75 Suits Steam Cleaned and Pressed,..... 2.25 Suits Steam Cleaned Dyed and Pressed,..... 2.75 Ladies Tailor-made Gowns, Silk Dresses, Automobile Coats, Jackets and Kid Gloves also carefully done. We pay express and send all work c.o.d. Steam Cleaning and Dyeing a Specialty. Museum THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT of today. NORMAL DEPARTMFNT—P. higher traiuing to those deaiing the SUB-NORMAL DEPARTMFNTunity for education to those depriving MUSICAL DEPARTMENT—On nature—Music. INDUSTRIAL DEEARTMENT-organized labor. Here mainly re century. Courses—Agricultural, Job and Journeyman. Tailoring, Plain Sewing. Preparations are bposed of graduates from the best sc FACULTY—Rev. Wm. T. T. Economics; Rev. Jno. S. Johnson Archie Gregg, University of Ka Traveling the States of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska Colorado, Kansas, and the Indian Territory. Five (5) Daily Passenger Trains are run on this line in each direction, between Kansas City and St. Louis Western University, Quindaro Western University, Quindaro A Great School for the Youth. The Great State of Kansas Has Given Her Approval. (Incorporated.) "FOR the moral, intellectual and industrial training of our youth." Advantages: Christian Influences Thorough Instructors, Good Buildings, Fine Equipment, Healthy Moral Tone, Fine Drainage, Good Surroundings. DEPARTMENTS; $25.00 to California ANDITO PRESCOTT PHOENIX AND MANY OTHER POINTS IN ARIZONA Tickets on sale daily during September and October. Through tourist sleepers and free chair cars every day. Personally conducted excursions three times a week. Liberal stop-over privileges in California. See California's citrus groves, oil wells, ranches, vineyards, big trees, mines. California has productive lands, perfect climate, good markets. The rich San Joaquin Valley is an open door of opportunity for the hustler. Santa Fe J. L. KING, Ticket Agt, Depot T. M. JAMES, Jr., Ticket Agent, 830 Kansas Topeka, Ave. DO YOU BUY BREAD? Why not the BEST? Use only Lena Thompson's home-made Bread—Pure Material, Full Weight. For sale by GUY BROS., GROCERS, 12th and Buchanan 'Phone 388 MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Traveling the States of Colorado, Cansas, and the Five (5) Daily Passenger in each direction, between The Famous Are reached ONLY by H. C. P. A. gent, TOPKA, KA9 and Daughters to Western University A Great School for the Y Kansas Has Given Her A "FOR the moral, intellect our youth." Adv My application for a permit to sell intoxicating liquors according to law at 112 West Eighth avenue in the Fourth ward of the city of Topeka, is now on file in the office of the Probate Judge of Shawnee county, Kansas. The hearing of the same is set for Saturday morning, October the 4th, 1902, at 9 o'clock. E. S. LEE. C. W. Green, Groceries and Meats Corner First St. and Silver Ave. ARGENTINE, KAS. See us for Job Work Mammoth Cave One of America's greatest wonders is located in Edmonson County, Kentucky, 90 miles south of Louisville. This Company has just issued a very interesting booklet of 23 pages descriptive of the Cave. This booklet is well illustrated with many fine half-tone cuts, is printed on enameled book paper and design on cover is in three colors and very attractive. If you want a copy send 10 cents in silver or stamps to G. L. STONE, Gen 7 Press, Agnet Louisville & Nashville R.R. LOUISVILLE, KY. Missouri Pacific Route E GREAT SOUTHWEST SYSTEM, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Indian Territory. Her Trains are run on this line in Kansas City and St. Louis Hot Springs Of Arkansas this LINE TOWNSEND, G.P. & T.A., . LOUIS, MO The Perry Natel Good Rooms, Quick Service. RS. J. SNYDER, Mc'R. PERRY, KANSAS. When in Kansas City Please Call at The Chicago Cafe, HENRY COMPTON, Prop. E. 12 St. . Kansas City Mo. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It nowows failing out or breaking off, sweats and dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over the world for hair treatment. Twintiminal free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of Ingredients. OX Marrow as the guarantee never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful. A toilet bowl kinky hair treatment and silky. Clearly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair. This product is the best and most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to OX Marrow. It costs. Sold by drugrists and deodorers send us $8 cents for one bottle or $14 for three bottles. We pay express, your order. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 76 Wahsh Avenue, Chicago, Illinois KANSAS SAVING INVESTMENT COMPANY (COLORED) CHANUTE, KANSAS. Authorized Capital $700,000 stock solicited by correspondence General solicitor and financial agent J. S. HALE. RAY'S 314 Commercial Street Is the place to receive first class accommodations. Lunch Room and the new Ice Cream Parlor neatly arranged. Barber Shop in connection. Give us a call. E. RAY & SONS., PROPS. Emporia, Kansas. ONLY 2-2 DAYS FROM KANSAS CITY TO California VIA THE Great Rock Island Route El Paso Short Line Daily Tourist Cars. PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS THE LOW ALTITUDE ROUTE Also, personally conducted tourist excursions every Wednesday and friday via COLORADO AND SCENIC LINE. QUICKEST TIME TO EL PASO. BEST LINE TO OLD MEXICO. For full information address E. W. THOMPSON, A. G. P. A., Topeka, Kas JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A., Chicago Mrs. Martha Wallace. First-Class Restaurant. Pies, Cakes and Ice Cream. Pay us a visit. 618 VERMONT ST. LAWRENCE, KAS J. M. KNIGHT, UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER. Horton celebrated her 16th birthday Saturday, Sept. 20th. The street parade consisted of several beautiful and interesting features. The floral decorations were very artistic, the most exquisite one being awarded $50. The Military Band of Pawnee City Nebr., and the Kansas Girl Band of Wetmore, Kas. rendered some excellent music, The C. R. I. and P. band of Horton is always a favorite wiih us. The open air vaudeville performance of the Ted Sparks Co. of Kansas City was splendid and well appreciated. A number of out of town folks were in attendance. Miss Addie Brooks returned home Friday, after several weeks stay in Kansas City Her brother, George Brooks, and wife accompanied her home for a couple days visit. Miss May Madison of Centerville is the guest of R. Madison and family. Mrs. Thos. Brown and son, Ernest, of Holton visited over Sunday with Mrs. J. B. Fleming. Mrs. Nellie Williams of Chicago is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Bertha True. Mesdames Fannie Washington and Ellen Corneals of Lincoln, Neb. are the guest of Mrs. Betta True. Rev. Miss Pearl Riley of Baker, Kans., on her return home from Wichita [where she had been attending the A. M. E. Conference, stopped here for a couple of days visit with relatives. She will hold services at A. M. E. Church Wednesday evening. Hersel Alexander has returned from Colorado. Mrs. Eva Duncan and baby of White Cloud Sundayed with Mrs. E. C. Holloway. Mrs. Carrie Smith is able to be out again among her many friends after two weeks of serious illness. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Plumb of Circleville, Kans., visited over Sunday with Dan Chorn and family. EMPORIA. Mrs. Horton, L. E. Bassett, and Miss Fanny White are on the sick list. Rev. Thomas Greene Sr. of Iola filled the pulpit at the St James Baptist church Sunday and delivered two excellent sermons. James H. Twyman was in the city transacting business a few days this week. John Stovall of Neosho Falls went home Monday afternoon. Miss Anna Stafford is again a heartily welcomed Emporian and has resumed her work at the Court House. Frank Evans has purchased property about two blocks east of his old home. A large crowd of young people attended the Mite society at the residence of Mrs. Lucy Duncan Friday evening. Rev. James Stovall of Neosho Falls is here visiting relatives and friends. The band boys are seriously thinking of reorganizing. We sincerely hope they will. Emanuel Jefferson went with the Militia to Junction City to cook for them during the encampment. Miss Emma Carter has returned from Wichita and reports a fine time. The Invincible Atheletic club held a business meeting in the hotel Whitley last week and mean to hold their own club raom. LAWRENCE, KANS. On August first Harry Spivey depicted this life in Mosley, Col. Dr. Spivey was an early settler and a highly respected citizen, working at the Lawrence World office for a number of years where wellrendered work won the esteem of his employers. The bereaved family loses a kind and up for battle nicely and we fear no evil results. Beware of snares that may be laid to change your vote. We will stand no tampering with Chas. Curtis's chances to U. S. Senate. So push Capt. Seaton in with a big majority. loving brother and the community a useful citizen. THE PLAINDEALER joins in with his friends and extends a heartfelt sympathy to his family. Mrs. James Anderson spent last week in Wichita visiting her sister. The Forum completed a permanent organization at the A. M. E. Church Sunday afternoon. Rev. Jones was elected president. Miss Minnie Harvey who has been visiting her mother for the past two months has returned to her home in Chicago. Wils Covington steals the credit from his wife of being the leading Irish potatoe raiser in the city. Mrs. Mary Jones, and Dr. Harvey Sundayed in Eudora. Strode's orchestra gave their opening last Thursday evening at Johnson's hall. The programme was excellent, the vocal solos by Mr. Frank Copeland and the instrumental solo by master Theodore Copeland are worthy of note. The people are proud of this organization and wish them much success. Rev. King succeeds himself as pastor of the A. M. E. church. Mrs. Martha Talbert who owns a beautiful farm in Oklahoma is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Talbert. Mrs. Nellie Smothers of St. Joseph took in the carnival and visited her mother, Mrs. D. Generals. Mrs. Russel of Topeka after spending a few days here returned home Tuesday accompanied by her mother Mrs. America Hawkins who will hereafter make her home in Topeka. Quite a number of the G. T. C. of Lawrence spent Saturday spent Saturday night in the country with Mrs. Nancy Stewsrt. A very pleasant evening was passed in music and "goo-goo" eyes. Mrs. Steward is the young folk's friend and all join hands in wishing her a long and happy journey through life, Mt. Moriah Tabernacle No. 52 meets the 2nd and 4th Thursdays, at 2 p.m., corner of Winthrop and Mass. sts., Miss Jannie Alexander, C·P., Miss Lizzie Strode, R S. Arcanum meets the 4th Saturday in each month at 4 p.m., Cor. Winthrop and Mass. streets, Mrs. Cora Yeeger, C.A, Miss Lizzie Strode R.S. JOPLIN MO. No. 23 meets days of each Miss Mary Cooper is teaching school near Neosho. Clinging Rose Tent No. 23 meets the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month, at 3 p. m. Clinging Rose Tent will serve luncheon the first Saturday in October, at the residence of Miss Sophia Fox, on Maple street. Dtr. Emra Williams is improving. Little Rebecca Brown, aged 14, died on the 16th. She was a member of Mt. Pleasant Baptist church and of Twentieth Century Tent, No. 20, and was buried by the tent. It was a sad procession. Six little girls were pall bearers and 25 Maids and Pages were in line. Silver Leaf Tabernacle No. 16 was again visited by death Sept. 19 when at 3:50 p.m., Dtr. Neal passed away. The funeral was from Mt. Pleasant Baptist church, of which she was a member, with Tabernacle ceremonies, Modern Tabernacle and Moses Dickson Temple No. 13 being in attendance. Moses Dickson Drill Corps, admittedly the best drill corps in the state, meet once a week for business and three times for drill. Parsons is one of the best lodge towns in the state; you can find most any order here you look for, The republicans are warming up. "Every man on the ticket must be elected", is the pass word. The boys are all lining TOPEKA INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE "The Western Tu Four Teachers from That F Nonsectarian, Co-educational, Pr the Negro Youth DEPARTMENTS: Industrial, E and Business, Trades taught;—Carpen Printing, Book-binding, Agriculture, nery, Laundrying and Domestic Scien ADVANTAGES; Teachers epe work. Every student learns a trad specialty. The institution is endorsed denomination. Our training is the Christian. School begins TUESDAY, child the opening day. For further in :WM. R. CARTER ESTRIAL INSTITUTE... "Western Tuskegee," teachers from That Famous School Co-educational, Practical Training of the Negro Youth. ENTS: Industrial, English, Normal. Music grades taught: Carpentry, Painting, Tailoring, Binding, Agriculture, Sewing, Cooking, Milli- and Domestic Science. AGES; Teachers especially trained for the student learns a trade. Home training a institution is endorsed by ministers of EVERY Our training is thorough, systematic and begins TUESDAY, SEPT. 9. Enter your day. For further information, address R. CARTER, PRINCIPAL TOPEKA, KAS. Nonsectarian, Co-educational, Practical Training of the Negro Youth. DEPARTMENTS: Industrial, English, Normal. Music and Business. Trades taught: Carpentry, Painting, Tailoring, Printing, Book-binding, Agriculture, Sewing, Cooking, Millinery, Laundrying and Domestic Science. ADVANTAGES; Teachers especially trained for the work. Every student learns a trade. Home training a specialty. The institution is endorsed by ministers of EVERY denomination. Our training is thorough, systematic and Christian. School begins TUESDAY, SEPT. 9. Enter your child the opening day. For further information, addaddress WM. R. CARTER, PRINCIPAL TOPEKA, KAS. ALBERT ROSS... Graduate Stenographer All Kinds of common, dictated By-laws, Constitution Deeds, Recommendations, Etc., Typewritten Club, Society and Lodge work a specialty. 1725 Kansas Ave. of common, dictated and legal matter such as By-laws, Constitutions, Essays, Petitions, Letters,ons, Etc., Typewritten neatly and at once. Church,ge work a specialty. Try us. All Kinds of common, dictated and legal matter such as By-laws, Constitutions, Essays, Petitions, Letters, Deeds, Recommendations, Etc., Typewritten neatly and at once. Church, Club, Society and Lodge work a specialty. Try us. TABORIAN NOTES. LAWRENCE. PARSONS, KAS. ATCHISON, KANSA8. Miss Nellie Hilderbrand, a professional nurse from Leavenworth, who graduated from Douglas Hospital at Kansas City, made a great impression on the people here in the intelligent and pains-taking way she nursed the typhoid children of Mr. Geo. Kerford. She is at home in the sick room and never breaks the instructions of the physician or in any way attempts to play doctor. She has inspired some of our girls to consider taking up the profession. Mesdames Margaret Jordan, Stella Jordan and Susan White retnrned from Topeka last week. Nick Chiles attended corn carnival. JOPLIN MO. Miss Obera Lee left last week for Jefferson City to attend school. Miss Nellie Cheatum spent Sunday at Lowell with her parents. Arthur Young comes to Joplin quite frequently. A large crowd went down to Neosho last Thursday and Friday to attend the funerals of Rev. Z. H. Johnson and Mrs. S. Houston who were killed in the panic at Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. Fannie Dale Houston was raised in Neosho and was an energetic Christian worker in the Baptist church. She leaves a husband and a number of relatives. The many friends here sincerely mourn her demise. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Ada R. Kelley, Plaintiff, vs. Jewell Kelley, Defendant. State of Kansas, Shawnee County, ss. The State of Kansas to Jewell Kelley, Defendant: You are hereby notified that the above named Plaintiff, Ada R. Kelley, has filed the above entitled suit in the above named court against you, for the purpose of obtaining divorce, and that unless you answer said petition before the 15th day of November, 1922, said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered against you, granting the plaintiff a divorce as prayed for in said petition. (Seal.) I. S. CURTIS, Clerk of said Court. Jetmore & Jetmore, W. S. McClintock, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Phone 747 Notice! Notice! Baptist Churches, Mission Circles, Children's Bands. Take Notice. My Dear Co-Laborer.—It becomes my duty to sound the trumpet calling you to meet in Convention at the First Baptist church, Rev. W. L. Grant, D. D. pastor Kansas City, Kans., Oct. 7 to 12, 1902. We have been separated for twelve months. It is now time for harvest and the reapers are called to bring in their sheaves. This year has brought to us many blessings. First—Greater demands are made upon us to labor more zealously for Christ and humanity, in the barren fields of Kansas. Second—The Sons and Daughters of Africa are appealing to us "Come over and help us" as never before. Third—The urgent call to help in the Education of the youth of our land is a duty too sacred for us to neglect. With these urgent objects before you, we call upon every mission circle and every church to lend hand and heart. We call upon you to come or send representatives to Kansas City Kans. that we may reason awhile togather and be enabled to do more effective work. Circular will be sent to you telling you the amount of money that you have given for State Missions this year. You'll see also the amount you are due on state work. Church blanks and programs of conventions will be sent to you in a few days. Rates will be one fare round trip. Buy tickets for carnival. 300 delegates are expected and One Thousand Dollars is the rally cry. For further information write. REV. T. H. EWING. Pres. 18th Vine st., Kansas City, Mo. LINCOLN INSTITUTE Missouri State Institution for Colored Youth JEFFERSON CITY, MO. DEPARTMENTS. College, Normal, Preparatory Industrial, Agricultural, Domestic. COURSES. Classical, College Preparatory, Normal, Sub Normal, Model Training School; Music— Vocal, Instrumental; Drawing— Fine Art and Mechanical; Carpentry, Wood Working, Black-Smithing, Machinery; Shoe-making, Farming and Gardening, Printing Type- Writing, Sewing, Cooking, Laundering. Tuition Free. Expenses Reasonable. Free Dormitories, Steam Heat And Modern Improvements, Location and Surroundings good, Boarding Club $7 per month, Diplomas are State School Certificates. For catalogue address the President. BLACK SINCE REMOVER REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaranteed to do what was asked and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PRACTICE COMPLEX obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shade lighter, and a multiline person perfectly white. In forty-eight shaded arms or two will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin in spots but bleaches out white, the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. Will stain with freckles, dark spots, pimples or bumps or black spots, and smooth. Small pix pix, tan, liver spots removed without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish, stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER. that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair long and straight, and makes the hair soft and easy to wear. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. THE HO-SHELL thrown in free. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or registered letter will sell it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. F. it will some by express, 262 extra. In any case where it fails to do what we please will return the money or send a box frue charge. Packed so that no one will know they only dig a pitfall for themselves in doing so. If the Record desires to support Winfield Freeman and see their way clear to do so we say, Amen to it, but as far as making any sarcastic remark about a Topeka paper and not coming to Topeka for votes it is all rot and dodging the issue. If the people of Wyandotte county were as narrow as Winfield and his defender, there would be no doubt of his election, but they are not; they like a good thing when they see it, and it is for that reason that the PLAINDEALER has a greater circulation in Wyandotte county than any other one coloured publication in the country. To prove that we do not run a local paper for Topeka, our circulation, although large in this city, the outside circulation is seven times its Toneka circulation. To further back up what we say we will put up $100, if the Record will do likewise, that our circulation in Wyandotte county is greater than that of the Record. The same $100 to be given to Douglass Hospital by whichever publication that shall be proven to have the greatest circulation in the county. THE PLAIN-DEALER always extends a cordial welcome to visiting newspaper men to our city be they black or white and assure them, fair treatment at the hands of our business men or politicians. If any are ever insulted or shown disrespect, instead of applauding the man or men that did it, as the Record seems to be doing, we shall denounce the same and when the next legitimate journal comes along they shall reap the harvest as the Record has done Freeman. Perish the thought that we should say that this man Freeman was not a highly respected citizen. We admit all that and yet reserve the right to say to the colored voters of Wyandotte county that he is not a man, who in our opinion it would do to support as we were from Missouri and he has shown us. If he would mistreat one black man he would another. 777 DIRECTORY 333 All lodges will please send in the time and place of meeting, accompanied by the $1:00 subscription C.M's Addresses. No. 3, J. G. Burdette, 819 North First street, Atchison. No. 18, James Thomas, 339 W. First South street, Salt Lake, Utah. No. 72, C. F. Crissman, 2244 S. 9th street, Lincoln, Neb. No. 19, George H. Willoughby, 1335 New Jersey street, Lawrence. No. 16, Richard Clark. 420 North Twenty-Fifth street, Omaha, Neb. No. 25, Edward Henderson, 1917 North Third st., Kansas City, Kas. No. 4, Thomas Holliday, 812 S. 24th street, Omaha, Nab. No. 60, W. Ostein, 1214 Lane st. Topeka. No. 10, Frank Smith, Third avenue, Leavenworth. No. 3. Robert Jordan, 903 Western avenue, North Topeka. Is prepared to give FIRST-CLASS room accommodations to the traveling public. CLEAN BEDS A SPECIALTY. When in - Denver stop there WALKER'S RESTAURANT. Ice Cream. Open Day and Night. H. H. WALKER, PROP. N. W. COR. 5TH AND CHARLES STS., ST. JOSEPH, MO. 1011 N. FOURTH STREET KANSAS CITY, KAS. First-class accommodations.— Lunch counter Meals 15c; rates 75c per day and upward. MRS. J. W. KING, PROP. When in Atchison You will find first-class Meals and service for 20c at... Mrs. Marie Scott, 805 Main Street. Houses for Sale on Easy Terms HOUSES FOR RENT $50 down balance on easy payments Money to Loan at 6 Per Cent. W. S. HARRIS, Real Estate & Insurance 250 Lots for Sale, $50 Cash, $3 per Month These properties are located in the most desirable parts of the city. 1014 NORTH FIFTH STREET Phone 258 West. KASSIN, CITY, KS Office 'Phone, 192 West Yard 'Phone, 375 Whit A. C. L. COAL CO., 436 MINNESOTA AVE. KANSAS CITY, KS. We wish to announce to our friends that we have added to our present business a GROCERY DEPARTMENT in which we carry a full stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries. We are headquarters for COAL, WOOD and STOCK FOODS of all Kinds. Brauch office and warehouse is on Third street, near Minnesota avenue, South of Riverside Malls. Orders solicited and PROMPTLY DELIVERED to all parts of the Twin Cities. We want your patronage. K. DOUGLASS, J. A. PHENIX pt. Grocery Dept. Solicitor HOWARD UNIVERSITY Medical Department Including Medical, Dental and Pharmacentic Colleges. Thirty-fifth Session (1903-1903) will begin October 1, 1902, and continue seven (7) months. Tuition fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each $80. Pharmacentic College $70. All students must register before October 12, 1902. For catalogue or further information apply to F. J. SHADD, A. M., M. D. Secretary. M. B. Saree, North west, Washington, D. C. THE HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE As an all-year-round resort hotel, operated by the Frisco System, under the management of Mr. E. E. Sumner. Low round trip rates to Eureka Springs in effect every day in the year. For further information, address any passenger representative of the FRISCO SYSTEM When in St. Joseph Visit Western Hotel, F. K. DOUGLASS, Supt. Grocery Dept. J.A.Davis&Co. Will open up their Meat, Fish and Poultry Market Sept. 15. Cor.Sixth and Jackson Patronize the... AMBRICAN Steam Laundry and get the best. 114 E. SEVEXTH ST. 'PAONE 541 For first-class meals call at the New York Cafe JONES & JOHNSON, Props. 1002 E. 12th St. Kansas City, Mo. When in Salina and want a first-class meal for 15c stop at the Midland Short Order Restaurant Champion Pie Bakers. Rooms in connection. W. W. SHOEBE, PROPRIETOR Home Cooking Exchange AND Lunch Parlor 1855 Arapahoe St., Denver, Colo Our meals begin at 6:00 a.m. Best meals in the city. A trial will convince you. Mrs. Nannie King, Prop. MUSICAL STUDIO Miss Hicks is teaching music and singing at her studio, 422 E. 4th st Terms reasonable. Will teach at the homes if desired. It will pay you to see her before making terms. Shampooing and Face Massage. Mrs. Hattie E. Van Vleck. Hair Dresser and Manufacturer..... Hair to match all Complexions. SWITCHES AND HAIR JEWELRY. 220 East Fifth Street, TOPEKA, KANSAS Dick Bros., Cough Syrup WILL STOP THAT COUGH. LAWRENCE, KAS. Patronize the Kansas City, Kas., Embalming and Casket Co. 1024 West Fifth Street. Owned and controlled by Negroes—Capitol Stock $2,000. Agency Topeka Plaindealer Eureka Drug Store Carl W. Shaffer Pharmacist,810 E. Twelfth St., Kansas City, Mo. Temperate Drinks. RESCENT, a Springs, JULY 3d operated by the Frisco System, under the Low round trip rates to Eureka Springs for further information, address any pas- . § oe = g i Ei = : = |